I think you forgot the lessons of Gulf War I. Going up against and entrenched force with no significant anti-air and AWACS type assets and you're an albatross against the might of the USAF.

In the cities, sure, different story. But in the air, against carrier based or ground based air wings equipped with AWACs, and you're dead.

Saddams air force, one of the 10 best in the world in 1991, fell nearly overnight. I'm not even talking about weapons like the Tomahawk either which can hit your SAM sites from 1000 miles away.

Urine is not the same thing as hydrochloric acid.

You forget that Open Source isn't about developers - it's about end-users. It's about end-users knowing that they'll never get end-of-lifed out of business because some kleptocrat decides they don't like them and kills off a product, or goes out of business, ad infinitum.

Open source is more about the end user and their freedoms as it is the developer.

Why do people always forget this?

ok, I like kids.

But parents need to stop using movie theaters as a way to keep their kids entertained for an afternoon. You come to a movie to see a movie, not to fucking socialize.

and to that idiot with the laser pointer, be happy I'm an old fuck and have too much to lose to shove it down your pie-hole - sideways.

Have you seen the market lately, this is arguably the best place to put it. CDs tie up your free cash for periods of time that may be unacceptable, and pay little more than savings accounts.

And pandering likely to work. Poor underemployed democrats, the ones who put him in power in 2008 in the first place - yet he's destroying the revenues that directly pay for Social Security, and hence hastening said programs demise.

Here's all you need to know about the parties in power:

Republican want to take your money and give it to big business.
Democrats want to take your money and give it to everyone but you!

Rate hike at 1&1?

I've had service with them since 2004. My prices have NEVER gone up, except for newly provisioned services.

I've been happy with GoDaddy for years - not any more.

Time to find a new registrar.

Who says they haven't?

But to expect an alien civilization (assuming a lightspeed limit) to magically show up on command when you want or expect them to, against the history of the known Universe, is akin to expecting your neighbor to be standing on your stoop when you walk out the door in the morning.

In a universe where the speed of light isn't a limiting factor, you might have a better argument. I would argue that once a race makes it to space in vast numbers that they probably stop making planetfall - energy-wise it's better to rip apart smaller bodies for materials.

That's why I'm not so gung-ho on going to the moon - hit asteroids instead - fuck the moon and mars.

Who's better at travelling long distances, a human, or a horse, by body weight/size??

I was tripping on acid when I finished Diamond Age. To this day I'm not certain I didn't experience exactly what the folks in the book were first hand.

Don't confuse the Nobel Prize in Whatever with the Nobel Peace Prize...

Though I do agree with you that the awarding of said prize was pretty fucking premature.

In Massachusetts you are NOT allowed to enter an intersection unless you can clear it. Nobody ever gets bagged for this, but it's one of those technicalities that could bite you in the ass if you ever cause an accident because of it.

People block one of the intersections near my office all the time and make the traffic around here twice as bad as it normally is, but I blame the intersection designers for a lot of that as well.

You miss the point. That the guy who embezzled $3B was given 1/4th the sentence of the guy who stole $100 and APOLOGIZED for it.

*I* would rather have my email in mdir (and hence pretty much plaintext) than in some proprietary binary database prone to failure/breakage.