But that only applies if you are in a mutually assured destruction scenario. The "destabilization" claim is that this gives India enough of a first strike success chance that they think they'll have only acceptable losses from any retaliation. In War Games all scenarios with Russia resulted in complete annihilation, if WOPR had access to a level of weapon that it believed would prevent most or all of Russian Nuclear response, it would have immediately launched that weapon.

I don't know man...out of the five I think the philosopher is the one being set up...yeah the environmentalist is annoying, but the philosopher...really....

Well the point of this article is the reactions of five people in different industries giving a stereotypical reaction to the image based on what someone feels a person in that industry would say as a representative of that industry.

You have tasty meat to cook and eat while you watch sports?

I'm guessing somewhere within the first 2-3 minutes of that 5 hours the Moose would realize that it could kick your ass anyway. Those guys are vicious.

This is what is meant when someone says "then my training took over..." Training repetition until you do it without even have to think about it. Guess it works!

sure, but the snacks cost extra...

I'm likely paid significantly lower than this executive, and definitely was paid WAY lower when I got a credit card from AmEx (Blue) and eventually granted a $25,000 limit. I could/can request higher. But I got it to buy a used car at a rate much lower (0.9%) than I could have gotten at a bank. So I would imagine someone who likely makes in mid-six figures or even low-mid could easily get up to that. I had/have awesome credit rating, so that helps too.

When did all this anonymous post spamming start...I was off slashdot for only a few months, so is this pretty new?

The name is just a symptom. I remember initially DSL being just SBC in my area. Then resellers got to brand it their own, and make whatever value proposition they could to try to be the one you'd choose. A brief explosion of ISPs with all manner of weird names. Some were good companies, some were terrible. But now, at least in my general area, if I decide to go with DSL, it's AT&T. I can't say for certain there aren't any branded resellers, but if there are, they aren't in my area. Similar thing happened with dial-up. I remember pages and pages of dial-up service providers to choose from back in the day. Now there are a small handful of very large providers. Same thing with cars right? Car analogy is always good. Seems to be a pretty common way that a product category expands these days.

Quick google search says Apple 5000, Google 5500. But can't vouch for those numbers. So yeah, WWDC sold out way faster. But whoopie dee doo right?

Careful with expressing such terribly libertarian viewpoints on Slashdot. You may get drone attacked. And you're darn right we should be looking for and using every write-off under the sun as long as it's there to be used legally. If you don't you're just giving away money to a mostly (by %) useless government.

Why? Because you don't work at Google. Too bad, so sad. I get free water where I work. And free toilets. Do I have to pay taxes on that? You'd rather peopel be even more dependent on their federal government masters? No thanks.

Also, death to director and director shockwave!

The day may actually come when personal gun ownership is no longer something anyone feels is necessary. But there are so many ridiculous things that would have to happen first that it won't be happening in any of our lifetime, or likely for many generations after ours. Crime would have to no longer exist. War would have to be no longer possible. All governments would have to be passive entities providing mostly ambassadorial functions. All dangerous animals would have to be extinct. And the list would go on. Just tell me when even one of those things happens. The U.S. was born out of an understanding that government cannot be trusted and that the checks and balances include the ability for people to defend themselves from the tyranny of government. Our hard fought independence from the tyrannical power that was England may be centuries in the past, but I guarantee you that the type of people who would take our freedom by force still exist and will continue to exist. The second amendment may not be the only thing between us and that sort of thing happening again, but it's a darn important piece of it. The US is a very safe place to live compared to the rest of the world. Turn your attention to gang rapes in India, the wholesale slaughter of villages in Afghanistan, the torture, mutilation and killing of people by drug cartels in Mexico. The killing of 20 innocent children still tears at my soul, and will for as long as I'm alive. Can you tell me that taking all civilian guns away would have prevented this? No you can't. If infringing on the rights of an entire country was worth stopping a crime from happening, we would have no rights left. Just because you don't seem to respect freedom, doesn't mean it should be taken away from everyone else.