And military spending is obviously less important to the powers that be than social welfare:

http://macromon.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/chart-of-the-day-u-s-federal-spending/

Richard Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, marketing free software?

Have you notified the authorities yet?

Apparently their standard procedure in the case of loss of control is to try to gain some altitude and then attempt to fly or glide to the landing strip. So he might have been trying to do this before he totally lost control and it started to nose dive. Given that this was a race he was not trying to do a loop.

The bit that's missing from the summary is that you can trigger the sea landing with one click.

Revolutionaryily replacing Kodos with Kang.

I sadly don't think he's going to be able to enjoy it.

Boards don't generally view CEOs who generate huge and increasing profits, and vast quantities of free publicity, as fruitcakes.

Many people find target shooting "fun" and a legitimate sport. Which doesn't involve killing anyone.

I think you'll find drugs and prostitutes can kill also (ODing and STDs). As can most objects and human activities.

One day many people will abandon the asinine left-right dichotomy over such things and embrace genuine libertarianism.

Nuclear mines. Such things exist.

You didn't nuke urban and military areas of North Vietnam not because of PR issues but because of fear of Soviet nuclear retaliation.

But that didn't stop Nixon and Kissinger privately musing (at different time periods) of the desirability of a nuclear strike.

Nuking jungle areas of South Vietnam and/or Laos/Cambodia would have been stupid from a PR pov and militarily ineffective. And also still risking a nuclear response.

No, because it doesn't directly use entanglement and superposition.

Like your car uses electricity, but it's probably not an electric car.

"Good minimalist design" and "shiny and flashy" aren't in any way mutually exclusive.

No it's not, because that would involve supporting every single browser, however old and however non-compliant.

You draw the line somewhere (or the client does). If that line is the wrong side of IE6 you have my pity. Mine is elsewhere (not involving any version of IE whatsoever).

Or it sounds like academic research is an intellectual pyramid scheme.

ITER is/was a white elephant for inertial confinement physicists.

Laser confinement is basically weapons research (refinement of bomb codes, never going to break even in sustained fusion).

Bussard-esq electo-static confinement is cool, but unconfirmed in terms of a possible break-even.