> "Cisco is slowly killing off its Cius business tablet [which] fell victim to the BYOD trend and cloud computing,

So a wise company would recognize the need for massive amounts of ultra high-speed routing hardware to supply a voracious Internet model where billions of computers are little more than dumb terminals streaming faux desktop video from computers running elsewhere?

Karl Malden as "The Soldier's" General Omar Bradley: "Do you have anyone in mind, Gerorge?"

Missing from the linked FAQ:

Q: D&D ruleset has already been accused of turning it into a combat-oriented computer game rather than a high strategy game. Isn't this just even more of the same, making it even further PC gamelike?

A: No. Actually, it's moved on and is actually consolelike. Each character gets two powers they can set as "fingers" and two they can set as "thumbs", then when they roll the dice, they say, "Thumb 2!" and whatever it rolls it rolls.

Q: So then...

A: Yep. There are also combo moves, where a tank, er, sorry, figher can say, "thumb 2, thumb 1, finger 1", and it will increase their outcome by 0.02%.

Q: Not by, say, +2?

A: Plus what now?

Q: So at least they have stats like STR and CON and the venerable CHA, right?

A: Pfheh, cha, whaeves. Look, we jumped the shark back when the Cloak of Invisibility stopped being a cloak of invisibility and turned into +3 to hide skill.

Because it's freakin' cannon balls. I don't know about you, but I'm concerned on a scale less than ten miles.

> "Maybe with direct communication, sci-fi fans can rest easy and not have to worry about their favorite shows being cancelled like FireFly."

And the downside, which they may learn the hard way? They may end up with something exactly like FireFly.

While it may be different at the federal level, at the state level you get a choice of a couple of models and there is no 'shopping around' since only certain vendors are approved to do business with that particular state anyway.

In private business as a director, i wouldn't allow end users to shop around either. We have to support what they are getting, so they get one of our standards unless they can justify something else.

Both ways are not 'delay' inducing..

The use of nuclear weapons against Israel presumably has to potentially include Jerusalem as a target. Nuking 'just' one location, such as Tel Aviv, means starting a war of total distruction with the surviving elements of the Israeli military, so it makes no more sense than, say, nukeing just New York and expecting the US to say "Oh, if it's only NY, we won't use nukes back." Ergo, use nukes at all and it's necessary to hit the Jerusalem area to kill Israeli military assets that will otherwise be nukeing you back. That means one of your hypothetical Iranian bombs takes out one of the most major Muslim holy sites (The Dome of the Rock). It also opens the door to retaliation against Islamic sites in general, presumably including even Mecca itself, as a risk. The question becomes, how far would Israel go with a 50% population loss? The real answer is, there's a reasonable likelyhood of a nuclear power using its weapons in response to just fallout from being downwind of a target nation, or similar possible triggers, let alone being faced with genocide and the possible total distruction of their nation. Asking what people would rationally do in such cases is starting from a false assumption that people in such cases remain rational if they started out that way .
        So yes, you are drawing a reasonable inference when you question how much Ahmadinejad is like Hitler or Stalin, as one of the major questions is "Is he crazier than either of those two?". Probably not, but he does what the Grand Ayatollahs direct, maybe with some other influences, but just who those might be is terribly unsure from outside Iran. The real question may be how crazy a bunch of mostly 70 yeal old + spiritual leaders are.
        However, you should keep in mind that most Iranians are not Arabs, although most are Muslims. Actual Arabs are only about 2% of the Iranian population according to the CIA world factbook. People who even speak fluent Arabic in the region total only about 3%, from the same source. Add to this that the version of Islam endorsed in Iran is Shia, while the majority of Palestinian Islamic practitioners are Sunni, and there are not as many ties between these peoples as most assume. There may well be Iranian hardliners who regard the Sunni as damnable heretics anyway, or, more secularly, strongly resent the occasional Sunni tendency (as seen particularly in Wahhabism, which is a Sunni/Saudi based half religion/half nationalism splinter), to treat all non-arab Muslims as second class Muslims.

They really do exist, as I saw one once, last summer in real life. Our rep had one. Never saw it again. Now i know why.

Wow, it works! I'm wondering why I don't get invited to more parties.

Your bias is showing, too. You can only give his water-walking holiness a pass by saying "he can't fix it all in one term" by conveniently ignoring that he and his administration are actually making negative progress, by continuing and even expanding the same abuses that have been going on for the past 30 years.