Hirai-sama Banzai! (No, no, no, this is not a war chant. It literally means, "Sir (give or take) Hirai, ten thousand generations!" May Hirai be remembered for ten thousand generations, indeed.

Around here we just chuck stuff into the bayou..... that's what we call (wait for it..) bayou-degradeable. (Can't pass up this one, now can I?)

Please don't make comments if you don't know what you are talking about! (oh, wait, this is slashdot...) And forget?? Where you live 'people' might forget but here in New Orleans we forget very, very little of Katrina. Officers that did the shooting have been convicted and sentenced. The mistrial you point out is for one officer who was on the cover up side. Dugue was not even involved in the shooting. Please don't spread ignorance. (and don't back-peddle saying it was the cover-up dude getting off. He's not off, there's just been a mistrial)

Bread and Circuses. Congrats America, we're living 324 AD style!!

2112 on many levels... well done!

and here I was thinking the executive branch enforces the law.... guess I'm not so sharp.

I tell my world history students this every year... Think about what would happen if terrorists due in fact get hold of a nuke and wipe out a US city... or three.... How long would it take for us to build the camps? Sadly, I think more people would be donating time and money to get the camps built then they would to help the victims of the attacks. One of the scariest scenes I ever saw in the 24 tv series was the de facto camp built to house "suspected terrorists." We'd do the same... in a heartbeat. Sad and scary.

Racist newsletters tyvm.

Stop with the silly Iran thing, really. If I break Iranian law by actions in the US without ever having my actions affect any aspect of Iranian society/economy, etc then my actions, not only unknown in Iran, will have no impact on Iran. HOWEVER, when non-US folks break laws that have direct impact on US companies and US citizens INSIDE the US (and they use US computer services)then of course they are fair game to be prosecuted. Sorry you don't like the long arm of the law, but if I start messing with French companies from the US then France certainly has the right to seek me out. Not that France has the backbone for that sort of thing, but still...

+1 to that