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I like the idea that I have free speech, but it's nothing but a nice sentiment. Free speech is a right, but I can't enforce it. Slander and defamation are crimes, even when they're true (or rather, especially when they're true), so speech is never free. As long as you can be sued for slander, you don't have free speech. I could go on with a rant about everything wrong with the world, specifically Australia, and our legal system, but I'll stop before I do that...

A military government works best for its people. It should serve only the citizens of the country, no one else. It is working in Russia, where internet crime / fraud against U.S. entity goes unpunished, because it brings in $$$ that helps the Russian economy. Therefore any crime committed by U.S. citizens outside of U.S. should be automatically pardoned. If the host country does not release the POW under our request, we have the right to initiate military action. HEIL HITLER!

One Nato figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik." American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier. The incident caused consternation in the U.S. Navy, which had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication.

An anonymous reader writes "An auto-targeting, auto-reloading cannon goes out of control during a South African military drill — killing 9 soldiers, and wounding 14 more. Officials can't figure out whether to blame jammed hardware, software glitches... or the start of the robot uprising. One thing's for sure: it's not the first time robo-weapons have started acting dangerously odd."
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki.html