Purely on a factual level, yes he was arrested, after being questioned for an hour and a half (how is that even possible?), and was taken to a detention centre, fingerprinted, photographed, and questioned further.

He was not charged. Possibly that's what you meant.

Mosanto should get in the business of GM bees?

... I feel sorry for. They'll need plenty of financial compensation for this fuckup.

Which is tantamount to saying that it's important that the government just spends money, regardless of the end purpose, no?

... between tuna caught in nets or on lines, but I want to know about that too.

All reports seem to state that the use of computers correlates with lower academic performance.

Maybe as a means of distributing open source text books economically to the neglected parts of the world, this might be a winner, but it's difficult to see that it would be more economical than a cheap printing -- a paperback costs little more than USD1 to print.

When you contradicted him by producing the evidence that he was wrong, did that lead to a pay rise and a pat on the back? ;)

Wage theft: "the illegal withholding of wages or the denial of benefits that are rightfully owed to an employee".

Possibly you mean that they were not earning their salary?

This is not a "men vs women" thing, it's an "asshole vs decent person" thing independent of gender.

If you doubt that your half an hour-tops "hell of a lot of digging" has uncovered what "isn't the best evidence possible", I think I'd agree with you.

It's how your small, self-selecting group bonds. It's how you ensure that your groupthink supports your belief in the quality of your work.

Do you also think that the teams that develop software for aircraft, space systems, nuclear reactors, and other critical systems are shouting insults at each other in order to product "better IT"?

On the other hand, a great many men are capable of being competent, professional software developers without fantasising that we're engaged in a macho dick swinging contest. When a community behaves in this this fashion it excludes others from wanting to participate regardless of how skilled they are, and the development community self-selects the small proportion of probably-male developers who are willing to engage in the fantasy.

At the same time, the community will claim that it acts in that way because it promotes some kind of libertarian lord-of-the-flies only-the-strong-survive technical meritocracy, without recognising that others just don't have to play their game.

The good chaps at Clipperz moved to https://1984.is/# for reasons that they explained out in this blog: https://clipperz.is/blog/2013/...

Their logic seems compelling.

Your argument, that the presence of an innocent explanation let you consider the advocates to be confidence crooks, is based on your belief that the blueprints were for VH-3.

They were not -- they were for the VH-60, which started coming into service in the mid-let 1980's for VIP duties, nearly 10 years after the Iranian Revolution.

Well I'd prefer to characterise it as "if you're looking to stop the military from pissing the people's money away".