The point being that I agree with you (and not the grandparent) in terms of any danger in terms of weaponizing these kind of rockets. There may be some common components for commercial spaceflight launchers and what you can find for military missiles, but there are enough major differences that they are not interchangeable. This is especially true for "modern" rocket designs, where there is a clear separation of the designs because they have different objectives in terms of flight profile and performance characteristics.

If you read the article, they're only talking about surveillance of staff, not student, accounts. i.e. Employee emails.

Funny.

Most of Apple's machines have a SD card slot.

We must maintain, at all costs, beloved technological anachronisms like printer incompatibilities and X11. Shame on Apple! Shame on them for trying to rid computing of all its cruft.

Atheism is the new red-headed step-child.

Only none of your reasons for acquittal apply here. There was no trial error and he wasn't innocent. There is no doubt as to his guilt (as there was no doubt about the guilt of Oscar Wilde either), it's just that the law that they broke was absolutely abhorrent.

ensure instead that we never again return to those times Then perhaps pardoning him would be a step in the right direction?

I likely know more about central banks, the Federal Reserve, and other such nonsense better than you do. I just didn't want to publish a book about that stuff here on /. nor did I care to go into such drivel from somebody who is so impolite as to think they are the fountain of all knowledge in the universe.

Yes, they actively campaign against gay marriage. Are you saying that negates the worthiness of their charity work? Do you think they spit on gay disaster victims instead of giving them food, or what? Grow up, and realize that not all worthwhile organizations and benevolent acts must be 100% in line with your beliefs to be worthwhile or benevolent.

And I am somewhat of a traditionalist, I did grow up in a highland dance band.

Actually, I'm a reasonable approximation of a Scotsman by heritage, although 3rd generation in Canada.

A kilt is a made to measure garment that is specifically designed to fit a man's anatomy, and as such it is usually very unflattering to a woman's figure.

Care to back that statement up with some examples?