Guess you're right but I'm still getting somewhat warm feeling imagining spoiled American (you know the kind I mean) crook coming to kick back to Saudi Arabia. After few years there, that plea bargain deal might look pretty appealing, especially if it includes a part about not going into some max security hell.

Read and weep, ye of too much faith.

Hehe, yeah, those were the times.
Anyway, as far as I know, it was just a masterfully delivered joke. But I'm torn too, it would be really nice Darwinistic razor, especially if substantial part of money were sent to Sisyfos. I've been toying with a wider idea (selling the whole shebang, from positively charged clothes through colon cleansing to fashionable tinfoil lined caps) and getting rich plus supporting local skeptic club or even better, some nice interesting and underfunded research. Only flaw I can see, is being jerk towards lots of mostly just naïve and gullible people - the plan includes final coming out and publicizing the results

Well, I have similar experiences from here (Czech Republic), with lots of people being irrationally* scared, but that's the danger of basing judgement on personal experience - people tend to flock in groups (or maybe nets, not sure about the proper sociological term) and if you know mostly people from say two or three plus random strangers from the pub, you might completely miss other groups' differing prevalent opinions.

Here we had the anti-Temelín hysteria, loud and all-encompassing, during the nineties and it seemed (at least to me, being part of it for most of its duration) that it's evil corrupt politicians pushing Big Energy's agenda against the will of pretty much anyone else.
Yet looking back with cool head at the public opinion polls, support for building never dropped below 55%, give or take. Zealots are just louder and being against something always attracts more of them, being for something, especially something not enough big, revolutionary and instigating that warm self-righteous feeling, will be always too constructive for those loud pretentious types. Guess this might be Britain's case too.

*Before bunch of smartasses fires opening of salvo "Chernobyl, TMI, Fukushima, Windscale are terrible, renewables could replace nukes within mere 20 years, if you just hug that blade": If I try pointing out lack of viable options and exaggeration of commonly known problems (it's on again, only two reactors instead of four were built, so now we have another iteration of the same debate), lot of people actually agree with me on everything when I go point by point, yet they finish in the spirit of "Anyway, nuclear is bad, that's what I feel", then I call their fear irrational.

It generates about one sixth of electricity from nukes and plans to build a lot more of them within next 20 years, public support dropped after Fukushima, but has already recovered. That's not too special, but it's completely different league than Germany with it's traditional over the top reaction to social wave du jour or Austria's hysteria (sorry, Austrians, there's no better name for it).

Have no worry. That one's executable is capitalized.

You bet they will. Probably some disembodied version of this.

with compiz, avant-window-navigator (docky is probably fine too and it has that useful effect of _really_ zooming dock icons when you hover the mouse above, which I can't find in AWN) - while it's theoretically dependent on compiz, since XFCE's compositor reached mature level, all you actually need is xfwm, though eye candy's not complete, but I guess that's not your priority anyway. As a long time XFCE user, I still kept Gnome's evince, sometimes gedit (for quick point'n'click in file manager, for everything else there's vim anyway) or file-roller. I have quite strong allergy to pretty much every DE supplied music/movie player I've ran into, so Audacious and MPlayer it is. Switching workplaces is customizable, left click at the edge of screen to get to the next one or middle clicking desktop and dragging or rotating the mousewheel worked for me.
Also - don't take it too far with jigsaw puzzle approach, in my experience it's still better to have something as a base with replacing parts you dislike than completely DIY mess.
Oh, and all this ran on Ubuntu, then Debian (currently 64-bit Wheezy), and at the moment looks like this.
This setup's of course just a result of my preferences and idiosyncrasies and far from perfect, but it bugs me less than others I've tried.

Um, if you step in front of armoured bulldozer with a very limited view in an attempt to block it with your own body and get bulldozed, it's not called "being slaughtered" but "competing for Darwin Award".

The More You Know.

P.S. Also check out Wikipedia for some WMD's measures and usage. You'd be surprised how relatively small they usually are and how little they are used in Israeli-Palestinian conflict (not at all). As for rocks being thrown by Palestinian kids, you shouldn't omit rockets and mortar shells sent by their older compatriots, if you want to be fair (I know, I know, you don't, but I am such a hopeless case and sometimes give a benefit of doubt even where obviously wasted). Not mentioning the issue of proper training in stone throwing and suicide bombing for a modern army; they're really better off with machine guns and F-15s usable against anyone than wasting part of the practice on the stone age/WWII warfare methods useless against regular armies.

There's tried and true scientific measure for this stuff, Crackpot Index. Count score for yourself:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

Of course, measure is a little outdated, e.g. the founding of a scientific magazine for the publishing of your work is not rated, which is really a shame, hopefully the author will work it into some future version.

As long as the current Czar is former KGB colonel and their journalists are murdered more often than anywhere else, I'd say let's not bother with splitting hair and keep the handy communist tag ready. It might not be accurate but it wasn't after all even during USSR times, that which we call feudal autocracy by any other name would reek as foul.

Maybe I just missed it, but I still can't see the video of antropomorphic robots attaching one of them to a crossed truss with a nailgun. You can't get more Christmas spirit than that.

Premium warranty (repair and boot up within three days) optional.

Still one pipe more than necessary (if you have GNU tools):

tallis:/home/krigl# tail -100 /var/log/apache2/access.log.1 | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u

GNU sort has uniq's functionality implemented.

Our current president has already done this before 2002 election with a pre-recorded message and dialer calling to all private phones in the country and the message even got a house remix KlausHaus. His party has subsequently lost the election, wonder why...

Oh, the innocent times, within several years, the boom of telemarketing has immunized the populace to the extent this wouldn't raise too many eyebrows today.