Juno's coming home, and if all the usual stories about her are true, she's not going to be particularly amused that Jupiter has been hanging around with his mistresses all this time.

Quite possible the whole mess is due to the US govt's overreaching surveillance, from which not even ancient gods have been spared. I blame Snowden's leaks for Juno's desperate run to the outer reaches of the solar system.

Yes. I seem to remember someone comparing the light levels to moonlight – but can't remember if that was Saturn or Jupiter, or perhaps even closer.

Which means, basically, using solar power – and if there's enough for the plants, there is likely enough for other purposes as well. And you'll need carbon dioxide (which is, apparently, available in trace amounts, which is perhaps enough).

I don't believe it's fair to blame iraqis for resisting an invasion – or are you advocating hunting down and prosecuting WW2 allied resistance fighters/soldiers for the deaths of German soldiers?

In Afghanistan, you *may* argue that the whole thing should be blamed on Al Qaida; but given that the whole Iraq thing should have been enough for a war crimes case, we might as well skip arguing about that.

But that turned out to be true – so is it really pathological, then? You might very well say you're delusional if you believe you *don't* get snooped on all the time.

Yes, funnily enough, some of them didn't even carry arms at all. Which makes you correct in stating that they don't qualify as PoWs – they're *kidnapping victims*.

And then there is of course the whole matter of allegations vs something that might hold up a court of law (whether you're going to use one or not), and terrorism vs resistance.

Why vote for the lesser evil? You should have gone with Cthulhu.

And they'd probably be quite happy to not have to deal with crappy (package/patch) management software, insecure-by-default, and waiting days for support people to fix nonstandard hardware because "the disk is on order".

But yes, there's also a certain charm to dealing with equipment costing several hundred thousands / millions of dollars and old-fashioned unixen.

Or just set it to dump core, and then attach a debugger to the core file.

In terms of numbers, Stalin's atrocities are off the chart; Bush/Cheney/Obama are peanuts in comparison.

However, saying that the other guy was 1000x worse shouldn't be valid defense when it comes to war crimes, atrocities, tyranny and oppression(*). And – saying that it was the other guy who did it, I just let him get away with it, shouldn't be a defense either.

(*) Though, it is interesting to note that several Germans had their sentences commuted during the Nüremberg trials for crimes that had also been committed by the allies.

What could possibly go wrong?

Looks like the US is (like any great empire) fundamentally built on slavery (and war). It may have changed its form to suit the times, but that's what it is. Anything that interferes with free access to cheap slave-like labor becomes a legitimate target for intervention or invasion (cf. Haiti, Venezuela, practically any other country in South America, and many other places in the world).

The US hasn't gone through the same process of weaning itself off slavery and war, like the European powers were forced to after WW2, when they lost their grip on their colonies. Not that Europe is entirely clean either; with the reliance on cheap products from sweat shops in Asia.

I think you can be reasonably sure that when a woman says she wants to be an icon, she does not mean that she wants to be known as "that girl who was raped".

No, just mixing up the words. Meant to say that Speer was certainly slimmer than Göring. ;)

I don't have his measurements, but you can judge for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1977-149-13,_Hermann_G%C3%B6ring,_Adolf_Hitler,_Albert_Speer.jpg

He's certainly slimmer than Speer.