Feynman was repairing radios and getting paid for it when he was a little boy [his words].

It's on the Internet, though, and I know most slashdotters don't use that much.

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Also on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish

The ./ editors must be getting kickbacks from that beat.tv blog and dailymotion to run such a lame story.

>is it your position that people travelling internationally should have no protection from unwarranted months-long seizure of anything they're carrying?

It's not MY position, it's the reality of thousands of years of law.

You actually think you can cross an international border and not get searched, or have anything at all seized? What planet do you live on?

Again, it is a LIE that anything was seized illegally. A LIE.

Hey, AC, you mean THIS?

>On November 3, 2010, Department of Homeland Security agents at O'Hare International Airport detained for questioning Mr. David House, a computer programmer and U.S. citizen who lives in Cambridge, Mass., upon his return from a trip to Mexico.

He was NOT visiting Bradley Manning in prison, he was crossing an international border, and there are NO 4th Amendment protections there.

You need to read your own links so you don't get called out on your errors. Oh right, you're an AC, no one can pin this on you.

>Shortly afterwords, when this friend went back for another visit, most of what he took with him, including his laptop, was seized.

You made this up, dude. But spies need liars to support them, I guess.

I had to stop reading your very insightful comment halfway through. The lack of capitalization is very hard on dyslexic readers.

Stop doing that.

http://memegenerator.net/Jack-Weppler/ImageMacro/5588344/THANK-GOD-I-BROKE-UP-WITH-THAT-PSYCHO-BITCH

That 'equipment' is a huge ripoff. 20 cents for one radish seed?

http://sciencekit.com/rapid-radish-seeds/p/IG0020807/

Oh, and see the lone review there, the teacher faked the experimental results.

THIS is the problem, not some tests that you WOULD do well on if you learned the material.

http://www.google.com/search?q=stephen+wolfram+is+famous+for+this+self+aggrandizing+book

http://www.bing.com/search?q=stephen+wolfram+is+famous+for+this+self+aggrandizing+book

Google 1, Bing 0

>The US Federal Government has no authority to levy that kind of tax.

100 years of SCOTUS rulings on the Interstate Commerce Clause say they do.

>Any effort to enforce this should be fought.

Which is what Tea Party / conservatives are doing w/r/t mandatory health insurance, which Congress claimed falls under the ICC.

This NSApple guy is in favor of something that will destroy Free Software. Apple is just behind ExxonMobil in market cap at $300 billion.

Who will win, FSF or AAPL?

>similar things happened in the Hainan Island spy plane incident.

You mean that time when they forced Americans flying in international airspace to land in China or be shot down, thus committing an act of war? After that shitty Chinese fighter pilot ran into their big slow elint plane?

That incident?

I suppose you have a point, after all, the Americans were returned without have been given forced abortions.

Your 'quote' is bogus. It is a heavily edited version of a speech Ike gave in public in 1953, when all of Eastern Europe was occupied by the USSR. You edited it to change the meaning entirely. This was a speech about how to keep the free world free, not about metals.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,858151,00.html

It was included in one edition of the Pentagon Papers but was never secret.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/ps7.htm

Here's the part you deliberately left out:

"But all India would be outflanked. Burma would certainly, in its weakened condition, be no defense. Now, India is surrounded on that side by the Communist empire. Iran on its left is in a weakened condition. I believe I read in the paper this morning that Mossadegh's move toward getting rid of his parliament has been supported and of course he was in that move supported by the Tudeh, which is the Communist Party of Iran. All of that weakening position around there is very ominous for the United States, because finally if we lost all that, how would the free world hold the rich empire of Indonesia? So you see, somewhere along the line, this must be blocked. It must be blocked now. That is what the French are doing."

You're one of those revisionists who claim the Cold War never happened, tight? Or it was all America's fault?
Communism killed around 100 million people in the 20th century. There's books about it, read one.

>grew bitter with his level of recognition and attribution

Since you put it THAT way... yeah, that actually sounds a LOT like Manning.

While he is a fine young hockey player, and I fully expect him to lead his team to a Stanley Cup, there is one thing that every eight year old should know about him before indulging in any form of 'hero worship'.

HE HAS COOTIES!!!