How is it ironic, that they create the perfect tld for kiddie porn by giving one to a sovereign country which has the 60 years of human rights abuses as its #1 talking point?

We are talking about a country that has a problem with cannibalism for eff's sake, kiddie porn is child's play.

My best friend whines that is why he has not kept up with our little book club we started when we were undergrads. " If you drove an hour each way, you would not want to come home and read either - blah blah blah, blah." His wife is in grad school, takes care of their 2 year old and works weekends at the co-op and she keeps up. He works 8 hours a day and whines.

45 minutes is easy to time to find, if you make a ritual out of it when you get home or when you first wake up. Stop reading news in the morning and read a book that won't try to enchant you with LiLo's or the Dow's up and downs.

Its the same reason why douche-bags across Silicon Valley start driving bullet proof cars, get panic rooms and start flying around in helicopters.

They have multiple plants, this benefits only the extremists in Israel by giving the hawks something to say they tried "non-violent methods" and for Iran to say that Israel is trying to destroys it currently peaceful nuclear program. There is no way that Obama would do something to provoke the one country that like a domino falling would make the current Iraq and Afghanistan debacle into a regional conflict.

This is Slashdot and I'm not your grad student, stop whining.

IBM did not really ween itself off the government tit till the 1970's and it is slowly but surely returning to it. All electronics manufacturing, save for a few consumer only companies in the US relied on government contracts, R&D deals and trickle down military technology to prosper in the post WWII era. Since Ike established DARPA in 1958, it has been involved in everything from rockets to pacemakers to Artificial Intelligence. Until places like Xerox Parc in the late 70's there was no civilian equivalent that across so many industries since Edison's Menlo Park.

The cold war was a larger expenditure of our nation's wealth than WWII. Virtually none of those millionaires would of existed without government contracts, which are notoriously not free market.

Its like watching someone trying to bullshit about the structuralism and analytical Marxism to get into the pants of an Anthropologist chick.

The problem with the Flynn effect is that it does not account for the decreased usage of IQ tests in schools, employment and the military - which constituted the vast majority of usage. Whereas even 25 years ago you might have a pool of millions of results for a given populace, today you are finding that in some countries it has been hard to find 10,000.

I highly doubt that you could hire 2 competent programmers for 200k, let alone release a prototype in less than 6 months.

Its a blatant appeal to authority argument which is a oft repeated and believed fallacy.

The understanding of fallacies should be required to get a license to internet forums.

Who cares, unless it affects his work duties?

Maybe they should use it on themselves.

They will use all this goodwill to doing something horrible, you watch.

When color TVs became affordable for the consumer market and television programs started broadcasting in color the amount of garish costumes and set designs and other "look ma, its in color" gaucherie was lampooned mercilessly. The technology was refined and eventually turned out alright, even though it went through a stage at the advent of color when it verged on the psychedelic.

Discounting 3D at this stage of the technology is a patently absurd prognostication given the history of the TV.