This only avoids the larger conflagration if the nukes fly in from China after a clear note to the permanent members of the security council, Japan, Korea, followed by a press conference at the UN.

I'm having an "Obi-Wan senses the destruction of Alderaan" moment just contemplating the possibility.

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I'm an exception then. I'm from west of Banff actually and I think what he said was outrageous. Perhaps it's time to start manufacturing Julian Assange masks, kind of like the "Anonymous" masks at certain kinds of protests -- which incidentally also relate closely to part of Mr. Assange's past at suburbia in Australia -- and "My name is Julian" T-shirts.

And I'm not particularly proud to be a canuck these days on every front, either. Hey, at least we're surviving the current Great Recession in somewhat better health than so many other places.

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And please don't forget to leave flowers on Algernon's grave.

But I prefer to encourage others to give karma-points to identifiable individuals, so I recommend this article instead. And I would propose a kindly glass for Charlie, too.

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Go Blekko! ...ank

I desperately hope that someone at the LCD-display manufacturers will see the light before these two monitors (acquired for US$50 each, used) both need to be replaced. I am a software developer. I want to see the code, as much of it as possible. I want to see it all at once, now. And I want to be able to do this without getting neck strain from swinging my head from side-to-side on a 16:9 screen. This is a market: it's not as wildly profitable, perhaps as the widest possible consumer market, but there is demand for this kind of product as replies to TFA and some comments in this page make clear. Is anyone listening?

4:3 screens of higher resolution may, actually, all be going to other markets. On a recent knowledge-transfer trip to Israel, I saw a lot of quite high resolution 4:3 LCD screens on my colleagues desks. Is that all it is? Does someone know?

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... but I say to you, love your enemy, do good to the one who hates you, bless the one who uses you spitefully... I don't see no beatings there not, without re-writing the dictionary or some such jiggery-pokery (Hit me! Hit me! ... ah... that feels much better).

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