Hieronymus Cowturd - Slashdot User

Comment Re:What a day (Score 1) 1855

by Hieronymus Cowturd on Monday May 02, 2011 @04:52AM (#35997740) Attached to: Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands

Try down the back of the sofa. That's where my flight recorders always end up.

Comment Re:Please: NO POLITICAL POSTURING. (Score 1) 1855

by Hieronymus Cowturd on Monday May 02, 2011 @04:46AM (#35997712) Attached to: Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands

Totally. Got up, read news had a beer - not my usual moning :-) It's a shame it took so long and so much bloodshed to bring him to justice, only to find him hiding amongst our allies (Pakistan may have some explaining to do). But however you look at it, it's impossible to see his death as anything else than a good thing.

Comment Re:now the US can slash defense spending (Score 1) 1855

by Hieronymus Cowturd on Monday May 02, 2011 @04:38AM (#35997660) Attached to: Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands

Well, I'm not saying I believe the war for minerals bullshit. Iraq had plenty of oil to sell anyone who wanted to buy it under Hussein, after all. The US was voluntarily not buying it as a sanction. Good job the coalition invaded then. Now they don't need to worry about that.

Well, there's lithium mines out the as for batteries

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/More-than-US$-3-trillion-in-rare-earths-and-precious-metals-under-Taliban-feet-20817.html

I'm sure the Taleban would have sold us lithium and used the money to murder their own people and refuse education to women if that's all we cared about.

Well, that's not ALL we cared about. Embedding US mining companies in a country not only hostile to the West but harbouring an arsehole like Bin Laden was always going to be tricky.

Comment Re:Please: NO POLITICAL POSTURING. (Score 1) 1855

by Hieronymus Cowturd on Monday May 02, 2011 @04:19AM (#35997568) Attached to: Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands

At what point was this ever about other countries "taking responsibility". The US didn't want the reds in, so they armed, trained and funded their opposition regardless of their venality or popular support. The same modus operandi was followed in Korea, Nicaragua, Panama etc. You may disagree with the emotive framing of OP's argument, but its basis and conclusions are sound.

you, my little spastic friend, think like a slave

By insulting those whose opinion you do not share, you immediately reduce your chances of winning them over to your point of view. Learn some manners.

Comment Re:Article could use a fact-checker (Score 1) 129

by Hieronymus Cowturd on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @11:35AM (#35953468) Attached to: Artificial Synapse Created For Synthetic Brain

Yeah, I remember this coming up before. A poster in that thread mentioned an instance where algorithmic circuit optimization produced a design that utilised the magnetic field generated by its components in its operation. Optimising neural networks using such techniques may yeild similar results (field strength notwithstanding).

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