this is the most insightful summary of why the US might feel justified in prosecuting Assange that I have seen yet.

no mod points or I'd mod you up.

let's be a little more specific:

(from the guardian's live coverage)

I'm against any abuse of power, but "support our troops" means - even if you don't support the political agenda, you should support and respect the soldiers who have to fight - they don't have a choice. So that makes them potential victims of abuses of the system as well, so from my point of view, it's exactly the opposite of what you're saying.

At least that's what it's supposed to mean - a lot of people misuse that slogan to mean something else....

slashdot is dead when there are 2 misspellings of Linus' last name in the same thread and nobody corrects it

funny, but no mod points :-)

Actually, by intentionally stating the incorrect artist's name in a post intending to correct someone's misuse of the word irony, was itself punny.

good one!

man that was funny

Kind of OT, but actually the judges in Texas are anti-corporate if anything, if we're talking about south-east Texas where most of the huge class-action lawsuits get filed (and won).

no kidding, that's what I got out of it too. some people just can't see the forest for the trees.

It appears that the screenshot was taken from the real Windows XP, and Ylmf OS does not look much like XP, but rather exactly like Gnome.

Here's a screenshot taken from someone who installed the ISO in VMWare and changed the locale to English: http://i50.tinypic.com/2lar9s0.jpg

but there certainly is in American't

5 for osx: you forgot ppc64

Looks like mammatus clouds - something any pilot would instantly recognize (and avoid)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus

you mean like columbo? :-)