Comment Re:Something is wrong (Score 1) 311
you cannot make the weak strong by making the strong weak.
Comment Re:It is the mass (Score 1) 396
And it has give way the a new greetings among physicist:
"Higgs five!!
Comment Linux (Score 1) 400
Nokia N900 is by far the best phone I have ever had
Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran 415
diewlasing sends this excerpt from the NY Times:
"From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program. Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran's Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet."
Comment But does it.. (Score 1) 255
run Linux?
Comment For Americans only? (Score 5, Insightful) 198
Most of the world do not know what Black Friday is
Comment Re:From the Devils Dictonary (Score 1) 917
If your, as for quite a few students of a middle class background, only option is to enter into significant debt in order to get the education what will allow you to get a job that can pay for a reasonable house to live in with your future family - Then it can very well be the reality.
Naturally you could be extraordinary smart, get a grant or have a very rich uncle but most are not. Or stay uneducated, with all that encompasses.
Comment From the Devils Dictonary (Score 2) 917
DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver.
As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet
Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet,
Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him,
Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him;
So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him,
Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him,
Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it,
And finds at last he might as well have paid it.
- Barlow S. Vode
As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet
Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet,
Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him,
Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him;
So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him,
Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him,
Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it,
And finds at last he might as well have paid it.
- Barlow S. Vode
Comment Re:What the fsycke happened ? (Score 2) 626
A Mathematical Model of Social Group Competition with Application to the Growth of Religious non-Affiliation, is listed at Cornell University Library, and was last revised in January 2011.
The study noted that there is a steady increase in the numbers of those who claim to belong to no religious group in nine countries, and its mathematical formula showed religion will be extinct in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland, according to Discover Magazine.
The study also commented on the U.S. noting that Americans without religious affiliation comprise the only religious group growing in all 50 states; in 2008 those claiming no religion rose to 15 percent nationwide, with a maximum in Vermont at 34 percent,Ã according to God Discussion.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1375
Comment Re:We need to find a truely safe country (Score 1) 398
Iran fit all of the above.
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