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Comment Re:Don't trust [Re:Lovely summary.] (Score 1) 1044

by jcsalomon (#50381379) Attached to: Hugos Refuse To Award Anyone Rather Than Submit To Fans' Votes

In case you missed it: What happened here is that two right wing organizations gamed the system to ensure that only works they considered ideologically sound were allowed to be voted upon. Not progressives. Right wingers. One hard right (Vox Day) and one group that just felt that too many Hugos had gone to stories with progressive themes recently.

Y'know, this would be a lot more believable if the Sad Puppies list (and Vox Day's Rabid Puppies list, which largely copies SP) weren't easily available, and if the authors on it weren't an ideologically-diverse bunch. But you report as malware sites all the SP-related blogs, maybe then people won't be able to check the truth of your claim.

Submission + - We're Planning to Shoot an Asteroid to See What Happens (discovery.com)

Submitted by astroengine
astroengine writes: What better way to understand how to deflect an incoming asteroid than to smash into one to see what happens? This may sound like the storyline to a certain science fiction movie involving a team of oil drillers, but this is science fact, and Europe has started planning a mission to map a small target asteroid that NASA will attempt to shoot with a speeding spacecraft, no nukes required. As the first half of the joint Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment mission, the European Space Agency this month has started planning for the launch of its Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) in October 2020. AIM’s target will be the binary asteroid system of Didymos, which is composed of a main 800 meter-wide hunk of space rock circled by a smaller 170 meter-wide asteroid informally known as “Didymoon.” It’s the smaller asteroid that the joint NASA/ESA mission is interested in bullying.

Comment Re:This might alienate anti-ISI* Muslims. (Score 1) 225

by jcsalomon (#48591933) Attached to: US Navy Authorizes Use of Laser In Combat

The last I heard, weapons that blind are banned by the current "laws of war" as recognized by the western powers - and that's been the major impeidment so far to deploying laser (and other directed energy) weapons.

A laser that makes someone permanently blind is forbidden. A laser that makes a pilot temporarily blind, so that he crashes and becomes permanently dead, is OK.

Comment Re:Not all "blasphemy" is religious in nature... (Score 1) 278

by jcsalomon (#42407811) Attached to: EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012

I knew a lot of Communists (big "C") and communists (little "c") in the late '50s and early '60s. Some of them followed the party line, and some of them didn't. Obviously the Trotskyites didn't.

For most of the Communists I knew, the question was, "When did you leave the Party?" Some of them left the Party after the Hungarian revolution, some of them left after the Czechoslovokian revolution.

I’d have thought the invasion of Poland would have been enough, or even the deliberately-created famines (look up Holdomor) or the gulags or religious persecution or....

In other words, most of the Communists I knew had more integrity and commitment to democracy than the right-wing corporate suckups in this country.

Uh huh.

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