Trolling is alive and well on /. You are trolling, right? If we give up on NASA we might as well throw in the towel. I believe that anyone carrying a NASA badge knows exactly how important their organization is to our country, and species, and I am unanimous in that. Don't let the AYBS reference diminish the seriousness of my response. I wasn't even tempted to make a crack about Windows' inability to play DVDs out of the box. Really I wasn't. NASA is above that...

2^30 already passed us by (Sat Jan 10, 2004 at 08:37:04 EST) and few of us will be alive for 2^32 (Sun Feb 7 2106 at 01:28:16 EST), but 2^31 is right around the corner! (Mon Jan 18, 22:14:08 EST).

So, a couple of posters have mentioned NEC, but nobody's mentioned, specifically, the V20 & V30, which, IIRC, were reverse-engineered, pin-out exact copies of the 8088&8086. As the term "reverse-engineered" implies, I don't think they necessarily had a license to do so, either.

One: the President has no DIRECT control over the economy. He has the power of the veto, and as the head of the executive, he is large part responsible for managing how the laws passed by congress are implemented.

Two: I'm willing to give you that Clinton was not responsible for the state of the economy during his turn, supply-side did that. However, I find it hard to accept that a two-year liberal congress was able to do more damage to our economy than a 6-year colonial/neo-imperial effort in the Middle-East.

The most obvious differences between Islamic extremists and Christian extremists are as follows:

1) Because of the unique situations of each, Islamic extremists tend to feel more compelled to use violent means to attain their religious dictates, whereas the societies in which Christian extremists operate tend to more harshly censure violence. I have no doubt, though, that a Jerry Falwell or a Pat Robertson would be utterly willing to advocate violent means for enforcing their religious mandate if they saw at as being in their beneficial (in fact, we can see examples of publicly less-renowned Christian extremists engaging in a wide range of terrorist activities, from bombing abortion clinics, to lighting crosses on the yards of "darkies").

2) The other difference, and I'm sure that many in America find it hard to admit that we largely do make this distinction, is that the Christian extremists are, generally speaking, "white" and the Muslim extremists are, generally speaking, not. Just as in nearly every single bit of public discourse on any matter relating to foreign policy (and this certainly qualifies) in the US, race is a primary factor in our calculations, even though social changes in the 1960's make us uncomfortable with admitting it.

This certainly doesn't cover EVERYTHING, but these are the two primary differences that play a major factor in how Americans, in general, relate to these two groups.

Just because the job is dangerous doesn't make it excusable for incompetents to make it even more so through violations of information security protocols.

Hah. So, the two most fiscally conservative presidents in the past two decades may turn out to be *gasp* DEMOCRATS!

Only if you say it three times in a row in a dark room, looking into a mirror..

Now everybody: Don't say we didn't warn you.

All i have to say is that even INDIANA JONES was accused of grave robbery. Repeatedly, in fact.