I think you misread the article. They are specifically NOT combat awards. They will have an R device, not a V device (for valor).

By the way, I think your post was unnecessarily inflammatory. Drone operators are military members. They still deploy when and where they're told. They still show up on terrorist target lists for stateside attacks. Calling them "joystick jockeys" and comparing them to Call of Duty gamers is petulant. They've done more to risk their lives for the country than most.

I guess it DOES have some benefit, huh?

Words mean things. It is unfortunate that you do not understand them. It is true that a vaccine prevents infection. Your post makes me angry with its bullheadedness and ignorance. However, for the sake of your education and the edification of others who might read, let me remind you that HIV is not terminal upon primary infection. Few if any people die from primary HIV infection or "conversion sickness." In fact, for many people, viral levels drop to incredibly low rates after initial infection, even without medication. The problem arises when that infection rears its head again later, infecting and destroying your remaining T-cells and thereby eviscerating your immune system. Put simply: we are already pretty good at destroying infected cells, but we don't have a way of keeping it from infecting further cells. As you so astutely noted, a vaccine is useful for that exact purpose.

If you can be imprisoned for speaking the "wrong kind" of speech, then it's not a very civilized country at all now is it?

No option for "As long as it's not Europa"?

Slashdot... I am disappoint.

I used to study at that Borders with my then-boyfriend. At Panera too. Sad day.

If my mom promises to lose weight, she doesn't break that promise by buying jeans that fit her. She needs to reduce the imbalance between the calories she takes in and the calories she burns. She is already a given size and has already planned out a healthy calorie-reduction diet. She needs jeans that will be possible to wear on that plan. If my mom were to buy only a size 5, and threaten to kill herself if she bought a larger size, and also threaten to kill herself if she can't fit into the size 5, then yes, she would be monumentally insane.

When Republicans promise to reduce spending and lower the debt, they don't break that promise by raising the debt ceiling. They need to reduce the imbalance between the revenue brought in and the revenue expended. They have already passed the 2011 budget. They need to raise revenue or debt to fund it. The Republicans are threatening to impeach Obama if he raises debt to fund the appropriations bill that THEY passed, and also threatening to impeach him if we default because they didn't raise the debt ceiling, so yes, they are monumentally insane.

You clearly haven't thought this through very well. The lock feature goes hand-in-hand with autosave - it keeps you from wasting hard drive space on revisions that are essentially just unimportant changes in scratch work that you never save.

Returning to the title bar pop-up menu, the "Revert to Last Saved Version" menu item returns the document to its last explicitly saved state (i.e., what it looked like the last time the user typed âOES or selected the "Save a Version" menu item). "Duplicate" will create a new document containing the same data as the current document. Finally, the "Lock" item will prevent any further changes to the document until it is explicitly unlocked by the user. Documents will also automatically be locked if they're not modified for a little while. The auto-lock time is configurable in the "Optionsâ¦" screen of the Time Machine preference pane (of all places), with values from one day to one year. The default is two weeks. [You can also turn auto-lock off.] [cite]

You misunderstand. They permit putting an application into full-screen mode. There is not a "new [kind of] full-screen application[]" All this is is OS-level support for what you already do with Firefox. Implementing this in the API rather than having each app provide its own improves consistency. And having the option to full-screen, e.g., the Terminal makes the computer MORE open, flexible, and powerful, not less.

The default setting, "Automatically based on input type," will use overlay scroll bars as long as there's at least one touch-capable input device attached (though the trackpad on laptops doesn't count if any other external pointing devices are connected). If you don't like this kind of second-guessing, just choose one of the other options. The "When scrolling" option means always use overlay scroll bars, and the "Always" option means always show scroll bars [cite]

Tau makes doing math much MUCH easier. Quick, what angle (in radians) corresponds to 1/128 of a circle?

(Hint: It's (tau)/128)

Calling people "halfwit" (or any other name) is the hallmark of someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.

You're confusing the idea that an expression has fewer terms with the idea that an expression is more elegant. That is simply not true. The core of elegance is conceptual clarity and simplicity.

A circle is a curve. How do you find the area under a curve? Oh wait... and what do integrals look like for these kinds of expressions and relationships? Let's walk through this conceptually: the area proscribed by a circle is the area of every actual circle inside it of infinitesimal width. You start with the tiniest possible circular band, and expand the radius outward, adding the area covered by each subsequent band to your total, each such band having area A = C*r. And it's obvious that, as you expand outward, C remains proportional to r, and taking the integral here is going to be intimately related to the relationship of C and r. So the ABSOLUTELY KEY QUESTION, the ONE THING you need to know to take the integral and figure out the area, is this: by what factor is C proportional to r?

You're clearly misinformed. Tau is a much more elegant number for every use case. Way to post AC, btw.

What use is a phone call... if you're unable to speak?

It is not customary for a member of the U.S. Marine Corps to use the title "soldier."

Some people may argue that "soldier" is a generic term that can be applied to any servicemember. However, in actual use, "soldier" specifically means a member of the Army. U.S. servicemembers are referred to as soldiers (USA), sailors (USN), airmen (USAF), or Marines (USMC). Calling a Marine a "soldier" is akin to calling a Senator a "Congressman" - using the term may be technically correct in a very narrow sense, but that's not how native speakers with contextual knowledge use the term, and you are suggesting that the person in question has not earned the right to be counted among the members of a smaller, specialized body.

(To counter the argument that this is somehow elitist: very few Marines, even Recon Marines, would look down their nose at Deltas, who are unambiguously "soldiers." But the Marine Corps has a distinctive culture and history. Would you tell a Hmong family "Thai is a generic term that refers to someone from Thailand. Hmong would be a subset of that. The only reason someone would object to conflating the terms would be if they were Hmong and were overly sensitive"?)

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40051
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061108110349AAcUIiC
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22soldier+in+the+Marine+corps%22+OR+%22Marine+soldier%22+OR+%22Marine+Corps+soldier%22
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22soldiers%2C%20sailors%2C%20airmen%2C%20and%20Marines%22

What is this, a flashback to 2004? iTunes music is DRM-free dude. There's very little about iTunes that locks you into a platform, and certainly not in order to sell more hardware. The biggest "lock-in" even remotely related to iTunes is the 2-year contract with AT&T or Verizon you have to sign if you get an iPhone.