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Comment the sick irony (Score 0) 1224

by treksta on Thursday April 22, 2010 @09:20PM (#31949274) Attached to: <em>South Park</em>'s Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version

Matt and Trey commented on the last time Comedy Central censored the toon. "Cartoonists, people who do satire--we're not in the army, we're never going to be fucking drafted and this is our time to stand up and do the right thing" here

And this got me thinking about our troops protecting us right now from the type of fanatics who threatened Matt and Trey this time. I doubt left-wing Comedy Central gives a shit about our military risking their lives, but censoring this episode in this manner does an injustice to the troops fighting now and the men and women who have lost their lives protecting our constitutional rights, our freedom of speech and the free expression of ideas.

Comment Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score 0, Offtopic) 501

by treksta on Friday July 10, 2009 @07:17AM (#28647707) Attached to: Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct

Over a billion people claim to believe that a 2000 year old cosmic, Jewish zombie, born of a virgin mother; will offer you eternal life if you symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood and telepathically accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force...

This has to be a big, Jewish joke. They own in comedy; it's been proven. The way you just laid it out, it's apparent that one day, some of them took many of the myths from around the region, put them in a hat, shook it up, picked out a dozen or so and said to each other, "Let's see how many schmucks we can get to believe this nonsense!" Holy crap it worked! Attack of the Jewish zombies!

US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors 172

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 22, 2009 @12:34PM from the summon-bruce-willis dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Nature reports that the US military has abruptly ended an informal arrangement that allowed scientists access to data on incoming meteors from classified surveillance satellites, dealing a blow to the astronomers and planetary scientists who used the information to track space rocks. 'These systems are extremely useful,' says astronomer Peter Brown, at the University of Western Ontario. 'I think the scientific community benefited enormously.' Meteor data came from the Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite network consisting of infrared satellites in geosynchronous orbit to monitor the globe for missile launches or atmospheric nuclear blasts, forming the principal component of the United States' ballistic missile early-warning system. The satellites' effectiveness was demonstrated during Desert Storm, when DSP detected the launch of Iraqi Scud missiles and provided warning to civilian populations and coalition forces in Israel and Saudi Arabia. As a side benefit, the satellites could also precisely detect the time, position, altitude and brightness of meteors as they entered Earth's atmosphere, information the military didn't consider particularly useful, or classified. 'It was being dropped on the floor,' says former Air Force captain Brian Weeden. Although the reason for ending the arrangement remains unclear, Weeden notes that it coincides with the launch of a new generation of surveillance satellites and speculates that the Pentagon may not want details of the new satellites' capabilities to be made public, or it may simply lack the expensive software needed to handle classified and declassified data simultaneously. 'The decision may have been made that it was perhaps too difficult to disclose just these data.'"

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