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Submission + - Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash (wired.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29, 2013 @03:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: The numbers tell the story — in votes and dollars. On Wednesday, the House voted 217 to 205 not to rein in the NSA’s phone-spying dragnet. It turns out that those 217 “no” voters received twice as much campaign financing from the defense and intelligence industry as the 205 “yes” voters.

Comment Re:Scary (Score 1) 295

by xer0aim on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @10:27AM (#40076245) Attached to: DEA Wants To Install License Plate Scanners and Retain Data for Two Years

No it's not something he pulled out of his butt. Here is an example http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836

Comment Re:A pre-emptive "Welcome home" to all of them (Score 3, Interesting) 386

by xer0aim on Friday October 21, 2011 @04:58PM (#37798618) Attached to: US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year

As a member of the Armed Forces, this comment honestly offends me. I've been in for 6 years now, already completed 1 deployment and have not at any point felt "good" about holding a gun in my hands shooting "bad" guys. The fact that you even think that shows how ill-informed you truly are. I urge you to take time out of your honorable life and go spend some time with these people that you are so quick to bash.

Comment Re:Primary Programming. (Score 1) 645

by xer0aim on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @03:29PM (#34690104) Attached to: Greed, Zealotry, and the Commodore 64

If god doesn't know what decision we will make then god is not omnipotent, simple as that. Omnipotent means knowing everything, past, future and present, but if god doesn't know what we will do then he doesn't know everything and is not omnipotent.

I would have to say that omniscient means knowing everything infinitely. Omnipotent means all powerful. I guess you could say that by being omnipotent you would be omniscient but I think there is at least a slight difference in the two.

Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next 193

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 07, 2009 @07:06PM from the fattening-up-on-brains dept.

ColdWetDog writes "Wired is running a story on DARPA's effort to stave off battlefield casualties by turning injured soldiers into zombies by injecting them with a cocktail of one chemical or another (details to be announced). From the article, 'Dr. Fossum predicts that each soldier will carry a syringe into combat zones or remote areas, and medic teams will be equipped with several. A single injection will minimize metabolic needs, de-animating injured troops by shutting down brain and heart function. Once treatment can be carried out, they'll be "re-animated" and — hopefully — as good as new.' If it doesn't pan out we can at least get zombie bacon and spam."

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