And didnt nuke this cancer in the bud :)

The only thing you're going to get by giving people that choice, is even more hardcore rebellion and increased radicalization in other areas. The BEST case scenario is that the US starts really looking like a terrorist and the international community manages to make the Americans feel shitty enough about it to make the political stance untenable.

You are not going to get peace by bullying the other person into submission.

So basically, you want the Americans to channel the shittiest of all dictators and along with their bombings, occupy and terrorize a population. And this is marked insightful? Disgusting.

I get it. That barbaric culture is scary. You're afraid of them breeding like rabbits and establishing sharia law after immigrating to your country. If you react in this way, there is literally nothing separating you from the terrorists. Their ideas are your ideas. You literally WANT TO TERRORIZE THEM INTO SUBMISSION.

How the fuck is this insightful? Consider if someone was saying this about the US. You just know that even though you'll subjugate the majority, you will always have an armed rebellion for as long as you're there. Legitimately fighting their brutal occupiers. If The US saw Russia doing that, they'd call them brutal aggressive occupiers and that's what you'd be.

There are better options. They are harder, complex and don't give you the satisfaction of the genocide you crave. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. It may be from a movie but it's the goddamn truth. Real solutions are harder than that but maybe we humans haven't reached a level of emotional or intellectual maturity to use them yet.

I accept that I'm not as well versed in formal science as I'd like to be. I care about it a lot and think i's deeply interesting and I've read about it a lot but that's still no a formal education in science.
I think a lot of us are the same way if we just have CS degrees and I don't see what's so hard to admit about that.

It is an american site but how long can you make the claim that most of your reader base is American? A significant amount isn't using metric.

Wow market forces have never ever been wrong, have they?

So now facebook is the new google, extremely minor changes are finding place on tech news sites.

Is facebook really technology? From what i can figure out, its a place where people spend 700 billion minutes a month playing farville and mafia wars.

I'd rather have all the facebook employees working on something significant, like i dunno, developing software for the space missions, or heck, even search engines. Search engines are awefully complicated - facebook is just a photo album with lots of cookies to track you.

At what point do we realize that people wasting time on such sites is as big a danger as say, drugs?
When's the war on facebook ?

For a country so obsessed with keeping other countries heritage, greek architecture and what not, I am not surprised. They have the arrogance to suppose that they can take care of other countries property better than the rightful owners can.

I'm sorry- but that's the worst buying advice on this page. Android doesn't even support http proxyies - and hence is utterly useless in most offices and universities.
 

Maybe apple just doesnt care.
The PC division is clearly not the main focus of their new strategy, all they want is handheld dominance.

It would have been every fanbois dream if apple used their growing power with iphone/ipad to defeat M$ with their OSX sales but i doubt if Jobs wants that.

Identity theft is only a real problem in civilized places.

More seriously, i wonder how many of the prison inmates here in india are able to speak english. If people who went to english schools and have had 'accent-training' programs and what not speak so horribly, how can petty prisoners be expected to be fluent?

Goddamnit, now what? Perhaps brain paths are formed the way you make them and you could train kids to do some things out of the total number of things you can teach.

It's like choosing an RPG class but with life.

rote !=wrote
Excellent post, I was actually considering whether or not it was a real mistake at the end.

The only way to truly do that is to become as crazy as the zealots. Anything short of that and you will still find objections.

Fuck them, drag them into 2010. Or at least (in the case of America) remind them that they can't simultaneously chant LAND OF THE FREE and omg, censor that.

To read, there's nothing like a paper book. It is just convenient apart from everything else awesome about it. Plus the uniqueness of a book can play a big part in the value, I can pass down a book with my inscription in it and it's not the same as even a tablet pc used to inscribe an e-book.

However if I'm just looking for a phrase or something or if I'm looking for a book to re-read, I would prefer an electronic version that is searchable.