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...And that was how I killed my family's dog with a shoe.

That picture of your kid smiling in a coffin is awesome. I've been trying to work out if I can turn it into a block colour image and put it on a t-shirt.

LOL

I think you've identified an interesting area. If I understand you correctly your idea is to orient on marshalling demand in more meaningful ways. I've been having ideas in this respect already, but suggest you consider a couple of points: 1. Your technical discussion needs to be dealt with in a way that is meaningful to designers. A bunch of neat ideas just won't cut it. 2. Because there's going to be an inevitable and extended delay between discussion in your community and the industry moving on them you will need to look ahead in technology terms. Your conclusions have to be relevant in 3-5 years. Not today.

Pan fried boerewors with boiled potatoes in their skins, followed by fresh strawberries, and green tea. Sat in the sun in the garden.

Yeah, and last year the score was 1000+ to zero in terms of approvals to rejections, by that court, and there are zero counter arguments heard, ie the presentations are unopposed. The first part indicates it's a rubber stamp, the second shows it's explicitly designed to be a rubber stamp. I'd have to agree that this looks weird. A control system that never functions is either running a very naturally regulated engine or it's borked. Do you know what the guidelines are for them rejecting a request?

I just watched Snakes on a Plane. Laughed. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'm always mildly amused that people who argue words are more powerful than guns don't want more control over words.

Oh come off it. Are you too young to remember Oz? Wasn't that HBO?

Oh man, I'd love to have a dog, but I don't keep regular hours and can't predict being at home. I think I'd have to have a pup though. I know you ought to get rescue dogs and what have you, but I couldn't look after a difficult critter right.

*blink* *blink* Is that you, Mojave? Is this me?

They don't like it up 'em. LOL Joking aside, I wonder if this will be another drone drama Obama style. The other thought which occurred to me was giving the rebels ONLY the heaviest weapons. Tanks, arty, planes etc. Add firepower, don't add anything useful for terrorism later.

Not to mention kinda sexy.

It's a tiny aside, but you do know that wars don't depopulate. Only disease does that. Wars cause baby booms.

Well, I guess your sugar momma is the Danish taxpayer. I was advocating some good honest booty shaking for coin. But I guess that's too old school.

I see what you mean, Bruce. But Syria ain't Libya. Just as a starter for ten you've got hot and cold running jihadis and Iranian proxies running loose by the _thousand_. Then you have an established Russian military presence, and a big (if currently abstracted) Chinese interest. I believe that several UK politicians are desperate to do something about Syria. Charitably it's because it seems wrong to do **** all. Uncharitably it's one more opportunity to look statesmanlike when domestic politics is pretty humdrum and zero profit. However, I don't believe that anyone inside or outside Syria has sufficient intelligence to manipulate what's happening in a smart enough way to get what they want 'lite'. Only a major intervention could stabilise the situation at present. And thanks to the 'war is always wrong' lobby, that's not going to happen. So all we can do now is watch the casualties mount up. I predict 5-10 years of increasingly futile slaughter.

You should be a kept man. You already mentioned all the older women around.

Well, don't.

Yes, because devastated hellzones produce happy healthy people who become neither refugees, nor terrorists, nor just pathetic mangled reminders of our smug isolation. EDIT: Three things mark chemical weapons usage as repellent: 1. Medical aid to victims of vesicants and nerve gases is basically non-existent 2. Modern soldiers tend to be relatively well warned, and protected against the effects* 3. Civilians can't get out of the way of a fight using chemical weapons Meaning, ultimately that their only use is to terrorise and murder civilians. You can argue that you think that's OK, but I will think you're a ****. *Officialy speaking. The reality is we don't really know.

I simply can't get over the sheer lunacy of suggesting the Spartans should be held up as heroes of freedom and justice. It's complete nonsense. They had the morals of a hungry wolfpack!

Pmp10 is indeed correct. The evil future you _should_ be worried about isn't one where your browsing monitors your thoughts. It's one where your browsing creates your thoughts. This is the kind of thing dealt with in Brave New World. Of course the preponderance of 'free' services like Google already do that to an extent.

He had me at the massive letters Edit: It's a massive scam by publishers! 1984 sales are massively up. You cheap chiseller. http://www.today.com/news/sales-orwells-1984-over-6-000-percent-after-nsa-news-6C10282307

I think the Romans would have done rock well. Better than the Romanian rock music I've found so far anyway. Mind you, hard to find any good music with just a country to go by.

I'd return to a point earlier, if you'll excuse me hammering on a bit. Simply whistle-blowing is ... well it's about as useful as blowing a whistle. Information is nothing without action. Where organs exist in our democratic systems to hold malefactors accountable then we have no need of privately administered justice. Where such organs are absent, unhealthy, and unsupported by the people then the information by itself is meaningless noise. The solution is not to con ourselves into thinking that the odd individualist can protect our freedoms. Like some bloody Hollywood movie. Over in 90 minutes and back to sleep. The answer, the tough answer, the expensive answer, the boring answer, is that we have to be ****ing adults. We have to inspect and elect good politicians. This is still relevant to the OP because that's how I feel about this debate on personal freedoms vs. security in general. The answer isn't total control and nor is it total anarchy. Both are the choice of simpletons or the future ruler of simpletons. What would really ****ing impress me at this point is if a single person could put together a summary of how the NSA is mandated and controlled. Post that and you get both ears and all my attention.