Wrath of Dagon

What I want to know is how morons like that actually manage to survive and procreate?

Hmm, I can believe you or the former CIA director and Attorney General. Hmm, what to do? This. Though there are precedents of regimes finding this binary choice too restricting, such as in the case of Hitler's Commando Order. From your link: So no, it's not always either a legitimate soldier or a common criminal.

Of course being an enemy combatant is completely different than being a common criminal. If that wasn't the case, you could never kill an enemy combatant unless he's already pointing a gun directly at you. According to Calax, under the Constitution we're apparently required to read the enemy their fifth amendment rights before engaging in battle. The Constitution was not meant to make rules of war, only civilian law.

Do you understand the difference between a legal prisoner of war, with full rights under the Geneva convention, and a terrorist? Apparently not.

So because of our sense of decency we should let KSM's plans go forward and let thousands more people die because we don't want to distress the scumbag? Btw, rigorous interrogation such as waterboarding isn't torture, torture is infliction of pain or injury, which is against the rules. It's torture, as defined by US who persecuted Japanese soldiers who waterboarded US marines... and we sentenced them to death by hanging http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/29/...in3554687.shtml That's bull, Americans were legitimate prisoners of war, thus all they have to tell you is name, rank, and serial number. Forcing them to disclose anything else is a war crime. The terrorists were illegal enemy combatants, and interrogating them was necessary to save innocent civilians who they indiscriminately attack. The two situations aren't equivalent at all, and this isn't the only bone headed thing McCain has said and done, but I voted for him anyway as the lesser of two evils.

So because of our sense of decency we should let KSM's plans go forward and let thousands more people die because we don't want to distress the scumbag? Btw, rigorous interrogation such as waterboarding isn't torture, torture is infliction of pain or injury, which is against the rules.

So it doesn't say what you're claiming. Quite the opposite, it says KSM gave them little of use before they waterboarded him. Edit: Why did you remove the link? For the record, it's here: http://luxmedia.com.edgesuite.net/aclu/IG_Report.pdf

Yes, and everything Khalid Sheik Mohammed told them was detrimental. Of course you have to ask, detrimental to whom? Edit: May be you can actually quote where it states that, and the page?

I guess SEGA has to find some use for their Aliens license. I predict it'll be awful, like CA's other console projects. In other news, the Battle for Normandy demo is finally out: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?optio...&Itemid=477 Time to drop your kiddie RTS and try a real wargame!

Because you have no soul? Or just general game-anticipation burnout and disapointment from other releases.... Yeah, burn out for me. I won't believe it until I actually play it.

An interesting preview of the first 10 hours: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/05/11...x-3/#more-59083 Sounds good, sucks about the forced bosses though. And a Q&A from Eurogamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-...olution-preview

It's not really insanity, Jihadists do use children as bombs. And since TSA isn't allowed to racially profile, or make any judgment as to how likely a given person is to be a Jihadist, well, any child is fair game.

OK, 28 nm, not .28. They're never as advanced as I think they are. So the hard disk link says the insulator thickness needs to be a few nanometers, which is deposited, not lithographed. I was thinking only about lithography, that's why I was skeptical. Edit: Btw, that diagram is a little confusing, the green part is actually the gate, the drain is on the other side. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-effect_transistor Edit2: Btw, the C60 molecule the graphene link mentions was discovered by one of my chemistry profs.

http://forums.obsidian.net/index.php?showt...t=0&start=0

If by 'geometries' you mean 'scale', then no, that hasn't been the case for like 5 or 10 years. It's called nanotechnology (a subfield of materials science). I'm majoring in it. It's very interesting and useful. Look at graphene: http://images.iop.org/dl/physicsweb/2010/phwv19i11a34.pdf I wasn't talking about nanotechnology, I was talking about conventional lithographic integrated circuits, which is what flash is so far as I know. So feature size is limited to the current process, something like .28 nm at the moment, but obviously they can still use the tunneling effect. That may have something to do with the thickness of vapor deposition, don't know.

I didn't mean quantum mechanics is far fetched, I meant using it at the integrated circuit level. Usually the geometries are too large to see a quantum effect.

You're funny, I asked because I wasn't aware of what you link said, and it seemed like a far-fetched idea.

Well, you can explain how tunneling works to make flash memory.

The graphics look pretty good. Hopefully it will come out eventually. At least there should be a self-contained demo with about 15% of the game out soon.

You didn't actually answer my question. In other news, saw this in another forum, this is awesome: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/hi...on-1869187.html

Some cool new finishing animations:

Well, nothing could exist without quantum tunnelling, but are you saying they actually used quantum tunnelling to design it?

It doesn't matter to them one iota. It matters to their useful idiot enablers in the West.

Russian army horribly brutalizes even its own new recruits, to say nothing of the enemy. The Russian record in Afghanistan and Chechnya is well known, no matter how much internet trolls try to deny it.

I will no longer be pre-ordering ME3. I now have lost all interest. WHY ARE YOU RUINING BIOWARE EA!!! STOP! EA is just doing what EA does best. Having said that, Bio's been brain dead for some time, it's just that not many people noticed at first.