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Your words betray you, turkulainen. Your unity of purpose is shattered by your own admission of a part of you wanting to admit the awesomeness of that reference. Any war there is to be over the matter, and I've already half won it. Resistance is futile. Submit to the inevitable and click on...

You need to follow your instincts, of course. Whichever side in you wins, click on an appropriate rating. It is totally and completely up to you, naturally *. * If your humanist side wins and you click on a negative or neutral rating, then know that my memory is long and my vengeance will be...

Sara puked it = Therapeutic. Featured in a previous strip. http://www.goblinscomic.com/01042013/

Thinking about this a second time, I think I see a number of hurdles along the way for this Soylent to become practical. Assuming his data is valid, the non-fixed costs for home-level production seem very promising, but I wonder if he figured in the amount he paid for equipment, and if that...

This is excellent. Though corporations have already developed similar products, I can't help but give two thumbs up to a private individual showing this kind of resourcefulness and ingenuity in coming up with an apparently easy and cheap way to substitute for a vital commodity, and sharing the...

Here's some historical revisionism for the day: Putin says Josef Stalin launched the 1939-40 Winter War with Finland in order to "correct mistakes made in drawing the border". This was stated in a meeting he had with Russian military historians. I wonder if that's going to be the new party...

Looks like nice work. I have little idea of how those things are done, so I hope you will not mind if I ask some dumb questions. Are you using butted mail, or does it make sense to weld the rings?

Seems like he's cleaning his disassembled rifle, though. The top casing has been removed, along with the internal parts as far as can be seen. Holding the weapon up to your eye like that does look weird, but that's how you check if the barrel is clean, at least with the AK-type assault rifles...

What's with the snark? You got called on bad info. It happens, no big deal. So far this has been a pleasant enough and civil enough conversation. I'd prefer if we could keep it that way. At the risk of stating the obvious, I believe the legal basis and operational impact of those guidelines...

I'm not sure that is entirely accurate. As I understand, drone strikes are primarily conducted by three agencies: the CIA (intelligence), Joint Special Operations Command (military), and the U.S. Air Force (military). Currently, the CIA has the lead in Pakistan, the Air Force in Afghanistan...

There are ways and means for a private citizen to voice their concerns to their elected representatives, and the civilian leadership is naturally entitled to give orders to the military. That being said, history appears to indicate that politicians micro-managing military campaigns has rarely...

But that is hardly the fault of the drones, now is it? After all, the drones themselves are simply machines, requiring the input of a human operator bound by the proper chain of command. If some aspects of the program feel distasteful, then wouldn't it be the proper response be to institute...

I think it is mostly about the specific capabilities that drones offer. As I understand, their military use is mostly reconnaissance, surveillance, and certain ground attack missions. As a military platform, a drone offers superior loitering capabilities and mission endurance, is less difficult...

I see. What reasons other than not trusting the government have they forwarded in favor of closure? Also, it appears that closing the Guantanamo detention facility does not enjoy unequivocal support:

Well, the inmates at Guantanamo have access to have their habeas corpus petitions heard in federal civilian courts, to challenge the legality of their detention. According to the pdf I cited earlier, this right was established in the Supreme Court cases of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Rasul v. Bush...