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The US military tested a new toy too.

You had better hope the U.S. military continues to step up to the plate.

With the mentally unstable leadership in China, N. Korea, Iran, etc. you can bet your ass the world is in big, big trouble as these fools gain more military technology and WMD.

God help us all...

We agree with one of your three sentences.

We often get accused that our own experiments, mostly with the English language, represent a threat to humanity too. We're cheered then, when the humourous bastardisations of others drop into our inbox. Witness the lovely term "fanwank" in this splendid screed against ex-Navy officer Lewis Page's take on the Iranian hostage crisis:

"She could easily blast gunboat-class opponents to wreckage from beyond the horizon."

Please! Spare us the jingoistic Clancy fanwank. Or are you aiming for el Reg's very own "Gotcha!" headline?

This isn't a military issue, it's politics. The Poor Bloody Infantry in the thick of it did the sensible thing and sat on their hands without turning it into a shooting war. Diplomats in expensive suits will sort it all out behind the scenes after a while, because they're the ones who kicked it off in the first place. No-one really thinks they were in the wrong place, no-one has anything to gain by anyone shooting anyone. Journos salivating over the size of our guns are barely one step up from those crying out to shoot some random arabs, or the other lot screaming for Satan's Lapdogs.

If I wanted this, I'd watch Fox News.

I find it hard though not to use this to twist the knife in Tony and his War On Terra.

I mean, the Iranians are only human, so they'll make mistakes, yeah?

And in the high tension of these times, they cannot afford to let one guilty party go, even though an innocent person could be held. And isn't the protection of the state worth the loss of the occasional innocent life?

Oh, yeah, forgot. These are only valid defenses when it is the police who've f*ked up. Sorry.

UK Home Secretary John Reid wants to get inside the heads of Japanese cartoon porn fans. Rather you than us, John.

Most of lolicon in most of the world is illegal anyway. And banned in most of the anime/manga community. Or to put it in better words: lolicon goes separately from most of manga/anime since it falls into ... even grayer legal zone than most of unpublished manga/anime distributed now in western world widely.

In the end, you know, it is easier to "protect our children from foreign menace" rather than "educate them about real world" thing.

As if we ever doubted that gov't would actually do anything to improve educational system or help parents (NOT with money - but e.g. with payed time off) to train their children. "Social" system they say... - but they never care to point what precisely "social" about it. "Monetary" - yes. But "social"... ?

Thought police, anyone? We should ban the bare imagination of all filth in all its beauty.

Luckily, there is great progress in brainscanning. Next up: PET+fMRI said to become mandatory in early detection of deviant behaviour. Hooray!!

-- Greetings Bertho

Bring back the Poll Tax! Or rather, bring in a Pole Tax. According to Gordon Brown, his tax hikes on small businesses are down to the wave of Polish and other immigration following recent accessions to the EU.

So when asked about the tax hike (15% over 2 years) on small businesses, Gordon answers with a comment about Managed Service Companies - a completely separate issue.

So as Paxo might say, ANSWER THE QUESTION !

Regards, Mike

Paxo on Jacko. There's an edition of Newsnight which would justify the licence fee in one fell swoop. Can't see it happening though, especially now the King of Pop will have a 50-foot colossal statue of himself, complete with laser beams, to defend himself with.

The laser beams are to blind the parents while he runs off with their kids?

No, no they're not. They're for shooting down UFOs, just ask Gary McKinnon. ®