@Traveshamockery: Terrorists could theoretically conspire to hide planes in radar dead zones'. Am I missing something?

@Traveshamockery: The military's fear of wind turbines is based on a conspiracy theory.

USA = Coorporations = Oil interests = Military = USA

@♫ Realityism ♪♫: Unfortunately those dump trucks have little to do with the quality of the products.

"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." - Alan Kay

I would have always assumed that tech blogs foster the most progressive type of discourse, but the slew of regressive, hate-filled comments generated by this article remind me that we live in America, the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world... Giz, thanks for holding up the mirror of shame into…

@iComment10: Actually, countless studies have demonstrated that the the severity of the punishment has absolutely no impact on the perpetration of a crime. In fact, states with capital punishment tend to have higher crime rates...

@Dave: If that isn't an incentive for incarcerating more people I don't know what would be...

@The_Vitto: 1.8 million civilians work for the Federal Government, you really think they should only concentrate on 2 things at a time? Really?!

@gaius83: Actually in many European countries it is. (at least in most of those who have a higher Human Development Index than us.

Adam, you've unfortunately given your audience way too much credit. Did you just forget that we are American's?

"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

@mikeness: In many European countries (Germany, France, Finland, Sweden, etc) access to information and the internet are considered rights. It might even have something to do with their Human Development Index being significantly higher than the US.