U.S.-led forces, using Iraq’s ancient city of Babylon as a military base, have caused “substantial damage” to one of the world’s most renowned archaeological treasures, a British Museum report said.

Or maybe they’re not war pigs, just homophobic idiots

The US military tried to create a gas that would make enemy sol\diers gay.

The gas would have made enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. The weapon’s developers said homosexual behaviour among troops would deal a “distasteful but completely non-lethal” blow to morale.

And it’s not just the military who are idiots

FBI Still Stuck in the Tron Age

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is on the verge of scrapping a $170 million computer overhaul that is considered critical to the campaign against terrorism .

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In an interview with CNET News.com, Mozilla chair Mitch Kapor urged caution about issuing triumphal predictions for the future of the Internet browser landscape.

“The great thing that’s happened of late,” Kapor said, “is to see the early huge momentum of Firefox attracting millions of users and beginning to grow its market share appreciably….Nobody knows what’s going to happen. It’s certainly not inevitable that Firefox’s market share will continue to increase. I think open-source advocates would do well to be relatively cautious and avoid making claims and predictions.”

Kapor is one of the certified good guys in cyberspace. This founder of Lotus Software, co-founder of EFF, and open source advocate puts his substantial fortune where his mouth is. When he says something like this, I for one, listen.

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Waihee Valley hike on a suspension bridge. The area is a tropical rain forest, or close to it. Just two miles away is the ocean. The valleys and ridges here are about the steepest I’ve seen, climbing them off-trail would be extremely difficult.

Iao State Park, the oft-photographed needle, which is about 250 ft. high. It was used as a lookout by the indigenous peoples during the massively bloody war between Hawaii and Maui in the late 1700’s which eventually resulted in the unification of all the islands under one king.
Native Hawaiians are permitted to climb the needle, doing so in barefeet and with no rope. After looking at the needle through binoculars, viewing those steep, slippery sides with lots of loose soil, I can not fathom how they climb it, except to say that they do and that they are obviously amazingly skilled climbers.

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