I don't know what world tech writers have been living in, but in the real world p.c. and notebook prices have gone way down. Go to best buy and search for new laptops under $700 and you'll come up with 7 results. That is 7 full screen full keyboard full battery and expandable notebooks. This Nanobook is useless.

Review the product, state that it is over priced, comment that the keyboard is tiny, make note that the screen is barely readable, suggest the processor power is low...and you will sound more like a reviewer and less like a product advertiser. Why should anyone listen to your opinions when you spin crap like this?

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston are map makers. Anyone using a map to terror plot with can thank them. Plotters can also thank Verizon for the phone service, NBC news for Al Qaida propoganda updates, and Dunkin Donuts for the craft services table at the big terrorist meet last week.

How ironic that they were going to use American made plastic explosives for their bomb. They were also using a Swiss watch for the timing mechanism, so we have put the country of Switzerland on notice..."No more support of terrorism or we are coming in with the low armored HumVees!"

It is very disconcerting to see a 70 pound 4 foot anything writhing around like a baby.

The Japanese should spend some time making themselves appear more human first, then move on to the robots. What is the term for the point at which human cultures mimic human characteristics, but do not quite succeed, thus they become revolting to the rest of us?

Very funny article, I was laughing through the horror.

The Brits had been refining these techniques on Irish prisoners for decades. Along with sensory deprivation there are sensory altering methods. Frequently changing temperature. Wetting the floor of the room and the prisoner. No windows, no clocks, no sense of time. White noise...loud fans running or music. These techniques had been determined to "break" the prisoner faster and more effectively than physical coercive torture.

America should return to treating the enemy with respect we would want afforded our captured troops. The simple barometer for how we should treat captured enemy is how would we would want Jessica Lynch treated. Simple as that. Do we get all the actionable intelligence? Maybe not, but we sleep well as a nation knowing we are on the right side on this one.

The Human Rights Watch release of names of the “disappeared” prisoners includes the information that two children were held in secret detention and interrogated regarding the whereabouts of their father.

"In September 2002, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s two young sons, aged seven and nine, were arrested. According to eyewitnesses, the two were held in an adult detention center for at least four months while US agents questioned the children about their father’s whereabouts." ~ Human Rights Watch report 6/7/2007

We are interrogating children. Shame.

We can't prevent wars if we are not willing to learn from history and from a level headed assessment of current geopolitics.

False:

The Iraq war is a failure. In reality, if our objective is to divide the nation, establish a weak and needy government, and establish a military footprint in the heart of the middle east, then we are successful in Iraq (from a neo-con strategic point of view.)

We would loose a war against Iran. Untrue. We have yet to show our true potential in terms of military might. There are plenty of ways to engage Iran in conflict that do not require hundreds of thousands of troops. Deposing the government of Iran would be well within our capability. If you don't believe that we could win a war against Iran, then you should be more fearful of the future than less. It is what comes after defeating the government of Iran and its armies that would be the problem.

Joe Lieberman is a Democrat. If it walks like a duck. Half of the Democrats don't vote or act like Democrats anymore. A conservative strategy dating back to the origins of the neo-con theories, has Democrats slowly shifting right of center. The agenda has been defined by the Republicans for decades and at best the Democrats have been reactionary. How many of your Democrat representatives did not vote to authorize the Iraq war? How many of your Democrat representatives earn less than $75,000 per year? The distance between you and them is greater than between themselves and a Republican.

We do the bidding of Israel. In reality our interest in the middle east has been about energy, and strategic positioning. Israel is an anchor point in the middle of it all. It becomes our foothold and testing ground but never our reason to be in the region. Maybe we don't want peace in the middle east? Maybe the strategy all along has been to keep the region off kilter without too much power going to any pan-Arab unified front? Keeps the oil flowing.

How will Democrats develop an honest position on war and national defense, when their heads are in the sand about the realities of our geopolitical strategy? New wars will always be brewing. Democrats are unprepared. Joe Lieberman is being used by people with a much deeper agenda than he can comprehend, as are many of us. Ignorance of the situation, and a simplification of the situation got us into trouble in the middle east, it is not going to get us out.