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• the world losing someone who was helping further technology to make everyone's life better
• the boy's family
• the set-back the program at the school suffered by losing the boy & vehicle
• the mini-van driver who was not at fault, who probably has quite a heavy conscience now

I drive a Chevy Tahoe because:

• I'm 6'4" and most passenger cars are made for people 5'8".
• I go camping fairly often. My vehicle carries 4 people and gear for four fills the rest of the space.
• I'm aware of the vehicle's capabilities and I drive appropriately for the vehicle.
• It has great power, and great maneuvering for it's size.
• In an inelastic collision the other vehicle will hopefully be the smaller vehicle. Yes, I'm paying for safety.
• As I drive over loose soil at places like Pismo Beach, I'm grateful for 4-wheel-drive-low and a locking differential.

It seems like a lot of the negativity can be broken down into:

• arguments like "you can't see around the SUV" which can be responded to with things along the lines of "you can't see around cars the same height either if they have a tint or are full of passengers"
• jealousy about the ongoing monetary commitment in purchasing and driving an SUV
• concern about safty in smaller cars - the SUV driver chose to pay for greater safty
• arguments about terrorism and dependence on oil which are a disgrace to the severity of 9/11. Just because someone sells crude oil doesn't mean they are funding terrorism - it's racist, and it's ignorant. Find the terrorists or the financers don't blame the oil economy. If there were any weight behind those accusations there would be equal weight being throw around right now to prosecute/wreak havoc on the offenders. Older cars are bigger gas guzzlers than the trucks of today, and many of them are still on the road. Sports cars guzzle gas, still have to follow the same speed limitations required of every other type of car, and leave no room for a slightly bigger than average adult let alone groceries.

• I live in California which according to this report, is ranked the second highest in "Average price per gallon". I'm not wealthy by any means, but I enjoy camping so it's worth it to me. I've had no moving violations for 14 years. I also don't consume alchohol. Why is this relevant you're asking? Well let me tell you why:

  In the past month two passangers and I, along with lots of gear, were travelling from southern California on a camping and hiking trip. The round-trip drive was just over 1000 miles. My passengers and I had taken several days off work so we would have time to visit two national parks. It was the middle of the day, the weather was sunny and clear, I was traveling the speed limit of 70 mph with very few vehicles around me since I do my best to avoid driving in "wolf packs". We were chatting when the conversation suddenly turned to explatives. "Oh sh*t!" yelled the rear passenger (and quite a bit more) as a I slammed on the brake so hard my knee is still in pain two weeks later. A car "merging" from another freeway came screaming perpendicular to the flow of traffic across all lanes, dragging a rooster tail of dirt from the unpaved highway divider. I braked just enough to watch him collide into the center barrier wall directly in front of us, at which point the cloud of dirt he was dragging engulfed us. There was nothing I could do except hope we weren't going to collide in the short space I had to stop in (No, a smaller car would still not have been able to stop in enough time). Anyway, in the dirt cloud my truck and his Honda Accord collided. It turns out he was drunk off his a$$ at 1pm in the afternoon on a Friday, driving with a su

At least you can see it if you want... google cache.

Chalk some points up for Reciprocality, and their theory of "The Anatomy, Life Cycle and Effects of the Phenomenologically Distributed Human Parasite M0." (google cache- their server seems to be down atm)

I loved the M0 story, (thought it was hilareous,) though I didn't necessarily buy their dopamine explanation. But hey- with research like this going on, who knows?

And of course Sheriff Joe killed him. Get with the program man, I was detailing his policies as they compare with other sheriff's offices aross the country. I don't defend him (in fact I think tent cities reek of human rights violations.

Clearly Scott Norberg's death was a tragedy, and if you want to read a pretty critical review of the entire department, read the google cache of amnesty international's document.

I do think that some of his policies make sense and some don't. That's all I said in the post. Also, who killed him? The OFFICE settled the case, not the sheriff personally (he didn't kill him, though the office settled to avoid being found culpable in a civil suit). No cable TV and having to do work is all I was talking about. Re-read my original post to see I didn't defend Sheriff Joe personally, even. Just some of his policies make sense to me.

I can't get that site to return the entire page, which is odd. Here's the Google cache of the article.

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:C56AMXjSLjoJ: letsroll911.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php% 3Ft%3D91+%22george+bush+and+colin+powell%22+%22are +related%22&hl=en


To quote: George Bush and Colin Powell are related by Royal Blood.


Please send my invite to cpace@hnsg.net :)

When was the last time we saw this?

Oh yeah, it was the Director of Sega right before the Dreamcast launched.

Yeah...he was great. Haven't seen him around so much since he, you know...get demoted into oblivion, his company became the 3rd wheel in a 2 console industry, and eventually got bought out by a competitor...

You know...maybe history doesn't always repeat itself and maybe people learn from other people's mistakes sometimes...

For a dead man (Google cache), he looks pretty alive...
I wonder how he is going to explain it to his Lexus buddies who even donated money for his "widow."

What are you, allergic to HTML? here is the cached page. Or at least, that is what google alleges will be the cached page, it hasn't loaded for me.

Just like his buying up of small working ranches and turning them into his private wilderness preserves.

Google Cache of the full text of Sun Tzu's The Art of War

We're in no danger of running out of iron, aluminum, nickel, or magnesium. (Asteroid mining would be great, though, for obtaining large quantities of really rare stuff like platinum.) The real limiting factor on our ability to bring everyone out of third-world status is energy. There are only two safe, practical non-greenhouse-gas-emitting energy sources: nuclear fission and space solar power. So please join me, everyone, in calling for the construction of lots of nuclear power facilities and extraterrestrial solar collectors!

We're in no danger of running out of iron, aluminum, nickel, or magnesium. (Asteroid mining would be great, though, for obtaining large quantities of really rare stuff like platinum.) The real limiting factor on our ability to bring everyone out of third-world status is energy. There are only two safe, practical non-greenhouse-gas-emitting energy sources: nuclear fission and space solar power. So please join me, everyone, in calling for the construction of lots of nuclear power facilities and extraterrestrial solar collectors!

Sorry, I forgot to strip it

Here is the google cache for the features

Here's a yummy little google cache for y'all.

...a Google cache of a Google site that got slashdotted: Click Here

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Vander Jagt Computers November 2nd, 2003
I submitted this and the editors didn't put it up.

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google cache: Treeline

There wasn't a cache of rc0 site that I could find.

Get the old default theme back (it's called Qute.)

Watch out too, if you get hit by extensions that cause your browser to start with "Firefox is finishing installing extensions. This could take a minute..." (esp. on Windows) - this page (Google cached) offers some suggestions and links to relevant bug reports.

Though he acknowledged that a FreeBSD license can be simple to deal with, he thinks the GPL (define) license, under which the Linux kernel is licensed, fosters a better sense of community.

Right.

...It seems to exist only for lazy people who cannot drag themselves to the store, and it adds more polluting, dangerous trucks to the streets.

That would almost make sense if every day was sunny and 20 degrees Celsius. One of the many benefits of the big city is conveniences like these. I, for one, hope it works out. PeaPod in Chicago was a disaster a few years ago. Maybe now they have the kinks worked out now. Unless they can dig tunnels for service and cargo vehicles (something else they used to have in Chicago and could have been restored if they didn't have that nasty flood), the streets should be reserved for trucks and such, and people should demand and use good public transport for personal travel within the city. Goodness knows, they pay enough taxes. Shopping is no fun when the temps are -20 outside. Also, at least most truck drivers are professionals. Can't say the same for the average dope that drives 5 miles to work every day. Truck drivers are general much safer than car drivers (that includes you cabbies)

Hey, Scott, hope you see this. We finally found something we can agree on! Yay!

Update! I just found de Icaza's blog entry. Check it out here (that's google's cache) under the title "Mono and MacOS X". It turns out that the faster Mac was a desktop and the slower pc was a laptop.

They make biodiesel from used french fry oil and stuff like that. Runs in unmodified (or barely modified) diesel engines.

The ordinary American housecat poses a much greater threat tobirds than wind turbines. Housecats are estimated to kill between 100 - 200 million birds each year compared to the 33,000 birds that die from collision with turbines.

collision with turbines result in 1-2 bird deaths or less per turbine per year. For comparison, each year at least 60 million birds die in collisions with vehicles; at least 98 million in collisions with buildings and windows; and at least 4 million in collisions with communication towers. # Consider the alternatives; bird deaths that result from fossil energy based power production: Tall smokestacks- A study at a single Florida coal fired power plant with four smokestacks recorded an estimated 3,000 bird kills in a single night during a fall migration # Oil spills at sea- In a single oil shipping accident, - the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound ???more than 500,000 migratory birds perished, or about 1,000 times the estimated annual total in California's wind power plants. # Additional threats to birds from other energy sources include: mercury emissions from coal fired power plants; global climate change resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels; acid rain resulting from coal fired power plant emissions of SO2 and NOx and; destruction of habitat as a result of mining activities associated with the coal, gas, oil and uranium industries.

Here's a HTML version of the PDF, thanks to Google.

Well, on the one hand, Japan has partially apologized (or was that to ease the Korean ban on all things japanese?) and on the other hand they are teaching the kind of revised history that has put people in jail in Europe.

Why, yes! I am confused.

Well, on the one hand, Japan has partially apologized (or was that to ease the Korean ban on all things japanese?) and on the other hand they are teaching the kind of revised history that has put people in jail in Europe.

Why, yes! I am confused.

Well, on the one hand, Japan has partially apologized (or was that to ease the Korean ban on all things japanese?) and on the other hand they are teaching the kind of revised history that has put people in jail in Europe.

Why, yes! I am confused.

Well, on the one hand, Japan has partially apologized (or was that to ease the Korean ban on all things japanese?) and on the other hand they are teaching the kind of revised history that has put people in jail in Europe.

Why, yes! I am confused.

Wow. This is amazing. The P6 (PPro, PII, PIII) architecture is coming back to the desktop. This does make pretty good sense. The P6 has high IPC, and by applying some Pentium 4 tricks (Quad-pumped FSB, longer pipeline), this can make for a killer CPU. For more information, check out this Ars Technica Article on the Pentium-M's P6 heritage. The chip doesn't even lie about it - its CPUID reports a P6 family CPU.

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Gore lost all counts of votes. The one the Supreme Court denied him? He would have lost that one was well if had been held.

Nice fiction. Not what the Herald Commission analysis of the ballots[google cache] showed:

[The election] would have gone to Al Gore -- by a slim 23,000 votes -- rather than George W. Bush, the officially certified victor by the wispy margin of 537.

Remember that the FCC Commissioner is appointed by the President (google cache)... and that this is an election year. If you care, use your power and vote them out.

For the most part, I recommend each person do their due diligence because you learn more doing the research.

However, I'll give you one interesting piece I ran into when I was searching for someone who believed, as I do, that the trade deficit was deterorating America's wealth at a rapid rate. I never suspected it would be one of the richest men in the world sounding the alarm since most economists and large corporations were preaching free trade too much to confess the graveness of the trade deficit.

America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out From Under Us (Warren Buffet) (pdf)
America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out From Under Us (Warren Buffet) (html)
America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out From Under Us (Warren Buffet) (html, Fortune Article, paid subscription required)

Bah can't find the link now (It was more than 9 stories ago heh heh.) I found a similar one here (google cache) but I don't think it's the same guy. The one I was reading about was demonstrating his abilities to a bunch of students in Japan but he'd done a similar trick of moving the problem into other areas of his brain. The guy mentioned in the link above apparently uses long-term memory areas, while the fellow I was reading about was using his visual cortex.

Well here's the google cache for it...

Take that!

Hmmm I was going to be funny for a second, but then I tried a9's cache of googles site and got this

Seems that they are using Google's cache, and simply re-directing users to Google.

Meh, I guess thats what a beta is all about.

I read those articles. The first one doesn't say anything about their relative toxicities; I expect that Dr. Cohen expected Mr. Nader to cease ingestion of caffeine at a point that would still be safe for both of them.

The second says that, under certain conditions, caffeine can be more toxic. It doesn't discuss the conditions.

The third was best. It stated that the chemical toxicity of caffeine was greater than that of plutonium, but I didn't see anything to back it up.

The fourth didn't address the issue. Dr. Cohen clarified what he said previously, and discussed ingestion vs inhalation, but regarding relative toxicities only said: "eating plutonium is about equal in danger to eating the same quantity of caffeine", but I couldn't find where he explains that claim. (Admittedly, since it's a 17-chapter book, I didn't finish the whole thing.)

The final link again makes the claim that caffeine is more toxic than plutonium, but doesn't discuss it further.

Now, I took it upon myself to do a bit of research, using TOXNET (which doesn't handle deep linking well). I couldn't find any toxicity reports regarding ingestion of plutonium. But there are a number of intravenious studies of both caffeine and plutonium.

It looks like the LDLo (smallest dose recorded to kill) of intravenious caffeine on a dog is 4 mg/kg, while the LD50 (50% kill) of intravenious plutonium citrate is merely 300 ug/kg. Note that since this is comparing an LDLo to an LD50, it doesn't tell us the relative toxicities, but it does seem to suggest that plutonium is more toxic. (Sources: plutonium citrate, caffeine).

To compare LD50 to LD50, we can first look at [JPETAB Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. (Williams & Wilkins Co., 428 E. Preston St., Baltimore, MD 21202) V.1- 1909/10- Volume(issue)/page/year: 82,89,1944]. This paper establishes the LD50 of caffeine administered intraveniously to a rat at 105 mg/kg. Now, [Venugopal, B. and T.D. Luckey. Metal Toxicity in Mammals, 2. New York: Plenum Press, 1978. 169 (peer reviewed)] establishes the LD50 for plutonium administered intraveniously to a rat at 0.0014 uCi/g. Now, since 5 ug of plutonium has a radioactivity of 0.3 uCi (reference), this figure is equivalent to 8.4e-5 mg/kg.

Perhaps the absorption rate of plutonium is 1e6 times less than that of caffeine. There are suggestions that plutonium is not absorbed easily. But 1e6 still seems like a lot, lacking any other evidence.

But pointing the other way, remember that plutonium builds up on the bones, leading to a chronic toxicity which is higher than its acute toxicity.

So, I'm going to remain skeptical for the time being. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that I'm not sure that I agree with that statement.

-Lucas

Google Cache of original mastercard joke. I can't believe MasterCard sent a C&D over a scik joke.

that show what's necessary--and the default Windoze install.

Cringely touched on a related subject when XP was being prep'd.
Note: The very top of that page (Google cache--some key stuff highlighted) is trashed by Moz 1.4,
but the link at the top is the original page.

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This paper explores the communications gap that exists between business clients and developers using Unified Modelling Language(UML) modelling tools to gather software requirements. A methodology for measuring how client expectations form after studying UML models is developed. The methodology provides a formalized measure to show that information loss occurs during the interpretation process. We find that users place a high emphasis on interaction process with software rather than functionality and overall design process traditionally emphasized by developers. This contrasts with developers who feel that UML is the ultimate communication tool to hand down requirements to clients . We conclude that more work is required in the area of client developer communications using UML tools, and that the UML as a communication tool is not as effective as portrayed by the software industry.

HTML Version : here Comments and feedback appreciated.

From the Google cache:

What is a Simputer?
Bridging the Great Digital Divide

The Simputer is a low cost portable alternative to PCs, by which the benefits of IT can reach the common man.

It has a special role in the third world because it ensures that illiteracy is no longer a barrier to handling a computer.

The key to bridging the digital divide is to have shared devices that permit truly simple and natural user interfaces based on sight, touch and audio.

The Simputer meets these demands through a browser for the Information Markup Language (IML). IML has been created to provide a uniform experience to users and to allow rapid development of solutions on any platform.

Google cached itself.

Hines is a Tacoma-based low-budget film director who has been talking this up for several years, but never had anything remotely resembling a real "deal" with either the Wells estate, Universal, Paramount, Dreamworks, or anyone else for that matter. At one point in time he was bragging that he was "negotiating" with Michael Caine, Charlize Theron & Mathew McConaughey to be in his version, but according to sources inside the industry, all he'd ever done was make some phone calls to their agents asking if they'd be interested in reading a script. I'd be surprised if they bothered to return his calls. One indication of the type of film this was going to be -- despite touting a purported "$42 mm budget", the only casting that was ever confirmed was a cameo appearance by Harry Knowles! In addition, he was sued a couple of years ago by Jon Sorensen, a UK-based miniature effects designer who did some pre-production work, but then was never paid. Never heard how that turned out, but you can see some of Mr. Hine's "work" here. Also, here's a copy of his self-promoting PR trying to ride the coattails of the initial Tom Cruise package announcement. Whatever else you say about him, you have to admit, the kid's got moxie!

Here's the Google Cache of the product page.

Are you Corn Fed?