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Actually at the end Saddam gave them full access (scroll down 2/3 of the page).

Unfortunatelly this was apparently not as widely reported in the US as in Europe. I remeber hearing this news on the radio in my car back in Germany.

The UN inspectors concluded that Iraq in all likelyhood did not have any more WMDs. So they did a very good job indeed since we now know that this was a correct assesment.

The fact that the US nevertheless invaded Iraq is what irked France and my country (Germany) and as good friends and allies the governments of both countries tried really hard to convince the Bush adminstration that another Iraq war given these facts was a very bad idea. Alas to no avail.

It is diffuclut to maintain an optimistic view of the potentials while keeping in mind and being wary of all the screwups that people can come up with. As an example:

Some people try to make the real world like that nevertheless."Either you're with us, or you are with the terrorists" ring any bells?

Probably is more of an example of a typical reaction to a novel political situation, Virtual States, using outmoded strategic thinking from past conflicts. See this 1996 doc on the topic, (slightly dated, probably some poor solutions, but with some useful insights)

Both Bush and Kerry show signs of not grasping the magnitude of what is going on, and how this differs from the past. (see some open source theory on this here) If Kerry were more familiar with this concept, he could use it to sandbag Bush in a debate. and vice versa.

Maybe Philly is trying to flex it's muscles against Comcast's request for tax breaks?

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/7796395.htm?1c
Google Cache of another article:
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:3dph9TRSbsAJ: www.indyaccess.org/community/index.php%3Fboard%3D1 3%3Baction%3Ddisplay%3Bthreadid%3D190+comcast+phil adelphia+tax&hl=en&lr=lang_en
or it is likely a pipe dream on one city offical not thinking who he is stepping on.

The other possiblity is that Phila. wants to get more $ and might consider partnering with Comca$t? This article is a way of testing the waters?

If this were an advertisement, the least they could do is provide enough banwidth for the first 1,000 of us to see the site.... Thank God for Google (the Cache)

First, I reject your premise that terrorist regimes are poor. Bin Laden is a billionaire. The governments of the Arab oil countries have extreme wealth. The citizens may be poor, but there is plenty of money for arms. Yassir Arafat is a multimillionaire, possibly a billionaire. The PLO gets millions of dollars every year from dozens of foreign governments (including Israel) and sympathetic groups. Arafat keeps his people poor intentionally in order to attract international sympathy for the Palestinist "plight."

You have it exactly backwards that the "rules of war" favor the weak regimes. Read this piece by Alan Dershowitz. Here's the condensed version of what he says.

The Geneva Conventions are so outdated and are written so broadly that they have become a sword used by terrorists to kill civilians, rather than a shield to protect civilians from terrorists.

Terrorists who do not care about the laws of warfare target innocent noncombatants. Indeed, their goal is to maximize the number of deaths and injuries among vulnerable civilians. The terrorist leaders - who do not wear military uniforms - deliberately hide among noncombatants. They have also used ambulances, women pretending to be sick or pregnant, and even children as carriers of lethal explosives.

By employing these tactics, terrorists put the democracies to difficult choices: Either allow those who plan and coordinate terrorist attacks to escape justice and continue their victimization of civilians, or attack them in their enclaves, thereby risking death or injury to the civilians they are using as human shields.

Whenever a civilian is accidentally killed or an ambulance is held up at a checkpoint, the terrorist leaders, and those who support them, have exploited the post-World War II laws of warfare to condemn the democracies for violating the letter of the law. This only encourages more terrorism, since the terrorists receive a double benefit from their actions. First they benefit from killing "enemy" civilians. Second, they benefit from the condemnation heaped on their enemies. Human rights are thus being used to promote human wrongs.

Democracies must be legally empowered to attack terrorists who hide among civilians, so long as proportional force is employed. Civilians who are killed while being used as human shields by terrorists must be deemed the victims of the terrorists who have chosen to hide among them.

Just in case...

google cache

Here is the cache of the google cache of google:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J: 64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:zhool8dxBV4J:www.goo gle.com/+google&hl=en/+google&hl=en

And just in case it does go down, here's the google cache for it.

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NOTE: It's interesting how the left-hand margin of a page that says "Brought to you by The Web Standards Project" renders so poorly under Mozilla (or is that an artifact of the Google cache?).

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NOTE: It's interesting how the left-hand margin of a page that says "Brought to you by The Web Standards Project" renders so poorly under Mozilla (or is that an artifact of the Google cache?).

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Exactly. In United States history, I would say there has been more effort put into managing fires than actual prevention. How do you reduce widespread fires? Education of humans only goes so far, since nature likes to toss around lightning strikes. That means to stop fires you have to reduce the number of trees.

Of course, some reports say increased logging causes fires, but you have to read why. In rainforest areas, haphazard logging can dry out the vegetation, which makes them more susceptible to widespread fire. But the argument doesn't hold true for temperate climates like the US, where our forests are typically (dryer) evergreen. Some argue that controlled logging protects areas by thinning the tree population and reducing brush, something the current administration has been pushing for a while with little success from the opposing party in congess. (Funny that this was removed from the CNN's live site and search history, but the web never forgets).

"So which is it? The brownskins? The US senators? Elderly men? People with "funny clothes"?"

The answer is pretty simple. Its whomever the people running the system decide they want to target. You see it is a system that is the first stage of implementing the plot line of Minority Report. You see it is a system striving to predict the future and to apprehend people prior to committing a crime. The only problem is the Department of Homeland Security lacks the prescients Tom Cruise had to draw on so it is a system even more fallible than it was in the movie. They are attempting to predict the future predicated either whimsy, so it is whimsical as in the case of the infirm old man, or malevolence which is far more likely the case for Senator Kennedy who is the most vitriolic and famous critic of the people that just happen to own the no fly list.

There is a precedent for prescient security, an earlier attempt, that dates back to 1950, the last time Republicans held power in Congress. It was the Detention Act of 1950:

Sec. 103. (a) Whenever there shall be in existence such an emergency, the President, acting through the Attorney General, is hereby authorized to apprehend and by order detain, pursuant to the provisions of this title, each person as to whom there is reasonable ground to believe probably will engage in, or probably will conspire with others to engage in, acts of espionage or of sabotage,

You see it says people can be detained if there is "belief" that they "will" engage in espionage or sabotage. It is impossible for someone to defend themselves against such a belief or disprove that they wouldn't, at some point in the future, have engaged in criminal activity had they not been detained.

Actually the history of prescience U.S. security enforcement that goes back to World War II and the Japanese Exclusion Act, when the U.S. government stripped Japanese Americans of most of their property and their rights as they herded them in to concentration camps because there was a "belief" they "might" engage in sabotage or espionage (substitute terrorism today).

As I recall the Detention Act of 1950 was repealed in 1971, when the Democractic Congress was trying to rain in the CIA, J. Edgar Hoover, etc, but it is a concept that has interestingly largely returned since 9/11 once again thanks mostly to the Republicans and was referenced in the recent Supreme Court briefs on the aborted hearing on the case of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen who is being held by the Bush administration in contravention of the Constition, due process and civil liberties American's are under the illusion they have. Mr. Padilla may be a bad man but its unclear if he's actually ever done anything illegal. He is in effect being held for future crime.

P.S.

I rather doubt Senator Kennedy's targeting was the accident Homeland Security says it is. It was most probably a delightfully funny way for the Bush administration to send him a signal that they don't appreciate the fact that he is the most vocal critic of the Bush administration in Congress and they can make him suffer for it so he will think twice the next time. Someone cited a passage from the Constitation pointing out it is illegal to prevent a Congressman from traveling to Congress. The forefathers were pretty prescient because they knew if they didn't put in that clause the party in power could use travel restrictions against the party out of power to deny them access to the making of laws. Unfortunately it appears today the no fly list could be used precisely to do just that. It is also almost certainly being used to blacklist less famous critics of the Bush administration

Toto has already done a lot of work regarding this. PDF(html)

That links shows how much they've raised in campaign donations. It is indeed true that Bush has raised more in campaign donations. What the previous poster was saying, however, is that Kerry's personal wealth is much greater than Bush's personal wealth.

Some ballpark figures for assets, drawn partly from here:
Kerry (incl. wife): $500 to $600 million
Cheney: $17 to $85 million
Edwards: ~$19 million
Bush: $6 to $14 million

So as you can see, even if those numbers are off by a lot, Kerry is still the richest by far, and Bush is the poorest of the four.

Here

Google's Cache of Tom Hudson's page

Seems Theora (at least as of last year) is lacking some important interlace features. See this message in google cache...

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:8XDpTBHPdZQJ: www.xiph.org/archives/theora-dev/200308/0040.html+ Theora+interlace&hl=en

Also I'm looking for a decent real-time open source compression lib that does 422 interlaced. Anyone know one?

Mark

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It's not the best, but IANAL and research isn't my specialty either. For a decent overview, google "fiduciary responsibilities"

It's also a big deal in Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson. One of the characters is establishing a publicly-traded corporation with a specific idealistic purpose in mind, but he has to make efforts to appear as though "shareholder value" is his primary concern.

In practice, it doesn't usually come to a lawsuit unless it's pretty blatant. But you would do well to realize that "the little guy" is hurt when stock prices drop, and that "profit" ultimately doesn't refer to thickening stacks of green paper, but rather to the creation of valued commoditiies (food, shelter, heat, entertainment) which have real impact on real people. Don't convince yourself that "corporate profits" are just some perverse game played by old white men.

Road Pizza, anyone? :)

Here's a mirrior in case Google goes down completley.

Oh wait.

If you want, you can read hepkitten's explanation of where all that money goes... It's quite informative, as long as you skip the drama that comes right after >_<

Actually, Hydrogen is a PITA to store as well. H2 is so small it can actually readily diffuse through most metals, including mild steel. The real kicker is that when H2 gets into a metal lattice, it usually causes it to become brittle. The last thing you want is a metal tank of 3000psi H2 that will crack if you hit it wrong... plus it's leaking H2 through diffusion anyway (fire hazard).

I think H2 may also need a special internally-lined tank. I also think metal-oxides help offest this somewhat:

H2 diffusion
reference to hydrogen permiating steel

Actually, Hydrogen is a PITA to store as well. H2 is so small it can actually readily diffuse through most metals, including mild steel. The real kicker is that when H2 gets into a metal lattice, it usually causes it to become brittle. The last thing you want is a metal tank of 3000psi H2 that will crack if you hit it wrong... plus it's leaking H2 through diffusion anyway (fire hazard).

I think H2 may also need a special internally-lined tank. I also think metal-oxides help offest this somewhat:

H2 diffusion
reference to hydrogen permiating steel

Well, if you do a little digging, the US is averaging three showers for every four days, with minor variances based upon the person.

That's better than many of the Brits that I've met.

Well, if you do a little digging, the US is averaging three showers for every four days, with minor variances based upon the person.

That's better than many of the Brits that I've met.

Google cache of the prologue. Looks like you'll have to google each page... I think I may have slashdotted it. Oops. Sorry Mr. Gatto.

Shortly before 9/11 the Supreme Court of the U.S. ruled that police could not use devices which look inside buildings such as this without a warrant because it was in violation of the 4th Amendment.

Take a look here to see what the judges ruled on the use of such devices in the heady pre-9/11 days. It's from the Google cache to reduce /. effect on Erowid.org ...

Sorry I can't found any, just the ones that say:
"A poll taken by the coalition provisional authority in mid-May shows that 92 percent of Iraqis now view Americans as occupiers and only 2 percent see them as liberators...Fifty-five percent of Iraqis say they would feel safer if the U.S. troops left."
article

Check this out Nucleus.
Python application, all platforms, searches RSS feeds and downloads the torrent.

... but England certainly did practice the indefinite detention without trial of IRA types. In fact, some of the ground rules for indefinite detention at GTMO were based on the British protocols. Not that I'm in favor of the practice.

Didn't have a lot of time for googling, but here's a cached post that talks about this.

free/open source software or 'community' development

But that does NOT make it F/OSS! The F/OSS movement does not have a lock on terms like "community" or "non-profit". In fact, these terms had meaning long before RMS started getting fed up with a proprietary printer driver.

It doesn't sound to me like this CRM system came with a F/OSS license. Your complaint seems to be that the CRM system is being sold by a non-profit corporation that is just a front for a for-profit corp. That is a completely different matter that has nothing to do with F/OSS. I think that non-profits fronting for for-profits is definitely something to complain about. But unfortunately it seems to be (currently) perfectly legal. Debt counseling services seem to be the worst exploiters of this legal situation.

Googling turned up this. (look at bottom).

It appears to be an unnumbered spare (identical to 10&11) that has been built, but not used.

The mentioning of U.S. interests is done in the context that the "book" is intended for U.S. Leaders.

Everything that AdTI produces is "intended for U.S. Leaders". They are a neoconservative lobbying group that pretends to champion "Liberal Causes" while pushing for neoconservative style privatization (putting our tax dollars directly into the hands of private corporations without any oversight while pushing for deregulation of those same industries).

AdTIs board (google cache link due to AdTI removing this information from thier website) consist mainly of Washington based political party insiders. There is more at stake here than just Linux,

They are not playing the public for Microsoft, rather they are tapping Microsoft (who will and does benefit from thier agenda) in order to attract funding for thier political platform.

This is an awesome idea, but the graphics look kinda lame. Killer Robot DVD release Google Cache

And here is a link to the cache of the PDF itself, for the truly lazy

Google cache HTML version of the PDF.

Well well, Mister Eurotrash or Crocodile Dundee here has something to say about the biggest kid on the block with nukes.
The average vacation for an American worker is two weeks. Rarely three weeks. Over in Socialist Europe people tend to have something on the order of four to six weeks paid vacation. Don't forget the strict EU rules about overtime which would put a serious cramp on the capitalist machine which is the United States of America. Americans on average work 350 more hours than their European counterparts. France, everyone's favorite whipping boy, has 11 public holidays, a minimum of five weeks paid vacation and a thirty five hour work week. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an American in his or her first year on the job gets 8.1 days of paid vacation on average.
Americans work very hard to the point of slaving for their corporate overlords, who I would like to be the first to welcome. This is in a country where the biggest joke is about lazy union workers! Heck, most union contracts don't even get close to their European counterparts in regards to benefits and time off.
Clicky. Clicky. Clicky.
Now let me get down to brass tacks. At least America can get into space. Russia can't even lift a rocket out to a LaGrange point which would make a big step towards space exploration. Europe is the bumbling old grandfather who recently bought a computer and is trying to find out how to get on the interweb but always failing. Of course America's too cautious and needs to realize one must break a few eggs to make an omelet but we'll get there soon enough.
Keep riding on our coattails and begging us for protection the next time Mohammed comes a knocking at your door!

Get your fresh cached copy here.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:bA95RIAgNowJ: www.blackcatgames.com/swarm/
Sloooooooooow copy, though...

This all reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson's alternate-world-history, The Years of Rice and Salt.

That said, playing the game taught me a hell of a lot about organization, being a naturally-disorg-ey person.

Here's is a google cache copy of an interview that Chris Sharp gave just before the release of Red Hat 8 touting that RHCE are the highest trained professionals in IT.

how about a google cache?
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:R7iYePwUPrsJ: www.microsoft.com/mspress/uk/+&hl=en

As I posted in another thread for a slightly different reason:

"80% of misinformed Americans get thier information from FOX news" (Link to Google cache of same article, since the original seems to randomly require registration...)

Political bias is a matter of debate, but they certaintly don't seem to be "fair and balanced" do they?
=Smidge=

the old rule still applies. Anything will fly if you put a big enough motor on it.(not that this thing required a big motor) Notice I don't consider stability an issue here. Obviously they do and did. And it worked. Cool. Similar wing design here. I noticed they didn't show the "landing". I hope it better than the one in Star Trek IV...

Not even the giant ones? Bet you were thinking of the other ones...huh?

Now the Dept. of Homeland Security is going to order various municipalities to block the sun.

There was actually an audio-only game released in Japan for the Saturn and Dreamcast, Kaze no Regret. Sadly, it is Japan only,

Harmonix Music also makes Karaoke Revolution, a game which could have far more accessable menus, but once the player gets through the menu structure the game is all about singing, which anyone can do (though generally poorly).

From the Google Cache of a Baptist church site: The True Jar Jar Binks

Life Sized Satanic Doll Serves As Masturbation Toy For America's Youth

Action Alert!

When Mrs. Tawny Huxton opened her son Timmy's bedroom door, she was shocked to see his innocent white hiney nestled into the new 7ft Jar Jar Binks doll she had bought him for his birthday. Lately, many Americans have suffered similar incidents. Young children are being seduced by the character of George Lucas' latest Star Wars Movie. Jar Jar's soothing voice, and timid childlike manners, seem to lure young teens into a world of lustful abandon. Unsuspecting parents purchase the popular life-size doll, only to find out later that it is being used by the child as a masturbation toy.....

As the link clearly shows.
Using Operas "IE" identity (the ones with MSIE in them) Opera got sent Opera specific stylesheets.
When they changed Opera to Oprah they got the MS IE stylesheet. Thus the site was specifically looking for the word "Opera" in the UA string before sending the screwed up style sheet.

Why is it the most interesting link is always /.'d first? Ah well, here's the "something to do with this" link cache.