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A vacation in Azerbaijan?? I bet you are there for reasons other then vacation.. perhaps you are a missionary or are volunteering there to provide aid? Though personally I am intrigued by the country myself, mostly from light bit of research I've done on it.

"Local scientists consider the Abseron Yasaqligi (Apsheron Peninsula) (including Baku and Sumqayit) and the Caspian Sea to be the ecologically most devastated area in the world because of severe air, soil, and water pollution; soil pollution results from oil spills, from the use of DDT as a pesticide, and from toxic defoliants used in the production of cotton" (source)

And here's another beauty:

"Towns once located on the coast are now as far as fifty miles away from the shoreline, the salinity of the water is heavily increased, and the fishing industry is destroyed. As if these problems were not enough, the receding sea is beginning to expose a land bridge to an island used by the Soviet Union for chemical and biological agent testing. Although the facility is closed, the remains of lab equipment had been simply buried and could become easily accessible." (source)

I also read somewhere that they fear animals will/are making their way accross that land bridge and becoming infected with the agents in the facility and possibly spreading the agents amongst the local wildlife and people. Can't find that article now though but in any case be on the lookout while you are over there!

Or maybe you are over there looking for the true location of CITY 17? Thats how my fascination with Azerbaijan began anyways.

And yes I knew where Baku was without looking at a map ;) But I blame VALVE for that.

• Here's a page which talks about Jasper becker's book Hungry Ghosts, which covers how farm collectivization during Mao's "Great Leap Forward" resulted in the death of some 30-60 million of your countrymen.
• Here's a page which discusses the genocide rsulting from China's invasion of Tibet, where "over 17 percent of the Tibetan people killed, and 6,000 monasteries ruined."
• Finally, here's a page discussing the practice of Falun Gong. Now I'm personally not a believer in Falun Gong, but since I live in a nation blessed with freedom of religion, and since your government would rather execute people rather than let them practice it, perhaps you should find out for yourself what it is they so desperately don't want you to hear.
• Finally, here's the profile of a true Chinese hero.

Freedom starts with you.

It has been known for some time that blowing hot steam across coke results in hydrogen, which is how most commercial hydrogen is made.

Here's the reaction

" Monday, October 20, 2003 - Page updated at 11:22 A.M.
Clarification: The headline states "Survey shows Fox led in misleading public," but the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy (PIPA), which conducted the survey, later issued a clarification that the correlation between viewing Fox News and holding misperceptions does not prove that Fox News' presentation caused the misperceptions. "

meaning the authors of the study doesn't claim fox news is misleading the public. In reality it is more likley what i described above in the level of comprehension of the viewers compared to the amopunt of viewers. In another article here here with its original here sheds a little more light or at least make it a little clearer on the numbers from other news sources.

I think to continue to claim fox news lies or purposley misleads in thier news reporting (not neccesarily you saying it but the general impression from others too) Is not only intelectualy dihonest but intelectualy lazy too. On the surface it is easy to come to the conclusion you did. It is the minute disclaimers that surfaced afterwards and looking into the source of the story a little that makes it clear.

In essence, you can say that you held misconceptions about "fox news' integrity" based on the same situation. Now there was actually a sitr found with about 20 barrels of a chemical (i forget the name right now) That was though to be a WMD and could have definatly caused damage as a WMD would but it turned out later to be an insecticide used with agriculture aplications.This was reported by manny news sorces other then but including fox news. This redacted story is probably the main reaosn of the misconceptions about the WMDs in iraq. The news print had to wait until publication and distrobution before releasing the news and by that time the chemicals purpose was already clearified.

I'm not a fox news schill or fanboy in the lest. I generaly get the majority of my news from the radio. I think most people would agree that the content on television (new anyways) has started lacking with the flux of 24hour news stations. I did however take the time to offer this post because i have heard too many time about how fox islieing to it's viewers or somethign along those lines. I'm under the impression that this is likely the result of

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:B7hYQ0Ipn1sJ: www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/special_packages/ir aq/6918170.htm+fox+news+wmd+weapons+of+mass+destru ction+study&hl=en&client=firefox-a/
Weapons of Mass Destruction. That was the first thing that came to mind...I'm sure that with more time and want...I could find more...but there's a start for you.

Asmodeus

...so I can't expect anybody actually went and read the fucking article. Here's the Gooogle cache for the article at Public Knowledge. Take a minute and read it.

Once again, the intellectual property cartels are lobbying thru legislation that seeks to further limit and erode the rights of consumers. We all seem to be laboring under the idiotic assumption that the current system is "just how things are". Copyright and patent protection comes from the People, and is a social contract. This contract is supposed to benefit both parties-- the creators of intellectual property and the People.

Write your Senator. Vote. Make intellectual property a campaign issue for future elections. Tell other people about how their rights are being taken away and encourage them to do the same.

Lt Ilia from ST:TMP was the first beautiful bald woman I rememeber.
I think she died.

http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/ltilia.htm

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:2fSKgwPwNeYJ: www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/9699/persis.html+ &hl=en

Of course, when TechTV asked users what features they'd like to see in IE, the most asked for features were tabs and popup blocking. The real reason IE doesn't have tabs is because it's just too darn hard for Microsoft to add, according to an MS Windows Exec!

Google cache

Google cache without images, thus faster.

Google text-only cache of the article

From the article, this guy (or his wife) is apparently well-off (or in debt). Either way, he seems to be spending a lot of time because he's worried that "whether or not [we] know it" we are in fact "in the middle of World War 3" right now.

So not only is this guy incredibly ill-informed regarding current political events, he thinks the best use of his money and time is to spend it collecting all possible recorded music.

If he was really concerned about the state of the world, he would be doing more than sipping Grand Marnier and downloading the latest Chingy remix.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:-7B7abphgzIJ: www.macnet2.com/more.php%3Fid%3D536_0_10_0+&hl =en

Here's Google's text only cache of the downed site.

Here's the google translation to html

Adobe's PDF viewer is the devil.

They took down the link to their ex-manager's butt.
Here's the google cache and the picture.

Google Cache w/o photos: Google Link

Mirrordot.org also has a copy available:Mirrordot.org

Spammer Jeremy D. Jaynes: Represented by David A. Oblon. E-mail addresses: dao@albo-oblon.com, aolaw@his.com, and web form. Source.

Spammer Jessica DeGroot: Represented by Thomas V. Mulrine. Unable to locate e-mail address, but web form. Source.

Spammer Richard Rutkowski: Represented by Leo R. Andrews, Jr. E-mail address: leoa@erols.com. Source.

[Attention, Messrs. Olbon, Mulrine, and Andrews: if you discover this posting and decide to try to track down this 'anonymous coward' with revenge in your hearts, please note that your own actions put your e-mail addresses into the public record and onto the Internet, so kindly don't try to blame me for it. Mr. Olbon, you included your e-mail address in numerous Washington Business Journal articles you authored, and included your second e-mail address when you registered your firm's website. Mr. Mulrine, you signed up for the appropriate service with Martindale. And Mr. Andrews, you included your e-mail address in a legal pleading.]

Google Cache

Destroy him, my robots!

Google cache with different mirrors across the globe: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:LAIfxt7dfOEJ: www.ioccc.org/+ioccc&hl=en

The republican party has been working to make it more difficult to vote for some time. In Texas, the state GOP party platform indicates that they want to get rid of motor voter registration. This would mean that people wouldn't have the choice of being registered to vote when they get their drivers' licenses. They also want people to have to re-register every four years. The document claims this is to combat voter fraud, but I suspect it's also intended to reduce the number of people casting votes and complicate the registration process. Check page six of the above-referenced document.

> For the nTH time this is not a democracy.
> It is a representive republic.

Then stop spreading quite so much "freedom and democracy" already.

...why does the President support off-shoring American jobs?

Edward Prescott, "who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize for economics", weighed in (Google cache) recently on the issue:

Prescott also gave Bush the nod on another controversial campaign issue, dismissing Kerry's claims that outsourcing of jobs is damaging the economy.

"All the rich countries are economically integrated," he said, citing a jump in productivity and wealth in Western Europe after Germany, France and neighboring nations formed the Common Market after World War II.

Are you perhaps thinking of this study? It says that there is 40 year supply of Uranium at < $80/kg, but at least a 100 year overall supply of the material.

If you'll believe that, then I have a bridge to sell you... Real cheap.

You and the grand parent are ridiculous.

PCxxxx refers to how many MB/s the memory has for thoroughput. It isn't a BS marketing number, although many feel PC100 and PC133 were named improperly.

Fortunately the nice people at JEDEC have documentation of this for you. Here is a google cache link of an Infineon white paper about the ratings.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:pT68a3nJpdkJ: www.infineon.com/cgi/ecrm.dll/ecrm/scripts/public_ download.jsp%3Foid%3D37618%26parent_oid%3D-9475+JE DEC+PC+rating&hl=en&lr=lang_en

That same GoatSe pumpkin pic linked from the Official Dremel Pumpkin Kit vs The Google Cache

Quoted from the post in question:

Please kill George Bush. I hate him so much. I think he is a giant dick and I want terrible things to happen to him. I'm not really big on the specifics of how he dies, but if you could at least arrange it so that the authorities find his dead body on top of an underage black male prostitute surrounded by a mountain of cocaine and child pornography, that would really be super-awesome. And maybe you could have some media people there when the police find the body, so they can take pictures and stuff. That'd be fucking GREAT.

Here's the post from google's cache that prompted the secret service-- get it while it's still hot.

From the post:

Please kill George Bush. I hate him so much. I think he is a giant dick and I want terrible things to happen to him. I'm not really big on the specifics of how he dies, but if you could at least arrange it so that the authorities find his dead body on top of an underage black male prostitute surrounded by a mountain of cocaine and child pornography, that would really be super-awesome. And maybe you could have some media people there when the police find the body, so they can take pictures and stuff. That'd be fucking GREAT.

You were saying?

Here's the post from google's cache that prompted the secret service-- get it while it's still hot.

From the post:

Please kill George Bush. I hate him so much. I think he is a giant dick and I want terrible things to happen to him. I'm not really big on the specifics of how he dies, but if you could at least arrange it so that the authorities find his dead body on top of an underage black male prostitute surrounded by a mountain of cocaine and child pornography, that would really be super-awesome. And maybe you could have some media people there when the police find the body, so they can take pictures and stuff. That'd be fucking GREAT.

I can see why the Secret Service would want to visit someone after they say something like that.. (sure, context weakens it a bit, but it is borderline nutty and definitely can be construed as a threat against the president.)

Since the 419eater.com site is having trouble handling the Slashdotting, here's a link to the Google Cached version. Please mod up this comment if you find it useful.

"There's more than just speed"
-- Seymour Cray

"Netatalk is a freely-available, kernel level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite, originally for BSD-derived systems. A *NIX/*BSD system running netatalk is capable of serving many macintosh clients simultaneously as an AppleTalk router, AppleShare file server (AFP), *NIX/*BSD print server, and for accessing AppleTalk printers via Printer Access Protocol (PAP). Included are a number of minor printing and debugging utilities."

So if I understand the functionality correctly: Netatalk:OSX :: Samba:windows

http://www.xbox-linux.org provides Linux for it. LinksBoks can act asa standalone browser. Or you can use Mozilla on it with Linux.

I've also seen someone have an Xbox strictely for SSH at defcon.

Getting slow, Google cache here.

Full text:

For several months, there's been a lot of buzz around Google's April 2004 registration of the gbrowser.com domain. After quite a while of digging, I believe I've managed to boil some truth out of the rumor stew. While this is pure speculation, it's speculation based on a wide variety of facts gathered over the past three months. Feel free to take it with a generous helping of salt.

The Mozilla developers have been stone silent on the issue, aside from a few accidental slips, but several other sources have let loose other bits of information. Interestingly, there's either great confusion on the plans (or a highly partitioned project inside Google), or a good deal of misinformation. Trying to determine what's real and what's not is like making a Venn diagram. Each source is a circle filled with information. Some information is common to all or many circles, some information only comes from one source. you have to put all the circles together, and where they overlap is the most reliable information. So after weeks of analysis, this is where we think Gbrowser is headed.

The overlap is looking like a Google branded and customized Firefox based browser. To help set it apart from the rest of the browser crowd, they're integrating a lot of their own technologies. Since Firefox does not contain a mail app, they're integrating Gmail for email access, with a built in new-mail notifier. Interestingly, mailto: urls will work with Gmail, allowing peple to click email links in pages and have Gmail open a new mail to that address, as well as IE-like buttons on the toolbar for composing new mail from scratch.

Newsgroups will be built in similar to Gmail with the Google Groups service, and possibly the ability to select groups to watch, like in a full fledged newsreader (like Mozilla Thunderbird). And Google News will also have built in access from the browser along with Google Alerts or a similar, RSS-based feature.

Other features include better search integration, with the extra features such as Image Searching by right clicking on an image or selected word. As Silicon.com found there is also a Google branded IM service on the way as well, and could be a Jabber or rebranded AIM also coming bundled with the browser.

There are other, extra-browser features that will most likely come with it, and tie into the browser, such as Google Desktop Search, Picasa (with links to the browser for web-related sharing, searching, etc.), and Google Toolbar features that IE users currently enjoy.

Also, Google loves the recently aquired Blogger, and will have built in linkage to Blogger and rich-editing tools, making Blogger a highly integrated feature, with the ability to blog links and web-content as easily as using their integrated GMail features.

As I stated, Mozilla.org and Mozilla developers have been very quiet on all of this. But with such an open organization, it's hard to hide all secrets. There have been a lot of hidden bugs in Bugzilla related to searching, bugs that even members of the Security group can't access. Recently, there was a bug duplicated to a confidential bug with the following comment by the triager: "This is a duplicate of a private bug about working with Google. So closing this one." That bug also now closed, but it was open long enouch for people to notice it.

There's also a lot of 'covert' code going into the tree without individual bug references. And none of these patches are being checked in by Google staff, but by other Mozilla developers, ostensibly checking in code for Google employees to keep a low profile. None of this is Google-exclusive, per se, as much as it is code that one could easily see as making life easier for a third party developer making heavy integration changes. the checking comments are usually

I knew I had heard this somewhere: Arnold S. was originally being considered as the lead for a Doom movie. Too bad.... I think he would have been a better marine-like figure over Rock.

One source that talks about Arnie

I just found this in the article: In a country where the average monthly salary is about $240...

Color me dumb for missing it, but I know when I was making between 240 and 570 bucks a month, the last thing on my mind was buying anything other than food. And beer.

All the more reason why 15 dollars for a CD ain't gonna fly.

Wrong, god speaks to him, but he doesn't listen. Just ask Pat Robertson, he told Dubya " 'Mr. President, you had better prepare the American people for casualties" and "I mean, the Lord told me it was going to be A, a disaster, and B, messy," but Dubya replied "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties.". Source: cnn.com

This is just what Guy Montag needed to silence Denham's Dentifrice.

Before - After

Sure.

*(Google cache)

Reminds me of a couple of interesting problems

Auction a dollar

and Divide the dollar

Google cache of hibernate.org

translate or learn French

nantes.indymedia.org

This is for all the responding posts to the parent asking for corroboration. 10 minutes of Googling later, here (requires registration) are some related links.

No one has been able to fully enumerate the five Congressional members and their offspring who are serving in Iraq. However, some facts pointed out in this discussion:

1. Moore never asserted in his movie that the children of US Congressmen are under-represented in US forces in Iraq. See the movie transcript to verify from primary source. Instead, he asked the people that authorized the Iraq war (members of Congress) if they would send thier kids to Iraq.
2. Equally factual is that in the United States, you can only enlist in the armed forces when you are of the age of majority. Meaning your parents (the Congressmen Moore was posing his question to) cannot do what he posits. They can no more send their children to Iraq than violate some fundamental precepts of the Constitution.
3. Quote: Senators and Congressmen (and Pentagon workers, and the President himself) ARE on the front lines of this war, and have been since its opening salvo. They don't need their children to be put in harm's way to show their bravery and resolve. They need only show up for work. If you don't think Washington, D.C. is a target, you haven't been listening to Osama.
4. The Congressional members who are known to have children serving in the Enduring Freedom theatre of operations or are expected to be there soon are: Sen. Tim Johnson, D-SD, son Brooks Johnson, 31, a staff sergeant with the Army's 101st Airborne Division; Rep. John Kline, R-MN, son, Dan Kline who is slotted for shipping out.
5. For anyone who still wants to play the statistics game and still assert that Congress members' families are under-represented, fine. Let's see where the numbers take us. Quote: The correct comparison would be to compare the total number of parents in the US with children of military age over the total number of troops and then the same comparison in the Congress - number of Reps with children of military age vs. number serving...assume that all people from the age of 40 to 79 have children of military age and likewise all Congressional Reps. - the errors are likely to be in the same direction (overstated in both cases) and so even out. There are around 130 million in the 40 to 79 age group. So the rate of service is around 1 per thousand potential parents. Applying this to Congress, you'd expect less than 1 child in Iraq. Instead, we can count one for certain, possibly another four depending upon your sources. So the representation, in known terms from primary sources, is at least the enlistment rate of the general population.
6. This is just immediate family members. Including first relations, representation of Congress members' families is likely to go much, much higher. If you are a Moore fan, would you care to chase down primary sources on that, which will only widen the gap further, o

Did you miss that Kerry praised John Blair for taking responsibility for getting the intelligence wrong?

What is all this talk about Kerry bashing the UK? Where are your sources? Just because he says that we didn't use diplomacy long enough, nor did we build a strong collalition, doesn't mean he's slamming the allies that are in this collalition.

Link

Google Cache
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:c8XPqYPcEggJ: www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html+&hl=en

Google cache version

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

"Reasonable accomodation". Sure, it goes overboard occasionally, and there are disabled folks who are assholes - but there are no more of them than there are in the able-bodied community.

As for the automotive garage, there are different levels of blindness, and there are ways to work around not being able to distinguish color. If the blind guy actually couldn't do the job, then the case would (most likely) be decided against him. I'm not familiar with the historical landmark case you reference, and I suspect there's more to the story than you're telling - or that you are lying.

As far as the NFL and the Olympics, there are disabled sporting groups (Paralympics? America's Athletes with Disabilities?) - we're not trying to get into leagues we don't belong in. And the art thing, again, is BS - "reasonable accomodation" is the test.

Now, to dispute your links:
The first link is rather lengthy, but I would point out that when it says, "so and so sued for ___ bogus reason", that means someone sued - not that they won.
Second link: he's entitled to his opinion. Most of us disagree, however.
Third link: there are bogus lawsuits all the time. Doesn't mean the underlying law is bad, though.
Fourth link: this is essentially a dupe of link #3.
Fifth link: this actually proves my point: bogus lawsuits can be fought.

There are abuses; but there are many more good uses of the ADA (and it's not a group, as you seem to think - it's a law). As a recent example, note this googlecache of an article in the Chicago Sun-Times. It's about a 10 year old in a wheelchair, an immigrant from Columbia. The condo association of the building where his family lived verbally abused him and his family because they refused to come in the back door. The association claimed he was causing damage to the front door; this was false. By going to court, his family has stopped the verbal abuse and is now allowed to come in the front door.