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Here's the proposal:
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Site has cpu quota issues... here's the cache.

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Regardless of acceptance, its been long proven that men and women equally trained result in men being better physically. Men are naturally stronger and more capable in the regards and no amount of "equality" is going to change that. I found this link long ago and have kept it all this time simply to illustrate this: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:yBMaVtVEg68J:w ww.bobjust.com/womenincombat/+bob+just+women+in+co mbat&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=1

(site seems to be down, this is a google cache)

The US army tried to get women up to the phsyical standards placed on the men for front line combat and from reading that it seems like an exercise in futility.
While everyone can agree that everyone else should be treated equally, they need to snap out of it and realize that doens't mean we're all 100% equal in our abilities whether its potential or realized.

has been reported from Suntang (google cache), however it can be difficult to find out information from them as their website is almost always down and they never reply to email: office@suntang.com. They primarly install Linux based thin client systems around China, and have moved development over to supporting Windows and concepts like VDSA (the Virtual Disk System Architecture) and Virtual Hard Drive Technology.

:(

They manufacture some great looking thin clients.

I'm sure that Art practices what he preaches. Indeed, I'm sure he's so "driven to make drugs that help patients fight cancer" that any day he'll announce that he's cutting his own $40,000,000 in compensation so that the company has more money to do that research. ($1.6M in 1999. $21M in 2004.)

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As you can see, I'm not blowing smoke. Would you like me to fax you the receipt?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the pessimism belched out in these posts; it's like all the helpless bitterness rotting in the gut of the hopeless spilled out into those pages remotely polical.

My complaint is that while having every low-down and 'I-know-better', dirty generalization to puke onto these pages there are no solutions belond not-Bush.

Now, the most I can expect from this crowd is as list of bogus accusations against this administration. To counter them would to stoop to the level of those accusations. But, to head some of you off at the pass, here are a couple:

• WMDs: found - more in Syria
• (therefore: Bush didn't lie
• the above was only one of at least a dozen reasons why we rightly remove Sadaam for not complying with the armistice he agreed to at the end of the Gulf War
• this last move into Iraq was not unilateral
• enough said

> Roads are very meaningfull things, so are railroads, just to name
> some examples.

Yup.

> Why not read a whole variety of publications from opposing
> sources? gives a much better picture. Reading what you like
> to hear is not gonna teach you much usually.

Aha - now this is a very interesting thing to talk about and it's been through my thoughts in the last day. I'm not sure that it's possible to take it all in and I think you need to be open minded but strategic with your focus.

Some time ago I read an article about Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feyman's unsuccessful attempt to get through Newton's 'Principia'. [1] Now this guy is a successful physicist and even he struggles to get familiar with one of the very basic texts. I have had similar troubles when trying to read Rousseau, Voltaire and (worst of all) Kant. I think there's a limit to what you can consume, and if you don't go to the source the danger increases that you'll be led astray - recently a whole lot of historians have run into trouble in Australia for citing derived sources only to be confronted by a historian coming along and pouring doubt upon the references they had relied on.

My strategy is to work with what time I have and follow designs, which is quite similar to what I do in my work (applications and frameworks). Pick something that's clearly solid and work from that base. Part of this involves a judgement as described in the recent Graham article - "you have to figure out for yourself what's good. You can't trust authorities." [2 - This is probably the cause of me thinking about these things, although the thrust of the essay is only slightly related to what I'm saying here]

That's not to say be close-minded. In fact, I used to be a centrist and have moved to my current position based on my readings, and it is quite extreme to judge by current mainstream politics and certainly the opinions of my friends. (I have to be quiet about my thoughts on public arts funding on rehearsal nights :) ) But I can't spend my life reading everything - I have to make a choice about where to place my limited energies. I'm convinced that the Austrian school are a better starting point than any other distinct movement and so I'm choosing to focus there.

> I just get sad whenever I hear the 'Ok, maybe he is terrible, but
> he was miles better then the competition' argument about politicians,
> regardless of where it comes from.

Interesting. A genuine reflection of what's going on inside but also a fall back to bad habits. Still - made for an interesting thread.

--
[1] In a search for references, the one I found pointing to his difficulties with it are at this google cache, http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Nplnx757pg4J:w ww.pilates-move.com/articles/Philosophiae_Naturali s_Principia_Mathematica+%22principia+mathematica%2 2+sabbatical+newton+professor&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8
but no longer at the original site. This may imply that he succeeded in a later attempt. The relevant section reads:
"""Nearly 300 years later Richard Feynman, a famous Nobel Prize winning physicist, failed in his attempt to follow Newton's proofs during a sabbatical year, and instead spent a significant amount of time producing his own geometric proofs, as was his custom when mastering a subject ("What I cannot create, I do not understand" -- Feynman).

Some of the other difficulties in following Newton's work are that many of the concepts were not named. For example he clearly grasped the concept of angular momentum, but it was not a concept that he ever named or used mathematically directly. The word 'motion' in his works clearly means what we now call momentum, yet the f

Don't be so sure - Mass. wants to ban machete ownership and require registration.
Linky

a page saying nothing but "FSI INF". "FSI INF"? WTF?

Thats all openlinux.org said two days ago: Google Cache of openlinux.org

It's still in google cache: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:OxIU8nS0KaIJ:b logs.msdn.com/philipsu/archive/2006/06/05/617988.a spx+The+term+stirs+the+imagination+to+conceive+of+ beautiful+possibilities+just+around+the+corner.&hl =en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Try looking in the google cache, query:

"Broken Windows Theory" site:msdn.com

link

I intentionally do not allow any version of IE higher than 3 or its rogue dlls to ever infest my dual 95/NT box. Firefox works just fine. All that is required is to have comctl32.dll at version 4.72 for recent versions of Firefox. Firefox will even run on Windows NT 3.51!

hey look, a google cache of a page linking directly to a torrent file of a copyrighted work!

Hey, are you trying to get Slashdot closed down for assisting copyright infringement, by linking to a page that is a copy of a page that links to a file that includes a hash of a derivative of a copyrighted work?

The sole purpose of pirate bay is to facilitate crime,
No. Their sole purpose is to host torrent files. Whether those are torrents of copyrighted works or public domain works is not something they consider, they host them either way. So your statement is inaccurate.

Google removes things from the cache, the pirate bay tells people to fuck off.

Well, duh. When its in google's cache, they are directly hosting it on their servers- that's a crime, no ambiguity included. Do you think they clear all pages of sites like TPB or www.torrentspy.com from their cache as well? Of course not, because they know its not illegal. In fact... hey look, a google cache of a page linking directly to a torrent file of a copyrighted work!

>But it isn't like nobody has died in high school sports

But sports "develop character". Besides, look at how people value sports verus academics.

Parent post sed: "Could you cite me the relevant section of the law on that?"

Sure can it's Dodge v.s. Ford a 1916 Supreme Court decision:

"Dodge v. Ford Motor Company
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dodge v. Ford Motor Company, 204 Mich. 459, 170 N.W. 668. (Mich. 1919), was a famous case in which the Michigan Supreme Court held that Henry Ford owed a duty to the shareholders of the Ford Motor Company to operate his business for profitable purposes as opposed to charitable purposes.

Facts

In 1916, the Ford Motor Company earned surpluses in excess of $100,000,000.00. The company's president and majority stockholder, Henry Ford, sought to stop declaring dividends for investors, and instead cut prices below the price for which they could actually sell cars, while at the same time increasing the number of persons employed by his company. Ford said that he wanted to increase the number of people who could afford to buy his cars. He stated:

        "My ambition is to employ still more men, to spread the benefits of this industrial system to the greatest possible number, to help them build up their lives and their homes. To do this we are putting the greatest share of our profits back in the business."

Minority shareholders objected, demanding that Ford continue to charge higher prices in order to pay them larger dividends.

Issue

The Court was called upon to decide whether the minority shareholders could prevent Ford from operating the company for the charitable ends that he had declared.

Opinion of the Court

The Court held that a business corporation is organized primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The discretion of the directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end, and does not extend to the reduction of profits or the nondistribution of profits among stockholders in order to benefit the public, making the profits of the stockholders incidental thereto.

Because this company was in business for profit, Ford could not turn it into a charity. This was compared to a spoliation of the company's assets. The court therefore upheld the order of the trial court requiring that directors declare an extra dividend of $19 million."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_C ompany

Ever since this TERRIBLE decision (with perhaps good original intent) combined with limited liability, and ruling that the corporation has the same 14th amendment rights as a person in the 19th century it's utterly foolish to think a corporation can even legally "do no evil."

See also" http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:OUxdJmMReQ8J:r eclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/personhood_timeline .pdf+corporation+14th+amendment+rights&hl=en&gl=us &ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a

For more on corporate personhood.

there's a very important assumption wrapped up in the above sentence that doesn't apply to the F/OSS community. There's no single point of failure in the system.

There's always a choke point. The key is in finding it. Microsoft has always proved very resourceful in finding the chokepoint in its competitors. Be it monetary, technological, or legal, they find a way. Patents seem like the most likely avenue, because they could completely shut down the project. (Free or no.) And even without patents, the mere threat of them will prevent most people from adopting the technology on the critical path. Which means that Microsoft can take a "die on the vine" approach to killing the project.

When you look at it, it's shocking how well Microsoft's attacks against Open Source and Linux have faired. Even if we technologists don't buy it, enough of the public buys into their FUD to make a lot of problems for the industry. Now that was an unfocused attack. Imagine if 100% of Microsoft's resources were devoted to killing a single OSS project!

For an example of Microsoft's FUD in action, check out this argument (cache) that is happening between The Heartland institute and LXer. You should be able to spot a gaping hole in his logic within the first paragraph. Yet people really believe this stuff! Now imagine if Microsoft followed up a FUD campaign with strong new product annoucements that "Give you all the freedom of OSS, but with none of the communism." Visions of the Visi-On debacle are already lighting up in the back of my head...

Firstly, Google cache.

I've been coding in Laszlo for almost a year now for a new product my company is launching soon, and I have to say it's a great language to use. A very easy way to create great web applications while still being able to write completely Object Orientated code... There's absolutely zero need to code in a WYSIWYG style method ala visual basic or the like, our application dynamically loads in its objects and layout from a db, completely configurable... it's all very nice.

The article itself is quite a nice summary of what Laszlo is I suppose. It does seem to harp on a bit about PHP as a back end, when there is nothing tying laszlo to php at all... we were using Ruby, now we're using Java, and are able o talk directly to Java classes from within Laszlo code using a JavaRPC structure. As the Laszlo server is a Java app, it all sits together nicely.

Also it's good to see it mentioning the alternate runtime of DHTML which is currently able to be played with at Openlaszlo.org (currently in pre-beta). So, in the future you'll be able to write your code and chose to render it to Flash OR DHMTL or Both... it's all very nice.

Is there anything that people who are interesting in Laszlo would like to know from someone who's been coding in it for a while? As while I'm not a zealot of it or anything, I do like it a lot, and just would love to see as many people as possible using it. :)

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Fw3etTOxNawJ:s eattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/20022591 11_photos01.html

toronto sex crimes unit finds pedophiles likely to be trekkies (all but one arrested in a four year span were trekkies)

Google Cache link

Fewer than 4,000 Americans were killed by terrorists in the last ten years, including OK city (which I think was a year earlier than ten years ago but we'll include it anyway). Let foreign governments worry about foreign cities being bombed, OK? My taxes are too high as it is.

37,280 Americans died from auto accidents in 1997 alone.

In 1992, 80,000-150,000 people died from medical malpractice (link is to some law firm that came up with the first Google search, this is Google's HTML cache of a PDF. Wikipedia had no result).

Clearly, we should ban automobiles and medical doctors.

Here's another statistic for you: 100% of all people die. It might as well be by a terrorist bomb as a cigarette, a McDonald's hamburger, or a cell phone wielding bimbo in an SUV. One way or another you're going to die.

Whether or not you will live free beforehand is another question entirely.

Georgia, for example, requires a digital fingerprint before you can get your driver's license or your state ID.

Fortunately, the fingerprinting requirement in Georgia is eliminated as of July 1, 2006. On that date, the state is also required to delete the fingerprints on file.

Many times more people die from car wrecks, preventable heart attacks, etc than die from terrorism. 20,000 people in the US alone die every year from influenza and influenza related pneumonia(1), that is about seven times as many as died in the worst terrorist attack this country has ever suffered. (2) Don't misunderstand, I think radical Islam is a developing problem, but I don't think rooting out terrorists will really stop the problem. The way to stop the problem is to basically do the opposite of what we've done in the Middle East, not spy on every citizen in this country building a giant database of phone calls, emails, and snail mail packages. While the average person doesn't care about this now because they think the "terrists is gonna get me" if the same sort of monitoring was proposed in the mid-90s they would be pretty upset. This database is being built using the MOMENTUM of terrorism, not FOR terrorism. While they might actually catch a terrorist using this database, that doesn't make it worth it. If police came to everyone's house every day and searched them for weapons or plans, there would be virtually no violence in this country, there also would be no freedom, no independence, no innovation, and eventually no money. There is a fine line between protecting one's rights and preventing violence, that line shifts depending on the immediate threat. Terrorism doesn't constitute enough of a threat to justify this sort of action. What America really needs is a good "McCarthyism red scare" like event to take place for us to take back our government, my only fear of that is with a big enough database it might be fairly easy to link ANYONE to a terrorist organization...especially when THEY get to define what is a terrorist.

1. http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:rbUOIN2Yy8sJ:w ww.nfid.org/library/influenza/acknowledgements/inf luenza.pdf+influenza+deaths+2001+united+states&hl= en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3
2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_at tacks

What about survival rates?

A quick google turned up a study on cancer survival rates in America and Europe: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x _Study_Compares_U_S__and_European_Survival_Rates.a sp

Here's an article on cancer survival in the UK: (google cache): http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:VZmy8v8wLdMJ:w ww.ntrac.org.uk/About/QA.aspx&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk& cd=11 (claiming that UK survival is on the average less than America or European)

BBC article on survival rates http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/546846.stm

For those that don't want to read--much higher survival rates in the US for most cancers (gastric cancer being a difference). No, it's not US and UK, so not directly comparable, but an interesting study nonetheless, especially for the countless posters coming out of the woodworks declaring the infinite superiority of socialized healthcare (though I still fail to see how socialized healthcare systems in and of themselves prevent cancer and diabetes..)

My point in posting this ISN'T to cast doubt on the article's study, or to deny that Americans are pretty damn unhealthy (we too often are). It's merely to respond to the people who seem to to place a great deal of their mental energy on the existence of government institutions, and when these institutions are absent blame all ills on their absence.

... easy enough to create that anyone can do it and as such is non-novel (not patentable.)

abstraction physics

Here is a doc that describes how I cured my "RSI":
http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/handout.doc

or Google view as HTML

Sounds crazy, but actually makes sense once you read and understand it.

Google for "sarno tms" for more info...

Quit bashing this product...seeing as not the whole fucking country as a 20 dollar light bill a month. During the winter our light bills spiked upwards of 400 dollars a month. And that is with a town owned electric co-op that is alot cheaper than what we could be paying. Just because you have a 20 dollar a month bill doesnt mean this invention has any less fucking merit for the rest of us.

OK...convince me. What's the difference between on and off peak rates and how much of your use was peak? Looking at an arbitrary rate card for Idaho it appears that Sunday is about 40% cheaper. Assuming that someone is always home and that a full charge can hold enough juice to power a "normal" house for a month, you can save $137 a month--you'll have that puppy paid off in ten years if the batteries hold up and winter doesn't end. Now try stuffing $500 worth of insulation in the attic and keeping the house a degree cooler.

Well that rules out a migration from Solaris since RedHat would have had no problem naming Sun as the vendor they replaced.

HP-UX they might be a bit quiet about since their close to HP and definately if it was AIX RedHat wouldn't want to antagonize IBM.

It looks like it was HP-UX ased on this snippet from http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:9WrQ3EspDRwJ:w ww.academy.faa.gov/ama200/S20Catalog.doc+faa+%22tr affic+flow+management+infrastructure%22+ibm&hl=en& gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

47415 Traffic Flow Management Infrastructure (TFMI)

S20V5 This course provides training for technicians, engineers, and FAA Technical Center personnel on ETMS Model HP-C360 equipment. The course is 20 hours self-study text with 20 hours computer-based exercises (CBE). Self-study subjects include system overview, workstation user environment, UNIX, monitor, keyboard, trackball, tape drive, troubleshooting, and fault isolation procedures. CBE subjects include login, files and directories, basic commands, HP tools, workstation/file-server basics, addresses, diagnostic commands, troubleshooting, and fault isolation.

This can be done quite easily with Reed-Solomon coding. In fact, you don't need the majority of the nodes, but simply an arbitrary N set of nodes, with an arbitrary M nodes as redundancy. N=1 and M=1 is basically RAID1. N = n and M = 1 is simply RAID5, N=n and M=2 is RAID 6.

In fact, I wrote a RSRaid driver for Linux for my thesis and did some performance testing on it. I'll save you the 30 pages and just tell you that the algorithm is far too CPU intensive to scale up very well for fileserver use (my original intent,) but I did conclude it could be used as a backup alternative to tape. Hmmmm.

Direct Link
Google Cache
Please forgive the double brackets, I fought witH Word and lost.
Contact me if you'd like to play with the code. I never did any reconstruction code, but the system did work in a degraded state, and was written for the Linux 2.6 kernel.

I cured my RSI using this "mindbody" approach:
http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/handout.doc
or Google view as HTML

I now firmly believe that "RSI" is caused by psychological reasons (though it does exhibit actual physical symptoms). I know that is hard to grasp, and long-time sufferers will disagree with me, but read the document I linked to and some of Dr. John E. Sarno's writings if you are interested.

EEG's (the basis of the devices in the article) are passive - they only measure the electric field around your head. They read voltage potentials, not generate them :P

"Electroencephalogram (EEG) and Evoked Potentials (EPs) have the advantages of great temporal resolution and a direct relation to neuronal information-processing. Information is carried between neurons, and is integrated within neurons via current flowing across active brain synapses. In some circumstances, the resulting net extracellular current flow can be recorded on the scalp as the EEG. That is, the EEG is the result of the passive instantaneous electrical propagation from active brain synapses to the scalp recording electrode. When the EEG is averaged with respect to a repeated behavioral event, random background EEG will cancel and only that part of the EEG (termed the EP) related to the behavioral event will remain. Careful examination of EPs across many tasks and subjects has demonstrated that they are composed of a series of components, each defined by its latency, polarity, scalp topography, and behavioral correlates. Successive EP components are related to successive stages in information-processing, from the strictly sensory to the highest integrative levels, termed 'endogenous.' Since these EP components are generated by synaptic current flows, they provide a critical link between cognitive and neural processes."

from here

Google Cache. Always helpful.

Well, shouldn't people be taxed on their ability to pay? Those that are the most wealthy are the ones most able to pay.

The tax you are considering is a property tax. Property taxes have an extremely negative effect on business. For example, in Seattle I have to pay about $100 a year on my car for the Monorail tax (no more, woohoo!) and Sound Transit tax. I pay such a low tax because I own a 10 year old car. I refuse to buy a new car because it will cost me an additional ~$5000 in taxes over time. How do you think this helps the car market in Seattle? Now consider property taxes on houses: will an average consumer buy a more expensive house even if he or she could afford it? How about on savings: Will anyone save money? Start a private business? Or even build an extension onto their house (which people don't do now because of property taxes)?

Anyways, the GGP didn't note that based on income, the top 5% pay ~55% of federal income taxes, and the top 50% pay over 95% of federal income taxes.

NOTE: my first link is the IRS excel file, and my second one is the google HTML version.

"Ok geeks: Yes, that movie should have ended when he found the Blue Fairy. We all know this. It's been beat to death. I know. You know. We all know."

The super robots found a creative solution to a seemingly unsolvable endless loop. Cool. David dies at the bottom of the ocean sitting in front of the statue of the Blue Fairy. Big journey that comes to a pointless end. Dumb. Hopefully now you understand why people like me come out of the woodwork every time this is suggested and beat it to death.

Go ahead and read this. Hopefully this will lead to a little clarification AND (hopefully) a little less dead horse beating.

There are various wind farms being opposed in Vermont, the most currently notable of which is proposed for a former radar base on top of a remote mountain which already has a road up it to the base. In more populous parts of the state (which is the most rural in population distribution of any state), a totally assinine outfit calling itself the Glebe Mountain Group had been running seriously dishonest advertisements in all the local papers claiming that due to energy credits wind power generation just enables more coal generation elsewhere, so is bad for the environment. They also lie and claim that intermittency means that wind has no real effect in reducing generation needs from other sources. They'll say anything, and their refrain is always that they're revealing the "facts" the the evil, "corporate" people are hiding - totally perverse considering these idiots almost entirely consist of retired corporate hacks and their various whores.

Meanwhile, Vermont is getting most of its energy from a vibrating nuclear plant and Hydro Quebec dams, which have flooded large areas of Native American land and release massive amounts of mercury from the flooded soils. Yeah, fucking Vermont, home of ... well, me.

http://www.hserus.net/mailboxes-srs-inboxevent2004 .ppt

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That system currently handles over 41 million users, serves up POP3, IMAP, Webmail, spam and virus filtering for paying customers, and deals with over half a billion messages per day.

Every service is on physically separate hardware: MX, outbound MTAs, content filters, frontends....

The accepted wisdom driving the recent surge in quantum-encryption schemes posits that physical laws cannot be violated, and thus the quantum properties of photons offer an absolute level of security to optical networks. But Richard Kuhn, a computer security expert at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Md.), has published a method for defeating several quantum-encryption schemes, although Kuhn's method will not work with the BB84 protocol used in commercial systems.

use the google cache

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ILiHKIGJa_oJ:w ww.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/working_at_m icrosoft.html+&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a

And Google's cache...

dude u might wanna read the comments already posted before u say u can't read the article. Above yr post is a link to a google cache of the article. No excuse.
here it is again 'cos yr too lazy to read more than a few lines away:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ILiHKIGJa_oJ:w ww.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/working_at_m icrosoft.html+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

btw, wtf? how can u have an opinon about what he says w/o reading what he said

The site referenced in the article is already giving out 503's. Here is a google cache of the page:

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Google cache: http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ILiHKIGJa_oJ:w ww.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/working_at_m icrosoft.html+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:jHHBaeTXZaQJ:e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Utilities+&hl=en&gl=us &ct=clnk&cd=1

Norton Utilities were first made for MS-DOS machines. I think I've still got the Norton Utilities 4.5 disk... the sector editor from that is _still_ handy.

At some point you just have to wonder what the real point of these suits is if they're not going to call MS on its real bad business practices and will instead throw questionable charges at Microsoft.

In simplified terms, American antitrust, like much of our country's regulatory philosophy, aims to create a level playing field on which all companies, small or large, can compete; the focus is on protecting consumers through ensuring competitive markets.
...
  In Europe, antitrust laws focus less on consumer protection than on competitor protection; the ability of companies to compete, regardless of whether their existence helps consumers, is what's important. From the European perspective, a near-monopoly market share is almost always a bad thing; furthermore, even if a big company is playing by the rules, it has an obligation to make sure it doesn't crowd out smaller competitors.

If you stripped yourself naked, smeared your body with honey, duct-taped raw steaks to your ass, and jumped into a cage filled with rabid grizzly bears, I can almost guarantee you'd be having more fun than if you were playing Swamp Buggy Racing. I'm serious.

Sadly, this sporadic confusion extends to your teammates, whose behavior has been realistically modeled after the characters in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. These fellows run in circles, bump into each other, jump off cliffs, hump the walls, and moonwalk while shooting paintballs from their butt.

If you stripped yourself naked, smeared your body with honey, duct-taped raw steaks to your ass, and jumped into a cage filled with rabid grizzly bears, I can almost guarantee you'd be having more fun than if you were playing Swamp Buggy Racing. I'm serious.

Sadly, this sporadic confusion extends to your teammates, whose behavior has been realistically modeled after the characters in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. These fellows run in circles, bump into each other, jump off cliffs, hump the walls, and moonwalk while shooting paintballs from their butt.

The recent loss off 12 coal miners in West Virginia was tragic, but what the media doesn't tell us is that in 2004, the worldwide death toll among coal miners was a whopping 21,500!! (Most of the accidents happened in China.) That's as many deaths, every single year, as seven World Trade Centers stacked atop each other.

Contrast the coal industry with the nuclear power industry; in its entire history, there's been only one incident with fatalities. (Chernobyl, a reactor that was orders of magnitude less safe than modern designs, killed 31 people. Divide that by the 50-year existance of the nuke power industry, and you get an annual death toll of 0.62 persons.)

If all coal-fired power plants were converted to nuclear, we'd immediately surpass the goals of the Kyoto Protocol. Environmentalists spend a lot more time criticizing nuclear power than coal; the facts show they are barking up the wrong tree. Even when they criticize coal, they do so for the wrong reasons - like acid rain, which pales in comparison to the massive death toll among miners.

agreed, Jaguar is no longer impressive.

Jaguar's are one of the least reliable vehicles on the road.

A 0-60 time of low 6s is more the territory of low-end $30k luxury cars like the Infiniti G35 (second road test) than $80,000+ convertibles.

So why buy a Jag unless I'm trying to impress someone?

I also didn't like the quote:
""The clever bit is how you integrate, balance and harmonize separate systems that allow you to drive the car in a spirited way, but don't feel in any way in danger, overpowered and intimidated," said Martyn Hollingsworth, Jaguar's director of engineering. "This is real important when you are in a car approaching up to 400 horses.""

when the 2007 Jaguar XK really only has 300hp (second source)

agreed, Jaguar is no longer impressive.

Jaguar's are one of the least reliable vehicles on the road.

A 0-60 time of low 6s is more the territory of low-end $30k luxury cars like the Infiniti G35 (second road test) than $80,000+ convertibles.

So why buy a Jag unless I'm trying to impress someone?

I also didn't like the quote:
""The clever bit is how you integrate, balance and harmonize separate systems that allow you to drive the car in a spirited way, but don't feel in any way in danger, overpowered and intimidated," said Martyn Hollingsworth, Jaguar's director of engineering. "This is real important when you are in a car approaching up to 400 horses.""

when the 2007 Jaguar XK really only has 300hp (second source)