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Listing the files indicates that they were offered for distribution. Whether that's equivalent to distribution is a legal question for the judge, not the jury. It's irrelevant here.

And the IP address, the time it was collected, and records from the ISP indicating who that address was assigned to at that time would also probably be accurate. Again, I'd believe it, unless there was a good reason to believe otherwise. Open WAPs are not good enough, btw.

Do you have any idea what you are talking about? The rule against perpetuities applies to future interests in any property--land, objects, or money. Upon your death, you can not set up a trust to devise all of your estate to your descendants 200 years down the line, none of whom have been born yet.

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I'm not the only one who noticed this, although it seems to have gone away in the last few years:

But then think of our own credit cards. "4.9 percent interest" the ads say, but then there's those three little letters, APR--"above the prime rate"--and suddenly people can be paying fifteen percent which by anyone's calculations borders on the usurious.

No need to attack people because you're too stupid to pay attention to the lies and scams going on around you.

One could argue that because of the Afghan and Iraq wars, all the focus for the "terrorists" is on/in the middle east. Now while I'll generally agree with this assertion, it can also be said that because of the Iraq war, there are far more "terrorists" to be afraid of.

At this point, I agree with one of my fellow responders - I'm now more afraid of the government then of the "terrorists". Although, this is only very shortly followed by my fear of the "American people".

For example - the president institutes a secret spying campaign on the American people that is expressly forbidden by the law (as well as known by NSA agents as "it's something that we all know you just don't do") that was designed to avoid all checks and balances (in this case, judicial oversight). Now, the idea of "checks and balances" is a central tenant of the founding fathers vision of what was to become America. This is something that I was taught in primary school. And yet, when one of the major American news organization did a poll on if the president should have gotten warrants (read: judicial oversight) in this campaign, only 56% said that he should have (I could only find this story in the Google cache which claims only 47% believe he should have gotten warrants - far scarier).

That right there scared the living shit out of me! Only 56% (or 47%) of the (responding) population has a sense that the idea of an Executive with unchecked power is a bad idea!?!?

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!

1. Produced cable with the correct number of wires in it.
   ( Count how many wires in CAT-5/6 actually carry a signal. See: This tutorial)
2. Produced decent connectors so patch cables last longer than just a few months.
   ( Who has never had that tiddly tin-pot plastic retaining clip fall off an RJ-45 plug? }
3. Didn't leave unused cable in buildings.
4. Attempted to recover the copper, and other things, from the e-waste

• Lofstrom Loop
• Modular Laser Launch
• Hypersonic Airplane Space Tether Orbital Launch (HASTOL)

• Lofstrom Loop
• Modular Laser Launch
• Hypersonic Airplane Space Tether Orbital Launch (HASTOL)

AFAIK seeds don't last forever, which is why seed banks periodically replant and harvest seeds. I remember this coming up with some marijuana seeds (no joke) at some conservatory in Russia or something. Might be a good thing to search for on smokedot, if it wasn't using slashcode with its attendant super-shit search tool.

I read an article about the Japanese government overseeing 1000 plants to preserve the cultural heritage, they'd harvest the seeds then destroy the plants. I think the article was in "Vice" or "Fader" magazine. I can't find the article in my vast pile of zines right now and the best link I can find in a quick google search is dead... but I got a link to the Google cached article. Though in this article it states the plants are for medicinal research. Cannabis (or asa as they all it) was a huge part of the Shinto religion and a staple crop in Japan due to it's many industrial uses. It only became illegal after the US wrote them a new constitution after WWII.

google on these search terms:

toyota battery "british petroleum" infringement patent

Then look at the cache on the 2nd link( GeorgeWBush... ) and jump/find on the page the word "patent"

This might get you directly to the cache:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:DF0brjx0k5MJ:w ww.georgewbush.org/forum/lofiversion/index.php%3Ft 16860.html+toyota+battery+%22british+petroleum%22+ infringement+patent&hl=en&client=firefox

it says what I had read about a few years ago regarding the oil industries attempts to keep NiMH battery tech out of electric and hybrid vehicles. I would bet there are MANY other examples but this one involved a foreign car company that's big enough to fight back AND get press.

LoB

You do want your country to be in a position where we are making a choice between feeding the population, or fueling our vehicles.

That is not the case if you consider the algae approach, read this study to get the facts .

This is a cached link, as all of UNH website is down for some reason :

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:NOUchCAcb2gJ:w ww.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html+universi ty+of+new+hampshire+bio+diesel&hl=en

They suggest using the equivalent of 12% of the sonora desert to achieve total fossil fuel
replacement in the US .

More excellent information concerning the NEW facts on bio-diesel are found on wikipedia .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-diesel

Enjoy !

Ex-MislTech

Here's a picture of the idiot.

The guy looks real tough... :(

From the original page (GOOGLE-CACHED):

"Mr. Frank Forchione received his BA in Economics from Kent State University and the JD degree from the University of Akron. Mr. Forchione was appointed first assistant prosecutor for the city of Canton in 1989 and, in 1993, became the prosecutor for the City. Mr. Forchione's responsibilities as prosecutor include: overseeing all criminal cases in the Canton Municipal Court Jurisdiction, advising the police department in criminal matters, supervising the assistant prosecutors, and conducting criminal jury trials as well as felony preliminary hearings. In addition, he is the special prosecutor for Tuscarawas County, New Philadelphia, North Canton, Perry Township, Stark County Prosecutor's Office, and Massillon Municipal Court. Mr. Forchione is also a contributing writer for the editorial column of The Canton Repository. Mr. Forchione recently published an article in Ohio Lawyer entitled "Understanding the Domestic Violence Law."

There are no 'two aspects' of evolution. The evolutionary processes that act on microbes over short period of times are the exact same ones that act on larger organisms over long or short periods of time. There is plenty of evidence for evolution over long time periods: (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/)
and plenty of examples of radiation experiments that simulate the long-term action of evolutionary processes on complex organisms (ie. not just bacteria or single-celled organisms):
The work of Herman Muller who was a pioneer in radation bombardment experiments:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/muller.html [talkorigins.org]
http://www.aboutnuclear.org/view.cgi?fC=History,Ha ll_of_Fame,Hermann_Joseph_Muller [aboutnuclear.org]
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1946/ [nobelprize.org] (he received the Nobel prize for inducing mutations through radiation bombardment)
Another example of mutation inducing experiments:
http://www.ansinet.org/fulltext/jbs/jbs14269-271.p df [ansinet.org] (http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:762TTjEpLBAJ: www.ansinet.org/fulltext/jbs/jbs14269-271.pdf+mull er+%2B+flies+%2B+radiation&hl=en [72.14.203.104])

There has been a lot of debate in the scientific community about exact mechanisms and processes by which evolution happens, and their 'speed'. However its a bit much to think that creationists are right about evolution over long periods, especially since the whole micro vs macro evolution thing that they have invented is a false dichotomy.

Who else do you know who has given half their disposable income? Let's compare Gates giving with some other billionaires who aren't so unpopular on slashdot. Larry Ellison: According to this thru Ellison Medical Foundation, Larry is giving $100 million over 5 years for research on aging. That's pocket change for a guy worth $17 billion. Warren Buffet, weighing in at $40 billion, gives away $12 million per year, according to BusinessWeek. Again, pocket change, though Buffet says he plans to eventually give 99% of his money to his foundation.

Here's an old story from 2001 about silicon valley philanthropy. According to it, only David Packard (foundation gives $500m/year) is in the same class as Gates.

At the bottom of this you'll find a Nov 2005 table listing 18 Americans worth over $10 billion. Have any of them given as large a percentage as Gates? I can't find any evidence if they have. My conclusion: compared to billionaires or to ordinary folks, Gates have given away an extrordinary proportion of his net worth.

By the way, for those of you unfamiliar with entities like the Gates, Ellison, and Packard foundations, it works like this. You can give away whatever amount of your wealth you want in any given year, and that amount will be deducted from the income on which you are taxed. One way to give it away is to establish a 501C(3) charity, such as these foundations, and endow it with a big chunk of cash. The foundation is required by law to give away at least 5% of its net worth per year. It also needs to be independent of its endower, so it can't be used as a vehicle to manipulate or control e.g. Microsoft. The Gates foundation got a $20 billion block of Microsoft stock from Gates in the late '90s and immediately sold the MS stock for more conservative investments. I assume it continues to invest its endowment and to give away the requisite 5%, which this year tops $1.1 billion. I believe Gates' father directs the foundation. From what I have seen, the foundation has a special interest in eradicating diseases in the developing world; hence their interest in tuberculosis and malaria. But heck, why listen to me when you cand surf the foundation and read about its priorities.

>I think I can forgive the Secret Service for being a bit hypersensitive about supposed threats. That's basically what their job requires.

I would tend to agree... but isn't it strange that they let Bush sit for so long in that school on 9/11 morning? The event was public knowledge for at least a few days, how could the secret service have known that the president wasn't a target? I would have expected them to haul his ass out of there immediately...

But then again, a lot of wierd stuff happened that day.... best not to think about it I guess...

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:m2eTlFrvZb0J:w ww.un.org/spanish/aboutun/organs/ga/56/verbatim/a5 6pv44.pdf+let+us+never+tolerate+outrageous+conspir acy+theories++AND+un.org&hl=en

The web server stuff is fairly simple, you just make a server program sit and listen for an http request interpret it and spit back the html at the client. Plus if you need to, you can thread/fork program to deal with multiple requests.

As for how and what to do, look at this:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:sZENqumprsYJ:w ww.cs.rpi.edu/courses/sysprog/sockets/sock.html

and this:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:FztWl-yhet8J:w ww.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/cs544/socket1.html

After that you just write a few functions to produce the output you want, close the socket and wait for the next request.

The web server stuff is fairly simple, you just make a server program sit and listen for an http request interpret it and spit back the html at the client. Plus if you need to, you can thread/fork program to deal with multiple requests.

As for how and what to do, look at this:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:sZENqumprsYJ:w ww.cs.rpi.edu/courses/sysprog/sockets/sock.html

and this:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:FztWl-yhet8J:w ww.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/cs544/socket1.html

After that you just write a few functions to produce the output you want, close the socket and wait for the next request.

Why be an a**hole? The guy is wanting to offer a nice product, but can not afford the bandwidth hit of a /.. Now, you try to bypass his request (but you were wrong). I mean, why not instead, do a coral link or a google cache link like he asks? After all, he is providing useful code.

Ted's orignal post

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:djxJxps91g8J:g ames.groups.yahoo.com/group/wordgame-programmers/m essage/15+nonesevent&hl=en

> > DISCUSSING MISSATICAL ORANGUTANG
> > INCANTATOR ISOEMETINE RANGARANGA
> > SCARLATINA SOLSPRINGS ANDOLANDOL
> > CARNITINES SESTUNNELS NGOTANGOTA
> > UNLIKENESS AMPUTIEREN GALANGALAN
> > STATESWREN TERNITRATE URANGUTANG
> > SATINWEAVE ITINERATES TANGATANGA
> > ITINERATES CINERATORS ANDOLANDOL
> > NONESEVENT ANGLETERRE NGOTANGOTA
> > GRASSNESTS LESSNESSES GALANGALAN

Computer hand tracking is old technology, but using it to make a functional "air guitar" is neat. Check out this paper and this video for older work in this area.

www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf

or html:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:KoqXAm72WqYJ:w ww.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf+GAO+voting+report& hl=en

hehe.. there is a street performer in Edmonton, and one of his acts climaxes with the beheading of a Barney doll. As part of the lead up, he gets the audience to sing the "barney" song, and just before it all begins, he says "Kids, your family loves you. Your friends love you. Barney just wants your money."

I heartily recommend it to anyone who has a sense of humor.

This google cache link seems to imply that LAME code was indeed used. The presence of an internal data structure contained within LAME source code was present in the executable go.exe. I'm willing to bet there is enough evidence to get a copyright suit started. It would be so ironic.

Have you seen her site? It rambles on and on she complains about a diesel fuel being spilled or kids making a fort out of plywood or a building who looks like he might have heat stroke????? It is seriously weird read. Like I said before seems like she is way concerned with other peoples biz and affairs in my opinion. Just a nut with too much time on her hands, thats what I think.

Apparently you have never lived next door to a busy body like this (IMHO). Maybe you should try that sometime.

n Laurel Creek Village and in both cases, I have photographed and reported leaks of diesel and oil and have reported numerous labour and environmental law infringements.

"covering up any traces" of an oil spill is non-trivial, and a major issue, and that's just for starters, as Activa seems to not know what they are doing. But if they do manage to do it, then she's achieved her goal, which is for Activa to clean up their act. Either way, seems like these twits hired some brilliant minds from the SCO Legal Dept.

• Contamination of groundwater - "Our moraine provides 300,000 people with ground source drinking water. We're the largest region in North America dependant on ground water. This moraine is one of the major sources for the Grand River and that is the only source of drinking water for Brantford, Brent County and Six Nations."
• Danger to kids
  • from shoddy construction - "The KW record published that an 8 year old boy was killed in Montreal by falling wooden pallets on an unfenced Construction site and charges may be laid against the owners of the site."
  • from dangerous chemicals - "I have seen kids playing in a stagnant pond of water that was 4ft deep. It was filled with building debris including paint cans, fiberglass insulation, pressure treated wood, oil residue and tadpoles." "Parents should be aware that Pressure Treated wood is not safe. It contains many chemicals including arsenic and it's a known carcinogen."
  • from building debris - "I decided to speak to one of the folks who were outside with their three year old child. The yard was not completed and there was debris, including a half buried 2 by 4 sticking out of their yard with rusty nails in it. ... The condition of the yard was so poor they couldn't allow their child to play outside at all."
• Dangerous personnel behaviour - "At another area construction site, unharnessed roofers and workers without hard hats were spotted working in the vacinity of high school students who were part of a federal Youth Training Program."

At 5:47 I spotted a high level of debris that has obviously been left uncleaned for a rather long time located at 586 Violet St.

A little Google work and POW:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:zQLM8Fs0lo8J:c a.geocities.com/infringements%40rogers.com/+&hl=en &client=firefox-a

Google's cache of her geocities page!

Thank you, Google Cache!

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:zQLM8Fs0lo8J:c a.geocities.com/infringements%40rogers.com/+Louise tte+Lanteigne+&hl=en&client=firefox-a

ttyl
          Farrell

Try the google cache.

Try these:

(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 1
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 2
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 3
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 4
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 5

Try these:

(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 1
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 2
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 3
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 4
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 5

Try these:

(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 1
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 2
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 3
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 4
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 5

Try these:

(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 1
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 2
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 3
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 4
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 5

Try these:

(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 1
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 2
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 3
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 4
(All work and no play makes the filter a dull boy)Google cache: Page 5

-- attributed to Voltaire

Guesstimate the probability of using same elevator within 10 minutes as a known or suspected terrorist on any given day = 1 in 10,000. Ditto same cab, ditto same telephone booth. Multiply probabilities to get likelihood on all 3 on the same day. (1 in 10,000)^3 = 1 in 100 billion. 330 million people in the U.S., 365 days per year. That's http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/thinkresearch/pa ges/2001/20010629_ai.shtml

Or like the reason Microsoft nicknamed its speech recognition division the Wreck A Nice Beach unit? Because no existing computer voice rec program can tell the difference between the phrase Wreck A Nice Beach and Recognize Speech except by context?
http://www.ptv.com.pk/webptv/futuretech8-detail.as p

Or like the way my broker installed a new voice recognition system last week, and when I spoke my name and account number into the phone ten time in a row, the program told me THERE IS NO SUCH ACCOUNT and then I finally got out of the voice rec menu to talk to a person in a call center in Malaysia whose accent I couldn't actually understand?

Evidence converges from every field of science that mathematics consistently fails to predict essentially irrational human behavior: the bankruptcy of LTCM when its elegant equations failed to predict the stock market ("Will they give back their Nobel prizes?" anchormen joked), the failure of computerized foreign language translation ("Out of sight, out of mind" gets translated as "Blind and insane"), the failure of continuous speech recognition ("I'm Hurricane Katrina and I wreck a nice beach" gets transcribed as "I'm Hurrican Katrina and I recognize speech,") the failure of computers to read and understand simple sentences ("The astronomer married a star." Computer concludes astronomer gets burned to death...) So what's the solution? Slashdotters have the answer: more math!

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Whenever you see a number, you should say, `how sad.'" -- Marvin Minsky "It's 2001: Where's HAL?"
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:g4aUR-fc4bwJ:t echnetcast.ddj.com/tnc_play_stream.html%3Fstream_i d%3D526+Marvin+Minsky+whenever+you+see+a+number,+y ou+should+think+how+sad&hl=en

"But when mathematical methods fail, the invariable response is `Bring on more mathematical methods!' A little progress has been made here and there, and mathematics is fine in its place. But it cannot be the whole story or even the main one, or we would not be stuck where we are, in a permanent mudbank spinning our wheels." -- David Gelernter, "Truth, Beauty and the Virtual Machine"
http://flint.cs.yale.edu/jvmsem/lecture/0922/geler nter.html

"An overly dry metaphysics inevitably trickles down to a narrow reductionism in many practical instances, even though in theory it need not. An example is found in the design philosophy of computer systems. Convinced by zombies of the ontological equivalence of people and computers, a generation of software designers is asking users to shrink to the level of so-called `intelligent agents.' For another example, we have the narrow application of Darwin, as he's been zombified by Dawkins and Dennett, to human affairs in Robert Wright's The Moral Animal, and even in a degenerate work like The Bell Curve. Then there is the strange abrogation of human agency in favor of algorithms that is found in some current political rhetoric. Newt Gingrich believes that it is counterproductive to try to do anything about problems, such as fund basic research o

Hey, not everything in this world is black and white -- like your daughter.

My question is, have there been any experiments done with induced mutation, combined with natural selection, to establish benchmarks for the end-to-end evolutionary process under controlled conditions?

For example, has anyone bombarded bacteria with cosmic rays in a laboratory, and made a note of how long it takes for speciation to occur? (For that matter, has anybody been able to trigger speciation in a lab at all?)

The work of Herman Muller who was a pioneer in these radation bombardment experiments:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/muller.html
http://www.aboutnuclear.org/view.cgi?fC=History,Ha ll_of_Fame,Hermann_Joseph_Muller
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1946/ (he received the Nobel prize for inducing mutations through radiation bombardment)
Another example of mutation inducing experiments:
http://www.ansinet.org/fulltext/jbs/jbs14269-271.p df (http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:762TTjEpLBAJ: www.ansinet.org/fulltext/jbs/jbs14269-271.pdf+mull er+%2B+flies+%2B+radiation&hl=en)

Some more general links:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/evolution5.htm
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.htm l (recorded examples of speciations)

Google and ye shall find :)

Actually they were dolphins (Google cache)

Not any more; it's China (see bottom of page). The Globe and Mail reported "China beats out Canada as top exporter to U.S." on September 15th, quoting July trade figures.

Bush probably still thinks Japan or Mexico are number one, though.

Google "same number of heads up" and read the first site at http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ZqMemrb_jWUJ:w ww.creativepuzzels.nl/spel/speel1/speel2/munten2.h tm+%22same+number+of+heads+up%22&hl=en

You are a liar...

The US Census put median US household net worth at + $55,000 in the year 2000.

You know more than the census? Cite your reference, liar...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=average+ameri can+household+net+worth&btnG=Google+Search

  http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:aqKuzq6TJO8J:w ww.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p70-88.pdf+average+ame rican+household+net+worth&hl=en

There is the link that will tell you how to do it in all modern Linuxs. If its too much I'll just send you my config file- I'm addicted to dual monitors as well.