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I have lived in Chile for a better part of my life and know first hand how the Mapuche's are treated, they are the original natives of Chile and they are pretty much treated as second to third class citizens.

The Mapuche are may be the oldest people still living in Chile but it appears they weren't the first living there. The oldest known settlement in the Americas is Monte Verde in Chile which has been dated to 12,500 BP (Before Present, which means it's was there before the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska existed), yet archeologists still don't know who settled it. And I noticed in the article you provide a link to it says the Mapuche have been there for 10,000 years, 2500 years after Monte Verde.

Security? Bah, humbug! This is "value pricing", pure and simple. In short, they figure that if you can afford the virtualisation software, you can afford to pay the extra on Windows. The popular example of this (in American circles, at least) is "Saturday night stay" pricing on airfares, but it may also be familiar to you with regards to ISPs who have a "no servers" rule on domestic broadband. It's not that they can't support servers, really, just that there's usually a difference in ability to pay between those who want to run a server and those who don't know what a server is. This is about creating an artificial price difference to reflect the perceived value of the feature, rather than the cost of the feature. The fact that they call it a "security" matter is just standard disingenuous corporate practice. ("We don't want to admit that we're gouging you, so we'll say we're trying to help you -- with a straight face, no less.")

Actually, there's a transcript of the recording out there. The kid did take the teacher to task, and only went to the principal after that made no headway whatsoever.

The officer using the taser was Terrence Duren. He has been accussed multiple times of using excessive force. In 1990 he was accused of choking a student with a nightstick. In 2003 he shot an unarmed homeless man who was allegedly trespassing. Also, he was fired from Long Beach PD prior to working for the UCLA PD. http://civilliberty.about.com/od/historyprofiles/a /uclataser.htm http://www.bruinwalk.com/groups/DailyBruin/article .asp?articleID=79

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/historyprofiles/a /uclataser.htm

I don't know how reliable this is though. It's interesting using google to search for "Terrence Duren" - seems like he's had, erm, incidents, before.

Oh the philistines! The term originates---as well as the mentioned Micky Mouse animation---from Goethe's "Der Zauberlehrling", which was written more than 100 years before Walt Disney was even born.

Wouldn't that just have been nitriding? - the nitrogen in the blood diffuses into the (hot!) metal. At least that's how my high-school metalwork teacher explained it.

My VCR is my tuner, my PC/PS2/Cable is routed through this box. This box stays for a while, are there any "low cost" DVD recorder/tuner devices out there?
Some of these dvdrecorders look cool and all but, my VCR cost me $40. It has 1 SVideo input 3 RCA inputs, 2 RF cable inputs, 1 RF cable out, 1 RCA out I have no HiDef equipment sorry :P I also have tons of VHS movies, am I suppose to just throw all of these away and buy DVDs to replace them? Or what the MPAA doesn't want, use my video capture cards & convert them to DVD myself although this is a time versus boredom issue, one day it may happen.

In honor of Vespucci's discovery of the new forth portion of the world, Waldseemuller printed a wood block map (called "Carta Mariana") with the name "America" spread across the southern continent of the New World.

The term American originally referred to the first nation in North or South America that was non-aboriginal. That nation of course is formed by the United States of America.

What a load of Bullshit. Next time, could you do you an iota of research before posting your facts?

The continents were named after Amerigo Vespucci who first landed at the mouth of the Amazon in 1499 and was the first explorer to realize that he was not in India but rather a new place.

Funny, I thought the leading bittorrent client was written in C++.

All kidding aside, you can't beat optimized C++.

According to wikipedia: Owning a satellite dish is banned, and the only TV service comes from one of two state-ran monopoly media corporations. Also, pornography of ANY kind is completely banned (playboy, etc.) which would probably disturb some slashdot readers. A police permit is required in order to hold a public assembly (even when groups are small). Eating or drinking of anything on public transit carries a 5000$ fine. They heavily filter the internet for anything that "may be a threat to public security, national defense, racial and religious harmony and public morality", and in 2005 imprisoned 2 for posting racial slur on the internet; Reporters without Boarders ranks them as 140th out of 168 countries listed (i.e. BAD);

For drug addicts, life in Singapore is hell. First off: drug trafficking of ANY kind usually results in a hanging (according to this, 70% of all executions are drug related). Not to say punishments shouldn't be tough, but these are insane. Here's also a list on what is punishable by Capital Punishment in Singapore.

This is more like "artificial scarcity." Sony might be acting foolishly, but certainly not fraudulently, unless they are secretly paying people to go buy the units in order to ensure they sell out.

It's not artificial at all, it is about the rate that Cell chips can be supplied and Blurays built. Also consider that unlike Microsoft, Sony does not intend to throw billions down the drain on their console business, and therefore has not written a lot of blank checks to scale up the early production. The early production costs the most and is most prone to defective returns. Better to build fewer units at first and spend more money on quality control.

What Sony needed to do is end the questions about whether the PS3 actually works like it is supposed to, and whether the launch titles are actually ready. Meanwhile at last count the PS2 was still outselling XBox 360. Now that the PS3 is out and launch titles (Fall of Man) are being reviewed, time is on Sony's side.

Oh wait, they're busy fighting terror^h^h^h^h^h pornography

MjM

Perhaps via bodycount, but don't consider this invasion "cheap" using any metric. The "smart war" that was invisioned was based on incredible air power, a full capitulation by enemy ground forces once the social tide was moved. What they didn't understand is that these rules were based on a mildly religous western society - not a fractured, strongly-ingrained religion that painted any western presence as evil - regardless of who was outed from power. They simply didn't do their homework - which was caused by sheer top-down pressure to act first, think later. Bush and his administration should hang next to Saddam because of our kids for that cowboy move.

  On the cost side, you may want to check your federal "off the sheet" numbers for this war, but there it is vastly more expensive than any before (adjust for inflation, on a per-week basis). We've tried to buy everything, using locals or contractors, in this state-building experiment. Bush's admin *must* press on, because to admit defeat would be to admit to stealing the cookies, jar and kitchen from the US. You can bet that we'll be getting around to scaling back our military super tech and investing in proven standards once the pentagon gets woken up.

On the contrary, check this and this to see how olympics bleed more money than they generate.
And considering that the cost of Olympics mostly falls on one city (predominantly) and the cost of a moon mission is bourne the by entire country, I do not see how much of a "per-citizen" difference, you will manage to get!

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -Tom Waits

The correct attribution for this quote is Dorothy Parker (that's an about.com reference, watch out for pop-ups.)

Tom Waits is one of the world's absolute worst vocalists; the man has a voice like a garbage disposal with a raggedly toothed reduction gear. Please don't make the situation even worse by crediting him with other people's creative works.

I wonder if all the subtle mirrors will be fixed...

I never liked how so freaking many website do more or less subtle mirrors of Wikipedia. Not for licensing reasons -- they have full permissions to do this if obeying the GFDL -- but because Wikipedia is often freaking unverified information. You'd think about.com and the likes would know better!

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/abortionuslegal/ a/abortion.htm

http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/history_ab ortion.html

And then this:

http://www.nwhm.org/exhibits/tour_1.html

This shows abortions becoming illegal in the US during the 1850's, with women gaining the right to vote with the 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920. This tells me that for 70 years, give or take, women not only had no control over their bodies, but no voice to change it. And it was another 53 years later, in Roe vs Wade, 1973, that women actually won the right to an abortion recognised. Read your history.

You ignore everything he said about non-islamic suicide bombers, which, frankly, invalidades your point. Just because something is guided and organized does not make it less of an act of passion or desperation.

I didn't address it because it wasn't relevant. He (and you) are conflating two different things: namely, the selfless acts of military personnel against military personnel in the context of battle and suicide terrorism perpetrated against civilians as a form of coercion against democratic states.

Just take a look at the tactical leader of the 9/11 operations, Mohammad Atta. He was wealthy, educated in Germany, and neither he nor his family could ever be considered victims of Western aggression. And yet, you'd have us believe that his act of suicide terrorism was one of desperation and passion and--more importantly--something that could have been prevented via appeasement. It wasn't.

And Mr. Atta is quite the norm in this regard as well. I highly suggest you read the book I linked because the author actually profiles all of the September 11th hijackers in this way. He even created a database of all the suicide bombing incidents to occur in the 20 years up until the book was published and uses that database to see what the bombers have in common. The result totally debunks this ridiculous and ill-conceived notion that suicide bombers as emotionally unstable individuals who have been personally affected by the conflicts in which they participate.

-Grym

"and only a tiny percentage of people believe there is no God"

The world
From wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheists

"A 1995 survey attributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica indicates that the non-religious make up about 14.7% of the world's population, and atheists around 3.8%"

Even if none of those non-religious are atheists 3.8% is still a lot of people

The usa
From about.com
http://atheism.about.com/b/a/129492.htm

"Atheists and agnostics comprise 12% of adults nationwide. (2004)"

The US has been forced to contend with heinously patronizing and crude TV advertising for decades, but the UK's advertising industry has managed to create art out of the dirty act of selling.

What do this snaggle-toothed limey think he's doing, slandering our great American advertising industry? There is indeed a cream that rises to the top of the business, raising TV commercials above the mere act of shilling.

> "The Web" and "The Internet" aren't the same thing. At all.

No they are "the internets"

Do ur research pal, they're not the same at all, google it...

One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps

The link you cite for Don Wetzel as the inventor of the ATM, has in its first paragraph:

In 1939, Luther George Simjian started patenting an earlier and not-so-successful version of an ATM.

So it would seem that the parent poster is right: ATMs have been around since the 1940s. Of course, that doesn't mean they were in wide-spread use.

Either you're confusing ATM's with bank drive-in teller windows, or every ATM location in the late 1940's had an ENIAC with 10,000 vacuum tubes sitting next to the ATM! Of course, they wouldn't have proved very popular since the user instructions would have had to be written in binary, and you would have had to input your withdrawal or deposit amount via toggle switches... CRTs and TTY terminals weren't interfaced to computers til much later. FYI - both the drive-in teller window and the ATM were conceived in Dallas, Texas.

Pretending that a company can compete with government, where government forces everyone to pay for their service, is a terrible twist of the word "competition." It's like saying that Wendy's can "compete" with McDonalds if the government passes a new law that everyone has to pay to eat all their meals at McDonalds, and then can show up and get the food they already had to pay for for no additonal charge. In order to go to Wendy's, you have to also buy a McDonalds meal and throw it away. That's not "free market competition."

How did I find out about this speech? I watched it at the time, live on C-Span.

You don't mean the address of the U.N. General Assembly, back on, September 24, 2006? Looking at the full transcript, I see that it doesn't contain this phrase.

On the other hand, back in March I can find references to stories with quotes like this: "I am convinced that in this century we will bury U.S. imperialism, sooner rather than later," Chavez said.

The US got the hell out of the empire game decades ago.

Well, I wish they'd do it again.

US imperialism does not exist, nor does a US empire.

Let us note for a moment that "imperialism" would be an attempt at attaining an "empire", it does not presuppose the existance of an empire.

Call me whacky, but since that Iraq had no direct connection to the 9/11 attack, I've had the odd thought that maybe the Bush regime figured that the US needed to conquer the entire Middle East. You don't have to squint real hard to call that "imperialism".

Anyway, considering that Chavez was plugging the Noam Chomsky book Hegemony of Survival, I think it's a fair guess that he was talking about Chomsky's notions about US imperial strategy:

Noam Chomsky on Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest For Global Dominance:

... when the bombing began, Arthur Schlesinger, a very respectable senior American historian, highly respected, one of Kennedy's advisers, had an article in which he said that the bombing of Iraq resembles the actions of imperial Japan at Pearl Harbor on a date, which the President at the time said, the date that will live in infamy. And he said President Roosevelt was correct. It's a date that will live in infamy, except that now it's Americans who live in infamy, and the world knows it.

Actually, you're the one who needs to stop, look and think about something: Stalin never said what you credit him with. How does it feel to be a lemming? Or are you an outright liar trying to sway people your way by invoking the ghost of Stalin?

People really need to get this an other misquotes off of their favorite defense list... it's getting old, it's becoming known that it's a fraud by more people and it shows that they have nothing to back them.

Small changes can be devastating. Example: why does XHTML backslashes in hr or br tags. These are completely unnecessary requirements.

This requirement isn't just bureaucratic mumbo jumbo. Ensuring that all (valid) XML documents follow rules like this is what makes them so easy to parse quickly and unambiguously.

XHML did not take off because who would want to wade through thousands of pages in HTML written during the last decade and make those changes?

The real problems with XHTML are:

1. It makes some common idioms, notably including embedded Javascript code, much more awkward to write correctly.
2. There's no payoff for most sites.

You don't have freedom of the press anymore, and it's game over for democracy. It's been that way since Kennedy got whacked, and on a related issue, that was also our last real election : Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley became a nationally known figure during the presidential election of 1960 when he "delivered" Illinois for John F. Kennedy. Charges of vote fraud in Illinois and Texas led to vote recounts in several states as well as to the appointment of at least one special state prosecutor in Illinois. On April 13, 1961, after an investigation that lasted several months, Special Illinois State Prosecutor Morris J. Wexler returned election-related indictments against ... 677 people indicted by Wexler were later acquitted by Acting Judge John M. Karns. Some were acquitted because the judge found that the state had been "unable to make a case." Others were acquitted after the judge ruled that the prosecution had obtained evidence "by unfair and fundamentally illegal means" (Wexler had admitted he had issued grand jury subpoenas to approximately 200 people he later had questioned in the Criminal Courts building instead of the Grand Jury room. Karns called this a "very serious" case of prosecutorial misconduct, one that bordered on "contempt of the Criminal Court of Cook County.")

I'm not sure that he could adjust his "misprediction". What he is doing is taking multiple independent polls for each race (House and Senate) and using them as a predictor. Last time, there were many polls, including exit polls, that showed a different result than the final result. This raises the question of election fraud, but with so many electronic machines being used (and the lack of a guaranteed recount on them) it is hard to say. For more information look at this link...

http://usliberals.about.com/od/electionreform/a/vo tingrights1_4.htm

In particular the comments about how 800 registered voters in one ward produced 4,518 votes.

Z.

Actually, you wrote that there was a federal program that provided health care to all Americans. You then specified that the program you were on was AHCCCS. The conclusion that you were implying that AHCCCS was available to all American students comes directly from your sloppy writing. And despite your insistence that Medicaid provides health care to everyone, there's still 46 million Americans without health insurance. Even in Arizona, apparently, 18.7% of the population doesn't have health insurance. Oh, and here's a demographic breakdown of the people without insurance.

Furthermore, you don't seem to know the difference between "anecdotes" and "evidence". Your friends, money-driven nice-people that they may be, are going to be pretty self-selectingly biased. You would only meet nurses and/or doctors who decided to emigrate. Beyond that, you're just plain wrong. Every study I've ever seen on the issue has agreed with one fact: The U.S. pays a higher percentage (16%) of it's GDP for health care than any other country in the world. FYI the number is 9.7% in Canada. Thus, your UK doctor friend is simply wrong.

As for why they don't mention AHCCCS, I would hazard a guess that they don't mention the existence of those plans for the same reason they don't enumerate the private plans that exist, the annual budget of NASA, or the percentage of people who drive cars. It's not actually relevent.

reminds me of this old chinese story

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/extra/stor y/blyrh11051999.htm

You can always just shoehorn it in:

http://compreviews.about.com/cs/pchardwarebasics/t p/aatp1394pccards.htm
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=1048 2

with at least some indication that performance will be fine:

http://www.barefeats.com/fire42.html

The Apple used in that test might have better cardbus support than a Dell, who knows, but at least cardbus can reasonably support firewire 800.

So really, firewire 800 isn't really where you should be making your decision; software preferences and the like are going to be more important.

It is also against the law to keep their child home, due to truancy laws.

It is not illegal to keep children at home. More and more parents are homeschooling thier children, and they can legally do this.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blnip kov.htm

Quite a gripping novel. A bunch of nanotech robots becoming self-aware and being rather nasty.

See: http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/mysteryreviews /fr/prey.htm

Good to see this being implemented already, but scary!!

And if we're just going to throw web pages at each other, then how about this one discussing the increase in alcoholism in the UK.

MDMA? Was abuse of it ever that widespread, compared to say heroin, ecstasy and cocaine? Can't say I've heard about it in years, even though I tend to read The Guardian and don't allow tabloid rubbish papers into my house. But while we're discussing the increase in drug abuse, have a look at this article supporting my statement.

Since you're obviously so good at Googling for articles, how about looking for stats on "Slashdot readers with their heads obviously stuck up their backsides"... because I know of at least one.

I won't bother looking for 2006 midyear statistics, but it is reasonable to expect that this trend has not been altered.

• Phantasy Star Universe
• Spliter Cell Double Agent
• Fuzion Frenzy 2
• Gears of War
• Viva Piniata
• FIFA 07
• Pro Evo Soccer 6
• Star Trek Legacy
• WWE SvR
• Rayman 4
• Dead or Alive Xtreme 2
• Cabela's African Safari

• Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom
• Full Auto 2: Battlelines*
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire
• Ridge Racer 7*
• Resistance: Fall of Man
• Genji: Days of the Blade

• Barnyard
• Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
• Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
• Elebits
• Excite Truck
• GT Pro Series
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Metal Slug Anthology
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• Monster 4x4 World Circuit
• Rayman Raving Rabbids
• Red Steel
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
• Trauma Center: Second Opinion
• Wii Sports

Zonk is not a Nintendo fanboy. Zonk is a Microsoft fanboy. He praises the Wii only because he is following Peter Moore's strategy of hurting Sony by promoting Nintendo, thus indirectly helping the 360-- and he only really began doing so after the Slashdot readership (which is full of rabid Nintendo fanboys) started overwhelming him. Zonk's Microsoft fanboyism only begins to look like Nintendo fanboyism because, in his desperate attempts to say anything to make Sony look bad, it is lately much easier to find pro-Nintendo anti-Sony propaganda than pro-Microsoft anti-Sony propaganda.

Please, please do not insult us Nintendo fanboys by lumping us in the same boat with Zonk. We have nothing to do with this madman.

It appears artists and labels will have the choice when digging into Google's pockets either through a business deal or lawsuit. Which will they pick?"

If I was a musical artist, and I discovered one of my songs in a YouTube video that had a million views, I would write a letter of personal thanks to YouTube for promoting my song! Where else am I going to get that widespread promotion without hiring a record company to help negotiate with Big Radio? And besides, even with a really good hit record, record companies have to pay to play and promote almost anything now days. But YouTube is completely free. You can't get a better deal than that.

But unfortunately, record companies have always been like hawks seeking their prey, and a million song views in their eyes is like a million field mice all waiting to be swooped down on. A million views means a lot of royalty money that could be earned if royalty deals were in place. They control music distribution via radio, TV, movies...but darn that blasted internet.

The article mentions that the Fear of Friday, the 13th is called Paraskevidekatriaphobia ... Google only has 1,650 results with Urban Legends the first one. I gotta believe a double whammy for those superstitious people to have it fall on Halloween - D'OH! ;-)

March 10, 1956, Over the Mediterranean Sea

A B-47 bomber carrying two nuclear weapon cores in their carrying cases disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea. The aircraft, on a nonstop flight from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, to an undisclosed overseas airbase, was lost with its crew. After takeoff the B-47 was scheduled for two in-flight-refuelings before reaching its final destination. The first refueling was successfully completed, but the aircraft never made contact with the second refueling tanker over the Mediterranean Sea. Despite an extensive search, no trace of the aircraft, the nuclear weapon cores, or crew, were ever found.

Please hand in your geek card.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/legends/bl-p oodle.htm

In 1981, the *Democrats* controlled the US House by a margin of 242 to 192 (1 ind)

http://experts.about.com/e/u/u/U.S._House_election ,_1980.htm

All appropriations bills originate in the House. Bills in the House get scheduled by the Rules Committee. The majority party in the House controls the operation of all commitees by appointing the chairman of each commitee, and having a majority of members on every committee (except the Ethics committee which must be even).

http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/howo urlawsaremade.pdf

The specific legislation referred to in this thread was called the "Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981", which was HR 3982 (It was introduced by a Republican)

The Bill passed in the House 232-193 (which means at least 40 Dems voted for it)

The Bill was agreed to by the Senate by voice vote.... when the bill came back from the conference committee, the Senate had a roll call vote, and agreed to the bill 80-14.

In the 1980 election, the Democrats lost a net of 12 Senators and lost control of the Senate. Ronald Reagan had defeated Jimmy Carter by winning 44 states.

Democrats in DC perhaps were stunned by Americans voting "Truth to Power" and were too scared of their own shadows to take on Ronald Reagan's legislative agenda - but they still had control of the House and could have stopped it.

Now who looks stupid?

From the FAQ: "Most of those countries appear are on the U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control's list of embargoed counties for which we cannot provide economic assistance. If this list changes, we'll post a change to the rules and let you know. Quebec has other reasons." Here's why Quebec is on the list.

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/abbreviations/f /ievseg.htm

You missed a perfect opportunity to post this link.

Interesting. But, ...

I wonder why the Taipei, Inchon and Japan stations, which are also quite close, don't show any seismic activity.

Also, the seismographs for the Pakistan test in 1998 look different than the Guangduong station data.