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Mind-boggling that the authorities don't want additional men to have excessive sexual appetites.

http://crime.about.com/od/stats/a/ucr_rape.htm

With all allergies there must be one or more exposures before the body develops the characteristic over-response, attacking harmless substances as though they really were a threat. You cannot be allergic to anything until you are exposed at least once.

Incorrect. Cross-reactivity can make you allergic to things you've never been exposed to. Here is a lay article,

Look at the elevated position of Emperor Bush, claiming he is 'commander in chief'.

Maybe he claims that because he is!

http://usmilitary.about.com/library/polls/blbestci nc.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_armed_f orces

Its more about the convergence of PCs and Digital TV with media content protection a non-optional component. Check out: http://tv.about.com/od/hdtv/a/hdmidvihdcp.htm

We had electric cars as far back as the 1890s, and they could exceed 40 mph. That is impressive when you consider that paved roads didn't even exist back then.

GM always had a history of oppressing technology hostile to its business model. It's been well documented that they colluded with the tire and oil companies to kill the streetcar industry so they could force consumers to buy more cars.

That's because Ruth Wakefield was a moron. Otherwise, she'd have been smart enough to know she would've had to melt the chocolate completely before adding it to the dough rather than chopping it into tiny bits. Even then, the added sugars and fats in the semi-sweet chocolate would not have been a wise substitute over baker's chocolate as the overall texture would've been compromised. (Assuming that is, if her original recipe had called for baker's chocolate powder over blocks. If it had called for powder, then the dough would've been too runny with melted chocolate, and if it called for bakers-blocks, she didn't cut the semi-sweet small enough to melt compared to BC which, in my experience, melts faster than BC...) As with the theme of this whole discussion, her "discovery" was based more on luck than ingenuity.

Personally, I'm moving from GoDaddy today. There are plenty of other low-cost registrars: 10 cheap (less than $10) domain registrars

I agree that spam is bad. Having to worry about my domains being taken hostage is worse. Contributing to domain registrar policing of content is far, far worse.

If anyone registers a domain name with GoDaddy (or keeps an existing account) they are directly contributing to the loss of freedom on the internet.

Are you that dense? Have you ever heard of the Gates foundation?

No, and yes.

I take it you don't have email, or you'd likely have recognized the reference to the chain letter with that title (complete with all-caps in some variations) that's been floating around the internet since the late 1990s.

(The annoying thing is, I almost linked to that page in the previous post, but figured, nah, people will recognize it. *sigh* Note to self: when in doubt, underestimate the cultural literacy of "teh Intarweb.")

Only an insane man would argue that a fuel-air bomb or daisycutter is somehow near equivalent to a nuclear bomb, even one of Hiroshima vintage. To say that about modern day nuclear bombs would be outright false. All one has to do is look at some of the past's above ground bomb tests to know that this is false. Let me present you one:

Operation Crossroads

Take a look at the Baker test (1946), which was part of Operation Crossroads. Notice the mushroom cloud of water - from the site:

At its greatest extent, the water column was 2000 feet (600 m) across, with walls 300 feet (100 m) thick, and 6000 feet (2 km) tall, holding a million tons of water.

Now, let's compare this blast to daisycutters and MOABs - please reference these links:

GBU-43/B "Mother Of All Bombs"

The Daisy Cutter Bomb

MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Burst)

Now, these sites seem to reference the fact that the destructive area for both of these conventional devices are about "600 yards", or 1800 feet, across. This area is only, at most, the size of just the water column of the Baker test. I can guarantee you that had that test been conducted on a real target, the destructive area (for just blast effects, mind you) would not have been localized just to the column of the mushroom cloud. Please note that the Baker test had only a yield of 23 kilotons. From the Operation Crossroads web page again:

...The closest ship to surface zero was the USS Saratoga. Eight ships were sunk or capsized, eight more were severly damaged. Sunk vessels were the USS Saratoga, USS Arkansas, the Nagato, LSM-60 (obviously), the submarines USS Apogon and USS Pilotfish, the concrete dry dock ARDC-13, and the barge YO-160.

This was only blast effects on the ships, which don't count the radiation aspect. Since MOABs and daisycutters do not have this aspect, I won't post about it here, though it can't really be discounted if you want a comparison of such conventional weapons to nuclear weapons.

Finally, we must also note that the Baker test was only a standard fission bomb test, of relatively low yield (compared to say, the more modern W87 warhead, which has a yield of 300-475 kilotons). One should also note that when a target is selected for these weapons, multiple warheads are targetted for a single target in most cases (since they tend to be larger cities or bases). Even so, a single modern warhead has the equivalent destructive power as 15-20 Baker tests.

How anybody - the media, the layperson, generals, the president - anybody - can equate the two in destructive power, that they can somehow be used (or should be used) interchangibly - is sheer madness. They aren't interchangible, they in no way compare in destructive power, and once you calculate in radiation effects, one can only see that such devices are in fact madness and tributes of hubris to our destructiveness as a species. To claim otherwise is to show a lack of knowledge and humbleness about these devices.

Sometimes I wonder if the test ban treaties over the years have been a wrong thing. By only being able to "test" these devices on computers and such other simulations, we have removed an effective deterrent to the use of these devices. All we have left now are the pictures and movies of past tests. I doubt nothing else could cement the destructive power capabilities in the minds of generals and others, outside of a personally witnessed live test, while at the same sh

I've been told by a man who received all his promotions from his uncle that political harmony is frequently more important than security ideals. I've had to spend MONTHS collecting data and statistics from external sources to convince a division that Internet email is not an appropriate delivery platform for mission critical communications that absolutely MUST be received, unaltered and unread, within 2 minutes of sending.

As if people weren't confused enough as to what .NET was anyway... At first Microsoft had named their future version of their OS "Windows.NET", they have .NET My Services web services, there's a .NET conference, a ".NET Enterprise Server", a .net TLD.

Not only this, but .NET was supposed to be a common language runtime environment, and now it's encompassing APIs that are not specific to the environment but specific to a certain version of Windows.

Now they're bringing this same confusion to WinFX? WinFX used to be the three pillars to the new Windows API to be included in Vista, encompassing Avalon (presentation layer), Indigo (communications layer), and WinFS (metadata database for the filesystem). Then some of these pillars were dropped, and now apparently according to Wikipedia there are four pillars. I'm not sure if these will still be available for Windows XP, and where Windows 2000 stands. Not only that, but will Mono have to re-implement major parts of Windows just to be .NET 3.0 compliant?

Anyway, all this makes me wonder, what is MS trying to accomplish with this moving-target definition of WinFX and .NET? They should just hold all announcements until they ship a product, IMHO.

Also should that actually end up in court infront of a jury, one thing that alot of people dont realize is that the jury can also look at the validity of the law.

All too true, but unfortunately all too many people in the US don't kow about jury rights and nullification. Actually some politicans, prosecuters, and judges try to make sure people on jury either don't know about them or are told they can't use them. Recall the case, Raich v. Ashcroft a few years back in CA? After the state passed the medical marijuana initiative the feds busted a group on drug charges and when the trial started the judge specifically told the jury they couldn't use state law as a basis for an acquittal.

Ask any Jew about what Hitler did just after coming into power.

After Hitler and the NAZIs came to power they tried to get European Jews to leave Europe before any camps were opened. In 1933 the NAZIs signed The Haavara Agreement with Jewish leaders wherein Jews were encouraged to move to Palestine. Because the British didn't want more Jews settling there the NAZIs trained Jews in fighting and gathering intelligence to be used against the British.

You didn't get the memo?

I thought that swimming in syrup was supposed to be fun and easy.
http://swimming.about.com/b/a/113620.htm I really can imagine how this was a disaster.

Ben

When I still used Google regularly, I found that their ads, depending on my search, were as valuable as the search results. I mean, when doing a search for something like "custom pencils" or "cloisinne pins"; the ads that came up were at least as valuable sa the results.

I still use Google regularly, as usual when here I have Google open in one tab. It's not always the first SE I use depending on what I'm searching for. For instance when I do a search for something in or about anthropology or archaeology I use About's Archaeology section. When I search for something in photography I use About's Photography section. Actually Google originally gave the two About sections above when I used Google to research both topics, that's how I found them. Occasionally Google won't give me helpful results, if any, for some searchs so then I'll use Mooter which hasn't failed me yet.

When I still used Google regularly, I found that their ads, depending on my search, were as valuable as the search results. I mean, when doing a search for something like "custom pencils" or "cloisinne pins"; the ads that came up were at least as valuable sa the results.

I still use Google regularly, as usual when here I have Google open in one tab. It's not always the first SE I use depending on what I'm searching for. For instance when I do a search for something in or about anthropology or archaeology I use About's Archaeology section. When I search for something in photography I use About's Photography section. Actually Google originally gave the two About sections above when I used Google to research both topics, that's how I found them. Occasionally Google won't give me helpful results, if any, for some searchs so then I'll use Mooter which hasn't failed me yet.

And email is a terrible mess. It's dangerous, insecure, unreliable, mostly unwanted, and out-of-control.

How the hell does he come to this conclusion?

According to http://email.about.com/od/emailtrivia/f/how_many_e mail.htm there are an estimated 1.1 BILLION email users world-wide. That's an average of 1 out of every 6 people.

I'm not sleuth of disasters, but how about these:

Italian dam causes tidal wave

Chernobyl

Space shuttle disasters (pretty worthless program, costing 145 Billion dollars)

Columbia
Challenger

Chemical explosion in India

Galloping Gertie

Here's the funniest thing I've seen written about VB: Verity Stob's "Thirteen ways to loathe VB".

http://gonewengland.about.com/od/bostonattractions /fr/frtombboston.htm It's sort of like an interactive game show. I'm just wondering if anyone has ever tried it before because it's right near Fenway Park. Heheh.. Anyway, that is something to do in my spare time.

... our President has an IQ of 60 ...

"Lots of people don't want a [convergent] device."

That's why there are carriers like Verizon that make tons of money crippling their phones and selling phones that are pretty much useless, like the LG Mio, for a premium. You just never hear about them because geeks want "just a phone" as much as Batman wants "just a belt." In other words, you are reading the wrong website if you are looking for news about just-a-cell-phone. That probably would have had heavy coverage in 1973 (or the early '80s when they were available to the public), but not any more.

As far as Nokia's nomenclature, I agree they don't "get it." But as far as their product goes, it's exactly what a different group of "lots of people" want. For me, the fewer things I carry around in my pocket, the better... especially if it is a Nokia N80.

$346US/oz, as of 8:35am EDT, May 23, 2006.

Assuming a slurry of these spheres would be a wildly optimistic 50% glass, 25% hydrogen, 25% palladium by weight, that means the energy equivalent of 1 gallon of gasoline (~36,800 Watt*hrs) would require that around 1 kilogram of hydrogen. 1 kilogram of palladium is 35.2 oz, or $12,179.

US cars can hold anywhere from 10 to 30 gallons of gas, or the equivalent of $121,790 to $365,376 worth of palladium to get the same energy density.

A quarter of a million dollars worth of palladium.

In every single car on the road.

What exactly is the correleation between lack of HDMI and ICT usage?

HDMI according to Wikipedia is an interface, and ICT is one of the AACS guidelines that limits resolution depending on the carrier used (if it is not capable of secure transmission).

Also, XBOX has a high-definition output, so I don't see your point. What is missing is the HDCP (High Definition Content Protection) which is a DRM for HDMI developed by Intel.

As far as the PS3 goes, I'm not sure, but according to this it will also have an HDMI interface.

Reminds me of this excellent joke.

I'll answer with links to two sites that is less short-sighted than that. http://www.crystalinks.com/chinainventions.html and http://inventors.about.com/od/chineseinventors/. It is interesting though that you focus so strictly on the last two hundred years. Not surprising, but interesting. The USA is painfully aware that it has little history, and less of it to be proud of, so has to overinflate the importance of the little it has. Technology, while useful, is hardly the be-all end-all of civilisation.

The US has had some impact on the development of technology, but it is easy standing on the shoulders of giants.

Linux HW reqs
Mac 10.4 HW reqs
Solaris 10 HW reqs
In the linux article, the guy got it (don't now distro or version) running on a 33mhz machine, but with no gui.
The mac requires a g3 or up, and 256 MB ram and 3GB HDD space, 4GB with XCode
Solaris requires 120MHz cpu and 256 MB ram (or 512 for PXE), 2GB HDD space

I wonder if Satan is wearing a hat with earflaps?

1. If the jets were nothing more than escaping air, how is it that they were filled with dust and smoke, despite the inconvenient fact that there was no damage whatsoever on those lower floors? Where could that smoke and dust have come from?
2. How is it that the jets were so regular in appearance, some even visible from two sides of the tower simultaneously? If this was just pressurized gas finding a way out, as you assert, once it had blown one window, the pressure would decrease, pr

• "Brewery best practice tells us that the optimum amount of hops in the beverage is ..."
• "Brewery best practice tells us that the optimum amount of hops in beverages is ..."

• "Patent law unambiguously grants owners of intellectual property ..."

Leave it to Apple to set the trends again. I bet all the other companies are gonna copy them and come out with black laptops now... ; )

Another example of the influence of the original PowerBook on the rest of the laptop industry is the placement of the keyboard and pointing devices: prior to the release of the PowerBook pointing devices were either non-existant on PC laptops (purchased separately and hung off the side of the laptop by a hook or bracket) or were situated above the keyboard or on the display and keyboards were placed in a "key-forward" position without a palm or wrist rest. After the release of the powerbook, however, almost all laptops placed pointing devices below the keyboard or used the IBM TrackPoint eraser-head mechanism in the middle of the keyboard itself and moved the keyboard back to allow the user's wrists to rest on the blank space at the front of the laptop case.

There would be nothing more dangerous than for people to become accustomed to the idea of "beneficial malware" because that might create a false sense of security.

From what I've read, Superwaba is better than the other claimed standard alternatives. Anyone has some experience in mobile Java development to confirm or refute that:

http://java.about.com/od/superwabamobilevm/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperWaba

http://www.superwaba.com.br/en/swxj2me.asp

Have you ever copied a music record/cd/tape?

Have you ever listened to an illegally copied record/cd/tape?

Have you ever seen anyone with an illegally copied record/cd/tape?

Have you ever used a product in a manner that was inconsistent with its labeling?

Have you ever torn the tag off your couch cushion and then later gave away/sold the couch?

Have you ever took your kid and the neighbors to an out-of-state camping trip/vacation/drive/etc without explicit written permission from the parents?

Have you ever flattened a coin on a railroad track?

Have you pissed on the side of a federally maintained road?

Well guess what buddy? You have violated federal laws!!! You should be convicted and sent to prison.

-FL

Have you ever copied a music record/cd/tape?

Have you ever listened to an illegally copied record/cd/tape?

Have you ever seen anyone with an illegally copied record/cd/tape?

Have you ever used a product in a manner that was inconsistent with its labeling?

Have you ever torn the tag off your couch cushion and then later gave away/sold the couch?

Have you ever took your kid and the neighbors to an out-of-state camping trip/vacation/drive/etc without explicit written permission from the parents?

Have you ever flattened a coin on a railroad track?

Have you pissed on the side of a federally maintained road?

Well guess what buddy? You have violated federal laws!!! You should be convicted and sent to prison.

-FL

-FL

You are aware that President Bush has never vetoed a bill, right?

I've got a better chance of being hit by lightning that being killed by the (boogeyman) Terrorists.

When you compare the 3,000+ people that died on 9/11 with the 45,000 or so people that die every single year from highway accidents, it doesn't seem very significant. So I agree with your belief that historical terrorist attacks have not been very scary when placed into context. I would even verbalize what you imply - the actions we take in response to the attack exacerbate the problem, not make it better.

However - with the prospect for future attacks including nuclear weapons (either irradiated traditional bombs or nuclear bombs), all bets are off. Imagine 3,000,000 people and an entire city disappearing.

In that context, in my book it grants pretty significant leeway in terms of what constitutes the "appropriate measures" you speak of.

I work in the cellular industry. One thing to consider. Some headsets (I don't know what percentage) have been shown to direct MORE EM field strength into the brain due to poor filtering between the audio output and the radio transmitter. If you are not careful, you could be making the problem worse. I saw this information a few years ago, so it may not be an issue now, but it's something to think about.

http://cellphones.about.com/library/weekly/aa08060 0b.htm

In many Asian food stores you can find green tea that's canned. Some brands still have a little sugar , but much less than pop and generally better for you(also coffee depending on health and intake). Plenty of antioxidants, and chemicals with effects similar to caffeine such as Theophylline. If you don't like the taste of tea (how dare you, just kidding). It's an acquired taste, like tomato juice. If you don't already like it, drink it a few times, and it will grow on you. Sometimes these drinks are expensive, but you can usually find one that's cheap. (Here's a link on the health benefits of green tea http://chinesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa0114 00a.htm)
        If you like high caffeine count, a bunch of my college buddies love BAWLS, (or the guarana in it according to them) but it's too expensive for them. They go to some Asian food market and buy some energy drink that has just as much guarana, as any American energy drinks, but it's less than a dollar. I'm sorry I don't know the brand name, but you should be able to find some reasonably priced brands.

Europeans sticking to horses & wind sailing (until a whole new country, America, invented the steam-boat, the steam-engine/railroads, the radio, the light-buld, and the airplane...

Say whaaat?
steam engine
railroad
airplane...Ok, I'll grant that to a point. It still required lots of prior art.
radio
light bulb...Maybe you meant this: "Thomas A. Edison of the United States invented the first commercially successful incandescent lamp around 1879" emphasis mine.

It's a fine line between "insightful" and "funny". Which one were you trying for?

Europeans sticking to horses & wind sailing (until a whole new country, America, invented the steam-boat, the steam-engine/railroads, the radio, the light-buld, and the airplane...

Say whaaat?
steam engine
railroad
airplane...Ok, I'll grant that to a point. It still required lots of prior art.
radio
light bulb...Maybe you meant this: "Thomas A. Edison of the United States invented the first commercially successful incandescent lamp around 1879" emphasis mine.

It's a fine line between "insightful" and "funny". Which one were you trying for?

Europeans sticking to horses & wind sailing (until a whole new country, America, invented the steam-boat, the steam-engine/railroads, the radio, the light-buld, and the airplane...

Say whaaat?
steam engine
railroad
airplane...Ok, I'll grant that to a point. It still required lots of prior art.
radio
light bulb...Maybe you meant this: "Thomas A. Edison of the United States invented the first commercially successful incandescent lamp around 1879" emphasis mine.

It's a fine line between "insightful" and "funny". Which one were you trying for?

Europeans sticking to horses & wind sailing (until a whole new country, America, invented the steam-boat, the steam-engine/railroads, the radio, the light-buld, and the airplane...

Say whaaat?
steam engine
railroad
airplane...Ok, I'll grant that to a point. It still required lots of prior art.
radio
light bulb...Maybe you meant this: "Thomas A. Edison of the United States invented the first commercially successful incandescent lamp around 1879" emphasis mine.

It's a fine line between "insightful" and "funny". Which one were you trying for?

Europeans sticking to horses & wind sailing (until a whole new country, America, invented the steam-boat, the steam-engine/railroads, the radio, the light-buld, and the airplane...

Say whaaat?
steam engine
railroad
airplane...Ok, I'll grant that to a point. It still required lots of prior art.
radio
light bulb...Maybe you meant this: "Thomas A. Edison of the United States invented the first commercially successful incandescent lamp around 1879" emphasis mine.

It's a fine line between "insightful" and "funny". Which one were you trying for?

I'm looking at one right now, and I don't see Splenda ("sucralose") anywhere on the ingredient list. I see NutraSweet ("aspartame") near the top of the list; and waaay down near the bottom (just above caffeine) is aspartame's synergistc boyfriend: acesulfame potassium. Unfortunately, too much aspartame gives me a wicked headache, so while I like Coke Zero, I won't be drinking it in quantity any time soon.

There is a Diet Coke made with Splenda; I like it, and it gives me no head pain, but it seems to be becoming harder and harder to find. I suspect Coke is preparing to phase it out as a failed experiment.

About 75 minutes

What if the nude textures are censored in game, which censorship is governed by user-modifiable settings?
http://compsimgames.about.com/od/thesims2downloads /qt/sims2nudepatch.htm

In the case of the Sims [2], the content is explicitly in the game...

Amazing... it's almost like that Dewar dude had a good idea... ;)

After all, it was an electric car that, for the first time, beat the 100 kilometer-per-hour speed record. And that was at a time (early 20th century) when cars were much heavier and bulkier than what is possible now.

Most people seem to have forgotten that, prior to WWI, and the improvement to the internal combustion engine, there was a lot of debate between which engine was the best. Internal combustion won, because it offered longer range, not necessarily better performances.