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The Holiday of Jew's Revenge, September 11th, was bloodied once again this year. Officials say Gay Nigger Association of America member Tar_Baby stole a Cessna jet from a nearby airfield and crashed it into Open Source Technology Group headquarters, completely demolishing the building, as well as crushing and incinerating everyone inside.

Audio logs recovered via the jet's black box portrayed a disturbing course of events onboard the plane. Passengers were heard screaming for their lives as the terrorist raped and killed the male members of the plane by what was thought to be rupturing their colons with a gigantic black dildo with nails punched out the sides, based on evidence collected at the scene.

Within minutes of the attack, GNAA officials telephoned major news networks claiming responsibility, and promised to continue their campaign of destruction as long as an Open Source movement still existed. This is believed to be the major tenet of the 'Gay Nigger Jihad', first mentioned months ago during GNAA's campaign against AOL.

This comes almost simultaneously after OSTG recently changed their name from the Open Source Development Network (OSDN), in attempt to distance itself from name long associated with failure, stupidity, zealotry, and Cowboyneal. It was also part of a last ditch effort to convince investors not to steal a Cessna and fly it into the headquarters themselves.

Update: A few hours after the crash, the rescue team found what is believed to be the only survivor. CmdrTaco was found in a coma inside OSTG basement, still firmly gripping his tiny cock. In his other hand, he was holding a photo of a muscular black male, signed by "Gary Niger of GNAA". CmdrTaco was rushed to a hospital, and his condition remains critical.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be requir

If I had to place my ideals under a specific label (though I hate political labels which are often used to avoid thinking about issues), I'd have to say I'm a progressive libertarian.

I'm with Mr. Badnarik 100% on most of his core stances (kudos too for recognizing state's rights in the drug war too). I'm a vehement believer in The Constitution (not that there aren't parts I don't agree with; I'd just prefer we obey it as written OR amend it - not pretend it says something else.) However, I'm curious about your stances on several things.

You state, "The Constitution delegates the power to coin money to Congress. As your president, I'll insist that they discharge that responsibility instead of fobbing the job off on an external entity like the Fed. And I'll veto legislation for any such operation that doesn't meet the true test of money: It is either made of gold or silver, or can be redeemed for a fixed amount of gold or silver."

I take issue with the last sentence.

Money doesn't need to be redeemable for something in finite supply (in fact, as population increases, that's a bad thing) to be stable, it simply needs to be equally hard to earn. Tying the value of a dollar to a consumer price index or, even better, the population might be wiser.

It is also important to note that The Fed is not the external entity coining money. When banks and other lending institutions practice fractional reserve lending, they reduce the value of the dollar. [An explanation of this phenomenon can be found at http://www.progress.org/reform21.htm]

Would you propose or stand behind legislation to eliminate fractional reserve lending?

Centralized government programs have the net effect of making people less personally responsible. I think a lot of resistance to libertarianism comes from the feeling that they want to cut all the safety nets before something (private charity, LVT, whatever) is in place. Regardless, it would be disastrous to move immediately from a society in which the government has taken responsibility away from citizens to one where everyone is fully responsible for himself or herself.

What are your plans for migrating from one model to the other?

New Zealand and Australia are experimenting with LVT while Iceland is experimenting with pollition permits and citizen's dividends. I think there is room to be U.S. to be more progressive and foster more equality while adhering to the basic tenets of libertarianism.

What is your plan for funding government while remaining consistent to core libertarian principles?

Clearly patents and copyrights are government-granted and, therefore privileges but are necessary for a technologically advanced society. It seems that lately things have been getting out of hand leading in part to some of the problems you site as issues (such as the cost of medicine.)

What are your feelings on the current length of intellectual property claims and the veritable "patent mill" that the USPTO has become? How would steer intellectual property back toward the constitutional concept of "for a limited time?"

The Holiday of Jew's Revenge, September 11th, was bloodied once again this year. Officials say Gay Nigger Association of America member Tar_Baby stole a Cessna jet from a nearby airfield and crashed it into Open Source Technology Group headquarters, completely demolishing the building, as well as crushing and incinerating everyone inside.

Audio logs recovered via the jet's black box portrayed a disturbing course of events onboard the plane. Passengers were heard screaming for their lives as the terrorist raped and killed the male members of the plane by what was thought to be rupturing their colons with a gigantic black dildo with nails punched out the sides, based on evidence collected at the scene.

Within minutes of the attack, GNAA officials telephoned major news networks claiming responsibility, and promised to continue their campaign of destruction as long as an Open Source movement still existed. This is believed to be the major tenet of the 'Gay Nigger Jihad', first mentioned months ago during GNAA's campaign against AOL.

This comes almost simultaneously after OSTG recently changed their name from the Open Source Development Network (OSDN), in attempt to distance itself from name long associated with failure, stupidity, zealotry, and Cowboyneal. It was also part of a last ditch effort to convince investors not to steal a Cessna and fly it into the headquarters themselves.

Update: A few hours after the crash, the rescue team found what is believed to be the only survivor. CmdrTaco was found in a coma inside OSTG basement, still firmly gripping his tiny cock. In his other hand, he was holding a photo of a muscular black male, signed by "Gary Niger of GNAA". CmdrTaco was rushed to a hospital, and his condition remains critical.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to

Some people think that Von Braun actually said 'But sometimes I hit London, but it is an old joke popularized by Mort Sahl.

Von Braun did say
'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department'.

It was even put into a 1965 song by Tom Lehrer:

Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown,
'Ha, Nazi, Schmazi,' says Wernher von Braun.

Don't say that he's hypocritical,
Say rather that he's apolitical.
'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun.

Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town,
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.

You too may be a big hero,
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero.
"In German oder English I know how to count down,
Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun.

The Holiday of Jew's Revenge, September 11th, was bloodied once again this year. Officials say Gay Nigger Association of America member Tar_Baby stole a Cessna jet from a nearby airfield and crashed it into Open Source Technology Group headquarters, completely demolishing the building, as well as crushing and incinerating everyone inside.

Audio logs recovered via the jet's black box portrayed a disturbing course of events onboard the plane. Passengers were heard screaming for their lives as the terrorist raped and killed the male members of the plane by what was thought to be rupturing their colons with a gigantic black dildo with nails punched out the sides, based on evidence collected at the scene.

Within minutes of the attack, GNAA officials telephoned major news networks claiming responsibility, and promised to continue their campaign of destruction as long as an Open Source movement still existed. This is believed to be the major tenet of the 'Gay Nigger Jihad', first mentioned months ago during GNAA's campaign against AOL.

This comes almost simultaneously after OSTG recently changed their name from the Open Source Development Network (OSDN), in attempt to distance itself from name long associated with failure, stupidity, zealotry, and Cowboyneal. It was also part of a last ditch effort to convince investors not to steal a Cessna and fly it into the headquarters themselves.

Update: A few hours after the crash, the rescue team found what is believed to be the only survivor. CmdrTaco was found in a coma inside OSTG basement, still firmly gripping his tiny cock. In his other hand, he was holding a photo of a muscular black male, signed by "Gary Niger of GNAA". CmdrTaco was rushed to a hospital, and his condition remains critical.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to

http://mp.aol.com/audio.main.adp?mxid=1153566 Hear the soundtrack

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sky_captain/ Rottentomatoes reviews

http://imdb.com/title/tt0346156/externalreviews Page with links to several reviews

http://the-flying-legion.com/ fan site

http://imdb.com/title/tt0346156/board/nest/1163158 9 FAQ on IMDB

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451411633/ qid%3D1094844850/ the book on Amazon

And no, you couldn't find this stuff in 5 seconds on google.

What people don't seem to be realising is that this is not 'I'm Feeling Lucky' - try it! Presumably it has to feel particularly strongly about a hit for whatever you type into the address bar before it redirects you. For example, type 'AOL' in and it will take you to www.aol.com. Type in 'tie' and it will take you to http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&gf ns=1&ie=UTF-8&q=tie... In other words, it's slightly more intelligent than "let's take the first link we can find and give it to them..."

Where did you ever get that idea? If that were true broadcast TVs and DVD would look exactly the same. I mean if broadcast TV is already better than a TV could support, how could DVDs possibly improve the picture? I would think anyone who has ever watched a DVD on their television has already empirically proved your statement incorrect.

In fact, broadcast TV is a far lower resolution than your TV can support (525 scanlines, of which 480 is picutre information, of which 330 is the theoretical max that will be displayed). Rather than try to explain it myself, some very good technical explanations of how it all works can be found here and here.

Gatto identifies seven lessons http://members.aol.com/singletax/7lesson.htm in the hidden curriculum of the public school system.

The parent post illustrates how the political jiggery-pokery associated with the United States' continuous (post WWII) war economy teaches an eighth lesson: money is equivalent to education.

"For PC television fans, up until now the only viable choice for TV viewing on the computer has been with an addon PCI or AGP (in the case of the All-In-Wonders) card."
what?! only if by "now" they mean circa 1998. I have had an Aver TV genie tuner with a VGA D-sub passthrough since then, and I love it for many of the same reasons people will like the external ATI device. However, my TV Genie uses no system resources whatsoever. I never understood why these didn't catch on - I have met dozens of people with crappy PCI tuners that have driver issues etc.. and none of these people had even heard of the TV Genie (all wished they had).
it's a old product, and if I were to buy something now, I'd probably go with the ATI device, but let's give credit where credit is due for external tuner solutions.
here is a farily techy review of the TV genie

Not very likely, for this would break large part of the e-mail infrastructure. There are many virtual hosters whose reverse DNS does not match the domain they are hosting. Or in my case with static IP home DNS that does resolves to something, but my domain name. And I suppose we can say bye, bye to many backup MX servers as well.

What AOL sensibly require is :

• If the sender's domain is the only domain sending mail from a specific IP address, we recommend that the reverse DNS entry (PTR Record) match the domain name (A Record), but we do not require it.
• AOL does require that all connecting Mail Transfer Agents have established reverse DNS, regardless of whether it matches the domain.
• Reverse DNS must be in the form of a fully-qualified domain name - reverse DNS containing in-addr.arpa are not acceptable, as these are merely placeholders for a valid PTR record. Reverse DNS consisting only of IP addresses are also not acceptable, as they do not correctly establish the relationship between domain and IP address.
• /ul

I truthfully don't know the whole story either

There's more out there than what you see on your screen.

Poppycock! I've got Purple Mountains Majesty right here! ;-)

...blah blah blah blah blah blah; you have the helm, Number One. (-:

Here was me thinking that qubit was the little round dude that hopped around on all of those coloured cubes.

Surprisingly, it also looks like the Hall of Doom.

please go here and tell me about your precious fire fox

And, all too often, against his buddies. About half the persian gulf war casualties were friendly fire, not even counting murders and self-inflicted casualties. And sometimes they buddies you're fighting against are high on speed

Back on topic -- training soldiers in a video game will just make them that much more careless in this regard. You lose something when you bomb the canadians in the simulation, and then go out drinking with the same guys that evening.

Shows how much Mac users know about cool cars. El Caminos are hacked-off Chevelles. Are you telling me you'd take one of these over a 350?

If Microsoft says it enough maybe they will believe it. I saw a show on the history channel about Bill Gates and the person said that when me meets with his people he does his characteristic rocking back and forth and so everyone around him starts doing the same thing. Maybe in these efforts to "Be Bill" they go along with whatever he says no matter how ludicrous or untrue.
Bills rocking back and forth is usually a sign of:
1. Autism
2. Hyperactivity
3. Attention Deficit Disorder
or a combination of all three. For more information on Bill Gates condition try the following link.
http://members.aol.com/erichuf/Linux3.html

Actually, that's not true. The "Founding Fathers", such as Washington, Jefferson, etc. were Christians, even if they frowned upon some aspects of organized religion at at the time. Of course, the current atheist revisionist historians will swear up and down that "America wasn't founded on Christianity", but it isn't true

when I read the button on their homepage:
"You may already have a version of AOL installed on your computer! If you'd like to check us to check for you please click here..."

This is really sad. AOL has penetrated the whole planet with CDs for so many years that they can simply assume that there might already be some version of their adware-dialup-crap on any given machine. They admit with this button that they are well aware that most users are totally clueless of what software they are running on their computers. "Save me, AOL!"

According to AOL, you can use any IMAP capable client to send and receive emails on AOL. So, it looks like you don't need Netscape to send/receive emails on AOL.

and the Mail component can check your AOL mailbox directly.

here is an account of the EAN activation from 1971; scroll down to 'Nuclear Alert' Proves False.

It must have been the most chilling false alert ever..

That is a great comeback to stupid French bashing. I'm sick of hearing, "there so ungrateful, we saved their asses in World War I and II so they are in our debt forever no matter what kind of dicks we've turned in to".

These same people conveniently forget that there might not be a good ole U.S. of A. were it not for the French during the American revolution, especially at Yorktown.

A French general, Rochambeau, devised the strategy.

Key intelligence enabling Yorktown came through Lafayette.

Rochambeau's French army held the left flank at Yorktown, Lafayette helped Washington command the American contingent.

A French fleet under Admiral de Grasse bombarded Cornwallis from the sea and prevented his escape on British ships otherwise the British might have lived to fight another day and there is a distinct chance America might not have been so lucky then.

The French made a grave mistake in just giving the statue to the U.S. They should have given it to the U.S. on loan under the condition the U.S. preserve and protect the liberties of which it is a symbol. If the U.S. failed in that, as it appears to be failing today, the French should have retained the right to repossess the statue and send it to a new home, a new place that is committed to liberty and to welcoming refugees, to insure the statue will always be the beacon of liberty it was intended to be.

Fact is in the current system voting 3rd party really is throwing away your vote and the two major parties don't really care if you do it.

That's not fact. Don't tell that to the 12% who preferred the Libertarian candidate in Mass to Ted Kennedy. And the 40% who could vote for anyone in the approaching Hoosier gubernatorial election.

immigrated to the U.S. in 1902.

That's 1905 according a page on Kerry's bloodlines. And you're glossing over his maternal roots, to my eyes deep in Mass and England.

The Green Party bothers me more than the Big Two combined. The Green Party is the closest you'll come to the complete opposite of my political principles.

Largely the same thing can be said about Stock Market returns: higher under Democrats, lower under Republicans.

http://morningstar.aol.com/PoweredBy/doc/article/1 ,,113806,00.html?CN=NSC123

What and pass a law against stupidity?
People will continue to buy as long as its stuff they are interested in, its not about them being selfish. It is a simple and obvious problem, this needs to be delt with on a technical level. No amount of user education can resovle this. email

test - ignore

html syntax demo for a friend, blah blah, move along nothing to see here

contact us

and another link thiny email

They could always use this bear as a test subject. He's already smarter than the average bear...

I can hardly wait!

Instead in 30 years chores around the house will be a thing of the past. The robots will have evolved from automatic appliances to home automations systems. iRobot (and others) will be selling clean floor, clear windows, organized closets, mowed lawns, sparkling toilets, and dustfree surfaces that the consumer never has to think about. The robots just come out and do the job when it need to be done.

Well my first thought is if all responsibilities are given to the robots, what are we going to do?

My next thought was of this story.

http://members.aol.com/spoons1000/break/
http://members.aol.com/spoons1000/break/

Much has been said about Guthrie's standard copyright notice to do whatever you want with his music, but I haven't read anything yet about the "folk process" to which Guthrie and his contemporaries such as Pete Seeger (who was in the folk group "The Weavers" and is still alive) depended on.

What was the folk process?

In short, it was the age-old practice Guthrie and others used of taking old music and writing new words. Just like a folk-tale is a story that has been told and changed as time goes on.

When the Weavers took [Guthrie's] 'So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)' into the pop charts '51, the song had been written originally to cheer up migrant workers, adapted as a patriotic war song and as a jingle for selling pipe tobacco; far from being outraged, Woody was there in the studio, helping the Weavers adapt it yet again: 'For better or worse,' wrote Colin Irwin in Mojo '97, 'this was the folk process at work.'

As Seeger says,

"My father was more sensible. He said to think of the folk process as something that has gone on through the ages. The folk process occurs in cooking, with cooks rearranging recipes. And lawyers rearrange old laws to fit new citizens. If you look at it this way, then the true importance of folk music is to let ordinary folks change things."

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I've read in a few places there's enough raw material in the solar system to support several trillion people using such a scheme... that's a lot of eggs in many different baskets. Until the sun dies of course... but that's a few years off yet.

People living near Hanford are already living on borrowed time.

An environmental engineer friend of mine, Larry Cornett noticed back in 1994 during a routine survey that the temperatures and radiation levels from the nuclear waste containers at Hanford were unusually high and getting higher due to what he later discovered was the unforseen effect of the precipitation of radioactive waste in the containers (as the radioactive clumps grow bigger, they generate more heat and radiation). In his urgent report to the Department of Energy, he projected that there would be a 95+% chance of heat explosion and catastrophic release of radiation within 10 years due to the precipitation of the waste in the containers, unless action was taken.

Larry's report (which I believe he links to on his website) contains the details, but the steam jets from such a "conventional" heat/pressure explosion (which could cause many other containers already under stress to explode) would kill just about all life for miles around Hanford, and spread dangerous levels of radiation into the ecosystem for at least tens of miles around (and once radioactive waste was loose in the ecosystem, nobody knows for certain how far it would spread or how many millions of people it would affect). As you might guess, Larry was fired for his trouble and his report suppressed. According to Larry, as recently as 5 years ago the instictive reaction of the DOE was to bury a problem instead of deal with it, which I think you all should find terrifying, especially those of you in Washington State!

After a multi-year legal battle depicted on his link and in the newspaper articles he links to, Larry got his back pay and pension on whistle-blower protections and the DOE temporarily fixed the problem by diluting the waste further across more containers and installing automated stirrers in the new containers to keep the waste from precipitating, but when I talked to him a few years ago Larry thought that would only buy Hanford another 20 years or so before an explosion was 95+% likely, apparently not enough time for the DOE to evacuate the waste to Nevada...

"(d) If unpowered, weighs less than 155 pounds; or (e) If powered: (1) Weighs less than 254 pounds empty, excluding floats and safety devices which are intended for deployment in a potentially catastrophic situation;"

Certification:
"(a) Notwithstanding any other section pertaining to certification of aircraft or their parts or equipment, ultralight vehicles and their component parts and equipment are not required to meet the airworthiness certification standards specified for aircraft or to have certificates of air-worthiness."

Gen. 6:9 "Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God."

Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 1:8 "...my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?" (Job 2:3)

Gen. 7:1 "And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation."

Luke 1:5-6 "In the days of Herod, the king of Judaea,there was a priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abia: and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.(RSV)

Learning is fun!

Finally all of that experience playing Robot Odyssey on the Apple II is gonna pay off!

How about some actual useful links? That should suprise the heck out of everyone. ;'P

The Lazer Tactical message board: http://members5.boardhost.com/lazertag/index.html

More technically oriented Laserforums: http://www.laserforums.com/forum

1 Source Laser Tag forums: http://blackbelt.novahq.net/forums/

1 Source Laser Tag website, home of FXonixs homebrew laser tag gear, classifieds, and loads of links: http://www.1sourcelasertag.com/

Miles Tag, a homebrew laser tag system in progress: http://lightbrain.8m.com/mtdesign.htm

Frag Tag, a homebrew laser tag system using the same protocols as Miles Tag: http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/fragtag/index.htm

Dave Bodger's Lazer Tag info. One of the first homebrew systems, compatible with the old Worlds of Wonder Lazer Tag and Tiger Electronic Survivor Shot, with tons of options: http://www.cix.co.uk/~lasertag/lasertag.htm

Tagcon Midwest- Stargate in King Arthur's Court: http://www.tagcon.org/mw/

Steradian Tech- pro laser tag gear, quite expensive: http://www.steradiantech.com/

Tag Tek- homebrew WoW/ESS compatible gear: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sparta/setup.htm

Fiat Lux ESS compatible kits- They don't sell outside the UK, but good reference site for the rest of us: http://www.fiat-lux.org.uk/

Lazer Skirmish- Commercial site, use for ideas and inspiration: http://www.laserskirmish.co.za/

The Complete Tagger- Hints and modifications, PDF file: http://img-srv.everestwebworks.com/w2/Pictures/My% 20Files/1022260.1/tct2.pdf

Upgrading WoW guns and sensors by Public John aka Lazerbait- Faster rate of fire, linking gun to sensor, autofire, etc. by Public John of the Seattle Laser Tag group: http://members.aol.com/publicjohn/index.html

Vishay Semiconductors- IR Receiver modules page. 36 to 56KHz: http://www.vishay.com/ir-receiver-modules/

Ward's Natural Science Lens page- Glass lenses, 38mm, various focal lengths. $1.50 each: http://wardsci.com/product.asp?pn=160433

WoW/ESS signal format from Steradian- Helpful info on the signal format and frequency of WoW Lazer Tag/Survivor Shot guns and sensors. http://www.steradiantech.com/lasers/tech.html

If you are anywhere near Seattle, WA, the Seattle Laser Tag Yahoogroup and website: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/seattlelaserta g/ http://www.seattlelasertag.com/

I'm personally working on better sensor heads. 99.9% of the homebrew gear uses the Vishay remote control receiver modules, and their performance in sunlight is terrible. I am also thinking of building a system that is compatible with Survivor Shot while still supporting other options like shooter ID.

And as far as using real lasers- bad idea! Laser pointers are -not- eye safe. In fact the current crop of Class IIIa pointers are rated as a potential hazard from a -single- exposure. Even the older Class II/IIa are considered

Recently I've starting writing on things like consumer auto ID, bar codes & privacy, and other tangetal topics. With more to come.

Evil digits? Mark of the beast? Book of Revelation? Read this. Don't get me started.

All said and done, I've been in the field for 15 years and I still love those funny glyphs. They are absolutely everywhere and most people never see them.

Hmm... could it be because Rock & Roll with a guy on a CASIO is just awkward?

Casios can be awkward in rock'n'roll, yeah. I'd stick with Moogs and Mellotrons. :)

Hmm, you make a pretty good point there about conception being the beginning of life. But there are several observations that would be to the contrary. One thing we consider to be vital to "life" is breathing -- if you stopped breathing for 2 months, would people consider you a living person?

The simple act of breathing certainly does not solely imbue so-called "personhood" - animals breathe too. Can someone who is alive not breathe? People can be put on respirators who cannot breathe for themselves. And, of course, fetuses have a different way of getting oxygen as well, and noone claims that a fetus is not alive

As for the "natural" conclusion, why have we not already made such a conclusion? Why do the laws not already see it that way? The way things work in this world is that the ones challenging the status quo are the ones who must go out of their way to convince the rest. Also be aware that if we change the assumptions, a lot of other things come into question. If a woman spontaneosly aborts, should she be charged with manslaughter (assuming abortion would be murder)? What does conception mean -- does it apply to zygotes in a test tube? What privelges and responsibilities do these fetuses have?

If you corner a pro-choice person and asks that they concede, if only for the sake of argument, that life begins at conception, they would still refuse to criminalize abortion on the grounds that you now have a balancing of rights. The "reproductive rights" of the mother supercede the rights of the fetus in every possible way, even to the point of destroying the fetus. As for the law, abortion had never been legal until Roe vs Wade - the people of Texas had, in legislation, declared that human life and rights begin at conception. This web site has a very neutral summary of abortion law, and why things are the way they are. In a nutshell, the Supreme Court has said that the Constitution guarantees the right to an abortion up to the age of fetal viability. The more you think about it, the more tragic and frusturating it becomes.

You are right that this view makes things more complicated. Several kinds of birth control that allow fertilization but prevent implantation would have to be banned. There could be no in-vitro fertilization treatments that implant 5 embryos hoping that at least one "sticks". There is obviously no creating of embryos solely to be used for stem cells. I don't think a miscarriage should be a crime however as this is a natural process. Abortion would only be legal to save the life of the mother, as this would technically be justifiable homicide.

Probably the greatest irony of the whole Terrorism War is the claim that we in the USA have never faced this type of situation before. Actually it is profoundly a normal condition for the world and our formation as a nation arose out of dealing properly with and essentially disposing of terrorism .

Short history:

The USA in its Revolutiary war faced this. It was much of the cause for the war was the state sponsored terrorism by England. To wit: " He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions." ~ US Declaration of Independence In Congress July 4 1776.

This repeated itself in the War of 1812 known in Europe variously as the 7 years war. In Alabama where I live it is known as the "Creek Indian War" and in Indiana it is famous for other reasons. The English supported a confederacy of 5 Indian Tribes to MURDER and TERRORIZE on the US Western Frontier. The Battle at Tippicanoe was the result of this. In Alabama the action progressed from Huntsville, to Horseshoe Bend. The battle was to stop the Creeks from raiding Tennesse and was supported by the Cherokee Indians. I could continue but this British supported State Sponsored Terrorism agains the USA and even against its Indian Populations went on eventually peaking in the Plains Indian wars. (Second to the US Civil War the most serious US Military actions) and finally decreasing under Hudsons Bay Company support and stopping in Norther California and Oregon in the period just before 1915.

Some other supporters of terrorism penetrated the USA at intervals with most events coming to a halt with the US Nuclear development at the end of World War II. We have had a short period without terrorism being significant since. It appears we are back into it.

There is a profound point here: The USA is no Flebe in the dealing with Terrorism. We developed our Art of Citizenship which puzzles most foreigners as a result of the continual terror attacks. It is in fact the Federal effort to destroy this art that left us volunerable to the problem at this time. The Patriot Act further diminishes the role of citizens and further endangers our people.

Yesterday the head "Patriot Act" man himself Mr. Ridge went out to warn us of the danger but left us with nothing to look for and nothing to do but cower in fear. That is not accidental. These men want us cowering in fear. It was Yesterday that they cowed our US House into without amendment continuing the US Patriot Act! They would celebrate another Al Qaeda attack as it would empower them even more at the hands of ignorant masses who think this is a new problem.

As an acid test of the facts here I provide the following question. Where is the phone number I can call to promptly and properly have Illegal or Undesirable Aliens DEPORTED? The facts show that this should have been the highest priority of the US Government on September 12, 2001. Until this exists where such persons may be promptly and properly dealt with we in the USA shall cower in fear. When it exists we may dissolve the Department of Homeland Security and live in peace and safety. There is no denying this fact! It is not opinion or rant. It is simply the proved fact of our history! We dealt with all the terrorism of the past by cooperation and support of the citizens natural right to self defense. To continue on this current course of denying such is to progress streight into the tyranny of Adolph Hitler and his Gestapo and SS.

Well then, in the words of groundskeeper Willie: Bonjour, you cheese eating surrender monkey!

The problem is a good deal more complex than you suggest.

Ever watch the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit? It was partly based on events surrounding the destruction of the streetcar here in the US.

The trolley didn't fall--it was pushed.

Pages 3 and 4 of the linked article get to the nitty gritty. in a nutshell, the street railway companies were specifically targeted to be acquired, their trackage torn up, and replaced with buses. The antitrust laws on the books at the time didn't specifically address the notion of one industry infiltrating a competing one in order to destroy it from within, so the parties involved got less than a wrist slap when finally hauled into court. And they kept doing it after being found guilty.

At one time it was possible (if not completely practical) to travel from Hoboken to Delaware by streetcar, from Times Square to practically any other streetcar system in the Northeast just by transferring from one company's service to another where systems met (the tracks were often interconnected even where services didn't overlap at the meet point). It was even supposedly possible at one time to travel from New York City to Wisconsin by trolley, minus two stretches that had to be covered by railroad passenger services.

And all of it was privately built, owned and operated. No doubt much of it would have faltered even without the cancerous infiltration of the auto industry in the mid 20th century, but a significant portion of the system would more than likely be in place today (no doubt under municipal ownership) had it not been outright destroyed.

Here is a list of streetcar systems that were taken over by National City Lines, a bus company owned at the time by an alliance of major players in the auto, petroleum and tire industries.

---PCJ

I think if everyone were more responsible, then I would be for gun ownership. Or at the very least make the laws stricter. It is way to easy to get a gun. Any irresponsible parent can get one, and accidents happen. Children have died! Doesn't that ourage you? And it is definetely the government's responsibility to take care of its citizens. That is one of the main reasons it exists. It is its job to prevent these children from dying. And maybe there aren't a lot of them, but tell that to the families of the ones who have had such an accident.

You have crushed many countries my friend. In fact, I will give you a pretty long list:
1. China - 1945 to 1960s
2. Italy - 1947-1948
3. Greece - 1947 to early 1950s
4. The Philippines - 1940s and 1950s
5. Korea - 1945-1953:
6. Albania - 1949-1953
7. Eastern Europe - 1948-1956
8. Germany - 1950s
9. Iran - 1953
10. Guatemala - 1953-1954
11. Costa Rica - Mid-1950s
12. Syria - 1956-1957
13. Middle East - 1957-1958
14. Indonesia - 1957-1958
15. Western Europe - 1950s and 1960s
16. British Guiana - 1953-1964
17. Soviet Union - Late 1940s to 1960s
18. Italy - 1950s to 1970s
19. Vietnam - 1950-1973
20. Cambodia - 1955-1973
21. Laos - 1957-1973
22. Haiti - 1959-1963
23. Guatemala - 1960
24. France/Algeria - 1960s
25. Ecuador - 1960-1963
26. The Congo - 1960-1964
27. Brazil - 1961-1964
28. Peru - 1960-1965
29. Dominican Republic - 1960-1966
30. Cuba - 1959 to 1980s
31. Indonesia - 1965
32. Ghana - 1966
33. Uruguay - 1964-1970
34. Chile - 1964-1973
35. Greece - 1964-1974
36. Bolivia - 1964-1975
37. Guatemala - 1962 to 1980s
38. Costa Rica - 1970-1971
39. Iraq - 1972-1975
40. Australia - 1973-1975
41. Angola - 1975 to 1980s
42. Zaire - 1975-1978
43. Jamaica - 1976-1980
44. Seychelles - 1979-1981
45. Grenada - 1979-1984
46. Morocco - 1983
47. Suriname - 1982-1984
48. Libya - 1981-1989
49. Nicaragua - 1981-1990
50. Panama - 1969-1991
51. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
52. Iraq - 1990-1991
53. Afghanistan - 1979-1992
54. El Salvador - 1980-1994
55. Haiti - 1986-1994

I got this list from a book which I have read parts of (in the Internet...there is no where I can buy it here). It is called "Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II", and the author is William Blum. You should read it (if you haven't already), since it is related to your career. You can read some chapters here
All those interventions got you power my friend. Vietnam too...how do you think that small nation fared after the US killed all those people? They were devastated. True, you didn't get exactly what you were looking for but you still slaughtered them.

I am not brainwashed because I have read articles on how the US helps the world economy and democracy (and I see it on the news everyday). I read both sides, and my side just seems truer (is that even a word??). I just ask that you read both sides. Not the propaganda, but serious books and articles, like the one I am suggesting to you (there are plenty others).

I didn't say Rush was honest. I said you can't catch him in a lie, because he has a team that's better than God at checking facts before he mouths off at something.

I don't know if this goes into Computer Science or Musicology, but people have tried composing music using mathematical equations for quite some time...

For example, I propose (also an example here

This site also gives fractal and algorithmic music to download while this one give you the opportunity to download a fractal music software (Windows, sorry)

Maybe we can get a computer to compose like Mozart and finish his symphonie ?

Something like these people do :
"We are a group of students and faculty members in the University of Wisconsin - Madison working on the exciting project of applying artificial intelligence in analyzing and composing music.

In this research, mathematical models will be developed to analyze a given collection of music pieces, represented in MIDI format. In particular, machine learning and artificial intelligence problem solving methods such as neural network, time series prediction, and statistical pattern classification will be used, and to simulate the process of music composition through the results of analysis. The overall objective is to analyze polyphonic music of certain composers, and create new pieces that retain stylistic details which distinguish composers from one another. "

You can even dowload some of their computer generated music...

As you yourself said, "individuals with a hobby that have brought formidable computing skills and analysis techniques from other fields" (really nice javadoc...) but I'm not sure they "are largely ignorant of the works within music departments", as they seem to take a nice approach on the subject...