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The Olympics happened?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/searching-for-gold-during-games.html

Disregarding for a moment the fact that this was announced a few months ago, here is an explanation of what this actually means for developers from a developer of Gallium3D. It explains why there will be no flood of games ported from Windows, and why we should still support a truly open API like OpenGL.

And so is Springfield. Even with those insane taxes, Illinois is so deep in the red that vendors are halting services after months of non-payment.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/01/illinois-careens-towards-bankruptcy.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/05/illinois-doesnt-pay-bills-crisis-pushes.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/illinois-leaps-ahead-of-california-in.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/07/shared-sacrifice-illinois-style-40000.html

And so is Springfield. Even with those insane taxes, Illinois is so deep in the red that vendors are halting services after months of non-payment.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/01/illinois-careens-towards-bankruptcy.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/05/illinois-doesnt-pay-bills-crisis-pushes.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/illinois-leaps-ahead-of-california-in.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/07/shared-sacrifice-illinois-style-40000.html

And so is Springfield. Even with those insane taxes, Illinois is so deep in the red that vendors are halting services after months of non-payment.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/01/illinois-careens-towards-bankruptcy.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/05/illinois-doesnt-pay-bills-crisis-pushes.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/illinois-leaps-ahead-of-california-in.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/07/shared-sacrifice-illinois-style-40000.html

And so is Springfield. Even with those insane taxes, Illinois is so deep in the red that vendors are halting services after months of non-payment.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/01/illinois-careens-towards-bankruptcy.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/05/illinois-doesnt-pay-bills-crisis-pushes.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/illinois-leaps-ahead-of-california-in.html
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/07/shared-sacrifice-illinois-style-40000.html

I come from a family of deer hunters and they would never do that in a million years. A true hunter always thinks safety first never mind flagrant vandalism. B.S. ( what I work in my free time: http://ducttapesysadmin.blogspot.com/ )

Chuck Berry would like that (last two or three paragraphs).

If you look closely at the bill, it's actually usefull to shutdown sites that contain classified documents too, such as ooh Wikileaks... That, I think, is the real target. http://ktetch.blogspot.com/2010/09/us-senators-in-big-copyrights-pocket.html

NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THE THREATS TO LIBERTY AND FREEDOM FROM CORPORATIONS

Actually, I blogged about a very similar issue a while back, so some of us (like you) are talking about it.

We just need to keep making sure that our voice is out there, so that others start to appreciate the issues you raise.

Great post, here are some more reasons why Microsoft Project is simply not on the critical path any more...and it does not stop with Microsoft Project...

Today with rapid development, testing and release that is Agile, I am unaware of a single software development shop that is wasting time putting up a Project Management project. Once you have a sustainable velocity, not only are your developer's happier, but your customers are seeing you fix problems more rapidly as well. Its smart and a win - win - win - win.

Years ago, thanks to Joel on Software I took a hard look at project management in general. It really opened my eyes to how much time can be wasted if you are not careful. When I looked at the differences between Microsoft Project and Open WorkBench, I found Open WorkBench to be superior. The fact that Open WorkBench saves a company significant money as compared to Microsoft Project, simply makes it better. The Savings vs Buying Microsoft Project as of Sept 19, 2010 are listed as $350,855,864 and that is for only 585,736 downloads.

Since most organizations are resource-constrained rather than time-constrained, the resource-based scheduling in Open Workbench typically provides a more realistic plan in less time. ~ that just makes sense to me and is obvious.

Even though Joel does not want you to read about Painless Software Scheduling and he wants you to read instead about Evidence Based Scheduling, from a KISS perspective I discovered that I was able to do rapid estimating of projects using a spreadsheet. In fact before I ever started putting a project in Microsoft Project (when a company required that tool) I would first use Joel's method using an Excel spreadsheet. Naturally when I moved from Windows to Linux I found that OpenOffice Calc did everything that Excel would do. I will freely admit that there are things that some people do with Excel and Macros in Excel specifically that I would never do and/or use. In fact I have programmed some of those Macros for small businesses that insisted using Excel as their tool. However I have always felt that it was smarter to pick the correct tool for the correct job. If it is honestly Microsoft, so be it. In most cases, Macros and Excel are NOT better than open source software dedicated to that business function. From a pure Macro standpoint, there is nothing that one can do in Office Excel, that can not be done in OpenOffice Calc. And the price is right. From my perspective, OOo Calc is far superior!

My lesson did not start there, nope, I learned along the way with other smart purchases after doing a feature by feature comparison of products.

Many years before I needed a Graphics package to create, edit and reduce the size of images for the web. At that time, PaintShop Pro could do everything that Adobe PhotoShop could do at about 1/10th of the Price. It was a no brainer...I bought PaintShop Pro. (PaintShop Pro should not be mistaken for Microsoft Paint.). When the company that produces PaintShop Pro mistakenly attempted to force me to update my Windows operating System before using their new version of PaintShop Pro, I borrowed a Laptop running the new version of XP and installed PaintShop Pro on a USB device (yes they did try to prevent that in the install process, however if you know what you are doing

New York Times, November 28th 2009 - 1 in 4 children currently on food stamps

MARTINSVILLE, Ohio -- With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.

Half of American Children Receive Food Stamps

Nearly half (49.2%) of American children will, at some point between the ages of 1 and 20, reside in a house that receives food stamps, according to a report in the Nov. 2 issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

More than a quarter of American children (26.1%) will receive food stamps by the age of 5, the study found.

39 Million and rising on Food Stamps - Household SNAP participants increased from 12,728,981 in Fiscal Year 2008 to 15,232,105 in fiscal year 2009, a 16.4% increase. For comparison purposes, watch the growth in household participation.

and up higher again - 41,275,411 as of June. - Double digit increases in all but 4 states - average increase 18% year over year.

More from the NYTArticle:

This is the first recession in which a majority of the poor in metropolitan areas live in the suburbs, giving food stamps new prominence there. Use has grown by half or more in dozens of suburban counties from Boston to Seattle, including such bulwarks of modern conservatism as California's Orange County, where the rolls are up more than 50 percent.

Use among children is especially high. A third of the children in Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee receive food aid. In the Bronx, the rate is 46 percent. In East Carroll Parish, La., three-quarters of the children receive food stamps.

The safest roads in the world are here in the Netherlands - where the national FM radio stations tell drivers where speed traps are located.

In South Africa it is best to avoid contact with the police force. In my personal experience I have found them threatening and racist.

Stopping at a roadblock risks getting hijacked by the Police.

Recently a Springbok was also stopped by the Police, details have not been released but many people speculate that the cop hijacked the civilian, extorted money and forced the man to drive to his house, where the officer would have raped his wife and killed the man. Sounds far fetched?

http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/10/police-reports-oct-27-2009.html

Nice speed boost from MS, it's clearly faster than IE8, but still... I ran a little HD-test with IE9beta1, Firefox4beta6 and Chrome6.1. I found IE9 to be - slowest - using most system resources Read test at http://silenssimo.blogspot.com/

Forget teaching programming entirely. If they are asking for game design and you teach programming, you have done them a disservice. Programming isn't game design. It's what you do after the game designer tells you what the design does.

Go look at Ian Schreiber's work at http://teachingdesign.blogspot.com/ and http://gamedesignconcepts.wordpress.com/. Especially the second one - its actually a free online course he taught last summer on game design. That should cover all the bases you need, and doesn't require any programming skills at all.

We don't need a "men's liberation movement". A large part of women's lib was about ending the legal restraints against women [...] Those legal restraints impeded women from having control of their own money. [...] Contrast that with the situation today. Women aren't in sole control of men's finances. Rape is still mostly a crime committed by men, against both men and women. It's not like women have some legal right to rape men, and men need to be "liberated." [...]

This is a stereotype that is typical for what is commonly accepted, that "men don't need liberation or equal rights since they already have equal rights in law and are much less victims than women". If you read about Men's rights and specifically Masculism (especially on the page of Masculism there are some very valid concerns listed that are often trivialized). In the legal system men are often discriminated against and contrary to their constitutional right assumed guilty until proven innocent. This happens especially in the case of divorce where men disproportionately get no custody, have say about their children basically lose both their children and their money. This is the reason for the existence of the Fathers' Rights Movement. Also interesting to note is that some lawyers will advise women to accuse their husbands of crimes like beating, child molestation or rape exactly because they know the men won't have a chance to defend themselves and will be presumed guilty. The statistics differ but indicate that a large percentage of women who accuse men of rape just lie and are almost always believed. Statistics from the FBI indicate at least 8% is obviously proven to be false in court, but when asked more than 40% admits to false accusations, in college this is even over 50%... (False Rape Accusations Are Not Rare, Prevalence of False Rape Claims). A reason for the shift in burden of proof to the man is that it's often the word of one person against the other, and some people (feminists) claimed that it was 2% false accusation at most so this is justified. I still believe men are more likely to rape another person, but a women who was raped is treated with respect, is taken seriously and gets help, while a man who is raped... well have you ever heard a man admit that he was raped? I know someone, he was raped by other men and people joke about it (I'm ashamed to admit that I have participated in this at one time)... But the thing people really joke about even to the point that people who do manage to put themselves over it and go the the police are sent home by laughing cops is men who are raped by women. It does happen, but rarely does a man tell and even more rarely does he file charges (Rape often isn't a crime when women do it - very interesting but shocking article). The idea that men can't be raped by women is ingrained in our culture, and it's extremely sexist. It trivializes a terrible crime... It's right up there with the argument formerly used by men that 'she said no, but actually wanted it'.

Equality of men and women only works if the same standards and definitions are applied equally to men and women, especially in law! Women made a stand for equal rights but the harsh battle they had to endure to get there resulted in an overzealous appr

"Web anti malware firm Dasient has published data claiming that more than 1 million Web sites were compromised in the second quarter, 2010 - a sharp increase. *In Sean Connery's James Bond voice* Of course they have." - by AnonymousClown (1788472) on Thursday September 16, @12:25PM (#33600940)

I don't know about THAT, however? Well - I DO know that my personal custom HOSTS file is nearly @ 1 million absolutely unique entries of known bad sites/servers, and it took me nearly 10++ yrs. now to get it to that # no less!

I populate it from very reputable & reliable sources listed below:

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http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/
http://www.malware.com.br/lists.shtml
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/alerts.aspx
http://www.stopbadware.org/
http://blog.fireeye.com/
http://mtc.sri.com/
http://www.scansafe.com/threat_center/threat_alerts
http://news.netcraft.com/
http://www.shadowserver.org/
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
http://www.mvps.org/
http://someonewhocares.org/
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/hosts0
http://hosts-file.net/?s=Download
http://www.stopbadware.org/home

+ Spybot "Search & Destroy" IMMUNIZE feature add ons also...

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In fact, as far as growth this summer alone? It's been more than usual, and last summer last year was the same it seems/iirc too...

However: Ahem - 1 million++ new known bad sites &/or servers, & in just 1 quarter?

(Hey, anything's possible, but that's a bit "excessive/steep" imo @ least... still, one never knows! Still, I somehow DOUBT it's that bad out there. Yes, it's bad, but not THAT bad... I don't think so @ least, and I tend to keep pretty steady-eddy tracking of this up (for over 10++ yrs. now @ sites & sources such as those listed above via populating my custom HOSTS file for both added security AND added speed))

I.E./E.G.-> The # of entries of known bad sites &/or servers in my HOSTS file, which a great deal of came from my sources listed above no less, had grown this year from July 15th 2010 to Sept. 15th 2010 by almost 18,000 entries alone at the tail-end of this summer alone (up to 881, 543++ total entries, & gaining typically between 50-250 more each day).

It's crazy out there now, but it doesn't affect "me or mine", because I cannot be hurt by that which I cannot enter to get hurt by it, such as a bad website that's malscripted or bears a malware, because that's what HOSTS files do, at least part in the way of security (and more for speed such as adbanner blocking (which also helps security too, because many a banner ad has been found with malicious code in it too the past few years now as well), and site IP-to-URL hardcoding): HOSTS files, if done right, can keep you from getting burned in a bogus kitchen, so-to-speak!

Still - 1 million++ new known bad sites in just 1 quarter this year 2010? I have trouble with that estimation, in believing it to be blunt about it, & yes, I have been looking at this type of data for quite a long time now (over 10++ yrs. in fact, in making a custom HOSTS file to protect vs. this type of lunacy).

APK

P.S.=> Since I

> Getting it onto my linux box, now.. there's the rub

So don't put it on Linux. Set up a Solaris or Nexenta box. I just did it. I installed a Nexenta server with 1TB of mirrored, checksummed storage in 15 minutes. I wrote it up here http://petertheobald.blogspot.com/ - it was extremely easy. Now all of my computers back up to the Nexenta server. All of my media is on it. I have daily snapshots of everything at almost no cost in disk storage.

Oops: Parents at Google in the US talking about child safety online, from the just-announced Google Family Safety Center, apparently still in Beta.

First, realize that traditional approaches like SQL are limited mostly by the single box (or the few mirrors) the platform runs on.

So you can't run a SQL query on a highly distributed column store? Oh, what's this?

SQL is an API. SQL is not a storage engine. Please learn the difference. Thank you.

I find your lack of faith disturbing ;-)

Yes... and I gave away a similar idea 2 years ago.

Experiments being reproduced can be hard if no-one else has the data (this can happen --for example if you are Google and publish results using large fractions of the Web as data) or even if something as trivial as moving it from one site to another requires a lot of effort. This is not really a question of storage costs --it is a question of having the data in the first place and the mechanics of moving it around. Models are used in Science as idealisations; but if you really really want to model the long tail of effects, then your model becomes the data. And this relates to summary statistics: all they do is capture aspects of the data (it is after all a summary). If you want the whole truth, then you can't summarise. Fernando Pereira and Peter Novig have a nice paper on this: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/03/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-data.html [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data]

The same could be said about charlatans like Barry Sotero.

It's making as much money as ever.

It is not.

A number of earlier potential buyers valued Miramax at only $550 million to $600 million, so the $660 million value is seen as top of the market. Investor Ron Burkle, working with brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who first created Miramax and built it into a force in film, earlier this year lost out on Miramax when a bid of $565 million was rejected by Disney, which had indicated that it wanted $700 million.

Source: http://whiskeys-place.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-hollywood-economics-folly-of-world.html

As the author of the blog post concludes, this amounts to under a million per movie and $7 million per TV season.

Well, even I thought thats correct. But, apart from the plastic, there is nothing concrete to prove that they are the same. You can find my blog entry on this here: http://flyingtux.blogspot.com/2010/09/35-tablet.html

...gets your eyeballs on their other offerings.

There's a special on paper towels

I discarded ideology decades ago when I realized what a mug's game it was.

Sure no problem - but do you really want to discard "news" backed by independently verifiable facts while you were at it? That is all most of the "we" in the "you lot out there" you are referring to want - news along with the source material free of spin... pretty simple really, and nothing to do with ideology. We can all pile our own ideology on top afterward.

Old Media is mostly echo spin chamber devoid of any verifiable facts - the "polarization" you observe on the internet is the opposite beginning to seep through - message from outside the echo chamber trickling through in polar opposite to the mainstream old media rhetoric. If it is quality online news then it references every source that the message was based on. Of course this does not mean they are all reliable or trustworthy - the majority still are not - which is why "we" are all calling for the source material along with our news summary soundbites. Here is one overview of the "new media" landscape, one of many - but this one happens to include more on your point of view that the internet is nothing more than a bunch of rabid ideology.

"YouTube is running a (very) brief trial of their new live streaming platform: 'This new platform integrates live streaming directly into YouTube channels; all broadcasters need is a webcam or external USB/FireWire camera. Included in the test is a "Live Comments" module which lets you engage with the broadcaster and the broader YouTube community. For the purpose of the trial, this offering will only be available today and tomorrow. Based on the results of this initial test, we'll evaluate rolling out the platform more broadly to our partners worldwide.'"

I, for one, welcome our new TV replacement.

growing algae to produce sugar

Combine with this: viologen mediated sugar-air fuel cell. The viologen is a major weed killer, so it's quite cheap.

What build/os? here's the best I could get from Windows 7-64:

Chrome 7 dev (had to manually turn on GPU acceleration): http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fPLo8aIju-A/TIfgbvlguaI/AAAAAAAAOoc/dCc-Tj6IgUo/s400/2010-09-08_150824.jpg
FF 4 Beta 5 (as is): http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fPLo8aIju-A/TIfgccSWk1I/AAAAAAAAOog/Wg6qzEH3_fk/s400/2010-09-08_150943.jpg
IE 9 platform preview (as is): http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fPLo8aIju-A/TIfga8sAWVI/AAAAAAAAOoY/MW51u3pV53M/s400/2010-09-08_150745.jpg

What build/os? here's the best I could get from Windows 7-64:

Chrome 7 dev (had to manually turn on GPU acceleration): http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fPLo8aIju-A/TIfgbvlguaI/AAAAAAAAOoc/dCc-Tj6IgUo/s400/2010-09-08_150824.jpg
FF 4 Beta 5 (as is): http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fPLo8aIju-A/TIfgccSWk1I/AAAAAAAAOog/Wg6qzEH3_fk/s400/2010-09-08_150943.jpg
IE 9 platform preview (as is): http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fPLo8aIju-A/TIfga8sAWVI/AAAAAAAAOoY/MW51u3pV53M/s400/2010-09-08_150745.jpg

What build/os? here's the best I could get from Windows 7-64:

Chrome 7 dev (had to manually turn on GPU acceleration): http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fPLo8aIju-A/TIfgbvlguaI/AAAAAAAAOoc/dCc-Tj6IgUo/s400/2010-09-08_150824.jpg
FF 4 Beta 5 (as is): http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fPLo8aIju-A/TIfgccSWk1I/AAAAAAAAOog/Wg6qzEH3_fk/s400/2010-09-08_150943.jpg
IE 9 platform preview (as is): http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fPLo8aIju-A/TIfga8sAWVI/AAAAAAAAOoY/MW51u3pV53M/s400/2010-09-08_150745.jpg

Obviously you are not familiar with Capita's reputation for "mis-managing" (read: excessively profiting) government projects. http://davespartblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/why-it-gets-called-crapita_21.html

"How did this happen when all the scientific data points otherwise?"

Because all the scientific data does not point otherwise.

You have to understand that you are under a huge misconception that there is no research that supports the vaccine autism connection, because you are listening to industry mouthpieces that say, "No evidence of any link" and then you guys spend all day parroting that line back and forth to one another, and you really believe that it is true. So of course this ruling sounds absurd to you. Paul Offit has admitted in the press that he is a "vaccine salesman". He flat out lies in the press, and you guys are just swallowing it with out asking any critical questions.

That is not science.

I have put together a page where I just started listing the research that supports the vaccine, autism theory. There are more than forty listed, and it is by no means a complete list. You can find it here:

http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-evidence-of-any-link.html

And you need to pay attention to the completely absurd statements the government is making in regards to this case. An elementary school teacher would not accept such bad excuses from her students as they are offering to the public. Get this email from HRSA's communication office:

"From: Bowman, David (HRSA) [mailto:DBowman@hrsa.gov]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:22 PM
To: 'dkirby@nyc.rr.com'
Subject: HRSA Statement

David,

In response to your most recent inquiry, HRSA has the following
statement:

The government has never compensated, nor has it ever been ordered to
compensate, any case based on a determination that autism was actually
caused by vaccines. We have compensated cases in which children
exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy
may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms
including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures.

Some children who have been compensated for vaccine injuries may have
shown signs of autism before the decision to compensate, or may
ultimately end up with autism or autistic symptoms, but we do not track
cases on this basis.

Regards,

David Bowman
Office of Communications
Health Resources and Services Administration
301-443-3376"

Read that again. Then let me translate this for you:

The Office of Communications is saying that, 'We don't compensate for vaccine induced autism, we compensate for vaccine induced encephalopathy (which is just a term that means a change in brain functioning) that turns into autism. And also we don't track if encephalopathy turns into autism, even though most of the symptoms are seen in autism'.

So according to this reasoning, guns cannot kill people, they just cause a perforation that "may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including , sepsis, serious blood loss, organ damage, symptoms of extreme pain or death. Also we just track gun related perforations, not whether or not they bleed or get infected or result in death".

And if you have not seen the Head of CDC embarassing appearance on CNN, please take a few moments to watch this woman behave like an idiot trying to explain this case away:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh-nkD5LSIg&feature=player_embedded

You all are very bright people who have been fed a line of garbage, and you are swallowing it. Please, start thinking critically about the messages that you are being fed by people with very vested interests in there NOT being an association between vaccines and autism.

Hannah Poling, who had a Johns Hopkins neurologist for a father and a nurse/lawyer for a mother proved their case. HRSA conceded this case because her parents had closed every single way for them to wiggle out of it. Now there are more

"How did this happen when all the scientific data points otherwise?" Because all the scientific data does not point otherwise. You have to understand that you are under a huge misconception that there is no research that supports the vaccine autism connection, because you are listening to industry mouthpieces that say, "No evidence of any link" and then you guys spend all day parroting that line back and forth to one another, and you really believe that it is true. So of course this ruling sounds absurd to you. Paul Offit has admitted in the press that he is a "vaccine salesman". He flat out lies in the press, and you guys are just swallowing it with out asking any critical questions. That is not science. I have put together a page where I just started listing the research that supports the vaccine, autism theory. There are more than forty listed, and it is by no means a complete list. You can find it here: http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/2007/06/no-evidence-of-any-link.html And you need to pay attention to the completely absurd statements the government is making in regards to this case. An elementary school teacher would not accept such bad excuses from her students as they are offering to the public. Get this email from HRSA's communication office: "From: Bowman, David (HRSA) [mailto:DBowman@hrsa.gov] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:22 PM To: 'dkirby@nyc.rr.com' Subject: HRSA Statement David, In response to your most recent inquiry, HRSA has the following statement: The government has never compensated, nor has it ever been ordered to compensate, any case based on a determination that autism was actually caused by vaccines. We have compensated cases in which children exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures. Some children who have been compensated for vaccine injuries may have shown signs of autism before the decision to compensate, or may ultimately end up with autism or autistic symptoms, but we do not track cases on this basis. Regards, David Bowman Office of Communications Health Resources and Services Administration 301-443-3376" Read that again. Then let me translate this for you: The Office of Communications is saying that, 'We don't compensate for vaccine induced autism, we compensate for vaccine induced encephalopathy (which is just a term that means a change in brain functioning) that turns into autism. And also we don't track if encephalopathy turns into autism, even though most of the symptoms are seen in autism'. So according to this reasoning, guns cannot kill people, they just cause a perforation that "may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including , sepsis, serious blood loss, organ damage, symptoms of extreme pain or death. Also we just track gun related perforations, not whether or not they bleed or get infected or result in death". And if you have not seen the Head of CDC embarassing appearance on CNN, please take a few moments to watch this woman behave like an idiot trying to explain this case away: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh-nkD5LSIg&feature=player_embedded You all are very bright people who have been fed a line of garbage, and you are swallowing it. Please, start thinking critically about the messages that you are being fed by people with very vested interests in there NOT being an association between vaccines and autism. Hannah Poling, who had a Johns Hopkins neurologist for a father and a nurse/lawyer for a mother proved their case. HRSA conceded this case because her parents had closed every single way for them to wiggle out of it. Now there are more than 5,600 cases in that court. If HRSA admits that vaccines cause autism, that is more than 100 BILLION DOLLARS in pay outs. And there are 300,00

Foxconn is a new age company/coal Town. They own everything including the police. I bet that they even have their own money. US universities are doing the something similar.

http://jonslattery.blogspot.com/2010/07/times-wikileaks-data-identifies.html

Source article is paywalled but the Times indicated that they were able to get dozens of names and locations of informants just from a fairly casual search of the documents.

An article on a 2 week old unknown blogspot, seriously his first post is August 27 2010

How did this get to /. front page? Is CmdrTaco being blackmailed by this Henk guy?

The conditioning happens earlier than that, I'm afraid.

You need to put a television show on aimed at preschoolers. Make it have a fuzzy stuffed bear who helps kids with things they don't know how to do themselves. Make it a "special assignment" for this bear to help the kids.

The kids are told to do X or Y (make their bed, change the lining in their rabbit cage) by themselves with no parent guidance. That's key number 1.

So how does this external agent, this "stuffed bear" change agent, know how to visit the children to help them? How else? A flying ladybug, that conceals a camera in it. The camera flies in the neighborhood, sees the conundrum of the child, deploys the camera and takes some footage. It then flies to a line-of-sight position, and sends the signal to an orbiting satellite, from where it's beamed to the special agent bear's headquarters. His employer then takes him off of whatever he's doing to go help the child with what they want to accomplish. After all, "it's all part of the plan" (we'll make that a tagline of the show, too.)

Farfetched? No, it's going on right now, unfortunately.

You can trash bing all you like, but competition is always a good thing.

Lots of "Green" in the article, and a comparison with a velomobile ? It's not really green, unlike a real velomobile.

This sounds really cool until you realize that someone is actually going to get paid good money to teach students, most of whom will be going into debt to participate, a subject which has literally no value whatsoever to the market. The humanities and liberal arts are not training people in the classical curricula anymore (which actually DID teach them how to think) and instead are getting students 10s and even 100s of thousands of dollars in debt.

This is probably one the harshest, but most accurate statements I've read about what this level of useless content paid for with debt is doing to the lives of students:

The harsh reality is that a few years on the pole with a coke habit would still leave the average woman with a better long term prospect of happiness than the popular combination of student loans and a soft liberal arts degree from a reputable private university.

From the TechCrunch article that reported about streaming search awhile back:

“At any given time we are running between 50-200 search experiments. You can learn more on our blog.”

The google blog states that they randomly select which computers get used for testing new features like streaming search.

I'm nowhere near educated enough about the Bible to speak at length about the specifics but if you're interested this is a very good talk:
http://doubtreligion.blogspot.com/2010/08/rd-extra-which-jesus.html

Don't be put off by the obviously "atheist" nature of the site and podcast. The speaker is very good and reasoned (as is the podcast in general).

Gutting workplace safety laws. Gutting protections for union organizers. Gutting environmental regulations. Gutting financial regulations. Gutting social programs that make workers secure enough to ask for fair treatment. Letting in foreign workers with H1B visas. Lowering the top tax rate. Tax cuts for shipping jobs overseas. The list goes on and on, man, it's all out war and they are winning.

First, you offer no evidence to any of this, but we'll ignore that for now. I want to know how Steve Jobs gutted financial regulations from his garage. I want to know who was endangered by his tinkering with electronics, creating the first Apple. What social programs did Bill Gates gut when he was meeting with IBM to sell them the first versions of DOS? How on earth did Michael Dell "lower the top tax rate" when was in his early twenties, piecing together machines form his dorm room? How many foreign H1B workers did Nia Vardalos use while writing "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"?

And unions? Really!!??? You talk about the theft from the rich and then bring up unions? The same groups that forcibly take money from workers and use it place politicians in office to give favorable laws to unions? The very same unions that want to strip workers of their rights to private ballot when voting on union matters? The very same groups that host "public" town hall meetings for their purchased politicians and beat anyone who disagrees? Hell, they'll even attack other competing unions. Those unions? Are you frakkin' kidding me!??!

Next, have you ever taken the time to consider that these people might make a product or provide a service that people want?

Finally, and back to your "examples", what has any of that taken from you? And again, you have never defined what is "rich". Wouldn't you say Al Gore is rich? Did he do all these things? Are you saying that Al Gore "gutted environmental regulations"?

I work in an enviro friendly building with ergonomic everything making a product that allows people do things from home rather than getting in their cars and driving to our customer's place of business. My boss is loaded. He hasn't done any of the things you accuse all rich people of doing.

And here's an idea. If you feel your boss is guilty of any of the crimes you claim, quit! Bring a box, put all your crap in there and walk your ass out the door and find a job working for a poor person. No one forces you to work at any of these places. Most people do because they want to.

I fantasize about only having $57k in debt. Thank you, law school scam.

There have been more than a few cases in the UK recently (and Greece I see) where women have been found to be crying wolf. Just have a look at this list:
http://thylacosmilus.blogspot.com/search/label/lying%20about%20rape

It's a strange place, Australia. First cycle helmets, which also have no proven effectiveness, and now this. They really want everyone to drive everywhere.