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Sorry, but you're being silly.

here is a reasonable estimate of those killed by Yawveh and his followers - have the Islamists done anywhere near that figure?

Islam is a religion of peace - even the name means 'supplication' - Judaism on the other hand is the most hate-filled evil religion ever spawned.

Please go away and read your history, twit.

From what I've seen legal basis hasn't meant much in the RIAA strategy so far. The fighting back though could be a good reason....

It's the combination that frightens them. (1) Knowing that they have no legal position, and (2) knowing that -- if they were to take on universities and colleges -- there would actually be a lawyer in the courtroom representing the defendant to point it out, unlike these cases, where the absence of any meritorious legal argument doesn't matter since there's no defense lawyer to educate the judge.

From what I've seen legal basis hasn't meant much in the RIAA strategy so far. The fighting back though could be a good reason....

It's the combination that frightens them. (1) Knowing that they have no legal position, and (2) knowing that -- if they were to take on universities and colleges -- there would actually be a lawyer in the courtroom representing the defendant to point it out, unlike these cases, where the absence of any meritorious legal argument doesn't matter since there's no defense lawyer to educate the judge.

this, most probably. Good uniform, made for very powerful laser operation.

Here is some good constructive criticism: http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/nitty-gritty-shit-on-open-source.html

make defending students against the RIAA part of the law school curriculum

I've never studied law in my life, but "RIAA Defence 101" is a course i'd sign up for!!!

Actually Prof. Nesson once assigned his students the task of drafting a motion to quash an RIAA subpoena. Now his law students are fighting the RIAA in SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum. Also law students at the University of Maine and University of San Francisco law schools have been fighting the RIAA, and I believe law students at the University of California are going to be getting into the act as well.

The university should have also stated that the evidence must come from investigators licensed in the state of North Carolina.

Interesting you should say that, because their "probable cause hearing" in North Carolina is coming up soon.

Actually, that's why they went underground: they found out all the ikea servers... though slick looking, functional, and high performance.... broke within one year and pretty much crap when it came to repairing.

You keep throwing out the bull but fail to back it up. Show me any solid evidence that the McCain/Palin camp was pandering to racists or get a fucking life.

The whole point of coded appeals to racists is that they're deniable. Their effect, however, is not. For instance, the "Obama's not a real American, if you know what I mean" line of attack coincided with a surge in threats reported by the Secret Service.

The hate on both sides has created a very serious divide in this country, and the propaganda about Obama somehow being Arab or the next Antichrist from the Far Right is just as bad as the Far Left throwing around propaganda that the GOP is the party of racists and that they will do anything to make sure a Black man does not get into office.

Oh, please. "From both sides"? This is the false balance that makes David Broder such a baleful influence on American politics. I'm pointing out a very real pattern which has been part of Republican politics for decades, and you're comparing that to trivially-disproved rapture-compliant fantasies.

But I guess attacks on Obama because of his relationship with his former Pastor were all about race, right? They couldn't have had to do with a man (his Reverend) who obviously hated his own country and the fact that despite the constant barrage of hate this man spewed in his church, that Obama attended the church for longer than a decade.

It might give one pause that Obama was apparently a radical Christian and a Muslim and a (presumably secular) communist. But if the point is to make him out to be some kind of scary Other (and black people are this country's standard scary Other), it makes more sense.

Feel free to read the entire "God Damn America" sermon; if you think patriotism requires that people bow and scrape before a nation that has grievously wronged them, even as they try to reform their little piece of it, then that's your business.

As far as my comments about accidentally appealing to racists, what I meant (and what you tried so hard to distort) is that you can appeal to people who are racist without trying to do so.

If it only happened occasionally, the it's-a-coincidence argument might hold water. But it's been a consistent pattern lasting decades, long enough to enable profound shifts in the nation's political map.

In other words, many southern white racists happen to be pro-gun rights. So, if you as a candidate are pro-gun rights, is it fair to then call you a racist?

Whoa, there. Perhaps I should explain in more detail. Sending coded appeals to racists doesn't make the people doing so racists. It just makes them craven political opportunists bereft of principle.

You simply think blindly that the GOP is the party of white biggots and will spin the debate as you see fit to try and fit that argument, all while bringing zero facts and plenty of FUD to the debate.

Zero facts? The explicit Southern Strategy, the demographic shift in Republican voters, the specific loss of the Latino vote in recent years--these aren't facts?

Look, again, before you get your shorts in a knot. I'm not saying that being Republican makes you a racist. I am saying that the Republican Party has become the party of white racists.

Oh, and by the way, people who illegally enter this country are referred to as illegal aliens because they, you know, illegally circumvented the immigration process [... snip...] but that doesn't make it right to break the rules and hop the fence, so to speak. I guess because of the high number of people who are having trouble

More interesting than useful, but I think the idea of writing a regex to do integer division is awesome.

http://bmm6o.blogspot.com/2008/03/divisibility-testing-and-pattern_27.html

And so are Intel and Nvidia. Vector processing is indeed the way to go but GPUs use a specific and highly restricitve form of vector processing called SIMD (single instruction, multiple data). SIMD is great only for data-parallel applications like graphics but chokes to a crawl on general purpose parallel programs. The industry seems to have decided that the best approach to parallel computing is to mix two incompatible parallel programming models (vector SIMD and CPU multithreading) in one heterogeneous processor, the GPGPU. This is a match made in hell and they know it. Programming those suckers is like pulling teeth with a crowbar.

Neither multithreading not SIMD vector processing is the solution to the parallel programing crisis. What is needed is a multicore processor in which all the cores perform pure MIMD vector processing. Given the right dev tools, this sort of homogeneous processing environment would do wonders for productivity. This is something that Tim Sweeny has talked about recently (see Twilight of the GPU). Fortunately, there is a way to design and program parallel computers that does not involve the use of threads or SIMD. Read How to Solve the Parallel Programming Crisis for more.

In conclusion, I will say that the writing is on the wall. Both the CPU and the GPU are on their death beds but AMD and Intel will be the last to get the news. The good thing is that there are other players in the multicore business who will get the message.

I was referring more to today's politics rather than the politics of the 60's where there were quite a few open racists still around. I think in most circles it is realized that in this day and age, you can't openly or quietly attempt to appeal to racists.

Yes. I said that. Open racism is no longer acceptable. Which is why strategies to appeal to racism without explicitly doing so have become the norm.

That doesn't mean that you won't by chance appeal to people who are racist because of other stances that you hold, but that by no means indicates that someone who appeals to people who happen to be racist are in any way trying to appeal to those sort of people.

No. Absolutely wrong. Nixon's Southern Strategy was a calculated move. Reagan followed in this path, as have Republican candidates since then. It is not an accident. (How do you accidentally appeal to racists, anyway?)

Far the opposite, in my estimation, I'd say many people, especially in the GOP, try their hardest to distance themselves from racists.

Which is why they've built their base around racists--because they were trying so hard to distance themselves?

Maybe not always successfully, but I honestly (and maybe naively) believe that racism is not dead but is not healthy and vigorous anymore, in many legit political circles.

Overt racism is dead. This does not mean that racism in general is gone. This is what I keep trying to explain, and you keep sailing on by.

I think the anti-immigration movement does have some racist elements, but the people who were architects of this movement didn't exactly have this as their intention.

Do you think that you, who didn't notice that the GOP was the party of white racism, should really be judging people based on what you'd like to think their intentions are? How wishful can your thinking get?

It was more of an issue where people are getting displaced out of their lines of work in groves [...]

Yeah, that's pretty much the exact party line put forth by VDARE and their ilk--they'll take our jobs, they're violent gang members, they're going to have anchor babies, and they're probably lepers as well.

In any case, anyone who had a real practical interest in reducing migration would have much better luck reducing the demand for under-the-table labor than reducing the supply. But that wouldn't let people demonize Latinos.

While that is true one mustn't forget What Intel and AMD giveth,MSFT taketh away which is why I have had so many customers saying "Get this Vista shit off my PC!" because they brought home their shiny new toy only to find it getting its ass handed to it by their P4 running XP. So if you got the money to go bleeding edge you might notice the difference,but at least for my customers the Vista resource black hole ate all the gains and then some. That is why I'm hoping Win7 doesn't suck,because frankly I'm tired of playing "find a driver" for laptops that are Vista only.

This is amazing if you think about it, because by this point I could nearly feel the pressure waves of sound coming from that siren. I have no idea what the decibel rating of a modern siren is, but it must be huge. Which makes sense, given that the sound of the siren has to penetrate the cabin of modern, sound-proof automobiles and overpower the sound of unmuffled Harleys. But the fact that I was having to hold my ears to avoid deafness, while cars were moving into the intesection oblivious to the siren's sound, shows that we have reached the end of siren technology. It is time to think of a better solution. Sirens cannot get any lounder without causing local earthquakes. Sound waves simply are not the answer.

http://sadtech.blogspot.com/2006/01/sirens.html

...then it was already green.

This is not new. Vein pattern recognition on the back of the hand was developed years ago. So long ago in fact that the computer part of it was a BBC Micro.

One of the top links is this interview with the company president. The fact that he keeps talking about "megawatts of energy per hour" puts my cynicism into overdrive.

Maybe he's talking about the acceleration of energy production. In a year's time they'll be producing half a terawatt!

I found a BIOwaste blog which very helpfully posted some more detailed and informative technical answers from the CEO of Geoplasma. Here's the meat:

1. Question: How much energy does the plasma-arc use?
Answer: The plasma-arc facility uses approximately 40 megawatts of energy per hour. This is approximately one-quarter of the total output of hourly energy received from MSW.

2. Question: What will be the source of the plasma-arc energy?
Answer: The facility will receive its energy from its total output. For St. Lucie, it is expected that the 3,000 tons of MSW processed per day will create 160 megawatts of energy per hour. As stated previously, 40 megawatts will be used to power the facility and the remaining 120 megawatts will be sold to an Electric Utility.

3. Question: What does the energy source emit?
Answer: See question 5.

4. Question: Is the high heat of the plasma-arc being captured and utilized?
Answer: Because of the nature of a closed-loop system the heat will be captured and utilized both in the plasma gasification process and later in the production of steam.

5. Question: How are they going to combust the syngas to keep the emissions low?
Answer: There is no combustion during the gasification process. The Plasma-arc gasification process is a chemical reduction process that converts MSW from its original state to a glass-like aggregate solid at the bottom, and a synthetic fuel gas, also known as syngas, at the top.

Once gasification is over, the syngas is cleaned in a multi-step process, bringing it to levels near natural gas cleanliness. It is then compressed before being used as fuel for a gas turbine.

The gas turbine for this process is a modified natural gas turbine that mixes the cleaned syngas with air from the atmosphere, combusts the mixture and sends the hot gases through a turbine. The turbine spins an electric generator to produce electricity. The discharged hot gases are then passed through a heat recovery steam generator to produce more steam and to cool the hot gases. The cooler exhaust gases are then discharged into the atmosphere via a stack.

Emissions from this process are very similar to natural gas combined cycle plants which are considered to be âcleanâ(TM) and are located and permitted all over the U.S., and for that matter the whole world.

From http://biowaste.blogspot.com/2007/01/geoplasma-answers-trash-vaporization.html:
 

1. Question: How much energy does the plasma-arc use?
Answer: The plasma-arc facility uses approximately 40 megawatts of energy per hour. This is approximately one-quarter of the total output of hourly energy received from MSW.

2. Question: What will be the source of the plasma-arc energy?
Answer: The facility will receive its energy from its total output. For St. Lucie, it is expected that the 3,000 tons of MSW processed per day will create 160 megawatts of energy per hour. As stated previously, 40 megawatts will be used to power the facility and the remaining 120 megawatts will be sold to an Electric Utility.

3. Question: What does the energy source emit?
Answer: See question 5.

4. Question: Is the high heat of the plasma-arc being captured and utilized?
Answer: Because of the nature of a closed-loop system the heat will be captured and utilized both in the plasma gasification process and later in the production of steam.

5. Question: How are they going to combust the syngas to keep the emissions low?
Answer: There is no combustion during the gasification process. The Plasma-arc gasification process is a chemical reduction process that converts MSW from its original state to a glass-like aggregate solid at the bottom, and a synthetic fuel gas, also known as syngas, at the top.

Once gasification is over, the syngas is cleaned in a multi-step process, bringing it to levels near natural gas cleanliness. It is then compressed before being used as fuel for a gas turbine.

The gas turbine for this process is a modified natural gas turbine that mixes the cleaned syngas with air from the atmosphere, combusts the mixture and sends the hot gases through a turbine. The turbine spins an electric generator to produce electricity. The discharged hot gases are then passed through a heat recovery steam generator to produce more steam and to cool the hot gases. The cooler exhaust gases are then discharged into the atmosphere via a stack.

Emissions from this process are very similar to natural gas combined cycle plants which are considered to be 'clean' and are located and permitted all over the U.S., and for that matter the whole world.

I was thinking exactly the same thing - I'm still sceptical, certainly, but the Scientific American story that's linked from the one above does say that "it will process 1,500 tons of garbage a day, sending 60 megawatts of electricity to the power grid (after using some to power itself).". They're definitely trying to claim that they've found a way to use random waste as a fuel source, which would be a breakthrough if true.

What worries me is a quick Google of the company. One of the top links is this interview with the company president. The fact that he keeps talking about "megawatts of energy per hour" puts my cynicism into overdrive - sure, it's not entirely damning; maybe the engineers are sitting hanging their heads at how the president doesn't understand what they're doing, but when the likelihood of their claims actually being what they say they are is this low, that really isn't who they need at the helm.

a better description of what ACTUALLY happened and why everybody's whining is a bunch of BS

http://informationdissemination.blogspot.com/2008/11/media-disinformation-on-navy-sonar-case.html

Here's an implementation of the above idea in Octave. There are lots of cool built-in functions in the image package.

why does nobody - no regulatory body that is - demand that Google explain exactly what data they collect and what the heck they do with it?

They did. And here is Google's response.

OMG be careful with Google Sync. You can create a singularity and destroy the universe!

Not really. Naming is actually a really big business and is usually a pretty painful process. I know someone that was a professional namer that worked for a big branding house for a while. The time they spent coming up with names was pretty incredible.

I'd believe it. You need a name that's catchy, but unique. You want to avoid sexual innuendo for most products, and if you have any desire to go international - you have to check how the name changes in meaning as you travel. Take car names - Aztec has different connotations in South America than it does in North America. And sometimes you can't get away with a simple rebadge as advertising will transfer.

I remember seeing a website way back full of unfortunate naming. This isn't it, but along the same lines.

A more interesting article:
http://klindianministry.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-companies-got-their-name.html

That's exactly the point of the SAS70 auditing standard. Companies outsource all sorts of data all the time, and there is an auditing standard for how that data is treated.

Google Apps has satisfactorily completed a SAS 70 Type II audit, so it's means that the company has met a rigorous level of standards in controls and safeguards necessary to host or process data belonging to their customers.

College education could be less costly in Europe or free. But free is not costless. Take Italy. Universities are payed in little part by student fees, they are subsided by the state (they are public universities). What did happen? Slowly, in a few decades, the tenures were taken by the friends of the most powerful professors, the family members and their paramours. People becoming tenured with ZERO citations, publications, books, etc. People winning because other 25 candidates retire themselves. http://informazionesenzafiltro.blogspot.com/2008/10/universit-malata-la-denuncia-di-roberto.html In italian sorry. I translate a part for you: "The data of Bankitalia [Italy Central Bank] show that in the South (where the phenomenon is more visible) from the richier 20% of the society come the 28% of the students and from the poorer 20% only the 4%. One seventh. In America, where the university is paid by the students, the poor that go to the university are 13%. Why? Because, over the demagogery, show the author, the italian university is Âa reversed Robin Hood, where the taxes of all, poors included, finance the free courses of the richer".

Show me evidence of the Republican party trying to court racists. I'd love to see this.

Did you not notice my mention of the Southern Strategy? The whole point is that Nixon in 1968 and Reagan in 1980 could appeal to racist whites without appearing racist to anyone else. When Goldwater tried appealing to racists in 1964, the results were catastrophic outside the deep South; thus, later conservative attempts to court racists were coded and deniable, but nevertheless effective.

And Immigration Control has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with preventing people who haven't obtained the right to come live in our country to just waltz in.

Issues which have "nothing to do with race" usually don't attract racists like free bags of Cheetos attract bloggers. David Neiwert has done plenty of legwork on this question. I'm sure you're a perfectly nice not-at-all-racist king of person, but the anti-immigration movement is rife with prejudice. When you have talking heads on Fox explaining how these folks aren't really looking for work, but are an army trying to complete "the Reconquista" and turn part of the U.S. into "AztlÃn", it becomes a little harder to deny.

Even if you can't see that, the Latino electorate here certainly could, and that was borne out in the vote.

Vista is barely slower than XP on hardware bought within the last 2 years.

Here is one benchmark where XP is nearly twice as fast as Vista.

http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/11/windows-xp-sp3-yields-performance-gains.htm

despite it's (C's) incarnations (or deformations, depending on who you believe) still king, and it was designed in 1972.

A lot of that is inertia, hubris and "real" programmers unwilling to leave 1985.

C is the lowest common denominator. If I want to talk to a low level library, or pop up a window then you can almost always trust there to be a C interface. If the proper interfaces existed for higher level languages then it would be safer to use them. My current alpha rant http://upcracky.blogspot.com/2008/10/do-you-see-what-i-see.html goes into more detail about this. It's starting to drive me nuts.

In C you can write blindly fast code, but it comes at the expense of wasted slices of a finite lifetime. You gain speed, but you usually don't need it. Computers are faster than ever and, for many programs, they spend most of their time sitting idle waiting for a human to hit a key or click a mouse.

C has more space for picky little bugs (like memory management). Unfortunately we "real" programmers take great pride in finding these little nits. We should spend less time taking pride in nit hunting and more time asking why we're wasting our monkey cycles on languages that have us do what a computer can do better.

C also has a good, free, popular compiler. Now that Java has open sourced we my see C get some competition in the daemon field. Secure daemons are more important that fast ones.

A good example of this was Ayers coming out after the election and saying he was involved with the Obama campaign "until the maelstrom hit"

Would you please cite this? Because the quote I heard after election day was "I barely knew Obama".

Perhaps he's referring to this article from the New Yorker from November 4, 2008.

"It's all guilt by association," Ayers said. "They made me into a cartoon character--they threw me up onstage just to pummel me. I felt from the beginning that the Obama campaign had to run the Obama campaign and I have to run my life." Ayers said that once his name became part of the campaign maelstrom he never had any contact with the Obama circle. "That's not my world," he said. (emphasis added)

Taking that statement out of context can make it sound as if he had some (or lots of) contact before the "maelstrom" happened. For example, check out this article doing just that.

But the New Yorker notes something the Post glossed over: Ayers says his contacts with "the Obama circle" continued until "his name became part of the campaign maelstrom."

But, that's not quite what New Yorker article actually says. It says there was no contact after the "maelstrom" and says nothing--zero, zip, zilch, nada--about what contact, if any, there was before the maelstrom. Certainly not that it "continued" up to that point and certainly not that he was "involved with the campaign" up to that point. But, still, that's the sort of thing the GP is probably thinking of.

Of course, that same New Yorker article had this to say about Ayers relationship with Obama:

In fact, Ayers said that he knew Obama only slightly: "I think my relationship with Obama was probably like that of thousands of others in Chicago and, like millions and millions of others, I wished I knew him better."

I wouldn't really expect any applications to run faster on Windows 7 unless the hardware was upgraded.

If that were true, then there shouldn't have been performance differences between XP and Vista, but there were. These differences continued on into the Vista SP 1 and XP SP3 upgrades.

Theoretically, there is a maximum "speed" that any application can run at. This is based upon the raw speed of the CPU, Memory, disks, graphics, and other subsystems, used in the most efficient manner. While no OS can ever achieve that, it is the function of the OS to maximize system performance.

System performance will always be a moving target, not just because of hardware changes or hardware options, but also because what is the best performance for a server differs from what is the best performance for a workstation.

As for the "Apple fanboys," they do have reason to poke fun. With each release of OS X, there have been performance improvements over the previous release; 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5. This has been improvements on the same physical hardware.

It appears that Microsoft has chosen to focus their work on improving the UI's responsiveness, or adding new bells and whistles, while not dealing with the performance issues that individual applications run into. While UI responsiveness can be helpful, if the application doesn't finish any faster, the UI being able to show you that it is still busy, doesn't make that much 'real' difference.

The file copying slowness was actually related to something new in their networking stack which I believe was fixed in SP1. If I wasn't lasy I would try to look it up and find links for you. I use a Vista box for copying large numbers of files between servers because the copy dialog actually provides useful information, doesn't cancel on simple errors and the speed seems the same to me. (If it's a LOT of information I use a backup utility).

Ah, wait 5 minutes before posting a comment....so I got a link for you:

http://mytechweblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/slow-file-copymove-in-vista-here-is_05.html

It mainly talks about the fix and not the cause, and I remeber reading somewhere that SP1 flips that off by default.

But of course, the ombudsman at the Washington Post took that into consideration in her article.

But of course, the ombudsman is a well known hack.

In addition, if you Google around a bit or know where to look, you can find the URL to download Google StarOffice directly without having to download the Google Pack/install Google Updater.

The setup file is still downloadable at that location, BTW, despite the fact that it is not mentioned on the Google Pack page any longer nor does Google Updater recognize it as a Google Pack app. So if you STILL want it...

-- Nathan

Reality has a well-known liberal bias!

Only when your reality is fed to you by these people:

Senior Obama adviser Susan Rice (a former Clinton administration official) is married to Ian Cameron, the Canadian-born executive producer of ABC News's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

NBC's David Gregory is married to Beth Wilkinson, a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington and a former official in the Justice Department during the Clinton administration.

ABC's George Stephanopoulos hosts a show bearing his name and earlier served as a senior advisor to the Clinton administration.

Chris Matthews hosts MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter.

David Gergen is a political analyst for CNN and served as a special adviser to President Clinton.

Paul Begala is a CNN commentator ("[President Bush is] a high-functioning moron") and a former senior adviser to President Clinton.

Bill Moyers is a journalist employed by PBS and was a press secretary for President Lyndon Baines Johnson. His son is a producer for CNN.

One other thing check out the T-shirt at the link: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/11/899mo-bmw-lease-payments-of-mediacrats.html

Would you please cite this? Because the quote I heard after election day was "I barely knew Obama".

http://roschellenelson.blogspot.com/2008/11/bill-ayers-finally-speaks.html

...
In fact, Ayers said that he knew Obama only slightly: "I think my relationship with Obama was probably like that of thousands of others in Chicago and, like millions and millions of others, I wished I knew him better."
...
"It's all guilt by association," Ayers said. "They made me into a cartoon character--they threw me up onstage just to pummel me. I felt from the beginning that the Obama campaign had to run the Obama campaign and I have to run my life." Ayers said that once his name became part of the campaign maelstrom he never had any contact with the Obama circle. "That's not my world," he said.

The OP needs to learn to check his sources.
Because that article does not say what he thinks it does.

Oh, and when asked about his drug use back in October 2006 said "Of course I inhaled. That was the point". On video.

No, I have no idea why the media would not want to spend reporting resources and column inches covering this repeatedly.

And would you agree that Obama has been far more open about his illegal substance abuse than certain other presidents?

Just to add a datapoint, my iphone's wifi was doa (and a fast draining battery as a consequence). They didn't want to even look at it. Just because it wasn't activated. I've read the whole warranty and the crap they put on the web too which explicitly said that you don't have to have to have iphone activated (you need to enter the serial number of the phone there) to receive the service under warranty.

But it was a painful experience, full story and details at prosperouspoverty.blogspot.com

The iphomb is a piece of junk! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Stirling engines can be fairly efficient if you have the (space and weight) budget to make them big and heavy. For cars they're certainly not a very good idea.

But the main point of Stirling engines isn't efficiency but the fact that they are not only fuel-agnostic; unlike combustion engines or steam engines they don't need any kind of combustion or medium phase-change to operate. Anything that can generate a temperature differential will do. They're also quiet and very reliable (few moving parts).

That makes them well suited for things like backup generators, where you can store them for years on end, then run them on whatever fuel you can get hold of. They're used in submarines too, due to their silent operation and no need for actual combustion to generate enough heat. You could set up a Stirling engine to run on the waste heat from other processes. And they're reversible, so they're used as coolers for certain temperature ranges (overkill for a normal freezer but if you want much colder it's one way to go). Heat pumps are essentially Stirling engines.

Shameless plug ahead: a blog post of mine on Stirling engines here: Stirling Engine

Canada doesn't have a major navy. There have been plans in the past to at least buy a polar-class ice breaker to patrol the north but that keeps getting canceled. Maybe it's back on (named, ironically enough, after Diefenbaker, he who murdered the Arrow. Harper has such a low opinion of Canadians he doesn't think we'll remember. Him and McKay, minister in charge of using his position to pick up chicks and lying through his pointy little teeth to the Progressive Conservatives, God Rest Their Souls.

Chances are, though, Harper is lying again.

At any rate, the Conservatives can be counted on to tool around with idiotic hardware to prove that Alberta is just as good as Texas. "Can we be Texas, please? Pleeeeeease?"

Ray, When are you going to get an Amazon wishlist and cash in on all this slashlove you're getting?

All I want is for people to buy stuff for themselves, but buy it through my Ad Links, so I can get a commission. That will help to finance the work I'm doing. A good place to start would be with buying some of the nice, independent, non-RIAA, music I have listed.

Ray, When are you going to get an Amazon wishlist and cash in on all this slashlove you're getting?

All I want is for people to buy stuff for themselves, but buy it through my Ad Links, so I can get a commission. That will help to finance the work I'm doing. A good place to start would be with buying some of the nice, independent, non-RIAA, music I have listed.

Ray, When are you going to get an Amazon wishlist and cash in on all this slashlove you're getting?

All I want is for people to buy stuff for themselves, but buy it through my Ad Links, so I can get a commission. That will help to finance the work I'm doing. A good place to start would be with buying some of the nice, independent, non-RIAA, music I have listed.

Maybe he needs a donation page?

Well this would be even better.

Sort of.

One for expert witnesses, a couple for specific cases, listed on NYCL's blog:
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/#contrib

Certianly he has friends here, I'd give him a dollar.

His website has ads you can click to help support it. There is also a PayPal link there for donations to his client in this case, Ms. Lindor, defense. Which if I recall correctly, not going to Google it ATM, that PayPal account was setup at the behest of the Slashdot community. There are also links there where you can contribute to other cases where Mr. Beckerman is not the lawyer and a link for donations to the EFF. The donation links are about halfway down on the left.

Hopefully NYCL will win a judgement for his client for the coverage of his client's legal fees but often such judgements will not completely cover everything as no doubt this case has cost his client much more then just what Mr. Beckerman's bill comes to as she has no doubt had lost wages and extra expenditures related to this case, not to mention judges are known to reduce the settlement to below the stated legal costs. First though he will need to defeat this attempt to defame him, which puts him in the inappropriate spot of having to defend himself. Wonder if it would be appropriate for the EFF or others to file an amicus curiae here.