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McCain Northwest Air Campaign Ties Exposed In Airline Profiling Attack Murder Attempts Ongoing PLEASE SPREAD!! ***>>http://McCainATTACKS.BLOGSPOT.COMhttp://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Presidential candidate John McCain I have now discovered, is deeply connected to the persecution ongoing against my mother and I in the wake of the Jan 18/06 Minneapolis Northwest Airlines profiling attack upon my mother and I (EVIDENCE BELOW), via his close association with Northwest Airlines, the official airline of his political campaign and the fact that his lawyers have Northwest Airlines as one of their top two primary clients!!- a detail which I have just this second uncovered, the most profound aspect, bar none of our ordeal. Our website: http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Northwest Airlines Profiling attack, Northwest Air a McCain campaign affiliate and sponsor and amongst the top 2 clients of the McCain legal counsel. (proof and links below), now ongoing kidnapping attempts in Canada via Canadian police acting on behalf of U.S. to silence our online voice http://aaronjamesstory-importantlinks.blogspot.com/ ***>>THE EVIDENCE OF MCCAIN NORTHWEST AIRLINES TIES: ***--->>>Northwest Airlines is primary supporter of McCain re airlines CEO Douglass Steeland is very pro McCain and primary airlines supporter of his campaign complete with magazine photos and coverage in World Traveler magazine http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php ARTICLE McCain Supporting Northwest Airlines: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php "1) If you've taken a flight on Northwest Airlines in August you may have noticed the full cover of their in-flight magazine, World Traveler, greets you with the trio of Norm Coleman, John McCain, and Tim Pawlenty with the headline "The Republican's Are Coming!" The full-length photo identifies "Presidential candidate John McCain is flanked by Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty." Meanwhile Barack Obama gets a less than two inch inset headshot photo which fails to mention that he is a senator, also a Presidential candidate, oh, yeah, and that his name is Barack Obama. 2) Then there's the message from NWA President & CEO Doug Streland which reminds us that his airline is the official airline of the Republican convention. ... 3) Inside the magazine, the splashy feature article on the Republican convention includes the cover photo of the three men again along with brief descriptions of them, including "fun facts." ***McCain's lawyers amongst the 133 lobbyists working for McCain have Northwest Airlines as their primary clients!!!http://mccainsource.com/corruption?id=0006 Firm / Employer Campaign Role Lawyers for McCain Select List of Clients Northwest Airlines Union Telephone U.S. Chamber of Commerce Source JohnMcCain.com Corporate interests are at play here, and McCain's racially bigoted campaign strategy (Palan labeling Obama a consorter with terrorists and their supporters shouting "lynch him, kill him etc) is consistent with the profiling mandate of Northwest Airlines and their 6000 CD release to the FBI developing the profiling system (CAPS-Computer assisted profiling system) targeting U.S. civilians. Treading on McCainâ(TM)s Corporate interests: Penalty: Attempts on Our lives: Northwest Was in Bankruptcy Protection, Now in Delicate Merger with Delta Airlines-McCain does not want upset in the balance of status quo Moreover, at the time of the attack, Northwest Air was in bankruptcy protection and did not want a potential civil suit action- currently they are in a delicate negotiation of merger with Delta Airlines that is hanging in the bala

http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ McCain Northwest Air Campaign Ties Exposed In Airline Profiling Attack Murder Attempts Ongoing Upon our family PLEASE SPREAD!- I think no matter who is elected this country is in very deep trouble- We must prepare ourselves-We are in Canada and still reaping the flagellation of a police state beyond contrition!! http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ We have just discovered a corporate CAMPAIGN tie as motivation linking MCCAIN TO ONGOING MURDER ATTEMPTS UPON MY MOTHER AND I B/C OF HIS NORTHWEST AIRLINES AFFILIATIONS AS PRIMARY CAMPAIGN SPONSOR-We were profiled and attacked on board a Northwest Airlines flight Jan 18/06,-I was left in a pool of blood, thereafter interrogated by FBI tried to link me to Alqueda, placed through FBI/CIA laden jury and now ongoing kidnapping attempts in Canada by local factions on behalf of U.S. afflict us. This is being done to silence our online voice and lobbying against Northwest- given the corporate and political interests tied to McCain we now see why we have been pursued to doggedly. Government Just Downed our website WWW.AARONJAMESSTORY.COM on Oct 6/08 just a few days prior, and two consecutive kidnapping attempts took place Oct 10th/and 13th thereafter.! resist1000@usa(dot)com *** http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Presidential candidate John McCain I have now discovered, is deeply connected to the persecution ongoing against my mother and I in the wake of the Jan 18/06 Minneapolis Northwest Airlines profiling attack upon my mother and I (EVIDENCE BELOW), via his close association with Northwest Airlines, the official airline of his political campaign and the fact that his lawyers have Northwest Airlines as one of their top two primary clients!!- a detail which I have just this second uncovered, the most profound aspect, bar none of our ordeal. Our website: http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Northwest Airlines Profiling attack, Northwest Air a McCain campaign affiliate and sponsor and amongst the top 2 clients of the McCain legal counsel. (proof and links below), now ongoing kidnapping attempts in Canada via Canadian police acting on behalf of U.S. to silence our online voice http://aaronjamesstory-importantlinks.blogspot.com/ THE EVIDENCE OF MCCAIN NORTHWEST AIRLINES TIES: ***--->>>Northwest Airlines is primary supporter of McCain re airlines CEO Douglass Steeland is very pro McCain and primary airlines supporter of his campaign complete with magazine photos and coverage in Daily Traveler magazine http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php ARTICLE McCain Supporting Northwest Airlines: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php "1) If you've taken a flight on Northwest Airlines in August you may have noticed the full cover of their in-flight magazine, World Traveler, greets you with the trio of Norm Coleman, John McCain, and Tim Pawlenty with the headline "The Republican's Are Coming!" The full-length photo identifies "Presidential candidate John McCain is flanked by Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty." Meanwhile Barack Obama gets a less than two inch inset headshot photo which fails to mention that he is a senator, also a Presidential candidate, oh, yeah, and that his name is Barack Obama. 2) Then there's the message from NWA President & CEO Doug Streland which reminds us that his airline is the official airline of the Republican convention. ... 3) Inside the magazine, the splashy feature article on the Republican convention includes the cover photo of t

http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ McCain Northwest Air Campaign Ties Exposed In Airline Profiling Attack Murder Attempts Ongoing Upon our family PLEASE SPREAD!- I think no matter who is elected this country is in very deep trouble- We must prepare ourselves-We are in Canada and still reaping the flagellation of a police state beyond contrition!! http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ We have just discovered a corporate CAMPAIGN tie as motivation linking MCCAIN TO ONGOING MURDER ATTEMPTS UPON MY MOTHER AND I B/C OF HIS NORTHWEST AIRLINES AFFILIATIONS AS PRIMARY CAMPAIGN SPONSOR-We were profiled and attacked on board a Northwest Airlines flight Jan 18/06,-I was left in a pool of blood, thereafter interrogated by FBI tried to link me to Alqueda, placed through FBI/CIA laden jury and now ongoing kidnapping attempts in Canada by local factions on behalf of U.S. afflict us. This is being done to silence our online voice and lobbying against Northwest- given the corporate and political interests tied to McCain we now see why we have been pursued to doggedly. Government Just Downed our website WWW.AARONJAMESSTORY.COM on Oct 6/08 just a few days prior, and two consecutive kidnapping attempts took place Oct 10th/and 13th thereafter.! resist1000@usa(dot)com *** http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Presidential candidate John McCain I have now discovered, is deeply connected to the persecution ongoing against my mother and I in the wake of the Jan 18/06 Minneapolis Northwest Airlines profiling attack upon my mother and I (EVIDENCE BELOW), via his close association with Northwest Airlines, the official airline of his political campaign and the fact that his lawyers have Northwest Airlines as one of their top two primary clients!!- a detail which I have just this second uncovered, the most profound aspect, bar none of our ordeal. Our website: http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Northwest Airlines Profiling attack, Northwest Air a McCain campaign affiliate and sponsor and amongst the top 2 clients of the McCain legal counsel. (proof and links below), now ongoing kidnapping attempts in Canada via Canadian police acting on behalf of U.S. to silence our online voice http://aaronjamesstory-importantlinks.blogspot.com/ THE EVIDENCE OF MCCAIN NORTHWEST AIRLINES TIES: ***--->>>Northwest Airlines is primary supporter of McCain re airlines CEO Douglass Steeland is very pro McCain and primary airlines supporter of his campaign complete with magazine photos and coverage in Daily Traveler magazine http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php ARTICLE McCain Supporting Northwest Airlines: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php "1) If you've taken a flight on Northwest Airlines in August you may have noticed the full cover of their in-flight magazine, World Traveler, greets you with the trio of Norm Coleman, John McCain, and Tim Pawlenty with the headline "The Republican's Are Coming!" The full-length photo identifies "Presidential candidate John McCain is flanked by Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty." Meanwhile Barack Obama gets a less than two inch inset headshot photo which fails to mention that he is a senator, also a Presidential candidate, oh, yeah, and that his name is Barack Obama. 2) Then there's the message from NWA President & CEO Doug Streland which reminds us that his airline is the official airline of the Republican convention. ... 3) Inside the magazine, the splashy feature article on the Republican convention includes the cover photo of t

http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ McCain Northwest Air Campaign Ties Exposed In Airline Profiling Attack Murder Attempts Ongoing Upon our family PLEASE SPREAD!- I think no matter who is elected this country is in very deep trouble- We must prepare ourselves-We are in Canada and still reaping the flagellation of a police state beyond contrition!! http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ We have just discovered a corporate CAMPAIGN tie as motivation linking MCCAIN TO ONGOING MURDER ATTEMPTS UPON MY MOTHER AND I B/C OF HIS NORTHWEST AIRLINES AFFILIATIONS AS PRIMARY CAMPAIGN SPONSOR-We were profiled and attacked on board a Northwest Airlines flight Jan 18/06,-I was left in a pool of blood, thereafter interrogated by FBI tried to link me to Alqueda, placed through FBI/CIA laden jury and now ongoing kidnapping attempts in Canada by local factions on behalf of U.S. afflict us. This is being done to silence our online voice and lobbying against Northwest- given the corporate and political interests tied to McCain we now see why we have been pursued to doggedly. Government Just Downed our website WWW.AARONJAMESSTORY.COM on Oct 6/08 just a few days prior, and two consecutive kidnapping attempts took place Oct 10th/and 13th thereafter.! resist1000@usa(dot)com *** http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Presidential candidate John McCain I have now discovered, is deeply connected to the persecution ongoing against my mother and I in the wake of the Jan 18/06 Minneapolis Northwest Airlines profiling attack upon my mother and I (EVIDENCE BELOW), via his close association with Northwest Airlines, the official airline of his political campaign and the fact that his lawyers have Northwest Airlines as one of their top two primary clients!!- a detail which I have just this second uncovered, the most profound aspect, bar none of our ordeal. Our website: http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Northwest Airlines Profiling attack, Northwest Air a McCain campaign affiliate and sponsor and amongst the top 2 clients of the McCain legal counsel. (proof and links below), now ongoing kidnapping attempts in Canada via Canadian police acting on behalf of U.S. to silence our online voice http://aaronjamesstory-importantlinks.blogspot.com/ THE EVIDENCE OF MCCAIN NORTHWEST AIRLINES TIES: ***--->>>Northwest Airlines is primary supporter of McCain re airlines CEO Douglass Steeland is very pro McCain and primary airlines supporter of his campaign complete with magazine photos and coverage in Daily Traveler magazine http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php ARTICLE McCain Supporting Northwest Airlines: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php "1) If you've taken a flight on Northwest Airlines in August you may have noticed the full cover of their in-flight magazine, World Traveler, greets you with the trio of Norm Coleman, John McCain, and Tim Pawlenty with the headline "The Republican's Are Coming!" The full-length photo identifies "Presidential candidate John McCain is flanked by Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty." Meanwhile Barack Obama gets a less than two inch inset headshot photo which fails to mention that he is a senator, also a Presidential candidate, oh, yeah, and that his name is Barack Obama. 2) Then there's the message from NWA President & CEO Doug Streland which reminds us that his airline is the official airline of the Republican convention. ... 3) Inside the magazine, the splashy feature article on the Republican convention includes the cover photo of t

http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ McCain Northwest Air Campaign Ties Exposed In Airline Profiling Attack Murder Attempts Ongoing Upon our family PLEASE SPREAD!- I think no matter who is elected this country is in very deep trouble- We must prepare ourselves-We are in Canada and still reaping the flagellation of a police state beyond contrition!! http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ We have just discovered a corporate CAMPAIGN tie as motivation linking MCCAIN TO ONGOING MURDER ATTEMPTS UPON MY MOTHER AND I B/C OF HIS NORTHWEST AIRLINES AFFILIATIONS AS PRIMARY CAMPAIGN SPONSOR-We were profiled and attacked on board a Northwest Airlines flight Jan 18/06,-I was left in a pool of blood, thereafter interrogated by FBI tried to link me to Alqueda, placed through FBI/CIA laden jury and now ongoing kidnapping attempts in Canada by local factions on behalf of U.S. afflict us. This is being done to silence our online voice and lobbying against Northwest- given the corporate and political interests tied to McCain we now see why we have been pursued to doggedly. Government Just Downed our website WWW.AARONJAMESSTORY.COM on Oct 6/08 just a few days prior, and two consecutive kidnapping attempts took place Oct 10th/and 13th thereafter.! resist1000@usa(dot)com *** http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Presidential candidate John McCain I have now discovered, is deeply connected to the persecution ongoing against my mother and I in the wake of the Jan 18/06 Minneapolis Northwest Airlines profiling attack upon my mother and I (EVIDENCE BELOW), via his close association with Northwest Airlines, the official airline of his political campaign and the fact that his lawyers have Northwest Airlines as one of their top two primary clients!!- a detail which I have just this second uncovered, the most profound aspect, bar none of our ordeal. Our website: http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Northwest Airlines Profiling attack, Northwest Air a McCain campaign affiliate and sponsor and amongst the top 2 clients of the McCain legal counsel. (proof and links below), now ongoing kidnapping attempts in Canada via Canadian police acting on behalf of U.S. to silence our online voice http://aaronjamesstory-importantlinks.blogspot.com/ THE EVIDENCE OF MCCAIN NORTHWEST AIRLINES TIES: ***--->>>Northwest Airlines is primary supporter of McCain re airlines CEO Douglass Steeland is very pro McCain and primary airlines supporter of his campaign complete with magazine photos and coverage in Daily Traveler magazine http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php ARTICLE McCain Supporting Northwest Airlines: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php "1) If you've taken a flight on Northwest Airlines in August you may have noticed the full cover of their in-flight magazine, World Traveler, greets you with the trio of Norm Coleman, John McCain, and Tim Pawlenty with the headline "The Republican's Are Coming!" The full-length photo identifies "Presidential candidate John McCain is flanked by Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty." Meanwhile Barack Obama gets a less than two inch inset headshot photo which fails to mention that he is a senator, also a Presidential candidate, oh, yeah, and that his name is Barack Obama. 2) Then there's the message from NWA President & CEO Doug Streland which reminds us that his airline is the official airline of the Republican convention. ... 3) Inside the magazine, the splashy feature article on the Republican convention includes the cover photo of t

http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ McCain Northwest Air Campaign Ties Exposed In Airline Profiling Attack Murder Attempts Ongoing Upon our family PLEASE SPREAD!- I think no matter who is elected this country is in very deep trouble- We must prepare ourselves-We are in Canada and still reaping the flagellation of a police state beyond contrition!! http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ We have just discovered a corporate CAMPAIGN tie as motivation linking MCCAIN TO ONGOING MURDER ATTEMPTS UPON MY MOTHER AND I B/C OF HIS NORTHWEST AIRLINES AFFILIATIONS AS PRIMARY CAMPAIGN SPONSOR-We were profiled and attacked on board a Northwest Airlines flight Jan 18/06,-I was left in a pool of blood, thereafter interrogated by FBI tried to link me to Alqueda, placed through FBI/CIA laden jury and now ongoing kidnapping attempts in Canada by local factions on behalf of U.S. afflict us. This is being done to silence our online voice and lobbying against Northwest- given the corporate and political interests tied to McCain we now see why we have been pursued to doggedly. Government Just Downed our website WWW.AARONJAMESSTORY.COM on Oct 6/08 just a few days prior, and two consecutive kidnapping attempts took place Oct 10th/and 13th thereafter.! resist1000@usa(dot)com *** http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Presidential candidate John McCain I have now discovered, is deeply connected to the persecution ongoing against my mother and I in the wake of the Jan 18/06 Minneapolis Northwest Airlines profiling attack upon my mother and I (EVIDENCE BELOW), via his close association with Northwest Airlines, the official airline of his political campaign and the fact that his lawyers have Northwest Airlines as one of their top two primary clients!!- a detail which I have just this second uncovered, the most profound aspect, bar none of our ordeal. Our website: http://mccainattacks.blogspot.com/ Northwest Airlines Profiling attack, Northwest Air a McCain campaign affiliate and sponsor and amongst the top 2 clients of the McCain legal counsel. (proof and links below), now ongoing kidnapping attempts in Canada via Canadian police acting on behalf of U.S. to silence our online voice http://aaronjamesstory-importantlinks.blogspot.com/ THE EVIDENCE OF MCCAIN NORTHWEST AIRLINES TIES: ***--->>>Northwest Airlines is primary supporter of McCain re airlines CEO Douglass Steeland is very pro McCain and primary airlines supporter of his campaign complete with magazine photos and coverage in Daily Traveler magazine http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php ARTICLE McCain Supporting Northwest Airlines: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/northwest-airlines-supporting.php "1) If you've taken a flight on Northwest Airlines in August you may have noticed the full cover of their in-flight magazine, World Traveler, greets you with the trio of Norm Coleman, John McCain, and Tim Pawlenty with the headline "The Republican's Are Coming!" The full-length photo identifies "Presidential candidate John McCain is flanked by Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty." Meanwhile Barack Obama gets a less than two inch inset headshot photo which fails to mention that he is a senator, also a Presidential candidate, oh, yeah, and that his name is Barack Obama. 2) Then there's the message from NWA President & CEO Doug Streland which reminds us that his airline is the official airline of the Republican convention. ... 3) Inside the magazine, the splashy feature article on the Republican convention includes the cover photo of t

One of my biggest gripes is the lack of community planning since the 1950s.

You sound like the idiots who are complaining about the "lack of regulation" in the financial industry, despite the fact that it was already the most tightly regulated business *before* the current debacle started.

The biggest factor in urban growth since the 1950's has been the tightening of the zoning noose, sacrificing the natural, organic growth pattern of property rights in favor of central planners operating on what we now know as stupid fashions emanating from bad ideas (housing projects, anybody?).

The solution is not to get a new king, but to abolish the monarchy, and leave property owners free to judge such things on their own. When they get it wrong, maybe they'll fuck up a neighborhood or two, but to screw up an entire city -- that takes government.

Take a good look at Houston, Texas, which has had minimal use restrictions. You probably hate the place doubly so, because 1. it doesn't conform to your visions, and 2. lacks the means by which you would impose them.

And yet it's growing much better, faster and more affordably than any planned city.

"For the better part of 2008 analysts from around the country have pointed to Houston as an example of what a lack of government controls on land use can provide for citizens. Houston has ranked near the top in list after list of the nation's best cities. Our economy is still growing and our housing market has remained stable. As I have pointed out numerous times, these economic benefits are the practical consequences of freedom."

One of my biggest gripes is the lack of community planning since the 1950s.

You sound like the idiots who are complaining about the "lack of regulation" in the financial industry, despite the fact that it was already the most tightly regulated business *before* the current debacle started.

The biggest factor in urban growth since the 1950's has been the tightening of the zoning noose, sacrificing the natural, organic growth pattern of property rights in favor of central planners operating on what we now know as stupid fashions emanating from bad ideas (housing projects, anybody?).

The solution is not to get a new king, but to abolish the monarchy, and leave property owners free to judge such things on their own. When they get it wrong, maybe they'll fuck up a neighborhood or two, but to screw up an entire city -- that takes government.

Take a good look at Houston, Texas, which has had minimal use restrictions. You probably hate the place doubly so, because 1. it doesn't conform to your visions, and 2. lacks the means by which you would impose them.

And yet it's growing much better, faster and more affordably than any planned city.

"For the better part of 2008 analysts from around the country have pointed to Houston as an example of what a lack of government controls on land use can provide for citizens. Houston has ranked near the top in list after list of the nation's best cities. Our economy is still growing and our housing market has remained stable. As I have pointed out numerous times, these economic benefits are the practical consequences of freedom."

Economizing the number of letters in a headline is driven by several factors, all of which apply onscreen as they do on paper- like the need to minimize the time it takes for a reader to take in the headline... [emphasis mine]

BUT--there is a HUGE difference between the amount of time it takes to "take in" (read) a headline and the time it takes to UNDERSTAND it. The worst headline I ever read, I read very quickly--it was just four words. Unfortunately, those words were "QUAKE'S RUINS YIELDS LIVES." Considering that the all-uppercase-ness of it hid the first word's apostrophe, it was a PAIN to parse because EVERY WORD could have been either a plural noun or a third-person present verb. And earthquakes almost ALWAYS ruin things--if they don't, they don't wind up in the paper. At first glance I thought it was about the quake ruining something. Things often die in earthquakes so I read it a second time thinking it was about something surviving (living) after a quake. I had to read it very carefully and think hard before I figured out what it meant.

No matter how many headlines I read, my brain still puts in a pause whenever I see a comma. A comma does NOT tell you exactly what is happening. "Microsoft and Google" is 100% unambiguous. "Microsoft," might be the beginning of "Microsoft, a large software company, is..." or "Microsoft, Google battle..."--two TOTALLY different types of sentences. My brain does NOT go into a fewer-rules mode--"OK, this is a headline, so a comma does NOT signify the start of an interrupter"--just because the text is big and at the top of the page.

If anything a web based article is even more limited that a dead tree version because of the faster pace of web browsing and sharply limited screen acreage.

I disagree 100%. Unless your headlines take up a whole screen's width and height (which, duh, it never will) it is NEVER a good idea to sacrifice clarity for the sake of brevity on the Web. Not to this extent. There's no reason to sacrifice clarity for those who care just to make it so idiots who are going to skim and misread ANYWAY can do so faster.

It's a new century. The Web is not as hard-pressed for inches as print is. PLEASE stop putting commas in headlines!

I too have done various types of print and screen layout, and while I've not had to do any serious headline writing, I do read The Slot. :-)

Done and done

(Yes, I'm aware that it was removed for other reasons and that it wasn't in the US. It's still funny)

Just recently I saw a web posting on how many people did commit suicide during the first part of the great depression. It seemed to be well enough informed and claimed that while the suicide rate rose during the depression, it was just a continuation of a steady rise that had been occurring for a number of years beforehand and that for the most part it was not the common image of "stock traders jumping out of windows". I can't find that page now, but here's one that claims something similar.

I asked about trade magazines and got a few responses, and I'm always looking for more reading material, so I'm interested in hearing responses too.

And for the record, I like Lightwave, Dr Dobbs, Network World, Storage Magazine, and I'll be writing soon for Simple Talk Exchange, so you should subscribe to that, too ;-)

As has been noted, geo-engineering requires massive amounts of hubris and luck.

Geo-engineering is the act of fighting pollution... with yet more pollution!

And when you intentionally try to change a planet-wide system, all manner of unintended consequences will occur.

How Bazaar Has the Model Right

One of the points the article makes is that Git uses hashes to store blobs based on their content, whereas Bazaar uses UUID's based on content. The argument being that hashing algorithms are susceptible to being deprecated in the future. eg. recent MD5 collisions.

-metric

This weakness is really only an issue once you start getting towards an immense amount of data. As the blog entry states, one failure is statistically likely during 14TB of data recover (not storage volume, data volume). So 7 1TB drives in a full RAID5 array has a 50% chance of failure during recovery if one of the drives were to fail.

Home users won't be affected, at least at this point. I imagine that by the time it does become an issue, manufacturing tech will have caught up and it'll be 14PB.

I did cover this earlier today, too.

I couldn't see any way to do this in subversion.

We had someone commit a bunch of DVD .iso files to our repo, and I cannot figure out how to go back and permanently remove them from the repo.

http://strongdynamic.blogspot.com/2007/08/expunging-problem-file-from-mercurial.html
It seems mercurial can do this.

When using CVS, I can just log onto the server and rm -rf the relevant directory. I really miss that feature in subversion.

Because I am the only developer or user of my code?

Seriously, I really really like the model of GIT has for group development. But when by myself I can just cp filename.ext{,.bak} if I'm feeling lazy.

And that is the key. I am typically the only developer on most of my projects. If I hadn't gone out of my way to learn to version control files on my own, I wouldn't have even known about it until my first real programming job. I still work with people who either use tape backup or the cp .1 .2. .old .bak to manage their files after decades as developers or sysadmins.

FTA:

Youâ(TM)d like to work on each of your 4 features A, B, C, and D independently and somewhat in parallel,

And I already mastered branching using other VCSes. This is just Yet Another Version Control Syntax. (YAVCS? Sounds like a disease...)

You start working on A and youâ(TM)re about 100 lines of code into it when you get stumped on a math function. The math wiz on your team is out for the day and youâ(TM)d rather not continue until you consult him. ...
So now we can work smoothly between multiple branches without worry of the consequences of interruption.

Working on my own personal projects means I don't have a 'math wiz' to ask...

Git offers power by putting collaboration up front before commits are public for all to see.

Most projects on sourceforge.net have 1 developer. But then most are essentially dead so probably not the best.

To quote Linus Torvalds on Subversion vs Git:

Subversion used to say CVS done right: with that slogan there is nowhere you can go. There is no way to do cvs right. No comments.

Git is wonderful for group work. And if you are introducing version control to a group environment you can probably start out with it.

For some of the solo developers, subversion is just CVS with nicer features and the old, familiar workflow.

To quote Linus again:

If you like using cvs, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else

Ever hear the story about the sanitarium? It was for insane people only, so to be safe they had the contractor build it inside out.

Though as size increases, so does risk of failure, as I'm finding out.

That blog post forgets one thing: sector remapping.

With any actual redundant system (i.e., not RAID-0), you increase the likelyhood that the data is still there somehow. The drive with the unrecoverable read error re-maps the sector and the RAID software/firmware uses the redundancy to recover the correct data and write it back to the re-mapped sector.

I came into this thread to post the same message for the most part. Though as size increases, so does risk of failure, as I'm finding out.

and i particularly enjoy responding to 'is that a mac'? questions with 'better!' and show em the compiz desktop eye candy.

Compiz is behind Quartz in speed and quality. See DRI2 or run a 3D game and check how your whole UI slows down. It wouldn't happen on Quartz since it uses 2D GPU features instead 3D. But yes, the 3D candy is impressive for the untrained eye. I think it's the same with any other desktop technology like fonts, windows server, color calibration, resolution independence.. linux has it, but it's lagging in quality.

( a fun game is to go to the mac store and spec one up to how you'd like your generic pc to be, then be horrified at the running total! )

Tom's Hardware on mac prices is still the most detailed analysis: The Apple Mac Cost Misconception : Macs and Their Prices. Short story: not expensive, but buy upgrades in macsales instead Apple.

http://10-14-08redux.blogspot.com/ Creating and manifesting the new timeline

About a month ago I ran a set of benchmarks to test IE8, FF3.0, FF3.1, Opera, Chrome and Safari on a number of JS and DOM benchmarks. The results are a little outdated (both WebKit and FF3.1 have made big strides in performance in this month alone) but should stand to compare where IE8 is (not IE7). I'll give you a hint: not favorably.

The test and analysis is at my blog and the raw data is here.

I don't know about the patents, but the current major obstacle is the license. ZFS, as part of the OpenSolaris kernel, is available under the CDDL. The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL, ruling out ZFS inclusion directly in the Linux kernel. Sun has hinted that they could dual license the Solaris kernel under CDDL and GPL, but that hasn't happened yet. Small parts of the ZFS filesystem code have been GPLed so they could be added to grub to support booting ZFS root filesystems.

There is a userspace port of the ZFS code and utilities which avoids the license problem by using FUSE to separate the filesystem code into a separate process: ZFS-FUSE.

If Sun were to ever dual-license ZFS, the ZFS-FUSE codebase would be a good place to start for porting the code to direct kernel inclusion. (Note: Sun, via their subsidiary, Cluster File Systems, now employes the author of ZFS-FUSE to use his port as an optional backend for the Lustre file system.)

This worked very well. Thank you. It is nice to find a solution within a bunch of bitching.

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Hopefully, with all of Ray Beckerman's submissions to Slashdot, a decent percentage of Slashdot feels this way; that for every Jack Thompson (who, thankfully, has been disbarred) there are lawyers who practice the law for more noble reasons.

Hopefully Canada doesn't catch the copyright madness the U.S. has; I'm glad to see that the DMCA is finally coming back to bite some of the politicians who voted for it.

Every country needs lawyers and activists fighting for the rights of the consumer; big business should not receive a lot of the special privileges that it receives.

1984 isn't a fucking instruction manual.

They reeeeealy should have let us buy them! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Yes, really. Apparently.

In one of the most transparently stupid "LOOK! TERRORISTS!" stories to date, The Times has "exclusively" published a report claiming terrorists are hiding their secret terrorist messages inside child pornography. Because, y'know, obviously you're going to hide your messages somewhere already illegal rather than in wedding photos or LOLcats.

I'm pleased to say that the commenters on the article - and UK newspaper online comments are one of the purest sources of raw stupid on the planet - are already condemning this as obvious Home Office press-release ware.

The Times has been spotted running press releases for the Home Office before with jawdroppingly stupid scare stories. Coincidentally, the Home Office's call for the police to be able to hold people 42 days without charge just got rejected. Obviously not linked.

I wrote a blog post on it, but I'm not sure it's obviously a parody of a stupid thing that someone actually tried to seriously push.

My first thought after seeing the Katz's comic about elderly and the internet was: "oh, did I click at Indexed bookmark accidentally?"

I can't wait to see the Linux Haters blog mocking this story. Linux as a model for new government? Ever visited the flamefests of the LKML? Hell, ever tried to program sound on Linux? There are so many broken APIs, you can barely get anything done.

Patrick Michaud wrote a bare-bones Python implementation in eight hours. It doesn't support all of Python, but it supports a large amount -- and, to my knowledge, he'd never implemented a Python compiler or interpreter before. That project, Pynie, has languished for a while, as he's spending more time working on Rakudo (the Perl 6 implementation on Parrot), but it's a viable port just waiting for someone to work on it. Lua is functionally complete as of 5.1 (I believe), and Tcl, PHP, and Ruby are in progress.

You can play with the latest versions of all of these languages on Tuesday, 21 October, when we make our next monthly stable release (though partcl just moved to a separate repository, so you can check out the current version there on a different schedule).

I don't get all this talk of cruelty and extortion and peoples rights. At the end of the day, If you don't illegally download copyrighted music, you will not get into that state.

Not so. Probably the majority of people being sued did not do the file sharing for which they are being sued. The RIAA's so-called investigation goes no further than purporting to identify a person who paid for an internet access account. Most times the victims are parents, grandparents, neighbors, roommates, etc., and oftentimes they do not even have a clue as to who actually did have the filesharing account the RIAA is pursuing.

Amazingly, I manage to not be annoyed at speed cameras either, because I don't break the speed limit. Yes, life gets very complex if you think the law shouldn't apply to you, but you get caught. That is how it is supposed to work.

Assuming, for purposes of the discussion, that (1) you are as perfect as you claim to be, and never, ever, make a mistake, and (2) the only people the RIAA ever targets are people who actually did use a file sharing program..... it should still trouble you if one of your less perfect neighbors is subjected to punishment that is grossly disproportionate to any actual harm that was done. The whole subject of this article was not whether the defendant, who was 16 years old at the time, did it.... she admitted she'd done it. The question is whether she should have to pay 26,000 times the actual damage, or 2,200 times the actual damage, or 600 times the actual damage... or maybe, just maybe, something a little bit more proportionate to the actual damages sustained. The law is supposed to be about fairness and justice and reason and proportionality. When it allows shockingly disproportionate penalties, it calls the whole legal process into disrepute.

In the age of 'micropayments' for MP3 downloads of 99 cents or less, tacking on damages of $750 or more for a single song is ludicrous, and the entire world is basically laughing at the United States in the wake of the Jammie Thomas trial. I suggest you read Judge Davis's comments about the trial verdict handed down in his courtroom and his plea for Congressional action to prevent such a thing from reoccurring, or this excellent law review article on the unconstitutionality of these disproportionate damages theories, if you are interested in the subject.

I don't get all this talk of cruelty and extortion and peoples rights. At the end of the day, If you don't illegally download copyrighted music, you will not get into that state.

Not so. Probably the majority of people being sued did not do the file sharing for which they are being sued. The RIAA's so-called investigation goes no further than purporting to identify a person who paid for an internet access account. Most times the victims are parents, grandparents, neighbors, roommates, etc., and oftentimes they do not even have a clue as to who actually did have the filesharing account the RIAA is pursuing.

Amazingly, I manage to not be annoyed at speed cameras either, because I don't break the speed limit. Yes, life gets very complex if you think the law shouldn't apply to you, but you get caught. That is how it is supposed to work.

Assuming, for purposes of the discussion, that (1) you are as perfect as you claim to be, and never, ever, make a mistake, and (2) the only people the RIAA ever targets are people who actually did use a file sharing program..... it should still trouble you if one of your less perfect neighbors is subjected to punishment that is grossly disproportionate to any actual harm that was done. The whole subject of this article was not whether the defendant, who was 16 years old at the time, did it.... she admitted she'd done it. The question is whether she should have to pay 26,000 times the actual damage, or 2,200 times the actual damage, or 600 times the actual damage... or maybe, just maybe, something a little bit more proportionate to the actual damages sustained. The law is supposed to be about fairness and justice and reason and proportionality. When it allows shockingly disproportionate penalties, it calls the whole legal process into disrepute.

In the age of 'micropayments' for MP3 downloads of 99 cents or less, tacking on damages of $750 or more for a single song is ludicrous, and the entire world is basically laughing at the United States in the wake of the Jammie Thomas trial. I suggest you read Judge Davis's comments about the trial verdict handed down in his courtroom and his plea for Congressional action to prevent such a thing from reoccurring, or this excellent law review article on the unconstitutionality of these disproportionate damages theories, if you are interested in the subject.

How dare you misquote Lollah's true words.

No decent developer, developer, developer would use Opera! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

Whatever.

They're FPOS because their methods are unsound. See: http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/03/deposition-of-riaas-expert-available.html

If you actually bother to read what I said, I said that Google was no problem and that nobody used this crap! OpenOffice is far more of a problem! http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/

A legislature is unwise to require a specific technology like "encryption." Legislatures are prone to make technical mistakes. --Benjamin Wright

What we need is a pervasive set of net goggles. Your ISP should provide this service, methinks.

he was definitely screwing with you on the whole public/private IP address thing. He had to be intentionally misleading you or else be a total idiot. He knew damn good and well what you were asking. I myself have multiple computers NATed behind a router. One of my buddies has a fully open wireless zone firewalled off from the rest of his LAN. All NATed behind one public IP, of course.

Well I don't know if he is an idiot or not, but he certainly didn't mislead anyone. He just put himself in a position that he would get completely killed at a trial, which is probably one of the reasons why they're trying to weasel out of the case now.

I dunno if I agree with that. I'm doing a multiplatform game in my spare (ha!) time, and I've been thinking about charging maybe $5 more for the Windows version than the OS X version. Out of spite, and also for the extra pain/effort required to support Windows.

No, I'm not going to try shipping a Linux version.

The author of the article is the developer of Unangband, and it's officially part of his "Designing a Magic System" series, part 12. It doesn't really fit in with the rest, but it's still an interesting read. I recommend checking out his blog, as he's got several other very interesting articles for game devs, such as 20 Underused Game Mechanics and earlier parts of his magic system series.

The author of the article is the developer of Unangband, and it's officially part of his "Designing a Magic System" series, part 12. It doesn't really fit in with the rest, but it's still an interesting read. I recommend checking out his blog, as he's got several other very interesting articles for game devs, such as 20 Underused Game Mechanics and earlier parts of his magic system series.

Since I've been shopping for email hosting, I've encountered a few misguided sales people who try to convince me that they actually provide 100% uptime.

The most amusing case was the company who offered two hosting levels. One, which guaranteed 99.9% uptime for their shared hosting, kept their shared customers' accounts on a clustered set of Exchange hosts, with data stored on an enterprise SAN. The 100% uptime was reserved for those people who paid an extra $500 a month. Those lucky customers had an exchange server running on an off-the-shelf Dell box that wasn't connected to the SAN for backup at all.

I really did laugh at the engineer and salesweenie as I thanked them for their time and hung up.

I'm getting ready to move my company to a hosted exchange provider.

It took a while to decide, but I submitted a proposal to host it with Apptix. I spoke with an engineer, and it sounds like they've got a very reliable clustered backend. Add their Blackberry services and compliant archiving, and it sounds like a good solid solution.

Of course, two years and I might change my mind, but that's the risk you take.

There are more new pix, this time with the earth in them, from October 16

"Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, 'Rain Man,' look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Count toothpicks to your cards. Autistic, sure. Not retarded. You know Tom Hanks, 'Forrest Gump.' Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded. You went full retard, man. Never go full retard."

But yeah, that movie was excellent. Catch Me If You Can is also excellent work.

They are definitely working on it. Read the deposition NYCL gave their "Expert" witness. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2007/03/deposition-of-riaas-expert-available.html It's long, but it's awesome. I'm a programmer, not a lawyer, but after reading that deposition and all the stuff about "MediaDefender" I wonder why the RIAA has gotten as far as it has. If I were a judge my reaction to an RIAA lawsuit landing in my court would be more along the lines of uncontrolled laughter than anything else. I suppose that's why I'm a programmer, not a lawyer. Their methods are unsound and sooner or later those RIAA lawyers are going to get Jack Thompsoned.

Glad to see you reading that deposition. It's incredible to me, too, that they've gotten as far as they have. If I were a judge they'd be bounced from my courtroom so fast it would make your head spin.

someone put a copy of photos on blogspot:

http://swench.blogspot.com/2008/10/jjs-star-trek-pics.html

sorry, i screwed that up. that's the link to the update to this story. the first link (the earlier part of this story) should be:
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html#6666659042120040719