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What is the difference between a smart congressman and Bigfoot?

Bigfoot can't make your life a living hell....

http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-was-kidnapped-by-sasquatch.html

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((( O mankind! Say No God But Allah, Achieve Eternal Salvation ))) " Laa ilaaha illallah " (There is none worthy of worship except Allah.) ( Introduction to Islam ) http://www.blogger.com/profile/00783655376697060967 Christ Jesus, peace be upon him in the Holy Quran http://jesus-christ-2012.blogspot.com/ Allah, CREATED THE UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING http://allah-created-the-universe.blogspot.com/ THE COLLAPSE OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION IN 20 QUESTIONS http://newaninvitationtothetruth.blogspot.com/ What's The Purpose of life ? http://www.islamtomorrow.com/purpose.htm

If I could get all the security agencies to read my Blogs posts, I'd probably have a big enough audience to make a living!

Difficult conversations,yes. And here is an even more difficult aspect, because there is no profit in it for the mainstream cancer industry: http://www.lef.org/protocols/cancer/brain_tumor_01.htm
"Vitamin D3, the chemical form of vitamin D made in the skin and sold as a nutritional supplement, calcitriol (1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D), the active form of vitamin D, and various chemical analogs and metabolites of vitamin D, have all been shown to inhibit growth and trigger apoptosis in neuroblastoma and glioma cells (Naveilhan P et al 1994, Baudet C et al 1996, Elias J et al 2003, van Ginkel PR et al 2007)."

Iodine is another thing to consider for helping with cure and prevention, and again is very cheap and not patentable so has few advocates in the cancer industry:
http://brain-cancer-survivor.blogspot.com/2011/12/could-iodine-kill-cancer-cells.html

As Upton Sinclair said: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

Upton Sinclair also wrote a book on using fasting to heal cancer, btw, but what profit is their in advising patients to fast compared to advising them to buy $10K bottles of pills every month?
http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/fasting-cure-for-health.html

But once you have cancer, getting rid of it is iffy no matter what you do. The best thing to do is to prevent it, which again is fairly inexpensive, without much profit for the mainstream medical industry:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/article24.aspx

The USA even subsidizes creating cancer through its agricultural policies:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/11/the-subsidized-food-pyramid.html
"The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has posted an easy-to-understand visual on its site that shows which foods U.S. tax dollars go to support under the nation's farm bill. It's titled "Why Does a Salad Cost More Than a Big Mac?" and depicts two pyramidsâ"subsidized foods and the old recommended food pyramid. It's interesting to note that the two are almost inversely proportional to each other."

I doubt this level of alleged fraud is common, but it does show the risk of conflict of interest in oncology, where the same doctor prescribing the treatments profits from carrying them out:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/07/1229570/-Michigan-doctor-arrested-for-purposely-misdiagnosing-cancer
"In the course of the scheme, prosecutors say Dr. Fata falsified and directed others to falsify documents. MHO billed Medicare for approximately $35 million dollars over a two-year period, approximately $25 of which is attributable to Dr. Fata, federal officials said The complaint further alleges that Dr. Fata directed the administration of unnecessary chemotherapy to patients in remission; deliberate misdiagnosis of patients as having cancer to justify unnecessary cancer treatment; administration of chemotherapy to end-of-life patients who will not benefit from the treatment; deliberate misdiagnosis of patients without cancer to justify expensive testing; fabrication of other diagnoses such as anemia and fatigue to justify unnecessary hematology treatments, and distribution of controlled substances to patients without medical necessity or are administered at dangerous levels."

Conflicts of interest apply to research as well:
"Financial conflicts of interest in economic analyses in oncology."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21441858
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Suppose in 1990 that the government froze spending, locked it to inflation. Well, 1990 wasn't so bad, right? Has there been great strides in the quality of life since then that we can attribute to government spending? Not at all,

You are completely ignoring the main reason for the budget problem! It's demographics. In 1990 there were almost 20% more workers per retiree than now. The effect on social security / medicare is very predictable. Meanwhile healthcare costs have been increasing much faster than inflation. This is true both inside and outside government programs, but the government picks up the tab for the elderly, who incur the most expenses. So, have we got anything for our money since 1990? Yes! average remaining life expectancy at 65 has increased by 2 years since 1990.

So, the idea that government expenditures went up mysteriously, or due to largesse, is incorrect.

No.

http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/some-clarification-for-small-businesses.html

the deficit grows even faster.

Actually the deficit is falling rapidly. (Same thing happened under the last Democrat President.)

As for the whining about Government spending... It's just hypocrisy.

I can think of several amateur liquid motors that have been successfully 3D printed before this (granted, this is something that I follow). In particular,

• Unreasonable Rocket fired a H2O2-gasoline DMLS (direct metal laser sintering) motor in early 2011. Not the most traditional fuels, but definitely a rocket.
• Rocket Moonlighting has a gaseous O2-Kerosene motor. Not a purely liquid rocket motor, but a good test item nonetheless

I can think of several amateur liquid motors that have been successfully 3D printed before this (granted, this is something that I follow). In particular,

• Unreasonable Rocket fired a H2O2-gasoline DMLS (direct metal laser sintering) motor in early 2011. Not the most traditional fuels, but definitely a rocket.
• Rocket Moonlighting has a gaseous O2-Kerosene motor. Not a purely liquid rocket motor, but a good test item nonetheless

See also this Direct Metal Laser Sintered (DMLS) 3-D printed regeneratively cooled engine: http://rocketmoonlighting.blogspot.com/2011/07/testing-update.html http://rocketmoonlighting.blogspot.com/2013/09/seeing-triple.html

See also this Direct Metal Laser Sintered (DMLS) 3-D printed regeneratively cooled engine: http://rocketmoonlighting.blogspot.com/2011/07/testing-update.html http://rocketmoonlighting.blogspot.com/2013/09/seeing-triple.html

It's a reference to the fact that many Apple products look like other, older products.

There is of course no shame in taking inspiration from what other people are doing. That's the way the world works and we are all better for it. Apple's problem is they then try to patent the design and sue the person they copied for using it.

Huh, that quote only dates back to 2009. As much as I've heard it I figured it had its origin in the 80s. I wouldn't mod someone up for quoting it once again, myself. It's a bit overdone, to say the least.

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It's not a real question at all actually. There's little to no fracking anywhere in AZ because there are no viable shale/oil fields in the state. If you don't believe me see what the Arizona Geologic Survey Director has to say: http://arizonageology.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-hydraulic-fracturing-threat-in.html Besides, even if there was fracking there is no evidence of fracking causing any damage to surface structures. The widely publicized case of minor earthquakes in OH isn't directly related to fracking, but to the reinjection of frack wastewaters in wastewater injection wells, which are many, many miles from where the fracking occured. Great job getting in the first response to the first post though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#Accusations_of_anti-Semitism_and_bias_in_coverage_of_Israel
http://cifwatch.com/2013/04/30/guardianap-story-on-tunisias-jews-omits-history-of-antisemitic-persecution/
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/91164/antisemitic-guardian-gaza-cartoon-shows-jews-puppeteers
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/08/reuters-bbc-and-guardian-celebrates.html#.UleSExBFNoo
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/06/1207175/-Guardian-Battles-Financial-Woes-Antisemitism-Allegations
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/624/the_guardian_acknowledges_a_degree_of_anti_semitism
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100196562/the-guardian-speaks-up-for-paedophiles-flirts-with-anti-semitism-and-jumps-on-every-crazy-leftist-bandwagon-in-sight-what-happened-to-quality-control/
http://engageonline.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/michael-white-guardian-assistant-editor-cries-israel-in-response-to-concern-over-lord-ahmeds-antisemitism/
http://cifwatch.com/2013/05/22/top-10-warning-signs-you-may-be-a-guardian-left-anti-semite/

Eagerly awaiting your reply. I'm especially excited about how many points get you on the last one.

Really? Because I remember a story where a women caught in the act of adultery was brought to Jesus and He basically said "Don't judge her, you have no right. Then asked her to stop doing it." Very little murder was involved.
Reference:
http://biblehub.com/nlt/john/8.htm

...and this from the same guy who totally hated fig trees...?

http://jesushatesfigs.blogspot.com/

How many date rapists are high profile and hide out in embassies openly defying the law? Date rape is something that the take fairly seriously in Britain. It's a violent crime from someone accused of two different sexual assaults that refuses to face justice. They certainly aren't spending the money to keep him /in/ the embassy, as they would far rather he come out so that he could answer for the crimes he has been accused of.

As for your 1 in 4 figure, you might want to find a figure that wasn't an urban legend propagated by the NOW.

Your characterization of MW is completely wrong and you don't seem to actually understand what it is.

Instead of reading web pages from charlatans and uneducated non-physicists like Eliezer Yudkovski, you should read what actual physicists have to say about MW:

http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/05/hugh-everetts-many-worlds.html

Lubos Motl claims that the MWI interpretation of QM is completely false to fact in this post: Simple proof QM implies many worlds don't exist.

Lubos Motl claims that the MWI interpretation of QM is completely false to fact in this post: Simple proof QM implies many worlds don't exist.

Paranoia or not, the NSA or its precursors have been aggresively working for years to get access to your data and break or bypass encryption. Sure, it could have been a hacker or bored student, but its just silly to think Linux users are immune to the attention of government prying eyes.

Paranoia or not, the NSA or its precursors have been aggresively working for years to get access to your data and break or bypass encryption. Sure, it could have been a hacker or bored student, but its just silly to think Linux users are immune to the attention of government prying eyes.

Your history is a bit off. The US had very little to do with arming Saddam. To the extent that it assisted Iraq in the war against Iran it was to prevent Iraq from losing which would have lead to greatly increased Iranian influence in the region.

Who armed Saddam? - Some reality checks

The Ba'ath regime was strongly anti-American, so it's not surprising that--despite the unfortunate fate of the Iraqi Communist Party--it was primarily a client of the Soviet Union (not the US), and this relationship continued up until the moment when the Soviet Union collapsed. The other major patron of Saddam Hussein & his regime was France (which, among other things, was the main supplier for his nuclear-weapons program as far back as the early 1980s). Of course, the Iraqi Ba'ath regime was never a simple tool of any of these patrons. It had its own agenda, and it played off its patrons--as well as other supporters--against each other when that suited its purposes.

In light of the importance of this project, the thing is cheap at 600 million

Cheap? You can start an entire company for that amount! Here's what $600 million could buy (from the last Powerball drawing):

$600 million.

For those of you who think people should be forced to give up their money to the "poor unfortunates", here's what $600 million can buy.

For those technologically inclined, you could have bought your own fiber optic network provider.

$600 million for a lousy web page is not cheap.

The first one is being used for this: http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/07/delicious-raspberry-pi.html
The second one for this: http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-second-helping-of-pi.html

The third is for experimentation.

The first one is being used for this: http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/07/delicious-raspberry-pi.html
The second one for this: http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-second-helping-of-pi.html

The third is for experimentation.

It was never backed by gold.

But it was once backed by SILVER, an it said so right on the face of Silver Certificates, which you could turn in for actual silver. Allegedly.

You can still turn your bills in for gold, silver, zinc, or BTC. You just have to trade it with someone besides the government.

Full story here: http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2013/10/at-heart-of-gun-control-debate-beats.html. Truth hurts when you are in denial. But only then.

At the heart of the gun control debate beats an uncomfortable truth: homicides and nonfatal shootings are almost exclusively clustered in black neighborhoods, with the fear (and legitimate threat) of being a victim of such 'random' violence the primary reason for white flight and subsequent democratic takeover of cities by black elected officials.

Were gun control advocates serious about stopping gun crime, making it illegal for black people to own guns (and coming down harshly on those who illegally possess guns in the black community) would instantly remove the primary reason for white flight from a city such as Gary, Indiana.

Such a sane policy would save thousands upon thousands of black lives each year (gunned down by other blacks), and - more importantly - allow for actual wealth to be created with white people able to put down roots in a community, instead of abandoning neighborhoods every generation when the scenario mentioned in the first paragraph inevitably occurs.

Instead, our government actively passes laws to take guns away from the law-abiding, fails to aggressively target black communities in cities like Chicago, Newark, and Baltimore where illegal guns flourish, and does every thing imaginable to destroy white communities and neighborhoods (untold wealth has been lost since the declaring of restrictive covenants unconstitutional).

Why not just make guns illegal for black people to own in these cities and in Gary?

White people might move back to the city, considering it's a city that whites abandoned decades ago because of the legitimate fear of being the victim of random black crime.

The NRA, in working to protect gun-rights for all Americans, actually works to kill American cities like Gary and Indianapolis (where almost all homicides by guns and nonfatal shootings involve a black suspect); guns do make us safer, but when you combine guns and black people you get unsafe streets and eventually 'blight' where neighborhoods once thrived.

In the black communities of Indiana, you do get similar homicide and nonfatal statistics to Chicago.

At the heart of the gun control beats the uncomfortable truth no one is willing to confront, which is a clear indication this nation is reaching terminal status.

Restrictive gun laws would work, if you actively policed the sections of cities where gun ownership is forbidden.

We don't have that today (even in Chicago), because police departments are incredibly fearful of doing anything that would negatively impact the black people and create a public relations nightmare (picketing, boycotts, end of careers, and editorial condemnation from local newspapers/affiliates); but we could have that if we were prepared to restore health to our cities (or wherever black people are found in America).

You can afford to pay $12 for a box of cereal. Be honest. You could do it.

Yep.

Why don't you?

Because $11.50 of any money I spent on that fundamentally unhealthy product would go to the 1% that use their money to corrupt my government.

I pay extra for fair-trade, organic, shade-grown coffee. I pay extra for services from mom & pop stores that offer workers benefits. I pay extra for pizzas and chicken sandwiches that do not support politically activist religious fanatics like the Catholics or Mormons. I pay extra for clothes made without slave labor. I pay extra for cars that emit less pollution.

Most Americans in the 99% are just like me. They are more than happy to spend extra for something that does good in their view. But they won't pay $12 for slave-labor cereal with profits going to slavers and nutball armageddonists, and for most people in the United States that's all they are being offered.

The market, fundamentally, is neither free nor fair; and you can't buy what's not on the shelves. The corporate-owned Federal Government is doing everything it can to wipe out anything that might benefit the little guys- they won't even let farmers sell fresh milk to people who want to buy it. Because those bold libertarian heroes are protecting you from germs, see?

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They don't even need to do that - in most devices the CMOS is a square and it's simply software which dictates whether the output is portrait or landscape. You could simply force it to capture widescreen even when held in portrait mode. Probably the reason they don't do this is it would confuse the folks who.. don't understand this stuff. "I'm holding it vertically, why isn't it recording vertically?" Actually - it's really just usability, but perhaps there should be an option on most of these devices "Always capture widescreen video".

Now.. some devices do have slightly wider than tall CMOS sensors, such as the iPhone 5s slightly landscape sensor, but a minor down-sampling of video resolution (since, if it's in portrait mode, the sensor is portrait so not quite as wide) would have little effect - especially on the majority of camera phones which don't record 1080p in the first place, so a "full-width" 720p widescreen video could be captured in portrait mode anyhow.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/09/richard-dawkins-defends-mild-pedophilia-again-and-again/69269/

http://orientem.blogspot.com/2010/04/richard-dawkins-on-pedophilia-delusion.html

http://tidbitsfortechs.blogspot.com/2013/09/never-underestimate-bandwidth-of.html

False.

Wrong on both counts there. For one, that's not an argument trotted out by anyone. It's a blatant strawman. I know of the argument you're referring to, and it's more complicated than that.

For two, even if it were an argument, this doesn't even refute it. You've had a suspicious event and a possible explanation that fits your worldview handed to you. The entire "refutation" comes from confirmation bias.

Well, I suppose Hanlon's Razor might be appropriate here.

But I would counter with Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

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who are you going after... the bicyclist, or the guy with a truck and a lock safe containing untold goodies?

Yeah, I notice that all the truck food and water and gas and geny are in the open truck bed. So after zombies (or your neighbors) steal all your stuff, you're boned.

Also, you have a big gas engine under the hood. Any reason you couldn't hook that up to generate power instead or dragging around an entirely separate gas engine?

Paint job is flashy. If you're going to be camping out in the woods you might be better off with something like a us4ces camo. If you're going to be camping out in an urban environment maybe a faux distressed, rusty, beat-up P.O.S. paint job would work.

Are you going to sleep in the cab? Right behind the glass that will be busted out on day 2?

Overall - not impressed.

Something like this might be better:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oBH_vL4MMaw/UKPz2QksHlI/AAAAAAAAAfw/ZKtEa0Ey6Bk/s1600/overland+vehicle+land+rover+2.0.jpg

Has a snorkel for fording. Lockable metal side windows. (You could probably weld up some flat hillbilly armor for the front windows, too.) Roof tent for safe environment sleeping. Interior sleeping space for hazardous environment sleeping. 2 spare tire mounts. Solar panel. Built in 40L petrol tank. Also gets better millage than that pretty pick-up. (23mpg vs. 16mpg.)

Oh! One other big advantage - it actually exists!

and you actually hit on the reason why when you mentioned rich vs poor people's drugs. A lot of these people have serious chemical imbalances in their brains. They aren't taking heroin because they lack moral fiber and they can't "Pray it away". They're self medicating. See this comic for anyone that doubts.

As for action, why would Russian need to do anything? From a practical standpoint these people have little or no impact on the general populace. They die quickly and mostly keep to themselves. In order to take action Russia would have to move away from Libertarian ideals of "Free choice" and towards Socialism (hopefully real Socialism and not the phoney kind loved by Fascists).

The older autistics were present all along. There are three primary explanations for this:

1) 40+ years ago, flamingly autistic children were commonly misdiagnosed as having a severe psychiatric disorder or mental retardation --then new versions of the DSM radically changed diagnostic criteria, and pediatricians started to be educated about how to identify autism. A study of Calfornia's diagnostic rates for various conditions performed several years ago showed that the "epidemic" increase in autism over the decades was in sync with a "decrease" in those other conditions. (One interesting researcher's post I found is here)

2) After parents stopped institutionalizing their disabled kids in the 70s, if a child diagnosed with classic autism (e.g. lost speech or never developed it) started speaking, the diagnosis was rescinded even if the child still was autistic in every other way. Those kids usually weren't told about the diagnosis, so they had no idea why they struggled in certain areas of life until well into adulthood, at which point most asked their parents and/or had a neuropsych confirm the diagnosis.

3) This part refers to the people that weren't diagnosed, but might have been if they were kids today:

50+ years ago, social hierarchy & rules were simple and had little ambiguity, which made it easier for autistic kids to know precisely what to do/say without having to read subtle clues to know how to act. Similarly, fashion was fairly simple, so it wasn't hard to buy the same attire as others. Odd as it sounds, as long as an autistic stayed within the framework of those rules, society was more tolerant than ours is of their individual quirks like rarely making eye contact or perseverating on model trains. (I'm not saying I'd want to live back then, but in terms of being socially accepted, it wasn't as hard.)

Kids back then were expected to mature at very different rates, and spent most of their non-school time unsupervised from age 5 onwards; the rules were concrete & simple to follow, so they blended in there as well. Classes were quiet & well-behaved, so the auties weren't distracted, and there was enough recess to wear off the edge of their energy so they wouldn't struggle to sit still.

Young autistics also weren't at a huge disadvantage when it came to employment. The strict social rules made it easy to know what to wear & how to act, and employers hired them at entry-level knowing that it'd involve training them as total newbies, so there wasn't the pressure to be experienced professionals right away.

So on and so forth.

As for real autistics speaking openly about it, most of the autistics I've known were open about it (with the exception of the ones ashamed of what they are), but we don't bring it into every conversation. I think that you're picking up on the effect of it being a big media story -- the rare times a possibly-autistic person is mentioned in the media, it's because either they did something horrible or are being interviewed regarding the condition.

Attributed by Jim Marrs in the William Lewis film One Nation Under Siege (2008); no published occurrence of this has been located prior to The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy : How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America (2010) by Jim Marrs

Funny, I googled it and got http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/09/one-nation-under-seige_15.html so now they'll have to say no published occurrence prior to 2006. Of course, that post claims John D. Rockefellar[sic] was the founder of the NEA, so it's still pretty much bullshit (Rockefeller founded the General Education Board in 1904, about 50 years after the NEA was chartered. Criticism of that was published in 1998 in The Creature from Jekyll Island, so maybe wikiquote should go check out a book from their library to see if we can move that date further).

Was the old cert due to expire? I have thought before that it would be nice if my browser etc gave me a warning like "Certificate has changed but wasn't due to expire for another 3 months". This still gives the bad guys a window where a subverted certificate could be slipped in without notice, but it closes the window a bit.

Maybe. If I skip the web browser and run: msmtp --serverinfo --host=smtp.gmail.com --tls=on --port=587 --tls-certcheck=off

I get:
Activation time: Tue Sep 10 00:54:47 2013
Expiration time: Wed Sep 10 00:54:47 2014
SHA1: 10:75:E1:8C:DF:93:15:3B:A1:8F:CD:FE:D3:11:79:D5:16:43:77:BC

That's a pretty recent change. If there was overlapping time between the activation of this one and the expiry of the last one... problem is, I don't have a time machine and can't find out what the last one was, nor when it was set to expire.

Googling (look, just because they can MITM every site, I don't think even NSA is doing DPI on every HTTP transaction so they can pipe every web page through 'sed s/valid-signature/fake-signature/g' :) around for prior signatures reveals:

As of June 19, 2010: Activation time: Thu Apr 22 21:02:45 2010
Expiration time: Fri Apr 22 21:12:45 2011
SHA1: 1A:6F:48:8F:BE:5B:FD:92:D8:12:30:F9:22:CE:84:49:B3:43:BD:2C

As of August 16, 2011: Activation time: Wed Feb 16 12:38:09 2011
Expiration time: Thu Feb 16 12:48:09 2012
SHA1: DB:A0:2A:07:00:F9:E3:23:7D:07:E7:52:3C:95:9D:E6:7E:12:54:3F

As of October 2, 2012, another user reports a change from:
SHA1: F3:92:AE:B4:28:FE:64:03:6F:E1:55:ED:71:9E:5F:F6:88:90:5A:57
to:
SHA1: 34:B4:3E:66:71:D8:AC:5A:47:76:7F:B7:CD:E4:31:08:F4:A5:DD:A8
but didn't include the dates.

There was also a 2013 hit for what looked like a tls_fingerprint of 52:99:F2:7F:82:4F:79:5A:71:1F:FF:D3:BE:22:7C:88:06:62:89:76 also without dates.

So on the one hand, this may simply be an innocuous expiry of a cert for smtp.google.com that's related to this May 2013 note about upcoming changes. On the other hand, there's nothing else that says what the old fingerprint was, when it expired, nor what the new fingerprint ought to be. And on the gripping hand, maybe the root (if you'll pardon the pun) cause of the problem is that if the the user has no tls_trust_file defined, and if Google changed intermediate certificate authority... umm, dammit, now even I'm confused. I think I sympathize with OP, though. There needs to be an easy-to-google, bing, apt-get, or git-init means by which of seeing the history of what's legit at any moment in time. It's up to the user to decide how many ISPs to run the search query from, or even to pick up the phone and call a friend in a non-US country and ask them to do the search and see if they get the same results.

Back in May, Google announced that they would be making changes to their SSL/TLS certificates in the coming months: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/05/changes-to-our-ssl-certificates.html

Oh No's!
"Even in less-than-obvious places to look for information, such as Google's Online Security Blog, are silent."

To a non-story
"Back in May, Google announced..."

Thanks for that.

Back in May, Google announced that they would be making changes to their SSL/TLS certificates in the coming months: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/05/changes-to-our-ssl-certificates.html

If you use Chrome, Google's SSL certificates are pinned, so that gives you some additional assurance.

Here...
Give it a look and let us know what you think...

http://solarfocus.blogspot.com/2009/02/solar-goes-supernova.html

It doesn't even have the Eval that vbscript has. Fortunately one can use Application.Evaluate
Someone posted about it here