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Judge Roy Bean would say the thief 'gave back your stuff' as it fell from his hands shortly after his heart stopped working.

Isn't there some room for a counter suit based on harassment of a frivolous litigation? Trained and experienced lawyers 'should' know better than to initiate frivolous litigation. Isn't that an act that can be penalized?

I certainly hope that there is a punishment dished out to the RIAA legal team. It might put a lot of this to rest quickly, and subdue any plans to have ISPs start bollocking their own customers.

If the converter box coupons help keep perfectly good CRT TVs out of the wastestream it sounds like money well spent.
(Relevent report on that from 60 Minutes)

My response to all this, and the snivelling about how their rights were being trampled upon was that I'm unsympathetic to their plight primarily because the Muslim community has brought this upon themselves. I stand by that statement. We never hear the Muslim community being up in arms about a Muslim suicide bomber smearing the good (?) name of Islam

Does the fact that you haven't heard about Muslims condemning suicide bombers mean it doesn't happen?

I think this is the crucial flaw in your position that the Muslim community has brought this on themselves. I've seen some condemnations, but I've also seen complaints that the media doesn't give the same coverage to moderate Muslim statements against radical Islamists as they do to the actions of terrorists. Think about the nature of media coverage, and I'm sure you'll see the bind that both reporters and moderate Muslims are in. "If it bleeds it leads" is the saying in the news business, and a moment's reflection tells you that fearmongering coverage will almost always trump reassuring statements about how not all Muslims are trying to blow you up.

Here's some of the results from a quick google search for "muslims condemn suicide bombings". The first link is a list of public condemnations by Muslim leaders and groups.

Muslims Condemn Terrorist Attacks
Landmark Islamic Ruling Unequivocally Condemns Suicide Bombings
Minister: Muslim decree to condemn suicide bombings
U.K. Sunnis condemn London suicide attacks
Grand Sheikh condemns suicide bombings
Suicide Bombing
INDONESIA: Muslim leaders condemn suicide bombing
A sampling of fatwas and other statements by Muslim individuals and groups condemning terrorist attacks
Muslim Scholars Condemn Terror U.S. Islamic Leaders Issue Edict Against Attacks On Civilians

They get some coverage, but no stories get multiple days/outlets to repeat the message the way an event like a bombing does. The problem isn't that Muslims don't condemn suicide attacks, it's that their condemnations don't get enough play, so people like you think that the Muslim community silently condones the actions of the extremists.

http://www.benunderwood.com/

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/06/eveningnews/main1977730.shtml

Ben had cancer in both eyes. But he discovered a way to beat his blindness. When he was about 6, he started "clicking," and quickly realized that the sound he made with his tongue bounced off things around him, giving him an idea what was there.

In the US, it's probably going to last at least two more years. Because while the Real Estate industry is trying to convince everyone the market will hit bottom any day now, option ARMs are probably going to continue to depress the market and make financial shock waves for the next two years. Personally, I don't think we'll see light at the end of the tunnel for at least another 2 years after that. For a decade, US citizens have been running ever high debt loads and it's going to take quite a period of saving and paying off those debts before they start being comfortable spending more freely again.

He has no clue what he is talking about.

The video is on youtube and there is no rope line, no confrontation or anything. If you watch it, you can see that both were actually comfortable and polite to each other. No one was confrontational to the point the GP claimed. Here is take on the ordeal.

I'm not sure why people think they still need to lie to prop up Obama. He won the fucking election.

BTW, in case you need a laugh Wait till the end.

When you say "we saw it coming". Yes. We did. As Colleen Rowley, former FBI agent attests:
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/WTC_whistleblower1.htm

And yet, "its coming" intelligence, seems to have been actively blocked from reaching people whose job it is to make key decisions. To me this is indicative of people desperate to keep their "eyes wide shut".

Colleen Rowley was of course not the only investigator whose actions were blocked. You may have heard of Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator:
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/25/60minutes/main526954.shtml

Don't be too sure of yourself dude...

Paid advertisement requires that some form of payment was exchanged. I do not work for Sun, slashdot, O'Reilly or Amazon. I did not receive any kind of compensation for writing the review beyond the satisfaction of doing so. So that accusation fails - there was no payment involved here.
 
I can't answer for the folks who run slashdot - but I can answer for myself. I love books. I love to read them. I enjoy writing reviews too - it's a fun hobby. I started doing so because I would read book reviews here and thought it would be fun to try it myself. I appreciate the book reviews posted here by others because it is information in which I am interested. I tend to buy books, probably at a rate that is higher than the average consumer where I live. This makes the reviews a valuable resource in my estimation.
 
And since you seem to be struggling in this regard, CNN, NBC (though there's are more mixed into other areas rather completely on their own - here's another for you), CBS (yes - via AP but I think they do news.) and BBC.
 
And finally - you can filter book reviews off your front page. So I'm thinking your a troll or maybe having a bad day. But relax - chill out and don't get upset about this. "Garbage" is certainly going overboard. I'd suggest a fun read to help you chill out. "Zoe's Tale" by John Scalzi is a good one. I'm hoping to type up my review this week if you want to know more about it.

How about predicting how a junkyard full of car parts can spontaneously, randomly become a running Ferrari or even only a Toyota automobile.

But it could, with the help of some high school kids!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/17/eveningnews/main1329941.shtml

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/watch-out-x-prize-contestants-these-high-school-kids-are-winners/

In addition, disbarring lawyers for the real imbicilities could only make the world the better place.

The ALF, which is funded by PETA? Or perhaps I'm actually talking about actual PETA assaults on people?

Take your pick. I have no problem with treating animials humanely, but not by a group that wants to force me to be a vegitarian through violence.

Circuit boards in general are made with toxic processes and often contain toxic chemicals in trace amounts.

I'm pretty sure the recycling of game console boards is just as bad as computers, meaning that it is a problem, but nowhere near as many game console boards are sold as PC motherboards making the issue barely worth discussing (about 70 million PCs were sold in the US in 2007, not including servers and laptops whereas just a few million game consoles were sold).

Actually, its 1000 times worse, due to the concentration of burning parts around "recycling" centers.

Check out this 60 minutes segment from two weeks ago. It's hard to watch in places, watching 4 year old kids playing in old capacitors and lead solder.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4586903n

Change? Hmm....sounds like "same as the old boss" to me.

:(

Others have noticed, too:

There'll be challenges on all fronts. Climate changes from global warming will lead to shortages of food and water in dozens of countries. That, coupled with a projected population spike of 1.2 billion people worldwide could lead to wars over increasingly scarce resources.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/20/world/main4622166.shtml

And from a commentator:

There are other factors: aging baby boomers, changing demographics, weakened economy, massive debt and greater internal chaos.

http://penetrate.blogspot.com/2008/11/us-power-fading-by-2025.html

I'm sure I'll get called unpatriotic(tm) for this, but it's politics in that land disillusioned underachievers never see, called "reality."

You should apologize simply for using that analogy.

Anywho, an elephant egg is probably close enough, as is an elephant womb.

A similar case:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/12/tech/main263745.shtml

The end consumer is expected to act in a responsible manner in disposal. The local municipality is supposed to have a means to collect and make this convenient to the consumer. The company contracted by the municipality to recycle this material responsibly is supposed to follow it's mandate.

However the reality is when dealing with a well known toxin such as lead which is present in so many products all of the above are failure points.

And too often for whatever reasons some or all of the persons or organizations tasked with this responsibility fail.

I completely agree with Anonymous Coward on this point. There are just far to many points of falure in the recycling process which most people are not aware of, hell most people arent aware of how toxic the components in their PC's are.

Over the spring, during a river cleanup, I picked a PC out of a small trash heap in a public park(among the other things found was a small dishwasher). I'm living in what I thought was a fairly clean city (Milwaukee, WI). Then about month ago I picked up a trashed audio amp off the street and 2 computers in my neighbors trash bin.

I attached a link to the CBS 60-Minutes artical with video of the actual e-wasteland for easy reference.

Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste

It's 5 years old. At least.

I'll post under my real name, cause it's easy to prove.

I for one bow to my half-decade rubber duck overlords.

Rubbish.

There's at least two flaws in this argument. First of all, there's availability: you're assuming that all criminals have basically limitless resources and access to - well - anything. But that's not the case; using your logic, the citizens of the USA should be powerless against the hordes of criminals armed with rocket launchers, flak cannons, tanks and the like, but obviously, that isn't the case.

The second flaw is that you assume that all criminals are, basically, utterly evil sociopaths - that basically, crime is a binary thing and that if you break one law, you will have no (moral/ethical) problem breaking ANY AND EVERY law. But that's not true; a burglar who breaks into a house to hopefully steal some valuables has no desire to kill anyone, for instance. Why would he? He's after the money, nothing else, and alerting people to his presence is absolutely the last thing he wants to do.

In fact, the only reason he might carry a gun is that he KNOWS he might get shot himself otherwise, even though he's not a threat, for no other reason than that he's a burglar (see this story, for example). If I was a burglar, at least (and I'm not, of course), that's the only reason why I'd contemplate carrying a weapon; if I could be reasonably sure that I wouldn't get shot, on the other hand, I'd never carry one.

That's not to say I'm against gun ownership, BTW - quite the opposite. But I think the argument you bring up again is bogus, no matter how often it's rehashed and regurgitated.

Also, as reported here radiaton has been deliberately fed to children in Massachusetts. In this case it was part of a nutritional study by Quaker Oats and MIT to be able to argue that nutrition touches more of the body. As does radiation.

Part of the days of Eugenics in America. Brougt to you by the Human Betterment Foundation

If asking about spending some $150K of campaign money on wardrobe for Palin and her kids is sexist, what about the fuss that was raised about John Edwards' $1.25K haircut not too long ago?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/05/politics/main3019277.shtml
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/04/AR2007070401258_pf.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18157456/
http://www.slate.com/id/2164380/
... etc ...

So, I'll refrained from criticizing any conservative or GOP positions, and simply deal with what's incorrect.

1. NAFTA - that story you link to is incorrect. A couple of days after the article you cite, both the Obama campaign and - more importantly - the Canadian embassy itself declared that no such assurances were made. So either they're all lying, or the first article that you cite got it wrong.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/03/politics/main3898313.shtml

2. Obama's position on coal is: We will probably need some coal as a transition away from foreign oil. But coal also comes with environmental risks, so clean coal is better than dirty coal.

That's not shifting, that's reasonable. Sometimes reality is nuanced. That's addressing different circumstances in a complex world.

3. There was and is absolutely no change in Obama's tax plans, or anywhere near it. That link you cite is not even from Obama speaking. That's Biden making a gaffe-tastic misstatement in a speech. The Obama campaign restated it's policy after Biden's misstatement - it says that in the very same article you cite.

4. As for Biden's transcribed dialogue - it seems quite clear to me. It's just transcribed from live human speech. Biden's saying "When the US and France kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, Barack and I wanted NATO forces moved in to fill the vacuum. Otherwise Hezbollah would walk back in."

So, in conclusion, I'd like to propose that, from this point forward, we criticize what people's actual articulated positions are, and see how their actions match up to those positions. Because, as an Obama supporter, I *want* to see Obama's positions and policies criticized from every possible angle. Both in formulation and in practice.

But let's stick with what Obama and others are actually intentionally saying (and will now be doing) - and not hearsay or misstatements. Let's concentrate on whether or not it will work, and why.

Sound good?

Yes, in fact nearly 20,000 people voted for him, according to http://election.cbsnews.com/election2008/president.shtml

If only Michael Crichton could have lived to see it all come true.

Bring on the velociraptors!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/05/print/main4575403.shtml

How sad-- RIP M.C.

It's interesting that you mention this; http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/05/print/main4575403.shtml .

    Bush had 8 years and lots of help to mangle lots of things..

    It's easy to break something. It's a lot harder to fix it. Corruption is very hard to clean up. Your list is of some of the finest points of the f***ups done by the Bush administration. I'll hit some of your points though.

> Do you think he'll get the Dems to undo the Patriot Act?

    I suspect this will be cleaned up and corrected to restore our rights as citizens.

> Do you think he'll get to the bottom of and stop the Wiretaps on US Citizens?

    The "bottom of" was pretty clear. They were authorized from the top, and made their way down to listen on every person in the US. Stopping it should be easier with a new executive order superseding the last. Of course, he'll have to be careful and evaluate why, what, and what good they have done. There may be issues outside of what has made it to mainstream media that have been resolved.

> Do you think he'll have us 100% out of Iraq in the next week? Month? Year? Decade?

    Obama has a 16 month plan. The standing Iraqi government demanded an 18 month pullout. Even still, I doubt it will be "100%" out. Consider previous conflicts. The US maintains bases in countries that it previously occupied. Vietnam may be the only exception to this. I can't think of any bases there offhand. We would likely be out of the daily combat against citizens of Iraq, but we'll likely maintain a presence in the area.

> Will he magically fix the economy? If so, how long? What exactly is he going to do?

    Did the current administration magically destroy the economy in days? weeks? months? No. They overlooked an obvious problem, which allowed the rich who could invest in huge tracts of homes and sell them at an outragous profit. They overlooked offshoring American jobs to help large corporations increase their profit margins, as the US economy suffered. Nothing was done to mitigate this, such as increasing international trade tariffs, and limiting the low quality and proven dangerous products coming into our country. Lead tainted childrens toys and melamine tainted foods are two excellent examples of how the government has failed to protect it's people, at the advantage of large corporations.

> Will he walk on water?

    He'll likely at least stay afloat, rather than sinking as his roll model George W Bush provided. As of March 2008, George W Bush took 879 vacation days at his ranch. With so many issues to attend to, any good leader (like, good, not even great or excellent) would be working to resolve things, not ignoring them. Will President Elect Obama actually work, rather than giving speeches full of blatent lies to pacify people into believing there's nothing wrong? I doubt it. He seems like the type of man who will actually be honest with the people. If he does, it would be like walking on water in contrast to Mr. Bush's "leadership" over the last 8 years.

Quote: "Are Brits more open-minded than the rest of the world when it comes to choosing an OS?" - No, it's just that Microsoft hasn't brainwashed the British populace into thinking there's only 1 main OS for so many years like MS has.

They'll NEVER mention Linux- it's leap years ahead of Windows AND free?! Not to mention that the entire EU has sued the pants off of MS for monopolistic practices (& earlier this year, MS lost the appeal & was fined 1.4 BILLION!).
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/08/03/tech/main221521.shtml

Sure, ignorance on our part is a factor but a more important factor, I'd argue, is that MS is an American company. You could poll any European country & I'd bet the results similar to the UK's choice of OS.

NASA has been in business a hell of a lot longer than ESA

Time isn't really relevant. Zero fatal accidents in 33 years is still techically a better record than 3 in 50 (NASA was founded in '58). Besides, NASA's two worse accidents were in the last 22 years, so even if we only look at the period both agencies have been in operation and eliminate Apollo 1, NASA still has 14 fatalities to ESA's none.

That might be meaningful if ESA actually launched manned missions, but they don't. The comparison is fundamentally flawed; not to be taken seriously or argued against logically.

and has a far better track record than the Russians.

Oh, really? Soyuz has been flying a "hell of a lot longer" than the shuttle, had four fatalities between 1967 and 1971 (when the shuttle was still on the drawing board) and none since. Even allowing for the fact that fewer people have flown on Soyuz it still has a marginally lower fatality rate, and there are no reported flight crew fatalities from other manned Russian space missions.

NASA certainly has a better record of safety for it's ground crews than the Russians (even omitting Nedelin disaster, which was an ICBM test, not a space mission proper), but in this category ESA wins again: 2 fatalities versus NASA's 8 (or 2 versus 3 since 1975). Statistically speaking it's more dangerous to work for Scaled Composites than ESA.

Apollo 1 was a Ford Pinto, and Challenger was a Ford Crown Victoria. Hmm, probably not a good idea to buy a Ford, either.

Ah, now we get into the reason ESA doesn't do manned missions. Imagine a rocket designed by the Spanish, made with British parts (Lucas, of course) by unionised French workers under kindly German supervision, with mission planning by the Italians and a budget controlled by the Belgians. Would you want a seat on top of that stack? I'll take the Ford, thanks. Or better yet, the Lada.

Say what you will about the United States but we've never blown up ships in the harbors of our Allies.

Maybe not, but I can think of worse things to do..

"The United States also tested nerve agents in Canada and Britain in conjunction with those two countries, and biological and chemical weapons in at least two other states, Maryland and Florida."

I find his speech deplorable. Here's some offending quotes.

Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

We hadn't even touched the constantly warring factions that Saddam had kept in check. The Battle of Iraq was just beginning, and they knew it.

With new tactics and precision weapons, we can achieve military objectives without directing violence against civilians. No device of man can remove the tragedy from war. Yet it is a great advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent.

The innocent deaths in this war far outstrip any legitimate casualties. We bombed their cities with little warning and no regard for innocents.

In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused, and deliberate, and proportionate to the offense.

How on earth is destroying an entire country in proportion to destroying a few buildings?

Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups, and seeks or possesses weapons of mass destruction, is a grave danger to the civilized world, and will be confronted.

What the hell is an 'outlaw regieme'? Any soverign country we don't like? America has ties to terrorists and possesses WMDs, should they be next on the list?

Our government has taken unprecedented measures to defend the homeland - and we will continue to hunt down the enemy before he can strike.

Godwin much with that homeland bullshit? Damn right you took unprecedented measures in declaring war on the planet.

Other nations in history have fought in foreign lands and remained to occupy and exploit. Americans, following a battle, want nothing more than to return home. And that is your direction tonight. After service in the Afghan and Iraqi theaters of war - after 100,000 miles, on the longest carrier deployment in recent history - you are homeward bound.

Homeward bound, until they were called back. If America doesn't want to stay and occupy a country... then WTF is going on?

Their final act on this earth was to fight a great evil, and bring liberty to others. All of you - all in this generation of our military - have taken up the highest calling of history. You are defending your country, and protecting the innocent from harm. And wherever you go, you carry a message of hope - a message that is ancient, and ever new. In the words of the prophet Isaiah: "To the captives, 'Come out!' and to those in darkness, 'Be free!'"

Nice bible quote, was that for those in Abu Gharib? How the hell are we defending from Iraq when they had nothing to do with any attacks on America? How are we protecting the innocent from harm by wholesale bombing of cities?

If Time magazine can criticise it, I don't see why a random slashdotter can't.

I tell them to picture themselves sick...or even worse, an emergency. And then, they have to basically go into the DMV to get evaluated and meds. I know how much fun it is for me to go in there, and wait for 3+ hrs to renew plates or drivers license, even when I DO have all the proper paperwork.

Stop kidding yourself, this happens now:
* Woman waited 19 hours in ER
* ER Waits Getting Longer

Why? Because poor people don't have insurance. This hurts you in 3 ways:
1. They don't get preventative care, so their ailments don't get treated until their become serious conditions.
2. They don't go to a normal doctor because they can't afford one, so they go to the ER where they cannot be turned away.
3. They can't afford to pay their ER visits, so the hospital has to write off their expenses in providing that (expensive) ER care, meaning less revenue available to expand or improve services. And/or they raise prices for everyone with insurance to cover these costs.

This is with private insurance. Government-sponsored insurance has its own problems, but if more people had their basic health care covered, there's a strong likelihood we could improve health care efficiency overall.

Actually that's probably because the president has very little to do with the economy. Congress passes the budget, the president just signs or vetoes it. The president can make suggestions, but although he may take the blame or the credit for the state of the economy, he has very little to do with it.

I found this article interesting regarding the history of where Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae came from. Written in 2003, it's notes that, "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the only two Fortune 500 companies that are not required to inform the public about any financial difficulties that they may be having."

Rather prophetically, the author adds:

In the event that there was some sort of financial collapse within either of these companies, U.S. taxpayers could be held responsible for hundreds of billions of dollars in outstanding debts. A recent investigation by the Justice Department and the SEC into the accounting practices at Freddie Mac revealed accounting errors in the amount of 4.5 to 4.7 billion dollars and resulted in the termination of three of the company's top executives. Ongoing investigations by Congress, particular the House Finance Services subcommittee that oversees the activity of GSEs, will determine the future role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the secondary mortgage market that they dominate.

However, members of both parties on the House Financial Services Committee have had a cozy relationship with Freddie and Fannie lobbyists who strived to keep regulation at bay. It's somewhat ironic that congress and opposing political parties heap ALL the blame on the incumbent president while they quietly go on filling THEIR coffers for their next re-election campaign. If anyone is the "little man behind the curtain" it's more our elected representatives than anyone else.

"So, how long before I can use my OpenID to post on Slashdot?"

So how long before governments require OpenID to eliminate internet anonymity?

Given that the government has been pumping the idea for a while that somehow terrorists are "recruiting" online in places like Second Life , not long at all.

From the first article:

It is certain that virtual reality is doing real damage with intelligence, recruiting, fund raising and the spread of Islamic extremism. This assault may start with bytes, not bullets, but American generals will tell you, its a hot war all the same on a battlefield called "jihad.com."

Asked if the Internet is training up new battalions of those young people, Custer tells Pelley, "It's a self-fulfilling prophesy thats exactly what the jihadist Internet is there to do."

So in the name of protecting your freedom and liberty from terrorism, and protecting the children from the "jihadist internet", OpenID will become required to access any site worth accessing. That way terrorists can have their OpenID revoked, and your "freedom" is saved. It's very convenient, and besides, you have nothing to hide, right?

3. if in doubt get IBM to do it, they helped the germans accurately in ww2.

Trolling or just truely ignorant of IBM's involvement in the Holocaust?

For anyone interested, FactCheck.org gives the real deal on this issue. Their short summary: "Q: Did Sarah Palin make rape victims pay for their own rape kits? A: Palin's police chief in Wasilla did that. Whether Palin supported this is not certain."

The slightly longer story is that woman in Wasilla were having their insurance charged for rape kits while Palin was mayor there. After she'd been mayor for four years, the state passed a law banning the practice. The Wasilla police chief spoke out in defense of the practice. Palin is not on record as taking a stand on the issue at the time. Since being the vice presidential candidate, Palin's spokesperson said, "the governor 'does not believe, nor has she ever believed, that rape victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test.' [The spokesperson] declined to answer questions about when Palin found out about the practice and what, if anything, she tried to do about it." So the bottom line is that this did happen in Wasilla while Palin was mayor and she did not stop it (or stop the police chief from supporting it), but there's no evidence that she actively encouraged it either.

In my view it's still a strike against her, but it's definitely been distorted. Then again, the idea of any politician who cannot name a single news publication she reads is all I need to see her as a liability.

Or she'll just claim the emails say the exact opposite of what they actually say, just like she did with the troopergate report.

yeah right. Puerto Vallarta is a child molestors destination and your looking to encrypt your pics.

Get real fool.

Oh, come on, even Rush Limbaugh knows the Dominican Republic is where it's at

Is it harder to steal someone's identity when it's well known to be theirs?

No.

"Expect to see more Sorny goods if this goes ahead!"

Maybe not. Maybe: "Expect to see a lot of counterfeit products labeled Sony, in the same kind of packaging Sony uses."

Ever since the days of the DOS operating system, when it was only the Taiwanese who supplied computer parts, the Chinese have been extremely dishonest. They would deliver computer parts until a distributor got established. They would get paid when a load was delivered to a ship in Taiwan. But, the would eventually deliver a huge load of junk, stuff that had failed testing but had been saved for that purpose. That would put the U.S. distributor out of business.

At the same time, there would be a Chinese distributor in town that just began doing business, selling the same items.

Now that everyone has paid to build factories and complicated procedures in China, they are very vulnerable to Chinese control.

Here are a few stories, chosen from thousands. The Chinese governments, in Taiwan and mainland China, have always pretended to be interested in stopping counterfeiting:

FBI and Chinese seize $500 million of counterfeit software.

Dangerous Fakes: How counterfeit, defective computer components from China are getting into U.S. warplanes and ships.

YouTube videos about Chinese counterfeiting

The World's Greatest Fakes: Chinese Copies Are Making Their Way Back To U.S.

Heparin Find May Point to Chinese Counterfeiting

Chinese Product Counterfeiting Causes US Job Layoffs

Wonderful. We can't disclose any information to the public -- which may well / should become very pissed off or at least aware -- due to the "ongoing investigation" [= court case in this context]. And, of course, after the election what good is a win in this case? The effects will likely be similar to what we've gotten over the last few years: very similar to Antonin Scalia saying: "Get over it. It's so old by now."

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4041229n

Then, fat Tony lies claiming the decision wasn't even close; that it was seven to two??? C'mon ya' partisan prick...

I object most vehemently to this characterization. Sarah Palin is one of the most well-spoken, articulate politicians I have ever heard, with a gentle yet incisive humor that deposits the positions of her opponents subtly, and yet surely, in the realm of the absurd.

But you don't need to take my word for it! Thanks to the marvels of teh intertubes, you can judge for yourself!

Sources: CNN, CBS, Mother Jones.

Have fun with those conspiracy theories and living in fear, man.

Not that this is likely to reach you, but I don't live in fear. And the Bush administration's plot to invade Iraq by at best heavily spinning and at worst outright manufacturing evidence is not a conspiracy theory, it's a matter of public record.

You don't appreciate what I did for you

I appreciate your desire to serve, and your courage in going into danger to do so. Unfortunately, it's your judgment that lacked. In your desire to "help" me, you participated in actions that caused the deaths of over 655,000 people, wasted hundreds of billions of dollars, and left the U.S. less safe and less free.

So, you know, don't do me any more favors...

If, maybe, somehow, a bit of this reaches you, makes you uncomfortable, starts you thinking, gets you to question whether you were misled; then you might want to check out Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Have fun with those conspiracy theories and living in fear, man.

Not that this is likely to reach you, but I don't live in fear. And the Bush administration's plot to invade Iraq by at best heavily spinning and at worst outright manufacturing evidence is not a conspiracy theory, it's a matter of public record.

You don't appreciate what I did for you

I appreciate your desire to serve, and your courage in going into danger to do so. Unfortunately, it's your judgment that lacked. In your desire to "help" me, you participated in actions that caused the deaths of over 655,000 people, wasted hundreds of billions of dollars, and left the U.S. less safe and less free.

So, you know, don't do me any more favors...

If, maybe, somehow, a bit of this reaches you, makes you uncomfortable, starts you thinking, gets you to question whether you were misled; then you might want to check out Iraq Veterans Against the War.

here is the research providing the links.

Frederick J. Zimmerman, PhD and Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH. "Associations Between Content Types of Early Media Exposure and Subsequent Attentional Problems" PEDIATRICS Vol. 120 No. 5 November 2007, pp. 986-992
L. Rowell Huesmann, Jessica Moise-Titus, Cheryl-Lynn Podolski, and Leonard D. Eron. "Longitudinal Relations Between Children's Exposure to TV Violence and Their Aggressive and Violent Behavior in Young Adulthood: 1977-1992" Developmental Psychology 2003, Vol. 39, No. 2, 201-221.
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Yeah, like major US investment banks or multinational energy companies?

How about a $100 billion telecom company.

Maybe the Insurance industry has some stocks that don't have volatility? :-)

Just a friendly reminder that your statement is a tad absurd.

after a some searching, I could see the interview here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/04/60minutes/main4415771.shtml

Meanwhile Obama was working with the NATO countries to see what he could do to get more of a NATO presence in Afghanistan and less of our troops there. Sounds to me like Obama wants to get out of Iraq and reduce the number of our troops in Afghanistan - not move from one to the other as you stated. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/25/obama.trip/index.html)

And to be quite frank (my apologies to those named Frank), had we stayed out of Iraq and focused on the issue at hand in Afghanistan we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now.

I had never heard about Obama's stance towards Iran - do you have a source I can look at to see what he envisions there? The same goes for Georgia.

Georgia:
Biden Calls For $1 Billion In Emergency Aid To Georgia, By Daniel ...
Cheney Backs Membership in NATO for Georgia - NYTimes.com

Buried in this article you'll find that "The current fighting began four days ago (August 6) when Georgian forces launched a surprise attack to regain control of South Ossetia, which has had de facto independence since the end of a civil war in 1992."

YouTube - Saakashvili eats a tie

Iran:
Obama: Nuclear Iran 'unacceptable'

'Iran a major threat; I would never hesitate to use our military force in order to protect homeland, US interests, Democratic presidential candidate tells FOX's 'The Oâ(TM)Reilly Factor'

Afghanistan:
Maybe we wouldn't be in this situation if we didn't fly out hundreds of Taliban on C-130's into Pakistan.

Simply research the Airlift of Evil

A source to back you up via a Google News Search

I am not a creationist type person but to say that alternate beliefs cannot and should not be talked about in school is quite stupid. First things first...how you you expect children to learn your viewpoint or get educated on this subject if it is banned from discussion? Or do we just say hey Johnny, you are stupid for bringing up intelligent design/creationism so shut-up and sit in that corner? Obviously there is a small or even a large minority in the US that has some kind of belief in "other than evolution" theories or I wouldn't be posting about this. Flame away but if you ban any discussion about creationism then you miss the opportunity to influence and change minds. Also maybe I missed something while looking at the local school system curriculum but "World Religions" is not usually taught in the K-12 grades. So to all you who say the subject needs to be taught in a class that is unlikely to even be offered is just sweeping any discussion under the rug. Read this article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/24/eveningnews/main4206426.shtml