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According to their research, ready access to abortion has made women more likely to engage in premarital sex

Not true...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/19/national/main2282940.shtml

The Avacado thing came from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/01/eveningnews/main1773839.shtml

The text of Chapter 11 is at http://www.sice.oas.org/trade/NAFTA/chap-111.asp. It's absolutely horribly written, but my read says that, basically, you can't treat foreigners differently than you treat your own citizens. Where I think most people get angry at chapter 11 is that it prevents a lot of thing that countries would do to protect their own industries. Now, often, that happens circuitously by raising environmental concerns about the foreign entrant. But, environmental concerns are often real, so Article 1114 has a huge carve-out that allows countries to establish actual environmental standards.

I'm not too worried by a case where somebody wanted to pollute, complained under NAFTA, and was told that, indeed, they could not pollute. That's a bit like saying "If Charles Manson had won his murder case, he would have killed more people. Therefore, the process that allowed Manson to have a trial (instead of just being sent straight to jail without one), is bad." The only way Methanex could have won was if there's no scientific basis for banning MTBE, only a basis based on keeping out foreign competition.

There are two real NAFTA questions:

(1) Are the parties to NAFTA better off with it than without it? I think the answer to this is clearly yes -- trade among the parties has increased enormously, which means that consumers in each country have a better selection of goods & prices than they did before NAFTA.

(2) How do you (or do you) compensate the losers under NAFTA? E.g., the Mexican corn farmers driven out of business by US corn producers, U.S. employees at clothing companies who can't compete with their lower-priced Mexican competition, etc....

This (2) is the tougher question to answer.

This is a good time to remember that Wikipedia thinks that blogs are crap. Only "reliable sources" are to be used over there.

I'm sorry to disturb the parallel parking conveniences day dreaming of some, but the real advantage is the elimination of blind spots. For starters, if every SUV (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/22/earlyshow/living/parenting/main526462.shtml), truck (http://www.oregonlive.com/metro/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1192245943100770.xml&coll=7), tractor (http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1440-1754.1998.00177.x?cookieSet=1) or van had such a device, thousands of lives around the globe would be saved each year.

I think ending medicare would help health prices decrease. Free markets work - government-subsidized price floors don't.

Does it sound drastic? The nation's chief accountability officer, the Comptroller General, has been preaching for years about financial doom if we don't fix medicare and social security.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/60minutes/main2528226.shtml
http://www.gao.gov/cghome.htm

Seems Ron Paul has a plan to save our economy. What's your candidate got?

Unfortunately, the Russian reporters being killed isn't a hoax...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101000859.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/05/world/main2537352.shtml

Yes.

I use it due to integration with messenger IM.

Despite the fact I use gaim/pidgin most of time, the email/IM integration provided by their service led me to the decision of keeping my account, which is the same long before hotmail was purchased by microsoft.

I think the service fits my needs, to provide a reliable account for registrations/memberships elsewhere.

The lack of baynesian spam filtering (such has gmail and others) is a shame.

The interface (yes, I tried Live) sometimes simply sucks.

The storage and transfer limitations could be a problem for anyone lacking scp or such file transfer tools.

I said, _could be_. Email lost its credentials as serious transfer and communication tool.

Some of us may remember when Bill Gates stated that SPAM issue elimination was simply a matter of time. I gave them few credence then... and nowadays, email is clearly depicted as an unreliable, flawed tool.

Ordinary people can be kept safe by white-listing methods which figures out annoyances to me. They cay rely on such filtering to avoid Enlarge Their Penises NOW!!!

I would put my coins on a bit more intelligent solution to handle spam. There are a lot of solutions along with gmail or inova.net. The management of messages by AI systems which carries out the trash is a requirement to make email a reliable and trivial tool again... and not the scam nest it has been featured into.

This kind of announcement clears out what is the real level of microsoft improvement attempts - incredibly naive, blatantly stupid, moron-shaped company policies.

But, wait..

At all, who the heck would need to forward the message to 10+ recipients? In hotmail accounts? Oh... spammers. The less skilled and no less annoying of them. The ones who include my address in religious spiritual good intentioned chain letters.

Turns out microsoft is doing the right thing. The intelligence involved in their approach of bulk mail fits the targeted ones'.

This was covered during an interview on 60 minutes last Sunday. http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3340375n

Quote: "Yes, the CIA breaks the laws of foreign countries regularly. All the time. It's part of the CIA's job...

OF COURSE the U.S. has an intelligence service devoted to getting information from others through illicit means."

For more than two centuries, what many people have loved most about the United States is that the rule of law was strong here, and applied to presidents and poor people alike. Now that strength is disappearing, and that makes anyone who loves the U.S. as I do very, very sad.

Bruce Springsteen says, Silence Is Unpatriotic. I'm not the only one.

"Don't do the CRIME if you can't pay the FINE !!"

      1. This was a civil trial - Capitol vs Thomas - not a criminal trial.

      2. The level of proof required was much lower than a criminal trial.

      3. Since its a civil trial, she can just go bankrupt (the jury award isn't a fine resulting from a criminal trial - fines for criminal convictions aren't generally dischargeable in a bankruptcy).
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Parent is right. The Duluth Press article (TFA) was accurate, but the other media reports I've been seeing on this, Brietbart and AP, have it wrong, saying she was fined for illegal downloading. The articles don't give any address to contact for corrections.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/04/national/main3330186.shtml
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071004233021.itudt24b&show_article=1
Perhaps she can sue them for libel to raise the money she now owes, since a recklessly false claim of illegality is actionable. Dunno.

Do we know the names and home addresses of the plaintiff's lawyers? I'd like to add them to my christmas card list. In fact, we should all send them christmas cards, to show that there are no hard feelings.

Not only is the FCC failing to protect the public interest when selling out to those that profit, they've buried study results showing some of the harm it has done.

After a pirate station was shut down by the FCC, free speech and public access to the airwaves issues were raised, along with the idea that additional lower power stations might be added without causing significant interference. But when rules were finally implemented, it was done in such a way that the vast majority of the allocations went to religious broadcasters.

For democracy to function properly, diversity in media is essential to allow adequate probing and exposure to many issues. Instead of improving the situation the FCC has made things far worse by relaxing the ownership rules.

At a time when were facing what should be a wonderful improvement in technology with the transistion from NTSC to ATSC television, we're faced with very little good programming.

Stations no longer have to commit to a self assigned limit on commercial airtime (which in the past could be exceeded just two weeks of the year, usually election and holiday advertising periods).
It was interesting to see the new season Episode of Heros on NBC being presented "with limited commercial interruption". A normal Episode runs about 43 minutes out of an hour, this one was about 52 (with a major product placement, the car gift).
If one looks back it time, the normal Episode length was close to that. For instance episodes of Lost in Space originally ran about 51 minutes. Many stations run infomercials taking up huge blocks of time for advertising, and many overlap programs with various promotional banners.
Letting marketplace "competition" work for the public good has been a dismal failure. Clear Channel and others are operating in a loot and pillage mode. The whole mindset that should be behind broadcasting has been replaced with a very unhealthy one.
So much for "trustees of the public interest".

Most of the corruption in our political system relates to campaign contributions for media advertising. Instead of ineffective regulations on campaign spending regulations loaded with loopholes, we should instead have a situation where broadcasters provide fair and totally free airtime for qualified candidates, issues, and legitimate members of the public a station serves.
Do away with all paid political advertising.

Let's see the FCC bring back restrictions on the ownership of stations, require most to be locally owned, require no financial ties to news, political and public affairs programming, and restrictions on the type and amount of advertising carried.

And the spectrum they're taking from us with the shutdown of NTSC should be allocated based strictly on the public good, not commercial interests or auction proceeds.

"Then along came Islam, and since then very little has progressed"

I'm sorry, but you have your time line wrong. The scientific enlightenment came along as a consequence of Islam.

From Wikipedia:

"A number of modern scholars, notably Robert Briffault, Will Durant, Fielding H. Garrison, Alexander von Humboldt, Muhammad Iqbal, Abdus Salam, and Hossein Nasr, consider modern science to have begun from Muslim scientists, who were pioneers of the scientific method and introduced a modern empirical, experimental and quantitative approach to scientific inquiry."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_science/)

Obviously things have gone horribly wrong in the last thousand years. But then again we seem to be going in the same direction in the United States, with intelligent design etc. In fact in the article "Science finds every soil barren in which miracles are taken literally and seriously and revelation is considered to provide authentic knowledge of the physical world" sounds a lot like the United States, where over 50% of the population doesn't accept the theory of evolution (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/22/opinion/polls/main657083.shtml).

Well I found a few interviews and articles he did after recent national tragedies, but they do tend to be lost amongst the chatter against Thompson so it is not surprising you missed them. The best bet is to search for "Jack Thompson" + $TRAGEDY, as he seems to be able to find his way to the spotlight after every incident of national suffering to spew his latest theory regarding the cause. Anyway, here's the links for you enjoyment:
VA Tech tragedy
Devin Moore Shootings
Red Lake Shootings

Oh and here is an article by a non gaming web site about the Louisiana Game Bill:
HB 1381

Ahh, parent poster is a Troll, eh? Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard would probably agree with AC. Is he a troll too? I saw far too many kids there for the party myself... the 'life experience' they called it. We even have online encyclopedias citing which schools paaar-tay the hardest. I'm sure that image doesn't hurt enrollment numbers and the government money flowing into universities. I wouldn't be surprised if universities quietly encourage that 'rep' via PR firms. College is big business. So big in fact that university finances have begun drawing the scrutiny of congress. We've even begun exporting American-style higher education. It may not be the best in the world, but it sure makes a shitload of money.

In the meantime, there's a lot of kids leaving college with a worthless degree and lots of debt. The university was enriched by the process, but you can't say that for all their graduates. I'll bet if the OP had mentioned something about outsourcing the post would be +5 Insightful.

The rights written in the Bill of Rights apply to all humans

It's also worth pointing out that those rights aren't there to protect the guilty, they are there to protect the innocent. And there's good reason to believe that there are innocent people detained in these camps:

• The vast majority were turned in by people looking for reward money or to suck up to U.S. forces. Witch hunt, anyone?
• We know that innocent people have been detained and then killed by U.S. forces. If you're not familiar with the case of Dilawar the taxi driver, you need to read this. This guy was captured by an Iraqi warlord trying to deflect suspicion from himself for an attack on U.S. troops. Then, because they thought he screamed funny, a bunch of United States soldiers "pulped" (the words of the doctor who performed the autopsy) his legs. The other four guys were shipped to Gitmo and held for a year or so before they finally decided they posed no threat.
• The soldiers there "know" these are bad guys, and treat them that way, regardless of who they are. You ask how I know that? So, a U.S. soldier at Guantanamo is asked to impersonate an unruly detainee for a drill. Unfortunately, the soldiers sent in to subdue him aren't told it's a drill. He ends up with brain damage and seizures.

Detaining 'enemy combatants' makes sense, to an extent. But they are still entitled to a tribunal under the Geneva Convention to determine if they actually are 'enemy combatants'. Go ahead, read Convention III, Article 5 for yourself. Signatories (like the U.S.) are supposed to extend protection preemptively, until and unless a tribunal has determined that the Geneva protections don't apply.

Sure, the U.S. is better than a Soviet gulag or Saddam Hussein's torture rooms. So what? That's not much to brag about. We ought to be an example to the world of the rule of law, like when we advocated and won trial against the Nazis in WWII. The Soviets and the British were all for summary executions... how far we've fallen.

With this, someone could be Daredevil in real life.

Here's a kid who does it without any technological aids!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/19/earlyshow/main1817689.shtml

Well, with his 5 healthy sons in their primes and their idle hands from the fact that none of them serve in the war that their father supports, he certainly needs to devote a lot of effort to ensure that none of them engage in anything tomfoolery with their idle hands.

But Stephen Mercer disagrees. "Of course they're gonna come up with analogies that seem to do away with any sense of wrongdoing or any sense of violation of privacy by the government. So, they say, 'Oh, well this is like a partial plate, and we're just following up on these leads....," he says.

"And what's wrong with that?" Stahl asks.

"Because it's not a partial plate. We're talking about DNA. DNA is different. DNA contains a vast amount of intensely personal information," Mercer says.

And he says there are serious racial implications, because since blacks are overrepresented in the prisons, and therefore in the DNA database, extending it to relatives would magnify the disparity.

"What you're gonna end up seeing is nearly the majority of the African American population being under genetic surveillance," Mercer says. "If you do the math, that's where you end up."

"Extremely specific question. You have a crime lab looking at DNA in a horrific crime. They get a partial match, a very close match, and the DNA expert suspects a brother. Should he withhold that information from the police, or should he tell the police, 'We think a brother did this?'" Stahl asks Mercer.

"If it comes from a database search?" Mercer asks.

"Yes," she replies.

"Then it should not be revealed," Mercer says.

"So, the DNA expert should just say, 'Sorry. No match.' And that's the end of it? And not pass this incredible clue along?" Stahl asks.

"That's correct," Mercer argues.

Mitch Morrissey says he has a big problem with that. "They have this information. And they're not telling the lead investigators? How do they justify that to the next victim of this serial rapist?" he asks.

Morrissey thinks the U.S. should do what the British are doing: they have developed a technique to scour their DNA database, deliberately searching for partial matches that might indicate a relative.

Several people have died from this crap, unfortunately. I agree with some of the people around here that the Taser is deemed to be non-lethal force and therefore gets used to subdue people a lot more freely than a handgun or a club. But given the number of fatalities from Tasers (the CBS story linked above counts about 70 deaths, and that was just up to 2004), it could be that the police are coming a lot closer to killing people than they think. And if they don't know the scope of the force they're imparting upon someone, they'd better not impart it. They're the ones who are supposed to be in control of themselves, you know?

"I'm sure most nations would prefer if the US just went back to their pre WWII isolationism"

OH RLY?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/06/world/main665329.shtml
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB117/index.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/28/AR2006112801640.html
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55a/008.html

People bought smart card read/writers for their computers. There is no direct evidence to prove that they used these smart cards for their DirecTV systems.

DirecTV is claiming that anyone who bought such a smart card reader for their computer is deliberately trying to get "TV for free".

Will "DirecTV sue you next?"

Such devices are available for $30-$60 integrated within keyboards, within a computer case and as external USB devices.

It seems that Microsoft were involved in the development smart card technology for encryption purposes, DirecTV makes use of similar technology, and these gets all hissy about other people using
the same technology.

>..now that they actually have a competent leader.

Putin's a thug. Murdering Russian Journalists and anyone else who dares criticize him are the marks of a mafioso thug, not a statesman. The only reason Russia is resurfacing is the high price of oil. It has very little to do with his leadership.

Communism is evil. A harsh statement, granted. But when you see the 100s of millions of people it has enslaved for the benefit of the few people at the top, there's no other word for it but evil.

Here's an article about flying cars in the CBS news: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/15/60minutes/main688454.shtml

Here's a link to the Moller Skycar: http://www.moller.com/skyc.htm

From your FA:
This is either an extraordinary case of maternal instinct or simply the eighth wonder of the world,

Misplaced maternal instinct is not "friends".

Also, until a multitude of cases like this appears, perhaps "sometimes" is less appropriate than, "it has happened". Just like a calf being born with 2 faces has happened.

Hardly, given the crop of craptacular Republican candidates.

Craptacular Rebs., Craptacular Dems. It's a fairly even race given that (once again) we have a 'lesser of two evils' election coming. The only real point is that politics are far outside the mainstream desire. There's very little politicians that represent what the majority of American's want, which is why we'll probably be arguing who really won the next presidential election.

What scares me? The group of people that feel government should have more power and tax us all to hell because "the government knows how to spend our money better than we do". The whole "tax and spend" crowd is just ridiculous. Sadly, Republicans are spending like Democrats and Democrats are spending more than Republicans.

What else scares me? Those that feel they need to force their beliefs on others, be it religious or otherwise. The government should not be poking their nose in personal affairs such as trying to ban gay marriage. Let gay people live their lives. It's none of your business. Likewise, don't give me this bullshit fois gras ban or trans fats. There might be some backwards merit in it, but tell me what I can or cannot eat. As far as I'm concerned, they're all the same. It's far better to educate people to trans-fats, heck, require it to be more obvious what is/is not good for you. Educate the people, don't force it down their throats.

American's don't need national health care, like Billory thinks. We need to CHEAPER health care. The Gov. needs to regulate the oligopoly of health care and their costs. A good way to start is to increase competition. These 'convenient care' health centers that are popping up in Wal-Greens and Wal-Marts are a step in the right direction. Cheap, fast, and professional health care centers. Sure, you're not going to get surgery there, but for the common cold, check-ups, rashes, etc. (you know the majority of health care needs), it's a great thing. How much will insurance cost/cover if your doctor visit only costs $30 instead of $300 for 10mins of care?

You might be following me now. It's all party lines, it's all politics. There needs to be a lighting bolt 3rd party candidate that can play to both sides and show what Americans are really feeling. Not just the extreme right and left isles.

And so does the left, more than one in fact, along with newspapers and national radio networks. As for Fox, how do you measure left-right bias, and where do they fall on a scale that includes a large sampling of news outlets?

Don't forget Clinton's Blunder in the Balkins!

We lost over.. zero troops there. And then we had a... lasting peace established. And we were noted, by both Muslim and European countries for... accomplishing such a difficult task so well, while earning world approbation from our leadership while working with NATO.

Of course, Clinton was responsible for reducing military readiness by... increasing military spending by 7% during his administration, and, then there was that nation building thing, using U.S. troops, that all right thinking people oppose.

But yeah, there was that lying under oath thing, that cost some many people their lives, shredded the Constitution and ruined U.S. reputation around the world.

Darn you Clinton. Darn you to heck!

"They're worried that these vehicles have already been, or could be, transported inside the United States to be used in an attack, although there is no proof that this has happened."

And note how the Fox News article concedes in the first full paragraph that there is no proof whatsoever that this is happening, but then goes on for another eighteen paragraphs quoting administration sources telling us how deadly afraid we should be of this impending attack.

Stories about the unmanned drones were all over; this wasn't just Fox News.

And I'll remind you, when we got over there we found what we should have known all along: there was no weaponization of unmanned drones whatsoever, certainly not WMDs, they were primitive short range, essentially big model airplanes.

And we also found out in the aftermath that the Air Force analysts had been telling us all long that these unmanned vehicles posed no threat to us or Iraq's neighbors.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/28/iraq/mai n570588.shtml

NEVER AGAIN

The only way you can be sure is to register and vote in the primaries NOW for a candidate who has stood up against the war from the start, and rejects warmongering and militarism in all its forms. That isn't Hillary. That isn't Giuliani. That isn't Obama. That isn't Romney or McCain or Thompson. But if you don't act now, two of those will be your only choices.

"There are now more overweight people in the world than people who are undernourished..."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/03/health/m ain1962961.shtml

The supporting data I am referring to are credible (by any definition that does not automatically assume an ESP report is intristically not credible) eyewitness accounts.

The problem is, eyewitness accounts aren't very credible, as the "gorilla experiment" dramatically showed.

in my mind the results won't be in until we are able to reverse engineer the brain.

No, that's completely backwards. You build a theory from observations; you don't decide which observations are credible based on your theory ("reverse engineering" the brain is producing a theory).

Members of the FISA think Bush has done more harm than good.

Federal Judge Resigns From Spy Court, Three More 'Deeply Upset' ... The Bush administration's decision to sometimes bypass the secretive U.S. court that governs terrorism wiretaps could threaten cases against terror suspects that rely on evidence uncovered during the disputed eavesdropping ... unprecedented resignation from the government's spy court by U.S. District Judge James Robertson as an indicator of the judiciary's unease over domestic wiretaps ordered without warrants under a highly classified domestic spying program ...

"This was definitely a statement of protest," agreed Scott Silliman, a former Air Force attorney and Duke University law professor. "It is unusual because it signifies that at least one member of the court believes that the president has exceeded his legal authority."

In this case, the "Dead Americans" flag should be thrown in the face of those who support abuse of process. When you abuse the legal system for political and economic advantage, you debase the system and impede it's function. The further from rule of law you get, the less justice you will see. A corrupt system is an expensive farce.

Once you go pro you get in government and censer your opposition. case in point the censorship of dissenting opinions about global warming

Right, 'cause that's exactly what happens.

Oh, wait, you're just plain fucking wrong.

Thanks for playing, though. Now you can go back to pretending that the ideas of pop novelists and oil-company funded thinktanks somehow represent reality.

If they say they don't believe in evolution... in my books they already look bad. But not being American I don't count. And this makes sense in a way as most Americans don't believe in evolution. This is another of those things that help explain to the world how the U.S. could elect George Bush. This is not meant as a 'dig' or troll. Where most of the people in other developed countries believe in evolution, and believe correctly that most of the people in other developed countries believe in evolution, it doesn't hold true with America and Americans (glad to see that Americans hang in there solidly with the Turkish educational system when it comes to biology... now that is a 'dig'). And the rest of the world doesn't understand that, since their only view of America is through (mostly) Los Angeles and New York based media outlets.

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted. $2.3 trillion -- that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million. "We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

Of course, a real study of the thickness of the ice sheet shows that it's actually GROWING, an average of 5.4 cm per year. If you only look at the edges, yes they're losing 2 cm per year. Of course, the vast majority of the ice sheet is in the center, and it's GROWING by 6.4 cm per year.

Selective data is oft-used on the pro-AGW side; when a basic flaw in the underlying data is discovered, rather than doing the proper scientific thing - which is to step back, re-examine the data, your process, and your conclusions - the modus operandi seems to be to slander the source, label, attack, and whine.

So I assume we can wait for you to take the ESA to task for their latest measurements showing that Greenland is NOT melting away, since it does not fit the current AGW claims?

Not a denier, just one who's keeping an open mind, looking at the data critically...

Ah, about that cross...

From the Canadian Red Cross page on the Red Cross emblem:
http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000340&tid=0 19

It may be worth it to clarify that the emblem that they're defending (the one backed by the Geneva Convention) is "five equal-sized red squares arranged in a cross pattern on a white background". It is not the Knights Templar cross, nor the Cross of St. George. Concerning the British and various other nations/religions/knightly orders that have commented on the idea of Amcross (or JnJ or the ICRC) defending a trademark over something that is also "theirs", mind that as I understand it, trademarking specifies a particular type of mark, not a general concept. They're not "fighting over your mark", they're fighting over theirs. Specifically, a trademark of five, equal-sized red squares arranged in a cross pattern on a white background. I would think that the Cross of St. George (since it seems to traditionally have its arms stretch to the boards of the shield/device/background) is sufficiently different. Ditto with the "latin" cross normally associated with Christianity (at least in North America, no offense intended towards any of the Orthodox/Papal groups)

Here's the Wikipedia link on crosses (kinda nifty):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross


As for the other issues mentioned about Amcross, well, that's another kettle of fish. Here's a few links to audit-related articles about Amcross:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/29/eveningn ews/main516700.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/30/eveningn ews/main516886.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/31/eveningn ews/main517045.shtml

...and their explanations of their actions concerning not operating in New Orleans:
http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.h tml

...and some other info at a glance:
http://www.redcross.org/news/ds/hurricanes/katrina _facts.html
http://www.redcross.org/news/ds/hurricanes/2005/fa cts.html

Here's some more grease for the fires. Rebuttals, anyone?
http://www.redcross.org/pressrelease/0,1077,0_489_ 5052,00.html


For the Americans, here's a link to what Amcross says they can do for you in case of a disaster:
http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1095,0_378_,00.html

For everyone else, try www.redcross.(insert country code here). For us Canadians, it's http://www.redcross.ca/. Here's the disaster link: http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000302&tid=0 25

The South Asian Tsunami was again a different sort of beast, since it was overseen by the ICRC (not Amcross). I can't back this up, since it's hearsay from someone with the CRC, but I had it explained to me that much of the money raised for the SAT was in fact sent to the area. I've have heard people complain that millions of dollars were spent on administration costs. This is true as well. I take it to be a matter of different POVs, since I understand the overhea

Ah, about that cross...

From the Canadian Red Cross page on the Red Cross emblem:
http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000340&tid=0 19

It may be worth it to clarify that the emblem that they're defending (the one backed by the Geneva Convention) is "five equal-sized red squares arranged in a cross pattern on a white background". It is not the Knights Templar cross, nor the Cross of St. George. Concerning the British and various other nations/religions/knightly orders that have commented on the idea of Amcross (or JnJ or the ICRC) defending a trademark over something that is also "theirs", mind that as I understand it, trademarking specifies a particular type of mark, not a general concept. They're not "fighting over your mark", they're fighting over theirs. Specifically, a trademark of five, equal-sized red squares arranged in a cross pattern on a white background. I would think that the Cross of St. George (since it seems to traditionally have its arms stretch to the boards of the shield/device/background) is sufficiently different. Ditto with the "latin" cross normally associated with Christianity (at least in North America, no offense intended towards any of the Orthodox/Papal groups)

Here's the Wikipedia link on crosses (kinda nifty):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross


As for the other issues mentioned about Amcross, well, that's another kettle of fish. Here's a few links to audit-related articles about Amcross:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/29/eveningn ews/main516700.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/30/eveningn ews/main516886.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/31/eveningn ews/main517045.shtml

...and their explanations of their actions concerning not operating in New Orleans:
http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.h tml

...and some other info at a glance:
http://www.redcross.org/news/ds/hurricanes/katrina _facts.html
http://www.redcross.org/news/ds/hurricanes/2005/fa cts.html

Here's some more grease for the fires. Rebuttals, anyone?
http://www.redcross.org/pressrelease/0,1077,0_489_ 5052,00.html


For the Americans, here's a link to what Amcross says they can do for you in case of a disaster:
http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1095,0_378_,00.html

For everyone else, try www.redcross.(insert country code here). For us Canadians, it's http://www.redcross.ca/. Here's the disaster link: http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000302&tid=0 25

The South Asian Tsunami was again a different sort of beast, since it was overseen by the ICRC (not Amcross). I can't back this up, since it's hearsay from someone with the CRC, but I had it explained to me that much of the money raised for the SAT was in fact sent to the area. I've have heard people complain that millions of dollars were spent on administration costs. This is true as well. I take it to be a matter of different POVs, since I understand the overhea

Ah, about that cross...

From the Canadian Red Cross page on the Red Cross emblem:
http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000340&tid=0 19

It may be worth it to clarify that the emblem that they're defending (the one backed by the Geneva Convention) is "five equal-sized red squares arranged in a cross pattern on a white background". It is not the Knights Templar cross, nor the Cross of St. George. Concerning the British and various other nations/religions/knightly orders that have commented on the idea of Amcross (or JnJ or the ICRC) defending a trademark over something that is also "theirs", mind that as I understand it, trademarking specifies a particular type of mark, not a general concept. They're not "fighting over your mark", they're fighting over theirs. Specifically, a trademark of five, equal-sized red squares arranged in a cross pattern on a white background. I would think that the Cross of St. George (since it seems to traditionally have its arms stretch to the boards of the shield/device/background) is sufficiently different. Ditto with the "latin" cross normally associated with Christianity (at least in North America, no offense intended towards any of the Orthodox/Papal groups)

Here's the Wikipedia link on crosses (kinda nifty):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross


As for the other issues mentioned about Amcross, well, that's another kettle of fish. Here's a few links to audit-related articles about Amcross:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/29/eveningn ews/main516700.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/30/eveningn ews/main516886.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/31/eveningn ews/main517045.shtml

...and their explanations of their actions concerning not operating in New Orleans:
http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.h tml

...and some other info at a glance:
http://www.redcross.org/news/ds/hurricanes/katrina _facts.html
http://www.redcross.org/news/ds/hurricanes/2005/fa cts.html

Here's some more grease for the fires. Rebuttals, anyone?
http://www.redcross.org/pressrelease/0,1077,0_489_ 5052,00.html


For the Americans, here's a link to what Amcross says they can do for you in case of a disaster:
http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1095,0_378_,00.html

For everyone else, try www.redcross.(insert country code here). For us Canadians, it's http://www.redcross.ca/. Here's the disaster link: http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000302&tid=0 25

The South Asian Tsunami was again a different sort of beast, since it was overseen by the ICRC (not Amcross). I can't back this up, since it's hearsay from someone with the CRC, but I had it explained to me that much of the money raised for the SAT was in fact sent to the area. I've have heard people complain that millions of dollars were spent on administration costs. This is true as well. I take it to be a matter of different POVs, since I understand the overhea

Not world-wide, but surveys of British Muslims:

40% Want Sharia Law
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2006/02/19/nsharia19.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02 /19/ixportaltop.html

30% Prefer Sharia Law
28% Hope U.K. Becomes Islamic State
68% Support Arrest of British Who "Insult Islam"
62% Deny Free Speech to Anti-religious Speech
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/14/opinion/ main1893879.shtml

38% foreign Muslims who incite hatred should be ... allowed to live in the UK
4% acceptable "for religious or political groups to use violence for political ends"
5% 7/7 bombings and future attacks justified
13% future attacks on U.S. justified
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/483

Only 15% of americans truly trust the news providers, and since just about any story you find in the paper or hear on tv requires us trusting the reporter, and their anonymous sources, it doesn't make sense that we should be making it easier for journalists to pursue a hidden agenda. Me, I want it harder for anonymous sources to come forward. If a source has an issue with this or that policy, they should prove the strength of their conviction by allowing themselves to be named instead of hiding in the shadows. Too often journalists end up as tools for agency or bureaucratic agendas and vendettas.

Republicans and Democrats both villified the press over the Plame outing case because it protected itself and refused to expose the truth behind a high level political case. Democrats wanted the press to name the sources so as to nail Libby and by extension Cheney, Republicans wanted the same thing in order exonerate Libby and by extension Cheney. Instead, journalists ended up in jail over an unfounded assumption that they had to protect a political appointee engaging in an inter-departamental rivalry. Many have pointed out that that episode went far to undermine the freedom of the press.

If we want better reporting and more trust in the news, we should demand as much transparency in reporting as possible, not obfuscate the problems. "Don't mind the source behind the curtain!" is the cry of the journalists. "Put your sources where I can see them" is mine.

Demanding transparency and honesty from the government is futile if we don't demand the same thing from the watchdogs.

Here is an interesting article, it is from CBS which isn't exactly a republican organization, that discusses some of the pitfalls of the Canadian healthcare system. Article. What I find interesting is that average Canadians pay almost 50% income tax. I am not sure how much your healthcare is, but even if my employer didn't cover 90% of my premiums, it would not be worth that increased tax burden.

how much does it cost a lawyer to do a laundry? 54million http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/25/national /main2974217.shtml/
how much will it cost for a update guarantee?
1.Starts up firefox to dl torrent.
2.firefox freezes while loading the overloaded torrent pron ads
3.judge waits for 30 straight hours without moving and taking shit.
4.???
5.profit!!!
jokes on lawyers never get old...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/04/tech/pri ntable3133675.shtml
Seriously, if you are going to link to an Associated Press article, please link to a version that doesn't require registration to read.

I don't mind profit. You don't profit, you don't pay the bills. This goes beyond profit, however. This feels similar to the CD price-fixing lawsuit brought against BMG, EMI, Sony, and others in the late 90's/2000s.

New York?

Kansas?

New York again?

Indiana?

Of course, if you're, say, a state treasurer, you could always claim that those 200 mod chips were for personal use, since you intended to share them / give them away to people, rather than sell them. Hey, it works for someone who just scored almost 500 grams of coke.

Since the current internet is just a series of tubes, the next generation will obviously be a big truck.

This will ensure that an internet (e.g. An EMAIL) sent by my staff will reach me. I depends on those Internets for my secondary income: bribes.

Sincerely,
Senator Ted Stevens