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I note that "Brilliant but Canceled" was cancelled. (kidding)

The difference here may be the internet. The fan campaign would not be 1% as coordinated, or powerful in recruitment, without I can't even believe I find myself considering writinga letter or giving money to this cause. (See savefarscape.com.)

It's a long shot, but such are often the best shots. And the past may not be prologue. :)

Generally, the so-called "anti-animal rights" posts are actually funny, unlike the righteous indignation of all the PETA people.

It's true that compassion and arrogance generally don't mix very often. However, most of us meat eaters see a lot more arrogance than compassion from the PETA people. It's just like religious fundamentalism. It's a lot easier to feel superior about yourself and screech at and talk down to people who don't follow your worldview than it is to demonstrate your compassion.

I've never seen such a bunch of smug and insensitve jackasses as the PETA people themselves. The Rudy Giuliani "Got Prostate Cancer?" motherboard and this site (which used to actually claim that Jesus was a vegetarian and had a picture of Jesus with an orange for a halo) really show how far PETA is willing to go towards making asses of themselves in the public eye. I think Veganism is a great movement; I just can't stand the people.

Where's the huge stink that the EU is putting up a GPS system when the USoA already has one there.

"Huge stink" might not be the right phrase, but it's no secret that the US government would be perfectly happy to see the EU's proposed Galileo GPS system scuttled.

Historians have found that the last invasion of the U.S. was in 1812, and except for an unsucsessful attack against Pearl Harbor, none have been attempted since. Nevertheless, fear mongering of such invasions have allowed the U.S. military to grow beyond reason against the best advice, taxing the freedoms of the Constitution away from citizens. The Department of Defense hopes that these facts will become unknown, and is covertly working toward that goal, months after renouncing it. Such military propaganda artists have long confounded peace- and freedom-loving citizens, although they often hear their noises, especially during the recent surfacing of the Bush-Bin Laden connection.

How unfortunately true...I don't know about the rest of the civilized world, but nowhere else is it this easy -- let alone possible -- to donate large sums of money to a politician and literally buy a law or other protection (like that smallpox company). Woe is democracy...

These are the people that all but had the 9/11 plot handed to them on a silver platter. What happened?

Senate Panel: FBI Missed 9/11 Warnings
Report cites warnings before 9/11
White House defends reaction to pre-9/11 warnings
September 11 warnings: Who knew what, and when?
Known Foreign Intelligence warnings of 9/11
Bush Opposes 9/11 Query Panel

And on and on...

Not one person of significance in any of these alphabet agencies has lost their job because of their total and utter failure. In fact, soon after the attacks, Bush praised them. For what I might ask? For their Incompetence? For their obstruction of justice? For their lies?

All the talking heads on TeeVee keep trying to tell me how lucky I am for having Bush at the helm in these trying times. Funny, I don't feel so lucky.

These are the people that all but had the 9/11 plot handed to them on a silver platter. What happened?

Senate Panel: FBI Missed 9/11 Warnings
Report cites warnings before 9/11
White House defends reaction to pre-9/11 warnings
September 11 warnings: Who knew what, and when?
Known Foreign Intelligence warnings of 9/11
Bush Opposes 9/11 Query Panel

And on and on...

Not one person of significance in any of these alphabet agencies has lost their job because of their total and utter failure. In fact, soon after the attacks, Bush praised them. For what I might ask? For their Incompetence? For their obstruction of justice? For their lies?

All the talking heads on TeeVee keep trying to tell me how lucky I am for having Bush at the helm in these trying times. Funny, I don't feel so lucky.

.... when they haven't even been able to secure their existing physical infrastructure? I mean, our military can't account for 25% of their expenditures (some $2.3 trillion). And even in a single case of domestic terrorism such as the Oklahoma City bombing, where the FBI lost 3000+ documents pertaining to the McVeigh case due to antiquated technology.

No, what I think we need are leaner bureaucracies that make better use of their existing resources. Improve what we got, then build upon it........ as the whole Linux-vs-Microsoft row has proven, you can't add just security to a shitty foundation -- you have to do it from the ground up. I'm of the mind that the same holds true for efficiency, where bureaucracies are concerned.

A human embryo was first cloned in 1998, according to the Human Cloning Foundation, though development was halted after 12 days.
In November of this year, Dr. Severino Antinori claims a woman will bear a child "conceived" by cloning in January 2003, though no proof has been forthcoming from earlier, similar announcements by him.

However, it seems that Stanford will indeed be focusing more on stem cell cloning and research, rather than embryos entire. That doesn't mean other universities or organizations won't use this announcement as a stepping stone to researching embryonic cloning (for the purpose of "growing" cloned humans), though.

American government officials have sterilizated retarded people... Eugenics

American government officials have allowed entire communities to not have their VD treated without informed consent until 1972...
Tuskigee

American government officials have exposed retarded people to radiation...
1993: The Albuquerque Tribune publicizes 1940s experiments involving plutonium injection of human research subjects and secret radiation experiments. Indigent patients and mentally retarded children were deceived about the nature of their treatment.

American government officials have placed American millitary units into such a position that those units attacked wedding ceremonies with jet planes...
Wedding Attack

If you blindly trust your government, then you are a fool. Freedom requires eternal vigilance and the willingness to die for that freedom. Even to die to defend other peoples freedom. Because if you let someone else's rights be trampled for your own personal safety, then it is only a matter of time until it is your turn...

'First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist. And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did little. Then when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me.' - Niemöller

And the one thing that I really can't figure out... if there are no UFO's, why are the reports classifed? Why are documents released under the freedom of information act be blacked out so much? Some of the documents regarding Roswell have 75% of their content removed. Where there is smoke, there is fire... the governement is hiding something. Why not just tell us what it is and be done with it?

Actually music piracy HAS killed people. There was an article posted on CBS (CBS Report) recently about how the same sort of violence that one finds in the drug dealing crime circles is starting to appear in the music piracy circles.

Unfortunately, my government tends to "follow the leader" as well. But every now and then we get the impression that they feel the same way. Unforunately, as soon as such comments are made, they get stomped on... but perhaps it's a start to standing up and saying how we actually feel.

Seems to me that even a lot of the American population on slashdot realized Bush's lack of intelligence in many areas, and that 9-11, while tragic, was a foreseeable situation.

The picture of the spammer (at the CBS news article) looks strikingly similar to the Drudge Report picture Anthony Pellicano, a top hollywood PI caught with military C4 explosives in his safe and entangled in a Steven Segal/NYTimes reporter extortion case.

So the spammer is a crook in his other double life, too! ;)

Here's a picture, from a story about him settling a lawsuit with Verizon last month.

I'm not convinced that this is an earth-shaking development, either. And it doesn't sound anything like what was hyped as Ginger, that is, if Ginger isn't the Segway... But who cares. This guy really shot his wad on the Segway-- if he comes up with something truly amazing, I'll be impressed when I see it running.

The really sad thing is that the President gaurenteed that this sort of thing could never happen and that the corn can't reproduce on its own and cannot escape it's isolation. Sucks to be them methinks. See for your self.

Umm, the USA has a huge trade imbalance where it imports more than it exports. The 2001 deficit was $346.3 billion So, YES, the US does have a whole lot to buy, and usually from countries that don't inflict a minimum wage on their employers.

Regarding India; consider that the country has a bigger middle class (~100M people) than Canada does (~35M).

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People need to learn to do research and learn the facts. If you do your research you will learn that the world has been in a constant and even warming trend ever since the last ice age.

In fact back in the 1500's the temperatures of the world were actually higher than they are today and even farther back they closely match the warming trends of today.

"The study, appearing Friday in the journal Science, analyzed ancient tree rings from 14 sites on three continents in the northern hemisphere and concluded that temperatures in an era known as the Medieval Warm Period some 800 to 1,000 years ago closely matched the warming trend of the 20th century. " CBS NewsWASHINGTON, March 22, 2002

Researchers have proven this many times over by studying tree rings to get the growth rates of trees in certain years which is highly correlated with the temperatures of that year. The earth goes through its natural worming and cooling phases by itself.

And those who deserve the power die in plane crashes two weeks before the election.

Dying in a plane crash actually gives a candidate quite a boost in the polls. (Just ask John Ashcroft!)

Here's a link to the full text of the president's address to the UN. He mentions those tubes. Close enough?

And here's a link to a story from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who are anything but crackpots, explaining why those tubes are no kind of evidence at all.

So, do you really want to eliminate my incentive? Sure hope you like Junior...

No one is arguing that a CEO shouldn't make MORE money than other workers at a company. The question is why they are being given absurdly high compensation packages compared to every other country in the world.

It's insiderism, it's a sleazy money grab; they know it's wrong, why else would boards of directors try to hide these compensation packages from their shareholders? See the Jack Welch of GE's compensation scandal for only the latest such example.

You worked your ass off. You took risks, you got rewarded. But you can bet Jack Welch didn't climb any poles or take out the trash. Unless the trash was in Tahiti and he took the company jet. Most CEOs of large companies get a big payday whether or not their companies do well. Tying compensation to stock prices was supposed to fix that; instead they figured out how to fix their own stock prices until they could cash out.

cbsnews

BTW, 60% of the radiations emitted by a cellphone are absorbed by the brain. Moreover, children are at much higher risk than adults, as their brain is not fully developped. Earlier analog models (which have higher emissions than the current ones, though) have been shown to interfere with the brain.

The Raven

You honestly havn't heard that during the Iran-Iraq war the US supplied military advice to Saddam, advise that included helping with battle plans that involved the use of poinson gas?

This isn't a conspiracy theory. Its a fact. It was reported widly internationaly, I am suprised if it wan't reported in the US.

Don't trust me? To you trust CBS CNN (google cache) FOX news NY Times (thier story being carried by Chinas peoples daily.

Oh maybe there is a vast conspiracy involving all these news sources? I don't think so.

If you want to keep on with this, you have my email.

Why bother with the ozone layer? It's a cyclical beast, it's shrinking by itself... 1, 2, 3.

The ETA is still planting bombs all over Spain, in spite of the massive public demonstrations all over the country, and especially inside the Basque region itself which have said "Stop Bombing!" See CBS News, and The Guardian

They are still bombing in spite of being a party which is close to single digits in most polls, and in spite of the fact that the regional government is (peacefully) nationalist.

The ETA has more in common with Al Qaida than the IRA, where anyone who is not as violently radical is branded a traitor to the cause.

Apparently Gale Norton decided she'd better spend all the money the DoI has kept from Native American tribes. Ah, free software: damned if you're free, damned if you're not....

The criteria for a good game, not surpising, kids say is an interesting storyline and unique characters.

What BS.. one of the most popular games at the moment is Dance Dance Revolution which has no storyline, and the characters are overdone anime types who are there for no reason at all.

A lot of kids are getting fit from playing Dance Dance Revolution, and even a school in Los Angeles bought a DDR machine for Phys Ed class.

Okay, it's not educational, but it's in a school, and the kids love it.

Games do not necessarily need storylines (see almost any multiplayer game) to keep interest. They just need to be addictive. For example, Tetris, DDR, Tetrinet, SimCity.

Talking of which.. anyone remember Sierra's 'Castle of Doctor Brain'? Great educational game, and I even played it a few months ago to bring back the memories!

"The poll released Thursday found that 49 percent think the First Amendment goes too far, a total about 10 points higher than in 2001."

The source for the quote above is an AP story on CBS newsabout a poll by the "First Amendment Center" of Arlington VA. Don't know anything about this group, but both the AP and CBS found it worth repeating.

I can't argue the slant of the poll, not having looked any further. And as a strong civil libertarian, statistics like the number above scare me. But I fear I can't dismiss it as easily as you did.

This is fairly old news. Similar stories were on Drudge Report back in June.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/24/attack/m ain513251.shtml

In the article, it shows that some libraries are resisting as much as possible. I believe the ALA has a section on their website to keep librarians aware of their rights.

The real question is why libraries need to keep track of the books you have checked out after they have been returned? Most places are past the point where you sign the little card in the back of the book, so I don't see why libraries couldn't just delete the info after the book has been returned.

That is a decades-old urban legend (check with absolutely any lawyer, intellectual property book/website etc).

E.g. a quick search finds this on the subject: cbsnews.com

Moderators please mod that down (it's currently at 3, informative) for disseminating harmful misinformation.

If you want to argue that an FBI agent looking for al Qaeda members should not be able to go to Google and type in `al Qaeda' (the situation before USA PATRIOT and the attendant executive orders), go ahead, but I can't see any grounds for considering allowing him to do so a diminishment of anyone's rights.

"FBI and CIA can now go from phone to phone, computer to computer without demonstrating that each is even being used by a suspect or target of an order. The government may now serve a single wiretap, FISA wiretap or pen/trap order on any person or entity nationwide, regardless of whether that person or entity is named in the order. The government need not make any showing to a court that the particular information or communication to be acquired is relevant to a criminal investigation. In the pen/trap or FISA situations, they do not even have to report where they served the order or what information they received." -- Sec 1.B

...given this announcement that people ought to get more fiber...

I recall reading about a study that said that hands-free systems did not reduce the number of gaffes people made while driving and talking on the phone.

Studies have shown that the distraction of a driver's attention from the road contributes to accidents involving cellular phones and that handsfree devices do not reduce the incidence of accidents.

Hands-Free, But Dangerous

Cell Phones and Car Crashes

A lot more, but I don't feel like typing, you probably don't feel like reading, and you can just do a google search to find more.

People who use cell-phones always argue that they are 1-percenters, those in the one percent who might actually not be so stupid when using a cell phone. 99% of cellphone users think they are in that 1 percent and, of course, this is one of those 90% of statistics that was just made up by me, but that is sure what it seems like.

Everyone that uses a cellphone that I talk to says they are capable of driving while using a cellphone. Well, sure, everyone is capable of driving while using a cellphone, but how capable are you at avoiding an accident and driving defensively while using a cellphone? If it's any less than without, then don't do it.

On the exercise bit, check out this school that uses the DDR machines for gym class . . .

If you want to learn something, read Orwell. Then if you haven't got the point, maybe move on to Huxley.

I'm not being rude, I mean it. They put the case better than I ever could.

If you're not a reader, find a friend who lived in the U.S.S.R.. Ask them about what it was like to have serial numbers on typewriters and copy machines, and a national informant system, or to have to show papers to go from one town to the next, or at any time for any reason. To walk down a quiet street at night with a girl, arm in arm, but not steal that kiss, because you are not really sure you're alone.

The psychological effects of these regimes are subtle and pervasive.

The thing you want to think about is that, often times, the government does things not quite for the reasons that it gives. And surveillance is one of those things that has a lot of purposes besides preventing terrorism.

Consider the fact that almost none of the security measures passed since 9/11 were related to published dificiencies in our previous security program's handling of the disaster. National IDs had nothing to do with Al Qaeda, and would not have prevented the attack - the attackers would have simply had their own. They were in the country legally.

The Soviets pulled out every stop. They did things the current pro-surveillance, pro-data-collection Americans would have nightmares about. I'll give you a hint. It didn't stop crime, let alone terrorism. But it did make a striking example that life in a totalitarian state is barely that.

Our history in this country is that of refugees from government. And we organized our society in perpetual conflict with its government as a result. If we trust government, why have a jury, since judges are better qualified? Why have courts? Don't you trust the police? Wouldn't they know best who'se guilty and who'se not? Why have elections? After all, as Lenin put it, some things are too important to put to a vote.

Instead we have checks and balances, and we have a sense that a life should not be lived in the shadow of government. That it should be in our lives as little as possible. That every time it intrudes, to collect a tax, to stamp a passport, to pull us over on the highway, it had better be giving us a hell of a bargain in return. Our country's resistance to ID's stems from a basic, visceral aspect of that conflict; I do not exist at the sufferance of my state. I do not need to be stamped and photographed to be legitimate. I am a free, "legal" person inherently - not because of my card. I am not, in other words, a number. But this sounds too much like rhetoric. The basic point is, let each agency who needs to know who I am ask each time it needs to. Let each give an ID if it must. Don't let government as a whole enumerate us; that's a bad bargain, because it doesn't need to. Only specific parts of it do. So let it do only as much as it needs.

Of course, it also stems from the basic necessities; a national ID system is expensive, and it has no clearly stated and important benefits that justify its expense. If you say that it helps provide "security," you'll have to say precisely how.

But I'd rather not preach at you. You should look at the works on the subject, read about the relevant history, and draw your own conclusions.

-David

No. No. No. They are celebrating their First Amendment rights.

With all the bad legislation floating around these days Judge Kozinski's ruling is a breath of fresh air.

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So at best you can argue that the US is providing funding for programs which are incorrectly claimed to work (and you haven't demonstrated that this is the case yet). It sure seems to me rather a stretch to claim this, but if we accept it at face value, it still hardly works out to the evil US you set out to show...

Yes it does. They do know about the enviromental damages. And the hazards to people. They just don't give a shit. That IS evil.

Except that `the way he did' act was a.) not particularly bad

Yes imprisoning and killing your critics. Just the everyday good stuff.

The truth is that the CIA was as surprised by the coup as anyone else.
Bullshit.
There's an astute argument. What's your source for this?

A reference for my claim is here
And please keep in mind that you have yet to provide any source for your claims.

This is not new. In Melbourne, Australia, a system operating on similar principles for a few years - http://www.perceptics.com/files/LPR.pdf.

Speed cameras here also operate in the same way, and have done so for years. No human will even see your traffic fine after it leaves the police van. The images get transferred back to the central computer, which then scan & enhance it, print the infringement notice and stuff it into a envelope. I assume a human carries it down to the post office. But it can't be to far off before the dammed things are delivered by email.

Scott McNeally's off the cuff comment Privacy is dead, deal with it! is spot on. Slashdotters may have as much trouble accepting that as the RIAA has accepting the way technology has gutted copyright, but the genie is out of the bottle. You can't put it back. No one is going to tear down the cameras that take 300 pictures of your average Londoner a day. No one is going to stop the hire car companies tracking you via satellite. Nobody is going to stop the police tracking your movements by asking Blockbuster when and where you last hired out movies.

David Brin was right. Trying to stop the collection is a lost cause. Instead fight to make your right to know who is collecting such information, what they have collected, and most importantly who has accessed it. If we can't keep their fingers out of our packets, at least we can keep the bastards honest!

BTW, CR is not about starvation or malnourishment (the latter can occur while eating tons of calories of they're all junk). People on a calorie restricted diet try to practice "CRON" -- Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition.

That may seem hard and some people do go to great lengths in pursuit of optimality, but it is really pretty simple: cut out junk (low nutrition) calories (especially sugar), eat (lots) more vegetables (without smothering added vegetables in high calorie oils and cheeses).

"If [Paladium] works, it will be the first time in the history of computing that [this level of security is obtained.]"
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I would argue that the US does. Perhaps you disagree, but be prepared to provide cites if so...

I do disagree. Our haphazard application of the death penalty is one example - Since I have the links handy, I invite you to consider this report on the rate of error in capital cases. If you'd prefer to read the executive summary, it is available here. The study was updated this year. This was in the news afew times. I'm also none too thrilled about our civil forfeiture policies, or our covert support of paramilitaries in South America, or the School of the Americas, or COINTELPRO.

I'm not saying we're worse than China, but I am saying that human rights have often taken a back seat to other concerns in our government's formulation of domestic and foreign policy. Reasonable people may differ as to whether or not this is a bad thing.

Nor do we `break' treaties we find problematic. The ABM treaty had specific provisions for either party to pull out given six months notice, and we used those provisions. Choosing not to sign nonsense treaties like Kyoto is not the same as `breaking' them. But perhaps you had another example in mind?

Yes I did - why did you go put Kyoto in my mouth? We never signed Kyoto, so we couldn't abrogate it. How is that relevant? I didn't mention ABM either, because, as you correctly stated, we withdrew in accordance with that treaties provisions.

Though you seem to have missed it, I specifically mentioned our government's notorious penchant for unilaterally abrogating or ignoring its agreements with Native American tribes. Our federal courts have been complicit in this. See Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 552 (1903).

-Isaac

I would argue that the US does. Perhaps you disagree, but be prepared to provide cites if so...

I do disagree. Our haphazard application of the death penalty is one example - Since I have the links handy, I invite you to consider this report on the rate of error in capital cases. If you'd prefer to read the executive summary, it is available here. The study was updated this year. This was in the news afew times. I'm also none too thrilled about our civil forfeiture policies, or our covert support of paramilitaries in South America, or the School of the Americas, or COINTELPRO.

I'm not saying we're worse than China, but I am saying that human rights have often taken a back seat to other concerns in our government's formulation of domestic and foreign policy. Reasonable people may differ as to whether or not this is a bad thing.

Nor do we `break' treaties we find problematic. The ABM treaty had specific provisions for either party to pull out given six months notice, and we used those provisions. Choosing not to sign nonsense treaties like Kyoto is not the same as `breaking' them. But perhaps you had another example in mind?

Yes I did - why did you go put Kyoto in my mouth? We never signed Kyoto, so we couldn't abrogate it. How is that relevant? I didn't mention ABM either, because, as you correctly stated, we withdrew in accordance with that treaties provisions.

Though you seem to have missed it, I specifically mentioned our government's notorious penchant for unilaterally abrogating or ignoring its agreements with Native American tribes. Our federal courts have been complicit in this. See Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 552 (1903).

-Isaac

Germany and IBM have been working together for years. Since the third reich

Disney, IBM and McDonalds are just as successful as Microsoft at marketing (perhaps IBM a little less so). And just like MicroSoft, their products never kill people.

Just because you're not bothered by a MegaCompany that uses the most underhanded tactics they can get away with to take what they want doesn't mean the rest of the world will pull the wool over their eyes and see the world through your rose coloured glasses.

(Andy)"Ever tried to quit AOL? They just won't let you. It's like the Roach Motel, they check in, but they don't check out. I'm wasting away the final years of my life on hold."

(Jerry) "So who invented hold anyway?!? That's one person who's going to hell. It's a battle of wills, just like the staring game we played when we were kids. After an hour and a half on hold I'm thinking, just a few more minutes, I know he's about ready to cave, there's no way I'm giving up now!"

(Dave) "The call center, I swear I am not making this up, is actually manned by CIA 'Pain Specialists' who are studying the average time a person will stay on hold before giving up. This is going directly into their Pain Threshold Database for future use in IRS audits."

Except Katz takes himself seriously. Oh, and he's not funny.

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Whoops guess he doesn't count. (nor the voice of those who voted Le Pen)

Well, 'Anonymous Coward', I didn't say it was Enron. I only said that it was a "certain energy company".

On the question of whether or not Enron is a piece of the puzzle concerning the false energy crisis of California, there are a number of articles tracing influences in that market, of which this article, What Cheney's Hiding, is only one.

Here are a couple others:

• Power Price Gouging Secrets
• CA State Senate document (PDF) finding Enron in contemp