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this is slightly OT, but since I am growing increasingly tired of people self-diagnosing with horrible mental disorders based on their mild and perfectly normal (for a human) imperfections, I encourage you to read this, and then decide whether or not you are likely to actually have ADD: http://edschool.csuhayward.edu/departments/ted/instruction/howe/5500/ADD-DSM-IV.html

Well, if you see this van or any van with a similar, very not inconspicuous camera turret on top, then you should probably close your curtains.

1. Pornographers hate it 'cause it forces one level of regulation upon them. Then it's easy to block *.xxx at the ISP level or even at the national level (in slightly more repressive countries). Filtering software is easy to enable. Porn sites have to declare themselves and provide information about themselves, which makes them easier to target.
   
   
2. Borderline sites (artistic nudes, SI swimsuit, etc.) may have to move to .xxx by the law, which would be unfair to them since nothing is actually pornographic. In fact, nothing there would be illegal to show to minors, but .xxx requirements may be more than simply the Miller test. Educational institutions may filter *.xxx, preventing students from learning about Titian's Venus of Urbino or Boticelli's Birth of Venus , both of which prominently feature naked women. In fact, most art websites would either have to self-censor or move their entire gallery to .xxx. DeviantART would be in trouble because it would have to separate the really deviant art from the normal stuff. I've seen on Yahoo! Photos a checkbox to mark photo albums as "over 18 only." The new proposal would force a split of photos.yahoo.com and photos.yahoo.xxx - and then the next big news story is "Yahoo launches yahoo.xxx domain".
   
   
3. Conservatives/reactionaries and rabid Christians despise it because it legitimises porn. It also makes finding porn theoretically easier, and gives the raunchy stuff which they'd want to outlaw the excuse of saying that they're on .xxx so they should be immune. .xxx creates a "virtual red-light district" in the words of some conservatives. If the goal is to ban pornography on the Internet, why give it a TLD of its own?
   
   
4. The only group that seems to really want .xxx is the .xxx registrar itself. Note who's suing the US - the registrar that stood to make a profit, not any porn sites. What they're asking is for a government-sponsored choke hold on the entire online pornography industry, so that they can force all existing sites to re-register at whatever prices and under whatever terms they dictate.
   

Your argument only holds water if you're assuming that potential cusomers are informed and discerning.

If FrepSeachIncredible can pull off the same trick as Sunkist Oranges (where consumers are paying a hefty premium for a little purple stamp) it could work brilliantly.

Personally, I am hoping to get in on the ground floor of FrepSeachIncredible. Maybe we could even get SCO to sue us as part of the marketing blitz.

I'm sure that Magritte would have approved: http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Magrit6.html

Here's some more mirrors I found:

http://ximian.dulug.duke.edu/pub/ximian/
http://ftp.dc.aleron.net/ximian/
http://ximian.oregonstate.edu/
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/rsync.ximian.c om/
http://0-open-systems.ufl.edu.library.csuhayward.e du/mirrors/rsync.ximian.com/

At CSUH, 1000 and 2000 level classes are for freshman and sophomores (typically) and 3000 and 4000 are for upper classmen. 6000 are for grad students... here's the current list of CS classes.

At CSUH, 1000 and 2000 level classes are for freshman and sophomores (typically) and 3000 and 4000 are for upper classmen. 6000 are for grad students... here's the current list of CS classes.

Here's a question - what's your answer for terrorism? Because taking out governments that blatantly sponsor it seems to be the only recourse, other than just living with it.

So, before heading to Iraq the US should probably head over to Israel, then perhaps they can begin giving reparations for their home grown terrorism.

I would love to debate any moron who tries to draw a connection between Bin Ladin and Saddam on national TV. Saddam is the absolute antithesis to Bin Ladin's ideology, so much of an apostate in his eyes that working with the likes of him would be totally out of the question. Saddam regularly kills and imprisons Islamic activists, ones much less radical than Bin Ladin. Hell, Bin Ladin's main beef with the Saudi family was over American troops being stationed there, something much less damning Islamically speaking than what Saddam does on a day to day basis -- in most other respects he believed they were fine. Do you think someone as secular as Saddam is going to fly with him?

Of course, since these televised "political analysts" don't actually know anything about the religion or culture of the region, they aren't able to make that connection.

Ultimately, it comes down to this: how much risk are we willing to assume for something worse than 9/11 to happen?

How about adopting policy that's fair, instead of planting conflicts across the globe to ensure US economic benefit? Wouldn't that be nicer than getting frisked down at the airport, for the so-called "protection of your freedom."

Saddaam has illegal weapons, and assuming he won't use them is dangerously naive - he's used them in every war he's engaged in, including genocide on Iraqis (Kurdish).

Right, and the US is the only country on earth that's ever used Nuclear weapons. In case you didn't know, the US used biological weapons on its civilians too. Don't you feel so much more righteous than Saddam now?

Actually, it's "peta" which is then followed by "exa" and then "zetta" and finally "yotta". There is a short breakdown of the meanin of the names at "http://www.ccsf.caltech.edu/~roy /dataquan/ety.html" which tells where the names come from. There is a much larger listing of magnitudes at "http://www.mcs.csuhaywa rd.edu/~malek/Mathlinks/Billion.html".