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Just to mention. The Honda ad was done in a "single" shot. The camera never cut away. It just took 606 tries at that single shot before every bearing, wheel, wiper blade, and drop of oil was perfectly aligned to yield one of the most complex ads ever filmed.

Here is an article explaining it:

The Daily Telegraph

No. THIS is what the pelican looks like.

OT, and yes, this sounds suspciously like the old Stephen King troll, but there are reports that the guy committed suicide. Not that he's necessarily a good guy like his son says, because he apparently threatened to slash a Jordanian journo's hands off if he reported the truth.

Sorry, this has no business to be in a thread talking about MS, or (the lack of) Tablet PC's. Just thought I'd point this out before we continue to make al Sahaf jokes.

Neutral coverage my Ass. They are slanted in quite the other direction.Check this link

How many people die from guns each year

Well, for the year two thousand, it was 28,663 deaths.

776 were accidental. This is entirely dwarfed by the 97,124 total accidental deaths that were not firearms related, and by the 3,482 accidental deaths by drowning, and the 13,322 accidental deaths by fall.

10,801 were homicides. For comparison, there were 5,964 homicides that were committed without a firearm. Also, 'homicide' includes justifiable homicide, the stats page I'm looking things up at doesn't let you split them apart. Some percentage of the perpertator of homicides that were not justifiable, would have found a different means to kill the intended victim.

16,586 were suicides, some percentage of which would have probably found a different way to kill themselves. In fact, 12,764 people did manage to kill themselves without a firearm, and I find it ludicrous the notion that the ones that did used firearms would have been entirely prevented if no firearms were available, considering that almost half the suicides were without a firearm.

226 were 'Legal Intervention', which does not include justifiable homicide, but is only 'legal executions and deaths caused by law officers in the line of duty.'

If you'd gladly wave your right to bear arms, move to a different country. Say, England, where the crime rate has been rising since the firearm ban, and they're now banning pellet and BB guns as though that would help.

If your motivation is to save lives, you've also got to consider the lives you'll take by removing the ability of people to own a firearm. Firearms are equalizers, a 210 pound man attempting to rape a 120 pound woman isn't going to get to use his size advantage if she's packing, a young man attempting to rob an elderly man is going to have a rough time as well, if the elderly man has a gun.

I'm not a 'selfish jerk that thinks it's cool to own a Glock'. I'm the 'selfish jerk' that will have the means to defend my family should a criminal attack them. You can call 911 and wait for the cops to show up, with no effective means to stop the criminal from hurting you, if you'd like, especially since the police are under no obligation to protect you; You are responsible for your own protection. I am responsible for mine, my wife will be calling 911 while I'm shooting the bastard, if I have to shoot him (If he decides to bug out, he'll have the chance to exit unharmed - It'll be his decision at that point).

Making guns illegal will not remove guns from the hands of criminals, it will only remove them from the hands of law-abiding citizens, leaving them less able to defend themselves when the criminals, who will have guns regardless of their legality, attempt to take advantage of them.

Statistically, half of the households in the United States own a firearm. If firearms are the huge problem that the anti-gun organizations would have you believe, we'd all be dead already. Also, I find it somewhat interesting that HCI (Now the Brady Campaign) was apparently founded by a man who allegedly kept two handguns buried in his back yard, and owned a rifle as well (no it was not founded by Sara Brady)

Most people seem to share the view that New Labour 'aspirations'
mean absolutely nothing, and we'll probally end up in 2050 with
more coal/gas/nuclear (best option in my opinion) powerstations than
ever before.

You're right: it's turboprop-based. It's supposed to save fuel by flying low and building up a "buoyant aerodynamic effect".
More links:
Daily Telegraph UK
FuturePundit.com
Seattle Times
Boeing Frontiers with larger image

There was an article in the Daily Telegraph about that recently. 'Guess they didn't ask the /. crew, or it would have been the "imagine a beowulf" joke which would have arrived first ! :]

The World Trade Centre outrage was co-ordinated on the internet, without
question. If Washington is serious in its determination to eliminate
terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow the
transmission of encrypted messages - now encoded by public key ciphers that
are unbreakable even by the National Security Agency's computers - and close
down any provider that refuses to comply.
Uncompliant providers on foreign territory should expect their buildings to
be destroyed by cruise missiles. Once the internet is implicated in the
killing of Americans, its high-rolling days may be reckoned to be over.

"ordinary Americans will have to learn to bear... interference with their liberty of instant electronic access to friends and services... If Washington is serious in its determination to eliminate terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow the transmission of encrypted messages...

The register rip's the article to pieces better than i ever could.

Try this Daily Telegraph article from the UK...

"The World Trade Centre outrage was co-ordinated on the internet, without question. If Washington is serious in its determination to eliminate terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow the transmission of encrypted messages"

Regards,
Denny

John Keegan, defence correspondent, blames the Internet.

"The World Trade Centre outrage was co-ordinated on the internet, without question," he writes. "If Washington is serious in its determination to eliminate terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow the transmission of encrypted messages - now encoded by public key ciphers that are unbreakable even by the National Security Agency's computers - and close down any provider that refuses to comply.

"Uncompliant providers on foreign territory should expect their buildings to be destroyed by cruise missiles. Once the internet is implicated in the killing of Americans, its high-rolling days may be reckoned to be over."

"America in a war mood will have no truck with tender concern for constitutional safeguards of the liberty of its enemies. [And]... ordinary Americans will have to learn to bear...interference with their liberty of instant electronic access to friends and services.

The World Trade Centre outrage was co-ordinated on the internet, without question. If Washington is serious in its determination to eliminate terrorism, it will have to forbid internet providers to allow the transmission of encrypted messages - now encoded by public key ciphers that are unbreakable even by the National Security Agency's computers - and close down any provider that refuses to comply.

Uncompliant providers on foreign territory should expect their buildings to be destroyed by cruise missiles.

Once the internet is implicated in the killing of Americans, its high-rolling days may be reckoned to be over." --The Daily Telegraph (UK) 14 September 2001 (Emphasis added.)

URL for this leader is:
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?ac=006026230637 643&rtmo=k7CAx7ep&atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/01/9/14/do01.h tml