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Does anyone else find it terribly ironic that this group of alien worshiping wack-jobs has chosen to nickname their first clone-apparent Eve? (In a decidedly obvious Christian reference) And doesn't it seem terribly convenient that the birth just happened to coincide with Christmas?

Oh, and please forgive the Alanis Morissette pun. I mean, she is Canadian after all; I just couldn't resist.

It sure does sound like the worst of it is in California. While things are bad in my area (Utah), it sure does seem really bad in California. According to this article it sounds like the mismanagement of the state government will likely make it a lot worse in California before it gets any better. I wouldn't be surprised to see a monster tax increase in California. I hope I'm wrong, but this would be a huge hit to California's chance of creating new jobs.

The same AP story was posted by Fox News.
CNN wasn't wrong, the AP was. Given, CNN didn't recheck the facts, but unless the original article was done by a CNN reporter who is a member of the AP, then it's not quite the same.
Fox link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,73219,00.html
CNN link: http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/17/music. piracy.ap/index.html

Is it just me or have other people also been noticing a lot of anti-TiVo news stories lately like this? I feel like there has been a big uptick in the number of "TiVo is Big Brother" articles lately. Since many publishing and news agencies are in bed with cable companies, I wonder if they are trying to use the media to promote a negative image for PVRs.

With the porn industry with estimated $11 billion in annual sales (besting the video game industry by $1.6 billion), where's the Porn University?

Indiana.

Better content can be found here.

...for Fox news. I had a brief and bizarre encounter using CNN.com from work: it wanted me to register as a Netscape user. I restarted my browser and the problem went away.

THANK GOD Someone is thinking here. Not all muslims are anti america but the "sermons" (as you put it) proves most of the middle east is.

Wubya just gave a speech about this...helps to read the news sites that aren't politically left.

foxnews.com

Wow, this got modded up fast.

Just for the record (as pointed out in another reply) this link is to Junk Science which is a website maintained by Steve Milloy, who is associated with the Cato Institute, a corporate funded think tank. This website often has a subtle right-wing, corporate friendly bias.

Often the topics stray from the root scientific questions. For example - what the hell does a story about the Animal Liberation Front have to do with junk science? I fully support animal testing, but this is a tale of morality and politics, not science.

Basically, whenever you read anything published anywhere, just ask three questions: "Where is the evidence, how much evidence is there, and can it and has it been duplicated elsewhere?"

You're right. Many people have told me that there is nothing worse than my shorts coming off when I'm jogging. Guess they don't like fat-assed /. readers who drag around a Zaurus so they can listen to ogg files. Though now that I think about it, why do I jog anyway? Is it to get to the deep fried twinkies?

the person in charge of certifying the election was a state campaign leader for that candidate

And every move she made followed the law exactly and withstood intense international scrutiny.

Furthermore, if Katherine Harris was such a slimeball, what are the odds that she would've won her House race?

Prior to being president that father was the head of the nation's secret police.

So?

The notion that the CIA is some sort of "secret police" is absurd. They're not even permitted to assist the FBI and state & local law enforcement. Even the military isn't restricted to that extent (while the posse comitatus act prohibits the armed services from directly carrying out law-enforcement duties, they are permitted to provide technical assistance).

the person in charge of certifying the election was a state campaign leader for that candidate

And every move she made followed the law exactly and withstood intense international scrutiny.

Furthermore, if Katherine Harris was such a slimeball, what are the odds that she would've won her House race?

Prior to being president that father was the head of the nation's secret police.

So?

The notion that the CIA is some sort of "secret police" is absurd. They're not even permitted to assist the FBI and state & local law enforcement. Even the military isn't restricted to that extent (while the posse comitatus act prohibits the armed services from directly carrying out law-enforcement duties, they are permitted to provide technical assistance).

Okay, let me understand this. Lets say I create a set of Christmas Jingles using something like Cakewalk Sonar .. or better yet, one of several Linux based multi-track recording tools. Then burn my tunes with something like Nero ... then list it on E-Bay - they're going to pull my ad?

Perhaps this is a result of an indiscriminate Copyright Bot as described by Tennessee Law professor, Glenn Reynolds?

The same day that this story is posted, Whitney Houston's new album is leaked to the internet a full month before its release date. Awesome. Die RIAA, DIE!

I think you're mixing it up with something else. This is what I have been referring to:
a story on fox news but also discussed on CNN, New York Times etc.

here

Cheaper than moller, and more conventional too.

but with the problems with the osprey it would be interesting to see if a kit made to be simple for backyard construction can be more reliable than a defense contractor product assembled by dozens of skilled workers.

Eldred v Ashcroft? That's the sort of liberal bias I expect from cnn or NPR. Fact is, This law was pushed through by the Democratic Congress and Senate (e.g. Rep. Bono, D Ca.), and signed by Bill Clinton.

Oh, numerous reasons not to vote for Nader. Maximum allowed income. Destruction of the economy. "Every business except mine is bad." "Every rich white man except me is bad." I could go on

The worst, however, is that the Greens are recruiting McKinney for their 2004 election. Nader is, of course, a Green, perhaps she can be his VP.

Go ahead and mod this as flamebait too.

Even though NPR has been shown to be spread liberal disinformation:

NPR: Sorry About the Story Linking Christian Group to Anthrax

Odd that /. gives a 3 mod to someone that says NPR is great and dismisses someone that says no it isn't.

You know there can never even be a hint of the alternate perspective that most of the technological innovation, economic development and productivity gains of the past 30 years occurred due to private funding in startups as a result of the startup obtaining a patent on a promising new technology.

You guys are like a seventh graders that say school sucks or teenagers that say there should be no speed limits.

thanks to RIAA, those musicians will be forgoten forever

Obscure european bands from the 70s and 80s do not produce revenues for the colluding recording industry oligopoly.

Neither do innovative niche forms, like ebm, trance, gothic/industrial, etc. Such forms require music industry executives to actually have a clue about the music and has less need for slick MTV marketing formulas.

While we've all been worrying about RIAA, the death of shoutcast, pay-per-play licensed media, etc., many of us have missed the other side of the game being nailed by RIAA - their quiet partnership with the broadcast industry.

Emerging dominant broadcasters like ClearChannel (who were given the go ahead to roll up more than the previous FCC limit of stations per market, slaughtering local staffing, and running most of the programming remote from a central location) have become a favorite partner for RIAA firms - got a new Britney tune? Write ClearChannel a check and you're guaranteed airplay and CD sales.

ClearChannel's station rollup, the death of independent broadcasters, effective Congressional lobbying (my congress critters in both parties are strong supporters of RIAA and the National Association of Broadcasters/NAB), and Copyright Office hijinks might just put an end to creative music in the US.

Then again, someone's got to buy all of these awful things piling up in the warehouses...

*scoove*

Wow! That's amusing. I admit, I only read the first couple paragraphs. Normally, I take the time to find a good source for my links, but this time I just grabbed the first link I could find off google. I first heard about the grocery profiling here on Slashdot. FoxNews wrote a story about it. Now that I've investigated the source, it looks like everyone else just copied the story from the Village Voice.

This issue reminds me of the people who make "cozies" for things. "Goodness! We can't have it look like what it actually is!". I think functional antennae are beautiful, whatever their form.
On the schools issue, This should put that bit of stupidity to rest. It won't of course, because people are stupid.

Mother Sentenced in Daughter Rape Case

as mentioned on the above referring article, a batman vs superman movie is currently being worked on. how ironic if the poster of this /. article (M.C. Hampster) didn't realize that in making that comparison.

..and if you understood the "real" batman, not the Adam West-inspired ones, you would know that Michael Keaton's version was by far the closest to home. batman is a dark and angry man, whose purpose is to scare the shit out of criminals. that first scene with batman holding the punk over the edge of the roof is classic batman.

Fox is going commercial free for 24 hours.

The Patriot Act.
The national ID cards are being pushed with 9/11 rhetoric. They will most likely become law.
A story on Fox news should also have some good information for you.
The 1st amendment has also been under attack. Read about it here

There's a wealth of more information I could gather, but it's best to find this stuff out for yourself. And of course, there's community legislation. In my community, lots of ridiculous garbage has passed that attacks all kinds of rights, mostly privacy. The article here is a great example.

The leading cause of death on the planet today is good ol' malaria. Mosquito control with DDT could solve that problem - and no, it wouldn't require spraying massive amounts of tens of millions of pounds on food crops, just a few hundred thousand pounds a year.

"B-b-b-ut DDT is bad! The enviros said so!" - really? The evidence for that is highly questionable.

DDT also help with another up-and-coming disease, too.

> In my opinion listening to the environmentalists causes no harm; but if they are right we're fucked. So whether or not I agree with them or with you - I'm going to modify my behaviour based on what they tell me. I'll buy a more efficient car, I'll steer clear of GM foods, and I'll try to avoid creating vast quantities of waste. And where I can I'll also support them in their efforts.

Dude - WTF kind of logic is that? Believing the earth is flat is also harmless. (And if the earth is flat, we're fucked because someday someone's gonna sail off the edge! ) So even if I don't agree with flat-earthers, I'll avoid cruise ships and support the flat-earthers in their efforts.

How about trying something revolutionary, like the idea that "the d00d who makes the statement has the burden of proof". If the enviros make a claim, it's up to them to prove their case to you.

If, after listening to their argument, you still agree with them, modify your behavior. But if you don't agree with them, don't modify your behavior.

Avoiding GM foods because there's no harm there? You mean, like rice that could provide folks with beta-carotene and vitamin A, preventing millions of cases of blindness and about two million deaths every year? Yeah, no harm there.

Now I dig that we might not need the carotene-advanced rice, and as such, we're quite free to stick with regular rice if we so choose. But to support the environmentalist agenda to deny everyone access to this technology is going too far. So I choose to support GM foods (and most genetic engineering in general), and I'll eat the GM foods if they taste good.

And sometimes the enviro arguments do make sense. F'rinstance, I choose efficient cars because, umm, well, they're more efficient. Unless I'm hauling freight (which I ain't), I'm interested in getting from "A" to "B" in a reasonable timeframe, preferably with a minimum of expense. Hmm, the econobox costs $10K and $0.10 per mile, and the SUV costs $30K and $0.20 per mile, and the hybrid $20K and $0.05 per mile.

If I expect to keep a car for 10 years and I drive 5000 miles a year, I buy the $10K car. (I could save $2500 by spending an extra $10000 for the hybrid, losing $7500 - almost enough to buy another car!) If I drive 20000 miles per year, I save $7500 out of $10000 and hybrid starts to look pretty good - assuming I can get 10 years out of the batteries. The SUV sux azz and isn't in contention for me. But even though I think they're a poor choice, I wouldn't deny someone else the right to buy one. They may simply have different transportation needs than I do.

> And when the oil runs out and you're left with a rusting pile of useless metal on your drive remember to blame the government because "they should have done something".

Long before the oil runs out, it'll run low. Supply and demand will increase the price of oil. When it's $0.50 per mile for the shitbox, $2.00 per mile for the SUV, and still $0.05 per mile for the electric vehicle, everyone will have an incentive to switch. (...well, assuming we have nuclear power, which is the only way we'll be able to generate enough electricity to power all the cars when the internal combustion engine dies.

(Or would you prefer to burn more coal or natural gas - same amount of CO2 released - to get the electric current to recharge the batteries... or to electrolyze the water for the hydrogen in the fuel cells? Don't forget, you didn't mine the methane hydrates in the eco-sensitive offshore shallows, and you also helped the enviros ban genetic engineering, so you can't grow acres of sugar cane in the desert for ethanol, or genetically-engineer a batch of superbugs to crack water :-)

"Giving up some freedom can in fact give you some security, and we all do it all the time. I am not allowed to go around shooting people - if I do the cops come and arrest me. This is a compromise of my absolute freedom, but one that I (and the vast majority of other people) are very happy to make."

That's not giving up freedom so much as it is respecting the freedom of others - in this case the freedom to live. If you want a case study in why giving up freedom for security does not work, take a look at Israel. Their entire population is forced into military service, soldiers patrol the streets at all times with orders to hold anyone who appears suspicious, and now they're building a giant wall around themselves.

Looking at all that, the "let's trade some freedom for security" people need to understand something about the Israeli government's tactics. They are not preventing the terrorist attacks.

Our best defence against terrorism is, and has always been, our freedom. That's why Al Qaeda hit us instead of Israel. That's why we continue to be a target - our freedom scares the hell out of them.

Here's one you forgot:

Arresting people!

How about making yourself into a frisbee for your family and friends. :)

...and unfortunantely we will not be venturing into space until it is commercially viable to do so.

It could be, right now. Some people are already paying millions of dollars for a seat in the ISS, more would shell out a few tens of thousands for a suborbital parabolic flight, which a few companies are working towards. "Real" access to space is currently viewed as "way too expensive" because it's the way NASA does it, and people use it as a reference. It's not the technology, see Rand Simberg's recent column, We Don't Need No Stinkin' Technology.

As for why NASA (and some other government agencies) does it that way, beyond the near-mythical "why have one when you can have one for the price of two", the previous one, Pork Versus Vision, could be interesting. Or Stephen Baxter's "Voyage", which describes an alternate reality in which the US go all the way up to Mars as early as 1986, but (as opposed to this documentary) with a realistic view about politics. (You want Mars? OK, scrap this Space Shuttle thing, Apollo 15-20, and you have just enough Saturn V rockets for a single mission; what more do you want? A space station? Get real, Vietnam is expensive, we need the money for serious things!)

...and unfortunantely we will not be venturing into space until it is commercially viable to do so.

It could be, right now. Some people are already paying millions of dollars for a seat in the ISS, more would shell out a few tens of thousands for a suborbital parabolic flight, which a few companies are working towards. "Real" access to space is currently viewed as "way too expensive" because it's the way NASA does it, and people use it as a reference. It's not the technology, see Rand Simberg's recent column, We Don't Need No Stinkin' Technology.

As for why NASA (and some other government agencies) does it that way, beyond the near-mythical "why have one when you can have one for the price of two", the previous one, Pork Versus Vision, could be interesting. Or Stephen Baxter's "Voyage", which describes an alternate reality in which the US go all the way up to Mars as early as 1986, but (as opposed to this documentary) with a realistic view about politics. (You want Mars? OK, scrap this Space Shuttle thing, Apollo 15-20, and you have just enough Saturn V rockets for a single mission; what more do you want? A space station? Get real, Vietnam is expensive, we need the money for serious things!)

Serious question: What if the first time you see a gun outside a museum and not in the possession of police/security is when you are looking down the barrel of one in the hand of a criminal? Do you think you'd wish your country had more gun control (which obviously didn't keep this gun away from a criminal) or less (so that you could have your own for self-defense)?

Hypothetical, but compelling.

• Gun crimes soaring despite ban brought in following Dunblane
• A world without guns is not a pretty picture
• Gun-toting Swiss see fewer crimes
• Too many guns?
• Handgun Ban Fails to Quell Surge in Gun Crimes Across Britain
• When guns are banned in England
• Ivy League research says Anti-gun Crackdown Didn't Lower Crime

I have more, but that's probably enough.

-ChristTrekker

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The typical exit strategy for a bankruptcy like this, chapter 11, is a debt for equity swap.
Where the bond holders and banks become the new stockholders.
And existing stockholders get the short end of the stick !!

The only questions which remain are.....
Will the emerging DEBT FREE comm giant, OUT COMPETE, the remaining DEBT LADEN survivors?
Trigging a cascade of bankruptcies? AT&T, Sprint, etc. who is next?
Will the same thing happen to airline industry?
Kinda like musical chairs, the first company to bankruptcy court wins?

almost as funny as the story run by FOXNEWS.com saying "al Qaeda operatives have infiltrated WorldCom" (last two paragraphs on the page)... seems they didnt read the whole story at foxnews.com... it was a joke commentary by Arnaud de Borchgrave

the story outlining foxnews erronious reporting is here (Item #4).

I certainly expect Superman's message of TJAW to be thoroughly fouled and shown to be horribly wrong when the movie comes out. Hollywood engages in anti-conservative (NOT liberal) political commentary every chance it gets...

I don't get it. Maybe you're just karma whoring (you did mention columbine).

Meanwhile, where is the left-wing Jewish media machine? Nowhere to be found. Actually they are putting up stories with headlines like, Judges Ban Pledge of Allegiance From Schools, Citing 'Under God'

While so-called "fair and balanced" news outlets are running headlines like,
What, in God's Name, Is Going On!?!?!? and 'Under God' Under Fire.

Which is more "fair and balanced" to you?

Banning the practice of religion is one thing. Compelling an American child to swear their allegance to a nation "under God" is another.

In case you hadn't noticed, the compulsion has already been forbidden. In 1943, the Supreme Court decided in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that students could not be compelled to say the pledge. Quoting from that opinion, "[s]uch a statutory exaction is a form of test oath, and the test oath has always been abhorrent in the United States." So for the past 49 years, it has been unconstitutional for the State to require anybody to recite the pledge of allegiance. This decision goes further--this decision restricts the rights of those people who do wish to say it. That's a whole different matter.

Unlike your average slashdotter, I actually read the court's opinion. In the opinion, the Court recognizes that "Newdow does not allege that his daughter's teacher or school district requires his daughter to participate in reciting the Pledge [page 4]." They also mention that Dr. Newdow went off the deep end, asking to court to order both President Clinton and the Congress to change the wording, actions which are well outside the jurisdiction of the court (page 6). He named as defendants the Southern California Unified School District, again a breach of jurisdiction, as his daughter is not enrolled there. Dr. Newdow has a history of making such challenges: in 2000, he sued President Bush over his inauguration, seeking to enjoin him from making any reference to religion in the future. When the suit was thrown out, "[i]n a last-ditch effort to salvage the suit, Newdow sought to add as a defendant Sen. Mitch McConnell, chairman of the congressional committee in charge of the 2000 inaugural. At a hearing before the magistrate, Newdow suggested the committee could be ordered to ban clergy from the guest list or not let them speak [Denny Walsh, The Sacramento Bee." He also filed a lawsuit against then-President Clinton, Congress, and the Broward County School District for the same reason, and attempted to continue the suit even after his daughter was no longer a student in that district. That case, as well, was thrown out.

In spite of the plaintiff's whiny nature, though, there is at least a glimmer of validity to his claim. The wording alone is innocuous enough, similar to "In God We Trust," but the history of the Pledge reveals more. The Pledge originally had no reference to God; the reference was added by an act of Congress in 1954. To quote Neal Boortz:

What was the big threat in 1954? Godless Communism, that's what. Democratic Congressman Louis C. Rabaut from Michigan was the House sponsor of the bill which added "under God" to our Pledge. Rabaut testified before a congressional committee in support of the legislation. He said "the children of our land, in the daily recitation of the pledge in school, will be daily impressed with a true understanding of our way of life and its origins.
...
Rabaut wasn't the only person who indicated a religious purpose to the 1954 legislation. We also have the words of the President of the United States in 1954, Dwight Eisenhower. When he signed the legislation he said "From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty."

The phrase "under God" is innocent enough on it's own, but in context, it really does smack of State-endorsed religion. I should qualify that remark by mentioning that I myself believe in God; I am merely stating that I can understand the case made by Dr. Newdow.

Realistically, I expect the decision to be overturned on appeal to the Supreme Court; they have already held that the phrasing is not unconstitutional in a similar case from Chicago (don't remember, about to go to lunch, don't want to look it up). He may have won his day this time, but public opinion, government opinion (Bush, and 99 senators, condemned the decision), and court opinion (the Chicago case) all seem to be against him. It will make an interesting case, to be sure.

Incidentally, the Supreme Court decided two other interesting cases today. Previously, random drug testing had been held to be legal only for student athletes; the case they decided today opened that up to students in any extra-curricular activities. The plaintiff in this case was in a the school chorus, and on an academic quiz team. She tested negative, but sued over what she called a "humiliating and accusatory policy FOXNews.com." Schools do not need to have any just cause for testing students. In the second case, the Court upheld the idea of school vouchers for parochial schools, striking a blow in favor of school choice advocates everywhere. Expect to hear a lot of rhetoric about this one.

Note the picture. That picture is not from September 11, 2001, but from June 26, 2002. The third day of infamy.

given the choice of Intel's price cut to 262$ on a 2.2 gigahertz Xeon processor, or AMD's linked price cut to 224 on its 2100+. I can honestly say that i feel that Intel has far better value for the cash right now.

the competition however is great, we all stand to benefit from it :)

Meanwhile:

Your tax dollars at work

And on most news sites isn't editorial content explicitly labeled as opinion or commentary?

Approval ratings for Bush could scarcely be higher. According to this poll, currently 77% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing while 15% do not. I don't see his approval ratings rising at all if we attack Iraq since it is known to be a controversial move. Maybe he's pushing it because (gasp!) he believes it would be the right thing to do.

Every politician is looking for their ticket into the next term, and it looks like Rep. Lampson is going for the space angle. Hell, he may be even trying to capitalize on the ATOC sci-fi brouhaha (it wouldn't suprise me, knowing how the political system works in the USA).

With an administration that has been chopping NASA's budget left and right, this has very little chance of actually taking place.

Dys.

I just don't understand why Americans get into such a snit over sex and pornography; and yes, it's mostly Americans.

It's a moot point. American culture is what God intended. God hates panders, sodomites and pornographers. Therefore America cannot have porn. America is the end of history and is what is supposed to happen, therefore the rest of the world's mores are wrong and must be subjugated to American will.

I am being outrageous to make a point, but talking morality to Americans is like talking seal clubbing to a polar bear. They have it down, any other voice or idea is wrong. Just watch Fox News for a fair and balanced assessment of the subject. ;-p Anybody who says 'boo' to the opposite is a heathen devil sodomite who buggers little boys and votes for Al Gore.

Those Israelis who were caught running explosives probably dumped their cargo somewhere around Northern Cal, where it blew up, and triggered some kind of post-Nevada-testing-site showdown with the San Andreas Fault.

Or something like that.

Star Wars Returns for Better or Worse

Balanced reporting, and they often scoop the Big Players too.

• World Net Daily
• Drudge Report
• News Max
• Townhall
• Lucianne
• Jewish World Review
• Front Page Magazine
• Cybercast News Service

Fox has pretty good, balanced news, too.