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They are already working on ways to silence a sonic boom. http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1057861/posts

Just changing the shape of the aircraft seems to lessen the sound already.

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According to CA State Senator John Vasconcellos (D-Santa Clara) -- yes, Santa Clara, same county as got trolled -- 14- and 15-year olds should get 1/4 votes.

No, I'm not making that up.

(Link goes to OC Register editorial pointing out in many ways, precisely how moronic Sen. Vasconcellos' proposal is.)

Tip the US on its left, and everything loose will land in the People's Republic of California, the land of fruits, nuts, and vegetables - because you are what you eat.

Exactly. It's fascinating to read one day on Slashdot on how the Chicago fire might've been caused by a comet and then seeing the replies to this article where people seem to claim we don't need to worry at all.

On the contrary - lots of things during the last 1000 years might be due to "cosmic" events. We have very little (popular) knowledge about quite drastic environmental changes like the "little ice age" or even the years without the sun that might've been the cause for the nickname "dark ages" (also a comet).

The "labor policies" that were changed in that Executive Order concerned what is more popularly known as the whistleblower statutes. These were laws designed to protect government employees against recrimination for calling attention to misdeeds, incompetence, what have you.

That the President of the United States felt compelled to deny this very specific group of individuals protection under these statutes, the very day after evidence is produced implicating the Navy in this tragedy can be seen as nothing less than an attempt to cover-up the truth.

Unless, of course, you've got your blinders on.

As for the NTSB, that report is mostly crap. It doesn't talk about how NTSB agents appeared in front of a Senate subcommittee and testified against the FBI, accusing them of confiscating and deliberately destroying evidence, both felony activities.

I actually got to see those hearing live on C-SPAN. (But now that I think about it, it could have been unmarked black helicopters transmitting secret mind control signals that only my tin-foil hat was capable of receiving.)

If you want to learn the facts about TWA 800.

The lawsuit against NTSB over TWA 800.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075317/p osts

(Scroll down to post 47.) The original link was at:

http://members.aol.com/registered/private/freep/ke rryfonda.jpg

though it's gone now. "Registered" admits elsewhere on the board to creating the photo.

Angry, angry, angry? While I don't think that your post was dignified enough to warrant a response, I'll do it anyway.

While some anti-trial lawyer brothers may suggest such radical measures, I don't think we should be killing anyone.

As for:

1. If that's the way my boss wants to run his business, so be it. I believe that I can take my talents to a competitor and have my revenge in a productive way, aiding my new company to greatness.

1. The law is the law. I would help him with a criminal defense attorney, but I would hope that he receives a just punishment.

You're right, some firms may go after a business and get nothing out of it. That's good because they probably shoul never have gone after them in the first place. Other firms take notice. Companies large and small won't just bend over and take a settlement up the ass to a frivolous law suit. As you may or may not know, most of these law suits end up in settlements with legal fees taken first.

If you were to read more closely, I believe that you would see that I specifically stated that they were "financial and quality-of-life" terrorists. If the word "terrorists" bothers you so much, replace it with "tornados" and I believe it still communicates the point that I was going for.

I must ask, does the amount of time that someone spends at a job justify the work that they are doing? If I were to spend 90 hour weeks on my home counterfieting operation, would that mean that my profession was dignified?

For those who are more interested in the reality of trial lawyers, here's a GREAT COLUMN titled "Why I Hate Lawyers" written by a lawyer.

In all your efforts to counter trial lawyers, please don't break the law.

Across the nation today reports were streaming in of unusual electrical occurrences and bizarre abnormal appliance failures.

From Ohio to Nevada and Washington State to Arizona, thousands of mystified citizens reported that, for no apparent reason, simple function appliances such as garage door openers, automatic gate latches and even some cell phones, appeared to fail simultaneously.

There has been no official comment on these reports.

In view of the quality of past official explanations of similar occurances anyway, it is highly doubtful that, were such comment to be forthcoming, they would serve to enlighten the nation's darkened garages and their equally "in the dark" owners.

This odd phenomena is apparently without precedent in scope.

As of this morning, reports are still surfacing from regions that have been affected. Details remain sketchy. I will attempt to stay abreast of related stories as they break.

In conjunction with this unusual event, an unprecedented chemtrail campaign appears to be underway. This, amid widespread reports of strange behavior among domestic and wild animals gives one cause to wonder just what kind of major future potentiality is getting set to emerge as a present reality.

1) That's interesting info and very relevant...

2) But i wouldn't put much faith in anything FreeRepublic.com put out about John Edwards. (Incidentally, why did you work so hard to hide the site name by using its IP address instead of its name and by not actually providing a link? They are proud of their bias, why aren't you?) They got the story from CNSNews.com They claim CNS stands for Cybercast News Service (Cybercast News Service News.com? Brilliant.) but a quick scan of their supporters (Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, the FRC...) points more towards Conservative News Service as the real acronym.

At any rate, a quick search would've turned up a much more in-depth and balanced article on the subject in the New York Times. They don't clear Edwards of wrongdoing, but they also can't be accused of glossing over the story just to trash Edwards.

Trying to obscure your source and using a blatantly biased source when a less biased one is available weakens your argument, which at its heart is valid.

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Hello, my name is Christopher Jordan Brownfield and I am a flaming homosexual.

My hobbies include sucking cock, taking it in the ass and crashing submarines.

If you want to contact me, my home address is:

255 Michelle Lane, Apt 312
Groton CT, 06340
860-448-2756 (home)
419-574-1191 (mobile)
cjbrownfield@yahoo.com

Actually, I'm not there since my boat is in the shipyard getting fixed. My home number for the next few months is 757-391-1867.

If I'm at work, you can reach me at:
757-396-5958
or
757-396-3151

Be sure to call and ask for "Mr. Brownfield" so you can tell me what a fag I am.

In case you're interested, my social security number is: 362-98-3672. Please make good use of it.

Hello, my name is Christopher Jordan Brownfield and I am a flaming homosexual.

My hobbies include sucking cock, taking it in the ass and crashing submarines.

If you want to contact me, my home address is:

255 Michelle Lane, Apt 312
Groton CT, 06340
860-448-2756 (home)
419-574-1191 (mobile)
cjbrownfield@yahoo.com

Actually, I'm not there since my boat is in the shipyard getting fixed. My home number for the next few months is 757-391-1867.

If I'm at work, you can reach me at:
757-396-5958
or
757-396-3151

Be sure to call and ask for "Mr. Brownfield" so you can tell me what a flaming fag I am.

In case you're interested, my social security number is: 362-98-3672. Please make good use of it.

Hello, my name is Christopher Jordan Brownfield and I am a flaming homosexual.

My hobbies include sucking cock, taking it in the ass and crashing submarines.

If you want to contact me, my home address is:

255 Michelle Lane, Apt 312
Groton CT, 06340
860-448-2756 (home)
419-574-1191 (mobile)
cjbrownfield@yahoo.com

Actually, I'm not there since my boat is in the shipyard getting fixed. My home number for the next few months is 757-391-1867.

If I'm at work, you can reach me at:
757-396-5958
or
757-396-3151

Be sure to call and ask for "Mr. Brownfield" so you can tell me what a fag I am.

In case you're interested, my social security number is: 362-98-3672. Please make good use of it.

Actually, the cosmonauts have gotten away with pissing on the wheels of the bus that takes them to the launch pad before sneaking bottles of alcohol onto Mir. Here's a link

-Lucas

If you believe the Federation of American Scientists (note: link to support page, but just because they don't have a seperate "who we are" page), then as of 2000-04-04, Taiwan does not have nuclear weapons. However, if you prefer to get your information from FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum" then yes, Taiwan has acquired two nuclear warheads (this isn't Free Republic's research - this allegation comes from one "Jason Blatt" who appears to work/worked for the South China Morning Post - but I couldn't find the original article there...). Brought to you by google and the words 'taiwan', 'nuclear', and 'warhead'.

If you believe the Federation of American Scientists (note: link to support page, but just because they don't have a seperate "who we are" page), then as of 2000-04-04, Taiwan does not have nuclear weapons. However, if you prefer to get your information from FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum" then yes, Taiwan has acquired two nuclear warheads (this isn't Free Republic's research - this allegation comes from one "Jason Blatt" who appears to work/worked for the South China Morning Post - but I couldn't find the original article there...). Brought to you by google and the words 'taiwan', 'nuclear', and 'warhead'.

I agree, in the sense that information overload is a bigger problem than "bad" or meaningless information on the Net.

However, the bigger problem is a lack of information litarcy. It never ceases to amaze me how many people do not know how to evaluate information sources. It is fine to use biased information, if one is aware that it is biased, and in what manner. I have come to the conclusion that there is very little information out there that is not biased in some way or another. Humans are fallible and spin is everywhere. A fairly good look at how both sides of US politics use spin, check out Spin Sanity. Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer and Brendan Nyhan have impressed me with their willingness to expose many figures, despite party affiliation.

Personally, I try to balance the situation by seeking information from both sides of the issue. For example, both Free Republic (a conservative US site) and Alternet (a progressive site) are politicaly biased. Neither one should be used without verifying facts and occurances from other sources.

More notable is the failure of the US media to cover international stories that are vital to our understanding of world events. Personally, whenever we are treated to a deluge of one story on every channel, station and newpaper, I think.."what aren't you telling me." That is why I go to the net and read news sources from international sources.

A worse situation is evidenced by the number of people, of all ages, who are unable to discern when someone is trying to sell them something, or persuade them of some idea; rather than truly inform them. A prime example is how many people will locate sites that claim to be offering great hhealth information, but are also trying to sell eeither pharmacauticals or herbal remedies. While the information may be "correct" they are far more likely to only present information supporting the use of their products. Commercially supported sites can be great for gaining ideas and facts that one can then follow up by perusing other sites.

Colleges and Universities libraries in many US states are now offering information literacy classes. I know of several that have added this to required courses. However, this doesn't touch the large groups of credulous people who graduated years ago, who are not attending college and whose secondary schools do not include this skill in their curriculum.

Many people fall for scams, precisely because they do not realize that they ought to research this information-- much less do they know how to do such a thing! I think I reccomend Snopes at laest once a month in response to an email sent to me by friends and family!

Do not rely upon just one web search. No engine is able to scour the entire net, for a variety of reasons. There are information sources with primary sources of data on the Net. However, many of them are prohibitively expensive for an individual. This is where a local public and/or academic library can assist users.

Don't get me wrong, I've often gained additioanl ideas and insight from small weblogs and personal sites. These are especially good for comparing notes with others in similar situations. Sometimes I do not need authoritative data. For example if I want tips on refurbishing furniture Do it Yourself is a great source. On the other hand, if I was a carpentry apprentice, there are probably other sources better suited for a professional. Similarly, if I want to connect with others who are dealing with specific health problems, or simply want basic introductory information Web MD is good enough. However, if I'm making treatment decisions, I'd do better to go to a National or Internations association of folks dealing with the syndrome, as well as sites of doctors and researchers in

Actually, I don't find the parent's post funny either. What I really don't find funny is the fact that this man has had a history of lying/exaggerating. Of course, lying politicians are as old as well -- politics. The big problem is that Al Gore was just so bad at it. In fact, even as Al Gore ran for office in Tennessee, he began to exaggerate for effect. During one campaign stop, Al Gore made a point to a largely farming community that he himself was a farmer and he had been involved in every part of the tobacco farming process. This was significant, because even senior members of his campaign began to warn him about his tendency to exaggerate in his public speeches.

Sure, Clinton didn't exaggerate. He outright lied. He lied very well. So much so, that we elected him twice. Of course, when Bill lied, it was for a reason. Perhaps that's the big difference. Bill Clinton got away with it because he always lied in a calculating fashion. He lied about things he hid anyway, and if the bigger scandal were to come out, no one would remember the lie.

I also think the jokes are legitimate. Bill Clinton is the Nixon of my generation. Al Gore is Clinton's Agnew. I've become cynical about the political process under his watch. Maybe that's just me coming of age or maybe it was his fault. I don't know.

This Tennessee farmer lie was featured on a PBS special that covered both the 2000 candidates. Frankly, I think it was some of the best journalism on the 2000 election. It was brutally fair in a truly bi-partisan way. It was a great piece of video journalism. IIRC, I believe the PBS program was Frontline: the choice2000.

Incidentally. I've included links to some articles about Mr. Gore's questionable quotes. The "Free-Republic" article contains other quotes relating to Gore's lies. To each site's credit, they refer to the Internet quote in the proper contextual manner.

A story about Gore's lies in general
A defense of Gore's Internet comment

CNN is indeed about as liberal as Bill Clinton. Which is to say, conservative. The problem is that Fox is the hulkish, raving kind of conservative, and CNN is the polite, calm kind of conservative. And then there's MSNBC, the drunken-high-school-girl-passed-out-by-the-pool kind of conservative, the kind that pays way too much attention to any story involving a black guy's penis. Indeed, there are staggering numbers of not-particularly-silent conservatives, and in fact, the country is almost universally moving to the right, evidenced by the fact that Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman are considered liberals as well as the size of Fox's audience.

Even if this is an artifact of Fox's target democraphic, and even if it's devotees are so numerous that resistance is futile, the point still remains that watching Fox appears to create a more erroneous view of the world than other sources of news. I maintain that this supports bringing up the subject of Fox's problematic accuracy whenever possible.

"Or do you really not grasp that?"

Freepers never do. See you on DU ;-)

As Sevn said somewhere in this thread: "98% of anonymous cowards are neo-conservatives".

Yes linux is a plot by COMMUNISTS to take over the world. No, this is not a parody.
Linux and the GPL, A Hard Look at Leftist Software Development

This might be down-modded by Google-fanboys, but it needs to be said: Google has had something like this coming.

As a customer both of Google AdSense and Google AdWords, I have been victim of many of Google's own anti-competitive and censorship policies.

First, if your webpage contains keywords like "war" or "suicide" (as any news page will sometimes) Google will not serve your site paying ads but will serve you Public Service Announcements (PSAs) about saving Gorillas and stuff like that. By Google's own criterion, they wouldn't sponsor news.google.com or the NY Times, except, well, they do. If your money is big enough then it's kay; only smaller sights are oppressed. They have revoked supporting non-PSAs at the recently slashdotted News for Christians site Good Fig:

http://www.goodfig.org

They stopped mainly because Good Fig covers things like the Isreali-Palestinian situation (war), the COPA (the keyword "pornography"), a sex-abuse victim reconciliation study (the keyword "sex"), etc. There also is a story reported here that Google wouldn't allow Valley Firearms LLC or any other firearms retailer to advertise their firearms, while Google will advertise porn links that are only 2 clicks away from ultra-explicit material.

Google wouldn't support paying ads for Slashdot unless Slashdot had big enough money (which they might), because Slashdot covers stories involving the keywords "sex", "pornography", etc., etc.

Next, using Google AdWords I had a click-through-rate (CTR) of 0.6% with an average position of 4-5 while Google requires 0.5% for the top spot so I was doing fine---until Google ran my ad on "content focused" sites and got me a "content focused" CTR of 0.1% and are now trying to charge me a $5 "full-restore" fee for my "underperforming keywords/ads." One of the "content-focused" sites was Amazon.com and they ran my ad on a few book pages where you have to scroll way down and read the "You might also be interested in.." section. Like anyone will ever read that.

So, Google's search page rules and they have some of the best and brightest technical minds working for them; however, when it comes to the money-people Google has hired to direct policy and manage how AdWords and AdSense work, they have some clear issues....

Bullshit. The Israelis who are dying are infants, children, women, and other NON-COMBATANTS.

The Pals who die are invariably militants also known in the civilized world as terrorists, and those immediately around them.

The Israeli's are not filling backpacks full of explosives, rusty nails, and rat poison, walking into refugee camps, surrounding themselves with soft targets, and blowing themselves to kingdom come. The Israeli's purpose is not to take as many non-combatants as possible with them.

The Pal's are filling backpacks full of explosives, rusty nails, and rat poison, walking into bus stops, cafes, and schools, surrounding themselves with soft targets, and blowing themselves to kingdom come. The Pal's purpose is to take as many non-combatants as possible with them.

While this discussion was at one point about word processors, it seems to have denigrated into the typical cycle of violence horseshit you get on all the mideast discussion boards. Reading and writing Hebrew is hard enough electronically.

Folks like Microsoft are often afraid of the retribution that the good Arab countries will impose upon them for doing any sort of business with Israel. You wouldn't believe the complete unadulterated bullshit that these twits have done in the past. See http://www.buyandhold.com/bh/en/education/history/ 2002/arab.html http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020710/2 002071005.html http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2003/07/30/fCanada 180.raw.html

Its amazing, that these folks have the world by the economic nuts, and cannot seem to accept a 54 year old state in its midst. The amazing and sad thing is that most people have been convienently fed and believe the fiction of this being about the Pals and their trampled rights. Yet, when you read the history of the land, and see what really happened, a very very different picture emerges.

What has this to do with word processing? Not a hell of a lot. Though, modern hebrew was derived from the biblical hebrew, and adopted by the folks who formed Israel as their language. Israel itself was willing in 1948 to live along side a Palestinian state (a second one, Jordan being the first state, which sits on 80% of the land originally promised to form Israel). The response from the same folks who batter the worlds economy with oil, was a war. It wound up being a disasterous war for all, but in the end Israel grew. And Hebrew flourished. The Arabs responded by exiling/kicking out/persecuting all of the Jews in their lands. And starting a few more wars to drive Israel into the sea.

And Hebrew still flourished.

So I guess I can understand why, when someone asks for something as trivial as support for their native tongue, as at least a gesture of cultural understanding and commitment, that they would become incensed if some asshole from Redmond decided well golly gee, their ain't a big enough market... duh huh

Sorry... I thought I checked it, too. Try http://www.freerepublic.com/

1. China People's Daily

The "China People's Daily" is run by the Beijing government and is the mouthpiece of the Chinese government. It has conducted a number of terrorist activities in Tibet. You can find some descriptions at Tibet Online and Amnesty International.

Further, operatives of the "China People's Daily" were stationed at the Chinese embassy in Serbia in 1999 when the embassed was hit by American bombs. The majority of people in China (which includes Taiwan Province and Hong Kong) supported the Serbian military aggression against the Kosovars. The Serbians executed thousands of men, women, and children in Kosovar in an attempt to remove them from Kosovo: the Serbia military raped the women and slit the throats of the children. The Americans sent military forces to Serbia in an attempt to stop the genocide. At the time, Chinese operatives of the "China People's Daily" operated secretly from the relative safety of the embassy and relayed communications to the Serbian army and helped the Serbians to defeat American electronic warfare. (reference: "NATO hit embassy on purpose")

The Serbian aggression against the Kosovars was strongly supported by the Chinese and is the first major case of genocide after the genocide of the Cambodians by Pol Pot. The Chinese also supported Pol Pot.

... from the desk of the reporter

I'll also note that the truly rich have many ways to shelter their income from taxation, whereas those of us who are quite productive, but not exactly "rich" are hitting the top tax brackets without the benefits of the tax shelters used by the likes of The Donald, and good old Arianna "What Party Am I This Month" Huffington, pays virtually zero income tax to Sacramento OR Washington (Sorry about the FreeRepublic link: it's the best one Google found on the topic. . .)

If you feel that the poor require a larger share of your income, might I suggest you increase the efficency of your contributions by giving directly to the charity of your choice.

But your decision about giving to the poor may not match mine: allow me to choose how I spend my money. I prefer to spend it on raising and educating my children, so they do not BECOME poor. . .

US Forces aided Qatar in a secret coup suppression in October 2002. The conspiracy was comprised of Islamist and Anti-US Qatari as well as TCN (third country nationals). The conspiracy was probably supported by Islamist elements in Saudi Arabia. The conspiracy was probably a reaction to growing US presence in the country and the obvious US march to war. The US involvement was minimized and kept secret to prevent embarrassment to a country that was a critical element to US invasion plans (especially critical given Saudi reluctance to support the US invasion).

No US troops were ferried into the country since several thousand had already been transferred ther e in the previous months.

While the conspiracy could not be called a popular uprising, its wide spread support through many sectors of the Qatar military and government shook Sheikh al-Thani and his supporters.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/775276/post s

Yes, I would say there are a lot of turncoats in Taiwan, but most of them belong to the former ruling party, the KMT. These people were ethnic chinese who moved over after they lost the civil war. They have little affinity for President Chen, or Taiwan. These people support the one china policy. But most people in Taiwan, do not. Most support independence now or later. A vast majority (95%) do not want anything to do with communist china. In 1994, Taiwan renounced all claims to the Mainland. In 1994, Taiwan renounced all claims to the Mainland. But you keep on acting as if most Taiwanese (daiwanlang) are keen on China dominating the world. They're not. THey support the US against China.
As for spies, we spy against allies and vice versa. And yes, the Chinese do target disgruntled Taiwanese, just like they and the soviets targeted disgruntled americans. I think taiwan is the only country to have a movement to make it the 51st state. have you even been to taiwan, bro? At anyrate, you really need to modify some of the erroneous information in your little geocities article, eg the ethnic makeup of taiwan.

Surely this Cuban DIY amphibious creation has a much higher geek factor? ;-)

I prefer this amphibious vehicle

Come on, this site is about "News for Nerds", not "Current Popular Views on American Politics".

Second, you're thinking that nerdworld has nothing to do with the "real" world. Tell that to somebody who's getting sued by SCO or DirectTV because of technology they happen to own. Or face going to jail for writing DVD software for Linux! Or have to deal with any number of civil liberty issues that affect nerds.

Or, more succinctly, this kind of blame tossing is not very helpful, particularly on an SCO thread. If you want to talk politics, take it to Plastic, or if that is too left wing for you, freep.

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What are you babbling about? She's hardly the only female candidate on the ballot. Some of them have some decent credentials even.

And lay off the carbohydrates too. This might start a flame war (Atkins diet arguments and such.) You should lay of the bread, chips, orange juice, and other things that have a lot of carbs. This stuff gets absorbed by your body and makes you fat. Actual fat is more or less just passing through and makes it into the toilet with your centrum multivitamin.

Cutting back on the carbohydrates and stepping up on the exercise is really what makes the difference.

Now, would anyone with a better understanding of dietary values care to correct me?

Sorta, kinda. Fat definitely does not "just pass through" in any sense. It's actually easier to digest and goes more directly to your flab. However the Atkins theory is that severely restricting carbohydrate consumption throws the body into a different metabolic state, where weight loss becomes much easier.

I've been following this lately, because some interesting data is now coming out. It turns out that all the physicians and nutrionists who have been mocking Atkins as pseudo-science for the past 30 years or so, did not have any actual scientific results to back up their criticisms--just common knowledge and assumptions. Assumptions which completely ignored what was being learned about endocrinology.

I think there's going to a real shit-storm within the next 5 years, because so much of what we've been told by the establishment (iow USDA and AHA in the US) was based on mere assumption but presented as science. And it's beginning to look like it was wrong--that the food pyramid with its big base in carbs (grains) is a recipe for obesity and Type II diabetes.

All through my 20s and 30s I practiced (mostly) the low-fat high-carb recommendations, and managed to stay pretty active overall. I always thought that Atkins was some kind of fringe quack, based on what I read. But now that the truth is coming out, there is no evidence that Atkins doesn't work, and never was. Where it has been studied recently, the data that is coming out suggests that it might work after all. And by work, I don't mean just rapid weight loss--I mean rapid weight loss, while increasing HDL, without increasing LDL, and none of the other dire health problems predicted by mainstream nutritional theory.

Just so you know this is not an ill-informed rant, here are a few references:

Here's a decent primer on more current nutrional thinking.

This article from the New York Times Magazine was one of the better ones, because it dug deeply enough to uncover the original gap in the science and the way it was glossed over for political expediency. Unfortunately, the article is old enough that it's in the for-pay archives. However, a quick google search for the title turns up a number of web sites with copies. For instance, here, here, here, here, and a pdf here.

There are other articles I've seen within the past 2 years that make what seem to me to be good solid scientific points, but I can't remember the reference. FYI, my interest all started when I read a small AP blurb in a newspaper about a nutrional researcher who got the idea to locate and examine the results of all the studies of the Atkins diet, then discovered that there were no such studies!

Hello Myth-player.

People in the American right wing are ultranationalists who think the USA should dominate the entire world upon devine will. They couldn't care a stuff about treading on other country's toes. They expect full world-wide submission to the Republican Party without question.

George Bush takes advantage of himself?

Actually, old money employs people like Karl Rove to manipulate the naivety of George Bush, and thus, take advantage of the rest of us.

I'm looking forward to the OICW.

Mussolini, Hitler and ..... Bush?

Click here, to know what I'm talking about.

It's kinda interesting to think about this, coincidence? Most probably. Or not?

It's also copyright infringement and if you don't believe that WaPo goes after web sites that allow their content to be reprinted, you should visit Free Republic and find out you are quite wrong.

Like your sig. Do you freep? If not check the party at www.freerepublic.com. Its like slashdot for conservatives. You will find all types from religious right, libertines, neocons, and more, we even let liberals come in but they usually can't take the heat. It can be an odd place where diversity is hailed but affermative action is hated, where you love your fellow man but won't give him a thing(make him earn it),

IANAL, but I do keep up with court cases; AFAIK there are very few valid EULAs (which appear solely online, BTW). Since the license is not presented to me until after the exchange of money for product, the doctrine of "First Sale" trumps many of the onerous "can't do that" clauses in EULAs. (See Softman v. Adobe.) When the fair use copying (to include space-shifting) is included, one can argue that an EULA is not required for use of software, despite the fact that copying or stated agreement-implying actions may take place. Since I bought the product to use it, my use of the product is not consent to an agreement (likewise, my exercise of fair use space shifting does not imply consent); therefore, since I have neither clearly stated an agreement to the license nor do I believe the EULA listed by boxed software (neither print nor digital) is valid, I do not feel bound by their conditions. (My actions are instead regulated by traditional copyright law, which still forbids redistrobution, modification, and multiple simultanious users.)

Even were the above false, VFP is produced by Microsoft. I would argue that this clause represents illegal (monopolistic) tying of the application product to Microsoft's operating systems.

Would you find it surprising that black Republicans in the 2000 Florida election had a 50-fold higher likelihood of having their ballots invalidated than black Democrats? It's true. That's because the precincts where so many blacks had their votes stolen were actually under the control of the Democratic machine.

Statistical analysis shows that by far the most likely reason for so many "double punched" ballots in black Florida precincts was that Democratic operatives took stacks of ballots after the voting and ran ice picks through the Gore hole. Gore votes were unchanged; Bush and Buchanan votes were rejected because of double punching. This is also why there were so many hanging chads; the ice picks did not separate the chads cleanly.

Maybe you think it is normal for minority precincts to report 99.94% voter registration, 100% voter turnout, with 90%+ of votes for the Democratic candidate, and always reporting after the Republican county vote totals come in. I don't.

If voter fraud is ever stamped out completely, the Democrats can kiss the White House goodbye for a generation.

-ccm

Would you find it surprising that black Republicans in the 2000 Florida election had a 50-fold higher likelihood of having their ballots invalidated than black Democrats? It's true. That's because the precincts where so many blacks had their votes stolen were actually under the control of the Democratic machine.

Statistical analysis shows that by far the most likely reason for so many "double punched" ballots in black Florida precincts was that Democratic operatives took stacks of ballots after the voting and ran ice picks through the Gore hole. Gore votes were unchanged; Bush and Buchanan votes were rejected because of double punching. This is also why there were so many hanging chads; the ice picks did not separate the chads cleanly.

Maybe you think it is normal for minority precincts to report 99.94% voter registration, 100% voter turnout, with 90%+ of votes for the Democratic candidate, and always reporting after the Republican county vote totals come in. I don't.

If voter fraud is ever stamped out completely, the Democrats can kiss the White House goodbye for a generation.

-ccm

Would you find it surprising that black Republicans in the 2000 Florida election had a 50-fold higher likelihood of having their ballots invalidated than black Democrats? It's true. That's because the precincts where so many blacks had their votes stolen were actually under the control of the Democratic machine.

Statistical analysis shows that by far the most likely reason for so many "double punched" ballots in black Florida precincts was that Democratic operatives took stacks of ballots after the voting and ran ice picks through the Gore hole. Gore votes were unchanged; Bush and Buchanan votes were rejected because of double punching. This is also why there were so many hanging chads; the ice picks did not separate the chads cleanly.

Maybe you think it is normal for minority precincts to report 99.94% voter registration, 100% voter turnout, with 90%+ of votes for the Democratic candidate, and always reporting after the Republican county vote totals come in. I don't.

If voter fraud is ever stamped out completely, the Democrats can kiss the White House goodbye for a generation.

-ccm

That's a good one. Republicans should also consider whether they want the powers of the Patriot Act wielded by a future President Hillary Clinton. (And note that many conservatives do in fact oppose it).

And Hans Blix said this morning that he was surprised that Saddam had any Scuds either!

B-b-b-b-but the inspections were working!

(Sure, they were working if Blix defined "working" as "every day my inspectors continue to find nothing, I can keep my cushy UN job", Anyone who's watched an Andersen conslutant on an IT project should have seen through Blix's snowscreen from Day One.)

Ah well, ignorance is Blix.

In other news, pro wrestling is fixed.

Up until now I've found TCL interesting, and had it on my to-learn list (heavily used in tools in my industry). But if I find out that TCL is responsible for the "My Tivo thinks I like gay porn" problem, I might reconsider.

"No, really boss! That's not my porn, it's TCLs fault! I didn't do it! Or him."

All things considered, straight C programming might not be a bad thing after all. Does Ruby have this problem? Is she available & straight? I've heard funny things about Perl and "Python."

I wouldn't take freerepublic as a reliable source of news. Check out some of the other "news" that they have on their... Infant Baptism in the nude

The Boston Globe is one of the most liberal newspapers in the US.
That's not an insult, just a fact.