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Each year, the Chinese brutally rape and kill Tibetan women and children. Most Chinese simply do not care about their suffering. Look at Taiwan. The Chinese in Taiwan have the audacity and bigotry to insist that Tibet should be integrated into "One China".

Each year, the Chinese brutally rape and kill Tibetan women and children. Most Chinese simply do not care about their suffering. Look at Taiwan. The Chinese in Taiwan have the audacity and bigotry to insist that Tibet should be integrated into "One China".

Each year, the Chinese brutally rape and kill Tibetan women and children. Most Chinese simply do not care about their suffering. Look at Taiwan. The Chinese in Taiwan have the audacity and bigotry to insist that Tibet should be integrated into "One China".

"you say jews are tyrants"

I never said any such thing. Again, stop putting words in my mouth, its getting old. I said the current government of Israel are tyrants and that is not the same thing though that fact is lost on you.

"you say christ was pacifist. this is lie."

Well you are just proving you don't understand the teachings of Christ or the early church. The early Christian church was led by people who knew Jesus and heard his teachings directly. They were pacifists because that was, for the most part, what Jesus taught. It was only over time that Jesus's message was lost and Christianity was corrupted because pacifism ran counter to attainment of wealth and power by Lings, President's, Popes and Dictators who bent Christianity to serve their purposes.

Here is a pretty good article on the subject this

The extent of his pacifism is certainly a subject for debate, but when you start calling me a liar for saying it you are just proving how biased and closed minded you are.

In the ten commandments:

Thou shalt not kill

How do you reconcile this with fighting wars and killing people.

"Matthew 5:38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also"

In this passage Jesus is overturning an age old testament teaching of vengance and replacing it with one of pacifism.

Romans 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. 18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. 20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

"he understands what it is like to live under tyranny"

George W. Bush has no clue about tyranny. He's never had to face a day in his life with adversity. He was born to wealth and power. The only time he faced any risk was from the draft during Vietnam and he dodged that with help from his dad's friends. He had traveled the world less than I had when he became President and couldn't even name many of the world's leaders. That speech you heard was written for him by talented speech writers and designed to sucker gullible people like yourself. It obviously worked.

"i am not had too much school,"

I'm not really surprised. Having a poor education and not questioning the world around you, makes you easy prey for conmen, whether they by psuedo Christian ministers or George W. Bush. Its pretty much the same story in rural America which is the part of America which reelected George W. Bush. Rural America is full of people who are poorly educated and easily manipulated like you. The better educated you are the less likely you are to fall for George Bush's con game.

"i think maybe i don't like you too much...i am sorry but this is what i think of you."

Don't be sorry. I'm glad you don't like what I write. For me it is a badge of honor. I write what I write in the hope I might challenge people in to thinking about their world and consider viewpoints that differ from the one the tyranny of the majority, and the powers that be, inflict on them. Even if people reject what I write it does them good if they consider alternatives. You on the other hand appear to be a lost cause. Your mind is closed and as long as it is, its unlikely to grow. Why don't you try to avoid reading anything I write from now on. You apparently can't understand it, can't deal with it and it obviously upsets you.

In the meantime you can set up fusion prize awards to incentivize development of the technologies necessary to burn He3 if you find it is economic.

Here we have a picture of Jeri's "hot-grits smile" being completely ignored by a geek who's more interested in the super cool C-ONE "reconfigurable computer" she invented.

The failure of Chinese society is the failure of its culture. Look at Taiwan and Singapore, both being Chinese states. In the latter, the Chinese practice eugenics and have repeatedly banned or censored journals like "The Economist". In the former, the Chinese actually support all the geopolitical objectives of Beijing, including the integration of Tibet into "One China".

This adds even more to the above statement...

The United States government, and the US mafia, i.e. powerful groups in the US, have a long history of murdering anyone doing anything they perceive as harmful to their interests, anytime they think they can get away with it.

I will go on record -- under the name "Anonymous Coward" -- as saying: I think something or someone very powerful does not like the free software movement.

Here are some of the reasons.

The powerful know how to control businesses and people whose actions are dictated by selfishly serving their self-interests. But the powerful have trouble controlling the free software movement, because it is community driven, and the selection of its leaders is out of their control.

The powerful don't like what the free software does, which empowers not only the proletariat, but foreign nations and organizations they're not particularly fond of as well.

When Hans Bakker and other free software community members died in an auto-accident this October, after they had dropped off Richard Stallman, I tried to raise the alarm, and got modded two "Funny" points as my reward: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=123832&cid=103 97295 . Please take a look at that post, in wich I ask

>> How happy do you think the United States is
>> that free software has given China and
>> countries like it an operating system which is
>> guaranteed free of any CIA / NSA backdoors?

I wasn't the only one thinking along these lines at that time. A different "Anonymous Coward" asked "An honest 'conspiracy theory' question..." and was ignored: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=123832&thresho ld=-1&commentsort=0&tid=99&mode=thread&cid=1039567 3 .

Trouble-makers of every stripe have an amazingly elevated risk of dying in plane crashes, of a heart-attack, or of a stroke at a young age. If you want insight into what techonology is being used to do it, look at http://www.geocities.com/mrmistermicko and http://www.datafilter.com/mc .

Where possible, they may just try to channel you into "more productive" work (Linus Torvalds) or an MBA (Alan Cox). If that fails, or you're not susceptible to their subtle methods of persuasion, they will just kill you once they are annoyed enough.

Take a look at how enemies of the Bush family, or their interests, have fared: http://witewillo.homestead.com/files/bushbodycount .htm When you find many of the documentation links don't work, the Internet Archive is your friend: http://www.archive.org/ . (Off-topic side note: The site that link was mirrored from has been suspiciously watered-down, with the links to supporting documentation completely removed. Also, it has been officially off-line since May of this year, just in time for the elections ... As the Church Lady (you KNOW she voted for Bush, one of his evangelical, theocracy craving base supporters) would say, "how CONVENIENT").

For many these ideas won't just be too strange to accept, they are too strange to even rationally evaluate. And that is the problem. Large changes in world view, EVEN WHEN they are supported by the evidence, can only happen after the facts are examined over an extended period of time. I suggest you read my links on this technology occasionally over the next month, and then form an opinion.

A "permanent headache" could be almost anything. I really have no good reason to think you are being used as an involuntary human experimental subject by the US government, or some other entity.

However, I am. And among the many things you've looked into as the possible cause of your "permanent headache," you might check out the research that three-letter US government agencies are doing on anti-personnel beamed energy weapons, their potential uses for altering human behavior and personality, and the complaints from victims all over the world that they are being targeted for research.

Some good sites with information:
http://www.geocities.com/mrmistermicko
http://www.datafilter.com/mc
For the international perspective,
http://www.mikrowellenterror.de/

This is tin-foil hat stuff, literally.

I've encountered quite a few other victims, some of whom knew what was happening to them, but most did not. This was not at conferences, it was just during my life. For some, their victimization began with an automobile accident, which helped to provid a cover for the symptoms of their abuse. It isn't much of a basis for suspicion, I know.

Electrical Storage:
Hydrogen conversion is at presenly only 65% efficent versus 85% for a hydro storage system

http://www.electricitystorage.org/tech/technologie s_technologies_pumpedhydro.htm

and

http://www.electricitystorage.org/tech/technologie s_technologies_flywheels.htm

http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/Web_sites/03-04 /marine/tech_storage.htm

http://www.jet.efda.org/pages/focus/004power/

http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/EandE/Web_sites/03-04 /wind/content/storage%20available.html

http://www.geocities.com/dfradella/homepage.htm

The Cosmic Ray Deflection Society of North America, Inc. krudzna ink

I could use some help on my webpage, it's an old one at the original geocities and I cannot figure out how to get anyone at YaHoo to let me back into fix the many broken links. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to reach someone there. I have tried everything I could and never get an answer. I miss 92/3 when you could email them new pages you had found and they would email you back thanks,

This technology has been around a lot more than 20 years.

In Soviet Romania, a sample page from every typewriter had to be registered with the police, so that any samizdat produced could be quickly traced back to the typewriter's owner. Use your imagination as to what happened to the owner, or Google for it.

In Romania every typewriter had to be registered with a local magistrate. Samples of letters typed on these machines had to be produced under the observation of the secret police so they could trace underground publishing activity.

- G. Davey, Christian Publishing: Before and After the Communist Collapse

In Soviet Russia, all photocopiers were registered with the KGB and kept in secure rooms, to which physical access was restricted.

Some samizdat works, mostly magazines, were typed on typewriter. The copies were indistinct and hard to read. I realized that the movement against violating human rights was doomed to be an eternal amusement of the few intellectuals without proper copyprinters. But where could one find a copyprinting machine in the country, where all the copiers were affixed with seals at night and placed in the special rooms where only proved KGB members could work on it. There was the only decision - to make the machine ourselves. It had to be easy to make and quite efficient.

- A. A. Bolonkin, Memoirs of Soviet Political Prisoner

The West is probably still playing catch-up.

really, what i want for christmas is:

• "squeaky" - the lynette fromme vs. gerald ford game. 20 extra points for taking the safety off.
• "call me czolgosz! if you can!" - polish anarchist fights american president in this real time strategy game.
• "zero year!" - can you make the zero year prediction come true and take out reagan?

estimated play time for all three, four and half minutes.

-FL

A system similar to this is in operation at WVU: Pictures and story This is a good system, but it's slow, and showing it's age. But as a prior student at WVU I can say it works much nicer than a bus or other option.

Taiwan is little better than a thug . The majority of spies for Beijing do not come from the mainland Chinese immigrant community. The spies come from the Taiwanese community.

The Taiwanese also admire Nazis and are the major customers for human organs culled from unwilling prisoners in mainland China.

The Taiwanese have no sense of corporate responsibility and are the worst exploiters of children in sweatshop factories.

Earlier in the year, I proposed that we include Taiwan in the ongoing boycott of products made in China, and the radio host agreed with me.

God damn the Taiwanese.

Taiwan is little better than a "thug". The majority of spies for Beijing do not come from the mainland Chinese immigrant community. The spies come from the Taiwanese community.

The Taiwanese also admire Nazis and are the major customers for human organs culled from unwilling prisoners in mainland China.

The Taiwanese have no sense of corporate responsibility and are the worst exploiters of children in sweatshop factories.

Early this year, I had proposed on a major radio program, that we include Taiwan in the ongoing boycott of products made in China, and the radio host agreed with me.

God damn the Taiwanese.

Taiwan is little better than a "thug". The majority of spies for Beijing do not come from the mainland Chinese immigrant community. The spies come from the Taiwanese community.

The Taiwanese also admire Nazis and are the major customers for human organs culled from unwilling prisoners in mainland China.

The Taiwanese have no sense of corporate responsibility and are the worst exploiters of children in sweatshop factories. I proposed that we include Taiwan in the ongoing boycott of products made in China, and the radio host agreed with me.

God damn the Taiwanese.

Taiwan is little better than a "thug" [geocities.com]. The majority of spies for Beijing do not come from the mainland Chinese immigrant community. The spies come from the Taiwanese community.

The Taiwanese also admire Nazis and are the major customers for human organs culled from unwilling prisoners in mainland China.

The Taiwanese have no sense of corporate responsibility and are the worst exploiters of children in sweatshop factories. I proposed that we include Taiwan in the ongoing boycott of products made in China, and the radio host agreed with me.

God damn the Taiwanese.

Taiwan is little better than a "thug". The majority of spies for Beijing do not come from the mainland Chinese immigrant community. The spies come from the Taiwanese community.

The Taiwanese also admire Nazis and are the major customers for human organs culled from unwilling prisoners in mainland China.

The Taiwanese have no sense of corporate responsibility and are the worst exploiters of children in sweatshop factories. I proposed that we include Taiwan in the ongoing boycott of products made in China, and the radio host agreed with me.

God damn the Taiwanese.

This is just the first step in uplifting the dolphins.

Next step: decyphering trinary.

...why Dark Angel jumped the shark late in the first season?

Because the man is a plagerizing hack who's work can never compare to the original

a chess set that the Franklin Mint doesn't yet produce! Cool novelty, but most serious players I know use a Staunton style set.

Maybe they can get the producer's wife in there. I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Campbell and Lawless both managed to get bit parts in Spiderman, after all.

The RIAA and MPAA should take a lesson. Valve has done a pretty incredible thing. They have done a solid job and snuffing out pirating while managing to avoid pissing off their consumer base. They have offered a product that is not crippled and have managed to protect it without resorting to using the government in the form of the judicial system to act as their personal thugs. This is the way companies should protect their IP, not by using the government as their own private band of thugs.

Plus, the heavy-lift rockets you'd need to get it into orbit (let alone to cancel Earth's orbital velocity) are not designed to be reliable, which means they blow up now and again. Uh... no.


You do realize that there is _virtually_ no chance that a rocket carrying nuclear waste could cause a thermo nuclear explosion right?

I am asking because there is a large percentage of the population that believes this is a real possibility. This is also a common scare used by environmental groups to protest fission reactors. Not talking about feared radiation leaks, I am talking about people thinking their house will melt...

Radiation leaks can and will always be a real problem in the future although most reactors and storage containers now are very safe.

I am not advocating storing the waste at Yucca Mountain, Deep trench in the ocean or the middle or a desert has my vote. Desert probably being the safest.

http://www.geocities.com/thesciencefiles/marianas/ trench.html

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

A better system founded on eminent domain rights could be legislated and might work somethnig like the following proposal:

The government should tax net assets, in excess of levels
typically protected under personal bankruptcy, at a rate equal to
the rate of interest on the national debt, thereby eliminating
other forms of taxation. Creator-owned intellectual property
should be exempt.

The levels typically protected by personal bankruptcy can be
approximated by the median price of housing an individual added
to the median capitalization of a job in the economy. Together,
these exemptions add up to between $50,000 and $100,000.
Additional but smaller exemptions may be added to represent the
lower levels of bankruptcy protection typically extended to
children within families.

The NAT is a self-adjusting system that seeks an equilibrium
between government debt levels, current tax rates and private
wealth distribution, without attempting to achieve an outright
balanced budget or direct intervention in the economy.

Under current (1992) asset distribution and government debt the
NAT would generate between $1 trillion and $1.5 trillion in
revenue, thus totally displacing other forms of taxation.

...version of this (smart card)?"

The Smart Card Simulator

A taste for crappy beer and stupid sports, eh?

Sorry, that's American. See Football and Budwiser.

The racial traits of a Canadian are

1. A taste for lager
2. Obsession with hockey
3. Standing up and yelling "I am Canadian" when that Molson commercial was on
4. Being able to say beaver with a straight face

For example, if a libelous communication takes place, corporate lawyers for the plaintiff will bring suit against the carrier rather than the individual responsible for the communication. The rationalizations for this clearly unreasonable and contrived position are quite numerous. Without a common carrier status, the carrier will be treading on virgin ground legally and thus be unprotected by precedent. Indeed, the stakes are high enough that the competitor could easily afford to fabricate an event ideal for the purposes of such a suit. This means the first legal precedent could be in favor of holding the carrier responsible for the communications transmitted over its network, thus forcing (or giving an excuse for) the carrier to inspect, edit and censor all communications except, perhaps, simple person-to-person or "electronic mail". This, in turn, would put editorial control right back in the hands of the feudalists. Potential carriers' own lawyers are already hard at work worrying everyone about such a suit. They would like to win the battle against diversity before it begins. This is unlikely because videotex is still driven by technology and therefore by pioneers.

The question then becomes: How do we best protect against such "legal" tactics? The answer seems to be an early emphasis on secure identification of the source of communications so that there can be no question as to the individual responsible. This would preempt an attempt to hold the carrier liable. Anonymous communications, like Delphi conferencing, could even be supported as long as some individual would be willing to attach his/her name to the communication before distributing it. This would be similar, legally, to a "letters to the editor" column where a writer remains anonymous. Another measure could be to require that only individuals of legal age be allowed to author publishable communications. Yet another measure could be to require anyone who wishes to write and publish information on the network to put in writing, in an agreement separate from the standard customer agreement, that they are liable for any and all communications originating under their name on the network. This would preempt the "stolen password" excuse for holding the carrier liable.

If anyone is interested, Adblock can be downloaded from the Adblock homepage or from update.mozilla.org

The -IMHO- best filter to use:
Get it here. Scroll down the page to get the latest version. You can save the textfile and import it from the Adblock dialog (Menu: Tools / Adblock / Preferences ).

Way better than IE or Opera or a HOSTS file! Believe me!

Ireland is pretty big in software, though we do not have five year programming degrees like in some CIS countries. Per head of population there are more commercial programmers in Ireland than in Ukraine, United States, Russia or India. Maybe not as high a percentage as the Silicon Valley area.

Ireland should be offshoring to other countries but it is not, I think low and intermediate software management are complete control freeks (compared even to programmers) and outsourcing would be forced upon them by higher management rather than on their own initiative.

I tried to drum up a little interest in outsourceing to Belarus, where my bride is from, plenty of interest from Belarus software companies who had previously done outsourcing work, zero interest from the Irish software industry.

Dragging up contra, combined with the recent passing of Yasser Arafat, leaves me with only one thing to say

Or it should have at least been sleek. If not looking like a shoe to be funny then at LEAST looking like something Nike would have designed. Then again, this IS the same company that came up with this beauty of a starship.

$5 to tell me where I saw a Childrens' story where a white object falls from the sky onto a house & everyone dies.

This one is close. :)

When I was a kid I always wanted Optimus Prime As I'm sure most of you know he's the leader of the Autobots (the good-guy Transformers). Anyhow, one year when I was about 8, I got Megatron - leader of the Decepticons (the baddies). Stuff the pic of that bastard. What can I say... I was crushed. So much so that I had dreams that I had gotten Optimus instead.... fast forward 17 years (ya know... roughly) and they had a 20th anniversary Optimus Prime and my Mom gave it to me for my birthday. Needless to say I was ecstatic, and 7 months later I'm still playing with it. ...insert cruel joke here ... So... although it's not exactly a classic toy, it sort of is, and I couldn't have been more happy about it!
Megatron is teh ghey

By "Power970" you seem to be referring to the PowerPC family. Don't forget that this chip family is based on the Power architecture from IBM (with some help from Apple and Motorola). The Power architecture contains other chips too, some of which don't have the limitations you cite. Certainly the chip architecture is fully capable of supporting machines with a larger number of CPUs running a single system image.

Although the really big (and custom) Blue Gene systems are apparently clusters, there isn't anything about the IBM Power Architecture itself that would prevent large monolithic systems from being designed and built.

The SPARC architecture can be used for machines like this, too. (Remember the CM-5?).

Building a supercomputer with a large number of CPUs running a single system image is a unique task with a limited client base, and SGI has experience with that. A whole lot more than CPU choice goes into making it work. The way they tell it it was quite a rush. The internal conversation must have gone something like this: "OK, team, we're going to build exactly one of these, and we already decided the price!" NASA doesn't build rockets like that, but SGI can build supercomputers like that. Impressive.

SGI deserves kudos. But if we step back and look at the big picture from the vantage point of SGI, it sure looks like SGI chose the IA-64 CPU for marketing reasons, not technical reasons. I'd have to guess that their engineering tasks would have been made easier by using a CPU that draws less power, for example. They've been on the ropes for years and conventional wisdom says to back Intel if you're in trouble because that's the safe bet for marketing. Why this remains conventional wisdom when the track record clearly shows that UNIX vendors who switch to Intel are cut up and fed to other UNIX vendors, is another topic.

You're right of course, that there are two different classes of super computers on the Top 500 list, with one class based on the cluster concept, and the other based on the concept of a single system image. Clusters are radically less expensive, and monoliths are better at certain computing tasks, and it's hard to compare them.

Monoliths often get custom case mods, though, and thus tend to look cooler. Who would hang a poster of a beowulf cluster of generic beige 1U rackmounts on their office wall? Everybody wants a poster of a Cray or a CM-5 or a Mach 5...

Hey! I just realized monoliths don't seem to look as cool as clusters lately. What's up with that?!

You could be cheap and download this: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8424/rubik.html.

I've been a long time IE user. Personally I've never had the problems with IE that others have had because I sat down and learned how to setup and use IE from the start. I memorized the operation of every last setting under the Tools->Internet Options dialog and adjusted them accordingly. I learned how to browse as securely as possible while watching what IE does very closely. Of course I'm not your average browser. Almost every setting I could find is set to prompt me, as I enjoy absolute control over things. This also alerts me to how complex some websites are in their attempt to invade your privacy. Just watching all the dialogs pop up for scripting and ActiveX is amazing. Also the hitbox'es, doubleclicks, and adtechs are really annoying.

Yesterday I downloaded and installed FireFox 1.0. I wanted to look at it and find out if it would suit me better since I still consider IE to be a little too proprietary in that it hides what it really does. So I am looking for something a bit more open.

After looking at all the features of FireFox I was amazed at how few things it allowed me to adjust. It doesn't have any of the options I am used to using under IE.

Let's see, you use one piece of software for several years, tweak it up the wazoo just to have a semi-secure browser, then you download another piece of software yesterday and after one single stinking day of attempting to make this new software conform to the behavior patterns you've been habitualized to by the older software, you give up on it? Give me a break. Give yourself a break. Break away from IE for more than an hour and look a bit more deeply into Firefox. It is not an Internet Explorer clone, so don't try to look at it from that perspective or you will miss all the good things staring you in the face. You took the time to learn to use IE properly, now take some time to learn to use Firefox properly.

First thing, Firefox has been designed as a browser for the masses, where they can just download it and run it and get most of the benefits. That's why some things like saving form information are turned on by default. I personally agree that the saving of form passwords should be off, but even when it's turned on it doesn't pose much of a security threat on your average home machine, and I think it still comes up with a dialog asking if you really want to save the password. Anyway, it's really easy to turn that off. Same thing with cookies and other things, there are fine-grained controls in the preferences. You can have it block all cookies or ask for every cookie or have a whitelist/blacklist or some combination of these.

Also look under where it says Enable Javascript, go to the Advanced button and disable most of those options. The only one I ever leave active is the change images option, some shopping websites use that to let you look at different product images by hovering over the thumbnails. There is very little reason to totally disable Javascript because Firefox doesn't use the buggy Microsoft version of Javascript that has always been dangerous to leave on.

If you'd used Firefox more than a day you would have found out about extensions, and found one of the most popular extensions which is Adblock. Install the Adblock extension and then download the latest version of Filterset.G (google or go here). Import the filterset by going to Tools, Adblock, Preferences and clicking on Adblock Options, Import Filters. That will take care of damn near every advertisement (Flash or otherwise) from doubleclick, hitbox, adtech, etc. You simply won't have to deal with them anymore.

There is also a separate Flash blocker extension that will block all Flash animations unless you choose to activate them by clicking on them. Want to block GIF animations? In a new tab, type about:config in the address bar, and then in the filter field that comes up type "ani" and you'll see a config option called imag

The 'stupid' contrarians aren't necessarily, and it is stupid to think otherwise.

Cases in point:

a) when did the theory of tectonic plates originate although being dismissed despite evidence from the 'fringe' (1912)? When was it accepted (~1965)? ( coincidentally, after the death of its originator.) Here is a more
telling commentary on the acceptance of that theory.

b) how many scientists believed in brontosaurus (they were wrong)? How about the fringe group that believed in the warm-blooded-ness of dinosaurs?

c) how come when Thomas Gold's theories on the deep biosphere and the origins of petroleum come up, the 'concensus' is touted as dismissing him. And yet it is rarely mentioned that Russian and European scientists have accepted and built up considerable evidence that he's right. Now that he's dead you will see a swing to acceptance of his theories (by the North American consensus makers) which has already begun.

You seem to suggest that only the contrarian does not accept the popular 'consensus' or the 'obvious'. In fact, the consensus may be just as polluted by the politics of the field and its journals. The 'obvious' simply is no measure of reality (quantum physics anyone?).

According to a Nov. 2, 1994 Journal of the National Cancer Institute paper abstract:

Among women who had been pregnant at least once, the risk of breast cancer in those who had experienced an induced abortion was 50% higher than among other women

By omitting this important relationship, the Columbia editorial is itself biased.

And getting your feet wet with radio/computers doesn't even require a licence. A scanner, sound card and some software will let you play with neat digital stuff like ACARS Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, which lets you do stuff like a real-time map display of airplanes near you. other link. (Perhaps not as spiff as this one.) There's other telemetery besides position and speed, so it could make a cool wall display--with no bandwidth suck.

The Chinese are the main supporters of Iran, now, and have threatened to veto any United Nations resolution that forces Iran to stop developing nuclear weapons. Such is the nature of the Chinese pig.

The Chinese are the main supporters of Iran, now, and have threatened to veto any United Nations resolution that forces Iran to stop developing nuclear weapons. Such is the nature of the Chinese pig.

The Chinese are the main supporters of Iran, now, and have threatened to veto any United Nations resolution that forces Iran to stop developing nuclear weapons. Such is the nature of the Chinese pig.

Thanks for the followup. I was using a chart that shows basically the same thing, from this site. The one on that site goes a bit further back, so it includes the Republican Harding administration, which broke the chart with a 5.8% growth rate. Of course, he only had two years, which makes the stats a bit more suspect, and both parties have changed drastically since Warren G. Harding was in office.

For those of you looking for effective Adblock filters, I recommend giving Filterset.G a try - the people over at the Adblock Project Forum like it quite a bit.

Got Mike. Mo meets a pretty woman is a classic.
Scan-O-Rama
Insolitology
Tastes like gold
Ebola monkey man. Well worth a read, very funny.
Quatloos, The Brad Christensen Exhibit. Check out ROSEMARY KABBAH -- Romancing the Pickle Taco.
and last but not least 419 Eater which has a personal recommendation on the front page.

Enjoy!

Got Mike. Mo meets a pretty woman is a classic.
Scan-O-Rama
Insolitology
Tastes like gold
Ebola monkey man. Well worth a read, very funny.
Quatloos, The Brad Christensen Exhibit. Check out ROSEMARY KABBAH -- Romancing the Pickle Taco.
and last but not least 419 Eater which has a personal recommendation on the front page.

Enjoy!