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Not to mention he spouts off to NBA refs and other players.

And their mothers http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4157481

He's an attention whore with no class (and that is true regardless of what one things of Kenyon Martin or his mother).

Not all federal prisons involve surprise butt sex. The one Bernie got sent to has been described as "like a college campus" (in which case there might still be butt sex, but it would hardly be a surprise).

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5. http://www.leona-craig.com/catalogue_art_gallery/Teapots/stump_teapot_zhu_qiu.jpg

there are more, but some of the were not safe for work...

And, just to build on your argument, Saddam didn't stay out of religious disputes between Israel and the Palestinians. He offered a $25,000 reward to the families of suicide bombers. (See: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129914&page=1&page=1 ) So if your family was really poor and had no other opportunities, you could ensure some financial income to your family by blowing yourself up and taking a group of Israeli civilians along with you. This, I'm sure, helped convince many people to become suicide bombers who might have otherwise never gone down that path.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=8980024 Remain calm, brake then neutral. See link above. I like 1990 - 2000 Japanese manual cars. They only have one computer and things are pretty simple. I wonder if there is a separate computer in the newer cars that controls the interaction between the throttle and the intake valve.

The ABC web site has a video from Consumer's Report on what to do in case of uncontrolled acceleration. They use a Toyota to demonstrate that pumping the brakes results in brake failure - so the brakes cannot always overcome the engine. The Toyota off button requires holding down for three seconds, which is not obvious (until this happened) even to Toyota owners. They recommend putting into neutral and braking to demonstrate that this does work the best. At then end they show a VW where the full on brake does override the full on accelerator, and this is where good programing could make the car "failsafe" (I know, not the correct term but cut me some slack).

No offense intended but you completely misunderstood the guys point. Pressing CDs is cheap. "Throwing them in the landfill" was a metaphor for "losing the money invested" not for actually throwing away pieces of metal and plastic.

No, I don't believe I misunderstood anything. He was claiming that to sell lots of CDs, you need to make and distribute lots of CDs, and run an advertising campaign; and if you do that and the CD flops, it's expensive.

Yes, there are some costs that apply even with digital distribution: as you say, production costs. Even those need not be sky-high. There are lots of eager bands who will self-produce their first album with GarageBand or something. (And before you say anything about the self-produced albums being of inferior quality: not necessarily. With modern, affordable, digital equipment, the band can make a clean recording and do an acceptable job of mastering. Maybe even a better job than the professionals right now!)

The past of music is a whole bunch of failures and a few huge successes. I predict that the future is a whole bunch of modest successes and a few bigger successes. And you really can just take some music, put it on a server, and see if anyone buys it. Word-of-mouth publicity has never been easier to get than in the age of blogs.

My point is not that the true, proper cost to produce music is zero. My point is that in the 21st Century, it's cheaper than it ever has been to produce music, especially for digital-only distribution. The proper price of a music album isn't $0 but it isn't $18 either. The market will decide, with competition, but I'm predicting the price will fall.

Huh. So much for the internet revolutionising music. Here is an obscure DnB producer that I found through internet radio, whos website is on MySpace and .... guess what. He only uses the "legacy business model".

Sorry, but I don't really care what one "obscure DnB producer" does or doesn't do. I'm making broad sweeping predictions about future trends; of course we aren't quite there yet and of course there will be exceptions.

And I'll give you a counter-example: Magnatune. They are a small record label that does not make artists sign their whole futures away (they split the take 50/50 with the artists); they just put music on the Internet and see who buys it (and they let you listen to the whole album in medium-quality MP3 before you decide whether to buy it or not).

The future of music on the Internet is more like Magnatune and less like this.

steveha

Not like they're buying out Morgan Stanley...

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/06/03/CIC-to-buy-447M-shares-of-Morgan-Stanley/UPI-45271244026009/

Or NBA teams...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc&page=CavsChina-090601

Or Automobile companies like Hummer...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/business/03auto.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1256911465-MYcwhz7EQCEgv2gHJoLH7Q

Or tried to buy out our oil/energy corporations in the past...

http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/08/chinese_ownersh_2.html

Yes, Chinese needs a 'backdoor' entry. This would be similiar to having a co-owner of a house putting in a back door to the house.

Kinda hard to get a backdoor entry when they're already sitting in your living room.

there is a reason you are not allowed to withdraw your 401k dollars and that the government gives you a tax advantage to invest via 401k instead of your own trading account. It increases the amount of money in mutual funds and thus gives a greater liquidity to the market.

Seriously, you don't know much about 401ks or mutual funds. In a 401k investors are not restricted to just investing in mutual funds. Perhaps you don't recall it but many Enron workers lost money because they had their 401ks invested in Enron stocks. But even if people have money in mutual funds, the funds are not of a single mind. There are aggressive growth, growth, income, and value funds. Aggressive growth funds invest in businesses that growing fast whereas income funds invest in corporations that pay dividends for income. Funds may invest in stocks, bonds, or both. Then there are also SRI, Socially Responsible Investing, funds. These funds use various screens to decide what to invest in. Some screen for companies that they feel treat their employees and or the locations they are located in well. Some focus on the environment, and others will not invest is so called sin industries. Such as military contractors or weapons makers, alcohol businesses, or tobacco companies.

All that 401k money (and the proxy votes) are controlled by an elite class of money managers who then wield enormous leverage over corporate boards.

Every one who owns stocks can decide for themselves who will vote as their their proxy, or can vote for themselves. There is such a thing as activist shareholders. Apartheid in South Africa very well may of ended in part because of shareholder activism, shareholders in the US as well as around the world pressured their companies to not invest in or pull out from South Africa in efforts to end apartheid. Now activist shareholders are pressuring their corporations to oppose Israel's construction of the Apartheid, er Separation, Wall. Chief among them are funds and groups that invest on a religious basis.

The owners of companies are changing so rapidly that it is nearly impossible to tell who actually owns what.

After more than 10 years Steve Jobsis still a member of Walt Disney's board. Ted Turner spent years on Time Warner's board. And as of 2001 and 2002 the Packard and Hewlett families still had seats on the HP board.

Falcon

Surprisingly, Disney is rather decent in this area.

If you accidentally damage or break one of your Disney DVDs, you can get a replacement disc for a nominal charge of $6.95.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bartman_incident
http://baseball.wikia.com/wiki/Steve_Bartman
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=bartman
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cubfan1.html
http://www.tampabay.com/sports/baseball/rays/article998054.ece

Osama Bin Laden is safer walking down the streets of New York City than Steve Bartman is walking down the streets of Chicago.

I think you have a ways to go though before intimidation or especially violenc gets called up for use. I don't think we've quite reached that level.

Really?

Apparently you missed the "prop 8" debacle in California. Sunshine laws were used to create maps to the HOMES of people who donated to support prop 8.

That's not intimidation?

Or how about when Vandals sprayed anti-prop 8 graffiti on a church in San Fran?

That's not intimidation?

Or how about the tragic story of El Coyote restaurant? and what has happened to the elderly owner because she was following her beliefs. THAT IS NOT INTIMIDATION????

Or what happened to a group of Christians who were following their beliefs and went out, in kindness of spirit, to PRAY for the Gay community. They were surrounded by an angry mob, had DEATH THREATS hurled against them and were ASSAULTED. That is not Intimidation? That is not VIOLENCE?

Come on. Where have you been?

The implications could not be clearer; While supporters of traditional marriage use legal and ethical means to promote their agenda, supporters of gay marriage use illegal and unethical means the moment it appears that doing it the legal way isn't winning support. It was all over California during the prop 8 battle, and now it's going to start in WA. I guarantee.

P.S. To mods: Negative mod points do not equal "I disagree with you". If you disagree, have the courage to log in and post. You demand sunshine on votes and political support, it's only consistent to shed sunshine on your opinions. Show courage, be consistent.

And I'll admit that the VA system sucks

I wouldn't say that.

BS. Auto air conditioning does not reduce mileage very much, according to the article here: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Autos/story?id=1274541 "As for using the air conditioner, go ahead. It has little impact on gas mileage." So unless you are starting your car and leaving it running in the driveway with the A/c at full blast for five minutes before you drive off, there shouldn't be much of an impact on mileage.

According to ABCnews Raj Rajaratnam is suspected to have given "$3.5 million to the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), whose assets were frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department in Nov. 2007 because of its alleged ties to the Tamil Tigers."

I suspect that the others simply got caught by following the money and listening to the wire-taps supposedly a first time for a hedge fund case according to ABCnews.

It seems the anti-terrorism fraud and money laundering investigations are working to snare more than just directly involved terrorists but also their support system of financial cash inflow.
Those who are just greedy also get snared.

The West (including Israel) have a blind spot, thinking "collateral casualties don't count".

[citation required]

Whatever else our new strategy entails, "no civilian casualties" needs to be the cornerstone, or we're never going to win.

I'm pretty sure this is impossible. I'm equally sure that it is already official doctrine to minimize civilian casualties to the extent possible.

Remember, it's not the West that sends suicide bombers to blow up little kids who are being given candy by "enemy" soldiers. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=b63bbd28-fded-46e6-aaf1-3489fb7a5d54&k=12319 And it's not the West that fires weapons from inside mosques and apartment buildings. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6559859

Among other things, the Geneva conventions were intended to minimize collateral damage to civilians; but they don't work unless both sides follow them.

Returning to the subject of drones, it's ironic that you raise these points in a discussion of drones. Minimized collateral damages is one of the reasons the military likes drones: they have drones look around with a video camera, they identify a target, they attack that target. This is much more precise than having a B-52 carpet-bomb the area.

steveha

"Radio is an entity unique to the music industry. It's an independent force that, much to the industry's chagrin, represents the one tried-and-true way record companies know to sell their product."

And before someone gives me a great big "whoosh", yeah, I get the tongue-in-cheek nature of the parent's comment. My point is that they know that getting their song in contact with new ears for free is the only way to make big money in recorded music, and they have historically stopped at nothing to control the distribution channel by which that "free" music is delivered, ie radio. IMHO, "pirated" downloads do not represent a direct threat to sales as much as they represent a threat to big labels' ability to control the "free" music distribution channel.

Sure, we'll beat the iPhone.... in 2012, right after the world ends!

Suckers!!

Nominations for this award where closed out early Feb. Two weeks after he took office... So I'm gonna go ahead and doubt that.

"Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize--Nominations Closed 02/01/09 (ABC's Website)"

If they are going to award the Nobel Peace Prize for intentions, then it should go every year to Miss America for pushing "World Peace."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-preparing-bomb-iran/story?id=8765343

Soon Amadenijad and Khomeni will be sucking each others' flaccid, useless cocks in hell.

You should pay more attention ;-) Here's a couple I've unearthed with very little digging : "Is the iPhone a Failure? Maybe!", "The iPhone is a Beta Product", "iPhony - Why Apple's new cell phone isn't really revolutionary", "Why the iPhone is a ripoff", "THE LONG VIEW: Why the iPhone will fail", "iPhone Fever: Not Everyone Buys the Hype", "Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone" and "Apple iPhone Doomed To Failure -- Windows Mobile 7 Plans For 2009 Leaked"

It's easy to point and laugh now, except that all those people are still making predictions as analysts.

AT&T comes with espn360 streaming, which has formula 1, 3, and nascar racing events live and replayed on demand whenever you want. I'm a huge college football fan who used to pay for the extra package during the season, and I just got sick enough of it that I explored my options.

There's other isp's that pay for espn360:

http://espn.go.com/broadband/espn360/affList

This sounds to me like "another hole in the wall".

what wall?
  I don't trust people looking over my shoulders at the ATM, why I would want to post banking info to the same website that is giving professional and collegiate athletes (Texas Tech football ) an open mic to diss their teammates (Owens , Ochocinco ) and coaches to try to get on Sportscenter is beyond me. Way too much opportunity for things to go wrong in 120 characters in the wrong hands. Finances should not be something to take a chance on.

You can't be serious. Your fanhood of Pixar is clouding your view. Disney owns Pixar--that means they control Pixar. They employ Pixar's workers, and Pixar answers to Disney. Pixar's founder, Steve Jobs, is on Disney's board of directors.

In this instance, Disney is really just a distributor, not a producer.

No, that's what Disney was before they bought Pixar. Now that Pixar is Disney, they are the producer.

I see your point here.

(But as an aside, when I visit this site: http://espn.go.com/broadband/espn360/channels?channel=3578790 ) on my Comcast cable modem it has a "Powered by Comcast" banner at the top, and I can access the site.

In this case, it seems that Comcast (and others) are footing some of the bill for this service. I've not bothered to register to see if there are additional fees.

Then the RIAA would pay the U.S. Navy to "accidentally" drop anchor on the pipe before sniping the datacenter's operators.

Then the American public would be told some daring tale about how the heroic navy again thwarted those evil "pirates" and they wouldn't know the difference!

I don't give a flying fsck that NASA tweeted! Just give me the goddam info!

C'mon geeks - do you want to share ranks with Chris Coumo of Good Morning America?

I am the anti-twitter.

Saw this on Google News today:

Had the Flu? It Was Probably Swine Flu

96% of tested flu strains have been Swine Flu... stop the fud.

Settle down folks, nothing to see here: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFluNews/swine-flu/story?id=8525109

I'm really not trolling here, but PETA has been funding ELF for years.

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/general/columns/story?columnist=guest_columnist&page=g_col_PETA_ELF_NYPost has a reprinted article from the NY Post.

I don't see many stories that are very recent, outside of what seem like blogs and bash-fests, but since PETA has denied ties all along, it doesn't make much difference to me whether they claim to have stopped or not.

They're looking for talented engineers and scientists with LOTS of imagination to take important projects from concept to reality! Check out their website and apply if you want to turn this trend around!

Back when I was doing my undergrad, Disney send some recruiters over to try to get people to sign up for summer internships. They sent fliers around that included that "free access to disney parks" crap and said they were giving a presentation to explain the details. I thought, "summer internship at disney. Could be kind of cool." I convinced my roommate to go with me to check it out.

Well, I'll say one thing for them: they're not liars. I listened to their presentation while they gave everyone there every reason not to apply. The most important one being, "we don't really pay you enough to make any money. You probably can break even, but you'll most likely end up spending more money on rent and food than you'll get paid." Then they told us all how awesome it was because it was Disney! And you had free admission to theme parks and discounts on merch! And all you need to do to apply is fill up this form!

My roommate and I both essentially said, "fuck that," but it was a lesson on the advantages of being a huge and famous company, especially one in the entertainment business. There were no lack of other people filling up those forms and disney gets some seriously cheap labor.

They're looking for talented engineers and scientists with LOTS of imagination to take important projects from concept to reality!

Check out their website and apply if you want to turn this trend around!

According to an ABC article (linked by the Wiki entry on CCTV) from a couple years ago, there is some evidence to suggest CCTV is worse at prevention than it is at solving crimes.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=3360287

Quoting from page 2:
"According to a British Home Office review of dozens of studies analyzing the cameras' value at reducing crime, half showed a negative or negligible effect and the other half showed a negligible decrease of 4 percent at most. Researchers found that crime in Glasgow, Scotland, actually increased by 9 percent after cameras were installed there.

In the United States, one of the most prominent examples was Tampa's use of facial recognition technology in 2001. But the city's police department dropped the technology two years later when it failed to result in a single arrest. The use of video surveillance was considered by the Oakland, Calif., police chief, but he ultimately found that "there is no conclusive way to establish that the presence of video surveillance resulted in the prevention or reduction of crime." "

It's Not That Simpleâ.

Besides, you're ignoring the point. The real issue here is highlighted by this passage:

But now the IAAF claim that they want to conduct further tests to see if 'she may have a rare medical condition that gives her an unfair advantage.'

In a world where people can change their identities at will (transsexualism, etc.), or otherwise, what changes need to be made to the outdated simple classifications?

And additionally, the obnoxious notion of "fairness" further complicates the issue.

however, often rule breakers speed traffic flow. We can also see that in nature with ants, bees, etc. You almost always want a certain percentage who are not just following the heard and are breaking out windows, jumping over desks, looking for other routes... I would actually argue those people who think it is their job to enforce the "rules" cause more problems. IE the guy who passes everyone on the right and jumps into traffic causes a momentary issue. Those of us that tailgate, and drive erratically trying to stop them from gaining by the rude actions, cause it to become a much bigger issue than it should be.

Quoting Wikipedia does your case little to no good really. A credible source would be better. (-:

This is the statement of a coward. Please find a link to refute the information I provided. Wikipedia is an excellent source of information about political spectrum, and a load of other things. Please find another place you find more credible if you wish to dispute the information. Is there some part you want to refute? Is the entry incorrect somewhere? Oh, you can't be bothered to write what you thought was incorrect can you? To any reasonable person the definition is correct and stands.

By any sensible standards-even US ones-he is not [a Marxist]

Why not read what Marxism is all about before you say someone IS or ISN'T a Marxist. Since Marx is the father of socialism it's not a stretch of any sort to call a socialist a Marxist. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

Socialism refers to various theories of economic organization advocating state, public or common worker (e.g. through cooperatives) ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equal access to resources for all individuals with an egalitarian method of compensation.

Sounds like social security, Medicare, Medicaid. Most recently GM, AIG, Fanny and Freddy were already government owned and controlled, I mean the list goes on and on - I don't know what you would call those programs, but they sure fit the definition above for me! So yes, advancing the socialist programs and ideas in this country will get you labeled a socialist and yes, even if you wish it weren't so: socialist = Marxist. It's like calling a Libertarian a Conservative or a Communist a Liberal or a Catholic a Christian or a Sunni a Muslim, I can think of more examples but you get the point I think.

I just designed a better fighter than the F22 Raptor on the back of an envelope.

The F-22 was actually made by a private company. And Obama shit canned the project so now we only have a few dozen F-22 (whatever was in production) calling it "wasteful government spending" meanwhile we bailed out AIG for more than 7700 billion dollers, wow that would buy us (138M/77000M=557) 557 new F-22's!!!! Oh, and the money we gave AIG is all gone! but don't worry, every one of those IOU's is good.

Was not the previous US administration the most statist in living memory, you remember Bush don't you? I thought he was a bit right wing what?

He was not considered a bit right wing, he wasn't considered right wing at all! GWB is off to the left of JFK! My god man, Bush spent more on the African AIDS fight and federal education than all his predisesors put together. He signed off on the $700B TARP legislation. Bush is not "right wing" by any strech of the imagination. Maybe you can point out something he did that you consider "right wing" before you go throwing the statement around. The only people who considered him "right wing" are people who are so far out on the lunatic fringe of the left that Ted Kennedy looks "right wing".

In just a few minutes I could have saved the allies heaps of effort and resources by doing the entire Manhattan project in my kitchen.

That's

This model was on Good Morning America today, she knew the woman a little bit. Here is more of the story.

"Thank God it was her... she's an irrelevant person in my life," Cohen said. "She's just somebody that, whenever I would go out to a restaurant, to a party in New York City ... she was just that girl that was always there."

For the first century of use as evidence, there were no statistically significant studies whowing finger print evidence was valid. It was just the expert witness of police investigators saying so. I see articles periodically mentioning this. Only a defense lawyer with immense resources can challenge the overall science of fingerprint evidence due to its use for a century.

I think this was actually Obama's Stimulus Plan... how else did he plan to spend $878 Billion so fast?

The only media deal that can make sense is to buy the NFL, MLB, NASCAR or NBA because people will pay up for sports even in a recession. If the Disney channel suddenly becomes a premium channel I won't be getting it. even though i have a child.

Disney owns espn and abc.

http://corporate.disney.go.com/careers/who_espn.html

http://corporate.disney.go.com/careers/who_abc_tv_group.html

Not that it means that the leagues would be powerless to fight back if Comsney pulled some real shenanigans, but you get more than just a kid's channel if you buy Disney.

The only media deal that can make sense is to buy the NFL, MLB, NASCAR or NBA because people will pay up for sports even in a recession. If the Disney channel suddenly becomes a premium channel I won't be getting it. even though i have a child.

Disney owns espn and abc.

http://corporate.disney.go.com/careers/who_espn.html

http://corporate.disney.go.com/careers/who_abc_tv_group.html

Not that it means that the leagues would be powerless to fight back if Comsney pulled some real shenanigans, but you get more than just a kid's channel if you buy Disney.

As long as the human race is confined to this rock it will eventually go the way of the dodo. From a species preservation point of view it is immanently logical that the human race needs to aquire a foothold on another planet. That is why such well known raving lunatics like Stephen Hawking are very much in favor of a Mars colony.

According to a funny news report years ago, personal experience, and
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8162152
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090729/0022035691.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_on_re_as/as_odd_japan_smile_meter_4

the Japanese have relatively recently become obsessed with learning how to smile to live up to the Western culture standard. In the show I watched, Japanese businessmen had learned to never smile or show much emotion... supposedly doing so was considered weak or feminine or something. They said it probably had roots in some of the kendo training/battles, where showing emotion could give away too much info to your opponent.

Also I think it's fairly standard consensus that Japanese tend to hide their emotions/opinions to themselves away from close family/friends for politeness sake. So before that meant even hiding smiles(?), but now means they need to smile more!?!?

We're sorry Matt Hew Johnson, we accidentally removed your leg as per operation instructions intended for Matthew Johnson down the hall.

Because with our current private healthcare system, such things NEVER happen. I was actually in a meeting yesterday with two doctors who were arguing over whether it was reasonable to plan a project that would require doctors in the ER to reconcile medications. You know, the part where they ask "Are you currently taking any prescription or over-the-counter medications?" The one working in a private practice insisted this was just too much (even though it's part of the standard of care); the one who spent 12 years working in the ER of the County hospital said they damned well BETTER be willing to do it, because it's crazy not to.

Yeah, in private practice, turning patients around faster means making more money. That doesn't really motivate doctors to take their time and do things right.

You claim to be a "staunch supporter of using scientific method." Interesting.

There's an incredible amount of material out there and an incredible amount of very respected professionals who have both researched and believe in creation.

Oh really. Do you have any reputable source to back that up? How about even one verifiable, specific number? A single believable example? Surely if you did, as a "staunch supporter of using scientific method", you would have mentioned it.

what [sic] many have already noticed over the course of the past few hundred years is that there has been no observation of increased genetic information.

What "many" are you speaking of? Where is this "many" documented? Again, if you really are a "staunch supporter of using scientific method", wouldn't you have provided such basic information?

Do you remember that recent article about a deactivated anti-aids [sic] gene in chimps?

The one you provide no link to, and mention with the literary equivalent of hand-waving? Lucky for you, I do remember it -- as vaguely as you mentioned it. As all we have is what you wrote, let's take a look at the key part of your sentence:

"anti-aids [sic] gene"

Having provided no link, you've provided no proof that that phrase isn't anything more than your over-simplified and skewed description of the discovery. But that's a sloppy enough way of referring to it that I'll concede a regular or even science journalist might have phrased it that way. Even if that's the case, I'll wager that if you read the original research, as compiled by the scientists directly involved, you won't find it written that way. At most you'll read something like, "a deactivated gene that, it turns out, happens to have anti-HIV properties."

The interesting thing here is that the information was already there.

Oh yes, fascinating. As fascinating as the likelihood that your DNA carries the genetic information necessary for you to have grown massive double-D breasts, if only it hadn't been suppressed somehow. What exactly was your point with that statement? Do you have even a basic appreciation for how much information we carry around in our DNA? I would have been more surprised if an inactive gene somewhere did not have an effect on HIV's ability to attack us.

My question is probably pretty obvious by now

Actually, no it's not.

Was the new trait, in the referenced article, brought about by new information or was it brought out by a recombination of existing information? The crux being, can this bacteria evolve into something completely different because it's creating new information, given enough time, or is it not possible because it doesn't have the information already and can only recombine what information it has?

That's two questions, actually. To answer the first question: it was brought about by one or more mutations. Either you didn't read the article, or you don't understand basic biology ... or both. Your second question is invalid owing to the fact that you didn't know the answer to your first question.

I'll just put this out there because seeing it in an alternate light is an awe-inspiring experience.

So you say. So far all I'm seeing is a lot of aimless writing.

When you give God just a little benefit of the doubt, assume he might actually be right, go out and see how this world's current state may have come about by what he's told us, you see that it's plausible, and you realize the intelligence, the wisdom, the intellect of that being, you just have to sit back, quite literally stunned.

Oh yeah, I'm stunned alright. Who the Hell invited Him into this? Where did the "staunch supporter of using scientific method" go? I can't believe someone was so tacky as to just

There was a similar case at a Florida boot camp a few years back. A kid was beaten to death, and it was all caught on tape. The murderers were acquitted, but Florida did shut down its boot camps. We'll probably see similar results from this incident in China.

Maybe there are some camps that are gulags. But I think the majority of the cases are 'legit'.

It's not like the same thing doesn't happen in the US. A kid in Florida died after being beaten by his boot camp instructors. The beating was even caught on tape. The murderers got off scot free.

At least that incident prompted Florida to close its boot camps. Hopefully this incident will get China to close its camps.

where everything is legal unless explicitly stated otherwise

that doesn't make texting while driving right, and so the law is merely dragging behind technological change, and texting while driving will be illegal someday, and rightfully so

oh yeah, there you go:

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/Politics/story?id=8246302&page=1

I also just watched an interview on TV, http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6945913
The fact that he got out on such low bond means he probably got SOME kind of lawyer.
The fact that he did the above interview means either he or his attorney are missing a few cycles.

Also, it was said that he did this for a year...
How long is operator radio training?
How many here have had some kind of radio training?
How long did it take you to know the calls and codes?
I'm leaning on the side of stupid.

Delaware, Oregon and Montana now allow sports betting.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=4162225