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The editors note that is now attached to the Register article that you link to really does not help to support your position. Incidentally I remember having read earlier that year that the warming trend will be put on hold this year because of a severe La Nina effect - apparently the National Geographic guys didn't get the memo.

The Register article DID help my position, however not as dramatically as I would have hoped :)

The Ice extent graph showed 10% more ice than last year, whereas the map showed 30% more pixels than last year. The two sets of data appeared to be contradictory, but they were not. Still, the 10% increase of ice from last year instead of their being almost no ice is a big difference.

Especially since it wasn't just national geographic reporting this, it was almost everyone!

Exclusive: Scientists warn that there may be no ice at North Pole ...
North Pole could be ice-free this summer, scientists say - CNN.com
North Pole could be ice free in 2008 - climate-change - 25 April ...
ABC News: North Pole Could Be Ice Free in 2008
FOXNews.com - Report: North Pole May Be Ice-Free This Summer ...
North Pole Could be Ice-Free This Summer | LiveScience
Summer may see first ice-free North Pole - Climate Change- msnbc.com
North Pole May Be Ice-Free This Year - AOL News
No North Pole ice for 1st time in human history?_English_Xinhua
An Ice-Free North Pole? - TIME

Just a simple google search for "north pole ice free" will give you 1000's of articles. Notice how every one of these articles has very little variation. Not even fox news challenged the claim.

So much for a free and independent press.

How far does something have to be to the right to count for you? Law enforcement is bought and paid for and working for the people in power.

The FBI says: this.
ABC says this.
Do the police there have a history of unjustified assaults into houses and then trying to pretend that it's okay? Yes, they do.
Are there more police assaults not being mentioned here? Yes, there are. They've been quite busy. Overwhelming force against people who haven't resisted seems to be a constant.
Now, like all of us, I would love to see a more detailed statement from the police. But I've just been looking and what I'm mostly finding is variations on: "Minneapolis/St. Paul police could not be reached for comment Saturday."

Time once again for the Fascist National Conventions. Featuring:

Confinement of protesters to "Free Speech Zones"
Jailing of Journalists
Authoritarian Scare Tacticts

And remember, the best part about the FNCs are that no matter who is nominated, one of their candidates always wins.

[Slavery] But in today's political climate weren't they simply religious types trying to impose their morals on the rest of the country?

There's a difference between imposing morality that can be argued from reason, and imposing morality that is entirely arbitrary and whose *only* reason is because the Bible "says so". For example, an atheist can just as easily argue that slavery, murder, etc is wrong based on human equality of rights. Abolition of slavery had nothing to do with Christianity or religion (in fact, the bible could be argued as advocating it, but that's another subject).

On the other hand, prohibition of gay marriage has absolutely no reasonable, non-religious basis. It is the business of the consenting adults -- also based on equality of human rights. Then I recall this horrifying story about atheist persecution by Christians.

Sure, you can argue that those aren't "real Christians", but let's face it, in public life you *better* not be an atheist, or the Christians will never vote for you. That's bigotry. And that's because, respectfully, of your attitude and others like you: that morality can only come from religion, which is ridiculous. If I had my druthers, religion would be an absolutely private matter between a human and his/her god, and would never be discussed in public.

Anyway, to bring this back to Obama, my point is that his church is hardly the only bastion of hatred. It's just another side of the religious coin. In fact, I'd argue that Wright, at least, has a historical basis for his anger -- blacks *were* screwed by the United States for a long time. The hatred of gays and atheists has zero historical basis. Protestant hatred of Catholics at least has some basis, on the other hand.

So as I can imagine a more enlightened Christian listening to fire and brimstone on gay rights, wishing his pastor wasn't quite so strident, I can also imagine Obama sitting in church, wishing Wright wasn't quite so strident as well. We don't have to agree with everything our friends believe to be their friends.

you CANNOT stop advertising/spam. There is simply too much money in it. I think Ani said it best when she said "Fuck this time and place".

It's not just about advertising and spam. There are actually legitimate uses for this type of resource. http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3394568&categoryId=3060647&n8pe6c=2

You can't go to a real space meeting with lots of people on any regular basis where you will hear everyone agree with you like you can on-line.

First, I dispute your claim that everyone I meet on-line agrees with me. The proof should be self evident.

Second, people can and do come darned close to it in the physical world every day, at churches and clubs and so forth.

Anyone - from anywhere could donate on-line. So it builds this false sense that voters in America are generating all these funds. But I doubt that was the case.

Hmmm. I don't suppose you are referring to the fact that active duty military personnel donated far more to Paul than any other Republican canidate; your tone implies some sort of conspiracy theory. Do you happen to have any idea who decided to try and influence America's political system by pouring money into the Paul campaign?

The effect I'm talking about doesn't happen, in my experience, in real life on any sort of regular basis. I can right now log into any number of web sites where literally thousands of people will all argue the same point of view and tell me any other view is idiotic. I can't think of anywhere I can go in the state I live in, let alone the country and get that same environment.

First off, I don't think "literally" means what you think it does. If you do literally mean "literally thousands" I'd be curious what sites you are talking about. Certainly not slashdot, where any given story draws dozens to hundreds of comments, not thousands, individual threads garner far less, and the opinions expressed on them are far from homogeneous.

Secondly, you need to get out more.

Seriously. For example, I'm sure there are churches near you (I suspect you'll have to change the ZIP).

--MarkusQ

And what source provided you that data? Perhaps AQI is a brand used by local thugs, but there are folks perpetrating the suicide bombings, and they are not US military personnel. Regarding Al Quds, perhaps this link to ABC News, not known to be big Bush supporters, will convince you. http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2875127 BTW, many of the suicide bombers, at least the ones last year, were Sunni, not Shi'a. If you are Iraqi and not being put into a wood chipper, gang-raped, or any other Uday/Qusay/Saddam special treatment, thank an American!

You'll note on the Wikipedia page that there are indeed citations on this section.

It really doesn't matter because a declaration of a state of emergency wasn't enough at the time for the feds to step in. All it did was expedite the process in which the state could ask for help because the state of emergency was already declared. Also, the link for the source doesn't provide a web page for the material;. If you follow the source, it prints something that on my printer that is nothing but gibberish. I don't even get a title that I can read.

Anyways, the Wikki article is misleading because the declaration of a state of emergency isn't or wasn't at the time, enough to send FEMA or troops in for assistance. This required a separate request afterwards. If you were to continue reading that page, it would clearly explain this. If you were to read even more of the article you cited, you would see the quote Nagin and Blanco were criticized for failing to implement New Orleans' evacuation plan and for ordering residents to a shelter of last resort without any provisions for food, water, security, or sanitary conditions. Perhaps the most important criticism of Nagin was that he delayed his emergency evacuation order until 19 hours before landfall, which led to hundreds of deaths of people who (by that time) could not find any way out of the city. ABC news reported that when natural disasters strike, it is the primary responsibility of state and local governments -- not the federal government -- to respond. and then state how that failed.

Of course Blanco took the position that Bush was sincere and honestly attempting to help in this PBS/Front line interview. She blames most of it on the chaos and time it took to move people around. Unfortunately, she doesn't acknowledge that she failed to follow the state disaster response plane and request help through the proper channels in a timely manor. This is illustrated in this CNN interview. I suggest that you watch all of it then edit your Wikipedia page to reflect the truth and reality that was. I'm not sure why you took the stand you did when the rest of the page you cited pretty much falsifies the part you quoted. This failure to ask for the proper help in the proper manor used to be right on the wiki page you cited. That is why wikipedia will never be a complete and valid source of information. I wouldn't rely on it as fact if I was you.

As for the changes to Posse Comitatus, don't be so quick to cheer the ability of the federal government to deploy troops without the consent of a state or its citizens. That kind of power while useful for emergencies like Katrina can also be used by less-than-scrupulous politicians in the future for purposes far less noble. The changes were a net loss for us as a country as far as I'm concerned, and a great deal because a president appointed a man who judged horse shows to be the head of federal emergency management.

Quit your damn uninformed fear mongering. First of all, a national state of emergency needs to be declared first. The federal government can't declare one in an areas if the state support it because congress with remove the emergency. Secondly, congress reviews the state of emergencies or national emergencies(see both 1621 and 1622) and can revoke them just as they can revoke the ability to use troops if ever necessary by removing the national emergency with a simple joint resolution. Third, the administration, whoever is president, h

Javascript is not Java. At all. Not one bit. It has an extremely misleading name. (Actually, it's real name is ECMAScript, but Netscape called it Javascript and it stuck. Sadly. Microsoft calls it JScript.)

Anyway, Javascript is inherently super-fast, but DOM changes can be inherently slow. If you benchmarked a pure computing task, Javascript would compare very favorably to other scripting languages. But since Javascript on the web usually does more DOM element shuffling than actual computation, it can be slowed down by that.

There's also the possibility it's implemented poorly. I've seen frameworks-upon-frameworks, so many that the simpliest task (like populating a slideshow) are agonizingly slow. For example, grab a stopwatch and see how long it takes this site to populate the list of clips in the slideshow: http://abc.go.com/primetime/dancingwiththestars/index?pn=index That's not JS, that's ABC's crummy web developers.

Has this wonderful "no fly list" ever had a successful outcome in preventing a real suspect from boarding a plane

Well, they definitely thwarted Cat Steven's nefarious plans, whatever they might have been.

As expected from an AC.... no it's not women's fault, people totally misinterpreted my post and it got flagged, as usual, if something goes against the mainstream it gets flagged as troll.

"that you are describing is addiction, and buddy, it's nobody's fault but your own."

Bullshit it's no ones fault they are born a man and they socialize for a long time and go months without sex, obviously people here at slashdot have no background in criminology, you see different types of sex crimes for a whole host of different reasons.

"Your assertions boil down to 'it's the fault of the female sex that that woman get raped, because some other woman should've been around for the rapist to fuck instead'."

No they don't, note what I said: Hooker subsidy, or was this totally lost on you? i.e. disabled men and women have a much harder then the average person in maintaining relationships.

"Nobody is responsible for your physical well-being but yourself...."

Bla bla bla bla bla a bunch of western selfish-individualist anti-scientific nonsense, this was the whole point for subsidizing sex industry. Is a kid responsible for being born? or perhaps this (link below) kid should just "be responsible for his growth?", should a kid be responsible for having hormmones and a penis, how about his eyesight and ability to hear, or how about a large portion of his intelligence? Or maybe you should just hold in you shit and piss for the rest of your life? There is so much human being's can not control, and so much they don't know.

Kid who can't stop growing:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MedicalMysteries/story?id=5466774&page=1

Flamebait?

The truth shall set you free:
"The United States leads the industrialized world in incarceration. In fact, the U.S. rate of incarceration (762 per 100,000) is five to eight times that of other highly developed countries, according to The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice think tank. "

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=5009270

We have mandatory minimum sentences of 5 years or more for crimes that other countries consider misdemeanors.

I reiterate, the US Government, as it stands today, is an epic failure because it's run by self serving morons who only care about how much they'll get paid by the lobbyists pass whatever will help the big corporation that's paying both of them.

More people die in our cities in one year, to criminals, than U.S. active duty Soldiers in 4 years of combat in Iraq.

Everyone gets all pissed off about soldiers dying in Iraq. There's more people dying right in your back yard. The soldiers are tragic, I agree, and I have great respect for them, but this country is going to shit. The sooner you take off the blinders the better off you'll be.

I was born and raised here. This country's government, the jackass, and the elephant, is steering the country I love, into ruin.

I stand by my "flamebait" because it's true. If you want to see the facts behind my assertions, I'll happily dig them up for you and post more links. Just tell me what you want.

-Viz

http://abcnews.go.com/technology/story?id=98195&page=1

I love to cite this study whenever a decision is being made on the 'memory' of, say, a result - rather than an actual record.

There is another study, which I can't promply locate

Or... is there?

Actually this isn't new. Doctors have found that it's fairly easy to manipulate memories with photos and there is the development of drugs used to treat PTSD and other victims to erase or lessen traumatic memories.

What was scary was, a few years back, I saw on TV where they took a classroom of kids, made up a scenario--soon the kids believed that scenario happened to them personally.

I have a big problem with this science. While I understand wanting to help victims that might become suicidal, I have a problem with manipulating someone's memory just as I would shooting them up with mind-numbing drugs so they don't feel anything. I think working through the incident would make you far more stronger than taking a pill to blank it out.

http://abcnews.go.com/technology/story?id=98195&page=1

I love to cite this study whenever a decision is being made on the 'memory' of, say, a result - rather than an actual record.

There is another study, which I can't promply locate, in which subjects were shown several colors and then a day or two later, when asked to recall which colors they saw, they picked colors brighter and more saturated than those they had been shown.

This, to me, shows why the 'golden age' phenomenon is so prevalent.

NFL tends to sweep a lot of physical problems under the rug. For example, take the case of where a 44 year old ex-defensive back experienced Alzheimer's and had the brain of an 85 year old man, which may have lead to his suicide.

That's funny, I thought Rodney Harrison's reputation is that he's a dirty player all around. I hadn't heard anything about steroids, he's just not well regarded.

Not steroids, HGH. He served a 4 game suspension and went right back in.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2999994
and tons of other outlets carried the story.

Chris Henry isn't even a starter let alone a star. I think if these steroid violators were dominating the league like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens people might view it as more of an epidemic.

How about the 1970s Steelers D-line and all their Superbowls, the 1980s 49ers O-line and all their Superbowls, multiple linemen on the 2 Broncos Superbowl teams, the 1990s Cowboys O-line, several of the 1990s Raiders, Pro-Bowler and reigning defensive rookie of the year Shaun Merriman, 3 guys on the 2004 Carolina Panthers Superbowl (losing) O-line, etc?

All of those were well documented on TV and newspaper coverage at the time, and the public reaction was pretty much nonexistent.

Obviously steroids helps QBs and WRs less than other positions (so it's not the glamor positions that get caught as much), but every major dynasty of the last 35 years has had a number of key players suspended or outed by major media of the ESPN/CNN/ABC level. People don't care. It's not like baseball, where it's treated as a big scandal even when Luis Castillo tests positive.

Heck, Merriman was on the cover of the NFL 2006 (or whatever year) PS2 game after testing positive. Coaches say it's "disappointing", 4-game suspensions are served, and the player goes back in the game.

I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying the post I first responded to claiming that if a sport accepted steroid use it would die seems pretty untrue so far.

Would you trust /.?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/05/1730239

"According to this article at CNN: Police arrested a man they said tracked his ex-girlfriend's whereabouts by attaching a global positioning system to her car. Police said Gabrielyan attached a cellular phone to the woman's car on August 16 with a motion switch that turned on when the car moved, transmitting a signal each minute to a satellite. Information was then sent to a Web site that allowed Gabrielyan to monitor the woman's location." A ruling last year stated that police need a warrant to track individuals in a similar fashion.

found this too: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2334039

Olympic athletes have done just as much doping as professional ones.

Doubtful, but who truly knows? "Just as much" is a very broad term, is that a percentage of clean athletes? Who do you count, everyone in the sport or just those that make the olympics that particular year? Most of the dopers get found out before they make it to the games, unlike baseball or le tour, where they are found and kicked out later.

They don't get paid for their olympic performances

Actually.... they do, sorta. Each athlete that goes to the games gets a TON of stuff from the sponsors of the games. Outfits, shoes, phones, game consoles... the list goes on. If you dig around, you will find plenty of articles about the athletes from the poorer nations actually going out of the village to sell the stuff to the public for cash that is much more useful to them once they get home.

Most olympic committees or national sports bodies will also pay for the trip, and pay bonuses for breaking records and winning medals. True, the bulk of the money comes from endorsement deals, but winning a gold for the US in swimming right now nets you about $25k. The problem is, in most of the olympic sports, the athletes are still NCAA athletes, so if they take the $$ they can no longer compete in NCAA events (as Phelps did in 2000).

tm

I'll avoid taking time now to argue I think this is indicative of Design, because I expect to see the usual spontaneous compulsory posts insisting it isn't indicative Design, as sufficient psychological indication of it being considered plausibly Design.

But I will. This is clearly an indication of Intelligent Design. His noodliness is obvious in almost everything we do! The recent discovery of the world's smallest snake makes clear that FSM has a message to the world: I am ruler of all I survey! Worship me!

Compare pictures here, of the world's smallest snake and an artists rendering of the FSM. Aren't the similarities striking?

Long live Intelligent Design!

Oops, posted link to wrong story. Here it is. http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=3526995

Would be finding those darn smog dispersal rockets.

Olympic cyclists had a hard time coping with the combined effects of the humidity, temperature, and smog laden air and visibility of the flame cauldron was barely a mile.
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfield/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=3475952

I mean, seriously now.

I don't care where you are from in the world. If you are incapable of competently doing the job, you shouldn't have it.

And I have zero respect for companies that hire someone incompetent to do the work so that they can cheap out on the wages. It screws the customer, it screws the employees who are being fired so some incompetent elsewhere can be hired for peanuts, and it screws US when the unemployment rate rises and more and more people wind up in dire financial straits.

Look at the housing market today - yes, there are a lot of bad loans, but as more and more jobs are lost and it gets harder to find one at your former pay grade, what do you expect will happen to people who had a mortgage? That's right, they file bankruptcy or worse.

The "Economic recovery" under Bush after the dot-bomb crash should have been named the "worth-less jobs recovery"; everyone I knew who lost their jobs between 1999 and 2002 wound up having to "settle" for something 10-15k/year less than they'd previously been making after an average job search time of 6 months, and that includes the people who finished up a grad degree in the middle of it.

Now the economy is going back down the tubes - and neither political party is willing to admit that contributing causes are illegal immigrants deflating wages, unfair "free trade" agreements we never should have agreed to siphoning off jobs and poisoning industries (as well as the global environment), and government deregulation that's let far too many companies get acquired by big multinationals that did things like ship everything overseas.

Of course, if you need MORE arguments against illegal immigration:
- rapists and murderers like Jose Medellin
- The amazing rise in gang crime that can be directly traced to growing illegal populations
- Rises in fraud crime and home invasions, likewise directly traceable.
- The number of illegals who die attempting crossings
- The number of illegals held in a virtual slave trade by the smugglers
- The fact that Mexico's number one source of income is remittances from the US (it outpaced their oil revenue, the former #1, in 2007) - and all of that is directly removed from the US economy.
- The impact it has on American schools to be trying to absorb way too many illegal kids, further damaging a shaky-at-best public education system.
- The impact on American hospitals, many of which in the southwest are deep in the red and close to closing due to the financial impact of having to provide for overflowing emergency rooms stocked with illegals who use them as free health care (not to mention the Americans who've died because the emergency room was too overcrowded for them to get seen in a life-threatening situation).
- The number of Americans killed by illegal-alien drivers, who wouldn't have been there to cause the accidents if we were properly enforcing the border. Put it this way: More Americans have been killed by illegal-alien drivers, since Sept. 11 2001, than have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

I don't care where an illegal comes from - honduras, el salvador, brazil, canada, ireland, nepal, china, WHEREVER. They broke the law in coming, they've probably stolen someone's SSN to get bank accounts and other things set up, their employer is breaking the law, they're likely contributing to the violent crime problem, and the open-borders crowd is wrong: we can't simply keep looking the other way.

To blame the infant mortality rate on the simply on the health care system ignores a variety of factors. Here is a news article that gives more suggestions to the reasoning behind the high mortality rate. Reasons such as race, fertility drugs, and poverty.

While I read through many replies, I did not read them all-- so sorry if this was already posted. But here is a situation where the opposite happened: the librarian refused to give up the computers, and some people wanted her head for it.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=5409499

As a librarian myself, I disagree with what the library director did in the story posted here on Slashdot. I suppose in reality, what I would do depends on my employer's policy-- but I wouldn't be comfortable working for a library that handed over records without requiring a warrant.

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Actor Morgan Freeman was found nearly dead in his Memphis hospital this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

After Suicide, Feds Consider Closing Anthrax Case

After scientist's suicide, Justice Department to consider closing anthrax investigation

By LARA JAKES JORDAN and MATT APUZZO Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON August 2, 2008 (AP)

See why tinfoil is important?

This had already been through a grand jury and his lawyers had been informed that he was about to be charged. So it's not like some scientist committed suicide for another reason and the justice department is conveniently appointing him as the patsy.

And this is hardly a victory for the justice department or the FBI which will look like a bunch of keystone cops. It would have been better for them if this case had quietly gone away. Because this guy had been under investigation since 2002, but the dept. was so set upon Hatfield that they not only dismissed concerns about Ivins, but he was put in charge (if guilty) of analyzing the evidence in his own crime. Then they had to pay Hatfield off after ruining his life by making him a public suspect. He was exonerated this June. (An earlier version of the story in USA Today had mentioned an management change in the FBI that finally started the reinvestigate leads and not just hone in on Hatfield.)

Some wonder if Ivins was trying to use the scare to test or forward his vaccine. Says the WP: "Nearly two years after anthrax mailings killed five people and sickened 17 others, Army scientist Bruce E. Ivins accepted the Defense Department's highest honor for civilian performance for helping to resurrect a controversial vaccine that could protect against the deadly bacteria."

At a 2003 award ceremony he said, "Awards are nice. But the real satisfaction is knowing the vaccine is back on-line." Back on-line? Was the research being defunded and he saw creating a scare as a way to get the funding back to his research? This is also apparently the vaccine that has caused a concern over safety and some soldiers refused to take the shot.

You certainly need a hidden camera. If you inform them of your camera (or it's obvious), then as others have stated, it'll probably get smashed and any recordings destroyed. And if they were already doing something wrong, if they destroy your camera, then they're probably about to do something a lot more wrong to you.

On my street (not a particularly good part of town; old, blue-collar, and multi-ethnic, though not particularly run-down or dangerous) the cops came to arrest someone, and when they got him out of his house, he was making some noises about resisting arrest and being somewhat disorderly. If I were a cop, I'd certainly have been prepared for trouble, the way he was acting. But one of the cops came over and told everyone who had gathered on the opposing sidewalk, about 30 feet away, that we had to disperse and couldn't watch. My landlord argued with him, asking why he couldn't stand on a public sidewalk near his house, well away from what was going on, and watch what happened in his neighborhood. The cop told him that if he didn't walk out of viewing distance, they'd arrest him. The cop said it was for the privacy of the person being arrested. Yea, right. The cops didn't want any witnesses around before they went to town on this guy. First person experience.

Even when the cops have been required by law to keep everything on camera and keep the footage, they'll still go turn the camera off illegally and beat the #*$ out of someone. Who's going to arrest them, they're a cop? More info on that one here At least the cop was fired, eventually, but not prosecuted or anything. He's appealing the decision.

Although sometimes, they don't destroy the evidence. And other times, people do get away with videos of cops being idiots unmolested.

And this guy has a whole series of videos he posts online catching cops doing illegal things. I wonder how long until he get his camera confiscated and nasty things happen to him off film? Also, see this.

Is anyone reporting on the fact that the US Congress has only a 14% job approval rating while Bush is at least above 25%? No? I wonder why - maybe it doesn't fit the biased story the MSM wants to portray.

Here's a Reuters story about it. Here's an ABC News story. Here's an MSNBC story. All from the first page of a Google search. Are those mainstream enough for you?

"Of course Google is profiling what people do as they search, indexing everything is what they are about. The question is where this impacts on privacy and what limits we want to put on it."

*don's a decent sized tin foil hat*

There are no limits we can really put on it, the NSA is already sucking up the whole damn internet, ISP's are monitorign and recording you traffic and many I'm sure sell this data illegally to advertisers. There's taps on all the packets that go through the internet in different countries and different places, so trying to keep privacy on data without moving to something like Tor, etc, is not going to happen on how most of use the net today. The intelligence agencies of the world must be having a ball mining and capturing our packet data and reconstructing them into files on us using mathematical techniques to reconstruct what goes where, I'm sure this will get very good over time. Not to mention with the help of google, etc,

Copy that was temporarily put online:
http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/94A1F45E-A830-49DB-B319-DF68C28D561D/0/strat_trends_17mar07.pdf

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2930944

Of course, a game that's even more Tron-like would be, um, Tron 2.0. It's a darned respectable FPS, it's very much Tron, and as it's several years old you can find it on the bargain table.

To put it in perspective, the media whore Nifong - who intentionally and maliciously continued the prosecution on the innocent duke team got a whopping day in jail and a minor fine.

You must not have followed the news.
Nifong was disbarred by the NC State Disciplinary Hearing Commission.

And he filed for bankruptcy in an attempt to wipe out the multi-million dollar civil suits against him.
It didn't work and his assets are being auctioned off to repay his debts.
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6229784

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4614281

Follow the link for the transcription of Randy Pausch's Last Lecture.

Funny that. With the exception of rape-fantasy porn, they look like they're having a good enough time on camera. Are you suggesting that despite sticky mountains of evidence to the contrary, porn performers really *ARE* good actors/actresses? So skilled at acting that they can fool anyone into thinking they aren't being raped!?!?

Also. Please cite your references.

Also, The post you quote wasn't about the merits of porn as it relates to performers or adults. Nor is it about completely illegal, and I think all here would agree abhorrent, kiddy porn. It is about the supposed "dangers" associated with children witnessing adults having sex, And the grandparent claims children have died because of other peoples' religious beliefs while none have died from watching porn. As far as I know, this is true.

Below are two examples of children who died this year in the US because of their parents religion. They would have lived if given any medical care. I challenge you to cite one reference of a child losing his/her life as a result of *viewing* legal adult pornography.

Kara Neumann: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/DiabetesResource/story?id=4536593&page=1
Ava Worthington: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/04/AR2008040403314.html

What facts do you have to support your opinion that "very, very few people will pay new-car prices for a car that will go 150 miles then require a 3-hour recharge."?

Because I would buy a car like that in a heartbeat.

The average US commute is only 32 miles per day. People don't need a 500 mile range to commute to work everyday.

Here is an online petition with 1755 signatures wanting Mitsubishi to bring the i-MiEV to America, which gets 100 miles per charge and will sell for approximately $24,000.

Here is an article from NPR in which the president of Nissan says "Today, there is latent consumer demand, but no offer."

As gas prices continue to increase, there is plenty of demand for an affordable electric car. Just no one supplying them.

That was horribly racist. I think I speak for all Chinese when I say back to you:
"Ching chong wang, wah ah-so."

She's already trying her best:

McCain Adviser Attempts to Clarify Viagra vs. Birth Control Comments

This is slightly off-topic, but Genarlow Wilson was a 17-year old high school football player who received consensual oral sex from a 15-year old girl and was sentenced to prison for 10 years for aggravated child molestation. He received several scholarship offers and was an excellent student. (Source)

There are also many stories of 16/17 year olds exchanging nude photos of each other and being charged with child pornography. (Source)

I think kiddie porn (pics of young children) is absolutely disgusting and people seeking it need serious psychiatric help, but our laws need to distinguish between those looking to exploit children and kids that are just sending pictures of themselves over the internet without realizing the consequences.

What I really want to know at this point is what the oh-so-knowledgeable and unbiased expert analyst Laura DiDio has to say about this. After all, she had seen code snippets that made her come away thinking SCO really had a strong case. Later she said that "you'd have to be really crazy to try and sue IBM if you didn't have something."
Since she has also claimed "these people" (people involved with Linux) are "living in an alternative reality," I'm curious about Ms. DiDio's views on reality today.

Of course, I have to admit that Ms. DiDio, renowned IT expert with no IT or computer science training, does know something about "living in an alternative reality" (Ms. DiDio's part comes at the top of the 2nd page).

...but I happen to believe that most, if not all...

Hey, believe whatever you choose to believe.
Your inability to handle reality demonstrates the true worth of your comment.

Actually the Bush administtation DID give a tax break on large vehicles to make them more affordable than their actual impact on the world:

"Congress recently passed a tax bill, as proposed in President Bush's economic stimulus plan, that offers a $100,000 tax credit for business owners who purchase any vehicle weighing 6,000 pounds or more when fully loaded.

When Wizinsky's accountant told him about the credit last year, the amount was much less, at $75,000, but it was enough to encourage Wizinsky to trade in his Mercury Marquis for the Excursion.

"It sounded too good to be true," said Wizinsky, a health care consultant in Novi, Mich. "But it was true. So I bought the SUV. For a small company like mine it's a significant credit."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Hybrid/story?id=97505

http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc/int/hummer

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2002-12-18-suv-tax-break_x.htm

The ABC Television Network, ESPN and the majority of the ABC local stations have selected 720p for HDTV as the new standard of choice.

From abc.com

I don't care to look up the others, but feel free.

It's happened, once again here in St. Louis:

ESPN - Suit claims restaurant kept giving intoxicated pitcher drinks - MLB

Idiot gets drunk, slams his car into a tow truck trying to remove a disabled car from the road. Idiot father refuses to admit that his son is less than the perfect goody-two-shoes that everyone wants their kid to be, figures someone else MUST be responsible, somehow. The asshole not only sued the bar, when the guy chose of his own free will to buy booze and then drive despite it being suggested that he call a cab; he also sued the tow truck driver and the guy whose car broke down. Apparently, you can now be dragged into court for having your car break down on the side of the road. As if people CHOOSE to have their car break down on the side of the road!

The kicker? The idiot was on his cell phone at the time he drunkenly plowed into the stopped tow truck and car and didn't even TRY to brake.

Stupid dies as stupid does. Good riddance.

Thankfully, the case was thrown out, I believe, and an investigation showed that the restaurant had done nothing wrong.

Missouri ATC clears Shannon's | StLCardinals.com: News

These people lack imagination.

Wait wait wait wait. Robert Silverberg lacks imagination? Robert Silverberg???

No. He's doing what SF authors often do. "If X continues, here are the consequences!" To which some bright people in society say, "Fsck. That would be bad. We ought to do something about that."

TFA's point is not "The sky is falling!", but "We're going to be making and being subjected to some interesting changes."

Then there's gazillions of miles of copper cable, copper pipes and tubing, etc. Much of it is already being recycled, in fact.

Indeed - recycled so profitably that copper wiring and plumbing is being ripped out of houses. And not condemned houses - I mean you go out to dinner and a show, come back and your house's walls have been ripped open.

Catalytic converter theft is also becoming a problem.

According to this the over 50 crowd is the fastest growing sales group for video games:
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Story?id=4132153.
So maybe the average age of internet users is also closer to 50? The most likely thing we're seeing here is that the whole country is just getting old.

There's also a few hundred thousand dead people in another part of the world who would tell you to put things into perspective and realize which is the greater tragedy.

You mean Darfur? Sudan? Some other place where the US has not provoked those deaths intentionally, to solidify its presence?

More people should familiarize themselves with Operation Northwoods and look at the date posted on that article, as well as the date of the original intent of those ideas.

Or, if things really go bad, move the entire town.

Except that Antarctica is melting.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=1678441&page=1