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This is true on the most primitive level. However, for a significant number of people "eating correctly" will mean a 1000 calorie-a-day diet of pure protein and in addition to not being obese they will be constantly hungry and lethargic, lose muscle mass and suffer from various diseases associated with malnutrition. They really need medication as well as medically designed diet/exercise program to take care of those genes and hormones.

Yes, 90% of fat people just need to lay off McDonald and other heavily processed food and throw away TVs.

uh, no. you've been given horrible, life ending dietary advice. the truth is a pure protein diet is sure to eventually kill you. you need to add essential fatty acids to your diet or you will DIE. your body is unable to create these fatty acids on its own, hence, the term "essential."

by far the best diet out there for the majority of people (i hesitate to say all people - biology is complex with significant variation) is a moderate diet that provides ample lean protein for one's lean body mass (no more, no less), provides moderate carbohydrate (sugar) to feed the brain and keep one's insulin response in a tight zone (to keep the brain fed for up to 5 hours)and provides essential fatty acids in the form of primarily mono-unsaturated fat.

i'm on this diet with the following typical results:

1. my energy level has skyrocketed - i'm working out 5+ times a week instead of the zero times a week on my prior "whatever" eating plan.
2. i feel great. my worst day on this moderate diet is significantly better than my best day on my prior diet.
3. i'm losing a pound of pure fat every week - i'm down 11.5 lbs total in 12 weeks.
4. i'm gaining muscle and getting significantly stronger. for every lb of muscle gained, i must've lost some fat or water weight to be down net 11.5 lbs.
5. my cardio has *dramatically* improved from exhaustion after 10 minutes on the elyptical to churning out 50 minutes last night with energy to spare.
6. i'm over 40 years old and i'm about 6 lbs of fat from a well defined 6 pack - something i worked hard to achieve as a teenager and *failed* because my diet wouldn't allow it (i didn't know this at the time). my stomach is flat now and my 4 pack is peeking through, but it isn't well defined yet.
7. my muscles are becoming much more defined - i am seeing muscle ridges in my calves i've never seen before in my life.
8. i didn't get the typical soreness after lifting weights to exhaustion - even though it was the first time i've lifted weights in 20 years. my body doesn't over produce lactic acid which causes that typical soreness feeling.
9. i'm not hungry on this diet. I'm not deprived on this moderate diet.
10. my blood work is excellent.
11.

these results are typical.

Robin was part of a PBS study on diets:
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1401/features/robin.htm

"What I really like is how good you feel when you are "in the Zone". You are rarely hungry, and you just feel really, really good - it has a tremendous impact on your mood - unlike other diets I've been on."

mind you, she didn't even mention she lost 45 lbs (almost 20% of her prior total weight) in a mere six months. rather, she felt tremendously good - and that is what she liked even more than the missing 45 lbs (go to the gym and pick up a 45 lb weight plate - that is significant weight loss)!

The former heaviest man in the world lost over 400 lbs in a single year on the zone diet:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2799700&page =1

he has turned down a FREE, FREE, FREE gastric bypass surgery because he's comfortable the zone is good enough to drop another 550+ lbs.

very few things in life are too good to be true, yet still true. i wouldn't have believed that this diet would have such a profound e

I cannot help but to think that a person could train his/herself to resist the attack from such a device, much more easily than say from a taser or pepper spray.

Something more like this: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99472, might be more difficult to resist.

even more important than what happens to food when you cook it... what happens to your body when you eat it.

through anecdotal evidence and an ever growing foundation of scientific evidence, the zone diet has shown me that it is much closer to optimal than the average american diet.

scientific data (still needs to grow a bit, but still quote compelling in its own right):
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2799700&page =1

anecdotal evidence:
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1401/features/robin.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2799700&page =1

my experience.

1. 178 lbs to 168 lbs in about 11 weeks.
2. net gain of muscle during the same time frame.
3. energy level is dramatically higher (b-ball 2 days a week (5 games yesterday), cardio 3 days a week, lifting weights 3 days a week).
4. my muscles don't get sore after workouts b/c the zone inhibits excess production of lactic acid (which gets in the the mscles and causes soreness).
5. my pulse rate dropped from 67 to 58.
6. my cardio went from dead after 10 minutes to 40 minutes plus with room to spare - after lifting weights for an hour - including leg work.
7. my "well being" meter is higher on my worst day in the zone compared to my best day not on the zone.
8. i'm rarely hungry and i don't crave carbohydrates. i can sit next to snickers at work and not eat any for months on end.
9. i'm more than half way to my goal of 6 pack abs by the end of the year - and i'm over 40 years old. i *never* had 6 pack abs when i was growing up and i tried hard. little did i know back then that every time i ate i instructed my body to retain fat and add more. exercise mitigated this to a point, but now that i use my diet to unlock my fat burning potential, getting the 6 pack abs is actually easy. in fact, i can't prevent it from happening *unless* i change my diet away from the zone.
10. my energy level after work is greater than my energy level at any point in the day in a non zone friendly diet.

i understand different folks have different bio-chemistries, but this is worth a shot *if* you care about your health. my experience is most folks don't. they live to eat, they don't eat to live.

even more important than what happens to food when you cook it... what happens to your body when you eat it.

through anecdotal evidence and an ever growing foundation of scientific evidence, the zone diet has shown me that it is much closer to optimal than the average american diet.

scientific data (still needs to grow a bit, but still quote compelling in its own right):
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2799700&page =1

anecdotal evidence:
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1401/features/robin.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2799700&page =1

my experience.

1. 178 lbs to 168 lbs in about 11 weeks.
2. net gain of muscle during the same time frame.
3. energy level is dramatically higher (b-ball 2 days a week (5 games yesterday), cardio 3 days a week, lifting weights 3 days a week).
4. my muscles don't get sore after workouts b/c the zone inhibits excess production of lactic acid (which gets in the the mscles and causes soreness).
5. my pulse rate dropped from 67 to 58.
6. my cardio went from dead after 10 minutes to 40 minutes plus with room to spare - after lifting weights for an hour - including leg work.
7. my "well being" meter is higher on my worst day in the zone compared to my best day not on the zone.
8. i'm rarely hungry and i don't crave carbohydrates. i can sit next to snickers at work and not eat any for months on end.
9. i'm more than half way to my goal of 6 pack abs by the end of the year - and i'm over 40 years old. i *never* had 6 pack abs when i was growing up and i tried hard. little did i know back then that every time i ate i instructed my body to retain fat and add more. exercise mitigated this to a point, but now that i use my diet to unlock my fat burning potential, getting the 6 pack abs is actually easy. in fact, i can't prevent it from happening *unless* i change my diet away from the zone.
10. my energy level after work is greater than my energy level at any point in the day in a non zone friendly diet.

i understand different folks have different bio-chemistries, but this is worth a shot *if* you care about your health. my experience is most folks don't. they live to eat, they don't eat to live.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has been developing this technology.
See http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3441742
"The idea is to put arrays of sensors on structures, such as bridges, and look for the changes of patterns of signals coming out of those sensors that would give an indication of damage forming and if it is propagating," said Chuck Farrar, a civil engineer at the lab.

The arrest rate for bank robbery is about 60 percent*(!) That means about 40% of the time, you can get away with it. So if you manage to steal $100,000 each time, you can expect, on average, to keep $40,000 per robbery in the long run. As such, it seems capping the punishment at a number less than 100% of the amount stolen won't be too harsh of a deterrent. If the punishment is set to less than 40%, robbing banks would even be profitable even with the punishment factored in.

*http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3432084&pag e=1

1. John Burge and others tortured suspects; public still funding their defense.
2. Anthony Abbate beat a 110 lbs. female bartender for refusing to serve him more alcohol.
3. Six cops beat up four men in a bar because they wanted to play pool.
4. Police Commissioner Phil Cline resigns as a result of above two incidents.
5. Cops beat four after police cruiser runs red light and almost hits one of the men.
6. citizens demand police officers be accountable to the public and not Chicago Police Department.
7. More than 800 complaints by citizens filed against CPD's Special operations section.

The vast majority of police are honest, hard-working people, but they _will_ break the law when it suits them. I've been witness to a Driving While Black incident and have also been illegally detained and searched because I was watching two cops shake down a girl I had recognized from the University. Sadly, incidents of police brutality, police shooting unarmed citizens and police harrassment of certain communities is not an exception, it's common practice in Chicago.

This guy got his house burnt down because he call some guy a 'nerd'.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3418 057

Really what the hell has happened to Slashdot over the last few years?

(Now this isn't flamebait, a troll, or off-topic [because the quality of the story is always on-topic]. You may not like what I have to say, but it is heart-felt and contains more truth than you may want to face up to. [Yeah, Truth to Power, that is it.])

Slashdot used to be a good technology related website. "News for Nerds" Now, it is conspiracy theory central.
It is obviously the editors fault. I eagerly await their book review of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
If your grip on reality is that tenuous, go over to Kos to find out how Tillman was OBVIOUSLY killed because he was about to meet Noam Chomsky.

I know, I know. Controversy equals pages hits equals advertising dollars. But at some point you get too out there and drive the punters away. Like I am about to. Save the flamebait stories for the Windows/Linux flamewars.

I had to block the Politics stories because that isn't what I want out of the technology site.
I had to block the Science section because it because Creationist Central (meanwhile the San Diego school system is setting up Muslim prayer rooms and gender separation, but that is OK).
And then, Your Rights On-Line is quickly becoming Politics under a different heading. Yeah, until they put the comma in there it really shouldn't be "Your Rights, ... On-Line". This story barely passed the "subject matter" test, but many other stories in this section fail even that test.
Yeah, I have tried to do my bit by meta-modding things as "unfair" as often as possible. But, the flood of immaturity and politically based mods in overwhelming.
I am really running out of sections that are free of the conspiracy theories, GroupHate, and the Daily Hate (really wish the people screaming about 1984 would have read the book). I think we are down to "Games", "Development", and "AskSlashdot". But at least "Games" and "AskSlashdot" have their own issue, which are currently tolerable but threaten to go off the rails.

Even then some bullshit conspiracy theory like this should have been blocked by the editors. Have we totally infantilized the entire world? If you can't separate one brick in a wall of evidence and circumstantial evidence (versus corroborating evidence) from a Vast Right Wing Consipricy, you need to go back to your parents and ask why they didn't teach you to be an adult. When I was a child I got angry because the telephone didn't give me a pre-paid envelope to pay my bill. As an adult I have a better expectation of how the world works and what it does not owe me. No jury will convict on the basis of an encrypted disk alone. When the IRS comes after you for unpaid taxes, you don't have to tell them where all your records are, but if you don't they have the right to come up with a guess and submit that guess to the jury. Same thing here. The prosecution gets to make a guess as to the contents of the encrypted disk. The jury may or may not buy their guess.
Plus the story itself is long on rant and short on any type of facts. That is OK in a post, but I expect better from the editors. The whole story is a troll.

I guess I'll end this with a question, what sites are out there that are what Slashdot used to be (circa 1998-ish)?

If that guy isn't a Mossad agent, then I don't who is!

Unlikely. The Mossad has real threats to deal with. Even the Israeli Foreign Ministry probably doesn't have a full time Wikipedia lobbyist. This sort of thing is left to the various pro-Israel volunteer organizations.

Amusingly, there's a major PR operation by the Israeli Consulate in New York this month. "Women of the Israel Defense Forces", in Maxim, is officially sponsored by the Israeli Consulate. They did some polling and discovered that Israel's image among young men in the US was terrible. (Something along the line of "old religious nuts with beards".) "Maxim was approached by the Israeli consulate to be a part of reshaping Israel's public image, specifically because of our unmatched mainstream reach to men aged 18 to 35."

ABC is also providing a more in-depth article.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3419315

Although I think something dietary is most likely the solution

... It boggles my mind that someone could not be aware of Hollywood's significant backing of Democratic Candidates... But since you aren't, here is a nice primer story to get you going

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Decision2008/story? id=3381169&page=1

In 2004 Presidential election 70% of the "Tinseltown" donations went to Democratic candidates.

-FL

It could have something to do with how rising temperatures can cause death.

Or it could be related to fears that rising temperatures may cause higher rates of mosquito born illnesses.

There is also evidence pointing to more potent and prevalent poison ivy.

Let's not forget rising rates of asthma, food supply problems, increasing number and severity of natural disasters, mass extinction and global economic collapse.

All of those are related to our health in one way or another--even the extinction of species. Consider it the global equivalent of the canaries in mine shafts.

It could have something to do with how rising temperatures can cause death.

Or it could be related to fears that rising temperatures may cause higher rates of mosquito born illnesses.

There is also evidence pointing to more potent and prevalent poison ivy.

Let's not forget rising rates of asthma, food supply problems, increasing number and severity of natural disasters, mass extinction and global economic collapse.

All of those are related to our health in one way or another--even the extinction of species. Consider it the global equivalent of the canaries in mine shafts.

I will preface this post by saying that I am not attacking you directly. I only want give you links to the information you requested.
1. http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=19 55237&page=1 20/20 story you referenced. In reading the article it looks like your description of the story is misleading. They do not say secondhand smoke is not dangerous, only that there is a group of extremists that take banning smoking way too far.
2. http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.498/pub_det ail.asp You said the anti-smoking lobby does not give details how they confirm people die from smoking. This is response of the American Council on Science and Health to the article "Lies, Damned Lies & 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths" published by the Cato Institute and the National Smokers Alliance. It details how statistical information is gathered and verified.
3. http://www.cato.org/dailys/04-29-99.html You said most people diagnosed of dying of smoking are over age 70. Even according to this is the website for CATO (part of the pro-tobacco lobby) 52% of people diagnosed with dying due to smoking were over 70. So a guess according to the tobacco lobby you are technically correct (if only by a margin of 2%)

I guess that is why we like to see facts and reasoning in posts, even if it does take a couple of minutes to look them up. Anyone can make of the cuff statements about things they heard once upon a time.(Sorry guess that last line was a bit of a personal attack.)

Microsoft has publicly stated that they do not agree to the terms of the GPL v3, will not provide support to Novell customers using software under the GPL v3, and want nothing to do with it. As the License is a contract between the copyright holder and the licensee to distribute said software, Microsoft not agreeing to said terms means Microsoft does not accept them. If a Microsoft employee hands a friend a Red Hat disc, previous to this statement, you might be able to argue that Microsoft is distributing software. However, Microsoft's statement makes it pretty clear that they do not agree to distribute.

Now, if Microsoft or their agents distributes GPL v3 code, have expressly denied agreeing to the GPL v3, they are in copyright violation. They have copied someone else's software without permission, violating their copyright.

This statement is clever, because it means that if someone at Microsoft inadvertently distributes GPL v3 software, prior to this one MIGHT have argued that the implicitly agreed to GPL v3's terms, and attempted to get court order to force Microsoft to comply (and release some code). Now you have to sue them for copyright infringement.

Why is this important? Well, if they distribute software with GPL v3 code, you can probably get an injunction to stop them, you'll be able to sue for damages (although illegally copying software that you are giving away for $0 albeit with copying restrictions seems hard to do... you've been wronged, but damages are probably $0. The USFL sued the NFL and won an anti-trust suit, however, since the USFL's poor business decisions were determined to run them out of business, the award was $1, after appeals and interest added, the USFL Collected $3.76. I presume that a copyright infringement suit against Microsoft would be similar, collect $1, since no monetary damages were awarded.

I am not a lawyer, but this is my game theory read on the case.

But isn't part of the reason why Bill Gates isn't so rich anymore because he's giving his money away? He's given away more money than anyone I can think of.

How much has Carlos Slim given away to help fight AIDS? How much has he given away for education?

It's not how much money you have that's important, but what you do with it and the impact it has on others.

(why can't I help myself?)

The freaking WP editors think it was a boneheaded move:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/07/02/AR2007070201611.html?hpid=opinionsbo x1

25 year diabetic vet doesn't get a lighter sentence for pretty much the same thing as libby:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=33 02407

The entire investigation is by republicans for republicans (yet it's a liberal witch hunt party!)
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_01-2007 _07_07.shtml#1183437010

Dick's fingers are all over this one (eww!)... Justice Department Guidelines? Go F___ yourself!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/07/02/AR2007070202060.html?hpid=topnews

Why are we so quick to label Michael Moore's films as propaganda?

Because more often than not, Moore doesn't think that the facts are strong enough to stand on their own in support of his arguments. He feels a need to show only 1 side of issues, and more disturbingly he's been known to fabricate "facts" to make his points.

Moore's position seems to be that the end justifies the means. It's ok for him to lie & falsify information because at the end of the day he's trying to make a difference "for good". Unfortunately, his tactics aren't any different than the very people he lambasts so he's a hypocrite and his work is propaganda.

When Moore starts creating legitimate documentaries with a more objective point of view and lets the facts speak for themselves, people will stop labeling him a propagandist.

And before someone tries to claim that there's no law explicitly saying you can take photographs in public, it's quite definitely part of the First Amendment; the ability to record what occurs in public is instrumental in ensuring freedom of the press.

We're talking about an economic boon that will last decades. Of course people are going to fight over it. Any (fictional) "oil running out, world in panic" scenario would only make it all the more valuable.

Your argument is like saying, "Well, there's a gigantic diamond buried under the fence between me and my neighbor. I'll just let them have it because diamonds are going to run out anyways."

From a more practical standpoint, Russia is grasping at straws. They went from superpower to "not that impressive except for all the nukes." Their GDP is, what, a bit over a trillion dollars per year compared to our 11 trillion? Yet, they still have the pride of a superpower. Just like how if America fell from the top of the world stage, we'd still see ourselves as deserving that status, they too tend to see this as just a setback. Natural resource exploitation seems a good way to bring in money to their economy that could help resurrect their backwards industrial base. It also has geopolitical significance; "take my side or I shut off the taps" makes a nice threat, even when not spoken.

Of course, the resource you're threatening over better *actually* be a big deal. Let's not forget Sudan's threat to devastate the world by stopping sales of acacia gum. I love the terrifying wording:

What's more, the good and peaceful leaders of Sudan were prepared to retaliate massively: They would cut off shipments of the emulsifier gum arabic, thereby depriving the world of cola.

"I want you to know that the gum arabic which runs all the soft drinks all over the world, including the United States, mainly 80 percent is imported from my country," the ambassador said after raising a bottle of Coca-Cola.

A reporter asked if Sudan was threatening to "stop the export of gum arabic and bring down the Western world."

"I can stop that gum arabic and all of us will have lost this," Khartoum Karl warned anew, beckoning to the Coke bottle. "But I don't want to go that way."

As diplomatic threats go, that one gets high points for creativity: Try to stop the killings in Darfur, and we'll take away your Coca-Cola.

Definitely some Israelis appeared to be rather happy with USA's 9/11:

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=123885

Whether it's just their strange sense of humour or something else. Who knows.

Personally I don't believe the official stories by the US and Israeli Gov.

The "Urban Moving" company sure sounds suspicious to me.

From http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Technology/Story?id=32909 63&page=4

2. Oceanographer: Oceanographers' jobs are "getting harder and harder every year," said Ward. Faced with the predictions that by 2048 seafood will no longer exist, coral reefs will vanish in the next decade and that an ever expanding mass of garbage the size of Texas in the North Pacific has caused irreparable damage to the world's water supply, these scientists are charged not only with protecting the health of the ocean, but also with turning the prognosis around.

"Oceanographers are really tasked with just analyzing sad facts on deoxygenating oceans, increased pollution, whole masses of garbage swirling in the middle of the ocean. What it really is, is a testament to how devoted and loyal a bunch of people they are.

"They're working extremely hard on a very difficult problem, but they also are very optimistic people. They believe that we can turn it around and the ocean is a very dynamic living environment and they feel that with the proper care, we can turn it around, but so far that has not been the case," said Ward.

Sure, "No child left behind" has fucked it up even more, but we can only lay a certain amount of blame on the government.

...in a town where the damages from losing a pair of pants are worth $67 million.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3119381

The ABC News Law & Justice Unit has calculated that for $67 million Pearson could buy 84,115 new pairs of pants at the $800 value he placed on the missing trousers in court documents. If you stacked those pants up, they would be taller than eight Mount Everests. If you laid them side by side, they would stretch for 48 miles.

Here you go.

The *public* *is* willing to do what it takes to cut down the deficit. The problem is that the politicians aren't, and neither are their corporate owners. Witness the internet success of Ron Paul, vs. his hardly mentionable showing in "official" polls of 75 year olds with landlines. His entire campaign is based on respecting the constitution and doing what it takes to deal with the deficit. Yet probably half the people reading this post have never heard of him, and if they have, are they calling their parents and friends to tell them?

The problem isn't that people don't want something different than what they have, it's that they're too lazy or busy to go out and find it, and mainstream media doesn't deliver it to them.

Furthermore, that the average politician won't do something because they think it will cause them to not get reelected is more often because doing that thing would cause non-reelection due to loss of corporate sponsorship than because it would piss off the voters. Especially on an issue like MS pressuring the government to use their code sight unseen, where 99% of constituents won't have even heard about it much less understand it or care about it.

"Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned"

Which is more important for law enforcement to deal with -- copyright infringement or ACTUAL piracy on the high seas? The latter does exist, and was an increasing problem of late, but has subsided somewhat as governments have given it more attention. Should resources be redirected from the Coast Guards and navies of the world to combat copyright infringement instead? How can anybody advocate the claim that copyright infringment is more important for law enforcement to deal with than violent crimes?

Besides the fact the quoted numbers are bogus, this lawyer is an idiot for thinking the relative importance of everything can and should be measured in terms of dollars, and even if it were done, if you did a realistic cost analysis of violent crime, inclusive of its effect on victims and insurance, I'm sure that copyright infringement costs wouldn't look all that impressive anymore.

But, in general, I agree with your shock and horror of picturing a 1500 pound man...

Ah, yes -- a very good point and something I forgot about. The whole reason for that, though, is not the league's policy but can be blamed on one man: Bill Wirtz. As far as I know, no other team in the league has that kind of policy.

For those who don't know, as the owner of the Blackhawks he thinks TV coverage hurts actual game attendance which results in him loosing money. Of course fans hate him for this -- plus he doesn't want his team going to the Stanley Cup Playoffs since they're too expensive, go figure why the fans are angry. ESPN voted his leadership of the team the worst franchise in sports.

It's really a shame for fans like you, between ticket prices, not such a great record, and little TV coverage; it's no wonder you're an "almost former" fan.

Which is silly, because email infrastructure has been around for a long time. SMTP/IMAP/POP works very well. If Blackberry's protocols gave you some advantage over the aforementioned methods (wrt SPAM, or reliability, etc), then Blackberry's way of doing things would be worth moving toward. But in my experience, all you get is one especially vulnerable single point of failure.

My Blackberry crashes frequently, using the standard apps. Total lockup. I end up doing a hard reset every week or two. I might just have a bad handset, but if the value of having email on the road weren't so high (oh, and having said email/voice plan being paid by my company), then I would be looking for another device.

In Blackberry's defense-- love the QWERTY keyboard. Couldn't live without it.

San Jose's attendance this year was 99.6% capacity. (Source)

The typically dead San Jose downtown hops on Sharks nights. Most games are broadcast on HD (at least based on my sampling, I'm a casual fan of hockey and most other "major" sports). Every game is broadcast on a powerful FM classic rock station by a respected and knowledgeable announcer, Dan Rusinowski.

No, most of the San Jose and presumably other California fan base are not as grounded in hockey as in Canada orthe Northeast. So what?

While many of the players typically seem to be pretty cool guys, hardcore fans who grew up with hockey have this bigoted attitude that others shouldn't watch or enjoy the game.

The whole fighting thing is a red herring. I don't think it really plays into whether someone enjoys the sport on an ongoing basis. On the other hand, I do like that the red line was removed from the 2 line pass. The tempo is much smoother as I see it.

ESPN's article headline....
Game 3 equals NBC's lowest rating ever for prime-time program
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/playoffs2007/news/st ory?id=2894490
The NHL is on life support. They have no choice but to get as many people to watch as possible. If this was the NFL it would be news, but the NHL is so desperate to get laid it will go to bed with anything.

You're the one who's ignorant! That or you are an evil-doer. Anything involving pipes or series of tubes is evil. Period. Haven't you been reading your bible? Not trusting the federal government is terror thoughts. The Iraqies are terror-pipe people, that's why we've had to kill 712,000 of them. Terror-pipe people hate us for our freedom. And we hate them for their terror pipes. These people will mastermind terror-pipe-plots and terror-pipe-bombings if we don't bring their war to them. They have terror-pipe weapons of mass-terror-pipe!

I've seen Pluto, touched him too, down at The Magic Kingdom

http://disney.go.com/characters/mickey/html/meet/p luto.html
Disney.com

China and India pollute substantially less per person than any EU country or the US.

So? They're growing at a much, much faster rate. And the statement you chose - that it would be like saying, "We got to industrialization first, so we're the only ones who get to benefit! Oh and you have to clean up just as much as us even though we've made a bigger mess," - is telling, but it's actually the opposite of that: it's more like, "We got to industrialization, but we'll allow other developing economies to artificially pollute much more, leaving Western economies at an even greater disadvantage than they are now when competing."

One day, when India and China are serious polluters they will curb emissions.

Oh, they will? Really? Who's going to make China curb emissions? And China has plenty of problems now.

So yeah, it's not "fair" if China, especially considering the force it is already, isn't held to any standards at all; or, rather, would you find it surprising that there are other factors to consider in the US not simply wanting to happily allow a severe competitive disadvantage, and frames the discussions based on that? This isn't a "Republican" issue or a matter of "misuse" of scientific data. It's an issue of pure economics. Might it be treated more gingerly by more liberal politicians? Sure. But it wouldn't be a lot more than lip service, because no matter who is in office, the economic and other threats from China in particular are very real, and emissions are but small part of that equation.

Yes, it is just a game, but it is a game with federal anti-trust exemption - http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/2001/1205/1290707.html - which subjects it to congressional oversight.

Now that would be an interesting level of reality to add to EvE.

Seriously, since EvE seems to be a game about corporations / corporate machinations / laissez-faire capitalism, wouldn't class-action suits, pork barrel legislation, graft, bribes, theft, fraud, prosecutions, fines, jail time, etc, etc, be just as much a part of the game as anything else? After all, they're part of the RL corporate landscape, aren't they?

While I personally wouldn't want to play a game like that, I can easily imagine people who would.

Now to move on to your comments about Tayssir Alouni, I have one question to ask, what was he convicted of? The answer is collaborating with terrorists. In short he was accused and found guilty of having contact with suspected terrorists and links to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Wouldn't you expect a journalist who was working in Afghanistan, covering a war between the Taliban and the US/UK to have contacts with people like the Taliban?

Umm, no. Admittedly, if you read through all the statements by al Jazeera and various "Arab Human Rights" commissions (wonder how they feel about rights for homosexuals, or women, or athiests?), you get that impression.

But what he was actually convicted of is being a financial courier for al-Qaida and helping al-Qaida members infiltrate Spain. Incidentally, bin Laden has put 'getting back' Spain up there along with getting back 'Palestine'

http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week- of-Mon-20050926/024363.html
Alluni, who began his career as an Arabic translator for a news agency in Granada, Spain, is credited as being the only journalist based in Afghanistan in October 2001 to show the world what the US war machine was doing to one of the world's poorest countries.

By then working for Aljazeera, Alluni was able to capture images of civilian victims in the destitute villages of Afghanistan and the miserable streets of Kabul. His coverage triggered international outrage over the US action in Afghanistan.

Yeah, sounds unbiased to me.

More info here
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129407&page=1

The indictment details his travels and wiretapped phone conversations in which Alouni allegedly agrees to carry money and messages to al Qaeda operatives planning the Sept. 11 attacks. It also charges that Alouni later used his job at al Jazeera while based in Afghanistan to make it easier for him to pass money to al Qaeda members.

Alouni also helped Mohammed Bahaiah, also known as Abu Khaled and a member of al Qaeda, get permanent residency in Spain, the indictment maintains. Bahaiah attended al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, but also stayed with both Yarkas in Madrid and Alouni in Granada. Alouni also allowed Bahaiah to use his mailing address on his immigration forms.

Finally, the indictment says that when Alouni started working for al Jazeera in Afghanistan in January, 2000, he brought money from Yarkas to Bahaiah, who was at the training camps.

So he couriered money to people in terrorist training camps and sponsored several terrorists when then applied to enter Spain. All the stuff about his contacts being just about his job from his al Jazeera colleagues makes me think that they are equally implicated.

As for Al-Jazeera having "rabidly anti liberal politics", I would suggest you look at their website and find an example of this, they seem happy to report on gay rights issues in Russia and highlight the plight of Afghan women, none of which would seem to fit into the anti-liberal view you are crediting them with.

I see they have "Mecca time" on the first page of their website. If you're a Muslim, you don't believe in gay or women's rights. Period. Try reading up on it. And reporting on a bunch of gay rights protesters getting beaten up by people who claim 'Moscow is not Sodom' doesn't tell you which side the reporter or the readers sympathize with.

Come to think of it, notice the Sodom reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah#Is lamic_view

The story of Sodom is used by Muslims as an example of how homosexuality is condemned by Allah.

...once you get a reasonably broad number of people using reasonably known services for legitimate video. Even if you throw in the latest Linux distro, WoW patches and whatnot it's not exactly a massive amount of mainstream media. Your complaints will land on deaf ears. Once people start complaining that they can't watch full episodes from ABC and similar services, the tone will be different. "ABC, you say... you mean I can watch the latest episode of Lost online, but the ISP is throttling me?" You'll get a helluva lot more people who'd a) understand WTF you're talking abou, b) would like to do it themselves and c) can unite around.

Besides, I'd think the P2P hogs should have pushed the envelope far enough that they can't really stop people starting to use these services a little - and that's what they're concerned about anyway, the masses moving. That guy who wants to watch IPTV 24/7 is more of the exception.

They will be donated to City Harvest, a New York-based program that takes excess food and distributes it to community food programs for the poor, according to Phil Gonzales, a CBS spokesman. Some of the nuts are also on their way to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan through the Staten Island Homefront Project.

You can for the 'nominal' fee is $6.95:
http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/dvdsupport/faq.h tml#common0

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

Please mail in your damaged DVD (along with DVD case and full packaging), a Check or Money order for $6.95 (made payable to WDHE), along with your Contact Information (Name, Address, and Phone Number) to:

Replacement Program
PO Box 3100
Neenah, WI 54957-3100.

Apparently you missed the memo about the Oil companies actually taking pains to HIDE THEIR PROFITS because companies like Exxon made BILLIONS in *profit* not sales, profit. From the linked article : "When the FEO completes its investigation, he says, a "substantial percentage" of the nation's ten or so largest oil firms likely will be socked for at least $150 million in refunds to the public--assuming, of course, that his suspicions are correct and can be proved."
  They knew the people would be pissed because they would know they'd been had, so they announced their quarterly and yearly profits quietly.
Apparently other people think there might be some issues with their profits.

A.A

Absolutely!

If you get caught smoking pot or drinking under age.

Then sex with a minor (even if you're one too): 17 yr old sex with 15 yr old - 10 years

And downloading a song. Why you should die! Put to death! Because the law is the law and laws are just and true! Why, all of the lobbyists in Washington just want what's best for us and so do our legislators.

And if it's illegal then that means it's EVIL and must be banned because our politicians are infallible! It's inconceivable that they would even make a mistake and violate our liberties. Why, if you disagree with the law, you're unAmerican and HATE freedom!

disney is a country too... http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/dcl/en_US/ports/ islandTour?name=CastawayCayIslandTourPage