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More plainly, there's such an abundance of things we don't know that a mere strongly-worded assertion about any one of them can set off the kooks, and the increasingly kook-friendly media. (Mumble mumble Fox mumble.)

I don't think fox is any worse than any of the other channels when it comes to this. They are kook friendly because kook friendly = ratings. It's like the history channel, you wouldn't say that the history channel is Hitler friendly because they run so many WW2 shows. It's just that WW2 is what history channel viewers like to watch.

I don't believe government employees are not any more fanatical about keeping secrets than ordinary employees, though on some levels they are much more indoctrinated.

I would bet they are. Just for the simple fact that they want to keep their clearance never mind other motavating factors. Loyalty to their country comes to mind.

But still, the thing about Area 51 rumors that have always bugged me is the number of people who would have to be "in" on it, and not talk. And in these days of near-instant communication, it gets a lot harder to prevent leaks.

I doubt there are little green men running around in there. It would be hard to keep something like that quiet. It's probably an advanced air force research facility like other people have suggested. Keeping that quiet isn't too hard, you just tell your employees it's for national security. I think people could shut up about the Aurora and it's no big deal. If (Darth Vader, ET, Alf, whichever Alien) were in there, someone would leak it.

But the thing that bugs me about Area 51 the most is that the culture of secrecy that some sectors of the government enjoy makes possible a rich environment for spurious stories to flourish.

I think the government officials have come to the point where the enjoy doing this to the kooks. Look at the whole planet X thing. There was some kind of internet cult that spammed the newsgroup sci.astronomy for a long time that "Planet X/Nibiru" was returning on May 15 2003 to (bring peace, kill everyone, balance my checkbook, whatever else). They contended that there was one world government that was conspiring not to tell the people they were all going to die. Someone in the military obviously caught wind of the kooks, and to drive them batty named one of their operations in Iraq "Operation Planet X" and launched it on may 15 2003. I think the government likes playing with these people, it's got to be fun to mess with their heads.

Much worse, to me, than the stories is the secrecy itself, especially since it's alegedly *our* government that's so tightlipped about so much, and Bush and company have made it a lot worse.

That is just kookery in my opinion. I doubt there is that many secrets going around, except in the military where there is a need for them. I really don't think George Bush is holding satanic rituals underground with his nazi armys and the illuminati planning to take over the world and enslave humanity when ET lands. I guess I could be wrong.

So I almost want to wish the conspiracy mongers well on their propaganda efforts -- anything that causes the public to distrust that air of secrecy, and the actions of spooky secret people supposedly in their interest, for there is no force on Earth so horrifying as that of people willing to do wrong things for what they think are right reasons,

Do you really think the US government is doing "the wrong things". What exactly do you think they are doing in secret that is so bad for the general population of the US?

things like that that work towards increasing that distrust are somewhat positive in my book.

Do you think there are some things you should trust a government to keep secret (ie, new weapons of mass destruction) so they don't fall into the wrong hands?

'War on Terror' != 'Invasion of Iraq'.

Wrong. The invasion of Iraq is an integral part of the war on terror.

There are no links between September 11 and Iraq.

Of course there are.

1. September 11 was perpetrated by a group of fanatics who call themselves al-Qaida (the foundation). Al-Qaida isn't a nation, it's not a religion. It's more like a political party, albeit one with guns and bombs.

2. In order to capture or kill the members of al-Qaida, we went to war in Afghanistan in late 2001.

3. In late November or early December of 2001, some refugees from al-Qaida fled Afghanistan and went to northern Iraq. There they joined up with members of an organization called Jund al-Islam (soldiers of Islam) to form a new group, Ansar al-Islam (supporters of Islam). Ansar al-Islam was very closely tied to al-Qaida. In some ways, it was a splinter group. In some ways, it was an ally. In some ways, Ansar al-Islam and al-Qaida were two names for the same group.

4. Jund al-Islam had been strictly a Kurdish group. They'd had loose ties with Baghdad, but nothing formal. After they merged with al-Qaida to form Ansar al-Islam, they established very close ties with Baghdad. A guy named Abu Wa'el, one of the leaders of Ansar al-Islam, was on the payroll of Iraqi Military Intelligence and served as the liaison between Baghdad, Ansar al-Islam, and other al-Qaida remnants in central Asia.

5. Among the members of al-Qaida who formed Ansar al-Islam is a real sweet guy named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He was a close associate of Osama bin Laden throughout the 1990's and the early 2000's. He fled Afghanistan in late 2001 and set up shop in Iraq along with the other al-Qaida refugees. In the summer of 2002 he underwent surgery in Baghdad, in one of Saddam's hospitals. (It was once thought he had a leg amputated. Records uncovered during the invasion of Iraq show that that's not true. The nature of Zarqawi's surgery remains uncertain, but his presence in a Baghdad hospital in the summer of 2002 is certain.)

6. In late 2002, with war looming, Zarqawi started establishing cells in Baghdad in preparation for what he expected would be extensive urban fighting. He acquired weapons from Saddam's army during this time, including (evidently) chemical artillery shells. Fortunately for us he doesn't have an artillery piece with which to launch them, and setting them as roadside explosives isn't an effective way to use them.

7. But wait, there's more, just for the heck of it. Saddam's ties to terrorism went beyond al-Qaida and Ansar al-Islam. He provided safe harbor for Abu Nidal, the terrorist behind numerous attacks on the West during the 80's. (Abu Nidal, incidentally, was found dead in his home in Baghdad in 2002. The official cause of death according to the Iraqi government was four self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head and chest.) Saddam also funded terrorist operations in Israel. His support for terrorism wasn't limited to one group or faction.

Now, let me summarize this. The Taliban provided aid and safe harbor to terrorists calling themselves al-Qaida, so we destroyed that regime. Saddam's regime provided aid and safe harbor to some of the same men calling themselves Ansar al-Islam, so we destroyed that regime.

Tell me again how the invasion of Iraq isn't related to the war on terror?

(Sources: The Christian Science Monitor and ABC News. More sources are readily available. Google 'em up.)

A lot of companies promise to never sell or otherwise transfer your details to a third party, and then do so anyways. Remember the Toysmart case? They're one of the few that got caught.

there have never been more SUVs on the road as there are now.

And "high" gas prices have already caused a fall in SUV sales.
From this article:

Last month, sales of the largest and least fuel-efficient SUVs dropped, according to auto sales tracker Autodata. The largest SUVs, including the Ford Expedition, were off 33.6 percent and Chevrolet Suburban sales were down 20.7 percent. It was the first time that gasoline prices have hurt SUV sales. Automakers are now rushing to build more fuel-efficient SUVs -- hybrid, gas-electric vehicles.

But even more interesting;

According to the EPA the average miles per gallon is now just over 20, down from a high of 22.1 in the late 1980s.

He's also annoyed that Michael Moore is playing off his title:

"He can't have my title," said Bradbury. "We've got an important film coming out, the book's having its 50th anniversary in October. If he wants his movie to be an homage to me, why not title it, 'Bradbury, where the hell are you now that we need you?'"

OK, I haven't seen anyone mention it so I will. Shatner's current role on The Practice (it'll be called Fleet Street next season) is hilarious. He's the head partner at a large law firm but he is suffering from mild case of alzheimers. For those who have not seen it he is fabulous. I laugh for minutes at a time because whenever he starts a meeting and he can't remember what the meeting is about he simply states his name "DENNY CRANE!" with supreme authority. I would hate to see him leave the new series for the current Trek series. Of course if it was to replace Bacula I would be 200% for it.

When the story broke about the bomb going off that was hooked up to a sarin gas shell (Sarin is a nerve agent, a weapon of mass destruction), for that day and the next, you could find no news story on CNN.com about it. Not one. It was covered on FOX News and MSNBC's websites. Nothing on cnn.com. On the third day, I did manage to find an article that was discussing something else about the war, and at the bottom it mentioned the sarin bomb found.

I have seen several stories about WMD being found in Iraq since the war began (or ended if you like sticking your head in the ground)and so far not one has turned out to be actual WMD. Still these stories played prominantly on the 24 hour news cycle. Invariably, several days later, the true identitiy of the "WMD" is found and oubviously not as widely publicized, especially on fox. Ever since the WMD mobile lab with canvas sides (that sounds like a sterile environment) which was paraded around as "proof" of WMD, I have taken every such story with a large grain of salt. Especially when it comes from fox. WOLF!

I can't say for sure that this "sarin" is not real, but I can say that so far 100% of the WMD news stories have been fabrications by either the government or the "news" media.

founded on ideals of the American family backbone

ENDURANCE - Gamers are known to 10-12 hours without going to the bathroom. That takes a bladder of steel. Score: 2

STRENGTH - Hefting that PC to the LAN party: 0.5

POWER - Clicking a mouse repeatedly requires strength of a ten-year old. Score: 0

SPEED- Players sit in one position, motionless, often for hours or days at a time. Score: 0

AGILITY - Uhhhh...right. Score: 0

FLEXIBILITY - Gimme another score: 0

NERVE - Chances of being fragged at least during a typical FPS game: 100%. Courage required to face those odds: 0.

DURABILITY - Back strain, stressed bladder, possible carpal tunnel syndrome after several years. Score: 1

HAND-EYE COORDINATION - Studies have shown that playing hours of games will improve this skill. However, lining up a crosshair with your mouse is not the same as hitting a 95mph curveball. Score: 3.5

ANALYTIC APTITUDE - Ok, I think it is fair to say that this deserves a high score. Let's say 7.5

GRAND TOTAL: 14.5
RANKING: A tie with Fishing! Woo!

Something like this?

Wow...I had no idea Marc Fleury was into open source development!

The Answer for the NBA is H-O-R-S-E, Of Course.

In high school I lived the next town over from Tom Gordon. Tom (Flash) Gordon is still in the big leagues. Here's his bio. He threw a perfect game of strikeouts against our high school. Folks were bragging about even fouling a ball off on him! It was amazing to see someone that young throw like that.

From Tim Keown of ESPN: When high-brow attempts middle-brow, hilarity ensues: As just part of what you can learn by reading the sports stories in The New Yorker, there's this description of a knuckleball from Robert K. Adair, professor emeritus at Yale and the author of "The Physics of Baseball" -- "To understand how a knuckleball works, it helps to have a basic familiarity with Bernoulli's principle, the Magnus effect, and the Prandtl boundary-layer theory, for a start."

I love coffee. I especially love this one Latin brand I buy, but to add something relevent to the discussion:

Awhile back there was an article that explained an Italian researchers findings: That coffee could actually be good for you, perhaps even better than green tea. Some benefits are that coffee could prevent diabetes and regulate blood sugar, which is a plus considering my great grandmother had diabetes. Coffee may actually help children too, it's antioxidants and natural caffiene could potentially reduce the risk of some diseases, help them in school, and even prevent depression. Probably the most important of it's benefits is that it could prevent some types of cancer and degenerative brain diseases, two big killers in the US. that it could also

Coffee's no longer as dangerous as it used to be now, huh? I've heard everything about coffee: It makes you MORE tired, it stunts a childs growth, it makes men impotent, even that it could CAUSE some types of cancer. FUD.

-Xeon

I'd like to point out to whoever modded parent "insightful," that he's actually a troll.

Well, first of all, no, that hasn't been shown, by anybody. And secondly, the leftover stockpiles from Iran-Iraq are precisely what Saddam was accused of hiding.

Which, with Iraq's shelf-life problem of the time would have been mostly harmless goo by the end of the 80's, let alone by 2003.

The truth is Pres. Bush said Saddam had tried to buy uraniam from Niger.. AFTER being told it was NOT true

Except it was true. Again with the googling.

Again, you're a troll.

Your so-called Czech connection consists of one of the hijackers maybe metting ONCE with an Iraqi Miliary Intelligence officer in April 2001 according to an unverified Czech report by a resturant entrepreneur.

The Ansar al-Islam - Al Qaida connection may or may not be real, but it doesn't matter as links between the ultra religious sect and the militantly athiest Saddam Hussein remain circumstancial and second hand.

As for the documentary evidence... What documentary evidence? Do you mean this?

Google it. We ain't your momma.

You know, I've got a ton of information which is all true and totally proves my point. Saddam was actually working with Bush to cement Bush's presidency and get Saddam out of the country before the rebellion. The fact that you can't find any of my sources just proves that you're ugly.

Apparently, many of the dairy producers cut their supply recently. Some say that it is because when dairy supply was too high recently, they killed off their livestock because the meat was worth more than the milk. Others say it was calculated by the larger farmers to jack up the price.

Not true about ESPN, it works fine if you set your user agent string to MSIE6.0 (File->quick preferences), if you tell the site you're using Opera it renders differently. Go to the MLB scoreboard and see the difference.

In 2003, ESPN.com was redesigned to be web standards-compliant. It rendered perfectly on browsers other than IE. Now they've ditched clean code and returned to the stone age.

I remember a friend complaining that he was forced to rewrite his company's website in non-compliant MSHTML after Microsoft acquired a sizeable stake in his firm. The end result was a crappy, non-scaling site that would break browsers other than IE. Wonder if Microsoft had something to do with ESPN's downfall? [note how espn.com redirects to msn.espn.go.com].

Arkin said this week at the International Biotech Summit at the University of California at Berkeley that it was almost too easy for him and his colleagues (Schaffer and then-grad student Leor Weinberger) to build the anti-HIV virus.

What is a Virus? How does it work?

A virus is a protein sheath (called a capsid) covering genetic information. The protein sheath varies in size and shape, the most famous being the T4 Bacteriophage (picture [sc.edu] on the bar on the left). Simply put, the genetic information can be in the form of RNA or DNA. The virus latches onto a host cell and injects its genetic material through the plasma membrane.

Viruses all have different strategies at this point, depending on their structure and target cells.

The most insidious, the retroviruses (of HIV fame), incorporate their genome into the host cell's. When the host cell copies its own DNA, in the process of normal cell division, it copies the code for the virus. Each daughter cell resulting from this mitotic division carries the virus latent in its own DNA. They now, in their normal life cycle, become factories for the retrovirus, pumping out more and more protein encased genetic sequences. Propagation is very thorough.

A simpler virus might only borrow the mechanisms of the cell to replicate itself. The virus would use DNA polymerases and associated enzymes to copy the genome for the viral offspring and RNA polymerase to transcribe mRNA molecules to translate to proteins for the viral capsid. The baby virii are then assembled (the DNA wrapped in the protective capsid) and they exit the cell. Sometimes this results in the death of the cell, other times it does not. The virus doesn't much care whether the cell survives once it has been copied.

This is the basic principle this virus works by.

From the Disney website:

If you accidentally damage or break one of your Disney DVDs, you can get a replacement disc for a nominal charge of $10. Please call (800) 723-4763 for details.

Not free, but better than nothing!

http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/hitchblog/blog.ht m Should get you where you want to be. Not that there's much up at the moment, and you'll need JavaScript, but hey . . . ;)

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Yes it's a crappy website, which is a bad start for what could be the biggest movie in the coming years. Nevertheless, click here to skip the Flash intro and read the blog.

In the movie industry, the pattern these days seems to be for the big "blockbuster" products to be delivered on-time.

Oh, I don't know. doing a quick google "delayed movie releases" search turns up that the release of Blade was delayed. Against the Ropes (that Meg Ryan movie) was delayed quite a while before it was released. Apparently the new Miyazaki film is going to be delayed. Sky Captain is being delayed. And here's a whole list of films from 1999 that had their release schedules changed (with a number of them including "behind schedule" in the reason).

So, its a bit unfair to criticize the game industry for being amateurish, while denying it happens in the movie industry. Perhaps all of the Lord of the Rings films were released on schedule, but a quick search for a recent semi-blockbuster, Kill Bill 2, shows that it was initially scheduled to be released in February and was pushed back to April.

To skip the rather unnecessary Flash intro, go here

Because of all the TV shows making fun of americans:
An American In Canada
talking to americans talking to americans talking to americans

Now, if you live in the so-called democracy called USA, that may be different

No, its not.

I wonder how many of Kerry's speeches have been broadcast live:

• "he's asked at a New Hampshire rally what he's done to reduce the dependency on oil. Says Kerry, 'I sold my gas guzzler and got a van and downgraded, that's what I did personally, in my own life. Also got an economical car in Washington and so forth so that I was trying to live up to that standard."
• One month later in Michigan: "I own a Dodge 600 that I've had for about 20 years; I own a Chrysler 300M; we have a Chrysler van, a minivan; a Chrysler PT Cruiser (I guess Chrysler is making out here); a Suburban Chevy -- big Suburban -- and she has a Land Rover Defender."
• Earth Day: ""I don't own an SUV," Jean told reporters on Earth Day. John then backtracked, sort of, when asked if Teresa Heinz Kerry owns a Chevy Suburban. "The family has it," John said. "I don't have it." (Does Teresa's private jet count as an SUV?)

Or, John Kerry saying he threw away his Vietnam medals. I don't know if the TV station broadcast it live: Kerry was asked if he gave back the Bronze Star, Silver Star and three Purple Hearts he was awarded for combat duty as a Navy lieutenant in Vietnam. "Well, and above that, [I] gave back the others," he said.

Yeah we all know that nuclear power plant security is infallible. But wait maybe its not. But I'm sure they will find this stuff or maybe not.
And then there is always this to worry about.

But they weren't because, I assume, they didn't actually expect someone to attack the USA.

They didn't investigate suspicious Arabs attending US flight schools (disinterested in learning how to LAND) because of lack of foresight. It's easy for us to look back with 20/20 vision and say "they shoulda". But at the time, it simply was barely a suspicion. No one expected Arab terrorists to train to fly jet liners IN THE UNITED STATES to be used as guided suicide missiles. Simply wasn't on the radar.

The FBI is now, as this story about the University of Texas tunnels illustrates, a bit more proactive...

From ABC News:

W A S H I N G T O N, May 3 -- Two months before the suicide hijackings, an FBI agent in Arizona alerted Washington headquarters that several Middle Easterners were training at a U.S. aviation school and recommended contacting other schools nationwide where Arabs might be studying, law enforcement officials said.

The FBI sent the intelligence to its terrorism experts in Washington and New York for analysis and had begun discussing conducting a nationwide canvass of flight schools when the Sept. 11 tragedies occurred, officials told The Associated Press.

ABCNEWS reported on the intelligence last February.

At least one leader of the 19 hijackers, Hani Hanjour, received flight training in Arizona in 2001 but his name had not surfaced in the FBI intelligence from Arizona, the officials said.

None of the Middle Eastern men identified by the Arizona counterterrorism agents or any information contained in their July 2001 memo pointed to the suicide plot that leveled the World Trade Center and killed thousands in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, officials said.

"None of the people identified by Phoenix are connected to the Sept. 11 attacks," FBI Assistant Director John Collingwood said Thursday night.

"The Phoenix communication went to appropriate operational agents and analysts but it did not lead to uncovering the impending attacks," Collingwood said.

Officials said FBI counterterrorism agents in Phoenix had "suspicions" about why several Arab men were seeking airport operations, security information and pilot training and recommended, among other things, that the FBI begin alerting local agents when Middle Easterners sought visas for training at local aeronautical schools, officials said.

The FBI's concerns about the U.S. flight schools is the latest revelation about information, much of it sketchy, that the government possessed before Sept. 11 concerning the possibility of terrorism in the skies. For example:

AP reported last month that Filipino authorities alerted the FBI as early as 1995 that several Middle Eastern pilots were training at American flight schools and at least one had proposed hijacking a commercial jet and crashing it into federal buildings.

A month after the 2001 memo from Arizona to FBI headquarters, FBI agents in Minnesota arrested a French citizen of Moroccan descent, Zacarias Moussaoui, after a flight school instructor became suspicious of his desire to learn to fly a commercial jet.

Moussaoui has since emerged as the single most important defendant in the post-Sept. 11 terrorism investigation, charged with conspiring with the hijackers and Osama bin Laden to kill thousands of Americans. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

About the same time as the Phoenix memo and Moussaoui's arrest, U.S. intelligence issued a late summer warning that there was heightened risk of a terrorist attack on Americans, possibly even on U.S. soil, officials have said.

Law enforcement officials said in retrospect the FBI believes it should have accelerated the suggested check of U.S. flight schools after Moussaoui's arrest but does not believe it would have led to the hijackers.

-- The Associated Press

Just FYI, you can find a transcript of the local news station's (WPVI's), report here. WPVI even takes credit for informing the local police. If anything, what WPVI did was abuse of journalism, IMO. They in effect created their own story, and effected the operation of a large ISP as a result.

Imagine my surprise tonight...I take my girlfriend to dinner @ Applebees in Wenatchee, WA, go back to her place in East Wenatchee, WA, spend some good quality time with her and come home, fire up /. and lo and behold my hometown is in the news....heh heh heh....it's a small world after all ;)

Try and find a big commercial web site that doesn't use tables for their layout. You won't find one.

ESPN

The ESPN site has two tables, which I'm fairly certain were placed there after the redesign, most probably by programmers and publicists. They're not part of the core layout.

There's a whole new movement out there. It's a big community, and more people are getting into it every day. Sweeping, cocksure generalizations like yours are usually wrong, because of the fact that they're sweeping and cocksure generalizations.

CSS is not a magic bullet but it's also not the nightmarish unsupported w3c bastard child that many people on this thread are making it out to be. Frankly, I think most people are just a bit lazy and don't want to spend the time learning to use it properly.

Let's see if Bill Gates will make a matching donation to charity, just like his billionaire pal Mark Cuban does.

"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse."

It's no coincidence that this research is happening in the UK; they have a much more research-friendly policy.

Fetal stem cell research is almost irrelevant. The Australians have extracted stem cells from baby teeth. It gives new meaning to why the tooth fairy leaves money. Then there is the process for extracting stem cells from body fat. Stem cell research does not need to be used as a reason for killing off unwanted pregnancies. Fetus's are not the only source of stem cells, they are just one of the first sources discovered.

The first link google shows says the public is in favor of the research by 58% to 30%, with 10% undecided.

It's actually intereting -- given Verizon's victories, why would Comcast play DMCA ball for MGM?

Could it have anything to do with Comcast's (recently abandoned) bid for Disney? And Disney-MGM Studios?

Playing megamedia connect-the-dots is fun!

The contributions of foreign students have been crucial to U.S. science in recent decades. Nearly one-third of all American Nobel Prize winners have been foreign-born and immigrants make up nearly 40 percent of the engineering faculty members in the United States.

I don't think this is because they are "smarter", but more because they have more to loose, you either "make it, or break it".

And I can perfectly understand why some foreign students are going elsewhere, if you are coming from a (often poor and underdeveloped) country with a history of oppression, going to USA just so they can treat you as a criminal by taking fingerprints looks less attractive.

Seriously folks, has anyone seen the Prime Time show that aired on ABC this past Thursday? It was disgusting. I wouldn't want to employ these people.

The type of game makes a difference as well. "Doom 3," "Half-Life 2," and "Halo 2" are three of the most anticipated upcoming games among Western audiences.

Last I checked, there are no Doom, Half-Life, or Halo movies or athelete tie-ins. And John Madden is way retired.

Er...what? First off, John Madden is still active in football.

Secondly, wtf does no movie or athlete tie-ins have to do with D3, HL2 or H2? The paragraph begins "The type of game makes a difference as well."

Use of the term "as well" seems to imply that this is an additional bit of information, not further support of the previous assertion.

I realize how badly you want to rant about Western bias, but working out the kinks in your reading comprehension skills first would make you more credible.

Canada: where gay hockey players are more lethal than the military.

When you go to the ESPN's NBA home page, you get a McDonald's ad for a few seconds, then it reverts to the typical ESPN banner. This is a clever way of getting around things like AdBlock (whether that was the intent or not). Now I can either deal with the few seconds of advertising, or have a glaring white space on the page because I've blocked the entire flash element. Or not go there at all and finish my work...

vapid teeny-bopper soap operas (Smallville anyone?)

Smallville and its spinoffs should be the the least of your worries. Try being CSI'd (Straight CSI or the Miami version) or Law and Order'd (comes in regular, Criminal Intent, and Special Victims Unit grades) to death.

Whoops, caught in the hype, I will watch all of those shows.

Can we classify Kingdom Hospital as science fiction?

0-60 in 3 seconds. Reminds me of the Aerosmith Rockin Roller Coaster at Disney World. It knocks the wind out of ya'.. I don't see how the driver of this car could hold onto the controls while accelerating like that.

>These devices can be used by citizens or law enforcement officials without need for warrant or even probable cause.

Not so.

"The Supreme Court today, in Kyllo vs. U.S., ruled that authorities scanning a home with an infrared camera without a warrant constituted an unreasonable search barred by the Fourth Amendment."

You may be interested in these:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?obje ctid=12164609&method=full&siteid=50143

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/c hipimplant020225.html

Be wary of Warwick - he's an idiot but it is happening.

There isn't conclusive proof that this rate will stay the same, and us ADD people aren't convinced with the correlation == causality argument. That is, the mere fact that the Earth's temperature is rising in tandem with our CO2 emissions doesn't prove that our CO2 emissions our causing the rise of the Earth's temperature. Furthermore, the fact that Mars has global warming as well strengthens the case for increased solar activity being responsible for our rising temperature.

Shatner also has a guest role on The Practice . He plays plays a pompus ass of a lawyer. He is perfect for the part!