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Bankers own the earth; take it away from them but leave them the power to create credit & with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it all back again. Take this power away from them & all great fortunes like mine will disappear, & they ought to disappear for this would be a happier & better world. But if you want to be slaves of bankers & pay the cost of your own slavery, continue to let bankers control money and credit.

- Lord Stamp, former Director of the Bank of England, 1940

Here's a link for 'The Moneymasters', it's an interesting watch--if a little 80's/90's

This is an area where there are some interesting conspiracy theories, however central banks and currency are complicated subjects so it's worth keeping a cool head and trying to remain objective.

This is a subject not many understand, myself included, so I remain very skeptical that the information put forth by books like The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve and films like The Money Masters is correct. What we can all take from these are some interesting questions to ask bankers and economists, it would be interesting to find out how the banking systems of the world actually work, unfortunately--judging by the Amazon reviews someone else posted--it looks like this book is not a good place to find this out.

great documentary

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=money+banking+and+the+federal+reserve&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Nice, but largely a marketing plot. Catenary voltage was increased to 31 kV from the standard 25 kV. The mechanical tension in the wire was increased to 40 kN from the standard 25 kN as you can read here. You won't see that on production trains. The "sweet" spot for conventional trains is at 400km/h. Above that the air drag and wheel-track-resistance is too costly. Maglev is pretty much frictionless. It can hold a sustained speed over 450km.

In addition, german Maglev technology is rather dangerous; an accident 1 year ago on a demonstration line killed 23 people, this accident was caused by inadequate (by design) signalling system. This is particularly concerning because the first role of railroad signalling is to indicate that the track is free from obstructions ahead so the train may proceed.

The maglev didn't collide with another maglev trainset, but with a conventional wheel-based cleansing train (sadly, this was not considered in the safety concept. Now it is.). A Transrapid maglev still can't collide with another Transrapid out of principal of the electrical propellation.

Your criticism of the Transrapid sounds half-informed. This train has rather different problems like high-cost, incompatibility with existing systems and so on. It is however not a dead-end technology.

In addition, german Maglev technology is rather dangerous; an accident 1 year ago on a demonstration line killed 23 people, this accident was caused by inadequate (by design) signalling system. This is particularly concerning because the first role of railroad signalling is to indicate that the track is free from obstructions ahead so the train may proceed.

By contrast, not a single passenger has been killed in TGV, despite several derailments at high-speed during 26 years of service in Europe.

The word you're looking for is hanged.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=CAD

Yeah, Canadian dollar is nearly equal to the USD at the moment.

Basically The Treaty mentioned gives Earth Governments total power and control over the entire Universe!

It's a ridiculous and worthless piece of paper written by arrogant power hungry and greedy humans who have the gumption to think that they have sovereign power and control who can go where and when and with whom. Then they tell everyone that they are "free" and we buy it.

Do as the fictional Astronaut Farmer did, ignore them. He tried it there way and they just tried to protect their interest of control over power and freedom of movement. Then he just went.

Ignore the Treaty, it's worthless. Go to the moon. Do it now. Go to Mars. Do it now.

What will they do? Shoot you down after you launch? There's a good chance of that, but, na, the worst they'll try to do is give you a ticket or want you to slap their silly NASA logo onto YOUR ship. Meanwhile the rest of the world will be cheering you all the way.

Freedom. True Freedom is freedom from the control of others. True Freedom and Power. Of course, with power comes responsibility... as Ben Parker says... and which current world governments and those with power fail to heed.

Do we really want our Sol Solar System run and controlled by the likes of those in power (pick any country in the world)? Not on your life. Most governments on Earth are anti-peace through their actions of killing people via their state sponsored terrorism.

"Even the most vile serial killers have nothing on the deadliest organizations on Earth - governments that encourage war and genocide." - Elliott Leyton.

See the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's excellent two part documentary series "The Man Who Studies Murder", part two is on State sponsored Murder - the largest killer of humans on the planet:
http://www.arts.mun.ca/anthropology/people/scau/leytonE.php
http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=51458
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourinterview/2007/04/anthropologist_and_author_elli.html
http://www.google.ca/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=+%22the+man+who+studies+murder%22&btnG=Search&meta=

"The Man Who Studies Murder, Part 2: The Anthropology of Murder looks at the culture of killing and why some countries produce more killers than others. The murder rate in Canada is 1 in 100,000 while in the United States it is a remarkable 10 murders per 100,000, the highest rate of any western, developed nation. Leyton argues, using Newfoundland as an example, that this can be explained by cultural differences. Killing is rare in that province because the people there developed a peaceful means of preventing conflict and violence using ostracism, gossip and ridicule. In the United States, on the other hand, violence was instrumental in the creation of the country, and, as a result, became socially acceptable. It is an American's constitutional right to bear arms, and the United States is the only western nation to still use capital punishment."

"Leyton also argues that governments are the real serial killers by ordering their soldiers to go to war. While the politicians try to justify wars and make them legitimate with propaganda, they are still murder. Government complicity in mass murder is highlighted using the examples of genocide in Rwanda and the holocaust in Nazi Germany. The tape does not explain the cultural causes of those tragedies."
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol11/no11/themanwhostudiesmurder.html

One can also point to Iraq

http://www.google.ca/search?q=100+oldest+.com&hl=en&safe=off&start=0&sa=N

sco.com is actually tied at 86 with 2 others. Sun and IBm are tied at 11.

Ok, here's the deal.

it's Gb/s, not GB/s, that's gigabit, not gigabyte.

If he is referring to a disc manufacturer terabyte, then the answer lies here:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=900000000000+bytes+%2F+4.8Gbps&btnG=Search&meta=

(about 1 397 seconds)

If he is referring to an actual terabyte, then the answer lies here:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=.9TB+%2F+4.8Gbps&btnG=Search&meta=
(about 1 536 seconds)

We really need to change our conventions, little b for bit and big B for byte are too similar, and cause confusion. As well, the fact that kilo/mega/giga/etc...byte mean different things to different people is just terrible. the GiB solution proposed (Gebibyte, or binary gigabyte) solves the problem, and I believe is accepted by IEEE.

Ok, here's the deal.

it's Gb/s, not GB/s, that's gigabit, not gigabyte.

If he is referring to a disc manufacturer terabyte, then the answer lies here:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=900000000000+bytes+%2F+4.8Gbps&btnG=Search&meta=

(about 1 397 seconds)

If he is referring to an actual terabyte, then the answer lies here:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=.9TB+%2F+4.8Gbps&btnG=Search&meta=
(about 1 536 seconds)

We really need to change our conventions, little b for bit and big B for byte are too similar, and cause confusion. As well, the fact that kilo/mega/giga/etc...byte mean different things to different people is just terrible. the GiB solution proposed (Gebibyte, or binary gigabyte) solves the problem, and I believe is accepted by IEEE.

7 Canadian dollars = 6.825273 U.S. dollars

Have a look. http://www.google.ca/advanced_search?q=details.odf&hl=en

Are they still the folks who will do no evil? I am beginning to doubt.

Torquay actually.

You do not seem to understand the basic concepts behind the words.

Security is always, ALWAYS, temporary. You CANNOT gain permanent security. EVER. Even if you locked yourself up in a fortress, protected by 10 battalions of heavily armed private militia, that is NOT permanent security. The circumstances of your security are ALWAYS temporary. The current government is temporary. World order is temporary. Your life is temporary. Franklin underlines temporary security, because it never lasts. EVER.

Similarly, an essential liberty refers to any liberty as essential. Liberties like freedom of speech, freedom of movement, right to your life, etc are all essential. There are no liberties that are non-essential. This is by definitions of what liberty means. You lose any part of that definition, and you lose more than you ever gain through some temporary security.

  * autonomy: immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
  * freedom of choice; "liberty of opinion"; "liberty of worship"; "liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases"; "at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes"
  * personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression

http://www.google.ca/search?q=define%3A+liberty&hl=en

These are very general freedoms and we are losing them one chip of the security hammer at a time. Yet, we will NEVER get security because true security is a state of mind. Think about it - you are never physically secure in this world.

Example. People in UK allowed CCTV cameras to be put everywhere. They lost their liberty of freedom of movement (at least anonymous movement). They "gained" their security because they thought "it will fight crime". Result is that crime rate has not decreased. But the liberty will not be restored. Citizens of UK, and London especially, lost liberty and gained nothing.

No.

Punch it into google maps, switch to satellite view, and zoom in. It becomes clear that the green thing right below the bright object is a house, and right where the bright object is, that's all the things in that person's back yard.

A reflection from a car windshield or something. Bright reflections will often create pixel bleed, thus instead of a single bright point, there's the bright point plus a streak downwards.

Definitely NOT a plane.

Posting as anon to avoid karma whoring, but you can readily find pictures of him.

Try his wikipedia entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorn ey)

Or just google image search him? There are non-photos of him there, but you should easily be able to tell which is which.
http://images.google.ca/images?client=firefox-a&ch annel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hl=en&q =jack+Thompson+&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

Go the the Find Another Search Provider Page.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en -en/default.mspx#

On the right there, there's a nice big yellow box titled "Create Your Own".
Open a search in another window to http://www.google.ca/ and search for TEST
Paste the URL into the Box in the Search Provider's page, and call it Google Canada
Select Google Canada as your default Search provider

Voila.

My, that was hard wasn't it. Want to have a go at proving black is white? Though I would suggest avvoiding Zebra Crossing if you do.

was not that impressed with DTrace (we know how to do most of this sort of stuff in linux already)

Here is a trend of Google's search term for "Vista":
http://google.ca/trends?q=vista

Note how the curve peaks when Vista is released, then it drops, levels off, and now it's slowly moving up again. Of course, this doesn't directly mean anything at all, but it could mean a slow increase of recent interest in the OS. Or searches from frustrated users whom have recently purchased a computer with Vista included.

My understanding is that MS doesn't really care whether other people will implement the standard or not. Those 6000 pages they shat out and called a standard read like someone grepped the Office source tree for comments, removed all of the profanity and made the format serializable to xml.

In effect, the format seems to be horribly convoluted, since it evolved over the past 15 years (makes you admire the motivation of people working on OO.o or poi), and requires a large amount of reverse engineering. MS knows the standard is completely useless.

So why bother? This way they can tell governments like Massachusetts that their software won't create vendor lock-in - why, it's based off a standard approved by the ISO - and totally neuter a large body of arguments for switching away from Microsoft.

Why would you? No vendor lock-in (supposedly), already established (so switching has an inherent cost), etc etc. It's the best of both worlds. No politician - or major decision maker - will ever page through the standard themselves.

And if bad publicity on how shitty the standard is worked, we wouldn't be a few countries away from having the thing successfully fast tracked through the ISO in the first place.

I like this one better though:CT Update http://www.vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk/ctupdate. htm/

http://www.google.ca/search?q=define%3Aon+the+surf ace+of+the+sea+floor

http://www.google.ca/search?q=define%3Aboat

A question for you: What is it about OS X that makes it good for audio/video/graphic work? That's your assertion, so I assume you have at least of some reason to believe it.

If you're confused as to why some choose OS X then I would suggest doing some research into the features that made NEXTSTEP a compelling Unix Desktop and workstation in the 90s. For instance:

• Why Tim Berners-Lee chose NEXTSTEP as the platform on which to develop the world's first Web Browser and Web Server.
• Why id Software chose NEXTSTEP to develop their landmark Doom and Quake games for the PC.
• What's compelling about NEXTSTEP/Cocoa APIs, Interface Builder, and what influence did Objective-C have on Java?
• Why were Linux users so enthusiastic about NEXTSTEP-derived window managers, such as WindowMaker and AfterStep? What lead to the development of GNUStep?

That's NEXTSTEP.

Now, say you chose NEXTSTEP as the basis for your perfect operating system and desktop environment. You get to keep all of the good design decisions, throw away or refactor all of the bad design decisions, and do it without any backward compatibility restrictions. What you end up with is OS X.

But why an Apple laptop? Here's why: I can open up a bunch of SSH and X11 sessions to a remote server over wi-fi, close the lid and throw it in my back-pack, go eat lunch, come back and open the lid, and all of my remote X11 apps and sessions are still alive. OS X just works damn well on Apple's laptop hardware.

lolocopter rofl omg wtf bbq ... just do the damn search ya boob.

Oh Ca...uhhh, what was the name of that place again? It doesn't seem to be in the history books. Oh well, I'm not allowed to go there anyhow.

I'd say you don't have to worry about that: readers choose which articles they read, so should be able put the word in context.
We are all evil, mathematically.

I once calculated that a 3 gallon-per-minute shower involving a 40 degree C temp. boost (the intake temp. in the Canadian winter is not high) draws about 32kW (mostly extracted from the giant heat resevoire known as a hot water tank). If my math was correct, this car provides enough power to heat ten shower stalls on an instantaneous basis.

Hells bells, I got the same answer again:

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=4.184+joules+% 2F+gram+*+3+gallons+%2F+minute+*+1+kg%2Fliter+*+40 &btnG=Search&meta=

Not to be picky back, but if you were to take a smooth thing and slam it on the ground realy hard, there is a reasonable change of getting sharp bits...

If you look at the Google image cache you will see that a fair few are rounded, thought admittedly there some that are slightly jagged:

http://images.google.ca/images?q=meteorite&ie=UTF- 8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=f irefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Don't worry. You have nothing to fear.

Cnet, phonescoop, slashdot, angelfire, ebay, livejournal, boston.com, viewscore, silverscreeninfo, aolmobile, chicagotribune, sympatico-msn.ca,

And I only looked at the first 3 pages!

http://www.google.ca/search?q=wamerocity&hl=en&cli ent=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=KN c&start=0&sa=N/

And yes, I know. I'm there too. :P

The Power of Nightmares is a must-watch documentary to see what it's all about.

Prior Art!

At least google gets the answer to the most important question in the world right. It IS "42"!

I don't think there's a single game hyped as well as this one.

Speaking of which, it is up now: Good Copy, Bad Copy

People are stupid enough to BUY the permission to TRY BETA software from MS.
Why not games.

A fool and his money are soon departed.

(Just like that Paris bitch!! http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=disinherited+P aris&btnG=Search&meta=)

Um.... I'm not sure what to say to this conversation. I mean Smeagel must have tried increasing the MFT size and then running a defragmentation on boot. He says that's the "ONLY" thing that would do it. But all I'm going to say is.

1.2 TB of data on 6 x 500GB Drives.
3 in a stripe, then Mirrored.
For a data set that's been upgraded from a raid of 30GB on a mirror/stripe from 15GB drives.
Started on NT 4.0 in mid-late 90s. Used ghost to "grow" the partition size when cloning and then increased the MFT size so it would handle it all. 5 upgrades, weekly defragmentation using windows defrag, stable and speedy.

But then again, your MFT may fill up faster, several GB of your favorite pr0n fills it up quickly.

P.S. it's spelled "Smeagol"

What the OP is referring to is that the Sorcerer's Stone and the Philosopher's Stone are different names for the same thing, neither of which have anything to do with Harry Potter.

In NA the Sourcer's Stone is always referred to as such going back hundreds of years, it is just a different evolution of the language.

http://www.google.ca/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=Muha mmed+&btnG=Google+Search&meta= -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad

Agreed, with one thing to note. The game Pariah made by Digital Extremes flopped. I know it's not Epic, but it's Epics closest partner in developing the Unreal Tournament Series of games.

It might not be the engine, it might be the implementation. Besides, have you seen all the features the engine has? It's bound to have a few bugs in it. Windows, Linux, and OSX all do. And if there's so many problems, you'd think more of the companies that licensed it would complain. There's lots of companies using it.

As if the oceans aren't emptying fast enough, now Boeing will ensure that the lowest form of ocean food will similarly deplete at a rate unseen since the last global natural disaster. Hoo-rah.

Unfortunately Google also reported unknown problems with their servers where all requests were bring redirected to: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=robot+love

These two are also interesting:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=La s+Palmas,+Spain&ie=UTF8&ll=28.756363,-17.891933&sp n=0.001712,0.002942&t=h&z=19&om=1

Specially during nightly mirror calibration:
http://magic.ifae.es/MAGIC_spanish/news/laser_magi c.jpg

Cooler than a shooting Death Star ;)

Pretty cool, you can zoom right in. Guess we'll have to wait for Google to scan the Earth at night so we can see it exposed ;).

Well, in addition to the path given above, on the Office main page, you could click "Downloads" and see that it's one of the top 5 Office downloads...

Or you could just go to the Microsoft Downloads page directly and note that it's the second most popular download, available right at the top of the page...

Or, you could Google "Office 2007 format" and see that it's in the top 10 results for that query...

Pretty complicated stuff there....

http://groups.google.ca/group/can.jobs/browse_thre ad/thread/8d578e8a1368ccd/47ace8362b25bcbc?lnk=st& q=&rnum=1&hl=en#47ace8362b25bcbc

Then sometime in the 90s they became all about the 4.0 GPA. Well, people who are good at swindling and manipulating other people into getting 4.0 GPAs aren't actually good at technical stuff. They choked on their own inflated ego and hubris. I say good riddance to them as well.

"Another brick in the wall."

Coincidentally, I'm currently listening to "Welcome To The Machine"...

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine
Where have you been?
It's alright we know where you've been
You've been in the pipeline, filling in time,
Provided with toys and 'Scouting for Boys'
You bought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn't like school, and you know you're nobody's fool
So welcome to the machine.

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine
What did you dream?
It's alright we told you what to dream
You dreamed of a big star
He played a mean guitar
He always ate in the Steak Bar
He loved to drive in his Jaguar
So welcome to the Machine.

music video here ... still one of the most chillingly ominous videos I've seen..

I suggest you take a look outside your house. Maybe visit some show homes, maybe a homedepot, maybe go for a drive around town. Its quite common for homes to have windows which do not open. If the window doesn't open, who puts a screen on it? Why would you need a screen?
Try not to let your head explode with the absurdity of the fact that some people have fixed windows in their house.
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=bay+window& btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2