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moron at 1600 Penn Ave announced that we wouldn't use them in response to one.

Wow. Someone else a "moron" because they've figured out (a) that, as Robert Gates says, "there's no credible scenario where a chemical weapon could have the kind of consequences that would warrant a nuclear response" AND we have a conventional arsenal that's enough of a threat by itself and (b) there's potential in offering even rogue states carrots as well as sticks and (c) if for some reason we're wrong about (a), it's not as if we couldn't reconsider?

Go on. Tell us who you consider "smart."

Also, maybe let us know what you think about:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/stewart-rips-fox-news-for_n_531455.html?ref=fb&src=sp
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2010_05/Kimball-Thielmann

I seriously object to my comments being marked as troll! This was not trolling. It's a serious point. It's hardly reasonable to say that there's one rule if it happens in the US, and another for everywhere else. Yes, I know that there were/are wars in both places, but there _have_ been deaths that were murder rather than battlefield deaths, and US citizens have not been held to account in courts of the countries where the actions took place.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/05/wikileaks-exposes-video-o_n_525569.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/12/iraq.soldiers.killed/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/world/asia/08blackwater.html

Which is to say that there is no absolute rule that a person should be tried in the jurisdiction of the place under which the action had effect.

This is why I love open source. We don't try to hide behind the veil of secrecy. Of course, it lets guys like you and the rest of the 'softies go around and crow about "OMG!!11 LInux has teh flaws!" because we actually disclose rather than try to hide in obscurity.

And I'm not saying that it is more secure by mere virtue of it being open source. See, the thing is, I fully expect more vulnerabilities to be exposed in open source software than closed source. People look through it, find flaws and the next thing I know, my update manager fires up and tells me what to do. That means the system is working. When vulns stop getting found is when I start getting worried. The fact that they are being found and patched and all I have to do is click yes to the little update box just helps me sleep better at night. Contrast that with closed source. How many years have certain vulnerabilities gone unpatched? Who knows? And you may never know. Yet thousands of people get owned daily running closed source OS's.

So, you keep going around with your bs studies and your links just make sure you keep that McAfee updated... Oh, my bad. Too soon? All the while, us open source guys will just keep getting work done.

What happened to "Do No Evil"?

Nothing ever happened to it, it never meant anything to begin with. It was just yet more crap spewed out by a corporate officer to make himself and his company look like white-hats when they're really no different than any other corporation.

You can substitute mother-in-law if you don't have a staffer handy.

In two heated arguments about child abuse, one seen on Fox News and one I had with a friend, the guys on the "think of the children" side of the argument said that child abuse was so horrible that they couldn't even look at a child without imagining them being molested -- and while they were trying to appeal to emotion, they only ended up looking like creeps. It seems the "think of the children crowd" are the ones with the unhealthy obsession with children.

As usual, people with too much power dedicating their voices to speaking out against what they hate most about themselves:

Larry Craig.
Mark Foley.
Roy Ashburn.

If the majority of the people want a couple of troublemakers to shut up and be quiet so that they can hear the person who is talking, their right to hear the speaker should overrule those few people's right to be noisy and disruptive. Unless, of course, the interrupting asshat is a member of the House of Representatives, in which case he has a right to do whatever he wants.

A great HuffPo Piece by none other than Lawrence Lessig, Mr. Creative Commons himself.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sabria-jawhar/saudi-flogging-of-spoiled_b_438432.html

"Originally it was reported in the media that the young woman was a 13-year-old girl sentenced to 90 lashes for bringing a mobile phone to school. But, no, that wasn't true. Then it was reported the girl assaulted the headmistress for taking away the phone. Well, that's only part of the story. Now it turns out the girl is not a girl, but 20 years old and she cracked a drinking glass over the headmistress' head while the woman's mother stood by and watched."

So yeah, while it was still not fitting the crime, and while tons of horrible stuff happens in the name of religion in Saudi Arabia, it usually helps to know the full story.

Assuming Huffingtonpost is more credible than dailymail of course.

When it came out, I knew absolutely nothing about the story

Then you obviously didn't look on the right sites. The story differs little from Disney's Pocahontas.

It's even worse than that: you can get suspended if somebody hands you something without you knowing what it is, and you immediately hand it back.

...the fact that Glenn Beck is fountain of nonsense 99% of the time.

And that last 1% is where he (correctly, IMHO) defends Miranda Rights for Faisal Shahzad (a US citizen), in opposition to the rantings (yes, rantings) Senator John McCain. Ref: Beck Versus McCain On Miranda Rights For Times Square Suspect

I'm pretty sure Brazil imported this idea from somewhere else and I strongly belive this place is the US. I just don't know if 1000 points were enough to trigger it. Also, it closes the market for half or an hour for the first it's hit. If it's hit again it closes for more, until it reaches the end of day.

Found it.

If the Dow falls 1100 points before 2 p.m. we would see a one-hour trading halt.

If between 2-2:30 p.m., there is a 30-minute trading halt.

3 p.m. or later, there is no trading halt.

source.

Bollywood movie star Shah Rukh Khan full-body scan has already been leaked to the public. Contrary to previous assurances, the actor's scans were not kept anonymous, were not destroyed, and were released into the hands of fans before he even got out of the airport. The actor, somewhat shocked when presented with naked pictures of himself by a couple of girls, remained in remarkably good humor and even autographed the printouts.

"'Then I saw these girls -- they had these printouts. I looked at them. I thought they were some forms you had to fill. I said 'give them to me' -- and you could see everything inside. So I autographed them for them.' said Khan."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/10/shah-rukh-khan-claims-nak_n_457200.html

http://www.prisonplanet.com/exposed-naked-body-scanner-images-of-film-star-printed-circulated.html

The fillibusters: over 100 appointees from Barak Obama has been fillibustered for over a year. Reps have signed they WILL fillibuster the financial package.

See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT1cDKV2EzM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeNRsXoA4cU

http://www.cwa-legislative.org/news/republicans-break-all-time-filibusters-record.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/01/gop-filibuster-record-rep_n_480722.html

Personally, I'm more disgusted by the censorship (the black bar) than the original photo.

Then the Commonwealth of Virginia will really bother you.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/01/virginia-seal-breast-picture_n_559673.html

Here is a good direct opinion piece to point to your congress critter: "Comcast Can Censor This Blog Post ... With FCC's Permission?" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-ammori/ten-things-comcast-will-b_b_560897.html Try to impress on them the notion of what if Comcast should decide not to be supportive of your their reelection webpage?

If you give people a monetary reward, their focus shifts so that the outcome is money and the solution is a byproduct. This short-circuits mental processing because the output is supposed to be a solution, and the money a byproduct dependent on the solution. Essentially what you said about panic mode only more of an explanation - a theory if you will.

The experiment is slightly disingenuous because it uses time as a limiting factor. So the outcome is not just a solution, it's a timely solution. The only reason of course that "timely" is part of the criteria is because the money depends on timeliness. So you have 3 variables - time, solution quality, and money. Up front, the optimization for money has to be done by sacrificing time. So you now have a specific pressure on one variable which is irrelevant to the scope of the study.

But that of course is the underlying discovery of the study, in which the disingenuousness of the design is irrelevant and often illuminating. In a real workplace you have things like quarterly filings and other deadlines, making time an inherent part of the process. Time gets forgotten in many of these calculations. "You're under your quota" is a time-driven incentive, "monthly figures" or "quarterly reports" are time-driven, "client delivery date" or "product launch date" are time driven.

We want results, in a given time, and you get more money if you get results faster.

Now, if you give someone no deadline and no incentive, you'll get a solution when someone gets around to it. If you give someone an 8 hour day and salary, you'll get it when they get bored. Give them a reasonable deadline and it will be done on or near the deadline. Give someone an unreasonable deadline and it will be done either immediately or way behind schedule.

With open source, the outcome is code, a working product, not money. The problem with this of course is that the people on wall street probably have poor self-motivation skills, and are masters of delayed gratification in order to maximize the material gains. Most starving artists have an internal motivation to get whatever is in their heads out on paper or canvas or whatever else, while the empty materialistic wall street types don't have that motivation. The question I'm wondering is, can they obtain internal motivation? Would they be able to re-focus so that their financial derivative's performance and client happiness is the promary goal? I'm proposing no, that no one would find intrinsic motivation moving piles of money around and skimming off the top. It's a difficult lifestyle, and if you saw the "letter from wall street" that's passing around you'd agree. This letter claims that they will take our jobs because they have the tenacity to work 14 hour days, and when their jobs go away they sill simply shift into our careers. Tenacity will not help if you're administering a server - you can't stare the box into working, or read for 14 hours a day and learn. If you try to do it by brute force, you're going to waste valuable uptime.

Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you're only going to hurt yourselves. What's going to happen when we can't find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We're going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work till 10pm or later. We're used to not getting up to pee when we have a position.We aren't dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/wall-street-reportedly-ci_n_559032.html

Yep, you can math your way out of anything just by being in the office. Actually, they would not be able to take my job, nor most people's. But they think they can.

My biggest concern is the bonus culture. If you earn $9m bonus this year, but they guy who sits next you you and picks his nose half the day earned $10m bonus, you're probably going to ask why yo

Are you suggesting that Democrats didn't go nuts with Bush hate, or that Republicans didn't go nuts with Clinton hate? It isn't new.

No, but not being new doesn't make it the same, and because Democrats opposed Republican administrations in the past doesn't mean that their tactics were on the same level.

Republicans have set filibustering records and then shattered those records in term after term.

Republicans last night broke the all-time Senate record for filibusters in a two-year term when they forced the 62nd cloture vote of this session on the omnibus appropriations bill, H.R. 2764. The previous record of 61 cloture votes in a two-year term was set in 2001-2002, the last time the GOP comprised the minority in the Senate.

Just halfway through the session, they broke the old filibustering record that was set by them.

Similarly, we have Republicans placing holds on every single one of Obama's nominees -- something that has never happened. Why? In this particular case, it was so Senator Shelby could get some pork for his state. But there has been a great deal of other unprecedented obstructionism on the part of Republicans toward Democrats. For example, accidentally "losing" their voting cards to delay everything, preventing the usual unanimous consent motions to go about business, shutting down the Senate at 2PM. A classic example of this would be Republicans filibustering a defense spending bill just so it would take longer to get to the filibuster vote on health care reform. (Imagine what the media reaction to that would be if Democrats had done it -- instead we get deafening silence.)

Yeah, Democrats have obstructed Republicans in the past. But to compare that with what's going on now -- or in previous Republican-minority Congresses -- is completely insane. We're talking about an entirely new extreme (which the Democrats have been ineffectually responding to with "well, maybe if we play nice they'll play nice again!") that has never before been seen.

Oh, and if you don't believe me on item #2, listen to Captain Sully.

Like the "Pilots Who Missed Airport By 150 Miles"?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/24/pilots-who-missed-airport_n_332461.html

All I have is my original certificate, not my mysterious long form COLB, and an original cert isn't enough for Barack Obama according to a certain other Arizona law.

But more seriously, a birth cert doesn't have your photo, and it's relatively easily forged, at least compared to other identity documents.

And she's probably registered to vote in each country. She apparently likes that: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/08/ann-coulter-under-investi_n_165007.html

The difference between "found" and "stolen" is entirely in the mind of the... "finder".

There's a clear difference between finding and stealing in the eyes of the media too.

The one funny thing about it is that SEC consists of mainly lawyers. That's right, not accountants, not economists, not inspectors but lawyers. This is on purpose, because they are just another captured/corrupt government organization that does not do its job. Example of them not doing its job is the story from Harry Markopolos, who by chance figured out the scheme Madoff was running and brought it to SEC's attention with all the evidence but they never did anything about it.

So they are incompetent people, who are working there not because they can do something, but specifically because they do nothing at all and this is a situation created on purpose by the system, it's a captured environment, SEC is not supposed to do anything that would hurt people who should really be afraid of the SEC.

So in that environment what are the workers there supposed to do? Anything at all except their actual jobs, so obviously nobody is going to blow a whistle on them surfing porn. Porn? Please, be my guest, as long as you don't investigate actual fraud cases. Again, I guess the only surprising thing is that they are lawyers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/23/jon-stewart-stands-up-for_n_549178.html

Matt and Trey commented on the last time Comedy Central censored the toon. "Cartoonists, people who do satire--we're not in the army, we're never going to be fucking drafted and this is our time to stand up and do the right thing" here

And this got me thinking about our troops protecting us right now from the type of fanatics who threatened Matt and Trey this time. I doubt left-wing Comedy Central gives a shit about our military risking their lives, but censoring this episode in this manner does an injustice to the troops fighting now and the men and women who have lost their lives protecting our constitutional rights, our freedom of speech and the free expression of ideas.

Wonder if we'll ever see Colbert gagged because some right-wing terrorist realized they were being made fun of

Not very likely, 'cause that would require a right-wing terrorist to, you know, actually realize they were being made of! I'm sure subtle satire is beyond the ken of most of them.

Unfortunately for this country, you are absolutely correct.

directly using the entirety of the video from "The Downfall" is not going to be seen as fair use.

Running time 156 minutes (original cut)
178 minutes (extended cut)

Length of the extract used for obvious parody: About four minutes ( example http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/hitler-finds-out-that-dow_n_545836.html ).

So, no, 4 is not the entirety of 156. It's about 2.5% of the entirety of "The Downfall".

1) It seems like it's a pretty good computerised replacement for people that do work that involved carrying clipboards around.

Some people who used to have clipboards have already switched them out with specialized pads. See: FedEx.

Chances are someone that still uses a clipboard is filling out some sort of form. Policy may require that these forms be filled out by hand and signed. So, while some people who carry clipboards may be able to switch to one (or another pad for that matter), not all will.

2) Pilots are going to love it.

I'd prefer it if pilots would, I don't know, fly the plane. In fact, they may be forbidden by policy to carry electronic devices due to recent problems with Texting causing crashes (See: Continental Connection flight 3407)

3) Splendid for doctors.

See paragraph 2 of my response to #1.

4) Great for sales reps. You can do an informal presentation across a desk. Or plug in a cable and give the presentation on a projector.

The iPad doesn't have a video output. You'd need a USB (or Bluetooth) projector, or you're out of luck.

This is also assuming there's an app for that.

5) Great for students. Reading textbooks *IS* part of their work, and being able to carry a large number of them in a small package is good. Even if they have a laptop, it's good to be able to type on that whilst having the book open on a separate screen.

I'd argue that last point. These days, laptops have widescreen. It's not that hard to have two applications each taking up half the screen. With a Laptop and an iPad, you need room to have both on your surface (desk, lap, etc...), as you can't both hold the iPad and type on the laptop at the same time.

6) Great for anyone that needs to travel light whilst still doing some light data entry tasks. The Macbook Air is small and light, but the iPad is half the weight and significantly smaller.

Yes, and light data tasks are all a touchscreen is good for. You really need a keyboard for anything heavier, or even, say, writing a letter.
("It looks like you're writing a letter! Do you need help with that?" Er... sorry, I'm done with the Clippy joke)

There has been virtually NO support anywhere for this "outsourcing" of NASA. Out of 435 Representatives and 100 Senators, ONE has backed the President. And he will see, again, the outrage of the American people.

A sweet revisionist history by our Congress people, but as Buzz Aldrin mentioned in this article, neither President Bush or the Congress supported fully-funding the "Vision for Space Exploration" program:

For the past six years America's civil space program has been aimed at returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020. That's the plan announced by President George W. Bush in January of 2004. ... But two things happened along the way since that announcement, which became known as the Vision for Space Exploration.

First, the President (Bush) failed to fully fund the program, as he had initially promised. As a result, each year the development of the rockets and spacecraft called for in the plan slipped further and further behind.

Second, NASA also raided the Earth and space science budgets in the struggle to keep the program, named Project Constellation, on track.

To keep the focus on the return to the Moon, NASA pretty much abandoned all hope of preparing for Mars exploration. It looked like building bases on the Moon would consume all of NASA's resources. Yet despite much complaining, neither a Republican-controlled nor a Democratic-controlled Congress was willing or able to add back those missing and needed funds.

Buzz Aldrin (the second human to walk on the moon) has a different take

It should be noted that the "pirates" of Somalia are just trying to protect their country from all the illegal toxic waste dumping that goes on. They consider themselves a volunteer coast guard. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/you-are-being-lied-to-abo_b_155147.html

Okay. Fair 'nough. I won't mod you down because I disagree. I'll mod you down because you're Yet Another Fucking Ignoramus when it comes to drugs. Oh, yeah, if we just let people get their dope legally, then everything will just be fine and fuckin' dandy.

No, you modded him down because you disagreed with them. Then you posted anonymously to rub it in as a fucking coward so you could get the best of both worlds. There was nothing "flame-worthy" or "trollish" about their argument. They stated what is generally known and accepted by the majority of educated individuals -- if you legalize and regulate something, you get rid of the black market. Tell me, how is the black market on alcohol and cigarettes these days? Oh, right, there isn't one. And we have just as many alcoholics today as we had during the Prohibition of the 1920s.

There is no such thing as "safe, recreational" use of shit like crack and heroin. That shit gets you addicted, turns you into a zombie, and fucks up anyone that's in any way related to you, no matter how cheap you can get it -- as if that's some solution.

You assume that the second drugs are legalized, that everyone is going to rush in and try it. There isn't some hidden mass population of people who absolutely want to try drugs but are holding off until it's legalized.

Legalizing drugs is surrender. Whatever the cartels are doing, it's 100x better than what a country would look like if people could use whatever mindfuck drugs they could be tricked into trying once.

What a disgusting comment. So these drug cartels kidnapping, beheading, and doing random drive-by shootings and terrorizing neighborhoods are 100x better? You sound like one of those people who claims that sex ed and free distribution of condoms means more sex. Your argument is absolutely disgusting. But hey, don't tell me this, go tell these people.

There is no such thing as "safe, recreational" use of shit like crack and heroin. That shit gets you addicted, turns you into a zombie, and fucks up anyone that's in any way related to you, no matter how cheap you can get it -- as if that's some solution.

Did you copy and paste your this from a 1920's Prohibition poster or something? This was the same argument used against alcohol in the 1920s. This very same argument is made about abortion here in the US. When there is a demand for something, it'll get met one way or another. Even if it means ripping the fetus out with a rusty coat hanger in some back alley.

I've never touched drugs in my life. I hate the stuff. Much like yourself, I feel that people will end up ruining their lives and those around them. But I'm also smart enough to know that banning substances just creates an artificial black market for gangs, and the destruction they cause is far worse than just legalizing the damned thing. I live in a pretty well-to-do neighborhood in a rich part of Northern Virginia. Now we're seeing a bigger number of the MS-13 gang in our area. They've hit Cancun. They're hitting all of the major cities and tourist spots.

Maybe this one Who does he represent?

"First off, the Army gets to be pretty picky about who it lets in."

WHAT!? They are letting in convicted felons, non U.S. citizens, gang bangers, all kinds of malcontents these days just to get BODIES to go fight in Afganistan and Iraq. I know - I have friends and family SERVING in the Army right now (no none of them are in the above list - they know people who are though). We have PYCHOS's in the Army killing kids FOR FUN, killing dogs FOR FUN, killing reporters and kids FOR FUN! Read the news watch the videos WIkileaks released!

Here is just a few for you:

Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/05/wikileaks-us-army-iraq-attack
"Footage of July 2007 attack made public as Pentagon identifies website as threat to national security"

Wikileak'd video shows U.S. troops firing on Reuters reporters and Iraqi children
http://www.infowars.com/wikileakd-video-shows-eager-to-kill-troops-firing-on-reuters-reporters-and-children/

http://www.collateralmurder.com/

Neo-Cons Defend Massacre Of Iraqi Journalists, Children
http://www.infowars.com/neo-cons-defend-massacre-of-iraqi-journalists-children/

Wikileaks leaked video of Civilians killed in Baghdad -- Full video
http://www.infowars.com/wikileaks-leaked-video-of-civilians-killed-in-baghdad-full-video/

Wikileaks Video Exposes Apache Murders of Journalists, Children In Iraq
http://www.prisonplanet.com/wikileaks-video-exposes-apache-murders-of-journalists-children-in-iraq.html

Alex Jones Covers the WikiLeaks Pentagon Snuff Video
http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-covers-the-wikileaks-pentagon-snuff-video/

WikiLeaks VIDEO Exposes 2007 'Collateral Murder' In Iraq
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/05/wikileaks-exposes-video-o_n_525569.html

Mainstream media ignores Wikileaks video and pays more attention to Tiger Woods
http://snardfarker.ning.com/group/MainstreamMediaAndMindControl/forum/topics/rt-video-mainstream-media?commentId=2649739%3AComment%3A167787&xg_source=activity&groupId=2649739%3AGroup%3A134445

Wikileaks Iraq Video Authenticated By Senior Military Officer
http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/04/06/wikileaks-iraq-video-authenticated-by-senior-military-officer/

Leaked U.S. video shows deaths of Reuters' Iraqi staffers
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6344FW20100406?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

36 Still Images - WikiLeaks Iraq Video (Dial-Up Warning and UPDATE from Wikileaks
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8095770

Violence in Video Games and the Baghdad Massacre

$.08 per page. That's only really worthy of +4 informative if parent also post's his/her PACER login details.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/29489974/Full-Text-Comcast-vs-FCC-Federal-Court-Ruling
Found Here by using the googles

Any court decision worth reading will almost always be hosted somewhere else within hours of showing up on PACER.

The military treating civilians like targets in a game.

I was in Best Buy a week ago (that is, pre-iPad), and I didn't see a tablet PC running Windows or Linux.

Didn't Microsoft introduce TabletPC in 2001? Aren't there lots of iPad killers about to hit the shelves? Didn't the iPad *just* launch?

How is Apple monopolizing the market for tablet computing devices?

Steve Wozniak sez he can repeat the problem at will. Article:

Wozniak's 2010 Toyota Prius can unintentionally accelerate to as much as 97 miles (156 kilometers) per hour when he uses cruise control to increase his speed, he said in an interview yesterday. Toyota and the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration haven't responded to his complaints in the past two months on what may be a software-related glitch, he said.

"It's scary when it happens," Wozniak, 59, said from San Jose, California. "I've had trouble getting both the government safety agency and getting Toyota to listen to me."
"Toyota has this accelerator problem we've all heard about," Mr. Wozniak said last week at Discover Forum 2010 in San Francisco, reported CNET.com (via Autoblog). "Well, I have many models of Prius that got recalled, but I have a new model that didn't get recalled. This new model has an accelerator that goes wild, but only under certain conditions of cruise control. And I can repeat it over and over and over again -- safely."

Look I like the fact that you got up and posted something in this discussion but for goodness sake sober up long enough to back up your vague assertion. The Woz said http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/04/steve-wozniaks-prius-prob_n_448778.html that he was pissed that he couldn't get a sensible answer from Toyota about his knowledge about accelerator problems. I didn't look for a video but thats the first google item for "Steve Wozniak prius". Shape up dude, people all over the planet are reading your post and you can influence what they think with just a bit more effort.

The last story that they ran on here regarding EM allergies was in Africa.

    I went looking around for history on this. The oldest I could find online was a 2003 case where a school in Chicago refused to use wifi because it could potentially harm students.

    this story references Canada and the UK.

    Oddly enough, I found this story from Santa Fe (the same city as this case in this story), where Arthur Firstenberg, the leader of a group of wifi sensitives, sued the city to not allow wifi to be installed throughout the city. He lost.

    Coincidentally, this came up again in January 2010 in this story, where Mr. Firstenberg sued his neighbor for using wifi.

    And coincidentally, he's the same guy in today's article.

    So, if you follow the trail back, you'll find that he's been making noise about this for a long time.

    In this 2007 article is mentioned for forming the Cellular Phone Task Force

    He is in the citations with:
Electromagnetic Fields, (EMF) Killing Fields," Arthur Firstenberg, The Ecologist, v. 34, n. 5, 6-10-2004.

"Radio Wave Packet," Arthur Firstenberg, Cellular Phone Task Force, Sept 2001

    In 1997, his group published this mortality report. Obviously cell phones kill people. Everyone repeat after me "Correlation does not imply causation".

    But hey, who am I to call a guy an attention seeking lunatic. Just because it's been spouting crap for over a decade *AND* getting published for it (drama queens love their attention), doesn't mean that he's all wrong. Talk to the guy yourself. On his site, http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/, he asks you to contact him. e-mail: info@cellphonetaskforce.org phone: (505) 471-0129 .

    Yes, those were copy & pasted directly from his site. If he didn't want to call, he wouldn't have put the details up there.

Google phonebook reverses the number to his name.

    When you call, remind him that there's electromagnetic fields around everything electrical. That includes the wires running inside the walls of his house. Yes Mr. Firstenberg, you're allergic to your own house. Run, run for the Faraday cage in the mountains. It's the only place you'll be safe. Well, kinda safe. You gotta watch out for the government using their ELF radios. I saw a X-Files once, where a guys head exploded because of ELF experiments. If it was on TV, it must be true.

fat people are all ugly all the time.

a-HEM!

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/4270/slide_4270_60048_large.jpg

On extending the patents from 5 to 12 years:

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/14/us/house-debates-bill-to-extend-drug-patent-term-by-7-years.html

http://www.milliman.com/expertise/healthcare/publications/newsletters/pa/pdfs/president-obama-pharmaceutical-industry-PA-03-31-09.pdf

The actual bill. It is hard to read, but go to the page 1869 and read it. You'll see it. But you can also read around it. Apparently all kinds patents are going to be extended, by half a year here, by seven years there, various interesting stuff.

Also look at Obama killing the bill, that would have allowed cheap drug imports from Canada or other countries.

Dorgan introduced the bill

You will find shadows of this information in the news:

how the White-house killed this bill.

Dorgan had 30 or more Senators supporting this on his side, it still ended up dead.

Obama is nobody to love.

silly rabbit, Bachmann's seat really is the one that is likely to disappear after this census!

Stephen Colbert can explain it all to you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/18/colbert-blasts-beck-and-b_n_503787.html

I thought the tea party movement was just a bunch of morons. Then I read this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/teabaggers-new-cry-mrs-ob_b_508683.html

Now I think calling them that has just been an insult to morons.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
-Ayn Rand

What does this say about America? Read this for a good overview of technology's intertwined relationship with the failings of geopolitical advancement of privacy. Basic summary: it isn't technologies fault for privacy lost, its the people who regulate it.

To quote:
"The attacks of 9-11 challenged our country in new ways. But perhaps the biggest challenge was whether we would safeguard both our country and our Constitutional heritage or whether we would have weak leaders who were unable to protect the country without sacrificing our freedoms. Regrettably, we found that our political leaders lacked the ability to uphold our laws. For electronic surveillance, they pushed aside the judiciary and asserted the President's authority to intercept the private communications of American citizens within the United States. Even with the broad powers of the Patriot Act, the White House grew impatient and colluded with the telephone companies to disclose private customer records without legal basis or judicial review."

New Google sewage flush meter coming to a home near you next year.

So for the overwhelmingly middle & upper-middle class, majority-liberal software engineers, a profound concern with "feeding my family" is an actual existential threat?

Or is it that Software Patent litigation is a pressing concern for the poor because if IP laws were amended, suddenly every poor disenfranchised liberal who's been held down by the uncaring and heartless right-wingers for generations could write software and lift themselves out of poverty?

Do you even begin to realize how ridiculous you sound?

Most cancer can be prevented or sometimes cured with the right amount of vitamin D3 (5000 IU daily as a base for most adults with a few exceptions, but you need a blood test periodically to be sure), a diet of mostly organic natural foods (whole grains, fruits, vegetables), occasional fasting, and moderate exercise -- along with quitting smoking and some other lifestyle changes, and living in a cleaner environment (especially clean water), and some positive emotions, spirituality, and community helps too. These things (especially the right amount of vitamin D) will also sometimes prevent or sometimes cure a good amount of the many other chronic diseases of our modern society as well like heart disease, diabetes, depression, -- and maybe even autism which may result in part from inadequate vitamin D by parents before conception, during pregnancy, and while nursing (as dermatologists have told us all to fear the sun and we also live indoors more at screens). For references to all this, see:
Vitamin D:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/cancerMain.shtml
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/treatment.shtml
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/new-harvard-paper-on-autism.shtml
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/newsletter/2008-october.shtml
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi111.html
Fasting and better diet:
http://www.healthpromoting.com/Articles/articles/PleasureTrap.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Pleasure-Trap-Mastering-Undermines-Happiness/dp/1570671508
http://www.amazon.com/Supernormal-Stimuli-Overran-Evolutionary-Purpose/dp/039306848X
http://books.google.com/books?id=nRurn6C142YC
Lifestyle and cancer:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elaine-schattner/we-are-all-fat-and-have-c_b_506247.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html
Exercise:
http://www.letsmove.gov/
Community infrastructure:
http://www.bluezones.com/makeover-about
Positive emotions, community, and spirituality:
http://books.google.com/books?id=RKZreNYKNHQC
http://books.google.com/books?id=bCuC2H-6k_8C

Magic bullets like this RNA-loaded nanoparticle stuff are potentially great (if they have no side effects), but how about just encouraging (and making easy) the simple things first?

We don't have to wait for magic bullets to cure most ill health. Why not put a few trillion US dollars into these things? It would be enormously cost effective. One link above suggests curing vitamin D deficiency alone in Western Europe would save US$4.4 trillion dollars in health care expense over a decade (the USA might see a comparable amount in savings). Of course, in our current economic and sick