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Ooops. Sorry. Here. Fixed the links: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6133190.stm, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,283032,00.html , and http://www2.jsonline.com/election2000/nov00/spot08 s1110800.asp

Why not? You can already vote for a dead body: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6133190.stm/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,283032,00.html / http://www2.jsonline.com/election2000/nov00/spot08 s1110800.asp/

The UV water purifier isn't needed here in New Orleans. Our tap water has been and continues to be some of the cleanest and best tasting in the country. Our tap water comes from the Mississippi and as such is treated and filtered more that just about any other city. The Mississippi has a lot of chemicals that are deposited in it from the more Northern states that we have to filter out. I would say a Brita filter would be sufficient.

I wouldn't brag too much about having the cleanest water in the country if your city is drawing its water from the Mississippi river. When residents of the cities that are upstream from you flush their toilets, some of that "liquid" eventually becomes your drinking water. Here is an article that discusses how sewage treatment plants are having problems filtering certain medications out of the waste water. The old advice to "flush unused medications down the toilet" now seems like a bad idea.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=613915

I seem to recall a story from a few years back about how much caffeine was detected in the southern end of the Mississippi river as the result of cities dumping their sewage into the river. Caffeine is excreted by humans in the same "form" as when the caffeine was ingested (medical experts or chemists, please feel free to correct me if I have recalled the caffeine story incorrectly).

No offense obviously, but the brain in particular runs more efficiently on ketones than it does on glucose.

Why are you stupid?

No, really, why are you a stupid, biologically illiterate oaf?

"Ketone bodies, from the breakdown of fatty acids to acetyl groups, are also produced during this state, and are burned throughout the body. Excess ketone bodies are excreted in the breath and urine. The brain has a residual need for glucose because ketones can only provide energy when used during aerobic respiration in mitochondria. In the long thin neurons, much of the metabolically active cellular membrane must derive its energy from glucose via anaerobic respiration without the assistance of mitochondria."

Yes, that's right, parts of the brain are incapable of making use of ketones for energy (but who needs cellular membranes, right?).

Ever hear of ketosis? No, I don't mean the bull-shit "ketosis" that retards trying to push low-carb diets talk about, I'm talking about real ketosis, the time when your body ends up with a large overabundance of ketones and you end up "drunk" all day long. Then, after that, you end up in a ketone induced coma. Then you die.

The atkins diet has been changed three or four times because the original "Atkins" crap was pretty much globally recognized as being dangerous.

Yes, there are a lot of retards who say things like "A lot of people mistakenly think Ketoacidosis when they hear ketosis, but it's a completely different thing."

No it isn't you jerks, Ketoacidosis is just another name for Ketosis (interestingly ketosis was referred to as the danger condition by medical professionals 20-40 years ago, it changed to "a natural body process" with a different name for the condition around the time of these low-card diets).

"Ketosis occurs when there is not enough insulin in the body to metabolize glucose and provide energy to the cells of the body. The blood fluids become increasingly acidic until the starving body cells malfunction, causing staggering, slurred speech, disorientation and poor judgement. Eventually, the victim of ketosis may have seizures, go into a deep coma and die if untreated." http://www2.jsonline.com/alive/column/aug99/howard s83099.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketoacidosis

See, here's the way it works. Ketones are emergency power for some cells in your body, i.e. if you are starving you'll have enough energy to go kill something, but that's about it.

Outside of that single use, ketones are a giant danger to your nervous system. If you don't drink large amounts of water to wash them out of your system you end up staggering around like a drunken hobo. Atkins guy, try laying off the water intake for a couple days then see how you feel. At that point, come back and tell us how well the brain runs on ketones.

The fact that you can function at all is due to the fact that you keep washing the toxin out of your body in your urine, if you didn't your blood would end up too acidic for you to live... and, well, you wouldn't any longer.

Ketones are better than glucose my ass...

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After the first run it is /., jsonline, Gnews, Fark, and Digg.

That can be applied to sightings of many other things.

The problem is, how does one determine which patterns indicate something and which patterns are just convincing illusions?

You talk like there's only a possibility of cheating on one side of the aisle. To do so is to ignore evidence that Democrats are in fact also cheating. In my home state of Wisconsin, there's extensive evidence that fraud is taking place, and the culprits are Democrats:

• Five paid Democratic campaign workers slashed hundreds of tires on rented GOP get-out-the-vote vans the day before the 2004 election.
• The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel discovered multiple-thousand-vote discrepancies in the number of people who voted and the number of ballots cast in a number of Wisconsin municipalities in the 2004 election.
• In the 2000 election, the FBI was called in to investigate thousands of votes from invalid addresses cast in Milwaukee.
• In 2004, the GOP challenged thousands of invalid addresses [The article plays the race card -- good reporting there, Washington Post] based on undeliverable mail from the voter registration rolls in Wisconsin and Ohio. Their challenges were all struck down.
• In 2000, two illegal aliens went to Racine, WI, told the registrar they were illegal aliens, and then were allowed to register anyways.
• Recently, state Senate candidate Donovan Riley was fined and had his bar license revoked for voting twice in the 2004 election: first in the morning at his vacation house in Oconomowoc, WI and then later in the afternoon at his main residence in Chicago. The only reason he was discovered was his candidacy for state Senate -- which makes me wonder seriously how often this sort of thing takes place. There is no checking between neighboring states, and with a big chunk of Wisconsin's population just a couple hours' drive from Chicago and Minneapolis, it would even be theoretically possible to vote in Minneapolis in the morning, Madison in the afternoon and Rockford in the evening -- would anybody know?
• In 2000, a wealthy DNC donor was caught giving cigarettes to homeless people in exchange for their votes. While not demonstrably illegal, it certainly represents shady tactics.
• Governor Jim doyle has repeatedly vetoed voter ID propositions proposed by the Republican-controlled state assembly. I don't understand opposition to such a reasonable requirement that could go a long way towards improving election integrity.

Kerry won Wisconsin by just .38% of votes cast; before him, Gore took the state by just .22%. If improper voter registration, people voting with nonexistent addresses, and illegal aliens casting votes, a few thosuand fake votes for were cast -- the state may have gone a different way; extrapolated to a national scale, and all of a sudden our election integrity is in big trouble.

You talk like there's only a possibility of cheating on one side of the aisle. To do so is to ignore evidence that Democrats are in fact also cheating. In my home state of Wisconsin, there's extensive evidence that fraud is taking place, and the culprits are Democrats:

• Five paid Democratic campaign workers slashed hundreds of tires on rented GOP get-out-the-vote vans the day before the 2004 election.
• The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel discovered multiple-thousand-vote discrepancies in the number of people who voted and the number of ballots cast in a number of Wisconsin municipalities in the 2004 election.
• In the 2000 election, the FBI was called in to investigate thousands of votes from invalid addresses cast in Milwaukee.
• In 2004, the GOP challenged thousands of invalid addresses [The article plays the race card -- good reporting there, Washington Post] based on undeliverable mail from the voter registration rolls in Wisconsin and Ohio. Their challenges were all struck down.
• In 2000, two illegal aliens went to Racine, WI, told the registrar they were illegal aliens, and then were allowed to register anyways.
• Recently, state Senate candidate Donovan Riley was fined and had his bar license revoked for voting twice in the 2004 election: first in the morning at his vacation house in Oconomowoc, WI and then later in the afternoon at his main residence in Chicago. The only reason he was discovered was his candidacy for state Senate -- which makes me wonder seriously how often this sort of thing takes place. There is no checking between neighboring states, and with a big chunk of Wisconsin's population just a couple hours' drive from Chicago and Minneapolis, it would even be theoretically possible to vote in Minneapolis in the morning, Madison in the afternoon and Rockford in the evening -- would anybody know?
• In 2000, a wealthy DNC donor was caught giving cigarettes to homeless people in exchange for their votes. While not demonstrably illegal, it certainly represents shady tactics.
• Governor Jim doyle has repeatedly vetoed voter ID propositions proposed by the Republican-controlled state assembly. I don't understand opposition to such a reasonable requirement that could go a long way towards improving election integrity.

Kerry won Wisconsin by just .38% of votes cast; before him, Gore took the state by just .22%. If improper voter registration, people voting with nonexistent addresses, and illegal aliens casting votes, a few thosuand fake votes for were cast -- the state may have gone a different way; extrapolated to a national scale, and all of a sudden our election integrity is in big trouble.

You talk like there's only a possibility of cheating on one side of the aisle. To do so is to ignore evidence that Democrats are in fact also cheating. In my home state of Wisconsin, there's extensive evidence that fraud is taking place, and the culprits are Democrats:

• Five paid Democratic campaign workers slashed hundreds of tires on rented GOP get-out-the-vote vans the day before the 2004 election.
• The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel discovered multiple-thousand-vote discrepancies in the number of people who voted and the number of ballots cast in a number of Wisconsin municipalities in the 2004 election.
• In the 2000 election, the FBI was called in to investigate thousands of votes from invalid addresses cast in Milwaukee.
• In 2004, the GOP challenged thousands of invalid addresses [The article plays the race card -- good reporting there, Washington Post] based on undeliverable mail from the voter registration rolls in Wisconsin and Ohio. Their challenges were all struck down.
• In 2000, two illegal aliens went to Racine, WI, told the registrar they were illegal aliens, and then were allowed to register anyways.
• Recently, state Senate candidate Donovan Riley was fined and had his bar license revoked for voting twice in the 2004 election: first in the morning at his vacation house in Oconomowoc, WI and then later in the afternoon at his main residence in Chicago. The only reason he was discovered was his candidacy for state Senate -- which makes me wonder seriously how often this sort of thing takes place. There is no checking between neighboring states, and with a big chunk of Wisconsin's population just a couple hours' drive from Chicago and Minneapolis, it would even be theoretically possible to vote in Minneapolis in the morning, Madison in the afternoon and Rockford in the evening -- would anybody know?
• In 2000, a wealthy DNC donor was caught giving cigarettes to homeless people in exchange for their votes. While not demonstrably illegal, it certainly represents shady tactics.
• Governor Jim doyle has repeatedly vetoed voter ID propositions proposed by the Republican-controlled state assembly. I don't understand opposition to such a reasonable requirement that could go a long way towards improving election integrity.

Kerry won Wisconsin by just .38% of votes cast; before him, Gore took the state by just .22%. If improper voter registration, people voting with nonexistent addresses, and illegal aliens casting votes, a few thosuand fake votes for were cast -- the state may have gone a different way; extrapolated to a national scale, and all of a sudden our election integrity is in big trouble.

You talk like there's only a possibility of cheating on one side of the aisle. To do so is to ignore evidence that Democrats are in fact also cheating. In my home state of Wisconsin, there's extensive evidence that fraud is taking place, and the culprits are Democrats:

• Five paid Democratic campaign workers slashed hundreds of tires on rented GOP get-out-the-vote vans the day before the 2004 election.
• The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel discovered multiple-thousand-vote discrepancies in the number of people who voted and the number of ballots cast in a number of Wisconsin municipalities in the 2004 election.
• In the 2000 election, the FBI was called in to investigate thousands of votes from invalid addresses cast in Milwaukee.
• In 2004, the GOP challenged thousands of invalid addresses [The article plays the race card -- good reporting there, Washington Post] based on undeliverable mail from the voter registration rolls in Wisconsin and Ohio. Their challenges were all struck down.
• In 2000, two illegal aliens went to Racine, WI, told the registrar they were illegal aliens, and then were allowed to register anyways.
• Recently, state Senate candidate Donovan Riley was fined and had his bar license revoked for voting twice in the 2004 election: first in the morning at his vacation house in Oconomowoc, WI and then later in the afternoon at his main residence in Chicago. The only reason he was discovered was his candidacy for state Senate -- which makes me wonder seriously how often this sort of thing takes place. There is no checking between neighboring states, and with a big chunk of Wisconsin's population just a couple hours' drive from Chicago and Minneapolis, it would even be theoretically possible to vote in Minneapolis in the morning, Madison in the afternoon and Rockford in the evening -- would anybody know?
• In 2000, a wealthy DNC donor was caught giving cigarettes to homeless people in exchange for their votes. While not demonstrably illegal, it certainly represents shady tactics.
• Governor Jim doyle has repeatedly vetoed voter ID propositions proposed by the Republican-controlled state assembly. I don't understand opposition to such a reasonable requirement that could go a long way towards improving election integrity.

Kerry won Wisconsin by just .38% of votes cast; before him, Gore took the state by just .22%. If improper voter registration, people voting with nonexistent addresses, and illegal aliens casting votes, a few thosuand fake votes for were cast -- the state may have gone a different way; extrapolated to a national scale, and all of a sudden our election integrity is in big trouble.

A company called Generac, which is 5 miles from where my parents live, just gave out fat bonuses based on how long the people have worked there. It seems like the checks average in the 10's of thousands. Imagine getting a $30,000 check when you're not expecting it.

Here's the full story:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=544877

Hopefully Americans will recognize this before we merrily join the UK and strap video cameras to every public park, building, and employee.

Oh, we'd never go that far. We'll just put up cameras for traffic enforcement. And law enforcement. And then link them up. And upgrade the software to do face/gait recognition and look for "suspicious behavior." And require private cameras at bars, and link those to the police. Then for good measure have the cameras bark orders at people. By then we'll have found other creative uses for the technology, and implement that by little steps.

I just got through writing a science-fiction story combining all of the above with a looming uber-AI trying to prevent crime. Somewhat farfetched and paranoid, but scary, and except for the AI part we do seem to be building that sort of surveillance society, one piece at a time. I shudder to think of the UK's "anti-social behavio(u)r" rules being used to watch people wherever they go and even yell at them through the one-way glass.

First of all, some of you are saying how wrong it is for people to be purchasing PS3's and reselling them for profit. Tell me how that's wrong. It's entrepreneurship at its best. These people have the time and patience to wait in line 5 days while the rest of us have to work. They make some money off it by reselling to people that can afford to pay a crazy price for the console. It doesn't hurt anybody, since the people that can afford the high price get their consoles, the people who stand in line make a profit, and Sony gets the media buzz. It's a win for everyone except the people at the end of the line who really want to keep the system for themselves, but those people should take issue with Sony limiting production, not the people taking advantage of the system. Heck, around here someone paid a homeless person to stand in line for them, which there's also nothing wrong with. Same situation as before, and you have the added benefit of a homeless person making a decent amount of cash for sitting outside.

Now onto crazy Walmart managers.

Basically, this idiot Walmart manager decides that instead of giving the first 10 people in line their consoles, he'll set up 10 chairs and have everyone race toward them. REAL SMART. Some guy runs into a pole (don't know how that happens anyway) and ends up in the hospital. Great job by a Walmart employee messing up a situation that would have been really easy to handle.

Any examples besides from kookie conspiracy theorists and Louisiana?

How about Ohio(pdf)?

On election day, a computerized voting machine in ward 1B in the Gahana precinct of
Franklin County recorded a total of 4,258 votes for President Bush and 260 votes for Democratic
challenger John Kerry.254 However, there are only 800 registered voters in that Gahana precinct,
and only 638 people cast votes at the New Life Church polling site.[255] It has since been
discovered that a computer glitch resulted in the recording of 3,893 extra votes for President
George W. Bush256 - the numbers were adjusted to show President Bush's true vote count at 365
votes and Senator Kerry's at 260 votes.[257] (page 57)

That's the biggest one I know of, though if you read the entire report you'll see a whole lot of smaller discrepancies.

Also in Wisconsin.

It all depends on the weapon. A .22 is pretty pathetic,

I think the principal would disagree with you on the effectiveness of a .22...

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=506457

If you could find a sitation where Democrats have attempted to systematically disenranchise voters, sure. Good luck with that.

Very creative, another fake debunking, where you attack the messenger instead of the facts? I will admit one thing - I remembered incorrectly; the tires were slashed in wisconsin, not ohio. 4 convicted of tire slashing. Apparently the judge doesn't believe the "republican front" theory.

In Milwaukee the newspaper folks just can't get enough of the Wikipedia war. Maybe it's because the Brewers now appear to be out of the race and the Packers are already a lost cause that the writers are hoping to rally for at least one win from a Milwaukee team. Editorial coverage continues: When credibility departs: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=488622 Wikipedia lake ferry entry has lots of back and forth http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=488688

In Milwaukee the newspaper folks just can't get enough of the Wikipedia war. Maybe it's because the Brewers now appear to be out of the race and the Packers are already a lost cause that the writers are hoping to rally for at least one win from a Milwaukee team. Editorial coverage continues: When credibility departs: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=488622 Wikipedia lake ferry entry has lots of back and forth http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=488688

...I do not expect the price of gas to go below $2.50USD here again (...I think the oil companies have basically seen that,...for a lot of people there simply is no alternative and so they will pay that much or more...

Actually, I disagree with you here. Unless there's price fixing or collusion, with a gas surplus you'll see compition take place. One gas station will lower it's price and everyone will flock there, forcing the other station to do the same. Also gas prices are partial dependent on the price of barrels of oil, which we know. If barrels of oil drop in price but gas doesn't, it would be a big red flag for investigation into price fixing. So, no, prices will drop if surplus exploded... only surplus won't likely explode. Not with the current state of affairs in politics for most countries that supply oil to the US. As you can see from this article even $30 in free gas (that's 10 gallons) is enough to make people wait for hours on end.

for a lot of people there simply is no alternative

I completely agree with your main point. For one, I've lived in London for a year and my fiancee is French, where I've visted France many times now who has worked for a train company. I know and have used the European mass transit system quite a bit. And it is a better system, but it is not because the cities are closer together that makes it easier to have mass transite. You can thank the automobile industry for our current state of affairs.

Why? Think about it for a second? During the America Civil war, countless rail lines where being laid. Shortly afterwards the immense "trans-continental rail-road' was finished and heralded as a new achievement. Rail/Trains where quite popular then and it only appears to be getting better. Until the Automobiles started to be mass produced and affordable. Automobile industries started to buy up the trolly, tram, and train companies and then shut them down. Why? So people would buy more cars. The automobile industry properly lobbied all the white house endlessly to build roads for their cars to travel on. Long story short... we now have millions of miles of roads and rail lines that are being abandonded because of lack of use and increase of costs.

I think about this all the time while I'm driving down the interstate or highway... "Where could we put rail lines?". I would love to move back to the UK/Europe and I'll be working on that in the future. I lived in an area that had a 5 min walk to up to 3 different rail stations (not always that common). Otherwise, I could catch a bus at 5 different locations to get to where I wanted to go. I wouldn't need a car. I could get a train to another country for vacation or to the airport for longer distance travel. I loved the cities in Germany, like Frieburg, that had the trolly system that could take you downtown and back. I think the Paris Metro(subway) sucks (compared to the London Tube) but it does what it's suppose to do.

The only sad thing is to see how much the British still loved to drive cars. I guess I can't blame them. I enjoy driving my cars as well, and there are different benefits and draw backs to driving vs taking the train (canceled trains, the commuter rush, break downs, etc).

It's too bad to have high pass prices, however, if this finally kicks some people in the nuts hard enough, maybe we can move away from this SUV culture that I've never agreed with. SUV's have been a bigger curse than a gift. They're not just for a status symble, they're also for the insecure and crappy driver. There's a lot of SUV's purchased because people feel 'safer' in them. As mentioned by many people in this comments section, an SUV hitting a car will often destory the car. So, what happens? People buy SUVs because they value their life more than others. They're not thinking "hey, if I cause an accident, at least I won't die." Or maybe you will

Considering that they're generally not the ones slashing get-out-the-vote van tires, shooting out the windows of rival campaign offices (also happened in Huntinton, WV, BTW), I'd guess that, yes, the GOP would likely be more civil. Crap, even Nixon declined to challenge the 1960 election even though his case would have been far more believeable than Gore's.

Take a stroll through DU to see just how crazed and freakish your side is. All that seething has to be tiring.

True the dead can vote in Florida, but can they win? http://www2.jsonline.com/election2000/nov00/spot08 s1110800.asp

"Ford said its sales fell 5% in March, largely because of waning interest in its SUVs.

Sales of Ford, Lincoln and Mercury cars were flat for the month compared with March 2005, but truck and SUV sales were down 7%. Sales of the Ford Explorer took a 25% dive."

http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/jun 05/carlson_060905_big.jpg - only a slight exaggeration, this really happened

Here's one humorous one...

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=388195

others:

http://www.tinmanic.com/archives/2005/01/26/ma-bel l/
http://www.ericofon.com/history.htm

I'm in medical school, and once you commit yourself to being a physician, you are expected to conduct yourself professionally in and out of school, just as you would on or off duty as a doctor, regardless of place or time.

So if you are accused of misconduct at your school, do your officials A) conduct an investigation, tell you what the charges are, and give you a chance to respond with an avenue for appeal or B) move right into the punishment phase? Because that's what all you apologists for the University keep missing: the irony and hypocrisy of committing gross procedural and ethical violations in the process of punishing a student for alleged violations of school policy. And speaking of those alleged violations...

"Daniel D'Angelo, an adjunct associate professor of behavioral sciences in the School of Dentistry, agreed. He reviewed the student's blog entries at the request of his parents before the conduct hearing. D'Angelo, who is a co-director of Marquette's Ethics and Professionalism curriculum, determined that the postings did not justify disciplinary action.

"What he wrote was imprudent, immature and oftentimes distasteful," D'Angelo wrote in a letter to Anthony Ziebert, a professor who headed the student-faculty review committee that heard the case. "But no matter how much I or anyone else find these entries, rude, distasteful and imprudent, it doesn't make these entries unethical or immoral.""

It seems from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article that Marquette is justifying its decision on the basis that its dental students are expected to follow a professional code of conduct. This is not, in general, an unreasonable position. Regardless of whether Marquette is to be considered a public or private institution, its administrators are entitled to enforce certain norms of behavior.

In deciding the case at hand, the true question is whether the student's comments were public or private. If private, they should not be subject to regulation. If public in the way that a newspaper article or a bathroom graffito is public, their author must take responsibility for his words and defend them on the basis of their content. The right way to argue on his behalf is not to claim that he is entitled to say anything he pleases, but to show that his words did not violate the university's regulations.

Since requiring a photo ID is too much, my solution is to use the purple finger dye they used in Iraq. Hopefully there aren't too many outspoken fingerless individuals for that to work.

I'm not surprised that the circulation of most newspapers is going down. What is happening is that there are too many liberal reporters and editors chasing after too few liberal readers. It isn't that anyone is intentionally "punishing" these papers, rather this is simply supply and demand. The invisible hand strikes again. There is less demand for liberal news and more demand for conservative news. Case in point, the circulation boom currently being enjoyed by the Washington Times:

http://www.washtimes.com/business/20050518-120247- 7729r.htm

Another example is Fox news, which currently pulls more viewers than CNN and MSNBC put together. If this were a technology issue created by the internet, you wouldn't be seeing a shift from liberal television outlets to a conservative one, instead you'd see an overall shift AWAY from television as a news source.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/20 04-07-25-media-mix_x.htm
http://www.jsonline.com/enter/tvradio/apr03/133295 .asp
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI CLE_ID=43120

The premiere liberal radio network, Air America, is also doing badly. In Washington DC its listener share is actually so low that it can't even be detected according to the Arbitron rating service:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI CLE_ID=46954

The issue here is not one of technology, but ideology. This country is, day by day, moving further and further away from the left and closer to the right. A conservative person is not going to choose news presented with a liberal bent to it when the same information is available with a conservative bent. The liberal media is basically selling the ideological equivalent of buggy whips. Each year there are fewer and fewer customers to sell their wares to. As a consequence the entire liberal media industry is suffering as a whole. The plight of the liberal newspaper business is just one aspect of this.

Lee

This isn't the same as the original article. The letter from Coulter is an informational letter to parents, telling them that some students are participating in what could be a risky behavior, while the first article was an outright ban . . .

What Coulter is alluding to when he talks about those participating in extracuricular activities is probably along the lines of this. (Article is about students who posted pictures of themselves at a party and drinking, and then had disciplinary action taken against them.)

I couldn't find a good color picture, but here's a perfect B&W one that shows off the slack, deflated-innertube-like neck flab that also seems to be a prerequisite for the position!

Wait! Found a pretty good color photo too!

I'm sure this guy never thought he'd be caught either....

http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep04/262570.as p

My parents still live in what can be considered a "rural" area (only 4 miles from the city, but unreachable by DSL and the cable company has been too lazy). We're frustrated by the lack of broadband options, but recently we ran across the following article.

Frequency grab may air out internet wars

Basically, the guy plans on running a big WiFi transmitter on the unlicensed 2.4 GHz spectrum. How he can run a transmitter at that kind of power (7 mile range) and avoid the FCC is beyond me, but more power to him if he can (no pun intended). I recommend reading the article, as it sounds like a promising concept. I couldn't find any information on his company anywhere on the web aside from some city council minutes, so I'm a bit wary, but hopeful nonetheless. If he succeeds, expect this sort of thing to be rolled out where BPL would otherwise mess with a large portion of the spectrum.

I think MMOGs short-circuit something very, very important. As human beings, we have mechanisms that keep us from stagnating. If we sit in one spot for hours on end, we get bored. But MMOGs are a behaviorist's wet dream, providing a complex system of goals, rewards, whatever it takes to keep the player online for as long as possible. Some people can do this and not fuck up their lives. some cannot.

A friend of a friend who got hooked on Everquest wound up losing custody of her child (under six years old, I think) because she couldn't be bothered to take care of of it---the game was more important. That frightens me.

If we don't get human contact, we die. Literally, we die. (Look at prisoners kept in solitary confinement for months or years in the early days of prisons---their bodily needs are taken care of, but they lose the will to live.) Well, some people can become hermits, but most people can't.

If we didn't go to such lengths to short-circuit these mechanisms---like boredom---the Hikikomori would have to leave their rooms. It's a dead end, and it's self-destructive.

And that's why, despite enjoying Warcraft III immensely, I will never touch World of Warcraft.

Another problem with using the Lancaster Amish as a control group is their relative lack of genetic diversity (due to the founder effect, combined with restrictive marriage practices). Remember, these are the folks who had to start having arranged marriages with Ohio Amish, in order to combat an increasing incidence of Dwarfism.

...or perhaps my friend Gina's restaurant (which was named after the Pyare Square building).

http://www.jsonline.com/entree/cooking/feb05/30385 2.asp

Milwaukee, WI has become a much for voter fraud than Chicago. In the last Presidential election, there was:

- over 5600 invalid address on the rolls (including vacant lots)
- 1200 votes from invalid addresses
- 100 votes where people voted twice, or used fake names, false addresses or the names of
dead people
- 278 felons illegally voted
- tire slashing of vehicles meant to bring people to the polls

And this is just the city of Milwaukee. And this is just the proven problems. And this is a state that had the narrowest margin on the presidential race in the county.

Here is a article from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal talking about the problems and the various suggestions for fixing it.

Not that Ted, the one from Alaska. I wonder how many pages of info his staff turned up in their identity theft exercise about his nose picking?

http://www.jsonline.com/news/president/0213notes.a sp

/.'s article here is the first I've heard of this Real ID plan...

Well, aside from the obvious fact that since the neo-con coup the network media hasn't covered anything except talking-dubya-points, the reason you haven't noticed this tidbit of legistlation (which apparently started back in Feburary) is because "liberal media" has painted it as an immagration issue - that is: the only people targeted by this legislation according to the to PTB and their media cheerleaders were illegal aliens - I heard it debated on Faux News as an immagration issue a least a month ago. I would have to say either a) you haven't been paying attention, or b) you are foolish enough to a ctually believe the that the motives these pseudo-news agencies put forward are the actual intent of the neo-con coup. Nothing could be further from the truth, of course...

Here is a list of articles about this legislation (trivially found using Google) from some touchy feely immagration rights outfit that no one will pay any attention to.

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The REAL ID Act in the Media

• "Jewish Groups Oppose US's Stricter Controls on Asylum," Jerusalem Post, March 9, 2005
• "Death Sentence?" Christianity Today, March 8, 2005
• "Republican Plan Would Tighten Laws for Asylum Cases," Hearst Newspapers, March 6, 2005
• "Keep the Doors Open," The Jewish Week editorial, February 25, 2005
• "Unwelcome Mat," The Boston Globe, February 25, 2005
• "Religious Asylum Assailed," Family News in Focus, February 22, 2005 (PDF - 51KB)
• "Proyecto de ley torpedea el derecho de asilo," El Nuevo Herald, February 22, 2005
• "Conservative camps split on tightening asylum," The Boston Globe, February 21, 2005
• "Not broke, don't fix," The Washington Times, February 20, 2005
• "National ID Party," The Wall Street Journal editorial, February 17, 2005 (subscription required)
• "On Guard, America," The New York Times editorial, February 15, 2005
• "Refugee Politics," The Baltimore Sun editorial, February 14, 2005
• "Real ID Act deserves defeat in the Senate," San Antonio Express-News editorial, February 18, 2005
• "Playing the terror card," Contra Costa Times, February 14, 2005
• "Ineffectual migrant policy," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial

Sooo....if rigorous monitoring and filtering could stop someone like this guy, would you feel a little less 'scared' about the monitoring and filtering? http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/sep04/262570.as p ???

Actually, it was much more recent. It was this case

I believe that the case in reference is one that went to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The case dealt with a grocer named Munir Hamdan who was carrying a concealed weapon on his own private property. The court ruled that this practice is not illegal.

Nobody said anything about ABC, CBS, NBC, or CNN. Nobody but you, that is.

And yes, Fox leans toward the side of evil. It's true. Evil, loud, bigoted, xenophobic, misogynistic, fat, angry, dumb, NASCAR-devouring, Wal-Mart-enjoying, backyard-wrestling, idiot-haired white people. Like those who populate most of our great nation, sucking dumbly on their Mega-Gulp cups filled to overflowing with the gray pablum squeezed out of the giant plastic assholes of the megacorporations, staring glassy-eyed at the shiny wonders that float before them on their giant-[wide]screen TVs as they sink slowly down to become one with their Barca-Loungers, and finally peel off into the piano-case-sized caskets that will house their plastic-infused corpses for all eternity, or at least until they're dug up by a backhoe to make way for the future supermall their children are going to want.

Therefore, leaning in the opposite angle should be okay. But if you think it's "most people" who feel this way, you haven't seen the same TV ratings I have.

Second source here:

http://www.jsonline.com/recruitment/basics.asp

It is going to take a bit more than 600k to implement.

And we didn't assume everyone was a theif. No one did anything with the numbers. They just stayed on a sheet on a clipboard. Would you rather we just handed someone a sheet with the last 100 customer's license plates because they wanted it? The numbers were crossed off after the customer paid, and it would take a lot of effort to go back and associate each plate with a credit card.

People complain about this little stuff and then get mad when cities insist on stations requiring all customersto prepay because of all the police reports. Make up your mind people.

Stacie Rosenzweig's take on The Vast Dairy State Conspiracy

Journal-Sentinal

This guy, too.

Just confirming, from the article linked inside the ./ linked article:

Gov. Jim Doyle wants you to pay Wisconsin's 5% sales tax whenever you pay to download a song, book, movie or piece of art
Link: http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/mar05/307622.as p

The summary seems to suggest that all downloads would be subject to tax, like on a per MB basis but it's not that at all.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/mar05/307622.as p

Also, I wonder what costs are accrued to the states involved in internet transactions of this kind that warrant a tax on the transaction. Let's say that sales tax is charged to account for the costs to society of mechanisms of commerce in general. It seems like a download of an e-book incurs fewer such costs, if any.

I guess it's redundant to say that Wisconsin just wants in on that sweet iTunes action.

Do you have any credible news sources to back up this claim? If so, please post URLs, otherwise I don't think many people are going to believe a wild unsubstantiated claim like this.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/2003/09/28/MN25356.DTL

http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interes ting-people/200309/msg00128.html

http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/aug04/2494 20.asp

Already done. It didn't work out well.

See for yourself