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Amnesty says US leads in human rights violations following September 11

Released secret documents prove US involvement in Chile

A very brief timeline of US intervention in Latin America and the Carribean

A Cato institute report linking terrorism against the US directly to US interventionist policies worldwide

The Age of Imperialism: an online history of the US

I could keep looking up stuff like this for hours, but I'm getting bored and depressed. Try on google, look for US massacre, intervention, human rights abuse, etc. We Americans need to educate ourselves on what our government has been doing in our name while we weren't looking.

There's some boobies in this.Good enough for ya? For more info click here. Ah google, my only friend.

There's some boobies in this.Good enough for ya? For more info click here. Ah google, my only friend.

Completely false. What the Heck is an E. coli ?

E. coli live in the gut. If they were to become "systemic" in the cow -- even a "friendly" strain --- the cow would likely die.

It takes careful reading of the USDA or FDA materials to find anything even close to an admission that the problem lies in spreading fecal matter (shit) around during slaughter -- understandable from a beef marketing standpoint, but not consistent with informing the public of the truth. The USDA emphasizes testing, irradition, recalls, cooking .... but not source reduction. Here's as direct as they seem to get:

"How is E. coli O157:H7 spread?

The organism can be found on a small number of cattle farms and can live in the intestines of healthy cattle. Meat can become contaminated during slaughter, and organisms can be thoroughly mixed into beef when it is ground."

CDC (E. Coli)

The truth shall set you free. But maybe not that cow.

I mean, really, what was the last 'innovation' that occured in the *nix /world?

Jeez... are you serious? Come on, Unix is one of the more important platforms for research, if not the most important. It is flexible, it is reliable, most of the scientific community is familiar with it. And these days it is also free!

Just talking about Linux I could point you to Berlin, some guys with rather interesting ideas for building user interfaces. Or the Beowulf Project, for massive distributed computing. Or RTLinux (and KURT), for full featured real-time operating systems. How about ReiserFS, that takes database-like balanced trees to the filesystem level. Or SELinux, a research prototype of a high-security operating system.

And the list goes on and on (forgive me for not looking up links, go Google for these ones): SPIN (a dynamically extensible operating system written in Modula-3, runs on Linux), all the research stuff at Mosix (including distributed shared memory, grid management, network RAM and more), the Hello Project (an operating system in Standard ML atop Linux), all the emulation stuff which hardly needs to be introduced, and all the kernel work for supporting different processor architectures.

Also note BDS's Kame Project, an advanced implementation of IPV6 and IPSec; the evolutionary scheduler for Linux; the networking kernel stuff, including the QoS work; OpenBIOS; the User-mode Linux kernel. Look up also the "C10K problem" for an interesting paper on server performance, (and while you're on that, khttpd and TUX kernel webservers).

Unix gave you the Internet, for root's sake. How much more "innovative" does it needs to get?

I implemented one of the Zeroconf internet drafts on Linux for a class project. It can be found here.
It is in no way a complete implementation, but got me an 'A' grade :)

I would go to 1894 and stop the conception of a certain somebody named Gavrilo Princip. The man whos actions set off chain reactions to WW1 and beyond.

The man indirectly responsible for 80,000,000 deaths in 20th century alone. 80M. That's not a joke.

bio

Sorry this is nothing scientific, but thought I would share that small fact which is overlooked in history books.

Fundamentalism mostly is used for groups which are violently intollerant of people outside their own group.

It used to be used for a movement in 20th century Protestantism emphasizing the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teaching, however just as the word "hacker" has been (ab)used lately, so has the word "fundamentalism".

Given the context in which he used it, I believe that most people would read it as something negative. In the news people often hear terrorist and fundamentalist in one breath... this does influence their perception of the word.

For more information about the role JW have had in the protection and extension of freedoms in USA see http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/petjud.html.
In Canada see
http://www.utpjournals.com/product/chr/752/freed om 07.html
.

Or from there own website:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1996/7/22/hist orical_development.htm

This is a listserv message on things medieval that noticed this behavior from some of its Yahoo-using submitters for almost 2 years now. It's sorta comical that not enough people talk about eval, mocha, and expression through Yahoo mail to have made this an issue before now.

• "Liberalitas" is "the Roman goddess/personification of, variously, generosity, largesse, and social virtue".

• "Liberi" are freemen - either born free (ingenui), or having been freed from slavery (libertini).

I will list what I know of population dynamics, in order to show you my point of view.

1. Humans beings belong to the animal family. We obey laws of population dynamics like all other animals. That we can effect the situation to take better advantage of biological laws doe not make us immune to their effects.
2. All animals have a population size that food supply appears as a principal functor. Any "win" on the amount of food produces a "win" in the population size. "You are what you eat" does not only have meaning as a cliché. It speaks a truth about animal populations. The more we have to eat, the more of us we can make.
3. Through our agricultural processes, we have embarked a journey of converting all biomass into human and food for humans. We did this by denying our competition any food. Chickens must live so foxes must die. Cows must live so wolves must die. Corn must live so bugs must die. We currently consume about 200 species a day to make room for humans and food for humans.
4. Each year, on average, we produce more food. Each year, on average, we had more children. Our outlook on Nature as an infinite resource meant for human taming covered up the dynamic nature that species depend on each other.
5. We require several biosystems to survive. We need oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen to form our atmosphere and grease the wheels of us and other life forms we depend on for food. We need dense plant cover to prevent erosion and facilitate temperate climates. We require fungus and bacterial systems to dispose of waste. Without these systems, we will not survive.
6. The only variable of the food/population cycle that we have the strongest control over seems like the food side. Extra food always brings a win on the population side, if not where the food grew then where that food got shipped.
7. Thus to reduce the human population in order to stop the consumption of our life support biosystems, we must produce less food.

Even if a 50-year limit seems like an alarmist position, many conservative scientists agree that 100 years looks like the maximum timeframe. Change must happen quickly for us to save a habitat that humanity can live in.

Some possible research materials for you:

http://www.ku.edu/~hazards/foodpop.pdf

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/10/011 02 6074943.htm


http://www.ishmael.com/Education/Science/

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Jt
crulx@iaxs.net

It's good to make sure those wireless networks are secure... given how often wireless networks can be picked up outside the actual office building: Wireless Network Visualization Project.

$3000 over $2000 is a 30% price increase? Yet another reason to go with the Alpha istead of Pentium math

This is really bad news for SGI. I'd heard that DreamWorks was disatisfied with SGI, but they must be totally disillusioned to abandon SGI's famous massively parallel systems in favor of a Linux cluster! Makes you wonder who will buy the Itanium supercomputers SGI is betting its future on.

> Wow, really? Do you have a source or URI for that? I'm not saying you're wrong, just that it's news to me and I'd like to read up on it ;)

I'm not very expert at knowing which Web archaeology sites are real and which are loonie-sites, and google turns up zillions of hits for sites of the fans of a certain religion that doesn't want to acknowledge that the world existed that long ago, but here is a timeline site that looks reasonable.

You can also find out about it in lots of books; next time you're in a bookstore look in a historical atlas (but not in the religious section) and you'll almost certainly find mention of it.

Like the toast submarine sandwich commercial that aired during the superbowl. I always like when TV interviews "discover" that troops can guess the age of MREs by the expiration date of included chocolate bars and candy. Check it out.

• use wep (airsnort)
  
• obscure your ssid (set client ssid to ANY)
  
• change default passwords on APs (duh)
  
• disable broadcast ssid, but you can't (haha)
  
• upgrade firmware (what's that gonna do)
  
• enable MAC filtering (Lucent WaveLAN cards have a tool to set their MAC address)
  
• Turn off your access points when you are not using them (how mann people are going to do that)
  
• Wave point placement and antenna selection (attacker can use a 12dBi yagi and point it straight at your house)
  

• use wep (airsnort)
  
• obscure your ssid (set client ssid to ANY)
  
• change default passwords on APs (duh)
  
• disable broadcast ssid, but you can't (haha)
  
• upgrade firmware (what's that gonna do)
  
• enable MAC filtering (Lucent WaveLAN cards have a tool to set their MAC address)
  
• Turn off your access points when you are not using them (how mann people are going to do that)
  
• Wave point placement and antenna selection (attacker can use a 12dBi yagi and point it straight at your house)
  

So get off your high horse, it makes *perfect* sense to talk about this being "very unique".

You are simply wrong and here's the evidence to prove it:

Common Errors in English Usage
Some Common Grammar and Usage Mistakes in Undergraduate Philosophy Papers
Bowdoin College -- A Style Guide
The Dirty Dozen
Additional Writing Hints (first entry)
Unique and Other Absolute Modifiers
See Curmudgeon's Corner...our soapbox where we vent our spleen regarding abuses of the English language.

I am a published writer and experienced editor, so you can stop making a fool of yourself and let this drop. Or you can amuse me further by trying to come up with some explanation of why you believe that you are right.

You got lucky.KU[ku.edu] is changing from the more memorable ukans.edu[ukans.edu] domain.
Why they picked ukans.edu in the first place, I have no idea, but I like it better than the generic ku.edu

Now that I have that said...

At one point or another your property (the few of you that actually own property in the USA) was probably imaged this week. Your land is probably imaged 30 or 40 times a year (especially right now where there is maximum sun and sun angles are very high). That 30-40 doesn't count being spied on the NRO or the Russians (or whomever else). Most of the pictures are so low-res that they get what they need for time-sensitive maps (crops, diseases, erosion, land types, etc) that short of you doing something outrageously odd, you'll not be bothered.

How do you think that your precious GPS navigator got its maps? It wasn't from a State Road Inventories since they are not accurate enough. It was from being overflown.

Ever see big Xs, +s or Ls painted on the pavement? Well those are there so the overflight photos can be tied to known geographic locations and the photos can be tied together to build a mosaic.

What makes this story vaguely more intresting is that it is about satelite photos, not traditional air photos. Further the USGS took the photos but the USDA got to use them.

USDA has been overflying on crop validations since at least the 1960s (perhaps as far back as the mid-1940s). How do you think the estimates of crop production get produced? Overflights by Billy-Bob in his Piper with a classic B/W Kodak IR film (roughly 10"x10" negatives, BTW) do most of the heavy lifting then some poor photogramitrist measures whatever was of interest and poof, yet another thematic map.

You folks need some sense of how the world works. Most of this has been happening since long before you were born.

-- Multics

See also:
GEOG 415-001: Air Photo Interpretation
Air Photo Interpretation
And for you EUers, Air Photo Services.

P.S. About crop insurance... go read the USDA web site before you spout about it -- no bailouts there, oh clueless ones.