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Bad article - read the orginal for more details
The article being linked to is simply a few bits from a LA Times story which has much more information. The LA Times article has a number of quotes from movie executives that show they realize that word of mouth is key and that they wish to make movies that get good reviews from the initial fans. It does not indicate that the movie companies want to gag anyone - just figure out how to appeal to the initial viewers. In any case bad movies always get a negative word of mouth and good movies hopefully get a good word of movie - improved communications merely helps speeds this up.
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Re:Do you think the recall is fair?
- State sales tax is nowhere near 10%. In Los Angeles County it's 8.25% and I think ours is the highest. At least 1.5% of that is county tax. State sales tax is 6.something percent. That's closer to 5% than 10%.
The sales tax in CA is, and has been for some time, 7.25%.In LA it's 8.25%. Davis wanted to raise this to 8.25% early on after he was elected promising not to raise taxes. This would bring LA up to 9.25%. All these are are alot closer to 10% than, as you try to minimize as 5%.- If state income tax was 10%, I would have owed another $6370.70 last year when I sold a house. I paid 7.77% in the highest possible tax bracket.
The highest tax rate in california as of 01/01/2003 is 9.6%. Davis was talking, very soon after the election of raising that to 11%. BTW, last year, the year you claim the highest tax was 7.77%, is in fact 9.3%. You better have your accountant look over your income tax for last year -- I think you're screwed.
Added to this, if the proposed assembly bill AB1690 gets passed, you can add an additional income tax to your county and city.
I'm of the opinion that you are a demagog and no amount of reason or source material or logic is going to change your opinion. Your very language suggests it. "If people weren't such greedy bastards, we could all just pay "our fair share" of what we need" It's not greedy to want to keep at least 50% of the money I earn. It's not greedy to believe that california's problem isn't that we don't spend enough on education -- we spend more now than ever before, but we're still rated 49 (thank god for mississippi) -- the problem, at least to me, is obviously one of admistration and accountability.
I'm prepared to write you off as uninformed. 7.77% as the highest income tax in CA? 6% income tax? And you say you LIVE in CA? How can you not notice? -
Or just post the direct ref after you log in?
what if you just click here
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Feds going after moreAccording to LA Times article , the Feds are mounting renewed prosecution against adult entertainment concerns for violating Federal anti-obscenity laws. This is after a hiatus in the 1990's when cases were not pursued. Charges in this case are against Extreme Entertainment and include transmitting material over the Internet.
Quoting:
A spokesman for U.S. Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft said the indictment against Extreme Associates and other upcoming legal actions against other major distributors and producers of adult entertainment is designed to curb the distribution of hard-core, obscene materials via the mail and on the Internet.
"The lack of enforcement of federal obscenity laws during the 1990s has led to a proliferation of obscenity throughout the United States, such as the violent and degrading material charged in this case," said a statement by U.S. Atty. Mary Beth Buchanan, who brought the case to the federal grand jury in Pittsburgh. "Distributors of obscenity may be prosecuted under federal law in any district in the country where products are sold."
According to the indictment, Extreme Associate owners Robert Zicari, 29, and Janet Romano, 26, mailed the allegedly obscene films to western Pennsylvania. The defendants also were charged with transmitting six obscene video clips over the Internet through the company's website. The mailing or electronic distribution of obscene materials is illegal, prosecutors said.
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pyramid scheme
From an LA Times article (reg req):
Under current law, distributing 10 unauthorized copies of a work with a retail value of more than $2,500 is a felony -- provided that prosecutors can show that the distribution was done deliberately and with an intent to violate copyrights.
The Conyers-Berman bill would equate offering one or more works for others to copy the equivalent of distributing 10 copies worth more than $2,500.
"When someone makes available to 300 million people a new movie I think it's a pretty fair assumption that at least 10 copies are going to be downloaded," said Fritz Attaway of the Motion Picture Assn. of America. "And when somebody does that, that's grand theft."
Is that really the MPAA's argument? Has Fritz Attaway heard of pyramid schemes, and does he understand why they do not work in the long run? -
Re:Wonder no longer!
I have trouble believing some people make it across town alive on most days.. Lately, some don't.. 10 dead, 60 injured, because an old man doesn't know how to operate his car. He pressed the gas instead of the brakes. The rest is history.
If I was an alien species monitoring and evaluating the Earth, I'd have to say humans would never achieve space travel.
Luckly, I'm human, waiting for NASA to ask for volunteers to be colonists on Mars.
Hey, it could happen in my lifetime.
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Re:Most Damning Evidence:Actually, I think I can top that. When Bush visited Italy for the G8 meeting in summer 2001 (scene of the Genoa protests), the possibility of planes being used as terrorist weapons was mooted, and the airspace over Genoa was closed and anti-aircraft guns were put in place.
And yet they expect us to believe that before September 11, no aerial defenses were in place to protect the Pentagon and the White House?
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Re:RTFA
This is definately one of those situations where the headline writer can see the glass as half-empty (Slashdot), half-full, or (what a concept) both half-empty and half-full.
The Los Angeles Times has reported:
Federal and state authorities reported Thursday that Microsoft Corp. was abiding by many of the conditions it had agreed to last year in its landmark settlement with antitrust enforcers, though they remained concerned about how much the software giant was charging to let competitors use its technology.
(emphasis added)
Similarly, the Washington Post has reported:
Microsoft Corp. is taking too long to alter how much it charges competitors for technology that is necessary for their products to work with the software giant's systems, the Justice Department told a federal judge yesterday.
In a written report card on how well Microsoft is complying with its 2001 antitrust deal with state and federal prosecutors, Justice Department lawyers said they might need the court to force Microsoft to act more quickly. In other areas of the settlement, department lawyers praised Microsoft's compliance.
(emphasis added)
Finally, the New York Times has reported:
Microsoft, in response to prodding from the Justice Department, has made a series of changes intended to make it easier and less expensive for industry competitors and partners to license technical information from the company.
But despite the easing of some licensing restrictions, the government and several states said in a court filing yesterday that they remain concerned by certain Microsoft practices and planned to address those concerns in a scheduled conference with a federal judge on July 24.
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Re:RTFA
This is definately one of those situations where the headline writer can see the glass as half-empty (Slashdot), half-full, or (what a concept) both half-empty and half-full.
The Los Angeles Times has reported:
Federal and state authorities reported Thursday that Microsoft Corp. was abiding by many of the conditions it had agreed to last year in its landmark settlement with antitrust enforcers, though they remained concerned about how much the software giant was charging to let competitors use its technology.
(emphasis added)
Similarly, the Washington Post has reported:
Microsoft Corp. is taking too long to alter how much it charges competitors for technology that is necessary for their products to work with the software giant's systems, the Justice Department told a federal judge yesterday.
In a written report card on how well Microsoft is complying with its 2001 antitrust deal with state and federal prosecutors, Justice Department lawyers said they might need the court to force Microsoft to act more quickly. In other areas of the settlement, department lawyers praised Microsoft's compliance.
(emphasis added)
Finally, the New York Times has reported:
Microsoft, in response to prodding from the Justice Department, has made a series of changes intended to make it easier and less expensive for industry competitors and partners to license technical information from the company.
But despite the easing of some licensing restrictions, the government and several states said in a court filing yesterday that they remain concerned by certain Microsoft practices and planned to address those concerns in a scheduled conference with a federal judge on July 24.
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Attempt to circumvent Miranda rights.
Sullivan even offered to conscript eBay's employees in virtual sting operations: "Tell us what you want to ask the bad guys. We'll send them a form, signed by us, and ask them your questions. We will send their answers directly to your e-mail."
Per the above, it appears that eBay is also offering to help law enforcement agencies avoid giving Miranda warnings. However, this could backfire.
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The Los Angeles Times has a better erticleThe LA Times article on Hilton's "rooms of the future" has less hype and more useful info. Hilton has set up 14 rooms at their El Segundo property with various new conveniences. They assign people who are in their "frequent flyer" type program to these rooms at random, and after they've stayed a night, ask them for comments.
One of the most popular features is very simple - two hooks on the inside of the bathroom door.
Hilton is doing this because they made an expensive mistake. They tried a smart card system in New York, using the same card to unlock rooms, pay for meals, and make phone calls. People hated it. So now they use their rather boring location in El Segundo (next to LAX) to debug.
Hotels have a terrible problem with guest-visible technology - all their users are new. They don't want to hand a manual to each guest, or get calls for tech support. So it has to be subtle. This is good; too many products come with far too many controls for things the system should be managing itself. It's a nice design exercise to design technology for hotels.
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NY Times says - Ha Ha Ha Ha
NY Times, who is still reading that drivel rag? They are up for several Hugos this year. The LA Times has a sister article IT Girls on how much better the world would be with more women programmers.
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For those who say who care:
I've gotten into so many arugments with people about privacy and it usually boils down to trust: They trust, I don't.
They trust safeway to be kind and gentle when collecting all their iformation on every item they have ever purchased, they trust bars to maintain privacy when scanning a person's license to enter a bar. But that is folish.
[Shamelessly copied from latimes...]
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-celebs8apr 08,1,1932749.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dcaliforni a
Officer's Star Searches Raise Liability Worries
City studies possible legal fallout from use of police computer to get data on celebrities.
April 8, 2003
By Wendy Thermos, Times Staff Writer
For six years, Officer Kelly Chrisman used Los Angeles Police Department computers to look up confidential law enforcement records on celebrities and other high-profile people, including Sharon Stone, Courteney Cox Arquette, Sean Penn and Halle Berry.
Chrisman says he was just carrying out orders from superiors, but a lawsuit recently settled by the city for nearly $400,000 alleged that the officer had accessed the records to sell the information to tabloids.
Now Los Angeles officials are assessing the city's potential liability.
According to internal LAPD documents, between 1994 and 2000 Chrisman tapped computer files on scores of celebrities, including Meg Ryan, Kobe Bryant, O.J. Simpson, Larry King, Drew Barrymore, Dionne Warwick, Farrah Fawcett, Cindy Crawford, Elle Macpherson and Berry Gordy.
[Shamlessly copied from techtv]
http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/privacy/story/0
Top 10 List of Police Database Abuses
Law enforcement officers are supposed to protect and serve, but some cops misuse police databases to get dates and more.
By James Hamilton, Web producer
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Your address, telephone number, Social Security number, date of birth, criminal record -- all this data and more can be accessed by police officers if they have basic information about you. Some cops, however, use their database access for less-than-honorable reasons. This week on "CyberCrime" we show you how some cops used police databases to harass exes and even get telephone numbers of women they see in cars.
These abuses happen in law enforcement departments around the world. Here's 10 stories about cops who have abused their information privileges in police departments in Michigan, California, Ohio, and even as far away as Australia.
Cop Suspected of Using Database to Plan Murder of Ex-wife
A State Police detective whose estranged wife was shot dead at a Michigan zoo admitted using the Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN) to check on his wife and her acquaintances, according to Lansing police search warrant requests. Although the detective is not suspected of pulling the trigger, the Lansing, Michigan, police department says it believes he knows who shot his wife a month after she filed for divorce. Read the story.
Rookie Cop Checks on 'Potential Girlfriends': 6,900 Database Searches in Only Two Months
An Australian constable new to the beat used the police database to check on potential girlfriends. In just over two months the then 20-year-old policeman performed an unprecedented 6,900 searches on the police database. The counsel assisting the case says that of those 6,900 searches at least 300 weren't connected to official duties. Read the story.
FBI Files Sold to Mob and International Criminals by Nevada Attorney General's Office Employee and Former FBI Agent
Dubbed the "Secrets for Sale Scandal" by the Las Vegas media, an attorney general's office worker and a former FBI agent we -
Re:circumventing protection != circumvnent copyrig
If you guys REALLY want to have a mind bender the judge is mulling over the fact that the DMCA might be unconstitutional due to the fact that it denies access to works even AFTER the copywrites expire. Here is the la times article on it.
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A more in-depth article at LA Times.You can find a more in-depth article on the matter here, use nopass/nopass to get by the reg if you have to.
While people are busy grousing about Star Wars, there's plenty of other material Lucas already has access to that would make a great movie. Anyone who has played the LucasArts adventure game Grim Fandango would agree it would make a kickass feature film. Glottis > Shrek.
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com.com
You *might* disbelieve the article because it comes from news.com.com, but I personally find them to be the highest caliber of news organization.
Right up there with the LA Times, The National Enquirer, and the Weekly World News. -
subscription-free link to LA Times story
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I thought I might add
That Apple is in negotiations with Vivendi to buy Universal Music. This is a bit off-topic (hence the AC posting) but given Apple's "rip, mix, burn" philosophy and upcoming iTunes-based internet music service, Universal (which sells 1/4 of the world's CDs) could become the first label to shed the failing paradigm of CD distribution and finally move forward into the internet age under Steve Jobs' aegis.
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Add another one...to the list. Imagine!
Imagine what your life would be like if you were removed from it for a significant period of time. Would you be able to pay the bills? Support your family? I think the U.S. went from being a sleepy somewhat lazy rule to complete fanaticism. We are now Land of the Policed and Home of the Timid. See also: LATIMES article
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Lots of alterations.
Having just looked at the photo, there were quite a few modifications made:
1. superimposed two images,
2. The soldier was made larger,
3. the saturation of the soldier was pulled up, some details of his face was added..
To be honest, when that picture first came up, it *looked* altered.
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RTFASeriously...RTFA here they are
The article doesn't mention what alterations were made. As someone with an avid interest in photography, I'm wondering if they went overboard in firing him or not.
Particularly with digital photography, it's common to alter photos. Not to, say, put a tank in a picture when one wasn't there, but to apply an unsharp mask to correct the blur, and tweak the contrast a little.
Plus, with 'challenging' photos in terms of lighting, it's common to take pictures exposed for different things: In one photo, the sunset is designed to look perfect, and in the next one, you instead meter for the ground, and then merge them afterward -- not always to 'change' things, but rather to make them closer to the way they were in real life, but that the camera's dynamic range couldn't accurately capture.
Granted, the mention of some people being in the photo twice makes it seem as if the alterations might have been more than simply adjusting the color tone or whatnot, but I think they should mention just what was changed. (Does anyone have a link to the actual pictures?) -
Re:Where's Waldo
Someone else pointed this out... In the left hand original at this site, there is a guy squatting in the foreground at the bottom left corner of the picture. He's got a red and white bandana around his neck. In the picture on the right, he's now partially obscured by the soldier, but you can see his back just to the right of the soldier's leg. In the composite, you see both.
It becomes fairly obvious when you inspect the crease in his clothes formed by his upper and lower leg, and the pattern of dirt smudged on his knee.
You can tell the photographer changed perspective slightly by noting the position of the blue water cooler. It's pretty much in the middle of the left picture, fairly unobscured. In the right picture, it's now only visible between the arm and leg of the squatting man in the white tunic. Taking that shift in perspective into account, it becomes pretty obvious that the red/white bandana man is in the composite picture twice. -
Re:3rd try?
The space comes from Slashcode, somehow related to prevention of screwing up the page formatting by including extra-long words. You're better off doing this, anyway.
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Link to photos
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Re:Where's Waldo?
Assuming you are looking here, "Waldo" is (I think) a few different people, mainly the guy to the left on the soldiers leg in the top-left photo (the guy looking left who has something red around his neck).
In the top-right photo, the same guy is partially blocked by the soldier, but you can still see his knee and back. On the doctored photo, this guy appears on both the right and left side of the soldier's leg. In addition, there are two people a bit more in the distance behind "Waldo" who also appear to the right and left. Since the angle chanegd slightly between photos, these people were duplicated.
Those three are the only duplicates; the crowd to the right of the soldier in the doctored photo is identical to the crowd in the top-right photo. To the left of the soldier's leg is the crowd as seen in the top-left photo.
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Link to the pictures
If you search for "Brian Walski" on the LA Times website you can find the article and the pictures. Normally a free registration is required but it appears this page with the pictures is not protected.
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Call in the Doctor
Here are the 3 photos Side by Side.
The pictures combine a photo of an army soldier with gun raised warning the crowd about something happening off camera (with everone looking away from the soldier), with a photo of the same solder talking to the crowd gun lowered (and everyone looking at him).
The combined photo has the soldier with the gun raised and everyone looking at him, which makes it appear that the soldier is threatening the crowd with his weapon. The entire context of the image has changed, from the US helping to the US threatening. -
Re:What's the big deal?
If you look closely, you'll see that the digital composition implies that the soldier was directing the civilian with the baby in his arms, implying that this soldier was somehow comforting, directing or otherwise assisting this distressed person.
The actual photos revels that the soldier's raised hand was either unseen by the civilian or directed to something else.
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Re:Link to the photos
Or get it from the horses mouth here
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Link to photos
Here is a link to the LA Times website that shows the photos in question.
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Sports Coverage?
Sports Coverage is their forte? They cover The Knicks for goodness sake. You must be thinking of a more reputable news source that coverages legitimate franchises.
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Re:Should be more like 3000
3000 is quite a lot of theatres for any movie. Of the top five films from last weekend, only one is over 3000 theatres (although they were all pretty close). Check the figures. I've heard this 800 number thrown about, notably in the LA Times and the link provided in the story. I believe that Disney has simply stated that it will recieve a "wide theatrical release". Generally wide releases are considered 1000+ theatres, according to Anime News Network (not that they're really experts).
Also, I've been saying for weeks that Disney should be behind a Spirited Away win, because they have more to gain from it winning than Lilo & Stitch. L&S is already out on DVD, so I don't think SA going back to theatres is an overlapping concern. -
LA Times analysis of DVR marketThe LA Times had an interesting article just Monday about the failure (so far) for DVRs to really take off in the consumer marketplace. Quote: "it must be said that the revolution is way behind schedule. Far from being an indispensable household appliance, the DVR remains a device of cliquish partiality."
Read it here (free registration required, yadda, yadda):
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LA Times analysis of DVR marketThe LA Times had an interesting article just Monday about the failure (so far) for DVRs to really take off in the consumer marketplace. Quote: "it must be said that the revolution is way behind schedule. Far from being an indispensable household appliance, the DVR remains a device of cliquish partiality."
Read it here (free registration required, yadda, yadda):
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Price blunders on the Internet
James Gilden is a travel journalist reporting for the Los Angeles Times. He once found a roundtrip fare on Travelocity for Los Angeles to Rome for $90. Of course, it was a mistake, but he booked it anyway. Read about his experience (free registration needed) with Travelocity. This company rejects 30 reservations per day (or about 10,000 per year) on a total of 10 million annual bookings. When you manipulate -- and refresh several times per day -- databases as big as the ones from Amazon or Travelocity, it's simply *normal* to see mistakes from time to time.
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LA Times article
The LA Times is running an article discussing why PVRs aren't in every home. The conclusion is the structure of cable monopolies is preventing rapid adoption.
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good idea, but won't travel there...after all, someone could mistake me for a terrorist and I might end up at Guantanamo Bay like some innocent farmers from Afghanistan.
Please hold such conferences in countries where "free" still means "free".
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The Valley is a Harsh MistressAfter reading Valley of the Stunned Raccoons at the LATimes page, I thought you might enjoy reading my essay The Valley is a Harsh Mistress.
I wrote it in late October 2000, as the meltdown had already begun to happen but before I had become fully aware of it. I came to a deep understanding of the depth of trouble we were all in when I was out of work the following month, and passed the time by emailing a few thousand resumes without getting any response.
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Advanced Audio Codec info
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Another article and AAC
There is another article at the LA Times. The service will be making use of a technology known as AAC or Advanced Audio Codec. There is a project at Sourceforge with an implementation.
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LA Times
According to this (registration required...bleah) article from the L.A. Times, "Users will be able to buy and download songs with a single click and transfer them automatically to any iPod they've registered with Apple....Rather than make the songs available in the popular MP3 format, Apple plans to use a higher fidelity technology known as Advanced Audio Codec."
As seen on macslash
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Re:LA Times and registration...But it seems that if you link to the printer friendly version of the LA Times story, registration is not required. You milage may vary.
this seems to work for me in Opera and IE, even though Mozilla is my prefered browser
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Putting a Human Face on 'Gollum'
In this column, you'll find interesting facts about Gollum. It was based on a Los Angeles Times article, Putting a Human Face on 'It' (please note that you need to register -- it's free -- for accessing it.) Here are short quotes. Technically, Gollum is not a "he," but an "it" -- an agglomeration of 1s and 0s that required six years of research, scores of computer programmers and countless cycles of processing power to make the animated amphibious creature as believable as human actors. The key, though, was a human actor -- a classically trained Shakespearean stage player named Andy Serkis whose face never appears on-screen, but nonetheless infuses Gollum with enough sadness and pain to make him perhaps the most believable computer-generated character in a movie.
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Will Columbia Explosion Impact Bush's Prometheus?
Following today's Columbia Space shuttle tragedy, I questioned how this tragedy might affect President Bush's recently reported Prometheus Project, which was suspected of reinvigorating the 'NERVA' concept, first proposed in the 1950's, but canceled in the late 1960's due to "excessive development costs." The NERVA engine "would not use nuclear fission as a propulsive mechanism per-se, but rather would expel super-heated hydrogen, flowing through a nuclear fission reactor, as an ultra-high-speed exhaust."
In a January 17 story, the Los Angeles Times quoted Sean O'Keefe, the current head of NASA,suggesting that the President plans to tacitly announce an aggressive plan ultimately designed to send humans to Mars" in the then upcoming State of the Union Address.
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Saddam Hussein
Yeah, that's the ticket, Saddam's been up all night long for weeks in his bunker downloading 'sploits and talking to k1dd1es on IRC orchestrating this attack. He only took time off to praise Allah and to torture a few dissidents; other than that, he's been boning up on MS SQL for the past few weeks.... Sure, he says, the Great Satan might blow me away with their tactical nuclear weapons, but they will feel the mighty wrath of Allah when their unpatched SQL servers go haywire. I will hit the imperialists where it hurts by introducing significant delays in their pr0n downloads and ecommerce traffic....
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No men on marsThe source for this article is the original LA Times article(freg). The LA Times article says nothing about NASA planning a mission "men on mars". In fact, is says the *opposite*. It says they are developing "enabling techologies" with NO SPECIFIC GOAL to POSSIBLY ENABLE such missions.
The Guardian article is bunk.
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Re:Why?Because the American news source requires registration to read. (registration req'd, natch)
Why am I, a true-blue leftist, on board for this? Check out the last two paragraphs from the LA Times article:
One reason President Bush may support the nuclear-rocket initiative is because there is significant concern that the nation is running short on scientists and engineers, analysts said. The number of students studying science and engineering has been steadily eroding while engineers and scientists who pioneered much of the world's most advanced aerospace technologies have retired, creating a gap in the nation's technological know-how and competitiveness.
Bush "may see this as a way to propel more students to go into science," McCurdy said.
Sure, like another poster said, this might just be to reward some folks with some nice contracts, but I'd put my wager on Bush actually getting some good economic advice - rebuilding the scientific infrastructure of the U.S. will pay off handsomely in the long run.
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The LA Times Article
The LA Times Article was a gag-inducing personal piece. I loved how the law is supposedly for little people and their legacy:
To quote the woman in the article, about her grandfather's films:
"I'm happy that people won't be able to take his art and show it in a way that would diminish or hurt it, or put it in a way that he wouldn't have wanted," she said.
From what I can tell, she's mainly worried about people selling tapes on EBay. How horrible. People VIEWING AN ACTORS FILMS! I'm sure that's the last thing he wanted.
I'm glad this woman cares for his legacy. I commend her work. But in the bigger picture, her win is the loss for many of us. I'm sure in 20 years, when the companies go to congress asking for a longer copyright extention, there will be some other justifications.
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Another article on the same subject....
... that I submitted earlier this morning can be found here from the LA Times (free reg, yadda yadda).
This article, I think, does a little better job talking about some of the controversial provisions that would come once the FCC approves.
Some day, we're all gonna miss the days of hooking up two VCRs side-by-side to dub that movie we rented, just like the Gemco salesman showed us. What? We're not supposed to be doing that? -
Another article on the same subject....
... that I submitted earlier this morning can be found here from the LA Times (free reg, yadda yadda).
This article, I think, does a little better job talking about some of the controversial provisions that would come once the FCC approves.
Some day, we're all gonna miss the days of hooking up two VCRs side-by-side to dub that movie we rented, just like the Gemco salesman showed us. What? We're not supposed to be doing that?