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The article basically states that when they turned off the flow of ink-4, embyyonic stem cells were free to divide without check. The mice without the ability to produce ink-4 developed cancer within a year and died.

There's a famous principle in Mathematics & Quantum Mechanics, first discovered by the British mathematician GH Hardy, and then refined by Heisenberg, which states that both a function & its Fourier transform cannot decay too rapidly [otherwise the function is identically zero].

Or, as Mic Jagger put it: You can't always get what you want.

So it sounds like The Designer of the Universe [a pretty intelligent Fellow, from what I hear] may have placed the very same restrictions on the stuff He created on Day 5 as He did on the stuff He created way back on Day 1.

http://www.loudeye.com/en/partners/stores.asp

Loudeye has worked with MSN quite often in the past, as well as Packard Bell and Coca Cola. Nothing with organizations known for music sales, but still a large portfolio.

Liberals ruined the newspapers, just like they ruin everything else they touch.

You can argue about whether they're too smart, or just too clever by half, but Roblimo's suggestions are so obvious that even a child would think of them.

Yet even if a hypothetical newspaper were to adopt all of Roblimo's suggestions [and I could add a bunch of my own], no-damned-body this side of an insane asylum is gonna wanna waste their lives pouring over mountains of doom, gloom, despair, ennui, filth, muck, and the oppressive, stultifying, lobotomizing influence of the great leviathan of politically correct marxist propaganda and disinformation which masquerades as "journalism" in the Western World - not to mention that poor, lonely [quite frankly, pathetic] spinster, Maureen Dowd, bitching and moaning about the onset of menopause - even assuming any of this nonsense were true in the first place.

Memo to liberals: Cheer up. Enjoy life. Write about fun people doing fun stuff who experience a little success in life. We're not all ecopagan alcoholic/suicidal lesbian/transgendered native american women's studies professors living off of taxpayer-subsidized humanities grants, covering our naked bodies in performance-art chocolate, and pondering the desperate hopelessness and meaninglessness of it all.

Believe it or not, some of us actually enjoy our lives every now and then.

Or - what the hell? Hang tough with The Culture of Death®, and experience, well, ah, Death Itself©. At least then you'd be intellectually consistent for the first time in your lives. Or deaths. Or whatever.

Alternatively, after she gives birth to that child of yours, you just might discover that that whole Miracle of Life thang has been given a undeservedly bum rap by the Culture of Death.

Mass Nerder The Descendents

...nobis pacem.

...in Excelsis Deo.

http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/melbourne/bushfoolh r.wmv

It's a good one. The laughter from The Daily Show's crowd only makes it better.

I guess they won't for long...

http://www.overpeer.com/contactus.asp

http://www.loudeye.com/common/aboutus/contactus.as p

Lots o' email adresses there... do your worst. ;)

C'mon, just the idea of Slashdot, Gentoo, the producers of "That 70's Show", Rheem, his cousin, brother, both sisters, guy down the street AND Old Man Jenkins starting a music store was ludicrous to begin with! Just because you've got a soft spot for Loudeye doesn't mean that they don't offer a service the good folks above could take advantage of, for a price :) LoudEye, give us some money, we'll give you an online music store!

And all thanks to http://www.loudeye.com/, the music service BEHIND the music service. :)

Loudeye Technologies up in Seattle has possibly the biggest authorized digital music archive in North America, all of it sanctioned by the five major labels and countless indies (they supply audio files to Microsoft, Apple among others), yet they also recently started selling ringtones.

Isn't there a conflict of interest right there?

And I don't know how Orchard could even have copies to sell, we sent it to them to distribute; they aren't manufacturers.

The answer may be that Loudeye created a digital distribution of the music for The Orchard. Please see... "The Orchard Selects Loudeye For Global Digital Music Fulfillment and Distribution"

You may wish to contact Loudeye. Loudeye may not be aware of The Orchards improper dealings with artists.

Here are some links to coverage about "Black Hawk Down" from indymedia.org:
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"Expose Black Hawk Down"
by Amnesty International of Northern Arizona Uni
www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=116352
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MP3 Statement...
clients.loudeye.com/imc/mayday/expose_blackhawk_do wn.mp3
...The moral of the movie seems to be 'Americans get tougher'. No mention is made in the movie of the Oil Concessions that many people believe were the real reasons for the American Intervention...
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International ANSWER has issued a call to leaflet/picket theaters and set the record-and U.S. past and current aims and actions in Somalia and that region-correct.
madison.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2680
..a people friendly event


PS. I still intend to see the movie, 'cause of the special effects', eh ?

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Thankyou for showing me your wonderful gun, please allow me to lie down on the ground - Extract from UN Cambodian PhraseBook .

You can also listen to an interview with Bill Joy where he discusses his ideas around the dangers of democratizing genetic engineering, robotics and computer technology.

Check it out (realmedia courtesy of Vancouver Indymedia).

So while you're right. You may be able to find some music on Napster that isn't offered/offerable on some label's subscription service. Most of the music that people were getting will be available.

And then they need a delivery mechanism. Which is where services like Napster (and it's new subscription service), MP3.com and others come in. We're starting to see that companies that were successful at distributing music (and then sued into the ground) are now teaming up with the labels and acting as their distribution medium.

Apparently they're planning to take a fingerprint of the audio itself, rather than just going off of song titles. It's really some pretty neat technology if you read up on it - www.loudeye.com.

For those that can't/don't want to play .ogg files, the New York IndyMedia Center (whose webserver is actually called stallman) has an MP3 available at http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/nyc/stallman.mp3. File size is "only" ~34MB, instead of 49MB or 113MB for the .ogg
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• Gag order on a First Amendment protected organization;
  
• Seeking information that is relevant to the warrant;
  
• Seeking information in such a way that it doesn't cripple the operations of the provider complying with the request.
  

The alleged crimes here are theft and mischief. Mischief is not one of the listed crimes, so there is no jurisdiction for it. However, it is unclear whether theft is or is not. We are currently looking into the scope of the treaty. We have also asked the US attorney to clarify the basis of his jurisdiction. Not surprisingly, he has not responded.

We did have a press conference on Friday, you can listen to the statement, plus some good q&a with our attorney, Dave Burman. The whole thing is right here.

These people are being arrested because the establishment wants to silence their views. I think everyone deserves to be heard, Dems, Repubs, and everyone else too. Granted, this particular story of swearing at cops & pointless arrest is stupid, but the reason that people were willing to be arrested is simply that they realize and accept the reality that speaking your mind in this country gets you thrown in jail.

And the issues that this is meant to raise are as follows: to show the the wealth gap between the upper 10 percent of Americans and everyone else, to show the senselessness of the failed drug war, to show the brutal treatment that the "criminal justice" system metes out, campaign finance reform, all issues that both major parties are totally ignoring. Republicans & Democrats are really the same party these days anyway.

For more info on the actual issues people want raised - http://www.shadowconventions.com
For protester stories with a point - http://www.phillyimc.org

From the IMC News Blast:

WHY PROTEST THE CONVENTIONS? by Mike Albert
The usual answer to "why protest the conventions"? is to list various violations of humanity that the two branches of our one corporate party - the republicans and democrats - persist in maintaining, and to note that we are demanding change in all these areas: bombing other countries like Iraq and Yugoslavia; starving countries to death as in sanctioning Cuba and Iraq; aiding and abetting massacres in Timor and Turkey, and with increasing danger, Colombia; propelling IMF and World Bank income inequality and ecological devastation; advancing domestic police and prison violence that turns communities into occupied battle zones; imposing welfare havoc that further impoverishes the already poor; facilitating generalized corporate rapaciousness that materially and socially diminishes workers?"

JELLO BIAFRA COMMENTS ON PHILLY AND SEATTLE:
Philly: "It's interesting the planners would have Republic National Convention here because it's one of the most third worldified dramatically unequal cities i know of in the U.S. Seattle: "When high finance becomes a street issue you know something is getting through and it's getting through outside the corporate mass media. What was different this time was seeing the activist environmentalists walking side by side with labor. I see a meeting of the minds and it's very important that everybody out there become a part of this, this isn't just about waiting for us to create the media reports for you. . . it's don't hate the media, become the media."

WHY ARE THEY PROTESTING? Letter to the LA Times 8/2/00
A recent article in the LA times makes no mention of why the protesters are in the streets; rather it drives a wedge between the protesters and the community the protesters want to help. Here's one person's response.

A MOVEMENT-BUILDING CRITIQUE OF PHILLY PROTESTS by Chris Crews
Did Philadelphia build on the momentum of Seattle, and DC? Did the movement get it's message across? This commentary critiques what happened in Philly with the hope of hitting harder in LA. "As this social movement grows, we need to begin to not only think strategically, but also about the big picture. Where do we want this Movement to go, what will that direction look like, what structural changes need to occur, and how will we begin to move there?