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While it's technically true that judges are elected, it is unusual for a sitting judge to lose an election.

This is because the candidates for judgeship are local lawyers.

If they lose the election, it is highly likely they will find themselves arguing a case in front of a judge they've campaigned against.

This tends to ensure that judges run unopposed. That's what I've observed, anyway.

To be fair, that does not seem to be true for this judge (yet), as he took office in 2006 and is just nearing the end of his first six-year term...
but this article says that an overwhelming majority of sitting judges (90+%) run unopposed in California. I'd be surprised if Santa Clara county is the exception.

"Not having to look your enemy in the eye makes things a lot easier."

From Rome to Rwanda, humans have had no problem getting up close and stabby-hacky.

Japan even cultivated "atrocity" as general policy, including bayonet and edged-weapon practice on captives.

http://blogs.uco.edu/graduate/files/2010/09/Japanese_bayonet_practice_with_dead_Chinese_near_Tianjin.jpg

http://www.war44.com/misc/images/1/Nanjing_Massacre_bayonet.jpg

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http://www.gendercide.org/case_nanking.html

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.12.96/gifs/china2-9650.jpg
http://www.ww2pacific.com/atrocity.html

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He doesn't *currently* have a relationship with the boys, but he did when he was with the mother.

According to this article "Navarro had never met the children."
Why are you insisting he did?

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For a lot of people, discovering something new that they didn't know about is part of the enjoyment of reading. If you know exactly what you want, you can order it from Amazon. If you don't know exactly which title, but you are looking for something in a certain genre that you enjoy, or by an author you like, a real-live bookseller can help you find something interesting. This works better for fiction than it would for reference or technical books, but the decline of the large-scale bookstores means that this sort of personal advice will become unavailable to large segments of the population. You can't exactly go look at the table full of new non-fiction or trade paperbacks, pick one up and leaf through the pages, and if you like it, use your 30% off coupon and take it home with you today, if you're sitting in front of your Mac logged in to Amazon.(OK, I know Amazon has this great algorithm for predicting what you'll like based on what you and others have purchased, and you can download and read an e-book immediately, but see my comment about mom's basement, again, and there's this thing about actual books versus having to read it on a gadget.)

Wal-Mart is the cause of the decline and fall of small town commerce. Time after time it's been shown that when Wal-Mart builds a store on the outskirts of a small town, business in that town dries up, the jobs at these stores go away (to be replaced by part-time employment at said Wal-Mart), and the money that people would have spent at locally-owned and operated shops goes out of town. All to save a few cents on light bulbs or pickles. (Even big cities are seeing the same thing.) When the town dries up and blows away because there's no way to make a living there anymore, Wal-Mart closes up shop too (another article), and moves on to conquer the next small town. Much has been written about the aggressive tactics that Wal-Mart uses to exact the lowest prices from its suppliers, many of which have had to move US jobs overseas in order to meet these demands, or have even gone out of business because they could not continue to sell goods to Wal-Mart at a loss.

To turn the subject back to books, Wal-Mart happens to also be one of the largest book and music retailers, and they are known to censor what they sell, to the point of requiring publishers to provide expurgated versions of books and CDs. (Maybe it's a good thing we have Amazon, then.)

For some people, there is just as damaging information on Google. Anyone else remember Charles Booher? http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.26.05/booher-0504.html

Have you forgotten who runs Congress? The Democrats!!! They can pull out whenever they want to and they control the purse strings.

Is Diane Feinstein's husband a Republican? She had to resign from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee due to a conflict of interest with her husbands military contracts.

http://www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.html

And your Democrat Congress very quickly eclipsed the Iraq War costs with their near-Trillion $$$ Bailouts. Congrats, you must be proud to be looking forward to more of this.

The question usually comes to whether there is a legitimate legal use of the item, and how common that use is. As an extreme example, what about an atomic bomb? Could any individual legitimately have one for a lawful purpose? I would say not. What about a hammer or chainsaw? I would say most definitely, and the illegal uses are miniscule in comparison. Then you get into the grey area of automatic machine guns, DVD ripping software, and other items that have substantial illegal use. To not see that there is a continuum is idiotic. Really, you mean to say that you believe that the legal uses of DVD ripping software are important enough to trump the illegal uses, and so should be legal. Acknowledge that there is a line, and that the argument is where to draw it.

As an aside, while not the architects, owners of tall buildings/bridges have been sued for making it too easy for people to jump. Being from the San Frncisco Bay Area, I mention the Golden Gate Bridge specifically.

There's a local rag here in Silicon Valley that did a similar article on musicians who created the tracks for Guitar Her

I know it sounds like a joke, but Superman was quite instrumental in destroying the clan.
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.02.98/comics-9826.html
Going back to the grandparents point about ridicule, when KKK members saw thier sons playing superman vs. the Klan in the back yard with the Klan always being the evil side, they started to rethink thier ways. I'm sure they still held many of thier views, but they became less likely to share them, and eventually they died. An interesting piece of American history of which I only recently became aware.

You know, the Senator who was forced to resign from the Military Appropriations Subcommittee because she was caught red-handed steering billions of dollars of work to a company or two that her husband owns?

Oh, wait. Senator Feinstein has a "D" after her name. So the brain-damaged /. sheep give her a pass. Just like the Washington Post did.

But oh, boy, let any politician with the dreaded "R" after their name even get accused of anything, and the /. dopes jump all over it.

I just want to know one thing - what party did that guy with bribe money in his freezer belong to?

Feinstein? I'm unaware of any bribery charges against her. Is this something where there is documented legal proceedings, or is this a fantasy you read about on some blog?

Read All About It!

http://www.metroactive.com/feinstein/

Feinstein (one of California's senators) is totally bought off by hollywood (dupe here) amongst others.

So some people are trying to silence magazines about a subject they object to, and Amazon refuses to be intimidated or allow them to intimidate others on their property.

Yeah, it shows what kind of company Amazon is, versus Wal-Mart who would have caved in.

I agree with you but I must point out that Walmart is a bit schizophrenic when it comes to censorship. They're well known for taking other things off of the shelf. Here's kind of an old article that goes into more detail.

Since Earthlink was founded by a scientoligist, there's a pretty good chance 90% of your email is going their personal blackmail file on you.

Linus Torvalds first computer was a Vic-20.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.08.97/c over/linus-9719.html

He says the simplicity of the design of the Vic-20 enabled him to learn in a way that today is much more difficult. Read the last paragraph below.

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IN 1981, LINUS WAS A toothy, pale-skinned kid with a blond cowlick living in a suburb of Helsinki, where the weather is cold year-round, save for a few 70-degree weeks in the summer. That year, 11-year-old Linus inherited a Commodore Vic-20 from his grandfather, a professor of statistics at the local university.

As the cathode ray tube's blue light cast a glow on his face, he sat in his bedroom, books lining the wall from floor to ceiling. Ivanhoe, Treasure Island, Robin Hood and all the Tarzan books. On a shelf: a plastic model of the Wasa, a Swedish ship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628. The Wasa, painted in meticulous detail and outfitted with working sails and rigging, took months to finish.

When the first computer arrived, the other projects fell by the wayside. Long past his bedtime, small fingers tapped the dark brown keys of the Vic-20 keyboard. His first achievement on the Vic-20 was the simplest computer program possible: a two-line "GOTO" program in Basic. Once he tried to impress his little sister, Sara, by programming the Commodore to repeat "Sara is the best."

Next he tapped out his first full-fledged video game written in machine code, in which a submarine sails through a moving underwater tunnel, remaining stationary as the operator controls its vertical movement. The craft's captain must stay alive by dodging the "large nasty fish" in the tunnel. As the game progresses, the tunnel constricts. This amused Linus for hours in his bedroom. He stored the program on an audiocassette and took it to school to play with friends.

In hindsight, Linus believes starting on a very simple computer gave him an advantage that today's whiz kids don't have. "Modern PCs are much more complex," he explains. "No kid sitting in front of a Pentium could ever understand all its parts thoroughly."
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There are people out there that tend to obsess, here is article from UO days that tells the same story. There always will be people that obsess over something, be it gambling, sex, job, food, alcohol or success. What puzzles me is that wasting your life away in front of the computer playing mmorpgs is not OK, but wasting away your life in front of the computer pulling 60 work hours weeks is OK.

That doesn't surprise me quite as much as you might think. NYC is actually a bit of an exception. They have some of the best tap water in the country, because it all comes down from tightly-controlled reservoirs in the Catskills, via a large aqueduct. (Maybe more than one, these days.) I'm not sure whether or not it's chlorinated and if so how much, but I can personally attest that it's some of the best-tasting municipal water around. Perhaps the volume and headend quality is high enough that they don't have to chlorinate like other places out in the 'burbs do.

It's no secret that some bottled waters are really nothing but "tap water," either before a lot of junk is added into it, or after it's been run through some filtering to take most of it back out. I'm pretty sure Dasani falls into this category.

I can only assume there are ways that municipalities can meet water quality requirements, and that there are ways that don't involve chlorine. But I have been to quite a few places (including where I live right now) where you can literally smell the chlorine by putting your nose a few inches from the top of a glass, or when you turn on a shower or large faucet. In other places I've lived, this hasn't been true. (Apparently the Santa Clara Valley in CA is heavily chlorinated as well, see this article. And Akron, OH's water sounds downright disgusting.)

It would be interesting to see how much (in ppm) chlorine is in various municipal water supplies, and what the best and worst ones are in taste tests. I know I'll never move to another house/apartment without tasting the water first, at the very least so as to avoid any nasty surprises later. About the only good thing I can say about chlorine is that if you leave a pitcher of water out for a few hours, it dissipates. (Activated charcoal filters also work.)

What's also interesting to note is how long negative public perception of a particular water source lingers. The article on Santa Clara talks about negative perceptions as a result of contamination that occured in the 80s, and I suspect that there will be people in Akron drinking bottled water long after they remedy whatever the problem is with their system. So even if every place in the country had great-tasting tap water, it would take a long time for people to be willing to switch back. And it only takes one bad experience with tap water to make people drink something else, even if it costs more.

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Lying astroturfer, fraudulently misrepresenting company propaganda as objective third party opinion.

• First paragraph gives fake credentials to suck wary reader in. Check.
• Rest of article in hype overdrive. Check.
• Claims alternative points of view are troll/flamebait/bash. Check.
• Article is a disorganised mishmash of "positive" points. Check.
• Claims that making the equivalent of a procedure call to existing code is amazing. Check.
• Claims functionality that's been available for years under other names is somehow new. Check.
• Take home point links to further marketing drivel. Check.

It appears to have been mod'ed up by sock puppets too.

Don't think it's an astroturfer? Learn more about undercover marketing, M$' astroturfing history, non-M$ astroturfing, net astroturfing and non-net astroturfing.

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The majority of modern marketing is nothing more than an arms race to get mind share. Everybody loses except the parasitic marketing "industry".

Notice all the Nutrasweet bashing going on among health gurus over the last couple of years. It was the perfect sweetener, now it causes everything from headaches to severe thunderstorms.

That bashing's been going on since soon after the product hit the market. I think the patent expiring is why you're hearing more about it because there isn't anyone to "stifle" the truth anymore. The headaches are actually caused by brain lesions. But, those aren't the worst part, the blindness is what really gets you. (For the tin hatters out there)

Who else do you know who has given half their disposable income? Let's compare Gates giving with some other billionaires who aren't so unpopular on slashdot. Larry Ellison: According to this thru Ellison Medical Foundation, Larry is giving $100 million over 5 years for research on aging. That's pocket change for a guy worth $17 billion. Warren Buffet, weighing in at $40 billion, gives away $12 million per year, according to BusinessWeek. Again, pocket change, though Buffet says he plans to eventually give 99% of his money to his foundation.

Here's an old story from 2001 about silicon valley philanthropy. According to it, only David Packard (foundation gives $500m/year) is in the same class as Gates.

At the bottom of this you'll find a Nov 2005 table listing 18 Americans worth over $10 billion. Have any of them given as large a percentage as Gates? I can't find any evidence if they have. My conclusion: compared to billionaires or to ordinary folks, Gates have given away an extrordinary proportion of his net worth.

By the way, for those of you unfamiliar with entities like the Gates, Ellison, and Packard foundations, it works like this. You can give away whatever amount of your wealth you want in any given year, and that amount will be deducted from the income on which you are taxed. One way to give it away is to establish a 501C(3) charity, such as these foundations, and endow it with a big chunk of cash. The foundation is required by law to give away at least 5% of its net worth per year. It also needs to be independent of its endower, so it can't be used as a vehicle to manipulate or control e.g. Microsoft. The Gates foundation got a $20 billion block of Microsoft stock from Gates in the late '90s and immediately sold the MS stock for more conservative investments. I assume it continues to invest its endowment and to give away the requisite 5%, which this year tops $1.1 billion. I believe Gates' father directs the foundation. From what I have seen, the foundation has a special interest in eradicating diseases in the developing world; hence their interest in tuberculosis and malaria. But heck, why listen to me when you cand surf the foundation and read about its priorities.

Load that sucker up with "Indian Love Call". It's already been proven effective in battle:

[RAYGUNS FIRING]
"ACK ACK ACK ACK".
"Grandma!"
"ACK."
Oh, my God.
[SLIM WHITMAN YODELING FROM STEREO]"When I'm callin' You-oo"
"Richie, I think these guys are very sick."
"What's happening to them? What's killing them?"
"I think it must be my music."

Funny you should mention that... I was going to post a lengthy article about that very same thing, then decided "what good will factual information do... this is slashdot, after all."

So, in short... After a run-about with Cohen in federal court in the late 1980's (where my wife represented the defendant that Cohen filed against), he appeared again in the late 1990's with a letter from his attorney, asking that we turn over one of our domain names (sexbytes.com) because it violated his trademark on the word "sex". All that is explained here, for the most part with other bits being available here.

Anyway, Cohen went away after I wrote him a nice letter reminding him of our 1980's encounter and let him know I was adding a few "very interesting" questions to the deposition Gary Kremem was going to be taking of him. He went away like a puppy dog with his tail tucked between his legs... and I lived happily ever after, seducing woman after woman, as explained here.

I'm afraid the moral of this tragedy is that some, at least, of the spammers make money, and Charles Booher loses. It's too late to do anything about the former, but perhaps Blue Security can do something about the latter.

Seriously, how long before this is absorbed by some oil giant or some "mysterious accident" occurs to the researchers?

See, there's an issue here. The issue is that you are not watching a bad movie, and mysterious accidents impacting cold fusion researchers are about as real as the characters played by Val Kilmer or Keanu Reeves.

I mean, if you're going to worry about big energy companies running off with technology that will save energy, you should concentrate on how they've stopped us from getting hybrid cars... oh, wait.

Actually, you'd do better to find and link Gary Webb's original 1996 story from the San Jose Mercury News, Dark Alliance.

Once the boat started rocking uncontrollably after the SJMN published it, they backpedalled furiously and effectively destroyed Webb's career. Webb interviewed after Mercury pulls series from web site.

The book Dark Alliance was pretty powerful stuff. Webb committed suicide in December.

And of course none of this has anything to do with the space shuttle.

Actually, you'd do better to find and link Gary Webb's original 1996 story from the San Jose Mercury News, Dark Alliance.

Once the boat started rocking uncontrollably after the SJMN published it, they backpedalled furiously and effectively destroyed Webb's career. Webb interviewed after Mercury pulls series from web site.

The book Dark Alliance was pretty powerful stuff. Webb committed suicide in December.

And of course none of this has anything to do with the space shuttle.

San Jose readers of Esquire may have recognized a familiar name in the magazine this month: Exiled Mercury News reporter Gary Webb, now an investigator for the state Legislature, has a 10-page spread in this month's Esquire about police profile stops, "Driving While Black," a must-read for local law enforcement officials. ... Still, Eye couldn't help but chuckle at one of the "victims" of profile stops mentioned in the piece, Los Angeles state Sen. Kevin Murray. Actually, Webb only mentions Murray--an African American who was pulled over and questioned in Beverly Hills after winning the June primary--in passing. Webb's New Yorkbased editors, however, figured that was enough to devote a full page to a black-and-white portrait of Murray. Perhaps they didn't know that three months ago Murray was reportedly questioned by police after being caught with his pants down--literally--with a well-known Hollywood hooker in his state-owned Corvette in broad daylight. According to L.A. scribe Jill Stewart, the "profile" cops had on Murray was a grown man with a woody standing in front of a prostitute sitting in the 'Vette's passenger seat. For reasons that remain unclear, police did not arrest either the hooker or the up-and-coming lawmaker.

Through additional genetic modification, the modern industrial white turkey has been "improved" to create larger, docile birds better suited to tight confinement.

Because of genetic engineering, the use of growth hormones and steroids in turkeys isn't necessary. They get preternaturally big on their own.

Today's turkeys have been genetically altered to grow twice as fast, and twice as large, as their ancestors.

... One day, we'll be able to do something else than driving our cars through traffic jams
yeah, we'll be doing something else: pedalling. Way too many predictions [if you ignore Bush administration] that we won't have gas to run these intelligent cars within 10 to 15 years.
oilcrash
Scheide
Hubbert
END OF CHEAP OIL
a Reading List
It is getting so hard to care about all this happy-hype car talk about how cool the future cars are going to be. Detroit and Washington may be in denial...let'em rot; just plan to take care of you and yours!

and slightly OT...[to the tune of the "Rawhide" theme:]
Roland, Roland, Roland,
Keep them stories Roland.
All our gas is stolen. Bush Lied!..."

Oh, see what you started! Now I'm gonna get modded down.

When a friend of mine who was going to grad school in Indiana came back here, the first thing she did was force me to take her out to eat because she hadn't been able to find Thai food for six months.
Is Bloomington that bad?

You cannot get real Thai food in the U.S. like that in Thailand; however, around here there are several good Thai restaurants.
Local Population Mix: White: 75%; Black: 11.5%; American Indian and Alaska Native: 1%; Asian: 4%; Other race: 5%; Two or more races: 3%; Hispanic/Latino: 9.5%.
Indian, Mexican, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and even French, German, Lebanese restaurants are available here, even though I do not live in the urban paradise which is San Jose. (Does Milpitas have its city hall in a shopping mall? It did when I was last there but I guess the elected officials decided it was too hard to park far away and walk to the office.) It is not necessary to live in CA (or even on a coast) to enjoy different cultures. Your comment:
There are certainly immigrant communities elsewhere in the US, but only on the coasts, and pretty much only in the major urban areas on the coasts, do you find such a varied mix of people from all over the place, all getting along just fine most of the time.
sounds like a California comment; I say this as a person who lived in California for the first 21 years of his life (and returns fairly often). I realize how provincial ("Limited in perspective; narrow and self-centered.") are (many of) the people in my birth state. (I was at LAX a week ago and the "natives" from LA were very funny.) I have students and colleagues from all over the world. I suspect that I have been to more foreign countries than have you, even though I do not live in San Jose (motto: world's greatest parking lot after Mesa, AZ.).

I work in a grocery store too. The only two changes that I would notice would be:

a) To constantly try to teach the same people how to use the damn things, because let's face it, most people are idiots.

b) A hell of a lot more carts stolen. There are about 1-2 a week that go missing now. With these babies attached, it'll be at least 1-2 a day. Especially in the beginning.

A minor deterant at the moment are the Front Wheel Locks. We don't have those, probably because they're expensive.

Why don't you marry your sister. She's obviously hot and you're obviously smart. Think of the smart cute children you could have.

Man, I remember the days of Linux goth sluts, but Windows sluts? That's really low. I don't even want to know what kind of viruses they are carrying....

there are a lot of queer folk (lesbian, gay, bisesual, transexual/transgendered, intersex, questioning, and the rest of the alphabet soup), myself included, who are sick to death of the monoculture that's built up. there seems to be this impression that once you identify yourself as belonging to a group that identity supercedes any you may have had before. it makes dating a rather unpleasant experience: my choices are guys my age who haven't gotten over the fact that they like cock or guys about 10 years older than i, about a quarter of whom have realized that there's more to life than rainbow flags, circuit parties, and the gap's latest fall clothing lines (gee, i'm not bitter...).

the more i think about it, the more a lot of the media attention on homoexuals has strong parallels to the blacksploitation films of the early '70s. the thematic elements are different, but the market forces are the same: how to best capitalize on the present frenzy of attention being paid to the issue. personally, i'm really looking forward to the day when nobody gives a fuck about this and we can all move on with our lives.

Links:

Mustard gas
Sarin nerve agent

I question the validity of this. I am not familiar with WalMart.com's sales but I bet they are dwarfed by Amazon's sales. (WalMart, in general, however I am sure dwarfs that.)

While cheap, it will take more than a few cents savings to convince people to use Walmart's service as opposed to using itunes. Hey, better yet, why not download for free? Seriously though, unlike their globally dominating bricks and mortar brand, I don't see this taking off as well. But maybe I'm wrong; perhaps WalMart's music service will take off. Hey while we are at it, maybe while people are at the site they will buy a bunch of Lindows PCs too. :)

Plus with the selection available at WalMart (or lack therof) I hazard a guess that WalMart will not be the most prevelant music download service...

We all know which backwater these litigation crazed reptiles (aka music industry executives) were bred in. Kill them now, before they get a chance to breed.

You have to understand: it's not that music industry executives always reproduce at that rate. It's just that Australia doesn't have any natural predators to counter-act the growth of the entertainment industry. Here in America, for example, our high population of lawyers and politicians ensures that there will always be _someone_ who wants to eat a music executive.

If they'll offer a wide range. Wal-mart tends to be somewhat puritanical on what they offer. (Marilyn Manson anyone?).
Still for mainstream music it shouldn't be too bad. Here's an older story about Wal-Mart's controls on music sales.

You know, I'm all for having tax-free gasoline as long as we stop subsidizing the hell out of it. Did you know that if all the money that goes into subsidizing automobile transportation was cut, and all of that cost was added into gasoline, you'd be paying between $3.70 to $6.50 more per gallon?

You're getting to drive your automobile around for much cheaper than it should cost due to subsidies, and you're going to complain about adding taxes?

Until we Americans are paying more than $5 per gallon, we have absolutely no room to complain about any gas taxes, because we're already getting it cheaper than we should thanks to government subsidies. Heck, it could go over $8 a gallon if all the subsidies are removed.

Hmmm look it up yourself implies you could find nothing to back yourself up with and this is of course no diffrent from American weapon sales to Iraq here's the link because there is evidence for this

when the USA is trying to fight down the opressors of this world.

Last time i looked there was no Civil war in the USA (who will get whats being implied there)

he might be viewed as bit of a nut job.

You might be interested in reading this article at MetroActive.com

Excerpt:
In the chapter "My Contact," Firmage writes that in the white-hot weeks leading up to USWeb's IPO, a year ago, he was awakened by his alarm at 6:10am one morning but then he decided to hit the snooze instead of going to the gym.

"A remarkable being, clothed in brilliant white light, appeared hovering over my bed in my room," he writes. "Out of him emerged an electric blue sphere, just smaller than a basketball, which was swirling with what looks like electrical arcs. It left his body, floated down, and entered me."

Firmage soon founded the International Space Sciences Organization with $3 million of his own money to administer a project he called "Kairos," a Greek word meaning "the right moment" or "a critical time." Firmage believes we live in a "kairos" in which humanity is finally advanced enough to comprehend alien beings.

Not that Joe is wrong but this is just another interesting insight into this guy.

I loved the point he made about what if Physics, etc were developed based on proprietary interests. zinnnnnnnnnnnnng!

Here's some SPAM Haiku. Interestingly, Spam is not an acronym at all!

The whole "Chinese Future" concept has been done a number of times: Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Blade Runner. Probably others. Considering their population and rising economic status, it's not an unreasonable idea at all.

However, since Firefly is made for and in America, that means there could be no Asians in it. Only one Asian is allowed to play a primary character at any given time, currently filled by Hawaiian-Japanese Hoshi Sato (Played by the clearly Korean Linda Park) on Enterprise. An unlimited number of Asians may be cast as martial arts masters or hot chicks for single episodes. 75% of asian roles must be cast as Japanese, and only Japanese are allowed to play the parts of members of their own ethnic groups. Animation remains a legal gray area.

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It was flesh, not a body part... sorry...

gertrude Stein said it first.

Okay, damnit. I just don't get it. Please, tell me what is so great about Nolan Bushnell? Let's see. He drove Atari into the ground. He drove the Commodore CDTV into the ground. He drove Chuck E. Cheese into the ground. He founded a robotics company called Androbot and a technology Incubator called Catalyst. Heard of them? No?? Oh yeah, they're history.

Read the metroactivearticle -- it's the most fair. By his own admission, he didn't invent videogames, he commercialized them.

At best, Nolan Bushnell is a one hit wonder who stumbled upon an industry that would have flourished with or without him. Trip Hawkins founded EA, let's celebrate his birthday instead.

Metro ("Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper") recently did an article about environmentally friendly cars, including an evaluation of several models. It's not Consumer Reports, but it does have some interesting points, like the fact that the Civic Hybrid pollutes exactly as much as a regular old Civic EX.

Metro ("Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper") recently did an article about environmentally friendly cars, including an evaluation of several models. It's not Consumer Reports, but it does have some interesting points, like the fact that the Civic Hybrid pollutes exactly as much as a regular old Civic EX.

By Richard von Busack
"By contrast, "Harry Pothead and the Magical Herb" by Los Primos Productions is a million-dollar idea. In carrying it out, however, the Primos went lazy and just told the story in one set: a kitchen, where a mom reads from the latest Harry Pothead as her kids get high. It's illustrated radio: cartooning for the blind."

It was funny.