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All traffic from that search page is routed through http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/mgcssusa0030000003gbl/ direct/01/?q=searchphrase which doesn't really make sense to me. Why would Microsoft do something like that? Secondly, the Official Rules state that you can enter by searching at http://search.msn.com/ which is my preferred method now that I know I cannot search through http://www.msnsearchandwin.com/ without going through atdmt.com. Unfortunately, the Official Rules say:

'When the Web Results of your Web Search are displayed, click the "MSN Search and Win" link located in the "Sponsored Sites" box on the Web Results page presented to determine if you are a winner.'

So this means that someone could have purchases a whole lot of phrases and been put into the sponsored links area. Try a search at search.msn.com and see if you can find the link they are talking about. I searched, 'fast cars' and no such link appeared.

Is this a hoax?

What???? Are you seriously comparing the home pages of MSN and Google and coming to the conclusion that both of them are clean?

Can I have some of what you are smoking?

search.msn.com

What specifically do you find so incredible different about this?

Check out how long it took to return these results: clicky Unfortunately no win. Scoundrels.

MSN Search is quite clean, rather like Google.

Searching for google itself found sooooooo many pages for google that I didn't even know existed.

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=GSM001&q=g oogle

Page 1 of 69,809,028 results containing google (0.09 seconds)

try this.

"litigious bastards" goes where it should.

It even has a calculator: 2 + 2, but no unit conversion. Very limited constant support: "pi" works, but "pi + 2" doesn't.

Almost seems faster, but that could just be because it's more AJAXish than Google search.

I think the way Google presents results is cleaner, but maybe I'm just accustomed to it.

"litigious bastards" goes where it should.

It even has a calculator: 2 + 2, but no unit conversion. Very limited constant support: "pi" works, but "pi + 2" doesn't.

Almost seems faster, but that could just be because it's more AJAXish than Google search.

I think the way Google presents results is cleaner, but maybe I'm just accustomed to it.

Did you read the instructions? :-/

You have to search for a keyword on the list of keywords (eg, "xbox 360"). One of the links (in the "sponsored links" section) will be "Click here to see if you won!".

example click-here link.

That takes you to the same flash page, but with a slightly different URL, and tells you that you didn't win.

(not sure what it looks like when you do win :-/ )

So maybe you could experiment with the latter url. At any rate, you're not going to get anything out of the flash source --- you can win just as easily by searching for the right things from the regular msn search page.

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=censoring+chi na

But I didn't win :(

Yes.

Peak Oil could be 2005/2006, but remember, just because its peaked doesn't mean economies that can afford to pay for it wont get their fix.

Betting against the bull can hurt, I want to see all these gloomy peak-oilists short sell stock and make billions on the impending downfall peakers predict.

I fail to understand why people fear peak oil and get all gloomy, like humanity will just give up and die out and not find other ways such as:

microbes

nuclear

wind

ocean current

fusion

shale oil

tar sands

mile deep rigs

etc.

Sounds pretty optomistic.

Of course, the oil being pumped out of northern Alberta's oil-sands is not nearly as nice as the light-sweet crude you get from the middle east. Alberta's oil tends to be quite sour, thanks to the bitumen. There is some light sweet crude there, but not much.

The oil, which is expensive to mine and process, also isn't easily transported, and is really only suitable for diesel.

And it's not trillians; according to this article, it's more like 175 billion barrels, and potentially 315 barrels with technology improvements.

And according to this article, "There's a lot of sour crude in the world, more than anyone can use. More than anyone wants right now."

I'm Canadian, and while the oil is a huge economic benefit, it's not quite what the media would have us believe.

Solar power, wind power, and water power are the way of the future.

On the other hand, I'm not so sure it 'glorifies' gang culture as much as the critics claim. I've been playing it lately, and damn if you don't just get shot and killed *a lot*. It's a hard damn life, and in any sort of real life that would be no fun. There are personal relationships and such, but that's real... but nobody in the game is clean, or really moral, or just or right... those concepts don't exist in the game.

Does playing the game make *me* want to hang out with someone who has automatic weapons ?!? Hell NO !! I see a Tec9, man, I'm *outa there*, ASAP !! Likewise, I'm not excited about going to a war zone after playing some WWII game, either. Some people are excited about going to war, and/or excited about gunning down people in the street... something tells me that these games don't really change that idea one way or another. What, you don't like the art that reflects a man's reality? Well, best start changing that reality, or making alternative art that expresses the reality you'd prefer...

The article says "Not bad, given that Nintendo DS hardware is in 4 million hands."

Maybe they're talking about just one market (seems unusual though, considering the DS and its games are regionless), but many I've sources claim a DS sales figure of at least 13 million units. Which means it's in around 26 million hands.

So whats the pointy thing protruding above the horizon in the main photo in the linked article here:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11273146/

I was thinking about cursor-less, off-screen touch screen some time ago.

Finally, i've got to think that somebody has already invented it ;)

My idea: [http://spaces.msn.com/esteewhy/blog/cns!6B8EE681D 2C79B18!407.entry?_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview& _c=blogpart#permalink%5D

My first computer was a Quest Super Elf, based on RCA's 1802 CPU. The 1802 has a RISC-like architecture with 16 general purpose 16 bit wide registers and a nice, simple, logical instruction set where the lower 4 bits represent a register. That makes it very easy to hand-assemble machine code, which was the only way you could write code for it, since I was never able to get my ASCII keyboard & display working so I could use Tiny Basic.

How design supporters insult God's intelligence

and the following documentary about some priests who are also hard core scientists:

Galileo's Sons

A few days ago the Pope came out and reinforced the Catholic Church's view that Science and religion are compatible. In other words even the Pope thinks evolution is valid. Here is the original speech in Italian.

All in all the proponents of intelligent design are looking more and more like the snake oil salesmen they are.

oh yeah, one other point. Bush has been wiretapping and spying without warrants on EVERYONE for the last couple of years. He claimed at first to be following the FISA laws, then changed his story and then claimed that getting the rubberstamp warrant was too much trouble -- consistently lying in fact, because he doesn't need a warrant immediately. He can retroactively obtain one up to 72 hours after the spying begins.

His new justification? He doesn't have to follow any laws. As CinC, he IS the law.

Let's break it down. He can get warrants after the fact, basically a paperwork operation. He doesn't want to. Why? No warrants mean NO RECORDS OF WHO HE IS SPYING ON. If he had to go to the FISA courts, there'd be a record that could be perused ten years or more down the road. He doesn't want a record.

He's spying on his "enemies". That'd be Michael Moore, the ACLU, DailyKos, select reporters, all the others. We know for a FACT that Bolton, now ambassador to the U.N., was running the spy operation via the NSA listening in on the US National Security Council members in the time leading up to the Iraq invasion in order to get a fix on their efforts to hinder their plans. If they can justify that, they have no problem in spying on their opponents, and they must logically be spying right now.

They probably don't want to run their spy targets past the FISA judges because the judges would see the pattern and deny them the warrants.

Also, unverified news back up by observation: there's blackmail going on. Broad observation: why are key congressmen so bloody quiet under this extreme provocation? Why are news organisations so cowed?

I've heard som grim indications that Rove and company are using this goldmine of info to shut people up. Think about it. Every email you've sent in the clear. Every website, even "Russian schoolgirls in rubber suits", Congressman John Smith and his staff have visited, every phone sex number called, every escort service phone call, all the mistresses -- this, baby, is Total Information Awareness. They can nuke anyone from Internet orbit. Bush famously said he doesn't use email because he doesn't want people to read "his stuff". Duh.

By the way, TIA is now called Topsail.

One of the first companies to seek the opportunity to try this new service.

You may not only be recieving spam but your domain might be used to send spam.
Your domain doesn't even have a SPF record.

See SPF Record Wizard and instructions on how to add SPF record to your domain.

However, in an interview later that day or the next day Steve Jobs explained that the battery life should be in line with current PowerBooks. Newsweek interview

No, steve jobs himself said that battery life would be "about the same" - which is actually pretty impressive considering the computer is much faster and has dual cores now.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10853916/site/newsweek /page/2/

"Remember, these are the same fuckers that sued the Boy Scounts over a red cross on their "Emergency Preparedness" merit badge; the cross is now green, and has been since 1980."

How stupid of the Scouts. Next time just claim your badge/computer game healthpack/first-aid kit is labelled with an English flag, and tell them to fuck off.

i don't care if you agree with me or not. better if not, no groupthink. :-)
but drawing cartoons knowing perfectly well what the reaction will be is just another kind of attack against muslims, and they react in the only way they can.
Haven't you heard? "Bush urged governments to stop the violence" meaning Iran and others should suppress the riots. If don't see the hint of "or else we'll do it for you", too bad.
Somebody in this thread made a bet that US will attack Iran in the next 6 mo. I wouldn't take it. would you?
back to the topic: this is a clear, premedetated, thought-out attack against middle east, and so warrants self-defence.

Current and former U.S. counterterrorism officials familiar with the two cases and with the range of intelligence methods the United States has used since 9/11 say that breakthroughs are usually the result of information from several different intelligence methods. The officials, who requested anonymity because they were discussing intelligence matters, said that it was sometimes hard to determine which specific intelligence tactic really led to a major breakthrough.

Some officials familiar with the NSA monitoring program insist it played a critical role in providing U.S. intelligence agencies with an invaluable source of "early warning" information about potential Qaeda sleeper cells and plots to attack U.S. targets. Others, including some congressional sources, however, have questioned whether the NSA program's results were really so useful.

As this story shows, it's hard for us to know exactly how useful government wiretaps and other spying has been. But it seems rather absurd to assert, as so many have done here, that it's all useless...

Actually, the reaction to "The Last Temptation of Christ" was a bit more than just picketing. Martin Scorsese recieved death threats and theatres that scheduled the film recieved bomb threats. Granted, no actual bombings occurred, but that might have been from lack of know-how rather than anything.

Also, when Terrance McNally's play "Corpus Christi" was booked for the Manhattan Theatre club, threats on McNally's life and a plot to firebomb the theatre forced cancellation of the play.

One could say the Clinton administration was directly responsible for what happened in Oklahoma City. One could say Clinton knew about the threat Islamic extremest posed in 1993, and yet he did nothing in return because he was a cold hearted bastard. (This is the part where I turn this around so I don't appear to be an ignorant troll) If the US took every threat made against them seriously the need for preemptive strikes would rise and this is generally considered a bad thing.

Remember, most people don't use logic centers in the brain when making decisions about politics, but rather areas usually reserved for emotions. Trying to argue politics with facts is tragically ineffective. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11009379/

In my experience, only sustained and ongoing dialogue can get people to move back to a logical process to make decisions. Of course, our modern mass media/24 hour news cycle is not conducive to sustained dialogue.

However, the legal risk of the kernel right now due to submarine patents is significant. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft were planning to fund a company to do this right now. It would be far cheaper than their current SCO-funded lawsuit, and a lot more effective. This risk, and potential downside, far outweighs that of going to GPL 3.

But spinning new ideas is only a small part of the plan. Sources familiar with Myhrvold's strategy say that he has raised $350 million from some of the largest companies in high tech: Microsoft, Intel, Sony, Nokia and Apple. Google and eBay also recently invested. With this large bankroll, the company is out buying existing patents in droves. (Myhrvold won't comment on these activities, but sources say he has already purchased about 1,000 patents.) The strategy is to set up a sort of patent marketplace. Patent owners get money upfront for the dusty ideas sitting on their shelves, the investors get the rights to use the ideas without being sued and Myhrvold gets to rent those same ideas to other companies that need them to continue creating products. Intellectual-property experts say his plan is audacious and unprecedented, customized for a new, rapidly dawning business environment."

Bush somehow left six months early from the National Guard to go to Harvard Business School. "Bush said on NBC that he had 'worked it out with the military. And I'm just telling you, I did my duty.'"

Maybe Deutsch thought he could also just "work it out" with Texas A&M to leave before finishing his work there, but get a degree nevertheless. After all, he and his boss Bush are above such things as fulfilling one's obligations, that's for the little people that don't have connections. I mean, come on, they both had more pressing things to attend to, so why should finishing their work get in the way?

Homosexual behavior is a form of homosexual behavior, BY DEFINITION. I don't care if you feel you are "born homosexual". Some people are born to be artists. Some people are born to play music. Some people seem to have an almost inate drive towards engineering, or science, or mathmatics. But all those things are voluntary behaviors. All of those are perfectly OK things to do, they are not perfectly OK things to do in all situations.

Playing music instruments is a great thing - but a movie theater is not going to allow you to play instruments during a movie, even if you are a born musician. That is well within their rights.

Even if a policy of behavior makes no sense, or is restrictive, people have a right to make such policy on private property. If I want to declare that my resterant has a "no walking" policy, and everyone must hop (even though humans are born with the urge to walk), that is OK. The policy doesn't have to make sense. That is because it is PRIVATE PROPERTY!!!

In our modern society, dominated by facist and totalitarian ideologies such as you subscribe to, it is hard to imagine that anyone who doesn't share your "ONE TRUE FAITH" is not a bigot. You are taught from a child that you are superior, your views are superior, that you are "tolerant" (without any sort of education on what the word "tolerant" actually means, here is the definition of the word: http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/tolerance.html ), and that anyone who doesn't share your political or moral views should be destroyed or violently suppressed.

It is probably extremly difficult for someone who has been brainwashed to comprehend, there are many people who think homosexuality is fine, that homosexuals should be allowed to marry and participate in all the benifits of public life free from discrimination - but yet still respect that people are free to make their own desisions over what happens on their own private property. It is extremly difficult for people who have grown up with the statist ideal to understand that tolerance means to tolerate those who you disagree with, or who are doing things that you don't like. Many homosexuals agree 100% with what I am saying. They know that a government once allowed to restrict freedom, even in order to promote a homosexual agenda, could also restrict homosexuality once the political winds change. The only way to make any sort of non-violent behavior safe from oppression is to make ALL non-violent behavior safe from oppression.

So your insults (calling me a bigot) means nothing to me. You have no concept of what bigotry is or isn't, other than you vaugly know it is an insult. If you truly want to be free of "oppression", the first thing you need to do is free yourself from your own totalitarian facist ideology.

It's been out for something like two years now. So before you say that google web based chat is groundbreaking, check out this link: http://webmessenger.msn.com/. Works in Firefox, too.

You can't really prove a negative. He had some chemical weapons long ago, gassed some kurds a long time ago, detroyed the rest when told to, and appparently didn't keep good enough records for someone who was itching for an invasion. I never said Bush lied though, don't attribute that to me. I just think anyone who still believes there are WMDs has been sucking the presidential staff for too long.

But.. here's some evidence for you, at least:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7634313/
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/06/iraq.wmd .report/
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/powell-no-wmd.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3135932.stm

I mean, I can keep pasting all day long, just do a search for WMD and Iraq, and you'll find pretty much every news agency in the world reporting there are none found, and admin officials saying there were none there. Unless it's a conspiracy, and the internet is all working together to discredit Bush and company.

The part that I don't get though, this man is not your better.. All men are not created equal. He is below average. The only advantage he has is money. He had benefit of inheritence. I don't understand how people could follow him. I only follow a person who is better then I am. I am better then this man. You are most likely better then him. Most americans I have met are better then him. Have people gotten so appethetic that mediocrity is now a virtue? Is being great just not so good anymore?

Pot kettle black motherfucker.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10705393/

Seems your editorial slants against jews doesn't reciprocate well when the world makes fun of your terrorist asses. So you kill, rape and burn while we laugh at your barbaric concept of the world. Typical reactions - we all saw it coming - you just wish it wasn't. Sorry the mirror isn't showing you what you like, you walking pile of waste. But at least we have pictures to round you all up with now. Thanks for standing out. Now we can stand you against the wall and make protein shakes from your bones.

In a recent article about the "Top Myths" of the shuttle disaster, they explained how gov't/political influence had been debunked as any sort of leading cause, which I don't think you were claiming. Edward Tufte has hypothesized, convincingly, that it was due to information loss from a "telephone game" of powerpoint presentations where the warning signs were summarized and summarized until by the time they reached management, the importance of the signs was all but lost.

After all, he now owns BioWare.

Now how do we get one into Bush/Gates/[insert your favorite villain here]?

Rip-offs are really common nowadays in the casual game space. I swear, at some point, it seems like all of Popcap and Gamehouse's games were rip-offs of each other. Popcap's Big Money and Gamehouse's Collapse are two obvious examples. (And I wouldn't be surprised if they're rip-offs of some other game as well).

In general, the whole "match 3 or more colors" gameplay has been done many times over. Just take a look at Bejeweled, Zuma, and Hexic.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P143257.asp they used to make 45k+stocks, which is a moderate salary. BUT, Brin, for example, made 1.45 BILLION (with a B) selling stock since the beginning of 2005.

NASA's safety issues go beyond the Bush administration.

just said "Don't do that again".

When a cop says 'Don't do that again', how do you interpret that? Do you say 'up yours and do it again'? What happens then? Does he smile and say 'I'm just warning you, have a nice day'? Or does he say 'I told you not to do that! You are under arrest for disobeying an officer! You are getting beaten with a night stick for resisting arrest! You are being shot because I fucking feel angry at your resistance to my orders!'

Here is a video of a police office in the United States shooting a man three times while the man is obeying the officer's orders! Do you think that this is the first time that this has happened? And yet you seem to think that it is insignificant when a policeman gives a warning against legal activity! Are you fucking stupid?!?!?!? When a cop gives you a warning/order you are taking your life into your own hands if you disobey. A warning from a police officer, legal or not, is a direct threat to you and if there is no legal grounds for that threat and you are not outraged by it, then you deserve the night sticking that so many others have gotten!

1. They are spying on people unrelated to domestic security issues like political opponents and anti-war protesters.
   
2. They are going on automated fishing expeditions against "suspicious" people, the vast majority of which are probably innocent or who have so little evidence against them that even FISA wouldn't support it.
   

WASHINGTON - A year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools. What they didn't know was that their meeting had come to the attention of the U.S. military.

A secret 400-page Defense Department document obtained by NBC News lists the Lake Worth meeting as a "threat" and one of more than 1,500 "suspicious incidents" across the country over a recent 10-month period.

The president was granted this power by congress and congress knew all along about it.

Nonsense. Congress knew nothing about it. The wiretaps were "authorized" by the Office of Legal Council, an arm of the Justice Department full of appointed judges, appointed by. . .Guess who?

Nor was there a lot of agreement within the OLC about the legality of the wiretaps:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11079547/site/newsweek /print/1/displaymode/1098/

These are the same people who said that just because we signed the Geneva Convention doesn't mean we're bound by it, but can still bitch about anyone else not obeying it, because it's the law.

I've not seen that anywhere.

Really?

http://www.rense.com/general69/legit.htm

Well, now you have.

KFG

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No seriously, you call this flamebait, but if you look at rankings of the US education system, even within that system alone the falloff rate of whatever index is used is drastic. The handful of highest ranking schools is far better than next group.

Here's a 1998 ranking of western or western influenced nations. Look where the US is:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/1998/02/25/MN54903.DTL&type=printa ble

Granted it's old, but you're not paying attention if you believe the US is getting better not worse.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/13/national /main838207.shtml

If you're not convinced, come to the US and talk to a random person on the street. Ask them a question not related to television and football.

Heck, ask them where Tikrit is for that matter.

You ask for it, you can get it :D