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And I suspect that's why he drew a sentence of eleven months for what he did, instead of, say, twenty one months. Or thirty six months. Or 108 months.

Maybe I'll accept such penalties for children committing non-violent "hacking" crimes when we treat drunk drivers and wife-beaters and child-abusers and rapists with the same ferocity.

It doesn't have to be an either-or thing, really. If you feel that society doesn't give enough weight to the punishments in those crimes, you're far more likely to have success arguing that the penalties there should be stiffened. I'll not argue.

It's also being reported that AOL has also made overtures about a possible sale to Google.

It's your ignorant self that shouldn't be allowed to walk the streets of humanity. It's obvious that you have no concept of the problems associated with Autism or Mental Retardation.
We should just lock them up in cages. Out of site out of mind, huh?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9326511/
Let's get them out of those filthy, squalid, snake pits and into the cages of our homes.
Basically, you don't give a damned as long as you don't ever have to see it.

and by the way: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=ostg&FORM=QBH P have a good day!

http://virtualearth.msn.com/
it looks just like another version of Google earth?

If you do a Google Search for "Google's Slogan", all you get is "Don't be Evil".

More importantly a search for "google slogan" on MSN search turns up mostly results with "Don't be evil" - in fact that's pretty much all the results on the first page say. Of course this is third parties usually talking about "Google's unofficial slogan", but the point is, in terms of popular perception "Don't be evil" is Google's slogan, regardless of what their official slogan actually is.

Jedidiah.

"The best selling car in the US is the Camry...again a Japanese brand.

But the best selling vehicle is the Ford pickup, followed by the Chevy pickup, followed by the Dodge pickup. The japanese pickups have yet to hit the top ten. Camry is the best selling "passenger car", at fourth.

"It [Camry] beats the next best selling American brand almost four to one!"

No, it's more like four to three over a Ford Taurus.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5582238/

"American based auto companies have been losing market share at the hands of the Japanese and especially Toyota for some time now. In fact decades."

But they still outsell Japanese brands 3 units to 1.

"the best selling and known hybrid is (you guessed it), - Japanese and that is the Prius."

Hybrids are less than 1% of the market, so who cares? Prius is too expensive, too small and too slow. The battery replacement costs are still unknown. Collision repair on them is becoming a major headache for garages and insurance companies. The jury is still out on those cars.

"Do you drive a BUICK?"

I have two, an '87 and a '97. They're both fantastic cars.

Thank you for that fascinating string of ad hominems, misinterpretations of both my statements and motives, and uncited factually incorrect assertions. That is certainly a wonderful way to bring up the level of discourse and help others whom you believe misunderstand the situation to come to a better understanding.

As I am in a generous mood, I will go ahead and let you know the thing you desperately need to know:

No matter how earnest or angry you are, citing links to specific non-partisan sources to back up your assertions is much more persuasive than writing things you wished were true punctuated with bits of all caps ranting and using lots of exclamation points.

Here is an example. I have a position. FEMA and the White House screwed up royally in this crisis. Besides the obvious top level things like Bush staying on vacation through the disaster and for days afterwards, besides Condi Rice going on vacation after the crisis started, besides Dick Cheney staying on vacation for a week after the hurricane hit, Mike Brown screwing up so badly he was fired, etc., how else have they screwed up since the disaster started? Take a look at the evidence:

Some have denied that FEMA was responsible, or wasn't called in until after the disaster hit. This is false:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20 050827-1.html

The White House held up deployment of other state's Nat'l Guard in LA:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/ka trina_national_guard

Bush dragged his feet on rubber stamping deploying the navy - it was his job to authorize their use and he sat on his hands. The USS Bataan, a naval vessel with helicopters, doctors, hospital beds, food, and water had been cruising off the Gulf since the Friday before the hurricane unable to act for more than a week:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi -0509040369sep04,1,4144825.story?page=1&coll=chi-n ewsnationworld-hed

FEMA sent back volunteers with flotilla of 500 boats:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/01/acd .01.html

FEMA prevented a convoy of Wal-Mart trucks from delivering food and water:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9179790/

FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations:
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-0 0000e2511c8.html

FEMA turned away power generators:
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea .html

FEMA prevented the Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationa lspecial/05blame.html?ex=1283572800&en=1d14ebfbd94 2a7d0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

FEMA won't allow Red Cross deliver food:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm

FEMA blocks morticians from entering New Orleans:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15147862 &BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=68561&rfi=6

FEMA snubbed Chicago's offer o

I realize that it is in vogue among a certain class of partisans to pretend that we can somehow pin the blame for the screwups of the NOLA mayor and LA governor

Please: Go read the New Orleans disaster management plan. Read any objective media and ignore all this politican crap going on. It is inexcusable that a polician would try to benefit off of this, let alone people buy into the crap. Think for yourself!

My background: I work with state-level EMA in a south-central state and am familiar with what the responsibility is at the city, county, state and Federal level.

Bottom line: FEMA is a response agency and requires 2-3 days MINIMUM for the legal process of breaking through federalism controls that protect states and locales. We have been told to have our first responders 100% responsible for the first several days. Those who don't work with Fed vs. state/county/city gov. don't understand that anything that goes between has lots of paperwork and rules. Study your US history to see some of the compromises made between the larger states and smallers and you'll start to grasp why this is. States have a lot of power still and Governors are very testy about giving any of it (rightfully so).

The New Orleans hurricane disaster management plan summarized:

Step 1. If it's a catagory 3 or higher, the levys will fail. They are not designed for anything more. Army Corps of Engineers has provided this assessment and every state pol knew this. There /is/ an issue of the breach, vs. over-running the levys, and there's an interesting thread about at least one barge that blew through (unanticipated) and breached. Still, major credit goes to the Corps for a tremendous recovery. I heard yesterday
that they had positioned much of the resources on Friday-Saturday anticipating a breach (which was outside of the plan).

Step 2. You must do this with 72 hours left or people will die. Simply put, 24-hours is cutting it close for people with cars/trucks. Getting seniors out of homes, poor out of ghettos, and critical care out of hospitals takes days. Looking at the senseless death in these areas, Nagin's evacuation fiasco is inexusable and is the sole reason these people perished.

Step 3. Tell everyone to get out. Radio. TV. Police force. Everything. (We actually activate highway dept. to move traffic one-way in the metros and the LA plan is similar).

Step 4. Some 100,000 don't have cars, or are in hospitals, nursing homes, etc. and need help. YOU, the mayor, are the only person who can help these people get out. Get the busses, mobilize all transportation assets, take advantage of FREE Amtrak trains being offered, and get people out.
Hint: The mayor is the ultimate "buck stops here" decision maker for this. The governor isn't, though she's supposed to take over the city if he fails. 24 hours isn't enough time for these legal steps to occur, let alone it happened on a Sunday when the legal process was essentially closed. Hint: The LA Gov and New Orleans mayor are already at each others throats and you will hear more of this come up as we discover who really failed (the whole FEMA response matter and blame Bush is a red herring for you fools out there who will buy it - FEMA has been faster than any time before, including previous administrations. GIVE THESE PEOPLE A FREAKING BREAK, they are the only ones saving lives while politicians try to cover their asses. If you are a Democrat and want to save your party, do not stand up for these crooked people down here!). My Prediction: Blanco will CYA but won't run another term. She's done, mostly because she froze in a crisis. She meant well but totally froze up. Nagin, on the other hand, is already under serious pressure for total incompetence and may be facing involuntary manslaughter charges. He's most likely facing time.

4. Notify the governor and request support if you need it. Blanco is saying neither happened and lacking proper CYA, she's going to let Nagin

"George W Bush has decreed that, five days later, on the 16th, there is to be a further day of solemnities on which the nation will pray for the unnumbered victims of Hurricane Katrina. Prayers (like vacations) are the default mode for this president who knows how to chuckle and bow the head in the midst of disaster but not, when it counts, how to govern or to command. If you feel the prickly heat of politics, summon a hymn to make it go away; make accountability seem a blasphemy."

"President George W. Bush has always trusted his gut. He prides himself in ignoring the distracting chatter, the caterwauling of the media elites, the Washington political buzz machine. He has boasted that he doesn't read the papers. His doggedness is often admirable. It is easy for presidents to overreact to the noise around them. But it is not clear what President Bush does read or watch, aside from the occasional biography and an hour or two of ESPN here and there. Bush can be petulant about dissent; he equates disagreement with disloyalty. After five years in office, he is surrounded largely by people who agree with him."

I think you're confused on a few points.

1) MSN is a profitable business of Microsoft. And their lead isn't that artificial; they own the world of IM internationally, and have tons of people subscribed to their internet service, not to mention various other properties, like...

2) Spaces (http://spaces.msn.com/ not MySpace, which does indeed beat out Google's offering.

3) Hotmail's pretty darn popular, whether your friends use it or not. And Microsoft lead there, as well as leading in using the XMLHTTP style stuff for web-based email (in their Outlook Web Access products, the reason the functionality was added in the first place)

Umm, Virtual Earth is not a Google product. It is a pretty cool product though.

Yeah but I was more surprised it was not pointing to Microsoft's own Mappoint

Is he OK with a government adopting GPL licensed open source if that same government allows laws that respect software patents or applications of DRM? That does not seem to fit his social agenda as defined by his upcoming rewrite of the GPL.

Can't comment on Riesman; she may be as bad as you say or even worse. Note that Pornified does not cite Reisman, so it would not be fair to tar Pamela Paul by association.

Paul had an essay on Eric Alterman's blog yesterday, talking about the warring studies on porn. It overlaps with some material in the book and should give a pretty good idea of her writing style, objectivity, etc.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/
(part way down the page)

If your second point is true, it's certainly eye-opening, and forces a drastic re-evaluation of the situation. That said, the mayor of NO's scathing attack on the way FEMA handled the matter indicates otherwise...

However, your first point indicates a complete lack of understanding of the situation. I'm not pissed because people were dying, and not because what water was available was contaminated - both these things are likely unavoidable in a natural disaster like this in a modern city.

I'm pissed because the president put your country in a situation where it was incapable of responding to a natural disaster of this kind (wasting the resources of the army/National Guard, and buggering the economy, for two examples), and stayed on his holiday for two days after it happened. He only had four days left on his vacation, and any leader worth the name would have immediately cut it short, if only to provide much-needed leadership in the crisis.

Bush sat on a stage playing a guitar while New Orleans was flooded - don't tell me he couldn't have made a difference by taking an interest, allowing foreign aid in and actually doing... y'know... anything at all.

Referring to GPL as a standard for ultimate freedom does not work any more. As we speak, Stallman is working on a new version of the GPL that is quite draconian. It seems that the little revolution that Stallman wants is not going fast enough so, like most impatient Utopianists, he is turning into a tyrant.

Louisiana is a city, not a nation.

HTH!

I was thinking of a different guy, but is one article about people who have lost weight on such a diet.

I had been seriously researching moving from expensive orange county back to my roots in the cheap northwest. In my research, these numbers are outdated and wrong. It seems most of the data is from 2002. Personally, I found this calculator to be better than most: http://houseandhome.msn.com/pickaplace/compareciti es.aspx {yes, yes, msn... I know}. The have an interesting survey of the attitudes of the areas, but thats very dated (like 1995 info).

Back to the point - I traveled to the places I was considering moving to, and the numbers are wrong. The numbers are wrong in bad ways too. For example, housing prices were much higher than reported and salaries were lower. Many of the incidental things (food, power) were cheaper in cheaper areas, but that's hard to balance against less selection. For example, if I go to buy a car here, I have a hundred or so dealers to shop. More competition and greater turnover equals lower prices on many things. However, if you're moving from more affordable to less, you're in for a very big sticker shock considering how insane real estate is currently priced.

Now, to be clear, I hate California. I moved here for my wife and her family. There are two major reasons I stay here. 1) Some of my debts stay the same no matter where I live. Thus, to service such debts, it will take a much greater share of my income in an affordable area than in an expensive area. Thankfully, I'm about to pay those off, because... 2) High cost of living areas are expensive in large part due to high demand to live in those areas. As a result, better than average returns on real estate. (even without the crazy real estate bubble currently going on).

Actually, they made $29.6 billion in profits. Of course, that constitutes only a 10% profit margin.

For all of everybody's bitching about oil companies, here are some net profit rates for a couple of oil companies:

Exxon-Mobil: 10% net profit

Chevron: 8% net profit

BP: 5% net profit

Of course, as a consumer, I'd prefer that they make zero profit and lower the price, but these rates of profit don't seem outrageous to me.

Actually, they made $29.6 billion in profits. Of course, that constitutes only a 10% profit margin.

For all of everybody's bitching about oil companies, here are some net profit rates for a couple of oil companies:

Exxon-Mobil: 10% net profit

Chevron: 8% net profit

BP: 5% net profit

Of course, as a consumer, I'd prefer that they make zero profit and lower the price, but these rates of profit don't seem outrageous to me.

Actually, they made $29.6 billion in profits. Of course, that constitutes only a 10% profit margin.

For all of everybody's bitching about oil companies, here are some net profit rates for a couple of oil companies:

Exxon-Mobil: 10% net profit

Chevron: 8% net profit

BP: 5% net profit

Of course, as a consumer, I'd prefer that they make zero profit and lower the price, but these rates of profit don't seem outrageous to me.

Developers must decide whether to make a gaming experience as realistic as possible, allowing the gamer to step inside the character and his actions, or to keep him at a distance through an unfamiliar visual style.

Of course, now that I look for the exact reference I can't find it...

But, here are a few that give the basics of original construction. The Fort that was later New Orleans was built upon the only non-swamp "high ground" at the time. The city was basically set up to be a scam, if you read the history.

http://techcentralstation.com/090305A.html
http://slate.msn.com/id/2125229/nav/tap2/
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal- pe.city04sep04,1,5490304.story?coll=bal-oped-headl ines

The U. of Texas has an EXCELLENT digital map library. The Historical New Orleans are enlightening. Too bad they don't show elevation, though. The one from 1849 shows depth of flooding at the time: 4-6 feet in the western part of the city.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/louisiana.html

Finally, page 20 of this PDF would be nice to own -- if I had $850 to spare.

http://www.arkway.com/pdfs/Cat49.pdf

  -Charles

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6555449/

What would have happened if it had been Detriot or Atlanta?

So what? That was the law of the land. Dura lex sad lex. BTW, it's interesting to note that when people speak about the victims, they absolutely never mention those East German border guards who were killed by grenades thrown over the wall from the West side...

The trial was a complete judicial nonsense, a scam, a farce. The leaders were convicted to please the Western masters, not because there was any legal basis for that whatsoever. The law is a law and if it's passed in accordance with country's legal system, there is nothing wrong about it. Convicting Honneker for instituting a law that Uncle Sam considers bad is a violation of German sovereignty and of common sense.

As for the paradise of the unified Germany, consider that "A September 2004 poll found that 25% of West Germans and 12% of East Germans wished that East Germans were again cut off from West Germany by the Berlin Wall.", also 21% of all Germans want the Wall back, 27% of East Germans aren't happy about current political system, unemployment in East Germany is 21%.

#1 Most popular light truck in America: Ford F150.
#2 Most popular light truck in America: Chevy Silverado
#1 Redheaded Step Child: Ford Ranger

http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0507/31/D 01-264357.htm

So both the #1 and #2 most popular light trucks in America have lower fuel efficiency standards under Bush's proposal.

The Hummer H1 is well over CAFE standards since it is over 8500lbs. So is the H2, Ford Excursion, Chevy Suburban, . Interesting that the Excursion and the Suburban are both 8600 GVWR. Just 100 lbs over the max CAFE weight limit. What a coincidence!

The tax deduction is still foolish. Why depreciate vehicles over 6000lbs when practically any SUV now qualifies. This is not only corporate welfare for "small business" but corporate welfare for Ford, GM, and Chrysler. (BMW X5 GVWR: 6008lbs. 8 lbs over... what a coincidence!)

See, now it is not Bush's fault that the Gas Guzzler tax doesn't apply to SUVs but is his success that the new CAFE standards will include SUVs. I love how Bush gets to ride on successes but blows off failures as the fault of Congress.

Tax cuts worked great for Clinton, right?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5474580/
So Clinton owes it to Reagan, Johnson owes it to Kennedy, Reagan owes it to himeself, Ford to ?, Carter (WTF?). Oh yeah, monetary policy has nothing to do with the economy so let's totally discount this and the politically motivated monetary policy decisions under Carter because the Fed chairman was too much of a pussy to keep inflation under control.

I have a high emotional stake in the mars missions. Recently a good highschool friend of mine passed away in a plane crash. She was a co-op at NASA. In recognition for her work on the Mars reconnaissance orbiter, her memory and name were launched into space with with it. Krys, We love you. Story: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8931065/

Keep in mind that during the tsunami aftermath, scammers popped up claiming to be established organizations (MercyCorps) and tried to scam people into contributing money via PayPal accounts. The FBI busted a guy, who told agents "he thought it would be OK to keep the money to fix his car and pay bills, if he gave some of it to charity".

So bet your ass that this time around, they're watching accounts for aid money for anything slightly dodgy and freezing them. SA has vast supplies of slightly dodgy, and I'd take any report of what went down from them and run through a heavy duty reality distortion field compensator.

This is a good time to bring up that since 2001 Bush has put more oil away in the "reserves" than ever before.

In 2004, the president authorized loans from the reserve to help refiners make up for missing supplies when Hurricane Ivan struck...After Hurricane Ivan struck the Gulf of Mexico in September 2004, the administration loaned about 5.4 million barrels of crude oil from the reserve to five companies. It was repaid by April 2005.

Did you really mean this:

"It will be a cold day in hell before I feel sorry for the victims of any dictatorship ever again."

Wow, that is pretty cold. I'm sure that there are millions of Ashkenazi who would violently disagree with you.

Hell, your attitude was clearly reflected by Americans before WWII when a boatload of Jewish refugees arrived in the US. The authorities turned them back to Europe, and certain death. Good thing we have learned from that mistake and now try to recognize these tragedies before they exterminate millions of people. We haven't been entirely successful, but we still have folks like yourself who frustrate our efforts to save lives.

I now know why you have such a piss-poor understanding of science: You have a limited historical perspective. Try sitting down with victims of the Holocaust and make the same argument about tolerating dictators. You might also parade your lack of sympathy for the victims again and see if they let you get to the door.

History, science, foreign policy, global epidemics,...

There is just so much you are wrong about.

Amazing little tidbit I found at MSNBC: SA is hosted at this site. That's one hell of a load to be able to host entirely through the storm and last few days, but it seems that they've intentionally taked it down to conserve bandwidth (SA doesn't dns resolve for me anymore).

I don't have time to go through a bunch of math here, but predictions are that the CO2 proportion will double relative to the pre-industrial level sometime in this century. (ref)

The fraction may seem negligible since you can't see it, but if you could see in infrared you might have a different perspective. For example, if you release a visibly opaque material such as dark smoke into the air, it can take less than 360ppm to significantly alter the visibility in the area. Now think about what would happen if the entire globe were covered with that smoke and you doubled the amount; that's what's now happening in the infrared band.

So to the over one hundred thousand innocent Iraqi people who have been murdered since the invasion, you are saying to them "no life is better than life under Saddam?"

No one seriously believed the 100,000 number other than the big media outlets out to get Bush at all costs. Check out this analysis at Slate.com - not what one would consider a Bush-friendly source. It's statistics at its worst.

A fact-based, yet still not Bush-friendly source is iraqbodycount.net. Their number is 25-28K.

Now, clearly this is tragic. But consider it in perspective. This isn't Eden where we went in and started shooting up naked people eating fruit. These people were being killed to the tune of 300,000 over the previous decade, where the government sponsored rape rooms for wives and daughters of dissidents, killed political opponents and underperforming athletes by tossing them into "people shredders" and flat-out poison gas attacked its own citizens who stepped out of line. These murders are documented and/or verifiable from excavation of the hundreds of mass graves around Iraq where they bulldozed in the bodies.

Now, consider the current deaths occurred during a time of actual War, that the people have been liberated, and that the insurgents have to import terrorists because the Iraqi people are not sympathetic to their cause. Then please try to restate your case how the Iraqi people were better off under Hussein.

I work in a *very* big company (can't say right now, in the office... but we're possibly the biggest on Earth by at least one metric)

Not hard to guess where.

As someone who has personally corresponded with the whole family before as one of the organizers of the ill-fated Jarrar Family Tour of the United States, and met people who met them personally, I can assure you that they are quite real. Raed, Khalid's brother, is the Raed of "Dear Raed" fame (infamous "Salam Pax"'s blog, the owner of which later ended up becoming a journalist, and who earlier was the interpreter of Slate reporter Peter Maass). He's also a friend of Ghaith ("G in Baghdad"), a reporter for "The Guardian", who has published some amazing articles in the paper. Raed was also one of the heads of CIVIC in Iraq, which is anything but a fictional organization. Here's a Democracy Now interview with Raed, in case you want to hear his voice.

Also, my nick is Rei, not REI (an outdoor gear store).

If you want great English, read Raed's blog. His brother Khalid doesn't speak as well as he does (although is quite readable), and his mother Faiza often has to rely on a translator.

But with an MSN SEARCH, well, see for yourself.

Uhhh, actually, you are

Congress gave Bush carte blanc to declare whatever wars he wanted to against Iraq.

the first source found via google:
here

After intensive lobbying by the Bush administration, in early October 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives and then the U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to give President Bush broad authority to use force against Iraq.

I seriously don't understand why MS is moving away from where it should be focused.

The moment they announced the takeover, they moved the website and fucked it, check out http://teleo.msn.com/ As usual MS will release the product with tons of bugs.

Now Google with it's half scrambled egg-products can't kill MSN messenger or Yahoo(the better amongst all, yet remaining silent). Google is nothing more than a hype. Ask them to add better features and I am sure they will have as many bugs as MS has because the same programmers are writing code.

Anyway, the heat for time to release will only help Yahoo I think because their products seem to be resonably stable and reliable.

Thank you, Canada. If anyone was going to help us, I figured that Canada would be the country to offer first. :-)

If Canadians or anyone else with a heart wishes to contribute to a real relief fund, follow the link....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9115520/

scroll mid way down for list of links

My community, (Lake Charles - 250mi/400km west of N.O.) has taken on 1,700+ refugees and more will arrive tomorrow. This doesn't count those who are in lodging. The story is the same all over the Southeast.

Nearly 1 million people in Metro New Orleans alone just lost everything they own including their means of income. New Orleans will probably not be able to take them back for two months. Most of their homes will even then still be destroyed.

On behalf of my fellow Louisianians, one great big thank you.

While they don't get "Hurricanes" per se, they do get what is called an Orkan, which is pretty much the same.

That would be because "Orkaan" is the dutch word for "Hurricane".

And no, the Netherlands doesn't really get that many hurricanes. The Netherlands greatest problems with flooding tend actually not to come from the sea but from the Rijn, one of the biggest rivers in Europe, which exits to the sea via the Netherlands. It floods regularly.

The way the dutch cope with this is through dijks ('dykes' in english?) and, more recently, through controlled flooding: as it's simply become impossible to fully contain the Rijn, the thinking is now to let it flood as much as possible into farmland and hence reduce the strain on dijks around more important inhabited lands.

The atlantic threat is there too, while not near hurricanes in power, atlantic storms are far more frequent. It seems easier to contain though. There are barriers in place around the entrances to the Zeeland tidal estuaries, which you can see in the map the previous poster gave as blue lines, and there's a truly gigantic floating set of metal arms, which are rotated into place and then sunk, to protect the mouth of the Rotterdam waterway. (To consider how huge these must be, Rotterdam Europoort, the busiest shipping port in the *world* apparently, can just be seen in part to the right in the picture above, with a ferry sailing down that large channel..)

It's nice to know you won't have worry about driving your GM Auto when it's brakes fail...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9130169/

I wonder if it'll make it to market before GM goes out of business?

Just out of curiosity, has anyone been able to FIND any lately? I haven't run across any in many moons. I seem to recall reading about a rather large bust a few years ago or so, and ever since then no one has been able to find any.

Just curious. Not really looking.

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You mix some truths with boogey man stories and scare tactics - making it hard for people to discern whether you know what you're talking about or not.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/MoneySupply.htm l

http://www.mises.org/story/1837

We can thus conclude that the key-determining factor in the setting of US interest rates is the amount of US excess money supply. Over time this excess is predominantly driven by the supply of money, which is set in motion by the Fed's monetary policies. In this respect the Chinese factor is completely irrelevant as far as US interest rate determination is concerned. So if the economy were to fall into a recession on account of a bursting of the housing bubble we should blame the Fed for that and not falsely point the finger at China.

the fact that demand for oil equates to the demand for US buck (an artificial link maintained by the US through its unbelievable military might)

Pardon? "Unbelievable Military Might"? In the research I do, it's all "currency of choice", no one's being forced to trade for oil in USD. I know the company I work for merely *chooses* to price our products in USD for convenience. I think you've got your economics ass backwards. You should be relating the power of the dollar to the supply of oil. The more powerful the dollar, the more drilling there is for oil, the more oil there is for everyone else. The opposite also holds true. (http://www.mees.com/postedarticles/oped/a47n33d01 .htm - http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P100650.asp) ...and of course oil being used so intensively to GENERATE products and deliver them to market, the lack of availability and high price of oil itself could cause bad things.

The way in which oil/USD *might* be linked is that if everyone else stops using USD for oil right now and the link between USD deflation and oil availability is severed it means that more resources will be available to drill for oil and more oil (should) be available. Which will actual DECREASE the economic problems.

Cutting-edge food preparation and flavor combinations previously unheard of are being served across the world, but especially in places like Chicago, New York City, and parts of Spain.

I recently trekked out to Chicago to visit on such restaurants, Alinea.

Photos from my experience here.

The Tour at Alinea in Chicago lasts roughly four and a half hours and is made up of twenty-five courses paired with nearly as many wine tastings. The executive chef, Grant Achatz, opened his well-documented restaurant to excited reviews this past May.

Each course consists of either a bite or a few bites that almost always incorporates an experimental technique of preparation such as sous vide, industrial centrifuge, foams, anti-griddle, German vaporizers or flash-freeze dehydrators. Alinea presents each course on specialized serviceware custom made by designers like Crucial Detail.

The New York Times, Frank Bruni, writes about this new type of cooking, the Chicago Tribune rates Alinea and NPR's Jennifer Ludden radio documents Alinea with chef Achatz.

Secrets Of The PSP Web Browser

There may be many questions, and please just post comments if you want some good answers.

None of the Examples below will apply to trying this on a PC, they apply to the PSP browser.

First, we need to use this in our examples, so lets get that out of the way.

On your PSP enter the following web site:

http://testing.onlytherightanswers.com/pspkey2.htm

Now wait for this to load and when finished continue.

Many people do not understand how the PSP browser windows function, in fact, many people constantly re-load pages that are already in the browser memory, we will show you how to see if a page is in browser memory or not and many other things in this thread.

Using the Virtual keyboard type the word "browser" without the quotes and then click on the Google button.

This may or may not prompt you asking if you wish to open a new page, you will get prompted ONLY if you have other pages already taking up all your browsers tabs ("windows") you then would have a choice of using one of the currently open brower tabs ("windows") to open your new page.

If you had a unused browser tab ("window") you would not be prompted and the page would simply open.

If prompted pick one of your currently open tabs ("windows")

Now, you will notice that the Google search page is being currently displayed, and that the Virtual Keyboard and Browser seems gone at the moment.

This is Not true, Simply hold down your SQUARE key and use your left or right clear plastic key while still holding down your SQUARE key. You will see the Virtual Keyboard and Browser, if you do it again, you will see the Google page.

What's Happening?

Holding down the SQUARE key and using the clear plastic Keys allows you to Change tabs ("windows") so that you can have multiple windows open at the same time.

Now lets try something else. Again, Holding down the SQUARE key and using one of your clear plastic keys on the top of the PSP display the Virtual Keyboard and Browser.

On the Virtual Keyboard and Browser keyboard, click the clear button, the text that was there the word "browser" should be gone now.

Enter using the Virtual Keyboard and Browser http://msn.com/ without the quotes ("Note: There are quick buttons that will type the http:/// and the .com on the Virtual Keyboard and Browser so that you do not need to type this all.

Click the GO! button. You may or may not be prompted to open a new page, if you are and are given a list do NOT replace the Virtual Keyboard and Browser or the Google tab ("window") choose any other.

Now you will see MSN.com, But, both the Google Search and the Virtual Keyboard and Browser tabs are still there.

How do I get back to then?

Simple, do the same thing, hold down the SQUARE key and then use one of the clear plastic keys to get back to the Google search page or the Virtual Keyboard and browser page.

How do I REMOVE a tab ("window") from my browser memory?

OK, Use the SQUARE key and one of the clear plastic keys to get to the Google search page.

Once the Google search page is displayed click your TRIANGLE button, this will invoke the PSP Browser Toolbars. Using The TRIANGLE button again will close the PSP browser toolbars.

The Toolbar on top displays the web site address and the title of that web page.

The Toolbar on the bottom allows you to do many things, we will explore them all.

Once you have clicked your TRIANGLE key and have the PSP Browser toolbars displaying with the Google search page displaying as well, use your left arrow to go all the way to the left you will see the word "File" displayed.

Now, click on the File Icon, and you will see a menu, choose "Close Page", you will see that the top PSP Browser toolbar is now empty and that the page is BLANK.

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