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If the federal government has no right to intervene in state's licensing schemes for motorists, then there's no requirement for states to honor each others' licenses reciprocally.

Described by his attorney as a white-haired businessman in his mid-50s, Christ is moving to West Virginia to enjoy a slower lifestyle. He bought property near Lost River, about 100 miles west of Washington, and has a U.S. passport, Social Security card and Washington driver's license bearing the name Jesus Christ.

Original name
But he still falls short of West Virginia title and license transfer requirements because his Florida birth certificate has his original name on it and he has been unable to obtain an official name change in Washington.

Watch the shipping industry die should that ever stop.

None of us thought it could happen here ???

One clue .. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4595173/

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/0 9/08_clarke.shtml

oh.. wait - he's just a "disgruntled employee" http://electromagnet.us/dogspot/modules.php?name=N ews&file=article&sid=67

Does that mean this event didn't happen in the US? http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/f ebruary/26/newsid_2516000/2516469.stm

Or this one? http://www.virtualboricua.org/Docs/hs01.htm

Are the groups identified here not terrorists?
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/puertorico/dan iel-james.htm

How about the KKK or any group who has the word Aryan in their name?

Terrorism has been occuring in this country since its founding. The fear-mongering regarding terrorism is much more dangerous to the stability of this nation.

When you have a crime to investigate, and you have no suspects, where do you start? Obviously you begin by looking at the person or persons who have the most to gain by perpetrating the crime.

This is why we must consider: who had something to gain from the disasterous crimes of September 11th? Obviously not Osama Bin Laden, who would net no financial windfall from the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Although he has loudly applauded the "terrorist" acts of September 11th and even tacitly taken credit for them, there is no reason to believe that he is anything more than a bandwagon jumper. Being blamed for the destruction of the World Trade Center has done more for his image than any amount of militant Islamic rhetoric.

But if not Bin Laden, then who?

It so happens that on December 11th, "coincidentally" 2 months after the tragedy, Credit Suisse First Boston quietly agreed to pay out US$100 million in order to settle an 18 month old investigation into its handling of certain high-profile technology IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). One of the most controversial amongst these being the IPO of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (LNUX) .

VA Linux Systems, Inc., now known as VA Software, is widely derided as a poster child of the dot-com bust, though inexplicably still in business. At the time of the IPO, VA Linux (Software) shares opened trading at nearly 10 times their $30 offer price, closing the first day of trading at $239.25. This meteoric rise made many early investors rich, strangely on account of a company which purports to sell a hobbyist operating system which can be obtained for free on the Internet. "The VA Linux initial public offering is a prime example of market manipulation in an IPO by investment banks, their customers and the issuing firm," said Steven Schulman, a partner in the law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which specializes in filing shareholder suits.

"Because certain favored customers of the investment banks agreed to buy shares in a new issue at inflated prices in the aftermarket (in return for getting an allocation of the shares at the initial offering price) the share prices to which the IPO eventually soared were actually driven by artificial market forces," continues Schulman.

But what does the VA Software (Linux) IPO have to do with the attacks on September 11th, and what has that to do with the Credit Suisse settlement? Well, considering that VA Linux (Software) got CSFB into trouble in the first place, it stands to reason that the VA Linux (Software) Board of Directors were complicit in the stock fraud from beginning to end. As the investigation progressed against CSFB, the unscrupulous VA Software/Linux executives, their pockets bulging with filthy lucre plundered from trusting, hard-working investors, must have realized that their days in the country club were numbered if the SEC discovered their wrongdoings.

The SEC, or Securities Exchange Commission, is a federal regulatory agency, and cannot be bribed. Therefore, with a possible stint in federal prison looming large, Larry Augustin and the rest of the crooks, including outspoken gun violence advocate Eric S. Raymond, decided to undertake more active means to halt the investigation.

The Plan

It so happened that all the evidence in the CSFB/

and four words
and a link

Jayson Blair

The New York Times

http://slate.msn.com/id/2082741/

What is reprehensible and really hard to stomach is that she stooped to such lows as attacking Ms. Jones privacy.
Reminds me of the methods of a science fiction space opera nut cult.

Reminds me of something a little closer to home.

Sorry about that.

The first excerpt came from this review.

The second excerpt came from this review.

But all of them are collected on rotten tomatoes.

The third excert came from this review.

It would be like watching half of The Godfather II and then watching original Godfather beofre going back to the rest of II.

Which is not uncommon.

maybe the other OGG user showed up from the future wearing a retro nerd-fit just to fit in in 2005. Here's the linky.

--Mike

Uh huh, no big deal. Microsoft already provides this service:
http://movies.msn.com/

Not to mention the MSN partner site:
http://cinemanow.com/

I'm personally skeptical of the ITunes movie downloads. Most here would disagree with me due to anti-Microsoft bias, but I personally have always preferred MSN's music service since I get to go through a web browser rather than the clunky ITunes interface (at least clunky on my computer). Plus, I prefer WMVHD over 3ivx.

Here's an article link. The story was covered by a number of different sites and publications.

I would like to see more enforcement along the borders. Both of them. But one positive benefit will be that illegal immigrants won't be taken advantage of by heartless money grubbers who could afford to pay a decent wage if they wanted too.

Most of those crossing the border are just looking to better themselves and their families. We need a legal way to help those who want "the American Dream" and kick those listed above out.

i like s florida
for its shamelessness
and the girls are gorgeous
and the club scene is great in miami
and people drive nice cars
and the golf courses are nice
and the water is bright frikkin' blue

i sympathize with the spammers ... who wants to work hard in the sunshine?

only the hurricanes are a bummer

and imho if the world has to have a spam capital, I'd rather have it here in the US than abroad -- spam isn't going to disappear if we clear up South Florida

read this fun slate article about election fraud and its history in florida...

When you have a crime to investigate, and you have no suspects, where do you start? Obviously you begin by looking at the person or persons who have the most to gain by perpetrating the crime.

This is why we must consider: who had something to gain from the disasterous crimes of September 11th? Obviously not Osama Bin Laden, who would net no financial windfall from the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Although he has loudly applauded the "terrorist" acts of September 11th and even tacitly taken credit for them, there is no reason to believe that he is anything more than a bandwagon jumper. Being blamed for the destruction of the World Trade Center has done more for his image than any amount of militant Islamic rhetoric.

But if not Bin Laden, then who?

It so happens that on December 11th, "coincidentally" 2 months after the tragedy, Credit Suisse First Boston quietly agreed to pay out US$100 million in order to settle an 18 month old investigation into its handling of certain high-profile technology IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). One of the most controversial amongst these being the IPO of VA Linux Systems, Inc. (LNUX) .

VA Linux Systems, Inc., now known as VA Software, is widely derided as a poster child of the dot-com bust, though inexplicably still in business. At the time of the IPO, VA Linux (Software) shares opened trading at nearly 10 times their $30 offer price, closing the first day of trading at $239.25. This meteoric rise made many early investors rich, strangely on account of a company which purports to sell a hobbyist operating system which can be obtained for free on the Internet. "The VA Linux initial public offering is a prime example of market manipulation in an IPO by investment banks, their customers and the issuing firm," said Steven Schulman, a partner in the law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which specializes in filing shareholder suits.

"Because certain favored customers of the investment banks agreed to buy shares in a new issue at inflated prices in the aftermarket (in return for getting an allocation of the shares at the initial offering price) the share prices to which the IPO eventually soared were actually driven by artificial market forces," continues Schulman.

But what does the VA Software (Linux) IPO have to do with the attacks on September 11th, and what has that to do with the Credit Suisse settlement? Well, considering that VA Linux (Software) got CSFB into trouble in the first place, it stands to reason that the VA Linux (Software) Board of Directors were complicit in the stock fraud from beginning to end. As the investigation progressed against CSFB, the unscrupulous VA Software/Linux executives, their pockets bulging with filthy lucre plundered from trusting, hard-working investors, must have realized that their days in the country club were numbered if the SEC discovered their wrongdoings.

The SEC, or Securities Exchange Commission, is a federal regulatory agency, and cannot be bribed. Therefore, with a possible stint in federal prison looming large, Larry Augustin and the rest of the crooks, including outspoken gun violence advocate Eric S. Raymond, decided to undertake more active means to halt the investigation.

The Plan

It so happened that all the evidence in the CSFB/

I even followed up to my own post pointing out my own mistake. I think he was hawking another movie, but he was most definatlely on Conan and he most definitely made that point. Brooks tells that story whenever ratings are discussed.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2000110/entry/1001238/

http://search.msn.com/

I was going to simply laugh this off, but when you check MSN search, it only yeilds one result...

Well it didn't become a part of IE, however ive noticed at the new http://www.msn.com/ the TARGET is the MSN search form - when i'm on my corporate M$ network and trying to type in a domain to one of the internal servers - I end up at MSN search, and THAT changed when MSN search went online.

Microsoft has a long way to go to catch up to google. First thing they need to do is speed up their Infrastructure. Especially with the speed and acuracy of their web search. Another problem is the fact that they use advertisements slowing down the website greatly. True google is an advertiser, but images in their search engine are small, minimal, and no advertisements.

Lastly, the number of useful and inovative projects google has produced makes microsoft look bad. This only leaves copycat items for Microsoft to produce. Here are some tools sites by google. http://www.google.com/options/, http://labs.google.com/, http://www.google.com/about.html. Strange thing is I can't find anything for Microsoft search tools being produced. http://www.msn.com/

Why would he be upset when his own search tool can be used to search for firefox?

Funny how just recently Marketscore/Netsetter hit the news "'Researchware' watches where you click" Spyware or Researchware? and has been condemned for maybe tracking usernames and passwords for sites.

Now Google hits the news and is the darling when they explicitly state that they have access to track all your unencrypted pages and data, including email addresses, usernames, passwords (Google Web Accelerator Basics, part 5).

Quick survey for the interested:
How many sites do you log into that do not use a secure web page and a secure form submission?

be an American politician
after all nobody is going to vote you out for doing your job poorly and with all the corruption going on, its party time every day of the week

drink up !

It's not just the BBC, it's http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7734108/, and http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/04/film. starwars.rating.ap/index.html too...

Interesting how the text is nearly identical...

What is it with automanufacturers nowdays anyway? I look at new cars and their prices and am dumbfounded. Even with all the government safety and emmissions standards you should still be able to buy a brand new car for $5000.00 USD ---and I'm not talking about a $#!+box of a car either.

$5k is pushing it but Kia sells the Rio for $9600 brand new and Hyundai has something similar. See this and this.

I suspect that $10k in 2005 dollars probably compares quite well to the entry-level cost in years gone by equalised by, say, median yearly wage.

My guess is that these cars just do not sell that well. People want a bit more and are willing to pay for it.

What is it with automanufacturers nowdays anyway? I look at new cars and their prices and am dumbfounded. Even with all the government safety and emmissions standards you should still be able to buy a brand new car for $5000.00 USD ---and I'm not talking about a $#!+box of a car either.

$5k is pushing it but Kia sells the Rio for $9600 brand new and Hyundai has something similar. See this and this.

I suspect that $10k in 2005 dollars probably compares quite well to the entry-level cost in years gone by equalised by, say, median yearly wage.

My guess is that these cars just do not sell that well. People want a bit more and are willing to pay for it.

The 2005 BMW 760i has a 'Start' button you must press (along with a transponder you insert into a slot) to start and stop the car. So does the Lexus Gs 430 as do some Mercedes and Toyotas.

That was a Slate piece by William Saletan on eyesight-improving contacts and surgery.

The new Nike lenses were the obvious next step, I suppose, not just making your eyes better overall but actively separating useful from useless information in the incoming light.

In summary, if a highly improbable pattern of events or object exhibits purpose, structure or function and can not be reasonably and rationally explained by the operation of the laws of physics and chemistry or some other regularity or law, then it is reasonable to infer that the pattern was designed. - the product of a mind. Based on the above it is reasonable to conclude that design is the best explanation for the complexity of the postulated ancestral cell.
(see for yourself)

As William Saletan over at Slate.com has observed, this argument is absolutely idiotic - "It offers no predictions, scope modifiers, or experimental methods of its own. It's a default answer, a shrug, consisting entirely of problems in Darwinism. Those problems should be taught in school, but there's no reason to call them intelligent design. Intelligent design, as defined by its advocates, means nothing. "

Also, ID fails to account that human knowledge is constantly expanding. It may be true that we cannot presently describe some things by "the operation of the laws of physics or chemistry or some other regularity or law," but that does not mean that someday we will not be able to do so... but until then (and perhaps for some time thereafter) people will insist on calling it "intelligent design."

Of course, appealing to the public's ability to engage in rational thought is another issue altogether.

From the article on Jupiter

A. Composition of Jupiter

The fact that Jupiter's radius is 11.2 times larger than Earth's means that its volume is more than 1,300 times the volume of Earth. The mass of Jupiter, however, is only 318 times the mass of Earth. Jupiter's density (1.33 g/cm3) is therefore less than one-fourth of Earth's density (5.52 g/cm3). Jupiter's low density indicates that the planet is composed primarily of the lightest elements--hydrogen and helium.

The computer models predict that Jupiter's outer layer, composed of a gaseous mixture of hydrogen, helium, and traces of hydrogen-rich compounds such as ammonia, methane, and water vapor, is about 1,000 km (about 600 mi) thick. Beneath this layer, the pressure is so great and the atmosphere is so hot and compressed that the hydrogen and helium atoms do not behave as a gas, but as what physicists call a supercritical fluid. Supercritical fluids form at high temperatures and pressures and have properties similar to those of both gases and liquids. The supercritical zone extends 20,000 to 30,000 km (12,000 to 19,000 mi) into Jupiter, which is about one-fourth to one-third of the radius of the planet.

Beneath the supercritical fluid zone, the pressure reaches 3 million Earth atmospheres. At this depth, the atoms collide so frequently and violently that the hydrogen atoms are ionized--that is, the negatively charged electrons are stripped away from the positively charged protons of the hydrogen nuclei. This ionization results in a sea of electrically charged particles that resembles a liquid metal and gives rise to Jupiter's magnetic field. This liquid metallic hydrogen zone is 30,000 to 40,000 km (19,000 to 25,000 mi) thick--about half the radius of the planet--and extends to the molten rock core at Jupiter's center. The molten rock core occupies a sphere with a radius of about 10,000 km (about 6,000 mi)--about one-fourth of Jupiter's total radius--and has a mass perhaps 10 to 15 times the mass of Earth.

In order for a cloud of hydrogen gas to form a star, both gravity and pressure have to overcome the various fundamental forces that prevent atoms from fusing together,/a> (weak, electromagnetic).

In ratio to the "strong force" which holds the nucleus of the atom together, the electromagnetic force is 1/137, the weak force is 1/(10^6), and gravity is 1/(10^39).

Thus gravity is 10^37 times weaker than the electronmagnetic force, and 10^33 times weaker than the weak force. So you are going to need a considerable amount of mass to overcome these forces.

Another factor is Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation:

F = G . m1 . m2 / ( r^2)

where G is the Gravitational constant
m1 and m2 are the masses of two objects (eg. hydrogen atoms, dust, asteroids, ...)
and r is the distance between the two objects

The implication of this equation is that gravitational forces become greater the closer the two objects are. So the gas cloud has to pull itself together from gas to liquid (a liquid cannot be compressed any further). At this stage, pressure is created, and gets converted into heat (electromagnetic force)

If there isn't enough mass, a sufficiently deep gravity well won't form, and you will end up with a superhot liquid gas planet - which is more or less what Jupiter is.

MSN has a poll going on if Apples Tiger OS making you consider buying a Mac.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Promos/ P116728.asp

Tiger have you considering a Mac? Take the poll: http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Promos/ P116728.asp

Yes you, solar panel washer martian dude.

How about a little help over here.

1. U.S. Census Bureau Maps and Cartographic Resources
2. Tailored Interactive Guidance on Employment Rights - TIGER Home Page
3. U.S.Census Bureau - TIGER/Line®
4. Abilene Reporter News: Tiger Woods
5. Official Website for Tiger Woods
6. Apple - Mac OS X - Overview
   
   Tiger Direct aren't in the first 10 pages of results. Maybe they should sue the census bureau and while they're at it Microsoft for conspiring to wipe them off the face of the internet :)

At least 20 Million people are still enslaved today [source]
Communism (or some varient there of) is alive in five countries [source]
It seems that we're doing most of the raping and killing in Iraq [source] [source]

Liberals, as it turns out, have been for US and UN intervention to end slavery world wide. They've been for withholding MFN status from China until the communist regime there did something about its human rights record. And the left has been 100% behind preventing AMERICANS from raping and murdering Iraqis.

The right, in contrast, has lept into the arms of communist China for the sake of making a few quick bucks. It's turned the other way as millions are enslaved around the world, some on our own shores. And the neo-cons refuse to hold accountable those that knew about the Abu Ghraib attrosities and yet did nothing.

As to your first question, let me ply my left wing university education. As plato once said, given the ability to elect their own leaders, the people will inevitably choose fools and naives.

Wow, thousands of years later and the guy's still got it pegged.

A UCLA collaboration (Seth Putterman, Brian Naranjo and Jim Gimzewski) appear to have developed a fusion device powered by a pyroelectric crystal, a type of crystal used in cell phones to filter signals. When heated, such a crystal produces a large electric charge on its surface. The UCLA researchers placed a lithium tantalate (LiTaO3) pyroelectric crystal so that one side touches a copper disc. A tiny tungsten probe is then placed at the center of the copper disc. When the crystal is subsequently heated, a very large large electric field is produced at the end of the tugsten tip, ~25 billion volts per meter. This field gradient is so high that it strips the electrons from nearby deuterium atoms. The ionized deuterium atoms then accelerated by this field towards a solid target of erbium deuteride (ErD2). They collide with it at such high energies that some fuse with the target. A measurement of almost 900 neutrons per second was observed. This is 400 times the background! Although the amount of energy produced in this initial experiment was miniscule (~1E-8 jules), this technology could be used for things like microthrusters. There are pictures and movies on the UCLA's physics site. Reader richmlpdx adds a link to coverage at MSNBC.

Why is this marked so highly? The blueberries are clearly already round when embedded in their source rocks. They're formed the same way a number of types of rocks on Earth are: A hollow cavity is filled in by a different mineral than the surrounding rock (a water soluable mineral) which is harder than the surrounding rock; the surrounding rock erodes and leaves the filler mineral.

The plural of anecdote is not data. My page on Alexandre Dumas comes out first on MSN but second on Google, even though it is listed on a Linux box.

The link to MSN search on the main story links to beta.search.msn.com. It should be noted that MSN Search is out of beta for a while now - the correct links should be http://search.msn.com. It's not like it's Google or something - trying to keep everything in beta for years to escape criticism.

"It has been known for decades that electrons can only inhabit certain discrete shells of probability about the nucleolus of an atom. Similarly for the nucleolus, the protons and neutrons can only take up certain desirable configurations. We don't know all the details of how this comes to happen, but the laws of geometry and topology govern it, perhaps as a result of actions taking place in dimensions above the normal 3+1." Um, this is pure crap. Get out Griffths Intro to QM, read find the part where you calculate electron wavefunction psi around the NUCLEUS ( where you get the S, P, D, F, etc orbitals in chem, they get even more complicated - take a look http://www.orbitals.com/orb/orbtable.htm ) by seperation into spherical coordinates, and you see that topology and geometry have nothing to do with it. Furthermore, if you read some of Griffiths, you actually calculate that electorns spend approximate 1*10^-15 s *inside* the nucleus, you can prove Feynman's senior thesis, and other incredibly interesting stuff. Once you get into actual physics, its like tasting caviar coming from eating rice cakes, you'll never go back. So throw away A Brief History of Time and whatever Greene wrote, and read Einstein's highly accessable papers http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7328143/ or such instead, I highly recommend it.

The best restaurant on Earth

Stupid email disclaimers have no legal weight.

Erm, IIRC, an acceptable body fat % for males in 15-18%. Shaq has a body fat % of 13%. Ergo, I wouldn't call him fat. Plus, even if his body fat % is greater than most atheletes, it's hard to contend that he's not in superb shape, seeing as he hauls that's load up and down the court for ~35 minutes every night, and banging up against other 200+ pound atheletes.

Actually the big deal about search is that you can type in any phrase and in a fraction of a second you can see documents with that phrase in its filename or anywhere in its text from anywhere on your hard drive, music files with an artist or album matching your phrase, etc. Right now that search takes several minutes. This leap in performance is analagous to what you can do with an abacus vs a computer; you don't even bother doing some things with an abacus.

Download the MSN Toolbar Suite Beta to try it out. Then watch a demo by the team who wrote it.

And Linux distros like Ubuntu certainly haven't used that phrase to describe their OS.

Both of these ideas raise interesting issues about what "modular" means, and if this is an important idea. The name and the product are catchy and interesting, so I think it is worth figuring why this concept has arrived now, and what it may lead to. This even has some implications for studies of mind that trying to do some serious empirical science into the nature of the brain/mind by understanding the architecture. This is a pretty hot field of research, so it's nice to see some terms that fit into scholarly papers and fancy academic books being applied and marketed. I just hope this hits it. Judging by the recent attention given to the Mac Mini and recent advances in wearable and implantable computing devices this is at least going to becoming even more interesting discussion in the coming months and years.

When you buy a house, there is already a government investigation process to determine if you are a terrorist or other unsavory character.

I'm sure they'd put it in different words, but I know the process exists.

Here's a clicky link:

The 'Patriot' Search

"Information on the tapes was compressed, so viewing it would require special equipment, Kush said. It was not encrypted, she added."

It's worth noting that all tape drives are considered "special equipment", and compression isn't anything unusual. About the best thing they have going for them is that there's no label on the tape, so it's not obvious what goodies are on it.

For those saying the package was "lost", they're only partly correct. Actually, there were several tapes in a shipping box, which was damaged and had tapes fall out. Three of the four tapes that had fallen out have been recovered. The last one tape was lost, and we can only hope it was lost in a way that ensured its destruction.

No, it's because you're using the topic to spout off on your political misconceptions.

Misconceptions, huh?

For God's sake, man, open your eyes.

The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081042/

One ought to be more careful in this Post-9/11 world.

According to this article, Enterprise will be cancelled no matter what.
Sorry guys.