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Of course, these offshore windmills mustn't be within eyesight of any rich people's homes...

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liwind1221,0,5450016.story

Can we get link-speak added to that Lake Superior State University list of things that must die?

What a prick.

Sometimes philanthropy has negative side effects that we didn't expect. In the case of the Gates Foundation, medical professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa are bypassing jobs in the local communities where their help is desperately needed. Instead, they are taking cushy well-paid positions with the GF inoculating children against deadly diseases or treating AIDS patients. The downside is that routine medical care is in short supply as workers flock to the high-paying positions to fight sexy epidemics. The big loser is basic health care.

More from here.

I don't.

Especially since:

http://www.newsday.com/news/health/wire/sns-ap-skull-stem-cells,0,5876836.story

While the above is not proof and more anecdotal (but I'm sure everyone was happy that the skull finally healed for whatever reason), it is also claimed to have worked with rats before:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4873

And also they've been coaxed into smooth muscle:

http://www.physorg.com/news72983041.html

So, just another step, not a leap. Useful step no doubt :).

I think there are plenty of people doing research in this area. Good news for the people who have grown extensive reserves ;). 1 kg of fat stem cells needed? No problem for them.

"Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns."

I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter:

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--campbellssoup-st0930sep30,0,1001597.story

"Camden-based food processor Campbell Soup Company was the only stock in the Standard & Poor's 500 index to post a gain during Monday's historic sell-off.

Its stock rose 12 cents in the midst of the biggest one-day point decline in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average."

Firearm makers are stable, but haven't done anything spectacular. Still, we'll all need to protect our soup.

The so called 'anarchists' are government agents.

http://www.google.com/search?&q=recreate+68+provocateurs

For the record, a real anarchist is someone who believes in freedom, and is therefore logically opposed to government in all of its forms. The people who are calling themselves anarchists are anarchists in the Noam Chomsky sense of the word: super-statist, jackbooted, nazis (i.e. communists).

Your inability to distinguish what is really going on is an indication that you have been brainwashed by the statist media.

I was referring to the police raiding homes of suspected protesters without warrants (or even probable cause) in Minnesota:

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-cvn-convention-protest,0,1495260.story

Pull your head out of your ass.

Hope you feel better!

I was just reading yesterday that
when the scientists dumped too much
material to be processed and then
subsequently shook the lab to get
some material, they may have caused
the short that caused other delays.

It was that first oven test that led to the problematic electrical short. The scoop dumped so much soil that it clogged a mesh screen filter over the oven. To break up the dirt, technicians shook the instrument for several days.

Engineers think the shaking caused the short circuit, and an independent engineering group reported that the problem could happen again if an oven is turned on.

Now, FTFA it says they were trying
to shake the arm.

Over the weekend, scientists sent the robotic arm instructions to pull the fork out of the ground and keep it vertical while moving it to the side and shaking any excess soil off of it.

However, the movement was forcing the robotic arm to twist its wrist too far. The robot realized that it was about to damage itself so it moved the other way and then realized that it no longer had the proper coordinates for what to do next, so it left the fork sticking up in the air, stuck its scoop in the ground and stalled itself.

I propose:
Limit the shaking of the expensive
and difficult to replace robotic device.

-AI

>Sure, there are some non-citizens at Gitmo, but I happen to believe that most, if not all, were actively plotting against this country, or knowingly helping others who were.

Badr Zaman Badr and his brother Abdurrahim Muslim Dost for a satirical newspaper article
Prisoners held after being cleared by military tribunals

>Do either of you have first-hand experience with someone who spoke out against the government and then "heard the fed knocking"?

The time to pull the fire alarm is before the building is engulfed. When it's possible to be charged for filming Katrina refugees or convicted for holding a "No War for Oil" sign it is time to acknowledge a problem.

You must have a strange definition of "computer phone" if the N95 doesn't qualify. Nokia doesn't even sell it as a "phone" they call it a multimedia computer. It costs about twice what the iPhone does, and has sold about twice as many units. As of the beginning of last month, 7 million N95s vs. the iPhone's 4 million. The N95 did beat the iPhone to market by about two months (Another feather in Nokia's cap), but it's selling faster and generating more revenue than the iPhone, no matter how you look at it.... So.. wow... I guess you ought to consider actually looking up the numbers next time before telling someone else they don't do much reading.

It appears to me that they are trying to make the experience so miserable themselves that nobody WANTS to buy the device.

I'm not the one who bought a defective phone with no battery door. Besides, I've read much more realistic iPhone disaster scenarios in the news that I don't read. You see, what happened is some background task kept running and drained its owner's bank account of $4800. That wouldn't have happened if the iPhone wasn't locked to the American AT&T network. The owner could have just popped in a new SIM card for that locale and everything would have been peachy. But hey, it just one of many fine experiences brought to you under Apple's control. Others include, Look! I shattered my iPhone, Damn it! Why won't my headphones work? and everyone's favorite, I've been visited by the brick fairy!

Enjoy your app-less iPhone though. I'm sure you'll be kickin' it with that drug database in no time.

Most of us know jack about the algorithms that allow us to catch a baseball in flight, yet we can still do it. Furthermore, a person from 10000 BC with no math at all by today's standards could do it just as well as we can.

However, a WGA representative said, "The strike is NOT over -- as you know, we are under a press blackout, but I can tell you that the strike is NOT over."

WGA representative: "The strike is NOT over -- as you know, we are under a press blackout, but I can tell you that the strike is NOT over."

Well the blog and the headline are all screwy...this is a trial, and they are not thinking about replacing their motorcycle fleet, but their gas scooter fleet. They have a ton of those things. original source (new window)

Great article in Newsday by Glenn Gamboa, Who needs record labels?"

Yep, BS
No other comments seemed to mention it, but the INQ article was referencing a Newsday article: http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzappl0908,0,2929341.story?coll=ny_home_rail_headlines Most of the way down the original article says : The Levys brought their phones with them for voice calls. It also says they thought the data networks in Europe were incompatible with the iPhone. Oops. Too bad they didn't know that the whole reason for using GSM is that it works more places than any other mobile phone type.

This sure implies that they planned to make calls, did they? If so, the phone was sure as hell not "off".

- If the phones were really off not asleep, there would have been no calls, no data.
- If the phones were in standy and getting email, it makes a sound ( though an insanely short wimpy sound )
- They must have turned on international roaming before leaving, otherwise their phones couldn't have been used for voice calls.

It would be handy if the phones had a "voice, no data" mode, but since it doesn't, claiming stupidity shouldn't get you out of the bill. I'm not going to get too sympathetic over a family who ran out to buy matching iPhones just before their Mediterranean cruise.

Well at lease their knot misusing apostrophe's or homonymns.

More seriously, and actually on-topic, with a liberal dose of commas, I'd like to say it's about fucking time! There is no way to physically harm anyone over the internet, short of selling them drugs or cigarettes or booze or something (and yes, I know cigarettes and booze ARE drugs). Your kid is far more likely to be molested by their coach or Priest*, or harmed by a babysitter than some random stranger, let alone a random stranger from the internet.

The "internet is dangerous!!!!" is like "We must give up our liberty because of teh terrorism!!!!" Do the math: less than 3,000 dead in America this century from Muslim terrorists, while there are half a million from heart attacks and another half million from cancer, and forty thousand from auto accidents every single year! I'd say that Homeland Security money would be better spent on a few guard rails, and maybe if we can outlaw smoking something that slows lung cancer we can outlaw something that causes it? Or at least legalize the one that slows it so the cigarette smokers can legally... oh hell, never mind. This is mainstream media, law and government we're talking about. Logic, reason, and sanity should have nothing to do with the debate.

-mcgrew

*Old joke- A Rabbi, a Priest, and a lawyer are on the Titanic when it hits an iceberg. "Save the children!" screams the Rabbi. "Fuck the children!" snarls the lawyer. The Priest exclaims "No time for that!"

I've seen this argument a few times already, but it rests on a false premise, that police don't abuse their right to carry lethal weapons. That is certainly not the case. The question that should be asked is what can cause the most damage, an abuse of power by a man with a gun, or an abuse of power by a man with a LED blinder?

Regarding compensation, maybe he should talk to this guy -> http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/n y-bc-nj--wrongfulimprisonm0611jun11,0,7565604.stor y?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey

If anything, the ruling by the SCOTUS on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld reflects exactly the opposite of what you are saying.

homeland security is a fairy tale.

I don't think anybody has a right to privacy about something that happens in public.

Why did the guy crash? According to this the driver had a "history of seizures". If so, then he shouldn't be driving at all, he was a danger to others. Or perhaps it was a suicide, or he could have been drunk or asleep, who knows. But anyway, he was the only one to blame on what happened. It was only luck that made him hit a toll booth and no one else was injured, he could have very easily killed innocent people.

Now, the reason why I think the highway agency is trying to kill this video is because it shows how insecure the toll booths are. It would be very easy and cheap to build a crash barrier so that any car that goes off the lanes would be stopped without exploding like the car in the video did. Just a few sand-filled plastic barrels in front of each booth would do it.

If anybody has a right to sue, I guess it would be the family of the driver that would have the right to sue the NJTA over the lack of such a protective barrier. I believe it should fall more or less in the same case of the people who successfully sued Ford because their relatives were killed in a Pinto that burst in flames in a crash. Even if Ford didn't cause those accidents, they should have provided better protection for the gas tank in the car.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/n y-bc-nj-njo--fatalcrash-vi0518may18,0,7816124.stor y

The video depicts a car slamming into the Garden State Parkway's Great Egg Harbor toll plaza, about 10 miles south of Atlantic City, at high speed and bursting into flames. Killed in the crash was Bernard King, 52, a casino dealer from Lower Township. State police said Friday that they are still investigating the cause and are trying to determine if King's history of seizures was a factor.

Would you be satisfied that people are not crying wolf if something clear-cut were to happen, like, say, hypothetically, someone sent to Guantanamo for three years for a satirical opinion piece?

It's still pending at the moment, but on Friday I submitted this story which describes pretty much the same thing, only it's a planned bill for next year's Congress spearheaded by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and John McCain (R-AZ.) The entire US will be looking at this soon, not just Virginians.

This is worse than fighting random wars? I don't hear about this telescope killing a few dozen Americans per week.

Please. We must support the troops. If you don't stand with them, you stand against them.

The $14M spent on Arecibo could be spent to support the troops in Iraq. Sure, some of that spending doesn't actually go over to Iraq, but that ignores the way things get done in our system. Without proper motivation, our national leadership is unable to focus on getting the job done.

It is cut and runners like you who are sap our legislative will to fight. Democrats know how sensitive Republicans are to criticism. Congress would have done better, if it weren't for unpatriotic people who don't support our troops.

But we shall stay the course: freedom is on the march.

*ahem* he killed shiites to please sunni's

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-w osadd064963621nov06,0,142696.story?coll=ny-worldne ws-print

so obviously, he does

Sorry, but it seems that there is no connection of Charles Wang having ever been involved:

http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzwang304953267 oct30,0,5725636.story?coll=ny-business-print

It appears that he and Kumar had differences in opinion, which led to Wang being drawn out of the company and a separation in their business relationships.

I'm surprised I don't see a link to the original story yet, so here it is:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/24/122153/98

From the story:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl, --AZ-01: Rick Renzi, --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth, --CA-04: John Doolittle, --CA-11: Richard Pombo, --CA-50: Brian Bilbray, --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave, --CO-05: Doug Lamborn, --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell, --CT-04: Christopher Shays, --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan, --FL-16: Joe Negron, --FL-22: Clay Shaw, --ID-01: Bill Sali, --IL-06: Peter Roskam, --IL-10: Mark Kirk, --IL-14: Dennis Hastert, --IN-02: Chris Chocola, --IN-08: John Hostettler, --IA-01: Mike Whalen, --KS-02: Jim Ryun, --KY-03: Anne Northup, --KY-04: Geoff Davis, --MD-Sen: Michael Steele, --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht, --MN-06: Michele Bachmann, --MO-Sen: Jim Talent, --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns, --NV-03: Jon Porter, --NH-02: Charlie Bass, --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson, --NM-01: Heather Wilson, --NY-03: Peter King, --NY-20: John Sweeney, --NY-26: Tom Reynolds, --NY-29:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl --AZ-01: Rick Renzi --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth --CA-04: John Doolittle --CA-11: Richard Pombo --CA-50: Brian Bilbray --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave --CO-05: Doug Lamborn --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell --CT-04: Christopher Shays --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan --FL-16: Joe Negron --FL-22: Clay Shaw --ID-01: Bill Sali --IL-06: Peter Roskam --IL-10: Mark Kirk --IL-14: Dennis Hastert --IN-02: Chris Chocola --IN-08: John Hostettler --IA-01: Mike Whalen --KS-02: Jim Ryun --KY-03: Anne Northup --KY-04: Geoff Davis --MD-Sen: Michael Steele --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht --MN-06: Michele Bachmann --MO-Sen: Jim Talent --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns --NV-03: Jon Porter --NH-02: Charlie Bass --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson --NM-01: Heather Wilson --NY-03: Peter King --NY-20: John Sweeney --NY-26: Tom Reynolds --NY-29: Randy Kuhl --NC-08: Robin Hayes --NC-11: Charles Taylor --OH-01:

When I searched Google with Peter King's name the #1 hit was his home page, it was not until the 2nd page that anything like the article mentioned appeared, and as we all know most people do not go beyond the first page. So either google did something, or there has been some reverse-google-bombing. I think this is the link they were referring to Peter King and here is his home page Peter King to balance things out.

Some articles to think about in the upcoming election:

Jon Kyl Rick Renzi J.D. Hayworth John Doolittle Richard Pombo Brian Bilbray Marilyn Musgrave Doug Lamborn Rick O'Donnell Christopher Shays Vernon Buchanan Joe Negron Clay Shaw Bill Sali Peter Roskam Mark Kirk Dennis Hastert Chris Chocola John Hostettler Mike Whalen Jim Ryun Anne Northup Geoff Davis Michael Steele Gil Gutknecht Michele Bachmann Jim Talent Conrad Burns Jon Porter Charlie Bass Mike Ferguson Heather Wilson Peter King John Sweeney Tom Reynolds Randy Kuhl Robin Hayes Charles Taylor Steve Chabot Jean Schmidt Deborah Pryce

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-li cras0913,0,10526.story?track=mostemailedlink
Not yet, but some are trying!
The second floor of a house is a start

First of all, the "jihadis" to whom you're referring are just people buying large numbers of cell phones for resale.

Second, even if some wackjobs are calling their buddies in Waziristan to chat about blowing stuff up, I'd rather the government miss those calls than listen in on mine.

Third, you know what works? FISA warrants. Even your buddy Bill O'Reilly knows it, and he's every bit the wingnut you are.

This is legit though, that the DHS has banned liquids on flights, at least temporarily (carry-ons only). Of course, what about the in-flight drinks? What if one of the stewardists is a terrorist!!!???!!! Oh the paranoia :-(

And it is fair game, since the article is about "shedding light on Einstein's personal life."

Dissidents aren't being "disappeared" by the incumbent government

I have some great news for you them. There is a floor amount before the government sees anything. On a federal level that floor is at $2 million. State taxes vary from state to state b ut in New York, for example, the floor is $1 million. This article is one of the sources I found from a quick google search.

55 Million years ago the artic was a tropical paridise. I'm not saying that man isn't contributing to global warming but I am saying that before man this sort of thing has happend.
Check out this link: Scientists Say Arctic Once Was Tropical

SWAT: You are surrounded. Do not attempt to make fun of the president or you will be shot!
Middle Eastern Guy: WTF?
*BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM*

I'll break it to you gently... people make fun of President Bush every day, it's not a crime in the United States. It won't get you arrested or shot unless you pair it with some other blindingly stupid activity (run at the police waving a handgun while telling anti-Bush knock knock jokes) or make a statement that could be considered an actual threat against the President. In that case, you might have a visit and a chat with someone, but you won't be executed. Now, if you don't believe that telling jokes about the President is fine, just take a look at the TV. President Bush is constantly used as the butt of jokes, but Leno/Letterman/Stewart/etc. aren't broadcasting from undisclosed or hidden locations, are they? Making a joke about the President doesn't make you a hero, victim, or target. (BTW - You do realize the Muslims can be any race, from any place on the globe, right?) Voting for President Bush's political opponents, lobbying against his policies, peaceful/lawful demonstrations are all fine.

What will get you into trouble is plotting to irradiate, poison, shoot, stab, run over, or blow up American citizens. In that case, telling jokes is irrelevant, the problem is the plot or attempt to irradiate, poison, shoot, stab, run over, or blow up American citizens.

In short, humor=OK, bombing=no way!

Most Americans get this.

Ah, I was unaware that "laying dormant" was a synonym for "engaging in battles". My mistake.

Well, don't call it conspiracy theory then if that trips you up. Ask the simple question: How did the Towers collapse? Do the research. In the links below, Jones points out that in science, one starts from the facts, from the evidence, then you build your theory. But the main stream media has fed you the theory "19 crazy arab hijackers + jet fuel" (the conclusion we are to draw), from which you build your facts. Any facts that don't fit in, are thrown away. That's bad science. No wonder people are confused. One simple example: take the 911 Report. Didn't even cover the collapse of WTC 7. Why? Because it doesn't make sense, doesn't fit in with their "theory".

The chain of events leading up to them is always clear in retrospect, but another flaw in conspiracy theory is that it attributes such masterful vision and control to the conspiracists leading into the event, and then presumes such incompetence in handling and covering it up. In reality, no one has such complete control nor such prescience.

What incompetence? If "conspiracy" theorists are still relegated to the back pages, if at all, and dismissed as theorists, well they did a very good job. One flaw in the "19 Arab taking out the towers" theory is the military precision required for an effort like this. Moussawi? C'mon.

If you follow the "theory" as trotted out by the Main Stream Media, there was incredible *incompetence* that allowed this to happen. The incompetence of our CIA, such that every other spy agency in the world was warning American officials, yet they were ignored. The incompetence that low-level underlings at the FBI tried to report to their superiors that foreigners trying to learn how to fly, but were stonewalled in their request to investigate - not once, but 70 times! Criminal negligence, or just following orders?

Condi, or maybe Bush said, "Who could've imagined this would happen?". Well, just the military, because that is apparently the reason NORAD was mysteriously shut down, and no jets were scrambled, because the flight control folks were told this was a "training exercise" - involving hijacked jets hitting the towers. So they just happened to be training for an attack that no one could've imagined.

One of the best sources for technical details is the WTC 7 Research site, which is apparently down. Odd. This one is similar, not sure if it's just down or >>> the descent is beginning!

>In the U.S. if content the government dislikes is printed or spoken by a journalist who chooses to do so, they don't end up sentenced to forced labor,

I'm willing to believe you that the US is a shining beacon of freedom for journalists, but the situation is less rosy for editorial cartoonists. For those of you who don't follow links, the story is about spending three years at Guantanamo for writing a satire. The US government didn't see any problem: a quote from the article is "Rob and the Defense Department say the prison system performs satisfactorily in freeing innocents".

Toback said a lawsuit was his only alternative because Google, ..., is beyond the legislature's control. Toback, ..., filed the lawsuit as a private citizen with no county funds.

"Toback, self-described as "not the most computer-literate guy," said he learned of the filter three days ago. He said he didn't know if the computers in his home have commercial filtering software that blocks pornography and other material unsuitable for children.

Toback said a lawsuit was his only alternative because Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., is beyond the legislature's control. Toback, a father of three children, ages 15, 13 and 9, filed the lawsuit as a private citizen with no county funds."

He didn't even investigate if there was a filter in google already.
He didn't investigate his own computer even *having* filtering software.
He didn't investigate using filtering software.
He didn't think that he might, i don't know, watch where his kids go on the web.

Go go gadget out sourced parenting.

(From: http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzgoog0505,0,26 01653.story?coll=ny-top-headlines)

I think more devices like this and others are coming out of the woodwork because psychiatric organizations, big pharma and government facilitators have lost credibility. Pharmaceutical "treatments" for psychological problems have never worked as advertised, and the cat is well out-of-the-bag. The new trend is now "devices".

Even the brain imaging techniques hyped over the last years are being called into question ( "Can Brian Scans See Depression" from the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/18/health/psycholog y/18imag.html?ex=1143867600&en=9d110b78060d7e34&ei =5070 )

Now in the last few months we have had news about "vagus nerve stimulators" to shock people suffering depression (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/03/20/AR2006032001192.html

Then there was also the new GED device(Graduated Electronic Decelerator) which is a new FDA approved device used for "aversion therapy" used to shock retarded people and individuals who can't "control" aggressive or self injurious behaviors (New York Newsday) http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-li shok194670358mar21,0,7313668.story?coll=ny-linews- headlines

I think as the pharmaceutical modality continues to get exposed for the sham it is, there will be more "devices" coming down the pike. I expect they will be described as useful for some "extreme" condition such as retardation, autism etc. but then they will be shown "to have promise" for an expanding group of victims. Most "news" about psychology these days is just marketing.

The "mental health" field is a mess and many of its administrators are not to be trusted.

Keep in mind all this is in addition to what in the US we call The New Freedom Initiative" that allows for programs like Teen Screen; a so-called suicide prevention program concocted at Columbia University. To get all their federal funding schools will have to screen kids (even preteens despite the name)for suicidal tendencies via a short list of questions. Being depressed for more than 2 weeks is one sign and one of the signs of depression is not liking school (if you can imagine that).

Of course the drug companies lobbied for this, and the corrupt and psycho-politically motivated psychiatric associations are in full support. Sadly the Bush administration is also behind this and its based on a program from Texas. Of course there is little in the media about all this.

The bats are trully in the belfry and it is the inmates running the asylum and I feel bad for kids who have to grow up under this sort of crap.

There are lots of myths regarding the military. One of the most pernicious is that military recruits are taken from the lowest strata of society. Nothing could be further from the truth.

First of all, the military routinely turns down applicants trying to get in. The IQ's of people *allowed* in the military must be above the 50th percentile. In fact until recently you had to be in the top 30th percentile in order to get in. If one were to set aside their snobbery or simple ignorance, this would all make sense. Just look at the control panel of an AH-64 helo or heck even a Stryker vehicle and then you would gain a fair appreciation of what it takes to be in the military.

This will help alleviate the ignorance:
http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-u ncle-sam-wants-you,0,1867658.story?coll=sns-ap-pol itics-headlines