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Re:About those sanctions... by workindev · 2003-12-08 21:40 · Score: 1 · on President Bush To Call For Return To Moon?

OK, if that was the case then wouldn't these WMDs have been found by US/UK troops upon inspecting Iraqi troops that they had captured or killed?

This colonel also claims that the WMD is still in hands of fedayeen, and that Saddam deployed secret weapons caches throughout the country to supply resistance fighters after the war. He also said that "Only when Saddam is caught will people talk about these weapons".

But tell me, just how did Iraq pre-invasion pose a threat to US national security?

Do the math:
1) Saddam has used WMD in the past
2) Saddam has large amounts of WMD that were unaccounted for by the UN
3) Saddam says he will use WMD against the US
4) Terrorists say they want to use WMD against the US
5) Terrorists have proven their ability to attack inside the US

How is that not a threat?

Almost as laughable as your statement that "nobody has tried to deny that claim" - why do you think the majority of the world's nations were opposed to the US-led invasion?

Why do you think the UN Security Counsel passed 17 Chapter 7 resolutions condemning Iraq for non-compliance on WMD? The fact that the UN doesn't have the balls to enforce their own resolutions doesn't change anything.

Podhoretz's Column by toupsie · 2003-12-05 07:31 · Score: 2, Informative · on AT&T Wireless Fumbles Number Portability

In this morning's New York Post, John Podhoretz's column, Cell Hell, gives a good insight of what customers are facing switching from AT&T. I don't think I will be switching from T-Mobile, not because T-Mobile is a great cell phone company, its that all cell phone companies suck. I have learned to with the suckage of T-Mobile and don't want to waste my time relearning the suckage of another. It's really a sad state of affairs in the cell phone provider industry.

The reason why... by toupsie · 2003-11-15 20:39 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam Patent

The patent covers "A system and method for circumventing schemes that use duplication detection to detect and block unsolicited e-mail (spam.)", although it's unclear exactly what AT&T want it for.

If they cannot call you to get you to change your long distance service, maybe they are doing to "telemarket" to your inbox. The Federal 'Do Not Call List' is changing the way a lot of traditional telemarketers are doing their business. Since they are now being fined for calling you, they need another way to invade your life and bombard you with offers. Having a technology that can circumvent spam blocking would be a step up on the competition.

More details from the Rejected Post Machine by securitas · 2003-11-13 18:40 · Score: 4, Informative · on Wal-Mart to Launch Online Music Store

Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Comcast to Offer Online Music

2003-11-11 13:10:14 Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Comcast to Offer Online Music (articles,music) (rejected)

Wal-Mart will launch its own digital music download service through its Web site later this month. Not to be outdone, Best Buy will also launch an iTunes-type online music store - with the ability to buy through in-store kiosks - based on the MusicNow service (formerly FullAudio). And today Comcast announced music downloads via Real Rhapsody for its 5 million broadband Internet subscribers. The Washington Post's Cynthia L. Webb writes about the online music frenzy and the resultant advertising onslaught due to the sheer number of entrants into the music download market, while Bloomberg's Holly M. Sanders offers an analysis of Walmart's imminent entry into online music, which is significant since Wal-Mart already controls 14 percent of global CD music sales. More at the New York Times (via SeattlePI).

Tomorrow's headline by rifftide · 2003-11-06 16:47 · Score: 3, Informative · on McDonald's Denies Deal With iTunes

WE LIED

I want my WWN! by SexyKellyOsbourne · 2003-11-06 16:41 · Score: 2, Funny · on McDonald's Denies Deal With iTunes

If Slashdot is going to start posting erroneous stories from tabloids such as the New York Post, they should instead post stories from the Weekly World News. I don't believe what a newspaper says unless it has BatBoy endorsing it!

New today: litterboxes for humans!

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/news/index.cfm

2000+ feet by mokolabs · 2003-10-18 03:51 · Score: 1 · on Taipei 101 Now World's Tallest Building

Actually... they've just announced plans to include a broadcast tower, which will expand the tower's height to as much as 2100ft!

WTC TOWER WILL NOW TOP 2,000 FT.

Re:Fox being one of the four by Alsee · 2003-09-09 04:30 · Score: 1 · on RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl

Your grain of salt for the article:
Fox is one of the four motion picture studios in the MPAA that do not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Also beware of the New York Daily News which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware of NY Newsday which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware the New York Post which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware of USA Today which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware of WNBC TV News 4 which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware the Jewish World Review which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware of the California Sacramento Bee which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

According to Gogle News this story is only 12 hours old, expect the list to expand. It is absolutely SHOCKING how many news sorces do not share revenue with a major U.S. record label. SHOCKING I say! This media bias cannot be permitted to continue!

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Re:That's a good one by workindev · 2003-09-05 07:31 · Score: 1 · on Electronic Voting: Your Worst Nightmares are True

1) He is an American who exiled himself to Britain and then subsequently exiled himself back to the US.

Sounds reasonable. I mean, it's common and rational to move to a different country everytime your (current) government pisses you off.

2) ChoicePoint was commisioned on a high-ball bid by Katherine Harris working on behalf of Jeb Bush. Remember, Katherine Harris was wearing two hats at the time. The first hat was the supreme impartial jurist of Florida election law. The second hat was the Florida campaign head for Jeb Bush's brother. Even a crackpot neo-con couldn't dismiss a conflict of interest without a chuckle. ChoicePoint was paid a FUCKLOAD of money over their $5700 competitor. You would think that someone would get something in return for that. Is it no wonder that the list came up with 50,000 registered voters who WERE NOT convicted of felonies in florida, and virtually all blacks and democrats.

Its amazing how ignorant people can be. Lets go over this again. DBT (which was later bought by ChoicePointe) was comissioned in 1998 to create the voter "purge" list. Jeb Bush was elected in November of 1998 and sworn into office in 1999. Catherine Harris was elected in 2000. I would have thought even you might have picked this up from the Salon.com Corrections. Was it magic? Did they go back in time to hire DBT?

"In the Salon Politics article "Florida's flawed 'voter-cleansing' program," it was incorrectly stated that Florida's Secretary of State Katherine Harris hired a company, ChoicePoint, to create a voter "purge" list. The company was hired in 1998 before Harris was elected to her post.

3) Greg Palast spends a fair amount of time railing against the sins of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Blind partisans typically stick to throwing stones at the other sides like the metamorphic chameleonic Rush Limbaugh.

Just like a liberal, he spends all his time complaining about what he doesn't like but never offers any useful solution or contribution. And just to let you know (because you obviously wouldn't be listening), Rush Limbaugh has been extreemely critical of George W. Bush, particularly with regard to the amount of money he his spending.

Re:This is Satan... by Stanley+Marlowe · 2003-08-22 13:51 · Score: 1 · on Flaming Cellphones

Or perhaps it was something like this?

Re:Kinda says it all, doesn't it. by whoever57 · 2003-08-12 11:40 · Score: 1 · on SCO Execs Dumping Stock

Sounds like just the winning lawyer I'd want on my side in a battle against a multi-billion dollar company.

Well, before hiring him :), you might want to check out these links:
Gore Recount Lawyer Faces Ethics Sanctions
GORE LEGAL TEAM GUILTY OF SEX BIAS

Re:The Taliban is NOT Al Qaeda, thats the whole po by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-07 09:15 · Score: 0 · on Former Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid

how about this, fucko?

trying getting out of slashdot and your parents' basement once in awhile.

Re:Dear Adobe... by dbirchall · 2003-07-07 09:22 · Score: 1 · on Adobe Drops Mac Support For Premiere

Pity "Sinbad" didn't get the focus of... er, people who buy movie tickets, and barely made back 10% of its budget on opening weekend. I hope all that Linux kept their costs down enough that they can afford for it to do as well as a typical pirate movie.

Ashton by TubeSteak · 2003-05-08 21:53 · Score: 1 · on Floppy the Robot

Heh heh, you know what the really funny part about your comment is?
I pulled This off of Fark earlier today.
*Subscribers & ______ laughing behind a 2-way mirror*

Re:State law and product warranties by Phronesis · 2003-04-29 09:27 · Score: 1 · on AMD: No Grease For You!

Thanks for the clarification of your political leanings. I am confused about your comments on precedent, though. You write, "Case law better serves situations in Federal and State Court where there is a much greater interest in consitancy." There are only two kinds of courts: state and federal. There is no separate "local" court. Perhaps you're thinking of county or district divisions of state court.

As to the benefit of local judges, you may want to think again. A local judge in the Bronx recently presided over a lawsuit in which a local jury awarded $51 million to Darryl Barnes, who was paralyzed when he drew a TEC-9 on a police officer who fired first. Bronx voters favor judges who dispense Robin Hood justice.

Similarly, local courts have made Mississippi and many other southern states "judicial hellholes" for product liability litigation according to the American Tort Reform Association. The problem here is that the voters in the court's jurisdiction tend to identify with the plaintiff. The corporations sued generally have their factories elsewhere, so it doesn't affect the local voters if jobs dry up. On the other hand, a large award can bring a lot of money to a small county. It is this abuse of discretion by local judges and juries that makes the U.S. Chamber of Commerce call for moving litigation out of local courts and into federal courts while consumer rights groups want to keep litigation in local courts.

As to your comment, "If someone has really done something so wrong that they deserve to pay out 30 billion dollars in punative damages then they should go to jail instead," I would only direct your attention to O.J. Simpson. O.J. did not go to jail (again, your beloved local justice did a fine job with him, as it did with the murderers of Emmett Till) and punitive damages were the most justice he received.

At the same time, the number of liability suits ending in bizarre awards is much smaller than most people think. Just as the press tend to exaggerate spectacular events, such as civilian casualties in Iraq, and make them seem more common than they are, they also exaggerate the frequency of liability blunders (absurd verdicts, excessive awards, etc.) and do not follow up six months later when absurd awards are thrown out on appeal.

Here are some facts, courtesy of the Center for Justice and Democracy and Public Citizen:

0.02% of all civil cases handled by the state courts concern product liability.
The defendants win more than half of these cases.
When plaintiffs do win product liability cases, more than half the awards are less than $27,000.
Awards over $1 million are most common when the plaintiff has suffered grievous injury (paralysis, brain damage, amputation) and over half of these large awards are either reversed or reduced substantially by the trial judge or on appeal.
Only a small fraction of a percent of all findings for the plaintiff award punitive damages. Between 1965 and 1994, there were 379 punitive damage awards in the U.S. in product liability lawsuits. Half of these awards were less than $50,000.
According to the Consumer Federation of America, liability suits add about 0.26% to the cost of consumer goods. This number is similar to what the National Association of Insurance Commissioners found.

Re:I'll bite. by superyooser · 2003-02-07 11:15 · Score: 1 · on Bush Orders Guidelines for Cyber-Warfare

On that question the U.S. is lying. They have shown no evidence.

You people have got to WAKE UP!

We're drowning in evidence. Iraq is building a reactor. For what? Why do you suppose the most oil-abundant nation in the world has been feverishly investing billions of dollars in nuclear reactors? (And Iraq's GDP in 2000 was just $6.6B.) Concerns about fossil fuel emissions? This is the madman who set oil wells on fire at the end of the Gulf War which burned for many months (years?) spewing black smoke into the atmosphere.

See the first item on this page, Iraq: Failing To Disarm
Videos, audio, pictures, slide shows, and transcripts. Featured are Secretary of State Colin Powell's 76-minute presentation to the U.N. and a "60 Minutes" interview. The first hour of Powell's presentation is about Saddam's WMD and his systematic means of deception to make fools of U.N. weapons inspectors. The last 16 minutes are devoted to Iraqi terrorist connections, which is the main kind of evidence for which you are asking.

More Columbia links for interested readers by tpengster · 2003-02-04 16:50 · Score: 1 · on Where Should Space Exploration Go From Here?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A213 40-2003Feb3.html
http://slate.msn.com/id/2078104/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A167 19-2003Feb2.html
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/035/oped/Rebuild ing_the_dream_of_space_exploration+.shtml
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/17 63385
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/68231. htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-564534 ,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/opinion/03ALDR.h tml
http://www.msnbc.com/news/867640.asp?0cv=KB10
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Artic les/000/000/002/204pkfxj.asp
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030210/sctone. html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A134 74-2003Feb2.html
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/ 5086944.htm
http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/bev02 022003.htm

BMG+EMI - Not the first time by PunchMonkey · 2003-01-17 10:13 · Score: 1 · on Music Biz Predicts 6% Decline in '03

This has been discussed before, read more:

http://www.nypost.com/business/66512.htm

Re:Registration links? by SanLouBlues · 2002-12-18 07:17 · Score: 3, Informative · on LOTR: The Two Towers

Here's something similar from google news (w/ a pic): http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/64775.htm
And here's a bunch more.

Re:Photo you will never forget by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-13 22:38 · Score: 0 · on EFF Urges Support for Rep. Boucher's DMCRA

Why oh why did they start allowing cameras in courtrooms? Even the pictures of Winona are not enough to make up for this atrocity.

Re:further comments by LittleBigScript · 2002-10-17 08:02 · Score: 1, Troll · on Apple Won't Be At Macworld Boston

Story more to the point here at NY Post

Guess it is all really about lobbying.
They seem to be doing as a free promotion and get back from the decline of 9% attendence from the previous year by drawing up interest.

Anyway, this is one of those stories Slashdot posts just to pay the Mac crowd lip service. Maybe, a better post would be the usual "Gosh, OS X sure is pretty."

"Bunch of damn beetnicks." -Ned Flanders (obligitory Simpons quote)

Today's Sludge Report by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-11 03:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Reflecting Fires

HILL VOTES IT A GO...
Mother Asks Bush to Send Son Home...
State Dept. Warns Americans Abroad... DICK MORRIS: Hillary owes NY POST an apology... BBC: Lemon juice 'could stop Aids'... Senator Retreats From Belafonte Awards Dinner... Smoking Ban Causes Debate in N.Y... AP WORLD
AP NATIONAL
AP WASHINGTON
AP BUSINESS
AP ENTERTAINMENT
AP ON THE HOUR
AP HEADLINES

Alan Alda in QED might work... by jmichaelg · 2002-09-13 10:58 · Score: 2 · on De Niro Seeks Science-Oriented Film Scripts

...since the article leaves open that De Niro might be looking for a movie to produce and not necessarily act in.

This review, and this one, and this one all seemed to like it. But more importantly, Kip Thorne said when he saw Alda in Los Angeles that it was like spending some time with Feynman once again.

I know if QED opened within 200 miles of me, I'd go see it. Alda has done great work and Feynman's life was amazing.

Cunning plan to destroy US economy by SysKoll · 2002-09-03 03:24 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Uncloaking Terrorist Networks

Yeah, them terrorists are really clever. They started littering every US airport with clueless people dressed in an intimidating uniform, who boldly search you, frisk you and detain you at the drop of a hat. They forced a honest woman to drink her own breast milk, they pulled a women from a plane coming back from Vegas because of a sex toy...

Their cluelessness and hardnosedness turns even the shortest travel into a horrendous wasted-day experience, from which exhausted, humiliated passengers emerge swearing they'll drive next time.

And it's working too. Look, three US airline companies are currently under Chapter 11. The damage to the US economy is staggering. Airline losses are piling up, already amounting to tens of billions of dollars.

Oh, wait. The people who turned fast-food joint rejects into unfireable Federal agents are actually the gummint, not Muslim mujahidins. Ahem. Never mind.

-- SysKoll

Cheaper solution... by Izanagi · 2002-08-09 06:49 · Score: 0, Redundant · on Tilting at Asteroids

We could knock the of course with this object