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I read a disheartening story the other day in the NY Times Magazine about American John Tobin who is/was being (wrongly) held as a spy in Russia. It is weird because he has been held for months and I have heard nothing about him. In addition to the Dmitry case, the media has not covered this story. I guess they are too busy following Gary Condit around. The trial of John Tobin was very well covered in Russia where it had OJ Simpson-like popularity.

Current coverage is also available from the NY Times.

• Though people ask for it continually, people in the know, such as _BeOS Bible_ author Scot Hacker, have repeatedly said that an open source version of BeOS will basically never happen. The system depends on licensed code that Be apparently couldn't give away even if they wanted to. I'd like to see this happen as much as everyone else, but don't count on it ever happening.
• New math department: according to The Register, Be's recent financial reports indicate that revenues are up over 600 percent. Thus proving that 600% of nothing is still, well, nothing.
• Supposedly, somewhere on beosradio.com, a ready to ship copy of BeOS r6 has been presented to CEO Jean Louis Gasseee. Various interesting takes on this one. Supposedly development on the desktop OS had basically halted, with all effort going into the IA version, so it would seem that there isn't enough code to be worth releasing a new version of the desktop OS. This is a shame, because a couple of useful components -- BONE networking, OpenGL graphics, etc -- were apparently under development before the switch to the IA focus, and it isn't clear if these components were then or are now ready for prime time. It could be a move to just get out one last version in whatever state it may be in, or there could actually be some new developments that haven't been publicized.
• Discussion at BeGroovy suggests that, among other things, this Palm press release would indicate that they're the likely buyed, while another commenter suggests, supposedly on good authority, that Sony is the likely buyer and they're already feeling out where they would want to go with Be & its technology. Then again, a a followup to that said that, at least as far as releasing BeOS6, he was full of it, and that the only developer working on BONE has been on an extended vacation anyway. Finally, one commenter noted that the final issue of BeDope ["Be's own Onion" --me.] had anticipated all of this months ago. Hrm....
• Over at BeNews, there was yet another link to the Reg article and a whole lot of discussion, generally going nowhere as these forums are wont to do, throwing out speculation that the buyer -- if there even is one, don't forget that this is still just a rumor -- could be any of Palm (they seem to like that idea; I'm not sure I see it but hey whatever), Gobe (developer of Be software -- seen as unlikely as they probably don't have much more cash than Be does), AOL, Compaq, Sun (now *that* would be a nice Network Computer...), Symbian, QNX (why?), Apple (doubt it), Microsoft (pretty sure that was a joke...) (too bad...), Amiga (ok that was definitely a joke), IBM, Hitachi, Samsung, Nokia, Transmeta, Intel, Red Hat (we're pretty safely into wild speculation territory at this point), SGI (see? completely off the wall, these people have no idea what they're talking about), QSSL (bonkers), DoCoMo (two unprofitable ideas that lose money together!), Wind River (who?), Ericsson, etc. Mostly this is all silliness. Towards the end of the conversation, a commenter notes that over on Yahoo's forums, the rumor has been confirmed (by who?), that the stock price is expected to shoot up (whoa, a whole dollar! golly!), and there will be an after hours announcement. Keep in mind however that, not so long ago, a 15 year old kid had such financial forums in the palm of his hand with his "expert" advice, so take that with the appropriate amount of salt. Still, something to watch for anyway.
• Meanwhile, *checks* yes, Be's own press page hasn't been updated since May 17. No help there...

Hopefully all those links work, if not I apologize. I'm just summarizing the various pages that I've skimmed over the course of today. If there's any truth to the Yahoo rumors, there could be confirmation of this as soon as tonight. Though it would be sad to see the company shut down or swallowed whole, a lot of people have seen this coming for a long time, and it would be nice to have some resolution of the situation. BeOS is some great consumer computing technology, and I hope very much that it has a future. Perhaps we're about to find out if that is the case...

Wasn't there a maxim from the civil rights era that justice too long delayed was justice denied?

Look at Netscape for a recent example of this. If the remedy is not soon, it will not matter for any of the competitors as they will be DEAD!

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.

At last something useful... Link here!

I think the previous post needs to be removed becuase it is copyrighted

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To understand how the govenment could react to the arrival of gray goo, look how it handles today's hot topics. On one hand the US government forbids cloning and on the other allows genes to be patented. yikes

Many points come to mind, here are the biggies:
1) First the rules for genes and clones contradict the rest of common law. If I can own land, my own body, and even ideas and do whatever I please with them, why can't I investigate my own body if it violates someone's patent on a gene, and why can't I investigate making copies of (cloning) myself? Both of these uses of my own body come under "fair use" - Good lord I hope so - so why is the government holding me down?
2) Further, the rules seem to contradict each other. If it makes sense to be able to own exclusive rights to a gene, then why not copies of the gene? And if copies of a gene are okay, then why not copies of sets of genes - aka chromosomes? And if it makes sense to have copies of sets of chromosomes - aka /me - then why can't we make a /little-me ?

Imagine the fun that comes to reality when systems similar to the gray goo are available. Governments are usually slow on imagination, and with innovation occuring so fast these days, it will probably take nothing short of a revolution to make things make sense again. But, then again well-formed democracies last a long time because they go through constant phoneix rebirths, and better ideas are encouraged to the top. Maybe not one big revolution, but lots of little ones.

Conclusion: The gray goo is gonna cause people to go through more revolutions in thought because things have to make sense eventually.

Tangent Point:
I would also like to point out that Native Americans had civilized culture for thousands of years without any real concept of land ownership. As today's civilized culture becomes more nomadic, maybe property in general is passe? Maybe that is why many slashdoters fight so hard against anything - patents, copyrights, DMCA, Microsoft - that keeps innovation low: it is not natural and nature always finds a way. :)

The world does not make sense when it can't make cents.

Is this quote from the Times Article (Archive addy, so no reg req):

"Just because it is made public doesn't mean it's declassified," Colonel Lehner said.

Classic case of the military getting to big for their britches and trying to rule the rest of the country instead of the other way 'round. Stand up to 'em, Doc Postol! And if MIT caves, well, I don't think I'll be alone in saying that it will be a sad day for academia.

I read a disheartening story the other day in the NY Times Magazine about American John Tobin who is being (wrongly) held as a spy in Russia. It is weird because he has been held for months and I have heard nothing about him. In addition to the Dmitry case, the media has not covered this story. I guess they are too busy following Gary Condit around. The trial of John Tobin was very well covered in Russia where it had OJ Simpson-like popularity.

As a solution to both problems, I propose that the US and Russia have a good, old fashioned, prisoner exchange. Current coverage is also available from the NY Times.

I read a disheartening story the other day in the NY Times Magazine about American John Tobin who is being (wrongly) held as a spy in Russia. It is weird because he has been held for months and I have heard nothing about him. In addition to the Dmitry case, the media has not covered this story. I guess they are too busy following Gary Condit around. The trial of John Tobin was very well covered in Russia where it had OJ Simpson-like popularity.

As a solution to both problems, I propose that the US and Russia have a good, old fashioned, prisoner exchange. Current coverage is also available from the NY Times.

The Wall Street Journal Contact Page (print edition) says nywireroom@dowjones.com is where to send press releases, and letter.editor@edit.wsj.com is where to send letters to the Editor.

The New York Times contact page says to go here for letters and here for op-ed pieces.

The Wall Street Journal Contact Page (print edition) says nywireroom@dowjones.com is where to send press releases, and letter.editor@edit.wsj.com is where to send letters to the Editor.

The New York Times contact page says to go here for letters and here for op-ed pieces.

The Wall Street Journal Contact Page (print edition) says nywireroom@dowjones.com is where to send press releases, and letter.editor@edit.wsj.com is where to send letters to the Editor.

The New York Times contact page says to go here for letters and here for op-ed pieces.

There was an Op-Ed piece yesterday in the NY Times by Lawrence Lessig.

The times isn't exactly outside the "mainstream" you know.

You can find the piece HERE(FrRgReq.) .

how to copy and paste. I knew I had read all of this before. Most of the paragraphs look like they were directly copy and pasted out of that new york times article.

Or maybe they just ran the KatzBot on that NYT article. In which case I'm very disappointed in the KatzBot, I didn't see 'Corporate Republic' mentioned or even post-Columbine, maybe the KatzBot is broken.


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I'd rather be trolling for goatse.cx.

KQED radio (San Francisco) had a bit on the Dmitry protests today also. Are stations in other markets covering this?

I've said this before here, I think: the problem is that the web is non-linear and, to a certain extent, mutable to each user (look at the programs that are out there to kill banner ads and pop-ups). You can't do that with a magazine or newspaper. TV is a linear stream, you can't skip ahead, so you're forced to suffer through an endless stream of car commericals and spots for the newest reality TV show. With newspapers, it's a bit different, but you still get big, glossy pictures every other page. The look and feel is different from browsing.
What to do? You can't do this pop-up crap, since it drives everyone bonkers. You shouldn't be doing flash ads as the intro to your site, since people are already waiting to download the page. Waiting for a flash animation will just irritate people more. (Who wants to wait longer to hear about Jim Beam?) People are used to getting their web content for free, so shifting to pay sites would be difficult at best (leaving aside people reposting material at free sites and whatnot).
My own personal view is that the web should be looked at as a gigantic public library. Largely, websites, especially news sites like cnn.com and the New York Times are reposting stories that they already have. These are materials that have already been created. Much like a library has copies of the daily news, so should the web. The drawback is that it's not free or even cheap to get a site up, running and maintained (as many readers probably know firsthand). So, do we put a tax on net access and use that to subsidize website creation, mitigating the need for ads? Or a central federal repository for information? I don't know...
One thing that seems to be happening is a kind of "mathematics of altruism," where someone creates a website and makes it publicly available with the expectation that a second person will create a different site of interest to the first, and so on. Of course, a majority of people don't have either web access or 1337 skillz to make a website. So the number of sites of interest is small at best, and those require lots of maintenence.
I certainly have no idea about the best way to go about this. I know that my gut tells me the web should be free.

So I propose that the US and Russia have a good, old fashioned, prisoner exchange. Current coverage is also available from the NY Times.

So I propose that the US and Russia have a good, old fashioned, prisoner exchange. Current coverage is also available from the NY Times.

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution - (grade: C+) "Maybe Darwin was wrong: this remake shows no sign of evolution."

• Chicago Tribune - "...a rouser, a screaming-banshee fun house."

• CNN.com - "...this is one really bad script."

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - (3 stars) "...when it's good, it comes close to being great."

• E! Online - (grade: C+) "...offers an eye-appealing world but a truly disappointing story."

• Entertainment Weekly - (grade: C+) "...[features] everything...but imagination."

• L.A. Weekly - "...underwritten..."

• Los Angeles Times - "...over-plotted and under-dramatized..."

• Mr. Showbiz - (rating: 2/5) "...despite its presentation, the film is so very ordinary, without urgency or revelation."

• New York Times - "...both a gas and distant, a toy sealed in its unbreakable box."

• People - "The fault lies not in the stars here but in the script."

• Roger Ebert - (2.5 stars) "I expected more."

• Salon - "...stops far too short of being completely seductive."

• San Francisco Chronicle - "...an amazing display of imagination."

• TV Guide - (2.5 out of 5 stars) "...sorely deficient on the story front."

• USA Today - (3 out of 4 stars) "...[the costumes] allow the power of the performer inside the ape gear to break on through."

• Search the Movie Review Query Engine

Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" wants to be all things to all men, and all apes. It's an action picture and a satire of an action picture. It's a comedy and then it gets serious. It's a social satire and then backs away from pushing that angle too far. It even has a weird intra-species romantic triangle in it. And it has a surprise ending that I loved, even though Matt Drudge spoiled it last weekend with a breathless "scoop."

The movie could have been more. It could have been a parable of men and animals, as daring as "Animal Farm." It could have dealt in social commentary with a sting, and satire that hurt. It could have supported, or attacked, the animal rights movement. It could have dealt with the intriguing question of whether a man and a gorilla having sex is open-mindedness, or bestiality (and, if bestiality, in both directions?).

It could have, but it doesn't. It's a cautious movie, earning every letter and numeral of its PG-13 rating. Intellectually, it's science fiction for junior high school boys.

I expected more. I thought Burton would swing for the fence. He plays it too safe, defusing his momentum with little nudges to tell you he knows it's only a movie. The 1968 "Planet of the Apes" was made before irony became an insurance policy. It made jokes, but it took itself seriously. Burton's "Planet" has scenes that defy us to believe them (his hero survives two bumpy crash-landings that look about as realistic as the effects in his "Mars Attacks!"). And it backs away from any kind of risky complexity in its relationships.

The key couple consists of Leo (Mark Wahlberg), who is the human hero, and Ari (Helena Bonham Carter), who is the Eleanor Roosevelt of the apes. They're attracted to each other but don't know what to do about it, and the screenplay gives them little help. Leo is also supposed to be linked romantically, I guess, with a curvy blond human named Daena (Estella Warren), but her role has been so abbreviated that basically all she does is follow along looking at Leo either significantly or winsomely, as circumstances warrant. At the end, he doesn't even bid her a proper farewell.

Leo, to be sure, is not one for effusive emotional outbursts. He's played by Wahlberg as a limited and narrow person with little imagination, who never seems very surprised by anything that happens to him--like, oh, to take a random example, crash-landing on a planet where the apes rule the humans. He's a space jockey type, trained in macho self-abnegation, who is great in a crisis but doesn't offer much in the way of conversation. His basic motivation seems to be to get himself off the planet, and to hell with the friends he leaves behind; he's almost surly sometimes as he leads his little band through the wilderness.

The most "human" character in the movie is, in fact, the chimpanzee Ari, who believes all species were created equal, casts her lot with the outcast humans, and tells Leo, "you're sensitive--a welcome quality in a man." Helena Bonham Carter invests this character with warmth, personality and distinctive body language; she has a way of moving that kids itself.

There's also juice in a character named Limbo (Paul Giamatti), a scam artist who has a deal for everyone, and a lot of funny one-liners. That he sounds like a carnival pitch-man should not be held against him.

The major ape characters include the fearsome Gen. Thade (Tim Roth), his strong but occasionally thoughtful gorilla lieutenant Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan), and Sen. Sandar (David Warner), who is a parliamentary leader and Ari's father. There's also a cameo for Charlton Heston, as a wise old ape who inevitably introduces a gun into the plot and has a curmudgeonly exit line. Watching the apes is fun all during the movie, while watching the humans usually isn't; the movie works hard to bring the apes to life, but unwisely thinks the humans can take care of themselves.

It's interesting that several different simian species co-exist in the planet's ape society. It may be a little hard to account for that, given the logic of the movie, although I will say no more. One major change between this film and the earlier one is that everyone--apes and humans--speak English. The movie explains why the apes speak English, but fudges on how they learned to speak at all.

The movie is great-looking. Rick Baker's makeup is convincing even in the extreme closeups, and his apes sparkle with personality and presence. The sets and locations give us a proper sense of alien awe, and there's one neat long shot of the ape city-mountain that looks, when you squint a little, like Xanadu from "Citizen Kane." There are lines inviting laughs ("Extremism in the defense of apes is no vice") and others unwisely inviting groans ("If you show me the way out of here--I promise I'll show you something that will change your life forever"). And a priceless moment when Leo wants to stop the squabbling among his fugitive group of men and apes and barks: "Shut up! That goes for all species!"

"Planet of the Apes" is the kind of movie that you enjoy at times, admire at times, even really like at times, but is it necessary? Given how famous and familiar Franklin J. Schaffner's 1968 film is, Tim Burton had some kind of an obligation to either top it, or sidestep it. Instead, he pays homage. He calls this version a "reimaging," and so it is, but a reinvention might have been better. Burton's work can show a wild and crazed imagination, but here he seems reined in. He's made a film that's respectful to the original, and respectable in itself, but that's not enough. Ten years from now, it will be the 1968 version that people are still renting.

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Let's make a tradition of this!

The story is on the main page of the NYTimes website... http://www.NYTimes.com/2001/07/28/technology/28SWA P.html

Taken from the Times article...
Mr. Largent said in his letter to the attorney general. He also wrote: "The Lord has blessed us both immensely, and I am willing to stand with you in any way you feel necessary to begin eliminating this scourge from our nation's soul. I believe that Jesus asks no less of us."

There you have it... Gnutella makes Jesus cry.

The phone company owns the wires that carry your conversations. So I guess they have the right to "listen in," since you're using their equipment?

It's not quite that bad, yet, but the courts have ruled the the phone company has the right to sell your phone records; i.e. who you call, how often, and so on. This got some coverage on EPIC , where somebody did their homework and linked to these articles on Wired, MSN, and The New York Times.

Back to the issue: The boss, who "owns your time," wants to make sure he's getting all he's paid for. What's next? No posting of Dibert cartoons on your cubicle, since your co-workers will waste precious man-hours chuckling? No newspapers in tne bathroom, since they tend to encourage extra-long bathroom breaks? No more decaf?

I'm not saying that companies should or shouldn't have an absolute right to record your phone calls, read all your email, and require you to be fingerprinted. I am saying that micro-managerial, reactive approaches to eliminating "wasted time" seldom work. Happy employees free to spend a few moments surfing the web or answering a personal email will be more productive than unhappy employees living in fear of a draconian computer use policy.

...there's The New York Times (free registration required). For everybody else, there's Slashdot.

The New York Times had a brief article this morning saying Russia may reduce John Tobin's term. This may be a bargining chip for the Russians.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.

And to make it work, you even have to spell it right :)
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http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/07/26/technology/c ircuits/26SADD.html

saw this at NYT :

AOL Time Warner Set to Buy IPC


it's a 1.64 billion $$$ deal, IPC is a UK magazine publisher.

-Jon

Boston Globe:
Adobe shifts, urges hacker's release

CBS News:
Hacker Held Under New Law

ABC News:
Russian programmer arrested at hacker convention for alleged violation of copyright law

MSNBC:
Adobe seeks release of Russian programmer arrested at Def Con

New York Times:
U.S. Arrests Russian Cryptographer as Copyright Violator
Arrest Raises Stakes in Battle Over Copyright
Protesters Target FBI Nominee Over Russian Arrest
Adobe Opposes Prosecution in Hacking Case

Those all seem pretty mainstream to me.
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Boston Globe:
Adobe shifts, urges hacker's release

CBS News:
Hacker Held Under New Law

ABC News:
Russian programmer arrested at hacker convention for alleged violation of copyright law

MSNBC:
Adobe seeks release of Russian programmer arrested at Def Con

New York Times:
U.S. Arrests Russian Cryptographer as Copyright Violator
Arrest Raises Stakes in Battle Over Copyright
Protesters Target FBI Nominee Over Russian Arrest
Adobe Opposes Prosecution in Hacking Case

Those all seem pretty mainstream to me.
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Boston Globe:
Adobe shifts, urges hacker's release

CBS News:
Hacker Held Under New Law

ABC News:
Russian programmer arrested at hacker convention for alleged violation of copyright law

MSNBC:
Adobe seeks release of Russian programmer arrested at Def Con

New York Times:
U.S. Arrests Russian Cryptographer as Copyright Violator
Arrest Raises Stakes in Battle Over Copyright
Protesters Target FBI Nominee Over Russian Arrest
Adobe Opposes Prosecution in Hacking Case

Those all seem pretty mainstream to me.
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Boston Globe:
Adobe shifts, urges hacker's release

CBS News:
Hacker Held Under New Law

ABC News:
Russian programmer arrested at hacker convention for alleged violation of copyright law

MSNBC:
Adobe seeks release of Russian programmer arrested at Def Con

New York Times:
U.S. Arrests Russian Cryptographer as Copyright Violator
Arrest Raises Stakes in Battle Over Copyright
Protesters Target FBI Nominee Over Russian Arrest
Adobe Opposes Prosecution in Hacking Case

Those all seem pretty mainstream to me.
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http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/07/11/science/phy sical/11PART.html

Yeah, sure is annoying.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.

This is a pretty cool idea. I can imagine modelling a candle flame is hard enough. Trying to model all the forces and flows inside a combustion cylinder must be mind boggling! Who knows - maybe there is a 'next generation' combustion engine that will allow for better emissions till fuel cells and the like are usable for prime time. Of course if Congress won't get off their butts and actually raise fuel efficiency standards by more than a gallon, well, all the research in the world isn't gonna help :(

Here's a link to an article in NYT that has more details than the press release.
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IBM's commitment to Linux goes no further - their laptops start at $999, but their Linux laptops start at around $3400. Hmmm, does a Linux license cost $2401, or what?

There must be some reason that no major commodity hardware vendor is willing to ship a low-cost MS free system. After all, it would be MS they are undercutting, not themselves. Hmmmm. Hmmmmmm.

There's an interesting article in today's New York Times, indicating that there's a reluctance to sue MS over its abuse of monopoly power, err, because it's a bad idea to offend the monopoly power... Do you think...?

Non-subscription link

Hmm, a REAL Virtual Helpdesk, an interesting idea - but how well does it work in practice? Surely it'll require some intelligent configuration to work well for a big company - and if the initial configuration is fluffed, will it spell trouble for the future as it sets off on the wrong footing?

Remember that many companies with 10,000+ employees will be running a lot of in-house software, and the machine will be expected to cope with questions concerning this as well.

I could be wrong of course, and it could be free-standing all singing, all-dancing, these are just a couple of initial concerns...

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Ah yes, remind me...

Which country has a higher percentage of its population in prison?

Which administration is more likely to launch a missile attack? Which may or may not hit its target?

Or crash their secret spy plane, for that matter?

Which country recently lost its seat on the U.N. human rights committee?

In other words, you probably have to buy one from Russia.

Yes, that could never happen. With Russia being so stable and all.

the US is pushing for increased Canadian border security and unified policies on security and entry into North America

No one ever gets anything past the Canadians.

suitcase nukes are low-yield.

Uhhhh... Yah.

After all, look how nice the world is being to China, what with giving them the Olympics and all (worked really well in Berlin in 1936, didn't it?).

This is Yes, you are absolutely right. Jesse Owens' televised humiliation of "Aryan superiority" having lead to WWII and all...

You have to understand that the Mutual Assured Destruction policies of the Cold War don't apply to unstable and fundamentalist regimes.

Hmm. Strange that the rest of the civilized world seems to disagree. Of course, I'm sure this is the only time that Bush would dare propose breaking an anti-nuke treaty. I mean, any guy who's cutting the EPA by 6.5% while giving an additional 13.6 billion to defense has his priorities totally straight. That, and his unbiased choices to head the EPA show that he isn't swayed by special interests. Which is why ultimately, other countries everywhere love and respect and cherish him and support his wise policies.

Don't let the facts stop you, though, Michael.

Yeah, whatever man.

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Ah yes, remind me...

Which country has a higher percentage of its population in prison?

Which administration is more likely to launch a missile attack? Which may or may not hit its target?

Or crash their secret spy plane, for that matter?

Which country recently lost its seat on the U.N. human rights committee?

In other words, you probably have to buy one from Russia.

Yes, that could never happen. With Russia being so stable and all.

the US is pushing for increased Canadian border security and unified policies on security and entry into North America

No one ever gets anything past the Canadians.

suitcase nukes are low-yield.

Uhhhh... Yah.

After all, look how nice the world is being to China, what with giving them the Olympics and all (worked really well in Berlin in 1936, didn't it?).

This is Yes, you are absolutely right. Jesse Owens' televised humiliation of "Aryan superiority" having lead to WWII and all...

You have to understand that the Mutual Assured Destruction policies of the Cold War don't apply to unstable and fundamentalist regimes.

Hmm. Strange that the rest of the civilized world seems to disagree. Of course, I'm sure this is the only time that Bush would dare propose breaking an anti-nuke treaty. I mean, any guy who's cutting the EPA by 6.5% while giving an additional 13.6 billion to defense has his priorities totally straight. That, and his unbiased choices to head the EPA show that he isn't swayed by special interests. Which is why ultimately, other countries everywhere love and respect and cherish him and support his wise policies.

Don't let the facts stop you, though, Michael.

Yeah, whatever man.

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Is it just me, or is there something extremely patronising about:

Your age: (Click here if you are under 13.)

on the NYtimes login page? If a kid is interested in science, why should he be redirected to the kiddies page? Science should be for everyone, and if there is some inappropriate material in the article it should say so rather than redirecting them to the kiddies page.

Is it just me, or is there something extremely patronising about:

Your age: (Click here if you are under 13.)

on the NYtimes login page? If a kid is interested in science, why should he be redirected to the kiddies page? Science should be for everyone, and if there is some inappropriate material in the article it should say so rather than redirecting them to the kiddies page.

Here.

Does this guy look 15?

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Can be found here.

Does this guy look 15?