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I'm just a lowly engineer who reads sometimes, so so my main knowledge of Foucault relates to physics. Which is to say, I might be wrong. But my thinking about deconstructionism is along these lines.

Bound to fail in the strict sense, but I find it useful to expose those who exploit the natural fuzziness of language to manipulate people. Which includes anyone who has something to sell, economically or politically.

I sure have, and you should too. Alert your fellow citizens and write your representatives in Congress and demand that the President, Vice President and AG be impeached.

"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord? None of the above."
It is not about politics or partisanship I am a libertarian-esque independent voter with no party affiliations whatsoever. To me it is not about which party gets elected or who holds a majority so long as the people doing so believe in and uphold the Constitution (a document we should restore) above all else. My favoring of impeachment is about the constitution and the rule of law, as yours should be.

Out of 35 attempts at impeachment, 9 have gone to trial. Two presidents have had impeachment proceedings - Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. Unfortunately, both of these were more political in nature and being that the latter was so recently, people tend to associate the term with a political play.

All too often people view impeachment as if _it_ is a problem, as if impeachment itself is bad. However, impeachment is one of the most useful tools in the constitution. In fact, impeachment (when it is not taken lightly and it is used with reason) helps us to _solve_ the problem. Take Nixon for example. Impeachment could be helpful to our situation now and for the future.

"If we don't take action now then we'll settle for nothing later."
If we do not want presidents to run rough-shod over the constitution in the future (whomever they may be) we must take action now. We must tell these future presidents that they may not act as this one has and continues to do.

We must tell these future presidents that we the people are the government, that we the people are the boss, that we the people (in whose names they do these things) hold the constitution and rule of law above all else; and that, should they disobey and outright attack the constitution, should they run outside of the rule of law - they will be held accountable.

Should anyone on either side or outside of the two major parties need a bit of convincing that impeachment is a good idea right now you can start by watching this.

Tell your fellow citizens, tell your Congress, write letters to the media (if you are the media - ask the tough questions, alert the people!, do your job! ). Take action in demanding that our constitution be restored in its entirety to its rightful place.

Income Inequality
In America, the top one-tenth of one percent of earners make about the same money per year collectively as the millions of Americans in the bottom fifty percent combined. This is putting a tight squeeze on the middle class, while leaving millions of others in the cold.

This week, David Brancaccio talks with Pulitzer prize-winning financial reporter David Cay Johnston, as well as author and advocate Beth Shulman about the state of our country's vast income divide and how it's hurting those just trying to make ends meet.

This is relevant to the main story in that education costs are rising AND even getting an education doesn't mean you'll be doing that much economically better than those who didn't.

Play a pretty big role in things, scientist still don't understand how these shifts will fully impact things.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elnino/anatomy/lanina .html

Here's the NOVA. And it's "Thrun", not Thune.

even more important than what happens to food when you cook it... what happens to your body when you eat it.

through anecdotal evidence and an ever growing foundation of scientific evidence, the zone diet has shown me that it is much closer to optimal than the average american diet.

scientific data (still needs to grow a bit, but still quote compelling in its own right):
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2799700&page =1

anecdotal evidence:
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1401/features/robin.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2799700&page =1

my experience.

1. 178 lbs to 168 lbs in about 11 weeks.
2. net gain of muscle during the same time frame.
3. energy level is dramatically higher (b-ball 2 days a week (5 games yesterday), cardio 3 days a week, lifting weights 3 days a week).
4. my muscles don't get sore after workouts b/c the zone inhibits excess production of lactic acid (which gets in the the mscles and causes soreness).
5. my pulse rate dropped from 67 to 58.
6. my cardio went from dead after 10 minutes to 40 minutes plus with room to spare - after lifting weights for an hour - including leg work.
7. my "well being" meter is higher on my worst day in the zone compared to my best day not on the zone.
8. i'm rarely hungry and i don't crave carbohydrates. i can sit next to snickers at work and not eat any for months on end.
9. i'm more than half way to my goal of 6 pack abs by the end of the year - and i'm over 40 years old. i *never* had 6 pack abs when i was growing up and i tried hard. little did i know back then that every time i ate i instructed my body to retain fat and add more. exercise mitigated this to a point, but now that i use my diet to unlock my fat burning potential, getting the 6 pack abs is actually easy. in fact, i can't prevent it from happening *unless* i change my diet away from the zone.
10. my energy level after work is greater than my energy level at any point in the day in a non zone friendly diet.

i understand different folks have different bio-chemistries, but this is worth a shot *if* you care about your health. my experience is most folks don't. they live to eat, they don't eat to live.

...they're off visiting all the other jillions of interesting sentients throughout the universe?

It seems to me in order for the "Fermi paradox" to be a problem, you've got to assume that the development of intelligent, spacefaring sentients is really, really, common.

Suppose, for example, we assume that we get found by someone detecting our radio broadcasts. According to this, the first commercial radio broadcast was in 1920. The wave-front from that broadcast is now a sphere ~43 light years in radius. According to this, the Milky Way galaxy has a diameter of 100,000 light years.

Using a 2D (because I don't have the math or the data for a 3D) model: a disc of radius 43LY has area 43*43*pi = 5.8E3 LY^2. For the galaxy, A=50000*50000*pi = 7.8E9. So our broadcast sphere has covered 0.00007% of our own galaxy.

So even if there is another sentient spacefaring species out their zipping around in their FTL ships, they'd have to be looking really hard just to get down to the granularity necessary to look in our little corner of the galaxy.

And what if you assume the development of sentient life is unlikely? What if the nearest one is in, say, the LMC? What if FTL travel is impossible, or just really hard? We might never meet one.

You're right, we should nationalise the media and create a government ministry to handle everything. The Ministry of Truth perhaps.

Nothardly. 21 hours seems to be an abnormally long burst from what's been observed so far. But it's not the initial burst you really need to worry about.

So it starts with volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide; next step: global warming. The oceans heat up and lose their oxygen, nasty bacteria take over, burping out lots of poisonous gas. End result? Mass extinction.

Like how about the war drum banging that was done on deceiving many americans to support the war on iraq?

I believe it was fox national that would pull stuff like using split screens showing one thing, the narrator talking about another thing and a small box showing someone speaking in another language.

It made it appear that it was all related like the non-english speaker was talking about the larger picture being shown while the narrator appeared to be a translator. But none of them were related. And this happen daily in the build up of getting american support behind Bush.

Anyone with half a mind would see thru it, many didn't. Fox tried to make it obvious, as other networks also contributed in less obvious ways. There was even the setting up of what was called the "clear channel network" composed of TV and radio station.

Propoganda!!

Why did they do this?

Anthrax threats.....

I understand the person they tried to blame sued and got more then Richard Jewel did for being publicly accused of the 96 olympic centennial bombing..

No comspiracy needed. just one person with enough clearance at the US military base in teh US that the anthrax came from.

Even an idiot would realize how the politics of the country would play off the anthrax story.

It was an intentional threat against the media to get them to play the war drums in support of US attacking Iraq.

Bim Laden and Saddam are not the same person, regardless of what most supporting the war believe.

There is more that has not been told together, but it has been told and the information is findable on the internet.

911 was the result of extreamist using a genuinely real event Americans were seriously guilty of, as an excuse to do what they did, and the excuse was real and verifiable enough that it certainly helped the extreamist to promote a following of fools to help them.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2704stock market.html

That's a lot of money that is not going to just appear out of no where and vanish into nowhere.

What other financial things happened in the 90's?

The dotcom boom and bust... money came from somewhere to finance business with out a product or service... easy come easy go... for those who were able to get out in time.

For those who didn't get out in time... enron, worldcom and the likes, hiding their losses from the gamble.

Can Americans say they are sorry? Credit card interest rate dropping to 0% was an attempt. As the world bank offered to make a loan to south east asia countries like indonesia [80% muslim by CIA reports] where the trillion dollar bet drained financials badly, but with an interest rate.... that offer fell flat.....

The information is available, but no-one has yet put it together and communicated it to the masses. And whats his name "ferinheight 911" only provided distraction from the simple occums razor of "follow the money"...

Asking someone if they trust the news media is like asking them if they are stupid.

Networks use news as a vehicle to sell advertising space to. On a slow news day they will take an any hill and make it sound like a mountain to attract viewers. See how bad the ants are to home owners....

You don't need to reference the White House for an example of deleted emails. Microsoft themselves have "lost" emails required by court subpoena.

Although I think something dietary is most likely the solution

None of these things happen in a solid-currency economy.

The Austrians have shown time and again that soft deflation is a good thing

Time to cut out the crap food, the too-big portions, the second helpings, and start starving yourself, because nothing else will work.

this is absolutely, unequivocally wrong in the majority of cases. i'm on a moderate diet where i feel great (my worst day on the diet is better than my best day on the average american carbohydrate fest), i have excess energy to play basketball twice a week, do cardio twice a week (or more) and lift weights three times a week (a nice side effect of my diet is i don't over produce lactic acid so when i picked up weights for the first time in 20 years, i didn't get sore like i did 20 years earlier in the high carbo diet - it is funny to see my muscular friends get all sore after a workout and me, the skinny guy, doesn't get sore). I'm losing about a lb of fat per week (8 lbs in 8 weeks, some water loss, some muscle gain to offset some fat loss). i'm just shy of 5'11", i weighed in at 170.5 lbs this morning - not bad for 40+ year old. i can tell i have about more lbs of fat to go until i have gotten 100% rid of the fat around my waist and behind. yes, that's an 8 pack at 40 plus. ny time frame is jan 1, 2008 - so i have plenty of time to lose the excess fat and offset some of the fat weight loss with muscle mass gains.

i've never felt better and...

i. don't. starve. i'm rarely hungry.

the diet is the ultimate moderate diet, too. it is called the zone diet. there is a plethora of information on the web about it. the former heaviest man in the world chose the zone diet over surgery and he lost 400 lbs in the first year.

http://www.drsears.com/zonemondaysfeatureopen.page ?zoneMondayID=284
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257620,00.html

PBS scientific american did a study on diets and the Zone fared very well...

http://www.pbs.org/saf/1401/features/robin.htm

A 47 year old woman went from 247 to 2002 lbs in 6 months and, when asked what she liked best about the diet, Robin responded, "What I really like is how good you feel when you are "in the Zone". You are rarely hungry, and you just feel really, really good - it has a tremendous impact on your mood - unlike other diets I've been on"

notice, she didn't mention the 45 lbs gone, rather, she mentioned how she felt great on the diet and how this diet didn't leave her feeling hungry. this mirrors my personal experience. my worst day on the zone is better than my best day on the average american diet (on a physical, well being level, all else being equal).

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And no, you don't have a glandular problem - you got that way one bite at a time, just like everyone else.


i don't believe all people are created equal in how their bodies process food. for example, i'd bet my wife has eaten more food than i have and i know she exercises less, yet she weighs 130 and change and i weigh 170 and small change. if our bodies handled food equally, she should weigh more than i do.

we all know people who can eat pop tarts all day and not gain a pound and we know others who seemingly just look at food and add a pound.

everyone's body is genetically UNIQUE. the variation might be small or might be huge, it just depends. surely there are nurture issues to go along with the nature issues - it isn't a simple issue. my experience is that the zone diet tends to equalize the playing field - at least as far as excess fat loss, creating energy and a general feeling of well being.

the press erroneously refers to the zone as a "high protein" or "low carb" diet. both these descriptions are wrong. it is a protein moderate, carb moderate, monounsaturated fat moderate diet.

lean meats, vegetables, fruits and nuts are the zone staples (duh, it just make

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/

Harvest of Fear is a documentary on GMOs as well, produced by PBS. If anyone watches Future of Food, they should watch Harvest of Fear. This is primarily because I thought Future of Food (as another reply to this parent pointed out) seems to have been designed to scare the viewer shitless. Harvest of Fear, on the other hand, provides arguments and counter arguments for nearly every topic brought up, without the dramatics and theatrics featured in the Future of Food. You might find yourself agreeing with one viewpoint, and another take on that viewpoint will be brought up, and it gets you thinking.

In any case, it's good to watch the 2 and compare/contrast the views.

The telecom companies were already given incentives to build a fiber optic network, through their ability to charge high fees on call waiting and caller id, but the government agency sent to oversee this was too close with industry and didn't enforce it. Then they wine that their infrastructure is being taxed and they need to charge people twice for use.
Watch moyer's on america: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/inde x.html to see a more in-depth story.

Well, it already is, as I learned recently. So this means nothing to me. What I'm interested in now is 100% encrypted communication between search servers. If they did that, and then allowed me to 100% anonymize my search data (using a freely viewiable, verifiably applied to all servers open source solution), then that would be an act of good faith sufficient for me to say "ok, keep the data, I can see with my own eyes that it is truly anonymized; any company willing to go that far can keep it in my book".

Until then, isn't it jolly we're all up in arms over entirely the wrong thing? I.E., the threat here from Google's non-anonymized search data is much less than AT&T's reacharound with the NSA.

While the term "shithole country" is a bit degrading, I actually have a bit of skepticism about this myself.

I recently got a real eye opening while watching this documentary from the History Channel about Liberia. It shows how horribly wrong well-meaning "social experiments" can go. I later checked out additional information about Liberia from PBS - America's Stepchild and Wikipedia - Liberia.

When society breaks down, all manner of tools become weapons. It will be interesting to see how these (quite powerful) tools are used.

Google is putting up money, but its proposal to the FCC is backed by Intel, Yahoo!, eBay, Skype, DirecTV, EchoStar, and Access Spectrum (which constitute The Coalition for 4G in America), but there are many other groups also in favor of open access. See this write-up on Daily Wireless for a good overview, and read Google's own explanation on its Public Policy Blog.

I wish Slashdot paid more attention to wireless goings-on. For instance, just this week, Sprint announced it is forming a 20 year alliance with Clearwire. The two companies are rolling out WiMax phone and broadband services, and together spent billions to control spectrum that reaches nearly everyone in the U.S. Wouldn't it be nice if they had to lower their price to consumers because of open-access competition in the 700mhz band?

Robert X. Cringely's latest article is a good read, too. "When Elephants Dance: Get ready (finally) for faster Internet speeds at lower prices"

I live in a rural place that is lucky to have one broadband provider, a cable company. (Nope, no DSL.) If open access succeeds, small wireless ISPs will sprout up in places like this, which big companies always seem to neglect. Those ISPs would be paying wholesale prices for their spectrum, too, so regional monopolies like my cable company will finally face some pressure to lower their prices, or else to compete on speed and service.

You might want to update your spam about Microsoft paying its employees in stock options, since the company stopped issuing them four years ago: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/economy/july-dec03/ stocks_7-10.html.

Oh, big news there. Update from "options" to "restricted" is noted. Thanks.

I'm sure you can imagine other reasons why Microsoft is on the verge of collapse, and probably has been in your minds for years now (but funnily enough, just never seems to collapse)

Well, thanks Dr. AC, but that has not been on my mind for years. The obvious superiority of free software has been on my mind for about seven years, and I've expected a shift but I'm a slow learner. It took me a couple of years to realize that M$ must be destroyed. It's Vista and Office 2007, which are so obviously a play from the early 90's book of software, that have convinced me the end is near for them.

I usually ignore your ravings, but happened to notice the mention of stock options, so read this one. You might want to update your spam about Microsoft paying its employees in stock options, since the company stopped issuing them four years ago: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/economy/july-dec03/ stocks_7-10.html. This was fairly big news in the financial press at the time, so I'm surprised you never read about it (maybe you're too busy spamming web forums to read anything). The rest of your post is probably equally baseless, but I can't be bothered with it, since my area of expertise is finance/economics.

I'm sure you can imagine other reasons why Microsoft is on the verge of collapse, and probably has been in your minds for years now (but funnily enough, just never seems to collapse), at least since your fixation with the company developed. You really ought to see a psychiatrist, twitter; you're in bad shape. I only hope you're not a Scientologist, since they're apparently forbidden by their religion to visit psychiatrists.

> The university's ResNet website states that, 'Violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is against the law. If you are caught downloading copyrighted material, you will lose your ResNet privileges forever. No second notices, no excuses, no refunds.

We've already seen that anyone outside the U.S can send a bogus DMCA takedown notice without penalty. Not often the US passes laws that prosecute Americans and give non-Americans free reign but there you go. Here are two recent cases showing how easy it is:

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897, 21563838-27317,00.html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_200 70329_001882.html

Now Kansas University has said they'll shut down students account if *anyone* sends a DMCA notice, with right of appeal. So if someone outside the US was to take the University's mailing list and generate a bogus DMCA notice for each one, the
entire University would voluntarily shut itself down. This hole in DMCA has been suggested before, so it's hardly new.

Who dreamed up this nonsense? Didn't they think it through to its logical conclusion? Don't Universities teach critical thinking? I mean, Double Duh.

Can anyone think of a real, world-beating innovation by an American, born here, whose parents were also born here Americans?

I'm not into inventor genealogy, but Edison? Bell?

Shockley, inventor of the transistor? (Oddly enough, this article http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/shockley/inde x.html does go into his family history, and apparently it includes the Mayflower).

Regarding fields of pure science (like Wagner), Feynman in quantum physics, Linus Pauling and Mullikan in Chemistry, a variety of others (I only named a few with Caltech connections).

In the end, it doesn't matter where they're from - America has always been a 'mutt' country, and as long as they come here with intent to stay, they're Americans. So all those researchers who have tenure-track positions in American universities who were born elsewhere? All those folks working at National Labs and high-profile industry research centers like Watson and PARC? They're Americans as far as I'm concerned - as were Einstein and von Braun.

Has some good new ideas on solar technologies, green architecture and info on paint like options in the USA. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/solar/

If your congresscriter is Republican or if you're talking to your Republican friends about this you should emphasize what will happen when a Democratic President (Oxymoron in this case they'll all be Fascists) has this power. Abortion Protesters, terrorists. Religious groups, terrorists. You get the idea.. Some people are only swayed by fear, and this is a case were we should all be afraid. I recommend Bill Moyers http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07132007/profile .html Tough Talk on Impeachment because I think it appeals to both sides of the political spectrum. Just tell your 'conservative' friends that you were impressed by what the person who drew up the articles of impeachment for President Clinton had to say. Creating a Monarchy hurts everyone. This is an issue for everyone who's not going to be a part of the new aristocracy, namely ALL of us. I sometimes wonder if the reason the Democrats are sitting on thier thumbs instead of impeaching this President is that they see all the the power the next President will have and their greed out weights their duty. What I would like to see are all the Democratic hopefulls say they will not Pardon anyone from the Previous Administration... I think that will be the only hope of any good coming out of the last two terms of this President. I won't hold my breath.

A quick google turns up 1.1 million links for the phrase "chinese exploited workers"

Ah, I see the first link is to Canada Tibet Committee. I agree Tibetans are being exploited and persecuted by the Chinese. Because Tibetans aren't Chinese. The sovereign nation of Tibet was invaded and conquered by Mao's army in 1959. Free Tibet!. Now change "Chinese" to "United States" and the number of results increases from 1,160,000 to 1,770,000, an increase of more than 500,000. Does that mean there are more workers exploited in the US?

Go take a gander at Frontline's Is Wal-Mart good for America video

Walmart doesn't just buy from China to sale in the US, Walmart also has stores in China. In the not too distant future China will be Walmart's biggest market. It is partnering or buying Chinese retailers, Wal-Mart plots bid for Chinese retail giant. Chinese employees of Walmart are even unionizing.

Chinese who are employed in one of these factories make more than those who can't get a job at one

That doesn't mean they aren't being exploited. Work & safety conditions play a large part. Ask a coal miner.

You're right it doesn't mean they aren't being exploited, but if they are fighting to get those jobs I'd say they are very willing work and accept the work conditions, thus they aren't being exploited.

The Chinese workers aren't making as much as First World workers make, but they aren't being exploited.

Chinese who are employed in one of these factories make more than those who can't get a job at one

Readers interested in this item may find the recent episode of Mystery "Foyle's War: Casulties of War" adds to their understanding:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/foyleswar/series4. html#casualties

Great period series and this episode has specific ties to the topic at hand.

What about me? I'm not important and I hardly ever post here any more, so... oh, wait.

And to apologize for that lame joke, here's some research:
The Computer History Museum has transcripts and interviews, but no source: http://search.computerhistory.org/search?q=macpain t&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&site=chm_collection&client =chm_collection&proxystylesheet=chm_collection&out put=xml_no_dtd
Another interview with the original reference to putting MacPaint in there: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/001 .html

I agree that code written to the Tcl/Tk style guide is clean, though messy Tcl exists. Sort of like Perl, the language everyone loves to blame for their sophomore code.

So I was thinking of putting it on the site, Apple would send me a cease-and-desist, I'd take it down, but it would be out there then. But I was just a little too chicken. Finally Tim O'Reilly came up with the brilliant solution of donating it to the Computer History Museum as a historic artifact. Perhaps they could get permission from Apple. So that's what we did. It took a few months but [i]n August Apple approved the donation of the MacPaint source code to the Computer History Museum. This was their first major software artifact in their collection so they made a big deal of it, made a video of us, and eventually the MacPaint source code will be available from their web site to anyone in the world.

So I was thinking of putting it on the site, Apple would send me a cease-and-desist, I'd take it down, but it would be out there then. But I was just a little too chicken. Finally Tim O'Reilly came up with the brilliant solution of donating it to the Computer History Museum as a historic artifact. Perhaps they could get permission from Apple. So that's what we did. It took a few months but [i]n August Apple approved the donation of the MacPaint source code to the Computer History Museum. This was their first major software artifact in their collection so they made a big deal of it, made a video of us, and eventually the MacPaint source code will be available from their web site to anyone in the world.

I notice that you very carefully leave off the real issues.

Like Guatanamo and the whole imprisonment without due process thing.

Or like illegally spying on US citizens.

Or...

You mention only the things that noone who's seriously talking impeachment would mention. I applaud you for attacking those that talk impeachment out of a knee-jerk political stance, however, you don't seem to realize that there's a relatively strong case for it.

You're right, but that would involve me going back to using the FBI to investigate political opponents, Vince Foster, Jane Doe Number Five" and other Clinton Scandals, but I thought I'd keep it brief.

Besides, we could trade scandals like this all day and get nowhere!

Are you seriously arguing that terrorists would say "Hey, let's use the phone because the FBI has to talk to a judge before wiretapping us"?

More to the point, Bush himself widely publicized the practice of wiretapping frequently, most famously in saying "Any time you hear the United States Government talking about wiretap, it requires --- a wiretap requires a court order."

As for:

>They could have ignored the law because they believe as they stated, that it didn't apply

They knew FISA applied to them, because they asked Attorney General of the United States for an opinion; and he said it applied to them. video

Meanwhile, we know that the Bush Administration has a habit of breaking laws for political advantage (remember the hacking into the email of Democratic Senators? Remember the NH phone jamming? The FL caging ops?) What (other than partisanship) makes you think they wouldn't pull a Nixon?

since he is an attorney he is more qualified to pursue this matter from knowledge of law than the typical American. However, from law knowledge he also knows that his career will probably be greatly stifled should he pursue it.

From another POV, that of an American citizen, given all the insane mindset I have seen of the government since Bush got in office, I'm terrorized. Not by the fear of foreigners but buy The US government mindset. The disregard of science, factual evidence, applying double standards to crimes, the changing of laws and government structure that was originally put in place to prevent abuses by the government. But most of all, I'm terrorized by the fact that the waring mindset of the US government has stolen social security benefits (this going on for my whole life) and used them for war and yet with the largest military budget ever in mans history, hasn't put the money back, that they took from social security. And this is only the tip of the wrongs the US government has committed and is now committing against the very people that they are supposed to be representing. And that is terroristic.

With all this insane mindset of the US government, would it be of any surprise to find that they have been generating reasons to be attacked? I.E. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2704stock market.html -- follow the money to where the dot com boom and bust got its funding and lack of from, as well as the fall of the losers in the trillion dollar bet - Enron, Worldcom, etc.. and of course the excuse it all provided for the Islamic extremist to use to promote others to join them (fyi - Indonesia (80% Muslin according to the CIA) was hit the worse from the trillion dollar bet and the world bank (US run) offered to bail them out with interest..

World Trade center, Pentagon, and probable White House: Statement being "Wrongful world stock market manipulation back by politically controlled military"
I do not condone killing innocent or even war, but know if you don't give another reason to harm you you are a great deal safer.

So why is not a part of the military budget going for fixing real world problems in a manner of removing reason to cause problems?
We do Know how to do it! http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/TLSF/theme_a/ mod02/www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml

Not doing it is supportive of Terrorism. A fraction of one percent of the 6 billion plus people of the world are in a position of starting a war. They are the terrorist and look how much the rest of us pay for their disease.

What happened to the MS/Intel alliance of old? Microsoft getting annoyed at Intel making chips for Apple?

Apple has nothing to do with this, Intel is fairly opportunistic and they see there is a significant potential for Linux growth over the next few years and having Intel hardware be the hardware of choice due to superior driver support can only help them. They have traditionally provided fairly good hardware support for Linux on the server side of things for obvious reasons, it appears that this is now being pushed out to more desktop/notebook oriented hardware. Most likely in anticipation of desktop Linux growth, especially in the corporate/government universe.
As far as a MS/Intel alliance, there has not been one to speak of for several years now. It's not that Intel is above collusion or dirty tricks, for example there was that deal they struck with Skype a while back trying to get Skype crippled on AMD processors. It's just that Intel, and many other hardware companies have felt for years that Microsoft is holding them back.

From Microsoft's perspective they have been in a position where most computer users in the world have to pay them a "Microsoft tax" if they want to or not, so the less things change the better because any radical hardware or usage changes (the internet) can only hurt Microsoft rather than help them. This clashes with the goals of most hardware companies, which are to one-up the other hardware companies and crank out new hardware revisions constantly to keep people in the habit of upgrading every year. Graphics processor capabilities have been advancing at an incredible rate the last few years, this is largely because gamers are constantly looking at upcoming games and thinking to themselves "man I'm going to need a new video card when that comes out". What would be an equivalent event for replacing the rest of the hardware in the computer? Perhaps the release of a new operating system, though this doesn't really work when it takes Microsoft 5 years and lots of delays between each version of Windows with only marginal changes, most of which have scared the corporate/government customers away from upgrading.

There has been bad blood between Intel and Microsoft for many years now, if you want further evidence here is an interview from late 2005 with Avram Miller Intel's "Vice President and Director of Corporate Business Development" from 1984-1999 http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/008 .html

Avram:I think another problem was the company was, I think, intimidated by Microsoft. It's easy to be intimidated by Microsoft. Microsoft is intimidating. And I think that many times Intel would have liked to have done something, but Microsoft didn't like it and Intel was basically a little bit afraid of Microsoft.

Bob: I talked to an Intel guy who told me that they were Microsoft's bitch.

Avram: Well, that might be a way to describe it. I wouldn't describe it exactly like that. One of the issues in this was that if you're a software company, you're used to selling upgrades. There really isn't an upgrade for a micro-processor. So, you need to try to push faster and faster the applications that use the power. And in the beginning, the companies were more aligned that way, but over time, they became less aligned that way.

Here is an example from another former Intel executive who testified against Microsoft in the anti-trust trial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_McGeady

* McGeady testified that Microsoft feared competition from Intel's software development: At an August 2, 1995 meeting Bill Gates allegedly threatened to terminate Windows support for Intel's new microprocessors unless they were able to "get alignment" between Intel and MS on Intel's Internet and communications soft

Many physical utility (water, power etc.) lines are connected to the internet through data acquisition boxes that serve as control panels for circut breakers, valves, and so on. There is also a collection of QuickTime videos from PBS that expands on this subject, also in which these acquisition systems are mentioned.

Here is an interesting documentary dealing with American-style censorship and propaganda in the media. The mechanism may be different, but in the end the public is still being fed misinformation.
Maybe we don't need a Big Brother in this country, we're all conspiring to misinform ourselves.

No.

America is far more class bound than I thought

Yes, the John Major era myth of the US as a classless society was just that--a myth--though plenty of people still believe it. Statistically, the US has less social mobility than many European countries--though not the UK.

Most of the issues generally portrayed as "race" issues in the US are actually class issues, it's just that race is a much more convenient and visible distinction to latch on to. As more black people become middle and upper class, this is starting to become obvious. If you're interested to know more about social class in the US, PBS has an excellent documentary called People Like Us (not to be confused with the also-excellent BBC Radio comedy documentary).

There was one FBI agent that knew what was coming, however political pressure and his superiors thought he was crazy. He died two weeks before September 11th. I linked to a documentary about his career in the FBI, its about 80 minutes long but I believe it was worth my time.

John O'Neil - The Man Who Knew

AT&T is the same company that cooperates with the government, installing multiple secret rooms used to filter (and store?) your Internet communications. Unfortunately, this isn't some kind of big-brother schizophrenic paranoia.. it's real.

I'm an Apple fanboy myself, but for this reason I canceled my AT&T service and will not purchase an iPhone until they can be unlocked or subscribed with another provider.

More here and here. If you want to watch a Frontline about the domestic survellience program, check it out here.

And most importantly of all, it helped traumatize the public, keeping them in the palms of exploitive politicians.

I'd argue that it was more of a panacea.. the people were already traumatized, and getting people *too* worried is counter productive.

That said, and in response to a sibling post, fallout is largely a function of wind direction. It's possible to be inside the blast radius blast radius and them move outside of the fallout danger zone. While this zone is roughly 5 miles from ground zero, keep in mind that, by definition, the amount of people affected increases exponentially with the radius, assuming a fairly regular population distribution, so far more people would be in this middle-ground than those caught in the essentially unsurvivable inner blast zone. The likelyhood of avoiding fallout increases rapidly if you can move at least 10 miles in any direction greater than 90 degrees leeward from ground zero within 6 hours (although continued travel would obviously be recommended).

Granted, a slow, agonizing death might be worse than a quick one, but that assumes either that you can't survive (there are 50,000 Hiroshima survivors still living in the city today), or that it's not worth trying, in which case feel free to go stand on the roof if there's ever a nuclear bomb threat.

Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. Why don't you move there and report back to us your findings? Seriously though, it is not just "warming" that has me concerned, but it's secondary effects (runaway greenhouse effect not withstanding). When I look at the declining health of the oceans, the disappearance of honeybees, the loss in the bird population (we are actually seeing a lot of extinction of species right now), it is an alarming trend. I think these phenomena are indicative of the poor health of our planet and I fear humanity is too arrogant, ignorant, and complacent to actually do anything about it.

There is not enough non-anecdotal evidence to warrant any type of action on our part; aside from cleaning up OUR environment in general. For example we have evidence that plastic and other chemicals (yes plastic is a chemical that leaches into YOUR food) are damaging our bodies yet they are still rolling out of the factory. No one is getting all hopped up about those! In America over 90% of our crops are Genetically Modified (GM Crops) meaning that they make their own pesticides! We still dump thousands of pounds per field of pesticides on top of GM crops that MAKE their OWN pesticides. No one plows anymore, the crops, seeds, are modified to grow without water or hospitable soil.

I have witnessed this with my own eyes thousands of times; I live in farm country.

Each year:

1st: Spray Roundup, yes Round Up (41% Glyphosate), every year on every field before planting and other chemical applications.

2nd: Spray more chemicals, whatever is thought to be needed

3rd: Jam the GM seeds into the ground (No plowing, no discing, nothing)

4th: watch them sprout with no applcation of water and otherwise completely inhospitable chemical laden soil

5th: spray more chemicals as needed (remember this is all done on old equiptment by un-educated people, spills go unreported since they would be in extreme trouble and bakrupt from fines and cleanup fees should the authorities find out. Insteaed it flows into th water )

Its called Chemical Farming. You are eating it everyday and you cannot help it or do anything about it. When you kill a Deer in the country to eat you are eating GM pesticide laden meat.

ALL that "healthy" Soy and Corn that is fed to animals including you are drenched in chmicals you would would not even be able to get around without a haz-mat suit.

Mercury is much bigger problem but it doesn't make anyone any money to deal with it. Just like our discusting agricultural practices.

If you think farmers know what is best or have a choice about this stuff you are living in a dream world. Most "farmers" just rent out the fields they inherited to Crop Production Services Inc. (CPS) the largest "farmer" in the US. When I was a kid I rememnber when the people used to farm, those men are dead now.

Another thing about Round Up, they say it is safe becasue it breaks down and doesn't enter the ground water (where YOU get your water) as Glyphosate. But then you look out to see a state vehical filled with Mexicans (low wage, uneducated) stop by the bridge at the foot of MY hill over MY stream and they spray Glyphosate (Round Up) from a wand while sitting in the truck, right at the guardrail and into the stream! This is happening in thousands of locations every single day. They are spraying so weeds don't grow on the bridge.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

A few things for consideration:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/07041 8134159.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/

Google Video: The Great Global Warming Swindle
Google Video: Scam of the Great Global Warming Swindle

The stuff that gets REALLY censored is the animal abuse in slaughterhouses, the toxicity of water supplies by water plant companies, radioactive waste leaking into soil. This is the stuff that is much harder to come by, cause they cause so much controversy.

• First link on Google to "slaughterhouse animal abuse" complete with nausiating pictures
• You are a bit ambiguous with your toxicity of water thing, but I found many sites dedicated to improving water quality. There are even Dr. Strangelove-esqe wackos talking about fluoride conspiracies.
• The very first result on Google when you search for "radioactive waste leaking into soil" is a PBS transcript from 1998. If there is censorship in the US on this issue, then they have done a terrible job by leaving it up for 9 years.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/

The PBS special HARVEST OF FEAR is also a good resource. I believe I watched a bit of THE FUTURE OF FOOD, and found it primarily biased against biotech, as you may surmise from the description. I don't think it's good for people new to the subject to watch because of this, though it is certainly worth watching.

I felt HARVEST OF FEAR is a better introductory documentary. It provided a better balanced documentary; every interview was countered with an opposing view. When I watched it, I felt that because of the balanced viewpoints, it helped lead viewers to pros and cons, rather than inundate the viewer with negativity.

In any case, I'm offering an alternative, and I hope anyone who watches one will watch the other.

While nice that you provided a link, it's to a capsule, not the paper itself, although I could get that thru other resources here.

You asked for a real journal. Those aren't available online for free - I assume you know that (the few Open Access journals excepted). Go pay the $30 for the supposed value of a peer reviewed journal if that's a better source than UC Berkeley (free info), or visit an academic library with a subscription. That's how things work in 2007, for better or worse.

And I note that the title is misspelled and does not agree with the text.

Yeah, it looks like a typo on that ScienceDirect site.

Speeelink errorz doez not giv mee confidents.

Oh, please, do you really think the title is misspelled in the actual paper?

There have been initial papers on, oh, I don't know, cold fusion, and such things which later research has totally disagreed.

This was written after they already had a 60MW reactor in production. Here's an interview with the lead at the National Lab and an author on the linked paper where he talks about some of their work if you want more background without shelling out for the paper. But PBS isn't peer-reviewed.

If things are as you say, which I am understandably highly skeptical of, than time will change the perception of myself and others more than any arguing you are doing in the context of slashdot.

Of course you should be skeptical - good. Why the heck should time be a factor? Get the facts. Base your decision solely on the facts and nothing I've said at all. All I've been arguing for on Slashdot is an honest assessment of the technology. We're not going to solve global warming with anything besides better energy production technology. And if I've made you aware of some better technology by posting here on Slashdot, so much the better for our society.