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I'm trying to understand the licensing of NPR programs. I've written NPR several times regarding the NOVA series and they never get past the standard reply to my questions.

Those pictures are famous, and there's even an animated Disney documentary from the period.

The "Collier's space program" was far more ambitious than what's been done to date, or even what Cameron had drawn. The Collier's program had a big rotating space station in Earth orbit, a Mars rocket under construction in orbit, and heavy industrial traffic to and from orbit. Cameron has much lower ambitions.

According to these programmers, Microsoft wants to replace TCP/IP with a proprietary protocol--a protocol owned by Microsoft--that it will tout as being more secure. Actually, the new protocol would likely be TCP/IP with some of the reserved fields used as pointers to proprietary extensions, quite similar to Vines IP, if you remember that product from Banyan Systems. I'll call it TCP/MS.

How do you push for the acceptance of a new protocol? First, make the old one unworkable by placing millions of exploitable TCP/IP stacks out on the Net, ready-to-use by any teenage sociopath. When the Net slows or crashes, the blame would not be assigned to Microsoft. Then ship the new protocol with every new copy of Windows, and install it with every Windows Update over the Internet. Zero to 100 million copies could happen in less than a year, and that year could be prior to the new protocol even being announced. It could be shipping right now.

See Robert X. Cringely's current post here.

Short term views instead of long term views

Here are the reasons why felt absolutely compelled to start a company:

• Ever since being laid off from a seniour level job at a large ISP in 2001 I have been unable to find anything that would match my level of expertise. I have not been unemployed a single day since, but I've changed jobs 3 times already and have been frustrated with the level (or lack thereof) of technological advancement, at least in my general area - Washington, DC.
• I know for a fact that the survivors of the dot bomb are plagued with all kinds of moral and managerial problems. I am convinced that this will not pass, and that the only way to find an interesting project is to make one yourself. Sure it's easier to "get a job", but the management of today's companies who have the money to hire lack the vision and creativity to provide you with a dream job, so you have to do it yourself. I also see this as a competitive advantage - I can have my prices very low because I don't have the overhead of loans, layoffs, chapter 11, etc.
• I do not think I can make a living by simply being a developer or system administrator. The offshoring thing is very real, and unless you insert yourself into the IT chain not just as a programmer, but as a manager and steakholder, don't expect anything other than a mediocre living.

We tried to contact the general manager and the vice president but they refused to speak to us, referring us to McWane headquarters.

The problem with wastewater wasn't just in Alabama.

The Delaware River flows by Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and millions have been spent over the years to clean it up.

But on the morning of Dec. 5, 1999, residents noticed this oily sheen on the river.

It grew into an oil slick eight miles long.

Investigators eventually found the source: a city storm drain somehow turned into an industrial sewer.

They started pulling manhole covers to find where the oil was coming from.

The trail led them here: to Atlantic States foundry a pipe plant owned by the McWane corporation.

Even after the FBI and state officials raided the foundry they were unable to find out who at the plant released the contaminated wastewater. To dispose of the case McWane paid $50,000 to an environmental group. But we found former employees who told us that this was not an isolated incident.

Getting rid of wastewater was a constant headache for Brad Schultz.

BRAD SCHULTZ: Once or twice once or twice a week we were told that we had to pump it out. That's 100,000 some gallons of fluid that you're losing every single day. It's got to go somewhere.

And the nearest somewhere was through a storm drain that led here: the Delaware River.

BRAD SCHULTZ: My supervisor gives me that order. At the time it was Bobbie Bobinus.

PRISON GUARD: C'mon out, Bob.

Bobby Bobinus wasn't supervising much when we found him.

He was in the Sunbury, Pennsylvania, jail.

He was in for a driving offense, but he worries about the legality of some of the things he did when he worked for Atlantic States foundry, like getting rid of contaminated wastewater the easy way.

BOBBY BOBINUS: You had to pump it out.

LOWELL BERGMAN: And held in what, in holding tanks?

BOBBY BOBINUS: There's holding tanks but they can't hold their capacity. When you pump 20,000 gallons of water into a 10,000-gallon tank and it overflows, it runs down the storm sewers, it goes wherever storm sewers end up, which is usually in the Delaware River.

LOWELL BERGMAN: But I just want to get this clear. The water's overflowing everyday. Did your supervisor know that?

BOBBY BOBINUS: Yes.

LOWELL BERGMAN: You mentioned it?

BOBBY BOBINUS: Yeah, because I, me and my supervisor were sitting out on a bunch of pipes about 5 o'clock one morning and I looked at him and I says I don't want to go to jail for this because I realized what was going on. And that's--

LOWELL BERGMAN: And what'd he say?

BOBBY BOBINUS: Shhh. That's when I realized how, what the magnitude of what was going on was, when he said that. He just looked at me and shhh.

The supervisor in question would not talk to us.

In an exchange of letters and e-mails company officials have assured us that overall they are trying to do better. McWane says its spending tens of millions to clean up the air and water pollution from their foundries around the country; $5 million alone at the Atlantic States, where they say they have sealed off the foundry from the town's storm drains.

In a letter to us McWane pointed out that, in the real world, they're fighting for survival, competing against foreign manufacturers who have "little or no regard for the safety of their workers or ... the environment ... "

Expect more associations between digital terrorism and Linux (as a catch-all media term for "free software"). The greatest threats to any revolution are:

1. Zealots who feel obligated to use violence or destruction as an end to their means.
2. Fools who fight the revolution because it is "fun", but who are not truly commited to the ideals.
3. Government (and these days, corporate) infiltrators who play the two above roles in order to destroy the revolution.
4. Power-hungry folk who bend the revolution to their own ends.

I strongly suggest people become more familiar with how government and industry have undermined and perverted various revolutions. Start with COINTELPRO, an FBI campaign of the 1960s and 70s. And then read a bit of the history of the Homestead strike.

From undermining the right to vote (via electronic "voting") to lying about WMDs in Iraq -- do you honestly think such people will ignore the threat posed by free software to the lucrative commercial software industry? SCO's assault on free software may only be the tip of an iceberg...

unfortunately, the landing site of opportunity is less interesting scientifically than spirit's landing site, the gusev crater. a documentary on PBS describes the scientists' discussion of the landing sites; meridiana planum, opportunity's site, was chosen because it was considered a safer target than gusev crater; less sharp pointy rocks and craters to fall onto or into. NOVA: Mars Dead or Alive. I really hope this is just a temporary glitch that can be solved quickly.

There was an episode of "Scientific American Frontiers" on PBS this very subject. I think the episode was titled "What's in a dream." They performed experiments on this. They had a theory that your mind works on complicated problems while you sleep.

I attribute this to the reason why I often wake up in the morning or middle of the night with "Aha!" types of answers to difficult problems from the previous day.

I've been using this to solve difficult programming problems for years.

The parent poster has it exactly correct. Helium-3 also has some other scientific uses, so even if fusion doesn't pan out, it's not a total loss to recover some. This being Slashdot, I don't need to point out all the corollary scientific benefits of building permanently manned space- and moon-based facilities.

Look at New York City. In 1954, they identified a probable future need for water in the city that would be unmet by the two existing water tunnels to the city. After sixteen years of discussion and planning, construction began on the aptly-named Third Water Tunnel. Completion is scheduled for 2020--a massive, fifty-year civil engineering project.

Parts of the project improve the existing water distribution system (somewhat analogous to improving general-purpose space infrastructure in a He-3 mining program) while Phase 4 of the project adds additional delivery capacity from reservoirs (comparable to actually mining He-3). If it turns out that we don't need He-3, we've still got space infrastructure and a moon base. It's a good thing.

You've rediscovered the Drake Equation, of course the problem is agreeing on the values for all those variables. Part of the motivation for searching on Mars and elsewhere nearby is to get more data for some of those variables.

Of course the show is 50 minutes or so, and the animation you want is in the middle. I taped it when it was broadcast, and I do like the scene you are describing.

Hope that helps.

Of course the show is 50 minutes or so, and the animation you want is in the middle. I taped it when it was broadcast, and I do like the scene you are describing.

Hope that helps.

It's usually on your local PBS station. Obviously to tell you when I'd have to know where you live. But you should track it down, great great show.

Fourteen little girls burned to death in the Saudi fire

Thankfully that kind of stuff never happens here.

And Joe still goes without health insurance. [link]

Skeptics say that there's no biological marker--that it is the one condition out there where there is no blood test, and that no one knows what causes it.

That's tremendously naive, and it shows a great deal of illiteracy about science and about the mental health professions. A disorder doesn't have to have a blood test to be valid. If that were the case, all mental disorders would be invalid--schizophrenia, manic depression, Tourette's Syndrome--all of these would be thrown out. ... There is no lab test for any mental disorder right now in our science. That doesn't make them invalid.

well, my suspicion at first was the photog kid, cuz we ate up all his ink, but realized that since he was in on it, it would be kinda stupid. He was there with us when the feds were there. and it wasn't a continuous basis, it was maybe 5 or 10 among the 3 of us over 5 days or so.

And to the idiot who said you're a moron if you think they can get fingerprints from paper - you're the moron. You can't get it with the aluminium powder one uses for other surfaces, but with chemical treatments, it can be found. Hell, you can even do it yourself.

Look what happened to Reagan {see grey area at bottom}. Right out of office, and the presidential implant removed (aka prostrate surgery), he was claiming he couldn't remember a thing about Iran-Contra.

Looking at our current Bush, I'd say the upgrade is vaporware.

The big problem with prions (the things that cause mad cow disease (or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE), as well as scrapie in sheep and some other diseases) is that there is no microorganism to blame, like a virus or bacteria.

Instead, prions are just mis-folded proteins. Take your normal protein, fold it wrong, and suddenly it acts funny because it can't do its normal job correctly. It also induces other proteins to fold incorrectly (that whole replication thing). Because this misfolding has to start somewhere, there are (very, very rare) cases of spontaneous Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (the human equivalent of mad cow disease).

Now, because the protein itself is technically correct, the body doesn't see anything wrong with it, so it doesn't kill it (like it would if it saw a mutated cell). This also means that cooking prions won't change anything.

Because a prion is a single incorrect protein, the transmission rate is really pretty low, especially between species. That is, eating a single wrong protein probably won't infect you. However, your hamburgers are probably a bit larger than single proteins.

There is no evidence of prions in muscle meat. The largest concentration of prions is in the brain/nervous system. Stay away from brains and ground meat (since you don't know exactly where the ground stuff comes from) and you're probably fine, even if the animal was infected.

Try this page for some info, slightly technical, from the UK.

Try this page from NOVA

Good, simple info from NIH

A good deal of Civil War-era photography was not photography in the sense that we understand it today. Typically, you will find:

ambrotypes
daguerreotypes
ferrotypes or tintypes

None of these methods have exposure or development methods such as what we use today with print film.

-PONA-

A good deal of Civil War-era photography was not photography in the sense that we understand it today. Typically, you will find:

ambrotypes
daguerreotypes
ferrotypes or tintypes

None of these methods have exposure or development methods such as what we use today with print film.

-PONA-

A good deal of Civil War-era photography was not photography in the sense that we understand it today. Typically, you will find:

ambrotypes
daguerreotypes
ferrotypes or tintypes

None of these methods have exposure or development methods such as what we use today with print film.

-PONA-

the creation of Lucy the robot (named for the famous fossil hominid)

Here we have a humanoid robot named after an ancient hominid female was named after a famous Beatles song.

I think it would be really cool, as a homage to the Fab Four, to give this female robot kaleidoscope eyes. :)

Well, that or make her dispense LSD.

I watched NOVA, which said that the Viking missions were basically just a test mission. It didn't have a lot of the gizmos and gadgets because NASA just wanted to see if they could land on Mars, and more importantly, not break anything in the process. A big problem with Opportunity and Spirit was getting them to fit inside the lander module. NASA used the same exact module as the Viking missions, which is why Spirit folds up into a nice little pyramid - it had to fit in there because they wanted to go with a design they had already used and knew it worked.

For years scientists have known about the signs that the faults give off before an earthquake occurs, but most scientist are skeptical that they'll ever be able to accurately predict them because there are so many environmental factors to consider. Read more on PBS's microsite called Savage Earth, The Restless Planet: Earthquakes. It talks about prediction and whatnot.

After a bit of thought, I've decided that if I wrote pieces for my 12th grade english class like Robert X. Cringely writes his columns, I'd receive terrible grades.

Why? His writing never supports its claims with actual evidence beyone the anecdotal. You can't base a business plan off of an afternoon daydream, just the same way you can't "bounce" a Wi-Fi signal over a mountain with a +15dBm power level (see links).

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020207. html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1124

The point is, Cringely may have some interesting ideas, but he fails to back them up or do any sort of research to try to ascertain their feasibility in the real world, other than spouting off a few random statistics. You'd think Robert might wish to find others that support his opinions. Surely if his ideas are so wonderful, others in the know would validate them. Perhaps talking to an executive from a "failed" Wi-Fi company might have been appropriate for this article.

Cringely may think he knows everything, see his about page on his website. "On Why You Should Pay Attention to Him: When it comes to information technology, I know what I am talking about. Twenty years in and around the PC business have earned me wisdom, if not wealth." As most of us know, a thousand years in the tech industry won't earn you wisdom, and some of the wisest people are those who realize that they don't know everything.

My question is, "Why does Cringely get paid to write his columns?" Week after week of faulty analysis doesn't seem like it makes Cringely a very good columnist. PBS needs to wise up.

After a bit of thought, I've decided that if I wrote pieces for my 12th grade english class like Robert X. Cringely writes his columns, I'd receive terrible grades.

Why? His writing never supports its claims with actual evidence beyone the anecdotal. You can't base a business plan off of an afternoon daydream, just the same way you can't "bounce" a Wi-Fi signal over a mountain with a +15dBm power level (see links).

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020207. html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1124

The point is, Cringely may have some interesting ideas, but he fails to back them up or do any sort of research to try to ascertain their feasibility in the real world, other than spouting off a few random statistics. You'd think Robert might wish to find others that support his opinions. Surely if his ideas are so wonderful, others in the know would validate them. Perhaps talking to an executive from a "failed" Wi-Fi company might have been appropriate for this article.

Cringely may think he knows everything, see his about page on his website. "On Why You Should Pay Attention to Him: When it comes to information technology, I know what I am talking about. Twenty years in and around the PC business have earned me wisdom, if not wealth." As most of us know, a thousand years in the tech industry won't earn you wisdom, and some of the wisest people are those who realize that they don't know everything.

My question is, "Why does Cringely get paid to write his columns?" Week after week of faulty analysis doesn't seem like it makes Cringely a very good columnist. PBS needs to wise up.

I think this is a good time to mention that your local PBS station needs your support. I know my station in Seattle had serious debt problems and was in danger of being closed. Most pay television, with channels like "the history channel" and "the learning channel" provide less than half of the useful content that PBS provides every single day. And while I'm at it, I think it would do everyone on this entire planet a lot of good to check out The Journey of Man which is also an excellent piece of work you can watch for free on PBS.

There is a lot of military research on skipping bombs, see PBS

the allies figured this out in ww2. Nazi dam bombing

I fully agree with this I, Cringly column on this topic. Basically, he argues that paper voting is superior and cheaper that any fancy machinery. And from my experience here in Austria where we do just that, I fully agree.

Yes yes yes.. we all know it.

Cringley makes a good case about why we believe this might work, but probably won't.

Henry Ford you're not.

• Obviously you have never lived in a country that kills its OWN citizens. For something closer to your home (assuming USA), check out the Waco atrocities committed by the government, as well as Ruby Ridge. Here is some If you are into films, you can also check out the controversial documentary on it.
• Obviously you haven't heard of the totalitarian regimes in Germany, USSR, and USA's close friends Saudi Arabia and Egypt. A couple of stories on the state of Egypt (USA's 2nd large recipient of military aid)
• Obviously you haven't heard of the damage done to civil rights activists in the 60's by the FBI and the CIA. Laws were actually changed to prevent this sort of thing.
• Obviously you have never been targetted by the police. (I have no proof of this but if you let me track you, I can find out :) )
• Obviously you are not a minority man (particularly black) living in some parts of USA. (Don't know this either. But I can easily verify this if you send your driver's license to me)
• Obviously you haven't heard of the infiltration of the FBI by organized criminals (particularly the Italian mafia in the 60's and 70's).
• Obviously you haven't heard of police fabricating information and jailing people.
• Obviously you haven't heard of the government cooking up bogus charges and jailing people. (Refer to the previous link and do your research)
• Obviously McCarthyism is not part of your collective mind.
• Obviously you haven't heard of John Ashcroft's recent decree to spy on antiwar activists.
• Obviously you believe the legal system represent justice. (I can't prove this to anyone. It is something that you will realize as you grow up and leave the cave that you have been living in--if you actually manage to do that!)
• Obviously you underestimate the power of the goverment.

In response to your request for certification that we have not contributed, alledged and unidentified, SCO IP into Linux, our official response:

Nuts!

Yours truly,

Mr. Shadow Director Software Support XYZ Corporation

Actually, Robert Cringley, whose predictions end up being right about 70%-80% of the time predicted that Apple would in fact announce such a device next Christmas. So now you just have to hope that he's right again. :)

In the 70's and 80's, 80% of the USSR's hard-currency earnings came from oil exports. The Ruble was worthless outside the USSR, so it depended on oil trade to afford to import grain. In the 80's, the USSR imported nearly 40 million tons of grain a year from non-communist countries, including a lot from the US.

The USSR definately industrialized, which is clearly what also happened in South Korea and the other Asian Tigers. The difference is that the Asian Tigers industrialized to produce manufactured products in demand by the rest of the world, such as radios, cars, tractors, etc.

The USSR, on the other hand, did not manufacture much for export, except weapons. The USSR did have an excellent industrial capability to produce weapons both small (AK-47) and large (nuclear submarines, ICBMs). What they couldn't do is manufacture consumer products that would sell to export markets. The consumer exports of the USSR were oil, fur, and vodka.

The reason is clear, isolated from market forces, how could Soviet factories get market messages to make high-quality manufactured products for consumers and businesses? On the other hand, if you angered the military with a sub-standard product, you would end up in Siberia. So the weapons were top-notch. And the Russians knew good Vodka. Automobiles, on the other hand, they didn't do too well at.

I believe the Dollar will encounter some mild devaluation over the next 12 months, but not as much as you might think. Increasing returns on the stock market will return Dollars from overseas back to the US as the economy strengthens, reducing the oversupply of foreign Dollars.

A mild devaluation will actually help the US trade deficit by making US products slightly more competitive in pricing to foreign products. But I don't think Dollar devaluation is a good idea for the following reason:

You are right, if the Dollar massively devalues, that is the end of all world economics, because the Dollar is the reserve currency of the planet. Every central and private bank will fail.

as this biography (warning, embedded Quicktime!) points out:

Brent Staples is an editorial writer for The New York Times. He holds a PhD in psychology from The University of Chicago. His memoir, Parallel Time: Growing up in Black and White, was the winner of the Anisfield Wolff Book Award, previously won by such writers as James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston.

I've never liked Robert Cringley's style or manner, which basic can be summed up as observing the obvious, then claiming all the credit or screaming "SCANDAL" where there really is none. But what made me really dislike him forever is his total lack of journalistic ethics a.k.a. MAKING SHIT UP.

He has a history of INVENTING stories that simply do not exist. IMHO he should meet the same fate as Jayson Blair. I do not know why PBS hasn't caught on.

A prime example is his incredible story of bouncing a Wi-Fi signal over a mountain, which can be found at http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020207. html.

Most of his Wi-Fi tall tales are at least physically possible, but this one crosses the line.

See Rob Flickenger's Response.

I think it was 2002 that he said the Amiga will still be vapourware

Actually he said that for 2000, and I believe he was right. But he was wise not to make the prediction for 2002 since he'd have been wrong.

I couldn't help but notice prediction Number 14. "IT outsourcing, as covered ad nauseum in this column, will become a political issue in the 2004 U.S. Presidential campaign. Whichever candidate comes out in opposition to outsourcing will have the advantage. And they'll be correct, though the extent of real damage to the U.S. economy and IT industry won't be apparent to those bozos for several more years." He goes into details about his own percieved dangers of this practice here.(scoll down)

1. King Hussein of Jordan, flew into meet Golda Meir (then PM of Israel) to warn her of an imminent attack. Golda simply humored the King based on advice from Moshe Dayan.
2. The Israeli's knew an attack was coming, they just thought (due to bad intel) it was coming a few hours later.
3. Apparently Moshe Dayan had an emotional breakdown during the early part of the war and reporters interviewing him, asked the PM not to let him on TV, cause his demenour would scare the public.

Anyways, after initial losses, the Israelis gave it to the Arabs but good. The Arabs were so pissed thier sneak attack didn't work, and that once again the Israeli's had defeated them on the land they drove the Christians out of, (who in turn drove the Jews out of, who in turn drove the Canaanites out of, and so on) that they blamed the US and placed the embargo.

Do yourself a favor, and visit India before you make hollow remarks based on some one-sided documentary made 50 years ago, or on the CNN documentary you saw.

I grew up in rural India. Guess what? Not only BASIC, but much more than BASIC medical care is available for FREE if you go to a Govt. run hospital.

My sister's a doc in India. It's a private practice, and if she feels that her patient can't afford it, she does't charge them. And most of the docs in India have the same attitude. Do you know what a Hippocratic Oath is?. So if you are comparing the US medical amenities & cost to India, there is one huge component missing in the US... compassion. Don't compare apples to oranges.

From importing most of the grains in the past 30-40 years, India is now the world's largest foodgrains producer, the second largest fruit producer, the largest vegetable-producer, and the largest milk producer. India can not only feed its entire population, but it exports too. CNN didn't tell you that did it?

Another fact for the news deprived: India has NEVER had an expansionist ideology. Go read up some history. How about a few thousand years back from 2004? India has always been attacked before she responded in every single war since she was formed in 1947. Can you say I-R-A-Q? Who's a hippocrite?

Back to the topic... this is for the thought-handicapped:
If this project is successful, then India will be competing with Boeing and Airbus, never mind the military applications. How is that bad? Isn't that going to get more money into India? Was IT bad for India? The US refused to sell us a Supercomputer (one of the Cray machines) back in the 90s. Surprise, surprise! We built one that was faster and much cheaper than the Cray we were looking to buy for Weather Forecasting. Thanks a bunch US!

Then the US blocked the sale of some rocket parts from Russia. We built it from scratch. Thanks again US! We should be partners!! Oh wait, that pisses off Musharraf, the Chinese Commies, half the fucking Arab world... never mind, we can manage it on our own...

Would the US be self-reliant and the leader of the world if the politicians here threw up their hands and sat on their asses after all the US residents all had running water? You sound just like the geniuses who screamed "WASTE" when the US space program was launched.

Flaimbait? No, just an Indian who is fsking pissed that people can be so fsking unintelligent.

... can be found here.

No, there's not. Osama bin Laden founded Al-Qaida. His "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places," published in Al Quds Al Arabi in 1996, defined Al-Qaida's mission and methods.

Go read it. It will send chills up your spine.

Thank god that man's been dead for over two years now. If he had lived, he would have been really dangerous.

From I, Cringely:

"By the way, how does Replay's Commercial Advance know what is a TV ad to be able to cut it out? Apparently, Replay listens for the temporary volume increase that broadcasters have long told us does not accompany commercials. Liars."

The whole article is worth a read...

The Environmental Working Group
These are some seriously dedicated guys who do environmental research and advocacy. They also maintain several interesting projects, including:

• Body Burden - Directly related to this article
• The Chemical Industry Archives - I used to work with these documents. They're a massive collection of the chemical industry's own documents which describe how little they care about you.

Bill Moyers - Trade Secrets
Bill Moyers did a great film about the problem.

A Google Search For Philip Landrigan
Dr. Philip Landrigan has done extensive work on body burdens in children and has written a number of books.

This is a terrific solution however it does seem to invade our right to privacy. Is Peace of mind is worth seeing naked bodies of various proportions?

This wreaks of stepping on our unalienable rights. Why should our God Given rights to privacy be so unalienable? Liberty Essay

Why should we fight for our freedom?
Dred Scott's fought
The advance of freedom is the calling of our time.
Because if we don't fight we will continue lose it. Like the frog in the pot, it will slowly heat up and we will boil in your loss of freedom. Like the Nazi's took away the rights then more rights then until they finally found it convenient to take away the right to live. You would think we would have learned something. But no. We are sheep.

The terrorists caused more harm to us by causing a societal Auto Immune Disease than by their attacks. The lymphatic system of our society over- reacted to the threat to the point where the true threat is fear which for some reason, our society has propagated. The true problem was the sheep.

We need to teach our citizens to defend themselves from terrorists. We should all learn Krav Maga in grade school. But we would rather be sheep. Fat fast food eating, non-exercizing Sheep that watch too much TV.

It starts with fear. Fear is the mind killer. is the mind-killer.
Terrorists work to create fear. These terrorist succeeded in stirring up a lot of fear. Now we have to fly naked.

America used to be the Home of the Brave . We did not have fear. We were the land of the "NoFear bumper stickers"
But now we fear our fellow americans. We fear anybody we don't know who rides on the airplane with us. We fear men in turbans. We are afraid to lose our valuable sheep lives.

This is why we should be able to bear arms. An American with a machete, a machine gun, a nuke, and nifty ice9 nano particals is a Free american afraid of no one. The interesting aspect of this is that if one bears arms he is afraid of something otherwise why carry the extra weight? We should be able to bear arms but we should not because bearing arms shows that we are afraid. What arms we decide to bear is irrelevant.

Q. What are we afraid of?
A. Death, loss of life, loss of loved ones.

Q. Why are we afraid?
A. We are afraid of where we go when we die.
1. heaven? if we are going here,
what are we afraid of? cool gardens streamside with plenty of fruit? Spending eternity with our God?
2. hell? if we are afraid of going to hell we are already in hell.
3. nowhere? Ceasing to exist is like total loss of freedom. We are afraid of losing our freedom. Why give it up without a fight now. Why die the little death?

Sheep.
We are sheep.
We go where they say to go.
When they say submit to the search, we submit.
When they say bend over, we bend over.
When they say no nail clippers, no baby swiss army knife, no pointy things, do we say "We are free!!! We are CITIZENS!!! WE HAVE UNALIENABLE GOD GIVEN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO BEAR ARMS/FINGER NAIL CLIPPERS!!!!!

When they say "fly naked", we will submit.
When they say take this tattoo on our hand or forehead, we will submit.
Why?

Because we are sheep.

When they say we will implant rice chips in all our kiddos when they are born and we will track their GPS coordinates and purchases for their lives, we will submit. We won't just submit, we will want it. We will demand it. Why?
Because we are sheep.

Be brave and be free. Remember the Su