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Although the field is decaying much more slowly than described in the Slashdot story blurb, it is significant.

"the responsibility probably lies with changes in the turbulent flows of molten iron"

The really big change is the new flow pattern of the molten rock under the crust, accounting for the vast majority of the mass of the planet, 5155Km thick of the total Earth radius of 6370Km, or over 80%, flowing up against the under surface of the crust, which is only 35Km thick at the continents (0.5%) and 5Km under the oceans (0.08%). The friction and pressure of the thick magma against the channels its worn and melted into the crust's underside keeps the skin positioned relative to the rotation of that flowing (98% of the total mass. The waning, and possible reversal of the magnetic field reflects significant changes in the flows of the molten mass, which might drag the tiny crust (plus oceans and atmosphere, 0.5% of total mass) into a very different rotated position, with the continents/oceans spun around significantly, relative to the constant equator. And as the earth is about 14Km wider at the equator than tall at the poles, the 5-35Km thin, brittle crust will get bent across the bulge as it flows around. Earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves. The turtles that the articles frets about so much, with their shells, amphibious/omnivorous nature, and lack of numbing reassurance through ignoring the New York Times for millennia, might survive. While NYT reporters face much worse chances for survival, lacking fitness to an environment that's actually newsworthy.

Hey, I found out the swing in sea level is as much as 500 feet. Wow!
TimJowers

Here's a question - what's your answer for terrorism? Because taking out governments that blatantly sponsor it seems to be the only recourse, other than just living with it.

So, before heading to Iraq the US should probably head over to Israel, then perhaps they can begin giving reparations for their home grown terrorism.

I would love to debate any moron who tries to draw a connection between Bin Ladin and Saddam on national TV. Saddam is the absolute antithesis to Bin Ladin's ideology, so much of an apostate in his eyes that working with the likes of him would be totally out of the question. Saddam regularly kills and imprisons Islamic activists, ones much less radical than Bin Ladin. Hell, Bin Ladin's main beef with the Saudi family was over American troops being stationed there, something much less damning Islamically speaking than what Saddam does on a day to day basis -- in most other respects he believed they were fine. Do you think someone as secular as Saddam is going to fly with him?

Of course, since these televised "political analysts" don't actually know anything about the religion or culture of the region, they aren't able to make that connection.

Ultimately, it comes down to this: how much risk are we willing to assume for something worse than 9/11 to happen?

How about adopting policy that's fair, instead of planting conflicts across the globe to ensure US economic benefit? Wouldn't that be nicer than getting frisked down at the airport, for the so-called "protection of your freedom."

Saddaam has illegal weapons, and assuming he won't use them is dangerously naive - he's used them in every war he's engaged in, including genocide on Iraqis (Kurdish).

Right, and the US is the only country on earth that's ever used Nuclear weapons. In case you didn't know, the US used biological weapons on its civilians too. Don't you feel so much more righteous than Saddam now?

American government officials have sterilizated retarded people... Eugenics

American government officials have allowed entire communities to not have their VD treated without informed consent until 1972...
Tuskigee

American government officials have exposed retarded people to radiation...
1993: The Albuquerque Tribune publicizes 1940s experiments involving plutonium injection of human research subjects and secret radiation experiments. Indigent patients and mentally retarded children were deceived about the nature of their treatment.

American government officials have placed American millitary units into such a position that those units attacked wedding ceremonies with jet planes...
Wedding Attack

If you blindly trust your government, then you are a fool. Freedom requires eternal vigilance and the willingness to die for that freedom. Even to die to defend other peoples freedom. Because if you let someone else's rights be trampled for your own personal safety, then it is only a matter of time until it is your turn...

'First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist. And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did little. Then when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me.' - Niemöller

And the one thing that I really can't figure out... if there are no UFO's, why are the reports classifed? Why are documents released under the freedom of information act be blacked out so much? Some of the documents regarding Roswell have 75% of their content removed. Where there is smoke, there is fire... the governement is hiding something. Why not just tell us what it is and be done with it?

Here is a list of fossil evidence for australopithecines, and here is some pics of Australopithecus skulls. Make of it what you will.

I don't mean to be thick-headed about such matters, nor to impugn your programming abilities, but I'm wondering if the impossibility of applying all that theory is perhaps a limitation of the real. I suppose I might explain that a bit more.

I think you're right that much theory cannot be practically applied, but as Jean Baudrillard (postmodernist philosopher who disavows postmodernism altogether [all links about Baudrillard]) writes in The Ecstasy of Communication, "The status of theory could not be anything but to challenge the real."

In other words, theory is meant to challenge what exists, even if what is proposed can't be achieved. So, it makes sense that the challenge of programming theory cannot be taken up by the real of programmnig practice.

Just a thought.

Athens isn't the only place starting things like this. Valdosta State University has a wireless network spread out over most of the campus. Supposedly there is Wi-Fi being setup in Valdosta itself, nothing known whether or not it is a free service venture.

GA Tech also has a couple of projects going on here and here.
Georgia Southwestern State University also has an endeavour. As does the Medical College of Georgia.

NAZI s! We have NAZI s! Here at crazy uncle Sam's project Paperclip, we have the finest NAZI s your taxpayer money could buy!

We've got big name NAZI super-scientists like Wernher von Braun, who single-handedly built the US space program when we couldn't get even a mouse into space without blowing up on the pad! And don't you believe those who would cast aspersions on his character! He used concentration camp slave labor to build his V1s & V2s that he blew up innocent Londoners with!

If you're looking to beef up your intelligence services, Reinhard Gehlen is the NAZI for you! He's the NAZI that can make those commie bastards talk! He comes with a vast cache of intelligence documents on the USSR compilled by the pain-staking tourture and interrogation of red commie-bastard prisoners. Why do your own legwork when it's already been done for you?!! This man would be a great addition to any spy agency, and a sterling influence upon your junior agents!

If you're a US presidential candidate, and want to ensure that you crush your ineffectual, peanut-farming Democratic competitor, Heinrich Rupp is the NAZI for you! With strong ties to the Arab community, he can manage complex three-cornered schemes that will ensure that those hostages aren't released while there's a Democrat in the Oval Office. As a bonus, you can use the proceeds to fund anti-communist fascists in Central America.

We also have such all-stars as Arthur Rudolph, Kurt Blome, Walter Schreiber and Licio Gelli! We have everything you need to build an enlightened, democratic new world order! So hurry on down to crazy uncle Sam's before all of our NAZI s are gone!


(One of our most notorious NAZI s now works for Microsoft where he continues to commit crimes against humanity.)

NAZI s! We have NAZI s! Here at crazy uncle Sam's project Paperclip, we have the finest NAZI s your taxpayer money could buy!

We've got big name NAZI super-scientists like Wernher von Braun, who single-handedly built the US space program when we couldn't get even a mouse into space without blowing up on the pad! And don't you believe those who would cast aspersions on his character! He used concentration camp slave labor to build his V1s & V2s that he blew up innocent Londoners with!

If you're looking to beef up your intelligence services, Reinhard Gehlen is the NAZI for you! He's the NAZI that can make those commie bastards talk! He comes with a vast cache of intelligence documents on the USSR compilled by the pain-staking tourture and interrogation of red commie-bastard prisoners. Why do your own legwork when it's already been done for you?!! This man would be a great addition to any spy agency, and a sterling influence upon your junior agents!

If you're a US presidential candidate, and want to ensure that you crush your ineffectual, peanut-farming Democratic competitor, Heinrich Rupp is the NAZI for you! With strong ties to the Arab community, he can manage complex three-cornered schemes that will ensure that those hostages aren't released while there's a Democrat in the Oval Office. As a bonus, you can use the proceeds to fund anti-communist fascists in Central America.

We also have such all-stars as Arthur Rudolph, Kurt Blome, Walter Schreiber and Licio Gelli! We have everything you need to build an enlightened, democratic new world order! So hurry on down to crazy uncle Sam's before all of our NAZI s are gone!


(One of our most notorious NAZI s now works for Microsoft where he continues to commit crimes against humanity.)

NAZI s! We have NAZI s! Here at crazy uncle Sam's project Paperclip, we have the finest NAZI s your taxpayer money could buy!

We've got big name NAZI super-scientists like Wernher von Braun, who single-handedly built the US space program when we couldn't get even a mouse into space without blowing up on the pad! And don't you believe those who would cast aspersions on his character! He used concentration camp slave labor to build his V1s & V2s that he blew up innocent Londoners with!

If you're looking to beef up your intelligence services, Reinhard Gehlen is the NAZI for you! He's the NAZI that can make those commie bastards talk! He comes with a vast cache of intelligence documents on the USSR compilled by the pain-staking tourture and interrogation of red commie-bastard prisoners. Why do your own legwork when it's already been done for you?!! This man would be a great addition to any spy agency, and a sterling influence upon your junior agents!

If you're a US presidential candidate, and want to ensure that you crush your ineffectual, peanut-farming Democratic competitor, Heinrich Rupp is the NAZI for you! With strong ties to the Arab community, he can manage complex three-cornered schemes that will ensure that those hostages aren't released while there's a Democrat in the Oval Office. As a bonus, you can use the proceeds to fund anti-communist fascists in Central America.

We also have such all-stars as Arthur Rudolph, Kurt Blome, Walter Schreiber and Licio Gelli! We have everything you need to build an enlightened, democratic new world order! So hurry on down to crazy uncle Sam's before all of our NAZI s are gone!


(One of our most notorious NAZI s now works for Microsoft where he continues to commit crimes against humanity.)

NAZI s! We have NAZI s! Here at crazy uncle Sam's project Paperclip, we have the finest NAZI s your taxpayer money could buy!

We've got big name NAZI super-scientists like Wernher von Braun, who single-handedly built the US space program when we couldn't get even a mouse into space without blowing up on the pad! And don't you believe those who would cast aspersions on his character! He used concentration camp slave labor to build his V1s & V2s that he blew up innocent Londoners with!

If you're looking to beef up your intelligence services, Reinhard Gehlen is the NAZI for you! He's the NAZI that can make those commie bastards talk! He comes with a vast cache of intelligence documents on the USSR compilled by the pain-staking tourture and interrogation of red commie-bastard prisoners. Why do your own legwork when it's already been done for you?!! This man would be a great addition to any spy agency, and a sterling influence upon your junior agents!

If you're a US presidential candidate, and want to ensure that you crush your ineffectual, peanut-farming Democratic competitor, Heinrich Rupp is the NAZI for you! With strong ties to the Arab community, he can manage complex three-cornered schemes that will ensure that those hostages aren't released while there's a Democrat in the Oval Office. As a bonus, you can use the proceeds to fund anti-communist fascists in Central America.

We also have such all-stars as Arthur Rudolph, Kurt Blome, Walter Schreiber and Licio Gelli! We have everything you need to build an enlightened, democratic new world order! So hurry on down to crazy uncle Sam's before all of our NAZI s are gone!

http://www.solstation.com/stars/asteroid.htm
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/w11b.asteroi ds.txt
http://galaxy.ngc.peachnet.edu/~jjones/astr1010hom e/a1010out.html

You have the internet, you have Google, use them.

Public colleges are connected to GA's Peachnet which I believe buys services from UUNet, our campus is attached via two T3 links. The three largest each have OC-3s from what I've heard.

Taco needs help driving a mech. Check his score from the Dave and Buster's party at ALS.

Uhh, who said anything about the Nazis?

Here is a link about how good, upstanding Americans experimented with others "less than themselves". You'll notice that the time frame is similar to the Nazis; one of the dirty little secrets about the eugenics belief system--one which you, Anonymous Moral Coward, seemingly defend--is that it was HIGHLY popular outside the Goosestepping set.

For more info about experimentation on less than willing subjects, go here.

People..get a clue. I don't *know* ESR, but I have met him. He is warm, witty and passionate about Linux, open software and other geeky things. I don't happen to share his love of firearms, but then again I don't have any right to judge him about it either.

It's his choice to write these pieces, and your choice to read it or not. It is his right to be able to express himself as he so desires as long as he harms no one. On the other hand, you have NO right to expect him to make you happy or agree with you.

Happy New Year to all of you, including the MSCEs out there. It's going to be a wild year for us geeks so put on your seat belt...

ESR, thanks for you sharing your gift of words and IMHO funny sense of humor!

--Rick