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Any 737 MAX planes currently in the air will continue to their destinations and then be grounded “effective immediately,” Trump said. https://people.com/travel/ever...

Who could have predicted that flinging a container full of boiling water in the air right next to them would be dangerous!? Next you're going to tell me that it's dangerous to drink boiling water or pour it on someone.

They should put a warning on it if it's that dangerous.

If the murderer had been a citizen, I really doubt the site would have seen it as newsworthy.

I'm blowing mod points to reply to your post, but it's important to point out that in this case you are flat out wrong. This story has been in the national news for a month since she went missing. It has been in the national news all along. When her body was found yesterday that was in the national news. Today it was revealed someone was charged with her murder, and it was an illegal immigrant.

This was a month ago (People magazine): https://people.com/crime/unive...
Three weeks ago (Fox News): http://www.foxnews.com/transcr...
Three weeks ago (CNN): https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26...
This was two weeks ago (USA Today): https://www.usatoday.com/story...

You get the idea. Google shows 2.7 million hits from news sources for her name. Just pointing out you have made a massive assumption ("By just reporting every crime committed by an illegal they can create the impression that all illegal immigrants are murderous") based on totally incorrect information ("If the murderer had been a citizen, I really doubt the site would have seen it as newsworthy.")

Their strategy of giving preference to HTTPS sites is perfectly reasonable though, all the more reasonable because of the fact that HTTP sites are generally old and unmaintained. I want old data to show up in my search results, but I rarely want it to show up first.

Yes, because when I want to know what people thought about an event as it was happening, the last thing I want to see is contemporary coverage.

And of course who could possibly be interested in Julia Child when you could be reading about Guy Fieri?

Some things aren't better just because they're newer. Maybe even most things.

before I realized that didn't actually say "Tasmania"

Imagine an orange Tasmanian Devil who spins the truth and
shreds important documents.

I just hope somebody doesn't make a Beowulf Cluster of them.

Next you'll be telling us Trump doesn't know the difference between Kerberos and Kubernetes.

Simpsons Comic book guy scoffs at Trump!

Because knowing the difference between two computing technologies, either of which would be known by only a minority of IT people, is exactly the same as not knowing the difference between two of the most famous STDs on the planet...

Of course, I'm a little skeptical that Trump doesn't actually know the difference I'd expect him to be familiar with STDs since he considered STDs to be his personal Vietnam.

I suspect he was trying to say something else and just muddled the words up.

There's a point where cars become too powerful. When Paul Walker died , it was discussed that the Porsche Carrera GT he was in (as a passenger) has three times the horsepower of the average car [and is] notoriously difficult to handle, even for professional drivers. Porsche was exonerated from blame in the crash, but when you put a car on the road that can blast to 80 at the slip of a shoe, then there's an accident waiting to happen.

My car will lose traction if I put my foot to the floor. So I don't do that, I do other things that are less dangerous, like pushing the accelerator pedal a little bit. It's called driving.

There's a point where cars become too powerful. When Paul Walker died , it was discussed that the Porsche Carrera GT he was in (as a passenger) has three times the horsepower of the average car [and is] notoriously difficult to handle, even for professional drivers. Porsche was exonerated from blame in the crash, but when you put a car on the road that can blast to 80 at the slip of a shoe, then there's an accident waiting to happen.

In the instant case, if the driver had been in a base Ford Escort or Chevy Cruz, they'd probably be alive today.

I'm all for high-performance cars, and I love the pickup in my street-legal ride, but on the street there's a limit to what's practical and safe. Think real hard how you got your license... not that hard, right? All sorts of people you wonder whether they can tie their own shoes walking out with brand new licenses, thinking "great! now I can legally get alcohol!"

Now consider how tech is going to continue to advance until Tesla and those electric motors puts the power of a Veyron into the hands of anyone who can sign for a car loan but doesn't know that that kind of speed belongs only on the track. A 1979 Toyota Tercel has no business with a modern 5.2 L Flat Plane Crank V8 bolted onto it, particularly because the suspension and steering can't handle the power and the driver of such an abomination is probably a goddam fool, likely to pound down a few six-packs before heading out for Zombie night at Applebees. The only razor-thin silver-lining in the article reported by the OP is they didn't mow down a sidewalk-full of bystanders before the smeared themselves.

If tech advances until torque and horsepower become trivial, we will have to have governors built-in to cars because the road has to be shared and driving like an idiot will become not a matter of a broken leg but something a lot more permanent. On the track or the salt flats, do what you want. On the streets there's a point where basic transportation becomes a suicide machine, and I don't want to share those streets with overpowered idiots.

He flirts and hits on 10-15 year old girls regularly (often enough that there are multiple tapes of him doing it). He liked walked in on underage teenage girls naked changing and bragged about being the only man allowed to do it on the Howard Stern show. He had his staff try to encourage the underage teenage girls that were naked to flirt with him saying they were more likely to win the contests if they did. He talked about wanting to sleep with teenage girls on the Howard Stern show. In my opinion, that makes him a pedophile.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://www.rollingstone.com/po...

http://www.politifact.com/wisc...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

http://people.com/politics/don...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mo...

http://www.tmz.com/2016/10/12/...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...

The left in America is filled with hipocrazies. They are notbself consistent. Carl Rowan for example called for repeal of the second amendment. He called for mandatory jail sentences for anyone committing a crime with a gun with ten years added without chance of parole. Then he shot an unarmed intruder with an illegal handgun. He managed a mistrial which they decided not to retry. And only for the charge of illegal possession of a handgun and ammunition. Had the intruder and Carl Rowan each been opposite the race they were, it would have been a racist card on the play. But Rowan was black. Tried in D.C. So a mistrial and not retrial. But the facts are he advocated complete gun control with no civilian ownership, yet owned a handgun, where it was illegal to do so. And the police reports and investigation bear it out. And he used a handgun against an unarmed intruder who was climbing out of his pool, after hopping a fence to take a swim. That alone is in many jurisdictions assault with a deadly weapon. With has he would have liked, a mandatory jail sentence. They didn't even prosecute the assault.

How fucking dumb are you?

http://people.com/politics/eve...

Jessica Leeds
Kristin Anderson
Barbara Corcoran
Cathy Heller
Mariah Billado
Jill Harth
Karena Virginia
Temple Taggart
Mindy McGillivray
Rachel Crooks
Natasha Stoynoff
Jessica Drake
Ninni Laaksonen
Summer Zervos
Cassandra Searles

And definitely don't read about him raping a 13 yr old girl provided by Epstein, who pled guilty to doing exactly that in 2008.
http://www.alternet.org/electi...

Finally, remember that Trump was going to provide proof of his innocence & sue everyone falsely accusing him? Just wondering where that is.

And, we all lost. If you don't believe that, go look at who he's putting into his cabinet.

But when the accusation is credible, and repeated for decades by women have contemporary witnesses who back up their claims

http://people.com/politics/peo...

Her name is Kim Phuc and she now lives in Canada. She was fleeing a napalm strike by the South Vietnamese Air Force.

How the Vietnam War's 'Napalm Girl' Is Finally Getting Her Scars Treated – 43 Years Later
The girl in the picture: Kim Phuc's journey from war to forgiveness
'Napalm Girl': An Iconic Image Of War Turns 40

The Kim Foundation International

You don't always have to see someone in person to understand that they're seriously ill. There's the famous case of the nurse who diagnosed an HGTV presenter with a cancer just from seeing him on the television. A trained observer could certainly tell the difference between the occasional cough due to allergies and one due to more serious conditions. They could tell the difference between an innocent stumble and tell-tale signs of neuromuscular disorders. Your position requires assuming that over 70% of doctors have no idea what they're talking about. Given the choice between the medical opinion of a random poster on Slashdot and 70% of actual physicians, I think we all know which is the more reasonable choice.

I have never heard of Kickass Torrent in the past. Ever. Now I will be very curious just to see on what have they got.

Now, this attempt to arrest an individual who is hosting a server which has url information reminds me very much of recent LEO work in Orlando Disney park, after a 2 year old was snatched by the alligators.

It was surprising to see when two days after the accident the local police reported that they, the police officers, have "identified" the "guilty" alligator and "put him down". http://www.people.com/article/...

You can't make this shit up.

At some point then it dawns that all this fuss was about PD overtime.

Same principles apply in KickAssTorrent website: police force imitate investigative work, they convince the judge that "data is in the computer" (remember the scene from Zoolander - The files is in the computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ),they imitate the value delivered, eventually they identify the guilty server (alligator) and take him down.

The winners: police force getting a lot of overtime pay on a work which is not really dangerous nor this is a law enforcement.

It seems more likely

Wait, so you are making an argument based on your own dubious guesses at probability without evidence, but you ask HIM for evidence?

And no, his claim isn't bigger than yours.

You're making claim about threat from terrorists
He's making a claim about threat from big government

For evidence to back my assessment that your claim is bigger, I point to how few people actually die to the terrorism in the developed world, vs all the government oppression we see day to day either in person (people in the US had to file their taxes a couple months ago) or through the new (oh look, the courts declared an accused rapist to be innocent again)

Twitter has a long standing problem with harassment too, with several high profile names quitting the service.

Twitter has a long standing problem with harassment because most of its users are harassers. They can't cut down on harassment without cutting off large chucks of their userbase, without which they don't have a product to generate revenue for them.

A lot of high profile names didn't quit because some small group of trolls from 8chan or whatever making some kind of coordinated harassment campaign. They quit because they got swamped by unwanted attention from the masses that naturally form mobs. Masses that had nothing better to do but shower attention over some trivial thing, like Alec Baldwin flipping over American Airlines

Masses who get offended easily and so they scream and yell and harass and think they're somehow promoting social justice, like what they did to Ashton Kutcher for daring to defend somebody involved in a sex abuse scandal, and the Internet gave him flak for it

Or as covered by slashdot, Stephen Fry quit because the mob couldn't handle him making a joke to his lady friend.

Both of those services were valued at many billions of dollars based on their large user bases. If they get a bad rep and people start going elsewhere or not signing up, it devalues them.

As above, twitter's (and facebook and most other social media) bad rep didn't come from people who speak "hate speech". Their bad rep comes from their main audience being a bunch of nosy gossipy busybodies who would dogpile and harass people and think they're somehow promoting social justice. They like to say freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences, apparently harassment is a valid consequences for them to dish out.

There's no doubt in my mind that you all know who Tess Holliday is. Founder of "Eff your beauty standards", plus size model, (apparent) body positivity icon.. oh, and scam artist! In November 2014 hundreds of her loyal fans purchased shirts with her "EYBS" branding emblazoned on them,also under the impression that a portion of the proceeds would be donated to a Domestic Violence charity (many fans have said that the reason they were able to justify spending $40 on a shirt is that they were glad that some of the money would to go a DV charity). Not only did hundreds of fans NEVER receive their shirts/merchandise, but not a single cent went to charity. Fans asked Holliday why they hadn't received their items yet via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, only to be blocked by her (Tess herself has admitted that she is in control of all of her social media accounts).

After several attemps by many disappointed fans, the Facebook group "Eff your Customer Service" began. With now 450 members, Holliday could no longer ignore the fans who had rallied against her.

The clothing company Redress took on Holliday's EYBS merchandising responsibilities, and tried their best to reimburse customers.

Still, many were disappointed that none of the proceeds from their purchases were going to the DV charity as they had been lead to believe. Holliday claims that the reason for this is because EYBS operated at a loss, despite doing their own packing, advertising and selling shirts at $40 each. Fans asked her why she couldn't just donate some of her own fortune to the charity to write her wrongs, however no comment was made. Holliday (whose real name is Ryann Maegan) claims to earn 6 figures, and her constant updates on her expensive lifestyle understandably angered fans who were left with no refund, no shirt, and no DV charity contribution.

Of course, making donations to things like Amber Rose's Slutwalk is no problem!

Holliday's scamming/thievery goes even further, as this image suggests. The identity of the person who made this comment is protected, as this Facebook group was a secret group where people could talk about their experiences with her without facing scrutiny from Holliday and her friends, who are constantly harassing anybody who speaks out about her.

Holliday is also known as a horrible person to work with. Despite claiming to be against traditional beauty standards and standing up for body positivity, many photographers who have worked with her in the past have said that they will never choose to work with her again.

Additionally, the plus size clothing company Torrid have severed ties with Holliday for a number of reasons.

In a Buzzfeed video, Holliday is seen claiming to be a size 22, while complaining about the fit of a pair of size 28 Torrid shorts, despite having modelled for them in the past.

Lastly, Holliday's general stalking-behaviour of people speaking out about her says a lot about what kind of person she is. She knows she's doing wrong, and she knows that people can tear her down if they need to.

tl;dr, Don't hate Tess Holliday because she's fat, hate her because she's a scam artist, liar, and generally a bad person.

Her response to this? Blame everyone but herself in the press like here in People magazine, the comments sections are particularly informative about the fact that not everything has been addressed. Any group associated with this person is enabling a scam artist.

She's so amazing people can't even remember her name.

Even more so if she becomes a VP pick.

http://www.people.com/article/ted-cruz-campaign-vetting-carly-fiorina-vice-president

Hitchbot didn't even contain anything valuable, and still was vandalized quickly once travelling on US soil: http://www.people.com/article/... And the vandalism being taped on video didn't mean anyone bothered to catch the bad guy.

http://blogs.psychcentral.com/...

But where I first heard of th econnection was in a fascinating book written by Mark Vonnegut (son of Kurt) called "The Eden Express". In th elate 60's early 70's, he was living the good hippie life in Western Canada, and went schizophrenic, twice. He was eventually cured - dunno if that was the right word - but he's now a pretty well known pediatrician. But his issues largly stemmed from diet along with a predisposition to the issue. He noted that the cruel aspect of it was that it started by trying to be "good", and not cruel, so eating meat was a bad thing. So he got into a positive feedback loop

Here's an old article from People magazine 1975 : http://www.people.com/people/a...

Inherited money won't last. Eventually Paris Hilton (or her offspring) will spend herself broke.

According to this article, 97% of the fortune ($2.5B) that Paris stood to inherit (along with other heirs) will be given to charity. Paris will have to split a paltry $65M, with her personal share likely to be around $5M. Not peanuts, but certainly not the huge amount that it could have been. For someone who lives her lifestyle, it would be no problem just to blow through $5M. Of course, she can leverage all her family connections to get her "products" placed in stores and she was able to parley her membership in the family (and her vapidity) into b-list celebrity status, which can also generate revenue.

Came to this conclusion myself a while back due to how much time I spent in front of a computer compared to my sisters. Definitely has an effect on you.

I think the idea is to spend more time outside rather than in front of your sisters.

Josh Duggar disagrees.

http://www.people.com/article/...

Uber is fast, clean, polite, and - most importantly - reliable.

Except for the Uber drivers who assault, rape, or kidnap passengers.

http://www.people.com/article/...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/uber-...

Same thing happened when they outlawed dancing.

I thought you were joking, but its true.

Buildings destroyed by...Christians.
Malls being shot up by...Christians.
Athletes being held and killed by...Christians.
Planes being hijacked by...Christians
You got me on this one. Christians do perfer hanging.

not that story, but similar.

http://www.people.com/people/a...

sounds more like one of those law of huge fucking numbers things. preference and all might be heredity, which can lead to blah blah.

A lot of the background for this article* comes from a 1984 piece in People Magazine, in some cases word for word:

http://www.people.com/people/a...

*It's an AP wire service piece

http://soylentnews.org/comment...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
http://www.damninteresting.com...
"Furthermore, both radiotherapy and chemotherapy have an immune-suppressing side-effect. Since both treatments kill the rapidly dividing cells of the immune system along with the rapidly dividing cancer cells, both can be used together if care is taken. But immune-stimulating Coley's Toxins work entirely differently, and their effect would be cancelled out if used at the same time as high-dose immunosuppressant chemo- or radiotherapy. It became an either/or situation-- and in the end, the fashionable new treatments won out over Coleyâ(TM)s fiddly reworking of an ancient 'natural' remedy. "

Some other suggestions by me here (primarily nutritional, but also on fasting helping with chemotherapy):
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

More on mushrooms and preventing cancer as also mentioned:
http://articles.mercola.com/si...

It is hard to know who to trust in the cancer industry to find, as you suggest, the best individualized treatment. It's certainly true that people selling alternative products and books (including Furhman, mentioned in my other post) have a conflict of interest. In general, the entire field of oncology is also sadly full of conflict of interest because oncologists make so much money by doing treatments.
https://www.burtongoldberg.com...
"Here is a shocking fact you most likely did not know: Unlike other kinds of doctors, cancer doctors (oncologists) are allowed to profit from the sale of chemotherapy drugs. In fact, most of the annual income oncologists earn comes from the profit that they make from selling these highly toxic drugs to their patients."

And:
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/20...
"And that is where oncologic decision making gets really messy. Because in the United States, at least, many oncologists make a good deal of their income selling drugs to their patients. ... Many oncologists vehemently deny being influenced by this financial conflict of interest. But such denials defy both logic and data. Oncologists would have to be superhuman not to be influenced, at least unconsciously, by such strong incentives. After all, there is often no single "best" way to treat any given tumor, and there's often good reason to believe that expensive new therapies might be better than older, cheaper treatments. In the face of such uncertainty, how could oncologists avoid being influenced by the knowledge that those promising expensive new treatments also help generate so much income?"

Integrative alternatives:
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/PA...

Regardless of the future, I wish you the best in making the most of each day like this celebrity with cancer:
http://www.reuters.com/article...
http://www.people.com/people/a...
"Resolved to face her last days with courage and humor, "I don't think of dying," says the actress, 73, who previously battled lung cancer in 2009. "I think of being here now.""

Good luck!

"The visual aspects—special effects and alien-species makeup—are excellent. But the stories falter.

The comic relief—embodied in Peter Jurasik and Stephen Furst as Centauri, a fan-haired race with Balkan accents—is trite. Bui the scripts are feeblest when they ape the philosophical tenor of the current Star Trek franchises. Babble on, space dudes. "

David Hiltbrand, People Magazine, 1994.

There's no perfect solution, but something that works for 60% might already be better than nothing.

I work in the closed captioning industry, and I'd say anything less than 95% accuracy is actually WORSE than nothing. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has no concept of context or situational awareness. The mistakes they make tend to be not in the simple common words and phrases, but concentrated in the nouns, especially proper nouns: names of people, places, companies, products, etc. Even at 80% accuracy, which is quite good for the current best speaker independent ASR systems, you're looking at 2 words out of every 10 being substituted with the wrong word, completely changing the meaning of the phrases. Imagine the chaos if (major news network)'s closed captioning reported some celebrity or politician as saying "I'm not a fan of Jews." when they actually said "I'm not a fan of juice." (Which would be 83% accurate!) Wars have been started for one misheard word out of a thousand; imagine how bad 200 out of 1000 would be.

Here's an article about a HUMAN transcription error that caused a pretty major ruckus. Now imagine this kind of problem being an order of magnitude worse:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20693447,00.html

People who lost hearing later in life tend to do better with high error rate ASR because they know what words sound like and can figure out easy substitutions, e.g. Juice vs. Jews, Election vs. Erection, etc., but people who were born deaf or lost hearing before language acquisition cannot easily make these substitutions in their head because they don't "hear" the word sounds when they read them.

If you think hookers are expensive, try getting married!

For some reason my brain is convinced that sentence should end with "to one."

Hey, give the guy a break - those high-class hookers are expensive!

If you think hookers are expensive, try getting married!

1. O, a white deer's tail. Bang! Oops, it was mittens
2. New Year's Eve firing of guns in the air... (used to be very popular, before the (obvious) dangers became known)
3. A battue. Hunters have warners posted at all paths leading into the forest. Unfortunately, a small group of geocachers cross between paths, unseen by the warners... (And before you say: the geocachers would have heard the gunfire, think that the battue has to start sometime: before the start everything's reasonably quiet, and when the mayhem starts, they're already to deep in danger zone...)

Pyrrhic victories abound:

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20118404,00.html

You really need to start researching things before you post them.

Google search: "people die at rock concert crush". First result: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20114358,00.html

A little more searching also found this wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stampede, which has the following:
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_The_Who_concert_disaster (alluded to in previous link)
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roskilde_Festival#2000_accident
3) August 20, 1988: 2 people were crushed to death during a Guns N' Roses concert at a Monsters of Rock festival at Donington Park, England. (no specific link)

This DOES happen, and one of the big responsibilities of the venue is to provide adequate crowd control. If you think they aren't worried about this, ask them about their insurance. You may also note that really large venues have physical separations between groups of seating - this ensures that you can't develop a crowd that's too deep - and they keep security people trained in crowd control around.

Also, if you have found a specific error in my math or scenario, please feel free to point it out. I'll fix it and we can reevaluate. (If all you can come up with is a vague counter-example, can it.) You've neglected a couple of key difference between 300 people in a hallway and 300 people up against a stage. Crowd depth in the direction of motion, participant expectations, and state of mind are major factor in these situations. A group of fans near a stage in a large venue may have a couple hundred people in it, but be 30 people wide and only 10 people deep. Also, these people are expecting to _stop_ moving forward at some point. One more thing - These people aren't expecting to be burned to death if they are at the back of the crowd - which changes the dynamic a bit.

I think that addresses your counter-example, and I want to take a moment to point out that you are really not taking much time to think through the specifics of the situation and the influence of small details. This may be why you were promoting such idiocy in the first place. Really, do some research.

the 'photos with text' experience gives us that feeling we get when we read magazines

Obviously the poster is referring to magazines like People: the feeling that it is so vapid, I want to throw it across the room. I am looking for an experience more like that of Scientific American and National Geographic. I'll stick to text, thanks. (Note the relative scarcity of pictures on Slashdot.)

I dunno I found it somewhat interesting. Looking at some pictures of his new wife shows her to be rather plain looking and frequently struggling with her weight.

What the hell are you talking about? She's cute and she's fit, even if you consider her plain.

Top female super models and celebrities are also plain looking without make up on and without photoshop. And most of them are also struggling with their weight, whether it's the fact that they weight too much, or not enough (and are in denial about it).

I dunno I found it somewhat interesting. Looking at some pictures of his new wife shows her to be rather plain looking and frequently struggling with her weight.

What the hell are you talking about? She's cute and she's fit, even if you consider her plain.

Top female super models and celebrities are also plain looking without make up on and without photoshop. And most of them are also struggling with their weight, whether it's the fact that they weight too much, or not enough (and are in denial about it).

You miss the fact that he INHERITED that system. That's how politics works.

Oh, you mean like when Dubbya showed up, and all the W keys were missing from the keyboards...
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,619013,00.html

Except that the GAO investigated and decided that there wasn't enough evidence to prove any of the "missing W' allegations. I did like the "office of strategery" sign though.

You miss the fact that he INHERITED that system. That's how politics works.

Oh, you mean like when Dubbya showed up, and all the W keys were missing from the keyboards...
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,619013,00.html

Does appearing on a TIME cover count? If not, how about being named one of PEOPLE's "hottest bachelors"? :-)

Who thinks it's responsible to have 19 children? Everybody mocked that couple.

No, not everyone. Look at the positive coverage in the Delta Mirror, er, I mean People. And see the comments here. A significant fraction of the population thinks it's fine to spawn as many rugrats as you can before your uterus falls out.

If the government can restrict how many children you can have, then it can also do things like restrict who you marry--bye bye, gay marriage.

It's possible for public policy to encourage you to have more or fewer children without an actual restriction. Right now each child you have is a tax deduction; if you got no deduction for a third child (maybe with an exception for multiple births, not fair to treat twins differently), people would have incentive to keep the baby production at a sensible level.

The best way to bring the birthrate down, though, is to improve the economic and legal status of women throughout the world.

You may think think climate change is something to be "deeply worried" about, but it's actually a controversial and debatable topic with contradictory evidence.

No more so than the link between tobacco smoking and cancer. Look, the planet is warming up; human activity is at least partially responsible; and no, to answer the next argument already being advanced by the oil industry and its shills, this is not going to be beneficial to civilization. You can accept these facts, or you can disqualify yourself from serious discussions.

I'm sorry, but email addiction is just as bad as playing too many games, and in many cases, they are completely oblivious to the fact that they completely ignore the people in front of them for said device.

"Just as bad?" Really? Too much of my job consists of email, and somehow I don't think it fly if I switched all that time over to playing video games. Love him or hate him, but do you honestly think Obama would be President Obama today if all the time he spent on the blackberry he'd instead spent playing XBox? Really now.

I do think Obama's remarks could have just as easily included other time sinks, such as TV. But apparently the Obamas do have an opinion about that too: "Like any family, the Obamas have their TV rules. The kids get to watch only on weekends."

That's the article's TITLE, not Herbert's quote! The point of a citation is to tell you how to find the reference, not to reproduce the reference itself. But, so that you might easily see it with your own two eyes, here is the link to the full article: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20088153,00.html

And in case you're too lazy to do that, the actual quote:

It's rare to find an author who feels that a director hasn't massacred his work, but after seeing a rough cut of Dune, Herbert is pleased. "They've got it. It begins as Dune does. And I hear my dialogue all the way through. There are some interpretations and liberties, but you're gonna come out knowing you've seen Dune." His reaction to the rock singer Sting, who plays the villainous Feyd-Raucha, "Ah, he can act!" As for those infamous sandworms, created by John (Star Wars) Dykstra and Carlo (E.T.) Rambaldi, Herbert was impressed: "They're realistic and scary. These are no Japanese monsters rising out from the deep to eat Kyoto."

There you go, Herbert's words, in his own words, from the words he used himself. Wish I had thought to take the time to do that to begin with.

Ah, Emily, a real nice gal.

Several of my Caving friends were involved in her "rescue".

My sweety and I gave her a party at our house on the one year anniversary of her rescue.

I had been exploring the Fubar Passage in nearly the same spot in Lech where the rock peeled away from the wall and almost crunched her (breaking her leg) on an expedition six months before, I had a narrow escape with a BIG rock peeling from the wall there as well.

They have Mr. Gates' and Mr. Buffett's personal fortunes going into analyzing how to do the most good in the world.

And of course they have their multi-billion dollar Campus of Serene Giving in the heart of downtown Seattle to ponder the question in a tranquil collegiate environment well defended from the homeless people who used to live there by armed security guards.

The European economy did not boom during the plague.

During the Black Plague the world lost about 1/5th of its people. Immediately thereafter came the Renaissance. Perhaps this was a coincidence. Perhaps not. If someone were to suppose that there were a causal relationship, he would not be alone. We may as well blame the end of the Mideival Warm Period for both of them I think, but I'm not going to bash anybody for having a contrary opinion.

It's cool the guy is trying to get rid of the mass of coin he's piled up before it turns his offspring into the next generation of Paris Hilton and Casey Johnson. But let's not have any illusions here: he's doing it this way not because it's maximizing the benefit, but because it reduces the number of people killed in the dissipation of his cash. He's come to grips with the fact that you can't even give away a billion dollars without killing somebody somewhere, and he's got a lot of billions to be rid of. Hopefully more good than ill will come of it. Certainly I'm not doing anything to banish the evil that is Cholera, so I wish him luck in this endeavor.

I can list any number of metrics on which blacks perform better, and use it to "prove" the superiority of blacks.

Penis size, for example. It worked on Heidi Klum!

Wow! that's a great idea... I can't find a microwave that actually does this, I only found some patents about it. Just don't sniff your microwave popcorn

Personally I perfer air-popped popcorn.

Just use Google:

http://www.dailyillini.com/news/campus/2009/06/02/bars-pay-price-for-underage-drinking

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20282532,00.html

http://hawkonomics.blogspot.com/2009/05/iowa-city-bar-restrictions.html

And that was just the beginning. Bars get shut down for serving underage people. It doesn't matter if they check the IDs or not - if they are fooled by a fake ID they can be shut down. It is almost never the underage person's fault, and even when they are charged, it is a fine and little else.

For the bar owner, it can result in the loss of the business.

Naomi Campbell is first on the waiting list to get one.

Nothing can stop her now.