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Broadcom, the manufacrurer of the Airport Extreme, refuses to release linux drivers or specs for their chipset. There is an online petition to Broadcom here http://www.petitiononline.com/BCM4301/.

And Journalistic credibility Too!
This crap is as "Scientific" as the "wounded Gaia" theories bandied about after the recent Tsunami.
No need to RTFA the summary and the source were more than enough.

NASA: 2005 could be warmest year recorded

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A weak El Nino and human-made greenhouse gases could make 2005 the warmest year since records started being kept in the late 1800s, NASA scientists said this week.

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

Think of Europe having much colder winters because of the lack of a thermocline to drive the gulf stream currents. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

This should keep me awake at night exactly - why?

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

Think of the dirty '30s dustbowl as being the norm, not an exception.

Think of Europe having much colder winters because of the lack of a thermocline to drive the gulf stream currents.

Think of rising oceans as the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps melt, and as the waters around the earth rise due to thermal expansion.

Think of recurring global catastrophies that make the recent tidal wave look like "just another day".

Think of what we're handing our kids.

Think - everyone said "don't worry, it won't happen in our lifetimes anyway."

I think they were wrong.

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

With an infinite number of universes, we require, on average, less than 1 monkey per universe, typing for less than a day. In other words, in some universe, it's already happened.

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

The laws of chance dictate that the generators should churn out equal numbers of ones and zeros - which would be represented by a nearly flat line on the graph. Any deviation from this equal number shows up as a gently rising curve.

True randomness will give you apparently non-random data, the same as enough monkeys typing at random on enough keyboards for enough years will give you Shakespeare.

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

"Blacks are lazy",

If everything else is the same, a black person is less likely to want to work as hard as a white person

The rest of his post is a red herring. It's a ramble about historic racism, which does not support his contention that, today (or even at any time in the past), blacks are lazy.

Also, his original post came out earlier this week (Monday). He's backdated his retraction to January 1st, 2001, to make it look like this is "old news", and not something he wrote a week after being appointed president of the OSI (opensource.org). If he has the freedom to mislead people, then certainly I have the freedom to call him on it.

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

The people signing the petition are expressing their freedom of speech, as am I.

His "withdrawal" of the article is also lame http://angry-economist.russnelson.com/blacks-are-l azy.html:

Mon, 01 Jan 2001

Withdrawn

I used to have a posting here which made the point that ceretis paritus blacks will work less hard than whites because of the lower salaries caused by racism. It was not well written and I have withdrawn it. I apologize to anybody who thought that the posting itself was racist.

He also backdated the retraction to make it look like this is old news (the article was originally posted earlier this week - February 7th, 2005 (which is a Monday) to January 1st (the supposed date of the "retraction") was a Saturday, not a Monday.

Not very honest. Or do you also object to my calling attention to this further dishonesty and/or stupidity in backdating the retraction, because it interferes with his "freedom of speech"?

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

I just read his entire article.

His job as president of the Open Source Initiative is to be their mouthpiece, their spokesman. He wrote this a week after he was appointed. Not a very auspicious start.

He starts off with this statement

"Blacks are lazy",

If everything else is the same, a black person is less likely to want to work as hard as a white person

His comments on past history cannot be used as justification for making claims like these. I've asked him for proof, even one study, that backs those two statements up. He has none.

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

Here's what I tell them: Wait until the first stroke of midnight and plug it in - your VCR clock will be set perfectly.

They're too stupid to be able to set the clock themselves, they're certainly too stupid to realize that they can do it at noon ...

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

Besides, it IS possible even today to change the pattern of blood vessels on the retina using lasers - this is done all the time to treat diabetic retinopathy.

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

[X] Check this box to remember password

turning it off should be located in some obscure dialog box in some unrelated area

it should randomly set itself back to "remember password" without notifying you

the next upgrade will make it the default and change where it's stored

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On February 7th, Russ Nelson (Open Source Initiative president) published an article called "Blacks are lazy", quoted in journal entries here and here.

Please consider signing the online petition asking OSI to remove Russ Nelson.

I'd just like to say how angry and upset I am. The daemon logo is a historical symbol, and has made a great logo for the project all these years.

I'm really annoyed about the fact that this is occuring because of a few trolls on mailing lists. The logo itself is NOTHING to do with religion.

People always seem to think their religion gives them some sort of moral highground to bitch and complain about this and that. Something always offends SOMEONE.

It'd really be a shame to demote the beastie logo to a "mascot" only, and shove it away in some corner.

Please sign the petition to save the daemon logo... (for what it's worth):

http://www.petitiononline.com/fbsdmsc1/petition.ht ml

It's going fast, between the time I signed it and pressed refresh two more people signed. It was approximately 1 second.

Check it out.

LK

There is also a petition to keep the existing logo.

"Microsoft must deliver an improved version of its browser in Longhorn if it is to "determine the outcome" of the browser war.""

Yes. With PNG support!!!!

A much better example would have been Ashley Simpson.

Definately. Over 250,000 people strongly agree with you. It was at 281,724 when I submitted this.

We the open source community have to stop Microsoft from obliterating yet another innovative website with their bottomless bank account and relentless aggression. Please sign this petition which will be sent to the appropriate parties. Hopefully we can make a difference and preserve the spirit of the open software movement in today's cut throat search engine market.

The fault has been serious enough for Apple to run a free repair programme, which has just been extended.

There have been a large number of complaints about the quality of the iBooks, and a lot of people aren't happy.

I'm less than happy with Apple UK's service after I sent myiBook in for a new board, and when I got it back the HD was dead. Apple UK have said tough about the drive, even though it was damaged whilst in for repairs.

Although they make some *really* nice kit, having been bitten by their Customer Support I think I'll go elsewhere for hardware, as you are locked into them.

ahh, so it wasn't just me. I ended up using Toast. Started up fine, but at 640x480 resolution, much like the above commenter. Didn't poke around too much, but until Broadcom opens up the drivers for Airport Extreme this really won't be all that useful for me.

Make you visible to TS new open 3d videocard

Let the company know what the demand is.

Alternatively, when your Nomad dies, buy one of the ever-increasing number of Ogg Vorbis or multiple-format (including Ogg Vorbis) portable players. Many of the better players now support a range of formats; my personal favourite (if I had money to buy one at all or actually listened to music ever) would be the Neuros: plays about every format under the sun, the firmware is free software and regularly updated, USB 2.0, up to 160GB of disk space, records to FLAC, PCM (wave) or MP3, recieves and *broadcasts* FM radio, &c

Note that, AFAIK, no portable player can do Vorbis enocding (as it is very CPU intensive)--but it is being considered for the Neuros. You wouldn't generally want to encode in a lossy format on a portable player anyway.

And you can find the other petition here.

This is the same website that hosts the Stop Ashlee Simpson petition. Oh, yes. We should take you seriously.

sorry about that I thought I got it.

http://www.petitiononline.com/0515opts/petition.ht ml

Creative needs to take market share away from Apple. The iPod is a terrible product - bad battery life, few file formats supported, battery replacement costs $ridiculous, can't get music back from the iPod without hacked software... the list goes on.
Creative's Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra is simply awesome. I got one for Christmas a couple years back. 40GB storage capacity; 10 hour operating battery life; support for MP3, WMA, and Audible audio (in the latest firmware); cheap replacement parts; two-way data and music transfer...
Creative should be winning this competition solely on the basis that they can add support for new audio formats through a firmware upgrade. Apple, rather than released updated firmware, releases new versions of the iPod, thus totally pissing off anyone who had an older one, because they can't use the new functionality. See here for an example of the trouble this causes.
Creative acknowledges their customers. Apple snubs them.

Twice as costly, I admit, is an exaggeration. Nonetheless, I certainly don't seem to be the only one complaining about Apple's pricing. The Mac Mini will on average be about 10% more expensive in the EU, even though from what I hear Apple is assembling them in the Czech Republic (an EU member state!). Some of my fellow Europeans have even started a petition for Apple to lower their prices.

Have you ever read this petition to EA? as you can see, we don't like to pay for software, but if thers a good comercial game, we will pay, if it runs on linux. the wine project (and its gaming son, the cedega project) is doing a great job by implementing win32 api on linux, but the 64bit software are coming. if its being hard to implement a 32bit api, what about a 64bit one? I think the softhouses (specially gamehouses) WILL port their apps, because linux is really growing. its getting a lot friendly, KDE and GNOME are doing great job, new friendy distros are made all the time. and there are port helpers, just like Winelib.

I do hope that less than 1/3 of the population uses marijuana, as it's illegal.

Yes, because everyone who has half a brain and can think critically knows how dangerous marijuana can be, and that the government would never make illegal something that wasn't dangerous. They're fully acquainted with what should be illegal and what shouldn't.

Is it me, or is HTML like the PERFECT language of sarcasm?? :)

http://www.petitiononline.com/MacmiEU/petition.htm l

Amiga is still manufacturing computers.

No, they aren't, and the Amiga computer died a decade ago.

OTOH, what is happening is that Hyperion Entertainment are porting and updating AmigaOS to version 4 on licence from Amiga, Inc., a company formed in 2000 by a marketing exec from the previous Amiga-owners Gateway. AInc in turn has allegedly switched owners twice since then, during litigation.

AmigaOS 4, and beyond, are meant to run on third party PowerPC hardware. Nobody is designing or even specifying standards for any hardware specifically for AmigaOS.

One controversial decision that bothers many current and prospective AmigaOS users is that the hardware market will have to be separated from "the rest of the world". Despite the inexistence of any Amiga hardware and AInc's irrelevance to the hardware market, AmigaOS must only be sold bundled with hardware, and only from vendors who have acquired a licence from AInc. These hardware bundles must also provide some form of hardware/vendor-licence verification mechanism ("anti-piracy measures"), which currently is supposed to consist of added code to the firmware.

The only licenced hardware today is sold by the single existing licensee, Eyetech, which is the same company that was "consulted" when these AmigaOS distribution policies were formed. Currently they sell Mai Logic Teron series motherboards, with their exclusively licensed (owned?) stickers saying "AmigaOne", plus a 60% heftier price tag.

For more on this, please see my homepage.

I know this is off topic, but Showtime has decided to cancel the hit show Dead Like Me. Surely there has to be a lot of slashdotters who are fans of the show.

As much as I think it won't help much, there is an online petition at this link

They need all the signatures they can get. If Showtime won't renew the series, maybe somebody else like SciFi will see how popular it is and pick it up. Remember the same thing happened with SG-1 and it became a BETTER show.

Unhappy with the current state of ATI's Linux drivers? Add to the ~20,000 signitures already found on this online petition

To everyone else who is as angry about this as me, check out this petiton someone on Blue's News started. Hopefully this exclusive deal "folds faster than an overcaffeinated origami artist." (and if you get that reference you should definitely be signing it)

From http://www.petitiononline.com/bhopal/

"1. There was no siren and no warning--people woke with the gases already in their faces, filling their mouths, noses and lungs with excruciating pain.
2. NONE of safety systems were functioning on the night of the disaster--six in all.
3. Union Carbide under-invested in an inherently hazardous facility located in a crowded neighborhood, used admittedly unproven designs, stored lethal MIC in reckless quantities, dismantled safety systems and cut down on safety staff and training in an effort to cut costs.
4. Union Carbide and its new owner, Dow Chemical, continue to blame the disaster on a fictitious and unnamed worker, and deny their own negligence.
5. In the wake of the disaster, Carbide claimed that the gas was harmless, when it knew it was lethal (as described in its own manuals).
6. Dow-Carbide refuses to share all its medical information about the health effects of the gas it released, MIC--information that doctors could use to save lives--claiming the information is a "trade secret".
7. Union Carbide fled India and abandoned its Bhopal plant, leaving thousands of tons of dangerous chemicals behind, which are now poisoning the water of the same people Carbide first poisoned 20 years ago. As more people grow sick, Dow-Carbide still refuses to clean up its pollution in Bhopal.
8. The Union Carbide Corporation, charged criminally with "culpable homicide" in the wake of the disaster, has refused to appear in court or stand trial. Union Carbide is now an international fugitive from justice, considered an "absconder" under Indian law."

IMHO Dow Chemical could have done no worse had they set out to intentionally kill those people. Warren Anderson, responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people is now quite well off on Long Island.

Nath0rn loves GNAA announces plans to bomb Christmas island GNAA announces plans to bomb Christmas island
by GNAA Staff
Due to recent AUP policy changes at .cx NIC, one of the key GNAA sponsored websites, http://goatse.cx has been found "in violation of .cx AUP policies". This announcement delivered a huge blow to the GNAA organization.
Without goatse.cx, we lose an important piece of GNAA.
"We will not let this happen", GNAA representative goat-see said to the press. "GNAA will begin planning a terrorist attack on the Christmas Islands."
GNAA currently operates a back-up site, also located at the .cx TLD, http://goat.cx. Users are welcome to use this website while we try to persuade .cx NIC to reinstate goatse.cx domain.
"In the event that our peaceful negotiations will fail, Christmas islands are sure to be gone off the face of this planet", added another GNAA member, penisbird.

If you would like to show support for goatse.cx domain, please visit the following links:
Petition to reinstate goatse.cx (currently down due to attack)
nic.cx feedback forums goatse.cx thread

Thank you!


excerpt from an irc log

@b- The domain goatse.cx has been found in violation of .cx AUP policies, http://www.nic.cx/policies/pdf/cx.AUP.pdf #5, page 7, and is therefore suspended.
@r- shit, that sucks
*** joey (joey@brodels.gngsta.com) has joined nologin
@s- yea i read, page 7 only talks about payment issues though
@s- nothing about content
@b- ya
@b- im confused too
@s- i dunno what the #5 means
@s- oh i see
@s- Communication publication or distribution of adult or obscene content
@s- or images by way of embedded links in unsolicited email, postings to
@s- news groups, internet forums, notices to instant messaging programs,
@s- where the internet user is not explicitly made aware that by clicking on
@s- the link they would be directly exposed to adult or obscene content.
@b- hah
@b- he'll have to make a splash page
@s- i already put the lawyer warning on there
@p- hah
@b- that amendment to thier AUP
@b- is like 100% goatse
@s- - Over the years we have received numerous complaints of this domain's
@s- - content, but no person filee an AUP violation form against the
@s- - domain. Recently the .cx board met and revised all .cx policies (December
@s- - 2003). One of the .cx policies that has not changed is that each domain
@s- - holder is required to review the policies every thirty days and make sure
@s- - their domain is in compliance (Please read part 1, page 2 of
@s- - http://www.nic.cx/policies/pdf/cx.registration.agr eement.pdf).
@s- -
@s- - We do not review web sites and cannot ensure every domain holder is in
@s- - compliance. But, if a domain is brought to our attention that fails to
@s- - comply with our policies, we reserve the right to suspend the domain.
@s- -
@s- - I am unclear if you change the content, the suspension might be
@s- - revoked. If you are considering this option, please send a note of inquiry
@s- - to info@nic.cx.
@s- -
@s- - Best Wishes,
@s- -
@s- - Elaine Pruis
This commentary brought to you by a proud GNAA member.

About GNAA
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which
gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you

A petition to Valve regarding Half Life 2 and STEAM: http://www.petitiononline.com/cg1d0915/petition.ht ml Please tell everyone. And don't forget to sign, though! ;-) greetz, Schattenreiter

I know how much everyone hates them, but I made one anyway. To sign it in opposition to this bill the url is: http://www.petitiononline.com/StopIPPA/petition.ht ml/

PLEASE HELP US!! http://www.petitiononline.com/swg1104/petition.htm l

Well, I did sign this petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/oggpet/petition.html

I actually held out for over a year simply because Creative did not have OGG support. I looked at the iRiver line but they didn't have a USB storage interface for their flash players. Eventually, I decided I wasn't going to wait any longer and I just went with Creative. Nobody seems to offer both features. At $80, it's cheap enough to buy and then switch if something better comes along.

I seem to be in a minority in this thread, but I actually have some confidence in the Creative name. They've been the biggest name in PC sound cards for a looong time. I figure they know something about audio hardware.

Jeez people... not even 11k signatures yet. weak.

GNAA announces plans to bomb Christmas island GNAA announces plans to bomb Christmas island
by GNAA Staff
Due to recent AUP policy changes at .cx NIC, one of the key GNAA sponsored websites, http://goatse.cx has been found "in violation of .cx AUP policies". This announcement delivered a huge blow to the GNAA organization.
Without goatse.cx, we lose an important piece of GNAA.
"We will not let this happen", GNAA representative goat-see said to the press. "GNAA will begin planning a terrorist attack on the Christmas Islands."
GNAA currently operates a back-up site, also located at the .cx TLD, http://goat.cx. Users are welcome to use this website while we try to persuade .cx NIC to reinstate goatse.cx domain.
"In the event that our peaceful negotiations will fail, Christmas islands are sure to be gone off the face of this planet", added another GNAA member, penisbird.

If you would like to show support for goatse.cx domain, please visit the following links:
Petition to reinstate goatse.cx (currently down due to attack)
nic.cx feedback forums goatse.cx thread

Thank you!


excerpt from an irc log

@b- The domain goatse.cx has been found in violation of .cx AUP policies, http://www.nic.cx/policies/pdf/cx.AUP.pdf #5, page 7, and is therefore suspended.
@r- shit, that sucks
*** joey (joey@brodels.gngsta.com) has joined nologin
@s- yea i read, page 7 only talks about payment issues though
@s- nothing about content
@b- ya
@b- im confused too
@s- i dunno what the #5 means
@s- oh i see
@s- Communication publication or distribution of adult or obscene content
@s- or images by way of embedded links in unsolicited email, postings to
@s- news groups, internet forums, notices to instant messaging programs,
@s- where the internet user is not explicitly made aware that by clicking on
@s- the link they would be directly exposed to adult or obscene content.
@b- hah
@b- he'll have to make a splash page
@s- i already put the lawyer warning on there
@p- hah
@b- that amendment to thier AUP
@b- is like 100% goatse
@s- - Over the years we have received numerous complaints of this domain's
@s- - content, but no person filee an AUP violation form against the
@s- - domain. Recently the .cx board met and revised all .cx policies (December
@s- - 2003). One of the .cx policies that has not changed is that each domain
@s- - holder is required to review the policies every thirty days and make sure
@s- - their domain is in compliance (Please read part 1, page 2 of
@s- - http://www.nic.cx/polici es/pdf/cx.registration.agreement.pdf).
@s- -
@s- - We do not review web sites and cannot ensure every domain holder is in
@s- - compliance. But, if a domain is brought to our attention that fails to
@s- - comply with our policies, we reserve the right to suspend the domain.
@s- -
@s- - I am unclear if you change the content, the suspension might be
@s- - revoked. If you are considering this option, please send a note of inquiry
@s- - to info@nic.cx.
@s- -
@s- - Best Wishes,
@s- -
@s- - Elaine Pruis
This commentary brought to you by a proud GNAA member.

About GNAA
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which
gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY

That sure seems to be what your post suggests. Short of cloning, I don't see how our people won't be all but extinct in a hundred years or so. And I don't know what languages you speak; I speak English and Spanish. My "ancient tribal languages" exist on reel-to-reel in some anthropologist's office.

Sure there are those of us who are fortunate enough to have gotten off the rez. Hell some of us even work in IT and goody, our company gets kudos for checking off a little box on their diversity paperwork. And your co-workers tell you how much they liked Dances With Wolves or think the rez is some aboreal hippie paradise.

I doubt many companies will be outsourcing their IT work to the rez.

The worst isn't behind us. We're pretty much gone as a people. Want to know something about the Lemhi-Shoshone fifty years from now? Better go web surfing (or the equivalent) or to a museum. There won't be anyone with enough blood quantum to be considered an American Indian.

If you marry someone from another nation, the goverment won't recognize your children as being Native American anymore if their blood quantum isn't high enough, even if 3/4 of their grandparents are full-blooded Indians but from different nations. Why should the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) get to decide who are salmon eaters and who are not? Shouldn't we decide? Shouldn't our children be considered BOTH their parents' people?

Most of us are forgotten, still barely scraping by on the rez. You don't have to travel to the third world to see soul-crushing poverty - just visit a rez without a giant casino. You think the racism is gone? Bullshit. Even shitty jobs are hard to come by - on or off the rez. But there sure are plenty of liquor stores and too many of us are downbeaten drunks.

If you happen to live along a major interstate, then goody for you. Some development company might choose to build a casino. That's if your council isn't greedy and shortsighted enough to string developers along. If the angry infighting doesn't make it impossible to get the project underway. If you grease enough wheels in the state government and get some well-connected lobbyist to bribe enough of your state delegation to help the project along. If some asshat (casino developer, some other paleface carpetbagger, or an Uncle Tom Indian) doesn't rip you off by offering to buy your interest in future casino money for pennies on the dollar while you writhe in poverty.

You're right that the massacres and cultural destruction won't happen to us anymore. Those jobs have been done. There aren't any values and traditions to revive. And I don't know where you're going to find anyone "Indian enough" to repopulate the land area of US of A to the hundred million or so who lived here before Columbus arrived, much less eclipse it. There are only 2.4 million of us left in all the US states and territories, roughly 2.4% of those living 512 years ago.

If you're Native American then you're a naive, naive little urban Indian. If not, then you still don't know what the crap you're talking about.

For the record, there isn't any fucking hospital on my rez. There's a clinic. God help you if you get sick, shot or have a heart attack.

Now when a native child gets sick, the father and the medicine man chant to the Great Spirit. Or they do until the mother gets pissed off and makes him take the child to the reservation hospital. Usually the child recovers fully.

Chanting to the Great Spirit with the Medicine Man? WTF? You've been watching too much Walker: Texas Ranger. Native Americans have an infant mortality rate over twice that of whites.

Even if you have an IHS (Indian Health Service) clinic or hospital nearby, which less than 480,000 of us do, unless your nation is federally recognized you can forget IHS period. 1/3 of Native Americans have no health coverage at all, not even Medicaid. Horses and cattle get better health care than the people on my rez.

"The XBoxHD will offer increased functionality but probably not things that are of any dramatic benefit to gamers. ...More than likely, though, it will offer TiVO like functionality and a way to store and playback media files."

There has been much protest against the speculation that the second Xbox will not be backwards compatible with first-generation Xbox games. Since Xbox games are so highly dependent on a hard drive, (they use the E: partition of the hard drive to save games and the X:, Y:, and Z: partitions to store game-specific content for much quicker load times) a first generation Xbox game could not feasibly run on a second generation box with only a flash drive for internal storage.

If Microsoft manufactures second-generation Xboxes with hard drives, we'll no doubtingly see backwards-compatibility.

Way to go microsoft. Right after you launch your big game you put this generation behind you.

Save Swimmy

http://www.petitiononline.com/amadeuus/

The original petition, in brazilian portuguese language, here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi? amadeu&1

http://www.petitiononline.com/amadeuus/

The original petition, in brazilian portuguese language, here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi? amadeu&1