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Do you know your claims are false, or do you not care?

The fact is that similar numbers of people die from both.

Everyone dies of something

Prostate cancer is diagnosed far more often, and men suffer from a larger number of life-impacting operations to remove their prostate than for breast cancer.

Then they aren't too bright. While you like to accuse me of lying, this is not news at all, I knew this stuff long ago. And now I'll give you all the fake news you care to call fake. http://healthland.time.com/201... If you are past 60, and get a diagnosis, you should forgo treatment. Why? Becaue unless it is an aggressive case, you'll die of old age first.

In fact, surgery is often the last thing you want http://healthland.time.com/201...

The PSA test is the source of many false positives. http://www.prweb.com/releases/...

The 5 year survival rate for Prostate cancer is is 99 percent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Breast cancer?:

For women with stage II breast cancer, the 5-year relative survival rate is about 93%.

The 5-year relative survival rate for stage III breast cancers is around 72%.

Metastatic, or stage IV breast cancers, have a 5-year relative survival rate of around 22%.

Satege 0 or 1 has a 5 year survival similar to all stages except aggressive prostate.

Which is why, exactly why, I said that given an either or case, you will work pretty hard at curing breast cancer, which does tend to kill pretty quickly if you take the same approach as you would with prostate cancer.

Undiagnosed mortality rates from both are quite similar, although higher for prostate cancer.

Umm uhh, get ready for it here it comes. don't blink!

Do you know your claims are false, or do you not care?

Simply brilliant! me hearty. I am fully aware of the sometimes wildly different ways that women are treated compared to men, and encourage men to even consider that they might live a fuller and less stress filled life by avoiding entanglements with women, because society and the legal system are not conducive to good outcomes for men.

But I don't hate them, and wish all women long and happy lives.

Note that they never say that being obese is healthy, they say that simplistic solutions like "stop binging" and "eat less" tend not to be very helpful and that they instead advocate a more positive approach to weight management. Of course you can argue that their approach is ineffective, but not that they are suggesting being obese is healthy.

No, I'm arguing that they are indeed saying that being morbidly obese is healthy, that is the foundation of the Healthy at Every Size program. The argument is that health is not connected to weight.

Here is the "manifesto" of the HAES book. I found it through www.bodypositive.com via the author's webpage.
https://lindabacon.org/HAESboo...

While I shall leave the more crazy attempts at debunking all of biology and medicine unquoted, here is the step by step list -

What Can You Do?

Refuse to fight in an unjust war. Join the new peace movement:
“Health at Every Size” (HAES). HAES acknowledges that well-being
and healthy habits are more important than any number on the
scale. Participating is simple:

1. Accept your size.
Love and appreciate the body you have.
Self-acceptance empowers you to move on and make positive
changes.

2. Trust yourself.
We all have internal systems designed to keep
us healthy—and at a healthy weight. Support your body in natu-
rally finding its appropriate weight by honoring its signals of hunger,
fullness, and appetite.

3. Adopt healthy lifestyle habits.
Develop and nurture connections with others and look for pur-
pose and meaning in your life. Fulfilling your social, emotional, and
spiritual needs restores food to its rightful place as a source of nour-
ishment and pleasure.
Find the joy in moving your body and becoming more phys-
ically vital in your everyday life.
Eat when you’re hungry, stop when you’re full, and seek out
pleasurable and satisfying foods.
Tailor your tastes so that you enjoy more nutritious foods,
staying mindful that there is plenty of room for less nutri-
tious choices in the context of an overall healthy diet and
lifestyle.

4. Embrace size diversity.
Humans come in a variety of sizes
and shapes. Open to the beauty found across the spectrum and sup-
port others in recognizing their unique attractiveness.

The only thing that isn't explicitly "be proud of being overweight and keep on eating" is one point in step 3 - "Find the joy in moving your body and becoming more physically vital in your everyday life." That is the only reference to what can in very generous terms be considered a suggestion to not keep on binging.

Ooh, and here's what we get when we follow the first link on the main page - http://www.prweb.com/releases/... -

Building on previous movements for equal rights, the size acceptance movement is gaining strength. In this two-part interview with Dr. Deb Burgard, noted eating disorders specialist and Health at Every Size advocate, Veronica Cook-Euell explores fat and feminism, and fat civil rights.

How does this not count as body positivity == fat acceptance?

I recommend you to study this even more closely, but here are some of the completely unbelievable things in this smear attempt against Assange:

"Their yellowpages site says they have been in business 5 years. http://www.yellowpages.com/hou...
Ok so how many times has this link been shared on reddit? I googled the URL specific to this site, and it's only come up three times. All within the last 24 hours."

"This shady dating site claims to be the "ONLY Dating Site to ever partner with the UN Initiative" (Now that's fucking odd...) AND THEY JUST GOT KICKED OUT OF THE UN FIVE DAYS AGO?!?!"

"Todd Hammonds LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/to... (It's fucking nothing) But it does say he lives in SF. I'm in the Bay Area also, I could pay a visit to offices if we can actually find any legitimate offices...
Their Dating Site Eventbrite page. Only one event for the fastest growing dating website that has married 3,000 people since 2011???
Here is the LinkedIn of "Kate Hogan," this is the person who wrote the "Press Release" about ToddAndClare accusing Assange of sexual misconduct. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ka...
Of course she's got only 1 connection, and no other real information anywhere. Also, the phone number listed in the press release rings twice and then immediately disconnects. But it doesn't give a recording, it just says "call failed" I've never really experienced that. Anyway you'd think that someone who just put out a press release regarding the UN and Assange would have a working phone!
http://www.prweb.com/releases/...
Here's their bullshit subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/todda... (No posts in three months)
Here's their weird "book" that they wrote about starting their company 5 years ago. Notice how every review is exactly 189 days old and all are very short and positive. This is shilling no doubt about it. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/..."

"How can their site, registered 20 sep 2015, claim 3000 marriages by November 2 2015? http://m.imgur.com/6BqmZPY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=..."

"Thanks to /u/ChrissFinn for linking the email from Wikileaks that ToddAndClare originally sent to Assange to get all this started. They offer him $1 million dollars to do some sort of commercial. This is obviously a scam because they don't have a million dollars, they don't even have a legitimate mailing address or working fucking phone numbers! This was a set up from the very beginning!"

" all users images are cropped and mirrored and can be reverse google image searched to other locations. Plus none of the employees seem to exist. Email between Jullian and T&C.com https://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/... -Honeypot to get him to accept russian funds and discredit his leaks, failed, so they accused him of pedophilia instead. When searched for. The ToddandClare business location is actually identical to this company "Premise Data Corporation" https://local.yahoo.com/info-1... Here you can view its team page http://www.premise.com/ourteam... Who's board of directors has guess who "Larry Summers" Who goes by "Lawrence Summers" in "The Center for American Progress" Superpac

all look like Guy Fawkes.

Speaking of Guy Fawkes, I notice from the news that Julian Assange is now in the dick recognition database, from that time he sent a picture of his little wikileak to an 8 year-old girl.

https://twitter.com/SandraEcke...

http://www.prweb.com/releases/...

Why? Is it the wig or the hat?

Development of the Azura technology is a collaborative effort between NWEI, Callaghan Innovation, and Energy Hydraulics Ltd (EHL). Callaghan Innovation led the conceptualization and early development of the technology in New Zealand, and NWEI recently secured a global exclusive technology license from Callaghan Innovation to commercialize the Azura technology. EHL plays a critical role in advancing the technology and is responsible for the engineering, fabrication, and testing of the power conversion system.

I have seen this device "in person" and it is pretty cool. As it was built a few minutes from where I live in New Plymouth, NZ.

here's a 4 minute sample.

http://www.cchrint.org/2012/07...

http://www.cchrint.org/school-...

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

http://freedom-articles.toolsf...

http://www.prweb.com/releases/...

Of course, doctor/patient confidentiality rules often prevent hard core analysis. In the case of mass shootings and such, we ought to consider changing the rules so that we can grasp fully the links between shootings and drugs. Sticking ones head in the sand and claiming ignorance is not really a good option.

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Had all those websites been using Kaje, these breaches would not have resulted in the huge potential liability and recovery costs that so many businesses will be facing. From Sony a few years ago to Target and EBay recently, and now this Russian thing, password breaches are causing billions of dollars in damages, often borne by website owners - in some cases thousands of dollars per user. Health care and financial services websites are particularly subject to financial penalties from regulatory bodies as well as civil litigation. In comparison, the Kaje service costs fractions of a cent per use for large users.

A Picture Password, which was demonstrated to be easier to use and more secure than text passwords by NIST as early as 2003 (using an earlier, less secure methodology), is more difficult to crack as well as resistant to man-in-the-middle attacks. The Kaje service has an HTTPS RESTful API, is compatible with OpenID, SAML, and other SSO systems, and plugins are available for Drupal and WordPress with others coming soon. Using Kaje basically requires SSL, one or two additional columns for the anonymous ID sent to Kaje by the website The first 10,000 uses are free, so smaller websites can use it for years without paying anything, while larger ones can try it out, do testing and prototyping with no cost or obligation.

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Poor people can get gov't-subsidized smart phones. There's no reason in the world they can't use these apps the same as the evil rich folks. This is blatant race- / class-baiting from the White House to further distract the masses from matters of real importance -- you, destruction of our civil liberties, telling the NSA not to talk to the press, etc.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/6/prweb9636584.htm

They call it analog bypass for non-regen repeaters. It's also a "best case" feature with automatic fallback to a regen. Though with regen of only 7 us, it doesn't seem to be that great of an issue.

Around here, the HFTs just use optically switched networks - 0 ns switching delay (provided you don't need dispersion compensation, and most don't now). Light travels more slowly, but the costs are much lower and the reliability is nearly 100%, with the greatest risk being a backhoe (or anchor, depending on location).

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10703394.htm

Also I believe Samsung is looking at including them on their Windows Mobile phones.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10796698.htm Estimates that the Games Industry is worth....$66Billion Revenue, but only $20Billion of that was from the PC gaming.

Just pointing out PC gaming accounts for nearly 1/3 of gaming revenue. The rest is shared between PS3, Xbox, Wii/Wii U and mobile. Also, the PC gaming segment is smaller, meaning that is is more profitable to make games for the PC.

Whilst the PC gaming market is not the majority of the PC market, it is no minor segment either. Definitely not one that can be ignored. Compared to a Word/Facebook user, a gamer will spend a lot more on hardware and software. Almost to the point of rivalling corporate spending.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10796698.htm Estimates that the Games Industry is worth....$66Billion Revenue, but only $20Billion of that was from the PC gaming...Microsoft earned that in just one quarter http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/FinancialStatements/FY13/Q3/IncomeStatements.aspx. If you want to know why computers cost so much compared to tablets...$16Billion of that $20Billion was Gross profits...Bill Gates the humanitarian says they shouldn't pay tax on it though.

For example, they do it here in SRQ. What I'm curious about is how this stuff works on helicopters. As for what was once called "VeriPlate" but is now attempting to slip into obscurity, please see this PDF for an overview.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/07/prweb537332.htm

The numbers say that 96% of banks are out of compliance. Giving me the option of using just 4% of all banks is no choice at all.

Not sure why you think this, other than ignorance or severe hatred. iOS can do these today. Any Windows tablet OS can't, today.

http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/apps-by-apple/iphoto.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2012/01/creating-ipad-apps-using-rapid-elearning-authoring-tools.html
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/02/prweb5060934.htm

But iPads just consume media!

Wrong. SOOOOO wrong.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/story/2012-05-28/art-painting-apps/55205572/1
http://www.designer-daily.com/10-great-ipad-applications-for-creative-people-6234

Cars are made with iron, steel, aluminum, fiberglass and dozens of other materials. It would be just as idiotic to ban those materials...

...as it would be to ban certain kinds of matches in response to methamphetamine production:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9271990.htm

...or to limit purchases of ephedrine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Methamphetamine_Epidemic_Act_of_2005

MDPV and Spice products have only rose in popularity because they produce effects similar to illegal drugs. It is worth noting that both of these drugs were simply declared to be illegal by the DEA, which is the same agency that enforces drug laws. It is also worth noting that if you could buy drugs legally, we could give you legally mandated warnings about those drugs -- like a warning that MDPV may induce psychosis.

This isn't Wikipedia and I am not your market research organisation. This has been widely reported in the press Europe wide and a little bit of basic Googling will find it easily. However, since I know you won't give it up, here is a good example and here is the quote you really want:

Internet Marketing Services opines that the sales figure for Nokia N9 have been much higher comparing to Lumia so far in spite of a higher price. The report also suggests that the success of N9 in the market can easily be attributed to its superior features. Though these two phones look almost similar, N9 has many more features in it.

You do realise that "opines" means "opinion" right? So that statement actually reads:

The sales figure for Nokia N9 have been much higher comparing to Lumia so far in spite of a higher price, in the opinion of Internet Marketing Services. The report also suggests that the success (in IMS's opinion) of N9 in the market can easily be attributed to its superior features. Though these two phones look almost similar, N9 has many more features in it.

Sounds like they have no evidence to back it up either.

There were plenty of oth er sources showing the N9 outseling the Lumias.

Isn't it a pity that you can't cite any of them here to save a good truthy-sounding story?

This isn't Wikipedia and I am not your market research organisation. This has been widely reported in the press Europe wide and a little bit of basic Googling will find it easily. However, since I know you won't give it up, here is a good example and here is the quote you really want:

Internet Marketing Services opines that the sales figure for Nokia N9 have been much higher comparing to Lumia so far in spite of a higher price. The report also suggests that the success of N9 in the market can easily be attributed to its superior features. Though these two phones look almost similar, N9 has many more features in it.

Given that the Lumia 900 has been given away for free in the US to AT&T customers

Being obliged to pay into a two-year contract or pay an early termination fee does not really qualify as "free".

Actually it does; for two reasons. Firstly, if the customers were really counting the total price, it would make no sense to do phone subsidies. The fact they work and are done by operators is a pretty clear sign that customers care about the headline price. Secondly the customers normally want a contract anyway. They discount that from the deal and so the actual price of the phone is what they compare.

Still, it's pretty clear that, unless Nokia steps up to refute it, Nokia is hiding sales figures it should have been publishing and those sales figures would have shown the N9 ahead of the Lumia phones.

Really? I don't think Nokia has an obligation to publish sales figures for any particular device. They tend to especially dodge it if the sales have been unremarkable.

No matter what the values are; the numbers which determine which strategy Nokia should persue seem pretty worthy of remark to me. If they were positive for the Windows strategy they would be published immediately just as the Lumia 900 initial week sales were. Notice how the more recent sales have not been mentioned at all.

Conventional records:

World record soybeans, 2010, 160.6 bu/acre * 60 lbs/bu = 9,636 lbs/acre
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/10/prweb4636574.htm

World record rice, 2011, 13.5 tons/hectare = 10,927 lbs/acre
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-09/20/content_13737437.htm

World record corn, 2002, 442 bu/acre * 70 lbs/bu = 30,940 lbs/acre (being generous, assuming ear corn)
burkstractor.com/eq_brochures/Case.../SeedNewsMar292006.pdf
(granted, not as good a source. find a better one)

World record wheat
World record wheat, 2010, 15.637 tons/hectare = 12,656 lbs/acre
http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/190310/nz___record_wheat_yield_.aspx

(lbs/bushel figures taken from http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=G4020)

Now compare with the Dervaes family, doing permaculture in Pasadena on 1/10 of an acre. All years from 2003-2009 inclusive (newer data isn't posted) are between 4,000 lbs and 6,000 lbs on 1/10 of an acre. So 40K - 60K lbs/acre annually. That's better than world record yields on a regular basis.

Geez people. Why not do some research before jumping on the bashing bandwagon?

After 5 seconds of Googling (give or take, didn't have a stopwatch):
http://searchconsumerization.techtarget.com/Apple-seeks-to-better-iPad-iPhone-security-via-FIPS-140-2-compliance

"Apple has submitted three cryptographic modules that are in the modules in process queue for FIPS 140-2 compliance..."

Also, there are apps for that.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/04/prweb3829534.htm
http://www-05.ibm.com/no/news/events/tgif/tgif_lotus_in_a_mobile_world_070510.pdf

I used to respect this site and it's posters.

iOS does not have a FIPS 140-2 certified encryption module associated with it, meaning that viewing non-public government data on their e-mail system would be a contract violation at worst and might expose them to criminal liability. Aren't these guys basically government contractors?

Insightful ? After 5 minutes of Googling :

"Mocana Corporation, a company that focuses on securing non-PC connected devices, today announced that it has earned the government's first FIPS 140-2 level one validation for an encryption product running on the Apple iPhone or iPad. "

There's absolutely nothing to suggest that that hypothesis is true----the only lawsuits they have filed against any mobile device manufacturer is the one mentioned in TFA, and that uses patents that were owned by Apple until August this year.

and if you RTFA, you have already see:

This announcement is dated April 27, 2011: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/04/prweb5278144.htm

They talk of 'aggressively' licensing stuff in the near future, so they hadn't started litigation at that point.

The day before, on April 26, 2011 Apple transferred the patents to a shell company linked to Digitude who later transferred them to DI: http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?db=pat&pat=6208879

Clearly, Apple signed a deal with DI in April and arranged for the transfer of their patents. And this was way before they sued anyone, in fact without the Apple patents they don't seem to have anything else worth suing anyone with.

Apple was NOT sued by this patent troll first, they cut a deal with them. And DI's business model means that part of any profits from this lawsuit will flow to Apple - and you can bet anything it won't be a tiny amount.

What is increasingly bizarre is the patents were bought form Mitsubishi. They are not originally Apply patents and have nothing to do with Apple's iPhone/iPad technologies. They are not even part of the 'thermonuclear war' on Android, DI is suing Nokia and RIM as well.

the fact that they aren't real peppers is what gives.
"There is an episode of the Simpsons where Homer eats chilli with
"insanity peppers" and starts hallucinating. Is it actually possible
to eat something so spicy it causes temporarty insanity and
hallucinations? Does such a pepper exist?

"Endorphins, those natural drugs that are 100 to 1,000 times more
powerful than morphine, are released into our brain when we eat hot
chile peppers, according to Dr. Frank Etscorn of New Mexico University
(who also holds the first patent on the nicotene patch). Like other
psychotropics, including peyote, coca and tabacco, chile peppers alter
our state of consciousness. In the case of chile peppers the high is
non-hallucinogenic, but it is addictive. Chili addicts are hooked on
endorphins. "We get slightly strung out, but it's no big deal," he
says." - Quote from The Veiled Chameleon
http://www.veiled-chameleon.com/archives/000042.html

"We need a fix of red or green chile with a side order of endorphins,"
said Dr. Frank Etscorn, then an experimental psychologist at New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, and inventor of
the nicotine patch, in a 1990 article for the Albuquerque Journal. "We
get slightly strung out on endorphins, but it's no big deal. That year
he posed a theory that the warm afterglow and the constant craving for
chile are due to capsaicin triggering the release of the body's
natural painkillers called endorphins, which have been called "the
body's natural opiates," are the cause of the so-called runner's high,
and are capable of turning a painful experience into a pleasurable
one." - From the Chili Pepper Counterculture Robb Walsh, Austin
Chronicle, Friday, May 3, 1991

More on peppers and "runners high."
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/3/prweb111083.htm - "Exercisers Get
Workout Boost From New Hot Pepper Nasal Spray"

"The chemical capsicin is fooling your nerves into believing that they
are burning in hell, when in fact nothing is wrong with them at all.
And your dumb body rushes all those painkillers to those special
receptors in the brain. That's a pretty good practical joke, huh? Pass
the hot sauce." - Quote from The Veiled chameleon - but I wish it were
mine.

So, overall, while the pepper is a vegetable which has consciousness
altering properties, it is not 'officially" considered to have an
hallucinogenic property. I emphasize the word "officially" as there
are those who consider any element of consciousness altering at all,
as a hallucination. That is why I said "yes and no" in my opening.
The definition of "hallucination" is somewhat subjective in popular
understanding."

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/332912.html

This isn't their first opportunity. They've had since May at the least: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/5/prweb8458069.htm

Actually you CAN upgrade WinXP to Windows 7, it just isn't free since you need a third party tool. I haven't had a chance to try it yet but the reviews I have seen say that it works and works well. It is just as usual MSFT doesn't have decent system tools and requires third party tools to get things done.

Indeed, molds are nothing to scoff at. Mark Tatum lost half his face to a toxic mold infection.

Interestingly, on the day that the CDC decided it was possible to craft a vaccine, these guys issued a press release saying they have one ready for testing...

...as this article learns us.
Makes you indeed wonder !
 
Mental note: beware of Replikins bringing medicine to lethal flu.

The 9th Circuit is legal precedent, at least for cases within the 9th Circuit.... But here you go.

Some links, many of which are not from the 9th:
http://www.iphonereal.com/iphone_news/200808/08-11492.html
http://www.uslaw.com/library/Legal_Research/Oregon_9th_Circ_Mandatory_Arbitration_Unconscionable.php?item=221171
http://www.thisistech.com/2008/01/25/class-actions-t-mobiles-mandatory-arbitration-clause-ruled-unconscionable-lawsuits/
http://www.constructionweblinks.com/Resources/Industry_Reports__Newsletters/Apr_02_2007/cour.html
http://www.metnews.com/articles/2007/omel051507.htm
http://www.calbizlit.com/cal_biz_lit/2007/09/how-to-get-out-.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3898/is_200103/ai_n8951872
http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/trial-procedure-appellate-decisions/8133987-1.html
http://www.stephenmmurphy.com/pdfs/Hancock_article.pdf
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/3rd-Circuit-Deals-Blow-to-law-14460950.html
http://kruismediation.com/cgi-bin/adrcases.cgi?case=ADR20071031.htm
http://www.justanswer.com/questions/16oig-wisconsin-courts-interpret-term
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1556074.htm
http://www.chicagobusinesslitigationlawyerblog.com/2008/10/chicago_federal_district_court_1.html
http://www.rtoonline.com/Content/Article/Aug_06/NewJerseyBindingArbitration081106.asp

Climate change hasn't affected bushfire occurrences significantly in any way. This is all speculation and from a very unscientific standpoint as far as I can tell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfire#Significant_bushfires
Notice where many of these fires occur...Australia. And the documented dates go back to 1851. Climate change has nothing to do with anything, a bushfire is longstanding and naturally occurring event, and has been observed that way for 150 years on record.

Where is the data that shows that fires have occurred more often and burn longer and stronger AND the reason so is climate change and not the fact that suburban sprawl introduces woodland areas to power lines, lit cigarettes as litter, and other human fire related causes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_wildfire
There is the same issue with wildfires occurring in California. And an even bigger threat or cause of wildfires than global climate change is still lit cigarettes being discarded in woodland areas. More on that later.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2327145120071023
Here's a short article from Reuters discussing some basic wildfire facts in California.

* During Santa Ana conditions, fires can be easily ignited by nature, in the case of lightning, or by humans. Some are arson, while others can be sparked by machinery operated near dry brush, campfires or carelessly tossed cigarettes. Downed power lines also pose a fire hazard. Once the wildfires are whipped by the winds, they spread quickly and are extremely dangerous and difficult to fight.

* "Fire Season" officially begins in early summer and lasts through October, though officials say that as the state suffers through cyclical drought conditions, they consider the season to be almost year-round in Southern California.

http://ca.prweb.com/releases/20061010/6/prweb393120.htm

In September 2002, a wildfire that scorched 247 acres on the Camp Pendleton, California base was started by a cigarette butt tossed by a passing motorist.

In January 2001, a motorist driving along Interstate 8 in San Diego County flicked a cigarette butt onto the center median, sparking a fire that burned more than 10,000 acres, destroyed 16 homes and charred 64 vehicles.

http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/40452047.html

In Texas, people cause 95 percent of wildfires. The Texas Forest Service says residents should not engage in activities, such as throwing out lit cigarettes, welding and burning debris, that could lead to an accidental wildfire start.

So we are causing a vast amount of wildfires. In some places even 95 percent.

Maybe climate change plays a large role in bushfires, but I need way more evidence to convince me that it's not people being careless with litter, downed power lines, or household electrical fires, etc. causing the majority of these fires.

It's that damned juvenile geek.com, and TFA's not much longer than the summary.

And it ends with "Read the press release" that the submitter should have linked in the first place rather than that incredibly BAD geek.com) "here".

As many people in India speak English than there are Americans who speak English. (source http://bizpr.news.prweb.com/releases/2004/4/prweb116904.htm) Guess which way Indians spell maths?

a) I like globalization.
b) I don't have any problem with competition, from anywhere, provided it is "fair". Fair has nothing to do with local wages.
c) I **do** have a problem with companies lying as a way to get immigration quotas increased.
d) I **do** have a problem with illegal aliens working ... in any country, not just mine.

Here's a legal team training http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU corporate HR departments on techniques to hire cheaper, H-1b visa workers.

H-1b visa workers are paid 25% less than local workers, is that good or taking advantage of them? http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/7/prweb407549.h tm

Illegal aliens harvesting the food we eat isn't any better.

That would be Burkhard Heim's unified theory from the 1950s. His work brought up the idea that gravity comes in several varieties, only one of which is experienced by us puny beings (so far). One of his additional gravitational entities is, today, called "Dark Energy" although he named it "Quintessence." It is the other, however, which is the "elephant in the room."

Heim deduced that a messenger particle he called a "gravitophoton" could be produced by using a very intense magnetic field (>20 Teslas) to produce electron-positron pairs from the background vacuum. The gravitophoton would have two types, attractive and replusive. Sound fanatasic?!

Uh, uh! Last year, the findings of two+ years of careful experiments with rotating, superconducting disks were announced by the European Space Agency (ESA). See http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/3/prweb364473.h tm . A non-Newtonian gravitational field has been conjured up and made to produce a measureable force in one direction and, upon accelerating the super-conducting disc in the opposite direction, have that non-Newtonian gravitational field produce a force in the opposite direction!

This makes talk about 'branes and Big Bangs idle chit-chat. Nor are these results a one-shot fluke. Two-hundred-plus runs were made, and the results studied for eight months, before the scientists doing the experiments could convince themselves that they weren't nuts! Their published work is here -- http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/gsp/Experimental _Detection.pdf

Of course, well-established scientists don't need to hear about this. It sort of means a lot of what they know is wrong.

Last week New York social media agency Converseon, in partnership with Colorado non-profit Plant it 2020, launched an island in Second Life where you can buy a virtual tree and have a corresponding tree planted in the real world.

You can visit the island in SL here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Chance%20Tree s/139/127/31/

For 300 Linden (a bit over US$1) you can purchase and plant a virtual copy of one of 10 species of rainforest tree. This will spur the planting of a matching tree in an endangered rainforest area in the real world by Plant It 2020.

If you'd like to learn more about it, you can check out our media release here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/second-life/converse on/prweb518283.htm

Most likely, this process isn't iterated, so that you're still left paying over 10% on the original sum. Paying "tax on tax" is a clever way of shirking that last bit, IMO, since they could instead have offered to pay enough to cover the loss in benefit, after taking tax into account.

In Britian, calculations for VAT involve an awareness of ratios when processing turnover (7/47 of the sale price instead of 7/40 of the original); using a different perspective and applying the fraction that applies for the first perspective looks to me to be a simple con.

... tax experts contend there's no such thing as a free spaceflight. Some contest sponsors provide a check to cover taxes, but that income is also taxable.

Iterate to convergence, folks.

Do tax experts also claim that this doesn't work? The only issue I can see is that to compute the total amount needed, you must know the rest of that person's adjusted gross income for the year (so you can compute their tax rate at each step of iteration).

I believe I've often read about corporations paying the taxes on perks they give to their senior executives. I always just assumed they iterated.

What are the alternatives? The so-called 162 Double Bonus Plan is one. The company agrees to make an annual bonus of the after-tax amount necessary to pay the premium on an executive-owned life insurance policy. The company also makes a "double bonus" to cover the taxes the employee must pay on the bonus(es). Because the participant is paying taxes on the bonuses, the regulations otherwise applicable to traditional NQDC (and, in particular, the Act) are irrelevant. However, since the employer is expected to "gross up" the bonus to cover taxes, this concept is expensive and tax-inefficient. Assuming a 40% marginal tax rate, the gross cost to a Company is $166,667 to yield an after-tax bonus to the employee of $100,000.

Cooqy is an OpenLaszlo eBay interface, which make efficient use of bandwidth, so you can use eBay over a 56k modem. They report that it reduces network traffic by 50x, and it's 2x to 10x faster to use than the html based eBay interface:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/3/prweb356237.h tm

It's got a lot of other nice features like mapping, a photo magnifier, tagging, and an advanced search interface, with a trippy lava-lite-esque color selection interface (in case you want to search for purple lava lites).

-Don

Check out Acutrust. I recently reviewed it for my employer and it looks very interesting.

Rather than use policy and statistics refute your egregiously false (and borderline racist) conception of Chinese culture, I'll just point you to some resources so that you can begin to correct your ignorance, if you so desire.

We drive to avoid the crazy Middle Easterners who hate my new T-shirt. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/2/inktomi343238 .php

The same PRWeb that carried the news of Andy Kaufman's triumphant return from the dead? How exciting!

According to this, it sounds like the Martian ambassador was annoyed that he couldn't get an audience with the president back in May, so I'd say an attack is imminent.

In essence this "news story" is no more authoritative than me posting on LiveJournal that I have conclusive proof that the moon is made of green cheese, and I have submitted a paper to the presentation committe of the IAU to demonstrate my proof at their next conference.

Possibly. The Raelians support ID "theory". (The Raelians are this loony UFO cult started by a former journalist/race car driver)

Mumma wrote it. Why did he make a press release? By the way, eMediaWire is owned by PR Web, and is a site where anyone can issue a press release. For instance this is the latest from my hosting network. Just for instance. My instinct is to blow off anything on PR Web as crap.

Whois is "Domains by Proxy", so that's not immediately helpful.

BatMax, Inc. is a valid Florida corporation, but their mail drop is "WORLD CORPORATE SERVICES, INC., 2665 S. BAYSHORE DRIVE, SUITE 703, MIAMI FL 33133". Again, not too helpful.

The USPTO shows a trademark for BatMax: "BatMax Corporation, Suite # 3A, 9250 West Bay Harbor Drive, Bay Harbor Islands, FLORIDA 33154". That's a condo in Colony Bay Harbor Condos. It's a small residential building, and doesn't look anything like the "picture of BatMax skyscraper headquarters" on their web site. The building pictured on the web site is Espirito Santo Plaza in Miami, which is still under construction although partially occupied.

From a BatMax press release, we get a name: Alain Aisenberg, and a phone number, (305) 865-1400.

We find Alain Aisenberg talking about BatMax on an MIT mailing list.. There, he gives his cell phone number.

A public records search finds that name in Miami, and gives us enough information to run a background check.

But I'll stop there.

There is a Skype SIP gateway. Read here: http://ca.prweb.com/releases/2005/1/prweb198280.ht m