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Many of the policemen I have known think that they should have no interference from judges, juries, lawyers, politicians, citizens, constitutions, press or anyone else.
If you think I am exaggerating consider:
the death sqads in Brazil
London shoot to kill policy
Police brutality in the US
and the endless list Google can provide.

...that seems to verify this thought. Here

NEWS FLASH
The FCC just ruled FOR the deregulation of DSL. Takes affect in 270 days.

I work for a small ISP in Fairfax, VA and this move puts our business in immediate jeopardy. My company is part of a lobbying group called the Washington Bureau of ISP Advocacy (WBIA). There are tons of useful links on their website such as how to contact your local senators and how to contact the FCC directly.

http://www.wbia.us/

Please visit and write your local and federal represenatives and tell them that you want the freedom of choice!

random links pulled off of google news just now

http://pakistantimes.net/2005/07/05/top6.htm

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=stor y_4-7-2005_pg7_27

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15 815164%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8424511/

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/08/conte nt_3195248.htm

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?t ype=internetNews&storyID=2005-07-08T133115Z_01_YUE 843230_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-TELECOMS-PAKISTAN.XML

Reuters reported on July 14 that the Working Group on Internet Governance, was unable to reach an agreement on who should manage the Internet and how the job should be done. They did, though, come up with four models for overseeing the Internet that ranged from maintaining the status quo of U.S. management with private sector involvement to putting the assignment of all Internet domains under the auspices of the UN. Reuters stated: "At issue for the world body is who runs the Internet and how it can better serve the world." See - UN panel fails to agree on how to govern Internet: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?t ype=internetNews&storyID=2005-07-14T221350Z_01_YUE 480002_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-TECH-INTERNET-UN.XML

If these had been suicide bombs, this might have suggested the criminals were Muslims - but the BBC says they weren't.
London blasts

"There's declining support for terrorism in the Muslim countries and support for Osama bin Laden is declining. There's also less support for suicide bombings," said Pew Center director Andrew Kohut.

"This is good news, but still there are substantial numbers who support bin Laden in some of these countries," he told a news conference. ...when respondents were asked whether suicide bombings were justifiable. In Morocco, 13 percent said they often or sometimes could be justified, down from 40 percent in 2004. In Indonesia, 15 percent expressed that view, down from 27 percent in the summer of 2002. Support for suicide bombings also fell in Pakistan and dropped dramatically in Lebanon. However, support rose in Jordan, to 57 percent from 43 percent in 2002.
Survey

this and things are starting to pick up for fuel cell cars to the public.

A store in Vancouver apparently sold some last week.
Reuters article

In addition to the comet mission, they are going to build their fourth space launch center , and they've also announced plans to militarize their space program.
I wonder, when they finally land someone on the moon, will they say "We came in peace for all mankind"?

New Star Trek Film Planned by Fans

I'm not sure how the revenue stream works, but basically legions of people are hired to click ads. Sounds silly doesn't it? However, AFAIK, the website the ad is displayed on gets paid a certain amount, as does Google, by the company paying for the ad to be put on Google's service. Hence the lawsuit.

With my friend Google (Google, meet jasongetsdown. jasongetsdown, meet Google), I was able to find some links that may help you understand the situation better, including TFA we're talking about in the first place :-P

well except for that fact that its not funny at all. The daily show is funny. They take the news and give a nice slant to it. 50% news 50% funny. I honestly dont get the onion. Ive personally never liked it. Why would you want to read completly made up news?

Life is funny enough without making up completly impossible news stories. Reuters oddly enough is plenty funny and those stories actually happen
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsChannel.aspx?t ype=oddlyEnoughNews

yeah this is a COMMENT because i dont find the onion funny at all. im sure some people do, i just cant for the life of me see why completly made up fake news articles should be funny. its obviously not true.

It appears the spacecraft is still alive, but in a lower orbit than expected. Here is the article.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/05/20/A rts/sith050520.html "ABC News reported Thursday that its correspondents had found counterfeit DVD copies of Revenge of the Sith selling in a store in New York City's Chinatown for $5 US. " We better shut down New York City. http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?t ype=internetNews&storyID=2005-05-20T032557Z_01_BOW 954575_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-MEDIA-STARWARS-PIRACY.XML "According to Web site Waxy.org (http://www.waxy.org/ one print of "Revenge of the Sith" was leaked Wednesday before the film was even released in theatres. The movie was time-stamped, suggesting it may have come from within the industry rather than from someone who videotaped an advance screening."

However, there was a recent story that Dell was looking at AMD. See here.

Nearly exterminate? There are still more than a few news organisations with online presences:

Reuters
The Times
The Guardian (interesting... the content is free but if you want to read it in a paper format you can subscribe)
The Sun
The Mirror
ITN Sites, e.g. Channel 4 News
The Scotsman (a surprisingly large online presence)

The sites you mention: FT and Telegraph, it isn't surprising they charge as they have concentrated readerships with higher levels of disposable income, so why not go for a straightforward revenue model?

I have no doubt that the popularity of BBC news is for reasons consistent with the popularity of their television and radio news: high quality and impartial in a way commercially sponsored news could not be (commercial news also remains very popular: the total cross-media circulation of ITN, Times, Sun, etc is massive).

From TFA

"The industry has decided this is the time to act," said IFPI Chairman and Chief Executive John Kennedy. "The Japanese are law-abiding citizens and it may be this delivers the short, sharp jolt that we need there."

already have

$200 million worth

So that those cokeheads can smuggle their stuff under the guise of "scientific testing".

Well, y'see, we need some extra money to bribe all those policemen who raided our headquarters...

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?t ype=internetNews&storyID=2005-02-08T051354Z_01_CAS 818746_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-TECH-EU-PATENT.XML Read up the EU is trying to avoid our mistakes by making a bill to stop thier citizens from doing the same. Many of the EU companies have tried to patent even scroll bars in the past few years. The US is not the only offender of this money grab.

To stay on topic. Why would any one give control of this to the UN. ITU all the way I can agree but not the UN. We don't need a world wide alliance government, and this is just one step closer to it.

FW News
Reuters
NYTimes
Daily Herald
Google News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some planets in our galaxy could harbor an unexpected treasure: a thick layer of diamonds hiding under the surface, astronomers reported on Monday.

No diamond planet exists in our solar system, but some planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way might have enough carbon to produce a diamond layer, Princeton University astronomer Marc Kuchner said in a telephone news conference.

On the day Intel introduced its dual-core Pentium 4, IBM and Toshiba showed off their baby, Cell microprocessor, the so-called "Supercomputer on a Chip", which Sony intends to use for its PlayStation 3. But a Reuters news article raises this interesting point: "If history is any lesson, Cell is by no means guaranteed to encroach on the most successful microprocessor technology to date, the so-called x86 architecture that is the mainstay of the PC world and the profit center for both Intel and AMD...Intel itself once aimed at pushing the x86 technology to the side with a chip called Itanium...After a cool market reception, the Itanium project drifted away from those grand expectations. Today, Itanium remains a niche product marketed primarily at the relatively limited segment of supercomputers and high-end servers."

...but who would believe those dirty Russians so let's just call this a revelation today. Reuters aricle from the Dec 10th.

The earthquake of magnitude 8.9 as measured by the U.S. Geological Survey struck at 7:59 a.m. (00.59 a.m. British time) off Sumatra and swung north with tremors into the Andaman islands. A warning centre such as those used along the Pacific Rim could have saved most of the thousands of people who died, A USGS official said. "And I think this will be a lesson to them," he said, referring to the devastated countries.

It seems that a displacement in the sea bottom ocurred, moving 10-30 metres up along a rupture of 1000 km, causing a wave of hundreds of cubic kilometres of ocean water.

I found this on another news sourse reuters

However, only a few junk e-mails get through to Gates's inbox thanks to anti-spam technology that filters his messages, Ballmer said at a Microsoft event in Singapore.

By reading that, it says technology so i would assume that there is some software filters, not humans although he probably uses a mixture of both.

Gonzalez to replace Ashcroft. This guy is a madman. He "fought with Congress to keep the details of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy commission meetings secret and defended the administration's right to detain terrorism suspects indefinitely without formal charges and to deny them access to counsel or to protection from the court system".

Do not celebrate just yet. You may soon wish Ashcraft back.

Every time I think the world cannot get any more fucked, it does.

I just strolled into Best Buy and there were dozens, if not hundreds, of copies of Halo 2 on the shelves. Many, many copies of the "limited edition" were still there too. If this is such a huge game then why is it that at the same Best Buy on the release date of GTA: SA there were none to be found?

Gotta wonder if the pre-orders that MS has been touting is just the orders that got shipped out to all the stores or if it's actual numbers of consumer purchased units.

I doubt that Halo 2 will come close to a third of the sales expected of GTA: SA. The first weeks' sales of GTA: SA were expected to have topped 4.5 million units. Halo 2 might get somewhere near that number after it has been out for while. There will probably be a huge dropoff in sales after the release date.

Heck, Halo hasn't sold much more than 3 million copies worldwide as of last year, otherwise there would have been talk about it, and it has been out for nearly 3 years now.

Nintendo Says 'Touching Is Good' in Sexed-Up DS Ads

Teaser spots start on Monday, playing up the dual-screen device's touch controls. A woman's sultry voice invites the viewer to come a little closer and get a feel.

When you're a kid you're always told you can't touch anything, said Perrin Kaplan, vice president of marketing at Nintendo of America. Touching is good. You're grown-up now, so read it how you want.

Print ads appear in young men's magazines Maxim and Blender, with a buxom woman holding a DS model and advising, How to Score! ... Start listening to her needs, playa!

Industry analysts said Nintendo's ads should draw young adults who are keen on gadgets and the image they project.

The Game Boy Advance has always been a kids platform, said Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter. The DS is going to move up the age scale ... and they are going to put some more mature content on there,

Tell me again that the hot goth chicks connection isn't intentional.

They said bush would take the side of the church

If only this were true for Bush's favorite issue to talk about...

Vatican questions "preventive" wars

I'm surprised they can get through the border without being trampled by the hordes of Americans coming north for medicine and flu shots.

You didn't hear that Bush said he might replace Ashcroft if he gets elected?

This is from Reuter's...

"Big cabinet changes likely if Bush wins"

A government which is abiding by the law would be firing and prosecuting the Secret Service agents and police officials responsible for these outrages, rather than institutionalizing the violation of civil rights under color of law. A government which abuses the power of arrest to "protect" the President from seeing people who disagree with his policies is not a government which is abiding by the Constitution, and to allow it to remain in office one day longer is to place all rights in jeopardy. The bastard has violated his oath of office (so much for his claim of "keeping his word"), and voting him out is the duty of everyone who holds the Constitution to heart.

Which, unfortunately, isn't all that many people these days.

The same story, direct from Reuters: Crackdown on Internet Journalists. More detail: New arrest of a journalist contributing to reformist websites. More about Iranian "religious" extremism: Iran cancels music concerts under hard-line pressure. There is political turmoil inside Iran: Iranian vice president quits. More about the social breakdown in Iran: Rights Group: Human Rights Violations on the Rise in Iran.

Don't expect leadership from the U.S. government. Members of the Bush administration can't even say Iran. It's not I-ran. It's I-rahn. During the vice-presidential debate, Cheney said I-ran, showing how little he knows about the topic. President Bush said "Moo-lah", instead of mullah, the Farsi name for religious leader. Don't underestimate their lack of interest in things that don't make money.

More Bush administration mis-pronunciation from Cheney: "Tolleybon", intead of Taliban, and "Internets".

More about U.S. government corruption: The Bush administration borrows money to give to its friends, you pay it back. Government data shows Republicans are corrupt.

Funny you should mention Carbon Sinks - In an article Greenhouse Gas Jump Spurs Global Warming Fears

"Tundra test stuns scientists - Carbon dioxide could be dumped into atmosphere - Dramatic results made public today from a unique 20-year American experiment are raising the spectre of runaway warming above the Arctic tundra that would accelerate global climate change. "
-snip-
"This double whammy arises because U.S. researchers discovered climate warming might trigger conditions where tundra decomposition will dump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere faster than it's soaked up by accelerated plant growth."

Got your locusts right here and here. As for plagues, aren't we being smote by cellphones?

Got your locusts right here and here. As for plagues, aren't we being smote by cellphones?

Maybe they have Yusef Islam, dangerous music from a hight level threat to the USA. Kinda puts all that gangsta rap to shame, no?

we listened to Peace Train and we LIKED IT!

"The spokesman declined to name the target of the hack, but people familiar with the investigation have said authorities suspect the man lifted the source code directly from Cisco's corporate computer network."

Helevius

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Sunday that it would share the underlying software code for its Office program as part of its efforts to make governments more confident in the security and compatibility of the world's largest software maker's products.[snip]

So I guess the government should limit Office use? (Not that MS is promising open source by any means.)

The Reuters article is more vague on the time, saying sometime between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. The only significant seismic event recorded in Fukuoka, the nearest station in Japan in that time period occured around 15:05 UTC on Wednesday (midnight local time) and lasted about 3 minutes. Someone else claimed an earthquake occured in Japan around that time, so whatever caused the mushroom cloud does not seem to have registered, ruling out a nuclear explosion. There is a seismic monitoring station at Incheon (INCN), which might show up any smaller activity in North Korea, but it seems that only US, Canada, Japan and New Zealand post their seismic graphs online.

HOLD YER HORSES!!! Reuters is now backpeddling a bit... http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml? type=topNews&storyID=581649&section=news

One reporter cited the swift boat ads and asked, "When you say that you want to stop all --" "All of them," Bush responded. "That means that ad, every other ad. Absolutely. I don't think we ought to have 527s.

Bush has criticized all outside group attack ads, including the Swift Boat Veterans group's anti-Kerry commercial. Kerry's campaign insists that Bush has essentially endorsed the accusations against Kerry because he has not denounced the ad.

McCain sought to take Bush off the hook, suggesting that the president had gone far enough in condemning the accusations.

The political reprieve came only after the White House announced that Bush will join forces with McCain in legal action to crack down on political ads aired by outside groups, dubbed ``527s'' because of the section of the tax code that covers them.

``The president said if the court action doesn't work, that he would be willing to pursue legislative action with Sen. McCain on that,'' White House spokesman Scott McClellan said after Bush called McCain with the news.

...and there's two completyely different ways to measure cheap/expensive. One way, the way most folks think of it, is in terms of money. It costs such and such to explore, find,drill the wells, build the infrastructure, pump it via pipeline to a terminal, then to a refinery, then on to the end consumers. The other way-and the most important way-to consider what a barrel of oil costs is to measure it against itself using pure energy terms. Say back in the 30s and 40's, it took a barrel of energy to get back 20 barrels. Now it might be one for three or 4. It's not only more expensive with dollars, but with the energy needed.

A graph would show how this works, the energy in to get energy out is a rapid drop off once you have reached peak production. Once it hits stasis, an eqwual balance, you could have a trillion barrels sitting underground and it wouldn't do you any good at all, you wouldn't get any energy beyond what it would take to get it, a catch 22, and one that the planet is rapidly approaching.

along with fresh water crises that are getting closer - here's a link to just one story, the oil situation is the one that will determine current humans survival this century. From everything I have read and the best analysis out there I can find, there's only one conclusion--these are "the good old days" of decent employment, cheap consumer goods, being able to drive hither and yon, affordable air transport, and so on..

The future is going to be a series of wars over the remaining exploitable natural resources.

In other words, barring some revolutionary technology that will be easily adaptable all over the planet, something that can actually replace oil for both transportation and for also manufacturing, we gonna be *screwed*. Manufacturing in particular is highly dependent on oil now. Stuff is still cheap because we still can get oil, later on....governments are gonna make a decision, keep themselves in war materiel, or let their populations have cheap trinkets. I'll let the odds makers make the call on that one, but it seems a no brainer.

I'm a proponent of alternative energy. I think folks should be jumping for joy and snapping up what they can still purchase now at these cheap prices. I'm also a realist, currently we have no alternatives for oil, and it's running out. And fast. There's a slashdot story up now about china going big time into the pebble bed reactors. It's because they know the oil is running out and can do the math. Even then it won't be enough, IMO. It took a buhzillion years to get all the oil, and in roughly one century we have used up most of it. That's the real bottom line.

= 9J =

Which is why it's a good thing Nokia has lowered its prices. Not long ago I could buy N-Gage for 100 euros. This does lower Nokia's profits, but forces its competitors to keep prices low as well. For example, Reuters reports that Samsung handset division's quarterly profit margins slumped to 16 percent from 26 percent, even though the company sold more phones than before.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml? type=businessNews&storyID=548215&section=finan ce