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Just stick them on your bike. One seat on the handlebars and one in back. Or get a cargo bike. Most young parents around here seem to manage fine.

yup, so true. One of our more respected news shows interviewed Coe (the olympic head organiser) and asked awkward questions like "so if someone turns up wearing a Pepsi tshirt, will they be allowed entry?" eventually they got an answer of "yes but only if its not obviously organised" - ie no crowdsourcing some non-coke advertising.

Reminds me of the Bavaria Babes (where brewer Bavaria gave bright orange dresses to a few ladies to go to a football match that was officially sponsored by rival Heineken), and the ban on Heineken's response of a helmet.

Frankly, its getting a bit silly when you have to ask if you can wear what you want to an event, and equally silly when the marketing people hijack that with a publicity stunt. But the most stupid is when a group of select sponsors get to take over the entire event in the first place.

would stop selling low cost garments and wasting money on marketing gimmicks but instead focused on improving the working conditions of garment workers.

Well Wilders has messed up the current coalition at least: http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-government-brink-collapse Geert Wilders has withdrawn his partyâ(TM)s support for the Dutch coalition government and has called for new elections. Prime Minister Mark Rutte says new elections are now very likely. But we don't know how many votes he'll get next round. Currently they are down 5 seats to 19 in parlemant in the poll's.

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lolwhut? What the hell is wrong with writing Essex? Let's meet in Fucking to drink one [or more] pints of Fucking Hell - maybe afterwards you're more relaxed about funny geographical names

You're kidding, right ? It's a ridiculous claim that a muslim found out something centuries before "western" scientists ever did, without any substantiation or source. You're not seriously expecting a source I hope. Muslims claim this sort of absurdities all the time. Talking to them about this will teach you one thing : you'll never have to wait long for a violence once you start demanding realism.

The De Viginere cipher was discovered in the 16th century. It was, obviously, not cracked in the 9th. Worse than that, al Kindi never did any math at all, and his attempts to bring a tiny bit of reason into islam ended with his execution by religious "fatwa". Whatever little discoveries he made, we only know about them because Christian monks recorded them, muslims burned his books *and* the author, after beheading him, after torturing him. What this means, other than that even a tiny amount of reason is considered an enemy of islam worthy of execution is beyond anyone who has studied even a little bit of history.

The fantasy :
muslims "knew about interstellar galactic material in the 6th century"

The reality of idiocies defended by muslim scolars, TODAY :
muhammad and allah claim the sun sets in a muddy pool
Oh, and, btw, there is exactly 1 reason children are disfigured and die from polio (Obviously the disease is going to spread again in 5 years or so. I guess allah must really hate babies)
(needless to say the sun sets over the horizon. It obviously does not contact anything, nor does it appear to touch anything consistently)
(and to get into historical relations between islam and science : read up on, say, the colossus, or the library of alexandria, or look up just what the center of knowledge and richess in the ancient world was, before muslims brought their genocides and wars. Look up statistics like that a single city like Luxemburg has more cultural output than ALL muslim nations COMBINED. How small countries yearly output in books is easily 10 times the cumulative muslim cultural output of all time. I mean you cannot imagine just how bad islam fucked up. The region, the people, the disgusting wars, executions and the total absense of any culture worth mentioning)

I guess it doesn't take much to make idiots happy. Feel free to choose what you believe. However, may I point out I have one BIG problem with this piss-poor disgusting excuse for a religion. I don't mind any religion, really. I'm an atheist myself, and feel free to choose what to believe. However, I have a problem with muslims : the killings, the death, the disgusting executions, and the everlasting destruction of people and minds islam brings wherever it goes. You don't get to kill. Not with allah's permission. Not for racist reasons. No gendercide. Not for political reasons (just look at the frontpage of tomorrow's news). Not for religious reasons. The only thing muslims excel in, is genocide and massacres.

There is not a SINGLE muslim country that has managed to hold on to the level of technology that it had in the year 700 A.D. under islam. Not a single one. That's the sad reality. Christians split the atom, discovered the technology to keep 6 billion humans alive on this planet, and put a man on the moon, in cooperation with Jews and Atheists. That's reality.

This sick disease of a religion should be burned off the earth. Yes, you heard me. We should just end it, because the more delays, the more people wil

Apparently the Dutch offered to send ships that could recover 97% of the oil a couple of months back, but they weren't allowed due to US environmental regulations:

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-oil-spill-response-team-standby-us-oil-disaster

The Dutch (I believe it was) have ships that do something similar (I don't know the specifics actually, but they suck in oil and water, and spit out water).

They were not used as it is illegal to dump the water back if it is contaminated, and the ships are not perfect.

Miraculously, I don't appear to be totally full of shit:
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-oil-spill-response-team-standby-us-oil-disaster

Laws against half-assed cleanup have an un-intended consequence. I wonder if honest reports of the actual amount leaking could have gotten these in quicker.

After the rootkit fisaco, Sony has done nothing to elevate themselves. Patenting some feature-limiting systems sounds like classic Sony.

In other Sony Stupidity, it seems they recently stole part of a popular Amsterdam landmark, to attract publicity towards one of their games. You'd have thought they would have learned from widely-publicized mistakes of others.

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/press-review-wednesday-24-february
http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/02/24/heavy-rain-washes-away-amsterdam-landmark
http://news.google.com/news/more?um=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=nl&cf=all&ncl=dQbgbhcNvNSes9Mf7y66XftD669lM

It is hard to believe Sony Marketing would really steal these huge, heavy steel letters without SOME kind of permit issued by the city, but I haven't been able to locate anything other than clues to Sony's breaking laws for $elf--promotion. If this marketing stunt really is true, that Sony had no city permit, I am very Angry with any corporation that would do this.

The classic quote I read in Dutch was: 'Can I reference this theft also, once Sony takes me to court for copying music CDs?'

This means that as soon as you hit 18 you can choose to smoke dope, frequent hookers, drink alcohol (that's from 16, really), eat shrooms, vote, have sex (that's from 16, really), have same sex sex, marry someone of any gender, have an abortion, commit euthanasia in a pinch and convert to any or no religion.

Just can't choose your words, or choose to own a firearm. Honestly, realize you can be imprisoned for what you say.

Yet we are a social-democracy. According to many Americans this seems to equal a Socialist or even Communist State. In spite of all the choices we have, we're reputed not to be "free". When I then urge these individuals to consider the range of choices they have and from what age, they tend to shrug their shoulders and tell me they're right anyhow.

"Many" would still mean a minority, though. I'm curious where you're meeting these Americans, by the way, most of those who would call the Netherlands "communist" tend to be found in more rural areas that most Europeans never really go to. If you're meaning the internet, then that's not really a good way to just anything in terms of public opinion, because the most ignorant people tend to be the loudest.

As you can read in this link we had our delays.

Upon questioning my wife, the power of the non thyroid related cancer studies is in question. The cleanup workers were the most exposed and the soldiers recruited to do so were not properly protected, but the studies that were done were poorly designed (in part due to the difficulties of obtaining proper exposure data from a government who failed to provide radiological gear to the soldiers in question).

On the animal studies, apparently there were two distinct results. Unlike the people, the animals were left behind.

http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/chernob yl010424.html?view=Standard

The reference to hairless and dead animals apparently only applies to the high contamination zone immediately around the reactor soon after the accident, but was "of a nature that statistics would be redundant" according to my wife. Apparently those who fed for extended periods in highly contaminated areas were affected strongly by cesium injestion. In the long run "those who were affected died or did not reproduce successfully. The current generation of animals that are highly contaminated," (ground animals near the plant have up to 10 times the internalized radioactives as ordinary animals) "exhibit slightly higher mutation rates in inconsequential ways".

Frankly I found that interesting. At the end of the day, it would appear that the initial very noticeable short term impact on animals has been reduced to slightly higher than normal minor mutations... which can not be seen without extensive amounts of research. The impact on humans is far less than even I had initially understood. Thanks 60 Minutes for false reporting when I was an impressionable teed.

heh, and does it detect *global disapproved* chemical warfare?(, which they eventually couldn't deny any longer and admitted)

Just put a bunch of wgets in your crontab to pull the excellent content from Radio Netherlands here: http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/listenonline/weeklyarchi ve

There are underground coal fires all around the world, not just China. However, according to the article, coal fires in northern China alone are responsible for between two and three per cent of worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide - the main greenhouse gas. And here is another article from the BBC.

More maps of Korea

North Korea is a monster made by her neighbors:

• Hyundai and South Korea gave the North $500 million dollars
• Japanese Pachinko players supported North Korea with their gambling

Accurately estimating the size of a cloud by eye is no easy feat and, as others have already pointed out, non-nuclear weapons can also make mushroom clouds -- either large conventional explosions or smaller explosions that take place inside tubes or silos

South Korea is building a new capital city. Supposedly this is because of overcrowding, but the new capital is farther south... out of artillery range of North Korea.

The explosion supposedly occured near a missile field. It's possible the North Koreans tried to test-fire a missile for their 56th anniversary and it blew up in the silo.

these are even cooler: new wheels kids, they drive themselves!

Heard of the European Rapid reaction force? Still in the planning stages but they just set up a headquarters. It's been seen a nascent European Army.

It's not really a question of bigger militaries, but some people/countries do want to see a unified (and therefore more powerful) force independent of the US.

As for political pressure, you can always rely on Rumsfeld for a quote, or here's another link I imagine there's quite a lot going on behind the scenes though. Understandably the US are worried about losing control of EU actions.

I'd like to see how this would compare to the electric engine the Dutch inventor came up with... I thought I remembered that he claimed something like 95% energy efficiency, but all I can find now claims a 60% increase in efficiency or whatnot.

~UP

The only companies that benefit from an increased prison population are companies that provide products or services to the prisons themselves. That would be a very, very small percentages of the businesses in this country.

Right, because George W. Bush, just like Hitler, has personally ordered the extermination of 6 million people. You whack jobs really crack me up.

While there's a lot of speculation about transportation in the 21st century, such as hydrogen, ethanol and the like, I think the future will be more mundane. I expect diesel engines to become more commonplace because diesel is relatively easy to make. Diesel engines may also be used to power electric vehicles.

The US installed Duvallier. Then they installed Aristide. Twice! Then when he asked for help again, they forcibly removed him and are now supporting the rebels.
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Get a clue. Read a newspaper. Turn on the television news. Pull your head out of your ass.

I much prefer this version, which uses a combo in-wheel system and a constant RPM diesel engine for power. (Last seen on /. as Dutch Invention Uses Electric Engines For Wheels) First off your "recharging station" is anywhere that sells diesel, and the wheel brakes generating charging current as well as the constant RPM makes for a damn small, quiet, and efficient system.

I'm aware the article mentions hybrids, which definately means this version of the "wheel motor" can be used in the exact same situation, however it seems from the web sites this car is planned as a pure electric with special "charging stations", which IMHO will never take off without government mandates.

Jonah Hex

Bus.
Those are some monster wheels.

And what is the actual cost of this wheel?

No doubt by now you have discovered the ever increasing amount of college kids doing pornography. Never in the history of the world has there been such an explosion.

The real question is "why?"

Several reasons exist for this exponential growth:

1. Increasing Costs of Education - This graph shows how the price of a college education is roaring out of control. Being a waitress or receptionist is no longer enough to help that little lady pay her way in this world.

2. Baby Boomers Suck - Do you think these little p0rn girls had someone saving for their education? No. Come on, people now... smile on your brother..." You know all that money spent on Kissing the sky would have collected a butt load of interest in a sweet honey college fund.

3. George Bush - Yes, freshman girls in education hotspots everywhere were looking to the Bush girls for guidance. The Daughters are striking models to our current ladies of 13th through 16th grades. Well, the apple don't fall no far from dem der tree.

4. Bill Clinton - Bush couldn't do this alone! Previously only the beautiful were brave enough to dream about sleeping with the president... well, now that dream is shattered. Yes, now ugly girls have intern dreams as well.

5. Microsoft - Not too long ago only *nix jedi ninjis were smart enough to run a college girl porn server. Thanks to microsoft now anything in a skirt with a mouse can effortlessly serve nudies to millions.

AC (Currently singing my college's theme song while waving the American flag... in my underwear.)

No doubt by now you have discovered the ever increasing amount of college kids doing pornography. Never in the history of the world has there been such an explosion.

The real question is "why?"

Several reasons exist for this exponential growth:

1. Increasing Costs of Education - This graph shows how the price of a college education is roaring out of control. Being a waitress or receptionist is no longer enough to help that little lady pay her way in this world.

2. Baby Boomers Suck - Do you think these little p0rn girls had someone saving for their education? No. Come on, people now... smile on your brother..." You know all that money spent on Kissing the sky would have collected a butt load of interest in a sweet honey college fund.

3. George Bush - Yes, freshman girls in education hotspots everywhere were looking to the Bush girls for guidance. The Daughters are striking models to our current ladies of 13th through 16th grades. Well, the apple don't fall no far from dem der tree.

4. Bill Clinton - Bush couldn't do this alone! Previously only the beautiful were brave enough to dream about sleeping with the president... well, now that drea m is shattered. Yes, now ugly girls have intern dreams as well.

5. Microsoft - Not too long ago only *nix jedi ninjis were smart enough to run a college girl porn server. Thanks to microsoft now anything in a skirt with a mouse can effortlessly serve nudies to millions.

AC (Currently singing my college's theme song while waving the American flag... in my underwear.)

Agreed, multiple *diverse* sources are ultra-necessary for any meaningful, valid understanding.

My reason for choosing those ones, though, is:

not 'sanitized' the way ALL North American mass-media 'news' is...

English journalism is cutting-enough as to be reasonably trustworthy...

The Guardian freely offers deeply dissident, oft non-Western or non-Anglo understandings...

Reuters is rather international ( but I still prefer non-N.A. sources .. I don't know how 'torqued' and dumbed-down the N.A. version of 'em is ), and

Radio Netherlands is a treasure: unlike the imperial assumptions of anglo-culture, they were trader-culture, and dependent, to great degree, on 'The Continent', and so have to keep levelly-aware, and the habit seems to have remained with 'em...

I remember when the America/Iraq propaganda/religion started developing, Radio Netherlands ran ( and critiqued ) a speech by .. who-was-it, the Iranian Prime Minister -grumble- President, then? Something like that, insightful, and .. totally non-reported here, because it wasn't a Conforming/Obedient Opinion Authorized by the Department of Reality[tm].

( is it just me, or does our world feel more like the movie Brazil, of late? )

The total non-reporting of the perspective they gave, though, among our 'free press'...

made me understand that .. automagically trusting those who maintain they are journalists, is

deeply dubious.

Belonging Conformity, then is one drug I don't want in my blood, at all.

*Ignoring what is* .. cannot grant one understanding, why isn't diversely-perceiving, then, an addiction?

Your comment about bias, though, yeah, that's why I stopped listening to the BBC..
not anywhere near as bad as N.A. 'news', but...
LOL
.. for some contrast, with the N.A. Officious And Authoritative Pablum, try Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting which systematically attacks all the biass among N.A. mass-media .. that offends them..
( warning, though, you will lose your belief in mass-media's Inherent Truth[tm], and will probably get that they slant -just as much- as the ones they attack...

Isn't arranged ignorance comforting+wonderful.

( BTW: being humanitarian means being non-imperial, non-institutionian, in determination ... one can have only one heart-determination, and if politics is it, or institutional importance, or position, or nationalism, or human-heart-worth, or living-soul-essence, whatever: just being honest in one's heart about the nature of one's religion, is a measure of peace...
Sun Tzu: A Supreme General doesn't excel in battle, because he removed all cause for it. Only non-supreme generals get/create battles.
As a means of creating a black/white biggest-bludgeon-rules world, though, devoid of UN-democracy, I'd say the action has already been proactively..
.. just a thought : /

Here's a nifty quote, from one of the pages I link-to:
"Unfortunately I'm not certain that politicians inside the US have any appreciation of the situation on the ground. I think they operate to a very large extent from prejudice and ideology, and as such, seeing as they've designated Iran a member of the axis of evil and c

Agreed, multiple *diverse* sources are ultra-necessary for any meaningful, valid understanding.

My reason for choosing those ones, though, is:

not 'sanitized' the way ALL North American mass-media 'news' is...

English journalism is cutting-enough as to be reasonably trustworthy...

The Guardian freely offers deeply dissident, oft non-Western or non-Anglo understandings...

Reuters is rather international ( but I still prefer non-N.A. sources .. I don't know how 'torqued' and dumbed-down the N.A. version of 'em is ), and

Radio Netherlands is a treasure: unlike the imperial assumptions of anglo-culture, they were trader-culture, and dependent, to great degree, on 'The Continent', and so have to keep levelly-aware, and the habit seems to have remained with 'em...

I remember when the America/Iraq propaganda/religion started developing, Radio Netherlands ran ( and critiqued ) a speech by .. who-was-it, the Iranian Prime Minister -grumble- President, then? Something like that, insightful, and .. totally non-reported here, because it wasn't a Conforming/Obedient Opinion Authorized by the Department of Reality[tm].

( is it just me, or does our world feel more like the movie Brazil, of late? )

The total non-reporting of the perspective they gave, though, among our 'free press'...

made me understand that .. automagically trusting those who maintain they are journalists, is

deeply dubious.

Belonging Conformity, then is one drug I don't want in my blood, at all.

*Ignoring what is* .. cannot grant one understanding, why isn't diversely-perceiving, then, an addiction?

Your comment about bias, though, yeah, that's why I stopped listening to the BBC..
not anywhere near as bad as N.A. 'news', but...
LOL
.. for some contrast, with the N.A. Officious And Authoritative Pablum, try Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting which systematically attacks all the biass among N.A. mass-media .. that offends them..
( warning, though, you will lose your belief in mass-media's Inherent Truth[tm], and will probably get that they slant -just as much- as the ones they attack...

Isn't arranged ignorance comforting+wonderful.

( BTW: being humanitarian means being non-imperial, non-institutionian, in determination ... one can have only one heart-determination, and if politics is it, or institutional importance, or position, or nationalism, or human-heart-worth, or living-soul-essence, whatever: just being honest in one's heart about the nature of one's religion, is a measure of peace...
Sun Tzu: A Supreme General doesn't excel in battle, because he removed all cause for it. Only non-supreme generals get/create battles.
As a means of creating a black/white biggest-bludgeon-rules world, though, devoid of UN-democracy, I'd say the action has already been proactively..
.. just a thought : /

Here's a nifty quote, from one of the pages I link-to:
"Unfortunately I'm not certain that politicians inside the US have any appreciation of the situation on the ground. I think they operate to a very large extent from prejudice and ideology, and as such, seeing as they've designated Iran a member of the axis of evil and c

Agreed, multiple *diverse* sources are ultra-necessary for any meaningful, valid understanding.

My reason for choosing those ones, though, is:

not 'sanitized' the way ALL North American mass-media 'news' is...

English journalism is cutting-enough as to be reasonably trustworthy...

The Guardian freely offers deeply dissident, oft non-Western or non-Anglo understandings...

Reuters is rather international ( but I still prefer non-N.A. sources .. I don't know how 'torqued' and dumbed-down the N.A. version of 'em is ), and

Radio Netherlands is a treasure: unlike the imperial assumptions of anglo-culture, they were trader-culture, and dependent, to great degree, on 'The Continent', and so have to keep levelly-aware, and the habit seems to have remained with 'em...

I remember when the America/Iraq propaganda/religion started developing, Radio Netherlands ran ( and critiqued ) a speech by .. who-was-it, the Iranian Prime Minister -grumble- President, then? Something like that, insightful, and .. totally non-reported here, because it wasn't a Conforming/Obedient Opinion Authorized by the Department of Reality[tm].

( is it just me, or does our world feel more like the movie Brazil, of late? )

The total non-reporting of the perspective they gave, though, among our 'free press'...

made me understand that .. automagically trusting those who maintain they are journalists, is

deeply dubious.

Belonging Conformity, then is one drug I don't want in my blood, at all.

*Ignoring what is* .. cannot grant one understanding, why isn't diversely-perceiving, then, an addiction?

Your comment about bias, though, yeah, that's why I stopped listening to the BBC..
not anywhere near as bad as N.A. 'news', but...
LOL
.. for some contrast, with the N.A. Officious And Authoritative Pablum, try Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting which systematically attacks all the biass among N.A. mass-media .. that offends them..
( warning, though, you will lose your belief in mass-media's Inherent Truth[tm], and will probably get that they slant -just as much- as the ones they attack...

Isn't arranged ignorance comforting+wonderful.

( BTW: being humanitarian means being non-imperial, non-institutionian, in determination ... one can have only one heart-determination, and if politics is it, or institutional importance, or position, or nationalism, or human-heart-worth, or living-soul-essence, whatever: just being honest in one's heart about the nature of one's religion, is a measure of peace...
Sun Tzu: A Supreme General doesn't excel in battle, because he removed all cause for it. Only non-supreme generals get/create battles.
As a means of creating a black/white biggest-bludgeon-rules world, though, devoid of UN-democracy, I'd say the action has already been proactively..
.. just a thought : /

Here's a nifty quote, from one of the pages I link-to:
"Unfortunately I'm not certain that politicians inside the US have any appreciation of the situation on the ground. I think they operate to a very large extent from prejudice and ideology, and as such, seeing as they've designated Iran a member of the axis of evil and c

Agreed, multiple *diverse* sources are ultra-necessary for any meaningful, valid understanding.

My reason for choosing those ones, though, is:

not 'sanitized' the way ALL North American mass-media 'news' is...

English journalism is cutting-enough as to be reasonably trustworthy...

The Guardian freely offers deeply dissident, oft non-Western or non-Anglo understandings...

Reuters is rather international ( but I still prefer non-N.A. sources .. I don't know how 'torqued' and dumbed-down the N.A. version of 'em is ), and

Radio Netherlands is a treasure: unlike the imperial assumptions of anglo-culture, they were trader-culture, and dependent, to great degree, on 'The Continent', and so have to keep levelly-aware, and the habit seems to have remained with 'em...

I remember when the America/Iraq propaganda/religion started developing, Radio Netherlands ran ( and critiqued ) a speech by .. who-was-it, the Iranian Prime Minister -grumble- President, then? Something like that, insightful, and .. totally non-reported here, because it wasn't a Conforming/Obedient Opinion Authorized by the Department of Reality[tm].

( is it just me, or does our world feel more like the movie Brazil, of late? )

The total non-reporting of the perspective they gave, though, among our 'free press'...

made me understand that .. automagically trusting those who maintain they are journalists, is

deeply dubious.

Belonging Conformity, then is one drug I don't want in my blood, at all.

*Ignoring what is* .. cannot grant one understanding, why isn't diversely-perceiving, then, an addiction?

Your comment about bias, though, yeah, that's why I stopped listening to the BBC..
not anywhere near as bad as N.A. 'news', but...
LOL
.. for some contrast, with the N.A. Officious And Authoritative Pablum, try Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting which systematically attacks all the biass among N.A. mass-media .. that offends them..
( warning, though, you will lose your belief in mass-media's Inherent Truth[tm], and will probably get that they slant -just as much- as the ones they attack...

Isn't arranged ignorance comforting+wonderful.

( BTW: being humanitarian means being non-imperial, non-institutionian, in determination ... one can have only one heart-determination, and if politics is it, or institutional importance, or position, or nationalism, or human-heart-worth, or living-soul-essence, whatever: just being honest in one's heart about the nature of one's religion, is a measure of peace...
Sun Tzu: A Supreme General doesn't excel in battle, because he removed all cause for it. Only non-supreme generals get/create battles.
As a means of creating a black/white biggest-bludgeon-rules world, though, devoid of UN-democracy, I'd say the action has already been proactively..
.. just a thought : /

Here's a nifty quote, from one of the pages I link-to:
"Unfortunately I'm not certain that politicians inside the US have any appreciation of the situation on the ground. I think they operate to a very large extent from prejudice and ideology, and as such, seeing as they've designated Iran a member of the axis of evil and c

Agreed, multiple *diverse* sources are ultra-necessary for any meaningful, valid understanding.

My reason for choosing those ones, though, is:

not 'sanitized' the way ALL North American mass-media 'news' is...

English journalism is cutting-enough as to be reasonably trustworthy...

The Guardian freely offers deeply dissident, oft non-Western or non-Anglo understandings...

Reuters is rather international ( but I still prefer non-N.A. sources .. I don't know how 'torqued' and dumbed-down the N.A. version of 'em is ), and

Radio Netherlands is a treasure: unlike the imperial assumptions of anglo-culture, they were trader-culture, and dependent, to great degree, on 'The Continent', and so have to keep levelly-aware, and the habit seems to have remained with 'em...

I remember when the America/Iraq propaganda/religion started developing, Radio Netherlands ran ( and critiqued ) a speech by .. who-was-it, the Iranian Prime Minister -grumble- President, then? Something like that, insightful, and .. totally non-reported here, because it wasn't a Conforming/Obedient Opinion Authorized by the Department of Reality[tm].

( is it just me, or does our world feel more like the movie Brazil, of late? )

The total non-reporting of the perspective they gave, though, among our 'free press'...

made me understand that .. automagically trusting those who maintain they are journalists, is

deeply dubious.

Belonging Conformity, then is one drug I don't want in my blood, at all.

*Ignoring what is* .. cannot grant one understanding, why isn't diversely-perceiving, then, an addiction?

Your comment about bias, though, yeah, that's why I stopped listening to the BBC..
not anywhere near as bad as N.A. 'news', but...
LOL
.. for some contrast, with the N.A. Officious And Authoritative Pablum, try Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting which systematically attacks all the biass among N.A. mass-media .. that offends them..
( warning, though, you will lose your belief in mass-media's Inherent Truth[tm], and will probably get that they slant -just as much- as the ones they attack...

Isn't arranged ignorance comforting+wonderful.

( BTW: being humanitarian means being non-imperial, non-institutionian, in determination ... one can have only one heart-determination, and if politics is it, or institutional importance, or position, or nationalism, or human-heart-worth, or living-soul-essence, whatever: just being honest in one's heart about the nature of one's religion, is a measure of peace...
Sun Tzu: A Supreme General doesn't excel in battle, because he removed all cause for it. Only non-supreme generals get/create battles.
As a means of creating a black/white biggest-bludgeon-rules world, though, devoid of UN-democracy, I'd say the action has already been proactively..
.. just a thought : /

Here's a nifty quote, from one of the pages I link-to:
"Unfortunately I'm not certain that politicians inside the US have any appreciation of the situation on the ground. I think they operate to a very large extent from prejudice and ideology, and as such, seeing as they've designated Iran a member of the axis of evil and c

Agreed, multiple *diverse* sources are ultra-necessary for any meaningful, valid understanding.

My reason for choosing those ones, though, is:

not 'sanitized' the way ALL North American mass-media 'news' is...

English journalism is cutting-enough as to be reasonably trustworthy...

The Guardian freely offers deeply dissident, oft non-Western or non-Anglo understandings...

Reuters is rather international ( but I still prefer non-N.A. sources .. I don't know how 'torqued' and dumbed-down the N.A. version of 'em is ), and

Radio Netherlands is a treasure: unlike the imperial assumptions of anglo-culture, they were trader-culture, and dependent, to great degree, on 'The Continent', and so have to keep levelly-aware, and the habit seems to have remained with 'em...

I remember when the America/Iraq propaganda/religion started developing, Radio Netherlands ran ( and critiqued ) a speech by .. who-was-it, the Iranian Prime Minister -grumble- President, then? Something like that, insightful, and .. totally non-reported here, because it wasn't a Conforming/Obedient Opinion Authorized by the Department of Reality[tm].

( is it just me, or does our world feel more like the movie Brazil, of late? )

The total non-reporting of the perspective they gave, though, among our 'free press'...

made me understand that .. automagically trusting those who maintain they are journalists, is

deeply dubious.

Belonging Conformity, then is one drug I don't want in my blood, at all.

*Ignoring what is* .. cannot grant one understanding, why isn't diversely-perceiving, then, an addiction?

Your comment about bias, though, yeah, that's why I stopped listening to the BBC..
not anywhere near as bad as N.A. 'news', but...
LOL
.. for some contrast, with the N.A. Officious And Authoritative Pablum, try Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting which systematically attacks all the biass among N.A. mass-media .. that offends them..
( warning, though, you will lose your belief in mass-media's Inherent Truth[tm], and will probably get that they slant -just as much- as the ones they attack...

Isn't arranged ignorance comforting+wonderful.

( BTW: being humanitarian means being non-imperial, non-institutionian, in determination ... one can have only one heart-determination, and if politics is it, or institutional importance, or position, or nationalism, or human-heart-worth, or living-soul-essence, whatever: just being honest in one's heart about the nature of one's religion, is a measure of peace...
Sun Tzu: A Supreme General doesn't excel in battle, because he removed all cause for it. Only non-supreme generals get/create battles.
As a means of creating a black/white biggest-bludgeon-rules world, though, devoid of UN-democracy, I'd say the action has already been proactively..
.. just a thought : /

Here's a nifty quote, from one of the pages I link-to:
"Unfortunately I'm not certain that politicians inside the US have any appreciation of the situation on the ground. I think they operate to a very large extent from prejudice and ideology, and as such, seeing as they've designated Iran a member of the axis of evil and c

Agreed, multiple *diverse* sources are ultra-necessary for any meaningful, valid understanding.

My reason for choosing those ones, though, is:

not 'sanitized' the way ALL North American mass-media 'news' is...

English journalism is cutting-enough as to be reasonably trustworthy...

The Guardian freely offers deeply dissident, oft non-Western or non-Anglo understandings...

Reuters is rather international ( but I still prefer non-N.A. sources .. I don't know how 'torqued' and dumbed-down the N.A. version of 'em is ), and

Radio Netherlands is a treasure: unlike the imperial assumptions of anglo-culture, they were trader-culture, and dependent, to great degree, on 'The Continent', and so have to keep levelly-aware, and the habit seems to have remained with 'em...

I remember when the America/Iraq propaganda/religion started developing, Radio Netherlands ran ( and critiqued ) a speech by .. who-was-it, the Iranian Prime Minister -grumble- President, then? Something like that, insightful, and .. totally non-reported here, because it wasn't a Conforming/Obedient Opinion Authorized by the Department of Reality[tm].

( is it just me, or does our world feel more like the movie Brazil, of late? )

The total non-reporting of the perspective they gave, though, among our 'free press'...

made me understand that .. automagically trusting those who maintain they are journalists, is

deeply dubious.

Belonging Conformity, then is one drug I don't want in my blood, at all.

*Ignoring what is* .. cannot grant one understanding, why isn't diversely-perceiving, then, an addiction?

Your comment about bias, though, yeah, that's why I stopped listening to the BBC..
not anywhere near as bad as N.A. 'news', but...
LOL
.. for some contrast, with the N.A. Officious And Authoritative Pablum, try Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting which systematically attacks all the biass among N.A. mass-media .. that offends them..
( warning, though, you will lose your belief in mass-media's Inherent Truth[tm], and will probably get that they slant -just as much- as the ones they attack...

Isn't arranged ignorance comforting+wonderful.

( BTW: being humanitarian means being non-imperial, non-institutionian, in determination ... one can have only one heart-determination, and if politics is it, or institutional importance, or position, or nationalism, or human-heart-worth, or living-soul-essence, whatever: just being honest in one's heart about the nature of one's religion, is a measure of peace...
Sun Tzu: A Supreme General doesn't excel in battle, because he removed all cause for it. Only non-supreme generals get/create battles.
As a means of creating a black/white biggest-bludgeon-rules world, though, devoid of UN-democracy, I'd say the action has already been proactively..
.. just a thought : /

Here's a nifty quote, from one of the pages I link-to:
"Unfortunately I'm not certain that politicians inside the US have any appreciation of the situation on the ground. I think they operate to a very large extent from prejudice and ideology, and as such, seeing as they've designated Iran a member of the axis of evil and c

Radio Netherlands

Guardian

Go with Osama: Reviled, feared, supposedly powerful, Big Fish. Easy and obvious, but more impact and relevance than the other choices.

As for the symbol, how about "Al Qaeda" in Arabic script?
I don't know if this is it:
Al Qaeda
Or
Al Qaeda

[From a Google Images search.]

How about a hyperlink to back up this completely untrue statement?

Thirty seconds with Google:

Ten percent of Texas prisons are privately run.

In 1999, 15,000 of the state's 151,000 inmates were in privately run prisons.

Unfortunatly Texas jails have quite a few ammenities that I wish my tax dollars weren't paying for.

Since you're ignorant or mislead about such an important issue as privately control of your state's prisions, might I suggest that you take a more careful look at your beliefs about the "ammenities" being provided in prisons?

Further, aside from technicalities, there arn't that many different types of cases. Either the journalist has a source who could give information useful to a trial of a third party, or a journalist is accused of slander. In the former, the only variable is the sevarity of the crime. In the latter, there are no variables - either the journo has to reveal or they don't.

Lastly, if you accept the premise of the original post that all or most journalists arrested for not revealing sources were released soon afterwards, don't you think that in itself is enough precedent to limit such arrests to all but the most abbarent cases?

Shortwave is great for long-distance transmissions. Think in terms of thousands of kilometers. End result: you get to listen to radio stations from other continents. Not terribly impressive in the days of internet radio, I'll admit, but it's still pretty cool. It doesn't require anything but a decent receiver (good ones can be had for less than a hundred bucks US, don't listen to obsessed hobbyists who tell you different) and some batteries.

I'm especially fond of Deutsche Wella (Germany's international broadcaster) and Radio Netherlands.

I don't know anything about ham radio, so I don't know if this card would be any good for that. This looks like a fun card to play with. I've been using the mic jack on my PC's sound card to record shows, but it's an older model and I have to turn it on and tune it manually. With one of these cards I could just set a cron job and not have to be on hand.

Check this link for an article on the same technique used by Amsterdam Schiphol Airport since October 23rd...

Sheesh, it seems like everything is dirtier than toilets nowadays...

Your kitchen cutting board has 200 times more fecal matter than the average toilet seat. Thats why I've started preparing all my meals in the bathroom, using the toilet seat for a cutting board instead (hey, its 200 times cleaner, right?)

Well, this article has convinced me. I'm going to dip my telephone in the toilet once a week for a good cleaning. No more germs for me.

These are all the same problem, if you consider them in their full glory; a really good print spooler that respects job priorities, printer statuses, patterns of use, etc. etc. might wind up printing three-lower priority jobs over one high priority job, or split a high priority job between printers (and proceed each piece with a cover sheet giving directions on how to re-assemble the job). Or it could detect a paper out condition and move the rest of the job to another printer. Or, in fact, make use of any sort of fancy planning / scheduling trick you care to think of. It's all the same problem.

And yes, it is a hard (NP complete, runs into the frame problem, etc.) problem. But that doesn't mean that any attack on it is AI! This is a classic (and too often revisited) logic error. You have a goal (AI). If you could obtain that goal, it would have some consequence (you could presumably write good scheduling software). You obtain the consequent, and announce that you have reached the goal!

To see that this is fallacious, consider: You have a goal (go to Scottland); it would have a consequence (you could try haggis). So then someone in your home town feeds you haggis, and you mistakenly announce that you have been to Scotland!

These problems are AI in the sense that (a) no known tractable engineering solution exists and (b) they are tasks that lie squarely in the province of (talented and capable) human beings.

This statement argues for my side, since they evidently have (a) found a tractable engineering solution and (b) it doesn't involve sending talented and capable human beings with each mission. Therefore it must not be AI.

--MarkusQ

P.S. (I invite you to try writing serious planning/scheduling software if you doubt me.)

I'm afraid I didn't wait for your invitation. Been there, done that. Many times.