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Unless you live for another couple of hundred years you will not see the end of oil. There are large untapped deposits of oil in the world. Since 1855 there have been those out there saying we will run out of oil any day now. Each year the human race is able to find other ways to get more out of the ground.

Up to now they have been less expensive to extract but once the easy to get deposits dry up or artificial shortages persist then alternative and higher cost deposits will be tapped.

Also OPEC knows that it is in the drivers set. Back in the 70's, OPEC created an artificial shortage when the oil companies started developing alternative supplies and alternative fuel research was in high swing they pulled the rug out from under the R&D budgets. This might make the oil companies less willing to commit the large amount of money needed to extract the tough to get reserves.

But these reserves will one day be exploited

Here is a link to someone else's opinion on this subject. An article

On Wednesday the Rocklin Republican pulled his iPod from his pocket and used it as a weapon in his battle to amend copyright laws by removing limitation on copying audio and video compact discs and DVDs for personal use.

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...not the activity of recording. According to the Reg article quoted in the story it's illegal simply to bring the recording device into the theatre, irrespective of whether you record or intend to record the film. That point is backed up in this Sacremento Bee article.

They point out that the law is phrased to cover future recording devices and could even cover video-recording phones, so that taking your phone into a theatre would be an offence.

They word the law like this so that it's easier to prove guilt, but that doesn't make it a good law.

Just wait 'till they start displaying ads based on the radio station/CD/MP3/WMV/AAC you happen to be listening to at the time.

Already happening.

There was even a story here on /. about it.

Diamonds would be much cheaper if we could bring this closer to earth Astronomers find 10 billion trillion trillion carat diamond.

These new diamonds are nothing compared to BPM 37093.

Well, and who's not to say that the results weren't just made up anyway? Why rely on lying survey participants, when you can just make up the numbers yourself? That saves everybody a lot of time...

The site http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/projects/libert y/story/7989769p-8926319c.html does not exist. Although I am happy that you wrote something like this. I proudly live in IL where all our rep's seem to have voted nay. I plan to actually vote come election season and give them my vote.

Bush is taller than Schwarzenegger.

I know this isn't exactly THE mainstream press, but the Sacremento Bee printed this article, which is fairly informative. It also makes someintersting comparisons to ATM machines to illustrate why these machines should be taken far more seriously.

Totally different culture there. Germans today deeply regret Nazism, and Japan wised up. Your "Feudalism" theory doesn't make sense, please elaborate because I don't understand what you mean.

Israel? Do you really want to open up a can of worms here? Fine, but I warn you, this will be lengthy.

But a bunch of farmers with a hodge-podge of weapons were too much for the surrounding muslim pussies to even imagine tolerating. So they attack the recently declared state. And predictably loose. Now Israel is this great evil because they've defended themselves and bought land from people who sold it to them.

You're reading this from the Zionist view? Did you know that the Jewish settlers carried out terrorism against the Palestinian people who were already there? David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel, actually had a wanted poster with his name on it, for terrorism and attacks against the Arabs, in his effort to push for a "Jewish state." Israel didn't buy Palestinian land, instead it was stolen when people fled their homes during the war, and weren't allowed to return. There are eyewitness accounts of Israeli soldiers driving them out, killing a few even. I'm not going to get into blame, my point is that the Palestinians were driven out, not voluntarily as your post alleged. Israel demolished some homes, moved Jewish immigrants into others. The Palestinians are understandably upset, they don't get their homes back and don't get an apology or compensation either. This isn't like ancestors losing land, but people who are still living. This could evolve into a giant rant, but I'll cap it off here.

The arabs lost and blame the US for their own weaknesses

Really? Who has ever publicly blamed the US for Egypt losing the six-day war? Who has blamed the US for Israel's refusing to make peace? I recall Clinton leading a peace accord with Netanyahu and Arafat, both shaking hands. I've only heard criticism for the US' current support of Israel, not for "Arab weakness".

The only reason Israel has US support is because the muslims murder civilians specifically.

I think you are blind. You didn't know about AIPAC giving MILLIONS in campaign contributions? That every candidate for decades has sided with Israel to court the Jewish and evangelical votes? If that as you said is the sole reason, then why does nearly the entire UN condemn some Israeli military actions? Why does the UN complain that Israel is in violation of refugee laws? The UN has condemned terrorism on both sides.

Fuck the Muslims. Give them a taste of their own morality. It's ok to kill me because you don't like me, fuck you, eat hot thermonuclear death. Reciprocity is a bitch. Clearly if civilian populations are fair game, the civilian Muslims populations are NO exception.

Sheesh, you really have to strawman the issue here, don't you? First off, Islam does NOT condone murder, ok? Second, don't say Muslims when you only mean Arabs/Palestinians, of which I am neither. It's completely forbidden to murder anyone or attack civillians. The terrorist attacks have received worldwide condemnation from scholars, Imams, Mullahs, Maulanas, Muftis, Sheikhs, you name it. Terrorism is completely against Islam, are we clear on that? I am a Muslim, and I will help you hunt down any scum that kills children. It's not as easy as you think, Terrorists, Baathists, and the Taliban don't exactly walk around in broad daylight, despite what you think.

I'll never forget the CNN foot

Facts, please? Now, just think. The state education budget is $5 billion in Oregon. In an ideal world, we could take all of that money and give it to teachers. However, in the real world, there is overhead. So, let's assume that 50% of the money goes to administrative overhead. That leaves $2.5 billion for teachers. Assuming I haven't added a zero and an average salary of $60000 (which is high) that would pay for 41,666 teachers. Again, assuming a classroom size of 20 (which in CA is the law for 3rd grade and under if you want certain state funds) that would educate 833,320 children. I don't know ratio school-aged children are in the population, but let's assume 30%. That means we can support a population of 2,499,960 citizens (Oregon has a population of around 3.5 million. That's just with the state money funding education which is FAR less than the county money funding education via property taxes. You say "There isn't enough money in education". I say, "Bullshit!"; In California the average cost per student is around $7000 per year. You mean to tell me that it can't be done for less providing a damn good education? Please...; Just read this if you really want to get pissed off.

The deficit is over $500 Billion AND CLIMBING.

No, the defecit is almost $7 trillion. The budget defecit for 2003 is around $500 billion. I don't disagree that it's way too high. Where do you propose making cuts? I'll start with the federal Department of Education. States can fund their own education (and they do -- the federal money is a drop in the bucket (a little over $50 billion spread across 50 states.)) That saves $53 billion right there. The rest can easily be found in cuts in social programs which is 59% of all federal expenditure (granted Social Security is a huge part of that.) But why is the federal government doing welfare (personal and corporate)? Do you think it can be at all efficient at it. It should be a state/county issue so that monies could be spent more effectively. And those welfare programs should have a sunset date. BTW, the "War on Poverty" that was launched by LBJ, when is that war going to end? There was a 10% poverty rate in the US at that time and guess what, it's about 10% now. So can we declare that war as over and benefit from the "peace dividend" by giving back the monies that would have been spent on that "war" as more tax cuts? Or, hell, pay down the debt with it. I'd prefer the former, but would support that latter. I'd also like a constitutional balanced budget amendment but I don't think it will ever happen...

There is a difference between losing money in the stock market and having those funds looted.

Absolutely. I think all of the bastards that purposely over-valued their companies and hosed investors should live a life with just two pennies to rub together while being Bubba's prison bitch.

C'mon, be honest, you like Bush because you don't understand basic economics.

I don't particularly care for Bush. He's spending way too much money and growing the federal government at way too high a rate for my tastes. But there isn't a viable alternative out there that is going to do better and can win. BTW, I do understand basic economics. I also understand "government economics" where a 3% cut is only 7% growth vs. the 10% growth that was baselined in. I also know what I would do if I were king for a day (as I'm sure you do too.) But the reality of the situation is that congress sees no need to not spend money like it's going out of style (regardless of the party in control, but I do suspect that the current Republican spending binge is in large part to take away all of the Democrat issues -- education, healthcare, etc.)

BTW, you migh

Unless you have an appointment (very hard to get), you won't ever be able to see your elected official. I know this from experience as I've tried since I only work two blocks from the Capitol in Sacramento, and thus my state legislators. First I tried to make appointments, then I just started showing up since it was obvious that I would never get an appointment. I got my "talking to" about a year ago. It wasn't too harsh, but I was definitely given the idea that I should give up and just use filtered channels (ie: letters/e-mail/dedicated message phones). From the lobbyists I have spoken to, many officials are paranoid of a wacko trying to make an appointment to kill them or something - even though getting a weapon into the Capitol building today would be near impossible. The guy who drove a semi into the Capitol building a couple of years ago genuinely freaked out the legislators there (An event that I got to see the bizarre aftermath of).

I voted by absentee ballot so I would have a paper ballot. I don't trust "electronic voting" no matter who builds or makes it.

I have seen some post indicating that the recall election here in Califorina was "stolen" perhaps because of these machines. With total Democratic control of the all State offices I don't buy into this idea. It just shows how out of touch the bay area and costal California is with the rest (majority) of the state when they makes such statements. This map shows that clearly. recall map by county This map show how many counties actually went for Schwarzenegger Votes on who will succeed Gray Davis he won in all but 7 counties. So much for saying he has no mandate

I have also read the some democrats in the bay area think they are "better" and "smarter" than the rest if Califorina and they don't matter. Discounting the equality of fellow citizens is offensive. Marginalizing those you disagree with is a huge turn off and your political ideas are suspect from then on. This is a boner move and will come back to haunt bay area and coastal democrats in the future. I suggest you STFU and concentrate on finding out why the rest of the state doesn't agree with you. This SacBee article dispells lots of myths I have heard and read (even on /.) about the nature of the recall Daniel Weintraub: Facts and fiction about the California recall election

Once again paper ballots are a must for free and fair elections. Any election can be stolen no matter what method is used but it seems that a paper ballot properly cast is much harder to tamper with.

Read this , or this. Arrrr, Polly want a clue?

Santa Cruz wants to impeach Bush (this works so far)

EACH PASSENGER TO BE ASSIGNED COLOR THREAT LEVEL (what a surprise; this piece of news is also "under revision")

Your grain of salt for the article:
Fox is one of the four motion picture studios in the MPAA that do not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Also beware of the New York Daily News which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware of NY Newsday which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware the New York Post which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware of USA Today which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware of WNBC TV News 4 which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware the Jewish World Review which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

Beware of the California Sacramento Bee which does not share revenue with a major U.S. record label.

According to Gogle News this story is only 12 hours old, expect the list to expand. It is absolutely SHOCKING how many news sorces do not share revenue with a major U.S. record label. SHOCKING I say! This media bias cannot be permitted to continue!

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As I'm sure has already been pointed out to you:

1. Georgy's a woman.
2. 890,000 valid signatures (they actually collected, by some accounts, 1.6 million) is peanuts in a state of 33 million people. Only 2.6% of the entire population of the state had to sign in order to get the recall on the ballot. Spend enough time in the Republican strongholds of the central valley or Orange County, and you'll find those signatures no problem.
3. Darrell Issa, a hard-right Republican, spent nearly $1.8 million of his own money to hire people, perhaps illegally, to come in from out of state and collect signatures. Spend enough money and ask enough times outside of a supermarket and people will sign just about anything.
4. Your power bill was FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS last month because power companies asked Californians to de-regulate the market, got voter momentum by promising lower electricity bills in expensive slick commercials, and then abused the open market and illegally gouged prices high. Once that was done, they offered 'cut-rate' prices on long-term contracts, in order to lock in the high prices they wanted before they were caught manipulating the market. Once they had their high prices locked in, they let the market churn subside. Davis made the correct decision, and the right decision, even the smart decision, in signing those contracts, based on the information available to the general public in 2001. That as consumers most Californians were robbed by these contracts is knowledge only available now, in hindsight.*

Where you're right, and don't even know it, is when you say voter disgust with Davis is what paved the way to this recall tomfoolery. Given the choice between Bill "Tax Fraud" Simon and Gray "Prison Guard Union Bitch" Davis, most voters chose to give a de facto 'none of the above' vote and just stayed home last November. These incredibly low turnout figures influenced how many signatures were necessary to get the recall on the ballot, and in the end paved the way for what we see now.

Also as an aside: I think it's BRILLIANT the way the Republican party of CA. has found a way to attack Davis for the budget shortfall, when at the same time holding fast in the legislature against any tax increases in the senate, leading to the pathetic budget we currently have. Absolute genius in the way they managed to eat their cake and have it, too.

And finally: If Georgy would come out pro-gun, she'd be my ideal candidate. As it is, I'll take what she's offering. Definitely the choice my conscience will tell me to vote in October.

* I say "most" because, like a few other municipalities, the town in which I live chose to maintain its own municipal power authority instead of trusting PG&E, so while you're paying $400, I'm paying $65. Thank you, bitch. Suck it dry!

As I'm sure has already been pointed out to you:

1. Georgy's a woman.
2. 890,000 valid signatures (they actually collected, by some accounts, 1.6 million) is peanuts in a state of 33 million people. Only 2.6% of the entire population of the state had to sign in order to get the recall on the ballot. Spend enough time in the Republican strongholds of the central valley or Orange County, and you'll find those signatures no problem.
3. Darrell Issa, a hard-right Republican, spent nearly $1.8 million of his own money to hire people, perhaps illegally, to come in from out of state and collect signatures. Spend enough money and ask enough times outside of a supermarket and people will sign just about anything.
4. Your power bill was FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS last month because power companies asked Californians to de-regulate the market, got voter momentum by promising lower electricity bills in expensive slick commercials, and then abused the open market and illegally gouged prices high. Once that was done, they offered 'cut-rate' prices on long-term contracts, in order to lock in the high prices they wanted before they were caught manipulating the market. Once they had their high prices locked in, they let the market churn subside. Davis made the correct decision, and the right decision, even the smart decision, in signing those contracts, based on the information available to the general public in 2001. That as consumers most Californians were robbed by these contracts is knowledge only available now, in hindsight.*

Where you're right, and don't even know it, is when you say voter disgust with Davis is what paved the way to this recall tomfoolery. Given the choice between Bill "Tax Fraud" Simon and Gray "Prison Guard Union Bitch" Davis, most voters chose to give a de facto 'none of the above' vote and just stayed home last November. These incredibly low turnout figures influenced how many signatures were necessary to get the recall on the ballot, and in the end paved the way for what we see now.

Also as an aside: I think it's BRILLIANT the way the Republican party of CA. has found a way to attack Davis for the budget shortfall, when at the same time holding fast in the legislature against any tax increases in the senate, leading to the pathetic budget we currently have. Absolute genius in the way they managed to eat their cake and have it, too.

And finally: If Georgy would come out pro-gun, she'd be my ideal candidate. As it is, I'll take what she's offering. Definitely the choice my conscience will tell me to vote in October.

* I say "most" because, like a few other municipalities, the town in which I live chose to maintain its own municipal power authority instead of trusting PG&E, so while you're paying $400, I'm paying $65. Thank you, bitch. Suck it dry!

I don't think the original post in this thread is off-topic at all. Here's why:

teachers in category 2 are delighted by this kind of challenge.

I'm afraid the current push for standardized testing and the over-administration of teachers is quickly clearing our schools of this kind of teacher.

My mom has just retired early (59) out of frustration because she can no longer teach in a way that's meaningful. She taught for 35 years as a public kindergarten teacher. She worked at school from 8 am until 5 pm, at-home lesson planning at least an hour and a half every night, and at least 3 or 4 hours every Sunday (my entire childhood). She had her kids doing creative mathematics and writing their own (albeit short) stories and illustrating their books by the end of the year.

Then the mandatory standardized testing started a few years back and the district locked down all of the ways she can teach. She has to teach only from textbooks and workbooks and give these five year olds frequent standardized tests. The kids must earn a letter grade at the end of the year. There are classroom observers that come in frequently that will downgrade the school if she isn't teaching according to this new curriculum. No more story reading. No more creative mathematics and learning about patterns with unifix cubes. No more buddy projects with the 4th graders who would come in for additional creative learning time. It's all gone. My mom's students always loved school at the end of the year and couldn't wait for first grade. Now they all hate school and much of my mom's job is keeping them on task when they're bored out of their skulls.

My mom was the most dedicated teacher I have ever known. She easily worked 55 hours a week for the duration of her career and has a masters in early childhood education and a certificate in bilingual education. Teachers like my mom are no longer welcome in the public school classrooms of America.

It's pretty clear that we're in the midst of the corporatization of our public school systems. Textbook conglomerates like Houton Mifflin and McGraw-Hill are making an absolute fortune off of the recent changes. Not surprisingly, they were also the companies who sponsored the educational studies that were used by legislators to push for these changes. Is it any wonder that a company like Apple would get pushed out of such an environment?

Davis's problem was making sure his constituents had assured electric power. You know, that stuff that runs through wires that nobody can do business without?

I think you missed something somewhere.

Check out this article

Bush had nothing to do with the crisis in CA. Spending did. The "bail out" comes in the form of "bonds" which will be paid for by tax payers initially, but RE-PAYED by higher rates by the consumer and in the form of loans will be repaid. See here, and here. The $40 billion "shortfall" doesn't include the energy bail out.

Go ahead. Blame Bush -- who came in to office only WEEKS after the energy crisis was well under way. Blame Bush -- who had nothing to do with Davis's ignoring repeated warnings by many sources with completely unrelated agendas.

This redicules finger pointing between the "left" and the "right" really needs to stop. "It's [insert hated person from the 'other' party here] fault." Geez. Give it a rest.

I think you missed something somewhere.

Check out this article

Bush had nothing to do with the crisis in CA. Spending did. The "bail out" comes in the form of "bonds" which will be paid for by tax payers initially, but RE-PAYED by higher rates by the consumer and in the form of loans will be repaid. See here, and here. The $40 billion "shortfall" doesn't include the energy bail out.

Go ahead. Blame Bush -- who came in to office only WEEKS after the energy crisis was well under way. Blame Bush -- who had nothing to do with Davis's ignoring repeated warnings by many sources with completely unrelated agendas.

This redicules finger pointing between the "left" and the "right" really needs to stop. "It's [insert hated person from the 'other' party here] fault." Geez. Give it a rest.

According to the Sacramento Bee, over 13 billion dollars of state money was spent to enusre adequate power was provided to the state during the summer of 2001. This amount was then financed as revenue bonds, though with all but one Republican legislator opposed.

According to the Sacramento Bee about $13 billion were used to purchase additional power to keep the state afloat. Revenue bonds were issued (against the opposition of state Republican legislators) to recoop the expenditure.

• Switch your bill to time of day rates, where you pay more during periods of high usage and less nights and weekends.
  
• Do everything you can to not use electicity during prime time.
  
• By selling your solar energy back to the utility during prime time you get paid much more than it costs when you buy it back at night; one example mentioned that the utility paid 52 cents/kWh during the day, but they paid only 15 cents/kWh at night, so you can buy ~4 kWh's for every one you generate.
  

  
  This will make your payback short enough that solar panels are a good deal (that, and the state/federal tax credits, and in CA the rebate from the state energy commission).
  

India and China aren't as backwards as we might imagine, because often we fail to realize that a lot of things in our country are "backwards.".

All of our governments are riddled with corruption, but theirs is more so than ours, which is a really sad statement. Look at what China is now doing to Hong Kong with their passing of Article 23.

I wonder how the USA economy would take it if the national governments of places like Europe, Russia, Japan and China start selling their dollar reserves, or imposing import tarrifs on American goods. The USA may find that actually, it does need friends.

I wonder how their economies would take it if ours took a big hit? In a global economy, we all need each other. Things we do can have impacts abroad and even remote things that happen abroad can have big effects on things in the states.

Court Upholds Secret Detentions

US court upholds draconian law allowing secret arrests

Executions possible at Guantanamo

Big Brother - Make That Uncle Sam

Ashcroft seeks broader powers

Now shut the fuck up about your imaginary "rights". May you live in interesting times, american bastards.

Remember when Slashdot reported that the State of California got a database hacked and had the identity of all of their government employee's data comprimised?

So with this law, the State of California would notify their employees that hackers have their data. Well, technically they did what they are proposing. Too bad this was after the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported it first! At least they provide a government link for help.

When this law passes, the State of California should sue themselves into compliance!

How short our (generally, on /.) American memories are. Here in California, how many remember that Hetch Hetchy Resevoir (San Francisco's water supply) flooded the second tranquil valley in Yosemite. Naturalist John Muir fought long, hard an unsuccessfully to prevent the damming of one of our nations grandest wonders.

"Dam Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water-tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple," Muir would later write, "has ever been consecrated by the heart of man." From SacBee.com

Yosemite Valley is beautiful, but as I look down over the lake that drowned Hetch Hetchy, I wonder what that valley looked like before the flood.

-Sean

Why the hell do they think that they have any business messing with product warranties? Its crap like this that adds up to a $30+ billion deficit...

Before the energy crisis California had a large surplus ($14 billion). After, California had a very large deficit. Any questions?

Not that 9/11 helped any either, of course.

On a related note, how in the world could a law about product warranties affect California's financial situation?

There we go, thanks for the link, didn't have the patience or desire to look up the obvious last night. I wish people would remain more open to conflicting data, rather than turning into shills for their POV. We can best support our troops by making sure they aren't abused by misguided polititians and policy.

I found the way that the USGS down in LA ended up implimenting Load Balancing even more informative then the fact that Michael went to check the information of the website. After all in the many quakes I've felt, I've always gone to the USGS Website once during and a number of times afterwards to find out both the epicenter (One was too damn close) and the magnitude. And in two cases the website was updating the start and end of the quake while I was reloading.

It's actually nice to see a government agency attempting to save money by implimenting an open source solution rather then going out and plopping down 10K in our tax dollars rashly. Hell I wish ALL Public Agencies did that.

sorry about old links :-)>

When it comes to the economy, President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership. The economic growth package he recently proposed takes us in the right direction by accelerating the successful tax cuts of 2001, providing marriage penalty relief, and providing incentives for individuals and small businesses to save and invest.

Contrary to the class warfare rhetoric attacking the President's plan, the proposal helps everyone who pays taxes, and especially the middle class. This year alone, 92 million taxpayers will receive an immediate tax cut averaging $1,083 and 46 million married couples will get back an average of $1,714. That's not pocket change for a family struggling through uncertain economic times. Combined with the president's new initiatives to help the unemployed, this plan gets people back to work and helps every sector of our economy.

Click on the links. You will find many people agree with me.

Somebody doesn't know the difference between state and federal taxes, but that's okay because they made an anti-Bush joke

Do you know how to read?

Not entirely true -- because state taxes are partly calculated on the basis of federal taxes paid, the states are in position to get hit hart by Bush's tax cut. And, because all but a handful of states are in serious budget trouble right now, a decline in their incoming taxes poses a particularly huge problem. See, for example, this recent AP story in the Sacramento Bee.

happened in Roseville, Ca in 1973, with that same mushroom cloud. Read about it here. I'm with the guys who need the residual radiation to even consider a nuclear disaster.

If you want to reduce gun deaths: with a "sin tax" of a few thousand per bullet, this way there is no 2ndA violation, since the right to keep and bear is not infringed.

I first heard the idea from Chris Rock, he pointed out that if it cost $5k per bullet, then folks not only be sure that they really wanted to kill someone before shooting, but it would greatly reduce drive by violence.

$5000 does seem a bit much, but I think the idea has merit, one could use the $ raised for training programs in gun safety and gun violence victim compensation.

While doctors have been proposing this in a small way, I'd say we need to go much higher than 5 cents to see gun death prevention.

Men are, as a group, physically stronger and more often able to defend themselves.

Which women compensate for with the element of surprise and/or the use of weapons.

Your belief that men and women face the same threats, dangers, etc. just shows how little you know about women.

And your statements show how ignorant, sexist and bigoted you are towards men. If a man tried to kill his wife he'd get more than one day in jail. When a woman rips her boyfriends testicles off she gets three months in jail. And people like you will cheerfully rattle of statistics on how many women are abused while ignoring what happens to men.

A great many people have the (very) mistaken idea that stalking, domestic violence and murder is something that men do to women, like only whites can be racists to blacks or hispanic. Well guess what, a black man can be racist to a white man, and a women can rape, murder or assault a male just as easily as the other way around. The only difference is that when a women is the victim, society is in a rush to send the man to jail, but when the man is the victim he's the butt of jokes on the Tonight Show.

Here is the article which I submitted but was rejected. Sacramento Bee Article I wonder if it would have helped Lik Sang (which provided hardware to use circumvented copy protection), as opposed to personal use copying devices (which the bill focuses on)

Umm... bigberk , I think you need to consider the people who believe that the magic box is never wrong.

In the Sacramento Bee
"At no point did we think the program was flawed," Lewis said. "We hope that we have been able to answer all the concerns people had about the program."

That system led to complaints that a private company had too much power in deciding who received citations. Now sheriff's deputies will look at every photograph, Lewis said.

Can you say quid pro quo?

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With due respect, I'd suggest you read more about the DeCal program at UCB. This course was indeed not developed with university funds, nor was the teacher paid to give it. However, the course was an official UCB course, offered for credit, and advertised in the school bulletin. School resources were available for the teaching of this course.

As plenty of articles on this whole affair have pointed out, a graded part of the course was going to see the instructor get screwed at a sex club. This is something that should be offered for credit at a taxpayer-funded school?

The thing with blogs is that you get independant comments. There is far less potential for censorship because there are too many comments to censor. This story about a child and his older brotherwho picked a fight with the wrong kid leaves me wondering just who's rich powerfull dad got pissed off and what the real story was. I don't like to waste much time reading about these things because I never get to find out the real story. With a blog like slashdot, very often there are comments from people who work at the company where the story happened (as the case may be) and you get a far more believable version of the story.

Well, much as I'd like Davis to have to eat all this, I think this quote from the Sacramento Bee pretty much sums up our esteemed guvnuh's involvement, though he has spent the last 4 years in office doing nothing much more than raising money for reelection:

Davis spokesman Steve Maviglio said Davis "knew nothing about the contract" and generally is "completely mystified by technology."

This is the recession. And the boom is not coming back anytime soon. Forget about CTO's and COO's buying software without thinking about its price. That time it was a lot of wasting of investor's money. Now it's barely possible.

Well, you may improve your chances if you would try to play the game based on "soft" money. but in this case you don't even have to show any evaluation - show how much CTO or COO will have of comissions and the deal will be done. It was true at the boom time. it is true at the recession time. That's the way to make a profit! Or to go to jail :)

why don't they warm the toilet seat for those cold winter days.

As though "environmental" groups don't have their own, self-serving agendas?

The Sacremento Bee did a five part report on the environmental movement back in April, 2001, called Environment, Inc. The Bee notes that "Five other major groups -- including household names such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club -- spend so much on fund raising, membership and overhead they don't meet standards set by philanthropic watchdog groups."

I'm too ignorant to judge claims made by most environmental groups, including Greenpeace. They may be right. But the implication that their motives are above reproach is laughable.


Junk Science reported big chunks of ice back in October 1998:

Large icebergs not new
Submitted by Paul Jensen

On October 16, it was reported that an iceberg the size of Delaware broke free from Antarctica. Of course, this was attributed to global warming.

For a little perspective, we go to page 748 of the 1996 edition of The American Navigator, the prestigious Naval text updated continuously since 1799 (sometimes referred to as "The Bowditch."

The text reads "In 1854 and 1855, several ships in the South Atlantic reported a crescent-shaped iceberg with one horn 40 miles long, the other 60 miles long, and with an embayment 40 miles wide between the tips. In 1927 a berg 100 miles long, 100 miles wide, and 130 feet high above the water was reported. The largest iceberg ever reported was sighted in 1956 by the USS Glacier, a U. S. Navy icebreaker, about 150 miles west of Scott Island. This berg was 60 miles wide and 208 miles long, more than twice the size of Connecticut. Icebergs ten miles or more in length have been seen on many occasions in the Antarctic."

Notice that this last iceberg was more than 4 times bigger than that little "ice cube" noted in the Washington Post story. And by some miracle, the world did not come to an end after the discovery of this giant.

So last week's iceberg was not so extraordinary -- except that it was perhaps the first linked to the dreaded global warming.

(Also at http://www.sepp.org/weekwas/1998/oct19_25.html and http://www.jamesphogan.com/bb/archives/environment .shtml#030899 )

The right-wing publication Scientific American, in an article about rising ocean levels in the August 1998 issue, noted that there is "some evidence that the West Antarctic ice sheet may, in fact, have melted at least once before. Between about 110,000 and 130,000 years ago, when the last shared ancestors of all humans probably fanned out of Africa into Asia and Europe, Earth experienced a climatic history strikingly similar to what has transpired in the past 20,000 years, warming abruptly from the chill of a great ice age."

(This is by the same author who wrote the cover story of the March 1997 issue about rising sea levels. That article is not available online, and I don't have it here at work with me).

Jehovah's Witness church did nothing to stop pervert, even promoted him to elder.