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Ok, if you'd prefer to pick up a "magic" crystal ball and claim it is a replacement for the scientific method, and in doing so pretend that scientists agree with you, there is nothing I can do for you.

"Whether you like the man or hate him, you have to admit that he has done more to increase global warming than any other president in the last two decades, maybe even the last half century. He has pushed for more drilling in formerly protected wilderness areas. He has given huge subsidies to the energy industry-- see the latest energy bill for some examples. And whatever his motivation for invading Iraq was (I'm not going to go into that) the effect has certainly been to secure a supply of petroleum for us. These are not the actions of a man who takes climate change seriously."

Well yeah, if it were not for those damn controlled lumber projects, global warming would never happen. And if only the energy companies didn't get any subsidies (which Bush actually opposed, but thats a minor detail that you surely won't concern yourself with), they would somehow be able to invest more into alternative energies, thus making global warming a thing of the past. I'm not going to ask for an explanation as to how all that contributed to global warming (especially since this would probably have been inevitable before Bush even took office), because I know I am not going to get one.

Leave behind the Ralph Nader talking points for a second and go back and read my origional question. Then take a breath and try to answer it. What do you expect Bush to do now?

Private American citizens are the ones who pollute. They are the ones who leave the lights on when they go to work and who drive cars much larger than are needed. And like it or not, we do not live in a state where the government can force private citizens to act in a certain way.

1)People don't have the time or money to take every crime committed against them to court.

2)The store will just brand you a "Demon Customer" and refuse to accept your returns anyway.

if global warming continues to melt major ice sheets, [Britain's] supply of warm air could come to an abrupt end, according to a number of experts.

The Gulf Stream relies on a sensitive "conveyer belt" action, which could be "switched off" - quite suddenly - if it becomes diluted by fresh water from the melting ice-sheets, they claim.

Dr Terry Joyce, an oceanographer from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, US, believes there is a 50% chance of a sudden climate change happening in the next 100 years.

"It will be quick," he says. "Suddenly one decade we're warm, and the next decade we're in the coldest winter we've experienced in the last 100 years, but we're in it for a 100 years."

A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.

A senior White House official accused of doctoring government reports on climate change to play down the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming has taken a job with ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company.

Philip Cooney, who resigned as chief of staff of the White House council on environment quality at the weekend, will begin work at the oil giant in the autumn.

... and now back to your previously scheduled programming...

Especially when you consider that one of many reasons people came here was to practice their religion without the government telling them how to worship. People didn't come here to found a christian nation. They came here to worship as they pleased.

James Madison said best:

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.

I blame CNN for undercovering important issues, and spending two weeks on a runaway bride.

Get off your high horse. FOX reported on every single infinitesimal rumor or innuendo on the bride much more heavily than CNN, or anyone else, did. Every story on FOX somehow related to the bride. They could run a story about high school dropouts and somehow work the bride into the story.

As far as undercovering important issues, do you mean like this past Sundays hour-long report on the intelligence failures leading to our occupation of a foreign country? Or maybe you meant the slaughter in Darfur? I think I only saw daily reports and at least one hour-long show on the situation.

Or maybe you were referring to how tens of millions of dollars in money which was supposed to be spent on increasing our security was instead used to buy cars, throw parties and given to podunk towns in the middle of nowhere instead of being used to hire more border patrol agents, better port security and related matters.

Intelligent Design is a ridiculous idea from a very very small minority in Kansas.

Think again. In my own state, PA, there is at least one school district who has mandated the initial teachings of ID. And they are not alone. There are several other school districts in the nation who are considering similar measures.

I also blame underfunded schools

You keep believing that. How many billions of dollars have been thrown into the system and nothing changes? How many times have taxes been raised by school districts claiming they need more money. Money isn't the problem. It's stuffing 50 kids in a classroom instead of 20. It's about teaching the scientific principle and how to use deductive reasoning, not some fantasy about supreme beings.

About the only thing I agree with you is the crap on tv. Then again, people keep watching the shows so the studios keep shelling them out. Here's an idea, how about getting the parents to do their job and not let Timmy and Suzy watch the crap to begin with. When the ratings fall the shows will be cancelled.

If you don't fall into the normal right-wing, neo-dictatorial religious zealots camp, I applaud you. However, after Pat Robertsons comments, blaming religion seems to be the thing to do.

Courtesy of Robertson
Fatwa

Televangelist Calls for Chavez' Death

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

(08-23) 03:20 PDT Virginia Beach, Va. (AP) --

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."

"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's "The 700 Club."

"We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."

Chavez has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of President Bush, accusing the United States of conspiring to topple his government and possibly backing plots to assassinate him. U.S. officials have called the accusations ridiculous.

"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."

Robertson, 75, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, accused the United States of failing to act when Chavez was briefly overthrown in 2002.

Electronic pages and a message to a Robertson spokeswoman were not immediately returned Monday evening.

Venezuela is the fifth largest oil exporter and a major supplier of oil to the United States. The CIA estimates that U.S. markets absorb almost 59 percent of Venezuela's total exports.

Venezuela's government has demanded in the past that the United States crack down on Cuban and Venezuelan "terrorists" in Florida who they say are conspiring against Chavez.

Robertson has made controversial statements in the past. In October 2003, he suggested that the State Department be blown up with a nuclear device. He has also said that feminism encourages women to "kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."

I don't know if the rules are different for the private sector, but UCSF receives federal funding for many projects and has been involved with soliciting private funding for stem cell research. Either your information is not quite right, or the rules are different in with respect to the private sector.

From 2002 news of private investment in stem cells
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chroni cle/archive/2002/08/09/MN105802.DTL&type=business

"Since September, UCSF has been using private funds to create new stem cell lines at an off-campus site that it is keeping low key for security reasons.

UCSF recently won its first $400,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to help it get ready to ship some of its federally approved stem cells to other researchers, a step that is still a few weeks away, university officials said. "


Also another article aludes to the fact that rules require separate facilities, but nothing that says a company or university involved with private stem cell research must forfeit all federal funding. Not sure if that's what you meant, but that's the way it read.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/ a/2004/03/15/MNG5T5KMGK1.DTL
Elizabeth Blackburn, a UCSF microbiologist and stem-cell research advocate, argues the parallel system can never substitute for the NIH's traditional leadership. Even if the California initiative succeeds, she noted, its grants would be restricted essentially to free- standing laboratories that would have to be kept separate from NIH-supported facilities.

"The NIH has done what it can do," she said. "The problem at the moment is there are so few researchers who want to step into this mess, and work in a fire-walled, quarantined facility. A few can manage, but that's not how you want biomedical research to proceed."

I don't know if the rules are different for the private sector, but UCSF receives federal funding for many projects and has been involved with soliciting private funding for stem cell research. Either your information is not quite right, or the rules are different in with respect to the private sector.

From 2002 news of private investment in stem cells
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chroni cle/archive/2002/08/09/MN105802.DTL&type=business

"Since September, UCSF has been using private funds to create new stem cell lines at an off-campus site that it is keeping low key for security reasons.

UCSF recently won its first $400,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to help it get ready to ship some of its federally approved stem cells to other researchers, a step that is still a few weeks away, university officials said. "


Also another article aludes to the fact that rules require separate facilities, but nothing that says a company or university involved with private stem cell research must forfeit all federal funding. Not sure if that's what you meant, but that's the way it read.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/ a/2004/03/15/MNG5T5KMGK1.DTL
Elizabeth Blackburn, a UCSF microbiologist and stem-cell research advocate, argues the parallel system can never substitute for the NIH's traditional leadership. Even if the California initiative succeeds, she noted, its grants would be restricted essentially to free- standing laboratories that would have to be kept separate from NIH-supported facilities.

"The NIH has done what it can do," she said. "The problem at the moment is there are so few researchers who want to step into this mess, and work in a fire-walled, quarantined facility. A few can manage, but that's not how you want biomedical research to proceed."

You are talking about cameras in changing rooms, but you could also be talking about this case. A Private citzen, saw what he thought was criminal activity, and called police. This case is very similar to This Case Where a retail mail store owner opened a suspcious package, found MJ, and called police. Citizens are allowed to report what they believe is a crime, and the police are obligated to investigate. Both these individuals may have civil quarrels with the people who snooped on them, but I don't think you can fault the police for investiagting.

Nope, it's a problem with living in Russia. You think he's crazy? He's nice and safe up there, much better than being on the ground with all those thugs running around the country.

ISS Sweet ISS

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/ a/2005/02/24/national/a095250S07.DTL

Just be careful of where you leave certain genetic material...

I find myself agreeing with you about the prevalence of double standards in how we portray members of different ethnic groups, especially when we belong to those ethnic groups. It can be okay for "us" to make fun of ourselves, but as soon as another group does it, be prepared for an argument (at least!)

Since you mentioned NCAA college athletics, I just want to say that (as a very pale-skinned Native American) I'm glad that the NCAA has stepped up to eliminate names that demean American Indian culture. However, the argument I hear from some of my friends is "Why are you so upset over some name like the Braves? I mean, we have the Fighting Irish and Vikings - surely that's equivalent." It's not the same - Irish Catholics at the University of Notre Dame chose to represent themselves as "The Fighting Irish" and they can control the image they present (to some extent); some white guy decided to call the team "the Redskins", and the image that the team presents conflicts with the true image of the people, and they don't have the control to stop it. The original intentions, honorable or harmful, doesn't matter.

I see a similar thing in video games and other media (tv, movies, whatever). Characters in video games or movies aren't truly representative of people in real life, and they're often shallowly stereotyped. Unfortunately, I don't think enough of us know about where the creators are coming from to make a decision about whether the game creators are poorly informed/rushed/sloppy, or just racist. And I don't think that TFA is really going to help us figure that out.

Yeah, ok, sure.

Cool? Not always.

I never claimed their motives were honest and clean. I actually pointed out that the 9/11 attacks have been used as a rationale for many things that have nothing to do with 9/11.

That said, I don't buy the argument that the Bush Administration came in from Day 1 with a plan to invade Afghanistan, invade Iraq, set up an enormous new domestic security apparatus, restrict domestic freedoms, and so on. I'll accept the idea that Iraq was in the reticle from the beginning, but the rest of it to me looks like a reflex response to fast-moving circumstances.

Social conservatives tend to trust strong centralized power as a more effective means of prevailing against an external threat. Hell, most Americans buy into the notion that only by putting our faith in One Strong Leader can we beat the terrorists.

Don't forget that the Department of Homeland Security was first proposed by the Democrats, and the Bush team was dead set against it. They then flipped 180 degrees and bashed anyone who didn't support it as unAmerican. Obviously the DHS wasn't part of some grand plan, as the beast is still wobbly at best.

The government has not taken even one action as the result of it's "anit-terrorism" policies that would render any of the decision makers (presumably the chief targets) even a bit uncomfortable.

I'm not really sure what you mean by that. Senators and Congressmen don't all have private jets. In fact, Senator Ted Kennedy was on the no fly list for a while, which caused a big stink.

Yeah, because Star Trek fans never did anything constructive.

Oh, wait...

Link to the Chronicle's Lisa Fullam's article on this topic.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2 005/08/04/EDGROE2DK21.DTL&hw=intelligent+design&sn =003&sc=394

Don't forget the U.S.' abberant science: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/ a/2003/11/09/ING9C2QSKB1.DTL&type=printable

I wasn't going to post a comment - really I wasn't - until I saw that my captcha was quackery . Slashdot gets it right at last!

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Actually, what I was going to post was that I go to MIT, and I've been totally astonished by some students' unquestioning faith and devotion to their God. (Usually it's a right-wing Baptist god, but there are some occassional exceptions.) There is a strong undercurrent of "yes, I believe the Earth was created by the dude I worship, and I'll carefully ignore the unspeakably obvious logical and scientific problems with my stance". You'd think at an engineering school full of diverse cultural backgrounds... well, I digress.

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You see why that's inflammatory, why I wouldn't want to post it. I believe that everyone is important, everyone is valuable, and everyone's happiness matters. So I have difficulty laughing at people and it's sometimes hard to make strong assertions like "your view is wrong". But the so-called 'debate' between 'intelligent design' and 'evolution by natural selection' is preposterous. Luckily it's also mostly nonpractical; who cares whether we arose from Koko the breast-fetishist gorilla or whether God faked it all and created the universe, with us and our fake memories, fifteen seconds ago? I am thankful - so very thankful - that the religious zealots have chosen such a silly thing to fight about.

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If the theory of intelligent design is taught in schools during science class, why isn't the theory of man's relationship with billions of dead volcano-stricken souls taught during history class?

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It is unfortunate that another of the zealots' battles is whether to teach abstinence only in a health class. This is absurd on face - "Hey, teenagers aren't all interested in sex, and they'll never want to learn more than what they hear in health class!" - but it is also very, very dangerous. Especially since it's usually the same people who don't want these same teenagers to be allowed to kill their babies before they're born. (By looking at the demographics of people who have had abortions since Roe v. Wade, and by applying the fairly large and consistent percentage of people who inherit their political views from their parents, it's been determined that had Roe been decided the other way, the Democrats would have a solid majority in Congress and the country now. True story.)

Here's a nice article, neatly summarised by its headline -- "There's Sex In My Violence!
What's this lame soft-core porn doing in my ultraviolent "Grand Theft Auto"?".

This reminds me of one of my first experience of US TV. I was watching "The Godfather" on TBS, in the middle of the day. When Santino beat the living Bejeesus out of his sister's husband on the street, they showed every frame of the violence. 5 minutes later, they pixelated the 3.5 seconds of nude breast (the only nudity in the entire film) in Michael's wedding night scene.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

There is a funny rant about this in today's sfgate.com (There's Sex In My Violence! What's this lame soft-core porn doing in my ultraviolent "Grand Theft Auto"? I am outraged!).

However, whenever anybody is asked to site a case in which some poor schmuck actually got shafted by these laws, they suddenly fall silent.

Rather than them being silent, maybe you're just not listening.

Here's a repost of some relevant comments I made on this subject several months ago:

Here's a basic list of just a handful of abuses I came up:

• The PATRIOT act is being used in regular non-terrorism criminal cases . Anything beyond simple misdemenors is being passed off as terrorism , now.
• A webmaster was jailed under PATRIOT because someone had posted bomb making info on his server . Keep in mind that he didn't put the info there, he was basically a web host, and one of his clients was using his account this way. This is a particularly damning case of abuse where "Innocuous objects such as iced tea bottles and a toy car were described as terrorist devices by the FBI and a joint task force of police officers."
• A disturbing article about using the PATRIOT act to obtain warrants against doctors and scientists . Not because they've done anything wrong, but because they happen to do research with hazardous materials. Guilty before proven innocent.
• Story about someone killed by the PATRIOT act
• Several artists were charged with bioterrorism under PATRIOT for creating artwork meant to educate viewers in the dangers of the biotech industry.
• Story about a veteran being arrested for complaining too much due to the heightened terror alert.
• Shining a pocket laser into an airplane is terrorism falling under the PATRIOT act
• Article republished fromt the Washington post about American citizens held without trial
• A man being harrassed by a "joint terrorism task force" (the kind that has authority under the PATRIOT act) because of investigating Area 51
• Another "joint terrorism task force" investigating a 12 year old for doing a school paper on the Cesapeake Bay Bridge
• A photographer arrested and threatened with being charged under the PATRIOT act for taking pictures of Dick Cheney

And finally, maybe there haven't been as many abuses as there will be once all 2nd legal track the preparations are in place .

To a lot of us, IM and email are just a bit of line noise that we easily put up with. I usually welcome a little interruption now and then, and in fact it helps spur the creative juices sometimes to have a context shift.

Or perhaps you're not the "creative" person you believe yourself to be and have never had a truly creative moment in your lackluster career. And since you're incompetent, you wouldn't know that, would you?

See SFGate article. I can't seem to find the mediaweek story, but their website isn't loading for me so that might be why.

John Kerry outed an agent during the Bolton hearings. No one batted an eye. You're naive and a fool if you think it's not political. That article lies, by the way. A grand jury is not "investigating Rove." A grand jury has convened to investigate the source of the leak. Karl Rove was one of many people who testiied before them. At no point was he considered a "suspect" or was he "investigated". But thanks for the Air America talking points.

Remember the C3D company? They invented a CD which could hold a nearly infinite number of layers because each of them is completely transparent, but if the laser is focused on a layer and shining on it, the layer is self-illuminating.
C3D presented this technology back in 1999 or even earlier, they even had working prototypes.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/1999/11/29/BU19966.DTL
These discs could hold as much as 140 gigabytes of data!
Compared to this, blu-ray looks kind of outdated.
But the company went banckrupt (I think), and now in 2005 we are presented a technology IMHO less advanced than C3D.

...The mod's author - Patrick Wildenborg of Deventer, Netherlands - told The Associated Press Friday that his code merely unlocks content that is already included in the code of each off-the-shelf game, the latest edition of the top-selling "Grand Theft Auto" series.

...Wildenborg, 36, wrote in an e-mail. "My mod does not introduce anything to the game. All the content that is shown was already present on the DVD."

[. . .]

"Lock me in a room with a computer, an original San Andreas DVD and a binary-file editor, and I will be able to unlock the stuff in a matter of minutes," he said defiantly.

---Ron Harris, Investigation, denials and outcry over video game's sex scenes, AP-Published in San Francisco Chronicle, July 8, 2005

• H.R.2281
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Sec. 1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems
• (a) VIOLATIONS REGARDING CIRCUMVENTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURES-
• (1)(A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition contained in the preceding sentence shall take effect at the end of the 2-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this chapter.

Wildenborg hacked the code blocking scenes not released as a part of the software. He circumvented a "technological measure that effectively controls access" to these scenes.

Anyone who uses the mod is also violating the DMCA, and probably the EULA.

You bet it's trivial and pansey-assed, but consider the source of the law.

Putting up an unprotected web site is akin to putting up a billboard. If I take a picture of the billboard and publish it in a textbook that kids read for the next 20 years, should I be expected to be sued by the billboard company?

Sadly, the answer to this is probably yes. Two examples:
1) Coke sues a photographer for including one of its billboards in a picture.
2) The filmmakers of "Bewitched" were forced to edit the Transamerica pyramid out of their shots of the San Francisco skyline because the building is a registered trademark.

Our IP laws seem destined to be controlled by corporate greed and congressional stupidity.

And, Lord knows, this was a slashdot-specific story, and you certainly couldn't have gotten details anywhere else before you opened your mouth.

"English as a Second Language." Now before everyone mods this "racist" or "flamebait" please take the time to read it and think about it.
I went to a high school in Yokohama, Japan. The student body was made up of dozens of cultures and their respective languages. One of the major rules was "English ONLY" during classes. Materials were all in English. Lessons were in English.
Back here in the US, I learned from several teacher friends that things were different. Kids that spoke NO english were being tossed into classes with native speakers. And guess what? It brought the pace of the class to a crawl because those that already knew the language had to often wait for the non-native speakers to catch up. These kids didn't learn English at home because the parents didn't know English either. Why should they when businesses everywhere are putting up signage in Spanish & advertising "Se habla espanol?" These kids had nowhere outside of the normal classroom routine to learn English skills because the ESL programs were axed due to budget cuts.
if everyone speaks English, cultures integrate better. I'm sure that many will say "Well, just learn Spanish!" but it's not only the Spanish speakers - sometimes it's the Asian kids. This is the United States. Our language is English. So why aren't we doing a better job of teaching it to those that want to make a life here?

Here is an excellent article to reinforce my point. Before I moved to Japan, I lived near that school. I spent every summer back in that area and I personally watched the area change to what it is now. It also illustrates what a disaster "No Child Left Behind" has turned out to be.

Our educational system is damaged.

How about some harsher penalties for treason instead?

A much bigger story this week is the striking result of a clinical trial of male circumcision. Apparently circumcised men have a 70% lower risk of contracting HIV than uncircumcised men (see here). Though others have shown this anecdotally, proof in a large clinical trial could revolutionize HIV prevention -- particularly in sub-Saharan countries where HIV incidence is high and male circumcision is currently rare.

Actually.... Ex-snip-it A your honor....
Circumcision may offer Africa AIDS hope Procedure linked to much lower rate of new HIV infections http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/ a/2005/07/06/MNGANDJFVK1.DTL&type=printableL
Actually pinapple has another effect, that of making your bodily secretions smell/taste better. That is an old date trick....

Found it:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2 005/07/05/national/w162402D28.DTL

One really does have to wonder if this will do anything to slow distribution of pirated works, though. Actually, no, you don't... it hasn't changed much in the past, and it's not likely to change much now... except for these guys facing chages, that is. It definitely changes things for them.

In the US, Intel is such a hero to the US govt that DOJ will not make it easy for AMD to hurt Intel. But in Japan, Intel was plain and simple guilty according to many stories such as this and Intel finally admitted as much in their settlement with the Japanese. AMD should bring suit in Japan perhaps?

I remembered how that charge against Intel played out because I submitted that story to /. back on March 8 but it wasn't interesting then I guess.

Joan Baez, Chris Isaac, Bonnie Rait performed... See George with the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon...

Photo Galery

The Lucas campus is crucial to the operation because the [Presidio] trust is relying on $5.6 million in annual rent to help shoulder the park's costs. Income from Lucas will account for about 17 percent of the Presidio's budget.

And we have a pretty big news rag in SF.

In the not so distant past....we had reports of a lady in India threatening to sell/release private medical information on US citizens if she wasn't paid some $$'s.

Also, if I recall correctly, the media that reported the lady's version of the story also said that she had been cheated out of her promised payment from a Texas based (American) firm, which led to her frustration (don't have the link handy).

Link

So anyway, a worker with all those medical records contacts the hospital and ransoms their records. Great fun.

Mission controllers may have received signal from solar sail By JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
(06-21) 22:13 PDT Pasadena, Calif. (AP) --

Signals may have been detected from the Cosmos 1 solar sail spacecraft that lost communication during launch on a converted missile fired from a Russian submarine under the Barrents Sea, mission officials said late Tuesday night.

The news came after an all-day search for Cosmos 1, which is intended to demonstrate that a spacecraft can be propelled by the pressure of light from the sun. If it is confirmed that the signals detected by three ground stations did come from Cosmos 1, it means that the craft did achieve orbit, said mission official Jim Cantrell.

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Spaceflight.com adds:

Update for June 22 @ 1 a.m. EDT: Mission controllers revealed a short time ago that weak blips of data believed transmitted from the Cosmos 1 spacecraft have been found in recordings at tracking station passes immediately after launch. The Planetary Society originally said that no signals were heard. If the new revelation is true, it suggests that the solar sail did reach some sort of orbit around Earth despite what Russian media reports indicate was a rocket engine problem during ascent. However, the U.S. military's space tracking network has not found the craft and its current orbit is unknown. "So now we search. It could take days to find," the Society said in a statement.

reference: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/ a/2003/08/31/MN305247.DTL

That the attached article links to the sfgate site where this article is on the page and it features this man. A coincidence. Maybe.

Or maybe it is your destiny.

That the attached article links to the sfgate site where this article is on the page and it features this man. A coincidence. Maybe.

Or maybe it is your destiny.

That the attached article links to the sfgate site where this article is on the page and it features this man. A coincidence. Maybe.

Or maybe it is your destiny.

How much in sales and profit do you suppose the mass market Windows PC generates in a year?

Think Microsoft, Dell, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Time-Warner, Verizon. The PC game industry, "in decline," still rakes in $1.6 billion annually.PC games battle the consoles by going online Our small village Rite-Aid stocks Kodak digital cameras, smart media cards, recordable DVDs, ink jet cartridges, papers, etc.

Interesting that this happened. Here is an article that was published just yesterday talking about exactly this topic. I guess the subduction zone reads the Chronicle.

One bloomed in san francisco a few weeks ago. There are a lot of these plants at this point and there seems to be one blooming all over.

One of these just bloomed in SF - I wasn't able to make it, but apparently it was interesting (if you're into that sort of thing). Read about it here

The problem was that it was unrelyable, impractical and highly dangerous. (A researcher at SRI was killed when a hydrogen cell exploded.) But it did work.