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Airline planners would likely have the routes deviate in the opposite direction to not be flying in the strongest part of the jetstream, so it's not an equal advantage / disadvantage for both directions.

You may be interested to see the jetstream maps for how wide it typically is: generally several hundred miles wide

Except for the prediction part, which is pretty bad.

Stott el al, back in 2000 performed a high profile attribution study using models. I remember the paper, because its the one in which I realized that AGW was a real thing that needed responding to.

You'll notice from figure 1, that they let one of the models run on into the future. The warming trend has been bang on the nose, and there is even a couple of decades of hiatus in that model's run. (Starting a bit later than the observed one, and ending about 2020, but demonstrating that events such as the current one are reproduced by models of even that time. (Being an early paper from HadCM3).

Do you have an example of a paper that demonstrates this poor prediction from climate science?

We don't have to produce intelligence artificially. We can just copy an existing one. If sub-synaptic connectome mapping and neural emulation can be made precise enough to accurately emulate the functioning of an entire human brain on a substrate that operates at several million times the speed of our natural biological wetware, we can quickly instantiate a population of human intelligence replicas that can each experience a lifetime of human cognition in an afternoon. I bet they would have the time and gumption to figure out how intelligence works. Given their ability to reconfigure their substrate, such intelligence would most likely transcend anything we're capable of understanding in a very short time. Those of us marooned in meat-time would then hope to become the treasured bonsai of these recursive, exponentially expanding intelligences. All it takes is full-brain MRI resolution down to, oh, 100 nm and the ability to accurately emulate the function of interconnected cortical neurons.

Have you seen this?

http://online.sfsu.edu/rone/GEessays/Ingham.htm

http://www.cracked.com/article_18503_how-biotech-company-almost-killed-world-with-booze.html

http://online.sfsu.edu/rone/GEessays/Ingham.htm

http://www.cracked.com/article_18503_how-biotech-company-almost-killed-world-with-booze.html

Except that ultimately, golden rice is more PR than boon.

Briefly: you need fats of some sort to absorb vitamin A and rice doesn't have any. Also, though the amount of vitamin A is enhanced, you'd still need to eat 2 kg/day of golden rice to get enough. There are plant sources that can provide enough, but rice (golden or otherwise) isn't it.

My 3 cents:
1993, weather predictions are pretty much accurate, 1, 3, 7, 14 days, whatever, works.
2003, daily forecasts would help if people looked outside a window though generally accurate and long range forecasts are broken.
2013, same day forecasts are broken and long range, pfft.

A couple things I have observed, which seem fairly important.
#1) The Arctic Jet is missing. In years past, there was a physical circle of water vapor orbiting at 10 to 15 North Latitude and when a finger broke off, the area that finger went to would get REALLY cold. http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/nhemjetstream_model.html If you look at the images right now (build animation for 20 days, every 6 hours), you would see really strange things. Like a finger of the Northern Jet going up and through the arctic circle. Which brings me to
#2) The Tropical Jet, maybe it is also called the Gulf stream, is merging every so often with the Northern Jet. You can see it on the animation site I linked but if you also view the water vapor page, (which my site has had for quite some time: http://agrisea.net/weather/wv.html), you can see where all the stuff is going.

If you are in to agriculture, get your own monitoring equipment so you know what is happening for your locations. The rest of you, hold on, it is going to be bumpy.

Speaking as someone who took a class about the myth of Faust, I can tell you in my expert opinion that my notes and papers from that course were lost when a brownout fried my hard drives. Damn! If only I'd sold my soul to a cloud backup service.

But this sounds more like a modernized, snoopier incarnation of AllAdvantage than a genuine Faustian bargain; particularly because you can quit whenever you want.

I note Japan has never made reparations for their many war crimes. ...
What would US soldiers have felt about the japanese people if they had to fight through Japan with more and more evidence of Japanese war crimes to fuel the already bitter hatred of the Japanese?

One - Japan got a free ride from the USA in exchange for the data it gathered from their inhumane experiments.
Two - They DID make reparations for many war crimes.
Three - US soldiers would not feel a damn thing (other than the already present racism against the Japs which was rather prevalent back then) - as Japan was not Nazi Germany.
Their concentration camps (as in places where war crimes was a part of daily routine) were mostly offshore in places like Korea, China and Philippines - you know... places where they were actually doing the fighting, capturing and executing of soldiers and civilians, pillaging and other activities that make war so much fun apparently.
Their camps in Japan were mostly of the interment kind.
No gas chambers or furnaces. Or even that much civilian prisoners.

As for German women being raped...
That was NOT due to Russians fighting through "the evidence of german war crimes".
Russians even did their share of mass executions. Just ask Poles.

Russian soldiers were let loose in Germany because of the 26,600,000 Soviets lost in the WWII.
About 8.6 million of them soldiers.

It was not some temporary loss of moral compass due to seeing incredible injustice and evil. It was a calculated revenge of a victor.

"What would US soldiers have felt about the japanese people if they had to fight through Japan with more and more evidence of Japanese war crimes to fuel the already bitter hatred of the Japanese?"

You mean the way they systematically raped and killed German civilians after having to fight through half of Europe, littered with evidence of German war crimes?
Oh no... wait... I meant the way they systematically distributed aid to German civilians.
Slip of tongue there.

Er, I wasnt aware you could do 3d graphing on LibreOffice calc, factor algebraic equations, solve for x, or any of the other basic things a good decent TI-82 equivalent can do (and those things are like 20 years old).
Octave appears to be a programming language, that is, that I cant simply plug in Y=3x+z^2 and get a graph. Hooray for reducing simplicity! Hooray for complexity for its own sake!

Seriously, it sounds like youre either trolling, or have never used a TI-82+ equivalent. They are easy enough for a budding 7th grader to use, powerful enough for real world use, and have a quite nice BASIC programming function (which I credit for getting me into the world of computers). And honestly, I dont know what math class would allow you to bring a laptop in, or why its fair to compare a $100 (new) TI or HP calc to a $450 laptop.

There's not a lot that one of the pieces of software I listed can't do.

Octave requires 4 lines for a 3D plot
http://math.jacobs-university.de/oliver/teaching/iub/resources/octave/octave-intro/octave-intro.html#SECTION00052000000000000000

But I LOVE the way you gibber on that I can't possibly have used a TI calculator having just dismissed Octave without doing a simple Google search. Way to be logically consistent.

There is a SHITLOAD of math software out there. Many of these pieces of software will overcome almost any limitation of your TI calc.

Here's a good one for simple graphing that I've used extensively some time ago (almost 2 decades! i started on the DOS version). Doesn't seem to be supported anymore but still works.
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~meredith/X(PLORE)/xplorepg.html

As for cost, a laptop will do a lot more than your calc - unless you're telling me your calc will edit photos and let you write email? So that extra couple of hundred dollars is well spent.

As for exams and laptops not permitted it isn't my fault or problem that Uni examinations are idiotic and set by lazy academics who don't know or care what counts in the real world - they're the same idiots who can't kick their 70s thinking that I was talking about in the first palce. By all means buy a calc to pass the test...but then don't complain the fucking thing isn't hackable.

Of course, the first thing you must do to wage war is to dehumanise the enemy soldier in the eyes of your own soldiers. Then you make up for it by treating enemy non-combatants, cooperative or otherwise, with some faux reverence.

More than just that. One of the oldest and most successful ways of dehumanising the enemy soldier is to portray them as evil monsters that are attacking poor defenceless women (possibly even raping them), and then tell your own soldiers and male populace that it's their duty as men to fight and die to protect the women. Offering women and women's sexuality as a reward for the men that fight and survive is also common, though technically optional. This game seems to fit right into that pattern.

In international affairs, I'd certainly say that the government's dealings can — indeed, must — entail shady backroom secret agreements. As President Polk said, "The experience of every nation on earth has demonstrated that emergencies may arise in which it becomes absolutely necessary for the public safety or the public good to make expenditures, the very subject of which would be defeated by publicity. In no nation is the application of such funds to be made public. In time of war or impending danger, the situation of the country will make it necessary to employ individuals for the purpose of obtaining information or rendering other important services who could never be prevailed upon to act if they entertained the least apprehension that their names or their agency would in any contingency be revealed." He also talked about things that are at the heart of the current release, including the giving of gifts to secure treaties and private negotiations with other powers. It is frankly the case that, in order for a government to be effective in international relations (not to mention espionage and military issues), it must keep secrets.

It's arguable (and I would certainly contend) that we keep too much secret. That is a different question from whether a government should keep anything at all secret. These releases are most certainly in the nature of things that a government should keep secret until they are of interest only to historians. In the wake of this release, it will be nearly impossible to get frank opinions and discussion of options with any of our allies or semi-friendly nations: they have too much to lose by being candid.

You forgot to include Ireland up there in your list. You can be fined 25,000 euros if you renounce the Sacraments, etc.

Can or will? Because there are plenty of countries with old laws still in books since nobody has had time to clean them out, yet they are no longer enforced and are thus, for all practical purposes, overturned. For example, according to this website, it's illegal to have sex with a virgin in Washington State.

Here in the States, there are people clamoring to bring our country into some sort of religious theocratic throwback to the 12'th century. Some of them even sponsor "prayer breakfasts" for our esteemed legislators.

You have 300 million people over there, so of course there are a few lunatics in such a large crowd. The real question is: Are they succeeding? Doesn't seem so to me.

Talibanistic fundamentalism is only just below the surface just about everywhere. It only takes a little bit of tipping the table to have it spring full force to the surface.

No, Talibanistic fundamentalism is not "just below the surface" everywhere. Loud-mouthed assholes, on the other hand, are doing their best to make their home countries seem like fundamentalistic hellholes everywhere.

Mr Clueless above seems to have forgotten that deep down these two forms of life are driven by DNA.

And that they (scientists) have already crossed that boundary by splicing HUMAN genes into PLANTS.

And the reason growers want them is because consumers want them. I don't see how that issue relates to genetic engineering, that's something altogether different.

I never said it had anything to do with genetic engineering. You did in the post I replied to. Specifically you said I think heirloom growers should embrace GMOs. Then you explained why, to get hybrids "like Cherokee Purple and White Tomesol" stocked in supermarket stores.

Getting people to think of new or diverse crops as a true part of their diet, just like the foods they're accustomed to, it a task in and of itself.

And that is one of the goals of Slow Food. And guess what they say... Pandemic disease and genetic engineering have wiped out all traditional sources of meat (and many vegetable products) in a matter of decades. "Winona LaDuke, founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, which was the recipient of the International Slow Food Award for the Defense of Biodiversity in 2003 said, 'Indigenous people are center to Slow Food International,' because the foods they are talking about have long histories, the very foods Slow Food wants to protect."

I follow exotic pomology too, and it took decades for mangos and kiwis to get to where they are now, and still, people don't see them on the same level as apples and bananas.

And how many people eat kiwis and mangos? I used to take them with me for lunch.

Finally, there is no need for GE crops. All they do is enrich the pockets of big agribusinesses.

Tell that to the farmers who's crops were wiped out by papaya ringspot virus before GMO papayas arrived on the scene.

Yea, let's ask farmers about GE:

1. Monsanto versus Farmers
2. Monsanto's Harvest of Fear

This post of mine has 8 more links.

To say there's no need for them, I don't get that either.

I and others, including experts, have said GE is not needed for food because it is not needed. I dare you prove that wrong. Provide one piece of evidence GE is needed. Then we'll see what reviewers say.

FAO report reveals GM crops not needed to feed the world.

That's like saying there is no need for plant breeding.

You like every other person who tries to justify genetic engineering tries this. Selective breeding and crossbreeding is a hell of a lot different than inserting arctic fish genes into tomatoes. The first happens frequently in nature but the second rarely if ever happens.

We know it works, no one has ever produced a shred of credible evidence to suggest they're dangerous

My, my, my. How wrong you are. One example we know of is soya with a gene from Brazil nuts. Identification of A Brazil-Nut Allergen in transgenic soybeans[pdf]. The fact the soya was not released does not change the fact that the engineering soya was dangerous to those allergic to Brazil nuts and could cause their deaths.

considering horizontal gene transfer between unrelated species happens all the time

I thought you might bring that up, and I already addressed

You should try googling instead of grokking. I simple search turns up lots of info about GM Tree being used, and even more about how dangerous they are. Look this one article is from 1999! http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/GEessays/GMtrees.html

A command prompt is like a *nix shell, whereas the Windows Terminal allowed you to telnet in the pre-Internet days.

1) Ten seconds of googling will show that the jet stream changes dramatically from day to day

If the volcano explodes this Thursday, then the vast majority of the US will likely be spared the fate you are so certain they will suffer. One day earlier and it will be dumped all over the east coast; one day later and the west coast will suffer instead.

2) I find that most people who engage in ad hominems have low self esteem and use the attacks to boost their ego by creating the illusion of superiority. A well-adjusted human being respects others and knows that there are more effective ways to communicate.

Maybe you were you having a bad day? Normally my attempts at humor are transparent enough that others don't react so flippantly. But, hey, fight fire with fire. If you're already embracing arrogant behavior, then here's to tit-for-tat!

3) Actually, you said the stuff was going over "much of the US". But don't let minor inconsistencies like this knock you off your high horse; I wouldn't want you to bruise your ego when you landed.

4) I've got a lot of faith in nature; I don't think there's anything that humans could do that would completely destroy the planet. In the mean time, society should advance forward with inventions that improve life and expand knowledge.

May I suggest helping to nurture the green revolution? It could lead to investors who favor eco-friendly stocks over dividend-friendly stocks. In fact, you could start right now, by going out and purchasing stock from companies who you think do business the right way. Without your contribution, how can they stand up to the 3M's and the Wal-Mart's of the world?

How are you measuring the number of banks? I don't have numbers on the number of bankers (though I suspect that automation has cut down the banker/population ratio significantly), but according to two sources found easily via Google, there were 31,000 banks in the US 1921 and only about 7,200 now. http://bss.sfsu.edu/tygiel/hist427/texts/1920seconomy.htm and http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=636977

My point was that you are making up a crazy law..

Really? Is it a crazy law? Go do a Google search for "sex acts illegal in Virginia", and see what you come up with! Here, let me save you the trouble for the first Google hit:

• Places where oral sex is illegal: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington D.C.
• An erection that shows through a man's clothing is illegal in: Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington D.C. and Wisconsin.
• In Georgia those charged and convicted for either oral or anal sex can be sentenced to no less than one year and no more than 20 years imprisonment.

And that's just the beginning. Read this for more, and then try to tell me it's a "crazy law" since these are laws in the United States.

There are serious undergraduate and graduate level literature classes on Tolkien, and his universe provides an interesting linguistic study as well. Granted, he started writing The Hobbit as a children's story, and it's not among the top tier of his work. However, the later trilogy became much more, and I daresay few literary professors would write it off as you are wont to do.

Furthermore, if you want anyone to take your viewpoint seriously, you do yourself a disservice by misspelling his name.

Your ignorance on this matter is so profound I simply don't have time to disabuse you of it. Please do just a little research before shooting off your mouth like this. I'd suggest:

http://www.psrast.org/

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/03/14/gm-foods-part-one.aspx

http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/GEessays/gedanger.htm

as places to start. If you have any real interest in informing yourself about the situation, that is.

It's interesting, don't get me wrong--but how -practical- is it?

The problem with underage binge drinking is that we're just starting to learn the subtle damage it causes, even when only done for a short period of time: http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/003094.html/

These kind of articles make me regret the one time that I put just a little too much vodka into a bottle of soda.

Despite the misleading title in one of the publications,(40) a high gene transfer frequency of 5.8 x 10-2 per recipient bacterium was demonstrated under optimum conditions. But the authors then proceeded to calculate an extremely low gene transfer frequency of 2.0 x 10-17 under extrapolated "natural conditions", assuming that different factors acted independently.

This means a 1 in 50 chance under optimum lab conditions. And 1 in 200,000,000,000,000,000 chance in the wild. See why I'm not too worried about it?

Further:

Transgenic lines are notoriously unstable and often do not breed true (33). There is a paucity of molecular data documenting the structural stability of the transgenic DNA, both in terms of its site of insertion in the genome and its arrangement of genes, in successive generations. Instead, transgenes may be silenced in subsequent generations or lost altogether (34).

If the genes are silenced or lost altogether because they're so notoriusly unstable, why you getting your panties in a bunch? Or did you just skip over these passages?

I'm not ignoring cross pollination of corn. You keep insisting that corn cross pollinates with pigweed. It doesn't. Period.

No I don't insist corn cross pollinates with ragweed no matter what you say, instead I admit I don't know what happened. I also admit Horizontal gene transfer is possible. Oh, and if it's impossible for unrelated plants to cross pollinate, perhaps you should tell Prof. Hans-Hinrich Kaatz from the University of Jena that as well as other scientists:

"Transgenic pollen and baby bees"

"Prof. Hans-Hinrich Kaatz from the University of Jena, is reported to have new evidence, as yet unpublished, that genes engineered into transgenic plants have transferred via pollen to bacteria and yeasts living in the gut of bee larvae(1)."

"If Prof. Kaatz' claim can be substantiated, it indicates that the new genes and gene-constructs introduced into transgenic crops and other transgenic organisms can spread, not just by ordinary cross-pollination or cross-breeding to closely related species, but by the genes and gene-constructs invading the genomes (the totality of the organisms' own genetic material) of completely unrelated species, including the microorganisms living in the gut of animals eating transgenic material."

"This finding is not unexpected. Some scientists have been drawing attention to this possibility recently(2), but the warnings actually date back to the mid-1970s when genetic engineering began. Hundreds of scientists around the world are now demanding a moratorium on all environmental releases of transgenic organisms on grounds of safety(3), and horizontal gene transfer is one of the major considerations."

"Some of us have argued that the hazards of 'horizontal' gene transfer to unrelated species are inherent to genetic engineering(4). The genes and gene-constructs created in genetic engineering have never existed in billions of years of evolution. They consist of genetic material originating from bacteria, viruses and other genetic parasites that cause diseases and spread drug and antibiotic resistance genes. They are designed to cross all species barriers and to invade genomes. The spread of such genes and gene-constructs have the potential to make infectious diseases untreatable and to create new viruses and bacteria that cause diseases."

Notice where is says "completely unrelated species".

Rather biased there, isn't it?

And not accepting it because it has a bias isn't being biased either? I admit it's one thing to falsify data or whatever, but are they doing that?

Hardly seems to be good science to me.

And your not doing the same? If it's wrong, what's wrong with it? The same with the Horizontal Gene Transfer linked to above (Transgenic pollen)?

Joss Stone had a similar problem:

She moved to the U.S. at 16, started dating her producer's son at 17. She then proudly went around telling everyone how great the sex was - afterall, it's legal in England from 16. In California where the californicating was happening, the age of consent is 18. Everyone sat around wondering how long it was before he got arrested as a child molester because of her pride in her relationship.

Places where oral sex is illegal: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington D.C.

In Georgia those charged and convicted for either oral or anal sex can be sentenced to no less than one year and no more than 20 years imprisonment.

In Nevada it is illegal to have sex without a condom.

In Willowdale, Oregon it is against the law for a husband to talk to dirty in his wife's ear during sex.

In Washington State there is a law against having sex with a virgin under any circumstances (including the wedding night!).

In Fairbanks, Alaska it is illegal for mooses to have sex on the city sidewalks.

http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/flux/gSpot/sexLaw.h tml

• Places where oral sex is illegal: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington D.C.
• An erection that shows through a man's clothing is illegal in: Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington D.C. and Wisconsin.
• In Georgia those charged and convicted for either oral or anal sex can be sentenced to no less than one year and no more than 20 years imprisonment.
• In Missouri sexually deviant behavior between people of the same sex is classified as a class A misdemeanor.
• In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is against the law to have sex with a truck driver in a tollbooth.
• In Nevada it is illegal to have sex without a condom.
• In Willowdale, Oregon it is against the law for a husband to talk to dirty in his wife's ear during sex.
• In Clinton, Oklahoma it is illegal to masturbate while watching two people have sex in a car.
• In Washington State there is a law against having sex with a virgin under any circumstances (including the wedding night!).
• In Newcastle, Wyoming it is illegal to have sex in a butcher shop's meat freezer.
• In Washington D.C. there is a law against having sex in any position other than face to face.

She was too cheap to buy a PC when I got one in '82, so she had her brother in law, who worked for IBM, get her a discounted IBM desktop machine of some sort, whose name I can't recall. It had a tiny little 8 inch CRT, 16k of RAM, a tape drive as the only storage, and APL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_lang uage)/ as an embedded language in it.

Here's another short review but with handy links to related topics:

http://msp.sfsu.edu/Instructors/rey/aepage/extras/ DVRebelsreview.html

Rich

rank them according to almost any measure of success and you can see the nearly one-to-one correlation. Get fancy and manova it if you want.

Try moodle. It works fine in every browser. Many schools are switching. http://www.humboldt.edu/~bboard/ and https://ilearn.sfsu.edu/login/ilearn_provost.htm

Actually, polar bears are a distinct species from the grizzly/brown bear. Note: the grizzly bear and the brown bear ARE the same species, and there is debate as to whether the grizzly bear is even a proper sub-species of the brown bear. Perhaps you're confusing the Polar Bear with the Kodiak Bear (which is also a Brown Bear)?

P.S.: We can do a lot more about global warming than pole reversals or the Yellowstone caldera. Also, global warming is far more likely to have a significant impact during our lifetime (assuming you're younger than I am, or at least not much older) than either of those issues.

So the US citizens' opinions are not manipulated today? Where exactly is the US representative republic system working well? How do you explain hundreds of thousands of US war causalities since 1945? Is that the peoples will speaking? What about concentration camps? Will of the free people? Is being persecuted for political ideas the idea your United States were founded of? Every representative system (German speaking here) has a inherited, major and fatal flaw: People trying to press their views on voters to get voted themselves and abuse of power. Remember that - for example - Hitler was democratically elected in a representative republic. Direct democratic systems, as they exist for example in Switzerland, however, did not degrade to either anarchy nor dictatorship. One might want to think about that.

"Like it or not science is a threat to religion, even though is much closer to the "truth" than god or religion.[/quote]"

With perhaps the exception being Buddhism,
A nice article about this can be found here.

It might be hacky, but I wrote it not you so g++ away

http://libra.sfsu.edu/~peb/rps.cpp

Remember when computers looked like this?

My wife and I play lots of co-op multiplayer games on PS2 and GC.
Neither of us like fighting games and my wife doesn't like driving games so I have spent some time digging out the best co-op games I could find.

If you like 3rd person hack and slash games, you will be well catered for, check out:
Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance 1 & 2
Champions of Norrath

Lego star wars is the sequel/prequel featuring the orginal films is due out this year.

We are currently playing 'Ratchet: Gladiator'. This is a co-op platformer/shooter which is absolute mayhem with 2 players and I recommend it highly.

This website has more ideas:
http://charon.sfsu.edu/corey/ps2coop/

A juries job is to decide if a defendant is guilty of a crime. The crime is defined by a law.

Really? So, in your definition anything that is against the law is WRONG, in the moral sense? In other words, everyone who breaks a law deserves to go to jail, regardless of the "rightness" of that action? If that's the case, then what about those areas in the southern states where it is still illegal for two adults of consenting age to engage in oral sex? This is a "crime", punishable by real jail time. Think it can't happen? Tell it to the fellow sitting in a Texas jail for admitting under oath he performed oral sex on his WIFE! In those instances, it's absolutely CRITICAL that juries understand they can vote not guilty in cases like that, regardless of any other evidence.

So you are saying that the tree whose nuts needed to go through the digestive system of the dodo is not worth while.

I was watching a show on the Discovery Channel (it might have been another similar channel though) about nuts & they mentioned a tree that was on the same island as the dodo, the youngest tree of that species they found was from the time period of the dodo. They started trying to make it so that the seeds can germinate by reproducing the same environment as in the dodos digestive system.

If you still don't belive me check out the following links.

http://online.sfsu.edu/~lebuhn/530/lectures/Umbrel lasplectures.ppt(Power Point Warning)
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:QHD0lYihbQwJ:on line.sfsu.edu/~lebuhn/530/lectures/Umbrellasplectu res.ppt+dodo+nut&hl=en&lr=lang_en%7Clang_ja

For more than a decade the United States has been seriously delinquent in paying its 25 percent share of dues to the United Nations. It currently owes more than $1 billion. While most of the world body's 185 member states are current, Congress has held up U.S. dues

Since the United States has given up official control of Okinawa, U.S. military personnel have committed 22 murders, 354 robberies and 110 rapes on the island

If Google wants to promote OSS, why not support Cal State, which is using OS directly for learning management systems, at CSU San Francisco and CSU Humboldt?

It works, too:-)

Perhaps it's time to dig out my old gear. The oldest system in the Garage of Doom is currently:

Intellec 8 8008 development system with the 8080 upgrade card, FDOS in ROM.
Dual Frugal Floppy drive. 2 8" drives and controller in a compact 17" rack mount case.
ASR33 Teletype, with the big yellow paper roll, and that oh-so-convenient 1" paper tape punch. (Hi, Bill! Want a copy of a BASIC interpreter?)

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~hl/c.Intellec8.html

San Francisco State University is running a new course on open source. From their site:

http://is.sfsu.edu/node/29

The IS department is offering a new elective titled "Managing Open Source" in Fall 2005. Here are the details:

Detailed study of the management of open source software and related processes: open source management issues, integration of open and proprietary software, licensing, copyright and intellectual property rights. Also examines open source business models in the enterprise.

http://www.sfsu.edu/~bulletin/courses/30835.htm

Course Objectives

The student will be able to:

* understand the similarities and differences between open and proprietary software;
* evaluate licensing, copyright, intellectual property rights and business models related to open source software;
* identify issues such as standards, interoperability, and source code management in managing a heterogeneous Information Systems environment;
* describe the challenges in integrated management of open source and proprietary software in the Information Systems infrastructure;
* use Return on Investment (ROI) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approaches in the acquisition and use of open source software.

For questions, contact the IS department or Dr. Sameer Verma

San Francisco State University is running a new course on open source. From their site:

http://is.sfsu.edu/node/29

The IS department is offering a new elective titled "Managing Open Source" in Fall 2005. Here are the details:

Detailed study of the management of open source software and related processes: open source management issues, integration of open and proprietary software, licensing, copyright and intellectual property rights. Also examines open source business models in the enterprise.

http://www.sfsu.edu/~bulletin/courses/30835.htm

Course Objectives

The student will be able to:

* understand the similarities and differences between open and proprietary software;
* evaluate licensing, copyright, intellectual property rights and business models related to open source software;
* identify issues such as standards, interoperability, and source code management in managing a heterogeneous Information Systems environment;
* describe the challenges in integrated management of open source and proprietary software in the Information Systems infrastructure;
* use Return on Investment (ROI) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approaches in the acquisition and use of open source software.

For questions, contact the IS department or Dr. Sameer Verma

Of course. Here we go:

• Pringles Yagi Antenna
• Antenna on the Cheap (er, Chip)
• Pringles Can Antenna
• ...

The study has many biases. If you want to look at a real study, try http://verma.sfsu.edu/projects/os/dsi2004_complete _article.pdf

I guess my girlfriend isn't girly enough for 1up's list - the only thing on there she likes is Katamari.
Her co-op favorites:
GC - Phantasy Star Online
PC - Diablo
PS2 - Baldurs Gate, Champions of Norrath.
Shrek 2 is suprisingly a decent co-op game too.
Cookies and Cream is an old good co-op game for PS2 - but it's for hardcore puzzle/action fans only - that game is HARD!

Since she is musically inclined, she really got into Amplitude (single player) although she didn't like Frequency.