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suicides only right?

Indeed. It was a Chinese patient, I think it's because the donor was from Congo.

Sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u... and http://www.shortnews.com/start...

Legit businesses don't pirate?

Exactly. If someone wants to, say, marry the Berlin Wall then do you really want your tax money used to try and stop her? Why do you care? As long as the relationship isn't abusive and nobody is being harmed, then why would you ever care that someone may choose to marry their pillow? Or a dog? Or even the man who married himself? Or a videogame character? Why do people care? Haven't governments got more important things to spend their tax payers money on, instead of wasting time and money regulating what is basically a social contract?

Even easier with the democrat:
obama appoints riaa lawyer as solicitor general
Obama Picks New FTC Boss Former MPAA Lobbyist
Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept.
Obama Appoints RIAA Defense Lawyer to Key DOJ Position

Perhaps it only needs to get up to 600 MPH before the Scramjet takes over.

If you read any of the articles on their scramjet tests, they need supersonic airflow to create the pressure inside the engine. Once ignited, Mach 10 wouldn't be outrageous for a Scramjet.

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=63070

Unfortunately escape velocity isn't Mach 10, but for early test platforms, we already have the tech necessary to do what's in the proposal, and what we might learn from repeated launches and fine tuning the scramjet, seems promising.

I always took that to mean that there is no thing as national security, categorizing the NSA's mission statement as impossible.

I have always preferred the idea that total security is impossible (because it is) and that rather than costly defense programs, it is far better to be a favorite among nations, than to adopt imperialistic policies and meddle in the affairs of other religions and nations. Of course, this requires one to subscribe to the idea of "blow-back" which, according to the 2008 elections, only one candidate - Ron Paul subscribes to. What the NSA is, is a blow-back mitigation team.

Now just today we find out the real reason we are in Afghanistan. despite reports that bin Laden is in Iran and has been for 5 years. Clearing the way to Halliburton mining operations? We will see. If so is war necessary? China just buys the property then moves everyone out. We "sweep and clear".

But I digress. Even if we eliminate all the foreign threats, if we do not operationally respect our citizenry, they too will turn on us, as did the "uni-bomber" and the two people who attacked the IRS buildings (one by a truck bomb, the other by plane)

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but there's more money in the cure.

It's worth pointing out that the pound is at an almost one year low against the dollar, and is sitting below it's natural level against the dollar and has been for months because of the political uncertainty.

Should we get a coalition government or similar that takes decisive action in cutting the UK's deficit which has been put off in the run up to the electon, you can add a good 10% minimum onto those percentages as the pound returns back up towards it's natural level against the dollar over the next 6 months to a year.

The fact that there's a markup at all when the pound is so weak against the dollar is quite inexcusable particularly as Apple has a history of taking years to rectify pricing issues by which time they've usually gotten away with it even when they accept that it's wrong in the face of an anti-trust case such that it's too late, and a few percent adds up to a notable chunk of money on not exactly cheap devices like this. Make no mistake, ripping off British consumers has long been part of Apple's business model.

It's worth pointing out of course that it's not just Apple that does this, however there are some notable exceptions, from places we perhaps least expect them. Microsoft points for XBox Live / Games for Windows Live are actually cheaper in the UK than the US thanks to current exchange rates when you factor in VAT for example, however they certainly weren't when things were riding at $2 USD to £1 GBP. Microsoft puts a massive markup on other goods too however such as Windows, Office and so forth but it's commendable they haven't used it as an excuse to up prices like some companies.

Companies upping costs in the face of weakened exchange rates is fine normally, but when we already pay much more to start with? They can fuck off, I wont buy anything that's severely marked up. To give some examples of when the pound was strong, I bought a Nintendo DS for my girlfriend and an iPod nano for myself, but I didn't buy them in the UK where they were both around the £120 mark, I bought them when we went to Canada where they were the equivalent of £65- almost half price. It was around $2.10 USD and $2.30 CAD to £1 GBP at the time. That's why I have little sympathy for companies that raise prices when the pound is weak, because they're more than happy to charge us nearly double rather than reduce prices when it's strong.

Well, I guess you could say the US government has already done that. In fact for the capturing, killing, or providing information leading to the capturing or killing of Osama bin Laden could net you the nice amount of $50 million dollars. I guess wired just has a better marketing campaign.

On Brazil a boy can kiss a girls on the cheek and NOT get suspended

? Seems an entirely appropriate end for the man -too ...

I've seen that report on a great many sites, too.

Chavez did exactly the same thing ... the only difference is that he succeeded.

And some people are behaving in ... predictable ... ways.

Good example. You're calling for these online casinos to be legalized and regulated. Collusion is extremely easy to detect if you're running the game and can see all the cards. If you're worried about rigged games, you should audit the casino, and fine the hell out of anyone running a bad table.

By not collecting the winnings, they're attempting to fix the symptom and not the problem. It's disturbingly similar to the DEA's program to seize assets of those suspected of drug crimes. You know, the one that robs and kills people.

and as for "a reputable and verifiable source for everything you said."

So, you don't watch the news, Old people and young or "special" children are the number one customers.
http://media.www.dailyvidette.com/media/storage/paper420/news/2008/02/18/News/Nintendo.Wii.Used.For.Rehabilitation.Purposes.wiihab-3215373.shtml
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/nintendos-wii-in-nursing-home.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,260990,00.html
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/nintendos-wii-a-hit-with-the-geriatric-set/
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art58580.asp
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=65566
http://www.specialkids.com/my_weblog/2008/09/research-shows-rehabilitation-benefits-of-using-nintendo-wii.html
http://www.nypsystem.org/press/2008/04/st-marys-at-forefront-of-thera.html
https://www.mywii.com.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=2150

why do they insist on likening anything with a display and controls to playing a video game?

If we exclude the vacuum cleaner, you're 100% right. There is apparently someone people who likes to have fun with vacuum cleaners.

Do you have any clue how little the naysayers know? You can be intentionally arrogant all you want, but stop pretending you have even bothered to check any facts at all.

Got yelled at in the spring for standing on the sidewalk casting a shadow causing the sidewalk to cool causing the ice to freeze on the sidewalk. Noted that in spite of my shadow, the trees budding out and the end of studed snow tires on cars. Was accused of not reading a thermometor.

After having read said thermometor showing 30 degrees above freezing, but droping because it is evening, shook head and moved on.

Yes I have looked at the sunspot cycle. I have looked at the SOHO records. I have looked at the polar ice caps on mars back a few years. (I even provided a link from National Geographic, not Fox News) Being accused of following a conspiriocy theory instead of the facts is a WTF??? moment.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/07 0228-mars-warming.html
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=59498
http://calspace.ucsd.edu/Mars99/docs/library/scien ce/climate_history/polar_caps1.html
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/mission_overview.ht ml
http://www.astrodigital.org/mars/timeline1.html
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/educ/themes/display.cf m?Item=polarice
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://plan etary.chem.tufts.edu/MarsPolarCap.jpg&imgrefurl=ht tp://planetary.chem.tufts.edu/chronos.html&h=225&w =290&sz=10&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=TYj58QRSbsjd4M :&tbnh=89&tbnw=115&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmars%2Bpolar %2Bice%2Bhistory%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%2 6safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www. cosmiclight.com/imagegalleries/images/space/mars-p olarcap.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cosmiclight.com/i magegalleries/mars.htm&h=359&w=600&sz=16&hl=en&sta rt=9&um=1&tbnid=gBBAUkXCr9kpWM:&tbnh=81&tbnw=135&p rev=/images%3Fq%3Dmars%2Bpolar%2Bice%2Bhistory%26s vnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN
NASA's and the Hubble Space Telescope images spanning from October 1996 until March 1997, show the viritable felting of Mar's polar ice cap, in just 6 months... Such an event would have been utterly devastating on our planet, making the Tsunami seem like a needle in a haystack in comparison.

Evidence of the cop who beat his wife for not participating in Group sex. Hmmm Let me see. I know its in one of these pockets.

http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/062006 GroupSex.html
http://www.shortnews.com/shownews.cfm?id=55184&CFI D=4376101&CFTOKEN=81689075

Maybe you should read my reply under ?sigh for some even better links to stupid cop tricks at the department level. I have good documentation for everything I post.

I can tell already from your description that you're talking about a traffic-related case. Traffic cases are largely devoid of Constitutional protections for a variety of reasons that I can only guess at. I'm thinking that traffic court is so clogged, that the system finds it much easier to simply assume your guilt ... as well as deny you a jury trial, etc. Traffic court also pits the citizen against the police, and as anyone with sufficient life experience knows, the courts are largely aligned WITH the police, and AGAINST the citizens. Around here in Ohio, we had a Supreme Court judge admit essentially that once she was caught in a drunk-driving incident, to wit:

Resnick also repeatedly asks to be let go, saying, "My God, you know I decide all these cases in your favor. And my golly, look what you're doing to me."

Privacy? Many, some people are stupid.

http://shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=50336&newsid=4&s ort=0&start=1&suche=google&nps=20&zeitraum=999&spa rte=4&rubrikid1=296

Read my post (Beryl) on how creepy Google is and what privacy you canm expect.

Yup, you built a great system where 46% of personal bankruptcy cases in America are caused by medical bills

One other thing that's come up more over the last 12 months is this notion of indemnification [against patent and copyright claims].

Yes I wonder who is making it an issue.

More and more customers are asking us, "Help me understand what you do from an indemnification perspective versus HP or IBM or Red Hat or Novell." That's weighing into decisions more and more. ...

Yes because again Microsoft are trying to tie people down with fear that what they will touch they will loose again because the big Microsoft guys will spoil thier fun.

Customers began introducing it and asking me about it more than I was introducing it to them. And I began to say, "Wow. We really stand behind our technology in a pretty aggressive way.

Hahahah yes you are plenty aggressive, like a cornered animal, even the Ministry of Truth could learn from you guys.

We should make sure that we get credit for that compared to Linux in many ways." And it's actually been something that tips the scales sometimes when people are on the fence.

Is that the barbed wire elecrified fence of 10 year supply deal, licensing terms, special backhanders, propriatary formats et al.

Lets all hug this guy. Anyone notice how Microsoft are finding security holes in its own software right when it wants you to upgrade?

Sorry for the broken links:

http://www.poe-news.com/stories.php?poeurlid=32085 http://archive.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/02 /23/mcjobs/ http://www.shortnews.com/shownews.cfm?id=37255 http://www.canuckflack.com/archives/000084.html http://www.bradcarson.com/pressreleases/archives/0 00416.php

Are we to equate a worker on an assembly line to the punk messsing up my order at McDonalds? Saying fast food workers are part of the manufacturing sector is a clever way to say that America is gaining manufacturing jobs. Too bad it's like Enron filing debits to collectors as assets.

http://www.shortnews.com/shownews.cfm?id=37862

What does concern me is how MS is running after those who are obtaining the leaked code. Is an FBI group standing over every P2P system, and then providing user information to MS? Please! Or is the media running multiple reports on behalf of MS, about those receiving warnings, while in fact this entire affair is a media stunt?

Software giant threatens mikerowesoftZDNet.co.uk,UK-8 minutes agoMicrosoft has set its lawyers onto a 17-year-old software writer from Vancouver, called Mike Rowe, because he has registered MikeRoweSoft.com, which the

Microsoft not pleased about mikerowesoft websiteAnanova,UK-3 hours agoA Canadian teenager called Mike Rowe who added the word soft to his name for his website title, has been ordered by Microsoft to hand over the domain.

Microsoft won't go soft on Mike RoweLondon Free Press,Canada-4 hours agoVANCOUVER -- Like any good fledgling businessperson, Mike Rowe knew

Microsoft lawyers threaten Mike Rowe (17)The Register,UK-5 hours agoIn what could easily be mistaken for an Onion story, Microsoft has unleashed the full fury of its lawyers on 17-year-old Canadian high-school student, Mike Rowe

Mike may be Rowe, but 'soft' is troubleSeattle Times,WA-7 hours agoBy The Associated Press. VANCOUVER, BC - Mike Rowe knew he needed a catchy name for his Web-site design company. But the folks

Big bully Gates targets teenTimes of India,India-8 hours agoVANCOUVER: No matter what Shakespeare said on the theme of nomenclature, Microsoft has thought it fit to sue a teenager whose domain name is a lot like the

Microsoft vs MikeRoweSoftIndependent Online,South Africa-10 hours agoVancouver, British Columbia - Mike Rowe thinks it's funny that his catchy name for a website design company sounds a lot like Microsoft.

Microsoft takes on teenNEWS.com.au,Australia-10 hours agoMIKE Rowe thinks it is funny that his catchy name for a Web site design company sounds a lot like Microsoft. "Since my name is Mike

Langford student battles tech giant over use of his domain name: Canada.com,Canada-Jan 17, 2004Mike Rowe, a Langford high school student who does Web site design part-time, is locked in a legal battle with one of the world's biggest companies.

Microsoft vs. Mike Rowe SoftWIS,SC-47 minutes ago(Vancouver, British Columbia-AP) Jan. 19, 2004 - It's Microsoft versus Mike Rowe-soft. Mike Rowe, 17, wanted a catchy name for his Web site design company.

Support CD Babyp2pnet.net,Canada-1 hour agoBecause Mike, who lives in Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada (and a short drive from p2pnet.net's thriving central base : ) makes a

Microsoft Talk Legal to 17 Year-Old Owner of MikeRoweSoft DomainShortNews.com-2 hours agoMike Rowe, 17, from British Columbia, Canada decided to start up a small web business and called his domain MikeRoweSoft. Smart

Microsoft Corporation vs MikeRoweSoftOfficialSpin-3 hours agoVictoria, British Columbia -- (OfficialSpin) -- 19/01/04 -- A 17 year-old high school student, Mike Rowe, who just so happens to earn a few extra bucks...

Microsoft demands teen to give up domain nameSalem Statesman Journal,OR-7 hours agoVANCOUVER, British Columbia - Mike Rowe knew that he needed