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As for the "pictures of Kerry and Fonda together," only one of them is genuine, and that is the one that shows them both sitting in the crowd at an anti-war rally. This widely circulated photo is a fake. I'm sure there are some unsavory sorts who share your political affiliatons, but that shouldn't impinge on your own character. Likewise, the fact that Kerry and Fonda both opposed the war does not link the two of them.

As for the "pictures of Kerry and Fonda together," only one of them is genuine, and that is the one that shows them both sitting in the crowd at an anti-war rally. This widely circulated photo is a fake. I'm sure there are some unsavory sorts who share your political affiliatons, but that shouldn't impinge on your own character. Likewise, the fact that Kerry and Fonda both opposed the war does not link the two of them.

Being a geek can indeed sometimes help you to win at roulette.

This time the story comes around again, and it has been embellished even more! It was debunked on Snopes here, back in 1999!

The biggest thing wrong with our system is leeches like John Edwards, who drive the cost up by suing everyone in sight for ludicrous amounts of money.

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Snopes.Com Debunks this.

Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew intimately. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under the circumstances, there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different -- and perhaps barren -- outcome.

Communists support Kerry.

So really, who cares? Personally I am not voting for either douche bag. I await someone's comment about throwing my vote away now...

Hey, I'm pretty biased having worked for DEC Field Service for 12 years. It seemed the only thing keeping DEC alive was services and the hardware engineers thinking of ways to make our lives easier. You're right that users will find a way to break things. When I was a junior tech, a senior tech once told me "every service call is a prank ... look for the easy stuff first." Ken Olsen messed up by not embracing personal technology, other than that I had fun as a tech. DECNet and DECNet/VMS clusters were/are great technology, easy to setup but not too scalable. -ep

2. How many of the people complain that this is too warm:
a. are overweight, or
b. smoke, or
c. drink warm beverages and not the recommended 8 glasses of water a day, or
d. have high blood pressure, or
e. feel sleepy because they aren't getting the recommended 7-9 hours of sleep at night, or
f. not interested in what they are doing enough to stay awake.

a: no
b: no
c: the 8 glasses of water a day thing is an urban legend
d: no
e: no
f: no

And yet I'm comfortable at 70F and miserable at 78F. Furthermore, if you're cold, you can dress warmer. If I'm hot, my options are much more limited -- stripping naked at one's workplace tends to have negative repurcussions.

I think that there were very few people who were unhappy to see Saddamn go. On the other hand, the way Bush Did it sucked bigtime for a number of reasons -- including him causing a massive rise in extremism, both inside Iraq and outside.

Sorry to burst your bubble. Walt was cremated.

"I think it's less sixth sense and more the fact that some people just pay attention instead of shuffling around in a fog all day looking at their feet while they stroll (or follow other lemmings) right off the proverbial cliff."

Hackers are good at propogating myths too

Quote:
You see, Vicary lied about the results of his experiment. When he was challenged to repeat the test by the president of the Psychological Corporation, Dr. Henry Link, Vicary's duplication of his original experiment produced no significant increase in popcorn or Coca-Cola sales. Eventually Vicary confessed that he had falsified the data from his first experiments, and some critics have since expressed doubts that he actually conducted his infamous Ft. Lee experiment at all.

By your logic, there should be no debate about anything that you disagree with.

MTV and those wonderful emails rolling around are not debate--a debate has two or more opposing viewpoints. They are trying to scare gullable people (especially young people) into believing something that is unlikely by presenting one side and presenting false information as true. The fact that the Urban Legends site has as an entry & directly disproves some of the references MTV and others have made should be enough.

Perhaps most amusing:
Anyone who thinks that the youth of America are going to take a politician's word on this topic is living on another planet.

Yeah because MTV most certainly wants kids to think for themselves... So long as they listen to the music and watch exactly what they are spoonfed. And go out and be good consumers. MTV not only knows their viewers will take whatever they hear on TV as true, they bank on it.

"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."
"The future will be better tomorrow."
"We have a firm commitment to NATO. We are part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are part of Europe."

"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts."
"The future will be better tomorrow."
"We have a firm commitment to NATO. We are part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are part of Europe."

1. "Oh no! My wrecked car is on fire! The flames will engulf me in moments! I'd crawl away, but this accursed seatbelt binds me into the fatal seat. If only there was some quick way I could release it... some kind of
2. button I could press to open the belt! But it's not to be. Goodbye cruel world!"

1. "Oh no! My wrecked car is on fire! The flames will engulf me in moments! I'd crawl away, but this accursed seatbelt binds me into the fatal seat. If only there was some quick way I could release it... some kind of
2. button I could press to open the belt! But it's not to be. Goodbye cruel world!"

Not all nuclear waste is "highly toxic". The NRC differentiates among 3 distinct types of nuclear waste:

1. High-level waste; Spent nuclear fuel that can't be reprocessed, and waste from reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. The reprocessing waste is much more dangerous than the spent fuel. Commercial reprocessing is currently not practiced in the United States, however significant quantities of high-level radioactive waste are produced by the defense reprocessing programs at Department of Energy facilities, such as Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina, and by commercial reprocessing operations at West Valley, New York. United States policies governing the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste are defined by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 as amended. This act specifies that high-level radioactive waste will be disposed of underground, in a deep geologic repository and that Yucca Mountain, Nevada, will be the single candidate site for characterization as a potential geologic repository.

2. Low-level waste; Items that have become contaminated with radioactive material or have become radioactive through exposure to neutron radiation. This waste typically consists of contaminated protective shoe covers and clothing, wiping rags, mops, filters, reactor water treatment residues, equipments and tools, luminous dials, medical tubes, swabs, injection needles, syringes, and laboratory animal carcasses and tissues. The radioactivity can range from just above background levels found in nature to very highly radioactive in certain cases such as parts from inside the reactor vessel in a nuclear power plant. There are three existing low-level waste disposal facilities in the United States that accept various types of low-level waste. All are in Agreement States.

3. Uranium mill tailings; Ore residue that contains the radioactive decay products from the uranium chains (mainly the U-238 chain) and heavy metals. To provide for the disposal, long-term stabilization and control of these mill tailings in a safe and environmentally sound manner and to minimize or eliminate radiation health hazards to the public, Congress enacted the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 (UMTRCA). UMTRCA charged the EPA with the responsibility for issuing generally applicable standards for control of uranium mill tailings. There are four Agreement States --Colorado, Illinois, Texas, and Washington-- that license "Atomic Energy Act section 11e.(2)" material (i.e., certain mill tailings and related waste containing thorium or uranium).

The vast majority of nuclear waste is low-level waste, and most of it is not radioactive, per se. It's just been contaminated with radioactive substances. And of that which is radioactive, much if it is surprisingly safe, if you don't eat it, or breathe it in. Alpha particle emissions can't penetrate human skin. Plutonium is an alpha-only emitter. And plutonium is less chemotoxic than caffeine.

CO2 is also highly toxic.

Main Entry: toxic
Pronunciation: 'täk-sik
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or caused by a poison or toxin
2 : affected by a poison or toxin
3 : POISONOUS

Carbon dioxide is toxic.

Your friend has been the victim of job security bullshit. Or, you have. There is no scientific basis to differentiate between toxic waste and waste that is merely "hazardous". CO.2 is toxic. It's that simple. If you have waste CO.2, that's toxic waste. In a sealed room you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die of asphyxiation from the lack of oxygen.

For sake of reference, the suffocation incident was at Lake Nyos in Cameroon and is documented at http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/smother.asp . 1,746 people killed in a matter of minutes... evidence of how scary Mother Nature can be. Although, to be fair, death was apparently very swift and likely painless.

Just wanted to quickly note that your sig:

Kerryisms: "We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."

is also a "simple falsehood--a lie", or more accurately, an urban myth. That same quote has also be attributed to President Bush, but as reported by snopes, it's actually from former Republican Vice-President Dan Quayle.

John Kerry didn't say that.

This was apparently well before the extremely controversial things that Jane Fonda did, and Kerry was there as a member of VVAW, along with lots of other Vietnam Veterans who opposed the war. And as far as I know they Kerry and Fonda may have even spoken directly to each other at that time, and have no other known association with each other. I went to several speeches in college given by people whose politics I agree or disagree with to various extents. So that means I'm in bed with them now?

Versions of this legend have been circulating for several years now, as indicated by the e-mail's reference to Kentucky Fried Chicken's "recent" name change, an event that occurred back in 1991. Earlier versions of the tale featured six-legged chickens ("How do they taste?" "Dunno; no one's ever been able to catch one") or birds so plumped up by chemicals that their gigantic breasts made it impossible for them to keep their balance well enough to walk...

Nothing like the Frankensteinian laboratory scenario described here is taking place, however. Raising chickens that have been genetically modified so that they are born without beaks, feathers, or feet, or with additional legs is still beyond the reach of modern science for the time being (although selective breeding has been used to enhance some features, such as breast size), nor did the University of New Hampshire perform a "study of KFC." As well, the claims about Kentucky Fried Chicken's name change are easily belied...

Links on KFC's web site (such as the About KFC page and the KFC Nutrition Facts pages) clearly describe their product as "chicken" numerous times, something they could hardly get away with if the government were prohibiting them from using that word. And the KFC web site can also be reached through the domain name kentuckyfriedchicken.com.

Last updated: 9 October 2000
The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/kfc.htm

Snopes reference to this

I've been tempted by Tom Bihn's laptop bags. Has anyone used them?

ObTangent - Tom Binh's bags got some press because of their French instructions.

In case you've forgotten he, or at least his wife, owns one.

Wrong.

~Philly

The 5.4% number is not counting all those people out of work for longer than six months.

Nor did Bill CLintons 6.7% whats your point?

Gore never said that.

Or stuck in a disposal.

It's amazing to me how popularity can overshadow authority on the web. Your site might be completely irrelevant, but if it's popular it will probably show up high in the search results. Google does an excellent job most of the time, but there are a few notable exceptions.

"Laura Bush was the one to violate the speed limit by 100KM/r, drunk, and kill that guy"
Well, perhaps not drunk and with speed illedgable but she did kill one person (Michael Douglas).

No, this is all because Al Gore invented the Internet. Bush needs to destroy it before he is fired, to be "fair and balanced".

that the secret plan is to pass those bills and have a fully operating draft by june of this year.

Given how many paniced brothers and sisters of mine received that e-mail, the Republicans did the right thing.

I used Google and I still don't believe you:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/elevator.as p

BTM

I admit to having used that same tactic, I don't miss a chance to post "Hitler was a vegetarian" comments.

For those who are gullible enough to fall for that:

Snopes

-Floridian in the path of three of the four hurricanes.

Post Script: Any politician in Florida will tell you that a hurricane will actually benefit the incumbent. It means aid checks will be paid to thousands of people, the politicians get a nice photo op, and it gives people a sense of "This politician helped me out in a time of need!"

The War of 1812, a draw...

In a nutshell, the US declared war. They _invaded_ Canada and had their ass handed to them in a serious of land engagements (but they defeat the invincible British Navy in numerous skirmishes). In the obscure "Battle of Bladensburg", British forces burn down the White House, for which it didn't get it's name. It ended in stalemate and a treaty was signed which effectively legitimized American Independence.

Yep that's a solid win according to Webster (of the dictionary/companion to american history fame). Interesting how history is re-written by the "victor", or is it guy with the largest mouth.

Did they model the tourists on kangaroos?

What's bemusing to a European eye is that it seems to be the places which are most likely to be devastated by global warming that are most likely to vote for Bush.

Are you kidding me? You need to get your European eye checked then. Pretty much ALL major cities and areas around them vote democrat (after all, welfare spending buys votes), and there are a lot of coastal cities that are going to be screwed with higher sea levels. Nice try though.

Further more, in case someone brings it up: no the hurricanes didn't target Bush counties.

Caesar's quote reffered in that article is even better

I mean, REALLY! What sort of /. reader HASN'T heard of Bonsai Kitten? Next, you'll be asking what HHGttG stands for.

Not quite.

I was kind of confused, because it's been well known (well, I've known for several years) that both Coke and Pepsi sell tap water for their bottled water. Of course, I also live one town over from the Pepsi bottling plant that serves the New England region.

It makes logical sense - they need to have this filtered water to begin with anyway. All Dasani and Aquafina are is the base water the two companies start with for making all their beverages, plus some minerals for "taste."

But it turns out that in the UK they also managed to add twice the legal limit of bromate, which is a carcinogen. I guess they wanted to hark back to the days when the Coca in Coca-Cola stood for Cocain.

Isn't this the Bush admininstration in a nutshell? If you disagree with us, you are un-American, disloyal, unpatriotic.

And what happened then? We decided not to take him out, because our president at the time had at least a shred of intelligence and could forsee the consequences:

"Trying to eliminate Saddam .. would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible ... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq ...there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."

- George H. W. Bush

...a thorough debunking

So, the next time you see a pervert, go up and shake his hand, and tell him "Thank you for your contribution to society".
Just be sure to wash your hand afterward.

Do you realize that all the practical innovations that have taken off on the internet had something or the other to do with pr0n ?. Think about pay-per-month websites, streaming video, P2P (look at gnutella statistics).

Do it for the children is so abused like the "Those who don't are traitors" flavour of patriotism (I know I linked a swastika, but you have to admit the striking similarity). !. If children are seeing pr0n on the internet , why are the parents blaming the internet for this and NOT THE CHILDREN OR THEMSELVES ?. Take some responsibility for your own children at least, not strike down some ISP (if I read it right, TFA means "screw the small ISP" more than "protect the children").

Thanks for that, Karl Rove. Please back that assertion up with facts. Because it sure seems to anyone who's actually paying attention that there's a huge disparity between Bush and Kerry. Let me list just a few of the differences that I've observed.

Kerry actually mentioned science in his DNC acceptence speech. Kerry actually mentioned his web site in his DNC acceptence speech. Kerry actually saved the lives of several people in Vietnam and afterwards. Kerry is a documented war hero. Everyone who was actually there at the time says so. (Lots of people who weren't there and just happen to be funded by wealthy Republicans from Texas claim otherwise.)

Meanwhile Bush's favorite philosopher is Jesus, which is fair enough. Lots of Christians love Jesus. But Bush can't name anything Jesus ever said, let alone abide by His word. Still, Jesus is a good name-drop sop to the sacreligious right for him, so he'll continue to use that line.

Bush has never saved anyone's life. Bush started a preemptive war that has so far resulted in over 1000 American deaths and at least ten times that number of Iraqi deaths -- including innocent women and children.

Come on, man, pick up the beat. Kerry is much superior to Bush. Don't listen to the right-wing talking heads. Think for yourself.

Snopes suggests that this is a move "by Democrats seeking to make an anti-war statement": http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/draft.asp.