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There are plenty of European/Western scientists, that most would consider some of the greatest scientists in the world, believed in a Christian view of God. The two are not mutually exclusive. It seems to me that people that believe as you do are as ignorant as you believe Christians are. That is pretty sad.

Here is an article about a
chemical engineer/scientist that happened to be a Christian. Do you think he would have been more accomplished if he took on an atheistic view of the world? If so, why?

Given that inflation rate in the U.S. since September has risen to 4.7%, a pay raise of 3.2% this year would be tantamount to a pay cut. A subject of further worry should be the price of diesel, which has lately risen to ~$3.20, a price increase that has yet to trickle down and fully effect the cost of consumer goods. If this price increase reflects a permanent change, expect core inflation to rise even further.

You are getting into holier-than-thou territory here. Are you such an international expert on development that you can afford to make such statements without even trying to back them up with a few facts?

Remember that those states that are at the very bottom of the GDP/person ranking are among those that have been exploited the most by the West during and after the colonialist period, not to mention racked by war, disease, famine and natural disasters.

In fact the thinking has been going at the World Bank for some years that debt relief is the best way forward, to the point that world renowned Marxist-Trostysk-Leninist way way wayyyy to the left of the left (not) Paul Wolfvowitz, our new president of the WB, has taken upon himself to implement this idea and recently succeeded.

The idea is that those poorest states certainly have made mistakes in the past but that there is absolutely no reason why the new generations in those states should continue to pay forever for them, since they are already given a raw deal to start with.

If you think about it the same reasoning goes for welfare, to the point that even in one the most conservative and market driven economy on the planet, when decision makers sat down and thought about possible solutions, no one came up with a better solution.

You can't continue punishing people for mistakes they haven't commited forever. Doing so is inhuman and counterproductive.

Best.

Norm Coleman used to be in the Student Mobilization Committee, and if he ran for president I'm sure people would find out he was in the Socialist Workers Party as well. He is also Jewish, which means he may indeed run for president, but of course, he will never be president, of the US at least.

I seem to recall that they never get a good rating in any large scale disaster. The key people keep forgetting is that this disaster isn't just New Orleans, we are talking about a Federal Disaster area the size of the United Kingdom.

Now tell me, just what do you expect? The media is going to focus on the worst cases they can find because it sells ads.

The issue about the levees is being disputed by many sources now and more and more will come out. One interesting story http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation \archive\200509\NAT20050907a.html covers the fact that they don't spend most of their levee money on making it work!

Also LA has received more money Corps money than any other state in the last five years. Yes, they got more than even California did! The problem was that the money meant to shore up the levee system went to pork projects instead.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/125/5602732.htm l

I know its the in thing to bash Bush here but damn it get you facts straight. It seems anything labeled "Insightful" and has Bush's name in it is only so provided it attacks.

FEMA has sucked for ages and it never gets better in what we are shown. Yes they screw up, but damn look at what they have done in such a short time. Biloxi and the rest of Miss. sure in the hell didn't get a pass in this storm but the way everyone is acting you would think only NO was affected.

That's not the issue. The issue was that Mr. Chizen said something very inadvisable. His statement was immediately retracted by more sensible people at Adobe.

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If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.

Wow! Someone found some other pseudo-science: Dark chocolate is healthy.

P.R. agencies are often very successful at fraud.

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If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.

a comparison between the two would be great.

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If you support dishonesty and violence, don't say you are Christian.

I'm very interested in anyone's experience with Slashcode, as well.

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If you support dishonest and violence, don't say you are Christian.

Mod Parent UP!! Very interesting. I didn't know that AOL was pulling that with the CDs, as well.

I wonder about Ted Turner. Why did he sell to that old grey horse of a company Time-Warner?

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If you support dishonest and violence, don't say you are Christian.

The new research shows it to be about 7000 light years longer than previously thought, and at a 45 degree angle. That is what was new, not that the bar was there in the first place. I agree, poorly written blurb.

Saw it on the tribune earlier:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1556/5564676.ht ml

A local band in Minneapolis just got a cease and desist for using the name the Olympic Hopefuls.

http://startribune.com/stories/389/5529908.html
http://2024records.com/artistweb/thehopefuls/

Wrong, in the US it's established law:

From this Star Tribune article:

The band's lawyer, Dennis Pelowski, said it considered fighting the committee after receiving the initial letter this spring but backed down when he read up on the matter.

"The law is pretty clearly written," he said.

Many scientists and some of Mr. Barton's Republican colleagues say they were stunned by the manner in which the committee, whose chairman rejects the existence of climate change, demanded personal and private information last month from researchers whose work supports a contrary conclusion.

I was lucky to recently attend Al Gore's presentation on Global Climate Change. While I don't care about Global Warming at all (I see it as an eventual end of society and part of the Earth's history) but I did find that Al Gore's excellent multimedia presentation to be full of the very evidence that proves Global Climate Change is occurring and increasing in speed.

Why are these leaders creating issues for scientists unless they are trying to strongarm them? Were they seriously thinking that this data was created from false research? Antarctica is losing large slabs of ice at an alarming rate but it has nothing to do w/temperatures rising?

Again, Global Warming is something that's going to happen and it's inevitable, but we don't need to be harassing science because our political survival depends on it.

Best Buy and Target also will not carry A.O. rated games. They immediately moved to pull the GTA titles from store shelves already.

According to this article you are only renting the camera, and are supposed to give it back when you're done.

And an article in todays Star Tribune http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/5475334.htm l says that there's no security deposit, and you don't have to return it if it's broken. That doesn't sound like a rental agreement to me. Coupled with the fact that there's no rental contract, I'd say "rental" is just a convienent word to use for people to describe the arrangement.

So if I ask to borrow your car to drive 20 miles, and I don't sign anything, I can take your car on a 2000 mile trip, turn back your odometer, and get away with it?

This isn't an informal "borrow a car from a friend" relationship. This is a storefront where people buy things and if a contract is involved, it's spelled out quite clearly. In this case, they sell you the camera, and then hope you'll bring it back.

A contract doesn't have to be signed in order to be binding.

No it doesn't but you do have to have at least a verbal agreement to have a binding contract. Unless they say whenever you buy one of these things "buy buying this product you agree to return it" then you have no obligation whatsoever to return it.

Sure, you might get away with breaking it, but that doesn't mean you're not stealing.

Gee.. I thought stealing meant someone took something from you without you giving it to them, or selling it to them. Since CVS is actually selling these things to consumers, there's no "theft" involved. If you want to co-opt the word theft to your own personal definition, fine. But don't go around using it that way and expect people to agree with you.

Tell that to these guys:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/531/5438282.htm l

They planned a trip for more than 2.5 years to highlight global warming, and .... it failed because the weather conditions were too cold and bitter to continue.

There are a lot of other smaller cities that have already implemented this: http://chaska.net/
in Minnesota, and Minneapolis is planning on rolling out a city-wide privately owned network soon:
http://www.startribune.com/stories/789/5342733.htm l/

Cool stuff either way!

Here is a free link to the story.

Why not just combine this technology new way of detecting speech and this one citywide wireless access service and just deduct money directly out of our bank accounts every time we hum a copyrighted song?

The poster meant on the article itself, or did you even bother reading it to notice this?

fuckem, if their too narrow minded to accept that other people don't share the same views as them then fuckem, let them find a better religion where you can forgive instead of their sudo religion they are fighting for.

You see some people can manage to be civilised, even if their loved ones have been killed.

Unfortunately, our government and a large part of its electorate might not give a damn about what happens to the environment. The Christian fundamentalists believe that whatever environmental damage we do doesn't matter a bit because of the imminent Rapture and Armageddon. Read this recent article by Bill Moyers, he puts the current state of America into a new perspective... http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5211218.ht ml

Actually the Minneapolis Star Tribune has had this for awhile.
I haven't lived there for some time, but when I did, I used it daily, and I was impressed. It certainly seemed accurate, but if nothing else it gave me the impression I was saving time, and that's worth something. :)

Don't worry, it's just the administration keeping track of potential troublemakers. You wouldn't want those liberals on college campus to escape should they need to be rounded up in a time of crisis. At no point during their deportation to Gitmo will their Social Security Numbers be compromised.

Seriously, I'm not very surprised at this development given the recent George Will editorial complaining about the lack of diversity (read lack of conservative ideologues) among university faculty. I'm expecting that the administration will propose a new type of affirmitive action that will ensure that God-Fearing Creationists in the bioscience departments of public universities outnumber the heathen Darwinists.

Thanks for the link - lots of cool pictures, including this one. Going by the look on the feline's face, I can only guess that he/she was ready to go bananas do the full claws/hissing act.

...in his coat? This warrants a clear Slashdot story, but I will certainly not send it in(after 4 rejections, sigh).

I would call every slashdotter to get out his personal jamming device, and go to the next debate.

Heck, wouldn't it be kewl to instead of jamming it, to actually transmit your own answers to mr. Bush ?

Q: Gentlemen, what do you think of the leader of Afghanistan ?
K: I think he deserves all the support we got.
B: I ... eh... think Saddam Hussayn should lead Afghanistan to true freedom, like he has done before!

Q: Gentlemen, what is the message you would like to bring out to your voters ?
K: Make a choice for a new America, a shining star amongst nations.
B: I think .... eh .... we should vote for a Democrat government this time. I resign !

...I have never, ever, tried to "talk sense" into anyone. I don't think anyone should.

There are important practical reasons to discuss these things from early age onwards. In my experience, many religious people have not explored their beliefs in the context of reconciling those beliefs with reality. This is not to say that religion can not be reconciled with reality to a great degree, just that most of the people I've spoken with throughout my life have not made the attempt.

But this is very important when a significant number of people hold a worldview that is significantly informed by such a system of beliefs. Many of these religious people I've known draw conclusions from their basic set of religious beliefs that do not at all follow, on any variety of topics (evolution probably being the most prominent). It is important that people retain their ability to think critically alongside religious beliefs to ensure they don't begin using religion as a crutch, a stand-in for critical thought and reasoning.

Remember, Andrea Yates killed her children because she believed god told her it was the right thing to do. Many people scoff at this example initially until they consider my point from a philosophical perspective. If you believe in god, what if he did tell her to kill her children? Isn't it at least possible? Doesn't he work in mysterious ways, after all? And who are we, as a society, to question Yates' actions if she was working under a divine directive? Shouldn't we at least try to rule out this out as a possibility? How would we go about doing such a thing? If you are religious and you haven't thought about such knotty issues that come along with these religious beliefs, perhaps you should.

A physicist friend of mine recently said to me: It's very difficult to explain to someone why it's important to invest millions of dollars in keeping the Hubble telescope running when that person thinks there are physically incarnate beings flitting around called angels that influence their everyday lives in real, physical ways. [source 1] [source 2] He's right--a disconnect from reality can be very dangerous, even a very tiny disconnect, if it's believed by enough people.

I've been down in the basement of the building, see a few of the towers 1/2 loaded (at that time), along with the massive cooling system that was added to the building to keep those racks workings. Lift up a raised floor panel and the 95 LBS of me will get lifted off the ground (or so it feels).

Sadly, all 64 racks will never be in Roch, just not enough space.

Actually, StarTribune has one (crappy) pic of some towers.

That explains all the headlines:

Doctor shortage cripples Canadas free health care
Broken health care system
Canadian health care deal adds $14 billion to ailing fund Pact ...

Just because people want something for free, doesn't mean they can actually get it.

I can confirm that it is not fixed. Slashdot, as does startribune.com, load funny for me once in a while.

The City Pages here in Minneapolis was doing a promotion trying to encourage people to vote. They were giving away a free trip. The local paper ran a story about how this type of thing was illegal.....

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4956543.htm l

From that article...
""I Will Vote" promotion may run afoul of federal law that prohibits paying or accepting payment for voting or registering to vote.

"The law has been interpreted liberally so that 'payment' is construed to mean anything of value (even a candy bar or a cigarette -- something much less valuable than a trip to Iceland)," Kiffmeyer wrote."

As for your story about a Brazilian being detained for three days incommunicato - well, he should be glad he wasn't flying to France, where a guy was stuck in the terminal for 16 years. The fact is, every nation has border controls, and if someone suspicious is trying to get in, I want them to stop them. Either way, his story has nothing to do with the topic being discussed, which is stopping people at the ticket counter.

Really, this is all too tiresome to go thru in detail. Me, terrorized? You don't know me very well, do you? The world "has turned an ugly fac[e] toward USA"? Gee, and what was the face turned toward us during the G-8 summits a few years ago? How about the protests about debt relief? Or the pickets outside the airbases in Germany? Or the attacks on McDonald's franchises in France? The world is filled with jealous malcontents, and we are always going to be their target. The good news is that we designed the computer they use to connect to the Internet we created to coordinate the working on the banner that they print using the inkjets that we sell.

Finally, your comments about security show how little you understand it. Where to start...? Okay, the lock on your front door can be picked - so you might as well leave it unlocked, right? The goal of security is not perfect security, it is enough security. What we did before was inadequate, so we need to do more. If these additional measures are inadequate, then we'll do more again. But by your logic, we shouldn't do anything, because some guy on slashdot fantasized a storyline that defeated any measure except grounding all planes. Get real!

You just can't just have anyone wandering about nuclear plants, or onto planes while carrying bombs.
Let's not even worry about the legalities, but let's think about the usefulness of your statement.

Nuclear power plants can and should restrict who enters. The list of people allowed in the plant is small and known. The list of people carrying bombs on airplanes is small and unknown. Therefore, checking ID's makes sense to keep people out of nuclear power plants and checking people's bags for bombs makes sense in keeping bombs off of airplanes. Since no one's ID says "I AM CARRYING A BOMB" checking their ID is worthless for the purpose of keeping bombs off but is useful for infringing on civil liberties by preventing people who disagree with the government from traveling, and even people who are part of the government from traveling (Senator Ted Kennedy was recently put on the no-fly list - read about it here.)

If you would care to explain how checking ID's will keep bombs off planes I'm sure it would be very illuminating for all of the readers.

• Our rights are still being diminished, both by Ashcrofts & Blunketts and by corporate lackeys in the state and national legislatures.
• Bush is still on the warpath and in fact he's moving up to 100,000 U.S. soldiers out of Europe and Asia, possibly for more "adventures" in the Middle East
• SCO is still being generally evil, and no doubt is thinking up more desperate, frivolous lawsuits

Right now in Minneapolis you can get 13 weeks of the StarTribune for $1.00 a week. $13 for ~3 months of the weekly paper. To buy it from the paper box or the store will run you 50 cents a copy. Now even at the higher rate I don't see 50 cents as actually paying for the content. I would hazard a guess that the .50 is for paper, printing, delivery and a small cut to the seller. The content, I would surmize, is paid by ads. There are ads on the paper site regardless of whether you reg or not. What they want is to sell higher priced targeted ads. What I think we are saying is "Hey, I will look at your background noise, but could we do this a little less personally - after all you can't do this in print, and it is the same information - why is it that online you get more out of me?"

Sera

Hello everybody, this is my first post. I use to live in Milwaukee and I didn't like the remodel they done. The section in the library where the computer books where is now the book sorting place when they get returned.
I spent many hours standing (no chairs) in this small section of the library never getting bothered except the few who would walk down to use the rest room.
This section was the d. d. s. classification 000 generalities to some UFO books. COMPUTER BOOKS! Reading about my old Atari 800XL and 6502 Assembly Language Programming.
Anyways here is a link and a slice
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1557/4886667.ht ml "Katie Nelson, head of the audiovisual section at the Frank L. Weyenberg Library in Mequon, said the consensus there is that the companies ``emptied their vaults.'' Nelson said there was even mold growing on some of the 520 CDs received there, and less than half the shipment will be used."

Mold growing on some of the CDs, now that's funny!

http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/jul04/245182.asp? format=print "Of the 646 CDs that Menomonee Falls received, many will be placed in circulation, including music from Johnny Cash, Wynonna Judd and Louis Armstrong, Schall said. A few pop gems such as OutKast's "Stankonia" and recordings from Cat Stevens and Otis Redding are also likely to be hot items, Gay said."

I know there will be a few "late fees"!

B.A.

You list should include:

• All Bootable media that could be used to start an sftp session:
  • CDs
  • floppies
  • USB devices
• Anything that could be used to take a PC apart and steal it's hard drives:
  • Screw drivers
  • nail clippers
  • belts
  • paper clips
• Anything that could contain any of the above
  • Wallets
  • Gloves
  • Pants with pockets.
  • Shirts with pockets.

The ideal uniform for employees would look like this.

Sanitation presents special problems because janitors must carry large amounts of material around. The trash should be searched daily by trained and trusted ninja weasles.

Or, you could determine what information is important and make safeguarding it a specific responsibility of a specific person who is trained in how to protect the information. That training used to say that the information should be kept under lock and key. Today, that training should include keeping that information of networked M$ PCs and keeping PCs with sensitive information on them under lock and key. If other people have to work on those PCs, they should be supervised by a person with a clue. That way, anyone can bring anything into your building and you don't have to perform strip searches and the like.

1st Ave just lost the guy who's been running the club for the last 30 years. This is one of the last nails in the coffin of indy music in Minneapolis, and probably MN. Sure, bands are still going to play and write, but the locales have dwindled over the years. One of the few bars left with any integrity is the 400 Club in Mpls.

I've watched the slow dissolution of original music in MN for the last 5-10 years, and the clubs that host them replaced with Clear Channel owned properties and cover band havens.

I don't buy music from Best Buy, I don't support Clear Channel, and I ain't gonna be picking up any songs from Napster.

But someone will.

For the popular version, read Keanu Reeves bitching about what it's like to be an actor who's been thoroughly digitized.

• "From the directors, it's like 'Mwa-ha-haaa, now I can control you; I have you!' ... And it's designed so you really can't distinguish between the real actor and ones and zeroes. Closeups on faces and emotions coming through, some really remarkable scenes that the audience will never know there's nobody in it.

  There's a moment in the very beginning of the movie when Carrie-Anne [Moss]' character dives through the window. You see these two guns go by the camera, and the camera moves past her face. She goes out the window and down, and there is nothing real about that. Nothing. No guns, no girl, no window.

Games are running a few years behind that level of realism. They'll get there.

Of course you can fit a Viking into the dryer. Check out how looks when you take him out.

I can't speak for the UK, but since gas prices have gone up in the US for the past few months, SUV sales have dropped considerably. I also just heard a story about how the price of the criminally large and gas guzzling Hummer dropped recently because of low sales.

With gas prices so high in the UK I could see how increased prices wouldn't affect the very wealthy. In the US, however it's the middle class that own these evil, gas guzzling, more-likely-to-kill-people vehicles.

This made the Minneapolis Star Tribune home page.

Or try reading about it in the local paper the StarTribune story.

The bus drivers are on strike.

The Whole point of Go was to create the software and hardware together remember that IBM and Intel where involved. Microsoft persuaded Intel to reduce its contribution to the project which they did which killed the hardware side resulting in the failure of the software side. Once this happened neither IBM nor Intel would have wanted to work with Microsoft thus no hardware for PenWindows either.

Back then the hardware wasn't available. So quit the Microsoft bashing.

Again the point was to develop the hardware Microsoft stopped Intel from helping. It would only be Microsoft bashing if it was untrue. Quit the knee jerk response and find the facts.

extra note ran this through the spell checker and PenWindows is in there it even corrected the capitals

Just like everyone has his or her own corner of the Internet, is everyone trying to get his or her own little entertainment channel going? And are they expecting to be able to use the cable/dish companies to reach into the consumers' pocketbooks and siphon out money?

The cable and dish companies have monthly price points at which they market their offerings. They know that Grandpa Joe Innercity is just fine with local analog basic service for $11.99. Bob and Mary Suburban are willing to pay $44.99 to get ESPN and the Home and Garden Network in the standard package. Tom and Bridget Twohourcommuters will pay $79.00 to get movies. And of course, there is always a market for pr0n and sp0rts, for which some people will pay extra.

If every channel is demanding $1.00-$2.00 to get into the standard analog package and the provider needs to make money, then consumers are looking at $200 per month, which is an oppressive burden on the median income.

In Minneapolis/St. Paul, Victory Sports is the sole carrier of Minnesota Twins Major League baseball. None of the cable companies have even stepped to the bargaining table, as the $2.30 per month demanded by the channel is too high a price.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/465/4316582.htm l

Victory Sports and Viacom are both taking the stand that consumers are going to scream for these channels on their service. The cable/dish companies are going to rightly state that it will cost...A LOT. Then we will see where the screaming goes. In the meantime, to watch CSI Miami on CBS, I get 39 minutes of show and 21 minutes of commercials. The credits even get squashed as they roll by during the local news lead-in.

Just like everyone has his or her own corner of the Internet, is everyone trying to get his or her own little entertainment channel going? And are they expecting to be able to use the cable/dish companies to reach into the consumers' pocketbooks and siphon out money?

The cable and dish companies have monthly price points at which they market their offerings. They know that Grandpa Joe Innercity is just fine with local analog basic service for $11.99. Bob and Mary Suburban are willing to pay $44.99 to get ESPN and the Home and Garden Network in the standard package. Tom and Bridget Twohourcommuters will pay $79.00 to get movies. And of course, there is always a market for pr0n and sp0rts, for which some people will pay extra.

If every channel is demanding $1.00-$2.00 to get into the standard analog package and the provider needs to make money, then consumers are looking at $200 per month, which is an oppressive burden on the median income.

In Minneapolis/St. Paul, Victory Sports is the sole carrier of Minnesota Twins Major League baseball. None of the cable companies have even stepped to the bargaining table, as the $2.30 per month demanded by the channel is too high a price.

TV Viewers Beware: Sports Fees Ahead

Victory Sports and Viacom are both taking the stand that consumers are going to scream for these channels on their service. The cable/dish companies are going to rightly state that it will cost...A LOT. Then we will see where the screaming goes. In the meantime, to watch CSI Miami on CBS, I get 39 minutes of show and 21 minutes of commercials. Even the credits roll over with the local news.

HOWARD, Wis. -- A man and his wife ducked behind a refrigerator when bullets began exploding in their oven, authorities say. The Rest of the story