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All that for a few thousand carribou, a few hundred foxes and rodents, and some bears.

Either you are very poorly informed or you're intentionally spreading disinformation! According to this there are 195 bird species alone, most of whom nest there to raise their young. You have also left out many of the mammals living there like walrus, spotted seal, ringed seal, bearded seal, beluga whale, gray whale, and bowhead whale. There are also at least 14 species of fish and likely many plants and insects that are below your notice. Most people are woefully uninformed about how rich in species even seemingly harsh environments can be!

We should view this Mexican decriminalization of narcotics in light of the recent shockingly bloody drug war. "Ever since President Felipe Calderon began the war in 2006, more than 12,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence - most of them in fighting between competing cartels."

Notable Mexican exports:

1. Crude oil ...US$30.3 billion (15.3% of Mexico to U.S. exports, up 31.8% from 2005)
2. Car parts & accessories ... $21.8 billion (11%, up 5.7%)
3. Video equipment (e.g. DVD players) ... $14.6 billion (7.4%, up 38.3%)
4. Passenger cars ... $14.2 billion (7.2%, up 31.2%)
5. Other complete & assembled vehicles ... $9.6 billion (4.8%, up 20.2%)
6. Electrical apparatus & parts ... $8.5 billion (4.3%, up 15.1%)
7. Telecommunications equipment ... $7.0 billion (3.5%, up 41.2%)
8. Engines & parts ... $5.0 billion (2.5%, up 5.6%)
9. Computers ... $4.3 billion (2.2%, up 3.7%)
10. Miscellaneous household goods (e.g. clocks) ... $4.2 billion (2.1%, down 6%)

Get it? I've never heard of a violent cartel of clock part manufacturers' cartel, but then, clocks don't exist only on the black market. It is not the drugs that invite violent cartels, it is the black market that attracts that element. For example, when did America have violent alcohol cartels? Only when alcohol was illegal.

And no responsibility either?

If you get hit by a car, you cannot sue the driver for damages. But the state will sue the driver in criminal court(I think that part is the same in the USA).

I've never heard of the state suing the driver for damages, but the injured can. That's how the medical bills were paid. Unfortunately they didn't have enough insurance coverage to take care of me the rest of my life. That would be a problem whether the injured party or the government sued.

Why would the employer should pay?

It's called responsibility. If the employer had tried to check into employees but didn't find any warning then I'd agree they shouldn't be on the hook. I'd instead hold the person who drove responsible. However the person who hit me had a record of trouble. He left his own state and moved to mine because his state issued an arrest warrant in his name. He had caused accidents before, and he had been taken to the hospital more than once. He was a diabetic but did not take care of his diabetes.

Why would I start a business if one employee can wreck my business if he doesn't behave correctly?

I can say the same about starting a business in Europe. The number 1 country in health care rankings in the previous link was France. A few years ago there were widespread riots in France by the youth. Why did they riot? Because the government was going to make it easier for employers to fire employees under the age of 26, right now it's hard to fire them. My sister's a CPA, Certified Public Accountant, who along with friends started their own accounting business. In doing so they created jobs for others. I doubt she would have started the business if she couldn't fire bad employees easily. It seems that under European rules businesses almost go bankrupt before being able to fire bad employees.

Falcon

Do you watch motor racing? Many times unnecessary bumps occur. Trash talking before the race, trash talking after the race. If you throw your hat in the ring then its what you get. It doesn't disappear because a few racers decide its not 'honourable'. http://nascar.suite101.com/article.cfm/tony_stewart_kurt_busch_feud Same goes for boxing with the odd illegal hit slipping in here and there. He went out of his way to illicit an emotional response to make others players react and play the game as intended. The article states that his behaviour encouraged them to gang up and take him on thus aligning then with the intentions of the PvP area. The 'v' in PVP stands for versus. This idea of 'player rules' is a concept, just like facing the door when in an elevator and not turning around to look at the people behind you. Because heaven forbid they have self esteem issues and believe in some unwritten 'rule' that it's wrong to look at a person. Further the PIT maneuver is countered with the lead car breaking at the last minute and turning into the pursuit car thus 'Pitting' the initial pitter. If this is allowed within the rules as established by the track owner then fair play, live by the sword... die by the sword. Or as Truman would say "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen".

Don't say that he's hypocritical
  Rather say that he's apolitical
  "Vunce ze rockets are up, who cares vere zey come down
  "Zats not mein department!" says Werner von Braun

'Compare that with East Germany, in which the Stasi managed to tap, at most, about 100,000 phone lines -- a gargantuan task that required 2,000 full-time technicians to monitor the calls,'

Comparisons with Nazi Germany be damned.

American much?

Would you like a map and such as?

Tax law is an excellent way to go after the RIAA in response to these kinds of cases. Some RIAA activities could fall into the category of racketeering. They have certainly committed violations of anti-trust laws. (price fixing...) I can even imagine cases where an individual is hurt on a shattered legally purchased CD, forcing the RIAA to decide whether the consumer buys the content (in which case, fair use laws apply), or whether the consumer purchased the media (in which case the record companies should be liable for damages caused by defective, dangerous products.) If the RIAA says, 'we own both' then consumers should be able to sue upwards of $2 million for damages arising from the content as well as any possibility the media itself is unsafe. Are they willing to take back millions of CDs worth trillions of dollars (using their math) if it is found, for example, that the aluminum and plasticizers in the CDs are found to be hazardous to human health? This sounds far fetched, but anyone who understands CPSIA, the typical badger-brained congressional response to the issue of chemicals in imported children's toys, this may be a possibility. From the CPSIA FAQ:

Does the new requirement for total lead on children's products apply to children's books, cassettes and CD's, printed game boards, posters and other printed goods used for children's education?
In general, yes. CPSIA defines children's products as those products intended primarily for use by children 12 and under.

Crock, eh?

Mechanics have been WELL aware of the problems caused by ethanol (particularly in boat, small engine, and commercial engine applications) for many years, but mechanics don't make public policy.

The 30-percent mileage drop appears to be worst-case, but the mechanical and corrosion problems are very real. I don't own a boat, and I can refit my older rides with ethanol-compatible carb (Holley for the trucks and S&S for for the Harleys) kits , but the MILLIONS of people who own engines too complex to easily refit with pumps, lines, seals and injectors will be screwed if the ethanol content goes up.

I'll make enough dough wrenching on the side off this to update my late model vehicles.:P

Example problems:

http://boatingsailing.suite101.com/article.cfm/ethanol_fuel_problems_for_boaters

Glenfiddich is far and away the most common single malt around, at one point accounting for over 1/3 of all single malt sold (it's around 20% these days), and for many people their first (and often only) taste of single malt. I haven't tasted everything they've ever made, of course, but in general, it's the Coca-Cola or Heineken of scotch. In its basic expression, it's a common, nondescript scotch, and regardless of your tastes in scotch, your money can be better spent elsewhere. Most bars in NYC will carry a few single malt scotches in their basic expressions: Glenfiddich, The Glenlivet, The Macallan, Oban, and Laphroaig are frequently available in that order - which is roughly the reverse of my preference (though Oban is arguably the "best" of these). Of course the issue is figuring out what taste you like. :-) Going to a bar with a good selection and drinking responsibly with a lot of water* (good water is very important to whisk(e)y at every stage) is a great way to start; in Manhattan, dba (a great place when not busy) and The Brandy Library, among others, are known for their wide selections. Additionally, small taster bottles and whisky conventions are very good ways to "work" on this. Do not get drunk on whisky. It can and will destroy you, and you are wasting good booze.

Glenfiddich is a brand and a distillery which has produced many different versions - the term "expressions" is usually used - of single malt scotch for over 100 years. I am curious about their Havana Reserve, not enough to import a bottle, but enough to order a glass next time I'm out of the U.S.

*As shown in that link, snifters are used for tasting and judging scotch. Most bars will serve in rocks or old fashioned glasses; there's nothing wrong with this and you will draw stares asking for a snifter, depending on the place. Snifters (or even certain types of wine glasses in a pinch) do have real advantages: the alcohol is both warmed and the vapors are more concentrated through the smaller opening. Remember, most of the distinctiveness you experience in food and drink is in the complexity of smell - not taste, which is a comparatively basic sense in man.

You can. Notice the third or so bullet down: http://weightloss.suite101.com/article.cfm/unexplained_weight_gain

Now, we're not talking third world starvation... but a mild starvation mode (eating, but not enough for basic body function) that causes the body to hold onto fat.

Seriously, you need to do some research. This is pretty well accepted by the medical field.

A desert does not describe the temperature of a region but the (lack of) rainfall/moisture.
http://desertgardens.suite101.com/article.cfm/definition_of_a_desert (link found using Google).

And besides, put the containers underground and I'm pretty sure that "hot" you refer to becomes a non-issue as well.

Well from what I learned on Tech TV it's really easy to break...

Most people today wouldn't even understand Shakespeare. You may get the words right, but you don't have the cultural background to understand much deeper.

AI: The Future of Computer Security?
"Imagine a computer so "smart" it can detect unauthorized intruders attempting to access confidential files. Imagine a computer that understands the harmfulness of viruses and protects against potential dangers transparently. Imagine a computer that can imagine!"

Does the Atom processor make the Internet faster? Because if not, I'm going back to a P4!

You're thinking of the Pentium !!!, which made the interwebs your bitch.

Arrg. Mr. Pedantic here this AM. But this really isn't cloning. You still have the host egg's mitochondrial DNA (and various bits of other important things). And of course the obligate "now we can clone dinosaurs and woolly mammoths. A pox on Steven Spielberg.

If his noodliness had intended mankind to clone things, he would have just left us at the amoeba stage.

Here in my home state(Oklahoma, USA), third party/independents have to get a minimum number of signatures on a petition (IIRC 50,000) to be included on the ballot-write-ins not allowed, as they are marked invalid*, or not counted*.

It works like this here in the UK, basically anyone* (the form only needs the signature of 10 (ten) eligible voters from your constituency) who can afford the £500 deposit can stand for election to the commons. It's even easier to stand at local elections (IIRC no deposit is needed)

*British Citizens over 18, and not in one of these categories.

Here in my home state(Oklahoma, USA), third party/independents have to get a minimum number of signatures on a petition (IIRC 50,000) to be included on the ballot-write-ins not allowed, as they are marked invalid*, or not counted*.

It works like this here in the UK, basically anyone* (the form only needs the signature of 10 (ten) eligible voters from your constituency) who can afford the £500 deposit can stand for election to the commons. It's even easier to stand at local elections (IIRC no deposit is needed)

*British Citizens over 18, and not in one of these categories.

"Advantages and Drawbacks

The single-payer system seems to have many significant advantages: Per capita spending on health care, for example, is much lower than it is in the United States, and the coverage is universal, whereas in the US health care is not guaranteed, except to those under the federal poverty level or to those over 65. Life expectancy is also much higher in Canada than in the United States; the Canadian average of 79 years comes in just below 80 years in the top-rated nation, Japan (life expectancy in the US is among the lowest in industrialized nations, only 76.7 years). Disadvantages of the Canadian system include fewer physicians per 1,000 population than the G7 average (though not substantially fewer than in the US), fewer scanners and MRI machines, slightly longer wait times for some procedures, and a comparable infant mortality and cancer mortality rate to the low-rated United States (although Canadaâ(TM)s heart disease mortality rate is significantly better)."

http://healthfieldmedicare.suite101.com/article.cfm/american_canadian_british_health_care_systems

I'll trade a few MRI machines for cheaper health care that is available to ALL people with longer life expectancy.

The dirty secret of neo-cons is though you may call poor people that eat organic bran muffins "elitists" you are in fact the elitist as you expect to be waited on hand foot as a function of income and you don't care if people have to die in the gutters for that to happen. And yes the lying douchbaggery of those who are actual elitists labeling those of us on the left who want more equality for all "elitists" does disgust me, it ought to disgust any thinking person IMO.

* water drains the other way if you're in Australia

No it doesn't. http://physics.suite101.com/article.cfm/thecorioliseffect

"One doesn't have to show up at the patent office with a working model. Sorry."

Actually, I never said that. But I wasn't clear, so I'll make a second attempt. My point was that you cannot patent mere hypothetical concepts. Like a "process by which a time machine works." Your patent should be able to actually work, if it does not, there is no actual process or method that you patented. Thus, unless it can actually work, the patent is invalid.

The most famous of such a patent involved patents over the automobile. Henry Ford was sued by George Baldwin Selden who held patents on the automobile. Ford's lawyers argued that the patents were nonsense and were not physically possibly to implement. The judge ordered Selden and his lawyers to prove the patents were valid by actually implementing them in a real world design. It did not fully work so Ford eventually won.

>45mpg is about average in Europe, and most of the average cars come from American manufacturers.

You must be kidding or not know what the word 'most' means. GM (only the Opel brand) and Ford with cars that are not on the market anywhere in the US have less than 21%.

Top Selling Cars in Europe in 2007 by Manufacturing Groups

The Volkswagen Group (VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Bentley, Bugatti & Lamborghini) comfortably maintained its lead as best selling car manufacturer in Europe by capturing 19.7% (20.2% in 2006) of the total market. Second biggest manufacturer was the French PSA Group (Peugeot & Citroen) with 12.8% (12.9%) of the European market followed by Ford with 10.5% (10.4%), GM with 10.2% (10.2%), and Renault with 8.7% (9.2%).
http://internationaltrade.suite101.com/article.cfm/top_selling_cars_in_europe_in_2007

"Law" is old terminology and an artifact of the 1800's and before. It doesn't mean anything different than theory.

http://physics.suite101.com/article.cfm/theory_vs__hypothesis_vs__law
"Back when Newton declared his laws, he believed them to be absolute descriptions of how the universe worked. At the time, they were irrefutable. We now know that his laws are in fact approximations, rules that work when describing motion on the macroscopic scale but which break at the quantum scale.

Since that time, science has gotten warier about describing anything as being absolute."

However-- the transition still isn't complete. It's a linguistic work in progress. The "Law" of gravity turned out to be valid only under special circumstances. It's invalid where space is warped or speed is high. It's refutable.

Actually, it's not that easy. If a company trades with Cuba and the US, then they can be fined in the US. For instance, Iberia was fined by the US in 2004. Some even think, that the embargo has a completely different side effect

It can easily be seen that he/it is arrogant to a degree I would characterize as likely pathological. The number of flaws, the continued misunderstanding or apparent blindness to logical example, a stated purpose which seems to be made up as it goes along according to the needs of the moment, and a generally vile behavior, make me now wonder if the subject was in fact a properly functioning human being at all.

It would take all night to illustrate each and every example of the flawed thinking evidenced here, and all of the next morning to answer the many flawed questions posed. --And to an individual of this nature, that would be energy utterly wasted, --and it is why, I now suspect, the subject was inserted into my life at this critical time. --That is, to waste and diffuse energies which are at the moment sorely needed elsewhere. Interestingly enough, I've had several other heavy-hitter time-wasters horn into my life in the last twenty-four hours. It's been a real bug-shoot!

So Cheers all; I'm going to leave things here, but expect some form of rhetoric from this unity100 character in response to this post. Read whatever is offered at your own risk, but be certain to remember this toxic creep started by promoting mass suicide and continues to do so. Psychopaths are generally well-informed, very intelligent, and very good at sowing confusion and despair. However, over the course of the above dialogue, the endless logical problems are clearly evident to the observant reader. Stay focused and take care. You are loved.

--I've got to go take a shower now. Brrr!

-FL

This is real scary. According to National Association of Wheat Growers, "The United State would also be highly vulnerable to Ug99, with recent assessments suggesting that more than 50% of hard winter wheat and more than 75% of hard spring wheat acreage are currently planted to varieties that are susceptible to Ug99". (I'd post the reference link, but the filter complained about the length!)
According to this page , world wheat reserves are the lowest in 25 years. I would not trust trying to buy one's food on the global market anytime soon.

The first written account of variolation describes a Buddhist nun practicing around 1022 to 1063 AD. She would grind up scabs taken from a person infected with smallpox into a powder, and then blow it into the nostrils of a non-immune person. By the 1700's, this method of variolation was common practice in China, India, and Turkey. In the late 1700's European physicians used this and other methods of variolation, but reported "devastating" results in some cases. Overall, 2% to 3% of people who were variolated died of smallpox, but this practice decreased the total number of smallpox fatalities by 10-fold. The History of Smallpox

It is a bit of a strtch to call the smallpox vaccine an "invention."

Jenner simply observed that those who survived the less dangerous cowpox were immune to smallpox. His test subject was an eight year old boy. The ethics and methodology of his experiment were questionable even in 1796.

Throughout the nineteenth century you could have a perfectly rational fear of vaccination.

There was no mature germ theory of disease before the 1860s. Late Germ Theory of DiseaseThere was no federal regulation of vaccination before 1902:

The Biologics Control Act was passed in the United States on July 1, 1902 after two incidents involving the deaths of children caused by contaminated vaccines. The first involved The horse named Jim whose tetanus contaminated serum was used to produce a diphtheria antitoxin which caused the deaths of thirteen children in St. Louis, Missouri. The second involved contaminated smallpox vaccine which killed nine children in Camden, New Jersey. Both incidents were attributed to failure of proper procedures and testing by local officials. Biologics Control Act

More often than you think.

And that's just with a few minutes searching google.

It isn't MySpace's fault that it attracts young teenagers and with them, the predators that prey on them, but this is a real problem. It isn't a technical problem, but a social problem and needs to be treated as such.

This is the same judge who decided information stored in RAM is easy to document and filter.

Since that topic has been expounded upon, here are some articles about the judge in the case:

1. Judge dismisses trial for prosecutor's misconduct
Here, she dismissed a case when the prosecutors offered a plea agreement to a witness so he could not testify for the defense.

2. Notorious BIG Trial mistrial declared
In this instance, she declared a mistrial when LAPD was withholding evidence from the trial.

3. Pooh Trial Thrown out (heh heh)
A trial involving the Winnie the Pooh was ruled in favor of Disney after the family was found to have "tampered" with files at Disney.

The judge has a love for evidence. Torrentspy shoulda known what would happen if they messed around with it.

one quick reference here
There are various accepted abbreviations for the word mathematics, and one is as good as any other. In Germany, the abbreviation is "Mathe," in Britain and Canada, it is "maths," and in the USA, it is "math."

/tsg/

And here's proof that time perception is a completely subjective matter...

Does this involve the VMO (vomeronasal organ), which allows mice to detect pheromones, or is it a different olfactory structure?

If so, it not only stops mice from fearing cats, but also makes them GLBT

Sure, 'cause no one would think to pick a mailbox lock, would they...?

Most [Australians] are descended from the best and brightest who escaped the shitty hell of other nations, such as your own.

Why don't you stupid fucking yanks ever mention how you are all the offspring of a bunch of fucking religious nutters?

Or what about mentioning the genocide you perpetrated on the Native Americans?

If you want someone to laugh at, take a look at the fucking inbred retarded rabble across the Tasman Sea, in New Zealand. They actually believe they are still a pommy colony! The place is like a Coronation Street fan convention.

Australia, the country you are lamely trying to make fun of, out America'd America decades ago.

Or did it not occur to you just why it is that Americans spend so much time obsessing about us?

It's called Spectroscopy, and is extremely cool stuff. It's used in everything from detecting compositions of stars/planets to identifying really old manuscripts.

Here is an excellent article to get you started:

http://astrophysics.suite101.com/article.cfm/water _on_hd_209458b

And, of course:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spectros copy&oldid=143266670

"Britain" didn't pay for tickets. Individuals did. You don't need to factor in the wealth of the entire economy, just the wealth of individuals.

Economics comparisons like that are about purchasing power parity, usually on commodity prices. So, you could expect that the 2-20k per ticket could have paid for, say, 1k to 10k dozen eggs.

Let's see. It'll be hard to compare with present day incomes because of the great wealth disparity back then, but let's just look at the poor. An agricultural laborer made 8-10 pence per day. Let's say 0.08 pounds per day with 320 days per year -- 25 pounds per year. Adjusting for inflation, ~$4,500 dollars per year.

In short, even the poor, if they could manage to save up any relevant percentage of their income, could have afforded to go.

Sound like the present to you?

on your sig and say that not only is DRM theft but very notion of intellectual property is theft; moreover, in matters of abundance and excess resources the addition of markets only serves to create poverty, not wealth.

            Yes indeed, the problem surely goes well beyond Microsoft and Steve "McCarthy" Balmer.

          But I want to point out something that I haven't seen so far although it is alluded to in some comments lower down a bit and that is the lack of software patent protections in Europe to date. I think this is a pretty major hole in this plan. If they really wanted to make this stick, they'd wait till a time when the forces of darkness push through some kind of onerous software protection scheme in the EU. The US is certainly Microsoft's largest market, but if you look at global sales such as in this link you see that a third of MS's market is outside the US and you'd think they might want to close up that little hole before they started whooping up the war cries.

Were visiting dignitaries allowed a glass of wine with dinner while visiting the White House in 1978? Nope! Alcohol was banned in the White House by Carter.

I can't find any reference for that. Are you sure you are not confusing this with Rutherford Hayes' wife Lemonade Lucy in 1878?

As an avid homebrewer myself, I am certainly appreciative of Carter's signature on HR1337 in 1978 that legalized brewing beer in your home.

Its. Its. Its. Particularly ironic as you're mocking someone else's presentation skills.

A simple lesson
It's means "It is"
You basically wrote "1997 wants it is forum software back"

Resources for you: 1 2 ... aww hell, just use google and search its vs it's

According to this article, the movie was singled out as a reason for Dreamworks' improved performance in 2006.

That's ALMOST as bad as when people use "i.e." instead of "e.g.", e.g. "Ie: 'I would of been rich by now if i hadn't...'" (explanation).

Any attempt at change is to be welcomed; perhaps the new way will accept some well-considered ideas of how to allow learning. Public education systems have a tendency to continue doing the same thing over decades, even when research has shown that better techniques are available.

This is most clearly shown by Dr. Montessori. Her research is commonly used by the private schools that bear her name, but hardly any of her work has made its way into public education, though it's had as long as a century to gain acceptance.

The teachers' unions, like any organisation, are interested in maintaining their own importance. Since Montessori's technique has primarily-uninvolved "directresses" instead of domineering "teachers", these unions are threatened by advancement. It's no coincidence that private schools usually don't require teachers to be certified.

One fascinating experiment is being tried in Edmonton, Alberta, where something resembling free markets are giving parents the ability to choose between public schools: see here.

A competitor could've stepped in and done it but they didn't.

Actually, a competitor did - Sun - when they bought StarOffice and spawned OpenOffice.

If we set the value of the two as being on par, then OpenOffice has donated more $$$ in termw of word processors, spread sheets, etc., than Microsoft. Also, this "donation" didn't cost Microsoft $30 million. I'd be surprised if the hard costs were over $30,000 (and that the costs of publicizing it are more than the "donaton" itself) - a cost that is a tax writeoff; ultimately, the taxpayers are helping fund it.

Also, you may have forgotten about this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/21/red_hat_tr umps_ms_poor/ and http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/computing_life /85518. The money that would have been "saved" on OS and Office would have gone towards 800,000 more computers. This wasn't a punishment - this was a great way for Microsoft to get into a lot of schools with the backing of the government, and get a $550,000,000 discount on their fine. What a screw-up.

Here goes a curious fact about the shape of raindrops and its effect on radio waves.

Many people think that raindrops have the typical shape of a tear, others think by looking at the rain itself that the drops are vertical lines of water. The first impression comes from pictures and literature, the second is caused by the fact that the raindrops fall at high speed, thus appear vertically blurred.

In fact, the tears start up being roughly spherical and end up becoming flat because of the air resistance.
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/science_sky/91 232/1

When these water drops are inside an electromagnetic field, electric currents are induced on its surface which attenuate the field. Due to the flat shape, it results that the horizontal component of the electric field is the one which gets attenuated most.
This means that in order to minimize attenuation in a radio link during rain, it is convenient to use "vertical polarization" (which means that the electric field vector at any point within the electromagnetic field is contained in the vertical axis only) which is the component of the electric field which is least attenuated by rain.

I found a fairly good review of Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL. All sorta recent versions, too. You can read it here:

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/oracle/115560

However, it doesn't really get into nitty gritty. Nice primer, though.

-Tony

"Fahrenheit 451 was the product of five short stories. One short story that was used was inspired after Bradbury and a friend were walking around Los Angeles late one night. A police officer stopped and questioned them. A smart-alecky Bradbury told them they were just walking and explained how illogical it was for them to be planning a robbery, especially on foot. The police officer said, "Just walking? Well, don't do it again." Afterward, Bradbury wrote "The Pedestrian," a story about a future time when all pedestrians are treated as criminals. A political magazine called The Reporter published it after numerous rejections. "The Pedestrian" became the foundation on which Bradbury built his protagonist, Montag, of Fahrenheit 451."

From here.

Russian translates YOU!

Seriously though:

Does this have anything to do with the Adlai Stevenson incident?

"
"Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U.S.S.R. has placed and is placing medium- and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba?... Don't wait for the translation! Yes or no?" Zorin responded, "I am not in an American courtroom, sir, and I do not wish to answer a question put to me in the manner in which a prosecutor does-" Then Stevenson interrupted and said, "You are in the courtroom of world opinion right now, and you can answer yes or no. You have denied that they exist, and I want to know whether I have understood you correctly.... I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over, if that's your decision. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room."
"

(Hilarious site: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/world_language s/36160)

I don't know about intelligent design (ID) as a theory, or the numerous flaws in evolution.. Most ID proponents have been attacking darwinian evolution on the irreduceable complexity theory which seems a flawed route to attack. To me what is troubling is the defense of darwinian evolution by the removal of ID or Creationism proponents

If the arena of ideas is open, why then the need to purge anyone from a dissenting base?

Why can't scientists yet perform abiogenesis (creating living material from nonliving matter) with all of our scientific knowledge?

I'd like to see some type of scientific dating of the alien spacecraft at area 51.