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yes, requiring things like proper electricity/water in our homes is a HORRIBLE thing.
O requiring wearing seat belts and having air bags. Horrible.
OR, requiring that ppl who are put under quarantine because they have any number of highly infectious diseases to remain in their homes, again, is a horrible thing.

I am guessing that you are not old enough to have witnessed any of these diseases. The last case of small pox in America was before I was born in 59.
However, I have known ppl with Polio. Likewise, I HAVE seen ppl die of Mumps, Hepatitis (I was not told what strain; she was a 12 y.o. friend of mine), and have seen adults with Chicken pox along with hep A. I've had several cousins/friends die of HiV, but little can be done there. This posting has a nice table that shows the number of lives saved yearly, as well as how many on current diseases
Requiring vaccines with only medical exceptions like Mississippi does, has not harmed anybody, though a group claims that 50 babies have died over 20 years. If they are correct, that would mean 2.5 babies / year, vs other states where even today, 10-50 die YEARLY in states that allow parents to opt out.

For starters, to finally get out from under the yoke of feudalism. No, I'm not kidding. 432 families own half the land in Scotland, which they then rent out to the peasants, I mean proles, I mean for a profit. Any time the Scots try and do something about it, it goes nowhere fast in parliament.

The political side would make more sense if Scotland was greatly different than UK culturally and had a significant short-term history of English subjugation.

Aside from the above, why is Scotland's desire for independence any different than Canada's? Or Australia's? Being a part of the UK was never a choice of the Scottish people.

The economics make less sense -- Scotland has been economically integrated with the larger UK for a long time.

The economically questionable part is not ditching the British Pound at the same time they're ditching the British Crown. Having a sovereign government without a sovereign currency can be extremely risky - just ask Greece or Ireland. Scotland should fare better, though, because of drilling opportunities in the North Sea.

Yucca became impossible when USGS scientists fabricated data. Now, we can never really know about any of the other science done there. The whole thing has to start over and it can't be Yucca because the temptation would be too strong to try to use some study or other that has already been done. Back to the drawing board. Mississippi says it does not want it. http://www.sunherald.com/2014/...

Ok. Compare any private industry - say UPS with the U.S. Postal service. Where do you think money is spent more wisely? Even when heavily subsidized by federal and state governments, the UPSP cannot turn a profit, they are in fact 15 billion dollars in debt today, meanwhile UPS and all companies like it turn a profit every year, have better customer service, sell a better product and are not forced by the government to go to work every day but rather they filling the needs of others just like you do when you go to work every day.

Everything can be done, and done better, on every level that "better" has a meaning without the interference of the government. But you seem equally convinced of your doctrine, so please point out an example for me where the government, without the aid of private industry (USPS for example) has been able to do anything better than the private sector. Also, the essay is not saying "government can't do it" it actually mentions and compares USPS, but it does say that what needs to get done will get done without the government and will be better because there are no fetters placed there by the government.

When was the last time you saw a right-wing group marching?

Today. There's also another one coming up this month. :)

Plus, you know, the Universe revolves around the Earth. Even the Sun Herald says so.

That's why we don't need science. Especially in Kansas.

DT (with tongue firmly planted in cheek)

As a smart person working for a newpaper, I'd like to say, kiss my ass. You'd be hard pressed to find another industry that has more interesting data handling issues than a newspaper. We've got financial data, image data, text data (which is stored in a version tracking system similar to, but more extensive than, CVS), and massive archiving which is seperate from and connected to all of the above.

And all of this data has to be able to transition from pure digital to paper through a conversion and optimization process that requires raster processing and laser lithography like a goddamn microchip fabrication plant. You've got disaster recovery and stress like you wouldn't believe.

That being said, I have to agree with Rob. Interesting that he picked a KR paper. Knight Ridder has a terrible online presence...It's not done by individual papers either, it's all done on the corporate level. Check the websites: Charlotte, Philaphelphia, Biloxi, Macon...Notice anything? One size fits all.

The reason Knight Ridder is a bad example is because they don't take the web seriously in the least. They don't spend any money on it, and they don't let their individual papers do it themselves. Until they make more of an effort, they're not going to grow their web readership or their web presence. That's just common sense.

My brother lives Ocean Springs MS which is right next to Biloxi. No one heard from him until my sister in law that evacuated (he stayed) got a hold of this my posting here SunHerald post and replied that everyone was ok.

What voter disenfranchising? The only voters who were truly disenfranchised were the voters in the panhandle of Florida when the results were released an hour early and "For Gore", and the military voters who had their ballots shipped illegally by the wrong class thanks to the Clinton Defense department who knew that the military was overwhelmingly going to vote for Bush. That is why you have this article. The inherent distrust of the left by the military which is Bill Clinton's true legacy. As it says in the article, "The left despises the military and the military now knows it."

According to the CEO the awkward name and the Krusty similarity were both intentional.

Valdes-Perez said his company dumped the name Vivisimo for the search engine because it was ``an obstacle.''

``It's a name that is difficult to pronounce and type and spell. Other than that, it's a great name,'' he quipped.

But the new name may face similar challenges, Valdes-Perez acknowledged. Though it is easy to remember, for many people Clusty evokes the name Krusty the Clown, the not-so-kid-friendly character on ``The Simpsons'' television show.

Valdes-Perez said he initially recoiled at the name Clusty, which was conceived by a business partner. But he found it more memorable than the vanilla-sounding names proposed by a professional branding company.

``A mildly negative association,'' Valdes-Perez said, ``will be swamped by a positive experience. And that's what we hope to offer.''

Not really... The Democrats have used this tactic to prevent votes on perfectly decent judges like Ken Pickering, about whom many, many lies have been told, and Miguel Estrada, who posed to great a potential to become a Supreme Court Justice to be allowed to get his foot in the door.

This Olympic surveillence is not just "any attempt at surveillence", it's "supposedly [the] largest surveillance network ever". People are concerned about the protection of our basic human rights, because we don't trust the government. Governments do bad things, always have, probably always will. America was founded on distrust of the government, which spread around the world once we demonstrated how to build a better government based on the mitigations of that distrust.

Terrorist attacks don't just "happen". In the case of Al Qaeda's WTC planebombings, their organization was created and protected by the CIA. There was a great deal of information available to prevent the attacks, but the expensive, intrusive government structure that we pay and elect to protect us failed. The result has been not only the counterattacks on these terrorists, that they accept as the price of sowing chaos, but the increase in the oppressive power of our government.

That distrust of government is the unifying factor between the questions of "acceptable surveillence" you started asking, and your defense of DHS (that you drifted into) in their release of Al Qaeda info this past week, in conjunction with raising the Threat Level in NYC and DC. In early July, reporters predicted that Bush would produce a Pakistani terrorist during the Democratic National Convention, as he had asked. Bush asked for someone, the Pakistanis produced someone, DHS waited several days to announce it. *Hours* before Kerry's acceptance speech, and prematurely for intelligence purposes, slashing the terrorist's value as a double agent, and sending capturable terrorists into hiding. The importance of the pre-9/11 plans reportedly siezed in Pakistan, that were invoked to explain the new security measures in NYC and DC, are apparently higher than in Las Vegas, where similar info has caused no escalation, nor even notification of the city. The difference is that NYC is the site of the Republican National Convention this month, and DC is of course the perennial focus of both parties.

It doesn't take much all-American distrust of the government to see the appropriation of terrorism by the government to campaign for reelection, regardless of the cost in protecting us from terrorism. That's consistent with the government's appropriation of terrorism to get the war in Iraq they wanted. And that same government will use surveillence for all its other purposes, mainly perpetuation of its power, regardless of the cost in basic human rights, including liberty, and even life itself.

We're not facing some theoretical Constitutional scenario. We're facing vast abuses of our rights daily, on a scale only before imagined by paranoids. Small wonder that we are kicking back. And our fear is underscored, because we *need* the government to protect us from the actual threat of these terrorists. So we reject the actual destruction of our rights, while we search for ways to continue to protect us from the threat of terrorism. That seems sensible, and patriotic, to me.

Adding CO2 means reducing alkalinity, which makes carbonate less stable in the oceans. This may have serious effects on marine organisms which use carbonate in their skeletons; see here for a brief news item. Science News has run several articles on the subject, but none appear to be on-line; here are the references from one of them.

On the other side of the survey, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Kentucky are 50, 49, and 48, respectively.

For a business owner looking for tech talent, it means bad news for those states. But what about for us, the aforementioned "talent"? Shouldn't this mean that if I move to Jackson, Little Rock, or Bowling Green, that my skills will be in higher demand?

Interestingly, in my family's home town of Hazard, KY, there's a call center for SHPS. Those are a few hundred jobs that are staying here instead of going to India. Would moving call centers to MS/AR/KY help those states improve? That's a policy I'd like to see Kerry implement.

BTW, word in Hazard is that SHPS absolutely sucks as a place to work, with high pressure and no advancement. But it's better than the welfare office.

It's now all over online news..

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/12/HNmicrol eak_1.html
http://www.ebcvg.com/news.php?id=1903
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1076628412.html
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3 312451
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/business/79 41292.htm
http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/nationworld/nati onprint/021204cccanatmicrosoft.149f2b31.html
http://www.komotv.com/stories/29778.htm
http://www.cryptonomicon.net/modules.php?name=News &file=article&sid=671
http://www.dvhardware.net/article2423.html
http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalConten t/0,289142,sid1_gci950346,00.html

a horse!

of course!

ran an article on another Lindows executive recently. A good read for sure.