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yes it has

http://www.tallahassee.com/sto...

"Local law enforcement: No ties between militia and Florida high school shooter"

thats like someone doing something and then claiming alegience to Al Queda. Its not the same thing.

try to keep up...

http://www.tallahassee.com/sto...

turns out to be fake news yet again.

Another article makes it sound like it was an actual Monte Carlo method:

But David Ludder, a Tallahassee attorney who represents the Florida Clean Water Network, said DEPâ(TM)s process for determining standards â" the so-called Monte Carlo or probabilistic method â" yields weaker limits than a competing method used by the other states and the federal government.

The more commonly employed deterministic method uses absolute values for factors including body weight and fish and water consumption. The department is using a distribution of values that include numbers not as protective as those used in the deterministic method, he said.

Whether the actual method used was valid or not I have no idea. But I think calling it a "nick name" and possibly "one of a kind scientific method" might not have been the most correct journalism.

you call the police and let THEM deal with it. That's why we HAVE police to begin with.

That's not what the police are for. The are here to:
Sodomize you during a search
Tase you if you are a minor
Screw the same women while on duty
Steal computer information
Lie and perjure themselves under oath
Threaten you
Rape your children
Murder your children and abuse you

Strange. That's only a 12-hours news window. I'd hate to see the abuses heaped upon us by government employees who are here to keep us safe if it were a counted over a year...

And it just happened again last month.

137 to 0 -- ouch!! Diebold has gotten itself into a quagmire and they don't seem to be able to pull themselves out.

THIS JUST IN!!!

Onion satire lost on more than two people:

one reference: In 1998, controversial minister Fred Phelps posted the Onion article '98 Homosexual-recruitment drive nearing goal on his God Hates Fags website as proof that homosexuals were indeed actively trying to get straight people to join their ranks.

two refererences: On June 7, 2002, Reuters reported that the Beijing Evening News republished, in the international news page of its June 3 edition, translated portions of a story from The Onion (they were apparently unaware of The Onion's satirical nature). The story discusses the U.S. Congress's threats to leave Washington for Memphis, Tennessee or Charlotte, North Carolina unless Washington, DC built them a new Capitol building with a retractable dome. The article is a parody of U.S. sports franchises' threats to leave their home city unless new stadiums are built for them. The Evening News is Beijing's most popular newspaper, claiming a circulation of 1.25 million.

three references: In late March 2004, Deborah Norville of MSNBC presented as genuine an Onion article claiming that 58 percent of all exercise done in the United States is done on television. [2] (http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opin ion/8266998.htm?template=contentModules/printstory .jsp)

four references, AH! AH! AH! (cue thunder): Columnist Ellen Makkai and others who believe the Harry Potter books recruit children to Satanism have also been taken in by the Onion's satire, using quotes from an Onion article as evidence for their claims. [3] (http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/potter.htm) [4] (http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25 446)

Most theories aren't "provable" nor did the previous poster suggest they are. However they must be testable, as the previous poster said "It needs to be able to be proved wrong". It must make predictions which you can go forward and test.

String theory is certainly a very immature theory but people are working on performing tests which could falsify or further refine the theory.

Similarly people do think up ways of testing and refining evolution .

New Scientist also has an article which figures the civilian death toll to be around 100,000. One of the other undereported items is that while roughly 1,000 US troops have died, four times that amount have been wounded severely enough to be sent home, and over 8,000 total have been wounded thus far.

Perhaps because it has nothing to do with the game?

On the subject of a movie of the game, Gabe Newell has nixed the idea for the forseeable future.

I"m going by message headers that I recieve in emails, and that most URL's in spam point to servers in those countries. Fighting spam also means taking down the web sites that they point to.

Granted, a large number of professional spammers are in the USA. What I have not seen covered very much is the new law enacted July 1st here in Florida that makes sending spam a Class C Felony. Everyone complains about Florida being spammers paradise, and now that Florida is on the track to cleaning up spammers, no one notices.

My university (FSU, host of our glorious VP more...), has a great spam filter that looks for patterns in e-mail that indicate thats it is spam, e.g. return address doesn't match actual sender. If this legistlation goes through and if spammers actually comply, the filter could look for "Sexually Explicit" in the subject line and filter it out. This would filter out about 80% of my spam. (Well they said that I could enter the site for free if I just gave them my e-mail address. I didn't think they would sell to anyone else.)

I have been a supporter of "Sunset provisions" in laws for a long, long time. It seems to me that most laws should have a mandatory lifetime after which they would have to be renewed, or they would expire.

Obviously, basic issues (murder, theft, etc.) would be exempt from this sort of thing, but the majority of laws - especially those pertaining to technology - should live their useful life and go away.

Even better would be a restriction that only the core parts of a bill, not any ancillary additions (i.e., unrelated pork-barrel spending, etc.), which would have to be renewed separately.

It would mean a lot more work for congresses in the future, but that could be dealt with when the need arises.

Sunset provisions are a really good idea!!

There is an effort to setup one of these networks in my county this year (2004). They expect to need two antennas to cover the entire county. Intel and IBM met with the public and municipal officials last week. So far, no company has offered to be the ISP, but BellSouth, Cox, and Alltel are obvious choices. Initially, service will be offered to businesses, later to residential customers. If the project goes through, Intel says this will be the first site in the United States to be covered.

Official Home Page (only looks right in IE)
Stories from the local paper

There is an effort to setup one of these networks in my county this year (2004). They expect to need two antennas to cover the entire county. Intel and IBM met with the public and municipal officials last week. So far, no company has offered to be the ISP, but BellSouth, Cox, and Alltel are obvious choices. Initially, service will be offered to businesses, later to residential customers. If the project goes through, Intel says this will be the first site in the United States to be covered.

Official Home Page (only looks right in IE)
Stories from the local paper

Clinton never drafted because he never really needed any troops. No one is going to draft just for the sake of it; they will only do it if troops are needed. Clinton's wars were either supported by foreign countries (the present 40-odd "coaltion of the willing" does not count, especially given that half of them are tiny countries only doing it for money or US political support), or the wars weren't full-scale imperial wars which required occupation. The present wars aren't like that.

It all depends on who wins the election though. My guess is that Bush will win again. If he does, he may conscript (if needed). Howard Dean won't conscript (unless he wants a major lynching), but Wesley Clark probably will. So, Bush and Clark will conscript IMO.

The probability of a draft is very low at this point in time. However, it may happen. Here are some articles speculating on conscription. The articles are a little bit old but the point stands. Also, the draft board they refer to was taken down by the military (it's not online anymore):

Will U.S. bring back the draft?
Talk of a draft grows despite denials by White House
Draft boards fuel rumors

I only read the first article. The scanned the others and the message is similar.

The Pentagon wouldn't really want draftees coming in anyway, not after Vietnam, so no matter who's in the White House, you're not going to have conscription until we have a French carrier halfway up the Patomac or something.

French Carrier up the Pontamac? Nah... all you need is a non-existent Iraqi carrier armed with non-existent WMD posing a non-existent threat... I don't whether to cry or laugh at this comment :|

Sivaram Velauthapillai

So, are you saying that it was Democrats who voted down 'invasive' environmental regulations?

If this is what you're talking about, I'm afraid it didn't end ten years ago:

Motor vehicle emissions testing ended in the State of Florida on June 29, 2000.

Besides, even if it did, what also happened around ten years ago? Here's a hint:

he took over the position in 1996, leading a Republican revolution in Florida government that saw both houses of the Legislature and the Governor's Mansion controlled by the GOP

You can whine all you want, but unless you come up with a better theory, I'm afraid that I'm right :(

Indeed, this despite the increasingly obvious fact that the French were right. But hey, if we make enough clever anti-French jokes, maybe we won't have to face up to how idiotic we look now.

In an article in Science this April ("Balancing Selection at the Prion Protein Gene Consistent with Prehistoric Kurulike Epidemics"), British scientists suggest that our ancestor's urge to eat brains may have lead to the modern absence of prion-based diseases (such as mad cow disease) in humans. This suggests that, to some extent, at some point evolution selected for brain eating in humans. The actual article requires a paid subscription, but here's a summary from a newspaper.

I'm under-employed because I prefer it to the alternative (unemployment). There's little call for a person with 2 years scientific computing background without a Masters/Ph.D. and probably not much more call for one with the pedigree...

Tuition is going up 30% at the SUNYs, don't think that's going to happen for me anytime soon. So, I guess 10/hrs a week as a research assistant followed by 30/hrs a week at the local Barnes & Nobles is better than nothing.

And for those of us fortunate enough to work, our Republican friends in office are ensuring that we can become even more flexible (thus becoming a more valuable commodity to our overlord bosses) by letting companies eliminate overtime. Yes, this wonderful bill exempts even more people from overtime pay by expanding the "management" umbrella down to the "assistant manager" kiddie working the late shift at McDonalds. Don't want to accept comp time for those extra hours we make you work? We'll give the OT to someone else that doesn't want the money. We'll even tell you when you can take the comp time.

Here are some links, found by looking for the reporter's name

• Tallahassee Democrat
• Orlando Sentinal, (last item)
• PDF of the court Ruling
• Lawsuit Website, with a link to video report by TV station of their victory.
• Information clearing house
• Info on video network.com

Interestingly, the case has some relevance to current news. Mudd's supporters complain that, as a citizen, he should not have been tried in a military tribunal in the first place. Bush is claiming the right to hold people like Abdullah Al-Mujahir as "enemy combatants". There was a recent ruling upholding the Bush position, but I can't find it on Google, sorry...