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I gather from your Web site that you are from the U.S.

Do you think that the September 11 attacks are a joking matter? Those attacks killed thousands; the effects of Chernobyl may have killed 300,000 if one accepts an estimate from a U.K. charity. The radiation of Chernobyl spread across multiple countries. -- I remember news reports reporting radiation tracked all the way to northern Finland ; radiation was tracked to Central Europe and the Mediterranean .

I entered college 90 minutes' drive east of Three Mile Island in the Fall of 1979. The campus was still on edge because of the accident and uncertainty about its long-term effects -- because weather can go from west to east there....

Zeal.com search on Chernobyl

www.chernobyl.info English-language pages

Chernobyl Charities U.K. page on book Voices from Chernobyl

This one has arms.

'Ya know, that's wonderful, but let's be rational about this. 3,000 deaths... a staggering number, right? However, it is hardly the most tragic thing ever to happen: "In 2002, an estimated 17,419 people died in alcohol-related traffic crashes--an average of one every 30 minutes. These deaths constitute 41 percent of the 42,815 total traffic fatalities. (NHTSA, 2003)" [from MADD.] Don't get me wrong... 9/11 was no doubt a significant event. I just mean to say that the threat posed by it pales in comparison to so many of the threats that surround us every day and which go largely unnoticed.

Even if we assume that 9/11 represented such a grave threat as to cause us to consider the radical restructuring of the very nature of our rights, then we must ask if that is a productive course of action. Remember when TIME magazine ran the cover article claiming that not enough was done to prevent 9/11, even with the Phoenix memo and other warnings? So, please, remind me again how TIA will prevent a "second 9/11?"

While you may be ready to give up your rights in response to a vauge threat (color scale of doom, anyone?) and to passively take hook, line and sinker, there remain those of us who still value the lives lost back in the late 1700s... the lives which won us this freedom in the first place.

Yeah, but considering that Apple caused it's own demise by sticking to proprietary hardware

Demise?

Net sales increased $465 million or 8% during 2003 compared to 2002...Gross Margin of 1.7 billion...recent innovation....

Helluva death. One that a lot of companies would like to be enjoying.

Are you blaming Clinton for "overstating the strength of the economy" ... or for the greed of corporate executives and MBAs that caused the stock market to crash? What does one have to do with the other?

If you re-read my post, I was not blaming anybody for these things. You gave a bunch of fancy numbers trying to prove how good we all had it during the Clinton/Gore years, and my only point is that things were simply not as good as they seemed. The so-called economic strength of the late 1990's was built on a foundation of inflated stock prices and corporate fraud. That is why the market analyists called it a "market correction" when stock prices dropped to normal levels.

The company I work for had a stock price of about $20 and employed about 100,000 people in the mid 1990's. During the "boom" of the late '90s the stock was trading at $150 and we had 150,000 employees and everybody thought things were great. Guess what? Things took a dive and now its back down to $20 and we again employ only 100,000. (I should also point out that we announced our first layoffs and corporate restructuring in Q1 2000, a full year before Bush was sworn into office -- I guess the Democrats would argue that it was a pre-emptive strike, just in case Bush got elected).

Go and find something that connects the Clinton administration with dubya's friend over at Enron, "kenny-boy" Lay.

Well, you asked for it. Buy I guess you think that including Enron officials on trade missions to India, China, Pakistan and South Africa in exchange for the largest single campaign contribution to the 1996 Clinton/Gore ticket doesn't mean a thing, right?

Mr. Lay also served as a trustee at the Heinz Center for Economics from 1995 - 2003 (thats 2 years after the demise of Enron), an organization which is ran by John F. Kerry's wife.

And using Robert Novak as a reference? Please. That's right up there with using Fox News. Try using a reference that actually has some merit.

Ah, the "liar liar, pants on fire" technique. Why don't you do some research to prove him wrong, rather than telling me he is wrong because you disagree with him.

Another twenty-five cents of that goes towards distribution costs. It leaves Apple with less than a dime profit per song. They are not taking a loss, but a profit margin of less than 10% is nothing to be proud about, especially when you factor in initial start-up costs. It takes a lot of time to make your money back.

We all remember this article.

Now first, for a bit of a disclaimer, I happen to be one of the sort of people who would have run a cyber cafe there myself if I could, and when my internet connection wasn't available for three months here in Colorado, the local Cyber Cafe was a savior. And I happen to like my privacy too.

However, let's go back in time a bit. It got to the point where cybercafes became literally gang hangouts and even resulted in deaths.

But it was NOT because they were geeky, or because they had computers, or because they had violent video games. (In fact, bear in mind that the Cybercafes there are really NOT all that useful for doing work or such at. They're 99% CounterStrike and UT, and if you ask the workers for SSH or a VPN tunnel, they'll look at you funny ) It was simply because they had "Fun things for bored teens to do, and were open until 4 am.". So they got slapped with restrictions in an attempt to cull the gang activity... and these restrictions also really hurt the cybercafe as a whole.

Now, bear in mind, there's nothing quite as unpleasant as going past the cyber cafe at the end of the street and finding literally 20 police cars there, lights flashing enough to give a blind man a convulsion, however, at the same time, that police response also netted 4 people who had outstanding warrants out for various violent acts.

So, really, it was a point of "The cafes didn't do enough to protect folks, so the city came in and overreacted."

I just hope that sometime, some folks can find a happy medium.

America is at war with Saddam. America has always been at war with Saddam.

America is at war with Osama. America has always been at war with Osama.

time 6.14.02 reporting doubleplusungood refs unpersons rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling

America is fighting a new kind of war.

Maybe they just used the Amex Black Centurion list...that's probably about 12K right there. That plus Orkut himself, of course.

Did you ever notice that Sam's club is named after Sam Walton, and that Walmart is named after a guy with the same exact name? What are the chances of that?!

fanning's imdb page
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time magazine

What if it takes twenty years of eating genetically-modified foods before poisonous levels of some protein are developed in the body?

And what if it takes 40 years? Or 60 years? Scientific studies by the FDA have proven these fish are no more dangerous than the unmodified fish. There is no reason to believe they are dangerous. Repeat: NO REASON WHATSOEVER.

The sciense we're relying on to tell us this is safe has largely been funded by the people who stand to make a profit off of it. Are you ready to roll the dice now?

The science we're relying on is not just funded by those people who are profiting off of this. See the FDA study, or search google, lots of stuff comes up.

Meanwhile, no study, funded by anyone, has concluded that these fish can even be potentially dangerous.

Here's an example of one of the "reasons" these special-interest groups want to prevent these inventors from profiting off their product, from Time Magazine, who named it one of the coolest inventions of 2003:

Opponents of genetic engineering fear that these creatures could crossbreed with wild species, creating glowing schools of Frankenfish. To keep them from spreading their shining DNA, the distributor, Taikong International, sterilizes them all.

First off, is there any reason why crossbreeding is a dangerous thing? None is provided, and this isn't my area of expertise. So I guess I'm asking for the experts opinion on this. Second of all, they're all sterilized, so that seems to negate the only "concern" I've heard from anyone. Again, no studies show these fish are dangerous to anyone in any way.

So let's please stop suing everyone who innovates. Or go work for SCO. They love your type.

So what?

Actually, that's been the case in California since 2000 California in general, and has been the case in the SF Bay Area and LA Area for much longer.

It's really odd though. There are still communities in California which are 90% white. Those places are pretty freaky, and really out of touch with the rest of the state.

It seems to come more from the non-gaming media than the gaming media.

Personally, I find this article from Time Magazine to be exceptionally funny. The first sentence of the second paragraph states: "But the company's latest console, the GameCube, has proved to be an unmitigated disaster, giving this holiday season the potential to become the Winter of Iwata's Discontent."

There's a few others here on Slashdot you can find, linking to the Washigton Post, and some others.

Gotta love people who don't have a clue about something writing about it...you know, like most posts on /.

Flight 103 exploded at 32,000 feet.

Jane's Transport News
Pan Am 103 was literally ripped apart by an explosion centred upon the forward cargo hold. The complete wing primary structure, incorporating the centre section, came to ground at the southern edge of Lockerbie. Other major parts of the aircraft, including the engines, also landed in the town, while sections of the fuselage forward of the centre of the explosion landed in the countryside to the east. Lighter debris was strewn to the east as far as the North Sea. This wreckage fell in two trails to the north and south of the town.

The devastation wrought on Lockerbie was immense. The wing impacted in the Sherwood Crescent area, leaving a crater approximately 47 metres (155 feet) long with a volume calculated to be 560 cubic metres. A 60 feet long section of fuselage fell into a housing estate at Rosebank Crescent, just over 600 metres from the crater. The complete fuselage forward of the location of the explosion and incorporating the flight deck and nose landing gear was found resting on its left side as a single piece in a field known as Tundergarth approximately 4 km miles east of Lockerbie.

Of the several large pieces of Pan Am 103 that fell into the town, the impact of the wing structure caused a fireball several hundred feet across to ignite with the result that flaming debris was thrown into the air and caused further fires where it landed. The No 3 engine was seen falling out of the sky as a ball of fire with a trail of flame and embedded itself in a road in the northeast part of the town. The three remaining engines landed in the Netherplace area of Lockerbie.

You're absolutely free to sell as much of your 'American Cheese' in Europe as you like (bwahahahahah.) You just can't call it Camenbert.

It's utter nonsense. The terms for cheese and the like are descriptive of the kind of cheese and its flavor. Are all Parmesean, Muenster, Feta, etc. cheeses that come from Wisconsin to be labelled "American Cheese" or "Wisconsin Cheese?" How would you tell them apart? Better yet, under Europe's naming regime, should every single country that makes Parmesean cheese be forced to come up with an independent name for what is essentially the same product? How would you know what can be substituted in a recipe?

Of course, that's the real goal of the European system -- to force consumers to only associate a European town or region's goods to satisfy their needs. This why the EU doesn't even want American to be able to say "Rocheforte-like" to label their goods. It's pure protectionism and all it does is confuse customers. The protectionism is made far more blatant by the fact that Cheddar cheese isn't protected because it was widely produced outside of its original region in Europe before the law came into effect in 1992 while America's Parmesean production was not considered when Parma, Italy gained European trade protection for its own name. The stench of hypocrisy abounds here.

Naturally, though, I'm sure you don't see it that way, what with all of your claims that American goods are "inferior products." However, the basic fact is that many American-made cheeses are as good or better than the European originals unless your doing extremely finicky gourmet cooking, and the American dairy industry can match demand that regions like Parma, Italy cannot, especially now that the industry seems to be slowly withering on the vine due to a lack of interest in the youth of the area in becoming cheesemakers. Now, however, in Europe if it's not from Parma it has to have a different name. All you've managed to do is make your own goods more expensive for the sake of snobbery in the tradition of landed titles. It's madness.

What's next? Can we no longer use the word Amaretto if the cordial doesn't come from Italy? Can we no longer have Chamomile tea if it wasn't grown from Eurasian stock? Are you genuinely arguing that Basmati rice that wasn't grown on Indian soil cannot have that name?

Cheesemaking is a recipe. Is Europe honestly saying that we cannot have Hamburger Steak or Florentine Quiche because the recipes were once invented elsewhere?

I just wanted to say that the iTunes Music Store has reinvented how I view music.

Now when I want a piece of music, I have it, instantly. And with my iPod, I can listen to it wherever I go, with no worries!

Bravo Apple, for the Invention of the Year!

Amen to that. My personal fav is Uematsu who looks a little different than I thought as seen in this photo from Time's 100 innovators.

Replay doesn't have a bottom line ...
Except for a huge red number.

Yeah, and the sun is hot. Neither has anything to do with the FACT that the money that Replay spent defending itself in court from valentico was very small in proportion to their overall losses. Their SEC filings as SonicBlue are quite clear on that point.

As to show sharing, see link below:

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599 ,2 03498,00.html

Jack Valenti speaks of the two suits in place already over show sharing, one against Replay.


No, read the article c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y, all the article says is, "Hollywood is not amused, and has filed two lawsuits: one against the makers of Replay, the other against the creators of Morpheus and two similar file-sharing services called Grokster and Kazaa. While it may be O.K. to copy a show for yourself on the VCR, "it's not O.K. to start sending it around and file sharing," warns Jack Valenti, CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America." The author of the article is the one grouping the replay and morpheus suits together to make them sound like they are both about file sharing. Valenti's quote itself was injected into the context that the author has created. Regardless of the semantics in the article, the ACTUAL lawsuit filed against replay was for commercial skip, go look it up directly instead of relying on a McNews site like Time.

1. I love Bollywood movies, but why are they sooooooooooooo looooong?
2. Why don't the characters kiss on the mouth?
3. Virtually every Bollywood film is a musical. Why do the characters have to sing and dance?
4. The movies are musicals, but the actors don't sing; they lip-synch to songs previously recorded by playback singers. How come?
5. Why can't they dance?
6. Another touchy question: Why are the actors usually light-skinned, even in films from Southern India?
7. What's with those kooky credits?
8. A lot of Bollywood movies bear a suspicious resemblance to earlier Hollywood movies. What's the Hindi word for "plagiarism"?
9. Throughout the 90s, India produced something like 1,000 movies a year, with "only" about 200 coming from Mumbai / Bombay / Bollywood. What about the other 800?
10. I hear the voice of the Bollywood novice: "OK, you've browbeaten us into a mild interest in Indian film. So where can I get them?"

    Try his other article too.

    Interesting observations from a westerner about Indian movies.

1. I love Bollywood movies, but why are they sooooooooooooo looooong?
2. Why don't the characters kiss on the mouth?
3. Virtually every Bollywood film is a musical. Why do the characters have to sing and dance?
4. The movies are musicals, but the actors don't sing; they lip-synch to songs previously recorded by playback singers. How come?
5. Why can't they dance?
6. Another touchy question: Why are the actors usually light-skinned, even in films from Southern India?
7. What's with those kooky credits?
8. A lot of Bollywood movies bear a suspicious resemblance to earlier Hollywood movies. What's the Hindi word for "plagiarism"?
9. Throughout the 90s, India produced something like 1,000 movies a year, with "only" about 200 coming from Mumbai / Bombay / Bollywood. What about the other 800?
10. I hear the voice of the Bollywood novice: "OK, you've browbeaten us into a mild interest in Indian film. So where can I get them?"

    Try his other article too.

    Interesting observations from a westerner about Indian movies.

The worst part is, he was right :-( Indian movies suck. Very high on melodrama, and very little originality in plot.

I guess when you have millions of poverty-stricken, not-very-well-educated Indians going to the theater, large doses of escapist fantasy doesn't hurts.

It's actually this sidebar that I'm referring to. It reads (with the other jobs omitted):

Top 15 jobs with the largest projected increases, 2000-10

380,000
Computer-software engineers, applications: as long as computer upgrades are constant, so will be the jobs.

For those of you who have a hard copy or are willing to purchase the online version, this recent article in Time Magazine predicts the opposite (at least in the semi-near future). IMHO, two things are certain: 1) computers will become even more ubiquitous, and 2) they will always require new development and maintenance.

He said/meant they make no profit, he didn't say they made no income/revenue. Read his more complete statement ...Jobs has one more reason not to be concerned about the competition. "The dirty little secret of all this is there's no way to make money on these stores," he says. For every 99 Apple gets from your credit card, 65 goes straight to the music label. Another quarter or so gets eaten up by distribution costs... at Time magazine

People say there is no cost to digital ditribution, but bandwidth, servers, backup systems, facilities, disaster recovery plans, and personell all cost money.

The 30 or so cents that Apple collects from each sale just about covers those costs. At some point economies of scale will allow Apple to start eeking out a profit from their share.

I saw that BBC program. I also so another little clip the other day that asked what the American public thought of the "special relationship" between the US and the UK. Of all the places that the BBC decides to interview Americans, it chooses a Harvard coffeehouse. You probably couldn't get a more left-leaning slant unless you went to Amhurst or Berkley. The fact that they chose this location to get their idea of what America thinks about the UK had BBC slant written all over it. Time magazine does the exact same thing. Take this recent cover story for example...

I was in the first Gulf war and spent quite a bit of time in Kuwait as part of a medical detachment with the US Army. Believe me when I tell you that Hussein was the closest thing to Hitler the world has seen. By comparing him to Bush is an astronomically stupid and irresponsible thing. Bush does not hang people from light posts and allows his men to rape children. President Bush has done more for democracy by invading Iraq than France, Germany, Canada or Russia has ever done in their history. The day that Hussein is removed from this planet is a great day for humanity.

Time magazine has an exclusive article on initial interrogation of Saddam

I am copying and pasting a portion of it below:

Saddam Hussein was captured on Sunday without a fight. But since then, according to a U.S. intelligence official in Iraq, the fallen dictator has been defiant. "He's not been very cooperative," said the official, who read the transcript of the initial interrogation report taken during the first questioning session.

After his capture, Saddam was taken to a holding cell at the Baghdad Airport. He didn't answer any of the initial questions directly, the official said, and at times seemed less than fully coherent. The transcript was full of "Saddam rhetoric type stuff," said the official who paraphrased Saddam's answers to some of the questions. When asked "How are you?" said the official, Saddam responded, "I am sad because my people are in bondage." When offered a glass of water by his interrogators, Saddam replied, "If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?"

The interrogators also asked Saddam if he knew about the location of Captain Scott Speicher, a U.S. pilot who went missing during the first Gulf War. "No," replied the former Iraqi president, "we have never kept any prisoners. I have never known what happened."

Saddam was also asked whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. "No, of course not," he replied, according to the official, "the U.S. dreamed them up itself to have a reason to go to war with us." The interrogator continued along this line, said the official, asking: "if you had no weapons of mass destruction then why not let the U.N. inspectors into your facilities?" Saddam's reply: "We didn't want them to go into the presidential areas and intrude on our privacy."

The official is doubtful that the U.S. will get a significant amount of intelligence from Saddam's interrogations. "I would be surprised if he gave any info," he said. Other high-ranking regime members, he said, have by and large remained mum. "Tariq Aziz [former deputy prime minister] hasn't really spoken," he said, "and Abid Mahmoud [Saddam's former personal secretary] hasn't really given any information."
..... ..... .....
Along with the $750,000 in cash, two AK 47 machine guns and pistol found with Saddam, the U.S. intelligence official confirmed that operatives found a briefcase with Saddam that contained a letter from a Baghdad resistance leader. Contained in the message, the official said, were the minutes from a meeting of a number of resistance leaders who came together in the capital. The official said the names found on this piece of paper will be valuable and could lead to the capture of insurgency leaders around the Sunni Triangle.
..... .....

"He's not been very cooperative," said the official, who read the transcript of the initial interrogation report taken during the first questioning session... He didn't answer any of the initial questions directly, the official said, and at times seemed less than fully coherent.

But later I read:

When asked "How are you?" said the official, Saddam responded, "I am sad because my people are in bondage." When offered a glass of water by his interrogators, Saddam replied, "If I drink water I will have to go to the bathroom and how can I use the bathroom when my people are in bondage?"

These seem to me to be normal and direct enough answers. But read further:

Saddam was also asked whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. "No, of course not," he replied, according to the official, "the U.S. dreamed them up itself to have a reason to go to war with us." The interrogator continued along this line, said the official, asking: "if you had no weapons of mass destruction then why not let the U.N. inspectors into your facilities?" Saddam's reply: "We didn't want them to go into the presidential areas and intrude on our privacy."

This answers are not just direct. IMHO they show him fully cooperating with investigators by saying the truth.

Well, the problem is that US investigators accept only answers they are prepared to hear. They don't want to hear any truth. As many in US goverment.

I see a lot speculation as to the make up of the Iraqi resistance. The Dec 15 issue of Time had an excellent overview - they even had a reporter embedded in a Bagdad cell.

(A preview is available at http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101031215/story.h tml)

In any case, what they found directly contradicts most of the speculation here. Most of the resistance is professional and co-ordinated by Baathist elements like the Fedayeen and ex-military. The Fedayeen tend to be more pro-Saddam, while the ex-military are becoming more nationalist - saying in effect we fight for Iraqi freedom not Saddam.

Also, the resistance is a network, meaning cells are independent but share information. This means that while Saddam's capture may discourage those cells motivated by support for him, they will not discourage the large number run by nationalist ex-military men hungry to make up for their poor performance during the war.

Ordinary Iraqis disaffected by the occupation are an increasing demographic as well. A relative accidentally killed, your wife searched for weapons, an aggressive U.S soldier barking orders at you, or nationalist sentiment in general is becoming enough to join or shelter the resistance.

Foreign fighters are few apparently, and not trusted at all. They are used as cannon fodder in suicide bombings. The ones operating outside the secular resistance come under the aegis of Ansar-al-Islam which has reconstituted itself. These guys are focusing on high value attacks e.g suicide bombing the U.N etc.

As an aside, Iran is most definitley NOT part of foreign destabilization efforts as you would realize if did your reading - Iraq has a Shi'ite majority remember, and they are anxiously awaiting democracy.

In any case, the conclusion is that Saddam's capture is highly unlikely to reduce the intensity of the insurgency. It *was* necessary for the U.S to get him, but not sufficient.

I hope to see him at the Hague soon and not at Guantanamo.

But don't expect technology companies to move mountains

I expect them to change the world (and maybe sell some suger water along the way).

Correct! Although stem cells can be derived from aborted fetuses and, by all means, ought to be if it can help even a single human being.

"In the most controversial method, scientists can also pull stem cells from aborted fetuses, first asking for signed consent from a patient who'd previously (and independently) decided to terminate her pregnancy. This is the procedure most often highlighted by pro-life activists who oppose supporting stem cell research."
-Old Time article

Most conservatives though, including Bush if I'm not mistaken, are opposed even to using excess embryos for stem-cell research, which is even more outlandish than refusing to collect stem cells from fetuses that have already been aborted.

Furthermore, a fifteen-year-old girl of that time was more socially and emotionally ready for marriage than a fifteen-year-old girl of our time

Studies show that girls are maturing at an earlier age: Time Article

This means that a 14-15 year old girl of this era was less sexually developed than the girs of today. That's just sick and wrong. You're saying that since they were more mature socially and emotionally. As a father, your rationale makes me ill.

God damn Europeans aren't you overdue for a war, you are overdue for some ethnic cleaning. Oh yea, looks like you're getting started again

I guess management is the only place where successive failures enhance your fame.

Official Site

Short Blurb from Time Magazine


Descriptive Article (with pictures)

Details Regarding its Supercomputer Status

It's really painful to watch HP crash and burn. Thanks, Carly!

Looks like good ole Prince Charles can relax for a while yet then...

I find it sort of reassuring that a technology as potentially fantastic (and therefore treated with immense enthusiasm) has to undergo a long period of maturation before people can even agree on the basics...

Simon

More detail.

A good route.

An old NYT take on it

I'll agree that they didn't find blue water too often, but they sure could have.

I dont think apple is making $100 profit on each ipod

According to this , every $ 499 iPod makes up to $ 175 in profit.

After reading the comments I see no one has taken a pro-SCO viewpoint. I guess I'll have to give it a go:

First, consider the allegation. Copyrighted code is part of the Linux kernel. What if it's true? Shouldn't the copyright holder get its day in court?

And consider the lawyer...David Boies. In case you've forgotten what what he's done, check out this Time article. He's no dummy and he's certainly not motivated by money. Hell, he should be a superhero around here - he fought for Gore in the last election (in that little Florida thing), he worked on behalf of Napster (the original one), and he led the charge for the government against Microsoft. Certainly he knows the facts in this case. He doesn't need the money (he's about the hottest lawyer around), he doesn't need fame (he's got that too)...why take on IBM et al just to lose? That would be a sour way to end a distinguished career. Clearly he thinks he can win.

Look at SCO's stock performance over the last year. Do you think the diligent researchers on Wall Street are confused by McBride's proclamations? No, they do research. The upturn in the stock price (from $1 to $14) is a loud vote of confidence for SCO's actions.

Sure, this is an emotional issue here at Slashdot, but control yourselves and consider the facts. I think that when the dust settles you'll see that SCO had some valid points and perhaps the good souls that gave you Linux didn't always behave as ethically as they should.

Ok, my work is done for the day...time for bed. I'll sweep up my crushed karma in the morning.

Well you answer a question with a question. The Department of Energy does bith Military and Civilian research.

Well, seeing as the person that's heading the project they're funding is president of a civilian biotech firm, and it states right in the article that they're hoping to get microbes that can clean the environment or produce hydrogen...I would lean toward the research being largely, if not completely, for civilian purposes.

The DOE does nuclear testing amoung other things. And I don't mean scantron sheets for plant operators. They used to blow things up with nuclear weapons. Since the test ban treaty they have been blowing up simulated thing with simulated nuclear bombs inside of massive clustered computing arrays.

So? What does this have to do with the question at hand? Simulating bomb blasts and creating microbes for environmental cleanup/fuel generation have nothing to do with eachother.

The array runs Linux, BTW. Remember that the next time someone calls Linux a religion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Operating System for beatnicks and hippies.

That's real cool and all, but again, it has absolutely no relevance to this thread. Save the evangelizing for another time.

If you're going to reply again, please at least try to make it relevant beyond the first sentence.

Okay, tough guy.

Do you have any clue what real money is? Hollywood actors and directors make chump change next to the billionaires who run our media industries.

They give huge bucks and they lend their celebrity to the causes, which is something that business leaders mostly can't do.

Some business leaders do give a lot of money to celebrities and their cause. I am sure you'd be surprised at their curious lack of restraint in this area.

Finally, before you talk shit to me for not RTFA that you pulled out of your ass, please consider reading the fucking article that started this thread. It is about an interview with Gore Vidal and his thoughts on electronic voting.

P.S. You'll note that I only linked to "conservative" mouthpieces like Salon, Opensecrets.org, and CNN, but you have to remember that I'm just a sheep who follows the orders of a drug-addled Rush Limbaugh. Sorry I can't meet your high standards.

I am still not getting your special kind of sarcasm. To me, you just sound like an asshole.

If you look at the table of contents from archive.org from over two years ago, it is not listed, either. That it is not listed in the table of contents is nothing new, it was not in there before. It was apparently not in there when the Memory Hole first posted its article (it certainly wasn't in there before).

And yes, the URLs currently show one paragraph, and then the rest of the article, but those new URLs look like http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 101980302-138662,00.html, but the article in question was at a URL that looked like http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980302/ special_report.clintons_29.html. It's a different style of URL, it's no wonder it doesn't work.

It does appear to have been removed, as I cannot find "Scowcroft" in a search from March 1-3 1998, but I can find "Nelan" (the author of the above URL that redirects, "Selling The War Badly"), and I can find it no other searches. But that it does not appear in the TOC from over two years ago, and that the URL is of a different style than the others from that TOC, makes me think someone else is going on than the various conspiracy theories seen in this discussion.

If you look at the table of contents from archive.org from over two years ago, it is not listed, either. That it is not listed in the table of contents is nothing new, it was not in there before. It was apparently not in there when the Memory Hole first posted its article (it certainly wasn't in there before).

And yes, the URLs currently show one paragraph, and then the rest of the article, but those new URLs look like http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1 101980302-138662,00.html, but the article in question was at a URL that looked like http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980302/ special_report.clintons_29.html. It's a different style of URL, it's no wonder it doesn't work.

It does appear to have been removed, as I cannot find "Scowcroft" in a search from March 1-3 1998, but I can find "Nelan" (the author of the above URL that redirects, "Selling The War Badly"), and I can find it no other searches. But that it does not appear in the TOC from over two years ago, and that the URL is of a different style than the others from that TOC, makes me think someone else is going on than the various conspiracy theories seen in this discussion.

Time seems to have scrubbed this article from their on-line archives. Lexis-Nexis also doesn't list it, although they list the Newsweek version of the article, which wasn't co-authored with Bush Sr. This may have to do with the fact that the Time article is a straight excerpt from Bush and Scowcroft's book A World Transformed (1998) and Time didn't secure electronic rights to the excerpt --- or it could be more sinister. You decide.

anyone notice the first search result is titled The George Orwell Doublespeak Explanation?
Unfortunately you have to purchase the "full" article (all 51 words of it) or already have a membership.

Columnist James Poniewozik's current article talks about CBS bowing to politcal preasure and not Airing the 4 hr Mini series "Reagans". Perhaps he'd have an opinion on Time Mazagine pulling articles that have already been printed? I asked him perhaps more people should.

-Jason

Columnist James Poniewozik's current article talks about CBS bowing to politcal preasure and not Airing the 4 hr Mini series "Reagans". Perhaps he'd have an opinion on Time Mazagine pulling articles that have already been printed? I asked him perhaps more people should.

-Jason

Columnist James Poniewozik's current article talks about CBS bowing to politcal preasure and not Airing the 4 hr Mini series "Reagans". Perhaps he'd have an opinion on Time Mazagine pulling articles that have already been printed? I asked him perhaps more people should.

-Jason