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If, like me, you have a two-way tinfoil hat and hesitated to believe Memory Hole without proof, have a look at this PDF. It's a "teacher-aid" document from the Times (some sort of coursework on actuality based on Times article), and it mentions the "disappearing article".
Not only is the Times playing at Big Brother, they are not even competent when doing this... A simple Google search restricted to the times website found that in 2 sec.

Not true.

The table of contents still lists all the other articles - if you click on any one of them (for example this one you get the first paragraph, and then an invitation to buy the rest of the article. Fine, that's their right - it costs money to archive so many pages...

But the article is question isn't listed - and the link given by The Memory Hole doesn't offer to sell you the article, it says it has been deleted.

And it's nothing to do with it being a 'popular subject' - Time states quite clearly that it's only issues over 2 years old that are archived, not 'historically important' ones.

Mark

If you go to the TIMES table of contents thats posted on the "Memory Hole" page, you will see why the article is not online. Since it deals with a popular subject, TIMES moved it to their paid content... so the free version is no longer available. Go HERE and read the top line. In short, I doubt its a conspiracy, TIMES is just being greedy and wants more money. Which as a company is its right.

Please everyone: Follow the link to the pulled article. When it returns the 404 page, type "George Orwell" into the search box.

Someone at Time should take notice. (And no, we have never been at war with Oceania...)

There's nothing like a crackling fire made from good old-fashioned firewood.
But real logs produce lots of soot and carbon dioxide, and real trees often have to be felled to make them.

Saddam, the WMDs, Elvis, and possibly even a pink unicorn are all being concealed by the real top innovation of 2003- invisibility!

Moreover, iTunes isn't the only "product-placement" in this article. They claim that Gibson will release the first digital guitar in January 2004 when the Variax has been on the market for a while now.

Look at that cat. It's meant to keep you "calm and happy". It turns its head, moves its ears and blinks its eyes. Calm and happy? More like nervous and scared. Think Chucky :-/

I just want some pussy.

~ the small percentage of felons/turban-wearing men who are actually terrorists?

Sorry, couldn't resist it.

This is already happening in China. They overtly practice height-discrimination, and women are getting surgical "height enhancements" in order to get a job.

You have fanatics on the left and the right who will do anything to destroy people with whom they disagree. It's vicious, it's un-American, and it needs to stop.

We're not taught anymore in civics class -- they don't even have civics classes in most schools -- to respect the other side. What we're taught is that if you're not with this, you're evil, and both sides use this. It's a demonizing tactic, it's cheap and easy, and it's a way to gather votes in an emotional way. It's Huey Long. It's Adolf Hitler. It's Joseph Stalin.

I'm just glad to be reading something about a great man instead of a criminal, for once.

According to the artical on him, also among things that he has done in his life to set up these three events include "to prove that he was living sought arrest [he:] tried to run for parliament, kidnapped the son of the uncle who had stolen his property, threatened murder, insulted judges, threw leaflets listing his complaints at legislators in the state assembly and demanded a widow's pension for his wife."

So do get the peace prize now you have to add kidnapping and threat of homicide along with being dead. I guess I am out of luck!

Forced abortions, the relocation of Hans to Tibet to destroy that ethnic minority, the placing of nukes next to Taiwan, the egging on of North Korea, slavery and rape of women. These are China's improvements? What has changed since Mao? Nothing. The leaders still kill those who oppose them.

Deng Xiaoping was initially a revolutionary, and then a reactionary. But even that is hard to tell, since all he really wanted was more power. He was not "the greatest leader China since independence." The greatest Chinese leaders can be found on the isle of Taiwan.

But it's time we started calling them Taiwanese.

How any Californiaians could vote Republican after what they did to us is beyond my comprehension.

On Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright climbed into a 600 pound flying machine and made his historic flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. Three days before, with Wilbur as pilot, the Wrights had tried but failed to get off the ground. The 17th turned out to be the fateful day for the Akron, Ohio-born brothers who had tinkered for months before finally unlocking the key to powered flight. They made four flights that day -- Orville's first lasted 12 seconds and spanned 120 feet; Wilbur's best was a 59 seconds, 852 foot leap. It wasn't long before the brothers had formed the Wright Company, which bought and sold airplanes.

"A suspected terrorist could be released, free to leave the country, or worse, before the trial," Mr. Bush said. "This disparity in the law makes no sense. If dangerous drug dealers can be held without bail in this way, Congress should allow for the same treatment for accused terrorists."

Despite Mr. Bush's concerns, Justice Department officials said they knew of no specific instances in which a person charged in a terrorism case had fled after being granted bail.

(snip)...Mr. Bush's proposal, he said, "means that there are no effective checks and balances. It's very worrisome."

Civil rights lawyers, defense advocates and some former prosecutors say they see no need to broaden the Justice Department's powers so markedly. Under current law, they say, terrorism investigators can typically get a subpoena in a matter of hours or minutes by going through a judge or a grand jury.

"[L]aw-abiding Americans have no reason to fear the long reach of the antiterrorism law known as the Patriot Act because its most intrusive measures would require a judge's sign-off."

You know how Teddy Roosevelt was so against the trusts (megacorps that were above the law and beyond mere monopoly, a la Standard Oil) because they were more powerful than the government in so many ways, hence offending his own megalomaniacal sensibilities? Apparently, the U.S. Government today is disappointed about the fact that modern megacorps had taken on the role of Big Brother via image recognition, data mining, and monopolistic practices. In the face of such competition, they apparently feel the need to get their anti-Constitution on. Pull out the big guns!

I'm done debating the competency of our current Presidential administration or the legitimacy of the Presidential office. In the face of this perpetually double edged sword, I just want to keep both the terrorists and the government in check.

I think their creative math comes into play in how they measure "major offenders". I mean, they're suing anonymous young kids who probably aren't fully aware of the ethics involved, but I highly doubt that they're suing those who freely admit to and encourage illegal file swapping, like the article in Time that was posted on the front page of CNN today and included links to P2P software reviews by CNET. Or what about NARAS president Michael Greene hiring three teenagers to download music - who gave him a free ride? I don't think the RIAA has the authority to even authorize its own executive to "violate" its members copyrights en masse.

Could the threatened students and teenagers point to these as examples of discrimination or selective prosecution? Or does it mean that journalists and industry types are immune and everyone else should safely restrict their P2P activities to "special projects" - like researching how many songs can be enjoyably swapped and listened to over a series of annual periods (for later publication, of course)?

And here is the link where you don't have remove the %20.

Why haven't people learned that pasting URLs doesn't work on slashdot...

And here is the link in html .

... is here

The basic problem with the Osprey is the drivetrain. There are five gearboxes, three clutches, flexible shafts with multiple couplings, and in the Navy version, disconnect points where the wings fold. Most of this mechanical nightmare is part of the backup system through which one engine can power both rotors. The rotor/tilt wing system requires huge amounts of maintenance, enough that maintenance records have been falsified to make it look better. It's also a very expensive aircraft for its size.

Despite this, Osprey crashes occur mostly for other reasons.

• Software failure when recovering from a hydraulic failure.
• Rotor stall blamed on pilot error, but reflecting a hole in the flight envelope at low speed operation.

VTOL aircraft tend to crash even more then helicopters. The Harrier, the only VTOL produced in quantity, has many, many crashes on the record, especially with pilots in training. The flight envelope where transitions from and to vertical flight occurs is unforgiving. Helicopters are better behaved near transition.

So the American corporations (of doom) are sending jobs to foreign companies to save some cash. Considering Indian IT workers have a wage of $10,000 compared to the $60,000 of fresh out of college Americans, that adds up. The pay raises usually end up in the pockets of the business owners.

But weren't the same American business owners, albeit in other industries, complaining about other countries making money by importing goods to the US and competing with the traditional businesses? Isn't that what the entire anti-dumping, WTO policies are about?

There was a mainstream article on Time magazine entitled Where the Good Jobs Are Going. (Premium, pay article) which you might want to take a look at if you have access to it.

According to Time its one of the best inventions of 2002. But no I'd never heard of it.

Troll?! I wasn't trolling! Here's the link!!

Coupled with Tim's piece on Japan recently TIme: What's Right With Japan, it make perfect sense for Japan to try to drive its industrial power in this direction. Along the way of developing Astro Boy, there will be large number of technologies to be commericalized. With the increasing coolness of Japan, the images along with the technologies will allow Japanese electronic industries to export high value added products for in the next decades.

The purchasing power of individuals in Japan are still high. They could still shell out enough money to suppor the development of entertainment electionics. This is a great direction for Japan to go. The highly skill workers in Japan are perfect to make such new toys.

Before considering the future, let's have a look at the past.

TIME 100: 1900 vs. Now

In the USA, life expectancy increased 60% from 1900 to 2000. In Italy, 80%. In Japan, 80%. In Mexico, 120%.

We are already living in an age of radical life extension compared to previous generations. A much higher percentage of the population lives to 60, 80, or 100 than used to. And I don't see a lot of people clamoring to roll back life extancy from 75+ years to 45.

75 is a lot better than 45. 120 will be better than 75. And 200 will be better than 120.

Actually, if you look at the notes on the statistics, they are only the first language speakers in each country.

From a Time article last year:
Mandarin may have the largest number of native speakers (about 800 million), but English, with 1.9 billion speakers--including some 350 million native speakers--is far and away the largest global lingua franca. The next largest, Spanish, claims 450 million competent speakers worldwide, while French is spoken by a mere 130 million. The most vital statistic is that some 1.5 billion people around the globe speak English as a second language. "It has become the working language of the global village," says ESU chairman Lord Alan Watson.

For native speakers, Chinese wins. For overall comprehension, English is out in front (which doesn't affect the need for good translation tools).

No, really. It helps.

It also helps to "remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy", Exodus 20:8. Whether it be Saturday, Sunday or some other day, I believe the important thing is to have the day once a week and to actually share time with God on that day, and to refrain from working on that day. Very important for the peace of mind and concentration. (I have found this very different from just "remember to rest".)

I happen to be an atheist, but whoever modded the parent as "offtopic" is completely wrong.

Prayer is the Christian's form of meditation and the fact is, meditation works.

The current Time magazine is even featuring the subject. The story is here. In the article they discuss some of the science being used to explain the success of meditation.

Check out the July 21. They say that the House measure is only to overturn the 45% rule. The decision to allow crossownership of TV, print, and radio was not overturned by this measure.

I guess I'll have to keep writing those letters to my representatives.

Ever searched for this on Google ??
Google on Time magazine

Until now most of the small form factor notebooks had transmeta crusoe processor...this looks much better

-- Sig
(What's Google doing on time magazine? )

Check this out

sprintPCS A600 w/gamepad

Not sure if the games are any good, but I love the idea.

I guess the every people in Hong Kong are not so worried these days. Would that be fair to say?

Very true. Although there are lots of uncertainty about SARS but after the disaster we've confidence in facing it again.

The high casualty is due to the infficiency of our local Government and their lack of risk awareness(which anger a lot of people and triggered a mass protest of the centaury). Fortunately for us we've a lot of brave people who are willingly to risk their live to take the most dangerous and dirty job and nobody(but the governer) retreat. We're really proud of them.

Incidentally Hitler was chosen the person of the year by Time magazine in 1938.

The "Person of the Year" was supposed to be chosen on basis of importance or newsmaking. Selecting Adolf Hitler for the cover was an acknowledgement of his power, not an endorsement of it. It was an excellent choice, considering how much Hitler's policies dominated international events for the next eight years.

Of course, in 2001 Time broke their editorial policy in the name of patriotism, and selected a local politician who merely responded to events, instead of the international master-mind who initiated them.

I'm sure that in 1937, all the German people thought their government was the greatest thing on the planet. I'm sure that even the Jews didn't really think they had anything to worry about, after all, they weren't breaking any laws.

This really is a common misconception. The Nazi party started cleaning up political dissidents and granting the police extensive powers quite soon after they got to power, Dachau was established in 1933 and the Gestapo soon after, it all went downhill from there. Incidentally Hitler was chosen the person of the year by Time magazine in 1938.

It's really wonderful to know that the system mostly works.

The problem is it doesn't always work that way. Don't forget Cointelpro, and more recently the Ramparts case in LA and the Riders case in Oakland. As if to disprove that wide-spread, systematic abuse was part of the past, the DOJ brought us their post 9/11 roundup policy.

Getting a warrant is trivial. It is not an impediment to law enforcement and represents only the most inconsequential of protections (no wiretap request was turned down last year). What it does provide is a paper trail a tiny bit of oversight, and that means some recourse for the Abner Louima's of the world, and possibly a moment of reflection for the cops to question their own actions, even if the judge really isn't likely to.

It's right to help law enforcement in their legitimate business, but it's not up to a private company to determine legitimacy, it's up to the courts. That everyone has the right (I think still) to refuse to cooperate without a warrant is our only fig leaf; dropping it voluntarily just encourages abuse. We all owe it to our police forces to make it harder for the bad apples to ruin things for the good cops.

Hopefully some bad cop somewhere will misuse this policy of eBay's and the injured party will file a massive lawsuit against eBay for aiding and abetting the crime and collect a meaningful punitive reward. Probably not, but we can hope. In the mean time, eBay makes it easy for anyone who wants a few credit card numbers to pay their bills.

Considering that more families than ever are going to nudist resorts, shouldn't there be a descriptor to account for this? It might even let a game keep an "E" or "T" rating, as opposed to sexual themes and rape which get an instant "M".

"Ford's profit margin for the past twelve months is 1%; two of the last 4 quarters they've lost money."

No, they are losing money because they owe BILLIONS to the pension funds. You know, payments to union workers that don't even work for Ford anymore.

Pension Bomb

And Ford is not alone, many economists predict that pensions will eventually bankrupt most if not all of the long-unionized undustrial businesses in this country.

Your wish has been granted. Don't you feel better? Now the Air Marshals are onboard to enforce the rules, ensuring you don't get up to go to the bathroom, or act too curiously. There have always been a whole bunch of crazy rules on airplanes, which carried the weight of federal law. Now there are air marshals watching everything you do to make sure you do not break those laws, though they cannot properly handle their firearms (I tried to find other articles, but the articles I linked mentioned several incidents of leaving firearms in bathrooms and one in which a firearm went off in a bathroom) and are not well trained. They are also overworked and underpaid, which has real consequences (for the click-challenged, sleeping air marshals with their guns openly available to terrorists present little protection).

Still, be that as it may, the short and sweet of it is don't fuck with air marshalls. They have guns, they are tired, cranky, and edgy, and have the right to shoot you with minimal cause and arrest you with no cause. So for those of you who wanted to have enforcement of the seatbelt rules, you now have it at the barrel of a gun. Ditto for smoking or using the bathroom or cell phones. In the article a man was immediately arrested in the UK for having his cell phone on (though not in use) and sentenced to 12 months in jail. That'll teach that terrorist bastard, eh? I would have to wonder what the US would have done.

Now, I have been flying for years (though not since 9/11) and it has been pretty well obvious that being on a plane is serious business (for instance, even before 9/11 smoking or saying the words bomb, gun, etc could get you booted/thrown in prison in the US). I understand it is important to have rules for safety since a cock-up on a plane is no joke, and I follow the rules assiduously. But I have to wonder if what we are doing now is not too much of the keeping the ordinary passengers' seat belts on and not enough of the stopping the real terrorists.

It was covered on NPR yesterday and was front page news on most newspapers (Time, NY Times) today. How you missed it, I don't know. I will agree that CNN is pathetic though...

NY Times isn't exactly known for their accuracy these days. http://www.time.com/time/columnist/poniewozik/arti cle/0,9565,455835,00.html

or these might work:
BG: time 1
GL: time 2

just thought I'd help you out with those (they didn't work for me).

or these might work:
BG: time 1
GL: time 2

just thought I'd help you out with those (they didn't work for me).

Time Magazine Interview with Tim Berners Lee, unfortunately, a preview to a for-pay full article. If anyone knows where the full article is, for free, let me know.
In any event, in this article, TBL - creator of the web - discusses what his greatest fear for it would be. In other words, what would harm the web most?
His answer: A "split" internet. Browser A is best used for this site, browser B is best for this one. DRM, thus, is technology that will do - as most of us are no doubt aware - more harm than good. It DESTROYS the ubiquitous nature of how one SHOULD be allowed to access online content. Time, ironically, has designed their site to be used with Browsers X and Y (Netscape and IE).

I kid. I don't have one and you can't "apply" for one either. Read more about it here and see it here.