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So would the interstate commerce clause give the feds the power to have, say, built the railroads? Why not federalize all trucking? Or at least start a trucking company no one can compete with, since it's taxpayer funded?

Funny you should mention railroads... The federal government was pretty much the backbone of the American railroad. Please pay particular attention to the General Survey Act and land grants. From the link: "Federal land grants in the 1850s totalled 25,464,018 acres"

Would we be better off if the feds had build the national phone infrastructure?

Do you really want to get into that argument? Without a strong federal hand we'd certainly have a different telecommunication system than we have today.

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Dont let them eat your balls!

They brainwashed this kid into giving them his Balls!
How did they brainwash him?...simple!
Had him watch Too Much MTV!

"Ok now its time for 'Give your balls to MTV!'"

This is MTV's Jenny McCarthy licking her lips after eating some Balls!

They eat the balls and throw the rest down the drain!

These 2 host M2...the slogan for M2 is!
"24 more hours ball eating excitement"
"24 more hours classical ball eating"
"24 more hours of eating balls!"

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This website present the two photographs side by side. The photographers removed the fencepost appearing to stick out of her head.

There is a time difference of 25 years between the two photographs. The original one was publish in 1970. The second
one was Photoshopped in 1995.

Also Ozymandias' psychic brain monster from The Watchmen. Making everybody go crazy and kill each other is a cool idea but the monster is one of the stupidest-looking doomsday devices I've ever seen.

Getting back to Ren and Stimpy, The Watchmen's brain monster looks a lot like the brain monsters from the Ren and Stimpy episode "Marooned".

For a while I used emacs as my mail client and news reader. This far I haven't not found another mail client that can match the functionality provided by vm plus the MIT Remembrance Agent. Unfortunately it's something of a pain in the ass to set it all up and I don't get enough non-spam email outside of work to bother with it.

Somewhat. They "lease" their numbers to the actual responsible parties (usually off-shore), but if they didn't, I wouldn't get calls, would I?

I have logs spanning two years of calls from HUNDREDS of different numbers in blocks owned by DigitCom.

Some are trying to start a class-action lawsuit against them.

Kutztown is really the home of the Fighting Amish.

http://fightingamish1.tripod.com/amish/main_page/left_menu/logo.gif

It is kind of like Notre Dame, and a little bit not.

That's exactly how I ftp'd during my first steps on the Internet, when all I had was a dial-up account with email access. FTP Mail, aka everything that's old will be new again...

I was going to ask for a citation, but a simple Google for "items found in coal" resulted with Impossible Stuff Found In Coal And Rock

Going from there you'l find more, but its odd that they are (from what ive found) all from the late 1800's/early 1900's... which my scepticism seems to over-ride as just wives-tales sort of stuff... a sort of joke that got taken seriously... or just to make the papers...

Not to say that I necessarily believe that its 300 million years old either, because coal can be made in a 10 thousand years as well, and probably even sooner given the right conditions...

What's the problem? Only a moron would use idiotic social networking^H free hosting site like Facebook^H Tripod as a replacement for email^H web hosting. What the hell is wrong with today's young people anyway, that they're so happy to sign up to be serfs for corporate interests, and give up any privacy they ever had? Instant messaging, social networking sites^H ISPs and hosting sites are all corporate-controlled. Anything you do on there is subject to their rules, no matter how silly they may be. Anything you say can be seen by them. There is no expectation of privacy. If you want the freedom to say what you want, you have to use email. Except that today's stupid young people think that email^H self-hosting is "old fashioned" and only for talking to "old" (over 30) people.

I also think it's deliciously ironic that you use Mailbank/netidentity to host your personal email. Netidentity is also a company, no?

I don't get why the hell people get so worked up about people using facebook more and more. There's tons of reasons to use it. If you don't want to, that's fine, but the ridiculous vitriol by some people just confounds me.

also:

Except that today's stupid young people think that email is "old fashioned" and only for talking to "old" (over 30) people.

"Young" people don't give a fuck one way or another. Maybe you can't see the utility of facebook/other social networking sites, but there _is_ a lot of it. I can give a prime example.

I studied abroad in brazil. I'm an american, and I met a really nice girl from paris. We hit it off and were friends, and when we parted ways, she told me that her email was firstname.lastname@some.domain. Problem is, I could never get her email address right (I knew her name by sound, but couldn't figure out how to spell it). Later, I got her name from another friend, but her address was linked to her University and she had graduated since then, so it was a dead end.

A year and a half later, facebook opened up to france, and she joined the site. She looks at the group for the international students in brazil, found me, got my email and called me that day.

We've met up in paris twice since then and it was awesome. Can you see the usefullness I got out of it then?

Forgot my citation
http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb32.html

Many Moons (I apologize for the hosting company in advance, the site is not mine) is a childrens' story everyone in IT, Sales, and Marketing should familiarize themselves with.

The truth of the matter is: You're asking the wrong people. You should be asking the suits what they would imagine in a report and what kinds of numbers they're looking for. If they're general and obtuse, tell them straight up they'll get a general report, or just make up numbers to keep them happy. Create a widget they can access from their desk that shows them numbers generated from the database that hardly matter. Does it matter what you deliver if they don't know what they want?

They're trying to imagine some great power-point presentation you'll be showing with pie charts and red/green/yellow/blue graphs popping out and wowing them? Make it so. They're trying to imagine a spreadsheet? Easier and more concise. They just want a status report at the end of the day on what percentage of the documentation has been migrated? You can probably get away with a few page count written on a napkin.

Remember the Alice's conversation with the Cheshire cat:
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where -" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

There, like here, they'd have to come on to private property to take pictures with any effect.

But you don't have to come on to private property to take invasive pictures.

Here in Baltimore, we have a traditional "folk" art of screen painting. Nothing to do with screen printing, it involves painting pictures on the screens in screen doors. Why did this become popular? Because there's no front yard for a rowhouse. and you could very easily look through a screen door from the street. The painting made it hard to look through the screen (at least during the day, when backlit from inside at night.

Someone standing on a public street can take all kinds of invasive photos.

http://zzpat.tripod.com/cvb/oct_2006/pagan_graves_in_vatican_basement.html

To be fair, you completely misrepresent this article that you linked. The aforementioned "pagan relics stored beneath the Vatican" is nothing more than a new archeological site. It's not some cache of pagan artifacts gathered from past crusades/missions or some such.

If you read the article you'll see that it is a ancient Roman necropolis that was discovered recently, quite by accident*, during the construction of a new parking garage for the Vatican. It even has the rather tongue-in-cheek name "Necropolis of the Parking Garage" ("Necropoli dell'Autoparco").

The fact the burial customs used were clearly non-christian/Catholic, is the only reason why the site is labeled as a Pagan site. Also, it is dated to around 23 B.C.-14 A.D, which dates it just before Christianity as a whole.

The Vatican even plans to open the site to the public. This quote best sums up how the Vatican feels on the matter:

"Everyone always thinks that if it's not about pure Christianity, the Vatican isn't interested," says Cristina Gennaccari, an archaeologist with the Vatican Museums. "But there are many pagan aspects of all things modern, and when it comes to archeology, especially religious archeology, there is really no room for distinction."

(* This kind of stuff happens all the time in Rome. It just so happens that the Vatican isn't in the habit of digging so deep.)

I wonder what a holy grail goes for with 700 years of compound interest.

I'm much more interested in how you make up for the lives & civilizations your organization destroyed.

I'm not saying this is true but Newsweek/MSNBC ran a story on pagan relics stored beneath the Vatican. I've also read and heard that many Native American (both North & South) relics and documents were shipped back to the Vatican to be stored under it so they could study heathenism and combat it. This was after their owners were either converted or burned/shot.

I would think that the Catholic church could at least (as a sign of good faith) return these to their descendants or at the very least release them to a museum with all the information they have on it so that the rest of us can gain insight to their culture & religion. Of course, if this were true, I don't think the museum donations would be worth the black eye.

"the Knights Templar are demanding that the Vatican give them back their good name and, possibly, billions in assets into the bargain, 700 years after the order was brutally suppressed by a joint venture between the Pope and the King of France..."

The funny thing is that the Vatican probably has billions in capital at its disposal. I always got a kick out of the pope ruling a small nation-state in Europe (with its own currency, mind you) telling me to be more like Jesus. The same Jesus who said in Matthew 19:21

Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

Or what Luke said (12:23)

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

Or John 3:17

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

The funny thing is I could go on all day finding quotes from most major religions ... Like Buddha or Gandhi, I'm a huge fan of this Jesus guy. It's 99% of the people who purport to follow him that manage to genuinely fuck up the world.

What about Spanish-only speaking citizens?

What about analphabets, blind people?

What about other countries, for example India with 23 official Languages and more than 1200 languages spoken around the rural countryside, not to mention a couple of hundred million non-readers as well.

None of the issues you raise apply to Google. Also, to deal with non-English or non-official language speakers, or illiterate people, you could simply use a picture (I don't know, maybe something like this, which took all of three seconds to find on... Google.) As for blind people, I feel like you're probably not going to have many of them wandering around taking photos on private property, but I could be wrong.

Without even talking about Google Earth photographing topless people from Satellites in their backyard, what about ultralight planes covering the property?

Or drones, should Google be allowed to use drones to make pictures?

If not, why? Other companies use air photography too.

The question is about Street View, which is taken using trucks, not aircraft.

I don't like being watched either, but they kind of have a point.

Not really. They say that there's no such thing as complete privacy because of satellite photograpy. Fine, that may be true, but how does that justify doing away with what privacy is left, and how does it naturally apply to taking photographs with trucks on private property? It doesn't. It's a pretty stupid argument, if you ask me.

Ok, so why not the 2nd and 4th? If the SCOTUS believe that the Fourteenth Amendment allows for full Incorporation, why haven't they fully incorporated it?

Just because some recent rulings seem to fall towards the belief that we now live with the BoR fully Incorporated does not mean that they are fully Incorporated. It's a sham to make that belief.

For the simple-minded who refuse to accept that there is no Incorporation, nor will there ever be, here are some resources by Constitutional scholars:

The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights (PDF!!) Berger, Raoul
Fourteenth Amendment and Selective Incorporation Links, Jim Allison
The Truth about the Fourteenth Amendment, Thomas DiLorenzo
States Rights Traditions that Nobody Knows, Thomas Woods

Google Raoul Berger, he has numerous articles and books on the matter as well.

There is an example of systems failure causing the loss of a ship - although I do not believe Microsoft was at fault. (I'll blame them anyway, to be consistent.) That example was HMS Sheffield, in the Falkland's War, which was hit by an exocet missile despite having the ability to shoot them down. The point defense systems were confused by too many objects on the RADAR.

It's more complex than that.
- Sheffield's radar was the old Type 965, which wasn't very good at detecting seaskimming missiles. The RN was in the process of replacing it with a new system, but Sheffield hadn't been upgraded yet.
- Sheffield's alert status at the time is unclear:

One history of the Falklands war says that as there were no "bogeys" on any radar screens at the time, the officers were making a satellite phone call back to Fleet HQ in England, an action that would jam the use of the ship radar. However, with other ships close by, notably the Carrier Invincible, this was not seen to be a risk. At the end of the call, reported the Guardian newspaper, the radar came back on and the two Etenards were spotted just 33km away. It was the Navy's first encounter with low-flying Exocet-carrying attack planes.

Another history says that the Sheffield's crew were "only in second-degree readiness rather than at full action-stations". The first the crew heard was a loudspeaker warning "Missile Attack - hit the deck". It reportedly took four minutes to close a ship down into battle stations and to be ready to take evasive action. The Sheffield had little more than a minute to react.

(from here)

- Sheffield did not have point defence systems. Its armament consisted of Sea Dart (designed to attack high-flying aircraft) and a 4.5" gun, both considered long-range systems.
Later in the war, the RN tried the "missile trap": a Type 42 would operate in conjunction with a Type 22 frigate, which carried the Sea Wolf short-range missile system which was designed for use against low-flying targets such as the Exocet.

So, Sheffield was not lost to systems failure but to incorrect procedure and a lack of foresight.

I'm surprised this hasn't been done before. Anyone who has handled a carbon steel framed firearm that's blued or parkerized but not painted or otherwise coated can tell you they etch pretty damn well from sweaty fingerprints. I've also seen brass shell casings with fingerprints, the prints turn black with age. There are now lacquer or polymer coated steel shell casings that would limit this effect. They're made of those materials because of cost. Many modern firearms are now coated rather than blued or parkerized though the magazines may not be. I recall seeing an antique firearm deeply etched in what could have started out being a finger print.

So this would be useful in cases where a metal object had been touched and allowed enough time for the chemical corrosion to take place. It would not be perfect as the object could have been made out of scrap and an innocent could be blamed.

Professor Anil Aggrawal http://members.tripod.com/~Prof_Anil_Aggrawal/index.html
specializes in toxicology but he might know who specializes in other aspects of forensics.
I mention his web page because he's funny and has interesting information on toxins and forensic programming.

Most humorous post today! Also true.

Not "HEIL HITLER!" -- > HEIL CHENEY. Cheney's no-bid contract Halliburton is rapidly building prisons. Obviously someone has a plan to use them.

Cheney is planning to invade Iran. A lot of people are saying that Cheney plans martial law. Prepare for living in a military dictatorship.

People with plenty of political experience are saying Cheney plans to attack the U.S. and claim that it was Iran that attacked. (false flag operation)

What husband / coder wouldn't love Sux McNutty's Blowjob Chair?

"Eau de Cocaine"

Ode de Cocaine would be a stately and elaborate lyrical verse about cocaine. sort of like http://5centcoffee.tripod.com/id32.html would be if it were stately and elaborate and wasn't set to music.

Not exactly. A carcinogen like benzene works differently than a nanofiber like asbestos or carbon tubes. Benzene's affect is purely chemical. Asbestos (and nanotubes) cause damage through physical damage. One mechanism is when the fibers are longer than about 17 microns and are too long for white blood cells to envelop (frustrated phagocytosis). Because the fibers can work their way into lung tissue these fibers form a constant source of inflammation and scarring. Another is the fibers can spear individual cells and cause them to leak and physically interfere with chromosome function. It is worth being careful.

No one has suggested it yet, but I recommend you try building a Beowulf cluster. Just for fun. And for added fun, make it a DOS Beowulf. Follow the step-by-step at building your own low-cost supercomputing cluster. If you have two or more old machines, the cost can probably be kept under $10. The machines don't need a lot of memory, but they must have a working parallel port.

Haha, yeah right. If anything, the sequel will be dumbed down in the interest of "national security".

Nobody wants any lawsuits resulting from copycat stunts gone bad...and nobody wants to teach people how to do terroristy things
like this or this.

Or we could go back to trying to do nuclear powered aircraft. This image depicts a single prototype engine--its resting place is in southern Idaho.

Or we could go back to trying to do nuclear powered aircraft. This image depicts a single prototype engine--its resting place is in southern Idaho.

In the seven ages of man (The ~10,000 year cycles, not the poem from Shakespeare referring to the Stone/Bronze/Iron ages, but the times in which one age is all but forgotten by the next age.), each time mankind has attained the technology plateau to establish civilization on Mars it has been short-lived. The societal stresses from multiple worlds is something our race has yet still not learned to appreciate. Man still seems to need to control and destroy.

Very few relics of the previous age persist. Even the garbage of the previous age has been lost to time. Very occasionally, we will find a curious relic, such as a spark plug inside of a rock.

Curiously the longest-lasting civilization was during the 3rd Age. Nearly 500 years before collapsing. But then it collapsed with the worst destruction so far. Even the moon shows the scars from that horrible conflict - all the largest patches on the moon are from fusion weapons, not naturally-occurring craters as they would have us believe. Fusion weapons to wipe all trace of there ever being cities on the moon. To return the world to a simplistic agrarian existence until the rise of the next golden age.

Mars is the filter, the filter to see if we have yet reached the evolutionary level to not bicker as small children when in this situation.

Why do you think the named the planet after the god of war anyway? Racial memory.

What else explains Bush wanting to send people to Mars - he's not just betting on a single apocalyptic prediction, the Armageddon legend isn't failsafe. [Just kidding about that one - I hope!!]

What, nobody remembers Night Raven? Cobra's coolest looking plane. In fact, two planes in one.

http://crimsonguard.tripod.com/raven.html

Go Joe!

Your arguments don't hold water. "Because I say so" isn't an argument at all.

And profanity absolutely can be used for powerful artistic effect. Case in point, Alan Ginsberg's "Howl", ruled not obscene by the Supreme Court 50 years ago.

It makes you realise just how utterly huge this place is, if someone and their entire light aircraft can just disappear in a matter of minutes. Reminds me a lot of this case:

http://iroc305.tripod.com/id53.htm

It's spooky, really, but I have to think that there'll be a Slashdot story in a few years about how his bones and his plane were found using new Google Maps Streetview - Desert Edition.

Can you sync to a Windows Mobile device with a Macintosh?

And no, the most important Palm app I need is http://lauriedavis9.tripod.com/copilot/
which isn't ported to Windows Mobile.

http://members.tripod.com/~Berdache_Two/twospirit.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit
Google also for "Berdache"

I can't find the specific link outlining the 5 different genders, but I do remember reading about it once.
If I remember correctly the other 3 were: 'Straight' but preferring to do things of the other sex (Tom Boys, Men who liked to cook, cross dressers). 'Homosexual' but preferring to do things of the same sex (Cooking women, Warring men), and then Transgendered, misc.

From Wiki:
"In one account, raiding soldiers of a rival tribe begin to attack a group of foraging women. When they perceive that one of the women, the one that does not run away, is a two-spirit, they halt their attack and retreat after the two-spirit counters them with a stick, determining that the two-spirit will have great power which they will not be able to overcome."

(It's just my American childishness towards the issues. But in my head I'm seeing a bunch of Freshmen boys going and raiding the Freshmen girls dorm when they encounter a 6' tall dude in a night gown and then they run away)

These were also the culture that revered people with Down Syndrome as truly 'special' and having a special connection to gods, etc. Christians could learn a thing or two about acceptance from these 'savages'

...the Clintons were selling the White House! While wholesale fraud of billions of dollars was occurring, there was dead silence here. Holy f**k Billy bob is STILL selling his presidency long after he left and people are pounding their keyboard over an $8 charge for a document in some out of the way place?!?!?! Wow, just wow.

Well to be fair about it, Clinton isn't the only one who is selling the White House but they are the obvious top front runners for selling out.

Well, here comes the democratic shills and Clinton lovers to mod me down. Oh well, one can bring up the truth, and it hurts, but a lot of people just seem to put their fingers in their ears and yell LA LA LA CANT WAIT TO SEE A DEMOCRAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE LA LA LA regardless of getting the same results as Bush for the last eight years...

There's a hole in your argument too. It's been shown that even with no copyright a more expensive book that pays royalties can outsell a cheaper book without royalties. I do not understand where you get the impression that all person are total fucking cheapskates and idiots and don't know what's good for them. I.e. making sure that your favorite entertainers don't have to work at wal-mart.

I give you the war over middle earth

Imagine a world in which Billy Mitchell never encountered Pac-Man. Put to good use his sharp mind, excellent hand-eye coordination, incredibly long attention span and his prodigious talent for problem-solving probably would have led the world into a utopian technological society by now. The human genome would have been mapped by the mid eighties. World poverty would have been eliminated entirely. The air and the earth would be clean. We'd be living in an age of unprecedented peace. Serbs and Kosovars would be frolicking hand in hand cracking jokes about their ethnic differences. Billy Mitchell would have a girlfriend. Instead, Billy Mitchell played Pac-Man and grew a moustache.

http://jimjansen.tripod.com/academic/pubs/chi.html
It has references to paper works if you must kill trees to learn

I once saw an illustration of how a man would look like if he had the sternum and pecs that would be needed to support wings like those of a bird. The diameter of the breast (front to back) was about triple that of a normal human. Which makes me wonder if people like these could pull it off - maybe after losing some of the weight in places where it's not really necessary (and pulling those socks out of the undies to improve aerodynamics ;).

That's why I linked to the google search. One of the first hits is this beautiful picture - if it was FLAT flat you'd see some mountains in the distance since you'd just have to see something that's not the salt lake. But you don't. In fact, you only see the sky. Really beutiful shot, btw.

A webcam in the Racetrack, while technically feasible, would take a fair bit of money and time to set up for the possibility of no payoff.

Sounds like science!

Seriously, we are talking about a nation where people joke about things like this: 24. You think nothing of getting up at 4am, driving for 5 hours, sitting in a traffic backup for 3 hours, baking in the sun, spending 5 hours to get out of the parking lot, driving 5 hours home, getting up the next morning at 5 am, going to work on 3 hours sleep, and telling everybody what a GREAT time you had.

What's so hard about driving out to a remote location and placing a few cameras? And how about a recording GPS unit and an anemometer mounted ON ONE OF THE ROCKS?

It sounds like fun, and it would only take a few years to get results. Compared to raising children the cost is low and the results are fast.

>This is xenophobia pure and simple and will kill whatever tourist industry Japan was trying to get with their "Yokoso Japan!" campaign.

How about getting of of these fingerprint-friendly "Yokoso Japan!" t-shirts?

In order to let the Government of Japan and the airport drones know how you feel about their latest "effort".

Their vacuum cleaner was a mammoth of a machine (but was the same hue as a Dyson).

Here.

What, your friend never mentioned the CBLA (Cape Breton Liberation Army), played the tapes of inspirational speeches by General John Cabot Trail, or seen the placards demanding that the Canso Causeway be blown up? Get with the times, boy.

Expose - Xerox "Rooms" (1985), AmigaOS WorkBench (1985), swm (1990)

Dashboard - Borland Sidekick (1984)

Spotlight - Lotus Magellan (1989), ISYS:Desktop (1989), dtSearch Desktop (1991), Enfish Find (2002), Copernic (2004), Google Desktop Search (2004)

.MAC - Online disk, email, backup, ecards and ratings were all extant by 1998.

For agriculture on the Dark Side of the Moon

Above all, though, I'd like to see the A-Team take on the lizards from V.

They'll probably do something cheesey and make K.I.T.T. into some futuristic car like they did in Knight Rider 2000.

Wood gasification. Here's an example

http://members.tripod.com/~highforest/woodgas/woodfired.html

Ruins your top end pretty fast though, you need an engine designed for it so that you can pull the head and scrape the ash every once and awhile. And you'll have to get used to driving max 60km/h instead of 120km/h. Oh well, such is the post-oil world of transportation.