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CLEARLY, Jobs would not make a very good Ferengi. He doesn't have the LOBES...

He's violating # 1 and #299:

1. Once you have their money, never give it back *
299. Whenever you exploit someone, it never hurts to thank them. That way, its easier to exploit them the next time.

BUT I wonder how many of these go through the minds of board room execs....:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wakefield /ferenghi.html

1. Once you have their money, never give it back *

2. You can't cheat an honest customer, but it never hurts to try

12. Anything worth selling is worth selling twice
13.Anything worth doing is worth doing for money
14. Anything stolen is pure profit
16. A deal is a deal (...until a better one comes along) *
19. Don't lie too soon after a promotion
20. When the customer is sweating, turn up the heat
23. Never take the last coin, but be sure to get all the rest
53. Sell first; ask questions later
55. Always sell at the highest possible profit
64.Don't talk shop; talk shopping
65.Don't talk ship; talk shipping
67. Enough is never enough
68.Compassion is no substitute for profit
70. Get the money first, then let the buyers worry about collecting the merchandise
82.A smart customer is not a good customer

115.Greed is eternal

125. A lie isn't a lie until someone else knows the truth
144. Theres nothing wrong with charity... as long as it winds up in your pocket

161. Never kill a customer, unless you make more profit out of his death than out of his life

162.His money is only your's when he can't get it back.

208. Give someone a fish, you feed him for one day. Teach him how to fish, and you lose a steady customer

http://members.tripod.com/~ds9promenade/Ferengi_Ru les.html

299. Whenever you exploit someone, it never hurts to thank them. That way, its easier to exploit them the next time.

I haven't read the Facebook TOS, but I would be very surprised if they put into place any sort of provision that held Facebook to any particular standards regarding taking down offensive content. The idea behind such agreements is to give Facebook protection in the event they decide to yank a Facebook account for whatever reason.

This scenario weirdly parallels the Noah v. AOL case, in which a Muslim sued AOL for failing to police a chat room that was full of anti-Muslim sentiments, in violation of AOL's user behavior policy. The case was decided in 2003 in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and was pretty much an open and shut case of contract. The plaintiff also tried to bring in Title II discrimination, claiming that the AOL chat room was a "place of public accomodation." That argument didn't fly either. Note that the question of "public accomodation" in online venues hasn't been completely hashed out yet by the courts.

Really, it's typical third-rate juvenile science fiction, much like you would find in 50's back issues of Amazing Stories.

People from Spain have too much of a lisp to speak proper Mexican

"Shark still looks fake."

which is what actually happened to the tompkins square crowd

so how exactly do you deal with violent squatters in a public park? they own the park? they have a right to live there? really?

as a resident of times square, about which some village voice commentators lamented the loss of needle park and peep shows, i say to hell with the old lower east side and to hell with the old time square. mickey mouse moved in and rich japanese with their stupid boutiques took over st. marks. to all of which i say: good. it's superior to the past

and you talk like the police were the only one resorting to violence. pfffft. the tompkins square park crowd just ate each other. funny, you don't seem to be so upset about that

iggy pop seems to be doing ok with the new tompkins square park, so you should stop revisiting the past. if you actually have nostalgia for the type of losers the cops cracked a few skulls of, then you're probably one of those fruit loops yourself. in which case: sorry. the gentrified lower east side: not yours

you're fighting a decades old battle lost a long time ago

Misinformation just isn't right... In nearly every instance, gun control has resulted in a net increase in violent crime. Yes, even in Canada. Here's a quick analysis by a well known author in the subject: http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/NationalPost615 04.html

Man! I need a way to defeat redirects. Alright try this. #$%#$%*&#$!!!Completely ruins the effect.

Would spinning one those color wheels they use at the discos at 10,000rpm work?

It can be written as a very simple, recursive program. A link to a nice looking C++ program from a google search.

http://maple.ece.utexas.edu/~ogale/ee312/

http://erwnerve.tripod.com/prog/recursion/

That explains the initial shortage. But the Wii has been out for almost eight months, now. One would hope they would have been able to at least begin to address the shortage problems, but not much seems to have changed. At the very least, after being blindsided by the popularity of the DS, Nintendo just looks foolish to find themselves in pretty much the same situation with the Wii. In light of Nintendo's past history of engineering shortages (which I mentioned upthread, and is talked about in more depth here or here), there seems plenty of reason to be skeptical, even though I admit there's nothing conclusive about it.

Greg Egan - best ideas ever. I'm currently re-re-reading Diaspora
Charles Stross - fun. I read Accelerando (free book!), then bought all his other stuff and wasn't disappointed.
Richard Morgan - really likes his Lone Genetically Modified Male protagonists, but luckily he does them well enough for it not to get old.
Alastair Reynolds - the Revelation Space universe is one of my favourites.
Iain (M.) Banks - The Culture novels are quite interesting, and his other books aren't bad either.

Honourable mentions:

Peter Watts - all his books appear to be online. Blindsight is very, very good, but I've not read much else from him yet.
Greg Bear - some of his older works are among my favourites. Queen of Angels, Slant (literally "/") and Moving Mars are one of my favourite trilogies. I'm behind on his newer stuff though, and his latest "terrorist thriller" makes me suspicious.

I know many many years ago there was a game that was made for either the NES or SNES (I forget which) that had a lot of flashing lights on the screen (it was a Japanese game) and many Japanese kids were suffering seizures due to the frequency of the flashing. It may have been this game.

"What would happen if the crew of the NX-01 were anthropomorphic animals and there's maybe a crossover with the X-Men why not?"

...a muppet with no patience.

Then again, things don't go so well when muppets have patience. ;-)

Damnit, slashdot stripped the underscores. His site is: http://runningonalcohol.tripod.com/id36.html http://runningunderscoreonunderscorealcohol.tripod .com/id36.html

Damnit, slashdot stripped the underscores. His site is: http://runningonalcohol.tripod.com/id36.html http://runningunderscoreonunderscorealcohol.tripod .com/id36.html

I'd love to see the same report with E85 and not E10 blended fuel. This reeks of FUD. The thing they fear, is that when people can grow their own fuel using a cheap Ethanol still (like this one, the oil-gas megacorps won't add money to their already overflowing coffers. Just imagine being able to grow your own corn, put it into a machine, and pump your fuel from home. Especially considering that a Gallon of Gasoline is $3.20, and a bushel of corn is much more cost effective.

I ran across this URL several years ago and bookmarked it thinking I could use it someday. I'm actually surprised the link still works! If the device really does do what it says it is a shame that nobody has pushed it further.....

http://members.tripod.com/~anon99/water_engine/

"Henry Ford writes in his book, My Life and Work, Doubleday, 1926, that the Association of Automobile Manufacturers then began to advertise warnings to prospective Ford customers against purchasing Ford automobiles implying that those who purchased or owned a Ford automobile might be prosecuted on criminal and civil charges and that buying a Ford automobile "might well be buying a ticket to jail." Ford ran a four page ad in newspapers across the country offering legal protection to all Ford auto owners based on the $6,000,000 assets of the Ford company plus a $6,000,000 bond. Hence, $12,000,000 of legal protection for each and every Ford owner. The lawsuit had the affect of increasing Ford Motor Company sales - sales nearly doubled that year to 18,000 cars. Ford states that about fifty Ford automobile owners asked for the bond. The public was not intimidated."

I'd rather have this one in case the Queen shows up.

http://members.tripod.com/CORP_HICKS/loader.html

VCSY message board at Raging Bull public message board

VCSY - A Laughing Place #1 at ProgrammersHeaven private message board

VCSY - A Laughing Place #2 at Tripod blog

Trying to keep up with a discussion here is like playing chess in a BART station.

Join in the discussion anytime you feel comfortable. Don't get your feelings hurt though if you go in like you know the score and somebody heats up your bathwater. If you don't know what you're talking about Those longs will tear your boxers to speedos going the wrong way. Just fair warning so you don't go sniveling and all.

VCSY just finished a long lawsuit with CDC/Ross Systems for cheating and fraud... and CDC settled with a little money and a little something for the road.

It's that 'something for the road' that makes us all think CEO Wade knows exactly what he's driving at.

I'm placing this here in case any honest and trustworthy souls would like to examine a bit of historical and topical information on Vertical Computers and their technology. There are a number of places to look but perhaps it would be easiest if you start here with my difficult to assail opinions and observations: http://ajaxamine.tripod.com/

Well it's good that no musician was arrested.

[Other drummer jokes]

Rhenium costs £6.50 per gram if you want to buy it on ebay; boron is £13.50 a gram on ebay because the one seller there is selling an exotic crystalline form. [ebay search for 'rhenium metal' or 'boron element']

So making ReB2 using source materials bought in small quantities on ebay would be about ten pounds (about twenty dollars) a gram; probably the cost of the electricity to run the furnace would be more than that, and the depreciation on the furnace more still.

I paid ten Euros (about fifteen dollars) for the diamond sample I have, which is two milligrams, and various diamond-industry sites give prices on the order of a hundred thousand dollars per gram; of course, rather like microchips, diamond pricing is exponential in the size because you have to find one big diamond rather than gluing two small ones together.

But ReB2 will be competing with diamond abrasive, and http://www.diamondtech.com/products/categories/dia mond_powder_price_list.html will sell you twenty grams (a hundred carats) of half-micron diamond dust for fifty dollars which is a lot cheaper than either the rhenium or the boron.

http://www.metalprices.com/FreeSite/metals/re/re.a sp suggests that bulk rhenium is $3000 per pound, which is a bit over half the ebay price above; some sites, I think mostly run by gold bugs, suggest $6000 per troy ounce, so either there's an opportunity for arbitrage, or they've confused rhenium and rhodium.

The not-so-trustworthy-looking http://biotsavart.tripod.com/bmt.htm has boron at about $5000 per kilogram, so $2200 per pound; still these are orders of magnitude cheaper than diamond.

Here is an article to show it. http://johnrlott.tripod.com/apla2.html

The solution is to arm everybody. Train everybody first just so
they understand what they do. If everybody was a black belt and
had a pistol, there would be no crime.

One could write a book on conflicting information from "Official Monopoly Rules" [on] any number of sites.

http://richardwilding.tripod.com/monorules.htm
This one says that the bank auctions off all the belongings of bankrupt players. It also says that the limit for late rent is two turns later. It also says that a whole color must be un-house'd before one of the properties can be mortgaged (a sensible rule, but the rules I have read only required that property to be empty, meaning one house could remain on the others). Contrary to the grandparent-linked "Official Monopoly Rules", it says you can unmortgage property for 110% immediately upon buying it, instead of paying the (unheard of) extra 10%.

There is no single set of "Official Monopoly Rules". There are many variants, many of which are or were official at some point in some place. There are many rulesets. Some are good, some are bad. Some people make up house rules (like auctions) that happen to be printed rules in other sets.

Hummm, let see, I have no skills so I can make minimum wage at Circuit City or I can make $10000 per month selling crack. What will I do? Can you say no-brainer?

Try 10,000/year. I lack direct experence... but from what i've observed and read... drug dealers don't really make that much in the way of money, probally onpar with a part time job. The only difference is this is undisclosed income, so someone can be on disability, wellfare, or be a student and suppliment their income with dealing of drugs.

According to this site crack's value is pretty low, between 3.50 and 10.00 per 1/10th gram in 1998 depending on city and other factors. Given this street price includes profit... one would have to sell to 5.5 people every day @ $5.00 per 1/10th gram to gross about $10,000. To quote StrongBad, "This isn't a good prize".

I could be naive in such matters. I couldn't find 5.5 people to sell crack to, hell, I don't know anyone who smokes crack. Nor would I want to. It's rather illegal, adictive, distructive, and the sort of thing that puts you into prison.

You would be better off selling macrame coathangers.

Although I don't know the name of it offhand, there's a textbook case illustrating the idea that even a small excerpt of a large work can be considered infringing, if it's a really important part. I think that this snippet of text is from a magazine article that scooped key details of an upcoming book of President Ford's memoirs. That is, the memoir book was about to come out, and (by questionable means) someone obtained the text and went to press with a few small quotes which were the part readers really wanted: the explanation of why Ford pardoned Nixon. The court found that despite the small size of the quoted portion relative to the book, this copying was infringement.

I think id Games used to compile on SGIs. I know MS did some development on Xenix/i286 and Xenix/i386 (somewhere, there's an MS quote about how MS-DOS/Win is not suitable for serious development..hah). In fact, the i286 had a memory management unit, but the only OS (that I know of) which took full advantage of it was Xenix. Minix/i286 may have supported it to some extent, as well.
Some emulator pages....mac&ppc, simos (for SGI/IRIX5), DEC 10 and Big Iron, various DEC emulation, Apple Lisa, Z80 sim&development, yaze Z80, Apricot and Amstrad, bochs x86, ... and there's always emulators that run under DOS that you could run under Bochs or QEMU.

Other possibly helpful links:
emulators on freshmeat
OS kernels on freshmeat
OS's on freshmeat
bunches of old OS disk images
CP/M and MP/M
CP/M disks
Lisa Xenix
LisaOS
tandy xenix
elks and uclinux
freevms
freedos
Apple I (not II) development
reactos - winnt clone
MAME stuff and pinball Mame
info about tandy disk images
solaris minix
minix info and version 3
various free (as in beer and/or speech) OS list
The OS list at tunes.org

I kinda liked the "Shrouders universe", consisting of Revelation Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution gap (and also separate story Chasm city). Take a look at the writer's own site. He's a former ESA astrophysicist so most of the basics are correct (granted, at Absolution gap you get to some pretty weirdish ideas about superstring theory, but...)

It's much the same problem as product placement ads.

If I'm running around the city fragging people, you're right: I don't really care if the billboard in the background says, "Drink Coke" or "Buy the SUX-2000." But, as you say, I don't need to see a billboard in the middle of a forest advertising Coca-Cola (maybe Orca-Cola, but that's another story). And if I'm battling aliens in the year 2390 on a derelict space station, I'm not sure I want to be told about the Saturn Vue.

One of the issues of this, though, is a similar problem that you find in "product placement"--for the most part, it has to be a somewhat contemporary storyline. Thus, it makes games with a contemporary storyline more profitable not because more people are buying the game but because of the advertising therein. This kinda sucks for great games that don't necessarily have a contemporary storyline. How would you do advertisements in a game like "Halo", for example?

Havent they played with their balls and strings? http://billysardar.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/s itebuilderfiles/shinycool.jpg

The thing that people forget is that HL2's art direction was amazing. I can't think of another title in recent memory that had a higher level of visual cohesiveness on a reasonable polybudget. For example, darkness consistently equals safety throughout the game, whereas any point you're exposed to sunlight is a location shrouded in danger. This is consistent both internally and externally. No-one, to my knowledge, has followed this color styling, yet it is an effective technique at making the player feel like an unwelcome outcast.

You can see how minimalist this tree really is. They only gave it just enough branches to cover the illusion, but not so many that it holds up to actual inspection. Another shot of said tree, from a more common angle. By not wasting any polys, they really can afford to put more on-screen. Heck, look at leaves. Artificially close, they are a big smear. But from the distance you normally see them, they can stick thousands of these things on screen, and they look beautiful.

Love the look of brick? Notice how in this shot they've burned the bump maps and damage maps and everything into the same texture? The increases the repetition in texture, but if you vary your geometry sufficiently the player will never notice. All they'll notice is a lot more is going on on-screen than they're used to. This technique looks terrible for big-open walls, but Half Life studiosly avoids big open walls within proximity of the player.

They even used a distinct pallete of blacks, muted browns, and light blues. This was far before anyone else was using anything but super-saturated primary colors.

Ignoring any technical accomplishments, this is an achievement of strong visual composition and consistent, solid art direction.

Do you even know what a caste system is? Or are you reading biased stuff like this or this

The caste system was there. It is illegal to use cast as a criteria for anything. Caste system is still there at many backward places, but somehow I doubt there are many "hardcode" believers of castism coming to US. Castism is just ad hominem usage.

And by the way, castism is a news because people want to sell it.

Alibates Dolomite 'Flint' Found In Oldest US Archaeological Sites

The single source of the hardest 'flint' material (a dolomite) in North America comes from the panhandle of Texas, quarried at Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibates_Flint_Quarri es_National_Monument , with the site protected and preserved by the US Parks Service from the 1960s http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/alibates/images/ smithsonian-letter.html .

The only quarries known that produced it are located near Lake Meredith reservoir and recreation area 30 miles north of Amarillo, Texas. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/alibates/ Alibates Dolomite, #9 (out of 10) in the harden scale, is found in most ancient archaeological sites across the USA; from the east and west coasts - including throughout the Great Lakes and plains regions of North America; being much more sturdy and harder than obsidian (a black, brittle volcanic glass) or chert (though a hard sedimentary rock) that's 'softer' than Alibates flint.

Seashells, beads, pipestone, some tools and ornaments derived from those regions have been found with Alibates flint in most of the oldest North American excevations; including the: Yuma man area, Folsom man http://folsommuseum.netfirms.com/folsomman.htm , Sandia man and Clovis man http://members.tripod.com/wksmith/ews.html digs plus others. One distinctive trait of the manufacture of Alibates points is a 'blood gutter' (of sorts) that is not on the points on display in the article http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanId=sa003&arti cleId=EB7B89C4-E7F2-99DF-3FEB5E35D73EE583 .

Also - the color of Alibates, though greatly varied, tends to have translucent striated streaks and swirls in many shades generally from purple to white. Aside from the spear and arrow points; other tools include: knives, scrapers, awls (leather punches) and hatchet heads all made from Alibates Flint. As these implements have been found in digs across the continent; clearly there was thriving industry and associated nation-wide trade, dating from well over 10,000 years ago.

Most of the 'oldest' 'man' digs in North America, discovered thus far, being between 10,000 to 15,000 years old; after the glaciers melted ( http://folsommuseum.netfirms.com/folsomman.htm , come complete with tools made of Alibates Flint. Respectfully submitted by: Robert Hertner

Here you go :)

--Rob

Warning Sign

I don't think that this patent is valid.
Obviously the prior art goes to Anthony Burgess the author of 1962 SF novel "Clockwork Orange":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange

Here are images from Stanley Kubrick movie based on that novel:
http://www.atthemovies.co.uk/big/clockwork99rrlc1. jpg
http://moviescreens.tripod.com/clockwork/clock12.j pg
http://moviescreens.tripod.com/clockwork/clock13.j pg

I don't think that this patent is valid.
Obviously the prior art goes to Anthony Burgess the author of 1962 SF novel "Clockwork Orange":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange

Here are images from Stanley Kubrick movie based on that novel:
http://www.atthemovies.co.uk/big/clockwork99rrlc1. jpg
http://moviescreens.tripod.com/clockwork/clock12.j pg
http://moviescreens.tripod.com/clockwork/clock13.j pg

Bullshit crafted during our lifetime with plenty of living witnesses to say so in my opinion makes it invalid.

So... you're saying that if it didn't happen in your lifetime, you'll accept it. But if it did, you won't. Fascinating. Bewildered, backwards and superstitious, but still... fascinating. Me, I look at the story, and if it sounds like bullshit, I assume it is bullshit, until and unless some proof reaches the table. No religion has ever had a non-bullshit sounding story, and no proof has ever reached the table, so I never had to reach for the "but it just happened" as a means of disqualification. Religion is bullshit, as far as I can tell, so that doesn't make Scientology any less or more than any other religion.

Interesting that you threw all of Islam in there with the African practice of mutilating women and the post-revolution Iranian practice of stoning people to death.

What is interesting about it? Various sects of Muslims, Hindus and African tribes all practice clitoridectomy to this day, and worse, though I should note that Muslim scholars consider it haram though it is still practiced by many Muslims. Likewise, stoning isn't a "post-revolution Iranian practice", you'll find it - and advice when to do it - right in your bible. Iran wasn't even a gleam in anyone's eye at that point. You're woefully uninformed for someone who is trying to argue about religion.

just becuase(sic) one group does stupid stuff doesn't justify another.

I don't believe you'll find that I was trying to "justify" one group by citing the actions of another. Though I certainly do lump one type of ignorance with another. Jehovah, Zeus, whoever... it's definitely all the same.

...to store just music or other files.

Also, his webpage (and personal homepage each play a sound recording of a song I believe is called (warning: iTunes link)"Electric Boogie" by Marcia Griffiths. I can't help but wonder if Mr. Silver has a license from ASCAP, BMI, or whichever entity may be responsible for enforcing the copyright for this sound recording.

As long as I am pointing out these types of things, on Mr. Silver's homepage is a graphical representation of a copyright symbol (the "circle-c" symbol) that looks remarkably similar to the one on the webpage of the U.S. Copyright Office.

In a line in the song "Electric Boogie" the singer says, "Oooooh .. shocking!" Are these facts shocking? Not to me. But very interesting. At least in my humble opinion.

Also, his webpage (and personal homepage each play a sound recording of a song I believe is called (warning: iTunes link)"Electric Boogie" by Marcia Griffiths. I can't help but wonder if Mr. Silver has a license from ASCAP, BMI, or whichever entity may be responsible for enforcing the copyright for this sound recording.

As long as I am pointing out these types of things, on Mr. Silver's homepage is a graphical representation of a copyright symbol (the "circle-c" symbol) that looks remarkably similar to the one on the webpage of the U.S. Copyright Office.

In a line in the song "Electric Boogie" the singer says, "Oooooh .. shocking!" Are these facts shocking? Not to me. But very interesting. At least in my humble opinion.

Also, his webpage (and personal homepage each play a sound recording of a song I believe is called (warning: iTunes link)"Electric Boogie" by Marcia Griffiths. I can't help but wonder if Mr. Silver has a license from ASCAP, BMI, or whichever entity may be responsible for enforcing the copyright for this sound recording.

As long as I am pointing out these types of things, on Mr. Silver's homepage is a graphical representation of a copyright symbol (the "circle-c" symbol) that looks remarkably similar to the one on the webpage of the U.S. Copyright Office.

In a line in the song "Electric Boogie" the singer says, "Oooooh .. shocking!" Are these facts shocking? Not to me. But very interesting. At least in my humble opinion.

"Longchamps, owners of Beefsteak Charlie's, opened a disco called Vamps on Broadway between 70th and 71st in the fall of 1975 and had an advertisement running in "BackStage" for bartenders and waiters. I needed a job at the time and applied for a position. When they say my resume and found that I was a professional dancer they asked me to give the opening night party. They hired a professional party giver, who did Neil Sedaka's Birthday, to give the Saturday Night Party and one of the girls from the Longchamps office gave the Sunday Night 'Black' Party with Leontine Price and Wilt Chamberland. My party was the only party that made money for the staff as well as the restaurant and when the clientel started dropping off a few months later they asked me to give another party only they wanted me to create a new dance and premier the dance at this party. I created "The Electric Slide" as the song had just come out and had a great beat and as I had already created "The Electric Weeble", it seemed the obvious next step. After only a few weeks of teaching the dance, I tore the cartilege in my right knee while demonstrating some of the variations of the dance and was operated on through Workmen's Compensation and was laid up for over a year. It wasn't until 6 or 8 years later that I realized how far the dance had gone and that my worst fears had come true. Every night I would tell the patrons - this dance has 3 threes, 2 twos, a One and a Hop, but I'm sure that someone is going to forget a step and try to square this dance off into 4/4 timing - It is not supposed to start on ONE every time. That is what makes this dance unique - but someone did square it off and want it to start on the downbeat and incorrectly told someone who told someone and all of a sudden - everyone is doing the dance, but they are not doing it correctly. I have spent MANY YEARS trying to correct this and until recently had given up on ever getting it right. - BUT then came the internet and now I am working to correct this wrong."

Ric Silver was injured that night, and was put on NY Workers Comp WC Case 0763-6911 6/17/76, and in the documentation listed on his website it clearly says he was an employee of VAMPS, meaning that he created it because he was asked by his boss. Therefore he doesn't own the dance moves http://ric06379.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/site builderpictures/ll.jpg

first thing i thought of when i saw the headline :) doesnt sound like an ideal perfume though:

"But we were misled, twice over. Firstly because that distinctive smell is not ozone, it is dimethyl sulphide. And secondly, because inhaling it is not necessarily good for you."

DMS is also a remarkably effective food marker for ocean-going birds such as shearwaters and petrels. It acts as a homing scent like Brussels sprouts at the Christmas dinner table! - and the birds sniff out their plankton food in the lonely oceans at astonishingly low concentrations.

The director also reportedly drew inspiration from a 1961 incident in which seabirds attacked the terrified residents of Monterey Bay. Recent research has shown that the birds were suffering the effects of ingesting contaminated plankton, but in 1961, the then-inexplicable "revolt of the birds" helped Hitchcock devise the simple but horrifying "what if" premise.

If so it might have some uses, anonymously given of course. The perfect gift for that deserving person.

Do not fuck with women, they are evil, heartless bitches Wouldn't Iran being pwned by a girl add insult to injury?

Call yourself a patriot, hell hath no fury!

Another name that Taiwan calls itself is 'The Republic of China'.
The creation of Taiwan as we know it is about some Chinese leaders that failed to unite China, so they fled to Taiwan.
Hoping to raise a military strike with the help of America to defeat the Communists.

People get it mixed up if Taiwan were successful to overtake China, would you defend the Mao Tse Tung? It is just a power struggle, at least in the past. I cannot speak on whether the Chinese in Taiwan have now become Taiwanese or are still Chinese, I don't know, it is up to them.

Regarding Tibet, they deserve to keep their identity, I believe, but with regards to the Dalai Lama, and his rule, yes he was the leader, not just the spiritual leader. How can slashdotters support a serfdom? I just don't understand. Do you want to live as a serf in your life?

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/china/whit epaper/blstibet200402.htm?terms=by+region
http://weecheng.com/views/world/tibet/myth.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/200405/23/eng20040523 _144141.html
http://journeyeast.tripod.com/myth_and_reality.htm l T

"The remainder of the world uses ISO metric fasteners almost exclusively, due to their superiority in proportions, fatigue strength, pitch, size and specification designations, and international availability." from Metric Bolt Strength,

Also, please cite a source for a building with a 79 inch ceiling. Very unlikely.

troll?