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That is true, but it really doesn't matter all that much if 1.0e9 tons hit you in the form of a few large fragments or a million small ones.

Firing birdshot, buckshot and slugs has exactly the same effect on the target?

You are aware that our planet is continuously peppered by space debris, amounting to something like 10000 to 1000000 tonnes per year?
Seen any nuclear winters lately as a result of all those impacts? Or those "toxic nitrogen oxides from the atmosphere heating" you're talking about?

There's an ocean of air above our heads, thousands of kilometers deep, perfectly capable of absorbing all of the impact from the smaller objects - be it kinetic or chemical.
The big objects are a problem cause they make it through those thousands of kilometers largely intact.

Just like with birdshot.
Stand far away, and it won't even scratch the target.
Fire a slug of the same mass, from the same distance and with the same load, and it will go right through the target.

Not strictly true.
The dense vegetation makes it implausible for the frogs to communicate by hand signals alone. Rather it is thought they use a mix of body language and ultrasonic sound over a short distance in order to communicate.
The Ultrasonic part is only a guess as the middle part of the frogs ear is not air-filled, and the inner part of the ear does not seem to be connected to any outer surface of the frog. This can be tested, but the scientists can't exactly vivisect a critically-endangered animal, so they have to guess.

Today the university mailed an important letter to you. It contained information about the recent theft of a university-owned laptop with a file that contained your name, social security number, address and salary information. In addition to your information, the laptop also contained information for every person employed by Tulane University in 2010.

The letter includes information on a credit monitoring service the university is providing for every affected individual.

If you do not receive the letter by January 14, please call (504) 865-5291 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. A university employee will help you access the services being provided in response to this incident. In the meantime, for additional information about this incident, we have posted a statement on the University website at http://tulane.edu/wfmo and http://tulane.edu/tsweb.

We sincerely regret that this event occurred and are making every effort to prevent a similar incident in the future.

Charlie McMahon

Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Technology Officer

Today the university mailed an important letter to you. It contained information about the recent theft of a university-owned laptop with a file that contained your name, social security number, address and salary information. In addition to your information, the laptop also contained information for every person employed by Tulane University in 2010.

The letter includes information on a credit monitoring service the university is providing for every affected individual.

If you do not receive the letter by January 14, please call (504) 865-5291 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. A university employee will help you access the services being provided in response to this incident. In the meantime, for additional information about this incident, we have posted a statement on the University website at http://tulane.edu/wfmo and http://tulane.edu/tsweb.

We sincerely regret that this event occurred and are making every effort to prevent a similar incident in the future.

Charlie McMahon

Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Technology Officer

"B) That's a pretty good trick of erosion to fill the crater AND at the same time push the meteorite up to make it look like no crater at all; so your reasoning is bollocks."

No, erosion does not fill the crater, that would be the opposite process: deposition (i.e. sediment accumulation). And while there is some deposition occurring on the surface that the rover is driving on (hence the sand dunes), it's temporary. The surface is experiencing net erosion, as indicated by the bevelled-off layers of sediment on the bedrock surface beneath the dunes, and which is exposed here and there between them. Although the exact amount is unknown, estimates of the erosion experienced on this bedrock surface are in the hundreds of metres to a kilometre range over a very long time. This is mentioned in discussion of an earlier meteorite, Heat Shield Rock. The vertical erosion is definitely on the scale of metres, which is more than enough to effectively delete the effect of a *small* crater. Larger craters, however, still remain, from ones a few metres in diameter to much larger (hundreds of metres). The rock doesn't get "pushed up", so much as the bedrock surface gets "worn down", and a rock gets stranded in a higher position on top.

Why hasn't the same erosion destroyed the meteorite? Because as I explained, it's a more durable rock type. The bedrock in this area is quite soft compared to a chunk of iron-nickel, and while on Earth oxidation and moisture would make short work of such a metallic object (geologically-speaking), in the CO2-dominated and incredibly dry atmosphere of Mars, it's more like an extreme desert, where metallic objects experience very little chemical alteration. Most of the erosion in this area seems to be mechanical and a result of wind processes, again as indicated by the sand dunes. It's kind of like being in the path of a sandblaster, albeit a very, very slow one. Another factor is the way that wind at a given speed can transport fine particles of sediment away, but can't transport the large ones.

If you want the technical term, the rover is probably driving on a surface affected by deflation, such as is found in deserts on Earth. Take a look at "deflation" on this page. The process hasn't formed a desert pavement, however, because there aren't enough hard rocks around, but a lot of other areas on Mars do form them, such as the area where Spirit initially landed and the Viking and Pathfinder landers.

I'd rather be fertilizing the oceans with treated sewage and land runoff - iron powder gets expensive after a while.

That can have negative impacts. All that runoff and sewage creates Dead Zones where fish can not live. The Dead Zone created by the runoff from the Mississippi River is 6,000-7,000 square miles and is growing. Runoff may also create red tide.

Falcon

nah, it won't quite be that bad. most predictions expect the immediate danger zone to have a radius of 1000-1600km, with pumice & ash deposit probably covering all of California and most of the Midwest. but rather than being burned, most deaths/injuries will likely be caused by ash inhalation.

luckily, modern humans have the benefit of science and technology.given enough warning, most people within range of the volcanic explosion and subsequent lava/pyroclastic flow (70,000 to 100,000+ individuals by some estimates) can be evacuated beforehand. everyone else will simply have to stay in doors for a couple of days before they too can be evacuated outside of the ash cover area.

the USGS seems pretty confident that the YVO monitoring program will detect any premonitory indicators (such as emissions of magmatic gases) of any such impending disaster. and studies indicate that, if there is a volcanic eruption, it is not likely to be a caldera-forming supervolcanic eruption due to insufficient rhyolitic magma-storage to sustain such an event.

in the event that a caldera-forming eruption takes place, then yes the ash will probably circle the entire globe and lower the temperature in the lower atmosphere for a few years, and that can have a severe impact on the ecology of the planet. but it's certainly survivable. and the chances of such an event actually occurring is still statistically insignificant--contrary to what is often reported, are are not "overdue" for a supervolcanic eruption. (the mean interval between such eruptions is 710,000 years, not 600,000 years.)

if others are interested, you can read the USGS's report on the Preliminary Assessment of Volcanic and Hydrothermal Hazards in Yellowstone National Park and Vicinity (the actual report is in PDF format).

Your statement that you

don't really think the "organic" movement is necessarily about hormones or pesticides.

is (and I'm not trying to be offensive) proof that you are speaking past your true understanding concerning what the Organic movement is about. The refusal to use hormones, chemical pesticides, and growth promoting antibiotics is exactly what it is about

GP is right, while some people I know buy organic because they think it's healthier, I also know some who go organic because they are concerned about the environment. And I bet there's a lot of fishermen in LA who feel the same, because of all the runoff from conventional farms going into the Mississippi River there's a hugh dead zone south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico killing fish and other seafood.

Please quote the law properly: http://foldoc.org/?query=Moore's+Law

It's every 24 months, not 18, and it has nothing to do with power or speed. CPU speed has increased at significantly higher pace than Moore's law. Moore's law views the number of transistor junctions in an IC, nothing more. The size, power consumption, MIPS, and other values have had significantly different curves, most at higher paces than the law, and not in direct comparison to transistor count. CPU power (in watts) over all is relatively the same as where it started in the 80s, and is currently reducing even as Moore's law increases. http://www.eng.tulane.edu/Tef/Slides/Tulane-Moore' s%20Law%20Sept02.ppt

Also, Moore's law clearly states that the number of transistors doubles "as costs remain the same." This means if we can have a $100 laptop today, in 2 years it will still cost $100 (or more accurately the portion of the $100 cost represented by the CPU will be the same), but the CPU will have 2X the number of transistors. It may be faster, maybe not. It may use more or less wattage. This is determined by transistor spacing, impedance layers (SoI, etc), volts, and clock frequency, not Moore's law. The articles premise is simply a logical fallacy.

One more thing: Moore's law does not apply to EVERY processor, only the leading generation vs. the predecessor. There's no reason to believe the notebook will use the current processor generation, and in fact likely it will not. This has no impact at all on the validity of the law as other processors will exist that follow the law. They may simply decide that instead of the build cost for the notebook being $90 to sell at $100, that they'll use previous generation hardware using more modern manufacturing processes, and reduce the build cost to $60-80, and still likely make it faster or better somehow in the process.

Were I a betting man, I'd put money on the $100 laptop not only having a faster chip with more transistors, but that it will use less watts, have a higher resolution display, faster or stronger wireless antenna, more storage, and more ports when we look at it in 2 years. Of course, part of the design of the machine, and it's low cost, is the intent of model line longevity. We don't expect to have a new one of these every 2-4 months like the retail PC industry does. Likely, this will be re-engineered at most once per year.

As a Tulanian, anybody who burned down LSU is A-OK in my book. :-)

I can imagine that the stress that precipitated it was extraordinary.

Are you referring to hurricane Katrina?! If you think this is based on market forces and faulty prognostication you're nuts. They are fighting for survival. This link says that 86% of students will be back when the school reopens next January, which is more than they could have hoped for. Naturally they've suffered damage to facilities, lost students and faculty, and can expect lower enrollment for years to come.

Do you really think they used "activity based planning" instead of damage control mode to decide they had to close five undergraduate programs?

I can imagine that the stress that precipitated it was extraordinary.

Are you referring to hurricane Katrina?! If you think this is based on market forces and faulty prognostication you're nuts. They are fighting for survival. This link says that 86% of students will be back when the school reopens next January, which is more than they could have hoped for. Naturally they've suffered damage to facilities, lost students and faculty, and can expect lower enrollment for years to come.

Do you really think they used "activity based planning" instead of damage control mode to decide they had to close five undergraduate programs?

This page has more details.

"A total of five programs - Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Exercise and Sports Science - will be eliminated."

Slashdot readers just happen to include at least one New Orleans native and Tulane graduate, myself. I'd love to know more, so why don't you shut up?

One thing I can contribute is that Tunlane is dead wrong about their admissions. They say,

"We realize that at post-Katrina Tulane, the size of our incoming first-year classes may be smaller. Rather than lower our admission standards in order to admit more students, we will maintain our academic standards by becoming smaller yet stronger."

But they have actually had MORE applications this year than last. The news acted as advertising and actually increased interest in the school!

What they might be having problems with are servicing the huge debt that Dr. Kelly left them with when he built up their business school and people deciding not to return. They might also have trouble housing people who want to stay, though you can see that most places students lived were not flooded, so the live on campus is also misguided.

What ever the problems are, the school is determined to make them worse and I would not want to study anything technical at Tulane now. It was mostly a party school and few people attended for engineering to begin with. I imagine it would be a great place to teach and you can do what you want with what you have. Well, it used to be that way. Now that they are firing everyone, it will surely suck and it will be hard for a student to get a well rounded technical education.

Reading further, it looks like they are a bunch of jerks you don't want to be around. Try this on for size, which looks like more of the same:

a Board of Tulane task force has been charged with redefining how the Newcomb College and Tulane College names and endowments will be used to support the new structure while also acknowledging those colleges' important historic ties to Tulane University.

So, having spent all of their money, they are going after other people's money. They have been trying this for decades and I hope it does not work now. Newcomb has some excellent programs and is far more open minded than Tulane, some programs of which are more like mindless indoctrination camps than education.

What do they want to keep? What do they want to actually pay for in their search for excellence while they trash the school of medicine and the engineering school? Their business school will continue to churn out clueless asses who will follow all the greedy trends, like outsourcing engineering to India. From their own page, we find some real junk surviving majors:

• African and African Diaspora Stud.
• Anthropology - not so junky really.
• Communication
• Consumer Behavior - Marketing
• Legal Studies in Business
• Marketing (see Consumer Behavior)
• Mathematical Economics
• Political Economy
• Social Policy and Practice
• Women's Studies

The Women's studies group actually shared space with the Civil Engineers. The kinds of crap they left on the board beggars description. They thought the new building was built for them at the time and it turns out they were right!

With priorities like that and all the chances to shovel shit "rebuilding" the city being promissed as mandatory exercises, I think it's time to move on or stay gone.

Slashdot readers just happen to include at least one New Orleans native and Tulane graduate, myself. I'd love to know more, so why don't you shut up?

One thing I can contribute is that Tunlane is dead wrong about their admissions. They say,

"We realize that at post-Katrina Tulane, the size of our incoming first-year classes may be smaller. Rather than lower our admission standards in order to admit more students, we will maintain our academic standards by becoming smaller yet stronger."

But they have actually had MORE applications this year than last. The news acted as advertising and actually increased interest in the school!

What they might be having problems with are servicing the huge debt that Dr. Kelly left them with when he built up their business school and people deciding not to return. They might also have trouble housing people who want to stay, though you can see that most places students lived were not flooded, so the live on campus is also misguided.

What ever the problems are, the school is determined to make them worse and I would not want to study anything technical at Tulane now. It was mostly a party school and few people attended for engineering to begin with. I imagine it would be a great place to teach and you can do what you want with what you have. Well, it used to be that way. Now that they are firing everyone, it will surely suck and it will be hard for a student to get a well rounded technical education.

Reading further, it looks like they are a bunch of jerks you don't want to be around. Try this on for size, which looks like more of the same:

a Board of Tulane task force has been charged with redefining how the Newcomb College and Tulane College names and endowments will be used to support the new structure while also acknowledging those colleges' important historic ties to Tulane University.

So, having spent all of their money, they are going after other people's money. They have been trying this for decades and I hope it does not work now. Newcomb has some excellent programs and is far more open minded than Tulane, some programs of which are more like mindless indoctrination camps than education.

What do they want to keep? What do they want to actually pay for in their search for excellence while they trash the school of medicine and the engineering school? Their business school will continue to churn out clueless asses who will follow all the greedy trends, like outsourcing engineering to India. From their own page, we find some real junk surviving majors:

• African and African Diaspora Stud.
• Anthropology - not so junky really.
• Communication
• Consumer Behavior - Marketing
• Legal Studies in Business
• Marketing (see Consumer Behavior)
• Mathematical Economics
• Political Economy
• Social Policy and Practice
• Women's Studies

The Women's studies group actually shared space with the Civil Engineers. The kinds of crap they left on the board beggars description. They thought the new building was built for them at the time and it turns out they were right!

With priorities like that and all the chances to shovel shit "rebuilding" the city being promissed as mandatory exercises, I think it's time to move on or stay gone.

according to this chart, the only engineering remaining is chemical and biomedical. everything else (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Engineering) gets cut. That's an extremely dramatic cut.

My suggestion is to leave ship. Sure you could stick it out, but with the program being eliminated, there's little incentive for faculty to stay (they'll all be looking for jobs elsewhere), and less incentive for the school to spend money on student support (computers, etc.). End result is that you'll likely have a lot of classes taught by part-time folks who are being recruited at the last minute when every untenured junior faculty doesn't show up for spring semester (because they've also abandoning ship).

according to this chart, the only engineering remaining is chemical and biomedical. everything else (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Engineering) gets cut. That's an extremely dramatic cut.

My suggestion is to leave ship. Sure you could stick it out, but with the program being eliminated, there's little incentive for faculty to stay (they'll all be looking for jobs elsewhere), and less incentive for the school to spend money on student support (computers, etc.). End result is that you'll likely have a lot of classes taught by part-time folks who are being recruited at the last minute when every untenured junior faculty doesn't show up for spring semester (because they've also abandoning ship).

p.s. I feel your pain with the whole "being misquoted by a journalist thing". A wise person once told me his secret for dealing with the media (paraphrased):

"They're just looking for a story, and you can't expect them, or their readers, to follow your explanation and faithfully reproduce it. However, they have to print what you say, so no matter what they ask, say what you want them to print and they can't mess it up."

That this whole universe as we see it is not an experiment in somebody's supercomputer?

What if we're in a simulated universe, simulating other universes?

Whoaaa.

Pass the bong, dude.

You may be an expert, but you haven't been following the field of bone marrow derived stem cells all that closely. Don't feel bad, the guy who does neurodegenerative work in our lab doesn't know what the rest of us do all that much either.

The point I wanted to correct is this: The mononuclear, adherent fraction of a bone marrow aspirate can indeed be expanded greatly.

After several passages, the developmental potential goes down, but since we're dealing with a mix of cells, you don't know if you're losing progenitors by failing to select for them during expansion.

Just wanted to clear that up.

amazing that I've read so far into this thread and still have yet to cross the words, endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm, or especially hematopoetic, since they used cd34+ cells in some of the experiments. CD34 is hematopoietic progenitor cell antigen, so they selected the cells which were blood-forming progenitors. Amazing that a cell which normally makes erythrocytes and leukocytes can help repair muscle. What on earth could it be doing? To echo a scientist in the second article, I think using an unpurified mixture is going to ultimately work better. Not that I would know anything about that.

Posting this as a link so maybe someone will be able to click it. :)

There are conflicting reports of exactly how high the tsunami in Alaska was. This site: http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol204/tsunami.ht m says it was only 60m. This site: http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/student/geert1/tri gger.htm mentions the 525m height, but attributes it to a variety of conditions including a rockfall and a glacial outburst flood. The likelyhood of a 500+ meter tsunami hitting Annapolis is extraordinarly low without mitigating circumstances (such as a rather large rock hitting the ocean, at which point the tsunami will be the least of our worries.)

I can confirm the same thing at Tulane University. Our entire campus is wireless, so there is not much need for lab computers since most people who can afford to go to Tulane can afford their very own labtop. That RPI seems a little out of date considering how many people have their own computers now.

I would put Tulane up against any school when it comes to internet access. Tulane received a large grant from one of the Yahoo founders (a Tulane alumni) about six years ago which was completely dedicated to updating the campuses computer technology. Not to mention, Tulane received another large grant about six months ago for the very same thing. That poll just looks like someone wants certain schools to look good, might as well call it a Princeton Review, the results are about that reliable.

I suspect this article was posted just to see how many funny comments can get modded up to 5. The fact that Bill donated to a school isn't significant, nor is the dollar amount.

David Filo of Yahoo! and Jim Clark of Netscape each donated individual contributions of $30M each to Tulane's Engineering school to be used for engineering scholarships.

That seems more worthy of mention in slashdot, as it means more educational opportunities for (possibly) future slashdotters.

You probably never had Econ 101

I believe there is also a difference in reaction time.

Far more convicts were sent to North America than Australia. Of course, we'll forget about that for now, but it does go some way to explain Bush & co. ;-)

It was only after the American Revolutionary war that we started shipping them to the land down under.

Hacking an XBox should be legal, and perfectly so.

It should be, as long as it is not used to run, say, copied games.

Wrong! ... Since an office file opener could be used to open your own documents, or documents that others want you to open, there exists a substantial non-infringing use, so the software would not be a circumvention device.

Yes, he is partly wrong, but so are you. It may be true that the circumvention device clauses are satisfied. Unfortunately, we don't have to look far to see how companies and projects that fit that exception are still prosecuted/persecuted and even killed.

This would be a good target for a bunch of SLAPP suits against the developers -- if they chose to implement it. The potential gain for Microsoft and others ("We bankrupted 30 contributers to OpenOffice for DMCA violations. We're sending you a DMCA notice. You wanna be bankrupt next?") far outweighs their potential cost ("We paid $250,000,000 in the cases we lost, but it's just an investment for product lock-in and extra FUD against developers.") .

Just being on the right side of the law does not mean that you will survive a massive legal attack from a multi-billion dollar company. Anti-SLAPP laws are in effect in most states but the DMCA altered the USC, which is the federal law, so those state laws could be carefully avoided.

Examples:

• DeCSS (multiple cases, some still in appeal)
• kazaa (in court and dying)
• napster (dead)
• CopyWrite (alive, after expensive years in court and an expensive appeal)
• Lessig about Fox fair use problems, MyMP3, Napster (in court & private settlements, dead, dead)
• DRM Conference transcrpt (discusses dead & dying, but legal, projects)
• Embedded fonts (alive, but at a big cost and avoidance of court)
• A student's paper with summaries of other cases (United States v. Sklyarov, Lexmark v. Static Control Components , Felton v. Recording Industry Ass'n of America) and several interesting hypothetical physical-world comparisons to the law (locking keys out of your car == loss of ownership of car until you present the Automobile Protection Assocaition with a proper court orders allowing you to jimmy the lock).

The unfortunate fact is that just because it is legal, and even if it is right, both StarOffice (Sun) and the contributors to OpenOffice (including Sun) could both face deadly lawsuits from Microsoft if they attempt compatability.

Strategic lawsuits (gray-area, predatory lawsuits), "death by lawsuit", and even Google's lists of Allegedly Unethical Firms, Corporate Accountability, and corporate criminals show how corporations are attacking and killing projects, even when the projects or public participation are the right and legal thing.

So while you are right that such a project would be legal, you are wrong in your implied statement that it would be a safe thing to do.

frob

Yup. There's some info on this Geology page about crystals, as well as an equation mentioned here. The only info I could find on how long diamonds actually last was on this site, which said hundreds of millions of years, which is effectively forever as far as humans are concerned - unless this works out.

For example, burning farms, businesses, and homes plus raping the women from Atlanta to Savannah and in the Shenandoah valley.

Many STILL suffer from his policies.....

So, what fundamental right does the ACLU stand up for when they sue a small community for putting up a nativity scene in front of a public building, but fail to sue any non-Christian (but still religious) display in front of another public building. You can't name one case where they've done that. If you can, please provide the link.

Here. And here.

You're right, I couldn't name one. I could name two though.

Check out the Omega Point Theory... in this book. It suggests a way to use the expansion of space to generate energy to run a computer that would contain everyone's' information. Seems plausible, until he mixes its up with religion and it turns metaphysical. This theory has been promoted by Tipler, the same guy who has written many physics text books. I don't but the theory, but it answers your question about an alternate theory...

Here. It's pdf. Google's html transcription behaves weirdly, but it should be located here.

Take a look at this website.
It has plenty of tutorials and downloads on OpenGL.
There's also a large message forum.
http://nehe.gamedev.net/

This one is a reference to the OpenGL Commands
http://www.eecs.tulane.edu/www/graphics/doc/OpenGL -Man-Pages/index.html

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Researchers have always worried about there might be in fact a single cause of Mass Extinction. You can refer to this graph for the rough interval of mass extinction.

Most people believe that the meterorite impacts is responsible for the mass extinction, but now this new findings may sparks a new way of thinking - the murderer may be someone else.

If we believed that there's a cycle for Mass Extinction, there we don't have much to worry about - as it's still millions of years away. However, some people also believe that the Sixth Extinction might come earlier, because human was not present in the last 5 extinction, and that makes the great difference.

Thank you for reading my trolling. I quote as much online reference as possible, but actually my point of view are from the books I read. My apology.

Researchers have always worried about there might be in fact a single cause of Mass Extinction. You can refer to this graph for the rough interval of mass extinction.

Most people believe that the meterorite impacts is responsible for the mass extinction, but now this new findings may sparks a new way of thinking - the murderer may be someone else.

If we believed that there's a cycle for Mass Extinction, there we don't have much to worry about - as it's still millions of years away. However, some people also believe that the Sixth Extinction might come earlier, because human was not present in the last 5 extinction, and that makes the great difference.

Thank you for reading my trolling. I quote as much online reference as possible, but actually my point of view are from the books I read. My apology.

OK, they give birth to larvae, not lay eggs like ordinary respectable arthropods. Principle is the same, anyway. Here is all you probably want to know about sleeping sickness with large drawings of the brain-eating microbes, from a professor at Tulane.

The World Health Organization's page on trypanosomiasis.

For population control, predators (including parasites) don't work nearly as well as the demographic transition. Learn about this concept, because it controls your future. Definition with nice graph.

Hemos' commentary is quite the misinformed hysteria.

What will he complain about next: those half-dead virii that are intentionally injected into people!?!

Ha Ha Ha! The tetse fly carries the sleeping sickness that threatens the lives and livelihoods of 60 million people.

Boy, what a hoot!

We would hate to use an innovative idea to fight this scurge. Better for people to basically die of insomnia than Hemo's hippy-dippy sensibilities to be offended by the use of ,*horror*, radiation in a completely safe way.

http://www.eecs.tulane.edu/www/Terry/OpenGL/Introd uction.html

Hello, R Ford.

1. Open source library of knowledge for developing nations (making the world's intellectual wealth available to all)
http://www.oneworld.org/globalp roj ects/humcdrom/
http://www.oneworld.org/globalprojects/& lt;/a>
http://www.oneworld .or g/globalprojects/humcdrom/copyrigh.htm
http://payson.tulane.edu:8888/
; http://www.globalprojects.org/
; http://www.humanitylibraries.net/ http://www.villageearth.org/
http://www.villageearth.org/ATLi bra ry/cdrom.htm

2. Open source knowledge management systems
http://www.bootstrap.org/
http://bootstrap.org/colloquium/ar chi ves.html
http://www.bootstrap.org/dkr/discussion /

3. Self-replicating space habitats (support trillions of humans in style without overrunning the earth)
http://members.aol.com/oscarcombs/s ett le.htm
http://members.aol.com/oscarcombs /sp acsetl.htm
http://www.permanent.com/
http://science.n as. nasa.gov/Services/Education/SpaceSettlement/
http://www.luf.org/
http://www.ssi.org/
http://www.ssi.org/alt-plan.html http://www.spacedev.com/
http://www.spacehab.com/
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/

4. Pursue the "Ecocity Berkley" vision in the book by that name by Richard Register and look for related visions of sustainable development
http://www.amazon.com/exec/ob ido s/ASIN/1556430094/
http://www.co-intelligence.or g/y 2k_commtyorgs.html
http://www.fuzzylu.com/greencenter/h ome .htm
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sust vl. html
http://www.rmi.org/

5. Work towards ending the drug war and pardoning hundreds of thousands of Americans imprisoned on non-violent drug charges. (I believe drug use is wrong and should be avoided, and by all means as it is now illegal, so don't do drugs! But as with alcohol and tobacco and caffeine, drug abuse should be considered a medical problem, not a legal one (except when like DUI it hurts or puts at risk others directly)).
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pag es/ frontline/shows/drugs/
http://www.drcnet.org/facts/

6. Teaching tolerance and compassion
http://www.splcenter.org/
http://www.splcenter.or g/t eachingtolerance/tt-index.html

7. Open source educational simulations and simulation construction toolkits (one of the most meaningful ways to use computers in the classroom).
http://www.gardenwithinsight.com/ http://riceinfo.ri ce. edu/armadillo/Simulations/simserver.html
http://www.creativeteachingsite .co m/edusims.html
http://www.workingmodel.com/
http://www.idsia.ch/~andrea/simtools.h tml

8. Preserving biodiversity (when it's gone, it's gone forever)
http://www.tnc.org/
http://www.environment.about.com/newsissues/enviro nment/library/weekly/aa091700.htm

9. Develop any specific sustainable technology in energy (e.g. solar), recycling (e.g. recycle computers), materials (e.g. plastics from starch), society (e.g. participatory democracy & social justice).
http://www.google.com/sear ch? q=sustainable+technology
http://www.edf.org/issues/Recycling.htm l
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/

10. Make corporations more accountable to human needs
http://www.adbusters.org/inform ati on/foundation/
http://www.adbusters.org/c amp aigns/charter/death.html
Previous link vanished, try instead:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.adbuste rs.org/ campaigns/charter/death.html+corporate+death+penal ty&hl=en
http://www.cwsl.edu/news/n_corpo rat e_death.html
http://monkeyfist.com/articles/340& lt;br> http://www.chaordic.org/

11. Reform the "Intellectual property" laws and their related organizations, perhaps so that copyrights are for a couple decades and most patents are for a dozen years and only for true innovations. Ensure that any IP developed with any government money is immediately put into the public domain.
http://danny.oz.au/fre e-s oftware/advocacy/against_IP.html
(Lots of other Slashot links!)

12. If you don't want to get you hands dirty volunteering your own time, look around and find good people (not organizations, although the people may be in organizations) already doing good things. Pick people with a track record of years of fighting for the common good or who have already made a major accomplishment demonstrating commitment and just anonymously give them $100K without strings attached. Example: Marty Johnson at Isles, Inc.
http://www.isles.org/mileston.html& lt;br> Find people just starting a career of public service or a charitable venture and struggling to do good things and give them $20K and tell them you believe in their promise and cause. Expect a bunch of the money to be wasted but give it anyway and learn how to give effectively. For ideas, look at the grantees list of any foundation. Then ask those people who they know who are just starting out and trying to do a good job.
http://www.beldon.org/grants2000_07.htm l

When I was about thirteen, I got about seven books out of the library on money thinking I wanted to become a millionaire. Six told me how to get rich (start a business and run it well.) One of them asked me "why do you want to be rich?" That is the one whose name I remember and the ideas in it have changed my life. For advice on setting a direction of what to do with wealth, read the Book "The Seven Laws of Money" by Michael Phillips and Sally Raspberry, especially the chapter on how foundations fail in their mission and how grants go to people who sound good but usually can't deliver (i.e. how hard it is to give money away).
http://www.seeingmoney.com/SevenLaws.ht m
http://www.hallbusi nes ses.com/biographies_primers/1420.shtml

My wife and I are working on a few of these issues ourselves (and a few example links are to our stuff). We make money contracting and spend it to "buy" our own time for making quality software the market can't or doesn't seem to want to pay for. Even without IPO riches, any competent software developer can make $75K-100K in today's market. Graduate students can live on $20K a year, and so can many software developers (kids make it harder) if they follow the path of Voluntary Simplicity. It's a question of priorities.
http://www.life.ca/subject/simplicity .ht ml
http://www.simpleliving.net/slj/ http://www.scn.org/earth/lightly/ http://www.thegarden.net/simplicity/

Voluntary simplicity leaves a lot of funds for doing good deeds - even if they are done on your own time by using your own money to take time off and develop open source software or do other worthwhile ventures. Or take a job that doesn't pay as well but involves helping an organization that you believe in.
http://www.idealist.org/

There are awesome things happening over the next twenty to forty years. According to Moore's law, desktop computers in twenty or so years will be a million times faster than today's. Already computers can drive cars somewhat well and identify vegetable better than humans.

http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/magazine/199 9/number_3/machine399.html ;

Other breakthrough innovations are happening in technological areas like energy, materials, nanotechnology, communications, agriculture, biotechnology, and robotics. Use your wealth to think deeply about what all this means and do something to ensure human survival with style.

It is saddening to see people spend so much money on less important stuff (another night club in this case). Now if it was a night club where these issues are discussed, then maybe it makes sense.

Capitalism without charity is evil, because capitalism only meets the needs of people with money.

Jillian.

However, US iodine deficiency has quadrupled to 12%. Are people who are "eating healthy" by avoiding salt causing a problem?

For that matter, this New Scientist article caught my eye. This research shows that sperm count decrease may be simply due to iodized salt. What really caught my attention was the mention that iodine deficiency causes smaller brains. We may be smarter than our ancestors 80 years ago.

I knew that iodine is added to salt to prevent goiter, but had missed the medical knowledge that it also prevents cretinism. Iodine is needed for proper brain development. The high incidence (17-60%) of goiter in affected areas indicates the level of the problem (still 43 million people).

So until the 1920s, perhaps half of the world population was less intelligent than now. Is it a coincidence that as the first iodized generation suffused society we had many fields boom in the 1960s?

Some anonymous coward dun said:

Thanks for posting. Mixing Christian fundamentalism and politics is like mixing fertilizer and a Ryder truck. One can only imagine the Oklahoma City that these psychopaths have in mind for us if they ever get their way.

Trust me when I say you do not want to find out what they may have in mind. Almost everything points to it being very, very, very bad for the humans of this planet and for other living things...

Specifically, an awful lot of people in the Religious Right seem to think that a fair amount of stuff in Revelation (the Book of Apocalypse for you Catholic/Orthodox folks) points to a worldwide nuclear war. For years, the fundies have claimed Russia would be the one to start it--when this finally became completely untenable, they claimed it was Iraq. In any case, they're firmly convinced that SOMEONE is going to start some kind of nuclear conflict which will erupt worldwide.

There are actually a surprising number of books out in the fundamentalist circles regarding this...some of them even trying to reach out to popular culture (like Hal Linden's books).

The really scary thing about this is a) they are firmly convinced this is a Good Thing because b) they are also firmly convinced that before this happens they are going to be Raptured up and will get the enjoyment of seeing the sinners (and the entire planet) burn in nuclear hellfire from front-row seats in Heaven. (Yeah, there's a rather shocking amount of hate and resentment even in their stories of Eternal Reward. Sick, huh?).

I think I can truthfully say that little would scare me more than a leader of the Religious Right with his finger on The Button. And I can base that on how (before I walked away) I used to see the preacher and darn near the entire congregation nearly jizz themselves when the Cold War threatened to heat up...and later (after I'd walked away but was still forced to occasionally attend) when the Gulf War hit because they were utterly, completely convinced that this was going to be the Big One...and after THAT, Y2K (and in all three cases it was going to be Russia's Fault--these guys STILL aren't out of the Cold War mindset!)...I don't want these guys anywhere NEAR anything remotely resembling a nuclear weapon, thank you. :P

It is interesting you mention Oklahoma City, though. The perpetrators are suspected of being in with Christian Identity groups; Christian Identity is a really warped version of fundamentalism that claims that white folks are the "true Children of Israel" and that the Jews are actually the literal children of Satan--all the "brown" and "yellow" folks are apparently "mud people" in their eyes. In fact, the bombing is thought to have been done to parallel the plot of a book popular in Christian Identity and other racist circles called "The Turner Diaries" which basically depicts these groups committing various terrorist acts and eventually overthrowing the US Government.

Now, I'm sure most of you are wondering just why the hell I'm mentioning Christian Identity when we're talking about (presumably) relatively non-racist fundies. Well, it turns out the two do have some links, especially on the more radical sides of the Religious Right that they never want to show on TV...

First off, the US Taxpayer's Party (the second-largest fundamentalist party in the US [the first is that part of the Republican Party that the Religious Right has effectively hijacked]--it also may be now running under the name "Constitution Party")--which has explicit party platforms calling for the US to essentially establish a theocracy--has links to not only a veritable who's who of the Religious Right (among them--James Dobson of Focus on the Family [a branch group of FoF, Family Research Council, is heavily pushing the censorware drive in Holland] [info here], Senator Bob Smith [info here], Matt Trewhella [who has advocated stuf like bombing abortion clinics, is a Christian Reconstructionist, and his group Missionaries to the Preborn darn near makes Operation Rescue look pacifist in comparison; info here], Pat Buchanan [yes, as in the guy who's now going for the Reform Party nomination and who has almost singlehandedly succeeded in destroying that party--info here], the heads of Operation Rescue, and the Rev. Rushdoony [the "main guy" behind Christian Reconstructionism--the canard that the Founding Fathers somehow meant the US to be a theocracy]) but also a surprising number of links to militia groups and--here's the kicker--Christian Identity groups (info here and here (this one is especially good--it turns out the very leader of the US Taxpayers Party runs a militia and calls for churches to form "Christian Patriot" militias), here, here, here, and here; if memory serves, there's also reference in the ADL's report on militias).

There's some more info here on the politics of the US Taxpayers Party. Keep in mind that this party has gotten big support from the Religious Right and (should the Republican Party ever find its cojones again and tell the Religious Right exactly where to go) it's strongly thought that (at the least) the 35 states in which the GOP party apparatus has been hijacked by the Religious Right would go to the US Taxpayers Party, as well as the majority of the Religious Right supporters of the GOP now. As it is, the US Taxpayers Party got on the ballot in 40 states last Presidential election...which is damned scary enough.

For some more happy links between the "non-racist" bits of the Religious Right and the scary folks making fertiliser bombs...

1) The Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation (a big Religious Right think-tank/bankroller--these are the guys who have the adverts for adoption saying "Choose Life" and the guys who have Jeff Gordon and NFL stars and the lady from "Children of a Lesser God" hawking "Power for Living" on TV ["Power for Living", btw, is basically a guide on how to get involved in coercive fundy groups :P]...) has founded at least one Christian Identity group in past.

2) Larry Pratt, who has worked with Pat Buchanan (among others) has some rather extensive links to militia and outright racist groups (more info, including on links between the Religious Right and the far right, here).

3) It seems that the Coors family (major bankrollers of the Religious Right) and the Heritage Foundation may have links to racist groups (info here).

4) The Free Congress Foundation, a subsidary group of the Heritage Foundation, has links with many racist and fascist groups (info here).

5) Pat Robertson could actually be considered borderline between "non-racist" fundies and the scary guys on the far right. Many of his books have actually contained "code words" common in the racist community, and at times he's been outright overt about it...it's probably best that you look here (thank you, Google, for caching--surprisingly, this is actually a critique from a conservative viewpoint!) or here to hear the guy in his own words...

6) More info here on a funding-group active in California.

This is not to indicate fundamentalists are racists. Most aren't, and I suspect most would be shocked to find what their leaders support...but there ARE links there, sadly. I'd be remiss if I didn't point that out (and for youse in Holland--it turns out that Focus on the Family is the group most consistently associated with the US Taxpayers Party--you may be able to use this to your advantage, possibly).

So let me get this straight: Microsoft's marketing practices are as bad as slavery and abusive child labor?

The fallacy of the Extended Analogy often occurs when some suggested general rule is being argued over. The fallacy is to assume that mentioning two different situations, in an argument about a general rule, constitutes a claim that those situations are analogous to each other.

This fallacy is best explained using a real example from a debate about anti-cryptography legislation:

"I believe it is always wrong to oppose the law by breaking it."

"Such a position is odious: it implies that you would not have supported Martin Luther King."

"Are you saying that cryptography legislation is as important as the struggle for Black liberation? How dare you!"

HTH. HAND.

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http://www.bmen.tulane.edu/~siekas/tuli p.html

Donald has done a great job supporting these chips, and a recent version will likely work (I've used numerous different tulip-based cards, and have always got them to work after using a recent driver.

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