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All you ever need to know about Andrew Keen can determined by reading this post at his blog:

http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/akfiles/eleven.htm

Then read Justin's post, and the accompanying comments, at classicalvalues.com:

http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2006/04/andrew_keen_sto.html

With less than 28 days to go before election day StopPoliticalCalls.org has started to see reports in the media and from members that the robo calls have started, big time. You can help us Robo calls are the worst form of political campaigning. Candidates can send them and voters receive them and they disappear into thin air. There is no record. Until now. The internet has made it easier than ever to record robo calls and then put them up for the world to listen to. There is no better disinfectant than sunlight. **What we need you to do: StopPoliticalCalls.org is keeping a database of all robo calls that are made in the 2008 election cycle. Since we are non-partisan, we have all calls made from all sides. Here are two examples from members in the past two weeks right here in Northern Virginia. One is Progressive and one is from the VA GOP. 1--Working Families Win Robo call regarding Frank Wolf --> http://thinkdodone.typepad.com/ccd/2008/10/working-familie.html 2--VA GOP robo call --> http://thinkdodone.typepad.com/ccd/2008/09/va-gop-robocall.html **What you can do: 1. Record the robo call. 2. Send the file or link to the file to me at info AT citizensforcivildiscourse.org with the subject: "Robocall Recording: Date, Name of Candidate" **How: 1. If you have a VOIP service like Vonage, it is easy since the system creates files you can email quickly. 2. If you have an old fashioned answer phone simply get out your "camcorder", video tape the answer phone with the volume on, and upload the recording to YouTube. Regards, Shaun Dakin CEO and Founder The National Political Do Not Contact Registry StopPoliticalCalls.org

With less than 28 days to go before election day StopPoliticalCalls.org has started to see reports in the media and from members that the robo calls have started, big time. You can help us Robo calls are the worst form of political campaigning. Candidates can send them and voters receive them and they disappear into thin air. There is no record. Until now. The internet has made it easier than ever to record robo calls and then put them up for the world to listen to. There is no better disinfectant than sunlight. **What we need you to do: StopPoliticalCalls.org is keeping a database of all robo calls that are made in the 2008 election cycle. Since we are non-partisan, we have all calls made from all sides. Here are two examples from members in the past two weeks right here in Northern Virginia. One is Progressive and one is from the VA GOP. 1--Working Families Win Robo call regarding Frank Wolf --> http://thinkdodone.typepad.com/ccd/2008/10/working-familie.html 2--VA GOP robo call --> http://thinkdodone.typepad.com/ccd/2008/09/va-gop-robocall.html **What you can do: 1. Record the robo call. 2. Send the file or link to the file to me at info AT citizensforcivildiscourse.org with the subject: "Robocall Recording: Date, Name of Candidate" **How: 1. If you have a VOIP service like Vonage, it is easy since the system creates files you can email quickly. 2. If you have an old fashioned answer phone simply get out your "camcorder", video tape the answer phone with the volume on, and upload the recording to YouTube. Regards, Shaun Dakin CEO and Founder The National Political Do Not Contact Registry StopPoliticalCalls.org

They only way the free market would decide the prices is if the artist gave up all rights on their music and anyone who wanted to distribute their music set their own price.

First, there is no right to music, ie copyright despite it's name is not a right, it's a privilege. Next, in a truly free market an artist wouldn't be able to stop someone else from reproducing what they create and selling it themselves. But as the Father of Capitalism Adam Smith said of copyrights and patents they are a necessary evil.

Falcon

" They can't accept the fact that the free market is what caused this mess."

AHAHAHAAHHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA
(breath)
AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"...free market..."??

AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

Do a quick search on CRA and the rewrite during the Clinton administration that compelled lenders to issue subprime loans to receive a decent CRA rating. Does that sound like a free market?

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/06/harvards-state.html
Harvard study regarding the rewriting of CRA in 1995:

"Some facts in the report: According to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, "Accounting for nearly two-thirds of household growth in 1995 to 2005, minorities contributed 49 percent of the 12.5 million rise in homeowners over the decade." . . . "Without the sudden expansion of sub-prime lending, most of these homeowners would have been denied access to credit."

Sub-prime growth from $210 billion in 2001 to $625 billion in 2005 represented 20% of the dollar value of loans and 7% of originations of outstanding mortgages. [$35 billion in 1994, $125 billion in 1997]

The Harvard study reports that in 2004 high-income minority communities (more than 50% minority) have about 19% of all mortgages as high-cost mortgages compared to 7% for predominantly white. They have 25% vs. 12% in moderate income communities and 28% to 18% in Low-income areas.

By the mid-90s, sub-prime instruments like ARMs had been around since the deregulation of the early 80s. They took off in the 90s. Sub-prime growth from $210 billion in 2001 to $625 billion in 2005 represented 20% of the dollar value of loans . . ."

Perhaps that 49% of new homeowners SHOULDN'T HAVE EVER GOTTEN LOANS IN THE FIRST PLACE?

You realize the politics involved in the enforcement of this law? The collusion between the Clinton administration and race-baiters like Acorn and Rainbow Coalition? Read The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities to see what really went on with CRA and then tell me it was a harmless, fairly-enforced policy. PLEASE, IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE, READ THIS ARTICLE.

City Journal
    is published by the Manhattan Institute for Policy research

The Manhattan Institute (MI) is a right-wing 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank founded in 1978 by William J. Casey, who later became President Ronald Reagan's CIA director.[1]

The CRA is but one of the problems I listed. Like Freddie and Fannie's effects on credit and the housing bubble? While the GOP attempted to reign in the FM's, Dems said "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" to.

Ah, yet another quote from the WSJ's "opinion" column, which is the print equivalent of the sean hannity show.

You realize, of course, that a good portion of our current crisis [wikipedia.org] is caused by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, introduced by Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX), which in 1999 repealed part of the Glass-Steagall Act, opening up "competition" among banks, securities companies and insurance companies. Which in turn lead to our current set of mega-institutions that are so large and intertwined they can't be allowed to fail?

Wrong wrong wrong! That "deregulation" actually helped mitigate the crisis by allowing prudently managed banks like Wells Fargo to diversify their portfolios and products in other areas (like mutual funds, etc) besides home loans. Had they not been able to do so, the bailout would have been a lot bigger. Wamu was stupid, but some banks took advantage of the law.

I'm sorry, but you can keep praying.. in your dreams.. that freeing corporate agents (who are otherwise completely free of liability) from regulation will result in anything but abuse and malfeasance.

I would suggest this article by Stiglitz, a nobel winning economist (disclaimer: and, author of about 50% of the texts through which I earned my economics degree).
this article is also instructive.

No, McCain is too liberal and statist on too many issues, and too pandering for me. I am a Reagan Republican.

Read my sig, read the articles I quoted from someone else who is eminently competent, then realize you drank the cool-aid of the corporate fat-cat lobby hook, line, and sinker.

We did the "reaganomics" thing.

The first time it led to depression.
The second time it led to massive recession.
The third time it led to the greatest across-the-board consolidation (and related consumer abuse) in a century, a "jobless recovery" thanks to offshoring, and eventually our fine credit crisis.

I blame democrats for not pushing hard enough against it.

in the future they will all look like this trying to increase that limited scope http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/images/2008/04/23/captcha.jpg

Try reading this blog post about "cloudbursting" and the pages it links to. It talks about using your fixed infrastructure, but also expanding to the cloud when you need a sudden burst of power/infrastructure.

One funny thing though...I'm not sure if Netflix just realized they have an african-american audience or what, but last night about 30 movies made for that demographic suddenly appeared

Your Roku thinks you're a nigger? You've got it easy - my TiVo thinks I'm a queer!

> Senator Obama, you claim to want to give the "middle class" a tax cut, but at the same time you propose to raise capital gains taxes, the death tax and corporate taxes, among others.

For starters, that tax cut refers specifically to his income tax plan. Here, read this comparison.

You have a very strange idea of what "small businesses and small investors" are if you think we're affected much by those taxes. All of those taxes affect primarily the rich. I have some decent investments but those taxes are nothing compared to income tax.

But that's probably because I work, rather than living off investments...

Solving a credit crisis by borrowing even more money from foreign interests, to keep people in overpriced houses that they can not afford by giving that money to those who lent irresponsibly in the first place is abhorrent to me.

No limits on executive compensation? No equity in exchange for the funds? No executive or congressional oversight? Off loading bad bets to the American tax payer? The plan as originally submitted is a bad bankers wet dream.

Fail.

Let the market punish the bad actors.



http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/25/115925/299/175/610043

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/09/ots-puts-washin.html

Delete cookies?!

And if you think you will get *any* change from an old man who has been in Office 30 years...

In the past two years, Senator and Mrs. McCain have contributed $340,323 to charitable causes, according to their tax returns (they file separately). Senator McCain's giving constituted about 28 percent of his income for each of those two years.

From 2000 through 2004, Senator Obama and his wife contributed less than $3,500 a year in charitable donations -- about 1 percent of their annual earnings (they were paying off student loans according to their spokesman). In 2006, however, that total jumped to to $60,307 (6.1 percent) and to $240,370 (5.8 percent) in 2007. (Sorry, couldn't find their tax returns on his website - anybody got that link?)

Here's the numbers for last year:

McCain earned $396,527, paid $118,660 (30.7%) in taxes,and gave $105,467 (27.3%) to charity.
Obama earned $4,139,965, paid $1,396,772 (33.7%) in taxes, and gave $240,370 (5.8%) to charity

I'm not criticizing either candidate here, just pointing out the facts.

History? You want history? Here's epidemiological history for ya.

There's a more in-depth article on Javascript's functional capabilities here:

http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Functional_Javascript

Other stuff I pulled out of Google for your perusing:

http://dankogai.typepad.com/blog/2006/03/lambda_calculus.html
http://math.ucr.edu/~mike/lc2js.html
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/wa-javascript.html

What this all means is that Javascript is the most widely deployed functional language in existence! And that's a fact you can take to the bank.

One can argue how taxes should or should not be used, but I think we can mostly agree taxes should not be used to redistribute wealth to the wealthy.

Why not? They're the ones paying most of the taxes. It certainly seems more fair than redistributing it to the poor.

Not to say that income redistribution is ever a good thing, but if you're going to do it...

First Moveon.org er ah Anonymous did Fake Sarah Palin quotes and many of those quotes are in the fake emails.

Then The Daily Kos er ah Anonymous did a Photoshop of Sarah Palin in a bikini holding a gun.

Then IWETHEY and Kuro5hin er ah Anonymous did fake Twitter and chat logs pretending to be Sarah Palin

Now all of the Anonymous groups tag teamed and joined up to create a fake Yahoo account and spam some of Sarah Palin's real friends and family members to think it was her new email address and then wrote fake emails as well to make it look real. They got her friends and family and trolled them with the fake Yahoo account.

I know because I used to be a member of those groups when I worked for a law firm and they told me to do those things or get fired. When I refused to do those things anymore they did whatever they could to stress me out and make me quit. When that didn't work they fired me for being sick from all of the stress they put on me.

So the only retard is you and others who think all of that is real and not faked by Anonymous.

Anonymous got Bush elected in 2000 and 2004 by doing the same pranks for lulz, now they will get McCain elected in 2008 by doing the same thing. If they don't want that to happen, they'd better quit right now and let Obama speak for himself on the issues. Because of the campaign sticks to the issues, Obama will win hands down. If more smear tactics and fake accounts are used, McCain and Palin will look like the victims of the Obama/Biden campaign that is up to ditry tricks again like Slick Willy and Moveon.org use as well as Hollywood phonies like Michael Moore, etc.

What learning tools are being shipped with WinXP on these laptops?

FTA:

Kids and their teachers in the country will use the laptops as part of efforts to introduce more technology into classrooms in Peru, including Microsoft's Student Innovation Suite of software, which includes Microsoft Office 2003 as well as Learning Essentials 1.0 for Microsoft Office.

Plus, there's also Clippy. It would indeed be a real shame if kids weren't exposed to this guy.

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1190142

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00004/protest120206_4781t.jpg

http://atangledweb.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/muslim_protest_2.jpg

http://www.goofigure.com/images/library/muslim_protest_1.jpg

http://www.goofigure.com/images/library/muslim_protest_7.jpg

Look up "the wikipedia" on what, exactly? You're being a bit vague. Gas? Electricity? Or should I just look for the entry on "bad stuff"? As for risk, are you somehow under the impression that gas lines and electrical lines are somehow safer when they can't be regularly inspected or maintained? Make no mistake, gas lines and electrical lines do fail, and they do so more frequently and at higher cost and risk when they are hard to reach and are more of a danger to the community when they're hard to repair. Do you think that it's safe to have to dig up streets where a gas main is broken open?

What seems "kinda stupid" to you is considered far safer by silly folks like electrical engineers, civil engineers, facilities managers, and building code regulators. But now that you've explained it to us all in such convincing detail I'm sure that they'll change their minds.

If, perhaps, you just haven't thought it through, as it happens, I've written a little overview on the subject. I wasn't planning to linking to it in this thread but in the face of your devastating and profound critique I thought that maybe you could use just a few more facts to help refine your admittedly already deeply wise understanding.

Nope.. The field is actually maintained by Apple IT.

http://chuqui.typepad.com/chuqui_30/2006/04/what_i_do_for_a.html

http://getrobo.typepad.com/getrobo/2008/08/interviewing-br.html

in case it gets /.ed full text below.

"Interviewing Brian Gerkey at Willow Garage

I normally write about robots in Japan on this blog but today I am going to write about a robot that is being developed in the U.S. This is because I had the chance to interview Brian P. Gerkey, Research Scientist at Willow Garage, for the Japanese GetRobo Blog, and I felt it important for me to report this in English too at this time of era.

Willow Garage is a privately-funded research lab in California which is developing a hardware and software platform for Personal Robots - robots that do tasks for humans in everyday lives. The company is unique in that it has enough resources to "indefinitely" maintain a lab of 60 researchers without making any profit. The goal of the company is to make a positive and big impact in the robotics community by fully utilizing the open source development process.

The hardware platform is called PR2 and the software team at Willow Garage is developing the Robot Operating System (ROS) for PR2, a modular software system designed to facilitate code reuse throughout the robotics community. Brian is on the team developing ROS (led by Morgan Quigley at Stanford University) and is also the lead in developing all the applications that sit on top of ROS. Brian is well-known as the founder of The Player Project which he will explain about during the interview.

The following is an edited version of the interview with Brian (photographed below).

Gerkey_2 GetRobo: How did you get to join Willow Garage?

Brian: I was at SRI doing various kinds of robotics research. I had been there for 2 and a half years and was perfectly happy and wasn't particularly looking for another opportunity. But Eric Berger at Willow Garage whom I knew from Stanford contacted me and asked whether I was interested in joining. I was a bit wary at first since it is an unusual place. And I took a little bit of convincing to be sure.

GetRobo: What were you wary about?

Brian: One aspect of it is that I wanted to understand what the motivations were in particular of Scott and Steve, meaning that they're running the organization so I wanted to understand what their motivations were in what they were doing. Because I'm used to places like universities where the motivation is to do science, and to do research you have to go out and get contracts to support it. Then there are places like SRI where you do science but the goal there is to get clients. And in a fully industrial setting the goal is to get clients by selling products or services. Willow Garage doesn't fit into any of those categories, so I just wanted to understand why it was that they were doing what they were doing. And eventually they came to convince me that the idea is to take this long runway approach in developing technologies by putting significant resources into a focused topic in a way that allows you to spend years working on it to get to a point where business opportunities present themselves. So we are neither living off day-to-day contract income as like a place like SRI would nor are we trying desperately to get a marketable product out the door in order to satisfy our venture capital investors like a normal startup would operate.

GetRobo: What is your role at Willow Garage?

Brian: My role is software lead for the PR2. Morgan at Stanford is the lead on ROS which is the underlying infrastructure that we are building on, and I'm the lead here in developing all the applications that sit on the top of ROS. And that involves everything from designing the architecture of the software that we are building to the determination of the development policy since we have a lot of people writing the software. We have things like testing infrastructure and coding guidelines - not all of it are my favorite things to do, but important things for a professional softw

Clearly the OP does not really understand what advertising is usually about. Most mass market advertising does not try to provide information, it is providing associations. It presents something enjoyable (here it is assumed that Seinfeld+Gates==Enjoyable) and then presents the branding that they want to be associated with that enjoyable feeling. The crazy part is that this works, and in a weird way can be suggested as actually improving the product. Since the next time the subject of the advertising uses/sees the product, they will subconsiously access that association with enjoyment ... therefore the product is more enjoyable as a result of the advertising.

I am not saying that this is a good thing, but it is how things work in the real world.

Now you can argue either way as to whether Seinfeld+Gates=Delicious ... I didn't actually watch the comercial myself ... but they might be reaching as far a transitive association all the way back to the Seinfeld show, which almost everyone agrees was enjoyable. In any case I don't think there was ever any intent to have actual informative content in the comercial ... they are just "building the brand".

See Seth Godin's book "All Marketers Are Liars"
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/all_marketers_are_liars/

or a quick review of it here:
http://www.businesspundit.com/lying-marketing-and-perception/

No, they found Sarah Palin's world view.

Let us know when someone finds Obama's.

And find out how long it lasts.

PS - don't you guys just love styrofoam columns? They're pretty, but lightweight with no substance. They also fly all over the place depending on which way the wind blows.

How appropriate for fair Obamacles.

"Zappers," or automated sales suppression devices, have brought unheard of efficiencies and economies of scale to a very simple tax fraud - skimming cash sales at point of sale (POS) terminals (electronic cash registers). Until recently the largest tax fraud case in Connecticut, also the "largest computer driven tax-evasion case in the nation," was a zapper case. Stew Leonard's Dairy in Norwalk Connecticut skimmed $17 million in receipts and hid the cash in St. Martin (a Caribbean island).

I first visited the attraction back in '98 and I've been on a it a few times since. It was always great fun. On my most recent visit (2007) I happened to glance into an alcove as we exited the ride and was amused to note that the application controlling the "Enterprise" was running on Windows 3.x.

Wil Wheaton's got a good blurb on the ride on his blog:

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2008/07/star-trek-the-e.html

Ah, now I get you, you think that you're going to be subsumed into a muslim nation by stealth.
Yeah right.

Why "yeah right?" It's already happening all over the Western world.

Proof or, as they say, STFU. The majority I've met have been muslim in name only. But then I guess I mix with professionals.

No amount of proof will ever convince you (I've gone down that path before, it's a waste of time), and it's quite difficult to convey years of daily study in a matter of minutes. If you want to find out about the situation then nothing is preventing you... except your own unwillingness to know anything about it.

Never gonna happen here.

What's going to stop it?

But you have now said the majority.

You need to get your English straight. Majority is not the same thing as everyone.

You know that it's all bound up in the sectarian violence between catholics and protestants in NI, right? and that it is/was religious as much as anything else?

It was not religious in nature the same way Jihad is.

You've yet to provide anything other than prejudice and rambling.

Prejudiced doesn't mean what you think it means, and I have not "rambled" anywhere.

Against the wrong thing. The people are idiots.

I suppose. The real problem is the government that's enabling Islamization.

The government is doing exactly what the scared idiots want, and coincidentally what it finds expedient too, stripping people of freedoms.

But the government isn't doing anything about Muslims. It just wouldn't be politically correct.

Not exactly a swath. More people die of smoking in a day than muslim extremists have killed in this country in the last decade.

And your point is...?

And we've killed how many of 'them' in Iraq?

Nothing wrong with killing terrorists.

By the way, another Undercover Mosque investigation was just done, and the results are very interesting and confirm some of the things I've talked about here.

You know, yours started out as a seemingly somewhat insightful comment. Then you come in with lines like, "The Associated (with terrorists) Press" and you unmask yourself as totally off your rocker. It also doesn't help that almost all of your links point to what is clearly essentially a political propaganda site.

OK. I realize I probably won't change your mind, but I do want you to know I didn't throw that term out without reason. Here's why I said what I said:

AP Admits relationship with terrorists
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/009026.php

another angle to that same story: AP photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/associated-with.html

AP and Reuters photographer Bilal Hussein colludes with insurgents
http://sirhumphreys.blogspot.com/2005/10/ap-and-reuters-photographer-bilal.html

Gunmen take up position behind a garbage bin **as they engage British troops** in central Basra, Iraq: http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1005-Embedded-with-the-Enemy.html

http://caosblog.com/5367

"A group of smugglers recently gave an Associated Press photographer rare permission to accompany them as they dug one tunnel..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081400721.html
More on Kevin Frayer's hang time with the tunnel-digging, weapons-smuggling thugs of Gaza:
http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/1068-Embedded-with-the-Enemy.html
which resulted in some beautiful propaganda shots. Who needs a media relations department when you can get it for free courtesy of AP?
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0h2FcWH0gtbCn
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0eRMfTXdBvcpc/Palestinian_tunnel_diggers

I love the way it's written. It's so non-judgemental.

Gazans are finding an antidote to their growing isolation: digging tunnels under their border with Egypt to smuggle everything from weapons to cigarettes to people.
Gee, when I feel isolated, I go hang with friends. I don't dig tunnels and smuggle weapons like guns, bombs and rockets to be fired indiscriminately into civilian areas. But remember, there's no bias at AP.

one final case:
http://rising.blackstar.com/embedded-with-the-enemy.html

Best Western now says only a handful of records were compromised, not millions. Data security investigations are complex, and they require patience. As we learned from the TJX experience, it is easy for the press and for authorities to over-react. --Ben http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2008/08/credit-card-iss.html

Data breaches are more nuanced than the sensational numbers in a story like this would suggest. Data breach announcements and notices have a scalability problem. As the number of announcements and notices soars, we need to better define what is a serious breach and what is not. Otherwise, the public drowns in breach claims, announcements and notices, many of which are insignificant. --Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/does-lost-tape-equate-to-lost-data.html

Here is an article regarding cannibalization of CD sales by DVDs for your entertainment:

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/03/cd_no_dvd.html

It is NOT outlets like iTunes OR piracy OR music quality that is depressing CD sales.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20070209/082603.shtml

iTunes is just ONE retailer of music that accounts for 75% of online sales. There are MANY CD retailers.

CD sales still account for the vast majority of music sales:

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB117444575607043728-lMyQjAxMDE3NzI0MTQyNDE1Wj.html

Now mod my VERY insightful original posting back up.

http://jimmyakin.typepad.com/defensor_fidei/2005/01/coke_contra_mun.html/
and
http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html/
explain how they use "Coke" as a generic term for carbonated beverage.

"Warner Bros. claims Fox gave up all rights to Watchmen in a 1994 agreement with Gordon that superseded the older deal. Even if Fox had some option to keep distribution rights--a point Warner Bros. does not concede--it was Fox's responsibility to exercise it promptly, according to Warner's motion to dismiss the suit."

Geek Alert: Watchmen Movie in Trouble With Fox Suit

And she would never tell that answer to a stranger.

Actually, many people would give out their passwords for a candy bar, sometimes with their username. One or both is pretty much useless until it is known what the username and password is for. In my previous job, I had a username Administrator with a password of jr7sw90... not very helpful unless you know what it's for.

I highly recommend Tripadvisor's blog: http://tripadvisor.typepad.com/ I strongly feel that the support staff of all organizations should be able to post their favorite missives, for all the world to see.

Actually it goes to the likes of Exxon Mobil. And I am surprised you mention about Russian Imperialism! What is USA doing in Iraq and Afghanistan? American imperialism is more dangerous than Russian imperialism because currently American military is the most powerful. In fact, the current conflict in Georgia is a direct result of American meddling in their affairs.

No wonder corporations are having such an easy time replacing government in sovereign nations.

If only! After the last century *alone*, where out-of-control governments were responsible for more deaths than any other force -- including natural disaster.

That question doesn't even address the bigger issue, IMO, which is that releasing toxins into the environment leads to birth defects and chronic illnesses -- essentially guaranteeing generations of people who will be permanently disabled as a result of the activity. (Also, their are some tentative links between even mild heavy-metal poisoning during childhood and violent tendencies later in life; not only might you be creating thousands of people with birth defects or mental retardation, but you might be dooming an entire society to increased violence and crime as a result.)

There's a reason why places with functioning governments almost universally don't allow this sort of thing. The social costs are vastly greater than the benefits it brings to the people who actually do it, and many of the people who end up paying the price never asked to be involved at all. They just happen to have the misfortune of living downwind, downstream, on the same coast, or drinking from the same aquifer. That, by itself, makes it a morally bankrupt activity -- nothing justifies poisoning others who never asked to be involved.

Just because someone is starving doesn't give them a blanket license to harm others. It might make their actions understandable and perhaps even morally justifiable on an individual level, but it doesn't mean that it ought to be allowed as a matter of policy. Food shortages are a tractable problem -- the immediate solution, at least, is straightforward. However once an area has been contaminated with toxic waste, and especially once the population has a high level of birth defects secondary to toxic exposure, it can take generations to even realize the scope of the problem.

So, waddayahthink, should we all buy cases of Red Mars and leave copies sitting around at their nearest gathering spots? Sounds like a plan to me.

Careful reading of the indictments show that the media, card issuers and Federal Trade Commission over-reacted to the TJX incident. TJX was not as bad as we were led to believe. --Ben http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2008/08/credit-card-iss.html

Wow, she's cute.
http://stylemens.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/28/meghanmccain.jpg

but havent there been congressmen and other officials who have been held up by airport security and such? Christ, I want to say Ted Kennedy was one of them but Im too lazy to fact-check so....wasnt Ted Kennedy one of them? ;)

Yes, Ted Kennedy was stopped from boarding planes several tymes because his name was on the Do Not Fly lists. So was Cat Stevens.

Falcon

For those who don't know, Cat Steves was a popular singer song writer in the 1960s and '70s.

Thanks for that link. There are a few nice ones in there but most of them are just very tacky.... This one though is a real beauty,

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/sciencetattoo/2008/02/cousin-to-pigeo.html

For every dollar paid in taxes, red state North Dakota gets $2.03 back from the government. The rest of the Top Ten Federal Welfare Queens are New Mexico, Mississippi, Alaska, West Virginia, Montana, Alabama, South Dakota, Arkansas, and Virginia, all red states, all receiving between $1.89 to $1.47 back for every dollar. (To be fair, the District of Columbia is the biggest welfare queen, at $6.17 on the dollar, but it's not really a state, so I'm not going to consider it in my research.)

By contrast, eight of the Top Ten Federal Sugar Daddies (states that get less back in federal money than taxes paid) are blue states. New Jersey only gets 62 back on its one dollar investment. Connecticut, New Hampshire, Illinois, Minnesota, Massachusetts, California, and New York all receive 64 to 81 back for each dollar taxed.

Another interesting analysis may be found here, using data that is available to the public.

There are plenty of studies you can find on this. I don't think anyone is seriously denying that the welfare queens of the union tend to be red states; it's just that the conservatives try really hard not to draw attention to that fact.

Gives new meaning to AT&T's new slogan.

You too can have More Bars in More Places! All it takes is a customized firmware load and unscrupulous marketing...

I read the NY Times article and thought Steve Jobs calling Joe Nocera a "slime bucket" was not accurate. But then I realized that apparently someone doctored the recent NY Times photograph of Steve Jobs used in the story so that it would have less healthy-looking red color.

This is apparently a normal photograph: Steve Jobs, looking healthy. Here's another: Steve Jobs, plenty of purple in the background, but with red in his skin.

> 8x9800gx2s donated by NVIDIA.

I wonder how many BSODFLOPS (Blue screens of death per second) it can generate? ;)

http://byronmiller.typepad.com/byronmiller/2005/10/stupid_windows_.html http://www.google.com.au/search?q=nvidia+'blue+screen+of+death'+nv4_disp

Basically related to this, is the fact that Guidance Software has been pushing the federal rules for ediscovery and the safe harbor rule that protects corporate organizations when they employ a "policy" and practice of email destructions, however, they have failed miserably at this themselves. not only due they not have a retention policy, but they do not (did not) back up their email and have been burned over an eoe case. check out http://commonscold.typepad.com/eddupdate/2008/06/todd-v-guidance.html and the actual sanctions that are being imposed against them http://commonscold.typepad.com/eddupdate/files/Guidance.pdf even their own larry gill has posted to slashdot on privacy, he is one of the main defendendents in this case!!

Basically related to this, is the fact that Guidance Software has been pushing the federal rules for ediscovery and the safe harbor rule that protects corporate organizations when they employ a "policy" and practice of email destructions, however, they have failed miserably at this themselves. not only due they not have a retention policy, but they do not (did not) back up their email and have been burned over an eoe case. check out http://commonscold.typepad.com/eddupdate/2008/06/todd-v-guidance.html and the actual sanctions that are being imposed against them http://commonscold.typepad.com/eddupdate/files/Guidance.pdf even their own larry gill has posted to slashdot on privacy, he is one of the main defendendents in this case!!

I was able to get Opera Mini 4.1 working a little better on my Treo 680 using these instructions, but even then it still locks up the device, forcing me to have to remove the battery. You can try bumping up the memory to 8 MB instead of 4 like the TypePad article suggests. I haven't tried it at 8 long enough to know if it makes much of a difference. Hope that helps!

Be sure to post again here with instructions on making it more stable if you come across any good tips.