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As far as the recent cable cuts go, what I am about to say is a conspiracy fantasy: I don't believe the U.S. is about to attack Iran. But if it were to do so, cutting off Internet might make good sense.

A couple of years ago, I attended a talk given by Iranian blogger Hossein Derakshan. He suggested that war with Iran would be much more politically difficult than the war with Iraq, because Iranian bloggers would tell the world about the suffering on the ground. And blogging is extremely popular in Iran. So, if the U.S. were to attack Iran, the aim might not be to censor what Iranians see of the rest of the world, but what the rest of the world sees happening in Iran.

There's some interesting discussion on Bruce Schneier's blog. I'm hoping Global Guerrillas will return to the topic also.

These types of court decisions would not, however, support a "prior restraint" such as a court order prohibiting the NYT from publishing the information, see, e.g., New York Times Co. v. United States , 403 U.S. 713 (1971) (5-to-3 ruling prohibiting prior restraint and allowing NYT to print the top-secret "Pentagon Papers").

He wasn't far behind McCain in Maine. I think McCain had 21% and Paul had 19%

Yep, and try to find the results where more than 68% of the vote was counted. More importantly, Paul has gotten more delegates from Maine from John McCain which basically means he came in second.

This is just as much about adults as it is about kids. Most humans have urges to have sex they can't hold indefinitely. Abstinence will prevent HIV, STDs and unwanted pregnancies in theory, but it is impossible actually to put into practice. Do you actually know anyone who will abstain from sex their whole life ? And if you are talking about abstinence before marriage, as is apparently taught in some places, that excludes a whole category of people who can't get married - gays, and who are most at risk for HIV. Also, some straight girls who pledged to remain "virgins" before marriage have substituted intercourse with other even higher-risk behavior like anal sex because they just don't know any better.

What we need a comprehensive sex education program that focuses on safe sex, contraception, and preventing STDs/HIV. I don't think abstinence should deserve more than a footnote in such a program because we already know teaching it alone doesn't work.

Note that 16 states have already rejected funds for abstinence-only education, the most recent of which being Arizona.

FYI :
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/21606.php
http://www.avert.org/abstinence.htm
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/221980
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/reproductive_rights/2008/01/ariz-gov-napoli.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26623-2004Dec1.html

A modest suggestion that I hope you'll think about: if "our experience with the current administration" really concerns you, I'd like to think that part of that concern is his disregard for the Constitution.

If you agree, would you also agree that a Constitutional Law professor from one of the top law schools in the country might make a good President?

http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2006/10/barack_obama.html

Islam Will kick your ass and kill you for thinking. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/02/islam-will-kick.html Instead, it is about "power and control".
It is about religion integrated with politics, intimidation, torture, death, rape, child sacrifice, and world domination.

Islam and Democracy are incompatible. Islam and anything else are incompatible. Islam and those who claim "moderation" in Islam are incompatible. When it comes time for the 'moderates', they will have to choose conquest, or death, like the rest of us.

Is Islam a No, it is a amalgamation of political power and religion, a religion of conquest and war.

Has it ties with dictatorships of the past, integrated into its practices to this day? http://tellthechildrenthetruth.com/

Do women have a life at all under Islam? NO!
"UK: Muslim Families Who Use Rape And Violence To Enforce "Honor"" http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003964.html
Family of Muslim Teen invited men to rape her. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/02/family-of-musli.html
Or any of these: 253 posts categorized "The Truth About Islam" http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/the_truth_about_islam/index.html

Or this: "On Islamic Misogyny--Buried Alive?" http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2008/01/17/on-islamic-misogyny%E2%80%94buried-alive/
and
Michelle Malkin, Islam: http://michellemalkin.com/category/islam/
and
American Thinker: http://www.google.com/search?q=islam+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Famericanthinker.com%2F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

The point is, this is not about censorship, but about world domination, even to the point of destruction of themselves. Seems crazy, and it is to Western values and reasoning. But from birth, they have been taught differently. Oh, I guess there might be some clues here:
"At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war." http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

Believe it. This is about the Last Crusade, World War III, and Armageddon, IF they can find a way to make it so. We had better be aware of the dangers and take the appropriate actions.

Islam Will kick your ass and kill you for thinking. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/02/islam-will-kick.html Instead, it is about "power and control".
It is about religion integrated with politics, intimidation, torture, death, rape, child sacrifice, and world domination.

Islam and Democracy are incompatible. Islam and anything else are incompatible. Islam and those who claim "moderation" in Islam are incompatible. When it comes time for the 'moderates', they will have to choose conquest, or death, like the rest of us.

Is Islam a No, it is a amalgamation of political power and religion, a religion of conquest and war.

Has it ties with dictatorships of the past, integrated into its practices to this day? http://tellthechildrenthetruth.com/

Do women have a life at all under Islam? NO!
"UK: Muslim Families Who Use Rape And Violence To Enforce "Honor"" http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003964.html
Family of Muslim Teen invited men to rape her. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/02/family-of-musli.html
Or any of these: 253 posts categorized "The Truth About Islam" http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/the_truth_about_islam/index.html

Or this: "On Islamic Misogyny--Buried Alive?" http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2008/01/17/on-islamic-misogyny%E2%80%94buried-alive/
and
Michelle Malkin, Islam: http://michellemalkin.com/category/islam/
and
American Thinker: http://www.google.com/search?q=islam+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Famericanthinker.com%2F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

The point is, this is not about censorship, but about world domination, even to the point of destruction of themselves. Seems crazy, and it is to Western values and reasoning. But from birth, they have been taught differently. Oh, I guess there might be some clues here:
"At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war." http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

Believe it. This is about the Last Crusade, World War III, and Armageddon, IF they can find a way to make it so. We had better be aware of the dangers and take the appropriate actions.

Islam Will kick your ass and kill you for thinking. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/02/islam-will-kick.html Instead, it is about "power and control".
It is about religion integrated with politics, intimidation, torture, death, rape, child sacrifice, and world domination.

Islam and Democracy are incompatible. Islam and anything else are incompatible. Islam and those who claim "moderation" in Islam are incompatible. When it comes time for the 'moderates', they will have to choose conquest, or death, like the rest of us.

Is Islam a No, it is a amalgamation of political power and religion, a religion of conquest and war.

Has it ties with dictatorships of the past, integrated into its practices to this day? http://tellthechildrenthetruth.com/

Do women have a life at all under Islam? NO!
"UK: Muslim Families Who Use Rape And Violence To Enforce "Honor"" http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003964.html
Family of Muslim Teen invited men to rape her. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/02/family-of-musli.html
Or any of these: 253 posts categorized "The Truth About Islam" http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/the_truth_about_islam/index.html

Or this: "On Islamic Misogyny--Buried Alive?" http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2008/01/17/on-islamic-misogyny%E2%80%94buried-alive/
and
Michelle Malkin, Islam: http://michellemalkin.com/category/islam/
and
American Thinker: http://www.google.com/search?q=islam+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Famericanthinker.com%2F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

The point is, this is not about censorship, but about world domination, even to the point of destruction of themselves. Seems crazy, and it is to Western values and reasoning. But from birth, they have been taught differently. Oh, I guess there might be some clues here:
"At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war." http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

Believe it. This is about the Last Crusade, World War III, and Armageddon, IF they can find a way to make it so. We had better be aware of the dangers and take the appropriate actions.

Obama: "It's early to make a full assessment on how this changes our politics and the public mood. I think all of us are still just overwhelmed with grief for the families and for Virginia Tech and obviously people here remember what happened at the university and how painful it can be (a reference to the shootings at the University of Iowa). I do think that the evidence so far at least indicates that you've got a young man who was mentally deranged, was identified as such, was temporarily committed and was still able to obtain handguns and so one critical question is, 'What happened to our background check system? Why did it fail?' and it seems like we should be able to come to some bipartisan agreement on making that background system, background check system work. The second area which may be fought by the NRA, but I think has to be looked at is the availability of 19-round clips. I'm a strong believer in the rights of hunters and sportsmen to have firearms. I'm a believe in homeowners having a firearms to protect their home and their family. It's hard for me to find a rationale for a 19-clip semi-automatic. I said at a forum earlier this week, 'If you need 19 rounds to shoot a deer, you probably shouldn't be hunting' and so that I think is something that we should be able to have a reasonable conversation about."

I may be showing my age now, but I wish they would stop releasing new stuff and simply improve the existing stuff. The time and effort they've spent re-implementing Java could have made Vista into a kick-ass super OS that was easy to develop for and would run so efficiently I needn't have bought another 2 gig of RAM and a dual core CPU!!

Please forgive me for posting like this, but this is a dead-serious issue, so please, please,
please read on. This is a story that *has* to be told. So, I beg you: read this out before you hit the del button. If you do, Slashdot will be on CNN tonight and Bush will be out of the White House.
So please, give me the benefit of the doubt and read this trough before you hit delete.
--

Slashdot readers are smart people that can add one and one together. So, when they read why Second Life's supposed economy isn't a whole lot more than a typical pyramid scheme because the Linden company can print Linden dollars out of thin air at any rate they like, and can therefore buy and sell as much dollars at the exchange market as they like, so they can pretty much manipulate the whole SL economy as they please, they will also be able to figure out that the real US banking and monetary system can be manipulated at exactly the same way, because the Federal Reserve has enjoyed the absolute power to do literally anything it wants, which is probably why Henry Ford said he believed there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning if "the people of the nation" would "understand our banking and monetary system".

If they also read how the US corporations, owned by the same people that own the FED, systematically and consciously rape the poorest people of the world by using the trick of putting whole nations into debt to make them dependent and controllable by raising inflation tax, just as has been described in protocol number 6 of the so-called Zion protocols and continue reading that protcols, they would also understand why Henry Ford was a known anti-semite, as well as Winston Churchill, who wrote about a world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality that "has been steadily growing".

If you believe, like Ford and Churchill, in the existence of such a conspiracy, Slashdot readers would not just take for granted that it was "the Jews", but look at the most logical place for the conspiritors, which would be at the top of the pyramid, for who wars are very profitable as well, as is also described in said protocols. So, When Slashdot reades also learn that following Hitler's money leads al but directly to the White House and that Al Qaida in a way can be more or less considered to be the last remaining and still active Waffen-SS Division, because there are pretty direct links to the Waffen-SS Muslim Devision hardly anybody knew existed, they will also be able to understand Multatuli's extremely inconvenient truth laying this all out in detail.

Then they will also realise that 911 was an inside job after all and never be able to trust anyone on the memberlist of the order of Skull and Bones. Since Ron Paul was on the video Multatuli watched to get insight into the workings of the Fed, he gave him the benefit of the doub

Please forgive me for posting like this, but this is a dead-serious issue, so please, please,
please read on. This is a story that *has* to be told. So, I beg you: read this out before you hit the del button. If you do, Slashdot will be on CNN tonight and Bush will be out of the White House.
So please, give me the benefit of the doubt and read this trough before you hit delete.
--

Slashdot readers are smart people that can add one and one together. So, when they read why Second Life's supposed economy isn't a whole lot more than a typical pyramid scheme because the Linden company can print Linden dollars out of thin air at any rate they like, and can therefore buy and sell as much dollars at the exchange market as they like, so they can pretty much manipulate the whole SL economy as they please, they will also be able to figure out that the real US banking and monetary system can be manipulated at exactly the same way, because the Federal Reserve has enjoyed the absolute power to do literally anything it wants, which is probably why Henry Ford said he believed there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning if "the people of the nation" would "understand our banking and monetary system".

If they also read how the US corporations, owned by the same people that own the FED, systematically and consciously rape the poorest people of the world by using the trick of putting whole nations into debt to make them dependent and controllable by raising inflation tax, just as has been described in protocol number 6 of the so-called Zion protocols and continue reading that protcols, they would also understand why Henry Ford was a known anti-semite, as well as Winston Churchill, who wrote about a world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality that "has been steadily growing".

If you believe, like Ford and Churchill, in the existence of such a conspiracy, Slashdot readers would not just take for granted that it was "the Jews", but look at the most logical place for the conspiritors, which would be at the top of the pyramid, for who wars are very profitable as well, as is also described in said protocols. So, When Slashdot reades also learn that following Hitler's money leads al but directly to the White House and that Al Qaida in a way can be more or less considered to be the last remaining and still active Waffen-SS Division, because there are pretty direct links to the Waffen-SS Muslim Devision hardly anybody knew existed, they will also be able to understand Multatuli's extremely inconvenient truth laying this all out in detail.

Then they will also realise that 911 was an inside job after all and never be able to trust anyone on the memberlist of the order of Skull and Bones. Since Ron Paul was on the video Multatuli watched to get insight into the workings of the Fed, he gave him the benefit of the doub

Why Slashdot will be on CNN tonight and Ron Paul will probably be the next US president.

and Ron Paul will probably be the next president of the United States.

Slashdot readers are smart people that can add one and one together. So, when they read why Second Life's supposed economy isn't a whole lot more than a typical pyramid scheme because the Linden company can print Linden dollars out of thin air at any rate they like, and can therefore buy and sell as much dollars at the exchange market as they like, so they can pretty much manipulate the whole SL economy as they please, they will also be able to figure out that the real US banking and monetary system can be manipulated at exactly the same way, because the Federal Reserve has enjoyed the absolute power to do literally anything it wants, which is probably why Henry Ford said he believed there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning if "the people of the nation" would "understand our banking and monetary system".

If they also read how the US corporations, owned by the same people that own the FED, systematically and consciously rape the poorest people of the world by using the trick of putting whole nations into debt to make them dependent and controllable by raising inflation tax, just as has been described in protocol number 6 of the so-called Zion protocols and continue reading that protcols, they would also understand why Henry Ford was a known anti-semite, as well as Winston Churchill, who wrote about a world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality that "has been steadily growing".

If you believe, like Ford and Churchill, in the existence of such a conspiracy, Slashdot readers would not just take for granted that it was "the Jews", but look at the most logical place for the conspiritors, which would be at the top of the pyramid, for who wars are very profitable as well, as is also described in said protocols. So, When Slashdot reades also learn that following Hitler's money leads al but directly to the White House and that Al Qaida in a way can be more or less considered to be the last remaining and still active Waffen-SS Division, because there are pretty direct links to the Waffen-SS Muslim Devision hardly anybody knew existed, they will also be able to understand Multatuli's extremely inconvenient truth laying this all out in detail.

Then they will also realise that 911 was an inside job after all and never be able to trust anyone on the memberlist of the order of Skull and Bones. Since Ron Paul was on the video Multatuli watched to get insight into the workings of the Fed, he gave him the benefit of the doubt and linked to his site from his article.

Given the importance of this message, the chance that this will end up on the front page of Slashdot equals more then 99%, *IF* enough readers read this message. Since it will

Why Slashdot will be on CNN tonight and Ron Paul will probably be the next US president.

and Ron Paul will probably be the next president of the United States.

Slashdot readers are smart people that can add one and one together. So, when they read why Second Life's supposed economy isn't a whole lot more than a typical pyramid scheme because the Linden company can print Linden dollars out of thin air at any rate they like, and can therefore buy and sell as much dollars at the exchange market as they like, so they can pretty much manipulate the whole SL economy as they please, they will also be able to figure out that the real US banking and monetary system can be manipulated at exactly the same way, because the Federal Reserve has enjoyed the absolute power to do literally anything it wants, which is probably why Henry Ford said he believed there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning if "the people of the nation" would "understand our banking and monetary system".

If they also read how the US corporations, owned by the same people that own the FED, systematically and consciously rape the poorest people of the world by using the trick of putting whole nations into debt to make them dependent and controllable by raising inflation tax, just as has been described in protocol number 6 of the so-called Zion protocols and continue reading that protcols, they would also understand why Henry Ford was a known anti-semite, as well as Winston Churchill, who wrote about a world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality that "has been steadily growing".

If you believe, like Ford and Churchill, in the existence of such a conspiracy, Slashdot readers would not just take for granted that it was "the Jews", but look at the most logical place for the conspiritors, which would be at the top of the pyramid, for who wars are very profitable as well, as is also described in said protocols. So, When Slashdot reades also learn that following Hitler's money leads al but directly to the White House and that Al Qaida in a way can be more or less considered to be the last remaining and still active Waffen-SS Division, because there are pretty direct links to the Waffen-SS Muslim Devision hardly anybody knew existed, they will also be able to understand Multatuli's extremely inconvenient truth laying this all out in detail.

Then they will also realise that 911 was an inside job after all and never be able to trust anyone on the memberlist of the order of Skull and Bones. Since Ron Paul was on the video Multatuli watched to get insight into the workings of the Fed, he gave him the benefit of the doubt and linked to his site from his article.

Given the importance of this message, the chance that this will end up on the front page of Slashdot equals more then 99%, *IF* enough readers read this message. Since it will

and Ron Paul will probably be the next president of the United States.

Slashdot readers are smart people that can add one and one together. So, when they read why Second Life's supposed economy isn't a whole lot more than a typical pyramid scheme because the Linden company can print Linden dollars out of thin air at any rate they like, and can therefore buy and sell as much dollars at the exchange market as they like, so they can pretty much manipulate the whole SL economy as they please, they will also be able to figure out that the real US banking and monetary system can be manipulated at exactly the same way, because the Federal Reserve has enjoyed the absolute power to do literally anything it wants, which is probably why Henry Ford said he believed there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning if "the people of the nation" would "understand our banking and monetary system".

If they also read how the US corporations, owned by the same people that own the FED, systematically and consciously rape the poorest people of the world by using the trick of putting whole nations into debt to make them dependent and controllable by raising inflation tax, just as has been described in protocol number 6 of the so-called Zion protocols and continue reading that protcols, they would also understand why Henry Ford was a known anti-semite, as well as Winston Churchill, who wrote about a world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality that "has been steadily growing".

If you believe, like Ford and Churchill, in the existence of such a conspiracy, Slashdot readers would not just take for granted that it was "the Jews", but look at the most logical place for the conspiritors, which would be at the top of the pyramid, for who wars are very profitable as well, as is also described in said protocols. So, When Slashdot reades also learn that following Hitler's money leads al but directly to the White House and that Al Qaida in a way can be more or less considered to be the last remaining and still active Waffen-SS Division, because there are pretty direct links to the Waffen-SS Muslim Devision hardly anybody knew existed, they will also be able to understand Multatuli's extremely inconvenient truth laying this all out in detail.

Then they will also realise that 911 was an inside job after all and never be able to trust anyone on the memberlist of the order of Skull and Bones. Since Ron Paul was on the video Multatuli watched to get insight into the workings of the Fed, he gave him the benefit of the doubt and linked to his site from his article.

Given the importance of this message, the chance that this will end up on the front page of Slashdot equals more then 99%, *IF* enough readers read this message. Since it will be extremely cool, as a side-effect of sending the world's biggest war-criminals to justice, to

and Ron Paul will probably be the next president of the United States.

Slashdot readers are smart people that can add one and one together. So, when they read why Second Life's supposed economy isn't a whole lot more than a typical pyramid scheme because the Linden company can print Linden dollars out of thin air at any rate they like, and can therefore buy and sell as much dollars at the exchange market as they like, so they can pretty much manipulate the whole SL economy as they please, they will also be able to figure out that the real US banking and monetary system can be manipulated at exactly the same way, because the Federal Reserve has enjoyed the absolute power to do literally anything it wants, which is probably why Henry Ford said he believed there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning if "the people of the nation" would "understand our banking and monetary system".

If they also read how the US corporations, owned by the same people that own the FED, systematically and consciously rape the poorest people of the world by using the trick of putting whole nations into debt to make them dependent and controllable by raising inflation tax, just as has been described in protocol number 6 of the so-called Zion protocols and continue reading that protcols, they would also understand why Henry Ford was a known anti-semite, as well as Winston Churchill, who wrote about a world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality that "has been steadily growing".

If you believe, like Ford and Churchill, in the existence of such a conspiracy, Slashdot readers would not just take for granted that it was "the Jews", but look at the most logical place for the conspiritors, which would be at the top of the pyramid, for who wars are very profitable as well, as is also described in said protocols. So, When Slashdot reades also learn that following Hitler's money leads al but directly to the White House and that Al Qaida in a way can be more or less considered to be the last remaining and still active Waffen-SS Division, because there are pretty direct links to the Waffen-SS Muslim Devision hardly anybody knew existed, they will also be able to understand Multatuli's extremely inconvenient truth laying this all out in detail.

Then they will also realise that 911 was an inside job after all and never be able to trust anyone on the memberlist of the order of Skull and Bones. Since Ron Paul was on the video Multatuli watched to get insight into the workings of the Fed, he gave him the benefit of the doubt and linked to his site from his article.

Given the importance of this message, the chance that this will end up on the front page of Slashdot equals more then 99%, *IF* enough readers read this message. Since it will be extremely cool, as a side-effect of sending the world's biggest war-criminals to justice, to

Confusion? I see Disney wants it both ways :).

There's also the battle over "Winnie the Pooh":

http://iblsjournal.typepad.com/illinois_business_law_soc/2006/03/winnie_the_pooh.html

I strongly think it's really unfair to deaf community if they cap it. Deaf people now use videoconference type of relay service to communicate with the world using videophone similiar to Dlink's i2eye. Check this link below to explain why it is a problem. The blogger in this link is deaf as well as I am and having broadband connection has been one of the greatest technological achievement for us deaf people because it allows us to be independent and better access to communication.

http://jarednevans.typepad.com/blog/2008/01/time-warner-cus.html

Here are an example of video relay service. http://www.sorenson.com/ That company is one of many company that provice service to deaf and hard of hearing community.

Since internet came into being, accessibility for the deaf has improved tremendously (Sidekick, Blackberry, videophone, videorelay,WWW,and etc etc) basically we deaf finally have equal access to information easily as hearing counterpart.

So Time Warner's plan to cap broadwidth will seriously offend deaf community (5gb/a month bandwidth is equal 3.5 hrs of video phone a month). I wouldn't be surprised if FCC is investigating this.

(I think i need to go take class to learn how to write better .....LOL )

If they'd taken the time to do a full and fair recount, Gore would have won. We know this because after the fact the recounts were done. While Bush would have won under some of the deals the lawyers were kicking around Gore would have won had the simply followed the laws as written.

-- MarkusQ

I financially support Paul. I will vote for Paul if I get the chance, but the conspiracy folks really seem to love this X files stuff. It needs to stop.

Voting is an imperfect process, and most of the Paulites are first timers to the process. Paul himself believes the counts jibes with their internal polling, and any mistakes are innocent.

Move along. Get votes in new states. Paul may have no chance of winning without any fraud needed, but don't doubt the Republicans are listening, despite their public derision of Paul. Paul will show there is support for more libertarian ideas and sensible foreign policy. And when they get thrashed by the Dems, they will be seeking Paulite support, with candidates with less paleo baggage and more appealing personage.

If you really want to change things, stop the black helicopter fretting, and get off your ass and work the local polls. Most of these volunteer jobs go begging and that's why you get these social security mummies working the counts. Poll working is the perfect place for third-parties to start working. Make your job #1 to make the counts in your precinct clean.

Well, it looks like the year of many things:

2008: The year of the big airline merger
2008: The year of RSS
2008: The year of OpenID
2008: The year of layout engine - CSS3
2008: The year of principles
2008: The year of Palestine

And all along I thought it was the year of the rat...

Here is an article that supports your ideas. It appears to be a London Times editorial even though the domain name is typepad.com.

It says that some women who voted for Clinton might have been lying about it to avoid conflicts with their husbands. I hadn't consider this possibility but it makes sense to me and therefore I am less inclined to believe there was a problem with the official tally, although I'm still glad they're going to do a recount.

Read my manifesto:
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2008/01/bloggers-manife.html

Bye,
Oliver

His cousin Odinga of Kenya is a radical muslim that signed the following paper for Jihad!!!:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/05/muslim_kenya.jpg

It says:

"ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL MUSLIM LEADERS FORUM (NAMLEF) ABDULLAH ABDI (chairman)"
(signed)

"ON BEHALF OF THE ORANGE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT (ODM) HON.ENG.RAILA AMOLLO ODINGA"
(signed)

https://secure.wikileaks.org/leak/MOU_between_Ralia_Odinga_and_Muslims.pdf

Obama released the Indonesian translation of his 2nd book "Assault Hope: From Jakarta to the White House".
(indonesians see it as the Jihad for White House!!!)

Obama released his 1st book: "The Dreams of my Father", <--- I suspect him of it as "the Jihad of my muslim dad!" (dreams of dad = Jihad, Father = my dad is muslim).

If Obama is U.S. Muslim President or U.S. Muslim Vicepresident then he is a GREAT RISK for the National Unsecurity and for millions of americans due to he has access to the eyes-only top secret documents of the maps and weapons of White House, Pentagon, C.I.A. etc for giving to the muslim terrorists in backdoors as from Indonesia!!!

You can imagine the hundreds of muslims of the family of Obama surrounding inside of the unprotected White House.

He IS NOT a christian black! He IS a muslim brown weared as black and as christian!

Obama is pro-Kenyan and pro-Indonesian.

Obama = jihadist brother of Osama Bin Laden to White House!

Who cares? Be less stupid american!

Oh man... Bruce Perens. What a pleasure. I couldn't have said it better myself.

(Actually, I was going to make fun of proprietary software for the general idea of having source unavailable).

More to the point though, I received a lecture on this in a Software Architecture course a couple years ago and it struck a nerve. Even if you never need to review 99.9% of the code you run, it is nice to be able to look through the 0.1% that might be helpful for you to gain a better understanding of what is going on. And that is only possible with Open Source.

Cheers.

"Gee, so, given that coal powerplants in the USA alone produce 1.8 millon metric tons of CO2 per year, we would need 11 million of these devices installed in the US to make American coal power carbon neutral.

+ Correction: I messed up the calculation, the actual number is 240,000 units - but stil, a ridiculous quantity. "

US Coal/CO2 emissions on the order of 2 Billion metric tons of CO2 per year...
Ergo you're off by a factor of 1000x.. (on the low side)..

Let's assume 1.8 MMT of CO2 covers just one boiler.. (out of a thousand)..
240,000 ... 88 sq.. meter tracking arrays.. would need to be spaced at a ratio of at least 5 to 1, depending on latitude.

Math: 240,000 * 88(min foot array foot print ) * 6 (spacing) ==
126 M sq. meters per boiler.. or an area of 126 Sq Km.. per BOILER.

Some how I think the local residents would object to having 49 Sq miles per boiler covered with pipelines and large solar tracking towers. (For a US average X1000... 49,000 Sq miles .. or 126,000 sq km.)

Once you oxidized the resulting liquid fuel, one would still have the net effect of releasing GHG into the atmosphere. By all indications, Humanity needs to progress to a Carbon NEGATIVE economy. 390ppm ->350ppm. So this really isn't a long term solution.

======== Now for a real solution ===========

Meanwhile... once could accomplish most of the same effect by putting up 12,000 sq km. of 20% eff, PV solar trackers in some high desert regions (Space them out by x6) and DISPLACE ALL electric generation sources in the US..

Naturally.. we would keep generation capacity like Hydro, Wind, Biomass,. maybe some nuclear...etc..
I would also keep all the NG/combined cycle plants as backups (fueled by H2, stored in depleted NG fields.)
Using spare electricity generation to produce H2 via hybrid solar thermal/electrolysis SO2 cycle.
Note: The H2S04/SO2 process originally envisioned nuclear power supplying the thermal energy component, but desert solar thermal plants could easily substitute as the heat source, and the resulting SO2 gas stored underground awaiting excess electrical generation.

Wind energy production should also be expanded by 50x..
Spare electric power would be used in highly eff SO2 +2H20 electrolysis(0.6V) phase to produce H2SO4+H2 .

Modern EV's are roughly 10x more efficient than ICE vehicles, and could be used to manage grid demands on the renewable energy sources.

Note: Our society would experience a significant reduction in overall energy requirements (~30%), once the fossil fuel industry is displaced by high grade renewables.

Seems to be a couple years old though, this page (second story down) which includes the same photo is dated feb 2006, and includes a much better description of how it works, including how they use alternate direction rotation rings for heat conservation within the drum, although it looks like they've more recently been trying it with CO2 instead of H20. This page contains more info and diagram of the counter rotating drum. Very interesting stuff though.

It's because trying to lead open-source developers is like herding cats. Unless you're holding their can of food, they won't go where you want. And if you can't make all of them focus on the single project you want accomplished, you don't get anything done without a huge mass of so many people that everyone can do what they please

I believe the phrase "design by committee" is what you are looking for.

I hate to ruin the cool stat that you posted of the US never losing WTO cases before Bush, but, well, by some counts the US has lost more then 40 cases before the WTO out of almost 90.

Here is some more information on this http://benmuse.typepad.com/ben_muse/2007/09/how-is-the-us-d.html
or the source (warning PDF) from the US gov't rather then a random blog:
http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Trade_Agreements/Monitoring_Enforcement/Dispute_Settlement/WTO/asset_upload_file811_5696.pdf.

I didn't realize that number was so high, but as a Canadian I could think of a couple of cases that didn't go so well for you guys (not that you haven't taken it to us as well).

Your connection of declining intelligence to liberals is nothing more than a fanciful leap of logic.

I* am not saying that "Liberals" cause stupidity.

I am saying, however, that their disinterest in "technological" issues [vis-a-vis their obsession with "social" issues], as evidenced by their performance in our current Congress, does reflect the underlying stupidity of their constituencies.

[Parenthetically: Were you aware that Obama wants to defund NASA's next generation of launch vehicles so as to be able to throw even more booty at his constituents in the National "Education" Association?]

*On the other hand, in his original work on the subject, Charles Murray did take the point of view that "Liberal" social policies have a dysgenic effect: If our government taxes the lives & behaviors of smart, industrious people, and subsidizes the lives & behaviors of lazy, stupid people, then we shouldn't be surprised when smart, industrious people come to have more and more difficulty in finding the time & financial resources necessary to make & raise babies, and that neither should we be surprised if lazy, stupid people are more than happy to move in and occupy that nature-abhorred vacuum.

[Again, parenthetically: Did you know that the bottom 50% of Americans pay no income taxes whatsoever? Or that the top 1% of Americans pay more income tax than the bottom 90%? Or that the average low-skilled citizen costs the government more than $19,500 per year every year of his life?]

Now I agree with Murray that the financial aspects of government social policy can impart some inertia in the general direction of fertility rates [be those rates dysgenic or eugenic], but I don't think for a second that the fiscal burden of "Liberalism" is the primary culprit here: There is something far more evil at work in the Death of the Civilized World, and "Liberalism" is merely a very poor, rather dim shadow of that Evil.

A shadow of A Shadow, if you will.

There's an excellent article I read about it; I think it's a combination of factors. By nature, a lot of geeks are raised in comparative isolation; the internet has made it even easier to surround oneself only with people who agree with you; there's a disdain for "lesser" people that comes from years of wedgies. It's part of the standard high-school rant that those damned bullies are going to be pumping your gas one day, and why on earth would a geek who's Gotten His try to better that bully's position in life?

(I should disclaim that the above is just cultural criticism, and it's very far from empirical. You'd have to be David Brooks or someone like him to think that that constitutes an actual explanation for the streak of libertarianism that runs through geek culture.)

On a less hand-wavey level, I think there's something very appealing (especially to geeks) about the idea that one can deduce the entirety of politics from first principles. (I speak here of the Non-Aggression Principle.) The problem with this, as Seth Finkelstein points out, is that it just moves the complexity to the definitions of your terms, which are beyond debatability in your edge of the libertarian tent, in much the same way as fundamentalist churches claiming that their sole authority is the bible sweep their assumptions under the rug by pretending that they're not making any. (Fred the Slacktivist has some good discussion on the topic; also here.)

Heck, I went through a libertarian phase when I was profoundly ignorant of how history actually worked. I grew out of it by the time I got to college; it looks like a lot of people never got that far.

There's an excellent article I read about it; I think it's a combination of factors. By nature, a lot of geeks are raised in comparative isolation; the internet has made it even easier to surround oneself only with people who agree with you; there's a disdain for "lesser" people that comes from years of wedgies. It's part of the standard high-school rant that those damned bullies are going to be pumping your gas one day, and why on earth would a geek who's Gotten His try to better that bully's position in life?

(I should disclaim that the above is just cultural criticism, and it's very far from empirical. You'd have to be David Brooks or someone like him to think that that constitutes an actual explanation for the streak of libertarianism that runs through geek culture.)

On a less hand-wavey level, I think there's something very appealing (especially to geeks) about the idea that one can deduce the entirety of politics from first principles. (I speak here of the Non-Aggression Principle.) The problem with this, as Seth Finkelstein points out, is that it just moves the complexity to the definitions of your terms, which are beyond debatability in your edge of the libertarian tent, in much the same way as fundamentalist churches claiming that their sole authority is the bible sweep their assumptions under the rug by pretending that they're not making any. (Fred the Slacktivist has some good discussion on the topic; also here.)

Heck, I went through a libertarian phase when I was profoundly ignorant of how history actually worked. I grew out of it by the time I got to college; it looks like a lot of people never got that far.

Many people regard them as total sellouts and possessive to no actual talent or creativity... they are a hit generator, which is exactly the kind of thing that they play on pop/rock radio

Someday, there will be a thread about the RIAA without all this elitist bullshit. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH POP? I like meatloaf, bubblegum, McDonald's hamburgers, pizza, Mountain Dew, and pop music. Music is not the center of my life, nor is it the apex of the arts. It's enjoyable noise that makes my commute more pleasant. You don't like pop? Fine. The rest of the world does. Not because it's what's been forced down their throats, but because they didn't study enough to learn that they're not supposed to like it--whatever the fuck that means.

Go find a classical music snob and ask him what he thinks about the music you like. ("Radiohead? HA!") While you're at it, ask a chef what he thinks of your dinner selection, a car enthusiast what he thinks of your ride, and the unwashed masses of Slashdot about your operating environment and text editor of choice. Maybe send these folks a picture of what you're wearing right now. There is no dispute concerning taste. (And I refer to the Latin form of that phrase not because I'm a language snob but to make the point that this idea has been around for a long, long time.) And while you're out gathering all these opinions (as if they matter), I highly recommend hitting a bookstore (NOT a video store) and checking out High Fidelity.

Note that this doesn't mean I like the RIAA's tactics, but that's unrelated to what they happen to sell. They could sell bottled water, or own baseball teams, or make operating systems and office suites--they'd behave the same way and they'd still be assholes for doing it.

Ask yourself this: pick any band you like. Imagine they get picked up by the RIAA. Does that make their music bad? Imagine they become unexpectedly, insanely popular and spawn a whole new world of music, Sprite ads, flannel-based fashion, and extreme sports. Does that make their music bad?

If your reflex is to tell me "Nirvana really sucked, Pearl Jam and Soundagarden were the real geniuses" then you're missing my point--ignore the band I chose as an example. Just imagine any band you like in their place.

PS: I'm not picking on you in particular. I could have replied to any of a dozen posts in this thread.

World production of crude oil maxed out at 85 million barrels per day this year. (yes they have a slight hiccup for October at 86 million, probably due to rounding)

http://www.worldoil.com/INFOCENTER/STATISTICS_DETAIL.asp?Statfile=_worldoilproduction

We will only know when the peak is AFTER the peak. If we cannot reach 85 or 86 mbpd next year, then we've gone past peak. This information is so obvious and yet there are lots of people in denial. Oil hit $100 a barrel this year. Next year look for $200 a barrel. The entire world economy is about to self destruct and we have millions of people taking the blue pill.

Why in hell would we be trying to get oil out of the tar sands if there was lots of sweet crude in the 1000 meter holes typically found in Alberta? We've used most of it up and nobody wants to say so because of the panic that would ensue.

If you want to take the red pill and find out how bad it really is, read kunstler. http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/

Here is some more about Google and MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/customers/customer.php?id=75

There certainly is enough wind energy to power the world. Just the Mid-Atlantic US coast has up to 330GW of power. And that's not even counting the onshore, or the Great Lakes. And besides, I'm just talking about replacing filthy nukes, not every energy source - I even named some more. But eventually harnessing the power of cyclones could probably deliver enough power for the whole world, and reduce the cyclone damage that all that petrofuel pollution has created.

Tell me, what does "obtains actual knowledge of any facts or circumstances described in paragraph" mean in a court of law? Is it "obtains" as in "reads them"? As in"stored them on a computer"? As in "stored in memory"? I don't profess to be a lawyer, so I don't really know the answer to this. However, I've seen enough legal decisions in the past where a perfectly common sense sentence targeted on hardcore criminals was twisted to include consensual sex, basic computer operations and daily life. I don't trust lawyers, judges or juries to always come to the right decision, and I suspect there'll be plenty of cases where this law will be abused. If you can't imagine the scenarios.... I hope they'll never happen to you.

There is no great mystery about how "web log" became "blog", and Japanese or not (I'd have to see some evidence before I'll buy that), it's still one of the more annoying, stupid-sounding terms from the past five or ten years.

Based on a quick Google search, I'd say you're probably completely incorrect about any connection to Japanese convention. See example below. And on the off chance that was supposed to be humorous, well, don't quit your day job. :)

http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2005/05/what_is_the_ori.html

http://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/2007/07/itunes-hits-3-b.html/

7/31/07: Apple announces hitting the 3 Billion mark with it's iTunes downloads. Now, assuming that an equivalent amount have been distributed illegally since the inception of the internet we can come up with a conservative estimate of what the damages would look like.

$9,250 per song x 3,000,000,000 songs = $27,750,000,000,000

For those of your not used to so many zeroes that's 27.75 trillion dollars. You would have to almost take every sale of music since Edison first made the Phonograph to come up with that kind of money.

Maybe you can't get a wikipedia that's absolutely ture, however you can get a wikipedia that's stir-fried!

Wait, you're suggesting by "I dont know of any company that could afford to beat out the fossil fuel companies to do so." that there aren't companies in the US trying to make money off alternative energy? Further, lots of state governments are actively trying to promote alternative energy, which undermines the theory that the government is afraid of a tax revenue collapse. State governments are subsidizing alternative energy using those very tax revenues, in the hopes that home-grown alternative energy producers will create even more tax revenue in the future.

I hate to sound like a slashvertisement, but I think the following US companies and groups would all disagree with you:

Evergreen Solar (producer based in Mass.)
Heliodyne (producer based in California)
Google (installing panels on its roof)
Solar Energy Industry Association (US trade group)
Tesla Motors) (selling 100% electric cars in the US)
List of solar manufacturers in the US
US solar power installations increase 33% year-to-year

The New York Times has a story about this issue: "Venture Capital Rushes into Alternate Energy" suggesting that $1.5 billion in VC money was invested in 2006 alone in new companies who hope to profit from overthrowing the energy status quo. If you add private equity money then there was $18.1 billion in dealflow in 2006 in the alternate energy sector. Or listen to a 2004 story about the same issue.

It's nice to think that there's some great conspiracy against alternate energy, but the simple truth is that there is a lot of market action in the field and nothing stopping people from making money in it. There is a HUGE amount of money to be made from alternate energy and plenty of people are trying to make it.

Microsoft has given the sticker a little more thought.

In future, all computers intended for Vista will have a sticker based on this design.

Glenn Greenwald!

Sockpuppet!

No, a calorie is not a calorie, and you don't get fat from eating calories. There is increasing research evidence, and a great deal of anecdotal evidence, that carbs cause the weight gain, the high cholesterol, the diabetes, the heart disease. Exercise can help, but the basic answer is chemical. The calorie theory is outdated, and anyone who has tried it for the last 30 years knows it does not work. It is simplistic, and easy to conceive, but a physics lie. The new metabolic dynamic is just as simple and plausible, and by all accounts, far more effective. Scientists agree individually that insulin's primary role is to drive fat production, and carbs primary effect is to drive insulin secretion. So why not take the logical next step and treat fat by reducing carbs? Scientists can't seem to follow their own simple, straightforward logic. Taubes is not saying that exercise has no place in health. He is specifically saying that it does not directly cause weight loss. Taubes agrees with the other benefits of exercise and exercises himself. He is just making the point that medical claims need to be checked for validity by research, which they often have not been. Do not just believe what health "experts" tell you to believe. You should not listen to any doctor who still believes in the low-fat or caloric model of nutrition. Taubes is not a researcher, is a journalist. He is just honestly reporting what the research actually says, which has often been covered up, and the medical community is running scared. Taubes is asking for the research to be done, and the research community is desperately resisting it. Something is rotten in Denmark and Taubes is merely exposing it. For more information and reviews of the research, see the follwing medical and general info websites: http://www.weightoftheevidence.blogspot.com/ (Regina Wilshire) http://rjr10036.typepad.com/askdrvernon/ (Dr. Mary Vernon) http://www.proteinpower.com/ (Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades) http://www.diabetes-normalsugars.com/ (Dr. Richard Bernstein) http://www.lowcarb-ca.com/ http://www.livinlavidalowcarb.blogspot.com/ (Jimmy Moore) Read the other reports by Taubes available widely on the web. Read the report by Dr. Ron Rosedale "Insulin and its Metabolic Effects" available widely on the web.

See my small cartoon: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/11/doing-social.html Bye, Oliver

Warren Buffet did the math and came out that he was paying 18% in tax while his receptionist was paying 33% in tax.

There seems to be an almost religious fantatisism with keeping everything nicely contained within the same timeline of events at Paramount.

While not related, I had played through the Halflife 2 Epsiode 2 commentary and they mentioned something about the flashlight battery now being separate from the main HEV sprinting battery, and their argument was that they weren't going to make the game less fun just for the sake of a keeping bad game design decision true throughout the lifespan of the series.

That said, I've always felt this was the most compelling argument for allowing for new things to happen without always resorting to time travel: http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/files/ST2004Reboot.pdf