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Since many companies (Google, Microsoft, IBM, ...) seem to be able to vote in different countries, I wouldn't see this as something special, after all, it's the company that is represented, why should not one well informed guy do it in more then one country? Most probably, in each of these companies they have formulated certain opinion about the issue, and only a few guys get to write it down and present it. IMO, it would be more surprising if each branch of the company would give a different response.
I don't know what would be really a fair process, but after reading this and this it seems to me that a big "no" to OpenXML as an ISO standard could only be a good thing.

Though you can't play Super Mario on a PlayStation, games for one platform do have counterparts on another. For example, if you like GameCube-exclusive platformers but you have a PS2, there exist substitutes: Crash, Jak, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper, etc. Likewise, if you like Zelda, PS2 has two Dark Cloud games. Which genre for Windows did you find lacking on Linux?

But if you want a specific title for Xbox 360, buy an Xbox 360 console. Likewise, if you want a specific title for Windows, buy or build a Windows console. Even PCs running Windows 9x, Windows XP, and Windows Vista are almost as different as the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 consoles.

Ha ha.... Keep in mind that Rudy was the one who cross-dressed... lol

http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorize d/2007/05/09/giuliani_in_drag.jpg

and

http://www.borev.net/rudy.jpg

That is a nice sentiment, but unfortunately untrue. People make snap judgments on based on everything they encounter: websites, each other,and even their politicians. While this is a behavior that can be manipulated pretty easily, it is absolutely necessary for people to be able to function in the world. There is too much going out there for a person to be able to logically weigh each action, and there is usually a lack of compelling evidence for any given action whatsoever. So, we rely on superficial indicators to guess with a fairly high degree of accuracy exactly how to react to any given situation.

While one could argue that we should try to rise above this behavior in regards to our elected officials, I really doubt that it is possible. The only way you could honestly divorce yourself from those snap judgments is to never ever see the politician, which just is not going to happen. Besides, there is a lot more to a politician than decision making. The person has to be able to manage, build consensus, and lead, all of which are things that repugnant people typically have a hard time doing.

It is spurious to claim that such trivialities do not influence you. They influence everybody.

The UNO knows what to do. See my small cartoon: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/08 /strong-uno.html Bye, Oliver

Lots (yes it's a pdf so kill me). See page 9.

The giant mouse looked like this and it stole my cookie.

Excellent! Where can we find those?

How about the Internet? Start with the "Male Privilege Checklist": http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2004/09/15/t he-male-privilege-checklist/

Then start reading in the feminist blogosphere, two decent entry points into it are http://pandagon.blogsome.com/ and http://feministing.com/ .

Then begin looking up "white privilege" and "anti-racism", since the strategies are nearly identical between both problem domains. Google for the excellent essay "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack", normally at http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpa cking.html , but tonight the server is down so try this instead: http://justworld.typepad.com/perspectives/2005/11/ peggy_mcintoshs.html .

After some time it might start making sense.

truthfully, we have all been waiting for the riaa to shoot themselves in the foot, and it looks like congress is going to encourage them to do so, from the summary. However, the initial costs of that are probably going to suck, with a lot of good radio sites likely going to shut down (pandora, di.fm, stuff like that)....but at least the ensuing result is certain things will hopefully change in concerns to this you can't allow people to choose what to play off your playlist law. The unfortunate side is "hopefully" and also praying that we don't have some kind of RIAA sponsored payola to bring about crappy music streaming stations that they support.

It's not been 'proven time and time again'. It's been asserted time and time again, with actually no evidence whatsoever to back it up, and in a fact quite quite a lot of evidence that tax rates have almost an unnoticible effect on the economy. See here. That's simply propaganda from rich people who want less taxes, and has never been observed in any form.

And some of the largest periods of economic growth in this country have, in fact, coincided with large tax rates, like the recovery from the Great Depression. Yes, that was WWII, but the reason it got us out of the Depression is that the government taxed people and then spent the money.

There's absolutely no logical reason that taking money from people and spending it in the US would hinder the economy in any way. Yes, going all the way to a place where government orders account for a large proportion of the GDP might result in screwy manufacturing decisions by companies. But if the government pays someone to lay down a new road, or, say, repair a bridge, that is actual money spent that will end up in people's pockets.

What doesn't help the economy is taking money from some people and giving it to others. (It doesn't hinder anything, though, it mainly just confuses things.) Taking money from some people and spending it on actual products that people compete to produce, and then the government consumes, or allows use for free (like the highway system), does help the economy.

Of course, I suggested taking money from people and paying off the debt with it, which is not spending it in the US, but, while that may not help the economy, it will certainly help with increasing government revenue in the future, simply because there will be less interest to pay, so we can pretty much automatically have lower taxes in the future, so I have no idea what the hell you're whining about.

Which demonstrates the silliness of yammering abut 'the economy'...the GDP is an artifical construct that, while useful, is not the end-all and be-all of tax policy. There are ways to get, with the same GDP and the same tax rate, more government revenue to spend, like, as I said, the big one, stop paying so much goddamn interest on the debt.

If the collected taxes actually lowers economic growth, something which is entirely unproven, it will still be a net gain if it reduces interest on the debt more than enough to counter out the decrease in revenue. And as this 'revenue-decreasing effect' has to be incredibly small to never be demonstrated before, that's entirely likely.

And if we really care so much about increasing the GDP, there are a few things we should worry about before taxes, like stopping large companies from leaving this country. And possible stop things like the housing bubble collapse, which is the actual economy instability right now, from happening. We could have, I dunno, regulation that takes effect when things get out of control and calms things down. Wait, we already have that. Well, we could have an executive branch willing to actually use it five fucking years ago when it might have helped.

A car dealer made a promotion with a starting price of 1. The car sold at an unreasonably low price and the dealer tried to negate the sale. The court decided that there was a binding contract and the bidder got the car for the low ebay price.

Microsoft's license for OOXML, for instance, does not include a patent license; only a promise not to sue, so long as your implementation only uses the necessary portions of details described in the specification, and not details referenced by the specification. IOW, to create an OOXML document importer or exporter, you end up recreating a lot of Microsoft code that isn't covered.

So 1) you can't use code based on the specification in a GPL V2 or GPL V3 program, because you can't satisfy the patent clause, and 2) you can't write any program based on the specification, because Microsoft only promises not sue you for implementing the specification, not for any supporting code that you would need to write to implement the specification.

See http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/01/analy zing_the_m.html for example.

Unfortunately, there is not a non-flash player version as near as I can tell. This link has enough comments to explain it all. http://vice.typepad.com/vbs/2007/06/vbs_producer_m e.html http://www.vbs.tv/shows/index.php?show=Toxic%20Alb erta Is the source of the vids. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_Oil_Sands Is an article about what the vids cover but it doesn't say anything at all about how bad it is, and the long term (40 year) shortsightedness of it. Unfortunately the wiki article does nothing more then say that "Its controversial". The vids really demonstrate how bad it is... "690k 3 bedroom houses and so on..." Its insane economic growth, at a major cost to the environment and the people of Alberta Canada. And its backed by only people wanting to make a quick buck, and the oil companies handing out the paychecks.

See http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/07 /the-future-of-m.html Bye, Oliver

It always pisses me off that some web services say in their very long agreement that they have the right to change the terms at any time
IIUC, this ruling doesn't apply to those contracts. This says a consumer has no general obligation to keep checking the contract. It doesn't say a consumer can't agree to assume such an obligation by, say, signing a contract.

See analysis at http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2007/07/courts-s ays-aol.html

Max Headroom would be proud.

But what would his brother say?

In my heart, I hope this movie doesn't suck...

"Fatty, it's gotta be the SHOES!"

http://americancopywriter.typepad.com/photos/uncat egorized/marsblackmon_1.jpg

A little humor for the clueless never hurts, but it does disturb their reality.
IOW: A troll rating, I can sometimes consider a compliment not an insult.

Reading will help you and maybe others understand ... (from my reality ...)

The USA, Germany, Japan, and France are not the leaders in this entertaining activity.

Old News of the better know, definitely not the only news on the cyberwar subject:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/22/17 12252
China Titan Rain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain [wikipedia.org]
US DARPA TIA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_information_awa reness [wikipedia.org]

Wikipedia defensively blocked the USA [Wiki-Vandel] Offensive Congress IP address block,
as to why .... http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2006/01/ wikipedia_block.html [typepad.com]

EU, Russia, Arabs, Israel, UN ... It is the new government, business, religion ... SOP
for CoOp spycraft and cyberwar. US ain't the only one on the block, globally they are
all on pot calling the kettle black. As I always say, "Reality is self...."

Cyberwar is happening and has been happening for almost a decade. The general public
is limited, by law, to individual passive/defensive cyber-fights, by wisdom (a true sense
of reality) the individual chooses not to play a [individual]David&Goliath[organizations]
battle. Is the wild-wild-west Internet/WWW, better than organized civilized cyberwar?

I do hope Time-Warner, Halliburton, China ... will get their comeuppances by a serious
counter-attack. The good side, this is low intensity warfare, not boots-on-the-ground
kill'em all war. Who knows maybe we will all learn how to live in virtual-peace.

FUBAR by design is an intended mess.

!HAVEFUN!

Believe it or not the USA, Germany, Japan, and France are not the leaders in this activity

Old News, Two of the better know:
China Titan Rain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain
US DARPA TIA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_information_awa reness

EU, Russia, Arabs, Israel, UN ... It is the new SOP for CoOp spycraft and cyberwar.
US ain't the only one on the block, globally they are all on pot calling the kettle black.
As I always say, "Reality is self induced hallucination." If you're a politician/idiot it ain't that FUBAR.

Wikipedia blocked the USA Congress IP address block, as to why ....
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2006/01/ wikipedia_block.html

Maybe some folks need to be blocking some top-level domains .cn/203+202..., .mil/199+207..., .gov/216+206+69+209+82+66... ....

IOW, consider the following:
US DOD NIC: 6.0.0.0 - 7.255.255.255
US DOD NIC: 11.0.0.0 - 11.255.255.255
US DOD NIC: 21.0.0.0 - 22.255.255.255
US DOD NIC: 26.0.0.0 - 26.255.255.255
US DOD NIC: 28.0.0.0 - 30.255.255.255
US DOD NIC: 33.0.0.0 - 33.255.255.255
US DOD NIC: 55.0.0.0 - 55.255.255.255
Halliburton Company 34.0.0.0 - 34.255.255.255
Computer Sciences Corporation 20.0.0.0 - 20.255.255.255
USPS: 56.0.0.0 - 56.255.255.255

You can do your own homework:
IANA: http://www.iana.org/
ARIN: http://www.arin.net/index.shtml

!HAVEFUN!

Can I drink my vaccine?

How about the power infrastructure?

I work for a "big 4" firm, doing mostly technology consulting type stuff (Data-based forensic accounting).

My official rate is $425/hr. That is usually discounted unless a client has gotten themselves in big trouble.

And yea, $billed != $made. Not even close.

... I have a good proposal for Microsoft. See my small cartoon: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/07 /microsoft-ads-h.html Bye, Oliver

For poor people, even the ingredients that they can afford tend to be shit. High in fats, sugars and/or salt. Low quality meat and pre-processed canned/boxed foods are also much cheaper than fresh ingredients. Not to mention that some people's mothers are busy working two or more jobs and don't have time for anything besides a McDonalds quality dinner. http://foodstampchallenge.typepad.com/ Voluntarily eating at/below the poverty level will change your perspective.

I have to say I disagree... late last year, I changed jobs, and found myself working many, many hours (at a very comfortable salary). Lacking time to cook (or even be at home), I found myself eating my meals at nice restaurants twice a day. During the several months I was at that job, I gained a lot of weight, and was largely miserable. I blame the "good food" and lack of exercise.

Then I left that job. I decided that I was going to take a nice long break from work. But that required some small life-style changes -- like not spending US$30 a day on food. Instead, I gave myself a budget of US$30 a week for food. I went to the grocery store and bought canned vegetables, frozen meat, pre-packaged bread, and so on. These foods cost next to nothing, and most aren't bad for you. The fact that cooking my own meals allowed me to lose ten pounds in two months, and feel much better. And cooking a decent meal can be done in less than a half hour. And if you buy your chicken five pounds at a time, you can cook enough for a few days all at once (in a half hour), and then just re-heat it in minutes for the rest of the week.

Every variety of canned vegetables can be had in the no-salt variety (though, why would you bother?). Even the salt-added varieties contains only a tiny fraction of the sodium you'd find in a McDonalds burger or fries. There are plenty of fast inexpensive options for fruit too -- fresh fruit isn't terribly expensive, but if it's too much, one can get canned fruit, and just opt for the varieties that don't come in a (gross) heavy syrup.

I have to admit, with a US$30 food budget, I have a tendency to splurge and get fancier stuff than I need. If I were really hard up for money, I could probably manage to feed a family of four on the same budget. I've always been fortunate to live comfortably, but it drives me nuts when "poor" people spend their money at McDonalds -- for US$5 at McDonalds, you can get a "good" meal -- a burger, a fries, and a soda. For the same amount at a grocery store, you can get a can of green beans and a can of carrots (@ US$0.50 each), two pounds of chicken (@ US$0.99 per pound), a whole loaf of wheat bread (@ US$1), and a quart of milk (@ US$1). And that would be a decent meal for a family of four, with leftovers (Prices based on Northern Virginia Giant Food grocery store -- it would be even cheaper to buy in larger amounts and to do it at Shoppers Food Warehouse).

There are certainly poor people who would have trouble getting by -- but there is no way that you can claim fast food is cheaper than a half hour a week at the grocery store. Or that you can claim that it is impossible to eat healthfully on a tight budget... the most fundamental foods, like fruits and vegetables, are some of the cheapest things in a grocery store.

But the GP is right too. You don't HAVE to buy pre-processed foods. 95% of the crap sold in grocery stores just isn't good for you. You can buy the ingredients and make it yourself like your mother may have done.

Dunno if you know this thread has been blogged by clever nick name.
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2007/07/t his-was-his-mi.html

A favorite story for stat teachers, I believe this is what you're thinking about.

played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.

-Keyboard stinks. Best way I could get anything typed accurately was hold it in one hand and point with the other.
-No correction in web URLs and email addresses, so you have to be perfect.
-No period in the keyboard (period, /, and .com buttons in web browser kbd)
-Touch buttons too small. Although my Treo 650 screen buttons are often too small, but I rarely use them)
-No removable media (Why switch to mini SD Palm? idiots)
-No video recording
-No editing MS word documents
-No EVDO (Edge was slow when it worked, 755p may have EVDORevA at 600kbs)
-No stereo bluetooth (http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/)
-No third party applications (Chess, new browser, core media player, etc)
-No laptop networking using phone (http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/)
-No removable battery (Like 2x capacity third party)
                http://shop.treonauts.com/content/accessories/---2 512.htm [treonauts.com]
-No way to quickly dial contacts
-No way to navigate single handed (five way rocker rocks)
-No tactile feedback (I like a click when I hang up the phone)
-No GPS addons like
            http://hardware.smartphonetools.treobits.com/conte nt/accessories/10-95--2230.htm [treobits.com]
                    with free software links to free google maps
            http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=softw are.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&prodID=13173 5 [palmgear.com]

More iPhone limitations from
            http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/06/ why-the-iphone-.html [typepad.com]
-No exchange integration for online calendering
-No hacks for "push" email
-No voice call recording
-No voice dial
-No cut and paste!
-No task list!
-No global find!
-No file encryption
-No podcast download over the air

iPhone does have:
-Slick gui (that gets in the way, browsing on safari was stinky. Zoom and scroll, zoom and scroll, not too impressed. Sideways was nice)
-Wifi built-in
-Widescreen
-More MP in camera (2.0 vs 1.2 in treo 755, both suck)
-Thin form factor
-Glass screen (more fragile than treo?)
-Did I say sexy GUI?

Neither have-
-Built in GPS
-Flash in browser
-Wireless networking for letting laptops online easily

So the Treo pros outweigh the cons. I am sticking with a new 755p as soon as I can get it, which looks like September.

1. Thomas Bodström, who was minister of justice until the election in september 2006, was accused of putting pressure on police and attorneys to act against The Pirate Bay (which is illegal under the Swedish Constitution) after high-ranking employees at his Ministry of Justice had met with representatives for MPAA and the US Department of State. Bodström is now, among other things, the chairman of ECPAT Sweden who together with the IT crime section of the Swedish police compile the list of websites to put in the DNS blacklist discussed in this article. Thomas Bodström is not a fan of The Pirate Bay.
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3969&date=20 060602

2.An anti-copyright website run by some of the same people as the ones who run The Pirate Bay was placed on this list a few weeks ago because the front page had an animation of a naked kid doing the "Copy Me" dance. There was absolutely nothing pornographic about this animation (see for yourself: http://kopimi.se/ ), which the attorney told Stefan Kronqvist, head of the IT crime section of the Swedish police, while they told him to remove the website from the blacklist after the people behind the website had made a formal complaint. They also sent a mail to Kronqvist requesting financial compensation for the time their website had been blocked but received no reply. Rumours say that Stefan Kronqvist is not a fan of The Pirate Bay.
http://swartz.typepad.com/texplorer/2007/07/polise ns-hmnd-m.html

3. The US Chamber of Commerce recently arranged a seminar for pro-copyright lobbyists in Sweden with the title "Sweden - a safe haven for pirates?". In this seminar a guy from a Danish anti-piracy organisation explained how great it was to use child pornography as an argument to establish the principle that information carriers like websites and ISPs must be responsible for the information they distribute. Once that principle was established it could easily be extended to cover things like copyright infringement as well. He higly recommended lobbyists in other countries to use the same technique.
http://forum.piratpartiet.se/Topic79221-15-5.aspx# bm79282

Most of the links are in Swedish, sorry about that.

Even though the treo is dated, it works well in so many ways.

I played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.

-Keyboard stinks. Best way I could get anything typed accurately was hold it in one hand and point with the other.
-No correction in web URLs and email addresses, so you have to be perfect.
-No period in the keyboard (period, /, and .com buttons in web browser kbd)
-Touch buttons too small. Although my Treo 650 screen buttons are often too small, but I rarely use them)
-No removable media (Why switch to mini SD Palm? idiots)
-No video recording
-No editing MS word documents
-No EVDO (Edge was slow when it worked, 755p may have EVDORevA at 600kbs)
-No stereo bluetooth (http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/)
-No third party applications (Chess, new browser, core media player, etc)
-No laptop networking using phone (http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/)
-No removable battery (Like 2x capacity third party)
                http://shop.treonauts.com/content/accessories/---2 512.htm [treonauts.com]
-No way to quickly dial contacts
-No way to navigate single handed (five way rocker rocks)
-No tactile feedback (I like a click when I hang up the phone)
-No GPS addons like
            http://hardware.smartphonetools.treobits.com/conte nt/accessories/10-95--2230.htm [treobits.com]
                    with free software links to free google maps
            http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=softw are.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&prodID=13173 5 [palmgear.com]

More iPhone limitations from
            http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/06/ why-the-iphone-.html [typepad.com]
-No exchange integration for online calendering
-No hacks for "push" email
-No voice call recording
-No voice dial
-No cut and paste!
-No task list!
-No global find!
-No file encryption
-No podcast download over the air

iPhone does have:
-Slick gui (that gets in the way, browsing on safari was stinky. Zoom and scroll, zoom and scroll, not too impressed. Sideways was nice)
-Wifi built-in
-Widescreen
-More MP in camera (2.0 vs 1.2 in treo 755, both suck)
-Thin form factor
-Glass screen (more fragile than treo?)
-Did I say sexy GUI?

Neither have-
-Built in GPS
-Flash in browser
-Wireless networking for letting laptops online easily

So the Treo pros outweigh the cons. I am sticking with a new 755p as soon as I can get it, which looks like September.

Crossposted from my comment on another board:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8918/verizon-tr eo-755p-in-september/ [palminfocenter.com]

Even though the treo is dated, it works well in so many ways.

I played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.

-Keyboard stinks. Best way I could get anything typed accurately was hold it in one hand and point with the other.
-No correction in web URLs and email addresses, so you have to be perfect.
-No period in the keyboard (period, /, and .com buttons in web browser kbd)
-Touch buttons too small. Although my Treo 650 screen buttons are often too small, but I rarely use them)
-No removable media (Why switch to mini SD Palm? idiots)
-No video recording
-No editing MS word documents
-No EVDO (Edge was slow when it worked, 755p may have EVDORevA at 600kbs)
-No stereo bluetooth (http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/)
-No third party applications (Chess, new browser, core media player, etc)
-No laptop networking using phone (http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/)
-No removable battery (Like 2x capacity third party)
        http://shop.treonauts.com/content/accessories/---2 512.htm
-No way to quickly dial contacts
-No way to navigate single handed (five way rocker rocks)
-No tactile feedback (I like a click when I hang up the phone)
-No GPS addons like
      http://hardware.smartphonetools.treobits.com/conte nt/accessories/10-95--2230.htm
          with free software links to free google maps
      http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=softw are.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&prodID=13173 5

More iPhone limitations from
      http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/06/ why-the-iphone-.html
-No exchange integration for online calendering
-No hacks for "push" email
-No voice call recording
-No voice dial
-No cut and paste!
-No task list!
-No global find!
-No file encryption
-No podcast download over the air

iPhone does have:
-Slick gui (that gets in the way, browsing on safari was stinky. Zoom and scroll, zoom and scroll, not too impressed. Sideways was nice)
-Wifi built-in
-Widescreen
-More MP in camera (2.0 vs 1.2 in treo 755, both suck)
-Thin form factor
-Glass screen (more fragile than treo?)
-Did I say sexy GUI?

Neither have-
-Built in GPS
-Flash in browser
-Wireless networking for letting laptops online easily

So the Treo pros outweigh the cons. I am sticking with a new 755p as soon as I can get it, which looks like September.

Crossposted from my comment on another board:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8918/verizon-tr eo-755p-in-september/

... of the MPAA See my small cartoon: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/07 /did-you-know-th.html Bye, Oliver

The Peer to Patent project has gone live, and while it has its own problems, it's a simple, elegant solution that doesn't require something ridiculous like a massive database of ideas. Anyone can sign up and suggest prior art on submitted patents before they're approved. It's a good example of community self-policing.

This was called a couple of weeks ago by Jeff Lomonoco, see Brad Delong's analysis here for the full text of the analysis. Yet another depressing episode in this administration, blegh.

The Bush regime is no stranger to well-timed pardon/commutation. Remember that Bush the First pardoned Cap Weinberger on the Iran-Contra scandal, relieving any potential leverage for Cap to explain Bush I's essential role in that illegal process. That deftly put the Iran-Contra investigation at a standstill.

Yes she was undercover, a fact that was established in the trial. Being back in the U.S. does not automatically negate an agent's undercover status.

• During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.
• Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958.
• At the time of the publication of Robert Novak's column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilsonâ(TM)s CIA employment status was covert.
• This was classified information.

• During her employment at the CIA, Ms. Wilson was under cover.
• Her employment status with the CIA was classified information prohibited from disclosure under Executive Order 12958.
• At the time of the publication of Robert Novak's column on July 14,2003, Ms. Wilsonâ(TM)s CIA employment status was covert.
• This was classified information.

Someone should design a shopping trolley with power steering, suspension and a sports muffler!

Like this one?
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/writing/images/shop_ cart.jpg

or this one?
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/12/neuro tikart_hom.html

I just pity your allegiance to an evil empire...*snip*...are you getting paid to disgorge FUD as part of some astroturf campaign, or are you just a freelance apple hater?

Sad that Apple fanbois believe anyone who says anything against Apple is a MS Shill.

I could ask the same question to you. How much are you paid by Microsoft to make the mac community look stupid?

I Dont feel sorry for some European nations (Im not even going to name them) despite the fact people die waiting to see a doctor there its their health care system and for whatever reason they like what they got.

You do realize that the US ranks 45th in the world in terms of life expectancy, right below Saint Helena and right above Cyprus, right? The average life expectancy in Cuba, an impoverished nation which is under an embargo that covers much medical technology is only one year less than that in the US, the wealthiest nation on the planet. Meanwhile, we spend twice as much as anyone else for this worse care. Check out all of the cited studies linked from that page, too.

Why is it that all the good things happen to mice? I have to agree with Scott Adams' views on this one.

Ahem...

... whether he infringes copyright law? See my small cartoon: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/06 /mr-presidents-e.html Bye, Oliver

>Content providers who earn income from their own web activity should be among the first to file suit
>against these ISPs. I imagine network TV companies would be VERY offended if advertisments were inserted
>over, in or around their own presented material and web based business should be expected to have the
>same offense taken.

I'm sure that the companies would be. Oh wait, they are:

"Flying J" the gas station company did this to broadcasts it was showing at the stations and substituted local in stations ads for their stuff of top of the normal television ads. They got sued:

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/tech_law_prof/200 6/06/flying_j_sued_o.html

See my small cartoon: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/06 /prideful-france.html Bye, Oliver

Um... doesn't your light consume energy? Wouldn't having artificial lights for all those plants be fairly inefficient? People don't seem to realize that the transportation of all this food is actually really energy efficient. We transport so much, packed so well, that when you split it across all that is shipped the cost is negligible. Driving to the grocery store to buy the food generally takes more energy than getting all the food you bought hundreds of miles to the grocery store. Counter-intuitive, but true.

If you're interested the Austin Contrarian has done the math on how expensive this food would be.

Lots of other video available online (which I can't check as most video sources on the web are blocked here at work) including the famous one from UK's "Fifth Gear" where they drove one at around 50mph into a concrete block: http://xo.typepad.com/blog/2005/12/video_smart_car .html as a starter...

The Smart cars are actually remarkably safe, despite their appearance.