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Note that raising mad-cow testing to the standard (i.e. testing all cattle) in Japan would add only about 5 cents to each pound of beef.

Guess which side is Washington supporting? Consumers or beef agribusiness?

"I Wouldn't Want to Be (Bill Gates)" http://blogs.usatoday.com/maney/2006/01/tuesday_te ch_so.html

MBAs are quickly becoming the most diluted degree you can get. Lately, it seems that everyone is getting an MBA, and they are becoming increasingly easier to obtain.

"Get an MBA" is the new mantra because everyone assumes managers can't be outsourced. I think that's a load. Yes, if you're an American company, then by definition you're going to need at least a few managers in the US, but the more you outsource your workers the more of your management will have to be moved offshore as well.

Hell, if McDonald's can outsource drive through order takers, I don't think any profession is really safe.

And unless I'm mistaken, Lenovo was vetted by the US Government when they bought Thinkpad from IBM. Reported in USA Today March 2005. I'm more worried about the Bush administration spying on me, than Lenovo spying on our government.

I have. Wal Mart donates their money to Republicans.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/20 04-02-02-walmart_x.htm

A made-for-Disney-Channel movie? Yeah, because Disney have been making such great movies for the cinema recently. I'm sure that they've saved all the good stuff for made-for-Disney-Channel.

It's not my thing, but apparently "High School Musical" has been a ginormous success for Disney Channel. See http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2006-02-2 7-high-school-musical_x.htm among others.

Apple Computers signed a settlement agreement a few decades back promising they would never use the name Apple in the music industry.

Now, in hindsight, that looks like a really stupid agreement for Apple Computers to make. But at the time, it was probably a) costly litigation vs. b) reassuring the Beatles (who are way more popular than you, probably more sympathetic to a jury, if there is one) that you're not going to start selling records, something you have absolutely no intention of doing anyway.

So yeah, the TM claim seems ridiculous. But that's not really what this is about. The K claim seems pretty cut and dry for Apple Corps.

Until it's all settled, just have to stick with allofmp3.com.

Is this battle why the Beatles' catalog isn't for sale in iTunes?

Though I guess they aren't available in many other music services, either...

I guess that's why Russia has obligatory licensing.

Well, sure is hard to be happy without money. [...] Money is the one thing that allows me to buy and do things I enjoy in life.

It is not noticeably easier to be happy with a lot of money, and may be harder. I have met monks that are happy with almost nothing. I have met financial traders who made several hundred thousand dollars a year and were miserable people. International surveys show that money doesn't buy happiness, and stories of lottery winners back that up.

They say money doesn't buy you happiness? Well, it sure makes misery a whole lot easier to live with I can tell ya.

Yes, money can buy you distraction. It seems the most pure form of that is drug use. Troubled? A drink, a toke, a sniff will set you right. But it seems weird to say that if I can afford to be high all the time, I'm the happiest guy on earth.

Actually, Lockheed Martin just made a lot of headlines after winning the presidential helicopter contract and beating out Sikorsky, even though LM had several foreign partners on the team and Sikorsky was using only US contractors.

no formal study has ever been comissioned to study the subject,

Burlington Resources - oil co. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/stocknew s/2006-03-23-google-sp500_x.htm

"These lawsuits can and do fly in at will states (the vast majority of states, BTW, are at-will). My own company was the victim of one, and it lost. Its simple, so long as there are laws that saw you can't fire an employee for reason X, and almost all do, be it minority status, sexual harrasment, handicaps, etc, you might be put into a position where you have to prove that was NOT the reason they were let go. If you give a negative recommendation, you/your company could be sued for libel/slander, so you better have hard facts to back up what you are saying, arrest convictions, drug tests, whatever. You can hope the person you are giving the negative reference to doesn't tell, or that he's not an agent of the former employee confirming the reference, but I imagine your manager won't appriciate being dragged into court over even a frivolous suit."

I call utter bullshit on this. Post some proof that this happens with any amount of regularity.

"b & c) You've clearly missed the point of "Who moved my cheese?" If you can't make a living in your technology area anymore, find something else to do. Maybe jump specializations, pay for some retraining, or even leave tech altogether. Open a restaurant, build custom furniture, sell tornado insurance. And the size of the cheese is immaterial, smaller cheese just means there should be fewer mice tring to eat it, if there are too many mice, just keep looking."

Are you out of your mind? Less cheese does not mean there are fewer mice trying to eat it. There's always the same number of mice, until some drop off and die.

Finding something else to do means adapting to the service economy - you know, waiters, cashiers, and the like. Is it any wonder wages are being outpaced by inflation?

"And I never mentioned moving to India. So lay off the foolish strawman arguements and lame character assasinations."

Moving to india is your only logical option when it comes to chasing the good jobs. It's not what you said, but it is the ultimate consequence of what you said. Jobs are exploding in India, not the US.

And exactly what will people retraining fort? None of that crap you posted was profitable. Restaurants? A dime a dozen.

That's the whole thing, there is no new big thing any more. Biotech and nanotech are both going overseas as we speak. We have 200,000 people studying for a degree in biotech and by the time they're out of college the market will be oversaturated.

All fields of work are oversaturated now.

Why?

Because six billion people are competing for America's job market, that's why.

I'm a manager. I see countless numbers of resumes from qualified people for jobs that we announce. You're just some peanut gallery cheap labor conservative trying to convince the rest of us to stick our heads in the sand and deny that something is very wrong with this economy.

Your restaurant, tornado insurance company, and custom furniture business are a) competing in an already overcrowded market for b) a rapidly shrinking middle class which is increasingly unable to afford your goods (hence the precipitous rise in consumer credit debt) and will c) inevitably be unable to service their debt and will stop buying your product.

The last time we had economic conditions like this America went through a depression, but hey, who cares about history when we have the ostrich syndrome?

Is it any wonder most Americans see America's economy as going sour? Oh yeah, I figured I'd throw that in to prevent you from accusing me of "chicken little" thinking.

BTW at least I can back up my claims with documentation. Can you?

"These lawsuits can and do fly in at will states (the vast majority of states, BTW, are at-will). My own company was the victim of one, and it lost. Its simple, so long as there are laws that saw you can't fire an employee for reason X, and almost all do, be it minority status, sexual harrasment, handicaps, etc, you might be put into a position where you have to prove that was NOT the reason they were let go. If you give a negative recommendation, you/your company could be sued for libel/slander, so you better have hard facts to back up what you are saying, arrest convictions, drug tests, whatever. You can hope the person you are giving the negative reference to doesn't tell, or that he's not an agent of the former employee confirming the reference, but I imagine your manager won't appriciate being dragged into court over even a frivolous suit."

I call utter bullshit on this. Post some proof that this happens with any amount of regularity.

"b & c) You've clearly missed the point of "Who moved my cheese?" If you can't make a living in your technology area anymore, find something else to do. Maybe jump specializations, pay for some retraining, or even leave tech altogether. Open a restaurant, build custom furniture, sell tornado insurance. And the size of the cheese is immaterial, smaller cheese just means there should be fewer mice tring to eat it, if there are too many mice, just keep looking."

Are you out of your mind? Less cheese does not mean there are fewer mice trying to eat it. There's always the same number of mice, until some drop off and die.

Finding something else to do means adapting to the service economy - you know, waiters, cashiers, and the like. Is it any wonder wages are being outpaced by inflation?

"And I never mentioned moving to India. So lay off the foolish strawman arguements and lame character assasinations."

Moving to india is your only logical option when it comes to chasing the good jobs. It's not what you said, but it is the ultimate consequence of what you said. Jobs are exploding in India, not the US.

And exactly what will people retraining fort? None of that crap you posted was profitable. Restaurants? A dime a dozen.

That's the whole thing, there is no new big thing any more. Biotech and nanotech are both going overseas as we speak. We have 200,000 people studying for a degree in biotech and by the time they're out of college the market will be oversaturated.

All fields of work are oversaturated now.

Why?

Because six billion people are competing for America's job market, that's why.

I'm a manager. I see countless numbers of resumes from qualified people for jobs that we announce. You're just some peanut gallery cheap labor conservative trying to convince the rest of us to stick our heads in the sand and deny that something is very wrong with this economy.

Your restaurant, tornado insurance company, and custom furniture business are a) competing in an already overcrowded market for b) a rapidly shrinking middle class which is increasingly unable to afford your goods (hence the precipitous rise in consumer credit debt) and will c) inevitably be unable to service their debt and will stop buying your product.

The last time we had economic conditions like this America went through a depression, but hey, who cares about history when we have the ostrich syndrome?

Is it any wonder most Americans see America's economy as going sour? Oh yeah, I figured I'd throw that in to prevent you from accusing me of "chicken little" thinking.

BTW at least I can back up my claims with documentation. Can you?

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-03-21-profe ssor-laptop-ban_x.htm

The students haven't threatened to sue yet which means they haven't paid enough attention to the lectures...

The XBOX360 has been out for 4 months now -- that's the same amount of time it took iTunes to sell 10 million songs. But, Xbox has been released world-wide -- at that time, iTunes hadn't launched in europe yet and was only available to rabid mac owners.

Top three results:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/2003-02-27-make-a-nuk e.htm
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/11 02/1102nuke.htm
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/11 02/1102nuke.txt

Shockingly, nothing useful is found.

There are a few articles that point out that the software that Fujitsu Transaction Solutions developed for these devices is not, in fact, responsible. I heard a quote in a radio soundbite yesterday afternoon from a Fugitsu spokeperson suggesting that there is no security vulnerability in their ware. In either event, it seems like there is more to the story than we know today. Is this simply a ploy by Visa (or others?) to spin public (read, media) opinion?

I, for one, use more than just my thumbs! Wrist action is also very important. Wait... that's while I am surfing the net. Never mind!

You're still not going to get a denial from anyone that a USPTO official said essentially we've invented everything.

Um... yes, you are.

Read this about mis-quotes. The only one that appears to be true is the one from Ken Olson regarding personal computers.

(kudos to Chosen Reject for prvoiding the link in another thread in this topic)

I'm not a big fan of Mr Gates either but still, get over it already. And while you're at it, none of the rest are true either.

He's just bitter because a while back he tried to horn in on the initiative and make them go they way he wanted, and got rebuffed.

The USA Today article I found says he thinks cellphones are the way to go to get the world's poor online.

But then he goes on to say in this article, 'The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen.'-- Oh, okay, Bill, but cellphones without disks and with tiny little screens are okay? I'm guessing those cellphones run some variant of Windows which magically makes up for all the other shortcomings of the device.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2006-01-04 -music-sales-main_x.htm

Alien landing strip.

But doesn't your precious free market theory dictate that people should be willing to invest in more medical schools if there is this untapped demand? What exactly are the 'medical schools and the AMA' doing to prevent new schools from opening?

Check out http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-03-02-doc tor-shortage_x.htm

It looks like (surprise) the cause is government regulation - although this case the absence of subsidy. Apparently medical schools undercharge for medical training, and as a result they limit seats to the number that the government is willing to subsidize...

And what part of the government is fixing prices for the general population? For the most part it is HMOs that are doing this.

The government isn't fixing prices - what I was trying to say is that the government is interested in fixing prices, which is very true (just listen to the campaign rhetoric). You are correct that HMOs fill this role currently.

Last week China responded to US criticism of their human rights record. My guess is the blog incident this is part of a planned strategy of pushing back in the human rights debate. Not very convincing or effective. I expect more from the communist party propaganda machine.

Really? That's suprising seeing that nearly 75% of U.S. households have internet access. (And that was back in 2004)

Went to college? More like the top 10%

So, going to college puts you in the top 10% eh? From 1990 to 2002, the number of high-school graduates entering college went from 60% to 64%. The percentage of Americans ages 25 to 29 with a bachelor's degree rose from 23% to 29%. Top 10% just by going to college? I don't think so.

I expect you must be one who has fallen for the scams the way you pull numbers out of your ass to describe the American public.

And, of course, I like to spend my transit time reading so a car wouldn't be very nice to me or others.

Admittedly, I'm biased. A couple of years in Portland, many years in NYC, lots of time in D.C., and enough time sitting in traffic in L.A. have all added up to perhaps, a different view than many. I don't claim that mass transit is perfect or even a solution for everybody. I'm just really f*cking sick of people acting as if there is no real mass transit "west of Chicago". Christ! In L.A. they've got one of the most impressive heavy rail (subway) networks in the world and they're going gangbusters extending it. In fact, it's happening all over but most angelenos still are suffering from a severe absence of clue.

oh, no, the subway? No, that never actually got built. They lost their funding after doing three or four stops worth.

But I'm looking at the map at this very moment, complete with today's schedules.

No, it never actually got built. Those are just planned routes.

I can see pictures here of it in use.

No, you mean drawings. Or maybe they're computer simulations.

No, these are definitely shots of actual commuters on actual trains.

No, it doesn't exist. You must be looking at the site for a different city.

And so on. It's like they're brainwashed. Oh, let's be honest, they are brainwashed. And I'm very sick of it. It's yet more corporate American FUD of a level and effectiveness that Microsoft would be proud to call their own. Typical of what nobody seems ready to admit is stuff like this, from, of all places, USATODAY:

As transit expands further, new projects will follow. The Blue Line light rail that runs south from Union Station has sparked $1 billion in development at Long Beach stations where the route ends. A 5-mile Gold Line extension into densely populated, mostly Latino east L.A. is underway. A 24-mile extension east to San Bernardino County will open rail access to tens of thousands of commuters in the San Gabriel foothills.

But even with that, most folks I talk to say the same deluded horseshit as the post I was responding to. Was my response snarky? Borderline rude? Yes. But I'd say that I have plenty of grounds.

-Rustin

Whitehat viruses do exist in the wild. However, they too can bring down networks in a DDoS style; even while cleansing the system.

Computer virus infects Air Canada check-in system
W32/Nachi.worm

Yup this is worrying stuff

http://en.xiando.org/Current_events

* The amount of Chemtrail attacks worldwide is increasing.

Is this why people point lasers at aircraft? Do they think the contrails are part of some kind of mind control scheme.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-11 -laser-aircraft_x.htm

* Al-Qaeda is getting dull. More fake terrorism is inevitably required maintain the completely tyrannic (still secret) world government, so a new big threat for the "TV watcher" will likely emerge soon.

Or maybe al-Qaeda will actually attack us again.

* It is still possible to free yourself of fear and choose to live in a love and harmony.

That's good to know.

* Television still makes you as stupid as the people on it.

But Battlestar Galactica is cool. You should watch it, it's about a liberal democracy under attack by a murderous enemy and the stresses that attack places on it.

Or even worse, gets that story wrong, because they're repeating the claims of partisans rather than actually bother to listen to the words?

"If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."

This is the most naive, despicably un-American sentiment of all the tripe that's thrown around in this charade that is post-9/11 paranoia.

I'm sorry for being ad hominem, but please, try to use your imagination here.

This sheep-like "nothing bad happens to good people" mentality is the type of smug, head-in-the-sand mentality that destroys free society. My folks emigrated from behind the "Iron Curtain" in the late 60s exactly to escape the sort of propoganda and easy government-sanctioned persecution that I see creeping up all around us. Let me tell you stories about family and friends fired, harrassed, jailed, and yeah, even tortured because their actions were "misinterpreted", Sometimes they were released without apology a few months later, sometimes not. Sometimes the reason for the police action was political. Sometimes they were framed by competitors. Sometimes they were "snitched" on by neighbors with vendettas. Sometimes they just had the wrong guy. When paranoia rules and every out-of-step behavior is potentially subversive (or "terroristic") it's pretty easy to wreak havoc with people's lives, either intentionally or not.

But that doesn't happen here, right? You wouldn't get labeled terrorist and jailed indefinitely for something as silly as trolling unsavory websites right? Or be charged with a crime and have your property destroyed because you had a stupid bumper sticker, right? And we'd never get so paranoid about air travel as to make a mother drink her own breast milk to prove its safe before boarding a plane, or maybe create a secret no-fly list that is impossible to audit or even acknowledge but sometimes bars toddlers from flying because they might be terrorists (along with hundreds of others, including members of Congress), right? I mean, these are good people who didn't do anything wrong. I can't imagine that there'd be a slew of kafkaesque civil rights abuses that an internal Justice Dept. investigation might uncover, right? (I won't even touch domestic wiretapping) I mean, those who have nothing to fear have nothing to hide, right? Right.

These are just small examples, and maybe not even very good one. And maybe you'll never inconvenienced like the couple in this story. But who knows. Maybe you'll be the victim of identity theft, or even framed.. Maybe you'll have to engage in some bizzare but innocent behavior. Maybe you'll want to voice an unpopular opinion, or go read/hear someone else's horrible and unpopular opinion. Or maybe it'll just be some bureaucratic "oops". But, if it does happen, and YOU find yourself interrogated by the FBI, or forced to explain some blotch on your record for the rest of your life, or maybe even jailed without charge for a few months, then you come tell me how, sure, maybe you lost three months of your life in a cell being molested by thugs, but hey, at the end, everyone figured out it was just a big mistake. So really, it was OK. We're all safer for it. God bless America.

"If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about."

This is the most naive, despicably un-American sentiment of all the tripe that's thrown around in this charade that is post-9/11 paranoia.

I'm sorry for being ad hominem, but please, try to use your imagination here.

This sheep-like "nothing bad happens to good people" mentality is the type of smug, head-in-the-sand mentality that destroys free society. My folks emigrated from behind the "Iron Curtain" in the late 60s exactly to escape the sort of propoganda and easy government-sanctioned persecution that I see creeping up all around us. Let me tell you stories about family and friends fired, harrassed, jailed, and yeah, even tortured because their actions were "misinterpreted", Sometimes they were released without apology a few months later, sometimes not. Sometimes the reason for the police action was political. Sometimes they were framed by competitors. Sometimes they were "snitched" on by neighbors with vendettas. Sometimes they just had the wrong guy. When paranoia rules and every out-of-step behavior is potentially subversive (or "terroristic") it's pretty easy to wreak havoc with people's lives, either intentionally or not.

But that doesn't happen here, right? You wouldn't get labeled terrorist and jailed indefinitely for something as silly as trolling unsavory websites right? Or be charged with a crime and have your property destroyed because you had a stupid bumper sticker, right? And we'd never get so paranoid about air travel as to make a mother drink her own breast milk to prove its safe before boarding a plane, or maybe create a secret no-fly list that is impossible to audit or even acknowledge but sometimes bars toddlers from flying because they might be terrorists (along with hundreds of others, including members of Congress), right? I mean, these are good people who didn't do anything wrong. I can't imagine that there'd be a slew of kafkaesque civil rights abuses that an internal Justice Dept. investigation might uncover, right? (I won't even touch domestic wiretapping) I mean, those who have nothing to fear have nothing to hide, right? Right.

These are just small examples, and maybe not even very good one. And maybe you'll never inconvenienced like the couple in this story. But who knows. Maybe you'll be the victim of identity theft, or even framed.. Maybe you'll have to engage in some bizzare but innocent behavior. Maybe you'll want to voice an unpopular opinion, or go read/hear someone else's horrible and unpopular opinion. Or maybe it'll just be some bureaucratic "oops". But, if it does happen, and YOU find yourself interrogated by the FBI, or forced to explain some blotch on your record for the rest of your life, or maybe even jailed without charge for a few months, then you come tell me how, sure, maybe you lost three months of your life in a cell being molested by thugs, but hey, at the end, everyone figured out it was just a big mistake. So really, it was OK. We're all safer for it. God bless America.

This is silly. The New Jersey Supreme Court has already decided that citizens of New Jersey enjoy a strong First Amendment right to anonymity in their online postings.

I doubt this bill even gets out of committee, let alone gets passed by the NJ Assembly so that it can be immediately struck down by a NJ judge. As for why, then, a hopeless, pointless bill was introduced by Assemblyman Biondi -- mmmm, maybe he's got an election coming up? Needs to do a little grandstanding?

I would also argue this is a local phenomenon. See USA Today Story on Colorado's brown snow.

According to the poll, frequent voters like seniors, college graduates and married people identify themselves more as Republicans than Democrats. The GOP advantage among seniors is 36 percent to 31 percent Democrat; college graduates, 38 percent to 30 percent; and married people, 40 percent to 29 percent.

That sounds like a form of indecent exposure. Surely the government needs to form a task force to cover the spot and keep the world safe for the children.

Where do I get my crap? Hmmm...

  http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/1997/DECEMBER /199708.htm/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-02-23-aid s-india-cover_x.htm?csp=34
http://qa.aidsmatters.org/answer/13479/
http://indiatogether.org/2005/jun/ksh-blaming.htm
http://www.youandaids.org/Asia%20Pacific%20at%20a% 20Glance/India/index.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3886883.stm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/08/60minute s/main610961.shtml

Maybe they do have a very low per capita incidince of HIV, but it's been shown that the rate of infection is increasing at a rate more than any other country. Combined with the sheer number of people, infected and not, the virus is set to explode. Sorry, I can't find the particular article in which I read this at this moment, but when I do find it, I'll be happy to share. Everywhere I've read, it's extremely taboo for Indians to discuss sex and AIDS.

I don't think the numbers you link to tell the story very well. It's like trying to say that Luxemborg has a larger economy than the US because thier GDP per capita is 60% higher than ours, which is obviously not the case. Compare China and India. They're the only two countries that are close enough to be comparable in popluation and economic status. The CIA world factbook (the source of information that Nationmaster uses) says that 0.9% of Indians are infected, that 0.6% of US citizens are infected, and that 0.1% of Chinese are infected, and that there are about six times the number of Indians infected as there are Chinese, despite China having a third of a million more people (i.e. approximately one United States more people than India).

My point to the poster I replied to was that Indians get it on like nobody's business. I stand by it.

From the article: Only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.)

Lovely survey. Never mind that there are at least 6 freedoms in that amendment.

Congress shall make no law respecting (1) an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the (2) free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of (3) speech, or of the (4) press; or the right of the people peaceably to (5) assemble, and to (6) petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Sadly, it's more like 0.1% (although most citizens seem to be pretty familiar with the Simpsons).

If you live in Texas you don't have to wait too long for this to come true: TXU to offer Broadband over Power Lines in 2006

In response, Microsoft India is trying to sell their stuff to illiterate people. Smart move. Customers who can't read spam aren't bothered by it.

I felt a pang of loss in no longer having Wiki to use as a reference. Our go to source is Bartlby.com which is a real pain because of the pop up ads. Someday I hope Wiki will address this issue in a public article so teachers can be reassured that Wiki is a useful source.

There has been many articles and studies lately for/against having cell phones on planes. The real drawback I can see is that they require special phones to be able to do this, and how is a flight attendant going to be able to tell if you have the proper phone/service or not?

There are other ways to make biodiesel that may be more beneficial in the long run for everyone. I think I saw this in a /. article a little while ago. This seems like a no-brainer. Unfortunately, the technology is a little late in coming as many power plants are investing millions in other methods of cleaning emissions to meet tight govt. regulations about air quality standards in cities. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-01-10-al gae-powerplants_x.htm

Against who, exactly?

Al Qaeda and its affiliates. Maybe you've heard of one or two of their many outrages? If you're well informed there are another three, or four, or five or six other commonly known ones. (Actually, there are many more.) And this is not counting just one or two of the many widely known foiled plots.

They even need close scrutiny in prison.

How did this escape your attention?

Recently, there has been more press supporting the idea that there were WMDs, we just did not find them:

"Since the 2003 invasion, an Israeli air force general and an Iraqi air force pilot have stated that Iraq flew WMD to Syria in the months leading up to the invasion. For obvious reasons, claims about the WMD being in Syria would be hard to verify.

More recently, David Gaubatz, a U.S. agent in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, said that the Iraq Survey Group, the U.S. team searching for WMD after the invasion, did not check four sealed underground bunkers in southern Iraq that, he was told by Iraqis, contained such weapons."

from http://www.kearneyhub.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=161 84753&BRD=268&PAG=461&dept_id=551039&rfi=6

And we have found WMDs in Iraq, just not "militarily relevant" stockpiles. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-07-01 -poland-iraq-sarin_x.htm

You can't say thost weapons were not there, you can only say we have not found anything yet. Careful on semanitcs...

I, for one, like the ARB. We have the shittiest air in the nation here in california (See Here and here), so we need stricter rules than other states. I mean, it's not like they OUTLAW all after market modifications. I mean, hell, where I live there almost isn't a single truck without a modified exhaust or intake system. Cars are constantly modified up the shitter all over California. The CARB is just making the sure modifications don't fuck up the air even more. That, in my mind, is not a bad thing and is necessary when you cram so many people into such a small place.

Who knows, it could be from an oil producing nation with subsidy. I'm sure there are more than a few Saudis and Venezuelans wondering if we are loopy when they compare $.14/gal gas to our $2.10-ish prices. Heck, just check out Iraq.

"For years, Iraqis have enjoyed subsidized fuel prices, with gasoline costing about 5 cents a gallon. Last month, prices increased to 27 cents a gallon as part of a phased plan to remove subsidies and bring prices into line with other Persian Gulf countries."

I agree 100% that we need to make sure these machines work (and really, put a printer on each one for a receipt. It's not hard.)

But where do you get the idea that all the errors favored the winning party? So far the only descriptions of errors I've heard completely lacks any specifics on party or vote results.

Besides, looking at the breakdown by county Palm Beach went for Kerry by over 100,000 votes.