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We'll see if we can get more than a million people into space a year by 2100...

If looks like NASA found the easy way of accomplishing this goal - only send the 'essence' of each person into space. Kind of like how they send orange-juice into space as Tang.

NASA launches satellites, cremated remains

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998.

"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998.

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18,1998.

"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998.

"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999.

"There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies."
Letter to President Bush, Signed by Joe Lieberman (D-CT), John McCain (Rino-AZ) and others, Dec. 5, 2001

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them."
Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002.

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."

DOH! must...hit...preview!!!

Meant to say, I think I know the #1 most overpaid Jobs...

What qualifies as a modern fission plant? I live near Indian Point in Westchester, NY. This article from 2001 seems to indicate that it's not all that safe to live near this plant. Just curious... and probably paranoid too. :p

Uh-huh, and . . .

The Internet will make newspapers obsolete. -- Andy Grove, former Intel Chairman, 1995

USA Today circulation in 2003: 2.3 million (about double that of 1995)

while driving is a privilidge not a right,

This is off topic, I know, but there are people who believe driving is now a right.

I am not sure whether that GPS tracking case has been ruled on by the supreme court yet, but i do know that some suspected murder led police right to the body by the use of a hidden GPS. Privacy issues as well

This was a little different IMHO. Here it wasn't an onboard gps like the one described in the article, it was a "bug", for lack of a better word, planted under warrant by the police. I don't know if it's going to the SCOTUS but the state supreme court said it was OK if done under a warrant.

(Actually you're giving a dying patient the best available treatment plus a randomization to either a new treatment or a placebo.)

Basically Angell says that if we knew these treatments were effective, we wouldn't have to do a clinical trial. The reason we're doing a trial is that we have no idea whether they're effective -- we're in equipoise. The beneficiaries of clinical trials are the future patients, not the ones who are in the trial. In order to join a clinical trial, you have to accept that deal. If we treated everybody with every drug that seemed to work (and most of them turn out not to work), we'd never have effective treatments.

Having said that, I once made this argument and somebody told me that she had cancer and her life was saved because she got into a clinical trial and the treatment worked. The classic example of that is Steve Dunn

Angell as you may know is former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (some of which is unfortunately available only to subscribers). They've had lots of interesting debates about this, if you want a good place to look it up.

But remember that there's a big difference between Phase II reports and Phase III.

Israel to Raze Palestinian Homes With Robot Bulldozers USA Today

it couldn't happen here?

Better read up, you're out of date:
Study surprise: Low-carb dieters eat more, lose weight
also, just for fun:
Diet for Obese Patient Tied to Liver Inflammation
Atkins studies report meaty results

See: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030514/515543 9s.htm

This is a bad thing since experience working at Fox news does not exactly enhance your resume when applying for a job with the real media

So much for this theory:

Miller hired by CNBC

[Ailes] was put in charge of the news operation for the sole purpose of slanting the news to the extreme right.

Extreme right, like Nazi Germany? Please. That's what we regularly see Susan Estrich, Davis Korn, Paul Krugman, and scores of other libs on FNC?

What notable conservatives are on CNN, except anti-war paleocon Bob Novak? How about ABC, whose only foriegn policy "experts" are from the Carter or Clinton administration, or from the leftie Brookings Institution?

Nice link to the far-left Salon.com, BTW. Nice story, which calls ABC "objective." In a recent poll, Peter Jennings was called the most anti-war reporter in all of American news.

ABC News admits to excessively negative Iraq coverage

The problem is that its core democratic of poor middle aged southern white racist men do not have much in the way of buying power. Advertisers much prefer to reach 18-35 audiences, gays, professionals, etc. in short pretty much everyone who is unlikely to watch Fox. In fact advertising on Fox News actually trades at a discount to other broadcasts reaching the same demographic because advertisers know that many of the demographics they do want are actually less likely to buy a product they see advertised on a channel they associate with biggotry.

You fail to provide a link to this claim of FNC's core demo, because it has no basis in fact. Why does FNC constantly run endless home refi adds? For all those poor southerners to refi their trailers? LOL! First time I've ever heard libs call Republicans "poor!" Hilarious. I thought we were rich guys who wanted tax cuts?

You are flat-out wrong. The FNC demo is better than CNN's; it is popular with young republican YUPPIEs. Newscorp is kicking a$$, and CNN is in the dumper financially, in case you haven't checked recently, if ever.

Although a typical liberal refrain is labeling conservatives "bigots" (although they often misspell it), it's an insulting, inaccurate troll, and your post should be rated as such.

You libs are only about 17-20% of the population, compared to about 34% conservative and the rest moderate (see Gallup - sorry, but their older polls require subscription).

Fox news will flip flop to the left.

Sorry, that (19%) demo is already filled by CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, AP, Reuters, NPR...not enough libs left to go around, LOL!

Portable Media Center, Microsoft's answer to Apple's iPod digital music player, will be able to play MP3 files as well as audio and video content recorded in Microsoft's own digital format.

The devices, which will be built by various manufacturers, including Tatung, Creative Technology, Sanyo Electric, and Samsung Electronics, are set to hit store shelves during the second half 2004, Microsoft said.

Bill Gates, on the launch of XP:

Gates said the release of XP "marked the end of an era, the end of DOS and also the end of Windows 95." ... Gates informing the crowd that he agreed with Apple's Jobs that Windows 3.1 was a "crummy operating system," and assuring the crowd that he'd soon say that about Windows 95.

Of course, we remember they used the phrase "end of dos" for the launch of windows 95. Funny how they are now saying the same things about XP they said about 3.1, 95, 98 and ME. That's consistency!

Now, do they have consistancy in shells? They have derided their primary shell, DOS. But what of their other scripting efforts? Remember their "Unix Killer" "New Technology (NT)" and their ksh? Korn does!

I knew that Microsoft had licensed a number of tools from MKS so I came to the microphone to tell the speaker that this was not the "real" Korn Shell and that MKS was not even compatible with ksh88. I had no intention of embarrassing him and thought that he would explain the compromises that Microsoft had to make in choosing MKS Korn Shell. Instead, he insisted that I was wrong and that Microsoft had indeed chosen a "real" Korn Shell.

Ah yes, so portable it was. While NT is dead, csh and ksh trive themselves and in their free counterparts. No new training is required for bash or pdksh.

For an instant, Bill liked Java:

Java is our latest programming tool, and we've got a Java compiler with the highest benchmark feeds, great debugging. Java's -as you know, is a wonderful language, and everybody should have that in their portfolio. (1996)

He tried to make the crowd laugh at Sun in the same speach because he wanted to kill Unix with NT. Where is M$ "java" today?

C# .NET and all look to me like a combination of all the second rate junk they've thrown together in their attempt to emulate and eradicate first rate competitors. "Linux is a Cancer", they say, use our shared source instead. Yeah right.

Oh wait, I see the patterns. EEE, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish followed by "that sucks, buy the new one." You have to be blind to miss it. If you follow the M$ way, you will be constantly sucked for money and time learning their new tweaks.

It's only going to get worse because free software is impossible for them to eat up or beat. Their efforts to stick to their previous marketing plans are wrecked by actually having to compete on merrits and price. This is making them less and less stable. The closed source model can not compete with the free software development model.

I wonder if the Vanderhook brothers could get a judgement against Claria like they did against X10?

Fat people need to consume just as much as ever.

Eventually they die, and need
Fat caskets


But, before you die, you should relax:
Fat Vacations


And of course they need a community to be a part of:
Their own Internet 'Fat Portal'

According to this story, in the history of the shuttle program 15 flights have had tile damage due to debris falling off the external fuel tank and SRBs.

NASA's solution? Create a space plane that is entirely reusable, and doesn't require rebuilding/recycling SRBs with each mission and constructing a new external fuel tank.

So when a shuttle is destroyed by a technology known to be problematic, the House Science committee recommends... suspending effort on a project to remedy those problems?

<sarcasm>That makes a lot of sense... really</sarcasm>

THE SKY IS FALLING! Y2K IS GOING TO BE THE END OF THE WORLD!

No wait, OVER-POPULATION is going to be the end of the world!

Like I said... Fuck Peter de Jager.

In case anyone else wants to read some of the other coverage....

MIT Develops Legal Music-Sharing Via Cable TV

MIT students have developed a music on demand file-sharing system that uses the analog campus cable TV system to bypass the Internet and digital distribution (Google link). This takes advantage of the relatively less-restrictive licensing that the recording industry makes available to radio stations and others for analog transmission. The system, called the Libraries Access to Music Project and dubbed miTunes, is backed by MIT, funded by Microsoft iCampus and will give campus access to 3,500 CDs. More at USA Today, Boston.com and AP / Detroit News.

but then, maybe this guy is a friend of a friend

Spoken like a true liberal

Oh I see, it's MY fault that I was born in Southern California where the housing prices are sky high. And it's MY fault that Southern California has 10% of the nations population and 15% of the nation's jobs. It must be MY fault that I chose Computer Science as my major because once again the majority of those jobs are in the top 4 most expensive housing markets (San Fransisco area, Orange County Ca. Boston Ma., and San Diego Ca.)

And I don't drive an SUV, I drive a small Ford Ranger and my wife has a Honda. The two cars combined cost less than one SUV. We don't have 2.4 kids, we don't have a big screen TV, we arn't the rich bastards you liberals hate so much. We're just a couple who's trying to afford a house in the same area (give or take 100 miles) where I grew up. But the median house price here in San Diego is now $407k which means you have a monthly payment (with taxes and insurance) between $2500 and $3000 EVERY MONTH! But I guess that's my fault too.

And let's see, is it MY fault that Allan Greenspan has dropped the interest rate to damn near zero which made it easy for everyone to get cheap home loans which in turn artificially inflated the cost of housing? Is it my fault that Greenspan has also printed billions of dollars in cash making the money I do have worth less? (that's called inflation boys and girls) Is it my fault that P/E ratios of the stock market are so damn high that we're all just waiting for the bubble to pop? Is it MY fault that the bond market is in the crapper, and that because of those afore mentioned cheap interest rates savings accounts are paying next to nothing? Where am I suppose to invest for retirement? No, I HAVE to work to build up enough money not to die in poverty.

So I guess I should give up my life and my career and go start a farm or sail around the world [sarcasm]which of course are both incredibly inexpensive propositions [/sarcasm] Oh yeah, I should pick up and move to a place where there are minimal jobs in my field (but the houses are cheap because people are getting foreclosed on every day!)

I can't believe you folks moderated this comment 5:Insightful. What a bunch of short sighted liberal crap this is.

...made pathetic policy choices that made the coming recession worse...

The last recession started in the last year of Clinton's administration with the 'dot com' bomb and ended in January 2003. It was the mildest recession ever according to Alan Greespan. So how did the Mr. Bush's policy choices impact the US economy? Looks more like he stopped a slide into recession cause by a stock market bubble created by the previous administration's eight years of mismanagement of the economy

...and is a complete moron...

That graduated from one of the most prestigious universities in the United States. Where did you go to school and what is your GPA? What does a nurse call the man that graduates last in his class from medical school? I believe the correct form of address is 'Doctor'.

I love how the socialist-democrats like to attack the person with unsupported ambiguous statements negative statements or 'Have you stopped beating you wide yet' type rhetoric. The next phase when confronted with facts is for the liberals to refuse you your 1st amendment rights by any means possible because as we all know 'the end justifies the means'.

"A fool and his conspiracy theory are soon made fun of."
-Me

According to a Paypal rep, there have been 35,000,000 individuals who have used Paypal. There are just under 7000 people registered at the paypalsucks message board. That's about 1 in 5,000. To put that into perspective, according to this article , a Princeton survey found the odds of the Earth being hit with a city sized asteroid is also 1 in 5,000. The odds of having a bad Paypal experience are really pretty slim indeed. Don't believe the hype!

State obesity rates nearly epidemic

Obesity predicted for 40% of America

Severe obesity on the increase in US

but OH NO fast food has NOTHING to do with it, right ?

First, people don't steal from the RIAA. They may infringe the RIAA's copyrights, but they don't steal from the RIAA. You see, unlike a car, the RIAA (or their chain of distributors) still has the original recordings.

RIAA sues them.

The RIAA sues not only "them", but also everybody standing in the general vicinity! You see, if you just participate in Kazaa, but only download legal (indie) songs, you'll be a target of the RIAA's wrath too, especially after IPE passes.

You have to wonder whether this is really only collateral damage, or rather the real (hidden) goal of the RIAA: punish those music groups that have the nerve to do without the RIAA!

The 2nd dealership doesn't factor into my argument at all

Very often, the RIAA's over-eager enforcement impacts innocent bystanders, such as old grannys who couldn't even tell a computer from a fruit, or 12-year-old honor students who thought they had paid for the right to listen to the songs!

7.0 may be my last upgrade.

Adobe has, in effect, said that they don't want me to use a program that I purchased to fit the way I work. They're greedy bastards. They haven't learned from history about what happens when companies get greedy . They've lost at least one customer forever.

Let me explain.

Over the years, I purchased Adobe Photoshop 4.x, 7.0, and Adobe Elements 1.0. I use them both at work and at home, as I refuse to buy into the BS that I must fork out hundreds of dollars for the convenience of not doing the uninstall-on-one-install-on-the-other dance twice a day (most EULAs are really 'end machine license agreements').

Last week Adobe did an "audit" at work. Prior to that we had an email that said, in effect, make sure we have no unlicensed Adobe software. When I checked with my boss about my situation, he said as long as it was a licensed copy, I was okay. Well, Adobe had a problem with that. They insisted that since I was using my legally-licensed copy at a place of business, that the business would have to own the license in its name. If you knew where I worked (when referring to the company off-premises, one typically substitutes the word "cheap" for part of the name), you'd understand that getting them to crack open their wallet for a copy of Photoshop has between zero and no chance. For about 10 seconds, I toyed with the thought of selling my license to the company in exchange for some office supplies (trade in kind for a staple or a paperclip or something), but then I thought, "screw 'em -- I'm not giving up my license at home."

So, here's my present course of action: I already uninstalled Photoshop on the work box and installed GIMP. I will use GIMP for the stuff that I need at work and Photoshop for the stuff at home, but I'm done with any new versions of Photoshop.

1. The Department of Commerce; VeriSign's contract to operate .com and .org was originally with them.
2. The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees telecommunications.
3. The Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications; contact the committee itself, the chairman, the ranking member, and any of the other members you'd like.
4. The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, including the committee itself, the chairman, the vice-chairman, and the ranking member. Plus any of the other members you feel like contacting.
5. The Federal Trade Commission, which hears consumer complaints.
6. Your U.S. Representative
7. Your Senators
8. Your Governor
9. Your State Legislators
10. ICANN's wildcard comment address
11. Finally, complain to the media. If they get enough letters on a topic, they'll run stories. Try the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News and MSNBC.

Remember, VeriSign is busy telling them its side of the story. We need to tell them ours!

... but "Welcome to the 60's !!!"

On a serious note... China, if you're reading this, Congrats !!!

Oh, and thanks for all the spam ;)

Jim Alchin (Windows OS Chief) on Open-Source: CNET 2/14/2001
"Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business."

"I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat."

"We can build a better product than Linux. There is always something enamoring about thinking you can get something for free."

Bill Gates on Linux IP: CRN 7/25/2003
"There's no question that in cloning activities, IP from many, many companies, including Microsoft, is being used in open-source software."

Bill Gates on beating Linux at any price: USA Today 6/30/2003
"Well I'm not sure what you mean by undercutting. We will never have a price lower than Linux, in terms of just what you charge for the software. We compete on the basis of, if you look at the value you get out of the system and the overall cost that the system has that apply in our software.

Bill Gates on standards: CNN 9/18/2003
Gates said the Redmond, Washington-based company's work toward Web services standards would be "royalty free." ... "I can't believe I said that," Gates joked.

Balmer on Linux: E-week
"Can IBM give you a product roadmap for Linux? Can they deliver new features and fixes to Linux? Does it indemnify the intellectual property in Linux? No, no and no,"

You currently have a massive budget deficit. You are effectively living with money loaned to you by other countries.

USA Today article.

I could have sworn that read DamnStadium.

Which made me think immediately of the Vet (Veterans Stadium - Philly, PA, USA)

Actually, I think McBride is too small a fish for the SEC to get their panties in a knot over. Couple that with the fact that he's fighting those "Linux hippies" that the *IAA are so incensed with,

I'm not sure why people here seem to think the SEC and states' attorneys general (like good old Eliot Spitzer here in NY) will not get involved here. SCO is not fighting "Linux hippies", SCO is fighting IBM, one of the largest companies in the world, one of the Dow 30, #9 on the Fortune 500. You think any self-respecting regulator is going to allow one of the drivers of our economy to be bullied by a crap little company like SCO through fraudulent means? You're right - nobody in government cares about SCO, but they sure as hell care about IBM.

If it takes one of Spitzer's independent probes to prod the SEC along, great. Once small-time investors get screwed (as will happen once SCO's stock tanks), and IBM starts complaining to the government that they've been wrongly accused and have the court documents to back that assertion up (in the form of either a victory by IBM or capitulation by SCO that we're all sure is coming), then I fully expect to see things happen.

• Google Search
• 1998 Article
• 1999 Article
• 2001 USA Today Article
• 2002 NYTimes Article

Fact is, album sales were down BEFORE file sharing become widely available. Album sales are UP since 2000, even though file sharing has continued to become even more widely available.

You see, this is exactly what I'm talking about. You are WRONG. What you just said is a LIE. You didn't provide any links or references at all to back up your claim, you just throw it out there, call it a "fact," and expect people to take your word for it. That makes it trivally easy for someone like me to come along and blow your whole post to bits with actual facts.

album sales were down BEFORE file sharing become widely available.

WRONG. 2001 was the first year in a decade that there was a decline in album sales. Here's a novel concept: Link to reference supporting my statement. From that article: "Album sales in the US dropped by almost 3% in 2001 - the first year for a decade that has seen a decline."

Album sales are UP since 2000

WRONG. Here's another reference: "2003 sales to date point to a third consecutive year of decline; the total stands at 179.4 million albums, down 8% from last year's 194.1 million."

Are you starting to get my point? You're just plain WRONG! Album sales were increasing until Napster/Kazaa/et al appeared on the scene, and they've been decreasing ever since. That is why the RIAA is all up in arms. So your assertion that widespread filesharing would allow people to sample more music, and subsequently buy more music is the complete and utter opposite of what is actually happening!

Is it me, or has Andrew Jackson always had such a crazy, rock-n-roll do? I guess I just never noticed...

The freedom of speech is in danger again!

Remember to write to your congress-critter if this game gets banned!

At the risk of being Offtopic... I know it's fashionable to bash MS and their products, but this statement is simply silly. What you're referring to MS doing with the X-Box is called a "loss leader." They make the platform at a loss with the hopes of making up the dividends on the individual games. All the major consoles do the exact same thing as do manufacturers of printers (ever wonder why you can get a printer for 80 bucks, but the carts are 15-30 bucks each, not to mention paper?), and several other industries.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but what lexmark does is profitable to them, what microsoft is doing is still losing them money. They are using the xbox merely to get their foot in the proverbial console door, in preparation hopefully to become profitable with the xbox2.

Next time someone mentions microsoft and one of their products, they might not be just trying to blame the problems of the world on them, and the poster might actually be talking about something that pertains to the subject.

Imagine that.

Assuming the site is from the US, I don't see why it would or should be illegal.

And if the site wasn't from the US, then it would be promoting terrorism and a serious threat to national security?

There's been a few comments about how the whole wearable computing thing is silly, and "it's an MIT" thing. Let me clear this up a bit. Maybe it started as an MIT thing way back in the late 50's/early 60's, at least according to this paper. But I know Carnegie Mellon has been working on this stuff for over 5 years because they had ongoing wearable computer projects when I was a freshman there in 98'. And there's a lot of others besides MIT and CMU working on this stuff, just look here under the Organizations section.

This area of technology is already being targeted at consumers. Try to have a little imagination and realize how powerful this technology could be. For example, what if you had a little speech translator that fit in your ear, recognized nearby spoken speech in foreign languages, traslated it to your language, and used a voice synthesizer to repeat it back to you in your native tongue. Just wait a few years and you'll be saying "damn, I need one of those".

A number of people say they were wrongly accused by the RIAA, or that their children swapped music without their knowledge. The RIAA dropped one suit, against retired Boston teacher Sarah Ward, 66, when it was discovered she couldn't be sharing songs on pirate service Kazaa because she uses an incompatible Apple computer.

1. The Department of Commerce; VeriSign's contract to operate .com and .org was originally with them.
2. The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees telecommunications.
3. The Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications; contact the committee itself, the chairman, the ranking member, and any of the other members you'd like.
4. The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, including the committee itself, the chairman, the vice-chairman, and the ranking member. Plus any of the other members you feel like contacting.
5. The Federal Trade Commission, which hears consumer complaints.
6. Your U.S. Representative
7. Your Senators
8. Your Governor
9. Your State Legislators
10. ICANN's wildcard comment address
11. VeriSign itself
12. Finally, complain to the media. If they get lots of letters on a topic, they'll run stories. Try the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News and MSNBC.

Downtown St. Louis already did this.

I can't say it's helped draw in business yet, but it's here.

What Enron did in California (price gouging) was unethical certainly, but legal.

Personally, I am boycotting the paper that ruined the life of Adrian Lamo after he told these morons that they were storing tons of confidential, personal data in a world-accessible database.

"The paper of record", my ass. The paper with a record, that's what this rag is.

1. The Department of Commerce; VeriSign's contract to operate .com and .org was originally with them.
2. The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees telecommunications.
3. The Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications; contact the committee itself, the chairman, the ranking member, and any of the other members you'd like.
4. The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, including the committee itself, the chairman, the vice-chairman, and the ranking member. Plus any of the other members you feel like contacting.
5. The Federal Trade Commission, which hears consumer complaints.
6. Your U.S. Representative
7. Your Senators
8. Your Governor
9. Your State Legislators
10. ICANN's wildcard comment address
11. VeriSign itself
12. Finally, complain to the media. If they get lots of letters on a topic, they'll run stories. Try the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News and MSNBC.

Bush falling off a segway

According to Wired, Kamen had predicted he'd be "stamping out 10,000 machines a week" by the end of 2002.

Popular press take on it

Abstract:
Direct human influences on climate have been detected at local scales, such as urban temperature increases and precipitation enhancement, and at global scales,. A possible indication of an anthropogenic effect on regional climate is by identification of equivalent weekly cycles in climate and pollution variables. Weekly cycles have been observed in both global surface temperature and local pollution data sets. Here we describe statistical analyses that reveal weekly cycles in three independent regional-scale coastal Atlantic data sets: lower-troposphere pollution, precipitation and tropical cyclones. Three atmospheric monitoring stations record minimum concentrations of ozone and carbon monoxide early in the week, while highest concentrations are observed later in the week. This air-pollution cycle corresponds to observed weekly variability in regional rainfall and tropical cyclones. Specifically, satellite-based precipitation estimates indicate that near-coastal ocean areas receive significantly more precipitation at weekends than on weekdays. Near-coastal tropical cyclones have, on average, significantly weaker surface winds, higher surface pressure and higher frequency at weekends. Although our statistical findings limit the identification of cause-effect relationships, we advance the hypothesis that the thermal influence of pollution-derived aerosols on storms may drive these weekly climate cycles.

I'm much to tired to call you an uninformed dipshit.

Instead I'll just direct you here, here, and here. Oh, and a Google search of "Bush Administration", deficit, and "federal spending" might enlighten you a tad, also.

Have a wonderful day.

USA today had another article

Maybe the RIAA needs to change their business model