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This is designed to stop googlebombing, which is not necessarily spam. It won't stop spammers, because they'll still get people following links who read the blog on their own. E.g. if you post a message to slashdot with a link to some site, you'll get thousands of people seeing/clicking on your link without google's help. This will only stop incidental visitors, and really won't act as a deterrent to spammers. It will only help search engines, not blogs. In fact, it will reduce the number of visitors to blogs, which may not be a good thing. Think of all the *good* links that will be missed...

Why not just read his State of the Union address where he outlines the case instead of cherry picking?

WMD Report

That took about 15 seconds in Google.

Inspectors were shown over a 9 year period to be ineffective. Define the level of force to be used in your forceful reinstatement.

And since we know Saddam had a bioweapons program ready to ramp up at a moment's notice and was more than eager to get back into the business, only a fool would think he wasn't working to bring down the entire sanctions from within the U.N.

Damn activist judges.

[Laugh, it's a joke...and if you don't get it, maybe you should read this and this.]

Frighteningly enough, I think you're exactly right. We could be rapidly heading toward a situation far less stable and more dangerous than the Cold War ever was.

Thanks, George. Thanks so much. America and the world are safer. I'm sure.

I don't get it. The first link you provided only listed one program that Bush cut funding for, and that was for providing abortion. How does that relate to AIDS? The link even admits at the end that, "condom distribution will be part of the new program." Wow, Bush is buying condoms, and spending billions of dollars on the problem.

Yes, Bush is pushing programs that advocate abstinence and monogomy. I saw no evidence (at least in the link you provided) that Bush has cut funding for condom-based programs simply for advocating condom use.

Can't the US decide on its own how to spend taxpayer money? Spending $2.8 billion a year in 2005 (triple the amount from 2001) does not a stumbling block make. Even if you disagree about abstinence education (I think condom-based programs are better too), you have to admit that the increased money for other areas of AIDS treatement, prevention, and research is very useful.

It seems like the US is in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. Would it be better if we cut off all funding? Our budget deficit could use the $2.8 billion reduction. Would that mean that we weren't a "stumbling block" anymore? Maybe you just want to dictate how the money is spent. If that's so, then SPEND YOUR OWN MONEY! We don't have an infinite supply of money to solve all of the world's problems. Nobody is stopping you from funding condom programs.

And His Imperial Majesty, Norton I, by Grace of God Emperor of these United States and Protector of Mexico

Not nearly as interesting as what the government hides.

Yeah, I'd be more inclined to pay attention if you weren't loosely implying that "western" eyes were somehow more just or fair.

"Interesting", indeed. Interesting to a racist, perhaps.

There is only one true enemy of peace.

do you mean this?

Is there a bigger doofus than Paul Thurrott? Seriously, is there? Reply with links.

Can someone tell me: is the vodka so good in this recipe because it gets rid of the gophers-ass bad aftertaste, or because of the numbing effect? Reply with links.

Is there a bigger doofus than Paul Thurrott? Seriously, is there? Reply with links.

Can someone tell me: is the vodka so good in this recipe because it gets rid of the gophers-ass bad aftertaste, or because of the numbing effect? Reply with links.

There's the stuff Google hasn't crawled (yet), and the stuff it's not allowed to. Don't forget that a robots.txt file can prevent Google from crawling/indexing a lot. I mean, take a look at this one: www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/tables .html Take a look at table S-12, it has a simple summary.

For FY2004 -

Total outlays: $2,319 billion

Total Defense: $ 433 billion

So, about 1/5th or 20% of the total budget is defense. Ratios are grossly similar for '03 and '05. Current budget for '05 has defense at $429 billion.

Not so!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/tables .html

Table S-12, 80% of the way down the page provides the easiest summary to use to compare.

FY2005 the USGOV is slated to spend $510 billion on Social Security vs. $429 billion on DoD. This doesn't count "homeland security" - it's a different department, but the SS payments don't count Medicare and Medicad; those are $290 and $188 billion each, respectively.

Interest on the national debt is running at $176 billion. It's fifth or so - remember, interest rates have plummetted in recent years!

Interestingly, the USGOV labels 62% of spending as "non-discretionary" including the big social programs (SS, Medicare, Medicad) and interest on the debt, and 38% "discretionary", of which about 47% is defense, the rest "non-defense".

I can't say I'm impressed with this search engine offering. I tried the most obvious query I could think of, bill clinton, which yielded a bizarre novelty site as the first result.

A Google search on the same keywords yields Bill Clinton's official White House biography.

I'll be waiting for Accoona 2.0.

Back in 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson declared "War on Poverty." It isn't going so well. The problem, as we all know, has gotten worse. This seems to happen anytime government declares "war" on something.

meanwhile Iraq disappears from frontpages even though more US soldiers where killed this month than any other month so far, if google censored US news how would you know ?

of course the Whitehouse wouldnt attempt to hide politically sensitive stuff about Iraq now would it ?

...and show the Bushies that they are dumb

This from the "rocket scientist" who didn't even read the article summary. Or if you did, you didn't understand what you were reading (not surprising). The stem cells were from umbilical cord blood, not human embryos. The federal ban is on the latter, not the former.

Ok George Bush didn't outlaw Steam Cell Research; He ceased giving federal funding for new steam cell lines. And remember he was the first president to start giving money to this kind of research. At least read his statment first and then search google to get the facts

Even after that before you start bashing, ask who should be in charge of developing medicine - the government or industry?

• Assassination Politics by Jim Bell
• The American Holocaust
• Anarchist's Cookbook
• Icky, unpatriotic, morbid beheading videos and such
• Bias to balance U.S. news bias
• Map of the White House
• Location of NYC water resevoirs
• Alex Jones loves progress!
• Economic terrorism #1 - buy nothing day
• Economic terrorism #2 - evil ad-skipping Tivo
• Economic terrorism #3 - running out of oil isn't a conspiracy theory.
• Economic terrorism #4 - the top 10 most fuel efficient cars of 2005 :)
• The widening wealth gap
• Paper trails make it much harder to steal elections
• Hamster dance!

If jackboot thug out there wants to arrest me for "implicitly supporting" the content of any of these links, feel free to abuse the PATRIOT ACT in order to force slashdot.org to reveal the IP address associated with this post, and in turn my ISP will reveal my name and home address associated with the DHCP lease (because I didn't bother to post through an anonymous proxy(s)). tinfoil_hat_mode off.

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Or not quite human enough? It's a tough question.

Living under the anti-science, anti-reason, faith-based regime of a hyprocritical, warmongering, theocratic jerk puts me in a bad mood, I guess.

Does this mean that http://www.whitehouse.com/ traffic will be directed to http://www.whitehouse.gov/?

1. "No, there is no emulation in Wine."

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2. George Bush is not an animal".

1. "The
2. AH-64 Apache is not an airplane"

Other countries haven't admitted it (Iraq, Saudi Arabia), but there is no reason to believe they aren't (or haven't) gone down that road covertly.

I'm confident that the current rulers of Iraq have admitted to having a large arsenal of nukes.

"SS already pays more than it collects."

Page 283, 2004: Income = 555 billion; Outgo = 417 billion; Surplus = 138 billion

Those are estimated numbers (2004 isn't done yet), but consistent with 2003. This surplus is actually projected to increase over the next five years in that table. This may or may not be true...are there a lot of seniors who are in their 80s?

Could be. WWI ended in 1919, so the early 1920s had a baby boom of sorts. 1929 to 1945 was a slow period for births. The baby boom was in the mid 1940s (until the late 1950s or early 1960s) and won't be retiring until at least 2008, with 2012 being the real kickoff point (1946 + 66, which is the retirement age for full benefits). Thus, we need to start dampening outgo by 2012.

I love how no one has read any of the plans from the Bush Administration to curtail emissions in the USA. Just read a little bit on http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/environment/.
As well as this page http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/02/cl earskies.html "The Clear Skies Initiative will cut air pollution 70 percent...save American consumers millions of dollars.
* Cut sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions by 73 percent, from current emissions of 11 million tons to a cap of 4.5 million tons in 2010, and 3 million tons in 2018.

* Cut emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) by 67 percent, from current emissions of 5 million tons to a cap of 2.1 million tons in 2008, and to 1.7 million tons in 2018.

* Cutting mercury emissions by 69 percent, - the first-ever national cap on mercury emissions. Emissions will be cut from current emissions of 48 tons to a cap of 26 tons in 2010, and 15 tons in 2018.

The US does have policies in effect to perform the same function as the Kyoto Accord, but they are more in line with our Economic needs and actualities. So there are 3 different emissions that we are curtailing...instead of 7, but it is a start without putting undue strain on our economy, and whether or not you like it the fact that corporations make money also means that most people in the country are making money, if the corporation doesn't make money people lose jobs and or make less.

Well that's my two cents.

I love how no one has read any of the plans from the Bush Administration to curtail emissions in the USA. Just read a little bit on http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/environment/.
As well as this page http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/02/cl earskies.html "The Clear Skies Initiative will cut air pollution 70 percent...save American consumers millions of dollars.
* Cut sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions by 73 percent, from current emissions of 11 million tons to a cap of 4.5 million tons in 2010, and 3 million tons in 2018.

* Cut emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) by 67 percent, from current emissions of 5 million tons to a cap of 2.1 million tons in 2008, and to 1.7 million tons in 2018.

* Cutting mercury emissions by 69 percent, - the first-ever national cap on mercury emissions. Emissions will be cut from current emissions of 48 tons to a cap of 26 tons in 2010, and 15 tons in 2018.

The US does have policies in effect to perform the same function as the Kyoto Accord, but they are more in line with our Economic needs and actualities. So there are 3 different emissions that we are curtailing...instead of 7, but it is a start without putting undue strain on our economy, and whether or not you like it the fact that corporations make money also means that most people in the country are making money, if the corporation doesn't make money people lose jobs and or make less.

Well that's my two cents.

The military and its associated industries have a proven track record of falsifying test results of anti-missle systems. The original Patriot in Iraq I, the tests last year, and now I suspect here.

Let's look at the "evidence": An artist's conception of a plane-based laser system shooting down a missle. This is similar to the "evidence" Powell offered to the UN for Iraqi mobile bio-weapons labs. It's coming up on two years later and we still haven't seen actual pics of those.

I'm sure there are a ton of jobs in the DC area. Like his role model, Reagan, Bush II is expanding the federal workforce. Don't believe me? Ok, how about the publication from Shrub's whitehouse, Table 17.5. Every president since Nixon has reduced the Federal workforce during their tenure, with the exception of Bush II and Reagan. Remind me again, who is for small government?

Well, according to the budget, I'd say none of the money goes into defense. The DoD isn't hurting for money and isn't going to covertly drain a couple billion from NASA to supliment it's already $400+ billion budget.

NASA is a civilian department. I think you need to adjust your tin-foil hat.

Well, according to the budget, I'd say none of the money goes into defense. The DoD isn't hurting for money and isn't going to covertly drain a couple billion from NASA to supliment it's already $400+ billion budget.

NASA is a civilian department. I think you need to adjust your tin-foil hat.

No-one ever said there was a connection between the two despite what Michael Moore would have you believe.

As for 9/11 being the cause of the Iraq war, I won't deny that.

WTF? There's no connection but I'm right anyway? I don't care who claimed what if what I say is the truth. Besides, This is an example of the kind of crap that was coming out of the administration during the run-up to the war. You're right that nobody ever made an explicit connection, but they sure implied it as often as possible. And it worked, too, with almost half the country believing that Saddam Hussein was in some way responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

This article sums it up nicely.

Unfortunately we didn't know the intel was bad until after

You should have. After all, Condi Rice dropped the ball on the Bin laden memo. Seems like a clear indication that something was rotten in Denmark.

Saddam was sending conflicting signals.

The only conflicting signals I was hearing were between Hans Blix and the Administration. I've also never understood the whole WMD rationale. Even if Saddam had what intel said he had, shouldn't Pyonyang be a smoking crater now too? I mean, if you're going to infringe other countries' version of the 2nd amendment, why not start with the big boys and work your way down?

He had violated the terms of the cease-fire of the first Gulf War and numerous U.N. resolutions.

Jesus, not that old chestnut again. Israel's broken more resolutions than everyone else combined and they haven't had so much as a slap on the wrist.

See, shit like this, not being consistent, is what makes this President the world's laughingstock. I find it highly ironic that he's seen as a "steady" leader by his electorate.

I've never read a Tom Clancy novel, though I do admit I enjoyed the Clancy movies with Harrison Ford.

Lucky you. His early stuff was good, but then he disappeared up his own arse. Oh and Harrison Ford is not Jack Ryan. Damn you Alec Baldwin for being so greedy!

Where was I? Oh yes...

But what is so sick about what I said?

Anybody who espouses an honest-to-god "better them than me" attitude will always get my contempt. Like I said, we don't live in caves, we've evolved. Maybe your ideas should too.

It's called hitting them at home while they're on the other side of the world rather than waiting for them to come here. Completely logical and strategically sound.

Those that call things like Iraq "pre-emptive war" are not being entirely honest. It's a proactive response to terrorism. We don't wait for them to attack us, we take the fight to them. And based on the amount of insurgents/terrorists in Iraq it looks like we hit the bullseye.

Thanks, this actually mad me laugh out loud. You do realize that the terrorists are there because we're there, right? If Bush had really wanted to hit the Bullseye, he would have hit Saudi and finsihed the job in Afghanistan before moving on to Iraq. Please tell me you don't honestly believe what you just wrote, you sound like a smart guy.

I'd be interested in what you were in the minority on and were later proved right on?

I dunno...I correctly predicted, a year ago, that Bush would win re-election and by a healthy-but-short-of-a-landslide margin.

Actually, I have to admit being wrong on one thing. I am highly surprised that no WMD's were found in Iraq, if for no other reason that they had been planted there by the US. Gotta say I didn't see that one coming.

Let's start with an easy one.
Attacking Iraq without building an international coalition

47 Coalition Members

Just because France, Germany, and Russia were against it, doesn't mean there were not others countries involved. Besides, it isn't like these countries had anything to gain by keep Saddam in power.

I am not saying everything on the list is wrong, but this one obviously is.

Right now, though, science budgets are practically nil. We'd need a lot more observatories and a lot more computing power available to astronomers to be able to do the kinds of calculations required.

Putting the money into senseless military exploits takes away money from research that really might make a difference to long-term survival.

Fool! Obviously you have not been following the Terro r threat levels!

An attack is coming! We must spend trillions more on military to SAVE YOU. Research is useless if you are DEAD!

Please become fearful and obedient immediately. That is all.

The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has already used them on whole villages -- leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind, or disfigured. Iraqi refugees tell us how forced confessions are obtained -- by torturing children while their parents are made to watch. International human rights groups have catalogued other methods used in the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape. If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning. (Applause.)

And tonight I have a message for the brave and oppressed people of Iraq: Your enemy is not surrounding your country -- your enemy is ruling your country. (Applause.) And the day he and his regime are removed from power will be the day of your liberation. (Applause.)

we wouldn't want the truth about policies to get out now would we
http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

My commendations on creating havoc. This pathetic discussion forum will now have four more years to gripe!

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But this is the best part, this is when they... START RAPPING! Bwahahaha. "It's The Ledged Of Zelda and it's really rad. Those creatures from Gondorf are pretty bad." That is just a snippet from the rhyming prodigy's in this commercial. I don't really know what Nintendo was thinking when they thought up the idea for portraying their customers as hopeless dorks, but this is by far my favorite Nintendo commercial.

By the way, I am gay and I voted for Bush.

How beautifully ironic.

I guess I can see how a gay man would be willing to put up with Bush if it meant getting four more years of Dick.

(Sorry. That was just too good to pass up.)

LBJ was from Texas, which helped deliver the southern states to Kennedy.

I believe what the grandparent was trying to say was that in order for a Democrat to win, a southerner must be on the ticket. This does not necessarily cause a victory, i.e. if a southern Democrat is on the ticket, the ticket will not necessarily win - it just helps enormously.

This was discussed in detail last night on CNN at about 1 a.m. MST, when the precincts were not really reporting anything new and they were looking for filler.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

if you watch the press conference starting at about 13:23, Bush is going through a list of names of Al Qaeda terrorists they have caught and he stumbles over the name of Ramzi Binalshibh, eventually calling him Ramzi Alshibh. He jokingly apologizes to Ramzi if he got his name wrong and then, at 13:32, he looks down and to his right intently for about 2 seconds, like he is listening to something, and looks up and says "Binalshibh, excuse me."

if you watch the press conference starting at about 13:23, Bush is going through a list of names of Al Qaeda terrorists they have caught and he stumbles over the name of Ramzi Binalshibh, eventually calling him Ramzi Alshibh. He jokingly apologizes to Ramzi if he got his name wrong and then, at 13:32, he looks down and to his right intently for about 2 seconds, like he is listening to something, and looks up and says "Binalshibh, excuse me."

but if you purchased one on the internet, it would be considered black market.

You know that buying black market goods is illegal. It is very likely that you'll be hung high and dry as an example of what a "domestic terrorist" is and be given the royal treatment from Homeland Security.

Be a good citizen. Buy from the military directly. On the bright side, you know who to call if tech support is needed.

-Grump.

I thought they went the way of the Van Buren Boys

You think he runs this country? Think again

Actually, Bush thinks and acts like he runs the country.

"The United States of America has the sovereign authority to use force in assuring its own national security. That duty falls to me, as Commander-in-Chief, by the oath I have sworn, by the oath I will keep."

Bush also thinks and acts as if the laws of the US don't apply to him

While I admire Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, and certainly _THEY_ recieved considerable assistance from the federal government, I'm trying to point out that there are many other ways that large scale compuer networks could have come about. What we know as "The Internet" could have come about in many different forms than what we currently know.

I am speaking (or writing, as this case may be) from the perspective of somebody who has dealt with asynronous communications and network protcols extensively, and dealt with many things besides TCP/IP for those communications protocols. I'm not dissing TCP/IP, because I use it not only for web surfing, but also for dedicated low-level application specific software development as well. For what it does, it does very well.

I'm just pointing out that there are many other ways it could have gone, and neither Vinton Cerf or Robert Kahn are gods, they are simply very good engineers who happen to have the happy coincidence of being at the right place at the right time with the right set of skills to get everything to work out with the contributions they have made. If I had been there back then with many of my present software development skills, I would have been able to contribute considerably to the development of TCP/IP. Instead, I'm working in different areas and making unique contributions to the computer industry in my own way.

As far as Albert Gore Jr.'s role in the whole thing, he didn't contribute any engineering ideas or plan any real aspects of the development of the technology. I will acknowledge Mr. Gore's role in securing funding for DARPAnet and helping to move it beyond the "laboratory" in the sense of giving political support at perhaps a crutial moment. I do think Rep. Baucher of Virginia has done far more for the computer community, and specificly the free software/open source movement by comparison than anything that Al Gore did.

I also think that the transition from research universities to the commercial interests, in particular with ICANN, as well as Internic, Verisign, and much of the "internet governing bodies" are messed up, with much of the negotiations being done through then Senator Gore's office as one of the major participants.

I will also give credit where credit is due, and it was largely due to Al Gore that the White House "got on-line" well before even HTTP was a popular protocol. It was at the start of the Clinton Administration that you could finally send an e-mail to president@whitehouse.gov (no need to spam protect that one, however). The George H.W. Bush (Bush I) administration simply was clueless regarding the internet at the time and I don't think they even had access to USENET except through COMPUSERV dial-up. The White House website, again under the Clinton administration and due to the efforts of then Vice-President Gore, was one of the first websites up for any government agency. In this aspect, he was a major contributor to getting government access to ordinary citizens electronicly through the internet, and of that I will give Al Gore total credit. The White House was "on-line" for at least four years before the Senate and U.S. House got going, and for awhile even there it was Democrats (with the big "D") who were better connected, in part thanks to Al Gore. It was only after constituants in Republican districts started to complain that they couldn't get access to "their" congressmen that the Republicans finally started to make their own websites and e-mail accounts.

Faulty argument, but conclusion is true. This article states that the US electricity is 2% by oil and this article states that 2/3 of all oil is used in cars. We can assume that the other 1/3 is for electricity (with trivial amounts going to other petroleum products). We can also note that the oil percentage has gone up greatly since California had its energy crisis (and decided to make tons of oil fired plants). You can do the math, but your conclusion appears to be true. If we lost the 20% of power being made by nuclear, our dependance on foreign oil might be very scary. I've seen manufacturing companies go out of business because of a couple of percent rise in energy prices. If energy prices fluctuated by 50% (like they do for gas at the pump), manufacturing companies would have a very hard time.

Many Iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast, and I have a message for them. If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you. As our coalition takes away their power, we will deliver the food and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror and we will help you to build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free. In a free Iraq, there will be no more wars of aggression against your neighbors, no more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more torture chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your liberation is near.