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The NSA told they did not spy on Germany. Being asked why a No-Spying agreement is necessary if the NSA did not spy on Germany the government spokesman Steffen Seibert just got nervous and completely failed to answer (link to german main TV news site).

...if NSA did not spy?

The NSA told that they did not spy on germans. So for what is this No-Spying Agreement? The government spokesman Steffen Seibert got a bit nervous when being asked this and could not answer.

Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said the plan would uphold four priorities: Germany's standing as a top global economy, an affordable and sufficient energy supply, climate protection and independence from energy imports.

Actually if you read the company history (the title of which escapes ,me at the moment, something to do with a plant as I remember), you will find their heritage is Scottish. A junior member of the great British trading companies in Hong Kong, they actually issue the currency for the Hong Kong government. They have a very interesting culture one element of which was a sinking fund, the annual contribution to which was never published before the annual statements were printed up. When the NY State Banking Dept. (Murial Seibert) objected they merely converted Marine Midland from a state to a fed charter. As savvy Scots they had some notable success until they bought Household Finance Corp. which was a disaster. They quickly righted the ship and cleaned up the mess well before the Mortgage meltdown. They are now the 12th largest bank in the world and own subsidiary in the Bank of the Middle East and Malaysia, Canada, Turkey and a host of others. In fact as an employee I had a 22 page memo of companies which we could not lend money to as they were in some way owned, controlled etc. by HSBC..

If there is no penalty for errors in government databases, there will be no incentive to clean them. The evidence should be thrown out, and if it happens again, it should always be thrown out. This will mean that unless the government has absolutely clean data in their databases their evidence will be suppressed as a result. The police will have no choice but to ensure their databases are regularly cleaned of error. They essentially have no civil liability (sovereign immunity) for their errors now, if I'm not mistaken, if they are not forced to fix errors or suffer the consequences for their failure to do so, they will not do so.

Cops screamed bloody murder saying police would be destroyed by Miranda , and other cases whose names shine as beacons protecting us from the darkness of oppression ( Gideon, Escobedo, Mapp, Seibert ) and others, as bright-line standards. And you know what? Police adapted. They became professional. They did their jobs better when they were forced to behave within constitutional limits. I have a quote from a book I'm writing:

• The law presumes to protect an Accused against the excessive zealousness of the State in its attempts to prosecute them, and it grants them broad rights in protection against that zealousness... These are not roadblocks designed to frustrate the police from the apprehension and punishment of wrongdoers, they are walls designed to stop the police from misconduct and scandalous behavior. We have erected these walls over thousands of years because history has showed us, over and over and over, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseum, that the police will, without them, will themselves continue on the path toward criminality and lawlessness.
  — Judge Edward 4 in Paul Robinson's Instrument of God

Parent is 100% right.

The first question that immediately struck me about this star's tail is:

The start is going through what? A cloud ? A dark matter thing? A particle wind ?

There is something, otherwise no tail, as for our Sun.

From the article linked to the news:

Really the article should have focused on this, it's a shame.

Another linked article states:

The mongo ski resort at Vail CO started out the same way: founder Pete Seibert bought up all the land in the Vail Valley from ranchers who thought he was opening a hunting and fishing preserve.

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That is just plain untrue; the DA who told you this was jonesing you. The Right to Remain Silent part isn't the key, its the requirement that they inform you of your Right to Attorney. If they don't do that reasonably soon after the arrest (that is, the same day (Missouri v. Seibert) and before they ask you any questions that would compel a reasonable person to talk (Rhode Island v. Innis)) then that's the ball game.

Wonderful group you share your opinion with regarding Crichton

It is sad how many people actually believe that Crichton writes with a foundation of solid scientific evidence. It is obscene the manner in which distorted facts get bootstrapped into the datastream by faux public policy organizations.

It is pitiful that the State of Oklahoma offered compelling anecdotal evidence indicating the fallaciousness of intelligent design when they elected Jimmy Inhofe to the Senate.

Inhofe is to a very large degree responsible for Crichton's elevation into the upper level of global warming debate. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, he held a hearing on September 28, 2005 titled "The Role of Science in Environmental Policy-Making", and gave Crichton top-billing as the first speaker.

The last speaker of the hearing was David B. Sandalow, The Brookings Institute's Environmental Scholar, who had previously published a harsh critique of Crichton's environmental views in January, 2006. The Brookings Institute's synopsis of it reads:

"How do people learn about global warming?

That--more than the merits of any scientific argument--is the most interesting question posed by Michael Crichton's State of Fear.

The plot of Crichton's 14th novel is notable mainly for its nuttiness--an MIT professor fights a wellfunded network of eco-terrorists trying to kill thousands by creating spectacular "natural" disasters. But Crichton uses his book as a vehicle for making two substantive arguments. In light of Crichton's high profile and ability to command media attention, these arguments deserve scrutiny.

First, Crichton argues, the scientific evidence for global warming is weak. Crichton rejects many of the conclusions reached by the National Academy of Sciences and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--for example, he does not believe that global temperature increases in recent decades are most likely the result of human activities. In challenging the scientific consensus, Crichton rehashes points familiar to those who follow such issues. These points are unpersuasive, as explained below.

Second, Crichton argues that concern about global warming is best understood as a fad. In particular, he argues that many people concerned about global warming follow a herd mentality, failing critically to examine the data. Crichton is especially harsh in his portrayal of other members of the Hollywood elite, though his critique extends more broadly to the news media, intelligentsia and general public. This argument is more interesting and provocative, though ultimately unpersuasive as well."

Full Op/Ed - David B. Sandalow, 'Michael Crichton and Global Warming", The Brookings Institution, January 28, 2005

Inhofe himself is compelling evidence of American Conservatism's continuing decline. The Sourcewatch Article about Inhofe states that:

On April 28, 2004, Inhofe was honored by the Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy -[*]

The Annapolis Center actively argues against the idea that global warming is the result of burning fossil fuels. They also advocate increased logging for better forest health and question rising mercury levels among other things. The Annapolis Center is funded primarily by the National Association of Manufacturers. The Center's founder and COO, Richard Seibert was a former

• M.U.L.E. - EA
• The Last Ninja - Activision
• Skate or Die - EA
• Ultima V and Ultima VI - Origin (now EA)
• Various Mastertronic theme songs
• Various Cosmi theme songs
• Various Sierra On-Line theme songs*

In summary, the only really conclusive result of this test is that the big loser at 64 kbps is MP3. (Unfortunately, we already knew that.) It also shows that Ogg Vorbis is not the winner at either bitrate, though a casual inspection of the numbers might lead one to think so. The average user cannot really tell the difference between any of the high-end codecs, so vendors should use other criteria when selecting a codec for applications targeting those types of users.

Mr. Seeibert's analysis can be found at: "No other operating system creator around, not Microsoft and certainly not Linux or FreeBSD, would even dream about writing something that limits your graphics card purely for marketing reasons." This is peculiarly naive, and has long been common practice in the hardware business. My favorite example is the old vax upgrade procedure. Mid range and high end VAXen used the same logic board. To upgrade to the faster CPU clock speed a DEC field service engineer would remove a resistor (by physically cutting the pins). As f

If you had any sort of knowledge of Symantec operations, you'd be aware that Symantec outsourced 270 (38%) of their perms in Oregon in 2002. Then in June it cut 206 (30%) of them. That's based off a total of about 700 workers. You're telling me that 30-40 percent suddenly weren't productive?

Stop being a pedantic shithead for a minute, and consider the statistical probability of 38% of a permanent workforce suddenly becoming unproductive.

Simply, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. You're neither familiar with their operations, nor are you versed in their history.

I do. I've worked for them when their products were decent. I moved on to a better company, and have watched as they've utterly destroyed what used to be a great product line and employee environment. Of course, losing Dana Seibert didn't help things either.

I don't dislike the employees and contractors of Symantec - if anything I feel sorry for them, as they're receiving the short end of the stick on a regular basis.

CEO John Thompson though? He's utterly destroyed the cohesiveness and quality focus that existed before, and now he's about to destroy Veritas. And that - that is sad.

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not if it's sufficiently attenuated, or removed from the original bad act that it has been purged of it's "illegal taint".

Missouri v. Seibert is before the US Supreme Court right now and involves a practice known as the two-step interrogation. the way the law stands now... they can interrogate you without giving you your Miranda warnings... and make you confess! of course making you confess is a violation of your 5th Amendment rights and is excluded as FOPT.

here's the sneaky part that the Rehnquist court has allowed:

once a criminal has confessed they're Mirandized. since they already confessed they sign a written confession or confess again on tape. the second confession after being Mirandized is now a valid waiver of the 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination... and is admissible!

the court has upheld it in the past... but the cops in SEIBERT were specifically trained to backdoor suspects like this. I don't see them throwing the confession out, personally.

I kind of like the fact that people have to watch my video over and over again to catch all its meaning. Your suggestion is interesting though. By all means, re-edit. I think that would be great to see.
(Sheryl Seibert is the anonymous coward here) :)

Congratulations, to the winners! Congratulations to Sheryl Seibert for her Mix Tape movie!

You can download the music for her video, for free, from Jim's Big E-Shop.

Why do I feel that more and more cash is being poured into special interests in Washington? Oh yeah, that's because they are. The current regime needs to wake up and smell the algae. Research into 100% green renewable fuel sources should rule this next century. Terrorist want to crash an airplane into the fields of H2 producing algae? I didn't think so.

One front runner in the field is the use of green-algae based H2 production by exploiting a metabolic switch by reducing the amount of sulfur available to the organisms.

A couple of links:
http://www.melisenergy.com/SF_Chronicle.ht m
http://www.h2net.org.uk/PDFs/Prod2001/H2NetFRH. pdf
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,5445 6, 00.html

Interesting article:
http://www.hfcletter.com/letter/march00/ feature.ht ml

DoE News: Berkeley/NREL Team Develops Green-Algae-Based Renewable H2 Production Technique

BERKELEY, CA/GOLDEN, CO - It sounds a little wild, but a lowly micro-organism, a green alga, may come one of the milk cows of the hydrogen age. Better make that "fuel" cows.

Voila, the hydrogen herd:

Cultures of tiny algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, can be conditioned via a simple microbial switch to forego what they normally do best: produce plant matter via photosynthesis and give off oxygen in the process. Instead, switched-on algae would produce hydrogen renewably, essentially from sunlight and water, stored in its cells as carbohydrates and other biochemical materials.

Nor is this process, discovered by a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO, a one-shot proposition that would kill the "cows:" After generating hydrogen for several days, the gas can be drawn off and the molecular switch can be reversed again, permitting the algae to recover to their normal state and produce more plant matter, including carbohydrate fuel.

That process can be repeated "many times," says Prof. Tasios Melis, a specialist in plant and microbial biology at Berkeley who heads the team. How many times isn't clear so far.

At present, the overall energy conversion efficiency of the process - photons absorbed and converted into hydrogen product - is only about 10%. But, says Melis, with optimization, it could come close to or be about the same as photosynthesis itself: With the right amount of light - not too much because otherwise photons would be wasted - it could be anywhere between 85 and 90%, possibly as high as 95%. "Photosynthesis is nearly perfect machinery," Melis says.

The work has already attracted wide public attention. A press briefing in late February in Washington, DC, arranged by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and scheduled for one hour, lasted a lot longer because the 45-odd reporters kept asking questions past the cut-off time. Stories by the Associated Press, Reuters and BBC generated later phone calls from as far away as Portugal and Greece, Melis said.

Two-Year Investigation

Melis, together with postdoctoral associate Liping Zhang and with NREL's Michael Seibert, Maria Ghirardi and postdoctoral associate Marc Forestier, described the outcome of their two-year investigation, the result of a suggestion made at an April 1998 hydrogen workshop sponsored by the Energy Department and the National Science Foundation, in a paper in the January 2000 issue of the journal "Plant Physiology." Both institutions have taken out a joint patent for the process.

"I guess it's the equivalent of striking oil," a university press release quoted Melis as saying. "It's enormously exciting."

The fact that green algae can produce hydrogen has been known for more than half a century, the team reported, but only in very small amounts.

The production rates of the new Berkeley/NREL process are very small so far as well, but Melis thinks this novel p

Wow, I couldn't agree more. For a little hint into what went down at Sierra, you might want to check out an interview Gamer's Depot did with Mrs. Williams some time back (thank you Google for finding that old review!) She gives a little insight as to what truly happened at Sierra. I guess it got pretty messy and she regrets the decision she and Ken made to sell.

As for looking back, I would have to agree that the Laura Bow mysteries were some of the best. Graphics were great for the time and it was all around fun that my mom and I would play (I was a youngin'). LSL was also a classic, but no one has mentioned Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist, another classic from the designer of LSL, Al Lowe and with some help from Mark Seibert. Yes, they will be missed.

Bryan R.

"I'm not entirely sure that I want my computer knowing where my fingers are at all times"

heh! I think we just gave a localized inference to the phrase "Big Brother"

Roxanne M. Seibert
Independent Contractor, CEO

Is it just me or does this smell like MSNBC fodder. All a Heart and Minds game to keep investors from bailing over free music.



Expect a little help
"Our audience demands and expects that we help them download music. RioPort provides us with the opportunity to be able to do so in a secure and easy way that is SDMI compliant," MTV Networks Online president Fred Seibert said in a release. "With this agreement, RioPort is our private label download solution, aggregating content, providing music management software, and licensing and marketing the production of consumer hardware devices."


Translation : "See, We will/still have control over distribution"


Reality: The horses have eaten their children.
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