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Anonymous BillyGoat writes "The results of the 2003 GNOME Foundation Elections have been announced. These are preliminary results, and will stand unless someone decides to challenge them. A notable exclusion from this year's list is Miguel De Icaza, whose candidacy application was rejected as it missed the deadline. In related news, barely a few weeks after the news of the death of GNOME hacker Chema Celorio in a sky diving accident, the GNOME community was shocked by the news of the sudden death of Evolution hacker Ettore Perazzoli."
An example of this is the question of who was the first American President. Most people will say Washington, this is correct if you regard the Constitution as the start of the United States.
However if you go back to the Articles of Confederation, you will see the "first" president was a man named Matthew Henson.
As shown a simple commonsense histortical "fact" can be thrown into contention by simplying changing the interpretation of the reader/author/whatever.
Yeah, its off topic, but I have Karma to spare.
Also very few people attempt to show all the sides of any issue so thats a cannard.
Analysis can be one-sided rhetoric depending on the analyist.
This is proof that moderation is broken, and it's why I never bother using it when I keep getting invited to by the site. In the last 10 minutes I've seen this post sway between a score of 0 and 3 and back. People are just moderating based on what they agree with, not on the actual insightfulness or flamefulness of the post.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
Raise your kids in a fucking war zone and this wouldnt happen. Also the settlers carrying and use of weapons make them a legitmate target.
There's not enough evidence to suggest that Open Source hackers are being systematically murdered; however, there most certainly *IS* enough to suggest that someone out there doesn't want scientists working on genetic therapies, vaccines, or weapons.
This is not a conspiracy, but the story has nonetheless been tainted by those kooks anyway. I'm posting anonymously because I work in this field at my uni and don't want any undue attention.
A recent spate of dead microbiologists who worked for research firms with links to U.S. weapons development is raising some eyebrows.
Exclusive to American Free Press
By Christopher Bollyn
A string of microbiologists appears to have died under strange circumstances since the anthrax scare surfaced last fall. From Nov. 12 through Feb. 11, seven world-class microbiologists in different parts of the world were re ported to have died of ?unnatural? causes, while the cause of the seventh?s death is questionable, according to Michael Davidson of From The Wilderness, an Internet news journal.
The seven microbiologists that Davidson reports to have died under strange circumstances are: Benito Que, Don C. Wiley, Vladimir Pasechnik, Robert Schwartz, Set Van, dean of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Faculty.
Benito Que was a cell biologist at the University of Miami Medical School, involved in oncology research in the hematology department, which relies heavily on DNA sequencing studies.
Que worked for medical research facilities that received grants from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), which is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md. Que was found comatose in the street near the laboratory where he worked on Nov. 12 and died on Dec. 6.
HHMI funds a tremendous number of research programs at schools, hospitals and research facilities, and allegedly conducts ?black ops? biomedical research for intelligence organizations, including the CIA, according to Davidson.
Three of the five American scientists who have died, Wiley, Schwartz, and Que, worked for medical research facilities that received grants from HHMI.
Don C. Wiley worked with HHMI at Harvard University and was one of the most prominent microbiologists in the world. He had won many of the field?s most prestigious awards, including the 1995 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work on anti-viral vaccines. Wiley was also heavily involved in research on DNA sequencing.
Wiley, 57, vanished, and his abandoned rental car was found on the Hernando de Soto Bridge outside Memphis, Tenn. Wiley?s body was found on Dec. 20, snagged on a tree along the Mississippi River in Vidalia, La., 300 miles south of Memphis. Until his body was found, Wiley?s death was handled as a missing person case, and police did no forensic examinations.
Vladimir Pasechnik, the top scientist from the Soviet Union?s bio-weapons program who had defected to Britain in 1989 was found dead in Wiltshire, England, not far from his home, on Nov. 23. No reports of Pasechnik?s death appeared in Britain for more than a month, until Dec. 29, when his obituary, which did not include a date of death, appeared in The London Telegraph.
Pasechnik?s death was announced in the United States by Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia, who stated that the cause of death was a stroke. Davis was the member of British intelligence who de-briefed Dr. Pasechnik at the time of his defection. Davis reportedly declined to say which branch of British intelligence he served in.
Robert M. Schwartz was a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, and the executive director of Research and Development at Virginia?s Center for Innovative Technology. He was an expert in biophysics and DNA sequencing.
Schwartz, 57, was found murdered in his rural home in Loudoun County, Va. on Dec. 10. Loudoun County sheriff?s officials said Schwartz was stabbed on Dec. 8 with a sword, and had an ?X? cut into the back of his neck. His daughter and her friends, who were
Q: What's the difference between a skydiver and a golfer?
A: A golfer goes, "WHACK ... Oh shit!". A skydiver goes, "Oh shit! ... WHACK!"
That sounds like something Fox News might say justifying their self-appellation as "Fair and Balanced". Nobody represents ALL points of view, but you'd have to be a moron to think that Fox News is "Fair and Balanced" when they present right wing propaganda as news and regularly have right wing bash-fests onto which they invite one meek, idiotic liberal to serve as a whipping boy.
For parallel's sake, you might want to consider the Palestinian refugee and a child whose parents were killed in a bus bombing in Jerusalem. Does that mean that "everything is relative"? I don't know, that phrase is fairly devoid of meaning to me. Many statements are laden with opinion, and some are statements of fact, subject only to disagreement about definition, as the folks discussing above who the first president of the United States is (which depends on which entity you consider to define the "United States").