The solution is for the government to create a Commision with real power (like the SEC) to police these guys and fine/imprison those found negligent. The information industry has become too critical to be allowed to betray the public trust without serious repercussions. These bastards have had a free ride up to now (ChoicePoint's web page says "ChoicePoint® Reports Record Revenue, EPS").
We need a full investigation. ChoicePoint's liability could be enormous. It is clear a cover-up may be going on.
It's time to Arthur Andersen these bastards out of business.
This is definitely the crux of the problem. Climate change scientists stand to lose billions in research grants if human-made global warming proves false. Many scientists who are convinced of global warming are looking for evidence to support their ideas and naturally discount anything to the contrary. For instance, if human activity and CO2 increases have been warming the planet since ~1750, why did mean temperatures decrease between 1950 and 1980? Incidentally, this cooler period is the average period many researchers use to compare recent mean temperatures, thus falsely making these recent findings seem worse than they actually are.
The impact of Crichton's book is not that it's a serious discussion of the science, but that it has started a popular debate about global warming. Previously the mass media has fed us dire predictions unfiltered (because fear and bad news sells).
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So, if this guy Gannon was regularly attending press briefings on day passes, why didn't any of the Big Media Reporters there bust him? They knew:
1) he had been denied a permanent pass and 2) he was working for a right-wing organization and 3) he was lobbing softballs day after day
My opinion: they didn't think he was doing anything wrong.
At almost the exact moment this Kos suck-up story was posted, Eason Jordan, CNN News Chief, was resigning!
His resignation follows weeks of right-wing blogosphere activism over his comments that the US military was deliberately targeting journalists.
So what's a bigger story - left-wing bloggers busting an unknown right-wing "journalist" working the system to lob a couple of softballs at President Bush, or right-wing bloggers busting the freaking head of CNN news?
And if someone from moveon.org was lobbing softballs at President Kerry, Salon.com would be writing stories about the price of tea in China. This is a story on Salon because a right-winger being a bit dishonest. That's it. Left-wingers get a free (day) pass.
Right on, and don't forget to weigh how notable Eason Jordan, Ward Churchill, and Bill Moyers are (each has a public career spanning decades) as public figures who actually have a voice in public discourse (WhoTF is Gannon anyway, except someone who lobbed a softball at GWB?). Funny how Slashdot and the main-stream media take notice when it's the right-winger who is in the crosshairs, thus proving the liberal bias they've been charged with all along.
These reactors were sodium cooled and used a special alloy of uranium that greatly expanded as it got hotter (thus naturally dampening the fission reaction). IFR reactors could burn nuclear waste and warhead material to the point of being only as toxic as unrefined ore. However, there is difficulty with disposing of the waste fuel residue mixed with sodium.
Former President Clinton suspended all nuclear research in 1994. This was supposedly to stop the threat of nuclear proliferation, because IFR reactors can be much smaller than water-cooled reactors, and they can produce weapons grade plutonium.
The Japanese are continuing to develop IFR technology in breeder reactors. A sodium leak at a similar Japanese reactor in 1995 scared many off the idea (sodium goes boom when mixed with air or water).
Nonsense. For the umpteenth time, this is how Iraq was a problem for us: Read the Senate resolution that spelled out justification for the war. Keep in mind this resolution passed 77-23.
Remember that Saddam Hussein never surrendered, never sued for peace after the first Gulf War. There was a cease fire in effect, which Hussein violated many times by (mostly by shooting at coalition aircraft). And don't bring up the tired "UN didn't authorize it" argument - The UN failed to act because certain Security Council memebers had cozied up to Hussein after the first Gulf War.
As far as the US supporting tyrants in the past, that is true, and the goal was to stop Soviet expansionism. George Bush is the first president to repudiate that kind of thinking (Clinton had 8 years to do it and failed. Remember Madeleine Albright toasting Kim Jung Il?) and move to the strategy of encouraging democracy instead of supporting dictators who agreed to protect our interests...we could have cozied up to Hussein like the French and Russians did. It would have been easy to do that, but it would not solve the problem.
I'm beginning to think we should add "Fuck Bush" to Godwin's law. As a Usenet (or slashdot, whatever) discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler, or someone saying "Fuck Bush for [insert bitch here]" approaches one.
You guys got a one track mind. And oh yeah you're irrelevent.
It's more complicated than that. CO2 is a greenhouse gas because it absorbs infrared radiation in five unique frequency bands (2.69, 2.76 , 4.25, 14, 15 m). The current levels of CO2 absorb 100% of the available infrared radiation in the four bands (and other gases absorb in these bands as well), meaning no infrared energy in these bands returns to space. So how can increasing CO2 levels increase global warming? There's no more heat to absorb in these bands. It's like shining a flashlight through thick fog - if the fog absorbs 100% of the light, then INCREASING the density of the fog isn't going to increase the absorption of the light - it's still going to absorb 100%. The thing to worry about here is not CO2 it's the Sun - increased solor output WILL cause global warming. However, it will cause global warming whether CO2 increases, decreases, or stays constant (water vapor is responsible for most of the greenhouse effect - 95%).
The Planet has the same right to refuse service to repressive regimes as Ebay does to refuse auctions of Nazi items. Free speech includes the right to control what is said on property you own.
ALL societies abhor sending their sons and daughters to war, but only people in democracies can complain about it without being re-educated or executed.
The wailing and gnashing has begun, but consider: Saving the Hubble will cost a lot of money and substantial risk to a shuttle crew. I think it is good for Bush to force Congress to justify the expenditure. After all, NASA determined the Hubble mission was "dead" a year ago, and only the public outcry resurrected the possibility. Since the STIS failed, and with only 4 of 6 gyros functioning (3 are required), isn't it possible that spending so much money on a failing craft is a waste? Might it not be better to spend the money on a replacement, with much better instruments?
Who mods this crap "interesting"??? How about "Off topic"?
I guess this lesson here is that it is better to have security under a tyrant that the opportunity to live free. Why are 80% of Iraqis planning to vote? If the situation were truly so terrible, how could that be true?
Exactly what kind of scientific research is "America so quickly falling behind in"?
How could the US once be a leader in scientific research and also have a free market economy? You claim scientic research isn't done well in free market economies. That's a contradiction you can't resolve.
Your post is nothing but typical anti-capitalist blather.
Wow! When I read this headline, I knew the liberal/. crowd would be creaming in their jeans over this one. But this is beyond my wildest dreams - it's geek ORGY time!
First of all, I think evolution is a fact - clearly, natural selection has been observed, beneficial mutation has been observed, the there's the fossil record where more primitive organisms are found in older strata - many posters here are arguing the fact vs. theory angle of this story. It doesn't matter, you're all missing the point.
You've been suckered. All of you gloaters.
Don't you KNOW how this plays in Anytown USA?
Liberal judges telling our kids what they can learn. Dictating that our communities can't be critical of secular humanist dogma. Silencing the will of the people. Good, hardworking, tax-paying people - all told to shut up and sit down.
They are the kind of people who will remember this on election day. They will remember who is trying to run their communities from the Bench.
SUCKERS. Republican margins just went up another 0.5%.
You should have let them have their little sticker - what did it hurt, really? Afraid a few kids might reject evolution in favor of some religious alternative? Guess what, they were going to do it anyway.
Instead you have given the Right ANOTHER rallying point.
First, the Greenwich "safety risk" thing is a crock when the information is already available to anyone who fills out a form and pays the fees. The form is right there on the Greenwich site.
But the real issue here is that the poster seems to be trying to obtain this information for free, rather the paying the fees/subscriptions required by the states for providing the data in a presentable, standardized format. It seems to me he wants the all taxpayers to bear the burden of costs rather than the end users of the data. I think the people who use the data should be the ones paying for it. Any township is going to incur significant costs collecting, sorting, organizing, formating, and duplicating this data. Giving all of that data away free means other services will suffer, or taxes will have to be raised.
25 years sounds harsh because the guy was just screwing around. But the truth is the Feds have to make an example of this guy because going easy on him will not effectively deter other morons from doing this. The FBI has enough to do without tracking down legions of dipshits.
Not high enough. I drive the I-35 and I-45 corridors every week and the average fast lane speed is around 80 - I will often drive for miles between 80-95 mph. I can't see paying the $40 for such a slight rise. I think it shouldn't have a speed limit, or maybe something really high, like 120. For cars, not trucks.
You can get a free credit report already if you get turned down for credit. This is just going to swamp the credit bureaus with unnecessary requests and make it harder to get mistakes corrected. It's cheap to get a report anyway. This is just the govt pretending to do something for the little guy.
If the govt really wanted to do something meaningful, they would stop employers from pulling credit reports for employee candidates. It's truly unfair for anonymous HR wankers to evaluate the worth of a candidate based on credit scores, scores that can be ruined by illness, theft, unemployment, or a former spouse. Many talented, hard-working IT professionals have been unemployed for long stretches.
All of this personal information floating around contributes to identity theft as well.
Dude, there are many variables not considered - age, religion, population density, total minority, unemployment rate, and urban/suburban/rural distribution quickly come to mind.
I looked at the data in the spreadsheet. The top 5 counties in population ALL use electronic voting (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, and Pinellas). NONE of the 29 smallest population counties use electronic voting. It is impossible to separate factors that correlate this closely. Did X happen because of electronic voting, or did X happen because of the influence of county population or population density (which could also be expressed as urban%, minority%, age%).
114,000 of the 133,000 "extra" votes that Bush received came from 3 counties - Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Broward. These are 3 heavily Democratic counties. The results of the study can be almost completely explained by a small percentage of 1996 Clinton and 2000 Gore voters switching to Bush in 2004.
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The solution is for the government to create a Commision with real power (like the SEC) to police these guys and fine/imprison those found negligent. The information industry has become too critical to be allowed to betray the public trust without serious repercussions. These bastards have had a free ride up to now (ChoicePoint's web page says "ChoicePoint® Reports Record Revenue, EPS").
We need a full investigation. ChoicePoint's liability could be enormous. It is clear a cover-up may be going on.
It's time to Arthur Andersen these bastards out of business.
This is definitely the crux of the problem. Climate change scientists stand to lose billions in research grants if human-made global warming proves false. Many scientists who are convinced of global warming are looking for evidence to support their ideas and naturally discount anything to the contrary. For instance, if human activity and CO2 increases have been warming the planet since ~1750, why did mean temperatures decrease between 1950 and 1980? Incidentally, this cooler period is the average period many researchers use to compare recent mean temperatures, thus falsely making these recent findings seem worse than they actually are.
The impact of Crichton's book is not that it's a serious discussion of the science, but that it has started a popular debate about global warming. Previously the mass media has fed us dire predictions unfiltered (because fear and bad news sells).
So, if this guy Gannon was regularly attending press briefings on day passes, why didn't any of the Big Media Reporters there bust him? They knew:
1) he had been denied a permanent pass and
2) he was working for a right-wing organization and
3) he was lobbing softballs day after day
My opinion: they didn't think he was doing anything wrong.
At almost the exact moment this Kos suck-up story was posted, Eason Jordan, CNN News Chief, was resigning!
His resignation follows weeks of right-wing blogosphere activism over his comments that the US military was deliberately targeting journalists.
So what's a bigger story - left-wing bloggers busting an unknown right-wing "journalist" working the system to lob a couple of softballs at President Bush, or right-wing bloggers busting the freaking head of CNN news?
And if someone from moveon.org was lobbing softballs at President Kerry, Salon.com would be writing stories about the price of tea in China. This is a story on Salon because a right-winger being a bit dishonest. That's it. Left-wingers get a free (day) pass.
Right on, and don't forget to weigh how notable Eason Jordan, Ward Churchill, and Bill Moyers are (each has a public career spanning decades) as public figures who actually have a voice in public discourse (WhoTF is Gannon anyway, except someone who lobbed a softball at GWB?). Funny how Slashdot and the main-stream media take notice when it's the right-winger who is in the crosshairs, thus proving the liberal bias they've been charged with all along.
These reactors were sodium cooled and used a special alloy of uranium that greatly expanded as it got hotter (thus naturally dampening the fission reaction). IFR reactors could burn nuclear waste and warhead material to the point of being only as toxic as unrefined ore. However, there is difficulty with disposing of the waste fuel residue mixed with sodium.
Former President Clinton suspended all nuclear research in 1994. This was supposedly to stop the threat of nuclear proliferation, because IFR reactors can be much smaller than water-cooled reactors, and they can produce weapons grade plutonium.
The Japanese are continuing to develop IFR technology in breeder reactors. A sodium leak at a similar Japanese reactor in 1995 scared many off the idea (sodium goes boom when mixed with air or water).
Nonsense. For the umpteenth time, this is how Iraq was a problem for us: Read the Senate resolution that spelled out justification for the war. Keep in mind this resolution passed 77-23.
Remember that Saddam Hussein never surrendered, never sued for peace after the first Gulf War. There was a cease fire in effect, which Hussein violated many times by (mostly by shooting at coalition aircraft). And don't bring up the tired "UN didn't authorize it" argument - The UN failed to act because certain Security Council memebers had cozied up to Hussein after the first Gulf War.
As far as the US supporting tyrants in the past, that is true, and the goal was to stop Soviet expansionism. George Bush is the first president to repudiate that kind of thinking (Clinton had 8 years to do it and failed. Remember Madeleine Albright toasting Kim Jung Il?) and move to the strategy of encouraging democracy instead of supporting dictators who agreed to protect our interests...we could have cozied up to Hussein like the French and Russians did. It would have been easy to do that, but it would not solve the problem.
I'm beginning to think we should add "Fuck Bush" to Godwin's law.
As a Usenet (or slashdot, whatever) discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler, or someone saying "Fuck Bush for [insert bitch here]" approaches one.
You guys got a one track mind. And oh yeah you're irrelevent.
It's more complicated than that. CO2 is a greenhouse gas because it absorbs infrared radiation in five unique frequency bands (2.69, 2.76 , 4.25, 14, 15 m). The current levels of CO2 absorb 100% of the available infrared radiation in the four bands (and other gases absorb in these bands as well), meaning no infrared energy in these bands returns to space. So how can increasing CO2 levels increase global warming? There's no more heat to absorb in these bands. It's like shining a flashlight through thick fog - if the fog absorbs 100% of the light, then INCREASING the density of the fog isn't going to increase the absorption of the light - it's still going to absorb 100%. The thing to worry about here is not CO2 it's the Sun - increased solor output WILL cause global warming. However, it will cause global warming whether CO2 increases, decreases, or stays constant (water vapor is responsible for most of the greenhouse effect - 95%).
The Planet has the same right to refuse service to repressive regimes as Ebay does to refuse auctions of Nazi items. Free speech includes the right to control what is said on property you own.
ALL societies abhor sending their sons and daughters to war, but only people in democracies can complain about it without being re-educated or executed.
The wailing and gnashing has begun, but consider: Saving the Hubble will cost a lot of money and substantial risk to a shuttle crew. I think it is good for Bush to force Congress to justify the expenditure. After all, NASA determined the Hubble mission was "dead" a year ago, and only the public outcry resurrected the possibility. Since the STIS failed, and with only 4 of 6 gyros functioning (3 are required), isn't it possible that spending so much money on a failing craft is a waste? Might it not be better to spend the money on a replacement, with much better instruments?
Who mods this crap "interesting"??? How about "Off topic"?
I guess this lesson here is that it is better to have security under a tyrant that the opportunity to live free. Why are 80% of Iraqis planning to vote? If the situation were truly so terrible, how could that be true?
Exactly what kind of scientific research is "America so quickly falling behind in"?
How could the US once be a leader in scientific research and also have a free market economy? You claim scientic research isn't done well in free market economies. That's a contradiction you can't resolve.
Your post is nothing but typical anti-capitalist blather.
Wow, modded troll for the first time...didn't bother to read my post, obviously.
Note to self: don't put SUCKERS in all caps next time. Also, less whitespace.
Wow! When I read this headline, I knew the liberal /. crowd would be creaming in their jeans over this one. But this is beyond my wildest dreams - it's geek ORGY time!
First of all, I think evolution is a fact - clearly, natural selection has been observed, beneficial mutation has been observed, the there's the fossil record where more primitive organisms are found in older strata - many posters here are arguing the fact vs. theory angle of this story. It doesn't matter, you're all missing the point.
You've been suckered. All of you gloaters.
Don't you KNOW how this plays in Anytown USA?
Liberal judges telling our kids what they can learn. Dictating that our communities can't be critical of secular humanist dogma. Silencing the will of the people. Good, hardworking, tax-paying people - all told to shut up and sit down.
They are the kind of people who will remember this on election day. They will remember who is trying to run their communities from the Bench.
SUCKERS. Republican margins just went up another 0.5%.
You should have let them have their little sticker - what did it hurt, really? Afraid a few kids might reject evolution in favor of some religious alternative? Guess what, they were going to do it anyway.
Instead you have given the Right ANOTHER rallying point.
And you wonder why you lose elections. SUCKERS.
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I hate it when I slam my head into the keyboard too.
Microsoft Releases Malicious Software Removal Tool
Or even:
MS Releases Tool For Removing Malicious Software
See? Not so hard.
First, the Greenwich "safety risk" thing is a crock when the information is already available to anyone who fills out a form and pays the fees. The form is right there on the Greenwich site.
But the real issue here is that the poster seems to be trying to obtain this information for free, rather the paying the fees/subscriptions required by the states for providing the data in a presentable, standardized format. It seems to me he wants the all taxpayers to bear the burden of costs rather than the end users of the data. I think the people who use the data should be the ones paying for it. Any township is going to incur significant costs collecting, sorting, organizing, formating, and duplicating this data. Giving all of that data away free means other services will suffer, or taxes will have to be raised.
25 years sounds harsh because the guy was just screwing around. But the truth is the Feds have to make an example of this guy because going easy on him will not effectively deter other morons from doing this. The FBI has enough to do without tracking down legions of dipshits.
Oh, and the speed limit's supposed to be 85.
Not high enough. I drive the I-35 and I-45 corridors every week and the average fast lane speed is around 80 - I will often drive for miles between 80-95 mph. I can't see paying the $40 for such a slight rise. I think it shouldn't have a speed limit, or maybe something really high, like 120. For cars, not trucks.
You can get a free credit report already if you get turned down for credit. This is just going to swamp the credit bureaus with unnecessary requests and make it harder to get mistakes corrected. It's cheap to get a report anyway. This is just the govt pretending to do something for the little guy.
If the govt really wanted to do something meaningful, they would stop employers from pulling credit reports for employee candidates. It's truly unfair for anonymous HR wankers to evaluate the worth of a candidate based on credit scores, scores that can be ruined by illness, theft, unemployment, or a former spouse. Many talented, hard-working IT professionals have been unemployed for long stretches.
All of this personal information floating around contributes to identity theft as well.
Dude, there are many variables not considered - age, religion, population density, total minority, unemployment rate, and urban/suburban/rural distribution quickly come to mind.
I looked at the data in the spreadsheet. The top 5 counties in population ALL use electronic voting (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, and Pinellas). NONE of the 29 smallest population counties use electronic voting. It is impossible to separate factors that correlate this closely. Did X happen because of electronic voting, or did X happen because of the influence of county population or population density (which could also be expressed as urban%, minority%, age%).
114,000 of the 133,000 "extra" votes that Bush received came from 3 counties - Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Broward. These are 3 heavily Democratic counties. The results of the study can be almost completely explained by a small percentage of 1996 Clinton and 2000 Gore voters switching to Bush in 2004.