Soon you'll have to register as a copyright infringer for life and people will see your house on copyright infringement Google Maps overlays so they can know to keep their little ones and zeros safe from you.
The vehicles one would expect in a post-apocalyptic dystopia are those at the top of the (performance*maintainability) curve _at_ the time of the _apocalyptic event_.
Bicycles... man what a depressing movie that would be.
Hollywood really has done a poor job of preparing us all to survive after the coming apocalypse. They should be making more movies in that genre to warn us about the life skills we will need. And they have to update the technology since it's so old. Because let's face it: a person from the future would be too desperate for gas to be driving around in a 73 Ford.
Directors need to focus on high mpg cars like hybrids. Imagine a Prius version of the black police Interceptor- that would be totally cool especially if you can sneak up on people and run them over. Meanwhile the evil gangs can drive around in Ford Escape hybrids which have that rack on the top for attaching spikes, chains, harnesses, guns, prisoners, and feathers- everything you need. Plus think about it. After an apocalypse, you have to be more practical. If you have a gang of five or six henchmen, you're going to want a nice big vehicle to get around in as you travel across the desert and post-suburban wastelands. You don't want to waste gas on separate cars and motorcycles for everybody. The main character can do with a sedan, since he still needs to be cool and he travels alone except for his dog. He can't trust anyone else. As for the guy in the ornithopter, that's going to be salvaged carbon fiber if it exists at all, and it might have pedals. The Feral Kid needs no modification at all. He was already up to date since he already used very efficient and sustainable technology with that boomerang of his.
The "Lord Humongous" character- the ultimate nemesis of the good guys- drives around in a huge vehicle outfitted with old tractor tires and a big scary steam engine powered by a small salvaged nuclear reactor that notoriously leaks neutrons and fission products- but he's a mutant anyway and he wears a cadmium faceplate and armor to shield himself from his vehicle's neutron emissions so he's OK. Everyone stays far away from him for this reason so he uses a nuclear powered megaphone to issue orders to the Mohawk-sporting Wez and his other lieutenants: "Bring me the blood of my enemies- my reactor needs coolant!" I would totally go see that.
Then everyone can fight a little bit less for the gasoline, and we can see even more desperate fighting for all kinds of stuff like fresh water, solar cells, and "the precious nickel hydride". Maybe they can fight over "the precious hydrogen" in a sequel. Although the chase scenes won't be as exciting at 35 mph.
Why doesn't Slashdot offer (for example) a PT Cruiser to whomever correctly guesses the population of Mars in 2050?
Zero plus or minus zero to zero decimal places! Please wrap my PT cruiser in plastic and park it in a salt mine along with weapons, ammunition, lots of gasoline, and a biker's outfit made of rotted leather.
Satellites don't just appear out of thin air. They have to be designed and built and tested and put onto a launch schedule.
Thanks, Ron Obvious!:P
With NASA's already anemic budget being mostly eaten up by the money pit of the ISS to keep the Russians afloat and NOAA having huge commitments all over the place (Do you know how many programs and areas of responsibility NOAA has? It's staggering.) I imagine Congress just thinks it's cheaper to pay the cost of evacuating more people over the next ten years than pay the large upfront cost for getting a new satellite out NOW. Congress decided it wasn't worth billions of dollars to prepare for a "once in 200 years" event. If it'll only happen once in 200 years, then you can stretch out the monetary damages over that time period as well (in theory). Preparing for a category 5 storm just isn't worth the cost.
They used to feel the same way about terrorist attacks. Then 3000 people got killed, and we've more than doubled the defense budget since then, to $739 billion if you count the yearly emergency funding bills. The comparable figure in 2003 was $480 billion. Meanwhile Katrina killed 1000 people, about 1/3 as long ago. Somehow we didn't react to that one. For FY 2007, NASA's budget was $16.8 billion, and NOAA's was $3.6 billion.
Even according to your own logic (which in principle, I agree with) this is ridiculous. We can afford to replace a weather satellite.
What's embarrassing is that my damn governor refused Federal help and let people die in their homes. Which (combined with the hugely incompetent recovery effort) is why she isn't running for re-election.
That wasn't my immediate reaction. I assumed that allowing a hurricane weather satellite to fall out of orbit and not get replaced was the first step in a massive concerted public relations offensive coordinated by the American government and its press to suppress news and information about hurricanes. After all Katrina was a PR disaster and the satellite ruined a bunch of potentially good excuses and talking points for them. They couldn't say that the hurricane itself was unexpected. They had to pretend to be surprised by the levees. "Nobody expected that the levees would break". Um yeah, that's what you have to say when you don't prepare better excuses before inclement weather arrives.
The satellite was launched by Clinton anyway so it's probably better just to let it fall out of the sky with no replacement until we figure out how to launch political operatives into geosynchronous orbit so they can beam down pictures of calm seas and balmy weather. If Clinton lied about a blow job how can we trust his satellites?
Eating is just as bad but you don't see people screaming to make drive up windows at fast food restaurants illegal.
First of all drive up windows at fast food restaurants are not public roads. It would be perfectly legal to get drunk in the lot, go through the drive-thru to get something to eat, and then park in the lot again to finish eating and then get some sleep in the back seat to sober up. Unless the manager kicks you out for puking outside a McDonald's.
Frankly they should make eating while driving illegal, like driving without a seat belt. When I was in driver's ed class in high school (pre-cellphone) they warned us specifically about drunks, eaters, and lost or confused drivers. All three are probably about as bad, in terms of probability of a crash per drunk per second. I see people going down the highway holding coffee and a bagel, driving with their knees. But in terms of overall accidents drunk driving crashes really stick out compared to eating crashes or cellphone crashes.
What makes being drunk so much different? Once you get drunk, you can't get sober again for hours. You can always put down a happy meal or a cellphone. Most drivers, when (if) they recognize a tight driving situation, will stop eating or hang up. If you're drunk you can't do that. If cellphones worked by sticking to your head forcing you into hours of conversation, driving that way would be more like being drunk.
The repeated claims of "scientific consensus" are matched only the by extreme denunciation of any scientist who dares question man-made global warming or the climate models on which it is based.
I questioned atomic theory at a recent physics conference. "We don't really know there are electrons- have you ever seen one?" I asked. The physicists rose from their tables in anger and chased me out of the hall and then one of them ordered the cops standing near the doors to arrest me for not having proper scientific credentials. If you think the global warming thing is bad, wait until you see the denunciation of any scientist who dares question the existence of electrons or the Schrodinger models of the hydrogen atom on which it is based. Moral of the story: science==totalitarianism
"I would write a better reply, but why keep my computer on and waste the electricity" says a voice in my head. Not just any voice- this one sounds like Al Gore.
I keep holding onto my keyboard because if I buy a new one, some kid in Asia is going to be roasting this one over an open pit coal fire to get the gold out of the capacitors.
We can not come to a conclusion that all of Chinese fossils out side of China are fake, but there is a big chance.
I have bought fossils from China. They sell everything over there no matter what they say. I had a Chinese trilobite embedded in a slab of sedimentary rock. Then my house burned down. When I went back to salvage it later I made my huge scientific discovery: trilobites were made of plastic!
I once worked at a place where my boss rediscovered the formula for dynamite. They were trying to do a selenium assay on vitamin pills. RDA for selenium is micrograms per day and for the atomic absorption test you have to dissolve the sample in acid so the spectrometer can spray it into a flame and check absorption/emission wavelengths of elements in the sample. But if you dissolve a vitamin pill in acid the selenium becomes too dilute to measure.
He was basically trying to liquify a multivitamin, which has all kinds of crap in it. Generally you use a mixture of concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids to liquify something. The pills wouldn't dissolve when he tried digestion on an open burner, because the temperature at 1 atmosphere won't get high enough. They make steel digestion bombs for this kind of situation. They're like soup cans with stainless steel armor one inch thick around a ceramic liner inside. If the temperature exceeds 50 atmospheres a little safety valve on top pops to relieve the pressure. So he decided to buy 5 of these things, to let the pressure and temperature rise without losing any contents of the five sample tablets as he dissolved them under concentrated acids.
This turned out to be a cardinal error. The tablets had a binder made of sodium benzoate. If you heat benzoate at high temperature and pressure under concentrated sulfuric and nitric acid, it turns into trinitrobenzoate which dissolves in water all right but is also a class A explosive. So they put the five vitamin tablets in the acids, sealed the bombs, and put them in the oven at 105 C which they actually had set up in a conference room where people would write up experiments. I was across the hall with a clear line of sight to the oven when the first bomb exploded inside. It sounded like someone took 5000 dinner plates and smashed them on the floor all at once, and the oven turned into a pile of kitty litter and silicate and asbestos and the conference room filled up with brown nitrogen dioxide. Then two more exploded and fired off in different directions. One penetrated the HR office next door (they moved upstairs the next week) and one buried itself in the wall of the conference room while people were still running outside. (The other two were duds.)
I almost got killed by a multivitamin that day. You know, you live your life, day in and day out, and you don't realize how fragile life is until one day you almost get killed by an exploding vitamin tablet. In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe.
Not being a native English speaker, of course my boss gets on the phone with 911 and tells them that his bombs exploded.
I remember seeing an ad for the IBM PS/1 when it came out as a successor to the PCjr marketed as a consumer-grade PS/1. The computer was sitting on a desk in the background wasting electricity and there was a family enjoying each others company in front of it, paying no attention to it at all. The ad had a tag line that I vaguely recall as "the first computer that knows you have a life" or something like that. I almost ran out and bought one but then I controlled myself and decided that if I could wait just a few more months I could buy a computer even worse.
the energy involved in converting dead people into fossil fuel likely outweighs the energy you'd get out of it.
Maybe the energy wouldn't be worth it, but there is lots of glycerol in people which is an expensive ingredient because products containing real glycerol are hard to find. There is considerable market demand for it, and its shoddy alternatives have developed a very bad reputation. Stuff usually has propylene glycol instead which is cheaper but doesn't taste as good, or ethylene glycol which is cheaper still but causes kidney failure so they might as well put "glycerine" on the label and take your money while you're still alive. If you have a large supply of human beings dying with statistical regularity, you can saponify their bodies in sodium hydroxide over heat and become a major producer of cheap glycerol which can be used for stuff like glue, shampoo, lotions, shaving cream, soap, mouthwashes, toothpaste, cough syrups, and food products. Alternatively you can make it from biodiesel.
Just to drop an example, it is practically impossible to float a serious policy question along the lines of "should the federal government tax the income of individual citizens?".
Should the federal government abolish habeus corpus and hold people including U.S. citizens without trial for years? Should the federal government invade countries for no reason? Should the federal government be listening to your phone calls all day and reading your emails? Should the federal government take your political affiliation into account when deciding whether or not to prosecute you, or a corporation's political contributions into account when approving or denying its merger or acquisition? Should the federal government allow its officers to refuse to testify before Congress, or direct them to lie and obfuscate in their testimony? Should the federal government double its expenses by shedding its workers and rehiring them as contractors from politically connected companies? Should the federal government be elected in court? Should the federal government fund a war every year with an emergency supplemental borrowed from China? Should the federal government allow its corporate patrons to withhold vital resources like electricity from states with unfriendly voters? etc etc. I have to get to work. Geez next to all this stuff, the War on Drugs, the FCC censorship, and the income tax look like old hallowed traditions.
The American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR) popped in and out of existence a while back like a virtual particle to get everyone riled up about "voter fraud". Basically when workers are paid by the number of registrations, Mickey Mouse and Mister Magoo show up on the rolls in multiple districts and if Mister Magoo actually shows up to vote in all those districts that's "affirmative voter fraud" oh no! These dead people and cartoon characters always vote for Democrats. So we need voter ID laws and stiffer punishments for incorrect voting in case they show up, right?
There is a great article on Slate about this. The ACVR was set up by a lawyer in Saint Louis named Mark "Thor" Fernlund Hearne, II, who works for a law firm in St. Louis Missouri called Lathrop & Gage, L.C. (I just love it when guys can't say "Jr." and they try to make it into a "II".) Wikipedia's articles about both Thor Hearne and his American Center for Voting Rights have been repeatedly cleansed by somebody from an IP address in his law firm. Just look at a few of those diffs. Wikipedia is still good for some things!
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It has to be called a "cookie". It's stored in a file called cookies.txt.
Mysterious New 5 Acre Lake Appears in Crawford, TX
Which list would you rather tell your girlfriend you're on?
That depends. What if my girlfriend is in the porn industry?
Soon you'll have to register as a copyright infringer for life and people will see your house on copyright infringement Google Maps overlays so they can know to keep their little ones and zeros safe from you.
I think the submitter meant "4*pi steeradians".
The vehicles one would expect in a post-apocalyptic dystopia are those at the top of the (performance*maintainability) curve _at_ the time of the _apocalyptic event_.
Bicycles... man what a depressing movie that would be.
Hollywood really has done a poor job of preparing us all to survive after the coming apocalypse. They should be making more movies in that genre to warn us about the life skills we will need. And they have to update the technology since it's so old. Because let's face it: a person from the future would be too desperate for gas to be driving around in a 73 Ford.
Directors need to focus on high mpg cars like hybrids. Imagine a Prius version of the black police Interceptor- that would be totally cool especially if you can sneak up on people and run them over. Meanwhile the evil gangs can drive around in Ford Escape hybrids which have that rack on the top for attaching spikes, chains, harnesses, guns, prisoners, and feathers- everything you need. Plus think about it. After an apocalypse, you have to be more practical. If you have a gang of five or six henchmen, you're going to want a nice big vehicle to get around in as you travel across the desert and post-suburban wastelands. You don't want to waste gas on separate cars and motorcycles for everybody. The main character can do with a sedan, since he still needs to be cool and he travels alone except for his dog. He can't trust anyone else. As for the guy in the ornithopter, that's going to be salvaged carbon fiber if it exists at all, and it might have pedals. The Feral Kid needs no modification at all. He was already up to date since he already used very efficient and sustainable technology with that boomerang of his.
The "Lord Humongous" character- the ultimate nemesis of the good guys- drives around in a huge vehicle outfitted with old tractor tires and a big scary steam engine powered by a small salvaged nuclear reactor that notoriously leaks neutrons and fission products- but he's a mutant anyway and he wears a cadmium faceplate and armor to shield himself from his vehicle's neutron emissions so he's OK. Everyone stays far away from him for this reason so he uses a nuclear powered megaphone to issue orders to the Mohawk-sporting Wez and his other lieutenants: "Bring me the blood of my enemies- my reactor needs coolant!" I would totally go see that.
Then everyone can fight a little bit less for the gasoline, and we can see even more desperate fighting for all kinds of stuff like fresh water, solar cells, and "the precious nickel hydride". Maybe they can fight over "the precious hydrogen" in a sequel. Although the chase scenes won't be as exciting at 35 mph.
Why doesn't Slashdot offer (for example) a PT Cruiser to whomever correctly guesses the population of Mars in 2050?
Zero plus or minus zero to zero decimal places! Please wrap my PT cruiser in plastic and park it in a salt mine along with weapons, ammunition, lots of gasoline, and a biker's outfit made of rotted leather.
Satellites don't just appear out of thin air. They have to be designed and built and tested and put onto a launch schedule.
:P
Thanks, Ron Obvious!
With NASA's already anemic budget being mostly eaten up by the money pit of the ISS to keep the Russians afloat and NOAA having huge commitments all over the place (Do you know how many programs and areas of responsibility NOAA has? It's staggering.) I imagine Congress just thinks it's cheaper to pay the cost of evacuating more people over the next ten years than pay the large upfront cost for getting a new satellite out NOW. Congress decided it wasn't worth billions of dollars to prepare for a "once in 200 years" event. If it'll only happen once in 200 years, then you can stretch out the monetary damages over that time period as well (in theory). Preparing for a category 5 storm just isn't worth the cost.
They used to feel the same way about terrorist attacks. Then 3000 people got killed, and we've more than doubled the defense budget since then, to $739 billion if you count the yearly emergency funding bills. The comparable figure in 2003 was $480 billion. Meanwhile Katrina killed 1000 people, about 1/3 as long ago. Somehow we didn't react to that one. For FY 2007, NASA's budget was $16.8 billion, and NOAA's was $3.6 billion.
Even according to your own logic (which in principle, I agree with) this is ridiculous. We can afford to replace a weather satellite.
What's embarrassing is that my damn governor refused Federal help and let people die in their homes. Which (combined with the hugely incompetent recovery effort) is why she isn't running for re-election.
That's not what Heckofajob Brownie says.
That wasn't my immediate reaction. I assumed that allowing a hurricane weather satellite to fall out of orbit and not get replaced was the first step in a massive concerted public relations offensive coordinated by the American government and its press to suppress news and information about hurricanes. After all Katrina was a PR disaster and the satellite ruined a bunch of potentially good excuses and talking points for them. They couldn't say that the hurricane itself was unexpected. They had to pretend to be surprised by the levees. "Nobody expected that the levees would break". Um yeah, that's what you have to say when you don't prepare better excuses before inclement weather arrives.
The satellite was launched by Clinton anyway so it's probably better just to let it fall out of the sky with no replacement until we figure out how to launch political operatives into geosynchronous orbit so they can beam down pictures of calm seas and balmy weather. If Clinton lied about a blow job how can we trust his satellites?
Eating is just as bad but you don't see people screaming to make drive up windows at fast food restaurants illegal.
First of all drive up windows at fast food restaurants are not public roads. It would be perfectly legal to get drunk in the lot, go through the drive-thru to get something to eat, and then park in the lot again to finish eating and then get some sleep in the back seat to sober up. Unless the manager kicks you out for puking outside a McDonald's.
Frankly they should make eating while driving illegal, like driving without a seat belt. When I was in driver's ed class in high school (pre-cellphone) they warned us specifically about drunks, eaters, and lost or confused drivers. All three are probably about as bad, in terms of probability of a crash per drunk per second. I see people going down the highway holding coffee and a bagel, driving with their knees. But in terms of overall accidents drunk driving crashes really stick out compared to eating crashes or cellphone crashes.
What makes being drunk so much different? Once you get drunk, you can't get sober again for hours. You can always put down a happy meal or a cellphone. Most drivers, when (if) they recognize a tight driving situation, will stop eating or hang up. If you're drunk you can't do that. If cellphones worked by sticking to your head forcing you into hours of conversation, driving that way would be more like being drunk.
The repeated claims of "scientific consensus" are matched only the by extreme denunciation of any scientist who dares question man-made global warming or the climate models on which it is based.
I questioned atomic theory at a recent physics conference. "We don't really know there are electrons- have you ever seen one?" I asked. The physicists rose from their tables in anger and chased me out of the hall and then one of them ordered the cops standing near the doors to arrest me for not having proper scientific credentials. If you think the global warming thing is bad, wait until you see the denunciation of any scientist who dares question the existence of electrons or the Schrodinger models of the hydrogen atom on which it is based. Moral of the story: science==totalitarianism
You know, it's Friday night; you ought to lighten up.
"I would write a better reply, but why keep my computer on and waste the electricity" says a voice in my head. Not just any voice- this one sounds like Al Gore.
I keep holding onto my keyboard because if I buy a new one, some kid in Asia is going to be roasting this one over an open pit coal fire to get the gold out of the capacitors.
We can not come to a conclusion that all of Chinese fossils out side of China are fake, but there is a big chance.
I have bought fossils from China. They sell everything over there no matter what they say. I had a Chinese trilobite embedded in a slab of sedimentary rock. Then my house burned down. When I went back to salvage it later I made my huge scientific discovery: trilobites were made of plastic!
You pay a fee to have yourself fed to birds?
Why not just wander out into a desert to die and get eaten by vultures for free?
Heh, that reminds me of the breastfeeding mother who bottled her own milk in advance and was forced by TSA to drink it.
Whoosh
I once worked at a place where my boss rediscovered the formula for dynamite. They were trying to do a selenium assay on vitamin pills. RDA for selenium is micrograms per day and for the atomic absorption test you have to dissolve the sample in acid so the spectrometer can spray it into a flame and check absorption/emission wavelengths of elements in the sample. But if you dissolve a vitamin pill in acid the selenium becomes too dilute to measure.
He was basically trying to liquify a multivitamin, which has all kinds of crap in it. Generally you use a mixture of concentrated sulfuric and nitric acids to liquify something. The pills wouldn't dissolve when he tried digestion on an open burner, because the temperature at 1 atmosphere won't get high enough. They make steel digestion bombs for this kind of situation. They're like soup cans with stainless steel armor one inch thick around a ceramic liner inside. If the temperature exceeds 50 atmospheres a little safety valve on top pops to relieve the pressure. So he decided to buy 5 of these things, to let the pressure and temperature rise without losing any contents of the five sample tablets as he dissolved them under concentrated acids.
This turned out to be a cardinal error. The tablets had a binder made of sodium benzoate. If you heat benzoate at high temperature and pressure under concentrated sulfuric and nitric acid, it turns into trinitrobenzoate which dissolves in water all right but is also a class A explosive. So they put the five vitamin tablets in the acids, sealed the bombs, and put them in the oven at 105 C which they actually had set up in a conference room where people would write up experiments. I was across the hall with a clear line of sight to the oven when the first bomb exploded inside. It sounded like someone took 5000 dinner plates and smashed them on the floor all at once, and the oven turned into a pile of kitty litter and silicate and asbestos and the conference room filled up with brown nitrogen dioxide. Then two more exploded and fired off in different directions. One penetrated the HR office next door (they moved upstairs the next week) and one buried itself in the wall of the conference room while people were still running outside. (The other two were duds.)
I almost got killed by a multivitamin that day. You know, you live your life, day in and day out, and you don't realize how fragile life is until one day you almost get killed by an exploding vitamin tablet. In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe.
Not being a native English speaker, of course my boss gets on the phone with 911 and tells them that his bombs exploded.
I remember seeing an ad for the IBM PS/1 when it came out as a successor to the PCjr marketed as a consumer-grade PS/1. The computer was sitting on a desk in the background wasting electricity and there was a family enjoying each others company in front of it, paying no attention to it at all. The ad had a tag line that I vaguely recall as "the first computer that knows you have a life" or something like that. I almost ran out and bought one but then I controlled myself and decided that if I could wait just a few more months I could buy a computer even worse.
the energy involved in converting dead people into fossil fuel likely outweighs the energy you'd get out of it.
Maybe the energy wouldn't be worth it, but there is lots of glycerol in people which is an expensive ingredient because products containing real glycerol are hard to find. There is considerable market demand for it, and its shoddy alternatives have developed a very bad reputation. Stuff usually has propylene glycol instead which is cheaper but doesn't taste as good, or ethylene glycol which is cheaper still but causes kidney failure so they might as well put "glycerine" on the label and take your money while you're still alive. If you have a large supply of human beings dying with statistical regularity, you can saponify their bodies in sodium hydroxide over heat and become a major producer of cheap glycerol which can be used for stuff like glue, shampoo, lotions, shaving cream, soap, mouthwashes, toothpaste, cough syrups, and food products. Alternatively you can make it from biodiesel.
Just to drop an example, it is practically impossible to float a serious policy question along the lines of "should the federal government tax the income of individual citizens?".
Should the federal government abolish habeus corpus and hold people including U.S. citizens without trial for years? Should the federal government invade countries for no reason? Should the federal government be listening to your phone calls all day and reading your emails? Should the federal government take your political affiliation into account when deciding whether or not to prosecute you, or a corporation's political contributions into account when approving or denying its merger or acquisition? Should the federal government allow its officers to refuse to testify before Congress, or direct them to lie and obfuscate in their testimony? Should the federal government double its expenses by shedding its workers and rehiring them as contractors from politically connected companies? Should the federal government be elected in court? Should the federal government fund a war every year with an emergency supplemental borrowed from China? Should the federal government allow its corporate patrons to withhold vital resources like electricity from states with unfriendly voters? etc etc. I have to get to work. Geez next to all this stuff, the War on Drugs, the FCC censorship, and the income tax look like old hallowed traditions.
The American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR) popped in and out of existence a while back like a virtual particle to get everyone riled up about "voter fraud". Basically when workers are paid by the number of registrations, Mickey Mouse and Mister Magoo show up on the rolls in multiple districts and if Mister Magoo actually shows up to vote in all those districts that's "affirmative voter fraud" oh no! These dead people and cartoon characters always vote for Democrats. So we need voter ID laws and stiffer punishments for incorrect voting in case they show up, right?
There is a great article on Slate about this. The ACVR was set up by a lawyer in Saint Louis named Mark "Thor" Fernlund Hearne, II, who works for a law firm in St. Louis Missouri called Lathrop & Gage, L.C. (I just love it when guys can't say "Jr." and they try to make it into a "II".) Wikipedia's articles about both Thor Hearne and his American Center for Voting Rights have been repeatedly cleansed by somebody from an IP address in his law firm. Just look at a few of those diffs. Wikipedia is still good for some things!