What's really funny is that a country with a fake Disneyland in it is selling us half of our own DRM-infested media players that might refuse to play us our own DRM-encrypted Disney crap. Meanwhile a billion people are hiding behind their own firewall and manufacturing DVD players and you know they've got the decrypted versions of all Disney's stuff in there. The purpose of DRM is to prevent anyone from popping a hole in a huge, thin bubble of lame encryption to be applied everywhere, in the fear that unprotected bits might leak through and fall under anyone else's control anywhere which would render the whole exercise rather pointless. If the bubble is popped in China then only the Great Firewall stands in the way. Maybe they need to implement stronger DRM encryption at various redundant points along every one of the undersea cables, and lobby the government to mandate an intellectual property protection standard for all radio transmitters launched into space. Is Disney going to prevent the country with the fake Disneyland from manufacturing the players that implement their bubble of DRM by hiding secret encryption keys from us and occasionally refusing to decrypt/play things for us? Disney might need to reconsider who deserves its trust.
Mercury is not tidally locked with the sun, but rotates very slowly at about 3 rotations for every 2 revolutions around the sun.
I forgot my Mercury trivia; they used to think it was locked before they found the 3/2 resonance. Since the resonance is stable, rotational energy is not being affected anymore. But then that means tidal forces are still heating Mercury over a 1400 hour cycle. The heat loss from friction is probably coming out of the orbital energy making the orbit unstable.
And even more, an ocean does not act as any sort of a buffer against gravitational forces from the sun. There's just not a significant enough amount of water even on Earth to do so.
OK, so the water transmits zero torque until there's how much of it then?
Most of the torque being applied to slow the earth down is transmitted at two hydrosphere/lithosphere boundaries: the one between the inner and outer core, and the one between the crust and the oceans. This is because unlike solid rock, fluids are free to slosh around horizontally. The outer core has more mass but the moment arm and surface area are both bigger for the oceanic boundary.
Tidal forces should have little effect on Mercury since it's already tidally locked. The same side always faces the sun. The locking occurred because Mercury was once rotating, and tidal forces mostly affect rotating planets. They stretch the planet out like an egg pointing at the sun and Mercury is probably a little egg-shaped.
When the planet is rotating, the tidal force axis swings around all longitudes during the day and it's as if the sun were rolling the planet between its fingers. It gets squashed and stretched every day. Eventually the interior of the planet absorbs all of the rotational energy as heat through this mechanism. The same thing is happening on Jupiter's innermost moon Io, which is not yet tidally locked. Io is covered with volcanoes because its rotational energy is still being converted into internal energy by tidal forces from Jupiter, and there is no hydrosphere to absorb the energy.
If there are no oceans then the solar torque gets applied directly to rock with no cushion in the way. If the planet has oceans, they absorb almost all of it since they give more easily than rock and the sun will apply its torque to the planet via the water, so that the energy loss mechanism occurs at the surface. Either waves crash onto beaches, or if there are no continents, a standing wave circles the planet every day and heats up the water a little bit, so the heat mostly radiates away.
I don't know offhand whether Mercury got its molten interior from its ancient rotational energy or just from radioactivity.
Given past performance of the US Congress when intelligence in legislative action is required involving the entertainment industry, we can expect Congress to not only NOT intervene, if they do it will likely NOT be in the consumers' favor.
At some point this knee-jerk "they're all crooks" stuff becomes self-defeating. The worst of the crooks push this notion hard because it essentially lets them off the hook for what they've done, and it simultaneously casts doubt on any reformer who is not a crook, or is a lesser crook. In this case there is something concrete to point to; we're not talking about a bill that hasn't been drafted yet.
HR 2060 is, of course, the Internet Radio Equality Act. It was introduced in April by Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Don Manzullo (R-IL) and would essentially reverse the CRB's decision, returning Internet radio to its previous, percentage-based fee structure that is similar to that of satellite radio. While Internet radio stations and supporting groups didn't have much time to lobby Congress when the bill was initially introduced, the deadline extension by the CRB could give groups like SaveNetRadio just enough time to, fittingly, save 'Net radio.
If Internet radio stations are important to you, we urge you to contact your Representative and let him or her know that you support the Internet Radio Equality Act.
Before who dies? Ballmer, or his uncle? I think Zune will die a lot earlier than that.
From Ballmer's perspective, it probably doesn't matter which among the three of them dies first, since presumably all three being alive at the same time is a precondition for this fantasy to actually take place. If Ballmer dies first, well that's that. If the uncle dies first, so what? Zune is still alive. And if the Zune dies first, Ballmer will develop a psychosis and throw a chair at his uncle.
So, this is effectively a non-story then. Unless there's been a sudden surge in Brazilian immigrants to India, that is.
Yes, it's a non-story. Any infrastructure that has been set up by the Indian government for political suppression on the Internet is now rendered useless. Nothing like Orkut will ever appear in India again- that is the only social networking site that will ever be available to a billion people or whatever it is down there. In fact all social networking sites around the world will quickly be overrun by Brazilians who try to help out by flooding the sites with Brazilian IP addresses and Portugese. If we can keep the Brazilians busy enough, we might be able to stamp out oppression on social networking sites all over the world. Your free speech can't be suppressed if you don't speak Portugese, can it? Didn't think so.
(Naturalmente, eu devo emphatically indicar que Brasil próprio é como uma cidade brilhando em um monte, com um governo enlightened que seja o envy dos povos em nações oppressed pelo mundo inteiro.)
But you know, why don't we just invade the sun? If we don't fight the photons there then we'll have to fight them here at home.
The sun is holding more than 99% of the entire energy reserves of the solar system (to say nothing of its oxygen reserves). Clearly it furthers our interests to gain a solid foothold in the region, in order to maintain our influence and control over the energy that is currently radiated to the world. And with all that energy, and oxygen, we're dealing with a star that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.
Stop making phone calls all the time, bees! I see people driving around in cars with those stupid things stuck to their faces all the time. It's a wonder they can concentrate enough to find their way back home. You, being insects, have small brains and could never carry on a simultaneous phone call conversation without losing track of what you're doing and losing the hive. I mean, it's no wonder cellphones are giving bees so much trouble. Turn off the phones, bees, fly back to your hives, puke up our honey, and fly out with new instructions. Stop being lazy and using cellphones.
You know those phones are sold with that fungus on them, bees.
I have a JCL script for a character I've been working on for months. He has five hundred hit points, six spells, a sword, a long sword, a battle axe, a print spool, and a suite of DB2 utilities.
Pay for shipping and I'll send you the punch cards.
We have this thing commonly known as "dry ice" ; otherwise as "carbon dioxide ice". They don't mine it, you know. It comes from AIR. *gasp*. It's also been around for a very long time.
They do mine it. Dry ice is prepared industrially by reactions of acids with lime or carbonate minerals. It will condense on cold objects but its concentration is only 380 ppm so nobody makes it by distillation from air.
Even though I don't agree with the "right-wing types", its certainly better than the cowardly, defeatist, losing mentality of the left-wing types. Instead of offering a better alternative, the Democrats will embrace any strategy to make Republicans look bad in the hope of gaining power in the Federal Government.
Perhaps you wouldn't be a walking talking point if you watched something other than Fox News, which reports news from an alternate reality where Democrats have not in fact offered alternative strategies which were preemptively dismissed by the Six-Star-Decider. Meanwhile the very existence of the proposed alternatives so far has not been reported by the mainstream news because it interferes with their "Democrats have no better ideas" narrative they trumpet with suspicious synchronicity across their cable programs, radio shows, news broadcasts, newspapers, direct mail campaigns, and other orifices of their noise machine. But if you don't count ideas that Bush will veto, then nobody has any good ideas.
Or maybe you're expecting someone to come along and save Bush's ass by telling him how to win. The war is not being won in any sense of the word. It isn't going to happen. Denying it doesn't make you more of a man. What's needed here is someone who can find us the best exit or long term policy, now that all acceptable alternatives have already been prevented by those who work for us (sorry, I mean the American people).
I think you need to reexamine your assumptions about what it means to "win" or "lose" the Iraq war, and what it means to work for and against the best interests of your country or even the world at large. The people who started this war and are cheering it on seem to think of it as some sort of football game. Based on their recent language for example, John McCain and Joe Lieberman are clearly locked into a win/lose worldview. One hears preposterous arguments that our reason for staying should be to avoid admitting defeat to someone.
If you view everything in terms of "winning" and "losing", you can lose track of what is really in your best interests. You make decisions that help you win but not to succeed, because you confuse winning and losing with success and failure. A good Decider considers the possibility that losing might turn out to be the smartest course of action as it was in Vietnam. He considers the possibility that winning might backfire as it did here. (Remember the Pyrrhic victory that briefly presented itself after that brief win back in March/April 2003, when the statue was falling over.) A good Decider never loses sight of what it is we want, and how that should guide our priorities. These might include protecting as many American lives as possible, or to end as much suffering in the world as possible, or to get as much gasoline as possible into the United States, or to lower carbon emissions, or to improve the economy. Is it a fundamental priority to stay in Iraq vs. being kicked out or retreating out? No. That's a derived priority- you win a desert war in order to further your real interests like lowering the price of gas or preventing loss of life or something like that. We need to start thinking in those terms, and think less about "winning".
I especially like this part: Instead of offering a better alternative, the Democrats will embrace any strategy to make Republicans look bad in the hope of gaining power in the Federal Government.
The Federal government has amassed enormous power in the executive thanks to Bush. We lost habeus corpus for example, and are moving toward a networked police state where the government knows everything about you. And the Republicans have stacked the deck up with mediocre lawyers from grade-C schools. You couldn't get a job in the DOJ without a diploma from Pat Robertson's law school, for example. Hundreds of "loyal Bushies" are in the system now and will be popping up as prosecutors, judges, and politicians for decades.
That's why liberals keep losing elections. Because they think like losers, they are losers.
They have to come up with a new catch phrase to give all you guys, because "liberals keep losing elections" is getting a little dated.
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Someone should write an article about how you should always replace your default error screens and remove information identifying your server software and version.
Resolved? We still haven't gotten to the bottom of why Dr. Bronner is putting date rape drugs in his soap. Why did he try to frame a musician for date rape before then turning around to assist in his legal defense once the thing blew wide open? This whole thing smacks of a coverup. I want to know what else this Dr. Bronner has been up to.
This is the same man who links to impeach Bush sites
This doesn't say enough about someone to impeach their credibility. Lots of people link to impeach Bush sites. Your observations about Fidel Castro (an irrelevant figure to this story if you had RTFA) seem a little quaint since he would probably have made a better president than Bush. And there is nothing unreasonable about impeachment itself:
On question on Mr. Gerry's ratio of Electors Mas. ay. Ct. ay. N. J. no. Pa. ay. Del. no. Md. no. Va. ay. N. C. ay. S. C. ay. Geo. no. [FN6] [FN7] "to be removeable on impeachment and conviction for mal practice or neglect of duty." see Resol: 9. [FN8] Mr. PINKNEY & Mr. Govr. MORRIS moved to strike out this part of the Resolution. Mr. P. observd. he ought not to be impeachable whilst in office Mr. DAVIE. If he be not impeachable whilst in office, he will spare no efforts or means whatever to get himself re-elected. He considered this as an essential security for the good behaviour of the Executive. Mr. WILSON concurred in the necessity of making the Executive impeachable whilst in office. Mr. Govr. MORRIS. He can do no criminal act without Coadjutors who may be punished. In case he should be re-elected, that will be [FN9] sufficient proof of his innocence. Besides who is to impeach? Is the impeachment to suspend his functions. If it is not the mischief will go on. If it is the impeachment will be nearly equivalent to a displacement, and will render the Executive dependent on those who are to impeach Col. MASON. No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice? Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice? When great crimes were committed he was for punishing the principal as well as the Coadjutors. There had been much debate & difficulty as to the mode of chusing the Executive. He approved of that which had been adopted at first, namely of referring the appointment to the Natl. Legislature. One objection agst. Electors was the danger of their being corrupted by the Candidates; & this furnished a peculiar reason in favor of impeachments whilst in office. Shall the man who has practised corruption & by that means procured his appointment in the first instance, be suffered to escape punishment, by repeating his guilt? Docr. FRANKLIN was for retaining the clause as favorable to the Executive. History furnishes one example only of a first Magistrate being formally brought to public Justice. Every body cried out agst. this as unconstitutional. What was the practice before this in cases where the chief Magistrate rendered himself obnoxious? Why recourse was had to assassination in wch. he was not only deprived of his life but of the opportunity of vindicating his character. It wd.. be the best way therefore to provide in the Constitution for the regular punishment of the Executive where his misconduct should deserve it, and for his honorable acquittal when [FN10] he should be unjustly accused. Mr. Govr. MORRIS admits corruption & some few other offences to be such as ought to be impeachable; but thought the cases ought to be enumerated & defined: Mr. MADISON thought it indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst. the incapacity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate. The limitation of the period of his service, was not a sufficient security. He might lose his capacity after his appointment. He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression. He might betray his trust to foreign powers. The case of the Executive Magistracy was very distinguishable, from that of the Legislature or of any other public body, holding offices of limited duration. It could not be presumed that all or even a majority of the members of an Assembly would either lose their capacity for disch
The irony here is that the box, the CD case, the CD itself, and the hologram were all manufactured in China along with most of the Vista-compatible hardware there is in the world.
A more reputable source (namely the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Richard Mellon Scaife's local rag? LOL... I lived there for years, buddy, you ain't fooling me.
I had to laugh when I saw this happened in the Pittsburgh area BTW. It totally makes sense. And the further away you get from the city center, the more whacked the place becomes.
Surely you don't think they're going to put the raw analog signal right in the vinyl so you can copy it! They're not about to make that mistake again. A generation of USB-enabled record players will come out that will be able to play your vinyl records from the attic, and also some goofy "new and improved" vinyl hi-def format where you drop the needle on an encryption key instead of the first track.
A little over ten years ago I was a graduate student in a neuroscience lab doing fMRI research. We would do MRI scans of people's heads and generate huge three dimensional matrices of voxel intensities, one per timeslice. Nowadays that wouldn't be a lot of data but back then you couldn't fit more than two or three datasets on a server HD before someone would run du and send you a nasty mail. The rate limiting step preventing research from going forward in that lab was burning CD-ROMs; I am not kidding. It seemed all anyone did all day was sit around burning data taken the night before at 3 AM (when the MRI was free) onto countless CDs. Either that or you were waiting for the next guy to finish his burn. I forget how long the burners were running but 50% of burns would fail at the end. The other 50% would usually leave you with an unreadable puck. And someone was always waiting for you to finish. Once in a while a readable CD actually came out of the burner. You had to do it at 1X though.
They try to design that stuff to look like the scary kind of mail you get from a company you're already doing business with. They go for the panic sell... "OMG $student_name you have to refinance your loan with $creditor_name as soon as possible or else you're screwed!" They seem to know all sorts of stuff about your personal business. We get this crap all the time for my wife's law school loan. It's carefully designed to look like bills or tax forms associated with the loan, so you have to examine it to verify it's actually junk mail relating to the loan. It's junk mail from hell.
You may be required to apply for a permit to protest in the U.S., and there is no guarantee that you will get one from a given municipality. Often you will have to agree to stay inside a "First Amendment Zone" set up as a chain link fenced-in area in some place where nobody sees you except homeless people who can't vote.
The zoning is not applied evenly across the political spectrum; pro-government activists are allowed to line streets along motorcades.
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What's really funny is that a country with a fake Disneyland in it is selling us half of our own DRM-infested media players that might refuse to play us our own DRM-encrypted Disney crap. Meanwhile a billion people are hiding behind their own firewall and manufacturing DVD players and you know they've got the decrypted versions of all Disney's stuff in there. The purpose of DRM is to prevent anyone from popping a hole in a huge, thin bubble of lame encryption to be applied everywhere, in the fear that unprotected bits might leak through and fall under anyone else's control anywhere which would render the whole exercise rather pointless. If the bubble is popped in China then only the Great Firewall stands in the way. Maybe they need to implement stronger DRM encryption at various redundant points along every one of the undersea cables, and lobby the government to mandate an intellectual property protection standard for all radio transmitters launched into space. Is Disney going to prevent the country with the fake Disneyland from manufacturing the players that implement their bubble of DRM by hiding secret encryption keys from us and occasionally refusing to decrypt/play things for us? Disney might need to reconsider who deserves its trust.
Mercury is not tidally locked with the sun, but rotates very slowly at about 3 rotations for every 2 revolutions around the sun.
I forgot my Mercury trivia; they used to think it was locked before they found the 3/2 resonance. Since the resonance is stable, rotational energy is not being affected anymore. But then that means tidal forces are still heating Mercury over a 1400 hour cycle. The heat loss from friction is probably coming out of the orbital energy making the orbit unstable.
And even more, an ocean does not act as any sort of a buffer against gravitational forces from the sun. There's just not a significant enough amount of water even on Earth to do so.
OK, so the water transmits zero torque until there's how much of it then?
Most of the torque being applied to slow the earth down is transmitted at two hydrosphere/lithosphere boundaries: the one between the inner and outer core, and the one between the crust and the oceans. This is because unlike solid rock, fluids are free to slosh around horizontally. The outer core has more mass but the moment arm and surface area are both bigger for the oceanic boundary.
Tidal forces should have little effect on Mercury since it's already tidally locked. The same side always faces the sun. The locking occurred because Mercury was once rotating, and tidal forces mostly affect rotating planets. They stretch the planet out like an egg pointing at the sun and Mercury is probably a little egg-shaped.
When the planet is rotating, the tidal force axis swings around all longitudes during the day and it's as if the sun were rolling the planet between its fingers. It gets squashed and stretched every day. Eventually the interior of the planet absorbs all of the rotational energy as heat through this mechanism. The same thing is happening on Jupiter's innermost moon Io, which is not yet tidally locked. Io is covered with volcanoes because its rotational energy is still being converted into internal energy by tidal forces from Jupiter, and there is no hydrosphere to absorb the energy.
If there are no oceans then the solar torque gets applied directly to rock with no cushion in the way. If the planet has oceans, they absorb almost all of it since they give more easily than rock and the sun will apply its torque to the planet via the water, so that the energy loss mechanism occurs at the surface. Either waves crash onto beaches, or if there are no continents, a standing wave circles the planet every day and heats up the water a little bit, so the heat mostly radiates away.
I don't know offhand whether Mercury got its molten interior from its ancient rotational energy or just from radioactivity.
At some point this knee-jerk "they're all crooks" stuff becomes self-defeating. The worst of the crooks push this notion hard because it essentially lets them off the hook for what they've done, and it simultaneously casts doubt on any reformer who is not a crook, or is a lesser crook. In this case there is something concrete to point to; we're not talking about a bill that hasn't been drafted yet. http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Before who dies? Ballmer, or his uncle? I think Zune will die a lot earlier than that.
From Ballmer's perspective, it probably doesn't matter which among the three of them dies first, since presumably all three being alive at the same time is a precondition for this fantasy to actually take place. If Ballmer dies first, well that's that. If the uncle dies first, so what? Zune is still alive. And if the Zune dies first, Ballmer will develop a psychosis and throw a chair at his uncle.
So, this is effectively a non-story then. Unless there's been a sudden surge in Brazilian immigrants to India, that is.
Yes, it's a non-story. Any infrastructure that has been set up by the Indian government for political suppression on the Internet is now rendered useless. Nothing like Orkut will ever appear in India again- that is the only social networking site that will ever be available to a billion people or whatever it is down there. In fact all social networking sites around the world will quickly be overrun by Brazilians who try to help out by flooding the sites with Brazilian IP addresses and Portugese. If we can keep the Brazilians busy enough, we might be able to stamp out oppression on social networking sites all over the world. Your free speech can't be suppressed if you don't speak Portugese, can it? Didn't think so.
(Naturalmente, eu devo emphatically indicar que Brasil próprio é como uma cidade brilhando em um monte, com um governo enlightened que seja o envy dos povos em nações oppressed pelo mundo inteiro.)
No, what Ballmer said is that he's hoping he can get his own uncle to buy a Zune before he dies.
Think about that for a second.
I almost didn't get that.
But you know, why don't we just invade the sun? If we don't fight the photons there then we'll have to fight them here at home.
The sun is holding more than 99% of the entire energy reserves of the solar system (to say nothing of its oxygen reserves). Clearly it furthers our interests to gain a solid foothold in the region, in order to maintain our influence and control over the energy that is currently radiated to the world. And with all that energy, and oxygen, we're dealing with a star that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.
Stop making phone calls all the time, bees! I see people driving around in cars with those stupid things stuck to their faces all the time. It's a wonder they can concentrate enough to find their way back home. You, being insects, have small brains and could never carry on a simultaneous phone call conversation without losing track of what you're doing and losing the hive. I mean, it's no wonder cellphones are giving bees so much trouble. Turn off the phones, bees, fly back to your hives, puke up our honey, and fly out with new instructions. Stop being lazy and using cellphones.
You know those phones are sold with that fungus on them, bees.
> Only one Slashdot would people naturally assume that the term "new rack in my bedroom" involved computer equipment...
Not me. I assumed it involved sadomasochism as soon as I read it.
I have a JCL script for a character I've been working on for months. He has five hundred hit points, six spells, a sword, a long sword, a battle axe, a print spool, and a suite of DB2 utilities.
Pay for shipping and I'll send you the punch cards.
We have this thing commonly known as "dry ice" ; otherwise as "carbon dioxide ice". They don't mine it, you know.
It comes from AIR. *gasp*. It's also been around for a very long time.
They do mine it. Dry ice is prepared industrially by reactions of acids with lime or carbonate minerals. It will condense on cold objects but its concentration is only 380 ppm so nobody makes it by distillation from air.
Even though I don't agree with the "right-wing types", its certainly better than the cowardly, defeatist, losing mentality of the left-wing types. Instead of offering a better alternative, the Democrats will embrace any strategy to make Republicans look bad in the hope of gaining power in the Federal Government.
Perhaps you wouldn't be a walking talking point if you watched something other than Fox News, which reports news from an alternate reality where Democrats have not in fact offered alternative strategies which were preemptively dismissed by the Six-Star-Decider. Meanwhile the very existence of the proposed alternatives so far has not been reported by the mainstream news because it interferes with their "Democrats have no better ideas" narrative they trumpet with suspicious synchronicity across their cable programs, radio shows, news broadcasts, newspapers, direct mail campaigns, and other orifices of their noise machine. But if you don't count ideas that Bush will veto, then nobody has any good ideas.
Or maybe you're expecting someone to come along and save Bush's ass by telling him how to win. The war is not being won in any sense of the word. It isn't going to happen. Denying it doesn't make you more of a man. What's needed here is someone who can find us the best exit or long term policy, now that all acceptable alternatives have already been prevented by those who work for us (sorry, I mean the American people).
I think you need to reexamine your assumptions about what it means to "win" or "lose" the Iraq war, and what it means to work for and against the best interests of your country or even the world at large. The people who started this war and are cheering it on seem to think of it as some sort of football game. Based on their recent language for example, John McCain and Joe Lieberman are clearly locked into a win/lose worldview. One hears preposterous arguments that our reason for staying should be to avoid admitting defeat to someone.
If you view everything in terms of "winning" and "losing", you can lose track of what is really in your best interests. You make decisions that help you win but not to succeed, because you confuse winning and losing with success and failure. A good Decider considers the possibility that losing might turn out to be the smartest course of action as it was in Vietnam. He considers the possibility that winning might backfire as it did here. (Remember the Pyrrhic victory that briefly presented itself after that brief win back in March/April 2003, when the statue was falling over.) A good Decider never loses sight of what it is we want, and how that should guide our priorities. These might include protecting as many American lives as possible, or to end as much suffering in the world as possible, or to get as much gasoline as possible into the United States, or to lower carbon emissions, or to improve the economy. Is it a fundamental priority to stay in Iraq vs. being kicked out or retreating out? No. That's a derived priority- you win a desert war in order to further your real interests like lowering the price of gas or preventing loss of life or something like that. We need to start thinking in those terms, and think less about "winning".
I especially like this part:
Instead of offering a better alternative, the Democrats will embrace any strategy to make Republicans look bad in the hope of gaining power in the Federal Government.
The Federal government has amassed enormous power in the executive thanks to Bush. We lost habeus corpus for example, and are moving toward a networked police state where the government knows everything about you. And the Republicans have stacked the deck up with mediocre lawyers from grade-C schools. You couldn't get a job in the DOJ without a diploma from Pat Robertson's law school, for example. Hundreds of "loyal Bushies" are in the system now and will be popping up as prosecutors, judges, and politicians for decades.
That's why liberals keep losing elections. Because they think like losers, they are losers.
They have to come up with a new catch phrase to give all you guys, because "liberals keep losing elections" is getting a little dated.
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Someone should write an article about how you should always replace your default error screens and remove information identifying your server software and version.
Resolved? We still haven't gotten to the bottom of why Dr. Bronner is putting date rape drugs in his soap. Why did he try to frame a musician for date rape before then turning around to assist in his legal defense once the thing blew wide open? This whole thing smacks of a coverup. I want to know what else this Dr. Bronner has been up to.
On Slashdot, 50% of the news has to be about Sony.
sony, haha
This doesn't say enough about someone to impeach their credibility. Lots of people link to impeach Bush sites. Your observations about Fidel Castro (an irrelevant figure to this story if you had RTFA) seem a little quaint since he would probably have made a better president than Bush. And there is nothing unreasonable about impeachment itself:
Are you suggesting I don't read all my make install and
I review my scripts for correctness every morning before I kick off my kernel recompile and take my shower.
The irony here is that the box, the CD case, the CD itself, and the hologram were all manufactured in China along with most of the Vista-compatible hardware there is in the world.
Richard Mellon Scaife's local rag? LOL... I lived there for years, buddy, you ain't fooling me.
I had to laugh when I saw this happened in the Pittsburgh area BTW. It totally makes sense. And the further away you get from the city center, the more whacked the place becomes.
Surely you don't think they're going to put the raw analog signal right in the vinyl so you can copy it! They're not about to make that mistake again. A generation of USB-enabled record players will come out that will be able to play your vinyl records from the attic, and also some goofy "new and improved" vinyl hi-def format where you drop the needle on an encryption key instead of the first track.
A little over ten years ago I was a graduate student in a neuroscience lab doing fMRI research. We would do MRI scans of people's heads and generate huge three dimensional matrices of voxel intensities, one per timeslice. Nowadays that wouldn't be a lot of data but back then you couldn't fit more than two or three datasets on a server HD before someone would run du and send you a nasty mail. The rate limiting step preventing research from going forward in that lab was burning CD-ROMs; I am not kidding. It seemed all anyone did all day was sit around burning data taken the night before at 3 AM (when the MRI was free) onto countless CDs. Either that or you were waiting for the next guy to finish his burn. I forget how long the burners were running but 50% of burns would fail at the end. The other 50% would usually leave you with an unreadable puck. And someone was always waiting for you to finish. Once in a while a readable CD actually came out of the burner. You had to do it at 1X though.
They try to design that stuff to look like the scary kind of mail you get from a company you're already doing business with. They go for the panic sell... "OMG $student_name you have to refinance your loan with $creditor_name as soon as possible or else you're screwed!" They seem to know all sorts of stuff about your personal business. We get this crap all the time for my wife's law school loan. It's carefully designed to look like bills or tax forms associated with the loan, so you have to examine it to verify it's actually junk mail relating to the loan. It's junk mail from hell.
You may be required to apply for a permit to protest in the U.S., and there is no guarantee that you will get one from a given municipality. Often you will have to agree to stay inside a "First Amendment Zone" set up as a chain link fenced-in area in some place where nobody sees you except homeless people who can't vote.
The zoning is not applied evenly across the political spectrum; pro-government activists are allowed to line streets along motorcades.