I think we do ourselves a disservice when we perpetuate this line. Didn't Slashdot cover this issue just a while back on CD sales actually increasing but the RIAA using the numbers that made it look like sales had dramatically dropped.
Well, yeah, if people are buying music like crazy but it is from Apple, the sales of physical CDs is going to decline eventually (but I think using the right numbers they haven't even declined yet).
I went to site and attempted to read the article, but I couldn't find any information on the actual equipment they plan on using for the wireless part.
Looking at the pictures, they seem to not have heavy tree coverage, but if they are going to try and use something like Motorola Canopy equipment, trees could very well be an issue.
I would also be curios as to the radius that is going to need to be covered. Do most of the people live pretty close together or is the community spread out all over the creation?
If it is the latter, I would really like to know what kind of equipment they are using!?!
I'm not much for government interference in the market place, but the WARN Act certainly seems to be a good thing to me. Had it not been for that legislation, these guys very likely would not have found out about being fired until they came to work one morning and found their door code didn't work any longer.
I was involved in a large company that scanned and converted military documents into a SGML format. Had it not been for the WARN Act, I'm sure those SOBs would have never told us a word about them going under...until the day it happened. And I really think it pained them to have to tell us. Not because they felt sorry for us, but that they didn't want anyone to know until our freaking door codes no longer worked!
And this time people, this is a joke and not a troll!!!
This is a friendly note from the law office of Bezos & McBride (no relation, really) in representation of the SCO Corporation. SCO would like to inform you that it holds the trademark to the term "Year of Linux." Please cease and desist the use of the term without acknowledgement of the trademark. If you wish to continue using this term, please contact SCO to discuss licensing terms.
This is a friendly note from the law office of Bezos & McBride (no relation, really) in representation of the SCO Corporation. SCO would like to inform you that it holds the trademark to the term "Year of Linux." Please cease and desist the use of the term without acknowledgement of the trademark. If you wish to continue using this term, please contact SCO to discuss licensing terms.
The Hobbit was the first book I read and still my favorite. They say that he wants to use some of the same actors, too. All in all, it gives us something to look forward to.
because you can order all the films in question off of it. I ordered Shaolin Soccer about four or five months ago and paid about 10.00 for it, and that includes shipping.
I assume that even if an individual purchased one of these movies, they would have the right to resell it? Or would Miramax get its army of lawyers to write a nasty letter to you?
If it is legal, some of these import companies would be on more legal ground to just sell them on Ebay as individuals instead of under a company name.
I kind of understand Miramax's point of view, but I have a hard time understanding how my viewing Shaolin Soccer before they release it in the US hurts anyone. The way I feel is that the actors earned money, as the DVD I purchased was a legit DVD. As long as the actors got paid, I don't care about putting any extra money in Miramax's pocket. The US release of Shaolin Soccer on DVD will probably be 15 - 20.00. I paid 10.00 and got to see it uncut but had to read subtitles.
Is it possible that there really was an attack, but the attack originated from inside the SCO LAN? If so could this explain the internal problems that are being reported as well as the lack of bandwidth problems outside the router? Again, I am no expert at all in this regard, but just putting out a theory, that perhaps someone has attacked SCO from the inside....
Maybe someone should investigate a way to see who was downloading a bunch of warez, movies, porn, and MP3s at that time. Maybe some of the services that monitor such traffic could point us in the direction of SCO employees?!?! And of course, when the slowdown was noticed, the employees would blame it of a DDoS attack!
One thing I forgot to mention when using Thunderbird to backup OE e-mail. If you use the method I mentioned above to import the mail, it will only import the mail from the default OE e-mail account. Since we have multiple users, you would actually have to change the default account for each account you wanted to import. One thing that would be very useful would be for Thunderbird to ask which identity it wanted to import!!!
But still, it is free...so it is hard to complain too much.
I installed Thunderbird after it was last mentioned on Slashdot. One thing I found is it is a great way to backup mail from Outlook Express. You just delete the Thunderbird data (read the help file) and the next time you start it, it asks you if you want to import mail. Just click the Import option for Outlook Express, and it takes all the mail in OE and imports it into a plain txt format that, if all else fails, you could use Notepad to read (unlike OE, which would take an act of Congress to read if for some reason the data files were separated from the OE program).
As far as using Thunderbird full time, I would like to, but I actually have several years of e-mails stored in OE and when they are all imported into Thunderbird, it sure makes the old bird fly slow.
Note I also use e-Backup from http://www.inachis.com/index.htm to backup and restore an OE mail database. It has worked great and it is pretty good at replicating an OE setup between different machines as well (e.g. backup your home machine and restore it at work).
Yes, I am a microsoft basher and I'm wanting to move to Linux in the next year or so, but I will confess, outside of the virus thing, OE isn't as bad as some people make it out to be.
I have always said that if monks or Native Americans wanted to live together in a commune to share resources and help each other out, it was just fine, and indeed, that is a form of voluntary "communism." However, if someone puts a gun to your head and makes you join a group of people against your will, well that is a whole new ball game.
One of the arguments for socialism is that the early Christians were socialist. Well, there is a huge difference between someone being kind-hearted and sharing...and the government stealing from you and forcing you to give to things you would not necessarily give to if you had been given a real choice.
You know what the difference is between theft at gun point and theft by taxes? In the former they send you to prison. In the latter, they send you to Congress!
Usurper_ii
Napster's Defense
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Who Is An ISP?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I think Napster would have liked the definition offered. If memory serves me correctly, they tried to define themselves as an ISP to use the safe harbor clause of the DMCA...and it didn't hold up in a court room.
I was watching X men and it hit me that the whole movie was a SCO analogy. Stay with me here. Bill Gates is Magneto and Darl McBride is Toad. Now I haven't figured out who Mystique is yet, but since she is the closest thing to a nude woman most Slashdotters are ever going to see, we all need to at least get a mental image of her at this point. Anyway, Magneto has all the important people rounded up at this big party -- these people are IBM, Novell, Red Hat big wigs, etc. -- and he has this huge electrical storm heading toward them (I have seen the movie three times now and I'm still not exactly sure what that electrical-storm thing is supposed to do?). Now here is where it gets good because Linus is Wolverine (Logan) and off on the side, as this big storm comes, he is battling Toad. First, Wolverine makes it look like he killed himself by starting to talk about incorporating DRM into Linux, but this is all blowing smoke up everyone's ass, 'cause Toad, thinking Wolverine is dead, goes up to him and starts looking through his pockets for some code to steal, but Wolverine shoots his knives out of his fingers and rams them right through Toad...you can see them sticking out of his back, and as the camera zooms in, you see blood stained, cool-looking shiny metal glistening in the moonlight. Now with Toad out of the way Wolverine turns his sights toward stopping Magneto and his electrical storm-cloud thing speeding towards everyone. Wolverine quickly finds the computer controlling the storm and starts to do some hacking on it to stop the storm, but when he brings up a DOS window to run a script in, the damn thing gets a BSOD...forcing Logan to do a crtl-alt-delete on the computer...three times. Luckily, the reboot stops the electrical storm-cloud thing, but Logan does feel a little robbed that it was Magneto's own poor software that really did him in!
My company won that auction and we purchased the check for $7000 which was then immediately donated to the Sisters of the Road Cafe in Portland, Oregon. We've still got the check, a check for $500
What I don't understand is how your company still has the check if it was "immediately donated to the Sisters of the Road Cafe?"
Are you saying the guy who held the ebay auction donated the 7000.00 to Sisters of the Road Cafe...and your company still has the check?
That whole deal sounds fishy to me, as I fail to see why anyone would pay 7000.00 for a check worth 500.00, with no guarantee at all that the person who held the Ebay auction would really donate the money to charity.
It seems to me that if your company just wanted to be charitable, it would have been better just to pick out a charity and donate to it. At least that way you knew where the money would go AND been able to take it as a tax deduction. (Can you deduct spending 7000.00 for a 500.00 check from your income tax?)
And as someone else already pointed out, Microsoft saved 500.00 bucks because the check was never cashed!!!
I have over three hundred CDs and very few of them were purchased retail. In fact, the biggest majority of my CDs that weren't bought used, came from BMG.
To me, BMG is like dollar movies. You have to wait a little bit for the good stuff to hit the catalog but if you aren't in a big hurry, you can save 50%-plus. They often have really good sales where you can buy one and get two or three free (yeah, they stick it to you on shipping but it is still far cheaper than going to a retail store).
I have wondered about why nobody on here mentions BMG whenever everyone is bitching about high prices for CDs before...and personally, I suspect you are right: some people just like to bitch!
For a list of my music, check out: http://www.parentingforless.com/mp3trade/
If you type in a *.org domain name wrong, Sitefinder will only suggest a *.com site in its list of suggested sites. If you aren't aware of this, it makes you think there is no such.org domain name.
And the other day, when www.kungfucinema.com went off line for a day or so, sitefinder suggested a couple of domains that sounded like what I was looking for, but www.kungfucinema.com was not in the list of suggestions at all. I tell you, for a while there I thought they had let the domain name expire and the site was just plain gone. It turns out their server just tanked and sitefiner is a piece of crap that makes you think there is no such domain name since it didn't suggest what you were looking for.
When It comes to improving your health, regular fasting may be just as beneficial as counting calories. In a recent study, mice that were fed only every other day (but could gorge on the days they did eat) experienced similar health benefits to ones that had their portions of food reduced by 40 percent. Researchers believe that going without food imposes a mild stress on bodily cells, which respond by increasing their ability to cope with more severe stress. The fasting mice also showed an increased resistance to Alzheimer's disease and diabetes, and earlier studies found that mice that fasted every other day had extended life spans.
To view this article from the source, go to http://www.alternativemedicine.com/ and search for cell phone. The name of the article is "You Make The Call." -- Usurper_ii
-=-=-=-=
Alternative Medicine
ON THE EDGE With Burton Goldberg
You make the call
Studies show that people who don't think cell phones have adverse health effects need to have their heads examined.
Cell phones are not just here to stay. They have evolved into ever more versatile and powerful devices and have become indispensable to our way of life. Why, then, can't we make these technological marvels safe?
Of course, according to the cell phone industry, cell phones are perfectly harmless: "After a substantial amount of research, scientists and governments around the world continue to reaffirm that there is no public health threat from the use of wireless phones," says Tom Wheeler, president and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA).
According to numerous prominent researchers, that statement is nonsense. Henry Lai, Ph.D., is a research professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington. Over the last several years he has conducted cell phone studies funded originally by the U.S. Navy and Air Force and later by the National Institutes of Health. "I have a list of about 600 research papers from the past ten years alone, 70 percent of which show definite effects from exposure to this kind of radiation," says Lai, "but the industry continues to say that there is nothing to worry about."
What about cell phones and cancer, the most publicized concern? "Studies have been conducted to determine whether there is an association between cellular telephone use and an increased risk of certain types of cancer," according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). "Although the majority of these studies have not supported any such association, scientists caution that more research needs to be done before conclusions can be drawn about the risk of cancer from cellular telephones."
"More research" is the mantra of all three groups - industry, government and scientists - each with their differing motives. And, in fact, more research is needed - but not to prove that cell phones do pose a health threat: That has been proven beyond any doubt. Swedish researcher Clas Tegenfeld, who is writing a book on biological effects of electromagnetic fields, says "Already there are at least 15,000 scientific reports on the subject. I am afraid the truth is that we don't want to know."
There have, in fact, been several studies that show no correlation between cell phone use and cancer. These studies were conducted by respected institutions and researchers and the results published in peer-reviewed journals. However, these were all simple statistical studies that compared the incidence of brain cancer among cell phone users to that of the general population. Typical of these studies is an oft-cited one from Sweden that was published in the July 1999 issue of the International Journal of Oncology. According to the NCI, "This study compared cellular telephone use in a group of 209 individuals who had brain tumors (the case group) with a group of 425 people without brain cancer (the control group). The study reported a statistically nonsignificant increased risk for brain tumors on the side of the head on which the cellular telephone was used. However, researchers found no overall increase in the risk for brain tumors with cellular telephone use."
Does this prove that cell phone use does not lead to increased risk of brain cancer? No. As the NCI itself points out, "Cancers that take a long time to develop would not have been detected by these studies." What has been shown in numerous studies, however, is that the radiation coming from cell phones does have measurable effects on brain cells that can lead to cancer, as well as neurological diseases.
Lai's experiments are instructive in this regard. One of his main findings was that radiation
I agree that burned CDs just don't cut it as gifts at Christmas time and if I plan on giving music still buy orginal CDs. However, I get something I was kind of wanting too and burn a copy of it before I wrap it up!
It is funny you mention Steve McQueen because actually Steve McQueen was healed of his cancer when he went to Mexico. He did not die from cancer, he died quiet some time after he came back to the US from complications from having his dead tumor removed FOR VANITY REASONS.
If you would actualy read what you wrote, it would be obvious to you how stupid it sounds. In the whole history of the world, no chronic degenerative disease, such as cancer, has been cured by giving someone a man-made poision. And you have the balls to call me a quack/liar? I have history on my side. All you have is a lot of sick and dead people and stats that PROVE what they are doing does not work...
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I think we do ourselves a disservice when we perpetuate this line. Didn't Slashdot cover this issue just a while back on CD sales actually increasing but the RIAA using the numbers that made it look like sales had dramatically dropped.
Well, yeah, if people are buying music like crazy but it is from Apple, the sales of physical CDs is going to decline eventually (but I think using the right numbers they haven't even declined yet).
Usurper_ii
I went to site and attempted to read the article, but I couldn't find any information on the actual equipment they plan on using for the wireless part.
Looking at the pictures, they seem to not have heavy tree coverage, but if they are going to try and use something like Motorola Canopy equipment, trees could very well be an issue.
I would also be curios as to the radius that is going to need to be covered. Do most of the people live pretty close together or is the community spread out all over the creation?
If it is the latter, I would really like to know what kind of equipment they are using!?!
Usurper_ii
I'm not much for government interference in the market place, but the WARN Act certainly seems to be a good thing to me. Had it not been for that legislation, these guys very likely would not have found out about being fired until they came to work one morning and found their door code didn't work any longer.
I was involved in a large company that scanned and converted military documents into a SGML format. Had it not been for the WARN Act, I'm sure those SOBs would have never told us a word about them going under...until the day it happened. And I really think it pained them to have to tell us. Not because they felt sorry for us, but that they didn't want anyone to know until our freaking door codes no longer worked!
Usurper_ii
And this time people, this is a joke and not a troll!!!
This is a friendly note from the law office of Bezos & McBride (no relation, really) in representation of the SCO Corporation. SCO would like to inform you that it holds the trademark to the term "Year of Linux." Please cease and desist the use of the term without acknowledgement of the trademark. If you wish to continue using this term, please contact SCO to discuss licensing terms.
Thanks you,
Law Office of Bezos & McBride
D. McBride
J. Bezos
This is a friendly note from the law office of Bezos & McBride (no relation, really) in representation of the SCO Corporation. SCO would like to inform you that it holds the trademark to the term "Year of Linux." Please cease and desist the use of the term without acknowledgement of the trademark. If you wish to continue using this term, please contact SCO to discuss licensing terms.
Thanks you,
Law Office of Bezos & McBride
D. McBride
J. Bezos
The Hobbit was the first book I read and still my favorite. They say that he wants to use some of the same actors, too. All in all, it gives us something to look forward to.
Here is more info:
http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/3977.html
Usurper_ii
because you can order all the films in question off of it. I ordered Shaolin Soccer about four or five months ago and paid about 10.00 for it, and that includes shipping.
I assume that even if an individual purchased one of these movies, they would have the right to resell it? Or would Miramax get its army of lawyers to write a nasty letter to you?
If it is legal, some of these import companies would be on more legal ground to just sell them on Ebay as individuals instead of under a company name.
I kind of understand Miramax's point of view, but I have a hard time understanding how my viewing Shaolin Soccer before they release it in the US hurts anyone. The way I feel is that the actors earned money, as the DVD I purchased was a legit DVD. As long as the actors got paid, I don't care about putting any extra money in Miramax's pocket. The US release of Shaolin Soccer on DVD will probably be 15 - 20.00. I paid 10.00 and got to see it uncut but had to read subtitles.
Usurper_ii
Pretty funny when Bart says, "Hey Darl!"
Check out this screen capture.
Usurper_ii
Pretty funny when Bart says, "Hey Darl!" Check out this
screen capture.
Usurper_ii
Is it possible that there really was an attack, but the attack originated from inside the SCO LAN? If so could this explain the internal problems that are being reported as well as the lack of bandwidth problems outside the router? Again, I am no expert at all in this regard, but just putting out a theory, that perhaps someone has attacked SCO from the inside....
Maybe someone should investigate a way to see who was downloading a bunch of warez, movies, porn, and MP3s at that time. Maybe some of the services that monitor such traffic could point us in the direction of SCO employees?!?! And of course, when the slowdown was noticed, the employees would blame it of a DDoS attack!
Usurper_ii
One thing I forgot to mention when using Thunderbird to backup OE e-mail. If you use the method I mentioned above to import the mail, it will only import the mail from the default OE e-mail account. Since we have multiple users, you would actually have to change the default account for each account you wanted to import. One thing that would be very useful would be for Thunderbird to ask which identity it wanted to import!!!
But still, it is free...so it is hard to complain too much.
Usurper_ii
I installed Thunderbird after it was last mentioned on Slashdot. One thing I found is it is a great way to backup mail from Outlook Express. You just delete the Thunderbird data (read the help file) and the next time you start it, it asks you if you want to import mail. Just click the Import option for Outlook Express, and it takes all the mail in OE and imports it into a plain txt format that, if all else fails, you could use Notepad to read (unlike OE, which would take an act of Congress to read if for some reason the data files were separated from the OE program).
As far as using Thunderbird full time, I would like to, but I actually have several years of e-mails stored in OE and when they are all imported into Thunderbird, it sure makes the old bird fly slow.
Note I also use e-Backup from http://www.inachis.com/index.htm to backup and restore an OE mail database. It has worked great and it is pretty good at replicating an OE setup between different machines as well (e.g. backup your home machine and restore it at work).
Yes, I am a microsoft basher and I'm wanting to move to Linux in the next year or so, but I will confess, outside of the virus thing, OE isn't as bad as some people make it out to be.
Usurper_ii
I have always said that if monks or Native Americans wanted to live together in a commune to share resources and help each other out, it was just fine, and indeed, that is a form of voluntary "communism." However, if someone puts a gun to your head and makes you join a group of people against your will, well that is a whole new ball game.
One of the arguments for socialism is that the early Christians were socialist. Well, there is a huge difference between someone being kind-hearted and sharing...and the government stealing from you and forcing you to give to things you would not necessarily give to if you had been given a real choice.
You know what the difference is between theft at gun point and theft by taxes? In the former they send you to prison. In the latter, they send you to Congress!
Usurper_ii
I think Napster would have liked the definition offered. If memory serves me correctly, they tried to define themselves as an ISP to use the safe harbor clause of the DMCA...and it didn't hold up in a court room.
I was watching X men and it hit me that the whole movie was a SCO analogy. Stay with me here. Bill Gates is Magneto and Darl McBride is Toad. Now I haven't figured out who Mystique is yet, but since she is the closest thing to a nude woman most Slashdotters are ever going to see, we all need to at least get a mental image of her at this point. Anyway, Magneto has all the important people rounded up at this big party -- these people are IBM, Novell, Red Hat big wigs, etc. -- and he has this huge electrical storm heading toward them (I have seen the movie three times now and I'm still not exactly sure what that electrical-storm thing is supposed to do?). Now here is where it gets good because Linus is Wolverine (Logan) and off on the side, as this big storm comes, he is battling Toad. First, Wolverine makes it look like he killed himself by starting to talk about incorporating DRM into Linux, but this is all blowing smoke up everyone's ass, 'cause Toad, thinking Wolverine is dead, goes up to him and starts looking through his pockets for some code to steal, but Wolverine shoots his knives out of his fingers and rams them right through Toad...you can see them sticking out of his back, and as the camera zooms in, you see blood stained, cool-looking shiny metal glistening in the moonlight. Now with Toad out of the way Wolverine turns his sights toward stopping Magneto and his electrical storm-cloud thing speeding towards everyone. Wolverine quickly finds the computer controlling the storm and starts to do some hacking on it to stop the storm, but when he brings up a DOS window to run a script in, the damn thing gets a BSOD...forcing Logan to do a crtl-alt-delete on the computer...three times. Luckily, the reboot stops the electrical storm-cloud thing, but Logan does feel a little robbed that it was Magneto's own poor software that really did him in!
To be continued....
My company won that auction and we purchased the check for $7000 which was then immediately donated to the Sisters of the Road Cafe in Portland, Oregon. We've still got the check, a check for $500
What I don't understand is how your company still has the check if it was "immediately donated to the Sisters of the Road Cafe?"
Are you saying the guy who held the ebay auction donated the 7000.00 to Sisters of the Road Cafe...and your company still has the check?
That whole deal sounds fishy to me, as I fail to see why anyone would pay 7000.00 for a check worth 500.00, with no guarantee at all that the person who held the Ebay auction would really donate the money to charity.
It seems to me that if your company just wanted to be charitable, it would have been better just to pick out a charity and donate to it. At least that way you knew where the money would go AND been able to take it as a tax deduction. (Can you deduct spending 7000.00 for a 500.00 check from your income tax?)
And as someone else already pointed out, Microsoft saved 500.00 bucks because the check was never cashed!!!
Usurper_ii
That will be included in the dupe. Give it an hour or so.
Thanks
I have over three hundred CDs and very few of them were purchased retail. In fact, the biggest majority of my CDs that weren't bought used, came from BMG.
To me, BMG is like dollar movies. You have to wait a little bit for the good stuff to hit the catalog but if you aren't in a big hurry, you can save 50%-plus. They often have really good sales where you can buy one and get two or three free (yeah, they stick it to you on shipping but it is still far cheaper than going to a retail store).
I have wondered about why nobody on here mentions BMG whenever everyone is bitching about high prices for CDs before...and personally, I suspect you are right: some people just like to bitch!
For a list of my music, check out:
http://www.parentingforless.com/mp3trade/
Usurper_ii
If you type in a *.org domain name wrong, Sitefinder will only suggest a *.com site in its list of suggested sites. If you aren't aware of this, it makes you think there is no such .org domain name.
And the other day, when www.kungfucinema.com went off line for a day or so, sitefinder suggested a couple of domains that sounded like what I was looking for, but www.kungfucinema.com was not in the list of suggestions at all. I tell you, for a while there I thought they had let the domain name expire and the site was just plain gone. It turns out their server just tanked and sitefiner is a piece of crap that makes you think there is no such domain name since it didn't suggest what you were looking for.
Usurper_ii
shakespearean sonnet...after many years of much random crap banged out, when one of the stupid animals hit ctrl-alt-del!
Say, that reminds me of a Usenet joke...
Usurper_ii
When It comes to improving your health, regular fasting may be just as beneficial as counting calories. In a recent study, mice that were fed only every other day (but could gorge on the days they did eat) experienced similar health benefits to ones that had their portions of food reduced by 40 percent. Researchers believe that going without food imposes a mild stress on bodily cells, which respond by increasing their ability to cope with more severe stress. The fasting mice also showed an increased resistance to Alzheimer's disease and diabetes, and earlier studies found that mice that fasted every other day had extended life spans.
Source: National institute on Aging
To view this article from the source, go to http://www.alternativemedicine.com/ and search
for cell phone. The name of the article is "You
Make The Call." -- Usurper_ii
-=-=-=-=
Alternative Medicine
ON THE EDGE
With Burton Goldberg
You make the call
Studies show that people who don't think cell phones have adverse health effects need to have their heads examined.
Cell phones are not just here to stay. They have evolved into ever more versatile and powerful devices and have become indispensable to our way of life. Why, then, can't we make these technological marvels safe?
Of course, according to the cell phone industry, cell phones are perfectly harmless: "After a substantial amount of research, scientists and governments around the world continue to reaffirm that there is no public health threat from the use of wireless phones," says Tom Wheeler, president and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA).
According to numerous prominent researchers, that statement is nonsense. Henry Lai, Ph.D., is a research professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington. Over the last several years he has conducted cell phone studies funded originally by the U.S. Navy and Air Force and later by the National Institutes of Health. "I have a list of about 600 research papers from the past ten years alone, 70 percent of which show definite effects from exposure to this kind of radiation," says Lai, "but the industry continues to say that there is nothing to worry about."
What about cell phones and cancer, the most publicized concern? "Studies have been conducted to determine whether there is an association between cellular telephone use and an increased risk of certain types of cancer," according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). "Although the majority of these studies have not supported any such association, scientists caution that more research needs to be done before conclusions can be drawn about the risk of cancer from cellular telephones."
"More research" is the mantra of all three groups - industry, government and scientists - each with their differing motives. And, in fact, more research is needed - but not to prove that cell phones do pose a health threat: That has been proven beyond any doubt. Swedish researcher Clas Tegenfeld, who is writing a book on biological effects of electromagnetic fields, says "Already there are at least 15,000 scientific reports on the subject. I am afraid the truth is that we don't want to know."
There have, in fact, been several studies that show no correlation between cell phone use and cancer. These studies were conducted by respected institutions and researchers and the results published in peer-reviewed journals. However, these were all simple statistical studies that compared the incidence of brain cancer among cell phone users to that of the general population. Typical of these studies is an oft-cited one from Sweden that was published in the July 1999 issue of the International Journal of Oncology. According to the NCI, "This study compared cellular telephone use in a group of 209 individuals who had brain tumors (the case group) with a group of 425 people without brain cancer (the control group). The study reported a statistically nonsignificant increased risk for brain tumors on the side of the head on which the cellular telephone was used. However, researchers found no overall increase in the risk for brain tumors with cellular telephone use."
Does this prove that cell phone use does not lead to increased risk of brain cancer? No. As the NCI itself points out, "Cancers that take a long time to develop would not have been detected by these studies." What has been shown in numerous studies, however, is that the radiation coming from cell phones does have measurable effects on brain cells that can lead to cancer, as well as neurological diseases.
Lai's experiments are instructive in this regard. One of his main findings was that radiation
Where it would have complete control of all the ad space and the *DESKTOP* and have it setup to dial right into AOL.
I still say in the end it would be good for Linux, too. Imagine AOL sending out free Linux distros in the mail just like they do their stuff now.
Usurper_ii
I agree that burned CDs just don't cut it as gifts at Christmas time and if I plan on giving music still buy orginal CDs. However, I get something I was kind of wanting too and burn a copy of it before I wrap it up!
usurper_ii
It is funny you mention Steve McQueen because actually Steve McQueen was healed of his cancer when he went to Mexico. He did not die from cancer, he died quiet some time after he came back to the US from complications from having his dead tumor removed FOR VANITY REASONS.
If you would actualy read what you wrote, it would be obvious to you how stupid it sounds. In the whole history of the world, no chronic degenerative disease, such as cancer, has been cured by giving someone a man-made poision. And you have the balls to call me a quack/liar? I have history on my side. All you have is a lot of sick and dead people and stats that PROVE what they are doing does not work...
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