As usual, the PPC reviewer completely fails to listen to a recording of silence for the presence of buzz from backlight ballasts to near to the microphone leads. WHY???
Steel, composites, and fiberglass aren't a strain on the environment. Steel production once was, in the days of coke-fired plants, but those days are long past.
Google News Headlines does indeed have serious problems, but it forces a strict "fourth-party" perspective that I feel can often help the average news consumer.
Take the Al-Jeezera on Kobe Bryant story example. There you have a perspective that nobody in the U.S. will otherwise be exposed to. Sure, they probably didn't do much in-depth reporting, but who needs in-depth stories on sports figure rape cases, anyway? That's the kind of thing that U.S. media has too much of as it is. I would rather learn what some nameless Al-Jeezera reporter thinks of Kobe Bryant's case than that of the whole cast and crew of Denver TV newsrooms put together.
Anyway, Google News Search and Alerts are indeed superb. Much better than the MSN and Yahoo alternatives, and I've been reading side-by-side alerts on a variety of topics for several months now.
Why nuclear? The U.S. could get more than 95% of its electricity demand from wind turbines on less than 3% of its farmland. The law of averages over the continent's grid smooths out the inherent unreliability of localized wind power, and the rest of the shaping can be taken care of with existing hydropower. There is no need for coal or nuclear.
"The Jabber/XMPP protocols have evolved through an open design process within the Jabber and broader Internet communities since 1999." -- www.jabber.org/protocol
I agree; containing antimatter is much trickier than most people think. If they all have the same charge, anything aproaching microgram quantities reaches enough internal pressure to make electrostatic confinement impossible. And there's no perfect vaccume, etc. Even if we could afford to make a microgram, I doubt we could store it for effective weapon delivery.
I'm not sure I'm opposed to basic research into antimatter, though. I just wish that it didn't have to be classified six ways 'till Sunday.
I have a feeling that this will serve to keep interested physicists destracted from much simpler uranium enrichment.
This is actually a pretty good question. You've got me thinking about, given Cheney's record, what exactly the senators should have asked to see. I agree they should have at least had their staff interview the analysts.
The State Dept. cannot order the states to cooperate with the OSCE.
On the contrary, treaty provisions are given priority over the United States Code, and the Constitution assigned foreign affairs to the federal government. The monitoring provisions under the OSCE have the full force of law.
I will withold comment as to whether Republicans stand to gain by claiming treaty provisions are invalid.
"We're functioning in a - with peacetime restraints, with legal requirements in a wartime situation, in the information age, where people are running around with digital cameras and taking these unbelievable photographs and then passing them off, against the law, to the media, to our surprise, when they had not even arrived in the Pentagon."
Up next, Michelle Malkin describes why her dual Phillipino citizenship means she should be placed in an internment camp until the threat level turns green.
I don't know. When you tell someone that his kids are about to be sprayed with anthrax, and you're supposedly in a position to know, and it's a serious felony to lie about it, and they don't ask to see the minutae, I don't know. Even politicians have to trust people, especially when they're being told that time is of the essense and millions of lives are at stake.
So, the senators arranged to meet with Cheney, Tenet, Jacoby, and the USAF guy who Cheney wouldn't let give his side of the story about the anthrax drones, Cheney lies, Tenet omits to the point of explicit falsehood, Jacoby violates his oath by refusing to correct them, and you blame the senators?
How exactly, again, does that line of reasoning go?
On the contrary by definition on entymology: authorization requires proper authority; subborning authorization is explicitly unauthorized. It is a clerical error to call an attempted authorization made on false pretenses an authorization. In cases of extreme lack of precision, that can be excused, but it is not accurate, and Pudge wants to make an issue of it.
If I hire Dick Cheney to tell you and 74 of your friends that some person is going to bomb Washington with anthrax drones that don't acutally exist, aluminum centrifuge tubes that don't actually exist, and yellowcake from Nigeria that doesn't actually exist, and you all vote to bomb that person first, does that mean you authorized it?
Of course not. Bush and Cheney knew exactly what they wanted, and they wouldn't accept any CIA report that didn't agree with their presuppositions. That isn't leading, that is managing a lie.
When you lie to someone, you take their liberty by preventing them from acting on accurate information.
Deceiving Congress on war matters is a serious felony. By trying to claim that an authorization gained under false pretenses is an actual authorization, you are not only aiding and abbetting the felons, you are also undermining your own reputation, the reputation of your family, your church, your employer, and your party.
When you are given your heavenly rewards, I pray that God reminds you in full omniscient detail of all the birth defects and cancers which would not have occured if those convicted drunk drivers had not obtained the authorization of force that they had to lie to obtain. Here's a preview.
If I hire Dick Cheney to tell you and 74 of your friends that some person is going to bomb Washington with anthrax drones that don't acutally exist, aluminum centrifuge tubes that don't actually exist, and yellowcake from Nigeria that doesn't actually exist, and you all vote to bomb that person first, does that mean you authorized it?
Of course not. Bush and Cheney knew exactly what they wanted, and they wouldn't accept any CIA report that didn't agree with their presuppositions. That isn't leading, that is managing a lie.
When you lie to someone, you take their liberty by preventing them from acting on accurate information.
Decieving Congress on war matters is a serious felony. By trying to claim that an authorization gained under false pretenses is an actual authorization, you are not only aiding and abbetting the felons, you are also undermining your own reputation, the reputation of your family, your church, your employer, and your party.
When you are given your heavenly rewards, I pray that God reminds you in full omniscient detal of all the birth defects and cancers which would not have occured if those convicted drunk drivers had not obtained the authorization of force that they had to lie to obtain. Here's a preview.
You're right that we can debate the wisdom of the vote, and that, dear Pudge, is most certainly on topic.
I know that America's (extremely corrupt and unreasonably profiteering) corporations develop the lion's share of new techniques and treatments.
Almost all of them are now incorporated in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, or the like, in order to pay virtually no U.S. tax.
From that perspective, Swedish companies paying Swedish taxes do more medical R&D than U.S. companies paying U.S. taxes. Kerry has promised to end that supertanker-sized loophole.
If you don't think we will need 57% tax bracket when the baby boomers retire, then you haven't been looking at the solvency projections on the OMB's own website.
As broken as our SS/Medicare system is, it is better than socialism.
Why do you think that U.S. SS/Medicare is distinguishable from socialism? Does your cold-war era dictionary say that socalism is equivalent to communism is equivalent to 100% property taxation? Socialism is a progressive income tax, a progressive overall tax, and sucessful forms involve a low property and sales (regressive forms of) tax.
What do your sources tell you about the "can't be bothered to get a job because the public dole is good enough" factor?
Sweden's 2003 unemployment rate: 4.9%
US 2003 unemployment rate: 6%
The public dole might be good enough for artists who would otherwise starve, but nearly everyone wants something better, and with Sweden's state-sponsored professional and advanced, lifelong, vocational education, it's easy to live a very comfortable lifestyle even if unfortunate turns of events require multiple career changes.
The logical extension is that the U.S. is deficit-spending into a very serious crisis the moment the baby boomers start retiring and requiring Medicare. Alan Greenspan has been saying so in no uncertain terms in each of his Humphrey-Hawkins testimonies since 2002.
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Well, that explains my sig.
As usual, the PPC reviewer completely fails to listen to a recording of silence for the presence of buzz from backlight ballasts to near to the microphone leads. WHY???
Steel, composites, and fiberglass aren't a strain on the environment. Steel production once was, in the days of coke-fired plants, but those days are long past.
If you lag one year, things get better for the democrats, as the WaPo article linked from my sig page on the lower right column indicates.
The president is a legislator, with the final say in signing or vetoing any proposed law. That gives him more power than half of the Congress.
Take the Al-Jeezera on Kobe Bryant story example. There you have a perspective that nobody in the U.S. will otherwise be exposed to. Sure, they probably didn't do much in-depth reporting, but who needs in-depth stories on sports figure rape cases, anyway? That's the kind of thing that U.S. media has too much of as it is. I would rather learn what some nameless Al-Jeezera reporter thinks of Kobe Bryant's case than that of the whole cast and crew of Denver TV newsrooms put together.
Anyway, Google News Search and Alerts are indeed superb. Much better than the MSN and Yahoo alternatives, and I've been reading side-by-side alerts on a variety of topics for several months now.
The new Sony CLIE PEG-VZ90 has a 480×320x16b OLED display. Available in Japan only, at present. A bigger picture and some news links here.
Someone put an order in to Edmund Scientific! We need a new category and we're all out! What WILL we do?
Why nuclear? The U.S. could get more than 95% of its electricity demand from wind turbines on less than 3% of its farmland. The law of averages over the continent's grid smooths out the inherent unreliability of localized wind power, and the rest of the shaping can be taken care of with existing hydropower. There is no need for coal or nuclear.
Sorry, five years, my mistake.
I remember when IETF drafts took less than six years to make it through to RFC status.
I'm not sure I'm opposed to basic research into antimatter, though. I just wish that it didn't have to be classified six ways 'till Sunday.
I have a feeling that this will serve to keep interested physicists destracted from much simpler uranium enrichment.
This is actually a pretty good question. You've got me thinking about, given Cheney's record, what exactly the senators should have asked to see. I agree they should have at least had their staff interview the analysts.
On the contrary, treaty provisions are given priority over the United States Code, and the Constitution assigned foreign affairs to the federal government. The monitoring provisions under the OSCE have the full force of law.
I will withold comment as to whether Republicans stand to gain by claiming treaty provisions are invalid.
Exhibit B - handbills relegated to unseen areas
Exhibit C - cavity searches for journalists on World Press Freedom Day
Exhibit D - arguments in favor of squelching 527s
Up next, Michelle Malkin describes why her dual Phillipino citizenship means she should be placed in an internment camp until the threat level turns green.
I have a huge amount of respect for him. He taught me that compromise is way overvalued.
I don't know. When you tell someone that his kids are about to be sprayed with anthrax, and you're supposedly in a position to know, and it's a serious felony to lie about it, and they don't ask to see the minutae, I don't know. Even politicians have to trust people, especially when they're being told that time is of the essense and millions of lives are at stake.
How exactly, again, does that line of reasoning go?
On the contrary by definition on entymology: authorization requires proper authority; subborning authorization is explicitly unauthorized. It is a clerical error to call an attempted authorization made on false pretenses an authorization. In cases of extreme lack of precision, that can be excused, but it is not accurate, and Pudge wants to make an issue of it.
If I hire Dick Cheney to tell you and 74 of your friends that some person is going to bomb Washington with anthrax drones that don't acutally exist, aluminum centrifuge tubes that don't actually exist, and yellowcake from Nigeria that doesn't actually exist, and you all vote to bomb that person first, does that mean you authorized it?
Of course not. Bush and Cheney knew exactly what they wanted, and they wouldn't accept any CIA report that didn't agree with their presuppositions. That isn't leading, that is managing a lie.
When you lie to someone, you take their liberty by preventing them from acting on accurate information.
Deceiving Congress on war matters is a serious felony. By trying to claim that an authorization gained under false pretenses is an actual authorization, you are not only aiding and abbetting the felons, you are also undermining your own reputation, the reputation of your family, your church, your employer, and your party.
When you are given your heavenly rewards, I pray that God reminds you in full omniscient detail of all the birth defects and cancers which would not have occured if those convicted drunk drivers had not obtained the authorization of force that they had to lie to obtain. Here's a preview.
On the contrary, real median household income in 2003-adjusted dollars has declined $1,535 under the convicted drunk drivers, while it rose $5,489 under Clinton, and declined $1,314 under the convicted drunk driver's daddy.
Of course not. Bush and Cheney knew exactly what they wanted, and they wouldn't accept any CIA report that didn't agree with their presuppositions. That isn't leading, that is managing a lie.
When you lie to someone, you take their liberty by preventing them from acting on accurate information.
Decieving Congress on war matters is a serious felony. By trying to claim that an authorization gained under false pretenses is an actual authorization, you are not only aiding and abbetting the felons, you are also undermining your own reputation, the reputation of your family, your church, your employer, and your party.
When you are given your heavenly rewards, I pray that God reminds you in full omniscient detal of all the birth defects and cancers which would not have occured if those convicted drunk drivers had not obtained the authorization of force that they had to lie to obtain. Here's a preview.
You're right that we can debate the wisdom of the vote, and that, dear Pudge, is most certainly on topic.
Almost all of them are now incorporated in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, or the like, in order to pay virtually no U.S. tax.
From that perspective, Swedish companies paying Swedish taxes do more medical R&D than U.S. companies paying U.S. taxes. Kerry has promised to end that supertanker-sized loophole.
If you don't think we will need 57% tax bracket when the baby boomers retire, then you haven't been looking at the solvency projections on the OMB's own website.
Sweden's 2003 unemployment rate: 4.9%
US 2003 unemployment rate: 6%
The public dole might be good enough for artists who would otherwise starve, but nearly everyone wants something better, and with Sweden's state-sponsored professional and advanced, lifelong, vocational education, it's easy to live a very comfortable lifestyle even if unfortunate turns of events require multiple career changes.
The logical extension is that the U.S. is deficit-spending into a very serious crisis the moment the baby boomers start retiring and requiring Medicare. Alan Greenspan has been saying so in no uncertain terms in each of his Humphrey-Hawkins testimonies since 2002.