Nothing new here, but we all know that life on this planet needs to reach a new level. A new way of life has to be discovered to drive our system of living. Discovery of the new world, the industrial revolution, invention of computers, the internet.. all these are things that drove economies around the globe. What's the next thing that changes our lives and keeps the ever growing population of humans going? When will the earth run out of oil to fuel our tech jobs? When is our ratio of arable land to food needs going to turn deeply against us? When does a nuclear plant in North Korea meltdown, thus causing a billion to die? Populating Mars, or any other planet will not prevent us from repeating our same mistakes, but it will prolong the human virus.
Can someone tell me who in the United States even gives a shit about Mickey Mouse? All the kids I'm around could care less about Mickey Mouse. He's a LOSER! They want someone with guns, web-shooters, or a fast car. They don't even know what a steamboat is.. nor do they think Disney is cool. It's old and smells like puke (at least in FL).
Do you have any further information on this? This piece of information is the largest racket I have ever heard! So If I write my own song, and I record it to CD, then I have to pay the RIAA to do so!?!?!?! That's like microsoft attempting to charge HDD mans a levy because they can store linux on the HDD, and that would go against what microsoft wants. This is an outrage.
How ironic, I get an error in acrobat letting me know that the document(read comment link) can't be decrypted for viewing. I would try to circumvent, but then I'd be in violation of the DMCA.
There is *nothing* in there that would lead anyone to conclude that removing ABS would be an advantage. Quite the opposite. The only time it increases your stopping distance is a) driver misuse (letting up on the brake due to feedback), b) snow covered road where the "piling up" of snow in front of the wheel helps.
...People like you will keep propogating this myth and disinformation, and it must stop here...
OMG, what an arrogant comment. Do you work for the IIHS, NHTSA, or a major insurance carrier?
In this case, I picked the first reference from your google search and read the second paragraph that contained this line:
It isn't entirely clear that antilock braking will reduce stopping distance for the skilled driver
First off, 99% of the drivers on the road today are not even close to the class of 'skilled driver' Reaction times, distractions, lack of any formal training, and a variety of other factors make ABS the BEST option for vehicles on the road today. Have you ever been to a driving school on a closed track with an instructor in the car at all times? Perhaps you have, but most of the drivers on the roads today have not.
A skilled driver can stop better without ABS brakes (particularly on dry pavement) using a technique called threshold braking. Essentially, threshold braking is when a driver applies the maximum amount force on the brakes to slow the car without locking the wheels. If executed properly, the wheels will not lock, but actually move slower than the rotational speed required to maintain speed on the pavement. It tends to work best in an open-wheeled race car, but the technique also applies to roadgoing cars. Anti-lock brakes will hinder this technique. Check racing literature -- using this technique yields shorter stopping distances then punching the brake on an ABS-equiped vehicle.
Your comment about threshold braking is so funny, because ABS is computer controlled threshold braking. While racing on the track, most vehicles are without ABS brakes due to the fact that the race driver can't afford the weight of a braking management system, and they want to be able to have zero interferience when appying brakes, just the same when a driver wishes to have no traction management system on a race car. These systems limit the amount of feedback required when 100% of your focus is going towards the "line".
ABS brakes also tend to limit the ability of a driver to use another technique called trail-braking (and left-foot braking). These are braking techniques used to offset the balance of the vehicle in a corner and tighten up the line through a corner. This is used in both racing situations and emergency avoidance manuvers.
Ask your closest co-worker is he knows how to apply trail-braking in emergency avoidance stituations... I doubt they will have any idea of what you are talking about. Trail braking is not as simple as you think.
Additionally, having ABS tends to make drivers over-confident -- many tend to steer during heavy braking, which unloads the rear tires of a car and can easily cause a vehicle to spin out of control...or cause a sport-ute to roll.
Many drivers prefer ABS brakes -- which is fine. Its their choice. In fact, for most drivers, ABS is better...but the absolute mentality you have is just wrong.
ABS reduces stopping distances when the typical driver actuates the brake pedal to it's fullest, fact.
"I suggested that consumers pay 1 cent per commercial skipped (which is about the same as what advertisers pay). That would be equivalent to $10/thousand commercials skipped. I think that's reasonable. I also suggested that targeted advertising could be a win-win for all involved by delivering ads in areas that are of greater interest to the viewer so that there would be less incentive to skip and fewer ads would have to be delivered due to the higher prices paid for the targeted group. I also predicted that this dynamic combined with competition between satellite and cable would ultimately make both services free."
This is brilliant. Not only can the companies pay the cable companies to air commercials, they get even more money when people skip them. So If you want want me to air a commercial, pay me, if you want to skip a commercial, pay me. Where do the companies get their refund? What about pay-per watched commercial advertising, such as google's adwords select?
This means nothing. They switched to LINUX to render... but they still use IRIX for Maya and Houdini. I've got a few friends that have done work at d2 and they all think nothing about it. Rendering is a job for a large number of systems that don't need shit for graphics, and that's exactly why they switched. Why do I need an Octane 2 or a Fuel to render?
10GB of crap music surely won't be encoded where it should be, 224 IMHO, so does any know the quality of these 2,000 songs? When does pressplay and gateway include a free extra hard disk simply for the purpose of storing all these damn files?
We've had a few interviews in the past here on/. and the answers to these questions were on the 5th grade level. I'm doubting that "Bill" even answered the questions. They feel shallow and without sincerity. Almost like an admin answered them for him. Thoughts?
Windows is a common word! I think I'm going to trademark the word Hello because it's the name of my product that I use to automatically hang up on telemarketers. Now I will have to request that everyone stops staying hello when greeting someone, or pay me a fee.
Can someone tell me when enough is enough? Vampires don't suck all the blood out of their victims, only MegaCorp does.
While the short term for consumers will be good, the long term is that the winner will become a monopoly like no other. US anti-trust laws won't mean a thing to the company that wins this war, simply because they will control all information across all borders. M$ bawked at the cases brought against them while they trudged forward into new markets such as the Xl30X, losing millions along the way solely for the sake of the long term. Now imagine a company that is twice or three times the size of M$ once this battle is won. Perhaps it will be M$ that wins, but only time will tell.
FWIW, I'm a big fan of the fact that M$ is a US company, as I think it's a big part of what makes us a super-power, along with few thousand nukes that is.
Can someone please explain why Lucas's comments matter? George Lucas is involved in a small niche of film genre that a majority of people do not like. Mr. Lucas is so reclusive to his own staff that most people I spoke with when at Skywalker Ranch simply scratched their heads and commented, "that's George." George makes a few billion dollars by chance and people claim he is god. George has no idea what the consumer is, or how the consumer thinks. He simply knows how to sqeeze every last dollar out of the smallest amount of product. Anyone that makes his annual take has no idea what it means to be part of society, and these two fellows are way out of touch. George will have none of my respect, as he is too concerned about the lining in his pockets. Now if this were Tom Hanks, I would respect his comments 1000x more; however, Tom is busy educating, filming, and pushing his political ideas out there. While I don't agree with a lot of Tom's views, he has done more to educate the general public about the space program than NASA itself, IMHO. George on the other hand is spreading misinformation about the physics of space with his ridiculous, yet fun, movies (except for Ep. 1, which just sucked ass). This argument made by the entertainment conglomerates is baseless. Media made on the backs of poorly paid writers, film crews, and secondary staff has no right to make such claims. $10 million to "The Rock" for a movie, and claims of going broke make so much sense to me. Anyoen agree?
No matter what they try to force down on us, it will fail. In the end the China factor takes the cake. They seem to forget that China is a country of a few billion people that don't give a rats ass about US copyright law.
Also, don't go with broadband based content delivery.. a/. article yesterday talked about 5gb caps on broadband. 2-3 movies and your done for the month.
A quick search on IMDB proves why George doesn't get my respect when it comes to preaching to the public:
George Lucas credits... mostly story (in one genre) and tv
Now Tom Hanks... balanced and across multiple genres.
Disconnects all the time. They change my IP whenever they feel like it. My speeds are about 10kps when they used to be 100kps. I can't seem to stay connected for more than 30 min at a time, so playing WCIII is a lost cause. $45 a month, plus digital cable (with ads on the channel selector), and digital phone service.. ugg.. $120 a month to ATTBB and I loathe them. I hate verizon, my phone lines are compressed, and I can't afford a T1.... I wonder how hard it would be to purchase a fractional t1 and sell access via wireless to my neighbors
Does anyone else here feel that WorldCom isn't going to do shit to stop these people. It's been proven that WorldCom has zero morals and the ethics policy on the WorldCom intranet is synonymous with the numbers 404. I don't need to go into detail. We are pretty much screwed. WorldCom is going to do anything for a penny now. Spammers keep the bandwidth utilized, thus giving people jobs and so on and so forth...
So it's better for you to take gasoline made from oil that is millions of years old, rather than from plant waste that was grown 1 year ago? BTW, it's Kyoto.
I'll tell you what.. maybe we should just walk everywhere.... or use electric cars. Who cares about the energy it takes to charge the cells right? Out of site, out of mind?
Ethanol is a logical next step. Idealism when it comes to fueling the world is great and all, but it gets us nowhere.
Oh, BTW.. It's a proven fact that America has the best controls for pollution and we have spent more money to save the environment and the world than any other country. So drop your flamebait and take some time to READ the facts before you comment.
"The next generation of ethanol production facilities will include production from cellulose and biomass feedstocks. Earlier this year, there was a groundbreaking for a new ethanol production plant in Jennings, Louisiana which, when completed, will produce ethanol from rice hulls and bagasse. Three other plants are currently planned in California that will produce ethanol from rice straw. "
By 2015 I would hope to see a combination of E85 Fuel and hybrid electric. E85 is a fuel blend of 100% renewable Ethanol and 15% gasoline. I have seen people claim that American car manufacturers are not paying attention to the "green" car. I say that isn't true. The Ford Taurus, in all it's grand ugliness has been a FFV vehicle for years. An FFV vehicle is a fuel flexible vehicle that can run on 100% gasoline, to any mix of ethonol up to 85%. There are currently more FFV vehicles on the market today than Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
Some include:
2.7L Dodge Stratus Sedan
2.7L Chrysler Sebring Sedan and Convertible
3.3L Dodge Cargo Minivan
3.3L Chrysler Voyager minivan
3.3L Dodge Caravan minivan
3.3L Chrysler Town & Country minivan
4.0L Explorer (4-door)
3.0L Taurus sedan and wagon
3.0L Supercab Ranger pickup 2WD
5.3L V-8 engine Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra half-ton pickups 2WD & 4WD
5.3L Vortec-engine Suburban, Tahoe, Yukon and Yukon XLs
3.0L Selected B3000 pickups
4.0L Selected Mountaineers
2.2L Hombre pickup 2WD
2.2L Chevrolet S-10 pickup 2WD
2.2L Sonoma GMC pickup 2WD
E85 vehicles require no plug either. They also require no infrastructure upgrades like other solutions. Ethanol combustion produces friendly CO2 gas that can be used by plants, and water. Ethanol produces 110 octane, thus keeping your engine cleaner. The biggest myth about Ethanol, is that it requires corn to be efficient. Not true again, many industrial byproducts can be used to produce Ethanol. The byproducts of Ethanol production can be used in many other applications.
Now image all this:
US production of Ethanol - 85%
US production of Oil - takes care of 5% of the Gasoline requirement
10 % of Gasoline is still from foreign sources
Combined with Hybrid Electric technology we can create a vehicle that gets 50+ MPG, reduces pollutants by probably 90%, and changes NONE of our infrastructure requirements!
Why hasn't this technology come to the forefront... because for some reason, no one wants to see Ethanol succeed. The oil companies shot down Ethanol in the 80's and Archer Daniels Midland worked out a deal with the oil companies to save itself from bankruptcy due to bad management.
So will the US use Red laser beams and all of our enemies will use Green? Perhaps we should use an alternating pattern of Red, White, and Blue laser light just so they know who's coming for them.
But first we will drop baby powder bombs in so they can see the beams, then we light em up!
Corporate would be effected, but core military and banking information is done via private lines that have nothing to do with the internet. The Federal Reserve Bank communicates over private lines just like the UK Trust.
Funny thing about all of this is, Curious $color is probably already on every computer and no one knows about it. My hope is that the US government simply has control of it.
For some reason, I just don't see Saddam reading e-mail. What exactly would he expect? An outlook invite to the lunch and learn session on advanced tourture methods in the atomic conference room? Or perhaps he gives out his card at political functions so that people can e-mail him new ideas about how to fund terrorist operations without the world knowing about it.
-- Saddam Hussein President, god, and super nice guy (because I said so). Iraq, country of milk and honey (964)(1) 718-9267 (phone) (964)(1) 885-2286 (fax)
"This issue is not inspectors, the issue is disarmament."
Instead of more crap to accommodate the impaired, why don't we redirect our energies, our funds, and our legislation to find medical cures for these imparities? In every aspect of life, we only seem to want to treat the symptoms because treating the source requires to much effort. All the more reason for embryonic research.
That's the argument that Larry Flynt had, and still has for years. Ever see the movie about his life with Woody Harrelson? The People vs. Larry Flynt, quite a good movie.
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Nothing new here, but we all know that life on this planet needs to reach a new level. A new way of life has to be discovered to drive our system of living. Discovery of the new world, the industrial revolution, invention of computers, the internet.. all these are things that drove economies around the globe. What's the next thing that changes our lives and keeps the ever growing population of humans going? When will the earth run out of oil to fuel our tech jobs? When is our ratio of arable land to food needs going to turn deeply against us? When does a nuclear plant in North Korea meltdown, thus causing a billion to die? Populating Mars, or any other planet will not prevent us from repeating our same mistakes, but it will prolong the human virus.
There are very few posts that truly should transcend into a realm of godlike proportions. The parent post is one of them.
Can someone tell me who in the United States even gives a shit about Mickey Mouse? All the kids I'm around could care less about Mickey Mouse. He's a LOSER! They want someone with guns, web-shooters, or a fast car. They don't even know what a steamboat is.. nor do they think Disney is cool. It's old and smells like puke (at least in FL).
Do you have any further information on this? This piece of information is the largest racket I have ever heard! So If I write my own song, and I record it to CD, then I have to pay the RIAA to do so!?!?!?! That's like microsoft attempting to charge HDD mans a levy because they can store linux on the HDD, and that would go against what microsoft wants. This is an outrage.
refer to subject...
How ironic, I get an error in acrobat letting me know that the document(read comment link) can't be decrypted for viewing. I would try to circumvent, but then I'd be in violation of the DMCA.
There is *nothing* in there that would lead anyone to conclude that removing ABS would be an advantage. Quite the opposite. The only time it increases your stopping distance is a) driver misuse (letting up on the brake due to feedback), b) snow covered road where the "piling up" of snow in front of the wheel helps.
...People like you will keep propogating this myth and disinformation, and it must stop here...
OMG, what an arrogant comment. Do you work for the IIHS, NHTSA, or a major insurance carrier?
In this case, I picked the first reference from your google search and read the second paragraph that contained this line:
It isn't entirely clear that antilock braking will reduce stopping distance for the skilled driver
First off, 99% of the drivers on the road today are not even close to the class of 'skilled driver' Reaction times, distractions, lack of any formal training, and a variety of other factors make ABS the BEST option for vehicles on the road today. Have you ever been to a driving school on a closed track with an instructor in the car at all times? Perhaps you have, but most of the drivers on the roads today have not.
A skilled driver can stop better without ABS brakes (particularly on dry pavement) using a technique called threshold braking. Essentially, threshold braking is when a driver applies the maximum amount force on the brakes to slow the car without locking the wheels. If executed properly, the wheels will not lock, but actually move slower than the rotational speed required to maintain speed on the pavement. It tends to work best in an open-wheeled race car, but the technique also applies to roadgoing cars. Anti-lock brakes will hinder this technique. Check racing literature -- using this technique yields shorter stopping distances then punching the brake on an ABS-equiped vehicle.
Your comment about threshold braking is so funny, because ABS is computer controlled threshold braking. While racing on the track, most vehicles are without ABS brakes due to the fact that the race driver can't afford the weight of a braking management system, and they want to be able to have zero interferience when appying brakes, just the same when a driver wishes to have no traction management system on a race car. These systems limit the amount of feedback required when 100% of your focus is going towards the "line".
ABS brakes also tend to limit the ability of a driver to use another technique called trail-braking (and left-foot braking). These are braking techniques used to offset the balance of the vehicle in a corner and tighten up the line through a corner. This is used in both racing situations and emergency avoidance manuvers.
Ask your closest co-worker is he knows how to apply trail-braking in emergency avoidance stituations... I doubt they will have any idea of what you are talking about. Trail braking is not as simple as you think.
Additionally, having ABS tends to make drivers over-confident -- many tend to steer during heavy braking, which unloads the rear tires of a car and can easily cause a vehicle to spin out of control...or cause a sport-ute to roll.
Many drivers prefer ABS brakes -- which is fine. Its their choice. In fact, for most drivers, ABS is better...but the absolute mentality you have is just wrong.
ABS reduces stopping distances when the typical driver actuates the brake pedal to it's fullest, fact.
"I suggested that consumers pay 1 cent per commercial skipped (which is about the same as what advertisers pay). That would be equivalent to $10/thousand commercials skipped. I think that's reasonable. I also suggested that targeted advertising could be a win-win for all involved by delivering ads in areas that are of greater interest to the viewer so that there would be less incentive to skip and fewer ads would have to be delivered due to the higher prices paid for the targeted group. I also predicted that this dynamic combined with competition between satellite and cable would ultimately make both services free."
This is brilliant. Not only can the companies pay the cable companies to air commercials, they get even more money when people skip them. So If you want want me to air a commercial, pay me, if you want to skip a commercial, pay me. Where do the companies get their refund? What about pay-per watched commercial advertising, such as google's adwords select?
This means nothing. They switched to LINUX to render... but they still use IRIX for Maya and Houdini. I've got a few friends that have done work at d2 and they all think nothing about it. Rendering is a job for a large number of systems that don't need shit for graphics, and that's exactly why they switched. Why do I need an Octane 2 or a Fuel to render?
10GB of crap music surely won't be encoded where it should be, 224 IMHO, so does any know the quality of these 2,000 songs? When does pressplay and gateway include a free extra hard disk simply for the purpose of storing all these damn files?
We've had a few interviews in the past here on /. and the answers to these questions were on the 5th grade level. I'm doubting that "Bill" even answered the questions. They feel shallow and without sincerity. Almost like an admin answered them for him. Thoughts?
Windows is a common word! I think I'm going to trademark the word Hello because it's the name of my product that I use to automatically hang up on telemarketers. Now I will have to request that everyone stops staying hello when greeting someone, or pay me a fee.
Can someone tell me when enough is enough? Vampires don't suck all the blood out of their victims, only MegaCorp does.
While the short term for consumers will be good, the long term is that the winner will become a monopoly like no other. US anti-trust laws won't mean a thing to the company that wins this war, simply because they will control all information across all borders. M$ bawked at the cases brought against them while they trudged forward into new markets such as the Xl30X, losing millions along the way solely for the sake of the long term. Now imagine a company that is twice or three times the size of M$ once this battle is won. Perhaps it will be M$ that wins, but only time will tell.
FWIW, I'm a big fan of the fact that M$ is a US company, as I think it's a big part of what makes us a super-power, along with few thousand nukes that is.
Can someone please explain why Lucas's comments matter? George Lucas is involved in a small niche of film genre that a majority of people do not like. Mr. Lucas is so reclusive to his own staff that most people I spoke with when at Skywalker Ranch simply scratched their heads and commented, "that's George." George makes a few billion dollars by chance and people claim he is god. George has no idea what the consumer is, or how the consumer thinks. He simply knows how to sqeeze every last dollar out of the smallest amount of product. Anyone that makes his annual take has no idea what it means to be part of society, and these two fellows are way out of touch. George will have none of my respect, as he is too concerned about the lining in his pockets. Now if this were Tom Hanks, I would respect his comments 1000x more; however, Tom is busy educating, filming, and pushing his political ideas out there. While I don't agree with a lot of Tom's views, he has done more to educate the general public about the space program than NASA itself, IMHO. George on the other hand is spreading misinformation about the physics of space with his ridiculous, yet fun, movies (except for Ep. 1, which just sucked ass). This argument made by the entertainment conglomerates is baseless. Media made on the backs of poorly paid writers, film crews, and secondary staff has no right to make such claims. $10 million to "The Rock" for a movie, and claims of going broke make so much sense to me. Anyoen agree?
/. article yesterday talked about 5gb caps on broadband. 2-3 movies and your done for the month.
No matter what they try to force down on us, it will fail. In the end the China factor takes the cake. They seem to forget that China is a country of a few billion people that don't give a rats ass about US copyright law.
Also, don't go with broadband based content delivery.. a
A quick search on IMDB proves why George doesn't get my respect when it comes to preaching to the public:
George Lucas credits... mostly story (in one genre) and tv
Now Tom Hanks... balanced and across multiple genres.
Sucks ass.
Disconnects all the time. They change my IP whenever they feel like it. My speeds are about 10kps when they used to be 100kps. I can't seem to stay connected for more than 30 min at a time, so playing WCIII is a lost cause. $45 a month, plus digital cable (with ads on the channel selector), and digital phone service.. ugg.. $120 a month to ATTBB and I loathe them. I hate verizon, my phone lines are compressed, and I can't afford a T1.... I wonder how hard it would be to purchase a fractional t1 and sell access via wireless to my neighbors
The article keeps making references to WorldCom.
Does anyone else here feel that WorldCom isn't going to do shit to stop these people. It's been proven that WorldCom has zero morals and the ethics policy on the WorldCom intranet is synonymous with the numbers 404. I don't need to go into detail. We are pretty much screwed. WorldCom is going to do anything for a penny now. Spammers keep the bandwidth utilized, thus giving people jobs and so on and so forth...
So it's better for you to take gasoline made from oil that is millions of years old, rather than from plant waste that was grown 1 year ago? BTW, it's Kyoto.
I'll tell you what.. maybe we should just walk everywhere.... or use electric cars. Who cares about the energy it takes to charge the cells right? Out of site, out of mind?
Ethanol is a logical next step. Idealism when it comes to fueling the world is great and all, but it gets us nowhere.
Oh, BTW.. It's a proven fact that America has the best controls for pollution and we have spent more money to save the environment and the world than any other country. So drop your flamebait and take some time to READ the facts before you comment.
"The next generation of ethanol production facilities will include production from cellulose and biomass feedstocks. Earlier this year, there was a groundbreaking for a new ethanol production plant in Jennings, Louisiana which, when completed, will produce ethanol from rice hulls and bagasse. Three other plants are currently planned in California that will produce ethanol from rice straw. "
E85 is much better for the environment.
By 2015 I would hope to see a combination of E85 Fuel and hybrid electric. E85 is a fuel blend of 100% renewable Ethanol and 15% gasoline. I have seen people claim that American car manufacturers are not paying attention to the "green" car. I say that isn't true. The Ford Taurus, in all it's grand ugliness has been a FFV vehicle for years. An FFV vehicle is a fuel flexible vehicle that can run on 100% gasoline, to any mix of ethonol up to 85%. There are currently more FFV vehicles on the market today than Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
Some include:
2.7L Dodge Stratus Sedan
2.7L Chrysler Sebring Sedan and Convertible
3.3L Dodge Cargo Minivan
3.3L Chrysler Voyager minivan
3.3L Dodge Caravan minivan
3.3L Chrysler Town & Country minivan
4.0L Explorer (4-door)
3.0L Taurus sedan and wagon
3.0L Supercab Ranger pickup 2WD
5.3L V-8 engine Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra half-ton pickups 2WD & 4WD
5.3L Vortec-engine Suburban, Tahoe, Yukon and Yukon XLs
3.0L Selected B3000 pickups
4.0L Selected Mountaineers
2.2L Hombre pickup 2WD
2.2L Chevrolet S-10 pickup 2WD
2.2L Sonoma GMC pickup 2WD
E85 vehicles require no plug either. They also require no infrastructure upgrades like other solutions. Ethanol combustion produces friendly CO2 gas that can be used by plants, and water. Ethanol produces 110 octane, thus keeping your engine cleaner. The biggest myth about Ethanol, is that it requires corn to be efficient. Not true again, many industrial byproducts can be used to produce Ethanol. The byproducts of Ethanol production can be used in many other applications.
Now image all this:
US production of Ethanol - 85%
US production of Oil - takes care of 5% of the Gasoline requirement
10 % of Gasoline is still from foreign sources
Combined with Hybrid Electric technology we can create a vehicle that gets 50+ MPG, reduces pollutants by probably 90%, and changes NONE of our infrastructure requirements!
Why hasn't this technology come to the forefront... because for some reason, no one wants to see Ethanol succeed. The oil companies shot down Ethanol in the 80's and Archer Daniels Midland worked out a deal with the oil companies to save itself from bankruptcy due to bad management.
Visit e85fuel.com and see the truth.
So will the US use Red laser beams and all of our enemies will use Green? Perhaps we should use an alternating pattern of Red, White, and Blue laser light just so they know who's coming for them.
But first we will drop baby powder bombs in so they can see the beams, then we light em up!
And no, it Donald Rumsfeld doesn't bother me.
Corporate would be effected, but core military and banking information is done via private lines that have nothing to do with the internet. The Federal Reserve Bank communicates over private lines just like the UK Trust.
Funny thing about all of this is, Curious $color is probably already on every computer and no one knows about it. My hope is that the US government simply has control of it.
For some reason, I just don't see Saddam reading e-mail. What exactly would he expect? An outlook invite to the lunch and learn session on advanced tourture methods in the atomic conference room? Or perhaps he gives out his card at political functions so that people can e-mail him new ideas about how to fund terrorist operations without the world knowing about it.
--
Saddam Hussein
President, god, and super nice guy (because I said so).
Iraq, country of milk and honey
(964)(1) 718-9267 (phone)
(964)(1) 885-2286 (fax)
"This issue is not inspectors, the issue is disarmament."
- GWB
Instead of more crap to accommodate the impaired, why don't we redirect our energies, our funds, and our legislation to find medical cures for these imparities? In every aspect of life, we only seem to want to treat the symptoms because treating the source requires to much effort. All the more reason for embryonic research.
That's the argument that Larry Flynt had, and still has for years. Ever see the movie about his life with Woody Harrelson? The People vs. Larry Flynt, quite a good movie.
If they teach it in k-3rd grade as a planet.. then it will be a planet for all eternity. *grin*