Yes, it is just an newspaper article. Notice that the paper has not been peer-reviewed yet. Nor has it even been submitted to an academic journal. He plans on it, but hasn't yet.
Dr Barnett said the results, which are about to be submitted for publication in a major peer-reviewed journal...
Take it with a grain of salt. There's no reason to go public with it now before the peer-review unless it's for political effect timed before Bush's visit to Europe and the implementaion of Kyoto in Britain. And real science it not about politics.
It's common occurance for a journalist to change their name and it is perfectly acceptable for them to use that name in their work. Would you refer to Kweisi Mfume as Frizzell Gray or "Pee Wee" Gray? What then is Mr. Mfume evading?
So why not try to flip a rock over and examine the area under it for past signs of life? It would seem to be the area with the highest possibility of success. There's very little wind and no water (recently anyway) to move the rocks around so what's under there has been sheltered for a long time.
Years ago we were told that the best place to find life on Mars would be under rocks where there could be lichen-like lifeforms. It would shield them from the harmful UV and solar radiation effects. But so far JPL hasn't used the Instrument Deployment Device (the remote "arm") to turn over a rock and examine what's under it with the microscopic imager. They've looked all over the exposed surface of rocks and even dug small trenches in the soil and examined that. Perhaps they don't want to break it, but still I would like for them to at least try to look under a rock or two. There might be something interesting there!
He applied for the daypass, which apparently no one else uses
What B*llsh*t! Like he's the only person ever to use a day pass. On any one day at least one-third of the journalists in the WH briefing room are on a day pass. He's not the first to ever use one.
I mention that the fake name was used as part of the evasive process.
And
Until the White House comes clean on whether or not the pass was issued to the fake name
Those two thoughts are contradictory again. You state flat out that a fake name was used for evasion and then that you say you are not sure if a fake name was used.
You are an extremely confused person. Oh, and BTW, the WH confirmed today that his real name and SSN was used for the pass application and the BG check.
BTW, your own crude deception is evident when you quote one sentence from the article to which I linked, and omit the following:
"Additionally, questions remain whether his passes were issued under his alias or his real name."
You're really nothing but a crude liar. I understand there's a job opening at Talon news.
But you yourself said:
Especially when the fake name is used as part of that obviously evasive process, to get access to WH press conferences without background checks. With the complicity of the press secretary.
You seem to have no doubt about whether or not a fake name was used to bypass security and yet berate me for not quoting the part where there is doubt. You contradict yourself in two posts. You have two opposing viewpoints in your mind at the same time and firmly believe in both. That's a sign of mental illness in some places.
Especially when the fake name is used as part of that obviously evasive process, to get access to WH press conferences without background checks.
What evasion? He was submitted to the same scrutiny as any other journalist who used a day pass. There is a background check on those who use a day pass you know -- it's not like you can walk up to the gate and get signed in that same day. You've gone from being not sure if a fake name was used to now being absolutely sure that not only did he submit a fake name, it was done to purposely evade security -- and the WH Press Secretary was complicit! That's a huge stretch.
And don't forget that British Rail is the organization that claimed they could not run "because the wrong kind of snow fell" and "there are leaves on the tracks" to list just two of the lame excuses I've personally heard.
Actually, while the White House still hasn't answered questions like "which name was on Guckert/Gannon's day passes",
Why does that matter? Men of letters have long used pen names. Did the previous president call himself William Blythe or Bill Clinton? How about James Carter vs. Jimmy Carter?
Repeated? Hardly. Arab journalists located in the vicinity of hostile troops have no claim to protection. Just as U.S. journalists embedded with U.S. troops would receive no sympathy from you if their unit had come under fire and they been killed correct?
resulting in many deaths, even after those journalists repeatedly alerted US officials as to their position,
Huh? "Repeatedly alerted US officials as to their position"? The only incident that I know of was the video cameraman killed during a firefight when he pointed his shouldered camera resembling an RPG launcher at U.S. troops from a hidden position behind a wall. That was pretty stupid behavior in a combat zone. And it got him killed, but how did he "alert U.S. officials as to his position"?
can be explained either as deliberate or as wildly reckless, and the latter is only a bit better.
It cannot be explained as deliberate. The U.S. military goes out of its way to protect journalists even when that protection results in personal danger to them. They do not target journalists. Claiming so, for political advantage, does not make it true.
The wildly reckless part is on the side of the journalists. Exposing yourself on a city street while shouldering what looks like a missile launcher and standing on the side of the people who are dressed as civilians while you yourself are dressed similarly during a firefight is deadly reckless.
A better example is the resignation of CNN's Eason Jordan. He said that U.S. soldiers were deliberately targeting journalists in Iraq -- a flat out falsehood. No one would have heard of the story except for the pressure from bloggers. After the story broke most of the mainstream meadia (Howard Kurtz) circles the wagons and defended him. Now that pressure from blogdom has lead to his resignation.
I have to agree. The moon is an out-of-the-way destination to go to Mars. It's as if we wanted to fly on a 747 from NYC to London for a weekend, but when we took off the plane diverted to Orlando for a week and we spent most of our vaction money at Disney World prior to arriving in London. Just as the time spent in Orlando is a waste of our London vacation, the moon would be waste of our Mars exploration money. Other than both being accessable by air and are tourist destinations they have very little in common. Same for the moon and Mars. Dammit, let's just go! "Light this candle!" "Poyekheli!"
It's not so much the lives, as the replacement costs for the lost shuttles.... Spacecraft are less easy to replace.
The shuttle program will end will it not? At that point then why not send up the last or next to last shuttle mission to rescue or service the HST? If a shuttle is lost at that point then the only loser would be a museum somewhere. If they are going to be taken out of service anyway then why not take the risk? It's not like it is a certainty that the shuttle will be lost on such a mission anyway.
Interestingly, the government of Quebec hasoutlawed all embryonic stem cell research that involves the destruction of the embryo. And that ban applies to all researchers, both publicly and privately funded, using new or even old previously extracted, stem cells. You don't hear much about that.
In other words, if there was no payment, would there have been any different content? Nope. There wouldn't have been.
Then why make the payment? Otherwise you've just proved the Dean campaign to be much stupider than even his best critics thought. $12,000 to buy what he already had?
Did Kos switch from supporting Clark to supporting Dean in the time before the payment?
This was a party primary where it was a question of supporting Dean or Kerry or Edwards or Clark or Gephardt or Lieberman or Kucinich or Sharpton or Graham or Moseley-Braun. It would be much easier to pay off Kos to make him switch allegience from his favored candidate to another under those circumstances. In the end he ended up supporting Kerry anyway after Dean dropped out.
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IE on WinXP SP2 with IE's pop-up blocker set to "high" also blocks it.
I have $45-a-month Verizon FIOS fiber-to-the-premises at 15 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up here in Texas. Verizon is adding cities as fast as it can.
There are lots of ways to distribute software. And sometimes a very good reason to do so.
So tell us what the site is and let us try our IE SP2 and see if it is your computer or not. I'll bet it is.
It's common occurance for a journalist to change their name and it is perfectly acceptable for them to use that name in their work. Would you refer to Kweisi Mfume as Frizzell Gray or "Pee Wee" Gray? What then is Mr. Mfume evading?
Guckert didn't "fail to qualify" -- he never applied in the first place.
So why not try to flip a rock over and examine the area under it for past signs of life? It would seem to be the area with the highest possibility of success. There's very little wind and no water (recently anyway) to move the rocks around so what's under there has been sheltered for a long time.
Years ago we were told that the best place to find life on Mars would be under rocks where there could be lichen-like lifeforms. It would shield them from the harmful UV and solar radiation effects. But so far JPL hasn't used the Instrument Deployment Device (the remote "arm") to turn over a rock and examine what's under it with the microscopic imager. They've looked all over the exposed surface of rocks and even dug small trenches in the soil and examined that. Perhaps they don't want to break it, but still I would like for them to at least try to look under a rock or two. There might be something interesting there!
What B*llsh*t! Like he's the only person ever to use a day pass. On any one day at least one-third of the journalists in the WH briefing room are on a day pass. He's not the first to ever use one.
And
Until the White House comes clean on whether or not the pass was issued to the fake name
Those two thoughts are contradictory again. You state flat out that a fake name was used for evasion and then that you say you are not sure if a fake name was used.
You are an extremely confused person. Oh, and BTW, the WH confirmed today that his real name and SSN was used for the pass application and the BG check.
But you yourself said:
You seem to have no doubt about whether or not a fake name was used to bypass security and yet berate me for not quoting the part where there is doubt. You contradict yourself in two posts. You have two opposing viewpoints in your mind at the same time and firmly believe in both. That's a sign of mental illness in some places.What evasion? He was submitted to the same scrutiny as any other journalist who used a day pass. There is a background check on those who use a day pass you know -- it's not like you can walk up to the gate and get signed in that same day. You've gone from being not sure if a fake name was used to now being absolutely sure that not only did he submit a fake name, it was done to purposely evade security -- and the WH Press Secretary was complicit! That's a huge stretch.
And don't forget that British Rail is the organization that claimed they could not run "because the wrong kind of snow fell" and "there are leaves on the tracks" to list just two of the lame excuses I've personally heard.
Why does that matter? Men of letters have long used pen names. Did the previous president call himself William Blythe or Bill Clinton? How about James Carter vs. Jimmy Carter?
Resign from what? She holds no position anywhere. She works for no one.
Repeated? Hardly. Arab journalists located in the vicinity of hostile troops have no claim to protection. Just as U.S. journalists embedded with U.S. troops would receive no sympathy from you if their unit had come under fire and they been killed correct?
resulting in many deaths, even after those journalists repeatedly alerted US officials as to their position,
Huh? "Repeatedly alerted US officials as to their position"? The only incident that I know of was the video cameraman killed during a firefight when he pointed his shouldered camera resembling an RPG launcher at U.S. troops from a hidden position behind a wall. That was pretty stupid behavior in a combat zone. And it got him killed, but how did he "alert U.S. officials as to his position"?
can be explained either as deliberate or as wildly reckless, and the latter is only a bit better.
It cannot be explained as deliberate. The U.S. military goes out of its way to protect journalists even when that protection results in personal danger to them. They do not target journalists. Claiming so, for political advantage, does not make it true.
The wildly reckless part is on the side of the journalists. Exposing yourself on a city street while shouldering what looks like a missile launcher and standing on the side of the people who are dressed as civilians while you yourself are dressed similarly during a firefight is deadly reckless.
A better example is the resignation of CNN's Eason Jordan. He said that U.S. soldiers were deliberately targeting journalists in Iraq -- a flat out falsehood. No one would have heard of the story except for the pressure from bloggers. After the story broke most of the mainstream meadia (Howard Kurtz) circles the wagons and defended him. Now that pressure from blogdom has lead to his resignation.
Just the opposite here. My subdivision (built in 2002) is shown complete on the Google maps but the whole area is still blank on map24's site.
I have to agree. The moon is an out-of-the-way destination to go to Mars. It's as if we wanted to fly on a 747 from NYC to London for a weekend, but when we took off the plane diverted to Orlando for a week and we spent most of our vaction money at Disney World prior to arriving in London. Just as the time spent in Orlando is a waste of our London vacation, the moon would be waste of our Mars exploration money. Other than both being accessable by air and are tourist destinations they have very little in common. Same for the moon and Mars. Dammit, let's just go! "Light this candle!" "Poyekheli!"
The shuttle program will end will it not? At that point then why not send up the last or next to last shuttle mission to rescue or service the HST? If a shuttle is lost at that point then the only loser would be a museum somewhere. If they are going to be taken out of service anyway then why not take the risk? It's not like it is a certainty that the shuttle will be lost on such a mission anyway.
Interestingly, the government of Quebec has outlawed all embryonic stem cell research that involves the destruction of the embryo. And that ban applies to all researchers, both publicly and privately funded, using new or even old previously extracted, stem cells. You don't hear much about that.
Isn't this what TRDS already does?
Then why make the payment? Otherwise you've just proved the Dean campaign to be much stupider than even his best critics thought. $12,000 to buy what he already had?
Did Kos switch from supporting Clark to supporting Dean in the time before the payment?
This was a party primary where it was a question of supporting Dean or Kerry or Edwards or Clark or Gephardt or Lieberman or Kucinich or Sharpton or Graham or Moseley-Braun. It would be much easier to pay off Kos to make him switch allegience from his favored candidate to another under those circumstances. In the end he ended up supporting Kerry anyway after Dean dropped out.