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  1. Re:nuclear? no. Wind, yes. on Can Coal Be Green? · · Score: 1

    Where do the materials come from to build all those wind mills? What is done to the environment to get those materials?

  2. The hard road Re:AIDS, Africa, & Aid on Two Women Found With HIV-Immune Mutant Gene · · Score: 1

    Is to leave them alone with their problems, their pains and their joys.

    Rudyard Kipling
    The White Man's Burden
    (1899)

    First published in McClure's Magazine (Feb. 1899).
    Electronic Text by students from University Texas, Austin.

    Take up the White Man's burden--
    Send forth the best ye breed--
    Go, bind your sons to exile
    To serve your captive's need;
    To wait, in heavy harness,
    On fluttered folk and wild--
    Your new-caught sullen peoples,
    Half devil and half child.

    Take up the White Man's burden--
    In patience to abide,
    To veil the threat of terror
    And check the show of pride;
    By open speech and simple,
    An hundred times made plain,
    To seek another's profit
    And work another's gain.

    Take up the White Man's burden--
    The savage wars of peace--
    Fill full the mouth of Famine,
    And bid the sickness cease;
    And when your goal is nearest
    (The end for others sought)
    Watch sloth and heathen folly
    Bring all your hopes to nought.

    Take up the White Man's burden--
    No iron rule of kings,
    But toil of serf and sweeper--
    The tale of common things.
    The ports ye shall not enter,
    The roads ye shall not tread,
    Go, make them with your living
    And mark them with your dead.

    Take up the White Man's burden,
    And reap his old reward--
    The blame of those ye better
    The hate of those ye guard--
    The cry of those ye humor
    (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
    "Why brought ye us from bondage,
    Our loved Egyptian night?"

    Take up the White Man's burden--
    Ye dare not stoop to less--
    Nor call too loud on Freedom
    To cloak your weariness.
    By all ye will or whisper,
    By all ye leave or do,
    The silent sullen peoples
    Shall weigh your God and you.

    Take up the White Man's burden!
    Have done with childish days--
    The lightly-proffered laurel,
    The easy ungrudged praise:
    Comes now, to search your manhood
    Through all the thankless years,
    Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
    The judgment of your peers.

  3. And by gawd if it's not true on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 1

    fake it.

  4. Pork! Re:See, there's a problem here. on Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~tk/ Thomas R. Knutson is from the government and he's here to
    help you while he helps himself to some more pork.
    http://www.okpork.org/

  5. Re:Ok, even I have to cry "Lefty" on this one on US Presidents on Presidential Power · · Score: 1


    Whiskey Rebellion where George Washington thumped a bunch of moonshiners into submission with 15,000 troups.
    This was in country.

  6. Re:hrmmm on Ozone Hole Getting Smaller · · Score: 1

    I was a supporter of wunderground but I'd let it lapse because of it's horrible popup ads that friends I had sent there complained about it.

    I am glad I quit supporting them.

  7. Re:hrmmm on Ozone Hole Getting Smaller · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or that it was outright fraud. Ozone hole fraud.

  8. Re:Its not reversable on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    Actually I get more signal and less noise than any other forum I use.

    If salt is heated enough will it ever yeild liquid sodium metal?

  9. Re:ahh, ya made me go look... on The OS Community Embraces IBM · · Score: 1

    Yes, a lot of history dies when they do that. I don't even think they allow demilling anymore.

  10. Volucris Niger was Re:Security Measures... on U.S. Offers $50 Download · · Score: 1

    Paper is for submission only and internal discussion only. Paper has been placed on embargoed status pending internal peer review. Please do not distribute until released by committee.

    Volucris Niger Semaj Llewdlac Cranial University

    * Kingdom Animalia
    * Phylum Chordata
    Subphylum Vertibrata
    * Class Aves
    * Order Trochiliformes
    * Family Trochilidae
    Subfamily Trochilinae
    * Genus Volucris (Llewdlac, 2004)
    * Species Niger (Llewdlac, 2004)

    Description: A flying creature reported by various eyewitnesses. The
    characteristics of this flying creatures are:

    Rotary Wing, oval or egg shaped body, always appears a uniform black in
    color with no markings and is accompanied by a loud mechanical or
    roaring sound.

    Size varies but if eyewitness reports are correct this is the largest
    avian known to exist in the world that can hover.

    Native to: North America with sporadic sightings in other countries.

    Known Habitat: The habitat of Volucris Niger is varied. Eyewitnesses
    have reported it's appearance worldwide but the most sightings have been
    in North America. The highest percentage of sightings has been at
    transitory locations where firearms are sold, where religious activities
    are present and where reports of unidentified or experimental aircraft
    have been reported. There is no apparent reason for the wealth of
    sightings at these locations other than a higher than usual interest in
    the Volucris Niger on the part of the participants at these locations.

    Mating: Volucris Niger according to eyewitness accounts is a solitary
    creature when appearing in non-secluded locations. Mating rituals are
    unknown.

    Young: There have been several sightings of unusual variations of the
    Volucris, both in color and size. Since it is known that several species
    young exhibit different coloring than the parent it has been postulated
    that these are offspring.

    Sightings of young have occurred at the following locations.

    American Eurocopter, Bell Helicopter, Boeing Rotorcraft, Brantly
    International, Enstrom, Rotorway International, Schweizer Aircraft
    Corporation, Sikorsky Aircraft.

    A previously unknown variation, the Volucris Niger Pusillus has been
    sited at Ultrasport.

    Reproduction: An unconfirmed report that the Volucris performs
    fertilization of eggs while in flight has been presented. In this report
    the Volucris was observed expelling what the observer considered an
    ejaculate. What was unusual in this report is that the ejaculate was
    almost always expelled into fixed structures or vehicles of a specific
    shape and color. The ejaculate was observed to be highly unstable and
    damage to the area of ejaculate impact was severe. It is unknown what
    purpose this serves the reproduction of the Volucris but researchers are
    continuing their studies.

    A counter theory has been argued that this is not a method of
    reproduction but a method of protecting it's territory from predators.
    It is assumed that fixed structures and vehicles of a certain shape and
    color trigger an instinctive protective response. It is possible that
    the Volucris is initiating an instinctive response based on the
    characteristics of a now extinct predator species.

    Trademarks mentioned are the property of their owners.

    From: "Taxonomy of American Mythological Creatures" copyright Semaj Llewdlac all rights reservered

  11. Sold out on Nuclear Batteries · · Score: 1
  12. Either a film or blocking on Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye · · Score: 1

    The windscreen does not need to be there. And at altitude the only laser I can think of which would be there and be high enough power is a military targeting laser.

  13. I wish on Evolution 2.0 Released, Screenshots · · Score: 1

    That mozilla could be integrated into the evolution environment. I dislike evolution for mail but it's other features are good.

  14. Salt water on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    It does that if you heat it long enough and hot enough.

  15. Re:PS parts Re:I swear I'm not trolling, but on The OS Community Embraces IBM · · Score: 1

    Rock-ola would be acceptable but I'd still want the IBM or an Underwood carbine with an Underwood typewriter would be a good pair. Picture an old roll top desk with the typewriter on it and a display above it with the carbine. Captioned as a news headline above the carbine is
    "When words fail".

    Guntroll:

    $20? Now they chop them up to protect Ruger or was that S&W? :-)

  16. PS parts Re:I swear I'm not trolling, but on The OS Community Embraces IBM · · Score: 1

    I attempted to get the parts needed to fix one of the PS machines. I was met with scorn by the people I called at IBM and by the authorized dealer I was sent to. I loved the machines but that was intolerable to me. I was trying to fix an older PS machine that had the integrated monitor. A chip was bad causing the 'red screen of death'.

    I managed to hack the computer to use another monitor and pulled the customers data off of it and put it all in a nice clone.

    It's been nearly 20 years since that time and only because of their change in attitude has mine changed. I'll support them as long as they support me. Their stance on Linux slowly won back some measure of respect I had but I'll probably never have the awe I once had.

    I still want an IBM made WWII carbine though.

  17. Convert that to Qui Tam style legislation on FTC Recommends Bounty on Spammers · · Score: 1

    where I can be the US Government and sue the spammer and get 10 percent and I'll be your ranger.

    "Qui tam (Black's Law Dictionary pronunciation: kwày tæm) is an abbreviation from the Latin "qui tam pro domino rege quam pro sic ipso in hoc parte sequitur" meaning "who as well for the king as for himself sues in this matter."

  18. Re:Why destroy it when you can use a PCMCIA drive? on Rio Carbon MP3 Has A 5G CF To Be Cannibalized · · Score: 1

    Damn slashdots handling of text! Here's the link

  19. Why destroy it when you can use a PCMCIA drive? on Rio Carbon MP3 Has A 5G CF To Be Cannibalized · · Score: 1

    You can use an adaptor

    http://www.glasslantern.com/articles/PocketPCDri ve s/

  20. Re:Question on Savvis Grudgingly Get Savvy About Spam · · Score: 1

    "Bottom line" is a culmination of several risk factors which come under 'risk management'.
    Business practices which include ethics fall under risk management and can do more harm to the 'bottom line' than most other risks. I would suspect that Savvis was losing their legitimate customers because of this.

  21. Hate Walmart on Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004 · · Score: 1

    It's sucessful and it does business legally what's not to hate?

  22. The union of concerned scientists on Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Are not a credible source of science. Mostly the censored article is about these bastions of federal welfare whining because government has chosen a different path.

  23. Aluminum foil on Neither Rain, Nor Snow, Nor Dark of Night... · · Score: 1

    Just create a 3D 'barcode' on aluminum foil of your data.

    http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/stack.html

    This is a sample of some 2D codes and one pointer to a 'bumpy' barcode. I'm pretty sure a dot matrix printer will do just fine on aluminum foil with a sheet feeder and some fuss.

    Since some barcodes will do very high density per square inch an 8.5x11.5 sheet can store a meg or more depending on barcode and the resolution of the reader.

    If anyone would happen to know of a printer/reader combination for aluminum foil I'd be interested if it gets to the 100 megabyte per sheet range or better.

  24. Hidden on Secret Service Seeks Indymedia Logs · · Score: 1

    I did a whois in indymedia and they're hidden.
    Interesting.

  25. Anonymous trust on Justice Dept. Raids Homes of File Swappers · · Score: 1

    Is there a method to serve files that is encrypted, splits the files and serves them to only those above a certain trust level?

    Mixmaster meets p2p?