Like Roger, he used to have something worthwhile to say, but now he primarily says good things about his buddies' work and bad things about everybody else's.
Does anybody buy PC Magazine anymore?
I used to, years ago, but with the Internet, who needs it?
In the press release, Leonard advised online sellers that "consumers abandon shopping carts with an ease that frustrates and often confuses online retailers."
Placing a product in the shopping cart is the only way you can find out how much the retailer is going to charge you for shipping.
Some retailers have low product prices that they make up for with outrageously high shipping costs.
I add shipping costs into the final cost of the product to decide where I make my purchase.
Are these "frustrated and confused online retailers" frustrated and confused because online shoppers are wise to their scam?
Former
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker says his investigation into
the scandal-plagued oil-for-food program has not cleared U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan of wrongdoing, despite Mr. Annan's claims
to the contrary.
In an interview aired yesterday with Fox
News, Mr. Volcker took direct issue with Mr. Annan's insistence that he
had been exonerated by investigators probing both his role in
overseeing the Iraq aid program and conflicts of interest involving a
key contract awarded to a Swiss firm that employed Mr. Annan's son.
"I thought we criticized [Mr. Annan]
rather severely," Mr. Volcker said of his panel's interim report,
released March 29. "I would not call that an exoneration."
Asked point-blank whether Mr. Annan had
been cleared of wrongdoing in the $10 billion scandal, Mr. Volcker
replied, "No."
Mr. Annan has faced calls for his resignation from U.S. critics in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal.
Under the seven-year program that ended in
2003, Iraq was allowed to buy food and other humanitarian supplies
through tightly controlled sales of its oil.
But the congressional Government
Accountability Office found that the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein stole about $10 billion during the period, either through
illegal oil sales outside the program or through corrupt deals and
kickbacks within it.
Senior U.N. officials have been implicated
in the scandal, and Mr. Annan himself faced harsh scrutiny when it was
learned his son, Kojo Annan, had been employed by Cotecna, the Swiss
firm that won a critical U.N. monitoring contract for the oil-for-food
program in 1998.
Mr. Annan, who has fiercely resisted calls
that he step down, immediately claimed vindication after the Volcker
panel reported on March 29 that it had found "no evidence" that the
secretary-general had used his influence to help Cotecna win the
contract.
In a press conference that same day, Mr.
Annan told reporters, "As I had always hoped and firmly believed, the
inquiry has cleared me of any wrongdoing."
He has said he was "disappointed" to
discover that his son had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in
payments from Cotecna for several years after leading his father to
think he had cut all ties with the U.N. contractor.
Asked whether he was considering resigning
from his post before his term ends next year, Mr. Annan answered
emphatically, "Hell no."
The Volcker investigators faulted Mr.
Annan for what they said was an "inadequate," one-day investigation
into the Cotecna contract after his son's job history with the firm
came to light in 1999.
Had Mr. Annan demanded a "thorough and
independent investigation," the Volcker panel concluded, "it is
unlikely that Cotecna would have been awarded renewals of its contracts
with the United Nations."
Mr. Volcker's panel, which was
commissioned by Mr. Annan last year, has come under fire with the
recent resignation of two of the panel's lead investigators, Robert
Parton and Miranda Duncan, who left reportedly because they thought the
reports released to date had gone too easy on Mr. Annan.
A spokesman for the Volcker panel said the
two had left because their contracts had expired, but Mr. Parton has
said in an e-mail released to the Associated Press that he left his job
over "a matter of principle."
Efforts to reach the two investigators yesterday were unsuccessful.
Mr. Volcker, in the Fox News interview,
said his panel "was not meant to be soft or hard" on Mr. Annan or the
United Nations.
"We are out to get the facts, and I've
said from the very beginning our responsibility is to follow the facts
wherever they lead."
Perhaps someday someone will tell this poor rube that UN science panels are largely picked by the scientific community from the best available scientists in from many countries.
Don't make me laugh.
First and foremost requirement for membership in a UN panel is agreement with the UN agenda.
In this particular case and in the case of Kyoto, the agenda is to redistribute the wealth of "first world" countries to "third world" countries.
Science has nothing to do with it.
The only "evidence" of global warming is your precious "computer models" comprised, conveniently enough, of proprietary code so that nobody can know what the true calculations are, just the magic result.
Is this the same United Nations that funneled billions of Oil for Food dollars to Saddam Hussein in the name of feeding Iraq's people, while actually enabling Mr. Hussein to continue filling mass graves with them?
Is this the same United Nations whose staff engaged in sexual abuse of defenseless refugees in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea?
Is this the same United Nations that accuses the United States of human rights violations while electing Libya to chair the Human Rights Commission?
And I am supposed to take a self-serving report from such a corrupt, self-serving organization seriously because????
Seriously, though, this is a MAJOR issue...Microsoft withdraws its support on a subject it's been championing for years, becuse of threats from one rabidly evangelistic, gay-hating preacher???
What's the difference between that and a company supporting "gay rights" because of threats from rabidly self-absorbed, hetero-hating gay activists?
The entire purpose of the "gay rights" movement is to force companies to provide medical benefits to the "domestic partners" of gay employees.
In case you hadn't noticed, the entire healthcare system is on the verge of collapse because somehow, somewhere, somebody convinced the world that healthcare should be freeeeee!!!! Wheeeeee!!!!
Companies do not provide health care benefits to the "domestic partners" of hetero couples. What makes gay couples entitled to it?
New Jersey adopted what sponsors described as "the most stringent gun law" in the nation in 1966; two years later, the murder rate was up 46 percent and the reported robbery rate had nearly doubled.
In 1968, Hawaii imposed a series of increasingly harsh measures and its murder rate, then a low 2.4 per 100,000 per year, tripled to 7.2 by 1977.
In 1976, Washington, D.C., enacted one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. Since then, the city's murder rate has risen 134 percent while the national murder rate has dropped 2 percent.
"Hm, this reminds me of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. That's not changing any time soon, is it?"
Great Britain and Australia have seen their violent crime rates soar since revoking the right of ordinary citizens to own guns.
Over 50 million people were murdered by their own governments during the 20th century, and the first thing these governments did to start their cleansing programs was outlaw guns for ordinary citizens.
So tell me exactly why the Second Amendment makes no sense?
Yes, a job search takes time and effort, but if you are so fed up with your current job that you are ready to walk out, you could probably find a few extra minutes to polish your resume and check out Monster.com before doing anything rash.
As far as employers not being interested in empoloyees who are interested in a better job, I have gotten new jobs while currently employed.
I have done it the other way, too, and I far prefer dispensing with the unemployment route.
Its purpose is to provide jobs for members of the National Education Association teachers' union so they can pay union dues to the NEA, so the NEA can in turn contribute to the campaigns of politicians who vote for higher pay for teachers who can then pay higher union dues to the NEA who can then contribute more to their pet politicions who...
This is the only explanation that makes sense when consider that the United States spends on average $9,000 per year per student (a quarter of a million dollars per year per classrom) and half of them can't even read when they graduate.
The model involved in this research was tweaked to reproduce the climate data for the last 50 years. I do make the presumption that if the model can do so with reasonable accuracy that it can predict the future with reasonable accuracy.
If that worked, then people could create computer models that reproduced stock market data for the last 50 years and get rich.
If you are so sure that computer models are infallible, why don't you write one for the stock market and bet all your assets on it?
Slashdot Mirror
Does anybody buy PC Magazine anymore?
I used to, years ago, but with the Internet, who needs it?
...what goes around, comes around.
In the press release, Leonard advised online sellers that "consumers abandon shopping carts with an ease that frustrates and often confuses online retailers."
Placing a product in the shopping cart is the only way you can find out how much the retailer is going to charge you for shipping.
Some retailers have low product prices that they make up for with outrageously high shipping costs.
I add shipping costs into the final cost of the product to decide where I make my purchase.
Are these "frustrated and confused online retailers" frustrated and confused because online shoppers are wise to their scam?
By David R. Sands
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 27, 2005
Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker says his investigation into the scandal-plagued oil-for-food program has not cleared U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan of wrongdoing, despite Mr. Annan's claims to the contrary.
In an interview aired yesterday with Fox News, Mr. Volcker took direct issue with Mr. Annan's insistence that he had been exonerated by investigators probing both his role in overseeing the Iraq aid program and conflicts of interest involving a key contract awarded to a Swiss firm that employed Mr. Annan's son.
"I thought we criticized [Mr. Annan] rather severely," Mr. Volcker said of his panel's interim report, released March 29. "I would not call that an exoneration."
Asked point-blank whether Mr. Annan had been cleared of wrongdoing in the $10 billion scandal, Mr. Volcker replied, "No."
Mr. Annan has faced calls for his resignation from U.S. critics in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal.
Under the seven-year program that ended in 2003, Iraq was allowed to buy food and other humanitarian supplies through tightly controlled sales of its oil.
But the congressional Government Accountability Office found that the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein stole about $10 billion during the period, either through illegal oil sales outside the program or through corrupt deals and kickbacks within it.
Senior U.N. officials have been implicated in the scandal, and Mr. Annan himself faced harsh scrutiny when it was learned his son, Kojo Annan, had been employed by Cotecna, the Swiss firm that won a critical U.N. monitoring contract for the oil-for-food program in 1998.
Mr. Annan, who has fiercely resisted calls that he step down, immediately claimed vindication after the Volcker panel reported on March 29 that it had found "no evidence" that the secretary-general had used his influence to help Cotecna win the contract.
In a press conference that same day, Mr. Annan told reporters, "As I had always hoped and firmly believed, the inquiry has cleared me of any wrongdoing."
He has said he was "disappointed" to discover that his son had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from Cotecna for several years after leading his father to think he had cut all ties with the U.N. contractor.
Asked whether he was considering resigning from his post before his term ends next year, Mr. Annan answered emphatically, "Hell no."
The Volcker investigators faulted Mr. Annan for what they said was an "inadequate," one-day investigation into the Cotecna contract after his son's job history with the firm came to light in 1999.
Had Mr. Annan demanded a "thorough and independent investigation," the Volcker panel concluded, "it is unlikely that Cotecna would have been awarded renewals of its contracts with the United Nations."
Mr. Volcker's panel, which was commissioned by Mr. Annan last year, has come under fire with the recent resignation of two of the panel's lead investigators, Robert Parton and Miranda Duncan, who left reportedly because they thought the reports released to date had gone too easy on Mr. Annan.
A spokesman for the Volcker panel said the two had left because their contracts had expired, but Mr. Parton has said in an e-mail released to the Associated Press that he left his job over "a matter of principle."
Efforts to reach the two investigators yesterday were unsuccessful.
Mr. Volcker, in the Fox News interview, said his panel "was not meant to be soft or hard" on Mr. Annan or the United Nations.
"We are out to get the facts, and I've said from the very beginning our responsibility is to follow the facts wherever they lead."
Sorry, but as Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan is something more than "a few guilty of malfeasance."
If the very top leader of the United Nations is a crook, explain to me why anything the United Nations does should be taken seriously?
I dare you!
Don't make me laugh.
First and foremost requirement for membership in a UN panel is agreement with the UN agenda.
In this particular case and in the case of Kyoto, the agenda is to redistribute the wealth of "first world" countries to "third world" countries.
Science has nothing to do with it.
The only "evidence" of global warming is your precious "computer models" comprised, conveniently enough, of proprietary code so that nobody can know what the true calculations are, just the magic result.
Is this the same United Nations whose staff engaged in sexual abuse of defenseless refugees in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea?
Is this the same United Nations that accuses the United States of human rights violations while electing Libya to chair the Human Rights Commission?
And I am supposed to take a self-serving report from such a corrupt, self-serving organization seriously because????
I have a real article with actual facts and data:
The Tip of the Iceberg
All you have is a screed that calls people names who disagree with it.
That's the entire intent of this article.
But it is becoming more and more obvious that the global warming emperor has no clothes.
What's the difference between that and a company supporting "gay rights" because of threats from rabidly self-absorbed, hetero-hating gay activists?
The entire purpose of the "gay rights" movement is to force companies to provide medical benefits to the "domestic partners" of gay employees.
In case you hadn't noticed, the entire healthcare system is on the verge of collapse because somehow, somewhere, somebody convinced the world that healthcare should be freeeeee!!!! Wheeeeee!!!!
Companies do not provide health care benefits to the "domestic partners" of hetero couples. What makes gay couples entitled to it?
"The license itself may be a work of sheer genius, but the idiotic, uncompromising fanaticism and elitism of the GPL crowd drives people away."
You can say the same thing about Microsoft's "Business Software Alliance."
Not necessarily. A lot of the rise in violent crime is credited to increases in drunk pub violence and mobile phone robbery.
Before guns were outlawed, perps couldn't be sure that their intended victims were defenseless.
Now they can.
Perps now feel safe to commit more crimes.
In the United States, violent crime rates have declined in states where concealed carry has been legalized.
New Jersey adopted what sponsors described as "the most stringent gun law" in the nation in 1966; two years later, the murder rate was up 46 percent and the reported robbery rate had nearly doubled.
In 1968, Hawaii imposed a series of increasingly harsh measures and its murder rate, then a low 2.4 per 100,000 per year, tripled to 7.2 by 1977.
In 1976, Washington, D.C., enacted one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. Since then, the city's murder rate has risen 134 percent while the national murder rate has dropped 2 percent.
"Hm, this reminds me of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. That's not changing any time soon, is it?"
Great Britain and Australia have seen their violent crime rates soar since revoking the right of ordinary citizens to own guns.
Over 50 million people were murdered by their own governments during the 20th century, and the first thing these governments did to start their cleansing programs was outlaw guns for ordinary citizens.
So tell me exactly why the Second Amendment makes no sense?
Shameless Kharma whore bump.
Fred Flintstone is my preferred nom de plume.
Works like a charm.
Same result, except that instead of using a $0.17 CDR you use a $299 iPod.
I don't get it.
...more bachelor degrees means less than nothing.
It means you haven't got the slightest idea what you are doing, unless you happened to earn them simultaneously.
Anything less than a PhD is equally worthless.
If you really must go for another non-Phd degree, the only one the makes any sense is a JD.
Get your piece of the frivlous patent market before it is too late.
Yes, a job search takes time and effort, but if you are so fed up with your current job that you are ready to walk out, you could probably find a few extra minutes to polish your resume and check out Monster.com before doing anything rash.
As far as employers not being interested in empoloyees who are interested in a better job, I have gotten new jobs while currently employed.
I have done it the other way, too, and I far prefer dispensing with the unemployment route.
Unless you have no use for money.
...of the public education system.
Its purpose is to provide jobs for members of the National Education Association teachers' union so they can pay union dues to the NEA, so the NEA can in turn contribute to the campaigns of politicians who vote for higher pay for teachers who can then pay higher union dues to the NEA who can then contribute more to their pet politicions who...
This is the only explanation that makes sense when consider that the United States spends on average $9,000 per year per student (a quarter of a million dollars per year per classrom) and half of them can't even read when they graduate.
Silicon Ouiji boards.
Or has he already done it?
I read it as shipping to one address also.
There is no way they are going to allow you to ship to any addresses you wish.
If they did, you could start a nice little business ordering things for people and charging half-price shipping.
...are belong to us.
If that worked, then people could create computer models that reproduced stock market data for the last 50 years and get rich.
If you are so sure that computer models are infallible, why don't you write one for the stock market and bet all your assets on it?