Is that market share "statistic" based on the number of computers running the server, or the percentage of page views overall that are being served up by that product?
Is the fact that this storm has "intensified recently" an indication that there is "global warming" happening on Jupiter? Or at least "Climate Change"?
Your funds will never expire as long as you make at least one paid call every 90 days. For example, if you make a paid call on January 1, your funds will not expire as long as you make at least one paid call before April 2. If you do not make a paid call in that 90-day period, any remaining funds in your account will expire.
This could be a shocking prediction - but TCP/IP isn't going to be the last communication protocol ever developed, and there will be an information communication tool created some day that replaces the Internet and the WWW with something even better.
IPv6 was not it. It was government funded research trying to push a string.
Perhaps Apple didn't know that to do business in India, it is necessary to grease palms to get anything done.
Take that fact and consider the paranoia over compliance with the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley regarding white color corruption and it is pretty easy to see why Apple would have second thoughts.
The only things certain in life are death, taxes and the unintended consequences of government regulation.
Maybe, Maybe not. Things in life are never that simple.
IP is a windowing protocol (similar to zmodem for those with long memories) - where the sender is allowed to send "x" segments (which are broken into packets by the transport level) in a row - with acknowledgements coming back over the full duplex connection. If the sender gets "x" segments ahead of the returning acknowledgements, the sender must stop and wait for a new ACK to arrive.
So a lower than expected receive rate (or one socket monopolizing the entire connection) may be an indication that the "ACK" packets are getting stuck by a small inbound stream (and/or congestion in the buffer queues on the computer itself).
The poster didn't happen to mention which operating system Grandma uses, the processing speed of her computer, how much RAM it has, whether it has antivirus software running, etc...
Typically, ADSL or slower cable has only a 128kb or 256kb inbound speed (this is improving over time). ADSL *deliberately* was designed to optimize the path to you, not the path back to the central office. If Grandma had SDSL, I don't think we would have a question here - except perhaps asking why Grandma would be spending $150 a month to read her email.
Another source of issues and confusion is that on an IP connection, the routes taken by packets in the two directions are independent of each other. Just because the stream coming towards you has a good path and good peering doesn't mean your ACKs going back do.
Down in the guts of the Windows TCP/IP stack (assuming Grandma is not running Linux), there are a number of obscure parameters that can make a big difference on performance... these are typically those things the "tweak" utilities play with. Playing with those paramaters without knowing what you are doing can have profound negative impacts as well.
If you don't match the MTU of your ISP's router and try to send larger segments, tne result is packet fragmentation, where each IP segment gets split into multiple packets that can be routed over the connection. Windows XP (by default) does MTU discovery to figure this out automatically.
The RWIN (receive Window) is another critical setting. Large RWin support allows window sizes > 64kB - which are pretty critical to getting maximum throughput on faster than 768kb connections. If she is running WinME or Win2000, TCP1323 is supported, but is not turned on by default (win2000 is tuned to corporate ethernet LANs with low latency which doesn't usually benefit from large receive windows)
In summary, there is a heck of a lot that affects broadband performance, and just randomly blaming the ISP and accusing them of deliberately throttling the speed without a lot of documention is pretty reckless - but then again this is slashdot....
Assuming that this story is accurate (it appeared on the internet, so it must be true!) - if a company is so lax that it would discard a working hard drive in an inappropriate way as to cause concern about identity theft, why would there not be concern that the employees of the store itself could be trawling the hard drive while it is in the repair shop looking for data to sell?
1 GB USB thumb drives scare the hell out of me and should to anyone concerned with data security.
Some of this confusion over compilation is due to different versions of Visual Basic.
Cheap people like me bought Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition for $99 - it does -not- create compiled native object code - it "compiles" to p-code which is interpreted at run time. The "Professional" and "Enterprise" editions compile to native code.
Regarding how many VB fans are here, just imagine what a shock it would to slashdot readers to also know how many people in the "real world" still make a good living writing COBOL - while they spend their days here whining about not being able to find a job that pays above minimum wage using Linux and writing the world's most elaborate Perl scripts...
and don't forget that the French played a significant role in providing military assistance to the anti-British "insurgent" forces... see: Marquis de Lafayette.
Now what motivation would the French have had to undermine the British colonies in the New World and other places around the world? (See: War of 1812, the sequel). Here are a few interesting quotes from a summary of the war of 1812: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/AMH-06.htm
"The United States entered the war with confused objectives and divided loyalties and made peace without settling any of the issues that had induced the nation to go to war."
"A significant weakness in the American position was the disunity of the country. In the New England states public opinion ranged from mere apathy to actively expressed opposition to the war."
Just one of the faulty assumptions built into the "Ethanol from Corn" 130% out study is that there is a perfect crop of corn with maximum yields every year. No person who has ever farmed would make that assumption.
"Profit and Loss" statements are much more accurate at determining whether ethanol is a useful alternative. If it can be produced creating significantly more energy output than its inputs (over time), then it would already be widely produced. A central government mandate does not change basic facts. Didn't we learn anything from the failure of the Soviet Union Command and Control economy? All we need now is the 5 year plan.
My regret about this issue is how quickly "W" jumped on it. That does support the idea the he really has some basic problems in processing ideas... (I voted for him and am not a moonbat)
Here are some possibilities... Farmers in Iowa and Kansas have equipment designed to grow and harvest corn... switch to sugar beets needs all new equipment. Silos at the local -grain- cooperative are set to handle grain, not sugar beets. Like many other crops, sugar beets are controlled by government allotment programs. You can't just switch from corn to sugar beets.
I think the bigger issue though is the intense agriculture is depleting the topsoil, increasing the nitrogen, fertilizer, and pesticide load on the Mississippi and related issues.
Just look at Google Earth and you can see that much of the midwest is now using irrigration (look for the round green circles). The aquifers of the United States don't have an infinite supply of water. Irrigated crops will create salinity that makes the land not support crops in a few generations.
And of course, there are the companies like ADM that give generously to political campaigns. Robert Dole isn't called "the Senator from ADM" for nothing.
Oh, and didn't we use to think it was the Brazilians that were cutting down the "rain forest" to grow sugar beets using "slash and burn" farming that were destroying the environment?
However, anyone with experience and tracking web users knows that all of the requests coming through most proxy servers have either an HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR or HTTP_CLIENT_IP http header that identifies the individual IP behind the proxy.
The default Apache web logs do not log the source IP behind the proxy, but the headers are available to PHP for analysis... getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR")...
The client IP may be a non-routable IP address (192.168.x.x, 172.16.x.x/12 127.0.x.x, 10.x.x.x), but in combination with the IP of the proxy, it should still be unique.... Of course, proxies can be nested making it more fun...
A proxy which does not divulge the actual IP of the address of its user is called an anonymous proxy - typically those are used by folks trying to hide their identity.
People who think they are anonymous just because they are behind an ordinary proxy misunderstand how proxies work.
One final caveat - the http headers are only as trustworthy as the proxy itself. Just because a proxy offers up a proxy header does not mean that the information being returned is valid. A proxy can be configured to deliberately mislead about the actual IPs.
A important factor in the IP/Unique visistor guestimate is AOL. AOL has a significant number of users (therefore can't be ignored).... AOL's typical user sits behind their proxy farm in Virginia which creates at least three problems:
1) many of their page requests are satisfied from the AOL proxy farm without ever sending a request to your web server (unless you force the AOL cache to not cache your pages) so you may have visitors that you never see if you mostly offer up static content.
2) If you forced requests, the requests from the same user will random appear over a range of proxy IP addresses - as AOL makes no effort to force a user through the same proxy every time. If the AOL user allows cookies, they can be tracked over the IPs... if they are blocking cookies, then the best you do is track them based on time proximity or adding session tracking to the page requests URLs....
3) Since the AOL users are all funnelled through Virginia (including AOL users in Europe unless they have changed that), any kind of geotargeting of users (think Google Adwords) will assume the AOL user is in Virginia. An AOL IP (even if they have bypassed the proxy) gives -no- indication of their geographic location.
Note to Slashdot technical people. Something (probably the random ads) is injecting a center tag that centers the entire content of the entire page randomly. Pretty uncool.:)
Interesting theory, however burning catalogs, magazines, etc.. in a wood stove is a really bad idea. (using a small amount of newspaper to start the fire is okay)
1) Chemicals used on the paper to do the printing along with glue, plastic, colored pages create highly toxic gases when burned.
2) Burns too hot and too fast - can cause chimney fires on existing creosote buildup.
3) If burned along with wood logs, colored paper will lower the burning temperature of the logs creating more creosote buildup.
4) Creates a lot of incompletely burned ash, which will likely have toxic residues from the items in #1.
Of course, just because it is a bad idea doesn't mean people won't do it... The Darwin Awards exist for a reason.
George Bush lobbied heavily for funding for research into Hydrogen powered cars in 2003 and has been very active in supporting alternative fuels and letting the country know that our dependence on imported oil must be reduced.
A necessary prerequisite of imposing a municipal bus system is to make it illegal (or highly regulated, licensed, taxed, etc...) to operate a private bus system and force the private bus companies to submit to collective bargaining so as to not undermine the pay rates of the city employees... and requiring public minded things like offering service during unprofitable non-peak times, and into neighborhoods with low ridership or high crime rates.
It is a pretty good parallel to the concept of regulated phone companies and universal service financing.
During the Birmingham Alabama Bus Boycott (See: Rosa Parks), the churches got together and created a very successful alternate bus system to replace the municipal system - but only could do it because it was done by religious organizations that could defy the legal framework that created and enforced the immoral segregated seating laws in the first place. The public bus system in Birmingham never really recovered from the boycott, and was dissolved. A few years ago, a very minimal system was restarted and ridership is building, but only at a fraction of the pre-boycott ridership.
Of course, the reality is that in the US, other than a few highly urbanized cities will a long tradition of mass transit and critical mass (New York and Chicago come to mind), the primary purpose of mass transit (and its political support in the absence of consumer demand) is to enable people from poor neighborhoods to ride out to the rich neighborhoods and earn a few dollars cleaning the rich people's houses.
Should a scientist develop a technique to transplant a fetus, there goes the legal foundation of Roe v. Wade. The ruling that many support but far fewer understand created the "3 trimester rule" based on the emanations of the penumbra of the Right To Privacy.
The key point of Roe is that during the 3rd trimester (26+ weeks), the fetus is "viable" (based on the neonatal survival results from 30 years ago). Beyond viability, Roe does not assert an absolute right to terminate a pregnancy - States can still enact laws against abortions beyond viability and not be in conflict with Roe.
Now assume that a transplant can remove a "viable" embryo / fetus way before 26 weeks (or hearbeat or brain activity or whatever "marker" one might latch onto) and successfully implant it into another woman and result in a successful pregnancy and live birth at 9 months.... where does Roe wind up? Where is the viability dividing line then?
Since bad cases make bad law, and Murphy's law applies to any human behavior, let's assume for fun that this happens - that a surrogate woman receives a transplanted fetus and then decides to terminate the pregnancy because she changes her mind.
Is the transplanted fetus:
1) Property of the original mother?
2) Part of the the recipient woman's body?
3) A person
4) None of the above
5) All of the above
6) None of the above and all of the above
Moderately good chance it DID successfully install an activeX control even without your consent.
A neighbor of mine made that typo year or two ago and her Windows98 computer quickly filled up with adware/spyware.
Making it more obnoxious is if you have the history feature turned on, when you type go.... it will "guess" you wanted goggle com rather than google.com once you have visited the wrong site... (until you flush the history)
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Is that market share "statistic" based on the number of computers running the server, or the percentage of page views overall that are being served up by that product?
Is the fact that this storm has "intensified recently" an indication that there is "global warming" happening on Jupiter? Or at least "Climate Change"?
Now that might be an Inconvenient Truth.
If you are considering using Net2Phone, please read the fine print first.
p ayment.asp
If you go for a period of 90 days without making a Net2Phone call, you *forfeit* your *entire* account balance.
From the FAQ:
http://web.net2phone.com/consumer/commcenter/help
Will the funds I add to my account ever expire?
Your funds will never expire as long as you make at least one paid call every 90 days. For example, if you make a paid call on January 1, your funds will not expire as long as you make at least one paid call before April 2. If you do not make a paid call in that 90-day period, any remaining funds in your account will expire.
Eliot Spitzer - are you listening?
You meant to say SEC
This could be a shocking prediction - but TCP/IP isn't going to be the last communication protocol ever developed, and there will be an information communication tool created some day that replaces the Internet and the WWW with something even better.
IPv6 was not it. It was government funded research trying to push a string.
"Cold water holds more C02 than warm water"
So what you are saying here is that the rise in CO2 levels in the atmosphere might be because the ocean is warming, not the other way around?
Perhaps Apple didn't know that to do business in India, it is necessary to grease palms to get anything done.
Take that fact and consider the paranoia over compliance with the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley regarding white color corruption and it is pretty easy to see why Apple would have second thoughts.
The only things certain in life are death, taxes and the unintended consequences of government regulation.
Maybe, Maybe not. Things in life are never that simple.
IP is a windowing protocol (similar to zmodem for those with long memories) - where the sender is allowed to send "x" segments (which are broken into packets by the transport level) in a row - with acknowledgements coming back over the full duplex connection. If the sender gets "x" segments ahead of the returning acknowledgements, the sender must stop and wait for a new ACK to arrive.
So a lower than expected receive rate (or one socket monopolizing the entire connection) may be an indication that the "ACK" packets are getting stuck by a small inbound stream (and/or congestion in the buffer queues on the computer itself).
The poster didn't happen to mention which operating system Grandma uses, the processing speed of her computer, how much RAM it has, whether it has antivirus software running, etc...
Typically, ADSL or slower cable has only a 128kb or 256kb inbound speed (this is improving over time). ADSL *deliberately* was designed to optimize the path to you, not the path back to the central office. If Grandma had SDSL, I don't think we would have a question here - except perhaps asking why Grandma would be spending $150 a month to read her email.
Another source of issues and confusion is that on an IP connection, the routes taken by packets in the two directions are independent of each other. Just because the stream coming towards you has a good path and good peering doesn't mean your ACKs going back do.
Down in the guts of the Windows TCP/IP stack (assuming Grandma is not running Linux), there are a number of obscure parameters that can make a big difference on performance... these are typically those things the "tweak" utilities play with. Playing with those paramaters without knowing what you are doing can have profound negative impacts as well.
If you don't match the MTU of your ISP's router and try to send larger segments, tne result is packet fragmentation, where each IP segment gets split into multiple packets that can be routed over the connection. Windows XP (by default) does MTU discovery to figure this out automatically.
The RWIN (receive Window) is another critical setting. Large RWin support allows window sizes > 64kB - which are pretty critical to getting maximum throughput on faster than 768kb connections. If she is running WinME or Win2000, TCP1323 is supported, but is not turned on by default (win2000 is tuned to corporate ethernet LANs with low latency which doesn't usually benefit from large receive windows)
In summary, there is a heck of a lot that affects broadband performance, and just randomly blaming the ISP and accusing them of deliberately throttling the speed without a lot of documention is pretty reckless - but then again this is slashdot....
You missed the point - in Wired Magazine's world view, the only stupidity or corruption in the world originates in the United States and Europe.
Assuming that this story is accurate (it appeared on the internet, so it must be true!) - if a company is so lax that it would discard a working hard drive in an inappropriate way as to cause concern about identity theft, why would there not be concern that the employees of the store itself could be trawling the hard drive while it is in the repair shop looking for data to sell?
1 GB USB thumb drives scare the hell out of me and should to anyone concerned with data security.
Some of this confusion over compilation is due to different versions of Visual Basic.
Cheap people like me bought Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition for $99 - it does -not- create compiled native object code - it "compiles" to p-code which is interpreted at run time. The "Professional" and "Enterprise" editions compile to native code.
Regarding how many VB fans are here, just imagine what a shock it would to slashdot readers to also know how many people in the "real world" still make a good living writing COBOL - while they spend their days here whining about not being able to find a job that pays above minimum wage using Linux and writing the world's most elaborate Perl scripts...
The Marshall Plan was humanitarian aid for the reconstruction of Europe after World War 2, not the war itself.
A more recent example of US Aid to the EU was providing peacekeeping forces in Kosovo.
and don't forget that the French played a significant role in providing military assistance to the anti-British "insurgent" forces... see: Marquis de Lafayette.
Now what motivation would the French have had to undermine the British colonies in the New World and other places around the world? (See: War of 1812, the sequel). Here are a few interesting quotes from a summary of the war of 1812:
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/AMH-06.htm
"The United States entered the war with confused objectives and divided loyalties and made peace without settling any of the issues that had induced the nation to go to war."
"A significant weakness in the American position was the disunity of the country. In the New England states public opinion ranged from mere apathy to actively expressed opposition to the war."
And George Bush wasn't even born yet!
Aren't most libraries owned and run by "the government"?
Do libraries make backups of their databases from time to time?
Once data has been captured, it is impossible to know for certain that there is no copy of the data that survives.
Just one of the faulty assumptions built into the "Ethanol from Corn" 130% out study is that there is a perfect crop of corn with maximum yields every year. No person who has ever farmed would make that assumption.
"Profit and Loss" statements are much more accurate at determining whether ethanol is a useful alternative. If it can be produced creating significantly more energy output than its inputs (over time), then it would already be widely produced. A central government mandate does not change basic facts. Didn't we learn anything from the failure of the Soviet Union Command and Control economy? All we need now is the 5 year plan.
My regret about this issue is how quickly "W" jumped on it. That does support the idea the he really has some basic problems in processing ideas... (I voted for him and am not a moonbat)
Here are some possibilities... Farmers in Iowa and Kansas have equipment designed to grow and harvest corn... switch to sugar beets needs all new equipment. Silos at the local -grain- cooperative are set to handle grain, not sugar beets. Like many other crops, sugar beets are controlled by government allotment programs. You can't just switch from corn to sugar beets.
I think the bigger issue though is the intense agriculture is depleting the topsoil, increasing the nitrogen, fertilizer, and pesticide load on the Mississippi and related issues.
Just look at Google Earth and you can see that much of the midwest is now using irrigration (look for the round green circles). The aquifers of the United States don't have an infinite supply of water. Irrigated crops will create salinity that makes the land not support crops in a few generations.
And of course, there are the companies like ADM that give generously to political campaigns. Robert Dole isn't called "the Senator from ADM" for nothing.
Oh, and didn't we use to think it was the Brazilians that were cutting down the "rain forest" to grow sugar beets using "slash and burn" farming that were destroying the environment?
However, anyone with experience and tracking web users knows that all of the requests coming through most proxy servers have either an HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR or HTTP_CLIENT_IP http header that identifies the individual IP behind the proxy.
:)
The default Apache web logs do not log the source IP behind the proxy, but the headers are available to PHP for analysis... getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR")...
The client IP may be a non-routable IP address (192.168.x.x, 172.16.x.x/12 127.0.x.x, 10.x.x.x), but in combination with the IP of the proxy, it should still be unique.... Of course, proxies can be nested making it more fun...
A proxy which does not divulge the actual IP of the address of its user is called an anonymous proxy - typically those are used by folks trying to hide their identity.
People who think they are anonymous just because they are behind an ordinary proxy misunderstand how proxies work.
One final caveat - the http headers are only as trustworthy as the proxy itself. Just because a proxy offers up a proxy header does not mean that the information being returned is valid. A proxy can be configured to deliberately mislead about the actual IPs.
A important factor in the IP/Unique visistor guestimate is AOL. AOL has a significant number of users (therefore can't be ignored).... AOL's typical user sits behind their proxy farm in Virginia which creates at least three problems:
1) many of their page requests are satisfied from the AOL proxy farm without ever sending a request to your web server (unless you force the AOL cache to not cache your pages) so you may have visitors that you never see if you mostly offer up static content.
2) If you forced requests, the requests from the same user will random appear over a range of proxy IP addresses - as AOL makes no effort to force a user through the same proxy every time. If the AOL user allows cookies, they can be tracked over the IPs... if they are blocking cookies, then the best you do is track them based on time proximity or adding session tracking to the page requests URLs....
3) Since the AOL users are all funnelled through Virginia (including AOL users in Europe unless they have changed that), any kind of geotargeting of users (think Google Adwords) will assume the AOL user is in Virginia. An AOL IP (even if they have bypassed the proxy) gives -no- indication of their geographic location.
Note to Slashdot technical people. Something (probably the random ads) is injecting a center tag that centers the entire content of the entire page randomly. Pretty uncool.
Interesting theory, however burning catalogs, magazines, etc.. in a wood stove is a really bad idea. (using a small amount of newspaper to start the fire is okay)
1) Chemicals used on the paper to do the printing along with glue, plastic, colored pages create highly toxic gases when burned.
2) Burns too hot and too fast - can cause chimney fires on existing creosote buildup.
3) If burned along with wood logs, colored paper will lower the burning temperature of the logs creating more creosote buildup.
4) Creates a lot of incompletely burned ash, which will likely have toxic residues from the items in #1.
Of course, just because it is a bad idea doesn't mean people won't do it... The Darwin Awards exist for a reason.
[...] (hear that Bush?!). [...]
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George Bush lobbied heavily for funding for research into Hydrogen powered cars in 2003 and has been very active in supporting alternative fuels and letting the country know that our dependence on imported oil must be reduced.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/2
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/energy/
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/
Perhaps it is not George Bush that has the hearing problem. Turn off the blare of Michael Moore screaming "Haliburton Sucks!".
A necessary prerequisite of imposing a municipal bus system is to make it illegal (or highly regulated, licensed, taxed, etc...) to operate a private bus system and force the private bus companies to submit to collective bargaining so as to not undermine the pay rates of the city employees... and requiring public minded things like offering service during unprofitable non-peak times, and into neighborhoods with low ridership or high crime rates.
It is a pretty good parallel to the concept of regulated phone companies and universal service financing.
During the Birmingham Alabama Bus Boycott (See: Rosa Parks), the churches got together and created a very successful alternate bus system to replace the municipal system - but only could do it because it was done by religious organizations that could defy the legal framework that created and enforced the immoral segregated seating laws in the first place. The public bus system in Birmingham never really recovered from the boycott, and was dissolved. A few years ago, a very minimal system was restarted and ridership is building, but only at a fraction of the pre-boycott ridership.
Of course, the reality is that in the US, other than a few highly urbanized cities will a long tradition of mass transit and critical mass (New York and Chicago come to mind), the primary purpose of mass transit (and its political support in the absence of consumer demand) is to enable people from poor neighborhoods to ride out to the rich neighborhoods and earn a few dollars cleaning the rich people's houses.
I had the same experience, not having majored in Art Appreciation in college, although I didn't spend 15 minutes on it.
Copyright law protects specific works created by the copyright holder. You can't copyright a genre or style of art. IANALTG.
What are they smoking?
Should a scientist develop a technique to transplant a fetus, there goes the legal foundation of Roe v. Wade. The ruling that many support but far fewer understand created the "3 trimester rule" based on the emanations of the penumbra of the Right To Privacy.
The key point of Roe is that during the 3rd trimester (26+ weeks), the fetus is "viable" (based on the neonatal survival results from 30 years ago). Beyond viability, Roe does not assert an absolute right to terminate a pregnancy - States can still enact laws against abortions beyond viability and not be in conflict with Roe.
Now assume that a transplant can remove a "viable" embryo / fetus way before 26 weeks (or hearbeat or brain activity or whatever "marker" one might latch onto) and successfully implant it into another woman and result in a successful pregnancy and live birth at 9 months.... where does Roe wind up? Where is the viability dividing line then?
Since bad cases make bad law, and Murphy's law applies to any human behavior, let's assume for fun that this happens - that a surrogate woman receives a transplanted fetus and then decides to terminate the pregnancy because she changes her mind.
Is the transplanted fetus:
1) Property of the original mother?
2) Part of the the recipient woman's body?
3) A person
4) None of the above
5) All of the above
6) None of the above and all of the above
IANAL,TG
The same way you classify declassified documents.
Moderately good chance it DID successfully install an activeX control even without your consent.
A neighbor of mine made that typo year or two ago and her Windows98 computer quickly filled up with adware/spyware.
Making it more obnoxious is if you have the history feature turned on, when you type go.... it will "guess" you wanted goggle com rather than google.com once you have visited the wrong site... (until you flush the history)
Where is Elliot Spitzer when you need him?
So you're saying you don't support a woman's right to choose to have children?