When todays outmoded segments of the power grid cause brownouts during peak service hours, rooftop panels help relieve the problem and save the power companies lots of money...
the idea is to sell your excess electricity to the power company on sunny days when brown outs occur and consumption goes up... then at night you buy the juice from the grid, some months you may make a profit, but you have to pay for the installation and materials...
Here in New Orleans the deal the city council made with Entergy mandates they hook up solar systems...
The state however has met a set number, "allows an electric utility to reject applications from homeowners proposing to install solar once the overall percentage of electricity produced from solar in that utility exceeds 0.5%." and that number has been reached so outside new orleans you cannot hook into the grid and pay off your investment.
Now you could hook up , use what you need and give the rest to the companies, but that would be socialistic and frowned upon...
Getting political on this issue gets to the point, ALEC, the group funded by the Koch brothers is behind a lot of these laws...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
raising the minimum wage up to $10.50 or higher has the added benefit of funding social security at a higher level at the same time many hardworking americans are set to retire... congress has borrowed against ssi funds every year to keep their budgets down and it has inhibited the growth of them. all our debts would be so much higher if we had not been screwed by congress this way...
Grass cloning giant Monsanto has announced plans to launch a new division to exploit quantum time travel in an attempt corner early grass' seed markets.
I still believe someone left the poisoned apple for Mr. Turing. I believe he was murdered by cia types and that he was framed on the suicide issue. This tagline is one I use on many online forums i use...
Actually sunny California is probably the perfect place to test this out?
First, California has a relatively progressive set of rules that allow for testing new technologies and cars. California also has a high amount of pollution and thus a need for water cars that will bring down their high carbon levels.
As the heart of Americas car culture, California has already tried a large number of possible solutions to the problem, with only a moderate success. One or five or even a thousand water/electric hybirds won't make a lot of differance, but it is a start.
Finally, who knows what the conditions will be as global warming takes over. Everything slows down at -40, but as temps go down, these temps head north. And since the problem is that it is the US that uses most of the oil that is causing the warming, the testing should be done in a place where the conditions are similar to where the real need for such cars is located.
In your first post you pointed out "going after organizations like the Southern Baptists or the Christian Coalition could change the political landscape very quickly, even if they don't actually lose their tax-exempt status."
My anecdotes are examples of what they are already doing now, befor they are really stirred up. I don't want to go back to the days when teen girls use coathangers to preform abortions on themselves. If the church's agenda includes stopping stemcell research and Aids education, then the separation of church and state is gone. It is their religious beliefs that are taking away my freedoms. And there is a long list of things that have been taken away. Those are my anecdotes/points.
Let's stir them up, they are already doing as bad as they can do and the tax money is needed by the inner cities they fill up with their untaxable property.
Actually the problem may be with which browser you preview css pages in. As you may know, Explorer is getting further and further from complience with css standards. When I preview in other browsers, my css pages done in Dreamweaver look fine.
I use a mac and no longer bother to check my css pages in Explorer since MS quit supporting the program for mac platform. For a while I previewed on a friends pc, and still do for pages that don't use css, but with the browser going so far out of suppot for web standards esp. reguarding css I depend on other browsers for compliance.
It would be nice to get Explorer updated for the Mac, I like the way they do bookmarks. Do any of you slash doters know if there is a group asking MS to update?
I also use Dreamweaver and would like to add to the previous post.
Inspect the copy closely in the Design view before you strip the unsightly word commands so you don't miss any little trick that might get stripped in the process. This has happened to me once or twice.
But don't hit the undo, usually there's a quick fix in Dreamweaver that will bring the page back to the way it looked before.
A small asside... Attention Dreamweaver fans, Let's all let Adobe know how much we love this program as they absorb Macromedia later this year.
His ideas on lunar and asteroid mining may prove the solution to cosmic rays and astronauhts. He authored the book "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space" which inspired a generation of space exploration advocates.
One of his ideas was to spin asteroids and heat them with lasers or solar mirrors. As the asteroid melts, different densities of elements move to differing parts of the oval shaped mass of molten rock. When cooled, he proposed that the minerals could be mined and if extracted properly, leave rooms that could be used as lining spaces for the miners. A one g spin could provide gravity.
Another of his ideas was to place several of these spinning spacehomes into orbits that crossed the trajectories of Mars and Earth. Then all we would have to do is hop on one near earth and jump off near mars. Same for the return trip.
Not sure what thickness would be required to obsorb/slow down the cosmic rays, but there would be enough mass to do so.
The L5 News was published from September 1975 until April 1987, at which time the L5 Society merged with the National Space Institute to create the National Space Society. http://www.nss.org/
When we first started talking about the hole in the ozone layer, everone said the only hole was in our heads.
But after an article in the in OMNI magazine on the CRDS, they ran a big story on the ozone hole the next month and then other news sources started talking about the ozone problem again.
If you check the link I provided above at...
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1483/ozone.ht ml
You will find many links to real cosmic ray information. In fact many of the major cosmic ray sites link back to the Cosmic Ray Deflection Society.
I meta moderate regularly and I always check out the links provided if I don't immediately understand the post. Obviously whoever has modded this post down hasn't bothered to see what is there.
Thanks for any/.ers that actually take the time reading a post longer than one or two lines and check out information provided in the linkage...
As co-founder of of the Cosmic Ray Deflection society, I have been working on the problem of deflecting cosmic rays for over 30 years. Our concerns have been mostly about the ozone hole and the deadly cosmic rays that get through them. But it is possible that we could do some research on this problem. Here's a short rundown on our organization and links to a couple of pages of info that we provide.
I have not been able to get into the pages since Yahoo took over Geocities so the pages suffer from the link rot.
The SF chapter is still active, but not on the web, we also have a chapters in Atlanta, New Orleans, Charleston, Greensboro and about 150 memebers all around the world.
Short history
Knowing, that in some future time, when the ozone layer has been further destroyed by man-made chemicals such as flourocarbons and exhaust fumes, the earth and it's inhabitants will be mercilessly bombarded by deadly cosmic rays, the Cosmic Ray Deflection Society of North America, Inc. has been organized to discover ways of surviving the coming onslaught...Krudzna Ink is a loosely knit organization of crazed, forward thinking environmentalists dedicated to the survival of the human race in general, and life on the planet in particular...
While the society itself was formally organized in May of 1984, cosmic ray deflecting as a mental attitude was first realized in the fall of 1973 when reports first came out on the impending destruction of the ozone layer...Ozone, O3, the thin layer of our planet's atmosphere found 20 miles up, protects us from dreaded cosmic rays. Something had to be done!!! An Anti-Cosmic Ray Suit (ACRaS) would be constructed! Man-made items that are really unnecessary and have no real value for our lives were attached to a hat and a shirt... By believing the collection of trinkets, tickets, plastics, toys, auto parts, jewelries, beads, buttons, and other trivial items would repel the cosmic rays, the CRs were actually repelled!!!
We call the point at which the cosmic rays actually start being repelled CRITICAL MASS...As you attach each piece to your cosmic ray deflection item be it hat, shirt, car, house, shield or footgear, you think that this will be the item that gives you critical mass...At some point it actually starts happening!!! We hope...
Since those early days of CR Deflection, several cars, or Cosmic Ray Deflection Motor Vehicles, have joined the growing collection of CR items. We are now working on a Cosmic Ray House & Garden with patio in New Orleans as well as shields for urbanwear...
Dysonberg Confusion Principle
The first principle of CR Deflection has been joined by a second, more controversial theory... We now also believe that cosmic rays have a low level of intelligence which allows them to be easily confused by actions contrary to what is considered normal. Once confused, CRs tend to retreat on their own to whence they came. This Dysonberg Confusion Principle, or DCP, blends well with the society's life-style while wearing our ACRaS and riding in the CRDMV...To put the DCP in other terms, we believe that cosmic rays are semi-intelligent and therefore easily confused...That's why we wear foster grants, even though we are not movie stars...That's why we shoot off fireworks on December 25 and exchange presents on July 4th...That's why we celebrate Valloween, the only holiday celebrated twice a year on Feb 14 & Oct 31...All these activities as well as wearing our cosmic ray suits confuses the cosmic rays, which slows them down...Then you just step aside and they go past you...
Please don't confuse us with tinfoil lining, though the chapter in Charleston goes there a bit much or any of the other psuedo-sciences. Krudzna Ink is the real thing.
So the big impact you mention will include bans on useful scientific research like stemcells?
Cutting foreign aid for the AIDS epidemic if abstinence isn't the the method of choice for prevention?
Will we retrun to pre Roe v Wade days when the poor used coathangers for abortions and the rich women and their children went to the hospitals on Saturday mornings for D&Cs?
Will religious homophobia prevent gay marriage and denial of other partnership right?
Look at the propaganda advantage they have with tax exempt status. Here in New Orleans, nearly 1/3 of the cable stations are religious.
And imagine what it feels like, know that my congressman believes the earth was created in 6 days?
Look how close the mideast wars are to becoming another round of crusades, this time for oil not the riches of China and the east. Ask any of your friends that may look middle eastern if they don't feel the religious pressure.
You say this...
could change the political landscape very quickly, but it is already happening.
The press is paying taxes and the churches that are involved in politics are not. As I pointed out, if the churches are providing social services, let them be tax exempt just like everything else. As I stated above, "Churches need to be placed under the same guidelines as other institutions. They should not get any special benefits just for being churches. If they want some kind of benefits for nonprofit stuff/community service, then they should be under some guidelines for all nonprofits/community servers."
I have no problem with the first amendment, but it shouldn't allow the abuses that are going on. And as for the loophole you mention, well let's tax the churches and close the loophole.
TaxChurches. com say...
Today we see churches with elaborate facilities and other assets. It is not uncommon for churches to provide ministers with lavish homes in elite areas of a community and luxury automobiles. In our beginning research, we have found parsonages with values over one million dollars and church provided automobiles such as Roles Royce, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Lexus, and others. We found a church that owns a Gulfstream Jet with an estimated value of $5.375 million and a Gates Learjet with an estimated value of $985,000.
Here's a great example of the so called leftist Democrats at work again. The other side of the same coin so to speak.
The Republicons always seem to oppose new taxes, but will they oppose this bill? It sure would look bad if they were supporting porn wouldn't it? They "flipflop" quite a bit if you look closely at them. Remember their flipflop on "states rights" and medical marijuana.
Remember when Al Gores wife Tipper was the head of the PMRC and brought us the draconian rating systems on music? It led us down the road to Walmart having it's own version of supposedly bad music.
Remember President Clinton, under whose presidency we doubled our prison population and added 79 new federal death penalties?
This is just another example of Democrats in action. But the article failed to mention that the Democrats also want an "imposition of mandatory, "certified" age verification of adult website visitors"
Just imagine the fun Tipper and her friends could have with this one...
This may be a bit off topic,, but the article is so vague and short almost anything will fit into this discussion.
Some slashdoters may have noticed that the church has become a major player in politics recently. Part of their tax exemption is based on staying out of politics. The Bush administration is going after many conservation groups with the IRS because they have broken the politics rule.
Churches own billions of $$$ worth of prime realestate in the heart of our cities tax free and thus are a burden on cash starved public schools that depend on real estate taxes for survival.
I don't really need to go into the occasional priest's daliance with young boys, that's just an anomily.
So why try and tax internet porn, most of which is offshore, difficult to track, etc.?
Tax the churches which have been getting a free ride in this country for far too long.
Churches need to be placed under the same guidelines as other institutions. They should not get any special benefits just for being churches. If they want some kind of benefits for nonprofit stuff/community service, then they should be under some guidelines for all nonprofits/community servers.
Getting a virtual PC for my mac is not an option as I have no desire to block popups constantly, and feel vulnerable to virus' etc.
I also miss the google bar, which is only available for IE, as it gives page rank and other great info. Just a bit tired of being left behind on some things...
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As a Mac user I have been stuck with version 5.2.3 of Explorer for so long I cannot remember.
Microsoft will not update IE for mac as most of you probably know, because they believe that Safari has taken all the Mac users...
In reality, as a web developer using Dreamweaver, not having an updated version of IE is a real pain. I have to use my neighbors pc to view changes and cannot do so on my desktop, I have to upload to web first...I find that I am doing this less and less. If my web complient pages don't look good on their browers I have just grown not to care.
I am surprised Microsoft hasn't kept up IE for macs, It's the one program they produce that many mac users once actually liked. And here's another major update. And because mac users don't get all the virus' we could care less if the program has holes in it big enough to drive battleships through as they just don't effect us.
I subscribe to Mactopia and send them a letter every time they send me an issue asking for an update. I know it's no use, but not updating a major web product for a large portion of the creative community is both a disservice to the web, but also a disgrace.
Does anyone know if there is a IE for mac group around. I would like to join.
Put an old cd into your microwave for a few seconds...
Now imagine someone has some buried scrapnel, or a plate in their skull. Instant scrambled brains. The same goes for pacemakers, or any other implants, cooked meat.
And a tinfoil hat will offer little protection.
Fortunately, lawyers will, after a certain number of deaths result here on the home front in crowd control usage of this new wonder weapon. Eventually, the lawsuits will stop this one, as the deaths are inevitable.
What Yahoo says is not what Yahoo does. Take the case of Geocities. What was once a thriving sprawl similar to the one reaching from Boston to Atlanta with spots of brilliance scattered everywhere is now a homogenized mangle of hit or miss. To quote Caterina Fake at the Flickr blog...
What is going to happen to Flickr?
Flickr will be continuing on the path it's on -- to Flickr 1.0 and beyond. We'll be working with a bunch of people that Totally Get Flickr and want to preserve the community and the flavor of what is here. We're going to grow and change, but we're in it for the long haul, with the same management and same team.
I would mod this as Funny if this were a post at/.! I met the guys that were starting Geocities back in the old days at a CA conference here in New Orleans and found their new idea of an online community exciting (I suggested side streets or allys to give them more space in the developed areas.) I learned html on Geocities and still have a couple of pages there (which I cannot get into). But their company has gone into the blender that is Yahoo.
You're not going to become a bunch of suits?
No, no, no! The precious DNA we've got -- that of the Ludicrew -- is on side and revving up for building Flickr. Having the team building out the team's vision for Flickr has been stressed as our number one priority, and keeping us around -- in spite of our wiseassery, tomfoolery and tendency to hoot spontaneously -- is crucial for preserving the Flickrness that is Flickr. They're not going to replace any of us with suits, nor induce us to wear them. Lapel? I don't know what you mean.
The target stores circular in todays paper had some nice ties with...s and ooos on them and at a good price. Better stock up. You may not be replaced, but you may very well become suits. "Just for this one important meeting" is how it usually starts...
Are you going to become Yahoo Photos?
No. Yahoo Photos will get a lot of Flickr features, and there are alot of other areas around Yahoo that will also be Flickrized where Flickrization would be good. Yahoo Photos and Flickr have different kinds of users with different needs, and will remain separate for the foreseeable future. Flickr would also suffer from a sudden deluge of LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg! so we're going to grow it carefully.
It took about a year for Yahoo to totally digest Geocities. It's just a word now that is internet history.
Do I have to have a Yahoo ID to use Flickr?
No. In the future, you'll be able to log into Flickr using your Yahoo account, but you can continue logging on as before.
I'll bet it'll be less than a year on the ID thing. Yahoo is looking to sell you to the advertisers and the ID is the hook, look at what you get. It's a lot. I use my yahoo personal page for a great news feed, totally customizable and with lots of features and look forward to a Flickr module in there aswell.
Waaaaaaaah!! I don't want Flickr to change!
Don't forget to breathe. It's not the end, it's the beginning! As the wise woman who taught us The One True Way of Flickr Massage says, the only thing permanent is change. But we're going to stay true to our vision and to the people who made us what we are -- that's you, the Flickr pioneers. Thanks for making the first year of Flickr so wonderful.
I'm sorry Caterina, but like the old Jefferson Airplane song goes," When the truth within you turns out to be lies, And all the joy within you dies..."
Of course, we will be happy to answer questions, accept backslapping, and do deep breathing exercises with the Flickr community at Flickr Central.
Don't count on it. I've tried to get access to my Geocities pages for over a year now and have yet to find an email address or 800 number at Yahoo to talk to someone about getting access there again, but... Sure there are plenty of forms, with standard replies and forums where there i
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When todays outmoded segments of the power grid cause brownouts during peak service hours, rooftop panels help relieve the problem and save the power companies lots of money...
the idea is to sell your excess electricity to the power company on sunny days when brown outs occur and consumption goes up... then at night you buy the juice from the grid, some months you may make a profit, but you have to pay for the installation and materials... Here in New Orleans the deal the city council made with Entergy mandates they hook up solar systems... The state however has met a set number, "allows an electric utility to reject applications from homeowners proposing to install solar once the overall percentage of electricity produced from solar in that utility exceeds 0.5%." and that number has been reached so outside new orleans you cannot hook into the grid and pay off your investment. Now you could hook up , use what you need and give the rest to the companies, but that would be socialistic and frowned upon...
Getting political on this issue gets to the point, ALEC, the group funded by the Koch brothers is behind a lot of these laws... http://www.democracynow.org/20...
raising the minimum wage up to $10.50 or higher has the added benefit of funding social security at a higher level at the same time many hardworking americans are set to retire... congress has borrowed against ssi funds every year to keep their budgets down and it has inhibited the growth of them. all our debts would be so much higher if we had not been screwed by congress this way...
Grass cloning giant Monsanto has announced plans to launch a new division to exploit quantum time travel in an attempt corner early grass' seed markets.
I still believe someone left the poisoned apple for Mr. Turing. I believe he was murdered by cia types and that he was framed on the suicide issue. This tagline is one I use on many online forums i use...
He hasn't been seen in the city since...
Don't forget about global warming, the underlying problem in the first place!
As temps go up, winter temps go down and the frost/cold ranges move steadily north.
Actually sunny California is probably the perfect place to test this out?
First, California has a relatively progressive set of rules that allow for testing new technologies and cars. California also has a high amount of pollution and thus a need for water cars that will bring down their high carbon levels.
As the heart of Americas car culture, California has already tried a large number of possible solutions to the problem, with only a moderate success. One or five or even a thousand water/electric hybirds won't make a lot of differance, but it is a start.
Finally, who knows what the conditions will be as global warming takes over. Everything slows down at -40, but as temps go down, these temps head north. And since the problem is that it is the US that uses most of the oil that is causing the warming, the testing should be done in a place where the conditions are similar to where the real need for such cars is located.
In your first post you pointed out "going after organizations like the Southern Baptists or the Christian Coalition could change the political landscape very quickly, even if they don't actually lose their tax-exempt status."
My anecdotes are examples of what they are already doing now, befor they are really stirred up. I don't want to go back to the days when teen girls use coathangers to preform abortions on themselves. If the church's agenda includes stopping stemcell research and Aids education, then the separation of church and state is gone. It is their religious beliefs that are taking away my freedoms. And there is a long list of things that have been taken away. Those are my anecdotes/points.
Let's stir them up, they are already doing as bad as they can do and the tax money is needed by the inner cities they fill up with their untaxable property.
Actually the problem may be with which browser you preview css pages in. As you may know, Explorer is getting further and further from complience with css standards. When I preview in other browsers, my css pages done in Dreamweaver look fine.
I use a mac and no longer bother to check my css pages in Explorer since MS quit supporting the program for mac platform. For a while I previewed on a friends pc, and still do for pages that don't use css, but with the browser going so far out of suppot for web standards esp. reguarding css I depend on other browsers for compliance.
It would be nice to get Explorer updated for the Mac, I like the way they do bookmarks. Do any of you slash doters know if there is a group asking MS to update?
Inspect the copy closely in the Design view before you strip the unsightly word commands so you don't miss any little trick that might get stripped in the process. This has happened to me once or twice.
But don't hit the undo, usually there's a quick fix in Dreamweaver that will bring the page back to the way it looked before.
A small asside... Attention Dreamweaver fans, Let's all let Adobe know how much we love this program as they absorb Macromedia later this year.
The cosmic ray deflection society is listed in yahoo/humor/science
And if cosmic ray deflection works, as some believe, then it would solve the problem the original story posed.
Gerard O'Neill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O'Neill was on the faculty of Princeton University in 1954 where he remained associated with until his death in 1992.
His ideas on lunar and asteroid mining may prove the solution to cosmic rays and astronauhts. He authored the book "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space" which inspired a generation of space exploration advocates.
One of his ideas was to spin asteroids and heat them with lasers or solar mirrors. As the asteroid melts, different densities of elements move to differing parts of the oval shaped mass of molten rock. When cooled, he proposed that the minerals could be mined and if extracted properly, leave rooms that could be used as lining spaces for the miners. A one g spin could provide gravity.
Another of his ideas was to place several of these spinning spacehomes into orbits that crossed the trajectories of Mars and Earth. Then all we would have to do is hop on one near earth and jump off near mars. Same for the return trip.
Not sure what thickness would be required to obsorb/slow down the cosmic rays, but there would be enough mass to do so.
The L5 Society was founded in 1975 to promote the space colony ideas of Gerard Kitchen O'Neill. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L5_Society
Newsletter of L5 Society http://www.l5news.org/
The L5 News was published from September 1975 until April 1987, at which time the L5 Society merged with the National Space Institute to create the National Space Society. http://www.nss.org/
Here's a link to his book High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0962 237906/qid=1123095155/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-056543 1-9633535?v=glance&s=books
We even have a yahoo listing... http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor/Science/
When we first started talking about the hole in the ozone layer, everone said the only hole was in our heads. But after an article in the in OMNI magazine on the CRDS, they ran a big story on the ozone hole the next month and then other news sources started talking about the ozone problem again.
If you check the link I provided above at... http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1483/ozone.ht ml
You will find many links to real cosmic ray information. In fact many of the major cosmic ray sites link back to the Cosmic Ray Deflection Society.
I meta moderate regularly and I always check out the links provided if I don't immediately understand the post. Obviously whoever has modded this post down hasn't bothered to see what is there.
Thanks for any /.ers that actually take the time reading a post longer than one or two lines and check out information provided in the linkage...
I have not been able to get into the pages since Yahoo took over Geocities so the pages suffer from the link rot. The SF chapter is still active, but not on the web, we also have a chapters in Atlanta, New Orleans, Charleston, Greensboro and about 150 memebers all around the world.
Short history
Knowing, that in some future time, when the ozone layer has been further destroyed by man-made chemicals such as flourocarbons and exhaust fumes, the earth and it's inhabitants will be mercilessly bombarded by deadly cosmic rays, the Cosmic Ray Deflection Society of North America, Inc. has been organized to discover ways of surviving the coming onslaught...Krudzna Ink is a loosely knit organization of crazed, forward thinking environmentalists dedicated to the survival of the human race in general, and life on the planet in particular...
While the society itself was formally organized in May of 1984, cosmic ray deflecting as a mental attitude was first realized in the fall of 1973 when reports first came out on the impending destruction of the ozone layer...Ozone, O3, the thin layer of our planet's atmosphere found 20 miles up, protects us from dreaded cosmic rays. Something had to be done!!! An Anti-Cosmic Ray Suit (ACRaS) would be constructed! Man-made items that are really unnecessary and have no real value for our lives were attached to a hat and a shirt... By believing the collection of trinkets, tickets, plastics, toys, auto parts, jewelries, beads, buttons, and other trivial items would repel the cosmic rays, the CRs were actually repelled!!!
We call the point at which the cosmic rays actually start being repelled CRITICAL MASS...As you attach each piece to your cosmic ray deflection item be it hat, shirt, car, house, shield or footgear, you think that this will be the item that gives you critical mass...At some point it actually starts happening!!! We hope...
Since those early days of CR Deflection, several cars, or Cosmic Ray Deflection Motor Vehicles, have joined the growing collection of CR items. We are now working on a Cosmic Ray House & Garden with patio in New Orleans as well as shields for urbanwear...
Dysonberg Confusion Principle
The first principle of CR Deflection has been joined by a second, more controversial theory... We now also believe that cosmic rays have a low level of intelligence which allows them to be easily confused by actions contrary to what is considered normal. Once confused, CRs tend to retreat on their own to whence they came. This Dysonberg Confusion Principle, or DCP, blends well with the society's life-style while wearing our ACRaS and riding in the CRDMV...To put the DCP in other terms, we believe that cosmic rays are semi-intelligent and therefore easily confused...That's why we wear foster grants, even though we are not movie stars...That's why we shoot off fireworks on December 25 and exchange presents on July 4th...That's why we celebrate Valloween, the only holiday celebrated twice a year on Feb 14 & Oct 31...All these activities as well as wearing our cosmic ray suits confuses the cosmic rays, which slows them down...Then you just step aside and they go past you...
Here are directions on making cosmic ray deflectors... http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/6167/
Here's our page on the ozone hole and real cosmic ray deflection... http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1483/ozone.ht ml
Please don't confuse us with tinfoil lining, though the chapter in Charleston goes there a bit much or any of the other psuedo-sciences. Krudzna Ink is the real thing.
Which one will grab the copyright to prayer?
So the big impact you mention will include bans on useful scientific research like stemcells?
Cutting foreign aid for the AIDS epidemic if abstinence isn't the the method of choice for prevention?
Will we retrun to pre Roe v Wade days when the poor used coathangers for abortions and the rich women and their children went to the hospitals on Saturday mornings for D&Cs?
Will religious homophobia prevent gay marriage and denial of other partnership right?
Look at the propaganda advantage they have with tax exempt status. Here in New Orleans, nearly 1/3 of the cable stations are religious.
And imagine what it feels like, know that my congressman believes the earth was created in 6 days?
Look how close the mideast wars are to becoming another round of crusades, this time for oil not the riches of China and the east. Ask any of your friends that may look middle eastern if they don't feel the religious pressure.
You say this... could change the political landscape very quickly, but it is already happening.
Nice play on words there
The press is paying taxes and the churches that are involved in politics are not. As I pointed out, if the churches are providing social services, let them be tax exempt just like everything else. As I stated above, "Churches need to be placed under the same guidelines as other institutions. They should not get any special benefits just for being churches. If they want some kind of benefits for nonprofit stuff/community service, then they should be under some guidelines for all nonprofits/community servers."
I have no problem with the first amendment, but it shouldn't allow the abuses that are going on. And as for the loophole you mention, well let's tax the churches and close the loophole.
TaxChurches. com say... Today we see churches with elaborate facilities and other assets. It is not uncommon for churches to provide ministers with lavish homes in elite areas of a community and luxury automobiles. In our beginning research, we have found parsonages with values over one million dollars and church provided automobiles such as Roles Royce, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Lexus, and others. We found a church that owns a Gulfstream Jet with an estimated value of $5.375 million and a Gates Learjet with an estimated value of $985,000.
Here's a great example of the so called leftist Democrats at work again. The other side of the same coin so to speak.
The Republicons always seem to oppose new taxes, but will they oppose this bill? It sure would look bad if they were supporting porn wouldn't it? They "flipflop" quite a bit if you look closely at them. Remember their flipflop on "states rights" and medical marijuana.
Remember when Al Gores wife Tipper was the head of the PMRC and brought us the draconian rating systems on music? It led us down the road to Walmart having it's own version of supposedly bad music.
Remember President Clinton, under whose presidency we doubled our prison population and added 79 new federal death penalties?
This is just another example of Democrats in action. But the article failed to mention that the Democrats also want an "imposition of mandatory, "certified" age verification of adult website visitors" Just imagine the fun Tipper and her friends could have with this one...
AVN provides a much more comprehensive coverage of the new law at... http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Ar ticles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=234443
So the next time you hear the some neocon pundit decrying liberal excess, remember they are just the other side of the same coin.
This may be a bit off topic,, but the article is so vague and short almost anything will fit into this discussion.
Some slashdoters may have noticed that the church has become a major player in politics recently. Part of their tax exemption is based on staying out of politics. The Bush administration is going after many conservation groups with the IRS because they have broken the politics rule.
Churches own billions of $$$ worth of prime realestate in the heart of our cities tax free and thus are a burden on cash starved public schools that depend on real estate taxes for survival.
I don't really need to go into the occasional priest's daliance with young boys, that's just an anomily.
So why try and tax internet porn, most of which is offshore, difficult to track, etc.? Tax the churches which have been getting a free ride in this country for far too long.
Churches need to be placed under the same guidelines as other institutions. They should not get any special benefits just for being churches. If they want some kind of benefits for nonprofit stuff/community service, then they should be under some guidelines for all nonprofits/community servers.
Here are a couple links to taxing the churches...
http://www.sullivan-county.com/identity/cal-tax-ex empt.htm
http://www.taxchurches.com/
Getting a virtual PC for my mac is not an option as I have no desire to block popups constantly, and feel vulnerable to virus' etc. I also miss the google bar, which is only available for IE, as it gives page rank and other great info. Just a bit tired of being left behind on some things... aa
As a Mac user I have been stuck with version 5.2.3 of Explorer for so long I cannot remember. Microsoft will not update IE for mac as most of you probably know, because they believe that Safari has taken all the Mac users...
In reality, as a web developer using Dreamweaver, not having an updated version of IE is a real pain. I have to use my neighbors pc to view changes and cannot do so on my desktop, I have to upload to web first...I find that I am doing this less and less. If my web complient pages don't look good on their browers I have just grown not to care.
I am surprised Microsoft hasn't kept up IE for macs, It's the one program they produce that many mac users once actually liked. And here's another major update. And because mac users don't get all the virus' we could care less if the program has holes in it big enough to drive battleships through as they just don't effect us.
I subscribe to Mactopia and send them a letter every time they send me an issue asking for an update. I know it's no use, but not updating a major web product for a large portion of the creative community is both a disservice to the web, but also a disgrace.
Does anyone know if there is a IE for mac group around. I would like to join.
Put an old cd into your microwave for a few seconds...
Now imagine someone has some buried scrapnel, or a plate in their skull. Instant scrambled brains. The same goes for pacemakers, or any other implants, cooked meat.
And a tinfoil hat will offer little protection.
Fortunately, lawyers will, after a certain number of deaths result here on the home front in crowd control usage of this new wonder weapon. Eventually, the lawsuits will stop this one, as the deaths are inevitable.
What Yahoo says is not what Yahoo does. Take the case of Geocities. What was once a thriving sprawl similar to the one reaching from Boston to Atlanta with spots of brilliance scattered everywhere is now a homogenized mangle of hit or miss. To quote Caterina Fake at the Flickr blog...
What is going to happen to Flickr?
Flickr will be continuing on the path it's on -- to Flickr 1.0 and beyond. We'll be working with a bunch of people that Totally Get Flickr and want to preserve the community and the flavor of what is here. We're going to grow and change, but we're in it for the long haul, with the same management and same team.
I would mod this as Funny if this were a post at /.! I met the guys that were starting Geocities back in the old days at a CA conference here in New Orleans and found their new idea of an online community exciting (I suggested side streets or allys to give them more space in the developed areas.) I learned html on Geocities and still have a couple of pages there (which I cannot get into). But their company has gone into the blender that is Yahoo.
You're not going to become a bunch of suits?
No, no, no! The precious DNA we've got -- that of the Ludicrew -- is on side and revving up for building Flickr. Having the team building out the team's vision for Flickr has been stressed as our number one priority, and keeping us around -- in spite of our wiseassery, tomfoolery and tendency to hoot spontaneously -- is crucial for preserving the Flickrness that is Flickr. They're not going to replace any of us with suits, nor induce us to wear them. Lapel? I don't know what you mean.
The target stores circular in todays paper had some nice ties with ...s and ooos on them and at a good price. Better stock up. You may not be replaced, but you may very well become suits. "Just for this one important meeting" is how it usually starts...
Are you going to become Yahoo Photos?
No. Yahoo Photos will get a lot of Flickr features, and there are alot of other areas around Yahoo that will also be Flickrized where Flickrization would be good. Yahoo Photos and Flickr have different kinds of users with different needs, and will remain separate for the foreseeable future. Flickr would also suffer from a sudden deluge of LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg! so we're going to grow it carefully.
It took about a year for Yahoo to totally digest Geocities. It's just a word now that is internet history.
Do I have to have a Yahoo ID to use Flickr?
No. In the future, you'll be able to log into Flickr using your Yahoo account, but you can continue logging on as before.
I'll bet it'll be less than a year on the ID thing. Yahoo is looking to sell you to the advertisers and the ID is the hook, look at what you get. It's a lot. I use my yahoo personal page for a great news feed, totally customizable and with lots of features and look forward to a Flickr module in there aswell.
Waaaaaaaah!! I don't want Flickr to change!
Don't forget to breathe. It's not the end, it's the beginning! As the wise woman who taught us The One True Way of Flickr Massage says, the only thing permanent is change. But we're going to stay true to our vision and to the people who made us what we are -- that's you, the Flickr pioneers. Thanks for making the first year of Flickr so wonderful.
I'm sorry Caterina, but like the old Jefferson Airplane song goes," When the truth within you turns out to be lies, And all the joy within you dies..."
Of course, we will be happy to answer questions, accept backslapping, and do deep breathing exercises with the Flickr community at Flickr Central.
Don't count on it. I've tried to get access to my Geocities pages for over a year now and have yet to find an email address or 800 number at Yahoo to talk to someone about getting access there again, but... Sure there are plenty of forms, with standard replies and forums where there i