Steven J. Milloy is NOT a scientist but
industry-paid hack, is a columnist for Fox News and a paid advocate for
Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil and other corporations. For years, Milloy has
been scamming people on Fox News and on his junkscience site.
This guy has been bought and paid for many times over by companies like
Phillip Morris and Exxon Mobil.
This
report from the Union of Concerned Scientists documents how
Milloy, headed a nonprofit organization called
the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, which had been covertly created by
the tobacco company Philip Morris in 1993 to manufacture uncertainty about the
health hazards posed by secondhand smoke. Milloy also served as a member
of the small 1998 Global Climate Science Team task force that mapped out
ExxonMobil's disinformation strategy on global warming. Between 2000 and
2004, ExxonMobil gave $50,000 to Milloy's Advancement of Sound Science Center,
and another $60,000 to an organization called the Free Enterprise Education
Institute (a.k.a. Free Enterprise Action Institute), which is also registered to
Milloy's home address.
ExxonMobil also gave $130,000 to Milloy's
"Free Enterprise Action Institute" between 1998-2005. The
organization is registered under Milloy's name and home address.
Milloy is also the former director of the
"National Environmental Policy Institute". Yet another industry front
group providing disinformation on climate science to which ExxonMobil gave at
least $75,000.
As others have stated, Milloy never
mentions the large amounts of mercury being released from coal-fired power
plants that has resulted in levels of mercury so high in lakes and streams of
New England that state health agencies have to warn pregnant women and young
children not to eat too much fish caught from these waters. Milloy never
mentions that his friends in the power industry (and unfortunately the current
administrators in the EPA) fought tooth and nail to prevent the installation of
equipment on the power plants to remove the large amounts of mercury released to
the air.
As has been pointed out, the mercury in the
CFL bulbs (unlike that being released from power plants) is contained and the
bulbs can be recycled. Should we eventually move to other solutions with
less potential for mercury contamination like LED bulbs. Absolutely! But LED
bulbs are even more expensive now than CFLs.
What people like Milloy do and have done
for years is nothing less then criminal: Take money from industry to lie
and confuse Americans about the dangers of smoking, concerns about global
warming, and other health, safety, and consumer issues.
It was irresponsible for the Independent to run the title as "Are
mobile phones wiping out our bees?"
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) of bees could have a major national and worldwide
impact this year on crop yields.
But is said right in the article: "No one knows why it is happening."
It also says:
"Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse
to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen
Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible
cause."
Right now that is just speculation. Decades ago a study conducted in Denver
suggested taht inner city children were more prone to cancer in areas of the
city where there were higher densities of electrical transformers.
The next thing people knew, there were articles everywhere that high voltage
power lines could cause cancer in children. (even though the original study had
nothing to do with power lines). People became afraid to live near high voltage
lines and property values dropped.
Eventually the original study was
proven to be faulty. Decades of anguish by many thousands of people were
caused by the faulty extrapolation of conclusions from the original faulty study
(see
link).
"others were a little concerned that the new interface would intimidate some of our workers. " Just use a theme to rejigger the interface to look like W98, W200, WXP, or whatever they are used to!
No one will replace NAT devices with CAT devices! Cable companies used to charge for every TV connected to your home cable. Many no longer do. They only charge for additional cable boxes. (They can't control splitter's inside the home). Also wireless systems can now transmit "premium" channels from behind a single cable box to multiple locaitons. The article is silly, it equates multiple NATted IPs in the home with stealing via illegal "black" boxes or connections to the carrier. The problem is MOOT as others have stated since the cable companies can regulate the bandwidth you get and even offer premium services with greater and/or guaranteed bandwidths and public IP addresses.
You state that "After all, the scientists provide the articles free of charge". As a former full time scientist, I should point out that often the scientists PAY THE JOURNALS to publish their findings!!! The payments are called "page charges" and they can be quite substantial running from hundreds to thousands of dollars. While some scientists have these costs covered from their grant funds, I have seen grad. students pay these charges directly out of their own pockets. Much of this work is paid for by government grants. It should be made available to the public and to other researchers via the 'net. Since publishers and even many scientific societies garner revenues from the page charges and subscription charges, its no wonder that they have been reluctant to make the publications more readily available. But it is about time that these groups come into the 21st contrary. Kudos for the boycotters.
Stephen Nodvin
We are a team of Linux developers working on products to meet this need. We plan to have the products available by the beginning of 2001. For a preview see:
http://www.linuxbx.net or
http://www.linuxappliance.net
Guess what !?
All changes made by Microsoft to the source code in Windows products (Windows NT, Windows98, Windows200, etc.) are TOTALLY UNDOCUMENTED!!!!!
BECAUSE Microsoft products are closed source!
We almost never know what changes are being made in new versions and even updates of Windows.
Quicknet has a low - cost 1 port card that will do the trick with Linux and Windows drivers: http://www.quicknet.com Also check out Pika for 4 port cards with traditional analogue and VoIP capabilities with Windows and Linux drivers: http://www.pikatech.com Aslo check out the Bayonne project. Linux based Open Source telephony system with interfaces to Quicknet, Pika, and other cards: http://bayonne.sourceforge.net/
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I have a Bridge in Brooklyn for sale, cheap!
Steven J. Milloy is NOT a scientist but industry-paid hack, is a columnist for Fox News and a paid advocate for Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil and other corporations. For years, Milloy has been scamming people on Fox News and on his junkscience site.
This guy has been bought and paid for many times over by companies like Phillip Morris and Exxon Mobil.
This report from the Union of Concerned Scientists documents how Milloy, headed a nonprofit organization called the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, which had been covertly created by the tobacco company Philip Morris in 1993 to manufacture uncertainty about the health hazards posed by secondhand smoke. Milloy also served as a member of the small 1998 Global Climate Science Team task force that mapped out ExxonMobil's disinformation strategy on global warming. Between 2000 and 2004, ExxonMobil gave $50,000 to Milloy's Advancement of Sound Science Center, and another $60,000 to an organization called the Free Enterprise Education Institute (a.k.a. Free Enterprise Action Institute), which is also registered to Milloy's home address.
ExxonMobil also gave $130,000 to Milloy's "Free Enterprise Action Institute" between 1998-2005. The organization is registered under Milloy's name and home address.
Milloy is also the former director of the "National Environmental Policy Institute". Yet another industry front group providing disinformation on climate science to which ExxonMobil gave at least $75,000.
As others have stated, Milloy never mentions the large amounts of mercury being released from coal-fired power plants that has resulted in levels of mercury so high in lakes and streams of New England that state health agencies have to warn pregnant women and young children not to eat too much fish caught from these waters. Milloy never mentions that his friends in the power industry (and unfortunately the current administrators in the EPA) fought tooth and nail to prevent the installation of equipment on the power plants to remove the large amounts of mercury released to the air.
As has been pointed out, the mercury in the CFL bulbs (unlike that being released from power plants) is contained and the bulbs can be recycled. Should we eventually move to other solutions with less potential for mercury contamination like LED bulbs. Absolutely! But LED bulbs are even more expensive now than CFLs.
What people like Milloy do and have done for years is nothing less then criminal: Take money from industry to lie and confuse Americans about the dangers of smoking, concerns about global warming, and other health, safety, and consumer issues.
It was irresponsible for the Independent to run the title as " Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?"
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) of bees could have a major national and worldwide impact this year on crop yields.
But is said right in the article: "No one knows why it is happening."
It also says:
Right now that is just speculation. Decades ago a study conducted in Denver suggested taht inner city children were more prone to cancer in areas of the city where there were higher densities of electrical transformers.
The next thing people knew, there were articles everywhere that high voltage power lines could cause cancer in children. (even though the original study had nothing to do with power lines). People became afraid to live near high voltage lines and property values dropped.
Eventually the original study was proven to be faulty. Decades of anguish by many thousands of people were caused by the faulty extrapolation of conclusions from the original faulty study (see link).
Stephen Nodvin
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sco.com/of fers/ancient_unix.html
Stephen
Gone are the days when a flash presentation can fund your company!
"others were a little concerned that the new interface would intimidate some of our workers. "
Just use a theme to rejigger the interface to look like W98, W200, WXP, or whatever they are used to!
Stephen
Just like the Schmoo in L'il Abner !!
http://www.lil-abner.com/shmoo.html
No one will replace NAT devices with CAT devices! Cable companies used to charge for every TV connected to your home cable. Many no longer do. They only charge for additional cable boxes. (They can't control splitter's inside the home). Also wireless systems can now transmit "premium" channels from behind a single cable box to multiple locaitons. The article is silly, it equates multiple NATted IPs in the home with stealing via illegal "black" boxes or connections to the carrier. The problem is MOOT as others have stated since the cable companies can regulate the bandwidth you get and even offer premium services with greater and/or guaranteed bandwidths and public IP addresses.
KDE 2 is now bundled with RedHat 7.1
Gnome is also bundled.
They seem to work fine, incl. Konquerer.
Stephen
You state that "After all, the scientists provide the articles free of charge". As a former full time scientist, I should point out that often the scientists PAY THE JOURNALS to publish their findings!!! The payments are called "page charges" and they can be quite substantial running from hundreds to thousands of dollars. While some scientists have these costs covered from their grant funds, I have seen grad. students pay these charges directly out of their own pockets. Much of this work is paid for by government grants. It should be made available to the public and to other researchers via the 'net. Since publishers and even many scientific societies garner revenues from the page charges and subscription charges, its no wonder that they have been reluctant to make the publications more readily available. But it is about time that these groups come into the 21st contrary. Kudos for the boycotters.
Stephen Nodvin
Go to work for a good company, then hire or give good references to your competent colleagues at your old company.
S
We are a team of Linux developers working on products to meet this need. We plan to have the products available by the beginning of 2001. For a preview see:
http://www.linuxbx.net or
http://www.linuxappliance.net
Regards,
Stephen Nodvin
Guess what !?
All changes made by Microsoft to the source code in Windows products (Windows NT, Windows98, Windows200, etc.) are TOTALLY UNDOCUMENTED!!!!!
BECAUSE Microsoft products are closed source!
We almost never know what changes are being made in new versions and even updates of Windows.
Stephen Nodvin
Quicknet has a low - cost 1 port card that will do the trick with Linux and Windows drivers:
http://www.quicknet.com
Also check out Pika for 4 port cards with traditional analogue and VoIP capabilities with Windows and Linux drivers:
http://www.pikatech.com
Aslo check out the Bayonne project. Linux based Open Source telephony system with interfaces to Quicknet, Pika, and other cards:
http://bayonne.sourceforge.net/