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When alcohol and cholesterol are runnin' through your veinsAnd lawyers suing burger joints are poisoning my brainVegan food and whole-wheat pizza pushin' me too farI've got to break away So take my hand now Cause I want to live like cannibals Healthy and free, like cannibalsI want to live I want to run through the jungle For arms and the ribs and the eyes and the feet...I've been having difficulties shopping at the storeUnexpected cravings always leave me wanting moreCannibals are onto something, Stouffer's doesn't seeWhich one eats a human?Solves our problems, you and meNutrition in the jungleNutrition in your head, yeahWould you like to make a run for it?I would like to taste your hand, yeah Cause I want to live like cannibals Healthy and free, like cannibalsI want to live I want to run through the jungle For arms and the ribs and the eyes and the feet...Sometimes a meal can get you downIt's so unhealthyThere's so many carcinogensAnd I feel likeI'd sorta rather eat the cheeeeeeefAaaaahhhhhhAaaaahhhhhh...When alcohol and cholesterol are runnin' through your veinsAnd lawyers suing burger joints are poisoning my brainCannibals are onto something, Stouffer's doesn't seeWhich one eats a human?Solves our problems, you and meNutrition in the jungleNutrition in your head, yeahWould you like to make a run for it?I would like to taste your hand, yeah Cause I want to live like cannibals Healthy and free, like cannibalsI want to live I want to run through the jungle For arms and the ribs and the eyes and the feet...
UPDATE: Let's get the revolution started, then. I'm hungry.
...And the shining star of democracy rises into the sky like a lawn chair attached to a weather balloon... making navigation difficult for slow-moving blimps. Let the new age dawn for California! And I say, two cars in every garage! Two chickens in every pot! ... And free pot for every chicken!
The day will come when we will lose a big election. On that day, we should say that we lost because we failed � we failed to articulate our message, we failed because we ran corrupt and uninspiring candidates, we failed because we didn�t listen to the wisdom of the electorate � we failed because we thought four or five political hacks in a campaign room somewhere knew what was better for the nation or the state than the millions and millions of people who actually live and work in it. And on that day, we should pledge to do better, to try harder to get the message across, and most importantly, to listen to what the people are saying. And we should accept that loss, congratulate the winners, accept defeat with grace and dignity � like adults -- and then look under the hood with a very cold and unemotional eye, fix the mistakes, and get a better product out there. This would mean giving up the infantile pleasures of moaning and crying about the Lost Cause. But that is what you have to do in order to win. And with stakes this high, winning matters. It matters.
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UPDATE: Wait, no. 53-45% in favor.UPDATE: No! 52-47%! Dang it! They keep changing their mind. How can they not know all the results ten minutes after the polls close?! Blaahh!
Green Party candidate Peter Camejo getting strong support from the waterfowl and rodent population... waterfowl and rodents, of course, having gotten the vote after Gray Davis signed the "Every Species Gets a Vote" bill, secretly, last week...
Under a Democratic governor, we've:
Passed domestic partnership legislation
Banned greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming
Strengthened laws protecting a woman's right to choose
Enacted the nation's toughest gun safety laws
Worked to stop offshore drilling
Passed the 8-hour work day
Increased the minimum wage
Expanded family and medical leave
The Republicans fought against each of these issues. If they get rid of the governor, what do you think they'll do next?
Next year's election will be where the final hand is dealt. It will tell us how many people in this country have been able to weather the battering of the guiltmongers and the doom-seekers and the sowers of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, and hold on to what we know is the right course of action for ourselves and for the world-- and how many are ready to cash in, give up, lie down and let blissful slumber overtake our eyes while the Pods placed by the social-progressive Europeans creep ever closer to our bedsides.
This phenomenon validates Joseph Goebbels' 1934 advice: Bombard the "primitive rank and file," with "propaganda...essentially simple and repetitive." To say this Nazi tactic works today is an understatement.
Ayad, 37, a Palestinian-American who owns Grandpa's Kitchen, has had dozens of controversial images painted on his business establishment over the last few years. Public officials and Jewish Clevelanders say these murals are blatantly offensive and antisemitic.The newest signs, painted over the spring and summer at the deli, include a group of skullcap-wearing Jews counting money at a table while Jesus hangs on a cross above them, and a supposed talmudic endorsement of pedophilia. In the latter, a Jewish priest holds a small boy in his arms. The priest is quoted as saying, "Silly man, this is not my son, he's my wife." Below this is an alleged line from the Talmud. "Like the tear comes to the eye again and again so does ... virginity to a child under 3 years and 1 day."Above this mural is contact information for Cong. Stephanie Tubbs Jones for those seeking reparations from Israel. The congresswoman's image has also unflatteringly appeared on past murals. Ayad was angry she never followed up on a letter she sent him over two years ago, claiming she would help him get back his father's land.Another new sign shows Hitler with the Star of David branded into his upraised and bleeding hand. A larger Star of David superimposed with a swastika is painted to the right of this image.
VeriSign Inc., the firm that operates a key piece of the Internet's address system, said it would temporarily shut down a new service that makes money off the typos of Web users after the Internet's oversight body threatened to take legal action against the company.Earlier today, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) President Paul Twomey sent a letter to VeriSign demanding that the company take the service down or face legal consequences. Under its contracts with VeriSign ICANN can impose up to $100,000 in fines or strip the company of its authority to operate the registries that handle dot-com and dot-net Internet addresses.
"Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down the Site Finder service," said VeriSign spokesman Tom Galvin. "We will accede to their request while we explore all of our options.". . .VeriSign also angered the close-knit group of engineers and scientists who are familiar with the technology underpinning the Internet. They say that Site Finder undermines the worldwide Domain Name System, causing e-mail systems, spam-blocking technology and other applications to malfunction.VeriSign said the claims are overblown."There is no data to indicate the core operation of the domain name system or the stability of the Internet has been adversely affected," VeriSign's Galvin said. "ICANN is using anecdotal and isolated issues in an attempt to assert a dubious right to regulate non-registry services."
"War is breaking out between the regulators and the people they regulate. This is a real power struggle [over] who controls the rules on the Internet going forward," said said Paxfire's Lewyn.
Polish troops in Iraq (news - web sites) have found four French-built advanced anti-aircraft missiles which were built this year, a Polish Defense Ministry spokesman told Reuters Friday. France strongly denied having sold any such missiles to Iraq for nearly two decades, and said it was impossible that its newest missiles should turn up in Iraq. "Polish troops discovered an ammunition depot on Sept. 29 near the region of Hilla and there were four French-made Roland-type missiles," Defense Ministry spokesman Eugeniusz Mleczak said. "It is not the first time Polish troops found ammunition in Iraq but to our surprise these missiles were produced in 2003."
Iraq, in my view, had its own "Sarindar" plan in effect direct from Moscow. It certainly had one in the past. Nicolae Ceausescu told me so, and he heard it from Leonid Brezhnev. KGB chairman Yury Andropov, and later, Gen. Yevgeny Primakov, told me so, too. In the late 1970s, Gen. Primakov ran Saddam's weapons programs. After that, as you may recall, he was promoted to head of the Soviet foreign intelligence service in 1990, to Russia's minister of foreign affairs in 1996, and in 1998, to prime minister. What you may not know is that Primakov hates Israel and has always championed Arab radicalism. He was a personal friend of Saddam's and has repeatedly visited Baghdad after 1991, quietly helping Saddam play his game of hide-and-seek. . . .It was just a few days after this last "Disclosure," after a decade of intervening with the U.N. and the rest of the world on Iraq's behalf, that Gen. Primakov and his team of military experts landed in Baghdad � even though, with 200,000 U.S. troops at the border, war was imminent, and Moscow could no longer save Saddam Hussein. Gen. Primakov was undoubtedly cleaning up the loose ends of the "Sarindar" plan and assuring Saddam that Moscow would rebuild his weapons of mass destruction after the storm subsided for a good price. Mr. Putin likes to take shots at America and wants to reassert Russia in world affairs. Why would he not take advantage of this opportunity? As minister of foreign affairs and prime minister, Gen. Primakov has authored the "multipolarity" strategy of counterbalancing American leadership by elevating Russia to great-power status in Eurasia. Between Feb. 9-12, Mr. Putin visited Germany and France to propose a three-power tactical alignment against the United States to advocate further inspections rather than war. On Feb. 21, the Russian Duma appealed to the German and French parliaments to join them on March 4-7 in Baghdad, for "preventing U.S. military aggression against Iraq." Crowds of European leftists, steeped for generations in left-wing propaganda straight out of Moscow, continue to find the line appealing. Mr. Putin's tactics have worked. The United States won a brilliant military victory, demolishing a dictatorship without destroying the country, but it has begun losing the peace. While American troops unveiled the mass graves of Saddam's victims, anti-American forces in Western Europe and elsewhere, spewed out vitriolic attacks, accusing Washington of greed for oil and not of really caring about weapons of mass destruction, or exaggerating their risks, as if weapons of mass destruction were really nothing very much to worry about after all.
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Phil Rose, a friend in Seattle, writes to ask if people around here call the president "That Bush." Writes Phil, "They don't call him 'President Bush' or even 'Bush,' but 'That Bush' as in, 'Oooooh, I hate that Bush. That Bush is mean. That Bush is stupid. That Bush spends all his time taking money away from the people and giving it to The Rich.'" Phil says he found himself wondering who this guy "The Rich" is -- if he's anything like The Donald. He started thinking of That Bush being like the Grinch, slinking from house to house, stealing purses and wallets and putting them into a huge bag for The Rich. And then Phil started to write:
THAT BUSH The poor people dove down in Dumpsters for stuff But The Rich, in his palace, cried "I don't have enough! "What to do? Who to call? What button to push? "I know! The red one that summons That Bush!" So The Rich pushed the button, a bell chimed "Clang! Clang!" And up popped That Bush! And That Bush said, "You rang?"
THAT BUSH The poor people dove down in Dumpsters for stuff But The Rich, in his palace, cried "I don't have enough! "What to do? Who to call? What button to push? "I know! The red one that summons That Bush!" So The Rich pushed the button, a bell chimed "Clang! Clang!" And up popped That Bush! And That Bush said, "You rang?"
The Jordanian official news agency Petra has reported that a member of parliament has demanded that the government prosecutes those responsible for screening the latest film "Bruce Al Mighty" by Hollywood comedian actor Jim Carey in Jordanian cinema houses. The agency, which refused to reveal the identity of the parliament member, added that an immediate order was given to stop showing the film in every movie theater. According to the London based Elaph, it was stated that the parliament official referred to the film as an insult to God and a disgrace to all religions. Carey was also reprimanded for playing the leading role of Bruce, who in the film plays the role of a journalist who is given the powers of God Almighty and is dared to compete with God.
When asked how they would vote on recalling Davis, 63 percent of probable voters surveyed said they would vote yes, compared with 35 percent who said they would vote no.In a separate vote to choose a replacement for Davis, Schwarzenegger was the choice of 40 percent of respondents.Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante was the choice for 25 percent of voters polled, Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock received 18 percent.The poll showed Green Party candidate Peter Camejo with 5 percent and syndicated columnist and independent candidate Arianna Huffington with 2 percent of the respondents' support.
Meanwhile, in La-La Land, MoveOn.org is running an EMERGENCY! Stop Schwarzenegger! mailing campaign. Hey, good luck to 'em-- I suppose not winning a single kooky cause since Monicagate will really demoralize a group, huh?
Apple's American marketshare of laptops in the second quarter of this year jumped almost two percent from the previous quarter, making it one of the Mac maker's largest laptop share increases in well over two years, Think Secret has learned.Numbers from industry market intelligence firm IDC showed Apple's biggest marketshare increase was in U.S.-sold laptops, rising from 5.1 percent, or 146,000 units sold, in the first quarter of this year, to 7.0 percent, or 216,000 units sold.The increase from Apple's PowerBooks and iBooks moved the company from sixth spot to fifth place among laptop makers. For comparison, IBM was in fourth place with a 9.3 percent marketshare in American laptop sales.Among other laptop makers, the industry average increase in U.S. laptop sequential sales for the second quarter was eight percent. Apple increase was a dramatic 48 percent -- the biggest jump among all manufacturers.
Opinion polls conducted in Iraq since the war - by reputable polling agencies that have predicted election results across the world - have vindicated this view, showing that a large majority of Iraqis wanted the invasion. And there was therefore reason to hope that this visit to Iraq would be a happy one. None the less, I have spent the summer fearing for Sama, Yasser and Abtehale. Partly I was anxious for their physical safety: they were very close to the UN headquarters on the day the building was blown up, for example. But mostly I worried about their emotional health. All three had spent their lives pining for home. What if home disappointed them? What if the Iraqi people saw them as strangers? What if Iraqis did not want to hear them evangelise for democracy? They returned to London earlier this month. The minute they arrived at my flat, beaming and speaking at a hundred words a minute, my fears evaporated. Abtehale began: "We were so scared that we might have been wrong. We kept thinking, `What if we get there and everybody hates us for supporting the war?' But it was amazing: almost everyone we met was more hawkish than us. All over the country, even people who really hated the Americans agreed it would have been a disaster if the war had been called off." Yasser said: "One of the first things my uncle said to me was that his greatest fear in the run-up to the war was that the Americans would do what they did in 1991 and leave us to Saddam." Yet, Yasser admits: "The first fortnight, I was really, really depressed. Everyone in Iraq had been totally conditioned to wait to be told what to do by the state. Anybody with initiative got tortured or killed by Saddam, so people just waited for orders. So even after the liberation, they couldn't understand that they were free; they didn't know what it meant. But then I saw that gradually they were realising, and that day by day they were sort of defrosting." The IPO people went to Iraq with clear goals. First, they wanted to establish debating societies and newsletters in the Baghdad universities. "These are going to be the seeds of democracy," Yasser explains. "Once you learn to argue against people instead of killing them as Saddam did, you're on your way. We explained to the university students that they could have different newspapers - and even have different opinions in the same newspapers - and it seemed totally surreal to them. They just couldn't understand it. But when they realised that it really was possible and nobody was going to punish them, they were so excited that they were just obsessed. "They were in the middle of their exams and supposed to be studying, but they insisted on writing and photocopying a newsletter that they distributed everywhere. They wrote articles on amazing things they could find out about on the internet - philosophy and art and the difference between proportional representation and first-past-the-post! It was the best thing in my life, seeing that," Yasser says.
UPDATE: Steven Den Beste does the necessary expansion on this that I didn't have the wherewithal to write. On one level, the article-- and the knowledge that so many utterly morally corrupt people in the world staunchly oppose the changes that are described in it-- speak for themselves. But on another, the analysis needs to be done. The revolution must be described; the process must be put into words.
However, a YEAR later I started getting messages about Trident Video Drivers two or three times a week. People had seen my question and had somehow concluded that I was a representative of Trident and responsible for their lack of drivers, any random GPFs on their machines, etc. Needless to say, I was not particularly enthused.I put up this page and crossed my fingers. Sure enough, the hidden counter on this page shows that it was accessed over 300 times in the first month or so it was up. Since I seem to have accidentally become one of the foremost sources for Trident Video Driver information on the WWW, I thought I would at least make whatever information I know available.This page you are reading contains all I know about Trident Video Drivers. Please don't email me questions about drivers. I do not work for Trident either as employee or as a consultant. The only reason this page is here is to save me from having to deal with all the messages I receive.
"I'm the only one here who has been in business! Nobody else here has had to meet payroll or pay for employees' health care!""Uh, Arnold, that's not tr--""You know what you politicians do all the time? You--""<sigh> No, Arnold. What do we do?""You invent all these causes, you come in for a photo-op, and then you leave and are never seen again. I sponsored after-school programs for inner-city youth..."
UPDATE: Dammit, I can't compete with LGF's Dar ul Harb:
Next on Fox!Celebrity catfight! Arianna Huffington tries to claw her way up from the bottom of the pile, but barely scratches the semi-synthetic skin of Governator Ahnold. Ahnold remains focused on protecting the "programs for the children."
Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante anchors the opposite end of the dais from the Governator, exuding the powerfully subdued condescension field loaned to him by the Al Gore 2000 campaign, but it proves unable to radiate far enough to fully absorb Ahnold's charisma.The Green Party's Peter Camejo, product of an unlikely fusion of genetic material obtained by space aliens from former New York mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Guliani, attempted to appeal to those Californians from "every planet on the Earth" --a highly sought-after group of voters still undecided about the recall, according to former Gov. Gray Davis.
State Sen. Tom McClintock stayed on his conservative message, and out of the Governator's line of fire, by an innovative strategy of answering the questions, which had been provided to the candidates in advance. This proved attractive to voters confused by the helleno-germanic crosstalk, and thankful for the clarity of McClintock's American English diction (even if he did bloody well curse in British during his answer about Sacramento's relationship to municipalities).Can Governator Ahnold overcome the loss of conservative Republicans to McClintock, and go on to beat Bustamante, tackle the special interests in Sacramento, the state budget deficit, and the state's decaying infrastructure, while at the same time funding health care and afterschool programs for the children?Or will Gov. Davis' parting words be "Et tu, Cruz?"
Next on Fox!Celebrity catfight! Arianna Huffington tries to claw her way up from the bottom of the pile, but barely scratches the semi-synthetic skin of Governator Ahnold. Ahnold remains focused on protecting the "programs for the children."
Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante anchors the opposite end of the dais from the Governator, exuding the powerfully subdued condescension field loaned to him by the Al Gore 2000 campaign, but it proves unable to radiate far enough to fully absorb Ahnold's charisma.The Green Party's Peter Camejo, product of an unlikely fusion of genetic material obtained by space aliens from former New York mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Guliani, attempted to appeal to those Californians from "every planet on the Earth" --a highly sought-after group of voters still undecided about the recall, according to former Gov. Gray Davis.
State Sen. Tom McClintock stayed on his conservative message, and out of the Governator's line of fire, by an innovative strategy of answering the questions, which had been provided to the candidates in advance. This proved attractive to voters confused by the helleno-germanic crosstalk, and thankful for the clarity of McClintock's American English diction (even if he did bloody well curse in British during his answer about Sacramento's relationship to municipalities).Can Governator Ahnold overcome the loss of conservative Republicans to McClintock, and go on to beat Bustamante, tackle the special interests in Sacramento, the state budget deficit, and the state's decaying infrastructure, while at the same time funding health care and afterschool programs for the children?Or will Gov. Davis' parting words be "Et tu, Cruz?"
UPDATE: Or Frank J, either, though that should surprise nobody. Best line: "Arianna Huffington died as she lived: extremely off topic."
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Time for Bloggers to Fight a Front in the Real War
Poking fun at Glenn Reynolds has been amusing, but I think I have a real cause for us blog writers and blog readers to work for now.As I've said before on my own site, I don't get legitimately angry that often, but one thing has been pissing me off lately, and that's the coverage of the war in the media. All we hear is the negative news, and everything is painted to make the war look like a failure. Yet, anytime I talk to one of our troops who has actually been in Iraq, the outlook is quite different. I hear how nice and thankful the Iraqi people are. I hear of all the progress that is being made. I hear of the schools the troops have help built, and how big Marines are sitting on teeter-totters and swing sets teaching Iraqi kids how to use them since those children have never had a playground before.And I never hear any of this in the major media.Some of this is just the habit of media to dwell on the negative, but not all of it. These are stories people want to hear, but too many news organizations have no interest in them. And I don't think I'm going to far out on limb to say some of them are purposely ignoring any good news to try to spin victory into failure. They are trying to fight a propaganda war.Well, let's fight back.
It's the 21st century, and there are still too many evil dictatorships out there. America and its allies finally did something about one. There was terrible murderous regime in Iraq oppressing 24 million people, and now that regime is gone and those people have hope. There are millions more who could use that hope as well, but there are forces out there to make sure that does not happen. They want to tell us we are losing. They want tell they enemy they are winning. This is no small thing. Public opinion, both in America and world wide, will affect the outcome of this war. If Iraq is seen as a victory, it could cause the collapse of more evil regimes because they'll know they are next. If it is seen as a failure - a �quagmire� -then evil is encouraged and strengthened.
" Congress must withhold the $87 billion requested by President Bush until he dismisses the team responsible for the quagmire in Iraq -- starting with Defense Secretary Rumsfeld -- and ends the U.S. occupation of Iraq by transferring authority for rebuilding to the U.N. "
When Apple's Steve Jobs introduced the Apple Power Mac G5 this summer as the fastest personal computer any company had built to date, we took it with a grain of salt. After all, Apple had made that boast in the past, and those claims did not tend to hold up when independent third parties (such as ourselves) ran tests on current, real-world applications (not the synthetic benchmark tests Apple cited). Well, we'll take that salt with a side of fries. After testing a loaded ($4,349 direct, after we opted for more RAM and upgraded graphics) dual 2.0-GHz Power Mac G5 on a range of high-end content creation applications and comparing the results with a similarly configured (and priced) Dell Precision 650 Workstation running dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors, we see that indeed the G5 is generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available.
Oh, and one more little bit of annoyance: the G5's slots are all PCI-X. Which is not backward-compatible with 5V PCI cards. Like my SCSI card.So my scanner, that erstwhile Microtek 6400XL with its long-suffering SCSI cable, is at long last left high and dry.I think this time I'll finally just take a big ol' swig at the suck pipe and sell it on Ebay, and pick up a 9800XL-- which is essentially the same scanner, except with FireWire. No more SCSI for me, thankyouverymuch. I think I've put in more than enough penance in dealing with that thing, and it's time to end my dependence on Adaptec's corporate mercy.
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"remarkably small frame at only 1.7" thin. " - quote
7.9lbs w/o Battery and Bay options
without the battery..... without the battery OR bay options... so loaded would be 10lbs?
Intel� P4 3.2GHzHyper-Threading
battery would last, what? Maybe 2 minutes.
3.5 Floppy Drive
Built-in 3-Mode
a must for this century
Video Out
High-resolution S-Video Out with independent image settings controls
no DVI?
10/100 Ethernet LAN PCI Controller
gigabit - a bit too far?
Ultra-high performance air duct and FreeFlow� architecture. Variable speed-fan digital microprocessor control with multiple temperature sensing points. High-density Multi-stage Methanol Copper Heatpipe CPU heatsink design with precision pressure plates. Oversized double-blade Q-Fan architecture with adaptive vibration cancelling technology. Independent Chipset/ Graphics Adapter and critical component Multi-distribution side heatsinks. HD, DDR, and power supply electrical components independent air ducts.
which means it blows... and, uh, sucks...
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Mac users only: You may experience linking errors when using the main navegation bar above, with both the Internet Explorer and Safari Browsers. We are looking into the issue and correcting it as soon as the technical issues have been identified. PC�users are not affected by this.
No other PC in its category you compare it with, comes even closes. Nothing. Period. Truly, like no other.
UPDATE: Chris points out that the discrepancy in the P4/Xeon SPEC numbers between what L and Apple claim probably stems from the much-publicized decision on Apple's part to use a non-optimized GCC; whereas L almost certainly used Intel's own compiler, which was probably hyperthreading-enabled. Thing is, the non-optimized GCC is intended to match the real world (PC software vendors couldn't exactly get away with shipping hyperthreading-optimized software to their whole customer base, where it wouldn't work at all).Underhanded? Yeah. Likely? Who knows. But considering the number of typos and sloppy layout and deliberately misleading sleaze all over L's site, from which it becomes all but a self-parody, I have a hard time believing that their SPEC numbers-- alone in the site-- are trustworthy.
UPDATE: Jay Random writes with the following:
go-l.com is, of course, a hoax. Not an unamusing one, mind you. There is no such chip as the 3.8 GHz P4 they advertise on their top-end desktop; most of the other specs are faked, subtly or not so subtly, to make the weenies drool without actually being possible. The so-called -35�C cooling system is a particular hoot. So is the 57" 'Cinerama Display' (but the trademark holders for Cinerama are reportedly not amused). The '3-D LCD' for the laptops is pure demented genius. Have you got your 3-D glasses ready, kids? Didn't think so.The clincher: If you try to actually buy anything from their 'store', you will be absolutely defeated. The 'Store' button on the 'navegation' bar either takes you to the News page, or does nothing. If you click the text link at the bottom of the page, you reach an ostensible 'Store' page, but if you click any of the buttons to buy a product, the server ignores you. Your browser will tell you it's loading a page, but the page never loads -- & you never get a 404 error either. Also, the Visa, MC & Amex logos on the Store page are fake, a sure sign that 'l' has no merchant account with any of them & doesn't want them to sue.I am told that the dummy corporation has been traced & the hoaxers identified. Enjoy the joke while it lasts.
Awww! I wanted a Grand Canyon display! I had $18,000 just burning a hole in my pocket!That's one elaborate hoax, though. I'm particularly impressed by the careful engineering of the specs to make them both droolworthy and mockable at the same time. I suppose all the typos and miscoded JavaScript are also all part of the act?Wow.
go-l.com is, of course, a hoax. Not an unamusing one, mind you. There is no such chip as the 3.8 GHz P4 they advertise on their top-end desktop; most of the other specs are faked, subtly or not so subtly, to make the weenies drool without actually being possible. The so-called -35�C cooling system is a particular hoot. So is the 57" 'Cinerama Display' (but the trademark holders for Cinerama are reportedly not amused). The '3-D LCD' for the laptops is pure demented genius. Have you got your 3-D glasses ready, kids? Didn't think so.The clincher: If you try to actually buy anything from their 'store', you will be absolutely defeated. The 'Store' button on the 'navegation' bar either takes you to the News page, or does nothing. If you click the text link at the bottom of the page, you reach an ostensible 'Store' page, but if you click any of the buttons to buy a product, the server ignores you. Your browser will tell you it's loading a page, but the page never loads -- & you never get a 404 error either. Also, the Visa, MC & Amex logos on the Store page are fake, a sure sign that 'l' has no merchant account with any of them & doesn't want them to sue.I am told that the dummy corporation has been traced & the hoaxers identified. Enjoy the joke while it lasts.
NEWARK, N.J. - Police are investigating a graffiti attack on several buildings on Rutgers University's main campus in New Brunswick, including a Jewish community center and a fraternity house, as a bias crime.On Saturday morning, swastikas were found spray-painted on Rutgers Hillel. They were also painted on the porch and front door of Alpha Epsilon Pi, an historically Jewish fraternity.Three other buildings were damaged by spray paint, but no swastikas were painted on them, police said.
UPDATE: John writes to say:
If you strive for excellence as your primary goal, you will attain diversity by default.If you strive for diversity above all else, excellence will suffer.Unless you are the NBA.
If you strive for excellence as your primary goal, you will attain diversity by default.If you strive for diversity above all else, excellence will suffer.Unless you are the NBA.
In the end I just tried to absorb the situation and try to read as much as I could about it. I found out later, when he left the car, that he was a government official working in intelligence for the national broadcasting company. But he was not complaining about the conversation in the car, he was the one complaining about the government. His frustration was to the point where he was almost losing control, he needed to vent or he would burst. Many of the people in the cabs in Tehran had the similar thoughts. "Tell George Bush to come and get rid of the mullahs for us." I was shocked by the openness of that statement. With one fellow I tried to discuss it with him in more detail to see if he really meant it or was just talking. I told him that if George Bush came and got rid of the Mullahs, it would not be to help the people of Iran; he would be coming for the oil. The fellow replied, "He can have the oil, its not doing us any good anyway and at least then we would be free."
Midway through the tour we stop for a refreshing beverage. I drink my juice and my guide, with a sly smile, tells me to look at my cup. I see that written on the side of it are the words "Down with USA". Ouch. I chuckle a little and tell him that's very interesting. He tells me to read the other side of the cup, which I see says "Down with Israel". He's smiling quite gleefully, like he just did something brilliant, and I'm laughing along with him, because it's so banal. I mean really, is that it? After that, I headed over to a friends home for some khoresh e seeb, and ghormeh sabzi.
TORONTO - A Muslim youth organization that American counter-terrorism officials say was founded by Osama bin Laden's nephew has been operating in the Toronto area, the National Post has learned.The World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), established in the United States by Abdullah bin Laden, publishes literature promoting Islamic jihad and hatred of Jews, according to a senior investigator.The Canadian branch, in Mississauga, operates under the supervision of the U.S. wing set up by Abdullah bin Laden, according to the group's own literature. Its headquarters is in Saudi Arabia.In an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Virginia, David Kane, a senior special agent with the Department of Homeland Security, quoted provocative sections of books published by WAMY. One of the books said, "Teach our children to love taking revenge on the Jews and the oppressors, and teach them that our youngsters will liberate Palestine and al-Quds [Jerusalem] when they go back to Islam and make jihad for the sake of Allah."Special Agent Kane said another book compiled and published by WAMY listed "Heroes of Palestine" who had been killed in attacks against Israelis, including a terrorist who hijacked a bus and drove it off a cliff, killing 14."The Jews are the enemies of the faithful, God and the angels," Special Agent Kane quoted another WAMY book, entitled A Handy Encyclopedia of Contemporary Religions and Sects, as saying. "The Jews are humanity's enemies; they foment immorality in this world; The Jews are deceitful, they say something but mean the exact opposite."WAMY Canada runs a series of Islamic camps and pilgrimages for youth.
Of course, if humor can be used for evil, it can be used for good as well. Read Frank J.'s take. No, really.
"Why are you filming the G.I.�s helping school children?" CNN's Lefty Stevens asked Fox News's Melinda Hawkish, "There's no story there.""I think people would be interested in how war and destruction has improved the lives of the Iraqis," Melinda answered."Bah! Only stories of failure are news worthy," Stevens answered. Nearby he saw a troop fall to the ground, and he and his cameraman quickly rushed over to film him. "Yet another troop has fallen in this burgeoning quagmire," Stevens narrated."I'm alright," said Private Gomer, standing up, "I just done tripped on a rock.""Dammit!" Stevens exclaimed, "Well scream for us if you are more seriously wounded."
"Why are you filming the G.I.�s helping school children?" CNN's Lefty Stevens asked Fox News's Melinda Hawkish, "There's no story there.""I think people would be interested in how war and destruction has improved the lives of the Iraqis," Melinda answered."Bah! Only stories of failure are news worthy," Stevens answered. Nearby he saw a troop fall to the ground, and he and his cameraman quickly rushed over to film him. "Yet another troop has fallen in this burgeoning quagmire," Stevens narrated."I'm alright," said Private Gomer, standing up, "I just done tripped on a rock.""Dammit!" Stevens exclaimed, "Well scream for us if you are more seriously wounded."
"My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state. We have the sons and daughters of every, of people from every planet, of every country on earth," [Governor Davis] said.
Intel CTO Pat Gelsinger came as close as he's likely to get before the chip's launch to admitting that 'Prescott', the next generation of the Pentium desktop processor, dissipates more than 100W of power. Speaking to reporters at Intel Developer Forum in San Jose today, Gelsinger didn't confirm Prescott's alleged 103W power rating; but speaking about processors in general, he said: "100W for a desktop is OK". If that's not managing expectations for Prescott, we don't know what is. That Intel believes it's fine for a desktop CPU to dissipate 20-odd Watt more power than today's Pentium 4 does, is a sign that future chips - e.g. Prescott - will indeed pump out rather more heat than an 85W 'Northwood' P4.
Moving beyond 32-bit addressing is "really not needed for several more years", he told reporters attending the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose. AMD, of course, isn't going to wait that long. Next week, the company will unveil its long-awaited 64-bit desktop processor, the Athlon 64. And, just a few weeks ago, Apple began shipping its Power Mac G5 desktop based on the 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970 processor. But if Gelsinger's comments are anything to go by, Intel believes its rivals are coming to market too early. "How many [users] have seen the crippling 640K4GB limit on their desktop PCs?" he asked. Today, he claimed, there aren't apps that need more than the 640K4GB offered by virtual memory schemes, let alone however much physical memory is available.
Why is Windows so seductive? Windows gives me (and most everyone else) just a slight sense that everything works and is stable (I guess at first that is enough for most people starting out in computing, right?) But the real secret is that Windows is just not safe. What an adrenaline rush! I like to think of it like mountain climbing. Why climb a sheer cliff when you could be safe at home with your loved ones? Its the crazy thrill you get when your whole digital life is hanging over the edge of the precipice and you know you are hanging by your fingertips as you continue to push your computer to do more and more things, and get more and more work done without losing it all to the sudden and very unexpected Blue Screen of Death! This is addictive computing!...Think of it! Doesn't life kick you in the teeth when you least expect it? Do you think you are really immune to the theft of your possessions? Will it never happen to you that you are mugged sometime, somewhere? Your trusty Windows OS is there to remind you that life is neither fair nor lacking in sad surprises. Thank you, Billy Gates! You have no idea how this helps me keep my perspective when I teach such realities to my incredulous students in my many college classes.
Namely: If you accept that the primary reason for a business to exist is to employ people and give them money, then it follows that the business should sacrifice its bottom line for the sake of the employees-- give them raises, play along with unions, change what the company makes or sells-- whatever it takes to keep the employees happy, even if it kills the company to do so. But if you believe the business' purpose is to make money, then it's the business' duty to cut costs wherever possible, including in payroll (especially when you can increase efficiency while you're at it, as in employing a machine instead of a person).But if you believe the company exists to create goods & services, then you do what's necessary to keep making the best products possible, whether that means sacrificing employee benefits or stockholder profits. Happy employees are important to making good products, and so is a healthy bottom line. You gotta maintain both.But a company on a shoestring can make products by slashing costs and benefits and increasing efficiency; but it can't make anything if stockholders don't invest. I have to conclude that my free-floatingness, if you put it in a centrifuge and spun it up, would come to rest on the side of the stockholders, because while without workers all you have is dormant ideas on paper, without the bottom line you have nothing but lawsuits.
We believe that Verisign's history of technical incompetance, poor business ethics and disregard for the proper functioning of the Internet, including their most recent behaviour of including wildcard matches for the .net and .com domains, is just cause for withdrawing the .net and .com domains from Verisign's control.
UPDATE: There's also this one, which appears to be a bit further along.
Virginia Postrel has argued in her book, The Substance of Style, that aesthetic values are becoming a major driver -- perhaps the major new driver -- of economic activity. And I think she's right. It's easy to scoff at this, because aesthetics seem divorced from function: an ugly car gets you where you're going just as quickly and reliably as a pretty one, an ugly coat keeps you just as warm as a handsome one, and an ugly house keeps the rain off just as well as a showplace.Nonetheless, attractiveness matters. We all know that an ugly spouse can be just as faithful and loving as a gorgeous one -- even, if popular legend is to be believed, more so -- but we nonetheless tend to choose mates whose looks we like. To my daughter and her friends, it's natural to spend a lot of time thinking about what looks good. And, judging by the attention that my nephews pay to the subjects of their interests (automobiles, airplanes, and, just starting, women) looks matter there, too.
Cheap-labor conservatives don't like social spending or our "safety net". Why. Because when you're unemployed and desperate, corporations can pay you whatever they feel like � which is inevitably next to nothing. You see, they want you "over a barrel" and in a position to "work cheap or starve".
Cheap-labor conservatives don't like the minimum wage, or other improvements in wages and working conditions. Why. These reforms undo all of their efforts to keep you "over a barrel".
Cheap-labor conservatives like "free trade", NAFTA, GATT, etc. Why. Because there is a huge supply of desperately poor people in the third world, who are "over a barrel", and will work cheap.
Cheap-labor conservatives oppose a woman's right to choose. Why. Unwanted children are an economic burden that put poor women "over a barrel", forcing them to work cheap.
Cheap-labor conservatives don't like unions. Why. Because when labor "sticks together", wages go up. That's why workers unionize. Seems workers don't like being "over a barrel".
Cheap-labor conservatives constantly bray about "morality", "virtue", "respect for authority", "hard work" and other "values". Why. So they can blame your being "over a barrel" on your own "immorality", lack of "values" and "poor choices".
Cheap-labor conservatives encourage racism, misogyny, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. Why? Bigotry among wage earners distracts them, and keeps them from recognizing their common interests as wage earners.
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As of a little while ago (it is around 7:45 PM US Eastern on Mon 15 Sep 2003 as I write this), VeriSign added a wildcard A record to the .COM and .NET TLD DNS zones. The IP address returned is 18.104.22.168, which reverses to sitefinder.verisign.com. What that means in plain English is that most mis-typed domain names that would formerly have resulted in a helpful error message now results in a VeriSign advertising opportunity. For example, if my domain name was 'somecompany.com,' and somebody typed 'soemcompany.com' by mistake, they would get VeriSign's advertising.
This will have the immediate effect of making network trouble-shooting much more difficult. Before, a mis-typed domain name in an email address, web browser, or other network configuration item would result in an obvious error message. You might not have known what to do about it, but at least you knew something was wrong. Now, though, you will have to guess. Every time.Some have pointed out that this will make an important anti-spam check impossible. A common anti-spam measure is to check and make sure the domain name of the sender really exists. (While this is easy to force, every little bit helps.) Since all .COM and .NET domain names now exist, that anti-spam check is useless.
Chris has found that they're actually running an SMTP server on port 25 on the host all nonexistent domains now resolve to. A partially functional one. It accepts two SMTP commands, gives OK response to both, and then returns a 550 error. Regardless of the commands you enter, or what order they're in. They're assuming you're going HELO/MAIL/RCPT, when you could be going MAIL/RCPT or HELO/EXPN/MAIL or something else. There's no way their setup could possibly work-- it's set up never to work. Why would they have it online? What possible reason could they have? Aside from complete and utter brain death?
Ritter on Wednesday showed his class of 13- and 14-year-old students a CNN-produced video that included images of Sept. 11 victims leaping from windows. He did not have district approval to show the video, Amole said.Jeanette Washington, a student curriculum administrator, dropped by Ritter's classroom while he was playing the video "America Remembers," and Ritter later was called out of class to meet with principal Cynde Fischer.Ritter said he agreed not to show the video again. After a meeting Wednesday afternoon he understood he could answer questions only about Sept. 11, but he went to school Thursday with other anniversary activities planned just in case, he said.That morning, he said, Fischer told him he must limit his Sept. 11 discussion to the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, and then move to a regular lesson about the foundation of American government."I did not feel it was an option for me to explore other Sept. 11 (topics)," he said.
School officials told him they would sit in on the class, and when he protested, they told him he could follow their directions or leave, Ritter said.When he went downstairs to think about it, he returned and Fischer told him to leave, he said.He returned for a regular day of work Friday, but administrators asked him to leave again, he said.
A federal appeals court Monday ordered California officials to halt preparations for the October 7 gubernatorial recall election, citing concerns about a "hurried, constitutionally infirm" process. Specifically, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the state needed to upgrade its voting equipment first. "The inherent defects in the system are such that approximately 40,000 voters who travel to the polls and cast their ballot will not have their vote counted at all," the court ruled, citing voting machines that the secretary of state's office has declared unfit.
But that was then - now, I hardly think about it. Weeks go by when Sept. 11th doesn't enter my mind - even media references slide by. And, I think that's fine. Of course I would be much more concerned if our government weren't doing something about it. But even though some of the methods are stupid (e.g. silly airport security) or ineffective, the main action - taking the fight to the terrorists and West-haters in the Middle East - is going well. I trust our military to do the job there, and that's the most important thing at this point. So, I'll do my home improvements, take my daughter for evening walks on perfect days in September, and go on living the good life we have here, now. There's never been a better time to be alive, and if terrorists and dictators had their way, it would be downhill from here. But that won't happen, because we, the victims of 9/11 - Americans - won't let it happen. Next year, I'll probably write about my daughter, or football. My best hope is that we can continue to remember Sept 11th, as opposed to suffering another national tragedy - that's the best measure of our success and resilience. Never again.
Since the start of the Palestinian intifada and the September 11 attacks, the angry voices of political Islam that have shouted lthe oudest from the Muslim world. But there is a more conciliatory voice urging peace and dialogue with the West, and unequivocally condemning terrorism in all its forms. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a recent conference of mainstream and progressive Islamic scholars put out a message of moderation.
The U.S. has imposed stricter immigration measures since September 11, 2001. While some American artists are able to travel to Indonesia to participate in cultural exchange projects, Indonesian artists have faced a tough time getting U.S. visas.
One of them picked up a cut-out letter E from the ground. So they all started naming words that begin with E. At first it was simple words: entertainment, and easy. Then it went on to more complicated words: eternal, and endless. Soon, though, the reality of the present began to hit home, with words like exit permit and entry visa. Then words like excluded and expelled. And finally, words like embassy... and evil... and empire.
13) Check your weapon before you leave and long before you leave. (You must make your knife sharp and must not discomfort your animal during the slaughter).
The Associated Press reports from Jerusalem:
On the eve of his daughter's wedding, Dr. David Applebaum sat with the young woman late into the evening at a coffee house, offering fatherly advice on marriage before her big day. Father and daughter were killed late Tuesday when a suicide bomber struck the cafe - one of two attacks that left 15 people dead. Applebaum had just flown back to Israel after giving a talk at a New York terrorism symposium marking the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Dr. Applebaum was the founder and director of Jerusalem�s TEREM emergency medical centres. His daughter's funeral will be held on the day she was to be married.
On the eve of his daughter's wedding, Dr. David Applebaum sat with the young woman late into the evening at a coffee house, offering fatherly advice on marriage before her big day. Father and daughter were killed late Tuesday when a suicide bomber struck the cafe - one of two attacks that left 15 people dead. Applebaum had just flown back to Israel after giving a talk at a New York terrorism symposium marking the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
(Just imagine, as a thought experiment, what it would be like if America had responded to 9/11 the way that, say, the Palestinians would have.)
Growing anger, anger that got bigger after seeing the images. No wonder they have disappeared. GOD forbid that Americans get angry. We have to stay passive, we have to crumple up handkerchiefs in agony, we have to blubber and mourn the loss. But righteous anger is to be avoided. Americans cannot be trusted to handle their anger. Anger is BAD, right? Anger is NEGATIVE. We have to try to understand WHY, we have to try to see the other side's point of view. Well, you know what? I do see the other side's point of view, and I hate their point of view. It's like that great Dennis Miller quote from his recent HBO special: "You know what? I hated religious fanatics who wanted to murder me on September 10, okay?" "Understanding" is not the key to everything. You can understand something and hate it with all your heart just the same. As a matter of fact, the MORE I understand the reasoning of the thugs on those planes, and the ideology behind them, the MORE I hate them. Seeing those images again made me outraged at those of us who chide others to get over it. I am stunned that anyone could ever look at the carnage on that footage (and I saw the whole damn thing with my actual eyes) - and somehow ... not be changed. Get OVER IT? What? Are you out of your goddamned freaking mind? What is the MATTER with you?
What went wrong? Many things, but most important was that the deal rested on a faulty Israeli premise that Palestinians had given up their hope of destroying the Jewish state. This led to the expectation that if Israel offered sufficient financial and political incentives, the Palestinians would formally recognize the Jewish state and close down the conflict. Israelis therefore pushed themselves to make an array of concessions, in the futile hope that flexibility, restraint and generosity would win Palestinian goodwill. In fact, these steps made matters worse by sending signals of apparent demoralization and weakness. Each concession further reduced Palestinian awe of Israeli might, made Israel seem more vulnerable and incited irredentist dreams of annihilating it. The result was a radicalized and mobilized Palestinian body politic. In speech and actions, via claims to the entire land of Israel and the murder of Israelis, the hope of destroying Israel acquired ever-more traction. Thus did the muted Palestinian mood at Oslo's start in 1993 turn into the enraged ambition evident today.
In the spirit of Oslo's 10th anniversary, I propose a radically different approach for the next decade: * Acknowledge the faulty presumption that underlay both Oslo and the road map (Palestinian acceptance of Israel's existence). * Resolve not to repeat the same mistake. * Understand that diplomacy aiming to close down the Arab-Israeli conflict is premature until Palestinians give up their anti-Zionist fantasy. * Make Palestinian acceptance of Israel's existence the primary goal. * Impress on Palestinians that the sooner they accept Israel, the better off they will be. Conversely, so long they pursue their horrid goal of extermination, diplomacy will remain moribund and they will receive no financial aid, arms or recognition as a state. * Give Israel license not just to defend itself but to impress on the Palestinians the hopelessness of their cause. When, over a long period of time and with complete consistency, the Palestinians prove they accept Israel, negotiations can be re-opened and the issues of the past decade - borders, resources, armaments, sanctities, residential rights - be taken up anew. The sooner we adopt the right policies, the sooner that will be.
UPDATE: Den Beste has more. One way or another, it always comes back down to Arafat.
UPDATE: It would be interesting to know if anybody can find one instance, just one, of Israelis behaving even remotely like this after any IDF operation against terrorist leaders, no matter how focused, efficient, or successful.Hell, I can't even imagine Americans acting like this if we got bin Laden.
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UPDATE: Of course, the iPod faces some stiff competition from this guy's head.
UPDATE: Kris notes...
Apple changing the iTMS ads Is a great idea, if only to make BuyMusic.com come up with a new ad campaign. FAST. Otherwise, like you pointed out, what do all those lonely broken guitars say about BuyMusic to the uninformed? And if they parody the new ads... what are they parodying? The iPod, which they don't compete against? Let's see if BuyMusic is fast with their fingers because this is an old fashion music duel!
Awright! Battle of the Bands, only with distributors instead of bands!If only the two companies had different exclusive artists that they could pit against each other in a week-long battle royale!
Apple changing the iTMS ads Is a great idea, if only to make BuyMusic.com come up with a new ad campaign. FAST. Otherwise, like you pointed out, what do all those lonely broken guitars say about BuyMusic to the uninformed? And if they parody the new ads... what are they parodying? The iPod, which they don't compete against? Let's see if BuyMusic is fast with their fingers because this is an old fashion music duel!
Oh, and new speed-bumped iMacs, up to 1.25 GHz. With USB 2.0 and FireWire 400. The hell?
THE QUESTIONS I GET FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE ARE, "What's going on over there? Why is there so much fighting? Why do the Iraqi people hate us so much?" When I first heard that, that's when I realized that the news was not proportionate to what was going on in the country.I was in eight or nine cities in Iraq. Starting from Kuwait, we saw pretty much every city along the river on the way to Baghdad. People absolutely loved us everywhere we went. There were big parades. We'd just roll down the streets, or sometimes be on foot patrol, and kids would run out of their houses just to wave at us, just to get a wave back from us. People would give us flowers; they'd give us flowers and gifts and Pepsi -- all kinds of stuff.I'd have people come up to me and say, "What took you so long? You should have done this in '91!" Especially when we were in Baghdad. We were in this huge building, with a huge fence around it. I'd have a lot of people -- especially the elderly guys -- telling me, "I was tortured under this building for 12 or 14 years," or, "There's torture chambers under here." So we went down and checked it out, and sure enough, there were torture chambers under there -- basically an entire block, underground, with cells and everything else.
Instead he fell in love, first with Paradis and then with his adopted country. He says he is shocked by the gun violence in American schools and feels it is far safer raising a family in France. "I was very lucky that something steered me to France back in '98," he says of his decision to make a movie with Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski in 1998. "I love America -- I love going back, seeing my family and friends -- but it's wonderful to get back to France and be living in a tiny village with nothing around. There is still the possibility to live a simple life. You can go to the market, walk about, buy fruits and vegetables -- the things they did 100 and 200 years ago. We have moments when we're sitting in our house and our kids are playing, and we look at one another and think, 'Thank God we escaped.' " A product of the rural South who spent many years in Hollywood, Depp never really felt at home until he moved to France. He rejects the view that there has been a surge of anti-Americanism there because of opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, and he believes the French people have behaved in a dignified manner while some Americans have resorted to "schoolyard tactics" by renaming French fries "freedom fries." "That was so revealing, that grown men sat around and came up with that idea," he says of the freedom fries initiative. "It was tragic and embarrassing. At the same time, I was happy it was exposed, and people knew that a bunch of congressmen -- big people, the upper-drawer people -- made that decision." He also was not convinced by the Bush administration's rationale for the war. He says the real reason was America's economic interests. "I saw these American kids being shipped off to war, and I was looking at their faces and thinking, 'They're not ready for it,' " he says. "Is anybody ever ready for it? You're thinking about where they're going, what they're getting into. What's it really all about? It's about dough; it's about money. That's ugly."
SACRAMENTO -- A bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain drivers' licenses, an issue that has worked its way into the debate surrounding the attempt to recall Gov. Gray Davis, passed the state Assembly on Tuesday. ...Davis has vetoed two similar bills since he became governor, citing law enforcement's concerns about the legislation. After he vetoed the bill last year, the Legislature's Latino caucus refused to endorse him for re-election. Last month, at an anti-recall rally in Los Angeles, the governor said he would sign the latest bill "in a heartbeat" if it reached his desk.
UPDATE: Or McClintock.
Prokofiev's version ends with Peter capturing the wolf and leading a triumphant procession to the zoo, paining music-loving environmentalists with romantic visions of wolves in the wild.In the new version, narrated by former U.S. president Clinton and called Wolf Tracks, Peter again captures the wolf, but this time repents of his act and releases the animal, who howls a grateful goodbye."Forgetting his triumph, Peter thought instead of fallen trees, parched meadows, choked streams, and of each and every wolf struggling for survival," Clinton narrates."The time has come to leave wolves in peace," he adds.French composer Jean-Pascal Beintus wrote the score for the new wolf-friendly version while former Soviet leader Gorbachev provides an introduction and epilogue."In Prokofiev's classic, man dominates, but Wolf Tracks expresses quite different values of balance and tolerance. All of us hope for a future where these values are lived every day," Gorbachev said.
Before you begin, gather your Windows and application CD-ROMs. Back up your data files (just to be safe), and then clear two days off your calendar. If everything goes smoothly, you can reinstall Windows in a few hours. But you have to assume something will go wrong: You may not be able to find a necessary CD, or data won't be where you thought it was, or something will simply refuse to work....If your restore CD is reformat-only, back up your data files to a network or a removable medium before reinstalling Windows. If you use Windows 98 or Me, back up C:\My Documents, plus the folders inside C:\Windows discussed in the 98/Me section below. If you have Windows 2000 or XP, back up C:\Documents and Settings. Also back up any other folders in which you store your data files....Once you're back in Windows, reinstall your graphics card driver. If you have Windows set up for more than one user, you'll also have to re-create each account. Select Start, Settings, Control Panel, Users to do so. It's important that the user names match those in the old installation. If you're not sure, open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\oldstuff\profiles. There you'll find a folder for each registered user name (see FIGURE 2). Don't worry about passwords. Log off and log back on as each user. When you're done, log off and back on one more time, but instead of choosing a user name and a password, press Esc to enter Windows without being a specific user....Select Start, Programs, Accessories, Command Prompt. Type cd "\documents and settings" and press Enter. Then type xcopy administrator\*.* administrator.computername /s /h /r /c, replacing computername with the last part of that folder's name (after "Administrator.") in Documents and Settings. Now press Enter, and when you're asked about overwriting files or folders, press a for All....Now you've got Windows going, but not much else. You may have to reinstall your printer, sound card, and so on. Luckily, if a driver for the gadget came on your Windows or vendor restore CD, it was probably reinstalled automatically....You've probably guessed that the final step is deleting the c:\oldstuff folder--and the Administrator folder in Windows 2000. Make this the very last step, however. Wait a couple of days, weeks, or even months until you're confident that all of your needed files are accessible.
"I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the US government showing themselves as idiots," he told Stern.
Oh, and...Pardon my ignorance, but-- Set Program Access and Defaults? What the hell kind of intuitive menu option name is that? What, was Define Runtimes Parameter and Set Access Group of Leval taken already? How can any company that even pretends to have its hand in good user-interface design practices come up with a name like this for the function of specifying which applications are used for common Internet-related tasks?And of course, what's the window called that it brings up? Add/Remove Programs. When what you're doing is clicking little radio buttons.Jeezum crow, Bill. Were you mistreated by a human being in a previous life, and that's why you're taking it out on us now?
UPDATE: Funky.On several people's advice, I ran Ad-Aware 6.0 on the machine, and it found a number of cookies from doubleclick.net and such sites. I let it clean them out for me, and the pop-up ads went away.Now, before yez let loose with the congenial smiles and half-lidded eyes and conspiratorial side-glances, I think I can say that I had good reason to believe that Windows Update incorporated the ads on its own. First of all, whenever I've used this machine to browse to any other site on the Internet, I've never gotten pop-up windows. CNN, everybody on my blogroll, somethingawful, all the crucial stuff-- nary an ad to be seen. All was sweetness and light. But the minute I reach for the Windows Update button-- whoops! Up pop the ads.On top of which, this machine is my personal test rig; it's behind a NAT, and I certainly don't use it for everyday surfing-- and I absolutely don't go recklessly installing Bonzi Buddies and pornographic weather applets and other prime candidates for populating the agarose dish that is my hard drive. I've been using and maintaining Windows machines in lab and support environments for some eight years now, and I like to think I have some understanding of responsible surfing habits. I've seen lots of weeeeeird crap in my time. But this was a new one on me.
Lessee here... Looking in my history books from College... Ah, here it is. Che Guevara: Argentinian of Irish descent... Trained as a doctor... Murdered hundreds of Cubans that wanted someone other than Castro to be in power... Murdered a couple hundred more in the La Paz Massacre... Extreme left-wing radical... One of the "spriritual founders" of the Shining Path which has killed more than 40,000 people... He was fond of tying people up, blindfolding them and then popping a cap in the backs of their heads while their wives and children were forced to watch... Executed by the Bolivian government on 48 proven counts of capital murder... Just the kind of guy that deserves to have his face on a t-shirt. Him and Bob Berdella.
OCTOBER 18, 1965: A CIA Intelligence Memorandum discusses what analysts perceive as Che Guevara�s fall from power within the Cuban government beginning in 1964. It states that at the end of 1963, Guevara�s plan of "rapid industrialization and centralization during the first years of the Revolution brought the economy to its lowest point since Castro came to power." "Guevara�s outlook, which approximated present -day Chinese--rather than Soviet--economic practice, was behind the controversy." In July 1964, "two important cabinet appointments signaled the power struggle over internal economic policy which culminated in Guevara�s elimination." Another conflict was that Guevara wanted to export the Cuban Revolution to different parts of Latin America and Africa, while "other Cuban leaders began to devote most of their attention to the internal problems of the Revolution." In December, 1964, Guevara departed on a three-month trip to the United States, Africa, and China. When he returned, according to the CIA report, his economic and foreign policies were in disfavor and he left to start revolutionary struggles in other parts of the world. (CIA Intelligence Memorandum, "The Fall of Che Guevara and the Changing Face of the Cuban Revolution," 10/18/65)
Che certainly was responsible for the executions of many following the revolution. A dirty job that Castro gave him. About 500 were killed.Shining Path are Maoist. If anyone inherited the mantle of Che in Peru it was Tupac Amaru.He was executed by the Bolivians (alongside the CIA) but not on any 'proven' counts of murder. In fact they denied executing him for a long time.He was erudite, led a successful revolution, inspired countless numbers, never gave up, and happened to be drop dead gorgeous to boot. I don't think it's any mystery why he's a hardy perennial.
These vulnerabilities and exploits are not new, and unfortunately were predictable. CCIA believes it is critical to maintain secure systems to protect homeland security, and so CCIA has asked the Department to reconsider its decision to promote Microsoft as the default software for DHS. Reliance on a company that distributes products known to have such serious vulnerabilities will not provide adequate security and stability to protect of our nation's most important computer systems.
UPDATE: Speaking of the WeHaveTheWayOut.com site... notice that cute little animation on the left, of the bedsheet rope being lowered out the window? Kris points out that it wriggles the wrong way-- the end of it jiggles before the rest of it moves, like a snake.Know what I think happened? I'll bet some Flash guys originally animated the rope being pulled up into the window; and then Microsoft said, "Hey, no, we wanted it going the other way"; and the contractor said, "Yeah, but like, it's already done and paid for, and the animators already went to Vegas"; and Microsoft said, "Okay, well, just run it backwards, then. That's good enough."Oh, and Chris noticed that the rope doesn't descend all the way to the ground, which is out of sight below. So Microsoft and Unisys will help you start to escape, but they won't provide more than ten feet of bedsheet-- and then you've got that inconvenient plunge to your death to contend with.
An Iraqi couple has named their 6-week-old baby boy George Bush (search) to show their appreciation for U.S. efforts to�force Saddam Hussein (search)�out of power."He saved us from Saddam and that's why we named our son after him," the baby's mother, Nadia Jergis Mohammed, told the Associated Press Television News. "It was George Bush who liberated us; without him it wouldn't have happened."Baby Bush was born July 11 to Mohammed, 34, and�her husband�Abdul Kader Faris, 41. His full name is�George Bush Abdul Kader Faris Abed El-Hussein.If the couple had had twin boys, the father wanted to name the�other baby Tony Blair (search), because he said both the U.S. and Britain liberated Iraq.
As the woman did the interview, little George Bush screamed in his crib.
* Hamas is a big part of the "cycle of violence". They blow up innocent men, women, and children, and then Israel is like, "Hey, don't do that." And thus the cycle of violence continues.
The long-time Photoshop users said, effectively, "Well, duh, of course there's a difference between Save As and Save For Web". Obvious to you, of course, but based on the people who have been emailing me, saying "Oh, so that's what's wrong with my site!" plenty of folks are actually using the inappropriate save option for web purposes. That's a user behavior problem and I'm not sure what the best solution is for that. Adobe could add warning dialogs until they were blue in the face, but they'd still fall victim to [Frank's First Law of Documentation].All available information suggests that XMP data is a documented, accepted extension to the jpeg standard. Without any evidence to the contrary, my perception is that Adobe has committed no crime, and the onus is on Microsoft to fix Windows IE's jpeg decoder. Hopefully someone read my bug report. Nobody from MS has contacted me.In the meantime, what can web developers do to avoid the problem?Well, first and most obvious, if you are creating static graphics, use Save For Web. And (hopefully you're already doing this) test your site on as many platforms as you can.For more dynamic sites, such as snapclub.com, which accept jpeg file uploads from arbitrary third-parties, there is at least one solution; ImageMagick's "mogrify" command can be used to remove the metadata from the jpeg like so:mogrify +profile iptc image.jpg
By the way... is it just me, or was Microsoft's current slogan written by Yoda? "Hmmm! Do Amazing Things You Can. With Windows XP, Yes!"
UPDATE: Chris Adams has been down this road before, and he has the answer: jpegtran, which is part of libjpeg (a package that ImageMagick has as an installation prerequisite anyway):
jpegtran -copy none -outfile nometa.jpg meta.jpg
And the resulting file has no meta-data and has not been recompressed. Yes!So all I gotta do is jpegtran all my uploads, then copy the resulting files back over the source files, and all will be well...
After removing its predecessor MSBlaster, the new worm, which -- just to add to the confusion -- has been dubbed WORM_MSBLAST.D, Nachi and Welchia by various security and antivirus firms, then politely patches the machine against the vulnerability that MSBlaster exploited. "My computer hasn't been right since it was infected last week," said Nadine Lovell, a Manhattan textile designer. "This afternoon it's working perfectly again." A scan of Lovell's system confirmed her machine had indeed been infected with the new Blaster variant. "Thank you, worm!" said Lovell.
Music creates vibration in the body and this is conveyed to all the parts of the body through the nervous system. As a result of it, indigestion occurs. Music affects the heart in such a way that the heartbeats becomes irregular. The blood pressure goes awry. All such ailments make a person permanently ill. Consequently, even the modern medical science, in spite of its astonishing progress, fails in such a situation. Sometimes, the music is so intense that the listener loses his sanity. He becomes dumb and various kinds of mental diseases occur. In places, where music is more prevalent, we find that there are more neurotic illnesses. It is for this reason that most of the mental hospitals are to be found in Europe and America. Dr. Adlen writes against music, "Even though it seems pleasant, the effect of music is profound upon the nervous system. Specially, when the temperature is high, the ill-effect of music is more. This is the reason that ill-effects of music are more in the hot areas of Iran and Saudi Arabia. The American people are so disgusted with the bane of music that they have united to demand from the senate a permanent ban on music. It is a pity that the whole world perceives the evils of music yet is adopting it as entertainment."
The player, the Gigabeat G20 MEG200J is just 1.27cm thick, a smidge thinner than the 1.55cm iPod. It measures 8.95 x 7.65cm and weighs 138g - the iPod is 10.25 x 6cm and weighs 158.76g. Inside its limited edition dark "sapphire" blue or standard aluminium shell, the Gigabeat packs in a 20GB 1.8in hard drive. More square than the iPod, the Gigabeat resembles a miniDisc player rather than an MP3 player. The device will play MP3s, but Toshiba is touting its support for Microsoft's Windows Media Player 9 format, which presumably means its DRM'd to the hilt.
The built-in Lithium-ion battery provides enough charge for up to 11 hours of playback - more than the iPod's eight-hour battery life - though that's likely to be much reduced when the machine has to decode WMA9 files.
At last, in a clean, air-conditioned, body odor- free room, the US custom agent looked at my American passport. He then raised his head, and after he verified I didn�t bring any French cheese, said with a warm smile something I never heard as a French citizen re-entering France: � Welcome home! �.
"WHAT'S YOUR COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP?""Uh, USA.""WHERE DO YOU LIVE?!""San Jose.""WHAT DO YOU DO THERE?!?""I'm a software engineer.""WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN CANADA?!!!""I was visiting some friends. Something I do every year about this time, you know, sort of a trad--""DID YOU SEE THE BALLET?!!?!""Uh... no. What?"I SAID, DID YOU SEE THE BALLET?!?!?!111`1`""Uh, bleerg? Glassnorpt. Ah-hoogy hoogy bomb! Allahu akbar! Um, I mean, go Raiders!"
When the nightHas comeAnd the landIs darkAnd IslamIs the onlyLight I see....
I'd like to build the world a mosqueAnd furnish it with faithBring Africans and ChinamenAnd every human race
UPDATE: Meanwhile, Kris has written a full-featured web browser in a single line of code, using the Xcode development kit. Remember when Ratbert accidentally authored a web browser when he was trying to introduce bugs for Dilbert to fix? Well, now it's actually possible.Let's find a way to mock Apple for it.
UPDATE: Stephen informs me that the character in question is Tommy Lee of Motley Cr�e.
UPDATE from Kris:
Many users are finding themselves vulnerable to this worm because they do not use Windows to update their computers.
"This isn't the appropriate location for him," said Noelia Chapa, city manager for the Monterey County town of 13,000 along Highway 101. "He needs to go back to Santa Clara County. We don't want to be the dumping ground here.""We don't want this guy in our town. This guy is sick," Gutierrez, 43, said. "He should go to a place in the desert where there's no kids around."
To help demonstrate his intent to reform, DeVries was castrated in August 2001 -- a surgery DeVries said took away his ability to become sexually aroused.
# convert -list format Format Mode Description-------------------------------------------------------------------------------... JPC* rw- JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax JPEG* --- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (62) JPG* --- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format LABEL* r-- Image label
# setenv WITH_JPEG yes# setenv WITH_PNG yes# setenv WITH_TIFF yes# setenv WITH_HDF yes# setenv WITH_FPX yes# setenv WITH_JBIG yes# setenv WITH_JPEG2000 yes# setenv WITH_LCMS yes# setenv WITH_TTF yes# setenv WITH_WMF yes# setenv WITH_SVG yes# setenv WITH_DPS yes# setenv WITH_PDF yes
# setenv USA_RESIDENT yes
Because there is more meaning and content and depth and significance in a lover's moan and in a drop of wine and in a dog's wag than in anything you can conjure in your homophobic faux-cowboy Lynne Cheney-thick dream, honey. Get over yourself. We are on to you. We know you are made of nothing but spin and frantic gesticulations and scowls. Poke a finger into you and out pours only sawdust and sighs.
Poke a finger in Morford (wear gloves) and out pours this stuff. Lucky we�ve got some sawdust.
Here is my porn collection. Here are my divine sex toys and my lubricants and my leather strappy things and my collection of happy open-minded perversions and my active account at Blowfish.com and my tattoos and piercings and love of massage oil and vibrators and things that go ooooh in the night. Come on over, Mr. Ashcroft, I have something to show you.
If I was reading this in 1973, and if I was an elderly woman, I might be mildly startled by that paragraph.
Because there is more meaning and content and depth and significance in a lover's moan and in a drop of wine and in a dog's wag than in anything you can conjure in your homophobic faux-cowboy Lynne Cheney-thick dream, honey. Get over yourself. We are on to you. We know you are made of nothing but spin and frantic gesticulations and scowls. Poke a finger into you and out pours only sawdust and sighs.
Here is my porn collection. Here are my divine sex toys and my lubricants and my leather strappy things and my collection of happy open-minded perversions and my active account at Blowfish.com and my tattoos and piercings and love of massage oil and vibrators and things that go ooooh in the night. Come on over, Mr. Ashcroft, I have something to show you.
Wartime records and memoirs show that the emperor and some of his aides wanted to end the war by summer 1945. But they were vacillating and couldn't prevail over a military that was determined to keep going even if that meant, as a navy official urged at one meeting, "sacrificing 20 million Japanese lives." The atomic bombings broke this political stalemate and were thus described by Mitsumasa Yonai, the navy minister at the time, as a "gift from heaven." Without the atomic bombings, Japan would have continued fighting by inertia. This would have meant more firebombing of Japanese cities and a ground invasion, planned for November 1945, of the main Japanese islands. The fighting over the small, sparsely populated islands of Okinawa had killed 14,000 Americans and 200,000 Japanese, and in the main islands the toll would have run into the millions. "The atomic bomb was a golden opportunity given by heaven for Japan to end the war," Hisatsune Sakomizu, the chief cabinet secretary in 1945, said later. Some argue that the U.S. could have demonstrated the bomb on an uninhabited island, or could have encouraged surrender by promising that Japan could keep its emperor. Yes, perhaps, and we should have tried. We could also have waited longer before dropping the second bomb, on Nagasaki. But, sadly, the record suggests that restraint would not have worked. The Japanese military ferociously resisted surrender even after two atomic bombings on major cities, even after Soviet entry into the war, even when it expected another atomic bomb � on Tokyo. One of the great tales of World War II concerns an American fighter pilot named Marcus McDilda who was shot down on Aug. 8 and brutally interrogated about the atomic bombs. He knew nothing, but under torture he "confessed" that the U.S. had 100 more nuclear weapons and planned to destroy Tokyo "in the next few days." The war minister informed the cabinet of this grim news � but still adamantly opposed surrender. In the aftermath of the atomic bombing, the emperor and peace faction finally insisted on surrender and were able to prevail.
"While American scholarship has undercut the U.S. moral position, Japanese historical research has bolstered it."
American scholars: The use of atomic bombs by the U.S. on Japan was a wholly unnecessary thing.Japanese scholars: No, we wouldnt have surrendered otherwise.American scholars: Yes you would have. All we had to do was drop Fat Man on a small Pacific island to show you we had it.Japanese scholars: No, really the military wasnt going to stop fighting. American scholars: Well if wed allowed surrender with the provision that Japan could keep the Emperor.Japanese scholars: Look even after you guys dropped both bombs the military didnt want to surrender. It took us beating a downed pilot into saying you had hundreds more Atomic bombs and Tokyo was next for them to even start to budge.American scholars: Well we were still wrong.
Scholarship is one thing but politics another. No positive adjective should ever be attached to the use of the bomb. The question is why or why not. Good strategy or bad? The revisionists will always have the advantage of the fact that no one in their right mind would allow themselves to praise an atomic bombing. It automatically results in disqualification from the debate. YOu think WHAT?! On the other hand, the revisionists have the disadvantage of the fact that the bombings ended a war in which the suffering of the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was just a drop in the bucket and the fact that things have turned out pretty well for both countries since then.
7. Search control panels in vain for a window, dialog, tab, or pane that displays my current product key.8. Search Google for "windows xp get current product key".9. Find a utility on a cracker web page in Russia that displays the current product key. This is one of the more lame utilities, since most of the good ones allow you to change it. I don�t wish to change it; I actually have a perfectly good product key, I just don�t know what it is.
...But what price victory if you lose your soul? Harley Davidson is changing everything that makes Harley Davidson what it is...European men everywhere [will] take pleasure in riding on a castrated American bike.And they'll never know what they're really missing.
In any case, the V-Rod is hardly what I'd think of as "effeminate"."Liquid-cooled and therefore antithetical to H-D", maybe, but not effete. But if it's what'll sell in Amsterdam and Paris, what the hell...
UPDATE: CapLion has more on just how non-wimpy the V-Rod is.
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...Dogs reproduce by fission.
I bet they do those packaging cards all by themselves in iMovie.
UPDATE: Well, well.
As Chris says, the best part is how SCO says that their acquisition of Vultus is a "good match" for their UNIX business-- while Vultus' web-development software is Windows-only.
Microsoft's new Windows operating system Longhorn will be so different from its predecessors that users may not like it right away, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates said yesterday."Longhorn is a bit scary. We have been willing to change things," Gates said during lunch at Microsoft's annual financial analyst meeting in Redmond.
Wait a minute. Scary to whom?
While the iHP-100 certainly lacks the iPod's styling, it does have some neat touches of its own. Like the latest iPods (but not the 10GB version, it has to be said), the iRiver device ships with a remote control unit, but the iHP-100's version has a full-size backlit track information display screen. The iHP-100 also offers digital optical audio input and output ports, and you can hook up any source to digitise sound directly to the player's hard drive. There's a built-in microphone too. The iRiver also contains an FM stereo radio receiver.
The iHP-100 connects to a host PC via a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed link. It plays MP3 and Windows Media Audio files. Neatly, you don't need jukebox software to transfer files to the iHP-100 - Windows Explore will do.
Doesn't a part of you wish that Queasy and Duh-day were alive?
I'll admit they're scum and rightfully so, but anything that lands as even more humiliation on W's grotesque shrivelled face is that much the better.It's sad, really, that as despicable as they are, Saddam's family seems to be the lesser of two evils when you compare them to the wretched little bastard occupying the White House and destroying America in the process...
UPDATE: Specifically, some people seem to have the same vacuous, unresearched understanding of the word "McCarthyism" that they do of the terms "Free Speech" or "First Amendment".God, I hate when people don't do their homework and then get treated like rock stars. It's like high school all over again.
Although online retailer BuyMusic.com will offer more than 300,000 songs from the five major recording labels, users of the service will not necessarily have the freedom afforded customers of Apple's iTunes service. That service permits transfer of music to multiple computers, portable devices and compact discs.Jobs secured uniform licensing deals from all the recording companies that allow all iTunes songs to be burned onto CD an unlimited amount of times, save for a restriction against making multiple CDs with the exact same song lists. All songs on iTunes can also be transferred to up to three different computers and to the iPod, a portable digital music player. Songs purchased at BuyMusic can't currently be played on the iPod. Blum was not able to obtain uniform licensing rights from the recording labels and artists. As a result, different songs on BuyMusic have different restrictions on how often they may be burned onto CDs or copied to other PCs or portable music devices. They can all be burned onto CDs at least once.
Buymusic.com has successfully copied the entire idea of the iTunes music store. The website looks like it was designed by monkeys who were strapped to chairs and forced to stare at the awful color scheme of Windows XP. Hopefully it will flounder based on its failure to adhere to simple guidelines. Some songs can be burned a bunch of times, others can only be burned a few. This will, indeed, be hard to keep track of, but I guess Windows users are used to not being able to keep things organized.
BM's singles downloads begin at 79�, but we found it difficult to find any. There were some that were priced at 79�, though there aren't as many as you might hope based on BM's marketing message. Some of Cher's songs are available at that price, which might be why somehow she has the top album in the Top 100 Pop/Rock category. The artists that are more popular, such as Justin Timberlake, Nelly, 50 Cent, Eminem, and Coldplay are priced at 99� for a single. This is the same price as the iTMS.However, if the singles are the same price, why are the EPs and singles with b-sides priced so strangely? American Idol's Clay Aiken has a two-song EP for sale on both BM and the iTMS. Both retailers are selling each song individually for 99�. The iTMS has both songs together for US$1.98, the price of the two singles added together in one simple "add album" button. It's the BM page that is confusing. Both singles are 99�, but to buy them simultaneously will cost you $9.49. What?
Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's sons, Qusay and Uday, were killed Tuesday in a gunbattle with U.S. troops in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq said. Their bodies were identified from "multiple sources," Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told reporters in Baghdad. "They died in a fierce gunbattle," Sanchez said. "They resisted detention and the effort of coalition forces to apprehend them."
UPDATE: And, of course, the usual suspects are reacting to this news with every conceivable emotion except for happiness: they're accusing the US of having had the bodies in freezers for weeks, to trot out in order to push "yellowcake" off the headlines; they're lamenting our cold-blooded assassination of two men who should only have been arrested at worst; they're even latching onto the word "sons" as though it implies that Uday and Qusay were innocent kids. And it's not just these slimy little web worm-dungeons either-- the BBC is even putting scare quotes around the word "dead" and what we callously refer to as "good" news.That's it. I am through with trying to make sense of how people like this can consider themselves moral and rational and informed human beings.If I were a praying man, I'd pray that they were fewer than they appear.
Oh, and read the comments; there's a contributor by the name of "evariste" who makes for some fascinating reading.
It was inevitable, really. When two groups of people have so much in common, eventually they find each other. Volkswagen and Apple. Buy a New Beetle. Get a new iPod. And the kit that brings them together (plus a lot of other cool stuff like free music and a $100 Apple Store coupon).
"I nearly wept when I saw that. It's so frickin' Apple."
On the one hand, the corrupt suits at AOL failed to appreciate the majesty of the Mozilla code, pulled features (such as blocking pop-up windows which AOL's advertisers loved, but users hated), forked willy-nilly, adding adware where they could, and generally betrayed the Great Project.
Report on Bay Rait and Weta at the Aussie FX and Animation Festival Tehanu @ 5:00 pm EST Lolly's Report from the Australian Effects and Animations Festival held in Melbourne back in May, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image at Federation Square. This happened back in May, but I don't think we got such a detailed and funny report as this at the time.Lolly writes:Firstly Bay introduced himself and gave a brief run down on his role at Weta, which in TTT was building hero facial systems. He discussed what would be discussed and shown, and we were treated to a 50 minute tape of behind the scenes.
Now people are calling in to Greg Kihn's radio show and stating bluntly that "There are no weapons of mass destruction." And, presumably, there never were. Nor was there ever a Saddam Hussein or an Osama bin Laden. Or a World Trade Center.
UPDATE: Oh, and even Congresspeople are getting into the act. Some guy who said he voted for war is saying that he's shocked, shocked, at the recent revelations. When pressed, he won't say he was "duped" into voting for war, but clearly, clearly the war was fought under false pretenses and therefore for some sinister purpose of the Administration's. Condi Rice knew! She told Tenet to take the fall! Bush didn't know because he's an imbecile! Now an innocent dictatorship has fallen and a people has been ruthlessly liberated to their own destiny! Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!
The cognitive feedback loop on the left may have become such that there won't be a voice from there that anybody can take seriously until after a major shakeup-- like on the scale of the death of certain political parties. Bring back the Whigs and Federalists!
French virtuoso keyboardist Fran�ois-Ren� Duchable plans to end his career this summer by destroying two grand pianos and burning his concert suit to protest what he sees as the bourgeois elitism of the classical music world, The Times of London reports.According to The Times, Duchable, 51, told the French Catholic newsaper La Croix that his life as a touring pianist has been "hell" and he delivered blistering parting attacks on some of his fellow musicians.Alfred Brendel's latest recording, Duchable said, is "discouragingly artificial." Maurizio Pollini has "worn himself out from repeating the same things" and Martha Argerich has "managed to become a myth by always playing the same four concertos."Duchable told La Croix: "The piano is a symbol of a certain domineering bourgeois and industrial society that has to be destroyed. Used as this society uses it, the piano is an arrogant instrument which excludes all those that don't know about music." The pianist says he plans to create a sensation with his final three concerts, according to The Times. The first concert, scheduled for the end of July, will end with a piano crashing into Lake Mercantour. The second will finish with his recital suit on fire and the third will culminate with the mid-air explosion of a grand piano to make the statement that "the concert is dead."After the concerts, Duchable plans to strap a portable keyboard to his bicycle and pedal around France giving impromptu performances, the Times says."I have had enough of sacrificing my life for 1 per cent of the population" Duchable said. "I have had enough of participating in a musical system which, in France at least, functions badly and limits classical music to an elite."
Either that, or Window->Arrange. Ugh. While Panther is moving the bar with Expos�, when it comes to Excel I'm stuck in 1992.
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