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The East Valley Tribune reports that the city issued 982 new home permits during the fiscal year that ended on June 30.
That's more than double the 414 new home permits issued in the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2011.
In June alone, 146 permits were issued.
That's more than any single month in the last five fiscal years.
Mike Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, said it's a good sign for the housing market that developers are picking up projects, but noted that lending restrictions are keeping some prospective buyers from getting a mortgage.
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Langford Branch is a 23-acre natural area in Lewis County owned by the Swan Conservation Trust. It is significant because of the occurrence of a population of the federally endangered Tennessee yellowed-grass (Xyris tennesseensis), which is found in a small seep on the property. The seep is formed from a Paleozoic deposit of gravel and sand in a calcareous matrix, bounded over and beneath by shale. Tennessee yellow-eyed grass is one of the rarest plant species in the state, and is known only from locations in Lewis County. It occurs outside of Tennessee in only a few places in Georgia and Alabama. Tennessee yellow-eyed grass was first described to science in the 1980's from plants collected at Langford Branch by Dr. Robert Kral, who at the time was professor of botany at Vanderbilt University.
Langford Branch is a small hilly area that is mostly under an oak hickory forest canopy. The steepest slopes support a good example of a small barrens grassland community with little bluestem and many species of legumes and sunflowers present. These steep slopes are underlied by cherty Fort Payne limestone outcropping with eastern red cedar, post oak, and few other tree species growing where soils permit. The seep community occurs in an open area and is referred to as a Parnassia seep. The rare state listed Grass of Parnassas (Parnassia grandifolia) covers large areas of the seep. It is easy to identify because of its large round shaped leaves. The rare shorted-headed rush (Juncus brachycephalus) also occurs in this seep. This Parnassia seep community is ranked as a globally rare community type.
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Because of the small size and sensitive nature of the site, there is no public access provided, and visiting the site requires permission by the State or Swan Trust.
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Blaine's In Tears! Top 5 OMG Moments from Glee Season 4, Episode 5: "The Role You Were Born to Play!"
This week's Glee did not disappoint, as it was packed with crazy twists and jaw-dropping moments — especially with Mike (Harry Shum Jr.) and Mercedes (Amber Riley) showing up to say hey. Here are our picks for the top five OMG moments from Season 4, Episode 5: "The Role You Were Born to Play."
5. Mike and Mercedes are back
We had started to miss the missing New Directions graduates something fierce, so seeing Mike and Mercedes reunite with Artie (Kevin McHale) and Finn (Cory Monteith) in the McKinley hallway totally made our night, if not our month. Plus, Mercedes proves she's still got it with her impressive vocals on "Born to Hand Jive." Now if only Tina and Mike could reconcile, everything would indeed be right in our world.
4. Ryder makes his debut — and flirts with Marley while he's at it.
Could Glee Project winner Blake Jenner have possibly made a better entrance on Glee than with his character Ryder Lynn doing those acrobatic end-zone dances as Beiste (Dot-Marie Jones) and Finn watch? We think not! In fact, we're loving Ryder, and he and Marley (Melissa Benoist) were way cute while flirting. And yes, we may have been screaming as loudly as the onscreen audience was as Finn and Ryder performed "Juke Box Hero," especially with Ryder flashing his abs. Long story short: We approve.
3. Blaine might be heartbroken, but boy, can he still sing!
Blaine (Darren Criss) definitely looked like he needed a hug this week as his break-up with Kurt (Chris Colfer) has left him heartbroken. (Okay, so we always want to hug Blaine, but that's beside the point.) However, being down in the dumps hasn't affected his vocal chords, which were as powerful as ever on "Hopelessly Devoted to You." We agree with Artie that Blaine would have made a first-rate Danny, but if Blaine needs time to heal, we're willing to give it to him.
2. Finn is directing Grease and leading glee. (Is there anything he can't do?)
Finn finally has a goal? Hooray! Finn was cuter than ever as he took charge of Grease and scouted out the football field for new singers (which is a perfectly sensible place to find singers, right?). And we can't wait to see Finn leading New Directions, now that Schue (Matthew Morrison)is headed to DC without Emma (Jayma Mays). Sounds like it's time for Finn to try out the requisite uniform of a vest and hair gel!
1. Ryder and Marley land the lead roles. Sorry, Kitty!
Kitty (Becca Tobin) and Jake (Jacob Artist) made it a tight race — especially after they blew us away on "Everybody Talks" — but in the end, Marley and Ryder were named Danny and Sandy, and we think they'll be pretty perfect in the roles. But who will Marley choose as her real-life arm candy? We're not sure, but we can think of worse decisions to make than choosing between those two cuties.
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A drive around the Epsom electorate is a study in campaign strategy. Here, the machinations of the country's best political minds are painted in vivid colour.
The parties can't hide in Epsom because it matters so much. It's the difference between life and death for Act, will influence whether National can rely on a right-wing coalition partner or needs to aim for a clear majority, and even has a stake in any potential Labour leadership battle, should Phil Goff come up short.
As Q+A's Epsom candidates debate made clear, the seat is one to watch this year. National's Paul Goldsmith devoutly - some might say cynically, cleverly or bizarrely - refused to seek the electorate vote. Can you remember the last time a political candidate appeared on national television asking people not to vote for him? National's strategy is to gracefully allow Act, again, to win the most National-supporting seat in the country. The problem is that the party's own people are rebelling, saying they want to vote their true beliefs, not strategically vote for a party that's turned into a circus. The protest has been swelling all year, but National reasonably enough sees a coalition partner as more important than a few pissed off posh folk. And they're gambling that the loyalists of the Northern Slopes will bend to the party's will come election day.
John Banks was there on Q+A, repeatedly insisting Epsom voters don't want, "Tax, spend, borrow and hope". Now you'd think that even in Epsom "hope" would be worth something, but the way Banks garbled his syntax, you'd think Epsom voters were fans of despair.
David Parker made up the numbers - his standing in Epsom is exactly so that he can get on forums such as this, pushing the Labour party message and maybe even raising his own profile, should he feel like a crack at the leadership come the summer.
Oh yes, a line-up like that, however slightly barking, shows how important Epsom is.
And those billboards are the visual manifestation of that.
What you can see instantly is that the Greens, National, ACT and Labour are each taking very different approaches to the campaign. So let's go through some interpretations:
National's billboards don't feature Paul Goldsmith. If there's a picture of the National candidate up in Epsom, it's well hidden. All the signs feature John Key and some slogans. Goldsmith, you see, doesn't want to win. He's saying, 'don't vote for me, vote for John Key'. So the Nats are pushing the party. The focus is the PM and his popularity - which pretty much sums up National's entire campaign strategy.
Labour, faced with the most popular leader since Noah took charge of some animals, is pretending Phil Goff doesn't exist. No, they're the serious party - policy over personality, thank you very much. Most of Labour's signs use text with promises not to sell states assets and the like; not so much with the photos. And don't mention the leader.
Act? If you want to measure how badly Rodney Hide's perking and David Garrett's baby identity stealing hurt that party's brand, just look at John Banks' billboards. His name covers the signs, with the ACT logo in ant scrawl at the bottom. Given that Banks is standing not so much for Act as for a National party coalition partner, it's sort of appropriate. But it's clear they're focusing not on policy or personality, but on profile. 'Vote for the former Tory Auckland mayor that you've known for years', is the simple subtext.
The fourth P word is party. And that's where the Greens come in. Their brand is collective. Given the success of their billboards in 2008, they've again gone for striking images of children and landscapes, implying that a vote for the Greens is a vote for both nature and your kids. But the words speak of the new leadership, post-Jeanette Fitzsimons.
The Green Party billboards ask you to vote for a "richer New Zealand". Now, it's pretty clear that the party is using the word "rich" in the broadest sense. But it's also a word that speaks of troubled times and an ambition for prosperity. Put simply, it's not a word voters would usually associate with the Greens - which is exactly why they're using it. The Greens are trying to expand their vote in to the suburbs and across to the centre-right of the political spectrum. The subtext: 'We might love nature, but we're not just hippies. We want to make money too, just like you'.
So who's onto a winner? Well, each party brings a different measure to what success means. Come November 26, everyone behind those billboards could claim a victory of sorts. Or everyone could fall flat on their face. Who said electorates under MMP weren't any fun? Whoever it was, they weren't paying attention to Epsom.
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Signetics 2650
The Signetics 2650 was an 8-bit microprocessor introduced in mid-1975.[1] According to Adam Osborne's book An Introduction to Microprocessors Vol 2: Some Real Products, it was "the most minicomputer-like" of the microprocessors available at the time.
Signetics sold development boards e.g. the PC1001[2][3] and its successor, the PC1500 "Adaptable Board Computer", ranging in price from A$165 to A$400. The chip by itself sold for around A$20. Several hardware construction projects and programming articles were published in magazines such as Electronics Australia and Elektor and related kits were sold by electronics stores. These factors led to its use by a number of hobbyists in many countries such as Australia, U.S.A.,[4] United Kingdom, the Netherlands[5] and Germany.[6]
The chip contained 7 8-bit general purpose registers, although only 4 were visible at any time. It was limited to a 15-bit address space (thereby addressing a maximum of 32 KB of memory), since the upper bit of a 16-bit memory reference was reserved to indicate that the indirect memory addressing mode was to be used (a minicomputer-like feature).
The address space was further limited by the use of another 2 bits of the address to indicate the indexing mode for all logical and arithmetic (i.e. non branch) instructions. This divided the address space into 4 8 KB 'pages', only the current (i.e. the page the program was running in) could be addressed directly, the others only by indirect addressing.
While there were nine different addressing modes, the lack of any 16-bit registers and the 13 bit - 15-bit address space prevented widespread use. Despite this, an operating system ("2650 DOS") was available, along with 8 KB and 12 KB BASIC interpreters (sold by Central Data Corporation USA), and many games of the Hunt the Wumpus style. Most programs were written in assembly language.
Two types of video game console used the Signetics 2650 or 2650A. The first group of consoles are based on the video display controller 2636 Programmable Video Interface; the 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System and the closely related Interton VC4000 belong to this group. Those were released in Germany in 1976 and 1978 respectively. The second group of consoles were based on the Signetics 2637 as a video display controller; Emerson Arcadia 2001 which was released in 1982 and which used a Signetics 2650 running at 3.58 MHz as a CPU belong to this group together with many other ones software-compatible (Leonardo, Hanimex MPT-03 etc.).
At least four coin-operated video games were released in the 70s which used the 2650 CPU - Atari QUIZ SHOW, Meadows Games 3D BOWLING, Meadows Games GYPSY JUGGLER, and Cinematronics EMBARGO.
The processor was also used in the Signetics Instructor 50, which was a small computer designed to teach the use and programming of the Signetics 2650 CPU.
The 2650 was also used in some large items of equipment such as the Tektronix 8540, a microprocessor software development system which supported various In-circuit emulator, trace memory and logic analyser cards for real-time debugging of microprocessor systems, as practiced in the 1980s. The 2650 provided the base operating system functions, data transfer, and interface to a host computer or serial computer terminal.
The processor was most suited as a microcontroller, due to its extensive I/O support:
- Single bit i/o pins on the processor (sense/flag bits)
- Signals to directly address 2 8-bit I/O ports (control and data ports) using single byte instructions (port i/o). This circumvented the elaborate hardware other systems needed for memory-mapped I/O
- Signals to address another 256 I/O ports using an 8-bit address and 2 byte instructions, again, limiting the amount of hardware (address decoding) required. Philips emphasized this use as a micro-controller with a demonstration program showing the 2650 controlling an intelligent elevator system. Also, at trade fairs they showed the 2650 controlling a miniature 'sort and stack' robot
Industrial Microcomputer System - IMS[edit]
For a short time starting 1979, Philips sold a modular 2650 computer called the 'IMS' - Industrial Microcomputer System,[7] based on the Eurocard format in a 19" rack. It included CPU, PROM, RAM, input, output and teletype modules. This system was meant as a more intelligent programmable logic controller. For development, they later added DEBUG, DISPLAY, INTERRUPT and MODEST ((E)PROM programmer) modules.
- 2650 original version with 1.25 MHz maximum clock frequency
- 2650A improved version (minor fabrication changes to improve stability) 1.25 MHz maximum clock frequency
- 2650A-1 as 2650A with 2 MHz maximum clock frequency
- 2650B-1 as 2650B with 2 MHz maximum clock frequency
The 2650B had the following changes and improvements over the 2650A:[8]
- Two new signals- "Bus Enable" on pin 15 and "Cycle Last" on pin 25
- Program Status Word Upper bits 3 and 4 are setable and testable user flags (unused on the 2650A)
- Two new instructions to save and restore the lower status register in order to simplify interrupt processing
- Single byte register R0 instructions execute faster (1 cycle rather than 2)
Second sources[edit]
In 1975, Signetics was sold to Philips and the 2650 was later incorporated into the Philips Semiconductors line. They made a version of the 2650 called the MAB2650A. Valvo, a subsidiary of Philips, sold the 2650 in Germany. Valvo also sold the VA200 single board (Eurocard) 2650 computer with 4kb PROM/EPROM, 1kb RAM and 4 I/O ports.[9]
The most well known licensed copy of the Signetics/Philips 2650 was the 2650-P-02 from Synertek.
Other producers of licensed copies of the chip were Harris and Intersil.
Peripheral Chips[edit]
The 2650 came with a full complement of peripheral chips:
- 2621 Video Encoder (PAL)
- 2622 Video Encoder (NTSC)
- 2636 Programmable Video Interface
- 2637 Universal Video Interface
- 2651 Programmable Communication Interface
- 2652 Multi-Protocol Communications Circuit (incl. Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC))
- 2653 Polynomial Generator / Checker
- 2655 Programmable Peripheral Interface
- 2656 SMI (System memory interface)
- 2657 Direct Memory Access
- 2661 Enhanced Programmable Communication Interface (EPCI)
- 2670 Display Character and Graphics Generator
- 2671 Programmable Keyboard and Communications Controller
- 2672 Programmable Video Timing Controller
- 2673 Video Attributes Controller
Many of these peripheral chips were designed so they could also be used with other microprocessors, for example the datasheet of the 2672 suggests using it with an Intel 8048 microcontroller.
Philips Technical Note 083 describes how to interface the 2651 PCI to various other microprocessors, such as the 8080, 8085, Z80, 8048 and 6800
Descendants of the 2651/2661 serial communications chips are still sold as the Philips SC26 series.
2656 System Memory Interface[10][edit]
The 2656 was specifically designed to augment, and interface with, the 2650 and make a 2-chip computer possible. It contained everything the 2650 lacked to make a complete computer:
- 2 KB 8-bit Mask-programmed ROM program memory
- 128 bytes 8-bit RAM memory
- Clock generator with crystal or RC network
- Power-on reset
- 8 general purpose I/O pins
The I/O pins could be used as an 8-bit I/O port or programmed to generate enable signals for extra RAM, ROM or I/O ports. This was achieved by Mask-programming a Programmable Logic Array in the 2656.
To develop and test the design before committing it to production, Philips sold the PC4000, a 2656 emulator board using PROM'S and FPLA's to emulate the ROM and PLA in the 2656.
- ^ Microcomputer Digest Vol. 2 No. 1 July 1975
- ^ Signetics Technical Note SP50; 2650 evaluation printed circuit board level system PC1001
- ^ Signetics Technical Note SS50; PC1001 monitor program "PIPBUG"
- ^ Build a 2650 Microcomputer system, Radio Electronics magazine: April, May, June 1977
- ^ Holland Computer Club (HCC) 2650 user group
- ^ Programmierbeispiele mit dem Mikroprozessor 2650, Johann Hatzenbichler, 1978 OCLC 74475572
- ^ Industrial Microcomputer System; System Specification, Philips Electronic Components and materials, 1980
- ^ Philips 2650 Series microprocessor short-form manual 02-1979; 9398 209 50011
- ^ VALVO VA 200 Mikrocomputer im Europa-Format: VALVO Applikationslaboratorium Marz 1978
- ^ 2650PC-4000 memory interface emulator using PROM's and FPLA's
External links[edit]
- Datasheet
- Signetics 2650 family CPU World
- Instructor 50 Old-computers.com
- Adaptable Board Computer development system complete with 1 KiB PipBug monitor and 512 bytes of RAM
- the 2650 at www.cpu-museum.com (archived)
- Electronics Australia 2650 board at yesterdaystechnology.com


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Modern technology has created new publishing possibilities. Visit amazon.com and type in the name of a historically significant author, such as Adrien-Marie Legendre. You will find an abundance of books on offer, from such publishers as Nabu and Kessinger. These often come with a disclaimer, something like this:
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
What is going on is that older books in the public domain have been scanned and made available in electronic form. They can often be downloaded for free from libraries; one of the most extensive is the Gallica collection from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. What the publishers are doing is producing print-on-demand editions of these texts for those who still want paper. It is a valuable service, but the risk of "imperfections" is a real one: I bought a copy of Peirce's Linear Associative Algebra and discovered that several pages were illegible.
What Cambridge University Press offers in their Cambridge Library Collection is the same service, but with CUP standards for quality, both with regard to the books selected for reprinting and with regard to the actual production of the books. The book under review, a reprint of the second edition of Legendre's famous book on number theory, demonstrates these features nicely: it is an important book, nicely and clearly printed and well bound.
Legendre's Essai is one of the founding documents in number theory; many of the issues it discusses set the agenda for the next few years of research. Unfortunately, the first edition contained some mistakes, which were pointed out and corrected by Gauss in the other fouding document, the Disquisitiones Mathematicae. (You will soon be able get this from Cambridge as well: it's volume one of Gauss's Werke, to appear in November 2011.) The 1808 edition of the Essai, reprinted here, includes Legendre's reaction to Gauss. In his preface, he claims to have corrected the mistakes and enlarged the book considerably. Some mistakes remained, alas, and eventually there was a third edition as well.
One particularly charming part of this book is Legendre's "proof" that any arithmetic progression a + nd with gcd(a,d) = 1 contains infinitely many primes. This is Dirichlet's Theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions, and the fact that it's not known as "Legendre's theorem" is a clue that the proof is incorrect. Asking students in a course on elementary number theory to find the mistake would make a truly fantastic exercise.
I hope mathematicians will welcome the Cambridge Library Collection and that libraries will take full advantage of the renewed availability of such rare volumes. For now, I'm delighted to have a copy of Legendre to study.
Fernando Q. Gouvêa loves old books, teaches elementary number theory, and sometimes asks students to do difficult things. He is Carter Professor of Mathematics at Colby College in Waterville, ME.
Part I. Exposition de diverses méthodes et propositions relatives à l'analyse indéterminée
Part II. Propriétés générales des nombres
Part III. Théorie des nombres considérés comme décomposables en trois carrés
Part IV. Méthodes et recherches diverses
Part V. Usage de l'analyse indéterminée dans la résolution de l'équation


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Vehicle Tracks in Scotland - Have Your Sayadded Dec/2009, see all MCofS news & reviews
Product news by Hebe Carus
The relevant sections of the PS are:
1. �Principle of a long-walk-in is an effective protection mechanism� i.e. the more concentrated the foot traffic (or off-road bike) the greater the erosion and the greater impact the more people, which usually means the more accessible by transport
2. �Construction or upgrading of vehicular tracks should be avoided in remote areas� i.e. including widening to provide car parking and often tracks have little or no parking area which would mean restricting numbers somehow
3. �Unnecessary tracks should be removed� i.e. unnecessary for their original purpose, but some developers have used recreational use as a reason to build / retain tracks that have a negative impact on the landscape
Two Existing Examples: Glen Strathfarrar, Ben Nevis
- So what do you think the MCofS position statement should say?
Please contribute � MCofS needs to know your views in order to represent them, especially if you are the silent majority!
Comments should be sent to hebe(at)mcofs.org.uk by 15 December - please specify whether you are a Scotland resident and/or a member of MCofS.
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"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum... and I'm all outta gum!"
Good god... those memories . This is somehow the kind of fun I'm missing in todays games... just this damn fucking fun a game can give you playing it... not like this shit tossed at us nowadays U_U
Yup, the fun factor in games seems to be Missing in Action in favour for graphics, physics and sound, but not fun. Well, that Penny Arcade game actually brings lots of it to the table, but certainly more games better start to get back the fun factor again.
One of the key take away items here would be:
(The following is representative of MY views and does not reflect any entities' views such as LGP (for which I have a tag on my name here in this forum)...)
Rage will happen for us, but only on their time- and WE, the people out there using Linux, have only ourselves to blame.
Why do I say this?
Each time you lot goes and bitches about the "age" of a given game or compares the price of the Windows version versus the Linux one and bitches about that you do yourselves and everyone else a serious disservice. We're being watched. And this is the results of some of that sort of thing.
Spare all of us the "more money" line, folks- it's not valid, really. Do you think iD cares about a piddling 1000-2000 users' worth of money? In their minds, that's about all they think they can sell based off of what people can publicly see and the past performances we've given them in this area (Q3:A only sold 200 copies for the official Linux version because of the kinds of thinking I've seen espoused in these forums...)- which makes it not worth their while. The main reason he's been doing Linux titles is that it made sense to make the stuff cross platform and we were an underserved market. Unfortunately for us, we also seem to be an arrogant and ungrateful one as well, presuming that we're entitled to stuff.
You're NOT their customer. At best, you're a user of their software if you're using one of their official or unofficial platforms they've chosen to target.
Their customer is the publisher.
The publisher's customer is the retailer.
When you buy from a retailer, they don't care about what OS you're running- they're selling you a little box with a bit of paper and a bit of plastic in it, that purportedly does something when it is stuck into a Windows or MacOS based machine or a console.
So we've got over 30 million users worldwide. Great.
How many of that are willing to buy games? Hundreds? Thousands?
If it's not the same scope and scale as the Mac crowd has been (and we're not there, gang, because of that sense of entitlement we all seem to have here...) they're NOT going to be interested, being a seriously underserved community and all. They've got to see a return on things and for most players, they're not seeing anything except a LOSS from making stuff for us.
What we've shown is that we're not interested in buying games- and in a manner that leads people like iD to not consider us being on the radar and like Epic who's delayed the release now some 10 months if we even SEE the thing in the case of UT3.
Spare me conspiracy theories of Microsoft. Sure, they might have had SOME hand in Unreal not being in our hands- but it's unlikely all the same.
We're our own worst enemy, if you honestly want to know the truth. This is the fruits, folks, of the "it's too expensive", or "it's too old", or "that tanked" lines of thought and the resultant actions.
You run Linux. WHY would you ever want to run a Windows title?
In the infancy of things right now, WHY would you ever commit an infringement on a given title?
Because you can? Because you can't be bothered to hold off for a better situation or to get an actual native binary? Because the game's "too cool" and you can't stand not being able to run it?
Because you don't think the game's worth the price, either because the Windows version is cheaper than the Linux version or "you've already bought it"?
Each time you use WINE for a contemporary game you vote for Windows, even if we're as large a userbase as we think we are.
Each time you buy a Windows SKU and "convert" it to Linux when there was an official Linux version, you make a vote for Windows.
Each time you choose to make an infringement of a current selling Linux title, you're actually HURTING things- yes, I know it's a no-sale, but the problem is when the "no-sales" comprise what would have possibly made for a break-even or a profit sufficient to get the next and cooler title that might have sold, you defeat yourselves. The people doing the infringements seem to think it was worth spreading around- but not worth enough to buy. Each time someone does this, it gives the impression, right or wrong, that we aren't interested in buying games. Moreover, it lends the impression, right or wrong, that we're more interested in infringing upon their rights that paying the money for things...
Look well at this folks. This is the fruits of all of our labors here.
Just at the moment we're winning one fight for things, we're losing it for at least the next 3-5 years or more on the gaming front.
Because of the things I've just said.
I hope all of the people that are guilty of the aforementioned things are PROUD of themselves. They're succeeding in doing for Microsoft what they couldn't do otherwise- deep sixing gaming on Linux for some time to come.
Prey is another one of their titles. It's still selling pretty good actually, and is one of the things that's publicly known- they've done a handful of other projects that their name didn't get put on it because they were the subcontractor on the project.
Couple this with keeping a good control on the good money they got from Terminal Velocity, Duke, and Shadow Warrior, they've been able to keep going all this time. It remains to be seen if DNF is going to be worth the wait we've had- but some people that've seen the current "attempt" at it that may well be on it's way to Gold status have been at least mildly impressed. We'll see- I'm still sitting on the fence on this one. If I can get them to give me the time of day on a discussion of a Linux/MacOS version port and see it for myself, I'll change that position.
Originally posted by joshuapurcell View PostI'm usually behind your posts on most issues, but on this one I'm not buying what you're selling. I am a Linux gamer... that does not make me a gamer who likes older crappier games. Occasionally, however, I will buy the older crappier games that do end up getting a Linux port just because I have the hope it will help the situation, but I still reserve the right to bitch about the fact that the latest games do not make it to my chosen OS. I do vote with my wallet as well as choose to acknowledge the problems with the situation.
You don't think you're entitled to games. You've indicated in the past that you know the mess things are and would like for it to be better, pointing out some of the problems that you see. You're not one of the ones that's making the infringements (at least I hope you're not one of them- copying these titles without paying for them is analogous to what Verizon and Actiontec did to the busybox authors...).
So, you're not so much part of the problem as an upset and frustrated Linux user- welcome to that club. Honestly, the T-shirt's not worth the membership.
Me, I'm an upset user AND developer.
I'm frustrated beyond words at having to pay so damn much to get things to be on our chosen platform.
I'm frustrated beyond words at the Linux community being ignored when it comes to a lot of commercial software- we've got more users than Mac does right now.
I'm frustrated beyond words at the people who keep doing the exact things that ensure that they do NOT get the nice new stuff they keep griping about.
The rant was a bit of venting out that frustration.
Whether you agree with my remarks or not, the fact of the matter is, a goodly portion of why we have things the way we do right now is due to the very things I ranted about. That's just a fact, unfortunately.
Originally posted by xav1r View PostBut Prey was made by Human head, not 3DR. The last game they actually developed was Shadow warrior, over a decade ago. Its amazing how they can live (rather lavishly) from dos era yesterhits.
Originally posted by wikipediaIn 2001, 3D Realms began development on a new version of the title.[7] This time, with the advantage of the necessary portal technology already being a stable and functional component of all modern game engines, 3D Realms was able to license the necessary technology instead of having to develop it. 3D Realms chose the id Tech 4 game engine from id Software, and Rune developer Human Head Studios was commissioned to develop the game using the previous designs as a base.
Originally posted by wikipedia"New York, NY – April 26, 2005 – 2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), and 3D Realms today announced Prey, a revolutionary first person shooter for PC and a next-generation console system in development at Human Head Studios, under the direct supervision of 3D Realms."[10]
Now, I could be wrong there, but...
Anyhow, even if they didn't do the work, they DID act as the primary publisher of the title and they did a similar thing for Max Payne 1 & 2- which would have netted them enough money to keep forging forward on DNF or some other project.
A free total conversion mod for Doom 3 set in the Hexen universe, which has gained the full blessing of Raven Software. The mod is scheduled to be released for Linux as well as Windows. They're currently looking for mappers, as the news post implies.
It's my understanding that 3DR had a helping hand along with being the main publisher for it. Now, that could be wrong, but...
1 + 1?
Originally posted by Thetargos View PostYou just hold on a sec there... I read somewhere that 3DR made it through all these years without an own title because they've been also publishing (or helping publish) other studio's titles, and that also was a way they were able to inject DNF with money. Wouldn't that make them also a publisher, and as such, if approached correctly, one friendly towards Linux? Did I understand you correctly and you actually know someone at 3DR?
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Originally posted by Chris View PostMight want to point such people over here, then: http://edgeofchaos.planetdoom.gamespy.com/
A free total conversion mod for Doom 3 set in the Hexen universe, which has gained the full blessing of Raven Software. The mod is scheduled to be released for Linux as well as Windows. They're currently looking for mappers, as the news post implies.


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Overview: The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) provides a forum for members who represent a variety of interests, from clinical and biomedical engineers and technicians, physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators, to educators and researchers, manufacturers, distributors, government representatives and other health care professionals with an interest in medical devices. The Association was founded in 1967 to achieve the following objectives: be the primary source of consensus and timely information on medical instrumentation and technology; be the primary resource for the industry, the professions, and government for national and international standards; and provide multidisciplinary leadership and programs that enhance the ability of the professions, health care institutions, and industry to understand, develop, manage, and use medical instrumentation and related technologies safely and effectively.
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The food was gud, staff was helpful. Kids friendly atmosphere. Punjabi decor, with punjabi
Attire staff. Enjoyed the food as well as their hospitality. Must visit if in amritaar.
seriously , i will never sugest any one to visit ithis restura ....Food is completle taste less. slow service..Not comfortable .....only thing thing that i like here is liquor.
Nice and warm ambiance, got a warm welcome from the manager..food was excellent and the icing on the cake was they serve liquor and you can enjoy live music and they play your favourite songs gazals also...... The food your order comes in time and the portion they serve is adequate for 3 person and its quite cheap also....I wiil...
Another place to enjoy authentic Punjabi food in Amritsar... nice decor & ambiance depicting Punjab. must visit place
The sevice was good. We celebrated our kids birthday here and the employees of the hotel took part in the celebration as well. Overall the experience was nice.
These people have perfected the art of providing bad tasteless food. I tried food in Delhi also and seems like there is competiton in their branches who makes it worst than the other. I think their chefs strive for bad preperations
unattentive staff , the food is not very good but just about average . The only positive factor is the live music
located in celebration mall on batala road,pind ballochi boost on traditional serving style of ethnic food.
Good ambience and better punjabi food but prices need to be checked....
Punjab has always been known for their open heartedness and lavish lifestyle. Pind Balluchi offers very small portions which we youngsters find very costly as we have to order more. The ambience is good. Located in the Celebration Mall, a multiplex in Amritsar, it has good number of customers. Food quality is good, but then Amritsar is known for so...
Nice place with Folk Theme. The food was authentic Punjabi food (both Veg and Non Veg).
We went there in the late evening, and live music was going on, which was also good.
Service was a little slower but thats ok if you compare the food.
Liquor is also available, both beer and hard also.
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On November 30, BP announced it was once again delaying drilling at its controversial "Liberty" project on Alaska's north coast. This is great news for the fragile Arctic Ocean ecosystem and the wildlife and communities it supports, but this project must be shelved for good. Oil from the BP's Deepwater Horizon blowout continues to wreak havoc on the gulf economy and ecosystems, against this backdrop it's irresponsible and insane for BP to move forward at any point with Liberty, a project the company describes as one of "its biggest challenges to date." Just as BP pushed the limits of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico with the Deepwater Horizon, the company proposes to push the boundaries in the Arctic with Liberty by drilling the longest ultra-extended reach wells in the world. Extended reach drilling technology is unproven, untested and more prone to the types of gas kicks that triggered the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon. BP claims this latest delay is due to problems with the project's massive drill rig, but no amount of re-jigging or rig redesign will eliminate the risk of accidents and oil spills.BP's own documents estimate an eight percent chance of a large oil spill at Liberty, which should be taken with a heap of salt given the company's penchant for underestimating spill likelihood and size. Would you get onto a plane if you knew there was an eight percent chance of it crashing? Compounding the spill risk is the lack of adequate infrastructure and capacity to respond to an oil spill on the remote north coast of Alaska, and the fact that there is no proven technology to remove spilled oil from the Arctic Ocean. In short, if a large oil spill happened at Liberty, BP simply would not have the capacity or technology to respond in what the company itself calls "some of the harshest weather on Earth."BP plans to use one of the largest, most powerful drill rigs in the world to access oil five miles off the north coast of Alaska under the icy waters of the Beaufort Sea. To get at the oil, BP will drill two miles below the seabed and then six to eight miles sideways below federal waters, yet BP classifies Liberty as "onshore" because drilling will be initiated from a man-made gravel island connected to shore by a causeway. The federal government signed off on this faulty logic, exempting Liberty from the moratorium on offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean put in place by the Obama administration in late May in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. The federal government also allowed BP to do its own environmental review of the Liberty project - the language and conclusions of the federal government's October 2007 environmental assessment of the project is virtually identical to BP's environmental impact analysis of the project submitted to the federal government six months earlier. BP already has a poor track record in Alaska – the company is still on probation following a pipeline spill caused by corrosion due to shoddy maintenance and upkeep. The spill went undetected for days and dumped more than 212,000 gallons of crude onto the tundra. It was the largest spill in the history of Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, which, along with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, has caused an average of 435 spills per year on the North Slope since 1996. This fall a federal lawyer accused BP of violating its federal probation for oil spills on Alaska's North Slope.Given the ongoing Gulf oil disaster and BP's shoddy track record in Alaska, the federal government should halt BP's Liberty project as a first step toward enacting a national ban on future drilling in federal waters. Obama administration officials are expected to announce later today that they will not allow offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as part of the next five-year drilling plan for federal waters. The administration must add federal waters in Alaska's Arctic to the list of areas off-limits to drilling in the short term, and then extend the ban to all the nation's waters so that no community or ecosystem ever has to experience what the Gulf is going through today.- Melanie
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While we criticize and have successes re: stopping drilling, we MUST, MUST simultaneously provide SOLUTIONS. Where is Green Energy and how can it USURP Oil at this point?? Where are GREEN JOBS and how can we put these out of work people back to work in GREEN ENERGY????
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Dyro, my thought's exactly, where is all this green energy we have all been promised?
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Please guys. Green energy is a joke. What we need to do is get off energy period. Industrial Civilization is the enemy of all the biotics on Earth. Fo...
Please guys. Green energy is a joke. What we need to do is get off energy period. Industrial Civilization is the enemy of all the biotics on Earth. Forget electric light, forget electric heat, forget electricity. Humanity didn't need it the past 2.7 million years, and we don't need it now. No more industrial destruction of natural biospheres for an artificial need.
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Well, the thing is that people don't want to drop it. Even yourself would feel uncomfortable when all the energy is stop. The reason that the energy t...
Well, the thing is that people don't want to drop it. Even yourself would feel uncomfortable when all the energy is stop. The reason that the energy thing should be drop isn't this 'we didn't used the electric energy for last 2.7mil years' For those 2.7 mil years human beings were uncomfortable, wanting some other ways that can make us more warm, cozy, etc. I think that 2.7mil years, no energy? That's a lousy reason
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This article is an updated and edited summary of the Cablegate Affair, and I waive all copyright to this article.
If you really care abo...
This article is an updated and edited summary of the Cablegate Affair, and I waive all copyright to this article.
If you really care about Democracy in America, and you really care about your family, friends, and neighbours survival in America, then is vital to firstly make your own copy of this article, and then to send a copy of this article to as many people as possible, because other countries already have their own copy.
Working closely within the Military, Private First Class Bradley Manning was able to hear the Conspiracies the Dictators of America are scheming, and he put himself in harms way to protect, not just a few Americans, but all Americans.
It is a known and proven fact that the American Army will have to come home one day, and if the Dictators of America who are cloaked as Public Servants can deceive the American people to become disarmed, and to give up their liberties, then it will make the eventual Dictatorship much easier to Entrench.
For those American Citizens who do not wish to be dull thinkers, they should watch the video titled "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura The Gulf Oil Spill Season 2 - FULL LENGTH", at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSMUhVcjJ94, unless of course the CIA changes the video and the internet location in a pathetic attempt to discredit this article.
Another video worth watching to put it into its proper context is titled: "Rally for Bradley Manning- Blowing the Whistle on War Crimes is Not a Crime!" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhP_N0ZldA.
We all know that the American Corporations control and fund the Dictators of America to create a Fascist State, and proof of this Fascist State is that America does not have 100% Public Funding for Elections.
We know that the Corrupt Supreme Court of America said that Corporate Funding of Election Candidates is legal, but both the Candidates and the Corporations are not obligated to use that 'Law'.
It would not surprise any of us if most of the Male Puppet and Blackmailed American Politicians have to be filmed ejaculating semen on young Children's genitals before they receive Corporate Funding for their Election Campaigns.
It would not surprise any of us if most of the Females Puppet and Blackmailed American Politicians have to be filmed kissing and caressing young Children's genitals before they receive Corporate Funding for their Election Campaigns.
The Corporations need their Puppet American Politicians to know that they will go to Jail, where a terrible fate awaits them if that are not isolated in Jail.
If this is what is happening, then the purpose is that the Corporations know that they can blackmail any American Politician to do their bidding, even Resident of the Whites' House, Barack Obama.
President Bill Clinton approved of giving wealthy Americans even more money to fuse the Corporations with the Government, which is what Fascism is, and how Benito Mussolini's Italy was structured, and inevitably Collapsed.
If small businesses can function, and if their can be a Middle Class in America, then the Wealthy will become poorer, and they are Paranoid that they will die because of having less money.
It is their survival instincts that are at play here, and that is what Wikileaks has been able to show the Entire World.
There are many American people who want 100% public Funding for Elections, and they want free and fair Media time during those Election Campaigns, because they too, have a survival instinct.
I believe that the American Politicians should pass a law to make themselves immune against all blackmail techniques of the Corporations.
I know that this is an injustice, but a greater injustice would result to the American Community if they are not given this immunity.
There does not need to be a law to grant immunity, but a National Law agreed to that if anyone who pursues the law against these Bribed and Corrupt Paedophile Politicians will answer to the American Vigilantes.
It is better to have this situation where the American Politicians will not go to jail for Paedophilia on young sleeping Children just because they wanted fame and fortune from the Corporations' Dirty Money.
We, the people of Democracyland whose national borders are defined by the United Nations Charter and International Law are committed to the highest form of Democracy known to Mankind.
Democracyland will be a true Democracy, have no military alliances, be 100% against racism, have no genetically modified crops, plant many trees, and have 100% recycling.
This article is an updated and edited summary of the Cablegate Affair, and I waive all copyright to this article.
It is vital to firstly make your own copy of this article, and then to send a copy of this article to as many people as possible, because other countries already have their own copy.
There are American citizens who think that the founder of Wikileaks Volunteer Funded Public Information News Service is a traitor; while others think that he is a Hero; and then are yet others who think that he is just an ordinary person Committed To A Better World.
The American Government is entirely to blame for this scenario, and the leaks are the result of Incompetence, Complacency, or even Deliberate Design.
WikiLeaks has done America an enormous favour by preventing a new wave of potential spies against America, and by stifling the work of existing spies against America.
Many people are greatly distressed over this despicable incident, because they see that innocent people are being persecuted and slandered as traitors and only because they are working for an honest and just world.
There is no need to guess that the Dictators of Britain, America, and Nazi Sweden will use the instruments of the State to cover up the scheming, the injustices, the criminality, and the Treason of the Dictators of America.
Their instruments are bad; and they have up till now resorted to slander, denial of internet and commercial services, consideration of false charges, and even contemplating the despicable use of Specially Invented Legislation.
Motivated by malice and a desperate attempt to cover up their Treason, the American Dictators are encouraging the American public to think of the founder of WikiLeaks as a traitor to be hated and denied his legitimate Rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
This Highly Illegal and Treasonous Action of censoring Free Speech, the Cornerstone of the American Constitution, is occurring at this time, because the American Constitution is utterly despised by the Dictators of America.
The inevitable consequences will be less Human Rights and the total contempt for Rule of Law, in order to set up and entrench a Military Dictatorship in America.
This could have been prevented if the elected Representatives of the American people had respected the American Constitution.
The actions of the individual or individuals who leaked information to Wikileaks was motivated because of a strong concern for fellow Citizens, and because of human conscience that understood together the Nuremburg Trials Summary which said that the excuse of taking orders from superiors is not legitimate excuse for war crimes.
Those Americans who leak information to Wiklieaks were indoctrinated with the thoughts of America being noble, honest, and having pure motives along with the highest form of Democracy known to Humankind.
However, during adulthood most American Citizens find that the reality is entirely different, and some find the situation intolerable because of the guilty secrets that can no longer keep only to themselves.
Some Americans are comforted and experience relief because of the hope, and then the eventuality of sharing and entrusting these guilty secrets with Wikileaks, because they knew that Wikileaks is very discreet and really cares, by never relieving their sources, because Wikileaks strictly adheres to the Journalistic Code of Ethics.
It is prisoner of conscience who leaked the files because of the constant nagging of his or her refined and sensitive conscience that became louder And LOUDER until it could no longer be contained.
However, Lawyers may advise those at Trial not to mention any of that, because the American Jury, if the American Dictators allow a Jury, will be stacked with disguised modern day American Nazi Jurists, and the Judge will promise leniency if an admission of treason is given.
We cannot condone it if the prisoner of conscience lies by saying that he or she is a traitor; however, we should not overly condemn him or her either because once again the Treacherous Nazi American Government has placed honest people in a very difficult situation.
There will concerns of how family of any accused will receive employment if the truth is told of how the accused conscience tormented the accused and gave no rest until the accused was freed of all those guilty secrets that could no longer be kept.
We all know that the accused person has a support network, and that the City of Berkeley wants to award an Honour to Private First Class Bradley Manning, because America does not want to pay 15 Million Dollars Compensation Money to Private First Class Bradley Manning, and because the founder of Wikileaks cannot get the Nobel Peace Prize until next year.
It is interesting that the American Government cannot pass a Constitutional Law to limit the free speech of Americans.
If the American Government did pass a law to limit the Free Speech of Wikileaks, then it is saying in effect that non-Americans are considered by America to be Second Class citizens, and that would be admitting too much.
It is an old tactic by the unprincipled that if you cannot rubbish the message, then rubbish the messenger with slander and State Sponsored Terrorism by using the corrupt Judicial System of a country, and make sure it is labelled Democracy or International Community, or something else that a Public Relations Firm has been handsomely paid to Invent.
We saw how Britain did not extradite General Pinochet to Spain, even though it was known that General Pinochet murdered his own people to hold on to power, and the Dictators of America will act even worse than General Pinochet if the American People allow it to happen.
The Dictators of America are biased and deliberately lying, because firstly they are Corrupt Lowlifes, and secondly they are too stupid for the jobs that the American Voters have foolishly entrusted them with.
Wikileaks is like a Teacher that is Supervising Grade 1 Primary School Children, and we all know that if there were no supervision of the School Children by the Teacher, then it would not be beneficial for the Children or the Society.
The only way to ensure that the Grade 1 Primary School Children do not steal from the canteen; that they do their work, and that they obey the rules is for a Teacher to Supervise Them.
That is what the Corrupt, Bribed, and Intimidated Mainstream Media should have been doing all along, but they would deliberately ignore and even hypocritically persecute the whistleblowers because of American Government orders given to them, and because of receiving hardworking taxpayers' money as hush money.
As we all know, such a situation would create a demand for what can be loosely but incorrectly termed a black market for ensuring liberty, freedom, democracy, a right to know, and a performance based accountability from the American Government, and from the American Public Service.
These Wikileaks Undiplomatic American Cables were available to 3 million Americans, and Wikileaks has performed a genuine Public Service by encouraging the Buffoons and Full On Retards in the American State Department to be more careful with their material.
The Democrats say that they should never let a crisis go to waste, and that is why it is possible that this was deliberately engineered to Establish a Military Dictatorship in America.
We have seen certain American Politicians placing an Imperialist version of a Fatwa on an Independent Investigative Journalist who works for the Wikileaks Volunteer Funded News Service.
The American Main Stream Media has no shame or standards, and they display their hubris and audacity by saying that the founder of Wikileaks is paranoid, because of his traumatic experiences with Britain, America, and Nazi Sweden.
Others have said that the founder of Wikileaks has Delusions of Grandeur, because it is truly grand to serve other people with unselfish and pure motives.
However, the Dictators of America think that being Proper Public Servants is Delusional compared to lying to people, and stealing money from the Public.
The American dictators are determined to try to crush any individual or group of people who would serve other people in an unselfish manner, and with pure motives, and thereby prove to the world that Genuine and Sincere Public Service is Delusional in Today's America.
The Dictators of America along with their Puppet Corrupt and Bribed American Main Stream Media are accusing the founder of Wikileaks of not being a Journalist.
We all know that the founder of Wikileaks is an advocate for Truth and Justice, and so he is more than adequately qualified to be a Journalist, and therefore he has a Legal Right, and a Moral Responsibility to comment on matters in the Public Interest.
Therefore, Julian Assange and Wikileaks are perfectly entitled to publish material that is definitely in the Public Interest.
We all know that the few of the many American Dictators who are publicly asking for an Imperialistic version of a Fatwa were really speaking for most of the American Dictators, both Republicans and Democrats.
The Right in America will more than likely win votes over this matter, but the Left could easily lose votes over this matter.
The only reason American Democrats like Resident of the Whites' House Barack Obama, and President Bill Clinton and President Hillary Clinton have not publicly asked for an Imperialist version of a Fatwa is because of how it would look for that Nobel Peace Prize Buyer Barack Obama, and because of fear of loosing certain votes from the Left's liberal base because many may not vote at the next election.
The American Statute on Espionage is very broadly drafted and it says that it is an offence to Gather, Transmit, or Receive Defence Information, and to do this while having Reasons to Believe that that information will be used to hurt America.
The only way to have these incompetent, complacent, and stupid idiots defend the interests of American Citizens is to have all American Secrets made Public, and for them to be supervised by the Public and the Media just like a Teacher supervises Children.
Obviously, this means that nearly anyone in this world is Innocent of any trumped up charge of Espionage against America, because most people have GOOD Reasons to Believe that that Disclosed Information will and can only HELP America.
We all remember President George W Bush and his lies concerning Iraq; and I wonder how many Americans are asking where Wikileaks was when we needed them?
All Anglo-American Politicians know the number of American and non-American lives that were lost because of President George W Bush's lies on Iraq.
These American Citizens were denied their right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, but the Dictators of America have hypocritically and conveniently remained silent on that, and their silence speaks volumes.
The American Constitution does not allow the Dictators of America to seek to rule the world, but do their best to ensure the Right of All American Citizens.
Those Rights extent to and include the thousands of American Soldiers who were killed, and the thousands of American Soldiers who were seriously injured to have been deprived the Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit Of Happiness.
Can any of us think that President George W Bush will be tried for treason and executed, yet these American Dictators are treating Private First Class Bradley Manning and the founder of Wikileaks as if they were criminals?
The Dictators of America know all this; however, because they are hardened liars, they are not honest enough to admit it, because they are hardened liars.
The Dictators of America will go looking for Scapegoats for their incompetence and their treason against the American people, because they are desperate to cover up their Treason and their Criminality.
The following video titled: Free Bradley Manning Speeches by Marjorie Cohn, can be found on the internet at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7UsMNk0fTE, unless of course the CIA changes that internet location or the contents of the video to try to discredit what I saying in this comment.
All those involved in the Wikileaks affair have made the Buffoons in the American Political and Public Service System more accountable, and that is definitely in the Public Interest.
This embarrassing revelation may actually prod some of these Criminals and Buffoons to be slightly more interested in the Law and in their jobs, and that may make a few of them do their jobs a little bit better.
It is the same situation now, because one set of corrupt lowlifes who were corrupt, incompetent, and stupid, have been replaced by the Hope and Change lowlifes who are corrupt, incompetent, and stupid.
It would not surprise too many people of All Colours to wonder if the term Hope And Change began as That Dope Is Strange, but we cannot say that during an election campaign, so we will say Hope and Change.
The only way to make these corrupt lowlifes, and these incompetent stupid idiots do their jobs better is to have them supervised by Alternative Media, since the American Main Stream Media have been bribed with taxpayers' money to cover up for the Dictators of America.
All the people who are responsible for Wikileaks publications of the American Undiplomatic Cables should be given the Nobel Peace Prize.
Private First Class Bradley Manning may be made to lie and say that he is a traitor to the right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness for his fellow Americans.
This is because he was imprisoned in the Middle East where American Constitutional Law does not apply for him, and even though he is in American Military Jail, there is no difference for all intents and purposes.
He was living under torturous conditions in a Middle Eastern Jail, and he may be physically tortured into signing a false confession of treason in order to make it appear that the American Government is Honest and Pure.
The American Government firstly placed Private First Class Bradley Manning in a difficult situation by not teaching all School Children that America is an Evil and Lying piece of Nazi Filth that pretends to be Honest and Pure.
Secondly, after Private First Class Bradley Manning served his country, he found a profound moral and ethical conflict of interest, because of what he saw and read on the American State Department files, even if he did not make the leak to Wikileaks, because his treatment as an innocent person has proven all of this.
He now had this knowledge; either for better or worse, and it would remain with him for the rest of his life, as would his highly refined and sensitive conscience, even if he did not leak the information to Wikileaks.
At this stage, their does not appear to be any financial incentive for his alleged actions; although, for the injustices that he has already suffered, and for the injustices he continues to suffer, he should be financially compensated by the American Government.
Obviously, the Dictators of America will not pay him compensation, because they know that it would be tantamount to a confession of their Conspiratorial Treason against all American Citizens.
It is up to individual Americans to make a financial contribution to Private First Class Bradley Manning as an expression of their genuine appreciation for keeping All Americans safe from the True Terrorists, the Dictators of America, even if he did not leak the information to Wikileaks.
This is because Private First Class Bradley Manning has become a Symbol of the Liberty Loving Americans struggle against the Treasonous Tyranny by the Government of America, even if he did not leak the information to Wikleaks.
Why was the Rendition of Private First Class Bradley Manning to the Middle East necessary, except to torture him into lying and making him say that he is a traitor to his fellow American Citizens against his will?
It was a Prisoner or Prisoners of Conscience who leaked the files because of the principles based on the Nuremberg Statement, and especially because of constant nagging of his or her or even their refined and sensitive conscience or consciences.
That constant nagging of the consciences of all those involved in the Wikleaks matter became louder And LOUDER until it could no longer be contained.
However, the alleged offender's Lawyer may advise the accused not to mention any of that, because the American Jury, if the Nazis allow a Jury, will be stacked with disguised modern day American Nazis, and the Nazi Judge will promise leniency if the alleged offender admits to being a traitor.
The alleged offender, especially if he is found guilty, is a true American Patriot and Hero, but he may be pressured into saying that he is a traitor to America; because once again his treacherous American Nazi Government has placed the alleged offender who is an American Citizen in a very difficult situation.
There are many American Citizens who think that those main players who are responsible for Wikileaks publications of the American Undiplomatic Cables should be given the Nobel Peace Prize.
We have read of how the City of Berkeley wanted to award Private First Class Bradley Manning the Honour of being a Hero to America, but they have correctly and properly delayed a vote on the matter.
This is because the City of Berkeley should not have moved on this matter until it has been proven in a Proper Court of Law whether Private First Class Bradley Manning is the one who leaked the American Undiplomatic Cables to Wikileaks.
The City of Berkeley in typical American fashion has forgotten that an accused person is to be PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL FOUND OTHERWISE BY A PROPER COURT OF LAW.
This is of course the correct position, because a person has to be found guilty in a Court of Law, and not in a Corrupt Trial by Media, or even what hearsay says.
The Corrupt and Bribed Main Stream Media has probably made it impossible for Julian Assange to receive a fair Trial on trumped up Charges, and many people are hoping that the British Courts especially take note of that fact in the light of the General Pinochet Affair.
The Hypocritical Left was saying that we declare him guilty, but we will propose an Honour to him, so that those dull thinking gullible liberals do not see that we are really just the other side of the Democrat Republican Dirty Coin.
The City of Berkeley in California is a liberal City, and most people vote for the Democrats, and this may have been politically motived because of the recent Federal and State Elections.
There are many possibilities here, and I will only mention the more obvious ones to illustrate why the Presumption of Innocence must Always Be Respected And Practiced.
If thousands of Americans claimed that they were the ones who leaked that Classified Information to Wikileaks, would that make all of them suspects?
We may be correct in assuming that the person or persons behind this leak to Wikileaks were sane at the time, and therefore had motives.
It could be that if a person heard about how someone else or even others have leaked Classified Files to Wikileaks, then he may have wanted to take the credit for it, or it could have been just booze talk.
It is not a crime to lie to someone who is not in a position of Authority, but it is a crime to lie under oath in a Court of Law.
In America a person does not have answer any questions, and until it gets to Court, no crime has been committed if a person keeps silent, or even lies to those who are not in Authority.
If a person knew of the leak, and then pretended that it was him who leaked it to someone who is not the Authority, then he would be confident to be found innocent at his trial.
The motivation is of course fame and fortune, or even infamy and fortune, but as long as there is the fortune along with the pronouncement of innocence.
That is one end of the spectrum, and the other possibility is that President Bill Clinton and President Hillary Clinton were the masterminds behind this, and that Manning will receive a Pardon from Barack Obama, just before he hands over office to President Hillary Clinton.
Berkeley is a liberal city that votes for the Democrats, and it is the Democrats who will lose a lot of votes if they do not manage to find whoever leaked the Cables to Wikileaks either innocent, or to say either falsely or truthfully that they cannot find who made the leak to Wikileaks.
I am not suggesting that liberals will vote for the Republicans, although a few might; but America has voluntary voting, and the liberals may not vote at the next election.
This is why President Hillary Clinton has not been Publicly calling for an Imperialistic version of a Fatwa on Manning, but the Democrats have left it to the other side of the Coin to do their dirty work, because the Democrats know that it will cost the Democrats votes.
The Republicans do not have as many worries as regards loss of votes with a person who could be portrayed as a traitor.
This is true even though any testimony that is not extracted from torture may show that the alleged offender is probably an American Patriot, and maybe even an American Hero.
The problem for both Political Parties in America is that regardless of who leaked the information, they are showing the world that they are not happy with being made to be honest, because they are two sides of the Same Dirty Coin.
This is why they are persecuting Private First Class Bradley Manning, and detaining him under torturous conditions in a Prison.
We can all be certain that Private First Class Bradley Manning's Legal Defence Team; and even common sense have instructed him to answer no questions until a Court hearing.
We have learned from the Corrupt and Bribed Puppet Media that the American Government, is trying to make it look as if there was a conspiratorial coercion from Julian Assange on Private First Class Bradley Manning to make the alleged leaks.
Attempts at this Perversion of the Course of Justice have already been made by asking deceptive and baseless leading questions such as to why Wikileaks has not paid money that was allegedly promised to Private First Class Bradley Manning.
This is because no money was promised for the story, and as far as President Hillary Clinton is concerned, she needs Julian Assange convicted in America for her election at the next American Presidential election.
The reason for detaining a Presumed Innocent American Citizen in Contravention of the American Constitution is to bribe, pressure, or even torture him into doing the whims of President Hillary Clinton.
Whoever leaked the information to Wikileaks did the American Community a Great and Genuine Public Service, because what we learn from the leaks is that a Dictatorship is coming to America, regardless of Democrats or Republicans.
The Democrats and the Republicans want to conceal the fact that the American Military must one day come home, and that they are now trained psychopathic Nazi Storm troopers who need an endless supply of victims.
That supply of victims will not be foreigners, but American Citizens who have been disarmed because of being manipulated by the Corrupt and Bribed Puppet American Main Stream Media and a Puppet Uncle Tom using their stupid guilt trip of white Americans.
The American citizens will be told that any criticism against the Unconstitutional policies of a Puppet Uncle Tom will only be because of their alleged racism, and not because of the evil policies.
The Democrats and the Republicans both know all these things to be true, but they will not confess these things for the obvious reasons.
They have their ready made excuses that were invented long ago, and all of this information is Classified Top Secret.
The reason they are against even the low level Classified Information being leaked, is because others will be able to deduce that the Top Secret Information concerns the disarming of the American people, and the return home of America's psychopathic Nazi Army to Entrench a Military Dictatorship in America.
It should not surprise us if Wikileaks has been bribed, pressured, or even intimidated into changing the original content of the Undiplomatic American Cables.
The American Government has made so many documents Classified, because that way they can intimidate anyone who comments on their arbitrary definition of what constitutes Classified Information.
I know that we are all wiser with hindsight, but a non-Nazi Hope and Change would have said what is done is done, and the continuing persecution of those who may or may not have leaked this information, and those who are publishing it, even in a possibly changed form after they have been bribed and intimidated by Britain, America, and Sweden does not serve the Public Interest.
I truly wish that I did not have to be one of many to inform America's Politicians, but I guess that if they do not know by now, then they need to firstly be advised as to how Americans are thinking, and they need to be reminded of their obligations to the American Public, and to the American Constitution.
The American People may soon rise up and kill all, and that means all American Politicians, Federal, State, and Local.
That is why even people like Ron Paul need to decide to leave Politics or to confess that they have been as corrupt as the rest of them all along, because if there is a cleansing, the cleansing will be complete.
There will be no distinction between good Politicians or bad Politicians, because the only good American Politician will be a Dead American Politician.
As far as the Main Stream Media is concerned, I have not had time to evaluate the mood of the American people, but they may go down along with the bankers.
This is why both Political Parties in America are working together to find ways to unduly censor the Internet, so that the Corrupt and Bribed Puppet Main Stream Media can brainwash the Gullible.
There are many people who hope that the British Legal System was based on Truth, Impartiality, and Justice.
They hope that the British Legal System would cease to Abuse the Process, and that it was not Corruptly Subservient to the Dictatorial whims of America.
Democracyland will be a true Democracy, have no military alliances, be 100% against racism, have no genetically modified crops, plant many trees, and have 100% recycling.
December 20, 2010 at 6:33
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