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Skip to comments.Ted Kennedy doesn't know who wrote "The Communist Manifesto"
Posted on 12/30/2005 7:19:44 PM PST by rlmorel
...I hope the president doesn't continue to hide behind such transparent and irrelevant justifications. Congress has amended the 1978 FISA law over time, most recently with the passage of the PATRIOT Act -- and there is no reason to think we wouldn't do so again -- if we knew what the administration is doing. If the president needs more powers to lawfully protect the American people from terrorism, then he should come to Congress to seek modification of current laws. The president has failed to provide a sufficient legal basis for his actions; instead he and his Cabinet spent the week refusing to negotiate with Congress and opposing bipartisan efforts to extend the PATRIOT Act for three more months.
Just this past week there were public reports that a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto. Following his professor's instructions to use original source material, this young man discovered that he, too, was on the government's watch list.
Think of the chilling effect on free speech and academic freedom when a government agent shows up at your home -- after you request a book from the library.
Incredibly, we are now in an era where reading a controversial book may be evidence of a link to terrorists...
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The thing that I find MOST delicious about this is that there can be only a few explanations for this particularly tasty error:
1.) The error was not noticed by the Boston Globe staff when they reviewed it. This reason is most entertaining, because it shows them to be complete idiots, particularly since communism is the ideology they seem to be most sympathetic to. Additionally, the liberals like to paint themselves as more refined and educated. Yeah, right.
2.) The error was noticed, but they did not contact Swimmer Ted. For what reason, I don't know...maybe they thought he would get pissed at them, or maybe someone wanted to stab him in the back.
3.) The error was noticed, and they couldn't find Fat Teddy to let him know, and due to deadlines, posted it anyway so they didn't get scooped or something.
4.) Op-ed pieces are never screened for gross errors of spelling or factuality.
He was just drunk again, nothing more.
Didn't the kid involved break down and confess that it was a hoax?
Why is the fact that Ted Kennedy is an ignorant A$$hole news? This belongs more in proven facts of history. /sarc
Teddie the life guard doesn't know much of anything exept how to get a cork out of a bottle of gin.
This has since turned out to be a lie by the student in question.
Wasn't the Communist Manifesto was written by Osama Obama?
Use the article's headline, do not make up your own, this will prevent double posting.
He always has the excuse: I wrote this during cocktail hour.
I read somewhere that a majority of Harvard graduates believed that the phrase "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" was from the US Constitution!
On another aspect of this, did the Globe run any kind of correction / retraction about the phony college-kid-visited-by-government-agents story?
I believe that was the case. Same sorta outcome as the Tawana Brawley story. The press, and the leftists wanted it to be true. So it was.
Editors allow op-ed writers to freely flap their gums.
Lets show Teddy and his minions some love:
URL for site input: http://www.tedkennedy.com/journal/548/getting-answers-from-the-white-house-on-domestic-spying
This was a big fat hoax that hornswoggled the big fat Senator from Massachusetts
"Going through life, fat, drunk, and stupid.."
Good catch.
Everyone knows Tom Harkin wrote it.
Sadly we share a home state.
Sometimes I wonder why assholes such as Fat Teddy even bother to write editorial type articles. The people who vote for him largely do not read such things, and the people who read such things would never vote for the fat blowhard.
Thank you for the advice. However, the focus of the post was not the focus of the op-ed, rather the error in the op-ed. Posting the article's headline would have been misleading.
Without his trust fund, Teddy would probably be passed out in a doorway tonight clutching a 40 oz. bottle of Colt 45.
"The people who vote for him largely do not read such things"
I believe the people who vote for him can't read anything.
Poor Teddy, has such a poor understanding of American government, he gets it backwards that if he does not like the President using the authority he already has, then he should pass a law to prohibit the egregious behavior.
I understand a spokesperson for the senior slug from Massachusetts, used the Dan Rather defense, that while the facts were false, the underlying story was true.
Maybe the kids story was a lie , but it was factual.
"Didn't the kid involved break down and confess that it was a hoax?"
Yup. Apparently, the fat old lardass got that wrong, as well.
Ahhh...a paradox for sure. He cannot last forever though.
A factual lie?
Gosh, the ghost of Dan Rather running amok in the halls of FR.com....................
Facts are not relevant when a lib is [attempting to] make a point. It's for a good cause, don't get sidetracked by details such as truth and facts.
Federal agents' visit was a hoax
Student admits he lied about Mao book
By AARON NICODEMUS, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD -- The UMass Dartmouth student who claimed to have been visited by Homeland Security agents over his request for "The Little Red Book" by Mao Zedong has admitted to making up the entire story.
The 22-year-old student tearfully admitted he made the story up to his history professor, Dr. Brian Glyn Williams, and his parents, after being confronted with the inconsistencies in his account.
Had the student stuck to his original story, it might never have been proved false.
But on Thursday, when the student told his tale in the office of UMass Dartmouth professor Dr. Robert Pontbriand to Dr. Williams, Dr. Pontbriand, university spokesman John Hoey and The Standard-Times, the student added new details.
The agents had returned, the student said, just last night. The two agents, the student, his parents and the student's uncle all signed confidentiality agreements, he claimed, to put an end to the matter.
But when Dr. Williams went to the student's home yesterday and relayed that part of the story to his parents, it was the first time they had heard it. The story began to unravel, and the student, faced with the truth, broke down and cried.
It was a dramatic turnaround from the day before.
For more than an hour on Thursday, he spoke of two visits from Homeland Security over his inter-library loan request for the 1965, Peking Press version of "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung," which is the book's official title.
His basic tale remained the same: The book was on a government watch list, and his loan request had triggered a visit from an agent who was seeking to "tame" reading of particular books. He said he saw a long list of such books.
In the days after its initial reporting on Dec. 17 in The Standard-Times, the story had become an international phenomenon on the Internet. Media outlets from around the world were requesting interviews with the students, and a number of reporters had been asking UMass Dartmouth students and professors for information.
The story's release came at a perfect storm in the news cycle. Only a day before, The New York Times had reported that President Bush had allowed the National Security Agency to conduct wiretaps on international phone calls from the United States without a warrant. The Patriot Act, created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to allow the government greater authority to monitor for possible terrorism activities, was up for re-authorization in Congress.
There was an increased sense among some Americans that the U.S. government was overstepping its bounds and trampling on civil liberties in order to thwart future attacks of terrorism. The story of a college student being questioned for requesting a 40-year old book on Communism fed right into that atmosphere.
In Thursday's retelling of the story, the student added several new twists, ones that the professors and journalist had not heard before. The biggest new piece of information was an alleged second visit of Homeland Security agents the previous night, where two agents waited in his living room for two hours with his parents and brother while he drove back from a retreat in western Massachusetts. He said he, the agents, his parents and his uncle all signed confidentiality agreements that the story would never be told.
He revealed the agents' names: one was Nicolai Brushaev or Broshaev, and the other was simply Agent Roberts. He said they were dressed in black suits with thin black ties, "just like the guys in Men in Black."
He had dates and times and places, things he had signed and sent back in order to receive the book. The tale involved his twin brother, who allegedly requested the book for him at UMass Amherst; his uncle, a former FBI attorney who took care of all the paperwork; and his parents, who signed those confidentiality agreements.
But by now, the story had too many holes. Every time there was a fact to be had that would verify the story -- providing a copy of the confidentiality agreements the student and agent signed, for example -- there would be a convenient excuse. The uncle took all the documents home to Puerto Rico, he said.
What was the address of the Homeland Security building in Boston where he and his uncle visited the agency and actually received a copy of the book? It was a brick building, he said, but he couldn't remember where it was, or what was around it.
He said he met a former professor at the mysterious Homeland Security building who had requested a book on bomb-making, along with two Ph.D. students and a one pursuing a master's degree who had also been stopped from accessing books. The student couldn't remember their names, but the former professor had appeared on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News recently, he said.
The former professor's appearance on The O'Reilly Factor did not check out.
Other proof was sought.
Were there any copies of the inter-library loan request? No.
Did the agents leave their cards, or any paperwork at your home? No.
His brother, a student at Amherst, told Dr. Williams that he had never made the inter-library loan request on behalf of his brother.
While The Standard-Times had tape recorded the entire tale on Thursday, the reporter could not reach the student for comment after he admitted making up the story. Phone calls and a note on the door were not returned.
At the request of the two professors and the university, The Standard-Times has agreed to withhold his name.
During the whole episode, the professors said that while they wanted to protect the student from the media that were flooding their voice mails and e-mail boxes seeking comment and information, they also wanted to know: Was the story true?
"I grew skeptical of this story, as did Bob, considering the ramifications," Dr. Williams said yesterday. "I spent the last five days avoiding work, and the international media, and rest, trying to get names and dates and facts. My investigation eventually took me to his house, where I began to investigate family matters. I eventually found out the whole thing had been invented, and I'm happy to report that it's safe to borrow books."
Dr. Williams said he does not regret bringing the story to light, but that now the issue can be put to rest.
"I wasn't involved in some partisan struggle to embarrass the Bush administration, I just wanted the truth," he said.
Dr. Pontbriand said the entire episode has been "an incredible experience and exposure for something a student had said." He said all along, his only desire had been to "get to the bottom of it and get the truth of the matter."
"When it blew up into an international story, our only desire was to interview this student and get to the truth. We did not want from the outset to declare the student a liar, but we wanted to check out his story," he said. "It was a disastrous thing for him to do. He needs attention, he needs care. I feel for the kid. We have great concern for this student's health and welfare."
Mr. Hoey, the university spokesman, said the university had been unable to substantiate any of the facts of the story since it first was reported in The Standard-Times on Dec. 17.
As to any possible repercussions against the student, Mr. Hoey said, "We consider this to be an issue to be handled faculty member to student. We wouldn't discuss publicly any other action. Student discipline is a private matter."
Dr. Williams said the whole affair has had one bright point: The question of whether it is safe for students to do research has been answered.
"I can now tell my students that it is safe to do research without being monitored," he said. "With that hanging in the air like before, I couldn't say that to them."
The student's motivation remains a mystery, but in the interview on Thursday, he provided a glimpse.
"When I came back, like wow, there's this circus coming on. I saw my cell phone, and I see like, wow, I have something like 75 messages and like something like 87 missed calls," he said. "Wow, I was popular. I usually get one or probably two a week and that's about it, and I usually pick them up."
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Tom Harkin was in the septic tank cleaning business before he entered politics.
LOL...still is!
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All the voters of the Massachusetts apparently need to know is his name is Kennedy - at least a substantial number of them.
I'm surprised they haven't petitioned the Pope to have John, Bobby, Rose, And the Senior Kennedy Patriarch - the Boorleger - declared saints.
probably said this to get off the hook for a deadline in the class. :')
Thanks hsalaw and USNBandit.
The disgusting, murderous pig is the perfect Senator for the simpletons who keep re-electing him.
Sorry to disagree with your interpretation, but unless Communist Manifesto is italicized, it's a generic phrase, not a specific book. It's a manifesto, it's communist, and it's by Mao.
What, pray tell, is the name of "the student"?
The little creep should be outed for one and all to recognize him as a liar.
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What's the difference between a stream and a queue? They both have the concept of an ordered set of elements, but tend to have different implementations and a different vocabulary of 'insert'/'extract' (streams) vs. 'enqueue'/'dequeue' (queue). Are these interchangable? Do they suggest different concepts or patterns? If so, what are the differences?
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A stream is not really a data structure as such (conceptually), but is a sequence of digitally encoded coherent signals (packets of data or data packets) used to transmit or receive information". So basically a sequence of data.
A queue is a simple FIFO mechanism allowing you to add items to the back of the queue or take from the front.
Streams always have a source, e.g. a file, network location, etc. A Queue does not inherently contain any data.
So essentially they are quite different in concept and as Mason pointed out, they are used differently.
In my experience, a stream is a sequence of bytes that are produced/consumed at rate often determined by data within the stream. For example, an MPEG data stream will have frame headers which describe what the next sequence of bytes does and how many need to be consumed. Binary serialisation of a document would be similar. It is not always self-describing : writing to STDOUT can be done in a stream-wise manner but it may be humanly-readable/non-parseable data.
Conversely, a queue is usually of a well-known type of object (or interface-supporting objects) that are consumed in their entirety. An example might be a queue of database jobs that are processed by a number of database workers.
The basic difference is in the way they're used. In a stream, you usually only use one side of the operation: you open a stream to read, or write, but not both. Whereas with a queue, you're putting items on and taking them off.
Also, queues are very strict about the order in which you put things on and take them off, while streams often (but not always) support a
A difference between a stream and a queue is the way data rate is controlled:
With that perspective, character streams such as Unix pipes would not qualify as streams but as queues.
In functional programming languages (e.g. Scala), and maybe other languages as well, streams are really more like functional lists and they are queues. I should note, however, queues can actually be implemented using a pair of lists. In Scala and probably elsewhere, a Stream is just a lazy List - more specifically, the tail of the list is a
Functional streams can share some similarity with queues, as opposed to, lists, in that you can use them in a way that you don't keep a reference to the head of the stream - but you have to be careful: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5159356/3096687. This is somewhat analogous to a dequeue call to a queue (although in the case of a stream, you do so implicitly: http://daily-scala.blogspot.com/2010/01/streams-2-stream-construction.html).
If we think more visually about how the words are commonly used, we can avoid the clutter of specific uses by particular languages and implementations, so that these terms can actually mean something:
That is the intention of these terms. They are metaphors. (like everything else) (Shhh! you'll ruin the story!)


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I kinda know it(thanks to Wikipedia), but I'd like to know if there's a (text)book that would explain it to me. ADDED: I'd rather prefer to see the theory of modular forms developed from the more abstract point of view. I mean, I'm working them already from the elementary textbook of Apostol, after skipping through Koblitz's book and a chapter in Serre's "Arithmetics," but I would like to get more motivation as to how they are connected with more general, hardcore stuff. By this point of time, I have kinda satisfied my initial desire to learn about curves that are also tori(OMG! how can a curve be also a torus?)
A lot of people learned this material from Katz's article $p$-adic properties of modular forms and modular schemes (especially the material at the beginning of the article), in Lecture Notes in Math 350. This article presumes familiarity with algebraic geometry in the language of schemes, though.
If you want material that is more advanced than Serre's course in arithmetic, but is not as advanced as Katz's article, you could try reading the various survey papers of Ogg from the early 70s (easily found on MathSciNet). In these articles he explains how modular curves parameterize elliptic curves with certain kinds of prescribed torsion data, and in particular formulates his famous conjecture, proved by Mazur not long thereafter, to the effect that the only possible orders of a torsion point on an elliptic curve over $\mathbb Q$ are $1,\ldots,10,$ and $12$.
Another good thing to read is this expository article of Tom Weston, in which he gives explicit descriptions of the modular curves $X_0(11)$ and $X_1(11)$, explains their moduli-theoretic interpretation, uses modular forms to find explicit equations for them, and so on. It would serve as an excellent complement to Ogg's articles.
If you want to go further than what is to be found in these expository articles, the natural next steps will be to study Silverman's two books on elliptic curves, and to learn more algebraic geometry (so as to be able to read Katz's article, or analogous articles).


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With an inflated "fat cat" figure, a sound system, banners, and signs, about 50 carpenters protested outside the Convention Center on Friday afternoon, pressing the state authority that runs the venue to let them back in.
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In recent years we've witnessed a phenomenon of Startups Accelerators popping up in enormous numbers all around the world. Entrepreneurs looking for an accelerator to join immediately encounter endless offers with seemingly similar offers. In this post I'd like to discuss the different offers of accelerators and their fit to certain types of entrepreneurs and startups. Let me start with a few words about accelerators in general and how they can help startups: Startups Accelerator is a few-month program (usually 3-4, but some are longer) that help startups develop their business network, market understanding and product offering. Some of them offer a small amount of money ($20K-$80K) too. Most of the accelerators offer office space to work from and additional services that a startup typically needs when it starts – legal, accounting, banking, bookkeeping, etc.
One of the most important values that accelerators offer are mentors – these are veteran people who "made it" in the past and are now helping the companies they mentor with their experience and business connections. The value of the mentors is a direct derivative of who they are (how senior and experienced they are) and how much time they can devote to the startups they mentor (those guys are usually very busy people…).
Assuming that the accelerators' values are pretty obvious and clear, I'd like to touch on three main points that entrepreneurs should take into account when choosing an accelerator:
There are many other parameters to be taken into account – the amount of money a company gets when it enters an accelerator, what are the terms of this investment, the geographic location of the accelerator in the world, its brand-name, the network it represents and more. Our own accelerator program in Israel, the Windows Azure Accelerator, opened its gates in April 2012. The first batch of 11 companies graduated in September and so far have enjoyed very strong results. Only 4 months post-graduation 82% of the companies had raised or were holding term-sheets with an average sum of more than $800K. Graduating startups felt they got great value from the program and actively helped us reach out to the second batch of startups that are now completing the program and graduating next week. Our 100+ mentors take an active part in this effort and have a big part in the program's success.
These days we're gearing up for the opening of our 3rd class due to begin this coming July. Building an accelerator program from scratch has been a learning experience for us all – staff, mentors and startups - and as we continue to improve and enhance our program, we're sure this next round will be even better than before.
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If you see examples of campaign dirty tricks like robo calls that tell you Election Day has been moved to late December this year and the like, the folks at the Center for Public Integrity want to know about it.
They've just placed some tools on their website to police the mid-term election campaign and on Election Day through crowdsourcing.
But it's not just dirty tricks; they're also trying to better track the money flood flowing into campaigns as a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.
Here's how they explain it:
The Supreme Court's ruling in the Citizens United case opened the floodgates for corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money trying to influence the midterm congressional elections in November. Campaign reporters Josh Israel, Aaron Mehta, and Peter Stone, with the help of the Sunlight Foundation's Campaign Ad Monitor, are mobilizing the Center's supporters to detect in real time examples of political dirty tricks, corporate ads, persuasive "push" polls, pre-recorded phone messages — "robo calls," and efforts to discourage voters from showing up at the polls.
It's a great idea. Makes me wish I had thought of it. Here are: the link to report political ads paid for by corporations or unions; the link to provide info on suspicious direct mail and robocalls, and the link to report a suspicious survey or voter intimidation.
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It is an old debate, but one worth revisiting at Apple. Does hiring the best employees result in becoming politically incorrect? And if so, will Apple sacrifice political expediency for the best employees? It does not necessarily have to be a false argument, as Apple could, theoretically achieve both, which is what Apple appears to be striving for.
Market dynamics dictate that companies should hire the best employees it can, in order to maintain and achieve a competitive edge over its competition. If a company hired a majority of Japanese, Russians, Hindus, or Latinos, it makes no difference to the corporation, so long as those people are most qualified to do the job. However, in today's society, if a company practices such policies — hiring the best of the best — and the results of those hired does not match the race or gender (and perhaps soon religious) demographics of the country, these companies are increasingly coming under political fire that the company may be racist or bigoted. Apple is in such a position of prominence, it is rapidly becoming a target for such scrutiny.
Apple reveals their quarterly and year-end financials a week from today, Tuesday, October 27, after the closing bell. Apple's financial audio call can be listened to live, starting at 2:00 p.m. PT here.
Wall Street consensus expectations for Apple's fourth quarter are as follows:
Stocks across the globe have been on a recent downward slide. China twice devaluated their currency last week, hitting companies like Apple hard with worries their products would no long be affordable to the Chinese consumer. This morning the DOW Industrial Average started with a 1,000 point plunge, and AAPL sank to $94.05 a share at the opening bell, leading the massive fear-based sell off. Then Apple CEO, Tim Cook, did something unheard of for the Cupertino-based company.
Cook emailed CNBC's Jim Cramer stating the following: "Jim, As you know we don't give mid-quarter updates and we rarely comment on moves in Apple stock. But I know your question is on the minds of many investors."
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Wall Street to Apple: It isn't how well you are doing, it's how well you are doing compared to our fantasy world
You can forget yesterday's record shattering numbers Apple CEO, Tim Cook, proudly revealed for Apple's 3rd quarter of 2015. Ignore the fact that iPhone sales grew 35% year-over-year, or that Apple now has over $200 billion in cash for the first time in history. This is all irrelevant. None of this matters. Why? Because analysts guessed that Apple would sell between 50 - 55 million iPhones in the quarter, when in reality Apple only sold a record breaking 47.53 million iPhones. Apple did not achieve the conjured up sales figures the "experts" spewed forth, and therefore the result was Apple's stock price must be punished. No offense to the political naive who do not understand history, but in the investment world, this makes about as much sense as, say, cutting a nuclear deal with Iran trusting they will do the right thing. The sad reality is, this vapid illogic is how the stock market largely operates each and every day. Companies stocks rise when they beat the expert guesstimates. Stocks prices fall when companies do not meet the expert expectations. It does not matter how the company actually preformed. It is all about the experts guessing game. Reason and logic need not apply.
Financial reports and comments on them are one thing, but getting those little morsels of coded information from Tim Cook or Luca Maestri are quite another. Today at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Apple will be holding their Q3 2015 financial conference call with a host of financial analysts and investment researchers. Apple's financial statement, released at roughly 1:10 p.m. Pacific, should be fairly pedestrian. Financial analysts are anticipating 50-55 million iPhones sold, earnings at the higher end of Apple's revenue guidance of $48 billion, all while keeping a keen eye for any Apple Watch sales information. But beyond the expected is where questions from the likes of Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster or UBS's Steve Milunovich come forth precious nuggets of Apple's future.
There are three major areas of commentary I'm looking for during the Q3 call. The first is HomeKit. It was a no-show at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June. The likely reason for the omission was due to the second area of interest, Apple TV. Both topics go hand-in-hand, as it is highly rumored that the next generation Apple TV will be, amongst other things, Apple's home automation hub, requiring HomeKit specific tools. Cook will be asked about Apple TV. The question is, will he deliver any hints as to what may be coming, or how current Apple TV sales have been since the $30 price drop earlier in the year (now only $69)?
Apple's stock has been stuck at the $120-130/share range for the past several months. It's peak was $134.45 back in February. But since that time the stock has been relatively flat when compared to the previous year of continual growth.
If you've ever wondered how Apple stacks up financially in relation to software giant Microsoft, perhaps your perspective should be flipped. It is Microsoft that must be viewed in relation to Apple's success. During the last quarter Apple amassed an additional $32.7 billion in net income and cash, while Microsoft's total revenue for the quarter stalled at $21.7 billion, up only 6% YOY. This meager growth barely tracks above inflation, and is not keeping pace with internal cost increases. The downward trend for Microsoft came in their net income, which saw a 5% decline in the face of larger revenues, a seriously dangerous equation. Microsoft blamed the strong US dollar for the fall, but Apple had no need for such excuses during their quarterly report. Apple's YOY revenues grew 27%, while driving larger gross margins and a 30% rise in net income. The two companies couldn't be on more different paths.
Apple's fiscal second quarter iPhone sales were simply amazing, but the Cupertino company is showcasing the value in diversity more so than any of its competition. Microsoft is simply a decades old franchise, one-hundred-percent dependent on Windows. Google just showed how unsuccessful it is outside of anything but search. Apple's model of software coupled with various hardware businesses can withstand blows, and expand in ways that continue to defy the odds — and its detractors — alike.
Microsoft, the once mighty and feared software giant, is only a footnote outside of Windows sales. Office is the monster of business workflow, but without Windows and the forced Office bundles, who would value Word or Powerpoint over other solutions available today? Everything Microsoft had, has, and will have, revolves around Windows nothing more. Bing, Xbox and Windows Phone are all long-term financial nightmares for the Redmond, WA techno-giant.
Tim Cook has lead and experienced a wave of success at Apple. The result? Suddenly everyone wants part of the action. Cook is now being lectured by kooky numb-nuts with money and platforms on how to run Apple. Clearly, these people on the outside, who have done nothing to make Apple successful, know what is better for Apple than those leading it to record setting success.


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Terrorism is considered the ultimate "weapon of the weak". Groups that could not possibly succeed using conventional tactics on the battlefield employ unconventional means to strike terror behind the battle lines. Increasingly, however, the "weakest" members of society, notably women and children, have been drawn into the fray as operatives. Once an occasional occurrence, the use of women is growing at an alarming rate. Using female recruits provides the terrorist organizations with a comparative advantage, particularly the element of surprise. At the same time, this strategy damages the psychological well being and morale of the soldiers opposing them. Soldiers have been trained to protect the civilian population. US Army doctrine specifies that, "preserving noncombatant lives and dignity is central to mission accomplishment in counterinsurgency" (Lt. Col. Perez in The embedded morality in FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency, Military Review, 32) The requirement to shoot people that soldiers are ordinarily trained to protect can have deep psychological impact disproportionate to killing adult men. This often results in higher levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and battle fatigue. The upsurge in female suicide bombers has occurred across a variety of nationalistic and secular groups but has also spread to the conservative religious terror networks. This article assesses the growing phenomenon of female terrorists and looks at the different roles that women play in terrorist organizations. It also analyzes the different mechanisms for women's mobilization and briefly discusses whether women are coerced or are willing participants in terrorist violence.
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Adobe Photoshop is a program that is willing to be just as complex and advanced as you want it to be. Newcomers are able to quickly and easily touch-up, delete red eye, and add glowing light-sabers to any photo they choose—and all without breaking a (virtual) sweat. But the more you learn about the photo editing software, the more you begin to notice that all of those little icons and options sitting unassumingly over to the side actually open up into countless digital rabbit-holes that you can slide down into to discover an entire wonderland of possibilities. Here are five things you might not have known were possible.
1. Removing people/things.
Maybe you've got a great photo of you from your cousin's wedding last year. You're in shape, your clothes are perfect, and best of all, your smile looks charmingly unforced. Unfortunately, your date looks like a train wreck. Well, no worries, because you can still show off this stunning photograph of yourself without having to explain what you were doing eating cake next to a baboon. There are multiple tools available on Photoshop that let you delete objects from the image without having to whip out the scissors. The clone stamp tool, for example, lets you use the surrounding area to realistically cover up anything that you might not want in your picture—even people.
2. Add shadows.
One of the earliest forms of photo manipulation is collage. Seriously, people have been Frankensteining together pictures for hundreds of years (just ask Abraham Lincoln). It doesn't take much effort or Photoshop know-how to figure out how to copy and paste one image into another. However, once your new image is in place, you might notice that it tends to stand out from the background. No one is going to believe that you got into a fist fight with William Shatner if your face looks like a cardboard cutout floating against his right hook. Well, one way to give your digital lie credibility is to add realistic shadows. This can be done by adding lens flares, copying layers, and doing a host of other amazing, yet not-too complex, actions.
3. Blur faces (or anything else).
So, you've built a digital masterpiece of photo manipulation. But before you send it off into the ether of the Internet, you wonder how ethical it is to include all those unwilling bystanders in a picture that's been so far removed from reality. Well, take a cue from the FBI and give those faces the "witness protection" treatment. Blurring faces (or license plates, or pretty much anything that shouldn't end up in the final image) is actually really easy. All it involves is a little area selection and a click or two on the filter option. There. Identities are safe, and you're ready to shock the world.
4. Isolate colors.
It's a common misconception in photography that black-and-white photos are somehow artsy. That's OK. If draining the color from an image manages to stir your emotions and set fire to your soul, then good for you. It's easy enough to accomplish in Photoshop. Just de-saturate the entire image. Bam! Monochromatic. However, for much cooler images you can choose to spare a single area of the picture from decolorization. Let's say your subject is holding a rose (again, this does not make it automatically artistic). By using duplicate layers and layer masks, one can simply "brush" color back onto an area, resulting in an eye-popping contrast that will be sure to turn heads.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -Wing Cmdr. Paddy O'Kennedy said Tuesday the MV EMS River was seized approximately 175 miles (280 kilometers) northeast of the port of Salalah, Oman.
The general cargo ship has a crew of one Romanian and seven
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Although we're in the midst of the Dogs Days of Summer, news in the business of government has not stopped. There are several stories worth keeping an eye on.
All the major media outlets that cover government carried the story that Congressman John Boehner and Senator Harry Reid were able to reach a six month funding agreement which will avoid a shut down.
Another very important story is focusing on the Lieberman-Collins Cyber Security Bill. Federal Computer Week reports that the bill's 70 plus addendums includes one that enforces the Data Center Consolidation Initiative.
Also relating to the topic of budgets, FCW also has an interesting story on how OMB is prepping agencies for the ever-looming sequestration which Congress has yet to resolve.
Finally, the recent edition of What's Brewin running on Nextgov.com and written by my friend Bob Brewin, is a must-read. It deals will the importance of …parking lot attendants. Who would even question their importance?
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The PC maker lands its storage consolation prize after its failed bid for 3Par, in which it was outbid by Hewlett-Packard.
A recent flurry of storage acquisitions (consuming 3PAR, Isilon, Compellent, and others) leaves enterprises few remaining alternatives to the largest vendors.
With the appointment of David Scott, HP strengthens the management bench for its storage unit as it lookos to sell high-end 3Par systems throughout its channel.
HP will pay a decent premium for the security software company, the Journal reports, but nothing 3Par-like.
With Dell's acquisition of 3Par, David Scott ends an epic journey as 3PAR's CEO. What else does Dell/3PAR mean for 3Par, Dell, EMC, and the storage industry?
Ever faster, ever higher come the acquisition offers for storage specialist 3Par, which both Dell and HP are seeking to help boost their cloud-computing lineups.
In midst of bidding war with Dell to acquire storage vendor 3Par, HP receives authorization from its board to repurchase up to $10 billion of its own shares as it sees opportunities.
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Safety Valves Won't Make Us Safer
In a steam system, safety valves are useful, but in a cap & trade system, not so much.
A safety valve is "a possible addition to a cap-and-trade system of emissions regulation whereby the authority offers to sell permits in unlimited amount at a pre-set price. In this way the cost of meeting the cap can be limited."
Both WRI and MIT have excellent discussions of safety valves, identifying three main problems.
First, if the safety valve price is too low, we won't get the technologies and policies needed to avoid catastrophic warming. To stabilize below 500 ppm, you need a carbon dioxide price of $40/ton, according to a recent McKinsey study. That would incentivize such key strategies as carbon capture and storage and avoided deforestation. But safety valve proponents such as the National Commission on Energy Policy and Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) have proposed a starting safety valve that is only $10/ton — far too low.
Second, "it will interfere with the development of systems of international emissions trade," making it difficult for the United States to participate in a global carbon trading regime (MIT, pp. 11-12).
Finally, "the most problematic aspect of establishing price caps is that they constrain the cost of compliance by voiding the environmental outcome desired" (WRI). They render targets meaningless.
At the Thursday Senate EPW hearing on cap & trade, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I/D-CT) had an illuminating discussion with some of the witnesses about safety valves starting at 2:35:00 (video here).
Lieberman cites Sen. John Warner (R-VA) as saying the safety valve "ought not be too easy an offramp." So Lieberman used the term, "emergency offramp."
NRDC's David Hawkins offered up permit banking and borrowing (which he called a "lane change") as an alternative to the offramp — and the possibility of Congress making adjustments in the trading system, as it has done with the Clean Air Act. [Everything you could possibly want to know about permit banking is here.]
Lieberman said banking and borrowing will be in the bill, and, more importantly, said he and Warner will embrace the United States Climate Action Partnership's goal of a 60% to 80% emissions cut from current levels by 2050 — a goal that is vital to avoiding catastrophic warming. Yet that goal essentially renders the safety valve discussion moot, which leads to my bottom line:
If you want to get a 60% to 80% greenhouse gas cut in 43 years, you just can't waste time with safety valves (Duke CEO Jim Rogers basically makes the same point at 2:46).
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Question: If safety-valves are a round-about way of setting the carbon price through policy, why not just implement a much more expedient carbon tax?
Presumably the reason not to implement a carbon tax is the same as it's always been: political pressure. In cap-and-trade congress can give away permits to established interests while that's much more difficult under a carbon tax so powerful industries resist.
As far as borrowing carbon credits I would be greatly worried about political interference. Congress can cause the market to collapse or boom at any time by changing the number of permits it plans to release and under a cap and trade congress needs to do this kind of adjusting.


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