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C. Everett Koop, who as surgeon general during the Reagan administration won the admiration of conservatives for his views on abortion, the admiration of liberals for his views on AIDS, and the admiration of the public at large for his unwillingness to put political considerations ahead of public health concerns, died Monday in Hanover, N.H. He was 96.
His death was announced by the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth College, which did not reveal a cause.
Dr. Koop was among the most influential of surgeons general in the nation's history and assumed a high-profile from the moment he took office, in 1982. Commonly referred to as "America's family doctor," he was dubbed by Business Week magazine "America's real-life Marcus Welby M.D." Such titles indicate the degree of trust and respect he earned during his tenure as surgeon general, leaving the post in 1989.
His combination of personal candor, professional commitment, and medical competence made him something like a folk hero. At least Homer Simpson thought so. On a 1993 episode of "The Simpsons," he sang, "For all the latest medical poop/Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop/Poo poo pa-doop."
Further contributing to Dr. Koop's persona was his appearance. He resembled an Old Testament patriarch, with his booming voice and Amish-style whiskers (he grew the beard in middle age to conceal a double chin). He also made a point of wearing the uniform of the public health service (the surgeon general bears a rank equivalent to that of a navy vice admiral), further accentuating his already-commanding bearing. Dr. Koop perfectly fit the bill for an office charged by law "to promote and assure the highest level of health attainable for every individual and family in America."
An only child, Charles Everett Koop was born on Oct. 14, 1916, in Brooklyn, N.Y. His parents were John Everett Koop, a banker, and Helen (Apel) Koop, a housewife.
"I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a doctor," he wrote in his autobiography. "I wanted to be a surgeon. The idea of using my mind, then my hands, to heal someone simply fascinated me." Dr. Koop took this ambition so seriously he began to use scissors left handed (he was right handed) and to tie knots with one hand as preparation for the operating room.
Intellectually precocious, he entered Dartmouth at 16. While there, he picked up his lifelong nickname, "Chick." More important, he also met a Vassar student named Elizabeth Flanagan. They wed during Dr. Koop's first year at Cornell Medical School.
Dr. Koop did his internship at Pennsylvania Hospital, in Philadelphia, and was a surgical fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. At the suggestion of a superior there, he switched to the then-nascent field of pediatric surgery, doing a year's training at Boston Children's Hospital.
He returned to Philadelphia to become surgeon-in-chief at Children's Hospital. Only the seventh pediatric surgeon in the country, Dr. Koop pioneered the field. He established America's first neonatal intensive care unit and was a founder of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery. He later estimated he operated on 17,000 inguinal hernias and 7,000 undescended testicles during his 35 years as a pediatric surgeon, not to mention numerous other procedures, such as three successful separations of Siamese twins. He also taught at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
A few years after taking up pediatric surgery, Dr. Koop found the somewhat pro forma religiosity of his youth transformed into a fervent faith. "From then on," he said in a 1982 Saturday Evening Post interview, "there was never any question: I knew I was to practice my Christianity through my surgery."
The most-publicized form Dr. Koop's marriage of religion and medicine took was a fierce opposition to abortion. In 1976, he published "The Right to Live, The Right to Die," a critique of abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide. Three years later, he collaborated with the theologian Francis Schaeffer on a book and film, "Whatever Happened to the Human Race?" Dr. Koop warned against "a progression of thinking in this country from liberalized abortion to infanticide to passive euthanasia to active euthanasia, indeed to the very beginnings of the political climate that led to Auschwitz, Dachau and Belsen."
Dr. Koop's views on abortion drew the attention of the incoming Reagan administration. As it happened, he was about to reach retirement age, giving the idea of becoming surgeon general further appeal. "After thirty-five years at Children's Hospital espousing the cause of the disenfranchised and fighting for a fairer deal for children," he recalled, "I wanted to enter a larger arena and fight on behalf of a broader constituency."
The news of Dr. Koop's nomination created a minor political firestorm, which delayed his final confirmation for eight months. "Dr. Unqualified" a New York Times editorial called him, which a columnist preferred "Dr. Kook." Representative Henry Waxman, Democrat of California, said, "Dr. Koop scares me. He is a man of tremendous intolerance."
One man's intolerance is another's conviction — and soon enough Waxman found that on many issues Dr. Koop shared his. The "Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health," in 1982, called for a smoke-free America by 2000 and pulled no punches in criticizing tobacco use and the tobacco industry.
Dr. Koop also spoke out against excessive alcohol use and unhealthy eating habits. But it was his response to AIDS that was the watershed event in his tenure.
"If ever there was a disease made for a surgeon general," he later recalled, "it was AIDS." A new and growing danger to public health, the disease was also a highly charged political issue because of its prevalence among homosexual men. AIDS activists accused the Reagan administration of ignoring the disease.
In 1986, President Reagan requested that Dr. Koop prepare a report. Its frank, even-handed treatment of the disease drew criticism from the right, especially over its call for the use of condoms and educating children about the disease. When the conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly charged Dr. Koop with advocating "teaching sodomy to third graders," he replied, "I'm not surgeon general to make Phyllis Schlafly happy. I'm surgeon general to save lives."
Some 20 million copies of "The Surgeon General's Report on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome" were published. After its issue, David Baltimore, the Nobel Prize-winning chairman of the National Academy of Sciences task force on AIDS, called Dr. Koop "a hero, the one person in the administration who attempted to act positively and decisively."
Although Dr. Koop unsuccessfully campaigned to be appointed secretary of Health and Human Services under George H.W. Bush, he did not surrender his high profile once his second four-year term ended. He wrote his memoirs, "Koop" (1991), and hosted a five-part NBC television series on health and a series of health-related videos for Time Inc.
He founded the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth, in 1992.
Yet Dr. Koop's once-pristine image began showing some tarnish. There were accusations of conflict of interest when it was learned that several highly publicized stands on medical issues might be seen to benefit companies that had contributed to the Koop Institute. A website he founded, drkoop.com was labeled "drkoop.con" by one critic as its stock spiked during the dot.com fever of the late 1990s before plummeting. The website's firm declared bankruptcy in 2001. The New York Times revealed that Dr. Koop received a commission on some products ordered through the site.
Dr. Koop, whose holdings in the company were at one point worth $56 million, dismissed all accusations of financial self-interest. He described the site as a means to further health and medical awareness. Pointing out he had once rejected $1 million to endorse a breakfast cereal, he told the Washington Post in 2000, "If I had a price [for selling out], I'd be a billionaire."
In 1995, Dr. Koop was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.Mark Feeney can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Someone else who does homemade cinnamon rolls! That's the Christmas staple for breakfast.......
Christmas Eve is equally precious to Christmas for us. On the 23rd, I make a breakfast casserole, divided in half. Half is baked on Christmas Eve morning for our breakfast, and the other half on Christmas Day. That means we only have to make coffee and get out the bread we have with it and breakfast is done with a minimum of fuss.
It is savory. You can use any type of breakfast meat you like, cooked. You add beaten eggs and dairy. I like to use sautéed onion and sweet peppers, but anything can work. You can use dried bread cubes, cooked and shredded or cubed potatoes or cooked grits or polenta as a starch component. I put cheese in the casserole and on top as well. Ratios for a 13 x 9" casserole dish1 lb meat of choice, cooked (I have used bulk sausage, bacon, ham or smoked sausage)12 eggs, beaten until combined1/2 cup milkVegetables, herbs and seasonings of choice6 cups of bread cubes, cooked potatoes, grits or polenta2 cups of cheese (I like reduced fat sharp cheddar)Layer starch component, vegetables, half of the cheese, seasonings and meat in greased dish. Mix eggs and milk together, and pour over the other ingredients in the dish. Top with remaining cheese.It can rest in the refrigerator up to two days before baking. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes, check halfway through to see if you need to add foil to prevent over browning.
Christmas I always make my bacon-cheddar scone
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Dave Durenberger to present McCarthy Lecture Sept. 8
August 13, 2014
Dave Durenberger spent 17 years representing Minnesota on the floor of the U.S. Senate, becoming the only Republican senator from Minnesota elected to three terms in office.
But for as much time as he spent in Washington, D.C., he might have spent even more time at Saint John's University.
Durenberger, a 1955 graduate of Saint John's, will present the eighth annual Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8, at the Stephen B. Humphrey Theater, SJU. The event will be moderated by Gary Eichten '69, Minnesota Public Radio news editor-at-large and former host of the "Midday" show.
The event is free, although tickets are needed for admission. Tickets can be acquired at the Benedicta Arts Center box office at the College of Saint Benedict.
The lecture is sponsored by the Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement at Saint John's University, with additional support from the Saint John's University Chair in Critical Thinking, serving the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University.
Dave Durenberger is the son of longtime SJU athletic director George Durenberger '28, who guided Johnnie athletics from 1931 until his retirement in 1972. Dave Durenberger was born in 1934, and graduated from Saint John's Preparatory School in 1951 before enrolling at SJU.
During his time at SJU, Dave Durenberger was involved in the Army ROTC program, becoming the program's first cadet battalion commander and the top honor cadet.
A law school graduate of the University of Minnesota, Durenberger practiced law with Harold LeVander in South St. Paul, Minnesota. When LeVander was elected governor of Minnesota in 1966, Durenberger became his chief of staff.
He worked in the private sector from 1971-78 before returning to politics. Hubert Humphrey had won re-election to the Senate in 1976, but passed away in January 1978. Humphrey's wife, Muriel, was appointed to the Senate, but was not a candidate to complete her husband's unexpired term when a special election was set in November 1978.
During what state Democrats would soon call the "Minnesota Massacre," Durenberger defeated businessman Bob Short to help the Republicans win the top three elected positions in Minnesota (Al Quie won the governorship, and Rudy Boschwitz won the other senatorial seat).
Durenberger also won re-election bids against Mark Dayton in 1982 and Skip Humphrey - Hubert's son - in 1988. He did not run for re-election in 1994.
While in the Senate, Durenberger served as chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence and chair of the Health Subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee, which led to his leadership role in national health reform.
Following his career in the Senate, Durenberger served as a senior health policy fellow at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, from 1998-2014. He was also named by then-Gov. Tim Pawlenty to lead a reform-minded Minnesota Citizens Forum on health care costs.
In a 2005 interview, Durenberger said he was no longer a supporter of the Republican Party and was not a supporter of the Democratic Party. In 2010, Durenberger endorsed Independence Party member Tom Horner, his former chief of staff, for governor of Minnesota.
The Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture was established in January 2006. McCarthy spent seven years as a student at Saint John's Preparatory School and University, and nearly one year as a member of the Benedictine community of Saint John's Abbey.
The lecture series carries on McCarthy's deep commitment to the ideals and principles of democratic self-government. It seeks to inspire a new generation of young people to pursue fresh ideas, to challenge the status quo, to effect positive change in their communities.
Past lecturers in the series have included newspaper columnist, author and commentator E.J. Dionne (2007); civil rights leader Julian Bond (2008); current Secretary of Defense and former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (2009); Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar (2010); columnist and political analyst Mark Shields (2011); journalist Tom Brokaw (2012); and political commentator Cokie Roberts (2013).


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Within the scope of its 10th year, Istanbul Modern presents Plurivocality, an exhibition investigating the interrelations between auditory and visual arts through a selection of contemporary artwork in Turkey. Plurivocality opens up a field of inquiry that has never been explored by an exhibition before in Turkey. It also serves as a resource for understanding the cultural and sociopolitical role sound and music play in Turkey and the influence of various trends in music on the contemporary art practices.
The show features works by artists who treat the visual and the auditory not as distinct disciplines, but rather as two fields that work in tandem. The paintings, sculptures, videos and installations in the exhibition render sound / music visually as a theme, concept and issue. They use different forms of sound and pieces of music as metaphors, cultural references and means of expression.
A research area at the entrance of the exhibition hall, 'Repertoire' explores the intersections between music and the visual arts in Turkey throughout its history. Mapping the outcomes of the collaborations between prominent actors of both disciplines, 'Repertoire' is an initiative that aims to examine Turkey's sociocultural history from the late Ottoman era to the 1980s via its reflections in the visual arts and music.
ArtistsNevin Aladağ, Fikret Atay, Semiha Berksoy, Hussein Chalayan, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Burhan Doğancay, Cevdet Erek, Borga Kantürk, Servet Kocyiğit, Füsun Onur, Ferhat Özgür, Sarkis, Erinc Seymen, Merve Sendil, Hale Tenger, Vahit Tuna, :mentalKLINIK
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MARANA, Ariz. (AP) — Steve Stricker would not be surprised if the PGA Tour decides to ignore a proposed new rule banning the stroke used for long putters.
Stricker was among the players who spoke out in favour of the USGA's proposal to ban anchored strokes. But he says information over the last few months has caused most players to change their views.
Stricker is on the PGA Tour policy board, which had a conference call Monday night. While he did not reveal details of the call, he said the tour would be drafting a letter to the USGA to state its position.
The debate really doesn't get started until a 90-day comment period is over at the end of the month and the USGA decides whether to adopt the rule.


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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
Learn more about AILA's official statements on immigration issues.Read Now
AILA Doc. No. 02060641 | Dated June 6, 2002
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Thursday, June 6, 2002
CONTACT: Amanda Carufel, (202) 216-2404
Statement of the American Immigration Lawyers Association
In Opposition to the Department of Justice Registration Proposal
The American Immigration Lawyers Association strongly opposes the Department of Justice's recently announced proposal that would require fingerprinting, photographing, and registering of nationals of certain countries. This measure is a false solution to a real problem. It offers little protection against terrorism while subjecting individuals who come to this country to a lengthy and complicated procedure that will not make us safer. In fact, it will subject innocent people to arrest and deportation for failure to report on time to the authorities. It also will waste precious resources because it would be applied to people who already have been screened and determined to be admissible to the United States.
Without consulting Congress, the Department of Justice has moved ahead on this ill-conceived plan that would rely on secret criteria and racial profiling, rather than on any accurate intelligence gathered on individuals. Reports indicate that Muslim and Arab nationals are to be targeted, thus stigmatizing these nationalities and negatively stereotyping these communities here and abroad.
America certainly needs to continue efforts to enhance our security. We have come to a fork in the road; this measure leads us down the wrong path. Immigration is not the problem, terrorism is. To defeat terrorism we need to follow the path blazed by the recently enacted Enhanced Border Security and Visa Reform Act which AILA helped to develop and strongly supports, and which President Bush signed into law less than one month ago. This new law will enhance our security while recognizing that we are a nation of immigrants, with due process protections and important economic considerations that mandate the continued flow of people and goods. Without a strong economy, we will be unable to fund our security needs.
The Enhanced Border Security and Visa Reform Act offers us the right path to enhance our security by harnessing our technological and intelligence capabilities. The Justice Department's proposed rule does not. Rather than focusing on implementing a law written for the 21st century, the Justice Department is diverting valuable resources to resurrect a failed 1940s policy. It offers nationality profiling, secret criteria, unfettered discretion of government officials, data bases that will yield little useful information, an ineffective use of resources, and possible reciprocal treatment of Americans by other countries.
The Justice Department's registration proposal is fundamentally flawed. The people who mean to do us harm will not participate in it and it will divert resources away from effective efforts to the creation of a huge database of useless information within which important intelligence will remain undiscovered. This measure also will chill relationships with the very communities with whom cooperation is being sought.
We strongly urge the Administration to abandon this regulation and work with Congress in thoughtful ways to enhance our security.
Founded in 1946, AILA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that provides its Members with continuing legal education, information, and professional services. AILA advocates before Congress and the Administration and provides liaison with the INS and other government agencies in support of pro-immigration initiatives. AILA is an Affiliated Organization of the American Bar Association.
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It is not surprising that the issues of labor insurance and insurance for government employees have drawn so much attention and debate lately. These problems lay dormant for many years as fast-paced economic growth and better times made the crisis seem distant. However, with the current falling birth rates and lower pay levels, many systemic problems have begun to appear.
Although an annual pension system has been implemented, future generations will face higher insurance fees and a decrease in payments, which is in serious breach of the spirit of intergenerational justice. It is a problem that does not only exist within one insurance system — it also exists between different insurance systems. If these problems are not fixed, these systems, which are important for safeguarding economic security, will not last and social cohesion between generations will suffer.
It is unfortunate that much of the debate on the issue is populist, partly becoming ammunition for arguments between different political parties. Such a situation does nothing for clarifying the nature of the problem.
The government has said that plans will consider a multifaceted approach involving payment rates, income substitution rates, payment conditions and standards, fund management efficiency and the government's payment responsibility. While these methods will fill some of the holes in the system, they do not constitute a fresh look at the position of the labor insurance.
Labor insurance in Taiwan suffers from an incompleteness in the social security system. Social insurance is viewed as a form of benefit and this has caused the current labor insurance system to take on an aspect of social security. The general public view it as a form of benefit in their calculations. Labor insurance is clearly a social insurance, but it has taken on the function of a social security system that makes it impossible to maintain a balance of payments. These factors have made it impossible for the labor insurance system to cope. The question is whether the government, if labor insurance has indeed already taken on the function of social security, can continue to ignore the debt problem created by the labor insurance.
Insurance for government employees is plagued with the same problem.
From looking at wealthy nations around the world, it is evident that Taiwan's insurance for government employees is a "luxury" social insurance. This luxury is built on a system in which the government acts as the final line of financial backing. Improper subsidies of this kind of system have cemented the injustices within the same generation as well as between different generations.
The more than 9 million people who have labor insurance contribute to Taiwan's economic development just as much as the 500,000 covered by government employee insurance. So why do the latter receive such different treatment? Government employee insurance and labor insurance are both ways of securing one's finances in old age and there is no reason why the government should be handing out differential treatment. This is not to say that the government should take on the responsibility for paying all the hidden labor insurance debt, but rather that at this crucial point in time, the general public and the government must choose one policy.
If labor insurance and insurance for government employees and school staff are to once again become unambiguous insurance systems, rather than social welfare, the government should explain this clearly to the public and implement drastic reform to do what needs to be done to set things right.


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I have just spent > 2 hours trying to get round a system bug in Windows XP, on someone else's PC. Seems that a Microsoft update a few months ago has caused the update mechanism itself (an app called wuauclt.exe running under svcsync.exe) to choke the CPU at nearly 100% and hogging memory for hours on end (and maybe for ever). The PC was almost unusable, like taking 3-4 minutes of disk-thrashing just to open a file. Looking on the web, it seems to be a widespread and recognised problem.
Yet the web was of dubious help. Googling for like "svcsync problem" led to sites that said like :-
"You need PC Spring Clean (tm)! Solve all Windows [insert search term here] problems!!" "FREE DOWNLOAD NOW!!!" [on a big green button].
How the hell do I know this would not download Trojan malware? Such sites just do not have the ring of trusworthiness that Linux help sites do.
Or web sites that tried to sell me a "Solution" for $25 (yes $$), trying to make money out a shortcoming that should not be - no freedom of knowledge in the Windows world.
I did find Windows user forums, but they gave wildly conflicting advice, some of which was no doubt knowledgable but the majority was clearly of a pretty poor standard, with the majority of posters clearly having no qualms about spouting off about something they knew nothing about. Again, I could get no feeling of confidence that I can get from Linux forums. Perhaps if I spent more time on Windows forums I would get better feelings, but the standard of comments is still low - eventually BTW I took a solution I had seen repeated several times, but don't know if it works yet as this problem builds over time (they said).
Even trying to follow the advice was difficult because the PC was so sluggish - I had to resort to the command line just to move stuff about.
But what of Microsoft themselves? No-one in the forums could say that MS was doing anything whatever about this bug (the solutions were all home-brewed), and only few even grumbled about that fact, despite XP being meant to have support until April 2014. Crying out loud - don't MS test their own updates before releasing them?? The users seemed resigned to MS's indifference - So much for proprietory systems being "more professional" than open source. With (is it?) hundreds of millions of PCs around the world still on XP (including institutions like the NHS) why isn't the World having a riot over this? If I had to use Windows I think it would drive me crazy.
I am computer literate. What does the average person do? Oh, I know - toss the PC in a skip and buy a new one (with Windows 8 installed).
While I was still suspecting malware I downloaded a copy of AVG for Windows from their own website - it was called AVG 2014. An hour later I got a pop-up (among many other annoying ones) telling me that my copy of AVG needed updating! Don't we just love Windows!


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In a first sign of government regulation on healthcare-related mobile apps in the U.S., it was announced today that the FTC has taken action against the makers of two so-called "acne cure" apps on the basis of providing false claims and misrepresenting medical research.
The two apps — "AcneApp" and "Acne Pwner" — claimed they could cure acne by using colored lights emitted from smartphone screens. Consumers were advised to hold the display screen next to the area of skin to be treated for few minutes daily while the app was activated. According to the FTC complaint, there were approximately 3,300 downloads of AcnePwner, which was offered for 99 cents in the Android Marketplace. Ads for Acne Pwner stated, "Kill ACNE with this simple, yet powerful tool!"


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...i'm not American.
How implausible is it to imagine that a system could be set up to suck all data off every device (especially solid state storage) as it passes through airport security?
Since it's legal, why wouldn't the government want to do it? Ya know. Just in case. To protect us.
I hereby announce that all personal data on my drive is copyright me. For software not written by me, I am also copyrighting the organization of the data on my drive. Copying this information without my permission is a violation of my copyrights subject to a minimum license fee of $10,000,000 USD per item copied. There is also a viewership license with a minimum fee of $1,000,000 USD per incident (each file and each viewing constitutes a new incident).
There. Now if my laptop is ever rifled through witho
That's the problem. All people entering the USA have no protection as accorded to American citizens. You are treated as hostile unless proven otherwise. In the meantime, all rights are suspended with no expectation of being treated as a human being.
Being a foreigner, I have read numerous times of horror stories happening at the immigration. It's really discouraging to go to the USA even if you have all the best intentions to go there. Good thing I don't have any necessity to go there at this point in time.
At the end, I'm not sure it is helping thwart bad people from entering the USA.
That's the problem. All people entering the USA have no protection as accorded to American citizens. You are treated as hostile unless proven otherwise. In the meantime, all rights are suspended with no expectation of being treated as a human being.
Being a foreigner, I have read numerous times of horror stories happening at the immigration. It's really discouraging to go to the USA even if you have all the best intentions to go there.
I understand your dread of entering the U.S. (though you say you have only "read" about "horror stories" and not actually done it yourself), but this is a common misconception. The U.S. Constitution applies to every person in the country, even if they are there illegally, with some obvious exceptions, such as the right to vote.
Yes, it's true that border security will stretch those rights (I'm not saying I think that's good), but the Constitution still applies, both to citizens and non-citizens alike.
It doesn't matter whether the constitution applies in theory or not. What matters is whether it applies in practice.
Also see ACLU : Constitution Free Zone [aclu.org] and watch this [youtube.com]
Being a foreigner, I have read numerous times of horror stories happening at the immigration. It's really discouraging to go to the USA even if you have all the best intentions to go there. Good thing I don't have any necessity to go there at this point in time.
One nice thing about flying to the US, from Canada, is that US Customs has operations at major Canadian airports.
So if you're at (say) Toronto Pearson (CYYZ), you're "pre-cleared" by security and customs, and then the flight is treated as it was a domestic one. If US Customs doesn't want to let you in, you can just drive home. That doesn't work coming to the US from most other countries (though there is pre-clearance at Shannon, Ireland).
It's actually less hassle at airports than road or train crossings in
At the end of the novel Catch-22 the famous rule starts to have other formulations including 'they have the right to do to us anything we can't stop them from doing.'
Does anyone think this won't be abused?
My only quibble with Heller is that fundamentally only individuals can have rights; governments, or any collectivist formulation, have only have persuasive or coersive power.
How about the right to due process, should the government have the right to arbitrarily hand out fines or seize assets and property just because they belong to an organization or company? I think most of these rights need to be transitive, you're not getting due process until the organizations you are member of or corporations you're a shareholder of also get due process. But then again I find the civil forfeiture laws wildly unconstitutional, how can you have "The right of the people to be secure in their (...) effects against unreasonable (...) seizures" when the government can grab them on the slimmest of excuses and demand you counterprove wild speculation? So yeah we could start by restoring indiviuals' rights.
"should the government have the right"
No, only individual persons have rights. Government has no "right" to anything, not even to exist. It exists because the governed or the power-hungry created it.
Government has power. For "free" countries, theoretically the power we delegate ti. But in practice it eventually assumes the power it can get away with.
In addition, it's worth mentioning that the US currently defines its "border" as anything within 100 miles of any land or sea border, or any international airport. As a matter of standing case law, it is legal for them to grab you in, say, San Francisco, and search your laptop, cell phone, person, papers, and effects, without providing any legal justification other than "You're in a border zone".
And of course, Mr Abidor being a scholar of Islamic Studies had absolutely nothing to do with him being stopped, that was total coincidence.
And what they're looking for isn't so much evidence of criminal activity as it is dirt on people, in case they need to protect America by blackmailing people like they did in COINTELPRO.
This is untrue. The border is the border. The 100 mile "zone" is not a constitution free zone, it is not even a 4th amendment free zone, it is just that region of "extended border" where border and customs agents are allowed searches but only after meeting strict criteria (including reasonable suspicion). At the "functional border", ie, crossings and airports, is where the warrantless searches are allowed. What has happened is that some people are confusing this 100 mile extended border with the function
You know what? Even though I don't travel with my laptop, I'm thinking the same thing.
With the recent revelations of the ability to intercept hardware en route and infect the firmware with spyware, I wonder if there's a possibility that TruCrypt could be circumvented. I suppose it could, since the data must reside in RAM unencrypted for use by the processor.
I also don't know if whole-drive encryption is really necessary (why would I encrypt my system files?) or if it has an adverse effect on SSD life.
Basically, if you're targeted they have you. If you're not targeted you have a chance to cause their automated collection algorithms to have to work extra hard to collect your data, but they still have you. So Truecrypt wont help you much.
...and if you encrypt your hard disk you must be a terrorist
If you want to be safe from unreasonable searches of your personal data while crossing borders, keep no data (none!) on your computer when you cross borders. Anything you need, keep somewhere where you can download it using a memorized password once you're in a place where you feel you have some reason to assume you won't be searched again. When you need to re-cross the border, erase the data again. Don't even keep passwords on your computer. If there's no data on your computer, then they won't be in a position to ask you for your password.
Of course, the police can always stop you, and the border patrol can always demand to search your computer if they stop you within 100 miles of the border (claims the administration) so you're still not out of the woods once you're on the other side of the border, but unless they are specifically targeting you, you're unlikely to be further searched. Realistically, if they aren't targeting you they aren't going to search your devices when you cross the border either, but you never know.
Probably the most important takeaway from this story is that if you are doing anything related to Islam or the study of Islam, you should not advertise that in any way that can be found by googling you. By restraining your freedom of speech voluntarily, you can avoid being punished for thoughtcrime.
Encrypting your hard drive's contents may not be such a good idea... If they decide to search your laptop (or any other device) and it's encrypted, they'll certainly ask you to provide the password. If you don't provide the password, expect being detained for as long as the law allows them to hold you. Also, if you're a foreign national, you'll probably be denied entry.
Encrypting your hard drive's contents may not be such a good idea... If they decide to search your laptop (or any other device) and it's encrypted, they'll certainly ask you to provide the password. If you don't provide the password, expect being detained for as long as the law allows them to hold you. Also, if you're a foreign national, you'll probably be denied entry.
Don't encrypt the laptop.
Take a backup of the laptop hard drive, encrypt the backup. Upload that to an online storage service.
Wipe the free space or get a new hard drive. Install basic operating system. Take THAT through customs with you.
For 'extra points' create an online email account and populate it with some plausible emails, copy over some plausible photos, documents etc.
Once at your destination, download your encrypted backup and restore it onto your hard drive.
Don't encrypt the laptop.
Take a backup of the laptop hard drive, encrypt the backup. Upload that to an online storage service.
Wipe the free space or get a new hard drive.
Do you really actually do all that? Or is this just some weird thought experiment of yours?
Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and say uploading an entire harddrive backup (for me either 129gb/400, 885/1tb, or 2.4TB/3TB) is entirely unrealistic. Upload files you might need and grab them later..
Or just keep a second HDD with solely stuff you need that isn't sketchy.
So you get to spend some quality time with a rubber hose until you tell them your passwords?
Even if your device is encrypted, you will have to throw it away after they hand it back to you. If you boot it, you are going to be running their code and they own the machine regardless of the encryption.
I know at least one corporation that will not let its employees travel oversees with laptops.
Every time I read about a new attack on the Bill of Rights, I write to my Congressional representation. I also vote to replace my representation since clearly they aren't representing We, the People.
I'm getting tired of writing these letters, yet I'll do it again and remind my "representation" of my position. Anybody else?
I'm getting tired of writing these letters, yet I'll do it again and remind my "representation" of my position.
Unless you include a huge "donation" check in your letter . . . your "representation" won't even receive your letter. The secretary will just toss it in the trash.
Unless you include a huge "donation" check in your letter . . . your "representation" won't even receive your letter. The secretary will just toss it in the trash.
Nah, it'll get aggregated by subject matter. In the month-end statistics it'll just be another check for "concerned about border security", prompting the lawmaker to introduce a bill to *require* searches of all laptops. Mission accomplished.
This. I've gotten email responses that were the exact opposite of what I was writing about. In particular, when I wrote to my congressman against draconian copyright regimes (including my role as owner & developer of a small software business), the response was that they sympathized with my professional role, and in light of that would continue to work on strengthening copyright enforcement.
Why don't you run? Sounds like you have a better idea. Mount a grassroots campaign on teh internets on a shoestring and see how many votes you get!
I'm *trying* . See my sig
Don't think I haven't considered it.
I'm of two minds regarding politics:
(1) I'm so sick if the Washington nonsense that sometimes I wish I could just forget the whole thing, tune it out, and just go on with my life. That usually lasts two minutes, because it does, and will, affect me whether I want it to or not.
(2) actually run and bring back as much inside info as I can, to REALLY inform my employer (the CITIZENS I represent) of the nonsense that goes on. Really try to do some good and represent We, the P
And here-in is the problem. The NSA has assuredly more blackmail material on every politician in this country than could ever be had by any investigative journalist or PI. When it comes to shutting down the entire NSA do you think they'd use that? Or just roll over?
... I'm getting tired of writing these letters, yet I'll do it again and remind my "representation" of my position. Anybody else?
Your pleas are falling on deaf ears, because your representatives in Congress today don't work you anymore: to them it's all about the money they need to get re-elected, so now they only work for their donors. Even Obama, who received so many small donations, got 70% of his campaign cash from big donors, mainly from people on Wall Street (which is why he will never prosecute them).
Therefore, what we must do is fix the underlying problem first: by getting big money out of politics.
This would be difficult in any other country with a corrupt political system, but luckily the United States Constitution happens to include Article Five [wikipedia.org], which describes an alternative process through which the Constitution can be altered: by holding a national convention at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds (34) of the country's 50 States. Any proposed amendments must then be ratified by at least three-quarters (38 States).
Is anybody doing this yet? Yes. WOLF-PAC [wolf-pac.com] was launched in October 2011 for the purpose of passing a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will end corporate personhood* and publicly finance all elections**. Since then, many volunteers have approached their State Legislators about this idea and their efforts have often been met with unexpected bi-partisan enthusiasm. So far, 50 State Legislators have authored or co-sponsored resolutions to call for a Constitutional Convention to get money out of politics! Notable successes have been in Texas, Idaho and Kentucky.
However, if the State Legislators are also corrupt, why are they helping us? Well, maybe they aren't as corrupt as you think. And even if they are, the important thing is that they seem to be just as fed up with the Federal government as we are -- so much so that they seem quite happy to help out with this effort. After all, it's a pretty simple proposal that speaks to both Democrats and Republicans.
If you think this idea makes sense, you can sign this petition [wolf-pac.com], donate, or even take action by personally contacting your favorite State Legislator and asking for a meeting. It's easier than you might think and as a result we might be able to change this awful situation sooner than you think.
*) The aim is not to end legal personhood for corporations, but natural personhood. The latter became a problem following the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, which grated some of the rights of natural persons to corporations and makes it easier for them to lend financial support to political campaigns.
**) At the State level, more than half of all political campaigns are already publicly financed in some way, so there's nothing strange about doing the same for political campaigns for federal office.
"Therefore, what we must do is fix the underlying problem first: by getting big money out of politics."
Another way to do that would be to squish government back into constitutionally delimited jurisdictions. It would not interfere in economic life as much, would not spend so bloody much, so would not be a target for bribery from business/unions/individuals so much. Adjust "so much" to taste.
But that way lies a less powerful government, something leftists like the "wolf pac" abhor.
The terrorists have won! No I'm not talking about the Islamic kind. I'm talking about the American government which since 2001 opted to keep its citizens in a perpetual state of fear to increase its power over them.
Since even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut, said squirrel may rifle through your personals.
Yep, passes the smell test for science.
... anything else would be "inadvisable"?
Because fuck you (and the constitution), that's why. Oh sorry, because terrist bogeymen, that's why.
My ass hurts.
If I have a briefcase full of papers at the border can that be searched without warrant or suspicion?
Unless you have a diplomatic passport, then yes, your briefcase can be searched at the border for any reason or for no reason.
Actually yes it can. The DHS suspends the constitution within 100 miles of the border. They can search anything they want in the name on national security.
I'm pretty big on civil liberties, and stories like this don't exactly make me comfortable, but at the end of the day the border guys have a tough job. Hundreds of thousands of people entering the country, they get a minute or two to decide if something is amiss. Should they have unlimited powers? No. However, I think there's a case to be made that if you want to enter a country you are not entitled to due-process in it's entirety.
In terms of it being a fourth amendment issue
This kind of opinion is precisely why we continue to see the erosion of our rights in the US.
Suspending constitutional rights because "their job is hard" is bullshit. The border agents can suck it up and do their jobs the right way. If that means I have an order of magnitude higher chance of dying from a terrorist attack, so be it - it would still be multiple orders of magnitude lower chance than dying of many other things like cancer, heart disease, or car accidents.
There's no suspension of constitutional rights here. Fourth Amendment protects you against unreasonable search. Historically, border searches (then primarily to detect contraband) have been practiced since the founding of the Republic, and are deemed reasonable by long historical precedent and public good. As this has always been the case, there's no actual erosion.
I do agree that it may well be overly broad and should be narrowed down, but it would require a constitutional amendment to codify that arbitrar
Yes it can be searched.
The search standards at border crossings are very loose. It's been that way since 1789. The Constitution is high on defense of the nation, and tariffs were the first taxes. Obviously you cannot defend the borders or impose tariffs without being able to search at border crossings.
The Congress shall have power:
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
"Exhibit A in the Supreme Courtâ(TM)s case for border searches is a statute Congress enacted in 1789, which granted customs officials âoefull power and authorityâ to search âoeany ship or vessel, in which they shall have reason to suspect any goods, wares or merchandise subject to duty shall be concealed"
from: http://lawreview.richmond.edu/run-for-the-border/ [richmond.edu]
This statute actually PREDATES the adoption of the Bill of Rights as amendments to the Constitution by two months.
The fact that the statute predates the constitution supports the opposite conclusion you are drawing because a more recent edict by a more powerful body clearly repeals prior inferior contrary law.
If I have a briefcase full of papers at the border can that be searched without warrant or suspicion?
Yep. The courts have consistently ruled that it surely can. Because the border is not *inside* the US, Constitutional protections do not apply there.
If a computer search alters the state/contents of a machine, how would it be legal? e.g.: a naive software-based search of files, that alters metadata on files? Or: disassembling a device that wasn't designed to be disassembled, in order to clone the HD?
If border officials order a user to boot-up and enable the same access the traveler would have: What if there's software on the machine, that is *designed* to alter file contents when they are viewed? (The precise reason doesn't matter, but: what
Stick a copyright notice on your laptop.
"The contents of this laptop are copyrighted. Licensed for use by owner only."
Then sue them.
May the honorable judge Edward R. Korman be subjected to warrantless searches and having his personal data copied by the government as often as possible. He should be okay with it... he legalized it.
Constitutional or not, I wouldn't risk it anyway. Please note, I'm an IT Manager - I have nothing to hide - but the machines I use contain information on how to access other machines at my workplace. Providing access to the data on those machines, sited in the UK, is considered a breach of the Data Protection Act in the UK as they hold personal information. It's even a bit more serious than that, as I work for schools.
As such, case law prevents me even revealing those passwords to anyone without just cause or a court order. The penalties apply to ME, not just my employer. There are even cases where even the POTENTIAL to access the data (i.e. giving someone the password, even if they can't use it without being on the right system, etc.) is considered no different to direct and provable access to the data.
My previous employer prevented staff taking data to France because they have a similar law, but it wasn't anywhere near as serious a threat to our ability to control the data under our protection.
So, sorry, I can't take any electronic equipment holding that information into the US whatsoever. Others may interpret the situation differently, but I'm afraid the only interpretation that matters to me are the courts', and they have spoken many times on such matters and fined people heavily for doing so. I'm sure I could "get away" with it a billion times if I tried, but that's not how I conduct my professional or personal life.
As such, I wouldn't even bother to take a computer across the border in America. And given recent revelations, I don't think it wise to just take some hidden / memorised access credentials to the US and then use them when I'm then to - e.g. set up a blank / hired laptop.
Honestly, this is something I factored in when I was considering emigration many years ago. America pretty much ended up a no-go for me because of the attitude towards foreigners, and their casual approach to data, and their failure to sign many of the same agreements that all EU countries signed up to with regards data usage.
I wouldn't even bother to go there on holiday again - did it once, but now I wouldn't be able to take my laptop or my smartphone with good conscious as both contain encryption and access credentials that although if law-enforcement NEEDED them, I would provide, I do NOT expect law-enforcement to store it longer than necessary, duplicate it, or fail to provide assurances on the security of that data while it's in their possession. That's all you need to do - not even stop collecting the data, just tell me what you can and won't do with it so that I can take that piece of paper to a court (if it ever comes up) and say "Look, here's the assurance I was given when requested to hand over data by law enforcement - not my fault the data got into the wild" - even then, the case law says I'll still get fined but I think I have more of a chance of having the case swing my way under "reasonable efforts" to protect that data.
When you take my phone and laptop away, that cripples my ability to store my documentation (even my flight tickets), research my destinations, book hotels, navigate to places, etc. and I see it as unnecessary. So, basically, even as a place for a quick holiday, it's out of bounds.
And although the places I work for aren't the poorest, they aren't the richest either - so faffing about with blanked laptops is just too much shit to put up with.
Sorry, US. When you treat me like a prisoner, or an alien, with zero human rights, I don't want to be near you - like the bully in the playground. Have fun playing on your own.
All for the sake of a proper receipt, with some assurances that you won't just splurge my (and my employer's) private data onto the net the second I walk out the door...
Sad, isn't it? We live under far worse tyranny today than we did under King George III.
It's all relative. Remember that the American colonists under George III were also involved in genocidal land grabs against the Native Americans. They had little moral high ground to call on, _without_ calling on the god-given rights of kings and governments and "civilized people" to support their behavior.
It's also unclear, this far away, how much of George III's tyranny was "George", how much was his madness in his later life, and how much was the massive and necessary bureaucracy to run such a broad, g
I don't take notebooks I care much about when travelling so I've no concern if they get banged about or stolen. It's so easy to wipe and reinstall before travel that one should do that if you don't want your goat porn viewed by the Stasi.
I'm not worried about Uncle Sugar reading anything I have because I don't do anything interesting to the State and if I did I'm not stupid enough to want to use a computer for it. AT ALL.
If for some reason I had to carry vital legal-but-proprietary commercial information it takes little effort (well, on Thinkpads anyway) to stash a MicroSD card temporarily glued under the label of a WLAN card or a section of heatsink. Don't bring a screwdriver with you as they are cheap at chain stores.
...or does this include the fairly common mandatory checkpoints operated by the Border Patrol inside the border and fairly common in the Southwest?
I driven through several of the latter without more than a couple of minor questions but I always hate being forced to stop like this.
I have a friend in Bisbee, Arizona and you literally can't drive into greater Arizona from Bisbee without stopping at one in either Sierra Vista or Tombstone but I haven't heard any stories from him about searches or more intensive
I had this question as well - does this apply only at the actual border or does it apply within the 100-mile constitution-free zone that extends inward from the border?
https://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/are-you-living-constitution-free-zone [aclu.org]
If my laptop or other device is seized at the border (and not returned), do I get to claim this as a casualty loss during the tax year? What about any machine-locked software on the laptop that I would have to repurchase? If my e-device is returned and acts funny, can I deduct the cost of a forensic exam to look for dropped-in malware? Gotta be a way to monetize this idiocy in my favor.
Well here's at least one reason this is happening. Essentially when confronted with a question of the form "should we permit X to do Y upon Z in order to keep us safe ?" the individual answering that question effectively considers whether or not they'll ever be Z. No federal judge is ever going to be stopped at an airport . No federal judge is ever going to have his laptop searched at the border. In fact none of the rulings federal judges make will ever apply to them personally or anyone with the power to pick up a phone and call that judge to complain that X is about to do Y to them.
Essentially the way judges hear the proposition is: "would you like us to increase security for you, sir?" They know if for some ungodly oversight they were ever actually asked to turn over their laptop to a customs agent, one phone call and it all goes away before the agent can boot their Windows 8 (this is who's buying that dog btw ) installation and that agent would soon be manning the un-airconditioned , 3x5 border booth in 105 degree heat watching over some dirt road in Tumbleweed Town, Texas.
So get real. You're asking people To Whom Nothing Adverse Is Permitted To Happen if they would like ditch the Constitution within 100 miles of any border so that he and his can feel in some nighty-night, all-tucked-in way "safer".
I am sure the nation's judicial benches are deep with such people. I am sure that people capable of considering the effects of their decisions on a nation and on its people are few and far between. Last week's judge was citing as supporting evidence the 9-11 commission report even though the 9-11 commission report said, substantively, exactly the opposite of what he claimed in his judgement it said.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131230/11062925713/judge-who-ruled-favor-nsa-relied-911-report-that-doesnt-even-mention-what-he-claims-it-does.shtml [techdirt.com]
This is what is populating our benches. How bad is it? We're about to find out. .
If you find that your residence, automobile, or other personal effects have been entered/searched without your consent or direct knowledge, and everything "looks intact", consider that they didn't come to take something away, but to put something in.
Once your personal effects, especially high-capacity electronics like smartphones and laptops, are out of your direct control, in some other room for hours at a time while you're in a holding cell, you can no longer trust them.
If they can get access to the physical hardware, they can install malware, rootkits, key loggers, replace the network card with one that is known-trojaned, manipulate your certificates, trusts, replace firmware on your devices and anything else they want.
No, once you get your gear back, immediately wipe it. Do not log into it, not even once, and just sell it on eBay or Craigslist.
You can't trust it, so dump it as soon as you can.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Morning playoff check-up
Eastern Conference Playoff Race
Philadelphia Flyers - 4th place, 90 points, 40 wins, 6-4-0
9 games remaining - 5 on road, 4 at home, 3 against playoff teams
Last night – Lost 4-2 to Florida; next game – Saturday @ NY Islanders
Carolina Hurricanes - 5th place, 89 points, 41 wins, 7-1-2
6 games remaining - 2 on road, 4 at home, 4 against playoff teams
Last night – Did not play; next game – Saturday @ New Jersey
Pittsburgh Penguins - 6th place, 88 points, 40 wins, 7-1-2
7 games remaining - 4 on road, 3 at home, 4 against playoff teams
Last night – Did not play; next game – Saturday vs. NY Rangers
New York Rangers – 7th place, 87 points, 39 wins, 6-3-1
7 games remaining - 4 on road, 3 at home, 7 against playoff teams
Last night – Lost 5-4 in SO to Atlanta; next game – Saturday @ Pittsburgh
Montreal Canadiens - 8th place, 85 points, 38 wins, 4-4-2
8 games remaining - 4 on road, 4 at home, 4 against playoff teams
Last night – Won 3-2 in OT over Tampa Bay; next game – Saturday vs. Buffalo
Florida Panthers - 9th place, 83 points, 36 wins, 3-4-3
7 games remaining - 3 on road, 4 at home, 3 against playoff teams
Last night – Won 4-2 over Philadelphia; next game – Saturday @ Dallas
Buffalo Sabres - 10th place, 78 points, 35 wins, 4-5-1
9 games remaining, 5 on road, 4 at home, 6 against playoff teams
Last night – Did not play; next game – Friday vs. Toronto
10 comments:
Disagree on the TB 2nd goal. As a general rule I give goalies a break on shots that change direction, especially when they change direction more than once.
- March 27, 2009 at 10:34 AM
- Chris Nadeau said...
Lets let Carey be a star and not harp on is bad plays. He had done a lot of good and the Habs need him to be the best player on the ice to do anything in te playoffs.
Great post breaking down the playoff run!
- March 27, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Carey Price has impregnated a 14 year old. The parents of said child are being kind enough to wait till seasons end before pressing charges.
Seems far fetched... but not completely implausible. (someone please poke holes in this rumor for me... cause I want it to be untrue) He's lost his mojo in the last 2 months. This is no slump... has the boy made the biggest mistake of his still young life?
- March 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- Sliver24 said...
It sure would have been ugly had the Habbies lost that one after dominating the game. Thanks to Saku's overtime winner this was just another baby step on the path back to respectability.
Sure, it would have been nice to win 3-0 with an empty netter, and there's no doubt that the scare will linger in the players' minds for awhile, but that will fade away - especially if the manage a win on Saturday. The two points they earned, on the other hand, will still be worth the same when the season ends.
If the boys can manage to maintain the level of play they showed last night when they play Buffalo I don't see how a tired Sabres team could compete.
- March 27, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- Sliver24 said...
Anonymous, where did you come up with that one? Eklund on hockeybuzz.com?
- March 27, 2009 at 11:21 AM
- B B said...
My issues are with Markov. He kills more Montreal powerplays than the opposition. Poor passes, out of place, always snapping a stick. And he was the first star?
Tanguay's the difference in the team right now.
- March 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM
I got three points:
1. arp - we KNOW you're pro halak - stop harping on THE FRANCHISE. Seriously though halak is an average goalie at best who had an amazing strech ie brain boucher, alex auld, raycroft, JIM carey, ron tugnut, brian puppa, sean burke, ty couklin, pat jablonski... need i go on? If we go anywhere its with price in nets. Plus HE HAS WON BOTH GAMES!
2- Let's leave the speculation about who did what on other blogs ok? the truth will come out and we can talk about it then.
3 - BB I agree tanguay has been great but harping on Markov- really? you do realize that he IS the powerplay right?
k I'm done. sorry I am a little grumpy this am.
- March 27, 2009 at 12:40 PM
bb- you realize we'd be in, at best, 10th right now if it weren't for markov. my issue is still with komisarek.
i'm with arp. i'd like price to look sharper if we're just going to hand him the no. 1 job but i'm glad he's playing well enough to win us games.
pmk- i think you're underestimating halak.
"If the boys can manage to maintain the level of play they showed last night when they play Buffalo I don't see how a tired Sabres team could compete."
they won't be able to : )
- March 27, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- pierre said...
B B you once declared about yourself a lack of objectivity when it come to your affair with the CH and maybe you should take yourself seriously once in a while.... if you did you wouldn't waste your time making mute inducing points as the one imbedded in your critism of Markov today..... Markov a poor passer ? Markov at weak link in Montreal's PP ? didn't you know that Markov is THE defenseman leading the NHL in points-passes this year ? Your point about Markov would be akin to say that young Muhamed Ali's deficiency was is clumsy footwork .... absurd.
- March 27, 2009 at 4:14 PM
- B B said...
Good sign for the team! The fans are have discussions about specifics, rather than honing in on the entire team.
I stick by point about Markov. If he is the powerplay, that would explain why Schneider was brought in! In fairness to Markov, I am comparing him to Streit. When Streit was a point on the powerplay, it clicked.
I want everyone in the rouge blanc et bleu to succeed. Markov, O'Bryne, all of them ...and a young Ali had Olympic gold at age 20...
- March 28, 2009 at 2:56 PM


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Don't mod me for flamebait but I think that really looks bad. Tattoos rarely look good in their prime, and always end up faded and smudged. They don't make you look tough or interesting, just trashy.
It really depends on the tattoo, and how it was intended to look. Other factors include how the person takes care of themselves. A lot of people don't consider, "how will this look in 30 years." The same goes for body piercings. How will it all look when you're collecting your kids from school, when your grandkids are born, or when you're 90+ years old in a nursing home. Likewise, a sleeve (like the article asks) it may seem like a great idea, until you get a job somewhere in the Southern US, at a company with a strict policy about visible tattoos.
I've known folks who had needed to wear long sleeves year round, because they loved the idea of getting a tattoo that everyone would see and appreciate, a decade before. It's all fun and games until it's 110+ degrees outside, and you wish you could toss off the shirt before getting into the oven previously known as "your car", except the office "no visible tattoo" policy extends to everywhere "office" including the parking lot and anywhere visible from the parking lot.
That's not to say don't get one. Just consider what the future results could be. Folks do all kinds of crazy things to themselves. There are a whole bunch of body modifications that can be (and are) done. Is a face tattoo, or even math equations from your ears to your fingertips really the best way to express yourself?
They don't make you look tough or interesting, just trashy.
To you.
I actually think it looks pretty nice. An abstract, pleasant-looking pattern, without going all stereotypically tribal.
As an aside, they aren't supposed to make you "look tough or interesting". They're supposed to be an outward expression of personal values through art. If you don't like that, I suggest staying away from music, books, and other artforms, as apparently that's not your thing.
Girl in a tattoo shop: I want a small animal tattooed on my thigh. How much?
Tattoo Guy: Rabbit, Tiger or Dog - $10 each. Giraffe is free!!
Think twice. Do you *really* think this will be so important to you forever?
Even worse, what if we find out the laws are wrong?
That's why you never should tattoo physics laws, just mathematical theorems -- they change rarely.
In that case, definitely the most beautiful and famous theorem you can come up with is Euler's identity [wikipedia.org]. e^(i*Pi) = -1.
Um, if you're gonna get it tattoo'd, you probably want to go with the more traditional form of: e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0. This single equation shows a relationship between 5 important mathematical constants, as opposed to the other form, which just shows 3 (I don't think -1 qualifies, as i is the more fundamental).
Or, you could go with the more general form: e^(i*theta) = cos(theta) + i*sin(theta).
I might also go with the Euler product form of the Riemann zeta function [goo.gl], arguably the greatest unsolved problem in all of mathematics: sigma(n=1, infinity, n^-s) = pi(p prime, inv(1 - p^-s)).
I wouldn't worry about putting stuff on your arm that might get proven wrong—it doesn't mean F=m*a isn't a significant step in the evolution of human thought just because Einstein improved upon it. Speaking of Einstein, how about the Minkowski invariance relation (I think that's what it's called?): s^2 = x^2 + y^2 + z^2 + (i*c*t)^2.
Another significant idea worth memorializing is Godel's Incompleteness Theorem...you'd have to find a form using logic notation.
Finally, you might think about getting N E R D C O R E across your knuckles...
They ARE wrong, especially Ohm's Law. They're very, very good approximations for most cases, but they're not exactly correct. Even Einstein's equations are probably wrong, and don't agree with actual results in navigation of space probes: see the Pioneer Anomaly.
If you want equations that are exactly correct, stick to proven mathematical theorems, like a^2 + b^2 = c^2, not equations describing physics.
But then again, I'm an old coot that never got the tattoo thing.
Well, if he saved up the money for a whole sleeve either a) he is paid ridiculously (or rather well with exceptionally few expenses) or b) he has thought about it for at least a few weeks.
I mean, if he was going for a big cock on his forhead, maybe $60 or so, then I would agree but... a person saving up for a whole sleeve has at least found out how much that costs and been saving up. I guess I am assuming that its a decent artist and going to be a bit more flourish than just written equations in a standard font (I would guess just having some guy scroll a whole bunch of equations on your arm would be pretty cheap overall if you agreed not to tell anyone who did it)
I have a small tatoo that I want to get, I don't need to save up cash for it, but, I have been thinking about it on and off for about 3 years, and havn't found an artist or posted on slashdot for advice... I imagine this one has been stewing a while.
if he was going for a big cock on his forhead, maybe $60
Crap. I got completely ripped off on mine.
I mean, if he was going for a big cock on his forhead, maybe $60 or so, then I would agree but...
Note that no tattoo was mentioned in that sentence
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Asking Slashdot alone for ink advice means he/she is still not sure what to get. I have a bunch of friends with ink. Each of them thought the whole thing through and two have even gone as far as mocking up the art in Photoshop. If you are unsure of what to get you need to give it more thought, PERIOD.
He/she also better hope that they have a competent artist. It never hurts to search out reputable tattoo shops or ask people who you see with great ink work (they should be more than happy to tell you). I know people who have been victim of just going to any old shop and getting crap work done. And avoid the friend of a friend who does his/her work out of their home or apartment. Either they suck, are slow as hell or disappear before they even start to fill it in and have some or all of the money (I know one case of each). Find a reputable shop with a reputable artist. Sometimes you have to wait a long time (weeks/months/years) before you get in the chair. But if its going to stick with you for the rest of your life you better know the quality of the artist.
Also consider the possibility that this could get you in trouble in a math/physics exam. I thought I'd never go back to a classroom, but was pushed into a post-grad course - and was prohibited to use my old faithful HP49G on the financial/accounting exams "because it is alphanumeric and can be used for cheating"! I had to borrow a 30 year old 12c, but you won't be able to borrow a clean pair of arms.
Think twice. Do you *really* think this will be so important to you forever?
A good test is to think about your favorite thing when you were one half your current age. If you had that tatooed on you today, would you be happy about it? Your future self may feel the same about your current fashion interests.
Bad test. I'm far more likely to like something when I'm 40 that I liked when I was 20 than I am to like something when I'm 20 that I liked when I was 10.
Hm... You know what, I think I'd be okay with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle tattoo. Thanks for the advice!
Also what if you ever live in a culture with a dim view of tattoos. It could lead to you not being allowed in certain places or keep you from getting a job. The only thing I would ever consider getting a tattoo of is my name on my chest and my blood type and severe allergy in a couple of languages on my for arm.
Sounds like you've never gotten a tattoo. Before you get one you build up all this inherent meaning and long-term significance to the tattoo. Afterwards, you realize that it's just a cool picture (or phrase, whatever) that you wanted. Even if times and tastes change it's a cool link to who you were back when you got it.
If you don't know what you want then just wait until you do. One of the worst things you can do for a tattoo is ask what other people think you should get. You'll end up with something that they want and it may be cool now but years down the road it won't mean anything to you.
Tattoo's are suppose to be for life. If it's something that you foresee down the road that you'll not be interested in and go "why did I ever do that, ugh that's so yesterday" it wasn't a very good idea.
The coolest math tattoo you could get would be nothing at all. Just hold up your arm and say "it's the empty set" and have them marvel at your coolness.
Seriously, tattoos are lame. Resist the urge. It's going to be an ugly green smear you will regrat.
Seriously, tattoos are lame.
Tattoos aren't in and of themselves lame. People get all sort of lame tattoos, however. There's an awful lot of really beautiful stuff out there too.
It's going to be an ugly green smear you will regrat (sic).
You're largely thinking of low-quality ones done in pen ink by some guy in a back room. Those tend to be real crap jobs that over time look like shit.
Modern tattoos done by a qualified artist are an entirely different animal in terms of how they look, and how they hold up over time.
And, really, if the sum total you have to add is "tattoos are lame", why are you even bothering to comment? You obviously have nothing better to contribute to the topic.
You definitely want Quaternions and Euler Angles:
The story behind Quaternions justifies permanent ink if any math theorem ever did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion [wikipedia.org]
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with one small change...
In the greek alphabet:
beta mu pi integral of e^x
which gives you
Tattoos hurt, they endanger your health, they are expensive, and most of all they are superficial. AKA they are for looks only.
Gee... At one time only drunk sailors thought this was a good idea and now you want to show how geeky you are with them?
Might I suggest Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica the full text of course.
Tattoos hurt, they endanger your health, they are expensive, and most of all they are superficial. AKA they are for looks only.
OK, yes, they hurt. That's true.
As far as endangering your health, it means you're going to the wrong damned shop. Any tattoo place that doesn't have an autoclave, and single-use needles should cause you to flee. I've never seen an artist not using latex gloves, not using sterile gear, and not using ink in little disposable cup that get tossed when they're done. Any modern shop is actually very clean, and if it isn't, don't go there.
As to being purely superficial, lots of people get tattoos that have a strong meaning to them (and, admittedly, lots don't). Some people get tattoos so that other people can see them and say "wow, he's got a tattoo, cool". Others get them entirely for themselves -- you can't see any of mine unless I want them to be seen. You're making absurd generalizations -- if 40% of Gen-Xers are sporting ink, there's almost no generalization you can accurately make about why people get them.
Somehow I knew a story about tattoos on Slashdot would trot out a bunch of people who know absolutely nothing on the topic. Now everybody gets to make categorical statements they can't support with anything but opinion.
Not everything outside of your experience is bad, or stupid. Just something you don't know about.
I think by "superficial", he means that they are purely decorative - even if of some sentimental value to the wearer.
And this is true, but I wouldn't tell someone not to wear their wedding ring just because it is superficial.
I'd be much more concerned about the expense of laser removal once the tattoo fad passes.
And if you don't think that this is a fashion fad, may I interest you in some vintage mid-90s facial piercings? You'll never need cosmetic earlobe repair surgery, because giant, comical rings embedded in your earlobes will be cool forever.
>As to being purely superficial, lots of people get tattoos that have a strong meaning to them (and, admittedly, lots don't).
So? That breakup with that one girl has a pretty strong meaning, but it doesn't mean you should permanently remind yourself of it on your skin. There's no shortage of regrettable ink that starts with the phrase "This meant a lot to me."
Strong feelings or "deep meaning" don't necessarily justify anything.
>Somehow I knew a story about tattoos on Slashdot would trot out a bunch of
Somehow I knew a story about anything on Slashdot would trot out a bunch of people who know absolutely nothing on the topic.
Fixed that for you. (Now, do I get modded Flamebait or Insightful...that's the real question.)
Somehow I knew a story about tattoos on Slashdot would trot out a bunch of people who know absolutely nothing on the topic.
Who's to say that some of the naysayers have done their research and actually know what they are talking about? I don't believe a therapist that specializes in suicide needs to have necessarily experienced suicide. So you are into tattoos...your expert opinion isn't necessarily better than one who doesn't have tattoos but have done the research. The experience of getting a tattoo do
Think of how dignified those tattoos will look when you age and your whole body looks like Reagan's neck. Do you really want to explain to your grandkids why you thought a math equation or Mighty Mouse or a kanji character that means "desk" was something that held enough meaning that it required you to permanently scar your body with it?
This applies to everyone who resolves to get a tattoo before deciding what it is of, btw.
With explanations too:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/category/science-tattoo-emporium/ [discovermagazine.com]
I knew a guy who had the fallout symbol tattooed across his left shoulder blade,
maybe 4 inches across, in all its black and yellow glory.
I asked him why, but I don't recall his response.
He did allow that reading physics textbooks in coffee shops was a good way to pick up girls.
Forget the tattoo. Just stick with t-shirts from ThinkGeek or whatever like the rest of us do.
Someday when the anti-intellectual revolution comes and Sarah Palin is looking for some fresh necks for her guillotine (aka "Freedom Slicer"), your elitist tattoo will get you killed.
Am I joking? Sometimes I don't even know.
in the 90s I got a tattoo of the solar system on my back and brontosaurus tattoo on my chest. now both are incorrect
Are just a few ways that you could use that money to make a difference in science that will help others. When you die your tattoo will eventually rot away with the rest of your body. But if you sponsored something that helped science or math progress, people would know of you for some time.
Get tats of chicks with big boobs -- boobs can never, ever be proven wrong.
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This is the OFFICIAL staple moveset of a Competitive Linoone, named Ziggy (My lv. 100 Linoone, maxed Attack EVs, Adamant Nature, with a Sitrus Berry and Gluttony): Extremespeed (The strongest Priority attack in the game) Belly Drum (Give away half of your HP for an instant +6 Attack boost) Iron Tail / Brick Break (A well-known move for any "Annoying Woodland Creature." It gives you coverage against Walling Rock and Steel-types, and break screens. Extremely useful) Seed Bomb / Shadow Claw (If you chose Iron Tail above, you have some neutral coverage against Ghosts, so choose Seed bomb for Water-type Coverage. If you chose Brick Break, then you currently have NO coverage against Ghosts, so choose Shadow Claw) This makes Linoone a deadly Sweeper, comparable to even Rayquaza (The only thing Linoone lacks is phenomenal coverage). Use Belly Drum first, and Gluttony and Sitrus Berry will work its magic, causing you to only sacrifice 1/4 max HP for a Maxed Attack stat. After you're Sweeper-ready, pick off regular foes with one of the game's most powerful Extremespeed's. If Steelix, Probopass, Drifblim, etc, is switched in, just use the coverage moves for coverage. With that Base 140 Attack stat form Belly Drum, you'll be ripping holes through enemies, even without the STAB. This is really, the only set that Linoone can use well. It just doesn't have the stats to go any other way but this. Thank goodness it has Gluttony! answered Aug 19, 2010 by ~-~WILL~-~ OMG!! Had to mention rayquaza ?? commented May 1, 2011 by Unidentified Ask Trachy about my 6-0 Linoone sweep on his team, and you'll see the comparison as worthy. Rayquaza has nothing on Linoone once the Belly Drum kicks in. Also, please don't comment on ancient questions. I get notifications for all of these... commented May 1, 2011 by ~-~WILL~-~ Well, that wasn't my actual team, that was a testing team. Just have to say that in my defense. But yeah, Linoone is awesome. 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Shadow claw-Decent power, catches foes off guard Belly Drum-Maxes attack Facade-Use your linoone as a wall to take status conditions, and he will Gain high attack to compliment this Rest- restores damage when at low health you could give him a toxic orb, so you are guaranteed poison, then fling or swap it with the opponent, facade will gain power, and you don't risk getting burned or paralyzed (losing attack or speed in the process) Or give a chesto berry for instant sleep recovery. answered Jul 20, 2010 by DarkTyphlosion What else should I get in when I replace Belly Drum and Rest for Fling? 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Max attack for as much damage output as possible, some Speed to not be very slow and the rest into HP to have easier time setting up. answered Mar 1, 2012 by Hex Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Gen V Linoone (M) @ Sitrus Berry Trait: Gluttony EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - ExtremeSpeed - Belly Drum - Seed Bomb - Shadow Claw answered May 1, 2011 by trachy Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote LC Gen V Set for Zigzagoon Zigzagoon (M) @ Oran Berry Trait: Gluttony EVs: 196 Atk / 112 Def / 196 Spd Jolly Nature (+Spd, -SAtk) - ExtremeSpeed - Belly Drum - Seed Bomb - Thief Credit goes to my brother. answered Jul 25, 2011 by trachy edited Jul 25, 2011 by trachy Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Linoone (M/F) @ Choice band Trait: quick feet (Ha) EVs: 4 Hp / 252 Atk / 252 Spd Nature: Adamant or Jolly Switcheroo Belly drum Return Play rough This is the set I use for my team in X/Y. First use switcheroo to give the Choice band. Many people start with a status move (Sword dance etc.). Use belly drum to max your attack. Now use return (Stab) or play rough. This is maybe a risk because if someone uses a normal attack move and you pass the Choice band than Linoone is already done since he has low Def S.Def. answered May 26, 2014 by Cr Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Belly drum, Max out attack power protect, shadow claw, headbutt, And the leftovers. Use bellydrum then protect. Get healed and then take people out with headbutt, stab, or shadow claw. answered Jul 20, 2010 by ohioscyther Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Linoone --@-- Choice Band Ability -- Pickup - Gluttony isn't much better, can't have DW and good coverage EVs -- 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spd - Sweeper spread Jolly Nature - Adamant is optional, but why not out speed threats? - Retaliate - REVENGE KILL! Being this guy's main use. 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