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I recently came across this quote about exploiting nationalism, and it disturbed me for two reasons. First, it is a very accurate description of the post 9/11 political situation, which has resulted in the loss of civil liberties, the disastrous occupation of Iraq, secret prisons, torture, and the dismantling of the government's system of checks and balances. Second, the author is Hermann Goering.
Godwin's Law, I know, but there are some eerie parallels, and that's scary as hell. I am truly afraid for my country's future. These are dark times; it's the worst I've ever seen the United States of America. We've got the monkeys running the zoo... these are small, foolish, and dangerous little men- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld. And they are tearing the country apart. They've got the left hating the right and the right hating the left. They've got us caught up in an eternal war against terror (as if you can wage war on a military tactic, that's as nonsensical as a "war against flanking maneuvers"). In their war, in order to save our freedoms from the terrorists, they've got to take our freedoms away. Meanwhile, our executive branch is obsessed with using torture to the point that it starts to seem creepily sadistic, running secret prisons and shipping people off to be tortured in foreign countries. Finally, we've got to keep fighting endlessly in Iraq as it spirals into civil war, and I still haven't heard something that even vaguely resembles a strategy for success, or a convincing explanation of why we even went in, and killed thousands of our own men and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
I've always criticized America, not because I hate her, but because I love her and want her to be better. I thought there was a lot wrong with the country, but I believed it was basically a good country, and that other nations had a lot to learn from us. But now, when I travel through foreign countries, I am ashamed to show my American passport. I actually tell people I'm "coming from Canada" (misleading but true, because that's where I study). Living abroad, I now realize that deep down, I still do love America. But not the America of George Bush. That America is an America of constant fear, divisive hate, endless war, domestic spying, and torture. And we can do better than George Bush's America.
While this certainly is concerning, it isn't exactly new, as a passport is already required for circumstances covered under the proposal."
This is ratcheting up the control of the citizenry - and it is exactly like the Soviet system. Anyone who disagrees with this assessment is both ignorant and uneducated - there is no middle ground on this, period!
I am once again struck by the 2004 presidential election. At that time I lived in Seattle, and the young, seemingly educated
neocons will do ANYTHING to not have to pay for people's healthcare. What's next? A war???
Passport Passport Requirements If you are planning travel for 2007 or beyond, please take a minute to review the passport policy below. If you don't already have a valid passport, be sure to avoid the rush and give yourself plenty of time to apply for one. Once you've got a passport in hand, the whole world is yours to explore.
U.S. Citizen Passport Requirement
Air Travel
Effective January 8, 2007, passports will be required for all U.S. citizens flying to or f
They left out North Korea.
Nope, because NK citizens are not allowed to travel at all. Hence, no permission to ask for.
Military tribunals and secret decision-making like this are horrible ideas because there's no accountability involved. But what about hard-core terrorists like Osama, those responsible for WTC I and WTC II among other things? If anything, this applies more. I want to see the bastards on trial in a New York courtroom, in public, accountable to the very populace whom they injured and whose families they murdered. Then, since New York has no death penalty, a nice long term in Sing Sing in the same cellblock with the Aryan Brotherhood. Justice doesn't have to be meted out by military courts to be tough or fair.
I'm afraid I don't take these "Friends of Liberty" folks at face value. Their assertions are backed up by a volume of evidence found in similar conspiracy theories. NONE WHATSOEVER.
Read the PDF [hasbrouck.org] listed at the bottom of the press release. The very first paragraph explains the source of their concerns:
The Identity Project submits these comments in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published at 71 Federal Register 40035-40048 (July 14, 2006), docket number USCBP-2005-0003-0003, and th
This is nothing like the fact that we already are required to use a passport for a number of these same reasons.
A passport is documentation to foreign countries that you are a documented U.S. citizen.
Being required to "check out" of the country with DHS, despite all the calls of "Godwin rule" invocations, is exactly like Soviet Russia, Communist Cuba and China, and Nazi Germany, in recent history.
Seriously, if you people don't get out and vote these facists out of office, you're going to be just like the guy from WWII who wrote the poem about how, when there was no one else left, they came for him, and there was no one left to stop them. Enough with the "But I don't have anything to hide". When are you going to realize it's not about, and never has been about, "hunting the terrorists" and "making us safe", it's about "controlling the people", through fear, and travel restrictions, and spying? The more people say "But I dont have anything to hide, let them go ahead", the more they win.
Not only in Europe.Over here in Europe I am increasingly hearing people who say they don't want to travel to the USA at the moment, whether for tourism or business.
It's a beautiful day here, today. I only need to walk 5 minutes to climb a hill near where I live and I can see both the Adirondack Mountains and the Green Mountains of Vermont.
Yet I don't look forward to go there.
They're also supposed to be in favor of balanced budgets, realistic foreign policy and strong defense. Not long ago they were all of the above. Today, they are not the party for people who used to support Republicans.
This is a letter to the editor of a major newspaper, not from me:
I have been a registered Republican for more than 25 years. This year, I will not vote for any Republican candidate, regardless of their credentials or positions. I am taking this step because the Republican Party has shown that it is more concerned about its power and prerogatives than it is about the health of this nation. Members of Congress, I am repulsed by your cynical focus on wedge issues to generate support among the religious right. You have played on the sympathies of the ignorant to buttress your power, and severely damaged the nation while doing so. I am disgusted with your spineless support for our current politics of fear. We had one incident of terrorism five years ago. Why do you continue to allow this to be used as a wrecking ball on our democracy? Democrats, don't count on me for the long term; you are under the microscope as well. I want to see my legislators research issues, figure out what is right for all Americans, and to take fact-based stands on these issues. Your religious biases are unimportant, and not a basis for governing this country. Step up, or we'll throw you out as well.
What the fuck is wrong with people who will go out and vote more power to Bush and his fucking fascist government this Tuesday?
Well, it's understandable. Stupid, but understandable. Lots of people get into lots of conflict with their neighbors -- by which I mean, literally, the people who live in the house next door -- because either they or their neighbors don't like the way the other guy lives. In a perfect world, everyone would live the way everyone else does. Because they don't, 50% of the people get
The pdf file referred to in the article is authored by the "The first amendment project" (I hadn't heard of them before), and refers to a "Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" (NPRM). I believe that there are probably lots of NPRM's that never make it into any sort of bill that is to be submitted to the House or the Senate.
Now while I can believe that some people in the current administration would ent
While this certainly is concerning, it isn't exactly new, as a passport is already required for circumstances covered under the proposal.
For a while, a passport was not required for Mexico and Canada. Before, a birth certificate was good enough. This is a bit of a nitpick but you do not require a passport to leave any country. You need a passport to enter a country. That's why nobody checks passports as you depart. Now, this rule makes it that your passport is checked leaving and entering. It's a smal
While this certainly is concerning, it isn't exactly new, as a passport is already required for circumstances covered under the proposal.
Having a passport is required, but having permission is not, and that difference is critical. We do not, and should not require permission from our government to travel. Period.
On the 7th, I'll be voting. And I'll be voting to attempt to wrest my government back from the extremist assholes that my fellow countrymen... the ones with less foresight... saddled us with
The only time blocking exit is acceptable is when someone has violated freedom of association in some way -- has gained entry under false pretenses or has acted as agent of a foreign association within your association -- in which case
If graphics hackers are so smart, why can't they get the bugs out of fresh paint?

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Since the Morris Daily Herald announced its intention to convert to a tabloid and deliver it in the mail beginning Aug. 20, we have heard a few comments about the timeliness of the news being impacted.
Some have gone so far as to argue that they will be getting yesterday's news when the paper starts arriving in their mailbox instead of on their doorstep.
And they are exactly right.
Of course, the same can be said about the Morris Daily Herald they are currently receiving.
It can, of course, also be said about the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and every other well-respected newspaper in the world.
Newspapers have always provided yesterday's news — or, put another way, news about yesterday's events. The problem is that CNN and the 24-hour-news cycle that it invented have skewed the public's perception of what a newspaper is (and the limitations of what it can be).
Because newspaper is not a medium of immediacy like cable television, it has always made its living on reporting and explaining the news (in far greater detail than a sound bite of video clip) that has occurred since the last time it went to press — be that the previous day or the previous week.
That is exactly what the Morris Daily Herald will continue to do in its revamped print edition — report what happened at the board meetings held the night before, the festivals held over the previous weekend, and on the highways and in the neighborhoods of our community in as timely a fashion as possible.
That is the way it has always been for newspapers
However, thanks to "modern technology," the MDH can — and does — offer much more for those who need something more immediate than what a newspaper is (by its very nature) able to provide.
Through the MDH's Facebook page, we are often able to provide brief information about accidents, fires and other breaking news stories as they are unfolding.
Then, at www.morrisdailyherald.com, once information about a breaking story can be gathered and confirmed, we are able to provide initial versions of stories that will appear in more detail in the next print edition.
And despite what some readers have interpreted as an impossibility, that next print edition will, indeed, be delivered the same day it is printed — just as is currently the case with our weekend edition each Saturday.
By using postal service software and dropping the newspapers off at each post office ourselves, we will essentially be taking a couple of steps out of the delivery process.
Each day, we'll individually label each subscriber's newspaper, and we'll presort the papers for the post office, allowing them to send papers out the same day we drop them off.
And this will not cost you any more, as there are no plans to increase subscription cost for mail delivery.
In fact, long term, postal delivery allows us to keep subscription rates more consistent.
Some have wondered if the papers will still be wrapped on rainy days.
The answer is no. The post office will deliver your daily paper the way it delivers the rest of your mail.
If, however, you have contacted the post office about wet mail in the past, and still find a wet newspaper in your mailbox, you can still contact our circulation department at (815) 941-3221 to have another newspaper sent out to you.
Patrick Graziano is the managing editor of the Morris Daily Herald. He can be contacted via e-mail at pgraziano @morrisdailyherald.com.


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A Port Orange man stopped for a simple pedestrian violation ended up with six charges, three of them for felonies, according to a Port Orange police report.
Shane Carlson, 32, was stopped by Port Orange police after failing to stop at a crosswalk at Clyde Morris Boulevard and Dunlawton Avenue at 8:06 a.m. Thursday, a charging affidavit shows.
Carlson, who was issued a verbal warning for his actions, told the officer he did not have any weapons or narcotics on him when asked, but a search of his backpack, which he agreed to, revealed otherwise, according to the affidavit. Inside the backpack was a leather pouch containing syringes, spoons and bottle caps with residue in them. The officer also found a set of metallic knuckles, according to the affidavit.
Carlson was arrested and charged with possession of narcotics, a felony, drug paraphernalia and carrying a concealed weapon and taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail with bail set at $2,000, according to the affidavit.
When police later searched Carlson's wallet, they found a check card that did not belong to him, according to the affidavit. After contacting the card's owner, police determined the card was stolen.
Carlson was additionally charged with illegal use of a credit card and identity theft, both felonies, and petty theft, and a bail amount of $2,250 was added on top of his other bail, the report says.
Records show Carlson has since been released from the Volusia County Branch Jail after posting $4,250 bail.
Man stopped on pedestrian violation nets 3 felony charges, official says
A Port Orange man stopped for a simple pedestrian violation ended up with six charges, three of them for felonies, according to a Port Orange police report.


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Paul Lambert maintains none of his summer transfer targets should expect to be in for an easy ride at "little old Norwich" if they join the battle to stay in the Barclays Premier League next season.
The Canaries boss - who oversaw successive promotions - has wasted no time in beginning his recruitment drive, bringing in strikers James Vaughan and Steve Morison. Leeds midfielder Bradley Johnson is another said to be on the verge of a switch to Carrow Road, along with Brighton winger Elliott Bennett.
However, Lambert warned anyone who thinks they can get away without putting a shift in at the Norfolk club will be set for a rude awakening, telling the Eastern Daily Press: "I don't want people coming here thinking it is little old Norwich and it is a lovely place to live, great area - that is not what I am looking for. You want people here who want to achieve something."
"Players that are hungry don't need to be 21 or 22. You can get a lad of 30 who is hungry, a lad at 31 who is hungry, and who wants to do well.
"If I think it is right then I will look at them - if you get experienced lads who want to keep doing well."
Lambert added: "You can take Roy Keane for instance. No matter if Roy Keane was on X amount of money when he started out or what he was on at Manchester United, you would still get the same performances. He was an absolute top, top pro - that is the difference."
Norwich have not been in the Premier League since they went straight down under Nigel Worthington in 2004/05, which was followed by relegation to the third tier of English football just two years ago.
Lambert may have performed a minor miracle in his 20 months at the helm, but the former Champions League winner knows the biggest test of all lies ahead when the squad regroup for pre-season training.
"I think they know the magnitude of it, they know what I expect and I have no worries about any of them," said the 41-year-old. "I have no worries they won't come back in good shape. This is too big for us not to be ready.
"It is the best league in the world that you are going to play in, you are up against the best players and if you come back and you are not ready for that then there is only one person to blame. It ain't going to get any bigger than this - we are right in it now, that is the bottom line, there is no room for error."
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Buon Natale! Sbarro Brings the Italian Holiday Cheer with Limited Time White Pizza and Italian Cookies
Sbarro Chefs Cook Up Delicious White Pizza Recipe Featuring a Blend of Ricotta and Mozzarella Cheese, Roasted Red Peppers and Fresh Broccoli
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Dec. 5, 2012 10:30 AM
MELVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Drawing inspiration from the Italian tradition of the holiday feast, Sbarro is bringing the season to life with a limited time white pizza and Italian cookies.
The new white pizza recipe is made from all natural ingredients including a blend of three cheeses – freshly shredded mozzarella accompanied by a creamy ricotta sauce made with white pepper then sprinkled with Pecorino Romano cheese. The pizza is topped with roasted red peppers and fresh broccoli all baked on freshly prepared dough finished with toasted sesame seeds.
The new white pizza is available now through December 31st at participating Sbarro eateries. Also available are red and green Italian holiday cookies, a sweet treat for Sbarro guests.
"During these cold winter months, we're welcoming our guests with a warm, holiday greeting," said Jim Greco, CEO of Sbarro. "Our chefs have cooked up a fantastic new pizza recipe that will have guests everywhere dreaming of our white pizza. Served alongside delicious red and green Italian cookies, these limited time offerings make for the perfect holiday treat."
Added Greco, "Now is a time of tremendous culinary innovation at Sbarro. Our team is working tirelessly to develop new high quality food offerings that pay tribute to Sbarro's proud Italian heritage."
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Many of us already have a favorite search engine, but it's always interesting to know when one does something different that makes us question, our current favorite search engine choice.
When placing a search query within search engines, we want it to be quick and easy. None of us want the search results to load slowly or to be the complete opposite of what we were searching for. We want them to be as precise as possible. Too many times, we have sat in front of our computers entering in search queries, scrolling down, page after page, and still not find what we were looking for. Then we reword our query in hopes of possibly getting better results, the second or third time around.


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A former high school softball coach has been indicted on eight charges alleging inappropriate contact with students under the age of 18.
The indictment filed February 11 in Lauderdale County Circuit Court charges former Clarkdale High School coach Ricky Roberson with three counts of exploiting a child and five touching a child lustfully.
The charges stem from eight separate incidents that allegedly occurred from June 2003 into June 2012.
Lauderdale County Schools Superintendent Randy Hodges fired Roberson shortly after his arrest Sept. 27, 2012 on one count of statutory rape and two of lustfully touching a minor. He is free on $30,000 bond.


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Hey guys Just ordered My very 1st E-Revo Brushless very excited cant wait for it to get here
Ive seen a few videos of stock durabilty tests and in my eyes all that needs replacing is A-arms to RPM what do you guys recon?
How do they stock tyres hold up on 4s?
I almost purchased one this week, I went with something else but I am interested in how you like it. Do you have to wait long to get it?
Rustler,Slash 4X4, 1/10 Rally
If you stick with 4s and have the slipper properly adjusted you will be good with good driving habits. Rpm arms are a great upgrade and depending on how hard you bash maybe shim your diffs
Tires hold up good but some prolines with give you better handling
Djbrun ill have to wait a week or so I recon ill let you know what I think of it. Thanks 50togo your very helpful I really appreciate it mate
Congrats on the purchase! Don't upgrade until you know what you will break. I am still on stock arms 1+ years later. Shimming the diffs is a must, and just run the stock tires until they burst. When they do I would get badlands on desperados which are a very common setup. Bypass the on/off switch (solder the wires together) or just don't use it. I hope you love your car as much as I love mine, but sometimes I want to set it on fire again. Gl2u
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Yeah I have a maxx and love it so ill definently love this what shims do I need 10x8x.02??
Most likely 8mm associated 21141 for the ring gear and 10mm for the other side but I never needed those and then 6mm for the pinion kyosho 96046
On one diff all I needed was to shim the pinion
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Ok thanks ill grab some
Hey guys just a update my E Revo will be here this coming week so excited just hope I don't neglect my E maxx
You won't be dissatisfied with your erevo. I would stick with 4s, its more than enough power!
If it doesn't come with it stock, I would recommend the aluminum slipper pads. Could of bee theory my ignorance but I was burning up my stock slipper pads with my erevo.
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Cheers guys
On most trucks once the ring and pinions break in there is clearance between the ring and pinion. We put a shim to bring the ring gear closer to the pinion.
I would shim it even running only on 4s. I bash pretty hard and every other ride I blew out the diff on mine. Shimming doesn't solve the issue only helps it
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I took my truck apart replacing the bulkheads and the diffs felt pretty tight, how can you tell for sure they need to shimmed?
Great purchase you will not regret it, I am also still on the stock arms, if you don't hit anything the truck should be fairly trouble free. I have the aluminum slipper pads and would recommend against them they are durable but they don't seem to allow much adjustment in slip its seems to be either all or nothing in terms of lock. I would look into the RRP setup or using the nitro brake pad that some have used on here that would be the better option if you want more performance out of your slipper.
If you are running offroad I would highly recommend pro-line mashers they are awesome tires and taped they should really perform well on road also. The only problem I have with them is they are fairly heavy especially with the tape inside, I don't know how that would affect axle life since I have MIP x splines that seem to have issues themselves staying together.
Dont handicap children by making life easy
When there is play or slop between the pinion and ring gear, it is in need of a shim. pull off the center shaft and wiggle the pinion gear shaft front to back of the truck. If it moves then you need to shim. That is the best description I can give while sleep deprived, hope you get the idea.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
With the pinion. You can feel it but the ring gear only by adding shims until it binds then remove a shim until fairly smooth
You can feel it to an extent but you dont want to take all of the slop out or the pinion gear or it will bind. I tried several methods and what works for me is to start with the ring gear shiming until it binds then back off .01 on the shims then do the same with the pinion gear. Taking all the play out of the pinion will make it bind big time.
I'm getting more excited by the minute
50togo you mentioned getting some prolines what type do you recommend?
I have trenchers on my e maxx which are pretty big and I really like my badlands on my revo easier on the drivetrain too!
Hey 50togo what do you think of some Proline Badlands 3.8 All Terrain Tire Mounted On Desperado Black wheels??
Ok why's that? Do they blow easy?
They can, it's just cheap insurance, and the stock gluing isn't wonderful.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Ok thabks I'll grab wheels and tyres seperatly and glue and tape myself
Would you go flip my truck back over??
Cheers for that 87 Gn will be very helpful by the way nice thread and truck
Sweet! We will see how long it stays stock!
Are you going to use the Telem.....?? Congrats...
Would you go flip my truck back over??
I just got a E revo brushless today for 20% Off
Thats a good deal!
Hey guys 50togo already have Rpm Arms that will be my only upgrade unless things break . Yes 87 GN i will need to buy all Telementry accesories and install them.
What are they like to install?
Any threads here on the installation?
That's what I said!
I was going to do the telemetry but ended up putting money everywhere else on my car!
Now Includes Two 11.1-Volt Power Cell LiPo Battery Packs and LiPo Balance Chargers!
Also Available with Power Cell 8.4-Volt NiMH Battery Packs
Humm that is new ^ didn't know that. Oooo all the carnage, to newboobies... trucks....
Would you go flip my truck back over??
Hey guys just a quick question How does the slipper clutch break in work? I think you wait for it to wine then let it cool then tighten it up is that right?
From the manual mate:
Slipper Clutch Break-In
The E-Revo Brushless Editions slipper clutch requires a break-in procedure to ensure consistent operation with the extremely high power output of the included Castle Creations Mamba Monster brushless motor system. The slipper clutch has been adjusted to the correct initial setting for break-in. Follow these steps to ensure maximum performance and life from your slipper clutch:
1. Make your first runs with the model using the stock gearing and 6- or 7-cell NiMH packs, or 2S LiPo packs.
2. Drive normally. The slipper clutch should slip momentarily when accelerating aggressively on high-traction surfaces (you will hear a whirring sound when the slipper clutch allows the spur gear to
3. If excessive slippage is noticed (slipping that lasts for more than 3 seconds under hard acceleration), or the slipper clutch
slips anytime the throttle is applied at any lever, stop driving immediately. Let the slipper clutch cool for 10-15 minutes.
When the clutch is cool, test-drive the vehicle again. If you still experience excessive slippage, allow the slipper to cool once
more, then tighten the slipper nut ¼ turn (turn the nut clockwise) and repeat the break-in process. Do not adjust the slipper clutch before it has cooled.
4. Continue to run the vehicle and monitor slipper clutch performance as noted above, and readjust if necessary. When the
run is complete, the slipper should be fully broken in. After break-in, the slipper clutch is ready for any type of driving,
with any batteries up to 6S Lipo. Set the slipper clutch so it only slips for a moment (if at all) under hard acceleration in high traction conditions. If excessive slippage is noticed, stop driving immediately. Continuing to drive with a loose slipper will cause
damage to the slipper unit. You must let the slipper cool down to ambient temperature before tightening the slipper nut and
resuming driving.
Rock n Rolla !
Cheers for that Craig


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Squandering time away seems to be my forte. That's usually what I do.
Squandering time away seems to be my forte. That's usually what I do.
Jerking off
Having sex, looking for sex, eating (I looove eating), spending time on the computer (JUB, reading manga, watching anime/tv series, making picture), listening to music, reading, meeting up with friends for a drink, going to the gym when I used all other options...
* Sex. Solo or otherwise.
* Listening to music.
* Searching for more music to listen to.
* Exercising (believe it or not).
* Reading.
* Futzing around online. If I do too much of this, it means I'm now deliberately wasting time, and I should do something better. If I don't have any cleaning or chores to do, I'll just go back to the top of the list and start again.
A lot. Right now i'm watching Sons Of Anarchy, paying bills, starting a comic and working on my costume. Then i'll exercise, probably fuck around on facebook, take a nap at some point, and repeat(everything but the paying of the bills - once is quite enough).
"Theres death on the horizon,
and Ill run to behold your sacrifice..."
jack off and watch porn.
^ You ever do both at the same time? It's great!
We both Aquarium hobbiest and we work on our Salt water Reef tank, freshwater tank, Koi pond, garden, work on our cars, arts N crafts, music, wine tasting......Bbqing, among a few others..
You cant change the way the wind blow's, but you can change the angle of your sail to take you somewhere else!!
nothing but jackoff
if i dont jack off in one day my dick get's hard for hours till it goes down.
I need a week off of work and school where i just stay home and watch tv and eat. I wont jackoff or have sex so my dick will go back to normal
This week I've been decorating and developing the plot for a new book.
Normally, I'd be gardening, listening to music, drawing, writing and the usual online stuff like moderating here and at BSBTV, Facebook, etc
I do tend to wank a lot
What's free time?
Usually spend my time texting with my boyfriend who is out of state. Other than that I like to read and having been doing a bit of writing too.
I beat off to JUB porn.
Much the same as the other guys by the looks of it. I'm obsessed with porn and have a good wank every day.
Apart from that, TV, gym, internet, massage, shopping, music.
sex, read, listen to music, go out to dinner or to a club or a concert or something, shopping, talk, irritate my darling by having him try to explain football or cricket or the appeal of darts to me again and playing dumb
Seems like I sleep a lot.
Facebook. Paying bills. Fitness. Thinking about ways for improving my job. Walking with my dog (Eva; french bulldog). Going out and clubbing with friends. Malls. Relaxing with listening to music and movies. Organizing trip to some country in Europe.
Different everytime.
Watch TV. Look at art works, blogs. Hang with friends (less frequent these days).


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Today's News & Observer reports that Court of Appeals Judge Cressie Thigpen's imminent departure from the bench has led to a cancellation of this week's oral arguments:
There's an unexpected reshuffling of the calendar at the state Court of Appeals. All of the hearings that were scheduled for this week have been postponed, to be re-scheduled later.
It's apparently because Judge Cressie Thigpen lost his bid for re-election this month and can't take on new cases. He was the only judge among the three incumbents running who lost. Thigpen will be replaced by Chris Dillon in January.
Well, not exactly. Of the seven cases scheduled for argument this week, only the one case on which Judge Thigpen was scheduled to sit is being rescheduled, according to Clerk of Court John Connell — the rationale being that Thigpen should not hear argument on a case in which he'd be unable to deliberate and render a decision at a later date.
The rest of the Court's calendar remains unchanged.
Thigpen was also scheduled to hear one of the four cases set for argument in December. Connell said that it was unclear yet what the court would do with that argument, either reschedule or reconfigure the three-judge panels so that argument could proceed on the scheduled date.
As for those cases on which Judge Thigpen sat that are still awaiting a decision: "They'll get those done," Connell said.


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Why would an ISP implement a filter voluntarily?
Unless this is a filter designed to reduce bandwidth use (Torrents, P2P) I truly don't understand the logic here.
I did RFTA.
It's called politics, mutual backrubs, one hand washes the other and so on; probably somewhat of a longterm investment that pays back in the form of favours and goodwill from the government.
Politics and business are about benefiting on the back of the least powerful party, i.e. citizens/customers. Communication companies help the government with their surveillance. In turn, governments keep new regulations and consumer protection laws to a minimum or erode existing ones.
It's not voluntary.
If they don't their government will intervene.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but could you source this? It's not in the article.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but could you source this? It's not in the article.
I'm going to go ahead and say he's wrong. Pulled from this page, it was linked to in another comment [techliberty.org.nz]:
The scheme is currently voluntary for the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) as there is no law to force them to use it.
I'm hoping that this causes non-cooperating ISPs to start advertising the fact to attract customers. That, and that this falls flat on it's face and injects some sense into the Australian filter plan.
"voluntary" in politics is doublespeak.
It's doesn't mean: do whatever you feel like, there will be no consequences one way or another.
It means:
For now we leave you a choice but you better pick the right one or we'll just pass a law that will be even worse for you. By the way, nice tax-free service you're offering there, would be a shame if something happened to it.
"voluntary" in politics is doublespeak.
EVERYTHING in politics is doublespeak. As the old joke goes -- How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips move.
Lately business seems to be following the same rulebook. Ny phone provider Boost, for instance, offers me "unlimited" voice, data, email, text, voicemail, and internet for fifty bucks a month, but if you look at the terms on their website you'll see they can shut you down if you use "an unreasonable" amount. Like a politician, saying "unlimited" doe
Yeah, good advertising campaign. Try fitting "Use us instead of our competitors, because they attempt to filter child porn and we don't! No, really, we don't want you using it for child porn, we just think that automated filtering is a technically unsolvable problem, and prone to corruption, so it's better to not have them in order to prevent legitimate sites from getting blocked." into a slogan.
That's basically the same ploy that was used here in Finland to get ISPs to censor certain (claimed to be) child porn domains. If the ISPs wouldn't do it "voluntarily", then it was understood that government would step in and make it mandatory. Interestingly, after a couple of years, some ISPs have turned off the censoring by default and allow people to explicitly order the censorship "service". Basically it felt like it was all about making politicians look good at that moment, nobody really cared about if it worked or not.
In the UK it was recently reported that the government will not buy services from any ISP that does not implement the IWF blacklist.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article7055882.ece [timesonline.co.uk]
And in the USA, the Minnesota Senate is considering a proposal to prevent state employees staying in hotels that offers "violent" pornography.
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=843624 [kare11.com]
Dropping connections that want to hanshake encryptions / look encrypted.
IP-bans of proxies; general useleness of open proxies; ease of proxy detections.
Do not solve social problem with technical means, it will never work (see: drm).
So drop all e-commerce and anything that requires a password, including half the forums on the internet? Yeah, that won't have any blow back.
Dropping connections that want to hanshake encryptions / look encrypted.
IP-bans of proxies; general useleness of open proxies; ease of proxy detections.
Do not solve social problem with technical means, it will never work (see: drm).
That's probably true, but I wonder how far things will go? For example, where I live, there are already kids setting up local wireless mesh networks to share their music collections and other stuff around. Sure, these are small and operated by pizza-munching geeks, but if the idea gained general traction and the Internet as we know it simply became something similar to cable TV today (plus perhaps a comms network similar to email), would not the people be able to steal the Internet revolution back? I'm also interested in whether this might mean a return in some form at least to the ancient (and perhaps default) mode of human life: that of small, tightly-knit communities.
where I live, there are already kids setting up local wireless mesh networks to share their music collections and other stuff around.
One of the few good things about censorship, it does lead to more technically and politically literate kiddies.
Sure, but try doing that over the ocean.
That would limit the Internet to islands. Sure, you would have plenty of people to share with in a large city, but what about isolated places? Country-to-country connections? It would kill the Internet as we know it, unless someone would came with something better than "mesh networks".
Dropping connections that want to hanshake encryptions / look encrypted.
IP-bans of proxies; general useleness of open proxies; ease of proxy detections.
Do not solve social problem with technical means, it will never work (see: drm).
If you allow HTTPS site you can't block SSH tunneling.
And there are also VPN connections.
If you allow HTTPS site you can't block SSH tunneling.
They don't need to block every https site. They block a list of named sites, and that list grows over time. The police add pedo sites to the list. Other agencies add other sites that they deem "inappropriate". The IWF maintain such a list and governments say it's good because it's targeting child porn sites. But there are also lists maintained by various governments, and they often filter for political sites too. It's impossible to run properly effective filtering by algorithm. So there will be lists
They don't need to block every https site.
They do if they just block all encrypted traffic (which has nothing to do with blacklisting URLs), which is where this thread originated.
Someone is modding everyone who supports going around this filtering using encryption and/or proxies as a troll.
That is very political use of modding. There is no: -1 Disagree so they are using -1 Troll for the same purpose.
Suspicious. I wonder if there are organized interests trying to keep slashdot discussions on the "right" track
these days. And yes, I'm seriously wondering that, and not saying it in order to promote an angry reaction.
Encrypted traffic
All VPN's
All Secure transactions
Proxies, which are almost universally used by businesses as a security measure
Well that's all business off the internet - do you want an economy?
P2P Traffic - Well that's BBC iPlayer and similar streaming services, many game updates etc
Almost everything that has been used for nefarious or illegal purposes was originally developed and is still widely used for legitimate reasons
While you are at it you had better stop people using envelopes in the mail
Suprise butt sex.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is apparently 'committed to helping people to circumvent government internet filtering,'
You might have got that a bit confuzed: US only circumvents in the case of the Cuba's, Iran's etc of the world - it helps destabilize our enemies. For everyone else like NZ, WE are committed [ustr.gov] to forcing the world [iipa.com] to filter as conditions on our trade treaties. (in this case, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement (TPP FTA [iipa.com]) with Singapore, Chile, New Zealand, Brunei Darussalam, Australia, Peru and Vietnam.
Crap, it's too bad the International Intellectual Property Alliance is against stealing website templates. It's like 1997 all over again.
Not to mention that their logo is a friggin' bitmap.
Google can quit!
That would be a crippling blow to NZ, indeed. I hear that Google has the most comprehensive sheep index! ~
If you want to know more about it, check the NZ Internet Filtering FAQ at: http://techliberty.org.nz/issues/internet-filtering/filtering-faq/ [techliberty.org.nz]
"The DIA say that the filter will not be used for law enforcement."
*breathe* AHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAH
HAHAAHAHAH *wipes eyes*
The entire justification for the filter is CP with a side order of bestiality.
And it won't be used for prosecution. That's rich.
This, to me, is the strangest thing about these filtering/censorship proposals. On the one hand, it's claimed that only really, really illegal stuff will be blocked by it -- the worst of the worst that pretty much guarantees a prison sentence merely for possessing, and that the lists will be accurate and won't block legitimate content. On the other, people who are detected trying to access this stuff won't be charged or even investigated?
It seems very strange. Obviously there's simple explanations for this lack of coherency, but the self-contradictory nature of the proposals is so much more transparent than usual in politics.
Well, if having child porn is a crime of posession it'd be weird to get charged for failing to find a way to obtain some. It'd be like locking somebody up for having expressed at some point the desire to get some heroin, but failing to find a dealer.
That's not weird at all. In most countries I know of, conspiracy to commit murder or attempted murder carries much the same penalty as murder, by and large (parole conditions etc not withstanding).
What IS weird is that pictures of murders (and movies with with murders in them) are so very, very common- played on our household TVs, in our movie theatres and present on almost any media you can find today... but the mainstream view is that this is harmless, just a fantasy, and not harmful to adults even in gra
it'd be weird to get charged for failing to find a way to obtain some.
No, actually. There are plenty of ways of being convicted of a crime if you fail to suceed. They call it conspiracy.
"Vadim has hit the server 50 times this year. We should get a warrant to search his computer for illegal activity that wasn't stopped by the server. Also, we should get a warrant to arrest him for conspiracy to acquire child pornography"
"Vadim has been blocked by the server 50 times this year. Let's look at the log
Everyone should read this.
The scheme is currently voluntary for the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) as there is no law to force them to use it.
How does the filtering work?
1. A list of banned sites and their internet addresses is maintained by the Department of Internal Affairs.
2. The DIA then use a routing protocol to tell the participating ISPs (Internet Service Providers) that the 'best' way to the internet address of the banned site's web server is through the DIA's filtering server.
3. When a person tries to access a site (banned or not) on one of the filtered addresses, their ISP knows to divert the request to the DIA's server.
4. The DIA's filtering server then looks at the request. If it is to a banned site, the request is refused and a message is sent back to the person. If it is to a non-banned site, the DIA's filtering server passes the request on to the real server through the DIA's internet connection.
Does the filtering work with HTTPS (secure HTTP)?
HTTPS (secure HTTP) is used for security on sites that need it for services such as internet banking and online shopping.
HTTPS requests can't be examined by the filter server (because they use encryption for the security). This means that all HTTPS traffic to an internet address that has any banned content (possibly for a completely different website) will be passed through the filter.
Does the internet filter only apply to web browsing or does it apply to other traffic as well?
All traffic (web, email, P2P, etc) for a filtered internet address will be forwarded to the DIA's server.
All non-web Internet traffic will be forwarded through the filter to the destination site.
What type of material is censored?
The trial scheme was used to filter child pornography including video, photos, and text articles. Other illegal material (as defined by New Zealand law) is not filtered.
Can other types of material be censored in the future?
There is no technical reason why the same technology could not be extended to block websites with other types of content.
Apparently the NetClean software is contractually restricted to only being used to block child pornography.
So far, so good.
But these are bad:
Is it possible to check whether a website is on the filtered list?
The only way to check whether the website is filtered is by attempting to access it.
If a website is filtered is it possible to find out why?
Maybe the best way to get ISPs to stop being censorship bitches is every time you have connectivity issues, is to call them up and complain your site has probably been caught in the government censorship filter and you can't see any reason why it would be blocked. Here is hoping that enough complaints of false positives will change things. After all how are you to know whether a site is mearly slashdotted or being blocked?
Sounds like like you guys really need a pirate party to defend your liberties and in
"so perhaps the USA will launch an invasion to free the poor downtrodden Kiwis from their own evil government?"
That is probably true.
Since there is rumor CNN might have proof that Bin Laden has been seen there for vacation.
People also say he is accompagnied by Sadam Hussein and Joseph Stalin.
Who are said to have found some oil offshore.
Oh, you speak the queens english? That is good enough. Prepare to be liberated! (Also known as kiss your ass goodbye)
Ok, I do have to admit that this is the first time I heard about the filter... but how can they possibly square that with human rights [hrea.org]? Especially this part:
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
I get that various dictatorships and so on around the globe might not care all that much about human rights, but New Zealand was still a democracy last time I checked?
Just because it's a democracy doesn't mean people care about freedom. People vote in dictators all the time.
I get that various dictatorships and so on around the globe might not care all that much about human rights, but New Zealand was still a democracy last time I checked?
Democracies don't give you good government, they give you the government you deserve. If the people don't pay attention, the government will be corrupt. If the people is willing to put up with human rights abuses, the government will be willing also. If the people are willing to put up with unbalanced budgets and lack of healthcare for some people, the government will be willing to also. See also slavery in America prior to the civil war.
Democracies don't give you good government, they give you the government you deserve.
Democracies don't give you the government you deserve[1], they give you the worst government any 50.1% or more of your fellow citizens can be tricked into voting for.
[1] As if anyone actually deserved to be ruled by any government. Democracies have advantages and disadvantages relative to other forms of government, but these minor differences pale in comparison to the disadvantages inherent in government itself, of any type. Among other issues, so long as any government exists we will never be free of "legi
A democracy is just a dictatorship trough sock puppets. The puppets can change to simulate non-existing free choice.
"so perhaps the USA will launch an invasion to free the poor downtrodden Kiwis from their own evil government?"
The USA would be more than happy to overthrow your government for you and install a dictator friendly to our interests. We can also free you from your public health care system and bring in a less efficient private system that will only cost you 2X as much. We will though commit to spending billions to rebuild your country after our war of words. And finally the issue at hand. We promise to bring you the same great internet service that we have in the USA. If you haven't experienced dial up before you're in for a treat!
We promise to bring you the same great internet service that we have in the USA. If you haven't experienced dial up before you're in for a treat!
NZers will gladly exchange their internet access for yours. Try 50$ with 10G cap.
Having recently moved to NZ, I'm still not used to having a 25 gig/month data cap, but at least my ISP (Slingshot) has taken a stance against the filter. We'll see how long that lasts. Having dealt with numerous account issues (overcharges, undercharges, VoIP issues, you name it) in the two months I've had it, I have a pretty dim view of their professionalism. At least I can reach an actual human being in customer service. They're usually quite polite and helpful (I make it a point to be also). Gotta give t
I thought we had it bad here in Australia with data caps, but yours are way worse. For the same $50 as you're paying for 25 GB, plans here are generally in the upwards of 60 GB (TPG will even give you 130 GB for $49.99). Plus even 200 GB plans are still under 100.
It's weird that Slingshot doesn't have any higher plans (even expensive ones!).
That means there's more chance the proposed filter might come to fruition in Australia. Now the Government can point and say "see, NZ did it!".
Although it's sorta funny
And don't forget us brits [iwf.org.uk] too.
I do find our government's attitude to the whole child porn thing somewhat amusing.
Firstly, the subject gets brought up every time the government wants to win brownie points with the great unwashed - yet the reality of the situation is that kids are far more likely to suffer mental and physical abuse from bullying peers at school rather than the supposed paedophiles that we're told are there on every street corner.
Secondly, the whole child porn thing could be stopped in its tracks if spineless governments a
"herefore there are lots of credit card transactions going on in the sale of the stuff. Therefore force the credit card companies to police those transactions and stop them happening - if they don't, name and shame them in the public media."
They do, they are, and this is the police's main weapon in fighting it, the credit card companies are very cooperative
i think this story is referring to where peter jackson is from
you know, middle earth
the target result that will be eventually achieved is censorship and control over what is communicated publicly over the internet.
And all that is really going on here is the effort to water it down little by little in public semi acceptance and the newbees that simply don't know better.
Freedom is a simple word to understand.
And its easy to see this sort of censorship does not support freedom.
Read the Declaration of Independence if you doubt the intent of the government, any government.
Not that I support Child Pornography but I have seen many filtering systems over the years and NONE of them (including the one proposed for Australia or the one that seems to be being used in New Zealand) are going to stop someone who wants to find Child Pornography.
No filtering system that I have seen even attempts to block the kinds of encrypted p2p networks used by many child pornographers.
The right solution to child porn is to go after the people who are taking these pornographic photographs of kids in the first place and lock them up in a Gulag, Federal Pound Me In The Ass Prison, Jail, Camp or whatever the appropriate correctional institution may be. If you cant do that because its not illegal in the country they happen to reside in, extradite them to a country where it is illegal and pressure the government of the country where its not illegal to make it illegal.
That idea sucks. Why couldnt all the homosexuals in the USA get extradited to Iraq so their heads can get chopped off?
of why filtering doesn't work.
No, I don't mean just the fact that the simple text string filter is too crude, but mainly the fact that there is no penalties imposed (eg loss of job) on the assholes who implement filtering technology with the same due diligence as an indian first line support call centre, and fuck up the entire internet for whole groups of users, or domain owners.
Scunthorpe is just one example, what is crude, evil or illegal to one person, is totally innocent and innocuous to another person.
Back in the day, no ISP wanted to touch filtering with a bargepole, not even if it cut their upstream bandwidth costs by 50%, for one simple reason... once you filter, you take legal responsibility for EVERYTHING, and open yourself up to lawsuits.
Goodbye "common carrier" and "mere conduit" status.
EU Law states (and I know exactly of what I speak, being personally instrumental in this law being codified and specified within UK Law) that for the purposes of the Electronic Commerce Directive an ISP is a "mere conduit"
As this applies to a UK ISP this ruling SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTS the "mere conduit" from all civil, and criminal, liabilities, even if the material in question is defamatory, copyright violation, or even child pornography... PROVIDED THEY REMAIN A "MERE CONDUIT"
The nanosecond you start filtering, you are no longer a mere conduit or common carrier.
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Staidum Renovation Exercise
If you keep an eye on the renovation webcam, you probably know that the brick on the exterior is just about done. I gotta say that I love it, and I'm very pleased with the direction it's gone. But I had a thought, just as a fun exercise:
If you were the stadium designer, had free choice on what to do, and budget wasn't really a concern, what might you have done with the renovation?
I love it as it is and I think it'll be great, but for nonsense, I think it would've been cool to play on the "Big House" theme.
Instead of long boxes down either side, you could have "guard towers" containing boxes and so on. Parapets on top, and barred windows along the outside. Obviously, the inside still gets big windows for good visibility for the boxes and so on. Between each tower, the pathways containing vending, restrooms and so on could be built to look like guard wall connecting each tower, or cell block sections, again, with barred windows built in. To get extra campy, vending stations and access to seating sections could be enclosed in "cells", gates and all.


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Manchester United utility man Phil Jones has become somewhat of a viral sensation not for his assured performances for the 20-time league champions, but for the bizarre contortions of his face during action.
Sir Alex Ferguson believes the youngster has the ability to become Manchester United's greatest player ever, but it is his penchant for gurning and his expressions of sheer terror that have made Jones a cult sensation.
There appears to be a face for every instance - whether Jones is making a tackle, striding forward with the ball or celebrating a Manchester United goal - and long may the Old Trafford star's malleable facade continue to provide us with some laughs.
In tribute to 21-year-old, GMF has highlighted some our favourite facial shots of the Red Devil.
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DECAF l33t
When after reading that I reply with "WTF?"
Seriously. I read the summary. I read the article. I read the discussion on slashdot about the initial news posting. I still don't get what DECAF was exactly supposed to do, what it actually is doing, and what message the author of DECAF thinks he is sending with whatever his software does.
Worst. Story. EVER!
Seriously. I read the summary. I read the article. I read the discussion on slashdot about the initial news posting. I still don't get what DECAF was exactly supposed to do, what it actually is doing, and what message the author of DECAF thinks he is sending with whatever his software does.
COFFEE is an idiotbox collection of tools that Microsoft put together for police to do "forensics" on computers.
DECAF runs on your computer and allegedly checks for/neutralizes/prevents COFFEE.
The author's general message is "don't trust" and "Jesus"
If you couldn't figure any of that out, you may want to consider improving your reading comprehension skills.
What's more likely is that you aren't so stupid, but like to pretend you are on
I can see what they are getting at but it is a real douche thing for them to be all "shame on you!" for downloading and using software that they themselves created, provided, and handed out. I can't see a whole lot of people taking them seriously, as a result.
The lesson here is that serious security software is not a black box. It's something you can audit and verify. And yes, shame on anyone who thought otherwise and fell for this. They should consider themselves fortunate that this one was rather benign. It could have easily done real damage.
Somehow, I get the impression that they didn't want DECAF to be taken seriously.
From the start, even.
As for the thing about salvation and Jesus, well, for example, Jesus said (paraphrased), "You should learn the truth. Learning the truth will make you free." Putting that into context for you, truth is about reality, and COFEE was/is not about reality, and their DECAF was an unreal response to security snake-oil.
Poorly implemented, perhaps, but I read the message as something like, "You're not free if you tr
True. But it's ironic that is the message they -want- you to learn.
When I saw the original announcement of this program, I was skeptical of what it was actually for. However, I didn't see this type of angle coming! LOL, wow!
Few would have guessed that there was an angel coming.
In addition to their message of security the authors somehow manage to interject a discussion about religion so who knows what the real goal was.
Considering that all but the first paragraph of the article was the religious message its self, I'd say that it is pretty clear what the goal was.
How exactly are they going to disable it remotely, when my firewall blocks the connections, and I can always reinstall a cracked download, when it disables itself with a timer?
You're doing it wrong.
Which of these are bad? And why? I've often heard that getting a personal message out via publicity stunts is a good thing (The Yes Men) and now all the sudden it's bad, and we should pay no attention to these reprehensible people whose only method is deceit?
Many people will poke fun at the religious angle of it, but frankly I would be critical of this stunt even if it was for a cause I believed in.
And seeing as it _is_ a cause I believe in, I will chime in with said criticism. It's not unlike those tracts that look like money that people sometimes leave as "tips". Great way to get attention, but in the end it's generally the wrong kind of attention, rather anti-persuasive.
Well the Yes Men don't try to get me to install stuff to my PC for one thing.
If they succeed in getting you to download, install, and execute untrusted and unvetted code, that's your fault. I really consider any "threat" that requires my active participation to be a complete and total non-issue.
The fact that all copies of the software were deactivated remotely. It's a needless act of destruction, only somewhat justified by the fact that they themselves created it.
you are aware that it wont take long before some party comes up with a working DECAF after this point, right ?
How many people would be gullible to fall for it twice?
Oh, wait, never mind. I must be new here. Continue with your countdown.
In shockingly unexpected news, it turns out that a closed-source alleged anti-malware software was not trustworthy.
Who would have guessed.
What DECAF giveth, DECAF taketh away.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/18/fergie_laptop_theft/
Royal laptop theft 'will expose picture'
Fergie fails on password security
Posted in Security, 18th December 2008 12:19 GMT
Security experts said it would be child's play for thieves to access sensitive data on the Duchess of York's stolen laptop, despite the use of password protection.
Fergie's computer, swiped during a break in to a photography studio last Thursday, reportedly revealed
Manchester United's January transfer window targets unreleased tracks by the Black Eyed Peas pictures of the Duchess, together with photos of her two daughters and her ex-husband Prince Andrew, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Claims that the laptop might have been password protected cut little ice with security experts. "Given the fact that the Royal Family was involved with the pictures held on this laptop, the data should have been encrypted - full stop," said Michael Callahan, senior vice president and chief marketing officer at security firm Credant. Callahan expressed surprise that the laptop - rather than a CD or USB stick - was used to take photos into the studio.
"Even if the pictures couldn't have been securely emailed, an encrypted CD-ROM or USB stick is a pretty standard format in most firms these days, so it beggars belief that the Royal Family's security staff - who are supposedly drawn from the upper echelons of the Police and UK Security Services - didn't pick up on the need for IT security on the photos." ®


text: Geek's Guide to the Galaxy: "Mike Mignola is a major star in the comic book world thanks to the success of his unlikely hero Hellboy, a denizen of the underworld who fights for the side of good. The comic book's current storyline features Hellboy battling his way through the trackless wastes of hell itself. But for Mignola, contemplating the fate of the damned comes as a welcome relief from the madness of Tinseltown."


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Last week I had a chance to preview Nintendo's upcoming Wii lineup at the company's fall media summit. And while the new DS and the handheld platform's strong lineup dominated the news, I was more interested in what Nintendo was showing off on the Wii. After all, my Wii has been dormant for months. I wanted to know whether I should expect four more months of the same, or some real change from Nintendo's platform. The first-party offerings weren't very inspiring. Animal Crossing: City Folk and Wii Music did little to convince me to start dusting off my Wiimotes. Tetris Party had some intriguing modes, but another Tetris game just isn't going to do it for me.
However, I did get a look at four games from various third-party developers that at least offered some action that didn't involve cooking simulation or Sudoku. So out of those few offerings, do we have anything to look forward to?
Looking like an animated ink-drawn comic, PlatinumGames' beat-em-up MadWorld is immediately striking. This game looks like something fresh--though the concept is anything but.
MadWorld is directly born out of Running Man, or in the video game realm, Smash TV. Your character is participating on a violent gameshow, facing down bad-guys and bosses in a progression of linear levels. In addition to regular on-foot action, players will also take to motorcycles for some racing-based combat. nope The action is as over-the-top as it gets. Enemies are impaled with traffic signs, cut in half at the waist by chainsaws, or thrown into burning trash cans and set alight. Advanced combat is mostly motion-based and context-sensitive--players will need to take stock of their environments to maximize the violence.
BOOM video 798 MadWorld is still a ways off--expected to hit in early 2009--but what I saw was encouraging. Not having gotten my hands on the game yet, my major question is whether the motion-based combat will click in a satisfying way.
The Conduit
High Voltage Software's first person shooter The Conduit was unveiled at E3, but this was my first time getting my hands on it. After playing through an extensive demo level, I came away rather bullish of the game's prospects.
Starved for a worthy FPS in a post-Prime world, The Conduit fulfills the first requirement by getting its control schemes right. Every command is re-mappable, right down to Wii motions. There are numerous sliders for sensitivity, and users can even adjust the "dead zone" box of pointer control to fine-tune the experience. A lock-on mechanic makes multi-enemy combat manageable. nope As far as gameplay, it's a standard sci-fi shooter. It feels good, but not surprisingly so. Outside of shooting soldiers, players will use a context-sensitive, all-purpose All Seeing Eye tool to hack computers and detect hidden aliens. Using the ASE was a hit-and-miss experience--sometimes it was an interesting puzzle-solving tool, other times I missed a hidden wall switch and chased my tail.
BOOM video 1002 Mutliplayer will include online multiplayer for up to 16 players. Modes include deathmatch, team deathmatch, and capture the flag--though the team may include an extra mode if they have the resources. Expect the game in early 2009.
Call of Duty: World at War
Having gotten my hands on a large part of the 360 version, I didn't spend very much time with the Wii version of World at War. It looked like the other version, but with more difficult controls and fuzzier graphics. nope While World at War smartly follows The Conduit in allowing for an endless amount of dead zone and sensitivity controls, it never did feel entirely natural shooting the Japanese with a Wiimote. Trying to snipe enemies from a distance without any type of lock-on was a pain. Similarly, spinning from side to side while spraying enemies with the flamethrower was unwieldy.
Outside of the controls, the major difference with the Wii version of the game is the lack of online co-op. In its place will be a Mario Galaxy-esque co-op mode, with a second player controlling a simple cursor to shoot at enemies from over the shoulder of the primary player.
Taking all of that into account, the PC or Xbox 360 versions of World at War should be your first stop. The Wii version will launch alongside the others on November 11.
Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop
If you're looking for horror, this scary title fits the bill.
Imagine the original Dead Rising (360). Now take away the insane amount of zombies, and any non-linear freedom--in other words, take away the entire concept of the game. Now put a pixelation filter over the screen, and add controls with all the intuitiveness of a 1996 PlayStation FPS. nope Ignore all of the lapses in judgment that have lead to this sort of shabby port--I just want to know why I can't turn my character around in less than ten seconds. Right now, killing zombies in this game is a chore. It was modeled on the Resident Evil 4 engine, but I can't begin to describe how much more intuitive RE4 was than this game is currently.
The only shining moment of my demonstration was when the main character grabbed a mannequin--using its breasts as hand-holds--and a Capcom rep mentioned that she could imagine Japanese programmers giggling away.
BOOM video 781 Don't be a part of their sick joke. Stay away from this monstrous game. You've been warned: Chop Til You Drop approaches this winter.


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Harriet 'Hattie' (Rideout) Fricker
Lieu de naissance : Neil's Harbour
Date de naissance : 10 octobre 1920
Date de décès : 18 février 2013
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the peaceful passing of our mother, Nan, sister, aunt and friend on Feb.18, 2013, at the Highland Manor, where she had resided for the past three and one-half years.
Born in Neil's Harbour, she was the daughter of the late John Henry and Alice Maude (Fricker) Rideout.
Hattie was a life long member of St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Neil's Harbour. Her children and grandchildren were her life, and she enjoyed telling anyone who would listen about her two newest great-great-grandchildren, Meghan and Jack. You could find her enjoying a good book or looking out over the water from her window at the Manor. She will be fondly remembered for her love of red jackets, soap, having her hair and nails done, listening to music, telling stories and having a good laugh.
Hattie was predeceased by her husband of 49 years, Clayton, grandson, Roger Johnson, brothers, Cecil and Tim, sisters, Irene Clark and Mildred (Puddy) Seymour.
She is survived by her son, Ralph (Lil), Cold Water, Ont.; daughters, Leona (Jerry Johnson), Hamilton Ont., Barbara Ingraham, who she resided with before moving to the Manor, Neil's Harbour, and Brenda Fricker (Everett), Smelt Brook; sisters, Ella Clark, North Sydney, and Gladys Foss, her roommate at the Manor. Also left behind are 14 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
Cremation has taken place, and a celebration of her life will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 23 at St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Neil's Harbour, Rev. Gloria Fraser officiating. Reception will be held at Neil's Harbour Fire Hall after the service.
The family would like to thank all the staff at the Highland Manor for their wonderful care.
In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to a charity of your choice.
Online condolences may be made by visiting www.fillmoreandwhitman.com.


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19-Year-Old Top Model Karlie Kloss Does Controversial First Nude Shoot For Allure
We first saw Karlie Kloss stomping down a runway when she was just 15 and since then she's kept up a pretty wholesome image. However, it's hard not to feel like fashion people have been eager to get her naked as soon as legally possible: inside a year of turning 18, she landed the cover of i-D's Exhibitionist issue wearing nothing but a Prada hat and half of Jourdan Dunn's also-naked body. It even kind of reminded us of that creepy countdown clock to the Olsens turning 18.
Now Kloss is 19 and Mario Testino has shot her for a beauty feature in Allure… her first completely naked shoot. As Styleite points out, these are called "implied nudes," insofar as Kloss is naked but you can't see nipple. etc.
Here's the full spread. So far, reaction is pretty evenly divided between "She's not naked and she's over 18, what's the big deal?!" and "Uh, this is kind of weird and gross." Maybe it's only weird because a lot of the fashion press/bloggers remember Kloss as that goofy, grinning 15-year-old and it's a bit off to see her sexualized in this (comparatively-tame-for-fashion) way. What's your take?
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[UPDATE] Different takes from the fashion blogosphere contain "uncomfy," "icky," more befitting of Maxim, and even a call for a ban on working with Testino.


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By Wayne Veysey | UK Correspondent
Jack Wilshere has been forced out of Arsenal's trip to Bayern Munich after injuring the same ankle that contributed to his 16-month layoff, Goal.com can reveal.
The midfielder sustained the injury to his right ankle against Tottenham in the north London derby and has been recuperating in Dubai.
"Jack Wilshere is out," Wenger confirmed on Tuesday. "He has an inflamed ankle. I could see in the last couple of games he had started to dig deep. He has played 30 games. For us it is not welcome but maybe for him it is not bad that he has a little breather."
Arsenal sent Wilshere to the warmth of Dubai at the end of last week and will assess the injury when he returns.
Wenger will give an update on his charge's progress to the media on Tuesday but there is a widely held fear that the club's most influential player could face a lengthy spell on the sidelines.
The 21-year-old had surgery in September 2011 to repair a fracture to his right ankle, which had first been sustained in a pre-season friendly in July 2011. He later suffered heel and knee injuries and did not play competitive football again until October 27 of last year.
Wilshere's absence from the Arsenal squad that leaves London on Tuesday to fly to Munich is a huge blow to the club's already uphill task in overturning their 3-1 deficit from the first leg.
He is also unlikely to be available for the Gunners' Premier League trip to Swansea City on Saturday and is a major doubt for England's World Cup qualifying double header against San Marino and Montenegro.
Roy Hodgson names his England squad on Thursday and will be particularly keen to have Wilshere in the team for the match away to Group H leaders Montenegro on March 26.
Arsenal are also facing a defensive crisis as they prepare for the second leg of their Champions League clash against Bayern.
As revealed by Goal.com, Bacary Sagna is expected to miss out with a knee problem, while Carl Jenkinson has also been struggling with a knock picked up against Spurs.
With Nacho Monreal cup-tied, Kieran Gibbs is expected to be rushed back into action to face the runaway Bundesliga leaders.
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In the early- and mid-90s, Gateway and its iconic cow-spotted packaging were taking the PC market by storm. Similar to Apple, the Irvine, Calif.-based company primarily targeted the consumer market, establishing hundreds of retail stores by 2001.
But starting that year, an overall weak global economy, coupled with pressure from competitors such as Dell, caused Gateway to lose its momentum. Between 2001 and 2002, the company's stock price fell nearly 70 percent, causing Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's to lower its credit to junk bond status. On March 28, 2002, the fallen PC giant said it was closing 27, or about 10 percent, of its retail locations.
But before things went from bad to worse, Gateway was acquired by fellow PC maker Acer for approximately $710 million in October 2007.


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Core tags
Each of the technologies has a set of core tags that are used throughout.
The XSP tag set consists of the following core tags.
Root of all XSP pages and specifies the scripting language and the tag libraries used by a particular XSP page
Top-level element encloses source program-level
declarations such as
Embeds procedural logic in an XSP page. Enclosed code is transcribed verbatim into the generated XSPPage producer. Other XSP or user markup may be nested inside this tag.
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The JSP Reference syntax can be found on Sun's Java site.
Which Technology is Right for Me?
So which technology is best for your project? The answer: it depends. There are pros and cons to both as we've seen, but each should be weighed according to your project needs.
If you are looking for a solution that maximizes reusable code across applications, then XSP is probably your answer. XSP allows the separation of content from presentation. This separation allows developers to handle content generation. The XSP page can be generated from a servlet or other Java code as well as being static. XML and XSL authors can handle presentation and styling through modification of the XSL stylesheet applied to the XSP page. Just as easily, XSP solves the other significant deficiency of JSP. Because XSP processing occurs before any stylesheets are applied, the resultant XML document can be transformed into any other format. This maintains all the advantages of XML. The XSP page can be transferred between applications as well as being used just for presentation.
If you want to keep your development teams clearly defined, then, again, XSP is probably your answer. The introduction of the JSP environment made significant improvements in dynamic web application development by better separating the application developer from the presentation designers. However it still involves a fair amount of interaction between the two. There is frequently a need for inline Java code to determine the correct presentation necessary when dealing with dynamic content. Custom tag libraries have helped address this and require the presentation person to be less knowledgeable about what the logic is actually doing. But that person still needs to understand how to use the tag library, which is usually more then a presentation person wants or needs to know.
XSP and accompanying framework focuses XSL and XSLT stylesheets for the presentation layer written by presentation designers, XML for the content provided by the content authors, and application logic layer and tagset generated by the application developer. The interaction of the technologies in the Cocoon framework is what glues everything together and allows XSL plus XML plus embedded tags to generate an HTML document. The tasks themselves are clearly separated.
If your main concern is getting a product out the door with the least risk factor, then JSP is your answer. JSPs are popular and widely understood, while XSP and Cocoon are still emerging. This is not something to overlook. For large scale projects, it is always necessary to evaluate how much effort it would take to bring a new developer up to speed and the pool of talent you can draw from. In addition, existing HTML and XML tools can be used for JSP development, making the overall time it takes to get rolling relatively short.
Sue Spielman is an associate editor for ONJava.com, covering JSP and Servlets technologies. She is also President and Senior Consulting Engineer for Switchback Software LLC.
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Judging from his character Rick Grimes' understated cowboy-like swagger on "The Walking Dead," it's hard to imagine British actor Andrew Lincoln being nervous.
But when asked about making the initial leap to American television, Lincoln admitted: "I was terrified. The pilot episode in ['The Walking Dead'], I'm isolated for a lot of the first part of the story. … I was sort of drip-fed into the character that way. Initially it felt very different, but then after a while you realize it's an ordinary film set."
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That was one of a few revelations Lincoln shared during a recent Envelope Emmy Roundtable featuring four other top dramatic television actors: Elisabeth Moss of "Mad Men," Connie Britton of "Nashville," Bryan Cranston of "Breaking Bad" and Kevin Bacon of "The Following."
Lincoln's first order of business in joining "The Walking Dead" was mastering an American accent. "If you're going to have the honor of leading or being involved in playing quite an iconic sort of American role, I wanted to get that bit out of the way before the zombies — so I could focus on killing them," he said.
He also explained what initially drew him to the show: "When I read the pilot episode, I realized what they wanted to do with it. I thought, 'This is the most extraordinary way to sort of distill humanity.' … All it is is just about what it is to be human."
For more from Lincoln, including his explanation of how television acting is like recording a Nirvana album, watch the video.
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is absolutely classic. That should replace the picture of Denard's helmet on the banner.
Photos from Michigan vs. Michigan State
Here are the photos from Michigan vs. MSU.
Ice Cold
Brady Hoke thought pass interference should have been called
Taylor Lewan with Greg Mattison after the game
The complete Slideshow. I hope it doesn't suck.
All photos are Creative Commons licensed. If you have any questions or comments that you don't want to post on here. Feel free to e-mail me at [email protected].
That was my first thought, too! That shot of BWC celebrating with the student section is awesome. Great job, as always!
Call this what you will, but I, to this day, do not think it's appropriate or sensitive to tag or mention "brunette girls". Sorry to troll or derail the conversation.
Like all things on the internet your opinion has been heard and now will be harshly judged...
Yes, and unfortunately, it looks like people have selective memory.
What are you insinuating here? It's a pretty harmless joke.
He was arreted for rape his freshman year. No charges were pressed, presumably for a reason, but I assume that is what he was refering to.
OK . . . but if no charges were pressed, should we hold it over his head forever? (If you're hinting that you think the athletic department "made it go away," I really don't think that's how it works these days.)
Don't mean to imply that. I assume the charges were dropped for lack of evidence. I was tryign to explain the reference, not to agree with it.
PS -- awesome pictures, especially, as said, BWC
No, i'm not suggesting that at all... just using common sense to think that given the situation, he (as should we) should be sensitive to the incident. I'm not getting into the accusation business.
But, if you think that coverups no longer happen, you're naive. Law enforcement may not be involved in cover ups, but cases do get dropped. Again, not saying it happened or happens here. I hope it doesn't.
I'm curious: do you always feel this way when someone is arrested but then all the charges are dropped? Or do Michigan football players warrant some extra level of suspicion even if the courts disagree?
The "think of brunette girls" thing is obviously a silly joke intended to loosen the kid up before his field goal in the bowl game. There is no reason to draw anything beyond that. Honestly, if you read something sinister into that, I think that may say more about you than about the poster.
The courts didn't agree nor did it disagree... it didn't get that far.... many cases like this don't. Like I said, not commenting on the issue itself, just commenting on how insensitive the comments were. I'm going to drop it, because apparently no one else agrees- which baffles me. I'm also baffled that MGoBlog sells t-shirts referencing it. But, I guess that's like, my opinion then, man.
Also, I'd love to reverse the question: What would be your reaction had this happened to an MSU player?
Your right we should also think about blondes and red heads.
all good.
Well redhead girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
And the brazily girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when Im down there
The mid-wavy dirty blondie girls really make you feel alright
And the no-highlights with the way they kiss
They keep their boyfriends warm at night
I wish they all could be brunetties
I wish they all could be brunetties
I wish they all could be brunette girls
I like the picture of Jordan Kovacs returning the interception -- the look on his face is one of focus and steely determination.
Great shot by Chewer D.
What's cooler than being cool???? Gibbons!!!
hugging Mattison is unreal. The emotion, the passion, the love. I'll admit it made me a little dusty.
...to accompany the incredible win. What a game. What a day. What a win.
Thanks for sharing.
Those pictures were all great, many were outstanding. The picture of the ball coming into Gallon is awesome. As noted above, the BWC picture is incredibe.
Those are awesome. I love the one where Denard's shoe has just come off. It's just hanging there in the air! LOL
The photos themselves were good, but what makes them GREAT are the moments you caught. The Kovacs INT, Lewan/Mattison, Hawthorn getting chewed out, Denard's shoe mid air, the Denard to Gallon almost-game-winning-TD. Really enjoyed the set, it captured the essance of the game. Job well done, keep up the good work.


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Ed Murray, Mayor
SUBJECT: Young people to learn about jobs, college
Rachel Schulkin (206) 684-8020
Young people to learn about jobs, college
At employment & education fair
SEATTLE – Young people between the ages of 15-22 are invited to attend the annual Youth Employment, Education and Career Fair to meet and connect with local employers and college representatives, and learn about jobs and other community resources.
The fair will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 19th, 2014, 1 to 4 p.m., at Seattle Goodwill, 700 Dearborn Pl. S, Seattle, WA 98144.
The event is sponsored by the Seattle Youth Employment Program (part of the Seattle Human Services Department) in partnership with King County, WorkSource Seattle-King County and Seattle Goodwill.
The Seattle Youth Employment Program (SYEP) is operated by the Seattle Human Services Department and has three program components: a School Year Program that provides youth, ages 14-21, enrolled in the Seattle Public High Schools, with academic support and work training; a Summer Internship Program, open to students, ages 15-17, enrolled in Seattle Public High Schools who meet the income and eligibility criteria; and an Out of School Youth Program, which focuses on youth, ages 16-21, who have dropped out of high school, to develop a plan to achieve education, personal and employment goals.
For more information, please visit this Web site: http://www.seattle.gov/humanservices/youth/employment.htm


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The current sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church has touched another local parish.
Reports have surfaced from two people that were allegedly sexually abused from a priest assigned to Saint Anthony's parish of Rockford more than 25 years ago.
A letter was sent to all Saint Anthony's parishioners this past weekend to inform them there were sexual abuse allegations that pertained to the deceased father Ted Feely.
The priest served at Saint Anthony's church from 1968 until 1972 and died in 1991.
Feely was a Franciscan Friar at Saint Anthony's church. The parish was run by the conventual's Franciscans.
The Franciscan order is now taking steps to investigate the sexual allegations towards feely. They're also encouraging others who may have been victims to come forward.
These reports are the first the church has received about father Ted Feely since his death 11 years ago.


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"There's been so much speculation in the gaming world surrounding this whole Adam Orth/"always on" debacle that I'm sure most of us have forgotten that North Korea wants to nuke the United States off of the globe. Are gamers over reacting to what is still a rumor? "
I agree with this guy I like bananas and Microsoft/I also know quite a bit bout both. A banana can give you your daily dose of potassium and vitamin A,C,And E.Microsoft isn't dumb enough to release a internet dependent console. Look at everybody Waltzing around like they know Microsoft's plans inside and out just because some nobody sates one small detail HE DIDN'T EVEN SAY THE WORKS xbox 720 or Durango or next box or xbox omega or whatever your calling this console no one other than Microsoft workers can honestly say exists. And in the very unlikely case that THEY DO release a internet dependent console they can easily fix The PROBLEM with a firmware update,
Why would Microsoft do this? well, I'm still considering getting Durango btw I enjoy my xbox 360 more than my
inb4 Sony is the most hated company when they released PS3 with Cell and with a price tag of 599.
And now MS, even though they have developer friendly machine, this Always-online policy will drag them into fall down.
Most of the gamers around the globe still plays offline or single player. They enjoy it even though they don't have DSL connections or Broadband. Single player offline already satisfies them.


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|Monday April 30, 2018 @07:19PM
|The Smithsonian's New Tour Guide Is a Robot
|Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:23PM
|The Metropolitan Museum of Art Makes 375,000 Images Available For Free
|Thursday January 26, 2017 @11:44PM
|Software Engineers Are the Heroes of New Computer History Museum Exhibit
|Wednesday October 26, 2016 @05:24PM
|176 Original Emojis Join Van Gogh and Picasso At Museum of Modern Art
|Saturday August 06, 2016 @07:45PM
|Ask Slashdot: What Should a Children's Computer Museum Look Like?
|Wednesday February 24, 2016 @12:32PM
|E-book Museum At the Library of Congress?
|Friday December 25, 2015 @06:34PM
|Tour the Turn of the Century Electrotherapy Museum (Video)
|Tuesday September 15, 2015 @10:57AM
|Northern California Wildfire Destroys American Telephony Museum
|Tuesday July 28, 2015 @08:47AM
|Smithsonian Increases Goal For Spacesuit Crowdfunding Effort
|Friday November 28, 2014 @02:54AM
|Edsac Goes Live, At UK's National Museum of Computing
|Wednesday October 22, 2014 @11:23AM
|Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public
|Thursday July 10, 2014 @05:13PM
|The Oatmeal Convinces Elon Musk To Donate $1 Million To Tesla Museum
|Tuesday January 28, 2014 @01:27AM
|Bletchley Park's Bitter Dispute Over Its Future
|Friday January 03, 2014 @08:22AM
|Bill Nye To Debate Creationist Museum Founder Ken Ham
|Saturday December 14, 2013 @01:26PM
|Leaked Passwords On Display At a German Museum
|Wednesday November 13, 2013 @01:58AM
|Apple II DOS Source Code Released
|Saturday November 02, 2013 @01:42PM
|Microspotting: Inside the Microsoft Archives
|Thursday October 24, 2013 @11:28AM
|A Look Inside the 8K Theater Technology At the Newly Renovated Fiske Planetarium
|Friday April 12, 2013 @07:41PM
|Earliest Version of D&D On Display At Rochester Museum
|Thursday March 21, 2013 @11:29AM
|V&A Scraps Napalm Death Gig For Fear Decibel Levels Will Damage Sculptures
|Tuesday October 16, 2012 @11:16AM
|Endeavour Arrives At California Science Center
|Friday October 12, 2012 @07:08PM
|Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Journey
|Saturday October 06, 2012 @11:54PM
|Oatmeal Fundraiser a Success; Non-Profit Buys Land For Tesla Museum
|Sunday September 30, 2012 @08:46AM
|Computer History Museum Gets the Attention It Deserves
|Monday August 27, 2012 @05:14AM
|The Oatmeal's Fundraiser Tops $1M Toward Tesla Museum
|Tuesday June 05, 2012 @11:00AM
|Space Shuttle Collides With Bridge In New York
|Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:37AM
|NASA Shuttle Discovery Set To Buzz Washington, DC
|Saturday March 24, 2012 @09:09AM
|Giant Paper Airplane Takes (Brief) Flight Over Arizona
|Tuesday March 06, 2012 @10:38AM
|Museum of Engineered Organisms Opens In Pittsburgh
|Thursday February 09, 2012 @12:30PM
|Sponsor a Valve On Colossus
|Thursday February 02, 2012 @10:10AM
|Inside the Museum of Nonsense
|Tuesday July 12, 2011 @12:20AM
|GPU-Powered Planetarium Renders 64MP Projection
|Tuesday April 12, 2011 @02:20PM
|NASA Announces Final Homes of Shuttle Fleet
|Thursday March 31, 2011 @07:26PM
|San Francisco Opening Computer & Video Game Museum
|Thursday February 03, 2011 @02:39PM
|Google Art Project Brings Galleries To Your PC
|Thursday August 05, 2010 @10:17AM
|NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum
|Wednesday May 05, 2010 @01:28PM
|St. Louis Museum Offers Thrills, Chills, and Lawsuits
|Thursday April 22, 2010 @08:58PM
|Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City
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Now he's got his chance. Royal Delta is too good for fillies and mares and she's in the best shape of her life and she showed it Saturday. Her Beldame triumph was positively laughable, reminiscent of Rachel Alexandra's Mother Goose win. Mike Smith moved early and blew right past It's Tricky and opened up.
What's upsetting is that the four and a half fans of this sport won't see her run against the boys again this year. Mott and owner Benjamin Leon want to defend her Ladies Classic title and go for the Big One next year. That's right. Next year. We all know how durable these horses are.
If there were a horseman who could do it I'd bet on Mott and maybe John Sherriffs. Mott's skilled and patient enough to let the horses to the talking. Come to think of it, Mott must have a voodoo-like effect over his owners. How else can he get performances out of To Honor and Serve that ignite and baffle and still keep the horses in his barn? Every time he gets us off THAS, the horse blows up.
Who knows what Royal Delta's race figs are, but they must match up squarely with the boys.
It makes you wonder the past few years why fillies have had such success against the boys. Going back to 2008, Eight Belles ran a monster Kentucky Derby before she suffered that catastrophic freak gallop out. But I really think Jess Jackson is responsible for fast fillies taking on the boys. He made it go viral.
Since 2009, we saw Rachel beat the boys three times, Zenyatta beat them once and nearly again and even Havre de Grace defeated eventual Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Flat Out. Is it because the males aren't as good? Maybe. Is it because these fillies were big? Well, yeah, they do need to match up a bit on size, but I bet if that little squirt Proud Spell ran against the boys she could've held her own. I really think that the special fillies were always as fast as the boys, but trainers and owners just kept them in their class. Maybe they got spooked by Ruffian's breakdown.
There was Genuine Risk and Serena's Song, but I bet there were many more that could've run against the boys.
There's the money reason, which, in effect, may be the only reason. Had Rachel Alexandra run in the Black-Eyed Susan she would have run for $300,000. The Preakness gave her a shot at a $1 million-race. Zenyatta, $2 million vs. $5 million. Havre de Grace in the Woodward vs. say, the Personal Ensign? $300,000 (it's $600,000 now, post VLT) vs. $750,000.
I often wonder what made Rachel Alexandra as captivating as she was. When Havre de Grace ran in the Woodward nobody cared. Zenyatta had the appeal, and my lord, if she ran on the east coast she would've been a phenom on the level of Kate Middleton. She brought it herself with her dancing and late-charging style. But I think it ultimately goes back to Jackson's media and PR savvy. That's something Royal Delta's connections lack, for better or worse. She's one of the best 14 horses in the world and she won't run against them.
I'd be shocked and awed if she runs in the Breeders' Cup Classic 13 months from now.


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With Christmas coming up, it's time to start thinking of gifts and what you'll be getting your friends and family. Actually, if you're just now starting your Christmas shopping, you should really get on it because the holiday is fast approaching! There are some people who are easy to buy for and then there are those who aren't so easy. What do you get a lumberjack for instance? Or the camping enthusiast? Okay, campers might be easy to buy for, but what do you get the camper who has everything?? Easy. A 12" Cast Iron Dutch Oven from Harbor Freight Tools!
What does a Dutch Oven have to do with cutting down trees or camping, you might ask. Have you ever chopped down trees? It's exhausting! And you're sure to build up an appetite. And you might not find much time for cooking up a delicious meal. Well, that's where the Dutch Oven comes in. Designed for long, slow cooking, this handy piece of equipment will let you prepare dinner while you're out felling trees all day. Roasts, stews, soups, and casseroles are easy with the Dutch Oven and with a capacity of 6 quarts, you'll be able to make enough food to satisfy a manly hunger. Or a womanly one. I'm sure there are female lumberjacks out there.
But you don't have to be an axe-wielding lumberjack or a camper to benefit from the Dutch Oven. This cast iron pot works well in any kitchen and makes cooking simple. No matter what you're preparing, the Dutch Oven cooks evenly and thoroughly for an incredible, tasty meal. Just for good measure though, here are a few insights from actual customers:
"Very good quality, heavy cast iron uniform thickness … cooks nice and even … easy to season and clean… I highly recommend if you are looking for a good cast iron pot to last a life time." – By eshaw from Parts Unknown.
"Great "camp oven" for the price…Season well and it's ready to roll. Used ours recently for Chicago style pizza…Fabulous! (I line the oven with parchment, works like a charm… actually, I just press the dough out onto a parchment sheet, drop the whole thing into the dutch oven, fill with toppings and bake…easy peasy!) Thickness seems uniform, heavy, love it…I'll be picking up a second one for our other home." – By Wild Alaskan from Kasilof, AK
Listen, if a wild Alaskan endorses it, you know it's good! And for just $27.99, the 12" Cast Iron Dutch Oven is as affordable as it is reliable. So don't let the lumberjacks feel left out this Christmas. Pick one of these great Dutch Ovens up and keep your mountain man happy with delicious, well-cooked meals!