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"As part of their complaint, the group submitted 11 pages of written testimony from a former U.S. army brigadier general, Janis Karpinski. Karpinski was the military police commander [at] Abu Ghraib but was demoted to colonel and lost her post at the base. She contended that the abuses started after the appearance of Major General Geoffrey Miller, who was sent as an emissary by Rumsfeld to assist military intelligence interrogators. Miller criticized the interrogators for 'being too nice to the prisoners,' she said, and promised more resources." [Perhaps I should have a category called simply “Justice” for items like this.]
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/26/sports/rumsfeld.php
"The biggest lesson from the federal government's response to Katrina is that we're all on our own. Who will care for you in retirement, save your house from foreclosure, come up with alternate transportation solutions, and restore the ideal of the American republic itself? It won't be the government. If there is any hope at all for solutions to these problems, they will come from you and I working together in our communities for a better future."
http://bullnotbull.com/bull/node/50
"Many good Linux distributions are available -- if you have time, you may want to explore your options -- but since we have to choose one, we’ll use a popular offering called Ubuntu. Ubuntu provides an attractive, user-friendly desktop environment without a lot of clutter, which makes it a great choice for new Linux users. It’s also free, and its user community is large and active, which means it’s easy to find help and support."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/22/43FE-linuxswitch_3steps_1.html
"The question, though, shouldn't be how news outlets and blogs can get rid of these irritants. Instead, shouldn't the GOP be asking why the other candidates don't have the same level of support? They can text in their votes as many times as the Ron Paul voters. They can spread out to comment on as many blogs as the Paul posters. They can start as many websites as the Ron Paul fans have. They can organize groups of supporters and bring them [to] cheer at debates. No one is stopping them from trying to outwork or at least equal the Ron Paul group. But since they don't seem to be doing that, the only conclusion that can be taken from this little blog-banning spat is that voters just don't seem to care about their candidates as much as the Ron Paul supporters do."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
kirsten-anderson/banned-in-the-blogosphere_b_69879.html
"We can see the success of such indoctrination in the fact that the United States of America now has the largest prison population of any society in history, with seven million of our fellow Americans either behind bars or on probation or parole."
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/10/to-gulag-but-for-grace-of-state-go-i.html
"Erondu was later thrilled to learn that the city was planning to redevelop the area — until he learned that he wasn't welcome in the new Gaslight Square. St. Louis wound up acquiring his land using eminent domain, forcing Erondu to rebuild his practice from scratch in another neighborhood. Perhaps as a result of the stress, Dr. Erondu fell ill while his new practice was being constructed. He died on June 23rd, 2005, the same day the Supreme Court handed down its infamous Kelo decision. ... Entrepreneurs purchase property in a marginal neighborhood and struggle to build a viable business, only to have the city take their property and give it to a wealthier business with better political connections."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8754
"To keep from getting into a 'personality conflict' thing, I will merely point out that these new ways to calculate inflation in prices were specifically designed to eliminate evidence of price inflation from the official statistics of the government and the Federal Reserve, such as not calculating M3 money supply, because growth in the money supply IS the traditional freaking definition of inflation! ... I can quote Dr. Stephen Leeb of the Complete Investor newsletter as saying that, 'The Fed will embrace any inflation indicator, so long as it doesn't indicate the existence of inflation.' Hahaha! Exactly! Good one!"
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/Mogambo/DREssays/MG102507.html
"So what do you think: inflation or deflation? Or, somehow, both? That last choice sounds all-too-likely, and it might be the worst possible outcome: higher prices for food and clothing and fuel and other things we need for daily life, plus lower prices for the assets (houses, stocks, bonds) that Americans – and their pensions and 401(k)s – are most heavily invested in. Add that to high unemployment and a police state imposed to quell dissent and anger at the power elite who have created this mess, and you have – well, exactly what we seem headed for."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/allport/allport15.html
"The book is probably best suited for, and clearly aimed at, freethinkers, i.e. atheists and agnostics. At first, this bothered me a little. Why not go for the larger market? Why risk repelling theists? But as I read the book, I began seeing the other side of the story. Both psychologically and logically, theism and statism are related. Those who submit authority over their minds to gods and priests tend to also submit their minds to states and rulers. Furthermore, many of the arguments against theism carry over to arguments against statism. It seems quite reasonable to concentrate efforts on people most likely to be convinced, which would be freethinkers--those who recognize no authority over their minds, but use rationality and evidence rather than faith in evaluating ideas."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/bill/bill1.html
"The capitalist ruling class monopolizes land. Using their means of rule, the State, they keep the price of land (and, therefore, housing) artificially high by holding vast swathes of land in reserve under pretense of “public” ownership. That’s all rather silly and deceptive of them since YOU, as a member of the public, can’t go build a house there without the bastards in blue harassing you and even shooting you dead if you refuse to put up with their harassment."
http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/828
"[A]narchists from William Godwin and the followers of Josiah Warren to Murray Rothbard have found Burke’s case for anarchism inspiring and persuasive; and Rothbard, at least, was convinced that Burke’s arguments were simply too good to have been intended satirically."
http://praxeology.net/blog/2007/10/24/burkes-semi-serious-anarchism/
"[P]art of the point of advocating a free market across the board is that in a free society you do not need to be an expert in everything. No individual person and no committee of people needs to plan out precisely how any social 'system' will work—which is a good thing, because nobody has comprehensive knowledge and organizational skill and entrepreneurial creativity in every field of human endeavor."
http://radgeek.com/gt/2007/10/25/radical_healthcare/
"The banks and firms that issued these unbacked silver certificates haven’t panicked and rushed to buy back silver to limit their liability and exposure. So far, their individual losses are manageable, and I’m sure they still believe silver will go down in price in the future and the problem will go away. While it’s true that these large institutions have a higher tolerance for financial pain than most, it’s also true when they do panic, they panic big. I believe they will panic at $30 or $50 or higher."
http://www.investmentrarities.com/10-23-07.html
"The long-term status of the Kurdish part of Iraq is meant to be sorted out by a series of referendums, but it already feels like an independent country-in-waiting. No one expects the referendum process to be smooth, but the current crisis with Turkey offers Mr Talabani a great opportunity once more to play the 'long game' and overcome US opposition to his desire for an independent Kurdistan."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/10/24/do2408.xml
"[D]oes international economic integration require greater international governing institutions? To the Ruling Class, the answer is yes, because global government is more convenient for them. But to the average individual, it is most inconvenient, even destructive."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2704
"What we supporters of legalization might not realize – and will be pleased to learn – is that 'now, for the first time, U.S. hegemony in drug control is being challenged.' All over the world, apparently, governments are becoming more and more reluctant to toe the American drug-war line. The European Union, Latin America, China and Southeast Asia are all increasingly following their own, less prohibitionist paths. Even in repressive Iran, Nadelmann writes, the ayatollah in charge of the Ministry of Justice has declared that methadone maintenance and syringe-exchange programs are compatible with sharia law. Then he quips, 'One only wishes his American counterpart were comparably enlightened'."
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/07/071021-4.htm
"The law is not some Platonic Form plucked from the skies by the Pure in Heart. Laws are written by men, men who have particular interests, particular constituencies, particular donors, and particular friends. (The same is now true of women as well, of course. But for most of our history, it was men and only men. Straight, white men, to be precise ... ) Laws are the particular means by which the state implements and executes its vast powers. When an increasingly authoritarian state passes a certain critical point in its development, the law is no longer the protector of individual rights and individual liberty. The law becomes the weapon of the state itself -- to protect, not you, but the state from threats to its own powers. ... In an authoritarian state, the law is not designed to protect the ordinary citizen and his or her rights. The law's purpose is to control you, to limit your choices in every area of your life and, when necessary, to imprison and destroy you. I repeat: the law is not your friend." [This essay qualifies as relatively long, but Silber weaves his words so well and states the truth emphatically. Exceptional!!!]
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/10/its-called-ruling-class-because-it.html
"Soon after real-time terror hit home, the president gave the CIA authority to interrogate suspected terrorists in its secret prisons, wholly outside our laws or the UN International Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of prisoners. Eventually, hard evidence of torture kept emerging from victims of the CIA's 'enhanced interrogation techniques' (as the president likes to call them); from human-rights organizations; and from reports in the European and American press (including this column). In response, the Republican-controlled Congress gave CIA torturers immunity from prosecution in the 2006 Military Commissions Act."
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0743,hentoff,78153,6.html
"The FBI has long taught its agents that subjects of their investigation have 'forfeited their right to the truth,' according to the ethics study guide at the FBI Academy. Perhaps, according to federal lawmen, it is a small step from lying to suspects to threatening to have their kinfolk tortured. The agency has done nothing in the nearly six years since this case began to indicate that the methods used in the Higazy case did not receive the full approval of FBI headquarters."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0710j.asp
"The Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security are quietly pushing for a set of crazy new rules. All [travelers] in the U.S. will be required to get government-issued credentials and official clearance before every flight, both within the United States as well as internationally."
"[I]mpeachment should be moved to the top of the congressional agenda. It should be the overriding, all-consuming priority of the people's representatives. For this is the inescapable, stone-cold truth: nothing, absolutely nothing but impeachment, will stop the Bush-Cheney regime from carrying out its criminal agenda. ... So, ironically, in the end it does come down to us after all. There's nothing left but that long-term cultivation -- person by person, moment by moment -- plowing on despite our utter abandonment by the national leaders and civic institutions that could have stopped or slowed the horror of the present and the horror to come. We will have to go through it now."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/26/dissent/index.html
"Melton the folk hero might have gone a bit too far, they argued, but he was just being 'Frank.' He meant well. All were acquitted, inspiring outrage at the NAACP, the ACLU and even the NRA. To Melton’s supporters, it didn’t matter. The mayor had targeted a small-time drug user (not a dealer). That he didn’t find any drugs, that he’d thumbed his nose at the rights of citizens and property owners—these were beside the point. Mayor Melton was leading a war against the drug scourge in Jackson, they'd say. That was what mattered."
http://reason.com/news/show/123117.html
"On a cold October evening in 1941, a military lawyer sat at home in Berlin in his apartment composing a letter to his wife. What he had seen and learned that day in the office were wildly disturbing. He struggled for a solution. What should I do? ... The man in question was Helmuth von Moltke. He decided to do something. He struggled by day against the brutality of the Nazi system, dispensing advice against the wishes of his masters that saved thousands of lives."
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001490
"Americans face an important choice in 2008. It is not between the red faction and the blue faction, as with one notable exception, their representatives will continue precisely the same policies of foreign belligerence, open borders and strategic incoherency that we have hitherto enjoyed courtesy of the previous Bush-Clinton-Bush administrations. The choice is between a sovereign America, which places a priority on securing its own interests and protecting the liberties of its citizens, and a subservient America, which repeatedly violates the rights of its citizens in the interest of the bi-factional ruling party and their inevitable wars against the various 'Hitlers of the Month'."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58261
"The fact that 20 percent of the world's population is extremely poor should not make us forget that millions of lives have improved dramatically in the last three decades."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2054
"[J]ust as the famous 'End of History' proclaimed by Francis Fukuyama in 1989 proved to be merely a weekend vacation during the mid-to-late 1990s, so the 'death of gold' announced by historians, pundits, and analysts at the very same time has proved somewhat premature."
http://www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com/Archives/2007/20071024.html
"Many more genes separate humans from chimpanzees than scientists believed. A new study shows that what sets us apart from our closest primate cousin is the accelerated rate at which we acquire new genes and ditch unnecessary ones."
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/1023/2
"Co-operation between owners of waterfront property on either side of the river and the shipping company could result in waterfront property being extended further into the channel. The extension could be built on a foundation of rocks and boulders supplied by the shipping company and other affected property owners. The shipping company could also obtain permission and co-operation from other property owners to lay a row of rocks and boulders on the riverbed. "
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/07/071021-2.htm
"Gold is only part of it. For market intervention is why central banking was invented. Intervening in markets is what central banks do. They have no other purpose. Central banks admit intervening daily, even hourly, in the currency markets, buying and selling their own currencies and those of other governments to maintain exchange rates at what they consider politically desirable levels. Central banks admit doing the same in the government bond markets. Now there is even evidence that the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department have been intervening frequently in the U.S. stock markets since the crash of 1987."
"The entire electrical-generating industry as it now exists depends on companies either operated by local governments or privileged by them. Alongside formal grants of monopoly, established utilities enjoy important privileges courtesy of regulation, which discourages innovation and challenge by possible competitors. Central Government regulation helped determine the structure of the overall grid, and it also definitively molded the nuclear-power industry. Government-decreed limitation of liability for nuclear plants (through the Price-Anderson Act) gave rise to a particularly dangerous distortion. We may debate whether a free market would encourage or discourage an expansion of the nuclear-power industry, and a corresponding reduction in the emission of 'greenhouse gases' — but we can never know until the iron grid of statism is lifted, and the insurance industry is permitted to function freely, along with the ordinary tort proceedings of the common law."
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/lights156.htm
"Any owner of property who let fires rage would be directly responsible for imposing fires on others. This is the way markets work. If my bathtub overflows, floods my house, and then the waters flood my neighbor's house, I am responsible via my insurance policy. ... What do we have today? We have fires that are no one's responsibility. Oddly, and by some strange practice that dates back to, hmmm, the beginning of time, rulers are not to be held responsible for actions that take place on their watch. ... So putting government in charge is always a perfect storm for disaster without responsibility."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/land-socialism.html
"After more than 30 years of reviewing government plans, including forest plans, park plans, watershed plans, wildlife plans, energy plans, urban plans, and transportation plans, I've concluded that government planning almost always does more harm than good. ... Everybody plans. But private plans are flexible, and we happily change them when new information arises. In contrast, special interest groups ensure that the government plans benefiting them do not change — no matter how costly."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8753
"So threat cultivation is necessary in order to ensure a rich harvest of government power. This is hardly a secret; it's been the common practice of rulers for as long as they have afflicted humanity. But the Bush Regime has distinguished itself somewhat by its vulgar, transparent lust for war, and its dogmatic refusal to explore alternatives. "
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2007/10/diplomacy-as-art-of-cultivating.html
"In the twenty-first century's version of the 'Great Game' of nineteenth century imperialism, the Bush administration made a colossal gamble that Iraq could become a kind of West Germany or South Korea on the Persian Gulf - a federal republic with a robust, oil-exporting economy, a rising standard of living, and a set of U.S. bases that would guarantee lasting American domination of the most resource-strategic region on the planet. "
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/102407E.shtml
"Suddenly all Americans became 'we,' even those who had nothing to do with it. Life in my hometown appeared fine-normal-and if it hadn't been for modern communication, we wouldn't even have known about the attack until the next day, or maybe the next week. My home hadn't been attacked, so I didn't understand why I had to be labeled along with the rest of 'us'."
http://www.counterpunch.org/dwyer10182007.html
"Americans had best rethink the "war on terror" while they still have the liberty to do so. For all of President Bush’s blah-blah talk about bringing democracy to the world, the Bush administration has proved that it is no friend of liberty at home. ... the Bush administration’s Transport Security Administration has proposed new rules that will require Americans to get government permission 72 hours in advance prior to being allowed to board a domestic flight. ... And what of the 7 to 10 percent of flights that the TSA estimates are not on the books 72 hours in advance? These are family emergencies and critical business deals. What does the TSA care if a member of your family dies while you await the government’s permission to fly?"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts226.html
"No, the United States will not collapse into a dictatorship exactly like that of Nazi Germany. Each society that has passed the point of no return collapses in its own way, depending on the specifics of tradition, culture, and particular political institutions. And, for example, fascism was not identical in Germany and Italy, or Spain, or a number of other countries."
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/10/thing-must-go-its-course.html
"Powell demonstrates how T.R. created governmental monopolies while alleging that he was fighting monopolies created by the free market. His conservation efforts were counterproductive and he was basically a champion of the 'progressive' idea of increasing the power of the federal government while diminishing individual rights and the concept of Federalism created by our founders."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/denson/denson9.html
"Frederic Passy, who lived from 1822 to 1912, was an admirer of Richard Cobden, the famous British advocate of free trade and free markets and opponent of war and imperialism. In 1867, Passy, worried that France and Germany would go to war, spoke out against war and called instead for arbitration of disputes. The fact that France and Germany went to war in 1870 did not stop him: he was an advocate of peace for the rest of his life."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=11792
"The demonization of alcohol is leading to a growing nullification of the constitutional rights of anyone suspected of drinking — or anyone who might have had a drink anytime recently. In 1925, the Supreme Court declared, 'It would be intolerable and unreasonable if a prohibition agent were authorized to stop every automobile on the chance of finding liquor, and thus subject all persons lawfully using the highways to the inconvenience and indignity of such a search.' But as the 20th century progressed, judges and prosecutors gained a more rarefied understanding of the Bill of Rights."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0708c.asp
"This is the sound of one shoe dropping: 'Ratcheting up the pressure on Tehran, the United States on Thursday designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a proliferater of weapons of mass destruction and its elite Qods force a supporter of terrorism. In total, Washington slapped sanctions on more than 20 Iranian companies, major banks and individuals, as well as the Defense Ministry, in a bid to pressure Tehran to halt its nuclear program and curb its “terrorist” activities.' "
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/25/iran/index.html
"Yellow journalism contributed more obviously to the Boer War than it has done to Afghanistan, Iraq, or, thus far, Iran. On the other hand the 'embedded reporter' is an equivocation all our own. And the brutality of the propaganda of 1900 finds its counterpart in the antiseptic evasiveness of the American press and television against the showing of images of dead or wounded American soldiers."
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/bromwich.php?articleid=11819
"We've been through this many times already. The US government is not an honest broker. It is an unconditional ally of one of the parties, Israel, and has many times sided against the Palestinians, who have been the victims of injustice, including property violations, for many years. The US government wants a 'peace' that serves its and its allies interests, which is not the same thing as a genuine peace with justice. "
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=28276§ionid=3510302
"War is not just a policy tool whose propriety can be judged by a bare measure of 'well, it accomplished what it set out to do.' It’s a terrible bloody mess that can only be justified under very stringent circumstances of retaliation or defense, and even if someday soon the number of maniacs blowing themselves and others up over there becomes low enough that no one is alarmed, that isn’t sufficient to justify the invasion and occupation."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/123195.html
"He is commonly known as 'the Father of Microbiology'. Born the son of a basket maker, at age 16 he secured an apprenticeship with a Scottish cloth merchant in Amsterdam. He is best known for his work on the improvement of the microscope and for his contributions towards the establishment of microbiology."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_van_Leeuwenhoek
"Terry was ... one the best known and most successful blues harmonica players even though [he] was considered too folky by some black blues fans."
http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/harmsterry.htm
"Carson's relaxed pace, more casual interviewing style, impeccable timing and ability to play straight for other guests proved instantly popular with his viewing audience. ... Without losing his timing, his unpredictability or his perfectionist work ethic, for thirty years he kept his finger on the pulse of mainstream America's moods, attitudes and concerns."
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/carsonjohnn/carsonjohnn.htm
"She made her big screen debut in Rabbit, Run (1970), working with James Caan. Her next movie was Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) for which her role as Tina Balser gave her an Academy Award nomination. With similar Golden Globe nominations, Carrie was on the brink of stardom when she left it all to live with rock musician Neil Young, the father of her son, Zeke."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811202/bio
"He began to write fiction after Warren G. Harding had called for a 'return to normalcy' after World War I. But for Garrett, 'normalcy' was civilization itself. For example, The Driver (1922), The Cinder Buggy (1923), and Satan's Bushel (1924) are novels that tell great stories about American history, with complex plot and character development, in which the glorious drama of commercial life plays the central role. These novels show that you don't need war as a backdrop in order to make a story of national life. These novels chronicle dramatic social and economic transformations in the context of fierce struggle and great risk — all within the framework of peace."
http://www.mises.org/story/2751
"Holmes has written a powerful and philosophically erudite survey of what we think we understand about the 9/11 attacks – and how and why the United States has magnified many times over the initial damage caused by the terrorists."
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=11800
"Bond 22 is slated to be the second and last James Bond film to be financed and released by Sony Pictures before MGM takes over the franchise. Daniel Craig had been contracted to do only three Bond films, but now MGM chairman and CEO Harry Sloan says that's no longer the case."
http://movies.ign.com/articles/830/830558p1.html
"This series, which captivated me last year, seems to have already lost its oomph. Nothing is happening! "
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2007/10/heroes-losing-its-coolness.html
"Officials in California dedicated the Folsom Dam Memorial, which will honor the nearby residents that will die when the faulty dam fails."
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/preemptive_memorial_honors_future
"Did you read about the six beer-drinking elephants in India? The elephants found drums of fermenting rice beer on a farm, partied too hard, then uprooted utility poles and electrocuted themselves. The fascinating part is that because they are elephants, they still remember that night."
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/10/now-thats-a-par.html
"According to Pentagon sources, the fact that only a handful of the casualties were elderly women is a testament to the success of President Bush's latest troop surge. In addition, because only the easternmost portion of a nearby Sunni mosque experienced severe structural damage, Monday's events will go down in military records as a 'relative victory for the U.S.'"
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/68506
"In a nationally televised address last night, Mr. Bush said that he [would] devote the rest of his term in office to obtaining a constitutional amendment banning marriage between fictitious gay characters. ... While the president’s address was for the most part consistent with his earlier statements on gay marriage, it was uncharacteristic in that it demonstrated an awareness of books."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6790
"The presumption of freedom 'mean[s] that any act a person wishes to perform is deemed to be permissible -- not to be interfered with, regulated, taxed, or punished -- unless sufficient reason is shown why it should not be permissible.' This properly imposes the burden of proof on anyone who wants to interfere with another person -- which is where the burden should be."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1664
"You may have heard about our [directory assistance] 1-800-GOOG-411 service. Whether or not free-411 is a profitable business unto itself is yet to be seen. I myself am somewhat skeptical. The reason we really did it is because we need to build a great speech-to-text model ... that we can use for all kinds of different things, including video search."
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/23/Google-wants-your-phonemes_1.html
"The deceptive mirage of central planning is also a result of failing to think in marginal terms. Those who find the cure for everything in planning ignore the fact that market prices reveal people's MRS between goods, and without market processes to reveal that information, it is unknowable to planners. Central planning, which throws away the process by which relevant tradeoffs are revealed, must throw away the wealth and mutual gain that acting on otherwise unknowable information makes possible, as both Mises and Hayek demonstrated."
http://www.mises.org/story/2734
"By working with IBM to promote cloud computing to universities, Google is accomplishing two very important goals. It will first put them in touch with every graduate student doing work Google might find interesting. So it is first a hiring tool. But by teaching students about cloud computing Google and IBM are also seeding the technology in the companies where those students will take their first jobs after graduation. Five years from now cloud computing will be ubiquitous primarily for this reason."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20071026_003304.html
"Some farmers, and some urbanites, assume that agriculture would plunge into a death spiral if the government ever stopped furnishing all this help. In fact, the majority of people plowing fields would never miss it. In 2005, 85 percent of all federal payments went to just four crops—corn, wheat, cotton and rice. Two-thirds of all farmers are locked out of the largesse."
http://www.reason.com/news/show/123177.html
"I don’t mean unconscious or in coma, I mean they had no brain function at all on EEG. What to do? Nobody knew. Nature does not tolerate a situation like this and those patients were immediately attacked by common everyday bacteria against which their immune systems soon had no effective defense. Pneumonia, “the old man’s friend,” quickly set in. Antibiotics were applied. It resolved. A urinary tract infection appeared. More antibiotics. It resolved. A colon infection appeared. More antibiotics. This would happen over and over and over. Then the bacteria began to mutate. MRSA was born."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/klassen/klassen4.html
"This astonishing and terrifying news about import inflation is mostly because of higher oil and food prices, which are (being as sarcastic as I can manage without actually vomiting in rage) things we don't even need, according to the Federal Reserve, because neither food nor energy are included in their estimate of 'core inflation', which is a fact that I already know, so don't write me and tell my how stupid I am to worry about the stupid prices of stupid imported energy and stupid food when the stupid government has already told me they are completely irrelevant to anybody's stupid lives."
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/Mogambo/DREssays/MG102307.html
"At the moment Prism is pretty bare bones, it’s basically a Firefox-like window sans the tool and address bars. Regrettably there doesn’t seem to be a way enable Firefox add-ons, though it’s not hard to imagine an option to do so making its way into the Prism set up dialogue."
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/10/mozilla-prism-r.html
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