Obama making little sense, Keyes making none. Obama argues that gays should have the same civil rights as other citizens, which means I guess that he thinks they do not now have those rights? Keyes makes me think that a psychiatric eval. should be required of everyone running for political office.
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Keyes-Obama debate 3 (Religion and Gay marriage)
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Thursday, October 28, 2004
London continues to be flooded by sewage
London continues to be flooded by sewage: "LONDONERS faced with many tons of sewage being dumped in their streets and parks whenever it rains too much are likely to get scant re-assurance from Watervoice today, which claims to be a 'strong voice' representing water and sewage customers in the UK."
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BBC NEWS- US Elections MapVery impressive summary of the US election.
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Florida ballot papers go missing
BBC NEWS | Americas | Florida ballot papers go missing: "Some 60,000 absentee ballots were despatched by authorities in Broward County, north of Miami, this month.
However, only 2,000 of them have been delivered.
Florida was the centre of controversies which delayed the result in 2000, with George W Bush eventually declared the winner in the state by 537 votes."
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Vacation Network, Inc - decided to sell our timeshare - I have called many times to find out why it has not sold and all I ever get is the run around: "Several years ago my husband and I decided to sell our timeshare through a company called Vacation Network, Inc. I beleive that we listed our timeshare with them five years ago to be exact and they have not done a thing to sell it, rent it or even contact us.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
PRATT & WHITNEY THERMAL NUCLEAR ROCKET ENTRY: TRITON
This engine is not a jet, however and is powered by Nuclear Fission. It seems that P&W has responded to the need for Mars transportation by inventing the first commercially viable nuclear thermal rocket. They have improved upon the NERVA NRX design from the 60's, and have even solved the graphite ablation problem! This engine makes an "inexpensive" trip to Mars is possible."
Sunday, October 24, 2004
The New York Times > Business > Record Labels Said to Be Next on Spitzer List for Scrutiny
The New York Times > Business > Record Labels Said to Be Next on Spitzer List for Scrutiny: "liot Spitzer, the New York State attorney general, has recently taken on a procession of corporate powers from Wall Street analysts to mutual funds to insurance brokers. Now he is casting his eyes on the music industry, particularly its practices for influencing what songs are heard on the public airwaves.
According to several people involved, investigators in Mr. Spitzer's office have served subpoenas on the four major record corporations - the Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the EMI Group and the Warner Music Group - seeking copies of contracts, billing records and other information detailing their ties to independent middlemen who pitch new songs to radio programmers in New York State.
The inquiry encompasses all the major radio formats and is not aiming at any individual record promoter, these people said. Mr. Spitzer and representatives for the record companies declined to comment."
Wired News: When War Games Meet Video Games
Wired News: When War Games Meet Video Games: "War games that consider these scenarios are not new for the military, but they have never been attempted on such a grand scale, according to Blank. For instance, the simulation that JFCom is currently testing allows enemy forces (the 'red team') to hide up to 3,000 operatives in any of 65,000 buildings. The opposing 'blue team,' meanwhile, controls about 300 agents who use various tools to track the enemies.
The trick to keeping all this in motion is running the program on two Linux-based supercomputers, one at the Maui High Performance Computing Center in Hawaii and the other at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, and using concepts borrowed from artificial intelligence research to allow many of the characters in the simulation to make their own decisions without human input. This allows JFCom to run the simulations with only 30 or so human players at a time. These players consist mainly of retired military leaders and contractors who consult for the Department of Defense."
Salon.com Life | Would you drink this water?
Salon.com Life | Would you drink this water?: "NEWater looks like any other glacier-clear bottled H20. Except it gushes from the toilets of Singapore instead of a bubbling spring."
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Titan Calling In a collaboration with the European Space Agency, Cassini, in addition to its own suite of scientific instruments designed to scan Saturn and its moons, carries a hitchhiker—a lander probe called Huygens. A stubby cone 3 meters across, Huygens was built for a single purpose: to pierce the cloaking methane atmosphere of Titan and report its findings back to Cassini for relay to Earth.
So it was quite a shock when Boris Smeds, a graying, Swedish, 26-year ESA veteran [see photo, "Unsung Hero"], who normally specializes in solving problems related to the agency's network of ground stations, discovered in early 2000 that Cassini's receiver was in danger of scrambling Huygens's data beyond recognition.
Friday, October 22, 2004
Scientists slice graphite into atom-thick sheets | The Register
Scientists slice graphite into atom-thick sheets | The Register: "An international team of scientists has made a new material just one atom thick, by extracting a single plane of carbon from a graphite crystal. Known as graphene, the new fabric effectively exists in just two dimensions, and could pave the way for computers built from single molecules.
In the latest edition of Science, published tomorrow, the scientists from Manchester University and Chernogolovka, Russia, explain that the atomic sheet is a fullerene molecule. Fullerenes are a class of carbon molecules discovered in the last twenty years. The first, the famous football-shaped Carbon-60 molecule, was named for architect Buckminster Fuller, because of its resemblance to his geodesic dome structures."
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
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