my mum's office says "no soliciting" on a large sign outside. anyways, people have been comiong in for the past month or so looking for jobs. she said that today two bankers came in to sell their services to business owners. that's how bad the economy is.

well today i met jimmy carter's son, who is a dean supporter. so this weekend, i might go canvasing for dean or something. my friends and i went to a bar to watch the caucus and this old drunken reporter kept on hitting on me and walking out of the bar i got a drive-by shouting "YOU HAVE A NICE ASS!!!!"
so much for saving the world when you need to save yourself from your own species. lol.

and excellent way to decrease our dependency on foreign oil...


Science: US Army Pursues Hydrogen Fuel Concepts

Posted by simoniker on Thursday January 22, @07:21AM
from the olive-hydrogen dept.
securitas writes "According to GlobeTechnology/AP, the US Army is excited about the potential of hydrogen-powered tanks. The interest is the result of a technology demonstration that took place at Auburn University in December. Scientists have invented a process that removes the carbon and sulfur from hydrocarbon fuels like oil and gasoline. Hydrogen-powered vehicles could go three times farther than diesel-powered counterparts. DoD officials say 'it costs about $40 to move one gallon of diesel fuel from Kuwait to Baghdad.' The new process could let them take advantage of the existing oil industry infrastructure. Auburn University scientists 'realized there is already a lot of hydrogen in hydrocarbon fuel' and 'took jet fuel, which is very similar to diesel, and catalytically converted it, separating out the sulfur, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, and the fuel cell ran.' The Auburn team is now pursuing military funding."

Music industry halts cheap internet CDs
By Susie Mesure

22 January 2004

The music industry has forced a leading internet retailer to stop importing bargain CDs from Asia to the UK in a deal that will add £2 to the cost of chart titles.

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Infiltration of files seen as extensive
Senate panel's GOP staff pried on Democrats

By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff, 1/22/2004

WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe.

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Engineering Google Results to Make a Point

By TOM McNICHOL

Published: January 22, 2004

TIME was - say, two months ago - when typing the phrase "miserable failure" into the Google search box produced an unexpected result: the White House's official biography of President George W. Bush.

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Music Industry Returns to Court, Altering Tactics on File Sharing
By JOHN SCHWARTZ

Published: January 22, 2004

The music industry returned to the courthouse yesterday to sue 532 people it accuses of large-scale copyright infringement.

"Our campaign against illegal file sharers is not missing a beat," said Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America. "The message to illegal file sharers should be as clear as ever."

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Ex-C.I.A. Aides Ask for Leak Inquiry by Congress
By DOUGLAS JEHL

Published: January 22, 2004

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 — A group of former intelligence officers is pressing Congressional leaders to open an immediate inquiry into the disclosure last summer of the name of an undercover C.I.A. officer, Valerie Plame.

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Student Sex Case in Georgia Stirs Claims of Old South Justice
By ANDREW JACOBS

Published: January 22, 2004

ATLANTA, Jan. 21 — Marcus Dixon had it all. A 3.96 grade-point average, a football scholarship to Vanderbilt University and the adoration of many teachers and students at Pepperell High School in Rome, a largely white community in the northwest corner of the state. In a place where racial matters still provoke strong emotions, it was no small thing that Mr. Dixon, who is black, was being reared by a white family.
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i'm still editing old entries, and holy shit, i found all these old ones from when i was 15-16 and i thought i had deleted them, because they basically got me in trouble with my family and got me grounded from the internet, and for some reason they were all still there.
so last post when i said "good thing i deleted all those old ones" or something, yeah.... they weren't deleted lol.

i have lj-cutted all previous posts that needed it. goes back to August 2000. Also made memories list of said posts, so they can be cross-referenced etc. Should be easier to find stuff now. oh the OCD things i'll do to avoid homework...
it's interesting reading about changes in philosophy and friends and politics during the past 3.5 years. Probably good i deleted all those posts before then

ok guys, my "boss" on the radio station went to high school with and was friends with the guys who made that mario song and that bang bang bang song and that schfifty five song that my brother and i have been singing of late. here is another one

oh and someone just called me saying that their sorority needs more people and do i want to be in it. uh. rush is so over...

State of the Union Abroad

Published: January 21, 2004

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State of the Union at Home

Published: January 21, 2004

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POIPET, Cambodia — Srey Neth and Srey Mom were stunned when I proposed buying their freedom from their brothel owners.

"It's unbelievable," Srey Mom said, smiling with an incandescence that seemed to light the street. "There's no problem with taking pictures and telling my story. I want to tell it. But I'm a little afraid that if my mother sees it, she'll be heartbroken."

After I decided to buy the two teenage prostitutes, as recounted in my column on Saturday, I swore them to secrecy for fear that the brothel owners would spirit them away, rather than let them tell their stories. But the first purchase, of Srey Neth, went smoothly.

[For an explanation on how I chose Srey Neth and Srey Mom read my post in the Kristof Reponds forum.]

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U.N. Help for Crime in Guatemala

Published: January 21, 2004

Guatemala's 36-year civil war ended in 1996, but some former soldiers and paramilitary allies have turned to drug trafficking, the smuggling of immigrants, kidnappings and theft. They also attack human rights advocates, journalists and judges who attempt to bring them to account.

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
On the Menu at Sundance: Quirky Chef and Dancers
By ELVIS MITCHELL

Published: January 21, 2004

PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 20 — At the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, it's the documentaries, as usual, that are creating a sensation.

Two are the products of well-known commercial photographers who decided to try their hands at nonfiction filmmaking. One, Matt Mahurin, is a media multitasker, an illustrator, a photographer whose moody, heavy-grained portraits have inspired a continent of imitators. As a music-video director, his best work conveyed a dense intimacy. He made Tracy Chapman's first video, "Fast Car," and his output includes shorts for Peter Gabriel and U2.

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scariness aside, let's talk about the day in brief.
my new friend in school got chewed out by the same guy who gave me a hard time about being anti-bush a few months ago.

so yeah i have 4 hours a week on the school radio. i don't know if i'll be able to find enough music given the following rules. no swearing (cussing). say the station id every 15 mins and ads every 30. no top 40 or popular hits. ENGLISH ONLY. nothing foreign. oh god. and the thing doesn't even take mp3 cds. that's going to be so many cd-rs. the guy told me that they're hooking up to a national databas-y thing soon with 40k tracks, but that's only 4 times more than what i've got. alls i want is to put my 2 hour slots on 1 mp3 cd....

ug

so anyways i saw last samurai and it was good. especially the samurai v. ninjas scene. maybe i'll make a samurai v. ninjas community
yeah
oh i had to go to a recital for music class today and it's funny how different groups of people act. like had it been a speech on linux all the comp sci poeple woulda been loud and obnoxious and show-off-y
but this time it was all the music people who were acting like that as if it were their right to be pains-in-the-asses. it was funny tho

OP-ED COLUMNIST
Masters of Deception
By BOB HERBERT

Published: January 16, 2004

It was snowing and the temperature was headed toward single digits when I left the hotel on Park Avenue Wednesday night. A doorman flagged a cab and I climbed in. I'd just finished an interview with Al Gore and it was hard to shake the melancholy feeling that the man who should be president was spending a stormy night in Midtown Manhattan while the momentous world events he should be shaping were careering in all sorts of dangerous directions.

The former vice president was in town to give a speech on the Bush administration's environmental policies, which he basically described as an exercise in wholesale environmental destruction. Instead of caving in to such special interests as the coal, oil and chemical industries (as the administration has done), Mr. Gore said that the U.S. should be leading the effort to rein in pollution and get control of the potentially devastating problem of global warming.

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OP-ED COLUMNIST
Who Gets It?
By PAUL KRUGMAN

Published: January 16, 2004

Earlier this week, Wesley Clark had some strong words about the state of the nation. "I think we're at risk with our democracy," he said. "I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame."

In other words, the general gets it: he understands that America is facing what Kevin Phillips, in his remarkable new book, "American Dynasty," calls a "Machiavellian moment." Among other things, this tells us that General Clark and Howard Dean, whatever they may say in the heat of the nomination fight, are on the same side of the great Democratic divide.

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