] Forget Moore's law, because it is unhealthy," Michael S.
] Malone, a longtime member of the valley's technology
] community and an eBay founder, wrote recently in a trade
] publication. Forget Moore's law, "because it has become
] our obsession," Mr. Malone wrote. "Because high tech has
] become fixated on it at the expense of everything else
] %u2014 especially business strategy."

Is There Life After Silicon Valley's Fast Lane?

I keep thinking of this song when I'm reading SARS news:

NOFX - Just the Flu

Looking back to the past,
predictions of the end
Unseen ultra violet rays
are beating on my head
Nuclear threat wanna bet will be our demise
The day will come when we'll look to apocalyptic skies

When the news had spread, that soon we'd all be dead
Well it just blew our minds
No one could have guessed that our worst fears at best
Figments of our time

So it seems that our dreams will never come to be
How could such a stupid thing destroy humanity?
A few weeks till extinction and there's nothing we can do
A message sent to other worlds will say, "It was just the flu"

There's no lesson to be learned
There's no one left to learn it

The Spread of SARS: History of the Outbreak (3/17/03 - Present)

] LINDA MOTTRAM: As we've been hearing in John's report,
] the former American Lieutenant General chosen by the
] Americans to run post-war Iraq, Jay Garner, is set to
] make his first public appearance in Kuwait today.
]
]
] But he still does not have the open chequebook that he
] needs to rebuild Iraq. What he wants is access to cash
] from the Iraq's oil, the world's second largest supply.
]
]
] The United Nations though, still controls the
] Oil-for-Food Program, which is currently the only legal
] avenue to sell Iraq's oil, and it is resisting American
] demands for access to the program.
]
]
] The UN is demanding a central role for itself and it's
] nervous about Washington's appointment of a former US oil
] executive to run Iraq's oil industry.
]
]
] Rafael Epstein reports.
]
]
] RAFAEL EPSTEIN: The man who'll negotiate with the UN and
] others over international help for Iraq is US Assistant
] Secretary of State for International Organisation, Kim
] Holmes.
]
]
] KIM HOLMES: The oil reserves of Iraq will be intended for
] and used for the purposes of the Iraqi people and that is
] just a bottom line, bedrock principle.
]
]
] RAFAEL EPSTEIN: The US has in mind the former head of
] Shell USA, Philip Carroll, and the deputy chief of BP
] USA, Rodney Chase to run Iraq's oil industry. Rebuilding
] will cost billions of dollars, much of which will flow to
] private companies.
]
]
] Bu

AM - Battle over who can sell Iraq's oil

] San Francisco -- A full-page ad Monday calling for the
] impeachment of President Bush sparked dozens of calls,
] letters and e-mails from readers angered that it would
] appear in The Chronicle.
]
] "We consider it an outrage that you accepted the
] advertisement to impeach our United States President,"
] said one letter faxed to Dick Rogers, readers'
] representative for the paper. "I find this type of
] advertising anti-American and in poor taste," complained
] another reader.
]
] "Most of the calls were from people who said it was
] distasteful to run the ad while our troops were dying
] overseas," Rogers said. "There weren't many calls in
] favor."

Readers mad that Chronicle ran ad to impeach Bush / Antiwar group paid about $45,000

] Baghdad%u2014First the Americans killed the correspondent
] for Al-Jazeera yesterday and wounded his cameraman.
]
] Then, within four hours, they attacked the Reuters
] Television bureau in Baghdad and killed one of its
] cameramen, father of an 8-year old son, and wounded three
] other staff members. Also fatally wounded was a cameraman
] for the Spanish television network Telecinco
]
] Was it possible to believe this was an accident? Or was
] it possible that the right word for these killings %u2014
] the first with a jet aircraft, the second with an Abrams
] tank - was murder?

Back in 2001, the U.S. fired a cruise missile at Al-Jazeera's office in Kabul, from which tapes of Osama bin Laden had been broadcast around the world.

No explanation was ever given for this extraordinary attack on the night before the city's "liberation." Al-Jazeera's Kabul correspondent, Tasir Alouni, was unhurt. By the strange coincidence of journalism, Alouni was in the Baghdad office yesterday to endure the U.S. Air Force's second attack on Al-Jazeera.

The French television channel France 3 had a crew in a neighbouring room and videotaped the tank on the bridge. Their tape shows a bubble of fire emerging from the tank gun's muzzle, the sound of a massive detonation, then pieces of paint-work falling past the camera as it vibrates with the impact.

In the Reuters bureau on the 15th floor, the shell exploded. It mortally wounded their Ukrainian cameraman, Taras Protsyuk, who was also filming the tanks, seriously wounded another members of the staff, Briton Paul Pasquale, and two other journalists, including Reuters' reporter Samia Nakhoul.

On the next floor, Telecinco's cameraman Jose Couso was also badly hurt and later died.

The U.S. responded with what all the evidence proves to be a straightforward lie. Gen. Buford Blount of the 3rd Infantry Division — whose tanks were on the bridge — announced that his vehicles had come under rocket and rifle fire from snipers in the Palestine Hotel, that his tank had fired a single round at the hotel and that the gunfire had then ceased.

The general's statement, however, was untrue.

I was driving on a road between the tanks and the hotel at the moment the shell was fired and heard no shooting. The French videotape of the attack runs for more than four minutes and records absolute silence before the tank fires. And there were no snipers in the building.

Were these deaths mishap, or murder?

] The Bush administration's attitude, assisted by a
] Congress that long since abandoned any commitment to
] liberty, is that government has the right to know
] absolutely everything about you and that government can
] violate your fundamental rights with impunity as long as
] the cause is deemed worthy.
]
] You, on the other hand, have absolutely no right to know
] what the government is doing in your name and with your
] money, unless the information is deemed harmless by
] people who have every motive to cover up misdeeds.

Dan Gillmore on the glum outlook at CFP.

Mercury News | 04/06/2003 | Why we may never regain the liberties that we've lost

] Working with the Bush administration, Congressional
] Republicans are maneuvering to make permanent the
] sweeping antiterrorism powers granted to federal law
] enforcement agents after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
] officials said today.

Republicans Want Terror Law Made Permanent

] The colonel in charge of the tank that fired said they
] had reacted after seeing enemy "binoculars" being used in
] the hotel.

Oooo... Thats questionable. A lot of people in the military are pissed off about the POW footage. It is pluasable that someone would decide to call in those locations for revenge. I didn't really think that was realistic until I saw the pentagon press conference yesterday, which I felt was rather "spinny." Instead of being matter of fact about it they went to alot of effort to talk about how Americans are really good guys and they avoided directly answering questions about the incident other then to say that "war zones are dangerous." Operation piss off the planet continues.

Straw to seek explanation for press deaths

] An expert on the health effects of cannabis says that
] there is growing evidence that the drug is responsible
] for mental health problems.
]
] Professor John Henry, a consultant in toxicology from St
] Mary's Hospital in London, told the BBC that studies from
] Sweden and elsewhere pointed to an increase in
] schizophrenia among regular cannabis smokers.

Cannabis 'damages mental health'

] There doesn't seem to be much awareness in the Bush
] administration of the terrible distress of the unemployed
] American worker. This is an ache that does not extend to
] the gilded towers of the very wealthy, which is where the
] administration has always focused its concern.
]
] The White House response to the latest job loss figures
] is the same response it has had all along to bad economic
] news: more tax cuts are the cure.

Workers Who Feel Discarded