... Until the president is willing to employ carrots as well as sticks, he will make little headway in changing Iranian or Syrian behavior. The president's lack of initiative on this point is especially disappointing.

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Why Libya Gave Up on the Bomb

] CALCUTTA, India — Endangered Bengal tigers might be making a
] comeback in numbers in a remote Indian forest, officials said
] Wednesday.

Indian tiger census in Sunderbans Forest finds population stable

] SCO earlier this month sent a letter to the 535 members
] of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate from
] company President and CEO Darl McBride, raising concerns
] about open-source software and its General Public License
] (GPL), the company confirmed on Wednesday.

Yikes!

SCO Goes to Washington in Linux Battle

] Microsoft on Friday plans to announce changes to a
] licensing program for software communications protocols
] it created as part of its landmark antitrust settlement
] with the U.S. government, the company says.

I'm guessing these are (among other things) the changes to SMB (now CIFS) that froze SAMBA out -- unclear if the new licensing regime will help SAMBA.

PCWorld.com - Microsoft Changes Software Licensing

] What is clear is that al Qaeda is at a crossroads and --
] like the United States in the spring of 2002 -- it does
] not have really good choices, and therefore, must choose
] the best of a bad lot. Al Qaeda's original war plan is
] obsolete. The straight line it drew from Sept. 11 to the
] Caliphate has hit a wall. Bin Laden knows it. He doesn't
] have a good Plan B, but he will have to cook one up
] anyway. The war is not over, but for the moment, it is al
] Qaeda's turn to sweat out a solution to a difficult
] strategic problem. If they can't do that, then the war
] could very well be over, at least for this generation.

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Al Q might be cooked...

ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] ] The LaCie Bigger Disk, with the largest hard drive
] ] capacity available, is a unique innovation that packs an
] ] amazing 1 terabyte of storage space in a manageable 5.25"
] ] form factor.
]
] !!! Firewire 400/800, USB 1.1/2

I'm pretty sure that this is something like 4 250 gig disks internally. I think the biggest you can buy right now is 300.

RE: LaCie - Bigger Disk - largest hard drive capacity available

]
] Diageo, the British liquor company whose brands include
] Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Smirnoff, said yesterday
] that it would put nutrition labels on its products to
] detail how much alcohol and how many calories and
] carbohydrates are in each bottle.

Diageo to Put Nutrition Labels on Liquor

] SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18 - Take-Two Interactive, maker of
] the hit video game series Grand Theft Auto, disclosed on
] Thursday that federal regulators plan to file a civil
] suit against the company, its chairman and two former
] executives over questionable accounting practices.

Whoa...

Game Maker Faces Lawsuit by S.E.C. on Accounting

] The attorney general of New York, Eliot Spitzer, filed a
] civil lawsuit yesterday against three marketing
] companies, accusing them of sending fraudulent e-mail
] messages, and said that he would seek penalties so large
] that they would drive each company out of business.

Of course this will just drive it all overseas ... until we get Eastern Europe, Pac Rim, etc, on board...

New York and Microsoft File Suits on E-Mail Spam

] WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 — Humanity's vision of the universe became
] clearer on Thursday when NASA declared the last of its Great
] Observatories operational and released extraordinary images of cool,
] distant objects.

NASA Releases Rare Pictures From a Fourth Space Observatory