Sometimes i think Ann Coulter exists only to enrage me. She's aleady called me a traitor to my nation, and called for my imprisonment and hanging, for no more than bringing up the fact that maybe, perhaps, the president of our country wasn't completely forthright with us about certain things. Things that involve the lives of millions and, as it turns out, the deaths of thousands. And then she has the audacity to claim that liberals are mindless drones who will vote for whomever the democratic party puts forth. *I'm* the one in lockstep? Please, Ann, take a look at your own jackboots and check real carefully for the 'W' emblazoned on them, you complete tool of neoconservatism.

I won't get into her tearing apart one poor girl whose emotion clearly makes her a retard incapable of making important choices. We must base our decisions on military pragmatism, and anything else makes you no better than a terrorist.

I'm pretty sure the Democrats aren't the ones comparing Dean to McGovern and "wearily predicting a landslide for Bush". Once again, Ann makes a blanket statement and provides ABSOLUTELY NO SUPPORT for it. For every democrat or liberal i know, a Bush landslide is nothing more than nightmare vision... perhaps we're all prescient, and that's the prediction she means. Hmph. This is a flat out lie to add to her many others.

And from here, we move onto some really classic Coulter : Whenever liberals all start singing from the same hymnal, they are up to no good. (Or since we're talking about American liberals here, maybe I should say, "when they all start reading from the same Quran.")
There are a few different things going on here, so lets analyze each of them. First, she makes the claim that unity of voice is evidence of, what, some deep, dark, liberal conspiracy? This from the very same woman who believes that any disagreement with the current administration is treasonous? Once again, Ann, use the mirror. You're the one with the Hymnal, though it has no songs of love, joy or hope in it. Then, she goes racist. Clearly anyone with a Quran is a terrorist and HATES everything american. And clearly liberals are all so ANTI AMERICA that we reinforce our hatred with the terrorists own training manual the Quran. Goddammit Ann, have you ever even seen a Q'ran? No, didn't think so. Then shut the fuck up and keep your xenophobia and racism to your fucking self.

Ok, now she attacks Dean, calling him appalling, spineless and weak. Well, the first is certainly true for her, considering she thinks he's no better than Osama bin Laden, so, no surprise there. I won't even get close to fully dealing with her hawkish discussion of what does and doesn't constitute bravery -- apparently it involves killing someone, or at least taking off in a plane.

Oh, and one of the stand out quotes of the whole piece "the North Vietnamese were savage beasts, but they never attacked America on its own soil. ... [ Read More (0.3k in body) ]

Yahoo! News - VEGAN COMPUTER GEEKS FOR DEAN

] STERLING, Va. %u2014 Using the nation's toughest
] anti-spam law for the first time, Virginia prosecutors
] have gained felony indictments against two men accused of
] sending thousands of unsolicited e-mail pitches for
] investments, software and other products.
]
] Prosecutors said Thursday that an alias of one of the
] defendants, Jeremy Jaynes, is listed as one of the
] world's 10 biggest spammers by spamhaus.org, a group that
] tabulates complaints reported to Internet service
] providers.
]
] The indictments, returned Monday by a grand jury in
] Loudoun County, Va., are based on Virginia's anti-spam
] law, which took effect July 1. Prosecutors said it's the
] first time spamming has brought felony charges.
]
] Jaynes, 29, who uses the aliases of Jeremy James and
] Gaven Stubberfield, and Richard Rutowski each face four
] counts of transmission of unsolicited bulk electronic
] mail. Each count carries up to five years in prison.

GOTTA LOVE IT!!! Been a long time coming, but some spammers gonna become "Bubbas girl friends" in da Big House!! Good luck impaneling an impartial jury sympathetic to your "cause" guys. I can just hear their lawyers arguing for a mistrial - "Everyone gets and is annoyed by spam your honor..." And the judge replies "Precisely the reason your client is in court today, counsel." :D

LB

Virginia charges two under new anti-spam law

] Former Vice President Al Gore -- the Democratic party's
] presidential candidate in 2000 -- has decided to endorse
] former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean for the party's 2004
] presidential nomination, Democratic sources told CNN
] Monday.

CNN.com - Sources: Gore to endorse Dean - Dec. 8, 2003

] Explanation: In 1787, astronomer William Herschel
] discovered the Eskimo Nebula. From the ground, NGC 2392
] resembles a person's head surrounded by a parka hood. In
] 2000, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged the Eskimo
] Nebula. From space, the nebula displays gas clouds so
] complex they are not fully understood. The Eskimo Nebula
] is clearly a planetary nebula, and the gas seen above
] composed the outer layers of a Sun-like star only 10,000
] years ago. The inner filaments visible above are being
] ejected by strong wind of particles from the central
] star. The outer disk contains unusual light-year long
] orange filaments.

WOW!

LB

The Eskimo Nebula from Hubble

] NEW YORK %u2014 Researchers at IBM claim they have made
] an important breakthrough in the race to design circuitry
] at the molecular level: a system that works with existing
] methods of electronics manufacturing.
]
] In a paper being released Monday at an industry
] conference in Washington, D.C., IBM researchers Chuck
] Black and Kathyrn Guarini say they used a naturally
] occurring pattern of molecules as a stencil to etch flash
] memory circuitry into silicon.
]
] Other researchers are experimenting with using
] self-assembling, or naturally forming, patterns of
] molecules to build very tiny circuitry. Doing so is
] believed to be necessary if the high-tech industry can
] continue to pack more transistors into smaller spaces
] %u2014 the process that continually makes computing
] faster and less expensive.

USATODAY.com - IBM claims nanotech-circuit breakthrough

] View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the
] Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in
] successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak
] tree just outside the buildings of the National High
] Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After
] that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a
] microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell
] nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic
] universe of electrons and protons.

Really puts the size of outer AND inner space into perspective!

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Words just can't express the love of a rabbit for a stuffed bunny.

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Congress, with only a limited debate, has given the Bush administration a green light for the biggest revitalization of the country's nuclear weapons program since the end of the Cold War.

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HEY GEORGE - EAT ANOTHER PRETZEL, WILL YA???

LB

A new era of nuclear weapons / Bush's buildup begins with little debate in Congress

Decius wrote:
] ] "Piracy is like terrorism today and it exists everywhere
] ] and it is a very dangerous phenomenon."

What smokes he? Where can we get some too?

LB

RE: Intellectual property piracy is form of terrorism: WIPO chief

well, i suppose we all saw this coming.

they want their quarter mil out of Apple, Diamond, Cannon, Samsung, Olympus, Phillips, SanDisk, Viking, etc, etc. etc.

my initial reaction was to flip out over this, but decided to do some research on the licenses for, say, HFS+, to make sure i'm not being unfair to microsoft. well, it turns out that apple's HFS+ implementation was made available under their APSL as part of the Darwin core. APSL looks to be fairly commercial friendly though IANAL... even so, Microsoft isn't likely to write a filesystem driver for HFS+ and then make the code available to the public as the APSL requires. I couln't find any details on commercial, proprietary licences.

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I'm sorry... my BS-O-METER is buried in the red. This reminds me of the Unisys claim that they were suddenly owed royalties by every company that sold software supporting .GIF image files a couple years back. There really need to be laws in place that prevent this "patent squatting" from happening. OH SO convenient for a corporation like M$ or Unisys to bite their lip for X number of YEARS until something is adopted as an industry standard... THEN try to claim they are owed royalties by everyone and their mother? NO. You have a patent? Fine - then you best make dilligent efforts to ENFORCE your CLAIM to that patent from the time you apply for it - that means going after companies that adopt your technology and collecting royalties from the get-go. Let it slide for X amount of time without enforcing it? You lose ****ALL**** rights to your patent and it reverts to the public domain without warning. End of story.

LB

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