BASIC Computer Language Turns 40

10 PRINT "In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a radical"

20 PRINT "idea - create a computer language muscular enough to harness"

30 PRINT "the power of the period's computers, yet simple enough that even"

40 PRINT "the school's janitors could use it."

50 END

Happy Birthday to BASIC

Decius wrote:
] ] One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have
] ] cameras and computers running background checks on every
] ] car and driver that passes through.
]
] The license plate takes another step closer to it's destiny.

2000 US Census data puts the population of Malapan, FL at 320. Does that even qualify as a town? Seems more like a village...

I lived in FLA for nearly 20 yrs and never even heard of this town until I looked it up tonight. Somehow, I don't think this sleepy little town of paranoid and uptight Palm Beach County rich f*ckers will see that many cars to analyze.

RE: newsobserver.com - Florida town to use surveillance cameras

w1ld wrote:
] ] WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Wednesday to lower
] ] taxes for some married couples, part of an election-year
] ] push to lock in some of President Bush's most popular tax
] ] cuts.
] ]
] ] The bill, passed 323-95, would permanently change three
] ] parts of tax law that cause some married couples to pay
] ] higher taxes than they would as single individuals and
] ] reduce their taxes $105 billion over the next decade.
] ] Some married couples face a tax increase next year if the
] ] changes expire as scheduled.
]
] Always letting the single working people pick up the tab.

How many of us pay full propery tax and have no kids in school or using social services?
Give all the tax breaks to the people whose demon spawn younguns use the govt services that taxes pay for.. Makes perfect sense to me - NOT!

RE: CNN.com - House passes tax cuts for married couples - Apr 28, 2004

ATLANTA—IKEA, the rapidly growing Swedish retailer of inexpensive home furnishings, claimed another 10,000 American lifestyles in 2003, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Interior Design Control.
"This epidemic of self-assembled, clean-lined modernist furniture is still largely contained to densely populated urban areas, but the danger exists that it will spread to other regions throughout America," CIDC spokesman Chris Greeves said Tuesday. "At the rate it's moving, our nation could suffer European levels of Scandinavian design within a decade."

Greeves said IKEA is not easily controlled, as it spreads largely through word of mouth.

"It passes between rooms until it has infested not only your living room, but also your 1.5 bathrooms, your cleanly appointed kitchen, and then your entire sun-drenched, open-plan loft apartment. In the most extreme cases, it will even spread to the string-light-decorated rooftop patio overlooking your recently gentrified neighborhood."

ONION:IKEA Claims Another 10,000 Lifestyles

News of the Weird:

SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- Lulu, a pet kangaroo that helped save the life of an Australian farmer last year, is to be honored with one of the RSPCA's highest awards for animal bravery, the National Animal Valor Award.

The 52-year-old farmer, Len Richards, was knocked unconscious by a falling tree branch on his farm in the Gippsland region of Victoria state, during a storm last September.

Lulu came to his rescue by going to the family home and making a barking noise to attract the attention of Richards' wife Lynn.

Richards went looking for her husband with a nephew and found him lying unconscious in a field.

Lulu the roo hops to bravery award

Decius wrote:
]
] (U:) Probably the point of this is not to influence the
] west, but to demonstrate to gullible people in the middle east
] that they terrorists have influenced the west.

Because the ultimate aim of the terrorist is just not to expunge westerners and western values but to take over and rule the land of Mohammad per their evil and warped sense of Islam once the west is no longer significant obstacle to their aims. While we usually tend to side with Israel, w/o us, the more moderate middle eastern states like UAE, Quatar, Egypt and even the less progressive Saudi Arabia would be extremely vulnerable. Nobody seems to see just how much we have historically protected their interests.

RE: CNN.com - Protest 'or Italian hostages die' - Apr 26, 2004

w1ld wrote:
] ]
] ] The hosts of the show on WXDJ-FM, Joe Ferrero and Enrique
] ] Santos, fed pleasantries to Castro before breaking in and
] ] calling him an assassin. The conversation ended after
] ] Castro denounced the callers with a stream of
] ] vulgarities.
]
] hahaha...
But when the VOA (Voice of America) broadcast anti Castro propaganda from Key West into Cuba via Radio Marti back between 85 and 95, apparently, that was ok. Given the ongoing ineffective 40+ year trade and travel embargo w/ Cuba, one would think tormenting Castro would be promoted via almost any means.

UPDATE: MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) -- Two Miami radio hosts who duped Cuban President Fidel Castro with a prank call are soliciting pennies from their fans to pay a $4,000 fine proposed by U.S. regulators because of the on-air stunt.

Talk radio host Enrique Santos said the fine made no sense, so he and co-host Joe Ferrero plan to pay it with 400,000 cents, delivered in person to the Federal Communications Commission in Washington.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/04/28/castro.prank.reut/index.html

RE: CNN.com - $4,000 fine for station that cranked Castro - Apr 24, 2004

Painted in traditional tribal makeup and wearing possum skins, Moopor stood silently and cast the curse by pointing a small bone at Howard as he climbed into a waiting car. Howard smiled and waved at Moopor before leaving.

Moopor refused to speak with reporters, citing unspecified Aboriginal cultural reasons.

Aboriginal curse put on Aussie PM Howard

I am simply amazed that this took over 20 years to happen...

LOS ANGELES -- Much of the multibillion-dollar adult-movie business in Southern California has halted production and banned nearly four dozen actors and actresses from working after two tested positive for HIV, industry officials said.

Companies that churn out movies in what is estimated to be a $9 billion to $10 billion industry annually took a cautionary approach to the scare, which was revealed by the health agency that the industry created several years ago as part of its self-policing of sexually transmitted diseases.

"At this point, we have delayed production," said Micsha Allen, marketing manager at VCA Pictures in Chatsworth. "We're not sure when we will start again ... Our main concern is the health and safety and welfare of our talent."

HIV puts scare into California porn industry

This Week's Onion Must Read:

Rumsfeld's secretarial duties include coordinating all functions of the government relating directly to national security, formulating defense policy, overseeing the affairs of the military, and ordering new supplies.

But, according to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Rumsfeld does "much more than that." She praised his "nearly psychic" ability to spot and prevent potential sticky situations.

National Economic Council director Stephen Friedman lavished the overworked secretary with praise.

"Donald should get an award for what he did the afternoon someone accidentally scheduled a lunch with the foreign minister from Guyana at the same time as a meeting with French president Jacques Chirac," Friedman said. "Instead of just sticking the foreign minister in a waiting room with some magazines, Donald had a representative from the House—fellow by the name of Daniels or Peterson or something—take him to lunch at The Jockey Club, and he got him a pair of tickets to that night's Washington Wizards game. The foreign minister had such a great time, he practically forgot he'd never met with Bush. Boy, did Don put out that fire."

Rumsfeld Looking Forward To Secretary's Day