w1ld wrote:
] ] Brian Maxwell, founder of the multimillion-dollar
] ] PowerBar empire and a former world-class marathon runner,
] ] has died of a heart attack, friends said. He was 51.
]
] hmm.. He must been eating too much of his own product.

It's Jim Fixx deja vu all over again. To those of you too young to know that name, He was the Marlboro smoking marathon runner and author who popularized the sport of running; his 1977 bestseller The Complete Book of Running, is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution. He died of a heart attack while running in 1984.

RE: CNN.com - PowerBar founder Maxwell dies of a heart attack - Mar 20, 2004

These idiots are really bent on self destruction...

The SCO Group, the company that's hoping to profit from its assertion that Linux violates its Unix intellectual property, has threatened legal action against two federal supercomputer users, letters released Thursday show.
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The letter to NERSC director Horst Simon used strong language in its effort to convince the research facility to buy a license that will let it use Linux without fear of SCO legal action.
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"If you fail to respond to our efforts to pursue a licensing arrangement, WE WILL TURN YOUR NAME OVER TO OUR OUTSIDE COUNSEL FOR CONSIDERATION OF LEGAL ACTION," Pettit said

SCO targets federal supercomputer users

Fun, mindless and random oval office violence!
(Just like Mom used to bake)

Shoot Like Dub'ya

This week's Onion must-read.

Rumsfeld then declared the tournament open by symbolically shattering a block of obsidian with his prosthetic dragon's claw—the powerful weapon grafted onto his right wrist after 2003 champion Li severed his hand with manji butterfly swords.
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"Man, they ain't seen unorthodox-but-effective until they seen me," said the languid Jack "Chocolate Lightning" Garrison, the two-time East Coast Freestyle Kung-Fu champion once described by SuckaPunch magazine as "six feet of stone-cold brotha and 10 inches of afro barely contained in a fly lemon-yellow jumpsuit."

Onion:Rumsfeld Hosts No-Holds-Barred Martial Arts Tournament

Washington, DC - In an effort to reduce the federal deficit, President Bush announced today that all Americans must work weekends at Wal-Mart.

The retail giant has agreed to absorb the $2.4 trillion deficit in return for Americans providing free labor. Bush, who now calls himself the “Store Manager in Chief”, called the program “another bold step in our efforts to privatize the US government.”
Wal-Mart will pay one dollar towards the deficit for every hour an American is locked in a store and forced to stack boxes. “If every American gives up just 20 hours every weekend,” said Bush “we will erase the deficit in nine short years.”

BBSPOT: All Americans Must Work Weekends at Wal-Mart

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, long known for its high-calorie treats, says it plans to offer a low-sugar doughnut to attract dieters and diabetics.

Exactly how low the sugar content would be was unclear Thursday.

Krispy Kreme spokeswoman Amy Hughes said she didn't know because the new doughnut is still in the early stages of development. It is set to debut before the end of 2004.

But just one of Krispy Kreme's Hot Original Glazed doughnuts has 10 grams of sugar and 200 calories. More than half those calories come from fat -- 12 grams of it.

Mmmmm. Tasty! Low Sugar Donuts

More bottom feeding...

Linux threatens Microsoft's business--chiefly in hampering the growth of Windows on higher-end computers called servers, but also in Microsoft's desktop computing stronghold and in "embedded" computing devices such as electronic ticket dispensers, where Microsoft is trying to expand.
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"There's no smoking gun yet showing an orchestrated Microsoft executive-level pulling of SCO's puppet strings. What there is, however, is rather unseemly involvement by Microsoft around the periphery of SCO's funding," Haff said. "Given that Microsoft, on the one hand, is a convicted monopolist and that, on the other, SCO's financial dealings and actions look increasingly shady, Microsoft should certainly be worried about even a little bit of SCO's stench rubbing off."

Investment firm confirms Microsoft link to SCO

Finally after all these years.. Affirmation of what I have been saying all along...

Technology has paid off handsomely for porn sites in the USA. Led by sites like Danni's Hard Drive and Cybererotica, they generated $2 billion in revenue last year, up 10% to 15% from 2002, says Adult Video News, a trade magazine. That's about 10% of the overall domestic porn market. The number of porn sites has vaulted eighteenfold, to 1.3 million, since 1998, says the National Research Council.
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"Technology turned trash into cash," Harris says. "That's a lesson other industries can learn."

Online porn often leads high-tech way

Did you all see Lost In Translation? Really beautiful movie. Some people said it was slow, but I thought it was perfect. I picked that one up at Best Buy earlier today."
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"Movies teach us how to live and how to laugh," Clinton said. "That's so important. Just last week, I re-watched Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing. Man, I'd forgotten what a great movie that was. It fully renewed my commitment to racial, ethnic, and religious reconciliation."

Work Begins On Clinton Presidential DVD Library

] [ God, is this the biggest non-issue on the planet right now?
] For fucks sake, man, i have no animosity towards Martha
] Stewart, i've watched her show, and she makes some pretty
] sweet food, you know, so that's cool. But what the fuck, she
] got convicted, by a jury. So, she'll appeal, and maybe win.
] Either way, people take this shit all personally... I think
] she did some great stuff, and i think we're seeing that she
] did some shady, ruthless stuff too. I just don't see the
] emotional investment in it... -k]

I concur... All this over 4000 shares of a company where she wasn't a director of. Don't we have real criminals/crime to pursue like Janet Jackson and Howard Stern? She lied to investigators about a crime that never happened. I personally reserve the right to sell my shares of any stock whenever the hell I want to. Where are all the freedom loving activists here? Regardless of how you feel about her and her image, the feds scapegoated her to make an example to others.

RE: Save Martha! For Martha Stewart fans