i don't much care how it gets done... i wants my wireless broadband. even if it has to go thru a cellphone first, that's fine. the sooner the better.

InfoWorld: Vendors, carriers eye WiMax wireless broadband: January 23, 2004: By : Wireless

Hijexx wrote:
] David Kay just resigned his post in Iraq, stating the same
] thing, that Iraq has no WMDs.
]
] People who cling to the notion that we will eventually find
] the weapsons need to wake up. The US government lied to
] invade Iraq. Pretty simple.

damn right. of course, he want's to shoot for the stars and get men on Mars. he must be a good guy.

blegh. i'm strongly considering france.

RE: Powell Voices Doubts About Iraqi Weapons (washingtonpost.com)

] Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who urged the United
] Nations to endorse a preemptive war to strip Iraq of its
] weapons of mass destruction, conceded yesterday that
] Saddam Hussein's government may have no longer had such
] munitions.

[ well, how about that. ] -k

Powell Voices Doubts About Iraqi Weapons (washingtonpost.com)

] "Until you know it could be better, you don't know that
] it's bad."

indeed this is the whole truth when it comes to sound quality. get the best stuff you feel comfortable with and stop thinking about it... it'll sound great to you unless some dickhead plays something for you on his $250,000 system, which isn't likely for most of us.

WSJ.com - Portals: My iPod's Encounter With High-End Stereo Left All of Us Wiser

pretty cool...

the site is owned now... going slow as nuts for me, but maybe later it'll be ok.

ah, what i would do with a bunch of extra money.

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]] A small group of Westside High School students plastered
]] the school Monday with posters advocating that a white
]] student from South Africa receive the "Distinguished
]] African American Student Award" next year.
]
]WTF is this? It seems that Blacks professing they are "African ]American" is prefectly ok, but for a white guy to profess his ]nationality, it is "inappropriate and insensitive." What kind of ]bullshit double standard is that? If anything he is more ]African-American they any of these people: He was born in African, ]he lives in America. How many of these other students running for ]African-American Student of the year can say that?

more than anything, this exposes the problem with the term "african american". In a literal, semantic sense, this kid was probably the only truly african person in the school, but lets be honest, that's not what they meant. the award was designed to recognise a black student in honor of MLK's efforts for civil rights. it has nothing to do with africa, and this kid, or his family, should've recognized that. This boys campain may have been innocent, but it wasn't very smart. Somehow a stigma got attached to the term "black", which i understand, and am sensitive to, but "african-american" has it's own set of problems, as this case proves.

Anyway, i'm not sure suspensions were necessary, but I certainly don't think would make sense for this kid to win an honor that was really not designed for him, and only made sense because someone didn't completely think out the consequences of a particular P.C. term. People love to smugly exploit semantic inconsistencies and loopholes like this, but it's not gonna work very often. At best, it'll spur debate about how to refine the definitions we use.

You are not African-American, You are White

] DRE (direct recording electronic) voting systems have
] been widely criticized elsewhere for various deficiencies
] and security vulnerabilities: that their software is
] totally closed and proprietary; that the software
] undergoes insufficient scrutiny during qualification and
] certification; that they are especially vulnerable to
] various forms of insider (programmer) attacks; and that
] DREs have no voter-verified audit trails (paper or
] otherwise) that could largely circumvent these problems
] and improve voter confidence. All of these criticisms,
] which we endorse, apply directly to SERVE as well.

there are a bunch more issues brought up, but this one is enough for me.

not good.

SERVE Analysis

] team of Romanian and U.S. doctors say they have
] successfully removed a tumor weighing 175 pounds (80
] kilograms) from a woman patient in an operation lasting
] 10 hours.
]
] Lucica Bunghez, 47, had been largely confined to bed
] because of the tumor, which weighed almost double her
] body weight and covered her back, waist and hips.
]
] "She is very well, the lack of the tumor really suits
] her," Ion Lascar, head of the plastic surgery department
] of Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest, told reporters on
] Wednesday.

cancer. sucks. so. much.

CNN.com - Doctors remove 175 pound tumor - Jan. 22, 2004

] The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner of
] the UNIX® operating system and a leading provider of
] UNIX-based solutions, today filed suit against Novell
] (Nasdaq: NOVL - News) for its alleged bad faith effort to
] interfere with SCO's rights with respect to UNIX and
] UnixWare®.

it was only a matter of time, wasn't it?

SCO Files Slander of Title Lawsuit Against Novell

] They also focused on electability and which Democrat
] might have the best chance of beating Bush on Nov. 2.
] Dean's bluntness and tendency to speak his mind have
] tripped him up in recent weeks, allowing opponents to
] paint him as gaffe-prone and not ready for the White
] House.
]
] His fire can translate as anger.

one of the only media pieces i've seen recently that felt fair. fucking journalism is a joke in this country. at least this one article from Reuters has stuck to *reporting* the news, instead of trying to spin it a particular way. Of course, the papers that subscribe will pull out bits and parts to paint whatever picture they want, but here's a start.

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage