] Three teens with a "morbid sense of entertainment" have
] been charged with killing eight exotic birds at a zoo for
] abused animals, authorities said yesterday.
]
] The slayings capped a violent night of revelry that began
] with an attack on a duck at a county park, continued with
] an arson-and-graffiti spree at a paintball facility and
] included vandalism at a church, where $5,000 worth of
] stained-glass windows were shattered.
]
] The three spray-painted swastikas and defaced a "God
] bless America" inscription at the paintball complex,
] replacing "God" with "Satan," authorities said.

] The birds were found dead in their pens Monday morning.
] One duck’s eye was gouged out; the emus had their
] windpipes crushed and jugular veins slashed, in addition
] to being beaten on the heads.
]
] "They suffered immensely,’’ said veterinarian Sherry Podhayny.

I hate this town. This is typical of the people in this town. Fuck this town.

The Trentonian | Ocean County teens get bored, resort to killing exotic birds

] I know this whole SCO/Linux thing can be very confusing,
] so I created this summary page to explain what's going
] on.
]
] To make it easier to understand, I put it in familiar
] terms.
]
]
] Cast:
]
] Daisy - Linux
]
] Roscoe P. Coltrane - SCO
]
] Boss Hogg - Microsoft
]
] Bo - Free Software Foundation
]
] Luke - Open Source Initiative
]
] Cooter - Bruce Perens
]
] Uncle Jesse - Novell

Someday the mountain might get 'em, but the law never will.

Need web-based access to WHOIS, reverse lookup, ping, tracert, spam database lookup, IP routiong info and more? Check this site out for several useful networking tools.

Making note of this for the ISP cached DNS lookup.. I've often wished I had something to point people at when explaining why their DNS settings are going to take awhile to fully take effect.

DNS Stuff: DNS tools, WHOIS, tracert, ping, and other network tools.

] At least 100 dead fish were seen yesterday floating in
] the Oyster Creek by the nuclear power plant here, a
] veteran fisherman reported.
]
] Plant investigators saw four dead fish by the Route 9
] bridge that crosses the creek and another near the
] plant's property line, but officials here said the plant
] did not cause them to die.
]
] "We've checked all of our systems and we've done
] nothing," said Ernest J. Harkness, site vice president at
] the Oyster Creek plant.

] The plant was shut down since Tuesday following an
] electrical malfunction. Power generation should resume
] within the next two days, Harkness said.
]
] In December, the largest fine ever assessed on a New
] Jersey nuclear power plant for causing a fish kill --
] $372,912 -- was levied by the state Department of
] Environmental Protection against Oyster Creek.

Oh yeah.. The plant is _never_ killing the fish. Not this time, not earlier this year, not every six months this happens.

This time it was only a few hundred (or the offical number of "four"), last time it was thousands. Does this mean they are getting better?

The workers are still striking too..

Asbury Park Press | Official: Plant did not kill any fish

] And our receptionist? She'd still be paying about 30
] percent, which means she would be contributing about 10
] times the proportion of her income that I would to such
] government pursuits as fighting terrorism, waging wars
] and supporting the elderly. Let me repeat the point: Her
] overall federal tax rate would be 10 times what my rate
] would be.

[IP] Buffett on dividend taxes

] Both the war and the tax cuts began as policy decisions.
] The justifications for the policies were developed -- and
] changed as often as necessary -- to accommodate the
] policies.
]
] And a lot of people have gone blithely along.
]
] I wonder if they go along out of belief, out of deference
] to their leaders or out of partisan loyalty.

This is a well written question. Nice and open so that you can insert the theory of your preference. I want to add that just because they are obviously lying doesn't mean your conspiracy theories are correct.

Does the Public Really Believe? (washingtonpost.com)

] Iraq's only independent newspaper is run by high school
] and college students out of an alcove in the lobby of
] Baghdad's Al Fanar Hotel. Working with a $5,000 grant
] from the nonprofit peace group Voices in the Wilderness,
] 14 unpaid writers, editors, photographers and publishers
] labored for a month to create the debut issue of
] Al-Muajaha, the Iraqi Witness, which hit the streets a
] week ago. In its pages, budding reporters and essayists
] examine the violent, chaotic but cautiously hopeful world
] being born around them, expressing outrage at the
] Americans even as they revel in their newfound freedom.
]
] Newspapers have proliferated in postwar Iraq, but most
] are the organs of political parties. Al-Muajaha's staff,
] though, treasure their autonomy. They learned journalism
] during the war, working as translators and fixers for the
] legions of foreign reporters who descended on Iraq. Some
] of them have been interview subjects as well, and they
] studied the way professionals found their angles and
] formulated their questions. Now they're turning these new
] skills back on the Americans, demanding accountability
] from their would-be rulers.

Salon.com News | Baghdad chronicles

] I want to know if you have ever had read access to
] proprietary Unix source code (not just binaries and
] documentation) under circumstances where either no
] non-disclosure agreement was required or whatever
] non-disclosure agreement you had was not enforced.

] I can't talk about how this information will be applied,
] nor by who. You'll have to trust me, or at any rate my
] record as an ambassador of the community, that it will be
] effective and that I will respect your confidentiality
] and not disclose any facts about individuals without
] their express permission.
]
] You can read about Trademark Law and Risk and How To
] Report Access.
]
] SCO wants to use the courts to attack us and claim
] control of the Linux code; let's make them rue the day
] they thought this was a good idea, by proving that they
] have no trade secrets.

Eric S. Raymond | No Secrets

] The story of the Internet and the mullahs is a
] fascinating study in how technology can subvert even the
] most repressive of regimes. In the past couple of years,
] Iranian authorities have cracked down hard on the
] country's reformist press, closing newspapers and
] arresting journalists. But it will be harder for the
] mullahs to close down the Web. Sina Montallebi has become
] a powerful symbol of the liberal and technology-savvy
] generation that the mullahs have failed to suppress.

] Can you have social, cultural and economic liberalization
] without political freedom? Iran will be one of the test
] cases. And even though the regime is cracking down on the
] Net, the young Webloggers believe they can't crack down
] forever. "For sure it won't last too long," IranianGirl
] wrote recently. "Their time is over."

The Globe and Mail | The story of the Internet and the frustrated mullahs

] Electrical workers at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant
] in central New Jersey have gone on strike, adding another
] woe to a troubled week for one of the nation's oldest
] nuclear-generating stations.
]
] The walkout, by 215 of the plant's 450 workers, started
] abruptly just before noon on Thursday after weeks of
] fruitless negotiations over old work rules, staff
] reductions and employee benefits.
]
] Two days before the strike, Oyster Creek was forced to
] stop producing electricity after a cable failure knocked
] out power to about half the plant's safety system,
] including security cameras, alarms, sensors, pumps and
] valves, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
] Makeshift repairs restored the power, but Oyster Creek is
] barred from generating power until a new cable is
] installed, said Neil Sheehan, a commission spokesman.

Lots of activity around the plant today.. At least 150 people out picketing along with the normal crop of police cars, humvees, soldiers, machine guns, and big concrete barriers.

Nuclear Plant Electrical Workers Strike, Citing Job Reductions