Rapid-fire brings Sandia closer to fusion goal

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An electrical circuit that should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion and, equally important, do it every 10 seconds, has undergone extensive preliminary experiments and computer simulations at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine facility.

Z, when it fires, is already the largest producer of X-rays on Earth and has been used to produce fusion neutrons. But rapid bursts are necessary for future generating plants to produce electrical power from sea water. This had not been thought achievable till now. more

Fox Canceled Drive

Fox Broadcasting has canceled Drive. The newest hit show that was set to air on Monday Evenings. This is the second time that Fox has screwed actor Nathan Fillion and has had a show thrown away by Fox. The last show was Firefly back in 2002. If I were this guy I would step back and take a serious look about working for Fox again. There is another story over at Variety. And I found this post in the forum of xgoth. The only thing that I can find on Fox's Drive site is a message saying that the Final 2 episodes will air sometime this summer.

Despite decent reviews, "Drive" quickly stalled, averaging just a 2.3 rating and 6 share among adults 18-49, and 5.6 million viewers overall.

Monday night's "Drive" didn't help matters, coming in fifth place for the hour (1.5/5) and driving "24" to record lows, dropping Fox to fourth for the night.

Extreme Tattoos

Need I say more...

Vermont Senate: Impeach the President

Vermont Senate Adopts Resolution Seeking Impeachment of Bush, Cheney MONTPELIER, Vt. Apr 20, 2007 (AP)— Vermont senators voted Friday to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, saying their actions have raised "serious questions of constitutionality."

Game Industry Cash?

Gamers are snapping up the new generation of games consoles - Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, and Sony's Playstation 3 [PS3], but at huge cost to the industry.

Hardware makers are losing hundreds of dollars on every console sold, and games publishers face an "increasingly difficult environment, as rising development costs and small user bases [mean] that return on investment in next generation games development is unlikely to be achieved before 2008," according to media analysts Screen Digest. More importantly, though, the video games publishers are facing a revolution of their business model...more

War In Iraq Unpublished Pictures

I found these images while browsing. The site is in spanish but the pictures are there.

Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software

Find open source alternatives to your favourite commercial products. Browse through the software categories and compare pros and cons of both commercial products as well as open source software.

US Marijuana Party Official Website - Who We Are

The United States Marijuana Party
Is a motivated group of Americans who are tired of living in fear of their government because of marijuana prohibition. We are fed up with the intrusion into our personal lives, with urine testing at work and at school, with armed home invasions, and with the possibility of prison because of a plant. We are Americans and we do not piss in a cup for anyone but our doctor!"

The Smoldering Ruins of Centralia

In 1962, workers set a heap of trash ablaze in an abandoned mine pit which was used as the borough's landfill. The burning of excess trash was a common practice, yet at that particular time and place there existed a dangerous condition: an exposed vein of anthracite coal. The highly flammable mineral was unexpectedly ignited by the trash fire, prompting a quick effort to put it out. The flames on the surface were successfully extinguished, but unbeknownst to the fire fighters, the coal continued to burn underground.


Related Links:
Centralia Images On Flickr

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London 'under water by 2100' as Antarctica crumbles

DOZENS of the world’s cities, including London and New York, could be flooded by the end of the century, according to research which suggests that global warming will increase sea levels more rapidly than was previously thought.

Complete story at TimesOnline

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A Day Without Latinos

About 30,000 protesters on Thursday marched into downtown Milwaukee as part of a demonstration titled "A Day Without Latinos" in which Latinos were encouraged to take time from their jobs to march, according to Voces de la Frontera, which organized the event. A police spokesman said the crowd was between 10,000 and 15,000. More at CNN

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Child support shift stirs animosity

I found this story about Mens Rights and Child Support in several locations.
The one that caught my attention was a complete posting of the text found at ajc.com

I doubt that it will be there for long, (they want money) I had to find it searching like this
(Search Link to ajc.com)

The other was in a News Group. You can view it at Google Groups Here

This article was written on 3/16/2006 by Craig Schneider

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U.S. National Debt

$8,276,962,479,801

Interesting Figures here...

Thanks GW you friggin idiot...
People should not be afraid of the govenrment...
Government should be afraid of the people!!...

It's Our Duty to stand up to these assholes that want to control every aspect of our lives, from censorship of our Television (FCC Google News Search) to National ID Cards (Google News).

The time is past, there are no longer Red States and Blue States that are divided on issues that have to do with some "prick" whom has more money and can bullshit better than his opponent, or some "Big Money Corporation" that has nothing but "greed" in mind.

If you are an American Citizen, then Wake The Fuck Up...

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Push for Net neutrality mandate grows

The American Association of Retired Persons, better known as the AARP, may be more famous for its lobbying muscle on pension plans and Medicare, but now it's taking up a new platform: keeping the Internet free and open for the age 50-plus set.The 35 million member group is among a growing list of companies and organizations that signed a new letter Thursday urging senators to require Net neutrality principles by law. Also called network neutrality, it's the idea that the companies that own the broadband pipes should not be able to configure their networks in a way that plays favorites--allowing them, for example, to transmit their own services at faster speeds, or to charge Net content and application companies a fee for similar fast delivery.

Thanks to CNETNews.com

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YOU CAN CLICK BUT YOU CAN´T HIDE

What happens when a site is shut down by the MPAA?

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Obfuscating BitTorrent

People ask about making an 'obfuscated' version of BitTorrent often enough that it ought to be a FAQ. The reason given is that some ISPs are doing traffic shaping on BitTorrent protocol, and people wish to get around that.

There are several whole categories of reasons for not doing it. First, there's hardly any benefit. Most ISPs don't do such shaping, and attempts at obfuscation won't work for long - the ISP traffic shaping tools are already quite sophisticated, and a wire protocol which transfers a lot of data bidirectionally and consistently looks like line noise with no header is only marginally more difficult to identify then one which uses fixed ports. Obfuscating the protocol doesn't even claim to make it difficult to find out who's downloading a particular file.... More

Google faces Wall Street revolt

GOOGLE is facing a Wall Street rebellion as investment analysts demand that the internet search company provides regular financial forecasts after a series of blunders that have sent its share price on a multi-billion-dollar rollercoaster ride for the past three months.

Google decided before listing on Nasdaq that it would not provide earnings guidance to Wall Street, and that investors would simply have to trust the company’s strategy.

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Cassini-Huygens: Latest Images

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Build a Fence -- And Amnesty

It's time to build a real fence or a wall along every foot of the 1,989 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border. There can be only two arguments against this approach to keeping out illegal immigrants: (1) it won't work -- possible, but we won't know unless we try; or (2) we don't want it to work -- then, we should say so and open our borders to anyone but criminals and terrorists. Either way, we need more candor in our immigration debates. Now is the time, because Congress is considering its first major immigration legislation in years.In 2005 the Border Patrol stopped 1.19 million people trying to enter the United States illegally; 98.5 percent of them were caught along the southern border. Of those who got through and stayed (crude estimate: some 500,000 annually), about two-thirds lack a high school education. Even a country as accepting of newcomers as the United States cannot effortlessly absorb infinite numbers of poor and unskilled workers. Legal immigration totals 750,000 to 1 million people annually, many of them also unskilled. Credits

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In New York, the Irish Pack It In

NEW YORK — Up and down the hills of Woodlawn these days are signs that things are changing. White paper fliers flutter around storefronts, listing furniture for sale. On a Friday night, the bars on Katonah Avenue have a hollow feeling.The Irish are going home.

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