Wake Up America-before it is too late

I have been concerned about the US economy for quite some time. What is most alarming about the situation, however, is the inability of the American public to look at the hard facts and to acknowledge that there is a problem. The ostrich method does not work — we cannot continue to bury our heads in the bargains found in shopping malls, despite what the president says. The economy is not the only problem we need to fix, but it may very well be the most pressing.Wake up America. The government is stealing your rights, your money, your property, your freedom to pursue happiness.

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Bush: I'd Like to Fight In Iraq, But I'm too old!

What a freaking moron. He sounds like he has actually served in the military and volunteered for anything dumb a$$ rich bastard. He is happy to see others die. "Responding to one of the bloggers in Iraq he expressed envy that they could be there, and said he'd like to be there but "One, I'm too old to be out there, and two, they would notice me."

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More lies :Dozens died in Syrian-Iranian chemical weapons experiment

The lies to start the next war are coming like a storm.So called reports like this one, with not proof, no reference, no name and not an exact place is an amazing spread of lies to be used by many other sources as a “proof” as JP writes it here on how dangerous these 2 countries are.The dogs of war are free and the world is getting ready to start another war based on lies of the Israeli or Israeli backed sources.

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Federal Prosecutor Caught Seeking Sex with 5-Year-Old Girl

(yes he is republican) A federal prosecutor from Florida was ordered held in custody Monday after he appeared in U.S. District Court in Detroit on a charge that he flew to Detroit intending to have sex with a 5-year-old girl. John David R. Atchison, 53, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., an assistant U.S. Attorney in Florida's northern district.

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The Clock Is Set For Iranian Nuclear Activities (Iran Press Service)

“Even, as in the words of Mr. Kouchner, attacking Iran is very far to be considered, and we are not there, yet, the other signification of his statements might be that the clock for the Iranian nuclear activities is set for the West and with each second that pass, the situation get more dangerous”

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U.S. Is Paying Off Iraq's Worst War Criminals in Attempt to Ward Off Attack

Rowley's report, which includes interviews with candid U.S. soldiers and footage of a military commander handing a Sunni leader a wad of cash, suggests the role of bribery and coercion in building alliances that serve short-term goals in Anbar province, but in the long run deepen a multisided civil war.

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The administration is coming at Iran from every direction at once

Nuclear weapons is just one among many reasons the US seeks to attack Iran.Bush administration wants to establish clearly that it — not Iran — is the dominant power in the Middle East.” In other words, once again, we just want an excuse to plant our Sasquatch-sized footprint on the region.

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The most fashionable water melon from Japan

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The most fashionable water melon from Japan

Best Pictures from Google Street View

These are a collection of pictures from Google’s new Street View feature on their map pages. Smile, you may be on camera….1 Thong Girl2 Reckless DrivingThe “Google Van” that takes the Streetview pictures obviously ran over the barricades.3 Breaking and Entering4 The Junk King5 Hot Babes 6 Pervert Dude7

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France warning of war with Iran

France is now officially replaces the position of the UK to start this new war.The Neucon president of France, Nicolas Sarkuzi is the new poodle of the White House and their policy is to create an European support front for the incoming war against Iran.These bastards are doing the same thing they did in 1938, bending over & supporting the fascists

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AFP: Cholera infects 16,000 people in northern Iraq: WHO

The cholera outbreak in northern Iraq has infected some 16,000 people since late August, of whom at least 10 have died, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

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The NAtion: Why We're Losing the War on Terror

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President George W. Bush is fond of reminding us that no terrorist attacks have occurred on domestic soil since 9/11. But has the Administration's "war on terror" actually made us safer? Nation legal affairs correspondent David Cole doubts it, as he and Jules Lobel detail in a new Nation magazine article adapted from their new book, Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (New Press).

In this brilliantly conceived critique, two of the country's preeminent constitutional scholars argue that the great irony is that the compromises in the rule of law implemented by the Bush Administration, adopted in the name of prevention, have in fact made us more susceptible to future terrorist attacks. They conclusively debunk the administration's claim that it is winning the war on terror and offer an alternative strategy in which the rule of law is an asset, not an obstacle, in the struggle to keep us both safe and free.

Check out the book's website for more info, to purchase copies online and to see when and where Cole is speaking.

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Director of National Intelligence Admits Lying to Congress

Did he lie or he is afraid that the truth that America is listening to European calls without permission was too much for some to admit?"GottaLaff: Intel czar Mike McConnell told Congress a new law helped bring down a terror plot. The facts say otherwise."

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UN nuclear chief walks out on EU speech on Iran: diplomats

UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei walked out on an afternoon session Tuesday of his IAEA to protest an EU speech which did not fully support his deal for new inspections in Iran, diplomats told AFP“He walked out because the EU did not support the Secretariat,”

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US accuses Iran over Iraq attacks-showing a hard drive as proof

Here we go again, back in 2002, it was Powell who lied the world into the war in Iraq.Now it is this wonderful general who is using a hard drive to “prove” Iran i behind attacks against the US.Give me that hard drive and in a day I can make proof that Sierra Leone was behind 9/11 with picture of their leader cheering up the 9/11 hijackers.

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U.S. Bush administration ponders when to launch nuclear war against Iran

The United States is planning what will be a catastrophic attack on Iran. For the Bush cabal, the attack will be a way of “buying time” for its disaster in Iraq. In announcing what he called a “surge” of American troops in Iraq, George W Bush identified Iran as his real target.

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Comment is free: 9/11 - the big cover-up?

Six years after 9/11, the American public have still not been provided with a full and truthful account of the single greatest terror attack in US history. What they got was a turkey. The 9/11 Commission was hamstrung by official obstruction. It never managed to ascertain the whole truth of what happened on September 11 2001.

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Al-Jazeera camera man close to death at Guantanamo Bay ‘close to death’

An al-Jazeera journalist captured in Afghanistan six years ago and sent to Guantanamo Bay is close to becoming the fifth detainee at the US naval base to take his own life, according to a medical report written by a team of British and American psychiatrists.

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Kucinich: I Wouldn’t Assassinate Bin Laden

“We’ve had air strikes all along the Pakistani border,” he told Charlie Rose. “We’ve killed lot of innocent villagers in this search for Osama din Landen. Where does it end? Do you nuke a country in order to get on person? … We cannot get into a kind of international vigilantism.”

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Dissident Voice : The 25th Anniversary of the Massacre at Sabra-Shatilla

The 25th Anniversary of the Massacre at Sabra-ShatillaWill anyone remember? Does anyone really care anymore? Twenty-five years ago this week since the September 15-18, 1982 Massacre at the Palestinian refugee camps at Sabra-Shatila. Some of the bodies had limbs and heads chopped off, some boys castrated, Christian crosses carved into some of the bodies.

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FWD: Space fireworks

Space fireworks

People in Japan this Saturday Sunday evening will be treated to a “space fireworks” show consisting of three balls of red light in the sky, each glowing as bright as the moon.

These luminous orbs will be the result of three clouds of lithium vapor released into the ionosphere by a rocket launched in an experiment to study the atmosphere. The red glow will be caused by sunlight striking the lithium vapor clouds as they disperse. “In the first few seconds after each lithium release, the light should become as large and bright as the moon,” says team member Masayuki Yamamoto, a professor at Kochi University of Technology.

Currently scheduled for Saturday (Sep 1, 2007) at 7:29 PM Sunday (Sep 2, 2007) at 7:26 PM, the one and a half minute long space fireworks show will be most visible in western Japan at about 20 degrees above the southern horizon, but people in the Tokyo area may be able to see the light at about 10 degrees above the southwestern horizon.

The researchers, who come from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Hokkaido University and Kochi University of Technology, say the purpose of the experiment is to study atmospheric flow in the ionosphere at an altitude of between 100 to 300 km. This area of the atmosphere is difficult to study because satellites typically must remain at altitudes higher than 250 km, while weather balloons generally cannot exceed altitudes of 50 km.

At 7:23 PM Saturday 7:20 PM Sunday night, the 8.5-meter tall S-520 rocket will be launched from the JAXA Uchinoura Space Center in southern Kyushu. As it makes an arc across the sky and begins its descent, the rocket will begin releasing the lithium. The rocket will make its first lithium release at 7:29 7:26 PM (at 250 km), followed by a second release 40 seconds later (at 200 km) and another one 40 seconds after that (at 150 km). The rocket will then fall into the Pacific about 500 km south of the tip of Wakayama prefecture.

The scientists will observe the lithium glows from the ground at four separate locations. If the weather is not fine at at least three of the four locations, the launch will be postponed. The latest schedule information is available here.

[Source: Asahi via Slashdot Japan]

UPDATE: It’s been postponed until Sunday night (7:26 PM).

UPDATE 2: These photos, found via 2-channeru, show a faint red blob. The photos appear to have been taken from somewhere in Fukui prefecture, which is pretty far away from the action. Cloud cover here in Tokyo obscured the view.

UPDATE 3: These photos from the Tokushima-Kainan Observatory, located at Dairi-Matsubara beach in the town of Kaiyo (Tokushima prefecture, Shikoku), show a much brighter glow. More high-resolution photos here.

 

Anti-War Minister Is Attacked, Gets Leg Broken for Trying to Enter Petraeus hearing

US DEMOCRACY IN ACTION! Rev. Lennox Yearwood of the Hip Hop Caucus wanted to attend the Petraeus Hearings yesterday. He stood on line waiting his turn to enter the room.

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FYI: Under the Hood--Video: iPhone clones surpassing original

http://www.wirelessnetdesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201803513

Under the Hood--Video: iPhone clones surpassing original

By Patrick Mannion

Courtesy of TechOnline
(08/31/2007 7:47 AM EDT)

Editor's Note: Semiconductor Insights will do a presentation on this teardown on Second Life at 12 noon on Sept. 14. Just go to Dr. Dobb's Island and watch from there.

Manhasset, NY — On taking their video camera inside the first clone of the Apple iPhone, Semiconductor Insights' teardown specialists found it to be an almost laughable takeoff of Apple's latest success story. However, its analysts also noted that teardowns of subsequent clones indicate that counterfeiters are capitalizing upon existing designs and more time to bring their fakes up to a quality level that equals and will soon surpass that of not only the iPhone, but all systems they're intent on faking.

Almost simultaneous with the iPhone's launch on June 29th. (see: Inside the Apple iPhone for teardown story and video), CEC Telecom in China launched the Q130, the first clone. In preparation for a special session on counterfeiting at the up-coming Embedded Systems Conference in Boston (Sept. 18"21), Semiconductor Insights bought a Q130 in Shenzhen—for $350—and put it under the knife. From the start, it was clear the device was not an iPhone. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

"The logo was messed up," said Greg Quirk, marketing manager at SI. "The apple was back to front, was pink and it had a stem." Beyond that, the display was small, the MP3 player was poorly designed and there was no touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or any of the highly functional software that made the original iPhone stand out. "It has a 1.3 megapixel camera [though the iPhone isn't much better at 2.0 megapixels] and the iTunes implementation was terrible," said Allan Yogasingam, manager of strategic supply chain at SI. "They just took a basic GSM phone and slapped on an Apple logo," said Quirk. Emphasizing the irony, he pointed out that the only thing CECT got right on the device was the Apple mantra, 'Think different' on the display on boot-up.

As the camera rolled, the analysts went inside to find out what the system comprised.

The first IC they saw was the single-chip GSM/GPRS baseband (SC6600D05) from Spreadtrum, a Chinese baseband processor developer. It was the first time SI had encountered a chip from that company, said Quirk. Next came the Samsung NOR flash, was a 64-Mbit dual-bank memory, though SI had never seen that part number before. "Also, the packaging markings [K5J6332] were not on Samsung's website and didn't match the die markings [K8D6316]," added Quirk. The decapping process that SI uses to expose die in their teardowns will also be demonstrated at ESC.

Going further, the team uncovered a ViMicro VC0568 camera controller chip that offloads image processing from the phone's CPU. "ViMicro is also Chinese, so at least it can be said that counterfeiters like to support their local semiconductor industries," said Yogasingam.

On the front end, NXP dominates with parts that were once Silicon Labs' before NXP bought its cellular communications business. Parts included the Si4300 monolithic CMOS GSM power amplifier and Si4210 Aero II GSM/GPRS transceiver. Highly integrated, that device was designed to reduce parts count and enable more compact phones, said Quirk.

Counterfeits surpassing originals

While the Q130 was clearly a rip-off, subsequent counterfeits have become much more sophisticated and SI predicts will soon surpass the original. "Counterfeiting will always be a problem," said Yogasingam. "China is going through an extraordinary economic boom. Items will 'slip' off assembly lines and into the hands of counterfeiters." According to Quirk, those counterfeits are getting better and better with more time. "Plus, they have the devices to copy and are incorporating more aesthetics," said Yogasingam.

For example CECT has improved greatly upon its original knock-off with the CECT P168 and Yogasingam pointed to the Meizu M8, also called the miniOne that was recently featured on the most recent cover of Popular Science. For some fans of Meizu, the miniOne is already better than the iPhone—and at a lower cost.

At the up-coming Embedded Systems Conference, SI's presentation, 'Increased sophistication of counterfeiting: iFakes to iPhones', will address the increased prevalence and sophistication of counterfeiting in the electronics industry. Incorporating a Live Teardown format the presenters will look at different fake iPhones sourced in China, including some from CECT. "Pirates are making a living copying the protected work of others and are getting better at it," said Quirk. At the event, SI will also address counterfeit components in real products including some tips on how to spot fake components in the supply chain.

Hewlett Harbor man racks up $4,800 iPhone bill

Jay Levy and his family took their iPhones on a Mediterranean cruise. Now they feel as if they got taken for a ride, receiving a 54-page monthly bill of nearly $4,800 from AT&T Wireless. The iPhone regularly updates e-mail, even while it's off. His wife's phone had one e-mail account, and her bill hit $890. One connection alone ran $223.

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Iran Is The Sewage Of ME Spreading It’s Cockroaches To The Rest of ME?

There is no question that IRI is a dictatorship who supports Shia fundamentalists and some fractions of the Afghan government, but it is definitely not THE source of de-stabilization in the ME and the Persian Gulf.

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If you ever wondered why so many americans are so ignorant about the news!

This is an oldie, but worth watching to understand how FU the media in the US is.So now, you understand why they voted for Bush a second time:

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Iran dismisses U.S. court's ruling over 1983 bombing of Marine barrack in B

Since when an attack against military installation is counted as a terrorist attack? So terrorism means an attack against ANY american, civilian or military, but not the other way. When the US kills innocent people around the world, they are collateral damage, when they kill military or militia is anti-terrorist activities, but not the other way?

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1 American life = 44000 Iraqi or 55000 Afghan lives

A US federal judge has ordered Iran to pay $2.65bn (£1.3bn) to the families of 241 marines killed in a 1983 bombing of their Beirut barracks. That is $11 million/American, compared to $2500 for an Iraqi and $2000 for an Afghan that the US forces pay when they kill innocent people.

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Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction

Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq. George Tenet briefed Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. What is Bush being told about Iran? Obviously the US is preparing some sort of military action against Iran. The questions are: why and what can we do to stop it?How many must die before we know?

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Dead Donkey!

Kenny, a teenage redneck who lived near Austin, Texas, bought a donkey
from a farmer for $100.00.

The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. But when the
farmer drove up the next day he said, "I'm sorry son, but I have some
bad news. The donkey died."

Kenny replied, "Well, then, just give me my money back."

The farmer said, "I can't do that. I already went out and spent it."

Kenny said, "Ok, then, just bring me the dead donkey."

The farmer asked, "What ya gonna do with him?"

Kenny, "I'm going to raffle him off."

The farmer said, "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"

Kenny said, "Sure I can. Watch me. I just won't tell anybody he is
dead."

A month later, the farmer met up with Kenny and asked, "What happened
with that dead donkey?"

Kenny said, "I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars apiece
and made a profit of $998.00."

The farmer said, "Didn't anyone complain?"

Kenny said, "Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back."

Paddy and the Twins!

An Irish bastard ☺
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Murphy calls to see his mate Paddy who has a broken leg.

Paddy says, "Me feet are freezing mate, could you nip upstairs and get me slippers?"

"No bother," he says, and he runs upstairs and there are Paddy's two stunning 19 year old twin daughters sat on their beds.

"Hello dere girls, your Da' sent me up here to shag ya both."

"Fook off you liar!".

"I'll prove it," Murphy says.

So he shouts down the stairs, "Both of them, Paddy?"

"Of course, what's the use of fookin' one?"

Boy, 3, Hospitalized In Playground Squirrel Attack, State Troope and another adult Also Injured

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A 3-year-old boy, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper and another adult were hurt on Wednesday afternoon in a bizarre attack by a squirrel on a day care playground.

 

It happened at the Children's Academy Daycare on Oak Ridge Road in Orange County.

 

Kevin Santiago, 3, was bitten nine times while playing on the playground, according to Yietza Santiago, the boy's mother.

 

"There was a 3-year-old little boy sitting on the swing. The squirrel attacked him and didn't want to get off of the child. We threw things at it to try to get it off and nothing. Finally, we were able to take it off," day care director Maritza Diaz said.

 

The trooper, who was working an accident near the playground, responded, and FHP spokeswoman Kim Miller said he was jumped by the animal. He tried to shoot the squirrel away, but it attacked again and scratched and bit him before he could escape.

 

He was treated and released at a local Centra Care for his injuries.

 

Squirrel attacks on humans are uncommon, but the rodents are known to bite if they are injured or feel trapped. Officials said the squirrel may be rabid, but officials said getting rabies from squirrels is unlikely.

 

Doctors often advise bite victims not to undergo post-bite rabies treatments, unless the squirrel attacked for no apparent reason.

The squirrel in the playground attack managed to escape.

 

FWD: What does it mean to be British?

Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.

And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign.

Oh and……

Only in Britain …

• … can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance
• … do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front
• … do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET coke.
• … do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.
• … do we leave cars worth thousands of pounds on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.
• … do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won’t miss a call from someone we didn’t want to talk to in the first place.
• … are there disabled parking places in front of a skating rink.

NOT TO MENTION…

• 3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.
• 142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts.
• 58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.
• 31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in.
• 1 9 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate.
• British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker pulling accidents.
• 101 people since 1999 have had broken parts of plastic toys pulled out of the soles of their feet.
• 18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.
• A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth.
• 5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out of Control Scalextric cars.

and finally………

• In 2000 eight Brits cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the toilet.

IF YOUR’E PROUD TO BE BRITISH ..PHONE THE QUEEN YA DIVVY!

 

An Iranian Scientist, a Father and the B-2 Bomber

For decades Najmedin Meshkati proudly designed advanced technologies for America, including support for the B-2 stealth bomber. Now he has nightmares of this aircraft attacking his homeland, Iran.

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Seven Iranian police killed in clash with “bandits”

Seven Iranian policemen were killed in an overnight clash with "bandits" in a western province bordering Iraq, the ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday.

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Instead of ignoring the hole in the center of CDs and DVDs, the designers mind way to use the negative space

A Scientist, a Father and the B-2 Bomber

For decades Najmedin Meshkati proudly designed advanced technologies for America, including support for the B-2 stealth bomber. Now he has nightmares of this aircraft attacking his homeland, Iran. Worse still, he fears his young American son won't know or care when the aerial strike begins.

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The Outcome of Wanting (Gay) Sex (Larry Craig story)

Few mourned the downfall of Sen. Larry Craig. But what exactly did he do that was so wrong? And what kind of precedent has it set? come to defend Larry Craig, not to bury him. He is a homophobe and a hypocrite. He is a holier-than-thou Senator with feet of toilet paper. But Larry Craig has been forced to resign his seat for all the wrong reasons.

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Iranian Regae/Rap music 'Demokrasi' by Abjeez

Check out the new video from the Swedish-Iranian duo
Abjeez, featuring their song Demokracy.
There is a fresh fruit in the market
dictatorship is wiped off target
We've brought a new fruit load
Democracy is what we swallowed

About the spreading the fruit of democracy in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East. With English translation running like popular news programs at the bottom.

(copy and paste the text to your browser to see the video)

http://www.abdolian.com/thoughts/?p=1088


Sad and funny at the same time, very well done.

FWD: New Wireless technology MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output)

 

> MIMO - wireless links that operate in parallel

> Wireless echoes go from problem to opportunity.

> By Carl Temme, Airgo Networks

> Corporations are beginning to use wireless LANs to carry voice and video, increasing the need for speed, capacity and reliability. But because WLANs share a > finite allocation of frequency spectrum, without increased spectral efficiency they will consume all the available frequency channels and interfere with one another > - becoming victims of their own success.

> 

> http://www.techworld.com/mobility/features/index.cfm?FeatureID=740

 

Bush opposes sovereignty and nuclear non-proliferation

Iran has the right to develop nuclear power for peaceful means under the NPT. No evidence has shown that they are doing otherwise. The Bush administration is intimidating Iran with a military build-up, while requesting Iran stop enrichment before talks. This article shows how Bush's actions oppose the IAEA, NPT and Third World independence.

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800th Anniversary of the Birth of Molana Jalal-ud-Din Balkhi-Rumi

A day of commemoration is organized at UNESCO on 6 September 2007 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the birth of Mawlana Jalal-ud-Din Rumi, one of the greatest poets, philosophers and scholars of the Islamic civilization.The prominent Persian language poet, thinker and spiritual master, born in 1207 in Balkh & died in 1273 in Konya Turkey.

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Funny Engineering designs

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bombing Iran

For long time now, perhaps a year, I’ve been hearing (we’ve all been hearing) that the White House is planning to bomb Iran. As the neo-cons say, “Boys go to Baghdad; real men go to Tehran.” It’s a strategy so seductive that John McCain set it to music.I’ve been dismissive of these rumors, as have you. Why? Because one would have to be a madman (or Dick Cheney) to start a second war when the first one is going so fucking well.

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How to add Compact flash to your iPod

This is cool!
http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/767/put-flash-memory-into-almost-any-ipod

put flash memory into (almost) ANY iPod!

These last few days I’ve been living like a monk. Why? Well, after the success of my former project, turn your iPod mini into a flash based iPod, I started thinking “wouldn’t it be great if we could do this to almost any iPod ever made?”... I mean, eliminating all moving parts out of our current iPods would be great, wouldn’t it? ^_^

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And the thought just wouldn’t let go. The information online about something like this was very scarce, if any, and I couldn’t find a single soul who actually did something like this… So, there I was, (thanks go out to Adam of iPodrepair.nl for some of the material) with two 4G iPods (a 40GB photo and a 20GB ‘normal’ 4G), some compact flashcards, up to 16GB, all from Peak Hardware, cards that have proven to be ideal for the iPod mini upgrade, my kitchentable, my tools and three days to do it in (which became four by the way, and the weather’s been great! not that I’ve been able to enjoy it though… *^_^*)

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the starting point…

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it looks nice, but all I gotta do is make this work! ^_^

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this is NOT a How To

Well, in the process of gathering the information for what was needed to pull this off, the tought of making this a how-to became doubtful. Not that I want to exaggerate my own skills or such, but I had to go into three days of total Zen to get this done and in the end I had to hand-solder 88(!) connections by hand on the smallest of spaces. A drip of solder already was too big and I must’ve had an angel on my shoulder when I soldered this.

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I made a video where I explain my ideas around this:

made a video where I explain my ideas around this:

direct link to the video on YouTube.

...geeeeez… (taken from a screenshot of april 4th from the youtube-video)

in short:

I’m gonna make sure this adapter, which is now a working prototype (as you can see in the video) is going in to production.

the sales pitch

this adapter enables you to take out all moving parts from your current 1G, 2G, 3G or 4G iPod. Batterylife will improve dramatically. The adapter (and thereby your iPod) will be able to hold Compact Flashcards up to 128GB with this. No matter what size your current iPod is now.

Upgrading your current iPod is just better than just to go out and buy a new one… ^_^

If you’re willing to buy such an adapter as the perfect upgrade for your 1G, 2G, 3G or 4G ‘normal’ iPod, leave your mail-address and I will only send you one email once I’ve got all the details pinned down. In that email you can still decide about buying this or not and just to make sure, I will only use your mail-address once.

Fantastic out of this world Fantasy Pics

Really nice pictures on this link!