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Last login: 5 weeks agoItneedssaying: itneedssaying is a 44 year old woman from California, USA.; Likes 50 pages, 1 video • 2 fans; Member since Feb 18, 2008

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The Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Apr 5, 1:17pm 6 reviews culture, educaton, child-genuis, mathematic-prodigy
http://www.ethnikoi.org/bozemanprom.htm; Humanity needs more people like this girl. I hope she can fulfill her dreams.

From the page: "Like any good college education, Promethea's changed her and opened her eyes to new ideas. Sometimes it left her disillusioned.

"Einstein used to be my idol, my hero," she said. When she learned he contributed to the creation of the atomic bomb and to the deaths of hundreds of thousands at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, she tore down her Einstein posters. Plus, she said, he turned out to be "a lousy father, a lousy husband."

"I'm not going to be a scientist who's not morally upright," she said."

Dependable Renegade: I want to buy a beer for the layout editor: Apr 5, 1:07pm 1 review humor, satire, bush, phtography, chimps
http://www.dependablerenegade.com/dependable_renegade/2008/04/i-want-to-buy-a...; Quoth the wonderful Watertiger:

"I want to buy a beer for the layout editor at the Austin American Statesman!"

I'll buy the next round.

Time for changes Journal - Political Ponerology: A Science of Evil Applied for P…: Apr 2, 8:41pm 11 reviews politics, gwb, psychopathy, scott-peck, martha-stout
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Time%20for%20change/294; Wow. Sounds like a good read. Bush is bat***t crazy fer shur. How he every got to be a cheerleader (yep, for Yale, DOG help us), let alone prez is beyond me. Maybe there are some answers here.

UN rejects water as basic human right: Mar 27, 11:04pm 23 reviews politics, human-rights, enviroment, water-rights
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=b65b35fd-477f-4956-98f4...; They are heading down the same road as the southwest US. Water here is incredibly precious. Personally I think it will be the source of a raft of new laws to further control the general population here. Canada better look out. They got bamboozled on NAFTA (it's in the Congressional record!) Now it looks like your Harper is going in for filling Tony Blair's spot. So much the worse for both countries.

American Civil Liberties Union : Stunning New Report on Domestic NSA Dragnet Spy…: Mar 16, 9:42pm 3 reviews government, privacy, civil-liberties-tia, illegal-data-mining
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/34441prs20080312.html; From the page: "The ACLU said the new report confirmed its past warnings that the NSA was engaging in extremely broad-based data mining that was violating the privacy of vast numbers of Americans.

The Total Information Awareness (TIA) program was a mammoth data mining program that envisioned programming computers to trawl through an extensive list of databases containing personal information about Americans �" including communications, medical, travel, education and financial data �" in an attempt to detect supposedly "suspicious" patterns. Congress shut down the program amid bipartisan objections that it was the most far-reaching domestic surveillance proposal that had ever been offered.

"Year after year, we have warned that our great nation is turning into a surveillance society where our every move is tracked and monitored," said Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU�s Technology and Liberty Project. "Now we have before us a program that appears to do that very thing. It brings together numerous programs that we and many others have fought for years, and it confirms what the ACLU has been saying the NSA is up to: mass surveillance of Americans.""

StumbleUpon - mzsquare2s web site reviews and blog: Mar 14, 9:51pm 27 reviews stumblers, humor, typewriters
http://mzsquare2.stumbleupon.com/; Those of us who were born in the early sixties and learned to type on grey Royal boat anchors (you know who you are) can totally relate:

thanks Mzsquare2 for the great image.

StumbleUpon - terrecs web site reviews and blog: Mar 14, 9:47pm 219 reviews beauty, stumblers, poetry, art
http://terrec.stumbleupon.com/; absolutely stunning images! I just loved them. The poems fit so well too.

E-mail inventor: I didnt foresee spam - Times Online: Mar 14, 9:42pm 2 reviews cyberculture, email, internet-history
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3525110.ece; From the page: "Since its beginnings in a computer lab at the offices of a firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, e-mail has become one of the most important communications platforms the world has known, and from the various services available �" Yahoo!, Hotmail, and the ubiquitous Outlook �" Britons send an estimated three billion messages a day.

But it has also given rise to the menace of spam or junk e-mail, which most of us spend 52 hours a year sorting and deleting, according to one estimate, and armed cyber-criminals with one of their most highly effective weapons, capable of proliferating viruses and even reducing the computer systems of entire Governments to a flickering mess.

Did Mr Tomlinson have any idea quite the havoc - not to mention large-scale criminal enterprise - his creation would be capable of unleashing?

"Absolutely not. At that time, the number of people who used e-mail was very small - maybe between 500 to 1,000. So if you were getting spam, you'd know who was sending it. You'd be able to say to them: that's not a good thing to do."

"It was only when e-mail came to be widely used that the possibility of sending a message anonymously emerged," said Mr Tomlinson, who is 66 and today still works for BBN Technologies, the company in whose employment he achieved the breakthrough that would bring the world closer together, aged 29."