techtiger - Rss Feed http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/member.php?u=16269 A social site powered by it's members en H.Atakan KOC www.sonkonu.com 60 Question about growing mushrooms http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=32336 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:19:22 GMT http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zGQok-U...ient=mv-google

So now my question is this if I'm taking so many steps in making sure nothing can possibly get contaminated doesn't like every little bit of this segment just ask for contamination??? Like when i have that pourus stuff on the bottem of the fruiting chamber shouldn't I boil it to make sure there is no bacteria on it? Or should I not do so many holes in the chamber and cover them with med tape? And the dunk and roll thing just seems to be asking for trouble. This video is the only time I have heard of these things, every where else I have read or watched pretty much says being steril is the number one concern. The only thing I can think of is that since the mushroom spores have colinized soo much at that point can it just fight off any other bacteria??? Any help would be great]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=32336 Drugs General Discussion techtiger> Obama wins nobel peace prize http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=32252 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:57:30 GMT
http://foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?p...80.proteus.fma]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=32252 Politics techtiger> God as far as your concerned http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=32224 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:31:29 GMT

Btw if you have a problem with the novel I just wrote, you should probably go practice safe sex... And go fuck yourself

Best wishes ~tech]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=32224 Introduce Yourself techtiger> Five-seven http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=32216 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:30:33 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=32216 Weapons techtiger> Any thing new? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=32215 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:51:05 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=32215 Bullshit techtiger> Facebook trojan http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=29634 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:37:51 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=29634 Bullshit techtiger> Bernard Madoff arrested over alleged $50 billion fraud http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22353 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:30:39 GMT
The former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market is best known as the founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, the closely-held market-making firm he launched in 1960. But he also ran a hedge fund that U.S. prosecutors said racked up $50 billion of fraudulent losses.

Madoff told senior employees of his firm on Wednesday that "it's all just one big lie" and that it was "basically, a giant Ponzi scheme," with estimated investor losses of about $50 billion, according to the U.S. Attorney's criminal complaint against him. A Ponzi scheme is a swindle where early investors are paid off with money from later investors.

U.S. prosecutors charged Madoff, 70, with a single count of securities fraud. They said he faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $5 million.

"Madoff stated that the business was insolvent, and that it had been for years," Lev Dassin, acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed separate civil charges against Madoff.

Authorities said that, according to a document filed by Madoff with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on January 7, 2008, Madoff's investment advisory business served between 11 and 25 clients and had a total of about $17.1 billion in assets under management. Those clients may have included other funds that in turn had many investors.

The SEC said it appeared that virtually all of the assets of his hedge fund business were missing.

CONSISTENT RETURNS

An investor in the hedge fund said it generated consistent returns, which was part of the attraction. Since 2004, annual returns averaged around 8 percent and ranged from 7.3 percent to 9 percent, but last decade returns were typically in the low-double digits, the investor said.

The fund told investors it followed a "split strike conversion" strategy, which entailed owning stock and buying and selling options to limit downside risk, said the investor, who requested anonymity.

Jon Najarian, an acquaintance of Madoff who has traded options for decades, said ... "Many of us questioned how that strategy could generate those kinds of returns so consistently."

Najarian, co-founder of optionmonster.com, once tried to buy what was then the Cincinnati Stock Exchange when Madoff was a major seatholder on the exchange. Najarian met with Madoff, who rejected his bid.

"He always seemed to be a straight shooter. I was shocked by this news," Najarian said.

'UNFORTUNATE SET OF EVENTS'

"Bernard Madoff is a longstanding leader in the financial services industry," his lawyer Dan Horwitz told reporters outside a downtown Manhattan courtroom where he was charged. "We will fight to get through this unfortunate set of events."

A shaken Madoff stared at the ground as reporters peppered him with questions. He was released after posting a $10 million bond secured by his Manhattan apartment.

"Our complaint alleges a stunning fraud -- both in terms of scope and duration," said Scott Friestad, the SEC's deputy enforcer. "We are moving quickly and decisively to stop the scheme and protect the remaining assets for investors."

Madoff had long kept the financial statements for his hedge fund business under "lock and key," according to prosecutors, and was "cryptic" about the firm. The hedge fund business was located on a separate floor from the market making business.

Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities has more than $700 million in capital, according to its website. It is a market maker for about 350 Nasdaq stocks, including Apple, EBay and Dell, according to the website.

The website also states that Madoff himself has "a personal interest in maintaining the unblemished record of value, fair-dealing, and high ethical standards that has always been the firm's hallmark."

The company's web site may be found here: http://www.madoff.com/

The $50 billion allegedly lost to investors would make Madoff's fund one of the biggest frauds in history. When Enron filed for bankruptcy in 2001, one of the largest at the time, it had $63.4 billion in assets.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081212/..._madoff_arrest]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22353 Politics techtiger> Auto bail out http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22298 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:42:50 GMT
Im not sure if any of you got that email about all of the retail stores and jewlery stores that are closing and what not (but there are alot of them) some are just closing most of there locations but alot of them are going out of buisness, however i dont see the government bailing them out.

This just seems like its going to hurt the american people more than anything, i mean how many trillion dollar adventures can we endure?]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22298 Politics techtiger> India Terror http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22192 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:21:38 GMT
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...32690#27928868

this is just horrible]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22192 Politics techtiger> Pirates release seized oil tanker, 19 crew http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22172 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:17:32 GMT
The tanker MV Genius was released Friday with its cargo of refined oil intact and the crew of 19 safe, Merchant Marine Ministry spokesman Constantine Gialelis said. He said the ship's owners would not provide any information, including whether ransom was paid.

The 6,765 gross-ton vessel is on its way to the United Arab Emirates and is about 500 miles off Somalia, Gialelis said. The crew are Georgian, Sri Lankan and Syrian citizens, he added.
Somali pirates seized the vessel Sept. 26 in the Gulf of Aden near the Horn of Africa, waters that have become highly dangerous for shipping.

In the past two weeks, Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates have seized eight vessels, including a huge Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million worth of crude oil. Several hundred crew are now in the hands of Somali pirates. The pirates dock the hijacked ships near the eastern and southern Somali coast and negotiate for ransom.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Friday that the Saudi government was not negotiating with pirates and would not do so, but that what the ship's owners did was up to them.

The same day, a radical Islamic group in Somalia said ships belonging to Muslim countries should not be seized and that it would fight the pirates holding the Saudi supertanker.

NATO has four warships on duty off the 2,400-mile coastline of Somalia, an impoverished nation caught up in an Islamic insurgency that has had no functioning government since 1991.

The U.S. 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, contributes to the policing of the coast with several ships stationed in the region as part of America's anti-jihadist war. Working alongside are frigates from several other nations — including Russia, India, Malaysia and Denmark.

Next month, the European Union takes over the NATO mission, sending four ships to replace the four now patrolling under the NATO flag.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27855340/]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22172 Politics techtiger> my thoughts http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22146 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:58:59 GMT
All the talk of "newbs" has got me thinking and i have been second guessing myself on if im a "newb" or not. This is what i have come up with.

There are several def. of "newb" out there. one being the kid who feels the need to arugue everything just to piss people off and backs his them up with bullshit he pulls out of his ass or more commonly no support at all. Or the person who posts just garbage that doesnt help a serious conversation at all, and just repeats what someone else said in a few words.

And then there is another def. that seems to be in common with the older members of the site, im talking about the people that have been here since like 2005. They generally seem to think of a newb as anyone who doesnot yet understand the cycle of the website.

The cycle im refering to is this. Every day there is a new person that gets online and has potential to find this site and sooner or later people find it. Thus we get the first def. of newb. Then they poke around for a few days make a few posts and prob. forget about the site and leave. every once in a while some one stays and the cycle keeps on going, and all the while people are bitching about the first class of "newbs" and eventually the people that stayed end up leaving. and the cycle just keeps on going.

It almost seems that this site thrives on simply bitching about the first class of "newbs" I have to wounder what would happen if we didnt have these "newbs" to bitch about. What exactly would we talk about? i mean eventually we will run out of things to talk about, and unless something major is going on we pretty much would have everything covered.]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22146 Bullshit techtiger> IPOD help http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22135 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:58:01 GMT
i have a 5th generation ipod and all of a sudden it gave me a sad face and told me to visit the ipod support site. so i did so and it tells me that its a file problem. i tired to force it into folder mode or what ever it is (idk something i found on google) but it wouldnt... any one have any tips or tricks for something like this.

and dont give me any shit about bye a new ipod or send it in to get fixed i can come up with these ideas by myself]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22135 Help Me techtiger> Sorry, Mr. President. Please surrender your BlackBerry. http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22093 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:48:45 GMT
For years, like legions of other professionals, Mr. Obama has been all but addicted to his BlackBerry. The device has rarely been far from his side — on most days, it was fastened to his belt — to provide a singular conduit to the outside world as the bubble around him grew tighter and tighter throughout his campaign.

“How about that?” Mr. Obama replied to a friend’s congratulatory e-mail message on the night of his victory.

But before he arrives at the White House, he will probably be forced to sign off. In addition to concerns about e-mail security, he faces the Presidential Records Act, which puts his correspondence in the official record and ultimately up for public review, and the threat of subpoenas. A decision has not been made on whether he could become the first e-mailing president, but aides said that seemed doubtful.

For all the perquisites and power afforded the president, the chief executive of the United States is essentially deprived by law and by culture of some of the very tools that other chief executives depend on to survive and to thrive. Mr. Obama, however, seems intent on pulling the office at least partly into the 21st century on that score; aides said he hopes to have a laptop computer on his desk in the Oval Office, making him the first American president to do so.

Mr. Obama has not sent a farewell dispatch from the personal e-mail account he uses — he has not changed his address in years — but friends say the frequency of correspondence has diminished. In recent days, though, he has been seen typing his thoughts on transition matters and other items on his BlackBerry, bypassing, at least temporarily, the bureaucracy that is quickly encircling him.

A year ago, when many Democratic contributors and other observers were worried about his prospects against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, they reached out to him directly. Mr. Obama had changed his cellphone number, so e-mail remained the most reliable way of communicating directly with him.

“His BlackBerry was constantly crackling with e-mails,” said David Axelrod, the campaign’s chief strategist. “People were generous with their advice — much of it conflicting.”

Mr. Obama is the second president to grapple with the idea of this self-imposed isolation. Three days before his first inauguration, George W. Bush sent a message to 42 friends and relatives that explained his predicament.

“Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace,” Mr. Bush wrote from his old address, G94B@aol.com. “This saddens me. I have enjoyed conversing with each of you.”

But in the interceding eight years, as BlackBerrys have become ubiquitous — and often less intrusive than a telephone, the volume of e-mail has multiplied and the role of technology has matured. Mr. Obama used e-mail to stay in constant touch with friends from the lonely confines of the road, often sending messages like “Sox!” when the Chicago White Sox won a game. He also relied on e-mail to keep abreast of the rapid whirl of events on a given campaign day.

Mr. Obama’s memorandums and briefing books were seldom printed out and delivered to his house or hotel room, aides said. They were simply sent to his BlackBerry for his review. If a document was too long, he would read and respond from his laptop computer, often putting his editing changes in red type.

His messages to advisers and friends, they say, are generally crisp, properly spelled and free of symbols or emoticons. The time stamps provided a window into how much he was sleeping on a given night, with messages often being sent to staff members at 1 a.m. or as late as 3 a.m. if he was working on an important speech.

He received a scaled-down list of news clippings, with his advisers wanting to keep him from reading blogs and news updates all day long, yet aides said he still seemed to hear about nearly everything in real time. A network of friends — some from college, others from Chicago and various chapters in his life — promised to keep him plugged in.

Not having such a ready line to that network, staff members who spent countless hours with him say, is likely to be a challenge.

“Given how important it is for him to get unfiltered information from as many sources as possible, I can imagine he will miss that freedom,” said Linda Douglass, a senior adviser who traveled with the campaign.

Mr. Obama has, for at least brief moments, been forced offline. As he sat down with a small circle of advisers to prepare for debates with Senator John McCain, one rule was quickly established: No BlackBerrys. Mr. Axelrod ordered everyone to put their devices in the center of a table during work sessions. Mr. Obama, who was known to sneak a peek at his, was no exception.

In the closing stages of the campaign, as exhaustion set in and the workload increased, aides said Mr. Obama spent more time reading than responding to messages. As his team prepares a final judgment on whether he can keep using e-mail, perhaps even in a read-only fashion, several authorities in presidential communication said they believed it was highly unlikely that he would be able to do so.

Diana Owen, who leads the American Studies program at Georgetown University, said presidents were not advised to use e-mail because of security risks and fear that messages could be intercepted.

“They could come up with some bulletproof way of protecting his e-mail and digital correspondence, but anything can be hacked,” said Ms. Owen, who has studied how presidents communicate in the Internet era. “The nature of the president’s job is that others can use e-mail for him.”

She added: “It’s a time burner. It might be easier for him to say, ‘I can’t be on e-mail.’ ”

Should Mr. Obama want to break ground and become the first president to fire off e-mail messages from the West Wing and wherever he travels, he could turn to Al Gore as a model. In the later years of his vice presidency, Democrats said, Mr. Gore used a government e-mail address and a campaign address in his race against Mr. Bush.

The president, though, faces far greater public scrutiny. And even if he does not wear a BlackBerry on his belt or carry a cellphone in his pocket, he almost certainly will not lack from a variety of new communication.

On Saturday, as Mr. Obama broadcast the weekly Democratic radio address, it came with a twist. For the first time, it was also videotaped and will be archived on YouTube.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us...o_interstitial]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22093 Politics techtiger> All non senior members http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22063 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:41:28 GMT
But my question is for all those of you who only have a few posts, why is it you dont post more?

Is it because there is alot of flameing?

I know when i first joined i didnt post anything unless i had something truely profound to say.]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22063 Bullshit techtiger> Australia resort plans nude "anything goes" party http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22062 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:24:25 GMT
"Tough economic times call for stiff measures," Tony Fox, the owner of the White Cockatoo resort in Mossman, in tropical Queensland state, told the Courier-Mail newspaper.

"It will be a hedonism resort, where anything goes for a month. It doesn't take rocket science to work out what it means," Fox said, naming March as the risque party month.

The controversial "clothes optional" resort made headlines three years ago when police were called to end partner-swapping parties after a swathe of public complaints.

"You've got to wonder what sort of people go and why. Where is the moral code of behaviour and how do you stop jealousies and fights?" Cairns Catholic Bishop James Foley said after Fox's announcement.

But local regional Mayor Val Schier said she was not opposed to the event as long as no laws were broken.

"People in tropical north Queensland are extraordinarily creative," Schier said. "It is tough economic times and as long as it is with consenting adults, then there is no problem."

Australia's tourism in industry is being hit hard by global economic turmoil with official figures showing a 7.6 percent decline in overseas visitors in September.

Industry leaders expect holiday bookings may drop by up to a third in early 2009 and are planning a new international advertising campaign to coincide with blockbuster movie "Australia" starring Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman.

Fox said his resort was almost fully booked for the month-long rainforest party.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081113/...0PdSaJ8e7tiBIF]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22062 Politics techtiger> Hoax NY Times newspaper declares end of Iraq war http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22061 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:19:20 GMT
The elaborate 14-page edition, dated July 4, 2009, is said to be the work of a group called the Yes Men, whose previous hoaxes include masquerading as World Trade Organisation officials announcing they were disbanding the body.

"It is fake and we are looking into it," said New York Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis.

A statement sent from a Web site set up for the fake edition, www.nytimes-se.com, said creating the newspaper took six months and that it was printed at six different presses and then given to thousands of volunteers to distribute.

"We've got to make sure Obama and all the other Democrats do what we elected them to do," Bertha Suttner, identified as one of the newspaper's writers, said in the statement. "After eight, or maybe twenty-eight years of hell, we need to start imagining heaven."

President-elect Barack Obama takes office on January 20 after eight years of the Bush administration and 28 years after the inauguration of Ronald Reagan.

The newspaper includes a front page story saying that "Ex-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reassured soldiers that the Bush administration had known well before the invasion that Saddam Hussein lacked weapons of mass destruction."

The Bush administration has said it believed at the time of the March 2003 invasion that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons and was trying to develop a nuclear bomb.

Other headlines declared that the "Maximum Wage Law Succeeds," "Nationalized Oil to Fund Climate Change Efforts" and "Nation Sets Its Sights On Building Sane Economy."

There is also a full page fake advertisement on page three from the world's largest publicly traded oil company Exxon Mobil saying the company applauded the end of the Iraq war and that peace is "an idea the world can profit from."

In a pamphlet handed out to volunteers when they picked up copies of the newspaper to distribute there was a "Frequently Asked Questions" section. In response to "who made this?" it said: "Who knows? Rumours are it's a group of writers from several mainstream dailies -- including The New York Times."

The Yes Men, who were the subject of a book and documentary in 2004, have pulled off pranks including posing as Exxon Mobil and National Petroleum Council representatives to deliver a speech at a Canadian oil conference.

They have also posed as federal housing officials at a New Orleans event with the city's mayor and the governor of Louisiana and promised to throw open closed public housing to thousands of poor former city residents.

But they are not the first to fake The New York Times

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081112/...dyHcPKlt7tiBIF]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22061 Politics techtiger> Canadian prisoner, too fat for cell, released early http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22060 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:13:55 GMT
Michel Lapointe -- known as Big Mike -- was arrested in September 2006 and received a five-year sentence in May this year. The paper said he could not fit on the chair in his Montreal prison cell and when he went to bed, his body protruded six inches on either side.

A letter from the authorities to Lapointe said: "You have been detained for more than 25 months and your prison conditions are difficult because of your health".

The authorities also cited the refusal of two other facilities to accept the 37-year-old. He was freed late on Tuesday.

"I'm going to have a proper bed and finally have a chair I can sit in," he told the paper outside the prison.

"I want a normal life. I've done some stupid things and I've paid for them," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081112/...VUpwqc58_tiBIF]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22060 Politics techtiger> Man accused of urinating on officer http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22059 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:09:05 GMT
The complaint said the man failed field sobriety tests and when he was being taken to the police station, urinated in the back of the squad car and sprayed the officer, hitting him in the back of the head.

The man is facing four felony charges and two misdemeanors. He faces a maximum of 15 years in prison if convicted.

The misdemeanors include a fourth-offense operating while intoxicated.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/...0w4GNwXlbtiBIF]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22059 Politics techtiger> Do We Really Need a Mom-in-Chief? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22058 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:04:56 GMT
Nothing wrong with any of that. But is it all necessary?

Lately I've been reading "The Nurture Assumption," by Judith Rich Harris, and its main assertion is that while parents do play some role in molding their children, the believe-it-or-not bigger influences on child development turn out to be the child's environment, social group and genes. That's why, for instance, the children of immigrants usually grow up speaking accent-free English. Clearly, they didn't get that English from their parents; they got it from their peers. And if something as basic as language flows into children from a world beyond the porch, it's likely a whole lot of other stuff does, too. Interests, habits, outlook. All of which means: Our parenting does not have to be full-time, hands-on or perfect because it is only one ingredient in the recipe for a person.

If perfect parenting were the key to perfect kids, explain this: A boy is born to a teenage mom. His dad skips town when he's 2. When the boy is 10, his remarried mom drops him off at his grandparents' place, and she skips town, too.

He grows up to become the first African-American president of the United States.

Another boy grows up in a loving family of two parents who are still together 60-something years later. He's one of six children. The mom stays home to nurture them all.

He's the guy moving out of the White House so the other guy can move in.

Loving, engaged parents are a blessing, no doubt about it. But if there's only one way of raising a successful kid and that is to create an Ozzie and Harriet home, then only one of those two boys should have made it to the Oval Office. (Of course, that may actually be true. But that's another column.)

Point is: Maybe Mrs. Obama doesn't have to give up her career, or even the promise of a new career, to make sure her kids are raised right. The children of working moms do fine.

Mrs. O must have believed this at some point herself. She did, after all, graduate from Princeton and Harvard, which indicates a certain ambition. She also did, for a while, mentor a young lawyer named Barack, so it's not as if she has been hanging on to his coattails all the way. For a while, he hung on to hers. She became a high-powered exec and even out-earned her husband until recently. So why is she donning the apron of domesticity?

Probably because, like her husband, she is playing by the "Don't Do Anything the Clintons Did" playbook.

Bill was a hound dog, but Hillary was even less forgivable. She was a smart female lawyer from the Midwest with a degree from an Ivy League school who … Oh, wait. That's Michelle.

You can see why the parallels are too close for comfort. So while Hillary snarked about how she didn't want to sit around baking cookies, Michelle has not even insisted on using her maiden name. Nor does she seem particularly eager to reform the health care system. Or wear a headband.

As first lady, she has said she'll focus on military families, which is fantastic, and also the difficulties faced by working moms.

But one difficulty we working moms face is that society still thinks that stay-at-home moms fully focused on their kids are the ideal.

Guess that's not a problem she'll address immediately.]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22058 Politics techtiger> Freedom of press? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22024 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:02:04 GMT http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=29031): When it comes to press freedom, the United States ranks just below France and just above Macedonia, according to the Reporters Without Borders' 2008 Press Freedom Index. While being tied for 36th place out of 173 countries in the international press freedom organization's ranking garners the United States just a satisfactory grade, it is an improvement over last year, when the United States placed 48th out of 168 countries.

http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.uw...46&docType=IAC]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=22024 Politics techtiger> ok ill be the first to ask for help http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21987 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:41:08 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21987 Help techtiger> Should Kids Be Able to Graduate After 10th Grade? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21978 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:52:03 GMT

Once implemented, the new battery of tests is expected to guarantee higher competency in core school subjects, lower dropout rates and free up millions of education dollars. Students may take the exams - which are modeled on existing AP or International Baccalaureate tests - as many times as they need to pass. Or those who want to go to a prestigious university may stay and finish the final two years, taking a second, more difficult set of exams senior year. "We want students who are ready to be able to move on to their higher education," says Lyonel Tracy, New Hampshire's Commissioner for Education. "And then we can focus even more attention on those kids who need more help to get there."


But can less schooling really lead to better-prepared students at an earlier age? Outside of the U.S., it's actually a far less radical notion than it sounds. Dozens of industrialized countries expect students to be college-ready by age 16, and those teenagers consistently outperform their American peers on international standardized tests. (See pictures of the college dorm room's evolution.)


With its new assessment system, New Hampshire is adopting a key recommendation of a blue-ribbon panel called the New Commission on Skills of the American Workforce. In 2006, the group issued a report called Tough Choices or Tough Times , a blueprint for how it believes the U.S. must dramatically overhaul education policies in order to maintain a globally competitive economy. "Forty years ago, the United States had the best educated workforce in the world," says William Brock, one of the commission's chairs and a former U.S. Secretary of Labor. "Now we're No. 10 and falling."


As more and more jobs head overseas, Brock and others on the commission can't stress enough how dire the need is for educational reform. "The nation is running out of time," he says.


New Hampshire's announcement comes as Utah and Massachusetts declared that they, too, plan to enact some of the commission's other proposals, such as universal Pre-K and better teacher pay and training. Still more states are expected to sign on in December. And the largest teacher union in the U.S., the National Education Association, is encouraging its affiliates to support such efforts.


Some reform advocates would like to see the report's testing proposals replace current No Child Left Behind legislation. "It makes accountability much more meaningful by stressing critical thinking and true mastery," says Tracy.


No date has been set for when New Hampshire will start administering the new set of exams, which have yet to be developed. But to achieve the goal of sending kids to college at 16, Tracy and his colleagues recognize preparation will have to start early. Nearly four years ago, New Hampshire began an initiative called Follow the Child. Starting practically from birth, educators are expected to chart children's educational progress year to year. In the future, this effort will be bolstered by formalized curricula that specify exactly what kids should know by the end of each grade level.


That should help minimize the need for review year to year. It will also bring New Hampshire's education framework much closer to what occurs in many high-performing European and Asian nations. "It's about defining what lessons students should master and then teaching to those points," says Marc Tucker, co-chair of the commission and president of the National Center for Education and the Economy in Washington. "Kids at every level will be taking tough courses and working hard."


Right now, Tucker argues, most American teenagers slide through high school, viewing it as a mandatory pit stop to hang out and socialize. Of those who do go to college, half attend community college. So Tucker's thinking is why not let them get started earlier? If that happened nationwide, he estimates the cost savings would add up to $60 billion a year. "All money that can be spent either on early childhood education or elsewhere," he says.


Critics of cutting high school short, however, worry that proposals such as New Hampshire's could exacerbate existing socioeconomic gaps. One key concern is whether test results, at age 16, are really valid enough to indicate if a child should go to university or instead head to a technical school - with the latter almost certainly guaranteeing lower future earning potential. "You know that the kids sent in that direction are going to be from low-income, less-educated families while wealthy parents won't permit it," says Iris Rotberg, a George Washington University education policy professor, who notes similar results in Europe and Asia. She predicts, in turn, that disparity will mean "an even more polarized higher education structure - and ultimately society - than we already have."


It's a charge that Tracy denies. "We're simply telling students it's okay to go at their own pace," he says. Especially if that pace is a little quicker than the status quo.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/2008110...after10thgrade]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21978 School techtiger> Blacks vs N1ggers http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21972 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:23:17 GMT
is a black person a n1gger?

in my opionion there are black people and there are n1ggers, a n1gger is a dumb ghetto product that thinks every one owes him something and that he shouldnt have to work simply because of his race, a n1gger is the dumb ass shooting up the block and robbing the liqure store.
a black person has dark skin and generaly african descent]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21972 Politics techtiger> Raciest: Good or Bad http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21971 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:49:20 GMT
Ok i dont know how every other mod feels but i think that my job as a mod is to do what is in the best interest for the site. And as so, i think what the users of the site want is prob. what is in the best interest for it. So as some of you may know i have a no racist pollicy in my section. it is the same pollicy blackzodiac had and due to the election there has been a big spike in the racist comments. I do not care what you think in your head!!!! however i do care what you post in my forum. So the question is should racist comments be allowed?]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21971 Bullshit techtiger> Black Book http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21969 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:23:56 GMT
***Please note, any raciest comments will earn you a spot here***]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21969 Politics techtiger> This is for you Rad http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21968 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:54:40 GMT
Pat Regan is 20,000 leagues of radness. I’m not sure what the exact conversion is from leagues to measures of radness (I’m appropriating rad), but I bet he’s got a lot of rads because he built a 1/10 scale working replica of Capt. Nemo’s submarine, The Nautilus, from the Disney movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. He wasn’t done there.


Because he’s a sub-genius (another term I’m misusing on purpose), he went ahead and built a working replica of the dive suit and spear gun, which he calls a water rifle as well. This dude is definitely going to slay some kraken.

Here are the pics of the restored helmet and water rifle. The crazy part is that these are working replicas. When Disney made the movie they were thinking, what would look totally rad? And, when Regan re-made what they gave him he was thinking, what will keep me from dying underwater? Success! Check out the rest of Regan's borderline craziness at his stupendously-named VulcaniaSubmarine.com.

http://www.spike.com/blog/man-builds-working/70383]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21968 Bullshit techtiger> were fucked http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21950 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:13:26 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21950 Politics techtiger> What came first http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21887 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:25:01 GMT
any one have any insightfull thoughts on this ever so advanced mature topic?]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21887 Bullshit techtiger> Argument paper: http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21854 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:41:56 GMT
This is a college paper

I did this on like Oct 15 08

Grade B- (didnt turn half the shit in that needed to be)

Through out time there have been many religions but none as influential as Christianity. However, Christianity is not what it appears to be; underneath the holiness is deception and corruption. Christianity contains many flawed documents, has been the cause for embarrassment and starvation and has been the leading cause in countless wars. Christianity is a false concept with dangerous repercussions.
Christians base their entire faith off of one document, the bible. The bible is said to be Gods word and people will let it guide their entire life. If this is God’s word and God is perfect, and this document is so powerful that people will base their entire life around it, shouldn’t the document also be perfect? One might say it is a perfect document, however if we take a closer look at it, we discover it is not. For instance, simple things such as in (James 1:13) Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. Which when simplified down and updated into current language means God will not tempt man. However if we skim a few pages down the road into (Genesis 22:1) And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. Now if we analyze the two passages, we have one that says God doesn’t tempt man and that God does tempt man. These two statements are pretty contradictory. Another example would be (2 Kings 24:8) Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. However in (2 Chronicles 36:9) Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. Again if analyzed we can see that there is flaws, the age of Jehoiachin cannot be accurately depicted. This may not seem like a major problem to some, but if basing an entire life around a book that is supposed to be perfect one would think that it could get the simple things, like an age right! Well if dismiss the age issue and say it is not that big of a deal, well then what about someone’s life? How about seven thousand life’s? In (2 Samuel 8:4) It says that David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots. But in (1 Chronicles 18:4) it says; And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots. That is a 6300 man difference, which is a lot of lives and to not be able to tell the difference in the two numbers does not show perfection as the religion claims. The bible is the only thing that holds the catholic religion together and if we can disprove the bibles creditability we can disprove the religion as a whole. In addition to these flaws is the topic of Noah’s ark. The dimensions given by Noah’s ark is (after conversions) 450 feet long. The longest wooden boats to date are 300 feet long and require iron straps and need to be pumped constantly due to the immense leakage they endure due to the lack of strength wood provides. A second problem with the ark is the fact that Noah was said to take two of every living animal. According to Christians the dinosaurs became extinct due to the flood. These two statements are contradictory; otherwise we would have dinosaurs here today. Even minus the dinosaurs, the dimensions of the ark would not be able to house all of the animals that currently walk the earth. These are just a few of the many problems that the Bible presents, and something thing that is perfect cannot have any flaws.
Christianity not only has bible issues it also has a pretty shady checkered past, including prostitution, over taxation, destruction of literature and misrepresentation. To begin this point we need to look at the history of the Catholic Church. It is a well known fact that prostitution is the oldest known profession; however, a slightly less known fact is that churches supported it. “In medieval Europe, the Catholic Church not only condoned prostitution, but allowed it to be run out of the monasteries and convents. The phrase, "get thee to a nunnery" had nothing to do with a convent of "nuns" but rather the "nunnery" was a brothel. The exhortation was given to young men to keep them from trying to corrupt the virgin daughters of the townspeople.” (Venn) This is now the reason that in the Catholic faith the minister cannot be married, back in the day of the original churches the ministers had so many wives that it became a hassle and hard to keep track of who was rightly who. In addition to the prostitution, the Catholic Church had power over the government and used it to tax the people to death. This was such an issue that the peasants eventually had an uprising and war broke out to survive the immense amount of taxes they were receiving. In addition to the racketeering the church used to collect money from the poor, the church also used a tactic called “Atonements” to gain wealth. An atonement is a deed that a citizen pays for, to redeem their sins. This completely goes against every decent aspect that the bible supposedly stands for. Many would as how did the church get away with this? The answer to that is simple, in the early biblical times most people were illiterate, and those who could read could not understand Latin. Latin is the language that all biblical documentation was available, thus the only people to understand the bible was the people preaching it. However, the problem with this is that things like atonements were claimed to be in the bible along with many other ideas that were nonexistent were forced upon the citizens. The Church also opposed any other ideas that may lead others to believe anything but what they want them to believe. There for the Church had any and all literature destroyed that my point out any historical facts against Christianity, they also had several biblical documents altered to suit their very needs. This now leaves us with a tainted historical past and we only have one view point to go off of and that’s the fraudulent Christian view. With the combination of prostitution, over taxation, the misinforming of the citizens rights, and the alteration and destruction of historical documents it is clear that the Christian religion may not be all that it is cracked up to be.
The religion itself is not the worst part of the whole idea, however the reproductions of the religion can have deadly out comes. For a religion that is supposed to be peaceful and promote well being and proper morals, the idea has caused way too many deaths. There are too many assassination and miscellaneous wars to count that have been caused by this deadly plague. One of the first major wars caused by Christianity is known as the peasants’ war (which was briefly discussed earlier in this essay). In 1524, the peasants were realizing that they were doomed to death by starvation if they could not escape the grasp of taxation that the church had over them, so they created a militia and started there emancipation. After the peasants lost, the war had subsided for a few years. In 1546 the Catholic Church raised taxes again and the people started to choose different religious views, mainly Protestant, the church then began to lose money, they could not stand for this so war raged on. The Catholic Church declared war on more than 300 city states, forcing them to believe in their faith. As the years rolled on so did many other wars; there for people tried to escape the churches clutches and moved north to seek refuge where the Catholic Church did not have power. Unfortunately, as soon as the Church noticed what was happening and realized there power was diminishing they pursued. War began to take hold in Switzerland and France. Sadly, it is France where one of the most horrific acts of the Catholic Church took place. In 1572, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre accrued, on that day thousands of unsuspecting Huguenots were slain due to their religious differences. According to the history channel the estimated death count due to Christian wars is over a billion. Christianity is obviously a deadly idea that has taken the lives of too many.
Despite the any of the good things the Christian religion has done, the lies, descent and death count that has scorn the face of the earth definitely over powers any positives. In summary Christianity is a false concept with dangerous repercussions. One must think where is the world headed with this slanderous and blood thirsty religions.]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21854 Essays techtiger> Article reviews http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21853 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:27:26 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21853 Article Reviews techtiger> The HELP ME section http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21852 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:24:45 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21852 Help techtiger> Essays http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21850 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:20:22 GMT
Please follow the main rules!]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21850 Essays techtiger> Rules PLEASE READ http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21841 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:21:20 GMT
This is a section where we can post our assignments so that others in a jam may be able to get some help.

I figured alot of us are in school of some form or another and we have all had that morning where you wake up and relize you have an article review due.

I ask that you guys STICK TO THE TOPIC in the Essay and Article review threads, simply to make finding things easy and not getting clouded with non sense. As for the General discussion on the main forum please feel free to discuss anything school related.

I understand i suck as grammer however in the School forum i please ask that all assignments have correct spelling and puncuation. USE SPELL CHECK

Also FOR EVERY ASSIGNMENT POST i would like you to have a header of The class, assignment, date, and the grade you recieved on it. This is to insure we dont have any misshaps.

Thank you,
~Techtiger]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21841 School techtiger> Re poll Does this site suck? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21839 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:34:03 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21839 Bullshit techtiger> Staying logged in http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21838 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:30:56 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21838 Bullshit techtiger> Credit Card http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21744 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:05:52 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/f11/credit-card-21729/]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21744 Politcal News techtiger> Cell phone edonator http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21742 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:54:16 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21742 Politcal News techtiger> Lysergic acid in the book? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21736 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:31:13 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/f48...gic-acid-6392/

????]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21736 Politcal News techtiger> The worlds longest thread http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21735 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:27:19 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21735 Politcal News techtiger> ACB book http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21733 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:08:47 GMT (for this i will donate my sub section labeled news to post and vote) so if you would like to help out with this please sign up here]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21733 Bullshit techtiger> credit card http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21729 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:44:48 GMT
so you want to know how to know how to commit a felony of identity theft??? but more importantly not have to pay for shit??

there are several ways to go about this but they generally all include one device. its called a skimmer... if you google skimmer you wont come up with shit so legit use for these handy little tools is for portable credit card transfers. they can cost any where from 100 too 200 the better ones allow you todo more stuff so i suggest getting one of those.

what does a skimmer do?
a skimmer recoreds all of the data on the credit cards megnetic strip and decodes it, you wouldnt beleive what is actually on the strip, every thing from address to d.o.b and yes the most important thing, the credit card number!!!

ok now that you know what a skimmer is you want to know how to us it... one method is to create a atm clone.... all you do is find an atm and attatch your skimmer to the atm... sounds easy but to make it look convinsing it takes alot of plastic work. and every time some one puts there card in it will record the data.... what to do with the data i well explain later.

the 2nd route and prob the best.
step one GET A JOB!!! it can be any where from a waiter to a cashier at a store. any place that deals with transactions... when you get a payment with a credit card you can simply pretend to drop it and swipe it threw the skimmer quick or you can pretend to clean it off with your shirt and have the simmer hidden and swipe it..... then proceded with the transaction normally.


most skimmers can hold thousands of cc numbers so keep doing this all day if you want as long as you dont get caught...

now that you have the credit card numbers stored take them home and plug your skimmer into the computer (they all come with a usb cable) you will then be able to read the card numbers and the data (keep in mind this supose to be for leagal buisness transactions so you would be able to use all this info to make legal buisness payments.

now that you have all of this information you can do several things with it. you can buy blank cards with megnetic strip (google it you can get like a 100 for 20 bucks or so) dependin on how in depth you want to gowith it you can get a embosser(the thing that indents the numbers on the card) and a photo id printer (used for creating personel id cards) and due to the fact that credit cards have all sorts of themes now its not that hard to make a good looking one. also if you want a really good looking one you can but some holographic stickers that kinda look like an eagal or what ever the hell it is on the card, no one really pays attention so pretty much any thing the right size will do.

if you bought the cheap skimmer you now have an identical looking non working credit card. (you can still use it just rough it up a good deal and make it look worn down, its a prettycommon thing to have cards that are so beat up that they dont scan any more so where ever you use it they just have to manualy punch it in)

now the expensive skimmers have the ability to write cards also, wich is why you would want one of these. iyou have to change the setting to writing on the computer and simply pick the number you want and swipe it threw the skimmer and you now have a compleatly working and looking credit card and you have an intire month of spending to do befor the real person gets there bill and at that point that card is no longer usefull and becomes dangerous.

and so long as the credit card is signed on the back they do not have to ask for i.d. soo your compleatly safe


hope this is help full and as a disclaimer i do want to say THIS IS FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY!!! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DO THIS]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21729 Hacking techtiger> I need your vote here guys!!!! http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21722 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:33:58 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21722 Bullshit techtiger> paintball/airsoft/bb http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21707 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:27:20 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21707 Weapons techtiger> Sony delays game over offensive music http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21705 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:22:31 GMT
NEW YORK - Sony Corp has delayed sales of "LittleBigPlanet," one of its most widely anticipated video games, by at least one week in the United States after finding potentially offensive background music in the game.

The puzzle-solving, community-based game, published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, will begin shipping to retail shops during the week of October 27, Sony said on Monday.

The company will replace the shipped version of the game, originally set for release on October 21, with newly mastered copies. Sony declined to disclose the costs associated with the move, a representative said.
The music in question is "Tapha Niang" a song performed by Malian musician Toumani Diabate, Sony said.

"One of the background music tracks that was licensed from a record label for use in the game contains two expressions that can be found in the Quran," the company said in a statement. "We have taken immediate action to rectify this and we sincerely apologize for any offense this may have caused."

Sony, whose PlayStation 3 game console is locked in a battle with Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 and Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii, has been touting the game since early in 2007.

LittleBigPlanet lets users create virtual worlds and they can play and share what they build with other worldwide users.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27284358/]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21705 Music techtiger> U.S. pilot was ordered to shoot down UFO http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21704 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:59:42 GMT
The fighter pilot said he was ordered to fire a full salvo of rockets at the UFO moving erratically over the North Sea — but that at the last minute the object picked up enormous speed and disappeared. The account, first published in Britain’s Daily Star newspaper more than 17 years ago and to this day unverified by military authorities, was one of many carried in the 1,500 pages the archives made available online.

The unnamed pilot said he and another airman were scrambled on the night of May 20, 1957, to intercept an unusual “bogey” on radars at a Royal Air Force Station Manston, an airfield at the southeastern tip of England about 75 miles from central London.
“This was a flying object with very unusual flight patterns,” the pilot said, according to a typed manuscript of his account mailed to Britain’s Ministry of Defense by a UFO enthusiast in 1988. “In the initial briefing it was suggested to us that the bogey actually was motionless for long intervals.”

Ordered to fly at full throttle in cloudy weather, the pilot said he was given the order to fire a volley of 24 rockets at the mysterious object.

“To be quite candid I almost [expletive] my pants!” the pilot said, saying he asked for confirmation — which he received.

Retired U.S. airman Milton Torres told Britain’s Sky News on Monday that he was the pilot and has spent 50 frustrating years attempting to uncover the truth of his aerial encounter.

Speaking from his home in Miami, Torres said he never saw the UFO with his naked eyes, but watched in awe as it appeared on his jet’s radar and sped off before he had chance to fire.

“All of a sudden as it was coming in, it decided to take off and leave me behind ... The next thing I know it was gone,” Torres told Sky News. “It was some kind of space alien craft. It was so fast, it was so incredible ... it was absolutely death-defying.”

Impossible to miss?
In the newly published government file, the U.S. airman said the UFO appeared impossible to miss.

“The blip was burning a hole in the radar with its incredible intensity,” the pilot said. “It was similar to a blip I had received from B-52’s and seemed to be a magnet of light. ... I had a lock on that had the proportions of a flying aircraft carrier.”

As he closed in on the object to prepare for combat, however, the object began to move wildly before fading off his radar. The target gone, the mission was called off, and he returned to base to an odd reception.

“I had not the foggiest idea what had actually occurred, nor would anyone explain anything to me,” the pilot said. He said he was led to a man in civilian clothes, who “advised me that this would be considered highly classified and that I should not discuss it with anybody not even my commander.”

“He disappeared without so much as a goodbye and that was that, as far as I was concerned,” the pilot said, according to the account.

No military record
Britain’s military said it had no record of the incident, according to the files. Neither did the U.S. military. The second pilot’s account, also included in the files, paints a somewhat different picture of events, saying there were not one but several “unknowns” and that he did not remember being contacted by anyone about staying quiet. He did not mention the targets’ size.

“I know this is not a very exciting narrative but it is all I can recall,” the second pilot said.
His name, like his colleague’s, was redacted from the files.

David Clarke, a UFO expert who has worked with the National Archives on the document release, said it was one of the most intriguing stories he had culled from the batch of files released Monday.

He said that the CIA once had a program intended to create phantom signals on radar — and that this may have been an exercise in electronic warfare. Whatever the case, Clarke argued that “there’s no doubt something very unusual happened.”

Clarke said the batch of files released Monday — which include witness accounts, investigations, and sketches — was part of a three- to four-year program intended to make a total of 160 UFO-related files available to the public.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27279684/?gt1=43001]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21704 Politics techtiger> Tag your city http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21617 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:55:37 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21617 Bullshit techtiger> Techtiger NEED HELP http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21595 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:37:19 GMT
P.S on all my other computers that dont have vista it works like a dream so i know its not the disk itself]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21595 Help Me techtiger> safe haven law http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21527 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:21:08 GMT
The boy from the Detroit area is the second teenager from outside Nebraska and 18th child overall abandoned in the state since July when the law took effect.

There was no sign the boy was in immediate danger before he was abandoned and no indication why the boy's mother decided to leave him at the hospital, said Todd Landry, who heads the state's Department of Health and Human Services' division of children and family services.

Landry said at a news conference Monday afternoon that details of the boy's case still aren't known, such as whether the mother had sought help in Michigan first or whether the boy's father agreed to or aware of the decision.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27165057/

Landry also said the boy doesn't appear to have any ties to Nebraska. He has been placed in an emergency shelter in the Omaha area.

Creighton hospital spokeswoman Lisa Stites said she did not know any additional details about the boy abandoned at her hospital Monday.

Call for changes
Last week, a 14-year-old girl from Iowa was abandoned at an Omaha hospital by her grandparents. The girl has since been returned to her family.

Officials with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services have stressed that the safe-haven law should be used for children in immediate danger only. Some officials are worried that Nebraska's broadly written law could make the state a dumping ground for unwanted children.


what do you guys think of the safe haven law.... i think its another one of those things that looks good on paper but not so much in real life]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21527 Politics techtiger> 10/18 reminder guys!!! http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21516 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:06:37 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21516 Dating & Relationships techtiger> Shit http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21485 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:56:22 GMT
What color was your shit today?]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21485 Bullshit techtiger> 10/07/08 TONIGHT AT 8:00pm central http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21432 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:47:11 GMT
The guy’s been left for dead — literally, in one case, and politically in many others — more times than a pack of General Custers.

So it is ironic but appropriate that his pivotal campaign moment tonight is in a city known for country-music troubadours of last chances.
A week is a year and a month a lifetime in politics. It is an interactive universe; straight-line extrapolations are worse than useless. Still, the clock is winding down on McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin in their race to catch senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Tonight’s town hall debate at Belmont University, moderated by NBC’s Tom Brokaw, is McCain’s last real opportunity to alter the dynamic of the race. The cliché is “game changer,” but that is what he needs. There is one more debate on Oct. 15, in New York, but that is almost certainly too late to have much impact.

Can McCain turn things around tonight and, if so, how can he do it?

The answer to the first question, given his history, has to be yes.

McCain is like that trick birthday candle: you keep blowing it out but it keeps springing back to life.

I think I know the reason why this is so. There is something about what McCain represents — a soldier willing to die for his country.

Voters are understandably reluctant to be seen as rejecting that ideal, or treating it with disrespect, especially in the eyes of a doubting world.

Obama is another reason why McCain cannot be counted out, no matter what the tracking polls and Electoral College summaries are saying. There remains something about the senator from Illinois — the big-city, Ivy League, I-know-what’s-good-for-you smoothie — that makes many swing voters reluctant to accept him, even if you edit race out of the equation, which of course, you cannot.

So McCain will have his chance, but how will he try to exploit it? He will do so by launching an all-out, frontal, personal assault on Obama — his character, his record and his life story.

McCain and his aides have essentially abandoned the idea of spending their limited time and money on building his brand: the brand of military patriotism, heroic sacrifice and honest self-criticism in the name of purifying the wrongs of the nation’s capital.

Instead of selling that honorable history, they are going to spend most of the rest of the campaign (and their comparatively limited cash) raising fears about Obama — about his past associations, his personal character, his record on campaign promises, and his willingness to use the federal government to address social problems facing the country.

McCain has now called Obama a bald-faced liar. His running mate has accused Obama of “hanging out” with terrorist radicals. McCain has said that Obama has an ill-disguised hunger to raise taxes, and a habit — even a need — to make promises he has no intention of keeping.

In Albuquerque, McCain road tested the attack rhetoric he will use here tonight. In the last debate, he barely looked at Obama. I have a feeling that McCain will be staring at his foe tonight.
But McCain had better be careful. This will be a “town hall” audience, and their questions and reactions may penalize anyone who is too harsh. McCain has to watch out for an Obama move to seek sympathy and support from the studio audience of regular folks.

We’ll know by their reaction whether McCain is making any headway or not.

But by going on the attack McCain risks allowing people to forget what it is about him that they liked so much to begin with, his non-partisan membership in the American military tradition.

One of the locals wondering aloud about that is Nashville songwriter Chuck Cannon, who wrote a big hit after 9/11 for Toby Keith called “American Soldier.” A shrewd fellow who served as president of the Nashville Songwriters Association, Cannon told me he admires McCain’s story and doubts whether the attack strategy will work.]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21432 Politics techtiger> Dow finishes below 10,000 for first time since '04 http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21420 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:50:59 GMT
The sell-off came despite the $700 billion U.S. government bailout package, which was signed into law Friday after two weeks in which traders had appeared to count on the rescue as their only hope to avoid a market ***tdown.

At its worst point, the Dow was down more than 800 points, an intraday record. The stock market rallied during the final 90 minutes of the trading day, and the Dow finished down about 370 points at 9,955.50.

Speculation among traders late in the session that the market's pullback had been severe enough to force the Federal Reserve into taking other steps to soothe the markets helped stocks rebound from their lows.

"If you can't say that we're oversold now I don't know what you say. You're at least due for a bounce if nothing else," said Bill Stone, chief investment strategist for PNC Wealth Management.

The global plunge in stocks was under way well before Wall Street ever woke up. In Japan, the Nikkei average lost more than 4 percent. And then the losses spread across Europe — nearly 6 percent for the FTSE-100 in Britain, 7 percent for the German DAX and more than 9 percent for France's CAC-40.

In the United States, President Bush twice made unscheduled remarks on the economy, saying in Cincinnati that the economy would be "just fine" but that the bailout package needed time to work.

The troubles that started with an overheated housing market in the U.S. have infected financial markets around the world, making banks fearful of lending to other banks, let alone to businesses and consumers. That has led to worries that economies around the world might not only sputter but slide into reverse.

The crush of selling Monday came exactly one week after the Dow lost 778 points, its biggest closing loss in terms of points. On that day, the House voted down an earlier bailout package that had appeared to be a safe bet to pass.

The swings in the Dow on Monday also marked the beginning a fourth week of tumult in the markets. Triple-digit Dow swings have been commonplace since mid-September, when investment house Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and the government stepped in to bail out insurer American International Group.

But even with the bailout package firmly in place — a plan under which the federal government will buy bad mortgage-related assets off the books of banks — investors remain worried that banks are too fearful to lend and are cutting off air to the economy.

Over the weekend, governments across Europe rushed to prop up failing banks, while the governments of Germany, Ireland and Greece also said they would guarantee bank deposits. U.S. investors appeared worried the bailout would not be enough to jump-start the economy. Even other steps, including a Federal Reserve decision to expand a loan program to squeezed banks, didn't help much.

The sharp one-day tumbles over the last two Mondays don't come close to the drops that became black marks on the ti***ine of Wall Street history. Black Monday, in October 1987, and stock drops that preceded the Great Depression were more than 20 percent. Monday's drop, by comparisons, was less than 8 percent at its worst.

For the day, the Dow lost 3.6 percent. The selling was broad: Little more than 200 stocks finished the day higher on the New York Stock Exchange, while about 3,000 finished lower.

At its lowest point Monday, the Dow was down 800.06, at 9,525.32. The benchmark average dipped below 10,000 for the first time since Oct. 29, 2004, and closed there despite the afternoon rally.

As an indication of how fearful investors still are, government-backed debt was in high demand. The yield on the three-month Treasury bill, which moves in the opposite direction as its price, fell to 0.43 percent from late Friday at 0.50 percent. Investors are willing to accept low returns to have their money in a secure place.

Investors also moved into longer-term Treasury bonds. The yield on the 10-year note fell to 3.47 percent from 3.60 percent late Friday.

Broader indexes also plunged. The Standard & Poor's 500 index shed 42.34, or 3.85 percent, to 1,056.89; and the Nasdaq composite index fell 84.43, or 4.34 percent, to 1,862.96. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies dropped 23.49, or 3.79 percent, to 595.91.

The market "is displaying one of its worst traits with a herd mentality, and investors have an appetite for feeding on fear," said Anthony Sabino, a professor of law and business at St. John's University.

But he cautioned it was still not a nightmare scenario.

"Most certainly, this is not the Great Depression of the 1930s, but (is like) the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s — and we bailed them out," he said. "Once people catch their breath, they'll see this is the proper analogy and this will breathe life back into banking institutions."]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21420 Politics techtiger> Did America's founders want a closer church-state relationship? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21417 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:13:47 GMT
The phrase "separation of church and state" has been bandied about for so long that many Americans believe that it is actually in the Constitution. In fact, those three words appear nowhere in the Constitution.

Refusing to acknowledge that no document of state, let alone the Constitution, has ever proposed such a concept, those on the left have tried to convince the American people that our founding documents warned of the dangers of mixing politics and religion. They have misled millions and worked against the public interest by damaging the commitment to ethics and moral values that comes only through religious belief.

It must be remembered that neutrality is impossible. Some authority, whether it be God or man, is used as the reference point for all enacted laws. If a political system rejects one authority, it adopts another. If a biblical, moral system is not being legislated, then an immoral system is being legislated. Any moral system that does not put Jesus Christ at its center denies Christ.

The assault on America's religious underpinnings is based on a distorted interpretation of the Establishment and Free-exercise clauses of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The Supreme Court has taken Jefferson's 'separation' clause (divorced from Jefferson's own explanation of the phrase) and used it to create a new, and completely arbitrary, interpretation of the First Amendment.

In 1947, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black construed the First Amendment in a more restrictive fashion, giving an absolute definition of the First Amendment Establishment Clause that went well beyond the original intent of the Framers and paved the way for future cases that would further restrict religious expression in American public life. This ruling declares that any aid or benefit to religion from governmental actions is unconstitutional. As Justice Black said, "The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach."

But "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting free exercise thereof" has always meant that Congress was prohibited from establishing a national religious denomination, that Congress could not require that all Americans become Catholics, Anglicans or members of any other denomination.

The complete and radical disassociation between Christianity and the state that is sometimes advocated now is not what they had in mind.
Victor Bilson
Founder, Jeremiah Project evangelical web site. Posted on the Web site, www.jeremiahproject.com, November 2007




The con


Religious-right groups and their allies insist the United States was designed to be officially Christian and that our laws should enforce the doctrines of [their version of] Christianity. Did the founders of our government believe this or intend to create a government that gave special recognition to Christianity?

The answer to all of these questions is no. The U.S. Constitution is a wholly secular document. It contains no mention of Christianity or Jesus Christ. The Constitution refers to religion only twice, in the First Amendment, which bars laws "respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," and in Article VI, which prohibits "religious tests" for public office. Both of these provisions are evidence that the country was not founded as officially Christian.

A handful of delegates to the Constitutional Convention argued for formal recognition of Christianity in the Constitution, insisting that such language was necessary to "hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism." But that view was not adopted, and the Constitution gave government no authority over religion. Article VI, which allows persons of all religious viewpoints to hold public office, was adopted by unanimous vote.

Early national leaders understood that separation of church and state would be good for all faiths, including Christianity. Jefferson rejoiced that Virginia had passed his religious-freedom law, noting that it would ensure religious freedom for "the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, the infidel of every denomination."

A determined faction of Christians has fought against this policy throughout our history. In the mid-19th century, several efforts were made to add specific references to Christianity to the Constitution. One group, the National Reform Association, pushed a "Christian nation" amendment in Congress in 1864. The amendment called for "humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, [and] His revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government." The House Judiciary Committee voted against its adoption.

Americans should be proud that we live in a democracy that welcomes persons of many faiths and none. Only the principle of church-state separation can protect America's incredible degree of religious freedom. The individual rights and diversity we enjoy cannot be maintained if the government promotes Christianity or takes on the trappings of a "faith-based" state.

Barry Lynn
Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State. From the Americans United Web site, www.au.org, November 2007]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21417 Politics techtiger> I have an idea http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21378 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:12:29 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21378 Bullshit techtiger> vp debate http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21377 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:51:05 GMT
sorry this is a little one sided]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21377 Politics techtiger> can wild ceo pay be tamed http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21370 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:20:32 GMT



The guys who ran the recently collapsed Lehman Bros., Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all prove one thing.

You don’t always get what you pay for.

Lehman Bros.’ Richard Fuld, $40 million.
Merrill Lynch’s Stanley O’Neal, $46 million.
Bear Stearns' James Cayne, $40 million.
Freddie Mac’s Richard Syron, just shy of $20 million.
Fannie Mae’s Daniel Mudd, $12.2 million.
As the nation’s financial system was crumbling, the CEOs who were in charge of the most troubled financial firms pocketed fat paychecks during their final full year on the job — and that doesn’t include the golden parachutes they got when they walked away.

Public outrage over this disconnect has caused Congress to step in and try to do something about skyrocketing executive compensation. But history shows that government attempts have been weak, at best, when it comes to curtailing CEO riches.

Why? Because regulators never go far enough in giving shareholders a true voice. It’s difficult to break up entrenched boards of directors that make the decisions on executive compensation.

Even the $700 billion bailout package that is fighting for life on Capitol Hill doesn’t have the teeth to put a lid on these financial windfalls, experts say.

Over the past two decades, efforts by government officials to rein in the big payouts, including changes to the tax code and calls for more oversight, have actually contributed to the growth in CEO pay — now 275 times the salary of the average working stiff, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

“Government regulators are notoriously ineffective at reining in pay, and oftentimes the unintended consequences caused greater problems,” says Charles Elson, an expert on corporate governance at the University of Delaware.

Let’s go back to the mid-1980s when the public also was outraged about executives getting huge payouts as a result of the merger mania at the time. The government and investors wanted to make sure managers were selling companies because it was financially prudent, not because they would walk away with huge severance packages.

These concerns resulted in a 1986 change in the tax code creating a penalty tax on excessive golden parachute payments more than three times an executive's base pay.

What happened after that, says Steve Van Putten, a senior executive pay consultant for Watson Wyatt in Boston, was that companies started paying this penalty tax for executives, a process called grossing up. And the three-times base pay limit became the standard for many parachutes that were once well below that.

In 1992, the Securities and Exchange Commission introduced proxy disclosure rules taking information about executive compensation that was once narrative and thin on numerical values, and putting actual numbers out there for all to see.

“It became very transparent, and a CEO at one company could see what another was making so they’d say, ‘Hey, I want to be making that,’ ” says Van Putten.

The big change — one that many compensation experts and shareholder advocates point to as a turning point that led to the obscene CEO paychecks we’re dealing with today — came in 1993 with tax code provision 162(m) that limited tax deductibility for executive pay at $1 million. The exception to the rule was for pay that was considered “performance-based” compensation, like, you guessed it, stock options.

“As a result, stock options have gone crazy,” says *** Fugate, assistant management professor at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. Under the rule, for example, a CEO could get $1 million in base pay and $400 million in stock options.

This focus on stock options created a volatile mix, boosting incentives for executives to make risky business moves in order to boost a company’s stock price.

That’s exactly what has happened with the subprime mess that led to the downfall of so many old and established Wall Street firms.

“Certainly, compensation practices at these companies have been a major contributor to the financial crisis,” says Paul Hodgson, a senior analyst at the Corporate Library, an independent governance research organization.

Alas, government intervention thus far has been “an unmitigated disaster,” adds Alan Johnson, a compensation consultant. “I would think if you went back 20 years or so, you’d see it’s enriched consultants like me, lawyers, accountants. It was wasted time and money and didn’t reduce pay. It was so poorly designed, so full of loopholes, and so silly.”

So, what needs to be done to finally clamp down on CEO pay and incentives that encourage short-term gains, but do little for the long-term health of the nation’s corporations?

Shareholders can take an overpaid executive or board members who approved pay packages to court. But legally they would have to prove that the board overstepped its bounds in some way, such as backdating options, for example, says Stuart Grant, an attorney with Grant & Eisenhofer, a law firm that has litigated executive compensation cases.

“I don’t know if there’s ever been a case just solely based on executive pay that’s come to judgment that’s been successful,” he explains. “You have to find some back door.”
While few industry observers would go on the record defending exorbitant CEO paychecks, compensation consultant Alan Johnson says, “pay for executives is set in the marketplace. ... Do I wish executives got paid less? Absolutely. Is it terrible for society? Yes. But it is the market.”

If companies want to attract the best and brightest, they have to pay CEOs competitively, says Craig Rennie, finance professor in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. “You can say, ‘Maybe we need to restrict executive compensation,’ ” he explains, but then executives will say, " 'We will go live in London where there’s a friendlier regulatory environment.’ ”

For government regulators, fixing the problem is a matter of finding the right balance, says Houman B. Shadab, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center's regulatory studies program. “Compensation decisions should best be left up to shareholders and boards of directors, and the way you do that is give shareholders more control.”

Even before bailout plan was proposed, Congress had been reviewing two provisions that many compensation experts say would give shareholders more of a voice.

The Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act, also known as the “say on pay” bill, sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., would give shareholders the right to a nonbinding vote on the executive pay packages and golden parachutes. Even though the vote would be nonbinding, Frank has said a vote against a compensation decision would put pressure on the board. It passed the House in April and is pending in the Senate, where Barack Obama is sponsoring the bill.

Another key proposal that would help is allowing shareholders to vote for board members without engaging in a proxy fight, says the Corporate Library’s Hodgson.

Since boards at U.S. corporations are so entrenched, adding just one independent voice could go a long way, he adds.

“It would change the psychological dynamic on the board because you’d have a member that says, ‘I am here because the shareholders put me here’ rather than ‘The CEO nominated me,’ ” he explains. “Board members are smart, but collectively they become a herd.”

Neither the “say on pay” or proxy access provisions were in the bailout plan voted on this week, Hodgson adds.

Another option is creating incentives for board members. Elson, with the Center for Corporate Governance, believes having board members become equity stakeholders in the companies they oversee will also help incentivize them to keep mega pay packages under wraps because they’ll have as much at stake as the shareholders.

No matter what happens, when you look at exploding CEO pay, there are clearly two reasons things need to change, says Dan Pedrotty, director of the AFL-CIO’s office of investment.

“The concern is equality and fairness," he says. "But also if we pay for failure at a company, that’s less long-term value that a company generates for shareholders."

The union, he says, represents not only its working members but also retirees who have a large stake in corporate America through their pensions and 401(k)s.

For 10 years, the AFL-CIO has been pointing out the excesses of management pay on its Executive PayWatch website with the purpose of “bringing attention to CEO pay abuses and mobilizing public opinion to do something,” says Pedrotty.

This year’s theme: the link between CEO pay and the subprime disaster.

“A large part of how we got here, in addition to lack of regulation and greed, was the way the incentive packages were structured to incentivize the executives to take risks,” he notes. “As a result, lots of money was paid to undeserving CEOs.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26963309/page/2/]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21370 Politics techtiger> Jobless claims continue to rise as factory orders drop http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21369 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:09:30 GMT
Meanwhile, factory orders plunged 4.0% during August, dropping even more than expected in another sign of weakness within manufacturing and the overall economy.

Even accounting for the roughly 45,000 claims that the government said were related to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the trend remains very weak for labor markets at a time when the crisis on Wall Street threatens to pull consumer spending and the overall economy into a deeper downturn.

Initial claims for jobless benefits rose 1,000 on a seasonally-adjusted basis to 497,000 in the week ended Sept. 27, the Labor Department said in its weekly report Thursday. That's the highest since Sept. 29, 2001. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had expected claims would fall by 18,000.

According to a Labor Department analyst, "claims are being dominated by activities related to Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike."

The 45,000 estimate for the hurricane effect is not adjusted for seasonal factors. Once that number is put through the adjustment process, seasonally-adjusted claims last week would have been around 440,000.

The four-week average of new claims, which attempts to smooth out volatility, rose 11,500 to 474,000. That's the highest since October 2001 and well above levels typically consistent with declines in monthly employment.

Nonfarm payrolls have dropped eight-straight months, and the latest claims figures suggest another large drop when September figures are released Friday, despite a smaller-than-expected decline in an index released Wednesday by payrolls giant Automatic Data Processing and forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers that attempts to track the government figure.

The tally of continuing claims, those drawn by workers collecting benefits for more than one week in the week ended Sept. 20, jumped by 48,000 to 3,591,000. That's the highest since September 2003, suggesting it is getting even harder for the unemployed to find new work.

The unemployment rate for workers with unemployment insurance was unchanged at 2.7%.

Not adjusted to reflect seasonal fluctuations, hurricane-ravaged Texas reported the largest increase in new claims the week of Sept. 20, 22,235, due to layoffs in trade, finance and manufacturing industries. Louisiana reported 9,671 new claims, citing Hurricane Gustav.

Kansas reported the largest decrease, 3,223.

Factory Orders Tumble
Orders for manufactured goods decreased 4.0%, following a sharp, downwarldy revised 0.7% increase in July, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Originally, factory orders were seen rising 1.3% in July.

Economists had forecast factory goods orders plunging 3.0% in August. At 4.0%, the broad-based drop was the biggest since 4.8% in October 2006.

Demand for durable goods fell a revised 4.8% in August. Durables are expensive goods made to last at least three years. A week ago, Commerce had estimated durables in August plunged 4.5%.

Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft decreased 2.4%, after rising by 0.3% in July. Those bookings are seen as a yardstick for capital spending by businesses.

Non-durable goods factory orders tumbled in August by 3.3%, after increasing 0.8% in the prior month. Petroleum is a non-durable, and the drop in oil prices in mid-summer likely contributed to the sharp decline.

Another report on manufacturing was released this week, an important one, and it was dismal. The Institute for Supply Management put out its index of manufacturing activity for September. Manufacturing has been in a slump around a year. But the index reading of 43.5 was the lowest since 2001 and had dour implications. "Historically, full-economy recessions have been accompanied by an ISM manufacturing index in the 40-45 zone," Global Insight analyst Nigel Gault said Wednesday of the ISM data.

Thursday's factory data said orders for goods made in the transportation sector decreased 9.1%, after rising 2.7% in July. Non-military aircraft and parts orders dived 38.1%, after increasing 22.3% in July. Defense aircraft and parts orders fell 12.1%, after rising 24.5% in July. Ships and boats rose 5.5%. Orders for motor vehicle bodies and parts fell 10.6%, after increasing 0.6% in July.

Excluding transportation orders, overall factory orders decreased 3.3%.

Capital goods orders fell 6.0%, after increasing 0.4% in July.

Defense capital-goods orders rose 9.7%, after dropping 19.6% in July. Without defense orders, overall factory orders fell 4.2%, after increasing 1.2% in July. Defense capital goods industries include, among others, communications equipment, aircraft and missiles.

Demand for all non-defense capital goods -- business equipment meant to last 10 years or more -- fell 7.9%, after rising 3.5% in July.

Consumer-goods orders decreased 4.7%, with consumer durable goods orders falling 5.8% and consumer non-durables 4.5% lower.

Orders decreased in August by 9.6% for primary metals, 0.8% for fabricated metals, 6.6% for machinery, and 3.0% for electrical equipment. Orders rose 2.0% for computers and electronic products.

The report showed August factory shipments decreased 3.5%. Unfilled orders, a sign of future demand, were just 0.4% higher. Inventories rose 0.6%

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122295094803198075.html



for those of you who are too lazy to read it basically says after the hurricane we are in the shitter]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21369 Politics techtiger> the universe http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21358 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:09:12 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21358 Enlightened Individuals techtiger> Bail out failed now what? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21353 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:16:15 GMT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - President George W. Bush eased pressure on financial markets Tuesday with assurances that a $700 billion bailout for the financial sector can be revived, but the crisis spread further through European banks.

The dollar rallied and stocks recovered 3 percent after suffering their blackest day in 20 years on Monday as the House of Representatives rejected the rescue plan. The White House, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, congressional leaders and the two candidates hoping to succeed Bush as president, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, kept up a steady drumbeat of support for the plan, and around the world markets stabilized.

"There's an overarching belief that at some point this week, whether it's Wednesday or Thursday, we'll get something passed by the House," said Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co in Boston.

But global money markets remained frozen, and London interbank offered rates shot to record levels, indicating banks were not lending to each other. The rate for overnight dollar loans rose to nearly 6.9 percent from just over 2.5 percent on Monday.

Without the bailout plan, which would allow the Treasury to buy toxic mortgage-related assets from banks, credit markets could remain frozen and lead to a recession.

"I assure our citizens and citizens around the world that this is not the end of the legislative process," Bush said.

From Dublin to Moscow, the financial crisis was an ominous presence.

Ireland unveiled a blanket guarantee for savings held by its banks, and for the second time in a month Russia briefly shut down its stock markets.

France, Belgium and Luxembourg poured 6.4 billion euros into Franco-Belgian bank Dexia to avoid defaults on its loans, and France promised new bank measures to help savers.

Shares of British bank HBOS Plc fell on fears that Lloyds TSB Group Plc could renegotiate a deal to buy HBOS.

Dutch banking and insurance group Fortis and regional U.S. bank Wachovia succumbed on Monday.

Wall Street stocks rose as investors bet the bailout package would be approved by the U.S. Congress this week. The dollar rose against the yen and oil rebounded. European stocks recovered from earlier losses.

The White House said Bush had "constructive" talks with McCain, a Republican, and Obama, a Democrat, on Tuesday. Both presidential candidates have urged their fellow members of Congress to pass the bailout package and called for the limit on bank deposit insurance to be increased to boost confidence in banks.

Sen. Harry Reid and Sen. Mitch McConnell, the top Democrat and Republican in the Senate, promised swift action.

Congress was not in session on Tuesday because of a Jewish holiday. The Senate could take up bailout legislation as early as Wednesday. The House is to return on Thursday.

Lawmakers held discussions with each other and Bush administration officials on Tuesday to explore options, including possible changes in the measure the House defeated.

They could revise the bill or bring it up for another House vote. The next vote could occur in the Senate, where there has been more bipartisan support for the plan.

Monday's defeat in the House was driven by a collection of Republicans and Democrats -- many of whom are in tight re-election races -- who received angry calls and e-mails from constituents upset at the idea of bailing out Wall Street.

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/pro...930&id=9209879]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21353 Politics techtiger> What Happens When We Die? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21291 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:03:41 GMT
What sort of methods will this project use to try and verify people's claims of "near-death" experience?


When your heart stops beating, there is no blood getting to your brain. And so what happens is that within about 10 sec., brain activity ceases - as you would imagine. Yet paradoxically, 10% or 20% of people who are then brought back to life from that period, which may be a few minutes or over an hour, will report having consciousness. So the key thing here is, Are these real, or is it some sort of illusion? So the only way to tell is to have pictures only visible from the ceiling and nowhere else, because they claim they can see everything from the ceiling. So if we then get a series of 200 or 300 people who all were clinically dead, and yet they're able to come back and tell us what we were doing and were able see those pictures, that confirms consciousness really was continuing even though the brain wasn't functioning.


How does this project relate to society's perception of death?


People commonly perceive death as being a moment - you're either dead or you're alive. And that's a social definition we have. But the clinical definition we use is when the heart stops beating, the lungs stop working, and as a consequence the brain itself stops working. When doctors shine a light into someone's pupil, it's to demonstrate that there is no reflex present. The eye reflex is mediated by the brain stem, and that's the area that keeps us alive; if that doesn't work, then that means that the brain itself isn't working. At that point, I'll call a nurse into the room so I can certify that this patient is dead. Fifty years ago, people couldn't survive after that.


How is technology challenging the perception that death is a moment?


Nowadays, we have technology that's improved so that we can bring people back to life. In fact, there are drugs being developed right now - who knows if they'll ever make it to the market - that may actually slow down the process of brain-cell injury and death. Imagine you fast-forward to 10 years down the line; and you've given a patient, whose heart has just stopped, this amazing drug; and actually what it does is, it slows everything down so that the things that would've happened over an hour, now happen over two days. As medicine progresses, we will end up with lots and lots of ethical questions.


But what is happening to the individual at that time? What's really going on? Because there is a lack of blood flow, the cells go into a kind of a frenzy to keep themselves alive. And within about 5 min. or so they start to damage or change. After an hour or so the damage is so great that even if we restart the heart again and pump blood, the person can no longer be viable, because the cells have just been changed too much. And then the cells continue to change so that within a couple of days the body actually decomposes. So it's not a moment; it's a process that actually begins when the heart stops and culminates in the complete loss of the body, the decompositions of all the cells. However, ultimately what matters is, What's going on to a person's mind? What happens to the human mind and consciousness during death? Does that cease immediately as soon as the heart stops? Does it cease activity within the first 2 sec., the first 2 min.? Because we know that cells are continuously changing at that time. Does it stop after 10 min., after half an hour, after an hour? And at this point we don't know.


What was your first interview like with someone who had reported an out-of-body experience?


Eye-opening and very humbling. Because what you see is that, first of all, they are completely genuine people who are not looking for any kind of fame or attention. In many cases they haven't even told anybody else about it because they're afraid of what people will think of them. I have about 500 or so cases of people that I've interviewed since I first started out more than 10 years ago. It's the consistency of the experiences, the reality of what they were describing. I managed to speak to doctors and nurses who had been present who said these patients had told them exactly what had happened, and they couldn't explain it. I actually documented a few of those in my book What Happens When We Die because I wanted people to get both angles - not just the patients' side but also the doctors' side - and see how it feels for the doctors to have a patient come back and tell them what was going on. There was a cardiologist that I spoke with who said he hasn't told anyone else about it because he has no explanation for how this patient could have been able to describe in detail what he had said and done. He was so freaked out by it that he just decided not to think about it anymore.


Why do you think there is such resistance to studies like yours?


Because we're pushing through the boundaries of science, working against assumptions and perceptions that have been fixed. A lot of people hold this idea that, well, when you die, you die; that's it. Death is a moment - you know you're either dead or alive. All these things are not scientifically valid, but they're social perceptions. If you look back at the end of the 19th century, physicists at that time had been working with Newtonian laws of motion, and they really felt they had all the answers to everything that was out there in the universe. When we look at the world around us, Newtonian physics is perfectly sufficient. It explains most things that we deal with. But then it was discovered that actually when you look at motion at really small levels - beyond the level of the atoms - Newton's laws no longer apply. A new physics was needed, hence, we eventually ended up with quantum physics. It caused a lot of controversy - even Einstein himself didn't believe in it.

Now, if you look at the mind, consciousness, and the brain, the assumption that the mind and brain are the same thing is fine for most circumstances, because in 99% of circumstances we can't separate the mind and brain; they work at the exactly the same time. But then there are certain extreme examples, like when the brain shuts down, that we see that this assumption may no longer seem to hold true. So a new science is needed in the same way that we had to have a new quantum physics. The CERN particle accelerator may take us back to our roots. It may take us back to the first moments after the Big Bang, the very beginning. With our study, for the first time, we have the technology and the means to be able to investigate this. To see what happens at the end for us. Does something continue?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/2008092...ppenswhenwedie]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21291 Bullshit techtiger> will we fall back into a resession? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21129 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:25:23 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=21129 Politics techtiger> 2008 Olympics http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=20544 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:59:51 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=20544 Politics techtiger> Suggestion box http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=20539 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:53:48 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=20539 Politics techtiger> why? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=20524 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:04:00 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=20524 Introduce Yourself techtiger> The union http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=20377 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:37:56 GMT My question for you is what do you think about the union.... yes it has helped keep things fair and hold many jobs and has done alot of great things like child labor laws, vacation, over time... the list just goes on and on... but it also has a few flaws. it keeps the job of the lazy, it has a teared pay scale so no matter how hard you work your going to make the same as the guy sleeping in the chair next to you.... its kinda like comunisum in a sence, where there is no drive or motavation to better yourself... just some food for thought..]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=20377 Politics techtiger> Dragon skin http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=20213 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:55:49 GMT Why do you think the army doesnt use dragon skin??? should they????


for those of you who dont this is your chance to use google... www.google.com

HAHAHA ik its a stretch for some of you but go for it....

oh and a little hint theres many videos out there on inteseptor going head to head and looseing to dragon skin... take a look at some of them]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=20213 Politics techtiger> Was it a good idea? (atom bomb/ nuke) http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19940 Fri, 30 May 2008 15:06:25 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19940 Politics techtiger> What should we do about gas prices? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19872 Mon, 19 May 2008 17:10:46 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19872 Politics techtiger> Spanish group's $12.8 billion offer is high bid on long-term US highway lease http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19870 Mon, 19 May 2008 16:26:40 GMT
Abertis Infraestructuras offered to pay $12.8 billion (euro8.2 billion) for the lease, which Gov. Ed Rendell announced at a news conference Monday.

Rendell endorsed the bid, the highest of three that were submitted, and said he would submit it to the Legislature for approval.

The governor has been pursuing a privatization plan to raise billions for the state's transportation needs. He has said he'll pass along the highest bid to the Legislature for its consideration.
Spanish group's $12.8 billion offer is high bid on long-term US highway lease - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19870 Politcal News techtiger> 59 die in india drinking tainted liqure http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19869 Mon, 19 May 2008 16:24:31 GMT
Bootleggers began selling the deadly brew on Saturday after police shut authorized liquor shops in parts of the Karnataka state because of voting for the state government, said Sri Kumar, the state police chief.

In India, liquor stores and bars are routinely closed during elections to prevent politicians from handing out free alcohol in a bid to win votes.

Since Saturday, 59 people, most of them poor laborers, have died and 17 others were in hospital, said Kumar.
59 die drinking tainted liquor in India - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com

Twenty-seven deaths occurred in Bangalore, India's key information technology hub, and 19 died in the neigh*****g Kolar district. Another 13 people died in a village just across the state border with Tamil Nadu state, he said.

Kumar said six people have been arrested for selling the killer concoction, and police were analyzing the drink to determine what made it so deadly.

Deaths from illicitly brewed liquor are frequent in Indian villages and towns, where locally made brew is often spiked with pesticides or chemicals like the banned methyl alcohol to make it stronger or increase the amount.]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19869 Politcal News techtiger> Why oil prices are going so high? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19867 Mon, 19 May 2008 16:19:05 GMT
Within the next few days, America will cross a benchmark that I thought to be possible, but not necessarily probable this Spring. Well before Memorial Day weekend, U.S. motorists will spend more than $1.5-billion per day on gasoline.

Today’s back-of-the-envelope estimated bill, calculated against a national average price of $3.787 gal, is $1.486-billion. When we get to $3.82 gal nationally, we’ll cross $1.5-billion. That level is a virtual certainty based on recent wholesale price advances. It may even occur this weekend.

How does this compare to previous years?

The per diem charges Memorial Day last year saw motorists pay about $1.285-billion. In 2006, the cost was $1.122-billion; and in 2005, it was $832-million. If one goes back to 2002, the daily cost of gasoline was about $534-million. Before prices top out, we could be making $1-billion more per day in gasoline payments than we made six years ago.

The Crude Fraternity
One of the highlights of my life was the time I spent as “Prytanis” when I headed up a college fraternity. Our group made Delta House (from the movie "Animal House") often look like the Vienna Boys Choir. One might say we stretched the limits of crude behavior, with antics that ranged from the tame (relay races with cinder blocks) to the sensational (we stole the Punxsutawney groundhog one year and put him on ice in our freezer).

A different kind of crude fraternity has emerged this May. First, Goldman Sachs told the world that the chances of a superspike to $150-$200 bbl were quite good (see my Superbad post from May 7, 2008). Then this week, a couple of new pledges joined this not-so-exclusive fraternity. Comments came from the top commodities’ analyst at JP Morgan (the investment bank, and not the Gong Show judge) as well as the UBS analysis team.

This just in: Goldman today revised its forecast for the average price of crude in the second half of 2008 to $141 bbl.

I suspect that this fraternity will soon find many new members, but I have opted not to join for now. I still believe that world demand for crude is not exceeding supply, but maintain that paper demand for paper oil contracts is the primary culprit behind the surge.

Speaking of Paper Markets
This week saw Congress easily pass a bill that would keep a lid on additions to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). A separate bill would swap out some expensive sweet crude in the SPR and replace it with cheaper sour heavy crude.

I have ambivalent feelings about the SPR. My instincts have suggested from day one that taking a potential SPR sale of crude off the table was a poor negotiating tactic by the Bush administration. Regardless of whether one believes a SPR sale that might temper prices is appropriate, or effective, one would think that a posture that keeps all options in play would seem to carry much more leverage.

But the paper world of oil has swelled to many many times the size of the physical oil world. And, I’m not talking about the dark markets, where oil and other commodities trade in over-the-counter arenas where there is little regulatory scrutiny.

Paper trading in the visible universe, and in particular on the New York Mercantile Exchange, continues to expand in explosive leaps and bounds. Consider that yesterday, we saw more than 500,000 futures’ contracts change hands for June and July WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude. Since each futures contract represents one thousand barrels, that transaction number calculates to 500-million barrels of crude trading for just two months in one 24 hour period.

The SPR has about 702-million bbl of crude in salt dome storage in Louisiana and Texas. So on Thursday alone, the paper markets traded a volume that represents nearly three quarters of the barrels stored in the domes.

We added 700,000 barrels of crude to the SPR last week. It literally takes less than a New York minute to trade that much oil on the NYMEX these days.

The CPI
In case you missed it, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released earlier this week said that energy costs were flat on a seasonally adjusted basis. Huh? What’s that?

I’ve mentioned before that the folks at the Energy Information Administration (EIA) have my utmost respect. They do great work in gathering most of the data sets for U.S. refining, supply, and to a lesser extent, downstream demand.

But perhaps the Department of Labor (which releases the CPI) recruited their data gatherers from FEMA. Our own data, which follows well over 100,000 specific sites throughout the country shows that gasoline prices are up 40 cts gal in the last month, with diesel and jet fuel up 36-40 cts gal. And there is more to come, so do not assume for one moment that inflation is under control.
Energy Source: Guest Blogger Tom Kloza: Why Oil Prices Are Going So High - Energy Source with Sharon Epperson - MSNBC.com]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19867 Politcal News techtiger> U.S. suspends deliveries to strategic oil reserve http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19864 Mon, 19 May 2008 13:19:11 GMT
The move came days after Congress passed legislation requiring President Bush to temporarily halt shipments into the reserve in hopes of lowering gasoline prices. The president is expected to sign the bill.

The decision came as Bush, visiting Saudi Arabia, sought to get the Saudis to pump more oil. Saudi Arabia announced it decided a week ago that it increase production by 300,000 barrels a day in response to customer requests, although it also told U.S. officials it believes world supplies are sufficient to meet demand
The Energy Department said it will not sign six-month contracts schedule to have begun starting July 1, for the acceptance of 76,000 barrels of oil a day. The department also plans to defer deliveries under existing contracts once the legislation passed by Congress late Wednesday becomes law.

Bush had opposed halting the shipments, arguing that such a relatively small amount of oil would not influence prices. The reserve, a system of salt caverns on the Louisiana and Texas Gulf coast, is 97 percent full, holding 701 million barrels of crude.

The stockpile, currently sufficient to cover two months of oil imports, is kept as a cushion in case of a major disruption of oil supplies.

It's not clear how much of an impact — if any — the interruption of deliveries into the reserve will have on oil or gasoline prices.

Crude oil prices were about $126 a barrel and held firm Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, despite the U.S. and Saudi announcements. Average gasoline costs were nearly $3.79 a gallon, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service.

Both the House and Senate by lopsided votes this week directed the president to suspend the oil SPR shipments with both Republicans and Democrats saying it made no sense for the government to take oil at today's prices. The crude oil would better be left on the market to increase commercial supplies, they said.

The government accepts the oil in lieu of royalty payments that otherwise would go into the U.S. Treasury on oil taken from U.S. land and offshore waters. Administration officials emphasized they are not actually "buying" oil, but critics say the U.S. Treasury in any case is losing revenue.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
U.S. suspends deliveries to oil reserve - Oil & energy - MSNBC.com]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19864 Politcal News techtiger> Fundraisers for Clinton and Obama Team up?!? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19855 Sun, 18 May 2008 13:16:25 GMT
Despite Obama's apparently insurmountable lead in delegates needed to claim the nomination, aides to both candidates are resigned to the idea that the Democratic contest will continue at least through June 3, when Montana and South Dakota will cast the final votes of the primary season.

But in small gatherings around Washington and in planning sessions for party unity events in New York and Boston in coming weeks, fundraisers and surrogates from both camps are discussing how they can put aside the vitriol of the past 18 months and move forward to ensure that the eventual nominee has the resources to defeat Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in November.

Mark Aronchick, a Philadelphia lawyer who has raised more than $1 million for Clinton's bid, said that while her supporters have not given up on their candidate, they recognize the need to start preparing for the general election.

"Only if we do this right, and see this through in the right way, will there be a chance for a full, rapid and largely complete unification of the party," Aronchick said.

Aronchick was one of about 35 Clinton and Obama insiders who attended a dinner last week in Washington aimed at what he characterized as helping the two sides "grope towards unity."

The gathering, held at the Ritz-Carlton residence of Jim Johnson and Maxine Isaacs, was a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee at which former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin was honored. But the guests were well aware of the symbolism as they sipped cocktails and admired the views of the Potomac River and the Washington Monument. The event honoring a prominent Clinton supporter was held at the home of an Obama backer and co-hosted by another, former senator Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.).

"The people there had all picked sides," one attendee said. "There was a sense that there is an obligation to lead by example."

While there was little outright talk of how the primary campaign would end, guests confirmed that DNC Chairman Howard Dean set the tone with a speech in which he emphasized that despite the protracted nomination fight, he is already instituting a plan to combat McCain.

The message was clear, according to one attendee, who said, "You don't go anywhere anymore where there isn't a sense that this is over and this is about how people behave over the next month."

Even with the work in top levels of the party to broker a detente between Obama and Clinton donors, both sides acknowledge there is much still to be done.

Top fundraisers have invested not only their time and money but also their emotions in the primary battle. Major financial backers say the tensions have been particularly acute in recent weeks as frustrations have mounted in both camps.

Aronchick said that in his own discussions, he emphasized the need for the senator from Illinois to stop describing Clinton and her backers as representing the politics of the past.

"They need to understand how corrosive that has been among her supporters," Aronchick said. "For this to work, they need to correct any impression that he thinks we represent the old ways of doing things or Washington Beltway ways of doing things."

One top fundraiser for Obama, a veteran of several presidential campaigns who spoke about the private discussions on the condition of anonymity, said there are sensitivities among many of Obama's supporters, as well. The fundraiser said there is a high level of resentment that Clinton has continued to campaign, even though her chances of securing the nomination are remote. Many are unhappy about the idea of having to make room for members of Clinton's finance team, who had "picked the wrong candidate."

"There are people who are thinking, 'Hey, my guy won. Now I have to share the trophy?' " the Obama fundraiser said. "That's something we have to overcome."

Kirk Dornbush, a member of the Obama national finance team in Georgia, said that while there is no formal effort by the Obama campaign to recruit Clinton counterparts, "many of us have friendships with Clinton donors that predate the 2008 campaign and will last long after this race is over. Given this reality, it should not be surprising that we have received phone calls in the last few weeks" from individuals interested in crossing over.

Another major Obama fundraiser, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said that while no organized recruitment campaign was underway, "we have picked off some local people and are reaching out to the Clinton people we know individually."

That outreach has been complicated by leading voices in the Clinton campaign having made clear that any defection at this point would be regarded as a betrayal of the former first couple. "Some [Clinton] people have said, 'If you publicly defect, that's the end of our relationship,' " said the Obama fundraiser. "Like, if we live to be 170, we're never going to speak to each other again."

Clinton supporters interviewed for this article all said they think that the senator from New York remains a viable candidate. But several also said they see the wisdom of beginning the conversation about fundraising for the general election.

"We're all thinking about November," said Robert Zimmerman, a New York public relations expert who is a top Clinton fundraiser. "We are starting a dialogue together. I've made it clear [Obama backers] will be welcome to come on board. They've said the same to me."

Zimmerman, who is also a Democratic National Committeeman, said Dean has been a central figure in starting to bring the two camps together. Dean is organizing a May 31 fundraiser in Manhattan honoring Al Gore. The event is being chaired by Orin Kramer, one of Obama's top fundraisers, and by Maureen White, a longtime party fundraiser who has been assisting Clinton.

Last week, the Democratic National Committee announced that both campaigns had signed a "joint fundraising agreement" creating a fund in which donations to each candidate could be pooled with contributions to the party and then used during the general election.

Clinton's New England finance chairman, Steve Grossman, is also co-chairing an event with two top New England fundraisers for Obama, Alan Solomont and Barry White. The June 12 event in Boston is in honor of Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry's brother, Cameron Kerry, and will raise money for the National Jewish Democratic Council, but the invitation list includes top bundlers for both Clinton and Obama.

In addition to the fledgling attempts to merge the fundraising operations of Obama and Clinton, there is growing talk that the best -- and perhaps only -- way to truly mend the rift is for Obama to pick a top Clinton surrogate as his vice presidential nominee.

"There's gale-force pressure for Obama to choose a Clinton loyalist as a running mate to heal the party but avoid putting her and her formidable baggage on the ticket," said one Obama ally in Washington. "You hear the names [Ohio Gov. Ted] Strickland, [Indiana Sen. Evan] Bayh, and [retired general] Wes Clark almost constantly, and it's no secret that Jim Johnson and Tom Daschle are purveyors of that wisdom."
Obama, Clinton fundraisers talk merger - Washington Post - MSNBC.com



I think i have said this in many other theads, that they are just blowing there money away fighting eachother that mccain is just sitting back waiting for the opertunist kill]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19855 Politics techtiger> New Rules Please Read 10-14-08 http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19854 Sun, 18 May 2008 13:00:47 GMT
What not to do
Alright to start off i hate dumb ass posts that serve no real purpose and just take up space and a waste of time. so if your going to say something please try to make it at least sound smart.

*** Please read posts from previous pages so you dont just repeat what 30 other people just said***

If you have no idea what the hell your talking about, your should prob. stop talking.

Please no racial slurs, if ya have a problem with a race or what not, fine, but be prepared to back it up. if ya cant then i will ban you!!! (so what it comes down to is i dont want any dumb ass's just running there mouth)*** im going to start inforceing this rule... with the election as is i have been seeing alot of slurs***

OTHER

Alright i think im pretty easy going, so just have some fun post some stuff. Im not going to be a real ass about stuff, i dont care so much about double posts and shit like that (but at least try to just edit), Im not that big on spelling, in case you cant see, i have like the spelling level of like a 3rd grader (but just try to look it up or sound it out or something), If ya have any questions please feel free to ask, i dont bite

*****ALSO*****

I am opeing this forum up to any kind of world or local news you would like to share... i feel that news and politics pretty much go hand in hand.]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19854 Politics techtiger> Penny for a thought http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19845 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:29:46 GMT http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19845 Hacking techtiger> 08 election. http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19844 Fri, 16 May 2008 16:25:03 GMT
Clinton: She just seems weak, not because she is a women but simply because she doesnt realy have any new great ideas, she has proven issues telling the truth (not that all politics dont) but this lady isnt even in the white house yet and she is already lieing threw her teeth about every thing. She is trying to play the race card i think more then anyone else. her biggest campaign right now to try to earn the democrat spot is she keeps saying that she will get the votes of the white people that wont vote for obahma

take a look at this

CBS Exposes Hillary Clinton Lie

Obahama: To start off with, he is kind of just some new guy on the block, he really hasnt done much of anything in the political world, he simply preaches and promises change and order (ahhh whats the differnce in that from ever other person that has ever run?) I beleve he will get shot, im not saying im for it, but lets get realistic here, we have come a long way but we are not ready for a black president. he is a converted muslem, nothing against them and IM NOT TRYING TO GENERALIZE them but that is a huge flaw for many... that and those are the people we are at war with and who want to kill armericans. i think untill things cool down lets try to keep them from running the entire world. but my reason for not likeing him is the man refuses to say, stand, or look at the flag during the pledge of alegence. Look if your going to run this country you should be doing a couple things here and that is on top of the list!!!

Take a look see at this,

Eyeblast.tv - A Video Portrait Of Barack Hussein Obama

Mccain: He seems to be the only decent canadate for the whole thing. Although he was caught up in the scandle back in the day. wich isnt good but now adays who isnt??? he has been around since dirt (as far as the all the canadates go) but whats impressive to me is his POW reputation. how he refused to be released early untill his brethren that were there befor him were released.... i dont care who you are but that ether takes real balls are alot of drugs.

Please see this

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19844 Politics techtiger> 500 year old treasure ship found http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=19700 Fri, 02 May 2008 02:15:28 GMT

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins — and cannons to fend off pirates. But it had nothing to protect it from the fierce weather off a particularly bleak stretch of inhospitable African coast, and it sank 500 years ago. Now it has been found, stumbled upon by De Beers geologists prospecting for diamonds off Namibia. "If you're mining on the coast, sooner or later you'll find a wreck," archaeologist Dieter Noli said in an interview Thursday.

Namdeb Diamond Corp., a joint venture of the government of Namibia and De Beers, first reported the April 1 find in a statement Wednesday, and planned a news conference in the Namibian capital next week.

The company had cleared and drained a stretch of seabed, building an earthen wall to keep the water out so geologists could work. Noli said one of the geologists saw a few ingots, but had no idea what they were. Then the team found what looked like cannon barrels.

The geologists stopped the brutal earth-moving work of searching for diamonds and sent photos to Noli, who had done research in the Namibian desert since the mid-1980s and has advised De Beers since 1996 on the archaeological impact of its operations in Namibia.

The find "was what I'd been waiting for, for 20 years," Noli said. "Understandably, I was pretty excited. I still am."

Noli's original specialty was the desert, but because of Namdeb's offshore explorations, he had been preparing for the possibility of a wreck, even learning to dive.

After the discovery, he brought in Bruno Werz, an expert in the field, to help research the wreck. Noli has studied maritime artifacts with Werz, who was one of his instructors at the University of Cape Town.

Judging from the notables depicted on the hoard of Spanish and Portuguese coins, and the type of cannons and navigational equipment, the ship went down in the late 1400s or early 1500s, around the time Vasco de Gama and Columbus were plying the waters of the New World.

"Based on the goods they were carrying, it's almost certain that it dates from that time," said John Broadwater, chief archaeologist at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"This find is very exciting because very few vessels from that period have been discovered," he said, adding that many early ships were thought to have wrecked in that area.

It was, Noli said, "a period when Africa was just being opened up, when the whole world was being opened up."

He compared the remnants — ingots, ivory, coins, coffin-sized timber fragments — to evidence at a crime scene.

"The surf would have pounded that wreck to smithereens," he said. "It's not like `Pirates of the Caribbean,' with a ship more or less intact."

He and Werz are trying to fit the pieces into a story. They divide their time between inventorying the find in Namibia and doing research in museums and libraries in Cape Town, South Africa, from where Noli spoke by phone Thursday.

Eventually, they will go to Portugal or Spain to search for records of a vessel with similar cargo that went missing.

"You don't turn a skipper loose with a cargo of that value and have no record of it," Noli said.

The wealth on board is intriguing. Noli said the large amount of copper could mean the ship had been sent by a government looking for material to build cannons. Trade in ivory was usually controlled by royal families, another indication the ship was on official business.

On the other hand, why did the captain have so many coins? Shouldn't they have been traded for the ivory and copper?

"Either he did a very, very good deal. Or he was a pirate," Noli said. "I'm convinced we'll find out what the ship was and who the captain was."

What brought the vessel down may remain a mystery. But Noli has theories, noting the stretch of coast was notorious for fierce storms and disorienting fogs.

In later years, sailors with sophisticated navigational tools avoided it. The only tools found on the wreck were astrolabes, which can be used to determine only how far north or south you have sailed.

"Sending a ship toward Africa in that period, that was venture capital in the extreme," Noli said. "These chaps were very much on the edge as far as navigation. It was still very difficult for them to know where they were."

Noli has found signs that worms were at work on the ship's timber, and sheets of lead used to patch holes, indications the ship was old when it went down.

Imagine a leaky, overladen ship caught in a storm. The copper ingots, shaped like sections of a sphere, would have sat snug, he said. But the tusks — some 50 have been found — could have shifted, tipping the ship.

"And down you go," Noli said, "weighed down by your treasure."

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Associated Press Writer Lily Hindy in New York contributed to this report.


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ok here is the question. Hypothetical of coarse. now let's say one steals a car is there any way to register that car leagaly under your name without geting busted? any and all ideas would be great.

so far the only thing i have found is how to do it in Gaza, and i havent a clue where that is.

Now here is idea, if you guys can think of anything wrong with it let me k.
ok step one steal the car
step two go on ebay and find a car close to the same year same make model, that is compleatly fucked up and is ment for a parts car. buy it for like a grand and get that one licenced, that way if you ever get pulled over you have the same car comeing back in the cops computers, and there would be no reason to start looking at vin numbers.....

any other ideas or any flaws would be a great help]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=7985 Hacking techtiger> Novell help http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=7887 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:16:42 GMT any who the computers are useing windows xp pro and i tried the gpedit.mcs but it said it couldnt find it. any helpfull hints???]]> http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=7887 Hacking techtiger> car tracking systems? http://www.anarchistcookbook.com/showthread.php?t=7861 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:10:30 GMT educational purpose only of coarse lol
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