The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 05:06 PM

"If I had to do it all over again, I'd just let it rip," Mr. Gore told the group of 60 supporters at a breakfast speech this morning, according to a Gore aide who attended the private session. "To hell with the polls, the tactics, and all the rest. I would have poured out my heart and my vision for America's future."

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 10:49 AM

The administration wants to reduce the payments from the fund by covering fewer sites. To do that it would shift the costs of further work to the government's general accounts, paid for by all taxpayers. Congressional critics have said this amounts to abandoning the precept that "the polluter pays," on which the Superfund program was founded.

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 10:43 AM

Reports on the number of people killed or hurt ranged widely and could not immediately be confirmed. All a U.S. military spokesman acknowledged was that four civilian casualties had been airlifted to hospital. A provincial spokesman said about 40 people were killed and 70 others were hurt.

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 10:41 AM

The invention inserts what the inventors call a mood analyzer into the system. It gathers information from the way callers answer voice prompts or use the touch-tone buttons when asked for information like an account number, reservation code or customer number. For systems using voice, a speech-recognition program would scan for voices full of stress or annoyance. It would listen for rapid speech, stuttering or other patterns that might indicate anger. It would also compare a caller's vocabulary against a list of keywords, looking for mood giveaways.

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 10:37 AM

Since drawing software typically has a purely graphical user interface, blind users have had only limited success in using this software. This is due to the difficulty which users have with data input (e.g., using a mouse) and the inability of traditional drawing software to translate graphical data output in a way that screen access programs can interpret.

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 05:31 AM

Mike Batt, the man behind the Wombles and Vanessa Mae, has put a silent 60-second track on the album of his latest classical chart-topping proteges, the Planets. This has enraged representatives of the avant-garde, experimentalist composer John Cage, who died in 1992. The silence on his group's album clearly sounds uncannily like 4'33", the silence composed by Cage in his prime.

Posted by GeeTee at July 01, 2002 05:19 AM