Democracy don't rule the world,
You'd better get that in your head.
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that's better left unsaid.
From Broadway to the Milky Way,
That's a lot of territory indeed
And a man's gonna do what he has to do
When he's got a hungry mouth to feed.

Well, it's sundown on the union
And what's made in the U.S.A.
Sure was a good idea
'Til greed got in the way.

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 02, 2002 05:18 PM

For $48, plus shipping and handling, you can name a star, that's right, an actual star!

Posted by GeeTee at August 02, 2002 04:28 PM

...the integral element rests with the opportunity to print raised images from specially-formatted files.

Posted by GeeTee at August 02, 2002 04:00 PM

"Everybody wants to see some accountability for the stuff that's been going on, and we finally saw some people being taken away in cuffs."

Posted by GeeTee at August 02, 2002 03:52 PM

Tokhtakhounov "arranged a classic quid pro quo: 'You'll line up support for the Russian pair, we'll line up support for the French pair, and everybody will go away with the gold, and perhaps they'll be a little gold for me,'" U.S. attorney James Comey said Wednesday.

Posted by GeeTee at August 02, 2002 03:06 PM

People complain about political gridlock in Washington, D.C., but on this point there was refreshing bipartisan support. None of the beneficiaries of Adelphia's erstwhile generosity -- Democratic or Republican -- have shown the slightest urge to give any money back. Not the Republican National Committee, which received at least $41,500 from Adelphia, according to opensecrets.org. Not the Democratic National Committee, which got $12,500. Not the National Republican Congressional Committee, which got $25,000, and whose spokesman audibly snickered at our political naivete. Not U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, the Pennsylvania Republican whose "Victory Committee" received $10,000 from Adelphia in September 2000.

Posted by GeeTee at August 02, 2002 02:56 PM

Those subjects came to the fore after Eliot L. Spitzer, the New York State attorney general, released e-mail messages written by Henry Blodget and other Internet stock analysts at Merrill Lynch. The messages appeared to catch the analysts exchanging negative views about companies whose stocks they were recommending to investors. They described companies in disparaging terms, like a "piece of junk."

Posted by GeeTee at August 02, 2002 02:46 PM

Purdy had been using domain names such as mycocacola.com and mymcdonalds.com at which Web viewers were redirected to Purdy's Web site, which spoke against abortions and included graphic pictures of aborted fetuses.

Posted by GeeTee at August 02, 2002 02:43 PM

In the case of mine clean-ups, the policy is quite clear: "the polluter pays" — not the federal government.

Posted by GeeTee at August 02, 2002 02:36 PM

Maria Suarez, a Southern California woman who has served two decades behind bars for the murder of the man who bought her as a sex slave when she was 16, has been denied parole by Gov. Gray Davis.

Davis' action Thursday was the seventh time he has reversed his own parole board's recommendations of freedom for battered women who killed their abusers.
Twice he has sided with the board.
In May, the Board of Prison Terms concluded that Suarez posed little danger to the public and was suitable for parole.

Posted by GeeTee at August 02, 2002 02:28 PM

Perhaps most fundamentally, new buildings would be subject to a spectrum of enhanced structural and safety requirements. Existing codes require that certain new high-rises be able to sustain the collapse of three floors without falling down completely, city building officials said. They are considering an expansion of that requirement to cover more buildings and the potential for destruction of more than three floors, as might be expected in a terrorist attack.

One novel measure would force all high-rise developers to create "refuges" in elevator vestibules where people trapped in a fire could safely congregate and await rescue. The measure would rely on fireproof walls and doors.

Posted by GeeTee at August 02, 2002 02:24 PM

Blue States - Nothing Changes Under the Sun CD

Track 4. Stereo 99

Good programming music... put on the head phones, fire up the c++ compiler, and create smooth code. Coding: Start with a blank file, and type code, get lost, let the functions, objects push and bulge and try to take on a form of their own, but never lose control and end up with a sculpture with lots of secrets and subtle flaws.

I gotta go, I am going to code up a dolphin motif backyard lawn fountain today (imagine Daryl Hannah making dolphin sounds in the movie Splash).

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 02, 2002 08:11 AM