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Bayle, Enlightenment, Toleration and Modern Western Society - 21 years ago
"Orthodoxy means not thinking -- not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness" - George Orwell, 1984 Bayle, Enlightenment, Toleration and Modern Western Society By Jonathan Israel (11 december, 2004) Suddenly, the Netherlands is in uproar – culturally, politically, socially. Since the killing of Theo van Gogh, one finds deep shock and abundant signs of distress on aby archive - Archive
Hail to the Robber Baron? (The Modern MBAs)- By Yoshi Tsurumi - 21 years ago
Hail to the Robber Baron? By Yoshi Tsurumi Source 04/07/05 "Harvard Crimson" - - Thirty years ago, President Bush was my student at Harvard Business School. In my class, he called former president Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, a “socialist” and spoke against Social Security, unemployment insurance, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other New Deal innovationsby archive - Archive
Personal John Bolton story - By Melody Townsel - 21 years ago
Horrifying, personal John Bolton story By amyindallas Fri Apr 15th, 2005 at 07:15:42 PDT Source My best friend since college, Melody Townsel, was stationed in Kyrgyzstan on a US AID project. During her stay there, she became embroiled in a controversy in which the oh-so-diplomatic John Bolton was a key player. She described the incident in a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee membby archive - Archive
US Military Report: Bush’s Achilles’ Heel - 21 years ago
US Military Report: Bush’s Achilles’ Heel Source The Bush Butcher’s Bill: Officially, 84 US Military Deaths in Iraq from 2 through 28 May, 2005 – Official Total of 1,747 US Dead to date (and rising) U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals have not previously been counted. They total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005. The ongoing, underreporting ofby archive - Archive
Iraq: The New Heroin Route - 21 years ago
Iraq: The New Heroin Route By Arnaud Aubron Libération Source Friday 13 May 2005 Opiates - and cannabis - produced in Afghanistan transit through Iraq before being distributed in Europe. Their consumption is growing in Baghdad and elsewhere. Repeat yet again. Although Washington took the lead thirty years ago in the global anti-drug war, narcotics seem to stubbornlyby archive - Archive
US lowers standards in army numbers crisis - 21 years ago
US lowers standards in army numbers crisis Jamie Wilson in Washington Saturday June 4, 2005 The Guardian Source The US military has stopped battalion commanders from dismissing new recruits for drug abuse, alcohol, poor fitness and pregnancy in an attempt to halt the rising attrition rate in an army under growing strain as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. An internal memo sent toby archive - Archive
Toxins may pass down generations (POP's) - 21 years ago
Toxins may pass down generations BBC News Friday, 3 June, 2005 Source Toxic chemicals that poisoned your great-grandparents may also damage your health, US research suggests. A team from Washington State University has produced evidence that some inherited diseases may be caused by poisons polluting the womb. Research on rats indicates man-made environmental toxins may alter genetic activity,by archive - Archive
The machine that can copy anything - 21 years ago
The machine that can copy anything By Simon Hooper for CNN Thursday, June 2, 2005 Posted: 10:48 AM EDT (1448 GMT) Source LONDON, England (CNN) -- A revolutionary machine that can copy itself and manufacture everyday objects quickly and cheaply could transform industry in the developing world, according to its creator. The "self-replicating rapid prototyper," or "RepRap" isby archive - Archive
The Most Powerful Labor Union in the World: Linux? - 21 years ago
The Most Powerful Labor Union in the World: Linux? By Rob Enderle TechNewsWorld 05/30/05 5:10 AM PT Source This is power that Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and many governments could only dream of having. The power to control the press and the skills contained in this organization are likely capable of disrupting travel, power grids and other broad national infrastructure systems if their demands areby archive - Archive
Euro report whips up German storm (Euro doomed?) - 21 years ago
Euro report whips up German storm Wednesday, 1 June, 2005 BBC News Source A political storm has broken out in Germany over reports that the government may be distancing itself from the European single currency. Stern magazine said that Finance Minister Hans Eichel had been present at a meeting where the "collapse" of monetary union was discussed. The government is planning to blameby archive - Archive
From My Lai to Abu Ghraib - Interview with Seymour M Hersh - 21 years ago
From My Lai to Abu Ghraib Interview with Seymour M Hersh 4 June 2005 Source The US’s foremost investigative journalist, Seymour M Hersh, spoke to Andrew Burgin of the Stop the War Coalition and Matthew Cookson from Socialist Worker about George Bush, US foreign policy and the “war on terror” In 1968 you exposed the US massacre at My Lai in Vietnam. Last year you exposed the torture of Iraqi prby archive - Archive
Toyota aims to sell service robots by 2010-Asahi - 21 years ago
Toyota aims to sell service robots by 2010-Asahi Source TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp. aims to start selling robots that can help look after elderly people or serve tea to guests by 2010, the Asahi daily reported on Tuesday. Japan's top automaker sees a declining birthrate and aging population leading to growing demand for robots that can help in tasks such as child care and nursingby archive - Archive
Industry chiefs' environment plea - 21 years ago
Industry chiefs' environment plea By Roger Harrabin BBC Environment Correspondent Friday, 27 May, 2005 Source A group of Britain's leading industrialists has written to the prime minister urgently demanding long-term policies to combat climate change. The heads of the 12 leading firms say climate change is a huge challenge that needs serious investment by business. But they say theby archive - Archive
Running Out of Bubbles - By Paul Krugman - 21 years ago
Running Out of Bubbles By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: May 27, 2005 Source Remember the stock market bubble? With everything that's happened since 2000, it feels like ancient history. But a few pessimists, notably Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley, argue that we have not yet paid the price for our past excesses. I've never fully accepted that view. But looking at the housing market, I'by archive - Archive
Is the enterprise software licensing business dying? - 21 years ago
Is the enterprise software licensing business dying? By Andy Singleton 2005.05.18 Source Is the enterprise software business dying? Is anybody out there buying new licenses? Based on news from the past few weeks, it seems that there are very few buyers. The collapse of new licensing revenue isn't news -- it started five years ago -- but the latest news makes it look like a permanent and acby archive - Archive
An Ominous Parallel - by Dr. Kurt Richebächer - 21 years ago
The Daily Reckoning London, England Thursday, May 26, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The air of general unconcern over the current state of the U.S. economy is mystifying - especially with the unstable housing market and sky-high consumer debts. Dr. Richebächer explores... AN OMINOUS PARALLEL by Dr. Kurt Richebächer It can no longer be doubted that the world economy is heading into a neby archive - Archive
The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea - 21 years ago
The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea Unlimited energy. Fast-growing fruit. Free air-conditioning. John Piña Craven says we can have it all by tapping the icy waters of the deep. By Carl Hoffman Issue 13.06 - June 2005 Source Halfway through an important lunch meeting in Kona, Hawaii, with the lieutenant governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, John Piña Craven is suddenly restless. Theby archive - Archive
Nokia announces patent support to the Linux Kernel - 21 years ago
Nokia announces patent support to the Linux Kernel May 25, 2005 Nokia press Source Espoo, Finland - Nokia Corporation announced today that it allows all its patents to be used in the further development of the Linux Kernel. Nokia believes that open source software communities, like open standards, foster innovation and make an important contribution to the creation and rapid adaptation of technby archive - Archive
OASIS Approves OpenOffice 2.0 File Format - 21 years ago
OASIS Approves OpenOffice 2.0 File Format May 23, 2005 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Source OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, announced on Monday that it has approved the Open Document Format for Office Applications Version 1.0 as a standard. OpenDocument (Open Document Format for Office Applications) is the new default XML-based file format for the forthcoming open-souby archive - Archive
Beyond Relational Databases - 21 years ago
Beyond Relational Databases From Databases Vol. 3, No. 3 - April 2005 by MARGO SELTZER, SLEEPYCAT Source There is more to data access than SQL. History of Relational Databases The number and variety of computing devices in the environment are increasing rapidly. Real computers are no longer tethered to desktops or locked in server rooms. PDAs, highly mobile tablet and laptop devices, paby archive - Archive
Hacker Hunters - 21 years ago
Hacker Hunters By Brian Grow, with Jason Bush in Moscow MAY 30, 2005 Edition Preference BusinessWeek Source An elite force takes on the dark side of computing In an unmarked building in downtown Washington, Brian K. Nagel and 15 other Secret Service agents manned a high-tech command center, poised for the largest-ever roundup of a cybercrime gang. A huge map of the U.S., spread across 12 digitby archive - Archive
When fed to rats it (GM food) affected their kidneys and blood counts - 21 years ago
When fed to rats it affected their kidneys and blood counts. So what might it do to humans? We think you should be told The secret research we reveal today raises the potential health risks of genetically modified foods. Here, environment editor Geoffrey Lean, who has led this paper's campaign on GM technology for the past six years, examines the new evidence. And he asks the questions thby archive - Archive
Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food - 21 years ago
Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food Rats fed GM corn due for sale in Britain developed abnormalities in blood and kidneys By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Source 22 May 2005 Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed abnormalities to internal organs and changes to their blood, raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food. The Inby archive - Archive
Ritter, former U. N. weapons inspector, shares his views on Iran's nuclear capab - 21 years ago
Ritter, former U. N. weapons inspector, shares his views on Iran's nuclear capabilities By Tyler Wasson, Reporter May 18, 2005 Source Scott Ritter, a former U. N. weapons inspector spoke to a sold-out crowd last Thursday evening at Spokane’s Metropolitan Opera House. The event was co-sponsored by the Spokane group the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane (P.J.A.L.S.). A critic of thby archive - Archive
Particle Accelerator Used to Decipher Text (Archimedes) - 21 years ago
Particle Accelerator Used to Decipher Text By ALEX DOMINGUEZ Associated Press Writer May 21, 2005, 4:30 PM EDT Source BALTIMORE -- A particle accelerator is being used to reveal the long-lost writings of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, work hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote over it in the Middle Ages. Highly focused X-rays produced at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centby archive - Archive
Iraq is a bloody no man's land - 21 years ago
“The greatest failure of the US in Iraq is not that mistakes were made but that its political system has proved incapable of redressing them.” -- Patrick Cockburn Iraq is a bloody no man's land. America has failed to win the war. But has it lost it? Ten US troops were killed in action across Iraq last week. The fighting is now sustained and ferocious. Patrick Cockburn, winner of the Marthby archive - Archive
The Rise of Red Capitalism - by Jim Rogers - 21 years ago
The Daily Reckoning London, England Wednesday, May 18, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: China is in the process of moving from tyranny to democracy - and many are worried about the chaos that may ensue during that change. Jim Rogers explores... THE RISE OF RED CAPITLAISM by Jim Rogers In 1999, when I was in China, the then prime minister, Zhu Rongji, spoke at the Harvard Business School.by archive - Archive
Privacy vs. openness: A data dilemma in U.S. - 21 years ago
Privacy vs. openness: A data dilemma in U.S. By Tom Zeller Jr. The New York Times WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2005 Source BALTIMORE Ted Stevens wanted to know just how much the Internet has turned private lives into open books. So the U.S. senator, a Republican from Alaska and the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, instructed his staff to steal his identity. "I regret to say they were sucby archive - Archive
EU seeks 'legally clever' patent definition - 21 years ago
EU seeks 'legally clever' patent definition By Ingrid Marson, Special to ZDNet 18 May 2005 Source The European Parliament (EP) has enlisted the help of intellectual property lawyers to amend the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions so that companies are prevented from patenting pure software. The draft software patent directive was adopted in March, despby archive - Archive
The Intensifying Global Struggle for Energy - 21 years ago
Published on Monday, May 9, 2005 by TomDispatch.com The Intensifying Global Struggle for Energy by Michael T. Klare source From Washington to New Delhi, Caracas to Moscow and Beijing, national leaders and corporate executives are stepping up their efforts to gain control over major sources of oil and natural gas as the global struggle for energy intensifies. Never has the competitive pursuitby archive - Archive