Monday - January 23, 2006
Most Accurate Headline of the day (so far)
US filmmaker Michael Moore weighs in on Canada’s election
“Oh, Canada—you’re not really going to elect a Conservative majority on Monday, are you? That’s a joke, right? I know you have a great sense of humor, ... but this is no longer funny,” Moore complained whined in a commentary on his website.
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Permalink • The Gathering Storm
It looks like stormy weather is moving into South Dakota and the first major skirmish in the war against abortion will begin here. Look for this one to get real nasty. It should hit SCOTUS in about a year and forty-nine other states will be watching. Everybody get out your protective gear. This promises to be a really bad storm ...
South Dalota Legislature To Consider Abortion Ban
(KELO-TV)
In the next six weeks, South Dakota lawmakers will decide whether to make abortion a crime. A bill that would ban abortion in the state will be introduced within the next two days. The bill will be called the Woman’s Health and Life Protection Act. It will ban abortion, but won’t prosecute a doctor who performs one to save a woman’s life. And the lawmaker who’s introducing the bill says he thinks now is the right time to try and over-turn Roe vs Wade.
Rep. Roger Hunt says, “Abortion should be banned.” Those four words will likely lead to many others in the South Dakota House and Senate as lawmakers will decide whether to criminalize abortion in the state. The bill’s supporters are using findings from a controversial abortion task force report recently given to the legislature. Hunt says, “DNA testing now can establish the unborn child has a separate and distinct personality from the mother. We know a lot more about post-abortion harm to the mother.”
The legislature debated a similar bill two years ago, but Governor Mike Rounds vetoed it because of concerns over some technicalities. Hunt says, “We have made those corrections to the bill.” Sunday, Hunt and other anti-abortion advocates held an event promoting their legislation. They say now is the time to pass it, because other states are considering similar bills and because with new Chief Justice John Roberts, and possibly Samuel Alito, the US Supreme Court is changing.
Hunt says, “Two very solid, we feel, pro-life candidates. Again you never know but based on their testimony to the senate we feel they’re good candidates.” Hunt says he thinks enough other lawmakers support the bill for it to pass, but he still thinks the decision will be a close one. He says, “I learned a long time ago the only time you really count the votes is when you’re taking the votes.”
Hunt will also introduce two other bills this week. One is meant to ensure doctors explain the risks of an abortion to a woman is writing. The other deals with sex education and says school districts need to include principles in their curriculums dealing with abstinence and personal responsibilities.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)
Thousands of abortion opponents massed outside Minnesota’s Capitol on Sunday in one of several protests nationwide on the 33rd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling, amid heightened hopes and fears over what a new face on the Supreme Court will mean for the decision establishing abortion rights.
A crowd of sign-wavers clad in parkas, winter boots and collars turned up against a cutting wind to call for a ban on public funding of abortion. “We must stop abortion in our state,” said Scott Fischbach, head of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life. “Things are changing in this country.” Many abortion opponents said they were heartened by President Bush’s choice of Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a moderate who was often the court’s swing vote.
Alito, who appears to have solid support from the Senate’s Republican majority, refused during his confirmation hearings to agree with assertions by Democrats that Roe v. Wade was “settled law,” upsetting supporters of abortion rights and heartening opponents. “We have a dream today that someday soon this will not be an anniversary of sadness, but an anniversary of justice restored,” said Minnesota’s Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
In San Francisco, thousands of abortion opponents shouldering signs with slogans such as “Peace Begins in the Womb” marched Saturday, while abortion rights supporters along the march route waved clothes hangers and shouted “Bigots go home.” “Abortion rights have been slowly whittled away while we haven’t even been looking,” said Kitty Striker, 22, who decorated her hair with small coat hanger replicas for the counter-protest. “That’s what’s so shocking and so scary to me.”
In Idaho, nearly 400 abortion protesters marched at the Statehouse Saturday, including Reid Richardson and his 5-year-old stepdaughter, Allie Zebley, who carried sign with her ultrasound photo and the words, “This is me at 16 weeks.” About half that number gathered Sunday outside the Idaho Capitol in support of abortion rights. “When American women are barred from accessing health services at the whim of a politician’s religious beliefs, we are not in a democracy at all,” said Bree Herndon-Michael, a member of the Idaho Women’s Network.
The largest abortion demonstration was expected Monday in Washington, D.C., where anti-abortion activists planned to converge on the mall to hear speakers supporting their cause and march on the Congress and Supreme Court. Many who support abortion rights held a candlelight vigil in front of the Supreme Court Sunday night, waving signs that read: “Alito-No Justice For Women,” and “Keep Abortion Legal.”
The nation’s high court made abortion legal on Jan. 22, 1973. But efforts to restrict or outlaw the procedure have been just as enduring; 34 states have passed laws requiring parents either to be notified or to give consent when their underage daughters seek abortions. This year, abortion foes in Minnesota will try to encourage the Legislature to ban public funding of abortions for Medicaid recipients, which has been required since a 1995 state Supreme Court decision. They are also campaigning against the re-election of a justice who supported the decision.
In Michigan, a group of ministry leaders used the anniversary to launch a new anti-abortion organization, Michigan Chooses Life. One goal is to support efforts to get a measure on the 2006 ballot that would change the state constitution to legally define a person as existing at the moment of conception. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has said that even if the measure does succeed, it will be challenged in court.
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Gary Varvel—The Indianapolis Star-News
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Permalink • Sunday - January 22, 2006
A Floating Woody?
Can you think of a better way to spend a sunny Sunday in Venice than driving around the canals of Venice in a wooden car you carved yourself?
(-- thanks to Rancino who really needs to tell me where he got these pictures!)
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Permalink • The Andromeda Strain
Overheard in the background:
“Go ahead. open it.”
“No, you open it.”
“Please, you deserve the honor.”
“After you, I insist.”
“No, really. Help yourself.”
“Look, asshole. Open it.”
“No. No. You can’t make me.”
“Yes I can. Now open it.”
“PLEASE! I don’t want to die!”
“OPEN IT!”
… scritch ... scritch ... scritch ...
“ARRRRGH ... GURGLE ... GURG ...”
… silence ...
“Well now. There’s something you don’t see every day.”
Space Probe Carrying Comet Dust Headed For Houston
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah (CBS)
Next stop for a space capsule that returned to Earth with the first dust ever fetched from a comet is a laboratory in Houston where its sealed canister is to be unlocked later this week. After a seven-year journey, the NASA space capsule landed safely Sunday at Dugway Proving Ground with tiny particles that scientists hope will yield clues to how the solar system formed. The capsule’s blazing plunge through the atmosphere lit up parts of the Western sky.
The cosmic samples were gathered as the Stardust spacecraft swooped past a comet known as Wild 2 in 2004. The spacecraft, which was launched in 1999, used a tennis racket-sized collector mitt to snatch the dust and store the particles in an aluminum canister. Workers in white protective suits spent Sunday cleaning the capsule and its canister of dust. Scientists will unlock its canister later this week at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. After a preliminary examination, they hope to ship the particles to laboratories all over the world for further study to analyze their composition.
About a million comet and interstellar dust particles _ most smaller than the width of a human hair _ are believed to be inside the canister. They are thought to be pristine leftovers from the birth of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. Some samples could be even older than the sun. “Inside this thing is our treasure,’’ said principal mission scientist Don Brownlee of the University of Washington.
The first parachute unfurled at 100,000 feet, followed by a larger chute, which guided the capsule to a 10-mph landing. There was a tense moment in mission control when engineers could not immediately confirm the first parachute had opened. Before coming to rest on its side, the capsule bounced three times but didn’t crack, said Joe Vellinga of Lockheed Martin, who helped lead the recovery.
The Stardust mothership remains in orbit around the sun and NASA is considering sending it to another comet or asteroid to snap photos. There won’t be another chance for a sample return, however, because the craft carried only one capsule. Stardust and Genesis were the first robotic retrievals of extraterrestrial material since the unmanned Soviet Luna 24 in 1976, which brought back lunar rocks and soil.
The Stardust spacecraft has traveled nearly 3 billion miles, including three loops around the sun. In 2004, it survived its hazardous trip through the Wild 2 comet’s coma, a fuzzy halo of gas and dust, to snatch the cosmic dust. Along the way, it also scooped up interstellar dust _ tiny particles thought to have been thrown out by stars that long ago exploded and died. Six months ago, NASA sent the Deep Impact probe into the path of another comet. The probe’s high-speed collision with comet Tempel 1 set off a celestial fireworks display and bared the comet’s primordial interior.
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Permalink • Gadget Du Jour
This ought to sell well with the envirowhacko crowd. (1) It is cheap, (2) it gets 330 mpg and most importantly (3) it’s ugly as sin. Look for all the tree-huggers to replace their Prius, Kia or Pinto with one of these smug little beasts any day now.
“A 330 mpg Car For Everyone”
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That’s the slogan of startup Accelerated Composites, LLC. The company announced Thursday that development of its two-seater Aptera hybrid has begun. As you might guess from the company’s name, the use of composite materials plays a major role in the car’s design. Claiming to have developed a proprietary composite construction technique (called Panelized Automated Composite Construction) that significantly lowers costs, the company plans to price the Aptera under $20,000.
The diesel/electric hybrid pairs a 12 hp diesel engine with a 25 hp electric motor, with power storage in a bank of supercapacitors. With a weight of only 850 lbs, the powertrain is good for a 0-60 time of about 11 seconds, and a top speed of 95 mph (electronically limited). Construction has begun for the first prototype. And yes, fuel consumption is estimated to be 330 mpg at 65 mph.
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Permalink • Mystery Girl
Who Am I?
I was born in Sweden.
I arrived in Hollywood in 1956.
I played in over 60 films.
One of my first movie roles was in the last film
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made together.
I also starred in other films with Bob Hope, Henry Fonda,
Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Lauren Bacall and Abbott & Costello.
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Permalink • IS THE BLACK HELICOPTER CROWD FOR YOU?
This Fitness Exam should tell the tale.
INSTRUCTIONS: In the following multiple-choice questions, select the answers that most logically explain the questions.
If the questions refer to incidents or things you never heard of, blame this on the conspirators who skimped your education, NOT the conspirators who created this examination!
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Permalink • Blog Bulletin
- UPGRADE NOTES: A minor upgrade was installed a few minutes ago. The pMachine blog software was upgraded to version 1.4.1. There is a new feature in this release. It is a new module called ”IP To Nation”. Simply put, the blog software reads your IP address from your browser and translates that to a country code. I have modified the templates to automatically display the flag of the country where you are browsing from in posts and comments. This should make Bulldog happy.
- ANONYMOUS USER: I have also opened up the commenting process by allowing the “guest” user account to post in the comments as well as the forums. If you do not want to register and become a member, simply login with username ”guest” and password ”bmewsguest” (your screen name will be displayed as ”Anonymous”). I realize this may open the door for a few trolls but we probably need a little excitement around here. OldCatMan is getting bored. Be aware that if the guest login becomes too much of a nuisance, it will be removed.
- REGISTRATION: I have also noticed that several new members register but never complete the registration process. When you register to become a member, an e-mail is sent to the address you supplied during the registration process. If you supply a bogus e-mail or you do not reply to the confirmation e-mail sent out to you then your registration will never be completed and you will not be able to join in the fun here.
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Permalink • Saturday - January 21, 2006
Schrödinger’s Cat
It seems someone let Schrödinger’s cat out of the bag, so to speak. Now we have quantum computer chips with suspended ions, qubits, electrodes, lasers and tiny electromagnetic fields. The ions exist , along with Schrödinger’s cat, in a mysterious state of “impossibleness” (quantum indeterminacy) and help the chip understand not only ones and zeros but bajillions of numbers in between so the answer can be not only “yes” or “no” but can be “maybe” or even “why are you asking, stupid human”!
Key quote below: “a traditional computer would do everything in series, meaning multiply one by one, but a quantum computer has already calculated all the answers”. Conspiracy theorists, terrorists and Democrats take note: NSA is already using these chips. Now they can tap your phone calls before you ever make the call. Bwah-hah-hah-ha-ha-ha-ha ....
Coming Attraction: Be sure to tune in tomorrow morning when OldCatMan wakes up, reads this post and Oink tries to explain Schrödinger’s Cat to him. Come and watch as OCM’s head explodes. Now that’s entertainment!
(TG DAILY)
It’s much too early for AMD or Intel to start looking over their shoulder, but the University of Michigan has developed a quantum chip that contains one cadmium ion. The ion, which is suspended in electrical fields, can exist in many possible states which collapse into one when viewed by an outsider. Quantum computing has been touted as great leap in computing, but still faces many challenges.
Composed of gallium arsenide, the quantum chip was made with the same microlithography process that many modern processors are made of. Miniature lasers blast the trapped ion giving it various “spin” states. Ions must be protected from the environment to prevent “decoherence” a process where the ion’s data is corrupted by the surrounding environment.
“We levitate the atom in the chip by applying certain electrical signals to the tiny nearby electrodes,” explained Professor Christopher Monroe, University of Michigan Physics professor and co-inventor of the chip. While other researchers use neutral atoms, Monroe’s chip traps ions - atoms with missing or extra electrons - on his chip.
Ions being unstable, require extra radio-frequency waves to hold in place. This instability is actually a blessing because the ion trap can be scaled up to hold many ions. In contrast, stable neutral atoms can be held solely by magnetic fields, but researchers are having a tough time getting separate atoms to interact. Unlike regular processors which only recognize 1s and 0s, quantum computers use qubits. These qubits can be 1, 0 or anything in between. The correct value is shown only when the chip checks the ion.
Scalability is key to producing a viable quantum computer because one qubit doesn’t do any good - but a series of them can allow for much faster computers, especially with equations involving factoring. A traditional computer would do everything in series, meaning multiply one by one, but a quantum computer has already calculated all the answers. The difficulty is getting and identifying the correct one.
Future quantum computers won’t necessarily supplant traditional processors from the likes of AMD or Intel. Quantum computers can excel in computations involving waveform analysis or cryptography or anything where you must reduce a large set of data to find an answer, but don’t do as well with Microsoft Word or checking email. In addition, new formulas must be made to deal with the self-collapsing nature of these computers.
The ordering and construction of equations can collapse all the qubits, which effectively nullifies original purpose of a quantum computer, namely to store many states at once. In addition, error correction is tricky business because any measurement causes changes in the system - Checking for errors can cause errors.
In addition to solving specialized equations, quantum computing could offer tremendous storage. Assuming researchers get past the decoherence problem; each additional qubit doubles your storage capacity. Two qubits can store 4 regular bits of data, while three can store 8 bits. While those numbers may not look exciting, 1024 regular bits can be stored with just ten qubits and the sky is the limit after that.
A few firms and government agencies are using quantum technology already to transfer data over encrypted fiber optic links. Research is being funded by several agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency. The one ion chip is only the first step for the University of Michigan researchers and Monroe says that the chip could be scaled up to include “hundreds of thousands of electrodes.”
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Permalink • Home Alone
Quick! Think of at least three good reasons why you might leave your three under-four-year-old children alone at home for hours. So you could take a trip to Vegas as one couple did last week? How about so you could attend a John Kerry campaign rally? C’mon, is there ever a really good reason why you’d want to desert the kids and leave them to fend for themselves? One woman thinks so and it involves a must-see TV show ....
Mom Left Children Alone for Springer Show
January 21, 2006, 10:16 AM EST
WHEATON, Ill. (AP)
A woman got a 30-day jail sentence for leaving her three young children home alone for several hours while she and her boyfriend attended a videotaping of “The Jerry Springer Show.” Shannon Cook, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this week to misdemeanor child endangerment. She also was placed on probation for a year. “It was an appropriate sentence, given what she did,” said DuPage County Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Ruggiero. The two girls and one boy, all under the age of 4, have been placed in foster homes by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
Police said Cook left the children alone at a suburban home Oct. 19 while she and her boyfriend went to Chicago for the taping. About five hours later, the two oldest knocked on the door of a neighbor, who called police. Cook was arrested when she returned home after midnight. According to a police report, she said: “I didn’t think I’d be gone that long.”
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Permalink • Obituary
Rest In Peace
LONDON (BBC)
A whale that became stranded in the River Thames has died after a massive rescue attempt to save its life. The 18ft (5m) northern bottle-nosed whale was first spotted in the river on Friday and rescuers began an attempt to save it on Saturday morning. But the whale died at about 1900 GMT on Saturday as rescuers transported it on a barge towards deeper water in the Thames Estuary.
It was moved after being placed in a special pontoon near Battersea Bridge. Alan Knight, from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), which is led the rescue operation said the animal died after it began to convulse while it was still on the barge. “It has been a helter skelter ride all the way through. It is a sad end to a very long day. “Basically this is probably the right thing to happen in the end.
“If it had continued in this way we certainly wouldn’t have released it. Perhaps this has saved that very difficult decision.” Earlier, close to Battersea Bridge, thousands of onlookers applauded as rescuers placed the whale on to a pontoon to move it from shallow water. It was winched on to the Port of London Authority barge where it was laid on an inflatable raft functioning as a “makeshift whale mattress”.
As the whale was carried upstream towards the estuary a vet administered antibiotics. Earlier, naturalist and television presenter, Terry Nutkins, said the rescue operation was the wrong thing to do and that the animal needed space. However, he concluded he had “no doubts” the rescue operation had been the best way to try to save the whale.
“We had to do it,” he told BBC News. “You can’t leave a whale stranded in the Thames and we did the best we could.” The whale, which could weigh about four tonnes, was first spotted at on Friday morning by a man on a train and has since attracted massive public and media attention. There were reports of a pod of whales in the Thames estuary earlier in the week, and it was possible that the whale had become separated from this group. It was the first sighting of the endangered species in the Thames since records began nearly a century ago. There was also an unconfirmed sighting of a whale in Southend in Essex on Friday.
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Permalink • Weekend Project
What to do on another boring Saturday? The laundry? (naw, clothes haven’t started smelling too bad yet) Housecleaning? (fuggedaboutit, so what if the bathroom looks like the Okeefenokee swamp) Wash the Jeep? (naw, it looks good in mud) Read a book? (nope, too burned out on words this week) Clean some of my firearms? (already done that - twice this week) Blog some more crap? (naw, nobody reads the Pulitzer Prize material on this blog over the weekend) Well then, what shall The Skipper do? Hmmmmmmmm ...... AHA! I know ....
Now you’re talking! I ordered this kit from Mr. Beer a few weeks ago in a moment of inspiration. I also included in the order the makings for St. Patrick’s Irish Stout. This sounds easy. Mix booster (maltodextrins mix) with water, bring to boil, mix with base mixture (liquid barley, hops, etc. from New Zealand), pour mix into keg, sprinkle in yeast, shake gently, let sit for one week to ferment, pour out into bottles, add one teaspoon sugar to start carbonation process, wait another week ... get totally snockered when I find out the alcohol content is close to 40% because I added too much sugar. HOT-DAMN! Now you’re talking.
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