>> ^quantumushroom:
You should tell the doctors and scientists at Johns Hopkins why their numbers are wrong. I'm sure they can learn a lot about epidemiology from you and and your intelligent feedback.
Speaking of bullshit numbers, you're supposed to be scared about warm weather and give up what's left of your freedom based on hopelessly inaccurate computer models of weather patterns.
Meanwhile, why don't you libs get a petition together to let the Iraqis know how much you wish they could live under Saddam's and his sons' bootheels again.



There are ethnic mafias going around mass-murdering people and you only want to talk about the small percentage of the casualties that are named in the records?

You should tell the doctors and scientists at Johns Hopkins why their numbers are wrong. I'm sure they can learn a lot about epidemiology from you and and your intelligent feedback.

Speaking of bullshit numbers, you're supposed to be scared about warm weather and give up what's left of your freedom based on hopelessly inaccurate computer models of weather patterns.

Meanwhile, why don't you libs get a petition together to let the Iraqis know how much you wish they could live under Saddam's and his sons' bootheels again.

>> ^quantumushroom:
and this "one million" number is questionable at best and a lie at worst.


You should tell the doctors and scientists at Johns Hopkins why their numbers are wrong. I'm sure they can learn a lot about epidemiology from you and and your intelligent feedback.

my hero!
In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
I loved Brian Cox in "Rob Roy" and his Hannibal Lecktor was very subtly portrayed and a lot scarier than the later one by Anthony Hopkins.

>> ^therealblankman:
> I loved Brian Cox in "Rob Roy" and his Hannibal Lecktor was very subtly portrayed and a lot scarier than the later one by Anthony Hopkins.

don't even get me started, dude. Adaptation? handpicked by McKee to play himself?

>> ^deathcow:
Any black hole we create in a laboratory will be so small that it evaporates in nanoseconds.

absolutely! unless we're wrong, of course. in which case, we'd never even realize it anyway. much better than if we had been equally wrong about the first nuclear detonation, and torching a hole in our atmosphere.
so, yeah. i'll take that bet. light 'em up.

I loved Brian Cox in "Rob Roy" and his Hannibal Lecktor was very subtly portrayed and a lot scarier than the later one by Anthony Hopkins.

Seriously? Jimi has no soul? are you retarded?

I think Bill Hicks said it best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCbVkX7jdAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkA6zugNMQ

Oh and considered by who exactly? Well lets take a look at the top 100 guitarists as voted for by the readers of rolling stone

The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time and the number one spot goes to...??? Jimi? oh no that can't be right. Now who is this eric johnson noob? Is he even on the list? oh yea that's right...he's not.

1Jimi Hendrix
2 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band
3 B.B. King
4 Eric Clapton
5 Robert Johnson
6 Chuck Berry
7 Stevie Ray Vaughan
8 Ry Cooder
9 Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
10 Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones
11Kirk Hammett of Metallica
12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
13 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead
14 Jeff Beck
15 Carlos Santana
16 Johnny Ramone of the Ramones
17 Jack White of the White Stripes
18 John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
19 Richard Thompson
20 James Burton
21 George Harrison
22 Mike Bloomfield
23 Warren Haynes
24 The Edge of U2
25 Freddy King
26 Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
27 Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits
28 Stephen Stills
29 Ron Asheton of the Stooges
30 Buddy Guy
31 Dick Dale
32 John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service
33 & 34 Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
35 John Fahey
36 Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG's
37 Bo Diddley
38 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac
39 Brian May of Queen
40 John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
41 Clarence White of the Byrds
42 Robert Fripp of King Crimson
43 Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic
44 Scotty Moore
45 Frank Zappa
46 Les Paul
47 T-Bone Walker
48 Joe Perry of Aerosmith
49 John McLaughlin
50 Pete Townshend
51 Paul Kossoff of Free
52 Lou Reed
53 Mickey Baker
54 Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane
55 Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple
56 Tom Verlaine of Television
57 Roy Buchanan
58 Dickey Betts
59 & 60 Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead
61 Ike Turner
62 Zoot Horn Rollo of the Magic Band
63 Danny Gatton
64 Mick Ronson
65 Hubert Sumlin
66 Vernon Reid of Living Colour
67 Link Wray
68 Jerry Miller of Moby Grape
69 Steve Howe of Yes
70 Eddie Van Halen
71 Lightnin' Hopkins
72 Joni Mitchell
73 Trey Anastasio of Phish
74 Johnny Winter
75 Adam Jones of Tool
76 Ali Farka Toure
77 Henry Vestine of Canned Heat
78 Robbie Robertson of the Band
79 Cliff Gallup of the Blue Caps (1997)
80 Robert Quine of the Voidoids
81 Derek Trucks
82 David Gilmour of Pink Floyd
83 Neil Young
84 Eddie Cochran
85 Randy Rhoads
86 Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
87 Joan Jett
88 Dave Davies of the Kinks
89 D. Boon of the Minutemen
90 Glen Buxton of Alice Cooper
91 Robby Krieger of the Doors
92 & 93 Fred "Sonic" Smith, Wayne Kramer of the MC5
94 Bert Jansch
95 Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine
96 Angus Young of AC/DC
97 Robert Randolph
98 Leigh Stephens of Blue Cheer
99 Greg Ginn of Black Flag
100 Kim Thayil of Soundgarden

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins wrote a follow up article to this one. It concerns Web 3.0 and Web 4.0. It appeared on Mashable last night.

I've started another thread to handle that discussion:
Blogging Is Dead; Long Live Blogging

Mashable posts daily a dizzying number of articles that chronicle the changes happening now on the Internet. It regularly provides lists of resource sites for different web activities.

"We could not know pleasure without knowing pain. And we could not know pain without knowing pleasure."

Please give evidence for this.

Also, great movie. Hopkins rules.

great film. Anthony Hopkins does an admirable job with the NZ accent.

continued...

Here is a report on the Venezuelan Supreme Court's decision regarding RCTV:

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2307


From the Guardian:

http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1180195714.html

Television's role in the coup against Chávez

Saturday May 26, 2007
The Guardian


Dear Sir,

We believe that the decision of the Venezuelan government not to renew the broadcasting licence of RCTV when it expires on May 27 (Chávez silences critical TV station, May 23; Comment and Letters, May 25) is legitimate given that RCTV has used its access to the public airwaves to repeatedly call for the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Hugo Chávez. RCTV gave vital practical support to the overthrow of Venezuela's elected government in April 2002 in which at least 13 people were killed. In the 47 hours that the coup plotters held power, they overturned much of Venezuela's democratic constitution - closing down the elected national assembly, the supreme court and other state institutions.

RCTV exhorted the public to take to the streets and overthrow the government and also colluded with the coup by deliberately misrepresenting what was taking place, and then conducting a news blackout. Its production manager, Andrés Izarra, who opposed the coup, immediately resigned so as not to become an accomplice.

This is not a case of censorship. In Venezuela more than 90% of the media is privately owned and virulently opposed to the Chávez government. RCTV, far from being silenced, is being allowed to continue broadcasting by satellite and cable. In Venezuela, as in Britain, TV stations must adhere to laws and regulations governing what they can broadcast. Imagine the consequences if the BBC or ITV were found to be part of a coup against the government. Venezuela deserves the same consideration.

Yours,

Tariq Ali

Tony Benn

Colin Burgon MP,

Dr. Julia Buxton, academic,

Ruqayyah Collector, Black Students’ Officer, National Union of Students,

Jeremy Corbyn MP,

Jon Cruddas MP,

Megan Dobney, Regional Secretary, SERTUC

Billy Hayes, General Secretary, CWU,

Gordon Hutchison, Secretary, Venezuela Information Centre,

Kelvin Hopkins MP,

Chris Martin, Director, The War on Democracy

Joni McDougall, International Solidarity Officer, GMB,

Gerry Morrissey, General Secretary, BECTU,

Kaveh Moussavi, University of Oxford

John Pilger,

Harold Pinter,

Professor Jonathan Rosenhead, LSE,

Keith Sonnet, Deputy General Secretary, UNISON,

Hugh O'Shaughnessy, writer and journalist,

Rod Stoneman, Executive Producer, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,

Jon Trickett MP,

Gemma Tumelty, President, National Union of Students,

Cllr Salma Yaqoob.

They do hemispherectomies now-a-days (first at Johns Hopkins, now all over) for sever, debilitating epilepsy. Children with frequent life-threatening seizures that don't respond well to medication undergo functional hemispherectomy, where nearly all of one hemisphere is removed, not unlike with this young man.

wikipedia? sure... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy

... and at choggie's comment, I understand the downvote for voyeurism, but I was astounded the first time I heard about the hemispherectomy procedure, and thought this video was similarly astounding ... he literally had much of his brains blown out and is still a high functioning person... if you asked any Joe Nobody on the street if you can live with half a brain they might just say "a'course not!", making this a pretty interesting clip.

Here is another site worth checking out that offers a coherent (non-Republican, non-O'Reilly) critique of the Lancet methodology:

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Economics/Research/conflict-analysis/iraq-mortality/

However, I entirely agree with Prof. Burnham (Lancet Study) when he said the following in the Hopkins article:

"Burnham, who is professor of epidemiology and co-director of Johns Hopkins' Center for Refugee and Disaster Response (CRDR), tried to keep attention focused on what he thought the public needed to understand. "I have one central message," he says. "That central message is that local populations, people caught up in conflict, do badly. This is not a study that says, Ain't it awful. This is a study that says, We need to do something about this."

Very telling when Ms Hopkins talks about how she was when she broke down. First 2 things she says are "I couldn't eat. I couldn't work". This woman clearly has her priorities set.

Edit: Also, not to sound like a broken record, but this atrocity is all made possible and justified by religion.

This film explores motivations, attitudes, and challenges faced by Brett Davis and Mary Ann Hopkins who have joined Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in order to assist people in such disaster-ridden areas as Darfur, Sri Lanka, Burundi, and DRC.

Médecins Sans Frontières is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic disease.

Médecins Sans Frontières was created in 1971 by a small group of French doctors, as an aftermath of the Biafra secession. The organisation is known in most of the world by its French name or simply as MSF, but in the United States the name Doctors Without Borders is often used instead.

MSF is governed by an International Board of Directors located in Geneva, Switzerland, and organised into 20 sections. Annually, about 3,000 doctors, nurses, midwives and logisticians are recruited to run projects, but 1,000 permanently employed staff work to recruit volunteers and handle finances and media relations. Private donors provide about 80% of the organisation's funding, while governmental and corporate donations provide the rest, giving MSF an annual budget of approximately USD 400 million.

The organisation actively provides health care and medical training to populations in more than 70 countries, and frequently insists on political responsibility in conflict zones such as Chechnya and Kosovo. Only once in its history, during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, has the organisation called for a military intervention.

MSF received the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its members' continuous effort to provide medical care in acute crises, as well as raising international awareness of potential humanitarian disasters. Dr. James Orbinski, who was the president of the organisation at the time, accepted the prize on behalf of MSF. Prior to this, MSF also received the 1996 Seoul Peace Prize.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9decins_sans_Fronti%C3%A8res