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Six years ago, Karl … sat alone in a parked car with 100 pounds [45 kgs] of dry ice and an obsession to destroy his legs. “The first thing I did was I used a wooden flour scoop to scoop some granulated dry ice into the bucket. … It filled the wastebasket with carbon dioxide gas, which was 79 degrees below zero,” he said. Over the next 45 minutes, Karl put his legs in the wastebasket and then kept adding dry ice until it got to the top. “I spent the next six hours well-packed in the dry ice, and then I’d add more dry ice to keep it topped off … After those six hours, Karl calmly drove himself to an emergency room, using the automatic hand controls he had installed in the car. Within days, his legs began to blacken as the frozen tissue died away, and within a month surgeons had no choice but to amputate both of Karl’s legs.

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This new Apple “Boot Camp” seems like a death knell for the Macintosh and its Unix-based OSX as a viable alternative platform for packaged software such as Office, Adobe, and so on. Dual boot systems are disastrous for alternative OS PCs. How many Amigas do you see around today? Dual booting between Amiga and DOS hindered the development of stand-alone software for that platform. By doing this, Apple reduces the attractiveness of OSX as a release platform for major software. Why bother doing an OSX version when you can just tell your “Mac” customers to run your program in Windows? It may help Apple sell more Macs in the short term, but in the long term it further removes Apple’s distinctiveness and transforms it even more into just another boutique PC vendor similar to Alienware Dell.

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[George Bush said] I’ve constantly expressed my displeasure with leaks, particularly leaks of classified information. And I want to know, I want to know the truth. I want to see to it that the truth prevail.

President Bush authorized White House official I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby to disclose highly sensitive intelligence information to the news media in an attempt to discredit a CIA adviser whose views undermined the rationale for the invasion of Iraq … The court filing by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for the first time places Bush and Vice President Cheney at the heart of what Libby testified was an exceptional and deliberate leak of material designed to buttress the administration’s claim that Iraq was trying to obtain nuclear weapons.

Read it here.

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