Change in GOP Running Mate Seems Unlikely (AP)
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Who's Kerry's Best Running Mate?
Who's Kerry's Best Running Mate?
04/13/2004 06:28 PMThe Washington Post's Veep-O-Matic 2004 helps you "learn more about the
contenders who best match the criteria you choose."
Nader advises Kerry on running mate
Nader advises Kerry on running mate
05/23/2004 09:19 PMKerry Running Mate Search Still
Secretive (AP)
Kerry Running Mate Search Still
Secretive (AP)
06/19/2004 11:54 AMAP - When John Kerry asked longtime Democratic operative Jim Johnson
to lead his vice presidential search team, the marching orders were
clear. Consult with Republicans and Democrats. Get to know each
candidates' views on major policies, including President Bush's
positions. Scrub their public records. And keep it quiet.
Kerry Dodges Questions About Running
Mate (AP)
Kerry Dodges Questions About Running
Mate (AP)
07/04/2004 10:06 PMAP - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry celebrated Sunday's
Fourth of July holiday with Gov. Tom Vilsack, one of the men who could
become his vice presidential running mate. Neither said a word about
the prospect.
Clark Says Dean Sought Him as Running
Mate
Clark Says Dean Sought Him as Running
Mate
12/21/2003 01:07 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 21 2003 12:35PM ET
Kerry intensifies search for running
mate
Kerry intensifies search for running
mate
06/17/2004 02:37 PMInscrutable Kerry Stays Mum on Running
Mate
Inscrutable Kerry Stays Mum on Running
Mate
07/04/2004 05:22 PMReuters via Wired News Jul 4 2004 7:39PM GMT
Running Mate Rumors Fly (Los Angeles
Times)
Running Mate Rumors Fly (Los Angeles
Times)
04/28/2004 07:17 AMLos Angeles Times - Last week, the word swept through Washington:
During a fire drill, Sen. Evan Bayh was seen leaving his office
building alongside Jim Johnson, the man charged with helping Sen. John
F. Kerry pick his running mate.
Nader picks Green running mate
Nader picks Green running mate
06/22/2004 12:37 PMIndependent presidential candidate Ralph Nader picks Green Party
activist Peter Camejo as his running mate.
Kerry to Announce Running Mate in E-Mail
Kerry to Announce Running Mate in E-Mail
07/03/2004 12:45 AMAP via Los Angeles Times Jul 3 2004 5:03AM GMT
Kerry to Announce Running Mate in E-Mail
(AP)
Kerry to Announce Running Mate in E-Mail
(AP)
07/02/2004 10:41 PMAP - Democrat John Kerry plans to announce his vice presidential
running mate in an e-mail to the 1 million subscribers to his campaign
Web site.
Kerry Serves Up Barbecue, Not Running
Mate
Kerry Serves Up Barbecue, Not Running
Mate
07/05/2004 07:08 PMReuters via Wired News Jul 5 2004 10:33PM GMT
CNN.com - Kerry names Edwards his
running mate - Jul 6, 2004
CNN.com - Kerry names Edwards his
running mate - Jul 6, 2004
07/06/2004 02:58 PMCNN.com - Kerry names Edwards his
running mate - Jul 6, 2004
CNN.com - Kerry names Edwards his
running mate - Jul 6, 2004
07/07/2004 11:19 AMCNN.com - Kerry names Edwards his running mate - Jul 6, 2004 .. an
announcement a few minutes ago .. has chosen John Edwards .. really
picked ..
believed
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Kerry Taps Edwards for Running Mate
(washingtonpost.com)
Kerry Taps Edwards for Running Mate
(washingtonpost.com)
07/06/2004 08:07 PMKerry Serves Up Barbecue, Not Running
Mate (Reuters)
Kerry Serves Up Barbecue, Not Running
Mate (Reuters)
07/05/2004 05:48 PMReuters - White House hopeful John Kerry
treated fellow Democrats to an elegant barbecue at his wife's
$3.7 million family farm on Monday, but many of them would have
settled for the name of his vice presidential running mate.
Kerry may announce running mate Tuesday
(USATODAY.com)
Kerry may announce running mate Tuesday
(USATODAY.com)
07/06/2004 06:50 AMUSATODAY.com - John Kerry continued to be coy about his choice of a
running mate Monday amid indications the announcement could come as
soon as today.
N.Y. Post Picks Wrong Kerry Running Mate
(AP)
N.Y. Post Picks Wrong Kerry Running Mate
(AP)
07/06/2004 11:53 AMAP - Dewey defeats ... Gephardt? The New York Post, in a front-page
gaffe reminiscent of the 1948 headline wrongly announcing President
Truman's defeat, proclaimed Tuesday that Democratic presidential
candidate John Kerry would select Rep. Dick Gephardt as his running
mate.
Nader taps Green activist as running
mate
Nader taps Green activist as running
mate
06/21/2004 02:20 PMInscrutable Kerry Stays Mum on Running
Mate (Reuters)
Inscrutable Kerry Stays Mum on Running
Mate (Reuters)
07/04/2004 03:25 PMReuters - Democratic White House hopeful
John Kerry raised the volume of vice-presidential chatter on
Sunday by celebrating the Fourth of July with Iowa Gov. Tom
Vilsack, a potential running mate.
John Kerry to Announce Running Mate on
the Internet
John Kerry to Announce Running Mate on
the Internet
07/03/2004 06:36 PMRed Nova Jul 3 2004 10:41PM GMT
Kerry Picks Edwards as Running Mate
(washingtonpost.com)
Kerry Picks Edwards as Running Mate
(washingtonpost.com)
07/06/2004 11:49 PMwashingtonpost.com - PITTSBURGH, July 6 -- John F. Kerry tapped
freshman Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina as his running mate on
Tuesday, calling his one-time rival for the Democratic nomination a
politician of passion, middle-class values and clear conviction who
can help the party "bring back our mighty dream" of a better America
by ousting President Bush.
Kerry May Announce Running Mate at
Tuesday Rally (Reuters)
Kerry May Announce Running Mate at
Tuesday Rally (Reuters)
07/05/2004 11:54 PMReuters - Democratic presidential
candidate John Kerry closed in on the choice of a running mate
and prepared for an announcement that could come during a
Tuesday morning rally in Pittsburgh.
Bush may name Giuliani as his running
mate in '04, add two extra middle
initials, "T." and "C.", to his name
Bush may name Giuliani as his running
mate in '04, add two extra middle
initials, "T." and "C.", to his name
01/28/2004 10:18 AMGuiliani will replace Cheney .. be kicked off the ticket ..
ticket
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Kerry Names Ex-Rival Edwards as Running
Mate (Reuters)
Kerry Names Ex-Rival Edwards as Running
Mate (Reuters)
07/06/2004 11:49 PMReuters - Democratic White House hopeful John
Kerry on Tuesday chose former political rival North Carolina
Sen. John Edwards, a man with "guts and determination and
political skills," as his vice presidential running mate.
Nader Selects Camejo as His Running Mate
(Los Angeles Times)
Nader Selects Camejo as His Running Mate
(Los Angeles Times)
06/22/2004 07:21 AMLos Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Independent presidential
candidate Ralph Nader named Green Party activist Peter Camejo as his
vice presidential running mate Monday, adding to his ticket a two-time
contender for governor in California who once ran for president as a
Socialist.
Meg talks about how times change, people
change, webl0gs change but some things
endure
Meg talks about how times change, people
change, webl0gs change but some things
endure
06/05/2005 11:30 PMNostalgia isn't what it used to be
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RUNNING OUT
OF ROOM, RUNNING OUT OF TIME
RUNNING OUT
OF ROOM, RUNNING OUT OF TIME
01/07/2004 01:22 PM
When I was researching the
article One Billion
Americans?,
I got thinking about the implications of the wildly conservative
Census
Bureau projections of US population, and the embarrassing drastic
upward revisions that have been made to them, for global
population projections. What made the US projections so wrong (US
population peaking at 295 million was predicted as recently as fifteen
years ago) was the compound error of underestimating the extent of
immigration and overestimating the rate at which immigrants adjust
their family size to the average of their new country, or the global
average. It's an understandable error -- there's lots of evidence that
population growth rates in the developing world are falling quickly.
But that's not because third
world countries are evolving to two-child-or-less families as infant
mortality drops. Rather, it's because those countries are simply
unable
to sustain more children, so parents are reluctantly, temporarily
reducing family size as a result. Give them the option to emigrate to
a
developed country, and cultural preference, religious dictates, and
improved health care will jump their family size (and life expectancy)
back up again. And as inevitable ecological and humanitarian
catastrophes arise in the 21st century in dozens of third world
countries, compounded by the scourges of new diseases, horrendous
shortages of clean water, and desertification and crop flooding due to
global warming, the pressure to increase immigration quotas by orders
of magnitude will be fierce.
Back in 1990 when the pundits were predicting US population would peak
at 295 million (it passed that level last year and is now expected to
peak at between 550 million and 1.2 billion, if it peaks at all), they
were saying global population would peak at around 9-11 billion in
2100. But for that to happen with a US population of, say, 900 million
instead of 300 million, would mean average third world family size
would be much smaller than average US family size. The UN projections,
for example, assume annual average growth rate for Africa, Asia and
Latin America of 0.5% in the latter half of this century, compared to
a
current growth rate in those areas (even including China with its
already-low birth rate) of 2.1%, and compared to a current US growth
rate of 0.9%, which is trending back up to a projected 1.3% rate for
most of the current century, thanks to immigration.
So the 9-11 billion global peak population just doesn't add up. While
it doesn't make sense to get Malthusian and project population will
grow indefinitely at current rates (1.3%, i.e. a doubling every 50
years to 24 billion by 2100), it's equally illogical and irresponsible
to suggest that the whole world will start immediately radically
reducing its fertility rate to achieve in just two generations the low
fertility rate that Europe took one hundred generations to reach. If
you assume that the levels of immigration now
projected by the US Census Bureau will prevail throughout the
developed
world, that first- and second-generation citizens of developed
countries will continue to have considerably larger-than-replacement
level families in their new adopted countries, that the prevailing
pro-fertility population dogmas of organized world religions will not
suddenly be changed, that population pressure in the third world will
be eased somewhat by immigration and that modest drops in family size
in those countries will be largely offset by longer life expectancy,
as
has been observably the case in almost every third world country
except
China, then instead of the 9-11 billion peak the UN is currently
talking about, you end up with population soaring past 14 billion in
2100, with no end in sight (left chart above).
The curved red line shows the carrying capacity of Earth, assuming a
modest annual increase in productivity from the current 30 billion
acres (productive-capacity adjusted), assuming average footprint per
capita continues to increase by a modest 1% per year, and assuming no
land on the planet is reserved for wilderness or natural space for the
rest of Earth's creatures. It shows in 2000 that the world could
sustain 5 billion humans at the then-prevailing level of consumption.
That's a billion humans less than actually inhabited the planet then,
possible only by depriving much of the world of a subsistence level of
resources, and by taking more from the Earth (in non-renewable
resources) than we replaced, essentially stealing the excess from
future generations. At the expected global level of per-capita
consumption in 2100 (still well below today's North American
consumption levels), carrying capacity drops to 2 billion humans. That
number is substantiated by a recent C
ornell
study that says the choice in 2100 is between 2 billion people living
a
comfortable but not lavish life (achieved by a drastic population
reduction) or 12 billion "struggling in misery". And if you want to
allow 50% of the planet's surface for other life forms, you need to
achieve double that reduction (green line), to one billion people, the
level both Jim
Merkel and Bill
McKibben think we should strive for. That's only achievable, short
of coercion, by an average one child family worldwide for the next century.
The right chart shows that the increasing average footprint, driven
both by North American excess and the surging resource use of China's
billion plus people, will drive the aggregate human footprint up even
more sharply than aggregate population, from 37 billion acres today
(20% more than Earth's carrying capacity) to 210 billion acres in 2100
(six times Earth's carrying capacity). Now remember, these assumptions
are much closer to the wildly
optimistic assumptions of population levelling that the UN and other
global agencies optimistically hope for, than to the Malthusian
no-change projections that would see nearly double these numbers.
Nevertheless, train wreck ahead.
We simply have no choice. We must immediately and aggressively reduce our family
sizes worldwide, and we must
immediately and aggressively reduce per-capita resource consumption,
waste and footprint. That means we must confront religions that don't
actively encourage birth control and small families, and show those
religions to
be socially irresponsible. That means, too, we need to introduce ecological
taxation
measures to make excessive resource consumption and waste
prohibitively
expensive, and reward those who tread lightly on the Earth.
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Dividend change doesn't change
Microsoft's lofty status
Dividend change doesn't change
Microsoft's lofty status
11/04/2003 09:54 AMChicago Tribune Nov 4 2003 8:23AM ET
P-Mate
P-Mate
06/23/2004 10:52 AM
In
Gizmodo's continuing quest to bring full equality to the sexes, let me
direct your attention to the 'P-Mate,' a urination device for women
that allows the ladies to experience the singular biological advantage
that men have over women -- the ability to pee standing up.
Essentially a disposable funnel that cups around the vagina, like a
little genitalia shoe, the P-Mate directs the waste stream into
anywhere you might fancy urine to go. Say, a men's urinal, a filthy
gas station toilet, or onto one of your by-the-hour clients. Then
simply toss the "fully recyclable" unit into the appropriate garbage
bin and be on your way. But remember, as P-Company, the makers of
P-Mate, recommend: practice makes perfect. I would add a bit of sage
gadget advice that we men have adhered to for millennia, or at least
since the 1980s: whatever you do, don't cross the streams. (Thanks,
Chris!)
Read
[P-Mate]
i-Mate Smartphone 3
i-Mate Smartphone 3
08/31/2004 03:18 PMI just got word from Sound Solutions that they'll be shipping the
i-Mate SP3 from their UK office in mid-September...
iMate Is My Mate
iMate Is My Mate
09/13/2004 06:34 PM By Christopher Breen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)
i-mate SP3i
i-mate SP3i
03/29/2005 11:25 AMZDNet UK Mar 29 2005 3:40PM GMT
Express Mail@Mate v2.6
Express Mail@Mate v2.6
06/29/2004 10:40 AMExpress Mail@Mate is an email notification tool for Microsoft Outlook,
Outlook Express and Exchange Client, that runs as a system tray icon.
It delivers new messages to the Inbox of your email client and allows
you to
read incoming messages, create new, delete needless ones, extract
attached
files and more. Microsoft Exchange and Outlook users can use Express
Mail@Mate even without a POP account. [Shareware $20.00 794 KB]
Billions of cicadas set to mate
Billions of cicadas set to mate
05/15/2004 05:20 PMAP via New Jersey Online May 15 2004 9:08PM GMT
Czech mate for IT offshoring
Czech mate for IT offshoring
12/10/2003 01:55 PMvnunet.com Dec 10 2003 1:10PM ET
ask metafilter on how to meet a mate
ask metafilter on how to meet a mate
08/16/2004 02:04 PMthe consensus seems to be match.com and metafilter itself
Billions of Cicadas Set to Mate (AP)
Billions of Cicadas Set to Mate (AP)
05/15/2004 03:48 PMAP - Billions of cicadas are crawling their way above ground for their
rare mating opportunity. Scientists say this year's batch of the
red-eyed insects, known as Brood X, is the largest of the cicada
groups that appear at various intervals.
Gizmodo Japan: KDDI AI-MATE
Gizmodo Japan: KDDI AI-MATE
03/22/2005 04:46 PM
Jean Snow—One of the
featured devices in the KDDI Designing Studio's prototype area (the
3rd floor's Creation Studio) is the AI-MATE. They're calling it a
hybrid communicator, something that integrates a mobile phone with PDA
features in a PDA-like form factor -- it's about the size of a typical
Palm Pilot. Although it will be making an appearance at the upcoming
Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan, this is probably the first chance you'll
get to play around with one them. Oh, and getting the demonstration
girls to help you figure out how to use them is a definite bonus.
More pictures after the jump, including a snap of the elusive
Japanese shadow elf.
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