Oracle of Delphi

Or which North American plants to close.

But, y'all talk funny!

A pic of me and my entourage in Italy as God rains sunshine down on us.

Well the first thing you know ol' Camino's a millionaire, Kinfolk said Bob move away from there Said Californy is the place you ought to be So he loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly. Hills, that is. Swimmin pools, movie stars.

Interesting perspective.

Damn

What you don't like how God sent streaming rays of sunshine down on me?

Invite her to join C&G, show her my new personal pic, your problem is solved. :AH-HA_wink: Edit - Bob, that pic was taken in Italy.

You could always move to Delaware, Home of Tax Free Shopping!

Handcuffs

They can't manage the 8 balls they have juggling in the air now, how on earth will they be able to juggle 11 balls? Things will have to go, it's just a matter of time. They will keep Jeep. They will keep Ram trucks. They will keep the Minivans. They will keep Chrysler's Electric Car development. They will axe GMC, Pontiac, and what's left of Dodge and Chrysler.

You seriously need to stop taking those Yenta classes after work.

It was 12 degrees [C] here today, or 52 degrees [F] for those who don't know metric.

Haven't been to that one, I have been to the one on RT 29 and 202 near the old Worthington Steel plant.

What better way to ask for a bailout from the American government when you represent 2/3 of the American Automotive sector.

Is that the Wawa in Paoli, PA on RT 30, if it is I have been there.

Blond and Blue eyed work for me. Between 20 and 45.

Putana

I doubt it will be renamed since Chrysler will be absorbed into GM. You didn't see Chrysler rename themselves after they absorbed AMC did you?

Oh I would say it will happen long before New Year's Eve, GM's goal is by Halloween. Let's see how that works out for them, shall we.

Here this should help you: http://www.yearone.com/updatedsinglepages/...llszvinplts.asp Look carefully, different VIN stampings for different years. When I 1st started at GM in Arlington, TX. I was told all Impalas were built there from the early 60's.

WOW, you're 50 already Camino? My how time flies!

New technologies and changes in U.S. law are adding to pressures to turn Internet service providers into cops examining all Internet traffic for child pornography. One new tool, being marketed in the U.S. by an Australian company, offers to check every file passing through an Internet provider's network — every image, every movie, every document attached to an e-mail or found in a Web search — to see if it matches a list of illegal images. The company caught the attention of New York's attorney general, who has been pressing Internet companies to block child porn. He forwarded the proposal to one of those companies, AOL, for discussion by an industry task force that is looking for ways to fight child porn. A copy of the company's proposal was also obtained by msnbc.com. Privacy advocates are raising objections to such tools, saying that monitoring all traffic would be an unconstitutional invasion. They say companies can't start watching every customer's activity, and blocking files thought to be illegal, even when the goal is as noble as protecting children. But such monitoring just became easier with a law approved unanimously by the Congress and signed on Monday by President Bush. A section of that law written by Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain gives Internet service providers access to lists of child porn files, which previously had been closely held by law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Although the law says it doesn't require any monitoring, it doesn't forbid it either. And the law ratchets up the pressure, making it a felony for ISPs to fail to report any "actual knowledge" of child pornography. That actual knowledge could be handed to the Internet companies by technologies like the one proposed by the Australian company, Brilliant Digital Entertainment Ltd. Known as CopyRouter, the software would let ISPs compare computer files — movies, photographs and documents — against those lists. Banned files would be blocked, and the requestor would receive a substitute file provided by law enforcement, such as a warning message: "The material you have attempted to access has been identified as child pornography." The attempt to send or receive the file could then be reported to law enforcement, along with the Internet Protocol address of the requestor. The CopyRouter relies on a controversial new technology called "deep packet inspection," which allows Internet companies to analyze in real time the river of data flowing through their networks. The pipeline would know what was passing through it. You can read more about this technology in Bob Sullivan's Red Tape Chronicles. Child porn foes give proposal to AOL A PowerPoint slide show from Brilliant Digital Entertainment describing the technology was passed on to AOL last month by two powerful forces in the fight against child porn: the office of New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who has been calling out ISPs that won't agree to block sites with illegal images, and Ernest E. Allen, the president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit given by Congress a central role in the fight. When msnbc.com inquired about the proposal, both Cuomo's office and Allen said they were not promoting the technology, merely passing it along to a committee of Internet service providers and software companies as part of "brainstorming" on new technologies to detect illegal images. One of the leading experts on electronic privacy in the U.S. says the proposal would clearly run afoul of the U.S. Constitution, essentially setting up a wiretap without obtaining permission from a judge. "This would be plainly illegal in the United States, whether or not a governmental official imposed this on an ISP or the ISP did this voluntarily," John Morris of the Center for Democracy and Technology said after viewing Brilliant Digital's slide show. "If I were the general counsel of an ISP, I wouldn't touch this with a 10-foot pole." A spokesman for Brilliant Digital Entertainment disputed that, saying the technology would be "non-invasive," would not compromise privacy, would be legal in the U.S. and elsewhere, and most important, would curtail the global proliferation of child pornography. "I don't think it takes many voices before the Internet industry separates out those who are prepared to build a business on the trafficking of child sexual exploitation," said Michael Speck, Brilliant Digital's commercial manager in charge of law enforcement products. "If boxes started turning up with Pablo Escobar's special-delivery cocaine inside, they'd stop it, they'd do something about it." How it would work Here's how CopyRouter would work, according to the company's slide show: * A law enforcement agency would make available a list of files known to contain child pornography. Such files are commonly discovered in law enforcement raids, in undercover operations and in Internet searches that start with certain keywords (such as "pre-teens hard core"). Police officers have looked at those files, making a judgment that the children are clearly under age and that the files are illegal in their jurisdiction, before adding them to the list. Each digital file has a unique digital signature, called a hash value, that can be recognized no matter what the file is named, and without having to open the file again. The company calls this list of hash values its Global File Registry. * Whenever an Internet user searched the Web, attached a file to an e-mail or examined a menu of files using file-sharing software on a peer-to-peer network, the software would compare the hash values of those files against the file registry. It wouldn't be "reading" the content of the files — it couldn't tell a love note from a recipe — but it would determine whether a file is digitally identical to one on the child-porn list. * If there were no match, the file would be provided to the user who requested it. But if there were a match, transmission of the file would be blocked. The users would instead receive another image or movie or document, containing only a warning screen. The makers of CopyRouter claim that it can even be used to defeat encryption and compression of files in the Internet's Wild West: the peer-to-peer file-sharing tools such as Gnutella and BitTorrent. Many people use those file-sharing systems for legal traffic, such as independent artists distributing their music, or software developers sharing open-source code. But others use them for illegal traffic in copyrighted music and movies. They also are popular for distributing adult pornography, which is legal, and child pornography, which is not. Article Continues: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27198621/

Here are two takes on the same story flying around GM today. http://www.leftlanenews.com/gm-to-absorb-c...sorbed-amc.html http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic...0399/1001/rss21

HB!