Stress Point

… Each of us, in our daily lives, tends to adjust to this invisible stress point. If a man lives just up to it, he can lead a happy and productive life. If, on occasion, he lives just a little over it, he finds that often these are the periods in which he learns “by running scared”. If, on the other hand, a man lives too far over his stress point, that man will tend to panic. Sooner or later such a practice results in disaster.

But the real problem, for most of us, lies in setting our sights too low. Mainly because of fear, perhaps 95% of us live too far under our stress points. For those who dare too little, the penalty which must be paid, while perhaps not as sudden as for those who dare too much, is equally sure and certain. Life becomes dull and meaningless. Those who dare not become so much beef on the hoof; they exist, but they do not live …
Excerpted from Viewpoints of a Commodity Trader, by Roy Longstreet. Copyright © 1968 Roy W. Longstreet.

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Why did Bush specifically mention Dell computers in his conciliatory speech the other day?

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Some Army recruiter quotes from an ABC News undercover investigation:

“Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?” one student asks a recruiter.

“No, we’re bringing people back,” he replies.

“We’re not at war. War ended a long time ago,” another recruiter says.

Last year, the Army suspended recruiting nationwide to retrain recruiters following hundreds of allegations of improprieties.

One Colorado student taped a recruiting session posing as a drug-addicted dropout.

“You mean I’m not going to get in trouble?” the student asked.

The recruiters told him no, and helped him cheat to sign up.

Source.

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BERLIN (AP) — A German electric company says it may know the cause of yesterday’s chain-reaction blackout that hit parts of Europe.
The company says systems may have become overloaded after a high-voltage transmission line was shut down over a river to let a ship pass.

Resulting power outages affected as many as ten million people in Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Belgium and Spain.

The outages raised fresh questions about the reliability of Europe’s interconnected power grids.

Italy’s prime minister says the incident shows that Europe may need to strengthen its coordination of power supplies.

But a utilities official insisted that Europe’s power network had worked well.

He said that’s how the region was able to avoid a “total blackout.”

That utility official was merely repeating Dick Cheney’s assessment of the blackout.

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The US government is denying a Pakistani national the right to speak of the interrogation methods that the CIA used against him while he was held in a secret prison.

Lawyers of the Majid Khan, who graduated from a Maryland high school , have issued statements about the treatment Khan receieved from the CIA. These including making Khan and other detainees wear diapers, and drink contaminated water making them vomit.

According to Pakistan’s Daily Times Khan was picked up for communicating with Khalid Sheik Mohammed and was planning to poison US reservoirs.

Why are we preventing from talking?

From the Washington Post:

The government says in new court filings that those interrogation methods are now among the nation’s most sensitive national security secrets and that their release — even to the detainees’ own attorneys — “could reasonably be expected to cause extremely grave damage.” Terrorists could use the information to train in counter-interrogation techniques and foil government efforts to elicit information about their methods and plots, according to government documents submitted to U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Oct. 26.

They must mean the interrogation techniques are ou most sensitive US security secrets now that the government removed Iraqi nuclear research documents from the Internets.

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Parts of this video were narrarated by Ronald Reagan.

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A doctoral student put together a cheap we script that would allow anyone to print a fictional boarding pass.

Although the student intended this web page to be an act of civil disobedience, the TSA did not.

The FBI ransacked his house and took his computers after getting a search warrant signed at 2 in the morning.

More on the story:
Cnet News.
Wired.
KUTV.

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