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By Eliot Van Buskirk
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Monthly Archives: June 2002
Election Morons at it Again
This is the same stupid county that couldn’t figure out how to vote in the last
TWO elections. We’re not talking MENSA members, here. I don’t care who you voted
for in the last two presidential election, ya gotta admit that there’s something
fishy with these people.
Fla.
County Makes ’23’ a Passing Grade
You can get three-quarters of the answers wrong and still pass this test.
Palm Beach County high school students taking a new history exam this week need to answer just 23 of 100 multiple-choice questions correctly to pass.
To get an A, they need to get just over half the answers right. A B grade requires only 39 correct answers.
The new final exam for American and world history classes was developed by school district officials to ensure students learn state- required lessons that include history about women, Africans, African-Americans and the Holocaust.
The 100-question test, specific to Palm Beach County, replaces individual final exams that teachers create themselves. The district, which recommended the grading scale, sent letters to schools giving them the option to use it on the new test.
Ozzy and Kermit
Ozzy Osbourne and Kermit the frog are shown backstage in the gardens of Buckingham Palace Monday June 3, 2002, for the second concert to “commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. (AP Photo/PA, Peter Jordan, Pool)”
Go Ralph!
Ralph Nader to the rescue again…
Hitting
Microsoft where it hurts
Ralph Nader and the Consumer Project on Technology are asking the federal government to take on Microsoft via the pocketbook instead of the courts, by using its purchasing power to solve “security and competition” issues in the software market. In a letter sent to Office of Management and Budget Director Mitchell Daniels on Tuesday, consumer activists Nader and James Love of the CPT ask the government office to spell out exactly how much money the government spends on Microsoft technology.
“If you look at antitrust cases, they take a lot of money and they’re time consuming. Our way of thinking is it might be more efficient for the government to use its procurement policy,” Love said. “Almost nothing they’re trying to achieve in the current set of remedies is something that you couldn’t accomplish through procurement remedies.”
Black Holes Ain’t So Black These Days
Here’s another case of science fiction making cool predictions and being right.
This time, Doctor Who gets credit for suggesting black holes as power sources.
Black
Hole Dynamos Spawn Monster Energy Fields
Cosmic dynamos in black holes could be the most efficient power plants in the universe, spawning magnetic energy fields so big they push past galaxy borders and into intergalactic space, scientists said Monday.
These monster magnetic fields have been known to astronomers for decades, and the link between them and black holes has also been theorized, but now researchers have created a picture of the energy fields and measured just how huge they are.