Even Fox News says that President Obama opposes any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine and even clarified that their stance was "definitive".

Yeah, a couple other legislators including pelosi want it, but let's be clear that even Fox News claims that the Obama Administration definitively opposes it.

Mod parent down, as it's main claim is false. The dude did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and your link to wikipedia is misleading, and even that wikipedia page does not even claim that he won.

He merely was nominated in 2005. You can trivially confirm that in 2005 the Peace Prize went to Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency shared the price in 2005. That's this guy, btw.

You can also find out on that site that the nominations are the result of their requests to thousands of people...."send individual invitations to thousands of members of academies, university professors, scientists from numerous countries, previous Nobel Laureates, members of parliamentary assemblies and others, asking them to submit candidates for the Nobel Prizes for the coming year". So, seriously, as News For Nerds, we need to honest about distinguishing between "nomination" (one of thousands of people said yeah him) versus "winning" the Peace Prize. Which he didn't do.

A basic google search would find you this page that lists all the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. And obviously George Ryan is demonstrably not on the list.

Mod parent down.

Yeah, surprising to me to that this happened at this early phase, but it's their right to acknowledge someone who moves in the right direction as far as they are concerned.

For those who haven't seen it, he deserves the Nobel Prize just from his speech reaching out the Muslim World. Most Americans have not seen the whole thing beginning to end. But the world saw it, and you bet your bippy that lots of the Muslim world saw it. It was amazingly awesome.

Absolutely brilliant, strong, and a genuine attempt to promote real peace. I'm proud that we have a leader like that.

Yes, a big change from the bullying, belligerence, and ignorance, from the last 8 years, and probably him winning had some relationship with their dissapproval of his predecessor in terms of a powerful nation doing so much to devalue international cooperation, the UN, and international mutual respect.

At inaugeration he said that the USA... "we are ready to lead once more"...and he seems to be selling it to the world. he's not selling domination and war ***as an end to themselves*** like leaders seemed to do before. Instead he's selling leadership and trying to get along with each other, and then cooperating on zapping the violent extremists of every type. And he even tried to address the rifts between Israel and Palestine, promoting a 2state solution, and explicitly calling out BOTH sides to stuff they did wrong (condemning both sides), and explaining in straightforward language how both side's recent strategies are losing strategies, and laying out a plan for peace.

So, yeah, people who want vocal powerful advocates of peace probably respond well to his speech reaching out the Muslim World and his comments about hoping (eventually) for a world without nuclear weapons.

And btw, the Nobel group has also expanded its role over the years to include promotion of causes that relate to poverty and health, so his domestic healthcare work probably is something they approve of also.

And that's why he got the award. And that's why he deserved it. They want more of that, even if you don't agree with him or think he hasn't delivered yet. They want to make it easier for him to get stuff done by giving him some public kudos at a time he needs it because he's under attack and they want to give him some cred to help him do so.

According to this article, it was Keynote, not PowerPoint. Don't know if it's skipping over some older rev or whatever, but I'd heard that it was in Keynote...

if they want to, developers of iPhone 3.0 OS apps can offer "add-ons" within their applications, with publicly supported APIs and integration with the iTunes store. See:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/sdk/inapppurchase.html

I dunno if the size of the downloads would in practice thwart this plan to use those APIs. i guess it depends on the granularity

But either way, it seems like app developer could sell GPS data for each US state (for large states or region (in regions with smaller states) as a separate app in the itunes store.

DVDs bought anywhere in the world and "nobody has an issue with that"?

Actually, DVD region codes thwart many cases of doing just that and that's built into the DVD standard (unfortunately).

Here are the specifications in English, directly from Sony's site.

Dammit.

Next thing you know those awful secularists will be claiming that anecdotal stories of "I saw Jesus three days after He died" represent something fundamentally normal about the human experience.

Those damn secularists might suggest that such anecdotes may say more about the grief and mourning of people for a really nice peaceful human guy, than about the magic powers of the dead really really nice peaceful human guy. It's a good thing that no one ever made claims that differed from the early Christian church that ended up dominating the orthodoxy.

And don't even get me started about Elvis. I saw the King with my own eyes the week after he faked his own death, I tell you what.

I don't know how popular it will be, but The Yes Men are 1 step closer to predicting the future.

Only a few weeks ago they predicted in the "special edition" of the NY Times (the huge NYTimes hoax) that...

The Department of Defense announced yesterday the cancellation of its highly successful and popular 'Americaâ(TM)s Army' online game and recruitment tool. The program has already been converted into a new game, operated by the State Department, entitled 'Americaâ(TM)s Diplomat'. State Department spokesperson Donald Demsfold called this âoea pretty good step towards nurturing a generation committed to the principles of diplomacy and peaceful negotiation.â