If anyone has balls of steel in the face of the building police state, the EFF probably do - so there's stuff like this still up: http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/

> Do you really think we could get away with letting the driver communicate back to the outside world with that much data and not have it all over the news?

Other companies have. Look at the recent mobile phone privacy scares, for example (sometimes where every button press has been recorded and transmitted).

Given that you can't even enforce the rules of punctuation and capitalisation, I suspect you bound around your "castle" weilding the thighbone of an ox, or similar.

The politician, while kept alive, can be an almost endless source of hot air, possible more than any individual fire could supply.

However, if it was in a documentary and it were false, then you can be sure that Monsanto lawyers would be all over it.

Do you know of any evidence that the figures were independently obtained?

To my eyes it looks like the bottom row with 6 stars, and the row above that with 7 stars. That doesn't match any US flag of *any* vintage, let alone a 50-state one (having 6 with 5 above). It be used for a 52-state flag, I think. Not that it matters, fake is fake is fake.

Do you mind if I add the following to my revolving usenet .sig list (at the top, for the sake of freshness):

> I'd argue that there is much evidence for the existence of a God.
Pics or it didn't happen.
-- Tom (/. uid 822)

> > Lack of evidence of a god when that evidence should be there is in fact evidence that there isn't a god.

> Argumentum ad ignorantiam.

Nope. "Lack of evidence of a god is evidence that there isn't a god." would be poor logic, certainly, but the "when that evidence should be there" completely changes the premises.

Do not apologise! Many thanks for that link. I like the way it ties in with the "overestimation of one's own level of skill/knowledge" studies so closely - but pushes the scope of them even further (for example unwillingness, or even refusal, to learn).

"During 1998, over 95% of Schmeiser's canola crop"

According to the documentary, those precentages were widely variable, and not independently evaluated but asserted by Monsanto.