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United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea 567

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 28, 2013 @09:01PM from the nice-day-for-a-flight dept.

skade88 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the United States has started flying B-2 stealth bomber runs over South Korea as a show of force to North Korea. The bombers flew 6,500 miles to bomb a South Korean island with mock explosives. Earlier this month the U.S. Military ran mock B-52 bombing runs over the same South Korean island. The U.S. military says it shows that it can execute precision bombing runs at will with little notice needed. The U.S. also reaffirmed their commitment to protecting its allies in the region. The North Koreans have been making threats to turn South Korea into a sea of fire. North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' mainland."

Goldman Sachs Tries To Shut Down Dissident Blogger 161

Posted by kdawson on Saturday April 11, 2009 @10:07PM from the maybe-they'd-like-a-different-number dept.

The Narrative Fallacy sends along a piece from the Telegraph on efforts by Goldman Sachs to silence a blogger who is posting commentary critical of the bank. "Goldman Sachs has instructed Wall Street law firm Chadbourne & Parke to pursue blogger Mike Morgan, warning him in a recent cease-and-desist letter that he may face legal action if he does not close down his website goldmansachs666.com. According to the C&D letter, dated April 8, the bank is rattled because the site 'violates several of Goldman Sachs' intellectual property rights' and also 'implies a relationship' with the bank itself. Morgan claims he has followed all legal requirements to own and operate the website and that the header of the site clearly states that the content has not been approved by the bank. In a post entitled Goldman Sachs vs Mike Morgan, the blogger predicts that the fight will probably end up in court. He went through a similar battle with US home builder Lennar a few years ago after he set up a website to collect information on what he alleged was shoddy workmanship in its homes. 'Since I went through this with Lennar, I've had advice from some of the best intellectual property lawyers, and I know exactly what I can and can't do. We're not going to back down from this.'"

Comment This is a current pedagogical topic in physics (Score 2, Informative) 508

by baking3 on Friday May 30, 2008 @02:32PM (#23602531) Attached to: Programming As a Part of a Science Education?

There is a fairly well organized group of physicists in the states that is promoting computational methods as an integral part of a physics undergraduate curriculum. There will be a working session at the Winter AAPT meeting in Chicago next February. Also take a look at the special issue "Computation in Physics Courses" of Computing in Science and Engineering (Sept/Oct 2006) to see what some other programs are doing (disclaimer: I wrote one of the articles). Also, the American Journal of Physics recently (April/May 2008) released a double issue in "Computation and Computer Based Instruction" with lots of information in it (especially the resource letter by Landau). As it happens, Landau, Jan Tobochnik (editor of AJP), and Norm Chonacky (editor of CiSE) are all part of the AAPT working group.

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