http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:28:34 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/30/180259.php#comment-3132 Where did the money go? You have the imperium talking about a billion here, a billion there, and it could add up to real money. From @man: <i>Weapons of What? A big concern these days is Weapons of Mass Destruction. Nuclear weapons (pronounced "Nookyalur" if you are President) are a prime example, which work by converting mass to energy, a process described by the famous equation E=mc^2. If we apply Einstein's equation equating mass and energy to the phrase "Weapons of Mass Destruction" we get "Weapons of Energy Destruction". A prime example of a WED is the Enron corporation, which when set off deprived California and other western states of massive amounts of electricity while converting its value expressed as billions of dollars stored in electronic brokerage accounts to the value of the paper the shares of stock were printed on. Enron, in other words is a WED that converted gigawatt-hours of electricity into a small amount of nearly worthless paper. When you look at the amounts of energy and paper involved, you find that the conversion of one to the other is described once again by Einstein's famous equation E=mc^2. BAN WEAPONS OF ENERGY DESTRUCTION. And while we're at it, let's apply some of that energy to Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron, directly, in the form of a hair-raising ride in the old electric chair. And Bernard Ebbers, former CEO of Worldcom, is welcome to sit on his lap for the ride. </i> And might I add the onslaught on unilateral free trade, ie, lumber and manufacturing is only allowed to flow from the States. 3132@blogcritics.org Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:28:34 EST