OT-Gio, you're welcome. Yesterday was a great day for advanced prostate cancer patients and Dendreon investors. Provenge is on track to become the first approved vaccine to treat any type of cancer.

hap, that's the point. That area is dominated by clans, and the Saudi king, the king of Jordan, the former king of Iraq, the Assads, and Saddam all were or became clan leaders. None of them are or were saints. Once we had Saddam boxed in with the No-Fly zones, all we needed to do was continue playing realpolitik with Iraq, especially after 9/11. If there had been no rush to prepare the Iraq invasion, the Bushies would have permitted more Rangers in Tora Bora instead of using bribable Afghani surrogates, and we would have caught Bin Laden and al-Zawahri instead of letting them get through to continue their existence.

Big earthquake just now...I live in the LA area, it lasted a long time but not so strong. Probably far away.

Edit: epicenter was in Chino, 29 miles ESE of downtown LA, initial reports are 5.8 on the Richter scale. This number usually goes up over time.

Here's a nice little excerpt about this charming Fox News fan:
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Adkisson "stated that he had targeted the church because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of the major media outlets," Investigator Steve Still wrote.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/28/jim-d-adkisson-charged-in_n_115281.html

So we've got Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, and this guy Adkisson. Now, fellow I-Hubbers, I should point out that while these three are right-wing conservatives who love Rush, Sean, Ann, and Fox News, not all right-wingers are Olympic bombers or church shooters. The same thing is true regarding closeted gays. Just because Senator Larry Craig, Senator Bob Allen, Rep. Mark Foley, Reverend Ted Haggard, etc. are in and out of the closet, not all right-wingers are closeted gays. So when you see one, don't assume they're a terrorist or that they want to have gay sex with you. "Assume" makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me."

Hannity, O'Reilly, Savage, on Killer's Reading List

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/a-murderers-bookshelf-han_b_115497.html

Posted July 28, 2008 | 09:09 PM (EST)

This morning I wrote (in "Monster") that Sean Hannity et al. might bear some share of moral responsibility for the killings in Knoxville. Sadly for everyone concerned, that may be true.

This evening we learn from the Knoxville News that officers entering the home of murder Jim Adkisson "found Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder by radio talk show host Michael Savage, Let Freedom Ring by talk show host Sean Hannity, and The O'Reilly Factor, by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly."

The presence of somebody's books in a mentally disturbed person's home does not make them accessories to a killing. But right-wing rhetoric toward liberals and humanists like those who attended the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church has been exceptionally violent for years. Liberal groups are often called "Nazi" or "Nazi-like" by O'Reilly (he even said that about our own Arianna Huffington). Savage says he'd "hang every lawyer" who tried to establish constitutional rights for Guantanamo prisoners, describes Obama as an "Afro-Leninist," and said the folks at Media Matters were "brownshirts." He describes Rep. Wexler as a "Nazi" and calls Nancy Pelosi a "Mussolini."

As for Hannity, he said that "there are things in life worth fighting and dying for and one of 'em is making sure Nancy Pelosidoesn't become the speaker (of the House)." Think about it: "worth fighting and dying for."

And that's just a sampler.

Ann Coulter says liberals should be beaten with baseball bats and tried for treason (she's not clear about the order in which these events are to take place.) Dick Morris says they're "traitors" who should be decapitated.

I had a friend at Clear Channel (yes, I have a broad group of friends) who described some of these people as "entertainers." Don't you get it, guys? You use inflammatory images that equates your fellow Americans with violent enemies of the nation. Then you act surprised when a mentally ill person believes you and kills. You use the language of war and then say you're not to blame when somebody enlists in your imaginary struggle.

Their next step will be outrage - outrage! - at the idea that they may be morally accountable for this action, the possible fruit of their rhetoric.

We all need to be thoughtful about the impact of our words. But the Right has made it their business to promote a particularly virulent brand of hatred. Would Jim Adkisson have killed without all that prompting from the vituperative chorus of the right? We'll never know. But it's looking less likely with every passing hour that he would ever have entered a church filled with children and started shooting.

If they found something I wrote in a killer's home, I'd stop what I was doing and begin some serious self-reflection. I'd write about it, consider my errors, and try to make amends. Wouldn't you? Not that censorship isn't the answer. Not every reprehensible act can be legislated away. Sometimes the most effective way to change people is to hold them accountable. That includes not only Fox News, in this case, but also CNN - who recently gave the anchor chair to hate-speaker Glenn Beck.

Guys, it's not "entertainment" any more - if it ever was. We need to hold those in the boardroom accountable, too. They make their money and serve their political agenda by telling hundreds of millions of people that liberal Americans are treacherous and mentally ill enemies of the state. And they use the public airwaves to do it.

If these right-wing pundits are as devout as they say they are they'll stop, think, and ask forgiveness. That goes for their corporate paymasters, too. I hope they do for their own sakes, though I don't expect it.

As for the rest of us, it's time to look at new strategies for containing the spread of hate speech in our media. The old ways aren't working.

RJ Eskow blogs at:

A Night Light
The Sentinel Effect: Healthcare Blog
Future-While-U-Wait
RJ Eskow at the Huffington Post

The terrible Tennessee church shooting appears to be right-wing terrorism. I wonder if the shooter was inspired by talk radio...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_us/church_shooting

Good for Pat

F6, just curious. There was a certain poster who got banned from the board a couple weeks ago. I'm a newbie here, so I probably missed some posting history, but the guy who was banned didn't seem to be making personal attacks on other posters here with his public posts. Was he doing it in private, or did I miss some personal attacks? The reason I'm asking is that I'm a little bit concerned about participating in an echo chamber. Sometimes it breaks up the monotony to poke holes in the arguments/opinions of others, especially when they are opinions of f*cktards like Limbaugh, Malkin, or Coulter. Anyway, I can't send this as a PM, but I don't mind if I get back an answer via PM or public board. I really do like this board when I get the chance to read it, as I get to see some good stuff I might have missed otherwise.

Obama's great uncle talks about liberating Buchenwald:
http://tinyurl.com/5ob3kb

The only major national poll that polls cellphone-only voters (i.e. no landline phone) is the Pew poll. These voters are at least 2-1 for Obama, and probably comprise 15-20% of the electorate. Also, any poll that has a primary focus of "likely" voters is going to narrow Obama's lead, because the category of "likely" voters is skewed towards older, frequent voters. A major portion of Obama's base is the 18-29 age range, with many of these being first-time voters. The race is simply not as close as the MSM says, but they will play up this meme because it makes them more relevant.

Edit: I'm sure there is a large overlap between the 18-29 age range voters and the cellphone-only voters, but the fact remains that this is Obama's base. McCain's base is the mainstream media, especially those who ride along on the Lapdog Express. There are a lot more voters in Obama's base than there are in McCain's.

Blog article linked to Yahoo from Srmana Mitra, with IDCC mentioned:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/85810-3g-iphones-top-five-component-beneficiaries?source=yahoo

<<You seem more worried about her sexual orientation than you do the content of the articles. Her articles are very frequently enlightening and accurate. I mainly post her articles for other people who seem to enjoy her.>>

Coulter seems to be living a lie, that's why I can't stand him. And your second sentence would actually be accurate if you changed "Her" to "His," and "very frequently" to "almost never."

Dude...why do you pollute this board with posts from that ugly tranny? I could understand it if you copied and pasted some columns written by some of those Thai shemales, because they go to great lengths to make it look like they're feminine. But Coulter doesn't.

I think Bayh would be a bad choice for VP, seeing how he was one of the big Dem neocon supporters of the Iraq War in 2003. I'd rather see Gephardt or Edwards, preferably Gephardt. Edwards could then be Atty General, and we could turn him loose on the Bush Admin officials and the crooked hedge funds.

<<Hope you can explain to me! I always thought that an essential patent was one that was embedded in the technology and was used in every 3G phone manufactured. Pretty sure it has been stated here before that neither of those 2 patents(1 conceded,1 found by English courts to be essential) are involved in the Samsung case, why not.>>

I thought that NOK had cherry-picked IDCC's declared essential patent portfolio and used what NOK believed were the legally weakest 30 or so of those patents, then filed suit in the UK to declare those patents non-essential (or maybe even invalid).

In the USA Intl Trade Commission cases against Sammy and NOK, wasn't it IDCC that chose the particular essential patents (some of the strongest patents legally) to include in the ITC cases? To me, that would be the biggest difference between the UK and the USA-ITC cases. Not only that, but I thought that IDCC tried to include in the USA-ITC Sammy case the one patent in the UK case that Judge Pumfrey ruled essential. Not sure if IDCC succeeded.

MoDo usually writes fluff pieces about unimportant aspects of the candidates. It's surprising when she doesn't.

Here is a post of mine on the IDCC board that was deleted by the Admin. I would imagine that some closeted right-wing bum bandit whined to the I-Hub Admin because I used a more appropriate description of the US Dollar than "US dollar." The reason I don't believe my post was that off-topic is because Nokia has been able to take advantage of the plunging W peso (there I go again) to continue bleeding IDCC through the courts, and will thus get an ultimate discount when all is said and done. Anyway, here is my deleted post:

Post Date: 7/13/2008 3:40:30 PM in reply to 30662046 by bulldzr
Board: InterDigital Communications

OT-Bulldzr, the W peso has lost so much ground against the other major currencies that it's almost incomprehensible. When you
a) start a war of choice in the middle of a major oil region
while
b) cutting taxes that would normally pay for that war
and
c) removing almost all regulation of commodity market speculation
and
d) pressuring your central bank to lower interest rates to keep consumer spending high while discouraging saving,
you
e) end up with a laughingstock of a currency.

OT-I see you answered your own statement EOM

<<As far as fucking up the terrorist. He is doing an excellent job.>>

Are you serious? The Taliban has virtually quadrupled in strength since Dubya chose to let Osama and Al Zawahiri get away from Tora Bora, and now they not only control large swaths of Afghanistan, but whole regions of Pakistan, too. And the Pakistani govt has nuclear capability. His total incompetence at fighting terrorism (and inability to stop 9/11 despite all the warnings) has made the world a much more dangerous place and put our country in great danger.

Not sure what everyone is so upset about. All wrongs will be righted when Sen. Leahy sends out another sternly worded letter.

What an idiot. The crazy thing is that this probably improves Obama's odds of winning.

What a relief for everyone over there to finally be rid of that yellowcake. What's hilarious is that several right-wing blogs jumped on this story and actually claimed that it was conclusive proof Iraq was developing WMDs, so we were right to invade Iraq again in 2003.

PS-Hi F6

Nice straw man argument there. I'll go one better. He could also be one of those Americans who believes that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon is our Lord and Savior, and wants to curry favor with Moon's ally George W. Bush, so he issued an opinion favoring Samsung.

I don't believe anyone posted Vijay's latest on IDCC. This probably came out on Monday morning.

http://wirelessanalyst.blogspot.com/2008/07/interdigital-more-good-news-on-its-way.html

I would add a few more ones to that:

+111111111

I don't post often, but I do recognize cheap shots at the moderator when I see them. The original post that started this thread was not one of them, but the follow-on posts were definite cheap shots...no good reason for those posts at all.

Latest Vijay blog post mentions IDCC...scroll down to comments to get Vijay's thoughts on how much IDCC would be worth in a buyout. Sorry if already posted.

http://wirelessanalyst.blogspot.com/2008/05/icera-another-option-for-ti.html

Vijay posts about the IDCC conf call. Sorry if already posted.

http://wirelessanalyst.blogspot.com/2008/05/interdigital-exceeds-expectations.html

Vijay's blog mentions WiMax, 802.21, and IDCC. He discloses at the bottom that he's long IDCC.

http://wirelessanalyst.blogspot.com/2008/05/3g-iphones-wimax-rumors.html

+3

Currently there is no moderator. eom

OT-Just want everyone to know that I've resigned as moderator for this board. The board became co-opted by another moderator and there was nothing I could do about it.

Don't you mean 9902A (the second trial)? Should I delete your post so you can make the edit?

<<Shots on goal.

Sodium chloride will be stat sig for prostate cancer if you take enough looks at data sets.

I really don't want to get into the debate of why they changed the SPA, but it is CLEAR that the 360 event data will not do the trick.>>

Just to be clear, you mean that the 360-event data won't get FDA approval if the 304-event data has already failed.

Sorry, I'll have to disagree as well. I stated that program survival bias is a plausible theory, but it's less likely to occur if your nonpivotal Phase 2/3 trials are randomized. In other words, randomizing your earlier trials gives you a better idea if your drug works. This is something that responsible biotechs should do, instead of data-mining your Phase 3 (first randomized trial) in order to find a subgroup that saw success.

The theory of program-survival bias is much more plausible than it already is when the pivotal trial for a drug is the first double-blind, randomized trial.

Infineon, InterDigital in iPhone 3G?
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Not sure if this was posted here on I-Hub yesterday:

"The web is abuzz with the news that the latest iPhone 2.0 beta software revealed whose chipset was at the heart of the impending 3G iPhone...."
http://wirelessanalyst.blogspot.com/2008/04/infineon-interdigital-in-iphone-3g.html

<<Also note the bogus comparison of the benefit of GVAX shown in the phase-2 data vs. that of Taxotere shown in a much sicker population. The predicted survival time of patients before GVAX treatment was already better than the actual survival time of patients treated with Taxotere. Should that not tell them that the comparison was invalid due to wildly different patient populations? If this sort of sloppy thinking was a part of the trial design process...>>

It was a part of the trial design process. In the buildup to the trial initiation, and for awhile after that, CEGE trumpeted VITAL-1's 80% power to be stat sig if the median survival beat Taxotere's by 33%, and referred to the initial 18.9-month median survival figure for the ITT population of TAX327. This is the main reason that I'm skeptical of VITAL-1's chances for success.

You could be right. Perhaps that was the reason the NOK CFO spouted off this morning. I wonder if we'll ever get to know the actual truth.

I'm not sure why you keep insisting that it was a PR that IDCC issued yesterday. It wasn't. It was an 8K, which the company probably felt was necessary, possibly due to the buyback not being finished yet. I would also assume that the wording of the 8K was vetted by someone at NOK prior to its release.