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- öllu auðveldu, verður fyrir mörgum erfiðleikum. Þess vegna tekur hinn vitri það jafnvel alvarlega, sem auðvelt virðist, og ... |
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- it”MAUS – af tilvonandi breiðskífu - “Musick”Birkir og Þórir eru búnir að fara þrjár ferðir um miðbæinn til að líma upp pla ... |
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- Timothy Noah, in Slate's Chatterbox asks why the casinos told the press about Bennett's losses, information that is generally kept private. The speculation appears to be that the casinos either thought that Bennett and his colleagues at Empower America were after them, or more broadly just didn't like his moralizing. |
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France: (May 05 2003 23:59 GMT) - I'm not big on France-bashing -- I disapprove of how the French government has handled matters recently, but I don't see that as a reason to boycott, rename foods, and the like. This having been said, I liked the latest joke (or is it?) coming around; author unknown:American to Frenchman: |
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- The OIC v. Favish certiorari grant (see below) reminded me of a bumper sticker I saw when the Foster matter first hit the news:If Vince Foster had a gun, he'd be alive today |
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- Dan's post below about the precautionary principle reminded me of this post from last August, which further illustrates the problem with the precautionary principle; I thought I'd take the liberty of reposting it -- please skip it if you've already read it. |
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- The European Union, as well as a great number of NGOs and environmental activists, believe that new technologies should be regulated according to the precautionary principle. A typical definition is:When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically. |
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- please include its text within the message. Yes, it doesn't take that long to just click on a link; but it does take some time, when aggregate over the dozens of such messages I get a day, and it takes especially long if I'm working from home. |
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- According to the AP,The plaintiff in a landmark 1964 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a suspect's right to a lawyer has been convicted in a 20-year-old murder case. A Cook County jury on Wednesday deliberated for about an hour before finding Daniel Escobedo guilty of killing shopkeeper Ki Hwan Kim with an ice pick in 1983. |
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Whoops: (May 05 2003 23:59 GMT) - OK, one last X2 post (for now), picking up on this Hit & Run post from Jeff Taylor. Jeff points out that Ebert seems to have missed what Wolverine's powers are. Following the link, I also note the following: Ebert says "Magneto, who has serious personal issues with mutants, has devised an invention which I will not describe, except to say that it provides some of the movie's best visuals. |
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- though in a highly attenuated context: Whether the Freedom of Information Act requires the Office of Independent Counsel to turn over certain photos of Foster's dead body, or whether that's exempted under FOIA's privacy exemption. |
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- People are condemning Bill Bennett, who has taken on the role of a spokesman for virtue and morality, for what seems to be a gambling habit that has lost him $8 million over the last ten years. (UPDATE: Several people suggested the $8 million might be gross losses, without any offset for winnings; I checked several press accounts, and they've generally said that he's lost over $8 million over the last decade, which in normal parlance means net losses. |
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- The prefix "in-" often means "not" -- e.g., "inflexible." Find two words that retain the same meaning (or very nearly the same meaning) when you add the prefix "in-" to them; and, if you want a harder problem, find three. |
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- Last month I blogged about how Robert Mugabe was trying to catch up to Castro as a totalitarian despot. Amnesty International just issued a report confirming the increasing denial of human rights in the countryPart of the reason Mugabe was succeeding w... |
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- The Boston Phoenix reports on a brief filed in the Nike v. Kasky that argues that corporations shouldn't have free speech rights. For a detailed explanation of why I don't buy this argument, see this blog post from last year. For now, let me n... |
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- Plans for "Grease 3" announced. Dow Jones down 50 in early trading.I need to start some blogging on serious matters soon, before Matt Yglesias' opinion of me falls any further... |
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- for the further delay on the article draft that I'm supposed to be writing. McMullen's Voyage of the Shadowmoon, which I just finished reading, is top-notch. The last couple of chapters are a bit weak, but the rest is very good indeed. |
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- Andrew Sullivan links to this Washington Times piece on the artists' letter supporting Fidel Castro in the wake of his recent crackdown on dissidents and drive-thru executions. What's truly appalling is the rationalization by Gabriel Garcia Marquez of his continued support for Castro: The Colombian writer defended himself in Tuesday's edition of the daily newspaper El Tiempo after U. |
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The (May 05 2003 23:59 GMT) - 22 year old schizophrenic Farrah Russell was rebuilding her life. But when the plug was pulled on the state program that allowed her to subsist, she took her life. Her heartbreaking story is a cautionary tale of the dark consequences of state budget cuts. While politicians argue over tax stimulus proposals that benefit the wealthy, while wild numbers are applied to war budgets, the States have been forced to cut social programs in order to survive. Whether it's California teachers, Connecticut and New York residents dreading tax hikes, Pennsylvania public transportation, or Texas prescription drug coverage for the poor, the States, supposedly United, have been left out to dry. |
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- First, there's been the fall of Ashley Banfield:Ashleigh Banfield's Career No Longer Seems to Shine as Bright Ash Ban's very... |
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- No Self-Defense Please, We're British. Reader Nathan Centofanti sends a link to this story in England's Independent: Government lawyers say burglars 'need protection' By Robert Verkaik, Legal Affairs Correspondent 05 May 2003 Government lawyers trying to keep the Norfolk farmer Tony Martin behind bars will tell a High Court judge tomorrow that burglars are members of the public who must be protected from violent householders. The case could help hundreds of criminals bring claims for damages for injury suffered while committing offences.... Martin had shot two burglars (killing one) in his house. |
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- A statue of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov was unveiled Monday in St. Petersburg, despite criticism from his widow who said today's Russia has failed her husband. |
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- A waitress went on trial Monday on charges that she gave birth to a healthy full-term baby boy in her bedroom during her family's Christmas dinner, then placed the newborn in a plastic bag to die. |
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- Quando EmmeBi chiama al listone non ci si può sottrarre. In questo caso sconto il mio provincialismo più mentale che geografico e scorrendo la sua lista e quella di Mantellini l'invidia è tanta e mi sento quasi inadeguato. |
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Pregunta (May 05 2003 23:58 GMT) - ¿Quien dijo eso de "en el futuro todos seremos famosos para 15 personas"? |
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Laberinto (May 05 2003 23:58 GMT) - Esta semana no habrá `laberinto por problemas técnicos... Esperamos que la semana que viene esto cambie |
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- No todos los días se lee un artículo así en un periódico gratuito, y además copyleft | Javier Rada | 20 minutos |La lucha de las ideas, como la lucha de clases, ha estallado en la revolución literaria. Ya no existe el autor individual, egocéntrico, amante de masas en el día de Sant Jordi. No existe tampoco el Copyrigth y la propiedad de las ideas. O al menos, ésta es la filosofía de cuatro boloñeses, escritores sin rostro y firma, forjados en las protestas por otra globalización. |
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- Quizás sea entre los pocos que en España aun no conocían a Julio Medem. Pero hoy finalmente entre a Lucía y el sexo. La verdad me quedo sin palabras, es un libro de literatura, una película que es una novela, que es una historia de amor. Un escritor se enfrenta a fantasmas reales en su libro, una mujer que se enfrenta a ese amor desenfrenado e irrasional. Es el cuerpo, las entrañas, que juntan a los amantes, a los padres y sus hijas. |
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- "It was supposed to be better with the Butterfly. So David Nelson decided to upgrade his company's Web site, switching to a high-speed service and MSN 8 Microsoft's new technology, touted as a guardian against spam and porn."... (Paul_Ramirez)ActiveWords free for 60 Days! |
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- "Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates hopes to wow a technical conference Tuesday by showing off a prototype of a new personal computer, but he won't spend much time detailing its processor speed, memory or other hardware and software minutiae"... (Paul_Ramirez)ActiveWords free for 60 Days! |
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- Ev is showing off his new Blogger templates. I think he calls it Leaf of the Coca or: Attack of the 50-pt Font. Either way, it's a lot better than mine, entitled: Old Geezer at Dullsville, Man. |
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- Lets keep up the protests less we look like losers and fools. "We have to stop the occupation. This is illegal. This is against international law"... |
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- Intel's personal server. From Intel, a prototype of a wireless, battery-powered personal server that can automatically connect to any PC or PDA within range. The idea is that you can carry one of these around in your pocket or bag, and have your files with you no matter what computer, PDA, or other device (think cellphone) you're using. Read [Thanks, Nick][Gizmodo] |
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