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- OK, go at it. All comments on Survivor for week 4 here. Let's start again with predictions for tonight: Who's winning challenges, who is getting booted, anything else you think might happen. (But you can talk about anything you want in this thread. |
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- Via Boing Boing Harlan Ellison: To all the other 49 states ” with the exception of Minnesota, whose election of a mountebank transcends even ours” the coronation of Ahnuld seems phantasmagoric. But not to us. |
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- In the following article, written shortly after the zionazi genocide in Jenin, a zionist freely ADMITS that zionists have obtained an "UNWRITTEN RU... - www.indymedia.org: |
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- Fang-Face writes "The Boston Globe has a most interesting article about a movement to repeal children's privacy rights in the matter of what they read at public libraries. I see lots of contentious issues inherent in this one, and most of them are enumerated in the article." They say the measure, which has cleared early legislative hurdles, is driven by parental concerns that children could be reading and watching materials about sex or violence without their knowledge. |
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- A Short Piece Says The National Library is planning to launch the International Islamic Digital Library (IIDL) during the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Summit. Its director-general Datuk Zawiyah Baba said the National Library had been working on the project since 2001 in collaboration with the Multimedia Development Corporation and major institutions and also institutions on Islam in Malaysia. |
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- Bill Drew writes "MERU releases WLAN voice, data system RCR Wireless News quot;We think there'sa strong business case for WLAN ... Offering voice via wireless local area network at the enterprise level can result in an improvement in ... nbsp;nbsp; |
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News (Oct 09 2003 15:58 GMT) - * I'll be the first to say Siegfried and Roy's tiger Montecore should not be punished for the attack. Anyone... |
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- Plan suggests shift on Rumsfeld - "Bush administration officials scrambled yesterday to downplay the disclosure by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld that he was not briefed about a White House effort to coordinate the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan. But national security specialists said the... Posted by abursey at 09:58 AM |
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- Construction of the Manhattan leg of a third water tunnel began this week. Known as "The Tunnel," the project started in 1970 and the 60-mile tunnel won't be completed until at least 2020, as its construction has been planned in stages (Stage 1, Westchester-Bronx-Northern Manhattan-Queens, was completed in 1998... |
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- Prince Norodom Narindrapong of Cambodia died of a heart attack in his Paris apartment, embassy officials and relatives said Thursday. He was 49. Narindrapong, one of 14 children of King Norodom Sihanouk, died early Tuesday and was found by police the next day, said Kim Virak, a spokesman for the Cambodian Embassy in Paris. |
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- eBay has published a radical redesign of their homepage. Instead of focusing on the variety of items available for sale... |
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- Clark to Return Money He Made From Speeches Retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark yesterday said he would return payments for several speeches on college campuses, reacting to a Washington Post report that his paid appearances may have violated election laws. |
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Kytka (Oct 09 2003 15:57 GMT) - Koleje nìkdy vedou hodnì daleko a hluboko. Jako rýhy našich chyb vedou i krajinou vzpomínek až tam, k obzoru, kde se spolu potkají. A tam se naše životy a sny spolu protnou ... (autor: Pupik) |
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- Excerpt: "The ERISA issues are not clear. The gray area is whether the State or Federal government has the right to regulate health insurance benefits -- a matter that will likely be resolved by the courts. The legislature was well aware of the ERISA issues and passsed a companion study bill that they hoped would clarify that even self-funded and insured employers would need to comply with SB2. We are researching this issue currently and will provide updates as answers become available. |
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- Excerpt: "Mental health parity is back as an important issue in Congress. The idea is to have the government require employers to pay for treating mental conditions the same way they pay for treating physical diseases. This approach sounds like a boon for people with psychiatric illness, but it's not. It would end up restricting care for the most desperately ill patients. |
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- Excerpt: "Genuine Medicare reform ... is being poisoned to death by politicians who want to give the mob and media what it has been yowling for these past months, importation legislation that reduces the prices and profits of drug and biotech firms." (Robert Goldberg in the Washington Times) |
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- Excerpt: "House conservatives sought unsuccessfully this week to convince the House to endorse cutting the cost of a Medicare prescription-drug benefit by requiring wealthy seniors to pay more of their own drug costs." (Washington Times) |
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- write a app that will compute/display bonuses earned by ee. employee, the total bonus pd for ea employee category as well as the grand total of all bonuses pd. Interface will have txt bx for emp (more...) Keywords: |
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- Your task is to research, plan, design and develop an interactive multimedia application (CD-ROM) that focuses on promoting the work of TELCO: The East London Communities Organisation : URL: http (more...) Keywords: |
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Fully-owned (Oct 09 2003 15:57 GMT) - Mark Steyn takes down Valerie Plame, her husband, the French, and all the other usual suspects. Drink alert.... |
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Spy vs. Spy (Oct 09 2003 15:57 GMT) - Kalin Todorov, writing for Sofia's 168 Tchasa, sees Russian spies behind three concurrent intelligence scandals in Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia. |
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- Ohh, hours of watching the Matrix and other geek films (Lisa being away) -) I would be watching my Led Zep DVD on surround sound iff Sue was on vacation-) She doesn't let me watch it when she's homeComment from Sam Gentile |
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.st (Oct 09 2003 15:56 GMT) - Sao Tome and Principe.... |
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.st (Oct 09 2003 15:56 GMT) - Sao Tome and Principe.... |
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- Apple is now taking orders for Panther, and Panther Server, both due 2003 October 24. [MacInTouch] • "Panther" is "Apple"'s name for version 10.3 of the Operating System (OS) for its "Mac" computers. |
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- USS Clueless - Gerrymandering |
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- Canadians Ask Probe of Deportation to Syria Members of Canada's Parliament have called for an investigation into the case of a Canadian man who was arrested by U.S. officials in New York last year, held as a suspected terrorist, then deported to Syria where he may have been tortured. |
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- Next week space will likely to become more crowded. China is expected to launch its first manned space flight. Only the third country to do so. |
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- For information regarding this free seminar please click here: |
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- Oct. 9 - For the second time this week, a riot broke out at URI in Kingston following a Red Sox win. Fires were started, cars overturned and some hurt in this riot. |
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- Oct. 9 - Here is a sneak peek at the New England Economic Project's latest forecast on where the economy might go in the upcoming months. |
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- Earlier this month 1&1 Internet extended its operations into the US opening a datacenter in St. Louis, and launching... |
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- FTC Set To Process Protests of Sales Calls The Federal Trade Commission said yesterday that it will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday -- after a court-imposed 10-day delay -- to accept complaints from people who put their phone numbers on the national anti-telemarketing registry. |
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- (UK) Toni-Ann was in the care of Birmingham City Council social services when she went to stay with her father, a convicted drug dealer. Mr Byfield, a Briton raised in Jamaica, served nine years in a British prison for dealing crack cocaine and survived a similar shooting a year ago. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (UK) Toni-Ann was in the care of Birmingham City Council social services when she went to stay with her father, a convicted drug dealer. Mr Byfield, a Briton raised in Jamaica, served nine years in a British prison for dealing crack cocaine and survived a similar shooting a year ago. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- "If ever a plan came together for Apple Computer it was in QuickTime, the cross-platform audio and video file format that, perhaps surprisingly, is now 12 years old," Garry Barker reports for The Age. "It may be the most ubiquitous software on the planet... QuickTime is in its sixth incarnation and still being downloaded 350,000 times a day. In the 14 months since the introduction of QuickTime 6.0, Apple has given it away 141,325,656 times - plus the 2 million or so more... |
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- Wired: Cloaking Device Made for Spammers "Call them spackers -- they're the new breed of computer crackers who earn a living in cahoots with spammers. The latest innovations developed by such mercenary hackers on behalf of the junk e-mail profession are techniques that enable spammers -- or scam artists for that matter -- to create websites that are essentially untraceable. One group in Poland is currently advertising "invisible bulletproof hosting" in online forums for spammers. For $1,500 per month, the group says it can protect a site from network sleuthing tools used by spam opponents, such as traceroute and whois. |
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