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- Hm, I was kinda shocked when I realized that I could have discovered something cool. But now, after some sleep, a shower and some thought I had to realize that I did pretty much nothing that can be considered ground-breaking. If you head over to mezzoblue.com you will see what I meant: Dave's using FIR on links. |
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- (US) Prosecutors said two victims were killed in May as part of a plot to make money by kidnapping and robbing drug dealers. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Prosecutors said two victims were killed in May as part of a plot to make money by kidnapping and robbing drug dealers. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- Such initiatives have so far focused more on efforts to combat terrorism, drug trafficking and corruption. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(55%), $propaganda_theme1(55%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- shabu-shabu (crystal amphetamine) and four ecstasy pills -- as evidence from the suspects. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $hallucinogen(60%), $MDMA(60%), $stimulant(100%), $amphetamines(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- (US) Prosecutors said two victims were killed in May as part of a plot to make money by kidnapping and robbing drug dealers. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Prosecutors said two victims were killed in May as part of a plot to make money by kidnapping and robbing drug dealers. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Prosecutors said two victims were killed in May as part of a plot to make money by kidnapping and robbing drug dealers. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Prosecutors said two victims were killed in May as part of a plot to make money by kidnapping and robbing drug dealers. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- From the black table the latest installment of the week in Craig, this week ragging on Red Sox fans. (perhaps I’m the only person who finds this column somewhat amusing). From the article: OK. |
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- John Gilmore who is one of the creators of Usenet as well as the founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has an interesting page on his site about drug law reform. Gilmore takes a position which I’ve never heard before. He believes that by limiting our abilities to get drugs the government is perpetrating some kind of mind control… Our government’ |
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QTL? (Oct 12 2003 23:21 GMT) - so apparently all of my bosses and the bigwigs in the lab are at this QTL conference today. I don’t have much work I can do right now, so it’s going to be a boring day of find out what I can get done. I didn’ |
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- I’m taking a trip from Portland to San Francisco (and quite possibly Monterey)…down PCH101. Takin my car, a tent, sleeping bag, my mountain bike, maps, some food, water, and a camera. Anybody have a suggestion of a beach, vista, campground or trail that comes to mind along 101? |
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- Hello. The frustration that I would like to discuss has to do with internet blocked-sites. I work at a large Financial company, and it seems as though our IT dept. is decreasing our Internet-freedom more and more each day. Hotmail is blocked, the onion. |
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- Check it out…was looking for an MPG of the 1812 Overture (typed “1812 mpg"), and found a neat new feature to google that calculates mathematical coversions between USA and Metric. 1,812 miles per gallon = 770.360395 kilometers per liter. |
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friendster (Oct 12 2003 23:21 GMT) - out of curiousity, how many of you guys have an account on friendster? I signed up for one today at the urging of my coworkers, and I’ve already found quite a few people I know on it. |
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- Are you in your late 20s or early 30s and not married? Does your mother pester you about when you are going to give her a grandchild? You now have a new response. Tell Mom you’re not just procrastinating: |
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- Arnold wins California. |
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Drivin' (Oct 12 2003 23:21 GMT) - I spend a ridiculous amount of time in my car for my job. I’m starting to get really bored with it. Any suggestions of things I can do to occupy myself? And fuckin’ |
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Thank You (Oct 12 2003 23:21 GMT) - … How to write a thank you note from the always good, the morning news. |
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indie rock (Oct 12 2003 23:21 GMT) - so you wanna fake being an indie rock expert? “Next, think about your shirtwear. An old undersized T-shirt is a safe bet, but it should be some vibrant color - green, orange, and yellow are all good choices - never white or black. White is gauche, and black is too glamorous, too L. |
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- And once again the world laughs. http://www. cnn. com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/03/bus poem. |
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- Extreme Pumpkins.com - Pumpkin carving at its wildest! At what point did the carving of pumpkins turn into a “cute” event? |
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Picasso (Oct 12 2003 23:21 GMT) - The online Picasso exhibit offers up almost 7,000 of his paintings as well as an extremely detailed chronology. |
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- This site is in the process of being moved to a new hosting provider, so things are a bit rough still. Give me a day or two to find and tweak all the bugs. |
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- The wedding yesterday was a tremendous success. The happy couple are now blissfully wed, the weather gods were generous, and... |
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- Some years back, I asked a British colleague, who was writing a piece on the Young British Artists, whether the promotion of the YBA--which amounted to little more than the hyping of hype--was some kind of Anglo conspiracy of artists, dealers, and reviewe |
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- Parisen viikkoa sitten Aamulehdessä haastatellut ravintoloitsijat kertoivat, että vaikka ravintolaruoan arvonlisävero laskisikin, ei se näkyisi hinnoissa. |
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- Petition: TELL CONGRESS YOU DEMAND A PROGRESSIVE AGENDA Date: 08/22/2003 http://www. thePetitionSite. |
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- Petition: TELL CONGRESS WE WANT A PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT UNDER MEDICARE PART B Date: 08/25/2003 Location: http://www. |
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- Interview with R. Buckminster Fuller -- Interviewer: A study of one thousand adolescents in Boston showed that seventy per cent are extremely pessimistic about the future, to the point where they don’t expect to have any future. In your travels, have you sensed this kind of pessimism among young people, and do you have any suggestions on how to convey to them your conviction that we are capable of making the world a hundred per cent physical success? |
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- Jonathan Rauch writes: That genetic engineering may be the most environmentally beneficial technology to have emerged in decades, or possibly centuries, is not immediately obvious. Certainly, at least, it is not obvious to the many U.S. and foreign environmental groups that regard biotechnology as a bê |
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- The Guardian UK -- The "war on terror" has weakened national arms controls and fuelled the proliferation of conventional weapons, a coalition of leading human rights charities warned yesterday. Launching a global campaign to regulate the arms trade, Amnesty International, Oxfam, and the International Network on Small Arms said that on average 500,000 people were killed each year by armed violence - roughly one victim a minute. Existing arms control laws, including those in Britain, are riddled with loopholes, the agencies claim, and what is needed is a common approach similar to the initiative that produced the 1997 Ottawa treaty banning landmines. ... In the "war on terror" ... |
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- BBC Science -- A major project will attempt to map out just how genes are controlled in the human body, scientists in the UK and Germany have told BBC News Online. The Human Epigenome Project will look for patterns in our "life code" that are associated with gene regulation but are also implicated in causing disease. Researchers at Epigenomics AG in Berlin and the Sanger Institute in Cambridge will take part in the five-year study. It was the Sanger centre which decoded one-third of the DNA found in humans. ... |
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- BBC Science -- Everyone would love a supercomputer but with a price tag of around $100m each they are not easy to come by. But in the United States staff and students at Virginia Tech have built one of the world's most powerful supercomputers for just $5m by plugging together hundreds of the latest computers from Apple. The project involved placing 1,100 brand new Apple G5 towers side by side, making it the world's most powerful "homebuilt" system. It is capable of 17.6 trillion floating point operations per second, with a combined storage capacity of 176 terabytes. |
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