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- The National Coalition for Gun Control says semi-automatic handguns need to be completely removed from the community. Coalition chairwoman Samantha Lee says the use of a stolen semi-automatic Glock pistol in a gunfight at a Hurstville carpark in Sydney on Sunday shows that legal handguns can easily become illegal guns. Ms Lee says the ownership of such guns outside the police force should be banned. |
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- The Supreme Court disappointed gun owner groups Monday, refusing to consider whether the Constitution guarantees people a personal right to own a gun. The court has never said if the right to 'keep and bear arms' applies to individuals. Although the Bush administration has endorsed individual gun-ownership rights, it did not encourage the justices to resolve the issue in this case involving a challenge of California laws banning high-powered weapons. Many other groups wanted the court to take the politically charged case, including the National Rifle Association, the Pink Pistols, a group of gay and lesbian gun owners; the Second Amendment Sisters; |
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- THC-Club "Somnamboul III" :Live: Neelix (U.S.T. |
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- Goazeit im Inside! :DJs: Paronamix (France) - Nagmanda + Mana Fusion (Gaia´s Electric Garden) - Fog (orbit X) - Saibot (Underground) - Jabo Tara -Mr.Beat - Bobtimal - Psychedelic DJ Team and more Dj`s legen über den Monat verteilt auf |
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- If my life depended on naming any one writer in a myriad as my "favourite", it would have to be Ursula K. Le Guin. This storyteller from Oregon has been a friend and constant companion down the decades almost since the thumb came out of my mouth and I found real pleasure in reading words of more than two syllables for myself. When French publishers took even a fine translation of Ursula's 'Earthsea Quartet' out of print for several years, just as the Kid was approaching an age to enjoy this one of her many worlds, I was furious. "They'll be back," one store assistant told me. |
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- There's been a lot of discussion lately about compulsory license schemes for music. I've said before that I'm skeptical about their practicality. One reason for my skepticism is a concern about the measurement problem, and especially about the technical details of how measurement would be done. To split up the revenue pool, compulsory license schemes all measure something -- some proxy for consumer demand -- and then give each copyright owner a share of the pie determined by the measured value. Most proposals require measuring how often a song is downloaded, or how often it is played. |
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- Yesterday I got spam that said 2003's Greatest j. Today I got spam that said 2003's Greatest i. I'm really excited to see what 2003's greatest h will look like. My guess: it will look like h. |
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- One day as the Little Red Hen was scratching in a field, she found a grain of wheat. "This wheat should be planted," she said. "Who will plant this grain ... |
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- Waiting for my CRTs to die PVRBlog (via Ole Eichhorn) cites Rooters and agrees with them that it would be a good year to wait to make your flat-screen TV buy. From my perch on the board of a flat panel technology company, I agree with them. The LCD market in particular seems to have settled into a roughly 18 months over/undersupply cycle, rather similar to the DRAM pattern. Right now, we're on the undersupply side, but within twelve months there will be significant new fab capacity coming on line, so price/performance should show marked improvements by next holiday season. Personally, I've been on a jihad (internal struggle only) against CRTs since I invested in that same company. |
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- Es war der vorläufige Höhepunkt im Rechtsstreit zwischen DaimlerChrysler und Kirk Kerkorian. Der Anwalt des US-Investors versuchte im Kreuzverhör, Vorstandschef... |
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- Via SayUncle comes the 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector. It attempts to match your positions with those of the current candidates,... |
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Fear (Dec 10 2003 21:38 GMT) - Bowling for Columbine was a lot about fear in American society. Feeding Fear: The New Security Culture on Alternet is... |
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- Cameroon may have set a long pace for other African countries in theglobal Information Technology (IT) Community, as the country, last weekend,sentenced its former Minister of Post and Telecommunication, MounchipouSeidou to a twenty-year jail term. |
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- AN Information and Communication Technology (ICT) consultant says smalland business entrepreneurs in Zambia have started recognising the benefitsof Internet use. |
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- MINISTER of Energy and Water Development George Mpombo, has said a newoil pipeline to connect Ndola and Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic ofCongo is in the offing. |
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- GOVERNMENT and two public service workers' unions on Monday resumed talks on the 40 per cent housing allowance a week after the Industrial Relations Court (IRC) threw out a case challenging the State's failure to pay. |
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- DR. Ernest Ndukwe, the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive ofNigeria Communications Commission, has said that the vision of hiscommission is to position Nigeria among the information-rich economies ofthe world within the next five years, adding that the commission iscommitted to providing the right environment that will attract massiveinvestment into the telecom sector. |
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- The first ever World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) intended toarticulate positions on how to bridge the digital divide between thedeveloped and developing world opens today in Geneva, the Switzerlandcapital. |
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- Money Market Association of Nigeria (MMAN), the umbrella body of banks'treasurers have faulted the federal government over round tripping in thebank industry. |
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- Oh Yogi, I've said a special prayer for you and your |
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- Frank, over at IMAO has some fun facts about Deanie Weenie. Here's a sample: |
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- SUAD has a HUGE issue with these guys... Just kidding.I like "The Grand Grimoire" the best, really... |
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- "A Catholic man has begun a campaign to halt the annual burning of an effigy of the Pope on a controversial bonfire in England."The annual event in the East Sussex town of Lewes also involves the display of anti-Catholic banners, children shouting anti-Papal slogans and cheering as the effigy is burned."[Thanks to loyal RelCath reader JS for that link]. |
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- Apropos the hate posts and the "die you liberal bastards" comments that pepper this site, Naomi Klein warns us of a far more serious phenomenon: The FTAA Summit in Miami represents the official homecoming of the "war on terror." The latest tactical and propaganda techniques honed in Iraq — from a Hollywoodized military to a militarized media — have now... |
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- Ashlee Vance: Rev. Al Sharpton did not invent the Internet. Not sure he knows how to use it...[The Register] |
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- Does the Gettysburg Address rendered in Powerpoint become every bit as exciting as a company meeting? |
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- Faut pas, mais alors vraiment pas jouer avec les couilles Buffalo Bill! |
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- Baldur's Gate 2-opfølgeren er ude, Aspyr udsender add-on til SimCity 4, og de har desuden kapret en af Westlake Interactive's dygtigste folk. |
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- the soldiers guarding the three men on the ground outside the house shot Ibrahim, Sabah, and Mohammed in the back of the head - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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