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- Jonah Goldberg has the best answer to campaign finance reform I've ever seen: expand the Congress. With more members of the House of Representatives, there will be fewer constituents per seat, meaning lower media costs to run for office and therefore less worry about raising money. John Lott, meanwhile, tells us that current campaign finance laws are dying as the National Rifle Association has already figured out how to exercise its free speech within the law. The BCRA exempts media outlets from its stifling of political speech, so the NRA has decided to buy a television station! |
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- From: NTD - Dec 19, 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2003 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL PAMELA C. HOLDEN DIRECTOR OF MEDIA 860-724-5179, ext. 3023 pcastle@ntd.org NATIONAL THEATRE OF THE DEAF ANNOUNCES THEIR 2004 HARTFORD DEBUT OF "THE GIVING TREE"... |
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- John Ziegler will come to Los Angeles in January and work the 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. shift "live and local," as they say, reports LA Radio. |
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- transcript of press conference by secretary-general kofi annan at united nations headquarters, new york, on 18 december 2003 |
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- new zealand prime minister helen clark receives ceres medal |
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- economic and social council, resuming 2003 session, hears from ad hoc group on activities in support of burundi |
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- Leo en la prensa española: "La integridad misma de la nación y el régimen constitucional están en clarísimo peligro...". Es el ambiente que se respira en la piel de toro. |
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- good governmance essential for political stability, economic growth says secretary-general in message to west african summit |
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- Maragall no puede convocar un referéndum "con la ley en la mano", pues se trata de una competencia exclusiva del Estado. Luego su estrategia –retórica aparte– es otra: la aprobación en Cortes de la reforma del Estatuto. |
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- international experts condemn curbs on freedom of expression, control over media, journalists |
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- record number of donors support unfpa in 2003 |
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- press statement on guinea-bissau by security council president |
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- secretary-general encouraged by commitment to implement plan for democratic transition in myanmar |
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- Apple has posted the theatrical trailer for the upcoming movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. 4 sizes of Quicktime for your viewing enjoyment. See also the official site at FuzzyDave's earlier post. |
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- PVP is my favorite online comic. It chronicles the exploits of the staff of a videogame review magazine. It is FanBoy humor at its best. The link above will take you to the PVP Christmas Special. |
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- "Warning: In this column I'll be discussing certain male body parts and functions, so it's probably only suitable for mature audiences (or at least people who aren't offended by the word "penis"). Special Warning to Guys: I'll also be describing someone being injured in the most painful area you can imagine. |
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Droppings (Dec 19 2003 23:10 GMT) - Citizens in Durham, tired of watching the weather as their main source of entertainment, are creating handmade Christmas cards, decorated with cow dung. Crayon sales have thus skyrocketed |
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- html generator from a folder’s items |
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- SmashDB is database abstraction class with suppport for several types of RDBMS in a single class: MySQL, PostgreSQL, mSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Interbase, Sybase, and Oracle. |
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- SmashDB is database abstraction class with suppport for several types of RDBMS in a single class: MySQL, PostgreSQL, mSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Interbase, Sybase, and Oracle. |
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- The search technology supports a range of content types and sources including text, video and audio files, HTML, XML, and over 200 proprietary document formats ... |
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- The new release introduces “simple yet powerful new data transformation capabilities and also allows insurance carriers to handle extremely large XML schemas ... |
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- Over 50 new features, like visual studio .NET upgrade and XML support. Integrate reports with your B2B and B2C applications via XML access or export. ... |
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- Instead of altering source material during color grading as conventional color correction systems do, SpeedGrade attaches XML-based color correction parameters ... |
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- In response, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) emerged as an XML-based messaging layer on top of HTTP and other Internet protocols. ... |
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- In response, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) emerged as an XML-based messaging layer on top of HTTP and other Internet protocols. ... |
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- Dec 17, 2003 ... week's XML-Deviant ("The TAG's Town Hall"), filed from the XML Conference 2003 in Philadelphia, I described the town hall meeting held by members of the W3C's ... |
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- For the original crowd, some of whom I met for the first time (putting names not only to faces but to W3C specs), XML had always been about documents. ... |
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- XML data and documents. The W3C has completed its latest draft proposals for specs governing XQuery data models. The Last Call drafts ... |
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- A man allegedly shot by his beauty-queen girlfriend during an argument over another woman died Friday from the injuries, police said. Sharron Nicole Redmond, who holds the title of Miss Savannah, was expected to turn herself in Saturday to face a murder charge, Savannah-Chatham County police spokesman Sgt. Mike Wilson said. |
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- Another challenge for Red hat comes from SuSE Linux, which Novell plans to acquire for $210 million by January. Analysts expect ... |
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- Red Hat's Fedora project is likely to produce one of the first major Linux distributions sporting the new 2.6 kernel, with release of the next version, Fedora ... |
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- Red Hat Inc. jumped $3.21 to $17.49 after the provider of Linux-based operating systems reported third-quarter earnings that met expectations; the company also ... |
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- Just a few short days after a national antispam measure was signed into law, New York state attorney general Eliot Spitzer has filed a civil lawsuit against three marketing companies for mass e-mailing what he claims are fraudulent communications. |
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- RealNetworks has filed a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging the software giant used its dominance to thwart fair competition in the digital-media market. "We believe that Microsoft has conducted a series of illegal tactics and predatory practices," says RealNetworks spokesperson Greg Chiemingo. |
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- Spending on security systems is growing, fueled in large part by the introduction of new products that make it easier for businesses to protect their resources, according to research by IDC. The global security server appliance market reached $379 million in revenues for the third quarter of 2003, the firm reports. |
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- How fast is fast enough? That is the question buyers of Wi-Fi wireless local area network equipment are asking themselves in the wake of new standards and claims by vendors that they can deliver data at eye-popping rates. In reality, the systems for small business and home networks rarely approach those rates -- for a variety of reasons. |
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- It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, but scientists who are fooling with the mechanisms of Mother Nature's wrath are developing a clever tool to fend off malicious viruses, slippery worms, and other nasty cyber attacks. |
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- You have to look hard on Chordiant's Web site to find "CRM." Surprisingly, given that Chordiant is, well, a vendor of CRM technology, this is entirely by design. Some 18 months ago, the company made a conscious decision to abandon its CRM roots and embrace a then novel strategy: business process automation. |
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- BT has kicked off a series of trials to assess the feasibility of delivering wireless broadband to rural areas, as part of its effort to achieve 100 percent broadband coverage in the UK by 2005. |
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- Red Hat Inc. jumped $3.21 to $17.49 after the provider of Linux-based operating systems reported third-quarter earnings that met expectations; the company also ... |
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- We demand that the illegitimate pResident George W Bush and his vice pResident Dick Cheney resign from office for the fraudulent act... |
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- PowerSkip is the next stop in our exploration of the Human-Technology-Fun (H-T-F) connection. In order to understand the ramifications of it all, we once again find ourselves looking at a video of the thing in action. Clearly, the PowerSkipper who is f |
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- Red Hat's products run on Linux, which is a freely distributed operating system that has emerged in recent years as a strong competitor to Microsoft's Windows ... |
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