Waiving the rule gives companies a break from the brutal downturn in technology investment and time to determine the effect of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Posted by at September 30, 2001 10:32 PM

"One wonders: Why this obstinate course of starting a complicated and open ended war? Why are the American leaders showing such arrogance when their enormous power gives them the privilege of showing some moderation?" Castro said.

Posted by at September 30, 2001 09:50 PM

"He's a guy who just cut the RCMP's budget and he's talking about securing the perimeter"

Posted by at September 30, 2001 09:49 PM

Janitorial products manufacturer Impact Products has been inundated with orders from around the country and said it will donate half of the profits to the Red Cross. Two thousand rolls have already been made, with many more in the works.

Posted by at September 30, 2001 09:47 PM

This novel I'm working on had better be lucky seven, or I'm giving up writing altogether. Some days it seems like I've put some good and true stuff in there, and some days -- like today -- I think about the university only a ten minute walk from my house which offers some kind of filthy business degree, and which has already admitted me once, even if it was ten years ago when I was a hard eyed autoexpatriate in my mid-teens. If I'm going to be this broke I'd better be writing something worthwhile, and if I'm not, I might as well at least go make some money in the last remaining days of the Gadarene swine. I'm a pretty enough phrase turner to be welcome in marketing.

Posted by at September 30, 2001 06:41 PM

"I do not know the dates of the rules and regulations - but I am pretty sure in the 1950s doctors would have just said the research was all for the best and the samples could just be taken."

Posted by at September 30, 2001 05:40 PM

"Bush has stepped away from negotiations and directly gone to a war situation... He expects us to follow as if he is our amir (leader) but he is not our amir''

Posted by at September 30, 2001 04:20 PM

Echelon and CSE are interested in more than documenting domestic life through baby monitors.

Posted by at September 30, 2001 03:01 PM

Israeli Army officials say the people were shot because they refused to stop at the checkpoint, and that they are investigating the incident.

Posted by at September 30, 2001 01:26 PM

Furthermore, a staggering 80 per cent were unaware of the cost savings attributable to the company's information systems.

Posted by at September 30, 2001 10:55 AM

"There are a lot of families that are suddenly single parent families now," observed Joe Clark. "Some of the kids are young enough that they think their father is just away. Some who were a little older are actually at the beginning of a trauma that could last a lifetime to them."

Posted by at September 30, 2001 10:27 AM

"We'd all have been there - the President, all those politicians and me my girlfriend, Luciana."

Posted by at September 30, 2001 10:22 AM

If major suspects are located, the Delta Force could send in "snatch teams" trained to kidnap or kill individuals in high-speed operations using Blackhawk helicopters, special weaponry and sophisticated communications.

Posted by at September 30, 2001 10:18 AM

"It's not a matter of eliminating bin Laden. It's a matter of (eliminating) the whole terrorist network in Afghanistan. And the foundation of that network is the Taliban."

Posted by at September 30, 2001 10:16 AM

"For prostate cancer, you have a single marker, PSA, which is specific to prostate cancer," says Majumdar. "For other cancers, such as breast cancer, there is no specific marker, but instead multiple markers that are not specific to the breast. The combination of all those markers may indicate that you have breast cancer."

Posted by at September 30, 2001 07:26 AM

His boss told him that it looked like a penis and to report it to the police.

Posted by at September 30, 2001 07:16 AM

"It is the first time in Afghanistan's history that the lower classes are governing and by force. There are no educated people in this administration - they are all totally backward and illiterate.
"They have no idea of the history of the country and although they call themselves mullahs they have no idea of Islam. Nowhere does it say men must have beards or women cannot be educated; in fact, the Koran says people must seek education."

Posted by at September 29, 2001 10:36 PM

"I created death in Iraq. I had to get out"

Posted by at September 29, 2001 10:33 PM

"She's a very kind person and she wouldn't do anything wrong. When I spoke to her on the phone she told me she was working very hard, but it was very hot."

Posted by at September 29, 2001 10:29 PM

...perhaps most remarkable of all, the unique ballistics of firing projectiles close together means that the bullets farther back of the pack actually push those in front of them, thereby increasing bullet velocity.

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"The Taliban do not represent the Afghan people, who never elected or chose the Taliban faction," a memorandum summarizing the Bush administration policy states. "We do not want to choose who rules Afghanistan, but we will assist those who seek a peaceful, economically developing Afghanistan, free of terrorism."

Posted by at September 29, 2001 06:18 PM

"People embrace television. It's something that we share and that makes us feel like the whole world has not crashed down around us."

Posted by at September 29, 2001 06:14 PM

...I don't believe anything can be done to make terrorists surrender, and because I believe, in their world view, dying for their cause is a holy act, which means they are willing to take others out with them, as we have seen.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 05:39 PM

One player emails a photoshop document to the other containing a single layer. Each player progressively adds a layer until the match is over, either by time, withdrawal or mutual consent. A guest adds comments in real time and the people watching vote for a winner.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 03:49 PM

...all that needs to be transmitted is the information about the particles' properties, not the particles themselves.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 03:25 PM

The Atlas of Cyberspace, by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, is the first comprehensive book to explore the spatial and visual nature of cyberspace and its infrastructure.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 03:23 PM

Posted by at September 29, 2001 02:44 PM

That said, Taliban jokes are surfacing: Bin Laden phones President Bush and boasts he had a dream -- New York is a smoking rubble heap and a banner across the skyline reads "Welcome Osama bin Laden."
"Interesting," Bush replies. "I also had a dream."
"And what was that?" bin Laden asks.
"I dreamed Kabul was a city of skyscrapers, bright lights and big buildings, and there was a banner across the skyline."
"What did the banner say?" bin Laden asks.
"I don't know," Bush says. "I don't read Hebrew."

Posted by at September 29, 2001 02:19 PM

...the "delegations had met and discussed the situation" but gave no further details.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 02:16 PM

Opposition Marxists were, however, not mollified.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 02:00 PM

Two key leaders of the group, Maulana Fazalur Rehman Khalil and Farooq Kashmiri, went into hiding soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. Both of them fought with Afghan resistance forces against the Soviets in the 1980s.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 01:56 PM

At a news conference Friday, museum director Victor Rabinovitch said the exhibit, which took five years to plan, will open as originally scheduled Oct. 19. But he said the show would be more complete if organizers had extra time to work on "context" in light of the recent terrorist attacks.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 01:52 PM

Deregulation and technological change [in the early 1990s] had produced a major readjustment in international finance. And the Islamic world had been transformed by new political, economic and demographic circumstances (the impact of the Iranian revolution, the Gulf war, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the emergence of new Islamic states, a changing oil market, the rise of Asian tigers, a growing Islamic presence in the West, the emergence of new Islamic middle classes).

Posted by at September 29, 2001 01:44 PM

Indeed, protestors often prefer attacking McDonald's to attacking the local American Embassy.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 01:39 PM

Mr O'Hagan was shot in Lurgan, County Armagh on Friday as he walked home with his wife after a night out in a local pub.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 11:14 AM

The company's vice president of sales and marketing acknowledged that messages warning of attacks were received but would not comment on the contents of the messages.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 11:14 AM

"We're not going to get into the habit of commenting on every story that comes out of that region. It's a slippery slope once we start getting into that habit," a US Defense Department spokesman said.

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"Once the variation in size is known, condoms can be tailored to the needs of different regions," he said.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 10:58 AM

"If a judge came here, I'd tear him to pieces, that's how angry I am.[...] It was like hell living in that institution, and the things that happened to me -- we were terrorized."

Posted by at September 29, 2001 10:51 AM

Before we begin, let me say how tremendously excited everyone here at Generic Pictures is about the first draft. And with a few minor changes -- some tweaks, some sharpening -- we believe we will be able to attract an "A-list" director and stars, resulting in a major motion picture with international appeal. Herewith, then, our notes:

Posted by at September 29, 2001 10:47 AM

After the market closed, CMGI said it posted a net loss of $1.27 billion in the fourth quarter, or $3.70 per share. That compared with a net loss of $633.7 million, or $2.17 a share, in the year-ago quarter.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 10:26 AM

"Well, we went canoeing on the lake? Which was, like, really really fun? And then we had storytelling in the barn? And we all had to tell a story about, like, where we're from or our family or something?"

Posted by at September 29, 2001 10:23 AM

On September 30, 2001, The International Lyrics Server will be closing. Thank you for your support, and we appreciate your past patronage.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 09:43 AM

If the number of ads displayed is lower than should be there, the surfer is told to pay up or to disable the banner-blocking software in order to gain access to content, he said.

Posted by at September 29, 2001 08:12 AM

The incident began when a man was caught smoking in the washroom of the 767, said Nicole Couture-Simard, a spokesperson for Air Canada. He then became verbally abusive and "uttered an anti-American threat."

That'll be funny until someone gets hurt. And even then, maybe still.

Posted by at September 28, 2001 10:14 PM

He faces charges of giving false information when he applied for his pilot's licence but Sambir says he could soon be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

Posted by at September 28, 2001 10:12 PM

Powell blamed the Taliban government of Afghanistan, which he said has already refused a new request to relinquish the site so it could be tested for its load-bearing capacity.

Posted by at September 28, 2001 10:07 PM

The commandos are carrying out scouting and reconnaissance missions, but are not actively hunting for the prime suspect Osama bin Laden, the official said.

Posted by at September 28, 2001 09:05 PM

The Foreign Ministry called the report an attempt to undermine relations between the U.S. and Russia at a time of increased cooperation.

Posted by at September 28, 2001 09:04 PM

"Check all of your items ... your bag, your clothes, knives, your will, your IDs, your passport, all your papers ... Make sure that nobody is following you ... This is the custom of the good predecessors. Allah blessed them, for they tightened their clothes before battle. Also tighten your shoes well and wear tight stocks so they will not come out of the shoes. Perform the morning prayer in a group."

Posted by at September 28, 2001 09:04 PM

Come back here on Monday, October 1, 2001 where JAM! Music will be holding an exclusive listening session for Leonard Cohen's brand new album, "Ten New Songs". We will begin with the first two tracks off the album, "In My Secret Life" and "A Thousand Kisses Deep". We will continue through the week with two new tracks each day. In addition, we are giving away ten copies of Leonard Cohen's CD single "In My Secret Life". Email us with your address details here to win. (We'll pick ten random winners.)

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"You'll see it under Christmas trees or powering your Christmas trees by the end of the year," Ballard's Harris said.

Posted by at September 28, 2001 07:05 PM

"...you can't negotiate with these people. The best historical parallel is those at the top of the Nazi regime. It wasn't possible to negotiate with Hitler."

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"Antipathy toward America, long a cornerstone of being Canadian, seems to have evaporated rather rapidly," says Frank Graves, president of EKOS Research

Posted by at September 28, 2001 09:47 AM

"We are not even considering the idea," said a Bush spokesman today.

Posted by at September 28, 2001 09:46 AM

...There is an Osama bin Laden training film that uses my husband as the target...

Posted by at September 28, 2001 09:45 AM

In the interview, Mr. Jackson read from a transcript of the statements he said Mr. Shaheen had made to him. "We would like to see the situation resolved in a way that preserves the dignity and the integrity of all sides," Mr. Jackson said, reading from the transcript.

Posted by at September 28, 2001 09:43 AM

The shampoo software lifecycle, code, demo, repeat as necessary.

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Following is a brief analysis of the industries that have been, or stand to be, most impacted by the terrorist attacks. Included is the total amount in individual, PAC, and soft money contributions for those industries. (Note: All figures are based on data released electronically by the Federal Election Commission on Sept. 1, 2001.)

Posted by at September 27, 2001 08:12 PM

Teens are picking up plastic-covered trays of California rolls instead of ordering pizza, and ads from the Louisiana tourist board have jumped on the craze by rechristening oysters as "Cajun Sushi."

Posted by at September 27, 2001 04:15 PM

"The most dangerous place in the world is between a mother and her children," the caption reads.

Posted by at September 27, 2001 10:14 AM

Homosexuals were crushed under heavy mud walls. Conspiritors were hanged, and murderers were killed by the relatives of their victims, in game show-style events where the decision to forgive or seek revenge was left to the very last minute.

Posted by at September 27, 2001 09:29 AM

"When I go for a terrorist action and there is no other way than for me to die, I'll do it."

Posted by at September 27, 2001 08:49 AM

Disagreeing with our government's proposed strategies isn't treason -- it's the highest form of citizenship in a participatory democracy.

Posted by at September 27, 2001 08:47 AM

For years, the Federal Aviation Administration's Red Team conducted secret tests of airport security and found a failure rate approaching 90 percent. For years, it filed its reports with the bureaucrats we pay to see to security in the skies. And for years, the reports were stamped ("action" or "secret") and locked away.

Posted by at September 27, 2001 08:43 AM

Gone too are the huge sculptures in the plazas and the Joan Miro tapestry -- all commissioned or purchased by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which set aside 1% of the cost of building the World Trade Center for public art.

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Transport Canada will deploy hi-tech security equipment in airports despite privacy and health concerns and doubts about whether the systems even work.

Posted by at September 27, 2001 07:57 AM

Some of the crucial planning for the World Trade Center terrorist attack may have been done in Toronto, police now say.

Not, of course, that Canada has anything to do with it.

Posted by at September 27, 2001 07:55 AM

Swiss radio said a man, apparently disguised as a policeman, opened fire during a session of the canton of Zug's local assembly.

Posted by at September 27, 2001 07:51 AM

Oh, also, once when flying out of Toronto to South Bend, Indiana, I used a bus pass picture as photo ID.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 09:13 PM

"For example, we know that the mastermind has the approximate personality of a terrorist," Gramm said. "Also, he is senseless. New data is emerging all the time."

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The museum said it felt the delay was needed to give it time to add historical context on the Arab world to the exhibit, in light of terrorist attacks on the United States.
"I've been informed they want to do the exhibition in the month of March. If it is good for March 2002, it is good for October 2001," Chretien said.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 08:25 PM

"I felt like I was being asked to be the house Jew - it made my skin crawl."

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...appeared to be holding hands.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 06:56 PM

"Someone connected to Osama bin Laden was looking to buy a retired aircraft sometime in March. He was also trying to recruit Americans to buy it for him, to act as a front."

Posted by at September 26, 2001 06:24 PM

Zhu did not give details, but Chinese and U.S. counter-terrorism experts were due to meet in Washington on Tuesday following Beijing's agreement to exchange intelligence during a visit by Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan last week.

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..."whether by their own journalists or by retired military people, and if even greater care could be exercised in considering information which could be of use to the terrorists and their supporters."

Posted by at September 26, 2001 06:14 PM

Even in this time of war, anti-Americanism is a national sport up here; so too, it seems, is Canada's breezy indifference to fighting terrorism.

I'm surprised it took Mr Seeman so long to notice.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 06:11 PM

War blurs the distinction between a government's foreign policy and its citizens, a distinction that was obviously and tragically not appreciated by the WTC and Pentagon murderers.

I'm not certain it's appropriate to distinguish between a democratic government's foreign policy and its citizens, given that the citizens are supposed to be the ones selecting the officials that make the policy -- as opposed to a dictatorship, monarchy or oligarchy, where the citizens have no such input.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 06:08 PM

The FAA has already ordered new measures designed to improve the screening of airline and airport workers who have access to planes, tarmacs, runways, cargo and baggage areas, and congressional aides said legislative steps in this area were likely as well, such as mandatory criminal background checks.

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Even our memorial service, held on a national day of mourning and featuring thousands upon thousands of Canadians singing both O Canada and The Star-Spangled Banner, has been attacked in some circles for failing to include religious prayers, as American ceremonies did.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 03:21 PM

The FTC also plans to target Web sites owners engaged in a practice known as "pagejacking," a scheme whereby individuals copy innocuous Web pages and submit them to the major search engines. The altered pages contain hidden code that redirects users to an entirely different site, usually one laden with explicit adult images.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 03:18 PM

"Moral issues do not come to you with a sign saying 'I'm a moral issue; treat me in a special way.'"

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Posted by at September 26, 2001 01:57 PM

Opposition MPs seized on Chretien's decision to spill the beans at a $600-a-plate party fundraiser Monday in Toronto, rather than coming to Parliament to tell Canadians and MPs what went on.

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"The intellectual side of me is satisfied with the decision, but the pain that we all feel because of all the deaths mixes with this," [Phil Zimmerman, inventor of PGP] said. "It has been a horrific few days."

Posted by at September 26, 2001 09:13 AM

Seasoned Experts Much Better at Guiding Hysterical Sell-Off

Posted by at September 26, 2001 09:08 AM

Where employment records are unavailable or a missing individual was visiting in the World Trade Center, family members or others with personal knowledge of the individual's whereabouts, will be asked to file an affidavit attesting to the fact that the missing loved one was in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, and has not appeared since.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 09:01 AM

"The most common form of stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish," wrote Frederick Nietzsche. Our goals in responding to the airline crisis must be to ensure efficient and secure air travel capacity; to avoid needless job losses; to minimize adjustment costs; and to uphold norms of economic fairness. A bailout that simply shores up corporate balance sheets is unlikely to be the best way -- perhaps not necessary; certainly not sufficient -- to accomplish these tasks.

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Posted by at September 26, 2001 08:30 AM

Nate knew he was getting laid off from Nortel with the rest of the bunch in the Santa Clara office... so... he wore a full clown suit to work and made the HR people deal with him all dressed up.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 08:28 AM

The Taliban, says the author Ahmed Rashid, "is the hip-hop generation of Islamic militants. They know nothing about nothing. Their aim is the destruction of the status quo, but they offer nothing to replace it with."

Posted by at September 26, 2001 08:28 AM

"The Canadian passport has lots of security features . . . Our passport is a great travel document that's impossible to alter or to forge ? it needs incredibly acute, complex and state-of-the-art technology and knowledge to do so."
But that doesn't stop individuals from getting genuine passports using fake ID.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 08:24 AM

Place yourself for a moment in the position of the card issuer. Do you imagine that a committed terrorist would hesitate to put a gun to your child's head, demand that you issue the card, and then kill both of you to keep you quiet? If you resist, do you suppose that the next card issuer will also resist? How long do you suppose it will take for your body to be discovered? Certainly hours, perhaps days. The terrorist only needs one or two hours.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 08:22 AM

The Brussels meeting, also attended by Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov, is likely to reaffirm support for American action against Bin Laden, blamed by the US for the devastating attacks.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 08:17 AM

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"A powerful human being can become so arrogant, that he thinks he can distinguish between good or bad on his own."

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"Faculty members were finding students surfing the Net, sending instant messages, even looking at porn in some of the freshman intro classes," said Phillip Knutel, Bentley's director of academic technology.

Posted by at September 26, 2001 05:50 AM

"If the eye is the window of the soul," he argues, "then that window needs a shade. If the brain is a computer, then the eye is an open port, an unsecured opening against hackers."

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That Dubya is just plain weird.

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"[bin Laden] does not have a bank account that you can go and freeze. I mean, if he had, we would have done that a long time ago."

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...in many countries that have adopted a national ID system, people who fail to produce their cards on demand are regarded with suspicion, according to a report by the organization. In Greece and Argentina, for example, being caught cardless in public could land you at the local precinct, where the police will attempt to establish your identity using other methods...

I frequently leave the house with no ID at all, or leave my ID in the car.

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[Law professor Linda McKay-Panos] was charged $970 by Air Canada for an extra seat.

For chrissake, we're all getting fat because we're not allowed to smoke anymore. When will there be disgusting warning labels on cheesecake and McDonald's french fries, like there are on cigarettes in Canada?

Posted by at September 25, 2001 10:58 AM

Shares of Wi-Lan (TSE:WIN) plunged more than 30 per cent Tuesday after the company warned it may run out of money.

How refreshingly simple.

Posted by at September 25, 2001 10:49 AM

The morning of September 11, I was editing an article on digital cameras that I intended to turn in that weekend, well ahead of the end-of-September deadline. Just getting back to it now. See exactly where I stopped -- disconcerting.

Posted by at September 25, 2001 10:25 AM

We need to built bridges not walls right now

Posted by at September 25, 2001 10:17 AM

"What are the Americans going to do, look behind every tree and under every rock in Chechnya?'' said one source.

Posted by at September 25, 2001 10:11 AM

Every decent person in this country and in the world is grieving, even the ones whose politics make you shudder.

Posted by at September 25, 2001 09:56 AM

"When you look at the people and networks involved, you quickly realize that the apparent lack of structure and seemingly random intersection of operatives is very much intentional," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. "They don't want police to be able to follow one person to another and follow the trail back up to someone calling the shots. In reality, it's a hell of a lot more amorphous than that."

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"We need to monitor the issues as they are reported in the mainstream media, which - with some exceptions - are not giving an accurate picture of the situation in South Asia," he said.

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Just months before winning the $1 million prize, Collier and Fabian were homeless, sleeping on cardboard boxes, earning $50 a day as laborers when they found work.

Posted by at September 25, 2001 08:51 AM

Jonathan Tasini, president of the Writers' Union, said yesterday: "It's a blacklist. It says, `Don't hire these people.' What is sad about it is that we have reached out and tried to negotiate. This is not a way to reach out and negotiate."

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"Look, we are all changed. You are changed and so am I. Nobody will ever see things in the same way."

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The Brig Gen insisted that troops with a "western philosophy" and a will not to die would have "little chance against men who are willing to give their lives in a fight".

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U.S. President George W. Bush calls it "an amazing thing" that some Canadians were offended by his speech to Congress when he failed to include Canada as he thanked allies for their support in the campaign against terrorism.

So, hey, Uncle Dubya, can I borrow the car?

Posted by at September 24, 2001 01:26 PM

We have heard Harold Pinter and friends pleading with the West to stop a war we didn't start. A few of us have read a New Statesman editorial coming perilously close to suggesting that bond dealers in the World Trade Center had it coming.

Posted by at September 24, 2001 01:06 PM

"I think that we shouldn°Øt be in the business of assassinating foreign heads of state," says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. "On the other hand, I think that we should be in the business of preemptively eliminating people who we have profound reason to believe are threatening to kill Americans."
And if those people happen to be heads of state? It°Øs hard to understand this solicitude for thugs who are so thuggish that they°Øve managed to dominate an entire country. If Osama bin Laden somehow took control of Afghanistan, would he suddenly be off-limits?

Posted by at September 24, 2001 12:55 PM

"This is the most information-intensive war you can imagine. . . . We're going to lie about things," said a military officer involved in the planning. "If it is an information war, certainly the bad guys will lie."
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One e-mail message to a Washington Post reporter said: "Criticism of the administration at this critical time is more than unpatriotic -- to the extent it undermines our national confidence and political will to proceed, it gives comfort to the enemy."

Posted by at September 24, 2001 12:47 PM

The job of sorting out what is known from what is believed or wished, and then trying to make sense of events to an often- bewildered audience falls to a small cadre of journalists who make terrorism their beat. Right now, they are at the core of what may be the most important story of their careers. They can illuminate why it happened, who the country will fight and what Americans need fear.

Posted by at September 24, 2001 12:43 PM

Mr Blunkett admitted that some of the measures, including wider powers for the police to detain terrorist suspects, will directly clash with civil rights legislation but claimed the new powers were needed to prevent Britain becoming a police state.

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As his defence minister promised that 300,000 men would be ready to oppose US intervention, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar threw his lot in with suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, Washington's enemy number one.

Posted by at September 24, 2001 12:37 PM

"If London really wants to distance itself from the terroristic policies of the US president and join the international campaign against terrorism, it definitely should not participate in the massacre of a Muslim nation," it said.

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Roberts added: "Research amongst tif. members reveals that the new pricing structure will result in a jump of almost 100 per cent in the cost of owning Microsoft licences."

Posted by at September 24, 2001 10:20 AM

A call has gone out for a Canadian cabinet-level position similar to the new Bush appointee responsible for homeland defence.
But Canada had such a cabinet position, created by trivia Prime Minister Kim Campbell and opposed and eliminated by Jean Chretien in and after the 1993 election. Doug Lewis was Canada's first (and last) Minister of Public Security.
In a 1993 speech, Lewis said "safety and security does not only concern prisons, police and domestic crime. It also concerns terrorism, illegal immigration and international crime. And it is in these areas that the new Department of Public Security will be focussing its efforts. In addition to the previous Solicitor General responsibility for federal police, security, corrections and parole, my new portfolio now also includes those parts of the immigration program relating to operations abroad, applications processing and enforcement. Eventually it will also include Customs responsibilities relating to border protection and control."

Posted by at September 24, 2001 10:12 AM

"An Internet site that does not permit access by the public should not be subject to place-based city zoning regulations because it operates in cyberspace rather than in a specific location," said David Marshlack, chief executive of Entertainment Network.
Three appeals judges agreed, Entertainment Network said, ruling that the Tampa City Code was misapplied by the federal district court judge.

Posted by at September 24, 2001 09:32 AM

Cuba, the country that has suffered the most and the longest from terrorist actions, the one whose people are not afraid of anything because there is no threat or power in the world that can intimidate it, with a high morality Cuba claims that it is opposed to terrorism and opposed to war. Although the possibilities are now remote, Cuba reaffirms the need to avert a war of unpredictable consequences whose very authors have admitted not to have the least idea of how the events will unfold. Likewise, Cuba reiterates its willingness to cooperate with every country in the total eradication of terrorism.
An objective and calm friend should advise the United States government against throwing the young American soldiers into an uncertain war in remote, isolated and inaccessible places, like a fight against ghosts, not knowing where they are or even if they exist or not, or whether the people they kill are or not responsible for the death of their innocent fellow countrymen killed in the United States.

Posted by at September 24, 2001 07:53 AM

MacNN has learned that Steve Jobs will be announcing OS X 10.1 tomorrow at Seybold Seminars in San Franciso. Retail availability is expected later this week is expected at the end of the week. The CD will likely be made freely available at retail locations.

Posted by at September 24, 2001 07:19 AM

Posted by at September 23, 2001 09:10 PM

Henry doubts the Canadian Forces can offer a significant number of ground troops because budget cuts have eliminated some important group training.

And uniforms... and weapons... However -- and this is counting bureaucrats and civil servants and other minor personnel like soldiers or airmen in all branches of the Canadian military, what we do have is one general per six hundred capitas. That's a lot of generals to keep around while mothballing a quarter of our destroyers for lack of crew.

Posted by at September 23, 2001 09:08 PM

Posted by at September 23, 2001 05:45 PM

Governor Pataki, a Republican, suggested on Friday that electors write Giuliani's name on their ballot papers, in recognition of the mayor's role.
But Green protested, perhaps concerned that voter apathy could skew Tuesday's poll: "Don't waste your vote with a write-in that is really frivolous. Democracy is too important to be a game," he said.

Posted by at September 23, 2001 05:15 PM

"It's a relief to come back," said one woman, with her two poodles in tow. "I was worried. I thought it was going to be months before I could move back home. I'm a little nervous about the air, asbestos, I don't know for sure what safe levels really are."

Posted by at September 23, 2001 01:24 PM

In Washington, the CIA also denied it had received advance warning from the Mossad. "That is utter nonsense," said CIA spokesman Bill Harlow.

Posted by at September 23, 2001 12:43 PM

Posted by at September 23, 2001 12:35 PM

"As Canadians, we don't remotely get it," said David Harris, a former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada's spy agency. "Look at the terms of the debate. We've got those people still off in never-never land," saying Canada won't be affected by terrorism.

Posted by at September 23, 2001 12:33 PM

Posted by at September 23, 2001 12:30 PM

Lufthansa sure had peculiar taste in ads for this week's Time Magazine.

Posted by at September 23, 2001 12:28 PM

Posted by at September 23, 2001 09:38 AM

Mission managers confirmed that the spacecraft was able to use all four of its instruments at Borrelly. Data will be returned over the next few days as the spacecraft sends to Earth black-and-white pictures, infrared spectrometer measurements, ion and electron data, and measurements of the magnetic field and plasma waves around the comet. Pictures of the comet will be released after they are all sent to Earth in the next few days.

Posted by at September 23, 2001 09:35 AM

The police sealed off the location Friday night, following a request from the city's archbishop, Most Rev. Eugenio Sales, when it was discovered organizers did not have the appropriate licence to hold the event.

Posted by at September 23, 2001 09:25 AM

The BNP published a leaflet proclaiming "Islam is all about love and respect" next to a picture of the devastated World Trade Center. The leaflet says that Islam "creates ferocious hatred, spawning psychotic mass murderers abroad, and vicious rioters in our own towns."

So does Christianity!

Posted by at September 22, 2001 09:04 PM

Posted by at September 22, 2001 09:02 PM

From the September 21, 1998 issue of The Nation.

Posted by at September 22, 2001 04:25 PM

Indiscriminate murder is not a judgment, even obliquely, on the victims or their way of life, or ours. Any observant follower of the prophet Mohammed could have been on one of those planes, or in one of those buildings - yes, even in the Pentagon.

Posted by at September 22, 2001 02:00 PM

If the United States takes military action in response to the terror attacks, Dalglish said she expects more clashes between the news media and the government.

Posted by at September 22, 2001 01:47 PM

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Posted by at September 22, 2001 12:43 PM

...when users type the capital letters NYC into a font on Word called Wingdings.
The resultant collection of images -- which includes symbols for a skull and crossbones, a Star of David and a thumbs-up sign -- has led some to conjecture that the program contains a deliberate anti-Semitic message.

Posted by at September 22, 2001 12:38 PM

...while it did not provide a clear or complete picture, it seemed certain that there was a chaotic confrontation that apparently led to the crash of the jet.

Posted by at September 22, 2001 11:24 AM

Posted by at September 22, 2001 10:41 AM

For questions about grammar try browsing the Jargon Buster which defines most grammatical terms and offers some help with punctuation. Some of the most common language queries are answered in the Oxford Word and Language Service's Frequently Asked Questions.

Posted by at September 22, 2001 08:26 AM

John Watt, 54, said he was "stunned" when passengers were given seven-inch serrated knives with their omelette on an Ottawa-Toronto flight yesterday.

Posted by at September 22, 2001 07:49 AM

We can highlight the irony, or at least incongruity, of CNN's "America's New War" coverage label -- making potential cataclysm sound like the latest Procter & Gamble product.

Posted by at September 22, 2001 07:47 AM

Hmm ... now I'm starting to see the possibilities of this stupid attempt to turn tragedy into Hollywood marketing.
"Hi, this is the Celebrity War Tournament, and I'm Cindy Crawford."
"Hey there, Cindy baby. What are you wearing?"
"Huh?"
"You want my money, then I want phone sex. Is that dingbat Mariah Carey around?"
"I think so ... why?"
"Because I want hot celebrity girl-on-girl action. Want my credit card number?"

Posted by at September 21, 2001 08:53 PM

Consider the auk: Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk. Consider man, who may well become extinct Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.

Ogden Nash

Posted by at September 21, 2001 08:44 PM

If you spent as much time surfing through Web logs, you'd also run across angry ruminations, ranging from the pretentious to the ninth moon of Jupiter. Still, for my money, some of the best stuff was being served up in this most unlikely venue.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 08:33 PM

The four-day Durga puja festival, to be celebrated this year from October 23 by largely Bengali-speaking people in eastern India, celebrates the legendary battle between Hindu goddess Durga and demon-king Mahishasur. Durga's victory symbolises good overcoming evil.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 07:37 PM

All four were arrested by anti-terrorism officers and are being questioned under the Terrorism Act 2000 at central London police stations, said the spokesman.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 07:35 PM

Posted by at September 21, 2001 06:43 PM

Posted by at September 21, 2001 06:33 PM

"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away," he said. "That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
On Tuesday night, ABC and Maher defended the show as one that "celebrates freedom of speech." But by Wednesday, after both FedEx and Sears pulled their ads, Maher apologized and sought to clarify.

It's really unfortunate that the one show that overtly 'celebrates freedom of speech' is hosted by such a mediocre boob.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 06:31 PM

This is the first time in the admittedly short history of the internet that sex has not been among the top-10 items sought online.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 06:26 PM

With hackers, "they share information, there°Øs nothing top secret about it," he said. "Not so in the corporate community and law enforcement. That°Øs a problem. We need each other to fight this."

Posted by at September 21, 2001 06:23 PM

Many radio reports and some newspapers carried reports interpreting Bush's omission of Canada as a insult. One Toronto daily carried the front-page headline, "Bush Snubs Us."

I hate to agree with Prime Minister Poutine, but hell, don't we have anything better to do?

Posted by at September 21, 2001 06:18 PM

...the very qualities that allow television to keep its audience connected also leave it vulnerable to conveying undeveloped, sometimes erroneous reports in the fury of a fast but meandering investigation.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 06:01 PM

Posted by at September 21, 2001 06:00 PM

"We're talking about a news director banning a display anywhere a viewer can see it of an American flag on an American news channel by American personnel," Hume said. "Does this news director believe he is representing Switzerland?"

Posted by at September 21, 2001 05:59 PM

...one of the flight school teachers who actually worked with the terrorists. He said he considered it strange his pupils only wanted to practice making turns. Most students concentrate on take-offs and landings...

Posted by at September 21, 2001 05:58 PM

A Brief Summary: Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 05:00 PM

Posted by at September 21, 2001 03:41 PM

Thanks to the volunteers, the project has gotten 50,000 years of CPU time. It hopes to finish testing six more cancer proteins by the end of the year.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 03:35 PM

At the time, senators complained they weren't given time to review the Carnivore legislation before voting.

"Maybe the Senate wants to just go ahead and adopt new abilities to wiretap our citizens," Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) said. "Maybe they want to adopt new abilities to go into people's computers. Maybe that will make us feel safer. Maybe. And maybe what the terrorists have done made us a little bit less safe. Maybe they have increased Big Brother in this country."

But Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona), one of the co-sponsors, said the measure would hand police the vital powers they needed: "Experts in terrorism have been telling us for a long time and the director of the FBI has been telling us (to make) a few changes in the law that make it easier for our law enforcement people to do their job."

Posted by at September 21, 2001 01:21 PM

One of the first signs that the hijackers were tech-savvy came from an FBI document, obtained by the German magazine Der Spiegel, which disclosed how the hijackers purchased their airline tickets. Several used a pay-per-use public Internet terminal at a Kinko's store in Hollywood, Florida, to access online ticket sites. Some of them chose paperless electronic tickets, and -- for reasons hard to grasp -- entered in their frequent-flier numbers.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 01:20 PM

It's Blame America First -- even for violence committed by others against us -- versus Love America First. One side is so politically correct that it only sees global warming and the U.S.- boycotted U.N. conference on racism; then there are those whose criticisms of U.S. policies don't impede their love of country and their fellows.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 12:41 PM

After the Shoora decision, which concluded on Thursday afternoon , Osama Bin Ladin has reportedly reached Wakhan Corridor near Chinese border.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 12:28 PM

Posted by at September 21, 2001 12:28 PM

Since I'm here and not there in New York, I figure the most useful thing I can do is look at the world in ways that must be very hard to do from New York right now. Which explains why, before getting back to something closer to business coverage, I'm going to at least try to deal with one of the biggest questions of all right now: Why do people hate America so much?

Posted by at September 21, 2001 12:24 PM

Posted by at September 21, 2001 12:18 PM

Any song whose lyrics referred to flying, fire, explosions, death or New York was removed - and that's a lot of songs.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 10:12 AM

"If the president so directed, the US could attack Osama Bin Laden and his headquarters, not to kill him but to use force. And if in the course of that he were to be killed, no-one would shed many tears."

Posted by at September 21, 2001 10:10 AM

Posted by at September 21, 2001 10:09 AM

...saying it puts the economy at risk.

Maybe what's necessary is for both the bloody Greens and the bloody Plutocrats to quit letting their goddamn egos run the show, run some numbers, and actually work together instead of each ramming into each other uselessly.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 09:26 AM

The looters picked through a Tourneau boutique watch store, raided cases of designer sunglasses in another shop, tried to pry open at least one cash register and penetrated the service room behind a row of Chase automated teller machines, where steel safes appear to have dissuaded them from making off with stacks of cash.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 08:58 AM

Subjected to a lengthy -- perhaps lifelong -- barrage of assertions from both political and religious leaders that the United States is "The Great Satan," "The Head of the Snake," and the cause of all the world's problems, they would come to see their desperate, suicidal acts as heroic. If you think that words are harmless, that they have no impact, you need look no further.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 08:49 AM

Posted by at September 21, 2001 08:42 AM

"Who achieved the maximum benefit out of this mess, Bin Laden? No!!, just USA and CIA ... For America, WTC could be a little cost for a big target," wrote the site attacker.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 08:38 AM

Site users were offering to sell Twintowers09112001.com, Newyorkcarnage.com and several other names related to the disaster, Regan said.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 08:37 AM

worldtradecenterbombs.com

Posted by at September 21, 2001 08:04 AM

Air Canada was expected to become a strong and healthy carrier through its acquisition of Canadian Airlines two years ago. But it has been unable to turn a profit since then because of merger challenges, a slowing economy, high fuel prices and, now, fears of terrorism.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 07:46 AM

Washington is routinely sceptical of the UN and OSCE, but the key role was seen as an attempt to build as broad a coalition as possible behind the imminent campaign.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 07:43 AM

``Peer-to-peer users are getting more free content than they ever did through Napster,'' he said.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 07:06 AM

``Most Windows programs do that. (AOL's) ICQ does that; Microsoft outlook does that. That's the nature of the Windows operating system,'' [Gator CEO] McFadden said. ``Does Microsoft Outlook have to check in with CNET if their calendar pops up on their site? No.''

Webster said Gator's service leads to the deception of consumers and advertisers and interferes with the valid contractual pacts between Web publishers and their advertisers.

Posted by at September 21, 2001 07:05 AM

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Posted by at September 21, 2001 05:35 AM

``We do not believe that Australia is an appropriate venue for a case involving a story that was published in New York.''

Posted by at September 21, 2001 05:27 AM

Posted by at September 20, 2001 12:51 PM

Moon Farmer standard edition September has a lot of war-related info; so much that Moon Farmer split into two editions to better focus on the war without banalizing everything else.

Posted by at September 20, 2001 12:47 PM

Posted by at September 20, 2001 12:46 PM

"I want to thank you brave folks for coming out today. We don't have any new instructions from the federal government, so from now on we're on our own."

Posted by at September 20, 2001 10:12 AM

...the work of the poet is to slow us down and get us to look at things in a different pace.

Posted by at September 20, 2001 10:04 AM

It seems frivolous to try to talk of anything other than going to war, yet the world goes on, and ordinary things keep happening that are still of interest. Rather than put an entry about box cutters found on Toronto airports next to an entry about... anything else at all, Moon Farmer is splitting into two blogs, one strictly about the war. The regular blog will now be at http://www.moonfarmer.org/index2.html and the war blog at http://www.moonfarmer.org/war. Later we'll probably have some crossbreeding between the two but this is it for now.

Posted by at September 20, 2001 09:22 AM

Posted by at September 20, 2001 09:04 AM

No matter what the media tells you or shows you, I am convinced there is a majority of Americans who, though they want justice and want to be protected from further attacks, do not want George W. Bush to start sounding like Dr. Strangelove.

Posted by at September 20, 2001 08:52 AM

TORONTO -- A Washington-based counter-terrorism specialist says "knives or box cutters" were found in recent days aboard a commercial jetliner about to take off at Pearson International Airport.

Posted by at September 20, 2001 08:45 AM

Clearly news stories are surfacing and drowning right now; the best way to give them a lifeline is to record and reflect on them later -- not too much later, though. As a Canadian I have personal interest in knowing what the monstrous flabbiness of my government has allowed to grow in my soil. Obviously terrorists used Canada as a base; the only question is how much. That's my focus.

Posted by at September 20, 2001 08:22 AM

Posted by at September 20, 2001 07:45 AM

"They also said that if the US attacks Afghanistan it will be the obligation of every Muslim to carry out jihad," he said, adding that the clerics had also condemned the attacks in the United States.

Posted by at September 20, 2001 04:41 AM

Posted by at September 19, 2001 07:14 PM

Just one more, then I'm back to work.

CNN.com - U.S. warned in 1995 of plot to hijack planes, attack buildings - September 18, 2001

MANILA, Philippines (CNN) -- The FBI was warned six years ago of a terrorist plot to hijack commercial planes and slam them into the Pentagon, the CIA headquarters and other buildings, Philippine investigators told CNN.

Posted by at September 19, 2001 06:07 PM

Clark's comments were in reference to Tuesday's interview with King Abdullah II of Jordan on CNN's Larry King Live, in which Abdullah said he knows of terrorist cells which have operated in the U.S. and Canada.

Posted by at September 19, 2001 06:03 PM

The pain in America is so deep that any [serious] failure would not only destroy the Bush presidency but could also humiliate the American military machine. Contrary to popular expectations, which predicted a similar knee-jerk reaction, the administration is carefully evaluating its strategies and is adopting small, measured and incremental moves.

Posted by at September 19, 2001 06:02 PM

Posted by at September 19, 2001 06:00 PM

The CIA's foreign officers are not the James Bonds or even the Rambos that some people may believe they are. They are largely white-collar bureaucrats, many of whom who have embassy cover jobs and are usually not terribly immersed in the culture they are living in, says Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA officer in the Middle East who quit the agency out of frustration.

Posted by at September 19, 2001 05:56 PM

Posted by at September 19, 2001 05:55 PM

Mercer says that while he is honoured by the nominations, he feels this isn't the time to poke fun at the differences between Canada and the United States.

Posted by at September 19, 2001 03:22 PM

Deterrrence only works in a deadly game in which adversaries have a primary interest in preserving their own lives.

Posted by at September 19, 2001 03:06 PM

Posted by at September 19, 2001 03:01 PM

And now back to your regularly scheduled...

Posted by at September 19, 2001 02:54 PM

Posted by at September 18, 2001 04:37 AM

Posted by at September 17, 2001 05:38 PM

Canadian immigration officials detained the man after they found, in his luggage, a picture of him wearing a flight-crew uniform while standing against a fake backdrop of the World Trade Center, RCMP officials confirmed.

Posted by at September 17, 2001 02:45 PM

OTTAWA TERRORIST LINK

Bourque has learned that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada's resident spy agency, is closely monitoring "as many as five" Ottawa taxi drivers of Middle Eastern origin who are alleged to have been trained in Moscow at Patrice Lumumba college or elsewhere in Russia. According to sources familiar with the security intelligence community and municipal government operations, various Ottawa emergency measures organizations have been briefed, as has the US Embassy. The precise nature of CSIS concerns remains top secret, though a source on Parliament Hill familiar with international security and non-traditional security threats told Bourque that " the new security paradigm will include asymmetrical threats to personal well-being. People will not be threatened by ABMs or war, the new threats will come through suitcase bombs in airports, attacks on tourist sites and release of biochemical/biological agents into densely populated areas or water sources." Developing.

Posted by at September 17, 2001 08:48 AM

Posted by at September 17, 2001 06:41 AM

"At this point, you've got to think the most wicked way of thinking"

Posted by at September 17, 2001 05:42 AM

"If you want to see the internet again, give us Mr Bin Laden and $5 million in a brown paper bag. Love Fluffi B."

Posted by at September 17, 2001 05:39 AM

The students range in age from 8 and 9 to 30, sometimes to 35.

As seen in the American Cynic.

Posted by at September 17, 2001 05:36 AM

Posted by at September 16, 2001 03:53 PM

A new breed of American warrior is lining up to fight the war to eliminate evil in the world. This warrior is not pledged to fight for a flag, but to fight for a system that will provide freedom and liberty for every one, every where. These warriors are sophisticated and educated and they know the world better than any other generation. They will not be satisfied to protect America by use of oppression, terrorism, and totalitarianism like the anti-communism cold warriors. Because, they understand the best way to secure the safety of freedom is to free the world.

Their weapons will be targeted directly at the systems that perpetuate poverty, oppression, and intolerance. There enemy is no single government or ideology. Their battles will be unconventional and not only fought in the air, sea, and land, but will also reach every congress, boardroom, university, temple and church where freedom is not priority one. Their tactics and strategies will be unprecedented as the world is invaded by the forces of freedom. The very strongholds of evil will be dismantled from within as those people within begin to understand that freedom is no longer merely an American slogan to hide the truth of greed and over indulgence. But, Freedom and Democracy, those American ideals, will become the absolute goal of this new breed of warrior because they know that this is the only way America will every be truly safe.

Americans are at rare inflection point in history where the united drive of all Americans can be focused on a single goal. A time when Americans are willing to put aside more trivial pursuits and work together for a single goal. It is time to choose whether the goal will be an America Fortress continuously under attack by a world of people who are denied freedom or a war ranked by the new breed of American Freedom Fighters, that will not stop until every one, every where is free.

I choose freedom over walls.

Posted by at September 16, 2001 10:23 AM

...Federal Protective Service cops spotted them brazenly snapping reconnaissance photos of 26 Federal Plaza...

Posted by at September 16, 2001 07:40 AM

Posted by at September 16, 2001 07:38 AM

Posted by at September 16, 2001 05:26 AM

If it turns out that Tuesday's attacks were the work of Osama bin Laden's supporters, the sense that the Americans are once again reaping a dragons' teeth harvest they themselves sowed will be overwhelming.

Posted by at September 15, 2001 10:11 AM

Four of the hijackers identified have been linked by investigators to bin Laden's network of terrorist organizations.

A newspaper in Seattle says convicted millennium terrorist Ahmed Ressam has been questioned by the FBI about what he might know about the plot.

Ressam has also been linked to bin Laden.

Posted by at September 15, 2001 09:50 AM

Posted by at September 15, 2001 09:36 AM

...liberal civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals and abortion rights supporters bear partial responsibility...

Posted by at September 14, 2001 02:18 PM

Posted by at September 14, 2001 02:16 PM

"Nobody is coming at an airport saying 'I'm a terrorist.' It's a very difficult task to detect them."

Posted by at September 14, 2001 08:51 AM

Seattle police said yesterday that they had logged at least three other incidents of harassment and threats directed at local Muslims, though no other arrests had been made.

Their targets may have been NYC and DC but the terror has spread to every corner of the US. Hate is never the correct answer.

Posted by at September 14, 2001 07:43 AM

The media isn't backing you up on that, government.

Posted by at September 13, 2001 03:36 PM

Posted by at September 13, 2001 03:33 PM

"My condolences go to the families of the victims and all their friends and anybody affected at all by the catastrophe," Riley said. "But they can't sidestep that the reason this is being censored is a political one, not a sympathetic one. It's not out of respect to the victims."

Cockhead.

Posted by at September 13, 2001 01:23 PM

Sony Pictures has recalled a trailer for "Spider-Man" -- which wasn't to be released until next May -- because it shows a helicopter trapped in a giant spider web between the two World Trade Center towers, which were destroyed on Tuesday.

Posted by at September 13, 2001 09:34 AM

Posted by at September 13, 2001 08:55 AM

Posted by at September 13, 2001 08:44 AM

...an operative or an operation that has turned on its creators. Osama bin Laden, our new public enemy Number 1, is the personification...

Are we our own worst enemy?

Under what perverted ethics is okay for the CIA to train or support terrorists? Is that the same senator quoted as saying he would do it again(support bin Laden), the same senator now who is vowing to track "the bastards" down?

Posted by at September 13, 2001 08:27 AM

If it turns out these other guys lived there too -- a known hotspot for Middle Eastern recruitment -- are you going to invade Montreal, America?

Posted by at September 13, 2001 07:33 AM

Posted by at September 13, 2001 06:20 AM

Posted by at September 12, 2001 01:10 PM

U.S. political leaders said yesterday that countries that harbour terrorists should be held partially responsible for what the terrorists do.

The evidence suggests that includes Canada.

Critics warned the Ressam case exposed Canada's susceptibility to terrorist activity. How could both men remain in Quebec despite the fact they were turned down as refugees? How did intelligence agents lose track of Ressam after linking him to a ring of Islamic holy warriors?

Quebec (the province theoretically in Canada in which these attacks were apparently at least partly staged) is the only Canadian province to run its own immigration, exempt from federal immigration regulation. Quebec politicians repeatedly inform the rest of Canada that Quebec should in fact be its own country. If this is the case, let Quebec bloody take responsibility for this right alongside Canada -- if not by itself.

Posted by at September 12, 2001 09:16 AM

I shall have a good day today and another one tomorrow -- or else what's the point?

Posted by at September 12, 2001 08:17 AM

I will be strong today and I will not be full of fear or hate.

Posted by at September 12, 2001 07:53 AM

...the onslaught drove home for Canadians yet again the realization that their fate is inextricably linked with that of the United States.

Posted by at September 12, 2001 07:51 AM

Please beware of possible scams to take advantage of your money online. Unfortunately we HAVE been getting reports of this happening. If you want to help the victims, we urge you to donate directly to the Red Cross at their website.

Posted by at September 12, 2001 06:40 AM

In the end, it would not merely have used media as a tool to disseminate an idea and demoralize an enemy, it would have used the media as one of its primary weapons, and made the audience participants in the apocalypse itself.

Posted by at September 12, 2001 05:36 AM

Last night I opened a bottle of expensive red wine from my modest stash and had that with fresh tomato sauce and tortellini. This had nothing to do with me, I was nowhere near, and yet I feel as though I personally escaped death, and goddamnit, it's great to be alive. I feel as though it could have been me, or anybody I knew, that the utter randomness of it could have reached out and engulfed anything at all -- and yet it didn't, I'm still here, you're still here, have some wine!

Posted by at September 12, 2001 04:43 AM

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Posted by at September 12, 2001 04:34 AM

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Posted by at September 12, 2001 04:34 AM

The American cowboy is reaping the fruits of his crimes against humanity. It is a black day in the history of America, which is tasting the bitter defeat of its crimes and disregard for peoples' will to lead a free, decent life.

Posted by at September 12, 2001 04:31 AM

Posted by at September 11, 2001 05:00 PM

But in the coming days and weeks, Americans need to focus on one another and, in practical ways, help those touched by this national tragedy. Now is the time for strength of character °© especially restraint, resilience, and compassion °© not fear, panic, or trauma. The mental aftereffects of this event should be the nation's top priority °© to show that self-destructive acts of evil need not triumph.

Posted by at September 11, 2001 01:34 PM

ENEMY WANTED. Serious enemy needed to justify Pentagon budget increase. Defense contractors desperate. Interested enemies send letter and photo or video (threatening, ok) to Enemy Search Committee, Priorities Campaign, 1350 Broadway, NY, NY, 10018.

Posted by at September 11, 2001 01:12 PM

"No pilot, even with a gun to his head, is going to fly into the World Towers," [Gene Poteat, president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers] said.

Posted by at September 11, 2001 11:21 AM

Posted by at September 11, 2001 08:59 AM

Nothing this well planned and executed is done without a solid business reason. Even if the idea was born in revenge or naive ideas of extorting god-knows-what from the Americans, the plan was not conceived alone and it certainly was not executed alone. Someone expects to make a big fat profit -- and that is the most curious and disturbing part about the entire scene.

Posted by at September 11, 2001 08:45 AM

Bomb Squad Called To Parliament Hill

Posted by at September 11, 2001 08:35 AM

PALESTINIANS DENY RESPONSABILITY

Posted by at September 11, 2001 07:26 AM

PALESTINIANS CLAIM RESPONSIBILITY

Posted by at September 11, 2001 07:22 AM

Posted by at September 11, 2001 07:07 AM

When modern writers talk about how to 'write properly', one of the things you'll often hear is "show, don't tell" -- to cut out all exposition. Well, exposition was good enough for Colette, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Alec and Evelyn Waugh, Homer, Ovid, Apuleius and the Bible. The real point is not to be boring -- so long as you're not boring you can talk about anything you bloody well want in any manner you choose. And if you are boring, all the technique in the world will just make you a more versatile bore.

Posted by at September 11, 2001 06:48 AM

They accuse Mr Kissinger of being involved in what they say was a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plot to kill...

Posted by at September 11, 2001 05:25 AM

"I was standing in front to the left of him a couple of feet away," she said. "He had taken (the [five-year-old] boy's) shorts off and wrapped a towel around the boy's waist. I could see the motion of the hand."

Asked why she did not confront Miller or ask him to stop, Chung replied, "I wanted to report it to the proper channels."

She said the boy didn't struggle or raise a commotion during the incident, so she let Miller and the boy sleep alone together in a cabin.

"I didn't think any further of the situation," she said.

Charge her too.

Posted by at September 10, 2001 07:46 PM

The divided Canadian Alliance tried to heal the rift in the party on Monday, but although three rebel MPs returned to the fold, eight others said they were forming a coalition with the Tories.

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"When my friends and family refer to my past character, they talk about 'The Other.' By all accounts I was a violent, unscrupulous, ruthlessly ambitious troublemaker who let nothing or no one stand in my way when I wanted something. I'm a very different person today and I'm happy to leave that character behind," he said.

Posted by at September 10, 2001 05:16 PM

Him: That's so gay!

Me: Gay? Are you implying that being gay is a bad thing?

Him: I hate homos, I'd like to kill them all.

Me: Yaas? (My Bandy impression)

Him: No offense if you are one.

Me: Okey Dokey.

Everytime I build up a really good hate for something it turns out to be a way for me to feel better about myself. And realizing that takes all the fun out of hating. I hate not being able to hate like a normal person.

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...suggests IBM is back in negotiations with Apple. You might recall 1991, when the two set up the joint ventures called Taligent -- to develop a cross-platform operating system named Pink -- and Kaleida -- to design set-top boxes and related software. But these failed and were history by 1994.

"Apple needs the money and IBM needs the market share. IBM will run it just like Lotus," my source claims of the merger talks.

Posted by at September 10, 2001 10:15 AM

New Hey, Rube and about goddamn time that cheap bastard quit slacking.

Posted by at September 10, 2001 10:13 AM

And more and more of you are becoming Salon Premium subscribers.

I wouldn't cross the street to piss on Salon if it was on fire. I've always hated Salon as a bastion of mediocre self-congratulatory smirkiness. Every time I read it I worry some of it might get on me -- the only reason I know about the above Salon posting is that Ken Layne mentioned it, and it gave me an excuse to vent briefly about just how much Salon makes me want to put my eyes out with thumbtacks if it means I don't have to see it again.

Posted by at September 10, 2001 10:07 AM

GoTo.com plans Monday to reveal its new name, Overture Networks, in a long-planned move to cast itself out of a cadre of "Go"-related monikers.

What marketing idiot decided to trade years of branding based on a mnemonic short ID for a colourless polysyllabic phrase?

Posted by at September 10, 2001 08:17 AM

Mr. Bouchard gone, Mr. Black gone, Stockwell Day dead, Joe Clark almost dead, Alexa McDonough non-existent. The country belongs to Jean Chr?tien, and the gods are on his side. But there's a problem: Is Canada still a democracy?

Of course it is. This is simply the best we can put in office -- a better question is 'Does Canada need to get off its fat ass?' -- even if the answer is even more apparent.

Posted by at September 10, 2001 07:52 AM

alt.support.childfree provides information, discussion and a supportive environment for people who choose or are in the process of choosing to remain child-free. This is not a newsgroup for anyone trying to bash the childless state; here, being childless is not something that has to be defended.

Posted by at September 09, 2001 06:50 PM

First, the protesters are right: the media has spilled rivers of ink over a few violent protesters. It might have been better to explore decades of mismanagement at the World Bank and the IMF. On the other hand, protesters should know that when up to 100,000 people plan to descend on the nation's capital, the media is going to ask a few questions. They won't wait until next week's press conference. Excluding the media from strategy sessions, then complaining when the IMF and World Bank do the same, only makes matters worse.

Posted by at September 09, 2001 05:42 PM

If it works out that the person is under unacceptable stress, Angelo triggers relief action. This could be alerting a supervisor, reducing incoming calls or emails or warning that person to take a break.

Posted by at September 09, 2001 04:44 PM

Shortly after resigning from the company, the 32-year-old black secretary saw a message from her boss, lawyer Adam Downdey, saying: "Can we go for a real fit busty blonde this time? She can't be any more trouble and at least it would provide some entertainment!"

This man is dumb, and being dumb, deserves to be beaten. Whatever one may think of what he said, it was sure dumbdumbdumb to record such a stupid statement.

The distress caused by the message has led the woman's doctor to declare her unable to work.

I hope this isn't the sum of what made her unable to work, because if it is, she's got other problems beyond having had to work for a cockhead.

Posted by at September 09, 2001 04:37 PM

"After the reactions provoked by the attempt (on Auger), an order was given to stop the conspiracies against these people," Auger writes in his book.

Any journalist who gets shot six times in the back but still files his story deserves all the journalism awards in the world at once -- for what they're worth.

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NO RESERVE. The original 1841-1847 hand-written ledger for construction of this national monument and tribute to the Emperor Napoleon, and not a copy or a reprint.

Only a day left on the auction, and it's currently going for a pitifully small amount -- although it'll probably jack a fair bit before the end. This'd even bring Auntie Dynamite out of the woodwork.

Posted by at September 08, 2001 09:05 AM

The Unknown Soldier has been eclipsed by the Non Existent Soldier.

Posted by at September 08, 2001 07:15 AM

Hare's research upset a lot of people. Until the psychopath came into focus, it was possible to believe that bad people were just good people with bad parents or childhood trauma and that, with care, you could talk them back into being good. Hare's research suggested that some people behaved badly even when there had been no early trauma. Moreover, since psychopaths' brains were in fundamental ways different from ours, talking them into being like us might not be easy. Indeed, to this day, no one has found a way to do so.

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Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf is dead, Pandemonium Online is gone, and Auntie Dynamite is nowhere to be seen.

According to the state medical examiner's office, the 39-year- old, 4-foot-1-inch Howard Stern regular died of natural causes related to a long-standing seizure disorder, years of alcohol abuse and chondrodystrophy, the birth disorder that led to his dwarfism.

So they're basically saying he died of, ah, being angry, being drunk, and being a dwarf.

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...his formulation would not imply any legal liability for slavery, so those making the apology would not be liable to pay reparations.

Then what's the point?

equating Zionism - the political movement supporting the existence of a Jewish state - with racism.

How isn't it?

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson said on Friday the final declaration of the conference would be nothing "to get excited about".

What were they expecting?

I'm not getting excited until they start talking about making reparations to the largest and most abused group in human history, which would be women, of which I am one, which is part of why I find it more interesting.

Posted by at September 07, 2001 10:54 AM

The court ruled that Milosevic, who has a law degree, is entitled to represent himself.

Posted by at September 07, 2001 10:48 AM

Instead of rushing to the stores, the public is actually spending less on high-tech equipment this year than last.

Posted by at September 07, 2001 08:28 AM

A description of your errant baggage has been entered into our worldwide computerized tracing system.

Funny, I thought I was the errant baggage.

Posted by at September 07, 2001 07:11 AM

Nicotine Water is just what it sounds like: bottled water spiked with nicotine. [..] Neither a tobacco product nor a drug, it's "classified as a dietary supplement."

Posted by at September 07, 2001 03:22 AM

Someone stole Peter David's wife's backpack filled with stuff like wedding photos, for gods sake! Any sluggites knowing of anything regarding this theft, you must help us with any information! Here's Peter's request:

"My wife, Kathleen, had her backpack stolen at Dragon*Con in Atlanta while she was pitching in at the Del Rey Booth in the Exhibitor's Hall. Although it had been secured behind the booth, someone came in from behind and grabbed it.

Among the items in it were a manuscript, a Palm Pilot, and-most frustratingly-our entire album of photos from our wedding and honeymoon, which we'd brought down to show to Harlan and Susan Ellison. There's one of two possibilities. Either the thief grabbed such obvious valuables as the Palm Pilot, dumped the rest, and it's now sitting in an Atlanta landfill somewhere...or else the thief was a fan so twisted that he considers the album featuring photos of Kathleen, myself, Harlan, George Takei, Bill Mumy and others to be a lucky, one-of-a-kind souvenir. If it's the former, obviously there's no hope. If it's the latter, this creep will sooner or later want to show them off. Should this happen and you become aware of it, please contact me at PADGUY@aol.com immediately. Trust me, I'll make it worth your while."

Posted by at September 07, 2001 03:04 AM

It appears a majority of Canadian Alliance rebel MPs would rather be expelled from Stockwell Day's caucus than return on the leader's terms.

Posted by at September 07, 2001 02:56 AM

Servers will then unwittingly perform computation on behalf of uninvited users, solving complex computational problems when they engage in standard communication - without being aware they are doing so.

Posted by at September 06, 2001 02:31 PM

Welcome to CellManners.com, a site devoted to promoting civility between cell phone users and the people around them.

Posted by at September 06, 2001 02:02 PM

Text emails come from individuals. HTML emails come from marketing departments. So if your newsletter is intended to carry the voice and character of an individual, talking one-on-one with the audience, stick with text.

Posted by at September 06, 2001 09:16 AM

Most banks will stop issuing marks and other local currencies in January. Stores will stop accepting the currencies by the end of next spring. When euro money begins circulating banks will stop issuing marks, lire, guilders and francs. By the end of next spring, stores will no longer accept them as legal tender. While central banks around Europe will still redeem old currencies for years to come, that is cold comfort to people like tax evaders and drug smuggler who have spent years keeping their money out of sight.

Posted by at September 06, 2001 09:14 AM

The Web's once common "page not found" errors are themselves going missing, stripped from recent versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer in favor of a search tool provided by--you guessed it--Microsoft.

Posted by at September 06, 2001 09:12 AM

Wall Street continued to stone Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, hoping to kill what investors call a dumb deal.

Posted by at September 06, 2001 09:09 AM

"'Taylor was always saying that the most valuable personal data was contained in the resume database, and that we could cash that in,' says the source, who attended the meeting. 'There is not any question that there were people within TMP who knew of the discussions and knew of what was going on. There was some internal concern within TMP of the legality of selling resume data.'" (TMP refers to TMP Worldwide, Monster.com's parent company.)

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News that an exorcism was performed on Mother Teresa before her death in 1997 had Roman Catholic scholars thinking last night about the modern meaning of a rite still quietly used.

She probably just had an attack of conscience.

Posted by at September 06, 2001 08:05 AM

Certain antibiotics, once considered miracle cures, may no longer be effective because strains of bacteria have become resistant.

Yet another reason to avoid Beef Fries.

The Food Revolution

Our other choice is to actively engage with the living world. On this path we work responsibly and joyfully to make our lives, and our societies, into expressions of our love for ourselves, for each other, and for the living Earth. In this direction we honor our longing to give our children, and all children, a world with clean air and water, with blue skies and abundant wildlife, with a stable climate and a healthy environment.

I attended a seminar/lecture by John about 10 or so years ago. Can you imagine a person who thinks the world can be saved by eating vegetarian. I wonder if any one of the thirty-one flavors "comes partly from beef?"

Posted by at September 05, 2001 10:11 PM

Instead of home pages, today's budding Web publishers create Web logs (or "blogs," as they are often called).

Is he really nostalgic for 1996?

Posted by at September 05, 2001 09:52 PM

they spend rediculous sums of money commissioning a corporate anthem. something they can play at office parties, conferences and secretly through headphones before they stride confidently into meetings. with few exceptions they eventually realise just how cringe-worthy their little tunes are, and attempt to bury them forever. they should be so lucky...

Posted by at September 05, 2001 03:20 PM

Salary: $9.00 HR

Experience: FULL-TIME AND/OR PART-TIME/ TEMPORARY AND/OR PERMANENT ANDON CALL/ SOME EXP. PREFERRED/ CLASS (5) LICENSE AND OWN VEHICLE/ MAIL RESUME/ MAKE SURE CONCRETE IS NOT DAMA

Details: GED-USUALLY JUST SIT IN CAR

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Posted by at September 05, 2001 02:59 PM

"Brand in the PC industry ain't worth much," said Roger Kay, a senior analyst with market research firm IDC. "They want Apple when it's Apple, but they don't care about Dell, Compaq, Gateway, or IBM."

Posted by at September 05, 2001 02:54 PM

... the UK's Health and Safety Executive has released a paper suggesting software suppliers should be held criminally negligent when damage has been caused by events that could have been predicted.

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Masked officers from the national police intervention force shot Bghouia dead as he aimed his rocket launcher and an assault rifle at them after getting out of his car. °ƒWe got the impression that he came to die in our arms,°± an officer said yesterday.

Posted by at September 04, 2001 07:01 PM

Renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking has claimed that humans should be genetically engineered if they are to compete with the phenomenal growth of artificial intelligence.

Posted by at September 04, 2001 04:15 PM

"This is an age-old problem," Workman said. "The Internet is an enabling technology. The principles of ownership and attribution have remained the same for hundreds of years."

Betcha Ken Layne agrees.

For that matter, when I was actively policing the ROM II online game software, it was not uncommon for me to find several servers per week that didn't have the basic credits our license legally required them to have. Most of the people were ignorant -- they'd just never bothered to read the license. However, some of them felt strongly that they'd "changed it enough" to not be bound by license anymore. They were usually totally insecure cocksuckers about it, too -- much like BusinessWeek.

Posted by at September 04, 2001 03:49 PM

yummmmmy... beeeeefy fries.

Posted by at September 04, 2001 07:48 AM

If you're giving props to Ken Layne, for his "work", why aren't you paying him?

Posted by at September 04, 2001 07:21 AM

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Chipping can cost as little as $200, with average prices running between $300 and $500. Consider the Audi A4: the price difference between the four cylinder 1.8 liter turbo and the more expensive six cylinder non-turbocharged model is nearly $6,000. The chip for the cheaper turbo engine brings the performance level within spitting distance of the six cylinder's range.

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Since the dispute, Business Week Online has credited Mr. Layne's work.

Posted by at September 03, 2001 04:24 PM

Taking the average hourly salary of UK tech workers as GBP11.88, Websense calculates that the loss in productivity amounts to GBP9.6 billion.

This assumes they would have been working -- just as figures about music piracy or software piracy "costing" the respective industries billions assume that the money was there to begin with.

Posted by at September 03, 2001 04:19 PM

HSBC analysts will advise customers to buy shares expected to perform better than industry averages, while recommending that clients sell companies likely to perform more poorly, said Mark Brown, the company's global head of research. The bank's 400 analysts will no longer be able to have ``hold'' recommendations.

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"OK for the plant to sell product they thought had listeria in it as long as they didn't know for sure."

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