Moon Farmer March 2002 Archive
« February 2002 | Main | April 2002 »Hanson: And why does Mr. Mubarak seek to advise us about our proper diplomatic role, rather than explain to us why an Egyptian masterminded the deaths of 3,000 of our citizens and others of his countrymen are top lieutenants of Mr. Bin Laden and are now killing Americans in Afghanistan?
Osama: Mr. Mubarak knows Mr. Atta was peacefully taking a business trip by air when Jews in the World Trade Center used a secret and very large magnet to divert the planes off course and pull them into the towers, in order to get America to help Israel in its war to kill off the noble Muslims of Afghanistan.
Posted by GeeTee at March 31, 2002 02:23 PM
The idea is that a DNA sequence, if encoded as music, might be copyrightable as a work of art. A researcher wanting to use that sequence could obtain it as a music file and decode it after purchasing a proprietary back-translation program.
Posted by GeeTee at March 31, 2002 02:07 PM
Canada is leading the world in efforts to snuff out smoking through advertising. But whether french fry boxes will come with warnings of clogged arteries and heart disease in the near future remains to be seen.
Posted by GeeTee at March 31, 2002 03:36 AM
Cliche's effort last June at uniting Quebec leftists drew about 50 people but the gathering degenerated into wrangling and name-calling.
Posted by GeeTee at March 31, 2002 03:35 AM
Peres had expressed Israel's willingness to make commitments to the international community that no danger would be brought to Arafat's personal safety and that the organization of the Palestinian Authority would not be destroyed, it said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 31, 2002 03:32 AM
Third Annual Dolce Vita Writers' Holiday
If you are a professional writer/journalist/photographer, or have ever dreamed of becoming one, and enjoy wonderful Italian food and culture, put aside six days in October to visit and study in the rural setting of Tuscany.
Posted by GeeTee at March 29, 2002 02:29 PM
- no animals caged
- a minimum amount of space is provided for
the animals to roam - no growth hormones or unnecessary antibiotics
- mandatory barn inspections
Posted by GeeTee at March 29, 2002 02:02 PM
Smut Filter Snags Non-Smut, Too
Nunberg read through a catalog of sites that he verified had been wrongly blocked by filtering software. On his list: A "kitty porn" site featuring nude felines, Planned Parenthood's Teen Wire, the Sony Pictures site devoted to the comedy The Opposite of Sex, The Institute for Sex Research, and a page titled "Pen Is Mightier" because it compresses to include the word "penis" in the title. One erroneous block was a rant directed at Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) criticizing federal legislation supporting library filtering.
Posted by GeeTee at March 29, 2002 01:39 PM
CBC News: B.C. court decision a disappointment: child advocates
"These works of fiction, however disgusting and morally repugnant, are not advocacy and counselling and they have the characteristics and form of art," says Dixon.
Posted by GeeTee at March 29, 2002 01:30 PM
The Universal Music Group, which released Fast [and the Furious], announced it would begin selling CDs that won't play on Macintosh computers, DVDs or game consoles.
Posted by GeeTee at March 29, 2002 01:25 PM
The patients experience disruptive sexual behaviour in their sleep, ranging from moaning to violent sexual advances.
Posted by GeeTee at March 29, 2002 01:23 PM
I find it very difficult to enthuse
Over the current news.
Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens,
And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era
when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
Posted by GeeTee at March 29, 2002 05:41 AM
CTVNews.com - Levant to step aside to let Harper run in byelection
Levant's memo says he has had a stong, capable team working on his campaign, but now: "My team is Stephen's team."
Posted by GeeTee at March 29, 2002 05:22 AM
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Rumors of War (Put Paid)
In the month prior to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, highly unusual trading activity involving American and United Airlines stock was noted by market analysts who at the time had no idea what to make of it. Wildly unusual discrepancies in the put and call ratio -- 25 to 100 times normal -- were observed in stock options of the two airlines. In one case, Bloomberg's Trade Book electronic trading system identified option volume in UAL (parent of United Airlines) on 16 August 2001 that was 36 times higher than usual.
Posted by GeeTee at March 29, 2002 05:15 AM
CBC News: Levant decision to stand hurts Canadian Alliance party: observers
On Wednesday, Levant announced that he was not going to step aside as the candidate for the Alliance in Calgary Southwest, the riding left vacant when Preston Manning resigned. Stephen Harper, the new Alliance leader, had said he would like to run in the riding.
Posted by GeeTee at March 28, 2002 12:27 PM
EUROPA - Internal Market - Data Protection
European Union (EU) law allows personal data to flow outside the EU only if there is an adequate level of protection in the country of destination or if a number of specific exceptions apply. On 20 December 2001, the European Commission recognised that the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPED Act) provides adequate protection for certain personal data transferred from the EU to Canada. This will allow EU operators to send certain personal data to recipients in Canada subject to the Canadian Act, without additional safeguards being needed to meet the requirements of the EU Data Protection Directive.
Posted by GeeTee at March 28, 2002 03:14 AM
"The man also showed the officers four other inflatable sex dolls he owns. Apparently, he had just been testing out his new acquisition when police arrived."
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 04:10 PM
In her ruling, B.C. Provincial Court Judge Jill Rounthwaite said that it was clear that one of the accused had bullied Wesley repeatedly, giving the victim reason to fear for her life.
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 03:58 PM
The CBDTPA says that if I were to write and sell this BASIC program...
10 INPUT A$
20 PRINT A$
...after the regulations take effect, I would be guilty of a federal felony. That's up to five years in prison and up to a $500,000 fine. Distributing my two-line application without charging for it, either via handing out floppies or by posting it on a website would be at least a civil offense and, depending on the circumstances, a crime as well.
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 03:56 PM
The father of modern spam speaks
Do you have any regrets about sending the spam?
I don't think so. Given the same set of circumstance--the same time, the stage of the Internet--I'd probably do the same thing. Somebody would have done it, if we hadn't done it.
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 09:21 AM
The records show calls made between 1996 and 1998 to a range of addresses including suspected terrorists, al-Qaeda sympathisers, companies and public phone boxes.
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 08:44 AM
Liz Waldner - The Academy of American Poets
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it--it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: "It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, becontinually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish."
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 07:39 AM
"The system has been cut and cut and cut. There is nothing left to cut. So now, they're so desperate, they're looking at cutting preventative services. Preventative services are what keep health-care costs down."
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 06:54 AM
Two top Al Qaeda leaders spotted | csmonitor.com
This is the second sighting of Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 in this area in the past month. Local forces may have their own motives for reporting a bin Laden sighting. But, if true, it would be the first evidence of bin Laden's continued presence in Afghanistan since he was seen at Tora Bora in November.
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 06:41 AM
BANK customers could soon be liable for account fraud if they choose an obvious personal identification number (PIN) such as their birthday or name.
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 06:33 AM
No businessman would think for moment that the effect of the invention is not within the UK when the whole point of the defendants' system is to get UK punters to play their system.
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 06:29 AM
ET was a success on its original release not because people approved or disapproved of minor details such as guns, terrorists or 'penis breath', but because they enjoyed the story. If a 'bad' character in the film no longer carries a firearm then his role is diminished and the film is infantilised. The gripping drama of ET's climactic escape depends on the audience believing that the authorities chasing him mean business - otherwise, the film is little more than the spacehopping adventures of that weird alien from the British Telecom ads.
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 06:07 AM
Woman Agrees to Buy First Tongan Space Ticket - Excite - News
Advance space ticket bookings are available for a "reduced rate" of $2 million. The price includes a 45-day astronaut training period in Russia and California, a seven-day adventure in low earth orbit and a vacation in Tonga, IOS said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 26, 2002 05:59 AM
According to Article 19, Chapter II, Section 3 of the ministry's Resolution No. 383/2001: "The sale of computers, offset printer equipment, mimeographs, photocopiers, and any other mass printing medium, as well as their parts, pieces and accessories, is prohibited to associations, foundations, civic and nonprofit societies, and natural born citizens. In cases where the acquisition of this equipment or parts, pieces and accessories is indispensable, the authorization of the Ministry of Internal Commerce must be solicited."
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 01:48 PM
Prosecutors conceded the girls may not have intended to kill, but they did intend to terrorize and that, said the Crown, is criminal. The Crown also argued society can no longer accept this type of behaviour.
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 11:27 AM
Monday at the building,, U.S. army Captain Herb Joliat of a Civil Defense Battalion from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, told reporters body parts were still being found during the restoration work.
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 10:08 AM
Economist.com | Telemarketing and politics
Voice-broadcasting technology now enables a politician to record a message, which may be anything from a few seconds to several minutes long, on to a computer, load the phone numbers of the voters to be targeted, and then "blast" the message to some 140,000 phone numbers at a time, or millions of households a day. Officials at one blaster firm, Xpedite, reckon that it costs eight cents a call for its "voice-reach" service to connect politicians with voters, compared with 35 cents for a live telemarketer to make the call.
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 08:54 AM
Razzies.com - Home of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation
And the big "Winner" (If That's The Right Word) is MTV Host Tom Green and his widely reviled "shock comedy" FREDDY GOT FINGERED. The film, slammed by CNN as "the worst movie ever released by a major studio in Hollywood history," won a total of 5 gold-spray-painted $4.79 trophies, including Worst Picture.
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 07:57 AM
"In the spam mails, the accused had been pushing the British firm to close one of the web sites being hosted from its servers and had threatened to spam the service-provider with pornographic mail in case the website was not deleted," he said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 07:32 AM
"There are two sides to the coin," said Rideout. "There are a lot of young people who inadvertently are exposed to pornography, and almost half said they were upset by the experience. But on the other hand, almost half said they had been blocked by filters when trying to access legitimate sites to obtain health-related information."
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 07:28 AM
"Charities would like to be free to fulfil their missions in a way they think is appropriate," said Shauna Sylvester, executive director of the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society, which lobbies on behalf of charities.
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 06:45 AM
A built-in sensor in a soldier's uniform, a tank's armour or a plane's fuselage could take visual cues from its environment and signal a shift in colour and texture to match it. A simpler version of the technology would allow troops to choose manually among many camouflage patterns, instantly switching from forest green to desert brown, for example.
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 06:20 AM
"Today American universities, including the best ones, award the PhD to foreign students who can barely speak English, to U.S. students who cannot understand a foreign language, to humanists who have no grasp of mathematical or statistical or scientific reasoning, and to scientists and engineers who can barely construct a coherent paragraph of English prose," Ziolkowski wrote in "The Ph.D. Squid," which appeared in the American Spectator in 1990.
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 06:18 AM
We live in an ever-expanding market for kid genius. If no one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public, there's bank to be made in overestimating the potential of the American 1-year-old. ''WombSongs'' prenatal music systems pump in Brahms -- with Midori on solo violin? -- to enlighten the third-trimester demographic. The ''Baby Einstein'' video series, which immerses ''learning enabled'' babies in English, Spanish, Japanese, Hebrew, German, Russian and French long before Mamalese, was purchased by Disney last fall, portending a wave of the polyglot media for preschoolers by late 2002. Greg Smith, a 12-year-old college student in Virginia, does Letterman and lunches with Mikhail Gorbachev and Queen Noor! Any Manhattan parent knows this absurd economy intimately: the feeder nurseries, the resume-stuffer ''Language for Tots'' classes at 6 months and the tricky mazes and shapes on the ''E.R.B.,'' the required private preschool I.Q. test. You could see these fangled accouterments as an exploitation of our only constantly renewable natural resource, infancy. William Doherty, a sociologist, calls this frenzied rush to capitalize -- er, nurture -- our children's potential not parenting so much as "product development."
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 05:48 AM
"The church is against premarital sex too, but last year the school allowed a girl who was seven months pregnant to go to the prom," he said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 05:46 AM
In Ontario, 68 per cent of citizens identified more with Canada, the poll suggested. Other regional breakdowns in favour of Canada were British Columbia (61), Alberta (52), Manitoba and Saskatchewan (50) and Quebec and the Atlantic provinces (both 32).
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 03:38 AM
Conway says his treatment consisted of talk therapy and group confessions. When he was free to leave, he requested retirement due to his disability. He has not been defrocked. He immediately moved to his cabin in the woods, and now regularly attends 12-step meetings for alcoholism and sexual compulsion. He prays every morning and in the afternoons stands before a shrine he built to Saint John the Evangelist, patron saint of the poisoned. He has vowed never to be alone with a teenager. "I feel raw for what I've done," he says. "I violated everything I ever believed in. I caused suffering to the very people I wanted to serve the most."
Posted by GeeTee at March 25, 2002 03:35 AM
The e-mail problems have led many staffers to resume pre-Internet habits. Employees say they are faxing and using Federal Express more than before. They also are picking up the phone or wandering down the corridors in search of human contact. "If all goes well, we'll never have to use e-mail and we'll have to start talking to each other again," says one magazine writer.
Posted by GeeTee at March 23, 2002 03:39 AM
"It's frustrating," he says. "I want to talk about improving the roads, and it seems like everybody else is concerned about Satan. I mean, how can you compete with that?"
Posted by GeeTee at March 23, 2002 03:36 AM
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Six ways to make people like you
- Become genuinely interested in other people.
- Smile.
- Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
- Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
- Talk in terms of the other person's interests. Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely.
Posted by Shad Muegge at March 22, 2002 03:52 PM
"Nothing I'm familiar with in the law allows the executive branch to create a whole new category called 'sensitive but unclassified.'"
Posted by GeeTee at March 22, 2002 08:53 AM
Southwest, like most airlines, prohibits sales of its vouchers, but does allow customers to give them away. This loophole makes them among the most trafficked vouchers online. Sellers online will say they are selling Southwest "beverage coupons" or envelopes, and as a freebie they will throw in a free round-trip ticket to wherever Southwest flies. That way, they don't break Southwest rules.
Posted by GeeTee at March 22, 2002 08:50 AM
In six months, a "one-plus-one" unit will be available. With that, the phraselator will pick up responses, based on key words, and relay them back to the operator. In a year's time, a full two-way unit will be available, featuring the ability to interpret the semantic meaning of words and phrases voiced by the responder.
Posted by GeeTee at March 22, 2002 08:48 AM
MediaGuardian.co.uk | New media
"We were getting 300,000 hits a month. It seems remarkable that a company promoting gambling and viagra should use the name of a charity set up to promote poetry."
Posted by GeeTee at March 22, 2002 08:42 AM
After a week in the vat, the fish chunks had grown by 14 per cent, Benjaminson and his team found. To get some idea whether the new muscle tissue would make acceptable food, they washed it and gave it a quick dip in olive oil flavoured with lemon, garlic and pepper. Then they fried it and showed it to colleagues from other departments.
Posted by GeeTee at March 22, 2002 06:17 AM
Discarded computers and electronic goods are being piled high on the streets of China. It is waste from the West that is putting local peoples' health at risk. Once-proud farming families have turned into hi-tech scavengers in southern Guangdong province, making more money from picking out precious metals than from working the land.
Posted by GeeTee at March 22, 2002 06:13 AM
British woman wins landmark right-to-die case
The landmark ruling by Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, President of the High Court family division, will permit the woman to end her life peacefully and with L100 damages for "unlawful trespass".
Posted by GeeTee at March 22, 2002 05:59 AM
We emphasize politics and direct action in our work. We see activism as crucial to meaningful arts expression. We believe that our politics suffer without creative vision in the same way that our art suffers without political or social relevance.
Posted by GeeTee at March 21, 2002 02:14 PM
When this does too much of this then this happens. Yes, this.
Posted by GeeTee at March 21, 2002 02:06 PM
In the finding, I made clear that while the RCMP had brought itself intotechnical compliance with the letter of the Privacy Act during the course ofmy investigation by ceasing its continuous recording through the camera, itwas still violating the spirit and intent of the Act by maintaining 24-hour-a-day surveillance through the camera without recording.
Posted by GeeTee at March 21, 2002 11:32 AM
One of these 10 gig iPods, a USB microphone and USB-to-firewire adapter (or better still, a firewire microphone) and I'd produce some truly interesting sound pieces.
Posted by GeeTee at March 21, 2002 04:56 AM
Companies also receive a tax break when employees exercise options. Let's say an option has a strike price of $10 and the stock price is at $30. For every option exercised, as noted above, the company collects $10 from the employee -- but it also gets to deduct the $20 profit earned by the employee as a compensation expense, just as if it had paid the employee a $20 cash bonus. Fair enough, since this is clearly a form of compensation, but then why shouldn't this expense appear on the income statement, just like a cash bonus?! The tax savings for some companies are truly amazing: for Dell last fiscal year, it was $929 million (vs. $958 million of reported taxes paid on the income statement), and for Microsoft, it was $3.1 billion (vs. $4.1 billion of reported taxes on the income statement). As a taxpayer, do you smell a rat?
Posted by GeeTee at March 21, 2002 04:00 AM
While the mail order industry enjoys a good safety record, ordering food through the mail may cause concerns about food safety, shelf life, and distribution. It's imperative to develop some mental checklists for how both food and packaging should look when perishable mail order foods arrive. This is especially true for meat, poultry, fish, and other perishable foods such as cheesecake, which must be carefully handled in a timely manner to prevent foodborne illness.
Posted by GeeTee at March 20, 2002 04:51 PM
A milagro symbolizes the spiritual connection between the wearer, health and healing. The Breast Milagro was created as a symbol of awareness and faith for all women.
Posted by GeeTee at March 20, 2002 01:19 PM
Furthermore, the changes in the graphs do not correspond, Ball said, to actions by NATO or the Kosovo Liberation Army, the ethnic Albanian rebel force that had been fighting the Serb army. When KLA or NATO activity went up or down, the graphs didn't necessarily respond; but when Serb activity changed, the graphs changed accordingly.
Posted by GeeTee at March 20, 2002 10:33 AM
The premise of this is simple. Simply sign up to one of participants. By signing up, you commit to making a summer-themed CD of your favorites tunes. On March 31, 2002, you'll receive the names and addresses of five other bloggers, and it will be your responsibility to send those five bloggers a copy of your CD. In return, five different bloggers will send you a copy of their CD that they made.
Posted by GeeTee at March 20, 2002 09:27 AM
An e-mail marketing firm on Tuesday said it has filed lawsuits against two e-mail list providers, alleging the lists it bought from the companies were full of non-existent addresses and people who hadn't asked to receive commercial marketing messages.
Posted by GeeTee at March 20, 2002 07:31 AM
Women scientists and faculty members are "marginalized" -- kept out of powerful committees and administrative positions -- at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to reports released Monday examining the status of women at four of the prestigious institution's schools.
[...]The reports also found gender-related differences in salaries.
Posted by GeeTee at March 19, 2002 09:11 AM
Of interest, however, is that Becker's "dot-biz" version of iCraveTV has absolutely nothing to do with Toronto-born iCraveTV.com, the one co-founded in the fall of 1999 by William Craig. Yet this hasn't stopped Becker, known previously as the chief executive of Montreal-based BEE Multimedia, from blurring the line between the two ventures and leveraging a high-profile brand that is owned by someone else.
Posted by GeeTee at March 19, 2002 06:53 AM
According to a spokesperson, the CIA was not aware that the site, located at http://www.foia.ucia.gov , was placing the tracking files on visitors' computers. The representative said the technology was inadvertently added by a contractor during a redesign of the site that was completed Jan. 29.
Posted by GeeTee at March 19, 2002 06:48 AM
After putting up with more than a year of stalling, ICANN's At-Large Representative for Canada and the United States today filed suit against ICANN in California Superior Court seeking to get full access to its financial records. California law creates for directors of non-profit corporations an "absolute right at any reasonable time to inspect and copy all books, records and documents of any kind"; ICANN CEO Stuart Lynn sought, amidst an amazing series of delaying tactics, to impose all sorts of extraneous conditions on this right.
Posted by GeeTee at March 19, 2002 06:41 AM
Theodore Spyropoulos, a regional official of Greece's Central Archaeological Council, said that more than 20 years of excavation near the small village of Pellana, 15 miles north of modern Sparta, brought to light formidable building foundations dated to around 1200 BC, close to the probable date of the Trojan War.
Posted by GeeTee at March 19, 2002 04:46 AM
Your water company tests your water throughout the year. Unfortunately they report their findings to you in a very complex report that doesn't clearly tell you if there is a problem with your drinking water.
If you want to quickly find out what your water company detected in your water, just take our Free Online check up.
Posted by GeeTee at March 19, 2002 03:57 AM
Ehrlich, who practiced on the ePelvis before completing his first pelvic exam on a live person, says of the simulator, "It's not totally realistic.... It's not warm or fuzzy or anything. But it is realistic in terms of showing all the movements you have to do with your hands. It's as close to the real thing as you get."
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 02:20 PM
The growth of paid online content is going to be slower than media companies would like, according to a new study, which found that a full 70 percent of Internet-using adults polled this month "can't understand why anyone would pay for content."
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 01:03 PM
The comet can be seen just after the Sun sets, near where the Sun used to be. In early April, the comet will swing around the Sun and be visible before sunrise.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 12:23 PM
Police have warned people about the letter scam for years. It starts with a letter, fax or e-mail that requests help in getting millions of dollars out of the African country. In return, the person is supposed to receive a percentage of the total.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 11:49 AM
Kyrgyz Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiev meanwhile accused people of "provoking mass disorder" in the village of Kerben in the province of Jalal-Abad. He said law-enforcement officials were forced to fire in self-defense when the protest turned violent.
That contradicts the words of his interior minister, whom Reuters quoted as telling the parliament that police had only fired shots into the air, not into the crowd.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 09:06 AM
"This would be the biggest one," said Bennett. "The biggest Crown corporation in Canada is Ontario Power Generation, and it's in the biggest province, and it's the biggest polluter."
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 08:55 AM
When the first tapes made public years ago recorded Nixon referring to Trudeau as an "asshole," the former prime minister reacted with a characteristic shrug of the shoulders, saying: "I've been called worse things by better people."
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 08:52 AM
Amid the talk of a ``March crisis'' in which Tokyo's largest banks and major corporations might collapse from a decade of accumulated bad debts and profitless operations, this Japanese banker -- like most foreign investors -- failed to grasp a key point: The nation's financial supervisors and bank regulators were ready to do whatever it took to avoid the day of reckoning.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 08:48 AM
CFU spokeswoman Jenni Williams said Ford had called for help from police and neighbors during the night, saying he was being attacked by government-backed settlers on his farm.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 08:45 AM
Journalists have been actively intimidated by "veterans", Mugabe supporters who claim to have fought in the war of independence against the white supremacist government of Ian Smith in the 1970s. The Daily News had its bureau in Bulawayo bombed, and last month Basildon Peta, a leading independent journalist who works for the Financial Gazette, fled to South Africa to join his family after repeated threats on his life.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 08:43 AM
"This will be extremely upsetting for people who are already coming to terms with the anxiety of having treatment for cancer. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are known to make men sterile in some cases, which is the reason many men are encouraged to deposit sperm."
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 08:37 AM
How prestigious and "dignified" are the Academy Awards? Enough that a certain hot dog maker better look elsewhere to advertise. As part of its deal 10-year, multimillion dollar broadcast deal with ABC, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is given the power to censor the advertisers and the ads during what's now called the "Super Bowl for Women." The dead-serious rules are part of the Academy's attempt to keep commercial content demure, inoffensive and strictly separate from the show. No ads can use the word "Oscar," "Oscars" or "Academy Award" or the trademarked image of the Oscar. No ads may feature nominees, performers or presenters scheduled to appear on the Oscars telecast. No nominated films may advertise. No ads may refer to the Oscars, let alone refer to the event. An internal Academy team often obtains early storyboards of commercials before production has begun and frequently sends back ads several times along with editing suggestions. But in a rough ad year this fastidiousness has left ABC's bottom line wanting: The average price of a 30-second spot fell 7 percent this year to $1.2 million.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 08:28 AM
As a young man he had seen gold glittering
and gleaming on the shoulders of the great
And one night
he remembers
during a great storm the neck of the sea
roared so it turned murky
but he would not submit to it
The world's an oppressive place to live through
yet with a little pride it's worth it.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 07:12 AM
The filings could give the litigating states important air cover as they return to court next week for what could be as much as eight weeks of testimony. They are looking for stiffer sanctions than those proposed by the Justice Department and the settling states. The settlement largely puts restrictions on Microsoft's business practices. The litigating states also want restrictions on how Microsoft develops and deploys software.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 06:32 AM
The quality least plentiful in a world of rampant free copies is attention. Each year more than 30,000 new music titles are released (or rereleased) into a very cluttered head space of new movies, new TV shows, new books, new games, new Web sites. No matter what your musical appetite, there are not enough hours in a lifetime to listen to but a tiny fraction of the global supply. People will pay simply to have someone edit the music and recommend and present selected material to them in an easy and fun manner. That is why producers, labels and the related ecology of reviewers, catalogers and guides will continue to make a living: they counter our natural lack of attention for the 10 million albums we can expect to see in another 50 years. In the end, an awful lot of music will be sold in the territory of the free because it will be easier to buy music you really like than to find it for free.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 06:31 AM
In a narrow, preliminary ruling that could change at trial, Chief U.S. District Judge John Coughenour wrote that there are "serious questions regarding whether 'Windows' is a non-generic name and thus eligible for the protections of federal trademark law."
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 06:20 AM
A California federal court has issued an interesting copyright ruling involving the liability of ISPs who host infringing content on usenet groups. The case involved the posting of Harlan Ellison novels on a usenet group hosted by AOL. AOL left the content online for two weeks before removing it. The judge ruled that AOL could not held liable for direct copyright infringement following Religious Technology Center v. Netcom. It then engages in an interesting discussion on whether AOL might be liable for contributory or vicarious copyright infringement by examining its knowledge of, contribution to, and ability to block, the infringement. Making regular reference to the Napster decision and the DMCA, the court concluded that it did not and thus dismissed the action. Case name is Ellison v. Robertson.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 06:17 AM
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Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 04:40 AM
"I discussed the example of Fragonard, and discussed that I would consider doing this with him while he was fatally ill," said von Hagens. The man now carries his brain in one hand and that of his horse in the other.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 04:38 AM
Reports surfaced over the weekend in Afghanistan that the former monarch might be kept isolated when he returns. Alarmed, hundreds of tribal leaders met in Kandahar on Saturday to warn against attempts to keep him from the people.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 04:34 AM
Rather, if exit words are your passion, better to take the time to compose an enduring epigraph, one that says something true about who you were and what you believed in. H. L. Mencken summed up his sweet and sour taste for life rather eloquently in a single sentence: "If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl." And what were the Sage of Baltimore's last words? "This is the last you'll see me."
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 04:13 AM
The current sensation at the Battersea Arts Center in London delves into the themes of any number of beloved operas: infidelity and misdirected love, rage and untimely death. An aging diva, cheated by life, sings a heart-rending aria expressing her profound weariness with failure: ''I've had enough of dying/I just want to dance.'' But the gavotte is nowhere in this diva's thoughts -- her dream is to become a professional lap dancer, working the pole in some squalid dive. Such is the seamy lyricism of ''Jerry Springer: The Opera.''
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 04:06 AM
Forced into a settlement in that case with the Securities and Exchange Commission because of evidence culled from its own files, Andersen adopted a perfectly legal policy of shredding most records as they became unnecessary.
Then, in a stunning blunder meant to save money, it cut back on the staff responsible for actually destroying the records — leaving huge piles of Enron documents sitting in Andersen offices around the world as Enron hobbled toward collapse.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 03:35 AM
Louis Serrano is dealing with it in his own way. A little while back, he said, he knocked on the door of a nondescript apartment. Mr. Hanley opened the door. "Hey, Jim," he said. "I just want to let you know that I still know where you live."
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 03:08 AM
The jury of eight women and four men convicted her of murder Tuesday, rejecting the defence's claim of insanity.
The jury system is ridiculous.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 02:55 AM
The creatures originated in Europe. They settled in Maine, decimating the crab fishery. They've now invaded most of the shallow bays and estuaries of Nova Scotia and half of those of Prince Edward Island.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 02:53 AM
The 44 inmates at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre allege the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) strike has led to late meals, unsanitary conditions, as well as a lack of clean clothes, toiletries and yard time.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 02:49 AM
The Dictionary Project is a nonprofit organization designed to raise money to provide a dictionary for third grade students in public schools. The ideal of this program is to aid third grade teachers in their goal to see all their students leave at the end of the year as good writers, active readers and creative thinkers. The purpose of this agency is to provide third grade students in public schools with their own personal dictionary. The dictionary is for the children to keep, so that they can take it with them into the fourth grade and use it throughout their school career. Over 250,000 students have received a dictionary through this program.
Posted by GeeTee at March 18, 2002 02:47 AM
As the tempo increased, Brodsky found drivers took more risks, such as jumping red lights, and had more accidents. When listening to up-tempo pieces, they were twice as likely to jump a red light as those who were not listening to music. And drivers had more than twice as many accidents when they were listening to fast tempos as when they listened to slow or medium-paced numbers.
Posted by GeeTee at March 17, 2002 05:52 PM
``I want to be an engineer. I like to study the holy Koran and English so I can speak to foreigners -- but not Arabic,'' she said. Under the Taliban the study of Arabic was mandatory.
Posted by GeeTee at March 17, 2002 01:31 PM
According to Mallarmé's theories, nothing lies beyond reality, but within this nothingness lie the essence of perfect forms. It is the task of the poet to reveal and crystallize these essences. Mallarmé's poetry employs condensed figures and unorthodox syntax. He believed that the point of a poem was the beauty of the language.
Posted by GeeTee at March 17, 2002 08:48 AM
The corporation requires two pieces of identification for address changes. But its managers admit that not all bogus applications get caught, and that staff rely to a large extent on the good faith of customers.
I moved, and had mail redirected, twice last year. Neither time was I asked for any kind of ID at all. In fact, the first time, my mail was redirected to the wrong address (Canada Post's error) and I was able to get it fixed without even providing a receipt showing what address I had initially asked the mail be sent to.
Posted by GeeTee at March 17, 2002 08:23 AM
In 1984 the University of Edinburgh awarded Mugabe a doctorate in law, honoris causis. This just happened to coincide with the time when his army was slaughtering the opposition, breaking the law and and trampling on human rights all over Matabeleland, as the Roman Catholic Justice and Peace Commission has fully documented. Yet this week, senior Edinburgh university officers said there were "no current plans" to revoke Mugabe's degree.
Posted by GeeTee at March 17, 2002 08:18 AM
The airline says the extra security required for him to fly could mean delays of up to three hours for other passengers.
Posted by GeeTee at March 16, 2002 03:42 PM
Pavlov said Knyazev deserved mercy because he had already lost his job as a diplomat, and had suffered public humiliation.
Posted by GeeTee at March 16, 2002 03:39 PM
With Kissinger, you can tell how many people he killed. With Mother Teresa, who only preached surrender to poverty, disease and ignorance and against family planning, we can't be sure of the figures. But together they certainly make two out of the four pale riders of the Apocalypse.
Posted by GeeTee at March 16, 2002 08:42 AM
Whilst the rest of the world is racing toward the 22nd century AD, we are perilously sliding toward the abyss of ignorance of the 22st century BC. In truth, even then there were civilizations better geared than we are here at present. We seem to be hopelessly insensitive toward the needs and will of the people. This must change.
Posted by GeeTee at March 16, 2002 06:29 AM
Seattle Times reporter Duff Wilson's "Fateful Harvest" is set in the small farming town of Quincy, Wash., but its tale will shock communities across America: Chemical companies are slipping toxic waste into fertilizer. Tainted with heavy metals, dioxins and radioactive waste, the fertilizer is being spread on farms, yards and gardens – with potentially disastrous results for unsuspecting farmers and the public. Wilson brings readers along as he responds to a tip from the town's mayor and takes on one of America's most powerful industries. His book provides insights in the world of investigative reporting as he unrelentingly, and ethically, pursues the truth, creating a roadmap that will be followed by concerned citizens for years to come.
Posted by GeeTee at March 16, 2002 06:27 AM
Aggression scores increased in the rejected groups. But the IQ scores also immediately dropped by about 25 per cent, and their analytical reasoning scores dropped by 30 per cent.
Posted by GeeTee at March 16, 2002 06:11 AM
One witness said he saw three policemen "beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya".
Posted by GeeTee at March 16, 2002 06:06 AM
The remaining talismans were called the "Wight Eye Talismans" and each had a jewel worth £25. Inscribed in part of the set of Wight Eyes, was a hidden cypher which encrypted one of the book's key codes. Another cypher to this code was in the page layout of the book and a third was in the form of a certain artifact, also hidden at a secret location on the island.The treasure hunt was given a span of ten years and its main treasure, The Great Wight Eye was claimed by two adult brothers from Birmingham after five years of research.
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 06:38 PM
Before Masquerade was solved in 1982, Kit had already set about creating a second treasure book, no doubt at the intense urging of his publishers. When the second book was published on May 24, 1984, its title was its puzzle. Another elaborate storybook tale was presented for exploration, this time involving bees, the changing of the seasons, and Kit's woodcuttings. The challenge: Discover the name the book and express it without using the written word to claim the prize.
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 06:34 PM
According to Howard, all you need to buy is an 802.11 or Wi-Fi Ethernet card that slides into the back of your computer, along with a wireless AccessPoint or hub antenna. Total price at your local Future Shop or Radio Shack? Roughly $450.
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 04:53 PM
Returns from experimental areas indicate that yields of 400 to 500 pounds of dried tops per acre may be expected under good conditions. Although some American-grown cannabis is found in the crude-drug trade, a definite market for this product is not yet established. Those who contemplate the commercial production of this crop should therefore carefully investigate market possibilities before making any extensive plantings.
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 03:16 PM
In the 1990's, it is difficult to distinguish between things. Our form of society has fascistic tendencies (contrary to reality, that almost sounds like playing down!). For example, many ravers think that they are apolitical but their behaviour is right wing. Did Dr Motte perhaps say his statements in open public out of sheer stupidity? I find that the most dangerous attitude of all and precisely why it should be explained what went on in the Third Reich. Skinheads can be recognised immediately, but not bourgeois people who you see stand on the sidelines clapping or merely condoning by inaction. People have power not only depending on how much they know but also what they are prepared to find out!
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 02:26 PM
For the longest possible period of enjoyment in your home, look for plants with flowers in various stages of ripeness. For example, the best selection would be a plant with just one or two open or partly open blooms, and three or more puffy, unopened buds of different sizes. The ripe puffy buds will open up within a few days, while the tighter ones will bloom over the next several days.
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 02:09 PM
In some respects this decision represents a coming of age for Internet jurisprudence. The Court handled the technical concepts of crawlers and linking in an intelligent and matter-of-fact way. It also recognized the unique value of Internet search engines; by giving users indexing and access capability they provide value very different than the underlying content.
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 11:58 AM
Two dot-com companies that went out of business will have to pony up more than $250,000 in back pay they owe to 52 former employees, the New York Attorney General's office said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 11:54 AM
Direct marketing companies have claimed the province could lose hundreds of thousands of jobs if they have to obtain explicit consent.
Sterling says people should have the right to control how their personal information is used.
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 11:06 AM
Now, the law firm of Harke & Clasby in Miami has filed suit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on behalf of Maravilla in an effort to win class action certification under Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act against Buy.com. The lawsuit alleges that the Internet retailer based in Orange County, Calif., has jacked up profits by charging an inflated shipping rate. The lawsuit, however, did not say what the actual shipping costs should be and the attorney in the case said he didn't know how much it would cost to ship a CD by U.S. mail, but that it would be less than $1.95.
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 11:04 AM
[…] prosecutors have decided they can't make the charges stick, and ordered the RCMP to butt out. They also suggested the natural resources department lift its ban on the nudists. The department told the RCMP this week to send letters to the sunbathers welcoming them back to Crystal Crescent.
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 10:53 AM
Chrétien made the announcement in a written statement from Washington, where he met with U.S. President George W. Bush.
Posted by GeeTee at March 15, 2002 10:50 AM
The group – Ansar al-Islam – emerged just days before the Sept. 11 attacks on the US. It delivered a fatwa, or manifesto, to the citizens in mountain villages against "the blasphemous secularist, political, social, and cultural" society there, according to Kurdish party leaders.
Posted by GeeTee at March 14, 2002 06:30 PM
"His intent was not malicious," she said, "nor was it intentional."
Posted by GeeTee at March 14, 2002 06:26 PM
"We appeal to Muslim women to wear veils and confine their activity because Lashkar-e-Jabar does not want to spray acid on their sisters (on women)," a Lashkar-e-Jabar statement said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 14, 2002 06:23 PM
``When the GAO demands documents from us, we're not going to give them to them,'' Bush told a White House news conference. ``These were privileged conversations.''
Posted by GeeTee at March 14, 2002 03:22 PM
"The question then has to be: If your child, God forbid, was dying, and the cure was invented in England or elsewhere, would you really not use it and let your child die? Brownback and Weldon are saying yes," Zucker said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 14, 2002 03:12 PM
The Ecuadorian Government says that this project is a truly viable alternative in Ecuador to industries involved in the growing and trafficking of cocaine.
Posted by GeeTee at March 14, 2002 02:58 PM
Would you survive a nuclear blast? Nuclear Blast Mapper will show you how terribly destructive thermonuclear weapons are.
Posted by GeeTee at March 14, 2002 01:57 PM
A man who wrote to Dear Abby for advice on how to handle his fantasies about having sex with girls was charged yesterday with possessing child pornography after the columnist turned him in, authorities say.
Posted by GeeTee at March 14, 2002 05:14 AM
Six Canadian sharpshooters provided cover for soldiers sweeping the area and took out an undisclosed number of fighters. The U.S. has reported about 100 enemy deaths from that mission.
Posted by GeeTee at March 14, 2002 05:13 AM
You can now subscribe to the premium version of A.Word.A.Day using a credit card or a check/cheque. Cost for yearly subscription is US $25. If you decide to cancel before the end of your subscription period, this amount is non-refundable.
Posted by GeeTee at March 14, 2002 05:10 AM
The demonstration, endorsed by a dozen local groups and organized by Debra Hall and Marci Gerulis of the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, was the first of its kind in the nation, an attempt to take anti-SUV bumper-sticker and ticket campaigns to a new level. It also marked a new level of religious involvement in the cause -- at least four ministers from various denominations were on hand, including Bob Massie, an Episcopal priest who also heads CERES, Fred Small, director of Religious Witness for the Earth, and Dan Smith, a Congregational minister who won the prize for the day's best poster: "What Would Jesus Drive?"
Posted by GeeTee at March 14, 2002 05:08 AM
Meteor Garden centers on the romance between a poor girl and a member of a gang of spoiled rich kids at an elite high school in Taipei. Gang members wear expensive designer clothing and pick on fellow students with impunity.
The newspaper Beijing Youth Daily said the drama gave young viewers "unrealistic ideas about relations between people and society."
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 07:18 PM
Mr Bush's refusal to acknowledge the result came after Colin Powell bluntly warned Mugabe that he "may claim victory but not democratic legitimacy".
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 07:16 PM
He claims he was sacked for no good reason.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 07:14 PM
Are You Passionate?, a collection of eleven new original studio tracks from Neil Young will be released March 26th on Reprise Records. The first studio set from the artist since 2000's acclaimed Silver & Gold, Are You Passionate? features a wide range of musical styles by Young, an innovator who is considered by many as one of the leading lights of modern rock & roll.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 06:06 PM
When the "dry ice" melted, the pressure increased until the ground erupted, shattering rock and creating a flow of liquid carbon dioxide and debris down into the crater.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 06:04 PM
The brain's reward centres normally reinforce behaviours that are good for you, such as eating when you're hungry.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 06:01 PM
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 05:57 PM
This seems particularly bizarre, considering that they permit purchase of advertising by people marketing spam lists, email address harvesters (as evidenced when you type "bulk email" into their search engine) and other anti-social utilities and products (at least from an Internet user's perspective). I believe that, in the past, I've even seen spamming software being advertised, though a couple of casual searches of logical keywords don't bring up such at the moment.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 05:57 PM
And while he doesn't require staffers to attend [his Pentecostal prayer meetings in his office every day], he does indeed make each and every one of them feel rather discomfited and weird about it, perhaps akin to your own boss holding nice daily little kitten-bloodletting rituals in the company conference room and "suggesting" you attend but he won't hold it against you if you don't and never mind the little notebook he keeps scribbling in while scowling at you.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 03:28 PM
``I don't think it's a secret that we had to examine our operating expenses,'' Bauer said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 12:31 PM
Three rhesus monkeys were given the implants, which were first used to record signals from their motor cortex — an area of the brain that controls movement — as they manipulated a joystick with their hands. Then those signals were used to develop a program that enabled one of the monkeys to continue moving the cursor with its brain.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 12:20 PM
This three-day event will take place in Ottawa’s Byward Market. The weekend will centre around an outdoor street party on Saturday, April 13 and will coincide with the ‘Blues in the Schools’ residency program.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 10:23 AM
Since Andy Bellin is neither a brute nor a social Darwinian holding aces wired, what is the attraction of the game and its setting for him? I would say that he has been taken in by the romance of liberty—or, more precisely, the fantasy of freedom—that full-time poker playing provides. Bellin fits the profile of the gambler as a talented person who is nonetheless unsuccessful, smart yet unable to fit into the conventional workaday world. The gambling life allows such a person to feel that he is outside the system, and incorporates a number of masculine ideals not often met in ordinary life. The notion of being beholden to no one—boss, family, lover—is vastly appealing, and gambling for a living implies fearlessness and an absence of pettiness. Neither real nor realizable, what we are actually talking about here is a movie role, best played by Clark Gable with a name like Blacky Thurston in the setting of turn-of-the-last-century San Francisco.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 08:18 AM
That means it took the INS nearly a year to process the visa applications after they were submitted by a Huffman official in August 2000, and seven months more to return the forms to the flight school. The schools are not required to deny instruction to foreign nationals while the visa applicants wait for an INS decision, officials said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 07:03 AM
With all votes counted, Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede said Mr Mugabe had received about 54% of the vote, with Mr Tsvangirai getting 40%. Three minor candidates received 6% between them.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 07:02 AM
UN backs Palestinian state
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | UN backs Palestinian stateThe US-drafted document "affirming a vision" of a Palestinian state was backed by 14 out of 15 members of the Security Council, with the abstention of Syria.
Posted by GeeTee at March 13, 2002 07:00 AM
The central claim Smith makes is that therapeutic cloning will never work in practice to help cure the 100 million Americans that the National Academy of Sciences estimated could one day benefit from stem-cell therapies. Why? Because, Smith asserts, therapeutic cloning requires tens of millions of human eggs in order to produce the cells and tissues that might cure diseases in each patient. In order to get those millions of eggs, Smith suggests, millions of women would be forced to super-ovulate, which would be an intolerable violation of their individual integrity and put their health at great risk.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 07:50 PM
On election days, the capacity of polling stations in Harare was wholly inadequate. Despite advance warnings, the Registrar General decided to carry out elections with as many as 5,300 voters per polling station on average in Harare and Chitungwiza. In all other provinces, excepting Bulawayo, the number was around 1,000 per polling station.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 07:47 PM
FIVE foreigners, including two Americans and two Britons, were arrested in Mutasa District last Thursday for allegedly contravening a section of Public Order Security Act (POSA), after they assisted 45 MDC supporters who were assaulted by suspected Zanu PF youths in the constituency.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 07:44 PM
"I feel inside me that he is still alive and, if he were dead, the whole world would know because the death of Osama cannot be concealed," she was quoted as saying.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 07:42 PM
Former employees, who are owed thousands or in some cases tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars by the company, say that Loki cheated them one last time: Instead of sending them W-2 income tax forms, they were sent 1099s, meaning that they are left to pay taxes on income for which the company was already supposed to have -- but hadn't -- paid federal withholding.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 05:00 PM
The right-wing institute's studies have suggested that more than 50 per cent of experts say illnesses are caused by obesity, substance abuse and poor lifestyle.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 04:55 PM
Mr. Phillips released documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act that show the Premier had run up a legal bill of $945,153 to the end of January.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 04:39 PM
Sure, they're all sex toys, but only one -- the humble dildo -- is legally verboten in the state of Texas. According to the Texas Penal Code, which details what devices good, law-abiding Texans may and may not purchase for their personal pleasure, dildos (and all other items made specifically to stimulate the genitals) can't be collected, bought, or sold in the state.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 02:58 PM
The odds now favour a big wedding, an eventual Conservative-Alliance marriage that will keep the Conservative Party what it has always been -- a national party that plays a slightly right-of-centre game. Especially if Day wins, diehard Alliance MPs will probably hang on for a time but, like the Progressives before them, they will have neither influence nor power.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 01:41 PM
Discretion, to the point of extreme compartmentalization, was Blunt by the end of the Second World War, the result not only of eight years of spying, but of his homosexuality. Carter treads carefully around the relationship of Blunt's sexuality to his treason. The vituperation that greeted his exposure as a spy and, days later, as a gay man, easily combined the two -- Carter recalls, with distaste, tabloid references to the "treacherous Communist poof." But Blunt's homosexuality was key to his decision to spy. Blunt, Carter shows, was a deeply repressed man, inarticulately furious at a society that criminalized his very identity. And then there was Guy Burgess.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 01:37 PM
Indian street vendors burned vehicles and vandalized stores in the public market here when agents from the state prosecutor's office tried to crack down on the sale of pirated music.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 11:50 AM
A new survey by William M. Mercer has identified that Canada and the US have the cleanest two cities in the world. Calgary scores highest with an environmental rating of 166, followed by Honolulu, which scores 161.5. The Finnish capital Helsinki and Katsuyama in Japan share joint third place with a score of 158. Two other North American cities, Ottawa and Minneapolis, share joint fifth place in the list with a rating of 154.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 11:48 AM
The 2001 Census revealed 51 per cent of Canadians live in southern Ontario's Golden Horseshoe, the Montreal area, B.C.'s lower mainland and the Calgary-Edmonton corridor.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 11:43 AM
After the code was successfully extracted in 1998, Canal alleges, NDS transmitted it in a digital file to NDS Americas Inc. in California “with instructions that it be published on the Internet,” so that it “would be freely available to anyone who wanted to use it to produce counterfeit” Canal Plus smart cards. The suit says that, in March 1999, the code was published on a Web site that Canal says is frequented by counterfeiters.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 11:41 AM
The committee said they were discussing whether or not to organize a nationwide general strike to channel voter anger into a peaceful protest. "We are concerned about a spontaneous eruption of anger, particularly in urban areas," he said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 10:49 AM
Manufacturers of general purpose CDs and mini-discs would pay 59 cents a disc, up from 21 cents. Makers of specialty audio discs would pay $1.23 a disc, up from 77 cents.
According to this draft of the proposed tariff mp3 players would be levied at $21 per gigabyte. Even in CAD that's steep.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 08:44 AM
"If this regime is to change, it must be done from within. If you bring in those guys from London and New York, there is not one Iraqi inside the country who will support them. Not one. Not after what we have been through. And the fact is, inside Iraq there isn't any opposition worth a damn."
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 05:21 AM
Next time you do something that tasteless, Ted, try to make it funny too.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 05:07 AM
"There are other tragedies that occur from time to time. Perhaps the honourable member can suggest that we look into that, but I do not feel it is absolutely necessary to have a monument built for that occasion."
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 05:01 AM
Relatives of some of the thousands killed stood and watched as 12-year-old Valerie Webb activated 88 powerful searchlights arranged to simulate the twin towers. Her father, Port Authority police officer Nathaniel Webb, still hasn't been found in the ruins nearby.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 04:57 AM
Ncube, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and another party official were accused of treason in late February after the airing of a video purporting to show Tsvangirai discussing a plot against Mugabe during a meeting in Canada.
Posted by GeeTee at March 12, 2002 04:48 AM
Bob's on his last trip to Europe. Extradition! Help Tsvangarai fire Bob Mugabe’s body through the holes in the wall. Use your mouse to aim the canon. – hit Slobodan Milosevic with Bob for top points!
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 02:44 PM
In the Harare suburb of Glen Norah police wielding batons fired tear gas to disperse 600 people waiting to vote.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 02:36 PM
"In the past year or two, we had numerous accounts of businessmen going to Afghanistan, excavating old sites -- even graves, they were digging up graves -- to take out Afghan heritage and sell it on the market," the interim leader said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 01:40 PM
Arrive at Kabul airport and it is a photograph of Masood that looks down as your visa is stamped, not Karzai.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 01:38 PM
A gunman, upset with the quality of wide screen television, has shot himself after a seven hour siege.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 12:54 PM
Since Sept. 11, the U.S. government has secretly transported dozens of people suspected of links to terrorists to countries other than the United States, bypassing extradition procedures and legal formalities, according to Western diplomats and intelligence sources.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 12:42 PM
Polling stations opened nearly five hours late while thousands of people waited to vote and there is still no indication as to when the first results will be announced.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 12:39 PM
The 343 firefighters killed in the trade center were honored separately with a bell-ringing at the morning service, where a message from President Bush was also read. Guests, including many victims' relatives, were given yellow daffodils.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 12:28 PM
The fundamental problem is, copyright is no longer an individual right but a corporate piece of property. Corporations are vacuuming up copyrights by either stealing them or forcing creators to give up them up. As we successfully showed in our landmark U.S. Supreme Court case last year, companies have simply stolen hundreds of thousands of articles, photographs and illustrations from their original creators. When they don't steal, they force freelance writers, illustrators and photographers to sign over their copyrights in perpetuity for no extra pay.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 11:56 AM
Under the subject line, "Be Patriotic! Register .USA Domains," the company pulled at the heartstrings of unsuspecting consumers and promoted a $59 registration fee to buy up the bogus domain names.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 11:34 AM
"From the very start, the relatives of the missing women have played an important role in helping the police put together a jigsaw puzzle containing thousands of pieces," Galliford added. "A jigsaw puzzle whose big picture changes as more pieces are assembled."
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 10:58 AM
Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change has high support in urban areas, and says hundreds of thousands of his supporters in Harare were not able to vote. Police closed many polling stations Sunday evening, although there were reports that others remained open well into the night.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 10:57 AM
The problem, one exasperated police source told United Press International, is that "the TV cameras can't be everywhere. There are hundreds of thousands of nooks and crannies left, everywhere you look, and this is where criminals are increasingly operating. And when a camera shows up, they move elsewhere."
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 10:39 AM
"Because it only affects individuals and tends to affect third-world sailors on second- and third-world ships, they have no international voice," said Dragonette, who attended the Maritime Security Council meeting in Florida.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 10:36 AM
"Ours will be called Death Race 3000. Right now Tom Cruise is attached as a producer, but we're hoping he'll play Frankenstein, the best death car racer in the world," says Anderson. "The character gets the nickname Frankenstein because he's had so much reconstructive surgery from accidents, he's practically a machine."
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 10:02 AM
Picture quality is enhanced with Clear Color NR which reduces color noise and Slow-shutter NR which captures and subtracts CCD noise from long time exposures. However, new shooting opportunities are realized with Sony's Nightshot™ technology, which enables the DSC-F707 for infra-red photography. The NightFraming system provides infra-red light as a composition assist, and utilizes Hologram AF focusing and Pre-flash exposure metering for consistently great shots even in low or no light conditions.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 06:23 AM
The report was requested under the Access to Information Act almost two years ago, when it would have been barely one year old. But the federal government has just told The Globe that no one has been able to locate it ever since, either in Ottawa or at the Montreal-based advertising agency Groupaction Marketing Inc., which was awarded the contract.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 05:53 AM
Zimbabwe's chaotic presidential elections dissolved into confusion Monday morning as the government said voting would be extended an extra day but most polling officers refused to allow people to vote in this southern African nation.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 05:50 AM
The only missing American feature would be the greenback, with which Premier Bernard Landry wants to replace the loonie, but this is something that's beyond provincial jurisdiction. Apparently though, a province can abolish the British parliamentary system without breaking away from Canada. Oh, and another thing, the "first past the pole" system of electing our MNAs would be changed, and some kind of proportional representation introduced.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 05:22 AM
First, some of them denied my observations. One even stood up and walked around to prove that she didn't walk in such a way. She did, though, and had never noticed before. Another one, a former volleyball player for the Japanese national team at the Olympic games in the 70's, said that when you turn your feet inside "like that" you have more balance. Now in her fifties, she has not played volleyball for twenty years, but still walks "like that." A third colleague took a more defensive approach, insisting that it is not the Japanese women who walk different, but it is the western women who do so. At that point I was reminded that being a woman does not make me automatically "one of them." After some explaining, my colleague understood that what I was trying to do was not to assign a "good" or "bad," label to the way Japanese women walk, but just trying to understand what causes so many of them to walk in ways that are not very common in other parts of the world.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 05:19 AM
Among its conclusions: American cities are plagued with violence and crime, racial discrimination remains endemic, guns are everywhere and there is no constitutional protection of equal rights for women.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 05:05 AM
One aspect has been the use of public rape against perceived political opponents. Lovemore said five women had come forward since January to report that they were forced to have sex in front of witnesses at militia bases in Muzarabani and Murehwa, north of the capital Harare. They all contracted sexually transmitted diseases, she added.
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 05:03 AM
While Mugabe regularly claims that British neocolonial interference is responsible for the state of the country, Zvobgo says, "I am not one who believes in blaming the world for the plight in which we find ourselves. Sure, some factors were beyond our control, but others were within our grasp, and we either mismanaged or we hesitated and lost an opportunity."
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 05:02 AM
"There is no sign on the house, which could be described as run down. You will walk through duck and chicken droppings to get to the front door and there is no air conditioning so be prepared to share your dinner table with flies and perhaps other insects."
Posted by GeeTee at March 11, 2002 04:59 AM
There has been no immediate reaction from the government, but state television said Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa would appeal to the Supreme Court to strike down the ruling.
Posted by GeeTee at March 10, 2002 11:35 AM
Until recently, we lived in Zimbabwe. I have just had a message from a friend in a farming area. Her husband went to vote at a nearby polling station but was turned away. The authorities there had a list of people who were NOT allowed to vote - white farmers!
Posted by GeeTee at March 10, 2002 11:33 AM
According to the Sunday Times, the prince said the organisation was "drinking in the last chance saloon"
Posted by GeeTee at March 10, 2002 11:20 AM
"This film has been shown as a work of art in Argentina and in Brazil, where it was even shown on TV without any scandal," he said. "I don't know why they are so bothered about it in Mexico."
Posted by GeeTee at March 10, 2002 05:35 AM
This woman from China's Fujian Province who helped her husband build a corporation in Hongkong is a determined fighter against mistress-keeping, which has grown rampant in recent years on the mainland, involving many Hongkong men.
The practice did not ebb although the Chinese government last year enacted a law forbidding illegal co-habitation, and despite the instructive break-ups of many families in Hongkong.
Posted by GeeTee at March 10, 2002 05:33 AM
Another party insider close to Harris said the Premier knew exactly what he was saying when he talked about federal politics.
Posted by GeeTee at March 10, 2002 05:30 AM
Casting his vote at a primary school in Highfield, a Harare suburb, Mr Mugabe accused the opposition and his international critics of having already decided that if he won, the election must have been rigged.
Posted by GeeTee at March 10, 2002 05:26 AM
The indictment alleges Benjamin charged the Army more than $100,000 for the cost of running the T-1 Internet line between 1997 and 1998, telling officials at the Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, Army base it was needed to back up the base's communications with U.S. military forces in Bosnia.
Instead, Benjamin was using the line to operate an adult entertainment Web site called Blue Sky whose paid subscribers could participate in two-way video hook-ups including live sex shows, Guadagno said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 09, 2002 06:47 AM
At some polling stations, people began queuing in the middle of the night, which correspondents say marks their determination to vote despite the troubles of the election campaign.
Posted by GeeTee at March 09, 2002 06:45 AM
"If Mr. Rock has not told the [entire] truth, then suddenly it calls into question the veracity of the rest of his statements," Mr. Strahl said. "It becomes a character issue."
Posted by GeeTee at March 09, 2002 06:44 AM
Now, the Greens find themselves facing serious challenges from both sides. On their left, the reformed Communists are running as the Democratic Socialists and are earning both credibility and support from progressive voters by advocating a manifesto very similar to that of the Greens. And on their right, Schroeder's Social Democrats are likely try to rally left-of-centre voters to their banner (much like the federal Liberals do in Canada) by warning that vote-splitting could allow the Christian Democrats back into power.
Posted by GeeTee at March 09, 2002 06:42 AM
The House moved closer Thursday to setting aside part of the Internet for material suitable for children. The Energy and Commerce Committee's telecommunications panel approved legislation to create a "kids.us" domain for Web sites free of pornography and other material deemed inappropriate for children under 13.
Posted by GeeTee at March 09, 2002 06:03 AM
Tampons, sanitary pads and similar products became subject to the GST under the federal Conservatives in the late 1980s.
In 1991, however, some products - yogurt, pudding and lottery tickets among them - were exempted from the GST.
Posted by GeeTee at March 08, 2002 07:33 PM
The study found that Canadians who speak English at home are more likely to be avid readers, to visit heritage institutions, historic sites, conservation areas and nature parks or use the Internet.
Canadians whose home language is French were found more likely to attend the symphony, festivals or to watch television.
Posted by GeeTee at March 08, 2002 07:27 PM
I notified Canada Post that it is violating the Privacy Act by selling to business mailers, without obtaining appropriate consent, the new home addresses of Canadians who pay the Corporation to redirect their mail.
Posted by GeeTee at March 08, 2002 07:07 PM
On Thursday, the Federal Court of Canada ruled that First Nations living under an agreement known as Treaty 8 do not have to pay any tax. According to the ruling, treaty negotiations held over 100 years ago led the aboriginals to believe they would never be taxed.
Posted by GeeTee at March 08, 2002 07:04 PM
For the moment this site carries a "potential" ICANN logo. It is there as a statement that may or may not induce you to sign up as a "potential" ICANN At Large member.
The Logo will be removed if the Board decides in Accra not to support an At Large membership. In that case, the site will continue to exist and will continue to sign up "critical stakeholders" (Individuals who hold Domain Names).
Posted by GeeTee at March 08, 2002 09:00 AM
Booking gasbags to hold forth on cable news shows is not an exact science, as Fox News recently learned the hard way. On Feb. 22, a producer for the network called Ray Richmond, co-founder of an entertainment-news web site called the Hollywood Pulse. Richmond was invited to appear on the network and to participate in a discussion of the legal difficulties facing comedian Paula Poundstone, who was charged with child abuse and endangerment last summer. Richmond accepted. He was interviewed Feb. 25, with the footage airing last Friday. This week he pointed out something that the Fox News folks seemed not to know when they booked him: The Hollywood Pulse isn%uFFD5t a serious news site but one whose entire mission is "satire and spoof." "Apparently, the Fox producer simply put the words 'Paula Poundstone' and 'court' into a search engine and one of the Poundstone stories on our site popped up," said Richmond in an "exclusive interview with himself" published on the Pulse this week. "If they'd have checked out Hollywood Pulse last week, they'd have seen that our lead story was headlined, 'Poundstone Granted Supervised Child Abuse.' I mean, duh!" In reply, a spokesman for Fox News told the San Francisco Chronicle, "It's a well-known fact that Ray Richmond is a media whore."
Posted by GeeTee at March 08, 2002 07:22 AM
National defence officials insist computer discs found in an Ottawa alley marked "restricted" don't pose any threat to Canadian security, even though they contain information about navy submarines.
Posted by GeeTee at March 08, 2002 07:01 AM
"The flim-flammer jumped in the flivver and faded."
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 07:53 PM
A report card that comes with a 15-page instruction booklet and asks children to evaluate themselves has got many Montreal area parents up in arms.
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 07:26 PM
Jacques de Vaucanson, a French inventor, made his name in the 1730s by building a flute-playing automaton that (with the aid of a set of bellows) actually breathed. More famous still was his mechanical duck that ate its food and then defecated. After an unsuccessful attempt to apply his skills to automating the French weaving industry (the weavers of Lyons rioted when they heard about his plan to herd them into factories and have them perform like parts of a giant automaton), Vaucanson spent many years trying to build a medical automaton that could bleed. Another of his inventions, a loom driven by punch-cards, was subsequently perfected by Jacquard.
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 07:07 PM
Systers traces its origins to a two-stall, two-sink bathroom at an operating-systems symposium in 1987. There, Anita Borg and a fellow attendee began talking about the fact that only 25 of the 400 conference delegates were women. Soon another female attendee came in, and another, until six women were crowded into the small room. "We wouldn't have run into each other and begun talking," Borg says, "if it hadn't been for the bathroom."
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 05:08 PM
The latter issue is important because it determines how long a label reaps all the financial benefits from a song. The label controls the copyright for 95 years if it's a work for hire, but if not, an artist can reclaim the rights after 35 years. Lawyers for the record companies say Napster's arguments are far-fetched at best. But the issues raised by the company are sensitive ones, given the labels' current tussles with artists over online distribution and the rights to master recordings.
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 05:02 PM
Two of the men are depantsed, exposing severe abrasions to their buttocks. Another man next to them is holding a beer can and a paddle with the greek letters delta and upsilon.
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 04:53 PM
"Everybody has been expecting a robot in the bar," added Gereon Schmitz, another organizer. "We were laughing so much, we were crying."
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 04:27 PM
The defeated amendment would have confirmed the legality of abortions carried out to save the lives of pregnant women, but it would have excluded a pregnant woman's threat to commit suicide from that category. Ahern and church leaders had argued that women would falsely threaten to kill themselves in order to receive abortions.
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 04:24 PM
During closing arguments on Tuesday, Lebrun noted Pepin filed tax returns on the money he allegedly took in illegal salary payments. Lebrun suggested that someone with serious criminal intent would have taken greater care to cover his tracks.
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 04:20 PM
"The rising water level will only add to the beauty of that section of the river, so there is no need to rush there as advocated by some travel agents."
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 04:19 PM
Because Kryptonite gel appeared with a "TM" symbol the public might think there is an association between the gel and the character, giving Wella an unfair benefit from Superman's fame, the lawsuit alleged.
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 04:08 PM
A Swedish committee today presented a draft for a law on protection of personal integrity in working life. The proposed law deals with logging of data, supervision of email and other technical and non-technical privacy issues. As a point of departure, the draft law proposes the introduction of a prohibition against the employer's reading employees' private e-mail or other private electronic data.
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 09:39 AM
What happened next, however, may have come as a surprise: Scientific American sent him a letter threatening to sue him if he didn't remove the critical article that he was responding to. With the air of bemused politeness that has marked Lomborg's response to his often-overheated critics, Lomborg took the article down.
Lomborg's situation, however, serves to underscore a new and unwholesome trend: the use of copyright law to silence critics.
Posted by GeeTee at March 07, 2002 08:50 AM
Pro Hart's paintings have been faked several times and he thinks adding the cells from his cheek will stop the practice.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:22 PM
Allowing troops to have sex with locals can also cause problems long after a foreign military leaves a country. During the Vietnam war, for example, a sex trade developed after U.S. troops began sleeping with locals, he said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:18 PM
Harvesting the reserves could be worth up to $4 billion a year to provincial government coffers.
Guujaw, president of the 7,000-member Haida Nation, said the claim is about protecting the environment, not about oil and gas revenues.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:16 PM
"We have unequivocal feathers on an unequivocal non-avian dinosaur," said the study's lead author, Mark Norell, palaeontology chairman at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:13 PM
The risks are comparable to those faced by nonsmokers who live with smokers and are exposed to secondhand cigarette smoke, said George Thurston, who co-authored the study.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:11 PM
She told the Estado de SP newspaper: "I would love to be photographed in my graveyard because it would be exotic and because my life is heading there."
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:07 PM
A Wipo spokesman said that the laws provided a platform for creators of copyrighted material to further exploit the internet with confidence.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 05:39 PM
If you are a professional writer/journalist/photographer, or have ever dreamed of becoming one, and enjoy wonderful Italian food and culture, put aside six days in March or October to visit and study in the rural setting of Tuscany.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 03:33 PM
This animal Tabriz prayer rug is from Northwest Persia and dates back to the last quarter of the 19th century. It was stolen from a private residence in Sharon, Connecticut in the Spring of 2000. The rug measures 196 cm x 132 cm (6 feet 5inches x 4 feet 4 inches).
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 02:32 PM
In the name of national security, Washington masterbuilders are scooping out the Capitol with a multi-million dollar boondoggle. A massive excavation for a visitors' center will destroy the cherished environment for an underground Disney-esque display for tourists coming to see the real thing.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 12:58 PM
During the next two weeks users can ask system administrators to remove gifs, jokes or anything else that might be deemed offensive. After that date, Ford will dismiss staff possessing or sending unsuitable material.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 11:32 AM
"God didn't feel comfortable working with Yahoo! Instant Messenger or AIM. He also mentioned that Linux was the devil's desktop."
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:43 AM
Three screens inside a courtroom showed the woman, who is being kept alive by a ventilator, lying in her bed surrounded by a team of 11 lawyers and medical staff.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:39 AM
The officials are said to have expressed concerns that al-Qaeda could use the internet to launch new attacks against the United States, but added that the content of the intercepted cyber traffic had not indicated specific threats.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:34 AM
Washington — U.S. authorities have arrested and deported dozens of young Israelis since early last year who represented themselves as art students in efforts to gain access to sensitive federal government office buildings and the homes of government employees, U.S. officials said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:26 AM
Dr. Ross said he has heard too many questions from smokers in their deathbeds, "with lung cancer and emphysema and they have said, 'Why you didn't kick my butt? You should have been more aggressive.' OK, here we are. I am doing it. I am kicking butt."
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:24 AM
"Every surgeon is going to be an excellent microsurgeon because they use the robot for the procedures and the surgeon could concentrate on the disease," said Dr. Garnette Sutherland, chief of neurosurgery for the Calgary Health Region. "Surgeons will provide the robotic system with judgment, which the surgeon still has to do because these things are not thinking machines."
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:22 AM
The government's decree, issued Tuesday, four days ahead of a tight presidential election, restores voting procedures that allow state election officials to turn away voters at the polls.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:18 AM
Another toy seller, Masoumeh Rahimi, said Barbie was "foreign to Iran's culture" because some of the popular Western dolls wear revealing clothing. She said young girls who play with Barbie, a doll she sees as wanton, could grow into women who reject Iranian values.
"I think every Barbie doll is more harmful than an American missile," Rahimi said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:16 AM
Those who used nonoxynol-9 gel were 50% more likely to suffer gonorrhoea and had the same chance as non-gel users of suffering chlamydia, the research found.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:10 AM
In a series of experiments that push the limits of science and ethics, Sheng Huizhen, a biologist at Shanghai No. 2 Medical University, claims to have succeeded in deriving stem cells from embryos created by fusing human tissue with the egg cells of rabbits. Rabbit eggs are more plentiful and easier to get than human eggs.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 06:06 AM
"When there's a criminal investigation going on, I'm opposed to that. I don't think it's appropriate at this time," said Owen. He said the search of the Port Coquitlam pig far would stretch city resources.
Posted by GeeTee at March 06, 2002 05:12 AM
I did record "This Song" which was kind of a comment about the situation. The thing that really disappoints me is when you have a relationship with one person and they turn out to betray you, because the whole story of "My Sweet Lord" is based upon this fellow Allan Klien, who managed the Beatles from about 1968 or '69, through until 1973. When they issued a complaint about "My Sweet Lord", he was my business manager. He was the one who put out "My Sweet Lord" and collected 20% commission on the record and he was the one who got the lawyers to defend me, and did an interview in "Playboy" where he talked about how the song was nothing like the other song. Later, when the judge in court told me to settle with them , because he didn't think I'd consciously stolen their song, they were doing a settlement deal with me when they suddenly stopped the settlement, some time elapsed, and I found out that this gut Klien had gone around the back door, in the meantime we'd fired him. He went round the backdoor and bought the rights to the one song "He's So Fine" in order to continue a law suit against me. He one one hand was defending me, then he switched sides and continued the law suit and every time the judge said what the result was, he'd appeal, and he kept appealing and appealing until it got to the supreme court. I mean this thing went on for 16 years or something, 18 years, and finally it's all over with and the result of it is I own "My Sweet Lord" and I now own "He's So Fine" and Allan Klien owes me like three or four hundred thousand dollars cause he took all the money on both songs, it's really a joke, it's a total joke.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 07:55 PM
The quality of a clock depends on its stability and accuracy—whether the clock provides a constant, unchanging output frequency, and how close the measured frequency is to the fundamental atomic resonance that provides the clock’s “tick.” One advantage of the new clock is that it ticks much faster. Today’s international time and frequency standards, such as NIST-F1, measure an atomic resonance of about 9 billion cycles per second. By contrast, the new NIST device monitors an optical frequency more than 100,000 times higher or about 1 quadrillion (US) cycles per second.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 07:49 PM
On 1st December 1997 I was a normal male with average muscular chest. About noon my nipples and underlying breasts started to itch internally, not a surface itch that you can have a good scratch at. My nipples started expanding and in a couple of days I noticed my breasts seemed larger.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 07:05 PM
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. George Pataki said Tuesday that Tribute in Light, meant to evoke the destroyed towers, and The Sphere, a sculpture that had stood in the trade centre plaza, are meant only as temporary memorials until a permanent design is selected.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 06:54 PM
"If the Progressive Conservatives do not accept this option, then unity talks will end and the Canadian Alliance will get on with nominating 301 candidates of our own for the next election," Day said Tuesday as he laid out his proposals for taking the embattled party forward.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 06:07 PM
On the back of this success, Brooks's partners, Clear Channel Entertainment, have been going round the world seeing where else it can put the show on. The Producers will open in Sydney next spring and London next autumn. But the big surprise is the next two locations %uFFD0 Vienna, capital of Hitler's native Austria, where the show opens in autumn 2003, and Berlin, where "Springtime for Hitler" is set to hit the stage a year later.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 05:51 PM
The Nova Scotia legislation makes it mandatory for all bicyclists to wear protective helmets. In provinces such as Ontario, helmets are mandatory only for those 18 and under.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 04:20 PM
Firearms kill more children in the United States than any other cause except motor-vehicle crashes and cancer. Over the period studied, 1988-97, nearly 7,000 children aged between five and 14 were killed with firearms. Before an American child reaches 15, he or she is 12 times more likely to die of gunshot wounds than a child anywhere else in the industrialised world.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 03:53 PM
Canada wants to stop Latin American use of toxic pesticides that drift as far north as the Arctic to contaminate Inuit food. The topic of such drifting chemicals years after their use in Canada has stopped, is on the agenda Tuesday at the first-ever meeting of health and environment ministers of the Americas.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 03:50 PM
The new leader of the Canadian Alliance is - by default - the leader of the Official Opposition and 'de facto' alternative to the Prime Minister of Canada. I have a 1st ballot vote in the Canadian Alliance leadership race which I am making available to the highest bidder.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 01:57 PM
Zimbabwe's opposition said on Tuesday President Robert Mugabe could only win this weekend's presidential election by stealing it and they vowed to fight a Mugabe victory in the courts.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 01:40 PM
Robert is a member of Zimbabwe's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). This is his account of how he was taken from his home in rural Chikwaka, east of the capital, Harare, to a camp run by pro-government militias, and how he escaped.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 01:38 PM
Earlier Tuesday, a minister of the interim Afghan government said al Qaeda fighters are receiving financial help from Arabs and Iranians in "secret ways."
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 01:21 PM
"Payments create a real risk of encouraging witnesses to exaggerate their evidence in court so as to make it more newsworthy, or to withhold relevant evidence from the court in order to give newspapers exclusive coverage later on."
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 01:19 PM
"The Clinton era is likely to be remembered more for the ferocity of its prosecutions than for the severity of its crimes," he writes.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 10:42 AM
Her colleague, Alena Gitova, taped the mouth of another four-year-old, Tomas, because he kept biting the other kids. "No amount of explanations helped. Within two minutes I'd taped his mouth shut," she said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 10:39 AM
The unnamed 29-year-old man kept a detailed account of his court case and life on the run, regularly posting updates on a website he had set up.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 10:17 AM
Wallstrom says she has received confirmation by the EU candidate countries that they are on track to ratify the protocol. Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey are seeking to join the European Union, but they must meet EU environmental standards before their accession is complete.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 09:54 AM
Illicit methamphetamine use is minimal in Canada, and little processing is believed to be done here. But under prodding from the Bush administration, Canada has acknowledged the trafficking problem and the government here is drafting a number of regulations on pseudoephedrine imports and exports as well as enforcement strategies to close the Canadian connection.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 09:53 AM
Those accustomed to Ballmer's teased-gorilla-on-amphetamines style of delivery will be shocked to see a beaten little bald man with hollow eyes bravely fighting back the tears as he grieves for his beloved Windows.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 09:49 AM
The entire time I was the United States ambassador to Canada, I was asked to talk about trade issues, American foreign policy, military co-operation and the like. Meanwhile, the real reason I took the job was that I wanted to talk about . . . hockey . . . and go to hockey games . . . and read about hockey every day in the newspaper. I love the sport. As one Canadian paper said when I was appointed, because of my youthful years in Montreal (all in grade school), and my continuing devotion to the Habs, I am in that respect "nearly Canadian." Now that I'm no longer asked my official position on anything -- and now that Canada has just won Olympic gold in both men's and women's hockey -- let me take this opportunity to rouse a sleeping dog: I want to revive the debate about public support for professional hockey -- recognizing that I do so at my own peril.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 08:05 AM
Today the council defied Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's wishes and vowed that on March 15 its workers will begin building a temple to Ram, the manly incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, on the site of a mosque demolished by Hindu zealots in the north Indian town of Ayodhya. The trainload of Hindus attacked by Muslims on Wednesday were returning from a ceremony that precedes the raising of the temple.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 08:00 AM
According to Durex research, one in seven people are still having unprotected sex, with young people being the greatest risk-takers - 28% of 16-20 year olds and 30% of those aged 21-24 admit they've had sex with a new partner without a condom.
The "easy-on" range has been designed with the shape of the man in mind and look less like a condom and more like a normal penis, the spokeswoman said.
What's a normal penis? Shad?
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 07:57 AM
During his deposition, Ballmer said he would not "know how to comply" with the litigating states' remedy proposal. "I actually think we would need to withdraw the Windows product from the marketplace. That...would be the only way I understand to comply with the proposal as put forward by the non-settling states," he said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 05:43 AM
Two such gunmen sat on the earthen wall here this afternoon, cursing Americans. U.S. soldiers had recently detained their patron, a minor local warlord, apparently on suspicion of supporting Taliban or al Qaeda. Within earshot of an interpreter, they plotted in Pashto to kidnap a knot of Western journalists standing before them.
"These [expletives] put our boss in jail. Why shouldn't we keep them as hostages?" one of the men was heard to say.
"What are you waiting for?" the other answered. "Are you waiting for instructions?"
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 05:41 AM
France Télécom has grand visions of interactive weather reports complete with the smell of rain and videoconferencing sessions "preceded by the eau de toilette of the caller," as a news release put it.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 05:36 AM
A few major liquor brands have run TV commercials. Smirnoff Vodka was the first to break the ice, with a spot on NBC's GE Saturday Night Live in mid-December. After the airing, the cries of protest from groups such as the American Medical Assn. were deafening. NBC continues to carry ads for hard drinks, but other networks have backed off on their efforts to woo liquor companies. The quietest group in this controversy is the distillers themselves. And that's because they don't particularly care whether they're on TV.
Posted by GeeTee at March 05, 2002 05:35 AM
A report released by publishing consultants Pressflex found that French regional daily newspapers with websites lost just 0.27 percent of their circulation between 1999 and 2001.
By comparison, regional daily newspapers without websites lost 0.88 percent of their circulation.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 07:46 PM
Tuzla was the center of a region surrounded by Serb forces, and as I traveled around it, what shocked me was not only the destruction of Muslim villages and towns, but the targeting of mosques, monuments and schools. I hadn’t heard of such an assault since Kristallnacht, in 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Jewish synagogues all over Germany. If Serbs were following orders, it was also clear to me that those orders came from one man. Slobodan Milosevic.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 07:43 PM
"First, let me say that our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and the friends of the service members who have lost their lives in our ongoing operations in Vietnam," [Gen. Gen. Tommy Franks] said. "Certainly, that sacrifice is appreciated by this nation."
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 07:41 PM
The Senate inquiry found that almost 26 per cent of nursing homes are guilty of mistreating their residents, including through neglect, but only 2 per cent of those involved violence towards elderly people.
In one case, a woman died after an orderly beat her when she soiled herself.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 07:38 PM
Mayor Nicola Cristaldi told the Secolo XIX newspaper: "It'll cost 5 million euros (around £3,150,000) but it'll pay back every penny. I'm sure tourists will be attracted by the sight.".
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 07:36 PM
Quebec's population minister created a flap Friday when he admitted he and some buddies recently killed 18,000 doves and pigeons during a hunting trip in Argentina.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 07:34 PM
In Ram-Rahim Nagar, a teeming slum where impoverished Hindus and Muslims have coexisted since 1964, residents said Monday no one was killed there.
``The Hindus and Muslims here are so poor, living hand-to-mouth, that we can't afford to attack one another,'' Natwar Lal Bhikabhai, a Hindu member of the community association board, which has an equal number of Hindus and Muslims to mediate disputes.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 03:01 PM
The Men's Advisory Service says official statistics show women acting against men are responsible for five to 10 percent of the domestic violence in Germany.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 02:52 PM
Wilson says our only safe bet for having peaceful interactions with another intelligent species is to know both parties are stuck on their home worlds. And he imagines the very debate over altruism could reveal why SETI hasn't picked up any alien messages: "Rabbits evolved to be silent and maybe we should too. Maybe there's lots of intelligence out there that's so smart they've learned to shut up."
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 02:23 PM
You've seen it for sale on eBay. You probably read Tom Zeller's whimsical piece about it in The New York Times. Heck, even the Smithsonian Institution just nabbed one for the permanent collection. So, TSG is understandably proud to present a copy of a truly valuable artifact, Enron's in-house "Code of Ethics."
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 11:43 AM
As well, a control group of mice – in which the eggs were fertilized normally, but then manipulated in the same way as the cloned eggs – were also larger than another group that reproduced naturally.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 11:31 AM
[. . .] college administrators have said they feel uncomfortable enforcing federal copyright laws at the request of a private concern. But they felt it was their responsibility, after receiving the NetPD notice, to inform the students that they should stop downloading the copyrighted music.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 11:12 AM
"This bill would go so far as Sears not being able to send you a catalogue or a magazine and would need to get your permission to ask you for renewal," [Canadian Marketing Association president John Gustavson] said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 11:07 AM
"From now on, you can find yourself in front of a court accused of hacking just for using Netscape Navigator," said Champagne, who noted that French police have threatened to search his house and confiscate his computers if he similarly runs afoul of the law again.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 11:04 AM
The weekend's developments are unsettling. Canadians no longer have mine-flailing equipment at their disposal to ensure roads are clear and now must rely on good old horse sense in making decisions on where they should or should not go.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 10:38 AM
"We will confront them all night, it's a battle of wills, we will see who gets tired first," a source close to Mr. Ravalomanana said. "The military know that tomorrow we are going to put our ministers into their ministries."
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 10:35 AM
The policy also says that research will be eligible for funding from the CIHR if scientists use pre-existing embronic stem cell lines, if they use embryos that are no longer needed for fertility treatments, if full consent is given by those for whom the embryos were created, and given that no money is exchanged for the creation or use of the embryos.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 10:33 AM
On Saturday, Charest said the PQ could use the new rules to steer an election campaign towards a issue of its choice. For instance, a question like "should Quebec get more tax revenue from Ottawa?" could become the focus of all debates – pushing aside other topics the government doesn't want to debate.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 10:20 AM
Fresh from an early victory in a lawuit filed against him by his union, UFCW Local 777 member William Gammert has made available the text of the court order handed down yesterday requiring the UFCW to post a copy of its constitution on the internet by July 1st.
As a UFCW official, I worked with others to prevent members from obtaining copies of either the UFCW International Constitution or Local Union By-laws. As UFCW officials, we were suspicious of any member who asked for either document. In our minds, the only reason a member would want either document was to cause trouble for the elected or appointed officials. The UFCW International Constitution and all local Union By-laws outline the election procedures and complant procedures. It is never a politically wise act to provide potential political opponents with the means to challenge your elected leadership.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 10:14 AM
An Israeli pharmaceutical company is working on a drug mimicking cannabis' chemical constituents -- cannabinoids -- to offer marijuana's therapeutic benefits without the buzz.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 10:09 AM
Izzy Asper has said that CBC TV is a waste of public funds and needs to be restructured. Rabinovitch has countered that the public broadcaster serves a vital role, and that CanWest is simply using its newspapers across the country to push the business objectives of its television stations.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 10:03 AM
We are compelled to express our great distress at the one-sided and unsubstantiated attacks on KaZaA that took place at the Committees February 12 hearing, coinciding with the release of its Report titled "Theft of American Intellectual Property: Fighting Crime Abroad and at Home". We are deeply offended by the gratuitous accusations made against KaZaA by witnesses before the Committee, including ludicrous attempts to associate an extremely beneficial, next-generation software program with organized criminal gangs and even terrorist organizations. We believe, as outlined below, that U.S. Courts will find the KaZaA software to be legal under current copyright law, and that our client is devoid of any civil, much less criminal, liability.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 06:51 AM
The sheriff's office kept the incident secret for "sensitivity" reasons and did not arrest anyone, and the agents confirmed their work was related to Cheney's visit, he said.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 06:02 AM
Venice has long been inundated by storm surges and high tides, but flooding has increased in recent decades because of rising sea levels -- caused, perhaps, at least in part, by global warming. In the past 50 years, more of the city has been swallowed by the sea than in all its centuries past.
Now, after nearly two decades of heated debate, Venice's government has approved construction of a system of movable undersea gates. Once raised, the gates will prevent the Adriatic's waters from entering the Venetian lagoon. The gates -- known as the MOSE (Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico) project after the biblical Moses who led his people safely through the Red Sea -- will be installed at each of the lagoon's three openings to the Adriatic.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 05:56 AM
Another old tactic revived by Mugabe is a promise he made three decades ago: to give the country’s rich farmland—most of which was owned by about 6,000 white farmers—back to its native people. Over the past two years, groups of pro-Mugabe “war veterans” have invaded about 1,500 white-owned farms, forcing the owners out and sometimes killing them. The violent disruptions combined with severe drought have sent agricultural output into sharp decline; food has become scarce and living standards have fallen. Zimbabwe’s war of independence ended with a negotiated agreement that protected white property rights, but now Mugabe wishes he had not compromised. “We were fools,” he told NEWSWEEK. “I would have rather we finished it through the barrel of a gun.” Even today, he said, land is “the grievance of all grievances.” He thinks he can finish the redistribution “in two years’ time.”
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 05:50 AM
Under the Swiss constitution, membership needed a double approval -- not only a majority of those voting nationwide and but also a majority in at least 12 of the country's 23 cantons or states.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 05:47 AM
After a rousing introduction by an Arab speaker with wavy black locks, bin Laden entered the Saudi-funded institute for Islamic studies, which had been hastily converted into a Taliban and Al Qaeda intelligence center only days after the World Trade Center bombing.
He was dressed in loose gray clothing and wearing his signature camouflage jacket. His commandos were garbed in green fatigues, and their shiny, new Kalashnikovs were specially rigged with grenade launchers. As bin Laden held forth, several Arabs shouted from the middle and back. "God is Great! Down with America! Down with Israel."
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 05:45 AM
I went out for a long walk in the fields today. The rice season should be starting very soon and these fields will be teeming with people, working long hours at very intense manual labor. But right now it is quiet. And warm. The paddies are still fields, covered in winter growth that has begun to bloom. If I didn't know better I would say that someone is growing beautiful purple flowers just for the fun of it. Before long though, these flowering weeds will all be cut back, turned under, flooded and planted over with rice. So for now I enjoy the colors of spring.
Posted by GeeTee at March 04, 2002 05:38 AM
Posted by GeeTee at March 03, 2002 06:46 AM
This very simple toy uses a magnetic chain reaction to launch a steel marble at a target at high speed. The toy is very simple to build, going together in minutes, and is very simple to understand and explain, and yet fascinating to watch and to use.
Posted by GeeTee at March 03, 2002 06:26 AM
Nearly 26 percent of theatrical films released in 2000 and filmed in North America were shot in Canada, up from 13 percent in 1999, according to a report prepared last year by the Center for Entertainment Industry Data and Research.
Posted by GeeTee at March 03, 2002 06:18 AM
Pointing out that classified produces as much as 40 percent of a newspaper's revenue, the survey finds that in 1998 13.2 percent of respondents said they read newspaper classified advertising regularly. By 2000 that percentage had fallen to 11.7. "That's an 11.4 percent drop in just three years," Bob Jordan, co-chairman of The Media Audit, said in the survey's press release.
Posted by GeeTee at March 03, 2002 05:14 AM
"I've got neighbors behind me that I've never done anything but throw my hands up at them," said Maxine Hill, who has lived here most all her life. "We are not a nosy bunch of people. It takes something like this to really get our curiosity."
Posted by GeeTee at March 03, 2002 05:10 AM
In order to deal with this caller, you must make yourself more valuable to the company than the caller. A quick way to do this is to copy your boss's Temporary Internet Files folder and blackmail him/her with it.
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 08:57 AM
He said he owned a butchery in Vienna and was returning from a business trip to Milan when he lost his way and landed in Cremona.
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 08:52 AM
When they reached a transcendental high, they were asked to pull a kite string to their right, releasing an injection of a radioactive tracer. By injecting a tiny amount of radioactive marker into the bloodstream of a deep meditator, the scientists soon saw how the dye moved to active parts of the brain.
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 08:49 AM
Thousands of people in Germany are claiming they have been struck by allergies and ailments after handling the note.
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 08:46 AM
I have never been enthusiastic about Alternet's charging of a usurious 50 percent fee for the articles it resells. But until now, Alternet has been the only game in town. It has had near monopoly status as a syndication agency for a particular niche of "alternative" news. But, as with other monopolies, Alternet has grown fat in abusing its position in a manner that now causes more harm than good.
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 08:35 AM
It's expected the guidelines will not allow the creation of embryos specifically for the purpose of deriving such cell lines. Rather, the cells would be obtained from embryos left over from infertility treatment, The Canadian Press has learned.
The Canadian policy would differ significantly from that of the United States, where federally funded researchers are required to work with existing cell lines without creating new ones.
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 08:34 AM
"About 15 per cent of stevedores in the port of Montreal had criminal records, 36 per cent of checkers had criminal records, one particular company had 54 per cent of its employees with criminal records."
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 06:58 AM
"When we understand how these natural interactions work, we can control the bacteria either by traditional plant breeding methods or by engineering plants to resist the bacteria," says Professor David Guttman of the Department of Botany. "In the long run, we may be able to extend this research to identify elements of bacterial pathogens of animals such as Salmonella or E. coli." His study was published in the March 1 issue of Science.
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 06:20 AM
The elections are seen by many as the first real test for peace in the West African nation. Electoral officials acknowledged Monday that there were flaws in a recent voter registration drive but said they were confident the elections would go ahead as scheduled.
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 06:17 AM
The official, Eric V. Schaeffer, director of the office of regulatory enforcement for the last five years, wrote to his boss that he was "fighting a White House that seems determined to weaken the rules we are trying to enforce."
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 06:09 AM
The former Muslim MP who had served India's Congress party with distinction, tried to summon help but the police did not respond to his increasingly desperate telephone calls. When Jafri resorted to firing into the air, the 10,000 strong Hindu crowd stormed his home, and carried him into the street.
Nobody is sure whether he was already dead when they poured paraffin over his head and set him alight. The crowd also dragged out his brother-in-law, his brother-in-law's wife and their two small sons. They were burned too.
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 05:43 AM
Three months after police officers and politicians joined Vancouver's gay community in a memorial service to remember Webster's life, he is all but forgotten except by those in Vancouver's gay community.
Posted by GeeTee at March 02, 2002 05:42 AM
The CAVE could also be used for other applications, said Sensen. "You could recreate a whole crime scene in virtual reality." It may also be useful to third parties both in life sciences and out, he added. "As long as it%uFFD5s the only one in Calgary there will be huge pressure to lease it out."
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 03:26 PM
Google Search: george.orwell depressing via PTypes Weblog
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 03:08 PM
"Yes sir! By which we mean, of course, no sir!" Brumley answered.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 02:55 PM
The sheer overwhelming quantity of information on the Internet, much of it unevaluated as to accuracy and relevance, is a problem for many. But we also are concerned lest people make use of the medium's technological capacity for customizing information simply to raise electronic barriers against unfamiliar ideas. That would be an unhealthy development in a pluralistic world where people need to grow in mutual understanding. While Internet users have a duty to be selective and self-disciplined, that should not be carried to the extreme of walling themselves off from others. The medium's implications for psychological development and health likewise need continued study, including the possibility that prolonged immersion in the virtual world of cyberspace may be damaging to some. Although there are many advantages in the capacity technology gives people to “assemble packages of information and services uniquely designed for them”, this also “raises an inescapable question: Will the audience of the future be a multitude of audiences of one?...What would become of solidarity—what would become of love—in a world like that?”
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 02:27 PM
A 2000 National Academy of Sciences report estimated 60,000 women nationwide are putting their fetuses "at risk" of brain damage because of mercury in the fish they eat. Last year, the FDA warned pregnant women not to eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel or tilefish. But the agency said they could eat up to 12 ounces — equal to two cans of tuna — of any other fish weekly, potentially exposing them to mercury levels that the NAS report deemed dangerous.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 02:16 PM
Most audience members were visibly amused or distressed when Eisner confessed that the only reason he could think of for Michael Dell not to build in ubiquitous copyright-policing functions in his products was that Dell wants to sell his products to infringers.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 02:12 PM
"The normal thing is denial, denial, denial, but I'm sorry, that won't do," Mr. Pound said yesterday from his office in Montreal. "You had control of these premises up until the time they were cleaned and the cleaning lady found them, so what is your explanation? The Austrians should be asked for, and pressed for, full disclosure. Simply saying 'it's not ours' won't do."
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 02:06 PM
The IOC will not name the athletes or the sports in which they competed until a full investigation is completed, but hearings for both have been scheduled for 11 March.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 02:02 PM
This is where I get my bagels (though none of these people are me).
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 01:32 PM
It may seem strange to imagine the blogging community as a force that will shape the information environment almost as powerfully as corporate media. We learn in the history books about Samuel Morse’s invention of the telegraph but not about the thousands of operators who shaped the circulation of messages, about Thomas Paine’s Common Sense but less about the “committees of correspondence” through which citizens copied and redistributed letters across the colonies, about the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist blockbuster Uncle Tom’s Cabin but not about the teenagers who used toy printing presses to publish nationally circulated newsletters debating the pros and cons of slavery. In practice, the evolution of most media has been shaped through the interactions between the distributed power of grass-roots participatory media and the concentrated power of corporate/governmental media.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 01:13 PM
Officially launched in 2000, Journalists in Exile (JEX) currently brings together a small group of journalists who were forced to flee their homelands due to harassment and persecution that they had undergone while practising their profession. Seeking a refuge in Canada, these courageous individuals - who come from such countries as Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iran, Nigeria, Peru, Sri Lanka and Sudan - have started a new life with the support of CJFE. Bringing with them a wealth of experience as reporters, broadcasters and editors, the members of JEX wish to devote their energy and intelligence to resuming their journalistic careers in Canada to ensure that not only their voices be heard but that their skills be used to advantage in their adopted homeland.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 10:34 AM
Owners will now have a year and a half to fix up an abandoned house, after that, the city has the right to seize it and either demolish it, or give it to a community group.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 08:44 AM
In what may be an effort to monetize its investment, Time has apparently begun renting the magazine's subscriber list, which it reportedly picked up for $500,000 at a bankruptcy auction last September.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 07:53 AM
The police said 888 crimes were reported in 2001 in which victims were contacted through the sites, compared with just 104 the year before. Of those cases, 387 involved child prostitution or child pornography.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 07:51 AM
The Australian distributor of file-sharing software known as Kazaa says the battle lines between copyright holders and consumers who want to swap digital music and video online could be erased if governments instituted compulsory licensing schemes that touch all technology companies benefiting from the peer-to-peer explosion.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 07:47 AM
Corporations, like individuals, may or may not have a right to silence, a right not to express an opinion. But by generating a credit score about an individual, the bank has already broken that silence. It has not only uttered an opinion, but has used that utterance for an administrative purpose: to determine the credit-worthiness of the individual in question. To seek to invoke some notion of a Charter-derived right to silence as a shield against disclosing this opinion to the individual as required by the Act is, in my view, insufficiently respectful both of the Charter and of common sense.
[...]In the case at hand, I have some difficulty believing that either competitors or rings of algorithmically expert fraud artists would go to the lengths involved. The spectre of the banks falling under systematic assault from teams of loan-hungry mathematicians is simply not one I find particularly persuasive.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 07:44 AM
Apart from publishing articles they downloaded from the Internet indiscriminately, the Chinese media were further censured for allegedly propagating Western perspectives and values.
Putting the media in their place, the CPD guidelines decreed that all future reports on important official policies must use a standardised copy from Xinhua news agency, Beijing's official mouthpiece.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 07:18 AM
Dr. Johnson remarked that "in lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath." Nor are the inscribers of unpaid letters of recommendation -- not in a world in which the chair solicits 10 or 20 for each promotion, instead of one serious letter written with the understanding that it is to have real weight. Scientifically speaking, the letters are meaningless and should be disregarded.
Posted by GeeTee at March 01, 2002 07:16 AM
Children are much more likely to be murdered, commit suicide or die accidentally because of guns in states and regions with higher levels of household firearm ownership, according to a new study by Harvard researchers.
Posted by Shad Muegge at March 01, 2002 12:47 AM
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