Moon Farmer March 25, 2002 Archive
« March 23, 2002 | Main | March 26, 2002 »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
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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
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