Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Seattle voted strongly against a tunnel option to replace the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct in a whopping 70%-30% split. Not a bad decision considering the tunnel would have been dug in loose soil, near water and in an earthquake zone.
It really is not a pretty sight, and it does decrease ...
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Monday, April 11th, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/h...fic/4419993.stm
Due to a land shortage, Hong Kong is looking for different solutions that will permit them to store the growing number of ashes of cremated people. The Hong Kong government is considering high-rise mourning and remembrance structures for this purpose.
In order to ensure that people have a proper ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/20...&partner=rssnyt
Imagine this: On his next trip to Japan, President Bush visits the vault at the Bank of Japan, where that country's $712 billion in United States government bonds is stored. There, as the cameras roll, he announces that the bonds, backed by the full faith and credit of the United ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
http://prodigem.com/marketplace.html
Prodigem has just launched a new part of its service that creates a new marketplace for independent media producers. Content owners upload their works to Prodigem, name a selling price and Prodigem collects the revenue while controlling access. They take out 10% + the Paypal fees and send ...
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/20...6b4cd49&ei=5088
At Harvard, as well as Princeton and Boston U., students who are interested in having their dorm rooms cleaned for them can do so with the help of DormAid. Another gentle reminder of who is being trained to own the Plantation and who is being paid minimum wage to ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
http://fuware.nanocrew.net/pymusique/
iTunes DRM protected music doesn't start it's life off as 'rights managed'. Apple adds the DRM instructions to the file on the fly while the file is being downloaded to you.
What an opportunity! Jon Johansen has created a program which bypasses the DRM stage of the downloading process ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk...1438982,00.html
Reported in the Guardian:
At least 26 prisoners have died in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002 in what US military investigators have concluded or suspect were acts of criminal homicide, the New York Times reported today. Citing military officials, the paper said the killings took place both inside ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
http://www.timesonline.co...1527388,00.html
Two weeks after US troops killed Nicola Calipari, Italys top intelligence officer in Iraq, as he escorted a freed Italian hostage to safety, Italian PM Berlusconi bowed to popular pressure and promised Italy would start withdrawing its 3,200 troops from Iraq in Sept.FolksonomiesUS kill Calipari Italy Iraq italian hostage Berlusconi ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi...sexruling14.TMP
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer has ruled that gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to marry in California. The case has yet to be heard by the state Supreme Court. However, this marks the first time a California court has ruled in favor of same-sex ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
http://www.chron.com/cs/C...ch/blog/3082956
Via the Houston Chronicle's TechBlog, AOL says that regardless of the recent flare up caused by the posting of parts TOS throughout the blogosphere, AOL Instant Messenger's terms of service do not imply that the company has the right to use private IM communications, and the section quoted applies only ...
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