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Here's a picture of damage caused by another meteor

The article mentions the lightpost will be/was inspected for damage. I would like to see the results of such an inspection (and an inspection of the surrounding area) if it was in fact performed.

This story is two weeks old.

LK

One of the original stories on this http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11 483286%255E13762,00.html credited the photo to amateur photographer Wayne Pryde. The bit about cloud "monitoring" appears only in the APOD story. WTF?

The New South Wales Police went one better recently, and actually sent child pornography images to thousands of state schools.

The irony and sad thing here is that it's illegal to have child porn on your computer, yet the police can obviously have it and they sent it out to others as well. Imagine inadvertently getting it in your email and then getting busted by the cops for it. Imagine now if a teacher gets charged for child porn. It just goes to show that merely having the images should not be a crime, since it is all too easy to maliciously plant them on someone's computer in order to frame them.

I heard a rumour that Telstra / NineMSN had put up serious obstacles to preventing this from happening, but I've not be able to see it confirmed either way.

Anything reported in the press is insubstantial: David Frith on recent iTunes releases

Australia's record industry also has a powerful lobby. They almost managed to kill parallel imports, and seem to be able to recruit high profile personalities (eg, Molly Meldrum) to spout the party line.

I'd be interested to know what is really going on. But it's no use expecting to see any journalists dig up the facts, given publications like the Sydney Morning Herald's long-term hostility to the iPod.

(How's this: when publishing a definitive review of MP3 players about a year ago, they omitted all reference to *the* MP3 player! They have to pay lip service to it now it's such a big hit, but most reviews damn it with faint praise. I think Creative must pay them more for their advertising.)

Box of cereal 'worth $35,000'

Following on the heels of this announcement, I'm dismayed with the press-conference style of scientific announcement. Advancements should hit the journals for peer-review first, even if they are a government funded project, and then move on to the press-conference. I hand myself a large plate of salt whenever "scientists" hold a press-conference.

Well, "Big unnamed newspaper" was the News Limited Papers (Herald Sun, Sidney Morning Herald), and the real error was not by the newspaper but by Telstra who posted the advertisement. And Bigpond is the ISP arm of Telstra, so the redirection is Telstra covering their own tracks rather than News Corp coming down from on high

eriously. OK, so a few species will go extinct. But who's to say that some species won't flourish as a result. The ecosystem will be different, but it won't necessarily be worse. The ecosystem will adapt.

Due to mankind's incessant meddling, giant squids are taking over the world.

Oh come on, you can't build a big Tokamak anywhere. That's something you'd only see in a crackpot nation like... France?

Let me help further that point.

Spreading the Word (w/photos)

Col. Gary Brandl: Satan lives in Fallujah

In preparation for the attack, Christian Heavy Metal.

As for other interesting Iraq news for today:

US forces demolish a hospital and target another for releasing casualty figures; 70 journalists are embedded for the invasion; mot of the troops doing the invasion have no major combat experience; and a Georgia man commits suicide at Ground Zero to protest Bush and the war in Iraq.

Here's another article:

Sophear Em was so fascinated with the game Counter-Strike that he and an accomplice dressed in black fatigues, balaclava and ski goggles to emulate characters from the game.

If they'd been running around naked, the claim would have simply been changed to "dressed in the manner of a Counter Strike mod".

You mean like this attempt of a naked guy to board a plane heading to Australia?

Oh, I should add this now:

Iraqi rebels claim to have chemical weapons.

Wonder where they got those? Hmm, says here, from the Iraqi chemical weapons experts that have joined them.

I've been on the web long enough to not blindly accept things.

Anyway, your previous post mentions a 39 deg heatwave, I don't think england has ever been that warm in Autumn (Ever?)

Your reply: "Et al" in this case must mean "and numerous other intelligence servies around the world, and the United Nations."

Actually, no. I meant the Bush administration shills who trumpeted that "we know where the weapons are." Again, not true. The case was overstated, and no WMD have been found.

"Before the war, the U.S. intelligence community told the president, as well as the Congress and the public, that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and if left unchecked, probably would have a nuclear weapon this decade," Roberts said during the press conference. "Well, today we know these assessments were wrong."

Sure Saddam wanted WMD, but there was no way he could produce them within a decade after sanctions were lifted. I would appreciate more facts from you before taking your argument seriously.

I wrote: Bush et al said (or strongly implied repeatedly) that Iraq had significant connections to Al Qaeda

Your reply: They did have significant connections (friends in common). They just weren't working directly together. Perhaps you should look at the findings of the 9/11 Commission a little more closely yourself.

As for the "connections to Al-Qaeda" claim, the 9/11 Commission (bi-partisan), said:

The Sept. 11 commission's final report cites al-Qaida contacts with Iran and Iraq but does not conclude either of the "axis of evil" countries developed a close working relationship with the terror network. [Bin Laden explored a possible alliance with Iraq in early 1990s] However, the report says, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein never had an Islamist agenda, and bin Laden had been sponsoring anti-Saddam Islamists in Iraqi Kurdistan. A collaborative relationship never developed, the report found.

Please, explain how Iraq & Al-Qaeda worked together, and be sure to use facts from reliable sources. Rush Limbaugh and Drudge do not count.

Your sig said: Iraq war justified

I took a look, and wow, you really found text in there that does not exist. I did find nice quotes like these:

The former Regime had no formal written strategy or plan for the revival of WMD after sanctions

Saddam wanted to recreate Iraq's WMD capability- which was essentially destroyed in 1991- after sancions were removed and Iraq's economy stabilized.

Saddam aspired to develop a nuclear capability.

Please let me know how this "proves" the war was justified. It admits Saddam did not have the WMD that Bush claimed, and that sanctions had to be lifted and Iraq's economy normalized before WMD could be developed. FYI, that doesn't happen overnight.

No matter how much wild conjecture gets repeated, facts are stronger.

> Not that that's a good thing. People get asbestosis and silicosis for just this reason.

Well, people who make asbestos don't appear to feel any ill-effects.

I wouldn't guarentee It's made me all that well informed about New Zealand's politics, but when it became obvious to me that the U.S. media were getting absorbed by a few massively corporate owners, I started bookmarking overseas internet news sources for comparison. They can be real eye openers. Even Americans who don't speak any languages save English can use these:

World News Network in Berlin (English feed) -
http://www.worldnews.com/

News from Oz -
http://www.news.com.au/

The Moscow Times (English Feed) -
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/indexes/01.html

And a fine source for Americans who wish they were more informed about New Zealand's politics -
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/

Anyone who knows of particular systemic biases from any of these sites, please post the URLs of their competition.

This is a clear example of getting taxpayers to fund the RIAA's private war, Schultz said. (Wired)

Operation Digital Gridlock has resulted in the seizure of more than 40 terabytes of intellectual property being exchanged illegally over peer-to-peer networks since the effort began in August. (Information Week)

Intellectual property industries account for 6 per cent of the US gross domestic product, employ more than five million people, and contribute US$626 billion to the US economy, Mr Ashcroft said. (SMH)

Such theft costs American companies $250 billion per year, the report estimated. Sales of copyrighted materials alone accounted for 6 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product in 2002. Companies that produce films, music, books, software and other copyrighted material employed 4 percent of the nation's work force in 2002, the report said. (The Mercury Times)

Specifically, the report asks Congress to introduce legislation that would permit wiretaps to be used in investigating serious intellectual property offences and that would create a new crime of the importation of pirated products. (SMH)

The report also endorsed the rights of companies to compel Internet service providers to turn over the names of people who have traded copyright-protected items online. That power is included in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but has been challenged by companies that want to protect the identity of their subscribers. (Boston.com)

US Attorney Debra Yang said that intellectual property is lifeblood of south California region. This is an issue that has been of utter and utmost importance to our community here in Los Angeles, she said. (China View)

The task force proposed a dozen changes to rules governing criminal enforcement of intellectual property law and also called for the opening of five new anti-piracy offices across the United States. (news.com.au)

Dan Glickman, the new president of the Hollywood studios' influential lobbying body, the Motion Picture Association of America, applauded the aggressive initiatives aimed at protecting his industry. Piracy of intellectual property is a massive, global problem with far-reaching implications on the US economy, he said. In addition to hard goods piracy, which is rampant throughout the world, peer-to-peer networks that facilitate illegal file sharing are some of the most dangerous threats to copyright ownership today, he said. (news.com.au)

Ashcroft declined to comment on the Supreme Court's action, saying that his department might have to be involved in future, similar cases. But he defended the task force's recommendations. We believe people in the private sector have a responsibility to address these threats in the civil dimension as the law allows them and we have a responsibility to address these matters criminally, Ashcroft told The Associated Press in an interview. (The Mercury Times/AP)

The report also suggested expanding educational efforts in schools to prevent illegal file sharing. It also included principles to be adopted when evaluating pen

This is a clear example of getting taxpayers to fund the RIAA's private war, Schultz said. (Wired)

Operation Digital Gridlock has resulted in the seizure of more than 40 terabytes of intellectual property being exchanged illegally over peer-to-peer networks since the effort began in August. (Information Week)

Intellectual property industries account for 6 per cent of the US gross domestic product, employ more than five million people, and contribute US$626 billion to the US economy, Mr Ashcroft said. (SMH)

Such theft costs American companies $250 billion per year, the report estimated. Sales of copyrighted materials alone accounted for 6 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product in 2002. Companies that produce films, music, books, software and other copyrighted material employed 4 percent of the nation's work force in 2002, the report said. (The Mercury Times)

Specifically, the report asks Congress to introduce legislation that would permit wiretaps to be used in investigating serious intellectual property offences and that would create a new crime of the importation of pirated products. (SMH)

The report also endorsed the rights of companies to compel Internet service providers to turn over the names of people who have traded copyright-protected items online. That power is included in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but has been challenged by companies that want to protect the identity of their subscribers. (Boston.com)

US Attorney Debra Yang said that intellectual property is lifeblood of south California region. This is an issue that has been of utter and utmost importance to our community here in Los Angeles, she said. (China View)

The task force proposed a dozen changes to rules governing criminal enforcement of intellectual property law and also called for the opening of five new anti-piracy offices across the United States. (news.com.au)

Dan Glickman, the new president of the Hollywood studios' influential lobbying body, the Motion Picture Association of America, applauded the aggressive initiatives aimed at protecting his industry. Piracy of intellectual property is a massive, global problem with far-reaching implications on the US economy, he said. In addition to hard goods piracy, which is rampant throughout the world, peer-to-peer networks that facilitate illegal file sharing are some of the most dangerous threats to copyright ownership today, he said. (news.com.au)

Ashcroft declined to comment on the Supreme Court's action, saying that his department might have to be involved in future, similar cases. But he defended the task force's recommendations. We believe people in the private sector have a responsibility to address these threats in the civil dimension as the law allows them and we have a responsibility to address these matters criminally, Ashcroft told The Associated Press in an interview. (The Mercury Times/AP)

The report also suggested expanding educational efforts in schools to prevent illegal file sharing. It also included principles to be adopted when evaluating pen

The other recent news would seem to indicate that.

So how come HIV infection rates in developed countries are still increasing?

http://www.healthscout.com/news/68/516241/main.htm l
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-02-11-hiv -rates-rising_x.htm
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page /0,5478,10058673%255E1702,00.html
http://www.hivdent.org/publicp/ppIHDS122003.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3856963.stm

How did he manage that? Where was this? As I understand it, if you go over 170-something, you're going so fast that a Gatso camera can't actually get two shots of you to show how fast you were going.

Heard about the Swedish guy who got a parking ticket in England for his snowmobile - in the summer? Here.

If you read the N.Y. Times regularly you would know that they had already done an interview with an Iraqi nuclear scientist who said they were ready to reconstitute their nuclear program when the sanctions were lifted. The tubes are dual use and the administration wasn't ready to give Saddam the benefit of the doubt. Now a Iraqi nuclear scientist has a new book about the the bomb in his backyard. Here's more from the Australian.

An Iraqi scientist-turned-author says the most significant pieces of his country's dormant nuclear program were buried under a lotus tree in his backyard, untouched for more than a decade before the US-led invasion in 2003.
But their existence, Mahdi Obeidi writes in a new book, is evidence that the international community should remain vigilant as other countries try to replicate Iraq's successes before the 1991 Gulf war to develop components necessary for a nuclear weapon.

In The Bomb in my Garden, Obeidi details fallen Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's furious, and then abandoned, quest for a nuclear bomb.

"Although Saddam never had nuclear weapons at his disposal, the story of how close Iraq came to developing them should serve as a red flag to the international community," Obeidi writes with his co-author Kurt Pitzer.

The Associated Press obtained an advance copy of the book, to be released Sunday.
[...]
While only the former president knows fully why he didn't restart his nuclear program, Obeidi believes Saddam may have realised the scope of the massive undertaking.

United Nations inspectors had dismantled the program, removed the enriched uranium stockpiles and exposed Iraq's international network of suppliers. And Saddam was making a mint off the UN's oil-for-food program, while increasing his control over a population reliant on him for basics such as flour, Obeidi says. To get caught importing components needed to produce a nuclear weapon, the scientist says, would have ended the program.

Yet Saddam kept his Iraq Atomic Energy Commission running, apparently without weapons programs, as late as 2003.
[...]
Obeidi, 60, was the creator of Iraq's centrifuge, a key component in one method of enriching bomb-grade uranium. He considers it the most dangerous piece of nuclear technology because related advances make it possible to conceal uranium enrichment programs inside one warehouse.
[...]
By the late 1980s, Iraq was making breakthroughs. However, the international help dried up as Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990. The UN arrived after Saddam's 1991 defeat, intent on taking apart his weapons programs.

To hide signs of uranium enrichment then, Obeidi describes a massive demolition and reconstruction program he led to remove everything from the top soil to the coffee makers at his former centrifuge lab.

After the 2003 invasion, Obeidi attempted to take the nuclear secrets buried in his garden to US authorities. He describes disorganisation as the CIA and military intelligence wound up fighting over him.

Only after extensive negotiations involving former UN weapons inspector David Albright, who was in Washington, did Obeidi turn over all of his information.
[...]
Looking back, Obeidi struggles to find words to describe how he could arm Saddam, whose government at one point kept him from his family for six months so he could work and left them fearing the walls had ears.

He says it was a matter of national pride and scientific pursuit, but more than anything, it was fear: "The idea of dozens of nuclear bombs in Saddam's hands is horrifying in retrospect."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_ page/0,5744,10863824%255E31477,00.html

stFuck the children.
So have the cops come around to seize your computer yet?

Hey, where's my fridge magnet? I thought Alston had quit, why do we have to have more internet blocking blah blah.

I mean seriously, if the set this thing up, how are we going to catch those those that are actually nonces (I've been watching the Bill)? And why should Christians decide what is and isn't appropriate for a country where less than half the population is christian. And in any case 39.2% are Catholic and 30.4% are Anglican (see nice graphs here). The churches are in Abbott's back pocket anyway.

Fundies like this dont really have much of a say in politics down here
Sure, they probably won't win a lot of seats, so it doesn't really matter. Unless there's a hung parliment (which let's face facts, it's so close it could be) then Family First could become a bit of a problem. Oh... they're only going for the senate... hmmm... they will get killed by the Democrats and Greens... I'm no longer worried... Aww... they've got a geek (sorta) running in Victoria. I might have to vote below the line...

Can't wait till the Jedi population increases (2001 0.37%). Then we can get goverment funded lightsaber grants.

How many of the billion+ Chinese are already using a computer on a daily basis or even own one? According to this article less then 10% of all Chinese are using the internet.

This strongly suggests that Chinese users will be far less locked into Windows by sheer habit then it is the case in Europe and the US.

Add to this that entering Chinese characters is less then satisfactory with the current technology and you have the opportunity for a challenger to substitute Windows on the desktop in the Chinese market.

These guys won't, but what about the Labor party?
News Ltd. story

Well, yeah, but was the editor at Slashdot asleep? The story begins:

Enaku writes "Left wing Australian Christian political party Family First wants an annual levy of $7 to $10 on all internet users in Australia to fund a $45 million mandatory national internet filtering scheme aimed at blocking pornographic and offensive content at server level.

... whereas the original, article (to which Enaku links!) begins:

CONSERVATIVE political newcomer Family First wants an annual levy of $7 to $10 on all internet users to fund a $45 million mandatory national internet filtering scheme aimed at blocking pornographic and offensive content at server level.

(Capitalisation in original story too)

I know almost no-one on Slashdot bothers to RTFA any more, but please credit some of us with an ounce of brain.

Users who have already downloaded Microsoft's recent security update, Service Pack 2, are not affected.

But then the question remains: WHERE is an internet crime committed?

This message applies to Australia, which is also currently in Election mode - however I would expect the US system to show the same excesses and dubious ethical reasoning.

For example, as reported in The Australian

Feedback or Electrac is installed on MPs' and candidates' computers, with information collected about constituents sent to a centralised database at each party's secretariat. Its main purpose is to collate personal information about voting preferences and issues for political campaigning,

and remember, that:

Attorney-General Philip Ruddock defended exemptions that legally allowed their compilation. Based on the electronic version of the Australian electoral roll, using taxpayer-funded resources and skirting around exemptions to the Privacy Act, which they voted for, the Coalition and ALP have entrenched their respective Feedback (Liberal) and Electrac (ALP) databases with little public scrutiny or knowledge.

John Howard dragged us into the "coalition of the willing" with the US. The comments of Howard and foreign minister Alexander Downer criticizing countries that have pulled out of Iraq haven't gone down too well.

I do think our part in the coalition has raised the amount of attention we receive from various islamic extremists. I remember hearing a report that Australia had been specifically mentioned in message claimed to be from Osama bin Laden. I think Howard's sycophantic position of following the US has put as in more danger and tarnished our image overseas. I'm afraid that we're no longer those nice Aussies, but in some people's eyes we're now those American wannabe's.

It's interesting to note that it was John Howard's Government that brought in these Anti-SPAM laws - as well as the exemption for Political Parties. link

I'm sure Troy Rollo (a candidate for John Howard's seat of Bennelong) will milk this for all it's worth - as he's also on the anti-spam group "Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk E-mail in Australia (CAUBE.AU)".

they even managed to spam the anti-spammer.
Probably not the smartest thing to do.

I have to wonder why there isn't a well-meaning bunch of people out there putting the beatdown to people like this.

I mean... You've got nutcases out there just looking for a reason to go off on someone. You've got terrorists out there looking for someone to attack, or as is more often the case, something (ie, "World Trade Center"). You have racist guys out there looking for someone to attack in the name of their "cause". You've got stalkers using the Net to hunt down their victims before attacking them...

So why isn't there a secretive group of good guys out there anonymously hunting down and beating on all these people who so deserve it? Something like the A-Team meets the Town Bully (film at 11)!

For some reason, I like the romanticism associated with a group of people who hold bullys, terrorists, and their ilk responsible for their diatribe and threats. I can almost picture them communicating and travelling secretively to anonymously deal out justice for the little guy. The slow, and pathetic justice system that we have (at least here in the USA) obviously isn't making a dent in the number of people who are abusing others, and spreading fear through the anonyminity(SP?) of the Net. More often than not, the people responsible for terrorizing others get away without so much as a warning. Meanwhile normal, innocent people are threatened, and sometimes hurt because of these jerks. Face it... Terrorism, whether to an individual or a group, works. If it didn't work, and/or if people were held accountable for their actions more often than not, perhaps this wouldn't be the case.

Example: Let's say that "Billy Bob" rapes someone, and while out on bond, awaiting trial (we'll say this is his... 3rd offence) he gets the beating of his life from a bunch of people he doesn't know, along with a threat that there'll be more if he touches someone that way again. I'll bet he would reconsider his actions a lot more than if he gets off with a fine, and another year tacked onto his probation.

The cops obviously aren't out hunting for such people. They're too busy sitting on the side of a highway, or under an overpass, waiting for crime to come to them. The cops tend not to get involved until after a threat is made a reality, and someone is severely injured or killed. We need someone(s) out there looking for warning signs, and/or precursors to a larger crime, and addressing these people before they hurt someone. A van full of "good guy terrorists" with a bat and a message seems to fit the bill!

I want to see something like that Simpsons episode where Homer becomes a good guy avenger, throwing pies at the bullys he comes across. Only without the pastries and fat guy, of course. :)

Perhaps if there was an anonymous threat on the table, and evidence that these guys can get to you outside of the law if you're a bad person, there wouldn't be so much anonymous bullying and slander.

At least it sounds nice. I'm sure it would raise all kinda questions about who decides who's good or who's bad, and of course what accountability would befall someone in such a position. But when I see stories like this and this, I have to think that it'd be nice to know that these people are going to get a better deterant against future crimes then a night in the clink, and a fine for their deeds. Hell, most people who go to jail for beating on someone are out within 24 hours and are able to go after their victims again, knowing that a court date is more or less a formality that they won't have to deal with for quite some time.

Considering the fact that southern France was collaberating with the Nazis, I should think that they'd have not been that much more deprived than citizens of Germany during the war.

The average Parisian lost 20kg during the Nazi occupation. I could dig for something about southern France, but you get the idea.

Aside from that, you seem to be supportive of France's attempt at purging "bad thoughts" from the minds of everyone on planet Earth

No, I'm not.

I'm, to the contrary, opposed to jingoist who act as though this was somehow a French thing. First of all, right there, you claim they are trying to "purge" the thoughts of, as you said, everyone on the planet. Whereas we are talking about a law that only applies to, surprise surprise, France.

Your justification of your hatred of all things French is what I oppose.

My feelings about that perticular law or that perticular case are not involved, this is about you jerks attacking a whole country, a whole people and culture, and acting as though you were justified, as if this were right.

American courts and lawmakers will come to Yahoo's rescue and put the pompous French beaurocrats right back on their socialist asses.

Yes, they are pompous.
Its as though, you know, they want a company doing is business in their own country to obey the law of the land, and the company was responding by having the court of another country try to impose its own laws to a sovereign nation.
Because, of course, since America is better than the rest of the planet, it's laws take precedence over all other laws. That is not pompous, oh my no!

Otherwise, we may well see the content of the internet reduced to the lowest common denominator of PC-filtered non-offensive non-confrontational child-safe mind-numbing drool.

Because, of course, laws affecting content on the internet are only passed in inferior countries, the Almighty, divine United States of America are above, amongst other things, passing such laws.

So lets see, your opinion is that the French people did not suffer during WWII, that they are pompous, that they want to purge the thoughts of the entire world, and that they should submit to U.S. law.

My opinion is that you are a jingoist bigot.

Yeah, those French anti-Nazi laws seem to be working real well.

No, but it is sexist. It "suckerizes" only men. Where is the parity? Show us the virtual boyfriend and we call it even.

We want equal opportunity suckerizer.

Harlequin novels, Mattel's Ken, Fabio, the Diet Coke guy and the Boyfriend Arm Pillow.

That has got to be the freakiest thing I ever did see. Considering I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday and The Scream earlier today, that's saying something.

Here's a pic of the boyfriend arm pillow

There are now fruit flies that turn gay depending on the temperature. http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,51 14041%255E13762,00.html There are mice that get addicted at the same rate humans do. http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id =45450&cat=World Our feelings can be affected by chemicals in ways similar to country voles. http://www.economist.com/printedition/PrinterFrien dly.cfm?Story_ID=2424049

As a matter of science, people may not have as much control over their psyche classically believed. But this research isn't to explain away personal responsibility as much as it understand why we are the way we are. Perhaps people used to look down at the mentally ill for not taking responsibility for their actions, but we eventually created drugs to treat some mental illnesses. Society may later choose to decide how it will accomodate scientific knowledge. However, judgmental cries have no place against science seeking to discover how we tick.

"Left unresolved for now is whether intelligence was intentionally misconstrued to justify military action,"

OT re your sig: Yeah, change, but for the better? I was going to vote Latham, but I came across this.
Goodbye, vote. I know that the Libs have talked about similar things, and that this story is hardly an official policy announcement, but I don't really care. The fact that they would even consider something so stupid is beyond belief. Technologically infeasible, and the start of a slippery slope.

Actually, I heard something like what the original poster said on NPR the other day. And a quick Google News search reveals more sources:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A164 35-2004Jul26.html
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectio nid=1258&storyid=1787674

So, yes, invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam, even if done for the wrong reasons, did actually have some good consequences.

• Argentine Ants Invasion: Success Tied to Reduced Genetic Variation
• Supercolony of ants found (Europe; Mirrored articles: #1 and #2)
• Invading Ants Press United Front in California
• Argentine Ants Threaten Californian Horned Lizards
• It's the weather
• Giant mutant ant colony found in Australia (similar story.
• Might not be 'supercolony' after all: #1 and #2.

Karmawhores, submit these latebraking news on Slashdot. I'm on lazy mood myself.Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion near Tugunska river, Siberia. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometres above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometres away and devastated over 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.

WHAT CAUSED A BLAST OF 2000 x Hiroshima nuclear bomb in 1908?? We have the answer _TODAY_! Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion near Tugunska river, Siberia. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometres above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometres away and devastated over 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.

WHAT CAUSED A BLAST THAT WAS 2000 x Hiroshima nuclear bomb in 1908?? We have the answer now!Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion near Tugunska river, Siberia. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometres above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometres away and devastated over 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.

I'm on lazy mood, Karmawhores, submit this news on Slashdot!!Russian scientists claim to have discovered the wreck of an alien device at the site of an unexplained explosion near Tugunska river, Siberia. On June 30, 1908, what is widely believed to be a meteorite exploded a few kilometres above the Tunguska river, in a blast that was felt hundreds of kilometres away and devastated over 2000 square kilometres of Siberian forest.