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U.S. Shuts Down Somalia Internet Access
BrianGa writes: "This
article reports that Somalia's only internet company and a key telecom company have been forced to close because the United States suspects them of terrorist links."
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Can it really be illegal to link to such stuff ? I mean.. what happens if someone searches on the Allmighty google and finds a terrorst link. Will the US shut down Google ?
Ofcourse they can demand the links are removed, but just turning the power switch seems a bit too drastic imho.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotele
Somebody add to my story, please! I've got writer's constipation like you wouldn't believe! -peepoh Tuesday, November 6, 20001. Digging through some boxes in the Psychology lab where I work today, I discovered an ancient box full of syringes, heroine, and what lookedto be the Rorschact Test. Then I found instructions for an old experiment that had been carried out here in the lab during World War II.Apparently the experimenters hypothesized that if American soldiers were to shell the Germans with artillery shells containing a gaseous form ofheroine and then dropped Rorschacht test cards from airplanes, they'd all just fall down into heaps of twitching, high-as-a-kite junkies.Naturally, it all made little sense to me. But then hey, why the hell not try it? So after preparing a syringe with the heroine, I pulled down my pants and injected it directly into my penis. Hey, I'm no perv. There's a lot of blood vessels in there just waiting to carry the delicious drug straight to my brain. I guess I should have known better than to inject 60-year-old opioids into my privates, though, because before I could remove the needle I slumped over forward and continued to fall -- all the way INTO one of the Rorschacht Test cards. Then some oddly catchy electronic music kicked in. Where was it coming from? So began Stage 1-1 of my odyssey.
Life is a scam. - Steve McQue
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered horse community when last month Outdoor Somalia confirmed that horse-related activities account for less than 1 percent of all recreational activities in Somalia. Coming on the heels of the latest Outdoor Somalia survey which plainly states that horse-related activites have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. the horse industry is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing to attract more enthusiasts.
You don't need to be a Nostradumas to predict the horse industry's future. The hand writing is on the wall: the horse industry faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the horse industry because the horse industry is dying. Things are looking very bad for the horse industry. As many of us are already aware, the horse industry continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Vaulting is the most endangered of them all.Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Dressage leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Dressage. How many users of Showjumping are there? Let's see. The number of Dressage versus Showjumping posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Showjumping users. Vaulting posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Showjumping posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Vaulting. A recent article put the racing industry at about 80 percent of the horse market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 the racing industry users. This is consistent with the number of the racing industry Usenet posts.Due to the troubles in the racing industry, abysmal sales and so on, the racing industry almost went out of business and had to get emergency sponsorships.
All major surveys show that the horse industry in Somalia has steadily declined in market share. The horse industry in Somalia is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the horse industry in Somalia is to survive at all it will be among horse fanatics and hobbyists. The horse industry in Somalia continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The horse industry in Somalia is dead.No, this was bin Laden and the rest of his crew escaping from Afganistan......
Sorry for the confusion, I just assumed it was clear...
--Alex
Who said anything about fuel? The kinetic energy of a falling engine is enough to do serious damage.
And planes weren't designed for ramming into buildings. They're pretty good at it though, aren't they?