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Nokia 9290 Finally Available in the US
AmyZ writes "The new Nokia 9290 Communicator has finally become available for US residents. Europe has had the 9210 for over a year now. Its a GSM based phone and well as a PDA that uses Symbian as its OS." I still don't quite feel that the PDA/Cellphone
combo has come of age, but its nice to see another entry. That machine does looks to
be sufficient for basic web tasks.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/31/eminem . rethinking.ap/index.html
We salute you!
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Crapflooding, page lengthening, page widening...it's all good for the CLIT! Just be logged-in when you do it.
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A cookie to whomever remembers this reference.
Am I the only one who finds that phrase funny? To me, a 'machine' is something that, at minimum, has moving parts. My desktop PC here is a machine, it's got fans, hard drives, eject buttons... I just don't think that a completely solid-state device qualifies as a machine. Buttons don't count as moving parts!!
If all the world's a stage, anyone who says they want better lighting spends far too much time in a dark theatre.
You're our colony, eurobitch.
Courtesy of Jane's International Security News
Avoiding the real questions
The controversy raging in the US over
whether warnings about potential terror
attacks by Al-Qaeda were ignored before
11 September hardly comes as a surprise.
What is far more serious - and has yet to
be properly investigated - is why two
successive administrations took a series of
ultimately disastrous political decisions
concerning Osama bin Laden's terrorist
network and its backers, the Taliban
regime.
Since the hijackings, criticism has tended
to be directed at the US intelligence
agencies and the Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS), rather than
the administration of US President George
W. Bush or that of his predecessor, Bill
Clinton. However, as more evidence
emerges about the type of intelligence
which was available - and those who had
access to this material, but failed to make
use of it - the politicians are going to have
to answer some very awkward questions.
While it could be argued that there have
been intelligence failures, the more critical
issue is why there was such a
determination on the part of both
administrations to avoid any serious action
against the Al-Qaeda network or the
Taliban. As JID revealed last year, Russia's
intelligence services had been extremely
active in using their extensive operations in
and around Afghanistan to build up a very
detailed blueprint of the Taliban regime, its
close links with the Al-Qaeda organisation
and the extent to which both were actively
supported by the Pakistani military and the
Inter-Service Intelligence agency (ISI). The
Russian permanent mission to the United
Nations provided a report on this subject to
the UN Security Council on 9 March 2001
(see JID 5 October 2001).
However, it is becoming clear that this was
only the most high profile of a number of
attempts by the Russians to alert the US
and other members of the Security Council
to the extent of the inter-dependence
between the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and the ISI.
According to JID's Russian sources, there
was a regular flow of information from
Moscow to the US dating back to the last
years of the Clinton presidency.
It seems apparent, however, that although
this intelligence was being received by the
CIA and other US agencies, there was a
distinct lack of enthusiasm within political -
as opposed to military - circles for the
launch of pre-emptive strikes against either
the Taliban or Al-Qaeda.
However, given the detailed intelligence
being provided by the Russians - and the
fact that Bin Laden was making very clear
threats to launch further strikes against US
targets - it seems bizarre, to say the least,
that no high-level political decision was
taken to focus US intelligence efforts on
Al-Qaeda and its international network,
particularly following the bomb attack on the
USS Cole in Aden harbour, Yemen, in
October 2000.
Hey man, is there some way to decode your .sig using a browser address bar? I thought I read somewhere that IE could convert Hex or Binary to regular text and display it in the browser window.
Any ideas how, or am I just going mad?
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Check out the plumbing. It's like an 1890s flashback.
In fact, that's one of my favorite thing about visiting the relatives. Their plumbing is a constant adventure.
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
NeXTMail/MIME Mail welcome
Ya, it doesn't have outlook. It's compatable with outlook.
You've just been reading Slashdot too long.