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ydeepakjois writes "BusinessWeek is running a series of articles on the potential of wireless high-speed access, the Wi-Fi industry and the challenges faced by it. There is also an interesting bit about a business model for wireless carriers."
As always, links to pictures will be posted.
1nd33d!
Shout outs to all the American soldiers lining up to rifle-butt Iraqi women and children!
Thank Allah for this police action!
The Resignation Speech of Robin Cook (British Member of Parliament)
17 March 2003 9.44 pm
Mr. Robin Cook (Livingston): This is the first time for 20 years that I have addressed the House from the Back Benches. I must confess that I had forgotten how much better the view is from here. None of those 20 years were more enjoyable or more rewarding than the past two, in which I have had the immense privilege of serving this House as Leader of the House, which were made all the more enjoyable, Mr. Speaker, by the opportunity of working closely with you.
It was frequently the necessity for me as Leader of the House to talk my way out of accusations that a statement had been preceded by a press interview. On this occasion I can say with complete confidence that no press interview has been given before this statement. I have chosen to address the House first on why I cannot support a war without international agreement or domestic support.
The present Prime Minister is the most successful leader of the Labour party in my lifetime. I hope that he will continue to be the leader of our party, and I hope that he will continue to be successful. I have no sympathy with, and I will give no comfort to, those who want to use this crisis to displace him.
I applaud the heroic efforts that the Prime Minister has made in trying to secure a second resolution. I do not think that anybody could have done better than the Foreign Secretary in working to get support for a second resolution within the Security Council. But the very intensity of those attempts underlines how important it was to succeed. Now that those attempts have failed, we cannot pretend that getting a second resolution was of no importance.
France has been at the receiving end of bucketloads of commentary in recent days. It is not France alone that wants more time for inspections. Germany wants more time for inspections; Russia wants more time for inspections; indeed, at no time have we signed up even the minimum necessary to carry a second resolution. We delude ourselves if we think that the degree of international hostility is all the result of President Chirac. The reality is that Britain is being asked to embark on a war without agreement in any of the international bodies of which we are a leading partner-not NATO, not the European Union and, now, not the Security Council.
To end up in such diplomatic weakness is a serious reverse. Only a year ago, we and the United States were part of a coalition against terrorism that was wider and more diverse than I would ever have imagined possible. History will be astonished at the diplomatic miscalculations that led so quickly to the disintegration of that powerful coalition. The US can afford to go it alone, but Britain is not a superpower. Our interests are best protected not by unilateral action but by multilateral agreement and a world order governed by rules. Yet tonight the international partnerships most important to us are weakened: the European Union is divided; the Security Council is in stalemate. Those are heavy casualties of a war in which a shot has yet to be fired.
I have heard some parallels between military action in these circumstances and the military action that we took in Kosovo. There was no doubt about the multilateral support that we had for the action that we took in Kosovo. It was supported by NATO; it was supported by the European Union; it was supported by every single one of the seven neighbours in the region. France and Germany were our active allies. It is precisely because we have none of that support in this case that it was all the more important to get agreement in the Security Council as the last hope of demonstrating international agreement.
The legal basis for our action in Kosovo was the need to respond to an urgent and compelling humanitarian crisis. Our difficulty in getting support this time is that neither the international community nor the British public is persuaded that there is an urgent and compelling reason for thi
fucking mozilla mail deleted my address book.
this keeps up, i'm switching back to pegasus mail.
They say I have to wait another 3 to 5 years to get dsl, why should I care about this, I will be dead by the time it makes it to my place.
Did Al Gore win after all? US newspapers
would rather not say By Charles Laurence in New York (Filed: 21/10/2001)
THE most detailed analysis yet of the contested Florida votes from last year's presidential election - with the potential to question President Bush's legitimacy - is being
withheld by the news organisations that commissioned it.
Results of the inspection of more than 170,000 votes rejected as unreadable in the "hanging chad" chaos of last November's vote count were ready at the end of August.
The study was commissioned early this year by a
consortium including the Wall Street Journal, the
Washington Post and the New York Times, the nation's most powerful newspapers, and the broadcaster CNN.
It was regarded as a means of supplying final answers to the nagging questions over President Bush's razor-thin victory margin. The cost was more than £700,000.
Now, however, spokesmen for the consortium say that they decided to "postpone" the story of the analysis by the National Opinion Research Centre (NORC) at the University of Chicago for lack of resources and lack of interest in the face of the enormous story of the September 11 attacks and the subsequent "war on terrorism".
Newspapers were saying last week that the final phase of the analysis, the actual counting of the 170,000 votes, had been "postponed" but would become known at an appropriate time.
America's liberal newspaper establishment originally set up the commission in the belief that it would discover that Al Gore was the winner of the Florida count. Their hope for a Gore victory appears to have been sacrificed on the altar of patriotism and a perception that
America needs to be led into war by a strong president.
"Our belief is that the priorities of the country have changed, and our priorities have changed," said Steven Goldstein, the vice-president of corporate communications at Dow Jones and Co, the owners of the Wall Street Journal.
Catherine Mathis, a spokesman for the New York Times, said: "The consortium agreed that because of the war, because of our lack of resources, we were postponing the vote-count investigation. But this is not final. The intention is to go forward." However David Podvin, an investigative journalist who runs an independent web page, Make Them Accountable, said he had been tipped off that the consortium was covering up the results.
He refused to disclose his source other than to describe him as a former media executive whom he knew "as an accurate conduit of information" and who claimed that the consortium "is deliberately hiding the results of its recount because Gore was the indisputable winner". He also claims that a New York Times journalist who was involved in the recount project had told "a former companion" that the Gore victory margin was big enough
to create "major trouble for the Bush presidency if this ever gets out".
He believes that the inspection, carried out over months by a team from NORC, proves that Mr Gore won Florida and, therefore, the election.
That theory, however, is countered by the NORC staff who say that they designed the inspection programme so that no one has yet counted the votes and no outcome could be known.
Dr John Mason, a professor of political science at William Paterson University, in New Jersey said: "The goosiness, the sensitivity, that the press which organised this analysis is showing to publishing the results and the persistence of questions about the Florida ballots raise
questions. There is a sensitivity over the legitimacy of this president."
Staff at NORC have been puzzled by the idea that the media would lack the resources because, according to them, they have computer programs already designed and fitted for the final count.
Julie Antelman of NORC said: "They are all ready to go, and could have the count and the result within a working week."
She added: "We very carefully kept our distance from the political implications of whatever the result may be. We do not know the outcome, and do not want to.
The World War III will begin in less than 48 hours and we're talking about Wi-Fi!!
hell!! WE ARE COMPLETELY NUTS!!
Cause chicks dig a man who can bar-hop and IM at the same time. Add to that a hot sauce-laden keyboard, and they'll be BEGGING to see your hard drive, and by hard drive, I mean your penis.
I want to goto the local bar, sit down w/my NTN Playmaker, my Budweiser, and my 12 Wild Wings, watching Football, and hop on the net to surf, AIM, ssh, etc
Listen up mother fuckers!!! I am a citizen of the former United States of America. We are now the United Corporations of America thanks to the dictatorship we are currently living under. As much as the right wing lunatics would like to have you believe that a majority of the US citizenry backs this war, I am here to tell you that they are lying. This is not a surprise since conservatives are given over to lying at the drop of a hat for political and financial gain.
First, let's get some facts straight:
1. George W. Bush is not evil. He is stupid. He is mentally unstable. He is a pawn for the cabal that is his cabinet. He suffers from many mental problems: paranoia, anti-social personality disorder and being a "dry drunk". His father was truly evil as is much of his cabinet. Old Dick and Asscrack are the worst of the bunch.
2. Not everyone in the United States wanted this goon in office. We had a broken election and will likely have an even more broken election in 2004. The Electoral college has been co-opted and isn't going to be given back to the people unless we stand up and fight.
3. The connections between members of the Bush cabinet and the worst, most criminal and greedy of corporations are legion. To put it bluntly, if you don't have money, you don't mean a thing to the Bush administration. But if you do... you can rule the world.
4. Saddam Hussein had NOTHING to do with September 11th. A lot of Americans have been hornswagled into believing that there is a connection ebcause they HAVEN'T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION!!! Repeat after me... There is no connection between the events of September 11th 2001 and Saddam Hussein. There are MANY more connections between Hussein and the Bush dynasty though. That is something every American should be aware of, but isn't.
5. The Bush administration lies to further the position of closely related business allies. Richard Perle and his holdings are an excellent example of this. He's gonna make a killing on this war. And true to conservative form, when they are called on the table about something, they get defensive and try to change the subject. Stay ON TOPIC you stale mother fuckers!!!
6. The only way to get any reliable news about what is happening if you live in the US is to listen to a shortwave radio and get the European news broadcasts. Our news is corporately controlled and has no more real content in it. Even sources like NPR which used to be somewhat informative have been controlled. Have you noticed they sound more rightwing than they used to? This happened directlry after Sept. 11th. There are too many conflicts of interest in media ownership now to be able to truly report the real stories without shooting one's self in the foot.
7. There is no "liberal media" as the conservatives always spout off. How many liberal pundits are out there? Really? the conservatives have their jackoffs all over the place: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc... The only "liberals" in the media are milqtoast conservatives in sheep's clothing like Colmes. And for CHRIST'S SAKE we have a CRIMINAL on Fox news!!! Ollie North is out there reporting on the heinous attack that we are about to unleash on the people of Iraq. That man should be rotting in a jail cell with no name on it for the attrocities he was responsible for.
What happened to my country!? Where did all the common sense go? The things that used to be good about this country? Now I'm stuck in this hellhole with no real way of getting out since I can't afford to (thank you Mr. President and the conservative governor of my state for cutting back on funding for public schools and libraries). I know I'm not the only one as I've met many kindred spirits. But if this goes any further... I will be leaving the country any way I can and I urge all of you that agree to consider doing the same. This is no longer a joke. The former United States is dead. The former United States is now a tyrannical menace to the world with an ego so big it's just begging to be deflated. I don't want to be here when that happens. I miss my old country. The eagle weeps.
A true American patriot