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A Review of Nanotech's Future
captainsaavik writes "A Washington Post article today reviews nanotechnology - 'Nanotechnology, the hot young science of making invisibly tiny machines and materials, is stirring public anxiety and nascent opposition inspired by best-selling thrillers that have demonized the science -- and new studies suggesting that not everything in those novels is fantasy.'"
Mod Parent Up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/34487 79.stm
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Stampede brings tragedy (sic) to Hajj
A stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia has killed 244 people, says the minister in charge of the event, Iyad Madani.
The disaster happened as pilgrims flocked to the Jamarat Bridge in Mina, near Mecca, to hurl stones at pillars representing the devil.
"There was more than 400 metres of people pushing in the same direction (which) resulted in the collapse of those next to the stoning area... and those behind. That led to panic," he said.
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Amusing! "The stoning area"! "pillars representing the devil"! Someone remind me - is this Monty Python, or just some seriously fucked up individuals? I wonder if this'll make it to the Darwin Awards?
PLEASE KILL A DOG - Any dog. Support the Euthenasia for Canus Familiarous Assoc. today to benefit from the FULL BENEFITS of being a FULL TIME ECFA member.
Are you MAD?
Do you HATE DOGS?
Are you a MAD DOG HATER?
If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, the ECFA is for you! The ECFA is the only animal humane group that supports the MAD KILLING OF DOGS.
Why kill dogs you ask? Because there are just TOO MANY of them. We don't have anything against the species, it's just that they are too overpopulated. Dog lovers from around the world spend LOADS of TIME attempting to save every member of this overcrowded species. To fix this imbalance, the overpopulated animals need to be eliminated. If the dog is not already in a home, or can be adopted in a short period of time... it's time to say goodbye.
Why MAD? Because they are costing us TAX DOLLARS to take care of? Over 100 million dollars is spent in the US each year alone on taking care of wild dogs. The health and safty concerns of this overpopulation are overwhelming. It is time to say goodbye.
We are looking forward to your membership. To join, first get a ECFA "first post" on slashdot.org. Then, give us a holler in our chatroom, #dogs on efnet. Then, simply post a sign outside your humane society for the humane destruction of dogs with euthanasia.
I have a Muslim girlfriend. Muslim girls are cute. I love Muslim girls.
You like to watch to sweety men playing games in tight clothing? That sound so, wel, gay.
in perl?
or even in linux?
all I want is to filter non-fucking-directories
hey guys,
:) if you're reading this, i look forward to meeting you in person, john!
i'm not sure exactly what i'm doing here. so...bear with me!
i clicked "geeky" on my match.com personals profile, thinking that i'd maybe get hooked up with somebody who was into math or some kind of toy train hobby or something...boy howdy was i in for a shock! i went on 4 dates with guys who all got on match.com because of osdn personals from slash-dot! 4 guys!
anyway, it didn't really work out with any of them, because it seemed like they were all under some kind of mind-control robot or something! i was like "what do you think about office? office 97 is enough for me, but there are some things about xp that are cool too...." the first guy i asked that to exploded on this tyrade about how office was evil, and that it uses html that's invalid...blah blah blah, whatever...i figured "ok, this guys a freak, but i'm not giving up that easily." so guy number two and i are having dinner, and just as a test i bring up office, and he says the *exact* *same* *things* the first guy said! it was like he was reading from a script! i'm thinking to myself "is everybody from slash-dot programmed to say the same thing or what?" i decided to do a bit of investigation.
i actually surfed over to slash-dot and read some of the articles...mostly they were pretty boring, and the comments were just like i expected judging from my previous past experience: scripted!!! just when i was about to completely write the whole thing off, i found a post from some guy who's with anti-slash, some kind of anti-slash-dot website. i mailed him and was all "i so agree with you guys, look at what sheap these slash-dot people are!" he wrote back and made some funny comments (funny and so *true*!...that is soooo the best kind of humor...but i dirgress...) and guess what? this weekend i'm supposed to meet him for dinner
anyway, that's my story. ladies: if you're looking for the real cool geeks, check out anti-slash. and fellas, you should check it out too and maybe use to to break out of your mind-control suits!
ok see ya later,
cyndi
I'm going out with a Jewess. Lets all go out for lunch!