China Rewards Porn Snitches

MinimeMongo writes that the "Associated Press reports that China's police ministry on Sunday handed out rewards of up to $240 to people who reported pornographic Web sites in a campaign to stamp out online smut...The online crackdown is part of a sweeping official morality campaign launched this year on orders from communist leaders."

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RIP Christopher Reeve

[Anonymous Coward]

From Drudge Report:

Report: Christopher Reeve is dead

Veteran Hollywood reporter Nikki Finke has learned that actor Christopher Reeve is dead, according to sources close to the actor. He died suddenly Sunday. News of his death has not been reported publicly yet. His family will make an announcement Monday at the earliest. Reeve was just mentioned Friday in the second live presidential debate by John Kerry. Noting he was a friend of the paralysed Reeve, Kerry said he was in favor of further stem cell research because Reeve could walk again one day thanks to such science....

Re:RIP Christopher Reeve

[Ziest]

Yep, the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting this.

Re:RIP Christopher Reeve

[mikeage]

It's true.
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Re:Zombie SPAM

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot is a respectable news site? LOL!

You cry for censorship. How unsurprising of you.

Re:apropos

[Doc Ruby]

I wouldn't know, Anonymous loser Coward, I've never tried. It's probably pretty cool to be the Democrat who wins the 2004 election, though. FWIW, it must suck to be a Republican, because all the stupidest responses I get from them are signed "Anonymous Coward". Yella Republicans.

Re:apropos

[Doc Ruby]

Yeah, Kerry keeps repeating the simple outlines of his plan, though somehow the media (and many opponents) keep ignoring it, and claiming he has none. As I (not a part of the Kerry campaign or his policy staff) understand it:

1> Accept that we are still at war
2> Add enough properly supplied troops to the level necessary for tactical victories, and control the entire country (not just the parts on camera)
3> Bring our allies back to help, like in 1990, when it cost us only about $5B (instead of the $200B so far this time) and we all bore the casualties. That will also remove lots of recruiting propaganda about "Iraq vs. America". Our allies include, first and foremost, Iraqis.
4> Rebuild infrastructure to keep Iraqis vested interest in peace, rather than keeping them with nothing to lose

Their plan is detailed more at their website.

You'll hear Bush (and company) say that Kerry has no plan, that his plan is wrong, and that his plan is the same as theirs, depending on which audience Karl Rove thinks is listening. Bush obviously has no plan - the man himself has never had a plan, other than to stay close to his father - and is just hoping to keep the game rigged long enough to keep his job through the election, so he can forget about it for awhile, work on some other ripoffs. Kerry is making his own decisions, and needs to close the book successfully on Iraq, like Clinton did on the Bush Sr deficit and recession, to get reelected in 2008. Let's get someone in there with accountability. Enough of this media hero worship claptrap about "better character": they're both in the "compromise business" (politics); I want the guy who can get caught and stopped when he does wrong. Kerry is much more accountable, while Bush is incapable of even admitting he's ever made even a single mistake. He doesn't know how. Let's give him a few decades to figure out who screwed up his reelection, where he can't hurt anyone any more.