"Brown was pleased by the decision. He had argued that Pluto and similar bodies didnt deserve planet status, saying that would take the magic out of the solar system.
UB313 is the largest dwarf planet. Thats kind of cool, he said."
Warning to IE users, the blog uses a backdoor to infect IE users. nice going slashdot. you've just helped propagate a bot net by posting the link on the front page..
"Even now he's smirking his way through The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, secreted away at his Vegas lair amid stacks of John Birch Society literature"
Hmm you 've got it mixed up that book was made by the soviets and Republicans are really srong zionists. Democrats usually turn up at anti israel protests..
"Stephen Colbert, on the other hand, clearly loathes and detests the rising tide of right-wing opinion personalities (O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc.) This makes him very much the wrong person to attempt to effectively satirize them for the sake of comedy. His send-up of them is good enough to get smirks and nods of approval from those who share his disdain, but little else. He gets most of his laughs via typical SNL "Weekend Update" type bits, or by interviewing people who are more funny than he is."
oddly enough, if you go to freerepublic you will see there are people on the right who find him quite funny.
Unintended consequences, its like the helicopter scene in Apocalypse now that everyone loves.
The fact the "international community" wants control or the net reminds me of a person who comes to crash in your apt becasue he doesnt have a place and then decides he wants to stay and not only that, wants say in how things are run in your place.
To the "international community" go start your own network, leave ours alone.
"They are so rare that the last one known in our galaxy was seen in 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe"
from what i heard, Gabe was pretty pissed about not being invited to it. Apparently he also looked at his neighbor with a telescope ans stole a haribrush she thre out as well.
"India continues to march towards becoming an IT and economic super power. The Indian capital of New-Delhi will become the the third city in the world to have a commercial Visual Radio service after Singapore and Helsinki "
Somehow i dont think the creation of visual radio (i thought it was called TV) will lead you to become a super power.
Since the article has ZERO inso on what visual radio is here is a nokia link. To summarize, think proprietary TV with minimal interactivity from the creators of Ngage. You tune into a station and see a "web page" where you get more info and can provide feed back.
" 1. often Fascism a. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. b. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
2. Oppressive, dictatorial control."
lets see, communism matches all of that. Sounds like saying fascism is anti communist is an oxymoron isnt it?
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i guess this the major upgrade MS is talking about!
from TFA
"Brown was pleased by the decision. He had argued that Pluto and similar bodies didnt deserve planet status, saying that would take the magic out of the solar system.
UB313 is the largest dwarf planet. Thats kind of cool, he said."
cool?
What? are you telling me the term ipod killer is getting replaced by ipod rival?
you can download C# CLI source from MS with this licence.
I wonder what this means for the apple movie store..
Xbox 360 version of kameo ro require 360 controller. PS3 version of heavenly sword to require ps3 controller..
best headline ever.
finally a new original game on the PSP that not a port! oh wait..
notice that even though this is a british site, all but one of the sites mentioned is american.
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"The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is the ECMA standard that describes the core of the .NET Framework world."
"The Shared Source CLI archive contains the following technologies in source code form:"
nuff said.
I know it would be a big problem esp because there IS an official version for OSX
i think it is gnustep that needs to become compatible with OSX and not the other way around.
" I especially like the way I can't delete certain items from the desktop (randomly, it seems, like a game)"
I think we recently read about MS' new and improved casual games on Vista
"Even now he's smirking his way through The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, secreted away at his Vegas lair amid stacks of John Birch Society literature"
Hmm you 've got it mixed up that book was made by the soviets and Republicans are really srong zionists. Democrats usually turn up at anti israel protests..
"Stephen Colbert, on the other hand, clearly loathes and detests the rising tide of right-wing opinion personalities (O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc.) This makes him very much the wrong person to attempt to effectively satirize them for the sake of comedy. His send-up of them is good enough to get smirks and nods of approval from those who share his disdain, but little else. He gets most of his laughs via typical SNL "Weekend Update" type bits, or by interviewing people who are more funny than he is."
oddly enough, if you go to freerepublic you will see there are people on the right who find him quite funny.
Unintended consequences, its like the helicopter scene in Apocalypse now that everyone loves.
Good thing there is a good rnd division
I guess this means spaceworld will be coming back...
Right here everyone talks about how great it is.
Thanks Michael Dukakis and John Kerry! money well spent.
". As the richest nation, we may have funded a big portion of the net"
exactly. we funded it. If your watch was made in china, does it belong to china?
The fact the "international community" wants control or the net reminds me of a person who comes to crash in your apt becasue he doesnt have a place and then decides he wants to stay and not only that, wants say in how things are run in your place.
To the "international community" go start your own network, leave ours alone.
"They are so rare that the last one known in our galaxy was seen in 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe"
from what i heard, Gabe was pretty pissed about not being invited to it. Apparently he also looked at his neighbor with a telescope ans stole a haribrush she thre out as well.
you are totally right. people need to understand that the people do not have to be well off to be a super power. look at how well the USSR is doing!
"Not racism, which is an important point. Under communism, everyone is opressed equally !"
riiiight tell that to my tibetan cousins.
"India continues to march towards becoming an IT and economic super power. The Indian capital of New-Delhi will become the the third city in the world to have a commercial Visual Radio service after Singapore and Helsinki "
Somehow i dont think the creation of visual radio (i thought it was called TV) will lead you to become a super power.
Since the article has ZERO inso on what visual radio is here is a nokia link. To summarize, think proprietary TV with minimal interactivity from the creators of Ngage. You tune into a station and see a "web page" where you get more info and can provide feed back.
Sounds like real superpower material to me.
" 1. often Fascism a. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. b. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
2. Oppressive, dictatorial control."
lets see, communism matches all of that. Sounds like saying fascism is anti communist is an oxymoron isnt it?