Isaac Asimov's city-planet of Trantor had billions of people living their whole lives inside, with artificial meteorological variations in the levels of illumination.
Especially in Dubai. I don't understand why people willingly set foot in such a wretched hive of disregard for human rights, but they should expect a plutocratic system when they do.
radiation maps (and the raw data) from NISA was published regularly.
And radiation maps made by independent organizations showed contamination much worse than the official publications.
I'm not going to research this for you, but plenty of people were saying that the evidence showed meltdown and uncontrolled fission right from the start, and the officials denied it until the end of may.
I keep hearing of complaints about TEPCO misinformation etc. Reading the IAEA and NISA reports has seemed fine to me, where is all this disinformation coming from?
They denied the meltdown for months. They denied the leaks of radioactive material, they denied there was a risk from tsunamis, they just lied about everything for as long as they could.
Amnesty International blasted Assange for repeated leaks where he didn't redact civilian volunteer names, leading to civilian volunteers coming under death threats.
THAT NEVER HAPPENED
WikiLeaks won Amnesty International 2009 Media Award. That's what the organization thinks of the other organization. What did happen, and you're misremembering it the way t was designed to be misremembered, is that one individual that worked for AI made a comment blasting Assange. That individual did not represent the organization. And the death threats were the same hypothetical threats that were U.S. official FUD all along, nothing real.
Should have re-read that earlier: "You can give cash money to individuals to write personal checks to political parties who then pay a you", those two "you" should be different individuals. The briber and then the bribed.
While there are certainly lobbyists here in Canada, their power is considerably less than their American counterparts. The lobby laws are stricter, and the very strict campaign finance laws in Canada mean the lobbyists are unable to wield the same degree of influence as they do in the USA as they have very little cash to throw around.
There are ways to pay off corrupt politicians that aren't campaign contributions. You can promise them a high-paying job after they leave public office, you can pay for their vacation expenses, you can let them borrow your luxury car, you can spend the evening with them in a fancy restaurant, eating delicious meals and drinking expensive wines, and you pay their bill, etc.
This bill is written to please a specific lobby, they have shown in the past that they break rules and laws in complicity with those lobbies, it's a logical deduction that this law was written under the moneyed influence of that same lobby/cartel/oligarchy.
The film presents and illustrates Chomsky's and Herman's thesis that corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas of the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society. A centerpiece of the film is a long examination of the history of The New York Times' coverage of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, which Chomsky says exemplifies the media's unwillingness to criticize an ally of the elite.
Um, if you are either downloading from unauthorized sources, or especially if you are uploading, you are not a customer.
UK Study: Downloaders Buy More Music | The Big Picture www.ritholtz.com/blog/.../uk-study-downloaders-buy-more-music/Cached 27 Jul 2005 â" A belated Tuneful Tuesday post. A recent UK study confirms what we've known all along:"Computer-literate music fans who illegally share...
Michael Geist - Gov't Commissioned Study Finds P2P Downloaders... www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/ 2 Nov 2007 â" Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., industry canada p2p study.
Illegal downloaders 'spend the most on music', says poll - Crime, UK... www.independent.co.uk â News â UK â Crime 1 Nov 2009 â" People who illegally download music from the internet also spend more money on music than anyone else, according to a new study.
So the fellow in Stockholm, who's name is Paolo Macchiarini, decided to try, first time - he thought the time was ripe to try an experiment in which they would take a scan of his trachea to make sure they had the exact dimensions. A fellow in London has invented this spongy plastic. It's porous. Make a model of his trachea that's exactly the right size. Meanwhile, a company in Massachusetts was making an incubator.
The model and the incubator were flown to Stockholm and the patient was sent there. And they took some of his bone marrow, I think probably from the hip bone. The bone marrow contains stem cells, which can make a variety of different tissues. They combine the fellow's stem cells in this incubator with this model, which sort of serves as a scaffold for the cells to grow on, along with several growth factors that tell the cells what kind of cells to become, namely cartilage, which is what trachea, wind pipes are made of.
And within a couple of days, enough cells have grown in the surface of this thing that they could put it into his - they took out his diseased wind pipe, put this in, stitched him up, and it worked.
I don't know this photographer, so I don't know how sincere that regret is.
You know he got caught and you know he didn't reimbursed those he defrauded, so you know for a fact that his claims of regret are mere attempts at lessening the severity of his punishment, and nothing more.
Slashdot Mirror
If you get really good at the game, they give you a real spaceship to pilot!
Isaac Asimov's city-planet of Trantor had billions of people living their whole lives inside, with artificial meteorological variations in the levels of illumination.
after hours at no extra pay
I get paid a pretty good salary to work outside strict "business hours"
Spot the difference.
Why I would go to Dubai again?
Because you don't like poppy seed muffins?
Even in Dubai
Especially in Dubai. I don't understand why people willingly set foot in such a wretched hive of disregard for human rights, but they should expect a plutocratic system when they do.
This doesn't seem to involve currency or protection of VIPs.
"threatened to reveal confidential company information"
Like who's getting girls sent up to their rooms, who's getting boys sent up to their rooms...
radiation maps (and the raw data) from NISA was published regularly.
And radiation maps made by independent organizations showed contamination much worse than the official publications.
I'm not going to research this for you, but plenty of people were saying that the evidence showed meltdown and uncontrolled fission right from the start, and the officials denied it until the end of may.
I keep hearing of complaints about TEPCO misinformation etc. Reading the IAEA and NISA reports has seemed fine to me, where is all this disinformation coming from?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents#March
They denied the meltdown for months. They denied the leaks of radioactive material, they denied there was a risk from tsunamis, they just lied about everything for as long as they could.
The German autobahns are famous for being some of the few public roads in the world without blanket speed limits for cars and motorcycles.
No, don't give me the fucking wall street journal's opinion on the matter.
If you say that Amnesty International has a beef with Wikileaks, give me a link to an Amnesty website, not to a pro-war propaganda outfit.
I don't want your spin, I want facts.
Amnesty International blasted Assange for repeated leaks where he didn't redact civilian volunteer names, leading to civilian volunteers coming under death threats.
THAT NEVER HAPPENED
WikiLeaks won Amnesty International 2009 Media Award. That's what the organization thinks of the other organization. What did happen, and you're misremembering it the way t was designed to be misremembered, is that one individual that worked for AI made a comment blasting Assange. That individual did not represent the organization. And the death threats were the same hypothetical threats that were U.S. official FUD all along, nothing real.
Google Plus is exceeding expectations of both its creators and its user base
That's some potent marketspeak you're astroturfing there.
At least Google doesn't make make your private info public, like FB loves to do.
That would be a Buzz kill.
Atlantis never existed. It was a rhetorical device.
So was Troy, until someone dug it out.
http://www.communauto.com/electrique/index_ENG.html
Should have re-read that earlier: "You can give cash money to individuals to write personal checks to political parties who then pay a you", those two "you" should be different individuals. The briber and then the bribed.
No, you can't. - If the press gets wind of it
You can give cash money to individuals to write personal checks to political parties who then pay a you a salary aside from your government salary...
All of those things I know about because people were caught doing them, as reported in the press.
justice is expensive
That's much more accurate than "blind"!
The text after the link (There are ways to...) is my own and should be Plain Old Text.
While there are certainly lobbyists here in Canada, their power is considerably less than their American counterparts. The lobby laws are stricter, and the very strict campaign finance laws in Canada mean the lobbyists are unable to wield the same degree of influence as they do in the USA as they have very little cash to throw around.
The Conference Board of Canada bills itself as "the foremost, independent, not-for-profit applied research organization in Canada. Objective and non-partisan. We do not lobby for specific interests." These claims should take a major hit based on [may 2009]'s release of a deceptive, plagiarized report on the digital economy that copied text from the International Intellectual Property Alliance (the primary movie, music, and software lobby in the U.S.)
There are ways to pay off corrupt politicians that aren't campaign contributions. You can promise them a high-paying job after they leave public office, you can pay for their vacation expenses, you can let them borrow your luxury car, you can spend the evening with them in a fancy restaurant, eating delicious meals and drinking expensive wines, and you pay their bill, etc.
This bill is written to please a specific lobby, they have shown in the past that they break rules and laws in complicity with those lobbies, it's a logical deduction that this law was written under the moneyed influence of that same lobby/cartel/oligarchy.
why is there such a media gap about this protest?
Manufacturing Consent
The film presents and illustrates Chomsky's and Herman's thesis that corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas of the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society. A centerpiece of the film is a long examination of the history of The New York Times' coverage of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, which Chomsky says exemplifies the media's unwillingness to criticize an ally of the elite.
Um, if you are either downloading from unauthorized sources, or especially if you are uploading, you are not a customer.
UK Study: Downloaders Buy More Music | The Big Picture ...
www.ritholtz.com/blog/.../uk-study-downloaders-buy-more-music/Cached
27 Jul 2005 â" A belated Tuneful Tuesday post. A recent UK study confirms what we've known all along:"Computer-literate music fans who illegally share
Michael Geist - Gov't Commissioned Study Finds P2P Downloaders ...
www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2347/125/
2 Nov 2007 â" Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., industry canada p2p study.
Illegal downloaders 'spend the most on music', says poll - Crime, UK ...
www.independent.co.uk â News â UK â Crime
1 Nov 2009 â" People who illegally download music from the internet also spend more money on music than anyone else, according to a new study.
to me "spontaneous" means
People who can't use dictionaries should DIAF.
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/11/137770068/windpipe-grown-from-stem-cells-implanted-in-man
So the fellow in Stockholm, who's name is Paolo Macchiarini, decided to try, first time - he thought the time was ripe to try an experiment in which they would take a scan of his trachea to make sure they had the exact dimensions. A fellow in London has invented this spongy plastic. It's porous. Make a model of his trachea that's exactly the right size. Meanwhile, a company in Massachusetts was making an incubator.
The model and the incubator were flown to Stockholm and the patient was sent there. And they took some of his bone marrow, I think probably from the hip bone. The bone marrow contains stem cells, which can make a variety of different tissues. They combine the fellow's stem cells in this incubator with this model, which sort of serves as a scaffold for the cells to grow on, along with several growth factors that tell the cells what kind of cells to become, namely cartilage, which is what trachea, wind pipes are made of.
And within a couple of days, enough cells have grown in the surface of this thing that they could put it into his - they took out his diseased wind pipe, put this in, stitched him up, and it worked.
I don't know this photographer, so I don't know how sincere that regret is.
You know he got caught and you know he didn't reimbursed those he defrauded, so you know for a fact that his claims of regret are mere attempts at lessening the severity of his punishment, and nothing more.