It should be noted that the 3 million overseas Vietnamese and in particular the 1.2 million Vietnamese Americans are very anti-communist and frequently protest against the Vietnamese government where ever they go.
I returned to Vietnam last year after leaving it 10 years ago as a child with my family. The economic situation seems to have improved. The small village where I was born now have electricity (although there's sporatic blackouts). But the situation there can go nowhere but up. My aunt, who's an elementary school teacher, makes about $500 a year. The country is rife with corruption. If you want to get something done, you have to give the officials some money. Want to get through customs without a problem? $20 bribe for the customs officers. If you don't, they'll make up some bogus charges and keep you for a long time. You want to stay in a certain place for longer than a week? You have to register with the local "People's Committee" ($50 bribe). etc. etc. Until they take care of the corruption problem, I think foreign investors will be discouraged from doing business there.
In the Vietnamese Wikipedia, where I'm a sysop we actually had a discussion about how to translate the motto The free encyclopedia into Vietnamese. Many people were against translating the word "free" literally because it would throw off a lot of readers and the Vietnamese authorities and make it a target for the filtering software installed by the authorities. So we finally reached a compromised and used "open" instead of "free".
I attempted to access their web site, but was greeted with this scary warning from my friendly DNS server.
From what it's telling me, it seems like Comscore is rereouting all your web traffic through their server, including all the encrypted data. Seems like a big problem to me.
What will happen when somebody Google-bombs a certain keyword so that the Google I'm feeling lucky link for that keyword is the first result? What will happen when you click on "I'm feeling lucky" for that keyword? Will Google self-destruct?
Unfortunately, many extensions check for Firefox versions higher than a certain for compatibility. This new Firefox broke more than half of the extensions installed in my previous version.
Here are 4 of the kite panoramas I managed to see before the site died. The names are different from the site's because I just took them from my cache.
Unfortunately, in PETA's view, a life of a rat and a life of a child are more or less equivalent.
Q: "Would you support an experiment that would sacrifice 10 animals to save 10,000 people?"
A: No. Look at it another way: Suppose that the only way to save 10,000 people was to experiment on one mentally challenged orphan. If saving people is the goal, wouldn't that be worth it? Most people would agree that it would be wrong to sacrifice one human for the "greater good" of others because it would violate that individual's rights, but when it comes to sacrificing animals, the assumption is that human beings have rights and animals do not. Yet there is no logical reason to deny animals the same rights that protect individual humans from being sacrificed for the common good.
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This confirms what my mother told me: watching pr0n WILL make you go blind!
October 31, 1991
Any word on when the English version can handle Unicode?
From Newshour
It should be noted that the 3 million overseas Vietnamese and in particular the 1.2 million Vietnamese Americans are very anti-communist and frequently protest against the Vietnamese government where ever they go.
I returned to Vietnam last year after leaving it 10 years ago as a child with my family. The economic situation seems to have improved. The small village where I was born now have electricity (although there's sporatic blackouts). But the situation there can go nowhere but up. My aunt, who's an elementary school teacher, makes about $500 a year. The country is rife with corruption. If you want to get something done, you have to give the officials some money. Want to get through customs without a problem? $20 bribe for the customs officers. If you don't, they'll make up some bogus charges and keep you for a long time. You want to stay in a certain place for longer than a week? You have to register with the local "People's Committee" ($50 bribe). etc. etc. Until they take care of the corruption problem, I think foreign investors will be discouraged from doing business there.
After all, it's adopted software patents. It must be dead last in software innovations, right?
In the Vietnamese Wikipedia, where I'm a sysop we actually had a discussion about how to translate the motto The free encyclopedia into Vietnamese. Many people were against translating the word "free" literally because it would throw off a lot of readers and the Vietnamese authorities and make it a target for the filtering software installed by the authorities. So we finally reached a compromised and used "open" instead of "free".
I attempted to access their web site, but was greeted with this scary warning from my friendly DNS server.
From what it's telling me, it seems like Comscore is rereouting all your web traffic through their server, including all the encrypted data. Seems like a big problem to me.
Where are the women?
What will happen when somebody Google-bombs a certain keyword so that the Google I'm feeling lucky link for that keyword is the first result? What will happen when you click on "I'm feeling lucky" for that keyword? Will Google self-destruct?
A recent study suggests that global warming might have saved us from the next ice age.
A recent study suggests that global warming might have saved us from the next ice age.
Sometimes our brains can be tricked into remembering things that did not happen. Elizabeth Loftus had done much research in the area of misinformation effect, which actually has legal repercussions.
From now until March 19 they're exhibited at the University of California, Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology. Free admissions.
A lot of the countries affected are Commonwealth nations. In addition, about 10,000 British tourists were estimated to be in the area.
Speak for yourself
Does this remind anyone of the 24 parody "60" on Conan O'Brien?
Here's another hint: its is the possessive pronoun, and it's is the contraction of it is.
Unfortunately, many extensions check for Firefox versions higher than a certain for compatibility. This new Firefox broke more than half of the extensions installed in my previous version.
Did you notice that the trailer is 4:20 long? :-)
Coincidence? I think not.
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Q: "Would you support an experiment that would sacrifice 10 animals to save 10,000 people?"
A: No. Look at it another way: Suppose that the only way to save 10,000 people was to experiment on one mentally challenged orphan. If saving people is the goal, wouldn't that be worth it? Most people would agree that it would be wrong to sacrifice one human for the "greater good" of others because it would violate that individual's rights, but when it comes to sacrificing animals, the assumption is that human beings have rights and animals do not. Yet there is no logical reason to deny animals the same rights that protect individual humans from being sacrificed for the common good.