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  1. Don't forget BANANA on China Debuts the World's Fastest Train · · Score: 1

    Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone.

  2. Re:2 Months is very fast on Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant Two Months Ago · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I work in a public hospital in Australia. There's a private hospital across the road. I'm very glad that we give a high quality service to people regardless of whether they can afford it. Our service is so good that people with private health cover often choose to be treated by us, even though they pay the same premium. Unfortunately, no one has found a way to limit the ever escalating cost of our service without driving everyone who provides it to complete exhaustion. Suggestions welcome!

  3. Farewell Shanghai Jim. on J.G. Ballard Dies at Age 78 · · Score: 1

    Cartographer of the inner future. http://www.jgballard.com/

  4. Is there more sympathy for Robot Rights? on Soldiers Bond With Bots, Take Them Fishing · · Score: 1

    That or some very lonely soldiers!

  5. 5% of the retail price is better than nothing... on Australian Students Can Get Office at 95% Off Retail · · Score: 1

    ... which is what Microsoft earns from a pirated copy. At least this way at least some students will actually pay something for their copy.

  6. Re:Ninja is replaced by Sniper on Wisdom From The Last Ninja · · Score: 1
    The best modern example is in the Indonesian military where they have a subset of the special forces (KOPASSUS) called Gadapaksi. They are also known as the "ninjas" as they specialize in night time assassinations and abductions. If you read any of the literature on the East Timorese or even the West Papuans the Gadapaksi are mentioned as terrorizing the local populace.

    Well you'd think they could do do something about Alexander Downer[1] then!

    [1] Australian Foreign Minister.

  7. A Presidential Fib. on Fibs - Fibonacci-based Poetry · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bush
    said
    that the
    weapons of
    mass distruction in
    Iraq posed an imminent threat.

  8. true heroes on Hollywood's Depiction of Gamers Getting Better? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    None better gamers than Shaun and his buddy Ed!

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/

  9. for a truly disturbing crash experience on Review: Burnout - Revenge · · Score: 3, Funny

    You could play this game between readings of J.G. Ballard's "Crash" and watch Cronenburg's movie on DVD.

    Vaughan died yesterday in his last car crash. During our friendship he had rehearsed his death in many crashes, but this was his only true accident. Driven on a collision course towards the limousine of the film actress, his car jumped the rails of the London Airport flyover and plunged through the roof of a bus filled with airline passengers. The crushed bodies of package tourists, like a hemorrhage of the sun, still lay across the vinyl seats when I pushed my way through the police engineers an hour later. Holding the arm of her chauffeur, the film actress Elizabeth Taylor, with whom Vaughan had dreamed of dying for so many months, stood alone under the revolving ambulance lights. As I knelt over Vaughan's body she placed a gloved hand to her throat.

    - J. G. Ballard. Crash. (1984)
        http://www.researchpubs.com/books/ballexc2.shtml

  10. Monkeys?! on Drug Reverses Effects of Sleep Deprivation · · Score: 1

    Test it on _nurses_ and then we'll see how well it works!

  11. windows for .exe distributed palm packages on Linux-to-Palm Integration? · · Score: 1

    I recommend having access to Windows to help install at least some medical software packages and reference databases. If packages are available in the Palm's native package format, then they are easy to download to your Linux system and then install using Pilot-Link. However some commercial products are distributed as a Windows .exe file which you then need to unpack to a set of files including native Palm packages. I've had success opening Windows based installation packages using Wine or Cedega, but I've not had success with all. - M (nurse)