For the record, that Hamas was elected as the majority in Palestine...
Apparently, part of the problem was that the alternative party, Fatah, was terribly corrupt, so the situation may be a bit more complicated than it seems at first glance.
In 2005, Hamas won landslide victories in nearly all the municipalities it contested. Fatah is "widely seen as being in desperate need of reform", as "the PA's performance has been a story of corruption and incompetence - and Fatah has been tainted." Political analyst Sallah Abdelshafi told BBC about the difficulties of Fatah leadership: "I think it's very, very serious - it's becoming obvious that they can't agree on anything." ...
Barghouti's supporters argue that al-Mustaqbal will split the votes of both parties, both from disenchanted Fatah members as well as moderate Hamas voters who do not agree with Hamas' political goals, but rather its social work and hard position on corruption.
At 10 weeks kittens can already jump up on tables and wreck things - the kid is just slobbering on the floor.
And what's your point? This study highlighted some profound (and somewhat surprising) differences between humans and one of our closest relatives. Such differences may have some bearing on how humans evolved the ability to develop a complex, linguistic culture based on rigorous imitation. You wouldn't be against learning about evolution, would you?
I know, I know; when you say WORTHY project, you probably mean something dire like cancer or AIDS research. And I wholeheartedly agree that those are worthy projects needing generous funding. But science is science. This study adds to what we know about stuff. That's justification in and of itself. And who's to say this research won't tell us something new about mirror neurons (probably necessary for imitation) and, by extension, autism, hm?
It's been suggested. From the abstract to a paper by Arbib and Mundhenk, Schizophrenia and the mirror system: an essay (2005):
We suggest that verbal hallucinations occur when an utterance progresses through verbal creation pathways and returns as a vocalization observed, only to be dismissed as external since no record of its being created has been kept. Schizophrenic patients on this theory then confabulate the agent.
...an interpretive statement, the Doha Declaration, was issued in November 2001, which indicated that TRIPs should not prevent states from dealing with public health crises. Since then PhRMA, the United States and, to a lesser extent, other developed nations, have been working to minimise the effect of the declaration. TRIPs provides for "compulsory licencing", which allows a national government to issue a licence for the production of drugs without the consent of the patent owner as long as those drugs are primarily for the domestic market. A 2003 agreement loosened the domestic market requirement, and allows developing countries to export to other countries where there is a national health problem as long as drugs exported are not part of a commercial or industrial policy [1]. Drugs exported under such a regime may be packaged or colored differently to prevent them from prejudicing markets in the developed world.
Within the last few weeks, there appears to have been a meeting between MSN, Yahoo and AOL. They'd all been talking amongst themselves -- and sparsely with each other -- about how to respond to Google, but were still trying to make up their minds...
Wiggum: Your mission is to find the fireworks smugglers, and get
them to say something incriminating on this tape. [holds
up a cassette tape] Bart: [reading the tape label] "Hootie and the Blowfish"? Wiggum: Yeah. It's cheaper than blank tape.
You can download all the episodes (573!) of the PBS series The Computer Chronicles from Archive.org. Its run was from 1983 to 2002 so it's extremely dated material. But nostalgia tech is cool too!
Slashdot Mirror
Google is its own Web metric
Unless the company has several new models in the pipeline to release after the original offering, he says, they're likely to fail.
Good thing Apple is already working hard to make sure the iPhone is laughably obsolete upon release.
Actually, yes. But, along with East Timor, only in the post-launch phase.
Apparently, part of the problem was that the alternative party, Fatah, was terribly corrupt, so the situation may be a bit more complicated than it seems at first glance.
Wikipedia on Fatah
I think the real success story here is the presence of an informative comments page at OSnews
And what's your point? This study highlighted some profound (and somewhat surprising) differences between humans and one of our closest relatives. Such differences may have some bearing on how humans evolved the ability to develop a complex, linguistic culture based on rigorous imitation. You wouldn't be against learning about evolution, would you?
I know, I know; when you say WORTHY project, you probably mean something dire like cancer or AIDS research. And I wholeheartedly agree that those are worthy projects needing generous funding. But science is science. This study adds to what we know about stuff. That's justification in and of itself. And who's to say this research won't tell us something new about mirror neurons (probably necessary for imitation) and, by extension, autism, hm?
Considering that part of the definition of autism includes highly stereotyped and repetitive use of language, you may have a point there :).
It's been suggested. From the abstract to a paper by Arbib and Mundhenk, Schizophrenia and the mirror system: an essay (2005):
Interesting stuffs.After killing all lawyers, you're going to need a hell of a legal team...
Wikipedia sez:
...an interpretive statement, the Doha Declaration, was issued in November 2001, which indicated that TRIPs should not prevent states from dealing with public health crises. Since then PhRMA, the United States and, to a lesser extent, other developed nations, have been working to minimise the effect of the declaration. TRIPs provides for "compulsory licencing", which allows a national government to issue a licence for the production of drugs without the consent of the patent owner as long as those drugs are primarily for the domestic market. A 2003 agreement loosened the domestic market requirement, and allows developing countries to export to other countries where there is a national health problem as long as drugs exported are not part of a commercial or industrial policy [1]. Drugs exported under such a regime may be packaged or colored differently to prevent them from prejudicing markets in the developed world.
Looks like Wikipedia's servers are hosted on the Antikythera...
Just so you know, Drunkenbatman had this pegged.
Within the last few weeks, there appears to have been a meeting between MSN, Yahoo and AOL. They'd all been talking amongst themselves -- and sparsely with each other -- about how to respond to Google, but were still trying to make up their minds...
The Cow Abides
See how to build a fast and easy prototype that can be disassembled
No disassemble!
Is this what you're talking about?
Wiggum: Your mission is to find the fireworks smugglers, and get them to say something incriminating on this tape. [holds up a cassette tape]
Bart: [reading the tape label] "Hootie and the Blowfish"?
Wiggum: Yeah. It's cheaper than blank tape.
The video iPod won't really use a G5, will it?
Whoa. I was just thinking about the song Flagpole Sitta the other day. I must've willed them back into existence.
yes your arm does get tired for a solid hour of cranking if you are not used to it.
oh, I'm used to it.
Snorky... talk... man...
The kicker in this case is that they had to use SubEthaEdit on OS X for this to work.
from the apparently-not-so-sick-of-blogging-stories dept.
"©2005 Google"
It's HUGE. How did I not notice that before?
You can download all the episodes (573!) of the PBS series The Computer Chronicles from Archive.org. Its run was from 1983 to 2002 so it's extremely dated material. But nostalgia tech is cool too!
http://www.archive.org/details/computerchronicles
SELECT * FROM mysql, sco WHERE mysql_forces = sco_forces
DVD-A, eh?
What an unfortunate acronym (caution: naughty words).