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From London, a Rebuke to U.S. Approach on Terrorism - NYTimes.com |
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4:53 pm EDT, Oct 21, 2008 |
The response to Sept. 11 was “a huge overreaction,” Dame Stella told The Guardian newspaper in an interview published on on Saturday. And calling the response a war on terror, she said. “got us off on the wrong foot, because it made people think terrorism was something you could deal with by force of arms primarily.”
From London, a Rebuke to U.S. Approach on Terrorism - NYTimes.com |
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The Medium - True Colors - NYTimes.com |
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6:47 pm EDT, Oct 18, 2008 |
ctober 17, 2008 It can be emotionally overwhelming to see human flesh in high definition.
The Medium - True Colors - NYTimes.com |
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The Crash in Housing Starts - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com |
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12:45 pm EDT, Oct 17, 2008 |
By this standard, housing starts aren’t just at their lowest level since 1991; they’re at their lowest level since the government began keeping monthly statistics, way back in 1959. Take a look at the chart above. Since 2003, housing starts have fallen 63 percent.
The Crash in Housing Starts - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com |
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2:05 pm EDT, Oct 15, 2008 |
2008-10-05: Damn It Feels Good To Be a Banksta
Take a stroll through the archive, Ishida has been on a roll for about the last 2 months! Sinfest |
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ISO 3103 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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4:08 pm EDT, Oct 14, 2008 |
ISO 3103 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (commonly referred to as ISO), specifying a standardized method for brewing tea. It was originally laid down in 1980 as BS 6008:1980[1]. It was produced by ISO Technical Committee 34 (Food products), Sub-Committee 8 (Tea).
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Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server - NYTimes.com |
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3:38 pm EDT, Oct 13, 2008 |
Instead of having a big, loud and complex computer on your desk, what if you could have a quiet, thin machine that rarely needed an upgrade or a fix?
Thin clients... again. Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server - NYTimes.com |
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Bridge directors vote for net to deter suicides |
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7:35 pm EDT, Oct 11, 2008 |
Golden Gate Bridge directors voted decisively Friday to try to stop people from jumping to their deaths from the landmark bridge by hanging nets along the sides of the span.
This is totally assinine. Bridge directors vote for net to deter suicides |
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Verizon Wireless Plans to Charge Senders of Text Messages - NYTimes.com |
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10:15 pm EDT, Oct 10, 2008 |
Jeffrey Nelson, a spokesman for Verizon, said the company was exploring ways to charge fees to commercial senders of text messages to add a new revenue stream to its wireless business. “It is not a free service,” Mr. Nelson said. “It didn’t cost us zero to build or to buy spectrum rights.”
This is obscene. The marginal cost to deliver SMS is practically zero. Verizon Wireless Plans to Charge Senders of Text Messages - NYTimes.com |
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New Cost Overrun Bedevils Planned Mission to Mars - NYTimes.com |
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6:41 pm EDT, Oct 10, 2008 |
But the laboratory is too big and heavy to employ the bouncing cocoon of airbags that cushioned the landings of Spirit and Opportunity. Instead, engineers devised a completely new landing scheme. After parachutes slow the spacecraft’s descent through the atmosphere, rocket thrusters are to fire, enabling the craft to slow to a stop and hover in midair. The rover would then be lowered via a winch to the surface. (The hovering part of the spacecraft would fly away and crash.)
I hadn't heard this detail before. This seems pretty ambitious. And it's powered by RTGs so it could leave radioactive mess if it crashes. New Cost Overrun Bedevils Planned Mission to Mars - NYTimes.com |
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