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CBC News: U.S. warns Canada against easing pot laws |
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Topic: Society |
10:35 pm EDT, May 4, 2003 |
,---- | VANCOUVER - A top White House drug policy official is threatening | retaliation from the U.S. if Canada relaxes its laws against marijuana | possession. | | David Murray, right-hand man to U.S. "drug czar" John Walters, says he | doesn't want to tread on another country's sovereignty, but warned | there would be consequences if Canada proceeds with a plan to | decriminalize the possession of marijuana. `---- Oh, really? So now tell me, would that be a 'Shock and Awe' type retaliation? CBC News: U.S. warns Canada against easing pot laws |
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Open Invitation for Georgia to Join This Century |
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Topic: Current Events |
6:00 am EDT, May 3, 2003 |
Most likely the sons and daughters of the same people that want the confederate battle emblem put back on the Georgia Flag. ] A year after holding that school's first racially ] integrated prom, Taylor County High School in rural ] Georgia has returned to its segregationist ways and will ] be holding two proms again- one for white students and ] one for all students. Nice job kids! You've done a fine job of perpetuating the stereotype that all southerners are racist rednecks. Laughing Boy Open Invitation for Georgia to Join This Century |
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Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems |
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Topic: Technology |
6:00 am EDT, May 3, 2003 |
Kinda adds new dimension to the tech term "fat pipe", no? :] ] The human genome is about 3,120,000,000 base pairs long, ] so half of that is in each spermatozoa -- 1,560,000,000 ] base pairs. ] ] Each side of these base pairs can either be an ] adenine-thymine or a guanine-cytosine bond, and they can ] be aligned either direction, so there are four choices. ] Four possibilities for a value means it can be fully ] represented with two bits; 00 = guanine, 01 = cytosine, ] and so forth. ] ] The figures that I've read state the number of sperm in a ] human ejaculation to be anywhere from 50 to 500 million. ] I'm going to go with the number 200,000,000 sperm cells, ] but if anyone knows differently, please tell me. ] ] Putting these together, the average amount of information ] per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which ] comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That's about 78,000 ] terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the ] entire text content of the Library of Congress to be ] scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20 ] terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five ] seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In ] comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up ] much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s. ] Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th ] of that. ] ] If you consider signal to noise, though, the figures come ] out much differently. If only t Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems |
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Yahoo! News - Georgians Plan Whites-Only Prom Party |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
5:50 am EDT, May 3, 2003 |
] ALBANY, Ga. - A year after holding their first integrated prom, ] some students at Taylor County High School have decided to again ] hold a separate, private party for whites only. ] While many whites say they still plan to attend next week's ] integrated prom, the decision to hold the whites-only prom this ] Friday saddened senior Gerica McCrary, who helped organize last ] year's dance. It's sad this in this day and age, stuff like this still exists. Yahoo! News - Georgians Plan Whites-Only Prom Party |
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Birmingham Recalls a Time When Children Led the Fight |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
1:17 pm EDT, May 2, 2003 |
] On May 4, 1963, in one battle over segregation in ] Birmingham, Ala., the police led a group of black ] schoolchildren arrested for protesting to jail. Birmingham Recalls a Time When Children Led the Fight |
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Boy 'pregnant' with twin brother |
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Topic: Health and Wellness |
1:10 pm EDT, May 2, 2003 |
] A seven-year-old boy who was admitted to hospital with ] stomach pains was actually "pregnant" with his twin ] brother. ] ] Doctors at Chimkent Children's Hospital in Kazakhstan ] originally believed Mourat Zhanaidarov was suffering from ] a cyst. ] ] But during surgery, they discovered he was in fact ] carrying the dead foetus of his twin brother. ] ] The foetus had developed into a tumour but was found to ] have hair, nails and bones. Boy 'pregnant' with twin brother |
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memestreams - Syndicated Account |
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Topic: MemeStreams |
1:11 pm EDT, Apr 21, 2003 |
Attention all LiveJournal users!! Thanks to the help of jwz of http://www.jwz.org, our MemeStreams RSS feed on LiveJournal is fixed and under the name "MemeStreams". Having a RSS feed on LiveJournal is a great way for people to see the links that make the front page of MemeStreams. If you get a chance, check it out! memestreams - Syndicated Account |
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Golden Feces anyone? WORK SAFE |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
8:50 pm EDT, Apr 20, 2003 |
] Golden feces wipes smile ] ] on Japanese faces Golden Feces anyone? WORK SAFE |
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