] His research shows that not only are suicide terrorists
] significantly more educated than their peers, they are
] also significantly better off. According to Krueger,
] although one-third of Palestinians live in poverty, only
] 13 percent of Palestinian suicide bombers do; 57 percent
] of bombers have education beyond high school versus 15
] percent of the population of comparable age.
]
] The Defense Intelligence Agency also gave me profiles
] of all these people they were interrogating at Guantánamo
] Bay in Cuba. They divide them into Yemenis and Saudis.
] The Yemenis are sort of the foot soldiers. And they found
] that the Saudis, their leaders especially, are from
] high-status families. A surprising number have graduate
] degrees. And they are willing to give up everything. They
] give up well-paying jobs, they give up their families,
] whom they really adore, to sacrifice themselves because
] they really believe that it's the only way they're going
] to change the world.

These people are not stupid, nor poor, nor desperate. While there are reasons to focus on education and poverty in places like West Bank/Gaza, the idea that its going to prevent people from deciding to become suicide terrorists is apparently wrongheaded.

An interested oped on Religion in this article too...

Everything you know about terrorists is wrong.

] Washington - Dr Miguel Nicolelis knew he had nailed it
] when the monkey stopped using her arm to play the
] computer game.
]
]
] An implanted device had allowed the monkey to control the
] game using only her thoughts, Nicolelis and colleagues
] report in the Public Library of Science Biology journal
] on Monday.
]
]
] And changes in the way the monkey's brain cells worked
] suggested the brain was physically adjusting to the
] device, they reported in the new online science journal.
]
] Nicolelis hopes the device will eventually allow
] paralyzed patients to regain some ability to use their
] upper bodies - virtually, if not physically.
]
]
] "The monkey suddenly realized that she didn't need to
] move her arm at all," Nicolelis said in a statement.
]
]
] "Her arm muscles went completely quiet, she kept the arm
] at her side and she controlled the robot arm using only
] her brain and visual feedback."

Good applications, scary applications.

IOL : Monkey think, monkey do... now people too?

I gave her a towel and sent her into the shower. She entered my bedroom; I pulled the towel off. Her body was better than I’d expected: thin waist, thick bones built for the steppes. Her ass was meaty in a good way, her breasts were large, the nipples awkward. In a year, she’d be unfuckable.

“Where’s the husband?” I asked.

“He left, the bastard.”

“You don’t know where to?”

“No. Just left. Doesn’t care about feeding the baby, about giving her clothes, medicine. Just left, with no conscience.”

Welp, I thought, at least he can sleep well knowing he’s just produced another whore. I know I will.

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BLAWYOAWYOAYWBAHAHAHAHAHA! Ames is very very funny sometimes. Like a tragic, true Onion. About whores.

whore.com

For some time now I’ve thought about shacking up with a whore. To rescue her, as it were, build her up and then release her into the wild where hopefully she wouldn’t have to turn tricks again. It would make for a good change in copy, and it’d be a good deed by the standards of most modern civilizations. (I’ve also considered pimping the whore whom I’ll rescue, Iceberg Amzalak, as a way to supplement my meager income and buy her a pair of shoes every so often, but I’m not sure I could pull off that trick starting so late in the game, seems as dicey as drug-dealing, only with scabies and cold sores thrown in to the paranoia brew.)

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Ahhh... memories.

A Harlot High and Low… and Lower

The really horrible thing about the sudden disappearance of convenient pirate movie kiosks isn’t just that we can no longer get cheap Hollywood flicks the week they hit the screens in the Motherland, or that our money goes now to corrupt American CEOs rather than Russian gangsters. No, the really horrible thing about it is that, without a glut of pirate flicks to watch at home, I may have to start going out again at night. To meet people. You know, those two-legged things with all the paint on their faces?

Pirates Not Dead

"He said: "I don't know how this happened. One minute we were playing and the next he had the gun in his mouth. This dog is my best friend.""

Mexican shot by his own dog

""Are we pooping now?" Skyler Russert, 8, kept asking the lab-coat clad "Dr. Perry Stalsis" -- really museum staffer Rick McDaniel -- whose mock-doc name plays on "peristalsis," the muscular contractions that shove food through our innards. "

Engrossing education in San Jose Kids learn bodily functions with glee

] The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC)
] Distinguished Lecture Series will host Dr. Martin Hellman
] of Stanford University on Thursday, October 9, 2003 at
] 3:00PM, with a reception at 2:30PM prior to the lecture.

Georgia Institute of Technology :: Event

] As such, the Internet has a non-zero momentary data
] storage capacity. It is possible to push out a piece of
] information and effectively have it stored until echoed
] back. By establishing a mechanism for cyclic transmission
] and reception of chunks of data to and from a number of
] remote hosts, it is possible to maintain an arbitrary
] amount of data constantly `on the wire', thus
] establishing a high-capacity volatile medium.

Juggling with packets

inignoct wrote:
lots of neat stuff in this article, but this is especially cool :

] DuPont Textiles & Interiors and Outlast Technologies are
] rolling out Phase Change Materials (PCMs) that respond to
] your changing body temperature. The fabric coating
] consists of the materials encapsulated into microscopic
] spheres. As you body warms up, the PCM me

Odor free sox? Does that mean you only ever need one pair that never needs washing?

STAIN-RESISTANT PANTS ARE SO ‘LAST WEEK’; TRY THE ODOR-FREE SOCKS