April 21st, 2010
Feeding some numbers from Google’s new Government Requests page into a simple spreadsheet reveals that Australia is 7th world-wide in Google government removal requests of search results and other materials. South Korea, Germany and Brazil lead the sad pack. Note that only countries with over 10 requests have been included and that the population data is circa 2008/2009. [...]
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July 12th, 2007
The pseudo-science in Martin Durkin‘s “The Great Global Warming Swindle” which I’ve just watched on ABC tonight has been so rigorously debunked that I’m tempted not to even discuss it, but… The short of the counter-argument to his so called documentary is that the solar-radiance model of climate has been valid for most of the [...]
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March 14th, 2007
Maybe I’m misguided, but I couldn’t find a mention of the embarrassing ambassador in any of the Israeli news sites nor in their archives. Bookmark to:
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October 15th, 2006
This video and article says it all, via BoingBoing which also covers it in depth. The Chinese government is a disgrace to their people and history. Bookmark to:
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October 4th, 2006
Found via AdRants. Bookmark to:
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July 25th, 2006
Via Digg, a Slate article titled: “The Chocolate War” but should really be called: “The War on Chocolate”. The article details attempts by schools around the world to ban unhealthy candy, which brought about a new type of dealer — the candy man: William Guntrip is a junk food dealer, and is making almost $100 [...]
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July 12th, 2006
Corporations display psychopathic tendencies. In my humble opinion, psychopaths are created due to incapacity to assimilate social mores. The corporation as person has money to manipulate its reputation; therefore it suffers almost no penalty for ignoring social mores. I suggest mandating that corporations’ true record become an inherent part of their identity. Suppose the sum [...]
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May 25th, 2006
Let me jump right into the water and say: Microsoft’s new Office 2007 is a very different product from its predecessors and as such represents a very weak spot in the usually hardened Microsoft armor. This version of Office may start a huge switch-over to OpenOffice and alternatives. This is the case not because Office [...]
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May 13th, 2006
…I wish. Anyway Der Spiegel dares ask the question and while it gives a glimpse at Neocon failure it does not completely deliver on explaining why neoconservatism is wrong from first principles. Neoconservatism might look like it has one or two good ideas at first. This illusion comes because one of the core pillars of [...]
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May 13th, 2006
It is already old news apparently, but I’ve only just now seen the videos from the White House Correspondence Association dinner. While seeing the first video, I felt at first a very strong cognitive dissonance as a fellow commenter on SE described it. The dissonance arose because usually it takes intelligence and self-awareness for a [...]
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