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A little gallows humor?
A little gallows humor?
Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one of the warnings.
Now, Copenhagen prostitutes are up in arms, saying that the council has no business meddling in their affairs. They have now offered free sex to anyone who can produce one of the offending postcards and their COP15 identity card, according to the Web site avisen.dk.
Gore must be happy.
In 2005 when the Republicans were in power, they threatened to end the filibuster rule and return the Senate to majority rule as the constitution intended. Now the democrats have an even bigger majority than the Republicans did in 2005 and some are considering the nuclear option to put an end to the filibuster rule. Rumor has it that Senator Al Franken and VP Joe Biden are discussing a plan to use it. In 1975 it took 67 votes to break a filibuster and that was reduced to 60. Should it be at least further reduced to 55?
Many Republicans are on record supporting the nuclear option. It will be interesting to see what they say about it this time when the Democrats want to end it.
Do you think the Democrats should end the filibuster and restore majority rule to the Senate?
How Google Can Help Newspapers – Wall Street Journal — I totally agree with Schmidt that tying media subscription services to some kind of portable reading device is probably the best way to secure revenue for publishers and could well deliver a superior experience to the reader. However I’m uneasy about this ‘the device knows you’ stuff. The device could also be a superior propaganda delivery and information monitoring tool which effectively eliminates anonymous access to news.
It’s the year 2015. The compact device in my hand delivers me the world, one news story at a time. I flip through my favorite papers and magazines, the images as crisp as in print, without a maddening wait for each page to load.
Even better, the device knows who I am, what I like, and what I have already read. So while I get all the news and comment, I also see stories tailored for my interests. I zip through a health story in The Wall Street Journal and a piece about Iraq from Egypt’s Al Gomhuria, translated automatically from Arabic to English. I tap my finger on the screen, telling the computer brains underneath it got this suggestion right.
Some of these stories are part of a monthly subscription package. Some, where the free preview sucks me in, cost a few pennies billed to my account. Others are available at no charge, paid for by advertising. But these ads are not static pitches for products I’d never use. Like the news I am reading, the ads are tailored just for me. Advertisers are willing to shell out a lot of money for this targeting.
This is a long way from where we are today. The current technology—in this case the distinguished newspaper you are now reading—may be relatively old, but it is a model of simplicity and speed compared with the online news experience today. I can flip through pages much faster in the physical edition of the Journal than I can on the Web. And every time I return to a site, I am treated as a stranger.
- Google promoting a new public DNS. What are they up to?
- Google also looking at the real estate market and how to profit from it.
- Odd ideas about Bing.
- Motorola invests in multi-touch.
- Swipe credit cards with phone.
- Nokia freaked out over Smartphone market.
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Winning the fight against cancer may end up being more of a nano-war than a surgical strike. A team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has just successfully combined an antibody with single-walled nanotubes to create a precision search-and-destroy weapon that targets aggressive forms of breast cancer.
These tiny dual-mode weapons strike at the molecular level, delivering the kill in two ways: The antibody attacks the HER2 protein (an overabundance of which is associated with fast and deadly tumors); and the nanotubes detect and blow up invading tumor cells.
Nanotechnology is the future.
Al Gore apparently has canceled a high-priced speaking engagement during the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen.
As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, the Nobel Laureate was slated to lecture about his new book “Our Choice” where attendees could pay over $1,200 a ticket for the right to meet the Global Warmingist-in-Chief and have their picture taken with him.
According to Danish newspaper Berlingske, this has been canceled due to “unforeseen changes” to Gore’s schedule (rough translation follows, h/t Marc Morano).
Calm down, people, he will still manage to become the first carbon billionaire.
Now go read the book.
Researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users. But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single man who had not been seen it.
Prof Lajeunesse […] found, [that] on average, they first watched pornography when they were 10 years old. Around 90 per cent of consumption was on the internet, while 10 per cent of material came from video stores.
Single men watched pornography for an average of 40 minutes, three times a week, while those in relationships watched it 1.7 times a week for around 20 minutes.
Is this even news, or is it just the Telegraph trying to get on Digg?
I love how they just make this shit up.
This is the Rotating Kitchen by Zeger Reyers at the Eating the Universe exhibition at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany. It will continue like this for your rotating pleasure until the end of February.
Two Houston charities that require proof of citizenship or legal residency before registering families for holiday toy drives said Tuesday their intentions have been misunderstood.
Executive Assistant Fire Chief Rick Flanagan said people won’t be turned away from a Dec. 23 giveaway even if they can’t provide proof of their immigration status.
“They ask,” Flanagan said of the Outreach Program Inc., which distributes toys collected by the Houston Fire Department. “If (people) don’t have identification, they still get in. I wouldn’t have the program if they didn’t.”
And the Salvation Army, which asks for a Social Security number when registering children for its gift program, said it does so only to deter fraud.
Flanagan and Salvation Army spokesman Juan Alanis spoke up Tuesday after a story in the Chronicle noted that both groups require birth certificates, Social Security numbers or other documents indicating immigration status. They said it’s not their intent to discriminate.
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“It is not because we seek to discriminate. The Salvation Army is not in the business of verifying legal status,” he said. “We have to be good stewards. If we let people register without checking, that could be abused.”
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