At one point, Mr. Karzai suggested that he himself would be compelled to join the other side – that is, the Taliban – if the parliament did not back his controversial attempt to take control of the country’s electoral watchdog from the United Nations, according to three of those who attended the meeting, including a close ally of the president.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/04/karzai-slams-the-west-aga_n_524669.html
Diller, Brill, and Murdoch seem be stating a simple fact–we will have to pay them–but this fact is not in fact a fact. Instead, it is a choice, one its proponents often decline to spell out in full, because, spelled out in full, it would read something like this:
“Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use, or else we will have to stop making content in the costly and complex way we have grown accustomed to making it. And we don’t know how to do that…”
Diller, Brill, and Murdoch seem be stating a simple fact–we will have to pay them–but this fact is not in fact a fact. Instead, it is a choice, one its proponents often decline to spell out in full, because, spelled out in full, it would read something like this:
“Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use, or else we will have to stop making content in the costly and complex way we have grown accustomed to making it. And we don’t know how to do that…”
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/
Backpacking through South America, smoking hash with locals; reading Sylvia Plath in the park; earnestly worshipping Frida Kahlo in museums; dancing barefoot in the rain everywhere. While many are hippies, they are not all, by any means. They come in all nationalities, all shapes and sizes, from earth mother to ethereal. Some are insipid, others lively, some bisexual and others not, some vegan and some merely vegetarian.
Backpacking through South America, smoking hash with locals; reading Sylvia Plath in the park; earnestly worshipping Frida Kahlo in museums; dancing barefoot in the rain everywhere. While many are hippies, they are not all, by any means. They come in all nationalities, all shapes and sizes, from earth mother to ethereal. Some are insipid, others lively, some bisexual and others not, some vegan and some merely vegetarian.
http://thepetitesophisticate.blogspot.com/2007/12/soapbox.html
This is what happens when Marsellus Wallace sends his IT man to collect on your ass.
This is what happens when Marsellus Wallace sends his IT man to collect on your ass.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/05/howto-defeat-a-slidi.html
Raise a glass today in honour of the hard-working souls who flip burgers, serve double-doubles and clean hotel rooms. In Ontario, they just got a decent raise: the minimum wage goes up 75 cents, to $10.25 an hour. That makes Ontario’s minimum the highest in Canada – and today marks the first time the bottom rung of our labour market passes that $10 threshold.
Raise a glass today in honour of the hard-working souls who flip burgers, serve double-doubles and clean hotel rooms. In Ontario, they just got a decent raise: the minimum wage goes up 75 cents, to $10.25 an hour. That makes Ontario’s minimum the highest in Canada – and today marks the first time the bottom rung of our labour market passes that $10 threshold.
Wikileaks posts a classified US military video (17:47) to YouTube. It depicts “the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad – including two Reuters news staff.” Supporting documents from military whistleblowers appear at the site they set up, Collateral Murder.