“ Kaum zu glauben! Klezmer-Musik schadet Nazi-Aufzügen, dies meint zumindest ein Dresdener Staatsanwalt. In Dresden wurde der Sprecher der Grünen Stadtratsfraktion, Stephan Kühn, zu einem Bußgeld von 150 Euro verdonnert, weil er am 13. Februar 2009 aus den Fraktionsräumen im Rathaus Klezmer-Musik abspielte, um gegen einen abendlichen Fackelmarsch von Neonazis zu protestieren.
“ Last week, Mr. Zelaya issued executive orders to the armed forces to carry out the first phase of the constitutional reform project. The head of the armed forces, knowing that this order was illegal and unconstitutional, said “No.” Mr. Zelaya went on national TV and fired Gen. Romeo Vasquez for refusing to carry out the order, but our nation’s Supreme Court reinstated him.
“ We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction. Away.
“ Good essay — “The Staggering Cost of Playing it ‘Safe’” — about the political motivations for terrorist security policy.
“ Here’s the thought, have the vibrator buzz out the phonemes of the caller’s name. The name Alexis, would be “br br brrr” and Jenny would be “Brr brr”, and Dan would be “bRrr.
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On Facebook, where the cost of communication is significantly lower than placing a call, an average man has two-way communication regularly with only 4 people. For women, that number is 6. (Data from Primates on Facebook). Learning to differentiate even 10 buzz patterns that feel like the way a name sounds is easy.
“ Last night, nine people died at our hospital and another 28 had gunshot wounds. All hospital employees were crying till dawn. They (government) removed the dead bodies on back of trucks, before we were even able to get their names or other information. What can you even say to the people who don’t even respect the dead. No one was allowed to speak to the wounded or get any information from them.
“ In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, ‘an external transmission phase,’ where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed significantly. ‘But the external record, in books, and other long lasting forms of storage,’ Hawking says, ‘has grown enormously. Some people would use the term evolution only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes.’
“ Three Amazon inventors set out to correct what they felt was a real problem: that ‘out-of-print or rare books … typically do not include advertisements … the content is fixed and, therefore, has not been adapted to modern marketing.’ Their solution is spelled out in newly-disclosed Amazon patent applications for On-Demand Generating E-Book Content with Advertising and Incorporating Advertising in On-Demand Generated Content.
