“Our mission is clear in Iraq. Should we have to go in, our mission is very clear: disarmament.”

- Bush, March 6, 2003

“In Iraq today, our military is focused and unwavering. We have an effective plan of battle and the flexibility to meet every challenge. Nothing–nothing–will divert us from our clear mission.”

- Bush, March 26, 2003

“Our forces have been given a clear mission–to end a regime that threatened its neighbors and the world with weapons of mass destruction, and to free a people that had suffered far too long.”

- Bush, April 14, 2003

“Our coalition has a clear goal, understood by all–to see the Iraqi people in charge for the first time in generations.”

- Bush, May 24, 2004

“Well, as I stated earlier, the clear mission of the multinational force, and in particular, the United States military is to help the new Iraqi government stabilize a country, deal with the security threat, and help improve the lives of the Iraqi people.”

- “Senior Administration Official”, June 28, 2004

“The United States military and our coalition partners have made a clear, specific and continuing mission in Iraq. As we train Iraqi security forces, we’ll help those forces to find and destroy the killers.”

- Bush, June 28, 2004

“Some of tomorrow’s veterans are in combat in Iraq at this hour. They have a clear mission: to defeat the terrorists and aid the rise of a free government that can defend itself.”

- Bush, November 11, 2004

“And our mission is clear there, as well, and that is to train the Iraqis so they can do the fighting; make sure they can stand up to defend their freedoms, which they want to do.”

- Bush, June 2, 2005

“Our goal is clear: a democratic and peaceful Iraq that represents all Iraqis.”

- Bush, June 24, 2005

“Our military strategy is clear: We will train Iraqi security forces so they can defend their freedom and protect their people, and then our troops will return home with the honor they have earned.”

- Bush, June 25, 2005

“Our mission in Iraq is clear: We’re hunting down the terrorists. We’re helping Iraqis build a free nation that is an ally in the war on terror. We’re advancing freedom in the broader Middle East. We are removing a source of violence and instability and laying the foundation of peace for our children and our grandchildren.”

- Bush, June 28, 2005

Is it clear?

Crystal?

Good.

source

They claim victory.

For the first time since January, the Army met its monthly recruiting goal in June, but still faces what some senior Army officials say is a nearly insurmountable shortfall to meet the service’s annual quota.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard B. Myers, told a town-hall meeting at the Pentagon today that the Army had exceeded its June quota, but gave no details. Senior Army officials said in interviews earlier in the day that the Army had exceeded the goal of 5,650 recruits by about 500 people. The Army Reserve also made its first monthly quota since last December, the official said.

What a load of bull. Remember this?

On Friday, the Army is expected to announce that it met only 75 percent of its recruiting goal for May, the fourth consecutive monthly shortfall in the number of new recruits sent to basic training. Just over 5,000 new recruits entered boot camp in May.

But the news could have appeared worse. Early last month, the Army, with no public notice, lowered its long-stated May goal to 6,700 recruits from 8,050. Compared with the original target, the Army achieved only 62.6 percent of its goal for the month.

Army officials defended the shift on Tuesday, saying it was not uncommon to change monthly goals at midyear. They said that the latest change reflected the reality that the Army was not going to meet its May goal, and that it made more sense to shift some of that quota to the summer months, traditionally a better season for recruiters to attract new high school graduates.

So what does “shifting the quota to the summer months” mean? From last reporting on last month’s numbers:

They note that with only four months left in the budget year, the Army is at barely 50 percent of its goal. Recruiters would have to land more than 9,760 young men and women a month, on average, to reach the 80,000 target by the end of September.

So despite needing 9,760 new recruits on average for the rest of the summer to reach the Army’s annual quota, they’re professing that 5,650 recruits is a success?

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“Just because you have an infant-formula operation doesn’t mean it’s a terror funding operation,” says Sergeant Jezierski. “But to say there’s no terrorist funding isn’t the case either.”

A 646.2-pound (293 kg) Mekong giant catfish, netted in Thailand, may be the largest freshwater fish ever found. The fish was documented as part of a World Wildlife Fund-National Geographic project to identify and study and conserve freshwater fish around the world that exceed 6 feet in length and 200 pounds in weight. (Stringer/Thailand/Reuters)

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I’ve just had a very interesting telephone conversation with someone at the Direct Communication Unit of the Home Office that you guys may like like to hear about.

I contacted them because I was seeking confirmation that a fax I drafted and sent over the weekend just past which was directed specifically to Tony McNulty was received and that a reply would be forthcoming and in due course. I was, to be frank, really quite shocked by the reply I got.

When I eventually got through, I was totld quite explicitly that I could not expect to get a reply from the minister and that the best I could realistically hope for was that a senior civil servant might reply on his behalf. This I already knew but it wasn’t really this that shsocked me, it was his choice of language and a cander. What he said is this:

“Oh gaaaawwddd! Not another person ringing up to complain about bloody ID cards! Do you kow how many letters and faxes we’ve received on this very subject alone over the weekend? Over 4000! That being the case, don’t expect to hear anything at all from the Home Office mate! Yes, the legislation is stupid and yes it’s unworkable but hey, I only work here.”

All this coming from somebody who actually work for the government and is repsonsible for distributing government communications.

Link to No2ID website
Link to Anti ID Card Pledge

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What data will ID cards store?
Fears have been raised by opponents of identity cards about the amount of information which could be stored on the database. Here is the full list of the 49 types of information which the Identity Cards Bill says should be on the register.

Personal information

* full name

* other names by which person is or has been known

* date of birth

* place of birth

* gender

* address of principal place of residence in the United Kingdom

* the address of every other place in the United Kingdom where person has a place of residence.

Identifying information

* a photograph of head and shoulders

* signature

* fingerprints

* other biometric information

Residential status

* nationality

* entitlement to remain in the United Kingdom where that entitlement derives from a grant of leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, the terms and conditions of that leave

Personal reference numbers

* National Identity Registration Number

* the number of any ID card issued

* allocated national insurance number

* the number of any relevant immigration document

* the number of their United Kingdom passport

* the number of any passport issued to the individual by or on behalf of the authorities of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom or by or on behalf of an international organisation

* the number of any document that can be used by them (in some or all circumstances) instead of a passport;

* the number of any identity card issued to him/her by the authorities of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom

* any reference number allocated to him/her by the secretary of state in connection with an application made by him for permission to enter or to remain in the United Kingdom

* the number of any work permit relating to him/her;

* any driver number given to him/her by a driving licence;

* the number of any designated document which is held by him/her and is a document the number of which does not fall within any of the preceding sub-paragraphs

* the date of expiry or period of validity of a document the number of which is recorded by virtue of this paragraph.

Record history

* information falling within the preceding paragraphs that has previously been recorded about him/her in the Register

* particulars of changes affecting that information and of changes made to his/her entry in the Register

* date of death.

Registration and ID card history

* the date of every application for registration made by him/her

* the date of every application by him/her for a modification of the contents of his entry

* the date of every application by him/her confirming the contents of his entry (with or without changes)

* the reason for any omission from the information recorded in his/her entry

* particulars (in addition to its number) of every ID card issued to him/her

* whether each such card is in force and, if not, why not

* particulars of every person who has countersigned an application by him/her for an ID card or a designated document, so far as those particulars were included on the application

* particulars of every notification given about lost, stolen and damaged ID cards

* particulars of every requirement by the secretary of state for the individual to surrender an ID card issued to him.

Validation information

* the information provided in connection with every application to be entered in the Register, for a modification of the contents of his entry or for the issue of an ID card

* the information provided in connection with every application confirming entry in the Register (with or without changes)

* particulars of the steps taken, in connection with an application mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) or otherwise, for identifying the applicant or for verifying the information provided in connection with the application

* particulars of any other steps taken or information obtained for ensuring that there is a complete, up-to-date and accurate entry about that individual in the Register

* particulars of every notification given by that individual for changing details in the register.

Security information

* a personal identification number to be used for facilitating the making of applications for information recorded in his/her entry, and for facilitating the provision of the information;

* a password or other code to be used for that purpose or particulars of a method of generating such a password or code

* questions and answers to be used for identifying a person seeking to make such an application or to apply for or to make a modification of that entry.

Records of provision of information

* particulars of every occasion on which information contained in the individual’s entry has been provided to a person

* particulars of every person to whom such information has been provided on such an occasion

* other particulars, in relation to each such occasion, of the provision of the information.

A weblog from Antarctica…

I feel sorry for the United Kingdom.

But why wasn’t I told?

whimper

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“(This) is about the Charter of Rights,” Prime Minister Paul Martin said earlier Tuesday.

“We are a nation of minorities. And in a nation of minorities, it is important that you don’t cherry-pick rights.

“A right is a right and that is what this vote tonight is all about.”

Full text of Bush’s address

“The terrorists can kill the innocent – but they cannot stop the advance of freedom. The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September 11 … if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi … and if we yield the future of the Middle East to men like Bin Laden.”

*cough*. You know, it would help the war against terror a lot if you would, like, fight the war on terror?

Iraq is the latest battlefield in this war. Many terrorists who kill innocent men, women, and children on the streets of Baghdad are followers of the same murderous ideology that took the lives of our citizens in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. There is only one course of action against them: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home. The commander in charge of Coalition operations in Iraq – who is also senior commander at this base – General John Vines, put it well the other day. He said: “We either deal with terrorism and this extremism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us.”

and

The progress in the past year has been significant – and we have a clear path forward. To complete the mission, we will continue to hunt down the terrorists and insurgents. To complete the mission, we will prevent al-Qaida and other foreign terrorists from turning Iraq into what Afghanistan was under the Taliban – a safe haven from which they could launch attacks on America and our friends. And the best way to complete the mission is to help Iraqis build a free nation that can govern itself, sustain itself, and defend itself.

So our strategy going forward has both a military track and a political track.

The principal task of our military is to find and defeat the terrorists – and that is why we are on the offense. And as we pursue the terrorists, our military is helping to train Iraqi Security Forces so that they can defend their people and fight the enemy on their own. Our strategy can be summed up this way: As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.

So Bush wants to both:
a) fight his war in iraq rather than in in the USA
and
b) have the iraqi security forces fight rather than USA troops.

Hmmm… if I were a Republican, I’d say this sounded rather French to me.

And how would you feel if you were an Iraqi citizen, having to dodge explosions each day just to get your food, and then hear that President Bush is just as happy as a pig in shite that he’s brought the terrorists into YOUR country to save America’s shores from attack.

What a GUY!!

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Some of the world’s most pressing health problems may be a little closer to being solved following the award of $450 million to 43 innovative projects aimed at fighting diseases in the developing world.

The research proposals were all submitted in response to the Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative, which called for solutions to 14 of the most serious health threats in developing countries.

As well as targeting killer diseases such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, its goals include improved childhood vaccines, controlling insects that cause disease, improving the nutritional content of staple crops and creating more accurate means of idenitfying, recording and tracking disease in poor countries.

The Gates Foundation, established by Microsoft founder Bill Gates who donated most of the cash, said the Grand Challenges attracted more than 1,500 research proposals from scientists in 75 countries.

“We were overwhelmed by the scientific community’s response,” said Dr. Harold Varmus, chair of the international scientific board that guides the Grand Challenges initiative.

“Clearly, there’s tremendous untapped potential among the world’s scientists to address diseases of the developing world.”

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Hans Franken, Eerste-Kamerlid voor het CDA, laat geen spaan heel van de Europese plannen voor een bewaarplicht voor internet en telefonie.

In een debat met CDA-minister Piet Hein Donner (Justitie) maakte Franken dinsdagmiddag gehakt van het idee om internet- en telefoonaanbieders te verplichten om zogeheten verkeersgegevens van hun abonnees op te slaan.

“Nederland wordt er niet veiliger op als we de postbodes verplichten om bij te houden wie welke brief ontvangt”, luidde het snoeiharde oordeel van Franken. Volgens Franken vormt de voorgestelde bewaarplicht een inbreuk op de persoonlijke levenssfeer van burgers.

[..]

Het onlangs door de Erasmus Universiteit verrichtte onderzoek naar de bewaarplicht diskwalificeerde Franken als een ‘wensenlijstje van de politie’. “Vragen over proportionaliteit van de maatregel komen in het onderzoek niet aan de orde.”

De enige conclusie die op basis van het Erasmus-onderzoek kan worden getrokken, is volgens Franken dat de politie met behulp van de nu al beschikbare verkeersgegevens al lang onderzoek kan verrichten.

[..]

Donner had nauwelijks weerwoord op alle bezwaren van de duidelijk beter ge�nformeerde Franken. “Ik kan niet antwoorden op de vragen van de heer Franken. Ik zal dankbaar gebruikmaken van de informatie die de heer Franken hier aanreikt.”

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Astronomers looking at one the brightest stars in the southern sky have made a surprise discovery: it has been hiding a bright, visible ring of dust that just screams “Planets!”

Fomalhaut, 23 light-years from Earth, is the 17th brightest star in the night sky, residing in the Southern Fish constellation (Piscis Austrinus), so it’s easy to see with the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. But it took the Hubble Space Telescope with a clever device to block out the glaring light of the star itself and see the graceful, elongated band of dust.

“We were looking for extrasolar planets,” said astronomer Paul Kalas of the University of California at Berkeley. “We hadn’t expected to see the dust.”

The discovery was reported in the June 23 issue of Nature.

In fact, Kalas and his colleagues had expected that with Hubble’s new Advanced Camera for Surveys, they would be able to see any planet in excess of five times the size of Jupiter, if they existed around Fomalhaut.

“We looked at Vega and others … but didn’t see dust,” said Kalas. “So when the dust showed up (around Fomalhaut), we were pleased.”

Though no giant exoplanets were detected, Kalas explained that the dust belt has almost certainly created planets closer to Fomalhaut, sucking up all the dust there and cleaning up the space closer to the star. According to simulations, the planets ought to be in orbits between 4.7 billion miles and 6.5 billion miles from the star, he said.

Those distances are about 50 and 70 times the 93 million miles between the sun and the Earth, a distance referred to an Astronomical Unit (AU).

Dust around Fomalhaut had been detected before in longer wavelengths of light not visible to the human eye, said astronomer Wayne Holland of the U.K. Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh.

“It really just reiterates our previous interpretation of the Fomalhaut dust ring as we reported in 1998 and then again in 2003,” said Holland. “It’s nice to have confirmation of one’s results, though!”

“Astronomers have been trying for years to get visible-light images of some of the famous debris disks, and only a few stars have been done successfully,” said astronomer Jane Greaves of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. “It’s a major technical achievement, and the fact that the view of the disk is 100 times sharper than (long-wavelength images) done before is a huge leap.”

The belt of dust itself begins at about 12 billion miles (133 AU) from Fomalhaut and extends out to 14.8 billion miles (159 AU). It’s about 2.3 billion miles wide (25 AU).

The Fomalhaut system is thought to be about 200 million years old, a fraction of the age of our solar system. That’s why there is still so much dust there, said Kalas.

When our solar system was 200 million years old, it was in the thick of what’s called the epoch of heavy bombardment, Kalas said. There was lots of debris slamming into planets, creating the heavily cratered surfaces that are still visible on the moon, Mars and Mercury.

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De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) was al geruime tijd op de hoogte van de problemen bij Nationale Nederlanden. De financieel toezichthouder is pas recentelijk door de verzekeraar ingelicht, maar via het regulier toezicht wist de centrale bank al drie jaar lang dat Nationale Nederlanden de fout in was gegaan bij de berekening van de opbrengsten uit beleggingsverzekeringen.

Een bron uit de financiële wereld bevestigde dinsdag een artikel hierover in De Telegraaf. DNB kan niets zeggen over de gang van zaken bij Nationale Nederlanden, omdat de toezichthouder niet mag ingaan op specifieke zaken.

Dan is hier een algemene, niet op een zaak gerichte vraag: hoe lang doet de toezichthouder er gemiddeld over om in te grijpen?

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How’s this for irony?

A sacked TV pilot about a large number of people who stay in touch through an underground data network has popped up on … well, an underground data network.

The WB television network passed on the pilot for Global Frequency, a sci-fi adventure series based on the graphic novel by English scribe Warren Ellis.

But that didn’t stop someone from leaking the pilot on the internet. The file eventually found its way into the BitTorrent network.

Reaction from WB:

“Whether the pilot was picked up or not, it is still the property of Warner Bros. Entertainment and we take the protection of all of our intellectual property seriously,” said Craig Hoffman, a company spokesman. “While Warner Bros. Entertainment values feedback from consumers, copyright infringement is not a productive way to try to influence a corporate decision.”

Hoffman added that the pilot’s unauthorized distribution is “unacceptable and illegal … no matter what the underlying motives” and said the company hasn’t ruled out taking legal action “when it comes to stopping the illegal distribution of our copyright material.”

Reaction from the guy actually making the pilot:

“It changes the way I’ll do my next project,” said Rogers. If he owned the full rights, he said, “I would put my pilot out on the internet in a heartbeat. Want five more? Come buy the boxed set.” He urged other creators to do the same.

“It’s a model and a reminder to the next guy who comes along,” he said.

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With Thursday’s Supreme Court decision, Freeport officials instructed attorneys to begin preparing legal documents to seize three pieces of waterfront property along the Old Brazos River from two seafood companies for construction of an $8 million private boat marina.

The court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that cities may bulldoze people’s homes or businesses to make way for shopping malls or other private development. The decision gives local governments broad power to seize private property to generate tax revenue.

“This is the last little piece of the puzzle to put the project together,” Freeport Mayor Jim Phillips said of the project designed to inject new life in the Brazoria County city’s depressed downtown area.

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It wasn’t all that long ago when a young conservative congressman from Illinois named Donald Rumsfeld spoke eloquently on the floor of the House of Representatives during the Vietnam War about the need for the Johnson administration to speak more truthfully about that conflict.

A 1966 article in the Chicago Tribune quoted Rumsfeld as saying the following: “The administration should clarify its intent in Viet Nam,’ he said. ‘People lack confidence in the credibility of our government.’ Even our allies are beginning to suspect what we say, he charged. ‘It’s a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy,’ he said. ‘With the secrecy, it’s impossible. The American people will do what’s right when they have the information they need.” [Chicago Tribune, 4/13/66]
Rusmfeld entered into the Congressional Record an article from the Chicago Sun-Times entitled “Why U.S. Viet Policy Lacks Friends—Our Credibility Destroyed” Rumsfeld stated: “I do, however, believe it is important to the future of our Nation to recognize that there is a problem of credibility today.” [Congressional Record, 89th Cong. Pg. A1454, 3/15/66; Chicago Sun-Times, 12/5/65]

In entering a New York Times editorial into the Congressional Record, Rumsfeld said, “I believe the following significant and timely editorial which appeared in today’s issue of the New York Times and which discusses our involvement in Vietnam merits wide attention. I concur in the conclusion expressed therein that the people of the United States must know not only how their country became involved but where we are heading.” [Congressional Record, 89th Cong. Pg. 21081, 8/19/65; New York Times, 8/19/65]
Rumsfeld said the following in a speech on the House floor: “Accurate judgment is predicated on accurate information. Government has an obligation to present information to the public promptly and accurately so that the public’s evaluation of Government activities is not distorted. Political pundits speak of the ‘credibility gap’ in the present administration. Indeed, this appellation is so widespread that it has become a household word.” [Congressional Record, 90th Cong. pg A792, 2/21/67]

Don’t look now Rumsfeld, but “credibility gap” is becoming a household word again, and it’s directly related to your actions.

Gen. Barry McCaffrey (Ret.), U.S. Army: “People are skeptical of what they’re hearing out of the Pentagon. I think Secretary Rumsfeld’s credibility has been damaged by serious misjudgments.” [MSNBC, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, 6/23/05]

“Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., said it was obvious why public opinion polls were down. ‘We have a credibility gap here with the American people,’ he said.” [AP, 6/24/05]
Headline: “Bush’s Credibility Takes a Direct Hit From Friendly Fire” [LAT, 6/26/05]
Headline: “Bush’s Credibility on Iraq Undercut by Violence, Slow Progress” [Bloomberg, 6/27/05]

It’s time for Rumsfeld to follow his own advice.

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The holding:

“For the same reasons that Sony took the staple-article doctrine of patent law as a model for its copyright safe-harbor rule, the inducement rule, too, is a sensible one for copyright. We adopt it here, holding that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties.”

The limitations on what could be inducement:

“We are, of course, mindful of the need to keep from trenching on regular commerce or discouraging the development of technologies with lawful and unlawful potential. Accordingly, just as Sony did not find intentional inducement despite the knowledge of the VCR manufacturer that its device could be used to infringe, … mere knowledge of infringing potential or of actual infringing uses would not be enough here to subject a distributor to liability. Nor would ordinary acts incident to product distribution, such as offering customers technical support or product updates, support liability in themselves. The inducement rule, instead, premises liability on purposeful, culpable expression and conduct, and thus does nothing to compromise legitimate commerce or discourage innovation having a lawful purpose.”

From the looks of it, BitTorrent is perfectly OK. Bittorrent has always been about just “large file distribution” and was initially pushed as an alternative for downloading movie trailers, large Linux distributions, etc. It’s gotten a fair amount of traction among a great deal of media sites as a fantastic way for distributing their work. It just so happens that it can be used for illegal purposes, like other technology.

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On presenting his new plan for information technology in Norway – “eNorge 2009 – the digital leap”, Norwegian Minister of Modernization Morten Andreas Meyer today at a press conference in Oslo declared “Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government.”

Taking great care not to mention the name Microsoft directly, but rather referring to “the spreadsheet almost everyone use” or saying this is the last time I will present a plan for information technology being broadcast on the net in Windows Media, the Minister sent strong signals in the direction of Redmond to open up or become irrelevant to the Norwegian Government.

The Minister, as part of the plan, has charged all government institutions, both at the national and local level, to by the end of 2005 have worked out a recommendation for the use of open source code in the public sector. Further by the end of 2006 every body of the public sector in Norway must have in place a plan for the use of open source code and open standards.

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Counterinsurgency experts are alarmed by how fast the other side’s tactics can evolve. A particularly worrisome case is the ongoing arms race over improvised explosive devices. The first IEDs were triggered by wires and batteries; insurgents waited on the roadside and detonated the primitive devices when Americans drove past. After a while, U.S. troops got good at spotting and killing the triggermen when bombs went off. That led the insurgents to replace their wires with radio signals. The Pentagon, at frantic speed and high cost, equipped its forces with jammers to block those signals, accomplishing the task this spring. The insurgents adapted swiftly by sending a continuous radio signal to the IED; when the signal stops or is jammed, the bomb explodes. The solution? Track the signal and make sure it continues. Problem: the signal is encrypted. Now the Americans are grappling with the task of cracking the encryption on the fly and mimicking it�so far, without success. Still, IED casualties have dropped, since U.S. troops can break the signal and trigger the device before a convoy passes. That’s the good news. The bad news is what the new triggering system says about the insurgents’ technical abilities.

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De nieuwe grijs kentekenregeling kent een onaangename verrassing voor ondernemers, zo stelt de EVO. Bij diefstal wordt een ondernemer dubbel gepakt. “Hij is niet alleen zijn auto kwijt, maar moet ook de ontvangen BPM terugbetalen aan de Belastingdienst. Slachtoffers van diefstal krijgen dus twee klappen te verwerken.”

EVO vindt deze regeling te belachelijk voor woorden. De ondernemer wordt gestraft voor crimineel handelen van een ander.

Wie na 1 juli 2005 een nieuwe bestelauto aanschaft, moet BPM betalen. Ondernemers die aan de gestelde voorwaarden voldoen, krijgen deze BPM terug van de Belastingdienst. Maar als de bestelauto binnen 5 jaar gestolen wordt, moet de ondernemer een deel van de ontvangen BPM weer terugbetalen aan de Belastingdienst. Alleen als de auto binnen 30 dagen wordt teruggevonden, volgt er geen naheffing. De kans hierop is niet groot. Uit cijfers van De Stichting Aanpak Voertuigcriminaliteit blijkt dat slechts 1/3 van de gestolen voertuigen binnen een maand wordt teruggevonden.

You type in a word. Flickr Montager then looks for an image that represents that word and makes a mosaic according to the image. You can click on every square of the mosaic to see the other pictures.

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Beach ‘N Billboard has an ever-growing roster of nationally selected, high-traffic beaches that are maintained daily by municipal beach cleaning machines. These machines have been fitted with our odometer-equipped, patented Beach ‘N Billboard impression devices, which impress approximately 5,000 of your 12′ x 4′ ads in the sand each day.
Imagine seeing miles and miles of your ads creating the worlds largest billboard. That’s over 600,000 square feet of beach with your name on it! A half mile of your Beach ‘N Billboard ads will dwarf the famous Hollywood sign in California by four times! In addition, a “Please Don’t Litter” public service message is included as a part of your ad.

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Brazil has threatened to break the patent on an anti-Aids drug in order to make a cheaper generic version.

Health Minister Humberto Costa said the price of the Kaletra drug was so high it represented a risk to public health.

The government has given US company Abbott Laboratories 10 days to either agree to lower its prices or allow generic copies.

This should keep you busy for a few hours…

An Iraqi woman tends for her brother as he lies in a hospital after being wounded in a mortar attack on a barber’s shop in a Shi’ite district of Baghdad June 26, 2005.

Iraqis look at a pool of blood on the floor of a barber’s shop after the attack