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'The Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe- and leading content providers, including BBC, etc - who want to deliver rich Web and video experiences' Lemme here a Woo. And a Hoo
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I'm talking to you, you self-righteous politicians and newspaper columnists, you relics who beat on computer games: you've already lost. Enjoy your carping while you can, because tomorrow you're gone.
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Hint: parties are normally desparate for candidates in the locals. '80 years after women were given voting rights, just 31 per cent of the candidates for council seats in the local elections will be women.' More candidates please
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Your opponent injures herself after hitting a home run, she can't complete to take the score, rules say her team can't help. So carry her around instead? How cool is that?
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How cool is this? Could give us instant on PCs and similar. Well done HP! 'a fourth basic circuit element to electrical circuit theory, one that will join the three better-known ones: the capacitor, resistor and the inductor.'
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Arsehole: Local activist Dimitris Lambrou states in his complaint that the \"seizure\" of the island's name is responsible for the \"psychological and moral rape\" of true lesbians
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More arsehole: Dimitris Lambrou, claims that international dominance of the word in its sexual context violates the human rights of the islanders, and disgraces them around the world.
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Truth: Of course, the *correct* response here is that, while there is confusion, there is no disgrace. In order for there to be disgrace, \"Lesbian\" would have to be a pejorative or negative term.
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More truth: In English at least, the term had the same meaning in the eighteenth century as in the twentieth. In Western cultures, women-loving-women have been called â˜lesbiansâ™ and sometimes â˜Sapphistsâ™ for hundreds of years
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I suspect I'm guilty of this sometimes, but I'm an equal opportunities bigot and 'explain' things to everyone. The trick is to ask questions and establish knowledge level. Um, my retail training there, sorry...
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MOODIE! This might help ;-) Although I dislike the way ASBOs work, they can be useful:A couple whose loud, drunken arguments drove their neighbours mad have been given Asbos â“ banning them from rowing.
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I knew this, did you? The 1796 treaty with Tripoli states that the United States was 'in no sense founded on the Christian religion'. This was not an idle statement, meant to satisfy muslimsâ” they believed it and meant it
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They found the Notts althing: Thynghowe was a place where people came to resolve disputes and settle issues â“ quite literally where people came to talk about things
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Date: 2008-May-02, Friday 13:41 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-May-02, Friday 13:50 (UTC)Very weird, incredibly liberal in many respects but at the same time very blinkered.
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Date: 2008-May-02, Friday 13:54 (UTC)My point was - no rights group can possibly hold any legal responsibility for a word. It's stupid.
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Date: 2008-May-02, Friday 14:05 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-May-02, Friday 13:56 (UTC)But what if they wanted to keep fi-.. oh, arguing. Right. >_>
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Date: 2008-May-02, Friday 15:12 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-May-02, Friday 15:41 (UTC)Love the softball story.
Knew the founding fathers bit, and there's some lovely quotes from the main guys in private correspondence (and Jefferson particularly)
Yay gamers :)
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Date: 2008-May-02, Friday 17:48 (UTC)I think we're OK now that Eedjit No.1 has been turfed out of the flat below us, because Eedjit No.2 seems to be much quieter and more placid. We've not been awoken at 4am for ages, which is nice. :)