U.N. says opium production is rising
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U.S. To Increase War On Afghan Opium
U.S. To Increase War On Afghan Opium
03/26/2005 07:20 AMFree Internet Press Mar 26 2005 11:05AM GMT
Confiessions of an eBay opium addict
Confiessions of an eBay opium addict
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Confessions of an EBay opium addict
Confessions of an EBay opium addict
04/11/2005 03:22 PMMark Frauenfelder:
Scary first person account by a guy who buys "decorative" poppy pods
on eBay and uses them to make opium tea. He admits being hopelessly
hooked on the vile tasting stuff, and has spent all his money
supporting his habit.
By a month, I was drinking the juice of upward of 60
crushed pods per day--swallowing gallons of liquid and pissing out
about $300 a week worth of tea matter. Bowl after bowl of blissful
narcotic bloat that I sucked down with a silly straw.
Often, late into a session, I’d get that uncontrollable
opiate itch.
Raking my skin with a giant plastic comb seemed to help.
Occasionally, I’d bleed or accidentally scrape a piece of a mole
right off.
The thing is, heroin gets you addicted to heroin. But opium is 40
to 50 different alkaloids, meaning 40 to 50 different drugs I was
becoming addicted to.
Lin
kUN spotlights Afghan opium boom
UN spotlights Afghan opium boom
06/25/2004 09:54 PMThe UN drugs tsar says Afghanistan now produces 75% of the world's
illegal supplies of opium.
Restaurants Closed for Opium Soup, Stews
(AP)
Restaurants Closed for Opium Soup, Stews
(AP)
06/17/2004 10:37 PMAP - The soup wasn't just good. It was downright addictive. Narcotics
police in southwestern China shuttered 215 restaurants found to be
mixing opium poppy into their soups and hot pot stews, the official
Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.
Explorers took opium and "portable soup"
(Reuters)
Explorers took opium and "portable soup"
(Reuters)
05/13/2004 04:46 PMReuters - Before the going got tough, the tough went shopping: opium,
inkstands,
sealing wax and "portable soup" were all on the list of explorers
Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark, who launched an epic journey into the unknown American West
exactly 200 years ago.
Report: Afghan Opium Cultivation Falling
(AP)
Report: Afghan Opium Cultivation Falling
(AP)
03/27/2005 05:53 AMAP - Opium cultivation has fallen this year because of a government
ban and fear of crop eradication squads, according to a report
released Sunday by the Afghan government and the United Nations.
U.N.: Taliban, Al Qaeda Cash in on
Afghan Opium (Reuters)
U.N.: Taliban, Al Qaeda Cash in on
Afghan Opium (Reuters)
02/10/2004 10:32 AMReuters - Hundreds of millions of dollars a year
from Afghanistan's illicit drug trade end up in the pockets of
Islamic militant groups like the Taliban and al Qaeda, the head
of the U.N. drug-fighting body said Tuesday.
Lewis and Clark's List: Opium and
'Portable Soup' (Reuters)
Lewis and Clark's List: Opium and
'Portable Soup' (Reuters)
05/14/2004 10:42 AMReuters - Before the going got tough, the
tough went shopping: opium, inkstands, sealing wax and
"portable soup" were all on the list of explorers Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark, who launched an epic journey into the
unknown American West exactly 200 years ago.
70% and rising
70% and rising
06/05/2005 10:53 PMI'm guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My
doctor gave me clearance to...
Sun Rising on JDS
Sun Rising on JDS
07/12/2004 05:35 PMInternet News Jul 12 2004 9:32PM GMT
Other News: RAM Rising
Other News: RAM Rising
04/14/2004 10:28 AMCnet reports that RAM prices are shooting up.
Oracle Rising?
Oracle Rising?
06/16/2004 04:37 PMPlus, NBC keeps its perch, and the virus fight spreads.
Red Storm Rising
Red Storm Rising
09/01/2004 05:33 PMSandia supercomputer to be world's fastest,
yet smaller and less expensive than any competitor: This
description of the new "Red Storm" computer being developed at Sandia
is like porn for hardware geeks. Supposedly, this machine is going to
take the title of World's Fastest Computer back from the NEC Earth
Simulator.
The machine has 96 processors in each computer cabinet, with four
processors to a board. Each processor can have up to eight gigabytes
of memory sitting next to it. Four Cray SeaStars — powerful
networking chips — sit on a daughter board atop each processor
board. All SeaStars talk to each other "like a Rubik cube with lots of
squares on each face," says Camp. "Cray SeaStars are about a factor
of five faster than any current competing capability."
Messages encoded in MPI (the Message Passage Interface standard)
move from processor to processor at a sustained speed of 4.5 gigabytes
per second bidirectionally. The amount of time to get the first
information bit from one processor to another is less than 5
microseconds across the system. The machine is arranged in four rows
of cabinets. There are a total of 11,648 Opteron processors and a
similar number of SeaStars.
USAToday has an article today about how the machine is based on an
80-year-old mathematical theory.
Ideas from an early 20th century British scientist are at the heart
of a massive supercomputer expected to be the fastest in the world
once it's assembled at Sandia National Laboratories.
Mathematician Lewis F. Richardson wanted a way to forecast the
weather. But the basic concepts he envisioned — a way for many
calculations to be shared quickly and integrated — lie at the
heart of Sandia's machine, Red Storm, which will be used in nuclear
weapons work.
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E*Trade's Rising Bid?
E*Trade's Rising Bid?
07/21/2004 01:08 PME*Trade had a nice second quarter in terms of EPS. But should it be
considered for an individual's portfolio?
Rising Gmail
Rising Gmail
08/09/2004 10:00 AMYou got Gmail? Not likely, at least not yet. The free e-mail plan,
splashily announced in April as "a Google approach to e-mail," has so
far only been delivered to a select group of invited "beta" (test)
users. One who wangled himself an invitation is Rickin Chauhan, a
24-year-old Brampton resident and recent McMaster University computer
science graduate now looking for a job.
Blackberry rising
Blackberry rising
07/29/2004 01:16 PMOm Malik
writes......
Amdist all the hoopla around Motorola' new products, one
news which got little mention was the deal struck between Moto
and Blackberry for MPx. By now, Blackberry has signed-up most
major phone makers, and has worked out plans to embed its
software/service on all sorts of SmartPhone OS platforms. We are
looking at a defactor wireless email platform? Perhaps!
But this clearly is not good news for well, Good
Technology! Motorola's MPx was supposedly going to be an
exclusive Good deal, but I guess not. And those smart VCs who have
pumped in nearly $250 million into wireless email must be reaching for
their large box of Tums! Good alone accounts for $146 million of the
total.
My theory on this is, that by launching an aggresive marketing/hype
campaign, Good galvanized those meek canadians into action. Had that
not happened, RIM probably would have kept doing what they were doing
- selling devices and service and growing at a nice Canadian pace.
Threatened, they went on and signed up all these people. Voila! They
are in good place, Good in not!
[
gigaom]
I totally agree with Om.
This is an example where patents and VCs have really FUDed the
landscape and all of a sudden a sleeping Tiger has been clued in and
appears to grok it now.
I just hate the concept of the mini-keyboard being patented - but
let's just get on with making sure it's baked into all sorts of
devices - as my chubby fingers will NEVER learn to thumb type,
graffitti or whatever.
I'm a QWERTY keyboard guy - till I die - I got no choice about it.
And there's no way in hell I'm typing SMS messages with a phone
pad....
Anyway - congrats to Blackberry - not let's get on with it.
Moto rising
Moto rising
07/28/2004 01:20 PMIf I was into the stock market - which I'm not - I'd buy Motorola
right now.
I've rece
ntly written about their new CTO, they bought a UWB
company, Russell
Beattie likes them and now they're announcing
a Wifi phone.
Isn't that enough evidence of what's up? If not - check this
out....
Mercury rising
Mercury rising
04/18/2005 11:15 AMMillions of fetuses whose mothers eat fish are being exposed to
brain-damaging mercury. But critics charge the Bush administration's
regulations are like bailing the ocean with a thimble.
Taekwondo Rising
Taekwondo Rising
08/29/2004 07:06 AM
I thought above shot was the best Athens Olympic photo so
far. Chu Mu Yen, the
guy in blue coming in for a landing after after delivering a brutal
counter-kick,
won Taiwon's first Olympic gold. Nice kick and nice form
during landing.
Taekwondo was added as an official Olympic sport four years ago,
but rules discouraged
spectacular attacks and was hampered by distrust of judges.
For Athens, they
changed the rule to encourage head or knockout attacks and made
extra efforts to shore
up quality of judging to good effect and Taekwondo is starting to
become one of the
most exciting Olympic events to watch.
"Booker Rising"
"Booker Rising"
06/12/2004 03:16 AMDeimos Rising 1.0.6
Deimos Rising 1.0.6
01/08/2004 08:48 PMIf you thought the enemies you faced on Mars were hectic, wait until
you touch down on Deimos.
VoIP Rising
VoIP Rising
06/13/2004 03:25 PMWhen it comes to making voice calls over the Internet, no company has
gotten more attention lately than Skype. This is the service that lets
people use PCs to make long distance and international calls for no
additional charge.
Skype's developers have earned the praise, given the service's high
quality and ease of use. But they might not be winning such plaudits
if it wasn't for some underlying software they have licensed from a
company called Global IP Sound.
More...
Shadows Rising
Shadows Rising
05/20/2004 06:58 AMThe Project Commences
3 Rising Stars
3 Rising Stars
08/04/2004 11:36 AMTom Gardner draws back the curtain on his Hidden Gems approach to
small-cap investing.
Rising Sun has Risen
Rising Sun has Risen
07/03/2004 12:39 AMMichael Crichton predicted in Rising Sun that digital imaging
technology would make photographs and video irrelevant in court cases.
It took 11 years for his prediction to come true.
250 covers of "House of the Rising Sun"
250 covers of "House of the Rising Sun"
01/04/2005 02:40 AMCory Doctorow:
This Russian-hosted website contains links to 250 covers of "House of
the Rising Sun," from the 101 Strings Orchestra to Bob Dylan to Toto.
I once put together a compilation of 60 covers of "Stormy Weather" for
my dad, but this has me beat hands down. Bravo!
Link
(
via Waxy)
Net ads ring up rising sales
Net ads ring up rising sales
09/20/2004 02:56 PMOnline ad revenue rises more than 40 percent in the second quarter,
propelled by skyrocketing paid-search sales.
gameboy's profile keeps rising
gameboy's profile keeps rising
04/12/2004 02:19 AMi'm wondering if increasing popularity among bloggers will translate
into perceived hipness
So Why Are Housing Prices Still Rising
Here?
So Why Are Housing Prices Still Rising
Here?
03/08/2004 11:18 PMSF Chronicle:
Offshoring's giant target.
Jobs are more likely
to be shipped overseas from Silicon Valley than any other region in
the nation, placing the Bay Area's economic engine directly in the
path of the global freight train known as offshoring.House of the Rising Sun explained
House of the Rising Sun explained
04/18/2005 02:46 PMThe Boston Phoenix this week runs an excerpt from Dave Van Ronk's
memoir, the Mayor of MacDougal Street. The piece is about how Van Ronk
lost control of his arrangement of The House of the Rising Sun, first
to Dylan and then toThe Animals. Van Ronk was not on the Lessig side
of the copyright battle. Anyway, I bring this up because Van Ronk ends
by saying that late in life he discovered that the song isn't about a
whore house. It's about the Orleans Parish women's prison. Add it to
the annals of busted folksongnomies. [Technorati tags: vanronk
risingsun]...
Beware of Rising Rates
Beware of Rising Rates
07/06/2004 09:53 AMRising interest rates can wreak havoc on credit card and other debt.
ImClone Shares Keep Rising
ImClone Shares Keep Rising
02/13/2004 09:20 AMTheStreet.com Feb 13 2004 1:36PM GMT
Oracle's Rising Star
Oracle's Rising Star
03/06/2004 02:01 AMDatabase Maker's co-president on PeopleSoft, app integration.
Obesity Rising Among U.S. Preschoolers
(AP)
Obesity Rising Among U.S. Preschoolers
(AP)
12/30/2004 04:59 PMAP - The obesity epidemic is reaching down to the playpen: More than
10 percent of U.S. children ages 2 to 5 are overweight, the American
Heart Association reported Thursday.
15-inch LCD prices rising
15-inch LCD prices rising
12/23/2003 03:20 PMIf you've been holding off on that 15-inch flat-panel in hopes of a
better deal, you may have waited too long. After years of falling
prices, high demand is driving the costs of 15-inch LCDs up, and
analysts say they're unlikely to drop anytime soon.
Are you worried about rising oil prices?
Are you worried about rising oil prices?
06/02/2004 07:08 AMRepresentatives from the oil cartel Opec are set to meet on Thursday
amid concerns over rising oil prices which have reached record highs.
How are petrol prise rises affecting you?
Salon: Mozilla rising
Salon: Mozilla rising
09/11/2002 06:43 PMBut the best part about Mozilla is that it is not just a browser.
Scores of developers are now talking about using Mozilla as a
"platform" -- that is, using Mozilla's underlying code to build
non-browser applications, like calendar programs and e-mail programs
and even Linux desktops. You don't need to download Mozilla to use
these apps, as some are distributed with their own stripped-down
version of Mozilla's engine -- which, if you think about it, is
exactly the kind of thing Microsoft was trying to prevent when it
launched its war against Netscape. It didn't want Netscape around,
because Netscape was becoming a platform. So wouldn't it be rich if,
in the end, Microsoft succeeds in killing Netscape and winning the
browser war but still, somehow, doesn't eliminate the platform threat?
If Netscape dies but the dragon that it spawned burns Redmond?
"btn" I don't know why so many people in the open source world have an
inferiority complex and are always comparing themselves to Microsoft,
or planning Microsoft's downfall, or are simply jealous. When I
release open source software, I'm just pleased if a hundred or a
thousand people are using it. And if Microsoft ever uses my code, hey
that would be delightful!
"zeldman.cramps"
Rising bl0g-spam
Rising bl0g-spam
11/06/2003 05:07 PMWhile it's sad, and more than a little pathetic, blog spam, like all
the other sorts of spam, seems to be on the rise. I've been getting
more and more comments posted that aren't anything more than links to
some pill site or other. Having some of the antispam MT plugins
helps,but still, there's a bunch I need to go hand-delete. (After
which I generally IP-ban the poster, which has worked as well to cut
down on the spam, though I worry about the collateral damage) It's
really sad, though. Yeah, it means more work for me, and more
maintenance,...
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