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"The Smoking Gun"
"The Smoking Gun"
06/25/2004 03:22 PMSmoking gun
Smoking gun
08/03/2004 04:31 PM The NY Times reported today on the front page that the information
about the planned attack on financial buildings in NY and Newark is
3-4 years old. That is, it's information we may have had even before
9/11.The indications that there will be an attack before the elections
does not point to the information about those four buildings. So why
is it being trotted out now? I, of course, have my suspicions, almost
all of which end with the phrase "grounds for impeachment."...
The Smoking Gun
The Smoking Gun
03/13/2003 10:25 AM Remember
that whole drone "cover-up"? Here's the plane. The prototype of
Iraq's smoking gun WMD threat. Constructed of balsa wood and duct
tape, it says Allahu Akbar (God is great) on the side. And, well,
they were probably half right. While it's not really a gun, it
probably does smoke -- it uses lawn-mower-style two-stroke engines.
Washington Post story
here. Is it right to ban smoking?
Is it right to ban smoking?
06/09/2004 06:02 AMThe health secretary has described smoking as one of the few pleasures
poorer people have access to, according to a national newspaper. Do
you agree?
WTF is Apple Smoking?
WTF is Apple Smoking?
03/12/2003 11:34 AMThe software update manager appeared last night to tell me it wanted
to install Java 1.4.1. Great. but then I noticed the little note at
the bottom of the window. Status: Not installed, restart will be
required. (Emphasis mine.) What the fuck?! I have to reboot my machine
afater upgrading Java? What is this, Windows?! It's JAVA for god's
sake! I'm really sick of having to reboot every time Apple throws some
new software my way. It sure makes Linux...
Quitting Smoking
Quitting Smoking
07/21/2004 04:53 PMDave Winer writes
about his experience quitting smoking, and it reminds me of my
experience quitting. Many years ago I was a smoker, and it took a
couple of tries before I quit successfully.
My first attempt at quitting was doomed to failure. See, I noticed
that my cravings were stronger when my friends and I went bar-hopping,
so I told myself I'd only smoke when I was drinking. The result? I
drank more. Duh.
So I quit cold turkey, and that was well over a decade ago. I've
smoked one time since then, about three years ago - not a perfect
record, but not bad. The thing that made it easier to quit was that I
stopped smoking right after the end of a relationship gone sour. I
figured as long as I was giving up one bad habit, I might as well give
up smoking at the same time.
One gun smoking, the other gun holstered
One gun smoking, the other gun holstered
05/31/2004 08:26 AMSmoking gun: Time reports on a Pentagon email (from Douglas "Chicken
Hawk" Feith) that says that Dick Cheney's office "coordinated" the
awarding of a multi-billion dollar contract in Iraq for the company he
formerly headed, Halliburton. (Reuters) Holstered gun: The Boston
Globe's Wayne Washington reports that Bush no longer mentions the
prescription drug bill he rammed through Congress: A Globe survey of
Bush's and Vice President Dick Cheney's remarks indicate 22 mentions
in December and January, four in February, five in March, one in
April, and three in May. The reason seems clear: The Medicare
expansion, once viewed as a...
No smoking gun in Iraq
No smoking gun in Iraq
02/01/2005 09:15 PMIn fact, there was no gun at all! In news that I'm sure surprised no
one, the US announced the search for weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq -- the justification for our pre-emptive invasion of that country
-- ended after two fruitless years. The New York Times opines in its
editorial Bulletin: No W.M.D. Found:
The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq may have been one
of the greatest nonevents of the early 21st century, right up there
with the failure of the world's computers to crash at the end of the
last millennium. That Y2K scare at least brought us an updated
Internet. Fear of the nonexistent W.M.D. brought us a war.
No matter how the Administration spins it, the ends do not justify the
means. Lies, scare mongering, and faulty intelligence have no place in
a democracy, regardless of whether a democratic Iraq is the ultimate
outcome of the war.
This tactic has been so successful for President Bush that you can see
it being applied once again, now to Social Security and its current
'crisis' (though projections show benefits will be solvent until 2042,
see Democrat disputes Social Security 'crisis'). Americans, I beg of
you, in the words of Chuck D: Don't believe the hype!
"The Smoking Gun: Archive"
"The Smoking Gun: Archive"
01/06/2004 03:19 AMGalway Pub Allows Smoking Despite Ban
(AP)
Galway Pub Allows Smoking Despite Ban
(AP)
07/07/2004 08:02 AMAP - A lone Galway pub has thrown down the gauntlet to the Irish
government over its 3-month-old ban on workplace smoking — by
inviting customers to rebel and light up.
Hostility and Smoking
Hostility and Smoking
02/14/2004 07:15 AMAccording to Reuters, a recent study has found that people who have
hostile or aggressive tendencies are more likely to become addicted to
smoking.
Labour considering smoking ban
Labour considering smoking ban
06/30/2004 03:08 AMMinisters are considering banning smoking in the work place after the
next election, a leaked document claims.
When I stopped smoking
When I stopped smoking
06/14/2004 08:37 AM
On the Sunday before my surgery, I said to Tori -- "You know I
haven't decided to stop smoking yet."
Then after the surgery, not sure which day it was (probably
Tuesday morning) in the ICU, the surgeon comes to see me, really
sharply dressed, with a sharply dressed woman with him (not sure who
she was).
The doctor says "You're a computer guy, right?" I said I was.
"What's the word you guys use for seeing something?" I asked if he
meant visualize. "That's it!" he exclaimed.
"Now I want you to visualize yourself as a smoker." Since I had
been trained in meditation, I thought I was about to be deprogrammed.
Okay, I'm visualizing.
"You're dead!" he said and started laughing.
What do you mean? I asked. "People like you who keep smoking
are usually dead within three years," he explained. Gulp. Somehow, in
all the doom and gloom it had never really sunk in that I had almost
died. If I had waited another couple of weeks to deal with this, well,
I don't even like to think about it.
Anyway, that was the moment. That was when I decided to stop
smoking.
The Smoking Gun: Archive
The Smoking Gun: Archive
02/10/2004 02:50 AM"Tongue-in-Chic: Paris Hilton's Confessions of an Heiress." .. Paris
Hilton is circulating a book proposal ..
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More info online: Smoking ban
More info online: Smoking ban
07/25/2004 06:00 AMStartribune.com - Sun Jul 25, 03:47 am GMT
Smoking 'a blight on fertility'
Smoking 'a blight on fertility'
02/11/2004 09:32 AMSmoking damages almost all aspects of sexual, reproductive and child
health, according to a report.
"The Smoking Gun has used the
Photostamps program"
"The Smoking Gun has used the
Photostamps program"
09/02/2004 02:53 AMThe Last Stop-Smoking Program You Will
Ever Need
The Last Stop-Smoking Program You Will
Ever Need
05/28/2004 04:50 PMAd - http://www.finalsmoke.com May 28 2004 9:50PM GMT
Norwegians ban smoking in bars
Norwegians ban smoking in bars
06/01/2004 02:28 AMNorway becomes the second country in the world to introduce a ban on
smoking in restaurants and bars.
Galbraith calls for smoking ban
Galbraith calls for smoking ban
07/11/2004 04:02 AM
The former Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith calls for the
Scottish Executive to ban smoking in public places.
PM considers public smoking ban
PM considers public smoking ban
06/04/2004 04:26 AMTony Blair is considering a ban on smoking but acknowledged the issue
was a "difficult balance".
Civil service ban on smoking
Civil service ban on smoking
07/05/2004 07:44 AMSmoking is to be banned in all Northern Ireland government departments
from January 2005.
Smoking triggers genetic changes
Smoking triggers genetic changes
06/21/2004 08:20 PMSmoking alters the genes of lung cells, US scientists show for the
first time.
Labour considers smoking ban
Labour considers smoking ban
06/29/2004 11:28 PMMinisters are considering banning smoking in the work place after the
next election, a leaked document claims.
Charity pressing for smoking ban
Charity pressing for smoking ban
09/15/2004 12:11 AMCampaigners say a ban on smoking in public places could save more
lives than new anti-cancer drugs.
108-Year-Old Man Starts Smoking Again
(AP)
108-Year-Old Man Starts Smoking Again
(AP)
09/27/2004 06:40 AMAP - A 108-year-old man has taken up smoking again, encouraged by
gifts of cigars from as far away as London.
The Smoking Gun: Backstage Pass
The Smoking Gun: Backstage Pass
01/07/2004 07:00 PMThe Smoking Gun: Backstage Pass ..
riders
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In Barrooms, Smoking Ban Is Less Reviled
In Barrooms, Smoking Ban Is Less Reviled
02/05/2005 09:20 PMThe ban has not had the crushing effect on New York's economic,
cultural and political landscapes predicted by many opponents.
Clocked by Two Smoking Barrels
Clocked by Two Smoking Barrels
11/18/2003 05:53 AMA symbol of technology gone awry rests outside the Athens City Hall:
the world's only double-barreled cannon. Its history includes cow
calamities, bomb-sniffing robots and the threat of Yankee incursion.
Michelle Delio reports from Athens, Georgia.
Some old Dell servers die after smoking
Some old Dell servers die after smoking
01/22/2004 03:24 PMZDNet Jan 22 2004 7:03PM GMT
Smoking outside 'harms children'
Smoking outside 'harms children'
02/11/2004 03:46 AMChildren have nicotine in their body even if parents smoke outdoors
with the doors closed, researchers have found.
Op-Ed Columnist: Found: A Smoking Gun
Op-Ed Columnist: Found: A Smoking Gun
02/12/2004 11:17 AMSaddam-Al Qaeda connection .. William Safire offers .. 17-page
letter
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Smoking gun--uncoving Net tax evaders
Smoking gun--uncoving Net tax evaders
11/10/2003 11:11 PMZDNet Nov 10 2003 8:09AM ET
Smoking gun--uncovering Net tax evaders
Smoking gun--uncovering Net tax evaders
11/10/2003 11:11 PMZDNet Nov 10 2003 8:21AM ET
Dvorak: I'm smoking crack
Dvorak: I'm smoking crack
03/21/2003 01:36 PM Apple to
switch to Intel processors, at least according to John Dvorak in a
brief article over at PC Magazine. No mention in the article of the
massive amount of effort required to re-write every piece of
mac-compatible software for x86 architecture, or the unlikeliness of
developers to be willing to do so having just optimized for OSX, but
then, this piece seems to be mostly just bold, unsupported
predictions.
Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ?
Slashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ?
03/11/2003 01:22 AMSlashdot -- Someone Smoking Crack ?
Now I know that the Slashdot audience isn't all that reliable at best.
Yes we all read it but we rarely trust it. Still I'd expect a little
better than this:
The Object Prevalence concept, developed by the Prevayler team, and
implemented in Java, C#, Smalltalk, Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby and
Delphi, can be a great a solution to this mess. The concept is pretty
simple: keep all the objects in RAM and serialize the commands that
change those objects, optionally saving the whole system to disk every
now and then (late at night, for example). [_Go_]
Now that's a cool concept. So I did the natural thing and went and
looked for the code. Since I'm a php-head, I figured that I'd look
there to start. Nope! According to SourceForge, "This project has
not released any files". Well I can get by in Perl so I thought "Ok,
not my preference but ok". Nope. Well I think Python is neat and
people I respect a lot like it. Additionally Guido has just plain
guts to make the decision he did regarding mandatory indentation.
Break conventions is hard so I figured I'd look at the Python version.
Nope! Well once upon a midnight dreary, ... (bag the mock Poe), I
did a lot of Pascal. Nope! It turns out that only the C# and Ruby
versions exist. I couldn't get the Smalltalk page to come up so I
don't have a clue there.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying anything about the concept but just
pointing out that this posting is essentially wrong on many of the
major details. And, sadly, it doesn't really surprise me at all.
Effects of Smoking May Be Passed Down
through Generations
Effects of Smoking May Be Passed Down
through Generations
04/12/2005 03:33 AMZoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking
(Reuters)
Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking
(Reuters)
04/15/2005 09:51 AMReuters - A South African zoo is trying to
persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.
Gran's smoking 'can cause asthma'
Gran's smoking 'can cause asthma'
04/11/2005 07:56 PMA woman who smokes during pregnancy could increase her grandchild's
risk of developing asthma, researchers suggest.
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