Ireland to hold vote on baby law

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Israeli Party to Hold Gaza Vote in April
(AP)

Israeli Party to Hold Gaza Vote in April
(AP) 04/09/2004 09:08 PM
AP - Israel's ruling Likud Party will hold its vote on a Gaza Strip withdrawal by late April, sooner than expected, officials said Friday, prompting complaints that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was rushing the referendum to stifle opposition.

"I am of Ireland, and the Holy Land of
Ireland..."

"I am of Ireland, and the Holy Land of
Ireland..." 04/11/2004 07:39 PM
CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts, "brings the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to the Internet, for the use and benefit of everyone worldwide. It has a searchable online database consisting of contemporary and historical texts from many areas, including literature and the other arts." It has texts in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English, ranging from the annals of the fifth century to the Agreeme nt reached in the Multi-Party Negotiations in Northern Ireland of 1998. "Great my glory/ I that bore Cuchulainn the valiant..."

""the GOP is already calling a vote for
Democrats a vote for bin Laden (or if
you prefer, a vote for Hitler).""

""the GOP is already calling a vote for
Democrats a vote for bin Laden (or if
you prefer, a vote for Hitler)."" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

Free baby photo trojan gets new moms to
sell baby-privacy

Free baby photo trojan gets new moms to
sell baby-privacy 04/04/2005 06:24 AM
Cory Doctorow: A friend of mine worked at Procter and Gamble when they hit on the idea of giving away baskets of baby-related freebies to new moms. The idea was that a couple days after the family went home and they needed more diapers, mom would send dad out with the package from the freebies and say, "More like these, please." It's pretty clever, and I'm cool with it -- especially now that the whole thing is handled through brokers who take products from a variety of vendors, with input from maternity wards.

That, I think, is a pretty good way of marketing to new families. It doesn't compromise privacy, it gives them something they need, and it doesn't force them or lock them in. It's informative, useful, and respectful (provided that the marketing makes it clear that there's no medical endorsement of these products).

Compare that to this: a service that sneakily gets moms to agree to a "free baby photo" while they're signing all their necessary medical forms on the morning of their delivery. The company that takes the picture then sells your contact info to anyone who'll buy it.

On the morning of the delivery, the nurse hands a sheaf of forms to the mother-to-be. Buried within is a release form offering a free portrait of the new baby. Mom is wired to three different machines, having her pulse and blood pressure measured automatically while two others sensors detect uterine contractions and the baby’s heart rate and another chattering electromechanical behemoth plots a seismograph of both...

...[T]he photo enterprise is run by a third party, Growing Family. They’ll shoot a picture of your munchkin, in exchange for his or her name and birthdate and your full name and address...

Growing Family will use your information from time to time to promote additional products, services, rewards and special offers from Growing Family Network and its select Network Partners.

Another friend of mine had his baby daughter die from crib-death a few weeks after she was born. For years afterward, he and his wife got a steady stream of marketing materials, including ghastly "birthday cards" from marketers who'd bought the information that they'd had a baby, but never received the message that the baby had died. Needless to say, when their next baby was born, they never, ever bought products from the companies that ghoulishly continued to market to their dead daughter. Link (via A Whole Lotta Nothing)

"Why hold a self-proclaimed polemicist
to a higher standard than you hold the
president of the United States?"

"Why hold a self-proclaimed polemicist
to a higher standard than you hold the
president of the United States?" 07/02/2004 09:14 PM

"A vote for Bush is a vote for a
divided, unstable, paranoid America"

"A vote for Bush is a vote for a
divided, unstable, paranoid America" 08/05/2004 05:00 AM
Baby, we were born to run against Bush More than 20 artists, including Bruce Springsteen, the Dave Matthews Band, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, James Taylor and the Dixie Chicks, announced the launch of a ``Vote For Change'' tour yesterday. "A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America,'' Dave Matthews said in one of the more strongly worded statement....

"Iraq concedes that anyone the
insurgents don't want to vote won't get
to vote in the upcoming elections, as
Mr. Rumsfeld said and Mr. Allawi either
does or doesn't agree to and Mr.
Armitage denied"

"Iraq concedes that anyone the
insurgents don't want to vote won't get
to vote in the upcoming elections, as
Mr. Rumsfeld said and Mr. Allawi either
does or doesn't agree to and Mr.
Armitage denied" 09/27/2004 02:37 AM

Vote for a real change, vote ...For
Dummies!

Vote for a real change, vote ...For
Dummies! 05/05/2004 10:48 PM
Sunday Times South Africa May 6 2004 3:26AM GMT

A vote for kotte.org is actually a vote
for kottke.org (and freedom!)

A vote for kotte.org is actually a vote
for kottke.org (and freedom!) 12/07/2003 04:57 AM
Best Overall Blog? .. decidedly liberal

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Vote for this bill. Or vote for Pedro.

Vote for this bill. Or vote for Pedro. 04/12/2005 05:04 PM
Idaho House Resolution 29 WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote "Nay" on this concurrent resolution are "FREAKIN' IDIOTS!" I wish all legislation were worded this way.

Off to Ireland

Off to Ireland 06/05/2005 11:55 PM

I'm off to Ireland for pretty much the rest of the month. I'll be traveling with my family around the south-west of the island. There will be no updates while I'm gone, as it's a real honest-to-goodness vacation, and I'm ready for it! I hope to take lots of pictures while I'm there, so look for some greeny photo goodness when I return.

Atlantis = Ireland?

Atlantis = Ireland? 08/07/2004 05:11 PM
Atlantis has been found, and it's... Ireland? So says Swedish geographer Ulf Erlingsson, who thinks the sinking of the island in Plato's story may have referred to the inundation of Dogger Bank, which connected Britain and Denmark. Sorry Spain. [Via MonkeyFilter.]

Photos from Ireland

Photos from Ireland 06/17/2005 03:29 PM

Ireland is green. Green, green, green. Such a cliche, but it really is unbelievably green. Here are some photos I took on a recent trip there:

We spent a little more than a week in southwestern Ireland, mostly in Cork, Kerry, and Clare. We actually drove through Limerick with a man from Nantucket, which if we'd been less jetlagged, we would have thought was more funny than we did. There was traditional Irish music in a pub in Dingle and Ennis. Some amazing porridge (no, really!). It rained a lot, but you got used to it after awhile. I'd never had a Guinness (fo r strength!) before and I figured the place to have one was in Ireland, so I ordered a half one night at a pub. I could only finish half of it...even a quarter of a pint of stout was too much for a amateur imbiber like myself.

Back from Ireland

Back from Ireland 06/05/2005 11:55 PM

I'm back from a lovely but very rainy visit to Ireland. It was a very different vacation for me, as I'm not so used to driving around so much. Most of my trips involve visits to cities where I stay in one place and travel by subway or foot. I managed to avoid car travel for one day though and took a 14 mile hike/walk over some pretty green rugged terrain that involved close encounters with many sheep. It was long but fun. The south-west of Ireland is beautiful, and I'd like to return again and see all the stuff I felt like we missed. I'll post photos in a week or so, once I have time to go over them properly. Now, to catch up on all that email...

WS-Sanity in Ireland

WS-Sanity in Ireland 05/11/2004 11:42 PM
People have asked why, since I joined Sun, I’ve been going on about WS-this and WS-that. In part it’s just because I still care about all things XML. But mostly, it’s because in late 2003, before I came here, I had an eye-opening experience that changed how I think about Service-Oriented Architectures and Web Services. I think that the future is in plain sight, and that’s because it’s being built right now by the Government of Ireland, and it’s called reachservices...

O2 Ireland Turns on 3G

O2 Ireland Turns on 3G 12/15/2003 10:32 AM
Unstrung.com Dec 15 2003 8:53AM ET

Don't Vote Your Conscience, Vote HIP!

Don't Vote Your Conscience, Vote HIP! 02/06/2005 01:09 AM
Yulia Timoshenko (her personal website) is the new premier of Ukraine (bio). She is the hippest politician I've ever laid my eyes on. Here is a picture of her giving a speech to the Ukrainian parliament when it approved her nomination to the premiership. Here's another picture of her being insufferably hip. Russia has issued an international arrest warrant for her through Interpol, but who cares when she's this cool? Don't you wish you had politicians who dressed like that? Strike that. Don't you wish you had politicians who could dress like that?

vote early, vote often

vote early, vote often 03/14/2005 05:43 PM
Oh dear. It appears that TV Guide is holding an online poll about Star Trek, and our dear, sweet young...

Keane back for Ireland

Keane back for Ireland 04/13/2004 11:29 AM
Roy Keane makes himself available for the Republic of Ireland, two years after walking out on the team.

Bush to invade Ireland

Bush to invade Ireland 08/07/2004 08:54 AM
Reuters reports that a Swedish scientist claims that Ireland is the lost island of Atlantis. And The Weekly World News, the only American news journal that dares to tell the truth (except perhaps The Onion), last week revealed that President Bush plans on invading Atlantis to prevent them from developing WMDs. You do the math....

Transas set for Ireland base

Transas set for Ireland base 12/08/2003 03:29 PM
Scotsman Online Dec 8 2003 12:53PM ET

O2 test runs 3G in Ireland

O2 test runs 3G in Ireland 12/15/2003 10:29 AM
25 guinea pigs

Computer Firm to Set Up Hq in Ireland

Computer Firm to Set Up Hq in Ireland 12/05/2003 05:36 AM
Scotsman Online Dec 5 2003 4:48AM ET

handset prices in ireland

handset prices in ireland 01/07/2004 07:02 PM

A few months back I commente d on the user UNfriendly behavior of mobile operators in Ireland when it came to phone upgrades. I put an upgrade out of my mind for a while (since, quite simply, I couldn't afford it), but today as I passed by a carphonewarehouse store I saw that they had the SonyEricsson T610 at "only" Euro 139 with a contract with Vodafone. I thought "Hey, maybe prices have gone down for some mysterious reason" and I went into the store to check things out.

Long story short, I was wrong. Prices are still outrageous. Subsequent visits to O2 and Vodafone stores confirmed that this was indeed the case.

How outrageous? Consider, as just one example, the price for the Nokia 3650. Vodafone and O2 pricing is basically Euro 300 (= 380 USD, or 210 British Pounds). Both with contract, upgrade prices are exactly the same, although in some cases they might knock off Euro 10 of the price if a) you've been a customer for more than 2 years and b) you've spent more than Euro 1000 in calls during that period. As a comparison, the prices of carphonewarehouse UK for the Nokia 3660 starts at 80 GBP, that is, Euro 100. Pricing in the US is similar, as is in all other European countries that I could find. That is, price here is basically more than double (and depending on the contract, three times as much) as that of anywhere else. SIM-free phones are similarly more expensive than in other countries. The Nokia N-Gage (which is probably the most "consumerish" device you could find, a device that, given its target, cries out for a low price) is priced at Euro 300 here and found in other countries at half the price. Older handsets, like the Nokia 6310, still sell here at Euro 200 apiece with contract.

Even more, note that when I quoted the carphonewarehouse UK price it was for the Nokia 3660, not the 3650. Why? Because they don't even sell the 3650 anymore. So while the 3650 is already being phased out in some places, in Ireland they only started selling it less than two months ago.

The point of this rant: I wish that the much-vaunted European integration would take hold in the supposedly fluid and borderless market that is consumer electronics. Even if Ireland's market is too small to sustain low prices, Europe as a whole shouldn't be, and prices would be, if not the same, at least roughly equivalent across borders. Now, that's not much to ask for is it? :-)

Ireland is never Netherlands for McAfee

Ireland is never Netherlands for McAfee 07/20/2004 06:31 AM
Taxtastic

N. Ireland Talks End With No Agreement
(AP)

N. Ireland Talks End With No Agreement
(AP) 09/18/2004 12:50 PM
AP - High-pressure talks among rival Northern Ireland parties ended Saturday with no agreement to revive a Catholic-Protestant administration, but British Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that a deal "historic in its meaning" may yet be achieved.

REM announce UK and Ireland tour

REM announce UK and Ireland tour 09/16/2004 05:34 AM
US band REM announce a tour of the UK and Ireland as they perform a secret concert in London's Piccadilly.

N&B appoints Ireland manager

N&B appoints Ireland manager 01/17/2004 11:21 PM
The Scotsman Jan 18 2004 2:40AM GMT

Intel Upgrades Ireland Fab

Intel Upgrades Ireland Fab 05/19/2004 05:43 PM
Intel Corp. told shareholders Wednesday that it would expand its Ireland manufacturing facility to enable 65-nm manufacturing processes to begin there by the year 2006.

Ireland Leery of 3G Phones

Ireland Leery of 3G Phones 06/16/2004 05:13 AM
Wired News Jun 16 2004 9:36AM GMT

lower DSL prices in Ireland?

lower DSL prices in Ireland? 01/16/2004 11:27 AM

Karlin reports< /a> that:

Eircom said today that it has applied to ComReg to further lower the price of its main broadband DSL product, from Euro 54.45 to Euro 39.99 monthly (both incl VAT). Good news; I can't imagine ComReg will refuse.

(That's from USD 70 to USD 50 at current exchange rates, for those on the other side of the Atlantic!). Good news indeed. Fingers crossed...

Intel opens new Fab 24 in Ireland

Intel opens new Fab 24 in Ireland 06/15/2004 07:03 AM
PC Pro Jun 15 2004 11:30AM GMT

Google recruit in Ireland

Google recruit in Ireland 04/14/2005 01:39 AM
Irish Post Apr 14 2005 5:45AM GMT

O2 Ireland switches on 3G network

O2 Ireland switches on 3G network 12/15/2003 05:53 AM
OnBusiness Dec 15 2003 5:26AM ET

New Tech Surge in Ireland, and It Feels
Like '99 Again

New Tech Surge in Ireland, and It Feels
Like '99 Again 06/16/2004 09:02 PM
Ireland's $121 billion economy, which rode the crest and crash of the dot-com wave, is once again pinning its hopes on technology investments.

Northern Ireland touts low IT wages

Northern Ireland touts low IT wages 05/12/2004 07:09 AM
Forget Bangalore, come to Belfast

Apple launches iTunes Ireland

Apple launches iTunes Ireland 01/06/2005 05:56 PM
Apple’s revolutionary iTunes Music Store is now available to customers based in Ireland. The Irish store features the same innovative features and breakthrough pricing of €0.99 per song that have made iTunes the number one online music service in the world. With Apple’s legendary ease of use, seamless integration with iPod and groundbreaking personal use rights, the iTunes Music Store is the best way for PC and Mac users to legally discover, purchase and download music online.

O2 Ireland rolls out limited 3G service

O2 Ireland rolls out limited 3G service 12/15/2003 08:08 AM
Irish Times Dec 15 2003 6:33AM ET

Rescued rowers to land in Ireland

Rescued rowers to land in Ireland 08/08/2004 11:04 PM
Four Britons whose boat split in half as they tried to break a world Atlantic rowing record are due to reach dry land.
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