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85655 No.7471   [Reply]

"Rome's municipal police officers patrol in front of the Spanish Steps in downtown Rome, Italy, Wednesday, July 16, 2008, after City Hall banned the eating of snacks too close to famous monuments in Rome's historical center.

The local law is placed to help preserve artistic treasures in the city and will be effective through the summer, with offenders facing a possible euro50 (US$80) fine."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20080718/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_italy_snack_ban


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85061 No.7469   [Reply]

" TOKYO (AFP) - Hayao Miyazaki's first full-length film in four years hit screens across Japan on Saturday, putting aside speculation that the Oscar-winning Japanese animator had made his last picture.

A 650-seat movie theatre at Tokyo's shopping and business district of Hibiya was filled with his fans, mostly children and their parents, to watch "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea," which the reclusive 67-year-old wrote and directed.

Inspired by the 19th-century fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, the story centres around a tiny fish-girl, Ponyo, who rides a jellyfish to escape her home in the sea."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080719/ennew_afp/entertainmentjapanfilmanimation


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79446 No.7468   [Reply]

"A week ago, New Braunfels grandmother Mary Alice Altorfer had never heard of YouTube."

http://www.herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?ewcd=b954486549178036&-session=HeraldZeitung:459356981
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16131 No.7453   [Reply]

"Advertisements promoting Japanese condoms have been removed from Korean underground trains amid a rekindled territorial dispute.

The action was taken following complaints from passengers, a Seoul Metro spokesman told AFP news agency. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7511065.stm

>> No.7454  
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>>7453 What are these Koreans doing?

<---This is the actual ad, right?

>> No.7458  

Korean's Kill Pheasants Outside Japans Embassy Over Territor
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn9NTeZ5QmI

>> No.7459  

>>7458
I thought that said peasants for a second there.

>> No.7463  

doesn't matter what country they are from, but why some people are so violent...do they think the violent actions are going to resolve whatever the problem they have?

>> No.7465  

Reuter
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKT22947320080717

>They then ripped the carcasses apart and ate livers from the freshly killed fowl. No one was arrested for the protest.

AFP
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hnSyxks8r3YpuZl_N389Ek6lVo-g

>Some battered birds to death with hammers. Others cut open the bellies of two birds and ate the livers, shouting: "Dokdo is our territory!"

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77566 No.7461   [Reply]

"Police in the southern Spanish city of Seville have been left red-faced after more than 100 kilos of drugs were stolen from police headquarters and replaced with talcum powder, a spokesman has said." [yahoo photos]

>> No.7464  

That's a lot of talcum powder.


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18106 No.7379   [Reply]

"KABUL, Afghanistan - A U.S. military airstrike this week killed 47 civilians traveling to a wedding, the head of an Afghan government commission investigating the incident said Friday."

"The U.S. military on Sunday denied that any civilians were killed in the incident."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080711/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan

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>> No.7417  

It is good that war is so horrible, Lest we become too fond of it.

>> No.7420  

>>7379

And further conclusive proof that America is shit at war. The last time they won a war was WWII, and that was only after they saw who was winning, and joined in halfway through. Same as in WWI.

>> No.7429  

>>7420

Um, Gulf War I?

>> No.7430  

>>7429
Not a real war

>> No.7431  

>>7420
IT was a stalemate both times. Nobody was winning in WWI or WWII until America got there.

>> No.7432  

>>7431
The USSR and Britain were pretty much kicking Germany's ass far before the US joined in, you know. Stow the jingoism, please.

>> No.7433  

>>7432

They were like BOOM HEADSHOT while camping spawn those n00bs

>> No.7448  

>>7433

Which sums up the Americans' attitude to war. Until of course, they join up, play the 'game' for real, then when they get shot, there's no 'respawn', and there's REAL pain & blood involved. And you wonder why so many US soldiers pussy out?

I've been in the army (Queen's Own Yorkshire Regiment), and it's no 'game', I can tell you.

>> No.7456  

>>7448
Just as a note, completely unrelated to what you're all talking about, it sounds really faggy when your military service was with the "Queen's Own Yorkshire Regiment".

>> No.7457  

>>7379
and we wonder why they don't like us.
>>7448
no it doesn't.


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11682 No.7452   [Reply]

"A French air hostess will become one of Europe's pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere.

Mathilde Epron, 32, said she had bought a Kit Kat chocolate bar at her local supermarket but initially threw the wrapper in the bin, telling herself that "it's only others who win."

Two hours later, thinking back to the competition, she decided to try her luck and fished the wrapper out of the bin, only to find a code marked inside."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080716/od_nm/space_odd_dc


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24730 No.7427   [Reply]

"An F-22 Raptor aircraft flies during an air display on the first day of the Farnborough International Airshow in south England July 14, 2008." [yahoo photos]

>> No.7449  

Still no sign of 'Project Aurora' though. I wonder if their so-called 'wonder plane' even exists. Or if they DID display it, they'd probably face embarrassment when, several years ago when there was a flyby of the B2, and this supposed 'undetectable' stealth bomber was easily detected by the British Army's display of a Rapier missile's infra-red & thermal imagers, which saw it's engines' heat traces. So a billion-dollar plane's sole protection instantly thwarted by a 30-year old missile's updated sensors. Much egg on face at the Pentagon & DoD all round at that time!

I bet that resulted in increased orders for said sensor suite updates. Especially from Rapier operators in Iran, Indonesia & Libya.


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25350 No.7434   [Reply]

"A New Zealand teenager who admitted to taking part in an international cyber-crime network has been discharged without a conviction.

Police said the group hijacked more than one million computers and used them to take at least $20.4m (£10.3m) from private bank accounts. "

"He did not take money from people's accounts, but he was paid nearly $31,000 (£15,500) for software he designed that gave the cyber-ring access usernames, passwords and credit card details.

Judge Judith Potter dismissed the charges, relating to a 2006 attack on a computer system at a US university, saying a conviction could jeopardise a potentially bright career. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7509052.stm

>> No.7440  
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>Judge Judith Potter dismissed the charges [...] saying a conviction could jeopardise a potentially bright career.

WHAAAAAAAAAT!?

>> No.7441  

Yes, of course we should sentence everyone by the maximum permitted by the law. They are criminals after all! Or would you rather we be lenient?

They are criminals!

They must be punished!

etc etc

>> No.7444  

>>7441
She dismissed the charges. Or did you not understand that? That isn't leniency: that's incompetent passive approval of crime. It sends the message, "If you're bright enough then you can commit all the crimes you like because you're far too valuable for society to send you to rot in prison." A poor message indeed in a world with ever-increasing amounts of cyber-terrorism, identity theft, and the like.

Leniency would have been charging him with New Zealand's equivalent of a misdemeanor rather than a felony offense and fining him for the $31,000 he was paid by the criminals. Why is this lenient? Because any non-lenient judge would have additionally fined him for the damages his software caused, i.e. an apportionment of the $20.4 million stolen. Not the entire $20.4 million, of course, but a legally-decided apportionment. One he still could not have hoped to pay at this time. He would then have faced jail time but could have entered a plea bargain wherein he arranged to inform the police of the identity of his accomplices in exchange for a reduction of such a sentence.

Instead, Judge Potter gave him a $10,000 slap on the wrist and said "Go ahead and commit crimes all you like, Young Albert. You're too gifted to go to jail!" In the end he still turned a criminal profit of $21,000 and he now finds himself in the employ of the government with a steady salary. Isn't that lovely?

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19612 No.7438   [Reply]

"A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city's computer network and locking administrators out, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Terry Childs, 43, was due to be arraigned on Tuesday after his arrest Sunday. He remains in jail on $5 million bail.

Childs, who has worked for the city for five years, is accused of tampering with the new Fiber Wide Area Network after allegedly being disciplined for poor performance. He is accused of electronically spying on his supervisors and their attempt to fire him, according to authorities.

Officials told the newspaper they were making some headway into regaining access to the system, but they fear that Childs has rigged a system to remotely destroy data. "

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-9991769-83.html

>> No.7439  

why is this news?


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