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   It never ceases to amaze me how much news is not reported. Another Saturday and all over the world people are protesting the invasion of Iraq today but who knew? It’s not the record setting one million people in Central London back in February, but still approx. 100,000 people showed up in Trafalgar Square, without a peep from the press on this side of the water. Also not mentioned were the protests today in Vienna, Berlin, and Madrid, as well as New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Edinburgh, Dublin and Brazil.

Open Source Inventory Control Systems?
while researching the latest iterations of ways to control inventory and create usable Point of Sale and Internet transaction moduls, ran across this on Slashdot:
make a big text file with non-standard field delimiters like double tabs or a UTF8 character. Write some perl cgi scripts to insert, delete, and edit fields. Have no file locking, but have the cgi script interface instruct the user to scream “Ok don’t nobody do nuthing for a sec !” right before he pushes “submit”. Remember to put no comments in any of the code, except for single cryptic one reminding you when your girlfriend’s birthday is.
Then quit, leaving the non-profit org and whomever they hire to replace you fucked. Start a dot-com with the code you took with you, make 3 million before getting bought out.

hey, it worked for me.

Posting anon because in this economy someone might actually try to hunt me down and kill me.

Every once in a while this comes up again, it’s just so funny thought I would repeat it here rather than spamming everyone in my email address book:

The actual radio conversation of a US Naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995. Radio conversation released by the chief of naval operations, 10-10-95.

CANADIANS: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

AMERICANS: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid a collision.

CANADIANS: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

AMERICANS: This is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

CANADIANS: No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.

AMERICANS: This is the Aircraft Carrier USS LINCOLN, the second largest ship in the United States Atlantic Fleet. We are accompanied with three Destroyers, three Cruisers and numerous support vessels. I DEMAND that you change your course 15 degrees north. I say again, that’s one-five degrees North, or counter-measures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.

CANADIANS: This is a lighthouse. Your call.
 

   Death came from the skies as a building that was a symbol of a nation collapsed in flames from a terrorist act and over 3,000 people died. It was September 11, thirty years ago today that the United States trained and sponsored the terrorists that killed the democratically elected President of their country, Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens and proceeded to murder tens of thousands in the next few days. All in the name of installing the pro-US dictatorship headed by a butcher known as Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
   Well said and worth paraphrasing: today, as the ruling class tries to co-opt the hearts and minds of the people in the US by rerunning the tragic events at the World Trade Center, we must remember the other Sept. 11 and who sponsored it as well. That Sept. 11 demonstrates that if humanity is to go forward, imperialism must be defeated once and for all. More on the other Sept. 11 at: Worker’s World.