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Spiegel: Czech Police Stop Rioters from Attacking Roma Camp

Police in the Czech Republic battled 500 right-wing protesters on Monday who were trying to attack a Roma community with Molotov cocktails, machetes and pitch forks. The incident is part of a troubling pattern emerging in Europe.

Czech police battled hundreds of far-right rioters armed with an array of weapons north of Prague on Monday in a successful attempt to prevent them from entering a Roma neighborhood.

The riot took place in the northern town of Litvinov, which lies 110 kilometers (68 miles) northwest of Prague. The estimated 500 members of the far-right Workers' Party had gathered for a march in the town before suddenly turning off the approved route toward Janov, a section of the town with a large Roma community.

Their progress was blocked by an estimated 1,000 police officers, who were also seeking to contain an estimated 300 Roma men, who had gathered to defend their community, many armed with sticks and knives, according to the Web site of Radio Prague.

by Magnifico on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 01:09:14 PM EST
I f*cking hate rioters. Goddammit.

The Czech police look totally badass btw.

   

(For some reason it didn't work to post the pic with a mxmimum width of 400. I get this a lot. Anyone know why?)


Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:02:11 PM EST
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I note 482px wide is just fine...

Could you reproduce the HTML that did not work for you? Maybe you have a frequent typo in it.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:06:08 PM EST
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    <img src="http://www.reflex.cz/images/imgdb/original/phpUsMoY4.jpg" width="400"

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:13:38 PM EST
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Cut and pasted your code...

Which browser are you using?

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:15:13 PM EST
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Firefox 3.0.4

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:18:44 PM EST
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There goes that... still, try it with px.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
by DoDo on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:21:03 PM EST
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The correct definition I believe would be to define the unit, e.g. "400px"; so it may be Firefox's error-compensating design that helps us.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
by DoDo on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:19:57 PM EST
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Sorry, didn't help.

But this other weird thing popped up. If I first have the full size pic posted in the preview and then the 400 one, then both of'em shows, albeit with the error message: "Attribute < P for tag IMG is not allowed"

Further, it only works if the code for the "400" pic is posted above the code for the full size pic.

   

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:25:16 PM EST
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Then it must be what I thought a too obvious typo in your quoted version: you forgot the closing >.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
by DoDo on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:29:59 PM EST
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Damn, that's it!

That's what I get for just copying the code from the New User Guide, where apparently the closing > is also lacking.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 02:38:10 PM EST
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...now corrected...

BTW, I suggest you install the BBCodeXtra or some similar add-on to Firefox, that makes the use of HTML codes much easier.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 03:00:35 PM EST
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