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*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 03:20:44 PM EST
First Briton to die at Swiss euthanasia clinic had fled Nazis - Home News, UK - The Independent

The 90-year-old Briton, who only wanted to be known in reports by his first name, Chris, died on Friday afternoon in the company of his wife and a close friend after being cleared by British and Swiss doctors to fly to Switzerland to take a lethal dose of barbiturates.

According to a London hospital psychiatrist's report, seen by The Independent, Chris described how in his early life, after the death of his parents, he fled Austria and then Prague to escape persecution by the Nazis. He arrived in Britain in 1938, teaching physics and maths in Newcastle, before being interned on the Isle of Man as an "enemy alien".



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 03:21:06 PM EST
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Wikipedia article blocked in UK over child photo - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent
Britain's Internet Watch Foundation added a Wikipedia article on a heavy metal music group to its list of banned web sites because it contained a picture of a nude girl judged to be pornographic, foundation spokeswoman Sarah Robertson said.

...German rock band Scorpions...



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 03:21:17 PM EST
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Obama Pictures and McCain Pictures
see Sarah Palin pictures

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 03:53:09 PM EST
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For our US and/or Russian bloggers:

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 05:11:35 PM EST
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I really liked that one too. Without the caption ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 05:17:46 PM EST
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Lenin resurrected?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 05:56:15 PM EST
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Great round-up, DoDo, In Wales!

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 05:48:42 PM EST
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for some reason, there's a problem with comment count on my account:

a diary would be shown to have, say, 48 comments in total (24 new); when i click on the story, the number of comments is different (no new ones, or the total is 24).

while it's a minor thing, it confuses me somewhat.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government -- Edward Abbey

by serik berik (serik[dot]berik on Gmail) on Tue Dec 9th, 2008 at 08:01:48 AM EST
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Been happening on my machine for quite a while.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Tue Dec 9th, 2008 at 08:05:48 AM EST
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Yes, this is an on-going problem we have, and we are very sorry about that. However, the only frontpager who could find a solution is presently pre-occupied by a death in the family, so this has to wait.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Dec 9th, 2008 at 11:31:49 AM EST
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Sing along with me...

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town.

It's hitting you once,
It's hitting you twice
It doesn't care if you've been careful and wise
Recession is coming to town

It's worthless if you've got shares
It's worthless if you've bonds
It's safe when you've got cash in hand
So keep cash for goodness sake, HEY

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town!

Finance products are confusing
Finance products are so vague
The banks make you bear the cost of risk
So keep out for goodness sake, OH

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town.

(courtesy of a former derivatives dealer)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Dec 9th, 2008 at 09:47:08 AM EST
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Just this morning I was asking myself, "Why do I hang around ET?  I'm not a finance/politics person.  What's the point?"

Why, for the humor of course!

Once again, thank you!

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Tue Dec 9th, 2008 at 10:23:39 AM EST
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