Archive 28. March 2003

Everything is Relative

"Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton," UK defence minister Geoff Hoon said yesterday. "He's either never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Qasr" says a British Squaddie patrolling Umm Qasr. Another soldier added: "There's no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth."

Hehe

At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.

Java, or how it came to be

A tale about the early beginnings, people and projects that ultimately led to Java. Exciting to read.

Here you can find the original article.

Health insurance company reports doctors to companies

Yes. I am in favor of establishing a health insurance secret service. It could then spy on doctors and patients. And anyway, with the patient card you can play many more games. Best to set up an online database and book everything right away. And anyone who goes to the doctor more than once a month is a malingerer anyway. And the Americans in their data collection frenzy certainly have an interest in this, so send it straight to the USA. Chronic patients are surely actually hidden terrorists who use the time to prepare attacks. Welcome to the world of madness. Sarcasm accidentally found in this posting should please be discounted by yourself and presented to the inspectors on demand.

At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.

Merkel wants to cut pensions for the childless

And because the whole world has gone crazy and Merkel's last shreds of reason probably got stuck in Bush's backside when she crawled back out of there, she joins right in with the parade of nonsense. Probably not even the lime loaf from Bavaria could have come up with an even more idiotic and shameless proposal.

Does the Merkbefreiung from German Usenet actually exist in real life? If so, please issue one to Ms. Merkel.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Meteorite crashed into house

I hope those were target practice from above and the next impact seeks out fancy white houses with old-fashioned facades

Teufelsgrinsen

At Astronomische Kleinigkeiten you can find the original article.

Patriotic Idiots Interrupt Museum Security Mailing List

Well. In war, reason is lost and foolishness rules.

At netbib weblog you'll find the original article.

Rau: Do not go along with US line

Please, dear politicians, listen at least once to Brother Johannes.

At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.

Snake Food

Och menno, and I still have Python 1.52 code in productive use

At Der Schockwellenreiter there is the original article.

Stop(ped) making sense

Well. Great. And Americans wonder why we think they're crazy: an eBay seller refuses to ship to countries that didn't support the USA in the Iraq War, so a Canadian can't get his printer. Those Americans are nuts.

At algorhythm you can find the original article.

US Congress Calls for National Day of Prayer

Well, that puts the USA not only close to religious fundamentalists, it's right in the middle of religious fanaticism.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.