Kill Bill - new Tarantino in cinemas
Time to go to the cinema again
Archive 4. October 2003
Scientologist's Treatments Lure Firefighters
So - the firefighters who worked at Ground Zero are receiving special treatment at a facility operated by the Scientology cult. Of course, according to official opinion, it has nothing to do with the cult. No, of course not. It's also purely coincidental that Tom Cruise - one of the cult's flagship figures - is paying part of the treatment costs. And surely it's also coincidental that the treatment methods (actually more like brainwashing methods) are taken from Scientology garbage. On other occasions, the cult goes massively against it every time their trash is resold under a different label without involving the cult. One can therefore assume that they have their fingers in this pie as well - because otherwise the clinic would have been sued long ago. Besides, the procedure is classic: bring in sponsors, bring in mid-level employees, and gradually the operation gets taken over more and more.
But instead of putting a stop to such a procedure, they send their firefighters there for treatment.
At New York Times: NYT HomePage you can find the original article.
SPD rebels threatened with recall
Funny. Article 38 of the Constitution states: They [the members of parliament] are representatives of the whole people, not bound by orders and instructions and subject only to their conscience - I can't find anything about party discipline there. Interesting too is Article 21, which states: Their [the parties'] internal order must conform to democratic principles - has the suppression of dissenting opinions recently become considered a democratic principle? It must have snuck in somehow when I wasn't looking ... At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
System crashes due to defective capacitors
Hmm. I have two machines (or rather, I have one and Jutta has the other) with quite inexplicable crash and startup problems. Both have been having the problems since the hot summer. Could mean something perhaps.
On heise online news there's the original article.
Ullrich allegedly agreed with Telekom after all
In with the potatoes, out with the potatoes, back in again ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find den Originalartikel.
VeriSign Takes Site Finder Offline
Only a partial success: Verisign's whining (why is it described as an ex-monopolist in the c't article anyway? As a TLD operator for .com and .net they are an absolute monopolist; no one else could have pulled off that Sitefinder stunt) suggests they want to reintroduce the mess. Hopefully ICANN will stay tough. This silly claim that 40 million users would have used the Sitefinder is also preposterous - how could anyone have prevented it? You were forced to use it. Drawing the conclusion from that, that people would prefer that part over an error message, is pretty brazen. Verisign has proven they understood nothing and are just as much of a mess as Network Solutions was before them.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Retractable 90mm Lens for Leica M
There is also a picture of the lens on the camera - very nice. I don't know if it might not be a fake (I haven't read anything about it from Leica yet), but if it comes out, it would be really interesting for me. With the glasses it achieves a usable approximate 1:3 (more details can only be given once the technical specs are released - but it's supposed to focus at 50 cm with the glasses). Without it, it's a compact 90mm. Great. So now I know exactly what I should definitely save up for - far more than for a new digital camera Here's the original article.