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Saturday, May 17, 2003
Belgium chickens out
No Tommy Franks trial in Belgium
daisycutter 5/17/2003 9:07:10 PM - [Link]
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Pleasure tax on German brothels
Pleasure tax on German brothels.
Tax officials are checking out sex venues and prostitutes working from home to see if they are eligible for the tax, which amounts to ?5,60 per 10 square metres of business space per day.
daisycutter 5/17/2003 8:56:54 PM - [Link]
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Safe sex promo by Norwegian taxi drivers
Safe sex promo by Norwegian taxi drivers.
Drivers working for Norway's Taxi will be handing out free contraceptives for the second year in a row. The project, run in cooperation with the Norwegian Board of Health, aims to help fight sexually transmitted diseases, newspaper Adresseavisen reports.
daisycutter 5/17/2003 8:13:19 PM - [Link]
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Friday, May 16, 2003
Belgian police to hunt down youths with expensive cars
Belgian police to hunt down youths with expensive cars.
According to politician Dirk Grootjans youths could never have obtained these cars legaly. It not necessarily concerns youths of minority groups only.
daisycutter 5/16/2003 2:14:11 PM - [Link]
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Will Bush invade Cuba?
Will Bush invade Cuba?
The reason the world watches when Bush opens his mouth is because everybody is wondering: what IS he going to say now? Is he going to invade Iran or have the US liberate France again? Is he going to announce another tax cut for millionaires or start a new trade war with Europe? Or maybe he's going to deliver "America's justice" to another poor, benighted part of the planet before heading back to the Air Force One gym.
daisycutter 5/16/2003 1:59:03 PM - [Link]
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Passive smoking not hazardous
Passive smoking not hazardous.
Inhaling other people?s tobacco smoke has no effect on heart disease or lung cancer risks, according to a new study.
daisycutter 5/16/2003 1:43:18 PM - [Link]
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Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Must have been a woman
Must have been a woman, losing the keys of a nuclear lab.
The missing keys at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are the latest embarrassment to the University of California, which manages the Livermore lab, as well as Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, for the Department of Energy.
daisycutter 5/14/2003 8:33:17 PM - [Link]
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General Franks accused of war crimes
A Belgian lawyer has filed a suit against General Tommy Franks in a Brussels court on behalve of Iraqi civilian victims.
daisycutter 5/14/2003 5:48:49 PM - [Link]
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North Pole to be wired
North Pole villages to be connected to mainland via fiber optic cable, receiving 100 TV stations and VDSL.
daisycutter 5/14/2003 5:40:01 PM - [Link]
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Monday, May 12, 2003
Racism makes stupid
Not surprising, but now scientificly proven, racism makes stupid.
Researchers from Princeton University and Dartmouth College in the US found that white people with a high degree of racial basis experienced a decrease in "executive function" after spending time talking with black people. Their research appears in the May issue of Psychological Science.
daisycutter 5/12/2003 5:17:16 PM - [Link]
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Montoya loses drivers license
Montoya loses drivers license
The Williams driver was caught driving at 204 kph in his BMW on a motorway between Le Muy and Frejus, on the French Riviera.
Chased by motorcycle policemen, he had his license confiscated on the spot.
daisycutter 5/12/2003 5:00:24 PM - [Link]
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