- Do you know that 20% of OUR oxygen comes from the Amazon, and that each day 10 football fields are being destroyed. In the last decades 20% has been destroyed and it continues. If Brazil cannot do anything about it, it is time for the world to take control of the area and make it an International Protected Area (IPA) under the control of the United Nations. And with an enforcement force in place. Before it is too late for ALL of us! #12 — Comments (0) — 12/7/2009 at 5:49 PM — World — Great stuff! (28) — Not interesting! (0)
- A United Nations group has just decided not to ban blue fin tuna fishing. Now the Japanese can relax knowing they can keep on eating tuna steaks at least until the last tuna has been sliced up and eaten. Thanks for a job well done UN, I guess George W. Bush was right after all, the organization is utterly useless. #21 — Comments (1) — 3/18/2010 at 3:13 PM — World — Great stuff! (19) — Not interesting! (3)
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I want to share this with you all. Meccano, the mechanical toy manufacturer moved its factory back to France from China. Good going guys. Put the quality back into your products, and create jobs in your own country. Hopefully others will follow? Vive la France!
Check out their great product line at http://www.meccano.com #36 — Comments (0) — 1/4/2011 at 5:22 AM — Business — Great stuff! (16) — Not interesting! (1) - A new wide field camera on Hubble spotted several thousand never before seen galaxies, formed some 600 million years after the Big Bang (believed to be the explosion that led to the creation of the universe). The "new" galaxies are only about 13 billion light years away (each light year is about 6 trillion miles). So when are we leaving! #14 — Comments (0) — 12/9/2009 at 6:11 AM — Other — Great stuff! (16) — Not interesting! (0)
- Over the years, I have been getting more and more frustrated at the service of doctors. Money is nowadays for many the only reason they have become doctors. It used to be to help people get better and earn a good income. But as the demand for money grew (bigger houses, cars, and so forth), so did the need for money and a large income, not just a good one. Many times I have now experienced the 1-2-3 method of doing a patient. What is the matter? Get these drugs. See ya. Even many private hospitals do not have an emergency service any more. It is costly and sick people can come to see the GP (not 24 hrs. in many countries) and if warranted, he can arrange a room with treatment. Far from ideal. No, it definitely leaves much to be desired in many countries, save a few. #19 — Comments (0) — 2/12/2010 at 8:04 PM — Health — Great stuff! (14) — Not interesting! (2)
- Browser incompatibilities are becoming a nightmare. Since the forced change to CSS positioning it has become more and more tedious to force the same display in competing browsers. What works in FireFox does not in Internet Explorer and vice versa. I guess coming to a standard is next to impossible with one or more major players not wishing to comply to a standard. Firefox and other Mozilla browsers seem to adhere much better to the CSS specifications than IE. Easy ways to force specific CSS for a specific browser is even a challenge. Why does it have to be so difficult? One positive note is that Firefox finally provides clean font rendering. It is about time! #6 — Comments (0) — 11/16/2009 at 9:31 AM — Internet — Great stuff! (12) — Not interesting! (0)
- I just saw Avatar 3D. Well, it was awesome! Sci-fi, fantasy, drama, war and romance all in one! The computer graphics were unbelievably realistic and having seen this movie this way (3D), I am afraid it has raised my expectations for all sci-fi and fantasy movies. Of course 4 years of production and 230 mln is not a luxury all of Hollywood can afford. Great Job! I will go see it again! #16 — Comments (0) — 12/22/2009 at 9:27 PM — Movies — Great stuff! (11) — Not interesting! (3)
- There are 425 Indian gaming facilities in the USA operated by 240 tribes operating in 28 states earning $26.7 billion in 2008. Federally recognized tribes can operate casinos outside state jurisdiction because they are considered sovereign entities by the United States. The profits are supposed to be shared by all tribal members. Alas, greed has entered the hearts of some (a trait supposedly unique to the white man?). In more and more tribes it is becoming the standard to disenroll tribal members for no reason except not having to share revenues among all its members. In other tribes tribal chiefs receive considerably more (large estates for chiefs, ordinary housing for others), than the tribal members. I guess it is now time for the Feds to step in before most tribes only consist of the families of those in control of the gaming. Yeah yeah, he ja he ja ho. To ensure survival of the tribes it is best not to go gaming in Indian casinos or even better to forbid it alltogether. #10 — Comments (0) — 11/23/2009 at 5:10 AM — Money — Great stuff! (10) — Not interesting! (0)
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I am so frustrated with the lousy website of Facebook. For more than a month now I\'ve been trying to set a username for my Page, and though the name is available, the page hangs on the Loading... message box due to a JavaScript error. So you try to send a suggestion via their tiny little textarea, and guess what? Yep, that form (all of them btw) throws an error as well. So what is working on Facebook? How do you let them know something is not working? For a company that has plenty of money to fix these things, how many programmers are actually working on it? One? It seems None given the timespan in which these things are still not fixed.
#40 — Comments (0) — 2/27/2011 at 5:16 AM — Internet — Great stuff! (10) — Not interesting! (1) - It is hard for small business right now, but there is optimism. #4 — Comments (0) — 11/16/2009 at 6:22 AM — Business — Great stuff! (7) — Not interesting! (1)
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