Thursday, 16. July 2009
Topic: FUN - on July 16, 2009 at 1:09:00 PM CEST
VISA Card Users Charged $23 Quadrillion
Several people rocking VISA prepaid credit cards got a peculiar $23,148,855,308,184,500 charge this week when using their VISA BUXX cards. That's 23 quadrillion dollars. To put that figure in layman's terms, it's almost double what I'm suing Disney for.
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Topic: Free - on July 16, 2009 at 1:06:00 PM CEST
The best things in life aren't free*
That's the take–home message I got from a very interesting piece in last week's (September 5) New Yorker "Talk of the Town" section by Michael Agger.
It's entitled "Car Seat Lady" and profiles Ms. Alisa Baer, a 25–year–old medical student in New York City who is an expert on car seat installation. (She's installed an estimated 5,000 in her career to date.)
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 16, 2009 at 1:03:00 PM CEST
Hasch lässt Farben schmecken: Gewerkschaft der Polizei im Jahre 2009
Wer mal unreflektierte und völlig nonsense Propaganda von vor 50 Jahren lesen möchte, sollte zu dem Organ der Gewerkschaft der Polizei, Ausgabe Juni 2009, greifen.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 16, 2009 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
Border Patrol seizes record amount of pot in Ariz
Agents in the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector have seized a record 1 million pounds of marijuana, with an estimated street value of $800 million, so far this fiscal year, federal officials said Tuesday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 16, 2009 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
Ballmer Goes Nuts again
Steve Ballmer loves to play a lot of roles at Microsoft, and one that he takes great pleasure in is being a cheerleader to everyone who reports to someone who reports to someone under him. This ain't the right way..
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