] The TNT was supposed to be planted in the bags of a
] Montreal security agent. Instead, it somehow ended up
] stuffed into the luggage of an unsuspecting overseas
] passenger who arrived at Pierre Elliot Trudeau
] International Airport last Friday. The unnamed passenger
] went to a friend's house where he found the explosives
] concealed in a jam jar and placed inside his suitcase.

alibi . may 20 - 26, 2004

] More than half of all U.S. consumers that have tried
] following diets that eschew carbs such as bread and sugar
] have given up, a survey released on Wednesday found, and
] interest in the popular regimens appears to have
] plateaued.

Been watching for it...

Yahoo! News - Americans Abandoning Low-Carb Diets -Survey

] That's because no other member of the Japanese company's
] money-making characters has what Hello Kitty has managed
] to attract and keep drawing back for more, year after
] year -- legions of girls eager to spend their pocket
] money generously on products that are seen as fun,
] affordable and unabashedly cute.

ASIAN POP How Hello Kitty Came to Rule the World / With little advertising and no TV spinoff, Sanrio's 30-year-old feline turned cute into the ultimate brand

] General Motors' solution seems to be to cut costs though
] alliances with Subaru, but in doing so, it could lose the
] upwardly mobile crowd now interested in Saab vehicles.
] After all, much of this group is striving to move up the
] car food chain to more expensive vehicles, and if the new
] car ends up being a Subaru in Saab clothing, these folks
] may be turned off.

Funny. That "Subaru in Saab clothing" may sound like a bad thing, but from where I sit, that doesn't speak highly to prospective Saab owners. I wouldn't really be interested in a GM Saab that wasn't really a Subaru, because I like reliable fun cars.

Fool.com: GM's Saab Job [Motley Fool Take] July 12, 2004

] Ilarie Coroiu was taken to hospital in the Transylvanian
] town of Cluj after his girlfriend, Magdalena, 18, "felt
] something strange" and noticed that the bed was covered
] in blood.

Who's seen A Chinese Torture Chamber Story?

Ananova - Penis explodes during sex

] Alfa-Bank imposed a 10 percent commission on depositors
] who want to withdraw cash early as authorities fought to
] prevent a run on banks and bring calm to the sector.

The investor chatter I'm reading indicates that despite what
the government says, this could be /very/ bad for the russian
banks and for Putin's career.

MSNBC - Putin adviser says Russian banks in crisis

] Buried near the bottom of an article in last month's
] Wired is this little gem; Friendster rep Lisa Kopp
] insists, "We have a policy that we are not being hacked."
]
] I don't know if it's sad, scary or funny, but I can see
] someone in some corporate highrise somewhere actually
] saying this with a straight face.

Friendster: We Have a Policy that We Are *Not* Being Hacked || kuro5hin.org

] The U.N. agency said it would put forward examples of
] anti-spam legislation which countries can adopt to make
] cross-border cooperation easier. Many states currently
] have no anti-spamming laws in place, making it difficult
] to prosecute the international phenomenon.

CNN.com - U.N. takes aim at spam epidemic - Jul 6, 2004

] The activist, author and director told the Sunday Herald
] that, as long as pirated copies of his film were not
] being sold, he had no problem with it being downloaded.
]
] "I don't agree with the copyright laws and I
] don't have a problem with people downloading the
] movie and sharing it with people as long as they're
] not trying to make a profit off my labour. I would oppose
] that," he said.
]
] "I do well enough already and I made this film
] because I want the world, to change. The more people who
] see it the better, so I'm happy this is
] happening."
...
] Defenders of Moore’s position include Pulp Fiction
] director Quentin Tarantino, who earlier this year
] encouraged audiences in countries where his films are
] not legally available to obtain counterfeit copies.
...
] Valenti said: “Nobody can allow their rights to be
] stolen because, if you can’t retrieve your investment,
] you’re out of the movie business,
]
] "I don't think there's really a single
] actor or director in the world who does not believe that
] if you don't combat piracy, it will devour you in
] the future."

Jack Valenti, meet Mr. Moore and Mr. Tarentino. Both had had
movies at the top of the box office charts now, maybe you've
heard of them? While there is a nuance to what you say that
would let you weasel out a defensible position, it doesn't look
good. Moore and Tarentino's views are both influenced based ON
MPAA policies (ratings, getting the word out for the first,
market/region encoding in the second) not because they are
disinterested in money or hate the movie industry.

Moore: pirate my film, no problem - [Sunday Herald]

] "It's extremely impressive," said academy President Frank
] Pierson. "It certainly looked foolproof to us."
...
] The discs, by themselves, cannot be hacked, Roth said.

Doesn't even matter what they are talking about, does it?

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