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8 November 2001
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‘Anti terrorist’ UK net snooping laws could be used to find tax evaders?

I have a pretty relaxed attitude towards Internet snooping by Government – I believe we have more to worry about from private companies – but according to this article in the Guardian, new powers that would provide police with: “details of email addresses people have communicated with, which internet service providers they use, when they used them and which sites they visited while online” could be used without a court order not just for reasons of national security but for “preventing or detecting crime and disorder, protecting public health and safety and collecting tax.”mature sex galleries sleazy interracialtgp models young non-nudeold granny pics fatanal insertion teencum whores xxxgrannies fat fuckmoms their fucking daughterschubby masterbationtits arab biganal fisting insertion100 value second to mortgage loanloans student credit quaranteed bad 10010000 credit bad loan creditbad credit 125 loanhome loan 125 equityequity loan 125 rate home creditloan equity second morgage 125 homewith 125 credit loans bad Map

7 November 2001
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How much do you know about Islam? Here’s a quiz (I scored 8 out of 10).

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I’m astonished to learn that the US has not until now put a government spokesman on Arabic TV speaking Arabic. According to this piece on Salon premium (subscription required) “At the end of 1998 there were only 30 Level 4 [fluent] Arabic speakers” on the payroll of the US foreign service (!)canada loans equity 0 consolidationpayday 10 14 check loan12 credit payday 18 loan besthome loan 1st loan refinance homepersonal loan 24 7 unsecuredloan 24 paydayonline 40 find payday loan 282nd va loan mortgageprice 6 payday 4 loanloan 40 loan 58 payday cash

6 November 2001
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It appears that UK online usage may be reaching its peak – this quarter, the percentage of households reporting they are connected to the Internet declined slightly from 40% to 39%. If we want to encourage a broader range of people to use this medium the government needs to get its finger out and 1) create relevant public sector content (which to their credit they are doing) 2) organize some kind of campaign to drive awareness that the Internet is about more than home shopping and 3) drive down the cost of broadband.score 700 creditcard california account credit online merchantcard rate credit account merchant washingtoncards credit rewards airlineaccountant business accreditedonline accredited school highregion accreditationadult card credit processing Map

5 November 2001
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Something a lot of you have been waiting for… the first trailer for the new Star Wars film – Attack of the Clones. The bad news is that it lasts for only about 25 seconds (plus credits) and tells you very little – not for nothing is it called a “teaser”. Still it does look good – and I am sure many people reading will feel obliged to take a look anyway. Hang on in there until May 2002!

2 November 2001
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An absolutely brilliant idea – the Singapore government (with help from Nokia and MobileOne) is taking in peoples’ old SMS (short message)-capable phones and recycling them by distributing them to needy deaf people, giving them 500 free text messages a month for six months.

Of course with my cynic’s hat on I wonder if this isn’t also a cynical ploy by the telcos to get people who hadn’t previously thought of using mobiles hooked on text messaging. And it won’t be long before we have complete saturation of mobile phones, in Europe anyway, so this may not be necessary in a few years. But in the meantime this is an example we should be urging our governments and telcos to follow. Even better – the telcos should offer the deaf a special low-cost flat rate for SMS…

1 November 2001
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Wayne Grytting’s American Newspeak is always worth a look – it is an irregular email newsletter bringing a well-written dissection of (usually) corporate misdeeds and the PR waffle used to cover it up. As it is one man’s view it may not always be 100% accurate or fair but it never ceases to be an interesting read. The latest newsletter is (rightly) scathing about the way in which big corporations are using the September 11th attacks to get government handouts:

“The naked centerpiece of the stimulus bill is the repeal of the corporate minimum tax, a gift of $25 billion. This tax minimum was originally designed to see that U.S. mult-nationals did not use their tax shelters to pay zero taxes. Back then, that was considered a national embarrassment. Arguing that such a tax is now unfair, the authors drew the obvious conclusion. Not only should it be removed from the books, but all payers of it should get refunds on taxes paid — all the way back to 1986.

Remember the $300 tax rebate you received this year? All the rebates added together are approximately one-half of what Republicans are offering to 100 corporations. Taxpayers will be handing IBM $1.4 billion, Ford $1.0 billion, General Motors $832 million, not for any new investments in America but for having invested their money outside our borders or in tax shelters…

Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Ca): … We mustn’t lose sight of the fact, he said, that ‘businesses are America’s employers. They’re the hardware store, the diner down the street, the gas station on the corner.’ Take a wild guess how much the corner diner will be receiving. Meanwhile, where was I? It’s $241 million for Phillips Petroleum…”

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