Re: unstable digest vol 39

To be completely accurate, a Quine is a program whose output is exactly the same as it's complete source code. It's named in honor of Willard Van Orman Quine, an influential mathematician and philosopher who died in 2000. Quine programming is a common CS school homework assignment. Some related

Google as News Aggregator [re: ...rejects Infoshop news]

Google's news aggregation isn't an attempt to provide balanced perspective ... they are a corporate aggregator whose news choices are driven by popularity. Aggregation, Google-style is the cold, cruel reality of majority rules [at least in the Western World's limited perspective]. Most newspap

Multimedia Institute cancels grant with an agency of United States government

PUBLIC STATEMENT Due to the war the USA wages on Iraq, Multimedia Institute reached a decision to end the contract through which it was granted US$ 100.000 by the United States government for its work on the development of the civil sector in Croatia. We would like to present you the reasons for

unstable digest vol 39

From: Harwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Reader-list] war.pl Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:15:08 + A little something I came across recently It's a quine - a self replicating programme war.pl # #! /usr/bin/perl $s='$c = chr(39);$t

Quick note on Weill, Spitzer, and the N.Y.S.E.

However you feel about New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer's motives in his prosecution of Wall St. criminals, you've got to admire the guy. He may merely be grandstanding (with his eye on a higher political office), and naturally he's been ignoring deeper Wall St. issues while focusing o

Iraq war debacle coming

Dear Friends, I have always said that in order to win in Iraq the US would have to engage in urban combat, and if any substantial number of Saddam's followers hold out, that will be a very deadly conflict. Events bear me out. The continued fight in Nasiriya, Umm Qadr, and Basra, provide a foretast

Al Jazeera launches Iraq site in English

[Hi all, Al Jazeera now has a site up and running in English, URL below. John.] http://english.aljazeera.net/?tag=nl === Location: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2132399,00.html Al Jazeera launches Iraq site in English Ian Fried, CNET News.com

The Scuds

Propaganda we are experiencing is mostly embedded in the language and most of it pretty crude, allied forces are not invaders but "liberators". Fierce fire fights for entrenched Iraqi positions are the "mopping up" "pockets of resistance" and soldiers who do not surrender are "fanati

ICANN Shuts Down YellowTimes.Org In Censorship Move

> From: steve zeltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue Mar 25, 2003 01:24:10 Europe/Berlin > To: Labortech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: ICANN Shuts Down YellowTimes.Org In Censorship Move > > Account for domain yellowtimes.org has been suspended > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMA