May. 3rd, 2006

Great Blue

May. 3rd, 2006 05:36 am
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Great Blue

May. 3rd, 2006 05:36 am
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Просматриваю френдленту - там пост про интеллектуальную собственность, причём ругательски ругают Кинселлу, который, мол, подал на кого-то в суд за плагиат дамских романов. Э? Пригляделся - оказалось, не наш Кинселла, а какая-то тётенька, знаменитая писательница на заборе.
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Просматриваю френдленту - там пост про интеллектуальную собственность, причём ругательски ругают Кинселлу, который, мол, подал на кого-то в суд за плагиат дамских романов. Э? Пригляделся - оказалось, не наш Кинселла, а какая-то тётенька, знаменитая писательница на заборе.
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Сегодня после обеда в Монтане пройдет церемония посмертной реабилитации неосторожных остряков, получивших в 1918 году тюремные сроки за трактирные шутки по поводу Кайзера и усилий первой мировой войны.

Montana's Sedition Act, passed in 1918 but since repealed, was one of the harshest in the country and a basis for a national sedition law passed the same year. Of those convicted, more than 40 were sent to state prison.

In one case, a 38-year-old traveling liquor salesman was arrested after he called wartime food regulations in the United States a "big joke" while talking with a Montana hotel owner in 1918. Less than a month later, he was in prison.

Another was a German immigrant who ended up serving two years in prison for suggesting that Americans "would have hard times" if Germany's kaiser "didn't get over here and rule this country."
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Сегодня после обеда в Монтане пройдет церемония посмертной реабилитации неосторожных остряков, получивших в 1918 году тюремные сроки за трактирные шутки по поводу Кайзера и усилий первой мировой войны.

Montana's Sedition Act, passed in 1918 but since repealed, was one of the harshest in the country and a basis for a national sedition law passed the same year. Of those convicted, more than 40 were sent to state prison.

In one case, a 38-year-old traveling liquor salesman was arrested after he called wartime food regulations in the United States a "big joke" while talking with a Montana hotel owner in 1918. Less than a month later, he was in prison.

Another was a German immigrant who ended up serving two years in prison for suggesting that Americans "would have hard times" if Germany's kaiser "didn't get over here and rule this country."
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Чего только не узнаешь. Оказывается, last February, President Bush (республиканец) signed into law a requirement that all over-the-air broadcasters must switch from transmitting analog TV signals to digital TV by Feb. 17, 2009.
Shoppers may only have to sweat over the $1,500 price tag of a 32-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) TV set. Smallish production companies and independent TV stations, on the other hand, are fretting over HD cameras that can set them back $80,000.
Но чорт побери, Холмс... Зачем?!
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Чего только не узнаешь. Оказывается, last February, President Bush (республиканец) signed into law a requirement that all over-the-air broadcasters must switch from transmitting analog TV signals to digital TV by Feb. 17, 2009.
Shoppers may only have to sweat over the $1,500 price tag of a 32-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) TV set. Smallish production companies and independent TV stations, on the other hand, are fretting over HD cameras that can set them back $80,000.
Но чорт побери, Холмс... Зачем?!
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А что, пока мы были отпуске, Мексика проиграла войну с наркотиками?!

Mexican President Vicente Fox will sign a bill that would legalize the use of nearly every drug and narcotic sold by the same Mexican cartels he's vowed to fight during his five years in office, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Per-person amounts approved for possession by anyone 18 or older could easily turn any college party into an all-nighter: half a gram of coke, a couple of Ecstasy pills, several doses of LSD, a few marijuana joints, a spoonful of heroin, 5 grams of opium and more than 2 pounds of peyote, the hallucinogenic cactus.

Наша страна, как обычно, плетется в хвосте.
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А что, пока мы были отпуске, Мексика проиграла войну с наркотиками?!

Mexican President Vicente Fox will sign a bill that would legalize the use of nearly every drug and narcotic sold by the same Mexican cartels he's vowed to fight during his five years in office, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Per-person amounts approved for possession by anyone 18 or older could easily turn any college party into an all-nighter: half a gram of coke, a couple of Ecstasy pills, several doses of LSD, a few marijuana joints, a spoonful of heroin, 5 grams of opium and more than 2 pounds of peyote, the hallucinogenic cactus.

Наша страна, как обычно, плетется в хвосте.