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Archive for July, 2003

Sweden’s public sector crumbling?

At least if you should believe ECB Working Paper series No.242. The European Central Bank concluded that Sweden wasted almost 50% of its annual spending. Scary reading actually. The results indicate that Sweden has the worst cost efficiency ratio of all European countries.
I guess this shouldn’t come as a surprise to most people. Except maybe […]

Pac Bell sues music industry over file-sharer IDs

Gotta love their attitude …

Pacific Bell Internet Services jumped into the contentious music-downloading fray late Wednesday, filing a lawsuit against the recording industry and questioning the constitutionality of the industry’s effort to track down online music sharers.
In a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Internet service provider PBIS, operated by […]

Terminator III verdict

Actually I have little to object. Except maybe that you don’t get as much as you used to for $170 M.
Ok, maybe just a few complaints then. Hehe. I’m sorry to say that it lacks the “magic” of the previous movies. The “sense of awe” is postponed until the last 5 minutes or so but […]

Stargate SG-1 renewed

Oops. I must have blinked and missed this one last week. Season 8 has been confirmed by the Sci-Fi Channel. Pretty impressive actually considering how many series get cut down before they make it to the second or third season. This makes SG-1 the second longest running sci-fi series ever, only one season behind The […]

Minding your own business

This is obviously something that our very own vice-prime minister Margareta Winberg can not do. She just can’t come to terms with the fact that there are legal brothels in Greece and that the authorities are using the Olympic Games to try and increase control over prostitution. This has been a good year for intolerance […]

Mohammed al-Sahhaf blast from the past

Somewhat old news by now but it’s hard to keep up when you occupied elsewhere. Anyway, as most people know, Sahhaf was Iraq’s ambassador to Sweden in the 80s. Now he is wanted for questioning regarding two accounts of assassination of exile Iraqis that took place in 1985. And who else would bring this up […]

Wag the dog, part 2

ROTFL! Just when you thought that the US had run out of improbable events to engineer. This is just too much. I mean even if the story is true and Qusay and Uday happen to be dead the way this operation was carried out can only be described as an atrocious failure.
There are just too […]

Wag the goddamn dog

All this Jessica Lynch crap is making me sick to the stomach. I can’t believe ppl are buying into it. Poor saps. I kind of figured they had dropped the act since the story was compromised from the very beginning. If this is the kind of stuff the current administration is jerking off to then […]

Spider-Man 2

Ok so the final movie is still almost a year away. Details of the production and character design are starting to come out at last. Seems like the villain will be seriously upgraded to no less than Dr. Octopus. Good choice. I never liked either of the goblins much anyway.
The alternative poster is groovy. It’s […]

Torrent links …

With Torrentse and Bytemonsoon gone there is a big gap to fill in the BitTorrent community. The list of sites is growing thin indeed.
SUPRNOVA.ORG - still available of course. But maybe not for long. Pages like this tend to attract the interest of some very nasty players after a while.
BYTEMONSOON.NET - a new site using […]





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