In Dr Strangelove or "How, I Learnt to stop worrying and Love the Bomb", we see the crazy potential of a nuclear war become a reality. Our economies have become so dependent on oil, it seems equally crazy that we could live without oil; thus rising oil prices spark an instinctive fear, especially amongst oil importers. However, a world without oil is not only possible, but, at some time an inevit
Imagine A World Without Filipinos
Abdullah Al-Maghlooth / Al-Watan, almaghlooth@alwatan.com.sa
Muhammad Al-Maghrabi became handicapped and shut down his flower and gifts shop business in Jeddah after his Filipino workers insisted on leaving and returning home. He says: “When they left, I felt as if I had lost my arms. I was so sad that I lost my [...]
Muhammad Al-Maghrabi became handicapped and shut down his flower and gifts shop business in Jeddah after his Filipino workers insisted on leaving and returning home. He says: "When they left, I felt as if I had lost my arms. I was so sad that I lost my appetite."Al-Maghrabi then flew to Manila to look for two other Filipino workers to replace the ones who had left. Previously, he had tried workers
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been making headlines during his first visit to Western Europe as Iran’s president by attacking the United States and Israel, but he also is trying to use the opportunity… to show that he’s not as isolated as his opponents would wish.
Ahmadinejad failed to secure meetings with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the [...]
As oil prices keep increasing, many are looking to a future without oil. It is hoped that if oil prices keep rising, alternatives will be developed and this will enable a smooth transition. Already, car manufacturers have cars which run on hydrogen, natural gas, even solar panel. The longer oil prices rises, the more attractive these options will be. It is not unfeasible that in a decade, we will
Plot:
A con-team couple (Andy Lau & Rene Liu) head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter travelling home with his life savings challenges their fate as thieves.
AKA - Tian xia wu zei (天下无贼)
Genre - Action/Drama
Year - 2005
Director - Xiaogang Feng
Country - China/HK
Audio - Chinese (Mandarin)
Subtitles [...]
A few weeks back, I posted a poll asking what I should write about. One of the more popular questions was “What’s the attraction of B/W and how do you pick which photos to process that way?” asked by Neil Creek. That’s a really great question, but its one that I hadn’t thought about prior to being asked. I suppose I am a little heavy on the black & white stuff on my Flickr Stream,
Almost a year ago I wrote about our need as a society to Save the Bees. Unfortunately things are not any better for our fuzzy black and gold friends. One of my daily blogreads, Blogickal, turned me onto a site Help the Honey Bees by Haagen-Daas which educates about their plight and allows you to “make [...]
Delve into the imagination of a deaf girl who invents sounds to fill her silent world.
Imagine what the world might sound like if you were a deaf child with a vivid imagination? How might you fill the silence? Perhaps you might imagine that the sun rumbles, that birds croak like frogs or that the wind [...]
There was a time in our world, when there was no health insurance and huge numbers of diseases were affecting the life of people. Life was of no use with a problem. When there is no cure for something, even with huge spending, we cannot cure ourselves from any problem. Insurance and pharmaceutical companies [...]
The Dark Knight fans have discovered a new poster on viral website WhySoSerious.com. Interestingly, the page that leads to the poster also says “Four days,” which could be how long we have to wait until we get a brand new trailer!
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CHICAGO – The Joker played nice on Thursday and delivered new fan fruit for “The Dark Knight”: a movie poster sporting the new statement “welcome to a world without rules”. He used his popular viral site WhySoSerious.com to unleash the award.
Feast your eyes on the new poster below. View a high-resolution version here. View our full image gallery here for “The Dark Knight”. Read our extensive “The Dark Knight” coverage here. Stay tuned for another marvel in four days, too, which is speculated to be a new trailer.
This new poster for “The Dark Knight” was revealed on April 24, 2008 from a WhySoSerious.com viral marketing campaign. View a high-resolution version here.Image credit: Warner Bros.
“The Dark Knight” from Warner Bros., which features Heath Ledger, Ch
"One day the citizens of South Park wake up and find the Internet is gone. When Randy hears there may still be some Internet out in California, he packs up his family and heads west." This was last night's episode on South Park. On the episode titled "Over Logging", the world almost ends after no one can connect to the Internet. The brave Kyle comes to the rescue and saves the Internet in a genius move. I don't want to spoil how it goes so just watch the whole episode for yourself or preview this short clip from the episode:
It is becoming increasingly clear that the UK's housing boom wasn't caused by a lack of supply and heightened demand, but rather by slack lending practices by the banks. The proof can be seen now that cheap credit has been taken away and house prices have almost immediately started to drop. The question this makes me ask is what would happen if there were no mortgages? Presumably houses would be cheaper, essentially costing whatever they cost to build plus some kind of profit for the builder. And wouldn't we all be richer, since we wouldn't need to service such big debts? OK, we'd all have to save up some money to buy a place, but this would be easier since renting would also be cheaper, given that landlords would have a smaller outlay to buy a place and hence would be happy with a lower
Navtej Kohli gives a collection of views on the review for "Creating a World Without Poverty:Social Business and the Future of Capitalism" By Muhammad Yunus.An inspiring volume full of practical information on alleviating poverty.Some may be skeptical of his ideas, especially a "social stock market."Muhammad Yunus is a humble man who would resist being compared to Mahatma Gandhi. But the two have much in common as campaigners for social progress. While Gandhi's goal was the end of colonialism, Yunus' is just as grand: He means to reform capitalism to make it a tool for ending poverty. Read the whole story on businessweek. Get More reviews on Latest Books By Navtej KohliNavtej Kohli World Famous Book Reviews …Navtej Kohli Book Reviews
From L.E.B.I was only a Christian for a few years, of my own choosing, and I am glad my parents were a-religious. They didn't brainwash us to anything except treat other people nicely. I did the same with my own kids and though sometimes I worry they don't "fit in," they all know how to think logically. I don't hold a lot of animosity toward the ‘church,’ anymore. I was a Jesus-freak back in t
Totally left and disturbing! This is the sort of Politician that must never be allowed to gain traction ... Has anyone seen this film? "The world is not a naturally peaceful organized place, it has to be made peaceful ... my great fear is that of the U.S. opt out" ...A different trailer of the same film can be seen here...Comments welcome...
A World Without Cheap Self Storage
If we had no cheap self storage our world would be in chaos. Everyday our world gets smaller and smaller because we consume more and more of our personal storage . Houses are larger than ever designed with gigantic storage space , but it is never big enough. Humans will always find ways to fill up every inch of an empty space. This is the reason for the cheap self storage boom in the last decade. If cheap self storage did not exist the world would go mad.
What would you do with your nice furniture if your new house was not ready for you to move in and the new owners of your old house are settled? This is a very common scenario in today’s fast paced society. With the variety between real estate markets people relocating to a
Review - After Reading "Pillars of the Earth" I could not wait to read this one and purchased World Without End as soon as it was released. From the very first chapter I was captured by this book and immediately entered into the world of medieval Britain and into the lives of ordinary people living and working in towns and villages."World Without End" has many of the themes of “pillars of the Earth”, but with a new building project being one of the story-lines, Follett makes this book feel fresh and new. This book is a long read and has a thousand plus pages, but the characters are interesting and you get a real sense of their personalities and their lives.You need not have read “Pillars of the Earth” to understand “World Without End” since this book is set two hundred years la
via The Independent" I gasped in wide-eyed, youthful wonder at the extraordinary possibilities of the world wide web. In retrospect, I like to think that I pondered the future of humanity – the way this new tool could impact on democracy, end international conflict and save the planet from environmental collapse – although I probably started with a conceited search for my own name." [more]
(I wrote this as report for GeoInformatics course by LI Yan, Fall Semester 2007, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan)
Ms.Word .doc Version: Creating A World Without Poverty
Creating A World Without Poverty
Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
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Proverty and Solidarity Lending
Proverty is a major issue facing much humankind of this age. More than before, economic and social gaps are widening particularly in urban areas. One of a major factor that blocks the poor still being poor is that they have no money to produce money. Being able to live out of the box of poverty is a basic human right. Recently one of many solutions stands out and captured attentions of many of those who are concerned with the welfare of the poor. It is a system of Solidarity Lending. An early pioneer of Solidarity Lending, Dr. Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh through his microfinance organization, The Grameen Bank were jointly awar
Software Exactly how would the computing world feel without Microsoft?What if Microsoft just closed their doors? Gates and Ballmer just got up and left with nothing more than a �This is boring,� how would the computing world be effected.I mean, they just shutdown Microsoft: they didn�t release any of their products open source, because, they really don�t care, rather, they just got up and left.Gates is quoted saying, quite often, that he�ll run Microsoft until he gets sick of it, so, what if that day came? Does that mean he enjoys being picked on by the entire geek crowd, and hated by half the country?The possibility actually exists for Microsoft to just pay out all the stock holders their share of the company and just cease to exist, and, to be honest, there�s little reason
Peter Asher és Gordon Waller a hatvanas évek közepének népszerű brit duóját alkották, s egyik legnagyobb slágerüket - jelen album címadó dalát - nem kisebb szerzőpáros jegyzi mint a két Beatle: Lennon és McCartney. Bár nagyon tehetséges és sikeres duó voltak, mivel kizárólag mások dalainak előadásával, feldolgozásával léptek színre, pályafutásuk viszonylag hamar végetért. Peter Asher előadói pályafutása befejezését követően, 1968-ban producerként kezdett dolgozni, James Taylor pályafutását is ő egyengette.A képen látható CD másik nagylemezét később szintén szeretném bemutatni.A World Without LoveA számok:01. Lucille02. 500 Miles03. If I Were You04. Pretty Mary05. Trouble In Mind06. A World Without Love07. Tell Me How08. You Don't Have To Tell Me09. Leave My Woman Alone10. All My Trials11. Last Night I WokeTömörítés/Bitrate: 225-242 kb/sLetöltés/Download:[ File-upload ][ Mediafire ]Jelszó/Password: levente
By Christopher W Smith Bluetooth technology was created in order to allow ordinary technology users to enjoy the benefits of low bandwidth wireless connections. Bluetooth is a low power, short-range technology that allows wireless networking. It is able to do this by using radio waves to send and receive data at up to 720 kilobits per second.Bluetooth SpecsThe specifications for Bluetooth devices allows for different classes of radio transmission ranges. These ranges can reach up to about 300 feet by boosting the radio power. This technology isn't limited to line of sight as the waves it utilizes are directional waves, which are capable of transmitting through various obstructions.Industry StandardBluetooth is quickly becoming the standard as far as wireless communication is concerned. The real beauty of Bluetooth is the fact that it goes far beyond the most commonly recognized uses and connects all manner of devices. Not only cell phones, but also computers, digital cameras, PDAs, la
A few weeks ago, I created a profile on Myspace and posted some of my more controversial blogs there in order to gain more traffic and readership to this blog. While it’s not the most effective media channel for driving web traffic, I have had the pleasure of meeting some fellow conservative bloggers that have some really great (and hilarious) things to say. One such blogger was a 19 year old female who goes by the name of the Bulgarian Queen. Don’t be fooled by her Shakira background on her profile; she is quite the bulldog and will eat you liberals for breakfast. She posted a similar post to the following a few weeks ago which became my inspiration for writing this.
Now sit back, close your eyes and imagine a World without Liberals! There would be:
No more spineless, moronic Ron Paul Myspace bloggers that vomit out garbage about his ‘’real character.” Yes indeed, there are several Ron Paul supporters on Myspace. I don’t really have anything against
I'm interested in figuring out how we can build a Net that is a lot less prone to viruses and spam, and not just by putting in filters and setting up caches to test things before they get into your computer. That doesn't really solve anything. We need an evolutionary step of some sort, or we need to look at the problem in a different way.My own biggest mistake in the last 20 years was that sometimes I designed solutions for problems that people didn't yet know they had. That's why some of the things that could've made a difference couldn't find a market. When people get hit between the eyes with a two-by-four by these viruses,they know they have a problem. Still, the right time to address it would have been a while ago. The hardest part isn't inventing the solution but figuring out how to get people to adopt it.Is it really fair to blame Microsoft for so many of the Net's woes?The problem with Windows isn't so much that it's insecure, but that it is stale. The company has fla
There are a lot of countries, and even people within the US, that are very anti-American, but they fail to realize the true economical and technological influence the US provides to the rest of the world. So here is a video that shows what the world would be like without America:
I found this article from Fortune Magazine quite interesting. Could you imagine there being no seafood within the next 50 years? I had no idea about the different types of fish that are disappearing and the environmental issues related to farm fishing. Let's see...chicken = bird flu, beef = mad cow, and no fish on the menu. Perhaps in the future I may have to rethink that vegetarian thing.Rothfamilyadventures.com
