Failures

Hotmail Fees for Outlook Access

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2004

This change will begin 27 September for new users and become effective for all users worldwide in 2005 after extensive communications to our existing users. Microsoft says it decided to start charging for the service as it was being abused by senders of spam. In the past, people could download e-mail from Hotmail into Microsoft [...]

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Toutatis: Almost Too Close

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2004

No, no… this is not real. It’s just simulation of asteroid impact if Kerry get elected. Vice President Dick Cheney echoed earlier remarks, warning the United States will risk direct impact by the asteroid Toutatis if voters make the wrong choice. IMO, the impact would be the same either (Bush/Kerry) get elected!

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Will US and Israel Use Hamas as Pretext for Iran Attack?

by Haitham Sabbah September 28, 2004

There are indications that the US government is planning to use Hamas as a pretext for a potential attack against Iran. A couple of very interesting reports were published last week in the London-based pan-Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat, that of course have received no attention whatsoever in the US media. The first, published Friday, is a [...]

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Iraq Just Like USA

by Haitham Sabbah September 26, 2004

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday: We had something like 200 or 300 or 400 people killed in many of the major cities of America last year. Is it perfectly peaceful? No. What’s the difference? We just didn’t see each homicide in every major city in the United States on television every night. It [...]

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Home Computer Illustrated 50 Years Ago

by Haitham Sabbah September 20, 2004

Scientists from RAND Corp. have created this model to illustrate how a “home computer” could look like in the year 2004!

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Sabra and Shatila MASSACRE (16-17 September 1982)

by Haitham Sabbah September 16, 2004

Today in history…

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The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004

by Haitham Sabbah September 8, 2004

#1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy #2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Hold Corporations Accountable #3: Bush Administration Censors Science #4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians #5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources #6: The Sale of Electoral Politics #7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial [...]

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Iraq’s MaDonal (i.e. McDonalds)

by Haitham Sabbah September 6, 2004

Iraq has a phony McDonalds, called MaDonal!

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What Else Can We Blame On The Internet And Text Messaging?

by Haitham Sabbah September 1, 2004

There’s plenty of blame to go around, though, it’s certainly not new. In the past, we’ve had stories on people blaming text messaging for the divorce rate in India and poor turnout at movies. It’s not just text messaging, though. The internet has been similarly blamed for the increase in divorces in the US. Well, [...]

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Frozen Gringos

by Haitham Sabbah June 20, 2004

The Day After Tomorrow: Don’t Go There. By BRUCE ANDERSON The movie “The Day After Tomorrow” is the single most moronic film I’ve seen since “Bill and Coo,” an epic I was dragged to as a child, circa 1950. Bill and Coo were talking parakeets, The Day After Tomorrow is talking cretins. The subject is [...]

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The Last Day of the Concorde

by Haitham Sabbah October 24, 2003

Three Concordes swooped into Heathrow Airport Friday, joining in a spectacular finale to the era of luxury supersonic jet travel. The last regular passenger flight from New York arrived with every seat filled, a feat that had become increasingly rare for a plane that was a technological marvel but a commercial flop. Flight 002 landed [...]

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