From the "yet another terrorism plot" department we have today the claim that another terror plot aimed against New York's mass transit system and tunnels.After the recent Miami terror arrests, I am more skeptical than ever about these frequent claims of "foiling a terror plot" that is in the "early stages".
Ruby as a "quick and easy interpreted scripting language for object oriented development" did not really pick up until the Ruby On Rails (RoR) platform started taking off.It was only a matter of time for full-fledged Content Management Systems (CMS) based on Ruby on Rails to emerge.Here is a list of a few I found out, still the early stages.
Sarah has improved her marks in Science significantly. She went from 70s% all the way to 93%, earning an honours on her diploma.Well done Sarah!
After spending almost a month and a half in prison, Alaa has finally been released.
In a poll of 1,000 Americans, it was revealed that only 4% correctly identified Canada as the largest foreign oil supplier.
Most Americans think that most of their oil comes from the Middle East countries (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran), and also naively blame their own gasoline consumption as "funding terrorism".
The latter never made sense to me, for many reasons. Now it is proven to be double false, since their largest supplier is Canada and not Middle Eastern countries.
I needed to update by development server, which is also a home network server, which has Samba, NFS, autofs, NIS as well as the usual LAMP stack, and CVS, subversion, and other tools.
The move was to be synchronized with my moving from Mandriva to Ubuntu server as well.
Initially, I bought a nice used Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, but it it was unstable and kept rebooting under load. Later, I found out that the CPU was defective and I am waiting for Intel to send me a replacement. The machine is also based on ASUS P4S8X-MX, which has no lm-sensors support, so CPU and motherboard temperatures and fan speed cannot be monitored on Linux.
We just released a new version of the Drupal Adsense module to the repository.
What is common between London, Toronto and Miami? If we are to trust various government agencies, the three had terror acts committed or planned by young youth who were born and raised.
The London case seem to be very plausible in that who the authorities claim to be the suicide bombers are indeed those who executed the operation. They are young British born Muslims.
Although I am a bit skeptical on the Toronto and the Miami cases, it is too early to reach a conclusion.
Seven black people have been arrested in a poor area in Miami, Florida yesterday. The plot allegedly invovled bombing the Sears tower in Chicago, as well as FBI offices in Miami and elsewhere. An FBI agent posing as an Al-Qaeda operative gave them money, supplies and weapons. You can read the full indictment.
The accused are mostly of Haitian descent. Although reports initially said they are Muslims, it later became obvious that this is not the case. They are members of something called the "Seas of David". Most of the suspects have non-Muslim nicknames which are more Biblical, e.g. Levi, although others were said to have names like "Brother Sunni". The one called "Brother Levi" is also called Brother Levi-El", the -El suffix being a Moorish Science Temple mark from Noble Drew Ali.
The Calgary Sun had an article by Licia Corbella, where her premise is that Multiculturalism threatens Canada.
She quotes one Dr. Mahfooz Kanwar of Mount Royal College in Calgary, whom she describes as a "devout Muslim" and "Pakistani-born". He says: "Multiculturalism has been bad for unity in Canada. It ghettoizes people, makes them believe, wrongly, that isolating themselves and not adapting to their new society is OK". Kanwar justified alleged mistreatment in prison because "for accused terrorists, this should be expected". Kanwar also advocates that covering one's face should be illegal.
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