Ask your doctor if it's time for a knee replacement!!

So... I guess all of you living in this beautifule country have seen the commercialselling the "gender knee". Yeah...
After looking around the web for a few minutes hoping to find a sign that it is a joke (seriously when you look at it, we are no talking about a leg wax, we are talking about major surgery!!) I realized that no, it is FOR REAL!
http://www.genderknee.com/micro/z/ctl/op/global/action/8
For those of you who think I am crazy check out their website.
And don't forget to ask you doctor if it's time for a knee replacement!

Thank you for smoking!

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3222,36-869700@51-869701,0.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/20/scotus.tobacco/index.html
You should check out the movie thank you for smoking, after seeing it such a decision makes more sense than ever!

Two years after Hariri's Death...

In the midst of the terrible bus bombings that took place this week in Lebanon, the country remembers its former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri assassinated two years ago, along with 21 other people, after the detonation of 1000 kgs of TNT.
His murder is still under investigation by the UN. Syrian authorities are widely suspected, a bunch of feuds opposed Hariri to Members of the Syrian government (that is when the world thought that the US would launch a military action against Syria).
Hariri was a wealthy entrepreneur who built everyhting by himself, and did not hesitate to use his personal forune to help rebuild his country.
Since his death, Lebanon's situation have considerably worsened, from the growin Hezbollah's influence, mitigated by the facts that as Hariri said, the presence of Hezbollah in Lebanon has more than once been one of the only obstacles to an invasion of Lebanon by Israel. As for the assassination of Rabin in 1995, it is always the " good guys" (in the sense of those that try to progress towards Peace) that the world makes disappear first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafiq_Hariri#UN_Investigation

American Proof against Iran!

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/portfolio/0,12-0@2-3218,31-866292,0.html
I am convinced ... let's go to Iran and re create the success of Irak!

This Film is not yet rated

I just watched a very cool documentary called "This film is not yet rated"It deals with the process of the rating of movies by the MPAA, process introduced in 1968 (did'nt we have that question at Trivia night?!).It is very well done, you learn a lot about the history of MPAA, its founder, the mystery surrounding the raters, the discretionary power of the raters and their "intense"relationships with the big studios, the criteria that are kind of inverted compared to the type of ratings we have in Europe (apparently here violence is not a big deal but pubic hairs are), the process of Appeals, and there again the mystery of the compsition of the board of appeals, the religious representant particpating in the appeals, and finally the rating of this very movie. All that illustrated with very funny and smart examples, really good movie!PS: don't forget to go check out the special features, it is hilarious!http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/

The Iranian Threat...

After a conflict, another conflict, no rest whatsoever, we need to find more excuses to be fighting. Irak is not entertaining enough? The Republican party is low in the polls? No worries, we are going to season the truth, and create a legitimate reason to go there...
So yeah Khamenei say Iran will respond if attacked by the USA, on Cnn the story highlights are creepy, and cnn basically uses Khamenei's declaration as a proof that those guys need to be bombed!
Surprise? Ahmadinejad is insane, he showed it several times, he says crazy things, don't like too many people. He is simply trying to get the US to react to his insanity and attack them, how convenient would it be for him?! (He would not be a victim once again, the not very precise air strikes would mostly kill civilians, the usual). But yeah, him and his friends, in which we can count all the Middle Eastern Countries fed up with the american hegemony, plus who? Maybe China and Russia?! My point being why would you attack Iran, right now, in this conjoncture? Don't you have some other big big issues to deal with? Problem is it seems nowadays to be either we do nothing or we bomb, most likely we bomb, diplomacy is not respected anymore and even if one might say it would be impossible to negotiate/find diplomatic recourse in the Iranian problem, please for everybody's sake, think think and think! And don't try to make your people hate middle eastern people more than since they watched 24 last week!
So yeah once again, is there a way out of all this violence? This is less and less a possibilty!

Will Bill Gates show clemency?

A russian middle school teacher has been charged with copyrigths violations for using illegal copies of Windows in his class room. Gorbatchev is asking Bill Gates to withdraw his complaint. Why, if the violations are established right? Because the poor guy who most certainly did not even know what he was doing was illegal (besides the fact that I guess not a lot of schools in the Ural region have enough money to buy licenses), and on top of all, the punishment would be, how to say that, disproportionate? Yeah we can say that, the teacher if convicted would be sent to a Siberian Prison Camp. Come on Microsoft Lawyers! What is your actual loss on this one?! Sincerely hope that they will withdraw their complaint and give this random school free copies of Windows, the purpose of technology should be mainly educational anyway right?!

Apple Inc. v. Apple Corp....

Steve Jobs' Apple Inc. and The Beatles' Apple Corp. apparently finally reached a settlement as to the rights related to the use of the "Apple". All the brands relating to the word Apple will belong to Apple Inc., and Apple Corp. should get its fair share too. None of the parties have been really explicit as to what the settlement implies. But is the document ever going to be released? For our curiosity please yes!