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Italy posts income details on web

Page last updated at 14:44 GMT, Thursday, 1 May 2008 15:44 UK

There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian's declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7376608.stm

Potential Employee Uprising Quelled With Free Pizza
May 2, 2008 | Issue 44•18

NEW YORK—A massive employee backlash over low wages and increased workload was narrowly averted this week when company management arranged to have eight large pizzas delivered to the design firm Cobalt Media, instantly quelling months of mounting resentment and dissatisfaction.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/poten...ployee_uprising

Computer keyboards can be dirtier than a toilet: study

CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Think twice before eating those dropped crumbs off your computer keyboard -- you might as well be eating off a toilet seat, according to a new study on the amount of germs on keyboards.

A study by British consumer magazine "Which? Computing" asked a microbiologist to examine 33 keyboards in a typical London office, a toilet seat and a toilet door handle, for bugs generally found in unhygienic places.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMol...SP5334520080502

Masturbate-a-Thon coming to Copenhagen

Hot on the heels of San Francisco and London, Copenhagen is to host a Masturbate-a-Thon in May which organisers hope will help break lingering taboos about self-love, an organiser said today.

“Masturbation is positive, safe and an erotic alternative,� she said ahead of the event on May 31, to take place at a yet-to-be-decided venue with separate rooms for men, women and those who don’t mind mingling.

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?Men...ContentID=53861

They'll go blind. All of them!

Take it from one who knows : CNN: Pope: Sex can become 'like a drug'

BBC: Furtive Venice snapper arrested

NY man sues airline over flight spent in toilet

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man who says he was denied a seat on a five-hour jetBlue flight and was instead told to "hang out" in the plane's bathroom has sued the airline for $2 million, saying he suffered "extreme humiliation."

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1232739420080512

This is almost heart-breaking, when you imagine how the parents would have felt, beeing locked in a plane, after realizing they left their 23 month old child behind at the airport:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/parents-...0444472117.html

'Darth Vader' Spared Jail In Jedi Church Attacks

Telegraph: Darth Vader Spared Jail For Lightsaber Attack

California's Top Court Overturns Same-Sex Marriage Ban

SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry.

The justices released the 4-3 decision Thursday, saying that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage in an opinion written by Chief Justice Ron George.

The cases were brought by the city of San Francisco, two dozen gay and lesbian couples, Equality California and another gay rights group in March 2004 after the court halted San Francisco's monthlong same-sex wedding march that took place at Mayor Gavin Newsom's direction.

A Republican administration that says "I do" to gay marriage

That "Darth Vader" attacker bloke deserves a fucking medal, appearances on talk shows, and universal applaud. I mean man, I totally love the wars, I mean totally - I still collect star wars figures, I still get a chill and a feeling of pure glee when I hear the music, I'm a wars geek man.

But.

Starting a Jedi church? Man, that's lame. Really, really, lame. What's worse though, is that all these blokes are pissballing about reckoning they are jedi, wearing all the robes and shit, apparently even playing about with "lightsabers" - but they're such a bunch of pussies, that when one bloke has a go, using may I add a "lightsaber", they all fucking go winging to the bloody police. Booooo hooo, master yoda, those big boys gave me an ow ow..boo hoo. Idiots. Hope they get some debilitating disease. Who wouldn't want to hit them all with a stick?

The small numbers of blood group B in old and Western Europeans
represents western migration by Asian nomadic peoples.
This is most clearly seen in the easternmost Western Europeans,
the Germans and Austrians, who have an unexpectedly high incidence
of blood group B blood compared to their western neighbors.
The highest frequency of blood group B in Germans occurs
in the area around the upper and middle Elbe River, an important
natural boundary between "civilization" and "barbarism"
in ancient and medieval times.

http://www.dadamo.com/napharm/store3/templ...cyclopedia.html

Blood group B is a distinctly non-Indo-European blood type.
In Europe, only two areas with a high rate of blood group B
appear: one among the group of non-Indo-European peoples known
as the Finno-Ugrics (such as the Hungarians and the Finns),
the other among the central
Slavic peoples (Czechs, Southern Poles, and Northern Serbs).
The Viking invaders may have also had a relatively high
percentage of B gene, since many of the towns of Britain and
western Europe that are linked to the coast by internal lines
of communication such as large rivers, have a disproportional
amount of blood group B when compared to the surrounding territory.

http://www.dadamo.com/napharm/store3/templ...cyclopedia.html