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Submission + - Americans prefer time with computers than spouses

Submitted by schliz on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @12:57AM

schliz writes: A Kelton Research survey has found that 65 percent of PC users spend more time in front of their monitors than interfacing with their spouses. In addition, 52 percent of survey respondents reported feelings of "anger, sadness or alienation" during recent experiences with their computers.

Submission + - Inventor of Ramen Noodles dies at 96

Submitted by

LinuxGeek

on Saturday January 06, 2007 @04:30PM

LinuxGeek writes: "Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant Ramen noodles has died at age 96. Slashdoters will surely mourn his passing, and also note the coolest japanese name I've ever heard."

Submission + - Government incompetence

Submitted by

Jumpin' Jock Flush

on Saturday January 06, 2007 @04:19PM

Jumpin' Jock Flush writes: "You think Americans have a naff, incompetent administration. Compare it with the one they have in the UK. This democratic Western government has recent peaks of achievement too incongruous to be believed. Its activities read like a chapter from the Life and Times of Walter Mitty. Among the best and brightest are: 1. Millions of dollars spent on encouraging children, teenagers and other vulnerable citizens to quit drinking; at the same time, abolishing restrictions on pub and bar opening hours. You can now buy a drink, legally, any time of the day or night. 2. Sending a couple to jail for mixing cannabis with chocolate, in medicinal amounts, for the use of unfortunates suffering from multiple sclerosis; at the same time, relaxing the law on the sale and use of cannabis for 'recreational purposes. 3. Urging businesses to produce more manufactured products, while at the same time raising business taxes to penal levels. 4. Naming and shaming divorced fathers who fail to provide maintenance for their offspring; at the same time, not realising that such fathers, collectively owing the government's 'Child Support Agency' many billions of dollars in arrears, regard public naming as a badge of honor. 5. Failure to provide its military personnel with adequate accommodation and medical services. In addition, its combat armour is in such short supply that it has to be shared; its radios are unreliable, its personal arms do not work. At the same, it opens shooting wars on two fronts. Beat that!"

Journal Journal: David Weigel has a fit over a database error 7

Journal by GMontag on Saturday January 06, 2007 @03:47PM

David Weigel is having a laughing fit, at the expense of military famalies, over an Army database error.

Submission + - Freedom of Speech Under Fire in Missouri

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Saturday January 06, 2007 @03:03PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "The Missouri Real Estate Commission (MREC) is challenging the freedom of speech rights afforded online businesses that advertise real estate as their main source of income while allowing other business with similar operations to continue unchecked. [...]
In essence, Missouri's law provides for the preferential treatment of big businesses with other streams of revenue while it punishes smaller operations by forcing them to obtain costly licensing that can take years to quality for. In short, the law squelches small businesses' rights while giving larger, more traditional, operations carte blanche."

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