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Comment: Re:Missing Option (Score 1) 178

by zhilla2 (#34667714) Attached to: In my house, Santa mostly ...

Meanwhile, back here in parts of ex-Yugoslavia, Christmas gained in popularity in the 90's (if you celebrate New Year, you're a commie :)), but it seems to dwindle again a bit.
While Church was in opposition during communism, here in Croatia has quite made up in the last 20 years. In my town of Split they opened around 20 churches during this period funded by the state, yet no new elementary schools have been opened. On the other side, people are starting to be fed up by them for literally glorifying any corrupt politician that needs their support and has a christian prefix. And when I say corrupt politician, I mean, our "ex-prime minister in prison in Austria for laundring money" corrupt.

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Oil spill IT disasters: Chevron modeling crashes ->

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DMandPenfold writes "Chevron has been given the go-ahead to drill off the UK coast in the North Sea, in spite of the oil giant’s admission that its spill prediction software constantly crashes and is not a reliable predictor of how far oil could travel if an accident took place.

The news comes as an inquiry into BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill was derailed by one of the company's IT constractors. National Oilwell Varco, a firm that offers modeling software, rejected US government demands to provide access to its proprietary HiTech application. It said that handing over the code would..."

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Comment: Re:Profiling (Score 1) 1135

by zhilla2 (#34262050) Attached to: TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old

Crotian plane hijackers were not Muslims. There were two, one in 73 and one in 76. Don't know about the first one, but the second one was a Croatian separatist (from Yugoslavia) got released in 2008. and was welcomed in (now independent) Croatia as hero by many, mostly by (mid-to-far) right wing crowd, who are often seen carrying Ustashe (WW2 Nazi collaborationist movement) insignia. Irony was that since some modern history rewrites, they didn't know that these hijackers were actually the revolutionary forces with more of democratic left stance who fought the what they perceived the nationalist Serbian dominance in Yugoslavia.
They were indeed a fraction in the Croatian independence movement, as many other were strict pro-ustashe. But, both were equally hunted down by Yugoslavian secret service (UDBA), moderates and extremist the same, and is today one of the (arguably overblown) reason Croats do not remember time in Yugoslavia fondly.

Comment: Re:Intravenous (Score 1) 500

by zhilla2 (#34154616) Attached to: I drink too much...

That might not be true. For those people, its not about the % of alcohol fumes in breath (breathalyzer) but the result of alcohol beverage in digestion effects to mum's nose. Medicinal alcohol has almost no smell (and certainly 1 liter of wine smells 100 times worse than 0.1 liter of 70% alcohol after being digested/injected)

http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/6/918.full
"His main reasons for injecting were the rapid effect and avoiding the smell of alcohol on his breath because his hostel prohibited alcohol use."

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