If you're going to accuse somebody of a criminal act, it's always a good idea to get their side of the story. http://blog.gont.com.ar/

When she was contacted by the Consulate, I'm sure they informed her of this:

and

Her blog states:

So, was a police report filed? This seems pretty straight forward and that the Polish Police have to take a report. According to the blog they were "blah blah" So, according to the blog, no. If she had any discussion with a member of the US Consulate they would have had this discussion. If she felt so violated then why didn't she file a report? It's her right and the consulate would stand behind her. why? Also her comments "Blah blah" regarding the police and not being interested are contrary of the US government's position and own documents. Sorry, this looks like a he said/she said unless there's anything else that wants to put out there.

Speaking of putting this out there, without anybody else coming forward with something, a picture a copy of a police report a criminal court proceeding, maybe Fernando her getting hauled away in cuffs perhaps? No? Why not? There's camera phones, there's other people involved who are still not being named, maybe they don't exist? I'd love to see the video, where is the video that everybody supposedly has seen? Wait, only her word?

I'm sorry she got hurt, bruised... It sounds like she gave as good as she received though (bad choice of words?)

Again, don't put this guy on trial without evidence and statements from witnesses. Also, who here thought DSK was guilty of assault on that maid in NYC from just the press reports? Was he ever on trail for it? No. He was acquitted.

I'm going to now go get some popcorn and watch the twitterscape on this one. IMO, she's an intelligent person, well respected in her field and in terms of handling this episode, as traumatic as it sounds, she really didn't handle the situation well and now she's using the web to try her case. I haven't looked anywhere else but does anybody have something more than a twitter posting about this from somebody else that was there? How about some pictures.. I'm putting on my Don Henley music now.

I think that 1) It's sad that it happened and 2) it's great that she defended herself! I'm not saying don't defend yourself. I have a daughter and three sons. Who's the toughest of the four? My daughter and she's not the oldest nor youngest in the group. Then again, yours truly taught her to throw a punch.

I agree, if the guy is a criminal, then have him prosecuted but this person decided not to do and is now airing her complaints in the court of public opinion. IMO you can't convict somebody of a criminal act unless you're in a court of law. So, she needs to take her evidence, her witnesses and file a complaint. If she's not willing to do it, then there's something else going on but again, she should be talking to the authorities, even if she was in another country. Shit, why didn't anybody else who was with her do it? I haven't hesitated one second from calling the local police when I've seen a crime (or been a victim of it)

So, even if it came down to "mutual assault" the cops will side with the woman, except if you're in countries that treat women like mules. I will give the people, especially the authorities in Poland the benefit of the doubt in that case.

Magic of caching..

Okay Fernando = Dick.

"Never Mind" - Emily Latilla

Been drinking a bit too much caffeine today?

While this alleged incident is reprehensible, I don't think it warrants going John Wayne Bobbit on the perp. It's no excuse for the behavior however I do wonder why from the blog posting there's this:

Okay, this raises a few questions, no names mentioned, no charges filed and I guess maybe the Police were involved or not but... shit, the blog posting reads more like "The Vagina Monologues" and goes wandering around. It may make a great chapter in an upcoming novel but I'm not discounting what she's saying either, it just doesn't ring true when you won't say "Look, this MF named Mr. ______ tried to rape me. And these other folks ______ _______ saw it." Look, if you're assaulted go to the authorities, file charges and name names. If this guy is a bad apple and he needs to be called out otherwise this is an incident that *maybe* happened and without at least some other folks stepping forward and saying "yeah, I saw it" or "yeah, he raped me" then these can be considered hearsay or fiction. If you're going to put it in a Blog, put the names down for Christ sake.. Shit last year two guys making jokes were lambasted as being chauvinists all across the Internet for something that is magnitudes less significant than this supposed incident. You know what, I call that offensive but it's also free speech.

Now, I'm not condoning violence against women, especially Rape but let's also not forget how lynchings start and recently the infamous case of DSK and how that all fell apart. Yeah DSK was(or is) a womanizer and probably didn't deserve all the BS he received, or maybe he did: including losing his position with the World Bank. I kind of put these kinds of stories in along with what Roseann Barr did a few years ago with "Repressed Memories."

So please put the chainsaw down and look objectively at what this person and their story and certainly cheer for her standing up to this guy but don't start eviscerating every guy out there.
 

According to my Ghostery window right now for this page. I have blocked:

Three Double Clicks.
One Google Adwords
One Google Analytics
One Scorecard Beacon
and Four Jainrain

Anybody ever try it on Weather.com or CNN.com? Everybody is into tracking..

"To Serve Man, ... It's a Cookbook!"

LOL, so your traffic will go in a perpetual loop around the world with no where to get out. Reminds me of the X.25 days...

I think he died of asphyxiation from having a small dog stuck in his throat.

That and probably the fact that they priced it outrageously. OS/2 2.0 was great, OS 2 3.0 even better then ultimately WARP but by then Windows and Windows NT were eroding the marketplace. I've spent years writing software for Windows and OS/2 and technically in some areas, OS/2 was much better and in others, not so much. IBM didn't really push the home consumer market but they were big in the corporate world where they still sold a lot of mid-range and mainframe systems. That and a lot of Token Ring crap as well and that's where IBM pushed the O/S. They could have competed much better but IBM had been their hardware groups split up, PCs (PS/2 w/Microchannel), Midrange and Mainframe and the Software group was split from that. PS/2 systems were priced higher and had higher margin vs. COTS Clone PCs which were gaining in market share. I remember going to computer fairs in Southern California in the late 80s / early 90s and you could literally get bidding wars between vendors across the aisle for your business for a 386 or 486 based system. IBM didn't play in that arena and Windows 3.1 for example had an MSRP of $149 when it came out in 1992.. and nobody really paid that in the wholesale market (I used to get legal copies for less than $100 and threw them in on PC hardware deals) OS/2 2.0 was originally started by Microsoft at the time they were partners with IBM but that became estranged when IBM saw their development money being funneled over to this Windows NT thingy. They broke up and IBM released OS/2 1.3, the first release completely done by IBM as well as OS/2 2.0 in 1992. From what I remember, OS/2 2.0 was about $500 for the software and at the time when you could get a screamer 486DX based system for less than $1000 with Windows 3.x in the early 90s a PS/2 loaded with OS/2 2.0 was well over $3000. Businesses would pay that and get the nice IBM support along with it, but not the home consumer market. When Windows 95 came out it was lights out for IBM and OS/2 in the consumer market.

Microsoft and their tactics didn't help but rather than fight in the marketplace, IBM chose to keep pushing the higher margin business deals. Their cost structure was higher of course and that was also a big issue in their competitive edge. Yes, Microsoft was disreputable in their dealings with IBM around OS/2 and the PC market, that's now part of history. It should be pointed out that IBM's corporate history isn't exactly squeeky clean when it comes to some of their business dealings either.
 

Pavarotti is already dead.

Wikipedia is a source of information but it's not necessarily the definitive source of information.

Teller could beat that anyday and he was conducting experiments with radioactive materials and nuclear devices in Project Chariot.

Let's also not forget he suggested using nukes do close off the Straits of Gibraltar to make the Mediterranean Sea rise, freshen and then irrigate the Sahara.

He did of course acknowledge that this would mean losing Venice and other sea-level cities along the Mediterranean.

Let's also not forget that it was his assertions on Lasers and orbiting Nukes that got Reagan thinking about Star Wars...

When this professor gets his own Nationally funded lab, personnel, materials and access to the White House and Congress, then we start worrying.

Just sayin.. Build Skynet.. Massively distributed and with the added bonus of viral tendencies it'll take over the other Exascale computing resources in no time.

You bring up a good point and part of the reason why Livermore, Sandia and Los Alamos have those nice big supercomputers testing decay rates and doing simulations on warheads.

There's an interesting device in the Bradbury Science Museum aka the Atomic Museum in Los Alamos, It's a phone..

Anyway, from this: http://www.nationaltlcservice.us/2013/05/report-from-the-hilltop-highlights-of-the-los-alamos-bradbury-science-museum-museum-profile-1/

The DOE still has quite a few on the Top 500 List..