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Comment Tax Administration (Score 1) 548

The Dutch will probably vote for the Dutch taxes administration. They mess up big stuff (data loss), random stuff (you don't exist / you have no house / we don't like you), driving-you-insane-stuff (give us back all we ever paid you because of erased checkboxes) and they're not friendly about anything. Their slogan was literally "we can't make it more fun, but we can make it easier" for more than 2 decades, but since the accidents they just shut up and have no slogan at all anymore, offering a mea culpa every year or so and still not solving it. When you're not affected, it's a good laugh with all the clumsiness :)

Comment Mexican Flu (Score 1) 607

In The Netherlands, it's officially called "Mexican Flu / Mexicaanse Griep". The meat industry indeed made an official statement that eating pig's meat is still safe, and the government backed that statement by finding a new name.
It's funny.  Laugh.

Spammers Say the Darndest Things 115

The Narrative Fallacy writes "Bill Sweetman has a tongue-in-cheek post about how a few years ago he started collecting some of the more outlandish and amusing email subject lines from the many thousands of spam emails he received promoting various 'solutions' related to his private parts. Sweetman, a Canadian internet marketeer now working for Tucows gets a guilty pleasure from the copywriting 'skills' of the spammers. 'Sometimes the writing is clever. Sometimes it is accidentally funny. And sometimes it's just plain bizarre.' Sweetman writes that it takes a certain twisted creative genius to make your spam message stand out from the rest. and gives us ten of his favorite spam subject lines as well as his would-be replies to the messages. Favorites spam subject lines include 'Small friend is for hiding, big friend is for showing off' and Sweetman's reply: 'Even if the product they are pitching works as promised, I still don't think I would be walking around the neighborhood showing off the results.'"

Comment Why not ? (Score 1) 102

Maybe, in the far future, we can have ipv12 where all trees will be interconnected to combat infestations and maybe even our own imune system hooked to ipv2^n so we can finally deal with food poisoning.
Space

This Is the Way the World Ends 394

Dave Knott writes "The CBC's weekly science radio show Quirks and Quarks this week features a countdown of the top ten planetary doomsday scenarios. Nine science professors and one science fiction author are asked to give (mostly) realistic hypotheses of the ways in which the planet Earth and its inhabitants can be destroyed. These possibilities for mankind's extinction include super-volcanoes, massive gamma ray bursts, and everybody's favorite, the killer asteroid. Perhaps the most terrifying prediction is the reversal of the Earth's magnetic field (combined with untimely solar activity), a periodic event which is currently 1/4 million years overdue."
Biotech

Submission + - DNA vaccine may treat multiple sclerosis (www.ctv.ca)

GSASoftware writes: "Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a serious, as-yet incurable neurological disease which causes blindness, paralysis and other serious symptoms. In a new development, a neuroimmunology researcher in Montreal has developed a therapeutic DNA vaccine. The cause of the disease is not fully understood, but it appears to be auto-immune. If a DNA vaccine can be an effective therapy for this auto-immune disease, is it possible that DNA vaccines could treat other auto-immune diseases like Crohn's, eczema, and others?"

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