http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/ jadzilla's recent comments & reviews on StumbleUpon en-us Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:59:45 -0700 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:02:40 -0700 http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/ http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:03:41 -0700 http://www.xkcd.com/472/ http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/review/25098178/ http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.xkcd.com/472/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:43:19 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/05/metallica.popandrock http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/review/25097604/
"St Anger happened because it had to happen," says Hetfield. "It sounds very disjointed to me when I listen to it now. One-dimensional. Relentless. And that's exactly how we felt at the time: we were disjointed, and I think the resentment we felt towards each other was relentless.""]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/05/metallica.popandrock Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:37:55 -0700 http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN0334404520080904?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0 http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/review/25095954/
Good riddance. I will never forget the vile headlines they printed while my country was being ravaged by the zionist war-machine in 2006 (I was doing a summer @ NYU at the time). Heinous.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSN0334404520080904%253FpageNumber%253D1%2526virtualBrandChannel%253D0 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:30:07 -0700 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26544510/ http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/review/25095755/
He was referring to the notorious Paris fortress in which French kings could arbitrarily imprison opponents until it was stormed on July 14, 1789, at the start of the French Revolution.

The decree says the aim is to centralize and analyze data on people aged 13 or above who are active in politics or labor unions, who play a significant institutional, economic, social or religious role, or who are "likely to breach public order."

The information that can be collected includes addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, physical appearance, behavioral traits, fiscal and financial records, and details about people who have personal ties with the subject."]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26544510/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:55:28 -0700 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4629152.ece http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/review/25094928/
In February 2004 he stabbed to death a Zurich-based air traffic controller who was on duty the night that Kaloyev's wife and two children died in a mid-air collision.

The Swiss court that sentenced him to eight years in prison heard grisly details of the revenge attack: Kaloyev had turned up at the home of the controller, showed him pictures of his dead family, then plunged a 14cm (5in) blade into the man's stomach, heart and face.

Released early for good behaviour, Kaloyev has been drawn from his own tragedy and crime into the mess of the Russian-Georgian war. As soon as Russian radio announced that South Ossetia was coming under Georgian attack he got into his ministerial car and drove through the Caucasus mountains to join his fellow-Ossetians. Kaloyev, said his neighbours, has gone to war - again."]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4629152.ece Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:52:59 -0700 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1047481/Living-humans-taught-dogs-morals-say-scientists.html http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/review/25094860/ This is a strange article. It doesn't say what about the behavior in the first study suggests it's been picked up from contact with humans. What if aversion to inequity is instinctual? The second study is also strange. Doesn't that say more about our ability to pick up the cues, then dogs' ability to communicate their emotions to us (I assume that was the point of the author. I doubt that their ability to communicate emotional states was ever in doubt...)?

Science journalism is always so frustrating...]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1047481/Living-humans-taught-dogs-morals-say-scientists.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:41:02 -0700 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080904-selfish-driving-causes-everyone-to-pay-the-price-of-anarchy.html http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/review/25071328/
In a paper set to be published in an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters, physicists Hyejin Youn and Hawoong Jeong, along with computer scientist Micheal Gastner, look at the result of self-interested drivers traveling on both hypothetical and real-world networks. The abstract describes what happens very clearly:

Uncoordinated individuals in human society pursuing their personally optimal strategies do not always achieve the social optimum, the most beneficial state to the society as a whole. Instead, strategies form Nash equilibria which are often socially suboptimal. Society, therefore, has to pay a price of anarchy for the lack of coordination among its members."

They should come and make a study of Lebanese driving. Warning: High researcher turnover expected.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080904-selfish-driving-causes-everyone-to-pay-the-price-of-anarchy.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:50:18 -0700 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3591626,00.html http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/review/25069853/ http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%252C7340%252CL-3591626%252C00.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:42:14 -0700 http://www.indianexpress.com/story/355138.html http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/review/25069633/
The Ministry of Labourâ€s website boasts a worker â€oebreak” period from 12.30 pm to 3 pm in July and August, when temperatures surge above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Yet it fails to mention that the break used to extend until 4.30 pm, before construction companies lobbied the government. Corporate pressure is all the more egregious as most megaproject developers pay no taxes, and many are owned 100 per cent by ruling Emirati governments.

Further, the U.A.E. has failed to put in practice a minimum wage, as required by its own 1980 labour law. Migrant construction labourers, likely the country's lowest-paid workers, make between $1.40 to $4.00 a day in an economy projected to invite $1.9 trillion in building. No standardised regulation exists for worker's wages, sanitation, job safety, and medical care. "]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.indianexpress.com/story/355138.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:37:40 -0700 http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=53140 http://jadzilla.stumbleupon.com/review/25069496/
Only recently has the plight of our workers in this country got extensive media coverage. But one wonders whether there has been enough commotion for people at the right places to get motivated enough to address their problems in earnest. It is a comforting fact that the Foreign Affairs adviser is in Kuwait, welcomed to that country almost two months after the first batch of Bangladeshi workers returned home, battered and bruised at the hands of Kuwait policemen, for demanding their rightful due. They were not even accorded the minimum human dignity to collect their personal belongings before being repatriated."]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.thedailystar.net/story.php%253Fnid%253D53140