On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 17:00:59 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> I finally got babelfish to translate on the 2nd try [after leaving the
> Candian JS site called babelfish.com]. That wasn't news to me, because
> I'd watched the news on PBS.
What is PBS?
> For those of you [in the USA] who would like to be exposed to non-
> American, non-networked news programs, I highly recommend that you
> check your local PBS station schedule. In addition to the BBC News,
> which can be a bit biased, they offer the English language version of DW
> News ... I think that's the correct name ... German News program which
> is done in a very professional manner with neither finger pointing nor
> I-toldja-so nattering. Just a good overview of what happened and most
> likely didn't garner 15 seconds on network news in the USA.
> For those overseas, you may be able to access the DW News {I wish I were
> more sure of the name ... sorry} via cable or ??? where you live. IIRC
Deutsche Welle = German Wave
> something was said a few days ago about that news being put on its own
> cable channel or ??? Since they farm it out, it may be accessible in
> many other areas.
> That said, let's get back to the subject at hand -- the loss of civil
> and human rights in the name of National Security. It's a bit scarey
> ....
Very scarey and creeping into the legislation of other western
democracies, slowly... but...
> If I read (and heard) the court's decisions correctly, US Citizens
> living here in the USA could be designated as "hostile combatants" for
> swinging a baseball bat at the Presidential Cavalcade as it drove by!
Just like the laws they have in Zimbabwe
> Can you imagine how a non-criminal, non-blind, free thinking, freedom
> loving, gun owning American could be classified???
In most civilysed countries a gun owner is classified: a criminal
> It's not a joke ... it's too damn sick to be a joke.
> ====
> On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 19:40:07 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
> wrote:
>> Hi All!
>> http://heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/co/13924/1.html
>> run this through babelfish ...
> -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
Regards, Bastiaan
