"Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access. The Finnish people are also legally guaranteed a 100Mb broadband connection by the end of 2015."
Yes please!
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Imagine constructing our world from such materials, resulting in lighter and stronger cars, tinier computers, super capacitors, more efficient flexible batteries, more powerful solar panels, practical fuel cells, super-strong composite materials, and maybe even a Spider-Man suit. The breakthrough? Honda says it can manufacture such nanotubes with a 91% success rate, compared to the 25 to 50% success rate currently possible.
I can imagine such amazing breakthroughs, but also some pretty inventive horrors will come of this. But isn't that the way of all technology
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Six Apart resurrects Pownce in new microblogging platform
Seems to have potential for building branded communities, we'll have to see how user-friendly it is though.
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The Royal Air Force has accidentally killed a young girl in Afghanistan — by dropping a box of leaflets on her. The British Ministry of Defence is carrying out a full investigation. Meanwhile, the seemingly antiquated practice of leaflet bombing continues. In the 21st century, it remains one of the primary tools of psychological warfare; U.S. Special Operations Command is even looking to build leaflet-carrying missiles. And while top American commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal has virtually banned “kinetic” air strikes, paper bombs are in regular use.
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A psychiatrist who studies violence and trauma has revealed the results of a long-range study of the intelligence of children who were spanked. Murray Straus of the University of New Hampshire says that even a little spanking adversely affects the intelligence of the children years after the event.
This is such a tricky debate I feel. The theory has some merit. Yes, if you were to beat a kid, or animal, or even human, long enough, you develop a submissive pattern in the individual that will negate creative and critical thinking, leading to lower IQs. This would be why I do not spank my children for every little infraction.
It also cannot be denied that in nature, negative reinforcement, such as pain or fear protecting us from harm, exists for a reason. Examples being a child touching a hot stove, broken glass, etc. Spanking is an enforced version of this, the idea being to teach them to not do something. I'm not sure which is right or wrong, but I do feel that no real harm came to me, and I might have even learned a few things.
Of course, I might have been a genius if not for the spankings, maybe I should sue
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Video: Will Ferrell stands up for the real health care victims
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An autonomous fighter jet called a Reaper was shot down over Northern Afghanistan last weekend after it went AWOL and attempted to fly outside Afghan airspace
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Robotic bed makes standing up a thing of the past
Yet, one more step closer to total completely dying from entropy
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New virus from rats can kill 80 per cent of human victims
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