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FPC New Features 2.6.0 - Lazarus wiki
Free Pascal Compiler 2.6.0 has been released and adds many post-Delphi 7 language features and adds or improves the support for various platforms. (wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org)submitted 3 hours ago by mariuz10 commentssharesavehidereport
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http://faculty.up.edu/lulay/failure/vasacasestudy.pdf
Why The Vasa Sank: 10 Lessons Learned Introduction
Around 4:00 PM on August 10th, 1628 the warship Vasa set sail in Stockholm harbor on its maiden voyage as the newest ship in the Royal Swedish Navy. After sailing about 1300 meters, a light gust of wind caused the Vasa to heel over on its side. Water poured in through the gun portals and the ship sank with a loss of 53 lives. The Vasa lay in shallow waters of Stockholm harbor (at 32 meters depth) and after initial attempts to salvage it failed, was largely forgotten until it was located by Anders Franzen in 1956 [1]. In 1961, 333 years after it sank, the Vasa was raised and was so well preserved that it could float after the gun portals were sealed and water and mud were pumped from it. Today it is housed in a museum specially built for it, near the site where it foundered [6]. -
Hit French movie 'Intouchables' has some crying 'racism' - latimes.com
But the reaction from some U.S. critics has many French scratching their heads.
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Although the courts have recognized the relationship between the protection of reputation and the concern for personal privacy, it appears that in deciding whether a court will "unmask" anonymous bloggers for allegations of defamation, the court will assess whether the public interest favoring disclosure outweighs the legitimate interests of freedom of expression and right to privacy of the persons sought to be identified.
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Technology News: Emerging Tech: Will 2012 See the Last Big, Bold CES?
I was on the advisory council for Comdex the year it failed, and the reasons were similar to what now plagues CES. The show was ill timed, it had become too broad, and the major players just didn't see the point anymore. Microsoft's pullout from CES after this year indicates the show is trending down and will likely need to be rethought for this century if it is to survive and prosper.
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Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies - Salon.com
As I’ve written about before, America’s election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state. The worst attributes of our political culture — obsession with trivialities, the dominance of horserace “reporting,” and mindless partisan loyalties — become more pronounced than ever. Meanwhile, the actually consequential acts of the U.S. Government and the permanent power factions that control it — covert endless wars, consolidation of unchecked power, the rapid growth of the Surveillance State and the secrecy regime, massive inequalities in the legal system, continuous transfers of wealth from the disappearing middle class to large corporate conglomerates — drone on with even less attention paid than usual.
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Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
One of the more famous suppressed films of recent years is Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, an early work by writer/director Todd Haynes (Safe, Velvet Goldmine, Far from Heaven). Filmed in 1987, the short film -- which relates the rise and fall of Karen Carpenter with a cast of Barbie dolls -- barely got a year's worth of festival time in 1989 before the twin iron boots of A&M Records and Richard Carpenter came down on Haynes.* [more inside]posted by Trurl at 7:51 PM - 25 comments
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