centerimg title="Okoro OMS-LX100 Digital Entertainment System" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="Okoro OMS-LX100 Digital Entertainment System" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/11/okoro-htpc.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pOkoro has a new HTPC for the masses with the OMS-LX100 Digital Entertainment System. Inside the rather slim exterior, you will find the following specifications :- /p p ul liSingle CableCARD tuner /li liIntel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz processor /li liNVIDIA GeForce 9300 video card/li li4GB RAM /li li7,200RPM SATA hard drive (500GB)/li li7.1-channel high-definition audio support/li liHDMI port/li liDual-layer DVD burner/li/ul p/pEach $1,725 purchase comes with a wireless keyboard that works perfectly fine within a 20-foot radius, and the whole PC is powered by Windows Vista Premium. If you have a little extra bit of dough to spare, you can always replace the front-panel display with a 7" touchscreen display for easier navigation. pa href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/okoro_omslx100_digital_entertainment_system.html#comments"Add a comment/a | From: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/okoro_omslx100_digital_entertainment_system.html"Okoro OMS-LX100 Digital Entertainment System/a | Visit a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"Ubergizmo/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081120195700" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081120195700?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081120195700" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081120195700amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2Fokoro_omslx100_digital_entertainment_system.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cpXzuhgOkQVOl4byJw-fYFdl8ig/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cpXzuhgOkQVOl4byJw-fYFdl8ig/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=sSGOIWau"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=ZNk6qTWt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=ZNk6qTWt" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=Pm4QYY4T"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=pqeVgBUC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=pqeVgBUC" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=KFh7QSsO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=KFh7QSsO" border="0"/img/a /div

img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/emmajane.png alt= pI don't get a lot of fan mail. But I'm pretty sure I just got the world's best intentioned, but poorly thought out, fan letter: /p blockquotep Love yer site, your Drupal work, and omfg, you're even into the Ubuntu doc-team. I think that is the grandest, and I'll likely gawk atcha in DC during DrupalCon where a 3D screensaver / wallpaper, and general graphic homage will be born out due to a slick time lapse photo montage shall ensue, et. al. ;-gt;br / Keep on rockin' in the free world. :-) /p/blockquote pThe identity of this person will forever be known to only two people (me and quot;himquot;), so please don't ask. Although I am a little bit creeped out by this email, this Public Service Announcement isn't about making anyone feel uncomfortable. (I've sent my fair share of weird emails that have been fuelled by inside jokes and caffeine and not at all fuelled by sanity, so I'm hardly one to judge. This person has gotten a quick reply back and knows how I feel about the email.) /p pThis blog post is actually a specific request to please never quot;gawkquot; at me from a distance. Say hello and introduce yourself! I verge on crowd-phobic. I hate having to interact with a room full of pre-clustered people. Delivering a presentation to a few hundred people? No problem. Facilitating huge discussion groups? Love it! But I'd rather have teeth pulled than quot;work a room.quot; So the next time we're both together in the same room, please come up and introduce yourself. I'll be the one sitting in the corner noodling with tech to avoid having to break into a cluster of people and say hi./p

Night of the Cephalopods is a short action game created for the Artsy Games Incubator project, where players assume control over a man who is hounded by Lovecraftian creatures of the octopi type. Contact with these horrors causes your character to lose a little of his sanity, although mental health can be automatically restored by standing still in one spot for a few seconds.
Use the cursor keys to move, and press the space key to fire your shotgun or reload it. The game ends when our hero loses his mind completely, or when you manage to somehow survive until the break of dawn.
Name: Night of the Cephalopods
Developer: Miguel Sternberg
Category: Action
Type: Freeware
Size: 10MB
Direct download link: Click here


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I'm working on a project in imovie and I'm having a bit of trouble. I imported all the clips onto my hard drive through imovie and edited them all down to soundbytes. When i came back only some of them showed up in my media area yet all of the files appear on the hard drive. I've tried a bunch of different things and I'm not having much luck. I feel like it must be something fairly simple and I'm just a little rusty with it. Do you have any ideas? If there is any way you could give me a call or I'd be happy to meet up with you for a few minutes tomorrow. Thanks so much. I hope all is well with you.

This evening we've added our official review for Summit Entertainment's Twilight, the hotly anticipated adaptation to Stephenie Meyer's teen vampire drama. "This entire adaptation was carried through by my wonderful Catherine Hardwicke, who took a shiny little turd and transformed it into a watchable, slightly enjoyable film." You can read the full review, with minor spoilers, by clicking the title above. Don't forget to write your own review and tell other B-D readers what you thought! The film is about a high school girl named Bella falls in love with a vampire. The new couple leads a rival vampire clan to pursue them and attempt to force her to decide if she, too, wishes to become one of the undead.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/84645?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+Brutal+share+sell-off+in+US+as+oil+falls+below+%2450+for+first+time+in+3%26frac12%3B+yearsch=Businessc3=The+Guardianc4=US+economy+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CMarket+turmoil%2CUS+news%2CWorld+news%2CSharesc5=Investments%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CUS+Economyc6=James+Doran%2CLarry+Elliottc7=2008_11_21c8=1121682c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=US+economyc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FUS+economy" width="1" height="1" //divpWall Street suffered its biggest battering in more than 10 years last night, while fears of a long and painful economic slump continued to stalk the markets./ppBoth stockmarket indices in the US - the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Standard Poor's 500 index - closed the day at levels not seen since before the burst of the dotcom bubble in 2000. And the price of oil dropped below $50 a barrel for the first time in 3frac12; years./ppYesterday afternoon, what little confidence remained in the market was sapped by a record rise in US unemployment, and Washington's refusal to offer a financial bail-out to the country's so-called Big Three carmakers./ppIn the final two hours of trading, the sell-off was brutal: the Dow plunged 444.99 points - or 5.6%- to 7552.29. The SP 500 slid 6.7% to 752.44, its lowest close since 1997. Banking shares were perhaps the hardest hit, with Citigroup closing the day down 26%. This latest share collapse left Citigroup - once the biggest bank in the world - with a market value of $25bn. Less than two years ago, the group was worth more than $250bn./ppGM And Ford both closed up but lost massive gains made earlier in the day when the prospect of a bail-out was still on the cards. Their share prices plunged as Paulson revealed his distaste for government intervention in the car market ./pp"No one thinks a failure of any company in [the auto] industry would be a good thing. It's something to be avoided," Paulson said. But: "It doesn't make any sense to put any money in, if there isn't a clear path to viability."/ppThe slumping markets were further buffeted by the worst unemployment data in the US for 16 years. /ppInitial claims for state unemployment benefits were a seasonally adjusted 542,000 in the week to November 15, compared with 515,000 a week before, the biggest weekly increase since 1992. /ppCalifornia had the worst increase, with 15,000 more out of work over the week. New York also posted record gains, with 3,700 newly unemployed people as a large number of layoffs from Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup begin./pp"These numbers are rotten," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard Poor's in New York. He said California's losses were so high because many businesses had been affected by the recent wildfires. America's national unemployment rate is running at 6.5%, while total claims lasting more than one week broke through the 4m mark, to hit a 25-year high./ppTo compound it all, the dollar weakened further still against major currencies. A euro cost $1.2534, up from $1.2526 on Wednesday. /ppIn the oil market, the cost of a barrel of benchmark Brent crude fell by almost $3 to $49.83 on commodity markets. US light crude, which tends to be slightly dearer than Brent, briefly dipped below the $50 level in New York trading./ppThe slump means British motorists are likely to see petrol prices come down by a further 7p a litre before Christmas./ppThe Opec oil cartel is contemplating supply curbs when it meets in Cairo next week, but oil analysts said the prospect of tumbling demand for oil outweighed any possible cut in production. /ppThe RAC said the tumbling cost of crude - dropping almost $100 a barrel since its July peak of more than $147 - would mean that it would be pound;17 cheaper to fill up the average car. But AA spokesman Luke Bodset warned that, while wholesale prices were being pushed down, "they are not necessarily being passed on to the consumer, because the pound has lost a quarter of its value over the last year"./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/useconomy"US economy/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/marketturmoil"Market turmoil/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/shares"Shares/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Businesscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227235575618112102461559266"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Businesscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227235575618112102461559266" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

Great article from the Wall Street Journal's Paul Ingrassia that summarizes how and why the US auto industry fell to pieces. My favorite part was this telling excerpt: In Detroit, amid worker alienation and the "blue-collar blues," Chevies, Fords and Plymouths rattled, rusted and rolled over -- and those were the good ones. The Ford Pinto's gas tank was prone to explode into flames when the car was hit from the rear, making the Pinto the poster product for corporate callousness. In 1978, after three Indiana girls burned to death when their Pinto got rear-ended, Ford became the first company to be indicted for reckless homicide. The company later was acquitted, but public opinion judged the Pinto guilty. For all the Pinto's infamy, perhaps no car better captured America's decade-long haplessness than the pug-ugly AMC Gremlin, which debuted in 1970 and died -- mercifully -- in 1980. The Gremlin's shape, fittingly, was first sketched out by an American Motors designer on the back of a Northwest Airlines air-sickness bag. On Aug. 20, 1979, 18-year-old Brad Alty, fresh out of high school in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, was driving his Gremlin to work when the car broke down. He was two-and-a-half hours late to his first day on the job at a new motorcycle factory that Honda Motor was opening in central Ohio. For the next few weeks, Mr. Alty and his 63 co-workers did little but sweep floors and paint them with yellow lines. Then they started building three to five motorcycles a day. And at the end of each day they would disassemble each bike, piece by piece, to evaluate the workmanship. How Detroit drove into a ditch...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=35197057eefee157cd1df43b7a931fa4p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=35197057eefee157cd1df43b7a931fa4p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=35197057eefee157cd1df43b7a931fa4" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

Firstly, here's a little background on myself. I have been rocking Windows since 3.1 till about 2 months ago. I'm very well versed when it comes to a computer and I'm honestly having a blast learning the beast that is Mac. My main problem so far is hitting the function key to push shortcuts instead of command. Can't seem to shake that habit. One thing I can't figure out is my right side shift key. When I'm typing and there happens to be more than one uppercase letter in the phrase/sentence or whatever....it just stops working. I think I've found the pattern. Every 3rd words that starts out with an uppercase, it just doesnt work. I have to caps lock to get it to work. What's the hell is going on? Is there a setting somewhere?

Thanks for any help, hopefully I don't have a bum mac.

Jamie

OStatic: "The Ubuntu project says that the initial alpha release of Ubuntu 9.04 (the "Jaunty Jackalope") could be available for testing in less than twenty-four hours. Yes, that's a little less than a month after the current, stable version, "Intrepid Ibex" was finalized and formally released."

You may or may not have noticed that I’m actually supposed to be posting here. I’m kinda the Halley’s Comet of the CSBG crew. I turn up very rarely, there’s a brief flurry of excitement and then I vanish for an interminable period of time.

Anyway, one of the reasons for this is that, well, most comics these days just don’t light a fire under me. The blog is called ‘Comics Should Be Good’ after all, and, well, I’m finding that most of what flits under my nose these days is kind of mediocre.

Not bad, per se, just not ‘good’.

Which leads us to Jamie Smart and ‘Space Raoul’.

Jamie Smart is a plucky British cartoonist most known for ‘Bear’ a neat little comic which came out in the wake of Jhonen Vasquez’ ‘Johnny the Homicidal Maniac’ when publishers were scrambling for the next thing which they could trademark and then proceed to smear all over clothing, stickers and lunchboxes and flog off to pimply, middle class goth kids at Hot Topic for a vastly inflated price.

Amongst the wave of forgettable detritus, there was something about ‘Bear’ which made me think it wasn’t the usual load of cobbled-together crap trying in vain to replicate the ‘kowaii’ (cute but scary) work of Japanese artists like Junko Mizuno.

For one thing, it was actually funny, while pretty much everything else could, at best, manage a sort of tired, self referential wink (”Oh, look, it’s a cute teddy bear… but it’s evil… how potently ironic… oh, I may swoon…”), and on the other hand, it was competently executed.

Which brings us back to ‘Space Raoul’.

Space Raoul is a plucky, bold and ever-so-British space hero who travels the galaxy with his trusty pal, Quibble, battling Space Ne’er-do-wells, encountering strange space races and weird space phenomena, and eating cake (possibly some sort of Space cake, but more likely some good, stout-hearted British cake he’s packed especially for the journey). He’s a short, pinkish-red doggy-looking thing with a bubble helmet, a star on his chest and a pipe.

And he’s utterly delightful.

In fact, so euphorically delightful that it took all my efforts to write this review and not just write SPACE RAOUL over and over again in big letters, enthusiastically pounding and flailing my hands, arms, elbows and face into the keyboard.

So yes, the upshot is that, after doing a bunch of ‘Space Raoul’ pieces for a bunch of people, the kindly folks at Slave Labour Graphics have compiled them into a handy-dandy single-volume thing. At first, it seems rather slight, but one thing with Smart is that he crams the story into every spare corner of his page, and there’s quite a bit to read here.

There’s some neat subtexts about imperialism, Britishness, the hubris of the middle-class and so forth, but mostly it’s jolly all-ages space fun which entertains and amuses without talking down to its audience.

If I had one quibble (besides our hero’s trusty co-pilot), it’s that, in replicating stuff that originally appeared in British Tabloid-sized comics into a digest-sized tpb, some of the script does tend towards the teeny. But aside from that, it’s all jolly and pip-pip and what ho.

Do feel free to ‘get amongst it’.

It’s the civilised thing to do.

pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/google_logo.gif"Google put on a full court media push tonight for a major change the company is making to its search experience. According to the a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html"Official Google Blog/a and a very unusual email the company sent out to press, a new feature called Google Search Wiki will launch soon. We're not seeing it yet, but this is what it will do./p pThe feature will allow logged-in users to change the order of search results and mark up search results pages with notes. Only their own results will be changed - unless they click a link to view all Search Wiki notes on a search's page. Very few details are out yet, nothing regarding vandalism, libel, history or other wiki matters. Those are pretty important concerns given that this could become the biggest and most important wiki in the world./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12669amp;cb=12669' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12669amp;n=12669' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p centerobject width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/t8Pl1H0dIXEcolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/t8Pl1H0dIXEcolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object/center pThis isn't Google Labs, this isn't a little project off to the side, apparently there's a Google Search Wiki team and they have access to the primary search results page. We expect this to be a very big deal./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_to_turn_search_into_wik.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/QglDM_n7aiAo2aErx2vhvYbYtpo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/QglDM_n7aiAo2aErx2vhvYbYtpo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=tItw6ilE"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1035" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=VbhAQzPJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=g0r9IkQO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=g0r9IkQO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=g6RZJNY1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=g6RZJNY1" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=vD297bbB"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=vD297bbB" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=7YGtjfoA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=4zwkEqwP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1034" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/Pg_bHGxNRNM" height="1" width="1"/

Hey everyone,

Never make it over here because I'm not lucky enough to have a Mac Pro yet (keyword yet).

So, I have an opportunity to buy an old PowerMac G4. I'm pretty sure it's one of the original machines. I've been told it has VGA, 2 USB and 2 FW ports on it. It doesn't have any HDD or Memory in it, but those can't be too expensive these days. He said there are a couple brackets that are broke, but that its just a little cosmetic.

Price: $20.

Is this worth it? At least it would be fun to play with, right?

I know this is a topic that keeps coming up, but the threads never seem to end with a definitive conclusion.

I'd like to receive my hotmail in the iPhone's mail application. There seem to be four options:

1. Mbox mail, an app you can pay for.

I don't want this because it looks like you can't initiate emails from the contacts app or safari (eg sending a link to someone).


2. Hotmail Plus.

You have to pay, which is fine by me, but a google search comes up with a complaint that it "no longer works", but there is little info about it.


3. Izymail.

I signed up for the trial period. Initially it was great, but became more and more erratic before ceasing to do anything eventually. I created fresh settings, but still no luck. Do paying customers get a better service?



4. Forwarding to gMail.

Not great because many hotmail accounts can't do this, and because you can't delete emails from the hotmail server via the phone.




My question is, should I pay for the full Izymail subscription or hotmail plus? I have no problem with paying for it, but I don't want to pay only to find it still doesn't work.

Who has hotmail working on iPhone, and how?


Thanks everyone..



(PS - can we please not debate the merits or otherwise of hotmail here)

A string of lynchings and attempted lynchings around Bolivia has caused a bit of concern around the country. The latest and most high-profile case [es] took place in the Altiplano town of Achacachi. Reports say that 11 men and women, who were allegedly accused of robbery were captured by local residents and were set ablaze. Two of the accused died, and the other 9 were badly burnt, but were saved when soldiers and the town's mayor pleaded that the lynching should stop.

Unfortunately, this is becoming a common scene, which widely shows up on the television news, as Renzo Colanzi writes [es]:

En Bolivia los linchamientos y la toma de la justicia por propia mano, son hechos comunes que se dan en los noticieros a cualquier hora, sin proteger al televidente de la violencia de las imágenes, sin importarle de la sensibilidad de los más pequeños que puedan presenciarlas. Pareciera que todos hemos creado una cierta barrera que nos permite mirar y permanecer impasibles ante estos hechos terribles. Los policías de Cochabamba se quedaron bien muertos y el caso sin culpables. Lo mismo que en Montero y así podemos encontrar situaciones similares en casi cualquier región del país.

In Bolivia, lynching and taking justice into one's own hands, are common events that can be seen on the news at all hours of the day. The television viewer is not protected from seeing the violent images, and even the smallest child is not protected from watching them. It would appear that we all have created a certain barrier that allows us to watch and remain passive regarding these terrible events. The police in Cochabamba remain dead and the case still has no suspects. It is the same in Montero and we can see similar situations in all regions of the country.

Whether or not lynchings are considered “community justice” is still being debated, and the government has officially condemned the action in Achacachi. They state that taking another life is not part of the indigenous tradition of “community justice.” However, local residents claim that they have little faith in the “ordinary justice” and must take matters into their own hands or the crime will continue. There is also widespread concern because the new draft Constitution, which will be voted upon at a January 25 Referendum, stipulates that “community justice” will be a legal and recognized part of the Bolivian judicial system, that lynchings could continue or even increase and used under the defense of “community justice.”

Erika Pinto places the blame on the government [es] for the lynchings.

Por que el presidente morales, tolera la barbarie, se estaba por quemar a una mujer embarazada, emboscaron y llevaron al stadium a un bus a los 11 supuestos ladrones, se veian gente de escasos recursos, muchas mujeres y gente bastante mayor a juzgar por las imagenes.

Es que acaso esto tambien nos da el derecho de cuando los ponchos rojos hagan las barbaridades que hacen poder matarlos a ellos?

O es que acaso la “nueva ley” funciona en un solo sentido?

Se supone que este gobierno era el que nos iba a llevar a un nuevo siglo de progreso pero solo nos esta llevando a la mas atrasada barbarie posible.

Because President Morales tolerates savagery, they were about to burn a pregnant woman, they ambushed them and took the 11 alleged thieves to the stadium. One could see low-income people, many women, and elderly people judging from the images.

Does this also give us the right when the “ponchos rojos” (members of a paramilitary group of Achacachi) make their savage acts to kill them too?

Or does the “new law” only work in one direction?

It was assumed that this government was going to take us towards a new century of progress, but it is only taking us to most backward savagery possible.

Mario Durán writes about a journalist who reminds people that the accused were not without guilt. [es]

Sin embargo, como lo decia la periodista Amalia Pando en Erbol, no eran unos angelitos, pues las personas que fueron capturadas en Achacachi poseian un frondoso prontuario policial… desde robo hasta robo agravado seguido de muerte.

Sin embargo, al igual que se condena la justicia por mano propia se debe condenar al sistema economico que origina la delincuencia.

Nevertheless, as the journalist Amalia Pando of Erbol says, that these people were no angels, those who were captured in Achacachi had a long police record… from robbery to aggravated robbery and even murder.

Nevertheless, as justice by one's own hands is condemened, so should the ecnomic system where delinquency originates should also be condemned.

Many indigenous groups are attempting to protect the reputation of “community justice.” Via the blog El Alto Noticias [es], blogger Nelson Vilca [es]interviews a member of the Guarayo indigenous group , who states that “community justice” does not mean “taking another life.”

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The iPhone is undoubtedly one of the best mobile phones to watch videos on. So, how about adding TV functionality to your trusty little Apple wonder phone? If you’ve got a TV Tuner installed on your Windows-running PC, then you should check out the OrbLive 2.0 app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. It allows you to stream videos, music, and yes, even TV shows direct from your PC to your handy-dandy iPhone so you can enjoy limitless media content just as long as you’re connected to the internet. Think of it as a more powerful and versatile version of Simplify Media.

Unfortunately, it’s not free. The Orb 2.0 for the iPhone app is now available for download at the App Store and comes with a $9.99 price tag, but it’s free to try out. The desktop client which you’ll need to install on your PC, however, is free of charge, but it’s currently limited to Windows only. So if you’ve been dying to add TV functionality to your iPhone, this is as good as it gets at the moment.

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If you are not already subscribed to IntoMobile, you are missing out on their article titled "Few things I would like to see in the next Nokia Internet Tablet Device."

Some things echo normal community comments and some (1024x600 capacitive touchscreen?) are a little outlandish. Read, comment, and discuss!

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The collapse was likely to have catastrophic consequences including a possible devaluation of the rouble and a severe drop in living standards next year, they said. /ppWith oil prices tumbling and his credibility at stake, Russia's prime minister, Vladimir Putin, yesterday insisted that the economy was still robust. The country would survive the global financial turmoil - which he blamed on the US - he told delegates from his United Russia party./ppBut the Kremlin is aware that any loss of confidence in the Russian economy could lead to a loss of confidence in Putin and his ally Dmitry Medvedev, who took over from Putin as president in May. /ppPutin said his administration would do everything it could to prevent a recurrence of the last oil-related crash in 1998, which saw the savings of many ordinary Russians wiped out. But the plummeting oil price leaves him little room for manoeuvre. Experts suggest Russia's economy is facing profound difficulties, despite two huge stabilisation funds accumulated during the booming oil years. /ppThe fall in oil prices from $147 this July has blown a hole in the government's budget calculations. It is now facing a $150bn shortfall in its spending plans and will have to slash expenditure in 2009. Putin sought to assure hard-up Russians that their social benefits would not be affected. "We will do everything in our power ... so that the collapses of the past years should never be repeated," he said./ppThe oil slump, however, exacerbates Russia's already severe problems. Since May Russian markets have lost 70% of their value. Russia's central bank has spent $57.5bn trying to prop up the ailing currency. "If the trend continues, with the government supporting the rouble, oil prices falling and a slowing economy, we are going to have a major crisis," said Chris Weafer, of the Moscow brokerage Uralsib.br /strongLuke Harding in Moscow/strong/ph2Iran/h2pIran is the second largest Opec oil producer and already feeling the pain of declining prices more than any other in the Middle East. Its "rainy day" oil stabilisation fund, used to release profits when revenues decline, is reportedly badly depleted as a result of mismanagement by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government. The precise figure is a state secret, but a member of parliament revealed recently it was $7bn - just enough to cover one year of imported petrol./ppAhmadinejad has seen two central bank governors resign and faces daily criticism of his policies. A strike by the powerful "bazaari" class over a new VAT tax - which would have aggravated inflation already at nearly 30% - was seen as a warning. Iran is especially vulnerable because 80% of its revenue comes from oil. The IMF calculated recently that for Iran to balance its budget, the price of crude oil must not fall below $95 a barrel. With prices now below $50 the shortfall could be staggering./ppThe effect of declining oil prices will be felt both domestically and internationally. Ahmadinejad is expected to stand for a second presidential term next June but the lack of cash will restrict his plans to replace subsidies with direct cash payments - widely seen as a vote-buying tactic. US and UN sanctions imposed over the nuclear issue are already limiting Iran's ability to issue letters of credit and thus increasing its cost of trade./ppSaudi Arabia has been happy to use high Opec production levels and low prices to contain Tehran's plans for regional hegemony. US experts and lobbyists now talk openly of exploiting the drop in oil prices to make the sanctions more effective.br /strongIan Black, Middle East editor/strong/ph2Saudi Arabia/h2pSaudi Arabia, the world's leading oil producer and exporter, is expected to cut back on current spending and also adjust ambitious long-term development plans in the light of the slump in prices./ppBut cautious fiscal policies will place the kingdom in a relatively strong position, with the current budget based on a price of around $45-50 a barrel. Expansion next year will require around $55-62./ppThe worry must be that in a country with no elections, parliament, political parties or taxes, the combination of slowing development projects and a widening gap between the wealthy elite and ordinary people could be destabilising./ppPublicly, the message from the top has been that there is no need to panic, even as falling prices of crude oil and the global financial crisis were becoming inextricably linked and starting to wreak havoc in the Gulf economies./ppBy mid-November, the stock exchanges of Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait had declined by 62.5%, 50.4% and 29.5% respectively. Kuwait, which sits on 9% of world oil reserves, is expected to see its first budget deficit in 10 years if prices continue to fall. That will mean a long-term incentive to diversify away from oil./ppIn Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, government-run investment funds have also suffered from heavy exposure to US and European stocks. But the UAE's Abu Dhabi Investment Authority has assets of $500bn to $1tn./ppDubai, the glitziest part of the UAE, which has seen an oil-fuelled boom in property but has little oil of its own, is starting to see a slowdown. But some welcome that as a way of reducing the number of foreign expatriates and re-establishing a disappearing sense of national identity.br /strongIan Black, Middle East editor/strong/ph2Venezuela/h2pHugo Chávez has reduced Venezuela's support for foreign allies and is poised to make deeper cuts at home and abroad as plunging oil revenues hit his socialist revolution. The government has warned of austerity measures after years of high spending on social programmes, nationalisations, arms and diplomacy. South America's energy giant relies on oil for half its exports and 95% of government revenue, leaving the president's ambitions vulnerable to a crunch./pp"Oil revenues are the weapons he has been using to fight this war. 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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/41393?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+Bargains+galore+as+Christmas+comes+early+for+shoppersch=Businessc3=The+Guardianc4=Retail+industry+%28Business%29%2CChristmas+%28Life+and+style%29%2CBusiness%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29c5=Unclassified%2CCredit+Crunch%2CBusiness+Marketsc6=Julia+Finch%2CMartin+Wainwright%2CPatrick+Barkhamc7=2008_11_21c8=1121628c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Retail+industryc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FRetail+industry" width="1" height="1" //divpShoppers were lured back on to the high street yesterday as stores slashed prices in an attempt to kickstart the vital Christmas trading period and shift unsold stock./ppIn the annual game of chicken between consumers and stores, the retailers have blinked first. There may still be 34 shopping days until Christmas, but over the past three weeks sales have fallen off a cliff for many retailers. Faced with what some analysts have warned could be the worst Christmas for 30 years as a result of falling house prices, rising unemployment and rock-bottom confidence, retailers have already resorted to price cuts and promotions./ppIt was Marks Spencer's decision to hold a one-day 20% off "spectacular"- for the first time in four years - that prised many reluctant shoppers out of their homes and offices. /ppBut the shop windows in the West End of London were plastered with posters promising bargains. Debenhams was in the middle of a three-day 25% off sale and there were sale signs up in Jane Norman, Mexx, Clarks, H Samuel, and Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group chains, including Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Bhs./ppNew figures from the Office for National Statistics suggested retail sales were proving unexpectedly resilient. The ONS said sales dropped by just 0.1% in October, leaving them 1.9% higher than last year. This was way ahead of forecasts in the City, where analysts had been predicting a slump of 0.9%./ppBut in recent months economists and retailers have repeatedly questioned the accuracy of the ONS figures. Even the Bank of England has suggested the data should be treated with caution./ppDavid Tinsley, an economist with nabCapital, predicted the official figures would soon catch up with reality: "The figure will probably crash around November or December."/ppSurprise sales can anger shoppers who have bought items at full price and yesterday some MS cust