Missing Man Pages Poject

Why the artificial intelligence community hates the Loebner Prize

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights report on How Changes to U.S. Law & Policy Since 9/11 Erode Human Rights and Civil Liberties

The art, books, photographs and manuscripts found in Andre Breton's apartment are being auctioned off.
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Richard Perle resigns in conflict of interest scandal

Multi-stage Programming

"Multi-stage languages internalize the notions of runtime program generation and execution. Thus, multi-stage languages provide the programmer with the essence of partial evaluation and program specialization techniques, both of which have been shown to lead to dramatic resource-utilization gains in a wide range of applications, starting from implementations of domain-specific compilers, to high-performance operating systems. Multi-stage languages make it possible to write generic and highly- parameterized programs that do not pay unnecessary runtime overheads."

Human Rights Watch Demolishes US Case On status of Prisoners in Camp X-Ray

US Argument: "The Geneva Conventions do not apply to a war against terrorism."

Human Rights Watch response: "The U.S. government could have pursued terrorist suspects by traditional law enforcement means, in which case the Geneva Conventions indeed would not apply. But since the U.S. government engaged in armed conflict in Afghanistan - by bombing and undertaking other military operations - the Geneva Conventions clearly do apply to that conflict. By their terms, the Geneva Conventions apply to "all cases of declared war or of any other armed conflict which may arise between two or more of the High Contracting Parties." Both the United States and Afghanistan are High Contracting Parties of the Geneva Conventions"

The "prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, where 641 men (nine of whom are British citizens) are held, breaches no fewer than 15 articles" of the Geneva convention

Trying Some Real Work with OCaml

Sporks Are Godlike

Two Nobel Peace Prize laureates arrested at a White House protest

"You have two choices: live under US domestic policy; or live under US foreign policy." :(

That doesn't matter!

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The Unseen Gulf War

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An Analysis of a Compromised Honeypot

The real reason for [the Iraq war] is this administration's goal of preventing further Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) momentum towards the euro as an oil transaction currency standard... This essay will discuss the macroeconomics of the `petro-dollar' and the unpublicized but real threat to U.S. economic hegemony from the euro as an alternative oil transaction currency.