You like to show them who's boss, huh, Ballmer?
Who's the boss, Ballmer?
http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=10804
U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
News Release
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 507-07
April 30, 2007
DoD Names Inspector General
The Department of Defense announced today that Claude M. Kicklighter has been sworn in as the Inspector General replacing Thomas F. Gimble who has been acting inspector general since Sept. 10, 2005.
As Inspector General, Kicklighter by law reports directly to the secretary of defense on matters relating to fraud, waste and abuse in the programs and operations of the department. Also, he will be the DoD representative on the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency and chair the Defense Council on Integrity and Efficiency, the members of which include component heads of the audit, inspection and investigative units of the military departments, and the Inspectors General of the DoD agencies and major components.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907045/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Internet Movie Database
Release dates for
"Scooby Doo, Where Are You!"
What a Night for a Knight (1969)
Country Date
USA 13 September 1969
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907045/
IMDb
The Internet Movie Database
Scooby Doo, Where Are You!: Season 1, Episode 1
What a Night for a Knight (13 Sep. 1969)
Release Date: 13 September 1969 (USA)
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/012345/full/news.2011.525.html
nature
Published online 7 September 2011 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2011.525
News: Explainer
Fukushima's reactor cores still too hot to open
Six months after the disaster that caused three meltdowns, efforts to stabilize the Japanese nuclear power plant continue.
Geoff Brumfiel
On 11 March, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Sendai in Japan, knocking out power at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. In the hours and days that followed, three of the plant's six reactors melted down, triggering a series of explosions and fires at the site. Six months later, what progress has been made to stabilize the plant, and what is yet to be done?
What is happening at the site right now?
On any given day, 2,500-3,000 workers are on site. Many are cleaning up radioactive debris scattered by the explosions. Others are installing and operating systems to decontaminate radioactive water. Still others are erecting a shroud over the Unit 1 reactor, to prevent further contamination from the meltdown spreading to the environment. Similar covers may follow at Units 2 and 3, which also melted down (see Video).
Are the reactors stable?
Not entirely, but they are much more stable than they were six months ago. After the earthquake, the three reactors operating at the time shut down, but their uranium fuel continued to decay and release heat. The systems that keep the fuel cool in an emergency stopped working, and in the first hours after the accident the fuel became so hot that it probably melted. The melting is thought to have created a mess at the bottom of the reactors and released hydrogen gas that eventually ignited, causing explosions.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/corpinfo/overview/history-e.html
TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY
Corporate Information
History
March 26, 1971 TEPCO's first nuclear power facility, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station's No. 1 reactor (460 MW) began operation
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Internet Movie Database
Release dates for
The Day After (1983) (TV)
Country Date
USA 20 November 1983
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085404/quotes
IMDb
The Internet Movie Database
Memorable quotes for
The Day After (1983) (TV)
Joe Huxley: You know what Einstein said about World War III? He said he didn't know how they would fight World War III, but he knew how they would fight World War IV: With sticks and stones.
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/sep/23/news/mn-48746
Los Angeles Times
Tennessee Narrowly Dodged Bullet in Tense '72 Hijack Episode
Crime: Three desperate men threatened to crash a commandeered passenger jet into a nuclear reactor to get airline to meet their ransom demands.
September 23, 2001|DUNCAN MANSFIELD | ASSOCIATED PRESS
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Twenty-nine years ago, hijackers took over an airliner with 27 passengers and four crew aboard and threatened to crash into the government's nuclear weapons production complex in Oak Ridge.
"They let us know that if we didn't have the money by X hour then we were going to dive into Oak Ridge," co-pilot Harold Johnson recalled from his Memphis home. "And there was no doubt in my mind that we would have done just that."
"My thoughts were, 'Gee whiz, four airplanes. That's bad.' But it could have been 20 airplanes. Whoever put this together could have had 20 airplanes just as easily as he had four," he said.
But unlike the recent hijackers, the three Americans who took control of Johnson's Memphis-to-Miami-flight had little training and virtually no plan. They did have guns, a hand grenade and a grudge against Detroit, where two of them had been charged with rape.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2010120629_microsoft23.html
The Seattle Times
Originally published October 23, 2009 at 12:17 AM | Page modified October 23, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Windows 7 launch has a warm and fuzzy touch
By Sharon Pian Chan
Seattle Times technology reporter
NEW YORK — After incurring the wrath of unhappy Windows Vista users, Microsoft has embarked on a strategy for Windows 7 that amounts to a public hug.
During Thursday's high-profile launch of the new operating system, the Windows Web site was turned over to a never-ending Twitter and Facebook stream of breathless updates about Windows 7.
A new ad campaign features customers and developers saying, "I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea." — a reference to customer feedback Microsoft used to design the new software.
Kylie, the 5 ½-year-old who gave new meaning to "early adopter" in Microsoft's TV commercials, introduced Chief Executive Steve Ballmer at the event. He gave her a pink laptop and she gave him a hug.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_tourism
Wikipedia [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Sex tourism
Sex tourism is travel to engage in sexual activity with prostitutes. The World Tourism Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, defines sex tourism as "trips organized from within the tourism sector, or from outside this sector but using its structures and networks, with the primary purpose of effecting a commercial sexual relationship by the tourist with residents at the destination".
Attractions for sex tourists can include reduced costs for services in the destination country, along with either legal prostitution or indifferent law enforcement, and access to child prostitution.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2004266049_mix07.html
Originally published March 7, 2008
Microsoft's Ballmer dances, jokes and tackles all the subjects in onstage interview
By Benjamin J. Romano
Seattle Times technology reporter
Ballmer took questions on stage at Mix, the company's conference for Web developers — an increasingly important constituency as advertising-driven online software comes to the fore. So important that Ballmer reprised his early-2000s "Monkey Boy" persona
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063950/quotes
IMDb
The Internet Movie Database
Memorable quotes for
"Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" (1969)
[repeated line]
Assorted villains: ...and I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 5:19 PM Pacific Time USA Monday 30 April 2012
