February 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
“This ain’t Aruba, bitch.” - Bunk (The Wire: Unconfirmed Reports.)
Entertainment Weekly, ”The Wire”: Bright Lies, Big City:
“Last night’s epigraph - ”This ain’t Aruba, bitch” - was delivered by a slurring Bunk at the bar. All those black bodies found in the rowhouses aren’t enough to warrant a continued investigation, and Bunk, McNulty, and Lester tried to drink away their disgust. Perhaps if those bodies had been white; better yet, if just one of those bodies had belonged to a white teenage cheerleader who had gone missing on an island spring break. Now that would warrant front-page news despite being a cold case for months now.”
(Zie ook: Missing white woman syndrome.)
Tags: aruba,crime,joran van der sloot,media,mwws,natalee holloway,nl,the wire,tv,usa
December 4th, 2007 · Comments Off
Ben Wallace-Wells, How America Lost the War on Drugs:
“The drug war, in the end, has been undone in no small part by the sweeping and inflexible nature of its own metaphor. At the beginning, in the days of Escobar, the campaign was a war as seen from the situation room, a complicated assault that spanned multiple fronts, but one which had identifiable enemies and a goal. Today, the government’s anti-drug effort resembles a war as seen from the trenches, an eternal slog, where victory seems not only unattainable but somehow beside the point. For the drug agents and veterans who busted Escobar, the last decade and a half have been a slow, agonizing history of defeat after defeat, the enemy shifting but never retreating. “You get frustrated,” Joe Toft, a former DEA country attache in Colombia, tells me. “We’ve never had a true effort where the U.S. as a whole says, ‘We’re never going to crack this problem without a real demand-reduction program.’ That’s something that’s just never happened.”"
Zie ook: Smartest Drug Story of the Year
Tags: colombia,crime,economics,latin america,mexico,usa,war on drugs
November 14th, 2007 · Comments Off
Alan Krueger, What Makes a Terrorist:
“Why is an economist studying terrorism? I have two answers. First, participation in terrorism is just a special application of the economics of occupational choice. Some peo ple choose to become doctors or lawyers, and others pursue careers in terrorism. Economics can help us understand why.
The second answer is that, together with Jörn-Steffen Pischke, now at the London School of Economics, I studied the outbreak of hate crimes against foreigners in Germany in the early 1990s. Through this work, I concluded that poor economic conditions do not seem to motivate people to par ticipate in hate crimes.”
Tags: alan krueger,crime,economy,education,poverty,terrorism
February 15th, 2007 · Comments Off
rolnummer: 362024: “De term “maffiamaatje” en de stelling dat mr. Moszkowicz vriendschappelijke betrekkingen met de onderwereld heeft zijn weliswaar beledigend en voor een advocaat uiterst schadelijk, maar vinden voldoende steun in het toen beschikbare feitenmateriaal.”
Tags: bram moszkowicz,crime,jort kelder,nl,quote
January 30th, 2007 · Comments Off
Wired: “I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI.”
(Update: deel 2 en deel3.)
Tags: crime,fbi,security,undercover,usa
May 3rd, 2006 · Comments Off
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” neo-urbanism action drama “
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“De Endstra Tapes beslaan 254 pagina’s en zijn opgenomen in periode tussen 20 maart 2003 en 28 januari 2004. “
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“In this period the three mayor search engines requested more than one million pages of the tree, from more than hundred thousand different URLs. “
Tags: adidas,advertising,amsterdam,bots,crime,dmwh,nl,search,video,web,willem endstra
March 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Hoewel de directe effecten op de economie - denk aan extra consumptie in de horeca - klein zijn, kunnen goede prestaties op het veld indirect wel degelijk een economie stimuleren.”
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“Van alle Amsterdamse fietsen die worden gestolen, wordt na intensieve controles 0,68 procent teruggevonden. Preventie tegen diefstal helpt echter wel.”
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“In the new show, Chef is brainwashed by the “Super Adventure Club” - thought to be a veiled reference to Scientology.”
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“Flickr Backup is a utility that allows you to download the pictures you have uploaded to Flickr back down to your computer for personal backup or restore.”
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“American’s increasing acceptance of religious diversity doesn’t extend to those who don’t believe in a god, according to a national survey by researchers in the University of Minnesota’s department of sociology.”
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“A new jet engine design able to fly seven times the speed of sound is to be test fired over Australia on Friday.”
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“So this will be around for a few years. What happens if YOU die?”
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“Sir, you dropped something! is one of the entries of Positive Alarm, an open call to designers to send statements, products and projects that turn something negative into a positive message or solution.”
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“It is a recent shot of a snowflake that’s been sitting in chemist Tryggvi Emilsson’s desk for 27 years, locked in a drop of that miracle of modern chemistry we call superglue. “
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“London, Paris and New York are dying – the 21st century belongs to the fertile chaos of the third-world metropolis. Rana Dasgupta heralds the arrival of an alternative vision of modernity”
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“It is difficult to think about torture honestly.”
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Howto: second life
Tags: amsterdam,art,atheism,aviation,back up,bikes,crime,economics,engineering,flickr,isaach hayes,photography,religion,science,scientology,second life,south park,torture,urban,usa,waste,world cup
