Hundreds killed in Iranian 5.7 Earthquake

The reason so many people were killed, and there was so much devastation is that the houses in that part of Iran are made of mud brick, which crumbles when shocked. If the Iranian government had been serious about improving the conditions of its own citizens, insatead of spending oil revenues subsidizing international terrorism, those people sould have been living in hoses that would not collaps on them in light earthquakes.

In California, a 5.7 earthquake is noticed -- serious damage starts around 6.0, and that is mostly to things knocked off shelves. Strutural damage to weak and old houses begins at about 6.2. We have building codes, however, and not Sharia Law and Ayatollahs.

Windows Vista release delayed

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/03/22/windows.vista.ap/index.html

As usual, Micro$not can't deliver working software on time.

I remember going to the Official M$ launches of Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, and, IIRC, 3.0 -- none of which worked.

ROTFLMAO!

"Cooperating with Islam"

Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday called on Christians and Jews to cooperate with Islam for "the good of humanity"

First of all, where does he get off telling Jews what to do? They will no doubt have a few words on that subject.

Second, I would feel a great deal better about the call, if he has seen fit to say it the other way around:

"Pope Benedict XVI calledd on Islam to cooperate with Christians and Jews 'for the good of humanity'."