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post Dec 15 2004, 08:07 PM
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Is it Just Me, Or Is Our Mainframe Missing? Australian Customs have recently suffered a rather unfortunate set back in their "War Against Terror" with the admission that two of their secure mainframe servers have been wheeled out of the building by persons unknown.


Israeli Super Drone Stolen Globes Online reports that Steadicopter's prototype pilotless helicopter was stolen a few days after the completion of its test program and final test flights.
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post Dec 15 2004, 11:12 PM
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ok, i'll kick in about a dozen runs:

The Ukrainian Presidential Elections
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post Dec 15 2004, 11:35 PM
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heh, no kidding. the guys in power are really uninterested in giving it up.
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post Dec 16 2004, 12:18 AM
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QUOTE (bitrunner)
The Ukrainian Presidential Elections

For everyone that has no clue and can't google.

Experts hunt for Yushchenko poison

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post Dec 20 2004, 12:21 AM
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Arsenic found in Indonesian Vice Presidents's soup
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post Dec 20 2004, 12:40 AM
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I guess the radioactive pellet in the calf was played out, but Dioxin? WTF....
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post Dec 20 2004, 12:53 AM
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Radioactive? The ambassador was assassinated with a pellet coated in ricin, unless you're thinking of something else.
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post Dec 20 2004, 01:51 AM
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QUOTE (bitrunner)
ok, i'll kick in about a dozen runs:

The Ukrainian Presidential Elections

I've been saying you couldnt have written a more deep and complex conspiracy.

The Russian backed president wins dispite everyone saying its rigged, the opposition leader poisoned by unknown agents. A country on the verge of splitting in the middle.

The Johnson slides into the booth, "hello ladies and gentlemen have any of you been to europe?"
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post Dec 20 2004, 02:10 AM
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In 2000 a group made a run at the Debeers diamond exhibit at London's Milenium Dome.

Their plan was to use a bulldozer parked at the site from constrictuion to go through the dome's side near the exhibit, throughing out gas grenades , knock over the display cases and then run to a boat waiting on the Thames. to escape by river with 500,000,000.00 in diamonds.

the only problem was the police were on to them and waiting, disguised as workmen, with guns hidden in dustbins.

My husband and I were in london that day and whne we heard the report on a radio, he looked at me and asked "Do you know where all your friends are?"
"On which side?"
"does it matter?"
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post Dec 20 2004, 02:14 AM
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Was that the one where the crooks used a Nailgun to shatter the bulletproof casing?
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post Dec 20 2004, 02:16 AM
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I heard sledge hammers.

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post Dec 20 2004, 02:25 AM
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I might be thinking of a different one.

The guys had to wait until low tide to be able to get away, then they drove a tractor in and then they defeated the 'undefeatable' protective glass with a nailgun. But yes, the cops got word of it (the guys were scoping it out for a long time) and they got em.
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post Dec 20 2004, 02:27 AM
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I think they used both.

That was interesting as the thieves gave themselves up and used the classic line "its a fair cop gov" while being hand cuffed.
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post Dec 20 2004, 03:15 AM
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Radioactive? The ambassador was assassinated with a pellet coated in ricin, unless you're thinking of something else.

I am.
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post Dec 20 2004, 03:42 AM
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In that case, what are you thinking of?
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post Dec 20 2004, 06:16 AM
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I can just imagine the Johnson explaining:

"We have some chemical weapons that need to be smuggled out of the country into Syria..."

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post Dec 20 2004, 08:43 AM
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Nothing. I was confusing it with something completely unrelated. My bad.
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post Dec 20 2004, 02:32 PM
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The auction of Juganskneftegaz, the amazingly low bids by all the large, well-known companies and how a small company no one had ever heard of before managed to raise 7 billion euros (over $9 billion). I bet corporate- and government-specialized faces have been working overtime.
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post Dec 20 2004, 03:26 PM
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Don't forget the recent heist of the the painting "Scream" in Norway.
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post Dec 20 2004, 03:33 PM
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More wetwork
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post Dec 20 2004, 10:19 PM
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QUOTE (Austere Emancipator @ Dec 20 2004, 08:32 AM)
The auction of Juganskneftegaz, the amazingly low bids by all the large, well-known companies and how a small company no one had ever heard of before managed to raise 7 billion euros (over $9 billion). I bet corporate- and government-specialized faces have been working overtime.

Probably has something to do with this.

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The Russian government may take over Yuganskneftegaz if Baikalfinansgrup, the buyer of the Sunday's auction, fails to pay the full price, the Itar-Tass quoted a government official as saying on Monday.


Immediate nationalization looks bad. But not releasing their trustee "protection" of it to a company that doesn't pay is more... tenable.
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post Dec 21 2004, 05:27 AM
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An article I ran across years ago:
QUOTE (Raleigh News & Observer @ Thursday, August 1, 1996)

Assailants slash 'I-B-M' on chest of muckraker

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- The Argentine journalist who uncovered a $250 million bribery case involving International Business Machines Corp. was attacked Wednesday by a gang who cut the letters "I-B-M" into his chest

Santiago Pinetta was beaten by two men and two women outside his home. It was the fourth attack on him since he uncovered a corruption case involving state-owned Banco Nacion and IBM's Argentine subsidiary.

"They beat me and robbed me and marked me with a knife -- I want people to see it," the elderly freelance journalist told reporters.

In another corruption case involving IBM Argentina, a judge said Wednesday he had indicted 18 people in connection with a provincial deal involving the computer giant. Five former or current IBM Argentina officials were indicted as accomplices.

The judge is investigating alleged irregularites in a $28 million contract signed in 1991 between the U.S. computer giant's local unit and provincial state-run Banco de Santa Fe.
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post Dec 21 2004, 11:52 PM
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How about this?
39 million in northern ireland.
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post Dec 22 2004, 12:15 AM
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I think we can all agree then, that these types of incidents will become more common before they become more rare.
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post Dec 22 2004, 02:54 AM
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It reminds me alot of things we have done in runs.

Luckily (or unluckily) you need a space suit to pull this one off in the year 2064.
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