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Keep your pants up The Indonesian Department of Justice is looking to make homosexuality, cohabitation (thanks Niko!), oral sex, and adultery illegal. They arent yet forbidden by the law, but are seen as moraly disgusting (or whatever, they think its icky) They are looking to add new laws to the mostly dutch kolonial laws from long ago. The changes are mostly drawn from Islamic-, international convention- and tribal-law. Unmarried couples getting caught living together can be jailed for 2 years. A man impregnating a woman and then not willing to marry her can get up to 5 years in jail. Sodomy and oral sex can get you between 3 and 12 years. And homosexuality between 1 and 7 years. Indonesia is the worlds biggest Islamic country (!) although its not the national religion, and most Indonesians arent as islamic as most mouslims in most other countries. Wouldnt wanna be a gay couple, living together after their wives ran away after they impregnated the babysitter, doing oral sex at a police convention....uhm, or would we ? Sunscreen/cream, whatever, doesnt stop skincancer. Or so british scientists discovered. Uhm, didnt Baz Luhrman already tell us that ? How to lose 1 billion euro's... The dutch economy is doing so freaking great, and look there, one of our great internationals is about to give out a report on the loses for 2002. Oh yes, they did very well, if all goes according to plan they will finish with a loss of 1 billion euro's....and we did worse this year, uhoh!!! Must be all the men in high positions getting millions of euro's for screwing up :P Good stuff that! Yay! Hmmm, what would I do with 1 billion euro's then ? Hmmm, I think I would buy Brad Pitt, and I would take over his body, oh, and do his wife. :D Entire world connected in 6 steps Researchers at Columbia University tested the theory that everybody on the earth is connected by only 6 steps. 60.000 volunteers from 166 different countries participated in an e-mail experiment to test the theory. The idea is that by contacting someone you know you can reach someone you dont know in 6 steps. So each step is someone cantacting someone they know. The researchers had 18 targets in 13 different countries. And guess what ? They got reached in 5-7 steps, making it an average of 6 :) Funny thing is most men contacted men, and the women mostly contacted other women. Proffesional contacts appeared to take less time/turns then familly and friends. The results will be published in the American magazine Science. The original theory dates from 1967 when an american researcher did the same test with normal mail. He/she also got an average of 6 steps. Surprising to hear that... Dead Sea d(r)ying The Dead Sea is drying up. In the last 50 years the waterlevel has dropped 27 meters. Many resorts and hotels that once were directly at the water are now close to a mile away from it. A couple that is going to a resort there since 1980 could get to the water within a few steps, but now they take a tractor-trolley to cover the 1 kilometer trip. A reason for the low water level is that there is less rainfall in the Jordan River, aswell as nearby Kalium mines. The authorities are now looking at a plan to pump water from the Red Sea into the Dead Sea, bridging a distance of 320 kilometers. If this is economically possible is yet to be determined. Hopefully they know before 2050, when the Dead Sea is expected to have dried up completely. Anything can float on it then I bet! A kid for a color TV A poor Albanian couple has confessed to have traded their child to a criminal gang for a color television in 1999. The father traded the child to a gang of smugglers who smuggled humans. They sold the child to an Italian older couple, for 5000 euro's, who were arrested this weekend. They Albanian couple acted mostly out of fear, the Italian police determined. The police found out about the boy, who is now 7 and called Michele, after they arrested the leader of the smugglers. On hearing the news of his arrest the biological mother contacted the authorities, hoping to get her son back. The boy is with social services for the time being. The gang is suspected to have sold some 60 Albanian children in Southern Italy. Only half have been found so far. Some dutch guy found an old letter... ...from Ren? Descartes, a philosopher who lived from 1596 till 1650, mostly in holland, it was found in a library in Berlin.... Good for him!!! Wow Terin !!! Great job dude! Look at all them newbies wanting to join!!!!! He even numbered them!!! Oh, and ladies...Bruce Willis hot ???? :P I dont think so! | posted by merc, 2:29 PM