19 Jan 2004
In praise of outsourcing

This bit is UK focused, but I'm sure advocates of surrendering our economy here would agree with it's major thrust. And I have to wonder about this statement:

The report indicates that real consumer expenditure could be boosted to £4.4bn by 2008, equating to an extra £177 per household, per year, in the UK.

So, after the big corporations have shipped all the good paying jobs to Third World pest holes, or contracted for some slave labor, the folks holding the McJobs that are left are going to spend more money?

What've these guys been smoking?

What's good for the economy is good for you. Oh yes

(link) [The Register]

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No more text messages from Jesus

Man, this is Finland's big day in the funny papers:

A service promising to answer people's prayers with a text message apparently sent by Jesus has been shut down after complaints by Finland's mobile services watchdog.

(link) [CNN]

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Finns miss death in tax office

OK, so it's not that funny, but it went in the Humor category anyway, just for the delicious irony of it all.

And I don't think the Finns need to be too upset over this: this could've happened in any government agency, anywhere in the world!

The death of a man at his desk in a Helsinki tax office goes unnoticed his colleagues for two days.

(link) [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Why Norway should join the EU

Check this entry from over at Secular Blasphemy...

It really is Finland's Big Day ...

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Standing on Principle

Anyone still suffering from the delusion that organized Christian religion is all about "principles" and not about money needs to read this article carefully. Let me start you off on the most relevent paragraph:

Experts say conservative parishes do not want to officially split from the church because - under secular law - they have to surrender their properties to the denomination.

"We've got a $12 million facility and we can't just walk away from it," the Reverend Donald Armstrong, who represents Midwestern and Mountain states, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.

Members of the Episcopalian Church opposed to the appointment of a gay bishop meet to form a nationwide alliance.

(link) [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Meat Stripper Gets Third Degree

Yum, yum! I know that I want my hamburger made from bone marrow and sinew! Doesn't everybody?

(Actually, I wouldn't eat commercial hamburger anymore if they were giving it away!)

A technology called advanced meat recovery strips meat from the bone and saves the beef industry millions of dollars a year, as well as a few fingers. But consumer groups say it might help spread mad cow. By Kristen Philipkoski.

(link) [Wired News]

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