http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/whoopsie/ en-us Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:52:03 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991272/posts WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that it mistakenly shipped non-nuclear ballistic missile components to Taiwan from a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming. Google News (AP) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991272/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:52:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774106/posts Airbus on Friday toned down expectations of an immediate solution to the technical glitches which delayed its A380 superjumbo project, saying wiring problems had been solved for the first aircraft only. A German news report last week said that Airbus had solved the wiring installation problems, which delayed A380 deliveries by an average two years and drove the planemaker into the red. Aviation watchers and some investors cheered the report, saying it closed the worst chapter in Airbus's 30 year history. Gerhard Puttfarcken, head of Airbus's German operations, said Airbus had passed a key milestone in completing wiring for the... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774106/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:14:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757795/posts A judicial discipline council has voted overwhelmingly to impose sanctions on a veteran Los Angeles federal judge who improperly seized control of a bankruptcy case to protect a probationer he was supervising. --snip-- On Nov. 16, the council ordered that U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real, 82, be publicly reprimanded for his intervention in the bankruptcy almost seven years ago, permitting Deborah M. Canter to live rent-free for three years in a Hancock Park house, costing her creditors $35,000 in rent and thousands more in legal costs, according to court documents. Real's misconduct "warrants the corrective action of 'censuring or... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757795/posts#comment Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:36:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1730952/posts Excerpt - REDMOND, Wash.--Reversing a licensing change announced two weeks ago, Microsoft said on Thursday that it will not limit the number of times that retail customers can transfer their Windows Vista license to a different computer. On Oct. 16, Microsoft issued the new user license for Vista, including terms that would have limited the ability of those who buy a boxed copy of the operating system to transfer that license. Under the proposed terms, users could have made such a switch only one time. However, the new restriction prompted an outcry among hardware enthusiasts and others. Microsoft is returning... CNet News (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1730952/posts#comment Thu, 2 Nov 2006 19:24:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668271/posts Reports of an explosion causing road collapse and affecting subway underneath, Emam Khomeini Station area, Naser Khosro Square downtown Tehran. Reports of 3 people hurt so far. There was a previous explosion here 10yrs ago. ISNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668271/posts#comment Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:15:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635045/posts In 1994 Sen. Pat "Leaky" Leahy co-wrote a law that forced telecommunications carriers to build convenient wiretap features into their networks enabling the kind of telephone records collection now at the heart of the controversy over the National Security Agency's terrorist surveillance operation. In recent days Leahy has called the NSA's actions troubling and potentially illegal - saying they show that the Bush administration is treating Americans like terrorists. "'The secret collection of phone call records of tens of millions of Americans?" he exclaimed after USA Today blew the lid off the program last week. "Are you telling me that... newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635045/posts#comment Fri, 19 May 2006 17:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628658/posts Release A060507i BAGHDAD, Iraq – An explosion occurred in the basement of the Sheik Abdel Kader mosque at approximately 6 p.m. May 7 in Rusafa, a neighborhood of east Baghdad . According to the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Division the bomb exploded in the basement of the mosque causing a fire. The Iraqi fire department responded and began suppressing the fire when firefighters noticed an improvised explosive device inside the mosque. The Iraqi police explosive ordinance disposal team arrived at the mosque to clear the holy site of bombs and bomb making materials. The team dismantled six IEDs.... Multi-National Force, Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628658/posts#comment Mon, 8 May 2006 17:29:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507521/posts An airliner missing reported Nigerian LAGOS - an airliner Nigerian has been reported missing for more than eight hours and of the helicopters were launched to its research, announced to Sunday a spokesman of the airport authorities of Lagos, Adamu Abdullahi. "It acted of the flight of the company Bellview Airlines of Lagos with Abuja, which took off with 19H50 local, Saturday evening. Two helicopters of the police force left to its recherche', specified the spokesman. AFP via Babelfish translation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507521/posts#comment Sun, 23 Oct 2005 03:04:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1388455/posts Breaking News Earth Day begins with truck hitting students Updated: 3:13 PM The Roanoke Times Earth Day celebrations at Virginia Tech began inauspiciously Thursday as a truck accidentally ran over two students involved in the event. The students, identified as Richard Shadrach, 18, and Kathy Murrill, 20, were transported to Montgomery Regional Hospital and released after treatment for minor injuries. Shadrach suffered bruises above the right eye and Murrill sustained bruises to the arm, police said. The incident on the campus Drillfield occurred as members of the Virginia Tech Environmental Coalition were using a university-owned truck to set up for... Roanoke Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1388455/posts#comment Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:08:02 GMT