By Stewart Wrighter Everyone must by now have seen those carry out paper sacks which are handed out to everyone who has to take food or goods home with them. This throwaway item is synonymous with fast food chains and supermarkets everywhere. But this idea also stretches to personal bags too since people can have them printed up with all kinds of details of the party or event that they will be used at. Some events will require people to take home some goods from the venue. It is highly…
Day: December 22, 2017
“Avast ye scurvy file sharers!”: Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 MP3s for the people? The Pirate Party, a new Swedish political party first publicized in January, wants to legalize sharing music, movies, and other copyrighted content using the Internet. What may seem like a doomed effort by a small group of idealists is attracting significant media attention, in part due to a recent police raid on The Pirate Bay, an extremely popular BitTorrent tracker (see Wikinews coverage). The Pirate Bay allows people to download content listed in its database using the BitTorrent protocol (including the latest…
Fire at New Zealand hospital destroys laundry
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 A fire on Tuesday night at Southland Hospital, Invercargill has destroyed a two-storey building which was used for laundry and cleaning by the cleaning company Alsco. Junior doctors and interns were evacuated from the nearby hospital campus. A dangerous goods store nearby nearby was saved from the fire. The building was not close enough to the new main hospital building to cause any damage to it. Morris Robertson, Fire Chief, said: “We managed to save a dangerous goods store near the fire but the laundry is…