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...Czech ones instead, making them partners in the business to circumvent a vetting process for foreign workers that can take six months. The authorities quickly swooped in and fined them ?1,500 for illegally employing the florists. Enough was enough. At the end of last year, the two men shut down their Austrian operation just five months after opening the first store. "We were treated like interlopers," says Kodytek, 54, who, with Lenc, lost about ?27,000 in the failed venture. The authorities "were not looking for a way to make it possible for us to function. They were looking...
...They shut down our offense pretty successfully,” Lannon said. “You can say that it was the beginning of the season or it was after a long break, but they’re a good team, and they work hard...
...camera spares us nothing. Having forcibly administered them a sleeping drug, Goebbels inserts a glass vial of cyanide into each unconscious child’s mouth, crunches each jaw shut, pulls a blanket over each face, exposing each set of small feet. She goes outside and collapses...
...problem is technical. To withstand a nuclear blast and keep on ticking, the Net was built without a central command authority. That means that nobody owns it, nobody runs it, nobody has the power to kick anybody off for good. There isn't even a master switch that can shut it down in case of emergency. "It's the closest thing to true anarchy that ever existed," says Clifford Stoll, a Berkeley astronomer famous on the Internet for having trapped a German spy who was trying to use it to break into U.S. military computers...
...Crimson tried several pitchers, but none could completely shut down the Highlander hitters...