All this time people have just been showing solidarity with Azerbaijani Economic Stability

AZN can stand for:

• Azerbaijani manat, ISO 4217 currency code for the new currency of Azerbaijan
• AZN Television

Azn can mean:

• Asian see List of Internet slang

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azn

How very japanese.

Para Para (Japanese: パラパラ; also "Para-Para" or "ParaPara") is a popular Japanese solo dance. Unlike most club dancing and rave dancing, there are specific, preset movements for each song, and everyone does the same moves at once, much like line dancing. Para Para is said to have existed since the 1970s, but did not achieve much popularity outside of Japan until recently. Today, Para Para dancing is known throughout the world, especially the Pacific Rim.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para_Para

On the one hand, it sounds ridiculous. On the other, it's certainly preferable to the nonsense people call "dancing" these days. At least there's a system of right and wrong in that.

Cry a bit more, you tubby bitch.

The episodes of the Star Trek franchise have featured many performances of classical music. However, its producers have neglected to provide a list of such pieces so that fans could embark on further listening.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music_in_Star_Trek

That I am conflicted on this issue is a problem.

Project Prevention (founded and formerly known as Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity or C.R.A.C.K.) is an American non-profit organization which pays drug addicts and alcoholics 200USD for volunteering to receive long-term birth control or sterilization. As of January 2006, the amount offered has been increased to 300USD.

Barbara Harris founded the organization in 1997 after she and her husband adopted four children from a drug-addicted mother. After the experience of helping the children through withdrawal and other health problems, she attempted to have legislation passed in California which would have mandated long-term birth control for mothers who gave birth to drug-addicted babies. After this failed, she opted instead to start what is now called Project Prevention.

Despite the fact that all patients are volunteers, the organization has incited a large amount of controversy. Some would claim that it is a human right to have children that should not be restricted. Critics also make comparisons to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.

As of July 16, 2006, Project Prevention has paid and treated 1854 women and 27 men.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Requiring_A_Caring_Kommunity

OMFG WIKIGAY!

A Wiki fairy (or WikiFairy), also Wiki faerie (or WikiFaerie), is the slang term for a wiki editor who beautifies Wikipedia by organizing messy articles, improving style, or adding color and graphics. Some WikiFairies create new articles or affect the substantive content of the articles they edit; others do not.

WikiFairies are considered essentially friendly creatures, like WikiGnomes and unlike WikiTrolls.

The list of Wikipedians who consider themselves WikiFairies is located here.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiFairy

IS THIS AN ENCYLOPEDIA, PRODUCED BY BRAWNY AND FEARLESS MEN, OR IS IT A LIVE JOURNAL COMMUNITY, FILLED WITH 15 YEAR OLD GIRLS, MOST OF WHOM ARE FAT?

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Slapped twice?

This video, although it's short, seems to indicate only one slap: http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m7/irishkorean/stossel.gif

I've seen a longer length video which definitely shows him getting hit twice. He gets up after the one shown in that .gif file and the wrestler knocks him down again. That wrestler was fired (I don't know if charges were filed) and apparently has drifted into (hopefully ignominious) obscurity. I like to think of him having to earn a living relegated to bouncing at a bar someplace while Stossel is watched by millions every week on national TV. Lawyer2b 23:35, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

He is a bounty hunter now. I heard he is ranked number one in the world.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_Stossel

I honestly never realized how fascinating small town politcs were before this!

Kiryas Joel (or Kiryas Yo'el or Kiryat Joel or KJ) (קרית יואל, Hebrew: "Town of Joel") is a village within the Town of Monroe in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 13,138 at the 2000 census. The great majority of its residents are Hasidic Jews belonging to the Satmar Hasidic dynasty, making it a significant Satmar enclave.

The village has the youngest median age (15.0) of any population center of over 5,000 residents in the United States.

The village has become a contentious issue in Orange County for several reasons, mainly related to its rapid growth.[2] Unlike most other small towns, it lacks a real downtown and much of it is given over to residential property, which has mostly taken the form of contemporary townhouse-style condominium complexes similar to those found in ski resort communities in western states. New construction is going on everywhere.

[edit] Local impact of growth

Monroe also contains two other villages, Monroe and Harriman. Kiryas Joel's boundaries also come close to the neighboring towns of Blooming Grove and Woodbury.

Residents of these communities and local and Orange County politicians view the village as encroaching on them.[3] Due to the rapid population growth occurring in Kiryas Joel, resulting almost entirely from the high birth rates of its Hasidic population, the village government has undertaken various annexation efforts to expand its acreage, to the dismay of the majority of the residents of the surrounding communities. Many of these area residents see the expansion of the high-density residential and commercial village as a threat to the quality of life in the surrounding suburban communities. They view it as a prime source of suburban sprawl (most land surrounding it is largely undeveloped). Other concerns of the surrounding communities are the impact this unchecked growth will have on the local aquifers and the projected increased volume of sewage reaching the county’s sewerage treatment plants (which are near capacity, as of 2005).

On August 11, 2006, residents of Woodbury vote by a 3-to-1 margin to incorporate much of the town as a village to constrain further annexation. Kiryas Joel has vigorously opposed such moves in court, and even some Woodbury residents are concerned about adding another layer of taxation without any improved defense against annexations.

[edit] Local politics

Further frustrating village critics is its impact on local politics. Villagers are perceived as voting in a solid bloc. While this is not always the case, the highly concentrated population often does skew strongly toward one candidate or the other in local elections, making Kiryas Joel a heavily-courted swing vote for whichever politician offers Kiryas Joel the most favorable environment for continued growth.

In the town's 2005 municipal election, a slate of anti-growth Democratic candidates for the Town Board ran against pro-growth Republicans. The Democrats carried almost every precinct in town but lost the election because the Kiryas Joel vote went for the Republicans.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel%2C_New_York

note the position of the citation request.

Criticisms

• Joe Pesci is not in this movie. Daniel Stern was originally supposed to reprise his role as Marv; however, he turned down the role because he felt that it was "too insulting." Instead the character was played by French Stewart. His partner is not Harry, but his wife Vera. However, Marv mentions his former partner Harry (Joe Pesci) once or twice during the movie. Marv also seems more intelligent in this movie

• Fans ^{[citation needed]} of the series were outraged by the fact that the boy playing Kevin McCallister looked nothing like the original. This also led many to think he was Alex Pruitt, the main character of Home Alone 3.

• The character Marv confused fans due to the fact that he looked more like Harry from the original first two Home Alone movies.

• Fans ^{[citation needed]} were also upset of the fact that two of Kevin's siblings, Linnie and Jeff, were not present in this film for some unknown reason. In addition, Uncle Frank, Aunt Leslie, Heather, Tracy, Rod, Sondra, and Fuller are not mentioned or shown. However, the original script included all of them. Gerry Bamman, the original Uncle Frank, was offered a chance to reprise his role as the grouchy, hateful uncle, but he turned the part down. Due to a limited budget and shooting schedule, the producers eliminated the characters and chose not to include Kevin's cousins, as it would be pointless to include them without Uncle Frank.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Alone_4#Criticisms

A spy but also a scientist. How peculiar.

Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (December 29, 1911 – January 28, 1988) was a German-born theoretical physicist and atomic spy who was convicted of surreptitiously supplying information on the British and American atomic bomb research to the USSR during, and shortly after, World War II. Fuchs was highly technically competent, being responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first fission weapons and early models of the hydrogen bomb while a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

In late 1943 Fuchs transferred along with Peierls to Columbia University, New York City to work on the Manhattan Project. Although Fuchs was an asset of GRU in Britain, his control was transferred to the NKGB when he moved to New York. From August 1944 Fuchs worked in the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos, New Mexico under Hans Bethe. His chief area of expertise was the problem of imploding the fissionable core of the plutonium bomb, and was at one point given calculation work that Edward Teller had refused to do due to lack of interest. He was the author of techniques (such as the still-used Fuchs-Nordheim method) for calculating the energy of a fissile assembly which goes highly prompt-critical. Later, he also filed a patent with John Von Neumann, describing a method to initiate fusion in a thermonuclear weapon with an implosion trigger. He was one of the many Los Alamos scientists present at the Trinity test. While at Los Alamos, Fuchs loaned his automobile on a number of occasions to Richard Feynman, who used the vehicle to visit his dying first wife in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Hans Bethe once said that Klaus Fuchs was the only physicist he knew who truly changed history. Because of the manner in which the head of the Soviet project, Lavrenty Beria, used foreign intelligence (as a third-party check, rather than giving it directly to the scientists, as he did not trust the information by default) it is unknown whether Fuchs' fission information had a substantial impact (and considering that the pace of the Soviet program was set primarily by the amount of uranium they could procure, it is hard for scholars to accurately judge how much time this saved the Soviets). Some former Soviet scientists said they were actually hampered by Fuchs' data, because Beria insisted that their first bomb ("Joe 1") should resemble the American plutonium bomb ("Fat Man") as much as possible, even though the scientists had discovered a number of improvements and different designs for a more efficient weapon.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs

They just go together like peanut butter and you guys are whores.

On October 13, 2006, President Bush officially signed the Safe Port Act into law.^[6] The Act prohibits online gambling sites from performing transactions with American financial institutions.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Port_Act

Hey, what do we know about laws, we're only the DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE!

In the United States, the North Dakota House of Representatives passed a bill in February 2005 to legalize and regulate online poker and online poker cardroom operators in the state. The legislation required that online poker operations would have to physically locate their entire operations in the state. Testifying before the state Senate Judiciary committee, Nigel Payne, CEO of Sportingbet, the owner of Paradise Poker, pledged to relocate to the state if the bill became law.^[4]

The measure, however, was defeated by the State Senate in March 2005 after the U. S. Department of Justice sent a letter to North Dakota attorney general Wayne Stenehjem stating that online gaming "may" be illegal, and that the pending legislation "might" violate the federal Wire Act. However, many legal experts dispute the DOJ's claim.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_poker#Legality

See, our full name is department of justice and baitshop. And... the baitshop has been getting pretty big recently. Hasn't left a lot of time for the justice. Yeah.....

Yet another perfectly good friendship ruined over tits

href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:KateWinsletTitanic.jpg&action=edit" class="new" title="Image:KateWinsletTitanic.jpg">Image:KateWinsletTitanic.jpg-- I've got nothing against nudity or explicitness in an encyclopedic context (see e.g. my vote to keep the autofellatio pic), but this picture should be deleted for the same reason as the Charlotte Ross one. It's not encyclopedic--doesn't contribute anything to the article that we couldn't get from a different, less potentially controversial image. Meelar (talk) 00:13, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC) Please note: nominator is an agnostic social libertarian MoveOn member who voted to keep Image:Autofellatio2.jpg. All accusations of Christian conservatism are highly misplaced.

Keep for now. The edit history of the article appears to show an agreement to keep it in there, but there doesn't appear to have been any arguments for or against placed on the talk page. This should not be deleted until those involved with the article have had chance to have their say. Thryduulf 01:00, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Keep as I see it as a key part in their growing relationship. No, I didn't upload the image but certainly think it's exclusion should be considered censoring (Meeler is not the first to want to get rid of it). That said, I fail to see how this image WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not censored is satisfied to delete this image: no violated policies come to mind, it's not obviously inappropriate, and was released in a motion picture (meaning I can't fathom how it would violate FL laws). I think it merits inclusion and doesn't stand against policies to merit deletion. Cburnett 02:54, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Keep. This is an encyclopedia, not a kiddie book. RickK 02:56, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Delete. This is an encyclopedia, not a book for drooling adolescents. How very peculiar that of some 280,000 frames that might be selected to represent this film, the Wikipedia editorial process has led us to assert, apparently with straight faces, that the one with titties in it is the one that is most important. - Nunh-huh 03:06, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• One user chose this one frame of 280,000. That leaves you with 279,999 other frames to choose from if you want to upload another screenshot. I'm also not sure the "drooling adolescents" quip was necessary considering that there are 16.2 million hits and 1.5 million images hits for "porn" on google. This image is *much* closer to art than pornography. Cburnett 03:46, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • You shouldn't take "drooling adolescents" personally: however, it's an apt description for those who "happened" to choose the tittie pic as an illustration of the Titanic movie. The frame has been implicitly "defended" as a wise choice by all who vote to retain it, so it's not a case of it being the "judgment" of just one user. - Nunh-huh 04:50, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • You seem to be saying that anybody who might be of the opinion that this an attractive picture of a very moving, significant and memorable scene in the movie is a "drooling adolescent". Don't you consider it possible that grown-ups might like looking at pictures of beautiful half-naked women? --Tony Sidaway|Talk 11:46, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Why not try reading what I am saying, and not reacting to what I "seem" to be saying? Yes, of course it's possible that grownups might like looking at pictures of half-naked women. Or fully naked women. Or fully naked men. Or naked children. But your (possible) desire to look at any of them is not a reason to have it in Wikipedia, and none of them are appropriate choices for illustrating this article. - Nunh-huh 17:59, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • I believe the article is about titanic and this is a very good still from Titanic, it illustrates a pivotal scene in the movie, and it's also a very pretty picture precisely because it shows a charming half-naked woman. So why do you continue to pretend that those who want to keep it are drooling imbeciles? --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:10, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
      • It's not a pretense, and "imbecile" is your word, not mine. I understand that you'd prefer to respond to what I didn't say, but you really should stop. - Nunh-huh 22:28, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
        • You're not using the word imbecile, but you are acting as if those who want this picture in the article only want it there because it has nudity. In other words, you're acting as if those who disagree with you are imbeciles. Moreover, when this is pointed out to you, you act in a very trollish manner. I think it is time that *you* stopped. Address the subject and stop insulting people. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:38, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
          • I've addressed the subject, though I've displeased you with an answer that disagrees with your opinion, and in return you've suggested I'm a troll. I don't think I'm the one who's doing the insulting here, Tony. - Nunh-huh 22:42, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
          • You've "addressed the subject" by describing those who like the picture in various insulting ways and steadfastly refusing to respond to suggestions that the image depicts a pivotal scene in the movie (the drawing is recovered from SS Titanic in the movie and kicks off the story), instead preferring to bang away on your highly personalized accusations against those who defend the picture. Enough! --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:50, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
            • If you disagree with me, that's fine. But I will continue to voice my opinions, whether you want to hear them or not. And when you try to "spin" my opinions as insults, I will continue to counter your mischaracterization. It's clear you'd like more breasts and blow-jobs in Wikipedia. I don't particularly think we need to have them in articles where they are irrelevant. - Nunh-huh 22:55, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
            • You just can't help yourself, can you? You deny that you're insulting anyone, but you just can't resist one more dig, one more bit of slimy innuendo. This isn't about a disagreement, it's about your use of inappropriate language, and your continual attempts to deflect criticism for it. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:35, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/KateWinsletTitanic

HOT!

This page is designed to highlight the approach taken within Wikipedia with regard to what some contributors regard as pornography. There is no formal policy, or indeed definition (the Wikipedia:Profanity article has a semi-policy, but the discussion of generalities such as Wikipedia:Graphic and potentially disturbing images seems to be less popular than discussion of specific examples); despite this there is frequent debate on related subjects. This page is designed to point to some of what has been decided or not decided; as usual, discussion about this page and related subjects should take place on the talk page.

Jimbo in general endorses displaying topical images, even if some consider them obscene, but he once removed a photograph of autofellatio from its relevant article, with the following comment:

"This image is completely unacceptable for wikipedia -- I don't even consider this borderline." [1]

After some reverts by various editors, Jimbo himself stated:

"for now the link version is a decent compromise" [2]

The image was subsequently deleted for copyright violation, and replaced by a drawing, which was added to the article. [3] A month later, a free-licensed image was added as a link following the earlier compromise. [4]

Thus, Jimbo Wales feels that there are limits on what can be displayed at Wikipedia.

Some examples of debates, decisions and non-decisions

-A collage of nude pictures of Charlotte Ross was removed from Wikipedia. The record of the discussion is at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/Charlotterossnypdblue.

-The debate about Kate Winslet's breasts at Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion/KateWinsletTitanic while a different debate at Talk:Titanic (1997 movie) on use of the same image talked about a compromise

-An extensive debate filling six pages of archives at Talk:Lolicon regarding a drawing of a seminude seven-year-old girl with a dildo and a teddy bear in S&M regalia was resolved by an out-of-process deletion of the image by an admin, who was congratulated by Jimbo.

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PORN