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LOL @ YessMiss- Were they thinking of you when they
implemented this program?

Amorous Swedes to Get Emergency Condom Deliveries

Tue Jun 1,10:50 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish aid organization will roll out a new line of defense to the country's emergency services next week -- the condom ambulance.

From Friday, June 4, amorous couples can call the telephone number 696969 and a white van featuring a large red condom with wings as a logo will deliver them a packet of 10 prophylactics.

"We need to increase the usage of condoms," said Carl Osvald, marketing manager for the Swedish Organization for Sex Education, the non-governmental organization behind the initiative. "It is 50 percent about pregnancy and 50 percent about sexually transmitted diseases."

The ambulances will operate in Stockholm and the southern cities of Malmo and Gothenberg. The service, aimed at young people, will run until June 25 and be available between four in the afternoon and nine at night.

A packet of 10 condoms will cost 50 crowns ($6.72), less than they cost on average in the shops.

The incidence of sexually transmitted disease is increasing rapidly in Sweden and not enough young people use condoms, Osvald said.

"We need to change attitudes to condoms," he said. "If we need to get out in to the bedrooms to make things better we will do it."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040601/od_nm/odd_sweden_condom_dc_1

[yessmiss]

"If we need to get out in to the bedrooms to make things better we will do it."


If they charge into my bedroom to make things better, yeah, maybe we can make an "amorous couple".

What was the phone number again?

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Is this woman a neighbor of YessMiss's?

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-13115625,00.html

'SEX IS WEARING ME OUT'

A Swedish woman has sustained "cramps and tension all over" - but not from any physical activity she's been doing.

The problem is the passionate love-making of her neighbours who she claims are so noisy while in the sack she is worn out.

Now the woman, who has not been named, has made an official complaint to her local health committee.

She says the sex sessions start at around 10pm and last well after midnight.

In a letter to health chiefs she pleads for them to intervene as the racket has left her "distressed, angry and tense all over".

She also complains that her amorous neighbours' noise has left her with headaches, cramps and heartburn.

Health official Jon Persson said he could not recall a health authority ever having received a similar complaint.

He said the committee could visit the woman's apartment in Stockholm to measure the noise levels. However, it would be difficult "because we don't know in advance when the disturbances are going to occur".

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Guess what WT is doin tonite?

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-13125524,00.html
SEX GOES TO THE CITY

"Singaporeans are finally going to be able to watch the smash-hit New York series Sex and the City.

State censors for the conservative city island banned the series when it began several years ago because it considered the programme too racy for its citizens.

The country's government is notorious for its highly conservative social policies and the control it exerts over Singaporean society.

Scenes regarded as too sexually explicit or politically controversial are often cut from movies and TV shows.

But ministers announced in September they were loosening their grip, allowing shows like Sex and the City and magazines such as Cosmopolitan into people's homes.

Sex and the City details the lives and loves of four New York women.

Scenes of nudity, frank exchanges about sex and loose language all feature regularly.

Singapore will initially show just the eight shows of the fifth series next month followed by the 20-episode sixth series.

The show ended in America and the UK earlier this month. "
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Heheheheh WT! Have fun :)

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Alllll Right Sweden!

Sprint, Sweden Break Internet Speed Record

Mon Jun 21, 3:30 PM ET

Jay Wrolstad, www.newsfactor.com

U.S. telecom operator Sprint (NYSE: FON - news) and the Swedish National Research and Education Network (SUNET) have set a new Internet speed record, using common communications tools. The feat offers a glimpse of the future for enterprises migrating toward Web-based networking.

The Sprint/SUNET team in April sent nearly 840 gigabytes of data from a PC in San Jose, California to associates at another computer at the University of Lulea in northern Sweden in under 27 minutes. The data traveled some 10,000 miles, or nearly halfway around the globe, using the SprintLink Internet backbone and the GigaSUNET IP system at 4.23 Gigabits per second (Gbps).

The speed attained in the April test is nearly three times better than the current record listed in the 2004 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records, according to Sprint. The team's achievement betters by 12 percent the previous mark held by a technical consortium using a private advanced research network.

"What's significant is that this was done using commercial networks and readily available hardware," Chase Cotton, director of data engineering at Sprint, told NewsFactor. "And it was not just speed, but speed over distance."

Cotton said the results indicate that enterprises currently using private lines for interconnections now can opt for a shared platform to conduct business over the Internet. "The competition in Internet networks has been driven to get packets transferred as fast as possible, and we have shown that it's possible to achieve very high speeds with limited latency," he said.

This development is of particular importance for business initiatives where data preservation requires rapid movement to safe storage, and also applies to any bulk distribution of massive files over long distances.

The transmission path comprised 40 IP routers (35 in the SprintLink network and five in the SUNET network). The end hosts were standard Dell (Nasdaq: DELL - news) 2650 servers, each with a single Intel (Nasdaq: INTC - news) Xeon 2.0 Ghz processor and 512 Mbytes of RAM, running on the 2.0 version of the NetBSD operating system. The PCs were connected to a GigaSunet core router at the University of Lulea in Sweden and to a Sprint access router in San Jose, California, using Intel PRO/10GbE ten-gigabit Ethernet adapters.

The record was verified by a committee of the Internet2 consortium of Indianapolis, Indiana, which sponsors an ongoing data-transmission speed contest for highest bandwidth end-to-end networks. Sprint and SUNET are expected to receive formal recognition of their achievement in a meeting this fall in Austin, Texas.

Earlier this month, Sprint also delivered the first live production 40-Gigabit data transmission on an Internet backbone, and last July, the operator successfully tested asynchronous data replication over an IP network, using fiber channel over IP (FCIP) technology at a distance of more than 3,600 miles.

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In a letter to health chiefs she pleads for them to intervene as the racket has left her "distressed, angry and tense all over".

She also complains that her amorous neighbours' noise has left her with headaches, cramps and heartburn.



She's doing it all wrong. If you kneel parallel to the wall you can lean a glass against the wall, hold it in place with your head and leave both hands free while she listens in. Distress and tension I can understand, but there's no need for headaches, cramps and heartburn.

Of course, she could always go round and ask to join in :D

[chacal]

There you see, we swedes are not only fast delivering data, we can deliver condoms very fast to... What an stupid idea... Typically us..

[ThickHead]

Thats pretty impressive, but can they touch their wrist with their thumb?

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A gag gift from a friend? A likely story...

Judge Suspected of Masturbating in CourtThu Jun 24, 4:14 PM ET Add U.S. National - Reuters to My Yahoo!

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma state judge frequently masturbated and used a device for enhancing erections while his court was in session, charges a petition by the state's attorney general seeking his removal.

Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson filed the petition on Wednesday with state judicial authorities seeking the ouster of Sapulpa District Judge Donald Thompson, 57, for "conduct constituting an offense involving moral turpitude in violation of the Oklahoma Constitution," Edmondson's spokesman said on Thursday.

The judge flatly denies the charges made in the petition, his lawyer, Clark Brewster, said on Thursday. He said the judge received a penis pump for his 50th birthday as a gag gift, which became a source of a running joke in the courthouse.

"The allegations are bizarre and preposterous," Brewster said. "Recently, some members of local law enforcement that are upset with a number of his rulings, used this situation to embarrass and attack him."

The judge, who was first elected to the bench more than 20 years ago in the state's nonpartisan judicial elections, is based about 80 miles northeast of Oklahoma City.

In the petition, the attorney general charged Thompson used a penis pump, a device billed as providing sexual pleasure and promising better erections and larger penis size, during trials and exposed himself to a court reporter several times while masturbating on the bench.

"On one occasion, Ms. (Lisa) Foster (Thompson's court reporter for 15 years), saw Judge Thompson holding his penis up and shaving underneath it with a disposable razor while on the bench," the petition reads.

Several witnesses, including jurors in Thompson's court and police officers called to testify in trials, said in the petition they heard the "swooshing" sound of a penis pump during trials and saw the judge slumped in his chair, with his elbows on his knees, working the device. The witnesses said the pump sounded like a blood pressure cuff being pumped up.

According to the petition, Thompson admitted he had a penis pump under the bench during a murder trial but he told investigators it was a gag gift from a friend.

The petition also charges Thompson with firing his former court reporter after she cooperated with investigators