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<title>markofando</title>
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Want to start your private office arms race right now? 
 
I just got my own USB rocket launcher :-) Awsome thing. 
 
Plug into your computer and you got a remote controlled office missile launcher with 360 degrees horizontal and 45 degree vertival rotation with a range of more than 6 meters - which gives you a coverage of 113 square meters round your workplace. 
You can get the gadget here: http://tinyurl.com/2qul3c 
 
Check out the video they have on the page. 
 
Cheers 
 
Marko Fando]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c228733</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:20:19 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Jenny</title>
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NOW was there. It should go in this Thursday's edition.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224472</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:06:51 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Gloria</title>
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Hash: As I never lived in residence, I have to say that's an absurd practise. Keeping doors unlocked in a dormitory where people are constantly letting in their friends (and possibly strangers) and *especially* on pub night, which means people may be drunk? Why should doors be unlocked for socializing if someone's asleep anyway? 

It seems like a practise which only considers the freedom of some men, and not the safety of vulnerable women. ]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224416</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:30:06 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>hash</title>
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Let us not forget that these types of stranger-danger or serial rapes get media attention (because it allows us to distance ourselves from "those" bad people and the culture that helped produced "them" - which we are all implicated in), while sexual assaults perpetuated by those who know the survivor do not get talked about. Statistically, a woman is more likely to be raped by a family member or a friend, as opposed to the stranger lurking in the dark bushes.

Would we have heard this story had one woman been raped at York? And if she had been raped by her boyfriend, for example?

To answer SH: keeping your doors open in residence is part of the res culture - especially on pub nights (in York's case: thursday evenings) where there's a lot of kids mingling and hanging about. If you keep your doors closed, you are viewed as being anti-social.

This weekend, I went to see the Evil Dead: The Musical and was shocked at the misogyny in the writing. I found myself sitting in utter disbelief while a packed theatre applauded and laughed about a woman being gang raped by demons (in the form of trees) in a forest. 

And we ask ourselves: how did it get from bad to worse?]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224374</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:08:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Carly</title>
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I was really disappointed by the lack of media coverage, too, and also by the lack of politicians who showed up. What, not enough of a photo-op for them?]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224309</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:39:25 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Tanja</title>
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I wound up reading up on most of these stories last night and haven't sleep a decent wink since, for all my rage.  You try not to live your life in constant fear, but it's a pretty hopeless goal sometimes.  Will they find those castration-worthy two in particular? Probably not, and everyone will forget tomorrow 'cause the ridiculously boring celebs are all that's on the news right now anyhow.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224303</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:08:50 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>SH</title>
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This may be controversial to say, but I'll say it anyway but temper it with this: a woman (or anyone for that matter) is repsonsible for their own actions but not anyone elses.  I would like to know why these girls did not lock their bedroom doors while sleeping. I will explicitly state that THIS DOES NOT MEAN THEY DESERVE/ASKED TO BE RAPED but you can hold as many Take Back the Night marches and have tougher sentences (which I advocate completely), hell you can even castrate any man accused of rape, but there will always be rapists (and murderers and thieves and other criminals) so you always have to be as vigilant as you can about your own safety.  Just without guns.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224277</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:51:35 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Tommy</title>
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Hey is right, nobody has ever been raped in the history of the United States where women can carry handguns if they desire. Hey hey hey!]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224276</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:30:39 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Chris Orbz</title>
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A reminder, at this point, that last year York's school year began with a violent murder-suicide-attempt attack by a woman on a man.  As well, though police presence on campus is apparently going to be more common (at least for some time) following this, it is something that is generally not accepted and doesn't take place without specific reason... so an increased city wide police force and handing out guns and ammunition with all the condoms and deodorant samples would not in any way be a useful approach to the problem at hand.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224273</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:14:47 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Tl?nista</title>
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Fuck this mace and handgun shit! We have the <i>right</i> to live in this city unmolested. I realize safe habits and self-defence are necessary, but there's only so much women can do. It's <i>not our fucking job</i> to keep ourselves from getting raped. It's the rapists' job to <i>stop raping<i>.

Yours, an angry feminist.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224271</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:14:21 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Chris Orbz</title>
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I agree, guns in all frosh kits!]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224269</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:09:35 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Hey</title>
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The left doesn't support vigourous police presence in our city, doesn't support effective sentences, nor believe that criminals are anythign but misguided (unless of course they are misandrist "feminists" like Dworkin who believe that all heterosexual intercourse is rape). So it should not come as a shock that criminals roam free and reoffend with impunity.

A decent sized Toronto Police force (3x current levels) and minimum sentences for robbery, burglary, and rape of 25 years without parole would be an excellent start. Getting people focused on the horrors of violent rape, rather than on trying to expand the definition of rape, would also help. "Take back the night" and other activities are used as a cudgel to beat men, rather than being actual efforts to make our communities safe for everyone. 

Finally, rape would be much less likely if women were able to carry handguns. A man is going to win nearly every physical confrontation with a woman unless she has superior firepower. The wisdom of the American Frontier still holds true: "God created man, Samuel Colt made them equal."]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224245</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:25:21 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Chris Orbz</title>
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On Friday I was reading about the recent beating and sexual assault of a woman working alone in a 3rd floor lab at Carleton and was remarking that I didn't think it'd be possible for something to happen that deep in a York building without the assailants being caught on film because of the prevalence of security cameras here.

I didn't find out 'til later that I'd already been proven wrong that morning...]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224242</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:13:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Ryan C.</title>
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See how desensitized they are if they're the next targets. In the mean time, get a small can of mace and keep it in whatever pocket you can have your hand in while walking around on the campus. Attaching a loud whistle on a string to the small can as well to attract attention would not hurt either. Also, if you go out, stay with friends.

Seems pretty obvious to me. Of course it shouldn't be this way, and women shouldn't have to take such precautions, but we don't live in fucking Wonderland people.]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/09/take_back_the_what/#c224240</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:10:45 PDT</pubDate>
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