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Minst 34 människor dödades och omkring hundra skadades då tio bilbomber exploderade i Bagdad i kväll, uppger irakiska myndigheter.

En man, som ska ha dykt med tuber, försvann i sjön Mjörn utanför Alingsås i eftermiddags.

Taco Cowboy writes with news that Microsoft's stock price dropped over 11 percent yesterday. The selloff was the biggest since 2009, and during the day the price was down more than 12 percent at one point, making it the biggest single day drop since April, 2000. Analysts believe the drop was due primarily to the company missing its quarterly earnings projections in addition to taking a massive, $900 million write-down on unsold Surface RT tablets. "Microsoft’s decline is both a consequence of the changing dynamics of the tech world and the incredible surge in its stock price this year. Shares in the maker of Windows had rallied nearly 30% this year, leaving both the broader stock market and the technology sector in the dust. It was, it seemed, Steve Ballmer’s year. Until Friday. The sell off was sparked by fears over the declines of the PC market. Gartner data show PC shipments fell for the fifth consecutive quarter in Q2, this time tanking 10.9% to 76 million units. Being the world’s largest software company, 'over 80% of its revenue and nearly all of its profits continue to be derived by its ubiquitous Windows OS, its server business (Windows Server), and the business division (Office),' according to UBS. And indeed that decline in the PC industry is hurting the company’s bottom line."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Let's not argue about that

If you find yourself unhappy because:

what you want them to be,
Or think they should be,
Or what they told you they were...

There's a really easy fix for that unhappiness.
They're free to be who they are, and also to change who they are.
It seems you should still love them, if you did before. ;-)
Because if you did not, then there would be no chance for people you love to grow, or for your understanding of them to grow, and that wouldn't be much of a friendship!
And the truth is people change and that isn't something to be afraid of because it's real and it's not about you unless you're the one who's changing. ;-)
So much of the unhappiness between people is because of misunderstandings like this, imho -- and it's so unnecessary.

Unrest follows public anger over the killing of four villagers in the disputed region by government troops.

Egypt's Hazem el-Beblawy calls for an end to divisions, as interim president appoints committee to redraft constitution.

En person befaras ha drunknat i en sjö söder om Örebro.

Fyra tillbud bara idag. Så undviker du riskerna.

Lasrick writes "Kennette Benedict writes in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about the existential threat of climate change, and how the scientists who study and write about it are similar to the early atomic scientists who created, and then worried about, the threat that nuclear weapons posed to humanity: 'Just as the Manhattan Project participants could foresee the coming arms race, climate scientists today understand the consequences of deploying the technologies that defined the industrial age. They also know that action now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will mitigate the worst consequences of climate change, just as the Manhattan Project scientists knew that early action to forestall a deadly arms race could prevent nuclear catastrophe.'"