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Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action Monday against a British comedian who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport.

Sacha Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his "Da Ali G Show," has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West, on British and U.S. channels.

Cohen appears to have drawn official Kazakh ire after he hosted the annual MTV Europe Music Awards show in Lisbon earlier this month as Borat, who arrived in an Air Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle.

"We do not rule out that Mr. Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its people in a derogatory way," Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news briefing.

"We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind." He declined to elaborate.

Cohen's earlier jokes about the Central Asian state include claims that the people would shoot a dog and then have a party, and that local wine was made from fermented horse urine.

"We view Mr. Cohen's behavior at the MTV Europe Music Awards as utterly unacceptable, being a concoction of bad taste and ill manners which is completely incompatible with ethics and civilized behavior," Ashykbayev said.

about get rich

so. for all you haters out there... prepare to be proven wrong. i read a couple of the reviews for "get rich or die trying" before seeing it last night. Including "Mildly engaging but very far from being for 50 Cent what 8 Mile was for Eminem".

This movie is filmed intelligently.. lots of supporting characters reinforce the story.. and curtis "fiddy cent" jackson delivers a breakthru performance... that I am comparing to eminems role in 8mile. The story follows fifty from his childhood growing up with a drug dealer mother, to rising to gangsta rap glory. There is also a romantic backstory, with a very attractive Joy Bryant. I highly recommend this movie. I saw it with my boy Pat, and he is a huge 50cent hater. and he loved it.. I also saw it with my boy Jason and he gave it 6 out of 4 stars...




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It’s nothing to do with George Lucas’ early work, though. Vandal will follow a young artist who moves to Brooklyn and is caught up in the world of graffiti.

Matt Cirulnick has written the script and Jake Nava, who has directed the likes of Beyonce’s Crazy In Love music video, will call the shots.

about revenge of the nerds

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There's a saying in Silicon Valley: "The geeks shall inherit the earth."

That's a sign, if you needed one, that we have permanently entered a new economy. Once a term of derision, the label "geek" has become a badge of honor, a mark of distinction. Anyone in any business in any industry with any hope of thriving knows that he or she is utterly dependent on geeks -- those technical wizards who create great software and the powerful hardware that runs it. The geeks know it too -- a fact that is reflected in the rich salaries and hefty stock options that they now command.

But how do you manage these geek gods? Perhaps no one knows better than Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell Inc. Schmidt, 44, is a card-carrying geek himself: His resume boasts a computer-science PhD and a stint at Sun Microsystems, where he was the chief technology officer and a key developer of the Java software language. And, as if his technical skills weren't enough to prove the point, Schmidt even looks the part, with his boy-genius face, his wire-rim spectacles, and his coder's pallid complexion.

You've got to have your own geeks

Today innovation drives any business. And since you don't want to outsource your innovation, you need to have your own geeks. Look at trends in e-commerce: Who would have thought that all of these "old" companies would have to face huge new distribution-channel issues, all of which are driven by technology? The truth is, you need to have a stable of technologists around -- not just to run your systems but also to help you figure out which strategies to pursue, which innovations to invest in, and which partnerships to form.

The geeks control the limits of your business. It's a fact of life: If the technologists in your company invent something ahead of everybody else, then all of a sudden your business will get bigger. Otherwise, it will get smaller. You simply have to recognize and accept the critical role that technologists play. All new-economy businesses share that property.
Get to know your geek community

According to the traditional stereotype, geeks are people who are primarily fascinated by technology and its uses. The negative part of that stereotype is the assumption that they have poor social skills. Like most stereotypes, it's true in general -- but false at the level of specifics. By society's definition, they are antisocial. But within their own community, they are actually quite social. You'll find that they break themselves into tribes: mainframe-era graybeards, Unix people who started out 20 years ago, the new PC-plus-Web generation. They're tribal in the way that they subdivide their own community, but the tribes don't fight each other. In fact, those tribes get along very well -- because all of them fight management.

Perhaps the least-becoming aspect of the geek community is its institutional arrogance. Remember, just because geeks have underdeveloped social skills doesn't mean that they don't have egos. Tech people are uppity by definition: A lot of them would like to have been astronauts. They enjoy the limelight.

In a power relationship with management, they have more in common with pro basketball players than they do with average workers.

Think of your techies as free agents in a highly specialized sports draft. And the more specialized they are, the more you need to be concerned about what each of them needs as an individual.

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