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stryfe
11-16-2005, 03:16 PM
Ants Reportedly Eat Woman's Eye in India (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051115/ap_on_fe_st/india_ant_attack)
NEW DELHI - A woman died in a Calcutta hospital after ants ate one of her eyes as she was recovering from a cornea operation, media reports said Tuesday.
Gauri Chakraborty, 55, had complained of terrible pain after the operation at a state-run hospital, but a nurse told her it was normal and left her unattended, her son Soumen told the Press Trust of India news agency.
He said that when her bandage was removed the next day they found big black ants nibbling at her eye, PTI reported.
"She died a ghastly death. We don't even know the reason of her death," Amitabha Kar, Chakraborty's son-in-law told PTI.
Local Health Minister Surjya Kanta Mishra demanded a report of the incident from the hospital authorities. In response, hospital superintendent Sukumar Das said a five-member inquiry committee has been set up, PTI reported.
Dr Jesus
11-16-2005, 03:18 PM
huruuggggggh!
cough .
cough.
cough.
spit.
*flush*
stryfe
11-16-2005, 03:19 PM
[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051115/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_australia_tortoiseHarriet the tortoise turns 175[/url]
CANBERRA (Reuters) - One of the world's oldest living animals, Harriet the tortoise, celebrated her 175th birthday on Tuesday -- with a pink hibiscus flower cake at her retirement home in northern Australia.
Australia Zoo, where Harriet has spent the past 17 years, says the Giant Galapagos Land Tortoise was collected by scientist Charles Darwin in 1835, although some historians have disputed this.
There is no doubt however over the age of Harriet -- who for more than a century was thought to be a male and named Harry -- and she is recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living chelonian, or reptile with a shell of bony plates.
"She would definitely be the oldest living animal on Earth ... I can't see why she shouldn't live till 200," Australian conservationist and television celebrity Steve Irwin, who owns Australia Zoo north of the city of Brisbane, told Guinness World Records.
"She died a ghastly death. We don't even know the reason of her death,"
I don't know, maybe because FUCKING ANTS ATE HER EYE?!
GAAAH.
stryfe
11-16-2005, 03:21 PM
related story
Ants eat coma patient's eye (http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1834749,00.html)
Dr Jesus
11-16-2005, 03:24 PM
wow red ants too! huruggh!
Mental images... won't... leave!
Dr Jesus
11-16-2005, 03:26 PM
hmm i should rehydrate. this thread is giving me cholera.
I like to accuse people who are sweet to me of giving me diabetes, so I guess cholera works for this one. Or maybe dysentery.
Dr Jesus
11-16-2005, 03:29 PM
ebola?
Well, no blood's shot out of my eyes or anus quite yet, so we won't jump the gun quite yet.
Margin Walker
11-16-2005, 04:18 PM
http://www.leadertelegram.com/photos%5Clarge%5CSK_NEW_PLATES1_111405.EPS.jpg
"Ken Hasenmueller didn't order vanity plates for his family's 1996 cherry red Oldsmobile Cutlass.
But last Wednesday he received plates emblazoned with a message that was a little too personal for his liking. The Wisconsin Division of Motor Vehicles randomly assigned "666-KEN" to the Altoona man's car.
Hasenmueller, a Christian father of three and social studies teacher, wasn't crazy about having his first name paired with the numeric symbol for the prince of darkness.
“Initially I thought it was interesting,” Hasenmueller said. “But then I thought that people might think I was Satanist.”
He also worried that others would assume he requested the plates.
“I wouldn't want people thinking I was interested in that sort of thing,” Hasenmueller said. “You don't want this sort of thing on your car.”
Hasenmueller and his wife, Jean, said they plan to trade in the plates. The couple's 18-year-old daughter frequently drives the car, and Hasenmueller said he didn't want her or any other members of the family drawing any unwanted attention (good or bad) from the "666-KEN" plates.
Paul Bernander, chief of Wisconsin's Department of Transportation title processing section, said from time to time motorists receive a plate that they find offensive or upsetting.
“It's infrequent, but we understand it happens,” he said, noting that some motorists exchange their plates because the letters match the initials of an ex-spouse.
The plates can be returned at a DMV service center, Bernander said. A $5 counter fee and a $4 replacement fee may apply, he added.
Jean Hasenmueller, a dental hygienist, said although the plates provided some laughs, she is glad to be able to return them.
“It's just an unbelievable thing that it would happen to my husband,” she said. “We are a very strong Christian family.
“And as far as I can tell, he's not the Antichrist,” she added with a laugh."
kamenriderv3
11-16-2005, 04:59 PM
at least he didn't get the cho-187 plates.
Dr Jesus
11-16-2005, 05:02 PM
*rimshot*
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/11/12/breastfeeding.death.ap/
so fucking classy.
stryfe
11-20-2005, 11:10 AM
Online daters sue matchmaking Web sites for fraud (http://today.reuters.com/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN18708924)
By Martha Graybow
NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Reuters) - It's not easy finding love in cyberspace, and now some frustrated online daters say they were victims of fraud by two top Internet matchmaking services and have taken their complaints to court.
Match.com, a unit of IAC/Interactive Corp. is accused in a federal lawsuit of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees. In some instances, the suit contends, people on the Match payroll even went on sham dates with subscribers as a marketing ploy.
"This is a grossly fraudulent practice that Match.com is engaged in," said H. Scott Leviant, a lawyer at Los Angeles law firm Arias, Ozzello & Gignac LLP, which brought the suit.
Match "promotes the policies of integrity to protect members, and yet they themselves, we allege, are misleading their entire customer base," he said.
The company said it does not comment on pending litigation. But Match spokeswoman Kristin Kelly said the company "absolutely does not" employ people to go on dates with subscribers or to send members misleading e-mails professing romantic interest. The company has about 15 million members worldwide and 250 employees, she said.
In a separate suit, Yahoo Inc.'s personals service is accused of posting profiles of fictitious potential dating partners on its Web site to make it look as though many more singles subscribe to the service than actually do.
<cont'd (http://today.reuters.com/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=media&storyID=nN18708924)>
Nerv'
11-20-2005, 05:42 PM
Originally posted by stryfe
CANBERRA (Reuters) - One of the world's oldest living animals, Harriet the tortoise, celebrated her 175th birthday on Tuesday -- with a pink hibiscus flower cake at her retirement home in northern Australia.
I was curious what (who) the oldest living creature was...
As it turns out it *might* be harriet, currently.
But another tortoise, which died in 1965, was either 188 or 192...
[url]http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16265479&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=the-oldest-creature-on-earth--name_page.html (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051115/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_australia_tortoiseHarriet the tortoise turns 175[/url)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051121/ap_on_re_as/bush_asia
(check out the pic)
Bush Cheers Mongolia for Pushing Democracy
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 41 minutes ago
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -
President Bush, buffeted by unrelenting criticism at home over
Iraq, on Monday saluted Mongolia's "fearless warriors" for helping his embattled effort to establish democracy in the heart of the Middle East.
"Mongolia and the United States are standing together as brothers in the cause of freedom," Bush told Mongolian troops and lawmakers in a speech at the Government House.
After two days in China partly aimed at nudging that communist country toward greater freedoms, Bush's stop here — the first by a U.S. president — was meant to showcase the first communist country in Asia to turn toward democracy. Mongolia discarded communism 15 years ago; it holds democratic elections and allows Western-style freedoms.
"You are an example of success for the region and for the world," Bush said. "As you build a free society in the heart of Central Asia, the American people stand with you."
Bush spent about four hours in this land of vast deserts, plains and mountains on the last leg of an eight-day, four-country swing through Asia that included stops in Japan,
South Korea and China. After the 13-minute speech, Bush ventured just outside the capital to sip fermented mare's milk and listen to the traditional Central Asian art of throat singing.
"Really special," he commented.
Bush was due to arrive at the White House Monday night.
Visiting what is known proudly here as the coldest capital in the world in wintertime, thick pollution hung over the city as his motorcade passed barren mountains, soldiers at attention and thousands of curious but mostly impassive locals. He was greeted at the Government House by flower-toting children in traditional Mongolian robes and soldiers in bright red, blue and yellow overcoats.
"Such an honor to be here," Bush told Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar. They met inside a ger, a white tent, in a courtyard of the government building.
Gers are round, easily packable felt tents that are well-suited to Mongolia's harsh climate and nomadic culture. The ornate one used by the presidents had a red-and-yellow design on the roof and red wood doors. Inside were red brocade chairs, tapestries, Oriental carpets and a towering, white statue of Genghis Khan, the legendary horseman-warrior and country founder whose empire once stretched as far south as Southeast Asia and west to Hungary.
Enkhbayar is from the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the former communist party now committed to free elections and capitalism. Bush's brief meeting with Enkhbayar preceded another with Prime Minister T. Elbegdor, from the rival Democratic Party.
Bush played to Mongolia's pride in its military by publicly recognizing two soldiers who gunned down a suicide truck bomber before he could strike a mess tent in Iraq. Mongolia's force of about 160 in Iraq makes it, with its population of just 2.8 million, the third-largest contributor per capita to the coalition.
"U.S. armed forces are proud to serve beside such fearless warriors," Bush said.
The president's warm reception in this country eager for U.S. assistance and attention brought some relief from the unrelenting and acrid debate at home about his policies in Iraq. The Mongolian people, Bush said, "claimed their freedom 15 years ago and are now standing with others across the world to help them do the same."
But the transition from 70 years of Soviet domination to free markets meant the end of economic help from Moscow. That, in turn, brought crushing poverty and its accompanying social ills. Foreign investment is scant, and its schools and health system are in decline. But the economy grew nearly 11 percent last year and the country is rich in copper and gold.
Before leaving Washington, Bush bluntly said corruption is a problem in Mongolia. He was more diplomatic on the ground, gently pressing lawmakers to pass anti-corruption legislation needed to bring it in line with a
United Nations treaty against corruption it ratified this year. Enkhbayar was elected in May on a platform of fighting corruption.
Bush noted that Mongolia is one of 16 countries that will share $1 billion in U.S. aid as part of an incentive program for poor countries that show a commitment to economic and government reform. The president also brought a gift — $11 million in aid to improve Mongolia's military forces through a separate program for nations allied with the U.S.-led war on terror.
NPR: There Is No God (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5015557)
slackerbot
11-22-2005, 01:05 AM
this probably belongs in the what the fuck thread..
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=nation_world&id=3653000
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/6513/wpvi11212005malltextslide0ql.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Tacoma Mall Shooting Spree
AP
TACOMA, WA - New chilling information about the man suspected of a mall shooting in Washington State. Police say he sent text messages to friends during the ordeal.
Twenty-year-old Dominick Sergio Maldonado is charged with six counts of assault and three of kidnapping. His ex-girlfriend, Tiffany Robinson, says less than 30-minutes before the shooting started at a Tacoma mall, she got a text message from Maldonado reading in part, and "today the world will feel my pain."
She says he also called her before sending the message.
"He didn't sound upset. He sounded really calm. He said he was going to a better place. Then he said he couldn't talk anymore," said Robinson in an interview broadcast Monday on ABC News' "Good Morning America".
Maldonado surrendered about four hours after he ducked into a music store and took three hostages, all of whom were released unharmed, authorities said.
Maldonado's ex-girlfriend said he also contacted her during the standoff.
"He called me and said he just shot up the Tacoma Mall and he's in the Sam Goody taking hostages," Robison said.
Bret Strickler, who said he was Maldonado's best friend, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer he received a similar text message while Maldonado was holding the hostages.
Authorities said they began getting calls about 12:15 p.m. that shots had been fired inside the mall. The first caller said a gunman "was in the mall, walking along, firing," Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum said.
State Patrol and police units from nearby agencies clustered around an entrance at the south end.
Inside, Stacy Wilson, 29, heard a popping noise and turned around.
"I saw the gunman randomly shooting. I ran with a group of women to Victoria's Secret," Wilson said. She said they crouched behind a wall in the store, and when the shooting stopped, an employee ran out and closed a security gate at the front.
Wilson said she heard 15 to 20 shots.
"He was walking backward and shooting. I couldn't see his face," she said. "Everyone was running and screaming."
A man told KING-TV the gunman was smiling as he fired an assault rifle in bursts of four to five shots.
A woman who said she made eye contact with the "very clean-cut" gunman before he opened fire told Northwest Cable News, "When I heard the shooting I thought, 'This is a joke. ... I couldn't believe this was actually happening, that someone would do this."
Court records show Maldonado has an extensive juvenile criminal history dating back to 1998. He has been convicted of burglary, theft and possession of burglary tools and he had been ordered not to possess any weapons, the Times reported.
"I think honestly that he just wanted attention. It's the sick attention that he wanted," Robison told ABC. She said they broke up months earlier "because of an issue with a drug."
While the suspect was in the music store, employee Joe Hudson was able to pick up a phone call from The Associated Press and say he and others had been taken hostage. He said little more but could be heard telling others that he was talking to the AP.
Susan Serveau said she also called her daughter, Kathy Riggans, 24, a manager at Sam Goody, as soon as she heard about the shooting.
"She was upset and scared. She was crying," Serveau said, standing in a parking lot near the mall. "All she would say was that she was OK."
Serveau cried with relief when her daughter, store manager Kathy Riggans, and the other hostages were released unharmed.
"I'm going to give her a big hug and tell her how much we love her," Serveau said. "I'm just happy she's OK. It's been nerve-racking, very nerve-racking."
Six people were taken to hospitals, most with minor injuries, according to Tacoma Fire Department Deputy Chief Jon Lendosky. One person was in critical condition at Tacoma General Hospital, spokesman Todd Kelley said.
Maldonado was booked into the Pierce County Jail on six counts of assault and three counts of kidnapping, according to jail records. He was being held on $450,000 bail.
stryfe
11-22-2005, 07:48 AM
Rocker Glitter says teaching, not abusing, girls (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051122/en_nm/vietnam_glitter_dc)
Tue Nov 22, 3:53 AM ET
HANOI (Reuters) - British rocker
Gary Glitter has denied child molestation allegations in Vietnam, telling police he was just teaching English to young girls, state media reported on Tuesday.
"When they met me, they all told me that they were older than 20," the official Thanh Nien newspaper quoted the 61-year-old rocker, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, as saying.
Glitter, who said he came to the southern resort town of Vung Tau looking for tourism investment opportunities, said he was helping girls with their English, the paper said.
The Vietnamese-language Thanh Nien newspaper said police had identified five girls who had admitted to having had sex with Glitter. One of the girls was 12 years old, the paper said.
The age of consent in Vietnam is 16 and sex with minors is punishable by up to 12 years in jail.
Vung Tau police told Reuters they were keeping Glitter in custody for questioning over the allegations. They did not comment on his denial.
The Saigon Giai Phong newspaper said Glitter had requested a defense lawyer but had turned down a list of international lawyers provided by the British Consulate.
Police detained Glitter at Ho Chi Minh City airport on Saturday as he tried to board a plane to the Thai capital, Bangkok.
Glitter was sentenced to four months in jail in Britain in 1999 after being found guilty of storing more than 4,000 images of child pornography on the hard drive of his computer.
After his release, he left Britain for Cuba and then later turned up in Phnom Penh.
Child rights activists hounded him out of Cambodia twice and had his name put on an entry blacklist, although Glitter filed lawsuits last year fighting the deportation orders.
Vietnamese newspapers have reported Glitter had been in Vietnam for about a year.
bah bah BAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH BAH,
HEY!
bah-bah bah-bah bah-bah.....
balina
11-25-2005, 10:39 AM
http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/6232/It_s_a_stretch_Man_pulls_truck_with_penis
kamenriderv3
11-25-2005, 03:34 PM
his wife is the envy of her friends?
sure! what woman doesn't want to be pulled across the bedroom floor by a rope strapped to her lover's penis??
zachariah
11-25-2005, 07:16 PM
damnit! this is SERIOUS!!! bush IS drinking again!
by edrie
Mon Nov 21, 2005 at 09:13:17 AM PDT
Great! Just what i needed this morning - to awaken to CNN cheerfully describing bush's visit to mongolia - and his spending time enjoying the local food the local drink of "fermented milk"!
Now i don't know about you, but this raised serious red flags for me! So, off i went to google "mongolia, fermented milk and alcohol" - not to be surprised to find that the drink contains anywhere from 3% content to 18% content (when further distilled).
Guess this answers the questions for us: is dubya drinking again? Brings to mind the old adage "how far do i have to go to get a drink aroud here!" now we have the answer: mongolia!
Beneath the fold, find out exactly what he was drinking! continues... (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/21/111317/35)
I posted that story on the previous page.
No more news, people. Wrap it up.
zachariah
11-26-2005, 11:58 AM
(two things: 1: I don't know how I missed the story; 2: The "continues..." is reasonably interesting)
(to make up for it...)
Fish slapper sentenced to six months (http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=609&id=2302092005&format=print) A MAN who slapped a passer-by with a wet fish was sentenced to six months after being told by a sheriff that he had reached "the end of the line" .
David Evans, 22, attacked civil servant Alan Binnie as he took a Sunday evening stroll. The incident occurred in Zetland Park, Grangemouth, in May.
Falkirk Sheriff Court heard that Mr Binnie, 21, was walking through the park at about 6pm when he was approached by Evans, who was carrying the fish.
He asked Mr Binnie: "Do you want to kiss my fish?"
Prosecutor Neil Macgregor told the court: "Mr Binnie made no reply and walked on, at which point the accused said: 'You answer me next time I ask you to kiss a fish', and slapped him round the face with it."
Evans, 22, of Strowan Road, Grangemouth, who has served time for other offences, pled guilty on Monday to assault.
Mr Binnie, of Wallace Street, Grangemouth, an Edinburgh-based administrative assistant at the Scottish Executive, said today that he was not amused by the publicity surrounding the case.
kamenriderv3
11-26-2005, 12:22 PM
at least it wasn't a porcupine fish
Originally posted by zachariah
(two things: 1: I don't know how I missed the story; 2: The "continues..." is reasonably interesting)
(to make up for it...)
Fish slapper sentenced to six months (http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=609&id=2302092005&format=print)
That could easily be me. I better watch myself.
stryfe
11-26-2005, 08:34 PM
Have a job for India's tallest man? (http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jun/09tall.htm)
http://im.rediff.com/news/2005/jun/09tall.jpg
Syed Amin Jafri in Hyderabad | June 09, 2005 16:33 IST
Vikas alias Vicky, India's tallest man, called on Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy at his chambers in the secretariat in Hyderabad on Thursday morning.
Eighteen-year-old Vicky is 8 feet 9 inches and weighs 210 kg. A native of Rohtak in Hary
ana, Vicky is in the city for the last couple of days in connection with the inauguration of a travel agency.
Everyone looked up to him when he reached the secretariat. He had to bend to fit in the lift. The door to the CM's chambers turned out to be short too for him.
YSR looked amused dwarfed in Vicky's presence.
Vicky's poor family depends on three buffaloes for livelihood. Vicky has two siblings -- a 10-year-old sister and a 3-year-old brother. He sought financial assistance or a job from the chief minister.
kamenriderv3
11-26-2005, 09:53 PM
he could fight giant silva in japan...
stryfe
11-28-2005, 01:03 PM
Originally posted by puppy fields
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news1.shtml
"A young Royal Marine is FORCED into a barbaric naked fight with another recruit and then KICKED unconscious by a superior in a brutal booze-fuelled initiation ceremony.
And the shocking ritual—covertly filmed by a commando—is alleged to be one of many imposed on recruits."
:o *yawn* they do that all the time in the boy scouts.
DOOM!
11-28-2005, 01:12 PM
Originally posted by stryfe
[B]Have a job for India's tallest man? (http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jun/09tall.htm)
Basketball Player.
fmstlr
11-28-2005, 11:06 PM
Rolling Stone rolls eastward Rock magazine licenses a Chinese edition.
By Aimee Picchi
BLOOMBERG NEWS
Rolling Stone magazine, founded in 1967 by Jann Wenner, has licensed the title to Hong Kong-based publisher One Media Group, which plans a Chinese edition, publisher Steve DeLuca said.
The publication will be distributed in mainland China and will cover popular culture and music, DeLuca said in an interview Wednesday
The magazine is published in 10 countries outside the United States including Australia, Italy and Mexico.
Closely held Wenner Media owns Rolling Stone.
Rolling Stone, with a circulation of 1.32 million, will be joining other U.S. media brands such as the MTV cable-television network in seeking a foothold in the world's most populous nation.
More than half of the Chinese-language version will be articles picked up from the U.S. magazine, with the rest written by local writers, DeLuca said.
"With China being the biggest consumer market, it's an area we saw as vitally important," he said. "They have a burgeoning music scene there, so it was time for us to move into the market."
The agreement includes a revenue-sharing component, although he declined to reveal the terms.
One Media, the publisher of the technology magazine Hi-Tech Weekly and Chinese-language versions of such U.S. titles as Popular Science, sold shares to the public for the first time last month.
Wenner Media, which is based in New York, also publishes Men's Journal and the entertainment publication US Weekly. Shares of One Media Group fell 1 cent to 90 cents in Hong Kong.
slackerbot
11-29-2005, 09:13 AM
OMG!
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news&id=3675945&ft=print
Teenager Dies After Kiss By Boyfriend
AP
SAGUENAY, Quebec - A 15-year-old girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend, who had just eaten a peanut butter snack, hospital officials said Monday.
Christina Desforges died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday after doctors were unable to treat her allergic reaction to the kiss the previous weekend.
Desforges, who lived in Saguenay, about 155 miles north of Quebec City, was almost immediately given a shot of adrenaline, a standard tool for treating the anaphylactic shock brought on by a peanut allergy, officials said.
An autopsy was being performed. Dr. Nina Verreault, an allergist at the Chicoutimi Hospital in Saguenay, declined to comment on the case.
The symptoms of peanut allergy can include hives, plunging blood pressure and swelling of the face and throat, which can block breathing.
Peanut allergies have been rising in recent decades. The reason remains unclear but one study found that baby creams or lotions with peanut oil may cause children to develop allergies later in life.
About 1.5 million Americans are severely allergic to even the smallest trace of peanuts and peanut allergies account for 50 to 100 deaths in the United States each year. Canadian figures were not immediately available.
Copyright © 2005 KABC-TV and the Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Nerv'
11-29-2005, 06:33 PM
Anyone seen the stuff about a "Teenage Buddha" found in Nepal?
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Ram+Bahadur+Bamjon&ie=UTF-8&filter=0
Originally posted by Nerv'
Anyone seen the stuff about a "Teenage Buddha" found in Nepal?
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Ram+Bahadur+Bamjon&ie=UTF-8&filter=0
I was gonna post that but I just blogged it.
My response. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/aughtstar/48264.html)
stryfe
11-30-2005, 07:31 AM
What's the buzz? Teens can't stand it (http://news.com.com/Whats+the+buzz+Teens+cant+stand+it/2100-11395_3-5974937.html?tag=nefd.top)
ARRY, Wales--Though he did not know it at the time, the idea came to Howard Stapleton when he was 12 and visiting a factory with his father, a manufacturing executive in London.
Opening the door to a room where workers were using high-frequency welding equipment, he found he could not bear to go inside.
"The noise!" he complained.
"What noise?" the grownups asked.
Now 39, Stapleton has taken the lesson he learned that day--that children can hear sounds at higher frequencies than adults can--to fashion a novel device that he hopes will provide a solution to the eternal problem of obstreperous teenagers who hang around outside stores and cause trouble.
The device, called the Mosquito ("It's small and annoying," Stapleton said), emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that, he said, can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30. The sound is designed to so irritate young people that after several minutes, they cannot stand it and go away.
So far, the Mosquito has been road-tested in only one place, at the entrance to the Spar convenience store in this town in South Wales. Like birds perched on telephone wires, surly teenagers used to plant themselves on the railings just outside the door, smoking, drinking, shouting rude words at customers and making regular disruptive forays inside.
"On the low end of the scale, it would be intimidating for customers," said Robert Gough, who, with his parents, owns the store. "On the high end, they'd be in the shop fighting, stealing and assaulting the staff."
<cont'd (http://news.com.com/Whats+the+buzz+Teens+cant+stand+it/2100-11395_3-5974937.html?tag=nefd.top)>
rloaderro
11-30-2005, 10:55 AM
http://bryanboy.typepad.com/
rloaderro
11-30-2005, 10:58 AM
Fixed!
Jeebus that was fast. It's been so long I forgot how to use this thing. Thanks!
Hey, you can say a lot of things about Iago, but he's a sensible dresser.
35ft6
11-30-2005, 05:48 PM
Originally posted by puppy fields
http://www.bryanboy.com/photos/uncategorized/normal_dsc01127.jpg [George walks into Monks wearing the Russian hat.]
George: Hey.
Jerry: Hey, why didn't you get the big one?
George: This hat just bottles in the heat, I don't even need a coat! It's unbelievable!
stryfe
12-01-2005, 04:02 PM
Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4489792.stm)
Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.
Passers-by were reportedly too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly lasted about a minute.
They are said to have scampered off at the sight of humans, some carrying pieces of flesh.
A pine cone shortage may have led the squirrels to seek other food sources, although scientists are sceptical.
The attack was reported in parkland in the centre of Lazo, a village in the Maritime Territory, and was witnessed by three local people.
A "big" stray dog was nosing about the trees and barking at squirrels hiding in branches overhead when a number of them suddenly descended and attacked, reports say.
"They literally gutted the dog," local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
"When they saw the men, they scattered in different directions, taking pieces of their kill away with them."
Mikhail Tiyunov, a scientist in the region, said it was the first he had ever heard of such an attack.
While squirrels without sources of protein might attack birds' nests, he said, the idea of them chewing at a dog to death was "absurd".
"If it really happened, things must be pretty bad in our forests," he added.
Komosmolskaya Pravda notes that in a previous incident this autumn chipmunks terrorised cats in a part of the territory.
A Lazo man who called himself only Mikhalich said there had been "no pine cones at all" in the local forests this year.
"The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat," he said.
joekin
12-01-2005, 04:08 PM
Penis Flytrap (http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/a-penis-flytrap/2005/09/03/1125302782241.html)
Er, a "penis flytrap" suggests somthing penis-like that catches flys, not something that catches penii.
Anyway. Old story.
Originally posted by stryfe
Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4489792.stm)
Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.
RUSSIA = CRAZYLAND
Originally posted by puppy fields
http://www.bryanboy.com/photos/uncategorized/normal_dsc01127.jpg
"No, no...leave the hat on."
stryfe
12-02-2005, 09:21 AM
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20051201/i/r3788257887.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/photo/051201/ids_photos_wl/r3788257887.jpg)
The Obelisk of Buenos Aires is covered with a giant condom to commemorate World AIDS Day December 1, 2005.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051201/wl_canada_afp/unclimateenvironment_051201182053;_ylt=AksoCvKtBu4E.fw2yAg6uE4TO7gF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGVna3NhBHNlYwNzc3J lbA--
I'm sorry, reading that again, it was a Canadian who suggested the awesomeness of global warming.
The whole thing can only mean WAR WITH CANADA!!!!
stryfe
12-06-2005, 07:40 AM
i smell a conspiracy theory...
Originally posted by puppy fields
http://www.kyw1060.com/news_archives_detail.cfm?newsitemid=50753
Pilot Reports 'Missile' Fired at Jetliner Near LAX (11/28/05)
FBI agents and Homeland Security officials spent the weekend investigating the report of a possible missile fired at an American Airlines plane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport.
Sources tell ABC News the pilot of American Airlines Flight 621, en route to Chicago, radioed air traffic controllers after takeoff from LAX. He told them a missile had been fired at the aircraft and missed.
The plane was over water when the pilot said he saw a smoke trail pass by the cockpit.
FBI agents believe it was a flare or a bottle rocket, but say they may never know if that's what it actually was.
stryfe
12-06-2005, 07:43 AM
someone tell me ths isn't true...
Hong Kong Disneyland (http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050914_2.htm)
The Ming Pao Daily reported Tuesday that visitors from mainland China disregarded the theme park's rules and smoked cigarettes in restaurants and other nonsmoking areas. It ran a photo showing a woman in a Minnie Mouse cap smoking in an open area. The newspaper carried another photograph showing a woman from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong helping a young child loosen his trousers to urinate beside a flower bed.
The Apple Daily had a similar photograph of a child urinating near one of the park's restaurants and another shot of four mainland Chinese women resting on the ground barefoot. A cleaner at the park complained that there were more cigarette butts to pick up Monday compared to pre-opening rehearsal days, when visitors were mostly local Hong Kongers, the report said.
<more reports and pictures (http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050914_2.htm)>
stryfe
12-06-2005, 07:43 AM
Originally posted by puppy fields
http://www.bryanboy.com/photos/uncategorized/normal_dsc01127.jpg
"only one thing comes between me and my calvins."
stryfe
12-06-2005, 09:21 AM
Originally posted by puppy fields
oh yeah? like what?
it's weird, i did a google and it wasn't reported in any other news source.
nothing in LA.
weird shit man.
interesting comments here (http://www.atsnn.com/story/185281.html)
"These kind of reports just before christmas could cause serious problems for an already ailing industry."
kamenriderv3
12-06-2005, 11:23 AM
Originally posted by stryfe
someone tell me ths isn't true...
Hong Kong Disneyland (http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050914_2.htm)
The Ming Pao Daily reported Tuesday that visitors from mainland China disregarded the theme park's rules and smoked cigarettes in restaurants and other nonsmoking areas. It ran a photo showing a woman in a Minnie Mouse cap smoking in an open area. The newspaper carried another photograph showing a woman from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong helping a young child loosen his trousers to urinate beside a flower bed.
doesn't sound out-of-place to me.
i seen a parent help his kid to pee on the ground at the forbidden palace. not even in the dirt or plants.
i think they do that because they don't put the kids in diapers. kids are potty trained really early. the only problem is if the parents are too lazy to get to a bathroom or at least to a discreet location.
just don't step in "water" puddles in china.
zachariah
12-06-2005, 07:36 PM
Originally posted by stryfe
interesting comments here (http://www.atsnn.com/story/185281.html)
"These kind of reports just before christmas could cause serious problems for an already ailing industry." It's all a plot masterminded by the CEOs of Amtrack
stryfe
12-07-2005, 08:50 AM
Originally posted by puppy fields
Nice link Strfye. Thanks.
Man, I wonder how many illegal surface to air missiles there are in the US. How do they get these things?
well, there was a person in canada not too long ago who was caught driving off with missile launchers.
stryfe
12-07-2005, 08:50 AM
Sizing up evidence in sex assault trial (http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2005/12/03/1335309-sun.html)
BARRIE, Ont. -- A sex assault trial that hung on claims of a large penis was turned into a "cheap joke" by media coverage, a superior court judge said yesterday.
Justice Margaret Eberhard said she was disturbed after she received calls "from afar" and was ribbed numerous times over the trial in which a man claimed he could not be guilty of raping a woman because his penis is too big.
"Whether I find him guilty or innocent - he is publicly humiliated," she said in court just before finding him guilty.
"Nowhere was it reported that this trial represents a tragedy between real human beings," she said.
"All that was sacrificed for a cheap joke - you all deserve better than that."
A 22-year-old student, who cannot be identified, claimed his penis is too big to insert into an average vagina without special preparation or it would cause bleeding and scarring.
A urologist brought to court a plastic model that depicted the alleged size of the member at a semi-relaxed state, which measured 8 1/2 inches long and 6 1/2 inches in girth.
Court heard the male and female were close friends and often slept together platonically, but one night he forced her to have sex after a night of partying together at a Barrie pub.
In the end, the judge accepted that the accused is "unusually large" but she noted the female was never questioned on the witness stand about it, nor did she report any physical pain, discomfort or injury.
The judge said she did not believe the accused, suggesting he made up his testimony as he went along, while the female victim was consistent.
"This time, he crossed the line. And thus, a friendship was betrayed," she said.
The judge also asked for a statement from the victim with advice on how the justice system can make it easier for victims to come forward after they have been sexually assaulted by someone they trusted.
Sentencing is set for later this month.
stryfe
12-08-2005, 12:00 PM
Male brain sex link (http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17504558%255E663,00.html)
09dec05
SCIENTISTS have found there really may be a direct relationship between the male brain and his private parts.
They found evidence that males can create plenty of sperm, or lots of brain cells -- but not both.
As a result it seems, in bats at least, large testicles go together with tiny brains. A study published yesterday looked at 334 different bat species to see if brain size was linked to reproductive organs.
Among many species of bats, researchers at Syracuse University in the US found the males have evolved enormous testicles. Some make up 8.5 per cent of their body mass, compared with 0.75 per cent in primates.
kamenriderv3
12-08-2005, 12:27 PM
Originally posted by stryfe
They found evidence that males can create plenty of sperm, or lots of brain cells -- but not both.
do we get a choice in the matter?
kamenriderv3
12-08-2005, 12:51 PM
*silently crying in the corner*
kamenriderv3
12-08-2005, 01:49 PM
*continues to silently cry in the corner*
stryfe
12-08-2005, 02:09 PM
i always thought kv3 was a really smart guy.
yamchild
12-08-2005, 02:20 PM
i dunno... i always thought he was the really ballsy type...
kamenriderv3
12-08-2005, 02:24 PM
can't we just have some midlevel solution here?
stryfe
12-08-2005, 02:25 PM
considering the evidence from the last article, this poor fellow can barely function.
Originally posted by stryfe
Sizing up evidence in sex assault trial (http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2005/12/03/1335309-sun.html)
A 22-year-old student, who cannot be identified, claimed his penis is too big to insert into an average vagina without special preparation or it would cause bleeding and scarring.
A urologist brought to court a plastic model that depicted the alleged size of the member at a semi-relaxed state, which measured 8 1/2 inches long and 6 1/2 inches in girth.
yamchild
12-08-2005, 02:26 PM
Originally posted by kamenriderv3
can't we just have some midlevel solution here?
go back to silently sobbing in the corner, please.
kamenriderv3
12-08-2005, 02:26 PM
word on the street says that erections cause him to go into a coma
kamenriderv3
12-08-2005, 02:28 PM
Originally posted by yamchild
go back to silently sobbing in the corner, please.
worst midlevel solution evar!
stryfe
12-08-2005, 02:28 PM
http://members.cox.net/stryfe1/smileys/anpan_okura.gif
^ poor kv3
http://www.theregister.com/2005/11/21/china_liquid_condom/
stryfe
12-09-2005, 09:28 AM
Originally posted by 'jim
http://www.theregister.com/2005/11/21/china_liquid_condom/
i like the related news titles on the page "NZ finds Black Cocks hard to swallow"
stryfe
12-09-2005, 09:44 AM
apparently james carville and bat boy are related (http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/chamber/61595).
1. Bald, misshapen head.
2. Frightening, sharp toothed grin.
3. Comes from the South. "Like Bat Boy, who first surfaced in West Virginia, most of his relatives are found in the South," notes Dr. Hensky. "Mr. Carville was born in Louisiana."
4. Flails arms wildly when excited.
5. Combative. Like Bat Boy, who's bitten dozens of people, Carville relishes a good fight.
6. Weird, cackling laugh.
7. Super-acute hearing. CNN staffers have learned not to bad-mouth Carville behind his back.
8. Physical agility.
9. Dog-like loyalty. "While other Clinton cronies ducked for cover during Monica-gate, Carville stood by his man," Dr. Hensky observes.
10. Navigates in dark. Carville often wears sunglasses at night.
Dr Jesus
12-09-2005, 02:13 PM
Originally posted by puppy fields
^ haha!
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
"Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 9, 2005, 07:53
Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.
Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.
GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
..."
I'm not sure i believe this^ isn't bush a born again christian? and who are this guy's sources?
Dr Jesus
12-09-2005, 03:05 PM
nothing i just figured he wouldn't use goddamned so often.
likeothers
12-10-2005, 10:24 AM
weird.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,7369,1664146,00.html
How planespotters turned into the scourge of the CIA
Gerard Seenan and Giles Tremlett
Saturday December 10, 2005
The Guardian
Paul last saw the Gulfstream V about 18 months ago. He comes down to
Glasgow airport's planespotters' club most days. He had not seen the
plane before so he marked the serial number down in his book. At the
time, he did not think there was anything unusual about the
Gulfstream being ushered to a stand away from public view, one that
could not be seen from the airport terminal or the club's prime view.
But that flight this week was at the centre of a transatlantic row
that saw the prime minister being put on the spot on the floor of the
House of Commons and the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice,
forced on the defensive during a visit to Europe. The Gulfstream V
has been identified as having been used by the CIA for "extraordinary
renditions" - abducting terror suspects and taking them to secret
prisons around the world where they may be tortured.
The recording of flights by spotters like Paul from places as far
afield as Bournemouth and Karachi has unintentionally played a
significant role in helping journalists and human rights groups
expose the scale of the CIA's renditions system. But his impact on
such international intrigue largely passes Paul by. "It's not the CIA
bit that interests us. You don't even know who owns the plane when
you take down the serial number," he said, already distracted as
something comes in to land through the grey drizzle. "You keep
accurate logs, for your own records."
. . .
Despite the particular eccentricity of planespotting - and the
obvious capacity for fun-poking - it is not a pastime limited to
Britain. In Spain town planner Josep Manchado is part of a small
group who gather with their long lenses and foil-wrapped sandwiches
at Majorca's Son Sant Joan airport.
In January last year Mr Manchado saw a Boeing 737 on the airport
tarmac. He pressed his camera shutter button while speculating idly
that some US millionaire was in town. Then he put the picture of the
Boeing (tail fin number N313P) on airliners.net, and forgot about it.
Within a few days Mr Manchado starting getting strange calls and
emails. They came from the US and from Sweden. "People were asking me
questions about the plane. They obviously weren't all planespotters
because they were asking questions that people who know about planes
don't ask," he said.
Activists and journalists had become interested in the rendition
flights. There were also, however, strange calls. "One man wanted to
buy up all the photos. He eventually sent me a form in which he asked
for everything, including my home address. I didn't give it to him
and I never heard from him again," he said.
. . .
For those prepared to sift through the endless information complied
by planespotters and posted on websites, there are many more clues to
the CIA's activities to be found. In Ireland peace campaigners have
turned themselves into planespotters.
At Shannon airport Tim Hourigan uses a scanner that allows him to see
what air traffic control sees, and he, and other activists,
religiously note down the numbers of landing planes. Then, using a
combination of Federal Airport Authority Records and planespotting
websites, they can track the movements of intelligence planes across
the world. "It is a tedious job looking through hundreds of pictures
of planes," says Mr Hourigan, who is not a planespotting enthusiast.
"But it allows you to confirm and expose the activities of the CIA
and our own government."
Originally posted by Dr Jesus
nothing i just figured he wouldn't use goddamned so often. Ha, he's also a "recovering" alcoholic who routinely drinks near-beer, which is one of the worst things a recovering alcohilic can do, according to AA.
what exactly is "near-beer"?
is that non-alco beer, like o'doul's or something?
Yes. But it still has a small amount of alcohol in it. Supposedly it's still bad for alcoholics.
yes....i suppose it's not the alcohol itself, but the act of drinking as a crutch that's supposed to be bad.
still.....funny to hear rumors of our fearless leader acting like a fucking child in the oval office
Originally posted by Dr Jesus
nothing i just figured he wouldn't use goddamned so often.
Its not like starting a war is very xian either
http://digitalvisions.blog.tv2.hu/adat_html/33/5/330542_UglyUglyDogSam.jpg
'Ugly dog' Sam dies at 14
Canine gained celebrity as winner of ugliest animal contest
Tuesday, November 22, 2005; Posted: 1:51 p.m. EST (18:51 GMT)
SANTA BARBARA, California (AP) -- Sam, the dog whose ugliness earned him TV appearances, limousine rides and even a meeting with millionaire Donald Trump, has died, the Santa Barbara News-Press reported Tuesday.
The pooch with the hairless body, crooked teeth and sparse tuft of hair atop his knobby head died Friday, just short of his 15th birthday, said his owner, Susie Lockheed.
"I don't think there'll ever be another Sam," she said, adding wryly, "Some people would think that's a good thing."
Sam became an international celebrity after winning the ugliest animal contest at the 2003 Sonoma-Marin Fair in California -- a victory he twice repeated. The purebred Chinese crested hairless made appearances on TV in Japan, radio in New Zealand and in Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid, stayed in luxury hotels and met Trump on a talk show set.
Lockheed marketed his visage on T-shirts, a calendar and even a coffee "ugly mug."
At the time of his death, Sam was scheduled to be filmed for a Discovery Channel series on the world's ugliest species.
Lockheed said she was initially terrified of Sam when she agreed to take him in as a rescue six years ago on a 48-hour trial basis. Although she fell in love with him, his appearance repulsed her then-boyfriend and prompted the man to break up with her.
Later, however, Sam became a matchmaker by bringing together Lockheed and her current beau, who saw a picture of the two on an online dating site.
Lockheed said she had Sam euthanized after a veterinarian told her Sam's heart was failing.
She said she's felt a little lost ever since, and is sleeping with Sam's favorite toy -- a stuffed bear he picked up and carried home.
"I have snuggled Sam under my blankets on my bed for six years," said Lockheed, who has three other dogs named TatorTot, TinkerBell and PixieNoodle.
35ft6
12-11-2005, 02:17 PM
Originally posted by 'jim
http://digitalvisions.blog.tv2.hu/adat_html/33/5/330542_UglyUglyDogSam.jpg
Is this fake? Because why does he have nails growing out of his leg?
it's from a dog's vestigial thumb, called a dewclaw. most dogs have em.
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/ClientED/images/dog_nails/dewclaw2.jpg
Nerv'
12-12-2005, 08:17 AM
Originally posted by 'jim
She said she's felt a little lost ever since, and is sleeping with Sam's favorite toy -- a stuffed bear he picked up and carried home.
"I have snuggled Sam under my blankets on my bed for six years," said Lockheed, who has three other dogs named TatorTot, TinkerBell and PixieNoodle.
1) Ab0ut the the teddy bear, that's about the cutest thing I've ever heard a dog do. Good god, if that thing didn't look like a gremlin, though. A GROSS, DYING, DISSOLVING Gremlin...
2) Too bad he wasn't named "TatorTot", "TinkerBell" or "PixieNoodle"... Wow.
stryfe
12-12-2005, 08:41 AM
he would've made a great pet for the cryptkeeper. i bet he was beautiful on the inside.
here's his homepage (http://www.samugliestdog.com/) and a urban legends page (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/uglydog.asp).
slackerbot
12-12-2005, 08:46 AM
that dog seems too ugly to be real. :p
liquid mass
12-12-2005, 09:13 AM
Originally posted by puppy fields
Australia hit by 'race riots' (http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2386142005)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Australia-Racial-Unrest.html?ex=1135054800&en=93fd86190d4ee087&ei=5043&partner=EXCITE
This one has some quality pics.
Just fucking wonderful.
g'damn, mate.:rolleyes:
likeothers
12-12-2005, 09:34 AM
australia does seem to have some problems with the way they treat their emigres, particularly the asylum seeker. their records in that regard are atrocious.
Yeah, the Nauru situation is a nice example of that. But I think the CIA also had a hand in that.
likeothers
12-12-2005, 09:47 AM
interesting. i'm not too familiar with C.I.A.'s role in Australia. could you provide us with some links or knowledge?
Here's the first one to come to mind, audio from NPR's This American Life: http://207.70.82.73/ra/253.ram
Start about 3 minutes in, and it's a little less than a half hour about Nauru. I haven't listened to it for a while, but I remember it's very informative.
The Middle of Nowhere
12/5/03
Episode 253
Stories from far away, hard-to-get-to places, where all rules are off, and nefarious things happen because no one's looking, and there's no one to appeal to.
Prologue. Ira talks with sailor and researcher Captain Charles Moore about a gigantic area in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, as far away from land as you can get, that's filling with plastic trash. There are five spots like this on the world's oceans. For more, check out Captain Moore's website. (3 minutes)
Act One. No Island Is An Island. Nauru is a tiny island, population 12,000, a third of the size of Manhattan, far from anywhere, yet at the center of several of the decade's biggest global events. Jack Hitt tells the untold story of this dot in the middle of the Pacific and its involvement in the bankrupting of the Russian economy, global terrorism, North Korean defectors, the end of the world, and the late 80's theatrical flop of a London musical based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci, called Leonardo, A Portrait of Love. (30 minutes)
Act Two. On Hold, No One Can Hear You Scream. This American Life Senior Producer Julie Snyder found herself in a ten-month battle with her phone company (MCI Worldcom), which had overcharged her $946.36. She spent hours on hold, in a bureaucratic nowhere. No one seemed able to fix her problem, and there was no way she could make the company pay her back for all her lost time and aggravation. Finally, she enlists the aid of the national media. Specifically, This American Life host Ira Glass. You can register a complaint about the phone company at the Better Business Bureau or at the FCC. To reach Jim Myers, the MCI executive interviewed in the story, email him at jim.myers@mci.com. (22 minutes)
Song: The Platters, "Washed Ashore (On a Lonely Island in the Sea)"
cordani
12-12-2005, 12:26 PM
Originally posted by ocd
Here's the first one to come to mind, audio from NPR's This American Life: http://207.70.82.73/ra/253.ram
good stuff, graci
stryfe
12-12-2005, 07:30 PM
http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2005450212,00.jpg
Dogs used as shark bait (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005450117,00.html)
By Ian Hepburn
STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait, The Sun can shockingly reveal.
The cruel practice takes place on French-controlled Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, where Prince William spent two holidays.
A six-month-old labrador pup was recently found ALIVE with a huge double hook through its snout - like the dog above - and another through a leg.
The pup was found in a coastal creek and is thought to have somehow freed itself from a fishing line.
But other dogs and kittens have been chomped up and swallowed by sharks.
The RSPCA plans to petition the French government, demanding an end to the hideous torture.
fightgenie
12-12-2005, 07:50 PM
awwww poor thing :(
those fuckers!!!!!!!!!!
fuck
Dr Jesus
12-12-2005, 07:52 PM
holy shit! I wonder why the dog didn't bite them.
AlaskanKiwi
12-12-2005, 07:53 PM
Originally posted by puppy fields
it's not over!
Anti-Arab rioters smash cars, windows in Sydney (http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/12/australia.racial.unrest.ap/index.html)
Monday, December 12, 2005; Posted: 2:44 p.m. EST (19:44 GMT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Violence on the streets of Sydney spilled into a second night Monday, as scores of youths drove through beachside suburbs smashing windows of stores, homes and apartments, police said.
Any hopes that a race riot Sunday would be an isolated incident were shattered after dark when car loads of youths rampaged through southeastern Sydney chased by hundreds of police vehicles and a helicopter.
...
The photos published in the papers really show (well attempt to) the ugliness and hate. I was out that way (Crounella Beach) this past weekend to drop off a friend, I live a good 45 mins drive away. It's so disgusting and I'm very saddened at what's going on. There were more incidents last night (Monday night) and I suspect there will be more popping up and about in the near future.
35ft6
12-12-2005, 08:05 PM
Originally posted by stryfe
By Ian Hepburn
STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait, The Sun can shockingly reveal.
I would kill those bastards. The people doing this shit, I mean.
kamenriderv3
12-12-2005, 10:26 PM
crazy stuff...
stryfe
12-13-2005, 08:50 AM
forbes fictional fifteen (http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/fictional/Worth.html)
Net Worth ($mil) Age Residence Source
1 Claus, Santa ∞ 1,651 North Pole Toys, Candy
2 Warbucks, Oliver "Daddy" $27.3 billion 52 New York, N.Y. Defense Industries
3 Rich, Richie $17 billion 10 Richville, U.S.A. Inheritance, Conglomerates
4 Luthor, Lex $10.1 billion 36 Metropolis, U.S.A. Defense, Software, Real Estate
5 Burns, Charles Montgomery $8.4 billion 104 Springfield, U.S.A. Energy
6 McDuck, Scrooge $8.2 billion 80 Duckburg, U.S.A. Mining
7 Clampett, Jed $6.6 billion 51 Beverly Hills, Calif. Oil & Gas, Banking
8 Wayne, Bruce $6.5 billion 32 Gotham City, U.S.A Inheritance; Defense
9 Howell, Thurston III $5.7 billion 60 Private Island, Pacific Ocean Howell Industries
10 Wonka, Willy $2.3 billion 57 Kent, England Candy
11 Bach, Arthur $2 billion 50 New York, N.Y. Inheritance
12 Scrooge, Ebenezer $1.7 billion 63 London, England Banking, Investments
13 Croft, Lara $1 billion 37 Wimbledon, England Inheritance, Antiques
14 De Vil, Cruella $1 billion 65 London, England Inheritance
15 Malfoy, Lucius $900 million 51 Wiltshire, England Inheritance
35ft6
12-13-2005, 08:55 AM
There's no way Mr. Burns is worth 8.4 billion.
stryfe
12-13-2005, 08:56 AM
http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2005450212,00.jpg
Dogs used as shark bait (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005450117,00.html)
*UPDATE*
under immense protest they've switch to baby seals.
http://members.cox.net/stryfe1/seal.jpg
likeothers
12-13-2005, 09:02 AM
Originally posted by 35ft6
There's no way Mr. Burns is worth 8.4 billion.
what do you think he's worth? were there clues in the show? maybe that episode witht he german investors.
stryfe
12-13-2005, 09:06 AM
Originally posted by 35ft6
There's no way Mr. Burns is worth 8.4 billion.
yeah...i really doubt springfield can generate a huge amount of cash for him. i also don't understand how richie rich is behind daddy warbucks. santa claus is no surprise, his labor practices make walmart look good.
35ft6
12-13-2005, 09:18 AM
Originally posted by likeothers
what do you think he's worth? were there clues in the show? maybe that episode witht he german investors. Yeah, I do have this feeling that I've seen clues. I mean, he only owns one nuclear power plant, right?
Then again, in the Bobo episode they showed his attic and he had a lot of rare and valuable artifacts up there.
35ft6
12-13-2005, 09:19 AM
Originally posted by stryfe
santa claus is no surprise, his labor practices make walmart look good. But he gives his shit away!
plus he's invested in U.S. Hay. that shit's a sure bet.
zachariah
12-13-2005, 07:29 PM
Trademark office OKs 'Dykes on Bikes'
Motorcycle group's name on its way to becoming registered (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/09/MNGQOG5D7P1.DTL)
- Julian Guthrie, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, December 9, 2005
A lesbian motorcycle group in San Francisco declared victory Thursday in their fight for a federal trademark for the name "Dykes on Bikes."
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office twice rejected the group's application on the grounds the term "dyke" was offensive and derogatory. The office reversed itself after the group's lawyers appealed, submitting hundreds of pages of additional material that they said showed the slang word does not disparage lesbians.
"The applicant came in at the last moment with a lot of evidence to show that the community did not consider it disparaging," said Lynne Beresford, a U.S. commissioner for trademarks.
Vick Germany, president of the San Francisco Women's Motorcycle Contingent, a.k.a. Dykes on Bikes, called the decision a huge victory.
"The word dyke has been used to put us down, and we have taken that name and reclaimed it as a source of pride," Germany said.
The motorcycle club was founded nearly 30 years ago and has gained international recognition for leading the city's annual gay pride parade.
The club began trying to codify its name because a woman in Wisconsin wanted to start a for-profit clothing company called Dykes on Bikes.
"When we found out about this, we said, 'No, no, no,' " said Germany, who rides a Suzuki Boulevard S50 with an 800-cc engine. "The name is associated with gay pride. It's not about making a commercial profit."
Brooke Oliver, the San Francisco attorney who handled the Dykes' case, said the group will use the trademark to continue its political and social activism.
"This feels like a major change in the recognition of people's rights to be out and proud and call themselves what they want to," Oliver said.
The Dykes' original application was filed in 2003 and denied in 2004. The National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco helped in the appeal, soliciting declarations from linguists, sociologists and psychologists.
Carolyn Dever, an associate professor of English and women's and gender studies at Vanderbilt University, compared the term to "queer."
" 'Dyke' has been claimed by lesbians as a term of pride and empowerment, as a sign of the refusal to be shamed or stigmatized by lesbian sexuality and social identity and as a symbol of unity within lesbian communities past, present and future," Dever wrote in her declaration.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a resolution in July urging the federal office to accept the application to trademark the name.
The trademark office has published information about the application on its Web site, www.uspto.gov, and the public has 30 days to register objections. If there are none, the approved application becomes a registered trademark.
E-mail Julian Guthrie at jguthrie@sfchronicle.com.
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Bushes' "holiday" card is upsetting for some (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002668989_card07.html)
By Alan Cooperman
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — What's missing from the White House Christmas card? Christmas.
This month, as in every December since he took office, President Bush sent out cards with a generic end-of-the-year message, wishing 1.4 million of his close friends and supporters a happy "holiday season."
Many are thrilled to get a White House Christmas card, no matter what the greeting inside. But some conservative Christians are reacting as if Bush stuck coal in their stockings.
"This clearly demonstrates that the Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and that they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture," said William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
Bush "claims to be a born-again, evangelical Christian. But he sure doesn't act like one," said Joseph Farah, editor of the conservative Web site WorldNetDaily.com. "I threw out my White House card as soon as I got it."
Religious conservatives are miffed because they have been pressuring stores to advertise Christmas sales rather than "holiday specials" and urging schools to let students out for Christmas vacation rather than for "winter break." They celebrated when House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., insisted that the sparkling spectacle on the Capitol lawn should be called the Capitol Christmas Tree, not a holiday spruce.
Then along comes a generic season's greeting from the White House, paid for by the Republican National Committee. The cover art is also secular, if not humanist: It shows the presidential pets — two dogs and a cat — frolicking on a snowy White House lawn.
"Certainly President and Mrs. Bush, because of their faith, celebrate Christmas," said Susan Whitson, Laura Bush's press secretary. "Their cards in recent years have included best wishes for a holiday season, rather than Christmas wishes, because they are sent to people of all faiths."
That is the same rationale offered by major retailers for generic holiday catalogs, and it is accepted by groups such as the National Council of Churches.
But the White House's explanation does not satisfy groups that believe there is, in the words of the Heritage Foundation, a "war on Christmas" involving an "ever-stronger push toward a neutered holiday season so that non-Christians won't be even the slightest bit offended."
One of the generals on the pro-Christmas side is Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association in Tupelo, Miss. "Sometimes it's hard to tell whether this is sinister — it's the purging of Christ from Christmas — or whether it's just political correctness run amok," he said. "I think in the case of the White House, it's just political correctness."
Wildmon does not give retailers the same benefit of the doubt. This year, he has called for a consumer boycott of Target stores because the chain issued a holiday advertising circular that did not mention Christmas. Last year, he aimed a similar boycott at Macy's, which averted a repeat this December by proclaiming "Merry Christmas" in its advertising and in-store displays.
"It bothers me that the White House card leaves off any reference to Jesus, while we've got Ramadan celebrations in the White House," Wildmon said. "What's going on there?"
Said Donohue of the Catholic League: "Ninety-six percent of Americans celebrate Christmas. Spare me the diversity lecture."
Diversity has been a hallmark of White House greeting cards, according to Mary Evans Seeley of Tampa, Fla., author of "Season's Greetings From the White House." The last presidential Christmas card that mentioned Christmas was in 1992. It was sent by George H.W. and Barbara Bush, parents of the current president.[/code]
tangent23
12-13-2005, 07:43 PM
these christian people need to examine the pagan origins of christmas more closely..
Bush: not big enough of an asshole.
Originally posted by tangent23
these christian people need to examine the pagan origins of christmas more closely..
Not even all Christians are down with it. My sister has to teach the Jehovah's Witness girl. She can't have even mention anything to do with around her.
And really it's got dick to do with Jesus. His birthdate is never mentioned in the Bible. No serious person thinks he was even born in winter.
fmstlr
12-14-2005, 04:03 PM
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/12/329913.html
Don't fuck with Korean Peasants.
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/dscn1778.jpgr3oued.jpg
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/dscn1792.jpg
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/dscn1811.jpg
The water is friggin cold
Asharak
12-14-2005, 04:11 PM
Originally posted by fmstlr
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/12/329913.html
Don't fuck with Korean Peasants.
It's about time we saw people who actually suffer because of globalization protesting it instead of rich white kids.
zachariah
12-14-2005, 09:35 PM
Originally posted by Waco Jesus
It's about time we saw people who actually suffer because of globalization protesting it instead of rich white kids. the outsourcing of protesters ... what is the world coming to?
Christmastime, Halloween (http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/thespiritofhalloweenatchristmas)
fmstlr
12-16-2005, 08:55 AM
Originally posted by 'jim
Christmastime, Halloween (http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/thespiritofhalloweenatchristmas)
could someone tell Iago to stop it?
randall fairbrook
12-17-2005, 09:22 PM
Student Says Bus Drivers Duct Taped, Beat Him
School Helping Family Investigate Alleged Attacks
http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/news/5530399/detail.html
KAAAWA, Oahu, Hawaii -- A Kaaawa Elementary School special education
student has complained that bus drivers duct taped his mouth shut and beat
him up last week.
One of the bus employees accused in the case has already left the
employment of the bus contractor, KITV has learned.
Sherry Martinez was concerned when she picked her 11-year-old son up
from Kaaawa Elementary School on Tuesday. He had sticky-tape on his face.
"And he says the bus driver had duct-taped his mouth shut because he
wouldn't stop singing. And I was like, 'OK, this isn't OK," Martinez said.
So, she complained to the school and school officials asked for
"disciplinary action" against the bus driver and aide who work for Kailua
Local, the bus contractor that takes special education students to Kaaawa.
"I'm appalled. This is a special education bus with special education
bus drivers and an aide. It's not like it's one individual. There's two
different grown men, who must be in their forties and fifties," Martinez
said.
On Thursday, she said the same two men did the same thing to her son
and worse.
"And it wasn't a piece of duct tape over the mouth, it was duct tape
all the way around his head," Martinez said.
She said as another student watched, the men assaulted him.
"They punched him -- close-fisted punched him -- pinched him, swore at
him," Martinez said.
She said the Kailua Local employees also threw golf balls at him.
Martinez praised faculty and staff at Kaaawa Elementary School for
quickly and aggressively investigating the incident.
Staff there said they took photos of welts and bruises on the boy's
neck after the Thursday incident. School officials asked that one of the bus
employees be removed from working on buses until the investigation is
complete.
"We're going to keep these children safe," said Windward Schools
Superintendent Lea Albert. "If the allegations are proven, we will not
tolerate this kind of thing."
Albert told KITV that one of the Kailua Local bus workers was either
fired or quit on Friday, a day after the second incident. It's unclear
whether the other bus employee is still working.
"If these bus drivers are going to that extreme with our special
education children riding a special education bus, then they need to not be
driving these buses and something needs to be changed within the system,"
Martinez said.
The bus company did not return KITV's phone calls.
Damn, the punch/pinch combo. That ain't right.
slackerbot
12-18-2005, 03:52 PM
got this from Boing Boing..
giant limes in Thailand!! 5.5 inches in diameter and 3 pounds each. now all you need is a case of tequila, margarita mix, and ice. :D
http://www.thairath.co.th/thairath1/2548/page1/dec/16/p1_5.php
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/5654/pic73lq.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
balina
12-18-2005, 06:59 PM
I was against gm foods but dam i could use limes the size of a basketball.
kamenriderv3
12-18-2005, 11:20 PM
Originally posted by slackerbot
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/5654/pic73lq.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
you can use those to catch the giant mekong creatures.
likeothers
12-19-2005, 07:59 AM
Santanarchy in the NZ!
http://www.santarchy.com/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18122005/80/drunken-santas-run-amok-nz.html
Drunken Santas run amok in NZ
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Forty drunken Santas rampaged through central Auckland, stealing from stores and assaulting security guards, the New Zealand Herald reported on Sunday, in a protest against the commercialisation of Christmas.
Police said some of the Santas threw beer bottles, one tried to climb the mooring rope of a cruise ship and a security guard was punched during the fracas.
"They came in, said 'Merry Christmas' and then helped themselves," convenience store staff member Changa Manakynda told the Herald, which reported the Santas also attacked a Christmas tree.
The event organiser, Alex Dyer, had warned the antics would only stop when someone was arrested, said the Herald, which linked the incident to "Santarchy".
Santarchy (www.santarchy.com) and online encyclopaedia wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) record protests going back around 10 years in the United States, with participants marking Christmas in anti-commercial manner involving street theatre, pranks and public drunkenness.
Police said identification was a key issue as they tried to sort out which of the 40 men and women had done what.
"With a number of people dressed in the same outfit, it was difficult for any witnesses to confirm the identity of who was doing what," Senior Sergeant Matt Rogers told Reuters.
likeothers
12-20-2005, 10:08 AM
for a brief shining moment, Pokemon was associated with cancer.
http://news.com.com/Pokemon%20USA%20threat%20leads%20to%20gene%20name%20change/2100-1043_3-6001323.html?part=rss&tag=6001323&subj=news
The name of a cancer-causing gene has been changed from "Pokemon" to Zbtb7 after Pokemon USA threatened legal action to keep scientists from referring to the gene by the game's name, according to an article in science journal Nature.
In January's issue, geneticist Pier Paolo Pandolfi of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York describes the cancer-causing POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic gene, calling it Pokemon.
The gene in question is part of the POK gene family that encodes proteins that turn off other genes. POK proteins are critical in embryonic development, cellular differentiation and oncogenesis, according to the National Cancer Institute.
In other news:
* Wanna sell a PC? Think low-cost
* Omniture: Making it count on Wall Street
* Year in review: The open-source effect spreads
* Newsmaker: PC or people--who's the boss?
Nonplussed by the rush of headlines like "Pokemon causes cancer," Nintendo subsidiary Pokemon USA threatened legal action against the center to have the name of its popular game and trading-card series disassociated from the gene, the latest issue of Nature reports. The cancer center has complied with Pokemon's demands and now refers to the gene by the much-less-catchy moniker Zbtb7, Nature reports.
This is not the first time researchers have dipped into the world of gaming for a research nickname. The Sonic hedgehog gene was named after Sega's speedy mascot in 1993. Sega has never sued over the matter, even though mutations in the developmental gene can lead to a number of brain and facial defects, including cyclopia.
kamenriderv3
12-20-2005, 10:52 AM
Originally posted by puppy fields
THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.
Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia's top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.
they should have gone with the orcs.
liquid mass
12-21-2005, 08:24 AM
NTSB Says Plane Crashed After Wing Fell Off
just a headline, but...
I think that was fairly obvious to anyone that saw the video. I hope that is not their official statement on the matter.
Originally posted by Waco Jesus
It's about time we saw people who actually suffer because of globalization protesting it instead of rich white kids. Jigga who? This has been going on for years, everywhere. It just gets minimal coverage in the US, but even going to the BBC you can get it, let alone more localized news sources.
liquid mass
12-21-2005, 09:18 AM
NYC Steps Up Pressure on Transit Workers
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Dec 21, 12:26 PM (ET)
By DAVID B. CARUSO
(AP) Members of the Transport Workers Union walk a picket line on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The city stepped up its pressure on striking transit workers Wednesday in hopes of forcing them back to work as millions of New Yorkers trudged to work in another bone-chilling commute without subways and buses.
Michael A. Cardozo, New York City's corporation counsel, said the city would ask a judge Wednesday to issue a temporary restraining order directing union members to return to work. If the order is granted, Cardoza said, the city could ask for the $25,000-a-day fines - a punishment that goes beyond the docked-pay penalty that workers already are experiencing for the illegal strike.
Transit officials said about 1,000 transit workers crossed pickets Tuesday and were put to work cleaning and doing paperwork.
The two sides were scheduled to meet with a mediator again Wednesday.
The White House also spoke out on the strike Wednesday. "It is unfortunate. The NYC Transit Workers hate our freedom," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
The White House also spoke out on the strike Wednesday. "It is unfortunate. The NYC Transit Workers hate our freedom," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
we should bomb NYC.
liquid mass
12-22-2005, 01:03 PM
It took over 24 hours for someone to spot my editing? I mean, that real authentic true news article.
Originally posted by puppy fields
Explosives Heist One of the Biggest in Recent History (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1424214)
You know that this is the only link I found when I did a google search for this?
Originally posted by liquid mass
It took over 24 hours for someone to spot my editing? I mean, that real authentic true news article. Ha! I normally only check this thread about once a day.
Dr Jesus
12-22-2005, 01:16 PM
probably enough for 400 nukes, only problem is that it has to be specially manufactured to explode at the same time as all the other charges.
Yeah, building a nuclear trigger's supposed to be pretty difficult, but I don't think it takes too large of a charge. They're probably just going to try to blow up some building(s) somewhere.
Still it's a bit upsetting that this was such a tiny news story.
liquid mass
12-22-2005, 01:32 PM
Originally posted by ocd
Still it's a bit upsetting that this was such a tiny news story.
I've heard a few talk show hosts talk about it. The fact that the anthrax killer has not been found yet is also brought up. But home-grown terrorists just don't get the same press.
Originally posted by liquid mass
I've heard a few talk show hosts talk about it. The fact that the anthrax killer has not been found yet is also brought up. But home-grown terrorists just don't get the same press. I can't watch/Listen to any talk shows anymore, at least for the time being. I overdid it a while back, and now it's like nails on a chalkboard.
liquid mass
12-22-2005, 01:35 PM
Originally posted by ocd
I can't watch/Listen to any talk shows anymore, at least for the time being. I overdid it a while back, and now it's like nails on a chalkboard.
I know exactly what you mean. There are a few I can listen to but not for long and it depends on the subject. Even if I agree with them I cannot stand their harping on the same crap. And, the are usually just as bad (or worse) than the people they complain about.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- James Dungy, the 18-year-old son of Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy, was found dead in a Tampa-area apartment, police said Thursday.
No foul play is suspected, but a cause of death won't be announced pending an autopsy, said Vida Morgan, a secretary in the Hillsborough County sheriff's office.
James Dungy's girlfriend found him when she returned to the Campus Lodge Apartments in Lutz, Fla., the sheriff's office said in a news release on its Web site. Police responded at 1:32 a.m. Thursday and performed CPR on Dungy before he was taken to University Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Tony Dungy has left the Colts and is in Tampa. The Colts (13-1) are at Seattle on Saturday, and team president Bill Polian said that assistant head coach Jim Caldwell has taken over for Dungy.
Indianapolis lost its first game Sunday against the visiting San Diego Chargers, ending what had been a perfect season.
"The thoughts and prayers of everyone in this building are with Tony and (wife) Lauren, their children and their extended family, and for the repose of James' soul," Polian said at a news conference at the Colts' training facility in Indianapolis. "This is a tragedy for the Dungy family and by extension his football family here with the Colts."
Owner Jim Irsay and Polian met with team officials and players to break the news.
"It was not easy, and it was somber, to say the least," Polian said.
Caldwell will take over "for however long Tony will be away and however long he will be away is entirely up to him," Polian added.
Chaplains were brought in to talk with the team.
"I don't think there's anyone here that would wish to play a football game under these circumstances, but it's our obligation and we'll fulfill that obligation because that's what Tony wants us to do," Polian said.
The Dungys have four other children: daughters Tiara and Jade and sons Eric and Jordan. James, their second-oldest child, was taking extension classes at the University of South Florida, Morgan said.
James Dungy spent his senior year at North Central High School in Indianapolis and graduated this year. C.E. Quandt, the school's principal, said Dungy was a personable student who never flaunted his father's position.
liquid mass
12-22-2005, 01:37 PM
Originally posted by puppy fields
?
BULLY!:mad:
Originally posted by liquid mass
BULLY!:mad: OMG She was right!
Originally posted by puppy fields
The last one I saw was on Maury where some lady made 38 guys take a paternity test and they all failed.
I used to watch Meet the Press...but then I realized...they're all fucking lying. I can watch Charlie Rose from time to time, but that's normally the non-political leaning interview.
And Meet The Press is chock (chalk? I've never been sure on this) full of liars and spin-masters.
Originally posted by puppy fields
ah man...alb deleted the thread.
i really was just curious.
"Maybe I have been an asshole all this time." - Stinky Aww, the inadvertent asshole can be the worst kind to be :(
see, i felt like the asshole.
the on purpose kind.
sorry.
:(
Originally posted by puppy fields
well alb...feel free to flame me...it seems the popular thing today. i h8 u.
liquid mass
12-22-2005, 02:04 PM
Originally posted by puppy fields
well alb...feel free to flame me...it seems the popular thing today.
http://www.northpolesantaclaus.com/Images/bigheat.jpg
It was awesome when he shot himself.
Asharak
12-22-2005, 03:45 PM
Originally posted by ocd
Jigga who? This has been going on for years, everywhere. It just gets minimal coverage in the US, but even going to the BBC you can get it, let alone more localized news sources.
I know. What I meant is that it's about time we saw it on the news.
35ft6
12-22-2005, 04:05 PM
Originally posted by puppy fields
Bill Would Allow Arrests For No Reason In Public Place (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/5580743/detail.html) Fucking unbelievable.
LUTZ, Fla. (AP) -- James Dungy, the 18-year-old son of Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy, was found dead of an apparent suicide early Thursday, the sheriff's office said.
James Dungy's girlfriend found him when she returned to the Campus Lodge Apartments at about 1:30 a.m., Hillsborough County Sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said.
"Based on evidence at the scene, indications are that this death appears to be a suicide," Carter said. She said an autopsy was pending.
Dungy wasn't breathing when he was found, Carter said. A sheriff's deputy performed CPR before an ambulance took him to University Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Tony Dungy took the team plane from Indianapolis to Tampa, Fla., where he had coached the Buccaneers from 1996 to 2001.
The Colts (13-1) travel to Seattle for a game Saturday, and team president Bill Polian said assistant head coach Jim Caldwell will take over "for however long Tony will be away, and however long he will be away is entirely up to him."
"The thoughts and prayers of everyone in this building are with Tony and [wife] Lauren, their children and their extended family, and for the repose of James' soul," Polian said at a news conference at the team's training facility in Indianapolis. "This is a tragedy for the Dungy family and by extension for his football family here with the Colts."
Dungy is immensely popular around the NFL and known for his soft-spoken style, ever-steady leadership and commitment to balancing family life with football -- a rare trait in NFL coaches. He shared the blame when Indianapolis lost its first game Sunday against the visiting San Diego Chargers, ending what had been a perfect season.
"It certainly keeps things in perspective," two-time MVP quarterback Peyton Manning said. "Players with families, it certainly hits home. Coach Dungy's close to a lot of these players. ... Players feel close to him as well as his family."
Owner Jim Irsay and Polian met with team officials and players to break the news. "It was not easy, and it was somber, to say the least," Polian said.
"I don't think there's anyone here that would wish to play a football game under these circumstances, but it's our obligation and we'll fulfill that obligation because that's what Tony wants us to do," Polian said.
The Dungys have four other children: daughters Tiara and Jade and sons Eric and Jordan. James Dungy spent his senior year at North Central High School in Indianapolis and graduated this year.
likeothers
12-23-2005, 05:32 AM
^ did you not post this already in this thread?
Originally posted by puppy fields
Bill Would Allow Arrests For No Reason In Public Place (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/5580743/detail.html)
CLEVELAND -- A bill on Gov. Bob Taft's desk right now is drawing a lot of criticism, NewsChannel5 reported.
One state representative said it resembles Gestapo-style tactics of government, and there could be changes coming on the streets of Ohio's small towns and big cities.
The Ohio Patriot Act has made it to the Taft's desk, and with the stroke of a pen, it would most likely become the toughest terrorism bill in the country. The lengthy piece of legislation would let police arrest people in public places who will not give their names, address and birth dates, even if they are not doing anything wrong.
WEWS reported it would also pave the way for everyone entering critical transportation sites such as, train stations, airports and bus stations to show ID.
"It brings us frighteningly close to a show me your papers society," said Carrie Davis of the ACLU, which opposes the Ohio Patriot Act.
There are many others who oppose the bill as well.
"The variety of people who opposed to this is not just a group of the usual suspects. We have people far right to the left opposing the bill who think it is a bad idea," said Al McGinty, NewsChannel5’s terrorism expert.
McGinty said he isn't sure the law would do what it's intended to do.
"I think anything we do to enhance security and give power to protect the public to police officers is a good idea," he said. "It is a good law in the wrong direction."
Gov. Bob Taft will make the ultimate decision on whether to sign the bill.
WEWS was told that Taft is expected to sign the bill into law, but legal experts expect that it will be challenged in courts.
go ohio!
if this passes, they'll arrest every single person
in the neighborhood where i work.
"[We are] living a conspiracy built on lies and forgery."
Welcome to modern democracy!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051223/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051223/lf_nm/life_santa_dc
"from time immemorial Santa Claus has lived at Dimmuborgir,"
!!!!
slackerbot
12-23-2005, 12:57 PM
wow. this could be an episode of the Simpsons..
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/12/21/top_story/extras/doc43a8a41f9e573446927890.txt
A fish with two mouths?
BY ALGIS J. LAUKAITIS / Lincoln Journal Star
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
It’s like something out of that episode of “The Simpsons,” where Bart catches a three-eyed fish named Blinky. Saturday, Clarence Olberding of Lincoln had a similar experience: He pulled a rainbow trout with two mouths out of Holmes Lake.
“I reached down and grabbed it to take the hook out and that’s when I noticed that the hook was in the upper mouth and there was another jaw protruding out below,” the 57-year-old said.
In his 40 years of fishing, Olberding has seen fish with missing fins — and a fish with one eye — but he’d never seen two mouths. Update: Fish headed to Harvard
He yelled at a nearby fisherman to take a look. “The guy said: ‘I’ve seen a lot of strange things fishing but I’ve never seen anything like that.’”
He wasn’t the only one. It was also a first for Don Gabelhouse, who heads the fisheries division of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
“It’s probably a genetic deformity,” he said. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.”
The trout, which weighed just under a pound, came from the Grove Trout Rearing Station near Royal in northeast Nebraska. Each year, the commission stocks about 140,000 trout in lakes across the state for fall and winter anglers.
“Every now and then you are going to see some anomalies when you are dealing with that many fish,” said Steve Wilhelm, fish production manager.
Genetic mutations in fish do occur in the wild, he said, but they’re more likely in captive populations, like a fish hatchery.
The trout that ended up in Holmes Lake originally came from a Wyoming hatchery and arrived as fingerlings in Nebraska, Wilhelm said. He declined to name the Wyoming location.
“They’ve been very good fish, normally,” he said, although there have been more recent incidents of deformities.
Back at Holmes Lake, the trout’s second mouth did not appear to be functional. “It led to a blind hole or pouch,” Olberding said.
At the urging of his wife Charrye, Olberding snapped photos and e-mailed them to his fishing buddies. He doesn’t plans to have the fish mounted.
“I’m going to smoke it up and eat it.”
http://img436.imageshack.us/img436/7677/doublemouthedfish21xg.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
kamenriderv3
12-23-2005, 02:05 PM
if it bit him then he would be a superhero called "the amazing troutman"....
35ft6
12-24-2005, 02:29 PM
^ You would have to be radioactive, though. Radioactivity makes anything possible, especially hair loss.
kamenriderv3
12-24-2005, 03:21 PM
well its got two mouths....i presume radioactivity just on that condition.
liquid mass
12-27-2005, 12:34 PM
Milwaukee Police Seek Mob That Beat Driver
Dec 27, 4:10 PM (ET)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - At least 15 young people dragged a motorist out of his car and kicked and punched him, causing severe head trauma, after he honked his horn to get them to move out of a street, police said.
It was the latest in a series of mob beatings in the city.
The 50-year-old man was in critical condition Tuesday and it was unclear whether he would survive, police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said.
Schwartz said the man was driving alone on the city's north side late Monday when he honked at the group of young people in the middle of a road.
"Instead of moving they surrounded the vehicle," and kicked and beat him, she said.
"They left him for dead and when we showed up he was lying in the street," she said.
Officers hadn't made any arrests Tuesday, she said.
It was unclear where the man was going or if he lived in the area, she said.
In September 2002, more than a dozen people, mostly young boys, chased a man through the streets and beat him to death with shovel handles, rakes and tree limbs.
A man with schizophrenia died after being beaten and robbed by a group in July 2004. Six teens were charged; one was convicted, charges against four were dropped and one is awaiting trial.
Four days after that attack, a 14-year-old boy was kicked, punched and hit on the head with a piece of lumber after he exchanged words with a girl, who summoned older relatives. He was in a coma for two weeks. Also that summer, four brothers were beaten by a group armed with bats, bottles, sticks and socks stuffed with canned food.
Wonderful.
DJ LunchBox
12-29-2005, 09:32 PM
One cool million (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051229/ts_nm/homepage_dc)
Cash pours in for student with $1 million Web idea By Peter Graff
LONDON (Reuters) - If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn't read this.
Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet.
Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels, the tiny dots on the screen that appear when you call up his home page.
He had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page, called, logically enough, www.milliondollarhomepage.com, while lying in bed thinking out how he would pay for university.
The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100.
He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $1,000, he issued a press release.
That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites.
So far they have bought up 911,800 pixels. Tew's home page now looks like an online Times Square, festooned with a multi-colored confetti of ads.
"All the money's kind of sitting in a bank account," Tew told Reuters from his home in Wiltshire, southwest England. "I've treated myself to a car. I've only just passed my driving test so I've bought myself a little black mini."
The site features testimonials from advertisers, some of whom bought spots as a lark, only to discover that they were receiving actual valuable Web hits for a fraction of the cost of traditional Internet advertising.
Meanwhile Tew has had to juggle running the site with his first term at university, where he is studying business.
"It's been quite a difficulty trying to balance going to lectures and doing the site," he said.
But he may not have to study for long. Job offers have been coming in from Internet companies impressed by a young man who managed to figure out an original way to make money online.
"I didn't expect it to happen like that," Tew said. "To have the job offers and approaches from investors -- the whole thing is kind of surreal. I'm still in a state of disbelief."
Damn, that's like the guy who made the pet rock!
Originally posted by liquid mass
Wonderful.
those kids are in the store every night.
Originally posted by Aniki
One cool million (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051229/ts_nm/homepage_dc)
Damn, that's like the guy who made the pet rock!
www.milliondollarhomepage.com, could not be found.
http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
There it is. Stupid comma.
PETA Staffer Changes Name to Protest KFC
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Dec 30, 1:52 PM (ET)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 19-year-old PETA staffer has legally changed his name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com.
Chris Garnett, youth outreach coordinator for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said he changed his name in support of the group's anti-KFC campaign.
"People don't believe me at first when I tell them my name, but it never fails to spark a discussion," Garnett, er, KentuckyFriedCruelty.com, said in a statement. "Many vow to boycott KFC after I explain the company's indifference to cruelty to animals."
Norfolk, Va.-based PETA's complaints against KFC stem from video footage shot last year recording alleged mistreatment of birds at a Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (PPC) plant in Moorefield, W.Va. The plant is a KFC supplier.
Yum! Brands, the parent company of KFC, has disputed the claims of mistreatment. In June, a grand jury refused to indict former workers at the West Virginia chicken plant.
"Stacked" star Pamela Anderson, who has narrated a PETA video showing the alleged abuse, supports Garnett's name change.
"I'm sure Chris can't wait 'till KFC stops torturing chickens so he can change his name back," the actress said in a statement, adding that the chicken abuse "is awful and has to stop."
fmstlr
01-02-2006, 09:19 PM
Chingrish is the future (http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/02/mandarin.kindergarten.ap/index.html?section=cnn_education)
kamenriderv3
01-03-2006, 12:49 PM
not really news but its an article about a yao ming book...
Avid basketball fans and China watchers undoubtedly know that the gigantic Yao is the product of a genetic experiment. He is the offspring of a mother who was 6 ft., 2 in. and and a father who was 6 ft., 10 in. The two were forced to marry by Chinese officials eager to dominate sports globally.
The early chapters of the book, focusing on Yao's parents (who lived through the tumultuous Cultural Revolution) and the world into which Yao was born, offer a telling glimpse of the China of their times - a country whose leaders were fiercely competitive with the West and at the same time almost oddly naive in their belief that they could mould their athletes. (One of 10 Rules for Athletes published in The People's Daily News: "Refrain from falling in love.")
Yao - who was required to play basketball whether he wanted to or not - received special treatment from growth experts from birth, and the treatments seem to have succeeded beyond anybody's imagination.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0103/p13s02-bogn.html
what is this special treatment?!?? and where can i buy it?
Originally posted by 'jim
PETA Staffer Changes Name to Protest KFC
Email this Story
Dec 30, 1:52 PM (ET)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 19-year-old PETA staffer has legally changed his name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com.
*groan*
wnoodle
01-03-2006, 12:59 PM
Forget "special treatment from growth experts", just give me an advanced healing factor so I can get over this flu virus!
kamenriderv3
01-03-2006, 05:18 PM
patrick swayze, rapper?
IN what's surely the scariest development of the young new year, allhiphop.com reports that "Dirty Dancing" star Patrick Swayze wants to release a rap single. The actor, who had a massive hit in 1987 with "She's Like the Wind," told the site he's working on a new tune which will show that "rap rhythms [are] an emotional undercurrent for ballads." Swayze is no stranger to keepin' it real - he starred in Ja Rule's video for "Reign" - but didn't have a "timeline" for when his foray into hip-hop would be released.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pagesix/20060104/en_pagesix/isswayzecrazy;_ylt=ApH0cOEXeh88qw9EKlh3SABxFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
fmstlr
01-04-2006, 12:23 PM
Parents Fume: Kids, Swingers at Same Hotel
Tue Jan 3, 9:30 PM ET
Some teenage soccer players and their parents saw more sights than they wanted when they stayed at a hotel where about 200 swingers were having a New Year's party.
Paul Camporini brought his wife, seventh-grade daughter and eighth-grade son from Safety Harbor and said he had to "delicately explain to my Catholic school children that swingers change partners during the evening."
"My biggest gripe is that the hotel had two distinctly different groups under the same roof," said Camporini, 49. "A soccer team and middle-aged swingers should not have been booked together."
The families said the sexually adventurous partygoers sometimes flashed breasts and bare buttocks in front of the children as they sashayed through the hotel atrium. The parents described the dress at the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Airport in Orlando as "raunchy, despicable and worse than prostitutes."
"We thought we were coming to Orlando, not the Las Vegas Strip," said Mark Gilbert, the father of a boy who plays on the Clearwater Chargers, a group of 13-and-under players from Florida.
The teams booked the $92-a-night rooms for Disney's Soccer Showcase, and said hotel management did not tell them about the swingers' party or try to keep the partygoers away from the children.
Managers of the hotel, which is owned by Columbia Sussex Corp., did not immediately return a telephone message Tuesday.
InterContinental Hotels Group, which owns the Crowne Plaza corporate brand, said in a statement to the Orlando Sentinel that it "does not endorse or approve such reported activities in public areas of Crowne Plaza hotels. (InterContinental) has been in contact with the hotel owner and management and is actively reviewing the situation."
All the swingers had checked out of the hotel by late Sunday.
"We're not prudes by any means," said Rob Young of Greenville, S.C., who said his two daughters, Leah, 13 and Lauren, 11, asked questions he struggled to answer. "We would have liked to have been informed when we checked into the hotel so we could have made other arrangements.
"The kids could see through the glass atrium into the ballroom where naked people were dancing. There were exposed breasts, thongs and see-through dresses on women who were not wearing any underwear."
Young said he complained to hotel management and to John Hollis, an off-duty Orlando police officer hired by the hotel for a New Year's Eve security detail. He said neither did anything to help.
Lt. John Mina, a watch commander for the Orlando Police Department, said Hollis didn't witness anything illegal.
DOIN' DUMB SHIT: THE 2005 RAP DARWIN AWARDS
1. Mike Jones' Mobile Phone Bill
It seems as if Mike Jones - the Houston rapper who shouted out his personal phone number in several of his songs, not to mention printing it on his album cover and t-shirts, didn't really look for the best mobile minutes plan before doing so. The rapper was hit with a $250,000 Sprint bill, thanks to the hundreds of thousands of hangers-on who wanted to be weird and call a celebrity that they don't know. Maybe his album should have been called "What Is Mike Jones' Phone Number?".
2. Not Very Slim Slim Thug Names His Still Not Platinum Album, "Already Platinum"
Bad move, fella. You can file this under other famous last words in hip-hop, such as Dr. Dre proclaiming "I don't smoke weed or cess / because it gives a brother brain damage / and brain damage on the mic don't manage" and then releasing "The Chronic", or Large Professor frequently dropping "Main Source forever," just before the group's break-up. We guess it kind of fits, if by "Already Platinum", he meant "fucking delusional".
3. DJ Green Lantern Is Filmed Betraying 50 Cent
DJ Green Lantern was fired as Eminem's deejay, because he accidentally was caught on videotape telling Jadakiss what 50 Cent had planned to do next, during the two rappers short-lived lyrical fued. The footage was shown one of those hood mixtape DVD's, was eventually seen by 50, thus leading to his termination. G.L. however saved face by delivering the incredible Fort Minor "We Major" mixtape a few months later.
4. Puffy Redefines The Word "Duets" for 2006! Bad Boy! What!?!?
Do you know how big of a celebrity Diddy is? He was able to make the word "duets" - which in music, usually refers to a coupling of two artists performing together - mean something entirely different! With Bad Boy's half-assed, recycled B.I.G. release entitled "Duets", all but three songs on the 20+ track LP featured at least three artists. Maybe "Trios" or "Collabos" would have been better titles. Or even, "Shitty Biggie Album".
5. Houston, Eye Have A Problem
Eye jammie! A suicide attempt is nothing to joke about, but damn, Houston gouging his own eye out during an unsuccessful one, surely can be chalked up to some dumb shit. We don't know how bad his personal life is/was, but the kid had a hit single on the radio and lots of potential. Now, instead he has to explain to his fans why his "Eye Like That".
courtesy of hiphopsite.com, my bad.
mike jones is still an idiot.
likeothers
01-05-2006, 08:53 AM
fascinating article by a man with cochlear implant seeking to improve his musical hearing.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/bolero_pr.html
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/wireStory?id=1469984
ROME (Reuters) - Forget the U.S. debate over intelligent design versus evolution.
An Italian court is tackling Jesus and whether the Roman Catholic Church may be breaking the law by teaching that he existed 2,000 years ago.
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The case pits against each other two men in their 70s, who are from the same central Italian town and even went to the same seminary school in their teenage years.
The defendant, Enrico Righi, went on to become a priest writing for the parish newspaper. The plaintiff, Luigi Cascioli, became a vocal atheist who, after years of legal wrangling, is set to get his day in court later this month.
"I started this lawsuit because I wanted to deal the final blow against the Church, the bearer of obscurantism and regression," Cascioli told Reuters.
Cascioli says Righi, and by extension the whole Church, broke two Italian laws. The first is "Abuso di Credulita Popolare" (Abuse of Popular Belief) meant to protect people against being swindled or conned. The second crime, he says, is "Sostituzione di Persona," or impersonation.
"The Church constructed Christ upon the personality of John of Gamala," Cascioli claimed, referring to the 1st century Jew who fought against the Roman army.
A court in Viterbo will hear from Righi, who has yet to be indicted, at a January 27 preliminary hearing meant to determine whether the case has enough merit to go forward.
"In my book, The Fable of Christ, I present proof Jesus did not exist as a historic figure. He must now refute this by showing proof of Christ's existence," Cascioli said.
Artist Accused of Vandalizing Urinal
Jan 06 8:50 AM US/Eastern
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PARIS
A 76-year-old performance artist was arrested after attacking Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" _ a porcelain urinal _ with a hammer, police said.
Duchamp's 1917 piece _ an ordinary white, porcelain urinal that's been called one of the most influential works of modern art _ was slightly chipped in the attack at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the museum said Thursday. It was removed from the exhibit for repair.
The suspect, a Provence resident whose identity was not released, already vandalized the work in 1993 _ urinating into the piece when it was on display in Nimes, in southern France, police said.
During questioning, the man claimed his hammer attack on Wednesday was a work of performance art that might have pleased Dada artists. The early 20th-century avant-garde movement was the focus of the exhibit that ends Monday, police said.
A 2004 poll of 500 arts figures ranked "Fountain" as the most influential work of modern art _ ahead of Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Andy Warhol's screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and "Guernica," Picasso's depiction of war's devastation.
"Fountain" is estimated at $3.6 million.
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On the Net:
Pompidou Center: http://www.cnac-gp.fr/
35ft6
01-06-2006, 08:52 PM
^ Duchamp would love this guy. BTW, his Nude Descending Staircase No. 2 is on my short list of works of art I'd like hanging on my wall.
I seriously think he would dig it, and would fight against repairing it. He didn't consider his "Bride Stripped Bare..." finished until it was broken in transit.
A lot of his "readymades" on display are not even the original objects he picked.
35ft6
01-06-2006, 09:58 PM
Clever cat apparently dials 911 after man falls from wheelchair
THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Published: January 3rd, 2006 02:30 AM
A man who fell out of his wheelchair says his cat apparently called 911 for help.
Police received a 911 call from Gary Rosheisen’s apartment Thursday, but there was no one on the line. When they called back and got no answer, they decided to check things out.
In the apartment they found Tommy the cat lying by a telephone on the living room floor.
“I know it sounds kind of weird,” Officer Patrick Daugherty said.
Rosheisen said he got the cat three years ago and tried to train him to call 911, unsure if the training ever stuck.
35ft6
01-07-2006, 12:18 AM
Heat Gun Wins Wacky Warning Label Contest
DETROIT - A warning that consumers shouldn't use a heat gun that produces temperatures of 1,000 degrees as a hairdryer has won an anti-lawsuit group's award for the wackiest label of the year.
The Wacky Warning Label Contest, in its ninth year, is conducted by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch as part of an effort to show the effects of lawsuits on warning labels.
"When judges see it as their job to dismiss cases that are rooted in frivolous theories, we'll see fewer wacky labels and more fairness in the courts," said Robert B. Dorigo Jones, the group's president.
The $500 first prize went to Tom Brunelle of Holland, who spotted the heat gun warning.
The $250 second prize award went to Jam Sardar of Grand Rapids for a label on a kitchen knife that warns: "Never try to catch a falling knife."
Third prize of $100 went to Alice Morgan of La Junta, Colo. She found a cocktail napkin with a map of the waterways around Hilton Head Island, S.C., printed on it that cautioned: "Not to be used for navigation."
An honorable mention went to Kirk Dunham of Seabrook, Texas. He found this warning on a bottle of dried bobcat urine used to keep pests away from garden plants: "Not for human consumption."
puppy fields
01-07-2006, 09:22 PM
Summary: The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post reported that President Bush's meeting with a bipartisan group of former secretaries of state and defense to discuss Iraq war policy lasted one hour. By contrast, The New York Times reported that the actual discussion lasted only 5 to 10 minutes, and the rest of the time was devoted to an "upbeat" briefing on the war. (http://mediamatters.org/items/200601060011)
commentary;
George Bush Hosts a Tea Party (http://tvnewslies.org/html/george_bush_hosts_a_tea_party.html)
"And what a party it was! It actually made page ten of the NY Times, and that’s pretty impressive nowadays for anything involving George Bush’s war. Did you happen to see the guest list? Wow! Really wow!
The folks on the guest list were the most powerful and possibly the best and the brightest ever to work alongside American presidents going back nearly half a century. These dignified men and women were 13 former secretaries of state and defense, all of whom undeniably had a vast range of experience and knowledge about war and peace. They came to share what they knew. But they came to Wonderland.
..."
likeothers
01-07-2006, 09:30 PM
^ that media matters article isn't very good.
zachariah
01-08-2006, 07:40 AM
^ in what way?
puppy fields
01-08-2006, 11:20 AM
Originally posted by likeothers
^ that media matters article isn't very good.
not sure what you mean. i just posted it as reference to the commentary.
Wal-Mart: Error to Blame for MLK Link
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WAL_MART_WEB_SITE?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Human error is to blame for an offensive link at Wal-Mart's Web site that recommended a film about Martin Luther King Jr. to potential buyers of a "Planet of the Apes" DVD, the retail company said Friday.
The mistake resulted from a well-intentioned effort to promote a DVD about the black leader, said Carter Cast, president of walmart.com, the online shopping arm of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
A business manager had grouped "Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream" with three other black-themed movies and assigned the package an overly broad category of DVD boxed sets, Cast said.
So when an online visitor looked at a listing for the boxed DVD set "Planet of the Apes: The Complete TV Series," the black-themed movies appeared under "similar items."
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Cast said the display juxtaposition may have existed for the past year.
Wal-Mart removed the feature from its Web site Thursday after learning of the juxtaposition from reporters. Wal-Mart apologized and shut down indefinitely its entire online system for referring shoppers to other movies.
kamenriderv3
01-08-2006, 09:57 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/08/schwarzenegger.wreck/index.html
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his son, Patrick, received minor injuries Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle accident near their home, the governor's press secretary said in a written statement.
According to Margita Thompson, the governor received 15 stitches to repair a cut lip. Both he and his son also were treated for minor cuts and bruises, and were released from St. John's Hospital. The driver of the other vehicle was not injured.
"The accident occurred at around 3:15 p.m. when another driver backed into a street in front of Governor Schwarzenegger as he rode his Harley-Davidson motorcycle," Thompson said. "The governor was unable to avoid the vehicle in his path and collided with it at a low speed."
Patrick, 12, was a passenger in the motorcycle's sidecar. Both were wearing helmets at the time of the accident.
driver was identified as sarah connor.
fmstlr
01-08-2006, 10:15 PM
Originally posted by kamenriderv3
driver was identified as sarah connor.
this is why you're the master of the chuckles. I bow down to U.
Nation's Best Libraries Have Books Bound In Human Skin (http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/01/07/some_of_nations_best_libraries_have_books_bound_in_human_skin/)
Originally posted by 'jim
Nation's Best Libraries Have Books Bound In Human Skin (http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/01/07/some_of_nations_best_libraries_have_books_bound_in_human_skin/) Huh, so the outside's more like regular leather, and the inside's more like suede. That's handy to know.
likeothers
01-09-2006, 08:47 AM
anonymous trolling is now a federal crime.
http://news.com.com/Create+an+e-annoyance,+go+to+jail/2010-1028_3-6022491.html
nagasawa
01-09-2006, 09:34 AM
Originally posted by 'jim
Nation's Best Libraries Have Books Bound In Human Skin (http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/01/07/some_of_nations_best_libraries_have_books_bound_in_human_skin/)
Heh. That's pretty interesting!
Reminds me of a bookseller joke. Did you hear the one about the miniature book bound in foreskin? Rub it and it turns into a folio! Wah wah wah wah........ Oh brother.
shammy718
01-09-2006, 09:38 AM
forwarded the link to some colleagues.
Originally posted by kamenriderv3
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/08/schwarzenegger.wreck/index.html
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his son, Patrick, received minor injuries Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle accident near their home, the governor's press secretary said in a written statement.
According to Margita Thompson, the governor received 15 stitches to repair a cut lip. Both he and his son also were treated for minor cuts and bruises, and were released from St. John's Hospital. The driver of the other vehicle was not injured.
"The accident occurred at around 3:15 p.m. when another driver backed into a street in front of Governor Schwarzenegger as he rode his Harley-Davidson motorcycle," Thompson said. "The governor was unable to avoid the vehicle in his path and collided with it at a low speed."
Patrick, 12, was a passenger in the motorcycle's sidecar. Both were wearing helmets at the time of the accident.
driver was identified as sarah connor.
^Ha!
and picture:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41199000/jpg/_41199060_arnie_getty_220.jpg
kamenriderv3
01-09-2006, 02:09 PM
Originally posted by ocd
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41199000/jpg/_41199060_arnie_getty_220.jpg
baht maria.....i don't lave that woman. i only lave yoooo.
stryfe
01-10-2006, 10:46 AM
it looks sad :(
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060109/capt.nyet27501091906.one_eyed_cat__nyet275.jpg
Cy (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060109/480/nyet27501091906), short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was one of two in the litter. Its sibling was born normal and healthy.
ROBOT ZOMBIE COCKROACHES.
ROBOT ZOMBIE COCKROACHES.
ROBOT ZOMBIE COCKROACHES. (http://robotgossip.blogspot.com/2006/01/robot-zombie-cockroaches.html)
puppy fields
01-10-2006, 12:39 PM
Mummified body found in front of TV (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/10/mummifed.body.ap/index.html)
CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) -- The mummified body of a woman who didn't want to be buried was found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years after her death, authorities said.
...
650lex
01-10-2006, 12:41 PM
wow man, look at all the colors! (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/10/international/i085132S77.DTL)
Asharak
01-10-2006, 12:46 PM
Originally posted by funkydrunknmonk
ROBOT ZOMBIE COCKROACHES.
ROBOT ZOMBIE COCKROACHES.
ROBOT ZOMBIE COCKROACHES. (http://robotgossip.blogspot.com/2006/01/robot-zombie-cockroaches.html)
Yay!!!
kamenriderv3
01-10-2006, 01:42 PM
Originally posted by puppy fields
Mummified body found in front of TV (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/10/mummifed.body.ap/index.html)
CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) -- The mummified body of a woman who didn't want to be buried was found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years after her death, authorities said.
...
i think cspan will do a good job of mummifying anyone if given adequate time.
same goes with cspan2...
kamenriderv3
01-10-2006, 01:43 PM
Originally posted by stryfe
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060109/capt.nyet27501091906.one_eyed_cat__nyet275.jpg
its strange that its eye was wide open for a newborn kitten.
puppy fields
01-10-2006, 01:46 PM
Originally posted by kamenriderv3
i think cspan will do a good job of mummifying anyone if given adequate time.
same goes with cspan2...
hmm...the article says they left an air conditioner on...but they don't mention if the TV was on or not. funny they didn't mention that part.
kamenriderv3
01-10-2006, 01:50 PM
they mention it in the video.
not cspan of course. just turning on the tv on occasions.
stryfe
01-10-2006, 02:11 PM
Originally posted by kamenriderv3
its strange that its eye was wide open for a newborn kitten.
yeah...but it's sorta strange that it has one eye and no nose...
puppy fields
01-10-2006, 02:17 PM
The It-Sucks-To-Be-Me Generation (http://www.slate.com/id/2134007/?nav=tap3)
kamenriderv3
01-10-2006, 02:20 PM
Originally posted by stryfe
yeah...but it's sorta strange that it has one eye and no nose...
yeah.
did you keep the body after?
puppy fields
01-11-2006, 02:51 PM
A Belmont resident killed himself with a homemade guillotine after lining his walls with electronic Molotov cocktails so that his house would burn down, officials said. The fire-starting devices failed to work. (http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060105/REPOSITORY/601050360/1031)
Originally posted by puppy fields
A Belmont resident killed himself with a homemade guillotine after lining his walls with electronic Molotov cocktails so that his house would burn down, officials said. The fire-starting devices failed to work. (http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060105/REPOSITORY/601050360/1031) Neat! If the cocktails would've gone off, he'd really have accomplished something.
kamenriderv3
01-12-2006, 06:08 PM
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/HEALTH/01/12/taiwan.pig.reut/story.pig.ap.jpg
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/01/12/taiwan.pig.reut/index.html
TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) -- Taiwan, home to the world's first transgenic glowing fish, has successfully bred fluorescent green pigs that researchers hope will boost the island's stem cell research, a professor said.
By injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs, a research team at the island's leading National Taiwan University managed to breed three male transgenic pigs, said professor Wu Shinn-Chih of the university's Institute and Department of Animal Science and Technology.
"There are partially fluorescent green pigs elsewhere, but ours are the only ones in the world that are green from inside out. Even their hearts and internal organs are green," Wu said on Thursday.
The transgenic pigs, commonly used to study human diseases, would help researchers monitor and trace changes of the tissues during the physical development, Wu said.
In 2003, a Taiwan company began selling the world's first genetically engineered fish, sparking protests by environmentalists who said the fluorescent green fish posed a threat to the earth's ecosystem.
In neighboring South Korea, disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk apologized on Thursday for wrongdoing at his laboratory, but hinted at a conspiracy to discredit him and said he was blinded by the zeal of advancing stem cell studies.
An investigation panel at Seoul National University said on Tuesday that a team led by Hwang faked two landmark papers on embryonic stem cells, but did produce the world's first cloned dog.
Olene
01-12-2006, 06:10 PM
^ i read this in the paper today too. glow in the dark bacon!
35ft6
01-12-2006, 06:10 PM
^ The Holy Grail of Science has been achieved! Finally, we have a glow in the dark pig. We can stop now. We have reached the pinnacle of knowledge.
ironmonqui
01-12-2006, 08:23 PM
Originally posted by kamenriderv3
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/08/schwarzenegger.wreck/index.html
The driver of the other vehicle was not injured.
"The accident occurred at around 3:15 p.m. when another driver backed into a street in front of Governor Schwarzenegger as he rode his Harley-Davidson motorcycle," Thompson said. "The governor was unable to avoid the vehicle in his path and collided with it at a low speed."
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driver was identified as sarah connor.
Damn! Another of our fine punchlines stolen by "The Daily Show..."!
kamenriderv3
01-12-2006, 10:25 PM
Originally posted by ironmonqui
Damn! Another of our fine punchlines stolen by "The Daily Show..."! [/B]
i don't watch that show.
tangent23
01-12-2006, 11:04 PM
Originally posted by ironmonqui
Damn! Another of our fine punchlines stolen by "The Daily Show..."! [/B]
kv3 is a precog!:eek:
kamenriderv3
01-12-2006, 11:21 PM
i'm waiting for tom cruise to save me.
puppy fields
01-13-2006, 11:01 AM
"The 300 millionth will be a Mexican Latino in Los Angeles County, with parents who speak Spanish at home and with siblings who are bilingual," said William Frey, a demographer with the University of Michigan Population Studies Center. (http://nytimes.com/2006/01/13/national/13baby.html?ei=5094&en=965005cbf6337137&hp=&ex=1137214800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print)
fmstlr
01-15-2006, 08:27 PM
Calling my board Nephew (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/01/10_dust.shtml)
seaching for
http://www.frostwire.com/images/7/70/Ziggy_Stardust.jpg
stryfe
01-17-2006, 10:22 AM
Investigation into plane mechanic's death continues (http://www.elpasotimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060117/NEWS/601170325/1001)
Tammy Fonce-Olivas
El Paso Times
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Federal aviation experts and local police today will continue to investigate how an airplane mechanic was sucked into a plane's jet engine and killed Monday in what officials said is a rare occurrence that stunned passengers and employees at El Paso International Airport.
The mechanic, whose name was withheld until relatives could be notified, had been working on the plane about 9 a.m. when he was suddenly pulled into the jet engine of a Continental Airlines Boeing 737 bound for Houston.
"It was a Boeing 737 and it was doing an engine run up for a maintenance problem and a person was sucked into the engine," said Roland Herwig, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Oklahoma City.
<cont'd (http://www.elpasotimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060117/NEWS/601170325/1001)>
ironmonqui
01-17-2006, 10:56 AM
Originally posted by fmstlr
Calling my board Nephew (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/01/10_dust.shtml)
"BORED Nephew...?"
seaching for
http://www.frostwire.com/images/7/70/Ziggy_Stardust.jpg
stryfe
01-17-2006, 10:58 AM
story update
Cannibal draws unusual distinction (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060117/od_nm/germany_cannibal_dc)..
...
He had admitted killing Berlin-based computer specialist Bernd-Juergen Brandes, 43, but was spared a murder conviction and a possible life sentence because the victim had demanded to be eaten.
Meiwes told the court, repeating much of his testimony from his first trial, that he had severed Brandes's penis at his request and that both had tried to eat it, without success.
...
35ft6
01-17-2006, 01:15 PM
"I demand to be eaten!!!"
puppy fields
01-17-2006, 01:25 PM
Army Orders Soldiers to Shed Dragon Skin or Lose SGLI Death Benefits (http://www.sftt.org/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=cmpDefense&htmlCategoryID=30&htmlId=4514)
By Nathaniel R. Helms
Two deploying soldiers and a concerned mother reported Friday afternoon that the U.S. Army appears to be singling out soldiers who have purchased Pinnacle's Dragon Skin Body Armor for special treatment. The soldiers, who are currently staging for combat operations from a secret location, reported that their commander told them if they were wearing Pinnacle Dragon Skin and were killed their beneficiaries might not receive the death benefits from their $400,000 SGLI life insurance policies. The soldiers were ordered to leave their privately purchased body armor at home or face the possibility of both losing their life insurance benefit and facing disciplinary action.
...
stryfe
01-18-2006, 07:30 AM
serenity/eternal sunshine of a spotless mind?
Scientists work on 'trauma pill' (http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060116.gttraumajan16/BNStory/Technology/)
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
Monday, January 16, 2006 Posted at 10:25 AM EST
Associated Press
Suppose you could erase bad memories from your mind. Suppose, as in a recent movie, your brain could be wiped clean of sad and traumatic thoughts.
cont'd (http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060116.gttraumajan16/BNStory/Technology/)
likeothers
01-18-2006, 09:09 AM
^ also the new version of manchurian candidate.
kamenriderv3
01-18-2006, 10:31 AM
best way to gain karate chopping skillz?
slackerbot
01-18-2006, 12:55 PM
one word.. ew.
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/01/16/brother.shtml
“Alien” Embryo Removed From 35-Year-Old Man’s Back
Created: 16.01.2006 16:09 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 16:09 MSK
MosNews
A 35-year-old tractor operator, Igor Namyatov, has undergone surgery to be relieved of what had initially been diagnosed as a tumor, but turned out to be the embryo of his unborn twin brother, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported Monday.
Doctors said the embryo belonged to Namyatov’s unborn brother who had spent 35 years in the body of the patient.
Namyatov’s fellow villagers doubted the explanation given by the doctors. Some even surmised the object removed from Namyatov’s body was an extraterrestrial organism. “It is a pity they have removed it. They should have waited to see what would become of it later on. That would have been a great scientific find,” one of the villagers said.
The “little brother” first made himself known when Igor was 15. At that time the boy complained about pains in his back, but doctors played down his complaints saying it was only a harmless fatty tumor.
Twenty years later the pains came back. The doctors decided to operate at once. They were genuinely surprised to see that the tumor was in fact an embryo with little legs and hands.
A forensic expert summoned to the village to investigate refused to probe the incident saying it was clear anyway that the object was an underdeveloped embryo.
Igor Namyatov refused to leave the embryo at the hospital for further research.
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8058/trak8ix.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
puppy fields
01-18-2006, 12:58 PM
Are virtual assets taxable? (http://news.com.com/Are+virtual+assets+taxable/2100-1043_3-6027212.html?tag=cd.lede)
...
Now, with a new article published in the latest issue of Legal Affairs magazine, Dibbell has the virtual-world community buzzing over a new question: Should online game players' assets--the weapons, characters, clothing and such--they've accumulated but not yet sold for real-world cash be taxable by the IRS?
"If you haven't misspent hours battling an Arctic Ogre Lord near an Ice Dungeon or been equally profligate spending time reading the published works of the Internal Revenue Service," Dibbell's essay begins, "you probably haven't wondered whether the United States government will someday tax your virtual winnings from games played over the Internet. The real question is: Why hasn't it happened already?"
It's a question insiders at academic conferences like State of Play that study online games have been talking about for some time.
After all, since the trafficking of virtual goods from games like "World of Warcraft," "City of Heroes" and "Star Wars Galaxies" on exchanges like eBay sets their fair market value, the millions of online game players are collectively holding tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of these digital assets at any one time. And some would say that's a target the IRS can't ignore forever, raising the tricky question of whether virtual goods that are frequently bartered and exchanged in the gaming world can be deemed a taxable possession before they are sold for real-world money.
While most online game publishers try to sidestep the issue by saying in their terms of service that players don't control the property rights to their game assets, some say there's no theoretical reason the government shouldn't come calling for its fair share.
"From the standpoint of economic theory...there's no fundamental distinction between selling euros and buying magic wands," said Ted Castronova, an expert on virtual economies and an associate professor of telecommunications at the University of Indiana at Bloomington. "They carry value with them. If you're going to tax exchanges in the real world, you've got to tax exchanges in the virtual world, in economic theory."
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35ft6
01-18-2006, 01:02 PM
Originally posted by slackerbot
one word.. ew.
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/01/16/brother.shtml I read about a similar case a few years ago in Readers Digest. The worst part was when they described the tumor as having hair and nails. Shudder.
puppy fields
01-18-2006, 01:08 PM
A HEAVILY pregnant teenager accused of involvement in an incident in which a family was held captive and threatened with a chainsaw, machete and axe has been released on bail by a Sydney judge. (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17860617-421,00.html)
Originally posted by slackerbot
one word.. ew.
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/01/16/brother.shtml
EEN RUSSIA, LITTLE BROTHER LODGE INSIDE YOU!
stryfe
01-18-2006, 01:39 PM
Originally posted by puppy fields
A HEAVILY pregnant teenager accused of involvement in an incident in which a family was held captive and threatened with a chainsaw, machete and axe has been released on bail by a Sydney judge. (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17860617-421,00.html)
not really related (http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/snowtown/index_1.html) except for the country of origin.
Originally posted by 'jim
http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060118/ap_on_hi_te/britain_internet_ransom
Think that's for real? I mean he can't keep the page going without more publicity.
zachariah
01-18-2006, 05:21 PM
Texas Car Chase Ends in Head-On Crash (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3596549.html)
HOUSTON — A high-speed chase that lasted nearly two hours Wednesday ended when the fleeing sedan smashed head-on into another car while going the wrong way on a highway entrance ramp.
The fleeing car, a new BMW, stayed within speed limits while moving south on Highway 59 past Sugar Land, but the driver kicked up the speed to about 100 mph after turning around to drive north into Houston.
As the car approached an area of Highway 59 where four northbound lanes squeeze into two because of construction, the BMW driver turned onto an entrance ramp to exit the highway.
Several cars on the entrance ramp dodged the BMW, but the chase ended when the BMW crashed into a silver sedan.
A woman passenger in the silver car jumped out, climbed over the hood and screamed at the BMW driver. An officer comforted her as others quickly detained the BMW driver, who climbed out of an open sunroof, dropped to the ground on his stomach and put his hands behind his back without prompting.
Police also removed an infant strapped in a car seat from the silver sedan's back seat. The woman embraced the child, who appeared unhurt.
Officers worked to help the silver sedan's driver get out. The driver's side door appeared heavily damaged in the crash.
Officials had yet to say what sparked the chase, which was broadcast live by several Houston television stations.
I'm surprised she did this -- the guy seems like a typical Houston driver to me, and I typically never see anyone giving any Houstonian drivers shit about their bad driving.
kamenriderv3
01-18-2006, 06:18 PM
yeah but she's a mom.
edit:
it was the daughter. the mom was still stuck in the car.
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2280/11376267265437hh.jpg
puppy fields
01-19-2006, 12:18 PM
Study: Most College Students Lack Skills (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/19/D8F7UO204.html)
Nearing a diploma, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food.
Those are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college campuses, the first to target the skills of students as they approach the start of their careers.
More than 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks.
That means they could not interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school.
The results cut across three types of literacy: analyzing news stories and other prose, understanding documents and having math skills needed for checkbooks or restaurant tips.
"It is kind of disturbing that a lot of folks are graduating with a degree and they're not going to be able to do those things," said Stephane Baldi, the study's director at the American Institutes for Research, a behavioral and social science research organization.
Most students at community colleges and four-year schools showed intermediate skills, meaning they could perform moderately challenging tasks. Examples include identifying a location on a map, calculating the cost of ordering office supplies or consulting a reference guide to figure out which foods contain a particular vitamin.
...
wnoodle
01-19-2006, 03:07 PM
Originally posted by puppy fields
Study: Most College Students Lack Skills (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/19/D8F7UO204.html)
They spelled "skills" wrong :)
stryfe
01-19-2006, 03:40 PM
Dutch open 'Big Brother' prison (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/01/19/high.tech.prisons.ap/index.html)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- At a high-tech prison opening this week inmates wear electronic wristbands that track their every movement and guards monitor cells using emotion-recognition software.
Authorities are convinced the jail in Lelystad -- quickly dubbed "the Big Brother Prison" by the local press -- represents the future of correctional facilities: cheap and efficient, without coddling criminals or violating their fundamental rights.
Detainees will be kept in six-man dormitory cells. They will do their own cooking, washing and organize their own daytime schedules via a touch-screen monitor at the foot of their beds.
"We hesitate to compare it to a youth hostel because the biggest part of being punished is that you've lost your freedom," Justice Ministry spokesman Hans Janssens said.
Prisoners have limited choices for their activities -- electives include drug education classes and exercise -- and they are locked in their cells at night.
Unlike the "Big Brother" television program, camera surveillance is limited to public spaces -- not on bunk beds or in bathrooms.
Cells are equipped with microphones that relay information to the prison's control center, where software analyzes sound volume and rhythm to alert guards when a violent confrontation between inmates may be taking place.
Prison officials expect to save money: The estimated cost per prisoner is $125 per night, compared with $170 at other Dutch prisons. Because monitoring is easier, the Lelystad facility requires far fewer guards.
Pieter Vleeming of the European Organization for the Protection of Prisoner's Rights said prisoners should be given more opportunity for self-improvement and job training, though he generally gave the prison positive marks.
"From a punishment point of view there are no objections," he said. "You could call it progress."
ironmonqui
01-19-2006, 03:48 PM
Originally posted by 'jim
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060118/ap_on_hi_te/britain_internet_ransom
Think that's for real? I mean he can't keep the page going without more publicity. That would be awesome if it turned out to be a hoax...
Alternatively, that would be even better (smarter) if he were to start a rumor that it WAS a hoax, instigating a full investigation... Then it turns out that it wasn't a hoax. If he can keep buzz / interest about his site, he could have a second page of advertisements, etc...
I so fuckin' wish I had thought of that million (+37,100) dollar idea
[ he sold the last 1000 pixels on ebay for $38,100]
I wonder how he got press in the first place?
ironmonqui
01-19-2006, 04:08 PM
Originally posted by stryfe
Dutch open 'Big Brother' prison (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/01/19/high.tech.prisons.ap/index.html)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- At a high-tech prison opening this week inmates wear electronic wristbands that track their every movement and guards monitor cells using emotion-recognition software.
Authorities are convinced the jail in Lelystad -- quickly dubbed "the Big Brother Prison" by the local press -- represents the future of correctional facilities: cheap and efficient, without coddling criminals or violating their fundamental rights.
...
Cells are equipped with microphones that relay information to the prison's control center, where software analyzes sound volume and rhythm to alert guards when a violent confrontation between inmates may be taking place.
... Because monitoring is easier, the Lelystad facility requires far fewer guards.
...
"From a punishment point of view there are no objections," he said. "You could call it progress." We all live in a digital Panopticon already...
http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/lawand/papers/su98/panopticon/
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=371
http://cartome.org/panopticon2.htm
http://www.tformaro.com/thesis/pmod3.html
slackerbot
01-20-2006, 09:04 AM
blind woman regains vision after a heart attack!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/20/nblind20.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/20/ixhome.html
I had been blind 25 years. I had a heart attack, woke up, and could see. I said to my husband: 'You've got older'
By Nick Britten
(Filed: 20/01/2006)
A woman who had been blind for 25 years awoke in hospital after suffering a heart attack and found that she could see again.
Since 1979, Joyce Urch had lived in a world of shadows and near-darkness, but was astonished to find her sight restored when she came round after being resuscitated.
Doctors have been unable to explain what happened, but Mrs Urch, 74, was happy yesterday to put it down to a "miracle".
She said: "When I first came round I just opened my eyes and shouted, 'I can see, I can see.' When I looked in the mirror I said, 'Oh.' I said to [her husband] Eric, 'You've got older haven't you?' But I thought, 'I'm old myself, my husband must be too.'
"The first time you look in the mirror you look at yourself and think, 'Is that really me?' But a lot of things have changed."
Mrs Urch had been unable to see her five children properly since they were young adults and, for the first time, was able to look at her 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. She said that despite suffering from glaucoma, doctors did not think this was why her sight went, although they were unable to pinpoint the reason.
"They did a lot of tests and said it was a genetic condition," said Mrs Urch. "Other members of my family have lost their sight, including my grandmother and two aunts.
"I had lots of treatments at the hospital but eventually went completely blind. It was totally different when my sight returned. It happened immediately and I could see everything straight away."
There was no sign of what was to come when, 16 months ago, Mrs Urch suffered a heart attack and was admitted to Walgrave Hospital in Coventry, where doctors spent three days battling to save her life.
She and Mr Urch celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last weekend in a way of which she had never dreamed. She said: "I love going out now. I can look around and see the trees and squirrels and pigeons."
Mr Urch, 77, a former coal miner, said: "I didn't believe it when she said she could see me. I said 'What colour pull-over am I wearing?' She said 'grey', and she was right. When Joyce first went blind it made a huge change to our life. Everything seemed to fall away from us. She couldn't do anything.
"She does little chores now. We try to do everything between us. This has given us both our lives back."
Their eldest daughter, Carol Obeirne, 46, said: "When she first came round we thought, 'This is not going to last, she is going to die.' Then she started shouting, 'I can see'. I was just so excited.
"My mother has never been given any medical explanation as to why she lost her sight, nor has she ever been offered any medical explanation as to how she recovered it."
Martin Breen, consultant cardiologist at the Walgrave Hospital, said: "I am not able to give a medical explanation. When she was admitted to hospital, she had suffered a serious heart attack and our main concern was to save her life. I am delighted that she has fully recovered, and it is an added bonus that she has also recovered her sight."
hahaha, "you got older" :)
that's a cool story. the human body is a one weirdass machine.
stinky
01-23-2006, 05:18 AM
article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/AR2006012100094.html) about the future cost of the internets. interesting read.
zachariah
01-23-2006, 07:45 AM
now that's innovation for ya
slackerbot
01-23-2006, 08:57 AM
wow. Ticketmaster totally stole an image from a Flickr user and used it on their website.
http://flickr.com/photos/kathryn/88718676/
puppy fields
01-23-2006, 09:26 AM
China to build world`s first "artificial sun" experimental device (http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=409853)
HEFEI, 01/21 - A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China`s Anhui Province.
Experiments with the advanced new device will start in July or August. If the experiments prove successful, China will become the first country in the world to build a full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, nicknamed "artificial sun", experts here said.
The project, dubbed EAST (experimental advanced superconducting Tokamak), is being undertaken by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will require a total investment of nearly 300 million yuan (37 million U.S. dollars), only one fifteenth to one twentieth the cost of similar devices being developed in the other parts of the world.
The new device will be an upgrade of China`s first superconducting Tokamak device, dubbed HT-7, which was also built by the plasma physics institute, in partnership with Russia, in the early 1990s. HT-7 made China the fourth country in the world, after Russia, France and Japan, to have such a device.
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Originally posted by slackerbot
wow. Ticketmaster totally stole an image from a Flickr user and used it on their website.
http://flickr.com/photos/kathryn/88718676/
so how does a picture of someone become copyrighted?
doesn't make sense to me.
unless some kind of release from was signed by the person being photographed?...
slackerbot
01-23-2006, 10:23 AM
well, it's not really the subject of the picture. it's the fact that she was the one that snapped the picture, and Ticketmaster used the picture without permission or compensation.
Robot_4nicator
01-23-2006, 11:35 AM
Once you create something, it's protected by law as your copywrite. I personally don't think it's a big deal when people use songs or something on their site as background music or something, but if you're making money off of someone else's work, then you are breaking the law. Ticketmaster is using the photo to promote their concerts, thus making money off of the use of the photo. Monetary compensation should be sought.
E3 Booth Babes Banned
Companies may have to rely on actual games to grab our attention.
by David Adams
January 24, 2006 - While the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo is certainly about games, the show is notorious for its often ribald atmosphere. By now, our readers are familiar with the barely-dressed "booth babes" which each year are as ubiquitous as the giant flat-screen displays and screaming speakers.
Game companies have long hired titillating models to lure drooling males to trade event booths. When this year's E3 comes rambling along in May, it could be a fully-dressed affair.
The show's directors have always published a dress code which would disallow bikini-wear and similar attention-grabbing garb. According to the E3 handbook, "Material, including live models, conduct that is sexually explicit and/or sexually provocative, including but not limited to nudity, partial nudity and bathing suit bottoms, are prohibited on the show floor, all common areas, and at any access points to the show."
Of course, in practice the rule is hardly enforced. This year's handbook, however, mentions a $5,000 fine for violating the code.
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the organization behind E3, says it will issue a first verbal warning for conduct violations. An second offense will incur the $5,000 fine, to be paid immediately. Models will also have to switch to more modest dress before returning to the show floor.
"What's new in 2006 is an update and clarification of the enforcement policies; as we do from time to time, we have taken steps to ensure that exhibitors are familiar with the policy and how it will be enforced," Mary Dolaher, E3Expo show director, told Reuters.
WTF? That's the most sexual contact most attendees will have ALL YEAR!
http://www.tampabays10.com/weird/weird_article.aspx?storyid=24334
i hate kids.
http://www.tampabays10.com/assetpool/images/0612418416_Kurt_Cass.jpg
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