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Charity Forced to Pay Copyright Fee So Kids Can Sing Carols
Christmas is known world-wide as a time for sharing, a time for giving. But for one charity, instead of Santa arriving with gifts, the copyright police turned up demanding money. Why? Because the charity allows children to sing carols on the premises and their kitchen radio is a little loud. You couldn’t make it up.
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They have seriously just hit a new low

just anotehr reason to hate those bastards.

When I first started reading this I thought this must be some incident in America - only the Americans are crazy enough to pull something like this off - but no it’s in the UK. As far as I can tell this is just people demanding money with menaces - a form of organised crime. It should not be against the law for children to sing christmas carols, or the “happy birthday” song.

Well going by the PRS’s second argument shouldn’t every school here in the UK have a license? After all they hold Christmas concerts each year where the children sing carols for the parents?? Or is it OK as they “only sing old songs”? Just another example of the arse about tit laws here in the UK and copyright laws being used in archaic ways!

They should just copyright murder so nobody could use evidence against them when they implement their final solution.

Gone. To. FAR

For one charity, instead of Santa arriving with gifts, the copyright police turned up demanding money. Why? Because the charity allows children to sing carols on the premises and their kitchen radio is a little loud. You couldnt make it up.

fucking disgusting

Just missed the last show…

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Jeff: Christmas is known world-wide as a time for sharing, a time for giving. But for one charity, instead of Santa arriving with gifts, the copyright police turned up demanding money. Why? Because the charity allows children to sing carols on the premise

Man, fuck England. Fascist psychos are years ahead of our government on the evil scale.

Ubuntu 7.10 on PS3
Here’s how you get Ubuntu 7.10 to run on PlayStation 3
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Yes, but the real question is…how does this relate to Ron Paul?

Too bad Sony won’t allow accelerated graphics support in Linux. I’d have no problem with a closed source binary module for it. The PS3 could be a great multi-purpose set top box — indie games, media center. As it stands now Linux on the PS3 seems like a novelty.

well at least the ps3 is good for something.

maybe if they had 3 ps3s they could also try to instal windows and Leopard.

I guess Ubuntu had no other legitimate use.

What ever happened to GNU/Linux?

Are there any USB TV tuners that are linux-compatible so you could record TV with the PS3?

ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy on Ps3

Today,
you will learn how to install Ubuntu Gutsy (as a second operating
system) on your PlayStation 3 gaming console. For those of you who
think for a second (and who are scared) that this will replace their
PS3 operating system, well you guys are wr

Today, you will learn how to install Ubuntu Gutsy (as a second operating system) on your PlayStation 3 gaming console

For those of you who think for a second (and who are scared) that this will replace their PS3 operating system, well you guys are wrong, because this will NOT erase your PS3 native operating system and it will run as an alternative OS on your PS3 console.

Victoria's Secret, Slave Labor And So-Called "Free Trade"
Workers are allowed just 3.3 minutes to sew each $14 Victoria’s Secret women’s bikini, for which they are paid four cents.
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So when China rules the world and American workers are forced to make bra’s at 3 cents per hour for the Chinese, will it be ok to pay slave labor? Will it be ok to call it free trade? In 50 years it wont be so inconceivable, perhaps Americans might be migrating to China. Perhaps it’s time to be instilling a different set of ethics and morals on the world now, for the sake of America’s grandchildren.

This is ten years old. No one cared then no one cares now. Why is gas so high?!

where do I apply for this job??

libertarians must get a hard on for this. the free market is a beautiful thing isn’t it?

FYI, Victoria Secret was started in Columbus, Ohio (USA) and tries VERY VERY hard to cover that fact up. They want you to believe they are NYC, Los Angeles, London, and a big famous design house. I’ve met the couple who started and owned it and in fact they are a bunch of hicks from Ohio, who are all about squeezing money out of everything. They usually employee call centers in Ohio to answer support calls.

Their business is a good idea, but the way the run it is aweful.

Fuck off commies — I mean pinkos. Fuck socialism.

When you slip on your Victoria’s Secret garb, remember this: it comes to you partly due to the wonders of so-called “free trade.”

Yes, but you see, in the magical world of the Free Market, these people willingly subject themselves to this treatment… so it’s okay! And don’t forget, mean old government regulations to protect them are unnecessary since the magical free market will make corporations do the right thing… by magic!

Okay. But are you okay with a company that can retaliate against workers for bringing up physical abuse and asking the police to enforce the law? Let’s assume that it is a perfect free market environment, instead of a place with corrupt cops (that’d never happen in the free market, right?). Let’s assume that as soon as the police are alerted, they will arrest the people responsible.

Firstly, if there is competition in the labour market, people working for the said company would rather leave for a lower pay at a non-abuse company.

I’ve been boycotting Mal-Wart for several years for that exact reason.

Who are you to say what someone can and can’t subject themselves to? What if someone’s indulging in some consensual S&M in their basement… are you going to stop them? If not, why not?

So this is her secret…

21 Things You Didn't Know You Can Recycle
Garbage. Americans produce more and more of it every year, when we need to be producing less.
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Most of the ideas listed on the site are even recycling any way, they are actually reusing. Get your terms right and use a dictionary.

Free carbon is generally blamed for global warming, right? Putting your cardboard and newspapers in the landfill is locking up carbon and thereby slowing global warming.

Forget recycling, that’s the last of the three R’s. Do your reducing first, don’t generate so much crap in the first place. When you buy fruit and veg, don’t put each type of item in it’s own individual bag. It amazes me that every week I see people put a bunch of bananas in a clear plastic bag, a bag which they then put in another bag at the checkout. Often they will tie a knot in the bag, so you know they’re just going to rip it open and chuck it away. Forgetting the materials, it’s a waste of time - bananas have a thick skin, what the fuck does a clear plastic bag do!

At the risk of inciting hippy ire:

Recycling is totally bogus - it doesn’t address the root cause of the problem: mountains of disposable crap. If things were made to last and we stopped consuming rubbish (plastic happy meal toy anyone?) then we might have a better time of it. Don’t get rid of it after it’s made, just don’t make the shit in the first place.

Just throw it away. Everything. Recycling is a lie. It was a money saving option for metal and paper groups. It doesn’t save anything, all it does is make you do all the work. The same materials are picked up before it enters the dump system anyway. Not to mention large recycling programs generate 20% more energy waste then standard garbage pickup which in the end does the same thing.

that was about 3 things i didnt know i could recycle

List of recyclable materials.

recycle stuff

Go green.

batteries, computers, CFL’s, etc.

where to recycle

Anything made of metal will almost always be accepted at a scrap yard. If it’s sorted, you will get paid for it.

You can recycle batteries at Radioshack, and ink cartridges at Staples where I think they give you $3 for a new cartridge.

read the ecology of commerce by Paul Hawken

Obi Wan Kenobi buys a used car, hilarity ensues.
Just watch.
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VERY funny… Funniest things I’ve watched all day.

Buried. Any Star Wars fan has seen this video before…old.

ROFL…..”a little on the dark side.”

pfft…Picard would have said it better.

It’s Jon Culshaw, he is a British impressionist and comedian. It’s on the show deadringers which was on the BBC channels a couple of years ago. He does impressions of many people http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jon+Culshaw

Hahah. “It’s metric. No imperial entanglements.”

Funny as hell but I have watched it many years ago though

This was hilarious.

Its Jon Cullsure (or how ever you spell it)

Jon Culshaw. And the show is Dead Ringers, a BBC show.

It’s stuff like this that makes me wish we could get something other than BBC America here in the states.

Usually Star Wars larpers are a royal pain, but this guy was very clever. Fun to watch!

Wow that was completely unfunny.

Meet the Press omitts Ron Paul. Didn't the Hearst Era End?
Again it happens. Ron Paul is not on the list of candidates worth talking to. Ron Paul will raise more money than three candidates combined who are invited but MSNBC is part of the “New Media” mind, that the country needs to know what we tell them they should know. Shame on Meet the Press for letting the “press” be the news, not report it!
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Why is it that runner is called by their last name but then people feel the need to use Pauly’s full name? I do not get it, if he were to win would we have to say “Pres. Ron Paul”? If so, that sounds/is retarded.

If Pauly had his pants down I wonder how many Digg people would instantly drop to their knees? Ha ha ha sorry but I could not resist.

I just tried to e-mail them using the link provided and was given an error after submitting. Needless to say, using IE, when hitting the back button all of what I’d typed in - it was pretty extensive - was lost.

You know, I never really liked Ron Paul before…. but now… hearing all this about him being ignored makes me wanna support and root for him even more since he’s an underdog.
For long, the media in our country has been biased and presenting their spin, their opinions on news instead of just presenting the facts. Fuck these media. Fox is too right and crazy, CNN and others are too left and crazy. No one just presents the damn news.
Everyone and everything is either for Bush 100% or anti-Bush 100% and I’m getting sick of it. I just want every candidate to get a fair shot ( even Ron Paul ) and I want to hear every single candidates summary viewpoint on each topic I care about - war in iraq, anwr oil drilling, abortion, civil rights, gun issue, healthcare.
I don’t give a shit whether they’re Republican or Democrat or Independent.

I just want to hear every single candidate out with just the facts.
Is that too much to ask, media ?

I’d like to see him on the show too, but I really don’t think MSNBC is completely ignoring the guy.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21116732

Some of his views are included here. And for fun, click on “all users’ ratings” and see who’s got the most green.

You know you would figure Private companies would like Ron Paul, he’s for them and to be more prosperous. I mean i don’t know, it’s a shame. The News are so corrupt, but it would be interesting to find out if he wins Preliminary and all there Bullshit “Polling” was a lie as well, because he won.

Again Join the Ron Paul Retardation !!!

Must-see internets video.

He’s definitely not worth talking to. He has no chance of being president. None.

EeeUser.com > An Unofficial ASUS Eee PC EeePC 701 Community
ASUS released a press release yesterday clarifying their position on the yellow Warranty void if removed? sticker on the bottom of the Eee PC devices that covers the RAM slot

How can you tell which one you have? The serial number starts with either “7A” or “7B.” This can be found on a sticker on the back of the Eee PC. Of course, to see for yourself if your Eee PC actually has the second Mini-PCIe slot, you have to…
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They have only said that this applies to america, canada and countries where it is illegal to use these stickers. What about the UK? I want to be able to upgrade my eee too

Take notes, Jobs

If you have laws forbidding you to open the case WTF is your consumer associations doing?

Here in Australia we have a basic right to inspect what we are given, this means we can break all the warranty seals we want, and if the company refuses it on warranty on that alone you report them to the ACCC (Australian consumer and competition commission) and that company gets its ass kicked. if in the process of opening or inspecting you damage the components, then thats your fault (wilful damage), but otherwise they cant do anything. I freely ignore these stickers at will as they literally mean nothing here, just like most EULAs and such, they break local laws (as we have good consumer laws) and therefore you can ignore large swarths of them.

So if they said they put a certain type of memory in, and you got a crappy ripoff, you literally cant do anything because you have no right to inspect it? What if they sold you a ‘V12′ that was a 4 cylinder engine? you cant open the hood if they put a sticker on it?

First GPL compliance, then the other issue raised by the same critic (violation of warranty rules/act). What’s next? Getting a real GNU/Linux distribution that is not taxed by software patents? Either way, well done, Asus.

go Asus, show them how it’s done.

asus@asus-desktop:~$ cd eeePC_sale_obstacles
asus@asus-desktop:~$ ls
sticker screens price name
asus@asus-desktop:~$ rm sticker
$$$ - This is how it happened; I kid you not.

An Unofficial ASUS Eee PC EeePC 701 Community

An Unofficial ASUS Eee PC EeePC Community

Useful site for Asus Eee PC laptop users, info, forums, links, reviews etc

ty to get it fixed, but also cant pop in a new SSD storage module into the secondary

New TF2 Stats Released by Valve (Including death heat maps)
TF2 includes a reporting mechanism which tells us details about how people are playing the game. We’re sharing the data we collect because we think people will find it interesting, and because we expect to spot emergent problems earlier, and ultimately build better products and experiences as a result.
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bungie does this for Halo 3 as well
http://www.bungie.net/Online/Heatmaps.aspx

Funny to see how the average lifetime for most classes are arount 30 seconds. Says a lot about the game.

Valve really just does things right over and over again.
TF2 is so polished, so fun.
Here’s to hoping we get some new maps in the next couple weeks.

Everyone hates granary!

Does any one know how they create those graph? I’m not talking about how they gather the data for the graphs, but actually creating those things. They’re all images so I doubt their php, but I’m not sure what else it could be. I could use some nice graph generator code like that for a project I’m working on.

Anyone else study the maps to see where the safest/most dangerous places on the map were? Or was it just me? So far I heven’t had any breakthroughs though. If anyone sees anything more profound than “standing on control points gets you killed” let me know.
Oh yeah, I also have all of the acheivements so I’m in that 2.1%

The most wicked stats about tf2

good breakdown of how team fortress is played

steampowered.com ? TF2 includes a reporting mechanism which tells us details about how people are playing the game. We’re sharing the data we collect because we think people will find it interesting, and because we expect to spot emergent problems earli

Death Maps (Colors show where players died most often in each map.)

Surprised sniper isn’t played more than what’s shown. Love the death maps — must go right on 2fort.

Stats and heat maps.

What really surprises me here is how for symmetric maps like 2fort or well, blue wins a lot more often than red, which certainly shouldn’t be the case if the maps were truly symmetric.

I think because skilled players generally join the blue team. This was always true in Counterstrike so I think it’s carrying over.

I don’t even mind the unbalanced map, it’s a lot of fun when you manage to push threw. What I like in contrast to classic, is that it’s much more accessable, yet still hardcore. So now that I less free time I can still kick ass with the kids who play it all day.

2fort sniper wars blantantly obvious, heh.

Those deathmaps are pretty cool, it makes me miss TFC, maybe I should up up TF2

Whoever Argues For A Greater Response Is A Patriot.
Whoever dissects a patriotic claim is a traitor. If the USA had completely ignored the 9/11 attack - just shrugged and rebuilt the building - it would have been better than the real course of history
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It’s great to hear a voice of reason midst the madness that’s going on…

Interesting article

It is just too dangerous for there to be any target in the world, whether it be the Jews or Adolf Hitler, about whom saying negative things trumps saying accurate things.

“Anyone who attacks the Enemy is a patriot; and whoever tries to dissect even a single negative claim about the Enemy is a traitor.”

“If the USA had completely ignored the 9/11 attack - just shrugged and rebuilt the building - it would have been better than the real course of history.”

Having taken a few counter terrorism classes in my day ? was Army intel. One learns the key weapon of terrorists the generation of fear among the populace.

Can you do up a shirt with this logo also?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgtKVfhUiLk&eurl=http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/2360877/

Sadly, reading comprehension is not everyone’s friend

Declaring war on any country directly was the wrong choice.

If that makes you horny then I’m really sorry for you that Rosemary Kennedy died

ABC News: Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.

KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says
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Where are all the MSM complainers? Isn’t this story some kind of huge lie, all fabricated to distract the sheep from other, more important things?

Because the Bushies are all about accountability.

It makes me so sad that when I saw this headline, I said to myself: “That probably happened” instead of “aww B.S.!”

I remember a time when this type of news was nothing more than fluff propaganda circulated by despots. Now it is so widespread, even a sensational story like this is entirely plausible.

We haven’t had this much sexual assault accusations of government officials since Bill Clinton was in office.

Bill Clinton with sexual assault since his days as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford 30 years ago.

A continuing investigation into the President’s questionable sexual history reveal incidents that go back as far as Clinton’s college days, with more than a dozen women claiming his sexual appetites leave little room for the word ”no.”

Juanita Broaddrick, an Arkansas nursing home operator, told NBC’s Lisa Myers five weeks ago she was raped by Clinton. NBC shelved the interview, saying they were confirming all parts of the story, but finally aired it Wednesday night.

Broaddrick finally took her story to The Wall Street Journal, which published her account of the brutal rape at the hands of the future President, followed by The Washington Post and some other publications.

But Capitol Hill Blue has confirmed that Broaddrick’s story is only one account of many attempted and actual sexual assaults by Clinton that go back 30 years. Among the other incidents:

* Eileen Wellstone, 19-year-old English woman who said Clinton sexually assaulted her after she met him at a pub near the Oxford where the future President was a student in 1969. A retired State Department employee, who asked not to be identified, confirmed that he spoke with the family of the girl and filed a report with his superiors. Clinton admitted having sex with the girl, but claimed it was consensual. The victim’s family declined to pursue the case;
* In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton, a law student at the college. No charges were filed, but retired campus policemen contacted by Capitol Hill Blue confirmed the incident. The woman, tracked down by Capitol Hill Blue last week, confirmed the incident, but declined to discuss it further and would not give permission to use her name;
* In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law school instructor Bill Clinton tried to prevent her from leaving his office during a conference. She said he groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse. She complained to her faculty advisor who confronted Clinton, but Clinton claimed the student ”came on” to him. The student left the school shortly after the incident. Reached at her home in Texas, the former student confirmed the incident, but declined to go on the record with her account. Several former students at the University have confirmed the incident in confidential interviews and said there were other reports of Clinton attempting to force himself on female students;
* Broaddrick, a volunteer in Clinton’s gubernatorial campaign, said he raped her in 1978. Mrs. Broaddrick suffered a bruised and torn lip, which she said she suffered when Clinton bit her during the rape;
* From 1978-1980, during Clinton’s first term as governor of Arkansas, state troopers assigned to protect the governor were aware of at least seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually. One retired state trooper said in an interview that the common joke among those assigned to protect Clinton was “who’s next?”. One former state trooper said other troopers would often escort women to the governor’s hotel room after political events, often more than one an evening;
* Carolyn Moffet, a legal secretary in Little Rock in 1979, said she met then-governor Clinton at a political fundraiser and shortly thereafter received an invitation to meet the governor in his hotel room. “I was escorted there by a state trooper. When I went in, he was sitting on a couch, wearing only an undershirt. He pointed at his penis and told me to suck it. I told him I didn’t even do that for my boyfriend and he got mad, grabbed my head and shoved it into his lap. I pulled away from him and ran out of the room.”
* Elizabeth Ward, the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982, told friends she was forced by Clinton to have sex with him shortly after she won her state crown. Last year, Ward, who is now married with the last name of Gracen (from her first marriage), told an interviewer she did have sex with Clinton but said it was consensual. Close friends of Ward, however, say she still maintains privately that Clinton forced himself on her.
* Paula Corbin, an Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton after an encounter in a Little Rock hotel room where the then-governor exposed himself and demanded oral sex. Clinton settled the case with Jones recently with an $850,000 cash payment.
* Sandra Allen James, a former Washington, DC, political fundraiser says Presidential candidate-to-be Clinton invited her to his hotel room during a political trip to the nation’s capital in 1991, pinned her against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress. She says she screamed loud enough for the Arkansas State Trooper stationed outside the hotel suite to bang on the door and ask if everything was all right, at which point Clinton released her and she fled the room. When she reported the incident to her boss, he advised her to keep her mouth shut if she wanted to keep working. Miss James has since married and left Washington. Reached at her home last week, the former Miss James said she later learned that other women suffered the same fate at Clinton’s hands when he was in Washington during his Presidential run.
* Christy Zercher, a flight attendant on Clinton’s leased campaign plane in 1992, says Presidential candidate Clinton exposed himself to her, grabbed her breasts and made explicit remarks about oral sex. A video shot on board the plane by ABC News shows an obviously inebriated Clinton with his hand between another young flight attendant’s legs. Zercher said later in an interview that White House attorney Bruce Lindsey tried to pressure her into not going public about the assault.
* Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed her, fondled her breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during an Oval Office meeting in November, 1993. Willey, who told her story in a 60 Minutes interview, became a target of a White House-directed smear campaign after she went public.

In an interview with Capitol Hill Blue, the retired State Department employee said he believed the story Miss Wellstone, the young English woman who said Clinton raped her in 1969.

”There was no doubt in my mind that this young woman had suffered severe emotional trauma,” he said. ”But we were under tremendous pressure to avoid the embarrassment of having a Rhodes Scholar charged with rape. I filed a report with my superiors and that was the last I heard of it.”

Miss Wellstone, who is now married and lives near London, confirmed the incident when contacted this week, but refused to discuss the matter further. She said she would not go public with further details of the attack. Afterwards, she changed her phone number and hired a barrister who warned a reporter to stay away from his client.

In his book, Unlimited Access, former FBI agent Gary Aldrich reported that Clinton left Oxford University for a “European Tour” in 1969 and was told by University officials that he was no longer welcome there. Aldrich said Clinton’s academic record at Oxford was lackluster. Clinton later accepted a scholarship for Yale Law School and did not complete his studies at Oxford.

The State Department official who investigated the incident said Clinton’s interests appeared to be drinking, drugs and sex, not studies.

“I came away from the incident with the clear impression that this was a young man who was there to party, not study,” he said.

Oxford officials refused comment. The State Department also refused to comment on the incident. A Freedom of Information request filed by Capitol Hill Blue failed to turn up any records of the incident.

Capitol Hill Blue also spoke with the former Miss James, the Washington fundraiser who confirmed the encounter with Clinton at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, but first said she would not appear publicly because anyone who does so is destroyed by the Clinton White House.

”My husband and children deserve better than that,” she said when first contacted two weeks ago. After reading the Broaddrick story Friday, however, she called back and gave permission to use her maiden name, but said she had no intention of pursuing the matter.

“I wasn’t raped, but I was trapped in a hotel room for a brief moment by a boorish man,” she said. “I got away. He tried calling me several times after that, but I didn’t take his phone calls. Then he stopped. I guess he moved on.”

But Miss James also retreated from public view this week after other news organizations contacted her.

The former Miss Moffet, the legal secretary who says Clinton tried to force her into oral sex in 1979, has since married and left the state. She says that when she told her boyfriend, who was a lawyer and supporter of Clinton, about the incident, he told her to keep her mouth shut.

“He said that people who crossed the governor usually regretted it and that if I knew what was good for me I’d forget that it ever happened,” she said. “I haven’t forgotten it. You don’t forget crude men like that.”

Like two other women, the former Miss Moffet declined further interviews. A neighbor said she had received threatening phone calls.

The other encounters were confirmed with more than 30 interviews with retired Arkansas state employees, former state troopers and former Yale and University of Arkansas students. Like others, they refused to go public because of fears of retaliation from the Clinton White House.

C.R.E.A.M.

Sicking how this has unfolded for this poor girl. Just sick.

A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.

Houston/Poe

Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR

who can be surprised? even a “just” war is basically a collection of atrocities for which we feel there is, like, a really good reason. and this isn’t a just war

Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.

ABC News

They do this to a woman from Texas: makes you wonder what they do to women from Iraq.

The whole country of Iraq is being gang-raped. I am sympathetic towards this woman, but must question what she was doing in Iraq in the first place.

Link?

I added another source of the actual filing she did. Can’t find much information on this yet though besides forum/blog stuff.

they’re anally raping them over there so that they they don’t get anally raped over here

unfortunately, this is going to come up over and over again at trial and in media coverage of this incident.

$0 dollar bill destined for G.W. Bush's legacy
If Mr. Bush were to be enshrined on currency, this would be it.
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The joke’s alright, but the photoshop job isn’t worth the price of admission. I mean, the “Z” is a freakin’ “N” on its side.

Well I hope they make these and give them to Bush. As much of it as he’s put the US in debt, dollar for dollar. Then he’d know that he isn’t worth the paper that money’s printed on. Oh, and you can give two each for every idiot who voted for him twice. Call it a keepsake.

Shopped!

Wouldn’t it be just like the government to spend more money printing the bills than they’re worth…

found a link to the same image but real dollar size http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/1516/bushdollar …

Federal Reserve……………………Not.

No, his legacy will be thw 1 million dollar bill.

Monopoly money looks better than this shite.

Look for the FBI to raid the office for competing with federal currency.

And they say republicans don’t help! Let’s build levees out of the bills!

Yes, it’s a good idea, it was just executed poorly. If it was done deadpan it would have been wicked funny, but the whole “B4u votethink” is bad trollspeak.

I think Bush’s face should be on the 90 canadian cent American Dollar.

Machine Girl Trailer - Brightcove
High school girl, ninja, yakuza? a fucking drill bra! Instant win.

Want to comment?
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woah… what just happened..?

Where does she get all those wonderful toys?

It looked like Power Rangers meets Kill Bill with an extra dash of ridiculousness.

Fuck. Yes.

OMGWTFBBQ WIN! Seriously never see that coming…bloody gory.

Shop smart, shop S-mart.

defiantly needs a Jedi

only in Japan

Sweeet!! Hahaha

DRILL BRA. FLYING GUILLOTINE.

Crazy, bloody movie that reminds me of Grindhouse.

Holy sh1t!

um. yes!

Drill Bra.

After Grindhouse?

“Tool shed”

WTF? Classic.

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TED | Talks | Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind (video)
In a wide-ranging talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind. He talks about phantom limb pain, synesthesia (when people hear color or smell sounds), and the Capgras delusion, when brain-damaged people believe…

I have a little question: A person suffering from the Capgras Delusion is sitting beside their mother and looking at her; she is also speaking to them. Now, if the proper response is set off by voice recognition, does that brain area differentiate between a signal …
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Absolutely amazing. The whole 23 1/2 minutes felt like a few minutes of watching. I mean, he brought a simple solution to such a complex problem. It’s just 23 minutes of our life, but it’s probably the most informative 23 minutes we have experienced in quite sometime. Dugg for being informative and very interesting!

How does he explain the people with “water-brains”, there are some people people who have some 90% of their skull filled with some large cyst of liquid and they have only 10% of brain mass yet operate entirely normal?

Brilliant!! Somebody get this man a Guinness.

Did he learn English in Scotland?

If I were to buy one of his books, can anybody recommend one? (I’m sure they’re all good)

like the player and his name, Vilayanur Ramachandran

In a wide-ranging talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind.

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In a wide-ranging talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran explores how brain damage can reveal the connection between the internal structures of the brain and the corresponding functions of the mind.

A bit about how the brain works, especially as it relates to creativity and artistic inclinations.

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Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind

Vilayanur Ramachandran’s amazing talk on some of the curious things about the way brain functions and recent studies

How many of you noticed Sir Richard Branson at the end in the crowd?

He’s got the coolest Scottish/Indian accent I’ve ever heard. Well, the only.

I was struck by that too. The talk would be pretty interesting even without it though.

Oh, completely. I think it’d be worth it either way, even if the content wasn’t as interesting, his accent makes it, and vice versa.

Amazon.co.uk: M. Williams "Matt Wil...'s review of Bic Crystal ballpoint pen, medium point, b...
Nota entusiasta y emocionada de un usuario que compr? un bol?grafo bic
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Nota entusiasta y emocionada de un usuario que compr? un bol?grafo bic

I used it to sign three letters, and in each case was perfectly happy with the neatness of handwriting that I was able to achieve.

I would happily recommend this pen to anyone who is planning on writing on paper.

A funny review of a pen on Amazon

Cr?tica de un boli bic. Genial.

essay review of a boring big pen… what design/developers sometimes dream of happening that never does

It’s funny, cause he’s reviewing a commonplace household object, but with the kind of seriousness and tone usually reserved for higher price items!

All right, I’ll do that, but in the interest of full disclosure, I should probably say that my original comment was sparked merely by my having been a decent calligrapher at one time. I saw the word “quill” and got nostalgic.

a challenger appears

231 points in an hour? Hax much?

I have added the Bic Crystal ballpoint to my wish list based on that review.

Even a bit more unusual is what the people bought in addition to the pen. It would appear that the author “Og Mandino” is quite popular among pen aficionados.

guardedly optimistic: if taglines were honest
// iPod: Itll break in a year, but by then youll want the new one // Taco Bell: Youre drunk and were still open // PopTarts: Until you realize how disgusting they are, well keep making them //

Too funny!Facebook: Find all the people from your past you’ve been trying so very hard to forget.Blogger: We know you’re simple too.Wordpress: We ain’t Blogger.TheWeatherNetwork.com: If we were actually right sometimes, you’d be paying for this service.Google: Someda…
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i’m constantly amazed at the crap that makes the front page…..this isn’t even funny.

DMV: We enjoy pissing you off.

“iPod: Itll break in a year, but by then youll want the new one”

Oh, really? I guess mine’s defective then, because it’s two and a half years old and still carries an 18 hour charge. Maybe I should get my money back?

Microsoft: We’ll probably fix it on the next release or service pack
Federal Reserve: We’ll print more money until it’s worthless…

Reminds me of the movie Crazy People http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099316/
Favorite movie quotes:
“Forget France. Come to Greece - we’re nicer.”
“Metamucil. It helps you go to the toilet. If you don’t use it you get cancer and die.”
“Porche- Too small to get laid in, but you will get laid as soon as you step out”

Facebook: What’s privacy?

O que diriam as propagandas se elas dissessem a verdade

O que diriam as propagandas se elas dissessem a verdade.

? the Taco Bell one made me giggle out loud [via swissmiss]

“Taco Bell: Youre drunk and were still open.”

“Ben and Jerrys: Whoah, dude, did you eat that whole thing?”

Funny. Jack in the Box is my Taco Bell.

Usability is a Conversation
Making your site more usable is really the art of making it easy for visitors to do what you want them to do. Whether thats coming to grips with what your site is about, commenting, subscribing, contacting you or buying your product, usability gets results.

I also put up a contact page at about the same time. However, it was a placeholder for the contact form I was going to put in there. It did have a comment field… which someone used to query me about my rates for advertising on my blog. Unfortunately, she inc…
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Good article. Usability is ever more important in the Web 2.0 world where web applications are being used by more and more people who are not IT-savvy. Here’s a nice article that specifically talks about this subject: http://sketharaman.com/blog/?p=22

I’m not sure if conversation as a usability method really adds a lot of value. I think that the same thing is accomplished with cognitive walkthroughs, use cases, scenarios (w/personas), and storyboards (not to mention all of the different kinds of observations you could do). But, I guess if you find conversations easier and more natural, then so be it… at least you are thinking about your users!

Dugg for the blog being Skelliewag. One of my favorite blogs out there.

I’m the only one that thinks an article which questions site usability, does not give any sort of real information? This just says that you should make your site more usable. I wasted time with a completely non-usable article.

Great article, except for the terribly repetitious pictures of the strange woman.

This is making the assumption that the visitor can read and is willing to take the time to read. Sadly enough this seems to be less and less.

Top on Usability concept in Web Design

Making your site more usable is really the art of making it easy for visitors to do what you want them to do. Whether thats coming to grips with what your site is about, commenting, subscribing, contacting you or buying your product, usability gets res

Usability Tips

Making your site more usable is really the art of making it easy for visitors to do what you want them to do.
In this post, I want to discuss just how useful it is to think of your sites usability as conversational.

Making your site more usable

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More Than Fine: What Does Bioshock Have In Common With The Incredibles?
Intentional or not , both of them derive strong inspirations from Ayn Rand’s work. But where “Bioshock” illustrates the downfall of objectivism, “The Incredibles” spends most of its running time advocating it, to an extent that’s fairly shocking for a mainstream film. An exploration of the similarities and differences between the two.

vs.Digg this post by clicking here.[MAJOR SPOILERS for Bioshock and Incredibles to follow]On Thanksgiving Day, NBC broadcast the network premiere of “The Incredibles,” allowing me to watch the film in HD - a pretty great experience since there’s currently no other wa…
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Superheros are anti-Objectivism because they use their powers to help other, not just help themselves. Flawed and strange argument (esp the screenshot of Mr. Incredible “looking” like Atlas…Of course he does…he’s holding up a huge heavy object…that’s what humans look like when they do that…)

Jeez…Read much into stuff?

This discussion makes me want to jump back into Bioshock.

found this interesting. but the incredibles do not completely glorify that view. syndrome wasn’t allowed to be a hero because
1) mr incredible was blind to buddy’s abilities (which we come to see as a mistake later on)
2) Buddy was an inexperienced kid, and he does endanger a lot of people by interfering. But Bob also didn’t want his children involved. It was more of a “only adults” rule.
3) mr incredible seems frustrated with “greatness” because his own is being oppressed. i don’t think he’d be looking down on other people’s kids if he himself wasn’t chained. the movie does slightly show power to “normals”. Mirage becomes a redeemed character. Hell Cori even does an impressive job as babysitter in the short “Jack Jack Attack” (except for giving the baby to Syndrome)

You know, if I dwell really deeply on the little turd floating in my toilet, I too might find something in common with objectivism…wait, sorry…it’s just corn.

Who knew the Digg armchair quarterbacks would turn out to be secret objectivists?

Levine’s mistaken when he says there’s never been a game where you could catch a grenade and throw it back. Half-Life 2 allows you to catch grenades and send them back. Even Medal of Honor: Allied Assault allowed you to send grenades back.

Now, on the Incredibles, I have to admit that there’s a ton of objectivist imagery and messages in that movie. I’m glad the writer brought up the point of SSyndrome, and rather than being an anomaly, I think the objectivist message is simply more complex than he gives credit.

The movie does not simply or bluntly glorify objectivism. The primary message of Mr. Incredible’s story arc is his frustration with a world in which his “greatness” is squeezed into the realm of mediocrity. Without super strength, he, like his daughter, IS mediocre.

Syndrome, on the other hand, has a talent that allows him to blend into society and STILL excel. He actually does this when superheroes are outlawed. He’s arguably superior to Mr. Incredible, but Mr. Incredible cannot see him on terms other than jock-like “superpowers.” Syndrome is to him nothing but another mundane human, this time pretending to be exceptional.

Mr. Incredible represents the restrained exceptional, quietly lamenting his assimilation. Syndrome represents the enraged exceptional, angrily lashing out against his FAILED assimilation while seeking acceptance, perhaps worship, from the mundane.

In the end, it is a more pragmatic view to objectivism’s idealism. The exceptional resent restraint, and if they are accepted they will merely stew, but if they are shunned they will explode. The final solution to The Incredibles is “exceptional talent to the service of mankind.” It earns the exceptionals a place in society while earning them deserved respect. That’s right, The Final message is actually Socialism, not Objectivism.

Ayn Rand gets a workout.

The Incredibles, Ayn Rand and Bioshock: something for everyone!

^_^

Is There Really Such a Thing as Time Travel? Creepy!
The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged naval military experiment in 1943, in which the U.S. destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period of time. It is also referred to as Project Rainbow.
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Neat story it is portrayed as though its real enough. Good start for a sci-fi movie I’d say.

Too bad Preston Nichols is a fraud and a pedophile.

No evidence and no scientific argument. It is a waste of time. Get the hell off my digg.

don’t digg this. it’s like spreading stupidity.

WHOAH!! Conspiracy theorists read Digg too??!?!1

What a stupid conspiracy theory. They expect us to believe that after a disatrous experiment that killed and maimed all of the animals onboard… they did the exact same experiment again but with US sailors? Thanks for the chuckle, but I hope nobody is taking this seriously.

Only in New York! [10 pics]
Wow, just wow.
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As a native New Yorker, none of these pics really surprise me, we’ve all seen these people and a whole lot worse on a regular basis, the one of the guy on the hydrant, i’ve done like 100 times when im tired of waiting for the bus standing up

Definately New York, and that’s why I left.

Yes, that guy was knitting.

Oh man, I recognize the Port Authority Bus Terminal in that picture of the guy sleeping on the stairs. They have signs all over the place telling people they can’t sit on the stairs. There’s NOWHERE in that building to sit except eating establishments.

I hate it when people write stupid things like, “Only in New York”. That’s ridiculous. I live in NY and I’ve seen much crazier stuff in other countries.

The first picture of the carts happens often in Florida. No lie. Probably because half the people down here came from NY.

http://forumNYC.com - a lot more photos.

Astronomical Wallpapers
Collection of very interesting astronomical wallpapres, photos. (APOD)
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Most of these pictures just seem to be taken from Astronomy Picture of the Day.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071208.html.
http://getawallpaper.com/p-astronomical-9819-1/

For the archive of all the awesome astronomy pics.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Click on the “S” section.

Buried. Could be covert spam for site. And the site doesn’t work in Firefox well at all. And the wallpapers are low resolution compared to their sources.

Crappy resolutions.

interfacelift.com is much better, plus you can pick pictures for your screen res

most of the pictures are computer enhanced images, the colors are generated as well through so sort of software, its basically photoshop on the go

Collection of Astronomical wallpapers. Download 1024×768 and larger sizes of Astronomical backgrounds on your desktop free.

Hillary was Republican in High School, Oh My
Fists cocked in preparation for Maine South High School’s first mock election battle are, left to right, Hillary Rodham, director of the Republican organization, Matt Bunya, Democratic director, and Ellen Press, co-director of the Democrats. From Oct. 16, 1964 student newspaper “Southwords.
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Come on guys. Back in the 60’s Todays NE Liberals were Republicans. They were still leftists, and Strom Thurman was a Democrat back then too. You know the segregationist who secretly fathered a Black child:) Typical Conservative, do as I say, not as I do.

No shit. She campaigned for Barry Goldwater when he reinvigorated the GOP. Not exactly news unless you’ve been living under a rock for 30 years.

Seriously, am I the only one that doesn’t think this is any sort of a big deal?
People change their minds all the damn time, and as we grow older we concentrate on very different priorities than when we were young.

She went full circle now she is a communist, way to go!

So it’s somehow wrong to change one’s mind? The political field changes over time; only a moron would choose to be so mentally stagnant that they wouldn’t change right along with it. It’s called social evolution. Learn it and deal with it, but don’t troll about it.

The real revelation in this story is that Hillary was kind of cute in high school. Who knew?

Ok, goodie, more calls for “consistency.”

It’s pretty well-known that up till about her junior or senior year of college, she was a Goldwater Republican.

so. I think she is a twit, but i am pretty sure her college years were some time ago and it is pretty stupid to bring this stuff up.

ESPN - Favre starts as Grant, special teams help Pack win division - NFL Football Recap
The Green Bay Packers didn’t need Brett Favre to throw the ball all over the field to clinch the NFC North on Sunday, relying on the running of Ryan Grant and a pair of special teams touchdowns from Will Blackmon in a 38-7 victory over the Oakland Raiders.

Game notes Packers cornerback Charles Woodson and defensive end Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila returned from injuries after sitting out last week’s game. … Packers linebacker Nick Barnett was poked in the eye but returned to the game. Left tackle Chad Clifton…
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I wonder if Todd Marinovich or Tony Mandarich were at the game today.

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Congrats Green Bay, you might be another team the Patriots totally destroy on their way to another Super Bowl Championship.

Congrats Packers. Now that my Bears are officially crap this year, I’ll be rooting for you to represent the NFC North through the Playoffs and hopefully the Super Bowl…

Favre 4 MVP!!!

Me being from Minnesota its actually against the law to anything but hate the Packers. So far I’ve been a model citizen
Pick 7. Andre Peterson= steal

Green Bay didn’t need Brett Favre to throw the ball all over the field to clinch the NFC North on Sunday, relying on the rushing of Ryan Grant and a pair of special teams touchdowns from Will Blackmon in a 38-7 victory over the Oakland Raiders.

Female Judge: 10-year old Girl Probably Agreed to Gang Rape
9 males who pleaded guilty last month to gang-raping a 10-year-old girl at the Aurukun Aboriginal community on Cape York have escaped a prison term, with the sentencing judge saying the child victim “probably agreed” to have sex with them.
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I’m not clicking the DIG IT sign either..I find this disgusting a travesty of justice…even according to the laws in this insane Judges country. What was she thinking passing down this kind of judgment..just because they come from an aboriginal community everyone should close their eyes and ears and not listen to the injustice screaming in their faces??? C’mon…

No, she consented to sex, then regretted it the morning after and called it rape.

Women do it all the time.

wtf? one of them was 26? Those assholes deserve a life sentence.

Hey this girl got off lucky.
If this had happened in the middle east she would have been stoned to death because she should not have been in the company of those men anyway… even if that accompaniment meant being gang raped.

Well I for one just sent off a “you should be ashamed of yourself” email to this judge, and I would encourage others to do the same.

Also,
- The girl appears to be slightly mentally impaired
- She contracted an STD from the rape
- She was previously sexually abused, removed from her home and placed in foster care, and then returned to her original home again (apparently so this 9 person gang rape could occur).

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197 …

welcome to the new dark ages.

U.S. Government Subpoenaed Amazon.com to Obtain Book Purchasing Records
Newly unsealed court records have revealed that the U.S. government issued a subpoena to Amazon.com seeking to obtain the identities of customers purchasing books through the Amazon marketplace.

None of this is “fringe” information or conspiracy theory guesswork. Every statement made in this article is a matter of fact that’s easily verified through publicly-available records and news reports (not to mention common sense observation skills …
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WTF no seriously WTF!

Gov: we must act fast, the citizens are reading about “freedom” how can we fix it? Lets say they are terrorist, yeah, that will work!

I wonder if Amazon could just say “We ‘accidentally’ deleted them all”. I mean if it works for the White House it should work for anyone.

Old news in spam form! Who’s digging this?

This is the real object of the War on Terror - to make ordinary people more compliant.

I feel like a man without a country.

Sometimes I try to remember what it felt like to belong to a country where everyone was in it together, had similar beliefs, and would fight side-by-side defending liberty and each other. But maybe I was just younger when I felt that way and was too naive to really know the truth.

Has it always been this way?

check out senate bill 1959 which was passed by the house!

NY Times Advertisement
A scout leader who once sued the City of Berkeley for challenging a national Boy Scout ban on members who are gay or atheist has been arrested on felony charges that for at least five years he sexually abused young males in the troops he led.
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since when was it not gay to be in the boy scouts?

This only proves that gays are not born gay. They are made gay by being molested. How else would a gay gene be passed on if a gay person can not reproduce?

– This is an astonishingly stupid, hate-driven statement.

There is a maxim “You become what you hate.”

It’s just hilariously sad, and shitty for everyone. who knows what mental depths he plumbed? maybe he started obsessing on the “gay lifestyle” after he had his day in the Supreme Court, maybe he’s always been a hypocrite. maybe the kids were molested by their parents, and are accusing a more convenient target. maybe he’s a freakish little Nazi pedophile and has fooled everyone for years (like the Pope! ha ha!) there’s no way to judge without knowing more circumstances….if it was YOU being accused, you’d want more of your side told….
I’ll bet 50 bucks he’s a big “family values” voter, though. When this happens in the same way repeatedly, it indicates a pattern.
(see the last year, on an almost weekly basis, the parade of anti-gay “activists” getting busted having sex or paying for sex with men)

btw, Larry Craig called to offer some blustery denial and wants to meet with this guy, at some bar called “the leftmost stall in the 3rd story bathroom of the SF airport”.
I’m not too sure if that’s a real club or not…

PWNT!

Time and time again the most outspoken critics of homosexuals are in fact homosexuals themselves. Sen. Larry Craig, Rev. Ted Haggard….

Giant offshore wind farms to supply half of UK power
It could mean that wind farms would become visible from almost every point of Britains coast. Some developers have made clear that they would like to see a forest of turbines stretching up the North Sea, whose shallow waters make it relatively cheap and easy to develop.
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free video
http://sexytimenow.com

Love to see it happen.
They seriously need to built the supergrid.
http://www.airtricity.com/ireland/wind_farms/super …

The future electricity supply of Europe should stand on three pillars, Wind power from the west, Solar from the south and nuclear (eastern Europe for preference) but probably widely dispersed.
This is important stuff - the cost of a day without electricity would pay for thousands of megawatts of renewable power.
We should be doing this BEFORE the cheap oil, runs out. By the time we are down to burning bad coal to keep the lights on it will be too late.
I wish I had more confidence in our politicans.

Great idea but it will not work because what happens if the wind dies? The entirely of the UK would go through rolling blackouts. I’m definitely agree we NEED renewable energy but a grid can’t depend on 50% wind energy and still be considered reliable.

Dugg up for correct use of “offshore”!

Not sure why the IT sweatshops in land-locked Bangalore refer to themselves as being “offshore”. Oh wait, I think that statement just answered my question…..

If it brings down the price of electricity in the UK I am all for it.

How much does one of these bad boys cost? Never mind. Doesn’t matter.
Tell you what. Give me an entire ocean of them.
I’m using taxpayer money. It’s like real money, but not mine! So it is sorta’ free in that sense.

Then when the rest of the world causes the ocean levels to rise, their wind farm will be under that water.

The Meaning of Colour in Web Design
good reading about the meaning of colors in different countries

For most of us, a rainbow of colours envelopes our lives. Over 80% of visual information is related to colour.? What colours and combinations of colours stimulate people to be interested in different things? What colours make us feel pleasure or disapproval, ho…
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good reading about the meaning of colors in different countries

The Meaning of Colours

What do colors mean?

color

The meanings of colour in different cultures

Vick sentenced to 23 months for dogfighting - CNN.com
Michael Vick, once one of the highest paid players in the National Football League, was sentenced to 23 months in prison for financing a dogfighting ring and helping to kill pit bulls that did not fight aggressively.

Prosecutors also have disclosed the extent of Vick’s financial ruin. According to court documents, the Atlanta Falcons are attempting to recoup bonus money from his 10-year, $130 million football contract, Vick is in default on a $1.3 million bank loan for a wine sto…
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How bloodthirsty many of you have revealed yourselves to be. We have become so used to throwing societies mistakes in jail that we now are demanding more than 2 years of a mans freedom because he provided funds that allowed dog fighting to take place? What is wrong with us?

I am sorry but he doesn’t deserve a 23 month sentence. We have child rapist who get probation and serve no jail time. Also to put things in prospective we kill animals all the time for human consumption. I agree that he should serve some time in jail but nearly two years? C’mon.This is just so wrong.

Bye bye bitch!
Think twice next time you wanna run with yer gangsta lyfestyle!

That’s it?

this is some bull. other nfl players get the punishment of a 2 or 3 game suspension for beating their wive’s. im pretty sure abusing your wife is more severe than hurting or killing an animal. yeah he deserves jail time, but 23 months?
fuck that shit

If Michael Vick gets 23 months for arranging dog fights, how long should your Vince McMahon be locked away for due to his arranging of fights between Men under the auspices of the WWF/WWE? Do you also agree that Joe Rogan should face some time in gaol for his participation in bloody UFC bouts?

It’s striking that he’s suffering so much for this financially. Not that it’s not deserved, but usually there seem to be no consequences for the wealthy (cf Enron).

AdBlock for Safari 3 with Leopard support.
This is the first Safari 3 AdBlock plugin that I have found to have support for Leopard.
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why it won’t have support for 10.4.x users?

Nice.

They need to work on porting this to the Windows Safari community.

sweet, this means i don’t have to use a stylesheet for ad blocking!

Awesome. Now if only they had a DownThemAll plug-in…

How is this any different than the default “Block Pop-Up Windows” option that Safari already has?

I have that enabled, it blocks all pop-up adds.

I’m not dissing this app… i’d really like to know.

10.5

LiveLeak.com - Kids can move his Brain....nice
A Scottsdale teen who suffered a severe head injury makes light of his trauma by showing of his “brain wave”.
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An ad inquired if I was “hunting for brain damage”. Yes. Yes I was.

I know that kid. He got injured in a long-boarding accident accident in Arizona a couple months ago. The video was taken yesterday before his schools football championship game. His school won, but the sad part is, is that he used to play for the football team but since his accident he could only watch from the sidelines. And that interviewer is Brad Cesmat from news Channel 3 in Arizona

If he sneezes really hard, do you think it could leak out his ear? That would be cool.

he must be a hit with the chicks.

Hrm… Temporal muscle moving, I’m impressed…

Hey, buddy, what’s on your mind? Nothing?

What. The. Fuck.

F1 Bans Engine Developement! WTF
Is this the End? F1 Bans Engine Development for 10 Years
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id assume its to keep companies in the game that don’t have the same budget as other teams. after all, if only a few can spend the extra millions to keep an edge, eventually others will just drop out.

This is actually quite smart for the sport. It means the teams will be focusing much more time and energy on the chassis and their driver’s skill than on the motor.

Why stop there? F1 should ban racing!

Well, I’m no expert and here is my uneducated guess based purely on paranoia and conspiracy theory. There were green changes coming down the pike (or noise of) for F1 such as either sustainable fuels, hybrid, or even all electric.

NASCAR got it’s start by moonshiners souping up their jalopies. Why not treehuggers start souping up sustainable cars? Or building their own racers using sustainable electric (wind/solar) powered and/or biofuel powered cars.

Reign in the age of rocket racing! And not the redbull bullshit…

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Daily Kos: Huckabee is a nightmare for the GOP [POLL]
Huckabee rocketing up the primary polls is a disaster for the Republican party? His rise reveals deep flaws in their Big Tent and their 2008 presidential field?

The problem for the GOP is they can’t really take down Huckster because most of the things that are so crazy about him actually help him with the evangelical base. Even the rape-murderer he pushed let go can be spun that he thought the guy changed from being ‘born a…
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