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Awesome.
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Pretty funny flow chart!
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My grandfather Mark Prophet started a nice lil' cult before he died.
His 2nd wife — after he left my grandmother — took over his religious organization, The Summit Lightouse.
He died in 1973.She has now passed on. The future of the cult is probably somewhat uncertain now.
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When the internet goes away… After the riots stop… This is what the world will look like.
EPIC PHOTO SET!!!
Search Results for 'iphone'
Did you find what you wanted ?
October 26, 2009
October 4, 2009
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If this was a joke, it would be pretty funny. [update: I guess I was wrong, because this is a joke, and I still don't really find it funny.] But instead, this is what Apple users apparently pay for. I doubt anyone would purchase a standalone calculator that does this — but throw Apple’s name on it and people will buy it like crazy. Which is exactly the type of sheepism I hate. People lining up to be treated like children… [update: However, in this case, it's actually a satirical joke about people being treated like children, so Apple users are now lining up to be treated like Apple users as a part of a joke. This whole thing is pretty self-referential, which at least makes it interesting.]
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The people who are least likely to let us exercise our fair use rights are the corporations. But after that? The estates of famous dead artists. They’d rather trample on our rights and suppress their work from being quoted, than let people use their Fair Use rights.
The irony is — the more people quote your book, the more other people may hear about it, become interested, and buy it. So it’s really a case of dumbasses shooting themselves in the foot, as usual.
September 17, 2009
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I want to know what operation they had to perform on her afterward!
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This must be some of the "good moral guidance" that can't exist without religion. The religion apologists are always quick to point out that the bible provides a framework for the discussion of morals.
Yeah..and outdated framework. Which aggregated does more harm than good. Proof's in the pudding. Almost every terrorist is religious-influenced, and it looks like we can blame higher teen birth rates on religion too.
Abstinence works about as good as prohibition works. As in, not really.
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Ahh Germany. Yet another country I'd never dream of living in in my entire life. Rising Neo-Nazi movements, and censorship a plenty. A video game company is going to have to relocate to another country out of fear of prosecution.
It's bad enough that they have to convert red blood to green blood. C'mon. Consenting adults activity being regulated in privately owned establishments is BAD BAD BAD. You want to keep kids from playing games? Ban that. Don't ban the games. Fucking retarded.
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Like most rights, they must be exercised to continue to exist. So do your job as a patriotic american, and flick off a cop today!
I hope Mr. Hackbart does not settle, but instead gets a big fat legal precedent set.
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Old article. This is a good way of taking the advantage of Ebay [auctions], combining it with the cost of CraigList [free], and all thanks to Google.
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"Allegedly". They also found "suspected" cocaine in his locker. This guy was transferred after numerous complaints that he was stealing cash from drug dealers. So they sent in an undercover cop. And he stole from him.
It's so easy to find bad cops; there should be more operations like this, run everywhere. Of course the police union has complained about them in the past. (And of course when a cop beats an undercover cop — like Jerome K. Hill — he still gets away with it.)
As for the war on drugs: It cannot be won. There are drugs in every prison; there are drugs being carried around by cops. Certain aspects of human nature cannot be overcome via mere executive power. In general, prohibitions don't work and waste society's resources.
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Obviously you should be able to get the information in the computers in the car THAT YOU OWN. Another way in which the advent of technology was used to take away rights.
Consumer rights are a big threat in the technological world — just look at how people with an iPhone can't even use what they want to use on it.
Since these issue are "hard" to understand (ooh, technology, so hard!), they fly past the general public without notice.
It's nice for Massachusetts to finally take note and stand up for consumer rights and propertyholder rights. It's YOUR car. You should have full access to whatever diagnostic info YOUR computer in YOUR car has to offer you and YOUR mechanic.
September 15, 2009
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Yet again, those who choose to buy a device that they don't have total control over — end up paying for a device that cancels its own features.
Not everyone cares about tethering, but as someone who doesn't own a cellhphone, like hell would I pay for a phone that disables things it's capable of doing. Hell, this smells of anti-competitive behavior to me.
Either way…. I was an Apple fanboy in the 1980s, but now I laugh at what the crowd pays itself to be subjected to.
I'd rather have a $50 phone that does everything it can do than a $300 phone that doesn't do everything it can do — because some company decided to disable my feature. Wow.
Defective by design.
August 22, 2009
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That's pretty funny that even Jobs is unwilling to put up with his own company's restrictions. Talk about hypocrisy!
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This mentally-disabled woman (hit by a truck on her prom night) has a plate in her shoulder making it impossible to move her arm behind her back and shows her medic ID to prove it.
Not surprisingly, Officer Nicholas G.Parks tasing her once, twice, even 3 times doesn't doesn't change this. He repeatedly ignores her pleas to look at her medic ID card which explains her conditions.
The charges against her were dropped and the city settled her lawsuit for $65K.
Due to her mental disability, she doesn't even remember it happening. She likes to hula hoop in the median of a road while playing a radio. Of course, radios are bad because they make noise, and everyone's right to quietness trumps anyone's right to make noise, even tho the natural state of activities IN THE MIDDLE OF A ROAD is for lots of cars with noisy engines to drive by.
I wonder how this would play out in other societies?
Full size video at http://hamptonroads.tv/hrtv.php?id=2353850
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That's…. really awesome.
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Nice that they point out that the U.S. government has a patent on cannabinoids as neuroprotectants, despite not wanting people to use pot because it "damages your brain". (Which actually isn't true, but alcohol does. Oh sweet irony.)
Anyway, these results are not surprising given the Israeli study a few years ago that showed that marijuana exposure after being exposed to nerve gas helps mitigate the brain damage of being exposed to nerve gas. 'Cause, y'know, Israeli thinks about nerve gas attacks more than we do.
This also explains why some people have the urge to smoke up after a long night of drinking.
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Update on the last link. It's not just pot they decrminalized. Opium, cocaine, heroin, LSD, meth, ecstacy… all included.
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This is pretty damn big news.
Mexico's been having several thousand deaths — way more than 9/11 — every year due to trying to stomp out drugs. It's not working. Now they're giving up.
The tide is inevitable. Prohibitions do not work, and marijuana is less harmful than alcohol, cigarettes, and prescription drug abuse.
Looks like Mexico vacations are about to get more interesting…
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I didn't expect one of my flickr pictures to show up HERE. Hahaha!
August 11, 2009
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Capitalism? My ass!
If you can only sell via licenses by the government, that is not a free market.
Officer Richard Garcia? Douchebag. You made an 8 year old girl shut down a lemonade stand. You're a waste of taxpayer money, and a waste of space. Please go become a rent-a-cop at a mall somewhere. You'll do more good there.
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People will whine that he should have done whatever they said. He was guilty of the non-existent "contempt of crime" that police hate so much.
He was exercising his rights. And rights don't exist if you can't use them without being tased.
Prediction: He will win a hefty settlement for doing the right American thing.
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5 states will put you on a sex offender list for seeing a prostitute!
One woman is a sex offender because she let her daughter have sex in the house (they later married)!
There are more people on sex offender lists than the population of Vermont, North Dakota, or Wyoming!
This isn't working. Nevermind the fact that violent crime is at an all time low in the history of mankind; laws that increase in scope decrease in effectiveness.
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What?! My high school physics teacher Mr. Linz DID survive his medical situation. And he wrote a book about it! Never would have found out if not for a random flickr comment from someone I didn't know who also had Mr. Linz as a teacher.
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A pretty compelling article from someone who gave up the iPhone. Sounds like Google Voice is a better solution: You can have all your phones ring simultaneously. Does that work with landlines too? Screw having multiple numbers!
August 3, 2009
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He's been married to his wife for 10 yrs, and has 2 kids with her. But those kids are deprived of income everytime he gets fired when his coworkers find out he's on a sex offender list — for having sex with his wife back when he was 19 and she was 14. Of course, now he's 34 and she's 29–which is less of an age difference than many couples I know. Considering the only person who was "harmed" is now married to him, exactly who is being protected by him being on a sex offender list?
A murderer doesn't even go on a list!
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Withholding a refund unless you sign a gag order? Despicable. Most certainly not "hip" or "cool".
I love the commentary: "Well, at least they're not Microsoft, or something." Indeed, they've seemingly become bigger dipshits than Microsoft. Which is quite an achievement.
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It's about time!
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…Because when children are involved, all bets are off the table.
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A friend of mine gets arrested and held in jail for two nights — for no real reason. Called a "sand nigger" by police, arrested for no reason without rights read, and held for 2 nights before being released. Arrested on a warrant for a white man, even though he is not white.
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Good. The idea of paying for a piece of hardware that a company then cripples is ridiculous. Let's hope for some antitrust intervention here.
And google voice isn't even real VOIP, it only uses it on the back end. The call from the headset to Google Voice is a normal phone call.
Ahh, Apple. Way greedier than Microsoft has ever been. Which is saying something.
July 25, 2009
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What an idiot! Maybe veterans should have some rigorous mental screening?
This guy totally hallucinated that he was shot, said "I'm hit", fell to the ground, and started shooting…
…Except he wasn't shot, they didn't have a gun, and he was full of shit.
All over a broken taillight.
How about we just photo broken taillights and send people a picture, like with speeding cameras? I mean, if we're going to shoot at couples over broken tail lights… Jesus.
The real irony being — this guy may very well just be fucked in the head, and he's getting a felony. Meanwhile, cops who are mean just because they want to be mean are often NOT charged. Sighs…
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They tout the encryption like it's worth something — but police will get unfettered access to your data, as can any skilled hacker in 2 minutes. And these are being used in the military? Scary.
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A review of Ween's Dewey Beach show, which was after the Baltimore show we went to. Several people I know went to Dewey Beach to catch them a 2nd time, and we were even asked if we had Dewey Beach tickets for sale by people in the Baltimore parking garage.
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Yup. Even on an island nation, drugs cannot even be kept out of a prison. So in a health bid, they are installing methodone vending machines inside prisons.
This should tell you something about how unwinnable the drug war is.
July 9, 2009
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Real nice vulnerability.
Wait! I thought everything Apple was magically secure, and viruses and pwnings were only for windows lusers?
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Pretty amazing flash-optical illusion!
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Why do people say racism is mostly dead? It’s definitely not; it’s just suppressed!
Then there’s the comments…
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While this is technically t just a rehash of old Guitar Hero songs — these songs now have the full band (a la Rock Band) treatment — drums, bass, vocals, and guitar. Whereas previously, they were guitar only. So this game has value!
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THIN BLUE LINE: Miami Cop Adam Tavss, who shot 2 people 4 days… is in the same department as Juan E. Mendez, who has had 92 complaints against him for abusive treatment, excessive force, discourtesy, and missing property — but is still a copJust how many complaints does it take to get a cop fired? Infinity? How many people does a cop have to kill? Nevermind that there are those present who say the last 2 shootings — which happened within 4 days of each other — were both against unarmed people.
I’d like to see Sgt. Juan E. Mendez permanently reduced to desk duty. Want to serve? Fine. But once you get 92 complaints and shoot 4 people, it’s time to rotate someone new in.
He has been cleared in his 4 shootings, of course — including one that left a man paralyzed, and another where he severely beat an off-duty Miami-Date cop, as well as one where there were 100s of protesters calling it cold-blooded murder.
And then there’s the fact that he has wasted about $1.5M in taxpayer money due to lawsuits. How about we employ cops that don’t waste our tax money?
Then there was the time he was booked & jailed on with 2 felonies, including falsifying a report to cover it up.
Or that time they continued beating a suspect in jail.
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A site dedicated to pictures of people flicking you off / giving the bird / showing their middle finger / “Fuck you!”. The owner contacted me and asked to use some of my pics. I told him they were Creative Commons; no need to ask.
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Nevermind that we live in a democracy, and a referendum was passed by voters (69%). Bob Barr, former-Republican now-Libertarian, blocked the official counting of the votes, even though he wasn’t even a D.C. representative/senator. How’s THAT for democracy?
Looks like we’re moving closer to making it actually happen.
JoAnn Emerson – Missouri Republican – go to hell and stay out of DC business.
June 25, 2009
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To be fair, his character just hit level 80.
Even if this is fake, it's kind of funny.
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DAMN good point. You can resell your CD — though the record stores did of course fight used CD sales and try to band them. But First Sale Doctrine says that once you buy something, it's yours, and nobody can tell you what to do with it. This was established long ago, back when copylords tried to stop the resale of books.
So why can't you resell an mp3 you legally bought? Especially since the RIAA says that an unauthorized download is just like stealing a cd?
It's funny how their logic changes. It's like a CD if you download it illegally, but it's not like a CD when you want to resell it. Hypocrites must die.
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I wonder if as many people would think he was a scumbag if he wasn't impeached?
He sounds like a racist, intolerant, homophobic bastard. Ahh, Republicans.
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I hadn't heard about these guys.
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If anyone knows where to get Season 2… Let me know…
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Yay, the Democrats are so much better than the Republicans! Rah rah! Our team will win!
(That was sarcasm.) (And yes, I realize this guy is a Republican. But if Obama is planning to appoint a pro-Bush Administration-wiretapping person to be in charge of protecting our privacy… It looks like we got another thing coming.)
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…which they are required to give. But didn't. Bullshit charges filed, which were of course dropped. But that didn't stop the police from taking away 8 days or freedom from law-abiding citizens using b.s. charges. No judge, no jury, no sentence — the cops get to do it all, here.
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An extremely tech-savvy friend's recount of his experiences owning an iPhone.
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If you're an off-duty cop doing it in a way that even your department finds is a violation of policy — you get a 20 day suspension. No jail. No charges.
It must be great to be above the law. Sgt. Bryan Selzer of Jacksonville, Florida, sounds like a real asshole.
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There are so many different things wrong with this!
West Virginia seems to have some backwater good ol' boy cops. Like Deputy Jeffery Robinette and "Deputy Carter".And as usual, when police beat someone, they often file charges against the person they beat, to cover their ass in court. And such charges are almost always dropped, like they were in this case.
June 23, 2009
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Another article about The Church, who we are seeing live very very soon now.
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“It’s getting kind of rapey in here. Let’s go tour some other country, honey.”
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Ahh, the joys have owning hardware that has a nanny company tell you what you can and cannot do with it. The Apple crowd has succeeded in making most of society’s portable devices be controlled by a central authority.
Imagine if everyone wanted a certain brand of TV, and the company that made that TV got to choose which shows you want.
There’s really no difference between the 2 situations. But somehow the Apple crowd eats the iPhone up.
Yea, it does some neat stuff. But any device that cannot live up to its potential — cannot truly live up to its hype, either.
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As if we didn’t know this already — but hopefully this will help put a nail in the coffin of people who are still, do this day, screaming “Iraq had WMDs! The war was justified!”
The only possible justification for the Iraq war would be to remove Saddam, something we promised the Iraqis when the 1st Bush invaded Iraq the first time. Then we left our “allied” forces in the dust to be killed by Saddam’s forces, and let sanctions kill millions of Iraqis over the next decade. Real nice.
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And after the Taliban held him for 18 months, we held him for 7 yrs. Who did more evil against him? The US, not the Taliban. Who denied his rights longer? The US, not the Taliban. It’s amazing that there are still people out there who support this “enemy combatant” made-up legal bullshit, and support Guantanamo and torture as well.
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Why were the officers telling him to drop the soda anyway?
Shoplifting?
What, shoplifting carries a death sentence now?
Would love to know the full story, but I don’t need it to know this is completely unjustified.Anyone want to claim that pre-taser they would have shot him?
Didn’t think so.Hey Karl — next time be a man, take a risk, and wrestle the guy down instead of being a taser-wielding coward. If you’re still scared, wear a bullet proof vest.
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He also filed charges against her to cover his ass (battery on an officer — when he hospitalized her?), but guess what? ALL CHARGES WERE DROPPED.
Inevitable lawsuit ensues. Let’s hope she wins. Not signing a ticket is NOT a taserable offense. Tasers were introduced as an alternative to guns. If you’re telling me that pre-taser, he would have shot her — you’re crazy.
Officer Jerry Davenport: You’re a douchebag. What kind of person writes 3 speeding tickets, anyway? Have fun with the lawsuit, asshole.
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Yes, ASCAP. The folks who sued the Girl Scouts for singing around campfires.
The folks who made it so most restaurants sing a stupid song instead of Happy Birthday, because Happy Birthday is copyrighted. (even though the people who created it are DEAD, and the song wasn’t copyrighted until decades after its existence)
The folks who claim “protect the artists”, but cannot possibly know how to dole out the money to the artists, since a) there’s no records of what songs are played everywhere, and b) many of the artists are DEAD.
Hey — My dad wrote computer code. Can I buy the royalties to that? Maybe everytime computer code that my dad or his dad runs, I should get royalties? Did your great-grandfather paint a house? Maybe everytime someone looks at that house, you should make money.
They also sue karaoke bars. And now ringtone makers. Nevermind that you paid for the ringtone — You didn’t pay ASCAP a license to publicly perform that ringtone! YOU PIRATING SCUM! YOU MUST HATE ART!
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If the victim wasn’t a cop, and this happened in Carl Sain’s jurisdiction — you can be pretty sure the victim would have been the one arrested.
But when you beat a police chief with a witness — YOU get arrested.
Officer Carl Sain is an idiot! You don’t go beating people because you feel like it! That makes you a CRIMINAL. You are sworn to uphold the LAW. Carl Sain should now face the same police brutality he feels that he can dole out.
Testosterone-driven male jealousy is so ugly.
And this guy was named North Chicago Police Officer of the year. Mostly because bad cops tend to get awards to try to detract from their bad behaviour. And also because Chicago is a particularly brutal area, police-wise.
Scum like this is what we pay cops to put behind bars!
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I love all the people who put up the bullshit anti-universal-healthcare propaganda posts, only to be shot down by people who live in other countries. International forums rule! Good comments here!
We’ve reached the point in our civilization where it’s time to make sure everyone can get care. We already spend more of our GDP on health care than most countries do — despite the fact that those countries give it to everybody, and our Medicare/Medicaid systems only give it to the elderly and those on welfare.
American Health Care = a big fail.
Though it’s great if you have more money than everyone else — it’s the best system to use if you’re rich.
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Despicable. Let’s make everyone a terrorist.
Here’s the “report”: http://www.dhrm.virginia.gov/workerscomp/presentations/safetyday2004/CrisisControllAssessPotentialThreatViolence.pdf
If you make graffiti for a political purpose — you’re a terrorist. (pg 22)
If you practice civil disobedience, like the civil rights movement in the 1960s — you’re a terrorist.
Narcotics? You’re a terrorist (p.34)
In a gun rights or tax protest group? You’re a terrorist (p.49)
Don’t like globalization, world trade, or military? You’re a terrorist (p.50)
Do you have lots of visitors or like your privacy? You might be a terrorist (p.67-8)And if the Democrats have their way, no one on any watchlist will be able to own a gun, even though that’s a constitutional right and a necessary check & balance.
It’s like people ignored everything Thomas Jefferson ever said…
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How exactly is shooting an unarmed person car-to-car self-defense anyway?
I wonder what the family of Ronald Jamison Jr. thinks about how their tax dollars are spent. Paying Donny Aaron to kill someone for parking.
It all started because the cop got mad that he parked “on or near” his property. Wow. Certainly sounds like yet another road-rage cop incident to me.
So in the land of the free, you can get a taxpayer-funded death sentence for parking somewhere a cop doesn’t like. Good to konw.
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I tried this out and got my fan to shut the fuck up for at least 5 minutes so far :)
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Cracked sure makes funny lists!
May 21, 2009
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Yes!!! From PFFR, the makers of Wonder Showzen, Xavier:Renegade Angel, and several albums of music… A second season of the fake-reality-show Delocated — which explores the premise of "What if people in the witness protection program were so stupid as to star on a reality TV show while the Russian mafia is trying to kill them?"
PFFRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Also notable for being one of the VERY FEW live-action shows on AdultSwim (and thus a non-cartoon on Cartoon Network).
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This was one of the few things the Bush Administration did that was right, correcting the status during the Clinton Administration. Very pleased to see that the Democrats aren't voting strictly on party lines here.
As much as liberals hate to admit it, carrying a PERSONAL firearm has been reaffirmed by the Supreme Court, over and over again, as being a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT.
Our tax dollars paid for parks. You don't shed your constitutional rights when you enter a park!
This makes even more sense when you consider that parks are inherently more dangerous than cities or suburbs, because there are woods and wild animals (including human rapist animals). The right to life and liberty most certainly includes the right to self-defense. Self-defense is even more important than the 1st Amendment. I'd rather stop someone from killing me than speak my mind.
This is also a Technology War victory, as the people have been granted the same technological rights (gun use) as the government.
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A picture from the FailBlog that contains a Ween CD cover!
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Since my car was made in 1992, I have no experience with this. I had no idea the auto industry had become so corrupt as to obfuscate information on what's wrong with your car! No wonder Detroit is an empty shithole not deserving of any bailout whatsoever!
Ralph Nader — back to actually helping people with real issues that threaten industries, unlike the Republicans and Democrats.
DRM on my own car? When will people realize that when they buy something, they should have full rights over that something? I guess the iPhone's popularity says a lot about THAT.
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Seriously though… wtf? FUNNY PICTURE.
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Religion doesn't stop people from being bad.
Atheism doesn't stop people from being good.But powerful organizations? That power is ALWAYS abused.
And people wonder why I don't want a one world government?!?!?!
"The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, which examined evidence dating back to the 1930s, found the sexual abuse of children was "endemic" in boys' institutions.
"Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the next beating was coming from," said the ****2,500-page**** report, released on Wednesday."
Wow. 2500 pages! This organization has facilitated rape, murder, beatings, and genocide for 2,000 years, all in the name of fictional sky fairies who are vain and send people to eternally suffer. Fuck that God, and fuck that religion.
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What the fuck? Of course the officer's names have been protected, even though when civilians get in trouble, their names appear in public arrest reports regardless of whether they are innocent or guilty. Funny how that works. The Balitmore Police department really has no idea where it's officers are? They don't have tracking on their vehicles in this day and age?
Of *course* the victim was black…
According to police, the neighborhood has been targeted for stepped-up drug enforcement. And I know that's code for "harass black people". Prepare for a lawsuit victory, and prepare for the cops involved to get away with it. Though maybe they wont this time; this is pretty bad.
Video interview included.
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So much for socialism, huh? Except socialized roads are what has helped knit America together. The interstate system has done worlds for commerce (and road trips). If all roads become toll roads, guess who will be able to freely move the most? The rich. Yes, dividing classes is what we need. Thanks, Obama.
I like how most cyberpunk sci-fi depictions of the future do not allow free movement and have huge swaths of poor people. Could this possibly be why that started?
I remember VA trying to put toll booths in the middle of the beltway. As if the traffic isn't bad enough without everyone being forced to stop!
Thanks for the change and hope, Obama Administration. I'm actually pro-socialism for basic things, like education (which is socialized), roads (which are too, except for toll roads), and medicine (which is in every OTHER industrialized country). Funny how the one time I WANT the Obama administration to be socialist, it isn't.
2 parties == no hope.
May 12, 2009
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Once again, iPhone consumers have paid to be treated like a child. Even if I decided an iPhone would be a useful piece of hardware for me, I'd never ever pay to have a virtual mommy and daddy tell me what I can and cannot do and view on my own hardware! Wake up!
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So Google/YouTube is definitely censoring Alex Jones simply because they don't like what Alex Jones has to say, politically. EXTREMELY un-american. They've abandoned the pretense of copyright infringement and are now suspending Alex Jones videos completely.
They've also worked with the cult of Scientology to remove videos critical of scientology.
YouTube is rapidly becoming a very non-neutral platform. Say "whatever you want", as long as it doesn't piss off corporate interests.
MySpace is at it too — if you send an Alex Jones related link through MySpace, it's not clickable. Clicking it doesn't take you to the link, it takes you back to MySpace. I've tried it. You have to physically copy and paste the link text, NOT click on it, for it to work.
You gotta love living in a country that has free speech, but where the biggest megaphones around (i.e. YouTube) are regulated by corporate and political interests.
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1) Printing the New York Times costs twice as much as it would for the paper to send every subscriber a free Amazon Kindle.
2) Newspapers hurt the environment.
3) Just because newspapers go away doesn't means sources will.
4) The newspaper industry is not even close to "too big to fail". 0.2% of the nation's labor force, 0.36% of the GNP.
5) Newspapers think google is a parasite
6) Death of newspapers does not equal death of journalism!
…and more reasons cited at the article.No, the government should not be propping up old industries anymore than the government should be subsidizing SUVs and gas hogs. Times are a changin'. Scribbling news on pieces of dead trees did not even make sense to me in the 1990s!
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A 4 episode live-action AdultSwim-produced soap opera parody involving Jesus Christ (played by a 30-40 yr fat guy), the Virgin Mary (who's actually pretty horny), Joseph, and Judas. Quite ridiculous. Mary wont have sex with Joseph because she's still having sex with God on the side. God wants a threesome, but not with Joseph. So God, Mary, and the Devil are about to have a threesome when Jesus walks in.
Yes. This is good stuff. It reminds me of some of PFFFRs productions in a way, like Delocated.
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Protected by the thin blue line, you can even abuse people WHILE ON VIDEO and still remain above the law. Scott Crawford should be fired and imprisoned, and should not have the power to imprison you or me!
Four cops held a man down, beat him, and tasered him — because he accidentally bumped into their girl friend while playing in a pool tournament. Pigs!
This isn't the first time he's been a cop somewhere. And even if he gets fired, he'll just lie and apply to another police department — like he did this time. And he'll probably get hired, too. The only way to stop people like this is to convict them!
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The man jumped/fell out of a 2nd storey building, landed and was hit by a car, wandered around asking for help while naked and bleeding. And when the police arrived, they tazered him to death.
Excited delirium my ass. That term basically means "death by cops, but blame it on the victim for being too excited to survive the police's statement".
Something was definitely wrong with him. He needed help, not a murder.
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They made one inmate rub his penis on the sandwich, and another eat it. They filmed it too, which will hopefully ultimately be their undoing. But do you think they'll actually get jail time for this? Anyone abused as an inmate deserves to go through the "experience" of being an inmate themselves. Hopefully long enough that they'll get abused (but that shouldn't happen).
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PART OF HIS BRAIN HAD TO BE SURGICALLY REMOVED. How did the officers describe it in the police report? Both departments described the injuries as minor–little more than a bloody nose and a bump on his forehead.
He never emerged from his coma.
He went into diabetic shock, and was mistaken for a drunk driver. And killed for being mentally incompetent with the police.
The police should be paying out no less than $10M for cases like this. There are TONS of diabetics in this country. And people going diabetic shock are NOT cooperative. You don't fucking beat them so hard they go into a coma and have to have parts of their brain removed!
The 5-mile car chase doesn't make the case as easy to win, but it shouldn't make a difference. Running from the cops does NOT constitute a capitol offense.
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According to the lawsuit, Allan Ray went to the Howard County jail in Nashville to post bond for an employee who'd been arrested April 28, 2007. While sitting with his wife and the employee in the waiting area, Ray reportedly said, "The badge weighs heavy on some of these young troopers," according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims that Trooper John Lynch was so offended that he arrested Ray on suspicion of disorderly conduct and public intoxication. Ray's attorney claims that his client was not drunk, and that the trooper also used pepper spray on Ray.
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Wow. Last I checked, this is america and you can say whatever the fuck you want. And there are cameras in the police station. Let's see the video of just how "disorderly" he was!
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During the investigation by Orlando Police, Davis was allegedly verbally abusive toward officers. While filling out a statement, he told police, "next time he would kill them and leave the bodies for us to clean up on his lawn," an officer wrote in a report.
Wow.
This guy was investigated for disorderly conduct in 2006, and arrested in 2007. WHY IS HE STILL A COP? The thin blue line. They protect their own.
But fortunately, if you say "next time I'll kill them" in an OFFICIAL statement, the cops really have no choice but to fire you.
And what is this about? The War On Noise and parties. The fact that people think they have a right to sit in unnatural silence while living in a populated area with a constitutional right to peacefully assemble. Noise is not an absence of peace. The tyrrany of the majority of those who sleep during the night has always been an affront to freedom. Can night-shift workers stop their neighbors from mowing their lawn during the day? Nope. Double-standard.
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Apple products = pay for a nanny to tell you what to do with Apple products.
I'd pretty much rather own anything by anyone else than Apple, at this point. Microsoft doesn't pull shit like this.
How many people are going to be misled into thinking bittorrent means illegal? Bittorrent is a vehicle, like a car. You carry whatever you want in a vehicle. Your car can carry drugs, or that can be taking your kids to school. Imagine if Apple owned the roads and said you couldn't drive cars on them, because they might have drugs on them?
That's how ridiculous this is. Yet another reason why buying Apple products is equivalent to taking away your personal choice.
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The reason? "911". Yup, the terrorists won. You can't even photograph something happening in front of you without getting hauled to a police station. By what right did they have to arrest him? He should sue.
May 5, 2009
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You show 'em, trent! Apple = Nanny.
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Much like the furor over the Fitna movie — how dare one compare Islam to violence — there is furor over this [Jewish] professor's emails, comparing Israel's treatment of Gaza to Hitler's treatment of the Jews.
Of course the Jewis Anti-Defamation League has told him to "unequivocally repudiate it". How dare anyone make a valid comparison? How dare a professor exercise free speech?
And we wonder why our politicians support Israel, when its own claimed borders aren't even recognized by international law — the lobby against them is too strong. This professor committed thoughtcrime, and now he's being investigated for it.
I think the pictures speak for themselves. The same horrors that were unleashed upon the Jews during the Holocaust have been unleashed on the Gazans by Israel. Anyone who doesn't want to admit that is pulling the wool over their own eyes.
On the professor's side is The Committee To Defend Academic Freedom as well as Noam Chomsky.
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I'm pretty sure if I caused a cop to get 10 stitches ON HIS TONGUE, that I'd be charged with assault. Funny how that doesn't work in the opposite direction. Will officer Adam Siegfried continue to work as thug after acting like one? Probably.
It's amazing that even with witness Molly Michel testifying that she saw Adam Siegfried punch Ryan Smith, then kick him on the ground… Even with Smith needing 10 stitches in his tongue… That there was no assault conviction. You can be DAMN SURE that if it was a cop saying there was assault, that there would be an assault conviction.
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Insurance paid the other $9K. So the total cost is: $12,000?
$12,000??!?!?! You really think losing your house and job is worth $12000?
DUMB COPS. Gee, maybe if someone reported their Social Security card stolen… Maybe, just maybe… A person cashing checks under their name would be an impostor!
They *had* fingerprints. They were just too lazy to compare them!
Jailed for 21 days, she lost her home and job.
That's only worth $12,000? Huh? What?!?! Detective William Paul should be fired and put in jail himself for 21 days for doing such a shitty job. SHITTY DETECTIVE — FIRE HIM.
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Then, they *arrest* her for "abusing 911", a charge that doesn't even exist.
He called her a bitch on the phone as he was telling her not to cuss! 6 minutes wasted as her dad lay on the ground after surgery.
2 week suspension? I wonder what my charge would be if i delayed a 911 call on an officer laying on the ground needing medical attention for 6 minutes. I'd probably go to jail for obstructing justice — for months, at least. Years if he died. Funny how that works out.
And now the taxpayers are going to have to pay out a big fat lawsuit for endangering dad's life, and arresting the daughter.
Two week suspension. Wow.
Officer Robert MacFarland sounds like a big huge asshole. Or is it spelled Officer Robert McFarland? At this point, I wouldn't consider him fit to protect a Buger King, let alone run a 911 call center. Such negligence and sense of empowerment! He's far filthier than a girl calling 911 to save her father. His character is more filthy than any word anyone can utter.
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Yup. Lincoln enacted posse comitatus as a basic american ideal. It stood, untouched, during the entire rise of the military-industrial complex. It took the 911, the Republicans, fearful citizens, and George W. Bush to manage to revoke such a longstanding basic ideal: THE MILITARY SHOULD NOT POLICE CIVILIANS.
It was revoked on 10/17/2006. Now they are gradually trying to get Americans used to be patrolled by the military — like some kind of 3rd world banana republic.
Yet another sign of freedom in America waning. But where to emigrate to?
May 4, 2009
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Atari Teenage Riot fans should go to KeepVid.com, install the bookmarklet, and download this! :)
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hah :)
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While the Republicans are the racist warmongering party, the Democrats are the nanny-state "don't hurt anyone's feelings" party. Both parties are just as likely to piss on the constitution, they just take turns pissing on different parts of it. Now that the Democrats are back in power, free speech is being threatened.
Can I be charged for writing repeatedly about a bad cop? Will I have defend my right to blog about things in a court of law with a $20,000 lawyer?
There's a big reason Democrats don't generally get my votes — this is one of them.
Anyway, this is all because of Megan Meir's cyberbullying death. The bill text is subtly altered from the actual bill text, to be about politicians instead of people in general. But that makes a point.
The democrats will gladly exploit Megan's death to piss on the constitutional bit, in the same way that the Republicans exploit childrens' deaths to pass their own agenda. No political party is immune.
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What a coward. What a bad shot. Crazy people do not deserve the death penalty. In general, "not following instructions" should not be an offense whereby one can face summary execution. They don't know if you speak english, they don't know if you're mentally disabled.
Coward cop. Fortunately he was a bad shot.
Funny how tasers were supposed to be introduced as an alternative to lethal force, but are rarely used as such. Where was the taser during all of this? Maybe he didn't like using a taser because he was a poor shot and was scared someone would shoot him. Poor wittle baby. It's so hard being able to kill people you think may have a gun but don't. So hard. (Sarcasm)
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… Then he passed out face-down in the pavement. Cabbie calls 911. A real cop comes. He says he wants to pursue a complaint. THAT cop threatens his life too! Of course all this is "alleged", but… Chicago is so fucking corrupt! This is most likely the truth here.
Chicago cops are actually not allowed to be drunk even when off-duty. This guy was passed out on a sidewalk…
Notice how the officer is not named, even though arrest reports are public and anyone arrested is named. Nice thin blue line there.
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Cops tasered mentally ill boy with no drugs in his system after he was handcuffed. He died at the scene. Resuscitated, but died again.
Cops lost the lawsuit, but they get to keep doing what they do. They were cleared.
This is a mental illness case. Mentally ill? It's okay for cops to kill you! Oops, just a mistake! You're dead!
They first tasered him — after he ignored their warnings. Hey, cowards! Call for backup and wrestle the KID to the ground. Tasers are supposed to be a replacement for shooting someone, not for compliance with ignoring warnings. That's how they were sold to the public when first introduced.
Also, yet another case where they cite "excited delirium", which isn't a true medical condition.
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you gotta love the police's excuse in court for this one:
"The officers say they tried to pull Keiser's face out of the water, but "Keiser resisted and pushed his face deeper into the water.""
Uh, gee. Maybe it's because you were tasering him with his face in the water in the first place? Nice job, assholes. I'm talking to you, Trooper Greg Galarneau and Deputy Jason Baker. You're murderers in my opinion.
Why weren't you arrested? It's okay to murder people resisting arrest? This is over driving a bulldozer around? The death penalty for driving a bulldozer?
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iPhone and Apple: Paying for a nanny to censor you. Want true freedom? Use an open platform that doesn't answer to a central authority. Otherwise you're just paying for an eliteness you don't actually have. Apple == babied.
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If you're a cop, your only penalty for all of the above would be probation. You gotta love how he refused to take blood tests after crashing.
If one of us did this — we'd be looking at significant jail time. But if you're a cop, the thin blue line will protect you.
Santos Tirado is an example of how pathetic people are given a light hand — if they are a cop. Meanwhile, civilians doing the same thing do not get away with it. Officers are above the law even when the law comes down on them — special treatment (which he asked for, by the way).
Eugene H. Austin seems like a pathetic judge, to only give probation to someone who injured a bunch of people while driving around with an illegal gun.
Hollow-point bullets! Illegal gun! C'mon!
Jessica Acosta defends her pig dad even though he hurt others — wow, Jessica. You're just as bad!
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Get 'em before the lawyers take them down for parodying Anthrax's logo…
April 29, 2009
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It would be nice to see more organizations follow suit.
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One of the greatest examples of the Thin Blue Line ever.
The police union, as well as 39 retired cops — are all coming forward to protect their drunk-driving comrades (like Officer Michael Couch, who pleaded no contest to reckless driving after being accused of drunk driving) from facing discipline for breaking the law.
Yes, cops want to allow cops to break the law. Wow. One of the people disciplined is the son of a county legislator. Daddy's connections gonna save him?
Police Chief Kevin Nulty is right not to back down. He sounds like what cops hate: A chief that wants cops to actually follow the laws they enforce.
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Wow. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt either.
Not only is he not getting criminally charged, but he didn't show up for a mandatory court hearing — sending his lawyer instead — and is trying to get out of the ticket.
He "doesn't remember" if he was pursuing someone (which would apparently make all this okay?!?!).
Now, how would the situation be different if a civilian crashed 103MPH into a cop and put him into a permanent coma? You can bet that person would be put away for years.
Officer Mark Maupin should be ashemed of himself. Go directly to jail. Do not collect $200. You are a disgrace.
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Cops were caught ON VIDEO assaulting people. When 911 was called, the cops went outside and waved them off, keeping them from filing an official report. That's obstruction of justice — but the judge let them get away with it, because apparently off-duty police are allowed to obstruct justice.
When the court case came, police filled the courtroom. The judge questioned the credibility of the accusers, blamed them for starting the fight, and said their testimony was conflicting. How dare a man with broken ribs go to the hospital 4 days later. When my mom's ribs were broken, she didn't realize right away either.
I think this case stinks, and I still think Sgt. Jeffery Planey and Officers Gregory Barnes and Paul Powers are pigs and thugs. And I think judge Thomas V. Gainer has a conflict of interest, coming from a law enforcement background himself.
This was last covered on my blog at http://clintjcl.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/links-for-2007-06-12/
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This is a disgusting case. It's often state law that an officer HAS to give you his card or badge# when asked. THEY CANNOT ARREST YOU FOR THIS. And the court verified this.
It's pathetic, however, that you have to spend money to have rights. No ACLU + No Money In Your Pocket. = No Rights. No Money = You would have a criminal record for the rest of your life for exercising your rights. ALL HAIL THE GREAT POLICE for serving and protecting our rights (hah!).
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Nano is an open-source replacement for pico, aka "pine composer", the text-editor element of the Unix Pine mail system.
…I'm moving into a new shell account on a machine that doesn't have pine or pico. And like hell am I goig to use vi unless I'm forced to! I'm glad this compiled successfully.
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And fresh after hearing about cop-on-cop brutality, I hear about cop-on-Marine brutality. Their crime? Throwing a loud party. Their punishment? Being tasered "6 or 7 times" in a row without resisting. Being pepper sprayed while sitting down doing nothing. And then being arrested for felony battery against a police officer, which is a fairly standard practice of corrupt police everywhere: Brutalize someone, then charge THEM.
These are *noise complaints*. This is driven by people's right to stop your soundwaves from hitting them. Someone's right to sit in silence overrides the rights of people to make noise as they peacefully assemble. It's something I've never agreed with. If you want silence, soundproof your residence.
It takes a real asshole to cause a group of people to be brutalized by the police just because they insist on living in an unnatural silence. The natural state of a group of people living in close quarters is noise.
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This is one of the most poetic police stories ever. There's so many things wrong with this.
1) Roadblocks have been found to be unconstitutional, yet police still run them all the time.
2) Cops think they can flash their badge for special treatment
3) Tasers were introduced as an alternative to shooting to kill. NOT for pain compliance. But this is what they've become.Throw all 3 together and we have a cop tasing another cop for getting out of his car and trying to flash his badge to get out of the unconstitutional roadblock.
This is so convoluted that I couldn't make this up if I tried.
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Duh. If you carry around a cellphone, you can and will be tracked — even without a warrant. And even in cases where warrants are required to track you, the government can get around this by setting up a fake cellphone tower (which they do).
Have fun getting your battery out, iPhone users!
March 25, 2009
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Remember the CIA? The ones who help topple governments and set up puppet governments in other countries? In a case of the pot calling the kettle black, a CIA cybersecurity expert has suggested that many elections were rigged — such as Venezuela’s — via their use of electronic voting machines.
Nevermind that such machines were used here. Of course, he said he “wasn’t speaking for the CIA and wouldn’t address U.S. voting systems”. Of course.
Look like I’m going to have to agree with the Stigall here. Electronic voting machines are BAD. And without physical evidence (at least an electronic printout guaranteed for uniqueness and verifiability), ANY election can be stolen. Take a look at Clint Curtis’s testimony to the Ohio Supreme Court in 2004 — sworn under oath that he was paid to write a vote-flipping program for the makers of the voting machines.
And who made the Venezuela machines? Smartmatic, which owns Sequoia, who used to be called Diebold – who promised Bush electoral votes
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Innocents put away by mystery black boxes protected by “trade secrets”. How is that a just justice system? Maybe I can sell some “you’re guilty” boxes and make some money…
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An animated prequel to the Charlie’s Angels remake movies. Someone should torrent this.
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A friend of mine had the audio removed from several of his youtube videos for similar reasons. Copyright law being used to stifle expression. YouTube could simply put some banner adds for the infringed companies on the same page. In fact, there were deals in place to do that in the past. But instead they’d rather fight it, and give us another name to hate: Warner.
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(Thanks for making it easier for AT&T to survive while doing this, iPhone people.)
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Just yesterday I was saying that Wikileaks is like “Eyes Only” from the show Dark Angel. In many cases, the last free, public voice to disseminate information. In a world full of countries that are supposed to respect free speech — publishing a list of links to be censored can get your house raided.
Fucking ridiculous. The governments of the world are doing their best to not allow the citizens of the world to freely exchange information. Child porn is being used as the rally cry for the iron fist, and it’s pathetic.
They actually put “distribution of pornographic material” on the warrant — as if posting a link is the same as posting what is AT the link. Ridiculous.
Of course they took his laptop too.
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A nice article about how the Schick Quattro TrimStyle For Women is not about women conforming to a [now non-exsitent] “porn culture”. Another WIN from The Legal Satyricon, a great blog.
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(Only for the latest Firefox.)
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Ahh tasers. Introduced to us as “a non-lethal alternative to lethal force”, and then lethally used in situations where lethal force would never have been allowed. If the cops shot this 15-yo in the head for fighting, there’d be an investigation. The whole way tasers were sold to the public was as a life-saving substitute for shooting someone to death.
Is it working yet?
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Excellent.
March 17, 2009
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Another similar link: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/299509/vaccine_ingredients_do_you_know_what.html
Honestly — people should be more concerned about the thimeserol/mercury preservatives and the autism link (repeatedly denied by science, but upheld by federal courts that have paid out over $2B in taxpayer money to autistic kids who were vaccinated), than about if these came from an aborted fetus or not.
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Catholocism is literally killing tons of people who follow it mindlessly. As well as non-catholics whose access to condoms is limited by the incredible influence of the catholic church.
But hey — I forgot that religion is the "fabric that holds society together". After all, nobody non-religious could ever do anything good on their own, could they? It's only the threat of going to hell that makes people do good, right?
Wrong.At this point, society and law governs most people's behavior. Religious organizations seem to be the most powerful anti-freedom, anti-life forces in existence. After all — what do you think gave us suicide bombers? A religion, and it's misinterpretations.
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I'd expect such idiocy from most states, but that it comes out of Georgia is no surprise. You gotta love how murderers, burglars, people who beat adults into an inch of their life — are all allowed to live and work where they want. But hold up a Dairy Queen and tell a teenager to move from one part of the country to another — and now you're a "sex offender".
Like all laws and government force — give them an inch, and they'll take a mile. All laws are abused.
You gotta love not being able to get out of jail explicit because you don't meet sex offender requirements, when you never actually committed a sex offense.
It's no wonder America incarcerates the highest percentage of people of any nation on earth. Our sense of justice is blind — and we're actually proud of that.
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In some of these cases, pages from whistleblower sites like Wikileaks have been added to blacklists. Wikileaks was added to a blacklist for leaking a odcument containing Denmark's list of banned websites.
Sl basically, the governments of the world want to censor what sites you can go to. And if you dare to even link to a list of what these banned sites are, at least one government wants to find you $11,000 a day.
Apparently the right to read what you want to read comes with a price.
The governments of the world need to stop censoring. The worst part is that child porn is used as an excuse to drive public acceptance of censorship.
In this particular case, someone is daring to link to a site added to a blacklist by an anti-abortion group! So now pro-lifers can tell me what I can surf to? Fuck that.
I encourage the reader to get an unnecessary abortion just to spite ACMA.
And of course a Christian lobby has its fingers in this too…
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No, google does not index everything, duhhh!
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Neat stuff. "A new way to sample signals produces 2D images using a single pixel. …… Entire fields of electronics engineering and information theory are based on this [Nyquist sampling theory] idea; unnecessarily as it now turns out."
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couldn't agree more!
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And the federal government's war on … model rockets … has hopefully suffered another blow.
Really — this is why the Democrats and Republicans are both bad — big government is like sand in your vag, finding every possible nook and crannie to intrude into.
Banning a chemical as an "explosive" based on ignoring science wont stop "terrorists" from getting it — last I checked, bad people don't consult a list of what is legal before getting what they get. It was just an excuse for a govt agency to try to expand its authority. If anything, ATF should get a smaller budget after shit like this.
Fight's not over; judge left it open for the ATF to redefine ACPC as an explosive under a different statute if they want — and you bet they will.
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Sounds horrible. And — they are using an antenna made out of fire (more precisely, made out of a jet of ionized plasma produced by the "normal" explosion)
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Too bad the final pics don't look nearly as good as some of the "infrared" pics I've seen on flickr.
March 8, 2009
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With a separate JPG for every letter in the alphabet! This is the poster on my bathroom wall.
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Handy. Send text message to a # without having to figure out their provider OR sign up for an account.
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I don't have urges to cook specific things, I have urges to cook WITH specific things. Especially ingredients that are going bad and need to be used up so they don't get thrown away. This ingredient search on AllRecipes, which I see is called by some "the most valuable recipe site on the internet", seems very useful.
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No clue that you could mod a ps2 with a simple $100 memory card these days. Wow! I have 3 PS2s now, tho 1 is broken… I wonder…
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Good! Unlike what the free market capitalists who defend the last capitalist medical system in the industrialized world may claim, government funding will indeed advance the lifesaving science at a faster rate. OH NOES!!! WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION!! THAT'S SOCIALISM!!! RUN!!
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Beer brewing at home wasn't legal until 1979? Fucking fascists! Prohibition failed, dude.
As the article points out, "the foundations of modern society appear to be built on, well, beer." But of course the government doesn't want people to have the power to use technology to create anything that might alter their brain state into something that might not be as productive.
And some 80-90 yrs after prohibition, people are still fighting for their right — to drink non-corporate beer. So much for the pursuit of happiness…
Of course the state Republicans were the ones to vote to keep it illegal…
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See — not all companies have to be run like greedy amoral (not immoral) money-suction entities. Some people, like Carolyn's uncle, can do it right. The crappy situations that most companies throw down american's throats are for the most part either greedy assholism, or poorly run companies. However, it's still possible to do things the right way in america.
I remember getting $10K in over-my-wage payouts in the 1990s–after resigning from the company! But I don't hear of anybody having this happen to them in the 2000s. Companies will also use the bad economic times to pretend like they are worse off than they are, in order to convince people to stay in their jobs without getting raises this year.
But it can't all be true. Some of it is assholism.
Kudos to FreeWave for showing everyone how it should be done.
March 3, 2009
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