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[rossmum]

Definitely, thanks for linking.

[rossmum]

!!!BUMP!!!

Search Yahoo Answers for 'ant semen'. Trust me on this one.

[sdavis117]

:gonk:

Why!?!?!

[n00b1n8R]

I must test this... FOR SCIENCE!!

[rossmum]

Not so much funny as just mind-boggling. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%83%C2%A2nia_accident)


Roberto dos Santos and Wagner Mota sold the object to a scrapyard owner—Devair Alves Ferreira—who intended to make a ring for his wife out of the strange and beautiful blue material.

Take a wild guess as to what that glowing blue material was!

[ExAm]

Most awesome newt ever. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8212000/8212623.stm)




Bizarre newt uses ribs as weapons

Matt Walker
Editor, Earth News
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/cccccc.gif

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46237000/jpg/_46237395_newt.jpg The Spanish ribbed newt more than lives up to its name


One amphibian has evolved a bizarre and gruesome defence mechanism to protect itself against predators.
When attacked, the Spanish ribbed newt pushes out its ribs until they pierce through its body, exposing a row of bones that act like poisonous barbs.
The newt has to force its bones through its skin every time it is attacked, say scientists who have described the form and function of the barbs in detail.
Yet this bizarre behaviour appears not to cause the newt any ill effects.
The ability of the Spanish ribbed newt to expose its rib bones was first noticed by a natural historian in 1879.
But scientists have now used modern photographic and X-ray imaging techniques to reveal just how the animal does it.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46237000/jpg/_46237979_newt2.jpg The ribs have burst through the skin, ready to sting any attacker

And what they discovered is even more gruesome than they imagined.
When the newt becomes agitated or perceives a threat, it swings its ribs forward, increasing their angle to the spine by up to 50 degrees.
As it does this, the newt keeps the rest of its body still.
"The forward movement of the ribs increases the body size and stretches the skin to the point of piercing it," says zoologist Egon Heiss of the University of Vienna in Austria.
The tips of the newt's ribs then stick outside its body, like exposed spines.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46237000/jpg/_46237396_02.jpg Arrows point to a poisonous secretion which coats the tips of protruding ribs

But there is more to the newt's defence, Heiss and his Vienna-based colleagues report in the Journal of Zoology.
"When teased or attacked by a predator, [the newt] secretes a poisonous milky substance onto the body surface. The combination of the poisonous secretion and the ribs as 'stinging' tools is highly effective," says Heiss.
The impact on any predator can be striking, particularly if they try to bite the newt or pick it up using their mouth.
Then the poison in almost injected into the thin skin within the mouth, causing severe pain or possibly death to the attacker.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46237000/jpg/_46237980_04.jpg A computer tomograph shows the sharp rib points and vertebral column

As well as elucidating the spear-like shape of the ribs, and exactly how the ribs swing forward and protrude, the scientists have demonstrated that the bones must break through the newt's body wall every time the amphibian evokes the defence response.
Initially, it was thought that the ribs may passively emerge through pores, rather than be actively driven through the body wall.
Surprisingly, the newt, which is related to other newts and salamanders, appears to suffer no major ill effects, despite repeatedly puncturing its own body and exposing its rib bones.
"Newts, and amphibians in general, are known to have an extraordinary ability to repair their skin," says Heiss.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46237000/jpg/_46237981_03.jpg On the left, the ribs of a relaxed newt point backwards, while on the right an agitated newt brings its ribs forward, ready to strike through the skin

"Anyway, if this newt can avoid being eaten in some cases, this surely has a positive influence."
It also seems that the newt is immune to its own poison, which is normally confined to glands in the newt's body.
When the newt wounds itself by exposing its ribs, the poison can seep into its body tissue, again apparently with no ill effects.
Heiss now hopes to investigate which compounds are in the poison.

[ultama121]

http://steamcommunity.com/id/sexyrussell
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SRSAstudio2
This guy is the coolest bro ever.

[Heathen]

ant semen :lmao:

[Rob Oplawar]

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/Home_Page.html#more
Not quite an article, but still brilliant. I'll join their group! :-3

[OmegaDragon]

http://weirdnewsfiles.com/weird-news/weird-world-news/woman-kicked-out-of-new-zealand-for-being-too-fat/

New Zealand is officially awesome
:iamafag:

[rossmum]

I love all the people whining about discrimination.

If they want to move to NZ THAT much, they'll actually do themselves some fucking good and lose the weight. You aren't gay, short, ugly, or whatever by choice, but in most cases, people are only obese because they are absolute slobs. I can understand how those with legitimate medical reasons for being obese might be upset, but people who simply can't be fucked deserve a good kick up the arse. You know the kind - the ones you see coming into Maccas every mealtime with their six obese, spoilt, bratty kids.

I mean, fuck. I am the most unhealthy eater I know and the only exercise I get is walking to the shops once a fortnight or PT on parade nights (yeah, that's going to have to change unless I want my arse whooped at Kapooka), but I'm underweight. Surely it can't be too fucking hard for a biologically 'normal' person to keep within NZ's limits?

[ICEE]

Wow that almost makes me want to support universal health care

[p0lar_bear]

i am a scientist says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 am

we’re a small country and sinking is a serious problem.

I lol'd.

[English Mobster]

http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/Home_Page.html#more
Not quite an article, but still brilliant. I'll join their group! :-3
That.
Is.
Awesome.

Way to make good money, too.

[=sw=warlord]

Ross please don't end up like this when your done.
http://news.uk.msn.com/odd-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=149250016

Ex-soldier wages war on grammar
A former soldier is waging a one-man war on poor use of the English language after picking up a paintbrush to correct the grammar on his own street's signs.
Taking up the mantle of Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, Stefan Gatward added an apostrophe to two of his "St Johns Close" signs so they read "St John's Close".
But his efforts to improve the punctuation on the signs in his cul-de-sac were greeted with mixed feelings.

[rossmum]

I'm already a bit like that :ohdear:

[n00b1n8R]

http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf
Modelling of a zombie apocalypse.

[p0lar_bear]

http://torrentfreak.com/sony-music-office-raided-090907/


Sony Music denies the allegations and insists they are authorized to use the recordings even though Fernández’s contract has ended. They hope that the Mexican court will be on their side.

That defense didn't work for The Pirate Bay, I fail to see why it should work for you faggots.

S-0wned-y.

[Bodzilla]

what was that?

oh yeah, sweet justice.

[FRain]

Rather old, but thought it was hilarious.


It was the ultimate expression of road rage. A furious woman driver died after ramming another vehicle and spinning her wheels so fast that her own car burst into flames.
Serena Sutton-Smith, 54, burnt to death after refusing to get out of her Vauxhall Nova as she sat with her foot flat on the accelerator.
She spun the wheels so fast that her tyres disintegrated and the metal rims sent a shower of sparks into the engine, igniting the brake fluid and setting the car on fire.
Appalled onlookers urged her to get out of the car as the flames licked around her but she told them to “F*** off”, an inquest in Gloucester was told.


Source

LMFAO (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4804007.ece)

[UnevenElefant5]

Got this from my geometry textbook:


Danny is standing at one point. Kyle is at another. They are in a straight line. Between Danny and Kyle is Irene. Between Irene and Kyle is Cynthia. Draw a diagram of their positions on a line segment.


So, I drew it out:
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9506/98978367.jpg

:haw:

I looked in the back for the answers since it give the solutions to the odd problems and it's actually written as KCID instead. Oh well, I still lol'd.

[OmegaDragon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Golf

Best.Game.EVER.

[Cojafoji]

http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/21/technology/net_neutrality_FCC/

not one for posting cnn articles, or even reading them, but this one makes me happy. :D

[English Mobster]

Net Neutrality ftw!

[p0lar_bear]

http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/21/technology/net_neutrality_FCC/

not one for posting cnn articles, or even reading them, but this one makes me happy. :D


At issue is the fact that data-heavy applications, like a video from YouTube for instance, can clog and slow down Internet connections, disrupting service for customers and costing providers money.

Article sucks, paraphrases Ted Stevens.

:smith:

(Seriously, though, I'm happy for this.)

[Warsaw]

I saw the announcement for that on Engadget, and I was all like "SQUEEEEEEEEE!"

:-3

[Cojafoji]

Article sucks, paraphrases Ted Stevens.

:smith:

(Seriously, though, I'm happy for this.)
i'm more happy for the isp's having to spell out EXACTLY what their service implies. i.e. "we block ports such and such for these reasons, for thus and such etc".

[OmegaDragon]

Police play Wii bowling during drug raid (http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/21/undercover-drug-investigators-embarrass-polk-sheri/news-breaking/)

Video (http://www2.tbo.com/video/2009/sep/21/drug-task-force-a-time-for-work-a-time-21049/)

[itszutak]

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=820203

Okay, not an article, but this thread needs a bump and this is fairly entertaining to read.

[OmegaDragon]

http://www.destructoid.com/developer-tales-the-true-story-of-an-abused-game-tester-30025.phtml

Wow, testing video games is serious business....

[Bodzilla]

sounds like my work, just not as hectic for as long.


"righto i want this entire vanity sprayed 8 times/ 4 coats, sanded 3 times (there was about 25 peices of wood just for that vanity, it was all open shelf)
oh and i want the entire kitchen in there done as well.

oh and all the doors we have given you have problems, cracks, scratches, dings ect, everyone which means you'll have to spend all this time fixing these up. before you can spray them.

it's your first time ever spraying things for us but i want there to be absolutely nothing outta place, if there is i'm gunna winge to the boss and yell alot, compounded by how much i winge and yell from my glass house already.
oh and we dont feel like acknowledging your 99% rate of perfect application.
oh and we are only gunna give you 1 piece of sand paper to sand everything, oh and they all have to be done by today.

oh and we dont feel like paying you OT
oh and we dont feel like paying you above the minimum wage.

What do you mean your frustrated? you must be one arrogant cunt to talk to use like that! Back in the old days we used to yadada and we'd do it TWICE AS FAST WITH SPEED AND QUALITY UNMATCHED yearpd ayeaopsdk rara oh these youth today sadflkhgslakhsalgkhsag"


dont ever be a cabinet maker unless you're your own boss, because jesus tap dancing christ i swear the entire industry is insane.

[Con]

Can't remember if this was posted or not:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/29/aboxalypse_now/

http://regmedia.co.uk/2009/07/28/sony_3.jpg

[English Mobster]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-525852/Model-uses-large-breasts-court-defence-prove-didnt-break-house-hole.html

http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/
Last one not an article, but still EQUALLY FUCKING AWESOME.

[mech]

Bear on Ice :allears: (http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/23/russia.skating.bear.death/index.html)



MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- A bear on ice skates attacked two people during rehearsals at a circus in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, killing one of them, Kyrgyz officials said Friday.
In the incident, which happened Thursday, the 5-year-old animal killed the circus administrator, Dmitry Potapov, and mauled an animal trainer, who was attempting to rescue him.
"The incident occurred during a rehearsal by the Russian state circus company troupe which was performing in Bishkek with the program, Bears on Ice," Ministry of Culture and Information director Kurmangazy Isanayev told reporters.
It is unclear what caused the bear to attack Potapov, 25, nearly severing one of his legs while dragging him across the ice by his neck. Medical personnel were unable to save Potapov, who died at the scene.
The 29-year-old circus trainer Yevgeny Popov, who attempted to rescue Potapov, was also severely injured, according to doctors.
"The victim has sustained serious injuries - deep scalp lacerations, bruising of the brain, lacerations on his body. His condition is considered critical," Dr. Gulnara Tashibekova told reporters on Russian state television.
After the incident, the circus was cordoned off by police and emergency service workers. Experts have been brought in to examine the bear, which was shot and died at the scene.
Russia has a long-standing tradition of training bears to perform tricks such as riding motorcycles, ice skating, and playing hockey. Fatal attacks are unusual.

[Con]

Looks like that bear...
...got the last laugh.
:caruso:

[Rook]

http://www.newser.com/story/74400/texas-accidentally-bans-straight-marriage.html

[ultama121]

Ahahahahaha, that's great.

[OmegaDragon]

Some dude marries his Love Plus girlfriend... (http://tinycartridge.com/post/248771420/some-dude-married-his-love-plus-girlfriend)



wtf

[ExAm]

What the motherfucking shitfucks.

[Futzy]

http://gizmodo.com/5413037/google-google-google-google
gud

[itszutak]

http://gizmodo.com/5413037/google-google-google-google
gud
It's nice, but I'd like to see a version with 9 windows.

:ugh:

[Con]

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6933/43869101.png
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I'm ready to google!

[ultama121]

http://www.leenks.com/link245568.html
This is...

[ExAm]

http://www.leenks.com/link245568.html
This is...
Jesus christ, what horrible blogspam. Here is the conversation on the original creator's site (http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html)

[Heathen]

isn't googlegooglegooglegoogle.com old?

[Heathen]

Jesus christ, what horrible blogspam. Here is the conversation on the original creator's site (http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html)

I saw this on stumble. Absolutely hilarious.

[itszutak]

Jesus christ, what horrible blogspam. Here is the conversation on the original creator's site (http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p.html)
Holy shit thank you for linking this site, I've been looking for it for a while.

[mech]

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/michael-jacksons-opus-painting-is-creeping-people-/35478/

[ultama121]

What. The. Fuck.

[Cojafoji]

Not really an article, but Farks top twenty headlines:

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4903022&tt=s


20: Small plane rapidly plunges into bottom end of Virgin Islands, to be renamed Technical Virgin Islands

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4735920 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4735920)

19: That foot found at a NY recycling center? Turns out it belonged to a bear. You'd think police could recognize a bearclaw when they see one

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4563717 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4563717)

18. India loses contact with an unmanned spacecraft conducting its first moon mission. Support techs ask Mission Control to confirm that the spacecraft is turned on and that it is currently plugged in

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4605340 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4605340)

17: Bolivian animal rights activists succeed in banning circuses from using animals, but now have to figure out what to do with 22 useless lions, a problem Detroit has faced for years

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4729890 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4729890)

16: Police in London solve 1 crime for every 1000 CCTV cameras. Or about 2 for every 1984

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4595452 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4595452)

15: One killed, six injured in pie factory explosion. Blast heard up to 3.14159265 miles away

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4320734 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4320734)

14: Man gets called into work so he can be fired, returns home to find his house on fire. Wishes he had been laid off

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4351606 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4351606)

13: Plane crashes in Florida panhandle, no pilot found. Well there's your problem

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4138365 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4138365)

12: Semi-nude Victoria's Secret fashion models reveal untold talents and you've already clicked the link, haven't you? Have I told you about my mother lately? No, she's doing fine, just making cheesecake and some muffins this morning

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4787841 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4787841)

11: Fire rips through homeless camp, leaving dozens...well, no worse off, really

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4299493 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4299493)

10: Carpenters face higher-than-average asbestos death rate, higher-than-average resurrection rate

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4247908 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4247908)

9: Police find severed head, will later reveal whether it's "linked to body parts found in Hertfordshire." Submitter suspects the answer may be "Not any more"

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4306764 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4306764)

8: Peephole in door of girl's dorm room reversed; police are looking into it

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4233284 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4233284)

7: Man at Panda Express eats shoots and leaves

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4332430 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4332430)

6: Suicide bomber strikes Iraqi funeral. At least two dead

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4284352 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4284352)

5: 80-ton wave generator works briefly as advertised when it falls into the ocean

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4651134 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4651134)

4: Baghdad's National Museum reopens six years after looting. Featured displays include mostly a bunch of really heavy stuff

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4228845 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4228845)

3: Fire officials in SoCal wildfires: "GTFO." Residents: "STFU." Fire: "NOM NOM NOM." Residents: "OMG." Fire department: "DIAF"

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4608857 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4608857)

2: Jesus prepares to receive Oral

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4856608 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4856608)

1: Gas blowing out exit brings 69 to a complete halt

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4719284 (http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4719284)

[ExAm]

Well, I can't compete with that, but I can add a couple more amusing headlines not from Fark.

Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300374.html?)

Depp's Chocolate Factory Has Tasty Opening (http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainment/177345/depps_chocolate_factory_has_tasty_opening/)

[Delta4907]

Not "funny", but I wasn't sure if this warranted a new thread. Be warned, this (http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/12-01-2010/111621-sheep_human_face-0) might be disturbing.

[p0lar_bear]

The governor of the province where the ugly goat was born said that the little goat was the fruit of unnatural relationship between the female goat and a man.

"This incident is very shocking. It is my first time to see such an evil thing. It is really embarrassing," he reportedly said. "The head belongs to a man while the body is that of a goat. This is evident that an adult human being was responsible. Evil powers caused this person to lose self control. We often hear cases of human beings who commit bestiality but this is the first time for such an act to produce a product with human features," he added.Bullshit, I thought it was impossible for one species' sperm to fertilize another's egg. :biology101:

Then again, this is a politician saying this...

[mech]

It is impossible.

[Cojafoji]

I think the only animal that it even might be remotely possible to do it with is a chimpanzee...

[sdavis117]

Bullshit, I thought it was impossible for one species' sperm to fertilize another's egg. :biology101:

Then again, this is a politician saying this...
In this case, and in most cases, I would say that is correct, even though in some cases inter-species sex can lead to an offspring.

Take the Liger for example:
http://www.fahad.com/pics/liger.jpg

Even though in this case, it is impossible. This was most likely a mutation.

[Delta4907]

Whatever it is that head is scary as fuck.

[Yoko]

http://mashable.com/2010/01/17/fbi-bin-laden/

This week, the FBI released a “digitally-altered” image showing what Osama Bin Laden possibly looks like now that he’s older.

While the FBI claims to have used “cutting-edge” technology to create the image, a Spanish politician has noticed that the poster is a modified version of his campaign photo — he now finds his face in America’s most wanted list.While on the surface it’s an amusing misstep by intelligence agencies, Gaspar Llamazares, the former leader of Spain’s United Left coalition, calls the move “shameless.” His safety is at risk, he told the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8463657.stm), and he no longer feels able to travel to America now that his likeness is on a wanted poster: “Bin Laden’s safety is not threatened by this but mine certainly is,” Llamazares said.
The FBI is quoted admitting to the error, saying that the artist found the photo on the web and didn’t know it was of a Spanish politician:

“When producing age-progressed photographs, forensic artists typically select features from a database of stock reference photographs to create the new image…it appears that in this instance the forensic artist was unable to find suitable features among the reference photographs and obtained those features, in part, from a photograph he found on the Internet.
The forensic artist was not aware of the identity of the individual depicted in the photograph. The similarities between the photos were unintentional and inadvertent.”
We don’t think it matters that the man in question was a notable politician: Using photos from an image search to create a most wanted poster is surely putting the subject at risk, is it not?
http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/fbiphotoshop.png
Enhance the z-axis!

[mech]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/index.html?hpt=P1

[p0lar_bear]

...

...

...what.

[Cojafoji]

ew what the fuck...

[Bodzilla]

can you just imagine going to a mates house for a piss up and finding that in his bed room.

the lulz would be intense.

[=sw=warlord]

can you just imagine going to a mates house for a piss up and finding that in his bed room.

the lulz would be intense."So um...my fuckbuddy got a virus last night...she had to download an update to her anti virus while we were just getting warmed up....[awkward silence]"

I think i would die laughing if i heard that to be honest.

[jcap]

Bullshit, I thought it was impossible for one species' sperm to fertilize another's egg. :biology101:

Then again, this is a politician saying this...In this case, and in most cases, I would say that is correct, even though in some cases inter-species sex can lead to an offspring.

Take the Liger for example:
http://www.fahad.com/pics/liger.jpg

Even though in this case, it is impossible. This was most likely a mutation.
In order to produce an offspring, both sexes must have the same genus. If they have the same genus but the species differs, they produce an sterile offspring. :biology101:

In the case of that stupid article, it's either bullshit or some fucking insane impossible mutation.

[Cojafoji]

let's get this topic back on track

:lmao:

INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- An Oakland County man was injured when a sledding stunt went wrong.Sheriff's deputies said the man held a sledding party at his home on Townview Drive in Independence Township last Saturday night.Investigators said they were told by witnesses that the 62-year-old man had been drinking when he fashioned a device using a motorcycle muffler, a piece of pipe, gunpowder, match heads and gasoline.Witnesses said the man strapped the device on his back, donned a makeshift helmet and got on a sled, asking someone to light a wick attached to the device.Part of the way down the hill, the device exploded, resulting in second-degree burns to the victim's face. One of his eyes was damaged.He is currently getting treatment at a local hospital.Sheriff's deputies continue to investigate the incident pending possible criminal charges.

[ICEE]

the fuck? charges for whom? the old man hopefully

[Cojafoji]

this is just like a giant cock smack in the face for the canadian health system...

i lol'd

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. -- Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the United States.


Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale confirmed the treatment at a news conference Tuesday, but would not reveal the location of the operation or how it would be paid for.


"He has gone to a renowned expert in the procedure that he needs to have done," said Ms. Dunderdale, who will become acting premier while Mr. Williams is away for three to 12 weeks.
"In consultation with his own doctors, he's decided to go that route."
Mr. Williams' decision to leave Canada for the surgery has raised eyebrows over his apparent shunning of Canada's health-care system.


"It was never an option offered to him to have this procedure done in this province," said Ms. Dunderdale, refusing to answer whether the procedure could be done elsewhere in Canada.
Mr. Williams, 59, has said nothing of his health in the media.



"The premier has made a commitment that once he's through this procedure and he's well enough, he's going to talk about the whole process and share as much detail with you as he's comfortable to do at that time," she said.


Ms. Dunderdale wouldn't say where in the U.S. Mr. Williams is seeking treatment.
A popular Progressive Conservative premier, Mr. Williams has also seen his share of controversy. During the 2008 federal election, Mr. Williams vehemently opposed the Conservative government, launching his "Anything But Conservative" -- which has been credited with keeping the Tories from winning any seats in the province.


He's also drawn criticism for his support of the seal hunt.

[=sw=warlord]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7129952/Cat-predicts-50-deaths-in-RI-nursing-home.html


Dr David Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor at Brown University, said that five years of records showed Oscar rarely erring, sometimes proving medical staff at the New England nursing home wrong in their predictions over which patients were close to death.

The tortoiseshell and white cat spends its days pacing from room to room, rarely spending any time with patients except those with just hours to live.
If kept outside the room of a dying patient, Oscar will scratch on the door trying to get in.

[Bodzilla]

old

[=sw=warlord]

old
Published: 7:42PM GMT 01 Feb 2010

O rly?

any ways from that same site.
Banker viewing topless women caught out on Australian TV

A banker was caught logging on to look at pictures of topless women in his office - not realising a television news reporter was speaking live to camera just a few feet away.


The worker was sat at his desk at Australia's Macquarie Bank with his back to the camera as he looked at the images, apparently totally oblivious to the business analyst breaking news about interest rates in front of him.
One of the pictures has been identified as actor Orlando Bloom's model girlfriend, Miranda Kerr.

The incident was screened on Australian television on Channel 7's Sunrise show on Tuesday morning and was posted on Youtube within two hours.
As the bank's private wealth spokesman Martin Lakos reveals that official interest rates are remaining unchanged at 3.75 per cent, his colleague strolls into view and sits down.
He immediately brings up a page of a topless woman, then goes back to share charts.
As a colleague chats to him from the other side of his screen, he flicks between photos of girls and financial news, before turning and finally seeing the camera behind him.

[kid908]

IDK if this has been posted or not, but it's all the way back in mid 2008.


A high court in South Africa ruled on Wednesday that Chinese-South Africans will be reclassified as “black”http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2008/06/19/in-south-africa-chinese-is-the-new-black/tab/article/

[JPEG]

idk if it counts as an article but what the hell.

http://www.gigimo.com/main/product/Artificial,Virginity,Hymen,2299.php?prod=2299

artificial hymen, even bleeds
made in japan.....course

[ultama121]

All these years I've been fooled. :smith:

[ICEE]

All these years I've been fooled. :smith:

Dudes don't have hymens.
:realsmug:

[Cojafoji]

There's a reason Reefer Madness (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028346/) has become a laugh riot among bong-toting college students across the realm. After all, you don't have to be stoned into the next dimension to get a laugh out of earnest depictions of marijuana turning people into crazed, violent killers and rapists. And boom microphones dropping into the shot are funny, too.
​
Well, enter Kinman Chan. The 30-year-old San Francisco man is using the "Pot Made Me Do It" defense regarding a midair outburst in which he fought with US Air personnel and forced his Philadelphia-to-Los Angeles flight to land in Pittsburgh (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/02/03/2010-02-03_kinman_chan_says_medical_marijuana_made_him_go_ nuts_on_flight_from_philadelphia_.html). According to flight crew members, Chan ransacked an airplane bathroom while screaming, then emerged from the commode with pants down and shirt untucked. After refusing to take a seat, he grappled with flight attendants. He now claims he popped twice his normal dosage of medical marijuana cookies ― which apparently explains it all.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/assets_c/2010/02/Man%20on%20the%20wing%21-thumb-420x332.jpg (http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/Man%20on%20the%20wing%21.jpg)How many cookies did I eat?​
Well, not for Aaron Smith. The California director of the Marijuana Policy Project (http://www.mpp.org/)said Chan may have some problems ― but too much pot isn't one of them. "Most anecdotal evidence shows marijuana makes you even more subdued. [Violence] is something alcohol is linked to when you hear about problems on airplanes," he said. "I'm definitely dubious of this claim."

While a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in Pittsburgh ― where Chan is being held in custody ― noted that he had a medical marijuana card for a "legitimate" health issue, Smith doesn't think this instance will cast aspersions on other medical pot users.

"I think everybody knows that marijuana doesn't cause this sort of behavior," he said. "I don't think this guy's claims are going to have much affect beyond this little story."

Regarding Chan's medical marijuana cookies, a chuckling Smith adds, "Maybe it was the sugar."

[sdavis117]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/teen-girl-vagina-pregnant-sperm-survival-oral-sex/story?id=9732562&page=1


A strange tale of oral sex, a knife fight and the most unlikely of pregnancies recently brought to light by the blogosphere has doctors touting the triumphant persistence of sperm.

[Con]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/teen-girl-vagina-pregnant-sperm-survival-oral-sex/story?id=9732562&page=1
Those little guys rock :golfclap:

[ICEE]

that raises some questions. Did he cum over her after she got knifed or what

[Bodzilla]

some how i dont think after you've got a stab wound to the chest, you want to be sucking cock.

either she swallowed or some rode in on the knife and followed to wound from her stomach.

[Con]

No, she swallowed. After her ex found out she blew the guy, she got stabbed. It says in the article they escaped from her stomach into her abdominal cavity, then into the fallopian tube (it's kinda open).

[SiriusTexra]

http://thehollywoodham.com/wordpress/?p=407

D-Bag Convention “Coincides” With Dave Matthews Concert


oh dear

[PlasbianX]

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/paleokostas.html


What do you get when you cross Jesse James, Robin Hood, and Jack Bauer in the body of a giant, bearded, bald Greek man?
Meet Vassilis Paleokostas:


This crazy, utterly fearless dude is public enemy number one in Greece, and probably one of the most badass motherfuckers to come from the country since the days of our friend Leonidas.

Vassilis' story starts back in the early 90s, when he went on an insane crime spree of delicious armed robbery, blackmail, extortion, and kidnapping. Basically, his modus operandi was to kidnap a super-rich bastard, hold him for a ridiculous ransom, and then sell him back to his stupid family in exchange for giant piles of cold, hard cash. Then, he'd take that bling, keep a small percentage of it for himself, and distribute the rest of his newly-acquired wealth to impoverished farmers of the tiny rural province in which he grew up. The dude quickly made a name for himself as the Robin Hood of Greece, and was beloved by fans of badassery, the people of the lower classes, and pretty much anybody else he wasn't in the process of robbing or extorting for money. Shit, even the fucking people he kidnapped came out later and said that he was very polite and respectful to them while they were in captivity, and that it was pretty much the most pleasant kidnapping they'd ever experienced. That should give you some indication of what this dude was all about – steal from the rich, give to the poor, make a profit in the process, and be completely awesome all of the goddamned time. He also made a vow never to harm a member of the public in his criminal escapades. He's been true to his word.

In true badass fashion, Vassilis Paleokostas also has a trusty sidekick – a lunatic Albanian named Alket Rizai. Rizai is like the Friar Tuck in this story, only if instead of being a benevolent, staff-swinging priest, the clergyman was a crazy gunman with a hair-trigger and a penchant for firing automatic weapons at heavily-armed tactical police officers. Rizai is currently up on charges for murder, though I haven't really been able to track down any details about any of that (that's the problem with trying to research current events, I suppose). My assumption is that he was being attacked by some evil corrupt officers sent by the Sherriff of Nottingham and responded by burning a full clip of Uzi ammunition into them, jumping through a plate glass window, rescuing a damsel in distress, and swinging off on a chandelier with a hot babe clinging to his rippling biceps. According to a Greek friend of mine, this guy once blew up a known Mafia hangout by shooting it with a fucking rocket launcher.

Of course, the downside to being a career criminal – even a happy-go-lucky one who commits non-violent crimes in the name of the oppressed populace – is that eventually the long arm of the law is going to bitch-slap you in the fucking face really really hard. In 1995, Vassilis Paleokostas was caught by the fuzz, convicted of kidnapping, robbery, and weapons charges, and hauled off to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary known as Korydallos Prison.



Now over the years, Korydallos Prison has gained a reputation as being one of the harshest and most brutal prisons in Greece. This place is like a mix between Andersonville, Oz, and that stupid plastic box they keep Magneto inside in the X-Men movies. The warden is a hardass son-of-a-bitch, the guards don't give a shit, and people that go inside the facility never come out.

Except Vassilis Paleokostas.

In June 2006, Paleokostas' older brother (another pathological criminal who is now serving jail time on 16 counts of armed robbery) commandeered a helicopter, and landed it right in the middle of the fucking exercise yard of the prison in broad daylight. The armed guards at Korydallos, not expecting to be subjected to such an unbelievable display of gigantic steel-plated testicles, assumed that this chopper belonged to the warden or the Chief of Prisons or something, and instead of investigating it they all decided to make sure their shoes were appropriately spit-shined so as not to incur a citation from their wrathful bosses. Vassilis (who had orchestrated the entire operation from the beginning) and his Albanian buddy simply walked up to the helicopter, hopped inside, and lifted off. By the time the guards got their heads out of their asses and started firing their guns at the bird, it was already too late. Paleokostas had escaped.

So the Greek police put out an all-points bulletin, and a nation-wide manhunt began for the Greek Robin Hood. Officers, dogs, and federal agents scoured the countryside for this fugitive day and night, relentlessly following leads and doing everything in their power to bring this wanted criminal to justice.

Paleokostas evaded them for two and a half years. He lived in the mountains outside Athens, evaded all attempts to recapture him, and even orchestrated another high-profile kidnapping in the process – snatching a powerful jackass CEO industrialist, ransoming him for a huge wad of cash, and once again distributing the loot to local farmers and families. There are also rumors that he planned and executed another kidnapping while he was still incarcerated, which is bonus points no matter how you look at it.

In August 2008, Paleokostas was tracked down and re-captured by the Greek police. He was placed in a different maximum security facility, where he was held for another six months, awaiting trial for his brazen escape in 2006. On 21 February 2009, Vassilis Paleokostas was transferred back to his old home – Korydallos Prison. His trial was to begin on the 23rd, and he was to stay in his former holding area while he stood trial for this crime.

But he never made it to trial. The very next day, 22 February, ANOTHER FUCKING HELICOPTER showed up in the skies above Korydallos Prison. It flew over a large tower of the prison, lowered a long rope ladder, and Vassilis Paleokostas and Alket Rizai climbed up into the chopper. As the helicopter flew off into the sunset, the prisoners of Korydallos cheered.


Greek police opened fire on the chopper as it flew off, but a woman returned fire with an AK-47 assault rifle. Now having hot Greek babes with automatic weapons come save your ass from prison isn't the sort of thing that happens to normal people every day, but that's just how things work out for you when you're a badass like Vassilis Paleokostas.

The police eventually tracked down the helicopter, and found that it had ditched on the side of the road outside Athens with a bullet hole in the gas tank. According to the pilot, Paleokostas and his associates left the chopper and drove off on totally sweet motorcycles to an undisclosed location. They also popped some totally bitchin' wheelies while doing so.

Vassilis not only earned his freedom for the second time, and once again showed the world that his ballsack is roughly the size of a small continent, but he also got some sweet delicious revenge on the motherfuckers in charge of the Greek prison system at the same time. For allowing the same guy to escape the same prison in the same manner twice in a row, the Greek government fired the country's Chief of Prisons, the Inspector-General of Prisons, the warden of Korydallos, and three guards at the facility. They all learned what it means to step to somebody as awesome as the Greek Robin Hood.

Vassilis Paleokostas is fully rad because he kicked ass, won the respect of the people, said "fuck you" to the police, and managed to single-handedly place the country's three top-ranking prison officials in the back of the unemployment line.

He is still at large.

[Cojafoji]

HAHA That guy is AWESOME.

[Bodzilla]

:legend:

[Penguin]

Crazy how he managed to pull off the second escape. Rope ladder?

[UnevenElefant5]

Holy shit...

[Llama Juice]

http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Game+teaches+through+eyes+superhero/2555770/story.html



LONDON, Ont. — Health officials in this southwestern Ontario city hope a new video game, launched Thursday, will get teenagers learning about sex through the eyes of a superhero.
The online game by the Middlesex London Health Unit gets a player to choose a character and answer true-or-false questions about sexual activity.
Players can either be a man wearing a condom on his head named Captain Condom; a virgin named Wonder Vag; a boy named Willy the Kid who believes size doesn't matter or Power Pap, a sexually active gal.
Each character will have to fight the game's super villain, the Sperminator, a muscular man wearing a red wrestling mask with penis arms, by correctly answering a number of questions. If they get an answer wrong, they'll get shot by sperm.
If a question is answered correctly, the character will be able to block the sperm with a condom.
The game also has links to health clinics, videos, contraceptive information, and posters. It will be promoted at some public schools across the region.
The game can be played at www.getitonlondon.com (http://www.getitonlondon.com/) and is recommended for young people aged 15 to 24.


Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Game+teaches+through+eyes+superhero/2555770/story.html#ixzz0fhXjIndf



E: Oh, there's a thread (http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=20524) already.. oh well.

[Yoko]

http://www.thephatphree.com/features.asp?StoryID=1515

"You Can't Plinko For Shit You Dumb Whore"

Are you fucking retarded, lady? Because if so, I'll give you a pass. But anything short of Downs would officially make you the worst Plinko player in the history of "The Price Is Right"! And this show has been on since World War One. Bob Barker started it in 1917 as a patriotic service to keep war brides distracted from the bloodshed raging on the Western Front. TPIR has been rolling ever since.

And in all of that time, never has there been a Plinko contestant who has rivaled you in sheer impotence and stupidity.

Just look at yourself. You have one Plinko chip. One goddamned chip to play with. And that's the free disk that Mr. Barker, in his unfailingly magnanimous nature, saw fit to GIVE you, despite the fact that you guessed NONE of the prices correctly on any of the four common, everyday grocery items that were presented before you.
...

[ICEE]

Bumping this because it isn't really threadworthy.


Women have been serving admirably in warzones for the U.S. military for about a decade. But they're absent from the ranks of modern video game armies. A game developer offered Kotaku a justification of why we virtually fight as men. The answer, offered by Gordon Van Dyke, producer of the new Electronic Arts modern warfare game Battlefield: Bad Company 2, has to do with technology. Or, more specifically, it has to do with technology needs trumping any sense of consumer demand for representation of both genders.
Programming women soldiers into a virtual war just might not be worth the costs to the game and the servers that connect the people playing it.
The topic came up on last week's Kotaku podcast, when I asked Van Dyke if there were women in Bad Company 2. I'd noticed that the games I'd played set in modern or near-future settings were almost always fought by men and men only.
"There's no girls in our game," he said around the 33-minute mark (http://kotaku.com/5485687/the-newest-kotaku-podcast-is-oscar-mike-on-itunes-zune--more).
"It's an interesting thing, though because … It's fun that you bring that up because I can kind of give some insight into development and how games are made. When you actually put in female characters, typically you have to put in an entire new skeleton model and that entire new skeleton model adds an entire new level of animation and an entire new level of rigging. You basically double the amount of data and memory for soldiers that would need to go into your game.
"So it turns into one of those things that's like: How much will putting something like this in give us, whether the rewards of putting something like this in [are worth it]. The reward has to match what you have to give up somewhere else. Our games are pushing the edge of the system they're on at such a high degree that it becomes more of a balancing act for implementing new things — how many vehicles you can have in a game or how many buildings with destruction — because every single one of those things needs to be calculated by the server and transmitted to every single play that's playing the game. Every time you shoot a building or wall, they [need] to see it when it happens or, if you go past that, at a later date, the server needs to remember that data and then transmit it to all those players."
It doesn't require much special programming to change a virtual soldier's skin tone. Heights and weights, though, usually stay fixed. So too, Van Dyke explained, does gender for likely the same reasons — unless gamers would want their virtual female soldiers to run and move like men.
And what of the trade-off? The ability for the walls in a virtual battlefield to break and stay broken may sound trifling to non-gamers. But within the context of games, it is a literal breakthrough. Walls have been immutable in games since the days of Pac-Man, and while games have, from time to time, allowed barriers to be broken, it's still a rare feat.
Imagine the gameplay implications of Pac-Man being able to bash through a wall to escape Inky, Blinky or Clyde. It would certainly have had more profound impact on how Pac-Man played than adding a bow to Pac-Man's "head" and calling him "Ms. Pac-Man," right?
Video games can sometimes be accused of being behind the times in regards to social issues and minority representation. That women can't even fight in 2010 war games such as Bad Company 2 and MAG — even as real women reportedly serve admirably in the real military (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/us/16women.html) — would seem to be retrograde, but maybe the tech excuse is a good one.
Do female characters need to be put in virtual combat? Or, more to the point, are they more important than crumbling walls?

source (http://kotaku.com/5488592/why-modern-video-game-armies-lack-female-troops)


I bet any of us here could have answered this question, but I post this here because it seems a bit silly.

[p0lar_bear]

Oh baww.

This probably should have gone into the political correctness thread, actually, very fitting.

[Penguin]

Body of Missing Mom Found in Bed Frame:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35914179/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

They got me when they described her as being "stuffed" into the thing.

[EX12693]

Lol wow...

Why didn't i think of that?

[mech]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/17/walmart.racial.remark/index.html?hpt=T2


ALL BLACKS LEAVE

[EX12693]

Snafubarrrr.....

[Cagerrin]

http://io9.com/5499652/british-military-developing-force-fields

Royal Space Navy, etc...

[Con]

http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers

good read

[Ganon]

bmw supremacy

[Cojafoji]

:iamafag:


I took Boyfriend to the Emergency Room last night because he was vomiting up vast quantities of what I thought was blood but actually it was just Craisins. You guys, if you feel like you may become violently ill in the near future, stay away from red food. Failure to do so may create an atmosphere of unnecessary panic and chaos.

Anyway, the doctor wanted to make sure that Boyfriend didn't have SARS or stomach AIDS or something, so he had to poke him a lot. While he was doing this to Boyfriend, he pointed to a little reference chart on the wall and asked Boyfriend to rate his pain:





http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/S3JYGwMXJwI/AAAAAAAABos/MQsKBVM5GOQ/s640/Photo+18.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/S3JYGwMXJwI/AAAAAAAABos/MQsKBVM5GOQ/s1600-h/Photo+18.jpg)

You've probably seen some version of that chart before. You may also have noticed how inadequate it is at helping you. Based on the faces, this is my interpretation of the chart:

0: Haha! I'm not wearing any pants!

2: Awesome! Someone just offered me a free hot dog!

4: Huh. I never knew that about giraffes.

6: I'm sorry about your cat, but can we talk about something else now? I'm bored.

8: The ice cream I bought barely has any cookie dough chunks in it. This is not what I expected and I am disappointed.

10: You hurt my feelings and now I'm crying!

None of that is medically useful and it doesn't even have all the numbers, so I made a better one with all the numbers:




http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/S3R1j_l5ErI/AAAAAAAABpM/J9BI2RD0GEg/s640/painfaces0-6.png (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/S3R1j_l5ErI/AAAAAAAABpM/J9BI2RD0GEg/s1600-h/painfaces0-6.png)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/S3R2WxDSVNI/AAAAAAAABpU/F9aVHYeF7NM/s640/painfaces7-12.png (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/S3R2WxDSVNI/AAAAAAAABpU/F9aVHYeF7NM/s1600-h/painfaces7-12.png)
0: Hi. I am not experiencing any pain at all. I don't know why I'm even here.

1: I am completely unsure whether I am experiencing pain or itching or maybe I just have a bad taste in my mouth.

2: I probably just need a Band Aid.

3: This is distressing. I don't want this to be happening to me at all.

4: My pain is not fucking around.

5: Why is this happening to me??

6: Ow. Okay, my pain is super legit now.


7: I see Jesus coming for me and I'm scared.

8: I am experiencing a disturbing amount of pain. I might actually be dying. Please help.

9: I am almost definitely dying.

10: I am actively being mauled by a bear.

11: Blood is going to explode out of my face at any moment.

Too Serious For Numbers: You probably have ebola. It appears that you may also be suffering from Stigmata and/or pinkeye.

[mech]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/26/china.astroturf/index.html?hpt=Sbin



According to noted China researcher Rebecca MacKinnon, the answer is China, which allegedly employs 280,000 people to troll the Internet and make the government look good.That's a lot of trolls :ohdear:



http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/30/japan.video.game.rape/index.html?hpt=Sbin

I lol'd hard.


No one should play a game where the only way to win is to rape.

lmao, the irony.

[ultama121]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/30/japan.video.game.rape/index.html?hpt=Sbin
I lol'd hard.

Lol CNN, they're very very behind on this. This controversy happened last year. Fucking feminists need to :gtfo:.

I wouldn't care about this in the slightest if it didn't affect visual novels, which is a legitimate medium with some (seriously) amazing stories.

[ICEE]

You can't argue that rape is an acceptable gameplay element. At least in war games you generally have a just cause for doing what your doing.

[ultama121]

I can't tell whether or not there's sarcasm in your post.

Just clearing this up for those who don't know (probably most people here):
Visual novels are completely different from RapeLay, they're literally novels with visuals, music, voice acting, and sound effects. As in any other medium, visual novels can contain sexual content, but their purpose (usually) isn't porn... buuuuuuuuuuuuttt... In the eyes of the Japanese rating system, visual novels and games like RapeLay are grouped into the same classification, "Hentai games". Sadly, because of that, games that serve purposes other than porn (read: tell stories, like regular novels), but still contain sexual content, are affected.

[teh lag]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7081986.ece


A man has been sent to prison after he attempted to force his way into a female colleague’s life by breaking into her house and framing her husband for downloading child pornography.


brilliant plan

[mech]

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2010/04/03/20100403egg-hunt-body-ON.html

:ohdear:

[Cojafoji]

D D D D D Double post.

Looks like the FCC lost. Net Neutrality just got popped in the head D:
Article Here (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/court-throws-out-fccs-smackdown-of-comcast-p2p-blocking.ars)


The FCC's decision to sanction Comcast (http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/08/fcc-order-scolds-comcast-for-changing-story-on-p2p-blocking.ars) for its 2007 P2P blocking was overruled today by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. The question before the court was whether the FCC had the legal authority to "regulate an Internet service provider's network management practice." According to a three-judge panel, "the Commission has failed to make that showing" and the FCC's order against Comcast is tossed.
When the complaints against Comcast first surfaced, they noted that the company was violating the FCC's "Internet Policy Statement" drafted in 2005. That statement provided "four freedoms" to Internet users, including freedom from traffic discrimination apart from reasonable network management. The FCC decided that Comcast's actions had not been "reasonable network management," but Comcast took to the agency to court, arguing that the FCC had no right to regulate its network management practices at all.
The Internet Policy Statement was not a rule; instead, it was a set of guidelines, and even the statement admitted that the principles weren't legally enforceable. To sanction Comcast, the FCC relied on its "ancillary" jurisdiction to implement the authority that Congress gave it—but was this kind of network management ruling really within the FCC's remit?
The court held that it wasn't, that Congress had never given the agency the authority necessary to do this, and that the entire proceeding was illegitimate. The FCC's "Order" against Comcast is therefore vacated; Comcast wins.
The decision wasn't a surprise; during oral argument earlier this year, the judges pressed the FCC's top lawyer repeatedly (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/skeptical-judges-ask-fcc-if-comcast-p2p-smackdown-was-legal.ars). The Policy Statement was "aspirational, not operational," they said; the FCC had not identified a "specific statute" Comcast violated; and the FCC "can't get an unbridled, roving commission to go about doing good."
Comcast pledged some time ago to change the way it handled traffic management, and it has already transitioned to a protocol-agnostic approach to congestion.

[Cojafoji]

This man is awesome.


The Brilliantly Weird World of MIT’s 'Mad' Scientist (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/03/the-brilliantly.html)

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/images/2008/03/10/c20mad20scientist_2_2_3.jpg (http://www.dailygalaxy.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/10/c20mad20scientist_2_2_3.jpg) He’s the unstable isotope that you can’t quite predict. Brilliant, extreme, eccentric, genius, gifted, demented—call him any or all. Each one applies to artist/scientist, Joe Davis, a research affiliate in the Department of Biology at MIT who has done extensive research in molecular biology and bio-informatics for the production of genetic databases and new biological art forms
Colleagues alternately fear and revere his unconventional ideas, such as pushing for a space shuttle experiment that would have shot a 100,000-watt electron gun into the magnetosphere to create the world’s first artificial aurora. It might not have advanced science in a conventional way, but it would have been striking to behold.

Here are six of our favorite Joe Davis weird-science brainstorms:

1. Audio Microscope -a microscope that translates light information into sound allowing you to "hear" living cells, each with its own "aucustic signature."
2. Experiments with how E. coli respond to jazz, and other sounds, with Andrew Zaretsky - "the project is not too far afield from the work of the Demain lab, which concerns itself more with microbiology and the production of secondary metabolites such as antibiotics by bacteria. If the sound waves prove stressful to the bacteria, the stress might result in increased production of antibiotics, according to Zaretsky."
3. Putting a map of the Milky Way into the ear of a transgenic mouse - "inspired in this project by a children’s story an ex-girlfriend wrote eight years ago. He has taken the map of the Milky Way and reduced that information to sequence of 3,867 DNA base pairs. He has an agreement with Millenium Pharmaceuticals to synthesize the DNA sequence in 100 base pair chunks."
4. "‘primordial’ clocks, his own test of theory that life spontaneously self-assembled. To Davis, if life could assemble from simple molecules, so could clocks, a much simpler system."
5. "...ways to make artistic use of high-voltage electricity and spacebound signals. In the early 1980s, he drew up plans for channeling lightning bolts into a pulsed laser of almost unparalleled energy and into towering sculptures that would change the bolts' color and emit incredibly loud tones..."
6. "recorded the vaginal contractions of ballerinas with the Boston Ballet and other women, then translated this impetus of human conception into text, music, phonetic speech and ultimately into radio signals, which were beamed from MIT's Millstone radar to Epsilon Eridani, Tau Ceti, and two other nearby star systems.

In a sense, all of Davis’ scientific projects are driven by his desire to experience sensory oddities. His unique embrace of both art and science makes it hard to categorize what he’s doing, and wonder if it even if it can or should be categorized. To get a feel for Davis’ inability to assimilate, in life and art; here’s a brief sampling of Davis’ reality.
• Expelled from three high schools and two colleges: for writing about atheism, refusing a haircut, making a still (which exploded), being elected student body president on a "free marijuana" platform and working on an underground anti-war newspaper. In other words, he was a very naughty boy.
• Walked into the M.I.T. Center for Advanced Visual Studies uninvited in 1982. Secretary called the cops. Forty-five minutes later, Davis walked out with an appointment as a research fellow.
• Latest project is to build a biomechanical ornithopter powered by electrically stimulated frogs legs and to fly it across the Charles river.
• Uses his self-made hollow steel peg leg to open beer bottles, to accompany the band (bugle-style) at his local bar.
While celebrated for his unique take on “art”, some of his projects are so potentially dangerous that museums are afraid to expose the public to his creations.
It was 15 years ago that Davis first decided that genes, the make up of life itself, were a rich new medium for art. After having this revelation, his first order of business was to convince molecular biologists at Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Berkeley to teach him how to synthesize DNA and insert it into the genomes of living bacteria.
"In the beginning scientists were not comfortable talking to me," Davis recalls. "It took a while for them to trust me with their secrets." That is probably a good thing, he admits. "I still come up with ideas that are dangerous and don't realize that they are dangerous. For example there is a 200-mer [a sequence of 200 amino acids] that folds into a highly geometric capsule. I had this idea of creating Kepler's nested polyhedra [once thought to define the planetary orbits] in these viral capsids." Fortunately, Davis ran the idea by one of his genetics mentors first. "He pointed out that I could inadvertently create a supervirus."
Fortunately Davis did not inadvertently create a supervirus, but ended up instead creating what he calls "an infogene, a gene to be translated by the machinery of human beings into meaning, and not by the machinery of cells into protein." His aim was to send a message in a bottle to extraterrestrials: to genetically engineer a sign of human intelligence into the genome of bacteria, grow them up by the trillions and fling them out across the galaxy at random. The real message would really be directed towards human beings, who have yet to fully grasp the fact that DNA can encode any information, not just genetic sequences.
Davis chose E. coli for his proposed experiment, a bacterium on which humans depend for proper digestion and one that, in NASA experiments, has survived more than five years of exposure to the intense cold and radiation of deep space. For his message, he selected Microvenus, a Germanic rune representing life and an outline of the external female genitalia. Formed elegantly and simply like an “I” superimposed over a “Y”.
Digitized and translated into a string of 28 DNA nucleotides, Microvenus was then imbedded into genes of E. coli. The bacteria quickly multiplied in its beakers into billions of cells, each carrying it’s own genetic image of the icon.
"I'm probably the most successful publisher in history," Davis says with a laugh. "There are more copies of my work than of Salvador Dali's, Escher's and all the rest of them put together."
Microvenus became the most highly reproduced graphic to ever exist, but no gallery was willing to risk the public display of genetically engineered bacteria in the U.S. Finally last year Microvenus was put on public display in a positive-pressure biological containment facility erected at the Ars Electronica exhibition in Linz, Austria. Visitors could see the actual cultures of the transgenic bacteria along with posters of the icon with explanations of how and why the image was encoded into the E. coli genome.
So, are our tax dollars paying for this madness? I wish they were. If only the government would support truly innovative, fascinating art, rather than the vaguely imaginative, mostly placid already-been-done disappointments currently sucking up the allotments.
Despite the fact that Davis is widely acknowledged as a pioneer of transgenic art, giving 14 invited lectures last year at universities and conferences across the nation, he still remains utterly dependent on donations of equipment and expertise from fellow scientists.
"They are increasingly skittish about getting too close for fear of the wrong kind of publicity," says David Gessel, an engineer with Nebucon who has aided Davis on several projects. "Fortunately, Joe's always been a good Tom Sawyer of people," He observes. "It helps that he is consistently rigorous in his intellectual approach."
Davis obviously pursues his work as a passion rather than for money, as the majority of scientists (and the rest of us) do. He sells his conventional sculptures to friends at cost and cannot sell his transgenic art at all.
In spite of being a brilliant scientist and artist, Davis flirts on the verge of homelessness, with no fixed address. When he returned from the European exhibit last fall, there was an eviction notice on his door. Much of what he rescued from the sheriff's auction is now jammed into a decrepit Volvo station wagon that he obtained in trade for a self-assembling clock (another strange project).
Like many great artists, perhaps Davis will be doomed to a life of poverty and relative obscurity until his true genius is celebrated long after he is around to hear the praises. I hope not.

[Yoko]

Steve Jobs hates n&gros
http://consumerist.com/2010/04/apple-store-goes-on-security-lockdown-when-you-try-to-buy-a-laptop.html


What would you think if this happened to you? This guy, Owen JJ Stone (http://ohdoctah.com/shows/monday-meds/forerunner/#), says he walked into the Apple Store to get a laptop, and when he asked for a specific model, security went on lockdown. People were touching their ears, saying code words, and blocking the exits.
What would you think if this happened to you? He doesn't want to call it "racism", but he definitely feels weird about it.
We join Mr. Stone after he has just asked a male Apple store employee for a specific model Macbook:

“ "The girl looks at me and she says, "Oh would you like me to show it to you?" And I said, "No, I have a Macbook, I had one, I have an iMac, I know what I want. If you could just get me one, that would be great because I'm kinda in a rush, I'd appreciate that."
So, the girl looks at the guy and says "forerunner."
[...]
When she said, "forerunner," the gentleman touched his ear, and uh, then the security guard came up to the middle of the register, two people went and stood by the door, people were standing around me, and I'm like "Dude, do think I'm gonna steal this Macbook?"
And he's like, "Oh, no, no, no." ”

http://ohdoctah.com/shows/monday-meds/forerunner/#

[Cojafoji]

If you read the comments, you'd have realized that all of those are typical warning signs of either theft (smash and grab) or credit card fraud, exacerbated by the fact that apple stores have higher instances of said thefts/fraud.

[Yoko]

Big black guy comes in wearing a jersey and they assume he's gonna break/steal something. Anti-black measures at every Apple store because hipsters are scared of darkies :hay:

[cheezdue]

Guidelines for cats (http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/hum1/guidelines_for_cats.htm)

[Cojafoji]

My dick just got REALLLLLLLLY hard.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8645511.stm



Europe has chosen the place it wants to build the world's biggest telescope.
The observatory will be constructed on Cerro Armazones, a 3,000m-high mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.

The E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) will have a primary mirror 42m in diameter - about five times the width of today's best telescopes.

Astronomers say the next-generation observatory will be so powerful it will be able to image directly rocky planets beyond our Solar System.

It should also be able to provide major insights into the nature of black holes, galaxy formation, the mysterious "dark matter" that pervades the Universe, and the even more mysterious "dark energy" which appears to be pushing the cosmos apart at an accelerating rate.

E-ELT - BIGGEST EYE ON THE SKY
Basic design completed in 2006; detailed work now under way
Main mirror consists of 984 segments; each is 1.45m wide
Final image requires use of four further - but smaller - mirrors
Latest optics techniques correct for atmospheric distortions
Construction could start in 2011; likely cost is one billion euros

Final go-ahead for the E-ELT is expected at the end of this year.
The European Southern Observatory (Eso) organisation which is managing the project says it hopes the telescope can be operational by 2018.

The estimated cost is in the region of a billion euros.

The decision on the E-ELT site was taken by the ESO Council after several years of study at competing locations that included other places in Chile, and in the Canary Islands, Spain.


http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47722000/jpg/_47722552_-7.jpg
The 5,500-tonne behemoth could be operating by 2018



Cerro Armazones is just 20km from Cerro Paranal, where Eso operates its Very Large Telescope facility - a suite of interconnected telescopes that includes four units with primary mirrors measuring 8.2m.

Like Paranal, Armazones will enjoy near-perfect observing conditions - at least 320 nights a year when the sky is cloudless. The Atacama's famous aridity means the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is very limited, reducing further the perturbation starlight experiences as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere.

Coming up with a workable design has been a challenge. It is impossible to make a monolithic mirror on such a scale and so the primary reflecting surface will be composed of 984 hexagonal segments, each 1.45m in size.

The E-ELT will thus be able to gather 15 times more light than the largest optical telescopes operating today. It will also provide images 15 times sharper than those from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The huge telescope is one of the major projects listed on a roadmap of research infrastructures that Europe feels it needs to fulfil its scientific goals over the next 20 years.

Other facilities range from high-powered laser systems through to a plan to construct the world's most advanced polar ice-breaker.

[Bodzilla]

god bless europe.

at least the entire word isnt run by fucking bean counters.
good job guys!

[teh lag]

IT sounds like a comic book plot - Spiderman foils a would-be thief as Star Wars Jedi Knights block the escape route and superhero The Flash looks on.

But this was the scene played out in a city shop on Saturday, when a business owner dressed as Spiderman stopped a man shoplifting an X-Men book worth $160.

Adelaide Comics Centre owner Michael Baulderstone, 45, spotted a man "behaving suspiciously" at the back of his Rundle Mall store, before discovering he had put the valuable book in his backpack.

"We had about 40 people dressed up as their favourite superheroes to celebrate International Free Comic Day, so he didn't have much of a choice but to hand the X-Men Omnibus back after a little bit of a scuffle," he said.

"I've had a look at the security footage and it shows Spiderman running down the corridor of the shop, grabbing this guy, hauling him off.
"Everyone in the store thought it was a play, that it was street theatre of some sort. It wasn't until I said `call the police' that people started to realise."

Police confirmed they attended the comic book shop just before 10am and are continuing their investigation into the incident.

"One of the funniest things about the incident was that I called for people to stand near the door and it just so happened we had people dressed as Jedi Knights there blocking the exit, the Flash was there at some point too," Mr Baulderstone said.

"It was a bit serious at the time, but now we're looking back laughing at what greeted police."

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/spiderman-traps-thief-for-real/story-e6frea83-1225861501536

hmm.

[OmegaDragon]

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/47/13239531.jpg
Fired from his job at the Analsausage Fuck Factory, Lucifer Niggerbastard sets off on an epic quest with his compatriots, a burbling sack of babyshit and Rojir the razor-bladed dildo. Written based off an outline of the events of Virgil’s Aeneid scribbled on the back of a cocktail napkin by a drunk, The Vagina Ass of Lucifer Niggerbastard is an epic tale told in a bizarro-author’s take on the ancient Homeric masters. Hey, all writers are thieves. It’s just illegal if the dead author you steal from hasn’t rotted enough yet. Actually, this book is pretty much nothing like the Aeneid. It’s more like the Odyssey, only more fucked up, more epic, and definitely more interesting to read. Is it a commentary on how fucked up things are yet again? Maybe. Probably. Yes. If you don’t have a sense of humor or “bad words” get your ass in a twist, don’t read this fucking book. (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-vagina-ass-of-lucifer-niggerbastard/10891067)

Wat

Edit: Make sure you read the first chapter in the preview to get a taste of this marvelous book...

[Bodzilla]

that looks like a sensational read.

PS, what did you type in to find that.
:raise:

[Cojafoji]

LOL niggerbastard...

Gotta get a copy of that...

[annihilation]

March 8) -- Sometimes multitasking has its limits.

Such is the case in the Florida Keys, where police say a 37-year-old woman crashed her 1995 Ford Thunderbird into another car as she attempted to shave her bikini area.

According to the arrest report, on March 2, Megan Mariah Barnes told Florida State Trooper Gary Dunick that she was on her way to Key West to meet her boyfriend, and that she "wanted to be ready for the visit." So, police say she had her ex-husband, Charles Judy, who was riding in the passenger seat, take the wheel while she attended to her pubic hair.


sauce (http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/megan-mariah-barnes-crashes-car-while-shaving-bikini-area-police-say/19387991?icid=sphere_aolnews_inline)

Looks like

She was in a hairy situation.
:caruso:

[Cortexian]

That would of been forgivable if she was hot, but no, of course not.

[Cojafoji]

Ugh god damnit. That picture was not the way I wanted to start the day...

[Cojafoji]

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/fusion-ignition-0510.html

Also, master chief would be raped by Worf. Straight up anally penetrated to death.

http://i.imgur.com/xQri1.png

I know decades away but still.


Russia and Italy have entered into an agreement to build a new fusion reactor outside Moscow that could become the first such reactor to achieve ignition, the point where a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining instead of requiring a constant input of energy. The design for the reactor, called Ignitor, originated with MIT physics professor Bruno Coppi, who will be the project’s principal investigator.

The concept for the new reactor builds on decades of experience with MIT’s Alcator fusion research program, also initiated by Coppi, which in its present version (called Alcator C-Mod) has the highest magnetic field and highest plasma pressure (two of the most important measures of performance in magnetic fusion) of any fusion reactor, and is the largest university-based fusion reactor in the world.

The key ingredient in all fusion experiments is plasma, a kind of hot gas made up of charged particles such as atomic nuclei and electrons. In fusion reactors, atomic nuclei — usually of isotopes of hydrogen called deuterium and tritium — are forced together through a combination of heat and pressure to overcome their natural electrostatic repulsion. When the nuclei join together, or fuse, they release prodigious amounts of energy.

Ignitor would be about twice the size of Alcator C-Mod, with a main donut-shaped chamber 1.3 meters across, and have an even stronger magnetic field. It will be much smaller and less expensive than the major international fusion project called ITER (with a chamber 6.2 meters across), currently under construction in France. Though originally designed to achieve ignition, the ITER reactor has been scaled back and is now not expected to reach that milestone.

The Ignitor reactor, Coppi says, will be “a very compact, inexpensive type of machine,” and unlike the larger ITER could be ready to begin operations within a few years. Its design is based on a particularly effective combination of factors that researchers unexpectedly discovered during the many years of running the Alcator program, and that were later confirmed in experiments at other reactors. Together, these factors produce especially good confinement of the plasma and a high degree of purity (impurities in the hot gases can be a major source of inefficiency). The new design aims to preserve these features to produce the highest plasma current densities — the amount of electric current in a given area of plasma. The design also has additional structures needed to produce and confine burning fusion plasmas in order to create the conditions needed for ignition, Coppi says.

Coppi plans to work with the Italian ministry of research and Evgeny Velikhov, president of the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, to finalize the distribution of tasks for the machine, the core of which is to be built in Italy and then installed in Troitsk, near Moscow, on the site of that institute’s present Triniti reactor. Velikhov, as it happens, is also the chair of the ITER council. Coppi says of these two different programs, “there’s no competition, we are complementary.”

Although seen as a possible significant contributor to the world’s energy needs because it would be free of greenhouse-gas emissions, practical fusion power remains at least two decades away, most scientists in the field agree. But the initial impetus for setting up the Alcator reactor in the 1970s had more to do with pure science: “It was set up to simulate the X-ray stars that we knew at that time,” says Coppi, whose research work has as much to do with astrophysics as with energy. Stars are themselves made of plasma and powered by fusion, and the only way to study their atomic-level behavior in detail is through experiments inside fusion reactors.

Once the reactor was in operation, he says, “we found we were producing plasmas with unusual properties,” and realized this might represent a path to the long-sought goal of fusion ignition.

Roscoe White, a distinguished research fellow at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, says that “the whole point of Ignitor is to find out how a burning plasma behaves, and there could be pleasant or unpleasant results coming from it. Whatever is learned is a gain. Nobody knows exactly how it will perform, that is the point of the experiment.” But while its exact results are unknown, White says it is important to pursue this project in addition to other approaches to fusion. “With our present knowledge it is very risky to commit the program to a single track reactor development — our knowledge is still in flux,” he says.

In addition, he says, “the completion of ITER, the only currently projected burning plasma experiment, is decades off. Experimental data concerning a burning plasma would be very welcome, and could lead to important results helping the cause of practical fusion power.” Furthermore, the Ignitor approach, if all goes well, could lead to more compact and economical future reactors: Some recent results from existing reactors, plus new information to be gained from Ignitor, “could lead to reactor designs much smaller and simpler than ITER,” he says.

Coppi remains especially interested in the potential of the new reactor to make new discoveries about fundamental physics. Quoting the late MIT physicist and Institute Professor Bruno Rossi, Coppi says, “whenever you do experiments in an unknown regime, you will find something new.” The new machine’s findings, he suggests, “will have a strong impact on astrophysics.”

[Limited]

Less of an article, more of a story.

Mr Cadbury met Ms Rowntree on a Double Decker, it was just After Eight. They got off at Quality Street, in front of Fishermans Friend pub. He asked her name, "Polo, I'm the one with the hole" she said with a quiet Wispa. "I'm Marathon, the one with the nuts" he said! Then he touched her Creme Eggs. They checked into a hotel, he slipped his hands into her Snickers and felt her Milky Way. He fondled her Flap Jacks and she rubbed his Tic Tacs. It was a Fab moment as she let out a scream of sheer Turkish Delight! Sadly 3 days later his Sherbert Fountain started to drip. It turns out Ms Rowntree had been with Bertie Basset who had Allsorts.

:D:D

[itszutak]

Not really an article, but close enough.

The xkcd comic today is a joke on an obscure word that is in itself a joke- Malamanteau. As seen here. (http://xkcd.com/739/)

The result?

This shitstorm right here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Malamanteau)

Wikipedia is srs business

[Limited]

Someone doesnt know how to link!

[Inferno]

http://www.mikespickupblog.com/?s=pu1&b=



"How I went from a dorky looser that couldn't pickup anyone to being a successful player who gets any woman he wants by following 1 amazing RISK FREE product that changed my life"



"How I went fm a dorky looser that couldn't pickup anyone...



...a dorky looser that couldn't pickup anyone...



...a dorky looser...



...looser...
What is this?

:gonk:

[itszutak]

Someone doesnt know how to link!
Shaddup I've never been good at this sort of thing :<

[Con]

8 Websites You Need to Stop Building

http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/websites_stop/1.jpg
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/websites_stop

[teh lag]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/websites_stop


http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/websites_stop/8.jpg

Please.... please someone listen to this.

...why did Wikipedia change its front page
...why does Google do the fadey-in fadey-out thing on its main page now and change the buttons and logo
...why did Youtube change all of everything into a swamp of anti-intuitive garbage

Fuck web 2.0 up its generic apple-esque smooth and light-colored aesthetic asshole and I hope the people who popularized its use get burned alive.

[n00b1n8R]

I like using RSS on blogs and tags help me search for stuff on garrysmod.org.

Still, fuck every website trying to look ultramodern and identical.

[p0lar_bear]

Fuck web 2.0 up its generic apple-esque smooth and light-colored aesthetic asshole and I hope the people who popularized its use get burned alive.

...wouldn't that be the entirety of the internet? :ohdear:

[Cojafoji]

I know people will disagree, but web 2.0 did a lot for the interwebz. It helped to bring us out of the draconian in between of moderately ok web design and geocities bullshit. It was stuck there for a while. Post web 2.0 is nice compared to that. With 2.0 also brought usability to a whole new motherfuckinggoddamned level.

Fuck that meade was strong. Probably shouldn't have pounded the bottle...

[ExAm]

Old dude searches for crossword puzzle answer, finds porn (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2990390/Web-porn-But-I-was-only-after-br-wild-Asian-ass.html)



A CROSSWORD fan aged 89 used an internet search to solve a clue about a donkey - and was bombarded with hard-core porn.

Jack Sedgewick got stuck on 14 across: "Wild asian ass."
The great-grandad typed "asian ass" into Yahoo's search engine in the hope of finding the answer to the newspaper poser.
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01052/donkey_1052975a.jpgWild asian ass ... aka equus hemionus onagerJean-Paul Ferrero / ardea.com


But he was stunned when it threw up dozens of porn sites displaying photos of naked Asian girls. One offered "the hottest spicy asian ass you'll ever see".
Ex-engineer Jack said: "I was shaken. The images were horrendous. I didn't know this sort of stuff existed."
After trying variations on the theme with the same result, frantic Jack finally found the answer by changing his search to "donkey sanctuaries".
It was "onager" - sometimes known as "Wild Ass Asian" and found in deserts from the Mid East to Tibet.

[Bodzilla]

Good to know he's up too speed about what the internet is really for

[=sw=warlord]

the Crossbow cannibal.
(http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2992457/Triple-murder-suspect-Stephen-Griffiths-gives-name-as-The-Crossbow-Cannibal-in-court.html)




Mature student Griffiths is charged with murdering three vice girls - Suzanne Blamires, 36, Shelley Armitage, 31, and mum-of-three Susan Rushworth, 43 - since June last year.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2992457/Triple-murder-suspect-Stephen-Griffiths-gives-name-as-The-Crossbow-Cannibal-in-court.html#ixzz0pK8pY91b



Griffiths walked into court alongside three security guards at 10am.

His handcuffs had been removed and he swung his arms as he was ushered into the dock, with 12ft-high glass screens, in wood-panelled Court 3.

Miss Sour asked: "Can you give the court your name, please?"

He scratched the top of his head and told district judge Susan Bouch: "The Crossbow Cannibal."
:v:

[teh lag]

Ice cream truck music stops riot (http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Police-use-ice-cream-music-to-embarrass-teen-rioters-in-Belfast-95103964.html)


Nursery rhymes set to music are deeply uncool. Just ask the bottle-throwing teenagers on the Twinbrook estate on outskirts of west Belfast. Ice cream music was played to them as they misbehaved and it stopped them.

In an action that was cleverly psychological, the nursery tunes were blasted through the loudspeakers of a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) armored Land Rover after the patrol came under attack from about 15 teenagers last weekend.

The police have said no further action was taken. However it's understood that senior officers have taken a dim view of the successful tactic.

'The crew passed a group of around 15 youths who threw bottles at their Land Rover police vehicle,” a PSNI spokesman told the Belfast Telegraph.

“An officer used the vehicle's loudspeaker system to play music to the youths in an effort to use humor to defuse the situation. The youths stopped throwing the bottles. However police accept that this was not an appropriate action. The officer has been spoken to by a senior officer in order to establish the circumstances of the incident.”

Among those who did not see the funny side was Sinn Fein councilor Angela Nelson. “It was a very immature way for police to deal with a very serious problem,” she said. We have serious issues with on-street drinking and the anti-social behavior that results from that on-street drinking. I would have expected the PSNI to have a more mature outlook and not to come up and play ice cream tunes.”

Nelson dismissed the PSNI’s statement which said the music had defused a tense situation.

'”hat is a very good excuse when they have been caught out. It’s waffle. Where in the world does a police service say that their way of dealing with anti-social behavior is through humor?”

The answer to Nelson's question is Los Angeles. The Drew Street gang was for years one of the most dangerous street gangs in northeast L.A. Hooded gang members lurked behind parked cars and on apartment balconies. At night, tires squealed and gunshots echoed while neighbors huddled in their homes.

In response to the nightly terror the City renamed the streets where the gang congregated Gay Street and Pansy Square. Overnight, after the name change, the gang no longer congregated there and crime decreased.

Perhaps there's more to this humorous and psychological approach than may initially meet the eye.

[n00b1n8R]

http://www.downloadmoreram.com/

[Con]

the Bin Laden hunter

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37871587/ns/us_news-security/


(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37699948/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/?ns=world_news-south_and_central_asia)Gary Brooks Faulkner has been detained since June 13 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37699948/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/?ns=world_news-south_and_central_asia) after authorities found him in the woods of northern Pakistan with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment.

[p0lar_bear]

America, fuck year.

[Spartan094]

Oh god
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iowa_obama_billboard

Reminds me of the picture I posted in the random funny :v:

[Con]

Oh god
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iowa_obama_billboard

Reminds me of the picture I posted in the random funny :v:
There's some weird people out there :\



Kids around the country are getting high on the internet, thanks to MP3s that induce a state of ecstasy. And it could be a gateway drug leading teens to real-world narcotics. At least, that’s what Oklahoma News 9 is reporting about a phenomenon called “i-dosing,” which involves finding an online dealer who can hook you up with “digital drugs” that get you high through your headphones.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/digital-drugs/

[Inferno]

There's some weird people out there :\


http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/digital-drugs/

FFS, it's like the person writing the article doesn't have a clue how the neural beats work. You have to listen to these stupid synth waves for like 20 minutes to a hour with your eyes closed. They hardly do anything and it's boring and annoying to use them.

I'd rather just get drunk on Listerine. (not that I'd actually do that)

[Timo]

I tried listening to one of those things a few years ago, all it did was give me a headache ;\

[Con]

“The Internet’s like MTV,” the star said to The Mirror’s correspondent. “At one time, MTV was hip, and suddenly it became outdated.”


Not only is Prince down on the web; he also is decidedly not a fan of consumer electronics. “All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.”


:facepalm:

http://mashable.com/2010/07/06/prince-the-internet-is-over/

[iizahsum]

Fucking Internet numbers, How do they work?

[Futzy]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/7934433/comic-fans-launch-anti-gay-counterprotest

[kid908]

tea party got owned for not researching.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/102426-Anonymous-Punishes-the-Oregon-Tea-Party

[paladin]

yeah, because researching a 4chan gang is on the top of a political parties to-do list...

[kid908]

I've seen news that covered anon on tv and that quote was said and displayed. I'm pretty sure political activists watch some news...

[sevlag]

yeah, because researching a 4chan gang is on the top of a political parties to-do list...
they were well aware of who the slogan belonged to

then again anon always finds ways to bring things to justice

[Con]

Only in BC:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/08/17/bc-marijuana-grow-op-bears.html

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2010/08/17/bc-100817-pot-bear1.jpg


Police in southeastern B.C. have raided a marijuana grow operation that was apparently guarded by black bears.
Officers conducting the raid two weeks ago at Christina Lake found a property with two residential buildings and a fenced-off grow-op with about 1,000 plants, police said Tuesday.
But they also found about 10 bears that the owner appeared to be using to keep people from stealing any pot plants, said RCMP Sgt. Fred Mansveld.

[n00b1n8R]

Stevey has a new book!

God did not create the universe, says Hawking


LONDON (Reuters) – God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/lf_nm_life/us_britain_hawking#) argues in a new book.
In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/lf_nm_life/us_britain_hawking#mwpphu-container


Also


Evolution in Action: Lizard Moving From Eggs to Live Birth

Evolution has been caught in the act, according to scientists who are decoding how a species of Australian (http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/australia-guide/) lizard is abandoning egg-laying in favor of live birth.
Along the warm coastal lowlands of New South Wales (map) (http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine#s=h&c=-32.39851580247402,%20147.84301757812503&z=6), the yellow-bellied three-toed skink lays eggs to reproduce. But individuals of the same species living in the state's higher, colder mountains are almost all giving birth to live young.


Both articles have the expected shitstorm going on in the comments.

[Dwood]

Ooooooh evolution. Something we've observed and been able to prove since we could take a microscope to bacteria.... Still doesn't provide enough information to answer the "God, does he exist?" question entirely.

-Not trying to start a debate so if you reply with "munkys hurr durr" I'm going to ignore you-

[Bodzilla]

then why bring it up in the first place.

the burden of proof is with the accuser making wild outrageous claims such as celestial teapots, sandviches that heal cancer and god.
If you choose to ignore the facts, reasoning and evidence behind thousands of scientists over hundreds of years who specialize in this very thing, we have a right to laugh at you.
wHa79ODbfcg

what have you got against sandviches.

[ExAm]

Man steals 40,000 hotel coat hangers. Hilarity ensues. (http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/miles-kington/high-court-hangups-747313.html)



High court hang-ups

'Why did you steal 40,000 hotel coat hangers, knowing that hotel coat hangers are designed to be useless outside hotel wardrobes?'
Miles Kington

Tuesday, 15 October 2002


More from Miles Kington (http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/miles-kington/)

(http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/miles-kington/)
A most extraordinary trial is going on in the High Court at the moment in which a man named Chrysler is accused of stealing more than 40,000 coat hangers from hotels round the world. He admits his guilt, but in his defence he claims that – well, perhaps it would be simpler just to bring you a brief extract from the trial. We join the case at the point where Chrysler has just taken the stand.

Counsel: What is your name?
Chrysler: Chrysler. Arnold Chrysler.
Counsel: Is that your own name?
Chrysler: Whose name do you think it is?
Counsel: I am just asking if it is your name.
Chrysler: And I have just told you it is. Why do you doubt it?
Counsel: It is not unknown for people to give a false name in court.
Chrysler: Which court?
Counsel: This court.
Chrysler: What is the name of this court?
Counsel: This is No 5 Court.
Chrysler: No, that is the number of this court. What is the name of this court?
Counsel: It is quite immaterial what the name of this court is!
Chrysler: Then perhaps it is immaterial if Chrysler is really my name.
Counsel: No, not really, you see because...
Judge: Mr Lovelace?
Counsel: Yes, m'lud?
Judge: I think Mr Chrysler is running rings round you already. I would try a new line of attack if I were you.
Counsel: Thank you, m'lud.
Chrysler: And thank you from ME, m'lud. It's nice to be appreciated.
Judge: Shut up, witness.
Chrysler: Willingly, m'lud. It is a pleasure to be told to shut up by you. For you, I would...
Judge: Shut up, witness. Carry on, Mr Lovelace.
Counsel: Now, Mr Chrysler – for let us assume that that is your name – you are accused of purloining in excess of 40,000 hotel coat hangers.
Chrysler: I am.
Counsel: Can you explain how this came about?
Chrysler: Yes. I had 40,000 coats which I needed to hang up.
Counsel: Is that true?
Chrysler: No.
Counsel: Then why did you say it?
Chrysler: To attempt to throw you off balance.
Counsel: Off balance?
Chrysler: Certainly. As you know, all barristers seek to undermine the confidence of any hostile witness, or defendant. Therefore it must be equally open to the witness, or defendant, to try to shake the confidence of a hostile barrister.
Counsel: On the contrary, you are not here to indulge in cut and thrust with me. You are only here to answer my questions.
Chrysler: Was that a question?
Counsel: No.
Chrysler: Then I can't answer it.
Judge: Come on, Mr Lovelace! I think you are still being given the run-around here. You can do better than that. At least, for the sake of the English bar, I hope you can.
Counsel: Yes, m'lud. Now, Mr Chrysler, perhaps you will describe what reason you had to steal 40,000 coat hangers?
Chrysler: Is that a question?
Counsel: Yes.
Chrysler: It doesn't sound like one. It sounds like a proposition which doesn't believe in itself. You know – "Perhaps I will describe the reason I had to steal 40,000 coat hangers... Perhaps I won't... Perhaps I'll sing a little song instead..."
Judge: In fairness to Mr Lovelace, Mr Chrysler, I should remind you that barristers have an innate reluctance to frame a question as a question. Where you and I would say, "Where were you on Tuesday?", they are more likely to say, "Perhaps you could now inform the court of your precise whereabouts on the day after that Monday?". It isn't, strictly, a question, and it is not graceful English but you must pretend that it is a question and then answer it, otherwise we will be here for ever. Do you understand?
Chrysler: Yes, m'lud.
Judge: Carry on, Mr Lovelace.
Counsel: Mr Chrysler, why did you steal 40,000 hotel coat hangers, knowing as you must have that hotel coat hangers are designed to be useless outside hotel wardrobes?
Chrysler: Because I build and sell wardrobes which are specially designed to take nothing but hotel coat hangers.
Sensation in court. More of this tomorrow, I hope

[Bodzilla]

lmfao

that guy is a legend.

[=sw=warlord]

Darwin Award Nominee of the Day: So apparently this South Korean gentleman, frustrated at having just missed the elevator, began ramming the doors with his motorized scooter, at which point the panels gave way, and he plummeted down the elevator shaft to his untimely demise. (http://thedailywh.at/post/1257799831/darwin-award-nominee-of-the-day-so-apparently)

NSFW

[n00b1n8R]

Tetris (Soviet Academy of Sciences, available everywhere)
http://www.objectiveministries.org/zounds/ss-tetris.png

12.10.2008: Tetris is an action puzzle game where the player rotates falling block shapes to make them fit together in a pile. When a row is filled, it disappears, keeping the height of the pile of blocks from increasing. As the game progresses, it continually speeds up until the player starts making mistakes that allow the blocks to reach the top of the game area, ending the game. Tetris is unwinable, you can only put off your inevitable defeat. This fatalistic aspect of the game should come as no surprise since it was originally created in 1985 in the Soviet Union, where the Atheist government taught everyone that there is nothing but a bleak, pointless existence followed by death with no chance for Salvation. It is claimed that the word "tetris" comes from the game pieces all being made of four blocks. In reality, the game was named in mockery of the Trinity by adding a forth hypostasis, the Communist State, to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Because it is simple to program, versions of Tetris can be found on every game, computer, and operating system. There have even been implementations of Tetris done using computer controlled lights in office buildings, turning the lighted windows into the falling blocks. The ubiquity of Tetris is also because it is highly addictive. Its repetitive gameplay and use of a repetitive Russian folk tune causes players to slip into a hypnagogic state, making them receptive to the Communistic themes inherent in the game imagery (everyone is an unindividualistic block that must be made to fit together in Soviet conformity, and sometimes whole lines of people are made to disappear without any explanation). This is intentional, since, like all work done by the Soviet Academy of Science where Tetris was developed, it was part of secret military research, in this case having to do with mind control. (The US military also researched mind control video games in the 1980s, including one called "Polybius", but we never used them during the Cold War, unlike the Soviets who unleashed Tetris into the general public where it's still affecting people to this day.) Because of its fatalistic worldview and the danger it poses to people's God-given Free Will, all implementations of Tetris get ZERO CROSSES. [See our Tetris video exposé (http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=9087e814023eb2c18bcb) on GodTube.] Portal is just as bad but apparently Minecraft is A-OK. (http://www.objectiveministries.org/zounds/gaming.html)

[Bodzilla]

that my friend is some heavy duty trollin

[ICEE]

Portal is just as bad but apparently Minecraft is A-OK. (http://www.objectiveministries.org/zounds/gaming.html)

Jesus is like the ultimate torch! Let me tell you more!

[=sw=warlord]

Man who drove car with thought-powered arms dies after crashing into tree (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323063/Austrian-man-drove-car-thought-powered-arms-dies-crashing-tree.html)

[Con]

How is that funny? (in b4 funny vs random debate)

[=sw=warlord]

How is that funny? (in b4 funny vs random debate)

It comes under random.
I mean who would have thought someone who had both arms amputated would be allowed to drive a car let alone a Subaru Impreza?

[p0lar_bear]

It comes under random.

And we've discussed before that this is for funny articles, the "random" meaning that they're not tied to any sort of topic or discussion.

Yeah, I'm changing the damn thread titles back.

[ICEE]

I really liked it better when I thought that this was a thread for articles of general interest. not every article has to be funny to be worth a read.

[=sw=warlord]

I really liked it better when I thought that this was a thread for articles of general interest. not every article has to be funny to be worth a read.

This.
There have been plenty before me linking to random articles and now you're going to sulk because I linked one?

[ExAm]

And we've discussed before that this is for funny articles, the "random" meaning that they're not tied to any sort of topic or discussion.

Yeah, I'm changing the damn thread titles back.
You seem to have misunderstood the reason I created this thread. That was the original thread title you just mangled, Polar! Both PFR and AFR have always been about funny/random, not always funny & random. I thought you understood this? I've explained it to everyone who's tried to shoot down a post of something that wasn't exactly funny, but was still interesting. You're the last person I thought would think otherwise.

This is my thread, that is my intention, and I'm changing my damn thread title back the way I made it.

[Bodzilla]

mod fight!

[p0lar_bear]

Then you can change this thread title back.

PFR, however, was originally supposed to be for funny pictures as outlined above. Kornman got bored one day and messed with the order of the words in the thread title, and since then there's been confusion.

[ExAm]

So where do we put pictures that are of general interest, yet not particularly humorous? Make a separate thread for them? That seems a tad ridiculous. We already have a "best pictures you've seen" thread, and I think even that is pushing the decentralization a bit.

[Con]

I always thought the current system of 'the best pictures you've seen' and PFR worked well because if it's awesome and funny, it goes in PFR, and if its awesome and not funny it goes in 'the best pictures you've seen'. If it's not awesome, probably nobody cares to see it.

[ICEE]

I think the entire thing is clunky. We could sticky 3 threads

Pictures of particular intereste

Articles of general insighte

Videos for your probable entertaine

All funny and interesting things would be filed under their corresponding threads.

How is this a freaking issue

[=sw=warlord]

Republican National Committee spent nearly $2,000 at West Hollywood strip club.
The "family values" Republican National Committee spent almost $2,000 last month at an erotic, bondage-themed West Hollywood club, where nearly naked women - and men - simulate sex in nets hung from above.


(http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/03/29/2010-03-29_gop_family_values_michael_steeles_rnc_staffers_ ran_up_almost_2k_at_strip_club.html)
Wow, way to take marketing to new heights.
:XD:

[Bodzilla]

Republican National Committee spent nearly $2,000 at West Hollywood strip club.
The "family values" Republican National Committee spent almost $2,000 last month at an erotic, bondage-themed West Hollywood club, where nearly naked women - and men - simulate sex in nets hung from above.


(http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/03/29/2010-03-29_gop_family_values_michael_steeles_rnc_staffers_ ran_up_almost_2k_at_strip_club.html)
Wow, way to take marketing to new heights.
:XD:
this is a comment taken from the article.


It appears to me thatb sokme people think thisn is more important than the fact a man was arrested for threatening the life of a Republican Congressional Rep Eric Cantor. In fact a bullet was shot into his house the other day. Imagine if that would have happened to a Democrat?? Perhaps the Pot has been calling the Kettle black when it comes to stirring up violence inn this counrty. This article and story is a joke...except thyat all ;politicians play and what makes it so bad is the people who contribute not big money but the $10 contribution out of genuine concern and principle.

This is why i believe we should prepare for unforeseen consequences.

[=sw=warlord]

The T.A.R.D.I.S is coming to a reality near you. (http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-passage-invisible-illusion-star-trek.html)

[Hotrod]

The T.A.R.D.I.S is coming to a reality near you. (http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-passage-invisible-illusion-star-trek.html)
Will it make the noise? It's a brilliant noise, I love that noise.

On a serious note, that's pretty sick.

[=sw=warlord]

Holy shit, We need to teach this girl about kotick and possibly zenga. (http://kotaku.com/5692114/this-woman-is-the-nintendo-wii-killer)

[ICEE]

I found this entertaining (http://www.dorkly.com/article/6082/videogame-phrases-and-idioms-for-everyday-life)

[DarkHalo003]

Portal is just as bad but apparently Minecraft is A-OK. (http://www.objectiveministries.org/zounds/gaming.html)
:lolugh:

If any of it all made sense, then I would have continued reading it. I moved down to Halo's section and basically stopped. Now we all know here that I'm religious. Well this person seems like he's seriously either closed minded or simply doesn't understand that video games ARE NOT REAL. I honestly hope people don't listen to this kind of junk; remember, just because it's on the internet doesn't mean it's legitimate. I think that site is trolling too; I have honestly NEVER met a Christian like that in my life.

[=sw=warlord]

Chuck Norris now officially a Texas Ranger. (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chuck-Norris-Fact-He-s-Now-a-Real-Texas-Ranger-170495.shtml)
Overkill much? (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/19/a-holiday-message-from-ricky-gervais-why-im-an-atheist/)

[=sw=warlord]

Fuck it, thread needed bumping anyway.
Man Lives Four Years With Knife Stuck In Head (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Chinese-Surgeons-Remove-Four-Inch-Knife-Blade-Embedded-In-Mans-Head-For-Four-Years/Article/201102315934167?lpos=World_News_Second_Strange_New s__Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15934167_Chinese_Surgeons_Remove_Four_ Inch_Knife_Blade_Embedded_In_Mans_Head_For_Four_Ye ars)
A Chinese man sought treatment for headaches for four years - only to discover he had had a four-inch dagger lodged in his head

[TVTyrant]

LOL @ The comments on the bottom of the page. "This is just so bizarre but this is nothing but a miracle shown to humans by God." Lol.

[Cortexian]

How the fuck?

Probably fake like that guy who said he never ate any food, ever.

[Dwood]

It's either a miracle or fake.

[Hotrod]

Not necessarily a funny article, but one that I thought should be posted anyway :
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/02/26/17418376.html

People disgust me these days...."derp, it r gurls fault she gawt raped cuz of wut she wuz wearing, derp"
Yeah, blame the girl and her clothes, and not the fucking idiot who went and raped her...fucking morons...
/rage

[Limited]

Baby Gaga breast milk ice cream seized for safety tests
Ice cream made from breast milk has been removed from a central London restaurant on health grounds following complaints by members of the public.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12615353

Yeah, thats breast milk ice-cream...WTF?

[Dwood]

Disgusting.

[ExAm]

Not really. "It comes from boob" isn't really a valid argument.

[TVTyrant]

Yeah but its from a human boob. Psychologically it is supposed to be disgusting once you reach adulthood.

[ExAm]

You keep telling yourself that. "I think it's disgusting because I'm supposed to think it's disgusting" is also a terrible argument.

[=sw=warlord]

Yeah but its from a human boob. Psychologically it is supposed to be disgusting once you reach adulthood.

Psychologically people think frogs and snails are disgusting and yet, es-cargo is a very popular delicacy.
People find the thought of consuming animal by products disgusting until you tell them that milk and caviar are both products of animals.
Caviar especially is considered a delicacy and yet when you think about it, all it is, is fish eggs.
There are some people who actually enjoy thing's you may not, amazing I know but it happens.

[n00b1n8R]

Not really. "It comes from boob" isn't really a valid argument.

You keep telling yourself that. "I think it's disgusting because I'm supposed to think it's disgusting" is also a terrible argument.
ExAm confirmed for tit-milk fetishist.

[TVTyrant]

^+rep

Warlord it goes along with why porn gets gross once you finish a fap. Its a psychological thing, or at least my professor says so. And I never said that I didn't like it, I just said why many may find it disgusting.

[=sw=warlord]

^+rep

Warlord it goes along with why porn gets gross once you finish a fap. Its a psychological thing, or at least my professor says so. And I never said that I didn't like it, I just said why many may find it disgusting.
Professors aren't always correct.
Especially in psychology, READ: Sigmund Freud and his sexual fantasies of his own mother. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud)

[TVTyrant]

Yeah Freud was nuts for sure. I'm just saying that if a wide range of a population finds something "gross" without trying it, than it is either a cultural thing or its psychological. Just kind of a general rule of thumb for me anyways. I wouldn't try it, personally, but as long as its pasteurized I am sure it is fine.

[Cortexian]

It tastes horrible to most people as they grow up. I will generally try EVERYTHING once when it comes to food, if it's completely revolting I have no qualms about spitting it out but I'll generally ingest most stuff. I tried human breast milk a couple of years ago (was originally a prank on me), and it tasted extremely bad. Though I'm sure it's not bad for you.

[ExAm]

Libyan rebels get attacked by a government SU-24 fighter-bomber, one guy shoots it down with an AA gun with only one working barrel. On his first day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12657396

Badass.

[=sw=warlord]

A airplane passenger stole $238,000 during a flight in the Caribbean by sneaking into the cargo hold that was loaded with cash through the bathroom.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363379/Passenger-steals-238-000-airplane-cargo-hold-toilet.html#ixzz1FpfLT4Za

[Cortexian]

Genius!

That man deserves that money, pulling that shit off while a security guard is on-board as well lmao.

[TVTyrant]

^pretty much this. what a heist!

[Bodzilla]

thats what happens with secturity guards.

90% of them are dumb fuck bouncers that literally just stand their pretending to be tough while making an easy meal ticket, instead of having a brain.
Intelligent security and bouncers are very very rare.

[neuro]

http://christwire.org/2011/03/bared-skin-zelda-tattoo-girls-is-this-your-daughter-on-facebook-photographic-investigation/

DEMON WIZZARD BOY NAMED ZELDA

[Amit]

^+rep

Warlord it goes along with why porn gets gross once you finish a fap. Its a psychological thing, or at least my professor says so. And I never said that I didn't like it, I just said why many may find it disgusting.

You're watching the wrong kind of porn.

[TVTyrant]

Naw I was just saying that. In all honesty its among the things I would rather shoot myself before trying.

[TVTyrant]

Sorry to double post but I thought this was funny:

http://www.gamingdaily.co.uk/2010/patch-notes-from-god-v2-1/

Gods patch notes

[Donut]

http://christwire.org/2011/03/bared-skin-zelda-tattoo-girls-is-this-your-daughter-on-facebook-photographic-investigation/

DEMON WIZZARD BOY NAMED ZELDA
is this real? the whole time i was reading this article i was thinking "wow this is incredibly clever", thinking it was entirely satirical. im still waiting for the punchline.

[Cortexian]

Uh, how could it be "real"?

[Donut]

i mean is that article serious or is it just like... extreme satire?

[Limited]

Airline sacks staff who sent 'Taliban' donkey sex porn clip to ENTIRE Gatwick Airport IT department (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394539/Airline-sacks-men-sent-Taliban-donkey-sex-porn-clip-ENTIRE-Gatwick-Airport-IT-department.html)


Virgin Atlantic has sacked four workers based at Gatwick Airport for circulating a video clip that claims to show a Taliban fighter having sex with a donkey.

The footage they emailed is believed to have been filmed by American special forces in Afghanistan and has become an internet hit.

It bore the caption: 'What the Taliban do when they are not making improvised explosive devices.'
Bahah, what a headline!

[TVTyrant]

Where can I find this "Taliban donkey porn" video? I need to see it for homeland security reasons...

[n00b1n8R]

:google:

[TVTyrant]

http://www.adrian-mocan.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/yahoo_logo.png

[n00b1n8R]

http://www.adrian-mocan.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/yahoo_logo.png
:1997:

[TVTyrant]

:1997:
:ohboy:

[Bodzilla]

yeah i watched it, it's in night vision.

p lulz

[Cortexian]

The footage they emailed is believed to have been filmed by American special forces in Afghanistan
Red flag for fake.

[n00b1n8R]

http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/6391918/whos-the-daddy.thtml

At a stroke, the one thing that women had going for them has been taken away, the one respect in which they had the last laugh over their husbands and lovers. DNA tests are an anti-feminist appliance of science, a change in the balance of power between the sexes that we’ve hardly come to terms with.

....

Uncertainty allows mothers to select for their children the father who would be best for them.

:allears:

[Donut]

that article... wow.

[TeeKup]

A few questions for Ms McDonagh:

1. Do women have any "moral obligations" or are these limited to men who happen to draw the short straw when a promiscuous, "choice"-happy female seeks to subject hims to extortion and at the same time deprive the child and the child's true father of their moral right to know one another?

2. Does she have any sons and, if so, does she ever reflect on the logical consequences of her opinions in their future lives?

3. What "God" was A.C. Graying crediting with "knowing" about this stuff?


"DNA tests are an anti-feminist appliance of science, a change in the balance of power between the sexes that we’ve hardly come to terms with."

And there was me thinking that feminism was all about equality between the sexes. Seeing as men

"The actor Jude Law recently found himself in just this position, and unhesitatingly and ungallantly demanded a DNA test. "

So, gallantry is taking responsibilty for a womans mistakes? Must we me be martyrs to a womans infidelity?

"Uncertainty allows mothers to select for their children the father who would be best for them."

Why stop there? If lack of involvement in the conception of the child should be no barrier to a woman picking the best man for the job of "father", why limit her choices to the men she has recently slept with? Why not let her just chose any man? So the girl who gets herself knocked up by the drummer from the band can take her pick of the "nice guys" she wouldn't normally deign to sleep with just because they will be better providers?

"You can feel quite as much tenderness for a child you mistakenly think to be yours as for one who is."

The lack logic in this statement is astounding. If you "mistakenly think [the child] to be yours" then of course you will feel tenderness towards them. The point is most men do not want to invest their time and time resources in a child that is not theirs - especially if it effectively robs them from having their own childen at some point.

"Scientific certainty has produced clarity all right, and relieved any number of men of their moral obligations, but at God knows what cost in misery, recrimination and guilt."

What moral obligation does a man have to parent children he did not conceive? Does having sex with a woman consign a man to be morally responsible for anything that happens to her for the rest of her life? If so, I'd like that priviledge extended to men - if I have sex with a woman then she should be responsible for doing my laundry and cooking my meals? Feminism fought for the removal of that kind of obligation but obviously not for men.

"But in making paternity conditional on a test rather than the say-so of the mother, it has removed from women a powerful instrument of choice."

What about the choice not to be held accountable for an action that one didn't commit?

I'm amazed that the editor(s) of The Spectator have allowed this article to be published and even more amazed that Melanie MdDonagh got paid for writing this misandrist claptrap.

All of that.

[Bodzilla]

Feminism has been a crock of shit for 30 years.

before then it actually stood for something, Maybe, just maybe i'd be better to take all that energy they're devoting against boogey men and focus it on places outside their country where it'd actually be applicable, rather then try to tread over the men who support equality between the sex's and ostracizing them thereby sowing the seeds for them to be made to force-ably submit to men in the future when they've finally had enough of their crazy mindgame shit.

[n00b1n8R]

Premium quality.
http://metropolistv.nl/en/search/nicaraguan-boys-become-men-in-brothels

[Amit]

LOL that kid's own dad sees him as a joke.

EDIT: JESUS FUCKING CHRIST I just saw the woman he's going to get raped by.

[Cortexian]

Meanwhile in Nicaragua?

[Bodzilla]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525?page=13

a story on the history of Fox news, and it's CEO.
pretty scary shit.

Some insane but brilliant buisness decisions such as PAYING networks to host fox news, to hardwire it into peoples homes.
something he wouldn't have had to do had he been a legit news agency to begin with.

[n00b1n8R]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525?page=13

a story on the history of Fox news, and it's CEO.
pretty scary shit.

Some insane but brilliant buisness decisions such as PAYING networks to host fox news, to hardwire it into peoples homes.
something he wouldn't have had to do had he been a legit news agency to begin with.
35TbGjt-weA

[PlasbianX]

This is about an hour from me:

http://www.newstalkradiowhio.com/news/ap/ohio/ohio-gorilla-mascot-says-banana-attack-was-shock/nC6N6/

"STRONGSVILLE, Ohio —

An Ohio teen who works in a gorilla suit says he was in shock when he recently got attacked by another kid wearing a banana costume.

Sixteen-year-old Brian Genco (JEHNG'-koh) says it's his summer job putting on the gorilla get-up to advertise for a cell phone store in Strongsville, near Cleveland. He tells WJW-TV the suit has a lot of padding, so getting tackled by the banana guy didn't hurt. But he says he couldn't see anything because his mask got pushed over his eyes.

Store manager Brandon Parham said last week that the attacker took a flying leap, like a Spartan in the movie "300." Parham called 911 as the banana peeled off down the street with other teens.

Police didn't find anyone. They think it was a prank."

[Amit]

Wow, just wow: http://gizmodo.com/5823573/man-used-a-loophole-in-the-law-to-pay-16-bucks-for-a-330000-house

[ExAm]

Good

Fucking

Going

Now be sure to pay your property taxes.

[Amit]

What the fuck?:


A couple in China were turned into authorities after it was discovered the pair began selling off their children to play online games at internet cafes.

The Sanxiang City News reports (via ABCNews), the parents, Li Lin and Li Juan, began selling off their three children in 2009. One child, a baby girl, netted about $500 U.S., while the two boys, both newborns, netted about $4600 U.S. each.

The couple was finally turned in by Li Lin's mother after she learned of their actions. The parents did not know they were breaking the law, and said, "We don't want to raise them, we just want to sell them for some money."

Sauce (http://pc.ign.com/articles/118/1184373p1.html)

[Amit]

More interesting than funny:

A ponzi scheme in EvE? It's more likely...wait, we'd all believe it.

http://gamergaia.com/pc/1724-eve-online-space-heist-one-trillion-isk.html

[TeeKup]

Lmao, fucking eve.

[Bodzilla]

i love that game

[Amit]

Oh god I haven't had a laugh like this in ages: http://www.planetxbox360.com/article_15968/Three_Reasons_You_Should_Pass_on_Battlefield_3/1

Check out their #1 reason. Activision definitely paid these guys off.

[p0lar_bear]

Oh god I haven't had a laugh like this in ages: http://www.planetxbox360.com/article_15968/Three_Reasons_You_Should_Pass_on_Battlefield_3/1

Check out their #1 reason. Activision definitely paid these guys off.


3. It's Just Another FPS
...
1. Modern Warfare 3

:raise:

[Bodzilla]

that is hilarious.

i mean really, Fucking souless bastards

[n00b1n8R]

bookmarking for later :lmao:

[Pooky]

Wow, that was one of the dumbest things I've ever read (not counting forum posts).

[Amit]

Oh wait it gets better. He's the same guy who wrote these two articles, as well:

Five Reasons Battlefield 3 Will Trash Modern Warfare 3 (http://www.planetxbox360.com/article_15304/Five_Reasons_Battlefield_3_Will_Trump_Modern_Warfa re_3)

Five Reasons Modern Warfare 3 Will Trump Battlefield 3 (http://www.planetxbox360.com/article_15270/Five_Reasons_Modern_Warfare_3_Will_Trump_Battlefie ld_3)

What I find ridiculous is that there are no dates posted on the articles. Judging by the dates on the facebook comments, the second one was posted just a day after the first. That guy is just filth.

[Amit]

AHAHAHAHA: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2826564925965527307/

[neuro]

linking battlelog is bad practice, since it needs you to log in to origin to be able to view shit.

[Amit]

linking battlelog is bad practice, since it needs you to log in to origin to be able to view shit.

Stop spreading lies. I don't even have Origin installed on the computer I posted that from. It was a bad idea anyways because I forgot that the beta ended today and nobody can view it anymore. I should have screenshotted it or saved the whole page. That's my fault, though, not DICE's.

[neuro]

no i mean it gives you a log in to battlelog in your browser before you're allowed to view anything.

[Amit]

That is true. However, many forums do the same thing. I wonder if there was a beta forum on the official EA forums. I'm guessing not. I guess DICE didn't want the stuff viewable to the public without an account for some reason.

[JackalStomper]

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/11/11/things_i_wont_work_with_hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzit ane.php

[n00b1n8R]

http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/reps/dailys/dr241111.pdf (Page 75)

Cowan Electorate: Halal Foods

Mr SIMPKINS (Cowan) (09:44): I recently presented a petition in parliament calling for all meats that had
been slaughtered in the manner of the Islamic religion to be clearly labelled as such. The petition, which was
presented to me by the Barnabas Fund, stated that, while they support the freedom of religious groups to access
food and other products that meet with the requirements of their faith, they are concerned about the massive
growth of sharia-compliant products being sold to Australians, whatever their faith, often without being informed
or consulted. As a result of the petition, I investigated in my electorate in Western Australia and found that almost
every animal, apart from pigs, is killed in accordance with the Islamic religious requirements known as halal. So,
when you go to Coles, Woolworths, IGA or other supermarkets, you cannot purchase the meat for your Aussie
barbecue without the influence of this minority religion. You have no choice. And the point is that almost no
Australians are aware of this, because it is not labelled.

Why is this the case? Why is it that we are being provided with meat that is slaughtered in accordance with the
practices of the Islamic religion? I expect it is convenience and marketing for these meat providers, but it is
important that everyone should also be aware that Mohammed, the prophet of Islam—as reported in the Hadith,
the traditions of Islam, the book second only to the Koran—talked of how Islam would be furthered to those parts
of the world that had not yet embraced it. He reportedly said, 'The non-believers will become Muslims when,
amongst other things, they eat the meat that we have slaughtered.' This is one of the key aspects to converting
nonbelievers to Islam.

As many people would be aware, halal forms part of the sharia system. Most people know sharia to be a system
of laws relating to the Islamic religion. Any religion's adherents, of course, can make personal choices about the
way and the standards by which they live their lives. This is as true for Christians as it is for Muslims. We should
have no trouble with personal standards. But a religion is not a social or a political system, and those who believe
it to be so, by implication stand against our great democracy.

Consumers are being denied information about meat. Meat killed in accordance with the Islamic religion's
requirements should be labelled accordingly. By having Australians unwittingly eating halal food we are all one
step down the path towards the conversion, and that is a step we should only make with full knowledge and one
that should not be imposed upon us without us knowing. What is happening is wrong. Too often the minorities in
this country are looked after without regard to the majority. The time has come for this to stop. I call upon the
following businesses in Western Australia and every business in Australia to clearly label halal meat and stop
deceiving Australians: V&V Walsh, Western Meat Packers, Harvey Beef, WAMMCo, Hillside Tender Meats,
Inghams and Steggles.

In closing, I would like to recognise two Western Australian companies, Mount Barker Free Range Chickens
and Dardanup Butchers Company, who have not yet yielded to the pressure to impose halal food on everybody
regardless of their faith.

[Donut]

http://www.styleite.com/media/lila-grace-moss-vogue-photoshop/
do you see that shit? doesnt that outrage you that they would photoshop something that badly? lets make a huge fuss about it.


...and not even notice the naked 8 year old on the fucking cover of a magazine. rofl i love the media.

[DarkHalo003]

This was also pretty neat to see. Kind of cute for a big bugger too:

http://www.geekosystem.com/record-breaking-giant-weta/

Things like this make me hate science. Can we please not turn viruses into bioweapons? Thanks in advance.

http://www.geekosystem.com/super-contagious-bird-flu/

[TeeKup]

But...but wetas ARE cute! D: So is this thing:
http://www.swiftinverts.com/species/Zebra5.jpg

[Tnnaas]

Over-sized arthropods are always cute. I'm always like, "Why so you big, it's ridiculous."
That's what she said...

[=sw=warlord]

http://penny-arcade.com/resources/just-wow1.html?utm_source=Kotaku+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d1cd9477d1-UA-142218-8&utm_medium=email

[Amit]

A long, but satisfyingly good read. Paul got fucked. Who does this bitch think he is? Donald Trump?

[p0lar_bear]

A long, but satisfyingly good read. Paul got fucked. Who does this bitch think he is? Donald Trump?

I'm pretty sure that Trump knows something about customer service, unlike this guy.