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Devices and clocks with amazingly intricate mechanisms were the rage a few centuries ago. Today it’s all done with computers and computer graphics. It just ain’t the same.
It’s summertime, so let’s harvest some locally-grown, organic outrage. A Michigan woman is facing up to 93 days in jail for planting a vegetable garden in her own front yard.
This stuff writes itself.
Found by Aaron Fown
A Brooklyn artist says he had his computers taken away by the U.S. Secret Service when word about his recent art project got out, according to an exclusive report by Mashable.
Kyle McDonald wanted to document the way people interacted with computers. So, without permission, he installed software on public computers in two Apple Stores in New York, that took a photo a minute of anything and anyone in front of it. The photos were automatically sent to his home computers.
Why does the Secret Service have this authority?? We are over-policed in this country.
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MARTIN, KERRY DAVID born April 28, 1951 in Syracuse, NY and passed away July 4, 2011 in Garland, TX.
Bubba was an important contributor to this blog and the driving force behind the Dvorak Cage Match for years. He was also the first to post the No Agenda Show and was a great person. He will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him.
If this goes through, I wonder how many other countries will start extraditing Americans for doing things in America that are only illegal in their country? An unmarried woman in Iowa talks to a man without a chaperone? Ship the whore off to Iran for trial and her stoning punishment!
As if we need further proof, we, as a country, have simply gone insane.
British website owners could face extradition to the US on piracy charges even if their operation has no connection to America and does something which is most probably legal in the UK, the official leading US web anti-piracy efforts has told the Guardian.
The US’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is targeting overseas websites it believes are breaking US copyrights whether or not their servers are based in America or there is another direct US link, said Erik Barnett, the agency’s assistant deputy director.
As long as a website’s address ends in .com or .net, if it is implicated in the spread of pirated US-made films, TV or other media it is a legitimate target to be closed down or targeted for prosecution, Barnett said. While these web addresses are traditionally seen as global, all their connections are routed through Verisign, an internet infrastructure company based in Virginia, which the agency believes is sufficient to seek a US prosecution.
Here’s the list of 10 things wrong with the economy. Read the article for details on each.
What’s the line from Battlestar Galactica (and Peter Pan, oddly enough): “All of this has happened before and will happen again.”
1. We are learning the wrong lessons from the last one.
2. No one has been punished.
3. The incentives remain crooked.
4. The referees are corrupt.
5. Stocks are skyrocketing again.
6. The derivatives time bomb is bigger than ever — and ticking away.
7. The ancient regime is in the saddle.
8. Ben Bernanke doesn’t understand his job.
9. We are levering up like crazy.
10. The real economy remains in the tank.
At this point, I’d trust the capuchin monkeys who were taught how to use money over any politician or government official of any party. At least they made no pretense about really caring about anything other than getting what they could for themselves and to hell with everyone else.
Welcome to Communist Cuba in the 1960’s. Thanks to Janet Napolitano and the “See Something, Say Something” meme. I hope the kids enjoy having no Dad around anymore.
Authorities say a Utah man was arrested after his two children called police to report that he had marijuana in the house.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports the man was charged Tuesday with two third-degree felony charges of child endangerment and one class B misdemeanor accusing him of possession of a controlled substance.
Didn’t say innocent, which is a completely different thing. On the other hand, despite the bizarre nature of it all, there was no hard evidence of 1st degree murder or even if it was or wasn’t an accident. Only stupidity. Or cleverness to be able to not be found guilty.
Now this is interesting, or something.
Found by Gasparrini
“Let me say this as plainly as I can: By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end,” he said. “I intend to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.”
Keeping U.S. troops in Iraq after the departure deadline would require accord of Iraq’s deeply divided government. The Iraqis have not made a formal request for U.S. troops to stay. The White House is prepared to keep as many as 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of the year, amid growing concern that the planned pullout of virtually all remaining American forces would lead to intensified militant attacks, according to U.S. officials.
Keeping troops in Iraq after the deadline for their departure at the end of December would require agreement of Iraq’s deeply divided government, which is far from certain. The Iraqis so far have not made a formal request for U.S. troops to remain, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. Some powerful Iraqi political forces are staunchly opposed to a continued U.S. presence.
The Obama administration has been debating how large a force to propose leaving in Iraq. It made its proposal now in hopes of spurring a request from Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s government, and to give the Pentagon time to plan, the officials said.
The troops would be based around Baghdad and in a small number of other strategic locations around the country, the officials said.
Noting that Iraq had not asked yet for troops to stay, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said: “There’s only so much time here available for the Iraqi government to make such a request. If they do, we will consider it. Otherwise, we are keeping on schedule.”
Of course we all knew this would happen, it would be silly to think otherwise.
This was shot through a plexiglass window on a Kenmore Air flight using an image-sensor stabilized Olympus E-520 to show how stable an image can be when taken from a prop plane with a telephoto lens. It’s been cropped.
ASPEN, Colo. — President Bill Clinton says the nation’s corporate tax rate is “uncompetitive” and called for a lower rate as part of a “mega-deal” to raise the debt ceiling.
“When I was president, we raised the corporate income-tax rates on corporations that made over $10 million [a year],” the former president told the Aspen Ideas Festival on Saturday evening. “It made sense when I did it. It doesn’t make sense anymore — we’ve got an uncompetitive rate. We tax at 35 percent of income, although we only take about 23 percent. So we should cut the rate to 25 percent, or whatever’s competitive, and eliminate a lot of the deductions so that we still get a fair amount, and there’s not so much variance in what the corporations pay. But how can they do that by Aug. 2?”
Clinton also said Grover Norquist, who as president of Americans for Tax Reform is the GOP’s unofficial enforcer of no-new-taxes pledges, has a “chilling” hold on the nation’s lawmaking.
The former president said it has seemed like Republicans need any revenue concessions to be “approved in advance by Grover Norquist.”
“You’re laughing,” he told the crowd of 800. “But he was quoted in the paper the other day saying he gave Republican senators permission … on getting rid of the ethanol subsidies. I thought, ‘My God, what has this country come to when one person has to give you permission to do what’s best for the country.’ It was chilling.”
Betcha didn’t see that coming.
It was close for a few minutes, and then “Jaws” pulled away. Joey Chestnut ate 62 hot dogs Monday to capture his fifth title in a row in Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.
“Winning tastes pretty good. I feel great,” Chestnut said. “It was hot out here but that didn’t really affect me.”
After an event in Washington, D.C., in a day or so, the 27-year-old Chestnut will head back to his normal life as a construction engineer in San Jose, Calif.
“My girlfriend didn’t even make the trip out here to Coney Island,” Chestnut said. “She just told me to come back in one piece.”
It’s really not much of a contest anymore, as Chestnut has dominated the past five years. Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti finished second with 53, while Tim Janus finished with 45.
But what of past dog chomper champ, Takeru Kobayashi?
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