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By Dave, August 10, 2007 10:51 pm

Agendas: AT&T May Have Censored Bands’ Political Speech in the Past – Gizmodo

And now they have gotten caught. Stupid, stupid, stupid…

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By Dave, August 8, 2007 10:57 pm

FARK.com: (2987172) What does NOAA do when you try to make sure their data-gathering sites comply with NOAA’s own rules and find most do not? Why, hide the list of locations of course. Silly question

Sometimes Fark gets the headline so right there isn’t anything else to say…

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By Dave, August 8, 2007 6:46 pm

Boing Boing: Boycott Regal Cinemas for suing over 20-second clip

AMEN! And then fire the management after requiring them to publicly apologize! This is total and absolute bullsh!t…

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By Dave, August 7, 2007 10:15 pm

Rick Jacobs: Sacramento Bee’s Dan Walters Tells California Voters: Trust in Diebold and Ye Shall be Rewarded – Politics on The Huffington Post

Wonder just how much Walters is getting paid by Diebold or their agents? Asshat!

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By Dave, June 22, 2007 11:11 am

Techdirt: NBC Exec: Think Of The Poor Corn Farmers Hurt By Movie Piracy
“In the absence of movie piracy, video retailers would sell and rent more titles. Movie theatres would sell more tickets and popcorn. Corn growers would earn greater profits and buy more farm equipment.”

Say WHAT??? Talk about a complete break with reality…

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By Dave, June 14, 2007 2:15 pm

TorrentSpy ruling a ‘weapon of mass discovery’ | Tech News on ZDNet

Tis truly a pity that there are folk in responsible positions that can’t find their arses with both hands, a Grey’s anatomy, AND a mirror.

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By Dave, April 25, 2007 9:40 pm

Man hacks off penis in London restaurant – Yahoo! News UK
The man was described as being in a stable condition in hospital Tuesday.

Somehow I doubt that he is in any way, shape, form, or fashion stable…

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By Dave, April 24, 2007 10:36 am

Program Names govern admin rights in Vista | The Register

Better than nothing? Certainly not better than Mac OS X or any of the many flavors of Linux or Unix. Stupid as hell is more like it…
Thanks to Steve for the link.

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By Dave, March 25, 2007 12:59 pm

Golden Arches Wants ‘McJob’ Removed: McDonald’s Targets the English McLanguage – International – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News

Tis their own fault. I hope they spend major amounts of McMoney and owe even larger sums to their McLawyers in the pursuit of the elimination of the term McJob. Their food still McSucks…

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By Dave, March 23, 2007 3:04 pm

Linux.com | ChangeLog: Run Linux, lose warranty

Way to go Compaq… NOT!

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By Dave, February 21, 2007 1:36 pm

The Opulent Outhouse

Can we say “overkill” boys and girls? This is the most over the top waste (HA-HA) of taxpayers moneys I have seen since the upteen thousand dollar toilet seats (other than the comander and chief idiot’s war). And it can’t be used in cold weather cause its a composting toilet and they don’t work when it gets cold, so the forestry service (or whatever) locks the doors in the winter. Idiots, the whole bloody lot of them…

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By Dave, February 5, 2007 8:42 pm

Gates: I’m a PC and I’m not amused | News.blog | CNET News.com
“Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day,” Gates said. “Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.”

I thought that is why they have so many security updates. Seems like I hear of a LOT more problems with winblows machines than macs. I got 2 macs and no antivirus stuff on either and not a problem. I am behind a firewall but don’t dare use any windows pc without Avast antivirus running. Maybe Vista really is better but I sure as hell ain’t gonna try it…

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By Dave, February 2, 2007 11:57 pm

True Stella Awards: the 2006 Winners

The 2006 True Stella Awards

Issued 31 January 2007

(Click here to
confirm these are legitimate.)

#5: Marcy Meckler. While shopping at
a mall, Meckler stepped outside and was “attacked” by a squirrel that
lived among the trees and bushes. And “while frantically attempting
to escape from the squirrel and detach it from her leg, [Meckler]
fell and suffered severe injuries,” her resulting lawsuit says.
That’s the mall’s fault, the lawsuit claims, demanding in excess of
$50,000, based on the mall’s “failure to warn” her that squirrels
live outside.

#4: Ron and Kristie Simmons. The
couple’s 4-year-old son, Justin, was killed in a tragic lawnmower
accident in a licensed daycare facility, and the death was clearly
the result of negligence by the daycare providers. The providers were
clearly deserving of being sued, yet when the Simmons’s discovered
the daycare only had $100,000 in insurance, they dropped the case
against them and instead sued the manufacturer of the 16-year-old
lawn mower because the mower didn’t have a safety device that 1) had
not been invented at the time of the mower’s manufacture, and 2) no
safety agency had even suggested needed to be invented. A sympathetic
jury still awarded the family $2 million.

#3: Robert Clymer. An FBI agent
working a high-profile case in Las Vegas, Clymer allegedly created a
disturbance, lost the magazine from his pistol, then crashed his
pickup truck in a drunken stupor — his blood-alcohol level was 0.306
percent, more than three times the legal limit for driving in Nevada.
He pled guilty to drunk driving because, his lawyer explained, “With
public officials, we expect them to own up to their mistakes and
correct them.” Yet Clymer had the gall to sue the manufacturer of his
pickup truck, and the dealer he bought it from, because he “somehow
lost consciousness” and the truck “somehow produced a heavy smoke
that filled the passenger cab.” Yep: the drunk-driving accident
wasn’t his fault, but the truck’s fault. Just the kind of guy you
want carrying a gun in the name of the law.

#2: #2: KinderStart.com. The
specialty search engine says Google should be forced to include the
KinderStart site in its listings, reveal how its “Page Rank” system
works, and pay them lots of money because they’re a competitor. They
claim by not being ranked higher in Google, Google is somehow
infringing KinderStart’s Constitutional right to free speech. Even if
by some stretch they were a competitor of Google, why in the world
would they think it’s Google’s responsibility to help them succeed?
And if Google’s “review” of their site is negative, wouldn’t a
government court order forcing them to change it infringe on Google’s
Constitutional right to free speech?

And the winner of the 2006 True Stella
Award: Allen Ray Heckard. Even though Heckard is 3 inches
shorter, 25 pounds lighter, and 8 years older than former basketball
star Michael Jordan, the Portland, Oregon, man says he looks a lot
like Jordan, and is often confused for him — and thus he deserves
$52 million “for defamation and permanent injury” — plus $364
million in “punitive damage for emotional pain and suffering”, plus
the SAME amount from Nike co-founder Phil Knight, for a grand total
of $832 million. He dropped the suit after Nike’s lawyers chatted
with him, where they presumably explained how they’d counter-sue if
he pressed on.

©2007 by Randy Cassingham,
StellaAwards.com. Reprinted with permission.

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By Dave, November 15, 2006 5:03 pm

MEMRI TV
Samir Ubeid, an Iraqi Researcher Living in Europe: The Nobel Prize Is Racist and Stems from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Talk about a farking idiot.  The article reads like the ravings of someone totally out of touch with reality.  But then again he seems to be a hard core follower of Islam so…

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By Dave, November 15, 2006 2:05 pm

Boing Boing: BestBuy: our prices are copyrighted

BestBuy lawyers = World class Idiots

Another mega business that all right thinking folks should boycott.  Especially their Black Friday sale since they think it’s sooooo sekret!

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By Dave, November 15, 2006 2:01 pm

Treehugger: Home Wind Turbines Are A Worthless, Dangerous, Wasteful Vanity
We’re entering a phase where anything expert “greens” say can and will be used to argue against renewable energy. Or at least put in a lousy context by the media. Here’s an anecdote that illustrates the process, brought to us via tip. The Daily Mail reports under the headline Wind turbines ‘may actually do more harm than good’ that:- “Home wind turbines have become the must-have home improvement among people eager to help save the planet and flaunt their green credentials. Dubbed ‘the ultimate green fashion statement’, [turbines] are selling in the thousands, amid claims they can cut household electricity bills by 30 per cent”. The story goes on to state that “…they barely produce enough electricity to power a hairdryer in many houses. They also do nothing to tackle greenhouses gases, while there are far better ways to cut down on energy bills”. Wow. Green fashionistas are ruining the view from the street with useless equipment, then, eh? Worse than that, the story goes on to point out that ‘in some cases chimneys may be toppled and structures made noisy or unstable as a result of wind turbines.’

I wonder just what kind of idiot they have writing about alternate tech at the Daily Mail.  And what kind of editors are they employing that allow things like this to go to press.  The complete article at Treehugger takes on the Daily Mail’s “facts” and takes them apart…

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By Dave, November 15, 2006 1:54 pm

Boing Boing: Bank of America loses $50 million from customers upset by false arrest

They need to lose their license as a bank and not just a few customers.  But maybe with this story on the net that too will happen.  Bye-bye BoA…

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By Dave, November 13, 2006 10:27 am

Boing Boing: Universal Music CEO: iPod owners are thieves
“These devices are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it,” UMG chairman/CEO Doug Morris says. “So it’s time to get paid for it.”

Pot/Kettle Kettle/Pot.  And how much of this extortion money will the artists actually see, Dougie???

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By Dave, October 20, 2006 7:40 pm

Techdirt: News.com Editor Explains Why Google Is Immoral

Now if someone can explain just how an idiot like this got to be news.com’s editor…

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By Dave, October 18, 2006 10:09 pm

Linux.com | Updated eBay tools leave Linux users in the cold

short and not so sweet: STUPID!