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Archive for June, 2009
Always More Than One Solution to a Problem
Jun 5th
Awesome backup procedure for idiots. How does one go about “discovering” a fire? Is this a similar process used by Prometheus?
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Jun 5th
Solar Panels are created from an intense manufacturing process that uses many poisonous chemicals and a whole lot of electricity. So of course, the manufacturing is loud. A bunch of whiny hippies found this out and are cranky now.
From Boston Herald here:
A Devens solar panel plant near several Harvard farms is so noisy the horses have ulcers, the ducks have disappeared and a dog has started gnawing off doorknobs, angry neighbors say.
The nonstop noise from Evergreen Solar Inc.’s highly touted plant, which Gov. Deval Patrick has praised as “the leading edge of our clean energy economy,” is driving neighbors crazy and making their animals sick.
“To work in my garden, I have to wear headphones,” said Janice Perry, an acupuncturist whose Harvard farm abuts Evergreen’s new 450,000-square-foot manufacturing plant.
Since January, she and her neighbors have complained about noise coming from the plant, which the Marlboro-based company has said will one day employ 700 people and make 780,000 solar panels a year. The factory stretches the length of three football fields.
The Devens Enterprise Commission, which regulates the plant and other businesses on what used to be Fort Devens, has already slapped the company with two noise ordinance violations.
“This green-energy company has polluted the neighborhood with noise, and it seems not to be working very hard to correct this,” Perry said.
This is a classic case of liberal elitists who want to be “green” but aren’t really willing to sacrifice any portion of their lifestyle to make it happen. And dogs chewing off doorknobs?! OMG, Panic!
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Odyssey Marine Ordered to Turn Over Gold to Spain
Jun 5th
The publicly traded treasure hunting company Odyssey Marine has been ordered by a Spanish judge to hand over treasure it salvaged from the Atlantic floor to Spain. I am certain Odyssey will win on an appeal.
From the BBC here:
A deep sea treasure-hunting company has been ordered by a US judge to hand over half a million gold and silver coins to the government of Spain.
The company, Odyssey Marine Exploration, raised the haul from a shipwreck in the Atlantic, suspected to be that of a Spanish naval vessel. The Spanish government argued that the treasure formed part of the country’s national heritage. But Odyssey intends to appeal, saying it has a claim to the treasure.
The haul of coins – thought to be worth some $500m (£308m) – came to light in 2007, when Odyssey announced the recovery of artefacts from a wreck in the Atlantic. The haul was brought ashore in Gibraltar and quickly flown to Miami – enraging the Spanish government, our correspondent says, which says the wreck is that of the Mercedes, a naval frigate destroyed by the British in 1804.
Just over a year ago, the Spanish government filed a suit with a federal court in Florida – where Odyssey is based – demanding the haul be handed over.
Late on Wednesday, a judge ruled that the court lacked jurisdiction over the case, and that the property should be returned to Spain under a principle known as “sovereign immunity”.
You would think that salvage laws are settled internationally. But now that technology exists to recover much of this treasure, those laws are under review.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...12 AM Music: Chickenfoot: “Oh Yeah”
Jun 4th
Chickenfoot is the new Superband that is an offshoot of Van Halen, which includes Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony, along with the former drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chad Smith and superstar guitarist Joe Satriani. Gads, these guys sound alot like 5150 era Van Halen, but with a modern twist. Enjoy.
Their new album comes out on Friday.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...FTC Shuts Down 3FN Webhosting Company
Jun 4th
One webhosting company responsible for hosting hundreds of criminal operations, including spammers and child pornographers has been shut down by the FTC. The court order simply turned off the router. This company is now gone black.
From Brian Krebs at WaPo here:
In an unprecedented move, the Federal Trade Commission has taken legal steps to shut down a Web hosting provider in Northern California that the agency says was directly involved in managing massive global spam operations.
Sometime on Tuesday, more than 15,000 Web sites connected to San Jose, Calif., based Triple Fiber Network (3FN.net) went dark. 3FN’s sites were disconnected after a Northern California district court judge approved an FTC request to have the company’s upstream Internet providers stop routing traffic for the provider.
In its civil complaint, the FTC names 3FN and its various monikers, including Pricewert LLC — the business entity named on the 3fn.net Web site registration records. The FTC alleges that Pricewert/3FN operates as a “‘rogue’ or ‘black hat’ Internet service provider that recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in the distribution of illegal, malicious, and harmful content,” including botnet control servers, child pornography and rogue antivirus products.
The FTC chairman confirmed that this was the first time the agency had sought and been granted an order to shut down an Internet service provider.
“Pricewert hosts very little legitimate content and vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses, trojans, phishing related sites, illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest,” the FTC said.
I am happy to see the criminal operations taken down, but it is surprising that it was the FTC who did this instead of a law enforcement agency. Lets hope that LE is involved in actually trying to apprehend the people behind the malware and illegal content. Otherwise, these jokers will just move somewhere else.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...David Carradine Hanged Himself
Jun 4th
The star of the old Kung Fu TV series and the bad guy in the Kill Bill Tarantino moves climbed into a closet in his Bangkok hotel room and hanged himself. He was shooting a movie at the time. He was 72.
From Extra here:
“Kill Bill” star David Carradine was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room. Thai police believe he hanged himself.
Carradine, 72, was in Bangkok to the shoot movie “Stretch” and had been staying at the Park Nai Lert Hotel since June 2. The actor was absent from a dinner with the film crew on June 3. The crew attempted to get a hold of him but were not successful. They assumed he was resting.
A hotel maid found Carradine on Thursday morning in the closet of his suite. A police investigation reports the actor was hanging by a rope. Police said he was dead for at least 12 hours and found no signs of foul play.
How crappy was the hotel food, or the working conditions, to be the final straw that would push a suicidal person over the edge?
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Seeing Bing in My Weblogs
Jun 4th
I have been seeing hits on my website originating from Bing Searches. No, not this Bing:
The evolved Microsoft Live Websearch engine, which has been renamed as Bing. The search page is prettier, more informative, and can help you search better by using categories. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...With Liberals In Charge, Prepare for Mob Justice
Jun 3rd
Why would an attempted rapist, drug addict and degenerate with 17 items on a criminal record at the young age of 26 be out of prison and roaming the streets where he rapes a fifth grade girl? Oh, that’s right. Liberals must be in charge. That’s what you get in towns like Detroit and Philadelphia.
In towns where the cops are powerless, crime is not prosecuted and prisons allow early release, the only resort law-abiding citizens (those who haven’t fled the city) have is mob justice. From Philly.Com here with thanks to reader David.
About a dozen neighborhood residents flew into a rage yesterday afternoon when they cornered Jose Carrasquillo, who police said they had linked through physical evidence to the heinous Monday-morning rape of an eleven year old girl.
The justice-seeking mob rained fists, feet and wooden sticks upon Carrasquillo, 26, for several minutes until police intervened. When the dust cleared, Carrasquillo was in critical condition at a local hospital, and police officials were thanking the locals for helping them catch a man they had pursued feverishly but identified only as “a person of interest.”
“Justice, community-style. It’s a beautiful thing,” said a resident who declined to be identified.
Law-enforcement sources said that detectives are still compiling evidence for their case against Carrasquillo. Charges will have to be approved by the District Attorney’s Office.
Seven years ago, at age 19, Jose Carrasquillo was accused of trying to rape a woman in Kensington, just a half block from the day-care center. Ramsey said that the 2002 case was one of 17 arrests that litter Carrasquillo’s adult criminal record.
Vigilante justice is distasteful, as I’ve said before. But to me the real crime here is the abject failure to keep known criminals locked away from good people.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...The Beatles Rockband Game Trailer
Jun 3rd
My wife is having the vapors over the release of The Beatles Rockband video game. It’s due out on 9/9/9, which is a play on Revolution 9 from the White Album. The game accompanies the remastered release of all of the Beatles’ albums, which Paul McCartney is hoping will allow him to recoup his lost fortune that he had to pay to a one-legged whore.
Here is the newly released trailer here-
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Stupid Cops in Oklahoma
Jun 3rd
So an ambulance is moving quickly down the highway transporting a patient to the hospital. Cops, in pursuit of someone else, become upset that the ambulance is not pulling over, so they stop the ambulance, put the black EMT in a choke hold, and threaten to arrest him. The patient’s son captures the whole thing on his cameraphone.
From KTUL here:
An Emergency Medical Technician who was involved in a scuffle with an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper is speaking out about the incident.
Maurice White, Jr. is a critical care paramedic with the Creek Nation EMS. He was nearly arrested after the confrontation, which was captured by the cell phone of Kenyada Davis.
White says he saw the trooper approaching from behind at a high rate of speed with lights activated, but he did not hear a siren. He says Franks had a car in front of him that his attention was focused on and hadn’t seen the trooper before he was within a few feet of the ambulance.
“I called out to my partner and told him to pull to the side because there was a State Trooper behind us,” White says. White says as the trooper passed them, he made radio contact, telling Franks “you should consider checking your rearview mirrors”.
“As my partner was pulling onto the shoulder, the cruiser came alongside our unit and gestured for my driver to pull over,” White says.
White says the officer was in a rage when he approached them and yelled “get your a– back here! I am giving you a ticket for failure to yield.” White says he told the trooper they had a patient in the ambulance and that they were on their way to the hospital.
“He ignored my statement, became even more belligerent, and demanded my partner come to his patrol car so he could write him a ticket,” White says. “I calmly told the officer that we were transporting a patient and we could continue this at the hospital.”
White says the trooper then approached him and shouted “you are under arrest for obstructing a police officer” and grabbed his arm to handcuff him. A brief struggle followed, at which point the trooper grabbed White by the throat. The cell phone captured this incident on video.
The cops were asses. I hope they all get fired.
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(No Ratings Yet. Rate It!) Loading ...Abortionist George Tiller Murdered
Jun 1st
Yeah, I know I’m late with this story. Mostly I’ve been late with it because I really didn’t want to say anything about it. Look, no one thinks abortions are a good thing. And to make a career of doing the dirtiest job that even Mike Rowe wouldn’t do can’t be an easy or pleasant career path.
George Tiller never broke any of the laws in his home state of Kansas. Tiller deeply believed he was helping women, and his clinic was plastered with hundreds of thank you letters from women who were grateful that there was someone to turn to when they needed help. He continued to do his job even after being shot by someone who deeply objected to his career choices.
His offices were like a fortress. There were several security checkpoints, magnetometers, and armed guards. He needed it with the constant death threats, the angry protesters and the risk he took showing up to work every day. But even though he was reportedly earning over a million dollars per year, I still can’t grasp why he would do the work he did. He knew in the long run someone would get him.
Tiller’s church seemed to be the weak security link in his life and he was gunned down by a crazed anti-abortion guy named Scott Roeder while Tiller was going in to pray for his own beleaguered soul. No matter how you feel about abortion, this man’s murder was a horrible thing, and thousands of women whom he helped are mourning his loss.
But this loss should not be taken as an excuse by the pro-abortion crowd to dampen the rights of others to speak out against abortion, nor is his death the fault of those who criticized Tiller for his career choice.
Crazy leftists are saying Roeder is a terrorist, and is equating him with Al Queda. That’s preposterous. Roeder is a terrorist like Mark David Chapman was a terrorist. Meanwhile a Muslim man gunned down soldiers at a recruitment center and no one is calling that terrorism.
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(2 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...Bruno Pwns Eminem
Jun 1st
As my wife said, the only person who would have reacted worse than Eminem would have been Kanye West. But its nice seeing Eminem get an assload of Bruno on his nose.
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(1 votes, average: 6.00 out of 6) Loading ...How Do You Shake Kids Out of The Overhead Maze?
Jun 1st
My wife was having a big party at the house to sell candles/homegoods/cookingstuff/jewelry/etc so I took myself and the child away from the estrogen festival to a place where kids could be a kid! AKA Chuck E Cheese! 5 bucks of tokens gets an almost-two-year-old lots of rides in bucking monster truck simulators and several turns at the glass-enclosed token-operated train. It was dinner time so I ordered Chuck E’s smallest pizza for Cartney and let him take his pick of arcade games. When he started playing on the spiral slide which led to the overhead hamster-habitrail-esque maze for little kids, I didn’t worry. I’d seen him try to climb up slides before so I knew he’d never make it all the way up there. Uh, whoops!
Cartney climbed up into the overhead maze of toddler-tubes and didn’t come down for 40 minutes. During this time, I kept running around underneath watching my kid crawl from one spot to another, but never choosing to come back down the slide. I could see him from below due to the shadows his little feet and hands cast as he crawled, and through the occasional porthole in the tubes or open cargo net he would stop by and swing on.
Plus, I had to pee really bad, and since I was there alone with him, I couldn’t risk running to the restroom in case he decided to finally come down. See the kid in the overhead maze behind Cartney? I was paying him tokens to stay up there and keep an eye on him.
I finally started yelling up the slide for Cartney to come down and eat pizza, and doggone if that didn’t lure him out of the overhead maze. Is there anything pizza can’t do?
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