The BS hour...
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:57:00 GMT
You be my bitch now...
Posted by spooneybarger Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:50:00 GMT
bend over, facebook has a present…
Facebook’s terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.
Tracking the President...
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:57:00 GMT
When the mainstream media first announced Barack Obama’s “victory” in keeping his BlackBerry, the focus was on the security of the device, and keeping the U.S. president’s e-mail communications private from spies and hackers. The news coverage and analysis by armchair security experts thus far has failed to focus on the real threat: attacks against President Obama’s location privacy, and the potential physical security risks that come with someone knowing the president’s real-time physical location.
Patience...
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:20:00 GMT
Anyone who has failed to keep track of a winning lottery ticket for all of 12 months may want to consider the efforts of 39 bondholders who have been safekeeping valuable, tissue-thin, New York City securities since shortly after the Civil War. Next month, one of the bonds, issued in 1868 and thought to be one of the oldest active municipal bonds in the country, will come due. And the city stands ready to retire the debt incurred when Winston Churchill’s grandfather came up with the idea of building a road to one of the nation’s first racetracks, which he had opened in what is now the Bronx. For 135 years, New York City has been dutifully paying 7 percent annual interest on the bonds, which financed construction of the road. On March 1, the owner of one of them is entitled to come forward and collect its face value: $1,000.
Because religion is always funny...
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:32:00 GMT
The Bartender says...
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:28:00 GMT
I don't know what to say about this...
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:20:00 GMT
thanks to m for passing this along…
John Test, how do I love you?
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:09:00 GMT
Let me count the ways… just an early Valentine’s present to you…
Making a name for yourself...
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:02:00 GMT
Police in the South Carolina county where Michael Phelps was photographed smoking from a marijuana pipe have been arresting people as they seek to make a case against the superstar swimmer, lawyers for two arrested people said Thursday.Attorneys Joseph McCulloch and Dick Harpootlian told The Associated Press they each represent a client charged with possession of marijuana who were questioned about the party Phelps attended near the University of South Carolina campus in November.
The lawyers said the two clients were renters at the house where the party apparently took place, although they were not at the party. The two have since moved and were arrested after police executed a search warrant at their new home and accused them of having a small amount of marijuana there.
“After they arrested him, they didn’t ask him, ‘Where did you get the marijuana?’ or ‘Who sold it to you?’ Almost all the questions they asked him were about Michael Phelps,” Harpootlian said.
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Posted by spooneybarger Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:07:00 GMT
Tasty...
Posted by spooneybarger Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:43:00 GMT
Please Ms. Collins, don’t feed me shit and tell me that its sweetbreads…
In driving down the total cost of the stimulus bill — from $838 billion approved by the Senate and $820 by the House — legislators also sharply reduced proposed tax incentives for buyers of homes and cars that held huge public appeal. Senator Collins said getting the final number to under $800 billion was more than symbolic; it meant “a fiscally responsible number,” she said.
More favorites…
But even as Congressional leaders and top White House officials went through the package with a carving knife, it was clear that the three Republicans who agreed to support the bill in the Senate wielded extraordinary power, and along with conservative Democrats in their coalition, had put a firm stamp on the stimulus package. For instance, even as negotiators accepted many of the Senate’s reduced spending provisions, they were careful to maintain an additional $6.5 billion for medical research that was inserted at the insistence of Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, who is a cancer survivor.
they left out the $100 million specter insisted on to see ‘finally determine if the people of the great state of pennsylvania where cheated out of multiple super bowls by the new england patriots’...
Mr. Harkin said he was particularly frustrated by the money being spent on fixing the alternative minimum tax. “It’s about 9 percent of the whole bill,” he said, “which we were going to do later this year in a tax bill. Why is it in there? It has nothing to do with stimulus. It has nothing to do with recovery. This makes no sense whatsoever.”
Not for me...
Posted by spooneybarger Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:40:00 GMT
I’ve found at least one way I know I don’t want to go…
A pedestrian was struck by a sport utility vehicle on a street in Corona, Queens, on Wednesday morning, then immediately struck again by a cargo van that dragged the victim 17 miles through a web of city highways and to Coney Island in Brooklyn, the police said. The pedestrian, apparently a male, was killed.
Privacy temporarily saved...
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:46:00 GMT
by governmental incompetence…
The first UK ID cards have already been issued – but no UK police officers or border guards have any way of reading the data stored on them.
SHIT Bus!
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:44:00 GMT
And you thought they smelt like shit before….
Citizens of Norway will soon be able to ride around town on buses powered by nothing other than methane from human excrement. It’s emissions-free, hardly costs a thing and doesn’t require drilling into the earth’s surface. Every single person in Oslo will be contributing something very personal toward this new method of powering the city’s buses.
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