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#1532556 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-05-30 22:39:15 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Well the fun never stops...

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The Secret Service has intercepted a letter to President Obama containing threats similar to those made in poison-laced letters sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his gun-control group, law enforcement sources said Thursday.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05 … &pos=1

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Worst ISP in the USA..and it's mine:

http://www.dslreports.com/comment/1677/87758

More edit:

My ISP sucks ass.
If I get half the speed I pay for I am "doing good".

West Virginia Leaked Report Highlights Frontier Favoritism
As Well As Oodles of State Incompetence and Corruption

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/West … ism-124410

Even more edit:

On a lighter note:

Pics prove dogs and kids suck at hide-and-seek but look cute trying

http://now.msn.com/kids-and-dogs-try-an … te-gallery

Last edited by Timex at 2013-06-01 03:21:11

#1532623 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-06-01 07:39:43 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

8 arrested after brawl at kindergarten graduation

and a very serious one...

Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands

basically government rules that government doesn't need warrants to access your private data.

#1532662 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-06-01 23:50:50 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Another Democrat in voter fraud

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52065103/#.Uap56tiIokw

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'Enormous' repercussions as court weighs DNA sampling during arrests

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Justice Antonin Scalia was less welcoming.

“Well, that’s really good,” he said. “I’ll bet you if you conducted a lot of unreasonable searches and seizures, you’d get more convictions, too.”

“But you know,” he continued, “the Fourth Amendment sometimes stands in the way.”

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06 … &pos=1

Last edited by Timex at 2013-06-02 04:31:06

#1532688 by collander Donor

(Power User) at 2013-06-02 12:55:30 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

"Edith Bunker" dead at 90

All In The Family was a very controversial show in its day.Dealing with issues such as racism, bigotry,rape and many other social problems occurring in the early 1970s all the while making us laugh.

R.I.P. "Dingbat"

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/jean-stapleton … 08583.html

Last edited by collander at 2013-06-02 12:56:53

#1532696 by tkmn (Power User) at 2013-06-02 16:08:50 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Storm chasers killed chasing storms...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/02/us/mi … ?hpt=us_c1

#1532698 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-06-02 16:38:00 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

LAPD confronts Call of Duty 'Ghost' statue in tense standoff

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http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/31/438322 … s-designer

#1532709 by Melrose86 (User) at 2013-06-02 18:41:28 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

One of our designers, who shall not be shamed, pressed it on his way out because apparently when boys find buttons that they are unsure of, their first instinct is to push it

:lol:

#1532715 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-06-02 19:36:24 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

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3 day edit:

Joey Covington, Jefferson Airplane drummer, dead at 67

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Joey Covington, a drummer who played with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, died yesterday in a car accident in Palm Springs, California. He was 67.

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=811398

Last edited by Timex at 2013-06-06 06:03:48

#1532904 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-06-07 02:30:37 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Thank god for the British press because Obama cant go after them like he does ours when they dare to cross him.....

NSA taps in to internet giants' systems to mine user data, secret files reveal

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The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.

The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says.

basically every single thing you do online is being directly monitored by the feds, warrants be damned.

#1532907 by mbodnar (Airborne Mod) at 2013-06-07 03:33:57 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Clearly this is George Bush's fault.

#1532924 by alupigus (Lumberjack) at 2013-06-07 07:29:15 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Good news for some of us...

PHILADELPHIA - Researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have determined the role of a key growth factor, found in skin cells of limited quantities in humans, which helps hair follicles form and regenerate during the wound healing process. When this growth factor, called Fgf9, was overexpressed in a mouse model, there was a two- to three-fold increase in the number of new hair follicles produced. Researchers believe that this growth factor could be used therapeutically for people with various hair and scalp disorders.

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Rel … cine-news+(Penn+Medicine+News)

#1532949 by sniperfin (Camo admin) at 2013-06-07 13:13:34 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

qbert95 wrote:

Thank god for the British press because Obama cant go after them like he does ours when they dare to cross him.....

NSA taps in to internet giants' systems to mine user data, secret files reveal

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https://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Gua … op-001.jpg

basically every single thing you do online is being directly monitored by the feds, warrants be damned.

Everybody who writes shit in the internet should always include words like bomb,al-qaida,attack,jihad, etc. in their text,just for making the data collectors work a bit harder.
If the billions of people would do that in every text they write it would make this data collecting quite void pretty soon. Databases would flood of shit and it would be impossible to use it as anykind of source.

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Clearly this is George Bush's fault.

It's the fault of those who so easily gave up their freedoms by signing documents like the patriot act. Bush is one player on that.

#1532971 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-06-07 15:41:31 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

sniperfin wrote:

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Clearly this is George Bush's fault.

It's the fault of those who so easily gave up their freedoms by signing documents like the patriot act. Bush is one player on that.

Yeah that is part of the problem, our government/media have been so successful into getting people to look at our system as our side vs their side instead of how it should be viewed as us against them (people vs government. Right now no matter which side in the "argument" wins the reality is both win because they all get to use that power and they never give it back.

*edit* and like the good lap dog it is the UK is right along side for the ride....

UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation

*edit2* and how does the US government get such easy access to these phone records, well it is easy when you can install former joint chiefs of staff on the board of directors...

Admiral Mullen Named to Sprint’s Board

Last edited by qbert95 at 2013-06-07 20:54:50

#1533033 by mbodnar (Airborne Mod) at 2013-06-08 04:15:15 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Mullen was a fine officer. It's a shame he went to Harvard and became a politician.

#1533067 by hOG (Crusader Mod) at 2013-06-08 13:15:06 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Saudi prince sues Forbes magazine for saying he’s only worth $20-billion
"Alwaleed, the richest man in the Middle East, insisted he’s actually worth US$30 billion and accused Forbes of “intentional biases and inconsistencies” in its valuation process."
- Source

#1533083 by alupigus (Lumberjack) at 2013-06-08 14:52:25 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Meet 'Schmeat': Lab-grown meat hits the grill this month

"A hamburger patty made from lab-grown meat — or "schmeat" — is expected to be unveiled and grilled later this month at an event in London that is highly anticipated by animal rights activists and other backers."

"Among them is Mark Post, a physiologist at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, who grew the meat for the upcoming burger unveiling in his lab. The development of the 140-gram patty has taken two years and cost €250,000 ($338,000). Stephens said the funding needed to scale up the process to something commercially viable is one of the biggest obstacles right now on the journey of in vitro meat from the lab and the supermarket."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story … urger.html

#1533101 by mbodnar (Airborne Mod) at 2013-06-08 21:31:55 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Think I'll stick with dead animals.

edit: Idiocy spirals farther out of control :facepalm:

Last edited by mbodnar at 2013-06-08 22:49:35

#1533129 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-06-09 06:15:32 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

mbodnar wrote:

]Idiocy

Brainwashing.

Fixed.

#1533145 by malah Donor

(Power User) at 2013-06-09 14:19:21 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

They better gather up all those toy cars and replace them with hybrids.

#1533151 by Brainless (Power User) at 2013-06-09 15:02:51 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Man sick of playing Xbox chooses prison instead:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic … d=10888577

Beer fridge knocks out mobile network

http://now.msn.com/beer-fridge-knocks-o … -australia

#1533164 by Phantoma Donor

(Power User) at 2013-06-09 18:26:50 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

mbodnar wrote:

Think I'll stick with dead animals.

edit: Idiocy spirals farther out of control :facepalm:

I hope those kids keep the rolls of caps for those guns in a separate secure storage container away from the guns. We don't want any avoidable loud noises of caps going off from unauthorised usage of a loaded cap gun if we can help it.

Safety first I always say. :yes:

#1533167 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-06-09 18:54:29 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Nighthawk T3 Stainless give away contest

http://www.nagr.org/obamaungunban.aspx?pid=1a

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Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.

Help end the violence EAT BACON

Last edited by Timex at 2013-06-09 18:55:19

#1533171 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-06-09 21:17:02 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

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Snowden said that he admires both Ellsberg and Manning, but argues that there is one important distinction between himself and the army private, whose trial coincidentally began the week Snowden's leaks began to make news.

"I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest," he said. "There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is."

great read, that dude has some huge balls because the US government is going to destroy him like he was a conservative nonprofiit.

#1533172 by bolg (Power User) at 2013-06-09 21:53:25 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

qbert95 wrote:

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

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great read, that dude has some huge balls because the US government is going to destroy him like he was a conservative nonprofiit.

Sounds like a good, honest man. Trading a life in Hawaii with a good salary for persecution and possibly an end to many future career options (if he ever gets off the hook), not many would've done that.

I think one of the reasons he went public is that it's a good life insurance.

#1533174 by DrevoKocour (Power User) at 2013-06-09 22:07:27 (1 month ago) - [Quote] - [Report]

The only thing more outrageous and horrible than the whole scandal and the US government acting like that is that, come the next news cycle, this will all be forgotten, all the internet fury will dissipate, the men in power will stay in power, and nothing will ever come out of it.

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