Bill due in 31 days
 0%
Donate
Welcome, diggwolf375 [logout]   DL: 457.59 MB  UL: 0.00 kB  Ratio:0.000
Inbox 2 (0)   Sentbox 0   Bookmarks   Friends

Chit-Chat > The random news link thread

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
<< Prev      Next >>

#1535359 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-07-05 21:41:15 (3 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

alupigus wrote:


  "Deviation" from democracy are recently happening more and more often in almost every democratic country,it`s like they are preparing for something. I don`t know maybe it`s just me and my paranoia, but I got the feeling that something bad is going to happen ,something bad that will hit the whole world.

I think political stability has allow the power structures in all our countries to solidify and all government becomes oppressive given enough time.

#1535383 by zxspectrumDonor ('8-bit power') at 2013-07-06 03:48:52 (3 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

random news...

http://qz.com/86685/the-audacious-plan- … nted-food/

http://qz.com/99413/first-ever-human-he … scientist/

#1535387 by alupigus (Lumberjack) at 2013-07-06 06:52:16 (3 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

qbert95 wrote:

alupigus wrote:


  "Deviation" from democracy are recently happening more and more often in almost every democratic country,it`s like they are preparing for something. I don`t know maybe it`s just me and my paranoia, but I got the feeling that something bad is going to happen ,something bad that will hit the whole world.

I think political stability has allow the power structures in all our countries to solidify and all government becomes oppressive given enough time.

Maybe be you are right but nevertheless we should be worry
because if those power structure  will solidify to much ,up to crystallization, we will be f*cked ...all of us.I don`t understand why people from the democratic countries looks so jaded when the basic principles of democracy are broken ...and those principles are broken by those who were elected by us and pay by us to respect and ensure democracy.

#1535395 by hOG (Crusader Mod) at 2013-07-06 15:16:22 (3 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

29 boarding school students burned alive, shot dead by Islamist militants in Nigeria
Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Saturday, killing 29 students and one teacher. Some of the pupils were burned alive in the latest school attack blamed on a radical terror group, survivors said.

Parents screamed in anguish as they tried to identify the charred and gunshot victims.

Farmer Malam Abdullahi found the bodies of two of his sons, a 10-year-old shot in the back as he apparently tried to run away, and a 12-year-old shot in the chest. "That's it, I'm taking my other boys out of school," he told The Associated Press as he wept over the two corpses. He said he had three younger children in a nearby school.

"It's not safe," he said. "The gunmen are attacking schools and there is no protection for students despite all the soldiers." Survivors at the Potiskum General Hospital and its mortuary said gunmen attacked Government Secondary School in Mamudo village, 3 miles from Potiskum town at about 3 a.m. Saturday.

The gunmen are believed to be from the Boko Haram sect whose name means "Western education is sacrilege."
- Source

#1535397 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-07-06 15:54:03 (3 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

The tally as of Saturday morning...

55 shot and 9 dead in the gun control mecca of the US of A

Hopefully none of the shooters has a white sounding name because than the mainstream media might actually cover it.

#1535405 by tidus (Power User) at 2013-07-06 20:18:19 (3 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

http://www.businessinsider.com/plane-cr … sco-2013-7

#1535409 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-07-06 22:34:20 (3 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

tidus wrote:

http://www.businessinsider.com/plane-crash-in-san-francisco-2013-7

I have flown from L.A. to Sao Paulo on Korean Airlines with the same model Boeing.
12 hours @ 50K feet and indicated air speed of 600 and 13 hours to return (150 headwind @ 50K feet).

These guys hit the levee before the marked landing area.

As for SFO (the airport) they average 11.166 arrivals per hour daily averaged out...and more land/take off during the peak hours.

EDIT:

More news from the "gun free zone":

At Least 56 People People Shot in Chicago over Holiday Weekend

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/ … -years-old

Last edited by Timex at 2013-07-07 22:08:02

#1535509 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-07-08 14:56:22 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

San Francisco 777 Crash: Why Did So Many Passengers Evacuate With Bags?

Quote:

At least one man interviewed in the New York Times indicated that he grabbed his bags and then his child. In that order. All I can say is that it was very fortunate that the fire was slow to spread.
...
Of all the aircraft accidents I have investigated or am familiar with, this is the first where it appears significant numbers of people took their belongings with them in escaping.

I told you it was not trauma it was pure unbridled materialistic selfishness that is not at all common amongst plane crash survivors.


*edit* btw this was part of a discussion we had in random pics about this picture when I pointed out how amazing messed up it was so many people seemed to have taken their carry on bags...

Last edited by qbert95 at 2013-07-08 15:02:35

#1535528 by wardukeDonor (Power User) at 2013-07-09 01:20:57 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Survive plane crash, get hit my fire truck..

Apparently, this may be how one of those two girls died from that 777 plane crash..

#1535557 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-07-09 16:12:41 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Meanwhile back in Ohio...

Newcomerstown to allow guns on school property

Quote:

The group, calling itself the Parent Safety Committee, cited a New York Daily News report that stated, “With a single exception, every multiple-victim public shooting in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry their own firearms.”

The committee contended there was a need to “get rid of gun-free zones” such as schools, where no one is armed to combat an attack by an outsider.

http://www.timesreporter.com/news/x6241 … z2YRhLUoeF

#1535570 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-07-09 18:33:03 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Aussie restaurateur Paul Mathis invents new letter of the Alphabet
(you have to check the link for the actual letter because it wont display here for some reason)

Quote:

Aussie restaurateur, Paul Mathis has invented a new letter of the alphabet to replace the word "the" because he thinks it is more efficient.

The letter looks like if an upper case T and a lower case h were to have a typographic baby, this is what it would look like.

Mathis has invested $38,000 into developing the symbol which he would like to see added as a 27th letter of the alphabet.

Id go along with it, why not?

*edit* here is a pic...

Last edited by qbert95 at 2013-07-09 18:34:39

#1535571 by Melrose86 (User) at 2013-07-09 18:47:56 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

$38,000? for that? :lol:

#1535573 by hOG (Crusader Mod) at 2013-07-09 18:55:27 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

qbert95 wrote:

Aussie restaurateur Paul Mathis invents new letter of the Alphabet
(you have to check the link for the actual letter because it wont display here for some reason)

Quote:

Aussie restaurateur, Paul Mathis has invented a new letter of the alphabet to replace the word "the" because he thinks it is more efficient.

The letter looks like if an upper case T and a lower case h were to have a typographic baby, this is what it would look like.

Mathis has invested $38,000 into developing the symbol which he would like to see added as a 27th letter of the alphabet.

Id go along with it, why not?

*edit* here is a pic...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/ … 34x380.jpg

It is already in the English alphabet through the Greek alphabet.. the theta (as in 'anthropos': human)


This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image.

#1535574 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-07-09 18:57:35 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

hOG wrote:



It is already in the English alphabet through the Greek alphabet.. the theta (as in 'anthropos': human)

http://www.ripon.edu/campuslife/files/2 … _theta.gif

that was my college frat

:lol:

#1535575 by hOG (Crusader Mod) at 2013-07-09 18:59:42 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Yes, I was looking for college theta cheerleaders or something as illustration, but no dice

#1535582 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-07-09 19:38:24 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Hungry for all you can eat ribs?  DO NOT eat here as you could die!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKXrL5syc_s

part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEDLVAOOeYI

EDIT:

rallies take online protests over NSA spying to the streets

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/6/449844 … in/4167369

EDIT 2:

Alabama — an ancient underwater forest preserved for 50,000 years.

Quote:

You can still smell the Ceder sap when wood is cut.

http://news.msn.com/videos/?ap=True& … n-us_msnhp

Last edited by Timex at 2013-07-09 22:51:10

#1535610 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-07-09 23:03:40 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Mexico beats US to be world's fattest country

Quote:

The United States no longer holds the title of the world’s most populous, obese nation; that designation has been passed on to Mexico.

#1535615 by mbodnar (Airborne Mod) at 2013-07-09 23:31:26 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

It's tough to comprehend how 1/3 of all teenagers are obese.  There was ONE fat chick in my graduating class, and she was teased mercilessly.   I'd assume it's from computers/video games.

#1535622 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-07-10 02:22:03 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

mbodnar wrote:

I'd assume it's from computers/video games.

:whistle:

#1535625 by uberrig (Power User) at 2013-07-10 03:03:14 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Timex wrote:


Alabama — an ancient underwater forest preserved for 50,000 years.

Quote:

You can still smell the Ceder sap when wood is cut.

http://news.msn.com/videos/?ap=True& … n-us_msnhp

Ok, I gotta admit that's pretty cool.

Last edited by uberrig at 2013-07-10 03:03:30

#1535635 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-07-10 09:15:30 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

uberrig wrote:


Ok, I gotta admit that's pretty cool.

Same thought...imagine finding this yourself.

#1535647 by hOG (Crusader Mod) at 2013-07-10 14:31:00 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Finnish minister wants Old Testament laws
"Minister of the Interior Päivi Räsänen encouraged his listeners to follow the Bible in their lives, even though the law would say against. Räsänen, visited the National Transmission Fabric From the Days on Saturday.

- We must obey God rather than men. Thus says the Bible, Räsänen said."
- Source (google translate)

We should let more Finnish people into the site. What noble and godly people!

#1535648 by alupigus (Lumberjack) at 2013-07-10 14:36:28 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

hOG wrote:

Finnish minister wants Old Testament laws
"Minister of the Interior Päivi Räsänen encouraged his listeners to follow the Bible in their lives, even though the law would say against. Räsänen, visited the National Transmission Fabric From the Days on Saturday.

- We must obey God rather than men. Thus says the Bible, Räsänen said."
- Source (google translate)


I fell sorry for Sniper.:lol:

#1535689 by qbert95 (Power User) at 2013-07-10 23:53:15 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Genetic 'inherited abilities' are a reason rich kids do better and poor kids struggle, government report says

I have a feeling even this "controversial study" has been thoroughly whitewashed so it hides behind economic outcomes with no mentions of other "factors".

#1535696 by Timex (Power User) at 2013-07-11 06:24:34 (2 weeks ago) - [Quote] - [Report]Top

Sunny California...

Arabian princess accused of enslaving maids in Calif. home


This image has been resized, click here to view the full-sized image.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07 … -home?lite

EDIT:

Video.. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local … 99831.html

Last edited by Timex at 2013-07-11 06:28:41

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
<< Prev      Next >>
Quick jump: