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Check this out from the Glenn Beck site:

What's next? Is the Mexican government going to seize Elmo during the Sesame Street on Ice show in Mexico City in realiation for the Dora incident???

Stay tuned, cause I'm sure the fur is going to fly sooner or later. Probably sooner!!!!

I'm sure most of you are awway of the recent blevy of lawsuits that the RIAA has filed against us common folk in the hopes of killing the MP3 download industry. Well, now it seems that these folks are coming after us again for ripping CDs to our hard drives.

See this article from PCMag contributing editor John C. Dvorak.

Suing customers for ripping CDs is an attack against fair use that, if successful, would reverse legal precedents and give some momentum to the slow effort to eliminate all consumer recording devices. This would include VCRs, CD burners, DVD burners, DVRs, and even copying machines.

And there goes everything that those in the tech industry as near and dear......

Not too mention that if we allow this sort of industrialized police action to continue unabated (like the RIAA is hoping for), then the next thing they'll start coming after is the Bill of Rights. The "connect the dots" path is patently clear, at least it is here on the base. Don't believe us, then sit there and do nothing but when Big Brother comes knocking at your door...don't say you haven't been warned.

Instead of finding some way to benefit from easy copying, these two associations and the companies they represent honestly believe that clogging the American legal system with John Doe nuisance lawsuits will somehow put an end to piracy—

Nope, all it does is clog our already stretched to the limit court system with patently frivilous lawsuits. Where is the reform that the Congresscritters said was coming????

Obviously teh folks at RIAA and MPAA need a few more lessons in history. For as long as there has been a need for something that a large population of people want, there has always been the subculture of piracy. Lawsuits AIN'T gonna change that, in fact it's problab y going to make the piracy market florish even further. it'll just go a little bit further underground.

These folks clearly are mad with power and greed and obviously need more to satiate their thirst. Pity they are too near-sighted to see their own misfortune.

WTF??????

This article from Fox News is enough to get my blood boiling.

But then again, considering it's Sandy "Queen of the Pinkos" Newsome's Franquacko then this all makes more sense. In a city where ANYTHING is valued higher than a human, I guess I should have expected this sort of display.

Oh my aching back...........

Given that the Stephenville UFO story isn't going away......I have been given permission by my superiors to make the following statement:

Sorry, it was us....we did it

The latest conjecture is that the Air Force and McDonnell Douglas' "SkunkWorks" are flight testing the next generation replacement for the U-2 or even the next stealth bomber to replace the B-2.  As noted in the article linked above, Trisha Choate from the Abilene Reporternews continues with this:

"For national security reasons, of course, they're disinclined to tell us about it," said Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society and editor of Skeptic magazine.

Yes, I am aware of the implications that the above statement is NOT earth-shattering news.  But what is news is that a skeptic is ACTUALLY pointing out a known FACT.

Among the possibilities: The government is conducting a campaign of disinformation, spreading UFO stories to cover up the truth, which is out there.

Paging FBI Agent Mulder, Agent Fox Mulder.  White Courtesy phone.

In an about-face, the military said 10 F-16s from the 301st Fighter Wing at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base were on a training mission Jan. 8 in an area including Erath County.

Maj. Carl Lewis, a fighter wing spokesman, said it was just a mistake when he first told reporters the base had no planes in the sky that day.

I will say this one more time. 

Sorry, it was us...we did it.

Dismissed^TM

... this happens.

Better watch out next time you want to say "May God strike me with lightning if ...", cause God Listens.

OMG, it seems somebody has finally been bitten by the "obviousiti opportinus" bug over at the International Telecommunication Union.  In an article from today from Breitbart, they finally get around to inferring that the cuts to the undersea cables providing Internet service to the mid-east

could have been an act of sabotage

NHO WHAI???!?!?!?!?!?

So this is where all of our U.N dues are going to.......

Considering that most of us had that figured out within 24 hours of each of the four incidents where ships COULD NOT have been involved, the fact that it took the ITU nearly a MONTH to disclose this little piece of "trivia".

Guess it's time to send out a Predator squadron to escort a "Clue Bus" over to the U.N building so those folks from the ITU can get on board.

StandBy^TM, cause I know Dismissed^TM ain't in order just yet for this one.

....suck it.

As this article from the Times Online shows, the Toyota Prius ain't all it's cracked up to be.  Seems the Germans still have a couple of tricks up their sleeve.  Then again, when you note that BMW already has a diesel engine in it's racing program for Formula Le Mans and the American SCCA series you get a good clue as to where the Germans are taking the technology from.

Here's the raw numbers from the test for the BMW:

Model BMW 520d SE
Engine 1995cc, four cylinders
Power 177bhp @ 4000rpm
Torque 258 lb ft @ 1750rpm
Transmission Six-speed manual
Official fuel/CO2 55.4mpg / 136g/km
Performance 0-62mph: 8.3sec
Top speed 144mph
Road tax band C (£115)
Price £27,190
Fuel used on test 10.84 gallons (50.3mpg)
Fuel cost £54.19 (diesel)
 

Here's the numbers for the Prius:

Model Toyota Prius T Spirit
Engine 1497cc, four cylinders
Electric motor 50kW/67bhp
Power 77bhp @ 5000rpm
Torque 295 lb ft (motor) 85 lb ft (engine)
Transmission CVT automatic
Official fuel/CO2 65.7mpg / 104g/km
Performance 0-62mph: 10.9sec
Top speed 106mph
Road tax band B (£15, alternative fuel)
Price £20,677
Fuel used on test 11.34 gallons (48.1mpg)
Fuel cost £54.64 (petrol)

As you can see, that's nearly a full 2MPG better for the BMW even though the BMW engine is almost 500cc larger.  Sure, it's more expensive to buy than the Prius, but that less than £7,000 difference can easily be made up in fuel savings.

Suck it envirowhackos!!!! 

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