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Nov. 1st, 2004 09:02 am
Nov. 1st, 2004
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Nov. 1st, 2004 09:13 amEditor of Scottish vampire magazine quits because all her subscribers are pathetic, disgusting, whining fanboys. No news on whether or not they all carried fake katanas, but empirical evidence suggests "yes".
College students arrested as result of quest to prove that there IS such a thing as a free lunch.
College students arrested as result of quest to prove that there IS such a thing as a free lunch.
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Nov. 1st, 2004 09:16 amBecause sometimes pumpkins need to die. Americans have no health care, job security, or civil rights, and it's not safe to walk the streets - but they DO get to play with some really, really big .50 caliber toys.
Iranian parliament votes unanimously to resume nuclear power program. Representatives of the government are quoted as saying "Yeah, we want cheap, clean power. Do you see any coal mines around here? Any rivers for hydroelectric dams? How the fuck are we supposed to stop being a backward third-world nation if we can't manage electricity?"
Australian man chases his critics with a chainsaw.
Iranian parliament votes unanimously to resume nuclear power program. Representatives of the government are quoted as saying "Yeah, we want cheap, clean power. Do you see any coal mines around here? Any rivers for hydroelectric dams? How the fuck are we supposed to stop being a backward third-world nation if we can't manage electricity?"
Australian man chases his critics with a chainsaw.
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Nov. 1st, 2004 09:28 amAbsentee voters who die before the election will most likely still be counted in the USA tomorrow
Quake-relief volunteer breaks into shop and loots it for beer after he's told they're closed due to, y'know, an earthquake.
University student evicted from dorm after posting rude fliers on walls. Timothy Garneau, 20, of Berlin, said he posted the fliers as a joke because he was tired of waiting so long for the elevator. Garneau lived on the seventh floor of Stoke Hall.
Garneau posted fliers Sept. 3 that showed a fit woman in a workout leotard and said: "Nine out of 10 freshman girls gain 10 to 15 pounds. But there is something you can do about it. If you live below the sixth floor, take the stairs. Not only will you feel better about yourself, but you will also be saving us time and won't be sore on the eyes."
UNH's Judicial and Mediation Programs Office found him responsible Oct. 8 for lying to school officials, violating an affirmative action policy, harassment and disorderly conduct. Garneau appealed, but his appeal was denied last Sunday.
Quake-relief volunteer breaks into shop and loots it for beer after he's told they're closed due to, y'know, an earthquake.
University student evicted from dorm after posting rude fliers on walls. Timothy Garneau, 20, of Berlin, said he posted the fliers as a joke because he was tired of waiting so long for the elevator. Garneau lived on the seventh floor of Stoke Hall.
Garneau posted fliers Sept. 3 that showed a fit woman in a workout leotard and said: "Nine out of 10 freshman girls gain 10 to 15 pounds. But there is something you can do about it. If you live below the sixth floor, take the stairs. Not only will you feel better about yourself, but you will also be saving us time and won't be sore on the eyes."
UNH's Judicial and Mediation Programs Office found him responsible Oct. 8 for lying to school officials, violating an affirmative action policy, harassment and disorderly conduct. Garneau appealed, but his appeal was denied last Sunday.
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Nov. 1st, 2004 09:40 amI swear I cannot make this stuff up.
Rapper "Ma$e" insists that, and I quote, "[God] don't have no problem with you blinging,"
"His gates are pearly, his house is about 10 stadiums big, the streets are gold - you do the budget on that kind of place," said Ma$e, 26.
"God don't have no problem with you being rich, as long as he can get a dime off a dollar. Any dude you get rich and he can't get you a dime off a dollar, that's a stingy dude," said Ma$e. "If I get you rich, and you can't give me a dime off the dollar I gave you, I wouldn't fool with you."
Rapper "Ma$e" insists that, and I quote, "[God] don't have no problem with you blinging,"
"His gates are pearly, his house is about 10 stadiums big, the streets are gold - you do the budget on that kind of place," said Ma$e, 26.
"God don't have no problem with you being rich, as long as he can get a dime off a dollar. Any dude you get rich and he can't get you a dime off a dollar, that's a stingy dude," said Ma$e. "If I get you rich, and you can't give me a dime off the dollar I gave you, I wouldn't fool with you."
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Nov. 1st, 2004 10:22 amEveryone knows overclockers are crazy. These people are a SPECIAL kind of overclocker.
With liquid nitrogen cooling, you can make a standard Intel P4 go up to 5.2GHz!
With liquid nitrogen cooling, you can make a standard Intel P4 go up to 5.2GHz!
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Nov. 1st, 2004 01:07 pmFive-year-old girl is completely incapable of feeling heat, cold, or pain
In the school cafeteria, teachers put ice in 5-year-old Ashlyn's chili. If her lunch is scalding hot, she'll gulp it down anyway.
Ashlyn is among a tiny number of people in the world known to have congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, or CIPA -- a rare genetic disorder that makes her unable to feel pain.
The untreatable disease also makes Ashlyn incapable of sensing extreme temperatures -- hot or cold -- disabling her body's ability to cool itself by sweating. Otherwise, her senses are normal.
In Patterson, a rural town of 800 people in southeast Georgia, John and Tara Blocker had no idea the disorder existed before they took Ashlyn to the doctor for a bloodshot, swollen left eye when she was 8 months old.
The doctor put drops in Ashlyn's eye to stain any particles that might be irritating it. The infant smiled and bounced in her mother's lap while the dye revealed a massive scratch across her cornea.
Ashlyn's baby teeth posed big problems. She would chew her lips bloody in her sleep, bite through her tongue while eating, and once even stuck a finger in her mouth and stripped flesh from it.
Family photos reveal a series of these self-inflicted injuries. One picture shows Ashlyn in her Christmas dress, hair neatly coifed, with a swollen lip, missing teeth, puffy eye and athletic tape wrapped around her hands to protect them. She smiles like a little boxer who won a prize bout.
In the school cafeteria, teachers put ice in 5-year-old Ashlyn's chili. If her lunch is scalding hot, she'll gulp it down anyway.
Ashlyn is among a tiny number of people in the world known to have congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, or CIPA -- a rare genetic disorder that makes her unable to feel pain.
The untreatable disease also makes Ashlyn incapable of sensing extreme temperatures -- hot or cold -- disabling her body's ability to cool itself by sweating. Otherwise, her senses are normal.
In Patterson, a rural town of 800 people in southeast Georgia, John and Tara Blocker had no idea the disorder existed before they took Ashlyn to the doctor for a bloodshot, swollen left eye when she was 8 months old.
The doctor put drops in Ashlyn's eye to stain any particles that might be irritating it. The infant smiled and bounced in her mother's lap while the dye revealed a massive scratch across her cornea.
Ashlyn's baby teeth posed big problems. She would chew her lips bloody in her sleep, bite through her tongue while eating, and once even stuck a finger in her mouth and stripped flesh from it.
Family photos reveal a series of these self-inflicted injuries. One picture shows Ashlyn in her Christmas dress, hair neatly coifed, with a swollen lip, missing teeth, puffy eye and athletic tape wrapped around her hands to protect them. She smiles like a little boxer who won a prize bout.
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Nov. 1st, 2004 01:13 pmFinally, some sanity. Ohio federal judge bars "independant" voter challengers from state polls.
According to the judge's ruling, Republicans in Ohio filed "for hundreds of challengers to be physically present in the polling places in order to challenge voters' eligibility."
In her ruling, Dlott said that there are sufficient safeguards against voter fraud in place with precinct election judges appointed by county election boards and that "disruption of this system by over 1,100 lawyers who have no experience in the process" would impede voting.
The Summit County Democratic Party had filed suit, saying the law allowing registration challenges is unconstitutional because disqualified voters wouldn't get a chance to appeal in time before voting, the AP reported.
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There's an appeal going on today, but it looks like a major portion of the minority-targeting "bring down the vote" campaign to make sure the people with the wrong colour of skin don't start thinking they have rights might get stopped in Ohio, this time.
According to the judge's ruling, Republicans in Ohio filed "for hundreds of challengers to be physically present in the polling places in order to challenge voters' eligibility."
In her ruling, Dlott said that there are sufficient safeguards against voter fraud in place with precinct election judges appointed by county election boards and that "disruption of this system by over 1,100 lawyers who have no experience in the process" would impede voting.
The Summit County Democratic Party had filed suit, saying the law allowing registration challenges is unconstitutional because disqualified voters wouldn't get a chance to appeal in time before voting, the AP reported.
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There's an appeal going on today, but it looks like a major portion of the minority-targeting "bring down the vote" campaign to make sure the people with the wrong colour of skin don't start thinking they have rights might get stopped in Ohio, this time.
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Nov. 1st, 2004 01:18 pmUS Supreme court back in session.
Interesting included rulings:
Jack Kevorkian will stay in jail as the Supreme Court refuses to hear his appeal.
The Supreme Court will decide whether local governments can be sued for failing to enforce restraining orders, using the case of a Colorado mother whose three daughters were killed by their father.
The Supreme Court handled a similar case in 1989, and ruled that public officials may not be sued when their alleged gross negligence permits a child to be abused by a parent.
The court said then that the government does not have a constitutional duty to protect people, including abused children, who are not in custody.
Interesting included rulings:
Jack Kevorkian will stay in jail as the Supreme Court refuses to hear his appeal.
The Supreme Court will decide whether local governments can be sued for failing to enforce restraining orders, using the case of a Colorado mother whose three daughters were killed by their father.
The Supreme Court handled a similar case in 1989, and ruled that public officials may not be sued when their alleged gross negligence permits a child to be abused by a parent.
The court said then that the government does not have a constitutional duty to protect people, including abused children, who are not in custody.
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Nov. 1st, 2004 01:39 pmSchool boards contemplating sueing US Government because 31% of American schools are failing No Child Left Behind standards on reading and math.
I'm conflicted. On one side, a great many students who can't read or do basic math are lazy, and have deliberately made themselves that way because it gave them more free time and they knew they would be passed anyway to avoid "damaging their self-esteem" by making them learn or stay behind. On the other hand, the teachers *do* have a point about ESL students being forced to take standardised tests in a language that they don't speak because they haven't had the opportunity to learn it.
I'm conflicted. On one side, a great many students who can't read or do basic math are lazy, and have deliberately made themselves that way because it gave them more free time and they knew they would be passed anyway to avoid "damaging their self-esteem" by making them learn or stay behind. On the other hand, the teachers *do* have a point about ESL students being forced to take standardised tests in a language that they don't speak because they haven't had the opportunity to learn it.
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Nov. 1st, 2004 01:48 pmAvril Lavigne calls Ashlee Simpson "pathetic"
In other news, Pot calls Kettle "black" and Burger King calls McDonald's "fattening".
In other news, Pot calls Kettle "black" and Burger King calls McDonald's "fattening".