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Jul. 22nd, 2005 08:10 am
Jul. 22nd, 2005
#1 place to grow Marijuana: The public flower beds outside City Hall, Salt Lake City.
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Phone spammers say that if you call them up, give them your name and phone number and a dollar, they'll stop calling for the dead relatives at your house and just call you instead. Extra-special scummy note: In the USA, If you have a "commercial relationship" with someone, you're exempt from the Do Not Call List restrictions. Paying you to stop calling and asking for the guy who died last week? That's a commercial relationship.
Come on, USA. Apply that "It's not illegal when you do it to gay people instead of real people" logic to spammers. Then we can kill them all.
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Man arrested for selling fake crack.
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How to handle things when you don't trust your wife: Nail the windows shut, deadbolt the doors from the outside, and cancel the phone service.
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The last surviving Comanche Code Talker has died.
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Because poor people don't have rights, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that the state of Mississippi has no obligation to actually *pay* public defenders if the defendant can't.
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Truck with $1 million in Xerox machines stolen. Rotterdam Police on the lookout for copycat crimes.
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Jessica Alba complains about the scripts she gets: "I get all these screenplays that start, 'Tawnya is in the shower The water streams down her naked perky breasts' I don't think that's happening to Natalie Portman". She also hates kissing lesbian monkeys.
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In London, 16-year-old by shocked to discover, while watching the BBC, that his picture is on TV, he's being investigated for terrorism charges... and that he's dead.
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Utah High School students invent a new, fuel-efficient form of air conditioner - that GM decided was physically impossible in 1964.
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Phone spammers say that if you call them up, give them your name and phone number and a dollar, they'll stop calling for the dead relatives at your house and just call you instead. Extra-special scummy note: In the USA, If you have a "commercial relationship" with someone, you're exempt from the Do Not Call List restrictions. Paying you to stop calling and asking for the guy who died last week? That's a commercial relationship.
Come on, USA. Apply that "It's not illegal when you do it to gay people instead of real people" logic to spammers. Then we can kill them all.
Also,
Man arrested for selling fake crack.
Also,
How to handle things when you don't trust your wife: Nail the windows shut, deadbolt the doors from the outside, and cancel the phone service.
Also,
The last surviving Comanche Code Talker has died.
Also,
Because poor people don't have rights, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that the state of Mississippi has no obligation to actually *pay* public defenders if the defendant can't.
Also,
Truck with $1 million in Xerox machines stolen. Rotterdam Police on the lookout for copycat crimes.
Also,
Jessica Alba complains about the scripts she gets: "I get all these screenplays that start, 'Tawnya is in the shower The water streams down her naked perky breasts' I don't think that's happening to Natalie Portman". She also hates kissing lesbian monkeys.
Also,
In London, 16-year-old by shocked to discover, while watching the BBC, that his picture is on TV, he's being investigated for terrorism charges... and that he's dead.
Also,
Utah High School students invent a new, fuel-efficient form of air conditioner - that GM decided was physically impossible in 1964.
Volunteers taking part in tests of the Pentagon's "less-lethal" microwave weapon were banned from wearing glasses or contact lenses due to safety fears. The precautions raise concerns about how safe the Active Denial System (ADS) weapon would be if used in real crowd-control situations.
The ADS fires a 95-gigahertz microwave beam, which is supposed to heat skin and to cause pain but no physical damage. Little information about its effects has been released, but details of tests in 2003 and 2004 were revealed after Edward Hammond, director of the US Sunshine Project - an organisation campaigning against the use of biological and non-lethal weapons - requested them under the Freedom of Information Act.
The tests were carried out at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Two experiments tested pain tolerance levels, while in a third, a "limited military utility assessment", volunteers played the part of rioters or intruders and the ADS was used to drive them away.
The experimenters banned glasses and contact lenses to prevent possible eye damage to the subjects, and in the second and third tests removed any metallic objects such as coins and keys to stop hot spots being created on the skin. They also checked the volunteers' clothes for certain seams, buttons and zips which might also cause hot spots.
The ADS weapon's beam causes pain within 2 to 3 seconds and it becomes intolerable after less than 5 seconds. People's reflex responses to the pain is expected to force them to move out of the beam before their skin can be burnt.
But Neil Davison, co-ordinator of the non-lethal weapons research project at the University of Bradford in the UK, says controlling the amount of radiation received may not be that simple. "How do you ensure that the dose doesn't cross the threshold for permanent damage?" he asks. "What happens if someone in a crowd is unable, for whatever reason, to move away from the beam? Does the weapon cut out to prevent overexposure?"
During the experiments, people playing rioters put up their hands when hit and were given a 15-second cooling-down period before being targeted again. One person suffered a burn in a previous test when the beam was accidentally used on the wrong power setting.
A vehicle-mounted version of ADS called Sheriff could be in service in Iraq in 2006 according to the Department of Defense, and it is also being evaluated by the US Department of Energy for use in defending nuclear facilities. The US marines and police are both working on portable versions, and the US air force is building a system for controlling riots from the air.
The ADS fires a 95-gigahertz microwave beam, which is supposed to heat skin and to cause pain but no physical damage. Little information about its effects has been released, but details of tests in 2003 and 2004 were revealed after Edward Hammond, director of the US Sunshine Project - an organisation campaigning against the use of biological and non-lethal weapons - requested them under the Freedom of Information Act.
The tests were carried out at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Two experiments tested pain tolerance levels, while in a third, a "limited military utility assessment", volunteers played the part of rioters or intruders and the ADS was used to drive them away.
The experimenters banned glasses and contact lenses to prevent possible eye damage to the subjects, and in the second and third tests removed any metallic objects such as coins and keys to stop hot spots being created on the skin. They also checked the volunteers' clothes for certain seams, buttons and zips which might also cause hot spots.
The ADS weapon's beam causes pain within 2 to 3 seconds and it becomes intolerable after less than 5 seconds. People's reflex responses to the pain is expected to force them to move out of the beam before their skin can be burnt.
But Neil Davison, co-ordinator of the non-lethal weapons research project at the University of Bradford in the UK, says controlling the amount of radiation received may not be that simple. "How do you ensure that the dose doesn't cross the threshold for permanent damage?" he asks. "What happens if someone in a crowd is unable, for whatever reason, to move away from the beam? Does the weapon cut out to prevent overexposure?"
During the experiments, people playing rioters put up their hands when hit and were given a 15-second cooling-down period before being targeted again. One person suffered a burn in a previous test when the beam was accidentally used on the wrong power setting.
A vehicle-mounted version of ADS called Sheriff could be in service in Iraq in 2006 according to the Department of Defense, and it is also being evaluated by the US Department of Energy for use in defending nuclear facilities. The US marines and police are both working on portable versions, and the US air force is building a system for controlling riots from the air.
I love this guy.
Jul. 22nd, 2005 01:27 pm"The spaceship would never have appeared if I was not filmed calling it down. This is what the space beings wanted. They wanted me captured on film with their spaceship so everyone would know that these beings have chosen me to speak for them and no other person.The space beings kept their end of the bargain by sending a real UFO, on my signal, that was documented. But, Las Vegas media refused to film me calling down the spaceship. That's why it never happened."
Prophet Yahweh is now calling on all radio and television news and talk shows to allow him to come to their cities and summon sightings for them to document. Don't let Prophet Yahweh be blacklisted because the powers that be don't want humanity to find out that UFOs are real.
Prophet Yahweh is now calling on all radio and television news and talk shows to allow him to come to their cities and summon sightings for them to document. Don't let Prophet Yahweh be blacklisted because the powers that be don't want humanity to find out that UFOs are real.
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Jul. 22nd, 2005 02:25 pmInmates at San Quentin Prison raise $1500 to donate to keep a library open in San Francisco
Prisoners in San Quentin's inmate-to-inmate tutoring program sponsored something of a bake sale for literacy, selling doughnuts, pizza and fried chicken to other prisoners. Today, they will present a $1,000 check to the ailing Salinas Free Library, plus another $500 for literacy services in Marin County. Those sums are nothing to sniff at, given that an inmate with a high- paying prison job makes $56 a month.
Inmates say they raised the money in part because they wouldn't have ended up in prison had they gone further in school. They say they could not imagine their own lives without San Quentin's modest library, which is open to the general prison population six days a week. Some wanted to point out budget priorities that have governments cutting education programs and closing libraries while spending more money on prisons.
"If you take away libraries and recreation centers, the only place kids have to end up is a place like this," said convicted killer Olish Tunstall, 39, who came up with the idea to help Salinas after seeing a story about it on the news. Tunstall had completed only the eighth grade before he began serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, but he has since completed his GED and trained to become an X-ray technician. Now, he helps other prisoners who are learning to read or studying to pass their high school equivalency test. Another inmate-tutor, who identified himself as P.J. and who is serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, said, "If I would have focused on education in school, I wouldn't be here."
Robert "Red" Frye, 35, a tutor who is serving a life sentence for being an accessory to murder, teaches English as a Second Language to other students. Last month, he received his associate of arts degree -- and was valedictorian of his class.
"It is so important to have access to that education," he said. "It has given me a different world view."
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Am I a bad person because I read that last guy's nickname and immediately think "I wonder why they call him Red. Probably because he's Irish."?
Prisoners in San Quentin's inmate-to-inmate tutoring program sponsored something of a bake sale for literacy, selling doughnuts, pizza and fried chicken to other prisoners. Today, they will present a $1,000 check to the ailing Salinas Free Library, plus another $500 for literacy services in Marin County. Those sums are nothing to sniff at, given that an inmate with a high- paying prison job makes $56 a month.
Inmates say they raised the money in part because they wouldn't have ended up in prison had they gone further in school. They say they could not imagine their own lives without San Quentin's modest library, which is open to the general prison population six days a week. Some wanted to point out budget priorities that have governments cutting education programs and closing libraries while spending more money on prisons.
"If you take away libraries and recreation centers, the only place kids have to end up is a place like this," said convicted killer Olish Tunstall, 39, who came up with the idea to help Salinas after seeing a story about it on the news. Tunstall had completed only the eighth grade before he began serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, but he has since completed his GED and trained to become an X-ray technician. Now, he helps other prisoners who are learning to read or studying to pass their high school equivalency test. Another inmate-tutor, who identified himself as P.J. and who is serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, said, "If I would have focused on education in school, I wouldn't be here."
Robert "Red" Frye, 35, a tutor who is serving a life sentence for being an accessory to murder, teaches English as a Second Language to other students. Last month, he received his associate of arts degree -- and was valedictorian of his class.
"It is so important to have access to that education," he said. "It has given me a different world view."
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Am I a bad person because I read that last guy's nickname and immediately think "I wonder why they call him Red. Probably because he's Irish."?
