NASA brings us smoke angels.
Aug. 22nd, 2006 07:23 am
Aug. 22nd, 2006
For the record.
Aug. 22nd, 2006 07:48 amThe person who sends me a case of Lordi Cola will be my most favourite person, EVER.
Anyone in Finland want to hook a transcontinental brother up?
Anyone in Finland want to hook a transcontinental brother up?
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Aug. 22nd, 2006 10:04 amEncyclopodia: Putting a full, complete download of Wikipedia on your iPod
It doesn't work with modern iPods, only crappy old ones, and it sets up a dual-boot on your iPod, and English Wikipedia is 1.1GB once all the revision and history information is removed.
Still, neat.
It doesn't work with modern iPods, only crappy old ones, and it sets up a dual-boot on your iPod, and English Wikipedia is 1.1GB once all the revision and history information is removed.
Still, neat.
Irony last seen despondent, suicidal.
Aug. 22nd, 2006 01:12 pmSocial Studies teacher suspended for burning a flag during a lesson on freedom of speech in the USA.
If you don't like Al Jazeera as a source, try putting the teacher's name in at news.google.com, and you can find Faux News' coverage, among others.
If you don't like Al Jazeera as a source, try putting the teacher's name in at news.google.com, and you can find Faux News' coverage, among others.
Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed
British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.
The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.
Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes before it was due to leave the Costa del Sol at 3am. Others waiting for Flight ZB 613 in the departure lounge refused to board it.
Patrick Mercer, the Tory Homeland Security spokesman, said last night: "This is a victory for terrorists. These people on the flight have been terrorised into behaving irrationally." "For those unfortunate two men to be victimised because of the colour of their skin is just nonsense."
In other news,
Americans still doing their best to roll over and surrender, too:
(edited for clarity: The second story is not my story, but is, instead, a story I am quoting in part from the second link.)
British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.
The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.
Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes before it was due to leave the Costa del Sol at 3am. Others waiting for Flight ZB 613 in the departure lounge refused to board it.
Patrick Mercer, the Tory Homeland Security spokesman, said last night: "This is a victory for terrorists. These people on the flight have been terrorised into behaving irrationally." "For those unfortunate two men to be victimised because of the colour of their skin is just nonsense."
In other news,
Americans still doing their best to roll over and surrender, too:
One of the two men who approached me first, Inspector Harris, asked for my id card and boarding pass. I gave him my boarding pass and driver's license. He said "people are feeling offended because of your t-shirt". I looked at my t-shirt: I was wearing my shirt which states in both Arabic and English "we will not be silent". You can take a look at it in this picture taken during our Jordan meetings with Iraqi MPs. I said "I am very sorry if I offended anyone, I didnt know that this t-shirt will be offensive". He asked me if I had any other T-shirts to put on, and I told him that I had checked in all of my bags and I asked him "why do you want me to take off my t-shirt? Isn't it my constitutional right to express myself in this way?" The second man in a greenish suit interfered and said "people here in the US don't understand these things about constitutional rights". So I answered him "I live in the US, and I understand it is my right to wear this t-shirt".The shirt in question, on a different person who is neither me nor the writer of the above:
Then I once again asked the three of them : "How come you are asking me to change my t-shirt? Isn't this my constitutional right to wear it? I am ready to change it if you tell me why I should. Do you have an order against Arabic t-shirts? Is there such a law against Arabic script?" so inspector Harris answered "you can't wear a t-shirt with Arabic script and come to an airport. It is like wearing a t-shirt that reads "I am a robber" and going to a bank". I said "but the message on my t-shirt is not offensive, it just says "we will not be silent". I got this t-shirt from Washington DC. There are more than a 1000 t-shirts printed with the same slogan, you can google them or email them at wewillnotbesilent@gmail.com . It is printed in many other languages: Arabic, Farsi, Spanish, English, etc." Inspector Harris said: "We cant make sure that your t-shirt means we will not be silent, we don't have a translator. Maybe it means something else". I said: "But as you can see, the statement is in both Arabic and English". He said "maybe it is not the same message".
(edited for clarity: The second story is not my story, but is, instead, a story I am quoting in part from the second link.)
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Aug. 22nd, 2006 03:50 pmAtari Play: Free, multiplayer online Battleship, Boggle, Monopoly, Scrabble, Sorry! and Yahtzee!
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Aug. 22nd, 2006 04:52 pmHey, remember those "Asian-looking" guys who were thrown off a British airplane for the crime of Flying While Maybe Speaking Arabic and freaking the brainless fucking sheep?
They're not the first case of this kind of passenger-mutiny idiocy.
Meet Amar Ashraf, who had this happen to him last week.
He's a PILOT.
From THAT AIRLINE'S PARTNER COMPANY.
That's right, they dragged a guy WHO FLIES *THEIR* JUMBO JETS FOR A LIVING off a plane because THEY WERE AFRAID HE MIGHT DO SOMETHING BAD WHILE HE WAS A PASSENGER ASLEEP IN BUSINESS CLASS.
Hey, everyone who's afraid of brown people: Remember the terrorists?
They won, and you helped them do it.
Good job!
They're not the first case of this kind of passenger-mutiny idiocy.
Meet Amar Ashraf, who had this happen to him last week.
He's a PILOT.
From THAT AIRLINE'S PARTNER COMPANY.
That's right, they dragged a guy WHO FLIES *THEIR* JUMBO JETS FOR A LIVING off a plane because THEY WERE AFRAID HE MIGHT DO SOMETHING BAD WHILE HE WAS A PASSENGER ASLEEP IN BUSINESS CLASS.
Hey, everyone who's afraid of brown people: Remember the terrorists?
They won, and you helped them do it.
Good job!