Today's cool news, stolen from other places that collect cool news.

[theweaselking]

#1 place to grow Marijuana: The public flower beds outside City Hall, Salt Lake City.

Also,
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.

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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.

Also,
Utah High School students invent a new, fuel-efficient form of air conditioner - that GM decided was physically impossible in 1964.

Comments

[anivair.livejournal.com]

The link to the fake crack story is broken.

Also: here's a thought for jessica Alba. Sure, Natalie portman doesn't get scfripts about her nice ass or perky breasts. that's because she can act. Give it a shot sometime and you might get scripts about somehting other than your body.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

> The link to the fake crack story is broken.

Not my fault. It's down on their end.

[anivair.livejournal.com]

I know, I just thought I'd let you know.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

The greatest thing about that imprisoned woman story? Police took the man into custody on charges of "false imprisonment."

There is such a charge. Wow.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

It's basically kidnapping, except without the actual taking-people-away-from-their-regular-place. Same sort of punishment range, too.

Jessica Alba's complaint...

[larpguide.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I bet Natile Portman isn't gettin' those scripts. But I also don't remember he doin' a movie where she was a POLE DANCER either. Or strippin' down to her undies as in the FF. Or made her name playin a sexy feline infused super hero runnin' around in a skin tight outfit and lingere.

You play the part of a whore, you get cast as a whore. Now go cash your multi-million dollar check for FF and cry some more to your agent...

Re: Jessica Alba's complaint...

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

But I also don't remember he doin' a movie where she was a POLE DANCER either. Or strippin' down to her undies as in the FF.

You obviously did not see the movie Closer? Natalie Portman played a stripper in that one.

Re: Jessica Alba's complaint...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Or "Attack Of The Clones", with the skimpy torn bodysuit and the nipply goodness.

Re: Jessica Alba's complaint...

[larpguide.livejournal.com]

Nope, sure didn't.

Huh, that's strange, with such an all-star cast, you'd think I would have heard of it... Guess it fell into my 'chick flick' category and therefore never retained anything in it.

Guess with it making a million less in the US than what it cost to produce, it wasn't too popular...

Re: Jessica Alba's complaint...

[larpguide.livejournal.com]

Okey Okey, so I am completely wrong. Feel free to delete my posts. :P

Re: Jessica Alba's complaint...

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

um.. natalie portman as a stripper... even if it was a chick flick, i'd be there... right behind THG...

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

"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."

I may be wrong, but doesn't the Constitution down south guarantee the right to representation? Hence, public defenders?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yes, you have a right to representation, but the state is under no obligation to *PAY* them.

So, if your local municipality wants to avoid violating your Constitutional right to counsel, it has to foot the entire bill for the public defenders. This leads to such wonders as a capital murder defense from a guy who's spent an aggregate total of four hours on the case before the trial, and he did that by shorting two vagrancies and a assault case - he met THOSE defendants at the hearing, where he enters a plea of guilty and never sees the client again.

In the USA, if you're not rich, you're not people. If you're not 1% of the population, you're not rich.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

They're trying to *patent* a peltier effect cooler? The thing that GM concluded was almost certainly not that it couldn't be done, but that it would be too expensive, both in manufacturing (but which has dropped to very very little, nowadays), but more importantly, Peltier effect cooling just isn't very efficient. You know those 'mini fridges', big enough for a sixpack of Coke? Those are all Peltier effect coolers. But a fridge of any size at all, including 'cool box' type camping fridges -- and a car airco requires more cold than a real fridge does -- is much more efficient with a compressorbased system.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

> They're trying to *patent* a peltier effect cooler?

I believe they're trying to patent a specific design of one, in fact.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, but. When you get right down to it, all of them are just two heatsinks, the Peltier slab, possibly with fans on one or both sides to aid in circulation.

I've got a 172W Peltier element here, 4x4 cm standard size (24V at way too many amps) here, and you have to work *really hard* to keep the hot side cool enough that the cold side is actually cold. You can transfer something like 250-300W through it, with a temp difference of a few dozen degrees K, but you then have a 4x4 slab of ceramics putting out 500 Watts (the transferred heat plus the Peltier power) that you need to keep at not-too-much-over-ambient for the cold side to be at below ambient. Car aircons typically generate 1500-2000 Watts of cold air, or in other words a fuckload.

That's not impossible with a Peltier based system, but getting it to be more efficient (even after the inefficiencies in the alternator; counting the alternator efficiency, getting it more efficient would take a miracle) than a direct mechanically linked compressor/freon system... Maybe if you count on having 50 mile an hour headwind to cool your hot side heatsinks, but I doubt even that would work, and you don't need an aircon system that only runs at highway speeds.