Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
Who comes up with this shit?
A new policy from the much loved and well respected US Transportation Security Administration states that people who refuse to present ID will no longer be allowed to board airplanes. However, if you say that you’d love to present it but you just can’t find it right now,
that’s just fine, you run along, and have a nice trip.
Um…uh…yeah…right…sure…whaaaaaat?
If you’re looking to not get yourself busted on a DUI, might I humbly suggest that you refrain from
tooling around the streets of New York in a motorized beer cooler,
especially one that has a top speed of 13 MPH?
Leslie J. “Bomber” Marr, 57, was charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle after the police saw him swerving on the street and driving on the sidewalk in his “Cruzin Cooler,” Whitehall Police Chief Richard LaChapelle told the Post Star newspaper.
Marr’s electric-powered cooler was filled with 14 beers and has room for 24 cans and ice, Fox News reported.
Oh god. First we had the self-stirring mug. Now, for the even lazier, we have the self-rotating ice cream cup. Yup, put ice cream in the inside compartment, stick tongue out and press go. It spins by itself, so you don’t have to lick around. Oh boy. We’re all going to be fat slabs of stone soon.
Yikes! Next time you fly, you’ll be given a choice. Either get the pat-down, or get scanned by a machine. You’d think the scan would be less invasive. Think again. Apparently the officer can see details such as colostomy bags, implants, the size of your breasts or genetals, and all manner of other things. But your face is blurred and the image cannot be stored or copied. How long until someone more corrupt figures out how to unblur the face and store the image? I think I’ll take the pat-down.
Poor Sameer Mishra. There he is, in a spelling bee, nervous as hell, and he thinks he hears the judge say that he has to spell numb nut. I did too. So did most of the audience, because everybody laughed. The word was “numnah”, but the moment was still funny.
I wish stuff like that happened more in spelling bees. They would be more fun then.
This story of a very stripped down car leaves me with so many questions. Why, oh why would you buy a car with a cinder block as a driver’s seat and nothing else inside? How do you not notice that it has no brakes, or brake pedal for that matter? Hell, how do you drive it home? And why do you think getting out and pushing against it will stop it? Let’s review some physics, shall we? You weigh maybe 150 pounds. It ways 2 tons. Hmmmm, who’s gonna win?
I guess now you’ve learned why it was such a cheap car to buy. Too bad it pinned you first.
10 Jun, Tue, 14:14:31
Google:
maple leafs get herpes
Is that a curse? You really have a hate on for the Leafs. I know they’ve sucked a lot, but isn’t that a little harsh?
Here we go again. First it’s a human rights violation in Britain to post a fugitive’s photo. Now, they can’t even walk a guy across the street in handcuffs from one court to another because that would be assuming he was guilty and it would violate his human rights. So, since the prisoner van had left already, they had to call a van from 70 miles away to drive the guy the distance he could have walked. I can’t decide what would draw more stares: a prisoner van or a guy in handcuffs. Really, I don’t think they saved him any indignity. He’s going to get looked at one way or another.
God, this is so ridiculous, it’s sad.
Apparently France has gotten in on the child porn filtering act as well, but taken it a few frightening steps further by also announcing that they will filter out websites dealing in terrorism and racial hatred.
That’s more than a little subjective, methinks.
ISPs agree to block access to child porn sites, newsgroups
Internet service providers Verizon Communications, Sprint Nextel, and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block Internet newsgroups and Web sites nationwide that disseminate child pornography, The New York Times reported Monday.
The move–part of an agreement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo expected to be announced Tuesday–will affect customers across the country, the newspaper reported. Negotiations are reportedly continuing with other ISPs.
Part of the plan is to shut down access to Usenet newsgroups known to traffic such images, as well as Web sites that host child pornography.
Good job guys. Way to drive the criminals underground. For the life of me I can’t understand how nobody has figured out that any system like this is only going to create problems for the dumbest of the dumb. Anybody who’s serious about his porn and has a couple of brain cells to rub together will figure out how to access it. Routing internet traffic through an anonymous proxy server or cruising the town for unsecured wireless connections are 2 ways that spring immediately to mind. the wireless method is particularly worrisome because not only does it help shield the real criminals, but it makes criminals out of people who aren’t.
Another issue to consider is who’s in charge of determining what is and is not child porn. How can we be sure they don’t have an agenda that will do more harm than good to the internet? There’s also the matter of how people’s internet usage is being monitored. How much information is being gathered up and passed around,and where is it going? And if I may go back to the problem of making criminals out of innocent people, what happens if somebody stumbles on to a blocked site by accident? Is he hauled before the courts and forced to defend himself because of a botched Google search?
This is just the latest useless idea in a long line of poorly thought out government initiatives designed to win support from people who don’t know any better. It won’t stop any crime and it won’t save any kids. What it will do is allow the governments of the world to get another step closer to their ultimate goal of monitoring every aspect of our lives. Anybody who expects anything else is living in denial.