Category Archives: Hurt

Obama’s News Conference on the Oil Spill

Obama’s News Conference on the Oil Spill
Read this.

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Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea

Fuck you, Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice.
Fuck you.
Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea .
Really? “Reliable projections”? “Action in real time”? “Preventing criminal activities”? I don’t know about how reliable your system is, IBM, but have you ever heard of the 5th, the 6th, and the 14th [...]

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“…our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes…”

“If the Department of Defense can’t figure out a way to defend the United States on a budget of more than a half a trillion dollars a year, then our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes…” -Defense Secretary Robert Gates
Required reading for Americans.

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And, that’s about it for HFCS.

Princeton University – A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain.
Can we end the American corn monoculture, as propped up by Federal subsidies now?

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Fearless to the end.

Fearless to the end: Remembering Margaret Moth
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“Arrested” and “convicted” are two very different things in a nation where we’re supposed to be big on innocent unless proved guilty.

Read.

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PBS Frontline – Poisoned Waters

FRONTLINE: poisoned waters: introduction | PBS. – watch the whole two hours before you condemn.   It gets through, inexorably to a quality point.
Wake up, people!

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This is not going to go well…

Yeah… This.

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The real scandal at AIG

The real scandal at AIG is the not the bonuses. It’s the payments to counterparties.

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Linkdump!

Wall Street on the Tundra | vanityfair.com. – Iceland joins the Dutch in the great crazes of all time.
New accounting rules for the Federal Budget.
Band of Brothers, one of the EVE mega-alliances, ceases to be. Heavily infiltrated, their forums cloned by the Goons, BoB chose to make their forums public.
Vegas is running out of water, [...]

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Link dump!

Warning, this one is going to be large and varied, folks.

Fighting for the right to clone – It’s rough out there, in the science world.  Hopefully America becomes much more science friendly, soon.
Do not fuck with Chinese shipping – Let this be a warning to you, pirates.
Worthwhile reading – On self defense ammo.
Fresh tomatoes and [...]

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Why wasn’t I informed?

These people are all crazy. Crazy awesome! I love their various styles of rock crawling madness. I love the monsters, I love the tube lightweights. I pride myself on being able to master a lot of skills, but I’m not sure that I could do this.  This is Iceland’s version.  And [...]

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Fantastic article from Outside…

“Raising the Dead”
Now, with less spoilers. This is an amazing article, very well worth the read. Many people have some issues with the intro paragraph, so ignore that if you choose. Also, this dive is on youtube, but I won’t link directly, for reasons that should become self-evident.
Along the same vein, if [...]

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Overheard tonight in Vent…

“Oh fuck. Puppy necrosis. I wasn’t ready for that.”

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Flashmob X 10 in London.

“Most of the revelers heard of the event through social networking sites.” Damn you, interweb, always tied to the chaos.

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Motorcycling across Angola.

Angola, it’s not like they said.  Second installment.  Notes about beer.  Landmine track with thorns.  More about fuel.  Iona, schools, and desert.  Sand, bike problems, and the middle of nowhere.  West coast, beach and dunes.  The doodsakker : If you get stuck here, you get fucked here.  Waiting on the tide, escape.  Resting up.  Twisties [...]

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Truer words were never said.

Eron explains, “The crazy gene is the strongest gene. It has to reproduce. That’s why they’re such fucking FREAKS in bed.”
This explains Jen and I completely.
According to Eron, it also explains the onslaught of hot, crazy single women with children. Keep in mind, Eron has been laying on a bathroom floor with [...]

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Some fantastic OP-ED.

From various sources, but mostly Dolphin.
- Can Americans handle the truth?
- Abuse of executive orders is not enough. Now we can ignore all process? Grr.
- You bet I’m bitter. Sign me up. Bitter as hell here.
- Savages in Caves.  Perhaps we overestimate al Queda?
- NearlyFreeSpeech.net.  Web hosting in terms of pennies.
- [...]

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Don’t mess with British schoolgirls.

They’ll blow your shit up.
MEKP, just slightly more stable than TATP.
What are kids these days coming to? I picture it going down like the video below, but with girls in hoodies instead.  And more explosions.  NSFW, and LOUD.

justice stress (official video)
Uploaded by 75_prod

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Name change. Link dump.

Well, we’ll be changing to tasteslikeangry.com soon enough.
Really. A bit stronger of a brand…
Sweet Home Alabama – Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir. Soundtrack for tonight.
Worldwide Telescope – (Save As) Something so damn awesome, and they can’t deliver a better speech than this?
Work/Life Balance – An architect’s space.
Food Wars -Especially grim considering [...]

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This is NOT going to buff out.

Very equivalent to your first carrier or freighter loss in EVE.     B-2 crashes in Guam.     How bad do you have to feel when you crash 1.2 billion USD?

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I, for one, welcome our new jellyfish overlords.

Seriously. I do. I’m almost starting to believe that the cuttlefish and the jellyfish are allying against us…
On top of that, I bet those bastards can cut fiber optic cables too…

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The 100 USD Jihadi.

Rolling Stone offers a great glimpse into the fear-mongering world of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Because we all should fear those well-funded video store rental clerk terrorists.

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Lasers? On my battlefield?

Imma chargin meh lazer! On a more serious note, 8 weeks and they got it to fit on a HMMV. Nice!

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No really, it’s the hospital’s fault..

Woman handles snake to prove her faith. Snake bites woman. Woman dies. Family sues hospital. Oh, and Kentucky…

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