Category Archives: Stupid

Will Obama End the Nuclear Era?

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “Clinging to nuclear weapons in excess of our security needs does not make the United States safer. … And the nuclear status quo is neither desirable nor sustainable.”
via Will Obama End the Nuclear Era? – Page 1 – The Daily Beast.
Yet despite this, and other treaties, such as the [...]

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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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Scientology: The truth rundown

Scientology: The truth rundown
Worth a read, by the Scientologists’ home town paper.   Just go ahead and read Mission:Earth and tell me Hubbard was not at least a little clinical == daft as a hatter.

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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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Link dump. Long put off. Need to cleanse the desktop.

I spent one whole night watching the video to Johnny Cash’s hurt. This is it’s story.
(old but good)  Do you let the transhuman AI out of the box?  Some very smart people did.
NASA Workmanship Standards – Pictorial Reference.
I have this weird thing I like to do after sex… (NSFW)
Building a Container House – try [...]

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Near and dear to home…

Schneier talks about the war on photography. Extremely well written. Get your wallet document now, if you are a photographer. When is the US going to return to sanity, again?

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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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You have to understand that model rockets are a threat to the state.

No, really. Because there was nothing to report, and no action was taken. Get off my yard.

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Stupid international tricks.

I’m hardly jingoistic, but for the dub of dawg, can people resort to a little less bluster on the international scene? For instance, a Viking S-3 has navigation issues, and all the sudden Venezuela thinks they can, “confront them (the US) and to cover all of our airspace“. Really?
Really?  ‘Cause you’re all [...]

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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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Stranger in a Strange Land

I seem to recall something.. er… Oh, just never mind.

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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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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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MMO Real World Ransoming GONE WILD!!

You know you are badass when you get kidnapped for your RPG account.   Sadly, the kidnappers lacked the pvp and ransoming experience to make a quick buck.     Back to the tutorials for them
FULL ARTICLE HERE

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Top Gear finally does the best segment ever.

Well, you thought the Hamster crashing at 300 mph was amazing, and yes – seeing James May go 409 kph in the Bugatti Veyron was truly death-defying.     But to see true bravery, you have to see “Man Love is Good – OK“

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Pittsburg has Boston beat.

From the USA Today article: “PITTSBURGH (AP) — A 15-year-old girl has been arrested for taking nude photographs of her self and posting them on the Internet, police said.”
After the light brite fiasco in Boston, I thought that things could not get any more surreal. Then I read the above. Coupled with the [...]

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Apparently…

I took the Sci-Fi Author quiz, and I am Gregory Benford.   Where the hell is Spider Robinson?   And honestly, I thought I would turn out to be Robert Heinlein.

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“Because I told them!”

I completely resisted reading this article from digg and reddit…   But what?     WHAT???   ” ‘Cause I Said So! ” is now national policy?   If so, I am pretty sure we can put together a pretty solid presidential platform for any good comic…

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This is not how a driveway should look.

Really, Taark.   Don’t build it like this.   Please.

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War on science continues…

More Bush appointee idiocy at work here… I particularly look forward to reading the forthcoming “As one park geologist said, this is equivalent of Yellowstone National Park selling a book entitled Geysers of Old Faithful: Nostrils of Satan”!!! and of course the best quote ever…
“In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service [...]

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Yes, we do have a warrant.

Indeed, sir.   We have a warrant for the bullet in your forehead.   Be glad it’s not a no-knock warrant.  

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One word, bitches… “Bechtel!”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel
Fuck YEAH!..   I would hire them!   Look at that darned pedigree!

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Here comes Speed Racer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6zjhjBUBfk
(via reddit)

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So, I go down to the Verizon store…

Forewarned is forearmed, so I called customer service in advance, ran through everything I wanted, and had them put it in the notes on my account.   Simple requests – Upgrade my phone to something I can use as a modem over EVDO.   Set my old phone to my wife’s account.   Well, first [...]

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