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Lets Paint The Kettle Black,Do You Have A Bitch On Whats Going On Around The Site Or Any Thing Negative To Report
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Video: Souped-up Impala leaves Lamborghini in its dust
A modified Chevy Impala beats out a Lamborghini on the raceway
With diesel-conversion engines becoming popular, the car community is seeing a new breed of souped-up cars. Watch this video of a Chevrolet Impala outracing a Lamborghini.
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9. April 2007 @ 15:05 |
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cool clip ireland, and yeah the impala is fast, but that lamborghini driver doesn't know how to drive. that was one of the worst launches i've ever seen.
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Second Generation DVD sales are pants
Neither side wins the war
By Nick Farrell: Monday 09 April 2007, 15:01
NEITHER Blu-ray nor HD-DVD are close to winning any new format wars, according to research compiled by Sony.
Figures for both technologies are total toilet with minuscule disk sales for both. In fact since it hit the shops Blu-ray have only managed to sell a fairly pathetic 844,000 disks. HD-DVD sales were even works, only selling 708,600 during the same period.
The figures seem to show that on a good week the best a second generation title can manage is about 1,000 a week. Apparently Casino Royal is famous for breaking all records on disk sales by managing to get 100,000 in total.
X-men the Last Stand sold 21,504 second generation disks so far, in comparison the same flick sold 2.6 million old style DVD units in the first day. OK, it is new technology. However the figures show that it is so far away from unseating DVD as the technology of choice it might as well be in a distant galaxy.
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9. April 2007 @ 15:26 |
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RIAA and movie industry want to pretext
A law for us and one for the world+dog
By Nick Farrell: Monday 09 April 2007, 07:27
THE RIAA and the movie industry are lobbying lawmakers in a bid to get it excused from tough laws on pretexting.
According to the LA Times, the law which is in response to the fiasco HP bought upon itself by pretending to be other people to spy on hostile journalists, is likely to first see the light of day in California.
But the RIAA and the Motion Picture Association of America say the law should not apply to them as they need to use subterfuge to deal with pirates.
Spokespeople for the organisations say that they are not talking about trying to go in and get customer information.
Specifically the trade group asked that any owner of a copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret be able to use "pretexting or other investigative techniques to obtain personal information about a customer or employee" when seeking to enforce intellectual property rights.
However, consumer groups are alarmed at the RIAA's proposed changes as they do not see why the recording industry shouldn't have to follow the same laws that everyone else.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said that if the RIAA gets away with its changes it will create a loophole which is so big that nobody else has to follow the law either.
It seems that the RIAA believes that is allowed to break any law it likes if it is defending against trademark infringement.
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9. April 2007 @ 15:33 |
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Outlook on the Desktop 1.3.3
Size: 428KB
Publisher: Visit Website
Release Date: 2007-04-09
Submit Date: 2007-04-09
OS: Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista
Publisher's Description
Put the Microsoft Outlook calendar right on your desktop so that it´s visible and useable all the time without actually having to open Outlook.
Features:
* Places fully functional Microsoft Outlook Calendar on your Desktop.
* The Oulook Calendar is pinned to your desktop so that no windows can get stuck behind it.
* The Calendar´s position, size and opacity are all adjustable via a very intuitive GUI.
* A tray Icon is provided to get to the preferences or close the application if desired.
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* Microsoft Outlook 2000 or higher
* Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
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Sweet! I love it. Have had it installed for 15 minutes and already couldn't live without it. Thank you.
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5 2007-01-11
"Very Handy
Handy program. You can size your calendar, makes is transparent and type your appointments into it from your desktop. It does not have to stay open and you can choose to let it start in your when your computer turn on or later. I like the fact that you can also set the fonts. Very nice.
- Connie
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"Excellent
Really and excellent product which is so easy and nice to use. Very flexible. Generally I dont use Outlook express but the convience of having such a easy planner is the best thing to have for managing your time.
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9. April 2007 @ 15:33 |
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hd-discs are still unnecessary. people, besides those with cash falling out of their hinnies, just aren't ready for that in their home. dunno what these companies are thinking, to be honest.
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9. April 2007 @ 16:40 |
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Grah.. school holidays and an internet full of
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9. April 2007 @ 17:13 |
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@Estuansis,
If you really want to see the great inhumanity of man, do a little study into the German-Soviet theater of operations in the Great Patriotic War, (AKA WWII to non-Soviets) Some things are totally beyond comprehension there.
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9. April 2007 @ 17:21 |
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THIS pisses me off! good god! WTF!
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9. April 2007 @ 18:00 |
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Way Too Funny!
Unfortunately this is how many political actions get started, make something sound much more threatening than it is, then prey on the fear of Ignorance!
Thanks Ireland for the Outlook on the Desktop program, Too cool.
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Meth, Cocaine Abuse Boosts Stroke Risk
April 9, 2007 03:55:47 PM PST
Yahoo! Health: Addiction News
MONDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- The abuse of stimulant drugs such as cocaine and amphetamines may increase the risk of stroke by raising blood pressure or triggering spasms in blood vessel walls that contribute to the narrowing of the vessels, a U.S. study says.
Researchers analyzed data on patients treated for stroke or drug abuse at Texas hospitals between 2000 and 2003. They concluded that amphetamine abuse was associated with a fivefold increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in the brain), but not ischemic stroke (blocked blood flow to the brain).
They also found that cocaine was associated with a greater than twofold increased risk of both hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke.
In addition, amphetamine abuse, but not cocaine use, was associated with a higher risk of death after hemorrhagic stroke, the study authors said.
"The public health implications of these findings are heightened by growing news accounts suggesting a recent increase in methamphetamine abuse, particularly in the southwestern, western and Midwestern states," they wrote.
"This concern was supported by our finding that, among hospitalized patients in Texas from 2000 to 2003, the rate of amphetamine abuse was increasing faster than that of any other drug, including cocaine, and the rate of strokes among amphetamine abusers was increasing faster than the rate of strokes among abusers of any other drug."
The study is in the April issue of the journal Archives of General Psychiatry.
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@Auslander
What pi$$es you off? That they actually got uninformed people to sign the petition to ban water; or that they actually did the petition? How sad that at least no one they showed actually recognized that dihydrogen monoxide was water and wanted it banned. Lots of chemistry being learned in schools lately. God they'll be trying to ban that polluter, sodium chloride, next. LMAO
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9. April 2007 @ 19:28 |
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what pissed me off was that not one "uninformed person" bothered to ask what dihydrogen monoxide was! there's a difference between being uninformed and being idiotic. not ignorance, but stupidity!
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9. April 2007 @ 20:07 |
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Dihydrogen Monoxide(DHMO)Hydric acid.is a colorless and odorless chemical compound
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MY BITCH FOR TODAY
Arsenic In Chicken Feed May Pose Health Risks To Humans
Science Daily ? Pets may not be the only organisms endangered by some food additives. An arsenic-based additive used in chicken feed may pose health risks to humans who eat meat from chickens that are raised on the feed, according to an article in the April 9 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society.
Roxarsone, the most common arsenic-based additive used in chicken feed, is used to promote growth, kill parasites and improve pigmentation of chicken meat. In its original form, roxarsone is relatively benign. But under certain anaerobic conditions, within live chickens and on farm land, the compound is converted into more toxic forms of inorganic arsenic. Arsenic has been linked to bladder, lung, skin, kidney and colon cancer, while low-level exposures can lead to partial paralysis and diabetes, the article notes.
Use of roxarsone has become a topic of increasing controversy. A growing number of food suppliers have stopped using the compound, including the nation's largest poultry producer, Tyson Foods, according to the article. Still, about 70 percent of the 9 billion broiler chickens produced annually in the U.S. are fed a diet containing roxarsone, the article points out.
Complicating the issue is the fact that no one knows the exact amount of arsenic found in chicken meat or ingested by consumers who frequently eat chicken. "Neither the Food and Drug Administration nor the Department of Agriculture has actually measured the level of arsenic in the poultry meat that most people consume," according to the article.
The National Chicken Council, a trade association that represents the U.S. chicken industry, claims there is "no reason to believe there are any human health hazards" associated with the use of roxarsone.
Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by American Chemical Society.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070409115746.htm
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10. April 2007 @ 07:09 |
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NO BITCH,I WONDER IF DDP IS SEEING THINGS IN THE CANADIAN SKY...
Annual UFO survey records 736 reported sightings across Canada last year
Published: Monday, April 9, 2007 | 6:21 PM ET
Canadian Press
WINNIPEG (CP) - Aliens and spaceships are a bit passe these days, but 736 reported UFO sightings across Canada last year shows an "underlying, real phenomenon" going on, says one of the country's top UFO researchers.
"It's true, we don't have as many aliens on TV as we used to - they used to be on commercials selling us everything from Pepsi to decongestants," says Chris Rutkowski, director of the Winnipeg-based Ufology Research institute.
"And yet the phenomenon persists, which to me says there is a basic underlying, real phenomenon that extends beyond media and pop culture."
Rutkowski's annual Canadian UFO Survey last year recorded the third-largest number of sightings in its 17-year history - down from a record of 882 sightings in 2004.
British Columbia and Ontario had the highest number of recorded cases, but Saskatchewan posted an all-time record of 98 sightings.
The tiny community of Maidstone just east of the Alberta boundary accounted for more than half of the reports from Saskatchewan.
Barb Campbell, who now lives farther down the Yellowhead highway in Paynton, Sask., says she saw a dark triangle larger than a helicopter hovering in the sky above Maidstone last year.
"It was just above the glare of the street light, so you couldn't quite make out the whole thing, but it had a very unusual, strobing, eerie kind of light in the middle," she says.
"It made absolutely no sound whatsoever - it was just really mind-boggling."
Campbell doesn't believe there's anything particularly alluring for extraterrestrials in Maidstone and says there's likely far more UFO sightings right across Canada each year that don't get reported.
Rutkowski, who wrote a book last year on Canadian UFO sightings, is quick to point out that no incontrovertible proof exists that any of the UFO cases involve aliens.
Most of the sightings are of strange lights in the night sky, with close encounters and reports of "classic" flying saucer shapes being relatively rare.
"It would be difficult to conceive of how aliens could travel here from out there."
Still, he says earthlings are a "relatively young civilization" surrounded by stars and planets that are older and potentially have civilizations that are much further evolved than us.
"Perhaps if we hang around another hundred, thousand or ten thousand years we might come up with a way to travel between the stars."
Of all the reports included in the 2006 UFO Survey, the most mysterious include the sighting of a huge, black, V-shaped object moving slowly out over the Newfoundland coastline last August.
Another incident was reported by a motorist outside of North Bay, Ont., who saw a cluster of blue-glowing orbs that zipped closely past his car and then hovered in some nearby trees.
Disappointingly enough, one of the biggest problems that Rutkowski and other ufologists face in their study of unidentified flying object reports is not a shadowy group of powerful people trying to obscure the truth. It's actually the Internet.
With no Canadian government department officially recording UFOs, there's no central authority to keep track. And more websites are appearing all the time.
"There's so many people interested right now and they're setting up their own websites - there's a confusion now. There's no one central place to report UFOs anymore."
Last month, the French government created a world-wide stir when its space agency published more than 100,000 documents online from its secret "X-files" relating to UFOs and sightings of other unexplained phenomena.
The space agency said it made the documents public to draw the scientific community's attention to unexplained cases and because their secrecy generated suspicions that officials were hiding something.
-By James Stevenson in Calgary.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070409/K04099AU.html
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10. April 2007 @ 08:10 |
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ireland, i haven't seen a real ufo since the mid 60's when i lived in sutton west, ontario.
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That was the last 736 times ddp too his '06 spaceship for a spin :)
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10. April 2007 @ 10:23 |
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My bitch: I am well known for having cobwebs in my wallet. True to form, I bought two $4.00 shirts at a discount store and the sleeves are too short...looks o.k. with the sleeves rolled up though. I should have known better; if you want real quality, the salvation army is the way to go :)
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10. April 2007 @ 12:58 |
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@Estuansis,
If you really want to see the great inhumanity of man, do a little study into the German-Soviet theater of operations in the Great Patriotic War, (AKA WWII to non-Soviets) Some things are totally beyond comprehension there.
I've seen some pretty horrible pictures and heard some pretty gruesome accounts.
Brutality and torture(including rape) in any form is way over the line.
My Grampa was in WWII(He's 84) he told me about his time over there. His squad was one of the first to liberate the death camps in southern Germany.
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@estuansis...given the horrors of war, I can't imagine anything that would have made it seem more worthwhile than being part of liberating those camps.
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my bitch of the whole year..this is not political its just my bitch..if ye answer this post keep it non-political
IF ANY SITE MODS THINK THIS IS POLITICAL,DELETE THIS POST..
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I HERE BY FIRMLY STATE THAT I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANY POLITICIAN, REGARDLESS OF THE OTHER ISSUES, IF HE DOES NOT SPONSOR AND SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING LEGISLATION. THAT INCLUDES EVERYONE STANDING FOR ELECTION IN 2008.
LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON "PEOPLE POWER" AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET. LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE WITH ME ON THIS BY FORWARDING TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!
KEEP IT GOING!!!!
2008 Election Issue!!
GET A BILL STARTED TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOC. SEC.
This must be an issue in "2008" Please! Keep it going.
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SOCIAL SECURITY:
(This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years.
Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.
You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan.
In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.
For all practical purposes their plan works like this:
When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.
Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments..
For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7,800,000 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dolla rs), with their wives drawing $275,000 during the last years of their lives.
This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries.
Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives.
Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00! NADA! ZILCH!
This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds;
"OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK "!
From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into, every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer). We can expect to get an average of $1,000 per month after retirement.
Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator! Bill Bradley's benefits!
Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.
That change would be to:
Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us
Then sit back.....
And see how fast they would fix it.
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes w ill evolve.
How many people CAN you send this to?
Better yet......
How many people WILL you send this to?
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10. April 2007 @ 16:46 |
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I have a bitch:
The "World of Warcraft" ("WoW") has the worst ELUA I have ever read.
Here is, from what I can pick out, the worst part (something Micro$oft like) please keep in mind this is exactly as its written:
7: Blizzard's Absolute Right to Suspend, Terminate and/or Delete the Account.
BLIZZARD MAY SUSPEND, TERMINATE, MODIFY, OR DELETE THE ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME WITH ANY REASON OR NO REASON, WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE. For purposes of explanation and not limitation, most account suspensions, terminations and/or deletions are the result of violations of this Terms of Use or the EULA.
Yeah, it is their game but that says that they can whenever they feel like it (even if its for some poor techie that works for Blizzard to let off steam) delete your account and they don't have any obligation to explain why they did it. Even if the deletion was legit or some guy just having fun/drinking at work/etc.
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@Estuansis
Good Man, now make sure his life stories and histories don't get forgotten by your grandchildren. Some of the stories I've heard from my Russian teachers seem almost beyond human comprehension. I pray this scourge is never unleashed upon the world again.
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it will.
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