The Boy Who Pierced His Labia

Too fsking funny!

Canada getting dumber by the minute, eh.

Laing refused to let the officers search his car. He knew that under Canadian law, police officers don't have the right to preform that kind of search.

What upset the Laing even more is that some the officers he tangled with were actually American police officers.

UK grows brain, USA still woefully ignorant.

Cannabis was reclassified so that officers could target hard drugs. An estimated 199,000 police hours were saved, according to data from 26 of the 42 English and Welsh police forces.

Minister Caroline Flint said new crime survey figures also showed that fears for a rise in cannabis use among young people were "wholly unfounded."

Read all about it

QOTD

"When you're in the public eye, it's wrong to cheat on someone, unless you're very careful. If you're normal and no one's going to know, then do it."
-- Paris Hilton

What?!?!

I demand a recount! Hrmph

Just view it.

Via our good friends at R*: ConcreteTV

P2P

During the investigation, first announced by Attorney General John Ashcroft in August, government agents downloaded more than 70 copyrighted works worth approximately $20,000 from Towbridge's hub and 35 works from Chicoine's site valued at nearly $5,000. [That’s it?]
William R. Towbridge, 50, of Johnson City, N.Y., and Michael Chicoine, 47, of San Antonio each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit felony criminal copyright infringement. The maximum penalties for a first-time offender are five years in prison, a fine of $250,000 and restitution to the victims. [Holy crap]

The US Supreme Court will begin hearing spoken testimonies from the movie industry and the world of peer-to-peer networking on 29 March in order to help it decide whether P2P software providers are responsible for the actions of their users. [This is bad]

A bill introduced in California's Legislature last week has raised the possibility of jail time for developers of file-swapping software who don't stop trades of copyrighted movies and songs online. If passed and signed into law, it could expose file-swapping software developers to fines of up to $2,500 per charge, or a year in jail, if they don't take "reasonable care" in preventing the use of their software to swap copyrighted music or movies--or child pornography. [This is totally fsk’d up.]

These are dark, dark times.

Fair Play?

In a startling reversal on position French President Jacques Chirac sent an official complaint to the UN saying, "The world has failed to show sufficient monetary compassion for the unfortunate victims of California’s mudslides". France has offered to send $10 Million EU to aide the victims, their families and their communities and has called upon the UN to urge other nations to follow suit.

Read more here and here.

Grrr Angry!

I know ONE of my readers will know why this is so funny:

Angry moose attack dogsled, after another runs wild in clothing store.

"I knew we had to get away."

More fun with web cams

+ Fish Tank
+ Dino Cam
+ Coffee Shop
+ Curling
+ Climbing Wall
+ Gulf of Mexico
+ Montgomery Inn

Just load it in your web browser and then hit refresh if it doesn't show you a live stream. These are live feeds from unsecured web cams. Have fun.

CCTV or not?

CCTV(Closed Circuit TeleVision) does not broadcast a signal, rather it constrains the feed to a limited network of monitors. Widely used for security it's analogous to having your home network off the internet...i.e.: it's supposed to be "secure".

My question is thus: Is it still considered CCTV if I'm watching it over the Internet?

Overturn Roe V. Wade?

I never thought I would say this, but I’m starting to think… yes. Not because I am a bleeding heart liberal who worries about the children, fsk the children. I’m a supporter of post-natal abortion. I firmly believe that the fetus can be safely aborted up to the 75th trimester. However, my problem is stemming from the courts legislating things that are more accurately controlled under the definition of “States Rights”. Give the power back to the state and then give the vote to the people. If people really want it, they will vote for it… same goes for prohibition and a score of others.

Piracy == drug war?

Pointed to this via BoingBoing

From a CNN article on pirating movies:

"There are a lot of similarities with the drug war," said David Israelite, chairman of the U.S. Justice Department's Intellectual Property Task Force. "You never really are going to eliminate the problem, but what you hope to do is stop its growth."

This is just insanity. Hope to stop it’s growth? How? By sending non-violent "criminals" to jail for longer sentences than murderers and rapists? By waging a war against your own citizens? By turning peoples brothers, sisters, children, parents… into the enemy in a war that can not be won? ARG!

Party on.