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Okay, notice this is tagged in the humor category…
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While most video game control measures have come from Lieberman and Clinton, we not get a bill from the other side of the isle. A Republican Senator this time is trying to effectively control content of video games. His bill would cost tax payers tons of money so the government can have oversight of the [...]

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There is yet another lawsuit against video games (in this case “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City”), brought once again by the worlds biggest idiot lawyer, Jack Thompson, you would think he would learn he can’t win. Isn’t one of the definitions of insanity doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results? Anyhow, [...]

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In the interest of journalistic whatever, insert “allegedly” where it applies, especially in the second story.
First up, a story of a teach that was fired, after taking kids to an art museum and one of the kids seeing a nude statue.
A few bits from the article before I comment (all highlights mine):
The teacher took her [...]

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A bit of what they say on the page in the link that follows:
The EFF and the ACLU have scored key victories in obtaining judicial review of the NSA’s domestic wiretapping program. In EFF’s case in California, the government’s motion to dismiss on the grounds of state secrecy was thrown out by the judge. Also [...]

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After much research I decided to try out Ubuntu as a Linux distro. It works on a more free principle then most other distributions, apparently they will even send the CD for free. They say that:
Ubuntu is an African word meaning “humanity to others” or “I am who I am because of who we all [...]

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There is a cool game to promote the new M&M’s with Dark Chocolate. The idea is to find 50 “dark” movie titles. I got 15 fairly quickly, but I am going to bed now, so the rest will have to wait. For example, the picture has some sheep with earmuffs on, that should be an [...]

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The darker side of clothes, is a very good read and I have to agree. He notes, “the first dangerous precedent is that mandatory school uniforms reinforces the idea that it’s ok to lose liberty for good intentions.” As they say, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. He goes on, stating that [...]

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Check this report at Broadband Reports.com. The story seems to suggest, as do 90+% of the comments, that we need the government to do something about getting us more broadband.
We are in a system where way too many people have been brainwashed to believe they need government to do way too much. People need to [...]

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The trailer for Frank Miller’s 300 hit the web. It isn’t a high quality trailer, but it serves well enough to show how exciting it looks like it will be. Frank Miller is also the author of Sin City, another graphic novel that was turned into a equally visually impressive and entertaining movie. 300 shows [...]

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Tuesday, Sara was going to go to Niagara Falls with a friend, her daughter and Ari. (Well her original plan was to see the Dali Lama, and while her name was drawn for second chance tickets, she was unable to go pick them up in person a week before the event, so there went that [...]

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I started this a few days ago and never hit Publish, so here it is.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is attaching his anit-Internet Gambling bill to a Military Spending package since he can’t get it to pass on its own. Perhaps it is because I don’t have a military or legal education, but I fail [...]

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Aspirin, as you may know, once was a trademarked name. Actually, in many countries it still is. This leads to the question of what exactly does one call Aspirin? From the all knowing Wikipedia entry on Aspirin:
In countries in which Aspirin remains a trademark, the initialism ASA (for acetylsalicylic acid) is used as a generic [...]

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Unfortunately for me, I do not live in a Verizon service area so I can’t get FiOS TV or FiOS Internet. Being in a SBC service zone sucks big time now.
What is FiOS? It is a fiber optic service direct to your home. From the fiber optic box, it then goes to a regular CAT [...]

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$14,000 for a phone? No, it isn’t for some high tech phone, or even a collectible, but just an old rotary dial phone that has been leased for 42 years. The family claims the total money paid for the phone rental is $14,000. Lucent, who handles the phone rentals, says it is “about $2,000” [free [...]

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You can click the image and test your own computer’s speed on the Internet.
I took about 4 tests, and this one was in the middle of the pack. Of course with a shared connection as cable modems are, this could change at any given time.

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Cato Unbound has updated with two reactions to the original essay. One descanting, another supporting. The third reaction hopefully will be up soon, then the “conversation” should start. To see an idea of how this works out, see their last issue, Mexicans in America.
Meanwhile, Patrick Michaels, author of Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming [...]

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Just in case you haven’t heard, select episodes of Star Trek the original series are being remastered. They have cleaned up special effects (essentially new ones using computers but with film grain scanned in so it matches), redone the score, all to make things ready for High Definition. More details here. This isn’t a Star [...]

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The prosecution in the case against Saddam think the head judge is biased. Gee, you think? While questioning a Kurdish witness he asked why he would want to meet with him if he was a dictator. The judge replied, “You were not a dictator.” Either the judge is biased or the worlds largest idiot.
The story [...]

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Tired of trick shots in pool? Want something to jazz it up? Add Dominoes.
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