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`THIS IS AN ESTATE ITEM.IT WAS INSTAULLED AND REMOVED AND IS IN GREAT SHAPE..WHO KNOWS I MIGHT NEED IT IN 20 YEARS..LOL’

`Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don’t know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on. Statistically, we’re likely talking about a 24-year-old woman in Shanghai.

According to Morgan Stanley estimates, 36% of Internet users are now in Asia and 24% are in Europe. Only 23% of users are in North America, where it all started in 1969 when two computers — one in Los Angeles, the other in Palo Alto — were networked together.

It took 36 years for the Internet to get its first billion users. The second billion will probably be added by 2015; most of these new users will be in Asia. The third billion will be harder, and might not be reached until 2040.’

`A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s tome on Communism called “The Little Red Book.”

Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Pontbriand, said the student told them he requested the book through the UMass Dartmouth library’s interlibrary loan program.

The student, who was completing a research paper on Communism for Professor Pontbriand’s class on fascism and totalitarianism, filled out a form for the request, leaving his name, address, phone number and Social Security number. He was later visited at his parents’ home in New Bedford by two agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the professors said.’

Attempting to write a paper of fascism and have the government send agents to your house would probably be worth an A+, I reckon.

`Volusia County (FL) joins Leon in dumping Diebold. Due to contractual non-performance and security design issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from the county. On Tuesday, the most serious “hack” demonstration to date took place in Leon County. The Diebold machines succumbed quickly to alteration of the votes. This comes on the heels of the resignation of Diebold CEO Wally O’Dell, and the announcement that stockholder’s class action suits and related actions have been filed against Diebold by four separate law firms. Further “hack” testing on additional vulnerabilities is tentatively scheduled before Christmas in the state of California. ‘

`The new devices are based on a natural process — when a river runs into the ocean, a huge amount of energy is unleashed because of the difference in salt concentration.

“It’s basically harvesting the energy that comes free from a natural process,” Wetsus managing director Johannes Boonstra said in his agency’s laboratory in the Dutch town of Leeuwarden.

“You have the fuel for free and it’s very sustainable — no greenhouse gas emissions.”

The two projects use different methods to harness the electricity — the Dutch apply something called reverse electrodialysis while the Norwegians use a kind of osmosis.’

Tired of goatse, lemonparty and tubgirl?

This could be the next big fad.

`These two guys have been drinking all afternoon in a bar. 5 o’clock rolls around and all the suits start rolling in after work. There are HEAPS of goodlooking girls around in business suits and short skirts. One guy leans over to the other and says ‘I can fuck any one of these girls tonight if I wanted to’. The other guy turns around and looks at him.. thinking how butt ugly he is and says ‘You’re full of it. How the hell are you gonna do that??. The guy leans over again and whispers ‘I’m a rapist’. [..]

What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?
Nothing, because she’s already been told twice. [..]

How long does it take to get from the top floor of the World Trade Center to ground level?
The rest of your life [..]

How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two. One to screw it in and one to suck my dick.’

`It’s important to be a good citizen wherever you may find yourself, by following the rules of that place. The Internet is a “place” with its own very special rules. People who communicate over the Internet are called “cybercitizens.” It’s important to learn the rules of the Internet before you log on, so that you can be a “good cybercitizen.” Each of the following stories describes a situation that you might find yourself in while “surfing” the Internet. What would you do in each of these situations? Click on one of the “GO!” links to choose what you might do, and what might happen as a result of your choice.’

The answers are predictable, given that it’s a .gov domain. It’s designed for school ages kids, but amusing none the less.

`Newberg and d’Aquili base this revolutionary conclusion on a long-term investigation of brain function and behavior as well as studies they conducted using high-tech imaging techniques to peer into the brains of meditating Buddhists and Franciscan nuns at prayer. What they discovered was that intensely focused spiritual contemplation triggers an alteration in the activity of the brain that leads one to perceive transcendent religious experiences as solid, tangible reality. In other words, the sensation that Buddhists call “oneness with the universe” and the Franciscans attribute to the palpable presence of God is not a delusion, or subjective psychology, or simple wishful thinking. Rather, it is triggered by a chain of distinct neurological events that can be objectively observed, recorded, and actually photographed.

The inescapable conclusion is that God seems to be hard-wired into the human brain. [..]’

`The blood. And shit. And semen. Robert can’t get it out of his mind, his dreams, his life.

He was 14 in the summer of 1984. He had moved with his family to Texas sometime before and now, on summer vacation, had returned with them to visit friends and old neighbors in Santa Ana. While in his former hometown, Robert’s family ran into their old parish priest, Father Eleuterio Ramos. Ramos had tickets to the Olympic gold-medal soccer game at the Rose Bowl that week. He had invited Robert’s former neighbor, Michael, but Michael refused. Robert agreed. [..]

Robert was just one of more than 25 boys Ramos admitted to fondling, drugging, groping, gang-raping, sodomizing, photographing and fellating during a decade-long career in Orange County parishes from Placentia and Santa Ana to Brea, La Habra and Anaheim. Controversy engulfed Ramos at every stop. His superiors typically listened to the priest’s critics and took notes—and then let Ramos escape to the next parish.’

These priests have committed absolutely horrific acts, and the Catholic church has knowingly allowed this behaviour to continue. If that’s not bad enough, the way the church officials behaved once the vicitims spoke up is absolutely disgusting:

`Meissner says he told the church lawyers just as they were about to finalize the deal that all Michael ever wanted was an apology. The lawyers were silent.

“That’s it?” one finally replied. “How about we just give him $5 and apologize?”’

If these are God’s representatives on Earth, it’s no wonder religion has been nothing but a source of violence and sorrow throughout history.

`The House of Representatives voted to build a wall along the US border with Mexico to stop illegal immigration.

The 260-159 voice vote on an amendment to a bill on illegal immigration “mandates the construction of specific security fencing, including lights and cameras, along the Southwest border for the purposes of gaining operational control of the border. [..]

The US border with Canada was not forgotten. The bill “includes a requirement for the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct a study on the use of physical barriers along the Northern border.”‘

`It is impossible, really, to miss the overt signs of the ongoing air war in Iraq when you are there, which makes the lack of coverage all the more startling. At night, while standing on the roof of my hotel in Baghdad during the November 2004 assault on Fallujah, a city some 40-odd miles away, I could see on the horizon the distant flashes of U.S. bombs that were searing that embattled city. [..]

In his recent article and interview, Hersh rightly reflects the concern of American military men that, in any proposed draw-down plan for American forces, Iraqi security forces are likely to be given some responsibility for Air Force targeting operations. After all, they’ll be the ones left on the ground. It’s an idea, he reports, that is “driving the Air Force crazy,” because they fear it may involve them in a future revenge war of ethnic and religious groups in Iraq.’

`Monday night, a record number of noise complaints were received by Residential Security Officers in Roger Revelle College. Officers responding to the calls found the sexual activity of a deaf couple to be the source of the noises, which were described as “cacophonous” by witnesses.

The first officer on the scene, Frank Zipelli, reported, “I could hear those two all the way from the parking lot.” According to Zipelli, “It sounded as if they were bludgeoning a cow. There would be a low moan, like a ‘moo,’ and then a ‘bang’ and a higher-pitched ‘moo.’ It was like ‘MOO…BANG…MOOO!’”‘

`Hamachi is a UDP-based virtual private networking system. Its peers utilize the help of a 3rd node called mediation server to locate each other and to boot strap the connection between themselves. The connection itself is direct and once it’s established no traffic flows through our servers.

Hamachi is not just truly peer-to-peer, it is verifiably secure peer-to-peer.’

Not safe for work, though not as bad as that Mr. Hands thing from the other week.

`ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE
“Everywhere I went, my cleavage followed. But I learned I am not my cleavage.”
–Carole Mallory

ON PSYCHOLOGY
“I loved making ‘Rising Sun’. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.”
–Tatjana Patitz

ON GEOPOLITICS
“Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.”
–Jerry Hall

ON BREAKTHROUGHS
“Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.”
–Gabrielle Reece’

`A Finnish citizen arrested on a public bus while drunk and nearly naked has set an apparent record for unpaid fines in Norway, with an estimated 99 of them, police said Friday.

The man, whose name was not released, is known by police for his tendency to discard pieces of clothing as his level of intoxication increases, the Bergens Tidende newspaper reported. [..]

In the latest incident, on Wednesday, police received a telephone call from the bus driver in Bergen, the main city on Norway’s west coast, who said: “There is a naked, drunk, difficult Finn causing trouble on board.”‘

`A plumbing problem at a Spokane home turned out to be a naked man. Police say a woman who thought she was having a problem with water pipes beneath the floor called the Water Department. Employees found the basement barricaded, and when they determined there was someone behind the door, they called police.

Police broke through the door, found the naked man and took him into custody. They searched the basement but found no clothing for the man. They also found that a pipe had been broken and repaired.’

`An Army lieutenant colonel who received the Bronze Star for her wartime service in Iraq was arrested yesterday and charged with taking bribes in a growing corruption scandal involving the Iraq reconstruction program. An investigation has jolted the program, embarrassed the United States military and exposed a dark underside of the American occupation authority that ran the country after the invasion in April 2003. [..]

She is charged with receiving cash bribes of $80,000 to $100,000, a Cadillac Escalade, a trove of illegal weaponry and other items for steering construction jobs to an American contractor in Iraq.

Some of the cash, intended for projects like a library in the holy city of Karbala and an Iraqi police academy south of Baghdad, paid for a new hot tub and a deck for Colonel Harrison’s home in Trenton, according to the federal affidavit. Conviction on the charges, including conspiracy to commit bribery and money laundering as well as a long list of weapons charges, could put her in prison for up to 30 years, the Justice Department said in a statement.’

`A woman has knocked herself unconscious after allegedly bashing a taxi driver in north Queensland.

A woman repeatedly punched a 36-year-old taxi driver in the face before robbing him in Townsville shortly before midnight, police said.

But she knocked herself out when she fell out of the cab.

A 24-year-old woman is under arrest at Townsville Hospital.’

The girlfriend of a friend of mine is up in Townsville at the moment. When I told him about this story he thought it that she might have gone insane and got herself in the newspaper. Thankfully/unfortunately, it wasn’t her. :)

`Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says.

The assertion comes as President Bush said yesterday that much of the intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was incorrect.

The Israeli officer, Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon, asserted that Saddam spirited his chemical weapons out of the country on the eve of the war. “He transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria,” General Yaalon told The New York Sun over dinner in New York on Tuesday night. “No one went to Syria to find it.” [..]

Also Monday, Mr. Bush issued a statement saying, “Syria must comply with United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1559, 1595, and 1636 and end its interference in Lebanon once and for all. “The resolutions call for ending Syria’s occupation of Lebanon and for Syrian cooperation into the investigation of the assassination of a Lebanese politician, Rafik Hariri.’

Do what I say..

`A lesbian couple who entered into the nation’s first same-sex civil union are splitting up amid allegations of violent behavior.

Carolyn Conrad, 35, asked a court in October to end her relationship with Kathleen Peterson, 46.

Conrad also obtained a restraining order Wednesday against her partner, saying Peterson punched a hole in the wall during an argument and threatened to harm a friend.’

`A wonderous Office Christmas party last night and I woke up with these on me. My work collegues tell me Sam, the office token Aussie, bought them for me as a secret santa present, but I cannot confirm this. By all accounts I wore these all night, while various members of staff nibbled at them. As you can see from the photos, there are lots of sweeties left. They are in perfect working order and I have them on now.’

`A female duo who tried to rob a man at gunpoint Sunday morning after one flashed him may be the same two women who later chatted with another man at a nearby convenience store and then possibly drove away in his car, police said.

Investigators working the cases are wondering whether another five or six unsolved auto thefts and robberies might be the handiwork of two women, a rare case in law enforcement. [..]

The man told police one woman suddenly flashed him then smashed a window of his pickup with a hammer as he was getting in.

The police said that when he got out of the truck and grabbed the hammer, another woman stepped out of a small beige car and, sporting a semiautomatic weapon, demanded his wallet.’

`A utility worker who came to shut off the gas to a Bloomfield house discovered the body of a long-dead woman in the home she shared with her disoriented bother, who told the worker his sister was merely resting, authorities said. [..]

When the dead woman’s brother opened the door, the PSE&G employee explained he would have to pay the gas bill or have the gas shut off.

The resident then invited the worker in, saying, “Let me check with my sister, she’s lying down right now,” Behre reported the man saying.

There was a strong odor in the house, and the woman’s body was lying on the dining room floor. [..]

Neighbors told police the siblings were regularly seen walking to a nearby grocery store. Police believe the woman has been dead for about six months because neighbors told authorities that she had not been seen outside since the summer.

It was about that time that a gas bill was last paid, Behre said.’

`Kristina Roberts, 37, claims she was alone at JEG Advertising with her new boss on Sept. 9 when he approached her while holding his penis.

“Plaintiff was sitting at her desk doing the work she was given earlier that day when Mr. Garcia came up behind her,” her civil suit says. “He asked Ms. Roberts to turn around, and when she did, defendant proceeded to ejaculate onto her and her clothing. Mr. Garcia apologized and stated that he did not mean to do that.”

“You don’t really want to go there, do you? I really don’t have any comment at all,” Garcia told Courttv.com when asked about the incident. “Just say it was consensual.”‘

`Armed Indonesian troops have hoisted their nation’s red and white flag over a remote island and proudly reclaimed its sovereignty from an Aussie surfer.

The military recently landed on tiny Mengkudu – a palm-fringed speck lying between Bali and Timor – after angry villagers from a neighbouring island accused an Australian expatriate of banning them from visiting his out-of-the-way surf camp.

Colonel Airwind Nokbola, the military commander for East Nusa Tengarra province, said 17 armed soldiers were now stationed on the traditionally uninhabited island, which has Indian Ocean surfbreak of international repute just south-east of Sumba.’

Old Hungarian ad for what appears to be fried turds.

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