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[Wizard]

Nid St??!?

[Krieger22]

http://www.news.com....9-1226122364851

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The ministry said it aimed to regulate the "order" of the internet music market, adding songs that "harm the security of state culture must be cleaned up and regulated under the law".

China has banned Lady Gaga for... this? What is this I don't even comprehend it...

[SquigPie]

Krieger22, on 26 August 2011 - 08:25, said:

http://www.news.com....9-1226122364851

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The ministry said it aimed to regulate the "order" of the internet music market, adding songs that "harm the security of state culture must be cleaned up and regulated under the law".

China has banned Lady Gaga for... this? What is this I don't even comprehend it...

Perhaps "Because it sucks" isn't a good enough reason for them?

[Wizard]

Drunken Elk is found stuck in a tree, no, really!

Silly Sweden is Silly

[Destiny]

Sweden's a nice place, ain't it?

[SquigPie]

Destiny, on 09 September 2011 - 12:10, said:

Sweden's a nice place, ain't it?

No.

Denmark is much better. And we have no Elks, Elks are dangerous and want to kill you.

Edited by SquigPie, 09 September 2011 - 16:09.

[Kaido]

SquigPie, on 09 September 2011 - 16:05, said:

Destiny, on 09 September 2011 - 12:10, said:

Sweden's a nice place, ain't it?

No.

Denmark is much better. And we have no Elks, Elks are dangerous and want to kill you.

But all you have is wind...

[SquigPie]

Drag#!, on 09 September 2011 - 19:24, said:

SquigPie, on 09 September 2011 - 16:05, said:

Destiny, on 09 September 2011 - 12:10, said:

Sweden's a nice place, ain't it?

No.

Denmark is much better. And we have no Elks, Elks are dangerous and want to kill you.

But all you have is wind...

Yeah, and instead of bending in to it like those sissy swedes would've done, we HARNESSED it. Wind, bow before thy lord, his name is Denmark.

[Krieger22]

The new Hungarian census ad is weird.


I'm going to need to be alone while watching this.

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

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The Police Department in Ogden, Utah, will be the first metropolitan police force in the world to use a crime-fighting blimp.
The $14,000, helium-filled ‘HB50 Hyperblimp’ measures 54ft in length airship can stay airborne for seven hours at a time with a top speed of 40mph. It packs a radar transponder and two CCTV cameras.
Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey said:[indent]
“We believe it will be a deterrent to crime when it is out and about and will help us solve crimes more quickly when they do occur.”[/indent]

Commenting on the blimp’s military-grade specs and crime-fighting prowess, Godfrey confidently asserts:[indent]
”The blimp is long but narrow and moves quickly and quietly, meaning it should be fairly undetectable.”[/indent]
It will only be allowed to be operated by police officers, with pilot’s licenses, from the patrol parking lot at the Ogden Public Safety Building.
They hope to launch the cruise missile-shaped aircraft in time for Christmas.

http://derrenbrown.c.../09/eyes-skies/

[Destiny]

Only seven hours? :|

[TheDR]

Yes! Blimps are pretty pimp!

[Chyros]

When I read "Godfrey" I thought Hobbes had finally gone completely batshit .

[Kichō]

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陆克文带家乡老酱闯关险些被没收

Australia's Kevin Rudd fights to get Vegemite on plane

Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd had to talk himself out of trouble after airport officials flagged up a suspicious liquid in his cabin baggage - a jar of Vegemite.

Mr Rudd was heading to New York from Mexico City when he attracted the authorities' attention.

He explained that the dark brown paste was his breakfast and, with help from local diplomats, was allowed through.

"Only problem travelling to NY is that they tried to confiscate our Vegemite at the airport. Needed Foreign Ministerial intervention," Mr Rudd tweeted.

Airport staff were surprised when I said it is good for you and I ate it for breakfast. They then waved me through," he said.

Mr Rudd is not Vegemite's only high-profile defender - Prime Minister Julia Gillard also spoke out in its support when she visited the US in March.

Describing Vegemite as "a quasi-vegetable by-product paste that you smear all over your toast", the US president pronounced it "horrible".

But Ms Gillard said it was "good", as long as you remembered to spread it thinly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...mite_rudd.shtml



An odd photo, http://news.xinhuane...131146367_5.htm

Is she dressed in bacon?

[Ghostrider]

Kichō, on 20 September 2011 - 00:55, said:

Is she dressed in bacon?

That's Lady Gaga in a meatsuit, yes. It was her latest fashion a little while ago, as well as a rather eye-catching publicity stunt.

Pft, if she wanted meat, I'm sure there are plenty of guys out there willing to give it to her. /obvioussexualreferencethatprobablydidn'tneedstating

[SquigPie]

Ghostrider, on 22 September 2011 - 01:48, said:

Kichō, on 20 September 2011 - 00:55, said:

Is she dressed in bacon?

That's Lady Gaga in a meatsuit, yes. It was her latest fashion a little while ago, as well as a rather eye-catching publicity stunt.

Pft, if she wanted meat, I'm sure there are plenty of guys out there willing to give it to her. /obvioussexualreferencethatprobablydidn'tneedstating

And if those rumours about....her....are true, then she'd be more than able to give them some meat too. IfyouknowwhatImean.

[Chyros]

American gets patent for making snowmen


There may still be three months until the festive season arrives, but one inventor has received an amazing early Christmas present from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Ignacio Marc Asperas, of Melville, New York, has been granted an astonishing patent for ‘facilitating the construction of a snowman/woman’, five years after he first applied.
The inventor wrote a 25-page document with details on how to roll symmetrical snow balls and construct body parts such as arms and shoulders - and he insists he is being absolutely serious.




Spherical formation: A 25-page document gives details on how to roll symmetrical snow balls and construct snowman body parts such as arms and shoulders – and the inventor insists he is being absolutely serious
'If you're like me, you enjoy building snow men big,’ Mr Asperas wrote in the patent. ‘The bigger the better. One problem is there isn't always someone around to help. It is very difficult by yourself.

Your guide to the perfect snowman

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  Spherically-shaped body made with interior structure including outer surface
  
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  Adhesion surface on outer surface that increases ability to hold snow to body
  
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  Spherically-shaped body must be a strong building block for rest of snowman
  
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  Generator with electric charge coupled to outer surface forstatic to help snow stick

‘Over the years, I have developed different tricks to assist my self-style of building snow people. My favourite trick is to use the long end of a shovel as a lever to rotate the boulder when it is really big.’
He described the original inventor of the snowman as a ‘genius’, but said he knows nothing about its history and had often had trouble with his back when building up a snow boulder, reported Gawker and Huffington Post.
'I do not pretend that the ultimate snowman will be as revolutionary to the advancement of mankind (as the wheel and the toaster oven),’ Mr Asperas wrote in U.S. patent 8,011,991 B2.
‘But I do contend that as far as I know no one has ever conceived and reduced to practice such an apparatus.’


Sauce: http://www.dailymail...ng-snowmen.html

Perhaps thte patent-fever has really made the Americans snap this time .

[Major Fuckup]

http://news.ninemsn....ohansson.glance

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Scarlett Johansson's leaked nude photos have sparked an online craze that pokes fun at the Hollywood actress's self-admiring poses.

Scarlett talks photo leak

In what has been dubbed Scarlett Johanssoning, pranksters are taking pictures of themselves reflected in mirrors and posting them online. And it's not just young women — dolls, pets and soft toys in mock poses are also popping up.

Johansson admitted snapping the two nude photos, but called in the FBI claiming that hackers had stolen them off her mobile phone.

I some how doubt her mobile phone randomly got hacked. The other photo's are funny

[SquigPie]

Her cell getting hacked isn't really that unlikely, Any MAN with hacking skills and a sense of altruism would do that.

[SquigPie]

http://magicboxnow.c...me111029b.shtml

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During a PS Vita Press Conference on Friday, Sony Computer Entertainment Taiwan announced the PS Vita will launch in Taiwan on December 23, at the conference SCET's new spokeswoman Rainie Yang, a well known celebrity in Taiwan, came out and spoke to the media. At the stage when asked about her favorite PlayStation game, Rainie claimed that her favorite is Nintendo's "Super Mario Bros" - a game that never appeared on PS platforms.

Her answer wowed the crowd at the press confernece, aware that something went wrong, she started posing to the media to divert the attention. However when she started holding the PS Vita on her hand, she held it upside down, and of course she wowed the media again with her reckless behavior! It seems she is either clueless on video games, or she hates Sony.

:Slams head on desk:

[Krieger22]

SquigPie, on 30 October 2011 - 21:41, said:

http://magicboxnow.c...me111029b.shtml

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During a PS Vita Press Conference on Friday, Sony Computer Entertainment Taiwan announced the PS Vita will launch in Taiwan on December 23, at the conference SCET's new spokeswoman Rainie Yang, a well known celebrity in Taiwan, came out and spoke to the media. At the stage when asked about her favorite PlayStation game, Rainie claimed that her favorite is Nintendo's "Super Mario Bros" - a game that never appeared on PS platforms.

Her answer wowed the crowd at the press confernece, aware that something went wrong, she started posing to the media to divert the attention. However when she started holding the PS Vita on her hand, she held it upside down, and of course she wowed the media again with her reckless behavior! It seems she is either clueless on video games, or she hates Sony.

:Slams head on desk:

Hence my opinion that celebrities here have traded out their brains for fame.

[Alias]

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Leading scientists around the world are meeting in Britain to consider a proposal that could eventually see Greenwich Mean Time relegated to a footnote in history.
For more than 120 years GMT has been the international standard for timekeeping, but it is now under threat from a new definition of time itself based not on the rotation of the Earth, but on atomic clocks.
In January the International Telecommunication Union will meet in Geneva to vote on whether to adopt the new measure, despite protests from Britain.
The two-day meeting of about 50 experts at a country house north-west of London, under the aegis of the prestigious Royal Society, on Thursday and Friday will look at some of the issues involved.
Predictably the question has hurt Britain's national pride - particularly when the British believe their old rivals France are leading the push to change from GMT to the new time standard.
"We understand that in Britain they have a sense of loss for GMT," said Elisa Felicitas Arias, director of the time department at the France-based International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), which pushed for the change.
GMT is based on the passage of the Sun over the zero meridian line at the Greenwich Observatory in southeast London, and became the world standard for time at a conference in Washington in 1884.
France had lobbied for Paris Mean Time at the same conference.
In 1972 it was replaced in name by Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) but that essentially remained the same as GMT.
UTC is based on about 400 atomic clocks at laboratories around the world but then corrected with "leap seconds" to align itself with the Earth's rotational speed, which fluctuates.
Tiny variations

But the tiny variations between Earth speed and atomic speed have become a problem for GPS, the global positioning systems and mobile phone networks on which the modern world relies.
"These networks need to be synchronised to the millisecond," Dr Arias said.
"We are starting to have parallel definitions of time. Imagine a world where there were two or three definitions of a kilogram."
The meeting in London will look at the implications of abolishing the leap seconds and moving fully to atomic time.
That would see atomic time slowly diverge from GMT, by about one minute every 60 to 90 years, or by an hour every 600 years, and there would need to be "leap minutes" a couple of times a century to bring the two in line.
The proposal would then formally be voted on in Geneva.
Damaged pride

The potential loss of GMT has prompted soul searching in the British press, particularly at a time when the country is itself considering switching to British Summer Time, one hour ahead of GMT, on a permanent basis.
The Sunday Times said GMT had "symbolised Britain's role as a Victorian superpower" but that "just as that role has inexorably diminished, so GMT itself could in effect disappear".
British science minister David Willetts has opposed the plan, saying it has become more than just a scientific row.
"This is primarily a finely balanced scientific argument but I do detect undercurrents of nationalism," he said.
"Britain's position is that we should stick to real time as experienced by humans, which is based on the Earth's rotation, not atomic clocks.
"Without leap seconds we will lose contact with the reality of Earth's rotation. Eventually our midnight would happen at noon."
China meanwhile is said to oppose the change on the grounds that its astronomers want to retain Earth-rotation-based time.

http://www.abc.net.a...history/3617226

First the French took away your awful imperial system, and now they're taking away your time.
Typical whinging Poms.

[SquigPie]

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That would see atomic time slowly diverge from GMT, by about one minute every 60 to 90 years, or by an hour every 600 years, and there would need to be "leap minutes" a couple of times a century to bring the two in line.

Wut,

I mean, that's it? Why's there such a huge controversy over this then.

[Kichō]

Man withdraws snake from ATM machine

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A Spanish man had a shock when he went to withdraw some money - and a snake came slithering out of the cash machine

The man had stopped to get some cash from a branch of the Caja Madrid bank in Llodio, Alava, on his way to work on October 31. The middle-aged man managed to grab his money despite the snake attempting to attack him, reports Euro Weekly News.

He then alerted the police, who arrived on the scene, and with the help of the bank manager, discovered that the snake was trapped by the mechanism of the cash point.

The manager activated it from the inside, freeing the snake, which was put in a box and taken to a shelter.

Police say they have not ruled out the possibility that someone may have put it there for a prank. But they say that it is a rural area, so it's possible the snake got there of its own accord.

http://www.globaltim...TM-machine.aspx

Click link for picture

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Gunmen steal money from display at Calif. casino

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LAKESIDE, Calif.—Four masked, armed intruders tried to steal a display case full of money from a suburban San Diego casino by chaining it to an SUV parked outside, but the plan went awry, authorities said.


The case ended up toppling over in the lobby during the predawn Wednesday heist and one of the robbers fired a gunshot into it, San Diego County sheriff's Sgt. Tom Poulin said.


The robbers got away with an unknown amount of cash from the display, which featured a stack of dollar bills with a $100 bill on top, the Sheriff's Department said.


Rick Salinas, general manager of the Barona Resort & Casino, said the robbers discovered the chain was too short, so they returned to their Ford Explorer for an extension, which was still too short. That led one assailant to puncture the case with a rifle butt.


The SUV was found about a mile away with a bag of cash inside. The robbers remain at large.
The case contained "just a few thousand dollars," Salinas said. "It wasn't a lot."

http://www.boston.co...t_calif_casino/

[Ghostrider]

I'M TIRED OF THESE MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES IN THESE MUTHERFUCKING ATMS.


Also, sounds like the robbers actually lost money there (the SUV they used).

Edited by TheDR, 10 November 2011 - 18:58.