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Blazecock Pileon says " I'm not playing your games. Own your comments. Take it to Metatalk if you don't like it. And that's the last I will hear from you, because you're going to be ignored."
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at 5:33 AM on September 24, 2008
(323 comments)
"I can clearly remember people shouting: 'What the hell is that?'
I got to a console and people were loudly telling me to look to the east of Salisbury Plain. Twenty miles east of the eastern extremity was a series of returns, or radar blips, which were appearing in that position. There were five of them initially. Then six and then seven all following the same track." Wing Commander Alan Turner MBE was sworn to secrecy after he tracked a series of unidentified objects soaring over southern England at incredible speeds.
This is Wing Commanders Turner's account of what he personally observed at RAF Sopley in the summer of l971.
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 2:15 AM on September 15, 2008
(78 comments)
The Echo Label (splash page, site offline) a subsidary of Chrysalis, is "an independent creatively driven record company which nurtures artists before they sign deals with major labels." Blaming a "challenging macroeconomic environment" for hampering sales of CDs, a decline in synchronisation revenues from music used in TV programmes, films and advertisement, Chrysalis recently warned its investors that the Echo Label
has performed below management expectations, with "marginally higher" write-offs for new unproven artists, noting that it had not "upstreamed" any artists to major labels in the third quarter.
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 5:22 AM on August 19, 2008
(26 comments)
The US Federal Reserve has allowed ... its credibility fall "below zero".
Barclays Capital said in its closely-watched Global Outlook that US headline inflation would hit 5.5pc by August and the Fed will have to raise interest rates six times by the end of next year to prevent a wage-spiral. "This is the first test for central banks in 30 years and they have fluffed it. They have zero credibility, and the Fed is negative if that's possible. It has lost all credibility."
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at 5:16 AM on June 27, 2008
(56 comments)
"There is no reason that the Internet should be lawless,"
President Nicolas Sarkozy told his cabinet, as
Culture Minister Christine Albanel presented
a new bill designed to encourage responsible use of the Internet. The legislation would set up a new administrative body that would receive complaints from the music and film industry and track down offenders through Internet service providers. An e-mail warning would be sent to suspected downloaders followed by a registered letter. After two strikes, offenders would risk losing their Internet subscription for up to a year. "We know that we are not going to eradicate piracy 100 percent, but we think that we can reduce it significantly," Albanel told a news conference.
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at 12:55 AM on June 24, 2008
(147 comments)
Reefer Madness.
The Kingwood teenager's story of decapitating a corpse and using the head to smoke marijuana was so outlandish that at first Houston Police Department senior police officer Jim Adkins did not believe it.
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 3:40 AM on May 9, 2008
(106 comments)
The Chrysler Building:
77 floors, 319.5m (1048 feet) high, 29961 tons of steel, 3,826,000 bricks, near 5000 windows of total Art Deco coolness.
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 2:16 PM on April 30, 2008
(35 comments)
It's the hat.
The German ad agency
serviceplan uses the iconic image of Der Führer to create an ad for selling hats. Thomas Weber of the Bonn hat retailer,
Hut-weber, was "a bit reluctant at first, but won over fast by the rather cunning idea and the craftiness carrying the simple, straightforward message that 'hats make people'."
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at 10:50 AM on April 16, 2008
(61 comments)
Mr. Spock's MUSIC FROM OUTER SPACE.
The original sixties classic, "Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space" is perhaps the most sought after Nimoy album. Like a piece of fine blue cheese, thirty years have added another dimension to this remarkable debut." "Can you believe that this record was created by the same label that brought you Pat Boone?"
The complete collection.
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at 1:52 AM on September 20, 2007
(19 comments)
Swedish Woman Gets Superfast Internet.
She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said. She's already received
one offer of marriage.
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 10:35 AM on July 20, 2007
(29 comments)
Canadian Citizenship Practice Test.
Who were the United Empire Loyalists? Why is the British North America Act important in Canadian history? List four rights Canadian citizens have. Which province is the only officially bilingual province? On what date did Nunavut become a territory? What do you call the Queen’s representative in the provinces?
And more.
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at 2:12 AM on May 25, 2007
(44 comments)
Thinking about getting away from it all?
Bouvetøya
(
Bouvet Island) is located at 54°26′S, 3°24′E in the South Atlantic. It is the most remote island in the world.
Covered with ice, it has no ports or harbors,
no arable land, it is uninhabited, and fair weather is extremely rare. Although a territory of Norway, you can
register a patent in Bouvetøya via WIPO (country code BV) or (someday) a URL: Bouvetøya has the
Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) ".bv" (
unfortunately not currently in use). Ham Radio operators visited
visited this vacation paradise in 1990 and made over made almost 50,000 QSOs (morse code conversations). Ready to book your trip? A Google Search returns 1,180,00 results for
Bouvet Island travel.
(
previously)
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 6:25 AM on May 23, 2007
(17 comments)
Is it fair to consider the number of comments an FPP receives as an indication of community interest in the post? If so, then it is a pity that eustacescrubb's
great find (a real best of the web IMHO) gets only a handful of comments whilst
yet another FPP about Ann Coulter frothing at the mouth generates so many.
posted to MetaTalk by three blind mice
at 11:18 AM on March 3, 2007
(72 comments)
Tighter restrictions on damage awards.
The two questions presented to the U.S. Supreme Court centered on whether or not the highly reprehensible conduct of a defendant is analogous to a crime and can "override" the constitutional requirement that punitive damages be reasonably related to the plaintiffs harm.
The answer is no. (21 page pdf) Held: 1. A punitive damages award based in part on a jury’s desire to punish a defendant for harming nonparties amounts to a taking of property from the defendant without due process. The majority: Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, Souter, and Breyer. Dissenting: Ginsburg, Scalia, Stevens, and Thomas.
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at 11:03 AM on February 20, 2007
(40 comments)
An Appeal for Redress from the War in Iraq.
"As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq . Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to come home."
(via the Seattle Times.)
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at 11:23 AM on January 17, 2007
(59 comments)
We hold that the New York Constitution does not compel recognition of marriages between members of the same sex.
By a 4 to 2 margin, the
New York Court of Appeals, New York's highest court,
upheld (70 page pdf) the state's Domestic Relations law that bars same-sex couples from
getting married in New York and denying same-sex couples the hundreds of family protections provided to married couples. The court accepted the justifications advanced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for the state law barring marriage by same-sex couples. "Pointing out that stable relationships between parents are important for children, that straight couples can conceive children by 'accident,' and that gay couples can only have children with advance planning, Bloomberg and Spitzer argued that straight couples need the stability of marriage, but gay couples do not." The ruling was
denounced by the ACLU,
criticized by Howard Dean as based on "outdated and bigoted notions about families," and applauded by the
Marriage Law Foundation pleased by the "superb and straightforward legal analysis."
Background from NPR.
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 1:20 AM on July 7, 2006
(104 comments)
The biggest concern in striking North Korean nuclear facilities is the threat of North Korean counter-attacks.
When considering the text of the
"strong statement" promised by President Bush in response to
yesterday's missile tests by North Korea, military planners face a grim tactical situation. Seoul,
the South Korean capitol and home to 10 million, lies within easy range of North Korean long-range artillery. Five hundred self-propelled
170mm Koksan guns and thousands of mobile
multiple-launch rocket systems could hit Seoul with artillery shells and chemical weapons, causing panic and massive civilian casualties. North Korea has between five and six hundred
Scud missiles that could strike targets throughout South Korea with conventional warheads or chemical weapons. North Korea could hit Japan with its 100
No-dong missiles. Seventy percent of North Korean army ground units (approximately 700,000 troops, over 8,000 artillery systems, and 2,000 tanks) is postured within 90 miles of the demilitarized zone positioned to undertake offensive ground operations. These units could fire up to 500,000 artillery rounds per hour against South Korean defenses for several hours.
So forget about forcibly dismantling North Korea's nuclear-production facilities.
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at 2:30 AM on July 5, 2006
(46 comments)
On this day in 1863
,
George Meade replaced
Joseph Hooker as commanding General of the 100,000 strong
Army of the Potomac, confirming what Meade himself had complained as “the ridiculous appearance we present of changing our generals after each battle.” Earlier in the day,
J.E.B. Stuart and 5000 Confederate cavalry crossed the Potomac
entering Maryland at Rowser’s ford. Stuart's lengthy absence had made him desperate to execute the order given to him by
General Robert E. Lee to “take position on General Ewell’s right, place yourself in communication with him, guard his flank, and keep him informed of the enemy’s movements.” Stuart, whose cavalry was the “eyes and ears” of the 80,000 strong
Army of Northern Virginia (warning: awful music), had been out of touch for several days, leaving General Lee ignorant of the enemy’s movement and position. When Stuart finally caught up with his army at Gettysburg, he had missed the first day and most of the second of
one of the greatest battles in American history.
There are those who say that Stuart violated Lee's orders to him concerning his role for the proposed campaign. Others think that those orders gave him leave to operate as he did. In either case there can be little doubt that his absence from his accustomed place, screening the Army's movements, and scouting its routes, was keenly felt by Lee during the campaign, and played a major part in bringing on the
meeting engagement at Gettysburg.
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at 5:23 AM on June 28, 2006
(66 comments)
ON JUNE 6 2006 (6606)
IF THE FIRST OF TWO RAPTURES HAS NOT HAPPENED AND ANTICHRIST HAS NOT DECLARED HIMSELF ON WORLD SIMULCAST TELEVISION, THEN I (PASTOR HARRY) WILL REVEAL THE TRUE NAME AND IDENTITY OF THE ANTICHRIST AT 11:05 PM EST ON THIS SITE AND ON DOOMSDAY TALK RADIO, OUR INTERNET RADIO BROADCAST.
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at 11:54 AM on June 6, 2006
(148 comments)
He’s the one without the mohawk.
This is not exactly a Mr. T fan site. It is a Mr. T memorabilia fan site. So if you are looking for a Mr. T bio or his contact information or “Mr.T vs X” you came to the wrong place.
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at 4:53 AM on June 2, 2006
(16 comments)
Utopian Pharmacology.
Can safe, sustainable analogues of
MDMA (link to 1914 German patent) be developed? There is an urgent need for non-neurotoxic empathogens and entactogens suitable for lifelong use. Alas no single "magic bullet" yet exists that replicates the subjective effects of MDMA on a long-term basis. Hence most of us are doomed to display the quasi-psychopathic indifference to each other characteristic of the MDMA-naïve state.
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at 1:29 AM on May 27, 2006
(44 comments)
Lennon Letter Sells £12,000.
In 1971, a New York Times article accused the Beatles, and other white artists, of imitating and exploiting American black music in their early cover records.
Lennon responded angrily, "Many kids were turned on to black music by us. It wasn't a rip off, it was a love-in."
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 3:06 AM on May 25, 2006
(71 comments)
Injunctions in patent cases not automatic.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a
unanimous decision (16 page pdf) on Monday in the dispute between eBay and MercExchange. The Court ruled in favor of eBay finding that the lower Appeals Court erred as a matter of law in creating a general rule that “courts will issue permanent injunctions against patent infringement absent exceptional circumstances.” In the concurring opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts, joined by Scalia and Ginsberg, Roberts citing Court precedent noted that: “[d]iscretion is not whim, and limiting discretion according to legal standards helps promote the basic principle of justice that like cases should be decided alike.”
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at 12:01 AM on May 17, 2006
(25 comments)
Jesus with Erection.
In its March edition, the Insurgent
(link down), an "alternative" student paper on the Eugene, Ore., campus printed 12 hand-drawn cartoons of
Jesus as a response to rival paper the Commentator having published the controversial cartoons of Muhammad originally published in Europe that sparked Muslim riots worldwide. William Donohue, president of the Catholic League,
called it "one of the most obscene assaults on Christianity I have ever seen."
Hey now!
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 1:01 AM on April 27, 2006
(89 comments)
You know, there ought to be a rule (or at least social approbation) against a
self-linking double post callout. It seems like it's OK to link to previous comments, but one should let a third party make the DP call.
posted to MetaTalk by three blind mice
at 8:50 AM on April 12, 2006
(5 comments)
