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Anarchy / Making Iced Tea the Creepy Way
« on: May 09, 2008, 04:16:30 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pwrfqu_mA0&eurl

I'm sure those boxes in the background are filled with the organs of people that didn't like his tea.

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Anarchy / Tumblr accounts and pimping my photo blog
« on: April 25, 2008, 05:37:44 PM »
So much like twitter only better comes www.tumblr.com

It's a great free mini blogging community and hosts your photos, videos, mp3s etc. I started an account and found it quite the place for me to keep a photo blog.

http://pickledkitten.tumblr.com/

Anyone else here have a tumblr account? Thoughts on tumblr?

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Entertainment / sweep the leg? Aww HELL NAW!
« on: April 25, 2008, 01:27:01 PM »
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Will Smith To Direct Karate Kid Remake / Steven Chow In Talks

It looks like Will Smith is going to be all over the remake of the Karate Kid. Today we learn that he will not only be producing, but also directing the project. We get the scoop from our friends at moviesonline:

Will Smith is in fact going to direct the upcoming Karate Kid movie according to production notes. His son Jaden Smith will also star. There has been alot of past speculation on who would star, and who would direct but it would seem the speculation can now end. Overbook Entertainment have Will Smith listed as the director and Jaden Smith as its star.

Will Smith has had quite the journey. If you would have told me back in the day, that The Fresh Prince would be directing a remake of the Karate Kid in the future (as the Kung Fu Kid); I would of called you a liar and a prophet of questionable ability. But here we are, and it looks like Mr. Smith’s directorial debut on a feature film, will be alongside his son and Jackie Chan or Steven Chow.

Steven Chow has confirmed that he is in talks to play Mr. Miyagi and we get his words on the matter today via themoviehole:

Martial arts magnate Stephen Chow (“Kung Fu Hustle”) has confirmed online rumours that he’s in talks to play wise and wrinkly warrior Mr Myiagi in a ‘’Karate Kid’’ remake.

“I’m very fond of ‘The Karate Kid’ and would love to join in the remake project, no matter as a producer, director or actor”, says Chow. “But it depends on my schedule. As you know, next year I will work on two movies, ‘Dragon Ball’ and ‘Journey to the West.’”

So it is not yet confirmed that Chow will be Miyagi, but he is certainly still in the running. Chan is a high octane contender however and although both men are great choices, I think I would prefer the pastoral Chan for the role of Kung Fu Master. Lots of news out today regarding this project and we will have to hope that they walk with the wisdom of Macchio to create a film that pays tribute to the original.

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Anarchy / Happy Steak and BJ Day!!!
« on: March 14, 2008, 12:09:43 PM »
Gentlemen.....may you all have a great steak and blow job day  :wink:

http://www.steakandbjday.com/

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Anarchy / So I got bored and made geeky crafts this weekend!
« on: March 10, 2008, 12:30:15 PM »
I just thought I'd share them here ^_^

My drink needed a companion on it's way to the coffee table to I made it a Companion Cube Coaster!

Then I made some ear rings...




Then I made Dethklok magnets so my fridge could fucking ROCK!


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http://www.nokia.com/A4852062
 Link to the concept video.....VERY cool
http://nds3.nokia.com/NOKIA_COM_1/About_Nokia/Research/Demos/Morph/video/morph_concept_small.mov



True it's just a lot of wishful thinking but the idea that we may actually have something like this in our lifetime is fucking AWESOME.

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Entertainment / Street Fighter: The Later Years
« on: September 12, 2007, 09:23:07 AM »
Not sure if anyone here has seen these before but they are actually pretty funny.

Ep 1

Ep 2

Ep 3

The next episode should be out on friday with a new episode every month until they finish the 10 part series.

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Political Opinions / In Soviet Russia, Bomb Launches YOU!!!
« on: September 12, 2007, 08:59:07 AM »
Seriously, Russia....what makes you think this was a good idea?

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Russia unveils the 'father of all bombs'

Luke Harding in Moscow
Wednesday September 12, 2007
Guardian

Russia's military yesterday announced that it had successfully tested a lethal new air-delivered bomb, which it described as the world's most powerful non-nuclear weapon.In what appears to be the Kremlin's latest display of military might, officials said Moscow had developed a new thermobaric bomb to add to its already potent nuclear arsenal.

Russia's state-run Channel One television said the new ordnance - dubbed the Father of all Bombs - is four times more powerful than the US's Mother of all Bombs.

"The results of tests of the aviation explosive device that has been created have shown that it is comparable with nuclear weapons in its efficiency and potential," Alexander Rukshin, a deputy chief of the Russian armed forces staff, told the channel.

"You will now see it in action - the bomb which has no match in the world is being tested at a military site," the report said. It showed a Tupolev 160 strategic bomber dropping the bomb over a testing ground. A large explosion followed.

The aviation vacuum bomb, which is also known as a fuel-air bomb, was the mightiest ever created, it added.

Last night's announcement comes at a time of growing tension between Russia and the west, and follows a tumultuous eight months in which Vladimir Putin has denounced US power, torn up a conventional arms agreement with Nato, and grabbed a large, if symbolic, chunk of the Arctic.

Last month Russia carried out a series of war games with China and four other central Asian states, designed to show the country's resurgent military power and the emergence of new regional alliances outside Nato. Russia's strategic nuclear bombers also resumed patrols of the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

The development of this latest device appears to be another response to the Bush administration's plans to site elements of its missile defence system in central Europe. Mr Putin has denounced the plan, arguing that it upsets Europe's strategic balance, and has vowed to respond.

The US Massive Ordnance Air Blast, nicknamed the Mother of all Bombs, is a large-yield satellite-guided, air-delivered device, which previously enjoyed the dubious accolade of the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in history.

Thermobaric weapons differ from conventional explosive weapons by using oxygen from the atmosphere, rather than carrying an oxidising agent in their explosives. They produce more energy than normal weapons but are hard to control.

The US used similar fuel-air munitions to clear jungle for helicopter landings during the Vietnam War. The Soviet Union also developed its own fuel-air weapons, deploying them against China and in Afghanistan, and the Russian army used them in its second war in Chechnya.

The new bomb comes at a time when both Russia and the US appear to be reneging on nuclear arms limitation treaties signed during the cold war and after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Yesterday the head of a Russian foreign policy thinktank warned that Russia and the US were on the brink of a new cold war involving "an unrestricted nuclear and conventional arms race".

Relations could sink into a serious crisis in a few years, and "domestic and political factors will aggravate the situation rather than help overcome the differences", Sergei Rogov, director of the Russian Academy of Science's US and Canada Institute, told the academy's presidium.

I don't know about anyone else but it feels there has been a significant downturn in relations between Russia and the west especially with the recent UK jets intercepting Russian bombers incident. This does not bode well.

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Political Opinions / we can burn salt water now!
« on: September 12, 2007, 08:50:18 AM »
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ERIE, Pa. - An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.


John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.

The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.

Rustum Roy, a Penn State University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to confirm his own observations.

The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.

The discovery is "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years," Roy said.

"This is the most abundant element in the world. It is everywhere," Roy said. "Seeing it burn gives me the chills."

Roy will meet this week with officials from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to try to obtain research funding.

The scientists want to find out whether the energy output from the burning hydrogen — which reached a heat of more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit — would be enough to power a car or other heavy machinery.

"We will get our ideas together and check this out and see where it leads," Roy said. "The potential is huge."

Well....there goes our oceans!  :roll:

Seriously, this has the potential to be a really really great energy source provided the energy used to do this doesn't out weight the energy produced.

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Entertainment / TDK viral marketing
« on: July 27, 2007, 10:32:24 AM »
http://www.whysoserious.com/

Well I must admit I'm a bit curious about this. Anyone else see the teaser yet? The joker laugh coming from Heath Ledger is pretty awesome.

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Entertainment / Drew Carey to replace Bob Barker????
« on: July 24, 2007, 09:53:11 AM »
Who the hell made THAT decision???
SOURCE

Drew Carey isn't funny an damn sure not as classy as Bob Barker.

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In case you weren't able to understand why the politicization of the DoJ is a major issue, this article released today may clear up some confusion. In summary: The Bush Administration has claimed executive privilege implies that US Attorneys cannot be asked by congress to file contempt charges against members or employees of the executive branch. In other words, they are arguing that Congress has no Constitutional power of oversight over the President or his staff.

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Broader Privilege Claimed In Firings
White House Says Hill Can't Pursue Contempt Cases

By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 20, 2007; Page A01

Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials once the president has invoked executive privilege.

The position presents serious legal and political obstacles for congressional Democrats, who have begun laying the groundwork for contempt proceedings against current and former White House officials in order to pry loose information about the dismissals.

Under federal law, a statutory contempt citation by the House or Senate must be submitted to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, "whose duty it shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury for its action."

But administration officials argued yesterday that Congress has no power to force a U.S. attorney to pursue contempt charges in cases, such as the prosecutor firings, in which the president has declared that testimony or documents are protected from release by executive privilege. Officials pointed to a Justice Department legal opinion during the Reagan administration, which made the same argument in a case that was never resolved by the courts.

"A U.S. attorney would not be permitted to bring contempt charges or convene a grand jury in an executive privilege case," said a senior official, who said his remarks reflect a consensus within the administration. "And a U.S. attorney wouldn't be permitted to argue against the reasoned legal opinion that the Justice Department provided. No one should expect that to happen."

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly, added: "It has long been understood that, in circumstances like these, the constitutional prerogatives of the president would make it a futile and purely political act for Congress to refer contempt citations to U.S. attorneys."

Mark J. Rozell, a professor of public policy at George Mason University who has written a book on executive-privilege issues, called the administration's stance "astonishing."

"That's a breathtakingly broad view of the president's role in this system of separation of powers," Rozell said. "What this statement is saying is the president's claim of executive privilege trumps all."

The administration's statement is a dramatic attempt to seize the upper hand in an escalating constitutional battle with Congress, which has been trying for months, without success, to compel White House officials to testify and to turn over documents about their roles in the prosecutor firings last year. The Justice Department and White House in recent weeks have been discussing when and how to disclose the stance, and the official said he decided yesterday that it was time to highlight it.

Yesterday, a House Judiciary subcommittee voted to lay the groundwork for contempt proceedings against White House chief of staff Joshua B. Bolten, following a similar decision last week against former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers.

The administration has not directly informed Congress of its view. A spokeswoman for Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), the Judiciary Committee's chairman, declined to comment . But other leading Democrats attacked the argument.

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) called it "an outrageous abuse of executive privilege" and said: "The White House must stop stonewalling and start being accountable to Congress and the American people. No one, including the president, is above the law."

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) said the administration is "hastening a constitutional crisis," and Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said the position "makes a mockery of the ideal that no one is above the law."

Waxman added: "I suppose the next step would be just disbanding the Justice Department."

Under long-established procedures and laws, the House and Senate can each pursue two kinds of criminal contempt proceedings, and the Senate also has a civil contempt option. The first, called statutory contempt, has been the avenue most frequently pursued in modern times, and is the one that requires a referral to the U.S. attorney in the District.

Both chambers also have an "inherent contempt" power, allowing either body to hold its own trials and even jail those found in defiance of Congress. Although widely used during the 19th century, the power has not been invoked since 1934 and Democratic lawmakers have not displayed an appetite for reviving the practice.

In defending its argument, administration officials point to a 1984 opinion by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, headed at the time by Theodore B. Olson, a prominent conservative lawyer who was solicitor general from 2001 to 2004. The opinion centered on a contempt citation issued by the House for Anne Gorsuch Burford, then administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

It concluded: "The President, through a United States Attorney, need not, indeed may not, prosecute criminally a subordinate for asserting on his behalf a claim of executive privilege. Nor could the Legislative Branch or the courts require or implement the prosecution of such an individual."

In the Burford case, which involved spending on the Superfund program, the White House filed a federal lawsuit to block Congress's contempt action. The conflict subsided when Burford turned over documents to Congress.

The Bush administration has not previously signaled it would forbid a U.S. attorney from pursuing a contempt case in relation to the prosecutor firings. But officials at Justice and elsewhere say it has long held that Congress cannot force such action.

David B. Rifkin, who worked in the Justice Department and White House counsel's office under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, praised the position and said it is consistent with the idea of a "unitary executive." In practical terms, he said, "U.S. attorneys are emanations of a president's will." And in constitutional terms, he said, "the president has decided, by virtue of invoking executive privilege, that is the correct policy for the entire executive branch."

But Stanley Brand, who was the Democratic House counsel during the Burford case, said the administration's legal view "turns the constitutional enforcement process on its head. They are saying they will always place a claim of presidential privilege without any judicial determination above a congressional demand for evidence -- without any basis in law." Brand said the position is essentially telling Congress: "Because we control the enforcement process, we are going to thumb our nose at you."

Rozell, the George Mason professor and authority on executive privilege, said the administration's stance "is almost Nixonian in its scope and breadth of interpreting its power. Congress has no recourse at all, in the president's view. . . . It's allowing the executive to define the scope and limits of its own powers."

If the DoJ is serving only the President's whims and not serving the country, they've Congress with little recourse but to try for inherent contempt. I'm a little curious if any Republican Congressmen will support the (now inevitable) contempt proceedings, or if they'll tow the party line supporting a unitary executive.

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http://imdb.com/title/tt0371746/

This makes me SO freaking happy. When I first heard about Robert Downy playing Tony Stark I thought to myself "THAT pill popping drunk???" then immediately smacked my forehead and thought "PERFECT!".

After looking at pics of the suits and watching some video of the suit I'm actually getting excited that this movie will not suck.

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Entertainment / Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
« on: July 17, 2007, 11:09:15 AM »
TRAILER!
so i watched this last night and LOVED it. basically it's about these grad school students that decide to make a documentary about leslie vernon. he's a slasher that aims to be like jason, micheal and freddy. he's just this funny goofy guy and the interviews are what really make it worth watching. it's very blair witch but hilarious.

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cause i know i am. seriously, that was a hilarious show. it's not like stan lee needs the money or anything but wow. it's like a train wreck you can't pull yourself away from watching. it's back this month and i can't wait for it. there will be many pizzas and beers consumed while watching this with friends.

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New Geeks on the Block / salutations!
« on: July 14, 2007, 07:34:40 PM »
hi! i'm new!

(well that's what this place is for, RIGHT??

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