From CNN: Panic ensues in rush for cheap laptops
A group of people numbering in the thousands waited in line for hours to purchase $50 used Apple iBooks from the Henrico County school system. These were laptops issued to students (so you know what kind of shape they were likely in). Now these were [...]
This is not security . . . it’s not even an illusion of security:
From SFGate.com: Babies Caught Up in ‘No-Fly’ Confusion
Children are being pulled off flights because their names somewhat match known terrorists . . . no wait, not known terrorists, but suspected terrorist . . . no wait, wrong again . . . [...]
No, really . . . what was BIC thinking when they designed this product?
I actually found this on the rack next to the checkout at my local Safeway. (I’ll try and get a clearer picture the next time I’m there)
Is this BIC’s way of shamming TSA inspectors into allowing their product onto aircraft? (How [...]
I’m getting so tired of the “gay marriage” debate. It has little to do with being gay and a lot to do with control by a minority group that wants everyone else to think they are the majority.
I have a hard time understanding the argument of the Republican Neo-Conservative Christian Coalition in their “defense of [...]
According to this article on CNN.com ‘Girls sued for delivering cookies’, a woman sued her neighbors and won after the two teenagers baked cookies and went around delivering them to neighbors. According to the curmudgeon ’she said she saw “shadowy figures” outside the house banging repeatedly on her door’. Apparently she asked for the [...]
Was just reading the following Wired Article: Wanted: Drugs to Fight Bioterror
To make a long article short, “Armed with $5.6 billion, the U.S. government wants to woo pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs and vaccines to combat bioterrorism.”
How about we take 20% of that amount and create a a competition between private industry to build and [...]
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