News of the Weird

[Gregoshi]

I wonder what his alignment is http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/...om_smashes.php

Chaotic Hood?

[Hosakawa Tito]

Price of Overthrowing the Government: $5 There's even a PDF Subversive Agents Form link for all you anarchists/terrorists so you can register.

[Fragony]

Mac haters are radicalizing, this doesn't look good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhWtJ2OwZ4A

edit: good quality by the way, takes a while

[Gregoshi]

Price of Overthrowing the Government: $5 .

Crap. Subway already got my $5. The revolution is off.

[Ronin]

Mac haters are radicalizing, this doesn't look good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhWtJ2OwZ4A

edit: good quality by the way, takes a while

that is just ridiculous...

that apple fashion accessory doesn´t deserve that much time wasted on it.

[Gregoshi]

that apple fashion accessory doesn´t deserve that much time wasted on it.

The thing that struck me about the video was how many (big) drops it took before the Macbook started to show damage - at least on the outside. I think that if my wife's Dell went through that exercise, it would have been in pieces on the first drop.

[Viking]

Mac haters are radicalizing, this doesn't look good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhWtJ2OwZ4A

edit: good quality by the way, takes a while

Those haters are from the Norwegian public broadcasting - I hope no license money was hurt in the creation of that video.

[Ronin]

the outside looks sturdy....yes...

but I would say that no laptop, of any brand, would actually work after taking that first spill down the stairs.

[Fragony]

Big Brother is watching you, at home

http://info.kopp-verlag.de/news/big-...s-ausgesp.html (german)

[InsaneApache]

Big Brother is watching you, at home

http://info.kopp-verlag.de/news/big-...s-ausgesp.html (german)

That's got to be the story of the school spying on it's victims pupils using laptop webcams. Outrageous.

[Tellos Athenaios]

I am perplexed. Not that this spying thing happens; I mean it's been coming the USA for a loooooong time with an unhealthy "if you would not do anything wrong you would not care about your privacy" attitude (one that is apparently prevalent in the UK as well). But did that school basically say "okay, here you have a shiny laptop: go and use it as you see fit" or did it say "here you can borrow one of the school laptops to do homework on"??? Either way seems awfully irresponsible spending of a school budget.

[Hosakawa Tito]

American Sophisticates.

11% of them (according to a New York Times/CBS News poll) think it's OK for "gays and lesbians" to serve openly but not "homosexuals."

Evelyn Woodhead must be proud.

[Crazed Rabbit]

A German Love Story:

Man Breaks into Jail for Sex with Girlfriend

Updated: Monday, 22 Feb 2010, 7:42 AM EST
Published : Monday, 22 Feb 2010, 7:36 AM EST

(The Sun) - A horny German man who broke into jail at night for sex romps with his imprisoned girlfriend faces a stretch behind bars himself, The Sun reported Monday.

Daniele Eberhardt, 33, was arrested after other female prisoners complained that he and his unnamed lover's "grunts and groans" kept them awake at night and made them feel "frustrated."

"It was like a bad porno movie," one inmate said.

Eberhardt climbed up a ten foot fence, evaded surveillance cameras and used a skeleton key to get in the jail in the city of Bielefeld, northern Germany.

Prosecutors said he will go on trial for trespassing next month.

CR

[Fragony]

Lady's en gentlemen, we got him http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...llest-dog.html

[Furunculus]

the people communist front of britain don't like the british communist front, and neither reside in judea:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ed...nd-communists/

roflmao!

[InsaneApache]

It’s like comparing Fred West to Peter Sutcliffe.

[Gregoshi]

A German Love Story:

The fool should have known she was jail bait.

[The Wizard]

Maid whipped 200 times for urinating in food

[Hosakawa Tito]

Maid whipped 200 times for urinating in food

And while we're on the subject, more Free-Range Urination. You mean it's not like horse-shoes and hand-grenades?

[The Wizard]

This is what happens when you drink that much Natty Light

[Gregoshi]

Maid whipped 200 times for urinating in food

Twas merely Minute Maid Lemonade.

[jabarto]

Guess how much the top earners in America are taxed?

http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/featu...7?OpenDocument

Yeah, that's right. 16%. Meanwhile our education system is crap and 45,000 people a year die from inadequate medical care, and the people who should be mad about this - the poor - are defending it. Wlecome to America, I guess.

[Fragony]

Louis is going to have a heart attack when he reads this http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth...00/8524558.stm

"Genetic tests have revealed that male and females of one species of Peruvian poison frog remain utterly faithful."

[Tellos Athenaios]

Guess how much the top earners in America are taxed?

http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/featu...7?OpenDocument

Yeah, that's right. 16%. Meanwhile our education system is crap and 45,000 people a year die from inadequate medical care, and the people who should be mad about this - the poor - are defending it. Wlecome to America, I guess.

Oh to live in America. Over here, if you are of Dutch nationality, you end up at a whopping 52% but that includes other benefits (and the first €2700 or so are tax-free) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_...he_Netherlands Also: those forms get pretty complex quickly.

[Crazed Rabbit]

A fine show of the art of drunken climbing.

A NIGHT of drunken skylarking has left a Ukrainian tourist with a hangover he will always remember - and taxpayers with a huge bill.

After a night on the drink, the 19-year-old man scaled down a cliff at Sydney's northern beaches suburb of Manly but got stuck half way and passed out, The Daily Telegraph reports.

After being alerted by a fisherman, rescue workers found him asleep on his back on a ledge 30m above sea level at North Head early yesterday morning.

The rescue operation will cost taxpayers at least $10,000.

But the man will only be charged the cost of the road trip to hospital - likely to be as little as $700.

Garth Thomson, who repeatedly shook the man's leg to wake him up so he could be winched to safety, said he had not seen anything like it in his 15-year ambulance career.

I'm not sure a rescue was needed. He got pretty far drunk, he probably could have made it to the bottom hungover.

Guess how much the top earners in America are taxed?

http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/featu...7?OpenDocument

Yeah, that's right. 16%. Meanwhile our education system is crap and 45,000 people a year die from inadequate medical care, and the people who should be mad about this - the poor - are defending it. Wlecome to America, I guess.

Spoilered response so as not to politicize NotW.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

That's a bit misleading.

Right now the top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all Federal income taxes (a percentage that went up in the Bush years).

These 400 households only have a low effective rate because the capital gains tax is relatively low compared to income tax, and apparently they made most of their money from capital gains.

CR

[Lemur]

Enough with the tax talk! Go get a room make your own thread!

Meanwhile, big scandal, hot star caught sucking off neighbor!

[R]esearchers have spotted [an exoplanet similar to Jupiter] that's so close and so hot that its host star has distorted its atmosphere into the shape of an American football and is gradually sucking it off the planet.

The planet was the 12th found by the Wide Angle Search for Planets project, and it's got some pretty unusual stats: 1.4 times Jupiter's mass, an orbital period of just over a day, and a distance from its host star's surface of only about three times the radius of the star itself. But the real surprise is that WASP-12b has a radius that's roughly 1.8 times that of Jupiter. It's close enough to its host star to get hot, but not that hot.

The authors apparently considered alternative sources of heat, and focused on the tidal forces that arise given its proximity to the host star. They calculated that, assuming properties similar to Jupiter, the tidal heating of WASP-12b would be strong enough to "drive ongoing envelope expansion." In other words, the atmosphere would blow up like a balloon. Thanks to the gravitational pull of the star, it wouldn't be spherical though; in the accompanying press material, comparisons were made to the balls used in rugby or US football.

In fact, the gravity would be so intense that the atmosphere would expand past the Lagrange point on the side closest to the star, allowing it to be sucked away from the planet.

[Gregoshi]

Meanwhile, big scandal, hot star caught sucking off neighbor!

Astro Pornography? That wasn't an option when I got my degree.

[Fragony]

priceless

[InsaneApache]

He should set Dennis Hoppers wife on him!

[Furunculus]

Automatic rifle fire no match for Bulgarian air-bags:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...m-gunshot.html