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$25 toy radio used to knock out feds Thousand dollar radio can track them too “Going to have to get one of these. You have to watch out for “Big Brother out there “ Kev —————- Researchers looking at the security of the US Project 25 radio network, used by federal agents and local police,

          Why are we so attracted to prophecies of doom, from religious raptures to environmental collapse? It’s part of our psychology The latest incarnation of the destruction-redemption myth is brought to you by numerological number-cruncher and evangelical Christian radio host Harold Camping. Originally predicted to unfold on 21 May, the rapture

    Sharing the user name and password of any streaming media account is now considered against the law in Tennessee, according to a web entertainment theft billsigned into law yesterday by state Governor Bill Haslam.     The bill makes it a crime for anyone other than account holders to log into services like Netflix, Hulu

Last Judgment by Michelangelo Update: Looks like it should happen around 6pm Saturday 5/21/2011 The campaign to inform the public about the date of the rapture and the end of time, as predicted by American Christian radio network’s Harold Camping, appears to have come to Russia. Billboards claiming that on May 21 all true believers

As it stands, economic growth is largely dependent on resource consumption. As a country grows, so does its use of natural–and limited–high-quality resources like oil, gold, and copper. But this is untenable in the long run, especially as growing countries like India and China model themselves increasingly on American habits of consumption (a car, two

I made a post a few weeks ago about the real-time tracking going on in iPhones. I also posted a fix so it would turn off tracking. I guess Bin Laden didn’t get the memo (Grin). Kev     he news is reporting that Osama Bin Laden was located and killed by the Navy SEAL

Scary Stuff !!! ___ The Bible is full of many fascinating tales – many good, and some bizarre – here are the top 10 bizarre tales from the Bible. 10. A lesson for those who dare mock male pattern baldness Found in: 4 Kings 2:23-24 One of the more inspirational passages in the Bible tells

After bombarding and destroying all of Gaddafi’s anti-aircraft missile batteries, the Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn is now controlling the Libyan air space. This gallery shows all the weapons being used by the allied forces. Live updates. This is an F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft belonging to the 480th Fighter Squadron—taking off from Spangdahlem Air

Seems like the U.S. needs to get their act together or we are going to get passed up again. Kev _____________________ China is on course to become the world’s second-largest consumer market by 2015, according to Credit Suisse, reports Reuters. Credit Suisse projects that the value of Chinese consumption will hit $8.8 trillion by 2020,

Wow, this song brings back some memories. In this video they added a lot of the syfi movies of the past to make the point. Us humans need to get are act together !! The video below is a modernized music video of one of my favorite songs In the year 2525 by Zager &

Image by Bella March via Flickr Girls with Guns Download pps slideshow Here Never argue with a female with a Gun !!!  (Grin) I like the one from Sweden Here we go……   Wow, what kind of gun is that?  I want one    Looks nasty

No joke. This is actually how I deal with Lawyers. This isn’t just theory, this is my experience.) Have you ever seen the movie “Monsters Inc.”? It’s a cute animated Disney film about Big Scary Monsters. All day long they go through magical doors, each leading into a bedroom of a young child sleeping at

Wharton Business School professor Kevin Werbach dubs Comcast’s actions this week a “turning point in US Internet policy.” Law professor Susan Crawford calls Comcast a terrifying, hat-wearing hydra—and she’s looking for a Hercules to cut it down to size. Harold Feld of Public Knowledge says that Comcast has set up a new “toll booth” on

AMENDMENT UNDERCLOTHES Now there’s a way to protest those intrusive TSA X-ray scanners without saying a word. 4th Amendment Metallic ink-printed undershirts and underwear. Image via Wikipedia Assert your rights without saying a word. 4thamendmentwear. Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Related articles Robert Dean Cites 4th Amendment Violation, Sues TSA Over Full-Body Scans (huffingtonpost.com)

Last April, an 87-year-old Manhattan woman was hurt when two 4-year-old racing bicycles along a sidewalk hit her. Three months later, the woman died of unrelated causes. This month, a court said her estate could sue a preschooler. Her estate sued the children and their mothers, claiming they had acted negligently during the accident. In

Good, something needs to happen to those button happy killers. Admin. _______________________________________________ Image via Wikipedia A former Air Force Minuteman launch officer tells NBC News that 50 nuclear missiles affected by a communication interruption last weekend were “not launchable” during the disruption and that the back-up computer system could not have launched them either. The

Too many times I have informed someone that I am an atheist, only to have them reply, “Oh, but how could you know that God doesn’t exist? You’re taking a faith position!” Many headaches later, we finally come to an agreement over the definitions of these words. This arrangement is an attempt to clarify and

From 1990 till now I keep reading about cops that kill people here in Denver. And they get away with it. Here is a other one. Lets see, 56 years old, 135lbs. Held on a possession of drug paraphernalia charge. And now hes dead because of 4 guards basically killing him in cold blood. Because

Everyone is talking about Craigslist finally folding and taking down its adult services section. Earlier this month they took it down on the U.S. Craigslist sites without public comment, replacing it with a “censored” logo. A couple of days ago even that censored logo was removed. The debate is centered around prostitution. And in particular

NEW YORK—Responding to recent events on Earth, God, the omniscient creator-deity worshiped by billions of followers of various faiths for more than 6,000 years, angrily clarified His longtime stance against humans killing each other Monday. God. “Look, I don’t know, maybe I haven’t made myself completely clear, so for the record, here it is again,”

Amazing words in this day….spoken over 200 years ago! John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: “This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House

The first few months behind bars were the worst of my life. Every night I’d stare into the darkness, waiting for the nightmares, waiting to hear those horrible screams all over again. Even here behind these thick penitentiary walls, there was no hiding from what I’d done to that poor family. Then, one night, it

A deeper hole The recession was even worse than anyone thought Aug 5th 2010 | Washington, DC A YEAR into America’s recovery the view backwards continues to sharpen—and darken. The Commerce Department’s latest GDP figures show an economy that lost momentum in the second quarter of 2010. But they also include revisions to data going

While a high-profile battle rages over a mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, heated confrontations have also broken out in communities across the country where mosques are proposed for far less hallowed locations. Related Mosque Plan Clears Hurdle in New York (August 4, 2010) Planned Sign of Tolerance Bringing Division Instead (July 14, 2010) Times

PALO ALTO, Calif. (TheStreet) — Almost one year ago, I wrote here that former Hewlett-Packard(HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd was the emperor with no clothes. Most on Wall Street have revered Hurd as the consummate guy who would execute and meet Wall Street’s expectations. He sounded good — always in control — and he certainly seemed

Getting paid for being in a Band and making music? The Music Police are out there. Look out ! Next thing you know programmers are going to want to get paid for their software too  The Music-Copyright Enforcers By JOHN BOWE Published: August 6, 2010 Enlarge This Image Brian Rea There was the time her

Governments Go to Extremes as the Downturn Wears On Dana Romanoff for The New York Times Natalie Bartling stands beneath the streetlight she petitioned to have put on her residential street five years ago in the city of Colorado Springs. More Photos » Dana Romanoff for The New York Times By the Police Department’s own

News update, I just read that shes getting out on Sunday or Monday 8/1/2010.  Hmm, serving only 2 weeks out of 90 days? WTF !! Must be nice !! I remember doing 6 months for probation violation. My lawyer couldn’t do anything with the system. Judge sentences Lohan to 90 days in jail for probation

How facts backfire Joe Keohane / Jul 9, 2010 It’s one of the great assumptions underlying modern democracy that an informed citizenry is preferable to an uninformed one. “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1789. This notion, carried down through the years, underlies everything

Proof That The World Is Nuts In Lebanon , men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death. (Like THAT makes sense.) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* In Bahrain , a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals, but is prohibited