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I want to get a tattoo on my arm that says, ?I?m probably going to regret this? in profound looking lettering. My wife thinks it?s a stupid idea and said some swear words to me.


On a different note look, Joe Satriani is suing some British pop band http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/08/joe-satriani-sues-coldplay

You couldn?t make this up.


Company tries to get gun classed as medical device - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16207


I especially like this: "The justification for this would be no more or less for a [walking aid] or wheelchair, or any number of things that are medical devices," he says.

That's a gun? Looks more like sonething Gillian McKeith would use to apply a teapot.


Here's another storm in a teacup or the end of civilisation as we know it, depending on your point of view.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/12/wikipedia_is_censored.html#commentsanchor

As someone who deals with the law on a regular basis this rings very true and is just one of the reasons I spend a large amount of my time angry with the various systems that govern our lives.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2008/12/one_law_for_the_rich.html


QUOTE:

Q: How many people were prosecuted for TV licence evasion in 2005-6?

A: 157,452. (The Television Licensing Authority claims a 99.9% conviction rate.)

Q: How many people were prosecuted for tax evasion last year?

A: 69.

If anyone has been reading about the most recent death by incompetence debacle in Africa this is quite good. Admittedly it is a bit of a rant but a warranted one.


http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/traps/2008/12/11/zimbabwe-its-the-bobby-mugabe-show/


I especially liked this:


?Well cholera is now available to all you lucky folks in pretty much every country within the SADC. In other news there are no gale warnings and western imperialism threat levels are now reduced to orange.

In the words of Ford Fairlaine, ?Un-fucking-believable!??

It's not actually MS advising they switch, though.


From Aunty: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/


Shouldn't you switch to another browser until the patch come out?


This has been the advice of a number of security firms - who of course are also touting their latest anti-virus products - but you won't be surprised to hear that Mr Curran [from Microsoft] disagrees. He told me he had recently seen a report which listed another browser as having the highest number of vulnerabilities. "it would not be advisable," he said,"to send people from one vulnerability (in Internet Explorer) to multiple vulnerabilities."

cheers MP - reading that article was the best use of my times so far this week.


Many many cherishable quotes in there - Lawrence Wilkerson proved to be a favourite of mine - and even if there is an element of these guys pointing to the obvious targets and alleviating themselves of any responsibility it doesn't make it any less compelling. Or scary


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