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Medical Marijuana Vending Machine Opens in L.A.
Robert Heron sent in news that L.A. has deployed it’s first and second medical marijuana vending machines that work in the following fashion (from article): Customers bring their prescriptions for approval at the AVMs, housed in enclosed room guarded 24/7. They are fingerprinted and photographed. They receive a pre-paid credit carded loaded with their individual profiles. They choose [...]
Continue reading...New York Seeks to Ban Geiger Counters & Air Monitoring Hardware
Monday, January 28, 2008
The Village Voice is running a story that New York officials are lobbying to remove Geiger counters (and any other kind of air quality or asbestos detector) from the hands of citizens unless authorized to carry them by the police: And it’s not just devices to detect weaponized anthrax that they want the power to control, [...]
Continue reading...Congress to Investigate the FCC over Comcast Investigation
Friday, January 11, 2008
Confused about why Congress would investigate the FCC? No worries… let me explain: Comcast starts blocking and shaping user traffic quietly and denies it when asked about it. The block and shaping is independent confirmed by techies and researchers The Associated Press finally confirms it and publishes their findings The FCC takes notice, and announces they will investigate Comcast *MY [...]
Continue reading...Get Depressed about Politics in the US Fast!
Sunday, January 6, 2008
You having a good day today? Things are going along pretty well? Got some extra time on your hands and want to get depressed as hell over the political situation in the United States? Sweet, then read on… Scientists agree the US is “doomed” if a pro-creationist president is elected (e.g. Huckabee or any other right-winger [...]
Continue reading...New RFID Passports: Staging for the NAU
Thursday, January 3, 2008
We have blogged in the past about the desire of the international bankers to create the North American Union (Canada, United States, Mexico) along with a common currency: The Amero. Now you can watch for yourself as the first steps towards creating this reality are set into place, regardless of the outcry against it. First Step: Create [...]
Continue reading...Presidential Candidate Compass
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Electoral Compass is a handy Flash-based tool that asks you 25 or so questions to determine where you fall on the compass of political positions with relation to the existing presidential candidates. Not knowing much about the politics of individual candidates, it was a handy to use this tool to get an idea of where I [...]
Continue reading...Zeitgeist: Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve
Monday, December 31, 2007
NOTE: This post may offend people that are religiously oriented, in the military or otherwise find yourself aligned with the policies of the Bush administration. … a few weeks ago we blogged about the Bilderberg Group and World Domination. To summarize, the Bilderberg group is a private, highly secretive group of 100 or so of the [...]
Continue reading...Election 2008 Candidate Positions on Science & Technology
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Popular Mechanics put together a pretty bad-ass chart of the 2008 presidential candidate’s stances on Science and Technology. You can keep it handy as a reference when voting time comes around along with the 2008 Presidential Quick Reference Guide.
Continue reading...The Bilderberg Group and World Domination
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Buckle-up, this is a long one and it’s juicy! Tin-Foil-Hat Wednesday Presents… The Bilderberg Group and World Domination! I love conspiracies theories, and not just the theory itself, but tracking down pieces to it. Sort of like an Indiana Jones movie… except completely sedentary. So anyone I went on a recent internet adventure and had some fun [...]
Continue reading...HP Printer Ink Class Action Lawsuit
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Ars has the scoop on a Boston man who is sick and tired of walking into a office supply store and paying $30+ dollars for ink for his printer. This was discussed years ago on Slashdot before we had sites like Digg and social networking was all the buzz. At the time the discussion was made [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu Dev Gets MPAA Univ “Toolkit” Taken Down
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Ok for those that didn’t know about this, the MPAA released what they were calling the “University Toolkit” a few weeks ago. It was a customized version of Ubuntu, that sits on your network, sniffs all your traffic and reports all the information it finds using a standard Apache install with logs, charts, diagrams, etc. [...]
Continue reading...Austin Cop Tazes Driver, Austin Apologizes
Sunday, December 2, 2007
This is a pretty cool turn of events. In this video, Cpl. Thomas O’Connor (white) stops Eugene Snelling (black) for going 70 in a 65. O’Connor approaches Snelling’s window and asks for a license and registration, when Snelling asks why he was stopped and then 1 other question, O’Connor begins yelling “LICENSE AND REGISTRATION!”. Snelling [...]
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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