Kung-Fu Fuck You.
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Not to be confused with Kung Fu Kitchen Fuck.

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It’s been nearly two years since a federal judge threw out a class-action lawsuit against McDonald’s. Two obese teens had claimed the fast-food chain made them fat. Back then, the number of overweight Americans was still less than 24 percent of the population.

A new study by the organization Trust for America’s Health suggests we’re at 24.5 percent obese now, the number more startling if you weigh just adults. That’s 64.5 percent.

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As the community waistline expands, so, too, does the potential for health risks. But if you’re a doctor, and you try to tell those facts to a patient straight on, you might get sued.

One female patient filed a complaint with the state of New Hampshire after her doctor told her she was obese and needed to lose weight. The state board of medicine investigated and turned it over to New Hampshire�s attorney general, which asked Dr. Terry Bennett to take a medical education course and acknowledged he had “made a mistake.”

Give it a few years and people will be suing doctors for declaring their loved ones dead.

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Osama bin Laden, littérateur and new-media star. A thought-provoking analysis of bin Laden’s adept use of Koranic language and the Internet by Bruce B. Lawrence, an Islamic scholar at Duke who edited a new anthology of bin Laden’s public statements called Messages to the World. The Western media — says the millionaire mass-murderer formerly trained as a useful ally by the CIA via Pakistan’s ISI — “implants fear and helplessness in the psyche of the people of Europe and the United States. It means that what the enemies of the United States cannot do, its media are doing!” Know thy enemy.

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Controversy continues to rage over spying failures and the mishandling of intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Last week it was the indictments in the CIA leak case. This week, it was the extraordinary secret session of the Senate, when Democrats pushed for a new round of inquiries into the misuse of intelligence on Saddam’s regime. So it’s all the more remarkable to see how the White House has just filled a committee overseeing intelligence issues.

President Bush last week appointed nine campaign contributors, including three longtime fund-raisers, to his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a 16-member panel of individuals from the private sector who advise the president on the quality and effectiveness of U.S. intelligence efforts.

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Former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown discussed his appearance, his dog and his public image as the government’s relief effort unraveled after Hurricane Katrina, based on e-mails released yesterday.

“If you’ll look at my lovely FEMA attire you’ll really vomit,” Brown wrote to colleagues the morning of Aug. 29, the day the storm hit the Gulf Coast. “I am a fashion god.”

The e-mails were among 1,000 pages of electronic messages the Homeland Security Department turned over to a special House panel probing the federal response. They show Brown wasn’t fully engaged in managing the emergency response to the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, according to a report by Representative Charles Melancon, a Louisiana Democrat.

The messages show “Mr. Brown made few decisions and seemed out of touch,” said the report written by Melancon’s aides.

In an e-mail early on Aug. 29, Brown acknowledged a colleague’s compliment about his clothing. “Are you proud of me?” he wrote. “Can I quit now? Can I go home?”

Yes. Yes you can.

I suggest you read Melancon’s analysis as well. And remember, he’s still on the payroll. As of October 21, FEMA had extended his contract by another 30 days.

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Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. ruled in a 2002 case in favor of the Vanguard mutual fund company at a time when he owned more than $390,000 in Vanguard funds and later complained about an effort to remove him from the case, court records show — despite an earlier promise to recuse himself from cases involving the company.

The case involved a Massachusetts woman, Shantee Maharaj, who has spent nearly a decade fighting to win back the assets of her late husband’s individual retirement accounts, which had been frozen by Vanguard after a court judgment in favor of a former business partner of her husband.

Her lawyer, John G. S. Flym, a retired Northeastern law professor, said in an interview yesterday that Alito’s ”lack of integrity is so flagrant” in the case that he should be disqualified as a Supreme Court nominee.

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“Ze ruimen elkaar lekker op. Geweldig.” Dat zei de woensdag in Thailand vermoorde topcrimineel John Mieremet tegen misdaadverslaggever John van den Heuvel over de moord op ex-advocaat Hingst. De journalist sprak Mieremet vlak voor zijn dood. In de Telegraaf van donderdag citeert hij uit het gesprek, dat donderdagavond in het nieuwe programma Bureau Misdaad op RTL5 te horen is.

En vandaag voor de derde keer in korte tijd:

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Bij een schietpartij in Amsterdam is woensdagavond een man om het leven gekomen. Dat maakt de politie Amsterdam-Amstelland bekend. Het slachtoffer, een 45-jarige Amsterdammer, werd voor zijn woning in de wijk Osdorp onder vuur genomen door twee mannen. Hij wist daarna zijn woning binnen te gaan en is daar aan zijn verwondingen overleden. Volgens nog onbevestigde berichten gaat het om vastgoedhandelaar Kees Houtman.

On their website:

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This Service Pack removes the cloaking technology component that has been recently discussed in a number of articles published regarding the XCP Technology used on SONY BMG content protected CDs. This component is not malicious and does not compromise security. However to alleviate any concerns that users may have about the program posing potential security vulnerabilities, this update has been released to enable users to remove this component from their computers.

So to uninstall this mess, they want me to go to a web site, hosted by the company who wrote the spyware/rootkit, and run an activeX control.

Yeah. Right. Sure.

You will have to ask yourself ‘How can I trust them after what they did? How do I know this really removes the malicious software? How do I know it doesn’t install something else instead?’

And you know what? You would be right:

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The patch that First 4 Internet is providing to antivirus companies will eliminate the rootkit’s ability to hide itself and the copy-protection software in a computer’s recesses. The patch will be automatically distributed to people who use tools such as Norton Antivirus and other similar programs, Gilliat-Smith said.

The patch that will be distributed through Sony BMG’s Web site will work the same way, Gilliat-Smith said. In both cases, the antipiracy software itself will not be removed, only exposed to view.

These fucking liars deserve a massive consumer boycott.

Consumers who want to remove the copy-protection software altogether from their machine can contact the company’s customer support service for instructions, a Sony BMG representative said.

Yeah, good luck with that!

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A 67-year-old man who says he doesn’t even like watching movies has been sued by the film industry for copyright infringement after a grandson of his downloaded four movies on their home computer.

The Motion Picture Association of America filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Fred Lawrence of Racine, seeking as much as $600,000 in damages for downloading four movies over the Internet file-sharing service iMesh.

The suit was filed after Lawrence refused a March offer to settle the matter by paying $4,000.

“First of all, like I say, I guess I’d have to plead being naive about the whole thing,” he said.

“I personally didn’t do it, and I wouldn’t do it. But I don’t think it was anything but an innocent mistake my grandson made.”

Lawrence said his grandson, who was then 12, downloaded “The Incredibles,” “I, Robot,” “The Grudge,” and “The Forgotten” in December, without knowing it was illegal to do so.

The Racine man said his grandson downloaded the movies out of curiosity, and deleted the computer files immediately. The family already owned three of the four titles on DVD, he said.

“I can see where they wouldn’t want this to happen, but when you get up around $4,000 … I don’t have that kind of money,” Lawrence said. “I never was and never will be a wealthy person.”