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According to WantChinaTimes, Terry Gou, the head of Hon Hai Foxconn, the largest contract manufacturer in the world, had this to say at a recent meeting with his senior managers:"Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache," said Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou at a recent year-end party, adding that he wants to learn from Chin Shih-chien, director of Taipei Zoo, regarding how animals should be managed.

Apparently there are no psychologists in China.

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It ain’t easy being green, but according to Fox Business, Kermit the Frog and his Muppet friends are reds.

Last week, on the network’s "Follow the Money" program, host Eric Bolling went McCarthy on the new, Disney-released film, "The Muppets," insisting that its storyline featuring an evil oil baron made it the latest example of Hollywood’s so-called liberal agenda.

Bolling, who took issue with the baron’s name, Tex Richman, was joined by Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center, who was uninhibited with his criticism.

"It’s amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message," he said.

So there you have it – the Muppets are the enemy of Fox.

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What would I cut? I think, really, what I would want to do is be able to go back and take a look at Lyndon Baines Johnson’s The Great Society. The Great Society has not worked, and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they save for their own retirement security. They don’t have pay FICA. They don’t have the modern welfare state. And China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with The Great Society, and they’d be gone.

A Republican candidate for President suggests the U.S. take hints for domestic policy from a Communist country.

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At Wolcott High School one morning this week, an urgent announcement crackled over the intercom: a threatening intruder was in the building and students were told to immediately take refuge in classrooms.

Doors were locked and police, with dogs, moved in. Students stayed huddled in classrooms where they were told to stay away from the windows.

But what sounded like a frightening situation was just a search for narcotics. Drug-sniffing dogs combed the school while students stayed in locked classrooms, believing that an attacker was roaming the halls.

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“After 10 minutes we say this is a drill and at that point we started a search for drugs,” McCary said. “We are providing a safe and secure nurturing environment.”

No drugs turned up in the search.

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Andrew Schneider, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, called it a “terrible policy. It will cause more trouble in the long run. Young people will learn not to trust the police.”

“It’s a terrible civics lesson.”

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In an interview with AllThingsD’s Ina Fried, Google’s Andy Rubin made a two-line case against Siri, Apple’s new voice-controlled ‘virtual assistant’ for the iPhone 4S. “Your phone is a tool for communicating,” Rubin said. “You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone.”

Wow. That’s up there with Steve Jobs saying the Kindle was irrelevant because “people don’t read anymore”.

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Nokia Tune is one of world’s most recognized audio brand assets and is estimated to be heard over one billion times a day. Nokia is launching a global crowdsourcing campaign to find a fresh version of the Nokia Tune.

And the first winner is in.

Although I wonder what tone deaf ten thumbed talentless noise polluter invented this aural piece of excrement and, just as important, which bunch of cunts voted it to win?

Or perhaps it just shows how what Nokia marketeers like is inversely proportional to what everyone else likes…

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Police experimented with a new tactic Friday night as they responded to a weeklong Occupy Seattle demonstration at Westlake Park — ticketing drivers who honked in support of protesters.

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Last June, the Swiss Press Club held a launch for the Global Innovation Index at which various speakers were invited to talk about innovation. After the head of CERN and the CEO of the Internet Society spoke about how important it was that the Web’s underlying technology hadn’t been patented, Francis Gurry, the Director General of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), took the mic to object.

In Gurry’s view, the Web would have been better off if it had been locked away in patents, and if every user of the Web had needed to pay a license fee to use it (and though Gurry doesn’t say so, this would also have meant that the patent holder would have been able to choose which new Web sites and technologies were allowed, and would have been able to block anything he didn’t like, or that he feared would cost him money).

This is a remarkable triumph of ideology over evidence. The argument that there wasn’t enough investment in the Web is belied by the fact that a) the Web attracted more investment than any of the network service technologies that preceded it (by orders of magnitude), and; b) that the total investment in the Web is almost incalculably large. The only possible basis for believing that the Web really would have benefited from patents is a blind adherence to the ideology that holds that patents are always good, no matter what.

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Of all the wasteful, misguided uses of technology, this has to be one of he strangest; some Texas schools are going to spend $2 million to install cameras in cafeterias to find out why children are getting fat.

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A bill in the Tennessee General Assembly would make following the Islamic code known as Shariah law a felony, punishable by 15 years in jail.

Two legislators introduced the same bill in the Senate and House last week. It calls Shariah law a danger to homeland security and gives the attorney general authority to investigate complaints and decide who’s practicing it.

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“What do you mean, really, by saying I can’t abide by Shariah law?” he said. “Shariah law is telling me don’t steal. Do you want me to steal and rob a bank?”

The Attorney General’s Office had no comment.

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Thirty-two percent of Russians reject a sun-centred Solar system, four percent more than in 2007 when a similar survey was conducted, the Russian Center of Public Opinion Research showed.

The survey highlighted scientific superstitions among Russians and was released as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called this week for national lunar and deep space programmes.

The survey also found 55 percent of Russians believe that radioactivity is a human invention.

This is, by far, Werner Herzog’s funniest film.

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Bird said the U.S. government has sent her a seven-page letter asking her to formally authorize the destruction of her seized Kinder egg.

Do I understand this correctly?

In the US, anyone can legally buy and walk around with a gun, but you’ll be fined if you carry a Kinder egg around?

Because they are so DEADLY?

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In late December 2010, fail0verflow, a team of European hackers, demonstrated that the Playstation 3′s security was fundamentally flawed and managed to obtain the encryption key used by the device (see previous discussion). Utilizing the techniques developed by the fail0verflow team, iPhone hacker George Hotz released the encryption key publically, which enables the execution of arbitrary code on the console. Now Sony is suing both George Hotz and members of the fail0verflow team.
Both George Hotz and fail0verflow have updated their websites with the legal papers they’ve received. fail0verflow maintains their innocence, stating that they have never published any keys or code that could be used to breach the PS3, and that their only motivation was to get the OtherOS functionality back on the device.

There’s no way to get the genie back in the bottle, because all PS3s everywhere are absolutely, irrevocably compromised. And so are blu-ray keys, as a consequence.

This is just because they are pissed, and want to burn down the house and salt the ground, to prevent a future PS4 from the same fate. Both the 360 and the Wii have been cracked for a long time, and both seem to be doing just fine, and Blu-Ray was independently cracked years ago. In terms of actual fiscal impact on Sony, it probably wouldn’t matter that much; the real customers will keep buying software. But Sony will be much more dependent on the goodwill of its customers, rather than being able to make them subservient through technical means, and it strikes me that these lawsuits are perhaps not the best way to generate goodwill.

I’m just glad my decision following the Sony rootkit exposure back in 2005 to never, ever buy a Sony product again keeps getting validated.

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They can’t be serious. Are they serious? Holy crap I think they’re serious.

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The LG Quantum could be a quantum of trouble. The first Windows Phone 7 device with a full keyboard that will be sold through U.S. carrier stores, it has a balky sliding mechanism and a really bizarre keyboard layout that could kill its appeal.

Windows Phone 7 also just doesn’t seem to be designed for phones with landscape-format, sliding keyboards yet. Too many of the Windows Phone 7 screens don’t rotate, leaving you craning your neck to try to operate the phone at a 90-degree angle.

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Today, ABC Nightline gave us a peek at Sony’s Google TV and in the midst also the remote controller. Now before we move on here we just like to advise readers that this isn’t a joke. What you’re looking at above is in fact the actual remote control you will need to use to operate Sony’s Google TV (unless of course you opt to control the unit with your Android phone instead).

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You can now download the Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools. Provided in this download are all the templates, designer support, emulator (and phone!) support and IntelliSense for Visual Basic.

We’re not formally announcing the schedule for when Visual Basic will be fully supported. We’re giving VB developers early access to the Windows Phone 7 platform so that they can start thinking about what amazing apps they want to build.

The classic definition of “to be amazed” is to be bewildered, made crazy, or stunned.

I guess that’s correct, then.

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“So long as they incorporate (or act in the form of a trust), businesses will now be free to trade in or exploit slaves, employ mercenary armies to do dirty work for despots, perform genocides or operate torture prisons for a despot’s political opponents, or engage in piracy – all without civil liability to victims.” 

In the words of Judge Pierre Leval, who disagreed with his colleagues, that is the result of today’s ruling by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which concluded that corporations could not be sued for human rights abuses under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS).  The ATS generally allows suits in federal courts for violations of international law – but, according to the Second Circuit, not if the violation was committed by a corporation.

but first watch this,this,this,this, if you can. I couldn’t. Perhaps I’m just getting older but I find myself having this reaction to things more and more.

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To the entire shower of cunts that are even tangentially involved in the production of this: I pray with every fibre of my being that Zombie Walt Disney rises from his grave, tracks each one of you motherfuckers down; and using his zombie strength to overpower and pin you all to the floor, squats over your faces and plants a huge festering 44-year-old fucking zombie shit into each of your cretinous, cancerous mouths

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Now, they’ve gone and done it again with this image of their aerial monitoring from helicopters over the gulf.

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The first thing you might notice out of place is the looming air traffic control tower in the upper left hand side of the photo

Then, direct your attention to where the water abruptly changes shades of blue in a frenzy of pixelation, blurring, and a disappearing vessel

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BP Photoshops Another Official Image TerriblyAnd last, while the helicopter clearly appears to be situated at some height above the boats ahead, the readouts on the dash appear to indicate that that door and ramp are open and the parking brake engaged, not to mention that the pilot appears to be holding a pre-flight checklist

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For a while, leading Republicans posed as stern foes of federal red ink. Two weeks ago, in the official G.O.P. response to President Obama’s weekly radio address, Senator Saxby Chambliss devoted his entire time to the evils of government debt, “one of the most dangerous threats confronting America today.” He went on, “At some point we have to say ‘enough is enough.’ ”

But this past Monday Jon Kyl of Arizona, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, was asked the obvious question: if deficits are so worrisome, what about the budgetary cost of extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, which the Obama administration wants to let expire but Republicans want to make permanent? What should replace $650 billion or more in lost revenue over the next decade?

His answer was breathtaking: “You do need to offset the cost of increased spending. And that’s what Republicans object to. But you should never have to offset the cost of a deliberate decision to reduce tax rates on Americans.” So $30 billion in aid to the unemployed is unaffordable, but 20 times that much in tax cuts for the rich doesn’t count.

Remember this?

Well, Dreamworks didn’t get the message.