My next patent is to patent a plotline where an outraged private individual goes postal on the USPTO, blows up the main office, stages a mass protest in front of the ruins and then gets killed in an epic shootout with the FBI.
I'm just afraid it's going to fail the non-obviousness test.
-TPP
Check out the rather excellent new service put out by Iridesco, Inc.
In their own words:
SuprGlu is about bringing the pieces of your web content together into one central place for you, your friends, and maybe even your friends to-be.
In Soviet USA terrorists are kept in secret prisons outside of US borders to mitigate legal liability.
Washington Post reports that the CIA has set up a covert prison network in 8 foreign countries, including several Eastern European countries, to house top Al Qaeda leaders captured around the world.
It is illegal to do this within the US, which is why the prisons are run abroad. Some of the prisoners have been illegally captured on foreign soil, then transferred into these secret prisons.
Sounds exactly like what communist regimes did back in the day.
-TPP
A friend of mine was admitted to the hospital over a severe ear infection. His wife describes their ongoing ordeal with his treatment, or lack thereof, at the hospital.
I would like to believe this is an isolated incident, but I hear stories like this all the time.
The father of a good friend of my wife's is quite possibly terminally ill having suffered a bad stroke several months ago. He's been hospitalized practically ever since the stroke. The stories of his maltreatment by healthcare "professionals" are appalling and quite frankly make me hope when it comes the time for me to go, I'd just go quickly rather than suffer unnecessarily while being "treated".
I believe all this is due to the privately run healthcare facilities trying to save every possible penny at the expense of pain and suffering of people in their care. Cost cutting to the bone is not good in everything.
-TPP
Alan Ralsky, the self-proclaimed Spam King, finally got caught with his pants down. The FBI raided his home and his son-in-law's home and seized all of their computer equipment and business records.
Ralsky, like other high profile spammers, is no stranger to being in the wrong side of the law. He's served jail time for fraud in the past. Let's hope they put him back where he belongs after the FBI has concluded the investigation on this vermin.
-TPP
A couple of spamming vermin are in trouble with the law again.
AG Reilly shuts down Internet spam gang websites
Leo Kuvayev and his cohorts based in Massachusetts spamming for their illegal online "pharmacy" business got pwned by the MA Attorney General to the tune of $37M.
Weaselboy's online antics
Peter Francis-Macrae, otherwise known as Weaselboy, from St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK thought it'd be a good idea to send death threats to people who stood up to him, threaten the .uk domain registry with a DDOS attack and even more amazingly joe-job the Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire. For this Darwin Award deserving performance Weaselboy has been sitting in jail since December 2004.
-TPP
Arnold Schwarznegger signed a law banning selling violent video games to minors or face a $1,000 fine.
Funny how this man, who made his millions from extremely violent movies affording him his successful bid for Governor of California, is now the champion of anti-media-violence.
The Wired article sums up the hypocrisy pretty well with their last sentence: "Consider that your final irony: Politicians work hard to ban virtual torture -- while working just as hard to allow it in real life."
-TPP - Save the Children!
Interesting article that comingles George W. Bush, Harriet Miers, GTECH and Texas State Lottery.
Looks like there're some open questions as to the integrity of Miers (and GTECH) during a bit of a scandal in Texas State Lottery during the late 90s. But she was loyal even back then, so I guess it's ok.
More links about the same issue:
Attytood by Will Bunch
Providence Journal (use bugmenot.com to get a username/password)
-TPP
George W. Bush appoints a new Supreme Court Justice.
She's never served as a judge before, but she did stay at Holiday Inn Express last night.
-TPP
