Ryan Cleary

Someone tell me why the school is putting their nose in the middle of this… The fact that school officials keep using “cyberspace” over and over shows they don’t have a clue about the Internets… I bet they still have a Compuserve cd sitting around their house waiting on the right time to use it… HA! The most the school should have done is alert their parents to the situation. I bet this town is as bad as Rome. Maybe we should send the Girls Gone Wild bus up there and see what they do with that…

VIA: Rome News Tribune

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation.
The American Civil Liberties Union, in a federal lawsuit filed last week on behalf of the girls, argues that Churubusco High School violated the girls’ free speech rights when it banned them from extracurricular activities for a joke that didn’t involve the school. They say the district humiliated the girls by requiring them to apologize to an all-male coaches’ board and undergo counseling.

Read more…

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Pretty ballzy… I put this stuff in and for the life of me I cannot believe the value of the copper is worth the labor of removing it, much less getting caught… Maybe copper is worth more across the pond…

VIA: BBC

Gang rips out 1km of phone cable

Up to 800 homes and business in Berwick were affected

Hundreds of people were left without their landline phone service for nearly 48 hours after thieves stole 1km (0.6 mile) of copper cabling.

Sussex Police said the 6in to 8in cable was cut and removed from the area near Drusilla’s roundabout in Alfriston in the early hours of Wednesday.

BT said telephone services to up 800 homes and businesses in Berwick were restored on Thursday evening.

The estimated cost of repairing and replacing the cable was £45,000.

Officers believe thieves posing as workers wearing uniforms or high-visibility jackets used a vehicle to pull the cable out of the ground and take it away.

‘Extremely dangerous’

Pc Thomas Stallard said: "Manholes running along the side of the road were used to access the cables and it appears the grass over some of the manholes was dug up to reach the sealed covers.

"The cable is 6in to 8in in circumference and is very heavy."

He said cables would have been live and that was "extremely dangerous".

A spokesman for BT said: "All work has now been completed. Cabling work finished last night [Thursday].

"There are still a few outstanding faults but overall the work has been completed.

"When something like this happens we’ll often offer to divert calls to people’s mobile phones."

Sussex Police have urged anyone with information about the theft which happened between 0100 and 0200 GMT to contact them.

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I only had my little point and shoot camera to I was unable to get many good pics due to the low light… Oh well… The band is great! I will definitely be buying some of their music… I hope we get to do sound for them again sometime. We provided the complete production for the show. Stage, power, audio and lighting…

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Please tell me you’re kidding… How does a town like Athens GA function? All that porn / strip clubs and music? That place must be hell on earth if you ask these people… Rome gets their panties in a wad over nothing…

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HA HA HA! This must be what the Geek Squad installs when they put in your home theater… What a bunch of crap!

Via Boing Boing

The $147.72 "audio grade" power socket

You can get another $7 off this cryogenically-treated, gold-plated "audio grade" power socket, but only if you buy four. The customer reviews are splendid:

Finally something to go with my custom vacuum sputtered unobtainium circuit breaker contacts and calibrated studio grade Romex. Now if I can just get the power company to get rid of those pesky scalar waves in my zero point energy transmission system, I’ll be all set.

The vendor has also trademarked the phrase "Audio Grade."

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You gotta love it when they try to throw their badge around to cover up a screw up…

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A friend of mine emailed this to me today…

Sometime this year, we taxpayers may again receive an Economic Stimulus payment.
This is a very exciting new program.  I will explain it using the Q and A format:

Q.  What is an Economic Stimulus payment?
A.  It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q.  Where will the government get this money?
A.  From taxpayers.

Q..  So the government is giving me back my own money?
A.  Only a smidgen.

Q.  What is the purpose of this payment?
A.  The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the
economy.

Q.  But isn’t that stimulating the economy of China ?
A.  Shut up.

Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:
If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China .
If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs.
If you purchase a computer, it will go to India .
If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico , Honduras and Guatemala .
If you buy a car, it will go to Japan .
If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan .
If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.

Instead, keep the money in America by:
   1      spending it at yard sales, or
   2      going to ball games, or
   3      spending it on prostitutes, or
   4      beer or
   5      tattoos.
(These are the only American businesses still operating in the US .)

 

I’m going to go to a ball game with a tattooed prostitute that I met at a yard sale, and drink beer!  Yay

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John Wisdom Trail Ride: Police approved and escorted DUI. Only with horses and not cars…

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FINALLY! A judge with some common sense!

Songwriters and publishers won’t be able to collect royalties each time a cell phone plays an annoying musical ringtone in public, thanks to a federal judge’s ruling that ringtones aren’t public performances.

Read Full Article here at ARS Technica

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I used to like Garth Brooks… He is just now proving his stupidity.

From: www.dvorak.org/blog

Garth Brooks: Lock up 300 Million People so I can buy a new Mansion!

Published on October 16th, 2009

Garth Brooks is back. I never knew he went away. But apparently he’s out of retirement and back in the news. He’s complaining that the government is not doing anything to crack down on file sharing, which is allegedly killing the music industry, even though it’s not. (See also here, and here, and here.)

To the government he complains,

You’ve ignored us, because there’s 50,000 of us and 300 million voters. You’ve ignored us.

Think about that. Brooks is admitting that the use of file sharing is widespread. He acknowledges that everyone is doing it. But yet he wants the government to crack down on every single person in the US so that he can earn a few million more a year.

That’s some fricken balls! I almost feel like I should give him some credit for being so completely self-centered. It’s one thing to complain, “My family is starving so I need government help to feed my kids.” It’s another thing to complain, “Why won’t the government help me so I can buy my fourth fricken mansion?!”

Apparently Garth doesn’t know this, but it’s common knowledge to the rest of the world that it’s already against the law to use P2P to infringe copyrights. The punishment for such use goes way beyond any physical crime. If I go to Walmart, stick a gun in someone’s face, and steal a CD, the most I’ll have to pay monetarily is for the price of that one CD, about 20 bucks. However, if I download a CD worth of music, I’d have to pay millions of dollars.

But yet that draconian law is not enough for Garthy. He wants more! Does he want incarceration? For all 300 million of us? Apparently so. Apparently, his “lost” money, which has nothing to do with P2P, is worth more than the liberty of every citizen in the US.

But this isn’t the first time Brooks put his bank account above the rights of citizens. He also claims that selling used CDs is stealing. I’m not making this up. According to Brooks, the simple act of selling a used CD is a criminal act. Of course he’s wrong. But your right to sell your stuff is nothing compared to Brooks’ right to buy a mansion.

Of course the main reason he’s having trouble selling CDs is that his time in the spotlight is over. When rock and roll killed off the careers of the vocalists from the 50s, Sinatra, Mathis, Cole, to name a few, those guys didn’t ask the government to stop the switch to rock music. They graciously accepted their time was over and moved on. It’s time for washed up has-beens like Brooks to do the same.

Artists of today realize that the net is not a hindrance to making great music, but is actually a great tool for connecting with fans.

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