[QUOTE=sdbardwick;286872]Read the [URL="http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment"]indictment[/URL]. For a shorter analysis, read [URL="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/explainer-how-can-the-us-seize-a-hong-kong-site-like-megaupload.ars"]this ArsTechnica article[/URL].[/QUOTE]

that explained a lot thanks.

[url]http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/5-ways-to-make-your-home-safer.html[/url]


one thing that got me saying wtf is:

[QUOTE]"Get their cellphone numbers and give them yours," Morris says. "Then if you see something awry, like a package left out in the rain or a strange car at their home, you can text message them and ask that they do the same for you."[/QUOTE] this basically seems to say get their info and wait until something happens to them to bribe them into helping you. you're never guaranteed that things will go awry at their place unless you cause it to go awry, and so you're never guaranteed to follow through with this tip.

[url]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/more-canadian-restaurants-start-tacking-automatic-20-per-213517141.html[/url] okay this is ridiculous according to my math with waved taxes it's like a 1/23 price hike , with taxes it could be like raising the tax to up to 38% and even if it's only 20% on the amount before taxes it's like hiking it to 35% tax. the worse part to this arrangement is some seem to point it towards being mandatory tipping so the customer doesn't get a choice. I'd like to have a choice on a almost 40% tax possibility. and it being mandatory would make it not a tip but a fee or tax.

[url]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/video/odd-22186925/cat-fights-off-alligator-28025062.html[/url] some people are yelling animal endangerment I say plain stupidity on the part of the humans.

Defies logic
 

[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/British-tourists-arrested-America-terror-charges-Twitter-jokes.html[/url]

[QUOTE=retina;287786][url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/British-tourists-arrested-America-terror-charges-Twitter-jokes.html[/url][/QUOTE]
Way to go if you want to destroy the tourist trade.

It's your country, and you can run it the way you want to, but it certainly makes me rather less likely to want to visit.

Paul

I think most Americans would agree that that was a complete overreaction. (I do, at least.)

A first for Topps
 

[URL]http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/skip-schumaker-baseball-card-features-rally-squirrel-not-190252048.html[/URL]

[B][URL="http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/30/us/new-york-bomb-scare/index.html"]TSA discovery prompts New York bomb scare - six hours later[/URL][/B][quote]A New York airport screener who removed two pipes from a traveler's bag and set them aside Monday morning prompted a security scare six hours later when the next shift saw the pipes and feared they might be pipe bombs, local and federal officials said.

....

"No one could give a good account of what it was, so we did the safe thing and called (the) NYPD bomb squad," Port Authority Police Department spokesman Al Della Fave told CNN.[/quote]But for the [B]real[/B] WTF:[quote]TSA officials said the checkpoint was not closed, nor was the terminal evacuated, during the incident. The bomb squad was called "out of an abundance of caution," the TSA said.[/quote]

[QUOTE=retina;287786][url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/British-tourists-arrested-America-terror-charges-Twitter-jokes.html[/url][/QUOTE]

Our TSA at work, doing the most important thing!!!! (And sorry, but LAX is not where you want to land if you are a cut-up...they just don't have a sense of humor -- I could have tweeted that, meaning I was going touristing in LA and planned to go visit something related to Ms Monroe -- but if I wanted to dis her, there's this nice statue of her I know in Washington DC, in the lobby of the St Gregory Hotel....where I got very destroyed one Saturday morning last December at the "M Street Bar and Grill" on the bottomless mimosas)

Shouldn't we de-tax corn first?
 

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16822533[/url]

Wasn't sure if this belonged here, but I didn't want to bug people by starting a whole new thread.

I know it says bbc in the link, but the news is about a possible new sugar tax in the US. I'm thinking since corn syrup is worse for diabetes then sugar, maybe they oughtta look at raising the corn tax before they consider implementing a sugar tax. I mean the tax IS intended as a health benefit after all.

Might have misspoke about raising the corn tax, I know that corn gets lowered taxes, not sure if there's an actual corn-based tax. It's the main reason most sodas use corn syrup rather than sugar, at least in the US.