pierogies are pretty easy to make too. get a bag of frozen ones, pop em in boiling water till they float, then drain the water and drop in a buttered skillet for 2 minutes. good shit

holy shit! i just saw this little snippet and figured it would be relevant here...

ESP phenomena however have and continue to be tested elsewhere as well. Sony labs for example performed a series of experiments to evaluate the possible utility of such phenomena for possible commercial ventures. After the investigations, Sony spokesman Masanobu Sakaguchi reported: "We found out experimentally that yes, ESP exists, but that any practical application of this knowledge is not likely in the foreseeable future."[15]

ugh who cares? the point is sushi rice is supposed to be super sticky.

well sushi rice is "fucked up" by nature, kind of....its like improperly cooked rice in that its way too sticky and clumpy....but thats the way you want it...you need some sushi rolling mats which cost a buck, some sushi rice, which costs a few bucks, and you need some roasted seaweed (usually available in asian grocery stores)..

yeah they think maybe the answers lie in string theory, since its currently the crunk of physics...hopefully we'll see some definite advance in our lifetime but probably not...

sushi!!

its fun, easy and you dont even have to use raw fish if you dont want to. its like rolling a huge joint, except you can eat it. plus chicks dig it

there is an outside chance it would pass through. it's called tunneling. the chance of one single atom tunneling through something it shouldnt be able to is astronomically small, so i guess it figures that the chance of every single atom in your hand tunneling through (a concrete wall, for instance) at the same time is that much smaller.
on a side note, the probability of this happening is *roughly* equal to the probability that extra-sensory phenomena, like telepathy, DOESN'T exist. apparently there have been alot of legitimate scientific experiments going on (behind closed govt doors for the most part)since at least the 50's on ESP, and now its to the point where its not a question of whether or not it exists, but HOW....

i dont think electronic music was invented at a given point in time, more like it evolved out of the flux of new music and culture surrounding the 60's 70's and early eighties...without these formative decades we might not have electronic music the way we know it today..

haha i was going to say ANDY moog in my other post.......those bruins have always been musical pioneers

ok christiane amanpour, shock and awe me with some breaking news then

hahaha you fucking guys....."if i didnt post it first it isnt newsworthy"

well thats just like saying that heavy metal was invented by metallica and megadeth and slayer, without giving credit where credit is due, namely to bands in the 70's like led zep and sabbath. its like saying goodyear (or whoever the fuck) invented the wheel when all they did was make a rubberized wheel ( a tire).
mantronik was an early hip hop pioneer and he DID use a moog, among other things.
i'm just asking whether or not we'd be here today (with techno, psy and everything else) if it wasnt for these early pioneers; the pioneers who first invented synthesizers and then the pioneers who took a chance by incorporating the new invention into their own music.
in fact, would we even be where we are without hippies and lsd in the 1st place? would the synthesizer have even caught on in the mainstream music scene of the 60's and 70's if it weren't for flower power, expanding the mind and lsd? an academic discussion at this point, but still worth pondering over i think...

Fox subpoenas YouTube over "Simpsons," "24" - WSJ
Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:26 AM GMT19


NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp. studio Twentieth Century Fox subpoenaed Google Inc.'s YouTube video service to learn who uploaded pirated copies of episodes of television shows "24" and "The Simpsons," The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The subpoena, filed January 18, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, asks YouTube to hand over information to identify the subscriber so Fox can stop the infringement, the Journal reported.

The four-episode season premiere of thriller show 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland, appeared on the site ahead of its TV broadcast, and 12 episodes of the Simpsons were being distributed on YouTube by a subscriber called "ECOtotal," the subpoena's declaration said, according to the paper.

Fox said it officially notified YouTube about the episodes and requested immediate removal or to disable access to the service, the Journal said.

News about the subpoena filed surfaced on the blog, Google Watch.

The same group of episodes were uploaded under the username of Jorge Romero on the video site LiveDigital, to which Fox also issued a subpoena, the paper said.

A spokesman for LiveDigital told the Journal that the material was taken down right away.

Google and Fox officials were not immediately available for comment.

link: [ today.reuters.co.uk ]

ummm experiments with electronic sounds and synthesizers DID appear in what we now call classic rock, in the 70's and even before. take pink floyd as one example. if anyone has ever seen pink floyd live at pompeii i challenge you to prove to me that waters & co. were not hippies during that time. the moog synth was invented in the 60's for god's sake. after it came out the monkees used it on a subsequent album. that album hit #1 on the charts at one point.
imho if it werent for people like this, who were willing to take chances with new technology and new sounds we might hever have seen the advent of house and "modern" electronic music.

Americans unveil 'people-zapping' ray gun
Mark Bridge

The Active Denial System was demonstrated at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia (Elliott Minor/AP)

The US military has unveiled a space age 'non-lethal weapons system' – a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people feel as if they will catch fire.

The Pentagon claims that the Active Denial System, dubbed "the people zapper", is a harmless way to control rioters or get enemies to drop their weapons.

But experts in the UK and Germany questioned the system’s safety, warning that exposure to the beam for more than a few seconds could cause extensive and potentially life-threatening second degree burns.

Dr Steve Wright, of Leeds Metropolitan University, an expert on non-lethal weapons technology, said: "There is a great worry that these weapons will redefine existing standards of cruelty."

Military officials, however, said that the system could save the lives of soldiers and innocent civilians in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. They said targets would flee the beam on reflex, avoiding sustained exposure.

During the first media demonstration of the weapon, airmen fired beams from a large dish antenna mounted on a Humvee at people pretending to be rioters and acting out other scenarios that US troops might encounter.

The crew fired beams from more than 450 metres away, nearly 17 times the range of existing non-lethal weapons, such as rubber bullets.

While the quick burst of 54C heat was not painful, it was intense enough to make participants think their clothes were about to ignite.

"This is one of the key technologies for the future," said Marine Colonel Kirk Hymes, director of the non-lethal weapons programme which helped develop the new weapon.

"Non-lethal weapons are important for the escalation of force, especially in the environments our forces are operating in."

The system uses millimeter waves, which can penetrate only 1/64th of an inch of skin, just enough to cause discomfort. By comparison, common kitchen microwaves penetrate several inches of skin.

The millimeter waves cannot go through walls, but they can penetrate most clothing, officials said. They refused to comment on whether the waves can go through glass.

Two airmen and ten reporters volunteered to be shot with the beams, which easily penetrated various layers of winter clothing.

Under the tests, volunteers were exposed to short bursts of heat only, but weapons experts cautioned that trigger-happy soldiers could override a pre-set cut-off to zap cornered targets in a long blast.

Airman Blaine Pernell, 22, said he could have used the system during his four tours in Iraq, where he manned watchtowers around a base near Kirkuk. He said Iraqis constantly pulled up and faked car problems so they could scout out US forces.

"All we could do is watch them," he said. But if they had the ray gun, troops "could have dispersed them."

The weapon is not expected to go into production until at least 2010, but all branches of the military have expressed interest in it, officials said.

linkerage: [ www.timesonline.co.uk ]

if a cop was pretending to be a drugdealer at berri, lets say, and someone approached him to buy drugs, then that could be regarded as the buyer initiating the sale. nevertheless it is entrapment. if the cop hadnt been there in the 1st place, then in theory there would have been no one to buy drugs off of, and the buyer is still innocent. the cop posing as a dealer is equivalent to setting a trap. as far as i know its still legal to THINK about illegal things, even if you don't necessarily carry them out.
if this guy got contacted, then went to meet this cop-cum-drugdealer, and got arrested for "buying drugs", any defense lawyer worth his salt would have it tossed out of court so fast.
if anything though, the cops could probably watch this guy, see who he DOES buy drugs off, then arrest that person....

if i'm way off, feel free to correct me with some backed up argument. legalese is pretty goddam obscure alot of the time

fuck, that is very well put.

thats called entrapment and it is illegal.

yeah the deco and the setup and all that stuff was cool, and it was pretty unique to be partying outside, but i found that dj food kind of sucked. granted, i came in about 10 or 15 minutes after his set started, but i was there for most of it. the beginning was good; old school funk and urban type shit, but after a while he started putting on really cheesy tracks like song 2 by blur (?????)...it turned into a cheese mashup...

how it is made fuckin rocks

i dunno i think this one is pretty good:

it`s arduous to hear you revel in conscript bowdlerized semiotics, the pejorative versimilitude of your superciliousness is insolent in indolence.

i just dont get how a contest like this was even approved in the 1st place

Stefanie Balogh in New York

January 19, 2007 11:00pm

FEARS of an arms race in space spread throughout the world yesterday after confirmation that China had successfully used a ground-based ballistic missile to shoot one of its ageing weather satellites out of the sky.
The Bush administration has kept a lid on the test for more than a week as it weighed its significance.

It was forced to respond yesterday – both publicly and through diplomatic channels to Beijing – after the story was broken in American Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine.

The test, on January 11, used a ballistic missile launched from or near China's Xichang Space Centre in Sichuan Province to hunt down the eight-year-old Feng Yun 1C polar orbit weather satellite more than 865km above Earth.

As many as 300,000 pieces of debris might have been created by the explosion – hundreds of which would be big enough to seriously damage other satellites in near orbit.

The satellite-destroying test is understood to be the first of its kind in two decades by any nation.

Analysts said the test represented an indirect threat to Washington's defence systems, as China's weather satellites travelled at about the same altitude as US spy satellites.

It also dramatically illustrated China's willingness to stare down international criticism over its weapons programs.

It also comes at a time of heightened tensions between the US and China regarding space, following most notably an incident in August when a US satellite was "painted" by a ground-based laser in China.

US National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said: "The United States believes China's development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of cooperation that both countries aspire to in the civil space area. We and other countries have expressed our concern to the Chinese."

Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Canberra had issued its "please explain" to China earlier in the week, saying he did not want to see China break ranks with other nations and begin militarising space.

"What we don't want to see is some sort of spread, if you like, an arms race into outer space," he said.

Other nations, including Japan, South Korea and Britain, have also voiced their concern.

Precisely what drove China to act remains a mystery.

But the US has to figure out how to respond, said John Pike, a satellite expert at [ globalsecurity.org ]

Since the mid-1980s, the US has been able to take down satellites, but the Chinese do not have satellites worth attacking, Mr Pike said.

The US may now have to develop alternatives to its current spy satellites, perhaps stealth satellites or unmanned aerial vehicles, which are harder to detect than the current US satellite network.

[ www.news.com.au ]

5 on air DJs and 5 other staff have been fired from Californian radio station KDND 107.9 FM following the ‘Hold your wee for a Wii’ fiasco, followed up by a criminal investigation and a threat by the affected family to sue.

Audio recordings of shows following the death of the 28-year old woman, Jennifer Strange, who died from water intoxication after failing to win the main prize of a Nintendo Wii and winning second prize tickets to a Justin Timberlake concert, have prompted a spokesperson from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s department to say they have launched an investigation.

According to Gamespot [ au.gamespot.com ] , Sgt. Timothy Curran said that: "We have decided we will open a death investigation which will take weeks and on conclusion our findings will be forwarded to the local district attorney to decide whether to lay criminal charges."

The audio recordings, which are now available on the Internet, feature the now-fired DJ’s joking about contestants dying of water intoxication before the death of Jennifer Strange.

In one instance, the DJ’s talk about the death of Matthew Carrington, a California State University student in the city of Chico, who died after drinking too much water during a fraternity hazing – a type of initiation ceremony that college students play on each other.

Despite listeners calling in to warn the DJs that the stunt could be fatal before the death of Jennifer Strange took place, the DJ’s responded that: “"Yeah, we're aware of that.”.

Another DJ is reported to have said that “Yeah, they signed releases, so we're not responsible. We're OK.”

The family of Jennifer Strange is now wanting to sue the radio station so a similar tragedy can be avoided, as Strange’s three children are now without their mother.

[ www.itwire.com.au ]

wait a minute...if you twist the shit out of a sample so it is virtually unreconizable or if you take a small enough sample of something, wouldnt you just be able to get around all the bullshit? and what about posting an original track on your myspace page that has a recognizable sample in it; sketchy, or not?

theyre pretty much made from wheat flour, salt, water, ....

Ramen and similar products are often criticized as being unhealthy or junk food. A single serving of instant noodles is high in carbohydrates but low in fiber, vitamins and minerals. Noodles are typically fried as part of the manufacturing process, resulting in high levels of saturated fat and/or trans fat. Additionally, the broth contains the controversial ingredient monosodium glutamate (MSG) as well as a high amount of sodium, usually in excess of 60% of the U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowance.

While many processed convenience foods leave much to be desired nutritionally, the particular concern over ramen is a response to its use as a dietary staple for many Americans. College students in particular consume large amounts of instant noodles; the wide availability, very low cost (often below 25¢), ease and speed of preparation, and portability of the product make it appealing to young adults with little money and time to spare. A popular college urban legend states that a student gave himself scurvy by living on nothing but ramen for an entire year. [1]

The most recent controversy surrounds dioxin and other hormone-like substances that could theoretically be extracted from the packaging and glues used to pack the instant noodles. As hot water is added, it was reasoned that harmful substances could seep into the soup. After a series of studies were conducted, this concern was found to be baseless. [2]

from wiki

and the sign said long-haired freaky people need not apply........

oh thats where it happened today? at concordia? half-heard some sort of breaking news report on chom about a possibly armed guy in a building.....so what? he wasnt armed?

it is interesting to note this in relation to iran's move to switch primarily to euros for trading in oil. china is one of the biggest, if not the biggest buyer of iranian oil.

the shit thing is these disenfranchised iranian students dont have a virtually unlimited supply of money and the iranian version of the gestapo at their disposal.......

COMMUNISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks alot

thx, but i'm only interested in those ones....

who did the edits, you? do you have a link to where you ripped 'em originally..?

hahaha geurilla mask? i've always heard thats called the Lincoln, as in abe. as in his beard.

fuck thats a GREAT idea....whether its fiction or not, revelations is one of the craziest pieces of writing out there imho...

neoform what is that pic you posted above, the iRoq thing.....?

so did i, actually:
[ rave.ca ]

yes. search on youtube and google video for something about the topic youre looking into. i'm sure theres a shitload of clandestine academic-type vid presentations by apocalypse nuts. go through 'em, find a good quote, and record it with soundforge or whatever you use to record audio.

the tony danza is a modified donkey punch:

when you stick it in her ass, initiating the donkey punch, you yell out "Who's the boss?" She'll get confused, turn her head around, at this moment, you donkey punch her in the face and then scream "TONY FUCKIN DANZA!!!"