Random Thoughts Thread

[Uncle Ted]

Is hunting deer w/ a 12-guage shotgun legal? Or even feasible - how close would you have to be to deliver a lethal shot?

There is a reason they sell buck shot shells. I was thinking that hunting deer with a shotgun was more of a southern thing, however, where they are about the same size as very large jackrabbits.

[statman]

There is a reason they sell buck shot shells. I was thinking that hunting deer with a shotgun was more of a southern thing, however, where they are about the same size as very large jackrabbits.

In at least one state in the midwest - Illinois - only varmint hunting is legal with a rifle. Deer have to be brought down with shotgun only. At least that was the law as of 5 years ago when I last lived there. As rural as most of the state is, their laws are totally dominated by the "upstate" - Chicago and neighboring counties.

[Uncle Ted]

Cops: Orlando Man Sabotaged "Whac-A-Mole" Games

It wasn't a club but a computer virus that shut down the Whac-A-Mole and more than 400 other games built by Bob's Space Racers in Holly Hill. The company traced the problem back to computer programmer Marvin Wimberly.

Faced with a pay cut, police believe Wimberly programmed games to fail, ensuring he would be needed and keep making money.

"If they hadn't of discovered that they had the virus installed in the equipment, they wouldn't have known why their machines were failing," said Cpt. Steve Aldrich, Holly Hill Police Department.

Each game, after turning on and off a certain number of times, sometimes 50, sometimes 500, would fail. Wimberly would be paid to fix it, and police reports say, he would insert a new virus with a new countdown.

Marvin is now looking at 15 years. Don't people know they can't get away with stuff like this (unless they are writing software for the government)?

For eight years, government officials turned to Dennis Montgomery, a California computer programmer, for eye-popping technology that he said could catch terrorists. Now, federal officials want nothing to do with him and are going to extraordinary lengths to ensure that his dealings with Washington stay secret.

[...]

Interviews with more than two dozen current and former officials and business associates and a review of documents show that Mr. Montgomery and his associates received more than $20 million in government contracts by claiming that software he had developed could help stop Al Qaeda’s next attack on the United States. But the technology appears to have been a hoax, and a series of government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Air Force, repeatedly missed the warning signs, the records and interviews show.

[...]

Mr. Montgomery is not saying much these days. At his deposition in November, when he was asked if his software was a “complete fraud,” he answered, “I’m going to assert my right under the Fifth Amendment.”

[Uncle Ted]

Canada's ex-defense minister, Paul Hellyer, has the answer to our climate-change/energy/destroying-the-planet problem...

The U.S. just needs to share the captured UFO technology:

Trusted political and scientific sources whom Hellyer has talked to have suggested that the United States has developed new forms of energy at top-secret "black operation" installations, using reportedly extraterrestrial technology.

In his book "Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Survival Plan for the Human Species" (AuthorHouse), Hellyer claims that an American "shadow government" is behind this activity.

"That is my belief. I do not have proof of that, but I believe that they have developed energy sources, and publicly I'm saying that if they do not exist in commercial form, that extraterrestrials would certainly give us that information if we would ask them for it and stop shooting at them."

Green power sources coming from little green people. Cool.

[wuapinmon]

Canada's ex-defense minister, Paul Hellyer, has the answer to our climate-change/energy/destroying-the-planet problem...

The U.S. just needs to share the captured UFO technology:



Green power sources coming from little green people. Cool.

Sounds like Reagan.

[Parrot Head]

Here's something random, a photo from a friend in PDX:

[wuapinmon]

Some of my international students went to a local elementary school this morning to teach them about their home cultures. From one of their facebook walls:

Kid1: are you from China?
Me: no, I'm from Mexico.
20 minutes later:
Kid2: so how do you say 'how are you' in Japanese?

She's only 5'0. Last time she went, one of the kids there asked her "Are you a full grown Mexican?"

[Soccermom]

9 year old: "Mom, can I wear my wife beater shirt to school tomorrow?"

Where did I go wrong?

[Uncle Ted]

It seems this high school computer hacker would fit right in on wall street...

Top student charged with fixing grades for cash

A Nevada student who gave the opening address at his high school graduation last year has been charged with breaking into his school district's computer system and bumping up his classmates' grades for a fee.

Police say Tyler Coyner, 19, was the ringleader in a group of 13 students who have been charged with conspiracy, theft and computer intrusion in connection with the case. Last year, Coyner somehow obtained a password to the Pahrump Valley High School's grade system and, over the course of two semesters, offered to change grades in return for cash payments, police say.

[...]

In the Pahrump Valley Times profile, Coyner says he dreamed of attending an Ivy league school like Harvard and that he wanted to become a hedge fund trader.

Police say they found a flat-screen television, allegedly stolen from a local Wal-Mart, and equipment for making fake driver's licenses in Coyner's dorm room, which he shared with Matthew Miller, 19. Miller is also charged in the case.

[Scott R Nelson]

It seems this high school computer hacker would fit right in on wall street...

Maybe he got the idea from these guys:
http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-05-0...es-transcripts

[BoylenOver]

(via @danforthfrance of the twitter)

[Uncle Ted]

(via @danforthfrance of the twitter)

I will most likely think of this now every time I hear "footprints in the sand".

[Lost Student]

I will most likely think of this now every time I hear "footprints in the sand".

Me too and I look forward to it.

[TripletDaddy]

I stumbled across this tonight as I was looking on Craigslist. This person is obviously very unhappy with the car selection on Vegas CL

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/cto/2279080101.html

Wow, what a bunch of POS on here

Date: 2011-03-21, 8:44PM PDT
Reply to: see below

It never ceases to amaze me how many piece of shit there are on CL. Lets take Hondas for example. It seems like nearly every Honda on here has been "modded" to death by some dipshit teenager, or twenty something that thinks they can turn a car that was designed to be fuel efficient, and dependable into a bad ass quarter mile dragster, simply by going to Pep Boys and buying every accessory on the shelf. Seriously, you retards have totally ruined these cars buy doing all the stupid shit to them you've done. You idiots seriously think that just adding a big ass muffler, "cold air" intake, header, and a monster tach will make it faster? It's still, and always will be, an under powered rice grinder that was never meant to be a dragster. I could bolt that shit onto my riding lawn mower and get the same results. I also LOVE how you guys totally fuck up the interiors by painting the dash bezels, and anything else you can unscrew or pop off, neon green , bright ass yellow, pink, baby blue, or just about any other gay ass looking color you can think of. I won't even go into what you do to the paint, or in most cases, primer. Howabout the suspension systems? RUINED. It's like the first thing you do after going to Pep Boys and buying all the cheap ass accessories you can find, is to look at your buddy and say "Hey, lets get out the die grinder or torch and start cutting the springs! I'm sure it'll make the car handle SO much better! I mean hell! There were only a FEW engineers at Honda that toiled for countless hours to design this shit, but what do they know! We're fucking suspension geniuses!!" Someday you'll wake up and realize that YOU'RE ALL FUCKING RETARDS!

[NorthwestUteFan]

Friday night: feed the kids, play games, let the kids have a slumber party downstairs; Wifey and I go upstairs, climb in bed, watch a romantic comedy, have an exquisitely passionate... amount of time together ... and fall asleep in each others arms.

Saturday morning: get up, go downstairs to start making breakfast. Oldest child walks in kitchen, and says: "Your bed is VERY loud. We couldn't go to sleep, and your door was locked all night. Why was Mom praying...?"

Now Wifey is always worried that the kids are awake, that they will hear, that they are merely under the same roof, and I fear happy time may be severely cut back.

Hmm. Maybe it is time for a new bed.