Baltimore Cops Make Their Case to Prosecutor, Surveillance Restrictions Pass House Committee, Lois Lerner's Emails Retrieved: P.M. Links
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Russell Watkins/Department for International Development Baltimore police handed a prosecutor the results of their own investigation into the death of Freddie Gray while he was in their custody. I think we're all in for a nickel ride.
- The USA Freedom Act, a somewhat watered-down effort to rein-in domestic surveillance conducted under the Patriot Act, passed the House Judiciary Committee on its way to an uncertain fate.
- Lois Lerner's long-sought emails are not so lost after all. The Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration recovered thousands of them. Maybe the IRS should have contracted with Hillary for storage.
- And speaking of the presidential wannabe… Past and potential Clinton donors are getting cold feet about opening their checkbooks because of very public revelations of financial shenanigans.
- In other tax news, the IRS won't tell people in whose names fraudulent returns were filed exactly what info the scam artists stole. It's concerned about privacy, you see…
- In Pakistan, ten militants were convicted and imprisoned for the attempted assassination of teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted for advocating that girls should be taught how to read and other dangerous stuff.
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Maybe the IRS should have contracted with Hillary for storage.
She's too quick to delete.
Hello.
My work is done here. So you better entertain me well.
*Hands Rufus a book.*
'Tips on Turnips'?
No thanks.
No? Then how about This one?
Is that your book?
Fine.
Sigh.
/pulls out Amazon credit card.
You asked to be entertained, people seem to find it entertaining....
Done.
I hope you enjoy it.
Here.
Where's the part where they fuck?
The headline for that when it happened was hilarious.
"Black llama in police custody, white llama still at large"
I laughed.
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Lots of best friends Al Qaeda has!
Who let Yoda post on here? Are we letting anybody join now?
Past and potential Clinton donors are getting cold feet about opening their checkbooks because of very public revelations of financial shenanigans.
Pay to play isn't as much fun as it used to be.
It's fine to be a stooge but nobody wants everyone to know they're being a stooge.
Take money from anyone and everyone. Only give it back when you get caught.
Clinton 101.
That depends on what the meaning of "caught" is.
I thought the quote Sean Davis was playing up, the director of the Clinton Global Initiative saying it was a commercial and not a charitable endeavor, was really striking. One would think that such a quote could put the tax status of the CGI in real trouble. With a less partisan IRS at least. Or maybe a quote like that is not actionable.
So let's see who else tried to get acquire yellowcake from Niger. Well, the Chinese government for one:
So where are these businessmen now? Well they are now running West African Iron Ore. And who is West African Iron Ore's major investor? Well, none other than Frank Giustra.
Ah yes, the people one keeps company with...
Meanwhile, the LeT plotter of the 2008 Mumbai attacks was let out.
Islamic nut caress along with an Islamic nut punch.
nut caress
That's not allowed in Islam.
Do you have a fatwa to prove that?
The rams seem to like it.
zing
One of my buddies from high school is having trouble with a local union.
He's far classier than I.
Your buddy is my new hero.
You must be a nice guy too.
If I saw my name on a banner like that, everyone involved would pay dearly.
libel? slander?
related
AWESOME. Made my evening.
https://www.unionfacts.com/lu/28894/CJA/1506/
^ Here's the address of the carpenter's union who is doing this.
Now, if I were a rich, vindictive man, I might consider hiring some illegal aliens to stand outside their building with signs decrying the fact that the Carpenter's Union pays unfair wages to the people they pay to hold their signs.
Kickstarter? I'll kick in a few bucks.
Don't you love his solution? Not only classy, but smart.
Of course, as he noted, he could have retained a big legal gun from within our ranks, like R C Dean, John, or BIG BO CARA!
Or he could've hired a violent goon from among our ranks to enforce his will with an iron fist. I.e. dunphy!
^ I love to but have other commitments at the moment.
Take out ads publicly naming the head of the local saying that they're using non-union laborers.
Holy shit. He started a company in California? He must have the patience of a saint.
We have ample reserves of patience, since we don't have to wait for mounds of snow to melt to go outside.
That's incredible.
Who are you, John Davidson?
Baltimore police handed a prosecutor the results of their own investigation into the death of Freddie Gray while he was in their custody.
Toxicology report didn't show it, but they're sure he was high on PCP.
No way, dude, it was flakka.
Every cop is entitled to his own toxicology report.
By the beard of the prophet!
Frankfurt Prosecutor: Couple Arrested on Suspicion of Plotting 'Criminal Act'
Did they freeze their assets and make pariahs of them? Because if not, Germany still better than the USA.
The USA Freedom Act, a somewhat watered-down effort to rein-in domestic surveillance conducted under the Patriot Act, passed the House Judiciary Committee...
They can pass our lives, but they can never pass... OUR FREEDOM ACT!
So criminals and the government know all about us?
I'm starting to see things better now.
"Those items "could be used for the building of a bomb," Schreiber added, saying the couple also had several "conservative religious texts" in their apartment."
I think the term you're looking for is "radical," not "conservative."
^THIS.
I noticed it too. But according to the fair-and-balanced leftist media, conservative Hindu = conservative Christian = conservative Muslim = conservative Teabagger.
Conservative = Radical OMG!
No, what they meant was, there was Burke, and Chesterton, and Thatcher's memoirs...
Clearly these were Euro-teabaggers, about to shoot up some helpless minorities and/or gays.
So criminals and the government know all about us?
Please stop repeating yourself.
Damn you!
"criminals and the government"
But you repeat yourself.
I have a question for the car enthusiasts here. My 6 year old son (and car maniac) and I just happened on a page for Underground Racing where apparently you can add another 500+ horsepower to your supercar and get it well above Veyron hp, principally by adding twin turbochargers. Can this really be done? If so why don't Lamborghini, Audi etc. do it in the first place? They say the cars are still street legal.
Incidentally it is not necessarily the best idea to show a 6 year old boy drag race videos just before bedtime. But I find myself doing it a lot anyway.
Link? I'm trying to picture what you're describing. And then Mad Scientist can tell you it's not possible.
One example: http://undergroundracing.com/l.....lardo.html
I have some friends who do R&D for Audi, which also owns Bugatti. They tell me when the Veyron is dialed up to 1000 ponies, it will shred a set of brand new tires in under 100 miles. But you don't need to worry about that too much since you'll run out of gas in about 25....
You can add all kinds of power by cramming more air down the throat of the engine. HOWEVER....you'll have to start running very expensive fuel to avoid detonation, (or you'll have to turn the boost down so low that you won't be adding anywhere near 500 horses). The engine will run much hotter. MUCH hotter, and you'll be out of cooling capacity if you're using it for anything longer than a sprint down the highway's entrance ramp. The crank bearings in the block were not build for those kinds of loads, and neither was the block itself. You can expect severe reliability problems with most engines if you boost the hell out of it. Your stock fuel injection system will not be able to pump enough fuel to make that horsepower without replacing all injectors and, very likely, the fuel pumps as well with higher capacity units that cost quite a bit more. Your transmission wasn't built to handle that much torque. Neither was your driveshaft. Neither was your differential....
You see where this is going. Every other part of the car has to be upgraded to be more robust to handle the power, making the car both more expensive and heavier. Most sports cars value handling more than outright straight line speed, so a mere 600 horses in a Ferrari is plenty if the car is also nimble.
So the moral of the story is, the experts at Ferrari know what they are doing. I did notice that the Underground Racing specs say the last 500hp or so is only available using racing fuel. Still, good for father son fantasies. Thanks.
HOWEVER....you'll have to start running very expensive fuel to avoid detonation,
I had to stop laughing before I could read the rest of your comment.
His question was specifically about making absurd horsepower. Not just turning up the boost by half a pound.
You can...but unless I see a dyno sheet I wouldn't take their word for it. For another thing, forced induction can push a lot of air into something, but it doesn't mean it can withstand it for very long.
My brother has built short and long block LSXs that are now pulling 1k+ HP, but they have to have the bottom end upgraded completely (H-beam forged rods, Eagle cranks, etc) - and I don't know how many passes they've lasted.
Putting that much turbo on an engine greatly decreases it's lifespan. Audi incidentally does put turbos on many of their engines.
Also, you need to do a lot of other things to make that engine behave if using it on the street: new fuel and system management, intercooler, water injection, modified cams and/or heads.
People do this with some drag racing applications, but being street legal isn't the same as being streetable.
Private Security Camera Captures 'Mystery Stop' of Police Van That Was Carrying Freddie Gray
The fuck? Are the cops taking a page from Hilary Clinton playbook now, where there will be so many revelations that people just lose interest?
And regardless of whether this directly contradicts a filed written report NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED.
In Pakistan, ten militants were convicted and imprisoned for the attempted assassination of teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted for advocating that girls should be taught how to read and other dangerous stuff.
But those militants don't like the cops or army either...
Thus, the enemy of my enemy.....
"...teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted for advocating that girls should be taught how to read and other dangerous stuff."
You give a girl in an oppressive cave-dwelling theocracy an inch...
...and they go to Virginia schools with sex offender frat boys?
Gang-raped in the streets of Karachi on one hand. Gang-raped on a shattered glass coffee table on the other.
CHOOSE.
How about a Cave Dweller called Haven? Last name Moynihan?
Literally Gang-raped in the streets of Karachi on one hand. Notionally Gang-raped on a shattered glass coffee table on the other.
Next thing you know she's lugging a mattress around for the rest of her life
I think their uncles were trying to give them a little more than an inch.
Al Sharpscum gets in physical confrontation with Fox News Reporter Leland Vittert for trying to ask Stephanie Rawlings-Blake a question.
Frankly, Sharpscum looks like he's in no condition to be picking a fight with anyone these days. Actually... I take that back: go ahead and get in more fights "Reverend".
He looks like Mr. Mackey.
I'm too lazy to look this up.
If I, as a driver, have passengers who don't wear seatbelts, I'm criminally liable for it.
Is there some sort of exemption for prisoner transport?
I'm too lazy to look it up for you.
Rufus won't enact that labor. Why don't you Google it?
LAZY
/narrows gaze.
Stretches harder.
There is no exception for people in the back of squad cars.
Cops will intentionally handcuff people, put them in the back, and drive rough to bounce those people around.
And they're not held liable for it.
Lois Lerner's long-sought emails are not so lost after all. The Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration recovered thousands of them. Maybe the IRS should have contracted with Hillary for storage.
Be interesting to know the chain of custody here. I wonder what the chances are of someone at the IRS purging any incriminating e-mails, handing over the rest, and everyone, all together, goes: FAKE SCANDAL.
Will China Ban Katy Perry?
Cloudy With a Chance of Censorship: China Bans Unofficial Weather Reports
I had something else in mind when I first read "fruit sister"...
Something from the melon family?
Carnegie Melons?
Maybe Thomas Friedman was right about China after all...
apparently you can add another 500+ horsepower to your supercar and get it well above Veyron hp, principally by adding twin turbochargers. Can this really be done?
Anything can be done. The question is, "WHY?" .
I'd rather have a Lotus Super Seven (or a Caterham with a strong two liter four cylinder) than a Lamborghini.
"Anything can be done. "
Cool.
Turn a Saturn 5 stage one booster over on it's side, attach some wheels to it and light it up.
In other words, Thunderbird One.
+1 FAB
also, all hail Gerry Anderson
He gave us the Eagle.
I read that Lotus recently got a new chief. He said he is going to stop Lotus from trying to compete with Porsche and go back to making simple light cars with great handling. Sounds positive.
That's great. That last guy was kind of a tool - I wouldn't have been surprised if he had announced a Lotus SUV.
I'm just going to leave this here.
She looks disturbingly like my wife.
Except ESB's eyebrows are waaay bigger.
I can't tell if that was a humblebrag.
Dutch comedian interrogated by Muslim women over offensive jokes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryYETmi9lNA
I've seen that and that guy is amazing.
By the way, did you notice that the T.V. show is called 'Bimbos and Burqas' and appears to be a show where slutty dutch women get in arguments with orthodox Muslim men and Muslim women get in arguments with secular Dutchmen? This is the craziest T.V. show idea I've seen outside of East Asia.
Holy crap, that's awesome! UK version would be amazingly trashy, and I'd watch the shit out of French version (sound off, but French bimbos - oh-la-la)!
The dutch invented reality TV
they've always been one-toke over the line vs the rest of europe. pun intended.
"offensive"
Spot the Not: Steven Segal movies
1. Sheep Impact
2. Cyborg Nemesis
3. Today You Die
4. Driven to Kill
5. Infinite Vengeance
6. Clementine
I'm thinking 1.
#1 is a beer commercial?
But does star Seagal.
3 or 5 is my guess.
1. Segal isn't in porn nor is he Scottish.
1.
1.
So many people picked 1 and were wrong. Behold the glory of Sheep Impact:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANEY7zF2RFU
5 is the Not. It is a result of the action movie title generator.
http://phrasegenerator.com/actionmovies
The political soundbite generator is entertaining as well.
Spot the Not: Christian books
1. The Christian Art of War
2. The Action Bible
3. Healing Oils of the Bible
4. Duck Commander Devotions for Kids
5. Bad Girls of the Bible
6. The Insanity of God
6. I know damned good and well modern Baptist housewives have coffeeklatches where biblical bad girls are discussed, so there's probably a book. And there were Donutman and Veggie Tales videos, so four is likely.
Yeah. 6.
Nope. #1 is the Not.
Honorable mention: Faithgirlz! Bible
"If it pleases and sparkles with the girls..."
As for 6,
Someday we will pick up an old Jag (I'm in UK) with electrical problems
Talk about your needle in a haystack...
Lucas once manufactured a vacuum cleaner. It was the only thing they ever made that didn't suck.
Q: Why do the English drink warm beer?
A: 'Cos Lucas makes the refrigerators.
/sign at the parts shop where I used to take my Triumph TR7 convertible.
You know why British bikes are so fast? Because they have to get home before dark.
Talk about a needle in a haystack sewing shop
Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Carnegie-Mellon,
Spot the Not: anti-capitalism books
1. Capitalism Sucks!
2. Capitalism Must Die!
3. The Enemy of Nature
4. Why Not Socialism?
5. Why Marx Was Right
6. Down With Capitalism!
None of the above
Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Carnegie-Mellon,
I accidentally copied another list of famous colleges named after evil capitalists
#6 is the Not.
Get a signed copy for only $15!
No one knows for sure how the EM drive works yet, but it seems promising.
Dibs on Calisto.
My first thought was "has anyone ruled out pushing against the Earth's magnetic field as a source of the effect?"
You don't need to interact with matter to alter momentum.
The momentum of a photon of light is Plancks constant divided by the wavelength of that bit of light.
Or simply put
p = h/lambda
It's not a lot, but it's measurable.
Their issue is that the microwaves don't exit the drive, so they'd be hitting the far end and counteracting the initial thrust, so it's not a photon drive.
They're burning energy, no?
The energy is going somewhere....
My guess is that's where the momentum change is also being realized. OF course, brighter minds than I more current in physics than I are stumped, so clearly the answer isn't immediately obvious.
I know, but sometimes you have to ask the stupid questions before going on to the smart ones. Because you can be too clever by half.
I just want to know if they've managed to rule it out, as it's something it could be interacting with.
Good stuff for retard level STEM folks like myself - but what about practical applications in the near term? Yes, this breakthrough may mean savings on satellite and space station logistics / maintenance, but, what else?
An engine that requires only an electrical power source and no heavy chemical propellants is a HUGE game changer. It would at the very least open the entire solar system to manned exploration.
Cool cool cool stuff.
Notice they also reference attempts at manipulating spacetime a la an Alcubierre Drive
Btw, been lurking here for 17/18 years (with about five posts) and Agile Cyborg is by far the most entertaining poster I've seen. Makes me want to start doing DMT.
And here I am, turning shafts for the cars of yesteryear.
Jeebus I wish I was somewhere on the leading edge....of something.
4.
In Wrath Of Obama, The US President Teams Up With Putin To Destroy Lenin's Zombie Army
The trailer is pretty good.
In related news...
Microsoft brings Android, iOS apps to Windows 10
As an aside, the Ars piece contains several minor errors and they are mediocre in general. Oh well.
Somehow I know this was a Carl post without seeing the byline. Pretty cool stuff.
More Agile Cyborg Facts:
-Lisa Frank's art career when Agile Cyborg accidentally brushed her hand
-Picasso's paintings are actually photographs of Agile Cyborg
-Physicists in other dimensions have posited the existence of Agile Cyborg
-Imaginary numbers were invented after someone gave Agile Cyborg a calculator
-Agile Cyborg has consumed more drugs than all the people who attended Woodstock; both the original and the anniversary
-Robin Williams was a successful drug abuse counselor until he met Agile Cyborg
-Aliens have programs dedicated to finding proof of Agile Cyborg
-Crop circles are actually caused by Agile Cyborg's attempts to mow his lawn
That last one? Fabulous.
I wrote the first batch after witnessing his fugue state last night:
Agile Cyborg Facts
-When The Dark Side of the Moon goes on an acid trip, it watches the Wizard of Oz on mute
and listens to Agile Cyborg.
-Acid has flashbacks to Agile Cyborg
-The ending to 2001: A Space Odyssey was based on a conversation with Agile Cyborg
-MC Escher was a regular architect until he became friends with Agile Cyborg
-HP Lovecraft wrote greeting cards until he met Agile Cyborg
-Agile Cyborg once met Cheech & Chong- they immediately became DEA agents
-The entire works of James Joyce are based on watching Agile Cyborg compete in a spelling
bee
I enjoyed the last one the most as well.
http://listverse.com/2012/12/2.....ism-sucks/
TEN REASONS WHY CAPITALISM SUCKS!
"In a controlled economy, the government decides which commodities will be produced, by whom, and where they will go. The unplanned free market capitalist economy, however, relies on individuals buying products ? and for this to happen, the consumer has to want them. For this reason, corporations spend billions on extensive advertising campaigns, trying every trick in the book (and more) to convince you and I that we need their product.I like using my cell phone to send texts and receive calls, but I realized today that I need a camera and internet access because it will vastly improve my life! And this very morning my wife was content, but after seeing dozens of airbrushed size 0 women on billboards just on the way to the corner shop, she apparently has to buy an outrageously priced beauty product.The truth is that, by its very nature, capitalism breeds discontent. If we were happy ? the system would fail!"
AHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Shorter version: Put me in charge and I'll make it a perfect world where everything would suck equally.
Seem reasonable! But you mean, "where nothing would ever suck," of course. I say we give it a try - what can go wrong?
The first few sentences are actually true. He is just too much of an idiot to realize that the first sentence breeds human suffering on an epic scale, while the second produces spontaneous order and economic growth. he thinks he is making the opposite case.
Also, he and his wife are apparently so incompetent that they are powerless when presented with advertising.
"Help! I'm too stupid to resist TV commercials!! Eliminate capitalism, it's my only hope!"
Decision fatigue!!!!!
It's worse than that. The whole argument is so childishly sort-sighted, it's laughable.
Well, the evil capitalists invented the cell phone, too, so doesn't it follow that he only likes its text and call functions because of their nefarious marketing sorcery? Everyone would have just been happy and satisfied with land lines if capitalism hadn't stepped into "breed discontent". Wait, but people only adopted landline phones because capitalists tricked them into thinking they needed one--otherwise they would have been happy sending everything by mail! And so on, and so on.
Here's What Police Just Did To This Woman After Her 'Terroristic' Threat Against 'All White Cops'
Why, that little dickens...
With a perfect name like "Ebony Dickens" why on earth would she need to post under an uninspired alias like Tiffany?
thread fail
Oh come on, "Tiffany Milan" is like, euro-stylish! Combines the luxury and allure of expensive jewelry with high-fashion centre of Italy.
Beats the Dickens out of me.
Yawn. It's just a slight rewording of the trite Marxist "capitalism instills false needs in people" argument. By this logic, history's greatest monster was the caveman who discovered fire, because without him, people would have remained happy and content to freeze and starve to death.
and they never would have become slaves to Big Oil.
http://www.truthdig.com/report.....e_20150215
Chris Hedges bitches about pornography.
"When you fight porn you fight global capitalism," she said. "The venture capitalists, the banks, the credit card companies are all in this feeding chain. This is why you never see anti-porn stories. The media is implicated. It is financially in bed with these companies. Porn is part of this. Porn tells us we have nothing left as human beings?boundaries, integrity, desire, creativity and authenticity. Women are reduced to three orifices and two hands. Porn is woven into the corporate destruction of intimacy and connectedness, and this includes connectedness to the earth. If we were a society where we were whole, connected human beings in real communities, then we would not be able to look at porn. We would not be able to watch another human being tortured."
Chris Hedges is the feces that results when shame eats too much stupidity.
lol
Great line. May I use it?
I stole it from a Dale Gribble rant from King of the Hill.
https://vine.co/v/OZlFeVZUbXi
I think this comment was trolling = if not, it is Epic Derp. You really need to see the photo of "shiffron" as well
"
Schiffon ? 2 months ago
This is a poignant and critical assessment. We make a critical error in not guarding our hearts and minds with all due diligence. We make ourselves vulnerable when we naively ignore that the capitalist system is designed for consumption at any cost, even societal cannibalism. The society is more than morally indifferent it is depraved. This is a spiritual problem with undeniable adverse consequences.
333 likes"
I think this is actually real. only a liberal can use so many words and say absolutely nothing.
333 likes to go and it's perfect.
Actually, Schiff is saying something:
There are great multitudes who are plagued with nihilism who have spiritual problems of their own and who dream of the day when a Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili will come along with some undeniable adverse consequences.
"We make a critical error in not guarding our hearts and minds with all due diligence."
Is Stuart Smalley writing mission statements now?
"""We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. We forge our tradition in the spirit of our ancestors. You have our gratitude.""
+1 Dr. Klahn's Godzilla attachment
I count 3 "we"s and 1 "our." Why the hell do idiots like that presume they speak for everyone around them?
Argumentum ad populum? Or was that rhetorical?
... but of course everyone would be fucking everyone else like minks all. the. time. And watching each other do it.
I actually agree with his criticism of porn from a cultural perspective, but I don't believe criminalizing it is the way to deal with it.
There are a wide array of issues that I find some agreement with either left or right on, but I rarely concur with their proposed solutions.
Absolutely. Love. It.
This link is perfect. The guy jacked up his car in his own garage. This is the story of hope I wish to tell my child. Someday we will pick up an old Jag (I'm in UK) with electrical problems, or maybe an Austin Healey, and rebuild it to have 1000hp in our own garage.
I grew up with a Volvo wagon. I don't remember my mom driving like that, though.
http://www.speedhunters.com/20.....age_volvo/
I saw the rocket powered truck at the airshow last month. Probably the most interesting thing there.
I've seen that guy. I still prefer the military fly bys where they sit right on the sound barrier and make the white halo.
I've seen the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels, but I don't think they've done that while I was watching.
I bring earplugs for the kids just in case.
You need to see the abomination that was the Draguar
Short summary = it didn't go well.
try a Miata instead
Also,
"Someday we will pick up an old Jag (I'm in UK) with electrical problems"
i think that's just called, "A Jag"