University of California researchers, on a Pentagon contract, announced in January success at rigging a live flower beetle with electrodes and a radio receiver to enable scientists to control the insect's flight remotely. Pulses sent to the bug's muscles or optic lobes can command it to take off, turn left or right, or hover, according to a report in MIT Technology Review, and the insect's "large" size (up to a whopping four inches in length) would enable it to also carry a camera, giving the beetle military uses such as surveillance or search and rescue. The researchers admired the native flight-control ability of the beetle so much that they abandoned developing robot beetles (which required trying to mimic nature). [MIT Technology Review, 1-29-09]
^^Top that!
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In Hong Kong, according to a February Wall Street Journal report, when a feng shui master speaks on the economy, investors listen closely (especially in view of the mess quantitative analysis has made of things). Alion Yeo, an expert on the Chinese system of beliefs in stars, geography and the location of objects, and whose popular finance seminars attract high-end investors, told a group of about 170 recently that 2009 would be dismal because the U.S. economy is now in the hands of a president and a secretary of the Treasury who were both born in a Year of the Ox (1961), of which 2009 is another (and which has already started frighteningly with both a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse). [Wall Street Journal, 2-9-09]
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Breaking News: The horological forecast, widely regarded as being only slightly less reliable than the weather forecast, predicts impending doom. Repent for the stars predict that the end is near.
In February, David Hampton, 23, was charged in Charlotte County, Fla., with robbing a BP gas station and became the latest such robber to run out of gas in his getaway car even though minutes earlier, obviously, he had been present at a gas station. [WWSB-TV (Sarasota), 2-9-09]
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The $500,000 top prize in Alaska's January statewide lottery, to benefit the organization Standing Together Against Rape, for victims of sexual assault, was won by Alec Ahsoak, 53, who coincidentally is a twice-convicted sex offender. [Anchorage Daily News, 1-11-09]
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Italian and U.K. legal authorities have recently discarded rule interpretations based on embarrassingly anachronistic stereotypes of women. In July, Italy's Court of Cassation reversed a 1999 ruling creating a legal presumption that a woman wearing tight jeans could not be the victim of rape because such jeans would be impossible to remove without her assistance. [Daily Telegraph (London), 7-23-08]
Coincidentally, at about the same time, the British government formally removed the special, ameliorating defense of "provocation" for husbands charged with murdering their wives, thus putting domestic homicide on the same footing as other homicides. (Some husbands had received lesser penalties by claiming that their wives' affairs had provoked them to murder.) [Daily Telegraph (London), 7-22-08]
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33-year-old Jennifer Lighten of Massachusetts told police
that Stephanie Lighten, her wife, was “all liquored up” when
she returned to their apartment, where the defendant then
allegedly tried to use a syringe to inseminate her, according
to a police report.
Jennifer said she told Stephanie that she didn’t want to get
pregnant, but Stephanie was apparently insistent and had the
turkey baster to back it up. In addition to the turkey baster
Stephanie also had a sealed container with what she said was
her brother’s semen. Because apparently it’s just more con-
venient when your son or daughter is also your nephew or niece.
That’s allegedly when Stephanie threw Jennifer on the couch,
grabbed at her clothes and threatened to impregnate her,
police said.
Jennifer bolted from the apartment and attempted to get away
in the couple’s sport utility vehicle. As Jennifer pulled
away Stephanie jumped on the side of their vehicle, swung the
door open and made her stop.
Police arrested Stephanie Lighten shortly thereafter and con-
fiscated the syringe and the semen.
On a positive note Jennifer declined to go forward with charges
of assault with intent to rape. So there is some hope for these
two love birds to work things out.
I'm Spanking Monkey now....err...I mean I'm a Spanking Monkey now...that shoots milk Too much. I know.
Daniel Petric, 15 at the time, shot his parents in October 2007 (killing his mother) after they took away his violent Halo 3 video game. In January 2009, Judge James Burge pronounced Petric guilty of murder, rejecting his lawyers' claim that Petric was insane at the time because he had confused "killing" cartoon avatars with killing humans. However, even though the legal test of insanity was not met, Judge Burge acknowledged that Petric "had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents, they would be dead forever." [WBBM-TV (Chicago)-AP, 1-12-09]
legendkiller717 wrote:Daniel Petric, 15 at the time, shot his parents in October 2007 (killing his mother) after they took away his violent Halo 3 video game. In January 2009, Judge James Burge pronounced Petric guilty of murder, rejecting his lawyers' claim that Petric was insane at the time because he had confused "killing" cartoon avatars with killing humans. However, even though the legal test of insanity was not met, Judge Burge acknowledged that Petric "had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents, they would be dead forever." [WBBM-TV (Chicago)-AP, 1-12-09]
I hate this kid. He's not insane, he's a douchebag. Good thing the judge didn't buy his crock of shit.
