News & Not News Megathread

Vampire_Hunter_Bob

Cats are great
NightCrawler said:
LCD? I mean if it was PCP i would believe it, but LCD makes no sense. Totally a cover up.

It probably will turn out to be PCP, but just in case it turns out to be zombies I'm going to brick up my front window.
 

Griffith

With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
Bath salt zombies, no joke:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/30/153989768/bath-salts-drug-suspected-in-miami-face-eating-attack?sc=fb&cc=fp said:
"The cases are similar minus a man eating another. People taking off their clothes. People suddenly have super human strength," Aguilar said, according to ABC. "They become violent and they are burning up from the inside. Their organs are reaching a level that most would die. By the time police approach them they are a walking dead person."

BTW, it might be because I live on the left coast near Hollyweird, but just shooting the zombie man without attempting to taser him seems to me excessive force (granted, if ever a situation justified it... =). And a waste, if only we could capture a live one for the bio-weapon lab under the police station.
 
Miami Resident pulls Zombie prank in the Fallout of Miami Zombie Scare. Almost gets shot. (Full Video included below)

http://gawker.com/5915420/chasing-after-miami-residents-while-pretending-to-be-a-zombie-somehow-not-the-best-idea
 

Vampire_Hunter_Bob

Cats are great
Jaze1618 said:
Miami Resident pulls Zombie prank in the Fallout of Miami Zombie Scare. Almost gets shot. (Full Video included below)

http://gawker.com/5915420/chasing-after-miami-residents-while-pretending-to-be-a-zombie-somehow-not-the-best-idea

Not so funny when he's getting his ass kicked. (it's funny for us either way.)
:troll:
 
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hellrasinbrasin

Guest
New Copyright Bill to cause havoc for users of streaming sites

http://kotaku.com/5920140/come-october-dont-use-youtube-in-japan

This should prove to be an interesting yet bad decision as the grey area of the bill gives too much leeway for harsher provisions to be added on.
 

Walter

Administrator
Staff member
hellrasinbrasin said:
New Copyright Bill to cause havoc for users of streaming sites

http://kotaku.com/5920140/come-october-dont-use-youtube-in-japan

This should prove to be an interesting and bad decision as the grey
area of the bill gives too much leeway for harsher provisions to be
added on.
Why are you sourcing discussion of a copyright bill from Kotaku?
 
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hellrasinbrasin

Guest
Walter said:
Why are you sourcing discussion of a copyright bill from Kotaku?

I'm sourcing it Walter as that was were I found the article I know that their is a news article with similar language at animenewsnetwork (Link below). I've also sourced it because I thought it was relevent discussion pertaining to the specifics of the bill itself.

Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-06-21/law-penalizing-downloaders-criminalizing-ripping-passes-in-japan

I don't see anything but trouble coming from this bill.
 

Walter

Administrator
Staff member
hellrasinbrasin said:
I thought it was relevent discussion
Posted on a site about video games known to get shit wrong on a daily basis.

Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-06-21/law-penalizing-downloaders-criminalizing-ripping-passes-in-japan
Posted on a site that keeps up with the latest Yu-Gi-Oh news.

Point being: Sites dealing in mass quantities of hyperbole should probably leave discussion of legitimate issues to the bigger dogs.
 
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hellrasinbrasin

Guest
...I personally don't care much for either of those 2 sites but news is news reguardless of who the source is. Until I see the same content posted on tech sites or sites covering anti-piracy legislation I'm going to have to run with what I have to run with. It might not be pretty it might not be nice but it is what it is.

:griffnotevil:
 

Walter

Administrator
Staff member
hellrasinbrasin said:
news is news reguardless of who the source is.
Utterly ridiculous statement. Seriously, please think about what you just said. While you're thinking about that...

Breaking News: ANNAPOLIS, MD—Buddha just shat on my lawn. BOOM! EXCLUSIVE SCOOP!

Please go find a legitimate news site discussing said copyright law change, and then maybe we can have a real conversation not tainted by blog colorings. Also, the law passed on the 20th in Japan, meaning international news sites have had 2 days for it to percolate and reflect their own coverage, yet so far? Nada. Might be telling us something about it...
 

Griffith

With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
hellrasinbrasin said:
...I personally don't care much for either of those 2 sites but news is news reguardless of who the source is. Until I see the same content posted on tech sites or sites covering anti-piracy legislation I'm going to have to run with what I have to run with. It might not be pretty it might not be nice but it is what it is.

No, it isn't, actually. What it is might be not true, like the time you posted an old email hoax as news when a simple Google search would have clued you in. So, "news is news" except when it isn't, and that utterly depends on the integrity of the source, which is less like Journalism 101 than just common sense. So, the next time you're thinking of posting a story from the Klu Klux Klan & Holocaust Deniers News Network about Obama or copyright news from the Hysterical Internet Leeches With Otherwise No Social Conscience Blog, please consider the source because it DOES matter.
 

Th3Branded0ne

I'll be back.
hellrasinbrasin said:
...I personally don't care much for either of those 2 sites but news is news reguardless of who the source is. Until I see the same content posted on tech sites or sites covering anti-piracy legislation I'm going to have to run with what I have to run with. It might not be pretty it might not be nice but it is what it is.

:griffnotevil:

Sir, you just gave a grave disrespectful statement to the hard working journalists who go after a story and get their facts straight. Please reconsider :azan:
 
This reminds me so much of when we learned that Obama's trip to India cost $200 billion or when we found out that 10% of all Muslims were terrorists. The lies are so much more entertaining when they have numbers behind them.
 

Infinte

They see me rollin', they hatin'.
Groovy Metal Fist said:
This reminds me so much of when we learned that Obama's trip to India cost $200 billion or when we found out that 10% of all Muslims were terrorists. The lies are so much more entertaining when they have numbers behind them.
Wow, that must have been one hell of a trip. :ganishka:

While we are on the topic of copyright laws, it seems that the EU Trade Committee turned down the international version of SOPA which is known as ACTA(Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) but the decision of whether it will be rejected or not lies with the European Parliament. British MEP (Member of the European Parliament) David Martin led the Committee during this decision. "This was not an anti-intellectual property vote. This group believes Europe does have to protect its intellectual property but ACTA was too vague a document," he said.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118038-E-U-Trade-Committee-Rejects-Controversial-ACTA-Bill
 
But we still have CISPA on the horizon.

So let's keep a tally of all these internet bills so far this year: SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, CISPA, the Arizona trolling Bill, the New York surrender your identity Bill, am I missing one?
 
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hellrasinbrasin

Guest
And its no different in Canada as they have their own iteration of laws now.

Source: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6544/125/

Its like these lawmakers are actually encouraging lawlessness by passing
these bills.
 

Kompozinaut

Sylph Sword
Follow up to the Bath salt zombie:

"Tests in cannibalism case: Zombie-like attacker used pot, not 'bath salts'"
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/27/us/florida-cannibal-attack/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

Maybe it's just me, but anyone else think this is utter bullshit? Honestly, I don't like pot and I haven't smoked it since I was in high school, but this just seems like a blatant lie being used as a scare tactic to keep weed in a higher risk classification than it probably warrants (last I heard it was in the same classification as heroine...what?).

I suppose the pot could have been laced with something, but they made absolutely no mention of it. The case sounds like PCP, not pot.
 
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