Now with twice your daily requirement of WHARRGARBL.
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So this is downright special:
There’s this search engine called ISOHunt, which lets you search (among other things) BitTorrent sites. You will not be shocked, dear reader, to hear that a search engine which crawls torrents will occasionally turn up copyrighted material, and you will also not be shocked to hear that the ISOHunt folks have been threatened by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. Reasoning that abusus non tollit usum, the ISOHunt folks brought a petition against the CRIA. As it stands, the B.C. Supreme Court is in a position to decide whether search engines that can uncover what the article calls “legally questionable files” — which, yes, includes Google — are as responsible for copyright infringement as their users.
I’m not particularly sanguine about this.
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That was asinine. This is nauseating:
Generally speaking, when I reference Benjamin Franklin’s quotation about essential liberty and temporary security, it takes at least a little bit of mental effort directly to connect whatever I’m mocking to a liberty/safety trade. This time, though, Hillary Clinton’s making it far too easy for me:
The United States will continue to press China on issues such as Tibet, Taiwan and human rights, she told reporters accompanying her.
“Successive administrations and Chinese governments have been poised back and forth on these issues, and we have to continue to press them. But our pressing on those issues can’t interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis, and the security crisis,” she told reporters in Seoul, South Korea.
*headdesk*
Fucking coward.
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Next, we find this gem:
- Cybercop: No good reason for adults to own Animal Crossing (GamePolitics)
Seems as how the evil demons that live inside video games have been branching out. They’re not just turning wholesome and innocent teenagers into black-trenchcoated spree killers — now they’re turning perfectly normal adults into pædophiles.
“There is no reason an adult should have [Animal Crossing: City Folk],” says Andy Anderson, Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force.
Anderson says adults playing “Animal Crossing” and similar games are likely doing it for the wrong reasons.
Thought you were having fun with that game, didja? Anderson knows better than you. You might think you’re having fun, but you’re really trying to hunt down and rape little children — whether you realize it or not. Maybe you should be playing something more wholesome, like Army of Two.
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Finally, we discover that Florida’s dumbworm community is doing exceptionally well despite the recession:
(Hat tip to the Mad Rocket Scientist)
[Senator Nan] Rich’s legislation would target only those who derived or helped others derive ‘’sexual gratification” from an animal, specifying that conventional dog-judging contests and animal-husbandry practices are permissible.
That last provision tripped up Miami Democratic Sen. Larcenia Bullard.
”People are taking these animals as their husbands? What’s husbandry?” she asked. Some senators stifled their laughter as Sen. Charlie Dean, an Inverness Republican, explained that husbandry is raising and caring for animals. Bullard didn’t get it.
”So that maybe was the reason the lady was so upset about that monkey?” Bullard asked, referring to a Connecticut case where a woman’s suburban chimpanzee went mad and was shot.
With lawmakers like this, no wonder Florida has its own tag on Fark.com.
SRSLY – what should we expect from a woman whose parents thought it would be a good idea to name their daughter after the Latin word (latrocinium) for robbery?
FL dumbworms must be of a remarkably debilitating and virulent type.
Heh. When I read the “animal husbandry” story on Janeen’s RSS feed my first thought was, “Yet another reason Florida has its own Fark tag.”
I love your parental advisory and that ONOZ gif.