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Oklahoma lawmaker wants to tax violent video games

Irene — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:57:15 +0000

From KFOR:

More discussion at Slashdot and reddit.

Health care tip

Irene — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:07:52 +0000

Tap Fish Dealer

Irene — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:27:52 +0000

Aasif Mandvi interviews a family that learned an expensive lesson about bringing fish back to life.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Link for the Canadians.

Via reddit.

Hey You!

Irene — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:41:34 +0000

Pepper-spraying cop is a meme now

Irene — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:08:05 +0000

You can view them all on tumblr. You can find a tasteless one here. You can see him trapse through art history and Gawker has a gallery of photos as well.

“Thank you lord Jesus for taking time out of your busy day to allow me to throw a football around and run around on grass and have super loads of fun. I know for a fact that every time I throw the football real good its because you are personally behind it. I am just that special. Its OK, you can admit it. Now just let me get down on this grass for a bit longer while IAUUAHAUAUUAHAGAGAHAGAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

Dilbert on background checks

Irene — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:19:41 +0000

From Dilbert:

Content filtering

Irene — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:25:15 +0000

via 1.00 FTE.

Mandatory Sony update removes your rights

Irene — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:43:16 +0000

Earlier this year, Sony had its Playstation Network (PSN) hacked and it was down for more than a month. Several users brought a class-action lawsuit against Sony and, now, Sony is fighting back. The PSN now has a mandatory upgrade for all users in which part of the TOS forces the user to give up their rights to ever suing Sony again. Sony has gone so far as to suggest that anyone refusing to upgrade will be banned from PSN.

This is Sony’s blatant attempt to remove any responsibility on their part if or when their servers are hacked again. Considering the fact that not only were user names and passwords compromised, but so were credit cards and personal information of its PSN members, Sony should not be allowed to modify its user agreement to get out of paying any legal damages. Unfortunately, it appears that the Supreme Court might side with Sony on this one as they have ruled that a company could force you into, at the very least, arbitration. Note that Canada may already have a law on the books making Section 15 of the new EULA from Sony illegal.

What most users don’t know is that there may be an option to opt out.

It is, however, possible to opt out of the agreement within the next 30 days.

Gamers will now have to try to resolve any legal issues with an arbitrator picked by Sony, before being able to file a lawsuit.

Section 15 of the new EULA describes how this can happen.

RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER WITHIN 30 DAYS. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER IN THIS SECTION 15, YOU MUST NOTIFY SNEI IN WRITING WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE DATE THAT YOU ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR WRITTEN NOTIFICATION MUST BE MAILED TO 6080 CENTER DRIVE, 10 TH FLOOR, LOS ANGELES, CA 90045, ATTN: LEGAL DEPARTMENT/ARBITRATION AND MUST INCLUDE: (1) YOUR NAME, (2) YOUR ADDRESS, (3) YOUR PSN ACCOUNT NUMBER, IF YOU HAVE ONE, AND (4) A CLEAR STATEMENT THAT YOU DO NOT WISH TO RESOLVE DISPUTES WITH ANY SONY ENTITY THROUGH ARBITRATION.

Make sure you remember to write to them via snail mail and keep a copy of your tracking number and receipt for the letter. You can view Section 15 here [pdf] . You can fill out a form letter here.

AT&T and blink-182′s Up All Night Fan Montage

Irene — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:21:25 +0000

This is how you treat your fans.

To launch our first single in eight years, AT&T helped us search YouTube for every instance of fans using our music without our permission. And then we rewarded them for it. This film is made out of clips from all those videos. Thanks for being a fan.

Anti Communist Propaganda

Irene — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:58:49 +0000

Although this is an animated anti-communist film produced by the US in 1948, think about how many of these freedoms we have lost and how many are threatened today, yet we are now told that losing these freedoms is a good thing.

Part of this is funny because they use capitalist and capitalistic instead of capitalism as they are attempting to make a point that all “isms” are evil and wrong.