My inbox and spam are leet
Caught the moment when my inbox and my spam reached 1337 status at the same time
God gave us coal
Wikipedia is being censored in the UK
This is the picture that UK authorities are saying amounts to child porn
The cover of the Scorpions’ album Virgin Killer is more than 30 years
old, and only now the UK authorities thought of what is on the cover.
Never mind the fact that the album can easily be purchased by UK
residents at Amazon.com and that its cover is visible to UK residents
on Amazon and other sites.
What a step backwards…
RIIA sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient
I read the article on slashdot
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/07/2024205&from=rss
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/18160365/detail.html#
A young Pittsburgh woman who needs a transplant has another fight on
her hands. She’s being sued by the music industry for illegally
downloading music from the Internet.
But 19-year-old Ciara Sauro strongly denies the charge and says she
and her mother are overwhelmed with medical debts.
“Look and see where it (the downloads) came from, and look and see
that it’s not me. It’s not fair to do to me,” said Sauro.
Sauro, who lives in Ross Township, is disabled with pancreatitis. She
needs an islet cell transplant and is hospitalized weekly.
Because she didn’t defend herself against a copyright lawsuit, a
federal judge in Pittsburgh ruled she’s a music pirate, and that could
cost the Sauros almost $8,000 in fines.
“I already have severe depression. I mean, it’s so hard to sit there
and think that I have to get in trouble for something that I didn’t
do. It’s not fair,” Sauro said.
Sauro and her mother, Lisa, are being sued for the fines because they
didn’t challenge a music industry lawsuit in Pittsburgh federal court.
The lawsuit accuses Ciara Sauro of illegally sharing 10 songs online
with strangers through free Internet software.
“You want to know the truth? I make $8.25 an hour. She can’t work.
This child is very sick. I mean, what am I supposed to do?” Lisa Sauro
said.
The Sauros said they’ve lived in their home since Ciara’s father moved
out. They claim the Internet account in the lawsuit was opened by him
at his new address.
“I just want them to know that I have to go through enough stress in
my life with my sickness and my family, and I don’t think that they
should go after people just because they want money for something
that’s not even fair to us,” Ciara Sauro said.
Attorney James Brink told WTAE Channel 4 Action News that he’s
offering to represent the Sauros for free and ask a judge to reopen
the case.
Brink, who has defended other similar lawsuits, said the persons being
sued only have so many days to respond before a judge enters a default
judgment. He also said it’s common for people to be intimidated by the
legal documents.
“A lay person getting this – first of all, it’s 60 pages thick,” he
said. “It’s full of legalese and jargon from the company. They see the
record company suing them for thousands of dollars. They get scared.”
An attorney who represents the record companies in the lawsuit against
the Sauros did not return phone calls for comment Monday.
It’s really amazing to me that the RIIA would go after people like
Ciara Sauro. Their image is already bad as it is, but this is sinking
to new lows for them.
Quand je pisse, je pense
Latvian Economist arrested for being “too pessimistic”
That the Latvian economy is in shambles is no news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7760440.stm
Latvia’s security police arrested the economist, Dmitrijs Smirnovs,
for telling people “Don’t keep money in banks, and don’t keep money in
lats (the Latvian currency). The reason given for the arrest was
"Financial system destabilization”. We was in prison for 48 hours,
being questioned on why he was telling people to withdraw their
savings and not keep their money in the local currency.
For the moment the economist can not leave the country, and is still
under investigation by the “authorities”. According to an interview he
now says he will be more careful about his statements “I don’t want to
go to prison.”
Doctor preforms amputation by SMS
“Vascular surgeon David Nott performed a life-saving amputation on a
boy in DR Congo following instructions sent by text message from a
colleague in London. The boy’s left arm had been ripped off and was
badly infected and gangrenous; there were just 6in (15cm) of the boy’s
arm remaining, much of the surrounding muscle had died and there was
little skin to fold over the wound. ‘He had about two or three days to
live when I saw him,’ Nott said. Nott, volunteering with the medical
charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, knew he needed to perform a
forequarter amputation requiring removal of the collar bone and
shoulder blade and contacted Professor Meirion Thomas at London’s
Royal Marsden Hospital, who had performed the operation before. 'I
texted him and he texted back step by step instructions on how to do
it,’ Nott said.”
read some of the comments:
WASSUP CUT ARM STCH SKN ! BL0D. LOL
He intended to do a prostate exam, so it’s not quite as good as it sounds.
Taken from the text logs:
MK UR FST CT ALNG CLR BON WTH STRLZD RZR K?
Things got a little dangerous when another text message came in from
his wife mid operation.
U WANT LEG OR SHOLDER CUT FOR DINR?
Heh, but still some great work. It’s tragic though that there’s still
a dearth of medical facilities in some countries and life-saving
make-do operations like this are common. Kudos to Medicines Sans
Frontiers for doing what our own governments should be doing.
What exactly _is_ the emoticon for 'cut off limb X’?
:->-..^..
this
one
DN: hai r u awake?? im wrkn, ths guys missn heaps of his arm, wwyd?
MT: lol sup? tru tru… kk well ur guna need 2 do a 4 ¼ amp. req rm
of the cola bone n shlda blde.
DN: yea nm nm…… ok so txt me how
MT: ok is he there now?
DN: no im at home
MT: txt me wen u get there k?
I heard the doctor actually texted full instructions on how to
reattach the arm but after 151 characters it got cut off.
Verizon takes an arm and leg for text messages every month, so
amputation by text message isn’t anything new.
Enough talking, ACT NOW!
This week in Europe
Hungary finance or economy minister has no idea what is going on
Poland is a joke, PM and PResident can’t agree on meeting
Italian’s Germans and Pole have no interest in the climate change
Tunisians can’t whistle the French athem