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Last login: 1 hour agoDarwinsLilHelper: DarwinsLilHelper is a 29 year old single guy from Melbourne, Florida, USA.; Likes 4,619 pages, 40 videos, 36 photos • 287 fans • Received 27 reviews; Member since Oct 20, 2003

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Will Salt Water Replace Fossil Fuels &Solve the Worlds Energy Crisis? | The Dail…: 6:05am 1 review alternative-energy
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/09/will-salt-water.html; From the page: "To his surprise, he discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn. This discovery has scientists around the world excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel."

You're Just Not Meant To Leave Some Facebook Groups: May 10, 4:52pm 1 review humor
http://www.photobasement.com/youre-just-not-meant-to-leave-some-facebook-groups/

Dead Elephant - instant bumperstrip campaign!: May 10, 4:40pm 6 reviews counterculture
http://www.deadelephant.org/

http://www.viruz.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/caffeine-curve.jpg: May 10, 4:37pm 65 reviews humor
http://www.viruz.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/caffeine-curve.jpg

Next Big Future: You say inVitro meat, yuck. But eat deep fried meat slurry, cor…: May 10, 4:35pm 20 reviews health, mcdonalds, chicken-mcnuggets
http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/05/invitro-meat-chicken-nuggets-and-meat.html; From the page: "
Many people have an initial reaction that invitro meat would be yucky and they do not want it. However, people already eat meat slurry in fairly large quantities.

Meat slurry is mechanically separated meat (MSM), also known as mechanically recovered/reclaimed meat (MRM), is a paste-like meat product produced by forcing beef, pork or chicken bones, with attached edible meat, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue. Then this is mixed with water to make it more easily fed through tubes.

Meat slurry is part of chicken nuggets (like at McDonalds) The meat part is mainly reconstituted meat slurry. Then there is chicken skin. Most of a chicken nugget (56%) is corn."

Comics - Explosm.net: May 10, 8:19am 5 reviews dictionary, comedy, merriam-webster
http://www.explosm.net/comics/1273/

Daily Kos: Hillarys "white Americans" comment causing a quick firestorm (Updated…: May 9, 10:59am 2 reviews politics, racism, hillary-clinton
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/8/124118/7190/790/511780; From the page: "Let's examine those premises. These are white Democrats we're talking about, voters who generally share the party's philosophy. So why would these Democrats refuse to vote for a nominee running on Democratic principles against a self-described conservative Republican? The answer, which Clinton implies but doesn't quite come out and say, is that Obama is black -- and that white people who are not wealthy are irredeemably racist."

NYT Editorial Board: McCain = Bush - The Seminal :: Independent Media and Poli…: May 9, 10:02am 2 reviews politics
http://www.theseminal.com/2008/05/09/nyt-editorial-board-mccain-bush/; From the page: "The United States needs a clean break from eight catastrophic years of George W. Bush. And so far, Senator John McCain is shaping up as Bush the Sequel" never ending war in Iraq, tax cuts for the rich while the middle class struggles, courts packed with right-wing activists intent on undoing decades of progress in civil rights, civil liberties and other vital areas."

Grizzly polar bear hybrid | Grolar bear | Sebastian Lander in Alaska | Ben & Jer…: May 9, 8:13am 3 reviews environment
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/special_events/green_week/article11...; From the page: "And he delivered a stark warning of what the future holds. He believes that by THIS summer there could be no ice at the North Pole.

Dr Divoky told The Sun at the Ben & Jerry's Climate Change College: "Having seen things, I would never be surprised if in 2008 the summer ice disappears.

"This has never happened in the period of human observation. We will know it when it happens and we will have to deal with that."

House passes bill that will let the RIAA take away your home for downloading mus…: May 9, 5:32am 4 reviews copyright, piracy, riaa, cory-doctrow
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/09/house-passes-bill-th.html; Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 9, 2008 3:15 AM | permalink
Glenn sez,

I was just alerted that the House of Reps has passed HR 4279, with the lovely name, PRO-IP (Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008). Like the doublespeak PATRIOT Act and Peacekeeper missiles, PRO-IP puts local law enforcement in a position to demand the forfeiture in criminal proceedings of stuff used to violate copyright. Which means that instead of the RIAA simply trying to collect fines, they can also incite local authorities to collect all the computers and related gear that was used to pirate.

This isn't a judgment on my part as to whether piracy is good or bad (I think copyright deserves to be protected through reasonable methods), but I am always horrified when civil enforcement morphs into criminal enforcement. Conservatives and liberals should be up in arms alike that local prosecutors and/or police could intervene as they desire in essentially a private affair arranged by the RIAA, and permanently seize thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in private property in addition to any civil penalties.

If this bill is passed in its present form by the Senate and signed, that means there's no more pro forma RIAA lawsuit payoffs, because if you wind up settling with the RIAA, you could still lose all your stuff in addition to any fee you paid them.

This is particularly irksome in light of the MSN Music shutdown, about which the EFF has written a strong and powerful letter. It is increasingly likely a normal person could have purchased music legally from an online site, burned it to an ordinary audio CD, and in the right set of circumstances be branded a pirate because the original "granting" authority no longer exists to prove that the consumer was a legitimate purchasers.

The more the law is constructed to sweep in folks who are absolutely observant of it, the more we need broader protections.

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