[Non-political] News that makes you Laugh/Cry/Both...

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Thu Jan 09, 2014 5:25 am

I am, somewhat impressed with SL's ability to put in the work to get pretty good plagiariazed answers.

Obviously, part of this whole fiasco seems to be that he is being a troll (for whatever reason) but the work he puts in to do this is, at the least, noteworthy.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Thu Jan 09, 2014 5:54 am

Maj wrote:It's like he's a hollow shell that walks and talks.

It's hard to be both hollow and full of shit, but he seems to manage it.

TiaC · Post by **TiaC** » Thu Jan 09, 2014 6:44 am

Koumei wrote:
Maj wrote:It's like he's a hollow shell that walks and talks.
It's hard to be both hollow and full of shit, but he seems to manage it.

Full of other people's shit to be precise.

erik · Post by **erik** » Thu Jan 09, 2014 1:11 pm

Cynic wrote:I am, somewhat impressed with SL's ability to put in the work to get pretty good plagiariazed answers.

Obviously, part of this whole fiasco seems to be that he is being a troll (for whatever reason) but the work he puts in to do this is, at the least, noteworthy.

Yeah. At least his quote snapping was largely coherent. And that he was doing it in a conversation about authorship and SL was outright saying his work is plagiarism makes me think the interviewer is a dummy who didn't get it.

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:28 pm

The withered almond tree has blossomed.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:50 am

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:44 am

Retired Fla. officer Curtis Reeves tells moviegoer to stop texting, then fatally shoots him, police say

(AP) WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. -- A retired Tampa Police captain is accused of fatally shooting a man Monday during an argument over cellphone texting at a Florida theater, as about 25 horrified moviegoers looked on.

"Somebody throws popcorn. I'm not sure who threw the popcorn," said Charles Cummings, who, as a birthday treat, was about to watch the movie "Lone Survivor" at The Grove 16 Theater.

"And then bang, he was shot."

Curtis Reeves, 71, has been charged with second-degree murder and it's not immediately clear whether he has retained an attorney.

Pasco County Sheriff's officials said the shooting happened when Reeves asked 43-year-old Chad Oulson to stop texting at the theater in Wesley Chapel, a suburb about a half hour north of downtown Tampa.

Reeves and his wife were sitting behind Oulson and his wife. Oulson told Reeves that he was texting with his 3-year-old daughter, Cummings said.

"It ended almost as quickly as it started," said sheriff's spokesman Doug Tobin. The sheriff's office says an off-duty Sumter County deputy detained Reeves until police arrived.

Cummings and his son Alex -- who both had blood on their clothes as they walked out of the theater -- told a group of reporters Monday afternoon that the show was still in previews when the two couples started arguing.

Cummings said the man in the back row -- later identified as Reeves -- got up and left the auditorium, presumably to get a manager. But he came back after a few minutes, without a manager and appearing upset. Moments later, the argument between the two men resumed, and the man in the front row stood up.

Officials said Oulson asked Reeves if he reported him to management for using his phone.

Cummings said the men started raising their voices and popcorn was thrown. Authorities said Reeves took out a gun, and Oulson's wife put her hand over her husband, and that's when Reeves fired his weapon, striking Nichole Oulson in the hand and her husband in the chest.

"I can't believe people would bring a pistol, a gun, to a movie," Cummings said. "I can't believe they would argue and fight and shoot one another over popcorn. Over a cellphone."

Cummings, who said he was a combat Marine in Vietnam, said Oulson fell onto him and his son.

"Blood started coming out of his mouth," said Alex Cummings. "It was just a very bad scene."

Charles Cummings said his son went to call 911, while Cummings and another patron who claimed to a nurse began performing CPR on the victim.

A man sitting next to the shooter grabbed the gun out of his hand, and the suspect did not attempt to get away, Cummings said.

Oulson and his wife were taken by ambulance to a Tampa-area hospital, where the Chad Oulson died, Tobin said. His wife's injuries weren't considered life-threatening.

Tampa Police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said in a news release that Reeves was a captain when he retired from the department in 1993. She added that he was instrumental in establishing the agency's first tactical response team. After he retired, Reeves worked security for the Busch Gardens theme park and was on the board of a neighboring county's Crime Stoppers organization. Reeves' son also is a Tampa officer, police said.

Source

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 4:08 am

"I can't believe people would bring a pistol, a gun, to a movie," Cummings said. "I can't believe they would argue and fight and shoot one another over popcorn. Over a cellphone."

Funny, so far as I can tell, Cummings seems to come from this country, he should be familiar with America's particular brand of complete fucking insanity.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 4:53 pm

Doctor sentenced to death for stealing newborn babies in China:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-25723863

Mass produced clone-pigs in China. They're being used to study human diseases, and have been altered in various ways.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25576718

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:56 am

Magic the Gathering the Movie... coming soon.

Corsair114 · Post by **Corsair114** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:41 pm

Not quite the hanging gardens, but still pretty spiffy.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:29 pm

http://www.gizmag.com/first-plastic-art ... les/30460/

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 4:37 pm

http://www.enterprisepub.com/dakotacoun ... 0f31a.html

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:18 am

Man, all the things that went through my head between reading the url, and then the headline, and I didn't guess what it actually was.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 2:04 pm

Police officer ripped off 16y.o. boy's balls. WTF, USA?

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 3:29 pm

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-1 ... e-persists

Again, WTF USA?

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:59 pm

Totally less bad than ruptured testicles and firing squads, but still... WTF, USA?

Cashew Cheese recalled because of potential salmonella contamination

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:22 pm

Protip: never ever under any circumstances read or link to anything on zerohedge, because they have no credibility.

So for example, zerohedge opens the story:

zerohedge wrote:Chalk this one up to US (f)austerity, and a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bull that forgot to add Pentobarbital among the billions in pork spending.

Does this have anything to do with austerity? No.
Does this have anything to do with the federal budget? No.
Does this have anything to do with "pork" spending? No.

There is a shortage of pentobarbital for executions because the people who make it won't sell it for use in executions anymore. The company is based in Denmark and now has more restrictive rules on what auspices they are allowed to sell that stuff for. Now, the proposals to bring back firing squads in Wyoming and Missouri are just that: proposals. So far they are proposals by one member of each state's legislature.

Linking zerohedge is about one step above linking to David Icke.

-Username17

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:04 pm

Maj wrote:Totally less bad than ruptured testicles and firing squads, but still... WTF, USA?

Cashew Cheese recalled because of potential salmonella contamination

Huh? A cheese manufacturer voluntarily recalled some product that they think may be contaminated with salmonella. I don't understand the problem.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:16 pm

And the suspected point of contamination was in Asia, so it doesn't say much about the USA's food safety. Granted, it does mean that import inspections are insufficient on account of being badly underfunded.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:23 pm

I think it's a little weird that "non-dairy, unpasteurized raw cashew cheese" is an actual thing that exists, and thus can be recalled. But the actual health and safety action seems pretty reasonable.

-Username17

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:30 pm

I dunno about this being evidence of underfunding. It sounds like the system working to me. We could not possibly hope to inspect everything. Having a corporation of their own volition recall a product because they found a contamination upstream in production and out of the country... that's great.

If you want to complain about the FDA then complain about how onerous it is to get new treatments approved. I work with several doctors and the sentiment is unanimous that the FDA is preventing medical advances or at least slowing the U.S. by a decade compared to the rest of the developed world in some fields.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:34 pm

Longes wrote:Police officer ripped off 16y.o. boy's balls. WTF, USA?

Actual thought I had before clicking the link "I haven't heard of this yet, so I bet the kid was black."

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:36 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:I think it's a little weird that "non-dairy, unpasteurized raw cashew cheese" is an actual thing that exists, and thus can be recalled. But the actual health and safety action seems pretty reasonable.

-Username17

Exactly. I don't have a problem with the idea that it was recalled. In cases like this, that's what should happen. But I do think the concept of making cheese out of raw cashews is bizarre. I mean... What does it take to think of something like that? Why cashews? Why not almonds? Or walnuts? Or Brazil nuts (could they finally be put to use as something other than the disgusting nuts no one wants to eat in the mixed nut tin)?

It also really creeps me out when foods not normally associated with bugs like salmonella get contaminated. Just what were those people doing with the cashews? Did they supply raw cashews to anyone else who resold them unroasted? Ew. Just ew.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:56 pm

Ya'll sound naive. The vast majority of frozen pizzas in the US make heavy use of non-dairy cheese analogues, and they often do include things like soy or almond as a base, since cheese is ultimately just a bunch of coagulated fats and proteins that have been introduced to yeast and maybe some acids--there isn't anything particularly more complicated about introducing that crap to almond paste than cow milk. Anyway, cashew based varieties are just one small part of a bigger industry. The reasons that it's done are numerous: we have people who don't eat dairy for dietary, religious or ethical reasons and there's also different sourcing and production costs based involved--for one thing, lots of cheese varieties have melting points that make them really inconvenient to use for many applications even if theoretically the flavor profile would be interesting. A lot of her food purist customers would squeal about it, but my aunt actually makes use of a fair number in various confections just because of the way they hold up to different cooking processes.