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He was from Bakersfield... I would do pretty much anything to get out of Bakersfield too.
No half-sentence taken out of context has ever been this wrong on this Forum.
In August Russia also passed another law that required bloggers (that have more than 3k something (visits or visitors, not sure & lazy to check)) to voluntarily register at an official organization by providing their name, ID number and phone number. Until now only 49 bloggers did this.Russia passed a law that requires an ID to connect to a public WiFi and the wifi providers to store this information.
No source really since it was on local news, but Google it
Welcome to North Korea
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...-daniel-zeitz_n_5829460.html?utm_hp_ref=crime
16 year old with 16 month baby kills MLG gamer over PS4.
North Koreans enjoy the best human rights regime of any country, according to a 53,000-word report issued this month by authorities in the Hermit Kingdom.
According to North Korea, these were "serious misunderstandings." The country, it says, actually "has the world's most advantageous human rights system."
Yeah, being gay isn't a human right - very advantageous system...Kirby "is a disgusting old lecher with a 40-odd-year-long career of homosexuality," said an official commentary published in the country's Central News Agency. "This practice can never be found in the DPRK? In fact it is ridiculous for a gay to sponsor dealing with others' human rights issues."
The full list of winners this year:
PHYSICS: Kiyoshi Mabuchi, of Kitasato University, Japan, and colleagues, for measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and between a banana skin and the floor, when a person steps on a banana skin that's on the floor.
NEUROSCIENCE: Kang Lee, of the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues for trying to understand what happens in the brains of people who see the face of Jesus in a piece of toast.
PSYCHOLOGY: Peter Jonason, of the University of Western Sydney, Australia, and colleagues for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.
PUBLIC HEALTH: Jaroslav Flegr, of Charles University, Czech Republic, and colleagues for investigating whether it is mentally hazardous for a human being to own a cat.
BIOLOGY: Vlastimil Hart, of the Czech University of Life Sciences, and colleagues for carefully documenting that when dogs defecate and urinate, they prefer to align their body axis with Earth's north-south geomagnetic field lines.
ART: Marina de Tommaso, of the University of Bari, Italy, and colleagues for measuring the relative pain people suffer while looking at an ugly painting, rather than a pretty painting, while being shot [in the hand] by a powerful laser beam.
ECONOMICS: The Italian government's National Institute of Statistics, for proudly taking the lead in fulfilling the European Union mandate for each country to increase the official size of its national economy by including revenues from prostitution, illegal drug sales, smuggling, and all other unlawful financial transactions between willing participants.
MEDICINE: Ian Humphreys, of Michigan State University, US, and colleagues, for treating "uncontrollable" nosebleeds, using the method of nasal-packing-with-strips-of-cured-pork.
ARCTIC SCIENCE: Eigil Reimers, of the University of Oslo, Norway, and colleagues, for testing how reindeer react to seeing humans who are disguised as polar bears.
NUTRITION: Raquel Rubio, of IRTA, Spain, and colleagues, for their study titled "Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages."
The Beeb said:Kiyoshi Mabuchi's Japanese team measured the friction of banana skin in the lab, and showed why apple and orange peel are not quite so hazardous. The Kitasato University group received the physics Ig for their insights.
It is another classic of its type. The awards, which are run by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research, can seem quite ridiculous at first. But when you delve deeper, you often see a serious intention beyond just the tongue in cheek.
The Japanese scientists are interested in how friction and lubrication affect the movement of our limbs. The polysaccharide follicular gels that give banana skins their slippery properties are also found in the membranes where our bones meet.
"This concept will help to design a joint prosthesis," Kiyoshi Mabuchi told BBC News.
Beep-Boop-Beep said:Another winner this year was the study that examined the brains of people who see the face of Jesus and other figures in slices of toast. The work won the neuroscience Ig.
Kang Lee, from the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues showed their subjects pictures of "noise" - like the random speckles you used to get on old, out-of-tune TVs - to see what patterns the volunteers would identify. This tendency to see order in randomness - like a face in the charred areas of a piece of bread - is a well-established phenomenon called pareidolia. Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Lee and his team saw how the same parts of the brain light up when we see non-existent faces as when we see real ones.
"Interestingly, when you superimpose all the noise images where these people say they see faces, and subtract all the noise images in which they told us they couldn't see faces - when we do this type of image processing, a face does actually show up," Prof Lee said. The Toronto scientist explained that this type of pattern recognition was hard-wired, and even chimps experienced it.
"The face you are going to see is determined by your personal expectations or beliefs," he added.
"So, for example, Buddhists might not see Jesus on toast, but they might see a Buddha on toast."
Todays newspaper was fooled by the 4chan scam
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/24/emma_watson_nude_photo_leak_scam_was_marketing_firm/Register said:A mysterious "marketing firm" calling itself Rantic has been fingered as the architect of a fake threat to leak nude images of the Harry Potter starlet.
The internet was set alight this week by rumours that 4chan nutjobs were planning to release Watson's intimate pics as revenge for a speech she gave to the UN, in which she asked men to embrace feminism.
A website called EmmaYouAreNext launched soon after, featuring a picture of the starlet crying alongside a timer ticking down to the moment when the pictures would be splurged.
But now the website is gone and visitors are instead forwarded to Rantic.com, which claims to be the homepage of a marketing firm which wants 4chan banned.
"We have been hired by celebrity publicists to bring this disgusting issue to attention," "Rantic" wrote. "The recent 4chan celebrity nude leaks in the past 2 months have been an invasion of privacy and is also clear indication that the internet NEEDS to be censored. Every Facebook like, share & Twitter mention will count as a social signature -- and will be one step closer to shutting down www.**********. "
But even this is starting to look like a stunt. According to this Reddit post, Rantic.com and emmayouarenext.com are hosted on the same server. Both are apparently linked to Fox Weekly ? no connection to the Fox Entertainment Group or 21st Century Fox, though we imagine they'd hope you'd think so.
"The mainstream media have allowed themselves to be used in a viral marketing scheme," one Reddit poster claimed.