Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 23, 2004 at 5:39:00 PM CEST
Judge gets poetic when deciding you can't be 'drunk driver' on horse
The state Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania's drunken driving law can't be enforced against people on horseback, a decision that inspired the dissenting justice to wax poetic.
Justice Michael Eakin, who is fond of writing rhyming opinions, summed up the lone dissent with two stanzas mimicking the theme song of "Mister Ed" -- a 1960s TV sitcom about a talking horse:
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
but the Vehicle Code does not divorce
its application from, perforce,
a steed as my colleagues said.
"'It's not vague,' I'll say until I'm hoarse,
and whether a car, a truck or horse
this law applies with equal force,
and I'd reverse instead."
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Topic: WERBUNG - on September 23, 2004 at 5:38:00 PM CEST
CVS Offers $4 Off When You Buy Stomach
Some drug store customers in Binghamton, N.Y., are doing a double-take this week when they receive a bonus coupon after making a purchase.
The cash register coupon distributed by a CVS store promises a discount on the customer's next purchase of a stomach.
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Topic: u2blog - on September 23, 2004 at 4:46:00 PM CEST
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Topic: STRANGE - on September 23, 2004 at 4:04:00 PM CEST
Beheadings Rub Shoulders With Pornagraphy In Baghdad DVD Market
In Baghdad's infamous "thieves market," television sets rigged to sound systems broadcast the sights and sounds of tortured hostages, belly dancers, and pornographic movie stars.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on September 23, 2004 at 2:55:00 PM CEST
Gender error could stop marrying 100 times
An Indian man who has vowed to marry 100 times in his life, has found he's on the electoral roll as a female.
Udayanath Dakhina Ray has married 90 times so far and is now appealing to authorities in Orissa to correct their error.
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Topic: TV - on September 23, 2004 at 2:50:00 PM CEST
TV station pay out for dog sex slur
A German TV company has been ordered to pay £2,000 in compensation to a woman they suggested had sex with her dog on a comedy show.
The county court in Cologne ruled in favour of the complainant, who said she had been embarrassed by the comments made by German comic TV presenter Elton.
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Topic: SEX - on September 23, 2004 at 2:44:00 PM CEST
Sex Enhancement Pills Fall Short?
Pro-Erex. Big Daddy. Suregasm. There is little doubt what these supplements are promising, but the evidence that they actually can enlarge a man's penis or enhance sexual performance falls short, consumer advocates said on Wednesday.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, best known for taking the fun out of Chinese take-out and ice cream by revealing how unhealthy such treats are, is now taking on the nonprescription sex supplement industry.
The CSPI filed a complaint on Wednesday with the Federal Trade Commission saying one company, Cincinnati-based Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, had crossed the line in television ads touting its supplement Enzyte.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 23, 2004 at 2:43:00 PM CEST
Internet junkies in chilling cold turkey experiment
If you've ever seen a smack-head handcuffed to a bed gibbering uncontrollably because he can't get a fix, then be afraid, because that's what you'll look like after two weeks of internet-free cold turkey.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 23, 2004 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
US credit card firm fights DDoS attack
US credit card processing firm Authorize.Net is fighting a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that has left it struggling to stay online.
In a statement to users posted yesterday, Authorize.Net said it "continues to experience intermittent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Our system engineers have successfully minimised the impact of each attack and have quickly restored services to affected merchants. Industry experts are onsite and working with Authorize.Net to expedite a resolution. Please be aware that the stability and reliability of the Authorize.Net platform remains our top priority; and we are doing everything we can to restore and maintain secure transaction processing despite these unforeseen attacks."
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Topic: W A R - on September 23, 2004 at 2:39:00 PM CEST
From dart guns to germ aerosols, U.S. Army researched biowarfare
For years, in total secrecy, they studied the black art of bioterrorism.
They designed deadly, silent biological dart guns and hid them in fountain pens and walking sticks. They compressed lethal bacteria into suit buttons that could be worn unnoticed across borders. They rigged light fixtures and car tailpipes to loose an invisible spray of anthrax.
They practiced germ attacks in airports and on the New York subway, tracking air currents and calculating the potential death toll.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 23, 2004 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
Steal an Election with 5 lines of VB Script !!!!
Voting activist Bev Harris and a computer scientist say they found more vulnerabilities in an electronic voting system made by Diebold Election Systems, weaknesses that could allow someone to alter votes in the election this November.
Diebold said Harris' claims are without merit and that if anyone did manage to change votes, a series of checks and balances that election officials perform at the end of an election would detect the changes.
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Topic: TV - on September 23, 2004 at 12:11:00 PM CEST
Oprah car winners hit with hefty tax
Leave it to Uncle Sam to spoil the party
When Oprah Winfrey gave away 276 cars last week to the audience of her show, images of people laughing, jumping, crying -- some hysterically -- filled the airwaves and the give-away became stuff of legend. Late night talk show hosts and newspaper columnists are still talking about it.
But now some of those eager prize-winners have a choice: Fork over $7,000 or give up the car.
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