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Stop Palin Now

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:44:00 -0400

Certain wack-jobs have attempted to smear Barack Obama by claiming he's actually a Muslim whose presidency would open the door for some kind of Islamic invasion of America. Anyone who pays attention knows, however, that the real threat is not from Islamic fundamentalists but Christian ones. They're already right here in our country, are single-minded of purpose and have lots of wealth and power and influence - and now have a representative who, after November's election, could be one chicken-bone away from the presidency. I'm talking of course about Sarah Palin who is a member of the Wasilla Assembly of God church, a church described as being "deeply involved" with a nutty movement called The Third Wave, which is currently brainwashing scads of young people into becoming soldiers in a war to "rise up and battle evil and retake the earth for God." These people are truly fucked-up and I hope the media go all-out in exposing Sarah Palin's association with them. The public needs to know what kind of crazed mind-fucked lunatics are attempting to infiltrate the highest levels of government. I have thus far avoided picking a candidate in this race but now it's clear - we must vote for Barack Obama to defeat Sarah Palin and her fellow fundamentalist maniacs or the United States will take another giant step toward becoming a Fascist theocracy.

It's Frozen Like That...

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:16:00 -0400

Renee Zellweger finally went too far with the Botox treatments and now her face is permanently frozen in this look of squinty-eyed wannabe cuteness. Are those cheeks or giant pustules of some kind?

Spot the Female

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:19:00 -0400

I'm stumped.

It Ain't Halloween Yet, Bitch...

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:22:00 -0400

Who takes their kids out dressed in costumes on any other day but Halloween? And Michael Jackson doesn't count.

No Nips

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:23:00 -0400

Justin Timberlake did a routine with Beyonce and didn't rip her dress or wig off. Is Justin going for some kind of Tom Jones look there? Sorry honey - you ain't Tom and you will never be Tom. Tom Jones has more testosterone in one of his fingernail shavings than Timberlake has in his whole body.

A Pledge for Help - And a Vacation

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:57:01 -0400

Hope you folks are having a great weekend! I'm typing this up as I leave for a long-awaited vacation in a couple of hours, but I needed to inform you about 2 things before I leave! The first is a pledge for help, where I request you to be generous and donate for a life of a young mother Lakshmi, who needs to be operated within 5-6 months. She is currently prescribed heavy dosage of medicines to sustain. Lakshmi is 28 years old and suffers from Coronary Artery disease. She has two children,...

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Get One For Your Very Own...

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:33:00 -0400

Noel Cruz designs Angelina Jolie dolls and sells them for up to $3,000 each. Here's his website. He's also selling dolls of Annie Lennox, Keira Snoozley and - my favorite - Daniel Craig. If someone wants to buy me a Daniel Craig doll and send it to me I'm all for it - as long as it's life-sized, anatomically correct and actually alive. Do they design dolls like that with extra-tight assholes and no mouths? Cause that would be perfect. If I had $3,000 I would buy an Angelina doll and do horrible things to it with a vice and a power drill.

Now, Stephanie Rice copies ex by going on a marathon booze bender!

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:13:00 -0400

It seems that Stephanie Rice is following in her ex-beau Eamon Sullivan’s footsteps – as she enjoyed her single status with long booze sessions.

The 20-year-old swimming sensation was seen enjoying long boozing sessions in Bungalow 8 and Loft bars at King Street Wharf.

Yesterday only reports had surfaced that Sullivan had dived into Scubar and Kinselas and picked up a barmaid pal – all in one night.

Now, in case of Rice, she enjoyed dinner and drinks with friends below deck at Bungalow until closing time at 11pm, then kicked on upstairs till the wee hours at Loft, according to reports.

"The guys behind the bar thought she was gorgeous and is welcome back any time," the Daily Telegraph quoted a source, as saying.

Meanwhile, Rice is all set to make her small screen debut with Seven''s Make Me A Supermodel this week. (ANI)

Software that lets a chopper learn aerial tricks by watching another

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:12:00 -0400

Just like birds learn to fly by watching other birds, helicopters can also learn complex aerial tricks and manoeuvres by looking at each other, thanks to a piece of software written by Stanford University computer scientists.

The researchers have revealed that their software could learn and flawlessly replicate more than 20 years of radio-controlled helicopter expertise in just 10 minutes.

Though the software is not specific to choppers, the researchers have revealed that they have been approached by private companies to make helicopters choppers that can monitor humanitarian disasters, track wildfires or locate land mines.

"The goal was to take an off-the-shelf helicopter and write a program to fly it as good as an expert," Discovery News quoted Adam Coates, one of the scientist involved in the project, as saying.

"We are now more accurate and consistent than an expert human-piloted helicopter," added Pieter Abbeel, another Stanford scientist involved with the project.

The researchers have revealed that they decided to work with helicopters because they are inherently unstable.

"The dynamics of helicopter flight are incredibly complicated; blades are flexing, air is churning, etc. It''s simply too complex for us to map out mathematically," said Coates.

The researchers have revealed that instead of directly teaching a helicopter, their software lets the computers teach themselves with the aid of data gathered through a host of sensors and equipment.

The helicopters themselves are equipped with accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers that monitor a helicopter''s speed, acceleration, direction and a host of other variables. Ground-based video and positioning instruments gather more data about the helicopter''s performance.

The data collected from ground and air are later fed into a computer for analysis.

According to the research group, a larger helicopter could carry the entire instrument and analysis package.

While the cameras rolled and instruments recorded, Garett Oku, an expert radio-controlled helicopter pilot, sent one helicopter into a series of flips, rolls, twists and other complex maneuvers.

The researchers say that their software can even let a helicopter to learn "tic toc", a difficult aerial trick where the helicopter''s nose points straight up and it swings side to side like a pendulum.

During the tests conducted to determine the efficacy of the software, a helicopter flew the same 10-minute routine several times.

Ten minutes after the final demonstration flight, the computer had turned the helicopter’s 20 years of training and experience into data that another helicopter then used to create flawless flights, one after another.

"For an expert helicopter pilot to fly the same exact path over and over is very impressive. Some of them spend years trying to do it," said Coates.

Professor Eric Feron of Georgia Tech, who worked on autonomous helicopters several years ago when he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), says that the Stanford team has pushed the limits of autonomous helicopter flight and computer programming.

"What I''m most impressed with is the learning part, the ability of the algorithm to learn and to fly and then to reproduce that in another aircraft. No one had done that before," he said.

The computer algorithm can only copy the moves of a human pilot, and it cannot think independently or creatively.

However, still, both Coates and Abbeel believe that that is certainly a possibility for the future. (ANI)

Unilateral US strikes in Pak won’t help war against terror: Pak envoy to US

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:10:00 -0400

Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani has said that Angoor Adda like actions by US forces in Pakistani territory would not be of any help to the war against terror, instead it would spark wrath and fury among the people.

“It doesn’t behoove America taking such unilateral actions especially, when no terrorist was caught,” The News quoted Haqqani as saying.

He underscored the need of making the Pakistani people understand the US stance at this hour, as such actions could breed hatred among the people.

We do not want any such action denting the ties between the two countries, Haqqani added.

On Wednesday, US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan had carried out a pre-dawn helicopter-borne raid that killed at least 20 people in a village in South Waziristan.

Meanwhile, US military officials have reportedly said that strikes in Pakistan’s FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) will increase in the coming months as “such cross-border raids were necessary” to counter increasing violence in Afghanistan.

Reacting to the attack, Gen Tariq Majid, the Chairman of Pakistan Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) has said that his country reserves the right to appropriately retaliate against unilateral attacks by coalition forces from Afghanistan.

Condemning the attack by US forces at Angoor Adda, the CJCSC said that such cross-border strikes would alienate locals. He also said that Afghanistan was leveling allegations against Pakistan to “cover its failures”.

Earlier, Pakistan''''s Senate on Thursday adopted a unanimous resolution strongly condemning the attack. The resolution mentioned that the raid undermined the basic norms of international law.

The Senate resolution further said that any incursion inside the Pakistani territory and resulting loss of innocent lives was “unacceptable” and that this matter may be taken up strongly with member countries of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the coalition forces in Afghanistan.

The Senate called upon the government of Pakistan to take all necessary measures to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country and repel such attacks in the future with full force.

The same day, the country’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi also strongly condemned the attack describing it as “shameful and unprovoked”. He warned that such actions “could endanger Pakistan''''s cooperation with the coalition forces”, and added that Pakistan has set up to 1000 check posts along its border with Afghanistan to check movement of militants.

He said that there was no known terrorist when the U.S.-led coalition forces attacked the Pakistani area and killed innocent people including women and children. (ANI)