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by MongoTheMad
Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:05 am
Forum: front-page news
Topic: Proposition 8
Replies: 58
Views: 3854

Re: Proposition 8

Joe, I like what you write. If you took the time to create 20 pages supporting your views, I would take the time and read it all - every word of it. Responding to your post: 1. There are some laws that appear to be taken from the Bible and reworded, but I know what you are implying - that when the l...
by MongoTheMad
Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:06 am
Forum: front-page news
Topic: Proposition 8
Replies: 58
Views: 3854

Re: Proposition 8

Unlike most here, I am glad Prop 8 remained intact. The majority of citizens in California wanted it that way. To even impose that our laws and government should be entrusted to legislature and not determined through the citizens' vote would be catastrophic. For example, what would have happened if ...
by MongoTheMad
Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:51 am
Forum: news and current events
Topic: Channel 4 reports on Jiffy Lube
Replies: 14
Views: 1428

Channel 4 reports on Jiffy Lube

Channel 4 news finds out that 5 out of 9 Jiffy Lubes never do the work they claim to do on your car.

http://mfile.akamai.com/12924/wmv/vod.i ... 3.200k.asx
by MongoTheMad
Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:44 pm
Forum: news and current events
Topic: Fleeing shoplifter forgets son
Replies: 3
Views: 542

Fleeing shoplifter forgets son

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A shoplifter looking to make a quick getaway from a Dutch supermarket after stealing a packet of meat left police a crucial piece of evidence -- his 12-year-old son.
How unfortunate! Tip #1 for shoplifters: leave the kids at home!

source: here
by MongoTheMad
Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:44 pm
Forum: news and current events
Topic: Man auctions his life
Replies: 8
Views: 742

Man auctions his life

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A man in Australia is auctioning his life -- his house, his job, his clothes and his friends -- on eBay, after his marriage broke up, saying he wants to start a new life. "Hi there, my name is Ian Usher, and I have had enough of my life! I don't want it any more! You can hav...
by MongoTheMad
Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:36 pm
Forum: front-page news
Topic: US government to search for terrorists on World of Warcraft
Replies: 4
Views: 704

Re: US government to search for terrorists on World of Warcraft

This is the best excuse I have found to play video games at work!
by MongoTheMad
Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:58 pm
Forum: news and current events
Topic: It's official: mail is slow as snails
Replies: 10
Views: 743

It's official: mail is slow as snails

WARSAW (Reuters) - It's official. Postal delivery is as slow as snails, at least in Poland. An IT worker, after receiving a letter on January 3 that was sent on December 20 as priority mail, calculated that a snail would have made it even faster to his home than the letter. Daily Gazeta Wyborcza sai...
by MongoTheMad
Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:32 pm
Forum: front-page news
Topic: Waving at girls costs man his arm
Replies: 9
Views: 841

Waving at girls costs man his arm

CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian man who waved out of a car window at two young women was expected to lose his arm Monday after it was almost severed by another passing vehicle. The 20-year-old was a passenger in a pick-up truck at Bunbury, in Western Australia state, when he waved at two women in...
by MongoTheMad
Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:48 pm
Forum: front-page news
Topic: Death Cat Begins Gonzales Vigil
Replies: 3
Views: 812

Funny, good find. Perhaps, though that he was planted there.
by MongoTheMad
Sun May 13, 2007 2:09 pm
Forum: front-page news
Topic: you will have to Out live this Hard drive to crack the code
Replies: 6
Views: 571

I think its just a new challenge for hackers.

Harddisk: "Hey, you broke that now try to break me. Oh wait, I am hard to break :p"
Hacker: "Just you wait..."
by MongoTheMad
Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:13 pm
Forum: news and current events
Topic: Dell to expand linux options
Replies: 0
Views: 534

Dell to expand linux options

Your feedback on Dell IdeaStorm has been astounding. Thank you! We hear your requests for desktops and notebooks with Linux. We’re crafting product offerings in response, but we’d like a little more direct feedback from you: your preferences, your desires. We recognize some people prefer notebooks o...
by MongoTheMad
Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:05 pm
Forum: front-page news
Topic: merry xmas
Replies: 69
Views: 3287

Moogle, I don't know what you are complaining about. I shave every day (except for holidays - it my face's day off.) Anyway for Christmas I got: $500 from my parents $20 from grand parents Clothes A pocket watch This had to be the best Christmas ever for me. In fact, its the fourth actual Christmas ...
by MongoTheMad
Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:22 am
Forum: news and current events
Topic: Gates briefs Bush on Iraq visit
Replies: 0
Views: 454

Gates briefs Bush on Iraq visit

New US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has briefed President George W Bush about his recent trip to Iraq, as the White House considers a policy shift. Mr Gates went to the presidential retreat at Camp David, near Washington, to report on his three days in Iraq. Mr Bush has conceded that the US is not...
by MongoTheMad
Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:50 pm
Forum: front-page news
Topic: James Kim Body Found..
Replies: 18
Views: 1091

heh, I know a guy named James Kim. thought you were talking about him instead of the techtv guy.