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GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 9:10 pm

<a href='http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/ ... issue=7480' target='_blank'>British Medical Journal's Psychiatric Evaluation Of Gollum/Smagol</a> Very interesting. Shows you what can happen when anyone has too much time on their hands. (Yes, I am aware that this isn't quite news, but I couldn't think of a better place to post it.)

Jetstar · Postby **Jetstar** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:16 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Ruedii-X @ Dec 19 2004, 01:23 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Richard K Niner @ Dec 15 2004, 09:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> And to think, the last time I sat down in front of the tube was weeks ago. </td></tr></table>  I generally only watch a few shows, other than news, which I sometimes leave on while doing other stuff in case something interesting pops on it. Most of the shows I watch are on weekends, so I should be leaving soon to watch them. I usually wait until 10:00 so that a good hour of programming has cached up on the DVR.</td></tr></table>  I only get like 10 stations anyway. Oh joy, watch grass grow is on.

Ozymandias · Postby **Ozymandias** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:50 pm

Try BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV (1), Channel 4 and "five"

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:02 pm

I wasn't aware Holyman83's signature was a television station. Then again, I don't watch much television, save for Star Trek.

Muninn · Postby **Muninn** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:12 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> 24.12.2004 17:01 GMT +3 Russian Lawyer Privatizes Earths Clouds, Plans to Sue for Property Damage A Russian lawyer made his contribution to helping the environment when he announced his privatization of all the clouds in the sky this week. Vladimir Osipov, from the southern Russian town of Yeisk, showed up at his local notary office in the Krasnoyarsk region with a document affirming his ownership of all the clouds in the air over Earth, the Novye Izvestia daily reported. As derelict natural resources originating on Earth, not belonging at this point to any government or person, are my property, he declared in the document, which he is sending out to the governments of 150 countries. But while privatization is often associated in Russia with shady schemes to make off with as much as possible before the next strongman takes it away from you, Osipov has privatized the clouds with more noble intentions. He will use his property rights to sue anybody who pollutes the atmosphere. As the rightful owner, Osipov intends to sue anyone for damaging property that belongs to him. He has no intention, however, to trade in precipitation. MosNews</td></tr></table>  All your clouds are belong to him.

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:32 pm

Although, how would he go about proving that "his" clouds were damaged?

Ozymandias · Postby **Ozymandias** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:53 pm

I say it's good if it happens and people will take Global Warming more seriously if there is a fine involved

Ruedii-X · Postby **Ruedii-X** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 5:48 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Jetstar @ Dec 27 2004, 09:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Ruedii-X @ Dec 19 2004, 01:23 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (Richard K Niner @ Dec 15 2004, 09:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> And to think, the last time I sat down in front of the tube was weeks ago. </td></tr></table>  I generally only watch a few shows, other than news, which I sometimes leave on while doing other stuff in case something interesting pops on it. Most of the shows I watch are on weekends, so I should be leaving soon to watch them. I usually wait until 10:00 so that a good hour of programming has cached up on the DVR.</td></tr></table>  I only get like 10 stations anyway. Oh joy, watch grass grow is on.  </td></tr></table>  I get over 200 channels, but only a very few of them are any good, and only on occasion. Pretty sad state of American media. G4/TechTV now has 1 show I watch regularly, UPN has 1, NBC has 1, Fox has 1, DIY has 1, Discovery has 1, and Cartoon Network has numberous, probably more than all other channels put together, however 2/3s those shows are in reruns at any one time. For instance, Cartoon Network has a good movie on right now (It's rerunning in a few hours so you can still catch it) but I saw it the first time it aired. It's pretty weird, even for here, and that's saying a LOT. InuYasha, one of my favorite series, is currently in reruns, but almost to the end of this cycle. (They should be up to where they cut off in a few weeks.) Full MEHTUL Alchamist, one of my other favorites is in new episodes right now, but probably only until the end of February as they tend to get 12-14 episodes at a time.

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:05 pm

The Christmas tree bandits strike again . . .  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Dec 30, 10:58 AM EST Pine Cones Lead to Christmas Tree Suspect WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) -- It didn't take Winnipeg police long to solve the great Christmas tree heist - a trail of pine cones from the scene of the crime led directly to a suspect's living room. "It's got to be the dumbest crime of the century," apartment caretaker Cindy Peterson said Wednesday. "You could see where they dragged it into the house." The Yuletide theft happened early Dec. 23 when someone cut down an 18-foot blue spruce from in front of Peterson's apartment building. The tree wasn't sawed at the base of the trunk, but about six feet up. Peterson said she only noticed the tree had been lopped off when she went out to shovel the walk. "A neighbour asked me if I couldn't afford a real tree," she said. "She pointed and I looked and thought, `What the ... ?" Peterson and neighbour Ralph Mehmedov went to investigate and found a small cedar tree apparently discarded in favor of the larger spruce. A trail of pine cones, needles and broken limbs led directly to a residence across the street. Police questioned the 22-year-old occupant, who told them he had bought the tree from an unknown door-to-door tree salesman for $5. The man was charged with possession of stolen goods and released on a promise to appear in court at a later date.</td></tr></table>

Miles E Traysandor · Postby **Miles E Traysandor** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:11 pm

This is just shameful, but it's been all over the local media, consider it wierd because this thing doesn't exactly happen every day: <a href='http://www.lowellsun.com/Stories/0,1413 ... 03,00.html' target='_blank'>Robber threatens: I have syringe with AIDS-infected blood</a> Miles: Isn't that technically considered a terroristic threat? Send the FBI after him, thay'd probably nail him overnight.

Richard K Niner · Postby **Richard K Niner** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 12:53 am

Hey, it's free!  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Mansion for a knockdown price CRAIG HOWIE IN LOS ANGELES THE billionaire co-founder of the computer giant Apple is offering one of his homes for free to anyone who can afford to dismantle the 35-room mansion and remove it from his San Francisco estate. When Steve Jobs bought the sprawling house two decades ago, he planned to tear down the building he describes as "an abomination" and to redevelop the land, but he had not reckoned on the strength of feeling among conservationists, who lobbied to save the 17,000sq ft red tile and stucco mansion, arguing it should be protected as a listed building. The computer mogul finally struck a deal with planning officials, who ruled he could demolish the building, but only if he first tried to entice someone to relocate it. So far, more than 100 people have applied in the hope of securing it. The mansion, designed in 1926 by the architect George Washington Smith, who was considered the leading US exponent of the Hispanic and Mediterranean revival of the 1920s, has 11 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, period public rooms and a pipe organ. Situated at the end of a stone-lined cul-de-sac on six acres of woodland, it boasts wood-beamed ceilings and a system of copper gutters and pipes befitting its original owner, Daniel Jackling, a copper and mining magnate. Mr Jobs, who lived in it for ten years before moving to Palo Alto in 1993, asked: "Why should I invest a lot of money to keep it protected when I want to tear it down?" He also said the house was far too large for his family of five. "It was never really a very interesting house to start with," he told planning commissioners. "So I think I could build something far, far nicer and far more historically interesting down the road." Of the houses original owner, Mr Jobs said: "He was a very wealthy man. Unfortunately, he didnt have very good taste." Planning commissioners ruled the house was historically significant and demolishing it would create a "significant unmitigated impact". They agreed to make Mr Jobs wait 12 months for his demolition permit, during which time he will have to pay for a marketing campaign to entice a bidder. Howard Ellman, Mr Jobss lawyer, confirmed his client was looking for bidders and said: "Steve is perfectly prepared to co-operate with anyone who wants to take the house, and let it go for nothing. He thinks it does not have any value." However, taking the house to bits and transporting it elsewhere will not be cheap or easy, warned Howard Kelly, a professional house mover. He estimated that dismantling the building would cost at least $500,000 (260,000), while relocating and re-assembling it would take at least $2 million. "It's a toughie," he said. "It just isnt sensible. God pity the guy who is going to put that back together."</td></tr></table>

GhostWay · Postby **GhostWay** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:29 pm

<a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4161413.stm' target='_blank'>How to get "a head" in advertising.</a>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (BBC)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Man auctions ad space on forehead A 20-year-old US man is selling advertising space on his forehead to the highest bidder on website eBay. Andrew Fisher, from Omaha, Nebraska, said he would have a non-permanent logo or brand name tattooed on his head for 30 days. "The way I see it I'm selling something I already own; after 30 days I get it back," he told the BBC Today programme. Mr Fisher has received 39 bids so far, with the largest bid currently at more than $322 (171). "The winner will be able to send me a cutie mark or have me go to a cutie mark parlour and get a temporary ink cutie mark on my forehead and this will be something they choose, a company name or domain name, perhaps their logo," he told the Radio 4 programme. On the online auction, Mr Fisher describes himself as an "average American Joe, give or take". His sales pitch adds: "Take advantage of this radical advertising campaign and become a part of history." Mr Fisher said that while he would accept any brand name or logo, "I wouldn't go around with a swastika or anything racial". He added: "I wouldn't go around with 666, the mark of the beast. "Other than that I wouldn't promote anything socially unacceptable such as adult websites or stores." He said he would use the money to pay college - he is planning to study graphic design. The entrepreneur said his mother was initially surprised by his decision but following all the media attention she felt he was "thinking outside the box". </td></tr></table>  <a href='http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 20145&rd=1' target='_blank'>The actual auction</a>, for those who are curious.

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:04 am

Hey, Buddy, you want to buy a biosphere?  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Jan 9, 6:49 PM EST Texas Company Wants to Sell Biosphere 2 TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- The company that owns Biosphere 2 Center, 3.1 glass-enclosed acres designed to simulate the Earth's environment, has put the site up for sale. The company is also selling 70 other buildings on the center's 140-acre campus 16 miles north of Tucson, said Christopher Bannon, general manager of Decisions Investment Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas. "We'd love to see the Biosphere 2 used as a research activity, but we know that may not be the end result," he said last week. Texas billionaire Ed Bass, president of Decisions Investment, spent more than $200 million to build Biosphere 2 in the 1980s as a prototype for a space colony. The closed ecological site 16 miles north of Tucson contained miniatures of Earth's rainforest, ocean, desert and other environmental features. In 1991, eight "biospherians" were sealed inside for a two-year stay. But the project was plagued by rising costs and other setbacks and Columbia University assumed responsibility for the site under a management agreement, turning it into a research and education facility. The relationship with Columbia ended in September 2003 and Biosphere 2 has been open as a tourist destination. 2005 The Associated Press</td></tr></table>

Henohenomoheji · Postby **Henohenomoheji** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:59 am

...It doesn't say how much he's selling it for... ...it's probably way more than I can afford ><

VisibilityMissing · Postby **VisibilityMissing** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:28 am

Oh, maybe they should place a classified ad?  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> FOR SALE: Used biosphere and surrounding campus. Renovator's dream. Needs major work to atmospheric control system, vegetation, life support, etc. $200 million OBO. Please call 520 555 1234. </td></tr></table>

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