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Britney 'Extremely Upset' in Australia {Popeater}
Nov 9th 2009 9:57AM She's the Sarah Palin of pop.
Ralph Lauren Photoshopped Ad Saga - Model Filippa Hamilton Says She Was Fired for Being Too Fat! {Stylelist}
Oct 15th 2009 10:07AM Oh, won't someone think of the poor models! Please. This girl gets paid tens of thousands of dollars per week to have her picture taken. When she isn't having her picture taken on a beach in the South Pacific, she is vacationing in Italy with her millionaire boyfriend. No sympathy from me.
Wife Shames Cheating Husband During Rush Hour {Lemondrop}
Aug 27th 2009 11:10PM What an idiot. No woman is worth that kind of humiliation.
Poll: Jon Stewart is America's Most Trusted Newsman {Politics Daily}
Jul 24th 2009 10:47AM Bill O'Reilly does not belong on a list of news journalists.
Neither does "Joe the Plumber"(Republican prop) Glenn Beck (raving lunatic) or Mike Huckabee(preacher).
New bags let you keep your laptop stowed for x-ray {Gadling}
Jul 4th 2008 11:36AM Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) can now search laptops, and even copy their entire contents, as a routine part of border searches. The CBP does not need probable cause, or even the lower standard of “reasonable suspicion.”
The government’s legal theory is that it can open a suitcase at the border, so it can force a traveler to open a laptop and reveal passwords and encryption keys as a condition of entering the country. This simplistic legal theory ignores the massive factual difference between a quick glance into a suitcase and the ability to copy a lifetime of files from someone’s laptop, and then examine those files at the government’s leisure.
This policy creates bad precedents that other countries will follow. Even if you trust handing your encryption keys to the United States (insert joke here), would you feel the same way handing the keys for all your communications to anyone else?
Intrusive laptop searches by the United States and other governments would chill free speech. One vivid example is a human rights activist entering or leaving China, perhaps on a religious or other mission that is controversial in that country. The government may say that they would not do such things, but the lack of legal safeguards once again means that we must simply trust the government not to misuse its power.
Foreign tourists and business people do not like the idea of having their hard drives copied at the border, and will decide to do business elsewhere. International conferences and conventions will choose to locate elsewhere. If laptop searches were vital to the fight against terrorism, then we would hear about the tremendous success of this program in thwarting terrorist plots. None of the available cases, however, are about terrorism-related investigations.
CPB has refused to acknowledge any limits on its discretion to search laptops, Blackberries, cameras, iPods, and other computing devices whenever someone enters or leaves the country.
Is Rush a Draft Dodger? {Politics Daily}
Oct 5th 2007 5:06PM Rush is a polionidal cyst on the ass of America.
