Waste waste waste

I am all for capitalism, but this is so stupid I had to post it.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/30/home-india-billion-forbeslife-cx_mw_0430realestate.html

I mean, seriously, wtf?

If I could spend (and wanted to) billions for a HOUSE, I would at least make it look, you know, GOOD.

I am also sure it will look even better among the millions of poor people living nearby.

I am sorry.

I just noticed that not just one, but several of the links to the news section of Yahoo don't work. I don't know if Yahoo just changes/deletes them or if it is a temp issue with Yahoo, but if after a couple of days they still don't work, I will try to post new links wherever I can.

What a bunch of...

So, according to this, one of the major reasons Spitzer paid to have sex with her, because of issues
during his childhood, including a game of monopoly with his father... Many people are upset and surprised that he did something like this.
Simple explanation by yours truly, guy wanted to fuck a young pussy, he could afford it, he did it.
When he apologized, I am sure he meant "I am sorry, I got caught".

He didn't abuse his position to have sex with that "singer".  It was a simple transaction.  He gave her money, she gave him STDs, maybe.

This matter should be just between the three of them.  

The original news item can also be found here, just in case.

Something beautiful happens out there.

While the numbers are small on their own, they are large enough to be, for now, unexplained.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080229-spacecraft-anomaly.html
What makes these spacecraft change their velocity when there is nothing known to us that would do such a thing?
I wonder if it is just an unrefined knowledge of the law of gravity or something completely new.
Fascinating.

Chuck Norris is your master!

Go to Google and type 'find chuck norris' without the quotes and then hit I'm feeling lucky.

(taken from driverheaven.net forums)

2006-7-8-...

Happy new year.

I wonder if the combination of how different and how same the humans are, makes it impossible to have a lasting peace on the planet. It feels like there are two major groups of people, no matter what country they are in. The first is the aggressive one, the one that wants to dominate the others. The other is the more passive one, the one that wants to work things out and avoid violence.
Neither can give up, neither can surrender. Perhaps for peace to rule over all, total war must take place. One side must prevail through fighting. One side must obliterate the other, make it nother but a memory.
Of course that would mean that for the more pacifist side (or better, passive) to change strategy and fight like the other. It doesn't matter if it is the one that wins or not. One side will prevail, peace will be here.
The cost, huge. Is it going to be more than not having one side prevail for the rest of the human future? Would it be better to save say 2 billion people now, and let many more die over the centuries? Is one way more humane than the other? Logical? Ethical?

Starship Troopers

The bugs were real!

Few hundrend years ago, but still!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_sc/biggest_bug_ever