Pope condemns geneticists ‘who play at being God’ – World – Times Online
Guess the world is still flat.
Maybe the Pope should be condemning war for oil, environmental destruction, etc. Not to belittle the scientific baby steps of genetics but those are ‘un-godly’ acts with some serious consequences.
Typical.
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Shady vultures:
Los Angeles Times: Seniors Get a Hard Sell on Fee-Laden Annuities
These types of brokerage and insurance agents thirsty for a commission really do put on the pressure to sell you that piece of mind. But I suspect that this type of behavior will continue because people fail to realize that a company is not [...]
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In the last two weeks I’ve seen the price at the local gas station raise 3 times to its current $3.13 for 87 octane. WTF, man?! Thats the fucking cheap one. At an ARCO! AND the second week isn’t even over. So finally someone notices:
GOP urges price-gouging probe on [...]
Myspace. Now owned by fox (and over-run with pedophiles and their prey). Let the corporate take-over commence:
MySpace acts to calm teen safety fears
The best part of this article is the whole:
“We do not want users to have any sense that it is corporatised.”
and you thought corporations were sneaky? Yeah it’s My space, its just I’m [...]
I guess it’s like a criminal skipping town and taking on an alias. This company has gone through what five name changes in four to six years, way to stay ahead of the law.
Aliases aside, these folks are shady. Especially in the DSL department.
These corporate greedy swine’s raised the price of my DSL from $24.99 [...]
If I understand what the RIAA is saying, “perfectly lawful” means “lawful until we change our mind.” So your ability to continue to make copies of your own CDs on your own iPod is entirely a matter of their sufferance.
RIAA Changes Their Mind
RIAA at it again. Next thing you know, we’ll have to ask [...]
InformationWeek | Windows Security | Gates Says Security Is Job One For Vista | February 14, 2006
If there is one thing the ‘war on terror’ has taught me it is that security is a big waste of time and resources, that errodes personal autonomy and freedom. This windows Vista is going to be BAD news [...]
The little-known practice, called “throttling” by critics, means Netflix customers who pay the same price for the same service are often treated differently, depending on their rental patterns.
Wired News: Netflix Critics Slam ‘Throttling’
Always suspected they were throttling, but never thought they’d just blatantly add it to their TOS:
In determining priority for shipping and inventory [...]
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When visitors to Walmart.com requested “Planet of the Apes: The Complete TV Series” on DVD, four other movies were recommended under the heading “Similar Items.” Those films included “Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream/Assassination of MLK” and “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.”
Wal-Mart Web Site Makes Racial Connections
That’s just not right [...]
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Race Continues To Rescue Miners
I especially like the math behind this one:
Miners who work in the mine each carry a portable air purifying system which would give them as much as seven hours of clean air
and
Rescue workers had to wait over 11 hours after the explosion before entering the mine
Its gonna take a prayer. [...]
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