Decius wrote:
] Dude, you're wanted by the FBI for connections to terrorism!
] Muslims aren't the bloodthirsty, barbaric terrorists that the
] news media and the televangelists talk about, you are!*

Oh my.. This is the winning quote:

In the meantime, I had become obsessed with demonic Heavy Metal music, something the rest of my family (as I now realize, rightfully so) was not happy with. My entire life was focused on expanding my music collection. I eschewed personal cleanliness and let my room reach an unbelievable state of disarray. My relationship with my parents became strained, although only intermittently so. I am sorry even as I write this.

Ahem.. :) Hear that America? Heavy Metal music leads to terrorism. Really. This is the proof we have been looking for. This is all because of mistakes during the 80's. Its all true. Great White got exactly what they had coming. Remember, that Walker character was into hip-hop. Clearly American culture is devoid of any morals. Shesh. Its all been downhill since disco.

Where is that fine line between a Metal Head growing a mp3 collection, and a terrorist plotting to destroy America? [u: likely answer: A pre-2001 trip to Afghanistan.] Were the Columbine kids terrorists waiting to happen? Will Metallica soon breakup like KMFDM did in the wake of the shootings? If apprehended with a sizable mp3 collection, will this lead to more RIAA lawsuits? Why are all the non-arab terrorists from California when New Jersey is similarly shaped? The answers to these questions and other's coming soon.. Stay tuned to this same terror channel, same terror time..

[I LOVE the demonic heavy metal music... I think I know some terrorists.... -jessica]

RE: FBI searches for Stoner - Metal Head - Islamic Terrorist

] NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Rival street gangs the Crips and
] Bloods have agreed to a truce in Newark, New Jersey,
] aimed at stemming the violence that has plagued the city
] and gone too far for even the gang members, officials
] said Tuesday.

Crips and Bloods gangs agree truce

Police in New Jersey have seized items of Michael Jackson memorabilia, including a pair of Calvin Klein underpants.

Police say the items might be used in the child molestation case against the beleagured pop superstar.

Monmouth County prosecutor, Robert Honecker, said the items had been secured by forensic unit detectives in early March.

The seizure followed a request from the district attorney in Santa Barbara County, California, where Jackson lives.

The memorabilia belonged to Henry Vaccaro who, according to Honecker, acquired the items several years ago as part of a lawsuit settlement.

Used underware as a lawsuit settlement? WTF ?!?! Why do celeb trials have to be such a freaking spectacle?

POLICE GRAB JACKO'S UNDIES

]
] JERSEY CITY, March 22 - Addressing concerns that
] terrorists could bring nuclear weapons or traditional
] explosives into the country in containerized cargo,
] federal customs officials said Monday that New York and
] New Jersey ports would be the first to have technology to
] scan every truck leaving American ports.

Truck Scanners Coming to All Port Terminals

] County attorney David Morris said that programming work
] for the day-care center had been outsourced to the
] locally-based Genesee Community College. The manager of
] the college's program refused to speak to a reporter, but
] Morris said Dennis was a third party consultant hired by
] Genesee. Dennis, in turn, used RentACoder to once again
] subcontract the database work, which ultimately fell to a
] New Jersey-based programmer.
]
]
] By that time, the programmer actually working on the
] day-care data was four steps removed from the county's
] social services program.

[ it's pretty amazing how easily data can make its way from places it should be, onto the internet, for all to see. i wonder just how "tricky" this formatting issue must have been for it to have required so much outsourced help. crimony. -k]

MSNBC - Government agency exposes day-care data

] Last month, an east Texas man pleaded guilty to
] possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Inside the
] home and storage facilities of William Krar,
] investigators found a sodium-cyanide bomb capable of
] killing thousands, more than a hundred explosives, half a
] million rounds of ammunition, dozens of illegal weapons,
] and a mound of white-supremacist and antigovernment
] literature.

] The case began in the fall of 2002 when a package bound
] for New Jersey was misdelivered to a New York address.
] The family inadvertently opened the package and found
] fake identification badges, including Department of
] Defense and United Nations IDs. The FBI eventually tracked
] the package back to Mr. Krar in Noonday, Texas.

] Featherston speculates that the Krar case got little
] attention because the arrests were made just after the
] war began in Iraq. "Excuse me, a chemical weapon was
] found in the home state of George Bush," says Levitas.
] "I'm not saying the Justice Department deliberately decided
] to downplay the story because they thought it might be
] embarrassing to the US government if weapons of mass
] destruction were found in America before they were found
] in Iraq. But I am saying it was a mistake not to give this
] higher profile."

Yes, we grow loonies too.

The terror threat at home, often overlooked | csmonitor.com

] "Perl turned sweet 16 yesterday. 'Larry Wall released
] Perl 1 on this day in 1987, so today Perl is 16 years
] old. Happy birthday Perl! You can read more about the
] timeline of Perl releases in perlhist.pod and at
] history.perl.org.' Happy birthday Perl! You are now old
] enough to get a US drivers license."

16 is not old enough to get a drivers license in New Jersey. I had to wait till I was 17. More importantally, Perl has passed the age of consent almost everywhere.

Slashdot | Perl is Sweet Sixteen

] LAKEWOOD -- The culprits behind swastikas spray-painted
] around an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood off Route 9
] remained unknown yesterday but the incident reverberated
] across the township and the state.
]
] "There is clearly a problem in Lakewood," said Shai
] Goldstein, director of the New Jersey Anti-Defamation
] League. "9/11 didn't begin with box cutters and the
] Holocaust didn't begin with gas chambers. Both of them
] started with words."

I miss Lakewood.

Asbury Park Press | Story

"ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Anyone who has ever watched a cop catch a bad guy on television likely has this constitutional right committed to memory: If you can't afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.

But a new Minnesota law that requires poor people to pay as much as $200 for this privilege is under attack by public defenders and some judges, who contend that it undermines the 40-year-old legal tenet established by the U.S. Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainwright.

Minnesota is one of a growing number of states facing enormous budget deficits that are beginning to charge indigents for their constitutional right to legal representation. States including Arkansas, Ohio and New Jersey charge the poor $10 to $200 for lawyers -- fees that proponents argue are nominal and allow everyone to share the burden. Maryland charges adults $50 and juveniles $25; the District and Virginia do not charge. "

Besides being obviously unconstitutional, it acts as a compounded tax on whatever the fine is.

Right to an Attorney Comes at a Price

Yeah, you need to have a registration, but it's quick and free -- use a hotmail account. Article makes some interesting statements.

First about modern amercan business:
] "The quintessential American company was Enron, which
] made nothing," said Neal Gabler, author of "Life the
] Movie." In today's culture, he added, "the product is
] almost immaterial; it's the consciousness about it."

then touching on digital morality (and then a major reason why being a computer professional has lost it's cache):
] "What the Internet does is, it pries everything out of
] moral context and lets people feel knowing about it," he
] said, because the skills used to cut and paste something
] with a computer are more valued than those used to
] manufacture it.

and we can't forget the FUCKING MORON ON THE STREET section:
] On a recent morning on Canal Street, crowds of shoppers,
] most past their undergraduate years, brought the metaphor
] to life, plucking up fake Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Kate
] Spade handbags. A New Jersey woman named Linda Dorian,
] plumping for two bootleg Vuittons, compared her purchases
] to downloading music. "Somehow everybody seems to be
] making out," she said. "I don't see any poor rock stars.
] I don't see any poor designers."

This lady is why file sharing is as big a problem as it is, not because of geeks and college students. There's no poor rock stars, you moron, because the "STARS" already sold a lot of records. But poor musicians are out of sight and out of mind.

Beyond File-Sharing, a Nation of Copiers