Archive for July 16th, 2003

Dog Fight

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glasscastle - July 16, 2003 @ 10:01 pm · ESL Links

Hawaii-based bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman
failed to appear in Puerto Vallarta as required under his bail conditions
and became a fugitive despite turning up in Los Angeles, where he insisted
to the television cameras that he was on the side of law and order.

"This might be good for a TV script but not for reality," said
Marco Roberto Juarez, a state prosecutor in Puerto Vallarta who is preparing
to ask for his extradition. "We are going to make this a precedent
to show that you can’t just come here and do this kind of thing with
impunity."

Mexican
bounty hunter Pedro "Perro" Chaparal heads to LA….

Funny George Carlin post on the War

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glasscastle - July 16, 2003 @ 9:48 pm · ESL Links

“Well, who were the last white people you can remember that we bombed? In
fact, can you remember any white people we ever bombed? The Germans! That’s
it! Those are the only ones. And that was only because they were tryin’ to
cut in on our action. They wanted to dominate the world.”

Bullshit! That’s our job.

Copyright Inkjet Cartridges

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glasscastle - July 16, 2003 @ 9:19 pm · ESL Links

My inkjet printer needs new cartridges. Went to Microcenter to find combined price for black and color $65. For $20 more I can buy a brand new printer, complete with new cartridges.

Can’t I just use a third-party product or refill my old cartridges? Not if I have a Lexmark, which has added copyright protected code to their printers which make them inoperable with third-party ink. Now the North Carolina legislature has approved a measure which guarantees the consumer’s right to refill ink cartridges.

from Slashdot

I Think Different, Just Not That Different

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glasscastle - July 16, 2003 @ 9:03 pm · ESL Links

Interesting if bizarre photo-essay of Mac Addicts devoted enough
to get Mac iconography tatooed on various parts of their bodies.

by
The Apple Collection from The Cartoonist

 

Gov Excoriates ‘Two-Way’ Programs

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glasscastle - July 16, 2003 @ 9:22 am · ESL Links

Massachusetts Govenor Mitt Romney yesterday chastised
the Legislature for loosening the state’s new voter-approved English immersion
law, branding it an act of ”unfathomable arrogance” and vowing to oust
legislators
who backed the move.. The Legislature on Monday voted to exempt
”two-way”
programs, a form of bilingual education in which students of different
cultures learn each other’s languages simultaneously, from Romneys cuts.

from the Globe….

Novel Small Penis Defense

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glasscastle - July 16, 2003 @ 12:13 am · ESL Links

Defense: Flashing charge physically impossible

EASTON, PA – Robert Peters, a 47-year-old locksmith from Bangor is accused of exposing himself to a client on June 12, 2002, while making a house call in Bethlehem. Peters’ trial began Monday. The victim testified that she and Peters were sipping tea after he finished installing a deadbolt lock when she saw Peters’ semi-erect penis sticking three inches past the bottom of his shorts.

That’s impossible, according to defense attorney Gary Asteak.

“She’s mistaken,” Asteak said. “He’s not that big.”