Das menschliche Genom ist ~3.120.000.000 Basenpaare lang, also die Hälfte davon (1.560.000.000) in jedem Spermium. Jedes dieser Basenpaare kann ein A-T oder eine G-C Verbindung haben, aber auch umgekehrt. Das bedeutet es gibt 4 Möglichkeiten die Basen zu verbinden. Diese kann man zum Beispiel in Datenbits darstellen:

• 00 = G
• 01 = C
• 10 = A
• 11 = T

Der durchschnittliche Mann lässt pro "Schuss" etwa 50 bis 500 Millionen Spermien ab. Nehmen wir für unser Beispiel mal an es wären 200 Millonen. Wenn wir all diese Informationen nehmen und alles zusammenrechnen haben wir 1,560*10^9 * 2 Bits * 2,00*10^8. Wenn man den ganzen Zusammenfassscheiß macht kommt zum Schluss 6,24*10^17 raus, pro Schuss.

Das sind 78.000 TERABYTE!

Man könnte die gesamte Amerikanische Kongressbibliothek in die paar Tropfen quetschen und hätte immer noch ca. 57.000 Terabyte über. Dein Schwanz hat also eine größere Bandbreite als jede Internetverbindung die jemals existiert hat und in nächster Zukunft existiert. Wenn man damit im Internet surfen könnte, wäre man in der Lage in einer Minute den gesamten Rapidshare-Server leerzusaugen. (4,5 Petabyte)

Warum wird es nicht funktionieren?


Gott wusste wir würden diese Verbindung nur dafür benutzen Pornos runterzuladen.

Star Wars Eine neue Hoffnung Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen; Zusammenfassung

Luke Skywalker Harry Potter ist eine Waisenkind, der mit seinem Onkel und seiner Tante in der Abgeschiedenheit Tattoines einer Vorstadt lebt.

Er wird vom weisen, bärtigen Jedi-Ritter Zauberer Ben Kenobi Hagrit vor den Aliens Muggels gerettet.

Ben Hagrit erzählt Luke Harry, dass sein Vater auch ein Jedi-Ritter Zauberer war und der beste Pilot Quiddich Spieler den er jemals gesehen hat.

Luke Harry wird darin unterrichtet wie er das Lichtschwert die Tarnkappe benutzen kann und er trainiert, damit er auch ein Jedi Zauberer wird.

Luke Harry bestreitet viele Abenteuer in der Galaxie Hogwarts und bekommt viele neue Freunde so wie Han Solo Ron und Prinzessin Lea Hermine.

Während des Kampfes um den Todesstern Quiddich-Matchs, bemerkt er, dass er selber auch ein aussergewöhnlicher X-Wing-Pilot Sucher ist, indem er einen direkten Treffer landet den Schnatz fängt und den Rebellen Gryffindor einen Sieg gegen die bösen Mächte Slytherins beschert.

Luke erkennt die Bedrohung durch Darth Vader Lord Voldemort, der seinen Onkel und seine Tante Eltern getötet hat.

Luke und seine Freunde erhalten am Ende die Ehrenmedaille den Hauspokal.

Das ganze wird von einem orchestralen Score von John Williams abgerundet.

Mittlerweile werden die umstrittenen Elektroschockpistolen, umgangssprachlich als „Taser“ bezeichnet, von 13 Landespolizeien benutzt, berichtet Technology Review. Sie werden derzeit „aber nur von den Spezialeinheiten der Polizei eingesetzt“, sagt Hans Damm, Leiter des polizeitechnischen Instituts der Deutschen Hochschule der Polizei in Münster.

Mediziner der Wake Forest University in North Carolina prüften im Rahmen einer vom National Institute of Justice in Auftrag gegebenen Großstudie letztes Jahr 1.000 reale Einsatzfälle. Demnach liegt das Verletzungsrisiko bei etwa 23 Prozent, der Großteil der Schädigungen sei jedoch leicht. Studienleiter William Bozeman warnt trotzdem: „Der Taser ist eine Waffe und kann Verletzungen verursachen – und in manchen Fällen auch zum Tod führen.“

Doch die Kritik richtet sich nicht allein gegen die potenziell tödliche Wirkung. Menschenrechtsorganisationen beklagen, das die Waffe auch bei geringfügigen Vergehen und Gehorsamsverweigerung eingesetzt würde. Mittlerweile gibt es in den Tasern eine Vorrichtung, die es erlaubt, einen Einsatz zu rekonstruieren. So gibt das neue Modell X26 beim Abschuss der Pfeile nummerierte Plättchen frei, die den Schützen identifizieren. Des weiteren verrät eine Anzeige oberhalb des Knaufs Zeitpunkt, Anzahl und Dauer der Elektroschüsse.


Tendenziell sind nicht-tödliche Waffen ja schon ne feine Sache, aber die neubritonischen Medien haben jawohl gezeigt, dass diese Waffen, dann auch bei jeder Kleinigkeit eingesetzt werden. Z.B. in Oregon, Vancouver oder Minnesota


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Öhm für alle die nicht so ein der Amerikanischen Comedyszene drin stecken: Jimmy Kimmel ist der Freund von Sarah Silvermann. Sarah hat zusammen mit Matt Damon das Lied "I'm fucking Matt Damon" aufgenommen. Das ist Jimmy Kimmels Antwort:



Ben Affleck, Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford, Cameron Diaz, Joan Jett, Macy Gray, Robin Williams, Don Cheadle, Pete Wentz, Perry Farrell, Benji und Joel Madden, Lance Bass, Huey Lewis, Josh Groban, McLovin, Christina Applegate, Rebecca Romijn, Dominic Monaghan und Meatloaf wurden bereits identifiziert...

Und nachdem sie ihn abwürgen, wird ein Buch vorgestellt: "Captain Kirk's Guide to Women" *lolol*

Ich fand es immer schwer mich vollkommen in die geistige Landschaft eines Terroristen hineinzuversetzen. Letzten Mittwoch spielte ich 'Halo 3' online und adaptierte schnell und mit großem Erfolg terroristische Taktiken inklusive Selbstsprengung.

Jetzt muss ich etwas klarstellen. Es ist ein Faktum das ein Haufen Teenager duzende Stunden in der Woche 'Halo' spielen. Sie werden unfassbar gut darin. Sie können mich mit einem einzelnen Kopfschuss über die halbe Karte töten, oder wie fanatisch in Kreisen herum hüpfen und mich dabei perforieren, während es für mich unmöglich ist einen Treffer zu landen - sie pulverisieren mich.

Ich kann diese Dinge nicht! Ich habe nicht so viel Zeit wie sie zum üben. Ich bin Erwachsen, habe viele Hobbys: lesen, schreiben, verarbeiten und mein Freundeskreis ist unüberschaubar groß geworden. Also schaffe ich es vielleicht 1 Stunde an einem guten Tag zu spielen.

Ich bin im Onlinevergleich so scheiße, dass ich schon extra schlechte Spieler suche um nicht wieder und wieder abgeschlachtet zu werden. Nach ein paar Stunden hatte ich die rituelle Erniedrigung satt. Ich werde mich Rächen!

Immer wenn ich unter den Beschuss eines überlegenen Spielers gerate, höre ich auf mich zu ducken und vor den Kugeln wegzulaufen. Statt dessen drehe ich mich um und laufe gradewegs auf ihn zu.Während ich in die Fratze des Todes blicke, grelle Warnlichter gepaart mit unzähligen Geräusche meine Wahrnehmung penetrieren und mein Healthmeter rapide gegen null sink ziehe ich meine beste Waffe.

Kurz bevor mein zerfetztes Onlineabbild zu Boden sinkt, lasse ich die Plasmagranate fallen.
Ich werde sterben, aber dieses Arschloch auch - 1 Sekunde später geht die Granate los.

Vom Respawnpoint (dort wo man wieder ins Spiel eintritt) krümmt
sich das Licht einer Explosion über den Berg, der die verfeindeten Lager trennt.


---> You killed someone from beyond the grave <---


Nachdem ich dieses Manöver ein paar mal abgezogen hatte, traf es mich wie ein Schlag:
Ich hatte unbewusst die Taktik eines Selbstmörders kopiert. Es ist nicht so das ich mein Leben für den Tod eines Anderen geben würde, aber ich begriff die Vorteile der Asymetrischen Kriegsführung.

Alles in allem wollen die wirklich elitären Halo-Spieler nicht sterben. Wenn sie zu oft sterben gewinnen sie die Runde nicht, wenn sie die Runde nicht gewinnen, werden sie nicht in der XBox-Live-Rank aufsteigen und für diese Wichser gehts nur ums aufsteigen.

Ich habe eine komplett andere Psychologie. Ich weiß ich bin der Underdog. Ich werde wahrscheinlich sowieso irgendwie getötet. Ich werde niemals im Ranking aufsteigen. In der Ökonomie von 'Halo 3' bin ich arm.

Besonders in Bezug auf die Zeit. Die besten Spieler haben viel Zeit ihr Talent zu fördern - ich habe diesen Luxus nicht. Dieser Faktor verändert die relative Bedeutung des Todes für uns beide. Sterben wird mich nicht so hart bestrafen wie es ihn bestraft. Ich habe keine Chance meinen Status zu verbessern. Wahrscheinlich ziehe ich noch Spieler mit mir runter.

Die Struktur von Xbox-Live erschafft eine Zweiklassenwelt - Haber und Nicht-Haber. Wie der richtigen Welt sind manche der Nicht-Haber bereit ihr Leben wegzuwerfen um nur einen winzigen Moment zufrieden damit zu sein, den Fortschritt der Haber aufgehalten zu haben.

Etwas an diesem Spiel gab mir einen 'Aha'-Moment. Die Fähigkeit die strategische Logik und die emotionale Berechenbarkeit hinter eines solchen Aktes einzusehen.

Und ich dachte, ich wäre der einzige, der Obi-knobi sagt.

How To Create An Invisible Folder

It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.

It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.

Until now it had been assumed that cancer cells used glycolysis because their mitochondria were irreparably damaged. However, Michelakis’s experiments prove this is not the case, because DCA reawakened the mitochondria in cancer cells. The cells then withered and died (Cancer Cell, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.10.020).

Michelakis suggests that the switch to glycolysis as an energy source occurs when cells in the middle of an abnormal but benign lump don’t get enough oxygen for their mitochondria to work properly (see diagram). In order to survive, they switch off their mitochondria and start producing energy through glycolysis.

Crucially, though, mitochondria do another job in cells: they activate apoptosis, the process by which abnormal cells self-destruct. When cells switch mitochondria off, they become “immortal”, outliving other cells in the tumour and so becoming dominant. Once reawakened by DCA, mitochondria reactivate apoptosis and order the abnormal cells to die.

Warum kommen solche Sachen eigentlich nie in den Nachrichten?

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Former Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra has torn into the RIAA, likening them to the mafia, threatening to leave a horse’s head in the beds of old women and children alike, whilst destroying the education of student file-sharers. Don’t even get him started on the media: “Goebbels would be proud” he said.

Born Eric Reed Boucher in 1958, Jello Biafra is no stranger to controversy. He first became well known as songwriter and lead vocalist with the band Dead Kennedys. The band split in 1986 but 1998 saw the start of a six year battle over the royalties to the band’s music. No doubt this was a miserable experience, so maybe Biafra’s outburst this week was to be expected.

In a translated interview with Norway’s Aftenposten entitled “Goebbels Would Be Proud”, Biafra tells us a little bit about how he feels about the RIAA, big record labels and even the media. He isn’t pulling any punches either.

“I have two different opinions on file-sharing” says Biafra, drawing a metaphorical line in the sand - with good (small labels) on one side, and bad (big labels) on the other.

“You may take from the big labels,” he orders, “because the only thing they do is steal from both the artists and the audience.” Not many would disagree with you there, Jello.

The ‘good’ side are the small guys, explains Biafra to potential file-sharers: “Don’t take from the smaller, independent labels. Then fantastic bands would have to surrender way too early, because they can’t afford it,” he says, whilst completely forgetting that popularity fills concerts and downloads are a good way to achieve that these days. According to MAMA Group who manage the Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand, future profit is there to be unlocked - and it lies in the live concert. Popularity through free downloads could be the key to these, time will tell.

“Support the independent labels, but the big ones –fuck’em. Anyways, I haven’t found anything in many years which come from a large label worth buying” says Biafra, as he tosses aside his attacks on singular big labels and gets his teeth into the collective might of the RIAA:

“The RIAA reminds me most of the Godfather,” Biafra says, tipping his head to the side and changing his voice to Marlon Brando mode:

“We will sue you. If you want out of this without going to court, we can make an arrangement: Give us $5000. If not, you will find a horses head in your bed.”

Suddenly he is back to being Jello Biafra again, and talks about why RIAA action against file-sharers is wrong: “They are doing this to 12 year old girls, they are doing it to 80 year old women, and they do it to students. There are plenty of examples that show people having to quit school because they had to give all their money to the recording industry instead,” he says gravely.

Biafra then explains that he doesn’t do any downloading himself as he doesn’t have a computer before launching himself at the media: “It’s so dumb, that even the American edition of CNN is just a bunch of right-twisted parrots babbling about the primary elections, letting the war in Iraq pass in silence. Then it is up to the artists to fill the void.”

Then, in a final show of support for the small guy, Biafra concludes: “When smaller performers express their political views they are gagged. But when Mel Gibson or Arnold Schwarzenegger does it, then it’s okay. Because they fit better into the media profile.”

“Goebbels would be proud.”

For those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s a RIAA training video, that may give some insight into the organization.

Wie kann man denn die RIAA mit Goebbels vergleichen? Der arme Mann wird im Grab rotieren.

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There are plenty of parties here at the conference, and they're usually not the best source of news. So imagine our surprise when we read this morning that Valve used their party on Wednesday night to let it slip that Jonathan Coulton's brilliant song "Still Alive" would be available as DLC on Rock Band.

As if that weren't face-meltingly cool enough, the announcement was made by Harmonix staffers who took to the stage to play the song on their Rock Band instruments alongside Coulton himself. When is it coming? We don't know. Will it been soon enough? No. It will not.

This was a triumph
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.



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Scientology abuses eBay's VeRO program to practice religious, price discrimination

By the time Bill (not his real name) left the Church of Scientology a few years ago, he had amassed quite a collection of Scientology material—mostly books, tapes, e-meters. But ex-members of Scientology (especially staff members) find themselves in a difficult spot in this regard when they leave Scientology: their books, tapes, and e-meters are only valued by Scientologists, who, quite inconveniently, are strongly discouraged (read: disallowed) from communicating with ex-members—as any ex-Scientologist will tell you.

Not surprisingly, he turned to eBay, where a Scientologist buyer can remain blissfully unaware that his seller is a declared suppressive person. But every time he attempts to sell his e-meter on eBay, the listing is removed within hours by the Church of Scientology, which claims that the listing violates their intellectual property rights.

See screenshots of the auctions while they were up here [update; personal info redacted] and here, and respective "Invalid Item" eBay pages here and here. And it’s not just Bill—I’ve watched numerous e-meter listings from other sellers removed before they even receive a bid.

If you’re uninitiated to eBay, you’d probably think that for each of these removals, the Church of Scientology informs eBay of the violation of its rights, eBay considers the merits of their argument, and then only then does eBay yank the listing. But that’s not what happens at all. Instead, eBay effectively deputizes Scientology, which logs into eBay and removes the listings itself.

The mechanism that permits the Church of Scientology (and others) such broad access and discretion is called the Verified Rights Owner ("VeRO") Program. Membership in VeRO is obtained simply by submitting a form to eBay explaining that you are an Intellectual Property rights holder.

It should come as little surprise that VeRO members routinely overreach, as the cost of challenging a listing removal is almost always prohibitive. The VeRO Program makes a great deal of sense for some types of listings—counterfeit Rolexes and Gucci handbags appear on eBay with such frequent regularity that those companies would be hard pressed to handle these trademark violations any other way.

But Bill's e-meters (and the e-meters other ex-Scientologists have attempted to sell on eBay) are not counterfeits and do not violate the Church of Scientology's trademarks, patents, or copyrights. Some sellers have even included the serial number found at the bottom of each e-meter in their listings in order to authenticate them. There is no source confusion, as every seller whose e-meters have been removed have made it clear that they took the photo of the e-meter, and that they are not affiliated with the Church of Scientology. Patent law doesn't prevent the resale of patented items, and patent law barely covers e-meters anyway, the first having run out years ago and the 2000 patent only covering "improvements" on the "Quantum" e-meter. And copyright law barely applies here—all of the listings I've observed have been originally written, for one thing, and regardless, Scientology (from what I can gather) has only issued VeRO complaints under patent and trademark bases.

In short, the Church of Scientology is at least constructively aware that the e-meters being listed on eBay are authentic, and so have no basis under trademark—or under any other intellectual property basis, for removing these listings. What's actually going on here is that Scientology is abusing eBay's VeRO program, knowingly alleging Intellectual Property violations that clearly don't exist, so that they can limit the secondary market for e-Meters, controlling both the price and who can get them.

It shouldn’t shock anyone that Scientology is trying to limit (if not eliminate) the secondary marketplace for e-meters, since they have a strong motivation to control the price on e-meters from their own production line (they update to a newer more expensive model every few years), and a strong motivation to control to whom they're sold. The economic motivation should be clear enough—Scientology doesn't want what few members it has being exposed to a secondary market because it would undermine their monopoly on a prohibitively expensive and infrequently purchased item.

Scientology's other motivation for wanting to be the only game in town is intrinsically cultish—it has long perpetuated the idea that e-meters should never be used outside of the auspices of the Church. In other words, not only should Scientology be the sole sale source, but it should also be able to dictate every element of the post-sale environment—who can use it, how it can be used, etc. If e-meters are being sold on eBay, it doesn't know the purchaser and can't therefore control how and by whom it's used.

Indeed, the warning label at the bottom of each e-meter demonstrates the kind of control to which I’m referring. The need for a label came about after the FDA took offense at Scientology’s claim that the e-meter retained medical benefits; the court eventually agreed with the FDA and mandated a disclaimer, which has morphed from the original into the following:

By itself, this meter does nothing. It is solely for the guide of Ministers of the Church in Confessionals and pastoral counseling. The Electrometer is not medically or scientifically capable of improving the health or bodily function of anyone and is for religious use by students and Ministers of the Church of Scientology only. (emphasis added)

But if the Church of Scientology has no real legal basis by which to remove eBay listings of e-meters, why would it assert, under penalty of perjury (as it must do to use eBay’s VeRO program), that it has "good faith belief" that the listing they are removing constitutes an infringement? It's a roll of the dice no doubt, but the odds are in its favor that Bill—like almost anyone else similarly situated—will not sue to have the listing restored, litigation being profoundly cost prohibitive, especially against the Scientology litigation machine, even where the item removed could have sold for up to $5,000.

But Bill and the other similarly afflicted sellers are not without a legal basis for a complaint. It's possible to argue that Scientology is engaging in price fixing, tortious interference with a contract, misrepresentation, perjury, unfair competition, discriminatory business practices, and religious discrimination, to name a few off the top of my head. Scientology's intellectual property rights in its e-meter stop well short of being able to prevent a secondary market from existing, but eBay's VeRO program permits them to essentially do just that.

This is not a new development—it’s been going on for nearly 8 years, as this Slashdot story shows. But it’s high time eBay did something about it.

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Ich groove grade auf talentdevelop.com rum. Dort ist eine Checklist zum Test von Hochbegabung. Enjoy!


Bist du ein guter Problemlöser?
Kannst du dich über eine lange Zeit konzentrieren?
Bist du ein Perfektionist?

Bist du bei deinen Interessen beharrlich?
Bist du ein eifriger Leser?
Hast du eine lebendige Vorstellungskraft?

Machen dir Puzzlespiele Spaß?
Verbindest du oft scheinbar unzusammenhängende Ideen?
Genießt du Paradoxon?

Setzt du dir selbst hohe Standards?
Hast du eine gute Langzeiterinnerung?
Nimmst du stark Anteil?

Hast du eine andauernde Neugier?
Hast du einen excellenten Sinn für Humor?
Bist du ein wacher Beobachter?

Hast du eine Affinität für Mathematik?
Brauchst du Zeit zum Nachsinnen?
Suchst du nach einem Sinn in deinem Leben?

Bist du dir Dingen bewusst, die Andere nicht erkennen?
Bist du von Wörtern fasziniert?
Bist du sehr einfühlsam?
Hast du eine starke moralische Überzeugung?

Fühlst du dich oft nicht mit anderen Verbunden?
Bist du scharfsinnig oder einfühlsam?
Hinterfragst du oft Regeln und Autoritäten?

Hast du eine organisierte Sammlung?
Blühst du im Wettbewerb auf?
Hast du außergewöhnliche Fähigkeiten und Defizite?

Lernst du neue Dinge schnell?
Fühlst du dich von deinen vielen Interessen/Fähigkeiten überwältigt?
Hast du sehr viel Energie?

Trittst du oft gegen Ungerechtigkeit ein?
Fühlst du dich von deiner Kreativität geleitet?
Liebst du Ideen und diskutierst leidenschaftlich?

Warst du ein deiner Kindheit weiterentwickelt als Andere?
Hast du ungewöhnliche Ideen oder Sichtweisen?
Bist du eine komplexe Person?

Wenn 75% dieser Charakteristika auf dich passen, bist du wahrscheinlich ein begabter Erwachsener.


Ich hab alle, bis auf "Nimmst du stark Anteil?", mit Ja beantwortet. Das ich hochbegabt bin weiß ich schon lange, deswegen bin ich jetzt nicht grade aus dem Häuschen, aber antwortet bei diesen Fragen nicht Jeder fast immer mit 'Ja'?

Nehmen wir mal die letzte Frage: "Bist du eine komplexe Person?"
Ich kenne eine Menge Menschen die sich für komplex halten.
Das sind sie.... NICHT, aber ganz gewaltig NICHT!

What is intelligence, anyway?

When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me.

(It didn't mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP - kitchen police - as my highest duty.)

All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too.

Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence tests - people with intellectual bents similar to mine?

For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was.

Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles - and he always fixed my car.

Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test.

Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I'd prove myself a moron, and I'd be a moron, too.

In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly.

My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.

Consider my auto-repair man, again.

He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me.

One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: "Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand.

"The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?"

Indulgently, I lifted by right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers.

Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, "Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them."

Then he said smugly, "I've been trying that on all my customers today." "Did you catch many?" I asked. "Quite a few," he said, "but I knew for sure I'd catch you."

"Why is that?" I asked. "Because you're so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn't be very smart."

And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.

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Der Witz ist der totale Bringer lol

CLEARWATER - Shawn Lonsdale, whose one-man crusade against Scientology made him a public enemy of the church, was found dead at his home over the weekend in an apparent suicide. He was 39.

Police discovered Lonsdale's body at 12:20 p.m. Saturday after neighbors reported a foul odor. They found a garden hose stretched from the exhaust pipe of Lonsdale's car into a window of his home at 510 N Lincoln Ave., according to Clearwater police spokeswoman Elizabeth Daly-Watts.

Daly-Watts said there were no signs of foul play, and police found what appeared to be a suicide note. It was not immediately available.

The medical examiner's office said the official cause of death is pending toxicology reports.

It was a lonely end for a man who emerged out of nowhere in 2006 as a thorn in the side of the Church of Scientology.

For a few months in mid to late 2006, Lonsdale stood alone in downtown Clearwater beside a sandwich board that read "Cult Watch" in the heart of Scientology's religious headquarters.

Videocamera in hand, he taped hours and hours of footage: Scientology buildings, church staffers walking the streets, security guards watching his movements and verbal confrontations with Scientologists. He then edited them into a "pseudo-documentary" about Scientology that eventually aired on local cable television.

Lonsdale, who was never a Scientologist, was an odd nemesis. He had no connection to the church before arguing with a Scientologist over redevelopment issues at a Clearwater City Council meeting.

But the self-described loner stepped into his new role with enthusiasm. At night, he dropped fliers on the doorsteps of downtown businesses. On his lunch break, he parked his car across the street from the church's cafeteria with posters in his window that claimed people could find free versions of secret church texts on the Internet. He even picked church-related documents from piles of trash in front of a Scientology-owned business and posted some of the documents online.

The Church of Scientology and some its members fought back. They hired a private investigator to look into Lonsdale's background and found two misdemeanor convictions for lewd and lascivious conduct, both related to public sex with men, in 1999 and 2000.

They called Lonsdale's employer at a title company and his landlord and said that Lonsdale was a religious bigot, possibly dangerous.

In the fall of 2006, the church subpoenaed Lonsdale for a deposition, contending he was an agent of an anti-Scientology group that was legally barred from protesting in certain places downtown. Attorney Luke Lirot, who has battled Scientology in the past, came to Lonsdale's aid.

"I found him to be quite affable and truly a very intelligent man," Lirot said in an interview Monday. "I certainly hope that a very thorough investigation is conducted."

In the last year, though, the confrontation between Lonsdale and the Church of Scientology seemed to have run its course.

Lonsdale let his anti-Scientology Web site lapse. He posted less and less on anti-Scientology blogs. Church spokeswoman Pat Harney said it had been months since the church heard from Lonsdale.

Randy Payne, a former Scientologist, said Lonsdale found it impossible to be a full-time church critic and make a living.

Payne said that he last spoke to Lonsdale two months ago, and that Lonsdale had found steady work on the night shift at a local company, stocking shelves. He talked about going back to school and getting a private investigator's license.

"He was getting on with his life," Payne said. "He had every reason to live."

Landlord Joe Critchley said Lonsdale was an ideal tenant: He paid the $650 rent on time every month and he kept the place clean. The last time they talked, Feb. 1 or Feb. 2, Lonsdale seemed fine. "He would be one of the last people I would expect to commit suicide," Critchley said. "But you never know."

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DIE SCHEISS 'APRA' STECKT DA MIT DRIN!

After Laura Moon started suffering stomach pains, doctors decided to carry out an ultrasound scan on the teenager.

When they saw the results, they were astounded.

For the scan revealed that she had four kidneys. The 18-year-old is now hoping to donate the extra organs for transplant operations.

Only a handful of people in the UK have four kidneys, although having three is relatively common. But Laura's case is especially unusual because all four are fully formed and functional.

Das Bild sieht doch sehr bearbeitet aus...

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Jedem South Park Fan ging bei diesem Satz das Herz auf. Dann haben "diese Fettsäcke" in Washington ein Gesetz verabschiedet, dass Jagen nur noch zu erlauben "um die Population zu begrenzen", denn sollte es zu viele Tiere geben, gibt es nicht genug Futter und die Tiere müssen verhungern.

Heute ist die Population "begrenzt"!


Hunters are finished the business of thinning the deer population at Goucher College in Towson. Concerns over a growing herd forced administrators to call for control measures. As Tim Williams reports, hunters are finished until more studies are done.

As they walk their daily route through the Goucher college campus, the company of deer has become common for the Oettinger family.

April teaches at the school.

"Sometimes we'd see the herd of male deer with the large antlers would be right over here and we would see them hopping back and forth and it would drive our dogs to abstraction," she said.

But now there are 62 less deer in the herd than there were at the end of last year.

"While the college was closed for the winter break, over five days, state licensed deer cooperators came to campus and did a managed bow hunt," said Goucher College spokesperson Kristen Keener.

At about 200 white-tailed deer, the population for the campus was considered out of control. The State Department of Natural Resources estimates there should only be 40.

Hunters first tried to single out animals that were sick or injured because relocation and shooting them with birth control were too expensive and time consuming.

"Of the 62 animals that were removed, seven of them previously had been injured, perhaps as the result of a car collision or poachers who found their way onto campus," Keener said.

The hunt was not unopposed. Some students and alumni were against it from the beginning; others favored the idea.

Students received emails just before the holiday alerting them.

A Goucher spokesperson says with campus expansion, thinning will protect the landscape.

"For me, [I stopped] walking through the woods because of lyme disease and the deer ticks, particularly with the dogs. Now that we have our little boy, we just don't take the trails," Oettinger said.

"The college's administrators are here to protect the well-being of the students, faculty and staff, so any measure that perhaps endangers their well-being is of great concern," Keener said.

OH MEIN GOTT, WIR MÜSSEN WARTEN BIS DIE NÄCHSTE STUDIE RAUSKOMMT!

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Ich weiß nicht, ob dieses Wissen irgendeinen Zweck erfüllt. Vielleicht kann man damit Freund beeindrucken?!? Der Erzähler ist auf jeden Fall ein ganz lustiger (optisch)

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Ist schon ne echt knuffige Sprache. KAWAAAIIIIIII ^_^



現在、皆さんの中にはアノニマスとは何か、我々がどうしてこのような行動を起こしてい るのか、明確に理解していない人が多いように思われます。

メディアの思い込みとは違い、アノニマスとは単なるハッカーのグループの事ではありま せん。

我々アノニマスは、正しいことをしなければいけない、暗闇に光をもたらさなければいけ ない、そして長い間眠ってきた大衆の目を開かなければいけない、という認識を持った個 人の集団です。

我々の中には、弁護士、親、ＩＴ専門家、警察職員、大学生、獣医など、あらゆる職業や 年代の人々がいます。

アノニマスとは全ての人です。そして我々はどこにでもいます。

我々にはリーダーはおろか全体を指揮する者などいません。我々個人の激しい怒りのみが 我々の行動を指揮しているのです。

我々はあなた方にサイエントロジーがどれほど危険なものであるのかを伝えたいのです。

このカルトによって人権侵害が犯されたことを知ってください。

リサ・マクファーソンのことを知ってください。

サイエントロジーの持つ海軍、シーオーグの元メンバー達が軍で勤務を続けるために強制 的に中絶を受けさせられたということを知ってください。

サイエントロジーが児童を就労させ、強制収用していたことを知ってください。

「オペレーション・フリークアウト」、そしてポレット・クーパーのことを知ってくださ い。

「オペレーション・スノーホワイト」、そしてサイエントロジーが米国政府への潜入に取 り組んでいることを知ってください。

我々はこれら全ての真実が、長い間闇に葬られていたという事実を知ってもらいたいので す。

情報はそこにあります。

情報はあなたの思うがままです。

知識で武装してください。

3月15日に警戒してください。

我々アノニマスは、この団結した運動への参加を呼びかけます。

自由の旗の下、言論の自由、人権、そして家族を守るために、一緒に戦いましょう。

アノニマスと一緒に、抵抗手段として、世界中のサイエントロジー教会の前に集まってく ださい。

我々はアノニマスです。

我々は大群です。

許しはしない。

忘れはしない。

我々の発言力は高まるでしょう。

我々を待ち受けなさい。

Toshiba is to put HD-DVD out of its misery. Reuters confirmed reported Saturday afternoon that it will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, following earlier reports from Japan's NHK public broadcasting network.

This leaves Blu-Ray as the presumptive victor in the irrelevant optical disk format war. It now must face up to the real competition: the continuing success of DVD and the growing popularity of downloads, both on the internet and on-demand cable TV.

The end comes only a day after Wal-Mart announced it would no longer carry HD-DVD stuff. This will go a long way to confirming the view, long-held by cynics, that the mega-retailer always held the executioner's axe to begin with, and was merely waiting until it was clear which format's camp had the most densely-stuffed brown envelopes to throw at Hollywood.

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