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Force 80 anti-pirate water cannon from Pirate Safe Via The Coming Anarchy, who notes the Pirate Safe Water Cannon pushes four times more gallons per minute than similar firefighter equipment. A commenter there notes that a minute or two would probably be enough to sink most Somali pirate boats. These water cannons are also [...] Comedy writer Andrea Wachner says about Palos Verdes High School: When she received the invitation to attend her 10-year reunion, she said she would not have dreamed of going because she hated her years at the school, where BMW and Mercedes-Benz cars were prized possessions. She claims that at school, fellow students’ drinking alcohol [...] The libertarian / conservative Cato Institute found that after five years, illegal drug use among teens declined, HIV infection rates dropped, and many more people sought medical help for drug addiction. Thus, by all measures, the legalization policy has been a resounding success. The data shows that decriminalization does not result in increased drug use. [...] The electric powered KillaCycle is not only the world’s fastest battery powered vehicle, it just did 0-60 mph in less than one second, another world’s record. It has 1,200 batteries, two motors, and pumps out 500 horsepower. The bike can be fully charged in four minutes and is charged by wind-powered generators. Nice! On [...] Mormon Cricket Rock music blaring from boomboxes has proved one of the best defenses against an annual invasion of Mormon crickets. “The theory was they’d hate heavy metal,” Ms. Parks says. Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy! Democratic activists at the annual state party convention blocked endorsement of several controversial budget measures on the upcoming May 19 special statewide election. Republicans are overwhelmingly opposed to all six ballot measures. If they don’t pass, the current budget agreement is dead. Mayor Hair Gel of San Francisco is trying to straddle the issues [...] Michael Santoli in Barron’s Final-hour surges and air pockets, common lately, unnerve the methodical investor. The apparent gaming of newly popular leveraged exchange-traded funds late in the day is another wrinkle… These funds always need to trade in the same direction of that day’s move. Knowing this, traders attempt to quantify and front-run this [...] OMIGOD. Swine flu will surely attack the entire planet. Apocalyptic scenarios of mass doom abound. Be scared, be very scared. Truly, it is TEOTWAWKI. (Wait, wasn’t the world supposed to end during the last 5 Horrible Threats To Us All?) Don’t believe the hype. Yes it’s a nasty bug. The planet has survived far worse. If it works, space-based solar power would be extraordinary, zero carbon energy is created in space by solar panels, converted to radio waves and beamed to earth, then converted back into electricity. Big Gav details the pros and cons, and speculates maybe this could be a cover for space weapons and wonders about [...] Ms Sigurdardottir [the new PM] told supporters the nation was “settling the score with the neoliberalism” and with the conservative Independence Party who “have been in power for much too long”. “The people are calling for a change of ethics. That is why they have voted for us,” she said. |
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