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A Wisconsin postal carrier says he simply wanted to cheer up a woman on his rounds who seemed "stressed out" when he decided to deliver mail in the buff.
But upon further review, the worker told police that delivering mail while completely naked probably wasn't a good idea.
A police report says the 52-year-old man told the woman he would deliver the mail in the nude to her office in Whitefish Bay to make her laugh. The report says that on Dec. 4 he brought the mail wearing only a smile.
The mail carrier was arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior several days later. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says the man admitted delivering the mail naked was a stupid thing to do.
An inventor has an idea to help young men look cool -- and keep their pants up.
The waist strap with four vertical suspender straps is called "Subs," short for Sub-spenders, and looks like a cross between a garter belt and suspenders.
"We're constantly hiking and pulling," inventor Andrew Lewis said. "There's a point past even for them their jeans fall too low."
Users fasten Subs onto their pants and wear a shirt over them to hide the straps, although different colors are planned for those who prefer to flaunt their Subs.
They sell online for $30 at hatchventures.com, though Lewis said Macy's has asked to see samples.
there's even a video
The CPU cooler of my desktop computer just fell off the motherboard.
I sat at my desk as suddenly something went "Clonk!" However, when I looked around I saw nothing clonkish.
Another, smaller "Clonk" and the PC went out.
Upon opening the PC, I saw that a small plastic bit had broken off, thus loosening the grip of the heavy CPU cooler which then had promptly fallen down on the graphics card.
The possibilities flashed through my mind:
- The motherboard is done for
- The CPU is fried
- The cooler has caused a short on the graphics card, killing it as well
- The work of my past 2 days is gone
Luckily enough, though, the emergency shutdown that's built into every CPU nowadays prevented a meltdown, the cooler did not kill the graphics card and the auto-restore feature of Word has restored 99.9% of my work.
So, until Monday, I just have to lie the desktop to the side so the cooler can work without the sturdy support of its braces.
Geeze.
At work we've been talking about shopping and Abercrombie & Fitch cropped up in our discussion. I've yet to visit said store in my local mall (only opened a few weeks ago), but from what i've seen when i walked past it & heard from my colleagues - Christ it's dark!
Why is the store so dark?
Google is no help.
Is there also loud music being played? If so, it might be trendy.
Maybe their products suck and they don't want to draw attention to them.
Yeah, i heard that too (not the music but how loud it is in the store).
I was going to ask their Customer Service team all about it as i have nout to do in the office but A) 750 character limit on the website and B) It's rather sad. I am a little curious to know the logic behind it.
Just walk in there and look really confused. Make sure you bump into things. When an assistant comes up to you and asks: "Can I help you Sir?" jump up and shout: "Who said that?" flailing your arms in their general direction while going "where are you?!"'
:D:up:
.... or even walk in with a miners work gear and a head torch on!
Some nightvision googles might do the trick as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lor
The list is endless!Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Mad TV did some Abercrombie skits. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3-WzqfbVHU
It keeps the elderly and crippled away...Quote:
Originally Posted by Lor
There are two stores in the malls near me, and every time I walk by it is so damn loud! They have those ridiculous ass shutters instead of windows, and the entrance is around a wall so you can't see in. It's not a goddamn nightclub, it's an overpriced irritating place where wanna be prep boys shop.
I feel like an old fart, plugging my ears as I walk by. Even the thug apparel stores don't play music that loud!
That sounds like Hollister, which is more an experiment in sensory deprivation than a store.
They're even darker than Abercrombie..there goes sight.
Music deafens you...hearing is gone.
Nothing to smell really, so that's out.
Guess that just leaves the sense of touch, because if you're shopping at Hollister, you certainly have no taste. :D
The story continues: l bought a new motherboard, replaced the old one, switched CPU, cooler and everything over, checked all power connectors and everything- and finally pressed the power button.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
The cooler fan turned exactly once, nothing else happened. No beeps, no whirring of the harddiscs spinning up, nothing. Rechecked all power connectors, reduced the connections to the bare minimum (only CPU, RAM and the speaker), nothing.
So I transplanted everything back to the old motherboard which had still worked until I began the operation. No dice there either, the CPU cooler fan turned exactly once.
Damn.
Finally, after having lumbered the whole damn computer to the shop, they determined that the power supply gave up the ghost.
Finally everything works again!
Discovered that my new li'l car accepts voice commands. :bulb:
How sad is that.
I feel like I'm driving the USS Enterprise.
The only day in recent memory that I didn't have my phone with me, dammit! :(
You know those little, plastic license plate holder thingys on cars? I saw one today that just busted me up! It said:
Wee Tinkle Autos
Minot, ND
Weird weather today! First we had a cross between hail and snow (looked like hail but the consistency of snow..think mini snowballs).
Now it is snowing and THUNDERING. Never ever have seen this in my neck of the woods.
Kinda hard to describe this.. but today I felt emotion. It struck me as weird too, as in that I hadn't really taken notice of how indifferent I've been these past months to everything. Butterflies in my stomach feels like a blessing at the moment now though. :heart:
I noticed a somewhat... unusual set of Google ads today.
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...or/Wtf_ads.jpg
How do they choose the ads to display?
Well, they probably take recent searches (and the content of your GoogleMail account if you have it) and display fitting content. Since the heuristics seem to have determined that chemicals are of most interest to you, there you are.Quote:
Originally Posted by BalticSailor
Us government subpoenas Twitter for @wikileaks followers.
What a fucking joke.Quote:
The US government has subpoenaed Twitter in a bid to support an ongoing criminal investigation into whether Wikileaks and people involved or connected to Wikileaks, including an Icelandic member of parliament, broke the law.
According to Wikileaks lawyer Mark Stephens live on the BBC News a short time ago, it is believed Facebook and Google (see here) have also been contacted regarding Wikileaks members and potential whistleblowers.
Update (12:20am GMT): Mark Stephens on the BBC News also makes clear that the court order will also cover the “600,000 odd followers that Wikileaks has on Twitter“.
The order asks specifically for names of those attached to selected accounts, user and screen names, and any registered mailing or postal addresses. It also asks for email addresses, credit card details where possible, and even content relating to connected mobile phones.
The server logs which could identify the computer and geographical location of where even private messages were sent from have also been ordered to be handed over.
According to CNN:
“A federal court in Virginia has ordered Twitter to provide information for each account registered to Assange, U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, Rop Gonggrijp, a reported computer hacker from the Netherlands, and Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of parliament in Iceland and a former volunteer with WikiLeaks, according to documents sent to CNN by Jónsdóttir.”
Twitter is in a difficult position. Considering their stance during the Iranian elections supporting the freedom of speech, it will appear as if the company is backtracking or giving into pressure by handing over details of its users to its government.
Jónsdóttir retweeted a message purporting Twitter’s efforts, however, in bringing this subpoena into the public domain.
This case should resonate with younger users especially, as prolific social network users, that US law can apply to users of social networking sites to users outside the United States, as seen in this case.
Though datacenters are held worldwide in different locations to allow network load balancing, locale reliability and data backups, the organisations which provide these services are based mostly in the US. Both Twitter and Facebook are based in California, as are many startup and social media companies.
For example, if one publishes a threatening tweet from the UK to a service based in the US, this can be used in a UK or US court of law if the company is subpoenaed.
Users should also be reminded that sharing links to still-classified documents hosted by Wikileaks could be risky to future career prospects, such as in the public sector or the diplomatic corps.
The younger generation who are largely unaware of legal processes should be aware that it is nearly impossible to delete a message from the Web once it has been published. Also, as this case shows, published content even from social networking sites can be used against you in a court of law.
Makes sense, but I've never seen such content in Google ads (on sites that aren't related to chemistry, anyway), and that is the only thread where I get this particular set of ads. And only if I view the thread by clicking on "view last post". If I click on title of that thread, or any other thread, I usually get some ads somehow related to thread content or the topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro
Well, then you'd have to ask the Google software engineers why their algorithms serve up this particular result in this case ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BalticSailor
Humiliating? Seriously?Quote:
The decision by two Georgia counties to use the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to make up a snow day holiday has infuriated civil rights leaders.
Fannin and Gilmer counties in northern Georgia are calling students to class on the federal holiday after school was canceled for the week due to the winter storm that struck Georgia.
The superintendents said they had little choice but to hold classes on Monday to make up for nine snow days they've missed this school year.
Georgia State NAACP Chapter President Edward DuBose said it's "humiliating to hear that school districts want to take a snow day rather than to honor Dr. King's legacy."