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Excuse me, I’d like to buy your B-52 | Oddly Enough | Reuters
This has got to be one of the most entertaining things I’ve heard in quite some time. From the perspective of someone who grew up during the Cold War and who remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are a few things about this story which have spun my brain around a few times. First, there’s the thought of having a B-52 on display at an airshow in Russia. Then there’s the fact that a Russian citizen has $500,000,000 to drop on something like this. Sorry, but there’s times when I still think of communism. Of course, the B-52 isn’t for sale. Try buying a somewhat recently retired military aircraft from the U.S. government as a U.S. citizen – it’s nearly impossible due to federal law. The Collings Foundation got an F-4 Phantom and a TA-4 Skyhawk out of AMARC, but that took an act of Congress. There are plenty of former military jets in private hands in the U.S. – they just weren’t obtained from the U.S. government. A B-52 would be cool, but I still want my F-14 Tomcat  It appears that I needed to keep closer tabs on the forum. I thought I’d be notified of some things, but was not. I would like to extend my apologies to anyone who was offended by the spam posted there. The forum has now been cleaned up and “users” (brings a whole new meaning) have been banned. Admin confirmation is now required. After all that, the forum is once again empty and in dire need of real users who want to kick around ideas Just a couple of days ago, I wrote a post about a new product called “Pocket Shots.” Basically, pocket shots are flexible plastic pouches containing a single servings of hard liquor. I happened to be in Margaritaville Las Vegas shortly after writing that post and was chatting with the very nice and very cute cashier about the upcoming Buffett concert (I have tickets for October 27 WOO HOO I just hope they show up before the end of October
The authorities (not necessarily the beat cops) completely overreacted again. In the tradition of thinking a battery charger was an IED and Boston thinking some simple LED signs were terrorist explosive devices, officials in New Haven, Connecticut flipped out and leveled felony charges against people who marked a trail for runners with ordinary flour. Continue reading Authorities Overreact Again – Felony Charges for Marking Trail With Flour
This is great news if you ask me. I’ve made my feelings known about this case in an earlier post, but I’ll sum them up again here – Good riddance to bad rubbish. I hope he never plays professional sports again. Student cracks Government’s $84m porn filter | NEWS.com.au
30 minutes was all the time an Australian teenager needed to defeat a filter that the Australian Government distributed for free in an effort to assist parents in keeping adult material on the internet from reaching children. Not only that, but he made it look like it’s still working so parents wouldn’t know. The Australian government then released another filter which the same teenager defeated in about 45 minutes. They’ve now said that the civilian vendors responsible for the original filter are working to make it better and that it’s a priority for them. My personal opinion on the matter is that the Australian government’s $84 Million didn’t go completely down the drain. No, it actually served a useful purpose if you ask me. It helped to illustrate once again that if parents don’t want their children to see this sort of thing they need to stop relying on someone else or some piece of technology. They need to be PARENTS for a change Hat tip to Gizmodo for the link I’ll be right up front in this post just as I was in the title – If you don’t want to read a rant about SIX MILLION FEDERAL TAXPAYER DOLLARS going to soundproof PRIVATE houses, this is your invitation to leave. If you’re interested in how your hard-earned tax dollars are being used and don’t mind a bit of my opinion, by all means hit the jump to read on. Big Game Hunt: Uncrating a 103-inch Panasonic Plasma (Gallery) – Gizmodo I can think of quite a few movies I’d like to watch on this monster TV, assuming that I could get it up the stairs, around the corner, into my apartment, and up on the wall without damaging either the TV or the building! Oh yeah, there’s also that other little obstacle standing in the way – the $70,000 price tag Most cars and light airplanes I want don’t cost $70,000. OK, a slim majority of them do but that’s another topic and we need to stay on the subject here. Couple this with a DVD, HD-DVD, or Blu-Ray player and a killer sound system and you’ve got one of the best home theaters anywhere. Grab a good flying movie, some pop corn, and relax Hat tip to and photos at Gizmodo
I was thinking about something I saw on Lex’s blog – the Great Firewall of China. Many people these days try to portray China as not all that bad. They ignore the human rights abuses and the complete lack of respect for patent and copyright laws. Very little attention is paid to the restrictions that the communist government has placed on the internet. The Great Firewall of China highlights those restrictions. Lex had to fight to get his site banned again after something slipped and he was allowed for a while. I just checked mine and found the URL banned. I must be doing something right
This seriously worries me. Weapons grade uranium is serious stuff and 17 pounds is about 7.75 kilograms. I don’t know if this is enough to make a fission device, but it’s probably close. This isn’t the first time that weapons grade fissile material has been up for sale. Fox News also had a story back in January about a Russian who was offering weapons grade uranium for sale. Click here to read that story. Something to think about – Governments usually don’t like to have dirty laundry like this aired out in public. That makes me wonder how much of this stuff is floating around on the black market and going to the highest bidder. Bad people who want to do bad things to the U.S. have quite a bit of money and know-how. Even if the bad guys can’t make a fission device, they can make a “dirty bomb” as the media constantly reminds us. It doesn’t take a nuclear physicist to pack radioactive material around normal explosives to make an area uninhabitable. 9/11 was bad enough. This would be many times worse. Here’s hoping the NEST is spun up. |
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!!!) whilst paying for my purchases when I brought up this wonderful new innovation. She not only said that she had heard of Pocket Shots, but also said that they would be carried “soon.”
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