that day will come. every dog…

 

capelton – that day will come

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Online Gambling – (Cough, Cough) Excuse Reasons for Wanting to Make it Illegal

One of the reasons often cited for wanting to strip Americans of their right to gamble online is money laundering.The problem with this logic is that money can be laundered in any industry, not just online gambling. That’s discrimination in my book.

If U.S. lawmakers are supposed to be so much higher and mightier that the rest of the world’s leaders, how come they haven’t been able to stop money laundering after all this time?

You see, attempting to make online wagering illegal hasn’t dented money laundering at all.

Why should Americans lose their right to bet online just because the government can’t do its job in other arenas?

In our opinion this is one of the many “excuse reasons” to do away with online gambling.

Lawmakers whom are responsible for wanting to take your right to gamble online away probably know their true reasons for not wanting you to gamble online wouldn’t stand up in court. So they turn to such deflectionary arguments to cover their true reasons.

What might their true reasons be?

Reasons of morality.

Facebook stirs privacy ire with facial recognition

Computerworld – Facebook’s move to enable facial recognition across its entire social networking site is raising some eyebrows – and possibly some legal woes — over its privacy implications.

On Tuesday, Facebook announced in a blog post that it was working to make it easier for uses to tag photos of their friends and family members. To do this, it has been quietly rolling out facial recognition technology to a test group across the world’s biggest social network since late last year.

That means Facebook‘s system will be able to recognize the faces of its 500 million to 600 million users worldwide. The company will be able to identify you simply by your face.

Facebook noted that starting in just a few weeks, its system will scan all photos posted to Facebook and will offer up the names of the people who appear in the frame. All of Facebook’s users are automatically being added to the database.

The facial recognition feature is automatically turned on. Users who don’t want the service must go in and manually opt out of it (see video below).

A day after the announcement was made, data protection regulators at the European Union said they will launch an investigation into it, according to the Bloomberg news service, which also reported that authorities in the U.K. and Ireland are looking into the matter.

“Tags of people on pictures should only happen based on people’s prior consent and it can’t be activated by default,” said Gerard Lommel, a member of the EU’s Data Protection Working Party, according to Bloomberg. Such automatic tagging suggestions “can bear a lot of risks for users” and the European data-protection officials will “clarify to Facebook that this can’t happen like this.”

Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.

15 Facts You Didn’t Know About Your Body

 White skin has evolved over time

It seems we were all black ones (consistent with evolutionary fact of first humans in Africa). White skin was a result of humans moving away from the equator. Also all skin, without coloring, would appear creamy white. Near-surface blood vessels add a blush of red. A yellow pigment also tints the canvas. Lastly, sepia-toned melanin, created in response to ultraviolet rays, appears black in large amounts. These four hues mix in different proportions to create the skin colors of all the peoples of Earth.

100 Weird Facts About the Human Body

The human body is an incredibly complex and intricate system, one that still baffles doctors and researchers on a regular basis despite thousands of years of medical knowledge.

As a result, it shouldn’t be any surprise that even body parts and functions we deal with every day have bizarre or unexpected facts and explanations behind them.

From sneezes to fingernail growth, here are 100 weird, wacky, and interesting facts about the human body.

  
The Brain
The human brain is the most complex and least understood part of the human anatomy. There may be a lot we don’t know, but here are a few interesting facts that we’ve got covered.

1. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.
2. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping.

cee-lo quote

“Hopefully I’m fortunate enough to spend forever with a friend
I’m slow dancing with destiny every day until then”

–  cee-lo

Groundhog Day: When Rappers Keep Making The Same Song

Sometimes, we wake up in the morning to our clock radio and feel a lot like Bill Murray did in Groundhog Day. No, we don’t mean that we wake up to Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe” every single day. But some rap songs do have us feeling like we’re living the same day over and over just like Murray. It tends to happen when a rapper scores a big hit and wants to try and recreate the magic by following the same sonic or thematic blueprint of their previous hit. Whether or not it works, they usually end up making the same song over. So in honor of Groundhog Day we’re taking a look at just a few of the many rap songs that got made more than once…

 

Jay-Z Takes BK To Broadway

“Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” (1998)
“Anything” (1999)

 

Formula: Upbeat tune + High-pitched child singing innocently + Broadway showtune + Jigga rapping thuggishly
Similar lyrics: “From standing on the corners bopping” (“Hard Knock Life”)
“From the stoop to the big dudes” (“Anything”)
Genetic Composition: 65% identical
Complex says: Jay even admitted to Angie Martinez that he was trying to recreate “Hard Knock” with “Anything” on BET’s Food For Thought: Conversations With Jay-Z, explaining that since the first one was such a hit he figured he’d do it again and it’d be a hit too. He must have used the same logic when he made The Blueprint 2.

george bernard shaw quote (drey’s favorite)

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.   “

friend

–noun- a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.

Pricing of African American Dolls vs Caucasion Dolls

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Initial post: Dec. 15, 2010 6:11 AM PST

Regina L. Whitehead says:

Can some one please tell me why Amazon prices the same dolls different. Why are the AA Barbie Dolls $12 – 15 more then the same C doll. Have requested assistance from the company but have been put on eternal hold and my email have not been responded too. I wonder how the BBB would handle an issue like this.

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Posted on Dec. 15, 2010 6:48 AM PST

Chris L. says:

Is this a joke?

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KprINDLE says:

That’s just awful. My guess is because of the difference in supply and demand, but am sad that they do it. For my own curiosity, I just did a comparison of the pet vet Barbie. C is $9.99 and AA is $19.99. So, no, this is not a joke.

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Posted on Dec. 15, 2010 7:57 AM PST

TRACY says:

I agree. I think its like the difference between clothing sizes. Obviously the more material they have to use, the price will go up. Same goes for the dolls. They have to use more dye to make the dolls, not just for african american, but for any doll of any color. I wouldnt worry too much about it, there are much bigger issues out there to be concerned with. And I dont think the BBB would really take this seriously, the companies aren’t doing it just because they’re african american dolls, it just seems so ignorant that people still pick little things apart and make them out to be something they’re not.

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