How Come American Cars Suck And American Planes Are The Best In The World?
How can the US make such poor cars but at the same time make airplanes that are considered the safest and best in the world?
Why Do American Cars Have Gas Tanks That Can Be So Easily Opened?
I’ve noticed that on most American cars, the doors to the gas tanks are just pried open with a finger. On most foreign cars, it has to be opened from inside the car. I think that’s so much better because no one can tamper with your gas tank. Why haven’t American cars adopted this?
Rave girl porn series “rave girl” lecherous customer magazine
U.S. tycoon asked the Government to save the sex industry five billion U.S. dollars to apply for relief
Wild girls: women will love it even more overbearing wild sex
U.S. lecherous customer magazine (Hustler) (map)
The global financial crisis resulted in damage to many industries, and even the sex industry and even “rave girl” is no exception. Surprisingly, well-known American pornographic magazines “lecherous clients” Generalife Lint publishers to submit their applications to the Congress a few days ago, demanded that the U.S. government as relief the brink of bankruptcy as the U.S. auto industry, the U.S. pornography industry “rave girl” up to five billion U.S. dollars to start the rescue operation! Flint said the rescue if the application is approved, will not only save the sex industry “rave girl”, is expected to help the United States through the current economic winter.
To save the sex industry “rave girl”
Would keep the U.S. economy through the winter?
However, the brink of bankruptcy and the U.S. Big Three auto firms, the U.S. pornography industry is also no signs of insolvency. Flint said that despite the sex industry over the past year DVD sales and rental business dropped 22 percent, but the online business is growing. However, Flint said: “Although the scale of 13 billion U.S. dollars of the adult entertainment industry’s concerns has not collapsed, but why risk it?” Francis in an interview also said: “Although this assistance is only a precautionary measure, But as long as the Government has come to take the money, we would like to have. ”
It was revealed that Flint and Francis has been on the 7th in the “five billion U.S. dollars rescue plan” of applications submitted to the members of Congress and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Flint said the rescue if the application is approved, will not only save the sex industry, is also expected to help the United States through the current economic winter.
However, at present the U.S. Congress has yet to “five billion U.S. dollars rescue plan” to respond to the application. 7, Flint’s spokesman said: “The United States and other sex industry has, like all other sectors by the economic downturn hurt, so they are asking for five billion U.S. dollars aid. This is the world’s most important thing? If This assistance will enable the Americans to become a reality of life become better? This is not determined by them. “
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Top Free Agents On The Market
Weeks ago Dan sent the SportsBubbler.com baseball bloggers an email about the end of the year stuff. When he suggested I write a little something about the free agents for 2009, naturally I accepted. What could be more fun than working through piles of stats finding the most valuable free agent for 2009?
That was before I saw the list of free agents! Holy Crap! Well…you know what they always say, when life hands you a pile of dog crap but at first you don’t realize it’s dog crap and you step it in…well, I’m not sure what they say.
So, I have devised the following ranking system for the 2009 MLB Free Agents:
(1) Most likely to be mistaken for a dinosaur: Kevin Mench
When you’re in charge of a multi-billion dollar industry, it’s generally a bad idea to have dinosaurs stomping all around the place. You wouldn’t want your corporate luxury suite holders exposed to the risk of a toothy carnivore thirsty for carnage running around your stadium, would you? For that reason, expect teams to generally be reluctant to sign this outfield giant, despite his MLB production level.
(2) Most likely the cause of dinosaur extinction: Jamie Moyer
Old enough to have invented several variations of the change up, the University of Chicago’s Committee for the Extinction of Dinosaurs and its Causes recently provided fossilized photographic evidence – amazing, isn’t it? – of the likely source of dinosaur extinction. Turns out that after Moyer received several favorable low strike calls with his various cutters, bloops, and what-cha-ma-zoos, an on-field brawl of epic proportions ensued, wiping our friendly reptilian ancestors off of the planet. For that reason, and that reason alone, expect Jamie Moyer to keep a job. You wouldn’t want someone capable of extinguishing ancient monsters to go jobless, would you?
Also a great remedy if you need to get Kevin Mench out.
(3) Most likely to win 2009 Executive of the Year Award: The 29 GMs who do not sign Francisco Rodriguez
(4) This year’s “Hey, Remember 2006?” award goes to every single blogger that sized up their team’s starting rotation, and counted on their fingers the number of years until Mark Prior would be available on the market – only to write numerous “Just wait until he’s a free agent” threads and speculations. Mark Prior might be the best MLB prospect in the class of 2009 to receive a minor league contract.
But if you need a pitching coach for your Instructional League staff, I hear Mr. Prior just signed an endorsement with Martha Stewart. Expect her new (signature) line of baseball-mechanics towels to arrive just in time for those Spring Training side-throwing sessions.
(5) Most likely to actually play this time: Carl Pavano
In a detailed letter to be submitted to owners and general managers alike, Mr. Pavano notes that over the course of his four-year contract with the New York Yankees, he was busy inventing a fool-proof plan to secure his next free agent pitching contract.
In a copy obtained by Sportsbubbler.com, Pavano asked Major League Baseball, “Wouldn’t you want a starting pitcher that went 9-8 in 145.7 IP?”
If Free Agency analysis is what you’re looking for, here are nine players, and several relievers, younger than 32 years old on opening day 2009 that are actually average at their position (that is, posting a career OPS+ or ERA+ at or above 100):
1. C.C. Sabathia (28): Career 1659.3 IP, 3.66 ERA, 1.244 WHIP
Easily the most valuable free agent of the off-season, simply because he’s the best starter available, and there are not any elite second basemen, shortstops, or centerfielders available to offset his value – his performance in Milwaukee does not hurt one bit, either. Given that his expected contract is probably going to be at least 6 years long, I believe his actual value will decline as soon as he signs that albatross of a contract. But for now he’s incredibly valuable.
2. Adam Dunn (29) : Career .247/.381/.518
No, I’m not going crazy. After giving Sabathia a free-pass, I am jumping Adam Dunn up to the second spot, even though he should be fourth, simply because I am willing to bet that his body type, speed, defense, batting average, and the perception that he is a one-dimensional bat bring him a shorter and less-expensive contract than Teixeira, who will at least be perceived as less of a defensive liability. Should preconceptions about Dunn limit the type of contract offers he receives, he could vault into a high value signing, especially for an American League club.
3. Ben Sheets (30) : Career 1428 IP, 3.72 ERA, 1.201 WHIP
Sheets’ value is simple, with or without whatever ails his elbow: he is easily the second best pitching free agent behind Sabathia, and once Sabathia sets the market, Sheets is due for a fine contract. If the elbow is perceived to be a real issue, that could vault Sheets into Adam Dunn-territory: meaning that preconceptions of his shortcomings will actually play him into a more valuable contract. Any team that gets Sheets at a devastating-injury-proof 3-year deal probably gets the steal of the free agency season.
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New election low: distorting the fact-checking
The Sept. 11 memorial bells chimed with beautiful clarity Thursday, from Shanksville, Pa., to ground zero and beyond, a reminder of tragedy and our nation’s real enemies.
What a welcome respite, that serene sound, after days of presidential politics that roared and sputtered with a cacophony of distortion, innuendo and outright lies.
It got so bad the day before the anniversary of the terrorist attacks that FactCheck.org — one of the nonpartisan journalism websites heroically trying to strain truth amid all the sound and fury — had to put out an extraordinary news release.
It chastised John McCain’s campaign for — now get this — distorting FactCheck’s debunking of distortions.
News organizations and these admirable truth-squadding outfits, including PolitiFact.com, do not collaborate. But in independent news reports and commentaries this week, they seemed to reach a consensus to say “enough” to the McCain camp’s efforts to demonize Barack Obama.
I’m not saying that Obama hasn’t told a few whoppers — like suggesting McCain’s proposed corporate tax breaks are tailored specifically for oil companies or that his opponent seriously believes anyone making under $5 million is middle-class.
But it’s McCain and his foot soldiers who have really fouled the election airwaves in recent days, provoking the first flickerings of a backlash from the media.
Give credit to PolitiFact.com — an online endeavor operated by Florida’s St. Petersburg Times along with Congressional Quarterly — for unequivocally knocking down one of the McCainites’ biggest fabrications in recent days. You know, the one where Obama supposedly called Republican V.P. nominee Sarah Palin a pig.
For the half-dozen of you who haven’t heard about this kerfuffle: It began this week when Obama belittled McCain’s suggestion that McCain would bring change to Washington.
“That’s not change,” Obama told a responsive audience. “That’s just calling something — the same thing — something different. But you know, you can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig.”
McCain operatives puffed themselves up with outrage about Obama’s “sexism.” Then they released a Web advertisement, disingenuously flashing text on the screen — “Barack Obama on: Sarah Palin” — while cutting to Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” remark.
As noted on PolitiFact, the ad gives no context for Obama’s remark — context that made it clear the Democrat was belittling McCain’s claim that he is an agent of change.
PolitiFact rated the McCain ad “Pants on Fire” (as in “liar, liar”) on its Truth-O-Meter. “If anyone’s doing any smearing,” the site concluded, “it’s the McCain campaign and its outrageous attempt to distort the facts.”
Outrageous, but just a warmup for the smarmy untruth the McCain camp uncorked next –that Obama voted in his home state of Illinois to foist detailed sex education on kindergartners.
Often in the past, journalists who were confronted with such a lie opted for on-the-one-hand/on-the-other-hand reporting. That allows one politician to launch a fabrication, while another tries, often in vain, to swat it down.
McClatchy Co. newspapers (publisher of the Sacramento Bee and other papers) and reporter Margaret Talev admirably cast aside the wishy-washy approach. Looking at Obama and the Illinois sex-ed legislation, Talev concluded that McCain’s charge was “deliberately misleading.”
“As a state senator in Illinois, Obama did vote for, but was not a sponsor of, legislation dealing with sex ed for grades K-12,” the reporter explained. “But the legislation allowed local school boards to teach ‘age-appropriate’ sex education, not comprehensive lessons to kindergartners.”
That probably would have meant, at most, classes to help the youngest children fend off sexual predators.
Talev flagged the McCain ad for “unsportsmanlike conduct.”
The truth-tellers in this campaign have not throttled McCain alone. PolitiFact, for example, has slapped Obama more than once, including for his false claim that McCain promised to continue the war in Iraq for 100 years. (McCain said the United States might need to keep military bases there for that long.)
It was the McCain team, however, that plumbed new depths this week by distorting a fact-checking outfit that had come to its aid.
It happened when FactCheck (a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center) shot down rumors flying around the Internet about Alaska Gov. Palin.
FactCheck rejected claims that Palin cut special education in Alaska, endorsed Pat Buchanan for president and joined the secessionist-leaning Alaskan Independence Party. (Her husband, Todd, was an AIP member.)
The McCainites tried to attribute anonymous Internet falsehoods to one individual: Surprise! Barack Obama.
Superimposing FactCheck’s “completely false, or misleading” finding over a photo of Obama, the Republicans suggested the Democrat had trumped up the charges.
FactCheck, however, found “no evidence” tying Obama to the anonymous Internet attacks. The muckrakers announced Wednesday that McCain & Co. had been “less than honest.”
Obama blew off the lies with a shrug and a smile when he visited David Letterman this week. But I suspect that many Americans’ reaction comes closer to sadness. Or anger.
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10 Xbox 360 tricks Microsoft doesn’t tell you
1. Connect your Xbox 360 to two screens at once
If you’ve got one of the component/composite dual video cables – the one that comes in the box with most 360s – you can have your console display its gamey goodness on two TVs simultaneously. The trick is to flick the cable’s switch to Standard Definition but hook up the composite (yellow) cable to one screen and the component (the red, green, blue) cables to another. It won’t be high-def, but it could be handy if you’re staging a mini LAN party and want to set up a display for bored spectators to point their eyes at.
2. Play your own music in original Xbox games
That you can fire up your own MP3s during a 360 game is common knowledge (and re-soundtracking moody horror games with the Benny Hill theme tune never stops being funny), but it doesn’t work if you’re playing a title from the original Xbox. There’s a way around it – start playing your album or playlist before you load the game, and it’ll keep on playing once you do fire the title up. The game’s own music won’t be muted, however, so if you can’t do that in its settings you’ll go mad from the weird cacophony.
3. It can write its own blog
Ah, the internet – founded upon crazy men making crazy things for free. Such as a blog supposedly written by your 360, based on what you’ve been using it for. It monitors your Live account and automatically generates entries about what it’s been up to that day (or what it hasn’t been up to – expect many posts about neglect if you don’t turn it on for a while). The tone is very much American geek, but it’s a fun record of your own gaming habits, and of keeping an eye on what your chums are up to. Get set up at www.360voice.com.
4. Play Xbox 360 games online for free – without a Live account
That you have to pay a subscription for online gaming, something that’s free on other consoles and on the PC, is perhaps the 360’s greatest bugbear. Stage your own form of peaceful process by playing online without paying a penny. You’ll need XLink Kai, a free app you run from a PC on the same network as the console that tricks the 360 into thinking the internet is a LAN.
So it’ll treat remote opponents as though they’re in the same room as you – and you don’t have to pay for local multiplayer. Clever! One snag – Microsoft has set the 360 to boot out anyone with a ping higher than 30ms, so you’ll have to be selective about who you play with. Local chums are best, not your Chinese penpal.
5. Interact with your Xbox 360 music
Hit X whilst playing a music CD or file (whether from the 360’s hard drive, an MP3 player you’ve plugged in, or streamed from a PC) and you’ll enter Psychedelic Wonderland. Well, some artful visualisations, anyway. Grab a controller or two (or up to four, as it happens) and start moving thumbpads and pressing buttons to interact with the crazed shifting colours. There are actually some fairly elaborate controls – read the full manual at http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/x360manual.php. Good at parties, this.
6. Connect your Xbox 360 to a wireless network without an official adaptor
The good news is you don’t have to drop £50 on Microsoft’s offensively overpriced Wi-Fi adaptor. The bad news is you’ll need a laptop with W-Fi to do it. Head to Control Panel – Network Connections (In Windows XP) or Network & Sharing Center – Manage Network Connections (in Vista). Select the Local Area Connection and the Wireless Network Connection at once, then right-click and hit ‘bridge connections’.
Disconnect then reconnect to your wireless network, run a network cable from the laptop’s Ethernet port to the 360’s, and you should be good to go. Unfortunately, you may have to remove the bridge (repeat the above process and you’ll see the option) whenever you want to browse the net with the laptop.
7. Play music from your iPod
Not a secret as such, but Microsoft doesn’t exactly shout about the fact it plays nice with a device made by uber-rival Apple. Hidden in the depths of the Marketplace, you’ll find a teeny download called ‘optional iPod support’. Once you’ve grabbed that, plug in your iPod (iPhones aren’t supported yet, sadly) and head to the Media Blade. You’ll see your pod appear there, and can now browse its music by album, artist, genre or whatever. It’ll also charge via the USB port, usefully.
8. Reset your Xbox 360 video settings
Remember this one if you’re in the habit of carrying your console to chum’s houses and hooking it up to different displays. It can end up trying to output the wrong signal, so you can’t see anything or get a flickering screen. Fortunately, there’s a fairly simple fix if this happens. Remove any discs from the tray and turn the thing off. Then turn it on using a gamepad. As it boots, hold down the Y button, then hit and hold the right trigger. The video settings will reset to default, and you’ll stop your sobbing.
9. Play any media file, plus online videos on your Xbox 360
Free app Tversity neatly sidesteps the pointless video/audio restrictions Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo alike slap on their consoles, making them able to play any format. Again, you’ll need a PC on the same network, but it’s a simple matter of installing the program and having it scan the folders you keep your media in. It’ll replace the standard network file-sharing system Windows uses, but behaves pretty much the same way at the 360’s end. As well as that, it’ll convert unsupported files on the fly – though you’ll need a pretty beefy PC to do this with large video files, otherwise you’ll be waiting ages. You can also add online video URLs on the PC’s end – including Youtube – and then access those from the console.
10. Use any HDMI cable and still get digital surround sound
Though the newer 360s have an HDMI output for optimal video quality, they’ve built the ports in such a way that you can’t have the standard component/composite video cable, with its crucial optical audio output, plugged in at the same time as HDMI. Instead, you’re supposed to drop a frightening amount of money on the official HDMI cable with audio adapter. Balls to that. See the big plastic box at the end of the standard video cable that connects to the console? Wedge a knife or screwdriver into the join and twist to pop it off. The result looks messy, but is small enough to plug in alongside a standard, cheapo HDMI cable.
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Picture above was shot by Peter Arnett and captures Rick Rescorla
| 12 hours ago by admin Take a few minutes and read about Rick Rescorla, a Brit war hero, who became and American citizen and fought in Vietnam along with Hal Moore at Ia Drang Valley (Rick Rescorla is the guy pictured on the cover of the book “We Were … |
His name is Rick Rescorla, a British soldier who moved to America, became a citizen and fought for his adopted country in Vietnam. He remained in service till 1990, after that he got into commercial banking. …
Here’s a rare find – an actual 9/11 hero. His name is Rick Rescorla, a British soldier who moved to America, became a citizen and fought for his adopted country in Vietnam. He remained in service till 1990, after that he got into commercial banking. His company occupied 22 floors of the south tower of the World Trade Center.
When the planes hit, Rick Rescorla evacuated 2,700 people out of the skyscraper. When those were safe, he went back inside on another rescue mission as there were still thousands of people inside. This time he was entrapped as the tower collapsed ending his life.
Rick Rescorla is a true 9/11 hero. I tend to use word “hero” lightly as it gets attributed to people who have not done anything heroic to deserve being called one. Rick Rescorla did risk his life and at the end it cost him his life. Thanks to his doing, 2,700 people were saved from certain death. Many of those who died in crushing towers of 9/11 attacks are now referred to as “heroes”. It’s about time one of them was identified as an actual hero. His name is Rick Rescorla, may his soul rest in peace.
Picture above was shot by Peter Arnett and captures Rick Rescorla, who was a lieutenant during the war in Vietnam at the time. The image dates back to November 1965.
It’s official: Comcast starts 250GB bandwidth caps October 1
Comcast has announced that it will in fact be introducing bandwidth caps to all residential customers. The cap, which will go into effect as of October 1, will be 250GB per month. Comcast justifies the decision by saying that it's "an extremely large amount of data," and that a very large majority of customers will never cross it. Related Stories Comcast mulling metered access, 250GB monthly bandwidth caps Comcast launches 50Mbps broadband... for $150 per month Comcast speaks out on bandwidth caps, says they only affect 0.01% of users In fact, according to Comcast, this is actually the same policy that is already in place, except with more explicit numbers as to what is allowed and what isn't. "As part of our preexisting policy, we will continue to contact the top users of our high-speed Internet service and ask them to curb their usage," the company said in a statement sent to Ars. "If a customer uses more than 250GB and is one of the top users of our service, he or she may be contacted by Comcast to notify them of excessive use."
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2008 Smart Fortwo Cabriolet
The microscopic personal transportation device known as the Smart Fortwo has begun to infect American urbanites from coast to coast like some newly developed nanotechnology injected into the bloodstream of a willing populace looking for the solution to all of their mobility needs in the pages of a Michael Crichton novel.
If you live outside of a big city you may not have seen one with your own eyes yet. Be warned, every day more and more of the two passenger pods are entering the flow of traffic, gaining acceptance in a world that is utterly foreign to them, but ready to let down its defenses in the name of fuel and space efficiency.
And it’s making me sick.
A yard shorter than a MINI Cooper, and narrow enough to split lanes on an interstate, the greatest asset of the Fortwo (most people just refer to it as ‘The Smart,’ but that’s the brand name, so let’s stop that now) is its ability to fit in spaces between vehicles that you might not have found suitable for jaywalking through before.
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Announcing the “Internet for Everyone” campaign
Today Google joined a national initiative of public interest, civic and industry groups to help launch the Internet for Everyone campaign, whose goal is to make ubiquitous and open broadband access for every American a priority in the next administration.
Why is Google involved? Making the Internet accessible to more Americans is part of our corporate DNA. It’s what has motivated our work on municipal wi-fi, in the 700 MHz spectrum auction, our investment in Clearwire and development of Android, and most recently our advocacy in support of opening up the unused portions of the TV spectrum band for use by Internet devices.
For more than a decade the Internet has driven unprecedented innovation, economic growth, and prosperity. Companies like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook — and numerous smaller but impactful players — have fundamentally changed people’s lives. Their success wouldn’t have been possible without the ability of tens of millions of Americans to connect easily to a open Internet. And there’s no doubt that the next generation of inventions to transform our lives and our economy will happen online, making high-speed access to the Net more important than ever.
Unfortunately, over the past several years the U.S. has been falling further behind Europe and Asia in broadband access and quality. As I’ve written about in the past, our country’s comparatively low ranking in broadband penetration will have a real impact on whether the U.S. retains its edge in innovation. The social and economic consequences of America’s failure to remain competitive are serious, and we should dedicate ourselves to fixing this deficiency. The Internet for Everyone campaign promises just such an effort.
There’s no doubt that the decisions we are making today will shape the Internet of tomorrow. In my view, we must develop a comprehensive, forward-looking national innovation strategy to address and forestall America’s technological decline. The Net’s future has every potential to be bright, but it will happen only if we ensure that everyone has access to its broadband on-ramps.