In the news today

[The Heretic Azazel]

Big news from my town.

The West Memphis Three could be released as early as Friday

[Kraco]

That was awesome.

I might go to watch basketball games if they were always like that!

The US players must be paid premium to bother to travel to China if this is what they can expect to get.

[rockmanj]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_930208.html

[Animeniax]

A gay friend of mine said that Anderson Cooper is the most famous closeted gay guy. I disputed his level of fame.

[dragonrage]

It incredible the way the security officers just stood there on the sidelines taking in the view, only moving when it was over.

I read about that this morning, poopdeville. Woot!

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Wow, this is a scary brawl, things could've turned out a lot nastier. A wild brawl started between the Georgetown Hoyas and China's Bayi team. Georgetown Hoyas was on a goodwill tour of China, and now this happens.

I don't know the whole story, but from my perspective, as well as what I read and watched, it seems like the Bayi players were the aggressors, and really escalated this incident. Man, tossing chairs around is not nice. There might be more to it (maybe trash talking, physical play, or whatever, no need to start a brawl over that, though...), but as of right now, I'm calling it like I see it.

It also doesn't help that the Chinese fans were throwing bottles and stuff at the Georgetown players, whilst they were leaving the court. Totally disgraceful and uncalled for. I'm Half-Chinese (British, Chinese/Cantonese), and even I'm not defending the fans actions. Giving us a bad reputation.

As someone said, this is like a metaphor of the relationship between China and the USA right now.

"The melee was the latest instance of on-court fighting by China, whose players have been fined tens of thousands of dollars by the world and Asian federations for scrapping with opponents." - New York Times

Washington Post
The New York Times
Huffington Post
Yardbarker

I believe if the father took a shotgun and took care of them he would be very much justified. The system doesn't work.

Big news from my town.

The West Memphis Three could be released as early as Friday

[rockmanj]

A gay friend of mine said that Anderson Cooper is the most famous closeted gay guy. I disputed his level of fame.

I did not know he was closeted. I thought everyone knew.

[XanBcoo]

Anderson Cooper is openly gay and openly badass.




Also, not world news, but this guy went to my (small) high school. My Spanish teacher called him cacahuate:

http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/08...f-hit-and.html

[Psyke]

The Chinese are embarrassing themselves and they don't know it. The recent fake Apple stores, Ikea stores, and the Steve Jobs wannabe isn't helping as well.

[Buffalobiian]

The Chinese are embarrassing themselves and they don't know it. The recent fake Apple stores, Ikea stores, and the Steve Jobs wannabe isn't helping as well.

I'm not sure if they know it, but they certainly don't care. It seems to be money above everything else over there.

I guess one of the things that shits me off the most is that journalists find stuff going on before law enforcements do.

[Y]

I believe if the father took a shotgun and took care of them he would be very much justified. The system doesn't work.

The West Memphis Three have spent 18 years in prison for a crime they did not commit. The system definitely does not work, but certainly not in the way you implied. Get on IRC so I can bitch at you about this.

[dragonrage]

working right now, bitching can come later.

[enkoujin]

I'm not sure if they know it, but they certainly don't care. It seems to be money above everything else over there.

I guess one of the things that shits me off the most is that journalists find stuff going on before law enforcements do.

Many of the Chinese are people who have been brainwashed by the government and plagiarism by a crown corporation wouldn't really be "headline news" in China.

Also, there exists high corruption in the municipal governments and police force who are only out to deal with actual crimes dealing with human lives (rather than corporate espionage), so there's no surprise about that.

[Assertn]

The West Memphis Three have spent 18 years in prison for a crime they did not commit. The system definitely does not work, but certainly not in the way you implied. Get on IRC so I can bitch at you about this.

Rock Lee as a genin could not beat Kakashi or any other Jounin in a fight. Get on IRC so I can bitch at you about this.

[Animeniax]

HP is closing out it's line of WebOS based Touchpads so if you can find one, they're about $100 for a device that cost $500 just 3 months ago.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/...blet-touchpad/

Hopefully they continue to update the WebOS platform, or someone gets Android to work on these tablets (already in the works).

[dragonrage]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bes....cnn?hpt=hp_t1

Gadhafi is out, now who wants oil?

does this sound familiar.... WMD.... Oil....

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa...html?hpt=hp_t1

[dragonrage]

For all the Apple fans out there; yes I'm taking to you St33v.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/24/tech....htm?hpt=hp_c1

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO



Aftermath of a rare 5.8 earthquake to the east coast.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/24/vir...html?hpt=hp_t2

Some one I knew said that he was waiting to see John Cusack pull up in a limo when it was happening. 2012 people, 2012.

[rockmanj]

Japan to stop selling Xboxes/

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/08/22

[dragonrage]

Forecast for the weekend ahead... Yep, you guessed it "Hurricane". Irene might even take a bite out of the "Big Apple".

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americ...html?hpt=hp_t1


@rockmanj.

lol, Beat Train lolicon.

[Ryllharu]

Forecast for the weekend ahead... Yep, you guessed it "Hurricane". Irene might even take a bite out of the "Big Apple"

NYC official: Heavy flooding "may drive millions of subway rats to seek higher ground."

Hahahahahaha.

But seriously. I'm practically guaranteed to lose power. For days, and that's only if I'm lucky. Last time this happened I had no power for a little over a week.

[dragonrage]

Have you ever seen a NYC rat, those critters are huge and have battle scars from the subway lines.

Don't really think it is going to be as bad as people expect but I am making preparations. Water, canned food, flash lights and what not.

What really might cause problems is fallen trees, driving is already a pain in the ass and well the lost of power.