In the news today

[Animeniax]

He got the knife through his head, so somebody definitely did stand behind his back long enough to notice. If nobody had noticed, he wouldn't have got knifed, after all.

If you've ever played CS or any multiplayer, you know it doesn't require proof for the cheating accusations to fly and to stick. I should know, I've often been accused of cheating, I'm just that good.

[Kraco]

Considering the severity and swiftness of punishments in China's judicial system, I don't think they would take the risk of facing it if they only thought somebody appeared too good. The article gave me the impression they specifically noticed him to be using a wallhack cheat.

Besides, you don't even need to be too especially good to get kicked out of servers. You just need to play differently from the regulars.

[Pandadice]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapc...ape/index.html

lol. did anyone see this the other day on CNN?

http://kotaku.com/5506016/why-is-cnn...-about-rapelay

i guess by now it's kinda old news. But it's just so ridiculous xD

[XanBcoo]

Photos from protests in Kyrgyzstan

Oh and I guess people apparently really care about golf now because Tiger Woods is playing again.

Also, Collateral Murder discussion moved to this thread: http://forums.gotwoot.net/showthread.php?t=18356

[The Heretic Azazel]

Someone needs to tell those people that there is no such thing as a role model. You can certainly appreciate what someone does, but to elevate someone to that kind of standard in their professional lives and at the same time try to elevate them to the same standard in their personal lives is pointless. People are always looking for someone to emulate because they don't have minds of their own.

Tiger loves white bitches as much as I do. What's the problem?

[Buffalobiian]

Someone needs to tell those people that there is no such thing as a role model. You can certainly appreciate what someone does, but to elevate someone to that kind of standard in their professional lives and at the same time try to elevate them to the same standard in their personal lives is pointless. People are always looking for someone to emulate because they don't have minds of their own.

Tiger loves white bitches as much as I do. What's the problem?

Yeah, I always hated it when people do that.

It's one thing to say "so and so is a role model, you should be like him", since that's just a compliment, but to say they "should be a role model", or "was once labelled as a role model and therefore should do X and Y" is simply upholding someone to an unwarranted responsibility.

[Xelbair]

In case you don't know.
Today president of Poland along with 96 other people died in plane crash in smolensk wood in Russia close to Katyń(the place that 70 years ago thousands of polish officers were slaughtered for no legal reason by russian comunists).
It is a really bad news... Most of not corrupted politicians were there - most of them were sheding light onto shady dealings of current goverment(so called Gambling Affair(basically the two strongest political clubs were bribed to pass the the article that allowed organized crime groups to get easy profit from gambling and it fucks up the owners of smaller and legal gambling buissness)) also combatants and members of murdered officers' families where on that plane...
Also most of goverment's and army's top brass died in the pane crash.
Situation is grim...

[Death BOO Z]

In case you don't know.
Today president of Poland along with 96 other people died in plane crash in smolensk wood in Russia close to Katyń(the place that 70 years ago thousands of polish officers were slaughtered for no legal reason by russian comunists).

The place where the commuinst murdered the officers but everybody hushed about it and blamed nazi soldiers?

Also most of goverment's and army's top brass died in the pane crash.

I heard the PM, his vice and the army general were all in that plain. is there a designated leader now? I heard that head of the parliament got into office, will it temporary (until the party chooses the next leader) or are you going into new elections?

[Kraco]

In case you don't know.
Today president of Poland along with 96 other people died in plane crash in smolensk wood in Russia close to Katyń(the place that 70 years ago thousands of polish officers were slaughtered for no legal reason by russian comunists).

I seem to recall Kaczynski and his twin brother were quite a troublemaking pair of politicians? At least to the rest of the EU.

[Xelbair]

yep they were troublemakers - because they would not allow anything that would be bad for Poland. And that annoyed the most goverments in EU, because our and their policies collided. They also annoyed their opposition(mostly political club PO) - because PO desired comprmises and they didn't.
Head of parliment has two weeks to set date for new election in 60 days. And the laziest politician - that is the prime minister was not on this plane(he indeed won that award 1 year before last election for parliment!)

[LaZie]

Well for those of you that like Jamba Juice. They are having a BOGO free coupon valid from 4/12-4/25.

http://www.jambajuice.com/20thcoupon/index.html

[XanBcoo]

Tea Party GOP candidate from New York forwards email with racist jokes, horse porn:

http://gawker.com/5515426/youre-not-...o-your-friends

Paladino, a Buffalo businessman, has no hope of winning the Republican Party nomination, and certainly no hope of beating New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in a general election. But he's mad as hell and won't take it anymore! So he's running, and it turns out that he's a tea party guy and therefore thinks Obama has a secret invisible bone through his nose and won't stop sending all his "friends" e-mails to that effect. WNYMedia, a web site covering Western New York, has found some of them, and they include a photo of a woman getting fucked by a horse and a group of black men running from a landing airplane with the caption "run niggers, run!" Good stuff.

His response to the criticism:

When one recipient complained about the "Obama inauguration" email, calling Paladino a racist, Paladino responded by apologizing "if that is offensive." He added: "I'm not a racist and have never related Obama's color to my political distaste for him....I'm not sensitive to ethnic humor."

lol

[Pandadice]

Piracy Impact Exaggerated

[The Heretic Azazel]

RIP Jack Herer June 18, 1939 - April 10, 2010

I know many of you may not know who this man is.. but cannabis reform activist Jack Herer has died of heart complications. "The Hemperor" as he's called traveled around the world spreading the message of marijuana legalization and hemp industrialization. He's done more for our cause than pretty much anyone else.

He wrote a book, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", which is a very detailed and wonderful book dealing with the lies our government has told us about cannabis. A little known fact is he ran for President under the Grassroots party in 1988 and 1992.

He also has a delicious strain of cannabis named after him. It will knock you on your ass.

A few months ago he was in a coma from a minor heart attack and a major stroke. He attributes his recovery from that episode to psychotropic mushrooms. The man is a legend and he will be sorely missed.

RIP Jack Herer.

[Kraco]

Another man's hero is another man's villain.

[XanBcoo]

Another man's hero is another man's villain.

This is God's way of telling us that all those pot-smoking slacker hippies deserve to die.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Why don't you two assholes go shitpost in another thread?

[itadakimasu]

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

[XanBcoo]

Why don't you two assholes go shitpost in another thread?

Well I had never heard of the guy, so I went for the sarcastic option.

Seriously though, let's hope his legacy and hard work lives on. Unfortunately, we're living in a country so impressionable that getting legislation passed on that issue soon is next to impossible.

Much respect to him.

[itadakimasu]

I didn't know the guy, but there is a strain of marijuanica named after him.