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[Frothy Afterbirth]

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Ignorance is not bliss. Dude didn't go to jail. He wasn't even charged for statutory rape because the girl found to be full of bullshit. Score one for man and sanity.

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Don't let minors sweet talk anyone to fuck them.

[The Godfather]

An Atlanta woman suspected of being the "Grandma Bandit" died Friday morning after being shot multiple times at the end of a police chase on North Druid Hill Road, DeKalb police said.

The woman, identified in an arrest warrant as Roxanne Taylor, 58, of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Atlanta, was spotted in the drive-through at a Wendy's on Piedmont Road by someone who noticed that she matched the description of the bandit who has robbed several metro area drugstores in the past two weeks.

The person notified Atlanta police, who attempted to stop the woman after she left the drive-through, DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said. The woman fled, leading police on a chase up Interstate 85 northbound in a gold Jeep Liberty. She was involved in a minor traffic accident after exiting at North Druid Hills Road, Parish said.

At that point, the police officers who had been pursuing her heard a single gunshot, and they returned fire, hitting Taylor multiple times, Parish said. Neither of the officers was injured.

Witnesses at the shooting scene could see two bullet holes in the windshield and in a small window toward the rear on the driver's side of the Jeep. Also, the driver's side window was blown out and part of the driver's side rear seat window was shattered.

The so-called "Grandma Bandit" was wanted in a series of robberies at metro drugstores; she had been described as driving a tan or gold Jeep Liberty.

Since May 14, police have been searching for the woman, who was captured on surveillance video wearing a black University of Georgia ball cap; she was suspected of robbing four pharmacies in two weeks, most recently Tuesday at the Rite Aid pharmacy on Howell Mill Road.

She was also accused in similar crimes May 12, May 14 and May 20, when a woman matching her description pointed a gun at employees at a pharmacy on North Druid Hills Road and demanded cash, DeKalb County police said last week.

The arrest warrant, issued Thursday by Atlanta police, charged Taylor with three robberies:

-- On May 12, she held up the Rite Aid pharmacy at 1512 Piedmont Ave., and left with $89 in cash.

-- On May 14, she held up the Rite Aid pharmacy at 891 Ponce de Leon Ave. and made off with $159.

-- On May 24, she robbed the Rite Aid at 2020 Howell Mill Road and made off with $166.

In all three incidents, the suspect pointed a black handgun at a cashier and demanded all the money from the register.

Taylor was identified by store employees from a photo lineup, the warrant said.

Bitch was Gangsta.

[ThatHaole]

We all got money issues but $414 is a pretty stupid number to get your ass capped.

[Frothy Afterbirth]

Shit always happen on Martin Luther King Jr. (everywhere)

[Carlos Spicy Wiener]

Senators Want To Put People In Jail For Embedding YouTube Videos

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Supporters of this bill claim that all it's really doing is harmonizing US copyright law's civil and criminal sections. After all, the rights afforded under copyright law in civil cases cover a list of rights: reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works or perform the work. The rules for criminal infringement only cover reproducing and distributing -- but not performing. So, supporters claim, all this does is "harmonize" copyright law and bring the criminal side into line with the civil side by adding "performance rights" to the list of things.

If only it were that simple. But, of course, it's not. First of all, despite claims to the contrary, there's a damn good reason why Congress did not include performance rights as a criminal/felony issue: because who would have thought that it would be a criminal act to perform a work without permission? It could be infringing, but that can be covered by a fine. When we suddenly criminalize a performance, that raises all sorts of questionable issues.

Furthermore, as we suspected, in the full text of the bill, "performance" is not clearly defined. This is the really troubling part. Everyone keeps insisting that this is targeted towards "streaming" websites, but is streaming a "performance"? If so, how does embedding play into this? Is the site that hosts the content guilty of performing? What about the site that merely linked to and/or embedded the video (linking and embedding are technically effectively the same thing). Without clear definitions, we run into problems pretty quickly.

And it gets worse. Because rather than just (pointlessly) adding "performance" to the list, the bill tries to also define what constitutes a potential felony crime in these circumstances:

the offense consists of 10 or more public performances by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copyrighted works

So yeah. If you embed a YouTube video that turns out to be infringing, and more than 10 people view it because of your link... you could be facing five years in jail. This is, of course, ridiculous, and suggests (yet again) politicians who are regulating a technology they simply do not understand. Should it really be a criminal act to embed a YouTube video, even if you don't know it was infringing...? This could create a massive chilling effect to the very useful service YouTube provides in letting people embed videos.

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I've seen less destruction after a day long shelling and rocket attack.

I would not choose to live where tornadoes are common.

If I had no choice, I would certainly investigate the possibility of an earth-sheltered or underground home. The only difference between the after picture and Hiroshima are the lack of radiation and ashes.

^^^reminds me of this...



Top picture: torii that survived the tsunami

Bottom picture: torii that survived Nagasaki

wtf do they make toriis out of?

[TheJuice]

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According to wikipedia, "Torii were traditionally made from wood or stone, but today they can be also made of reinforced concrete, copper, stainless steel or other materials."

Concrete would have been my guess.

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then wtf is the rest of japan made of? paper?