He will spend the next 6 months in Mississippi with Ann.

We had a guy around here do the same thing and get probation, I was surprised myself.

I saw him on TV. His wife begged the judge not to ruin his life. So the judge said he would give him a chance. I have done my share of drinking and being stupid. If I killed any kid my life would already be ruined!

If anything this judge lost votes. A lot of people have their bloomers in a wad about this.

Another slap on the wrist from another judge

Gotta like the irony that he used to run down drug users and he himself is caught up in the stuff Man he looks alot different then I remember him in that photo on the page

It must be nice to have the money and the connections.

After all these stories of people not getting what they deserve, I bring you a cute story from my neck of the woods:

One lucky child will get to fly in a warbird.

Dennis is a steady customer at the store. Yesterday, he told my coworker and I to read the Herald on Saturday. I hate planes, but I would love to have a chance to sit in an old war plane.

He lost weight trally. I guess I will have to get sicker or get on dope to drop any serious weight anymore.

But Rush is a fine man. I have two of his books. Never did read the 2nd one and he gave it to me.

If by "fine" you mean "drug adicted" then yeah...he's a fine man.

Ya know that that guy could take me for that ride. But I am too old, to fat, and to dang ugly. So I guess it will never happen for me.

While I also am too old and fat, I'd love to do a shuttle to orbit

I want to go with ya if you go. We can take turns driving. I really would like to ride that thing.

Ground zero search faulted
Bank building next to trade center never fully examined for human remains

By GREG B. SMITH, New York Daily News
First published: Monday, May 1, 2006

NEW YORK -- For more than four years, the 40-story Deutsche Bank tower has stood silently at the edge of ground zero, a graveyard waiting to be found.
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The building was searched in 2002 and pronounced clear of all human remains.

In the last few weeks, however, nearly 700 bone fragments have been found on the roof at 130 Liberty St.

The New York Daily News has learned that several areas inside the abandoned skyscraper have never been fully searched. Small bits of human remains are being found now only because the state is preparing to demolish the building.

"Those body parts didn't just get there. They've been there for four years," state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said last week after the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the memorial at ground zero. "Nobody bothered to look."

How this situation came to be remains a mystery; no single agency ever took charge of the recovery of human remains at ground zero.

The most thorough search of the structure was conducted in June 2002, by the Fire Department, with two teams working round-the-clock.

They checked the entire building floor by floor and visually inspected the roof, said spokesman James Long.

However, the firefighters did not take apart infrastructure or sift the so-called ballast gravel on the roof, where most of the remains have been found in the last several weeks.

"They found what they could," said Marian Fontana, whose firefighter husband, David, has never been found. Fontana had pressed for the search back in 2002. "They could only do a visual search. They couldn't look inside walls and vents and infrastructure."

All Times Union materials copyright 1996-2006, Capital Newspapers Division of The Hearst Corporation, Albany, N.Y.

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Chalk another point to the neglegance list.

Here they go again.

Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Sen Stevens tries to sneak the Broadcast Flag into law
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has snuck the Broadcast Flag into a bill on Net Neutrality. The stealth clause authorizes "the FCC to establish a broadcast flag to allow TV stations to protect digital content from Internet piracy."

What this means is that Senator Stevens is trying to pass a law that will allow broadcasters -- who enjoy free use of billions of dollars' worth of public airwaves -- to veto any features of digital televisions and downstream devices. Ultimately, that means that the FCC would, on behalf of broadcasters, get control over the design of video recorders, optical drives, network interfaces, hard disks, computers and operating systems. A brief far more sweeping than the FCC has ever had before, making them into America's "device czars," charged with ensuring that the business models of the broadcasters and Hollywood studios won't be disrupted by technology.

One element of the broadcast flag proposal is that is prohibits the use of free and open source software in digital TV applications (including PC operating systems, video drivers, etc). That's because the Broadcast Flag requires that devices be built to be "robust" -- that is, to resist the attempts of their owners to modify or improve on them. It's as if Senator Stevens is trying to pass a law requiring the hood of every car to be welded shut when it leaves the factory, to make sure that no driver ever gets to change his own oil. (Thanks, Tony!)

http://ipaction.org/blog/2006/05/breaking-news-broadcast-flag-is-back.html

Sorry if this has already been posted, I just thought it was funny.

RIAA nails family with no computer

p2p news / p2pnet: In their latest sue 'em all mess, the owners of the RIAA have subpoenaed a Georgia family for allegedly sharing files online, says the Rockmark Journal.

Targeted by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is Carma Walls and the subpoena states:

"Plaintiffs are informed and believe that Defendant, without the permission or consent of Plaintiffs, has used, and continues to use, an online media distribution system to download the copyrighted recordings, to distribute the copyrighted recordings to the public, and/or to make the copyrighted recordings available for distribution to others'."

Interesting: "has used, and continues to use". However, the Walls don't even own a computer.

The RIAA allegation shouldn’t, though, surprise anyone. Money-obsessed Warner Music, EMI, Sony BMG and Vivendi Universal own it and routinely use it frighten children, hauling them up for 'depositions' designed to intimidate their parents.

And in a new tactic, the RIAA is trying to turn friend against friend.

The subpoena, described as a lawsuit in the report, "came as shocking news to the Walls family, who were notified of the lawsuit Friday afternoon by a newspaper reporter," says the Rockmark Journal.

"James Walls, speaking on behalf of his wife and family, said they have not been served with legal papers and were unaware of the lawsuit."

After seeing a copy of the court filing, 'I don’t understand this,” Walls is quoted as saying. "How can they sue us when we don’t even have a computer?"

Walls also pointed out his family has lived at the current address for less than a year, wondering if a prior tenant had Internet access, "then moved, leaving his family to be targeted instead".

But, the story goes on, the RIAA insists Carma Walls infringed eight copyrights.

By far the vast majority of online music lovers get their fixes from the p2p networks and indie sites, avoiding low-quality, over-priced Big Four 'product' like the plague.

The RIAA claims is bizarre subpoena-based sue 'em all marketing plan is driving people towards the handful of corporate download and downloan its owners back and supply. However, this assertion isn't even normal PR flim-flam. It's an outright lie and in fact increasing, rather than fewer numbers, of people are turning to the p2p networks every month.

For example in February, 2006, in the US alone, 6,978,098 were simultaneously logged on the networks at any given moment, says p2p research firm Big Champagne.

In February last year, the figure was 6,181,636 and in 2004, it was 4,039,989.

Congressman: Horse Slaughter Legislation Could "Come To A Head" Soon
May 3, 2006, 05:35 PM

(LOUISVILLE) -- U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield said Wednesday he plans to try to move a bill forward that would outlaw the transportation of American horses for slaughter.

Many Americans are unaware that horses are slaughtered here and shipped to foreign countries to be eaten, Whitfield said during a conference call to discuss the legislation.

"Most people don't know that it's even going on," Whitfield said. "Unlike other animals, horses were never grown or raised or bred for the purpose of human consumption."

Whitfield, a Republican from Hopkinsville, said the bill, crafted with Rep. John Sweeney, R-NY, is stalled in the House Energy and Commerce Committee and has an uncertain future.

Whitfield said he and Sweeney are going to meet with committee leaders to discuss how they can get the bill moving.

"Within the next couple of weeks there's going to be some things come to a head," he said.

American horse meat is sold mostly for human consumption in Europe and Asia. There are three horse meat slaughterhouses in the United States -- two in Texas and one in Illinois. Whitfield said about 80,000 horses in this country were slaughtered last year.

The mysterious death of former Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand piqued Whitfield's interest in the issue. The 1986 Derby winner was sold to breeders in Japan in 1994, and it is believed the colt was killed in a slaughterhouse in 2002.

Meanwhile, a new nonprofit group co-founded by trainer Nick Zito's wife, Kim, said Wednesday it would provide a home for unwanted horses often sold for slaughter.

The Kentucky Equine Humane Center is looking to lease a farm in the Lexington area to provide a shelter for its horses, the group said in a statement.

"Horses are like people; they need to be protected, not left to be treated like garbage," Nick Zito said in the statement.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Art Bell would love to talk to him I bet
Hacker fears 'UFO cover-up'

In 2002, Gary McKinnon was arrested by the UK's national high-tech crime unit, after being accused of hacking into Nasa and the US military computer networks.

He says he spent two years looking for photographic evidence of alien spacecraft and advanced power technology.

America now wants to put him on trial, and if tried there he could face 60 years behind bars.

Banned from using the internet, Gary spoke to Click presenter Spencer Kelly to tell his side of the story, ahead of his extradition hearing on Wednesday, 10 May. You can read what he had to say here.