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[Flashermac]

 

There was a dentist at home who collected his mother's Social Security for nearly two years after she was gone. He just didn't report her death. When the Feds found out, he got some time as a guest of the government over it. Not a good idea ...

 

 

[Steve]

$50 fine: Texting while walking

 

http://money.msn.com/auto-insurance/article.aspx?post=a8b7daf9-5e31-4cd1-a9c7-ca3979b7abc2&GT1=33033

 

Rexburg, a small college town in southeastern Idaho, may be the first place to also ban texting while walking.

 

Officially, only texting while crossing a street is illegal. Which raises a question: If you are so engrossed in texting that you fail to notice that a bright-red 4,000-pound pickup is bearing down on you at 35 mph, how likely is it that you would realize you have left the sidewalk and entered the street?

 

OK, the real question is whether such a law is even needed. According to reports, there have been no accidents, just a few "close calls," in Rexburg, mostly near the campus of Brigham Young University-Idaho.

 

While there is no data available on the dangers of texting while walking, a 2010 study by the Highway Loss Data Institute showed that texting-while-driving bans actually appear to increase the number of crashes.

 

 

[Coss]

Here's a great discussion on search engines and Facebook. Did you know that these sites track your computer and then tailor the search results of your searches instead of giving you the most important results? You and your friend could type "Korea" in the Google search engine and each get totally different results.

 

Google itself track something like 57 different types of info on you including your I.P. address, what kind of computer you have, and how long you hover over a link.

 

Facebook deleted 2 of the speaker's friends without his asking. The reason: he didn't click on them enough.

 

Google wants to intrude an app called Google Wallet which you track what you spend your money on.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/27/eli_pariser_on_the_filter_bubble

 

Herein the origin of the phrase "truth by popularity", Popularity is the overriding factor in Google's algorithms.

[chuckwoww]

Google doesn't like me much. I have obscure tastes in art and literature. They do keep trying to set me up with a Chinese girlfriend.

[Flashermac]

 

It's your destiny. Don't fight it.

 

[Hugh_Hoy]

Please don't extend that advice to me. When I was querying various local animal shelters on line for a replacement for my dog which had died, I kept getting ads for a certain Soi 4 bar beer.

 

HH

[acockasian]

http://www.ronpaul.com/

 

The stuff on debt is really worth watching!

[Flashermac]

@Huge

 

Nana? The dog in Peter Pan?

[Flashermac]

Now he's done it!

 

 

<< Lewis Hamilton became embroiled in a row over critical comments about stewards after finishing sixth.

 

The Englishman was called before officials for two separate incidents and, asked why he had been to see stewards five times in six races this year, he said, apparently in jest: "Maybe it's because I'm black. That's what Ali G says." >>

 

 

 

BBC

 

 

 

 

 

[Flashermac]

 

 

Melon-sized hail that fell during a severe thunderstorm in Norman, OK.

 

 

 

 

 

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