I think I’m maybe a wee bit TOO good… haha. I didn’t find it to be that difficult; I mean, most of the stuff was fairly common knowledge (I mean, really, how many alcoholic substances are made with wormwood?)
If memory serves, I got every answer within two clues.
What score did you get, dear reader?
It just continues to amaze me how many incidents of TASER misuse there are…
I mean, sure, that guy was being a complete dick - but at no point was he doing anything approaching threatening. He seemed to make it a point to keep his hands up and away from his body at all times. The closest thing to a lethal weapon he had was a book!
Four big, burly security guards couldn’t handle one skinny kid?
At one point does TASER use cross the line into torture? I mean, it’s obvious that they were using the threat of pain and actual pain in order to ensure compliance. I can’t imagine there’d be any question, if they said, “Comply or I’ll hit you over the head with my baton” that they’d crossed the line… because it’s a TASER it seems like it falls into some magical land where it can do no wrong…
I also have to wonder about what happens in the first few seconds of the video - the officers, AND some dude in a suit are all looking at someone… then the guy in the suit makes a “cut him off” motion, and then the officers take this kid down. I mean, I don’t know WHO they were looking at… but it makes me wonder if security concerns were paramount…
Looks like water gun technology has moved forward since I was a kid… :P
Don’t let one of the comment on the story put you off it…
Slate … you should be ashamed.
Let’s ignore the fact that squirt guns have an obvious sexual element … even without that, we’re simply promoting violence, every bit as much as shoot ‘em up videogames. Only with water guns you’re allowed to practice on live human targets. How sick is that?
I can’t think of a more sinister way to inculcate America’s youth into the gun culture than to popularize water guns as innocent harmless fun.
In fact, its practice for future street crime or war atrocities.
The excuse for squirting someone unexpectedly (“I just couldn’t resist”) no longer flies. I reserve the right to choose who, when, and where I will participate in squirting behavior with. its symbolic sexual assault if you don’t obtain my consent first.
–baltimore aureole
I DO agree that, by using water guns, you’re promoting violence EVERY BIT AS MUCH as by using violent video games. That is, not at all; or so close to nothing as to not matter.
As for it being “symbolic sexual assault” I’d like to put my symbolic foot up their symbolic ass… What sort of a jackass belittles something as serious as sexual assault by comparing it to a WATER GUN? That seems to me like comparing Robert Pickton to Grand Theft Auto… there’s just no way that you can equate pixels ceasing to exist with serial murder, and doing so is just disgusting.
Some guy has to ruin Christmas for a bunch of kids just to get some jollies.
I’m glad Canada Post is continuing the program though - nowadays it’s all too easy to just say “screw it” and call it a day when it comes to voluntary programs like this. Whole lot less hassle that way.
EDIT: In the, “I never thought about it but knowing it makes things even more awesome” file…
More than 11,000 current and retired Canada Post employees, affectionately called Postal Elves, help Santa to ensure that every child’s letter gets an answer in the language in which the letter was written, including Braille (emails are answered in English or French).
I think it’s just great that no matter the language, Santa will still write back. I never even considered that they’d be looking out for non-English or French speakers; and Braille ups the awesomeness quotient at least 20%.
What, you ask, do those numbers represent?
Well, they will both buy you the same amount of data through a cell phone plan. Of course, the US price is about equal to eating at McDonalds every day for a week, while the Canadian price is about that of a new Porsche.
This poor bastard received a bill for $85,000 from Bell. An equal amount of service would have cost him $70 in the US.
So, whats crazier? How much we pay for data in Canada, or that a man who normally pays $160 a month for service could get a bill this huge with no warnings?
(Bell decided to be magnanimous and demonstrate its Christmas spirit on this one - they are only charging him $3,500)
…but when you see things like this you just have to wonder if maybe the gap between the rich and the poor has gotten a bit too big.
The gist of this is that they’re going a bit loony in London… a few too many billionaires hang out there, and with the restrictive laws with regards to herritage buildings and an overall lack of space… all you can do is go down.
But this isn’t throwing some drywall up on the unfinished basement:
Few can compete with Chris Rokos, a secretive hedge-fund tycoon. The lavish plans for his eight-bedroom house in Notting Hill, submitted to the planners this month, include a gym, a home cinema, library, a third-floor open-air pool, an internal climbing wall, a subterranean garage with motorised lift for two cars and an 80ft-tall glass atrium. As if that’s not enough, Rokos, 36, plans to dig four storeys below ground to create a 16ft-deep swimming pool with high board. The 168-page application, currently being studied, will, if approved, make his home one of the grandest in the city.
I wasn’t sure I was going to post this, until I saw this paragraph:
“Even the most modest mews buildings are Tardis-like and have a car stacker. Most houses now have more space below ground than above it, due to stringent planning regulations.”
Fuck yeah. If you can’t see what is so truly awesome in that paragraph, I don’t even want to explain it to you :P
The amount of money being spent on this stuff is enough to make you weak in the knees, though. Truly crazy. I should hope to make as much money IN MY LIFETIME as what these people are spending on their garages…
Sure, part of me is saying, “Isn’t that so awesome?”… on the other hand, it’s just obscene amounts of cash to prove that one rich guy has more money then some other rich guy - it’s just a pissing contest. First one to hit lava wins!