DEA Agent Who Shot Self In Foot Sues U.S http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0411061foot1.html
APRIL 11--A Drug Enforcement Administration agent who stars in a popular online video that shows him shooting himself in the foot during a weapons demonstration for Florida children is suing over the tape's release, claiming that his career has been crippled and he's become a laughingstock due to the embarrassing clip's distribution. Lee Paige, 45, blames the video's release on DEA officials in an April 7 federal lawsuit filed against the U.S. government. A copy of the pro se complaint by Paige, a DEA agent since 1990, can be found below. According to the lawsuit, Paige was making a "drug education presentation" in April 2004 to a Florida youth group when his firearm (a Glock .40) accidentally discharged. The shooting occurred moments after Paige told the children that he was the only person in the room professional enough to carry the weapon. The accident was filmed by an audience member, and the tape, Paige claims, was turned over to the DEA. The drug agency subsequently "improperly, illegally, willfully and/or intentionally" allowed the tape to be disseminated. As a result, Paige--pictured above in a still from the video--has been the "target of jokes, derision, ridicule, and disparaging comments" directed at him in restaurants, grocery stores, and airports. Paige, who writes that he was "once regarded as one of the best undercover agents, if not the best, in the DEA," points to the clip's recent airing on popular television shows and via the Internet as the reason he can no longer work undercover. He also notes that he is no longer "permitted or able to give educational motivational speeches and presentations."
Microsoft and Google Set to Wage Arms Race May 2, 2006
Microsoft and Google Set to Wage Arms Race
By STEVE LOHR and SAUL HANSELL
Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, described Google in an interview late last year as a worthy adversary, a company to test Microsoft's mettle. "This is hypercompetition, make no mistake," Mr. Gates observed.
The rivalry between the companies is growing more combative, and with good reason: the outcome is likely to shape the future of competition in computing and the way people use information technology.
A measure of how seriously Microsoft takes the challenge came last Thursday when it announced that its spending would rise sharply next year, about $2 billion higher than previous estimates. Much of the extra money, analysts say, is going to meet the threat from companies offering advertising-supported Internet services and software, led by Google.
"Microsoft doesn't have to kill Google, but it has to narrow the gap," said Richard Sherlund, an analyst at Goldman Sachs & Company. "It has to be in the same ZIP code."
To succeed, Microsoft has to make strong inroads into Internet services and software, where Google is a leader. "It's clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know it is at risk," Ray Ozzie, a chief technical officer, warned in an e-mail memo to Microsoft employees last year.
Microsoft enters that battle from a stronghold: its lucrative, powerful business in personal computer software. Google has asserted that Microsoft's next Web browser typically steers users to Microsoft's search service, limiting consumer choice and potentially hurting Google, the leading Internet search engine.
Microsoft says Google's objections are mistaken, and that its new browser, Internet Explorer 7, increases a user's search options.
But Google has advantages of its own, and the Internet services business is very different from the desktop software industry.
The Internet model is one that offers search, e-mail, calendar, contacts and even word processing as services accessible remotely with a PC or hand-held device with a Web browser. Typically, Google invents a new service or feature, makes it a free Web-based service, and only later figures out how to make money on it from advertising of some kind.
That ad-supported software, distributed as a Web service, is a threat to Microsoft's model of selling licensed desktop software, at least in the consumer market. Corporations have so far shown less interest in ad-supported software as an Internet service.
To smaller software companies, Google's strategy appears to have the same competitive impact as Microsoft's tried-and-true practice of bundling more software programs and features into its Windows operating system.
Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch, a Web newsletter, said that in some niches of the software business, Google is casting the same sort of shadow over Silicon Valley that Microsoft once did.
"You've got people who don't even feel they can launch a product for fear that Google will get in," Mr. Sullivan said.
Google, he said, has acquired companies and then made their products free, roiling the markets in which they compete. Google has introduced free versions of the graphics software made by SketchUp and of the Internet analytics service from Urchin, two companies that it bought.
And Google won a bid to offer wireless Internet service in San Francisco at no charge, hoping to make money by selling local advertising. If this model proves to be successful, it could cut into the business of other Internet providers and wireless phone companies.
Now Google is starting to move directly into Microsoft's core market. It recently acquired Writely, a Web-based word processor.
How far Google can eat into Microsoft's software franchise is uncertain. But Microsoft fears that Google could become a kind of operating system of the Internet in the same way that Windows is the dominant operating system of personal computing.
For its part, Google wants to avoid becoming the "next Netscape," a reference to the early leader in the browser market that Microsoft eventually thwarted.
"A lot of the people who are at the center of Google had done hand-to-hand combat with Microsoft in the 90's, and I don't think they have forgotten," observed John Battelle, the editor of SearchBlog, a Web log on search technology.
The group includes Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive and former executive of Sun Microsystems; Omid Kordestani, its senior vice president for sales and a former Netscape executive; and John Doerr, a Google director and venture capitalist who was a prime backer of Netscape, Sun Microsystems and other Microsoft rivals.
"They are very worried," Mr. Battelle said, "about Microsoft leveraging their I.E. monopoly," referring to Microsoft's commanding share of the browser market, which Microsoft includes in Windows.
The fears of both companies may well be exaggerated. For Microsoft, the PC promises to remain a powerful business and technology franchise for years to come. And Google should benefit from the fact that Microsoft, after a federal antitrust judgment against it and a settlement with the government, is more restrained in its tactics and behavior than it once was.
A major expense of their escalating battle lies in the very nature of the Internet services realm: the digital engine rooms and power plants that must be built to support it. Google does not disclose technical details, but estimates of the number of computer servers in its data centers range up to a million.
Last month, when reporting its quarterly earnings, Google reported a doubling in its rate of capital investment, mainly in computer servers, network equipment and space for data centers, and said it would spend at least $1.5 billion over the next year.
As Google grows, so does its need to store and handle more Web site information, video and e-mail content on its servers. "Those machines are full," Mr. Schmidt, the chief executive, said in an interview last month. "We have a huge machine crisis."
To catch up, Microsoft is also stepping up capital spending as it invests aggressively to build data centers worldwide. "It is becoming more capital intensive," said Mr. Sherlund of Goldman Sachs. "But the company has a bulging cash position and no debt. That's not a constraint for Microsoft."
However deep their pockets and established their names, the two companies will mainly compete on one point. "In the long run," Mr. Battelle said, "it's about whether you have the best service."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/technology/02google.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Old skool entertainment in Essex pubs From the Ipswich journal of 1762-04-10
original web source
http://www.camulos.com/inns/5k.htm
thats quite spectacular TBH...
Mr Powell, the celebrated Fire-Eater from London, will perform at the King's Arms, Colchester, in the Easter-Week, and no longer.
He intends to exhibit the following Articles:
1. He eats red-hot Coals out of the Fire as natural as Bread.
2. He licks with his Tongue red-hot Tobacco-Pipes flaming with Brimstone.
3. He takes a large bunch of Deal-Matches, lights them all together and holds them in his Mouth till the flame is extinguish'd.
4. He takes a red-hot Heater out of the Fire, licks it with his naked Tongue several Times, and carries it round the Room between his Teeth.
5. He fills his Mouth with red hot Charcoal, and broils a Slice of Beef or Mutton upon his Tongue, and any Person may blow the Fire with a Pair of Bellows at the same Time.
6. He takes a Quantity of Rosin, Pitch, Bees-wax, Sealing-wax, Brimstone, Allum, and Lead, melts them over a Chaffing-dish of Coals, and eats the said Combustibles with a Spoon, as natural as a Porringer of Broth, (which he calls his Dish of Soup) to the great Surprise of the Spectators.
Wales Party – Large Wales was fukin mad, shame i had a trek there but fuk it, the venue woz well worth it.
biggin up all rigs in attendance, especially 50 quid rig off e-bay, big up.:horay:
respect to the organisers for the multi-rig sounding fan fukin dabby dosey!
have to say motocross bikes stormin through a rave made it better IMO!
roll on next bank hol!!!!! gonna be a mash up:toxic:
peace out peeps!!!
Exposed! Technology captures sex pests
Female New Yorkers are capturing sex pests in the act by snapping them with mobile phone cameras and posting their identities on the internet.
The growing trend of so-called .cyber vigilantism. started in the City last week, when one woman in her mid-twenties used her smartphone to film a man masturbating on the subway.
Since then, she has been compared to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, after an upload of the candid camera shot led to the man's conviction for public lewdness.
Inspired by her actions, Lauren Spees and six other women launched hollabacknyc.com . a vibrant portal dedicated to shaming male admirers who won.t take no for an answer.
Under the slogan, .if you can.t slap .em, snap .em,. the website is expected to spawn similar portals to showcase the bad behaviour of men in London and other European cities.
Already, the NY site features fly-on-the-wall-type images of men who reportedly overstepped the mark between innocent chat and sexual harassment.
One entry shows a mobile camera clip of two men standing on a stairwell, one of whom is facing the lens as he unzips his trousers to expose himself.
.Right outside my third story window.this is SO annoying,. said Shana posting on the website, which reportedly receives an average of 1,500 hits a day.
Speaking to The Observer, the site.s founder said the aim is to capture men who have no interest in striking up a genuine conversation.
.The guys who harass with sexual comments are not interested in a date.It.s not an attempt to connect,. Spees said.
Her comments refer to recent online entries, including one group of males who were quizzing women with .fine asses,. if they .like porn..
Another victim recalls how one man approached her to say he admired her trousers, before telling her, .I want to get between them and your thighs..
More serious online entries include the exposure of one man, photographed aerially, who is said to physically obstruct the entrances of apartment blocks inhabited by women.
.You have the right to feel safe, confident, and sexy, without being the object of some turd's fantasy,. Holla Back NY says online.
.So stop walkin' on and Holla Back: Send us pics of street harassers!.
Emily Mary, the website.s co-founder, reportedly denied women are putting themselves in danger by snapping hostile males with mobile phone cameras.
.We encourage women to be safer rather than sorry, which could mean doing it in daylight or if they.re with someone,. she said.
May 2, 2006
LOVE WAVES float @ LOVEPARADE Berlin 2006 – VOTE FOR US!!! Hi all!
Like we all know the Loveparade Berlin its finally coming back!!!
And ILTA agency + ETN.FM radio, are running to win a float...
Our float name is LOVE WAVES
and located in the Israel country in the voting on the official website:
http://www.loveparade.net/registrieren.php?Pplang=en
Here is what we are going to give you if we will win!
Misja Helsloot - Gesture Recordings, Netherlands
Darren Tate - Mondo Records, England
Precision - Somatic Sense Recordings, Netherlands
Sander Van Doorn - Spinnin' / Reset, Netherlands
Alex Ellenger - Res. EDEN Club Ibiza, Spain
Black Dragon - ILTA-AGENCY, Israel
LOVE WAVES
located in the Israel country.
We are thankful to all the voters out there!
:bounce_m:
How to vote?: Click here!
www.ILTA-Agency.com
www.ETN.fm
3250ųg and 2ci :surprised
multirigger in northamptonshire just gone, i had a bottle, and rinsed 13 drops of acid, and smoked and snorted a wrap of 2ci in two halves..
i woke up in the woods at some point the 2nd nite and took ages to find the party again.
anyone else overdid it this much before?
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