01 31 07 08:08Atomicfireballs.com... it's for the children, damnit!
I got a nice communique this morning:"Just spent the past hour on the site reading your articles. Superb website. May even place it in my favorites list, there's only 15 websites on that list, and 11 are porn, so you know I like your site!"
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01 26 07 14:35Notable quote of the day
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."--H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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01 17 07 15:32It's a sick, sad world
Researchers at the University of Alberta Department of Medicine have shown that an existing small, relatively non-toxic molecule, dichloroacetate (DCA), causes regression in several different cancers. In findings that 'astounded' the researchers, the molecule known as DCA was shown to shrink lung, breast and brain tumors in both animal and human tissue experiments. You'd think that would be a good thing, and drug companies would be falling all over themselves to rush it into manufacture... but no. It seems there is a snag that makes this miracle cancer cure rather unattractive; because it is a commonly existing molecule and not some overenginnered wonder-molecule that never existed outside the labs, the drug companies wouldn't be able to patent it. No patent, no exclusive. No exclusive, no scalper pricing. No gouging the pocketbooks of cancer victims, no fun....read more
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01 13 07 12:07The hi-def disc wars are over, and Blu-Ray lost
HD-DVD won. It is as official as it can get. THE technological indicator of the last 30 years has spoken, and it has NEVER been wrong; the porn industry is LEAVING Blu-Ray and ALL going to HD-DVD. And it is all Sony's responsibility. Own Sony stock? I'd sell. Here's the story.Sony isn't fond of porn. When Sony released the PSP, with its movie playback capability, Sony vowed that porn would not be given a license to use the UMD format, thus making it effectively impossible for porn producers to sell movies for the PSP. You might think that a tad odd in this seemingly liberal age, but as a gigantic multinational corporation Sony has to walk that tightrope between giving the customer anything they want and getting a political black eye. Sony is the sole licensing body for their proprietary formats, formats that they either created or patented or both to insure that no one else could legally use those technologies without paying Sony extra money. The PSP's disc format, UMD, is tightly controlled by Sony and in theory there are no commercial UMDs out there that are not Sony-approved. Thus the dilemma... how do you tell conservative middle America that you are family friendly while approving the release of "Bukkake Bimbos #47"?
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01 03 07 16:23The RIAA has lost their fucking minds, part 2
The RIAA wants to sue AllofMP3.com for roughly $1.6 trillion dollars. Yes, trillion. Not rubles, either. US greenbacks. One trillion, six hundred million and a bunch of change. The number comes from the estimated 11 million song downloads from AllofMP3.com, multiplied by the maximum amount of damages that the RIAA can claim per song ($150,000, yes, one hundred and fifty THOUSAND dollars PER SONG). But there is a few snags....read more
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