HoustonChronicle.com - Man killed by police Taser in Austin identified
No ambiguity there, is there: "Man killed by police Taser".
Now it's up to the ME to come up with a cover story so the Taser is, once again, blameless.
Because we all know the Taser is just a harmless little fuzzball of fun and joy.
I am listening to my Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 as I write this. It has been playing for about 10 minutes or so, with only some decoding problems on a track right after I started it up. Now this is after it sat in a desk drawer since my last entry about the JBR, a week or two ago.
I plugged in the charger after 3 or 4 tracks, and it is working fine right now. This is the same unit that would get a disk error after running for just 2 or 3 minutes and stop cold. It is up to track 7 of Rilo Kiley's More Adventurous with no problems. To cap everything else, it's running the original batteries!
So I'm thinking poltergeists. Maybe an exorcism is called for? I really want to move this thing out to my car and play it through an adapter into the car audio system so I can have my entire music collection available without searching for CDs in the visor.
31 minutes playtime, still going good. Beats me what's up.
If posse comitatus is repealed, I don't think I want to live here anymore.
After all, there are dozens of tinhorn military dictatorships to pick from.
And the scary thing is, I'm not sure Bush understands what this means.
President Hilary Clinton and no posse comitatus scares the living hell out of me.
I am still getting attempted comment and trackback spams. I beat back about half of it with a line in my htaccess file that denies access if the HTTP_VIA tag is set. But I haven't found a way to deny the rest, as yet. They are pointless, because the comment and trackback scripts are dummies that call a honeypot script so I can study what they are doing to better block them.
Let me be clear. If you are a comment or trackback spammer, you are a maggot. You are trying to profit off the efforts of other people, people whose shoes you aren't worthy to lick crap off of. If I hear one of you has died, like that Russian who was beaten to death, I celebrate the event. I frankly hope all of you die.
Soon.
Blast at Hamas Rally Kills 10, Injures 85
Hamas blamed Israel, but the Israeli military denied involvement and the Palestinian Interior Ministry said the blast was set off by the mishandling of explosives.
Morons blew themselves up. Oh, but that's what they do, isn't it?
... of the Public.
Independent Online Edition > This is global warming, says environmental chief
No, it's not, you moron. This is well within normal variation for tropical storms.
Did Alan Alda just tear up his acceptance speech when William Shatner won? Well, wah, wah, wah. Jerk.
ABC News: Avian Flu: Is the Government Ready for an Epidemic?
ABC News: Zellweger Explains Legal Terms of Breakup
Can we declare Blanco a failed governor now? Not yet? Okay, give it another week.
With the hurricane disaster, avaian flu has dropped out of the spotlight. But it's still out there - HK hunter hot on the trail of deadly bird flu virus
Too much good stuff to recap, just go here and keep reading: Mini-Microsoft
Star-Telegram.com | 09/12/2005 | FEMA head steps down
as if the world needed more proof of that.
Microsoft employees refuse to say "Podcast"
According to a commenter they can't say "firewire" either. I wonder if their lunches have "red tree-borne fruit orbs".
I have been having lots of fun lately with my Archos Jukebox 20 Recorder. I've had it for 3 or so years, so there's no question about warranty - it's out of warranty.
I accidently left it on "charge" over a long weekend, recently, and since have been having problems getting it to boot. Search the web for "Archos Jukebox HD register errors" to get an idea of what I've been fighting.
Figuring I had somehow ruined the original batteries by charging them for so long (even though the charger seemed to have shut down when the charge cycle was complete), I invested in 4 new NiMH AA cells with an external charger. Later I found out that the JBR is prone to damage from frequent removal/insertion of the batteries because the battery terminals are on the printed circuit board in the unit, and can be cracked from the flexing necessary to get at the batteries.
Needless to say, the new batteries worked for about 10 minutes, then I was back in the "HD error" situation. Following the instructions at Archos' website, I error checked the hard drive (after some difficulty getting it to mount under USB), then eventually did a full backup (8 GB of music! ach), reformat, and restore to the HD. Worked great - for 20 minutes this time.
It's working now, sort of, after I completely disassembled the unit (thanks to this website), error checking the HD again in a USB enclosure, and reinstalling everything.
I can use this technique someday to make it into a JBR 40 or JBR 60, provided I can get it to run for more than 4 or 5 minutes at a time. Having 1000 hours of music on a device that will only play one or two tracks without dying is kind of lossy, you know?
(It just died again. If you see one of these on Ebay, give it a pass. It's not worth the frustration.)
... my last entries about the director of FEMA. I heard that Nacy Pelosi is saying he should resign or be fired, and I'd rather give him life tenure at FEMA than appear to be giving in to the Queen of the Moonbat Left. So just disregard all those posts about him leaving, okay?
Horror stories from New Orleans, accentuating FEMA's cluelessness:
NOLA.com: T-P Orleans Parish Breaking News Weblog
When will Brown resign? He should be so shamed by this he wouldn't want to continue. Where is the integrity?
The obvious, in this case, is the wretched performance of FEMAm and especially FEMA leadership, in the hurricane disaster in Louisiana and Mississippi. And the obvious is also that, in everyone's eyes but those of our addled president, the director of FEMA needs to offer his resignation (and have it accepted), or be asked to resign as soon as possible.
It was just painful watching Ted Koppel ask Brown, "don't you guys watch television over there?", when Brown claimed to have just found out how bad conditions in the Superdome and convention center were, days after the rest of the country knew. Bush should have demanded his resignation that same day. Hell, a director with any integrity would have tendered his resignation right after that interview went on air.
Bush has a serious flaw in that, having appointed someone to a job, he seems unable to fire them when they screw up. This is a bad quality in a leader. This is the flaw that left us stuck with Tenet, Freeh, and Mineta, years after they should have been shown the door. So it is with Brown.