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(7/25/03, 7 a.m. ET) -- OzzFest was in mourning on Thursday (July 24) in suburban Detroit as word spread through the tour about the death of Ozzy Osbourne's longtime tour manager. Bobby Thomson, 50, who had worked for Osbourne since 1983, died in his sleep on Thursday night (July 23) at the Townshend Hotel in Birmingham, Michigan, after an 18-month battle with throat cancer. Thomson, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and a resident of Los Angeles, was discovered in his hotel room on Thursday morning.
With Buymusic.com, the iTunes Music Store competitor for Windows, it seems that music is permanently restricted to one registered computer, while the fine print offers a wonderful example of double-speak:
[Greg Orman] The fine print clearly states that you're only licensing the music, not purchasing it, and furthermore that the license is tied to the computer used for the transaction. If you replace your computer, you lose access to everything you've licensed and downloaded (though you'll still have any copies you burned to CD or transferred to a portable, assuming that the DRM on the songs you licensed allowed you to do that in the first place).
[Rick Zeman] Maybe they should have called their service "sublicensed.com." From their legalese at "TERMS OF SALE AGREEMENT" comes this little gem in Section 2:
Content Use Rules. All downloaded music, images, video, artwork, text, software and other copyrightable materials ''Content'' are sublicensed to End Users and not sold, notwithstanding use of the terms ''sell'' ''purchase'' ''order'' or ''buy'' on the Site or this Agreement.
Your Digital Download sublicense is nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonsublicenseable, limited and for use only within the United States. End users may play the Digital Downloads an unlimited number of times on the same registered personal computer to which the Digital Download is originally downloaded.
(7/24/03, 7 a.m. ET) -- Rapper and actor Ice Cube received an apology from the Chicago Police Department on Tuesday (July 22) after the department issued a community alert on Sunday (July 20), describing a man wanted for several sexual assaults as resembling Ice Cube. CBS's Chicago affiliate WBBM-TV subsequently aired one of Ice Cube's videos on Monday (July 21) while reporting on the police issued community alert.
The Chicago Police Department released the following statement according to AP: "We acknowledged the information should not have been on the alert. We took corrective action. We apologize to Ice Cube for what was an honest mistake and came with no ill intent."
I saw Penn of Penn and Teller with this. --------------------------------------- What is the "Security Edition" ?
The First Ten Amendments to the constitution of the United States printed on sturdy, pocket-sized, pieces of metal.
The next time you travel by air, take the Security Edition of the Bill of Rights along with you. When asked to empty your pockets, proudly toss the Bill of Rights in the plastic bin.
You need to get used to offering up the bill of rights for inspection and government workers need to get used to deciding if you'll be allowed to keep the Bill of Rights with you when you travel.
MOSUL, Iraq, July 23--Nawaf Zaidan Nasiri answered the front door of his elegant mansion 24 days ago, and greeted a nightmare.
Standing there, he told his neighbors Tuesday, were the two sons of Saddam Hussein, Qusay and Uday, Iraq�s second- and third-most wanted fugitives, asking Zaidan to repay years of privilege and favors they had doled out to him.
"I answered the doorbell and there they were, right in front of my face," Zaidan told his neighbor, Mukhlis Thahir Jubori. "They asked to stay in my house and I could not refuse them. This is a disaster for me.
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Nobody recalled seeing anyone suspicious at the house, but they said Zaidan had been acting different lately. Normally, they said, Zaidan would wait until the brutal desert sun had set, then set out plastic chairs on the sidewalk in front of his house every night. Zaidan, Thahir and other men from the neighborhood would drink sweet tea and Pepsi and chew over current events. Then just over three weeks ago, Zaidan stopped putting out the chairs.
"I went over to his house and asked him, is everything okay? Can I come in?�" Thahir said. "And he said no. He said his wife's relatives were visiting and they were very busy." ----------------
Hey doesn't that last part sound like King Of The Hill? In the alley having a cold one "and chew over current events?"
"I don't think Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, and Powell could run a 7/11 at a profit, though they would know how to mount an armed assault on a competeing AM/PM Minimart."
I thought it was funny. So I mentioned it to a co worker who thought it was kind of funny. Then they said I was far more right wing that they thought. Whaaa?
I am really far from far right wing or even r.w. at all. I think I would be a "Lieberman" democrat if I were anything. Maybe Libertarian.
1. What is a Libertarian?
To put it simply, Libertarians believe that you have the right to live your life as you wish, without the government interfering -- as long as you don't violate the rights of others. Politically, this means Libertarians favor rolling back the size and cost of government, and eliminating laws that stifle the economy and control people's personal choices.
"We've seen our audience grow and grow, even in the 20 years since we stopped creating stuff," Marin said. "The albums and the movies have become a rite of passage for each generation as they grow up."
Chong noted that a little stoner humor from the masters of the form should be a welcome tonic for the turbulent post-Sept. 11 era.
"This is going to be just what everyone's been needing," Chong said. "'Up in Smoke' sort of put the '60s in perspective. Now we need to put the '90s and 2000s in perspective and tell everyone that you can still laugh a little."
7/23/03, 1 p.m. ET) -- Third Eye Blind has signed on to be the halftime entertainment at the upcoming Major League Soccer All-Star Game. The event takes place at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on August 2, and will be televised on ABC. The band will playing its latest single "Crystal Baller."
Third Eye Blind will be set up on the field of the Rose Bowl, a safe distance from any over-excited fans--which may be a good thing. Lead singer Stephan Jenkins tells LAUNCH he was once accosted on stage by a rabid fan.
"I've been tackled by a naked girl,” Jenkins said. “I would describe her body as plush and voluptuous. She got on top of me, on stage, in front of 8,000 people, and she, well, she grinded on me. And as this strange girl was about to be pulled off of me and she was grinding on me and I was singing away, I thought, 'This is so f--king rock!'"
The MLS All-Star Game is unique in professional sports in that it pits the best players from the league against a team from Mexico. Other professional sports' all-star games have members of the league playing against each other.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Michigan Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a lower-court decision that threw out a $29.3 million award against "The Jenny Jones Show" following the murder of a guest.
The lawsuit stemmed from the 1995 slaying of Scott Amedure, who was shot to death by Jonathan Schmitz three days after Amedure revealed an attraction to Schmitz during a taping of the show in Chicago. The show never aired.
TOWERING Terminator 3 babe Kristanna Loken has confessed to being a wild child who is in to voodoo and collecting SKULLS.
Now 23, she says: ''I've investigated a number of religions. I was into Zen Buddhism for a while but voodooism is the one that stuck more. It's very interesting.
Kristanna also used to enjoy clubbing boasting: ''I could be the last one standing'' likes smoking and drinking and loves the worst swear words because ''They are so strong.''
She also likes collecting bones and said: ''I really like them. I especially have a thing about teeth that are still in the skulls.''
Even so, she denies wilder rumours that she drinks blood.
She said: ''Oh, I definitely go topless. When I was in Cannes, someone said, 'Kristanna is going topless on a yacht!'
''Well, it's the south of France. Why wouldn't I be? Who isn't? Who cares?''
Her liberal attitudes probably come from her hippy-style upbringing.
She grew up on Love Apple Farm near Woodstock in upstate New York which is run by her dad Chris, a novelist, and mum Rande, who used to be a model.
And living with her lesbian elder sister Tanya also changed her attitude to life.
Kristanna said: I learned that whether it is her being with women, or men being with men, there's never a wrong or a right thing about it. Society has never played a part in my beliefs.'' --------------
They figure out maybe they should just use Celine Dion's "music" not her mug to sell cars.
"Chrysler will "accelerate" its original strategy to shift from showing Dion herself to using just her music, after dealer criticism of the campaign that came out of the $10 million-plus deal with the star, he said."
bwaaahaaahaaahaaa
Could that be a new word for "you're fired?" We decided to accelerate the next employee to do your job into the existing position you now have.
Well, heaven might have to stay put. But with existing technology, some advance planning and a little orbital energy, courtesy of a redirected asteroid, Earth's distance from the Sun could be increased by 50 percent in just a few billion years.
It's a scheme that could save the planet, at least for a while. Because if Earth stays in its current orbit, we are doomed.
Hot death
Just as sure as the Sun comes up every morning, it is scheduled to die. Experts give it some 7 billion years, when it will turn into a bloated red giant. As the name implies, a red giant is a star swelled to gargantuan proportions. Earth would be first engulfed in heat and light, then vaporized.
Well before then, things will turn real nasty. In just a billion years, the Sun could be 11-percent brighter, scientists say, rendering Earth an inhospitable greenhouse. In 3.5 billion years, the Sun could be 40-percent brighter than it is today.
With our demise so clear on the cosmic horizon, astrophysicist Fred Adams of the University of Michigan and NASA's Gregory Laughlin got to wondering in recent years how the planet might be saved by gravitational interaction with a passing star. They ran computer simulations of possible encounters over the next 3.5 billion years, finding last year that the odds of the Earth being completely ejected from the solar system are one-in-100,000.
Slim odds. And life in the frigidity of deep space would be no summer picnic.
So Adams and Laughlin, along with Don Korycansky of the University of California, Santa Cruz, began to discuss consider how human intervention might bring about a more suitable long-term orbit, one that gradually expands with the aging Sun.
Their idea, which evolved from interaction with a star to rerouting a giant space rock to save Earth, will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Astrophysics and Space Science. ---------------------- DANG! Fo Shizzle!
Click the link above for the rest of the story. Thank God for smart people.
"The following list of Earth's extremes and other amazing facts is presented in Q&A format, so you can cover the answers to test your knowledge of the home planet. Sources include the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with other SPACE.com reporting"
"For someone who knows the original inside out, there’s a lot of that trailer that really makes your brain feel like it’s folding in half. It’s enormously faithful. Only... it’s not. The details are totally different. But there’s the steel door. Oh, god... that steel door. And the sounds. You know which ones I mean..."
Did you know that in the original you never see anyone killed? Yep everyone makes fun of it but it is an all time classic horror movie. The scene at the end when the truck is driving away with the woman in the back? Awesome. Don't know what I'm talking about? Well rent it and see for yourself.
THE Kobe Bryant case brings to mind the young Chuck Berry. The rock 'n' roll pioneer, like Kobe, was good-looking, famous, wealthy - and black. Berry, who toured all over America just like an NBA player, was always afraid he'd be charged with rape after having sex with willing women who flocked to his dressing room - not to say that Kobe's accuser is in this category. But Berry protected himself with a Polaroid camera. Before he'd have sex with a fan, he'd insist she strip and pose for a photo with him, smiling with their arms around each other. If Kobe had a Polaroid shot like that, he might have a much stronger defense.
"For those not in the know: according to the U.S. Census Bureau, we are not the San Francisco metropolitan Bay Area, but now the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan Bay Area.
To most people outside of Northern California, this means absolutely nothing to you. This would be like me saying "Durham-Raleigh" instead of "Raleigh-Durham," and then getting a flurry of angry e-mails from pissed off North Carolinans while my eyes glaze over.
And then I would argue back: No! No, how very wrong you are! Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose, the three main cities of the Bay Area, couldn't be any different! Apparently, it is my job to teach you, non-Northern Californian, about the nooks and crannies of the metropolitan area that I have lived in for the entirety of my life."
