[Non-political] News that makes you Laugh/Cry/Both...

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 1:56 am

Do anti-trust laws extend to Disney's monopoly on my childhood memories?

Whatever · Post by **Whatever** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 3:15 am

Chamomile wrote:Do anti-trust laws extend to Disney's monopoly on my childhood memories?

Not on the Internet. My advice: ignorance is bliss.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:50 pm

Swedish woman charged with "disturbing the peace of the dead" for pleasuring herself with human bones. (related gallery is ...well, not nsfw, I suppose, but people might find it creepy)

Seems that the bones were not acquired through any unsavory means, ie, murder or theft, meaning that she probably just bought them, and thought "hey, that's a sexy skull and femur..."

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:53 pm

That kind of thing just happens in Sweden.

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:26 pm

I refuse to believe that didn't happen in Japan. Last time I was in Sweden, the only woman that would even acknowledge me was actually a Finn. And it was just to mock me. Odd people, those Swedes.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:26 pm

Could be worse. Could be Pentecostals.

-Username17

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:34 pm

105 year old woman offered spot in Sweden preschool

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:36 pm

Leress wrote:105 year old woman offered spot in Sweden preschool

This is what happens when your computer system only records the last two digits of the year.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:06 am

At a summer camp I went to once as a kid, they were just starting to use computers to keep track of students' records, and due to a typo I was listed as being over 1000 years old.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Fri Nov 23, 2012 11:35 am

Apple granted patent on rectangle with rounded corners

I... but...Gameboy in early 90's....Fisher Price...

WTF?!?!?!?!?!

Tumbling Down · Post by **Tumbling Down** » Fri Nov 23, 2012 11:44 am

shadzar wrote:Apple granted patent on rectangle with rounded corners

BRB, patenting the wheel!

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Fri Nov 23, 2012 1:46 pm

Incubus, in my vagina? It's more likely than you think!

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Nov 23, 2012 2:14 pm

nockermensch wrote:Incubus, in my vagina? It's more likely than you think!

Man, christians get the best problems.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Fri Nov 23, 2012 4:54 pm

nockermensch wrote:Incubus, in my vagina? It's more likely than you think!

I know her!

My cousin's ex-wife was recently in the hospital after she ran over some guy's foot and hit a bunch of stuff with her car, and said some crazy paranoid stuff to the cop on the scene.

It started with her claiming her boyfriend (not my cousin) switched the chip in her phone so the GPS would get her lost, then culminated with him being Satan and trying to get her pregnant with the Antichrist. While she was in the hospital, she said the nurses were working with him and took out her birth control (and were drugging her?) so he could get her pregnant.

Somehow, she toned that shit down and got released, although my cousin is aiming for full custody and supervised visits. Last week, she was sleeping with both girls in her bed with a knife, to keep everyone safe.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Nov 23, 2012 8:15 pm

"The Holy Spirit has to reprogram you. If you're not programmed for obedience, it's hard to do so," she teaches. "Once you come out of that world, you're learning what you can do and what you cannot do. With the Holy Spirit, if [you] go to touch that fire, He will quicken you and tell you, 'No.'"

so they are admitting that they are a sect brainwashing their victims officially now?

and it's the holy spirit, not your body/reflexes/experience telling you not to touch the fire?

oy vey . .

edit:
i am not sure wether this belongs HERE or in the political news thread . .
http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-school-id-hernandez-033/

Texas schools punish students who refuse to be tracked with microchips

Whatever · Post by **Whatever** » Sat Nov 24, 2012 1:09 am

Tumbling Down wrote:
shadzar wrote:Apple granted patent on rectangle with rounded corners
BRB, patenting the wheel!

Too late: Australian Man Patents Wheel.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Nov 24, 2012 2:34 am

it would not be an invalid claim.
you don't have to be the inventer to claim a patent on something.
else neither apple nor samsung or anybody else in this damn patent war would be able to claim the ownership of patents. because nobody at apple or samsung ever invented the stuff they claim to own the patents on.
especially seeing how corporations are only technically bodies and not persons and a corporation thus can't invent ANYTHING. The people in the corpoation can invent stuff and claim a patent on it, but then they are the holder of the patent, not the corporation.
they could sell the right to the patent to anybody, not just their corporation, but still, if that would invalidate any such claims, the patents would become null and void in an instant again, because the owner of the patent can not claim to have invented it.

that is why legalese has to be forbidden, because it circle jerks itself untill everybody has too much in their eyes to see what's going on anyway . .

Whatever · Post by **Whatever** » Sat Nov 24, 2012 3:04 am

Applying for a patent is different from owning a patent. Some countries require that the inventor apply, most (all?) require that the inventor be listed on the application. To my knowledge, zero countries require that a patent be held by the inventor. You can sell patents.

Don't confuse your own ignorance for a flaw in the system. There are plenty of actual flaws without you making up imaginary ones.

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:19 pm

BRB, patenting the covalent bond.

EDIT: Speling

Whatever · Post by **Whatever** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:32 pm

nockermensch wrote:BRB, patenting the covalent bound.

Have fun. IBM already patented Patent Trolling, so you're going to have a hard time exploiting your covalent bond patent.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:13 pm

Actually, Newton did.

K · Post by K » Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:00 pm

Cambridge is opening a center for "terminator studies" in order to investigate the possible threat that the creation of a super-intelligent AI would pose.

Why is England so cool?

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:45 pm

K wrote:Cambridge is opening a center for "terminator studies" in order to investigate the possible threat that the creation of a super-intelligent AI would pose.

Why is England so cool?

I read the entire thing waiting for when the writer gives in the joke and starts talking about the CSER Enforcement Arm, the agents that will prevent the doomsday scenarios to occurring.

There was no punchline, so I'm forced to believe that is serious news. But then again, if you're funding a center like that, would you mention its enforcers to the general public?

http://www.dramabutton.com/

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 5:57 pm

No idea . .
had 2 weeks of holiday, watched 6 (planned to do all 18) seasons of Top Gear UK and several things done by James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson not on Top Gear . . and yes, they are bloody well cool and interesting and funny . .

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:15 pm

I love archaeologists who prove the existence of Unicorns...