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"Greenpeace Activist Lives, Eats, Sleeps and Poops In Freezer For One Year"
Greenpeace activist obsessed with global warming found one place she could live for 12 months without melting: inside a commercial freezer.

Jade Martens, 26, decided that Barack Obama simply wasn't doing enough to combat carbon dioxide emissions, and resolved to stay a free woman in the freezer, rather than to die from global warming, thus residing in the freezer to protest Obama's passivity.

The 6′x3′x4′, chest freezer, which lies in the San Francisco Congress Center, features Martens eating, sleeping, and relieving herself. She stands up at various times during the day to stretch.

Martens told reporters, “The government and the corporations aren’t doing anything for the environment. Somebody had to do something, so I decided to take action myself. I hope that my actions can help raise awareness about global warming, and can eventually bring some political change. This is an important political action for which I have already made a lot of sacrifices. There is no way I am going to abandon now! The stakes are too high, I can’t give up. I am doing this for Mother Earth!”


"The stakes are too high, I can’t give up. I am doing this for Mother Earth!"

Jade Martens, Greenpeace activist

She concluded, “My sacrifice is necessary for a better world”.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/378/green ... nk-berrien
I tried to resist the compulsion , but this situation was begging for a punch line . Being the accommodating fellow that I am :roll: .


Here it is .
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The man who discovered the VW scandal

Notice his last name? Also reading the article, his finding started not because he was trying to sniffing out the company or even suspicious. He actually tried to prove how clean the car is.

The irony level in this case is over 9000 :lol:
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He discovered the scandal? I somehow doubt that...
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Open Rights Group - Is your site being blocked
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Online Censorship
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I couldn't find the previous thread where this was mentioned. If anyone can, crosslink to this post for me, would you?

TotalBiscuit vlogs about what is going on with his new cancer diagnosis, treatment, and the way forward. It will probably be the only time he directly addresses it and wants people to know:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4MnRP-PrnM
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Here you go.

(The topic is still on the first page of the OT forum and has "Total Biscuit" in its title. So it isn't that hard to find. :P)
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Jan 24, 2010 ... Claim: Three animal rights activists went missing after protesting the use of leather at a motorcycle gang rally
:rofl: It's a spoof , Yet I could see this happening .

Many readers who encountered this tale out of its original context via e-mail forwards and web site repostings did take it at face value, but it was nothing but a bit of satire which was published on The Spoof! web site on 3 January 2010 and (in slightly different form) on the Glossy News web site four days later. (The former site included a disclaimer noting that "The story above is a satire or parody. It is entirely fictitious," while the latter site describes itself as "an accredited online satirical publication.")

The spoof spread so widely that the local newspaper in the town where the fictitious story was set, the Johnstown [Pennsylvania] Tribune-Democrat, received numerous inquiries asking why they hadn't covered the incident:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/l ... rotest.asp
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X2-Illuminatus wrote:Here you go.

(The topic is still on the first page of the OT forum and has "Total Biscuit" in its title. So it isn't that hard to find. :P)
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Well, "hard" is a relative term... :p

(Reposting to appropriate thread, tks!)
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F-SECURE is taking a stand against the proposed Communications Data Bill, or Snoopers' Charter.

http://news.f-secure.com/Encryption_petition
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@Tracker Nice one. :D






Now I assume I found the headline of the week: Dog named Trigger steps on gun, shoots owner
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I am curious to hear if this has peaked anyone else’s interest here?

Objects In Space
It's a space trading game (currently in development, 2016 release)
but you pilot your ship like a submarine rather than a jet fighter.
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OmegaKnight wrote:I am curious to hear if this has peaked anyone else’s interest here?

Objects In Space
It's a space trading game (currently in development, 2016 release)
but you pilot your ship like a submarine rather than a jet fighter.
Neat. It reminds of 688 Attack Sub, in Space, but with old graphics. I do like the Newtonian physics. And VASIMR! I wonder if it's accurately modeled.
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Walmart stops selling items that include the Confederate battle flag*, prevoking man to throw a explosive into a Walmart in Mississippi.

*"Confederate battle flag" was the name given to the flag in the article, if you think the flag they are talking about is a different one, please tell that to USA Today and not me.
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clakclak wrote: *"Confederate battle flag" was the name given to the flag in the article
That's because that's correct--it was the flag used by the Confederate Army. It was never used as the flag of the Confederate state, such as it was.
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pjknibbs wrote:
clakclak wrote: *"Confederate battle flag" was the name given to the flag in the article
That's because that's correct--it was the flag used by the Confederate Army. It was never used as the flag of the Confederate state, such as it was.
I don't care. It does not seem to matter what name you use, you will always find a person who tells you that it is a different flag. For exarmple someone (on a different forum) claimed that it was in fact the battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia that got banned, which is represented in the confederate states army flag.

The comment was inteded to stop anyone from directing their anger over me calling the flag by a certain name towards the people who wrote the article. It is not really the specific flag I care about more about the incident itself.
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New star trek tv series coming in January 2017

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-f ... rks-828638
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Warp (EM) drive apparently works again
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nasa-is-testi ... ml#mTIeVC9


Witcher movie series beginning in 2017
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-wi ... 0-6432017/
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burger1 wrote:Warp (EM) drive apparently works again
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nasa-is-testi ... ml#mTIeVC9...
Oooooh... That's very interesting. I could go to Mars in 10 weeks! No Starbucks there, though. :(
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Lesbian couple arrested in Hawaii and forbidden from leaving the island for 5 months for sharing a kiss.

- they kissed in a "foodland"
- off duty cop (for some reason shopping in his uniform) saw them
- told them to stop and threatend to kick them out of the store
- than the officer grabbed the wist of one of the woman
- the other woman pushed her body in-between them
- officer pushed both of them to ground and restrained them with zip ties
- instead of bringing them to a police station they brought them to the basement of the store, where according to the woman the officer verbally harassed them
- they got charged with "felony assault on an officer"
- all charges against the woman got completely dismissed after 5 months
- they are now suing the cop

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