Misc. Friday Ramblings

Friday, bloody Friday...

• It's Photoshop Phriday. Buy this stuff or we shoot the dog.


• Pretty awesome bird. Sounds like she's doing a Michael Winslow impression.


• We go all the way to Mars, and junk up the place.


• Saturn is all blue. I guess it is the litter thing with Mars.


• World of Warcraft Keeps Growing. Too bad they still can't get what's there working for the all US clients.


• Funny thing heard on the way home from work on the local talking-head radio station. I think it was Sean Hannity. Someone had called in referring to the current North Korean nuclear situation. Said that they followed the wisdom of the Dali Lama. Everyone should disarm; no one should have nukes. The conversation goes something like the following:
  "Okay fine, they should the US disarm if the Koreans won't".
  The caller responds with "everyone should".
  "But should the US take the lead and disarm if the North Koreans don't"
  "No."
  "Wait, so there should be nukes then?"
  "No, everyone should disarm."
  "But if everyone isn't willing to, should the US go ahead and do it?"
  "No."
  "So then, no one will disarm because they don't trust each other."
  ".....I've gotta go *click*"
  I think they saw the light. Sometimes you just need to bounce stuff off another person to find your own answers.


• Yahoo wins, France loses again.

  "If American companies have to worry that foreign judgments entered against them might be enforceable, it could end up with companies censoring their Web sites," said Mary Catherine Wirth, senior corporate council at Yahoo and a professor at University of California Hastings College of The Law.
  
  Jeffrey Pryce, a lawyer specializing in Internet and international suits in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, emphasized that decisions to revisit cases are rare, suggesting that the new panel of judges may be inclined to rule that Yahoo needn't comply with French laws on its U.S. sites.

  
  It may not be the "socially" right thing to do, but Yahoo! is well within their rights to choose what they want to host.

Obligatory Friday gun pr0n!
Posted on THR, this is the Accuracy International AWP in .308.

Built by Accuracy International of Portsmuth, England, this line of rifles is among the best in the World of sniper rifles today. This rifle can shot less than 2" (51mm) groups at the distances of 600 yards (550m), using boat-tail match ammunition. Arctic Warfare is a line of 5 rifles. Original Arctc Warfare was designed for the British military. It gained its designation by special anti-icing features, allowing sniping operations to be carried out under Arctic conditions as low as -40C (-104F)! Other models are Police (AWP), Suppressed (AWS), Folding (AWF) and Super Magnum (AW SM). Three first rifles designed for 7.62mm NATO ammunition, while Super Magnum can be chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum, .300 Winchester Magnum and 7mm Remington Magnum. AW has a 26" (660mm) barrel, AWP has 24" (609mm). AW SM barrels available in lentths from 24" (609mm) to 27" (686mm). The standart scopes supplied by Accuracy International are Smidt&Bender 3-12X variable or the Leupold Mark 4 fixed 10X scope.