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Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House
toggleflipflop writes "In China, a returning satellite crashed into a house. No one was hurt.
More details in this article. Apparently inhabited by an eternal optimist: 'The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we'll have good luck this year,' the tenant of the wrecked apartment was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
According to the People's Daily's article on the subject nothing seems to have gone wrong."
I thought China was a Communist power. Should we even trust what their state-run media says?
At least I actually log in, Mr. Coward.
I have gas, but my car uses petrol.
Right, and the stars make it such that you're not really saying "motherfucker", and that we don't know which word is being said?
Sensoring hypocrisy on TV is bad enough, but now people self-sensor themselves in the same stupid way?
Why would it be not ok to say "motherfucker", but fine to state that somebody is having an intimate physical relationship with their mother that includes regular sexual intercourse? Please don't tell me that that has to become "so****dy h***ng an i*****te ph****al re********ip with their m****r that includes r**g**r s****l in*******se"? Sensoring a word doesn't exclude certain things from being said, and therefore is ineffective.
If you disagree with the use of a word, then don't use it at all, and if you do agree with it, say it like it is and don't star parts of the word out, or beep it. Because anybody with half a brain still knows exactly what word it is that is being blocked/beeped, including the kids that supposedly are being protected by the blocks/beeps. Thinking the beep or blocks will make them not know or use the word is beyond naive. The beeps/blocks will make them curious and find it out, and then purposely use the word more, because the simple fact that it is being sensored makes it interesting/cool/tough to use it. Kids are not stupid.
--- Hindsight is 20/20, but walking backwards is not the answer.
no, it's just chinaspeak for "our lives are ruined and the party won't pay us a dime".
The person who modded "Troll" this excellent comment, is obviously a mush-brained University student. "Blame America First" comes to mind, too.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
...*SPLAT!*
Allright, that aside, I knew of a bunch of nuts working a quarry that their explosives tech got sick and they needed to blast. (this was wayy back in the 60s or 70s.) So this kid piped up that he could do it since he watched the blaster work. Or so he said.. First blast didn't do squat, the second same thing. The kid was getting flustered so he stuffed a 15' borehole to the brim with TNT and touched it off.. The resulting blast put a rock the size of a truck tire thru a house's roof, landing on the toilet!
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
Have you tried the Reverse Pocky? Kick ass. I'm sure Gabe would love it.
It all depends on your priorities. At this point, in the US, while abortion is legal and NARAL is making huge $$ on that 'industry,' somewhere close to 3,500 abortions a day occur.
:)
From my vantage point, that's 3,500 human lives ended. A vote for Bush reduces the number of federally funded abortions, and therefore lives are saved.
It's all in your perspective.
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