A good reason to follow minor laws

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=131884

Carl Edward Moyle is caught driving without insurance for the third time, a misdemeaner, and lands himself in jail pending a hearing. While in jail, another inmate beats him over the head with a bar he pulled off the wall and kills him. Oops.

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Macs and being price competitive

Here is a blog entry and a MacWorld article about the MacPros being much more price-competitive, now that Apple is using Intel chips.

Feel free to discuss, but please take any flames elsewhere.

Going back to the moon

Instead of reinventing the wheel and creating all new rocket engines, NASA is taking a closer look at older technology from its first trip to the moon and building upon ideas that worked back then. In fact, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has described the new program as "Apollo on steroids" in order to meet the deadline of flying the Ares rocket by 2014.

I for one am excited that we might return to the moon sometime in my lifetime. Let's hope we don't stop just at the moon this time, though. I think that colonization in space, on the moon, and on other planets is the single best thing we can do to ensure the long-term survival of our species.

Oh yeah, since the new rocket will be called Ares, I would like to propose that we call the capsule Kratos.

AOL Digs for Gold

WASHINGTON (AP) -- AOL is preparing to dig for buried gold and platinum on property in Massachusetts owned by the parents of a man it sued for sending millions of unwanted spam e-mails to its customers.

AOL said Tuesday it intends to search for gold and platinum bars the company suspects are hidden near the home of Davis Wolfgang Hawke's parents on two acres in Medfield, Massachusetts. The family said it will fight in court to oppose AOL's plans.

AOL won a $12.8 million judgment last year in U.S. District Court in Virginia against Hawke but has been unable to contact Hawke to collect any of the money he was ordered to pay. AOL accused Hawke of violating federal and state anti-spam laws by sending unwanted e-mails to its subscribers and won its case in a default judgment against Hawke, who didn't show up in court.

Read the entire article.

Honestly, I cannot make stuff like this up. It sounds like something straight out of a novel from the 18th century, though.