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TheCentralScrutinizer · 25 Jun 08 :: 05:42

Shatner's kidney stones

???

You gotta be joking... :doh:

justme · 25 Jun 08 :: 05:45

Nope, he auctioned one off for charity. klassy, ain't it?

http://www.cinematical.com/2006/01/18/s … -25-grand/

Last edited by justme (25 Jun 08 :: 10:52)

TheCentralScrutinizer · 25 Jun 08 :: 15:29

Oh yeah, very klassy. But what can one expect from The Big Giant Head?

magicalturkey · 25 Jun 08 :: 16:06

The auction price jumped. 30,000 to 36,000.

justme · 25 Jun 08 :: 16:10

Go ask the seller a question. I'm worried that the DNA isn't being stored at the proper temperature, rendering it useless.

TeeJay · 25 Jun 08 :: 19:44

Yeah, and was there still beer left in the cup that he scooped it up in because you don't wanna end up cloning yeast DNA from the beer...

-TeeJay

justme · 25 Jun 08 :: 19:59

Yeah, you'd end up with some bizarre amalgam of Tiger & beer. Like Jeff Goldblum in "The Fly". Gives me the willies just thinking about it. Wonder if I can get my money back. :rofl:

TeeJay · 25 Jun 08 :: 20:42

Tiger, the Giant Yeast Blob. What wonderful imagery! Money back? You're kidding! That seller is already in Mexico, laundering the doe.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 25 Jun 08 :: 21:00

Tiger, The Giant Yeast Blob, hey isn't that a new show on CBS this fall?

TeeJay · 25 Jun 08 :: 21:04

Yeah, Friday's at 8/7c. The Giant Yeast Blob is the new Walking Negligee.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 25 Jun 08 :: 21:09

Yeah, well, Les looooooooooves that show, so I'm sure he'd just move Jen and her two enormous talents to 9 PM.

justme · 25 Jun 08 :: 21:13

Uh oh! Too bad. See ya, Numb3rs.:o

TheCentralScrutinizer · 26 Jun 08 :: 18:43

Today sucks so far. I just had to unload two pallets of boxes of journal books, WEIGHING 2700 LBS!!! That's right, I had to move over a ton of freakin' material all by myself. The truck driver can kiss my ass. He dumps the pallets outside our door, in the hallway of our fancy office building, knowing I'm alone and says, "That's all I do." Yeah, I bet if I was a blonde bimbo with legs up to my neck your stinky, hairy midget ass would've helped me. Joe and Dale are gonna get an earful when they get back. They had an event this morning and the truck arrived just as they were leaving. So I was stuck, couldn't leave two giant pallets in the hallway. And now, I'm just freakin' beat. My chest hurt when I was done. I was all sweaty and dirty, and now I have zero energy. Just wanna go home. Waaaa! :fedup: :angry:

justme · 26 Jun 08 :: 18:59

Oh, that blows! Give 'em hell!

TheCentralScrutinizer · 26 Jun 08 :: 22:26

I find this utterly despicable...

Seizing Laptops and Cameras Without Cause
By Alex Kingsbury
Wed Jun 25, 11:41 AM ET
Returning from a brief vacation to Germany in February, Bill Hogan was selected for additional screening by customs officials at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. Agents searched Hogan's luggage and then popped an unexpected question: Was he carrying any digital media cards or drives in his pockets? "Then they told me that they were impounding my laptop," says Hogan, a freelance investigative reporter whose recent stories have ranged from the origins of the Iraq war to the impact of money in presidential politics.
Shaken by the encounter, Hogan says he left the airport and examined his bags, finding that the agents had also removed and inspected the memory card from his digital camera. "It was fortunate that I didn't use that machine for work or I would have had to call up all my sources and tell them that the government had just seized their information," he said. When customs offered to return the machine nearly two weeks later, Hogan told them to ship it to his lawyer.
The extent of the program to confiscate electronics at customs points is unclear. A hearing Wednesday before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on the Constitution hopes to learn more about the extent of the program and safeguards to traveler's privacy. Lawsuits have also been filed, challenging how the program selects travelers for inspection. Citing those lawsuits, Customs and Border Protection, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, refuses to say exactly how common the practice is, how many computers, portable storage drives, and BlackBerries have been inspected and confiscated, or what happens to the devices once they are seized. Congressional investigators and plaintiffs involved in lawsuits believe that digital copies?so-called "mirror images" of drives?are sometimes made of materials after they are seized by customs.
A ruling this year by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that DHS does indeed have the authority to search electronic devices without suspicion in the same way that it would inspect a briefcase. The lawsuit that prompted the ruling was the result of more than 20 cases, most of which involved laptops, cellphones, or other electronics seized at airports. In those cases, nearly all of the individuals were of Muslim, Middle Eastern, or South Asian background.
Travelers who have their computers seized face real headaches. "It immediately deprives an executive or company of the very data?and revenue?a business trip was intended to create," says Susan Gurley, head of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, which is asking DHS for greater transparency and oversight to protect copied data. "As a businessperson returning to the U.S., you may find yourself effectively locked out of your electronic office indefinitely." While Hogan had his computer returned after only a few days, others say they have had theirs held for months at a time. As a result, some companies have instituted policies that require employees to travel with clean machines: free of corporate data.
The security value of the program is unclear, critics say, while the threats to business and privacy are substantial. If drives are being copied, customs officials are potentially duplicating corporate secrets, legal records, financial data, medical files, and personal E-mails and photographs as well as stored passwords for accounts from Netflix to Bank of America. DHS contends that travelers' computers can also contain child pornography, intellectual property offenses, or terrorist secrets.
It makes practical sense to X-ray the contents of checked and carry-on luggage, which could pose an immediate danger to airplanes and their passengers. "Generally speaking, customs officials do not go through briefcases to review and copy paper business records or personal diaries, which is apparently what they are now doing now in digital form?these PDA's don't have bombs in them," says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. More troubling is what could happen if other countries follow the lead of the United States. Imagine, for instance, if China or Russia began a program to seize and duplicate the contents of traveler's laptops. "We wouldn't be in a position to strongly object to that type of behavior," Rotenberg says. Indeed, visitors to the Beijing Olympic Games have been officially advised by U.S. officials that their laptops may be targeted for duplication or bugging by Chinese government spies hoping to steal business and trade secrets.

Source: Yahoo News

TeeJay · 26 Jun 08 :: 22:38

This isn't a new development. They sent out a memo in our company that we shouldn't put sensitive data onto our laptops when we fly to the US because customs can seize them without cause. Rob went ahead and encrypted part of his hard drive in a way that customs can't see that part of the drive. Smart move.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 26 Jun 08 :: 22:41

He thinks they can't see it. He needs to learn to be more paranoid.

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 27 Jun 08 :: 06:38

Sisterdebmac wrote:

Today sucks so far. I just had to unload two pallets of boxes of journal books, WEIGHING 2700 LBS!!! That's right, I had to move over a ton of freakin' material all by myself. My chest hurt when I was done. I was all sweaty and dirty, and now I have zero energy. Just wanna go home. Waaaa! :fedup: :angry:

Aw. I'm sorry, Deb. :hug:

TheCentralScrutinizer · 27 Jun 08 :: 15:59

...and today I'm sore all over. Especially my arms, shoulders and legs.

Simon · 28 Jun 08 :: 18:23

Hope everyone is 100% today. If it's not one person, it's somebody else who doesn't feel the best.

I've finally gotten over my cold after five days of suffering. First day feeling fine and i get my Paul Dano autograph through the post. Not the most flattering picture of him, but it's still pretty neat.

I've still got my hopes on you Deb and TeeJay to meet Chris in the sometime near future.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 28 Jun 08 :: 19:52

Glad you're feeling better Simon. I hope we can pull it off too, but the September thing is not looking good right now. Everything really hinges on the possible actor's strike, and my finances at this point. I think TeeJay has ruled out her own participation in that event do to its continued uncertainty. We'll know a LOT more about where it stands in late July. Until then, it just doesn't look too good. But it will not be our last chance. We're sure of that.

Simon · 28 Jun 08 :: 21:37

I thought about the problems with the actor's strike, but im happy to wait until there is a chance, even if it ends up next year.

magicalturkey · 02 Jul 08 :: 23:09

Anyone else want pizza?

TheCentralScrutinizer · 02 Jul 08 :: 23:30

Not I. Got a gassy tummy from my yummy, but greasy lunch. :puke:

magicalturkey · 02 Jul 08 :: 23:34

Beans?

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