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| 1. Seven percent of people subjected to taser fire will suffer from permanent disability including physical and mental handicaps.
2. Taser International weapons have a charge of 80,000 to 775,000
volts at between 7 to 14 watts. The applied power interferes
with the communication signals of the nervous system causing
temporary loss of coordinated muscular control and nerve damage.
3. The lower voltage, higher amperage Taser weapons cause involuntary contraction of skeletal muscles, often causing torn ligaments and reducing blood cell generation for approximately two weeks. Even highly drugged individuals cannot resist the effects of these weapons.
4. Taser has spent over six million dollars on corporate lobbyists to make sure that their brand of taser would be used in police forces through out America.
5. Taser brand tasers have been used to electrocute the genitals of Iraqi prisoners of war in an effort to obtain information or a confession.
6. Nine out of ten people who carry a taser report an increase in ego and feelings of "Godlike" power and superiority.
7. Taser has their own laboratories which routinely release studies stating the safety and innocuousness of regular taser use. A large percentage of these studies make no mention of the effects of being tased.
8. In a now withdrawn report from 1994, Taser conducted a "random sample, double blind placebo" study that concluded daily taser shocks increased vitality and blood flow to the brain.
9. According to an Amnesty International report, more than 150 people nationwide have
died after being shocked with Tasers since June 2001. Statistics where not kept during the public beta of Taser International weapons testing that took place before 2000.
10. Tasers are a favorite of officers of the law who have a history of harassment and assault. This conclusion is drawn from a cross reference of psychological studies and incident reports submitted since 2003.
Sources for all this information can be obtained from my sources page.
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| why xanga is still better then all the other networking sites.
- It doesn't try to centralize all your personal information for easy CIA perusal.
- Not spam central.
Reporter: Mr. President, following up on Vladimir Putin for a
moment, he said recently that next year, when he has to step down
according to the constitution, as the president, he may become prime
minister; in effect keeping power and dashing any hopes for a genuine
democratic transition there ...
Bush: I've been planning that myself.
Ahahahahaha. That's funny. It's a great comedian who can give voice to what everyone else is just thinking.
Now I'm going to work...
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| I have finally come to terms with a part of myself that I've hidden from everyone, including myself. I know what some of you are thinking, that this is just a faze, that I'm only doing it because it's the new "cool" thing to do. Let me tell you that it is devastating to my personal life, my self confidence and self image.
I may have told some of you that I can't stand to see myself in the mirror, or that I haven't looked into a mirror for months. The truth is... I can't see my own reflection. I am a sufferer of a rare psychological disease called Maartechen Syndrome. I'd appreciate it if you refrained from the vampire jokes and other such nonsense. This has nothing to do with that. This is hard enough as it is.
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So, the Christmas ramp up is coming at my work. I'm starting to hear a lot about the next gen gaming wars, and working where I do, I've got quite a bit of insight into the consumerist culture. Who will win? Will Nintendo Wii bring home the bacon after catching up with X-Box 360 with sales in the last year? or will 360's matured online options develop into a thriving buying community? Will PS3 gimp forward like a antiquated aircraft carrier while more mobile, more informed consumers buzz on by ignoring it like a part of the landscape? More then likely.
If I were a betting man, and I am when it comes to the market. This Christmas, I'd bet on Apple. Looking across our local inventory, the iPod has become the the newest media replacing CDs. They are modular enough to be used like tapes in stereos. I would invest in apple but the stock is already grossly over valued. Also, Apple is becoming more profit motivated and less consumer-centric. This is evident by the massive profit margin the latest round of iPods push, and the decrease in quality. That is why this holiday season, Apple will be making a lot of money.
Compound this on top of the fact that Vista is a dead man walking and Apple now has the only commercial next-gen operating system that you can spend money on. It's practically bullet-proof and user friendly to a fault. The only downside to Apple's offerings is the limited hardware OSX will run on. But this actually appeals to a large section of McConsumers who like their choices limited and packaged.
All these variables add up to plenty of ways for Apple to be seriously profitable this holiday season. If you look at the past five years of AAPL, you can see an obvious exponential curve that is set to explode to infinity by the end of 2008. Of course this is just a coincidence. Stocks don't' follow such rules. But once someone becomes the main provider of the operating system that consumers use, a whole lot of power comes with it.
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| I fucking hate cell phones. This isn't another rant about some douche talking on his cell phone in a movie. What really bugs me is the fucking interface of these pieces of shit. You press one wrong button and you are now getting charged $10 a megabyte for data. So I go into my music player that is built into my phone, like it takes the whole fucking back side... "Do you want to enable Power Vision?" every fucking time. What the fuck is Power Vision? I don't care but I'm sure it costs money. If they really wanted to fuck me over they should have called it something more generic like "choice view" so you would be more inclined to accidentally choose it. So I google it and sure enough it's some kinda data plan. I'm sure if I started it, instead of it saying "this feature is unpaid for on this account", it will chug along charging you whatever until you realize it, when thirty days later when your bill shows up telling you that you just got fucked in the ass with a broken beer bottle. Does this cost money? Hey buddy, no worries, it's ok. Don't worry about it. look over here.
By the way I haven't touched this blog for over nine months.
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