City Government demands all keys to properties belonging to Cedar Falls residents.

Filed under:General — posted by Jack on 6/12/2011 @ 9:35 pm

Ordinance #2740( An unfunded city-wide mandate) was passed with a resounding 6 to 1 vote, and it allows for the citizens of Cedar Falls to forcefully give the government keys to their comercial properties through universal ‘lock boxes’.

The intent of the program is to provide increased safety and protection to personal, private property which include businesses, apartments and some rental houses– which by the way– comes at the expense of furthering wayward erosion of fundamental constitutional right

Share Netflix? Share a jail cell

Filed under:General — posted by Jack on @ 9:38 am

“… if you, a consumer, should share (that’s the “any other means” part), say, your Netflix password with someone else, whether that someone else is related to you or not, that person could be prosecuted.

The penalty for infringement? “Stealing $500 or less of entertainment would be a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of $2,500. Theft with a higher price tag would be a felony, with heavier penalties.”

While it is true that the intent of the bill was to address the blatant illegal sharing of entertainment content by the likes of those legions of scofflaws called “pirates” or “students,” the potentially ridiculously wide net it casts is ripe for abuse by Big Media.”

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2011/060911-backspin.html

Pakistani Intelligence Announces Its Full Cooperation With U.S. Forces During Upcoming Top Secret June 12 Drone Strike On Al-Qaeda At 5:23 A.M. Near Small Town Of Razmani In North Waziristan

Filed under:General — posted by Jack on @ 9:30 am

A Pakistani official shows exactly where the 5:23 a.m. sharp—no later—strike will occur.

From the Onion:

“At a hastily convened press conference, ISI chief Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha called Pakistan’s long- standing partnership with the United States “stronger than ever,” explaining that both countries share an interest in rooting out al-Qaeda before its leaders have time to gather their secret cache of hidden weapons and move to a new location, possibly a tribal area in northwest Pakistan where Pasha said U.S. intelligence is limited in both its sophistication and reach.

Pasha emphasized the ISI’s extensive integration with U.S. forces in planning the attack, saying that the specific time was agreed upon to ensure the terrorists wouldn’t try to escape across the porous Afghan border, which he noted is often poorly guarded—especially near the town of Shirhani—at that hour of the morning.

As of press time, the U.S. has given Pakistan more than $20 billion in aid since Sept. 11, 2001

http://www.theonion.com/articles/pakistani-intelligence-announces-its-full-cooperat,20681/?utm_source=recentnews