News worthy.

Two things caught my attention this morning. One had me laughing till I was sick, the other made me feel sick just listening.

First the news says "F.E.M.A. taking no chances"
The second was "Fuel prices expected to rise once more due to Rita"

With the first I was laughing. Why? Because the f**king President lives down there and no damned way is F.E.M.A. gonna screw up this time.

With the second, well you can just imagine my chagrin with this little tidbit of info. They knew the storm was coming for a week, why didn't the boost production for that time so they could coast along during the storms landfall?

Anyway, for the purpose of todays thread, what bit of news have you heard today?

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

A plane landed at LA with its nose wheel out of alignment. The footage is awesome.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Don't laugh; I nearly got fried in a similar incident (landing-gear malfunction);

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The news that really caught my attention were about the hurricane that's about to hit Texas.

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I didn't watch this on TV, but it's really interesting news, nonetheless.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050921-5337.html

To summarize, Blizzard coded a "disease" into World Of Warcraft that
was supposed to spread only within one location in the game. Due to a
bug, players were (are?) able to spread it to players in any
location in the game, hence causing an RPG epidemic :biggrin:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9440978/

MSNBC said:
Occasionally, somebody suggests detonating a nuclear weapon to shatter a storm.

That sounds like a great idea.

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Reckless disregard for childrens well being, women and nothing but utter contempt for other cultures.

http://www.local6.com/news/4986222/detail.html

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What does it take to get a second page around here anyway? I figured this thread would be alive with comments. Does it have to deal with homosexuals or religion before it becomes worthy or something? I have noticed that these two subjects warrant 5 or 10 pages. Can you all not discuss important things too?

Perhaps, news is just to tragic to post now.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

To be perfectly honest, if a thread desires to succeed, it must spark
controversy. That's what all the popular threads do. They
make you voice an opinion about an issue.

Or I"m talking out of my arse...