the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Seabiscuit36]

[rjs246]

Have I mentioned lately how much I love the obese?

[Geowhizzer]

I eat some bad stuff, but that just looks nauseating.

[rjs246]

I eat bacon and fried food constantly. In fact, I order pigs in a blanket at restaurants. But there is something horribly wrong with the 'eat-it-any-time!' implications of sausage and chocolate chip pancakes on a stick.

Need to take a break from breathing heavily? Tired of trying to stuff your overflowing ankles into those shoes? Take a moment for you with this trans-fat saturated snack! With any luck you'll be dead in 5 years anyway. Might as well live it up.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Bus passenger beheaded on Canada Prairies
Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:09pm EDT


WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A man sleeping on a Greyhound bus as it rolled across the Canadian Prairies was killed and decapitated by his seatmate on Wednesday night, other passengers who were on the bus told media on Thursday.

"All of a sudden, we all heard this scream, this bloodcurdling scream," said Garnet Caton, who was sitting just in front of the victim, in an interview with CBC Television.

"The attacker was standing up right over top of the guy with a large hunting knife -- a survival, Rambo knife -- holding the guy and continually stabbing him, stabbing him, stabbing him in the chest area," Caton said.

The attack continued as other passengers fled the bus and waited for police on a desolated stretch of the TransCanada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, said Caton, who helped bar the bus door to prevent the attacker from leaving.

"He calmly walks up to the front (of the bus) with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us," Caton said.

"There was no rage in him ... It was just like he was a robot or something."

CBC reported the Royal Canadian Mounted Police took the attacker into custody, but the police have not yet commented.

Anyone seen Cerevant lately?

[SD_Eagle5]

California judge rules early cell phone termination fees illegalThu Jul 31, 2008 12:48PM EDT
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Buzz up!on Yahoo!In one of the most significant legal rulings in the tech industry this year, a Superior Court judge in California has ruled that the practice of charging consumers a fee for ending their cell phone contract early is illegal and violates state law.

The preliminary, tentative judgment orders Sprint Nextel to pay customers $18.2 million in reimbursements and, more importantly, orders Sprint to stop trying to collect another $54.7 million from California customers (some 2 million customers total) who have canceled their contracts but refused or failed to pay the termination fee.

While an appeal is inevitable, the ruling could have massive fallout throughout the industry. Without the threat of levying early termination fees, the cellular carriers lose the power that's enabled them to lock customers into contracts for multiple years at a time. And while those contracts can be heinously long, they also let the carriers offer cell phone hardware at reduced (subsidized) prices. AT&T's two-year contract is the only reason the iPhone 3G costs $199. If subsidies vanish, what happens to hardware lock-in? Could an era of expensive, but unlocked, hardware be just around the corner? It's highly probable.

Of course, the carriers aren't going to take this lying down. Early termination fees are seen as critical to business, so carriers are expected to look for ways to reclassify the fees (such as by calling them "rates," part of the arcane set of laws that covers the telecommunications industry). The industry is also pushing for the federal government to step in and claim oversight over the early termination fee issue, which would invalidate any state ruling. The FCC is generally more tolerant of such fees, though Chairman Kevin Martin has proposed a plan whereby the fees are decreased the closer you are to the end of your contract.

The FCC may also buy the argument that, since carriers are nationally based (and consumers can use their phones anywhere in the country), that a single policy should apply across the nation, rather than creating a patchwork of legislation that could lead to confusion and chaos caused by having 50 different policies.

Is the early termination fee dead? Not yet, but it's looking a little haggard.

LINK: Sprint early termination fees are illegal, judge rules

[PhillyPhreak54]

Good. I applaud this. The cell phone industry is so ridiculous when it comes to those fees. I have kept my old cell phone active (I have Sprint) because I refused to pay the termination fee. I could have forked over $200 and whatever other fees they charge, but I bumped it down to the minimum plan. But it still comes out to like $40 a month. And I haven't used that phone in like 5 months.

I have my work phone that I use for everything. I have no need for the other phone. I browse the myFICO.com forums and 99% of the people I see on there bitching about collections accounts are from cell companies.

[ice grillin you]

i posted that pancake and sausage johnson literally over a year ago i think

[Geowhizzer]

Good. I applaud this. The cell phone industry is so ridiculous when it comes to those fees. I have kept my old cell phone active (I have Sprint) because I refused to pay the termination fee. I could have forked over $200 and whatever other fees they charge, but I bumped it down to the minimum plan. But it still comes out to like $40 a month. And I haven't used that phone in like 5 months.

I have my work phone that I use for everything. I have no need for the other phone. I browse the myFICO.com forums and 99% of the people I see on there bitching about collections accounts are from cell companies.

Ummm...  how much "other fees," because you're getting to the point of no return.

[Seabiscuit36]

i posted that pancake and sausage johnson literally over a year ago i think

its jimmy dean

[ice grillin you]

do they actually exist or is it some sort of internet hoax...cause i cant find them anywhere

[Seabiscuit36]

i dont know, but im pretty sure if its real, the walmart up the street from me will have it.  Its a white trash heaven

[ice grillin you]

im an elistist prick and therefore i refuse to even go in walmarts...they are so nasty...i shop at the walmart for rich people

[SD_Eagle5]

They closed the Walmart up the street from me for a year for renovations. Damn them.

[Seabiscuit36]

dude, Walmart in Elkton is off the hook, drunk rednecks everywhere, yelling and fighting, I hate going, but love making fun of people