the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Susquehanna Birder]

Apparently there is a temporary moratorium on that moratorium. Udderly ridiculous.

[Dillen]

I was going to look for the butter joint thread but didn't really want to take time for it.

Dawkins authentic

I'm probably going to buy that but I've always been wary of stuff from overseas. I also find it hilarious that the shipping is 125% the cost of the jersey. Can anyone tell if it's real (obviously its not going to be completely real) but the stuff thats fake, is it really noticeable/so bad that it isnt worth buying?

[Rome]

The guy has seven negative feedbacks in the last month, Dillen.

As a good buddy of mine says... don't be e-stupid.   

[Feva]

FAKE,PHONY,FRAUD! The tag states ''Official Foetball'' istead of ''Football''!

Yeah... I'd look for another one. 

[Susquehanna Birder]

Anybody use allofmp3.com?

http://news.com.com/Russia+agrees+to+shut+down+Allofmp3.com/2100-1027_3-6139350.html

I just looked at the site, and it's still running...for now.

[Sgt PSN]

FAKE,PHONY,FRAUD! The tag states ''Official Foetball'' istead of ''Football''!

Yeah... I'd look for another one.

[rjs246]

Anybody use allofmp3.com?

http://news.com.com/Russia+agrees+to+shut+down+Allofmp3.com/2100-1027_3-6139350.html

I just looked at the site, and it's still running...for now.

That sucks. That site rules.

[Dillen]

The guy has seven negative feedbacks in the last month, Dillen.

As a good buddy of mine says... don't be e-stupid.   

He also had 323 or whatever positives, Rome.

Meh, I don't really care. They aren't that hard to find on eBay. Someone bought that one anyways.

[Seabiscuit36]

I use Gomusic.ru   Figures i just reupped for 20bucks.  Time to get downloading

[Seabiscuit36]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-md.ho.accident30nov30,0,4749960.story?coll=bal-local-howard
From the Baltimore Sun

New issue in fatal crash
Man, 24, accused in deaths apparently in the U.S. illegally



By Melissa Harris
sun reporter

November 30, 2006



The landscaper charged with vehicular homicide and drunken driving in a crash Thanksgiving night that killed a Marine on leave and his date is apparently in the country illegally and had received a Maryland driver's license by first obtaining one from North Carolina - a state whose loose requirements once made it a favorite for undocumented aliens seeking identification cards.

It is unclear how Eduardo Raul Morales-Soriano, 25, a Mexican citizen living in Laurel, came to the United States or whether the North Carolina license was his first, but anti-immigration activists said yesterday said that until North Carolina changed its licensing laws in August, the state was a magnet for immigration fraud.

From there, the jump to Maryland apparently would not have been difficult. Morales-Soriano could have submitted the North Carolina license along with a variety of other sources of documentation with his signature, date of birth or address, according to state regulations. A 2003 Maryland attorney general's opinion concluded that proof of legal U.S. residency was not a requirement for a driver's license.

James Dinkins, acting special agent in charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office in Baltimore, said yesterday that there was no record of Morales-Soriano entering the country legally. Immigration officials said they planned to confirm his identity through fingerprints.

At the conclusion of Howard County's criminal case, immigration officials will initiate proceedings to remove Morales-Soriano from the country, Dinkins said.

The Thanksgiving accident, in which Howard County police allege Morales-Soriano's blood-alcohol level was four times the legal limit, resulted in the death of Marine Cpl. Brian Mathews, 21, of Columbia and Jennifer Bower, 24, of Montgomery Village, which is north of Gaithersburg.

The couple were on their second date when a Nissan Sentra driven by Morales-Soriano slammed into Bower's Toyota Corolla, which was stopped at a red light on Route 175 at Route 108.

Morales-Soriano has been charged with two counts of homicide by motor vehicle, two counts of manslaughter while intoxicated and driving while under the influence. He was being held yesterday at the Howard County Detention Center on an $830,000 bond.

Morales-Soriano's attorney, Bradley A. Goldbloom of Baltimore, called into question last night the accuracy of the 0.32 Breathalyzer reading, which was included in court records filed by police and announced Monday by the county's acting police chief.

"It's ridiculously high - I don't think anyone would be able to function at all, talk, walk or even be conscious," Goldbloom said. "It's my understanding that he had to blow seven or eight times before they were able to get any reading at all. If that's, in fact, the case, it would call into question the reliability of the machine and how the level was actually gathered or obtained."

Charging documents reviewed Tuesday morning made no mention of multiple attempts by police to get a reading.

Goldbloom said that when a suspect is not blowing into a machine correctly, it is common for police to have him or her repeat it. He said that after each attempt, the machine is supposed to expel the breath.

"If in fact the breath was remaining in the machine, it's possible, if not probable, the more times someone blows [into the machine] the higher the rating is going to be," Goldbloom said.

Goldbloom declined to say how he obtained details of the testing done on his client.

Police could not be reached for comment about that last night.

The accident is likely to revive concerns about illegal aliens obtaining driver's licenses.

"These issues of laxity are simply going to expose people on a personal basis and national basis to just what happened," said Neil Berro, executive director of the Coalition for a Secure Driver's License in New York. "The example was as personal as the next time you cross the street or get in a car, or as macro as 9-11. In between those issues are concerns related to identity theft."

But Kim Propeack, a spokeswoman for CASA of Maryland, an aid group for Hispanic immigrants, argued that the country is better off knowing who is on its roads and where they live, that they've passed a driving-skills test and that they have insurance. Murray Simon, president of Conexiones, a Hispanic educational group in Howard County, said that Morales-Soriano's immigration status is irrelevant.

"My personal feeling is that this whole business of illegal and legal is just a case of name-calling," Simon said.

This is not Morales-Soriano's first traffic stop in the state. On July 2, he was pulled over in Riverdale and charged with driving the wrong way on a one-way street, speeding and negligent driving. He was found not guilty, according to court records.

In February, Howard County police were called to the scene of an accident on a parking lot on Robert Oliver Place in Columbia. No one was injured, but Morales-Soriano smelled of alcohol, a spokesman for the Howard County state's attorney's office said.

After being unable to maintain his balance, Morales-Soriano refused a Breathalyzer test, the spokesman said, and he was issued four citations and released to the custody of a relative.

An officer at the scene mistakenly gave him a form that was supposed to be sent to the state's motor vehicle agency, which prevented officials from suspending his license as the law requires when a driver refuses a Breathalyzer.

Prosecutors later dropped the charges, noting weak evidence.

It is unlikely, however, that even a conviction on traffic charges would have raised concerns about Morales-Soriano's immigration status. This month, he was found guilty of having unsafe tires after Maryland State Police pulled him over on Interstate 70 in Frederick County in September.

Although experts said they consider Maryland's driver's license policies sound, federal authorities and other states have long raised concerns about the rules governing North Carolina driver's licenses.

Florida, for instance, considers North Carolina driver's licenses and those from 19 other states "secondary forms of identification" and requires a passport, birth certificate or proof of naturalization to accompany them.

Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, called North Carolina's former approach a "no-questions-asked" policy.

Until this year, North Carolina accepted an easy-to-obtain tax identification number in lieu of a Social Security number on its driver license applications, which the federal government has warned states not to do.

The purpose of the identification number is to enable foreigners who don't have Social Security numbers to pay federal income taxes, but the number also can be a "back door" to a mortgage or, in a few states, a driver's license.

The Internal Revenue Service's Web site says that the identification numbers are to be used "only for tax-identification" purposes, but it also says that the agency accepts the documents necessary to obtain the number "at face value without validating their authenticity" and that the agency does not verify applicants' "legal presence" in the United States.

"Many, many states have been asking themselves, why are we using this number when it doesn't help anybody as far as identifying our drivers," said Margaret Howell, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. "So we changed the law."

The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration said that Morales-Soriano used his North Carolina driver's license issued Feb. 5, 2004, to obtain a license here July 8, 2005.

The home listed as Morales-Soriano's residence in court documents was purchased for $408,000 Nov. 6, according to online property records. The purchaser is listed as Eduardo R. Morales, though it could not be learned yesterday if that is Morales-Soriano or a relative.

[Sgt PSN]

At the conclusion of Howard County's criminal case, immigration officials will initiate proceedings to remove Morales-Soriano from the country, Dinkins said.

Morales-Soriano has been charged with two counts of homicide by motor vehicle, two counts of manslaughter while intoxicated and driving while under the influence.

Um, why in the hell are they trying to remove this guy from the country?  He should be tried and if convicted put in jail.  He should not simply be deported so he can come back illegally again and kill again while he's driving drunk.  It said in the article that he's had several run ins with the law for negligent/drunk driving but nothing came of it because of our weak ass judicial system.  It's just farging super when someone can come into this country illegally, have multiple arrests/citations, not get found out/deported, be cleared of all charges against him and allowed to get back behind the wheel where he's already proven to be totally negligent.  And now a young Marine and his new girlfriend are road kill because this dipshtein has benefited from a farged up legal system.  [Dio]Yay America!![/Dio]

[Seabiscuit36]

Exactly,  if this happend in mexico, what do you think would happen.  Gotta love this country.  I just hope Brians fellow Marines decide to take a trip to mexico if this guy goes back. 

[Feva]

The guy has seven negative feedbacks in the last month, Dillen.

As a good buddy of mine says... don't be e-stupid.   

He also had 323 or whatever positives, Rome.

Meh, I don't really care. They aren't that hard to find on eBay. Someone bought that one anyways.

D... what I usually try ot look for is not only how many negatives that a person has... but why they're getting the negative responses.  There's usually a pattern or theme with the complaints they get.  It's either something like sending the wrong merchandise, slow shipping or something like that.  Now reading the feedback on that guy, the ones I could understand (because a lot of the complaints were in another language)... it seemed he was selling pretty fake looking shtein.  Good thing you let that one go.

Like you said though... it's not like a Dawkins jersey is hard to find on there.  Just look at another one.

[BigEd76]

apparently they sell food an amazon now, check out these reviews for milk, pretty funny shtein

milk

When Jason came home from school, he poored a glass of rich, smooth Tuscan whole milk and also decided that he wanted some cookies. He climbed on top of the counter and, reaching for the cookie jar, slipped from the countertop. The cookie jar full of Brian's ashes and the glass of milk both tumbled to the floor. At the sound of the crash, Cindy and I rushed into the kitchen, and were astonished to see that the ashes were mixing with the milk to form the likeness of a human. Over the course of several minutes, we watched in disbelief as our son was revived before our eyes. I cannot describe to you the joy of having our son back. But we don't know how to explain to our son what happened, or why he has a pool table in his room, or what mommy and daddy did with his college fund.

wtf 

[Father Demon]

What are the next two numbers in this sequence?

7 31 8 28 5 31 5 30 3 31 4 30 ? ?



I get that every other number (starting with the second) is the number of days in a month (Jan, Feb, Mar, etc), but I don't get the other numbers.

Anyone?