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[Bodycount]

New particles at the large hardon collider
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... n-collider

[Yorke]

This is gonna end up like the test that failed to make particles move faster than light because they found out one of the plugs wasn't in correctly.

[Bodycount]

Science in the 21 century!!

Do these people really have nothing better to think about/take action on??
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... ement.html

[Yorke]

Football is not the most dangerous sport, golf is
http://www.cbssports.com/golf/blog/eye-on-golf/18926112

[Ploid]

Daaaang

[Yorke]

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/78827 ... au-dies-43

Junior Seau dead at 43. Gonna go into the HoF immediately I bet.

http://deadspin.com/5867720/?utm_campai ... socialflow

holy fkn shit at the 2nd link

That article is from Dec 2011, Junior Seau is #8

[Ploid]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Edit: Dang that looks like deal with the devil type of deaths. :\

[Bodycount]

only 43...

Football is not the most dangerous sport, golf is
http://www.cbssports.com/golf/blog/eye-on-golf/18926112

lol

[ItsSeflol]

Was listening to Rome, he dropped everything to discuss that.
Bob Mcgowan, a sports reporter in Ontario was discussing the most important piece of news...Montreal has a new gm. Didn't even mention the death. And no it was not recorded before it was announced. I know its a hockey world here and all but really?

[Yorke]

The one dude who died on that time got struck by lightning twice....TWICE

That is some Final Destination shit there.

[ItsSeflol]

First the Jews now this.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/122/1224192p1.html

Xbox and Windows 7 Sales Ban Hits Germany

Things are tenuous in the States for Microsoft following a court ruling that could see the halting of Xbox 360 hardware imports, but the situation is pretty dire in Germany at the moment. It is being reported today that a German court ruling has granted Motorola Mobility an injunction against the distribution of Microsoft products in the country, including the Xbox 360 console, Windows 7 software, Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player.

The ban follows a court ruling that found Microsoft in violation of two patents involving H.264 video coding and playback. Conversely, a US court has banned Motorola from any action until the matter is considered next week.

In a statement following the German ruling, Motorola said: "We are pleased that the Mannheim Court found that Microsoft products infringe Motorola Mobility's intellectual property. As a path forward, we remain open to resolving this matter. Fair compensation is all that we have been seeking for our intellectual property."

Microsoft plans to appeal the German ruling. "This is one step in a long process, and we are confident that Motorola will eventually be held to its promise to make its standard essential patents available on fair and reasonable terms for the benefit of consumers who enjoy video on the web," a Microsoft spokesman said. "Motorola is prohibited from acting on today's decision, and our business in Germany will continue as usual while we appeal this decision and pursue the fundamental issue of Motorola's broken promise."

[Yorke]

now lutia is never gonna catch em all ;[

[Yorke]

More Seau stuff....was truly one of the greatest sports figures off the field.

deadspin.com/5907073/report-former-nfl-linebacker-junior-seau-found-dead?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Eric Olsen, current Saints lineman, tells story of going against Seau at high-school camp. Amazing dude.

[Yorke]

http://kotaku.com/5906646/diversity-thi ... socialflow

Gamers you can/can't tell are gamers.

"Nah, dawg, it's like a first-person adventure/fantasy. You're saving these villagers from like an evil sorcerer..."

[Bodycount]

MCA (Adam Yauch) dead
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/05/04 ... o-reports/
:[

[Yorke]

saw that...Beastie's rock...what a shame

[ItsSeflol]

saw that...Beastie's rock...what a shame

[Ploid]

Oliver North is hired to pimp Black Ops 2.

http://kotaku.com/5907854/black-ops-2-c ... ll-of-duty

Black Ops II Chooses Someone Who Failed the Call of Duty
When you face low expectations, falling short of them doesn't count for much either. And that's the dirty secret of Call of Duty, which has spent four years solidifying its image as a crass chickenhawk brand thanks to some particularly dumb marketing initiatives. But hiring on Col. Oliver North to stump for Black Ops 2 represents a new low.

North is a relic of the decade in which Call of Duty really should have been released: the Rambo 1980s, in which proxy wars were fought with perfect moral clarity by people who funded them but didn't pick up a gun. Call of Duty embodies that repulsive vicariousness; its multiplayer-intensive focus, the kill-die-respawn-kill-die liturgy of the game's main selling point, has led some to argue that it's actually a casual title, considering that there isn't even a metaphorical consequence to death in the game's principal mode of play.

Perhaps they found their perfect spokesman then. North broke the laws of a nation that he, as a United States Marine officer, swore to uphold. We're continually reminded that servicemembers are foremost loyal to the Constitution, not necessarily their commanding officers, particularly commanders-in-chief of a different political party. Though North claimed his actions in selling arms through an intermediary to an enemy of the nation—Iran, mind you—were known and authorized by his superiors, he lacked the moral code to refuse to carry out actions that benefitted a hostile nation and specifically broke a law passed by our Congress. He is a disgrace as both an officer and a public servant and anyone who looks up to him is a fool who believes liars.

Black Ops II may wish to flatter itself by aspiring to a realpolitik story in which you must make decisions that are right but not necessarily legal. After seeing how the original Black Ops handled its singleplayer campaign story, I have little confidence it can deliver anything that sophisticated. The first Black Ops was a noisy, facile, confusing stroll through a series of set pieces and quicktime events that reduced the intrigue of the Cold War's pivotal events to a couple of panels in a G.I. Joe comic book. If we're going to be peering into the future—into any future influenced by consultation with Oliver North, we'll likely get a self-serving acquittal of his conduct that sings directly from the GOP hymnal.

He is a celebrity. And his presence creates what every marketer wants. A "conversation." Or "buzz" in more mercenary terms. Obviously, I'm writing about North and Call of Duty and a controversy that has two sides, and the net effect may be to recruit partisans to the cause, or even opponents out of curiosity. Robert McNamara, who sent the best and the brightest of my father's generation to die in a war he knew was pointless and unwinnable, cameoed in the first Black Ops, and I'll confess to a morbid fascination with seeing him on the screen. I told Dad, and his response was not so much disgust as it was fascination.

We got here by, similarly, expecting nothing of Call of Duty, by giving it a pass on offensive hype trailers like this, for World at War, and for the unbelievably stupid "F.A.G.S." Internet promotion for Modern Warfare 2. LOL so what, everyone said. Just a video game. Stop being so offended. And I bought into it a little, knowing that there are, basically, professional victims out there in a culture that is constantly seeking to be offended.

Still, in 2009 I lived with my grandfather—like North, a Marine colonel—helping him recover from a head injury and stroke. Before I moved in, I sold off my copy of Call of Duty: World at War. There was no way in hell he would ever see me playing that in his home. My grandfather was, literally, in a World War II first-person shooter in his youth—in one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific campaign. And it wasn't entertainment. And he was also in Korea, where he damn near died. If Activision really wants to impress me with its steely-eyed understanding of the lawless reality of war, it can try to interpret that in a video game.

[Yorke]

I've always wondered what people like that think of these type of games...especially older people who've been around for (but never paid attention to) the evolution of those games. Gotta be pretty wild to see in real-life what others can only see as a game.

Kinda caught that in Fallout 3 from the war with China. Kinda chilling thinking that they may be the world's next power and that it could actually happen potentially. Apparently there's no plasma rifles in China yet though.

[Bodycount]

pretty sure I have discovered Amyleas true identity and what he's been up to these days
http://news.sympatico.ca/unusualnews/fl ... r/f76e28e9