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Top Stupid USA State Laws. Unusual State laws

Top Stupid USA State Laws That Are Still On The Books

Alabama
It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church

Alaska
It is illegal for a moose to walk on the sidewalk downtown

Arizona
Hunting camels is prohibited.

Arkansas
It is illegal to mispronounce Arkansas while in Arkansas

California
Community leaders passed an ordinance that makes it illegal for anyone to try and stop a child from playfully jumping over puddles of water.

Colorado
It is illegal for a woman wearing a red dress to be out on the streets after 7 PM.

Connecticut
You are not allowed to walk across a street on your hands.

Delaware
Getting married on a dare is grounds for an annulment.

Florida
Women may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer, as can the salon owner.

Georgia
Members of the state assembly cannot be ticketed for speeding while the state assembly is in session.

Hawaii
In Hawaii you will be fined if you do not own a boat

Idaho
Riding a merry-go-round on Sundays is considered a crime.

Illinois
It is illegal for anyone to give lighted cigars to dogs, cats, and other domesticated animal kept as pets.

Indiana
Bathing is prohibited during the winter.

Iowa
Kisses may last for as much as, but no more than, five minutes.

Kansas
It is illegal to put ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas.

Kentucky
By law, anyone who has been drinking is “sober” until he or she “cannot hold onto the ground.”

Louisiana
Biting someone with your natural teeth is “simple assault,” while biting someone with your false teeth is “aggravated assault.”

Maine
You may not step out of a plane in flight.

Maryland
You cannot swear while inside the city limits of Baltimore.

Massachusetts
You may not, at any time take a crap on your neighbor.

Michigan
It is legal for the blind to hunt, and they don’t need anyone with them.

Minnesota
It is illegal to walk across the Minnesota-Wisconsin border with a duck on your head.

Mississippi
A man may not seduce a woman by lying, and claiming he will marry her

Missouri
Single men between the ages of twenty-one and fifty must pay an annual tax of one dollar (enacted 1820).

Montana
It is illegal to have a sheep in the cab of your truck without a chaperone.

Nebraska
A parent can be arrested if his child cannot hold back a burp during a church service

Nevada
It’s still “legal” to hang someone for shooting your dog on your property.

New Hampshire
One must not collect seaweed

New Jersey
It is illegal to wear a bulletproof vest while committing a murder

New Mexico
Females are strictly forbidden to appear unshaven in public

New York
A fine of $25 can be levied for flirting. This old law specifically prohibits men from turning around on any city street and looking “at a woman in that way.” A second conviction for a crime of this magnitude calls for the violating male to be forced to wear a “pair of horse-blinders” wherever and whenever he goes outside for a stroll.

North Carolina
Elephants may not be used to plough cotton fields.

North Dakota
Beer & pretzels can’t be served at the same time in any bar or restaurant.

Ohio
Women are prohibited from wearing patent leather shoes in public.

Oklahoma
Violators can be fined, arrested or jailed for making ugly faces at a dog.

Oregon
You may not bathe without wearing “suitable clothing,” i.e. that which covers one’s body from neck to knee

Pennsylvania
A special cleaning ordinance bans housewives from hiding dirt and dust under a rug in a dwelling.

Rhode Island
Any marriage where either of the parties is an idiot or lunatic is null and void.

South Carolina
Horses may not be kept in bathtubs

South Dakota
If there are more than 5 Native Americans on your property you may shoot them.

Tennessee
You can’t shoot any game other that whales from a moving automobile

Texas
It is illegal to take more that three sips of beer while standing

Utah
A husband is responsible for every criminal act committed by his wife while she is in his presence.

Vermont
Lawmakers made it obligatory for everybody to take at least one bath each week — on Saturday night.

Virginia
There is a state law prohibiting “corrupt practices of bribery by any person other than candidates.”

Washington
A law to reduce crime states: “It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is entering the town”.

West Virginia
No children may attend school with their breath smelling of “wild onions”.

Wisconsin
Unless a customer orders it specifically, it’s against the law to serve margarine instead of butter at a restaurant (the dairy state)

Wyoming
It is illegal for women to stand within five feet of a bar while drinking.

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Top Stupid Signs. Stupid Notices. Stupid Instructions

Top Stupid Signs and Notices:

“No stopping or standing.” — A sign at bus stops everywhere.

“Do not sit under coconut trees.” — A sign on a coconut palm in a West Palm Beach park circa 1950.

“These rows reserved for parents with children.” — A sign in a church.

“All cups leaving this store, rather full or empty, must be paid for.” — A sign in a Cumberland Farms in Hillsboro, New Hampshire.

“Malfunction: Too less water.” — A notice left on a coffee machine.

“Prescriptions cannot be filled by phone.” — On a form in a clinic.

“You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside.” — On a bag of Fritos.

“Fits one head.” — On a hotel-provided shower cap box.

“Payment is due by the due date.” — On a credit card statement.

“No small children.” — On a laundromat triple washer.

“Warning: Ramp Ends In Stairs.” — A sign, correctly describing the end of a concrete ramp intended for handicap access to a bridge.

Top Stupid Instructions:

“Remove the plastic wrapper.” — The first instruction on a bag of microwave popcorn; to see the instructions, one first has to remove the plastic wrapper and unfold the pouch.

“Take one capsule by mouth three times daily until gone.” — On a box of pills.

“Open packet. Eat contents.” — Instructions on a packet of airline peanuts.

“Remove wrapper, open mouth, insert muffin, eat.” — Instructions on the packaging for a muffin at a 7-11.

“Use like regular soap.” — On a bar of Dial soap.

* “Instructions: usage known.” — Instructions on a can of black pepper.

“Serving suggestion: Defrost.” — On a Swann frozen dinner.

“Simply pour the biscuits into a bowl and allow the cat to eat when it wants.” — On a bag of cat biscuits.

“In order to get out of car, open door, get out, lock doors, and then close doors.” — In a car manual.

“Please include the proper portion of your bill.” — On the envelope for an auto insurance bill.

“The appliance is switched on by setting the on/off switch to the ‘on’ position.” — Instructions for an espresso kettle.

“For heat-retaining corrugated cardboard technology to function properly, close lid.” — On a Domino’s sandwich box.

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Top Stupid Warning Labels. Stupid Product Warnings

Stupid Warning Labels

Manufacturers of consumer products have to be liberal with the warning labels these days, as they may get sued. But for these, it’s hard to know whether the company is being outright stupid or if they’re simply targeting the most brain dead dumb among us.

Product Warnings:

“Do not use if you cannot see clearly to read the information in the information booklet.” — In the information booklet.

“Caution: The contents of this bottle should not be fed to fish.” — On a bottle of shampoo for dogs.

“For external use only!” — On a curling iron.

“Warning: This product can burn eyes.” — On a curling iron.

“Do not use in shower.” — On a hair dryer.

“Do not use while sleeping.” — On a hair dryer.

“Do not use while sleeping or unconscious.” — On a hand-held massaging device.

* “Do not place this product into any electronic equipment.” — On the case of a chocolate CD in a gift basket.

“Recycled flush water unsafe for drinking.” — On a toilet at a public sports facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

“Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover.” — On a pair of shin guards made for bicyclists.

“This product not intended for use as a dental drill.” — On an electric rotary tool.

“Caution: Do not spray in eyes.” — On a container of underarm deodorant.

“Do not drive with sunshield in place.” — On a cardboard sunshield that keeps the sun off the dashboard.

“Caution: This is not a safety protective device.” — On a plastic toy helmet used as a container for popcorn.

“Do not use near fire, flame, or sparks.” — On an “Aim-n-Flame” fireplace lighter.

“Battery may explore or leak.” — On a battery. See a scanned image.

“Do not eat toner.” — On a toner cartridge for a laser printer.

“Not intended for highway use.” — On a 13-inch wheel on a wheelbarrow.

* “This product is not to be used in bathrooms.” — On a Holmes bathroom heater.

* “May irritate eyes.” — On a can of self-defense pepper spray.

“Eating rocks may lead to broken teeth.” — On a novelty rock garden set called “Popcorn Rock.”

“Caution! Contents hot!” — On a Domino’s Pizza box.

“Caution: Hot beverages are hot!” — On a coffee cup.

“Caution: Shoots rubber bands.” — On a product called “Rubber Band Shooter.”

“Warning: May contain small parts.” — On a frisbee.

“Do not use orally.” — On a toilet bowl cleaning brush.

“Please keep out of children.” — On a butcher knife.

“Not suitable for children aged 36 months or less.” — On a birthday card for a 1 year old.

“Do not recharge, put in backwards, or use.” — On a battery.

“Warning: Do not use on eyes.” — In the manual for a heated seat cushion.

“Do not look into laser with remaining eye.” — On a laser pointer.

“Do not use for drying pets.” — In the manual for a microwave oven.

“For use on animals only.” — On an electric cattle prod.

“For use by trained personnel only.” — On a can of air freshener.

* “Keep out of reach of children and teenagers.” — On a can of air freshener.

“Remember, objects in the mirror are actually behind you.” — On a motorcycle helmet-mounted rear-view mirror.

“Warning: Riders of personal watercraft may suffer injury due to the forceful injection of water into body cavities either by falling into the water or while mounting the craft.” — In the manual for a jetski.

“Warning: Do not climb inside this bag and zip it up. Doing so will cause injury and death.” — A label inside a protective bag (for fragile objects), which measures 15cm by 15cm by 12cm.

“Do not use as ear plugs.” — On a package of silly putty.

* “Please store in the cold section of the refrigerator.” — On a bag of fresh grapes in Australia.

“Warning: knives are sharp!” — On the packaging of a sharpening stone.

“Not for weight control.” — On a pack of Breath Savers.

“Twist top off with hands. Throw top away. Do not put top in mouth.” — On the label of a bottled drink.

“Theft of this container is a crime.” — On a milk crate.

“Do not use intimately.” — On a tube of deodorant.

“Warning: has been found to cause cancer in laboratory mice.” — On a box of rat poison.

“Fragile. Do not drop.” — Posted on a Boeing 757.

“Cannot be made non-poisonous.” — On the back of a can of de-icing windshield fluid.

“Caution: Remove infant before folding for storage.” — On a portable stroller.

“Excessive dust may be irritating to shin and eyes.” — On a tube of agarose powder, used to make gels.

“Look before driving.” — On the dash board of a mail truck.

“Do not iron clothes on body.” — On packaging for a Rowenta iron.

“Do not drive car or operate machinery.” — On Boot’s children’s cough medicine.

“For indoor or outdoor use only.” — On a string of Christmas lights.

“Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.” — On a child sized Superman costume.

“This door is alarmed from 7:00pm – 7:00am.” — On a hospital’s outside access door.

“Beware! To touch these wires is instant death. Anyone found doing so will be prosecuted.” — On a sign at a railroad station.

“Warning: do not use if you have prostate problems.” — On a box of Midol PMS relief tablets.

“Product will be hot after heating.” — On a supermarket dessert box.

“Do not turn upside down.” — On the bottom of a supermarket dessert box.

“Do not light in face. Do not expose to flame.” — On a lighter.

“Choking hazard: This toy is a small ball.” — On the label for a cheap rubber ball toy.

“Not for human consumption.” — On a package of dice.

“May be harmful if swallowed.” — On a shipment of hammers.

“Using Ingenio cookware to destroy your old pots may void your warranty.” — A printed message that appears in a television advertisement when the presenter demonstrates how strong the cookware is by using it to beat up and destroy a regular frying pan.

“Do not attempt to stop the blade with your hand.” — In the manual for a Swedish chainsaw.

“Do not dangle the mouse by its cable or throw the mouse at co-workers.” — From a manual for an SGI computer.

“Warning: May contain nuts.” — On a package of peanuts.

“Do not eat.” — On a slip of paper in a stereo box, referring to the styrofoam packing.

“Do not eat if seal is missing.” — On said seal.

“Remove occupants from the stroller before folding it.”

“Access hole only — not intended for use in lifting box.” — On the sides of a shipping carton, just above cut-out openings which one would assume were handholds.

“Warning: May cause drowsiness.” — On a bottle of Nytol, a brand of sleeping pills.

“Warning: Misuse may cause injury or death.” — Stamped on the metal barrel of a .22 calibre rifle.

“Do not use orally after using rectally.” — In the instructions for an electric thermometer.

“Turn off motor before using this product.” — On the packaging for a chain saw file, used to sharpen the cutting teeth on the chain.

“Not to be used as a personal flotation device.” — On a 6×10 inch inflatable picture frame.

“Do not put in mouth.” — On a box of bottle rockets.

“Remove plastic before eating.” — On the wrapper of a Fruit Roll-Up snack.

“Not dishwasher safe.” — On a remote control for a TV.

“For lifting purposes only.” — On the box for a car jack.

“Do not put lit candles on phone.” — On the instructions for a cordless phone.

“Warning! This is not underwear! Do not attempt to put in pants.” — On the packaging for a wristwatch.

“Do not wear for sumo wrestling.” — From a set of washing instructions.

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15 Strange Law Suits. Bizzare, Stupid Lawsuits List

15 Strange Law Suits

Coca-Cola vending machine lawsuit

Sometimes, being frugal can cost you more than anticipated. While apparently trying to steal a soft drink from a vending machine in 1998, 19-year-old Kevin Mackle was rocking it dangerously. Suddenly, the weight shift was too hot to handle and the contraption fell on him. The man died following the accident. His relatives sued Coca-Cola Co., two other companies, and Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec (for about $660,000 US in damages and funeral costs) alleging that the machine was not secured and bore no warning signs.

Surfer sues surfer for stealing his wave

A surfer recently sued another surfer for “taking his wave.” The case was ultimately dismissed because they were unable to put a price on “pain and suffering” endured by watching someone ride the wave that was “intended for you.”

Turned gay after rear-end collision

A 27-year-old man from Michigan was involved in a rear-end collision. Four years later, he sued the owners of the truck that was responsible for the accident. Having suffered minor injuries, he stated that from then on, his sexual relationship with his wife deteriorated, as he was unable to maintain their sex life.
He claimed that he had been so affected by the crash that his personality had been forever changed. In fact, he maintained that the accident turned him into a homosexual. He left his wife, moved in with his parents, began hanging out in gay bars, and became a fervent reader of gay literature. He won his case and was awarded $200,000, while his wife received $25,000.

Suing guide-dog school

A minister and his wife sued a guide-dog school for $160,000 after a blind man learning to use a seeing-eye dog stepped on the woman’s toe. She sought $80,000 for medical bills, pain & suffering, humiliation and disability. Her husband sought the same amount for loss of his wife’s care, comfort and consortium.

Michael Jackson look-a-like lawsuit

An idiot sued Michael Jordan because he says Michael Jordan looks like him. This supposedly causes people everywhere to approach him. He sued Michael Jordan AND the founder of Nike, Phil Knight, for $832 million dollars. And guess who was the lawyer representing this moron? Himself.

You know your multi-million dollar case is retarded when you can’t even get a lawyer. If this dude had even 1 braincell, he would use his Michael Jordan look-alike status to make money. Like by standing in Times Square in New York City and selling autographs to stupid tourists. Or by getting free meals at every restaurant.

Obviously this numbskull enjoys the attention because he shaves his head like Michael Jordan and also wears an earring. Hey dope! You can’t sue somebody because you look like them! This would be like if Rosie O’Donnell sued the moon. Or if Paris Hilton sued an anorexic pelican.

Inmate suing himself for getting arrested

An inmate filed a $5 million lawsuit against himself (he claimed that he violated his own civil rights by getting arrested) — then asked the state to pay because he has no income in jail. He said, “I want to pay myself $5 million dollars, but ask the state to pay it on my behalf since I can’t work and am a ward of the state.” The judge was not impressed by his ingenuity, and dismissed the suit as frivolous.

Suing her friend for cutting her hair

A woman went to her friend’s house and asked for a haircut. Unhappy with her new look, she claimed her friend had willfully, intentionally and maliciously cut her hair without her consent … and sued him for $75,000.

Drunken driver sued employer for not stopping her.

“Woman who drove drunk gets $300,000″. An Ontario woman who got drunk at an office party and crashed her car has successfully sued her employer for allowing her to drive — even though her company offered a cab ride or accommodation if she gave up her keys. Linda Hunt, 52, won more than $300,000 in damages and interest from Sutton Group Realty Ltd., of Barrie, Ont., after arguing her boss should have stopped her from driving home in a snowstorm following a 1994 Christmas party.” The judge assessed Hunt’s damages from the resulting accident at C$1.2 million, but reduced that by three quarters to reflect her own fault in the matter. He “went on to declare it the duty of employers to monitor the alcohol consumption of employees at company functions. The decision is expected to send a chill through offices across the country”. (Charlie Gillis, National Post (Canada), Feb. 6). Source – Overlawyered.com

Wendy’s finger lawsuit

Anna Ayala sued Wendy’s because she claimed that there was a finger in her chili.

After a huge investigation, it turns out that she planted the finger in the chili.

Here’s a lesson to all morons: stop throwing body parts in your fast food and suing.

Or at least, COOK the body parts. Detectives knew something was weird because Wendy’s chili is cooked at 170 degrees and the finger was being served raw. Plus, the finger was from a friend of her family. Duh. You KNOW the police can identify the finger because a finger has FINGERPRINTS!

This stupid lawsuit has a happy ending… Wendy’s gave out free desserts to win back customers and Anna Ayala was sentenced to 9 years in prison.

Exepensive sperm

Igor Lehnberg, a Swedish man who was friends with a lesbian couple, wanted to help the ladies have children so he donated sperm for artificial insemination and soon the women had three kids. After breaking up with her significant other, however, the mother of the children filed a lawsuit against Lehnberg for child support — and won. In early 2002, the Swedish court ruled that the man was undeniably the biological father and was therefore condemned to pay a monthly allowance of approximately $280 US.

Suing Anheuser-Busch for false advertising

A man sued Anheuser-Busch for $10,000. Why? False advertising. Dude claimed that unlike their beer commercials would suggest, drinking their brand of beer did not cause bikini girls to suddenly break into a volleyball game and invite him back to their hotel room. Yes, this lawsuit was actually filed in a court of law.

The Beatles vs. Apple lawsuit

This one is really dumb. It’s ongoing litigation that was finally settled after 28 years in the courts. What could be so important? The Beatles formed a company called Apple Corps as a record label. They didn’t like Apple Computer using a similar name and also selling music. So they kept suing Apple Computer, trying to get money. Is there anyone who is getting confused? Who the hell knew The Beatles had a record label called Apple? And who could possibly confuse it with a computer company?

Mr. Jack Ass vs. Jackass (R) TM

Man who previously changed his name to ‘Jack Ass’ sues media giant Viacom, saying the MTV show “Jackass” plagiarized his name. This is real folks. A man in Montana who changed his name back in 1997 to “Jack Ass” (previously Bob Craft), says he did it to raise awareness about the dangers of drunk driving. The show “Jackass,” which premiered on MTV back in 2000, featured a group of guys performing crazy and dangerous stunts, that was also made into a movie in 2002. Jack Ass himself is claiming the company plagiarized his name, infringed on his trademark and copyright to his name and defamed his good character. He’s only asking for 10 Million. Source: CNN

Prisoner peanut butter lawsuit

Kenneth Parker sued the state of Nevada because he ordered two jars of chunky peanut butter but instead got one jar of chunky and one jar of creamy.

Did I mention that he ordered the peanut butter from the prison kitchen? Yeah, a dude in jail sues the state over peanut butter.

In his defense, the style of peanut butter is very important when it comes to spreading it on your cell mates’ ass before eating out his butt hole.

University of Idaho lawsuit

A college student in Idaho decided to “moon” someone from his 4th story dorm room window. He lost his balance, fell out of his window, and injured himself in the fall. Now the student expects the University to take the fall — he is suing them for “not warning him of the dangers of living on the 4th floor”.

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Top Stupid Lawsuits That Won. Stupid Lawsuits List

Top 7 Stupid Lawsuits. Stupid Lawsuits List

#7: Attorney Philip Shafer of Ashland, Ohio, flew on Delta Airlines from New Orleans to Cincinnati and was given a seat, he says, next to a fat man. “He was a huge man,” Shafer says. “He and I [were] literally and figuratively married from the right kneecap to the shoulder for two hours.” He therefore “suffered embarrassment, severe discomfort, mental anguish and severe emotional distress,” he claims in a lawsuit against the airline. Shafer figures this embarrassment, discomfort, mental anguish and emotional distress could be cured by a $9,500 payment from Delta. If Shafer isn’t careful, that might be dwarfed by the divorce settlement his “huge” (seat)mate might demand.

#6: “The Godfather of Soul” James Brown has a “grudge” against his daughters Deanna Brown Thomas and Yamma Brown Lumar, they allege. They say Brown “vowed to the media that his daughters will never get a dime from him” and “James Brown has kept his word.” So they have done what any kid would do when cut off from their rich daddy’s bank account: they sued him for more than $1 million, claiming that they are owed royalties on 25 of his songs which, they say, they helped him write even though, at the time, they were children. For instance, when Brown’s 1976 hit “Get Up Offa That Thing” was a chart-topper, the girls were aged 3 and 6. It’s enough to make Brown switch to the Blues.

#5: Utah prison inmate Robert Paul Rice, serving 1-15 years on multiple felonies, sued the Utah Department of Corrections claiming the prison was not letting him practice his religion: “Druidic Vampire”. Rice claimed that to do that, he must be allowed sexual access to a “vampress”. In addition, the prison isn’t supplying his specific “vampiric dietary needs” (yes: blood). Records show that Rice registered as a Catholic when he was imprisoned in 2000. “Without any question we do not have conjugal visits in Utah,” said a prison spokesman when the suit was thrown out. Which just goes to prove prison life sucks.

#4: Every time you visit your doctor, you’re told the same old things: eat less, exercise more, stop smoking. Do you listen? Neither did Kathleen Ann McCormick. The obese, cigarette-smoking woman from Wilkes-Barre, Penn., had high blood pressure, high cholesterol and a family history of coronary artery disease. Yet doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center “did not do enough” to convince her to work to improve her own health. Unsurprisingly, she had a heart attack which, she says in a federal lawsuit, left her a “cardiac invalid”. In addition to eight doctors, she’s suing their employer — the U.S. government — demanding a minimum of $1 million in compensation.

#3: In 1997 Bob Craft, then 39, of Hot Springs, Montana, changed his name to Jack Ass. Now, he says that MTV’s TV show and movie “Jackass” was “plagiarized” from him, infringes his trademarks and copyrights, and that this has demeaned, denigrated and damaged his public image. No attorney would take the case, so he has filed suit on his own against MTV’s corporate parent, demanding $50 million in damages. If nothing else, Jack Ass has proved he chose his name well.

#2: Hazel Norton of Rolling Fork, Miss., read there was a class action suit against the drug Propulsid, which her doctor had prescribed to her for a digestive disorder. Despite admitting that “I didn’t get hurt by Propulsid,” Norton thought “I might get a couple of thousand dollars” by joining the lawsuit. When her doctor was named in the suit, he quit his Mississippi practice — where he was serving the poor. He left with his wife, a pediatrician and internist. That left only two doctors practicing at the local hospital. So while Norton wasn’t harmed by the drug, all her neighbors now get to suffer from drastically reduced access to medical care because of her greed.

#1. sisters Janice Bird, Dayle Bird Edgmon and Kim Bird Moran sued their mother’s doctors and a hospital after Janice accompanied her mother, Nita Bird, to a minor medical procedure. When something went wrong, Janice and Dayle witnessed doctors rushing their mother to emergency surgery. Rather than malpractice, their legal fight centered on the “negligent infliction of emotional distress” — not for causing distress to their mother, but for causing distress to them for having to see the doctors rushing to help their mother. The case was fought all the way to the California Supreme Court, which finally ruled against the women. Which is a good thing, since if they had prevailed doctors and hospitals would have had no choice but to keep you from being anywhere near your family members during medical procedures just in case something goes wrong. In their greed, the Bird sisters risked everyone’s right to have family members with them in emergencies

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iPad Parody Video. Facebook Parody Video.

iPad Parody. Hitler Debunks The iPad

So what exactly does Hitler have against the iPad?

* “The iPad won’t support multitasking”
* “They didn’t give it a camera, fine. But it’s on AT&T! How am I supposed to use their crappy network?”
* “eBooks? If I wanted eBooks, I’d buy a Kindle.”
* “It could have single-handedly destroyed netbooks. But what do we get instead? An oversized iPod Touch!”
* “It can’t even make phone calls!”
* “I wanted to watch videos of lolcats while laying on the couch. But no, they won’t even give it flash support.

Video: Hitler Is Not Pleased About Facebook’s Acquisition Of FriendFeed

Among the choice lines:

* “It was a complete talent grab.”
* “I even remember what it was like before Robert Scoble got here!”
* “I used FriendFeed to argue about Obama and talk about health care, and to like tons of pictures from NASA that were awesome, not to spend my time posting pictures of bacon and talking about mangoes!”
* “Of all the companies, they went with Facebook. They could’ve been acquired by Google and I would’ve been happy for them. Or even Twitter: That I could understand. But Facebook?! What the hell?!”
* “Don’t worry, we still have Plurk.”

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Exaggerated H1N1 Flu Pandemic’s Danger?

Did the WHO Exaggerate the H1N1 Flu Pandemic’s Danger?

By the summer of 2009, shortly after the H1N1 flu pandemic had first emerged, there was a waiting list for the first several million doses of the forthcoming new flu vaccine. At the head of the line, naturally, were the world’s richest nations. “Again we see the advantage of affluence,” said Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), at a news conference on July 14. “Again we see access denied by an inability to pay.” Describing H1N1 as “entirely new and highly contagious,” Chan scolded rich countries at the time for hoarding the “lion’s share” of the global H1N1-vaccine supply.

Six months later, Chan’s admonitions seem prescient. Rich countries’ hoards have become massive surpluses, and many nations are now trying frantically to cancel pending orders of vaccines or transfer them to poorer nations. France, which had ordered enough of the vaccine to inoculate its entire population of 60 million, has so far used only 5 million doses and now wants to cancel 50 million doses and sell millions more. Similarly, the Netherlands has a 19 million–dose order for sale to other countries, while Germany is in talks with drug manufacturers to halve its order of 50 million doses and sell off millions of others. Switzerland, Spain and Britain are also considering giving away or selling the millions of doses of the vaccine they have received or have on order. The U.S., which has so far distributed 160 million of the 251 million doses it purchased to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers across the country, has yet to make a decision on whether it will have an overflow and what it will do with any surplus. (Watch TIME’s video “Chicken Eggs and Antigens: How the H1N1 Vaccine Is Made.”)

The excess in many countries occurred partly because health officials initially thought the vaccine would require two doses instead of one, and many countries signed contracts with manufacturers under that assumption; it turned out that a single dose was enough to build immunity. But the main reason for the surplus is simply that demand for the vaccine fell far short of what was originally expected. Now, after governments have spent billions of dollars on vaccines that were not needed – France alone spent $1.25 billion – some politicians and health professionals are looking to hold someone accountable.

“WHO advised us falsely. They raised a false alarm,” says Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, who served in Germany’s parliament until September, faulting the U.N.’s global health agency for relying on an inadequate definition of a pandemic. (See what you need to know about the H1N1 vaccine.)

Wodarg notes that the agency declared the H1N1 pandemic based only on the new virus’ transmissibility and did not take into consideration the severity of the strain. Wodarg blames the WHO for raising the alarm over a virus with little destructive potential, leading countries to embark on expensive mass-vaccination programs. He has organized a public parliamentary hearing on behalf of the Strasbourg-based human-rights group Council of Europe, titled “The Handling of the H1N1 Pandemic: More Transparency Needed?” The hearing, scheduled for Jan. 26, will explore the question of whether the WHO and governments overreacted to the threat of H1N1.

Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s special adviser on pandemic influenza, who will head a delegation to the Strasbourg hearing, counters that the WHO’s definition of influenza pandemics has always been based on transmissibility and has never had anything to do with the lethality of a virus; it was no different with H1N1. In response to accusations of overreaction to what has amounted to a mild disease, Fukuda says that once the 2009 H1N1 pandemic had been declared, “WHO consistently made it clear that it could not predict the future course of the pandemic but consistently provided sober, balanced and scientifically supported information and guidance.”

Fukuda says also that claims that H1N1 is a mild pandemic are wrongheaded. “There have been over 14,000 deaths that have been laboratory-confirmed, many in young, previously healthy people. Who is going to tell their families that the virus is mild?” Fukuda wrote to TIME in an e-mail.

Indeed, it is not difficult to imagine an alternate scenario in which critics would now be accusing the agency of failing to warn countries properly of the H1N1 threat. Hugh Pennington, a microbiologist at the University of Aberdeen who has advised the British government on past public-health crises, says the WHO was obligated to raise the alarm as soon as H1N1’s spread matched the medically accepted definition for a pandemic. He points out also that early news reports from Mexico and the U.S., where the virus first emerged, suggested a highly lethal disease

Source: By EBEN HARRELL Eben Harrell –

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Unbelievable Job Advertisment Fail Whale

Employer told not to post advert for ‘reliable’ workers because it discriminates against ‘unreliable’ applicants

A job center has been slammed for refusing to display an advert for a ‘reliable workers’ – because it discriminated against unreliable applicants.

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Recruitment boss Nicole Mamo, 48, tried to post an advert for a £5.80-an-hour domestic cleaner on her local Jobcentre Plus website.

She ended the job offer by saying that any applicants for the post ‘must be very reliable and hard-working’.

But when Ms Mamo called the Jobcentre Plus in Thetford, Norfolk, the following day she was told that her advert would not be displayed.

A Jobcentre Plus worker claimed that the word ‘reliable’ meant they could be sued for discriminating against unreliable workers.

The mother-of-two from Hertfordshire today slammed the situation as ‘ridiculous’.

She said: ‘I placed the advert on the website and when I phoned up to check I was told it hadn’t been displayed in the job centre itself.

The Job Centre in Thetford, Norfolk, said the advert discriminated against unreliable people

‘She said “oh we can’t put that advert on the job points”.

‘She said it was because they could have cases against them for discriminating against unreliable people.

‘I laughed because I thought that was crazy. We supply the NHS with staff so it’s very important for the patients that we have reliable workers.

‘We find jobs for hundreds of temporary staff every week and are proud of our workers but our reputation is at stake if they aren’t reliable.

‘We are taking people off the dole and finding them jobs so not displaying the advert just seems absolutely ridiculous to me.’

Nicole, who runs Devonwood recruitment agency and employs eight people, placed her advert on the Thetford Jobcentre Plus website on January 21 this year.

The job offer, which cost nothing to display, read: ‘Domestic cleaner required immediately. A variety of different shifts available. Must be fluent in written and spoken English for health and safety reasons. Previous experience preferred. Training will be provided. Must be very reliable and hard-working.’

The following day Nicole phoned Thetford Jobcentre Plus and was told by a woman that her advert could not be displayed.

She claimed that the job center could be sued by unreliable people if they placed the advert on their ‘job points’ but told Nicole it will remain on their website.

A spokeswoman for the Campaign Against Political Correctness described the decision not to display Nicole’s advert as ‘ridiculous’.

She said: ‘This situation is absolutely ridiculous – of course people want reliable workers and of course employers should be able to ask for them.

‘If they can’t advertise for what they actually want then the system is broken. They won’t be able to find workers who meet their criteria.

‘In order to have decided that the word “reliable” can’t be used they must have put a great deal of thought and time into it.

‘That time could be better spent getting the right people to apply for the right jobs – which is what this advert was trying to do in the first place.’

A spokesman for the Department of Work and Pensions said: ‘The advert in question is live on the Jobcentre Plus website intact and in Jobcentres via Jobpoints and worded as the employer requested.

‘Reliability is important to employers, as it is for JCP – and we welcome ads seeking reliable applicants.’

Source:By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:31 PM on 26th January 2010 http://ow.ly/10FcD dailymail.co.uk

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Study Provides a Census of Early Humans

Genome Study Provides a Census of Early Humans

From the composition of just two human genomes, geneticists have computed the size of the human population 1.2 million years ago from which everyone in the world is descended.

They put the number at 18,500 people, but this refers only to breeding individuals, the “effective” population. The actual population would have been about three times as large, or 55,500.

Comparable estimates for other primates then are 21,000 for chimpanzees and 25,000 for gorillas. In biological terms, it seems, humans were not a very successful species, and the strategy of investing in larger brains than those of their fellow apes had not yet produced any big payoff. Human population numbers did not reach high levels until after the advent of agriculture.

Geneticists have long known that the ancestors of modern humans numbered as few as 10,000 at some time in the last 100,000 years. The critically low number suggested that some catastrophe, like disease or climate change induced by a volcano, had brought humans close to the brink of extinction.

If the new estimate is correct, however, human population size has been small and fairly constant throughout most of the last million years, ruling out the need to look for a catastrophe.

The estimate, reported in the issue on Tuesday of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was made by a team of population geneticists at the University of Utah led by Chad D. Huff and Lynn B. Jorde.

The human population a million years ago was represented by archaic species like Homo ergaster in Africa and Homo erectus in East Asia. The Utah team says its estimate of 18,500 implies “an unusually small population for a species spread across the entire Old World.”

But that estimate would apply to the worldwide population only if there were inbreeding between the humans on the different continents. If not, and if modern humans are descended from just one of these populations, like Homo ergaster in Africa, then the estimate would apply only to that.

Richard G. Klein, a paleoanthropologist at Stanford, said it was hard to believe the population from which modern humans are descended was as small as 18,500 “unless they were geographically restricted to Africa or a small part of it.”

There is no independent way of assessing a genetics-based estimate of population size at this period, Dr. Klein said, although archaeologists have developed ways of assessing ancient populations of more recent times.

The Utah team based its estimate on the genetic variation present in two complete human genomes, one prepared by the government’s human genome project and the other by J. Craig Venter, the genome sequencing pioneer. The government decoded a single copy of a mosaic genome derived from a medley of people, apparently of European and Asian origin. Dr. Venter decoded both copies of his own genome, the one inherited from his father and the one from his mother.

The Utah team thus had three genomes to work with and looked at ancient elements known as Alu insertions, the youngest class of which appeared in the human genome around a million years ago. The amount of variation seen in the DNA immediately surrounding the Alu insertions gave a measure of the size of human population at that time.

Their estimate agrees almost exactly with an earlier one, also based on Alu insertions but with sparser data. The insertions tag ancient regions of the genome that are unaffected by the recent growth in population, Dr. Huff said.

Source: By NICHOLAS WADE January 18, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/science/19human.html

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No Pants Subway Ride 2010 Video

No Pants Subway Ride 2010! New Yorkers are crazy…

More than 3,000 in New York City alone went pantsless on Sunday, January 10 to inspire smirks, double takes, and general hi-jinx on ten of NYC’s subway lines. You can get the backstory on all nine years of the tradition including videos from past years.

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