Category Archives: F***ed up

Joel Fought Back — after going to court over 30 downloaded MP3s, verdict is $675,000 fine

By probabilityZero | July 31, 2009

What punishment do you think would fit the crime of pirating 30 MP3s? If you said “over $600,000,” you probably work for the RIAA.
After a valiant and creative defense from Charles Nesson and his law students, Joel Tenenbaum lost the legal battle that has captured the Internet’s attention for days under the nickname Joel Fights [...]

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AT&T declares war on the Internet

By probabilityZero | July 26, 2009

AT&T has started blocking access to img.4chan.org, which means access to the 4chan imageboards /b/ and /r9k/ are unavailable to most (not all) AT&T customers. An article on the wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica has details:
-Most AT&T DSL (largest ISP in the US, 15.5% of US Internet users) customers ARE currently not able to access img.4chan.org (/b/ [...]

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Christian Civil Liberties Union calls for book burning in Milwaukee

By probabilityZero | July 23, 2009

Here we go again. I think I’m becoming desensitized to these stories. I just can’t muster up the moral outrage like I used to. CNN reports:
The strife began in February when West Bend couple Jim and Ginny Maziarka objected to some of the content in the city library’s young-adult section. They later petitioned the library [...]

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Amtrack police arrest man for taking photos for Amtrak photo contest

By probabilityZero | January 4, 2009

Amtrak has an annual photo  contest that has been running since 2003. Duane Kerzic was standing on the public platform in New York’s Penn Station, taking photos to enter in next year’s photo contest, when he was approached by Amtrak police. They asked him to delete his photos immediately, and he refused. He was subsequently [...]

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Man in Iowa charged with possession of “obscene” manga

By probabilityZero | December 20, 2008

Christopher Handley is a collector in Iowa. He’s been charged with the alleged possession of obscene manga, and faces up to 20 years in prison.
He received a package containing seven manga, which was intercepted by the Postal Inspector and determined to contain obscene content. Authorities seized his collection of over 1,200 manga volumes, hundreds of [...]

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12 year-old Dymond Milburn beaten by police

By probabilityZero | December 19, 2008

12 year-old honors student Dymond Milburn was beaten by plainclothes police officers in front of her house. The officers mistook her for a prostitute (they claimed she was wearing “tight shorts”), drove up in a van, jumped out, grabbed her, telling her “You’re a prostitute. You’re coming with me.” She resisted, yelling “daddy, daddy.” One [...]

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State legislator rants about atheism during committee hearing

By probabilityZero | April 9, 2008

Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) interrupted atheist activist Rob Sherman during his testimony Wednesday afternoon before the House State Government Administration Committee in Springfield and told him, “What you have to spew and spread is extremely dangerous . . . it’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!”
Yup, this actually happened. This [...]

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14 year old Jehova’s Witness turns down treatment and dies

By probabilityZero | December 18, 2007

These sorts of stories really bother me. This kid, raised as a Jehova’s Witness, decides to turn down a blood transfusion that would have saved his live, on the grounds that it would make him “unclean and unworthy.”
Of course, when I say “he decided,” I’m simplifying things a bit. There’s no way a young teenager [...]

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Under copyright

By probabilityZero | August 12, 2007
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Data on Americans mined for terror risk

By probabilityZero | July 11, 2007

The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists according to a government report obtained Tuesday.
In addition, the report disclosed government plans to build a new database to assess the risk posed by people identified as potential or suspected terrorists.
Remember, this is the country where a you can be [...]

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Hamas TV’s Mickey Mouse-ripoff martyred

By probabilityZero | June 29, 2007

According to the Associated Press:
A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children’s television program was beaten to death in the show’s final episode Friday.In the final skit, “Farfour” was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land. At one point, the mouse called the Israeli [...]

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Seven years for pushing teacher’s aid

By probabilityZero | March 31, 2007

(April 1st): Shaquanda is now free. Read about it on her blog.
In Paris, Texas, a town once famous for public lynchings, a recent sentencing of a fourteen year old black girl to seven years in prison for pushing a teacher’s aid is making news all over the Internet. The girl had no previous arrest record, [...]

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