Nuggets Of Crunchy Goodness

Intel can't just ADVERTISE, no...

The JFTC Recommendation concluded that Intel K.K. interfered with AMD Japan's business activities by providing large amounts of funds to five Japanese PC manufacturers (NEC, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi) on the condition that they refuse to purchase AMD processors. As a result of these illegal acts, AMD Japan suffered serious damages, losing all of its sales to Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi, while sales to NEC and Fujitsu also fell precipitously.

That's right, Intel is so scared of AMD's Opteron processors that they actually paid other companies not to buy them. NICE job, AMD!!


Falling under the heading "Why Not To Hack The Cops," an Indonesian "pirate" website was shut down by police, after the owner discovered that the police were monitoring the activity on his website and hacked the observing computer, destroying it with a virus. Way To Go, Hartoyo Lupis and TokoDVD.com!

Falling under "Well, Duh!" is the knowledge that gamers have better target-acquisition skills than the rest of us. No kidding. This is probably why the U. S. Army is using games as a recruiting tool these days. Way To Go, Gamers!

Time Magazine has decided that they don't need confidential informants anymore; we know this because they're spilling the names of the informants who leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent to a Washington special prosecutor. Nice going; I'm sure people will just LEAP forward to give you reporters information now; it was hard enough to get people to give you accurate information when they thought their identities were safe! Way To Go, TIME Magazine!

In the "Hideous, Reeking Irony," category, one of the DSW customers whose credit card information was stolen in their recent security debacle was Federal Trade Commission head Deborah Platt Majoras. I can't really give anyone a "Way To Go!" here, just laugh. Loudly, long, and offensively. Ha, ha, ha, ha, haaaa.... *wipes away a tear* heeeeeee.....

Again, "Well, Duh!" A 16-year-old boy who was coerced by two female teachers into having a threesome with them is declining to press criminal charges. What a surprise!

Good news! If you're 14, and you want to get someone registered as a sex offender, all you have to do is run out in front of their car!
Really!
No, I mean it, it's all true!
A 14-year-old girl ran out into the road in front of Fitzroy Barnaby's car in Des Plaines, Illinois. He yelled at her to stay out of the road and gave her a lecture about child safety, during which he held her arm. Now, because of his "unlawful restraint of a minor," he is required to register as a sex offender, wherever he goes. The insanity of this boggles the mind. The judge who rendered the decision said that "he might have only intended to chastise the child, but I can't read his mind."
Which, of course, ALSO means you can't tell if he wanted to do something else, either. Innocent until proven guilty having gone by the wayside, Barnaby is now a registered sex offender because he tried to keep someone's child from getting killed in traffic. WAY TO GO PARENTS, YOU STUPID, STUPID FUCKS!
(If your parental monitoring software is pinging, too bad. If you're not adult enough to realize that that particular phrase applies perfectly to the idiot parents in question, then fuck you and the horse you rode in on, too.)

Sandra Day O'Connor (warning: slow, ghetto .PDF file) is finally retiring from the Supreme Court, just days after having been the crucial swing vote in the case which allows the government to steal your house and give you the finger.
Thanks a bunch. At least this gives Bush his first Supreme Court justice, and at least she couldn't hang on long enough to get another liberal moron.

Oh, and last but not least: we're raising a generation of punks and wimps. Of course, I've been saying this for years, but then I've seen the elephant. I pretty much think anybody who hasn't is a wimp.

Fortunately, video games will save us. Playstation makes better soldiers, remember?