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I didn't understand. Every time I got the subpoena before I submitted a written letter stating that I was paid by the hour and sole breadwinner of my household. I'd get a message on my answering machine about a week before my due date advising me that I was excused. This time, the message said "The judge needs to talk to everybody."

Hide Palin under a Bush?OH NO!I'm going to let her shine.

I've been a chronic smoker for the last eight years, but had recently abstained for 111 days due to a job situation. I read this and many articles like it through this bleak dry period, coming up with all sorts of schemes to beat drug tests, but I never had the balls to follow through. But, at the end of the 111 days, I found myself without a need to produce clean urine and decided to indulge in the freedom offered by my new home, California.

With the widespread success of Christian-themed videogames like Left Behind, apparently created for combinations of monetary and religious-proselytization-of-our-bizarre-take-on-apocalyptic-Christianity reasons, the subgenre of "Christian videogames" is now pretty well entrenched. Less well known is that the first Christian-themed videogame was created only in the late 1980s, and in fact the genre was invented by an obscure, not very successful, formerly secular, and vaguely scofflaw 1980s NES developer pretty much solely as a way of getting around Nintendo's licensing rules.

We're coming up on the one year mark of the "gated community" line that we were fed a year ago so that rusty wouldn't have to find a clever solution to the catflood. Let's see how it worked.

At some point in the near future the Internet will run out of IPv4 address space. This problem has been recognized and addressed since 1992. IPv6 (IPng, IP next generation) was selected as the replacement. There is one big hurdle however, no one is implementing it. In fact, my bet is that IPv6 will never be implemented, at least not with the current specification of IPv6. I predict IPv6 as it stands now will simply fade away.

Are you out-of-shape? Neurotic? Feel like society has cornered you into a prescribed job where you cannot express your creativity? Welcome to K5. Do you desire to rid yourself of it all, move back to a more simple, pure existence, at least for a few days? Do you want a vacation that you can't find on TripAdvisor? Do you know that the answer is wilderness backpacking, but don't want the pain and expense that comes along with it? Or, do you love efficiency and the idea of streamlining your material existence? Then, I give here the experience of 6+ years of painful experimentation, hoping that you can build upon my learnings. This story is about ultralight backpacking: exploring the wilderness with an extreme minimum of equipment.

Announcing: WakeRiteTM Alarm Clock by MichaelCrawford in MichaelCrawford's Diary Sun 08, 2008 at 07:16 PM EST Tags: MichaelCrawford, WakeRiteTM, Sleep, Alarm Clocks, Geometric Visions, Ogg Frog, GoingWare, Schizoaffective Disorder (all tags) Good news everybody! In my ongoing quest to manage my sleeping patterns, I have discovered a utility called an 'Alarm Clock', browsing a free software site. This application, and applications like it, work by emitting a loud sound when the clock's internal timer coincides with a time value of my own choosing. This timely emission of noise disrupts the user's slumber, waking them up.

YOU THINK YOU KNOW MAC AND CHEESE NO YOU DO NOT WELL MAYBE YOU DO HERE IS HOW IT GOES DOWN

We look like them, but there's a difference... Kuro5hin.org looks like a lot of other weblogs you see in your everyday clicking. But there is one important difference in how we operate here, that you may not be familiar with, or even, at this point, aware of. You see, Rusty and the other editors do not pick what stories appear on the front page here. Really. Sure, they can, but in practice, they very rarely do. So how do stories get posted? You post them! Yes, really. The readers evaluate and decide which stories they think "fit" and which ones are just filler.

So the first analyses of the Russia-Georgia tussle over South Ossetia are being published. Don't be fooled by the Western - especially French and German - media consensus (for example, this article on the ever dumb Times screaming OMG Russian invasion!): this time the Guardian's view that this was a Georgian aggressive gamble is absolutely correct. According to almost all independent reporters, the operations were kickstarted by the Georgians launching a massive co-ordinated attack that started with artillery shelling and aerial bombing of the independentist militias positions around Tskhinvali at 1:50 of Friday morning, a few hours after cease-fire talks had broken down (see this excellent timeline of the events - in French). Before that there had been only a few weeks of minor border skirmishes. You don't start such an operation without weeks of planning, do you?

It's late at night and the apartment is silent. Outside, a light rain falls, easily mistaken for fog. You set down your voice recorder, clicking it on, a slight raise of the left eyebrow the only sign of asking for permission. The interview starts.

I had to run down a bottle of one step sanitizer for my pilsner I had fermented at 90F. Rather than let it go to waste, when I took the lid off the fermenter there were really neat apple, fruit, apricot notes. I decided that while it wasn't nearly on style, it would be interesting to drink. Then I realized I was out of sanitizer so off to the homebrew store. I decided to go to the crappy one. It's closer, but the guy is much more into winemaking than he is into beermaking. However, with the overlap of simple supplies like tools, buckets, and sterilizer, it made it a reasonable choice. But then my wife wanted to come.

It is little wonder that The Dark Knight has done so well in modern America, generating huge returns for its investors, and spurring talk even before its release of potential Academy Awards. This is not because the 'dark' setting and overt themes of the film have any legitimate resonance with the zeitgeist. No, the film's subtext strikes a chord with the deep-seated convictions of the mainstream American public and with the interests of Hollywood investors. [SPOILERS AHEAD]

This story has got it all. The executive summary: An illegal alien is involved in an auto accident with a severe injury requiring over two years of hospitalization. After he has somewhat recovered, he is shipped back to Guatemala where he now languishes in a small village with no income or health care. Lawyers are now suing the hospital for $$$$. Read it - it's a fascinating story and fairly accurate.

The FBI is set to officially end its seven-year investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks after a prime suspect apparently committed suicide. No, it wasn't Steven Hatfill, the FBI's number one patsy, but rather Bruce Ivins, a former government anthrax researcher. Ivins allegedly committed suicide after learning that the FBI were close to filing criminal charges. "Three sources familiar with the investigation said the case soon will be closed because a threat no longer exists." Yes, that's right, there's no need for further investigation, nothing to see here, let's all just move on now.

Kuron newb4b0's latest diary is an open invitation for all other members to engage in a bit of troll-sodomy just for the kicks-da-shit fun which can be derived from sledge-hammering the ignoranus that passes for his brain. Have a Free-Troll-Fest on me. You want live-bait? Coming at you after the intro.

OK I am bored this weekend and decided to update THE NOW FOREVER DEAD KO4TING WEBSITE. Weekends @ Kuro5hin are almost as dead as Ko4ting. If you are bored this weekend too and care to do some Summer reading, go through the following FP stories of 2007. I would post a poll but there were 45 FP stories in 2007 and the poll does not have that many choices to make. I will post in the ghetto the WINNARS after the story dumps (I would cancel at some point but you know how that goes).

Over 100 million DVD players have shipped in the US, and 100s of millions of mp3 players have shipped, yet Linux distributions like Fedora, Ubuntu and Opensuse don't include software to create files that these devices can play. The reason is because implementations of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) are considered patented so the Linux Distributors are avoiding a risk of patent infringement lawsuits. I went searching for answers to basic questions like what are all the patents claimed for MP3 and when do the claimed MPEG-2 patents expire and I did not find these on the web, so I decided to create this summary of the patent status of MPEG-1, H.261 and MPEG-2. I'm not a lawyer and I'm not an expert on video or audio compression so there are probably some mistakes in this, but its better than anything I've found on the internet. This article is US specific, but the patent databases listed usually have other countries patents listed as well.

please dump this story since I cannot cancel it