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German politician, former Stasi employee forbids use of wikipedia.de domain

“A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has obtained a preliminary injunction against [...] Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., forbidding the forwarding of the popular http://wikipedia.de to the proper http://de.wikipedia.org. Apparently Heilmann is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article (English version) contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service.”

Relying on country specific Tld’s controlled by governments while clowns, shit eaters and torturers like Lutz Heilmann are running loose in parliament is a bad idea.

Idolatrous Socialism from Space: Jesus people prayed for “God’s economy” at statue of bull on Wall Street

October 29 2008 was apparently “The Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies”. WTF:

“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the ‘Lion’s Market,’ or God’s control over the economic systems.”

See also: more photos from the prayer, a video, The Charging Bull statue

[via:Pharyngula]

2% of Finnish municipal elections votes lost due to bad UI design

“The results of the election may have been affected, because the seats in municipal assemblies are often decided by margins of a few votes”

The saddest part of the story is that the ignorant fuckers who wanted privatized e-voting (or any e-voting) sold Finland’s Democratic process to Tietoenator, a company to which most sensible persons wouldn’t assign the task of drawing a flash-based Goatse.

TE previoulsy provided the voting system for the Finnish Parliament, a project plagued by delays and instability (link in Finnish).

[via:Slashdot]

11 year old Indian girl set on fire for wearing lipstick

“[The victim] was attacked by the man she called nana (grandfather). On Friday, Saleem told the little girl not to wear lipstick. When she defied him, in a fit of rage he allegedly molested her before pouring kerosene on her and setting her on fire.”

PS3 game soundtrack with Qur’an reference causes massive recall

The combination of religious pigfuckers and corporate censorship is such great fun. Also: fuck multiculturalism.

[via:LOLtheist]

Let’s hope we won’t see palinaspresident.com

“Updated daily until November 4th!”

[via:Reddit]

Kirkolla valtava omaisuus

“Tuloilla mitattuna kirkko nousee kirkkaasti sadan suurimman yrityksen joukkoon Suomessa. [...] Kirkon talous kestää varsin suurenkin jäsenkadon. Viime vuonna kirkon ylijäämä [...] oli 45 miljoonaa euroa. [...] kirkosta voisi erota nykyisellä kulurakenteella noin 240 000 ihmistä, jotta ylijäämää ei jäisi lainkaan.”

The Pirate Bay claims to end all contact with Old Media

Due to pigfuckery performed by people representing Old Media, TPB claims to no longer respond to any press inquiries.

Anything even remotely connected to technology has never been represented correctly or fairly by journalists (whom we all know are clueless by definition), but the last straw for TPB’s staff was apparently claims made by a media outlet yesterday according to which TPB had “published pictures of dead children” (Google translation).

The pictures in question are part of autopsy reports related to a high profile murder case made public by the prosecutor and are, obviously for anyone familiar with Bittorrent, uploaded by some user of TPB. As TPB isn’t in the business of censoring the Internet, they have refused to remove anything except child porn from the service, which in this case lead to death threats being aimed towards the staff.

Massive Takedown of Anti-Scientology Videos on YouTube

[via:slashdot]

Religious pigfuckers in Russia Want South Park Banned

“[The Russian Union of Evangelical Christians] urged the prosecutors to ban the popular animated comedy series on the grounds that it contains “covert and overt propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia as norms of sexual life.”"

[via:Wired]

Mythbusters not allowed to discuss RFID (in)security

During the first couple of minutes of this video, Adam Savage reveals that the major credit card companies didn’t approve of MythBusters discussing RFID.

[via:BoingBoing]

EU pays for, then ignores study on copyright extension

Pandora can’t make money, may pull the plug

“Despite being one of the most popular Internet radio services, the company still isn’t making money, and its founder, Tim Westergren, says it can’t last beyond its first payment of the higher royalties. SoundExchange offered a potential reprieve from the royalty hikes, but that turned out to be a red herring to sneak DRM onto web radio. In the end, SoundExchange was able to initiate a massive (and retroactive) royalty hike on Internet radio stations, imposing per-user fees for each song.”

Crime-ridden Arkansas town expands 24-hour curfew

“As far as I’m concerned, at 3 o’clock in the morning, nobody has any business being on the street, except the law,” Councilman Eugene “Red” Johnson said. “Anyone out at 3 o’clock shouldn’t be out on the street, unless you’re going to the hospital.”

[via:mummila]

UK Gov’t Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage

[via:Slashdot]