The Water Cooler

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Good song, ONB!! Here's another...

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I Can't Make You Love Me

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Thanks ONB, this is some funny shit...

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I love the album version but, this isn't bad...

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I'm so fucking tired of stupid people.

[Wildbilly]

Hell yes I like Pink Floyd,
even George W. likes them. It wasn't too surprising to learn later on that the original band's lryics were based in such dark underpinnings.

Zappa, yeah his music was more 'mind fuck' stuff, tough to dance to. lol.

[Rich]

Zappa... LOL!!

You like Pink Floyd?

[Wildbilly]

Broken Hearts Are For Assholes

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It's gonna be a rough new year. I can feel it.

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This may be out of line but, I just can't help it. Anybody wanna place a bet that these two ladies may be related to each other?

[Rich]

I used to watch Dick Clark and American Bandstand. I'm not as old as the show though...

[Rich]

Any comments on the Trayvon Martin case?

[Rich]

Pentagon wants robot surrogates for soldiers

By John Roach

In yet another sign that science fiction and reality are on a collision course, the military's futuristic research arm wants to invest $7 million in a project to create robotic partners for its soldiers, according to DARPA's $2.8 billion budget for 2013.

DARPA watchers see an immediate link to, and inspiration from, the blockbuster movie "Avatar," in which humans plugged into a brain interface to control genetically enhanced human-alien hybrids.

The goal of the so-called "Avatar Project," reports Wired's Danger Room, is to "develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the solder's surrogate."

Advertise | AdChoicesSpeculation over what the military is actually after in the program is teed off from other robotic research programs funded by DARPA.

IEEE's Automation blog finds clues in the agency's work with Boston Dynamic's Petman, a bi-pedal robot designed to test chemical-protection clothing, which could serve as the surrogate.

"We have absolutely no evidence to suggest Petman is anything more than a chemical-protection clothing tester," IEEE's Evan Ackerman writes, "except for the fact that just testing suits seems like a slightly ridiculous use for a freakin' super advanced bipedal humanoid soldier robot."

Another possibility raised by Wired's Danger Room is the Alphadog, also built by Boston Dynamics.

Earlier this month, DARPA released a video of the robodog, which is capable of hauling a soldier's gear and following the soldier using "eyes" — sensors that can distinguish between trees, rocks, terrain obstacles and people.

http://futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/17/10436325-pentagon-wants-robot-surrogates-for-soldiers?chromedomain=technolog

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Does anyone else want to punch Pat O'Reilly in the mouth?

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CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla.- New information is surfacing in the case of the infant who was found in a freezer in a Punta Gorda home. We are warning readers that the following information is graphic.

According to the court documents, 27-year-old Jessica Smallwood called paramedics in physical distress and was transported to Peace River Medical Center.

Smallwood was found with an umbilical cord attached that had been tied with two nylon zip ties. Smallwood told staff members she had no idea that she was pregnant, however the exam showed that she was in her third tri-mester. She reportedly thought she had a large blood clot and told officials she Googled how to stop the bleeding. Smallwood then used the zip ties to stop the clot from exiting her body.

Officers searched her residence and found a bloody garbage bag with a frozen baby girl in the fetal position on the lower shelf in the freezer. The infant had her end of the umbilical cord still attached.

An examiner believes the baby was stillborn.

http://www.winknews.com/mobile/index.php/mobile/article/Medical-examiners-report-released-in-Smallwoods-case

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/newborns-corpse-freezer_n_1244772.html

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Last night: http://www.space.com/14490-embargoed-snow-moon-full-moon-february-rises-tonight.html

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DECEMBER SOLSTICE

Tonight is the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest night in the Southern Hemisphere. The December Solstice, which marks the change of seasons, occurs at 12:30 a.m. on the 22nd EST (9:30 p.m. on the 21st PST) when the Sun reaches its farthest point south on the celestial sphere. Happy Solstice!

THE AMAZING TAIL OF COMET LOVEJOY

Widespread reports of Comet Lovejoy's tail are being received from around the southern hemisphere. The ghostly plume emerges just before sunrise, jutting vertically upward into the eastern sky ahead of the sun.

http://earthchanges.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=6126809%3ABlogPost%3A193488&commentId=6126809%3AComment%3A193349&xg_source=activity

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So... we're finally pulling out of Iraq. At least my nephew can come home, finally.

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http://www.sec.gov/news/otherwebcasts/2011/microcaproundtable101711.shtml