When Tag is banned, only outlaws will play Tag.



COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.

"It causes a lot of conflict on the playground," said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.

Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other, she said.

Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban but most parents and children didn't object.

In 2005, two elementary schools in the nearby Falcon School District did away with tag and similar games in favor of alternatives with less physical contact. School officials said the move encouraged more students to play games and helped reduce playground squabbles.







Fuckin' hell man. Next thing you know, drawing penises in your notebooks will be banned too. Buncha pansy ass kids nowadays.





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Oshiri kajiri mushi



"Big-city butts are bitter."



Listen, why do i even spend my time making stuff up, when items like this exist in the free world?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8-oIt4BRAc

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VV229Db ... k%2Ecom%2F



Let's go crazy? Oh Yes.

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=hqBf23_JXRs



I'm all for mash-ups, and this one is technically pretty good, but man, leave Bourne footage alone. It's too COOL for you already.

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Seriously, i say, bring em on! These kids could use a little herd-thinning... especially if they're wearing those kevlar backpacks and vests and all that protective stuff...



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20376173/

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Why Wrong?

Well, let's see, the shipper backed their forklift into a raised curb, tipped it, and dropped the crate onto the ground. Now they are suing IBM for packing the server improperly? I don't THINK so.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/oh-noes/ibm- ... 294301.php



:::



I hate fucking shippers, I swear. Well, i don't hate this:







But I DO hate the BS they pull when you try to file a damage claim. i shipped a $6K graphics rendering tower to LA in 1997 and UPS drop-kicked it there, so hard that it arrived with a bent up tower case, all chips broken off, and the box itself had accordioned at the corner. UPS sent their insurance investigators out to the shop, claimed it was improperly packed, then TOOK the packaging. I was screwed. The Small Claims Court advisor told me at the time that there were so many pending cases against UPS that it would take years to get to me, and even so, the judges through them out.



I went to UPS that week and investigated their so-called 'packing criteria' and they had one sign in the back behind the desk (this was before the UPS storefronts so it was a depot) that said the package had to resist 140lb corner pressure and a 13 ft drop on any surface. WHAT.



So after that, the deal was you had to take your pkg to Mailboxes, Etc. or similar, and pay THEM to pack it, in order to to safely secure your insurance coverage.



Guess who bought Mailboxes, Etc. 2 years later?



UPS



Guess who doesn't insure their own packing now?

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Thunderbolts # 116

Writer: Warren Ellis

Artist: Mike Deodato



I've really enjoyed the Thunderbolt's relaunch. Making the team return to the concept of villains pretending to be heroes, but with a new twist, has been great. Having them basically operate as a government-supported hit squad for D-level unregistered heroes is even better. And Ellis writing the book makes it golden. I appreciate the sentiment that Marvel shouldn't be publishing books like this, and villains being in charge sucks, and all that, but taken for what it is, relative to the bigger story of the post-Civil War Marvel Universe, I think there's plenty of interesting stories to tell here. The obvious inevitability is that eventually, the team, and Osborne, will be held accountable for their actions, and it's going to be a hammer that comes down on them pretty hard, which will be satisfying. This is a book about people I love to hate. i don't find them sympathetic, with one small exception: int his issue, after Songbird threatens a target that Venom will, you know, EAT them, Gargan later sort of sulks and mutters that he isn't Venom, it's a role, he's in control, etc. It's a great scene. Gargan is actually hurt that he's seen as this massive beast, despite freely playing that role. Watching this villain struggle with his own identity and controlling the influence of a creature that polluted even Peter Parker's spirit is pretty awesome. Ellis shows us a team layered with double-cross, machinations and bare psychological wounds. Osborne plays one against another, and is clearly unhinged himself, despite the nano-programming keeping him in check. Seeing how some of the figures on this team are motivated (Radioactive Man's national directive, Penance's self-loathing) is fascinating, and there's more complexity in the team dynamic of this group, as written by Ellis, than in just about any other mainstream title. It's a great read. Deodato is an OK artist. It's certainly the best work of his career in my eyes, with a very recognizable style and moody inks, but given how uneven he is on other projects, I wonder how much his other inkers have struggled with his lines, since he's inking himself here quite effectively.



We've seen the Thunderbolts take out a number of resisting D-list heroes over the first few issues, and barely pull it off, too. And while it's been irritating that they aren't facing off against any name characters, at the same time, it's fun to see that they don't have a lot of success at it, and that these vigilantes are pretty crafty, too. Now, in the new arc starting with this issue, int he wake of some pretty disastrous public relations issues following the team's near murder of the Steel Spider and poor performance all around, their targets are coming along easily. Too easily. One assumes that this is part of a plan to get the right people into the 42 prison in the Negative Zone, in order to execute a covert operation. I'm sincerely hoping the Thunderbolts get well-fucked. That's half the fun of this book.



9/10 Clicks

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The Order # 01 - # 02

Writer: Matt Fraction

Artist: Barry Kitson



The Order finds it's origin in Civil War #6, where the team was introduced as the new Champions. However, litigious wrangling with the publishers of the comic based on the superhero RPG resulted in Marvel renaming the book, and the team, The Order. Based in Los Angeles, the Order are Matt Fraction's attempt at a postmodern capes team, less self-absorbed than X-Statix, but less altruistic than some of Marvel's mainstream teams. It's a group put together strategically, a combination of personalities and pre-engineered abilities designed to be an aesthetically-pleasing and contextually appropriate group for the LA scene, as part of the Fifty States Initiative. We see a lot of behind-the-scenes interviewing from team psychologists, giving us glimpses at the different characters' motivations. After being established and revealed to the press, the team's first major conflict is with old Marvel Handbook standards, the Soviet Super-Soldiers.



Fraction knows his way around a page. I really enjoy his scripts, and his interviews and columns as well. He's very deliberate about the storyline here: we have a manufactured superteam going against a previous generation foreign propaganda team, and the parallels are pretty obvious. The Order's leader is actually a former body double for Tony Stark, and the powers and characteristics of the team are creative and linked to their California setting. I'm not sure an LA-style team of ex-models and popular people is representative of California as a whole, but then again, I can't imagine what the Initiative team of, say, Nebraska, is going to be, either, generalizations being what they are. Fraction isn't afraid of showing us some adult themes, from Becky's bulemia to an apparent creepy sexual relationship between not-Stark and Pepper Potts. I'm not a fan of Pepper in a costume, being generally not a fan of taking cool non-capes and caping them, but overall, I've enjoyed this book. Kitson, on the other hand, while certainly doing a servicable job, and showing his technical skill level, always bores me. I don't know why.



The problem of telling stories within the Initiative framework is ongoing, but interesting. Setting aside my own general reservations about it, considering how similar some of the manufactured-superteam concepts are to the TRDL Universe, each writer that has TRIED to do something thoughtful has done a pretty good job. While the Initiative core book has focused on training younger heroes and the conspiracy-ladened issues of the program itself, this book shows us a team in play, struggling to meet expectations. As a Californian who was raised in LA, I also enjoy Kitson and Fraction's references to real landmarks. I think the book is actually more successful, in terms of showing a fabricated superteam, than X-Statix was, not because it's more entertaining (I loved Milligan's series) but because unlike X-Statix, these guys aren't jamming a thumb in the eye of the superhero genre. They really want to succeed. They just want to be popular for doing so. I think it's a valid approach, and certainly fits the setting of the book.



7/10 Clicks

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I think what scares me most about a robot science-city is the red light district...



http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/27/sout ... obot-land/

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Okay, there are times when I just wonder where the hell I am.



And then there are time I wonder where the hell everyone esle is.



Miss teen SC

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