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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Gun Shop Owner And Son Killed In Shootout With Customer And Son Over $25 Service Chg
[Inquisitor] According to Pearl River County authorities, a gun shop owner and his 17-year-old son were shot and killed in a shootout on Saturday afternoon with two customers -- another man and his 29-year-old son -- over a $25 service charge.

The two customers were hospitalized after being injured in the shooting that occurred at a gun store in Pearl River County's Henleyfield community, according to local authorities.

Pearl River County Sheriff David Allison told WLOX that Jason McLemore, 44, owner of McLemore Gun Shop in Pearl County, Mississippi, and his son Jacob McLemore, 17, were shot and killed on Saturday afternoon following a dispute with two customers, Andy McCool, 52, and his son Michael McCool, 29, over a $25 fee for repair of a gun.

Allison said that McLemore's wife was at the store when Andy McCool and his son entered at about 3:15 p.m. to pick up a handgun that was in for repairs. The men reportedly became angry with McLemore's wife over a $25 service charge after they learned that the weapon had not been repaired.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/25/2016 07:01 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  apparently it worked enough
Posted by: Frank G || 01/25/2016 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Not too cool.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 01/25/2016 11:51 Comments || Top||

#3  McCool, not Too Cool.
Sounds like a couple of old redneck families feuding, like Hatfields and McCoys. That Celtic blood.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/25/2016 12:59 Comments || Top||

#4  It takes time (i.e. money) to take something apart to check a compliant and then reassemble it. It is not the tech's fault if the gun is operating as designed.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/25/2016 16:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Willie McCool, pilot of space shuttle Columbia comes to mind. Probably not related, I suppose.
Posted by: Slereper Speaking for Boskone1015 || 01/25/2016 17:16 Comments || Top||

#6  #3 Glenmore: and WHAT"S WRONG with that Celtic blood, boyo ??????
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 01/25/2016 22:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Shhhh, dear Canuckisran sniper. Sit here by me while I put up articles for tomorrow, and sip this glass of very fine whisky
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/25/2016 22:46 Comments || Top||


Three men charged in Gurnee shootout
[Chicago Tribune] Three men are facing gun charges after a shootout erupted in a busy Gurnee intersection Thursday afternoon, police said.

All three men charged were in the same vehicle. The shooter from a second vehicle was not charged because he had a concealed carry permit, police said.

William Meyer, deputy chief of the Gurnee Police Department, said both vehicles were traveling west on Washington Street when "the guns came out" at Greenleaf Street shortly after 1 p.m.

"It's hard to say exactly what happened. No one really wanted to say," Meyer said.

Nobody else was in the vehicles, according to Meyer, who said "there doesn't appear to be any connection" between the gunnies on either side of the shootout.

Police only recovered two guns, but Meyer said all three men were charged with the same crimes because they were involved in the same shooting, even if they had different roles.

Hector C. Arroyo, 36, Alvaro Ruiz, 28, and Ramon Corona, 23, all of Waukegan, have been charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, unlawful use of a weapon as a felon, unlawful use of a weapon as a gang member, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon with no FOID, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon with no concealed carry license, and mob action, police said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder if the felons were legal citizens, or awaiting the Obama pardon.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/25/2016 8:37 Comments || Top||

#2  FOID =Firearm Owner Identification Card, one if Illinois onerous control mechanisms whereby you submit a passport style photo to the State Police one they return to you a card using the photo on your drivers license... WTF happens to the photo submitted? ...my guess stored in a special facial recognition data base of extreamists exercising second ammemdment rights. And we can all see from Chicagos toe tag count just how effective it is.
Posted by: Capsu 78 || 01/25/2016 16:05 Comments || Top||


Councilman jailed on murder charges sworn in to office behind bars
[Chicago Tribune] East reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
City Councilman Robert Battle took the oath of office Friday from behind bars at the Porter County Jail.
So we have a precedent for Hillary...
Battle was reelected to his council seat in November, one month after murder and drug charges were filed by the federal government..

Sheriff David Reynolds confirmed Saturday that an unnamed official was brought in to do the swearing-in for Battle, who is being held in federal custody at the Porter County facility.

"There is no reason for me to deny it legally," Reynolds said, adding he spoke to the U.S. marshal, who agreed. Battle could have chosen to be sworn in via video conferencing but opted for an in-person oath, Reynolds said..

Indiana law permits Battle to hold his seat -- and collect the $42,365 salary that it pays -- until he resigns, admits his guilt on any of the charges or is found guilty in court. Battle, a Democrat, ran unopposed in November and received 308 votes.

Michelle Fajman, director of Lake County's election board, confirmed Saturday that her office received Battle's paperwork Friday. Newly elected officials whose terms start Jan. 1 have until Jan. 30 to be sworn into office.
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Among some constituencies, jail time is a resume enhancer.
Posted by: Nguard || 01/25/2016 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Battle, a Democrat, ran unopposed in November and received 308 votes.

I'm surprised they even mentioned the obvious party affiliation.
Posted by: Raj || 01/25/2016 0:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Hillary Rodham Clinton - POTUS, Inmate #63761 Federal Pen.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/25/2016 1:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Imagine this: Hillary gets convicted, then wins election for President, and is sworn in in prison, then pardons herself.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/25/2016 8:47 Comments || Top||

#5  So that was 6 Ward Heelers ACORN workers, 50 dead people apiece and two actual living voters? Still would have won by 2 votes if there was no competition.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/25/2016 13:58 Comments || Top||


Manhunt underway for 3 California jail runaways
[Iran Press TV] A massive manhunt to detain an accused murderer and two other Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, prisoners who broke out on Friday has entered its third day.

Hossein Nayeri, 37, Jonathan Tieu, 20, and Bac Duong, 43, beat feet from the Orange County jail and were last spotted early Friday morning, Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said in a statement Sunday, Rooters reported.

"The three escapees ... are dangerous criminals," she warned.

To make their way out, the trio designed a master plan to cut through steel bars, climb through a plumbing tunnel and then lower themselves down four stories using bed sheets, according to the Orange County Register.

Authorities said they had yet to ascertain whether the prisoners had any outside help in making their escape, the newspaper said.

"All indications are that the inmates escaped the jail and have fled the area," the sheriff's department said in a Friday statement.

Nayeri is accused of kidnapping and torturing a marijuana dispensary owner with three other accomplices, the Register said. Prior to the escape, he was being held in the jail without bail since September 2014.

Tieu were tossed into the calaboose at the facility since October 2013, charged with a gang-related murder.

Duong is charged with attempted murder and was being held at the jail without bail since last month.
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hossein Nayeri, cut off the penis of a man who owned a marijuana dispensary and drove off with the penis so it couldn’t be reattached!


Posted by: Slereper Speaking for Boskone1015 || 01/25/2016 17:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Slereper Speaking for Boskone1015 nailed it. Using his statement as the search tem, google turned up this useful round-up of facts about our three seriously unloveable miscreants. (link)
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/25/2016 18:42 Comments || Top||

#3  As per CNN AM, two of the escapees are believed to had holed up wid Vietnamese gangsters, + are receiving protection from same.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/25/2016 22:48 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Remember That Drunk Dr. Hoochie Who Tried To Hijack An Uber? Yeah, Well, Her Life Is Basically Ruined
[BARSTOOLSPORTS] The woman has been identified as 30-year-old Dr. Anjali Ramkissoon, a fourth-year neurology resident employed by Jackson Health System.
aka Doctor Dipsy Doodle...
A post from the hospital citing Ramkissoon’s excellent levels of care for epilepsy patients has since been deleted.
Oh, really? It turned out not to be excellent?
On review sites like Healthgrades.com and Vitals.com, listings for Ramkissoon as a doctor have been flooded with one-star reviews.
But only since she turned into a harridan when she got drunk and disorderly?
Ramkissoon’s Facebook, Linkedin and Instagram accounts have also all been taken down in response to the backlash.
So she can't go to Facebook and post something like "Jeezus Gawd, I was so sloshed I acted like a complete fooking idiot and I'm humiliated to the tips of my overpainted toe nails. I never want to show my face in public again but I gotta because I'm a neurologist in real life and the world needs neurologists and I'm a lot better at that than drinking."
Her employer Jackson Health System has also just released the following statement:
"Ahem!Harrumph! Harrumph!"
“Anjali Ramkissoon, a fourth-year neurology resident employed by Jackson Health System, has been placed on administrative leave, effective immediately, and removed from all clinical duties.
Afraid she's gonna show up drunk, are you? Does she do that often?
Jackson has launched an internal investigation.
That sounds like it should involve barium...
The outcome of the investigation will determine if any disciplinary action will be taken, up to and including termination.”
My guess is that it will, unless short attention span syndrome cuts in, which in the case of an obscure bottom of the totem pole Bitch M.D. it likely won't.
I’m not saying she deserved what was inevitably coming to her.
I suppose giving an institution a bad name is a reason to fire a person, which was why Bill Clinton was forced from office... Oh. Wait. Never mind.
She’s a cunt, plain and simple.
Fixed smile, next thing to an asshole...
She needs some sort of slap on the tits to get her back to reality.
You'd think by her fourth year of residency she'd have spit out the pacifier and stopped having temper tantrums on the floor of Walmart.
However, does anybody else think ruining her entire life may be just a tad too much?
People like Doctor Hootchie have their public temper tantrums because they're convinced they're ever so important, much more important than common folk like, say, Uber drivers.
Internet justice is RUTHLESS. It’s like the lynch mobs of the ol’ west. There is absolutely no mercy taken until somebody is hung from the gallows and shits their britches.
The fact is, the child was bright enough to get into medical school, competent enough to make it through an internship, and a good enough resident to get written up for her work with epileptics. Other than the spoon in the mouth thing I have no idea what to do with a grand mal. I doubt most of the lynch mob does, too. Or either. I'm not sure which goes there.
Sure, she gets all the public shaming in the world for being such a bitch.
When I was in grade school it woulda just been the pants pulled down on the playground. But judging from the Film at 11, she hadn't found somebody to pull her pants down, which was why she was grouchy.
But maybe think about not terminating her job as a potential neurosurgeon?
There's a difference between the "gist" and the "surgeon," but the principle's the same: swatting a fly with a mallet.
I have zero idea if she’s a good brain person thingy, but what I do know is America could use all the best doctors we can get.
Students tend to act stoopid like Doctor Hootchie did. Skilled medical professionals don't -- in public. It's kinda like the good old days, when the military had officers' and NCO clubs. Officers could and did get puke-in-the-gutter drunk and goose each other's wives without doing so in front of the enlisted men. NCOs could get puke-in-the-gutter drunk and do stoopid things without feeling the hairy eyeball of Officerdom on them the next morning. Now they have Community Clubs, mingling everybody from Private Last Class to General, and departing from the straight and narrow is a career terminator.
If she is decent with the noggin’, maybe she shouldn’t lose the 8+ years she’s already put into Medical School. I know she can fall back on her looks, but the world has enough Hooters girls.
Most of whom look alike...
Not that I have a compelling need to stand up for my profession, but I think the world's reaction to Dr. Ramkissoon is just a little over the top. Her behavior was akin to a spectacular car wreck -- you know you shouldn't watch but you will. Dr. R. did a flaming pyro one-car into a concrete abutment, then a tree, then a lamppost, then a deer, then another abutment style wreck. You'd think she was a Ho'wood actress or something.

Ok, we all looked. Now what?

If we shit-canned every resident who at one single point in life acted like an asshole I wouldn't be a doctor today. Just saying.

So how about we let her make a dignified public apology and let her program director put her on quiet probation the rest of the way through her training? And stop looking. Unless she wrecks again.
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Brilliantly done with the mark-up!
Posted by: newc || 01/25/2016 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Very well. You've changed my mind. I volunteer to spank her so we can get this whole thing behind us.
Posted by: gorb || 01/25/2016 0:51 Comments || Top||

#3  "So how about we let her make a dignified public apology and let her program director put her on quiet probation the rest of the way through her training? And stop looking. Unless she wrecks again."

Agreed. Mob justice is just as ugly as anything Doc Rami did.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/25/2016 4:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Neurologist in white hot pants. Gotta love Miami.
Posted by: regular joe || 01/25/2016 6:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Given the present people in charge, sounds like a candidate for the VA.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/25/2016 9:18 Comments || Top||

#6  If we shit-canned every resident who at one single point in life acted like an asshole I wouldn't be a doctor today.

Good thing you've got that behind you. ;-)
Posted by: gorb || 01/25/2016 10:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Universities need to set up a course geared towards learning what kind of drunk you are. Give parties and film people under different levels of inebriation so folks know if they become total jerks, sluts, wanna fight everybody, or just smile and dance badly.

Once you know that you should be able to avoid incidents like Dr Hoochie's and if you do stumble into filmed drunken rant you deserve the outcome.

Having said that she's indian and thus a semi-protected class. They'll put her on leave or whatever until the heat is off and then put her back on duty with a warning.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/25/2016 11:19 Comments || Top||

#8  I was an instructor in physical chemistry lab to med students---if it only was "at one single point", Dr White.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/25/2016 11:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Hoping the Rantburg resident limerick writer chimes in here- lots of potential word sounds to rhyme up!
Posted by: Capsu78 || 01/25/2016 16:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Once I was checking a physician's references by phone, but stopped when one of them said simply, "Don't hire her."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/25/2016 17:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Privileged class meets common law.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/25/2016 17:40 Comments || Top||

#12  Smacking around a white male won't be a problem but she'll be shit-canned for the Pocahontas costume & warpaint for sure.
Posted by: Halliburton - Foreign Affairs Division || 01/25/2016 21:35 Comments || Top||

#13  Just admit it - she wanted desperately to show off her Bod.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/25/2016 22:52 Comments || Top||

#14  Capsu, sparing the gories, I'm afraid I must disappoint. But here goes.

Thus thunk the forensic psychologist
Of drunken neurotic neurologist:
"My Machiavellian
Medical hellion
Has shrunk to appalling apologist"
Posted by: Big Peacock1428 || 01/25/2016 22:57 Comments || Top||

#15  Oops. Twas I.

Preserve us from nervous princesses
(we're screwed when the screwy undresses)
Or send us an Uber
And sober YouTuber
To rudely expose their excesses.

Amen.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 01/25/2016 23:06 Comments || Top||

#16  Oops. Twas I.

We know. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 01/25/2016 23:11 Comments || Top||

#17  Thus spake the neurotic neurologist,
"I think I need a psychologist!"
To Uber I'm a boob,
I end up on YouTube,
Maybe I can be a mixologist!

(Sorry, I don't know what came over me . . . .)
Posted by: gorb || 01/25/2016 23:22 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Global warming freezes East Asia where people are dying from record low temperatures
Posted by: anon1 || 01/25/2016 11:46 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  look at all that global warming, the seas will boil away
Posted by: anon1 || 01/25/2016 11:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Hence the rebrand as climate change.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/25/2016 11:55 Comments || Top||

#3  When, in the entire geological history of the earth has climate not changed?
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/25/2016 12:08 Comments || Top||

#4  At the maximas and minimas for a short time.
Posted by: gorb || 01/25/2016 12:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Remember your talking points, people:
If it's cold, it's just weather.
If it's hot, it's climate change.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/25/2016 14:07 Comments || Top||

#6  IIRC Guam + CNMI are located widin the Tropic of Cancer, but its been b-r-r-r cold as heck since Saturday PM.

* "MINI-ICE AGE" = AKA WHAT I LIKE TO LABEL AS THE "GREAT ASIA-PACIFIC SLUSHY".

All the above being said, I still hold to my beliefs that the so-called "Mini-Ice Age" is just that, i.e. a "Mini-" or short-term interim period of cold or icy [sleet] weather widing the larger occurrence of Solar/Sun-led GWCC = slowly but steadily intensifying Solar heating up of the Earth + Planetary System to as yet unknown or highly subjective global temperature levels.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/25/2016 20:06 Comments || Top||

#7  "Peak Oil", "Peak Resources/Everything", andor Mini-Ice-Age, CHECK BACK 'ROUND YEAR 2040.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/25/2016 23:32 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Grant County Oregon sheriff urges release of Hammonds
BURNS – Leaders of the armed protesters holding the national bird sanctuary on Tuesday plan to push their anti-government agenda in Grant County, whose sheriff recommends the government give in to two of their key demands.

Sheriff Glenn Palmer said in a statement to The Oregonian/OregonLive that "the government is going to have to concede something" to end the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

He said freeing a father-son ranching team from prison "would be a start. Sending the FBI home would be a start." He referred to the FBI's lead role in ending the refuge occupation.

"I just pray to God that cooler heads prevail and that no one gets killed," Palmer said.

The sheriff's endorsement of the militants' demands stunned law enforcement officials, most who would not publicly discuss the matter.
Posted by: badanov || 01/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fat chance. The government would lose face.

More than likely they will just surround the area and wait it out until the occupiers get sick of it and leave.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/25/2016 5:27 Comments || Top||

#2  The government would lose face.

You mean like exchange a handful of bad guys for a deserter?
Or releasing a known terrorist to other countries?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/25/2016 17:15 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin's Kremlin employs assassination abroad as state policy in a manner not seen in Moscow since Stalin.
[20committee]
Posted by: newc || 01/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jeez. He IS ex-KGB after all. What do you expect?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 01/25/2016 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Just think of the mischief he could achieve if he only had drones.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/25/2016 6:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Besoeker, the drones haven't done anything for us but let Pakistan pretend they're cooperating with us in fighting the WoT and simultaneously pretend to their population that they have nothing to do with the dronezaps.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/25/2016 14:32 Comments || Top||


Europe
Tens of thousands demand early election in Moldova
[Iran Press TV] Over 40,000 demonstrators in Moldova have taken to the streets demanding an early election.

The protesters braved the freezing cold winter in the capital Chisinau on Sunday to express their discontent with the government.

While the temperature was at -10 Celsius, people were seen holding placards with pictures that read, "Enough is enough" and were heard shouting; "We want the country back!" and "Unity, citizens!"

The rally was organized by several activist groups who were demanding that the government announce early election by January 28 or face acts of civil disobedience.

The demonstrators are angry about falling living standards that have left the average monthly salary at just 220 euros ($240). They blame pro-European political parties, in power since 2009, over failure to carry out reforms.
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'd like an early election, so we can get this sh1tst0rm over.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/25/2016 17:41 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Shimon Peres taken to hospital over heartbeat abnormality
[Iran Press TV] Israeli former President Shimon Peres has been rushed to hospital for chest pains, a week after being treated for a heart attack.

Emergency medics went hurriedly to the 92-year-old's residence on Sunday night, when he reported that he was experiencing heart problems, Times of Israel online newspaper reported.
Iran PressTV monitors The Times of Israel??? This truly is an age of miracles!
According to his spokeswoman, Ayelet Frisch, paramedics performed electrocardiography on him at home and detected "light irregular heart rate", but decided that he should stay overnight at Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv for more observation and testing.
Update from The Times of Israel at 9:40 a.m. ET: He's doing fine, The mild heart arrhythmia is stabilized, but they're keeping him at the hospital a bit longer just in case, and because Israel is sharing the winter storm sweeping the region, so roads are being closed.

Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
CERN scientists break the speed of light
Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the international group of researchers, said that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done.
Neutrinos are smaller than photons, so naturally they have less friction. Honestly, the science is settled, guys.
"We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing," he said. "We now want colleagues to check them independently."

If confirmed, the discovery would undermine Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a "cosmic constant" and that nothing in the universe can travel faster.

That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works.

The totally unexpected finding emerged from research by a physicists working on an experiment dubbed OPERA run jointly by the CERN particle research centre near Geneva and the Gran Sasso Laboratory in central Italy.
Posted by: badanov || 01/25/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is an old story (2011?), since determined (IIRC) to be false due to equipment-related issues.
Posted by: PBMcL || 01/25/2016 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Friend at Brookhaven National Labs doesn't believe anything this group says. They keep announcing this and problem's keep being found. Last announcement was disproved by a loose fiber optics connector.
Friend says the whole Hi-Energy physics group at CERN is very fractured. Lots of in-fighting ...
Posted by: 3dc || 01/25/2016 0:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry. I pulled it from Facebook without checking.

My bad.
Posted by: badanov || 01/25/2016 0:37 Comments || Top||

#4  So, warp nacelles aren't arriving anytime soon?
Posted by: Raj || 01/25/2016 0:41 Comments || Top||

#5  TW, it seems you are fully qualified as a global warming scientist. ;-)
Posted by: gorb || 01/25/2016 0:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Friend at Brookhaven National Labs doesn't believe anything this group says. They keep announcing this and problem's keep being found. Last announcement was disproved by a loose fiber optics connector.

Sounds like the Paradox Prevention Principle is working.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/25/2016 0:58 Comments || Top||

#7  "Albert uses old envelopes which he pilfers from me."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/25/2016 2:58 Comments || Top||

#8  TW, it seems you are fully qualified as a global warming scientist. ;-)

Had I been in charge, we would have enjoyed the benefits of the warm side of the cycle, while preparing for the cold side to come, gorb dear, but where's the obscene profits in that?

This is an old story (2011?), since determined (IIRC) to be false due to equipment-related issues.

Good catch, PBMcL!
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/25/2016 12:05 Comments || Top||

#9  A faster than light neutrino.

Knock, knock.

Who's there?
Posted by: Iblis || 01/25/2016 14:33 Comments || Top||

#10  Iblis: it's supposed to go:

Who's there?

Knock, knock
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/25/2016 16:58 Comments || Top||

#11  What we know about matter in the universe applies to about 4.6% of it.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 01/25/2016 17:09 Comments || Top||

#12  This is an old story (2011?), since determined (IIRC) to be false due to equipment-related issues.

So the old principle applies - you break it, you fix it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/25/2016 17:17 Comments || Top||

#13  If you're travelling faster than light, what do you use for turn signals?
Posted by: Dar || 01/25/2016 18:11 Comments || Top||

#14  what do you use for turn signals?

The finger?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/25/2016 18:18 Comments || Top||

#15  This isn't news. The article is dated 7:46PM BST 22 Sep 2011. I understand that mistakes happen, ok, but why it still on the 'burg? Come on mods, can't you just pull the link when this happens?
Posted by: rammer || 01/25/2016 19:02 Comments || Top||

#16  This isn't news. The article is dated 7:46PM BST 22 Sep 2011. I understand that mistakes happen, ok, but why it still on the 'burg? Come on mods, can't you just pull the link when this happens?

My policy is to keep the post up if someone has commented on it. Someone did.

We have other fine stories here for you to peruse
Posted by: badanov || 01/25/2016 20:08 Comments || Top||

#17  Just think of the story as the sort of temporal anomaly that happens when you get close to the speed of light.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 01/25/2016 20:12 Comments || Top||

#18  Thanks for the clarification, further I agree with the policy. I learn something new every day.
Posted by: rammer || 01/25/2016 20:34 Comments || Top||

#19  The article is dated 7:46PM BST 22 Sep 2011.
But as a result of exceeding the speed of light it is a victim of time misfitting./
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/25/2016 22:11 Comments || Top||



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