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Disgruntled ex-cop takes hostages in Manila

 

 

Philippine police have shot dead a sacked former policeman as they stormed a bus on which he was holding 15 Hong Kong tourists hostage in central Manila, and the government said eight hostages were killed.

 

Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang criticized the authorities' handling of the siege, the violent final stages of which were beamed live by global news channels.

 

The gunman, identified as 55-year-old ex-police captain Rolando Mendoza who was armed with an M-16 assault rifle, had stopped the bus, which initially had 25 people on board, on a wide road in Manila's biggest park in the morning.

 

"The hostage-taker was killed. He chose to shoot it out with our men," police Colonel Nelson Yabut told reporters.

 

"On our first assault, Captain Mendoza was sprawled in the middle of the aisle and shot one of our operatives. On our second assault we killed him."

 

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Epic, that picture is fuckin badass.

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Liam Fox defends call for ban of Medal of Honor game

 

Britain's Defence Secretary Liam Fox has defended his comments calling on retailers to ban the forthcoming Medal of Honor video game from their stores.

 

On Sunday, Mr Fox said he was "disgusted" by the game, which allows players to adopt the role of the Taliban in the Afghan war.

 

The game's publishers Electronic Arts said the minister had portrayed parts of the game inaccurately.

 

The government said Dr Fox was expressing a "personal view".

 

A spokesperson for Dr Fox said he "stood by" his comments.

 

"The point remains that part of this game allows you to play the part of the Taliban attacking ISAF troops in the area of central Helmand where British troops are operating."

 

On Sunday, Dr Fox said that it was "shocking that someone would think it acceptable to recreate the acts of the Taliban against British soldiers".

 

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IMO, some one should make a game where you can play as either a terrorist or a passanger on the 9/11 planes and try and crash the plane into the twin towers or stop the hijackers. You could have different maps eg. London Subway, Bali etc etc. It would be kind of like CS, but you're unarmed civilians.

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All hail the Immortal Jellyfish Overlords

 

 

Researchers have documented the first immortal animal, a jellyfish species called Turritopsis nutricula. The species has been seen to reverse its aging and revert to its its earlier polyp stage, periodically restarting its lifecycle. The rejuvenation relies on transdifferation, the transformation of one mature (non-stem, or “differentiated”) cell type into another. All evidence suggests that Turritopsis can repeat this process indefinitely, meaning that it will never die as a consequence of aging, ever. Researchers suggested that studying the Turritopsis could lead to breakthroughs in reversing the human aging process.

 

“Senescence” is the scientific term for aging, and the cellular degradation that accompanies it. Most biologists attribute senescence in humans and other animals to “telomeres”, which are tiny caps on the ends of each chromosome. Telomeres protect DNA from being corrupted, but during every repetition of the cell cycle, they become incrementally shorter. Eventually the telomeres become so short that cells cannot divide at all, a point known as the Hayflick Limit.

 

The term “negligible senescence” describes organisms that do not show signs of age related degradation, and includes animals such as the sturgeon, lobster and giant tortoise.

 

With the goal of emulating such natural longevity, English transhumanist Aubrey De Grey founded the S.E.N.S, or “Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence” in 2002 to research medical strategies for elongating the human lifespan. You may be able to guess that they haven’t quite got it down yet.

 

http://blogs.theeagleonline.com/science-scoop/2010/04/jellyfish-evolves-immortality

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Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future

 

Read more: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/man-arrested-at-large-hadron-collider-claims-hes-from-the-future-49305387/#ixzz0xgChfOE3

 

 

A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.

 

The LHC successfully collided particles at record force earlier this week, a milestone Mr Cole was attempting to disrupt by stopping supplies of Mountain Dew to the experiment's vending machines. He also claimed responsibility for the infamous baguette sabotage in November last year.

 

Mr Cole was seized by Swiss police after CERN security guards spotted him rooting around in bins. He explained that he was looking for fuel for his 'time machine power unit', a device that resembled a kitchen blender.

 

Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. "Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."

 

This isn't the first time time-travel has been blamed for mishaps at the LHC. Last year, the Japanese physicist Masao Ninomiya and Danish string-theory pioneer Holger Bech Nielsen put forward the hypothesis that the Higgs boson was so "abhorrent" that it somehow caused a ripple in time that prevented its own discovery.

 

Professor Brian Cox, a CERN physicist and full-time rock'n'roll TV scientist, was sympathetic to Mr Cole. "Bless him, he sounds harmless enough. At least he didn't mention bloody black holes."

 

Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered.

 

Read more: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/man-arrested-at-large-hadron-collider-claims-hes-from-the-future-49305387/#ixzz0xgChfOE3

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/man-arrested-at-large-hadron-collider-claims-hes-from-the-future-49305387/

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Air NZ's 'whoop whoop' upsets Erebus families

A woman whose father died in the Air New Zealand Mt Erebus disaster is angry the airline has included the words "whoop whoop" - the last signal that flight crew heard before the DC-10 went down - in its advertising.

 

An Air NZ advertisement which appeared in the Weekend Herald headed "Let's Party" promotes low airfares. It also uses the words "whoop whoop" at the bottom.

 

The last recorded message from the ground proximity warning system to the Erebus flight crew contained a "whoop, whoop" warning sound, with the last word being: "Pull ..." The sound of the collision can then be heard and the black box recording ends.

 

Jayne Holtham's father, Brian, was on the DC-10 that crashed 31 years ago, killing all 257 crew and passengers. She said the airline's choice of words in its advertisement was insensitive.

 

"It definitely tugs at the heartstrings. The second you say that, you remember the last few seconds of the flight."

 

She said the timing was unfortunate, given the airline was organising a second flight for the families of Erebus victims to the crash site in Antarctica.

 

"It is pretty s*** marketing, obviously they're not even thinking about that," Ms Holtham said. "Someone needs to say 'woops, bad marketing'."

 

Air NZ spokeswoman Tracy Mills said the reference was to a party phrase and apologised if anyone took offence. In a written statement, she said the phrase "whoop whoop" was used by DJs at parties and Air NZ would be happy to discuss it further with the families of Erebus victims.

 

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So, first of all, this is a steaming pile of PC crap but more importantly, when is the last time you "Whoop Whoop'd" at a party DJ's?

 

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Anyone been following the Carmen murder mystery case?

 

Breaking news: man arrested for murder.

 

http://bit.ly/9pTCEC

 

No surprises as to who it is, if you've been following the case. Delayed name suppression? Sounds like digging up the construction site for "evidence" paid off. Dark....

 

 

Been following this, got real interesting. Wonder if they come up with a body.

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