(Reuters) – French police have arrested two teenage girls they say stole hundreds of euros from unsuspecting cash machine customers after distracting them by flashing their breasts.
Um, the side effects of an open society?
I thought Europeans didn’t get “shocked” by nudity?
This week I wrote this column about keeping secure information on your cell phone or other hand held device like an iPod Touch.
I realize lately that my columns have been more “doom and gloomy” so I wrote this “cheery” piece about losing your phone.
Yes; occasionally we all have to bow to the masses. 🙂
While this story makes me smile, the very notion of using property that doesn’t belong to you is wrong.
Whether or not the guy had a liquor license is a different issue and a different debate for another time.
via CNN…
(CNN) — A homeless man allegedly broke into a California bar and served drinks to unsuspecting patrons all weekend — before police came calling.
The bar, called the Valencia Club, had gone out of business for some time and its liquor license had expired, police said this week.
But the suspect, Travis Lloyd Kevie, 29, somehow got into the California establishment in the Penryn area of Sacramento Valley last week. He reopened the bar using beer he bought from a nearby store.
Kevie allegedly started with a six-pack of beer and used money he received to buy more alcohol.
As I said, I like the spirit that Mr. Lloyd displays in that true entrepreneur fashion just can’t agree with the execution.
My “talking point” of the day. Why the conservatives do so poorly in new media compared to the left?
Conservatives have to name everything “Right.”
On the left…
They know how to name things.
Huffington Post. Daily Koz. Etc. Can you tell what their politics are by the name? No. Not everyone may be as net savvy as you are.
At this point in time, it’s actually annoying to see “liberal” or “conservative” in a name.
If your podcast, website, or conference didn’t have the word “right” in it, you may have actually tricked someone from the opposite side into discovering it and taking part instead of seeing the word “right” and running the other way.
Statistically speaking; leaving your politics out of your name is one of the easiest ways of attracting a new following.
Just sayin.
I very rarely even talk about this on my website but after seeing an article in my local paper this morning about the increasing number of motorcycle accidents perhaps, its time to say a few words.
To the riders: Don’t be stupid.
From LancasterOnline…
Ten motorcyclists have died in crashes in about a four-week period in Lancaster County.
A watch repair technician died when his cycle ran off the road on a sunny morning near a Manheim Township neighborhood. Two 20-year-old buddies died when their motorcycle hit a tree that was downed during a summer storm one night in Martic Township.
And five friends, including two married couples, died in a crash after they collided with a van during a Sunday afternoon ride down Route 72.So far this year, 14 motorcyclists have died in crashes.
Later on in the article (I suggest you read the whole thing) they ask a veteran rider about the things he does to keep safe on the road. It struck me that this man has the same philosophy that I do when it comes to intersections and driver behavior.
“If I come to an intersection and there’s a car sitting there, I assume he’s going to pull out in front of me, and I start slowing down and planning evasive action,” he said.
Why does he do that?
“Ninety percent of the time, they do pull out in front of you,” said Richard, who said his 128-member chapter distributes yard signs that say, “Look twice, save a life.”
While riding your bike, you are the captain of the ship and the one in control. Accidents are caused by assumptions. Not only do assumptions make “an ass out of you and me” but they can also get you killed. Never assume that the driver is just going to sit there while you cross an intersection. It’s a better bet that he won’t.
My rule of thumb is to make the car go first if it comes down to either of us waiting. I MAKE them go whether they blow their horn or wave me on; I simply can’t trust them.
Any how, good information none the less.
I just wrote a piece for the American Chronicle folks about political podcasting.
I’ll post a link when the publisher approves the story.
Update: Published Link Here.
Series:Dimension Space Book Six
Author: Dean M. Cole
