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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    11/07/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    Oh, and forgot to add... One of those kids who used to blow the crap out of stuff with us is now over in France working at the Large Hadron Collider. If anybody's going to blow a hole in our universe, it'll be Dave.


    Science, bitches! Learn it!

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    11/07/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    All I can say is, thank goodness I was raised before 9/11 and Columbine.


    You can bet I spent my teenage years blowing up 2-liter soda bottles with baking soda and vinegar, dissecting fireworks and then reassembled them into bigger ones, using squirt bottles full of kerosene to create disgusting deformed mannequin heads, and trying to construct a double-barreled flamethrower out of two cans of WD40, some fencing material, and a pocket torch (You can blame that near-death experiment on Phantasm II, thank you very much!).


    Hell, I admit it. I downloaded a copy of 'The Anarchist's Cookbook' off the local BBS and printed it out on the school's dot-matrix printer, just like every single other geek in computer class.


    Did we want to kill all our classmates and blow up the school? Hell no! Did we enjoy speculating what sort of crater a V8 can full of powdered magnesium would leave in my best friend's driveway. You bet!


    Children today will never again be able to experience the simple (and highly flammable) innocence of backyard science.

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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    11/06/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    Why are there never any mad scientist parties in *my* neighborhood? I wanna play too!
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    11/06/08

    @bookwench: The Feds got to 'em already.
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    11/06/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    Good grief! They ARE lucky there wasn't any actual science going on. As the sad story of Steve Kurtz teaches us, even OWNING a petri dish, and having a cop see it, is enough of a red flag for the FBI to completely ruin your life.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/06/08

    @bakana: Yeah, you beat me to that one.
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    Image of don_mynack don_mynack
    11/06/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    A "mad scientist party"? Talk about a sausage-fest.
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    11/06/08

    @don_mynack: Dude, I so would have gone, and I would probably have pretended to be susceptible to their Love Potions and whatnot. The one in the glasses might be cute...


    Anyone having a mad scientist party in New York, gimme a call.

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    Image of aixelsyd aixelsyd
    11/06/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    just another reason to realize the police ARE THE TERRORISTS and the war is against them and their illegal actions.
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    11/06/08

    @aixelsyd: Hey. It's not the cops' fault. They're just following orders. Blame the guys who make the rules. Down with the government!
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    11/06/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    Whoa. and I thought the US was bad.
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    11/06/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    Next halloween we should all go as terrorists. They wouldn't know who to arrest first.
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    11/06/08

    @Gann: I am Osama Bin Laden! No, I am Osama Bin Laden!
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    11/06/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    I just hope Frank and Doctor Forrester are okay.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/06/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    This is BS !!! I hate my goverment and can see how they use the 9/11 laws to go after people who are not terrorists but this is totally lame and i would get a lawyer and sue the UK Officials if this was me who was hassled in this way.


    We sure live in a lame world now don't we.

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    11/06/08

    @gorehound: Don't you have homework to do young man?
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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    11/06/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    That is a seriously awesome photo.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/06/08

    @Belabras: It somehow makes me think of MST3K.
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    Image of TomSkylark TomSkylark
    11/06/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    Man. The Post-9/11 world is all about giving state agencies the power to be even more douche nozzle-y than they were before 9/11. Meanwhile, when it comes to fighting actual crime (such as charging my friend's homophobic neighbors who have slashed his tires and chased him a car yelling 'faggot'), the best we can hope for is, "Well, sir, I might file a report, but we can't actually do anything."


    Le sigh.

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    11/06/08

    @TomSkylark: Whoa. Seriously? That's complete bullshit. "We can't actually do anything about this hate crime." Only in America.
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    Image of Ghede Ghede
    11/06/08

    @TomSkylark: Especially since Bush and his cronies are scrambling to get a last bit of legislation in before they get kicked out in January.


    [www.nytimes.com]


    Most terrifying:

    "Last month, Attorney General Michael Mukasey rushed out new guidelines for the F.B.I. that permit agents to use chillingly intrusive techniques to collect information on Americans even where there is no evidence of wrongdoing.


    Agents will be allowed to use informants to infiltrate lawful groups, engage in prolonged physical surveillance and lie about their identity while questioning a subject's neighbors, relatives, co-workers and friends. The changes also give the F.B.I. - which has a long history of spying on civil rights groups and others - expanded latitude to use these techniques on people identified by racial, ethnic and religious background."


    USAKGB.

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    11/06/08

    @Ghede: Guh. I'm a freaking moron. Was just talking about that with someone else and it stuck in my brain. Lodged in there hard enough to make me not able to read words like "London"


    Remove foot from mouth, or from keyboard.

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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    11/06/08

    @Ghede: I gotta get my shotgun and defend my turf, man.
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    Image of Dormouse: Corporate Tool Dormouse: Corporate Tool
    11/06/08

    In reply to Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law
    Jesus. Fuck the "War on Terror" and the "War on Drugs."


    Sometimes I am reminded of the villagers in Hot Fuzz. You know, the ones who killed all the weirdos and gypsies and stuff.

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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    11/06/08

    @TheDormouse:

    Yeah, this is ridiculous.
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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    11/06/08

    @TheDormouse: We need to get all meta and have a War On "The War On _".
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    11/06/08

    @FredicvsMaximvs: "Footsoldier in the War On War On"? BRILLIANT!
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    11/06/08

    @Dormouse: Footsoldier in the War On The War On: They haven't done nearly the damage of the "War on Poverty."
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