Looks like Carlos was rather pissed during a call-up from our local radio station San Diego 91X when another comic, Ari Shaffir, calls in. Ari confronts him on past jokes he ripped him on. This is the same guy who was brought up on stage by Joe Rogan to confront Mencia not too long ago. I’m not a big Mencia fan but some of his, or stolen from others, material is pretty funny. If he steals it he should at least man up and admit it. That’s just my personal opinion. Anywho, here’s the 91X call up.

And here’s the Carlos Mencia vs. Joe Rogan bit. After watching this you might think twice about Menstealia if you’re a fan…

My girl just took a pic with my crappy Sanyo Katana phone that cracked me up. I just had to post this. It’s a license plate that I’ll probably never see again in liberal, pollution controlling California. The pic kind of says it all.

This event is also weird in that I was also kind of pissed while sitting in my car behind this guy. I wanted to give the guy a slight love tap to show how I felt at the moment but remembered I was in my car and not my Jeep. It goes to show how careless and selfish a lot of people really are.

Click on the pic to enlarge it.

If you’re planning to go to the top party destinations this weekend (I’m definitely not because of my cold) then this is some good to know info. We’ve all done it but don’t even think about it for the next couple of weeks.

Police Launch DUI Crackdown

SAN DIEGO — Police are making a countywide crackdown on drunken drivers this weekend, calling it Operation Green Mile.

Officers said they will be on patrol in large numbers, with many of them undercover in local bars, and others at DUI checkpoints.

Police said the stepped up patrols will mainly be in Carlsbad, Pacific Beach, downtown San Diego, and near the border.

Susan Tryon, the mother of a drunken driving victim, said she urges people to think of the consequences of their actions.

“It’s happening every day, you read in the newspapers, somebody else is getting killed by a drunk driver,” Tryon said. “Innocent victims are dying.”

Police said they plan to have extra officers on patrol for several weeks, through the spring break period.

There’s always someone out there trying to make an easy buck by twisting U.S. law to “steal” from someone else’s earnings. Here’s a case that pisses me off. Internetarchive.org is being sued by Suzanna Shell (I’m not going to give them any traffic by linking to her site so just do a Google search for her name and it’s the first one that pops up: Profane Justice) spidering and indexing (archiving) her site. You might think, “Dammit, not another search engine being sued for doing something that violates copyright law.” Well, not really. This one is a little different. That’s why the media is eating this one up.

If you’re a web designer/webmaster in any way, shape, form, or fashion then you should already know that external links linking to your site is naturally a good thing. You want search engines to scour your site, index it, cache it, and finally offer it in it’s results to their users. Search engines have always leaned on the Fair use doctrine in U.S. Copyright Law to index public sites on the internet. There is even a way to opt out if you wish. It’s a simple process that involves adding a robots.txt file to the root directory of your site. Here’s an example of mine. As you can see I allow anything and everything to index and cache whatever they want. All legit or main stream search engine spiders follow the rules written to a site’s robots.txt file. If you don’t want a certain page or the whole site indexed then it’s easily changed by updating that file. Seems simple right?

Well, in this case Suzanna Shell is suing (actually has already sued) the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine for conversion, civil theft, breach of contract, and violations of the Racketeering Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act (COCCA). Seems legit at the moment IF Internet Archive actually did any of the above and IF Internet Archive didn’t remove her site upon request. December 2005 Suzanna sent a request to Internet Archive to remove her site and they complied. Right after that she went back and filed the lawsuit with the above complaints. She sued for $100,000 for unauthorized copying of her site. Upon reading this here I immediately googled her site and searched for the robots.txt file. Guess what I found? … nada. Over a year later (and I’m pretty sure she has been sent an email telling her of her faults) she still doesn’t have the simple text file posted. So either she’s an idiot who doesn’t understand yet or she’s playing the ignorant game and hoping she can use the law to cash in with a quick hundred thousand at least.

If you’ve visited her site you’ll first notice that it should be in the top 40 ugliest sites list. A 5 year old could have drafted a better site in Notepad than she in Dreamweaver. Okay, off of her atrocious site design. That’s too obvious. Let me point a few things out. This one for instance which is under the “Problems” page:

If you are having problems viewing this web site - it may be because we were forced to disable the copy, save and print functions on these web site pages. We had to do this because our adversaries (like CPS and hostile GALs) would copy and/or print these pages to submit to the courts for use against parents in their dependency cases. This is a blatant violation of state and Federal constitutionally protected rights (freedom of association, freedom to acquire useful knowledge, freedom of the press, right to petition the government for redress of grievances, etc.) of the parents and the children as well as copyright infringement against the owner of the web site. This conduct only reinforces our assertion that the child savers will lie, cheat and steal in their effort to protect children who don’t need protecting.

Forced to disable copy, save, and printing functions? Heh… Let me be the 1st to tell you that there isn’t any true way to disable copy, save, and printing functions on any web page. Your ignorance is quite hilarious. What really gets me is the reason why. “because our adversaries … would copy and/or print these pages to submit to the courts for use against parents in their dependency cases…. blah, blah, blah.” You put public information out in the “public” and don’t want anyone to use it for the wrong reasons. That should be self explanatory. If you don’t want someone to use it for the wrong reasons then password protect it or don’t publish it. It’s that simple.

Here is why this idiotic lawsuit is important. If for some insane reason she wins then search engine spiders will have to not only look for a robots.txt file but also the site’s copyright page which is impossible for the billions of web pages that are currently live. We haven’t come close to perfecting natural language search to automate reading a site’s content and determining the meaning of a phrase. So the only true way to not infringe on copyright law is to contact each and every single webmaster out there and request for indexing permission of their sites. Again… impossible. This is why we have the robots.txt file and the opt out agreement. It’s funny that Suzanna probably uses Google search and the Google Cache on a regular basis but either doesn’t realize it, is a hypocrit, or trying to cheat to make that extra buck.

My final opinion: I hope she fails miserably and has to pay for all court costs.

Update 1: Not sure if this is her but here’s a link to the lunatic: Google Image Result

Damn, I didn’t know the Stardust in Las Vegas was closed. Heck I didn’t even know they imploded the building recently. This implosion is effin’ kewl.

Are definitely changed after watching this vid.

This whole article is quite scary. $1.1 Billion to put a satellite/telescope into space dedicated to asteroid hunting. Seems like a small price to pay for potentially saving millions of lives or the world. And why is the U.S. the only ones putting money into this. Shouldn’t this be an international effort? NASA should just open up and accept donations for specific projects. I wouldn’t mind putting a couple hundred or more dollars into this to secure my well being and everyone around me. As I said earlier… a small price to pay.

NASA can’t pay for killer asteroid hunt - MSNBC

This part of the article is really scary.

These are asteroids that are bigger than 460 feet in diameter — slightly smaller than the Superdome in New Orleans. They are a threat even if they don’t hit Earth because if they explode while close enough — an event caused by heating in both the rock and the atmosphere — the devastation from the shockwaves is still immense. The explosion alone could have with the power of 100 million tons of dynamite, enough to devastate an entire state, such as Maryland, they said.

The agency is already tracking bigger objects, at least 3,300 feet in diameter, that could wipe out most life on Earth, much like what is theorized to have happened to dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But even that search, which has spotted 769 asteroids and comets — none of which is on course to hit Earth — is behind schedule. It’s supposed to be complete by the end of next year.