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• Senate Kills Remaining F-22 (Raptor) Plans
  • THE most technologically advanced stealth plane to date, been featured in movies such as Hulk and Transformers
  • Huge political battle that didn’t follow party lines, its all about fiscal power
  • Contracts shrewdly spread across 46 states
  • Finally voted down
  • Here’s the issue at hand, we already have 187 made (60 billion) and what global power can match our firepower already?
  • Awesome Quote (maybe not use): “Levin took the floor to point out that production of F-35s actually starts next year and that the FY 2010 budget contains money to build 30 of them. In other words, Levin said, “There is no gap.” He wondered where Dodd got his information. Dodd replied that it came from the defense contractors. That’s where he probably got the whole speech, too.”

• Worker Commits Suicide over lost IPhone 4G
  • Sun, Danyong, 25 yrs old, in charge of 16 Prototype phones
  • 1 goes missing
  • security guards with Foxconn, the iPhone manufacturing company, had laid hands on him.
  • Guy jumps from 12 story window to his death
  • Some blame the crazy pressure Apple puts on third party manufacturers for secrecy

• New Call of Duty MapPack out soon
  • 3 new Multiplayer maps plus new Zombie map!
  • Only on the XB360 & PS3. Where’s the PC love?
  • Steven – Where’s the love for COD4???

• Microsoft releases 20,000 lines of code under GPLv2 (open source general protection license)
  • Allows Linux to run in their virtualization machine using their “Hyper-V” technology
    
  • Virtualization = a way to run a bunch of computers all one 1 machine
  • Hyper-V = a way for virtual machines to run faster and share the processor
  • Another release, Moogle, course management software for teachers, was also released under same agreement
    

• The Dichotomy of Sony’s Home and Microsoft’s 1 v 100
  • Sony Home – Forces you to wade through a pseudo world to eventually play cheezy games and a shallow DDR
    • weird state of living inside an advertisement
    • Plus the “Dress up your barbie”
  • 1 v 100 – Plays a game and gives your mini-me context

• Sign up for new XboxLive Update Preview panel
  • you can sign up to beta test the new Xbox Live dashboard update.

• A WOW Armory App for iPhone (right up Steven’s ally!)
  • Everyone has been clamoring for an IPhone app that lets us check our guild chat, bank, auction house, etc.

• More APP Store idiocy from Apple…“Promotes” School shootings???
  • Apple approved a Zombie game… that took place in a school setting…
    • People are taking Pc too far… claiming it promotes school shootings….
      • so, of course… Apple in their infinite wisdom caved and pulled it.

Quote in the new wired from Brad Pitt ” Who cares if your Warcraft wife is really a dude — if it’s GOOD, don’t look under the HOOD.”

• Boy Drinks Gasoline to be like Optimus Prime
• Land Mine left in goodWill donation box
  • a claymore was left in a Denver GW collection box forcing the evacuation of a strip mall Tuesday.
    • Workers became concerned when they picked up the green box and saw “front towards enemy” printed on it

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