“Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail. Due to problems with distraction, the cat’s sense of hunger had to be addressed in another operation. Surgical and training expenses are thought to have amounted to over $20 million.”
“The first cat mission was eavesdropping on two men in a park outside the Soviet compound on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C. The cat was released nearby, but was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately. Shortly thereafter the project was considered a failure and declared to be a total loss.”
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I know a cat named Pickle that would be PERFECT for this.
This guy is a real badass. He’s got a pretty interesting story, but I’ll let you read about him yourself if you so desire. Long story short - he was kind of a dimwit, but he got really lucky and ended up being super rich. The other rich folk at the time didn’t like him since he was all dimwitted and what not. Even his wife gave him shit. So he eventually decided he wasn’t gonna take their shit anymore. He started telling people his wife died and that the “drunken nagging woman” they saw was just her ghost. The best part is really a short excerpt -
“One day he began to wonder what people would say about him after he died. He proceeded to announce his death and to prepare for a burial. About 3,000 people appeared for the wake. However, Dexter’s wife refused to cry for his passing, for which he later caned her, and so he decided not to appear to his guests at all.”
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Yeah, this guy faked his own death. Then, when his wife didn’t cry, he beat her ass. How does it get any better than that?? Social justice at it’s best if you ask me.
Also: This guy gets extra points cause he wrote a book called “A Pickle for the Knowing Ones.” The book contained no punctuation and capital letters were used randomly. This guy really didn’t give a fuck.
Yeah, you read right. Fecal Transplantation, the swapping of excrement from one person’s intestines into another intestinal tract. And as gross as it is, it actually worked! A “clostridium difficile” infection (giving the infected constant diarrhea, resulting in extreme weight loss followed by severe malnutrition) was obliterated by an injection of another person’s poop. Read on for the science-ey facts about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13micro.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
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Cotton: “What ya doing? Some kind of woman’s work? Baking, sewing, which one is it?”
Peggy: “I’m trying to make a crossword puzzle for my espanol class. I need a four letter word for-“
Cotton: “Tent, food, ammo, guns, tojo, horse! No, that’s five.”
Peggy: “Cotton! This is a Spanish crossword.”
Cotton: “Oh! Taco, bean, cuba, peso, auga, mucho, lucho, grande, enchilada!”
The Cavs are gonna win the NBA championship next year. It’ll become the biggest “fuck you” in sports history.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/02appleletter.html
So what you’re really trying to say is….. You’ve been falsely depicting signal strength since the beginning and now you’ve been caught with your pants down. This cop-out might slide with others, but not with me.
What gets me about all of this is the simple fact that AT&T has had coverage and reception problems since the beginning. Was this Apple’s way of trying to cover it since the start? It’s already been stated, but how does Apple not notice this antenna/hand problem during testing??
My theory: Apple is sick of AT&T, they created this phone with the hardware flaw purposely in order to justify rolling out this new signal strength formula (which is recommended by AT&T as the press release carefully states) , which will show much lower bar levels on all iphones. This signal strength issue will further weaken the public’s interest in AT&T as a service provider. The new iphone is already the best selling iphone ever so Apple obviously isn’t hurting sales with this ploy.
None of this really makes any sense, but Jobs has already proven he’s a vengeful man. Remember what he said at D3 about how he can’t let things (such as the iphone 4 being left at/stolen from a bar) go because that would change the basic principles of the company. He’s sending out a strong message here. He can put out a shit product just to fuck with a cell provider and still make it the best selling product in that line’s history.
