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by-tor wrote:
CygnusX1 wrote:
by-tor wrote: That's my primary job focus. Do more with technology so we can have less workers.
If that's your gig By-tor....great.

Customers love talking to automation. :P

Myself - I'll buy from someone with a heartbeat.

And......I don't have to press 1 for english. :smt014
My automation is a bit more behind the scenes. The things I code make your order go through the system easier without the need for constant human intervention.
that's cool....PM me and tell me what you offer. I have to (by law) "spread the wealth" when buying stuff here. :-D
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Police Smash Global Pedophile Ring
By Associated Press
Mon Jun 18, 6:46 AM


LONDON - Police smashed a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, authorities said Monday.

Some 200 suspects are based in Britain, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center said. The ring was traced to an Internet chat room called "Kids the Light of Our Lives" that featured images of children being subjected to horrific sexual abuse _ including in videos.

Police rescued 31 children, some of them as young as a few months. More than 15 of the children were in Britain.

The investigation involves agencies from 35 countries and lasted 10 months.

The host of the Web site, Timothy David Martyn Cox, 27, of Buxhall, who used the online identity "Son of God," admitted to nine counts of possessing and distributing indecent images, authorities said.

After his arrest in September, authorities were able to infiltrate the chat room and collect evidence on the other members.


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SICK!
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Walkinghairball wrote:Police Smash Global Pedophile Ring
By Associated Press
Mon Jun 18, 6:46 AM


LONDON - Police smashed a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, authorities said Monday.

Some 200 suspects are based in Britain, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center said. The ring was traced to an Internet chat room called "Kids the Light of Our Lives" that featured images of children being subjected to horrific sexual abuse _ including in videos.

Police rescued 31 children, some of them as young as a few months. More than 15 of the children were in Britain.

The investigation involves agencies from 35 countries and lasted 10 months.

The host of the Web site, Timothy David Martyn Cox, 27, of Buxhall, who used the online identity "Son of God," admitted to nine counts of possessing and distributing indecent images, authorities said.

After his arrest in September, authorities were able to infiltrate the chat room and collect evidence on the other members.


Yeah, get them S.T.F's
I saw that and I was disgusted, but at the same time relieved that
they got caught...Chalk one up for the good guys. :cool:
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That is truly sickening. :x

Also the more twisted the mind the more arrogant they become, note the name he used on line. :roll: Let's invoke the Lord in on this one.

I'm confused about one thing, though. How did the "rescue" 31 children? Rescue them from on line contact? Were they kidnapped? :shock:
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Bride Attacks Groom With Shoe

UPDATED - Tuesday July 10, 2007 12:24pm from our sister
station WJLA-TV

LONDON (AP) - Scottish bride Teresa Brown's dream of a
perfect wedding day probably did not include attacking the
groom with her stiletto-heeled shoe and spending the
weekend in a cell.

Police arrested the 33-year-old in the couple's hotel room in
April while her wedding reception continued downstairs,
prosecutor Alan Townsend said Tuesday at Aberdeen Sheriff
Court.

She spent the rest of her wedding weekend in a cell.

The distraught groom, Mark Allerton, 40, staggered to the
front desk, clutching a bloody towel to his head, Townsend said.

"He indicated that his wife had struck him over the head with
a stiletto heel," the prosecutor said.

Police found Brown, a real estate agent's assistant, sitting
on the hotel room bed, surrounded by broken glass.

Brown told police she and her husband had "been accusing
each other of different things," the prosecutor said, without
going into details. Brown said she hit him on the head because
he had taken a hold of her, he added.

Brown's lawyer Stuart Beveridge said the newlyweds began
throwing things at each other after an argument in their room
turned physical. He said Brown had been on antidepressants
at the time and had been drinking.

"She and her husband are still together although this incident
has not helped," he said, adding she is receiving counseling.

Sheriff James Tierney let Brown off on the assault charge with
a warning and fined her 250 pounds ($505 USD) for damaging
the hotel room and ordered her to pay the hotel 500 pounds
($1,150 USD) in compensation.

Hilton Treetops said in a statement that they were happy the
case has closed.

"This has been a very unusual case," the hotel said.
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Sad. I hate to see miserable marriage stories...
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Something tells me the honeymoon's over. :roll: :P
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That's why, like Gene, it's best to stay happily UNmarried. We humans are friggin' insane.
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Big Blue Owl wrote:We humans are friggin' insane.
You got THAT right. :P WOOHOO!

*dons my aluminum foil helmet / cell phone antenna*
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"Lawnchair Larry" is a little bitter after THIS:

Helium Balloons Carry Man in Lawn Chair 193 Miles

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

BEND, Ore. ? Last weekend, Kent Couch settled
down in his lawn chair with some snacks ? and a
parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105
large helium balloons.

Destination: Idaho.

With instruments to measure his altitude and speed,
a global positioning system device in his pocket, and
about four plastic bags holding five gallons of water
each to act as ballast ? he could turn a spigot, release
water and rise ? Couch headed into the Oregon sky.

Nearly nine hours later, the 47-year-old gas station
owner came back to earth in a farmer's field near Union,
short of Idaho but about 193 miles from home.

"When you're a little kid and you're holding a helium
balloon, it has to cross your mind," Couch told the
Bend Bulletin.

"When you're laying in the grass on a summer day, and
you see the clouds, you wish you could jump on them,"
he said. "This is as close as you can come to jumping on
them. It's just like that."

Couch is the latest American to emulate Larry Walters
? who in 1982 rose three miles above Los Angeles in a
lawn chair lifted by balloons.


Walters had surprised an airline pilot, who radioed the
control tower that he had just passed a guy in a lawn chair.

Walters paid a $1,500 penalty for violating air traffic rules,
and nearly won the dubious "Darwin" Award, but he survived.
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I remember that Walters thing. LOL What fun, eh?

NOT ME! :shock:
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awip2062 wrote:I remember that Walters thing. LOL What fun, eh?

NOT ME! :shock:
Me either....I mean, I like danger....as long as I don't Ged any on me. :cool: :lol:
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The U.S. command said Wednesday the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested, adding that information from him indicates the group's foreign-based leadership wields considerable influence over the Iraqi chapter.
Score another one for the good guys! :)
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ElfDude wrote:
The U.S. command said Wednesday the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested, adding that information from him indicates the group's foreign-based leadership wields considerable influence over the Iraqi chapter.
Score another one for the good guys! :)
Agreed Elfie. Chalk one up for the GOOD GUYS. :cool:

Praise the Lord and pass the ammo. :razz:
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