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Law Firm Sues Taco Bell Over Lack Of Beef In "Beef" 23

Posted by samzenpus from the there's-very-little-meat-in-these-gym-mats dept.
The USDA demands that something labeled "ground beef" contain at least 70% beef, and if you're going to call something "taco filling," it must contain "at least 40 percent fresh meat." The Beasley Allen law firm claims that Taco Bell doesn't follow these guidelines, and has filed a class action suit against the restaurant chain. According to the firm, what Taco Bell is marketing as beef only contains 36% meat. Sadly, the firm made no comment on the actual composition of Nachos Bellgrande.
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Experiment Shows Not Washing Jeans for 15 Months is Disgusting But Safe 258

Posted by samzenpus from the thank-you-science dept.
dbune writes "Young people who argue with their parents over wearing the same pair of smelly jeans can now cite the work of a 20-year old University of Alberta student who wore the same jeans for 15 months straight. From the article: 'Josh Le wore the same pair of jeans to break in the raw denim, so it would wrap the contours of his body, leaving distinct wear lines. He had his textile professor test the jeans for bacteria before washing them for the first time. The results showed high counts of five different kinds of bacteria, but nothing in the range of being considered a health hazard."
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Academic Says We Should Give Up on Correct Spelling 30

Posted by samzenpus
Fed up with his students inabillity to spel korrectly, Ken Smith, a criminology lecturer at Bucks New University, has purposed an inovative solution, not caring. "Instead of complaining about the state of the education system as we correct the same mistakes year after year, I've got a better idea. University teachers should simply accept as variant spelling those words our students most commonly misspell.", Ken wrote in the Times Higher Education Supplement. Some of the new wurds that Ken thinks we shood axxept include: "ignor," "occured," "thier," "truely," "speach", "twelth", "misspelt", and "varient".
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Man Steals Bus and Drives Route 4

Posted by samzenpus
18-year-old James Harris has been obsessed with buses since he was little. This obsession has landed him in some trouble recently, as police are accusing him of stealing buses from Miami-Dade depots on at least three occasions. What sets James apart from an ordinary thief is that he drove the buses along their correct routes, picking up and dropping off passengers as usual and then returning to the depot at the end of his "shift" without stealing the fares he collected. James would wear a uniform to avoid detection and take the bus for between four and six hours at a time. I have a feeling that most of Mr. Harris's school trips were on the short bus.
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Russia Considers Banning Emo and Goth Music 10

Posted by samzenpus
In an attempt to rid the country of excessive eyeliner, Dr. Martens, and self indulged sadness, the Russian government has proposed a new law that would make goth and emo music illegal. The law would also target websites and have emo and goth fashion banned in schools and government buildings. Officials say that goth/emo music are "negative culture" which encourage depression, social withdrawal and suicide. In Soviet Russia it is always winter and never Christmas.

Comment Re:Have their cake and eat it too! (Score 1) 239

by bakuretsu (#13596248) Attached to: The Chumbawamba Factor
Actually, you're exactly right. I wouldn't doubt that Adobe looked the other way when it came to private individuals pirating their software.

It is a matter of public record that Autodesk (when they were still Autodesk) honored very old (read: version 10, 11, 12) serial numbers in later generations of their AutoCAD software (read: Windows-based). The general consensus was that they wanted to get the knowledge of their software out there so that it would have a continued life cycle in the corporate world where site licenses cost much more.

In other words, they made piracy of their products by "regular people" almost TRIVIAL so that the software would have greater value in the long run. Who would buy a site license for software that nobody knows how to use?

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