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Chinese Woman Surgically Switches Fingerprints To Evade Japanese Immigration Officers

Lin, a 27-year-old Chinese national, paid around $14,600 to have the fingerprints on her left hand switched with the fingerprints on her right hand. Customs agents discovered the fraud when they saw scars from the surgery on Lin's fingers.

Not too long ago, fingerprint transplants were something done in edgy cyberpunk/techno thrillers to show an outlaw willing to go to any means to stay one step above the law. I guess this is another thing to add to the pile of future things that are now blase, like cleaning robots, and cars that park themself.

At mini gourmet in san jose with inakizombie et al. Kelly built a creamer tower. 5 seconds after completion, the waitress launched a creamer bomb to topple it. We may have to come here more often.

Now I have seen everything.

Broke down and got a new phone after the sidekick fiasco. Htc my touch. Nice phone getting used to the touch screen display. Liking the haptic feedback, though I think I will have to spend some time to teach it to not second guess me with interesting words. Gonna miss the sidekick but I have a feeling it'll only get worse from here. Danger is very much Ma's red headed stepson.

Up next, 24, the cooking show. In this episode, we face an emergency of dire proportions <cut to jack bauer in a cooking studio, dimliy lit by the glow of LCD displays>I'm running out of thyme!.

For some reason, I dreamed that Carl from "Family Matters" pushed Hillary Clinton onto the toilet and got her stuck last night. I need to hide from my brain.

There's no doubt that the health care system in this country is broken. Premiums are on the rise, bankruptcies are up, satisfiaction is down. Shame the jackasses in the federal government drove us every step of the way here through half-assed laws and a lack of accountability. First they threw us to the whims of our employer, with that short-sighted asshole FDR putting no sunset clauses in the anti-inflation measure of allowing employers to deduct health insurance premiums they pay for their employees. A scheme that got us all stuck in employer-based insurance plans. Got us stuck, no job, no insurance, because the industry suddenly shifted to a completely new business model.

Then, that asshole Nixon came along an at the behest of congress, passed the HMO act. Took even more control of health care. Made it mandatory that every employer provide an HMO in addition to the plans they were already providing. Took away the right for states to say that an insurance plan was crap; all federal plans are good enough, no state needs to give any more scrutiny. Suddenly, millions of americans were thrown to the wolves of medical committees deciding patient choice, because there was pretty much no way out any more. Yes, employers could offer a "choice", but it was usually just easier to throw everyone to the HMO and forget about it. Less paperwork that way.

And now, we're stuck in the situation we have now. Government's twisted and mangled health care to the point where saying we have a free market system is an outright lie. We can't plan, we can't save, we can't break out because your government, the same people you want to entrust to fix things, has broken you. The federal government has made you sick and you expect them to make you better? That's like expecting your local crack dealer to help you with your addiction. We won't get better until the federal government gives people back the tools they need to manage their lives. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening here.

Lovely August morning.

I find it sadly ironic that Steve Jobs, who began his career selling computer components designed to circumvent the effective access controls of the telephone system, is now reduced to selling blatant bullshit about the fragility of telephone networks. Certainly given his background, he should know better than to say that an unlocked cell phone can bring down a cell tower. It saddens me that he'd even try to repeat such bullshit. For shame, Steve Jobs, for shame.

Back before you had CGI making halfassed attempts at making the world more interesting, you had Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling with an actual physical set. This is how it's done, FX people

What the hell?

God I wish that supporters of socialized medicine could present their cases without logical fallacies. Accusing anyone against Government-run health care of being for profit-based health care is presenting a false dichotomy. Just because someone feels that government health care will lead to millions of Americans receiving inferior care does not mean they think that for-profit health care does, or will do, any better.

--Kes

We need those prices for rent again
--Kes

I think these are the dodgiest bananas I've ever seen anyone try to sell.
--Kes