This is such a comical example of the mindset of most of those who presume to govern us that it actually makes me giggle, even though the joke's actually on us. The State Legislature of Louisiana in its wisdom just passed House Bill 195, which bans cash transaction for second hand or used items,unless the seller is a licensed pawnshop - they're exempted. State representative Rickey Hardy...

Kevin (not his real name) drives his son Danny to the shops. Danny pops in and emerges with various items in a bag, for which he has paid. In his pocket there is a packet of biscuits which he trousered while collecting the other items. CCTV spots the fact that he has done it and

The latest media frenzy surrounding Michelle Bachmann involves a pledge she signed with a prominent family values group in Iowa regarding items like marriage, the family and other social conservative issues. While I might personally have some differences with some elements of the pledge, what caused the ruckus was this item, in the preamble: "Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American fam...

Here are the official announcements: Lockheed Martin Corp., Baltimore, Md., is being awarded a fixed-price-incentive contract for the fiscal 2010-2015 block buy of Flight 0+ Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). The fiscal 2010 LCS Flight 0+ ship award amount is $436,852,639. There are additional line items totaling $54,742,639 for technical data package, core class services, provisioned items orders, orde...

A border collie named Chaser has learned the names of 1,022 individual items -- more than any other animal. Psychologists Alliston Reid and John Pilley of Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C., taught Chaser the names of hundreds of toys, one by one, slowly and patiently, for three years as part of a research experiment in animal psychology. "We can't say anything definitive about this, but th...

David Cameron today announced plans few Lib Dems would disagree with: to free up a lot more public sector data. As the Conservative Party website reports Key proposals include: Items of local government expenditure over £500 Details of all government contracts over £10,000 Items of central government expenditure over £25,000 Names and salaries of all

2010 QDR, p.82: Although some unique items are produced solely for the Department, these items themselves often rely on a complex and integrated supply chain of product providers that, if strained at the second, third, and even fourth tiers, would jeopardize the ability of even the seemingly pure military industrial providers to continue to support our forces. Many of the defense industries' ...

THOUSANDS of items, worth around £725,000 in total, have been lost or stolen from Scottish hospitals over the past two years, it was disclosed yestertoday.

Twelve day delay on bulky items collection but illegal dumps will be removed within 48 hours. As soon as they came to power, the Lib Dem and Tory coalition which governs Brent, scrapped Labour's free bulky refuse collection service in favour of a £25.00 charge. Since then dumping has reached epidemic proportions as local residents dump items rather than pay the £25.00 charge. Loca...

This is just a quick clarification on AdSense for feeds as it relates to the AdSense for Content specific policy of only allowing three ad units and three link units per page. Many publishers have asked the question "Since feed items often get displayed with many feed items on a single web page, can using AdSense for feeds jeopardize the status of my AdSense account?" The answer is no. Having thre...