A moving expression of dignified pageantry:
Nightly border closing between India and Pakistan
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And now for something completely different
Robotic buttocks.
Apparently, the point of this is to demonstrate “the innovative use of robotics technology” and “to raise the argument as to what will be manifested in the minds of people who communicate with SHIRI.”
Another giant leap forward towards perfecting the Turing test.
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Light fixture falls on woman during sex: she gets workers’ compensation
The argument is: “sex is a normal activity in a motel room and should be covered, because the woman was on a work trip”. No-one seems to be perturbed by the fact that taxpayers are not only paying for the woman to have a place to copulate but are also paying for the consequences of her going at it too vigorously.
None of this would have happened if she had been wearing a hard-hat.
From the CBC:
The court said the woman, whose name hasn’t been released, is entitled to compensation for facial and psychological injuries suffered when a light fixture fell off the wall in her motel room in November 2007, and landed on the bed she was occupying at the time with a male friend.
She suffered injuries to her nose, mouth and a tooth from the glass light hitting her face, the BBC reported. Her lawyer argued that sex is a normal activity in a motel room and should be covered, because the woman was on a work trip.
“If the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room, she would have been entitled to compensation,” Nicholas said.
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Canadians with mental illnesses denied U.S. entry
From here:
More than a dozen Canadians have told the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office in Toronto within the past year that they were blocked from entering the United States after their records of mental illness were shared with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
That could be a problem for Katharine’s lapdog.
inspiration: LSP
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UK: Judge says no to transsexual man who wanted bigger breasts
The human capacity for unbridled self-mockery knows no bounds:
A transsexual from Reading who wanted the NHS to pay for him to have larger breasts has lost his High Court case.
The man, known only as C for legal reasons, wanted West Berkshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) to pay £2,300 for the surgery.
But today Mr Justice Bean dismissed the case.