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A $100 million fine for Formula One team McLaren, although Time magazine notes: “It’s not clear yet what exactly McLaren did wrong.”
$100 million fine for speeding. The guy must have been going VERY fast.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 09 13 at 11:16 PM • permalinkThe crux of the matter is that McLaren says an employee had the Ferrari data AT HIS HOME, but that McLaren never used it to gain an advantage.
I look forward to Friday’s statement, but I’ll be driving to Tucson tomorrow. This is a BFD: $100 million is, like, 25% of the team’s anual budget. If upheld, McLaren could be crippled for years.
No doubt Mercedes will be looking for another manufacturer to sell it’s engines to!
C’mon guys its all about carbon credits, do you have any idea how much fossil fuel these guys burn in a race?
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 09 13 at 11:26 PM • permalinkAssuming this is their first offence, they need to write a considerately worded letter of contrition and should be able to get off with a warning. Worked for me, anyways.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 09 13 at 11:26 PM • permalinkThe crux of the matter is that McLaren says an employee had the Ferrari data AT HIS HOME, but that McLaren never used it to gain an advantage.
The report I read a while back was that Ferrari were tipped off when the ex-Ferrari employee went to a printing shop to make a full copy of the documents. In any event it’s propriety information and the simple fact that an ex-Ferrari employee having the documents in his possession whilst employed by another team is a prima facie case of industrial espionage.
#21, Dave S. Ha! A good call.
Theo Spark published a draft for President Bush to use tonight in his speech-very good to. He said it was the work of a very clever guy in Maine. That is why I thought of you.
I was wondering though since I didn’t know that Bills and Sabres fan and clever ever fit in the same sentence! :) :) :)
Thank God that kid seems to be doing better. He must have been in really bad shape for those EMTs to do a “first time ever” treatment. Those people are really good.
OT
ABORIGINAL women have singled out SBS television as one of the main distributors of pornography in the Northern Territory, says Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough.
As of today, anyone caught in an Aboriginal community in the territory with pornographic DVDs or magazines faces fines of up to $11,000.
People in possession of five or more prohibited items will be automatically deemed traffickers and face up to two years imprisonment.
Oh my God, I’m going down for life!
This is kinda like what’s going on with the Pats these days.
If a team beats up another team on the field of play too thoroughly, they must have cheated.
But, on the other hand, in the truly cut-throat world of professional sports, the only real sin is to be sloppy enough to get caught doing what has always been common forms of espionage.
Go Pats!
I was wondering though since I didn’t know that Bills and Sabres fan and clever ever fit in the same sentence! :) :) :)
Ha! Wait until next week, when an official announcement is going to be made on one of the most brilliant promotional efforts ever - the Sabres are going to play the Penguins outside, in February, at Ralph Wilson Stadium. I guarantee they’ll get 40,000.
Cue Monster Truck Guy: Sunday - SUNDAY - SUNDAY!!! We’re turning the field at Ralph Wilson Stadium into a giant ICCCCE RINNNNNK!!!
Thank God that kid seems to be doing better. He must have been in really bad shape for those EMTs to do a “first time ever” treatment. Those people are really good.
It’s even better than that. The treatment was administered by the team’s trainers. It was just developed by an outfit called the Miami Project or Miami Foundation or something. The organization’s #1 donor? Ralph Wilson.
If you wrote a screenplay like that, you’d be laughed at.
What can I say? Men all around the world fantasise about you, 1.6, and you persist with Blair…
Take a hint from this card I sent my mam on Mother’s Day last year.But I digress. I was going to post this story about the value of daydreaming at work… I’m not sure it’s entirely suitable for a post about racing drivers, though.
(Found it in today’s West Australian, but no link on their website. Why not, I ask?)
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 09 14 at 01:48 AM • permalinkThis is kinda like what’s going on with the Pats these days.
As a Bills fan, I’m going on record as saying that this story is so beautiful I want to have hot monkey sex with it.
What are you going to do when Belicheat takes the Giants job next year, Grimmy? Eh, what the hell, you’re going to have another Lombardi Trophy to cry into.
STOP THE PRESS:
Has Sony gone mad? Prominent adult movie producer Digital Playground (site) says it is forced to use HD DVD instead of Blu-ray, because Sony does not allow XXX-rated movies to be released on Blu-ray.
Well, there’s one consumer decision that’s been made for me.
Labor announces its vision for the Arts
A Rudd Labor Government will restore the role of the arts in our national life by cutting the bureaucratic red tape involved in the grant application process, boosting the capacity of Australian students to access arts education and supporting the growing digital industries including film and television.
The key initiatives of Labor’s New Directions for the Arts are:
Resale royalty scheme: Labor will implement a resale royalty scheme for visual artists. This, in particular, will provide additional support for Indigenous artists who have witnessed a boom in the Indigenous art market.
Supporting Australian Artists: Labor will establish ArtStart to review the current state of artists’ incomes and develop policies to redress the fact that many artists are poorly remunerated for their work. ArtStart will be developed in consultation with the arts sector and state and local governments.
44. monaro
Oh, please. I’m an artist myself, and I treat it… I hope you are sitting down… AS A BUSINESS!!! (Great tax deductions, too).
What most “autists” need are courses in business, not mommy dearest government twats handing them gruel to subsist on.
And guess what? If your “art” fails to pass muster with the public, THEN IT SUCKS AND YOU OUGHT TO BE FLIPPING BURGERS!!!
The thing I hate most about being an artist is that most “artists” are pretentious peddlers of crap who have absolutely no talent… and no excuse for sucking air.
47 - Amen to all of that!
And 1.6… oh, crap. I don’t know what to say.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 09 14 at 03:50 AM • permalink#44, 47: Mrs Skeeter and I are both professional artists and each have our own ABN, registered for GST.
When the new tax system was introduced in 2000, every other “professional” artist we knew decided that they were no longer professionals and refused to register.
They could not cope with the stigma of being “in the business” of making paintings.Never shall the slimy hand of commerce pollute the pure jewel that is my art - barf!
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 09 14 at 04:48 AM • permalink#47, Hucbald:
The single most destructive act by our culture, in regards to actual art and artists, was the socialist subsidies handed out via the grant system.
The whole concept of art has been so horribly degraded by free loading posers and culturally corrosive ideologues that many, if not most, folk now view art and artists as nothing but amateurish trash and parasites.
This is fantastic.
I am going to sign up our 2 year old for an arts grant. I am sure I can make up some crap that will allow him to qualify.
If they ask for a date of birth, I will accuse them of being “ageist”.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 09 14 at 05:25 AM • permalink#29 He said he thinks I’m gorgeous, but he’s not available.
My dear 1.618,
Good. He recognizes your gorgeousness and has the fine sense not to be a tease. This isn’t a bad thing and certainly no reflection on you. He is probably in love with his blog. Just like Captain Kirk on Star Trek was in love with his ship. He may have an occasional fling with an android, green skinned girl or an indian girl but he always goes back to the ship.Don’t forget : the indian girl dies so you should just move straight on to a nice american boy.
Beside, he dresses in puffy pirate shirts but doesn’t bother with the eye patch, parrot or cutlass (not sure if he carries a bottle of rum)
Yours,
Col. M.*sigh*I’ll find a way to sweep you off your feet.
(yes, I realize making Star Trek references probably isn’t it)
(btw the android on Star Trek was named Andrea - I’m not saying there is any connection)Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 09 14 at 05:45 AM • permalink#56, Penguin:
You sure you didn’t mean Tom Brady?
I know we all look and sound the same to you furrin devil types.
And, as far as playin with the rules goes, the Pats were just sloppy enough to be noticed. Honor isn’t in big supply in any professional sport, here or abroad.
Even if the Pats get hit with harsh penalties, such as loss of draft picks, it really doesn’t matter. They’ll just pull up some of their second string, reassign some defenders to offense or vise versa, and continue to win… just like they did during their drive to break the record of undefeated streak while suffering from losses due to injury.
#44 never mind the grants, if the ALP gets in that would be a given. I am more concerned with “Resale royalty scheme: Labor will implement a resale royalty scheme for visual artists.” WHAT THE F*** does that mean? Does that mean the record companies get a go at second hand records too? As if anything meaningful would get back to the artist.
#61
Second hand Paintings. It’s called droit de suiteNot so long ago $100 million would just have been enough to keep Webdiary going for about a year.
Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 09 14 at 07:12 AM • permalinkI’m only surprised that Time didn’t try to weave Global Warming into the article.
Posted by swassociates on 2007 09 14 at 09:22 AM • permalinkNaa. Brady’s a gentleman. He’s cool that way.
Snort! “A girl has to leave the date thinking, ‘What’s wrong with me?’” - Tom Brady’s dating advice to his buddy.
Sir Walter Raleigh, that one.
Yojimbo, very cool - I just read about Buoniconti today. The NFL used to contribute, but stopped. Bet that changes.
“Are you going to cowboy up or just lay there and bleed?”
So, someone was watching me play rugby last month. THAT IS NOT FUNNY!
Posted by Major John on 2007 09 14 at 03:10 PM • permalinkDON’T FUCK WIT DA MICE
Not here, anyhow. Go the the thread on Andrew Jaspan for that - he can’t fuck anything else.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 09 14 at 06:17 PM • permalink
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