In case you’re not living in the US and don’t know what OnStar is, it’s a GM (General Motors) subsidiary that provides subscription-based services like automatic crash response, navigation, roadside assistance and hands-free calling. The service collects data ranging from contact & billing information to tire pressure and seat belt status which it uses to offer the services mentioned earlier.

Now everyone knows that using the service means they’re going to be tracked by OnStar (otherwise the service cannot work), but some are suspicious the company is “spying” on them.

Imagine that, OnStar is making you use a navigation/emergency service that knows where your vehicle is! THERE’S NO PRIVACY LEFT IN THIS WORLD!

concept

Our main objective is finding life in our solar system, & neighboring solar systems.

 

We will deploy projects in our solar neighborhood, projects we don’t expect to return back to Earth in our generation, however our descendants will benefit from such projects because they will return back in their time, and this is the best gift folks we can give our future generations; To come.

 

By year 2013 we will launch our first satellite, destination: Titan estimated to take over 3 years cruising towards a lunar which is Earth-like next to planet Saturn.

Although this is incredibly cool and inspiring, I can’t help but think that Africa should have other priorities right now – like meeting basic human rights and needs. Dreams are how we’ve evolved from living in caves to today’s modern technology, but that was a gradual process. You can’t just go from farming coffee straight to space exploration, especially when you’re in one of the poorest and least technologically inclined areas of the world.

Looking at the information posted on the ASRP website (pronounced ass-rape?), it looks like none of the people involved in the space project have any experience building aircraft (or flying in them), their main hope being that God will guide them in their endeavor. Now not to be negative here, but with God’s expertise their space vehicle will just blow up on the “launchpad” and kill someone. That, or it will be as dumb-looking as this Somali-built “helicopter.”

But things get even sillier, because the ASRP will “certify” the astronauts itself and use the winged canoe below to send them to their deaths into space. Reminds me of when I was a little kid pretending the Christmas tree is a space shuttle.

reality

During his weekend radio address to the nation, President Barack Obama said: “They wanted to terrorize us, but, as Americans, we refuse to live in fear.”

One day after saying that on the radio, the President went to Ground Zero in New York for the 10th Anniversary Commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks and repeated those same words – while standing behind a thick wall of bulletproof glass.

This man knows no fear!

While tourists are generally just kind of loud and obnoxious, some of them have much bigger shortcomings than those. I’m talking about the caveman tourists, the ones who have this irresistible urge to carve their names on every surface they come in contact with. I don’t know if that’s because they want to show everyone they can spell or if they feel the prehistoric urge to decorate the walls of their caves, but they’re the most retarded tourists of them all.

According to an official at Spain’s Alhambra palace, a Jordanian tourist was caught carving his initials with a coin on of the walls of the historic site. The incident took place last month and the caveman was detained, spent a night in jail, and was charged with damaging a historic heritage site. Fortunately, the spot where the caveman etched his name can be restored, so no irreversible damage was done. But it’s shocking that this kind of thing still happens in this day and age. I mean, he could have signed a guest book, or just taken a picture to post online like a normal person would, but he had to etch his name into the wall. “DUMFUC WAS HERE.”

What the hell is wrong with some people.

via msnbc

Remember when Wikileaks’ Julian Assange said he had some serious dirt on a huge American bank? It’s been something like a year since he promised to expose it, and yet no documents about any bank have been released yet – they probably don’t even exist anymore. Fear not, however, for Assange and Wikileaks aren’t sleeping!

They’ve been accidentally leaking leaks last week, and among the latest diplomatic cables they released (themselves) is one that accuses the chief minister of India’s Uttar Pradesh state of sending an empty private jet to get a pair of sandals from Mumbai. Scandalous! Or should I say, sandalous?

“When she needed new sandals, her private jet flew empty to Mumbai to retrieve her preferred brand.”

And this is exactly why the world needs Wikileaks. How else would we know when rich people act all rich and stuff?

source bbc

As proof that Iran is at least 30 years behind most other civilized nations, an official from the Iranian Organization of the Holy Quran has asked import companies to stop bringing Chinese Qurans into Iran, his reason for it being that the Chinese printed books are full of spelling mistakes.

“These tableaus are made quite cheaply in China but are sold for much more than they are really worth to make that much more profit.”

In other words, according to the Iranian official the Chinese are to blame for this, not the greedy Iranian businesses.

Maybe in 2041 these people will finally understand that when it comes to outsourcing production to China, businesses get exactly what they pay for. China is not some magic place where work is 10 times cheaper and quality is 5 times better. It’s the same as everywhere else on this planet: If you want a quality product you don’t commission the cheapest possible manufacturer to do it.

Now I don’t really care about either Iran or the Quran, but I’m sick of seeing people equate China with shoddy quality products. The reason why markets everywhere are flooded with low quality Chinese products is because that’s exactly what they’ve been commissioned to manufacture. Also, that’s exactly what most people want to buy.

It’s true that work is cheaper in China, but you can’t expect the Chinese to produce Apple quality products in exchange for peanuts and assorted shirt buttons. Quality has its price.

source tehrantimes