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Except the GOP wants it legal for the tax revenues just like the Dims. Example - https://www.marijuanamoment.ne... , https://www.abqjournal.com/128...

The summary states $40 million has been allowed to help coal workers and other residents of the norther corner of the state - but will that really be enough to help them Native American communities that suffer from coal plant shutdowns? (html links for text don't seem to be working, check out https://www.abqjournal.com/121... for details).

It sure seems like the offer to buy the plat and retrofit it with scrubbers and recapturing technology was a win-win that should have been lauded as a green solution that also helped the residents of that part of the state.

If legal weed passes, NV will be complete. A marching maralist moron free zone...

https://www.abqjournal.com/880...

Drinkypoo is correct at least as far as the current round of fracking goes. They are injecting absolute crap in the ground, industrial waste and chemicals that they have laying around and can dispose of. If they were in fact using water, even grey water it would be a different story.
Not to mention the link between fracking and earthquakes, which may or may not be true.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fra...
https://amp.livescience.com/62...
https://www.abqjournal.com/151...

They would be sued for certain. But the Govt would pick up the tab, and business would go on as usual.

Officers inevitably get fired, and increasingly nobody wants to take their place.

https://www.abqjournal.com/783...

And why would they? There seems to be an expectation these days that no matter how much a citizen harasses an officer, the officer shouldn't ever respond in a way that a typical person likely would respond. Thus, it would make sense that a typical person wouldn't want to become a police officer.

American Bullies protesting on a US interstate because Trump won. And American Bullies no doubt riding Trump-provided "SWAT vehicles" followed them around until they returned to a nearby college campus. No arrests were reported.

An AC shooting from the hip that wasnt miles off? Mark your calendars, folks!

Looks like Intel is closing shop in 7 countries. In Rio Rancho, NM, alone, they've shrank their workforce from over 3k in 2013 to 1800 this year, with more layoffs incoming. Rio Rancho is a 30nm fab that hasn't had updates in many years... and no tax incentives to stay.

Yep. 6.2G/300K = 20.7K police officers. Somehow I think there are more than 20,667 police officers in the US.

Maybe they meant state highway patrols? The page on statistics brain says the source is "U.S. highway patrol" which is funny since last I checked the FBI has never issued a speeding ticket. Maybe park rangers issue tickets, but otherwise highway patrols are state entities. So, is the $6.2G only the total of tickets issued by state highway patrols? I haven't gotten a lot of tickets in my life (last one was 7 years ago) but more than once they were on local roads issued by local officers (you know, doing 50 in a 35mph zone). So, I'm really uncertain as to the accuracy of any of their numbers.

That aside, who cares? Not every state/local govt is Hampton, FL. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/09/...

Speaking of math, U.S. state governments combined spend about $1.5T a year. (http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/) So $6.2G is less than 1% of just the state budgets. Not a big deal.

Anyway, more information = more ways to tax. Think of an autonomous car as a black box that not just records your driving but does your driving. http://www.abqjournal.com/3311... But in this case we really don't even need the black box. Simply raising the gas tax a few cents would easily make up the lost revenue. State and local fuel taxes were over $40B in 2011 (http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=401). Fed fuel tax revenue was over $25B in 2006 (wikipedia). So, ask yourself, would you mind paying a few cents more per gallon if it meant NEVER HAVING TO PAY A SPEEDING TICKET AGAIN?

All in all, a tempest in an, ahem, teapot.

6.2G/300K = 20.7K police officers. Somehow I think there are more than 20,667 police officers in the US.

Maybe they meant state highway patrols? The page on statistics brain says the source is "U.S. highway patrol" which is funny since last I checked the FBI has never issued a speeding ticket. Maybe park rangers issue tickets, but otherwise highway patrols are state entities. So, is the $6.2G only the total of tickets issued by state highway patrols? I haven't gotten a lot of tickets in my life (last one was 7 years ago) but more than once they were on local roads issued by local officers (you know, doing 50 in a 35mph zone). So, I'm really uncertain as to the accuracy of any of their numbers.

That aside, who cares? Not every state/local govt is Hampton, FL. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/09/... Speaking of math, U.S. state governments combined spend about $1.5T a year. (http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/) So $6.2G is less than 1% of just the state budgets. Not a big deal.

Anyway, more information = more ways to tax. Think of an autonomous car as a black box that not just records your driving but does your driving. http://www.abqjournal.com/3311... But in this case we really don't even need the black box. Simply raising the gas tax a few cents would easily make up the lost revenue. State and local fuel taxes were over $40B in 2011 (http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=401). Fed fuel tax revenue was over $25B in 2006 (wikipedia). So, ask yourself, would you mind paying a few cents more per gallon if it meant NEVER HAVING TO PAY A SPEEDING TICKET AGAIN?

All in all, a tempest in an, ahem, teapot.

http://www.abqjournal.com/3567...

After more than half a century of big rockets, they still crash far too often. About 5%-10% of satellite launches still fail. Chemically powered rockets have to be weight-reduced to the point that they're inherently unreliable.

Boeing doesn't have legislation protecting them if one of their airliners crashes onto somebody's house. They carry private insurance for that. If affordable insurance isn't available from the private sector, the technology isn't safe enough for use by private parties.

The previous administration in New Mexico was involved in some major boondoggles. There's this spaceport, which is way overbuilt. There's the reposessed supercomputer. More recently, there was that bogus empty test city in the desert project. New Mexico keeps trying to monetize all that desert, but it's not working.

Now you can go bicker in a wikipedia discussion about whether or not the article about this 'scandal' deserves to contain the word "unprecedented" in the title.

The scandal wasn't about the Bush administration replacing Department of Justice lawyers with their own appointees, as many Presidents have done before. The scandal was about the Bush Administration, particularly Gonzalez and Sampson, firing Bush-appointed lawyers who weren't "performing" well enough. There's a big difference. Especially since the DoJ is supposed to be nonpartisan, and the criterion for performance seemed to be whether or not you pursued indictments against Democrats before or after election-time.

That's because Sandia needs all of their computers for serving up child porn and stalking musicians. http://www.abqjournal.com/news/metro/585899metro08-12-07.htm http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/05/ff_linkinpark?currentPage=1

URL: http://www.abqjournal.com/news/metro/537833metro02 -14-07.htm Albuquerque Journal, Front page Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Sandia Hacker Gets $4 Million By Scott Sandlin Copyright © 2007 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer A jury delivered a strong-- and expensive-- message to Sandia National Laboratories on Tuesday, awarding more than $4 million to a cybersecurity analyst who was fired after going "over the fence" to the FBI with information about national security breaches. The 13-person state district court jury determined that Sandia's handling of Shawn Carpenter's termination was "malicious, willful, reckless, wanton, fraudulent or in bad faith." "If they (Sandia) have an interest in protecting us, they certainly didn't show it with the way they handled Shawn," said juror Ed Dzienis, a television editor. The verdict was a "clear and unambiguous" message to Sandia and other contractors "that the national security, and not the interest of the corporation, is and must always be their primary concern," Carpenter attorney Phil Davis said. Jurors awarded Carpenter $387,537 in lost wages, benefits and damages for emotional distress resulting from his January 2005 firing by Sandia Corp., which operates the lab. But the jury's big message was in the punitive damages. Jurors, after hearing a week of testimony before Judge Linda Vanzi, more than doubled the $2 million requested by Carpenter attorneys Thad Guyer, Stephani Ayers and Davis. Carpenter, whose job involved finding breaches in Sandia's computer networks, followed the trail of computer hackers around the globe in the latter half of 2004. His "backhacking" discovered stolen documents about troop movements, body armor and more, but he testified that his bosses told him to concern himself only with Sandia. After agonizing discussions with his wife, then a Sandia researcher and later a White House fellow, he instead reached out almost immediately to the Army Research Laboratory. He eventually was passed to the FBI and shared his findings with that agency during a series of meetings, some of which he recorded. Although Carpenter had told line supervisors he was working with an unspecified outside agency, Sandia fully learned of his work when the FBI talked to Sandia counterintelligence. Less than three months later, Sandia officials fired him after meetings in which no minutes were taken and no record made until after the fact. Jury forewoman Alex Scott said jurors were upset by the lack of documentation of that process and by the "reckless behavior on the part of Sandia to not have adequate policies in place for employees about hacking, and the cavalier attitude about national security and global security." Jurors were not unanimous, however. The civil jury required 10 of 13 to vote on a question before moving to the next one. Juror Elizabeth Bornholdt, a retired home economist, said she did not believe Carpenter had done all he could to secure authorization for backhacking before going outside Sandia with the information. She said the case wasn't as "cut and dried" as some jurors saw it. She voted against liability for Sandia, but even she said the corporation had been "lax" about following up when Carpenter told his supervisors that he was working with an outside agency. And she said top management "didn't seem to know what was going on." Juror David Miertschin, an architect, said he found "egregious" the comments made by Sandia counterintelligence chief Bruce Held during a meeting to decide Carpenter's fate. Held told Carpenter that if he'd been working for him and had done such unauthorized work, he would have been "decapitated, or at least would have left the room bloody." Held said the comment was a relic of his earlier CIA career and he was reprimanded for it, but Miertschin said he was disturbed by how Held and subsequent witnesses minimized the comments. The special verdict form submit

Here's the article in our local paper:

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/apintel07-25-05.htm

Mark

Your belief is incorrect. There is no federal law that unequivocally forbids requiring identifcation to vote, although many people (including, the ACLU ) insist an ID requirement should be considered a poll tax, just as you do. Many states forbid requiring ID.

But in fact, one federal law requires identification for some voters. The Help America Vote Act (passed in 2002) requires first-time voters to show identification if they registered by mail and didn't include a driver's license number (or the last 4 digits of their SSN -- at least SSNs are free) on the registration form.

(This weird rule was added at the behest of Congressional Republicans, who apparently think the Democrats make up voters. That's silly. Democracts don't use imaginary voters, they used dead voters.)

Two big problems with the HAVA identification requirement:

"First time voter" actually means "first time voter in a given state", so if you move to another state, you'll need to be carded again. If that's not inconvienent enough, Oregon thinks people need to show ID every time they change counties.

The whole carding scheme requires states to have a state-wide voter registration database. Not all states have this. (In fact, most don't.) If a state doesn't have the database ready for 2006, it will have to card people more often. Santa Cruz county thinks they'll have to card everyone. Won't that be fun for them?

Oh, and technically, Arizona requires ID for every voter. New Mexico is thinking about it. Some states require ID before they'll give someone a provisional ballot. And I don't even want to think about what happens when Republicans go around contesting people's voter registrations....

this sums it up nicely from the candiate himself:

Nader said Democrats should blame themselves if they are unable to beat President Bush because they are not focusing on the real issues that people care about. He cited as examples universal health care, creating a living family wage and ending the war in Iraq.

``If the Democrats cannot landslide the worst Republican administration in the 20th century they better look at themselves,'' said Nader.

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I was unaware the two events were unrealated.

Your logic is correct, the point of a campaign is to gather more votes. This has made me a bit skeptical. A quick search on google only came up with two stories about a Cheney speech at a middle school in New Mexico. One
quotes the chairman of the Bush-Cheney '04 re-election commitee in the Southwest as being surprised and ignorant of the event.

Another talks about the Green Party doing the same for their national convention in 2000.

Say what you want about the republicans (I am unaffiliated with any party, personally I believe all political parties are inherently corrupt, and should be outlawed like they were when the country was new) but they are usually pretty smart when it comes to business. And these oaths are definitely bad business when it comes to an election.

G4 Growth Story Here

You mean lethal at 1/50th of a nanogram? Meaning that one gram can kill 50 billion people? You got some proof handy? This I've got to see.

Uh oh... The Trinity test back in 1945 used a 6.17 kg plutonium core, of which about 21% fissioned...

This means that about 4.87 kg of plutonium was dispersed into the atmosphere -- according to you, this is enough to kill 243 trillion people through plutonium toxicity! (Note: this includes only direct toxicity -- not increased risk of cancer.)

Thanks for the heads up! Looks like I'd better get myself to a mineshaft right quick!

But regardless, Nintendo is very much in the black, as you seem to be implying that they are teetering towards the red. See this article for information on this. (Basically, they made 95 million in their first fiscal quarter of the year.) They may not be making the kind of money that was coming in during the heyday of the NES but Nintendo is not in dire straits.

No, you're confusing "developing" with "watching someone else developing". Dell never invented anything; Sandia Labs invented the heat pipe.

And Dell's magnificent R&D spent some time trying to get their fans to be a bit quieter? That's really the best you can come up with?

So that communion plate that gets passed around is just for show then? I mean it's not like the Catholic church has its own city or that they need to spend lots of money on hiding some of their preists misdeeds. I'm not attacking just the Catholic church here, I havent seen one religion that isnt based on controling the population and raising a "spiritual" tax of one sort or another so that a minority of the "saved" can lord it over the rest of us. To misquote Morpheus "As long as religion exists the human race will never be free".

for example, that article contradicts this report which also refers to an article in the Jan. 1, 2001 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters

Ok guys....lets try this.

"State Takes Newborn Who Had Cocaine in System"
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/210971news12-28-00. htm

Try and bill me people.

-Julius X

The whole thing seems silly to me

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The whole thing seems silly to me

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And, the leagal-sleaze that requires the link-fink fee: here.

Huh! imagine that. I didn't have to enter a credit card number to enable those links! How nice of them...

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Note, a look for "decss source code" brings back as the FIRST LINK the previous link. Good job RIAA, keep up the good work.

Note, a look for "decss source code" brings back as the FIRST LINK the previous link. Good job RIAA, keep up the good work.

Note, a look for "decss source code" brings back as the FIRST LINK the previous link. Good job RIAA, keep up the good work.

Note, a look for "decss source code" brings back as the FIRST LINK the previous link. Good job RIAA, keep up the good work.

If you go to the copyright page of the Albuquerque Journal, there is no mention of a charge for linking.

Of course slashdot posted this article -- they have a vested interest in seeing this scheme fail.

Why?

Because they now owe the albequerque journal $150.00 :-)
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Of course slashdot posted this article -- they have a vested interest in seeing this scheme fail.

Why?

Because they now owe the albequerque journal $150.00 :-)
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Of course slashdot posted this article -- they have a vested interest in seeing this scheme fail.

Why?

Because they now owe the albequerque journal $150.00 :-)
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As big as this fire was, it still did not clear out all the debris lying on the forest floor. New Mexico's forests have been protected for the last 150 years and its only recently that fires have been allowed to burn.

Its only recently that forest managers realized that forest fires are a somewhat regular occurence neccesary to clean out the debris and allow trees to be properly spaced by killing off weaker trees. If you take a look at tree rings from a really old tree you can see a regular pattern of fire and then this big gap when our forest service actively fought forest fires.

Unfortunately, we cant just get rid of the debris overnight, so regular, perhaps even aggressive, controlled burning is necessary. The debris left behind from 150 years of fire control may prove to be a big problem if we continue to have record hot summers(due to global warming, but that's another story).

The Albuquerque Journal is a great reference for donations, BTW, as the entire city of Los Alamos had to be evacuated, about 500 homes were destroyed(out of a population of 11,000) so there are many people are in need.

A longer, more detailed (possibly the original?) version of the same article can be found at:
http://www.abqjournal.com/scitec h/1sci08-06-99.htm.