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GamerGate is the result of one Eron Gjoni getting irrationally bent out of shape when his girlfriend of the time -- Zoe Quinn -- broke up with him. So he decided to get revenge by meticulously crafting a blog post containing wild, paranoid, unfounded accusations to trash her reputation. And the underbelly of the Internet fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. We're still sorting through the fallout.

Complete story here: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/...

After the controversy unfolded, MIT disassociated itself from Ayyadurai's EMAIL Lab and funding was dropped. MIT also revoked Ayyadurai's contract to lecture at the bioengineering department. [1]

[1] http://www.bostonmagazine.com/...

I work a few blocks from the proposed HQ site and there are construction cranes in all directions, & there is plenty of demand for office space in Fort Point and excellent freeway access due to Big Dig exit at convention center. We already have enough Internet of Things meetups believe it or not.

Muckrock and the Boston Institute of Nonprofit Journalism tried to raise $1700 demanded by the mayor's office for reproducing the GE emails. But who needs emails when the charm offensive has begun? BINJ did a five-part series on the scheme.

These crony style one-off deals are always terrible economics. The "free market" certainly will fill that space very soon. There is no lack of demand, instead tons of local money already develops this area. In Jan 2015 a parking ramp in Fort Point sold for $56 million or $106,500 per spot!

As noted above many in the population are furious #MakeGEpay protesting in the freeze of last weekend's clipper. (Mayor Walsh was elected with 52% on 38% turnout). The schools are facing a $50 million shortfall, students walked out just a few days ago partially protesting this.

In this deal they don't have to pay regular taxes, instead they get to muck around in the local school system with all the purse strings attached as the press release makes clear. Instead of letting the city get normal tax revenue and the School Board allocate money for programs GE gets to basically do what it likes, as the press release clearly specifies.

Sen. Sanders said they are "destroying the moral fabric" of the USA. Boston Magazine reported in January:

"GE isn't exactly a shining model of corporate conduct. The company is one of most notorious abusers of offshore tax havens, with $119 billion stashed away across 18 overseas locations as of 2015. Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders once named GE the nation's top corporate tax avoider. From 2002 to 2011, GE eliminated a fifth of its U.S. workforce while its offshore profits multiplied sixfold to $92 billion."

Do you really think that some of these Beacon Hill luminaries haven't been looking forward to a taste of that offshore $119,000,000,000?? The centralization of decisionmaking in the schools, by withholding program revenue, is unfolding in parallel to this incredible offshore tax scam. Maybe they want Ft Point Channel access to float in barges of cash, why not? I am disappointed none of this important info is in the story summary.

I work a few blocks from the proposed HQ site and there are construction cranes in all directions, & there is plenty of demand for office space in Fort Point and excellent freeway access due to Big Dig exit at convention center. We already have enough Internet of Things meetups believe it or not.

Muckrock and the Boston Institute of Nonprofit Journalism tried to raise $1700 demanded by the mayor's office for reproducing the GE emails. But who needs emails when the charm offensive has begun? BINJ did a five-part series on the scheme.

These crony style one-off deals are always terrible economics. The "free market" certainly will fill that space very soon. There is no lack of demand, instead tons of local money already develops this area. In Jan 2015 a parking ramp in Fort Point sold for $56 million or $106,500 per spot!

As noted above many in the population are furious #MakeGEpay protesting in the freeze of last weekend's clipper. (Mayor Walsh was elected with 52% on 38% turnout). The schools are facing a $50 million shortfall, students walked out just a few days ago partially protesting this.

In this deal they don't have to pay regular taxes, instead they get to muck around in the local school system with all the purse strings attached as the press release makes clear. Instead of letting the city get normal tax revenue and the School Board allocate money for programs GE gets to basically do what it likes, as the press release clearly specifies.

Sen. Sanders said they are "destroying the moral fabric" of the USA. Boston Magazine reported in January:

"GE isn't exactly a shining model of corporate conduct. The company is one of most notorious abusers of offshore tax havens, with $119 billion stashed away across 18 overseas locations as of 2015. Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders once named GE the nation's top corporate tax avoider. From 2002 to 2011, GE eliminated a fifth of its U.S. workforce while its offshore profits multiplied sixfold to $92 billion."

Do you really think that some of these Beacon Hill luminaries haven't been looking forward to a taste of that offshore $119,000,000,000?? The centralization of decisionmaking in the schools, by withholding program revenue, is unfolding in parallel to this incredible offshore tax scam. Maybe they want Ft Point Channel access to float in barges of cash, why not? I am disappointed none of this important info is in the story summary.

According to an FBI affidavit Ciccolo was planning on attacking a college campus with a pressure cooker bomb similar to the one used in the Boston Marathon bombing and several guns. Ciccolo allegedly planned to broadcast some elements of his attack, like executions, live over the internet. His focus areas were what security experts often describe as soft targets: cafeterias and dorms. It’s unclear exactly where or when the attacks were to occur.

Other reports state that he has a history of mental illness.

Yes it does. That study shows that it is exactly working out that way: citizens empowered to defend themselves deter crime.

I notice you didn't provide any citations, like the Harvard study I just provided. But it doesn't matter, I skimmed google and found several articles claiming the opposite, and they all played the definition game (they didn't compare violence to violence, but "gun violence," thus their sample set was filtered to one that will naturally show higher numbers in places where gun availability is higher, without giving a clear picture of overall safety). This book-cooking is ridiculously common among gun-control advocates, because they don't like the truth.

A well-armed society is a polite society. Deal with it.

"However, trying to make "7 billion people are miserable" my personal, relatable problem, is a fool's errand."

Sorry, my cowardly friend, but I never said anything about 7 billion people. That's your straw man, you can keep it.

A convenient small-town example of 'not in my backyard', this reads like a whole lot of suck to me:

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/...

The tl;dr summary quote (paraphrased) is "they [the homeless] really would be better served in the next town over.

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Also in practice, the less-than-1% of the US in Alaska/HI can be ignored, leaving us with 4 time zones with more than 99% of the population.

You're correct, but only for a while. The people of Massachusetts are thinking of switching to the Atlantic time zone, so the US might span 5 time zones pretty soon.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/...
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ide...

Not true.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/...

For example, Russia outlaws gun ownership, yet has a higher murder rate than the US...

Requiring law enforcement to record their interactions with you may save your life someday. See http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2014/02/25/waltham-murders-boston-marathon/

We would like to know what study this is. Previous work shows the opposite.

http://www.bu.edu/news/2013/09/13/new-research-shows-link-between-rates-of-gun-ownership-and-homicides/

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/higher-rates-of-gun-ownership-dont-correlate-to-less-crime

Now there IS evidence that gun bans are ineffective, which is a different proposition.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/08/30/harvard-gun-study-no-decrease-in-violence-with-ban/

2) I was unaware that sex with someone other than your spouse was illegal in the USA. I suspect you are actually full of shit when you claim that it is.

It depends entirely on what state you live in.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2012/11/15/illegal-cheat-spouse-massachusetts/

http://www.9news.com/news/article/317914/188/Cheating-on-your-spouse-still-illegal-in-Colorado

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/01/13/cheating-arizona-wife-could-face-jail-time-under-states-anti-adultery-law/

Oh, I don't doubt that they have a program in Ukraine for attack dolphins, attack dogs and attack bulls. In fact dolphins have been used for this purpose in WWI and WWII and probably in other wars.

Irrelevant, this is a nonsense headline. There was a much funnier hoax released earlier about Krugman. It's the Internet, everybody here is either a fat guy, an FBI agent or some hoaxer.

Amtrak is doing fine from Boston to New York and New York to Washington, account for more trips on both those routes than the airlines according to a recent report http://blogs.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2012/08/20/amtrak-flying/ Amtrak is not just more comfortable than flying. It's also about as fast, if you account for the overhead time in getting to the transportation and waiting for it, especially if you are going downtown to downtown.

Well the truth is that some do lose their licenses, but there are problems even when this happens, i.e.: An alarming number of Massachusetts psychiatrists have gotten caught againand again having sex with some of this society's most vulnerable people: their own patients. .... Even after losing her license, Bean-Bayog reportedly was still seeing patients, thanks to a loophole in state law. I'd be curious to know if any Swiss bank has ever been properly censured (paying a fine and not having to admit guilt doesn't count =) for breaking the law/guidelines/etc.

"The Breakdown: Synthetic Diamonds
One of these rings gets its sparkle from a foreign diamond mine, the other from a lab in a Boston suburb. Can you spot the engineered ice?" By M. Elizabeth Roman in Boston Magazine for January 2008:

"Its technology allows Apollo to control the impurities that give a diamond its hue. As a result, the company's ice boasts the same broad color range--clear, pink, blue, yellow, and even black--as the naturally occurring stuff, says Alexandria Matossian of Bostonian Jewelers (currently the lone bricks-and-mortar store where you can buy an Apollo)."

By James Burnett
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?i d=141&page=3