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> There is no county in the US where a rolling turn is acceptable

Sort of. http://www.bradenton.com/2014/...

I quote:

The traffic camera law states that "A notice of violation and a traffic citation may not be issued for failure to stop at a red light if the driver is making a right-hand turn in a careful and prudent manner at an intersection where right-hand turns are permissible.

A notice of violation and a traffic citation may not be issued under this section if the driver of the vehicle came to a complete stop after crossing the stop line and before turning right if permissible at a red light, but failed to stop before crossing over the stop line or other point at which a stop is required."

These two specific exceptions were written by the legislature to combat abusive tactics by municipalities throughout the state.

Keep in mind that there are a lot of places in Florida where you have wide roads in urban areas with buildings literally 5-10 feet from the street, and there are lots of areas where the white "stop lines" are SO FAR back from the intersection, you literally can't see far enough to the left to MAKE a reasonable judgment about whether or not it's safe to proceed with the right turn until you've moved another 10-20 feet beyond it.

IMHO, the the IDEAL solution would be for FDOT to just reconfigure most of Florida's major intersections as CFIs ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) and render the whole concept of a right turn on red (or green, for that matter) meaningless. By definition right-turning cars in a CFI are "go at all times, then merge to the left into what would otherwise be the right lane past the point where left-turning cars cross incoming traffic".

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

And, while I agree that the ATF has badly bungled the whole Waco fiasco, I have zero compassion for <strike>religious nuts</strike human beings.

I fixed that for ya, bud. With all respect, please take your demonization and arrogant intolerance, and stuff it.

I don't know if Mr. Ulbricht's bitcoins have been improperly seized or not, but I do know that property is seized all the time in the US from people who have not been found guilty of a crime. Funny, I don't find authorization for anything of the kind in my copy of the Constitution. In fact, mine says "No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law".

But I rather expect your conception of due process of law is rather different than mine.

I'm surprised I don't see a link to the original story yet, so here it is:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/24/122153/98

From the story:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl, --AZ-01: Rick Renzi, --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth, --CA-04: John Doolittle, --CA-11: Richard Pombo, --CA-50: Brian Bilbray, --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave, --CO-05: Doug Lamborn, --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell, --CT-04: Christopher Shays, --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan, --FL-16: Joe Negron, --FL-22: Clay Shaw, --ID-01: Bill Sali, --IL-06: Peter Roskam, --IL-10: Mark Kirk, --IL-14: Dennis Hastert, --IN-02: Chris Chocola, --IN-08: John Hostettler, --IA-01: Mike Whalen, --KS-02: Jim Ryun, --KY-03: Anne Northup, --KY-04: Geoff Davis, --MD-Sen: Michael Steele, --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht, --MN-06: Michele Bachmann, --MO-Sen: Jim Talent, --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns, --NV-03: Jon Porter, --NH-02: Charlie Bass, --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson, --NM-01: Heather Wilson, --NY-03: Peter King, --NY-20: John Sweeney, --NY-26: Tom Reynolds, --NY-29:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl --AZ-01: Rick Renzi --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth --CA-04: John Doolittle --CA-11: Richard Pombo --CA-50: Brian Bilbray --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave --CO-05: Doug Lamborn --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell --CT-04: Christopher Shays --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan --FL-16: Joe Negron --FL-22: Clay Shaw --ID-01: Bill Sali --IL-06: Peter Roskam --IL-10: Mark Kirk --IL-14: Dennis Hastert --IN-02: Chris Chocola --IN-08: John Hostettler --IA-01: Mike Whalen --KS-02: Jim Ryun --KY-03: Anne Northup --KY-04: Geoff Davis --MD-Sen: Michael Steele --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht --MN-06: Michele Bachmann --MO-Sen: Jim Talent --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns --NV-03: Jon Porter --NH-02: Charlie Bass --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson --NM-01: Heather Wilson --NY-03: Peter King --NY-20: John Sweeney --NY-26: Tom Reynolds --NY-29: Randy Kuhl --NC-08: Robin Hayes --NC-11: Charles Taylor --OH-01:

Some articles to think about in the upcoming election:

Jon Kyl Rick Renzi J.D. Hayworth John Doolittle Richard Pombo Brian Bilbray Marilyn Musgrave Doug Lamborn Rick O'Donnell Christopher Shays Vernon Buchanan Joe Negron Clay Shaw Bill Sali Peter Roskam Mark Kirk Dennis Hastert Chris Chocola John Hostettler Mike Whalen Jim Ryun Anne Northup Geoff Davis Michael Steele Gil Gutknecht Michele Bachmann Jim Talent Conrad Burns Jon Porter Charlie Bass Mike Ferguson Heather Wilson Peter King John Sweeney Tom Reynolds Randy Kuhl Robin Hayes Charles Taylor Steve Chabot Jean Schmidt Deborah Pryce

Microsoft's general counsel said "Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels. We've decided to open this up so people can understand the issues."

Also a ZDNet article, FSF berates apathy over Microsoft antitrust case , reports that the FSFE has criticised EU IT firms for not supporting the EC in its antitrust case against Microsoft.

ZDNet report that George Greve said in a blog entry that "[the] FSFE has been working on this case for many years, from the original investigation, over the 2004 decision, to the European Court case where it is now one of two [active] remaining third parties on the side of the European Commission. I only hope that more companies will help us defending their interests in this -- to this date, FSFE has received virtually no support for this case from the industry. Consequently, all the credit belongs to the free software community, including in particular the Fellows of the FSFE."

Greve also responds to the new EU complaint by ECIS applauding it, but pointing out that this may seem inconsistent as Microsoft has already reached individual settlements with ECIS members such as RealNetworks and Sun.

Also there is a good Guardian article from a few days ago which summarises and criticises recent rebuffs by MS to the EC's decision.

Also there is an entry on Tod Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Lessig advocates Microsoft , reporting that Lessig supports Microsoft's InfoCard project.

At the end of the day, these small angry loud voices are not ruling the country.

Sorry, you must have missed the news on this one. It turns out they are.

"We heard about T-Mobile at Airport (Road) and (U.S.) 49 giving free calls," said Stacy Broadus. "We waited 10 to 20 minutes and it was great. No one abused the service. They made their phone calls quickly and passed the phone to someone else."

(http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/12535938.h tm)

Looks like they have similar ideas. Maybe they should also make a press release for this.

Yet oddly enough entry requirements have just been relaxed for visitors coming from Saudi Arabia, where 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers came from.

Welcome to America, where common sense is second fiddle to political correctness.

What's even funnier is that IIRC the hijackers all had legit IDs, which were legitimately obtained.

No matter what kind of fancy, high-tech shit they stuff into IDs, as long as there are greedy people in charge of doling out those IDs, people who want fraudulent ones will be able to get them.

What's worse, anyone with fraudulent Real-IDs will not get the scrutiny they deserve-- people will just swipe the thing, see it comes up as valid, and not question it.

It's just the illusion of security, just like all the horseshit they put into place at airports after 9/11. Window dressing, nothing more.

~Philly

This article talks about the demotion of the hardware guy Ken Kutaragi. People thought he might be the next CEO. Instead he was demoted (lost his seat on the board) and one of the reasons is he had the gall to say "Sony also has been hurt by its insistence on making its content proprietary"

More links to same story

Very very sad. Explains what happened to the MD which could have been a great format...

VANESSA: Mr. Boy 13, my job is to acclimate you to the Nineties. You know, a lot's changed since 1967.

DANGER_BOY_13: Well, as long as companies still are dedicated to their employees, only asking for hard work in exchange for life-long employment, and secure retirement benefits, I'll be sound as a pound.

(Original)

Electronic voting, while a neat idea to speed up the vote counting process, seems to have run into a number of glitches (over 1100 nationwide) this November 2nd. In addition to seemingly random problems in Florida [1, 2], Ohio [1], and North Carolina [1], there are allegations of systematic fraud based on statistical comparison of exit polls to final results in precincts with audit trails and those without. It is also interesting that in Florida, the voting patterns do not match the voter registration patterns as they do nationwide. This has attracted the attention of numerous civil rights groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation that has filed at least two lawsuits since election day, and BlackboxVoting.org that has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain computer logs and documents from 3000 counties and districts across the US. Equally disturbing is the fact that CNN has (since Nov 2) changed its exit polling results to reflect the actual results. This has attracted the attention of Congressmen John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, Jerrold Nadler of New York and Robert Wexler of Florida who have jointly requested that the GAO immediately investigate the efficacy of e-voting machines.

In case you are thinking that this is just sour grapes from Democrats who lost the election, think again. BlackboxVoting.org has been investigating e-voting fraud for years. Likewise, the CEO of Diebold, one of the e-voting machine manufacturers has been quoted as saying "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president." And if that's not conflict of interest enough for you, Republican Senator Chuck Hagel (now resigned) is an owner of the largest e-voting machine company ES&S.

Other numerous problems have been found with the machines from nearly every company in the past [1, 2, 3]. Avi Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, has been investigating such machines on his own and has found a number of security issues. Swarthmore students stood up to Diebold in November of 2003 after discovering

Probably old news by now, but what the hell, editors can dupe stuff, why shouldn't i?!
(found on dailyrotten.com)

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/ 10083861.htm
http://www.wnct.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WNC T/MGArticle/NCT_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=10317 78939157&path=
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/11/02/HNevoteg litch_1.html
http://www.nbc4i.com/politics/3894867/detail.html
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epa per/2004/11/05/a29a_BROWVOTE_1105.html

Herald Tribune
Washington Post, answers critics
Might be redundant cache
Dems want aditing Where have we heard this b4?Hmmmm...
F-L-O-R-I-DeU-H wants papertrail

I'm sure that they don't arrest A SINGLE TERRORIST, A SINGLE PEDOPHILE, A SINGLE IDENTITY THIEF while they target piracy.

Terrorism arrest, Last week

Pedophile arrest, Two Tuesdays ago

Identity theft arrest, Posted 12 hours ago

Running wild and unchecked, indeed. Just because they don't post stories about terrorism arrests, pedophile arrests, and identity theft arrests on Slashdot doesn't mean they aren't going on.

In short: you are ignorant.

Ok, how about:
Article on Salon...

Harpers...

Bradenton Herald...

Harvard U. School of Gov't Reseach Paper...

One or these days, they're going to declare it treasonous to be so criminally ignorant. Wise up before then.

Found a list of sites/reports about this guy, Peter Lynds. To prevent a slashdotting, I will just print them here. It was found at http://www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/course/phy2002/forum/me ssages/299.html (remember to remove the space in the link if you MUST go /. them) but you should use the links here to prevent swamping them.

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id= 827792003

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20 030801.utime0801/BNStory/International/

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/icc -gwi072703.php

http://www.dagbladet.no/kunnskap/2003/07/31/374849 .html

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?stor yID=3515588&thesection=news&thesubsection=gene ral

http://iblnews.com/noticias/08/83260.html

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2003/08/01/ciencia/1 059697327.html

http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/

http://www.elcorreogallego.es/periodico/20030801/u ltimahora/N205769.asp

http://actualidad.eresmas.com/articulos/704306.htm l

http://brightsurf.com/news/july_03/ICC_news_073103 .php

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/ 6440571.htm

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/cgi-bin/news/newswire.cgi /news/pa/2003/08/02/technology/amateurclaimssoluti ontotimepuzzle.html

http://www.diariodigital.pt/news.asp?section_id=60 &id_news=64588

Im posting at +2 to make sure they get seen, so modding them up isn't necessary (dont need the karma). There are some serious questions about the guy, both ways, according the googling _I_ did. Don't have an opinion yet...

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation /3876857.htm