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Remember that time you said, the $35000 would go on sale by the end of January 2018 and that Tesla ALWAYS delivers on its promises. We’re almost at the end of January 2019 and still nowhere to be seen.

Here’s another promise Tesla failed to fulfill. Luckily a competent company as stepped in to cover another one of felon musks endless failures.

If it’s anything like his previous proposals nothing will ever come of it.

Tesla fails to deliver on its promises. Space ex will be no different.

For all we know all the leftists who are inventing fake hate crimes to try to make the right look bad... gave the idea to a righty.

Fixed that for you.

The trees are fine. All this talk about trees is because the Califronia taxpayers will not build new infrastructure for farmers.

So you are telling me that the US Forest Service wants to build new irrigation projects for farmers. Here's the link to the actual forest service report. http://www.fs.fed.us/news/rele...

Here's photos of dead trees perhaps you'll claim photoshopped by the USDA? The Farmers? So they can implement the ultimate non-sequitur solution? http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/ca... So the warmer than normal temperatures and drought conditions have enabled bark beetles to infest and kill more trees, and you think this is a plot by farmers to build new irrigation projects that will have zero impact on the situation.

This is the logic that says - "Honey, the car broke down, so I'm buying a new furnace and computer."

What happens is the warmer and dryer conditions don't kill off the beetles, so they infest the trees and kill them. Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't do that. We have a similar issue near me with the Emerald ash borer, a beautiful green critter that has been devastating forests. As in miles of dead trees. http://ento.psu.edu/extension/... http://buffalonews.com/2016/06...

EAB isn't based on drought or temps, just accidentally introduced and no local predators. But no, the trees are not fine.Neither are teh ones in Cali. They're dead, Jim!

From the tone of the article, I think Elon Musk might be involved behind the scenes, pulling the strings.

Then it sounds like he's committed fraud.

There's pretty close to 2 feet on the ground here in the Boston suburbs and it's still snowing hard with gusty wind.

2' of snow, that's so cute.

Buffalo begs to differ.

Try watching your favorite NFL team out-of-market.

Try watching your favorite NFL team in market.

Michigan will be fine but Detroit itself will still be a hellhole. The smart companies will just move farther north.

The smart companies will move to Buffalo.

Re: #1 - the Feds are too busy raiding Native American smoke shops' K2 and Spice, among other things.

http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article739114.ece

I'd say the timing has to do with the Ceglia case.

With a recent judicial decision to sanction Ceglia, Facebook most likely believes they are in the endgame of that suit and can move forward with an IPO without the suit causing problems.

Think about it. Would you file for a $75B IPO (or whatever bullshit figure they've come up with) if there was an open suit with someone claiming they own half of the founder's shares, and backing it up with a signed contract?

Here's one.

Your Google foo is weak. I guess he was talking about this. Mind you, I think it's a silly thing to get all worked up about, and I can't stand Palin, but that wasn't my point.

There's a big lawsuit to stop the place(s) in NY from being built...

http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/niagara-county/article253768.ece

Sure, not a terrorist attack, but sometimes all you need is spark of stupidity to set off something nasty....

I was really confused for a second until I realized you were calling the newspapers assholes instead of the assholes that they are trying to prevent cluttering up their comment boards. I hate reading comments in most papers (and slashdot) where anonymous trolls spew the worst rhetoric just to get a rise out of people. (BTW, good job here, it worked on me)

My local paper is also just as guilty of anonymously trolling the public through their editorials... after all, controversy drives eyeballs. Slashdot is guilty of it to some extent too, the politics and religion articles are always the most highly commented on (9 of the top 10). That's why they keep (pick your least favorite editor here) around, because he'll stir up comments and, thus, drive traffic.

If your bitching about a one-time .99 cent fee, then you need to get off the internet because of the electricity cost.

I wouldn't care about a one time 99 cent fee. I do care about people showing up at my house and threatening my family because they disagree with my commentary, be it one lone nut job or an entire activist group. I post pseudo-anonymously, especially on particularly controversial topics, for a reason; Sometimes unpopular things NEED to be said and sometimes, you can find yourself in quite a bit of danger for even saying popular things that someone in power doesn't want said.

If my name was John Smith of some large city with hundreds of us in the phonebook, I probably wouldn't care. As it is, there are all of two people with my name in my entire county, much less identifying me by town, and both of us live under the same roof. The Buffalo News just adopted a Real Name policy and that is the biggest concern there as well.

That's great for the very stereotypical creepy, mustachioed child molester, but ever-increasingly the phrase, "sex offender" has nothing to do with children at all.

There are times when I think the geek has disconnected from reality.

Office of Sex Offender Management
Sex Offender Registry

Sex offenders are classified by risk level:

* Level one (low risk);
* Level two (medium risk); and
* Level three (high risk).

Level 1 offenders are required to register for a minimum of twenty years, and level 2 and 3 offenders for life. Police and law enforcement have access to information on all sex offenders (levels 1, 2 and 3). However, under the law, information on level 1 (low-risk) offenders is not available on the public website. Only level 2 and 3 offenders are listed on the public website

Frequently Asked Questions

A Level 1 offender means that the court has determined that there is a low risk to commit another sex crime. A Level 2 offender means that the court has determined that there is a moderate risk to commit another sex crime. A Level 3 offender means that the court has determined that there is a high risk to commit another sex crime.

Where an offender is in jail or prison for a sex offense, the Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders recommends to the court which risk level should be given to an offender. Where an offender does not receive jail/prison time or receives probation plus jail/prison time, the District Attorney recommends to the court which risk level should be given to an offender. The court makes the final decision.

A sexual predator is a sex offender who has been found guilty of a sexually violent offense and who suffers from a mental abnormality or personality disorder that makes him or her likely to engage in predatory sexually violent offenses. A sexual predator must register for life.

A predicate sex offender is a sex offender who has been found guilty of two or more sex crimes. A predicate sex offender must register for life.

The Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act, which took effect on April 28, 2008, requires all registered sex offenders to report to DCJS all of their internet accounts and any e-mail addresses and screen names used for the purposes of chat, instant messaging or social networking. This information is not generally available to the public. However, DCJS is allowed, upon request, to give the internet information to social networking websites that have members under the age of 18.

The Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act, which took effect on April 28, 2008, requires all registered sex offenders to report to DCJS all of their internet accounts and any e-mail addresses and screen names used for the purposes of chat, instant messaging or social networking. The Act does not limit a sex offender's use of the Internet. However, if the sex offender is on probation or parole, the terms of the offender's parole or probation may limit his or her use of the Internet.

An individual, who is adjudicated, such as a youthful offender or juvenile delinquent, is not convicted of a crime and his or her records are not available to the public. As a result, he or she is not required to be registered in New York State. However, a juvenile offender, who is convicted of a sex crime, is required to register.

These links trace the strange path of a Class 3 registrant who, curiously enough, does fit the stereotype:

Dozens of sex offenders live in the Falls.l James McKinney

Forget the E bomb... How about we get a couple of guys with a pickup and a couple of hundred bucks of steel pipe from Home Depot... they drive around flinging the pipes into transformer substations....

Try some mylar balloons.

"Oh, also, I want to throw out there that people also may not trust the bureaucracy. Its one thing to hear that a pilot has X thousand hours of training or experience, and trust that pilot personally (as one might trust a friend or acquaintance who is driving), but its another thing to trust the bureaucracy responsible for training, regulating, monitoring, supporting, etc. the pilot."

Yeah, as in http://www.buffalonews.com/517

Why?

Three stories from Google News, all dated June 4. There is nothing special about any of them, even the last:

Buffalo man gets 11 years for distributing child porn

Local man convicted for having child porn

Sex Offender Caught with Porn During Registry, Police

Brett Bartlett, 30, had gone to the Livermore police station for his annual sex offender registration.
He was convicted in 2005 in Santa Clara County for having oral sex with a person under 16 years old. That conviction requires him to register as a sex offender.
While Bartlett was in the police station, detectives asked if they could do a search of his vehicle.
Inside the vehicle, detectives found a computer that they say had numerous images of child pornography.

http://www.buffalonews.com/437/story/578644.html

Can someone please tell my WHY their primitive and barbaric religious practices haven't advanced since the 7th century AD? Hey Muslims, if you want to live here, leave your barbaric practices at home. Gee, I can't imagine WHY this guy's wife had an order of protection slapped against him. It's not like he has a temper problem or anything (like most Muslims)...

Where the **** are my mod points when I need them.

You want to 'protect' American jobs? Get your savior to fulfill his campaign promises to the unions and stand up to Europe, Asia and the rest and start restricting and/or banning imports. Renegotiate NAFTA.

For instance, when the euros start yelling about 'buy American' language in the Obama payoff bill you'll need to grow a pair and ignore it.

Don't bitch when the prices double or triple, and whatever you do DO NOT ask yourself if IBM is actually right and if so why.

http://www.buffalonews.com/260/story/570428.html Currently, this is illegal but unenforced, and much decried. As I understand it, FOCA will make this legal.

clouds is definitely not a reason to not use solar in Buffalo NY.

See this article showing that Buffalo is one of the sunnier places around.
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/545065.html

It's not unique to LA either. You see it all over Buffalo, and in most cities.

As I understand it, we never used to have tagging problems. Surely, paint existed for the first part of the 20th century. Why are we having problems like this now?

How can we be expected to believe these contracts will do anything but make some "biotech entrepreneurs" rich, without ever showing any medical benefit to the general population, when Bush's Pentagon won't even fund normal veterans services like healthcare, insurance, education, or even reasonable salary increases?

I know the Pentagon is sending badly wounded soldiers back into fighting in Iraq. But how do they expect people to volunteer to go through the ringer without keeping our promises to these making the ultimate sacrifices, especially if the only medical care they'll get will be to rotate their tires after they get blasted to bits, until there's nothing left to put together and send back?

Although I guess a draft combined with regrowing body parts could do the trick. "Frankenstein's Army" for the 21st Century. I'll be scanning the Pentagon budgets for new funding for zombies, the real cutting edge.

More often than you think.

And that's just with a few minutes searching google.

It isn't MySpace's fault that it attracts young teenagers and with them, the predators that prey on them, but this is a real problem. It isn't a technical problem, but a social problem and needs to be treated as such.

In Soviet Russia, the Red Square ejects stars.

On a more serious note, in present-day Russia, the Red Square really does eject -- and beat and arrest -- stars[1] when they show up to demonstrate against the government. Things are getting kinda shaky over there, it would appear.

[1] Garry Kasparov, specifically.

The same thing has happened to me. I don't have a TV at all. I use netflix to rent DVDs of TV shows that I want to watch. I cannot stand listening to radio excpet NPR and Pacifica (and NPR has started running advertisements as well! (Pacifica is annoying in it's own special ways)). If I am at someone elses home and they are watching TV I am usually very annoyed with the frequency, volume, and length of ads. I'll usually leave the room and talk to someone who isn't a slave to the the tube.

I've made special effort to protect my 3 year old from persistant advertising. There is a growing consensus that advertising contributes to many social ills in children, including obesity, anorexia, alchohol consumption, early sex.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061204/1066 462.asp

Apparently, on average, children see 40,000 ads per year on TV alone! Now advertsising is common in schools. All those ads may be good for buisness but I'll do what I must to protect my boy from this mental poison.

Yahoo! is probably attempting to get into the media, and having bad publicity in the media industry has worse consequences than it would in the high-tech industry.
Yeah. It's apparent that they sure wouldn't want to do anything that would result in bad publicity.

The Liberty, $5 in silver for $20, no real collector value. Some nuts got busted over trying to pass them.

You're joking, but soon their ads will be flashy!! So the caching will help them.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050502/1067 216.asp

Don't worry, pretty soon those unobtrusive text ads will be animated!!!

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050502/1067 216.asp

You left out one piece of the pie - BellSouth.

And since the cable companies are now getting in the phone business, we need to probably add back in Adelphia, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and a few others. Adelphia is rumored to be about ready to be bought up from bankrupcty court, although the bond holders don't like the proposed offer.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050213/1002 905.asp

i happen to live about 5 minutes north of buffalo, i am so happy this [fill in the blank] went to jail, he should got 20 years, you can read about it from the local newspaper at:
Buffalo Spammer gets 3.5-7yrs.
heres the local archive of his a$$ in the news:
Buffalo Spammer Archive

In a 1997 e-mail to investor Warren Buffett, senior Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes summarized the company's strategy in simple terms. . .

"If we own the key 'franchises' built on top of the operating system, we dramatically widen the 'moat' that protects the operating system business," Mr. Raikes wrote. "If I owned the most successful daily newspaper in Buffalo, I wouldn't want to leave it to my competitor to own the Sunday edition."

Ironic, because Buffalo has had only one newspaper since the Buffalo Courier-Express folded in 1982. The only one that is left is the Buffalo News.

There is no competitor to leave the sunday edition to.

Eventually the bond market will drop, and market forces will raise rates, whether the Fed wants it or not. This will have much effect on interest-rate-sensitive industries. And it will pressure an already debt-laden public. For more on the credit bubble, lookie here.

Outsourcing: I and my tech-support section were outsourced at the end of 2002, to a local startup with no track record and only one other customer at the time. The motive? Cost savings. The result? After a year, the startup's contract was not renewed and the company is now (or so I hear) running unsupported. Good luck trying to do that for long...

The VT G5 *center* price = $9.2 million.

While there is undoubtedly still variability between the two centers, it might be more comparable than you think.

What does any of this have to do with the Dell cluster being a waste of money because it crashes all the time?

Perhaps it was because " Bioinformatics star Jeffrey Skolnick said his Dell computer was prone to problems, including crashes "

Universal Music Group is cutting its prices by 30% (and note that UMG is by far the largest music multinational). Many think that this will push down many cds below the magic 10 dollar mark.

I guess it's up to each to decide if these two cancel out. Of course this does answer two of the biggest /. gripes against the music industry: the labels taking too big of a piece and over inflated SRPs. The only one left would be that the RIAA is a vindictive/cruel/abusive litigator... but how much effect does that have on a purchase? How many folks upon hearing this decide to not buy a cd (or pick up something indie... say Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights which was selling at 9.99 for the last year)?

There was a similar article in the Buffalo News yesterday.

Odd to see this stuff getting so much mainstream attention. I especially liked how the author of the Buffalo News article went out of his way to point out how much cheaper a computer is without MS Windows.

Free software won't be taking over the world any time soon, but its definitely getting more and more mindshare every year.

--saint

But in the short term youre probably right, now in the long term I think you will see far more good comeout of nano tech than bad. Many of the supercomputers we use today for medical study (like the one they just put in at UB would not exist if not for the military and its initial interest in computing for crypto/artillery calculation 50 years ago.

For the same reason I think money should be pured into NASA, somehting which may be developed and be way too expensive for people to use today will be the personal computers, velcro, felt tip pens of tommorow.

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