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The student's lawyer is asking a judge for an emergency ruling that the school not engage in despoilation of evidence, and The FBI is now involved. You know, at the point where the FBI is called in to investigate your wrong-doing, maybe you should start thinking about admitting that you actually fucked up!

Here are some examples for you

Man shoots, kills intruder who broke into his home

Resident Shoots Home Invasion Suspect

Three held in Palmview home invasion

Home invasion suspect recovering

I know they are just anecdotes, but they are good examples of what can happen in a home invasion.

If I were in any of these situations I would not want anything getting in the way of my firearm working.

...Might ask themselves whether the annual $650 billion military budget (fully half of the world's total military expenditure) might be better spent on things other than raining death on other countries.

You know, like schools, hospitals, roads, fire stations, police, ... and oh yeah, the manned space programme.

Ummm, you're off by a decade or two if you think the kidnapping stuff comes from Bush.

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

There are lots of other hits too. And that isn't even beginning to touch what undercover reporter have exposed from within North Korea. Did ya know that human tastes like pork? How about opium being more profitable a crop than any grain while costing less in upkeep than the populace the grain would have fed. Ya don't think that the CIA was alone in exchanging drugs, guns, and cash, do you? How about these reporters?

http://cbs13.com/local/north.korea.americans.2.963243.html

Invading Iraq was a geo-polical move, possibly a bad one, but that won't be known for a few more years. North Korea, the country that invaded South Korea, is actual dangerous if you live in Japan or South Korea. Kim has successfully, and repeatedly, extorted aid and concessions by threatening his neighbors then backing off if he is just given what he demands. This was with both the Bush and Clinton administrations. Russia and China tolerate him, as he is their geo-political bishop piece.

Hyperlinked for the lazy like me: Man Who Walked Following Spider Bite Arrested

But, based on this: http://cbs13.com/watercooler/Paraplegic.Man.Suffers.2.960606.html

he walked after *5* days of physical therapy. *Your* summary is misleading too. 5 days to walk is a miracle.

There is a video on the right of this news story and they shut the lights on and off. Looks pretty real to me, but then again I don't know much about video. At least it isn't just a photoshop picture, but that doesn't mean these cats where injected with some sort of luminescent dye.

http://cbs13.com/watercooler/cats.glow.in.2.611027.html

Right! This has always been my concern with some levels of competitive telecommunications. The people that compete will go for the high return markets and take the customers there while leaving the incumbent carrier, who is obligated to provide services in most cases, with more and more of the lower return areas. I grew up in a rural area and have worked for several telecom companies and have watched this sort of thing many times.

But, when the CLEC I worked for at one time was doing a hybrid/fiber-coax build around 10 years ago, I remember a city official bemoaning the fact that they hadn't nailed us for a whole litany of free services as part of the franchise agreement. All I could think was, "If the existing carriers have this agreement, fine but otherwise why should I be burdened." And our build was targetted initially to the lower middle-class areas because of higher density and returns for the investment. The franchise agreement did require that we cover all of the city with more than 10 homes per mile within five years. But since we were doing phone service, we would have been taking customers from Qwest and never going near the smaller towns or rural areas that they were supporting around us. So eventually, I had to think that phone service to rural areas would have to be cross-company subsidized or would just become incredibly expensive.

On a more positive note, a friend just IM'd me that SureWest Communications in Sacramento is now offering 50Mbps broadband service which would be a nice thing to have. Hopefully they don't figure out how to apply their usage caps.

http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_079001010. html

The phone company in my old home town has had VDSL service with switch digital video for several years, but they are in a market where nobody would likely ever come and try to compete beyond the cable company. The two towns they serve have about 8,500 people, so it is nice to see them marching forward with technology. I guess in the end it often seems like you need a well regulated monopoly or a publicly owned infrastructure because there are places where pure capitalism doesn't always work well.

I think I'm going to retire from all of this intellegent debate and go on a ski trip in freezing LOS ANGELES COUNTY.

http://cbs13.com/local/local_story_013162155.html

By putting your life on the line, I was implying that they put their life on the line for others. I think that deserves a great deal of respect. I am by no means someone who holds a cop as someone higher than everyone else, and above the law, but that degree of unselfishness is worthy of my respect. I'm not saying that everyone who is a cop holds to the code of "To Protect and Serve", but those that do shouldn't be degraded to the level of those that don't.

May I ask if you have turned anyone in who has broken the code of your profession? Perhaps someone violating the internet usage code (browsing Slashdot during work hours may be applicable). Or maybe someone who isn't obeying the dress code. Perhaps someone who leaves work/gets to work a few minutes early or late. To say that any cop who hasn't obeyed the law should be fired and arrested would pretty much leave nobody around. Cops are human, too (excepting robocop), and that implies a degree of mistakes.

If you have tried to turn people in for what are considered minor offenses, who do you think gets the worst of it. I know that if I were to tell my boss that a co-worker was 10 minutes late for work, my co-worker may get reprimanded, but my boss gets the impression that they have a big mouth. I'm sure that the same would happen for a cop. If they get a reputation for tattling on their co-workers, it's going to be miserable for them. It's not right, but that's the way it is.

Finally, I don't know what you are talking about with cops never being in trouble. A google search for "Cop arrested for" gives quite a few relevant stories on the first page. They get away with some stuff, like non-cops, and they get caught for some stuff, like non-cops.

They're also getting more restrictive about who works there.

see wsj.com:

PayPal President Jeff Jordan plans to leave eBay later this year, in the latest high-profile departure to plague the Internet auctioneer. 6:37 p.m.

Also, read items here, here.

just go completely overboard? http://cbs13.com/topstories/topstories_story_18017 4619.html

Which is quite right, although it still leaves us with idiotic parents who are quite happy for example to let an eight year old play GTA

Here's a link for a restaurant being sued for the very same thing

Most interesting quote from article:
"B-M-I says damages could reach 750 dollars per song. Eating and drinking establishments typically page around $600 a year for a license to play BMI-represented songs."

Expensive business indeed.