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Yes, they did.

Local CBS 2 story

On top of that, within a week of issuance, they were hacked by the kids to break the security "locks" the district had installed.

http://www.komonews.com/news/l...
http://denver.cbslocal.com/201...

If you've ever been stoned, you'll understand why driving a car while stoned should be forbidden.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com...

While we are at it, can we also shoot the illegal aliens and all the mexican'ts coming here? I saw shoot a few hundred on the spot, no questions asked, and I am sure that will for sure put a dent in those alien numbers. Also, just so we are clear, I want to say very clearly that illegal immigration is also like Ebolo in a way. They come here, "infect" this great country of ours, with their "native" culture and fish heads, and crazy "festivals" and non-english speaking people should not be allowed to fly. see this

In the US, the people in charge are still the health insurance companies. They will call the shots during this situation just as they have for decades (including during the writing of the 2010 "health care reform" bill).

Your view is popular, but just simply wrong.

Center For American Progress President Shares Part In Obamacare: "I Helped Write The Bill"
Obamacare Architect: ‘Insurance Companies As We Know Them Are About To Die’

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i...

User was installing a new battery that failed due to shorting when installed.

Another story of it happening and photo of the aftermath
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2014...

Different incident. User dropped the phone and the physical damage caused the battery short.

The typical failure mode from dendrite formation is the battery slowly drains itself from the high resistance connection between the cathode and anode that forms, and not a thermal runaway but it can happen. This is a common failure mode for NiCad batteries, but Lithium batteries are much more heat sensitive and the electrolyte when heated too much can release oxygen to fuel a runaway reaction. Battery failures in portable electronics are typically due to physical damage or poor quality chinese made batteries, especially when they omit the protection circuits.

This is a video of what happens when a cell phone explodes. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i... Another story of it happening and photo of the aftermath http://miami.cbslocal.com/2014...

The second person you're referring to does not have Ebola.

Well, you can understand the confusion, since Texas TV stations national news sites and newspapers were reporting exactly the story I relayed.

http://www.wcnc.com/story/news...

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/1...

I think you need to work on your reading comprehension there... for one thing, wcnc.com isn't a Texas TV station, national news site, or a newspaper. It's a local Charlotte, North Carolina TV station. While just about every TV station has a web site these days, accessible from around the world, WCNC still a local station, with news geared for a local audience--it's no CNN or New York Times. And secondly, neither site reported "exactly the story [you] relayed". You claimed that there was a "second Ebola patient"--one of the sheriff's deputies. However, neither site says that the deputy contracted Ebola--just that he was feeling sick to his stomach/having stomach issues, and since he had been in the Ebola victim's apartment, the hospital wanted to observe him "out of an abundance of caution." FYI, the test results are back, and he doesn't have Ebola. You also said, "When offered protective gear, he declined." However, the articles never say that he was offered protective gear, or that he declined it. One simply states, "No one who went inside the unit that day wore protective gear."

For everyone saying "it's just a show": that's not the problem. Walter O'Brien is using his credibility from his show to promote himself as a real super-genius consultant. He has news programs touting him as the person who solved the Boston marathon bombings. He spent two hours on the radio last night promoting his "concierge" service. It's not just a bad TV show; the guy is perpetrating a real-life fraud.

I don't understand why it'd matter. Just look at him as the writer of the series.

He's been all over the media promoting his super-genius consulting company, and CBS has been running news stories proclaiming his "achievements":

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com...
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/...
http://boston.cbslocal.com/201...

I don't understand why it'd matter. Just look at him as the writer of the series.

He's been all over the media promoting his super-genius consulting company, and CBS has been running news stories proclaiming his "achievements":

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com...
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/...
http://boston.cbslocal.com/201...

I don't understand why it'd matter. Just look at him as the writer of the series.

He's been all over the media promoting his super-genius consulting company, and CBS has been running news stories proclaiming his "achievements":

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com...
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/...
http://boston.cbslocal.com/201...

The second person you're referring to does not have Ebola.

Well, you can understand the confusion, since Texas TV stations national news sites and newspapers were reporting exactly the story I relayed.

http://www.wcnc.com/story/news...

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/1...

Basically you're a moron

So, you believe the Texas deputy who went in to the Ebola patient's home after refusing to wear gloves or a mask was just exercising his god-given Texas rights to ignore scientists?

You understand that "direct contact" with any bodily fluids from an Ebola patient, even after the patient is no longer present, represent a vector that could be infectous, right? Something like used kleenex or surfaces that the Ebola patient had leaked on. Unlike something like HIV, the Ebola virus does in fact live a pretty long time outside the living body. That's why handling Ebola corpses is one of the ways it's spread. Or are you getting your information from Alex Jones too?

And my being a moron has nothing to do with Texas dumbassery. I earned my moron status, I wasn't born with it like Texans.

That's almost funny. Almost.

Anti-snitch campaign riles police, prosecutors

Of course we may see some irony unfold here.

14-Year-Old Shot In The Head Was Son Of ‘Stop Snitching’ DVDs Creator

Do you think he prefers his son's murder to go unsolved?

In no way has any person ever been thrown in jail for nonpayment of alimony Mr. MRA McLieYourAssOff.

A quick search says otherwise

http://www.weinsteinlawoffice....

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

http://www.cobbcountydivorcela...

And in case you think those are all biased propaganda, here's a blurb from the wikipedia entry on alimony, parts bolded for your convenience:

"One who allows his or her alimony obligations to go into arrears, where there is an ability to pay, may be found in contempt of court and be sent to jail. Alimony obligations are not discharged as a result of the obligee filing bankruptcy. Ex-spouses who allow child-support obligations to go into arrears may have certain licenses seized, be found in contempt of court, and/or be sent to jail. Like alimony, child-support obligations are not discharged as a result of the obligee filing bankruptcy."

And on a related note, you could even be jailed and pay child support for a kid that isn't yours!

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/0...

Drones are pretty commonly used. My friend who does aerial photography tells me that drones are pretty much taking over real estate. Drones are used for investigating animal rights claims, are commonly used in agriculture, are being researched by Amazon as a near-future way to deliver packages...I just don't see drones as something being grounded by over-regulation.

One example: Birds bursting into flame above a solar power plant

Some would claim that we ARE being invaded right now, along our southern border. While it may not be by an "official army", it is by a large group of people, some of them armed, and some not armed, but they are coming in fairly large numbers, are in more and more instances, are using force to get through. Numerous shootouts and confrontations have been had on the border, and some border patrol agents have died as a result of these "invaders".

Yet the government does practically nothing to stop it, and when militia's organized and deployed to the border, they are being treated worse than the "invaders" and they are now getting shot at by BP agents as well. There are over half a million of these "invaders" making their way here every year, year after year, to the tune of millions and millions over the last decade alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

Latest reports, is that there have been several occurrences of actual Mexican Military encounters at the border, both on ground and with their helicopters in our air space, shooting as our agents. This is by their official army. Then there are the cartels, and their own army's that are shooting as us with .50cals and other heavy weapons. Not to mention that there are areas of Arizona where it is practically unsafe to travel through, as it's occupied by mexico's drug cartels. The Federal BLM put signs up and made a statement that parts of Arizona are actually controlled and occupied by the cartels. The signs warn people passing through that it is dangerous. This is 100mi. inland from the boarder. If that is not an invasion, I don't know what is.
http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2...
http://www.peoplespunditdaily....
http://www.washingtontimes.com...

But, if you think Obama (or most of our government members for that matter) cares if citizens have the ability defend off foreign invaders, your delusional. He is practically inviting them to come, and putting as many restraints on the BP agents to not be able to do anything to stop it. The latest move, was to give them shelter, and buss them and distribute them among several states so that the states can share the burden and costs.
In fact, if memory serves correctly, when BP agent Brian Terry was killed by "invaders" from another country, Obama and others were quick to try to use that incident as a means to pass legislation to restrict guns here in our own country. Which is totally counter intuitive to citizen militias being able to help defend against foreign invaders, and not constitutional.

Facts bitches!! Accept them, or hand in your geek card NOW!

http://www.abc15.com/news/nati...

http://www.judicialwatch.org/b...

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.c...

http://thinkprogress.org/immig...

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

I don't necessarily like knowing cops have this information but so long as there's rules over the collection (see above) I'm okay with this.

But you have no idea if they are following those rules at all. Police have a long history of flagrantly violating such rules:
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com...
http://www.thenewsherald.com/a...
http://articles.courant.com/20...

And using their position to rape and murder:
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetim...
http://time.com/3159146/oklaho...
http://articles.courant.com/20...

Access to 1 weeks worth of data would allow the public as a whole to see how they are being monitored. The few criminal investigations that may be impacted pale in comparison to the overwhelming public right to know what the police are up to.

google global warming hiatus ipcc

http://www.motherjones.com/env...

http://washington.cbslocal.com...
http://www.weather.com/news/sc...
http://articles.latimes.com/20...
http://www.theguardian.com/env...
http://www.climatecentral.org/...

If you 'search the net' for events relating to drones ... take away the EquuSearch related results, you'll find that pretty much EVERY ONE OF THEM is some fucking moron doing something that either DID hurt someone, was dangers as shit, came very close to hurting someone, or certainly had the potential to hurt someone.

I've been paying attention to the almost daily news stories about "drones," and I have not observed what you claim. The vast majority are people spooked by multirotors hovering around.

A commercial drone at a wedding
A creepy guy flying a multirotor around a medical faciltiy
NYPD getting excited about another multirotor
FAA warns a multirotor pilot to stay at low altitude
"Drone" crashes in someones yard
"Drone" videos Pirates baseball game
Drug smuggling with a multirotor
"Drone" reported outside someone's apartment
"Drone" used to spy on French football team
Woman Attacking Teen with "drone"

Some of those were dangerous to aircraft, but most didn't involve manned aircraft, and no one was hurt or killed. There have been plenty of close calls with model planes, but there haven't been many actual collisions and I'm not finding any deaths due to collisions with manned aircraft.

In all likelihood there won't be either. Most of these "drones" are small and light. When they collide with manned aircraft they disintegrate and perhaps scratch some paint. Here is what happens when a aerobatic aircraft slams into a typical model plane. Balsa and foam don't rate against aircraft aluminum. Is a death possible? Of course. Obviously. However, I think the interval between such events will be many years and the fault will not be attributed to the drones in every case, either.

I'm with you in that the stupid among us are creating the need for regulation. Adding to the hysteria of it all with claims of imminent "danger" is not useful.

If you 'search the net' for events relating to drones ... take away the EquuSearch related results, you'll find that pretty much EVERY ONE OF THEM is some fucking moron doing something that either DID hurt someone, was dangers as shit, came very close to hurting someone, or certainly had the potential to hurt someone.

I've been paying attention to the almost daily news stories about "drones," and I have not observed what you claim. The vast majority are people spooked by multirotors hovering around.

A commercial drone at a wedding
A creepy guy flying a multirotor around a medical faciltiy
NYPD getting excited about another multirotor
FAA warns a multirotor pilot to stay at low altitude
"Drone" crashes in someones yard
"Drone" videos Pirates baseball game
Drug smuggling with a multirotor
"Drone" reported outside someone's apartment
"Drone" used to spy on French football team
Woman Attacking Teen with "drone"

Some of those were dangerous to aircraft, but most didn't involve manned aircraft, and no one was hurt or killed. There have been plenty of close calls with model planes, but there haven't been many actual collisions and I'm not finding any deaths due to collisions with manned aircraft.

In all likelihood there won't be either. Most of these "drones" are small and light. When they collide with manned aircraft they disintegrate and perhaps scratch some paint. Here is what happens when a aerobatic aircraft slams into a typical model plane. Balsa and foam don't rate against aircraft aluminum. Is a death possible? Of course. Obviously. However, I think the interval between such events will be many years and the fault will not be attributed to the drones in every case, either.

I'm with you in that the stupid among us are creating the need for regulation. Adding to the hysteria of it all with claims of imminent "danger" is not useful.

If you 'search the net' for events relating to drones ... take away the EquuSearch related results, you'll find that pretty much EVERY ONE OF THEM is some fucking moron doing something that either DID hurt someone, was dangers as shit, came very close to hurting someone, or certainly had the potential to hurt someone.

I've been paying attention to the almost daily news stories about "drones," and I have not observed what you claim. The vast majority are people spooked by multirotors hovering around.

A commercial drone at a wedding
A creepy guy flying a multirotor around a medical faciltiy
NYPD getting excited about another multirotor
FAA warns a multirotor pilot to stay at low altitude
"Drone" crashes in someones yard
"Drone" videos Pirates baseball game
Drug smuggling with a multirotor
"Drone" reported outside someone's apartment
"Drone" used to spy on French football team
Woman Attacking Teen with "drone"

Some of those were dangerous to aircraft, but most didn't involve manned aircraft, and no one was hurt or killed. There have been plenty of close calls with model planes, but there haven't been many actual collisions and I'm not finding any deaths due to collisions with manned aircraft.

In all likelihood there won't be either. Most of these "drones" are small and light. When they collide with manned aircraft they disintegrate and perhaps scratch some paint. Here is what happens when a aerobatic aircraft slams into a typical model plane. Balsa and foam don't rate against aircraft aluminum. Is a death possible? Of course. Obviously. However, I think the interval between such events will be many years and the fault will not be attributed to the drones in every case, either.

I'm with you in that the stupid among us are creating the need for regulation. Adding to the hysteria of it all with claims of imminent "danger" is not useful.

If you 'search the net' for events relating to drones ... take away the EquuSearch related results, you'll find that pretty much EVERY ONE OF THEM is some fucking moron doing something that either DID hurt someone, was dangers as shit, came very close to hurting someone, or certainly had the potential to hurt someone.

I've been paying attention to the almost daily news stories about "drones," and I have not observed what you claim. The vast majority are people spooked by multirotors hovering around.

A commercial drone at a wedding
A creepy guy flying a multirotor around a medical faciltiy
NYPD getting excited about another multirotor
FAA warns a multirotor pilot to stay at low altitude
"Drone" crashes in someones yard
"Drone" videos Pirates baseball game
Drug smuggling with a multirotor
"Drone" reported outside someone's apartment
"Drone" used to spy on French football team
Woman Attacking Teen with "drone"

Some of those were dangerous to aircraft, but most didn't involve manned aircraft, and no one was hurt or killed. There have been plenty of close calls with model planes, but there haven't been many actual collisions and I'm not finding any deaths due to collisions with manned aircraft.

In all likelihood there won't be either. Most of these "drones" are small and light. When they collide with manned aircraft they disintegrate and perhaps scratch some paint. Here is what happens when a aerobatic aircraft slams into a typical model plane. Balsa and foam don't rate against aircraft aluminum. Is a death possible? Of course. Obviously. However, I think the interval between such events will be many years and the fault will not be attributed to the drones in every case, either.

I'm with you in that the stupid among us are creating the need for regulation. Adding to the hysteria of it all with claims of imminent "danger" is not useful.

If you 'search the net' for events relating to drones ... take away the EquuSearch related results, you'll find that pretty much EVERY ONE OF THEM is some fucking moron doing something that either DID hurt someone, was dangers as shit, came very close to hurting someone, or certainly had the potential to hurt someone.

I've been paying attention to the almost daily news stories about "drones," and I have not observed what you claim. The vast majority are people spooked by multirotors hovering around.

A commercial drone at a wedding
A creepy guy flying a multirotor around a medical faciltiy
NYPD getting excited about another multirotor
FAA warns a multirotor pilot to stay at low altitude
"Drone" crashes in someones yard
"Drone" videos Pirates baseball game
Drug smuggling with a multirotor
"Drone" reported outside someone's apartment
"Drone" used to spy on French football team
Woman Attacking Teen with "drone"

Some of those were dangerous to aircraft, but most didn't involve manned aircraft, and no one was hurt or killed. There have been plenty of close calls with model planes, but there haven't been many actual collisions and I'm not finding any deaths due to collisions with manned aircraft.

In all likelihood there won't be either. Most of these "drones" are small and light. When they collide with manned aircraft they disintegrate and perhaps scratch some paint. Here is what happens when a aerobatic aircraft slams into a typical model plane. Balsa and foam don't rate against aircraft aluminum. Is a death possible? Of course. Obviously. However, I think the interval between such events will be many years and the fault will not be attributed to the drones in every case, either.

I'm with you in that the stupid among us are creating the need for regulation. Adding to the hysteria of it all with claims of imminent "danger" is not useful.

you being an idiot and driving your car over a pedestrian infringes on their right to the pursuit of happiness

Sure. And any such idiots ought to be punished — and have their right to drive a car suspended. But this has nothing to do with the preventive prohibition — which is what the license requirement amounts to.

You see, when it comes to behaviors that put others at significant risk

Risky driving — or drone-flying — can be prohibited. People engaging in it may lose their right to drive (or fly drones) at all — or be punished otherwise — that's fine and normal. What I do not approve of, however, is the preemptive requirement to have a government's permission to do anything.

why only punish the ones who were unlucky enough to have the negative outcome actually happen

Because determining, what's really risky and what is not, is only a little bit easier, than detecting a murderer before he kills...

Similarly, Amazon flying drones over residential neighborhoods sounds pretty risky to me

It does, huh? You don't mind the thousands-pounds piloted aircraft flying above your all day, you don't mind the trucks driving around all day (delivering the same stuff), it is the light drones, that keep you awake at night?

not sure this ban is such a bad thing until we can prove suitable precautions are being taken

That, right there, is the key to our disagreement. You want everybody, who wish to fly a drone, to prove, they've "taken precautions". I don't believe, you ought to have the power to impose such a requirement. The burden of proof ought to be on you.

Now, that was philosophical. Now comes the more practical. Amazon being the 800-pound gorilla, can afford to argue with the government — they can not be ignored. They even managed to get the USPS to offer Sunday delivery — though now it seems available to all.

But the FAA simply killed other attempts to use drones — such as for the delivery of flowers. The barrier to entry — to start competing with the incumbent behemoths — was upped, and we the consumers are losing. No wonder, Amazon aren't suing to overturn the FAA's decision — any favorable overcome would apply to all. They are merely asking for exception — for themselves. Crony capitalism much?

The article and comments miss the point. http://washington.cbslocal.com... They are trying to regulate the use of the drones for peeping in neighbors yards and windows. They are trying to regulate it in a way without banning them, the over-reaction which will probably occur the first time a nude child shows up on youtube from an evil neighbor's google glasses. The CBS article - and most articles via news.google.com - point out that you can buy these pocket yard drones on amazon and are more nuanced about the policy debate than the /. "government is gonna take your toys away" article.

I've had parking spots that I claimed (blinker was on!) stolen from me. I didn't call the cops.

Jamaica Man Killed in Gun Battle Over Parking Space

Miami Barber Shot, Killed Over Parking Spot

Man Sentenced in Shooting Over Parking Space

Man critically hurt in Gold Coast shooting over parking spot

People are insane. Never forget this.

Redskin means "top of scalp taken from a dead Native American to be turned in for a bounty to the US government (which paid for the murder of Native American men, women and children)".

No, it didn't.
Redskin has always referred to the people, due to their "red" skin. It was first used by First American chiefs in discussions with the British & French. http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Even in the proclamations and stories offering rewards for scalps that actually used the term "redskin", it referred to the people, not the scalps.

Today it is still used by First Americans for their own mascots. Upwards of 90% of First Americans don't even find the term offensive. http://washington.cbslocal.com...

In general I agree, but when it comes to science I'm a little more relaxed about that, assuming that they stick to actual science without politicizing it.

Ever head of Lysenko? The greater the share of research, that is funded by the governments (as opposite to private entities), the easier it is to portray one's scientific opponents as not merely stupid, but as "enemies of the people" and "saboteurs".

And that share does need to reach 100% (as it was in the USSR), for "politicizing" to begin. Heck, the climate science is a fine example already — while actual climatologists are still discussing, there are already calls to arrest "climate change deniers"... Still feeling relaxed?

Non zero incidents of pilots injured by lasers says you are wrong.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/20...

Both of those incidents are just like all of the others. Anecdotal, uncorroborated comments by officers on the scene.

According to the police, Aliens have been mutilating cows for years:
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/20...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

The moral of the story? The police write down whatever you tell them. Where are the crashes? Where are the blind pilots? Maybe the cow hungry aliens took them!

Yeah, so just keep being a jackass. I hope this happens when you do...
http://boston.cbslocal.com/201...

For more...
https://www.google.com/search?...

Don't you Foxbots have anything better to say than AAAAALLLLL GOOOOORRRRRE!?

It was not Fox, but Al Gore himself, who made Al Gore the face of the global movement for control masquerading as a virtuous fight against Global Warming, nay, Climate Change, no, what's the term du jour, — Climate Disruption yeah, that is it.

That said, the designation is serving Mr. Gore pretty well — he is already 50 times richer, then he was during Vice-Presidency — so I don't know, what you are complaining about.

One roll per "SWAT" call, results to be cumulative:

On a "1" he gets shot in the arm

On a "2" he gets shot in the leg

On a "3" he gets beat-up and tossed into a squad car for a few hours

On a "4" he gets a stripsearch, a cavity search, a delousing and a county jail "roomie" for a few nights

On a "5" he gets a round in the face

On a "6" he gets the crap scared out of him (literally... threaten him till he soils) by an over-militarized police unit

On "7" through "12" he gets his life threatened by armed men, and spends a sleepless night talking with investigators, trying to "prove" he's not guilty of something gets the contents of his home overturned and sifted through and has to explain all this to, and comfort, his terrified family members who many never again feel safe in their own home.

That's the sort of risk he subjected every family member to in every home he pulled this "prank" on. At 16, you are plenty old enough to know better. Kids at age 16 used to be able to hold jobs, and in some places even marry. 16 year olds fought in both the American Revolution and in the American Civil War and have fought in many other wars in human history. This kid is a dirtbag playing with the lives of innocent people and he would likely have continued to do it up until people died (and almost certainly even beyond that point) and if somebody does not put him down soon he probably WILL become a rapist, a murderer or a child abuser (SOME form of bastard that gets his kicks destroying people's lives).

As for the authorities... that's a whole other (and serious) problem. We've had a rash of recent episodes where the police who are supposed to "protect and serve" and who gun control activists tell us are the only ones who should be "trusted with guns" have gone NUTSO and blasted away like Yosemite Sam. The recent episode in Florida where 23 officers unloaded 350+ rounds into two unarmed men, the Los Angeles pickup truck barrage, The infamous NYC "shootout" with an unarmed man, The Arizona vet shooting, etc are all examples of this poor training, poor discipline, and just appallingly bad judgement. There is simply NO excuse for authorities to bash their way into a home in response to such a 911 call... SOME effort out to be made with things like cameras and pocket periscopes to see what's happening inside before lives are put very much at risk.

They say the jamming 'could and may have had disastrous consequences by precluding the use of cell phones to reach life-saving 9-1-1 services provided by police, ambulance, and fire departments.'"

When people yapping on their cell are a bigger threat than drunk drivers it is great to see them wasting our tax dollars going after a guy who was stopping them.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/20...

http://www.nsc.org/safety_road...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://www.caranddriver.com/fe...

I can add as many other citations as you'd like.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/22/swatting-911-prank-leads-to-massive-police-response-at-long-beach-home/

I drove through Brightmoor in 2009. Lived there for seven years in the '70s.

First thing I saw turning South from Fenkell on Dolphin was a `youth' at the top of the driveway in front of a house profiling with a TEC-9 and watching me pass. There is unidentified stuff rotting in the street. Double murders are routine.

A few months ago the Blow Torch Rapist was caught after he raped and .... blow-torched ... some women. No one that doesn't follow Detroit news even knows about it.

To work there you have to understand that there are places Detroit where if you stop while driving through you will not survive. They will kill you. Full stop. So, drive a low mileage SUV at all times, get a carry permit and a clue. You'll need them all.

The city is corrupt from the ground up

Indeed. The bankruptcy auditors found that this city council wrote a couple billion in arbitrary checks against the municipal pension fund to all sorts of characters for decades. We use to put people in prison for that. Hoffa, another Detroiter, for one.

That's a fact.

Nobody dealin' with that winter, for rent.

Funny, because Detroit isn't that far removed from St. Louis weather-wise, and STL is the tech hub of the midwest.

Slashdot's corporate masters will like this tidbit: Dice ranked Missouri as the fastest growing state in regards to tech jobs last year.

Of course, there's plenty of good reasons why tech companies wouldn't want to base out of Detroit, but the weather sure ain't one of them.

old white people

Like this guy. Fortunately they caught the perpetrator.

Well a good chunk of it is due to CPD lying their asses off: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chic...

They lied about assaults too: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20...

Perish the thought.

Occupy Leaders Apparently Involved in Bridge Bomb Plot, Suspects Named
‘Occupy Wall Street’ Doc Accused Of Stockpiling Bomb-Making Materials, Weapons

"The father of the Boston bombing suspects claims to Channel 4 News that the FBI telephoned his elder son after the attack, and prior to a fatal shootout that claimed the life of a police officer."

"the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother of Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, in 2011 at the request of a foreign government to see if he had any extremist ties"

"Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended a workshop sponsored by the CIA-linked Jamestown Foundation,Izvestia reports today (see English translation here). The Russian newspaper cites documents produced by the Counterintelligence Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia confirming that the NGO “Fund of Caucasus” held workshops in the summer of 2012 and Tsarnaev attended."

FBI Interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev 2 Years Ago http://boston.cbslocal.com/201... BOSTON (CBS) – Slain Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had spoken to investigators prior to Monday’s bombing and subsequent manhunt. CBS News correspondent Bob Orr first reported, the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother of Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, in 2011 at the request of a foreign government to see if he had any extremist ties, but failed to find any incriminating information. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested Friday night after a violent manhunt in Greater Boston. The Tsarnaev brothers were legal residents of the United States. CBS News correspondent John Miller reports Tamerlan Tsarnaev was likely questioned because of suspected ties to Chechen extremists. Miller says Tamerlan Tsarnaev had a sit-down interview where they likely asked him questions about contacts and surroundings. CBS News reports although the FBI initially denied contacting Tsarnaev, the brothers’ mother said they had in an interview with Russia Today. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva said her son got involved in “religious politics” about five years ago, and never told her he was involved in “jihad.” Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a violent shoot out and chase with police Thursday night. His brother continued on the run until his capture in the backyard of a Watertown home.

On that, you are misinformed. People such as Jesse Jackson may use such proportions to show what he perceives as discrimination, but actual AA laws in the US do no such thing. You can begin your education in this area with JFK's executive order 10925 and go from there.

I don't think I mentioned any AA laws. AA sets guidelines, and the individual institutions must implement them. That implementation will of course vary depending on how the institution grades its students. Here are two examples:

http://nwpr.org/post/firestorm...

Here's what the Virginia state board of education actually did. It looked at students' test scores in reading and math and then proposed new passing rates. In math it set an acceptable passing rate at 82 percent for Asian students, 68 percent for whites, 52 percent for Latinos, 45 percent for blacks and 33 percent for kids with disabilities.

Effectively this says that race plays a determining factor in whether or not you pass. If you are Asian, your score must be nearly twice as high as a black student in order to be considered passing. Even if you did much better than every black student in the class, but you weren't quite up to the Asian standard, you still fail while the black students pass. (Also look at another thing they're doing here - basically if you're black, you aren't expected to perform much better than somebody who is literally retarded.

This really is no different than the days where blacks were required to take tests in order to vote where the white people weren't held to any standard at all.

http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012...

On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent.

I disagree with your conclusion that Asians are being "fucked over" based solely on the fact that they would gain if AA were tossed. If speed limits were abolished, people would drive faster, consuming more fuel. Does this mean that gas stations are being "fucked over" by speed limits? No.

That's a very bad analogy. A better one would be saying that if you're asian, you're only allowed to drive 20MPH, and blacks are allowed to drive 60MPH. The goal would be to make sure that asians are late to their interviews more so that fewer of them will show up, thus increasing the number of blacks while decreasing the number of asians.

black holes will dump ... gravity waves before merging. Having any detector that can observe a black hole merger will tell us a bunch!

I didn't think the Comcast/TWC merger had been completed. Wouldn't it be able to detect those 45 billions of dollar bills all sloshing around?

Or was L.A. the detection device a few days ago?

Any missing footage should result in someone being fired.

Agreed.

There is one plus side to ubiquitous cameras operated by the police: It will be harder for the police to justify denying us the ability to record our interactions with them. Some police departments haven't gotten the memo yet...

Any missing footage should result in someone being fired.

Agreed.

There is one plus side to ubiquitous cameras operated by the police: It will be harder for the police to justify denying us the ability to record our interactions with them. Some police departments haven't gotten the memo yet...