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I really love that last one, because people KNOW It's a glitch; they KNOW they don't have unlimited EBT funds, but yet they will still claim that they weren't abusing the system. Bollocks.

As for the statistics, I definitely spoke too broadly, but my views are still consistent because I have seen first hand accounts of this type of activity. I can't find any interweb pagez to support my claim currently, but I still stand firm that the amount of low-income subsidiary services are abused and we need to keep closing loopholes.

We should have RFID incorporated into our license plates so that these scans can be done more efficiently and without optical recognition required. Myriad uses, including monitoring of parking lots a and capacities, sporting events, airports / train stations, toll collection, law enforcement.

Here in calif, we are already creating future...

Thing is. In the US you can be tried twice for the same crime. It all depends on how far the prosecutor (and you) want to push things. This is what various appeals courts, all the way up to the Supreme Court are.

In the US, you can be convicted in absentia as well. Take Andrew Luster as an example.

Also, you CAN be interrogated without a lawyer present. Reread the Miranda Warning again.

- You have the right to remain silent when questioned.
- Anything you say or do may be used against you in a court of law. (Modern readings have can and will in place of may)
- You have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to the police and to have an attorney present during questioning now or in the future.
- If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you before any questioning, if you wish.
- If you decide to answer any questions now, without an attorney present, you will still have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to an attorney.
- Knowing and understanding your rights as I have explained them to you, are you willing to answer my questions without an attorney present?

Nothing in there says they CANNOT interrogate you without an attorney present. Merely that you have the right to demand that one be present.

Maybe this makes me come off as a pedantic asshole. But before casting aspersions and talking about how GREAT you have it here...

Oh, and maybe talk to Cassandra Feuerstein about her treatment while in custody:

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20...

Fair enough. Then science teachers should probably stop telling students that the Bible is fiction: http://www.opposingviews.com/i... and that they can't talk about it: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com...

The Bible itself is classified as "non fiction" because "The Bible" is a collection of assorted writings and essays which are real writings... real as in they really exist. The classification is NOT claiming that those stories are actually true, the individual books and stories aren't classified at all.

Neither one of your "citations" are on-topic, one is a reading assignment in a Middle School language credit class, the other one was about a 1st grader who was giving a speech about family traditions at Christmas time. Those have absolutely nothing to do with Science class, or Science teachers.

Fair enough. Then science teachers should probably stop telling students that the Bible is fiction: http://www.opposingviews.com/i... and that they can't talk about it: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com...

If I wanted to talk about Sense and Sensibility in science class, the teacher would be perfectly within their rights to tell me to knock it off and stick to science. I don't see why the Bible should be any different. You want to talk about the Bible? Fine. Wait until your World Mythologies class and talk your heart out. Lots of nonfiction also has no place in the science class, but fiction can pretty safely be categorically excluded.

Don't want people calling the Bible fiction? Don't talk to people who know better. That applies to life in general, not just school.

Fair enough. Then science teachers should probably stop telling students that the Bible is fiction: http://www.opposingviews.com/i... and that they can't talk about it: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com...

But what's the benefit of capital punishment? Revenge? Justice? Deterrence? Closure?

Well, it certainly would have stopped these gentlemen:

1) "Man Who Killed 5 In MN Kills Again Behind Bars"

2) "Investigators have connected a 30-year-old cold case triple homicide in Iowa to a man who was later executed for the unrelated murder of a Missouri girl, officials said Friday."

3) "Escaped prisoner convicted in New Mexico of killing Oklahoma couple: McCluskey was one of three inmates, all convicted killers, who escaped from a contract prison in Kingman, Ariz"

There is a great bullshit test I came up with to give to someone who advocates capitol punishment. Ask them if our court system is 100% perfect in convicting the guilty. Then ask them if that means that means that we are murdering at least a few of the wrong people with capitol punishment. Then ask them if they would still feel that capitol punishment was fair and just if they were one of those people that was selected to die. Then ask them if they still support capitol punishment. If they say still yes, they are lying.

How about if the choice was being killed by a repeat murderer?

Or if the death penalty does deter, being killed by someone who wasn't deterred?

Getting rid of the death penalty is not a cost-free option.

Agreed, and we're not alone: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/01/14/mit-professor-urging-climate-change-activists-to-slow-down/

I think any lawyer worth $0.02 would get that argument thrown out in court. The law does not stipulate that the device must ONLY be capable of those things.

A California Superior Court disagrees with you.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/04/09/court-rules-using-cell-phone-for-gps-violates-hands-free-driving-laws/

What if you say that you the glass is your GPS, has an android "driving lock" that disables its use for anything else?

Not that I defend glassholes , but enjoy finding workarounds to the law.

I think you'd have to convince a judge that the "driving lock" was active and there's no way to bypass it. People have unsuccessfully tried to argue that using their phone as a GPS doesn't violate the law against using cell phones while driving, so the "driving lock" would probably have to be a built-in Android feature that the user can't disable (though rooting your phone may cloud the issue)

CBS Chicago: "The move could prevent Yamamoto from getting about three weeks' severance pay, he says."

Putin: I Envy Obama In Light Of NSA Revelations ‘Because He Can Get Away With It’

Russian President Vladimir Putin defended the U.S. National Security Agency, and even said he envies President Barack Obama in light of the NSA revelations “because he can get away with it.”

Putin’s comments at a Thursday news conference reflected support for the NSA surveillance as a necessary tool to fight terrorism, but added that government rules should “limit the appetite” of the data-collecting agency, CBS News reports.

Keep in mind that Putin knows the NSA spies on Russia too. What is the world coming to? That really is an interesting development.

Well, maybe if Russia's security agencies got their hands on the NSA tasking list that Snowden took they now feel much less vulnerable. They would be right.

.... but who gets the records?

That is a big question, especially since various state governments in the US have passed data privacy laws, and they aren't always complied with by state agencies. This was in the news about six months ago. I have little doubt there are many more instances of illegal or abusive data transfers out there at the state or local level. Bureaucratic overreach is hardly confined to the Federal government, and often occurs in conjunction with it.

Highway Patrol Handed Concealed Carry Information To Feds - April 11, 2013

It was revealed in Missouri Senate testimony Thursday morning that the Missouri State Highway Patrol has twice handed over to federal officials information regarding concealed carry permits in the state.

The revelation validates the concerns of many Republican state legislators who have warned of the “gun list” for longer than a month.

Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) has led the charge against the Missouri Department of Revenue and others over the list. He said in a press release that the Highway Patrol “asked for and received the full list from the state Division of Motor Vehicle and Driver Licensing.”

According to Schaefer, the list contains 185,000 names and “had been put online in one instance and given to the patrol on a disc in January.” ....

Col. Ron Replogle with the Highway Patrol underwent nearly an hour of testimony Thursday morning in a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing. Replogle testified that a Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General agent received the discs but was not able to read encrypted data and then destroyed the discs.

“They said no names were retrieved,” Replogle told the committee this morning, according to the Columbia Tribune. “ ...

The gun list issue was first raised in early March when Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder told KMOX News that the Missouri Department of Revenue was illegally sharing information on concealed gun permit applicants with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

I hate to reply to an AC, but I hate wrong information more.

Multiple stories corroborate that the actual number potentially losing healthcare is one million, not the five million the AC suggested. These are policies that don't meet the ACA's minimum coverage levels, and thus are no longer allowed to be offered.

This has been a point pounded hard by those on the right ("If you like your plan you can keep it" was a lie!), wanting to point to people losing insurance. The left's typical response is that the plans are junk plans, and folks are better off being forced to get a real plan. Since those arguments are all over the web, I'm going to skip past them. Visit Google News to find them if you have missed out.

As is often the case, reality isn't simple enough to be captured in a sound byte. The law had a provision to grandfather old plans:

So what happens to the plans that don't meet the new minimum standards? They will likely disappear. A handful of existing plans will be grandfathered in, but the qualifying criteria for that is hard to meet: Members have to have been enrolled in the plan before the ACA passed in 2010, and the plan has to have maintained fairly steady co-pay, deductible and coverage rates until now.

What insurers have done is made sure no pre-2010 plan stayed in effect (yes, they cancel millions of plans every year), and for the few that have they have made sure the co-pays, deductibles, and coverage have changed significantly. Why would they do that? Well there are a about 4 million people on junk plans. How bad are these plans?

One example: the "Go Blue Health Services Card'' for which cancer survivor Donnamarie Palin of New Port Richey has paid $79 a month. For that, she gets $50 toward each primary care doctor visit, $15 toward each drug — but zero coverage for big-ticket items like hospital stays.

Get in a car wreck, no coverage. Get cancer, no coverage. Need a wart removed, no coverage. Break your arm, no coverage. Yeah. That bad. But they have one thing going for them, they are cheap. $79/month if you don't understand what you're (not) getting seems pretty cheap compared to hundreds of dollars for real insurance. In plain, simple terms these people were going to get a price hike. Now, you're an executive at a health insurance provider faced with the prospect that 4 million people are going to get letters saying "Your $79/month policy is going away, we'd like to offer you a $450/month policy, but it covers a lot more!" Yeah, that's going to lead to lots of bad press on the evening news.

But the way ACA was written had a convenient out. Make sure the law forced the cancellation of the plans, and then flip the narrative to say the government is canceling your plan. It should be no surprise that it took insurance executives about a nanosecond to figure this out and set the wheels in motion. Just make sure no plan qualified or could be grandfathered in.

Now that the Scooby Doo "how did they do it" moment is over, there is one bit left to tidy up. The savvy reader will notice 1 million Californians had their policy cancelled, but o

No, I do not believe it. I believe that you just made it up. Do you have a citation? Because a Google search finds nothing except a law banning "aggressive begging" (blocking traffic, badgering or pursuing people, loitering next to ATMs, etc.).

I wouldn't go so far as to accuse him of just making it up. There are several places he might have picked up the idea. Some, the courts overrule the laws or parts of it. Some are just proposed. Some require a permit to 'gather' (eg more than 5 people). On Thanksgiving, the church should have 1 person with food in the park. 4 at a time, the homeless could come over. Then, walk away and 4 more could come up. I think the homeless should not be able to look at each other either ;) Get a permit right? I believe in the Orlando case, the problem was, you can only get a permit twice a year for each park so you have to move around. Are the activist intentionally getting in trouble making their point? Sure. Does feeding the poor in the same park, week after week, putting wear and tear on the park? Sure.



Orlando, FL
Raleigh, NC
Las Vegas, NV
Los Angeles, CA
Philadelphia, PA
Dallas, TX
Houston, TX
NYC, NY
USA Today
LA Times

It's better to see 24% voter turnout that over 100% voter turnout.

> I'd rather have a competent driver in a bare-bones sports car on the road with me than a clueless housewife ...

"Roger Rodas was a highly skilled driver who would not have taken a risk with his friend and client Paul Walker’s life, an engineer for Rodas’ race team said Tuesday."

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/12/03/paul-walker-roger-rodas-porsche/

Huh?

http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/2012/12/17/connecticut-mental-health-bill-defeated-months-before-deadly-school-shooting/

The ACLU has been at the forefront of gutting the mental health system in the US, attacking Assisted Outpatient Treatment laws. Their privacy concerns are valid, but all they've accomplished is throwing out the baby with the bath water.

Can you sight a case of right-wingers cutting social services, causing mentally ill people to be loose on the streets?

You're a good shill. I am sure you are aware of this. Google does actively report to law enforcement.

Worried about someone finding your child-porn stash?

Don't store it with Google

Basically a lot of the answers to how to avoid "X" would be, don't store that with Google.

It's a rough question though as I have to say I'm OK with Google poking through Picasa in order to catch a real child molester.

Basically I've always assumed myself that anything marked "private" and uploaded to a server I do not control, means it is for my eyes only - plus the eyes of every admin on the system.

Many states? You offer 2 but fail to offer any citations?

At last check, Nevada's site has only signed up 531 people: http://www.foxreno.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/nevada-health-exchange-signups-790.shtml

Zero for Oregon: http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/11/11/oregon-health-care-exchange-has-yet-to-enroll-a-single-person/

We've got the Washington (state) exchange crashing during it's promotional tour: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Health-exchange-website-goes-down-during-road-tour-229571661.html

Never mind the issues of Washington's site with costing people their projected tax credit: http://washingtonstatewire.com/blog/rude-awakening-for-federal-way-woman-who-got-shout-out-from-president-cant-afford-obamacare-policy-after-all/#.Uoq1uZH1JMg.twitter

Zero plans sold during the first two weeks in Hawaii (due to issues): http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/10/10/hawaii-relaunching-obamacare-exchange-after-not-selling-any-health-insurance-due-to-software-problems/

Ditto in New York: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/white-house-deems-health-glitches-unacceptable-gop-calls-obamacare-doa-article-1.1491281

And Vermont: http://rutlandherald.com/article/20131031/OPINION04/710319973/0/OPINION

And that a month in, state exchanges had only reached 3% of their target: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/11/usa-healthcare-enrollment-idUSL2N0IW0XX20131111?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssHealthcareNews&rpc=22

Yes, such a great success.

While you are free to lament about my 'personal politics' into it... I'm sorry that you don't like being confronted with facts... or would you prefer I jump up and down and scream "We told you so, we tried to stop you, you didn't listen... now reap what you've sown!" ?

Na, your dismissiveness of the facts at hand is the truly juvenile part of this.

Many states? You offer 2 but fail to offer any citations?

At last check, Nevada's site has only signed up 531 people: http://www.foxreno.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/nevada-health-exchange-signups-790.shtml

Zero for Oregon: http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/11/11/oregon-health-care-exchange-has-yet-to-enroll-a-single-person/

We've got the Washington (state) exchange crashing during it's promotional tour: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Health-exchange-website-goes-down-during-road-tour-229571661.html

Never mind the issues of Washington's site with costing people their projected tax credit: http://washingtonstatewire.com/blog/rude-awakening-for-federal-way-woman-who-got-shout-out-from-president-cant-afford-obamacare-policy-after-all/#.Uoq1uZH1JMg.twitter

Zero plans sold during the first two weeks in Hawaii (due to issues): http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/10/10/hawaii-relaunching-obamacare-exchange-after-not-selling-any-health-insurance-due-to-software-problems/

Ditto in New York: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/white-house-deems-health-glitches-unacceptable-gop-calls-obamacare-doa-article-1.1491281

And Vermont: http://rutlandherald.com/article/20131031/OPINION04/710319973/0/OPINION

And that a month in, state exchanges had only reached 3% of their target: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/11/usa-healthcare-enrollment-idUSL2N0IW0XX20131111?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssHealthcareNews&rpc=22

Yes, such a great success.

While you are free to lament about my 'personal politics' into it... I'm sorry that you don't like being confronted with facts... or would you prefer I jump up and down and scream "We told you so, we tried to stop you, you didn't listen... now reap what you've sown!" ?

Na, your dismissiveness of the facts at hand is the truly juvenile part of this.

I thought it was obvious, but the majority of congress critters were unaware of how pervasive NSA spying is. A number of them were shocked to learn how powerful NSA has grown. It's not even really clear that the committee members responsible for national security understood.

Actually, a larger number of them are out there backing the NSA Spying to the hilt. Any Congressman other than a first term greenhorn already voted for most of these measures and has an ass to protect.

The rest of them don't want to have to deal with Pelosi.

because they broke almost all of their pre-election promises.

The most important thing to learn about the Tory party in the UK is that, contrary to popular opinion, it is not the party for the responsible, the capitalists, nor the hard-working (except in the sense that they want most people to work hard for them). It is a party representing a few wealthy individuals, and their mission is not small government, but privatised government, where nothing happens without their masters getting a cut.

Sorta like a mafia.

Meanwhile, "If you like your health insurance, you can keep it."

Unless you're one of the one million Californians who are losing their insurance becaue of Obamacare.

And that LIE wasn't even a campaign promise - it was the statement of the President himself. REPEATED many times.

I suspect it's going to be the amount of people turned away from voting because of all these daft ID voter rules. .... I really think it'll be the mass disenfranchisement of a huge % of the US citizens at the next big election.

It doesn't look like there is a problem with that.

Texas voter ID law didn't suppress vote

...it'll take that sharp focused event that'll be the camel back breaker ...

Maybe we've found one.

Calif. Insurance Commissioner: More Than 1M Californians Having Insurance Cancelled Due To ACA

Forbes: White House Predicted in 2010 That 93 Million Would Lose Their Health Plans Under ObamaCare

Troubled HealthCare.gov unlikely to work fully by end of November

Until they change the law so it clearly says it's a user's right to unlock his own phone whenever he wants, most steer clear of this.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/01/28/federal-mandate-makes-unlocking-cellphones-a-punishable-crime/

Just in time...an article about an NSA employee that tried to blow the whistle on them back in 2007.

I remember someone in Congress saying that Edward Snowden should have gone through the proper channels to blow the whistle. That's what this guy did. You can read the article to see how that worked out for him.

I wonder why Edward Snowden got attention when he blew the whistle, and no one up until that point did? Hard to say...though it may have had something to do with his hot girlfriend.

"... Blackwater? They seemed pretty good at shooting civilians."

Obama is good at hitting civilians]

Obama jokes about it: "I‘m Really Good At Killing People"

It's interesting that you equate surveillance with Bull Connor.

Worse. They are synergistic. I think it's telling that you haven't considered the power of the NSA's records and surveillance capabilities in the hands of a Bull Connor, a Hitler, or a Pol Pot.

Hell, if you actually care about freedom the Fourth Amendment is small beans. Illegal searches don't kill people, they don't allow a minority to dominate the government. OTOH Voter ID could easily be used to keep Texas Republican for decades after most of it's residents have become Democrats. Stand your ground laws actually do kill people.

Illegal searches do kill people.

As to your other two claims, let us note the actual restrictions of the Texas voter ID law:

Procedures for Voting

When a voter arrives at a polling location, the voter will be asked to present one of the seven (7) acceptable forms of photo ID. Election officials will now be required by State law to determine whether the voter's name on the identification provided matches the name on the official list of registered voters ("OLRV"). After a voter presents their ID, the election worker will compare it to the OLRV. If the name on the ID matches the name on the list of registered voters, the voter will follow the regular procedures for voting.

If the name does not match exactly but is "substantially similar" to the name on the OLRV, the voter will be permitted to vote as long as the voter signs an affidavit stating that the voter is the same person on the list of registered voters.

If a voter does not have proper identification, the voter will still be permitted to vote provisionally. The voter will have (six) 6 days to present proper identification to the county voter registrar, or the voterâ(TM)s ballot will be rejected.

What you won't see here is the supposed means by which Republicans will stay in power. For some reason, coming up with a photo ID is strongly discriminatory against Democrats? I think it's because a good portion of them can't actually legally vote.

And stand your ground laws? They aren't killing a lot of people. For example, Florida has seen a tripling of self defense shootings from one dozen to roughly three dozen a year and many of those shootings fall under normal self defense law (such as the well-discussed Martin Trayvon shooting, for example).

I think this is enough evidence to confirm that you truly do not understand the issues surrounding freedom and why resisting illegal searches is so important to a democratic society - far more than a few self defense shootings or a gimmick for picking up a certain sort of vote fraud.

The reason: Google does not have a permit for a floating anything. “Google has spent millions on this,” said an insider close to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. “But they can’t park this barge on the waterfront without a permit, and they don’t have one.” A BCDC official confirmed the agency has held discussions with Google about “hypothetical operations” on the water, but he complained the tech giant has been vague about how the barge would be used.

The reason: Google does not have a permit for a floating anything. “Google has spent millions on this,” said an insider close to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. “But they can’t park this barge on the waterfront without a permit, and they don’t have one.” A BCDC official confirmed the agency has held discussions with Google about “hypothetical operations” on the water, but he complained the tech giant has been vague about how the barge would be used.

For example: Not one word about the anti-NSA protests in US media. Still.

Your news gathering skills are....poor to say the least.

USA Today: Anti-NSA rally attracts thousands to march in Washington http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/26/nsa-dc-rally/3241417/

Huffington Post: NSA 'Stop Watching Us' Protest Draws Thousands In Washington http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/26/nsa-stop-watching-us_n_4166640.html

US News and Word Report: Edward Snowden Endorses D.C. Protest Against NSA in Rare Public Statement http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/10/24/edward-snowden-endorses-dc-protest-against-nsa-in-rare-public-statement

Christian Science Monitor: NSA Washington: March against surveillance and a call from Edward Snowden http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2013/1026/NSA-Washington-March-against-surveillance-and-a-call-from-Edward-Snowden-photos

CNN: Anti-NSA rally targets Washington http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/26/anti-nsa-rally-targets-washington/

Fox News: Hundreds rally in DC to protest NSA http://video.foxnews.com/v/2772548586001/hundreds-rally-in-dc-to-protest-nsa/

NBC News: Hundreds march at anti-NSA rally in DC http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/53383405

CBS News: Protesters March For Investigation Into Mass NSA Spying http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/10/26/protesters-march-for-investigation-into-mass-nsa-spying/

ABC News: NSA Spying Threatens to Hamper US Foreign Policy http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/nsa-spying-threatens-hamper-us-foreign-policy-20689770

Washington Post: Techies concerned over NSA surveillance will march in D.C., proclaiming ‘Stop Watching Us’ http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/techies-concerned-over-nsa-surveillance-will-march-in-dc-proclaiming-stop-watching-us/2013/10/25/5bedb546-3da7-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html

This is where I get tired of pasting, but I assure you the list goes on and on.

A local newspaper owner runs ads for prostitutes in his magazine. He also has a site (backpage.com) that has been accused by a local DA of being a conduit for child prostitution. An edit was made last week talking about this.

Page in question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Pulcrano&action=history

Talk page with links to articles backing up the edit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dan_Pulcrano

Reliable sources

        Change.org petition http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-providing-the-means-to-sell-girls-and-boys-for-sex
        http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/05/22/san-jose-weekly-paper-pressured-to-remove-escort-service-ads
        http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Weekly-Paper-Under-Fire-Over-Adult-Ads.html
        http://meyerweed.blogspot.com/2013/08/san-jose-inside-vs-integrity.html
        http://www.protectsanjose.com/content/sjpoa-presdient-unland-responds-metro-editor

Skeezy.

While they do have high salaries, it looks like the drivers and agents make around 60k. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/10/09/phil-matier-plenty-willing-to-work-for-current-bart-wages/

It's illegal to fly an RC model for any kind of pay.

That's what *I* thought, too. So why don't we take a page direct from the politicians: I fly for myself and take pics, and then give them to you because you ask. (Presumably I'd need to give them to all comers, but then again not Every Single Person I meet is my friend. So I don't see that saying "No" is that bad. A judge may disagree.)

You, then, contribute to my fund (charitable, PAC, LLC, something) that I just happen to control. No no -- it's not MY money at all, it's the funds' money; I just happen to be the one in control of it. Or my friend is, whatever.

Now, could the feds come in and take control and arrest me before, during, or after the fact? Yep, because the men with guns always win, especially if they have enough bullets.

By the way, I think that's great: "I use it to troll 'real world' groups... Completely legal as I'm doing it for fun." But mightn't fun have consequences? Just because you're having fun doesn't mean everyone else is. Aren't you responsible if you hurt someone else? And if there's not some kind of ID (owner sticker, serial number, etc) on it, how are they to know who owns it? Do you walk up and say "Sorry about that" and claim ownership and responsibility? Or do you just write it off as perhaps a bad battery and disappear?

Fun is by yourself or with friends, and perhaps with a few strangers accidentally nearby. Fun does not consist of ONLY strangers. Then again I'm an old fogie, so get off my lawn. And by the way: I'm practicing.

The point is that states implemented their own systems and none of them have been declared a disaster. You don't hear about any of them because they are working as intended.

Hawaii Relaunching Obamacare Exchange After Not Selling Any Health Insurance Due To Software Problems

I was able to register fairly early (around the 3rd) - when the site was still undergoing the initial onslaught of gawkers....

Wow, this is kind of like seeing an endangered species or something.

Only Five Iowans Have Signed Up on Obamacare Exchange - 10 Oct 2013
Hawaii Relaunching Obamacare Exchange After Not Selling Any Health Insurance Due To Software Problems - October 10, 2013
Good news: Maryland has successfully enrolled 326 people in ObamaCare - October 7, 2013

Just 51,000 Americans Have Enrolled in Federal Obamacare Exchanges? - Oct 11, 2013

Double Down: Obamacare Will Increase Avg. Individual-Market Insurance Premiums By 99% For Men, 62% For Women

Aren't we just encouraging people to become less skilled and overall less intelligent when we remove the necessity to actually learn skills like driving?

Yes. But Ford is also about 20 years late to the party.

Anyone remember an episode of "Towards 2000" that demonstrated a car (a Renault, I think) that could turn all four of its wheels 90 degrees and roll sideways into a park between two cars? Someone else reinvented this feat more recently, http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/07/31/sideways-turning-wheels-makes-parallel-parking-a-breeze/.

Nissan's Pivo 2 concept car could also turn its wheels 90 degrees for the same trick back in 2007.

And back in 2004, Toyota offered Ford's automated parking idea on their Prius, http://tech.slashdot.org/story/04/01/20/018227/toyota-offers-automatic-parallel-parking-option

One thing you have to remember is people are STUPID.

You should really pay more attention. Do try to keep up.

First, look at the source. I'm sure that the US intelligence agencies will all run to the Wall Street Journal with leaked information. Next, there have been no facts presented for anything else they have been banging a war drum on. Not just for this, but for decades. Are we really supposed to keep trusting known liars and a corrupt media system?

We also have this one.

Not only do I not trust a corrupt media and politicians, I want them out of our country. Maybe a good first step in war is to start parachuting politicians into these foreign countries where they clamor for war?

Because we're all sure that Al Qaeda couldn't possibly find any rail lines in Europe without leaks and whistle blowers.

Seriously, unless you believe that the US has an impervious border (at which point you have issues that can't be solved simply by education) then it should be obvious that al Qaeda isn't what we're being told it is for the simple reason that WE'RE NOT BEING ATTACKED. A dozen guys armed with second hand deer rifles, working as landscapers and dishwashers, driving old beater cars, could take down the entire US electrical grid. No suicide attack necessary. If they work at the Tyson plant they could poison thousands or tens of thousands with biological agents that can be grown in home beer fermentation kits. They can make iron oxide and aluminum powder and burn out railroad bridges with simple thermite. And yet none of these things are happening. Instead we have a Shoe Bomber who forgets to bring matches with him, and the Underwear Bomber.

  Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Maybe so but when you read stories like this, it makes you worry...7 Pakistani muslim chemical engineers arrested for trespassing at Boston area municipal water supply at midnight

When was the last time Fox suggested that the poor should be fingerprinted for the crime of being poor.

Sounds like there's a jackboot thug a-stirring in NYC. The left will never admit it but it's still true.

Define left. "Left" no more means "everything that I don't like" than do "right", "fascist", "Communist", "Marxist", "socialist", "libertarian", "conservative", "liberal", etc..

When was the last time Fox suggested that the poor should be fingerprinted for the crime of being poor.
 
Sounds like there's a jackboot thug a-stirring in NYC. The left will never admit it but it's still true.

Fucking Bloomberg

Fuck Bloomberg

links:

Minessota [cbslocal] article you mentioned, in 2011.

Texas [foxnews] has one as well in 2009.

Or the LMGTFY [google], if you prefer.

After having been to some rifle ranges, one question that never seems to be answered is: after several decades of hard shooting, who gets the unenviable (and expensive!) job of decontaminating what is essentially a toxic waste dump?

NRA doing what right-wingers do best? -- liability-dumping and socializing losses?

There's some controversy about that at a popular San Francisco shooting range:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/05/24/sf-faces-10-million-toxic-waste-problem-at-lake-merced-gun-club/

The city is trying to shut down the gun club (which would leave the city on the hook for the cleanup). The gun club (which has already switched away from lead shot) wants to stay around and pay for the cleanup themselves, though maybe not on the terms the city wants.

Other lakes in SF that did not have shooting ranges are also contaminated with lead (mainly from street runoff when lead gas was legal), so it's not clear how much contamination at the gun club's lake is due to the gun club itself and how much from other sources, but the city is apparently blaming the gun club for all of the contamination in their lake.

Someone has installed geninue appearing fake road signs warning that vehicle speed is 'enforced' by missile launching drones.

wrt to Colorado; tired of being governed by coastal state refugees a set of rural counties in Northern Colorado are pursuing statehood.