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This happened a few miles away from me.. just back in April.. perhaps it's rare but it does appear to be a factor.. http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/04/27/mckinney-homeowner-shot-during-home-invasion/

I doubt that's true. In Pennsylvania a horny prosecutor (his motivations were suspect, and he ran a bad girls boot camp) tried to go after a teen for sending a picture to a boy, the judge sided with the teens. Unless you find an example of the contrary I'm calling bullshit.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/05/09/students-face-possible-child-porn-charges-in-sexting-scandal/
http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/education/precollegiate/sexting-teens-face-felonies-warns-school-district/article_17818510-05ea-5131-be1f-1403438dcadb.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeiLWAcmWsU

This useless canard again. The emissions from making the panels are trivial, and get lower the more panels there are in use.

Hm. I could have sworn the manufacturing of photovoltaic panels involved a lot of pretty nasty chemicals. A quick Google search turns these up:
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/03/the-ugly-side-o.html
and
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/02/11/solar-companies-creating-millions-of-pounds-of-polluted-sludge-contaminated-water/

I did not see anything about my initial understanding to be a canard. Perhaps you could offer some links?

You think there are a lot of Americans struggling to get Cheerios?

Yes, this is news? See here. The poverty rate has been going up for a bit now. And poverty is defined as $23,000 for a family of four. So yeah, there are a lot of Americans struggling to afford Cheerios.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/fair-is-taking-digital-leap/Content?oid=2442281
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/06/13/hi-tech-exhibits-join-farm-animals-carnival-games-at-san-mateo-county-fair/

Among the additions this year are a 3-D printer, a Frisbee-throwing robot made by students at Aragon High School, and a "reverse-engineering" exhibit where kids can take apart VCRs and computers to see how they work. Colaluca also has organized competitions in coding and app-making, and he deputized employees of local computer companies to judge them.

You essentially must buy your freedom.

You have freedom as an American citizen. The fee is to legally remove your citizenship. The price went from $0 to $450 in 2010, during President Obama's term. There are also these fees if you have some assets:

... leaving America has a special tax cost. You generally must prove 5 years of tax compliance in the U.S. Plus, if you have a net worth greater than $2 million or have average annual net income tax for the 5 previous years of $155,000 or more (that’s tax, not income), you pay an exit tax. You generally pay 15% on any gain, as if you sold your property when you left. There’s an exemption of approximately $668,000. -- Giving Up U.S. Citizenship

Then there is this courtesy of Barbar Boxer (D-Los Angeles):

Owe The IRS? Bill Would Suspend Passport Rights For Delinquent Taxpayers

All those anti-gun people should start realizing that if you want a gun-free society, you should start with disarming police officers first because they seem to be at least as large a threat as civilians... and in my opinion, more of a threat since they seem to have a much more 'entitled' sense of firearm use.

And if you agree we can't disarm the police, why should the remaining population be rendered helpless against the police and others? Sorry, but I just can't get past the natural right to self-defense and self-preservation.

Anyway... off-topic right? But when I hear "NJ Cop" this story comes to mind. As for searching phones at the scene? Sorry. The best they should be able to do is request the phone number of their device and let them subpoena the phone company for activity on the phone "on or about the time of the accident." Should be perfectly acceptable and will yield far more accurate reporting.

Apparently DHS can search laptops and phones based on "hunches" as well.

I'm not a generally paranoid person, but damn it all to hell. You've got the DOJ and it appears members of the Obama administration targeting "enemies" and now you've got them on a run with them being able to do taps because of whatever they feel like. And people called Bush bad? This is right out of "how to create your own dictatorship." What's next? Said enemies start to disappear because they're not toeing the Obama line.

You forgot "Kept Voting Livestock" in the form of inner city poor blacks getting what basically amounts to gifts and bribes in return for their vote. Keep em "ignant" and the Obamaphone guarantees Hillary in '14.

Apparently DHS can search laptops and phones based on "hunches" as well.

I'm not a generally paranoid person, but damn it all to hell. You've got the DOJ and it appears members of the Obama administration targeting "enemies" and now you've got them on a run with them being able to do taps because of whatever they feel like. And people called Bush bad? This is right out of "how to create your own dictatorship." What's next? Said enemies start to disappear because they're not toeing the Obama line.

Aided and abetted by resources made available by the Bush Administration.

This is why rabid partisans - among others - should be careful what they wish for. They may get it, only to discover that it ends up in the hands of the other side.

But no matter which side holds them, we all lose.

Apparently DHS can search laptops and phones based on "hunches" as well.

I'm not a generally paranoid person, but damn it all to hell. You've got the DOJ and it appears members of the Obama administration targeting "enemies" and now you've got them on a run with them being able to do taps because of whatever they feel like. And people called Bush bad? This is right out of "how to create your own dictatorship." What's next? Said enemies start to disappear because they're not toeing the Obama line.

he's written a bunch of books, plus articles for InfoWorld, PC World, the New York Times, and many other publications.

So he's a professional writer/blogger. What's that got to do with driverless cars?

Last year Peter wrote an article for Car & Driver about the privacy implications of vehicle recorders. Driverless cars will bring us a whole new set of problems, questions, and -- no doubt -- legislation.

So, this leads to his expertise in driverless cars?

On a slightly more Slashdot worthy tangent: What's the deal with keyless automobile "break"-ins. The cops are stumped. Does Slashdot know how?

Where can I get an electronic "jiggler"?

7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State

BELCHERTOWN (CBS) – Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir.

State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates.

The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies. Boston’s drinking water comes from the Quabbin and the Wachusett Reservoirs.

Looks like the Massachusetts State Police were able to spot this one on their own.

Though my suspicion is that these gentlement just got directions to a B&B in Enfield, and didn't realize it was at the bottom of the reservoir now.

7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State

BELCHERTOWN (CBS) – Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir.

State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates.

The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies. Boston’s drinking water comes from the Quabbin and the Wachusett Reservoirs.

The actual numbers vary and vast majority is certainly wrong. However, according to this and this the percentage of solved murders nationally has gone from 90% in the 1960s to less than 65% in 2008. In certain large cities, such as Chicago only 30% are solved, or (according to the article in the Times Record News link above) New Orleans it's only 22% solved and Detroit is 21%. California's solved rate is 55%, with Los Angeles particularly only solving 39%.

By contrast Sweden's solved violent crime rate is 5%, of course very few of those are murders. Canada solves 60% of murders.

There's a lot of value in having a way to undeniably prove your identity

There's more value in anonymity. Especially when the proposed system mimics many systems already in place which have been abused by law ennforcement[1], or are simply privatized tax-dollar money-pit schemes which keep getting tax dollars dumped into them[2].

[1] - http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/10/09/woman-allegedly-stalked-by-schaumburg-police-chief-i-felt-just-complete-hopelessness/
[2] - http://www.legitgov.org/price_obusha_afpak_war_031009.html

A typical winter storm? It dropped 34.5 inches on one town overnight!! (source: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/02/09/snowfall-nearing-record-levels-several-more-inches-coming/). It was the 5th largest storm in the last 100 years in New England! You call that a "typical storm"? Drivers were told to stay indoor as to not interfere (and cause) with emergencies that required emergency services to use the roads. A couple accidents and suddenly not only do those people need rescuing, but the people who have heart attacks at home suddenly can't be reached because accidents are clogging the roads.

Secondly, no one was actually put in jail for travelling on the roads - the emergency ban on travel wasn't enforced with such punitive measures - it was just a threat to let people know the ban wasn't a joke.

Thirdly - I'll agree with you that the militarization of police is scary.

Oh, give it a rest. For a few days I've been hearing the left talk about 'right wing nuts' blowing up the place because it was 15th of April, the tax day. I said on a few occasions that this had to do with the marathon, not with the date. If the marathon took place a day later or a day earlier, that's when the bombs would have gone off.

I'm listening to the CBS Boston live feed and one of the uncles of the two guys said just a little while Tamil (one of the brothers) told him he found his "new self" or something like that in Islam.

So give it a rest, it is what it is.

If a woman is murdered, the cops look at her husband as the most likely suspect, and you know what? Most of the time that's who killed her. Same is here, this is profiling and it works.

No, I am watching live feed from CBS Boston as they interviewed a couple of uncles of the bombers, and he is the source, he said that Tamil told him he was now heavy into Islam.

Can they be seen in the videos/photos of the live fire exercises that occurred in downtown miami earlier this year? http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/01/25/blackhawks-used-in-military-training-exercise-in-miami/ is the only non-wacko-paranoid news site I can find that mentions it, though I remember more sites inculding the miami newspaper mentioning it when it happened. That CBS link also mentions

A similar operation took place in April 2011 in Miami's Brickell area, which frightened many residents in the area.

This time, the training operations were held away from residential areas.

As I explained already, the reason so many bombings involve garbage cans (particularly in western countries) is that every other means of bombing either has a higher risk of getting caught (e.g. leaving a bag in plain sight) or requires someone to commit suicide. Neither of those problems is insurmountable, mind you, but it changes the equation significantly, particularly if the bomber is a lone nutjob rather than part of an organized terrorist organization.

And no, this isn't just speculation and hot air. It's one thing to fail to prevent something that truly could not have been predicted, such as JFK's assassination. It is quite another to fail to prevent a scenario that security experts have been warning about for years. Comments about securing garbage cans in public places against terrorist attacks might legitimately have been dismissed as 20/20 hindsight when these issues were pointed out after the Olympic Park Bombing almost two decades ago or after a few of the IRA bombings in England. Such comments might even have been dismissed as 20/20 hindsight after garbage cans were used in Madrid's train station bombings almost a decade ago. But this is just the latest in a long string of garbage can bombings in the western world, and it was at least the second such incident in the United States. I'm sorry, but that's way past 20/20 hindsight, and well into WTF territory.

It was well understood long before this latest attack that you should avoid putting garbage cans where people are likely to congregate, and that any nearby garbage cans in such places should be designed to absorb most of the force if somebody plants a bomb in them. For example, London ditched most of their garbage cans because of IRA bombings decades ago, and began testing bomb-proof garbage cans almost five years ago. New York has bomb-proof garbage cans in certain key areas as well. Chicago began the process of upgrading theirs a year ago. And so on. Heck, the issue of garbage can safety was even a well understood problem in Boston . Boston just failed to properly address the problem, and three people lost their lives as a direct result of that failure.

Sadly, the underlying reason for that failure seems to be endemic to American government. For the most part, instead of doing useful upgrades that could save lives, we've poured billions of dollars into worthless body scanners at airports and other technology that doesn't actually work. For the amount of money we've squandered on the TSA, we could have installed forty-four million bomb-proof garbage cans in cities across the country. Do the math. IMO, Napolitano should resign, and the TSA and most of Homeland Security should be dismantled, but I'm not holding my breath.

Speaking of holding my breath, why in heck did they put garbage cans right near the pedestrian barricades in the first place? Nobody wants to stand next to a smelly garbage can while watching a race. That's stupid even if you aren't worried about bombers. But I digress.

Do you see cost over-runs, no incentives to keep costs down, no incentive to make availability or improve usability, no incentives for all the other stuff in the shoes market?

Yes.

Now imagine that employers screen your resume by the type of shoe that you're wearing even if the shoes aren't relevant to the job. Wear the wrong shoes and your resume goes in the garbage, so you have an incentive to wear the more expensive ones that employers like. The manufacturers will then have an incentive to produce ever pricier shoes that people will buy in order to better their chances in the job market.

Schools should be private of-course, just like shoes should be private and there should be no taxes going towards schools just like there are no taxes going towards shoes.

Because fuck the children of poor families who can't afford a private school, right? They'll never amount to anything anyway, so they don't deserve even a basic education. They can slave away at part time jobs for minimum wave and sleep in a box in an alleyway.

You're an elitist douchebag who thinks that familial wealth somehow equates to the potential value of a person.

The Spiraling costs are caused by a few different factors, of which most are not addressed by ObamaCare directly.

1) Entitlement attitude. Everyone deserves the exact same level of care, regardless of ability to pay. Rich people do not deserve care they can pay for, and poor who cannot pay, deserve the care rich people can afford, but they themselves cannot.

2) Insurance masking the cost of care.

3) Disparate pricing models based on who is paying.

4) Insurance middleman costs

5) Malpractice Lawsuits (jury awards)

None of those are fixed in ObamaCare. In Fact, ObamaCare makes it even more of a regulatory nightmare. Hell to apply for insurance at one of the Insurance Exchanges requires 60+ pages of paperwork by the IRS. Tell me, how does that make healthcare more affordable?

And in spite of your protestations that everything is going honky dory, it isn't

http://www.dpmafoundation.org/physician-attitudes-on-medicine.html
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/survey-doctors-dropping-out-medicare
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/03/28/california-health-care-costs-to-rise-under-affordable-care-act/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/business/despite-new-health-law-some-see-sharp-rise-in-premiums.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-10/obama-doubles-estimate-to-4-billion-for-health-exchanges.html

All that sounds great in the classroom/laboratory, but in the street it's pure bullshit. The cops can and will do want they want any time they think they will get away with it, including rape. and the biggest lie they continue to tell is that it's not systematic. Well, it is, and the only anomaly is getting caught.

Sociology study after study shows that there is significant racial bias in the police force against blacks. Minorities are more likely to get charged with crimes, arrested, and pulled over for committing the same traffic infraction as compared to whites.[1] This bias exists and is real. This is a significant portion of the story.

The other significant portion of the story is that blacks are far more impoverished than whites, on average. " In 2010, 27.4 percent of blacks and 26.6 percent of Hispanics were poor, compared to 9.9 percent of non-Hispanic whites and 12.1 percent of Asians." [2] Poverty has a strong correlation to violent crime and drug use. "Nonviolent drug offenders now account for about one-fourth of all inmates in the United States, up from less than 10 percent in 1980. " [3] This figure does not include crimes which are committed to support a drug addiction.

Interestingly, violent crime rates are similar in impoverished black and white neighborhoods. "The violent crime rate in highly disadvantaged Black areas was 22 per 1,000 residents, not much different from the 20 per 1,000 rate in similar white communities." [4] This means that despite the proven police bias, for violent crimes, only 2 per 1000 more blacks are convicted of violent crimes as compared to whites in impoverished neighborhoods.

In summary... 50 years after Martin Luther King, Jr., we still have significant racial bias in American Culture. However, we have come a long way as compared to even 25 years ago. As we continue to improve as a nation, and treat others not based on their racial makeup, I believe the poverty inequality will begin to equalize in this nation. We still have a big problem with racism in the US. The racism issue is slowly improving, but there are practical and non-racist reasons why the incarceration rates differ so dramatically between whites and blacks. You don't enslave a population of people for hundreds of years and then turn around, snap your fingers, and suddenly have racial, economic, financial, and social equality. Repairing the damage that was done takes time. Now if our prison system could be more interested in healing instead of retribution...



Interesting Note: There is growing evidence that Lead is the cause of the majority of the violent crime. [5] If this is true, this may explain why the violent crime rates are similar--impoverished people are more likely to be exposed to lead, but impoverished blacks are just as likely to be exposed as whites.

[1] http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/09/blacks-hispanics-still-more-likely-to-get-traffic-tickets-in-illinois/ [2] http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/
[3] http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269208/prison-math-and-war-drugs-veronique-de-rugy
[4] http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/badcomm.htm
[5] http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline

Though in practice, I've never seen anyone arrested for trespass for being asked to leave and not complying before the police arrived (unless there was some other circumstance, like breaking and entering or vandalism). If it has happened, I'd like to hear about it so I can stop pretending it never happens, but at this moment, as far as I know, there has never been a case in US law where a person on open private property was arrested for trespass for not leaving when asked by someone other than a police officer.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/12/12/video-shows-nashua-police-using-taser-on-woman-after-iphone-dispute/

No, it is to stop things like this: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/12/26/columbia-packing-owner-indicted-for-pig-blood-pollution/ All to protect corporations.

Not true. This is what they are trying to prevent. Oh look this took place in Texas as well. http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/12/26/columbia-packing-owner-indicted-for-pig-blood-pollution/

Does this count?" I suspect the difference between the $75k figure and your linked blog's $56k figure is that the $74k is denoted in full-time-equivalent hours. If you take every employee of the union and average their paychecks, you probably do get $56k. But if you correct for all the non-teacher union employees and the people only working part time, you get $75k. I looked at some of the FOIA reports for the CPS and found that there are a number of people on the payroll that work far less than full time.

Also, the two different numbers cover different populations. The CPS numbers are just for CPS union employees, whereas the the BLS account for all people in that category in the metro area. This includes private schools, suburban schools, pre-schools and so on. Of course it's going to be lower.

Also, $50k starting salary for someone with a BA is pretty damn good.

No doubt, teachers' salaries vary across the country, and they suck in many places. But in many places, they are very competitive with other jobs with the same education requirements.

Do you think Monsanto fucking cares? Everything they do is about reducing fertility, making sure no living thing can reproduce on its own without their permission and stamp of approval. Playing God, if you will. And if you think I'm trolling or not serious: link

another.

But I'm sure you know how to use Google, you can find a lot more for yourself.

How about if Holder gave thousands of guns to drug cartels, was then found Contempt of Congress for the coverup of the program. A program that caused the death of hundreds of Mexicans and a US border patrol agent. Of course he would face consequences then.

Unless the prosecutor works for Holder and was told not to prosecute him.

I think the point is painfully clear that if Holder will not be held accountable for deaths of Mexicans and US Border patrol agents that he will not be prosecuted for ANYTHING. It is not FUD, it is fact.

Thats the key :) How long does your average suburban tower last without power? All the zoning, building codes, permits, environmental rules, costs, shareholders vs the FCC?
"A spokesman for the FCC said the agency will look at whether to require backup power."
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/18/sen-schumer-cell-towers-should-have-backup-power-to-prevent-widespread-service-outages-like-after-sandy/
It was to be 8h min of backup electric power at most cell sites but that was lost in the need for more study?
So you have the "... disaster relief efforts near where you live and nationwide" tracking but it only works with power on.
What kind of event can you report on with the power on?
The human one.
So expect a nice option to attach a photo, send location information and enter details about suspicious people.

"Military quality guns" have been practically illegal for private citizens to own since 1930, and literally illegal since 1986.
Doing the right thing and helping to control "military quality guns" would imply limiting the military's access to their own guns.
I don't see how that can be considered doing the right thing.

Of course, that's assuming that you meant fully automatic rifles, assault rifles, or machine guns.
If instead you were referring to "assault weapons", scary-looking rifles, or rifles in general, then I have some news for you.
According to the FBI's statistics, consistently, in the United States, year after year, more people are murdered with hammers and clubs than with rifles.
Hammers and clubs.
Rifles account for a small (roughly 5%, I believe) proportion of gun violence. It's safe to say that rifles aren't the problem.

So then, it seems that by "military quality guns", you mean those plastic Glock pistols that are so popular among inner city gangs. An overwhelming majority of gun violence is committed using hand guns.
Military quality guns, fascinating idea.

There is no border between a retarded state like Texas and a sane one like New York

You mean the same sane state that says you can't buy anything larger than a 16oz soda?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57512246-10391704/sugary-drinks-over-16-ounces-banned-in-new-york-city-board-of-health-votes/

or that restaurants can't put salt on the table?
http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/2010/03/proposed-ny-law-would-ban-salt-in.html

or that bans food donations to homeless shelters because they cannot asses the salt content?
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/19/bloomberg-strikes-again-nyc-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless/

Sounds really sane to me.

Three examples of guns saving lives? Here are three examples of gun owners being shot with their own gun:

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2011/04/mckinney-homeowner-shot-with-h.html/

http://www.wtvy.com/home/headlines/Enterprise_Man_Shot_In_Attempted_Burglary_138608814.html

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/06/21/escalon-police-officer-shot-while-investigating-burglaries/

In fact, tens of thousands of guns are stolen each year (can you cite tens of thousands of cases of gun owners successfully stopping crimes each year?):

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4534

...The TSA?
http://us.gizmodo.com/5947330/yep-the-tsa-is-definitely-stealing-ipads
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/convicted-tsa-officer-reveals-secrets-thefts-airports/story?id=17339513#.UKXz-hLJCPc
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-57523230/beware-your-gadgets-at-risk-of-theft-from-tsa/
http://www.businessinsider.com/tsa-agents-steal-from-passengers-2012-10
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/10/06/tsa-agent-accused-of-stealing-100-from-passengers-wallet/
Yeah, I know some of you are wondering WTF all the links, and "does he have a grudge" and so on. Well, suffice it to say my encounter with the scoundrels was double plus ungood.

Pennsylvania is insane. I moved here 12 years ago from New Zealand and even today it still amazes me that we have these silly and anachronistic laws.

PA wines and spirits shops sell from the same catalog. It means it's all the same price. (Many years ago, before I knew better, I went into a shop and asked about a case discount. The shop clerk didn't understand what I meant.)

That price, by the way, includes an 18% tax known as the Johnstown Flood Tax. (Short version: a city of 30,000 was wiped out in 1936 by a flood. 76 years later, every time you buy a bottle of wine or scotch or gin in Pennsylvania, you're still paying for Johnstown to be rebuilt.)

Recently, an amazingly innovative push in the Liquor Control Board has allowed some supermarkets to sell wine. (This is sarcasm.) They are still wine and spirits shops, so you go into a separate room and check out separately from the assistants who ring up your groceries. One wonders why they even bothered.

A wine and liquor store cannot sell beer. A beer distributor sells beer by the case. You must buy a complete case. If you go to a specialized store (e.g. a deli that is licensed), you can buy by the six-pack - but only two. My wife and I once went to a local deli to buy three six-packs. The clerk rang us up and told my wife to walk out with one six-pack, then for me to follow her five seconds later with the other two. If we walked out together with all three six-packs, we'd be breaking the law.

It's incredibly backwards. There was a case some time ago (2010? 2011?) which claimed that the law against shipping wine into PA (and for some other states) was discriminatory and the state had to treat PA wine makers & external wine makes with the same regulations. I forget what the outcome was - I think you now can order directly from the winery, but only if they've been approved by the state.

I've been to dozens of major cities around the world. The USA doesn't rank well for crime, with so many weapons on the street. And the TSA guys in Minneapolis are far more extreme than anyone at Manchester.

But I haven't been to Baltimore. Perhaps you travel at night for safety?

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/11/06/witness-to-brutal-attack-speaks-with-wjz/

Fine, I'll take it any time. Not only do I hate getting the flu, when the deadly avian flu desaster strikes some day, I'd finally like to put all the doomsday scenario survival skills I've practised in video games for years to a test. :-)

You probably won't get the chance.

There's probably a VERY good reason these conserved regions are not attacked by antibodies, even though it would be evolutionarily beneficial to do so. About the only good reasons are

(1) the way antibodies work, it is impossible (if that were the case, this article wouldn't be here for a few more decades - until we have better gene therapy and could change what antibodies can do) (2) targeting that site would lead to false positives on things that are more beneficial than the flu is harmful.

Plus, some studies have found that getting the regular flu shot has made it more likely you will catch the swine flu. So if you are happy being an experimental Guinea pig, then that is fine by me.

Chicago

Don't forget about that civil war that is coming if Obama wins.

Can we just skip ahead to the magical point in the future where the recounts are done, the lawsuits are complete, and the insanity around the election dies down so we return to life as usual?

That kind of thing happened recently here in the Pittsburgh area.

The details that we know at the moment are that one man backed his vehicle into the other man's vehicle. They began to argue. The man whose vehicle was struck punched the other man in the face. The man who was struck in the face pulled a firearm and shot the attacker, killing him.

The shooter is sitting in jail awaiting arraignment while the investigation continues.

If the story that the witnesses told checks out, I suspect that this shooter will be freed.

LK

If we had landlords who offered free housing in exchange for spying on their tenants, there would be an uproar. In fact, that has happened: Florida, Massachusetts.

Except that if you read TFA that you cite, there was no such exchange. Landlords spied on paying tenants without telling them there would be spying involved. If they had a written contract saying "You will live here for free, and I will have cameras recording you and anyone else in the building for my own purposes," it would be a different story entirely.

There is a sharp difference between paying with currency, and paying with one's right to privacy. The fact that I got modded down (and you got modded up for confusing the issue) is lamentable. If we had landlords who offered free housing in exchange for spying on their tenants, there would be an uproar. In fact, that has happened: Florida, Massachusetts.

Several of us have taken this sort of risk, not knowing if you will get paid, at salaried jobs with sometimes well established companies. This risk is not unique to business leaders, ask the workers at the cushy city jobs of Scranton, PA.

or any of these workers:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/workers-locked-out-600-jobs-gone-as-1st-fleet-shut-down-20120503-1y04c.html
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/06/22/employees-staffing-agency-shut-down-said-no-one-would-be-paid/
http://cjonline.com/news/2012-07-21/seneca-business-closes-paychecks-bounce

The speed limit is 85 because the state gets more money from the toll operator at the higher speed.

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2012/09/07/texas-approves-highest-speed-limit-in-country-at-85-mph/

"The state contract with the toll operator allows the state to collect a $67 million up-front cash payment or a percentage of the toll profits in the future if the speed limit is 80 mph or lower. At 85 mph, the cash payment balloons to $100 million or a higher percentage of toll revenues."

I have an uncle who thinks he's Napoleon. That doesn't mean I'm going to post anonymous astroturf forum comments asking people to enlist in his army.

1. Irrelevant straw man.
2. What's the effective difference between calling yourself "Anonymous Coward" and "Pope Ratzo"? How about "none"?

Um, that's also how school works.

ROFL. What color is the sky on your planet?

... accountability.

BWAA HAA HAAA!!!!

Let's not bullshit here. Education is one of those last big pots of money sitting out there that corporations have not completely been able to make entirely their own.....

Oh NOES! Teh EVIL CORPORATIONS are coming to take over EDUCATION!!!!

So when do *I* get this type of service when my iPad is stolen?

Apparently when it's stolen in Minnesota.

I've heard that speeding isn't the leading, so some research:
Distracted Driving (speeding #2)
Distracted Driving (Speeding #4)
Not using turn signals 2x worse than distracted driving?
distracted driving
Disparities noticed:
Fatigue: #20 in the first list, #2 in the second

Anyways, I like being distracted; I don't particularly like driving. Bring on the self-driving vehicles! Or other way I can get to work/store without having to be behind the wheel.

Probably none if the armed were all trained. You have to show proficiency to get a CC license. This is what happens when a couple of armed robbers try to rob a casino full of people when there's one seventy one year olf man armed and fighting back (the video is amusing). Bottom line -- several shots are fired, the only people shot are the robbers, who flee and are caught and jailed.

Let me Google that for you:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/02/feds-in-nj-26-arrests-made-in-325-million-counterfeit-goods-operation/
http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/03/suspects-arrested-in-counterfeit-purse-operation/
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/14950996/2011/06/21/3-accused-of-selling-counterfeit-nikes-gucci?clienttype=printable
http://gucci.ezinemark.com/replica-gucci-handbags-low-quality-product-for-fashion-7d35cb4db7aa.html

Mostly about selling, but "...you could get yourself arrested, if you are spotted buying counterfeits."

This is only America, you know.