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Summary mentions the myth of the ivy league drop out...

Dare I ask? What about the myth of the grad student who has a stellar career in the midst of the biggest college/university fee hike --and possibly the shittiest economy-- in history?

Anyone care to tell them that their lifetime salary bump for having their degree will not necessarily pay for the debt they took on early in life, since the career prospects for many of them will be flipping burgers or waiting at restaurants anyway? (Don't laugh, most of you have been served at least once by a lawyer or PhD. It occasionally pays better.

Do you check all atms, gas pumps, etc that you use for card skimmers? http://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/ , http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110818-37041.html and http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/11/17/atm-skimming-device-found-at-eastern-bank-in-taunton/

They are getting pretty good at making realistic ones. And in some cases have gotten them inside gas pumps.

If that was addressed to me: yes, I do, always. Although as you say, some skimmers now are undetectable to customer.

Do you check all atms, gas pumps, etc that you use for card skimmers? http://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/ , http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110818-37041.html and http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/11/17/atm-skimming-device-found-at-eastern-bank-in-taunton/

They are getting pretty good at making realistic ones. And in some cases have gotten them inside gas pumps.

First Google hit, being charged for meals has been around for over a decade too, even if found innocent you get to pay for the stay.

The NYSenate are mostly first rate Republican morons.
The NY House are mostly first rate Democratic morons.

Some, however, consist of second or even third rate morons, and the level of moronity varies wildly depending on the amount of grandstanding the moron needs to complete to achieve the next level.

For example,

http://www.theagitator.com/2010/03/11/new-york-lawmaker-wants-to-ban-salt/

As you can see, Felix Ortiz needed to graduate to Grand Moron Extraordinaire, and did so with flying colors.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/01/25/ny-sen-wants-ban-on-chatting-while-crossing-street/
In this example, Senator Karl Kruger, also earned the title of Grand Moron Extraordinaire.

In conclusion, these people are fucking morons, they're elected because they know how to be popular, not because they have a clue.

His point is that there is no evidences that any of t is getting into the water table

If it can't possibly affect the water table, why do drilling companies end up shipping water to people such as Mr. Ira Haire, who live near their fracking sites?

Why are the horses and pets in Dimock, PA, losing their hair?

Why is the EPA detecting fracking chemicals in the aquifers of Pavillion, Wyoming?

How about this Oklahoma Geological Survey report (PDF) that suggests the recent uptick in earthquakes were caused by fracking?

What about waste treatment plants that fail to successfully reduce the levels of contaminants before discharging the water into a river?

How about the President of the Marcellus Shale Coalition admitting that fracking has contaminated the drinking water in PA?

And what happens to the chemicals *after* they're pulled out of the ground? Sometimes they just dump it, like the case of Josh Foster.

Fracking can be done right. But it's expensive and requires the cooperation of many disparate companies and enforcement of regulations (or any regulations at all; I'm looking at you, Halliburton Loophole). And expensive is not profitable.

His point is that there is no evidences that any of t is getting into the water table

If it can't possibly affect the water table, why do drilling companies end up shipping water to people such as Mr. Ira Haire, who live near their fracking sites?

Why are the horses and pets in Dimock, PA, losing their hair?

Why is the EPA detecting fracking chemicals in the aquifers of Pavillion, Wyoming?

How about this Oklahoma Geological Survey report (PDF) that suggests the recent uptick in earthquakes were caused by fracking?

What about waste treatment plants that fail to successfully reduce the levels of contaminants before discharging the water into a river?

How about the President of the Marcellus Shale Coalition admitting that fracking has contaminated the drinking water in PA?

And what happens to the chemicals *after* they're pulled out of the ground? Sometimes they just dump it, like the case of Josh Foster.

Fracking can be done right. But it's expensive and requires the cooperation of many disparate companies and enforcement of regulations (or any regulations at all; I'm looking at you, Halliburton Loophole). And expensive is not profitable.

Probably this sort of thing gets boring after some days having to look at this machine...

Why don't you ask the hot girls who have to go back and forth through the scanners while they call a few more people over to have a look, "just to be sure".

Or the pedophiles who've been arrested while in the employ of the TSA.

Just because you don't mind, or you think you'd get bored, doesn't mean everybody else feels the same.

It's not about a rule that says children should be excluded. It's about common sense.

This happened because the mentally challenged TSA morons saw that the kid "touched" grandma and one idiot even thought she could have passed a gun.

There just another story today on drudge about a little girl with cerebral palsy being patted down.

TSA: Government Work Program for the unemployable.

Thinking of the children only applies when your civilian I guess and not employed by a billion dollar governmental agency apparently...

On a side note...

FTFA....

"The TSA released a statement Tuesday saying it explained to the family why additional security procedures were necessary and that agents didn't suspect or suggest the child was carrying a firearm."

So they did all this, not because the felt there was a potential threat - but because of why? Then you have this story as well where after the family was allowed through, the TSA spent an hour looking for them to force them back for a rescreening. Considering that they apparently dont do very well at actually finding potentially dangerous items (hell even my own Dad found he had a 4" blade on his carry on items he forgot about) the only 'reason' for all this is to keep the general populace in check and forced into submission?

Yesterday it was a seven year old kid with cerebral palsy.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/04/26/father-tsa-got-aggressive-with-cerebral-palsy-stricken-7-year-old-from-long-island/

We couldn't give a shit what's in your bag, we just want to get done and go home.

Some of your coworkers disagree.

We couldn't give a shit what's in your bag, we just want to get done and go home.

Some of your coworkers disagree.

If your idea of a weekend's recreation is to go to a bar, get drunk, and get into a frontier fight, yes, if you kill somebody with an unlucky punch and you can't establish self-defense, you might be convicted of homicide or murder, in Australia or the civilized parts of America. That's what homicide is.

You made the point that unarmed people had been shot and that you didn't consider it self defense if someone else used a gun. You consistently want to avoid the implications of your arguments. For many people a gun a reasonable tool to defend themselves from an attacker, even an unarmed one.

The reason stand your ground laws have so much support is because they are just. Self defense is an inalienable right.

And so what? That trafic signal is there only because a car is a danger for everything around it. There is no need to control the bike (and the ciclist will even control hinself if he wishes to live - what's not granted).

That's incorrect; bicyclists tend to believe it, but there are a lot of pedestrians getting run down by bicyclists. Here's an article on a fatality in San Francisco last year, resulting in vehicular manslaughter charges:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/03/12/bicyclist-sentenced-to-probation-in-fatal-sf-embarcadero-crash/

And here's a study About pedestrian-cyclist accidents from 2007-2010 in New York state. Basically bicycles send ~1000 pedestrians a year to the hospital in New York alone. Also, it's mostly kids and teens being run over.

http://gothamist.com/2011/09/19/pedestrians_are_hit_by_more_bicycli.php

-- Terry

You do know there are other eyewitnesses who claimed that was not the case? That's your probable cause right there.

Fabulous! New information! I'm for new information. Here is a link showing the eye witness I'm referring to:

In addition, an eyewitness, 13-year-old Austin Brown, told police he saw a man fitting Zimmerman's description lying on the grass moaning and crying for help just seconds before he heard the gunshot that killed Martin.

And here is another report, which seems consistent with the above, and seems to be someone different:

After hearing raised voice, the witness said he peered out of the window and saw two men grappling with each other on the ground, one on top of the other. He said there were two struggles, both of which were on the grass next to a sidewalk. “I heard the yell for help then I heard another as I would describe as an excruciating type of yell. It didn’t even sound like a help it just sounded so painful,” he said. Following the cry, he described hearing “popping” sounds, believed to be multiple gunshots. One of the men then cried out for help.

And of course Zimmerman was treated on the scene for head injuries, which is again consistent with the other reports.

As it was, the police took Zimmerman in for questioning in handcuffs, and released him. They know where he lives.

Do you have a link for me?

How about the surveillance video from the police station showing Zimmerman with no injuries after he was brought in? If his head was slammed into concrete such that he was at risk of dying, you would have been able to see it half an hour later. Here's the link you asked for. I bet you don't even view it - you've already made up your mind.

Oh look, if I look at CBS New York, there is a fuller article saying that it is a list of suggested words that may be banned from tests.

And the CBS story has the whole list of words being mulled over.

In other words, the debate over what should on the list is ongoing.

The reason for this is that you want to make tests that are fair to everyone. If you're going to make a math test with word problems, you don't bring up the subject of murder. The obvious drawback is that it makes tests boring. Big fucking deal.

TFS and The Post has taken this to mean they are already banned and that this is just more "educrat nonsense" and it's written in such breathless style (they even use the word bizarre to describe it) merely to be inflammatory. It's journalistic porn.

While I agree the list, as it stands, is sub-optimal, it doesn't mean that the list is final and that it's probably likely that the list is going to get a lot shorter.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/26/war-on-words-nyc-dept-of-education-wants-50-forbidden-words-removed-from-standardized-tests/

I told you there was more to this, but hey, let everyone believe the fucking Post. The Post is in the business of selling newspapers, not news.

--
BMO

Yeah, law enforcement action over twitter posts is insane.

You'd better find your own posse because often times the police do not care (not the first time I have heard of something similar)

IMHO, someone needs to implement a lithium ion battery detonator, which can be activated within minutes of the theft. Perhaps then, the police will realize what happens when you deny someone legal ways to solve their disputes.

Instead of bricking, lock the user interface, put them in a periodic beaconing mode, and send the posse after the phone.

You'd better find your own posse because often times the police do not care (not the first time I have heard of something similar)

Put heart disease drugs in the water supply so we can combat the racism of these envious disgruntled aging white males who are opposed to importing a substantial portion of the population of Asia to the US.

Its almost as though they think the US is entitled to territory or some Holocaust-spawning idea like that.

Even the current system isn't correct. The Republican Party holds voting accuracy as near sacred as part of their party talking points. Take a look at how they handled a primary season where they should have absolute control over the rules:
* Iowa went from Romney to Santorum, though a statistical tie, because someone mistyped a 2 as 22: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/01/18/rick-santorum-might-have-actually-won-the-iowa-caucuses
* Maine almost didn't even count a whole county: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/maines-miscount-one-county-might-be-included-after-saturday/
* Nobody can seem to make up their minds on what to do about Florida. It is supposed to be, normally, a winner take all state. It moved its primary up and got sanctioned by the party by having its delegates cut in-half. Also, it may or may not be proportional. We'll find out in August: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/26/2610390/fight-looms-over-fla-delegates.html
* Missouri has two elections this year. The first doesn't county, but everyone is assuming it will. The one that was held already was state mandated, but the state Republicans, not wanting to lose half their delegates, have decided that one won't count. They'll have a second one that will really count. Note : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/missouri-primary-2012-explained_n_1257817.html
* She was allowed to vote once it was all sorted out, but an 84-year-old was initially told she was dead when she appeared at the polls: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/03/07/84-year-old-fall-river-woman-tries-to-vote-told-shes-dead/

My apologies to any Republicans I offended with these results. I only used these examples as they are near immediate in time scale.

The current voting system is full of flaws. It has been full of flaws. It will likely remain full of flaws. No need to worry about hackers mucking up an election when a typo can swing an election, and never have gotten caught if someone didn't post an image to FaceBook. So I don't see on-line voting as some type of corrupting influence on a pristine system.

The problem I see here is in the oversight. Considering it took two days for Washington D.C. to notice, I would say the real problem was not so much that the system got hacked, but D.C. didn't care enough about the election to monitor it as it was going on. The same lackluster oversight could still swing *cough*Iowa*cough* a close election.

If the caller is speaking too loud, you get up, go over to him, and politely ask him to tone it down. When I do that, the caller is inevitably embarrassed, apologizes, and more often than not, hangs up promptly thereafter.

Stop living in Nerdly Passive-Aggressive Panties-in-a-Wad Anxiety and join the Human Race.

I'd like to see you try this on a bus that goes through North Philadelphia. I don't think you'd get the expected results.

To spell it out: in many parts of the country, trashy people tend to be the ones who ride the bus the most. Trashy people tend to have poor impulse control, low tolerance for threats to their ego, and an overinflated sense of self. That translates to a high potential for violent responses to innocuous requests. (And that's not even considering the racial dynamics that are potentially involved.)

I appreciate your honest approach to the issue. And you're probably right, done with proper regulations and safety precautions fracking can be safe...in theory. You only saw one piece of the puzzle, so here are some more pieces.

In practice, one thing you need to consider is what happens to the chemicals *after* they're pulled out of the ground. Sometimes they just dump it, like the case of Josh Foster.

If it can't possibly affect the water table, why do drilling companies end up shipping water to people such as Mr. Ira Haire, who live near their fracking sites?

Why are the horses and pets in Dimock, PA, losing their hair?

Why is the EPA detecting fracking chemicals in the aquifers Pavillion, Wyoming?

How about this Oklahoma Geological Survey report that suggests the recent uptick in earthquakes were caused by fracking?

What about waste treatment plants that fail to successfully reduce the levels of contaminants before discharging the water into a river?

How about the President of the Marcellus Shale Coalition admitting that fracking has contaminated the drinking water in PA?

Fracking can be done right. But it's expensive and requires the cooperation of many disparate companies and enforcement of regulations (or any regulations at all; I'm looking at you, Halliburton Loophole). And expensive is not profitable.

I appreciate your honest approach to the issue. And you're probably right, done with proper regulations and safety precautions fracking can be safe...in theory. You only saw one piece of the puzzle, so here are some more pieces.

In practice, one thing you need to consider is what happens to the chemicals *after* they're pulled out of the ground. Sometimes they just dump it, like the case of Josh Foster.

If it can't possibly affect the water table, why do drilling companies end up shipping water to people such as Mr. Ira Haire, who live near their fracking sites?

Why are the horses and pets in Dimock, PA, losing their hair?

Why is the EPA detecting fracking chemicals in the aquifers Pavillion, Wyoming?

How about this Oklahoma Geological Survey report that suggests the recent uptick in earthquakes were caused by fracking?

What about waste treatment plants that fail to successfully reduce the levels of contaminants before discharging the water into a river?

How about the President of the Marcellus Shale Coalition admitting that fracking has contaminated the drinking water in PA?

Fracking can be done right. But it's expensive and requires the cooperation of many disparate companies and enforcement of regulations (or any regulations at all; I'm looking at you, Halliburton Loophole). And expensive is not profitable.

You're understanding is nice in theory but utterly failed to the nth degree in reality.

I mean, who the heck thinks of using a chainsaw to go through the front door of a house. It's not even a fast or effective way. A sledgehammer is far more efficient.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/31/fbi-uses-chainsaw-in-raid-on-wrong-fitchburg-apartment/

It doesn't matter. The point is ALL power plants that use a heat energy source will result in heating of cooling water, be it 1950s nuclear plant or 2010 gas fired plant or whatever. Period. The point of throwing nuclear in there is to scare people, nothing more. It is utter garbage.

There are regulations that limit temperature of discharged water. It is because of these regulations that power plants shut down during hot summer. There is NOTHING about power plants that prevents them from working at 50C water vs. 25C water, they are just less efficient.

Anyway, this is a garbage premise. Utter garbage. How about positives of local warmer water???

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/12/08/croc-boom-at-turkey-point-boosts-species/
http://blogs.aip.org/clean/2011/12/nuclear-power-plant-helps-save-crocodiles.html

A reptile was taken off the endangered species list, in part, because of a nuclear power plant. The Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant's 168 miles of cooling canals, located in southeast Florida, have provided an ideal breeding environment for the American crocodiles.

The cooling channels are used by many larger animals to stay warm.

Citations provided:

TSA expands to trains. Union Station in DC is popular, along with several of the larger subway stations. However, there were also high-profile incidents in Savannah, GA as well.: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/12/27/from-planes-to-trains-tsa-expands-spot-searches-to-union-station/

TSA expands to bus stops in Maryland and D.C. Additional incidents have been noted in Indianapolis.: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/17/tsa-comes-to-your-bus-stop/

TSA partners with Tennessee for portable scanners at Interstate weigh stations: http://www.newschannel5.com/story/15725035/officials-claim-tennessee-becomes-first-state-to-deploy-vipr-statewide

VIPR is versatile.

that 23% is also the difference between a successful product line and one shut down.

Should an isolated product suddenly cost 23% more it will suffer badly in the market, therefore domestic manufacturing is not viable. This argument is unrealistic and naive at best, or disingenuous at worst. Trade with China isn't about iPhones. It's about EVERYTHING being manufactured in Asia. All products, all brands. In fact, it's really about all imports that allow you to accumulate stuff while eluding the regulatory burdens imposed by the government you elect and eluding the cost of employing fellow citizens that don't, for some strange reason, care to live in factory dormitories to provide you with low, low Walmart prices.

The net result of eliminating the cost savings of outsourcing to Asia is that the final cost of all products that currently do not incur domestic manufacturing costs will be higher. No one brand or product will suffer an isolated cost increase; everything will cost more.

Will that mean fewer iPhones and Nexus Galaxies sold? Yes. Will the smart phone market disappear? No. Of course not. People will replace their stuff less frequently and be less reckless with their purchasing in general. That isn't a bad thing. God forbid we do not all replace our $500+ phone every 12 months or suffer with only one x-box.

Let's consider the other side effects of not outsourcing our manufacturing base. Read this to understand the consequences of forsaking the working class for low, low walmart prices. US income disparity is accelerating and this is caused by making our working class compete with dormitory housed disposable Asian workers that live, sleep and breath their foreman's whim, on your behalf.

Another effect will be a vast reduction of environmental impact. The US has a regulatory regime with teeth. Some meat packer in butt-fuck Texas dumps blood in the river and it's news, the EPA swoops in and corrections occur. The Chinese have deadened whole regions of their land recycling your electronics and the Chinese government just chases out the journalists. If you actually care about the Earth and it's fate then your path is clear; stop the export of western pollution to the third world. If you're really just a NIMBYist and can't live without disposably cheap stuff swirling around your life, then continue advocating "free trade."

70% of all imports to the US are tariff free. The largest part of the remaining 30% is fossil fuel in various forms. No other nation has anything approaching the abject surrender of its manufacturing base presently occurring in the US. No presidential candidates, incumbent or otherwise, are seriously advocating any change to this situation. Your Secretary of State is a former Walmart executive.

You frequently encounter a sentiment that goes approximately thus; "the days of prosperity in the US for unskilled workers are over; if you fail to incur huge education debt and assume a place among the well compensated elite you should expect to be miserable, and you deserve it." If that's you then you need to look around. Your lifestyle has an expiration date. Part of the coping mechanism we have used to offset working class decline is lowering the tax burden on lower end of the scale. As a result, 51% of income earners in the US are paying no net federal income tax while we're running a $1.3E12 defic

Your new cancer and lack of presumed innocence are a small price to pay, in order to defeat statistically non-existant terrorists.

Police Commissioner Kelly said the scanner would only be used in reasonably suspicious circumstances and could cut down on the number of stop-and-frisks on the street.

But the New York Civil Liberties Union is raising a red flag.
"It's worrisome. It implicates privacy, the right to walk down the street without being subjected to a virtual pat-down by the Police Department when you're doing nothing wrong," the NYCLU's Donna Lieberman said.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/17/nypd-testing-gun-scanning-technology/

After years of rebuffing health concerns over airport scanners, the Transportation Security Administration plans to conduct new tests on the potential radiation exposure from the machines at more than 100 airports nationwide.

But the TSA does not plan to retest the machines or passengers. Instead, the agency plans to test its airport security officers to see if they are being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation while working with the scanners.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-travel-briefcase-20120116,0,7082529.story

"Society will pay a huge price in cancer because of this," John Sedat, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco, told CNET. Sedat has raised concerns about the health risks of X-ray scanners, and the European Commission in November prohibited their use in European airports.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57358146-281/dhs-x-ray-scanners-could-be-cancer-risk-to-border-crossers/

Ha! DNS?

It's becoming illegal to buy Drain Cleaner without photo-identification and a log signature

Yes, in Chicago.

I was referring to a news item where a baby was thrown out of a car not a movie, well maybe the word movie was wrong of me, .. i'll see if i can find the event. http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/12/13/little-known-seat-belt-danger-could-claim-life-of-child-in-seconds/ http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1194767n i'm sure if you check google you'll find several, .. also i'll try and find the news event i was referring to.

You have a strange interpretation of Jim Crow since Occupy protestors clearly appeared involved these crimes:

1. NY: 10/1/2011 Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
2. Madison, WI: 10-27-2011 Madison Occupiers Lose Permit Due to Public Masturbation
3. Phoenix: 10/28/2011 Flier at Occupy Phoenix Asks, “When Should You Shoot a Cop?”
4. NY: 10/18/2011 Thieves Preying on Fellow Protesters
5. NY: 10/9/2011 Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters Accused of Living in Filth as Shocking Pictures Show One Demonstrator Defecating on a POLICE CAR
6. NY: 10/7/2011 Occupiers Rush Police More
7. Cleveland: 10/18/2011 ‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped
8. NY: 10/10/2011 ‘Increasingly Debauched’: Are Sex, Drugs & Poor Sanitation Eclipsing Occupy Wall Street?
9. Seattle: 10/18/2011 Man Accused of Exposing Self to Children Arrested
10. 10/12/2011 Iran Supports Occupy Wall Street
11. Portland: 10/16/2011 #OccupyPortland Protester Desecrates Memorial To U.S. War Dead
12. Portland: 10/15/2011 #OccupyPortland Protesters Sing “F*** The USA”
13. Chicago: 10/17/2011 COMMUNIST LEADER Cheered at Occupy Chicago
14. 10/15/2011 American Nazi Party Endorses Occupy Wall Street‘s ’Courage,‘ Tells Members to Support Protests and Fight ’Judeo-Capitalist Banksters’
15. Boston: 10/14/2011 Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents
16. Boston: 10/11/2011 Boston Police Arrest Over 100 from Occupy Boston
17. New York: 10/11/2011 You Can Have Sex with Animals.
18. New York: 10/15/2011 Harassing Police with Accusations of Phony Injuries
19. New York: 10/9/2011 Occupy Wallstreet Protesters Steal from Local Businesses
20. New York: 10/25/2011 Three M

That's a call the parents have to make. They could go to the movie with the kids and assume the adult elements won't make an impact. They can choose a different movie. They can hire a sitter. They have options. I just wish crying rooms were also still available.

And speaking of movies when I was a kid - Breakfast at Tiffany's flew right over my head. I watched it again a couple of weeks ago and while the imagery was tame, the themes certainly weren't. That movie was in theaters before my time but my parents did take me along for Barbarella. I was 8 years old. Not a problem. None of the adult content made the slightest impression. Frankly, I think the whole problem of inappropriate content is overblown. If the parents are present, "inappropriate" is roughly equivalent to "teachable moment".

Attitudes were different back then. Up until the late 1970s, if you wanted to take your little kid into an adult book store, that was perfectly legal in most jurisdictions. The government generally took the attitude that the way you choose to expose your kids to adult topics was up to you, the parent. This became an issue here in Texas earlier this year when a father showed explicit sex education movies to his 8 and 9-year-old kids. There was no evidence of any bad intent on his part. He simply considered them teaching aids and the law in Texas specifically makes it legal for a parent to show explicit content to their kids for educational purposes. The local nanny-staters went ape-shit, of course, and they managed to get him wrist-slapped for "showing a minor harmful material". Story here: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/03/17/dad-shows-kids-porn-mom-fights-to-change-law/

For all our advancement and supposedly increased sophistication, we sometimes seem a lot more prudish than we were back in the day. I sure can't figure out why.

An addendum about the Hayes Code - I sure love a bunch of movies that were made pre-Hayes. The first one or two Tarzan movies predated Hayes (Jane was *sooo* naked under that skimpy costume) and there were all those Biblical epics with 200 female extras in the orgy scenes wearing only a few bits of diaphanous material. Man oh man, when I was a teen and we got our first VCR, you better believe I got ahold of as much of that stuff as I could. :-)

Actually it says it "...tore through a cinder-block wall..."

That is what the article from the SF says. I'm talking about the TV news report.

Here is what the TV news report says:

"This cannonball was supposed to go through several barrels of water and through a cinder block, and then ultimately into the side of the hill," said J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County Sheriff's Department.

Instead the cannonball flew over the foothills surrounding Camp Parks Military Firing Reservation, before spiraling back toward Dublin like a cruise missile.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/12/06/tv-experiment-goes-awry-sends-cannonball-rocketing-through-homes/

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/11/11/report-health-concerns-grow-at-zuccotti-park/

You're wrong.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/09/26/nyc-anti-terror-capabilities-include-ability-to-bring-down-aircraft/

"Lee Rasmussen set a new .50 BMG Single Target World Record at the FCSA 2009 World Championships held at the NRA Whittington Center in Raton, NM 4th of July 2009 by shooting a 1.955" 5-shot group in the Heavy Gun Class 1000yd record competition and by doing so breaks the late Skip Talbot’s 2.600" long standing single-group record set in 1999 by over 1/2". Lee’s group works out to .1868 MOA."
http://www.fcsa.org/wwwroot/index.php

2 inch grouping at 1000 yards, a plane moving towards you at take off is as good as a stationary object, you get more than one try it is a semi auto.
But lets say you aren't that good a shot, well then put it thru one of the engines, that target is 3 meters wide.

All of the above showing you are wrong, your "science" is made up crap with special circumstances, no one is buying your BS and once again, if you're under 30 then almost your entire generation is muddled morons that watch to much TV, in fact 2 people here felt "mythbusters" is some how the final answer for these sort of things, just go to the range and look at something in real life rather than your LCD.

Oh... get rid of your TV as well.

>>Who thinks this has anything to do with algorithms, as opposed to things like the "Bing Bar" coming preloaded on Windows 7?

I've notice a media push against Google lately. A recent article circulating that Google would be indexing FaceBook as if it
were Googles fault that they were allowed to do this in the first place.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/11/03/google-to-index-facebook-comments-as-search-results/
-BTW that poll results never changes on that link

(In case: no it's not Google's fault, it's FaceBook's fault for allowing the spider through.)

I can't help you if you refuse to read a newspaper, look up statistics, or generally pretend that stuff that's happening isn't really happening. Here, here's a sample of what the FBI has done lately:

http://www.collateralvision.com/?p=446

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/23/2280652/james-whitey-bulger-boston-mobster.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/09/national/main20041229.shtml

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/19/fbi-arrests-man-as-agent-of-pakistan/?page=all

http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-09-03/news/30117033_1_fbi-arrests-campaign-treasurer-kinde-durkee

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/01/20/feds-arrest-over-100-in-ny-nj-mob-takedown/

But that's all just the lazy feds, doing nothing all day long, I'm sure. Here's a tip: actually being informed is much more effective in life than striking a hip pose and pretending to be informed.

Oh, for want of a lit cigarette...

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/09/12/lowell-gas-station-attendant-hoses-robbery-attempt/

In other news, delays blamed on "failed router"

Testing?

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/08/09/bart-says-faulty-network-router-caused-massive-monday-night-delays/

-- Terry

The Trusted Traveler Program looks like a door with a lock that's waiting for a criminal to pick it.

Governments have tried for centuries to figure out a way to positively identify people and they've never been able to do it, which makes the whole system useless when it's purpose is to stop crime. Are we to believe that the Trusted Traveler Program will work while, at the same time, FBI Top Ten Most Wanted serial murderers like mobster Whitey Bulger are able to travel freely across the U.S. and across international borders using fake IDs and fake passports which are available to anyone with the incentive?

Bulger offers new details to authorities
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/06/26/report-whitey-bulger-traveled-to-mexico-several-times-to-get-medicine/

Maybe but in Pennsylvania, drilling companies have backed away: "Major gas exploration companies such as Chesapeake and Cabot are reducing their drilling significantly — and others like Talisman Energy have shifted some of that drilling to places like Texas where taxes are close to nil and where there is little opposition to the drilling unlike western Pennsylvania where environmentalists have come out strongly against the drilling and the city of Pittsburgh has passed an all-out ban." http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/01/24/drilling-companies-reduce-investment-in-pennsylvania/

yep, and if it is that they want to allot it based on particular road usage just get anonymous cellular tower use data and allot it proportionally. The privacy issue is somewhat moot now though, as they can already track you without something specifically installed in your car between cellular gps and high speed cameras (which they are already using instead of toll booths in south florida: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/02/20/cash-less-tolls-have-begun-on-the-florida-turnpike/

I am not a person who breaks laws (well, I may speed a little), but I will never buy a product from a company that keeps a log of my phone calls on the product and doesn't openly warn me about it. That got hacked and yet Apple is the most secure??? Most secure what? Most secure company whose name begins with "Apple"? (There are obviously companies whose names begin with "Appl" that are more secure.)

Yea, so the logs are encrypted and hidden now. How long till the Nazi SS regime we live under starts routinely collecting iDevices to get the iPhone iLogs off of iThem, at gunpoint and without a warrent, and Apple graciously rolls over and gives them the keys without a legal reason like ATT did with the internet backbone tap?

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/06/07/witness-claims-police-tried-to-destroy-sobe-shooting-video/

Also see this post on Yfrog's insecure "random" email address generation that likely played a role in the hack:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/248630_yfrog_secret_email_addresses_a

Yeah, it was hacked.

Which must be why Weiner is so adamant about getting the FBI involved.

Oh, wait. He's not, now is he?

Yeah, I know. He doesn't want to "waste taxpayer money" on a "prank". Or maybe he just doesn't want to caught making false statements to police, because he had no qualms about wasting taxpayer money on getting police to toss a reporter out:

Weiner’s Office Calls The Police After CBS 2s Marcia Kramer Asks For An Interview

Congressman Anthony Weiner said Thursday he’s finished talking about the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account.

But he still wouldn’t say whether he’s the one in the picture.

So CBS 2 political reporter Marcia Kramer decided to go to his office on Capitol Hill to try to get you some answers.

You’ll never believe what happened.

Kramer tried to get an interview with the six-term New York Democrat and as a result had the cops called on her.

Yeah, but his account was HACKED!!!!

Which MUST be why Weiner won't deny that's his weiner in the photo, right?

Which MUST be why Weiner won't get the FBI involved in tracking down the hacker, right?

And Weiner has a history of being a, umm, dick to women. Here's what the ranting founding member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Jonathan Chait wrote today for Rush Limbaugh's favorite online site, The New Republic (oh, that's "sarcasm", by the way. Chait and TNR are hardly members of any VRWC or favorite of Rush Limbaugh):

Anthony Weiner's Skeeziness

The best starting point for understanding the bizarre controversy surrounding Anthony Weiner is this great 2001 Vanity Fair story about the culture of interns and exploitative sex on Capitol Hill:

        The women are heckled as they enter. “Tell us your name and where you are from,” says one of the men. As if on a game show the women comply, one by one. When Caroline says she is an intern, the largest of the group, a white-haired man with a big belly and big laugh, roars, “We’re afraid of interns.” He throws his knife at a lean man named Mike, at the other end of the table. Mike is unamused. He threatens to throw it back. Another guy, rotund and jolly-faced, stands up and does an impression of Marlon Brando doing Don Corleone. The others think it’s hysterical.

        Diana whispers that there is no way they can be congressmen. She figures they are businessmen. She wonders how she is going to get out.

        They are congressmen—although at first they pretend not to be. One, the youngest, with a tiny goatee, introduces himself as Anthony, an auto-parts salesman. The others call him “the Jewish kid” and make fun of his beard. Their real names and states are as follows: the auto-parts salesman is Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.); the lean Mike is Michael Capuano (D-Mass.); the jolly guy who imitated Brando is John Larson (D-Conn.); the man who was worried about interns is Robert Brady (D-Pa.).

Nice guy.

I won't insult your intelligence by asking you if you REALLY believe Weiner's account was hacked.

I don't think disinfectants do a very good job. Not to mention bacteria build up resistances to disinfectants and become more dangerous. Tossing them into a super heated furnace sounds like it would be much more difficult for them to adapt.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/03/04/hospital-bacteria-strain-killing-patients/

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/05/29/3661803/deadly-bacteria-lurk-inside-hospital.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/08/10/us-bacteria-hospital-idUSTRE5795AN20090810

FYI, this is not a conspiracy theory unless you've been hiding under a rock.

Several states are testing plans to tax mileage as more people move to green or high mileage vehicles. They have become dependent on gas tax like they did on tobacco tax. When people change their habits, suddenly the government finds itself cash strapped.

And of course this isn't going to replace the gas tax...