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The small town of Washington, Iowa, pop 7000. Just got a surplus MRAP.
http://dailyiowan.com/2014/04/...

Actually those experiments have been done and in every case a patrolling officer prevents crimes (traffic or otherwise). These experiments have happened in numerous locations and started back before radar speed detection was prevalent. Here is a very recent example, but you can find literally thousands of these studies if you look.

The hiding officer being able to "catch" people collects more revenue for the municipality they work for, and is therefor preferred by those municipalities.

Yup. Thing is, this has precedence in a way with ski masks that comes up rather regularly:

http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/pape r599/news/2007/04/30/Opinions/Uis-Response.To.SkiM ask.Incident.Irresponsible.Walker.Deserves.Public. Apology-2887122.shtml

Earlier this year I think, there was coverage on news.yahoo about some guy trying to change the perception of ski masks. Why? He was from some Northeast state (cold weather state), and one day, wore a ski mask outside a store momentarily as a buddy took a picture, sort of a joke. (From the story, it sounded like he got the ski mask out of his car, walked over to the store, put it on, posed for picture, and took it off.) He got cited for creating a public disturbance because someone else called 911.

Compare that with Lancaster County, PA, early last year or late 2 years ago, some kids (underage, like early high school) had an unloaded rifle in a park to write a story about sniper shootings. They were actually pointing the weapon at people. Someone got alarmed, and something similar again also happened. Not the smartest thing and definitely forseeable and potential immediate harm (as a gun has a known purpose that most people including the kids understands).

There are clear lines here; Boston is along the ski mask lines, and this legislation is wrong in backing that fiasco up.

It seems like the thrashing of engineering programs isn't isolated to areas hit by the hurricanes. Here in Iowa, The University of Iowa has approved an additional "fee" for juniors and seniors in engineering of $500 per student. With an engineering program that's much smaller than Iowa State University's program, this is yet another factor that I think will negatively impact this U of Iowa's engineering student recruiting efforts. The full deal about the fee can be found here.

The university's opinion is that engineering students require a greater amount of staff attention and information technology resources (something for which engineers already paid a $70 annual fee). I feel this is just another slap in the face to another engineering program. Already our nation is falling behind other countries in terms of the number of students graduated annually in the fields of engineering and the hard sciences. Now we're given yet another obstacle, this time financial, which I think will further discourage students from pursuing degrees in engineering. Engineering has some of the most difficult and rigorous coursework of any area of study, and now students at U of Iowa are expected to pay more for the pleasure of having to deal with weekly all-nighters, homework that never quits, and projects with impossible due dates. And as for why the increase is just for juniors and seniors? Simple, smaller class sizes in upper-level studies increases the relative amount spent on teaching each student in the smaller class. I say it's just for those years because once students have committed two years to a university, transferring becomes very difficult and the students have no choice but pay the fee and continue at their present institution.

So like I said in the title, I would suggest getting out of that sinking ship down in Tulane, but be sure before you move that you are going to be attending a university that respects its engineering program at least as much as its liberal arts and sciences program. If you can't find a place that's better that you can easily transfer into, then you may actually want to stay. Better the devil you know, right?

That's not my point, though, as a relevant story is happening in Galesburg, IL with Maytag closing down its plant there to outsource jobs to Mexico. Many speakers appeared there, including Barack Obama, to denounce outsourcing.

...And in the past, you would have been correct. The reason privacy advocates get so worked up about such forms of electronic monitoring and automated law enforcement is simply that it "lowers the bar", so to speak. It reduces the required effort for "them" to check up on anything they want to, and the more a governing authority is able to watch, the more it will do so.

Today, you might not worry because you're not a young Arab male. But, the government DOES care what organizations you associate with, how much cold medicine you purchase, and passes laws allowing secret searches of private homes. Tomorrow, we don't know what might be illegal. What we do know is that when the government knows it cannot pass something frontally, it will attempt to do so incrementally. (PATRIOT II, anyone?) They hope that, like the proverbial frog in the boiler pan, that we won't notice until it is too late. This is why some people are up in arms about seemingly trivial expansion of governmental powers...to stop the slow, incremental erosion of individual liberty.

Minnesota can't even beat Iowa at that game!

$8 million on an ice palace in Minnesota makes perfect sense compared to $220 million for a !@#$% tropical rain forest in Iowa.

They're still trying to get it done....

So kids, the moral of the story... Don't think with your dick. Someone should have told this TA at the University of Iowa that. The Daily Iowan reported that former UI teaching assistant Frederick Richard "Dick" Williams forced her to watch him mastrubate after telling him that she "would do anything to get a better grade in the class in which she was struggling but was required to pass for her nursing major."

He gave her the option of a "two-minute plan" where she would sit next to a naked Williams and touch his penis or a "five minute plan" where he would sit naked, but further away from her while she watched him touch himself.

"He had his arm around my chair, and he kept asking me if I'd ever seen this before," she said. "He then put my hand on his penis and told me to squeeze," she said, adding that he ejaculated into her hand and a handkerchief. "I told him that was disgusting, and he said, 'I'm sorry' and that he didn't want to take my virginity."

Thomas' defense denies that the alleged event ever happened.

However, anonymous sources have reported that the woman's grade was raised to a "C Mynuts."

You can also find a local article from the Daily Iowan here: http://www.dailyiowan.com/news/351119.html?mkey=56 0858