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Uh, yeah. That's why NY leads the country in population loss. https://www.democratandchronic...

New York City’s population grew 5% between 2010-2018.

By your linked numbers New York State(not City) lost 0.25% of its population 2017-2018, and has only increase 0.85% since 2010... which more seems like the population is stable in the state rather than falling.

Suburbia is going to continue to collapse for probably another decade; this will probably be good in the long run for both NYC and NYS.

Uh, yeah. That's why NY leads the country in population loss. https://www.democratandchronic...

And just last week our illustrious governor, Andy the Asshole, was complaining about a $2.3B loss of tax revenue (just this year) because of people leaving the state. Of course, last month he assured us that the reason people are leaving is not because of obscenely high taxes, or idiotic liberal policies, but simply because of the weather. This week, he managed to blame it on Trump.

Of course, not everyone wants out. Illegals are perfectly happy moving in. They even get a free college education.

...and not to mention that Amazon required a nondisclosure agreement from the cities bidding, so that the taxpayers actually couldn't know what their politicians were giving away.

Which was: 3 billion dollars.

So you're saying you don't like the ongoing (since the 90's?) Republican trend of putting industry foxes in positions to "guard" our public henhouses for the explicit purpose of NOT regulating them, eh?

Nope, this is truly a bi-partisian problem.

Aren't you one of the outspoken Trump supporting morons?

Not really. While I support somethings he has done and tried, I do not like everything, nor do I count myself as a fan. I do feel he was the lessor of two evils (Hillary/Bernie).

But I think he's an idiot many times that sometimes gets things right in spite of himself. I liked the SCOTUS appointments, that was one of my chief concerns in the previous election.

I'd much rather a more middle road candidate, slightly liberal socially, slightly conservative fiscally, and overall for less intrusive government, especially on the federal side.

While I'm thinking NOW would be the best time in recent history for a valid 3rd party candidate to run due to the main party pulling to such extremes....I'm not optimistic that I'll see any such candidate in my lifetime.

So, I choose who will at least address some of my main concerns as best as I can.

Some of the Dem stuff coming up on the horizon really scares me...this state one: NY SB 9191 ...which will require anyone wanting to get a gun, to hand over all social media credentials so the police can ascertain if you post things too radical to allow you to have a gun.

This linked article is by a democrat leaning person, as they say they don't care if the 2nd amendment is run roughshod over....but they are concerned about the implications of the 1st and 4th amendment violations being proposed here.

Look at federal House Bill 7115 3D Firearms Prohibitions Act .(Which has precious little to do with 3D printed gun or gun parts if you read it).

Even if you support the parts essentially banning the sales of gun parts and the long time right to home gunsmithing, and all...and the 80% lowers, there is a part on there that wants to prohibit you from even posting or talking about how to build your own gun, etc. Isn't that 1st amendment?

I mean, I'm no fan of the old Anarchist Cookbook, but I don't feel it should be banned either?

So, no....neither party right now is a fan of freedom.

You just have to pick and choose what parts mean the most to you and think you can win with whomever you "support".

a kid was killed waiting in line to buy nike sneakers here in NY, 3 weeks ago:

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120911/NEWS01/309110036/homicide-arrest-Gates-sneaker-store-robbery

in other words, the cops have a reason to act on these threats, as this actually happens, and is not in the realm of absurdity, but reality

i know, the slashdot zeitgeist is to whine and moan about this

but i'm sorry, if you are going around threatening to kill people online, i'm glad the cops go after you

freedom? safety? blah blah blah: what the fuck are you doing threatening to kill people online?! you forfeit all free speech protections when you do that

c'mon stop with the bullshit slashdot

libel and threats of real world violence are exempt from free speech and subject to arrest and prosecution. as it should be. free speech has always had, and will always have, these exempt provisions

and this is the correct status quo!

grow up slashdot. seriously

enough with the hysteric, spastic, melodramatic ben franklin quotes about freedom and safety IN THE CONTEXT OF ASSHOLES WHO THREATEN REAL WORLD VIOLENCE

if you threaten real world violence, fuck you, throw your ignorant dumb ass in jail: 100% correct. really

And in the case of CA, the spread between starting and median is 27K I think it is reasonable to assume there will be some at 27K over the median putting them at 89K in 2010-11. In fact, while this is subjective, I suspect that the average salary will be be higher than the median as the annual step ups become greater. Anyhoo, take a look at this which again, I found with a quick search. It includes everything, part-timers, substitutes basically anything that was paid. I've seen better ones which include the teacher's position (ie, history or music).

Take a look at N. Babylon UFS or if you think thats a richy rich area, take a look at Yonkers which is generally speaking low middle class with median household inc of 44K and 13% poverty. Are those school district salaries in-line with the demographics of the population? I had to go 25 pages (1250 names so I think I'm past administrators, no?) Page 39 breaks the 50K barrier. Looking at the fall off, anything past page 42 are probably par-time, teachers aides, substitutes, etc. Even in Allegheny county there are many making over 50K. And as I said in my original post, unlike a "regular" working making the same salary, a teacher has the ability to take from one to three months part time work during the summer. At $15/hr thats 27 hours a week during the summer to add another 5K.

So we will disagree but I do not find that teachers, in general, are underpaid at all especially when benefits are factored in.

I can't imagine autonomous cars being allowed in places where there's pedestrians.

I don't see why you can't imagine that; it's already happened.

Obama outlined his goals Monday, outlining a push that he developed with the help of his Jobs and Competitiveness Council. That presidential commission has 26 members, including CEOs at several tech firms: Paul Otellini, the CEO of Intel; Ursula Burns, the CEO of Xerox; John Doerr, the venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; and Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer at Facebook. The chairman of the Jobs and Competitiveness Council is Jeffrey Immelt, who is chairman and CEO of GE.

Ursula Burns is, at this very moment, preparing to outsource most of her company's Engineering to an Indian company, HCL, to leverage the scale of their talent pool whilst cutting the Engineering budget.

America has plenty of Engineers, just not the kind who would be delighted to work for only $10k a year.

When all that expertise has gone to India, you can bet your bottom dollar that costs will be cut again and the Americans will be let go.

Nuclear engineers, most of them, have been supporting a deadly industry which will inevitable harm people. It is good that some are willing to step up and take responsibility, but it is much more like cleaning up a mess they have contributed to than the heroism of soldiers.

*cough* *cough* *splutter*

As a former Nuclear Engineer, turned code monkey, let me call you an ignorant bigot.

Nuclear Engineers and Scientists know very well how to design safe nuclear power plants. What we end up having to live with are the cost-downs and idiocies after the bean-counters and politicians take charge. "Have you got anything cheaper?"

Not that I'm bitter and twisted, but my current job is heading to India because of bean-counters...

See here, here and here.

The Western World doesn't do Engineering any more.

Time Warner is halting their tiered pricing in Rochester as well: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090416/BUSINESS/90416024/1001

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090416/BUSINESS/90416024&referrer=NEWSFRONTCAROUSEL

UPS is profitable. I think they might have a few trucks....and, oh by the way, rail companies are doing really well as well.

UPS is trading at a 5-year low. UPS is struggling horribly right now. You are out of your mind if you think UPS is glad that oil prices went so high. Learn Rail companies are doing well, but that is because the trucking industry is in crisis

If you think commodities are where it's at, go ahead and lose your shirt investing in them. Global demand is going down for the next few years and commodities are already crashing

The ends justify the means. Thank you, Mr. Cuomo.

Just yesterday, Cuomo was out posturing and making sure he was strengthening his political future.

The office asked Internet providers both small and large to strip their servers of child pornography Web sites and child pornography newsgroups, which are a major supplier of illegal images. ...

If companies don't voluntarily comply, Cuomo said in his announcement Wednesday, legal action will be taken by his office. ...

One of the Rochester area's largest Internet service providers, Frontier/Citizens Net, declined to sign the agreement, Cuomo said, adding that he sent a letter to Frontier and LocalNet, which also declined to sign the agreement, stating that his office will take legal action against those companies that do not voluntarily comply.

Explain to me how the hell this is "voluntary". This is the same things as the "mandatory volunteer work" that many high schools are requiring now. It's not voluntary if you'll be punished for not doing it!

"I made the case that I believe they can be held responsible... child pornography is illegal," Cuomo said.

Then let's start holding all those ISPs responsible for copyright infringement RIGHT NOW because they're still making it possible to do it. Or will he wait until it's feasible to put the brakes on the most public, most easily-blocked methods and THEN make it a mandatory voluntary program?

Not only ads, but coupons. I buy the local paper for the food coupons, they save me more than the cost of the paper. The paper itself sucks, and I give it to my toddler to draw on.

Apparently the best way is to have the Chinese turn it into cadmium laced jewelry. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071116/NEWS01/711160345/1002/NEWS

I seriously doubt if most people are oblivious to the privacy ramifications.

Here's an example of how the Wegmans supermarket chain this week used the data that they obtained from their loyalty card database to alert customers to a food safety concern. Obviously Wegmans is not trying to keep it a secret that they have this data. Apparently most of their customers are not only aware of it, but in fact are quite happy with the situation.

I'm surprised I don't see a link to the original story yet, so here it is:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/24/122153/98

From the story:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl, --AZ-01: Rick Renzi, --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth, --CA-04: John Doolittle, --CA-11: Richard Pombo, --CA-50: Brian Bilbray, --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave, --CO-05: Doug Lamborn, --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell, --CT-04: Christopher Shays, --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan, --FL-16: Joe Negron, --FL-22: Clay Shaw, --ID-01: Bill Sali, --IL-06: Peter Roskam, --IL-10: Mark Kirk, --IL-14: Dennis Hastert, --IN-02: Chris Chocola, --IN-08: John Hostettler, --IA-01: Mike Whalen, --KS-02: Jim Ryun, --KY-03: Anne Northup, --KY-04: Geoff Davis, --MD-Sen: Michael Steele, --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht, --MN-06: Michele Bachmann, --MO-Sen: Jim Talent, --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns, --NV-03: Jon Porter, --NH-02: Charlie Bass, --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson, --NM-01: Heather Wilson, --NY-03: Peter King, --NY-20: John Sweeney, --NY-26: Tom Reynolds, --NY-29:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl --AZ-01: Rick Renzi --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth --CA-04: John Doolittle --CA-11: Richard Pombo --CA-50: Brian Bilbray --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave --CO-05: Doug Lamborn --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell --CT-04: Christopher Shays --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan --FL-16: Joe Negron --FL-22: Clay Shaw --ID-01: Bill Sali --IL-06: Peter Roskam --IL-10: Mark Kirk --IL-14: Dennis Hastert --IN-02: Chris Chocola --IN-08: John Hostettler --IA-01: Mike Whalen --KS-02: Jim Ryun --KY-03: Anne Northup --KY-04: Geoff Davis --MD-Sen: Michael Steele --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht --MN-06: Michele Bachmann --MO-Sen: Jim Talent --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns --NV-03: Jon Porter --NH-02: Charlie Bass --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson --NM-01: Heather Wilson --NY-03: Peter King --NY-20: John Sweeney --NY-26: Tom Reynolds --NY-29: Randy Kuhl --NC-08: Robin Hayes --NC-11: Charles Taylor --OH-01:

Some articles to think about in the upcoming election:

Jon Kyl Rick Renzi J.D. Hayworth John Doolittle Richard Pombo Brian Bilbray Marilyn Musgrave Doug Lamborn Rick O'Donnell Christopher Shays Vernon Buchanan Joe Negron Clay Shaw Bill Sali Peter Roskam Mark Kirk Dennis Hastert Chris Chocola John Hostettler Mike Whalen Jim Ryun Anne Northup Geoff Davis Michael Steele Gil Gutknecht Michele Bachmann Jim Talent Conrad Burns Jon Porter Charlie Bass Mike Ferguson Heather Wilson Peter King John Sweeney Tom Reynolds Randy Kuhl Robin Hayes Charles Taylor Steve Chabot Jean Schmidt Deborah Pryce

Not only are these a cheap shot, they're also very annoying, especially when they are every-other-page, as is often the case with my local paper, the D&C. I'm always being told that "scientists are amazed by the adhesiveness of new DentureBOND(tm) Maximum Strength Dental Adhesive. So strong it can hold a cow to the ceiling by means of only a few drops! A scientifical (sic) revolution!"

These "fake articles" are always rife with phony quotes, sources, pictures and media-esque mini-headlines. It was only a matter of time before this happened too. The moral is, advertisers will do anything, anything to get you to buy their crap.

even though the 9/11 terrorists crossed from Canada
No they didn't. Being Canadian this bit of fud always pisses me off. As simple google search and you'll turn of lots of links to dispute this. Like this this and this

Kodak digital gear blows chunks. Kodak is banking on becoming a litigation company.

Now let me tell you a story about public school mismanagement...
Clifford B Janey was superintendent of Rochester Public schools from 1995 to 2002, until the budget was wrecked and he got the boot while the people cheered (admittedly in poor taste). Career ending event? Nope, he got $262,000 severence and, a year later, the $250,000 a year job as superintendent of DC schools!

That, my friend, is the diference between corporate mismanagement and public school mismangement. It's not just bad students bringing the public schools down.

The most ironic thing about this, is that it is at least partially true. Former Xerox CEO David T. Kearns was diagnosed with sinus cancer in 1992.

For those that don't know, Kearns was they guy in charge in the 80s during Xerox's turnaround.

Of course, it's worthy to that Democrats recently gave away free beer if you registered to vote at their booth.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/news/0618SM4KQ J4_news.shtml

My opposition to it comes from the fact that in many places it's getting harder and harder to get government ID, and that government ID is required to vote.

In Rochester, NY for example, they closed the only downtown DMV office that was left. Now, people in the city have to drive (or try to take public transportation) out to the DMV's in the suburbs. Sure, they set up a "mobile DMV office" that goes to various locations there, but it's been highly ineffective. According to the Democrat and Chronicle, the downtown location used to service 370 transactions/day. The mobile location serves an average of 63 per day in the scant 5 hours it is open.

Thankfully, the state is stepping in and reversing it's earlier decision and will open a new downtown DMV branch, but still, I worry about the impact that the requirements will have on voter turnout. It might be "not worth it" for a large number of eligible voters.

go canada

Captain dislexia got to the poster on this one...here's the links in the correct order:
11.1 megapixel camera from Canon
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Check out RIT's new program. Video games are more than just a hobby today.

If you leave your door unlocked and a thief steals your Tivo, is that any less of a crime than if your door was locked? Don't blame the locksmith, blane the thief!

The real question is what standards will we use to prosecute people who break the law, and will they be at all equal?

Consider these two stories, from The Reg and The Rochester, NY Newspaper. In both cases, web sites were broken into by guys in their twenties who said that the security on those sites is woefully inadequate, and claimed that they were practically "invited" in? The Library even mentioned that they were in the middle of revamping their security, so they knew they had problems.

Anyway, The guy who had access to Rush Limbaugh's social security number and made himself a NY Times employee in their database gets off scot-free, while the guy who did not access any sensitive information at a county library and "merely" changed their web page is facing up to seven years in prison.

Granted, the guy who broke into the Times was Adrian Lamo, who is apparently considered a "white-hat" hacker and has a track record of playing nice with the corporations he hacks into. (He may even read /., for all I know). But why is he going to get off the hook for his vandalism, while the other guy is facing a long sentence? Didn't they essentially do the same thing? Maybe I need more coffee this morning, but something doesn't sound right...