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Cincinnati is also famous for racial profiling and riots. Don't forget the riots.

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Maybe he's talking about the other Budweiser.

Here's something for your perusal: a charming little story about a man who wrote about vile acts involving children... so vile, in fact, that he was sent to prison for ten years.

He didn't do any of the act described, he just talked about it... but it turns out to be illegal under Ohio law. Possession of child porn materials (which isn't just pictures) is against the law. A picture is worth a thousand words... but apparently enough words will get you into trouble as well (and I don't necessarily disagree). Not all speech is A-OK... no "fire!" in a crowded theatre... no talking about killing the president... and no talking about the torture/molestation/imprisonment of children.

The individual in question sounds like a sick guy, so as a parent myself, I can't say I'm sorry to see he's off the street.

Even more stupid is the City of Cincinnati. They gave this guy $180k+ in loans without doing so much as a background check. A brief background is here. As a citizen of Cincinnati, I've been following this case and I am absolutely dumbfounded at the ineptness of all the people involved. It really is mind-boggling. They were so concerned about cutting through the bureaucratic red tape they forgot the red tape was there for a reason.

Looks like the Cincinnati news media finally got wise to the story.

From the article:"Internet search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, can turn up a variety of information about people and their interests. Using the Internet as a personal private detective is gaining in popularity in the dating world, as a way to background potential suitors, and to track down former classmates, relatives or genealogy information. The practice is becoming so commonplace that the word Google is being used a verb.

The newpaper editor Googling skills might have improved, but not their proofreading skills.

looks at surroundings, and Slashdot handle...

D'oh.

(Really though, we do have very stupid people here, and they're usually in change of something.)

Bush's Justice Dept. doesn't go after his buddies.

Are you sure about that?

Daniel J. Baas

...is the mugshot of the guy responsible. Anyone want to start a pool on how many gallons of Bawls (and other ThinkGeek(TM) caffeinated products) this guy consumed in the 24 hours prior to his arrest??

Rate Naked People! at Fuck Meter! (Not work-safe)

"How do we feel about cops writing an essay about what they did last weekend, instead of walking the beat?"

Like in Cincinnati?

In Soviet America, government just tries to make it illegal to sell the hardcore stuff to kids instead of shutting down the whole industry.

Unconstitutional? Sure, the courts will stike down the law, but in the meantime we turn parents into voters because we let them know how much we care. It's like using taxpayers money to fight religious battles. Sure, it seems pointless, but if most of your potential voters are christians who will appreciate your devotion to the almighty while anybody who opposes you is obviously in league with lucifer, and it doesn't cost you anything, why not?

I'm sorry. This is half off-topic (hence no karma bonus) but I just needed to vent. Shouldn't there be any consequences to passing laws that are struck down as unconstitutional?

240,000 male inmates are raped each year, compared to 140,000 women raped outside of prisons source: cincinniti enquirer

Looking at this guy I was thinking the same thing. They're obviously going pretty damn fast. Any bug makes it in between that squint and that eye's not going to work very well any more.

Lateral acceleration is what you experience in a curve. When you're talking about 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, you're talking about a different beastie. The calculations are:

60*5280/3600 = 0 to 88 ft/sec in 3.9 seconds.

88/3.9 = 22.6 ft/sec/sec

1 g = 32 ft/sec/sec so 22.6/32 = .7 g

The 1.4 g isn't quite right either.
0-140 in 4 seconds...
140*5280/3600 = 205.3 ft/sec

205.3 ft/sec in 4 seconds is 51.3 ft/sec/sec

51.3/32 = 1.6 g

That heavy fellow on the left probably weighs 220 pounds when he's just standing. At 1.6 g, he's feeling 352 pounds pushing him into his seat. Add the 140 mph breeze in his face and he's probably wishing he hit the head before getting on that ride.

Take a look at this picture. I laughed and screamed at the same time.

Pictures of this coaster here. These go in the "you gotta be kidding me" category.

At least in Ohio you can be jailed for text child porn.

drivers exhibit sportsmanship that is unparalleled in sports

You mean like Tony Stewart :)

For example gun manufacturors do not face such action for providing people with items that could be used in a crime.

This is not true, see: Chicago, New York, Los Angeles County, Newark, NJ, Cincinnati, others.

This sort of thing must just be braking all the classic Crayons hearts.

Especially those which got phased out in the age of political correctness like indian Red and Prussian Blue.

Never thought I'd ever be linking to the Enquirer. I feel dirty.

There is enough tetanus vaccine again since Aventis-Pasteur (which is now AFAIK the only maker of the vaccine) has ramped up production.

It is true that the market does not always serve the public good, but in this sort of case all that is needed is for the government to pay more for the vaccine.

To get back to the subject of the story, I don't think limiting patents would encourage companies to research or to produce more vaccines.

Also, will the vending machine have to be over 21 to sell alcohol?

They'll probably use something similar to the new cigarette vending machines featuring computer generated personalities that interact with the user.

When I saw this on the Daily Show, I thought it was a joke. The "black guy" personality is a horribly embarassing stereotype. He'd give Jar Jar a run for his money.

If I lived anywhere else this might suprise me, but I live in Cincinnati, Ohio where they performed full-body radiation tests [enquirer.com] unbeknownst to the test subjects and with backing from the US military.

This is the bleak dark future we all have read about in Sci-Fi, but you already knew that didn't you?

This is part of a disturbing national trend.

In Ohio, they're keeping a DNA database of CLEARED suspects!

John

So you're telling me that this guy is a cannabal?
Now where's that guy who's shopping for a ring.... I got one for you cheap, buddy...

Here's a place where you should be able to get a discounted ring.

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• • No. Perhaps he's happy the way he is. Perhaps ALS is what has defined him as he is today... would you risk losing him? Perhaps, without ALS, he'd be flipping burgers.

    Now you're just being silly. First of all, Hawkings was already a famous scientist long before the symptoms of ALS began to appear, Second, he isn't "happy the way he is" -- if you read about him, you'll find that he considered suicide when he first realized he had ALS, and in fact many people with ALS do kill themselves. Thirdly, there is no evidence that people with ALS are more intelligent than normal in general.

While I agree that he's being silly, perhaps flippant :-), with his remark about Hawking and burgers, there is this article to consider.

Hawking was not really a "famous scientist" when his ALS was discovered at 21. He had just started down the path and here he clearly states that his disease gave him the perspective to focus his life to the cause of Science. Curious that in this account he doesn't mention the suicide that you say he contemplated.

Also, you'll find from his own quotes that he tries to live without regrets.

I'm concerned that Science will one day cure all of our challenges. Eliminating the schizophrenia of Michaelangelo, the autism (?) of Einstein and the deafness of Beethoven. Apparently, from your disparagement of bioethicism, you aren't concerned with this or any consequence of technological advance.

Next thing you know they'll be selling clean, purified ,all-natural "Spring-Air" to people living in LA, Houston and other heavily polluted cities.

Perhaps it's a strategic name change geared to appeal to younger programmers, though a similar alteration didn't quite work for Hamilton!, Ohio.

I don't know what is more funny? But yes I will reply.

IT WAS A JOKE! I in fact am very white. But 1/4 is not.

It's like a pun, you know.

"Come to Cincinnati - You'll have a riot!"

Joke
Joke
Joke
Joke

I don't know what is more funny? But yes I will reply.

IT WAS A JOKE! I in fact am very white. But 1/4 is not.

It's like a pun, you know.

"Come to Cincinnati - You'll have a riot!"

Joke
Joke
Joke
Joke

I don't know what is more funny? But yes I will reply.

IT WAS A JOKE! I in fact am very white. But 1/4 is not.

It's like a pun, you know.

"Come to Cincinnati - You'll have a riot!"

Joke
Joke
Joke
Joke

I don't know what is more funny? But yes I will reply.

IT WAS A JOKE! I in fact am very white. But 1/4 is not.

It's like a pun, you know.

"Come to Cincinnati - You'll have a riot!"

Joke
Joke
Joke
Joke

this is what you get if you google for Ameer-Bukhari

(link)

apparently a student-pilot from Vero Beach(!), Florida with the same name has had a plane crash exactly(!) a year before the WTC attack.

coincidence???

Plane collision victim was experienced pilot

A Maineville man who was killed in the midair collision
of two small planes in Florida on Monday afternoon had
been a pilot for Airborne Express for almost two years.

Roger Boromei, 31, of Jewelweed Court, was flying a
twin-engine Piper Aztec owned by a family friend,
according to Mark Weinberg, a spokesman for the St. Lucie
County, Fla., sheriff's department. Mr. Boromei started his
trip at an airport in Okeechobee, Fla., where his father lives,
Mr. Weinberg said.

The other man killed in the crash was Ameer Bukhari, a
Saudi Arabian national living in nearby Vero Beach, Fla., Mr.
Weinberg said. He was flying a single-engine Piper
Cherokee owned by FlightSafety International, where he
was a student pilot.

It might have been Mr. Bukhari's first solo flight, the Port
St. Lucie News reported.

Mr. Boromei, on the other hand, was a first officer - or
co-pilot - for DC-9s at Airborne Express, Beth Huber, a
spokeswoman there, confirmed Tuesday. The Wilmington,
Ohio-based company ships cargo nationwide.

The collision between the planes took place about
two miles west of St. Lucie International Airport, Mr.
Weinberg said.

Teachers' unions (and I'm speaking of the NEA, the behemoth here in the US) can be the worst. First of all, they certainly aren't getting done what they supposedly exist to do -- getting teachers paid more. My hunch is that they actually are keeping salaries down by not allowing school districts to evaluate teachers and introduce competition.

Contrawise, some teachers unions are actively promoting teacher evaluation. See the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers' experiment. Instead of seniority, it uses a objective skills evaluation as a basis for pay. From the article:

Teachers will be evaluated in 16 areas within four domains: planning and preparing for student learning; creating an environment for learning; teaching for learning; and professionalism.

Based on their scores, teachers would be placed in a category: apprentice, novice, career, advanced or accomplished. Each ranking is assigned a pay range.

A starting novice teacher would make $30,000. An accomplished teacher would make up to $62,500. The range matches the seniority scale.

This doesn't mean unions are always a good thing - only that they can be.

Even if this is true, so what?

The "so what" is that this is largely the part that the executive branch has sway over, and the Democratic administration demonstrably worked to cut it down. Like I said, you're unwilling to give them credit for this project.

Gore's repeated statements that half of the benefit goes to the richest 1% is a flat-out lie.

Well, here's Jim Hines, University of Michigan Business School Professor attesting that the top 1% get 30% of the benefit, here . You can call the "half to 1%" phrase a flat-out lie if you must, but it's basically correct. Furthermore, your attempt at calling Bush's plan "progressive" is bewildering: the low tax bracket would go from 15 to 10 (a 5% reduction), while the high tax bracket goes from 39.6 to 33 (a 6.6% reduction). An extra cut for the most wealthy. That's documented here

For Greenspan's comments on real privatization, see http://www.senate.gov/~gramm/policy/grnspan.html

Your link doesn't have any comments by Greenspan on privatization at all! It's a PR piece out of Phil Gramm's office trying to make it look like Greenspan liked a proposal of his. The entirety of Greenspan's quote is this: "'Well, Senator, I react favorably to that sort of system,' responded Greenspan, adding, however, that he would want to see all the details before endorsing such a plan."

A lot of people are arguing, "How is this art? How is this original? All he did was doodle a bunch of times and put it on a poster." This is a valid practical argument, but I think these posters are missing the point. A guy slapping together 1000 pixelated drawings may not be good art to a lot of people, but the original application of technology in an expressive form is as much art as anything else. It's all in how you define human expression.

Why do I think it's original? Simply because I don't think anyone has done anything like this before. Jim Dine, for example, usually uses hearts, skulls, robes and tools in his artwork, and while he manages to approach these subjects in a colorful and interesting way, the most original thing of his I've seen was a heart shape made of straw that measured about 5' by 3' by 1'. The heart shape itself is not original; making a large one out of straw and placing it on its side is - in my opinion, which is what it all really boils down to.

Some Jim Dine links, fyi:

• Cincinnati Enquirer's "The Object Is The Art"
• Dine Works
• The Trianon Gallery at the University of Lethbridge
• Artcyclopedia
• WWW Pop Art
• Jim Dine: Walking Memory, 1959-1969 (this was the exhibit I saw with the huge straw heart)
• Pace Wildenstein
• Pace Prints
• Poster Shop
• Art Print Collection
• Fine Art Site

A lot of people are arguing, "How is this art? How is this original? All he did was doodle a bunch of times and put it on a poster." This is a valid practical argument, but I think these posters are missing the point. A guy slapping together 1000 pixelated drawings may not be good art to a lot of people, but the original application of technology in an expressive form is as much art as anything else. It's all in how you define human expression.

Why do I think it's original? Simply because I don't think anyone has done anything like this before. Jim Dine, for example, usually uses hearts, skulls, robes and tools in his artwork, and while he manages to approach these subjects in a colorful and interesting way, the most original thing of his I've seen was a heart shape made of straw that measured about 5' by 3' by 1'. The heart shape itself is not original; making a large one out of straw and placing it on its side is - in my opinion, which is what it all really boils down to.

Some Jim Dine links, fyi:

• Cincinnati Enquirer's "The Object Is The Art"
• Dine Works
• The Trianon Gallery at the University of Lethbridge
• Artcyclopedia
• WWW Pop Art
• Jim Dine: Walking Memory, 1959-1969 (this was the exhibit I saw with the huge straw heart)
• Pace Wildenstein
• Pace Prints
• Poster Shop
• Art Print Collection
• Fine Art Site

Of course, people actually downloading the whole human genome probable wouldn't worry about this, but couldn't they use a better compression format than .zip? I bet using bzip2 or rar would shave a couple of hundred MBs off of that 753MB file. Also, the differences in compression techniques would be interesting to see on a large group of files mainly consisting of G, A, C, and T. -- demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!

• G -- 00
• A -- 01
• T -- 10
• C -- 11

This would only work for the .fa files, but .fa files can contain "N"s also. If you just want to browse the Genome, look through the pieces directory. .

There's a bit more detailed article in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Apparently at least one person called 911 and (as I live about 5 miles away) the road isn't all that terribly busy. It's not like he was driving on a major interstate or anything.