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That would be General Electric and the overhyped Jack Welch. Around 2012 they realized the mistake they made and started reducing their dependence on outsourcing without much fanfare while their rivals were all still trying to copy Welch.

Small towns have fewer negros so they don't have the crime problems

What was the last time you were in a small town?

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Correction article

Alright, why don't you tell us what actually happened? The linked article said he did. Furthermore, that article linked this one, that actually included a screenshot of the Siri query. That in turn linked this one, which also collaborates the story. So tell us, in all your wisdom, what really happened?

How, then, does the US system prevent the "professional criminal" from gaining access to guns?

No system can prevent criminals from getting guns off the black market, it can only raise the price and put some obstacles in the way. But background checks are required for anyone buying a gun from a licensed dealer.

Who is likely to come off worse - the professional criminal who carries a gun and is practised in threatening people with it, or the ordinary citizen fumbling in his or her coat pocket?

Quite often, the "professional" criminal gets the worst of it. Like this, for example: http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120716/ARTICLES/120719707

The criminal is surrounded by citizens, an unknown number of whom may be armed. They have to try to keep them all covered; odds are good that a citizen will have the opportunity to draw and fire.

In the U.S., armed citizens successfully engage in defensive firearms use thousands of times a year. Some estimates put the numbers in the millions, but the error bars are very large. These acts of defense range from scaring off a petty thief rummaging in your shed by showing a gun, to shooting and stopping a murderer engaged in a killing spree.

Not sure what Ayn Rand's gibberish has to do with any of this.

Interestingly, another article from the site you provided linked to here. I guess the UF athletic program has dumped ("donated" ?) a large amount of money into the university coffers.

That businessofsports.com site is pretty cool. It looks like I'm going to lose several hours of my life browsing there today, thanks!

Tea Party favorite, Governor Rick Scott actually has a similar plan for Florida. http://www.gainesville.com/article/20111011/ARTICLES/111019928

There's no repression of religious expression at schools. Indeed the very ACLU you pan has on numerous occasions defended the rights of students to express their religious beliefs in school: Here's one, here's another. A simple Google search reveals dozens of similar stories. What the ACLU objects to, along with most religious freedom advocates, is the coercive expression of religion in schools. A teacher has no right to lead students in a prayer that some present may not believe in. He or she is representative of the authority of the school and in turn the government, they should not give the impression of coercing students into prayer. Similarly, events like graduations and pep rallies are for everyone, turning them into religious events is neither fair nor constitutional. As a side note, that same teacher would be fine leading a prayer in an FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) meeting, as participation in such a thing implies a certain level of acceptance.

Long story short, religious expression in schools is fine. Students can wear all the religious jewelry they want, wear the goofy t-shirts they want, talk about God in the hallways and the lunchroom, even have clubs that focus on one religion or another. The caveat to that is that it has to be fair: If Bob can wear a cross, I can wear a pentacle; if Sue can can start a Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter, Sarah can start a Torah study group. It also should not be a part of official school events like classes, assembles, or graduations. At that point it is infringing on the rights of others.

While I'm sure the author of that article is well intentioned, they get a few facts wrong. In addition to naming the wrong city, they have a incorrect picture. A correct picture can be found at the local newspaper.

The local paper (Gainesville Sun) had a picture of the skimmer on the first day it was found:

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100707/ARTICLES/100709681

Basically it looks like a thin bundle of electrical tape attached to the wire between the magstripe reader and the circuit board inside the gas pump -- completely hidden inside the pump cabinet unlike ATM skimmers.

-Esme

You can't really believe that we don't have nice houses, cars and televisions in Europe?

Yes I can.

American homes, on average, are nearly twice as large as those in many European countries, including Britain, France and Germany. Only Luxembourg comes close among European nations, with average homes about three-quarters the size of those in the United States.

McMansions gain popularity despite the housing slump

Too lazy to compare average engine displacement and average number and size of televisions, but on the former I am quite sure that US is much larger, if for no other reason than the European predilection for taxation based on displacement. Televisions - well when your house is twice it stands to reason you'll have more and bigger toys to fill it up.

The very fact that Barack Obama won the 2008 election has put the entire Diebold/Precision vote-theft fiasco on the back burner. Yeah states are ditching this dodgy technology by the score and that may have contributed to a more-honest election.
Still McCain, despite his supporters, ran an honest campaign and honorably conceded the election to his opponent. Surprisingly his constituents appear to be following in his footsteps and not calling for endless recounts or crying about being marginalized as citizens.

Local paper article about this. Includes a picture!

It is worth noting, UF has been critical of the practice of profiting off of course materials for some time - and Moulton has been expressly targetted for criticism. This is an older article on the situation.

As someone who teaches at UF, the opportunities to distribute material to students for free or without profiting are numerous - there are multiple places that will print coursepacks within walking distance of the University, and the library provides an excellent electronic reserves system over which digital materials can be distributed. The only reason to distribute course notes for $50-100 electronically, as Professor Moulton does, is to make money off of your students.

Other professors at UF, as described in the article, offer $30 e-workbooks of extra credit through companies they own - in other words, directly allowing students the option of paying the professor for higher grades.

The depth of conflict of interest involved here is disgusting. Regardless of the legal merits of the case (I am not a lawyer and do not know), UF should forbid this sort of naked profiteering off of students.

At some point you just give up and keep buying oil.

"The environmentalists" are actually not shutting most things down. Fact is, wind power (for instance) is growing rapidly in the US (as elsewhere in the world): "New utility-scale wind turbines have been constructed in 20 states, most notably in California, Washington, Minnesota, New York and Texas (which now leads the nation in wind power use)."

Just because a particular project or two somewhere ran into trouble doesn't change the big picture.

On the Greenland ice sheet, the IPCC report is being mischaracterized by Spiegel's reporter. There are also a handful of quotes from scientists about the imperfections and difficulties in climate models, which imply that those researchers share the reporter's skepticism about whether what the models say should be taken at all seriously. But do they? Or are they just being honest scientists describing their awareness of the limitations of their tools, who yet take seriously the likely threat that the best of those tools describe? At best, they are quoted out of context.

As for fewer deaths from the cold, surely we should remember the tens of thousands of deaths from the European heat wave a few summers ago. Then consider the NASA report just published estimating that by 2080 East Coast American cities which currently have summer temperatures in the the 80s with occasional spikes into the 90s will instead have typical temperatures in the 90s with occasional spikes into the 100s. What effect will that have on health? Have you tried breathing New York City ozone on a 95 degree day? What will that be like when it's 105 instead? How will it burn your lungs?

There's nothing in TFA that says that the guy downloaded child pornography, and nothing in TFA that says he downloaded anything at all from the library's website.

The article does say that the man was caught with possession of child pornography. This event occured some time after he visited the library. The article implied through the following quote

"but he declined to explain why he thought she had not done enough to prevent the incident, which occurred July 25. Police charged Michael Bushee, 25, with possession of child pornography several days later"

Also see the following articles:

• Valparaiso librarian suspended after patrons visit porno sites
• Valparaiso Librarian Suspended After Patrons Visit Porno Sites

Sounds like local politicing and a witch hunt.
How much funding does the library get?
It's nice for the local politicians to say they want their library to have nice new computers for their constituents to use, but back out when budget time comes and they might give the library enough for the hardware, but not a cent more for upkeep, firewalls and/or filters and/or staff for the computer area.

How long was the content viewed for? Was it something caught by a librarian or other staff or was it noticed during a review of the Internet access logs? If it was caught during one of the "walkthroughs" then the staff did all they could. I work in a college computer lab, and the legal porn is protected free speech, but games are not allowed. It's very easy for someone to sit at the computer in the far corner to see the lab staff coming and close the window, a browers window is a browser window, just as easy to hide/close if it's porn or yahoo games.
I'm sure the city knows more about who's a registered offender more than the library and should have informed the library and possibly had their computer or library access monitored, limited or revoked.

Before they try to fire a city worker, librarians are where I am, they had better make sure they had the necessary tools and funding to have been able to do something about it, not one of the "well, if you had 'this thing' it may have been prevented, but we took that line out of their budget"

there isn't much easily findable info on this to do anything other than guess. Here's the mentioned "Gainesville Sun" article:
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A ID=/20050813/LOCAL/208130332&SearchID=732171503810 16

re: Jeb bush disqualifying valid black votes
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel? SearchID=73181140138431&Avis=GS&Dato=20040721&Kate gori=LOCAL&Lopenr=207210328&Ref=AR

re: Bush administration pushing for politically-timed terrorist catches
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5594697/site/newsweek/

re: latest on bush administration getting revenge via outting a US agent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A403 8-2004Aug15.html

On a personal note: I can't understand why someone would vote for this president. I would love it if someone could convince me to vote for him in terms that don't include God or Guns.