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Well, it may not be violent games then. Perhaps it's casual games like Pokemon Go.

Men reportedly attacked by man with tire iron over 'Pokemon Go'.

Kozen Sampson, a Buddhist monk and co-founder of the Trout Lake Abbey retreat, said he was attacked Monday during a visit to Hood River.
He doesn't remember much, but says a man, who seemingly thought he was Muslim based on his clothing, attacked him for no reason.
....
But instead of anger and hatred towards that man, Sampson said he only feels forgiveness and compassion.

What might be ok in small towns where the population isn't very mobile is utterly insane in such an area.

Rural populations can be decimated by diseases that are rarely fatal elsewhere.

Idaho is gaining a reputation as a place where rigidly libertarian politics and local, hermetically sealed, nominally Christian religious sects combine to deny urgently needed medical care to children.

Fallen followers: Investigation finds 10 more dead children of faith healers. Sect shuns doctors, children pay the price

The NB I-5 -> 217 ramp:

http://www.katu.com/news/inves...

Wow, some people just don't like to face up to reality. The article talks about warnings for decades, about a devastating mudslide in the area. The people didn't move. Now after the mudslide happened, are they moving now? No. They're staying and rebuilding!

They don't have the right to put their children in danger, as other posters have said.

If the federal government gives them my tax money in the form of Federal Highway Administration money and FEMA aid, I wish the government would warn the people that this is the last aid the govt. will give them, if they continue living there. (Yea, I know, fat chance.)

Every place has its dangers (earthquakes, tornadoes, etc.). But living on a hill that is prone to huge landslides is being irresponsible.

The real story is the Oregon Department of Human Services procurement dropped the ball and we ended up with Oracle. Horrible, horrible, horrible Oracle. They should have scrapped the project or re-posted the request on ORPIN when every company dropped out of applying for the contract to build the system except Oracle.

Look how high tech this presentation is.

tl;dr: half Oracle's fault, half Oregon DHS being clueless about tech and procurement

http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/11/cover_oregon_applicant_mails_i.html
http://www.katu.com/politics/Embattled-head-of-Cover-Oregon-taking-a-leave-234138441.html

Cover Oregon is full of paper-related security breaches. Until they fix the security process, I for one will NOT be trusting them with my personal data- especially not filled out on paper and snail mailed.

Sorry wedding cakes not cupcakes. (There was a cupcake one too in Wisconsin or something, but I can't find it ATM, however this business in Oregon is the one I had in mind when I wrote that.)

The proprietor didn't want to make a gay themed wedding cake supposedly. After the media storm, her business saw an immediate uptick:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/11/sweet-cakes-by-melissa-oregon-lesbian-couple-business-booms_n_2664036.html

That however was followed by bullying, which led to the close of the business:

"There's a lot of close-minded people out there that would like to pretend to be very tolerant and just want equal rights," Aaron said. "But on the other hand, they've been very, very mean-spirited. They've been militant. The best way I can describe it is they've used mafia tactics against the business. Basically, if you do business with Sweet Cakes, we will shut you down."

The Kleins cited a break-in to their bakery truck as one example of what's been happening to them. They said it was ransacked Sunday evening. We checked with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office and learned there was a report filed, but no one has been apprehended.

They also said critics harassed their vendors to the point that vendors would no longer refer customers, which led to their income dropping off dramatically.

http://www.katu.com/news/investigators/Sweet-Cakes-responds-to--222094901.html

That's quite a bit more than a boycott.

And this Alaska Airlines outage from just six months ago.

I was actually in the line pictured there at PDX. But, I left before the photographers arrived to re-book on another airline. It's really unfortunate I was able to re-book. That outage was an answer to my prayers on the way to PDX for something to happen to get me out of going on that business trip.

A homemade bomb disfigures two men.

2009 Story out of Denver, Colorodo:

Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to tell the world about her love of tofu by picking the letters for her car's license plate. Her suggestion for the plate on her Suzuki: "ILVTOFU." Department of Revenue spokesman Mark Couch said the letters could be misinterpreted. Coffman-Lee, 38, said tofu is a staple of her family's diet because they are vegan and that the DMV misinterpreted her message.

2012 Story out of Virgina:

If the Department of Motor Vehicles is going to let people praise certain religions or ethnicities on their license plates, it also must let people denigrate individuals of those faiths and nationalities. That's the opinion of a Circuit Court judge, who ruled last week that part of the DMV's guidelines governing vanity tags is unconstitutional. The ruling stemmed from an appeal from an Iraq War veteran who disagreed with the state's decision last year to revoke his personalized plates, which read "ICUHAJI." "Haji" is a common and often derogatory term for Arabs used by U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The veteran's attorney, however, said his client did not intend to offend anyone.

Light aircraft likely would not damage your house if they hit it.

Do you consider this to be damage?

No. I'm talking about having a clearly defined system for resolving an ambiguous result. In other words, not just hoping that the government holds together when the Supreme Court decides to step in and impose such a system after the fact.

Actually, your are talking about a system for defining ambiguity.

We have systems in place already to define ambiguity; the forced recount if the difference is 2% or number of votes cited by BubbaChazz above for example.

These values were arrived at by evaluating real world lead-changes discovered by recounts. But instead of using some numerical analysis on every single contest which would lead to endless bickering and court cases, its locked in by law at pre-set values that everyone knows up-front.

What happens after a close election, a re-vote vs a re-count, is an entirely different matter. People are suspicious of re-votes. Too much time to import voters, suppress voters, too much cost, too much hassel of getting people out to vote again, and too little for society to actually gain by the effort.

Far easier and just as fair to assume the original votes were as representative of voters actual intentions as any re-vote might be, and simply re-count them to assure there is no introduced error. Its good enough. After all, when things are THAT close, you really can't be seriously wrong by choosing either, as long as the method is known in advance and enshrined in law. Several elections have come down to a coin flip, (defined in law).

It is almost unbelievable that everyone doesn't realize that government run healthcare is a panacea, isn't it?

State ‘Death Panels’ Attributable to Single-Payer
Carolina Man Battling Breast Cancer May Have to Pay After Denied Treatment
Letter noting assisted suicide raises questions
Oregon Tells Patients State Will Pay for Assisted Suicide, Not Health Care

Does everybody in the UK understand that?

Elderly dying due to 'despicable age discrimination in NHS'

Some people will believe anything despite the evidence, eh?

You jest, but it's only a matter of time before someone is killed in an accident and the at fault driver was on a phone and manslaughter or homicide charges are brought up.

A quick Google search shows me that this has indeed already occured, but I don't see any results related to guilty verdicts.

Texting driver gets 3-year prison term, but no charges if the driver dies.

You can add pirates to the sim, and it would still look like the real thing (no, seriously, you can). No word on ninjas, though.

It's cool and all that IBM thought to do a sim of us out here in Stumptown, but I mean, we're not exactly going to be one of them thar model cities that will replicate easily to other towns.

I mean, hell, couldn't IBM choose something easier to do, like, oh, Des Moines or something?

Now to be fair to the fine folks in Iowa, they do have the Carp Festival, but seriously? IBM would have a *much* easier time there than here. Just a hint, fellas.

http://www.katu.com/news/26119539.html

Not exactly the situation you described, but close. An Oregon woman with advanced breast cancer received a letter informing her that she was denied coverage for the chemotherapy, but that the assisted suicide would be covered. The insurance company denying coverage? Oregon's state-run, "Universal" health care. True, the presumably non-repressive Oregon government wasn't *requiring* her to commit suicide. But when you are denied the chance to fight for survival, I'd say the "option" of legal suicide has become a defacto requirement.

Environmentalists have a bad name because the industries that are doing all the damage find character assassination easier than actually cleaning up their mess.

Rigggght.... It's all a big conspiracy against environmentalists perpetrated by the big bad corporations. Environmentalists have never done anything to damage their own character

I was on Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation for 20 years, but I'm not a CRST tribal member, it was different.

I left Portland in January 2009, the mayor and council are always democrats, nothing big gets done, they get bogged down in minutiae. Anchorage has some diversity in political parties so they fight and unite to piss off the mayor who vetos stuff and then they overturn it. Way more interesting.

I googled portland city council to see what they were up to and it's glorious fun

http://www.katu.com/news/101722028.html

I don't think so. There's a lot of harsh chemistry in many air fresheners that many people don't like. I'd rather smell some stray earth than some sterile hodgepodge of toxic chemicals that reminds me of the overbearing preparation of cheap hotel rooms frequented by prostitutes.

I can't even stand those little air fresheners people put in cars. Why would anybody want their car to smell cheap, like oranges or other food? (Note: it's usually the fat chicks who like their houses and cars smelling like peaches or vanilla anyway)

Consuming too much silver can turn your skin blue, kinda like this guy. It's not really harmful, but since most people don't want to look like smurfs, you don't want too much of it in your water.

Here are more linkes regarding the incident: http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_082909WAB-northgate-shooting-KS.12a85c79b.html http://www.kirotv.com/news/20611970/detail.html Investigators also found a hidden campsite the suspects had built in a wooded area near North Seattle Community College: http://www.katu.com/news/56231487.html

#1. Predict catastrophe
#2. Build highway
#2. ???
#3. Profit!

Call it something similar to the story of the Emperior who has no clothes, but have you ever wondered when watching a commerical with a bogus product they say "We've been featured on CNN, Fox News, and Oprah"? Because they are ADVERTIZING in the commerical breaks that are on CNN, Fox News, and Oprah.

Why are we supposed to believe that just because they bought advertizing time in the commerical breaks of networks and TV shows that they were actually endorsed or had an interview featuring their product?

When was the last time you saw Oprah endorse the MagickJack or Vince Offer (the Sham-Wow guy) talk to Larry King in person? It is because it never happened.

Many networks broker their commericals through an advertising firm. Which explains why alot of shady businesses (e.g. the WorkAtHome46dotcom folks and the Obama Coin scammers) are on Television.

Had the 419 scammers been more successful, they would have had TV commericals or establish a shell business posing as a bad bank.

The best advice would be not to buy it.

Well I am glad I live in Portland. 90% of people let you merge, most people stop before the cross walk and drunk drivers are reported pretty consistently. When I was in New York city last year it was shocking to see traffic jams because of double parking, pedestrians jumping out of the way of speeding taxis and cops who obey absolutely no traffic laws at all. At 3 AM it was bedlam with the bars letting out, the last time I saw that many speeding drunk dickheads at once it was after a Nascar race.

... when this woman proves that you don't even have to be very creative to use the interweb to get other people's money...

On a side-note, this woman could have some form of age-related mental illness.

I know it's a taboo topic to talk about. I also know that the journalist took great pains to paint the picture of an intelligent woman, but really, being an RN, teaching CPR, marrying couples, and communicating with "lightning-fast sign language". That's not really a complete measure of mental health. Is it?

For instance, her sign language ability would only indicate that at least a function of her brain was still working correctly, but it is no guarantee that everything else was working correctly. As to her Oregon Registered Nurse certification, I couldn't find any other registered nurse, even among the really old nurses, with as many probationary blemishes on their records as she's had.

The only sane one here seems to her deaf husband. Apparently, along with the FBI and the police, her husband was one of the ones who kept on telling her that this was just all a big scam, and yet, even after receiving all those warnings, the wife kept on going -- disobeying her husband -- disregarding the FBI -- disregarding the police, and investing/realizing the bulk of their loss even well after all the alarm bells had already gone well off.

That's why I'm thinking she really might have some sort of mental illness, and if I were her husband, I would be asking the courts -- to judge her incompetent -- and remove her rights to access/control their accounts, otherwise she might do it again, but just with a different scam the next time.

I was curious of not so much reading the story (I didn't :), but wanted to know what a dumb ass really looks like. Perhaps this will save you some trouble: dumb ass

Look at this http://www-stage.gatech.edu/news-room/flash/CNTpv.html and compare to image behind boys back at http://www.katu.com/news/local/28432984.html Read tomlsmith replay. P.S. sorry for my bad english

Mr. Gates, is that you? Aren't you busy taking our school district superintendent?

The RIAA will most likely be knocking at your door (not busting it down) because it traced hundreds of downloads or thousands of uploads to your account. Klamath Falls man downloads $4,500 music file fine (August 7, 2006)

The situation changes, of course, if your jeweled case CD-Rs begin turning up in flea-market sales with photoshoped alblum art.

I'm not defending Bush's policies, but so far as we know, he hasn't abused his executive spying 'privileges' yet

That's part of the problem, 'as far as we know' is limited to what he's willing to allow investigators to see. He personally stonewalled the wiretapping investigation into oblivion. ( news story -- there are more examples but I can't find them right now )

.....but more american's know the simpsons then they do they 1st ammendment to the US consititution.

And besides, the idea of `knowing the Simpsons' was apparantly defined as `naming the five main characters' and the idea of `knowing the First Amendment' was defined as `knowing the five rights given there', which is hardly a fair comparison. I'm guessing that even most people who had just passed a college level American Government class would have a hard time accurately enumating the rights given in the First Amendment -- they'd probably be aware of all the rights, but might not be aware of exactly where they were listed.

Come to Oregon and find out! There's a lot going for this state. Not only does Google plan to open a site in the Dalles, but Linus Torvalds lives in Lake Oswego. Wireless connectivity is almost ubiquitous, and there's a ton of great beer here.

So why pay sales tax and work in California or Washington, when you can live in Oregon? Although BEWARE! It rains a lot here (wink, wink, nudge, nudge!) PDX LUV, sucka.

Who needs a murder-simulator when you can join the police force and experience the real thing?

+ Shoot a young unarmed black man to death with 41 shots!

+ Kill a young woman by shooting a "non-lethal" pepper-spray projectile into her eyeball!

+ Needlessly taser young children, women and elderly people with 50,000 volts as you see fit!

+ Beat up, shove to the ground, handcuff and arrest blind elderly women in their own home!

Yes, order POLICE-FORCE today from your local videogame retailer and you too can be a civic-minded hero!

And by the way:

"This is what your kids will be digesting if you buy this," Grace said as game footage was shown. "One law officer after the next gunned down in the line of duty."

Kids will only be digesting it if adults buy it for them. Presumably most kids too young to be (theoretically) impressionable enough to go out and kill cops becuase they played a videogame about it don't have the $70 for an Xbox game.

"Here's a philanthropist and a powerful man, the richest man in the world, and yet he's making available to children around the world on Xbox a cop-killing game."

How much of the game centers around killing cops? For all we know, killing cops is just a small incidental portion of the game that they're focusing on because they're sick fucking perverts trying to exploit the public by making it an issue. And how is it a cop-killing game? I assure you, the cops in the game are not real. They are rendered animations displayed on the television. Kind of like a cartoon. No real cops are harmed.



Well, if you want those kids to be susceptible to your recruiters in a couple of years, you better start breaking down their inhibitions now so they'll be blood thirsty killing machines when you want them to be.

Better be wearing asbestos hikers unless your feet can cope with 600 degrees Celcius rocks. Granted, the vast majority of the surface will be much colder, but I'd hate to accidentally find a new hot spot.

Mount Hood is awfully big. Obviously, it'd depend on the size of the explosion, but the potential exists for something that would make Mount St. Helen's 1980 event look like something mild.

Despite comments by other posters on this, before, I can't help but feel that the Cascades affect each other. Even if there is no direct connection, the mere proximity means that the internal structure of each volcano may be affected by earthquakes caused by the others.

Mount Hood hasn't (so far) had a major increase in pressure build-up. However, isn't it within the realms of possibility that the Mount St. Helens quakes may block vents, compress the magma, etc? Sure, the shock waves haven't been big (so far), but that's relative. It might not take a whole lot to set Mount Hood off.

The Cascades are part of the so-called "Ring of Fire", which is a massive chain of volcanos. KATU talked about it having 3/4s of all the volcanos on Earth. That's a lot. I don't know if this Mexican volcano that's also gone off is also part of the Ring, but if it is, I (for one) would be very much in favour of increased monitoring over the whole of the Ring. Things seem a little too active, right now, and it probably isn't sensible to just sit back and wait.

Even if the probability of any further eruptions in the near future are extremely low, and even if the probability of either of these events triggering further volcanic activity elsewhere is minimal, it might be prudent to make sure of that.

You view this as enslavement only because you can't think outside of the system, I guess. This guy, on the other hand, knows how to use some resources available out of the system. I agree that this standard of living might be inferior to the one you enjoy slaving away in a regular job, but only you can draw the line between what you absolutely need and what is purely comfort. It all depends on how much you value your freedom.

But then, we're both posting comments on the Internet, shows where our priorities really are ;)

Heh, Thing is, this is going to be a law enforcment windfall. A certain segment of low-intelligence script-kiddie (This dude comes to mind) is going to say "that's rad!" and thousands of these idiots are going to be ogling their way into the "crowbar hotel" for an extended stay.

BTM

If this thing was automated you might run into some problems, but then again it could be worse or just annoying.

Reuters
katu

Guess some folks don't know what's gone on with the Portland Police in the last few years. That being the case, maybe I'll educate them at least a little bit - for those who don't want to bother reading those links, it comes down to two unarmed African-Americans killed by police officers during traffic stops in a period of less than a year. The officers involved, of course, make claims that the shootings were legit, but it looks too much like a pattern developing to me (a Caucasian from way back).

Guess some folks don't know what's gone on with the Portland Police in the last few years. That being the case, maybe I'll educate them at least a little bit - for those who don't want to bother reading those links, it comes down to two unarmed African-Americans killed by police officers during traffic stops in a period of less than a year. The officers involved, of course, make claims that the shootings were legit, but it looks too much like a pattern developing to me (a Caucasian from way back).

Check out the picture of Linus in the linked story.

Then check out the picture here: Augusta Chronicle

Separated at birth?

He also Caught this
MASSIVE FISH!!!

Actually...

Koolio - the robot refrigerator

Just heard this on the radio this morning.

The bill before Congress would make it illegal to videotape, photograph, film, broadcast or record a naked person or someone in underwear anyplace where a "reasonable person would believe that he or she could disrobe in privacy."

The legislation also would make it illegal to sneak photos of a person's "private parts" when "their private parts would not be visible to the public, regardless of whether that person is in a public or private area."

A person convicted under the law could face a fine and as much as a year in jail. (Source)

Camera equipped mobiles phones are seen as the weapon of choice here. Still, it's no reason not to get one, it just reinforces the fact you shouldn't be using it to take pictures up your co-worker's skirt.

The article calls it "the Navy's ship", but it's leased from an Australian shipbuilder for $21M. Per year? With the Navy, more like per mile, nautical or otherwise. And why does the US government not just buy it, rather than assume the cost of financing? Is it corporate welfare, or more Bollinger pork? Yet another tax cheat? Or just a worthwhile diversion of money to offshore allies in Iraq War Jr, while bankrupting American promises to "support our troops"? Maybe Halliburton's got an Australian shipyard to catch some of the bankrupt US Treasury money that somehow escapes the Iraqmire...

Keiko, of Free Willy fame, buried in secret ceremony

OSLO, NORWAY - The killer whale star of the "Free Willy" movies has been buried in a ceremony in Norway that was kept secret from the public and the media.

Keiko died last Friday in a Norwegian bay, where his team had been trying to reintroduce him to the wild. His handlers say the likely cause of death was the onset of pneumonia.

One of Keiko's caretakers says he's probably the most "famous being" that was ever buried so quietly. He says Keiko's handlers wanted him to "be at peace" -- and wanted to avoid a media circus.

look at him.. I don't mean to come off as a racist or anything, but seriously. when you are in fact a terrorist, wouldn't it make sense to sharpen up a little, maybe try and cut down on the co-worker- thinks- im- a- terrorist- because- i- look- like- this factor?

I suspect we're being misled. It's alot easier for the media to villify someone who looks so "evil" (or at least, different). Looking around, it looks like "scruffy looking Mike" is not necessarily typical Mike. Check out the courtroom sketch, he's just a clean shaven, balding geek. Well, maybe he just cleaned up for the court case, but he apparently also cleaned up for his wedding. And he has a nicely trimmed beard for this photograph.

I don't expect any better from Fox News, given such brilliant lines as claiming that Mike conspired "...to join the fight in Afghanistan against U.S. troops." Um, yeah. I suppose we sent our troops over to Europe during World War II because we wanted to join the fight against German troops? Certainly not because we wanted to stop German aggression, no we were specifically against the German troops. Of course, if you're honest and say that Mike might have been conspiring to defending Afghanistan from external invasion, it doesn't sound quite as evil.

Okay, maybe Mike really did try to help the Taliban, and I oppose that. However, this really doesn't point to Mike being an imminant danger to the United States. The man has an American wife and children! Mike's being made an example of because we're discovering that finding real terrorists is hard.