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The screw thing sounds like more half assing and cutting corners by Tesla. You need to use different bolts because they all have different torque requirements. You can expect many model 3 falling a part because they didn’t properly spec the bolts.

In the mean time, their half assed autopilot crashed into an easily avoidable police car. Where’s Elon to fix this? He’s going on twitter rants claiming Jews control the media.

Because it is trivial to falsely register voters. And now one person can register dozens of fake voters and cast all those votes. It is more common than you think. For every fraudulent vote - one legal, appropriate vote was cancelled out. I wonder what many would think if we just randomly selected 3% of all ballots and tossed them out, or changed them?

There was a case in (I believe it was) West Virginia where an officer was talking someone out of being a problem, and appearantly being successful. Some other officers showed up and shot the now quiet "perpetrator". They were praised. The officer who talked the guy down was .... here I can't quite believe my memory. So I looked it up. http://ktla.com/2017/05/12/law...

Well, this doesn't directly address the use of tasers, but it addresses how justified I assume the use of force often is. I know that good people join the police force, but it often seems that either they don't stay around, or they get corrupted.

FWIW, insurance claims don't substantiate the claim the being a policeman is unreasonably dangerous compared to other professions. It *is* dangerous compared to being a computer programmer, but not compared to being a forester or, I believe, an electric company lineman. (I'd really need to check the list of more dangerous professions again to be certain, but policeman wasn't in the top 10.)

Until you get that one house with 83 ballots - all with different names - mailed to it. Or you get those Democratic elected officials "finding" more votes after the election and you count them anyway, overturning a Gubernatorial election... And of course - no way to prove who actually cast the ballot because there is ZERO identification required (you know, like Canada , Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and most of the rest of the world requires).

California's GDP kinda disproves your entire premise.

California ranks 17th in the US in terms of per capita GDP. Given its favorable location and history, that's a piss poor performance. It's actually below average for states in the West.

Conservatives like to think that "big government" (like the kind that paves roads, funds schools, funds fire depts.) are bad

Conservatives like roads; too bad that California's are so shitty. Conservatives also like schools and fire departments, but are not so fond of firemen that make nearly half a million dollars a year.

I'd love to see MI put up proposed rules for lead in water and NC put up proposed rules for discriminating against LBGTQ..

The bill doesn't affect gays or lesbians at all. Lumping together gays, lesbians, and transgender people just because our identities have "something to do with sex" is a sign of ignorance and stupidity.

This is how a well run democratic republic is supposed to operate.

California's infrastructure is falling apart, California's public finances are a train wreck, it is one of the worst state in terms of income inequality, has some of the highest poverty rates and per-capita welfare spending, its schools are near the bottom, and citizens are fleeing the state, while a small number of wealthy people live in enclaves and run the place. That's how banana republics and leftist shitholes operate.

Good idea. We'll go back to longbows.

No thanks, longbows were used to justify conscripting thousands of innocent English peasants to wage war for the benefit of a king.

Let's not repeat that mistake.

You will personally assure all of our military folks that the people who routinely shoot at them will stop doing so, right? As soon as you've got all crazy Islamists signing a binding agreement that they will only slaughter people with scimitars from now on, that should help.

Why bother with an agreement about that? Why not just stop propping up dictatorships that benefit from most of the people being indoctrinated into believing the wildest and craziest ideas? We could even stop sending them arms that they use to oppress their citizens.

Take responsibility for our own actions. Like moral people do.

You do understand how defense works, don't you? Like how, for example, it took actual bullets fired from actual guns to stop a terrorist truck driver from running over and backing over them again just this past Saturday? Never mind. Get back with us when someone has violently attacked you, if you survive, and let us know what you think then.

You do know how violence and oppression work, don't you? Like for example, how the police have been known to break into the wrong house, and kill an innocent grandmother themselves? No, you haven't any familiarity with that? Perhaps a grandfather beaten? Perhaps some innocent students shot by the national guard? Maybe you heard about this lawsuit? Or this incident? No? Then get back to us when somebody, purporting to stand up for law and order, subjects you to the force and violence you so cavalierly hand-wave as necessary, and if you survive, let us know what you think.

Like Tom Wolfe said, if being mugged can turn a liberal into a conservative, being jailed can turn a conservative into a liberal.

But I get it, you want to sneer down at others because that's the way you've been trained and indoctrinated. Too bad you're blinder than anyone else.

Keep playing your vidya games though, they're sure teaching you a lot about the real world. We really do have Quad-Damage power-ups!

The polls were NOT off if you looked at socioeconomic factors; Nate Silver is no friend of the GOP, and he's completely eviscerated the concept that the results in WI were wrong. Why WI, MI and PA and not NH, NV, and CO which were all much closer AND ended up going for Hillary? Even those "experts" who brought up the concept completely admit there is ZERO evidence pointing to any issues, it's just a "feeling" they have...

This is Stein and the Green Party trying to cash out, bump up their own coffers before the next round of elections, and maybe get a Bernie-esque cottage out of it.

Oh, and voter suppression efforts? Care to list those? I know we have documented proof of excessive voter fraud on the left, typically via absentee ballots (for example, 83 ballots showing up in a Los Angeles community that went over 85% for Hillary). So we have proof - actual convictions - of voter fraud, but voter intimidation? Any proof of that? Why not voter ID? Canada and Mexico both require it - why can't the US?

Or maybe the authorities are sometimes honest, and you end up with a list of 438 convictions for voter fraud, as just a sampling of what's gone on. Never mind nearly 100 ballots for ficticious people being delivered to a single address this last week, no just an administrative mistake, pay no attention! And of course we cannot disenfranchise the dead, right?

Thirty one cases you say? I guess this non-exhaustive list of 430+ confirmed convictions of voter fraud must be wrong. I guess all those court decisions were faked...

Not to mention we find report after report where dozens of ballots are sent to fictional people, where hundreds of ballots are "discovered" in an unsecured warehouse a month after the election and end up changing the results of the election, or where the dead continue to vote (and you know, it's hard to charge and convict a dead person for fraud).

I'm sure you'll come back and say "438 is irrelevant, still a small number!" Great - so how many cases are actually needed for you to be concerned about it?

Because the US mail has never been tampered with. http://ktla.com/2016/08/27/33-...

And when people vote by mail there's absolutely no chance that their vote might have been coerced.

Because the US mail has never been tampered with. http://ktla.com/2016/08/27/33-...

Why are the blades exposed? Shouldn't they be covered with a ring shroud at the edge perimeter of the blades, or a mesh of some sort? In two separate incidences, one toddler was insured while another lost an eye.

world has had the influx of .45 for decades

You mean, the .45s originally and sold to and used by the US military? I didn't know about such a thing...

Of course that will happen with the M9

This post below seems to disagree — and with a show of reason...

it won't make any difference in murder / crime rate though

I know. But our government likes to destroy weapons, that were confiscated, bought back or otherwise obtained by the law-enforcement — instead of auctioning them off like other property.

Because:

“The weapons to be destroyed will never be used again to commit a crime, or to threaten, intimidate or harm an innocent victim,” the Sheriff’s Department news release read.

http://journalstar.com/news/lo... http://www.nydailynews.com/new... http://www.nola.com/crime/inde... http://www.derbytelegraph.co.u... http://www.local10.com/news/mi... http://thenationonlineng.net/c... http://www.wowt.com/home/headl... http://www.nydailynews.com/new... http://ktla.com/2015/07/23/pol... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u... http://www.theage.com.au/victo... http://kdvr.com/2015/03/16/wom...

Speaking of aircraft, right now the San Bernadino Fire Dept is saying that fire-fighting aircraft are being grounded because of all the private drone activity in the area around the wildfire.

http://ktla.com/2015/07/17/15-...

They should find the owners of those drones and let them pay all of the insurance claims and damages resulting from the fir. To be fair, only the part that occurred after the equipment had to be grounded and the fire leapt from 500 acres to 1500 acres.

Speaking of aircraft, right now the San Bernadino Fire Dept is saying that fire-fighting aircraft are being grounded because of all the private drone activity in the area around the wildfire.

http://ktla.com/2015/07/17/15-...

They do, however, and more often then not, get the job done.

As documented here

I'd love to see them fly into an asteroid.

Great idea! In the spirit of the underwater skeleton 'tea party' in the Colorado River, in tribute to the artist -- space permitting -- it would be really cool if a large unmanned asteroid intercept vehicle could have a windowed 'bridge' with a pair of plastic skeletons seated in lawn chairs. Their grinning skulls would be the last thing that nasty old space rock ever sees.

You get points for style.

Discovery of an underwater skeleton 'tea party' in the Colorado River provides ample proof that the human race is worth saving.

How many people walk into police stations and start shooting? Ok, ok, I'm sure it has happened once, somewhere... Does it happen NEARLY as often as school shootings?

Armed teachers, armed parents, would solve this problem. Heck, armed teenagers would solve this problem. When my father went to school, you could still bring your .22 rifle to school, they had a shooting club and people had gun racks in the pack of their pickup trucks. No one would have dreamed of shooting up that school, 20 or 30 kids had guns there.

Police station shootings happen quite frequently: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/police-station-shooting/, http://ktla.com/2014/04/07/lapd-officer-wounded-in-shooting-at-police-station/, and http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/West-Deptford-Police-Station-Shooting-270886191.html.

While I do agree that we may have gone too far to in disarming otherwise law-abiding citizens, I am not sure that arming every single teacher would do anything to solve the problem. In fact I can envision many scenarios where an armed teacher (or worse, a student) runs headlong into a situation where they have little to no training, likely complicating the efforts of the police to resolve the situation. The best place for that teacher to be is locked in the classroom with their students, making sure they follow the procedures proscribed for the situation.

You assume the police would look into such incidents in a timely manner. For example: http://ktla.com/2014/04/14/inv... . The bracelet phones home right away and the police don't check on it for 3 days. Mayhem ensues. The solution is not better tracking of felons on the outside... the solution is maintain the public trust and follow the laws.... the laws which require X number of years in jail for Y crime. This really bothers me.... the public hears about some guy doing some crime and says there ought to be a law against that.... there likely is. The DA didn't prosecute and accepted a plea deal instead.... or a judge didn't follow the law when sentencing. Two cases: 1) two time sex offender in our town is living near the local hospital. He molested a girl under the age of 11 as his 2nd offense. I asked the DA (Chip Finney, Sumter SC) why he's not doing 25 to life and he said it was plead down to something like aggravated sexual assault, but hey, he's on the sex offender registry. 2)While doing guardian ad litem work 10 years ago, a judge kept giving the "mom" 2nd, 3rd, 10th chances. SC law says there has to be a permanent plan in place in 12 months of taking children from parent(s). The kids were in foster care for around 2 years and the foster parents wanted to adopt. They were military and had to leave while the judge was giving "mom" that 11th chance to fly right. So you'll pardon me if I have no faith in the policing side of a GPS bracelet for felons that would sense a gunshot.

Here is one example.

Presuming that this isn't happening is like presuming we never bury anyone alive, even though things like this happen.

The question is not whether these things are happening, but how prevalent they are.

It's about who gets the business and who holds the insurance.

In the drone world, you got established companies: DoD/Aerospace/Big Defense selling UAVs at 100K+ figures where a 15K unit can do better. And you get all these commercial startups and hobbyists are 9 out of 10 times flying with out insurance.... and if they do have insurance--how is an insurance company really going to pay out when your 2K DJI flies away and causes a car accident with million dollar lawsuits, e.g. a fatality in the middle of San Francisco's mission district? There's a reason the rocketry guys aren't flying their aerial cameras via launching the estes model unit in the local walmart parking lot.

These car sharing services, mind that all the resource sharing services (airbnb and aereo come to mind) have the same 2 problems: uneven competition (maybe fair OR unfair--courts will decide) to established businesses and regs, and when something goes wrong, who pays? You think uber has a walk in the park with safety and insurance? These are not mutually exclusive problems, but more tightly coupled than one would think.

Hence as a devil's advocate, Airports are controlled areas, congested x10, and have all sorts of complexities: emergency evac, pedestrians, basic security, basic logistics, lots of people not familiar with the area and a controlled taxi system. All that plays into the 2 above needs... and as like the drone world, safety is used as easy justification to put a kibosh on the whole deal.

You didn't happen to be in Pasadena did you?

Good is relative. If they managed not to shoot two small Latina women they're still better than the LAPD

If I want three bedrooms all to myself, there's nothing wrong with that.

10 miles from anything else. So you have to drive everywhere. But when you are no longer capable, don't come crying to us when your license gets pulled.

Maybe we need 'magic crosswalks' that sense when a driver just doesn't have what it takes anymore.

I see this kind of story all the time. Leach at the time was the chief of police. Cops just get different treatment than the rest of us. If this was anyone else they would have gone to jail.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-riverside-chief-crash,0,3645098.story

From the link:

"The report released Wednesday says the two officers who approached Russ Leach's car smelled alcohol, but no field sobriety tests were given. It says they should have arrested him rather than letting one of his lieutenants drive him home.

The report also determined Leach struck a raised curb, shredding his tires, and then continued for miles until he was stopped by his own officers.

In the new VIDEO, Leach can be seen flashing his badge to the officers. Leach then says he has a flat tire, and one of the officers asks if he needs help getting home.

According to the CHP report, Leach then called Riverside Assistant Police Chief John de la Rosa, who spoke to the sergeant at the scene, Frank Orta, on the phone.

De la Rosa asked Otra, "If it wasn't the chief and it was anybody else, what would you do?" Otra replied, "I would arrest him and store the vehicle."

Ultimately, the decision was made to tow the car and give Leach a ride home.

In the police report, Orta wrote that Leach made an unsafe turn and that he was on the wrong side of the road when he crashed into the curb.

And the CHP report said Leach was unsteady on his feet and swaying back and forth."

heh "...mathematicians... can be as petty as anyone"

Reminds me of some recent news along those lines.

Perhaps if you could give us a list of all that "violence coming from the left" in the US that is somehow being cleverly concealed by all the media of the world (must be some kind of a leftist conspiracy involving all those pinko-commie corporate CEOs!) it would help your points to attain some modicum of credibility. Unless your post was meant to be some very subtle satire, that is.

• It was not the fear of conservative violence that caused Ann Coulter's speech to be cancelled this week.
• It was a liberal who bit the finger off a man who disagreed with him on healthcare.
• It was Obama-loving Amy Bishop who took a gun to work and murdered co-workers.
• Joseph Stack flew his plane into the IRS building after writing an anti-conservative manifesto.
• It was liberals who destroyed AM radio towers outside of Seattle.
• It's liberals who burn down Hummer dealerships.
• It was progressive SEIU union thugs who beat a black conservative man who spoke his mind.
• It's doubtful that a conservative fired shots into a GOP campaign headquarters.
• In fact, Democrats have no monopoly on having their offices vandalized.
• Don't forget it was Obama's friend Bill Ayers who used terrorism as a tool for political change. SDS is still radical, with arrests in 2007 and the storming of the CATO Institute in July 2008.
• It was a liberal who was sentenced to two years for bringing bombs and riot shields to the Republican National Convention in 2008.
• It was a liberal who threatened to kill a government informant who infiltrated her Austin-based group that planned to bomb the RNC.
• It was liberals who assaulted police in Berkeley.
• It was liberals who intimidated and threw rocks through the windows of researchers.
• The two Black Panthers who stood outside polls intimidating people with nightsticks were probably not right-wingers.
• Every time the G20 gets together, it's not conservatives who destroy property and cause chaos.

I could literally go on and on, but let's try to have some perspective here. Violence is a product of the fringe, on either side, and it's sickening to try to use it for political advantage. Those who commit violence in the name of politics deserve political change no more than they deserve leniency in sentencing. Violence furthers no cause. The only call to action that violence has ever moti

They are searching a guy in a uniform walking into a terminal.

And security is so tight, it seems anyone can walk right into a secured airport, right up to a large, commercial airplane, and crawl right inside. But good thing we're spending our tax dollars where its assured to prevent absolutely nothing. If a sixteen year old kid can completely circumvent airport security, I'm sure less determined terrorists will give it a second thought. Just think how trivial it would have been to have placed pipe bombs into those landing gear bays. I guess better not to think of that and to simply harass pilots who fly the damn things, while ignoring everyone else who have direct aircraft access; and less likely to die as the result of terrorist action.

Because Bartender's have classically been, what? Actually, the right thing to do would have been to ignore the item all together. The owner would come and retrieve it the next business day; most likely from the Bartender who was responsible for cleaning up the place, for health reasons of course.

Did anybody perk up when Gizmodo tried to contact the person using the phone and all the information was "removed"? You think that was by accedent? The positive publicity that Apple gained by that event is worth millions.

How about when Gizmodo tried to give back the property and the owner refused? I don't know of a single owner that doesn't want their property back, NOW!

But I'm thinking of Gizmodo, it's a news industry practice for news gathers to pay for Leads, and Stories. Gizmodo tried to contact the owner of the phone. Gizmodo went public with their information. There is no law in California that says, "Let the Police handle all matters." Also, there's that silly little 1st Amendment. Looks to me like Gizmodo purchased stollen property and publically attempted to give back the property to its rightful owner.

The next issue is that of corporate tampering of Law Enforcement. I don't see Apple getting involved with the issue in Hemet. How about the Gang problems in Compton? As sure as Hell exists, I'd like to know how Apple's prototype went to the top of the list of issues that California Law Enforcement decided to handle. I would think that Human Predation is more important than Apple's botched publicity stunt.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-service-monkey-attack,0,888016.story

Another article says the city is considering dropping the charges, since their lawn is actually now in compliance. Looks like there were just some bureaucratic hoops they didn't jump through.

I know this has more to do with kids and the lash back from the Columbine thing, but even toy guns have gotten people in trouble at some points in time. Here is one and and this one more extreme that ended up with a child getting shot by police. (I don't really know about these news sources, but I seem to remember stories like these and I didn't want to spend too much time looking.

I think there are a good deal of cases like this. The second story is tragic but sadly, I can see where the police were coming from. If you tell someone to drop something you believe is a gun and they point it at you...well...you don't have much time to make a decision.

My point is, the treat of a gun will probably be treated as a gun even if there was not one present.

I am appalled by the number of people who have actually responded with advice about which computer to buy or with what computer their own two-year-old used. Personally, I find it to be self-serving attempt to mold little Timmy into being "just like Daddy." It's frightening to see how many people parent for their own gratification and "love" their children in such a selfish way. It's almost like they would be offended if their kids had other interests.

I'm sure that some of these same people would quickly condemn as manipulative the PHB who brings his two-year-old to work with him dressed in his own little suit and tie, the ex-jock who forces his kids into being hypercompetitive or this soldier who made his young son fight another kid.

I certainly believe in teaching your family's values to kids, and to encourage children to try different activities, but shouldn't they be allowed to develop their own interests without all of that pressure to conform to their parents image?