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Pennsylvanians receive mysterious letters promising to expose them if they do not vote
Mailers attempt to 'embarrass people into voting' by revealing voting history to neighbors
GOP Mailer: We’ll Tell Your Neighbors If You Vote Democratic
Sleazy voter shaming letters coming by email, too, and some are inaccurate
A mysterious group is publicly shaming Pennsylvania residents with their voting records

And Minnesota too.
Creepy but legal: 'Voter shaming' letters showed up in Minnetonka mailbox

You do know how to use Google, right?

In contrast, subsidies for different energy sources are 23.1 cents/kWh for solar, 3.5 cents/kWh for wind, and 0.2 cents/kWh for nuclear. (Tables ES4 and ES4. Solar received $4.393 billion in subsidies while generating 19,000 GWh. Wind received $5.936 billion while generating 5,936 GWh, and nuclear received $1.66 billion while generating 789,000 GWh.) That's right. The subsidy for solar is 1650x more expensive than cleaning up nuclear accidents. The subsidy for wind is 250x more expensive.

[...] Statistically, per unit of energy generated, nuclear power is the safest power source man has invented.

BLESS YOU for bringing forward subsidy per units of energy produced.

I'd like to Krazy-Glue some of these Slashdot posters to the wall and dangle a bottle of nail polish remover in front of them, to be handed over after they answer the question: "Would YOU personally pay ~115 times more for solar, and ~17 times as much for wind?" I should be allowed to glue my poster. I should be allowed to think.

Glad to see you got modded up in general, but sad to see the only commenters you get repeat that "economics don't work out" yarn they heard somewhere and repeat only when emotional appeals will not work. Deep down they just do not like nuclear energy and will grasp at anything. As it stands... to completely green-field Three Mile Island Unit 2, there have been estimates of ~$918 million, of which ~$665 is in the bank. That ~$253 million deficit is hardly worth crowing about... and I strongly suspect that 918 million is the 'Epi-Pen' price, you know, the amount things cost if you lock the most greedy, opportunistic people together in a room and don't let them out until they deliver a nice pork barrel. These things could (and should) be done for less.

This law is a flagrant F.U. to the separation of church and state... "Digital versions of the Bible will be exempt from the digital downloads tax."

If they wanted an exemption that would do society some good, thye should exempt textbooks, but then kids might get exposed to more of that heretical "science."

The summary says the Bible and the law says religious organizations, which includes churches. Textbooks are also excluded. Essentially the summary was flamebait and you fell for it. Way to show your biases though :-) If you're interested in facts as opposed to your rant here are the exemptions:

There are a few exemptions to the tax. Under current state tax laws, textbooks sales are tax-exempt. That same exemption applies for digital textbooks purchased from or through accredited schools. Purchases made by charitable organizations, volunteer fire companies, religious organizations and nonprofit education institutions won't need to pay the sales tax, either. And newspaper and magazine subscriptions sales are tax-free, too.

Source: http://lancasteronline.com/new...

IANAL, but this case sounds like it might be a good candidate for an unjust enrichment lawsuit. If Zuckerborg refuses to pay the $500 bounty on the grounds that FB terms of use were violated, then shouldn't they pay the hacker "fair market value" for identifying the bug? After all, FB openly solicited bug reports from the general public with a promise of compensation. And did FB not implement new safeguards after they found out the exploit was legitimate, as evidenced by Zuckerberg's hacked page?

If my neighbor hires a painter, and the painter paints my house instead of my neighbor's house, and I stand by and watch the painter work on my house without informing the painter he is working on the wrong house, then I am obligated to pay the painter the amount he would have charged my neighbor for the work performed. Absent any written agreement, the amount due would be based on the fair market value of the labor performed plus a generally accepted markup for the cost of materials.

So now I'm curious, what would be the fair market value for finding an exploit that would allow a hacker to alter Mr. Zuckerberg's own FB page? Given that the IRS can tax certain unsaleable items based on "illicit market" value, could the "street value" of Mr. Shreateh's findings be considered for valuation given that there is no "fair" market value, since such a value implies that there exists a market, meaning more than one possible customer legally able and willing to make an offer for such findings?

Read more: http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/607346_IRS-values-stolen-or-illegal-items-at-black-market-rate.html#ixzz2cRIxNEoC

What part of "sitting unwanted in freezers" and "killing whales" is part of your moronic idea of popluation study? Oh! The Bald Eagle is Endangered.... Guess What's For Dinner! Get bent you idiot.

Just an FYI: not all whale species are endangered. You can see some examples here (prepare to give your L type cones a function test):
Humpback whale, Minke whale, Southern Right whale.

As you can see, those species are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN, which happens to be the same category that the sewer rat receives. There have been allegations that endangered whales have been killed by the Japanese whaling industry, which is obviously reprehensible.

BTW, there have also been allegations that the "Least Concern" bald eagle (oh, also FYI: it's no longer endangered) have been killed by the Amish chicken farming industry.

I don't really have an opinion on the ethics of whaling "least concern" whale species. I consider that concept similar to the beef industry. Why is killing and eating cow acceptable if killing and eating non-threatened whale species is not? Of course, you will notice that the ethical consideration is orthogonal to the legality consideration.

I am vegetarian, so I am not faced with cognitive dissonance about the situation, but I don't care which animals that other people eat if it isn't actively promoting extinction of a species.

Recycled, reclaimed and stolent.

Instead of re-writing history, perhaps the crown could officially acknowledge the tragedy and point to the laws involved. We should never forget what happened to Turing. In this way, perhaps Turing's experiences will not have been for naught, and we can say a prayer for the closeted-bigoted-homophobic-christian-neanderthal-fagots.

Presentism is a bad thing. We should never forget where we came from. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, we accrued to knowledge we have today at a tremendous cost to our ancestors.

And don't forget about that teacher that was fired because of a picture of her online drinking out of a red plastic cup, lord knows what she was actually drinking, but she was ultimately fired because of the picture.

The only helpful story I found with teh Googols was quite different than the one you present. I found another case that is a little closer to what you cite, but still pretty far from it. (There is no red Solo cup for example). And there is some conjecture that a friend or coworker screwed her.

..stranger with a van...

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/255708

Hehe, wish the Amish were the problem in Lancaster. The city of Lancaster's getting a lot worse. This happened right in front of our house: http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/236402

I, too, admire their non-approach to politics (though, apparently, they at least listened to Bush http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/7565)

  Nothing wrong with that. He's a human being, so he deserves to have a voice.

Actually, both of your examples seem to underscore my point about this kind of societal organization: It Simply Doesn't Scale.

  I wouldn't be so sure. Problems of scale tend to come from a top-down arrangement, where larger scales creater larger complexities of management. A decentralized, bottom-up arrangement can do amazing things if you haven't seen it before.
  Before the Spanish revolution, the transportation agency carried 180 million passengers in 1936. When fighting broke out, the trams stopped as everything was thrown into chaos. Shortly after fighting ceased and the anarchists took over, the trams started running again, and service was improved over the governmental runs -- the trams carried 230 million passengers in 1937. This, despite the chaos and loss of life caused by the civil war.

The Amish do well because they all subscribe to a homogeneous lifestyle. Try to make that work in a bigger society.

  Anarchism is generally a pull rather than a push. Groups and communities will tend to solidify around common identities and interests. A bigger society presents more of a problem, but I think people can get along pretty well as long as everyone stands up against anyone trying to prey on other groups. Virtually nobody agrees with the majority 100% of the time, so if they're aware of this, they tend to be sympathetic to the minority. Lack of this awareness is dangerous*, but can be eased with a little education. A heterogeneous society is harder to deal with, but not impossible.

As an aside, do you have a blog or something? This has been one of the more stimulating bits of dialog for me on /. Not to disrupt your anonymity, if that's what you prefer, but I'll confess curiosity as to your name.

  Yeah, it was a fun discussion. I don't have a blog or anything, but I post here and there around the internet. I'm always lurking around slashdot even though I never bothered to get an account. (I hate dealing with logins and passwords and registering and such. Just a pet peeve. Heh.) I used to pop by the forums on flag.blackened.net, but haven't been by since the site redesigned and switched hosts a while ago.
  Wherever I wind up, I go by the name of Mantar. See ya around.

* As can be seen by comparing ethnic strife in various parts of the world, with the lack of it in other parts like the USA, which has huge numbers of various minorities, who get along relatively well despite social conditioning towards racism.

Other anarchist communities have enjoyed reasonable levels of success despite frequent hostility, or more often simple disengagement, on the part of the world around them. The Israeli kibbutzim*, the Amish, and lots of smaller communities.

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/203603 i guess the issue was more that she was posting to her student's websites and promoting her own myspace to them. Also she had other images on her site other than the seemingly innocuous one where she was making gestures etc. She was asked to stop conversing with her students online and did not stop. So this was not a single incident. She was also getting bad evaluations as a student teacher outside of this issue. So this doesn't seem to be just about someone having a myspace that was found by an employer.

Conestoga Valley officials told the college their students wouldn't be allowed to perform student-teacher requirements there if Snyder was not punished, according to the lawsuit.

Girvin also issued a final student/teacher evaluation of Snyder and granted "superior" or "competent" ratings in all areas except "professionalism." He gave Snyder and "unsatisfactory" rating, according to the lawsuit.

Buffington also accused Snyder of "incompetence" and "claimed she should have been removed from her student-teaching position months ago."

I live in Lancaster, and the coroner, Gary Kirchner, is a bit of a strange individual. He was featured on the news for a "car" he owns. It is basically a golf cart that was converted to resemble a car. It wasn't considered street legal, and he was fighting the DOT to be able to drive it to work. When we saw that piece on the news, a light bulb went off in my head. This is the guy that lives at the house we lovingly refer to as "the compound". It is a slightly secluded house that he decorates strangely. **Disclaimer: I have driven by many times, but never set foot on the property. All of this can be seen from the street. The house is in the woods, and he decorates the pine trees with ten foot tall ornaments at Xmas. He has probably a dozen security cameras sprinkled throughout the property He has a lighted post at the end of the driveway that he puts signs on. He changes them all of the time. They include holiday greetings, birthday wishes, think spring, and other little sayings. I wish I had some pictures of the compound and the car to show you. They would better illustrate the unusual location in which this guy lives. Wow, I never thought Lancaster would make Slashdot. Here is a link to the newspapers site: Lancaster online, and one crappy mention of the issue on their site.

I live in Lancaster, and the coroner, Gary Kirchner, is a bit of a strange individual. He was featured on the news for a "car" he owns. It is basically a golf cart that was converted to resemble a car. It wasn't considered street legal, and he was fighting the DOT to be able to drive it to work. When we saw that piece on the news, a light bulb went off in my head. This is the guy that lives at the house we lovingly refer to as "the compound". It is a slightly secluded house that he decorates strangely. **Disclaimer: I have driven by many times, but never set foot on the property. All of this can be seen from the street. The house is in the woods, and he decorates the pine trees with ten foot tall ornaments at Xmas. He has probably a dozen security cameras sprinkled throughout the property He has a lighted post at the end of the driveway that he puts signs on. He changes them all of the time. They include holiday greetings, birthday wishes, think spring, and other little sayings. I wish I had some pictures of the compound and the car to show you. They would better illustrate the unusual location in which this guy lives. Wow, I never thought Lancaster would make Slashdot. Here is a link to the newspapers site: Lancaster online, and one crappy mention of the issue on their site.

The following link is from the Lancaster papers' website. It has greater detail on the case and more information about what Judge Feudale actually authorized, which was a relatively limited search and in camera review of the findings prior to allowing them to be turned over to the Commonwealth.

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/21327

In addition, the Lancaster papers' attorney failed to secure any witness or provide any testimony that could demonstrate that the computer forensics work could be done in the newspapers' offices as opposed to taking the drives to the AG's forensics lab. You have to at least put up a fight to win. I think that the attorney for the paper knows bupkis about technology and he was completely unprepared to fight the subpoena on that basis. It's an example of having the wrong lawyer and being outgunned by people who specialize in this sort of criminal prosecution.

I suspect also, having read the bio of the attorney (George C. Werner) on his firm's (Barley Snyder) website (http://www.barley.com/attorney/bios/bio.cfm?attor neyID=24) that he knows bupkis about criminal law. Barley Snyder attorneys are usually pretty sharp folks, but they are not who I would select for this sort of case, either for the newspaper company or the journalists in the underlying criminal case.

GF.

Our sleepy little town made slashdot...wow!

Here's the paper's website. Nothing is mentioned about it there.

http://lancasteronline.com/index.php

Bush gives the sign during his inauguration.

I trust no one will waste their time saying the sign of the horns is not satanic. Show me somebody making that sign (commonly, drunken fratboys who don't know any better) and I'll show you somebody doing something other than saintly.

Where exactly did all this bandwidth to just give away come from when the Military is having to override garage door openers to effectively use it's bandwidth?

In the southern city of Basra, police said Thursday they had arrested five Arab foreign fighters who escaped from Fallujah with plans to attack coalition troops and Iraqi police in the south.

The five - two Saudis, two Tunisians and a Libyan, were arrested Wednesday night at a checkpoint north of Basra, police said.

- obviously doesn't like me
- has murdered thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands
- has had desires for WMD his entire life
- flaunts UN inspections
- is Islamic
- waves a gun in the air berating western countries
- pretends he has what he doesn't for show purposes
- you name it, he did it

Al-Qaeda has been working to kill Americans around the world for decades. The intelligence briefing of August 6th wasn't ignored -- it was so vague that is was almost meaningless.

And we should have pulled out of the Middle East decades ago- back in 1978 we had the beginings of mass ethanol production, until Reagan got into office.

Ridiculous! No one is gonna go for rationing, our economy would've suffered and it wouldn't stop Saddam. We purchased only a fraction of our oil from Iraq -- Saddam had no trouble finding buyers for his oil.

Our economy isn't real anyway- it's all a big con game by the Corporations to make it impossible for the middle class to exist.

Utter crap. Point me to any real quote where GW says 'God is speaking through me'.

W Tells Amish "God is speaking through me"

There are plenty of countries that practice socialism and provide universal healthcare ... don't want your socialism here.

And we've lost jobs to most of them. The fact of the matter is, under the current system, a fat cat insurance agent gets money off of your fear of being ill. Under socialized universal health care, you cut out that pirate.

you mean those that aren't killed by terrorists?

If we'd actually protect our borders and stop importing from terrorists and end the economic terrorism of the MNCs- there would be no terrorist attacks here. 15/19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia- we should have cut off all imports from there the day after the attack.

Lots of people are finding jobs that pay twice as much as they did four years ago. That's life. If you can't deal with competition, then you either need to be good at what you do, or you're gonna have a real tough time of it.

Unfortuneately, the numbers say you're lying about this.

You're a dangerous kind of looney; one that figures they ought to spread the dementia to anyone who'll listen. All the accounting scandals now coming to light happened during the Clinton Administration. Before Bush took office, before the attack of 9/11/01.

Which is why I voted against Clinton in 1996. I don't trust any of the corporate puppets.