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COPS probably isn't going to air this one Detroit SWAT member Joseph Weekley: 'It's my gun that shot and killed a 7-year-old girl', but they was there filming.

Everybody is a little bit crazy. You never know what will set them off...

"The use of the highway for the purpose of travel and transportation is not a mere privilege, but a common fundamental right of which the public and individuals cannot rightfully be deprived." Chicago Motor Coach v. Chicago, 169 NE 221.

"The right of the citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city may prohibit or permit at will, but a common law right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thompson v. Smith, 154 SE 579.

"The right to travel is a part of the liberty of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment." Kent v. Dulles, 357 US 116, 125.

"The right to travel is a well-established common right that does not owe its existence to the federal government. It is recognized by the courts as a natural right." Schactman v. Dulles 96 App DC 287, 225 F2d 938, at 941.

You have the right to travel on public roads but being the driver is a privilege.

"n 1999, the 9th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, in the case of Donald S. Miller v. the California Department of Motor Vehicles, ruled that there simply is no “fundamental right to drive." ... While the 'right of travel' is a fundamental right, the privilege to operate a motor vehicle can be conditionally granted based upon being licensed and following certain rules,” Lykins said. “If rules are broken or laws are violated, the State reserves the right to restrict or revoke a person’s privilege." http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/11/law_talk_who_says_driving_is_a.html

Driving is considered a privilege not a right, you agreed to comply with certain requests in order to get your license.

Those "certain requests" have to comply with the New Jersey and US constitutions. Placing onerous and unconstitutional requirements on a necessary, prevalent, or valuable private activity such as driving or trading on the stock market is profoundly undemocratic.

I think the breathalyzer offers some insight with respect to compliance and your license.

"In every state, it is your right to refuse to take a Breathalyzer test ... The refusal will likely be the direct cause for you to lose your license."
http://thelawdictionary.org/article/what-if-i-refuse-to-take-a-breathalyzer-test/

Necessary, prevalent, or valuable does not turn an activity into a right.

"n 1999, the 9th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, in the case of Donald S. Miller v. the California Department of Motor Vehicles, ruled that there simply is no “fundamental right to drive."
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/11/law_talk_who_says_driving_is_a.html

America, land of the obese,

Don't worry, Europe is competitive - especially certain countries.

Obesity in America Compared to Europe

Europe is competing with the U.S. for first place in the obesity crisis. According to a report issued by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development out of Paris, more than half of European adults are overweight or obese. Obesity rates have doubled in the past 20 years for the 27 member states of the European Union. It is estimated that 1 in 7 children in these states is obese. The disparity among countries is significant, however. The prevalence of obesity is less than 10 percent in Romania and Italy, but greater than 20 percent in the UK, Ireland and Malta

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home of the gun NUT

Tough Targets - When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens
Stories That Happened In MI

In some countries, the following two people would likely be dead or badly injured. Can you figure out why they aren't?

80-year-old Flint man fires shots at five robbery suspects
Elderly Woman Shoots at Intruder

A rather different picture than what has happened in the UK.

Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control

Self-Defense: An Endangered Right

The withdrawal of a basic right of Englishmen is having dire consequences in Great Britain, and should serve as an object lesson for Americans. Today, in the name of public safety, the British government has practically eliminated the citizens’ right to self-defense. That did not happen all at once. The people were weaned from their fundamental right to protect themselves through a series of policies implemented over some 80 years. Those include the strictest gun regulations of any democracy, legislation that makes it illegal for individuals to carry any article that could be used for personal protection, and restrictive limits on the use of force in self-defense. . . .

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Yea, without huge-sodas and the ability to blow away your neighbours, America would have fallen to those commie-liberal-bastards a long time ago.

It might be too soon to tell.

The IRS’s Tea-Party Targeting

Cheers

I would rather get killed by something i had a chance of defending myself against than something killing me instantly.

Two points -

1. Most people shot by pistols recover if given medical care.

2. Your comment comes to the heart of the difference on this issue: You would rather get killed than have a weapon to defend yourself.

So, yes, it is comforting knowing that punks in dark alleys are not carrying guns.

When you are old and infirm, they will still be there with clubs and knives, and you will be unarmed and at their "mercy." You won't have the chance that these people do, as things stand, and neither will your friends and loved ones. All the advantages accrue to the thugs. What a cruel thing.

80-year-old Flint man fires shots at five robbery suspects
Elderly Woman Shoots at Intruder

And this is probably why: Self-Defense: An Endangered Right

No doubt there are also many cases of old men and women being shot by attackers, probably sometimes with their own gun.

I expect this sort of thing is quite impossible in your mind.

80-year-old Flint man fires shots at five robbery suspects
Elderly Woman Shoots at Intruder

If only there was more to go on.

Tough Targets - When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens

Now, watch this: The rate of firearm-related deaths per capita . . .

Do you see the difference?

Indeed I do. You pulled out that old canard that people shot dead are more dead* than people beaten to death with cricket bats, wrenches, or tire irons, or stabbed to death. You try to divert the question from dead bodies to one of "dead bodies with a bullet in them." Not going to work I'm afraid. Now, watch this. Looking beyond murder, to total violence - the UK, Australia, and much of Europe have more violent crime than the US. Even when it comes to murder, there are a number of European contries with higher rates. This is an interesting general article.

Murder by Numbers

Some of the articles I listed address the very interesting question of avoiding being killed to begin with by means of effective self-defense. Did you know that even old men, women, and the infirm have used firearms to protect themselves against thugs, and gangs? When you deny them the right to arm themselves they become victims. Objectively, gun control is pro-thug.

80-year-old Flint man fires shots at five robbery suspects
Elderly Woman Shoots at Intruder

*Or was it their souls go straight to hell? I forget.

It isn't even the second time, as others have pointed out.

Considering the problem appears to be about a rough cell tower-based location being reported as a GPS-accurate location, I only find it interesting that this doesn't happen far more often.

This problem has also occurred in Grand Rapids, MI, also with Sprint. The most notable manifestation of this problem occurred while police were chasing a mass murderer a couple of years ago, and ended up at the wrong house:

The homeowner, Jeff DeVries, married with two children, said neighbors called him at work, saying police were outside his home, guns drawn. He called police, who told him to come to the scene.

Once he got there they went into the house and found only the dog, in its crate. His wife was at work and his kids were at daycare.

The homeowner said there appears to be a network problem with Sprint. He said that for the last two months, people have been stopping by his home to say that they were told their phone was there. He had been trying to resolve it with the company, but to no avail.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The firing of a former Battle Creek Walmart worker, who was dismissed for failing a drug test but claimed he should be exempt because of Michigan's medical marijuana law, has been upheld by a federal appeals court that ruled the provision doesn't cover private business decisions.

The medical marijuana law “does not regulate private employment,” the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals panel said in a ruling issued Wednesday.

Joseph Casias, who has an inoperable brain tumor, was fired by the Walmart store in Battle Creek after he failed the drug test. He sued, but the case was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker.

Jonker earlier ruled that the fundamental problem with (Casias') case is that the (medical marijuana law) does not regulate private employment.

“Rather, the Act provides a potential defense to criminal prosecution or other adverse action by the state. All the (law) does is give some people limited protection from prosecution by the state, or from other adverse state action in carefully limited medical marijuana situations.”

Casias worked for Walmart from November 2004 until November 2009. He was fired for testing positive for marijuana despite the fact that he said he never used the substance at work.

The man's oncologist recommended he try marijuana after the law took effect in 2008. Casias found that it reduced pain as well as side effects of other medication.

The appeals panel, however, agreed with Jonker’s previous ruling.

“The district court held that the (medical marijuana law) did not regulate private employment but that the statute could potentially provide a defense to criminal prosecution .

“The district court concluded, therefore, that private employees are not protected from disciplinary action as a result of their use of medical marijuana, nor are private employers required to accommodate the use of medical marijuana in the workplace. In rendering its decision, the district court explained that Michigan voters could not have intended such consequences and that accepting plaintiff’s argument would create a new category of protected workers which would ‘mark a radical departure from the general rule of at-will employment in Michigan.’”

Casias’ attorneys insisted his firing undermined the medical marijuana law.

If you got this far, let me know if you need a Remote Windows admin/packager/etc Contractor who has a Medical Marijuana card here in MI. I'm looking for interesting new contracts especially migrations and server/client rollouts and I don't want to deal with this kind of bullshit discrimination against a medicine that allows me to NOT take addictive and physically dangerous opioids. - HEX

Michigan's speed limit is a maximum of 70mph, not 75. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States#Michigan So they don't have any experience with raising the speed to 75mph.

I think this is what you mean. http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/should_michigan_up_its_70_mph.html

There are 2 issues here: (1) How safe is it to drive at 85mph and (2) How safe is it to have people on a highway ignoring the posted signs and driving at different speeds?

The rational way to set speed limits would be for society to decide what your cost/benefit ratio is -- how many deaths and injuries are you willing to accept in exchange for what level of driving convenience? Then you post the speed limits (and minimums) and stick to it. The best way to enforce laws is to have small penalties and strict enforcement. The worst way is to have severe penalties and arbitrary enforcement.

We have a culture especially in some parts of the country where some people just don't want to obey the speed laws. It's very unpopular to have the police enforce the speed limits effectively, so they just don't do it. People just drive as fast as they want. And the enforcement is arbitrary. Why stop some cars and not others? They've turned traffic safety into a game.

Maybe it's a libertarian culture, maybe it's a macho culture, maybe it's just people who say, "I don't give a fuck what anybody else thinks, I'm going to do whatever I want."

The price you pay is that people get killed and severely injured. There are so many
vehicle accidents in the U.S. that almost everyone knows somebody who was killed or severely injured. I had one friend who died, and another who went through the windshield, had most of her face smashed up, lost her front teeth, and spent 6 months in the hospital. Do you think it's worth it in order to drive 75mph? I don't.

It's safer to have everybody driving at the same speed. But other things being equal, when you drive faster, the fatalities go up.

Start here http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/11/law_talk_who_says_driving_is_a.html

No, Obama's death panels will decide that.

Tea Partiers would ask you why you don't have a church to help you out. Hell, they might even help you if you're an avowed atheist.

The common perception among Slashdotters is that while Bill Gates may cause us some professional difficulties, he makes up for it with an exemplary philanthropic record.

Not me. I've voiced my concerns that are not so warmly received.

The short of it is that I think what Gates is doing is great but I don't understand why they buy research facilities in America and not Africa or why all the drug companies that get to sell their cures to Africa are all American. I mean without stability, roads and other infrastructure, Africa is going to constantly need someone else to fix their problems. And the money from the B&G Foundation stays in America invested in American companies that pays out to American companies that provide "cures" for Africa. It will perpetually work that way.

Imagine aliens landed on Earth, took an assessment of us and were saddened to see war, pollution, poverty, etc. So they say they're going to help us and they buy 10 long range matter transmitters from another alien race and give them to Earth. But if we ask them on how to make the transmitters ourselves they just laugh and say "Please, you're still searching for subatomic particles. Plus, you're just going to use them for war if you can make them. And on top of that, you would have to pay sums you cannot fathom to the alien race who invented these machines. When these break, we'll get you some new ones." Meanwhile they're receiving accolades from the galactic senate and Earth remains full of war, pollution, poverty, etc.

It's a horrible truth but the one thing Africa has a lot of is humans. Life is cheap there. If you want to reverse that, you need to introduce stability and then farming and then commerce. There are huge areas where crime, corruption and warlords make it impossible to raise crops. Curing malaria is important but it isn't going to stop that from being the hungriest place on Earth. And it's not going to raise the value of human life there. Gates' idea to fix that is to pair up with Monsanto (surprise another American company with tons of IP). Right. I wonder if they'll patent the seeds they breed that grow well in regions of Africa?

Just like thinking up a new microfinancing system can win you a Nobel Prize, ideas on how to make areas secure and stable will go much further for farming in Africa than importing Monsanto seed with terminator genes.

art history
music
History of Rock and Roll
History of Sports

http://www.mlive.com/opinion/bay-city/index.ssf/2010/07/filler_college_courses_cost_pl.html

Why is it that as adults trying to further our education in a specific field we have to take a gym class in college? By taking these basic, no point, so-called filler classes we are paying way too much for nothing useful in our field of study. Is it really important for an accounting major to know how to fix certain chemicals in chemistry or learn where the term “Rock and Roll” comes from in a filler history class?

Generalizations are bad, mmkay? There are more politicians like Issa and Amash out there.

Conservatives are evil. Don't be one.

http://hardincountyconservatives.blogspot.com/2012/05/greg-abbott-wins-appeal-tx-ban-on.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110614035520AApWGtA

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-13/news/31054067_1_professors-obscenity-first-bill

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/43388331#43388331

http://www.mediaite.com/online/michelle-bachmann-signs-social-conservative-pro-marriage-pledge-that-also-bans-porn/

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rick-santorum-wants-ban-hardcore-pornography-222833811.html

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/05/07/conservatives-back-ban-on-begging/

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/11/wyomings_self-described_conser.html

http://stfuconservatives.net/post/19427221927

what should they have assumed instead if what they wanted to do is predict what would happen if we go on like this? Eh?

Well, they could do their freaking JOB and model a shift to predictable alternatives.

I am sorry to hear that logic is not for you. I guess that explains the rest of your post. BTW, we are doomed precisely because we have so many ignorant people willing to believe whatever they want to believe. You really are part of the problem.

there are a lot of different substitutes, but none of them are as cheap as oil used to be. We can liquify coal. We can turn switch grass into ethanol. Electricity is a pretty good alternative energy. We can scoot around on battery packs. It's storable density is a bit of an issue but it's getting better all the time.
(Or we can, oh, I don't know, WALK PLACES.)

You may believe you did, but in fact you didn't mention one single viable substitute for oil. Nothing of what you mentioned is even close to be just "not as cheap as oil used to be" in the sense that it would not be possible to sustain more than a tiny fraction of modern energy consumption with them, not even combined.

For example, on ethanol, here is a summary that pretty much is on the lines of most serious research. Ignoring the land issue, there remains a major problem with all of your purported "alternatives". That problem is that they consume insane amounts of energy during their production, which also has to come somewhere. If you have to use switchgrass ethanol to produce switchgrass ethanol then - well, maybe try to do the math some day.

And calling the storable density of batteries "a bit of an issue" is pretty funny.

I do not think it is impossible to solve the problems humanity is facing. I just think humanity will not do it.

That's because you're old, cynical, grumpy, and have watched too much fox news.

No, I am just being realistic (while you are being an asshole, btw. Thought I'd mention it).

And - Fox news? Huh?

This is the problem. Vapid, ignorant, uninterested people who don't even bother to illuminate the vast empty place between their ears. You mention Nazis. So let's do this by the numbers. WHY WERE NAZIS BAD? Because they were Fascists and slaughtered a bunch of innocent folks. What is a Fascist? Well, Mussolini, a Fascist, said its the corporate state. Why is this bad? Well when a nation's corporations determine the fate of that nation and its people all kind of predictable things, bad things, begin to happen. You see profit is a great thing to motivate people, but as a guiding target for a society, it can lead to dark things. At first everything is great and the society enjoys explosive growth. But soon, the system begins to cannibalize itself. Ultimately the wheels come off, it crashes and explodes, and often a lot of people die. That why we don't like fascism. If you want to know how to tell a Fascist State here are some signs to look at. If you've not been in a coma for the last decade, you may notice that modern day America now has something in common with Germany and sadly its not the love of beer. So your Nazi comment as clever as you might have thought it was echoes a sad and frightening irony.

As for soup kitchens and bread lines, are you brain damaged? Here, try these sites: People in line at foodbank, The State of Poverty in America, What replaced the Soup Kitchens, The real state of Unemployment in America Today, Tent Cities Sprouting up all over the country. One in five children in America today goes to bed hungry. One in six people in this country suffers chronic malnutrition. One in eight is out of work and can't find employment. Entire regions of America have been depressed for so long, they now have names like "The Rust Belt." One in seven people in this country is saved from hunger by food stamps or federal food programs. There are scenes all over the country of people lined up for blocks waiting for food from food banks. There are shanty towns and tent cities across the nation of homeless people who were formerly middle class, and tens of millions of middle class Americans who live a single pay check away from becoming homeless. Food banks are pleading for support, they've never before been required to support so many people and many are on the verge of collapse. Are you so blind and poorly informed that you don't even see the profound state of social collapse around you? Are you sleep walking? Medicated? Either you have no mind or you have no heart, please which is it?

As for the ruling class, the top 400 people in this country now have the same wealth as the bottom HALF of the country, over 160,000,000 people. The imbalance of wealth in America today is greater THAN ANY TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY. That is the ruling class. They have hijacked our government. They have hijacked the media and our sources of free information. They have robbed us of our Bill of Rights and damaged our form of government to the very edge of its ability to be repaired. They are working hard to rob us of our last best hope for human freedom and development, the internet.

I don't advocate violence, and never have, but I tell you now, I am plenty angry. I pray that we find our way back without the spilling of blood, but I have a hard time imagining a bright future with so many like you walking the street today. You scare me more than the despots.

If you read the linked MLive "source" story and its followup, all the Facebook stuff happened early- to mid-2010. The estranged first wife got back in touch with the man (to let him know that their 6 year old son had autism) via Facebook about a year ago. He unfriended her a few weeks later, which they describe as a few months before the second wedding (which was in July 2010).

If you read the linked MLive "source" story and its followup, all the Facebook stuff happened early- to mid-2010. The estranged first wife got back in touch with the man (to let him know that their 6 year old son had autism) via Facebook about a year ago. He unfriended her a few weeks later, which they describe as a few months before the second wedding (which was in July 2010).

The ZDNet story is quite different from the linked MLive story. http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/03/alleged_grand_rapids_polygamis_1.html is a followup story with more details. ZDNet has the timeline and details all messed up.

P.S. The wedding was in Muskegon County, the same place as the Musician Jailed Over Prank YouTube Video story.

The ZDNet story is quite different from the linked MLive story. http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/03/alleged_grand_rapids_polygamis_1.html is a followup story with more details. ZDNet has the timeline and details all messed up.

P.S. The wedding was in Muskegon County, the same place as the Musician Jailed Over Prank YouTube Video story.

This isn't the first time some crazy bullsh*t has happened in Michigan
(remember this one? here's another)

Plus snowmaggedon is bad for computers, let alone people.

Worse, I doubt anonymous cares about Fred Phelps. heh

Anonymous must fundamentally be about the lolz. You're welcome to credit anonymous if you get even bigger lolz by inciting Fred Phelps. Yet, I'm not sure that's possible, meaning any normal reaction will already involve lolz. Don't let me stop you from trying! Just please make sure your shit is actually funny before you take on the anonymous label.

If otoh you're just looking for some good ol' internet vigilantly action, may I humbly suggest Muskegon MI Prosecutor Tony Tague. Our dear public servant Tony has clearly got a full plate what with a serial killer on the loose in his town. Yet, he find ample time to prosecute a youtube comedian for tasteless editing. Yes, that right, he's sending some poor kid with a guitar up the creek for 20 years over bad taste in editing.

I'd never call harassing Tony Tague, or the parents that put him up to it, an Anonymous action, well no epic here, maybe if the kid was a funner singer, but meh. I'm confident however that many people feel rather annoyed by grandstanding prosecutors and retarded paranoid parents. And clearly this prosecution goes beyond the pale. So here's your chance to vent some frustration and take a stand against stupidity. Just call Tony Tague's office tell his secretary what an ass hat he is for abusing due process like this.

I'm sure they'll be posting the complaining parent's telephone numbers all over /b/ too, but honestly I doubt America's breeders will gain any collective intelligence just because some get bitch slapped by /b/, something awful, etc.

I don't want to be charged with murder, so I'll just post that link, and nothing else.

Here is another case where she made a big mistake, was proven wrong by evidence and wouldn't admit that she made a mistake. http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/09/did_oakland_county_prosecutor.html http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/prosecutor-laura-johnson-freed-murder-evidence-not-enough-20100927-wpms

Sure. For the first point:
1. Reuters: $246k per job
2. International Business Times: $118k-179k per job, but they include the nebulous figure of "saved" jobs, which is nearly impossible to truly quantify.
3. ABC News: $160k-248k per job- the latter number is using the official number of jobs created, the former also adds the White House's estimate of "jobs saved."

For the second:
1. Seasonal workers rejecting landscaping jobs, prefer to stay on unemployment.
The story links back to the Detroit News, which has since placed the article behind a paywall.
2. Workers not applying for new jobs until unemployment runs out
3. I have also personally run across several construction workers who stated they were staying on unemployment rather than working as "they'd lose their benefits" if they started to work again. It's an anecdote, but it tells me that behavior is going on in my area as well.

All these posts and not one mention of her picture?

Here's a link to her photo, and yes she's beautiful

If that article gets /.ed here's a second photo of her

I think she needs more than a $250 fine and a essay. I've paid more than $250 for a traffic violation but what she did was pretty serious, I think a week in jail and the fine would be more appropriate. Our courts have gone very soft.

War is about the only thing we're willing to spend tax money on at all.

Congress just reconvened in a special session to try and buy votes in the midterm election with a spare $26B they found laying around. So national defense isn't the only thing money's being spent on, unions are doing quite well with the current administration.

At least, unlike most state's official state birds, this microbe has a direct effect on the state's economy.

Legislatures do a hell of a lot of purely laudatory actions, we only hear about them when they're strange or funny. For example, Michigan's no-meat Saturday, responded to by a US Representative from MI proposing National Meat Appreciation Day. Sure, it's also a bit of political wrangling, but it's still equally a waste of elected official's time.

."So it certainly wouldn't make economic sense for a warning system especially when far cheaper alternative exists (like sound horns)."

Not only that, but the areas where tsunami's usually hit are not wealthy areas and probably wouldn't want to be launching billion dollar satellites into space.

Here in the US we have tornados and hurricanes and we can't even save ourselves. Our 50 year old technology tornado sirens are failing constantly so if one of the richest countries in the world can't warn it's own citizens what hope is there for Indonsia and Sri Lanka where the 2004 Tsunami that killed 200,000 people hit?

Do you have the same level of outrage for members of congress who piss away your tax money on frivolous things like this? Pigs like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, George W and others of their ilk cost us far more than all tax cheats combined.

http://www.mlive.com/opinion/flint/index.ssf/2009/03/pelosi_junket_should_outrage_t.html

Detriot Flight "attack" - INSIDE JOB!!!! This was a FALSE FLAG!

Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport (MLive.com exclusive)
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html

BOMBSHELL: Evidence Clearly Indicates Staged Attack on Detroit Flight
http://www.infowars.com/bombshell-evidence-clearly-indicates-staged-attack-on-detroit-flight/

Man Videotaped Underwear Bomber On Flight 253
http://www.infowars.com/man-videotaped-underwear-bomber-on-flight-253/

Bomber Had No Passport, Helped To Board Plane By Sharp-Dressed Man
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bomber-had-no-passport-helped-to-board-plane-by-sharp-dressed-man.html

The only Terrorists we have are CIA/MI6/Mossad funded!

Detriot Flight "attack" - INSIDE JOB!!!! This was a FALSE FLAG!

Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport (MLive.com exclusive)
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html

BOMBSHELL: Evidence Clearly Indicates Staged Attack on Detroit Flight
http://www.infowars.com/bombshell-evidence-clearly-indicates-staged-attack-on-detroit-flight/

Man Videotaped Underwear Bomber On Flight 253
http://www.infowars.com/man-videotaped-underwear-bomber-on-flight-253/

Bomber Had No Passport, Helped To Board Plane By Sharp-Dressed Man
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bomber-had-no-passport-helped-to-board-plane-by-sharp-dressed-man.html

Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car

Right to repair proposal

Congressmen want automakers to cough up diagnostic codes

The EFF's Fred von Lohman, however, pointed out that there's a certain irony in this widespread public support and Congressional interest. What the bill suggests is that the sort of market created by the DMCA, in which companies are given the right to encrypt and protect information of their choosing, shouldn't apply when it comes to autos. To be clear, there are implementation differences. The DMCA could still apply in that third-party tools that provide access to encrypted data in a car would still run afoul of the law. But the need for these tools would be severely reduced by the fact that the manufacturers would be required to provide an equivalent. That would also, presumably, eliminate most of the incentive for manufacturers to take action against the providers of third-party tools.

From Car Makers Put FPGAs In The Driving Seat

ProASIC3 devices are also designed with an on-chip 1024-bit non-volatile flash ROM (FROM) and a built-in 128-bit AES decryption core, which facilitates independent, secure, in-system programming (ISP) of both the FPGA core array fabric and the FROM itself. This allows designers to implement a number of secure features. For instance, an AES master key can be preloaded into the device in a secure programming environment. Users can then ship 'blank' parts to an insecure programming or manufacturing centre for final personalisation with an AES encrypted bit stream.

Actel Drives FPGAs 'Under the Hood' Into Critical Automotive Powertrain and Safety Systems

    Actel also announced today that Delphi Corp., a leading global supplier
of mobile electronics and transportation systems, will be using the Actel
ProASIC3 FPGA in a production engine control module being designed into a
heavy-duty diesel engine. Additionally, Magna Electronics has selected the
Actel ProASIC3 FPGA for its automotive vision systems (see release "Magna
Electronics Chooses Actel's ProASIC3 FPGAs to Enable Automotive Vision
Systems" also announced today).

Magna Electronics expansion in Rochester Hills to focus on developing electric car program for Ford

Magna Electronics discussed plans for what it calls its intelligent power systems group during a news conference at the Rochester Hills City Hall. The expanded unit, which is expected to add 90 employees over five years, will develop hybrid and electric drivetrain systems and electronics that control motors.
The parent company, which is working with Ford Motor Co. to develop a battery-electric small car by 2011, ...

Magna Powertrain and Hyundai announce joint venture

At least it wasn't an xbox. If it had been an Xbox, it could have been considered attempted arson. An xbox old or new model, tends to catch fire.

Your theory falls apart when you consider people like Dr. Richard Stokes, a Dermatologist that performed unnecessary procedures, re-used sutures, and other such unethical/dangerous things.

I was wrong about the correlation being negative, but I was not wrong about the correlation. But one thing pointed out in your video, that solar activity has not corresponded to temperature in just the last few years, is totally meaningless. Long-term trends are the only ones that matter. And as for long-term predictions, nothing comes close to beating the analysis of sunspots. The science is good. Very good.

I'll see your YouTube video, and raise you one:

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From TFA:

Flint's recovery efforts have been helped by a new state law passed a few years ago which allowed local governments to buy up empty properties very cheaply.

It doesn't say how little it costs, but it may not be much more than this. I would think it means it's cheaper for them to buy the homes and raze them than it is to continue with upkeep on roads and utilities where nobody lives.

Besides, if you completely walk away and don't even pay your property tax, the city/county can seize the land and auction it off. Or in this case, maybe hold it to sell later on when and if the region recovers.

http://blog.mlive.com/flint-city-beat/2009/06/flint_takes_international_spot.html

Kildee said this morning that there seems to be "a bit of hysteria about the whole scenario" and the Obama administration did not ask him to spread the word about the shrinking cities concept.

Which is direct contradiction of TFA:

The radical experiment is the brainchild of Dan Kildee, treasurer of Genesee County, which includes Flint.

Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election campaign, Mr Kildee has now been approached by the US government and a group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the rest of the country.

I admire your pluck, but Detroit itself may be unrealistic. There's infrastructure, yes, but the police department is borderline non-functional. Startups still need civil order, and that may not be something you can count on in Detroit anymore.

Still, I'm over in Grand Rapids, MI. I've been independent and working from home for years, and decided I'd rather live here, closer to family, than in Atlanta, which admittedly is much more of a tech and VC hub. Not counting on much tech popping up here (GR is a loser when it comes to VC), but I think I can find enough remote work to keep myself going.

actually, it has nothing to do with cross breeding. once a pig is let loose, it rather quickly goes through a drastic physical change and regains it's "wildness" pigs are very interesting that way. http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/outdoors/2007/11/domestic_pigs_quickly_revert_t.html yeah, i'm lazy, that's just the first link google came up with.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/04/shooting_of_grand_valley_stude.html

We'll wait and see what his trial decides.

It should surprise no one that the UI systems in Michigan, the official Unemployment Capital of North America, are also buckling under the traffic. My longtime buddy MARVIN (aka Michigan Automated Voice Interactive Network) has been offline the past couple days. Fortunately I have a couple part-time jobs, so I'm not collecting benefits, but I know people who are... trying to.

The second paragraph is flame-bait. No links? Foreign car manufacturers even in the US are subsidized far more than US counterparts. That's not FUD, it's a simple fact. Inside the US, they are subsidized.

Nonsense, and expressing my opinion about whether I want my tax dollars spent on private companies' folly is not "flamebait." Have you read the moderation guidelines?

So a state kicks in $50 or $100 million incentive build a plant 10 or 15 years ago and that's a relevant subsidy? That's why Toyota and Honda kick GM's asses in a multi-billion dollar industry 2008? Do you have any idea how little money that is in the US car market?

You're going to have to do better than that weak link, brother. Look at UAW's ridiculous demands (that the stupid Big 3 admittedly gave in to). Why do you think GM wanted to buyout all 74,000 of its workers(and why can't it just lay them off like other companies)? What does that tell you about their labor costs? From my link:

UAW spokespeople have roundly condemned the estimate of labor costs in excess of $70 per current worker hour. They assert these figures include the cost of current retiree pension and health benefits. They have done so, however, without marshalling evidence to support their case.

The Detroit automakers explain in their SEC filings that their benefit expenses are for current workers, not former employees. This is because they follow generally accepted accounting principles in preparing these estimates. If the figures did include current retiree benefits, the average hourly amount would be much higher than they actually report.

I'm still trying to figure out how all these people got the idea that it was God's given right to owe less on your mortgage than the house is worth.

You do have a right to an accurate and honest assessment of what your home is worth. Anything else is fraud - I presume we agree that fraud is a violation of a person's rights. (Booting for the moment the question of whether these rights are bestowed by supernatural fiat, by deep psychology, or by human need.)

Some lenders conspired to get false assessments to justify huge loans. Federal and state regulators who were supposed to stop this were lax.

A lot - not all, of course, but a lot - of people who now have "upside-down" mortgages were victims of this sort of fraud.

I just watched Obama's acceptance speech, which moved me to tears. What a moment for our country. We've elected a black man named Barack Hussein Obama to be President. To all the pundits who said we were too racist and xenophobic to make that happen: fuck you. We are better than that.

Take a minute and come to reason. All of the civilized world who criticises the USA does so because economic influences. And to do that they blame the average joe on the base that he is a ignorant and stupid person, basically an idiot. Xenofobia and Racism are additional qualities labelled onto the average guy by arrogant lefty radical chic pussies who never had to work and can afford to ink the pages of some magazines...

Taken that into account:
* Who would vote for a man who bears the name of TWO of the sworn enemies of his country (Osama Bin Laden & Saddam Hussein)?
* Who would vote for a man who was going to win abusing democracy by RELYING ON THE RACIST VOTES OF THE BLACKS?

Yes, dear average american. You finally proven that are not racist or xenofobic to the commonist over here that depicted you in such a way. But you've also proven to be an idiot to the rest of us.

I can imagine the Arabs laughting at the victory of the N_gger president (Arabs are known to be the most racist tribe on this planet, just take a trip to saudi arabia and take a look at the important positions that africans reach). The same goes for asians.

Look there:
http://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/voices/index.ssf/2008/09/barack_obamas_black_support_li.html
http://community.mccainspace.com/kickapps/_Proof-that-95-of-blacks-will-vote-Obama-based-on-color-only/audio/220916/41158.html?b= BTW those blacks sound retarded...

Ok ... so you would then support breaking into Barack Obama's private Yahoo account as well?

Condoning something is different from supporting it. The difference may be subtle but it's there. I don't support break-ins of people's Yahoo accounts, but if they happen I'm not too worried about it. As in: It's still a breach of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and should prosecuted (see http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/winter99_pivec.html). However I don't think that we should disregard what is found, and I don't think that prosecution should have a very high priority. That's called "condoning". It's different from "supporting" in the sense that I'm not taking the position that we should go out and do it.

So yes, I would condone breaking into Obama's Yahoo account as well. For no other reason than that he is a presidential candidate. When weighing his interest in having privacy against the public interest in seeing him as he is, I think that the public interest weighs more heavily.

Since we are innundated by carefully prepared propaganda from both candidates as to their personality and their ideas, it's important that we also see something that's not stage-managed.

If e.g. Senator Obama were secretly sympathising with a plan to halve the armed forces and use the proceeds to finance a national health insurance, we ought to know about that. Even if that means hacking his Yahoo account.

If Governor Palin were a mean-spirited, clueless mouthpiece of whatever her handlers tell her, we ought to know about that too.

Besides which, I still don't see why hacking someone's Yahoo account is different from Standard Operating Procedure in politics (see e.g. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19295680/, http://celestiniosity.com/2007/02/13/digging-dirt-on-obama/, http://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/index.ssf/2008/08/mayor_don_williamson_pleges_to.html, http://www.theherald-nc.com/opinion/story/8762.html) such as scouring the records, talking to former associates, dumpster diving, hiring private detectives to dig up dirt on sex lives.