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Dolt 45 said it best:

"What you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening"

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/wo...

https://www.newsday.com/long-i...

The press told you Hillary was going to win. The press told you that Mitt Romney was a buffoon for thinking Russia was still a credible threat.

Tump said, "Wrong."

Was he wrong PopeRatzo? Are you in a bad dream or was "Dolt 45" telling the truth you refused to believe?

Dolt 45 said it best:

"What you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening"

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/wo...

https://www.newsday.com/long-i...

Hillary was trying to make black mad with #BLM stuff.

Oh bullshit. Fuck your RWNJ projection.
Right-wing identity politics are all about excluding anyone who isn't white, evangelical, straight and male from from full citizenship. The list of examples is endless - "war on christmas", Nixon's "silent majority", birtherism, democrats are the enemy of americans, "liberalism is a disease", Falwell's "moral majority", "feminazis", arizona "show-your-papers" law, crisis actors, muslim brotherhood has infiltrated the government, support for Sherif Arpaio, "Obamaphones", etc, etc.

Left-wing identity politics are all about including those people. It's not about making them mad, its about welcoming them as full participants in society by acknowledging their cares and concerns. Much like Dr King said: "Integration...is the welcome participation of Negroes into the total range of human activities."

They want Mexicans coming in waving the Mexican flag chanting "Viva Mexico" while working-class Americans get angry and scared.

The russians and the GOP absolutely want that. While they conveniently ignore identical celebrations of foreign roots like all of the St Patrick's day parades, polish fairs and polka festivals, german oktoberfests, etc because those immigrants are now considered fully "white" (when they originally were half-castes like white hispanics are today).

Yep. Just look as that damn Muslim Myanmar persecuting all of those Buddhist Rohingya. Wait, you mean Myanmar are the Buddhists and Rohingya are Mulsim? Well, certainly that's just an isolated incident. Oh, you mean China severely represses the Muslim Uighurs? Well, they are evil, atheist Communists, something like that would never happen in a democracy. Damn, the Hindu dominated government in Uttar Pradesh (a state in the world's largest democracy, India) is severely cracking down on slaughterhouses (disproportionately affecting Christian and Muslim minorities in the state) over alleged killing of cattle. At least things are better here in the US though. We don't persecute Muslims. We just have people kill non-Muslims because they assumeall brown people are Muslim

A trick so illegal that the Supreme Court found Obamacare to be ... legal. The best part about the Trump presidency will be that we don't have to hear "Thanks, Obama." every time a Democrat farts. Maybe we can at least get to some common ground where we can at least accept Obama as a decent human being, even if you disagreed with every single stance of his (hard to believe). Can anybody seriously picture Trump and Melania reading books to children and having a good time?!?! http://cdn.newsday.com/polopol...

Actually, he was 100% right.

Looking at NYC because it's the closest peer to Moscow: NYC claims it is impossible to run more than 30 trains per hour on its most crowded subway lines, while Moscow routinely runs 42-44 trains per hour on its lines. NYC subway stops are routinely dumps; Moscow stops are architectural marvels. So it's not surprising that Moscow's subway has 60% more riders per mile.

As for smaller US cities, they typically consist of just buses except for maybe one central corridor. The buses are clean, but they usually run once every half hour or hour, so they are useless for getting anywhere in a timely manner, and almost the only people who use them are those who can't afford cars.

The Welfare Reform Act, which you credit to Clinton, was a Republican project only signed by Clinton when presented to him for the third time. It did a great deal to reduce poverty by getting the undeserving poor off their fat, lazy asses.

Unfortunately nobody got the undeserving rich off their fat, lazy asses. Democrat or Republican, they're still getting government handouts. GWB, you recall, was a drunken loser and a failure all his life, until his father's friends cut him into a government-subsidized football stadium deal.

The big-time undeserving rich can be found in the medical insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry. Obamacare has now forced people to get their health care through the insurance industry, which takes a 20% cut off the top of your premium dollar. They've guaranteed that Medicare will pay the pharmaceutical industry whatever they choose to charge, even if it's $50 for an asthma inhaler that costs $15 in Europe, or $100,000 for a cancer drug that was developed with government-funded research.

The welfare "reform", that Clinton signed, was a disaster for the poor. It worked passably well when the economy was booming, and there were jobs for everyone who wanted one, but after the economic bust, the poor were really suffering. There have been plenty of studies to show that.

http://www.newsday.com/opinion...
OpEdOpinion
Will Hillary Clinton run against her husband's welfare legacy?
June 1, 2015
By MELINDA HENNEBERGER, Bloomberg News

Almost 20 years ago, when Bill Clinton made good on his campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it," some of his oldest friends were beside themselves....

A smaller percentage of Americans are getting the help they need: In 1996, 68 of every 100 families living in poverty received cash assistance. Today, only 26 of 100 do, and in 10 states, that number is under 10. Because federal aid is no longer guaranteed to anyone living in poverty, states can simply make it harder to qualify for help, and then point to the low number of people they're serving as a measure of success....

The consensus among Clinton's aides, both those who supported and opposed the bill, was that the move was not politically necessary. Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos told the president that he did not have to sign the bill to be reelected, but was far enough ahead of GOP nominee Bob Dole that he'd win in November either way.

Benjamin Franklin:
  “I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

Now I understand why Howard Zinn said that the founders of the country were upper-class property-owners serving their own interest.

Franklin's advice may have worked when the county had a labor shortage and there was work for everyone who wanted to work, and free farmland for everyone (except negroes) who wanted to strike out on his own, but it doesn't make any sense when there's massive unemployment and no more free farm land.

Wow you found a report that is nine years out of date. Lets look a little further into the first entry, the LIPA Edge system. One interesting point is that the program cost almost $45 million.

The sign-up fee cost ratepayers some $900,000, the thermostats cost upward of $10 million, and LIPA paid millions to install and maintain the thermostats and market the program. In all, between 2001 and 2008, LIPA spent $33 million to fully fund the program, which is considered among the most effective energy-efficiency programs in LIPA's arsenal, according to a report.

you forget that ..

a) the nfl was notified back in mid-november during the regular season that the patriots were using under-inflated balls. it is 'more probable than not' they were cheating the entire season, if not during seasons prior as well, dating back to when the supply-your-own-balls program initiated by brady himself came to be.

b) the patriots have been caught cheating before, including what was described by don shula as the "most unfair act" in nfl history (now to be called 'plowgate'?). if it's not cheating outright, it's bending rules, finding exploitable ones, or loopholes. patriots have a proficiency in that that would make even the most seasoned politician envious.

c) brady is quoted as saying he prefers under-inflated balls and loves it when his backs and receivers spike them hard to help with that.

they should get hit, and hit hard, with penalties, fines, lost draft picks, and unpaid suspensions (upon player/coach/owner involvement or knowledge)...

go to google news

type in "shooting"

and let's dip into the ocean today

http://www.newsday.com/news/ne...

http://www.post-gazette.com/lo...

http://www.ketv.com/news/omaha...

http://www.twincities.com/crim...

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015...

http://www.whsv.com/home/headl...

etc.

etc.

tomorrow it will be another collection of dozens of shootings

every fucking day in the usa. oh it happens in other countries. at a much lower rate. because they make guns harder for douchebags to get

the usa enjoys no amazing lower rate of rape, robbery, assault, etc., because of owning lots of guns, as compared to our social and economic peers, we are no crime free paradise. so owning a gun doesn't confer magic anti-crime properties. it does confer something though: a massive increase in homicide. pointlessly. needlessly. every little confusion or altercation in the usa has to lead to death. and this is somehow better

completely unnecessary, completely fucking stupid, and completely ok according to my fellow countrymen who are fucking braindead douchebags

we need gun control in the usa badly

and we are going to get it

you can't ward off logic and common sense with stupidity, lies, and propaganda forever

Why? Really why should I wait?

Because you almost certainly don't need the information that moment and too many people can't resist the temptation to text while driving. You'll survive without the text and as a result so will some other people.

I have an app on my phone that reads my text message if I am in my car. I never respond and it is no more distracting than the radio.

Good for you but that doesn't establish any compelling need for you to receive or send a text message while driving. After all if it was critical they could have called you instead. I'm willing to be convinced but "because I want to" isn't a good enough argument for me given the safety issues involved.

So I should be punished for their failings?

Do you stop at stop lights even when there is no traffic? Sometimes part of living in a civil society is dealing with a little personal inconvenience to ensure safety and order. Maybe you are the responsible one (I have not reason to doubt it) but since the rest of us have no way to be sure of that you might have to deal with having to wait for that text message to arrive.

Give them a fat ticket and be happy with the income and worry about real issues like drunk and flat out careless drivers in general.

People who text while driving are every bit as dangerous as people who drink and drive. There are plenty of studies that support this. While anecdotal, I actually know more people who have been in accidents caused by distracted (texting) driving than by drunk drivers. Texting is the leading cause of death for teen drivers.

Let's examine a typical Kaplan spewing:

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/kaplan-jfk-conspiracy-theories-don-t-add-up-1.6468431

Any sane person, with an IQ above 100, who has actually read all the volumes of the Warren Commission report, with all their variances, obvious and glaring never-followed up questions, and massive discrepancies, knows it to be a pile of Rockefeller-paid for drivel!

Now the IRS, FBI, state and local police organizations, etc., routinely use tax returns to go after criminals at the lower levels so let us use the same process to identify the super-criminals at the highest level:

The tax returns of Allen Dulles and John McCloy, the top dogs and chiefs of the Warren Commission, across their entire lives, shows the majority of their monies and employment derives from the Rockefeller family and/or Rockefeller-owned businesses (McCloy would later be chairman of David Rockefeller's Chase Bank, while Dulles' brother also happened to marry into the Rockefeller family).

The Rockefellers OWNED the Warren Commission, so the outcome was most predictable!

Case Closed! (What scumbags for hire like Kaplan will never do, is actually read the Warren Commission Report [like Mort Sahl early did, which convinced of the criminal conspiracy he became enamored with, as would any ethical and sane American] and also read Conpiracy Theory in America, by Lance DeHaven-Smith, and James Douglass' JFK and the Unspeakable [which completely destroys the article cited by scumbag liar Kaplan] and David Talbot's Brothers and the recently released Rockefellerocracy: Kennedy Assassinations, Watergate and Monopoly of the Philanthropic Foundations, by Richard James Desocio [Plus the one book, while not about the JFK assassination, fully explains his administration: Donald Gibson's Battling Wall Street: the Kennedy presidency.)

When the time comes that you can easily buy a Ferrari for bitcoins

Don't know about Ferrari, but this Lamborghini purchase for bitcoin is legit: http://fr.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1sn0gi/someone_on_4chan_actually_bought_a_lamborghini/

... which followed this Tesla purchase from the same dealer: http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/cars/bitcoin-used-for-tesla-model-s-purchase-at-lamborghini-dealership-1.6568853

The Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission are telling a U.S. Senate committee that Bitcoins are legitimate financial instruments, boosting prospects for wider acceptance of the virtual currency.

Representatives from the agencies told the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs ahead of a hearing Monday that the digital money offers benefits and carries risks, like any other online-payment system, according to letters they released before the meeting.

That was just last month and that is the problem. It truly puzzled me that the BTC community was all atwitter about US government recognition. If it was not recognized as a form of money by the feds, it would be no problem at all tossing about BTC denominated trinkets or trading them for anything else. Now that the fed nose is in the tent, the rest of the feds will follow.

http://www.newsday.com/news/health/gut-feelings-might-be-best-predictors-of-marital-bliss-1.6512381

I see you believe it is only democrats that play such games.

No, I said "machine Democrats and incumbents generally." It's easier to steal an election by stuffing the ballot box when there's a large electoral bureaucracy/party machine in place, which tends to be in big cities. Residents of big cities tend to vote for Democrats, which leads to Democrats being in power and staffing the electoral bureaucracy, so ballot box stuffing specifically is a technique usually associated with Democrats. However, electoral fraud generally helps ALL incumbents, not just Democrats. Try reading what I actually typed.

The 'alternative' 'for free' IDs you speak of are not quite as convenient as a drivers license for someone who doesn't drive.

Given that someone doesn't drive, alternative forms of ID are absolutely more convenient than drivers licenses. Why would you need a drivers' license if you can't drive? Except for the part where they test you on your driving skills, the process for obtaining these IDs is usually exactly the same as the process for obtaining a drivers' license. You need some form of government issued ID to buy booze, get on a plane, enter a government building or open a bank account. Only driving requires an actual drivers' license.

I'm unsure how 'Necro-americans' are going to use an old ID anyway since they will no longer look at all like their picture.

Of course they can't. Requiring voter ID is a mitigation for the attack where Guy A, who is alive, casts his ballot. Then Guy A casts Guy B's ballot as well. Guy B isn't allowed to cast a ballot at all if he's dead. It's harder for Guy A to claim to be Guy B if he has to prevent valid ID to do so.

Surely voter registration is checked against death certificates.

Don't call me Shirley.

The Democrat Party has an unfortunate history of playing games with ID, poll taxes, and various tests to deny citizens their vote. In recent years it has even included false robo-calls telling people the wrong date or location.

My original point was that Voter ID laws seem to work well pretty much everywhere else that we consider a democratic government, and the only reason we don't have them here is that Democrats are too quick to call people racists. On cue, some Democrat neanderthal called me a racist and we were off to the races, so to speak.
You haven't been able to provide an objection to a specific voter ID law. All that you've brought to this conversation is lies about history and lies about theoretical laws, rather than the real laws that are on the books, or real proposals being debated. Your posts make it obvious you're barely reading what I'm writing. You're only in this thread to subtly imply that I'm a racist. Slashdot would be better off with less trolls like you.

I have a friend who lives on LI, yeah, you sound like him. btw c) If you'r not typing this on a selectix, thank a programmer.

Interestingly, both the Engineer and the Garbageman needed a teacher to help us out of the dark ages and clean up the place. I've also known folks who've straddled both and they sing a different tune so we're both right and both wrong I guess. However I found this report that cerrtainly reflects your comment about high taxes and education. However I did find this site which lists the school staff salaries, the lowest being (for one school) being @120K. Doing a little more digging I found this article which does indicate that LI teachers are paid well, but then so are the staff. One more note, home prices on Long Island seems to hover around 315K (average, but at one point were upwards of 400K+ so while you do live there (and I have a friend who lives there and we talk) you do realize that it does cost more to live and work in Long Island then in other less costly areas?

Now if you think teachers are just shit, then not much anyone says will change your view. If you think that education is not your problem so why should you pay taxes, not much will change your mind. But on the outside chance you see value in getting an education, that the education is providing ROI, and you do some due dilligence to see what (or if) there is a problem in how property taxes are distributed and then do something to fix it other then complaining that teachers get paid too much...then maybe you can see the difference between sanctimony versus support. in 15 minutes I found out that

1 - NYC and LI have one of the highest COL living in the country
2 - Public School districts pay staff much more then their teachers
3 - Teachers are paid more in Long Island, but it is offset by living costs
4 - There is uneven distribution of cost within the school districts pitting low income districts against wealthy

and I don't live there.

I have a friend who lives on LI, yeah, you sound like him. btw c) If you'r not typing this on a selectix, thank a programmer.

Interestingly, both the Engineer and the Garbageman needed a teacher to help us out of the dark ages and clean up the place. I've also known folks who've straddled both and they sing a different tune so we're both right and both wrong I guess. However I found this report that cerrtainly reflects your comment about high taxes and education. However I did find this site which lists the school staff salaries, the lowest being (for one school) being @120K. Doing a little more digging I found this article which does indicate that LI teachers are paid well, but then so are the staff. One more note, home prices on Long Island seems to hover around 315K (average, but at one point were upwards of 400K+ so while you do live there (and I have a friend who lives there and we talk) you do realize that it does cost more to live and work in Long Island then in other less costly areas?

Now if you think teachers are just shit, then not much anyone says will change your view. If you think that education is not your problem so why should you pay taxes, not much will change your mind. But on the outside chance you see value in getting an education, that the education is providing ROI, and you do some due dilligence to see what (or if) there is a problem in how property taxes are distributed and then do something to fix it other then complaining that teachers get paid too much...then maybe you can see the difference between sanctimony versus support. in 15 minutes I found out that

1 - NYC and LI have one of the highest COL living in the country
2 - Public School districts pay staff much more then their teachers
3 - Teachers are paid more in Long Island, but it is offset by living costs
4 - There is uneven distribution of cost within the school districts pitting low income districts against wealthy

and I don't live there.

Why not continue this story with further 'count down' stories?

ANYTHING to push another MS related post to the FP. Every day/week. We can't live here at /. without MS stories!

Has there been a new Microsoft related post today?

Of course!

Let's all celebrate proprietary monopolies!

Let's replace the Microsoft logo, which used to be a Borg logo, with a friendly Care Bear with the Windows logo on his chest! Let's market these toys so we all have Microsoft Care Bears on us all of the time - with bluetooth! When we rub his belly a beam shoots across the room to the latest Slashdot story about another Microsoft news or not news happening!

Dell and HP should sell out to MS: Why not own the OEMs?

Finally:

Spanish Linux users launch legal challenge to Microsoftâ(TM)s secure boot

@ http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/31499/spanish-linux-users-launch-legal-challenge-to-microsofts-secure-boot/
@@ http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/24199/rsa-2012-malware-gets-the-boot-in-windows-8-notes-charney
@@ http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/26/us-microsoft-eu-idUSBRE92P0E120130326
@@ http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Secure-Boot-complaint-filed-against-Microsoft-1830714.html
@@ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2013-000162&language=EN
@@ http://www.hispalinux.es/node/758
@@@ http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51329950/ns/business-us_business/t/exclusive-open-software-group-files-complaint-eu-against-microsoft/
@@@ http://newyork.newsday.com/business/technology/microsoft-target-of-hispalinux-open-source-software-users-in-complaint-to-eu-1.4909950
@@@ http://www.mobilenapps.com/articles/8058/20130327/linux-users-file-complaint-against-microsoft-over-secure-boot-windows.htm
@@@ http://rcpmag.com/articles/2013/04/01/spanish-complaint-windows-8-secure-boot.aspx
@@@ http://www.eitb.com/en/news/technology/detail/1297786/hispalinux-microsoft--hispalinux-files-complaint-microsoft/

Lock yourself in, boys! (At the BIOS level) We're in for a heck of a ride!

Mark me troll because you know it's true and you enjoy lying to yourself.

"LOOKS LIKE MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!"

The logo for MS should be a plate of Soylent Green and a rainbow behind it.

Read something other than internet smut sites and you'd probably have heard of it: Here is one: http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/journal-news-gun-permit-map-used-by-burglars-to-target-white-plains-home-1.4441678

i have to say i agree
all a criminal would have to do is sit there wait till you leave and go get a few

http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/journal-news-map-listed-guns-permits-stolen-from-new-city-home-cops-say-1.4463741

Like they actually did. It wasn't just pressure from the implied evil gun advocates that got them to took down the list. It was the two break-ins directly related to the list and likely the word from their corporate lawyers that yes, they could be held liable for such reckless endangerment.

By 2020, and it's a private venture.

A team of former NASA executives will fly you to the moon in an out-of-this-world commercial venture combining the wizardry of Apollo and the marketing of Apple.

For a mere $1.5 billion, the business is offering countries the chance to send two people to the moon and back, either for research or national prestige. And if you are an individual with that kind of money to spare, you too can go the moon for a couple days.

Every shredder I've seen for the last decade has been a crosscut shredder instead of the old style.

The shredded paper strips look like what comes out of the low-end Champion shredder I bought at Office Depot last year. Including the slightly serrated edges. That thing just cuts paper into 8mm strips. As a security device, it's not much.

Given the "artistic" layout of the strips in that photo, I'd guess that that was some Newsday photographer's idea of a dramatic reenactment, rather than an actual handful of the strips in question.

Every shredder I've seen for the last decade has been a crosscut shredder instead of the old style.

The shredded paper strips look like what comes out of the low-end Champion shredder I bought at Office Depot last year. Including the slightly serrated edges. That thing just cuts paper into 8mm strips. As a security device, it's not much.

(I bought one to use as a paper slitter to make 8mm paper tape to be printed on by antique Model 14 Teletypes. It's not a great paper slitter, but running adding machine rolls though it made enough tape to get the Teletypes working.)

Didn't iPhone sales slow Q3 in anticipation of the iPhone 5?

Regardless, I don't understand why some people want their device to "kill" the competition. Must be some sort of self-identity complex that I am not smart enough to understand. Competition breeds innovation. Ideally these 2 companies will start one-upping each other and consumers on both sides will win.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/cops-mineola-meter-reader-was-burglar-1.3158332

http://www.chieftain.com/news/crime_beat/suspected-burglar-posed-as-meter-reader/article_f265261c-425e-11e1-b23c-0019bb2963f4.html

Not every piddling crime makes it into the big-time newspapers.

because I have seen exactly *ZERO* reviews out there.

blind or stupid? it might help to look...pwned!

The people who actually own the land want to sell it to serious investors who would make a true museum in tribute to Tesla. They recently said in a Newsday story how they get a lot of crackpot types wanting to exploit the land and Tesla's name for their own purposes. The Tesla tower was sold for scrap long ago, and cement used to seal up the entrance leading to the underground lab area, though the original red brick lab building still remains onsite. Here's a link..., http://www.newsday.com/opinion/viewsday-1.3683911/nikola-tesla-s-former-lab-home-to-a-brilliant-scientist-deserves-preservation-1.3896651 If that link does not work try this one http://www.newsday.com/opinion/viewsday-1.3683911/nikola-tesla-s-former-lab-home-to-a-brilliant-scientist-deserves-preservation-1.3896651

The people who actually own the land want to sell it to serious investors who would make a true museum in tribute to Tesla. They recently said in a Newsday story how they get a lot of crackpot types wanting to exploit the land and Tesla's name for their own purposes. The Tesla tower was sold for scrap long ago, and cement used to seal up the entrance leading to the underground lab area, though the original red brick lab building still remains onsite. Here's a link..., http://www.newsday.com/opinion/viewsday-1.3683911/nikola-tesla-s-former-lab-home-to-a-brilliant-scientist-deserves-preservation-1.3896651 If that link does not work try this one http://www.newsday.com/opinion/viewsday-1.3683911/nikola-tesla-s-former-lab-home-to-a-brilliant-scientist-deserves-preservation-1.3896651

This place, and you people disgust me.

http://www.newsday.com/news/world/famine-anniversary-somalis-dying-on-food-walks-1.3847439

Yeah. In the video here, she states:

I collected mussels from different elevations in the salt marsh, and I looked at how those predation rates affected mussels, and then I saw that mussels who were in lower elevations (where predation was the greatest), they exhibited heavier and denser, thicker shells, and then I took this idea and I introduced it into the lab setting, and I exposed the same mussels to invasive species ([crabs]). At the end of the 2 months, I saw that the mussels did exhibit heavier shells, just like those in the marsh.

Because 2 months is a pretty short time, it does seem quite unlikely that my explanation is of any consequence. You are correct that it was silly of me to discount some other, more complex interaction.

As several others have pointed out, the family is back in a home today. Hopefully they can stay in this one. In and out of shelters seems to be a trend for the family. http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/intel-semifinalist-samantha-garvey-gets-bay-shore-home-1.3449717?obref=obinsite

"US Federal Appeals Courts ten years ago declared pepper spraying peaceful protesters to be an illegal violation of their 4th amendment rights to be free from excessive force and that officers who cause such felony assault are liable for their actions and do not receive protection of sovereign immunity as their actions are excessive use of force which the 4th amendment prohibits."
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2011/11/21/pepper-spraying-peaceful-protesters-is-illegal-excessive-force-so-says-us-federal-appeals-court or http://wp.me/ps3dI-1nW

"A Long Island woman Monday became the first Occupy Wall Street protester to file a federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing the NYPD of arresting her without cause at a Citibank branch after she closed her account in protest."
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/ows-protester-from-li-sues-over-arrest-1.3337955

"The complaint in Carpenter v. City of New York, filed in the Southern District of New York today, alleges violations of the Fourth Amendment resulting from false arrest and excessive force. "
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2011/11/occupy-wrongful-arrest-and-police-brutality-lawsuits-begin.html

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080918170357.htm
Solution To Global Fisheries Collapse? 'Catch Shares' Could Rescue Failing Fisheries, Protect The Ocean
A third of open fisheries have collapsed. A sixth of privatized fisheries have collapsed.
Even with privatised fishers, instead of a staple, fish becomes a luxury as "the per-pound price has increased significantly."

On top of that,
http://www.healthcastle.com/fish-safe-eat.shtml
Fish are contaminated with mercury and industrial chemicals.
It's okay to eat low mercury fish-- just limit it to 12 oz per week.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080911234836AAEic4K
Since 1945- almost 11% of the earths land area degraded for raising crops. 70,000 sq k. abandoned annually.
While food production has risen, the rate of increase has been dropping for decades.
"If the trend towards soil exhaustion and degradation continues, food production will not keep pace with population growth; this is already the situation in Africa."

http://www.unwater.org/wwd10/faqs.html
Water quality is declining.

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/gradual-decline-in-suffolk-s-drinking-water-1.2570399
Suffolk's draft water management plan found "a continued gradual decline in water quality" since 1987.

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Up to about 1960, you could pollute and the earth had enough excess capacity to handle it.
After that we started having pollution outbreaks and tighter laws. The laws will need to get tighter.
Once you have enough people. you reduce the earth to lifeless soil and the water to mud. Their urine and wastes are coming in large enough quantities that it's increasingly difficult to keep up.

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What could we do now? Well, we could remove the tax deduction for having a child. That's not killing anyone, right?

But as i posted elsewhere-- I don't think we fix this one. The folks who breed will come to dominate the population. I know three ladies who each had 4 kids. All of modern industrialization didn't do anything to slow them down.

Newsday has been publishing DUI arrestees' mugshots on their website for at least the last few years.

Just to follow up with an example: http://www.newsday.com/7.25434?q=mugshot&type=example.Image

I always find it strange that there has to be new laws whenever a new medium comes a long. Why aren't laws generic? If there is no problem posting mugshots on the internet, then posting it on facebook should be no different. If it *is* a problem, then it was a problem all a long, and the involvement of facebook actually put a light on the issue (that someone then should fix).

Newsday has been publishing DUI arrestees' mugshots on their website for at least the last few years.

Just to follow up with an example: http://www.newsday.com/7.25434?q=mugshot&type=example.Image

I always find it strange that there has to be new laws whenever a new medium comes a long. Why aren't laws generic? If there is no problem posting mugshots on the internet, then posting it on facebook should be no different. If it *is* a problem, then it was a problem all a long, and the involvement of facebook actually put a light on the issue (that someone then should fix).

Newsday has been publishing DUI arrestees' mugshots on their website for at least the last few years.

Newsday

Newsday Gets 35 Subscriptions To Pay Web Site

mod parent up.

This isn't about paid subscriptions as much as it is about maintaining a regional lock on ISP choice. News12 Long Island and Newsday are both owned by cablevision. If you use cable vision's ISP, optimum online, you have free access to www.newsday.com and www.news12.com. Optimum customers never hit a pay wall, they are allowed on the site. If you don't use optimum online, you get hit with a pay wall.

A major reason that Newsday has so few subscriptions is that the majority of the people in the region which these new sources cater to don't even know about subscriptions because non-optimum customers are the only ones that hit a pay-wall.

In October, the web site relaunched and was redesigned. One of the principals behind the redesign is Mr. Mancini's replacement, editor Debby Krenek.

To say the least, the project has not been a newsroom favorite. "The view of the newsroom is the web site sucks," said one staffer.

"It's an abomination," said another.

W3C agrees.

Does anyone have a before and after screen shot? Honestly, the site doesn't look half bad. Reduce/condense the amount of information you're throwing on the frontpage and you've got a good site. I don't even see an unnecessarily egregious use of Flash that mars so many news sites. It's a hell of a lot better than 75% of the news sites I come across (even Reuters has this annoying script that runs endlessly). I should note that with my bandwidth here it loaded pretty much instantly. I could see this taking forever on ma and pa's dialup.

"What gives the police the right to compel a person to say or do anything? The way I see it, the police know this exec is going to walk away with a clean record- after all, he's done nothing wrong."

The exec incited a riot, then refused to tell rioters to disband. How is that "nothing wrong"?

If you owned a mall and 3,000 screaming teenagers showed up for nothing you'd want them to leave too before they caused any damage. I'm sure the police wasn't staffed to handle 3,000 rioters that day (3,000 according to this article and see the video) and they were asking for assistance from the riot organizers, those that started the riot, to tell them to disband.

When he refused he was charged. Makes sense to me, even without a car analogy.

The source in TFA is a news/opinion article about this Newsday article.

You should take a look at this abomination of a news website. It's laughable to think that ANYONE in their right mind would pay for access to such a thing. Of course, it's owned by the same guys who own the Madison Square Garden NYC sports teams and a big suburban NYC cable company, so they think they know it all. javascript :: Newsday as NY Knicks :: Pro Basketball

I stopped going there earlier this year when they rolled out their new look. Seriously, they would have to pay me to visit that site on a regular basis.

I'm know that the KFC recipe http://www.newsday.com/business/coca-cola-and-kfc-s-secret-formulas-are-safe-for-now-1.886055 and big mac Secret sauce http://www.walletpop.com/specials/closely-guarded-trade-secrets?icid=200100397x1210050216x1200602328# are trade secrets, not copyrights or patents. This technique means that they will never have their patents or copyrights expire on their items (haha, like copyrights really expire anymore...). They would also of course trademark the _name_ of these items. So it is not exactly that the recipes are copyrighted, just that they are secret and you aren't allowed to call something else by the same or similar name.

I'm know that the KFC recipe and big mac Secret sauce a href="http://www.walletpop.com/specials/closely-guarded-trade-secrets?icid=200100397x1210050216x1200602328#" are trade secrets, not copyrights or patents. This technique means that they will never have their patents or copyrights expire on their items (haha, like copyrights really expire anymore...). They would also of course trademark the _name_ of these items. So it is not exactly that the recipes are copyrighted, just that they are secret and you aren't allowed to call something else by the same or similar name.

Whine all you want about how New York having a cool day means the world isn't getting warmer; when the corn crops start dying from the longer (and hotter) growing season, you'll be more than "a bit thinner".

Markets don't lie.

Food prices falling across the board

Says to me that there's not a corn shortage.

::wakes up from cryofreeze from 2007::

Hey Guys what's up! Looks like my Cryofreeze is a complete success!

Now to pay back the bank for the loan to build my cryofreeze using the money I made off of all my estate investments.

Yup, I love that dependable -never go down- real estate market...

You see kids, all of the major markets today are completely transparent, never misleading and strictly regulated. I personally only picked AAA ra....

Whine all you want about how New York having a cool day means the world isn't getting warmer; when the corn crops start dying from the longer (and hotter) growing season, you'll be more than "a bit thinner".

Markets don't lie.

Food prices falling across the board

Says to me that there's not a corn shortage.

I just heard some sad news on the talk radio...

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/ny-michaeljackson0626,0,57920.story

Pics? Sure:
http://victorianjewel.com/pictures/025.jpg
Or check this out - a link that shows the area before the road went in, and a recent photo
http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-hs372a_sg,0,4697114.photogallery

Ok? Not only is it old, its within feet of the harbor. So it gets a heavy salt dose on top of it. Yet a number of these concrete roads in the area survive from the early 20th century. They weren't fooling around with roads back then.

Many 'large' newspapers are part of media conglomerates that also control cable systems and radio stations. In order for the newspaper protion to survive they will have to cease providing 'free' service to non-subscribers. Cablevision, which controls the Long Island, New York-based Newsday, will be changing their website to a subscription only service starting in June of 2009. Long Island Cablevision subscribers will have access to the site as part of their cable service, while others will have to pay if they want more than 'limited' news. Apparently the S.F. Chronicle will be doing the same thing soon. This is probably the start of a trend that will continue as these companies struggle to make a profit.