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In my state, "sex offenders" include people who have urinated in public, people who forgot to close the bathroom shades before getting out of the shower, and a great many teenagers who couldn't keep it in their pants. Are these the "depraved and psychotic people" whose lives you wish to destroy?

I've heard this argument presented many times here before,

But it never stands up when I look at the registries in my home state and county,

Search Public Registry of Sex Offenders

Level 1 offenders and offenders whose risk hasn't been assessed are excluded here. What you will find here are rap sheets. Convictions. The age and sex of the victims. The M,O,, such as the use of a weapon. The victims can be very young. Two years. Five years.

The geek clings to his fantasies of the sex offender. Paging through these registries breaks the spell.

I'm seeing a lot of posts stating something like, "any idiot should know not to dump on your land" etc. However, in many states, under law, you have to post signage or build a fence to notify others of your property boundary. You may be able to prosecute without these things, but it will make your life easier if you clearly mark your property boundary. This usually corresponds to hunting regulation, but in this case I imagine it applies to dumping.

I'm not aware of any States require a fence (although it is a good idea), some require a paint mark, or some signage. I'm not a lawyer, look up the law in your own area.

There is a difference between a "brownfield" (environmentally contaminated area) and a large grassy field with long grass dried brown from the summer sun.

If you want a list of Erie county brownfields, you can look HERE for a list from the EPA. You will notice that most are isolated small areas such as former Gas Stations and old industrial sites. You can output the locations to .KML and check them on Google Earth. I haven't yet confirmed it myself, but I don't think any of them correspond to wind farm locations.

And of course you see them turning. They wouldn't have built them there if it wasn't at least a LITTLE viable. But that doesn't mean that it's a good spot, or that wind power is a reliable energy source. I've been by them plenty of times when they are idle. Perhaps you simply didn't notice.

I wasn't aware there was Vodka made around here. Is it really that bad? Great wine and beer though. My favorite is Southern Tier brewery. They make an awesome IPA.

Quick question: they like to advertise that they have only had once accident, and it was when someone hit them from behind. How many accidents would we have expected the cars to have experienced? Answer: 0

According to the FARS, we expect about 1 fatality per 100 million vehicle miles. According to NY state, there are 1-3 accidents per million vehicle miles (I could not find california numbers). So, talk to me when they have a couple million vehicle miles.

Just about curiosity... Where I can find statics and documents about NYS budget and social service situation?

I don't know about the rest of social services, but NYS housing budget figures can be found here.

I have yet to see a hacker that can infect a machine using an odf file .

How about PDF? SWF? XLS(x)? DOC(x)? Those are never the vector for code injection, right? And as for ODF... gotcha:

• How about this one
    Or this one

"Executable" ain't just EXE, COM, MSI and DLL anymore.

I never really understood the purpose of shredding documents. If your documents are that sensitive, why not just burn them, leaving no trace of legible text? It seems like it would be cheaper, easier and faster too. Just throw them in a barrel outside, put a little lighter fluid in, and drop a match. Why is this not common?

1. Burning is inconvenient for small volumes of paper.
2. Burning is essentially illegal for large volumes of paper (business scale; Clean Air Act permits).
3. Fireplaces are not as common as they used to be; outdoor burning is illegal in most cities.
4. People can be idiots when using fire outside of a fireplace or permanent fire pit.
5. DIOXIN!

Shredding is like a residential door lock -- good enough to discourage a casual person who is too curious for their own good. Secure commercial shredders rely upon sheer volume and decent mixing (300 "particles" per page x 3 tons of paper dumped at a recycler is a decent level of obscurity) or "hydro-pulping" for the demanding (shred then pulp at paper mill -- good luck reassembling the fibers even if you get to them before bleaching).

Oh and he used campaign money to rent hotel rooms for his hookups.

Unless you were there, I don't see how you can make that claim:
" the prosecutors found no evidence that Mr. Spitzer had used public money or campaign funds to pay for his encounters with prostitutes, he said."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/nyregion/07spitzer.html?_r=1&hp

And it's interesting how you left out all the good things he did in his career, not the least of which was taking on the Gambino crime family.

http://www.ag.ny.gov/media_center/2002/jun/jun04a_02.html

Does anyone REALLY care that he got down with some hookers? Are we really still so prude?

You: I have a FOIA request for document FOO.
State agency: You can find it at http://www.ny.gov/opengov/123/sdoop1222233jj----/foo.2010.txt
You: I tried to access it, but I get a 404 error.
State agency: Sorry, we are fixing the server, please try again later.

They've lost permission to accept my credit card. I'll shop elsewhere from now just for thinking that I'd allow this, regardless of restitution and new legal protections.

FALITFA ( http://www.ag.ny.gov/media_center/2010/jan/jan27a_10.html ): Barnes & Noble, Orbitz.com, Buy.com, Ticketmaster.com, MovieTickets.com, FTD.com, Shutterfly.com, 1-800Flowers.com, Avon.com, Budget, Staples.com, Priceline.com, GMAC Mortgage, Classmates.com, Travelocity, Vistaprint, Intelius, Hotwire.com, Expedia/Hotels.com, Columbia House, Pizza Hut and Gamestop/EB Games were subpoenaed.

Intel has a good point. If the a major point of the FTC's inquiry is that they have an integrated presence in the market, then is Intel being penalized partly for merely being successful, and making good business decisions? Pah. They are in a competitive business. AMD is suffering as much for their choice in manufacturing partners as anythuing right now. Design aside.

I believe that the major points in the FTC's inquiry involved Intel essentially holding their immediate customers over a barrel involving pricing of their chips. Specifically:
http://www.ag.ny.gov/media_center/2009/nov/nov4a_09.html

By leveraging their market position, Intel provided "rebates" to customers who went with Intel exclusively. When a computer maker wanted to offer AMD-based systems, Intel would threaten to raise their per-chip cost to a point where the maker couldn't compete. There are plenty of other notes. Please feel free to review and comment.

I'd like to see the full text of the opinion. The small extracts I've seen so far basically amount to "I don't like giving the police such power", which, if it were the only legal basis of the opinion, would be the worst kind of legislating-from-the-bench, and not likely to survive an appeal. Surely in 20 pages of opinion, there was an actual legal basis given for their decision. One can hope?

The newspaper said the defendant's name was Scott Weaver. From this, if New York puts its appellate cases on-line (Virginia is one state that does), one could look up "State v. Weaver" or "People v. Weaver" (depending on how criminal cases are styled in New York) and see all the cases in 2009 that were decided with that header.

I started with http://state.ny.us/ which translates to http://www.ny.gov/ . Right on the page is "New York State Unified Court System" Click that, then click on "How do I", click on "find a decision", clicked on "Court of Appeals", clicked on "May" and found People v. Scott C. Weaver, No. 53. The PDF and the Word Perfect document are available there at: http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/decisions/2009/may09/53opn09.pdf and http://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/decisions/2009/may09/53opn09.wpd Indirectly I found out there is a website for the court, and somehow found the HTML version: http://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2009/2009_03762.htm

People of NY, Send a message to The State Government and tell them we are NOT going to take it!! Here is the Link, FILL IT OUT!!! Do something that MAY stop this nonsense!!! http://www.ny.gov/governor/contact/index.html No excuse, THERE is the link! I just sent MY message, How about you.....

People started finding Chinese Mitten crabs in the Hudson River and Chesapeake Bay and balast discharge was mentioned:

  http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/35888.html

I read articles that make them sound like "rats of the sea" but they do eat them in China so maybe they are good eating (trying to be hopeful).

"The fact they will climb over dams, go on shore into people's swimming pools, burrow into banks, we sure as hell don't need them here," Gabrielson said. "I really believe there's not a damn thing in the world we can do about it."

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070615/NEWS/706150327

$5000? I heard that the going price was $4300. source: client 9

Why do you think it is the federal government responsibility to handle the health care of NYC employees especially since NYC is already doing it?