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Well, apparently you don't need a gun-phone to do that

They came to document global warming and shrinking polar ice caps – but now they’re desperately waiting for the US Coast Guard to rescue their ship after it got stuck in record-breaking Antarctic ice.

The Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star left Australia Sunday and is steaming toward Antarctica to rescue crew members from the scientists’ Russian ship – and a Chinese vessel that came to its aid and also got stuck.

  See moar - Proof Positive We're All Gonna Die!

Run! Run for your lives! Yeah, up a couple of steps should do it.

I won't miss these hypocritical pieces of shit.

I don't know what is worse: That they refused to take the sex tape of Terry down (Hulk Hogan) but at the same time condemned the leaked pictures of female celebrities during "The Fappening", or that they actually tried to invoke the Holocaust and "FREE SPEECH!" during the trial.

Kind of ironic since this is the same media company spewing "HATE SPEECH IS NOT FREE SPEECH" line.

http://nypost.com/2016/03/07/g...

Let them burn.

During the foreclosure crisis, banks were issuing tons of forged documents.

The FBI wants a tool that is ready for a long list of other domestic cases. A tool that is portable, federal support for state law enforcement ready. The domestic, court ready, master key for a generation of phones.
"“The request we got from the government in this case is, ‘Take this tool and put it on a hard drive, send it to the FBI,’ and they’d load it onto their computer,” "(March 2, 2016)
http://nypost.com/2016/03/02/f...
Its not a "one-off" or just for this case tool.
The NSA owns that tool set, missions, contracts, bids, contractors and the wins that result. The funding and fame follow the wins . The no bid contracts and experts gravitate to the NSA ensuring every generation of telco product is wide open to the US gov and mil. Only the NSA can then secure, support or plan any such missions.
When federal and state law enforcement get in on the bids for the same tool sets? Any state contractor, federal contractor can then sell their tools at a low cost and the national publicity goes to the FBI.
Political leaders see new hi tech contractor jobs in FBI support in their states and the contractors that get the new work can the support the local political leaders re election that got them the new FBI contracts.
Everyone is now winning, new federal cash is flowing out, political leaders helped their local hi tech sector with new gov work, the FBI has a flood of new cases in open court and wins.
What was the NSA's missions, fame, role, new experts, no bid contracts, code and skills now in the hands of state officials, local law enforcement, federal gov workers, anyone working with US federal law enforcement around the world. All the ex staff and former staff who got invited in on the methods.

Anyone interesting stops using US branded trapdoor and backdoor ready turnkey network, telco and computer devices.
A few decades of easy tracking, voice prints, effortless decryption is lost in months in open court.
The cults, faith groups, criminals, dealers, embassy "agents" who once had to be seen with a phone just to keep the cover as been a normal person that was always reachable all go dark.

You mean, like this victim's family member?

http://nypost.com/2016/02/18/m...

AC re 'it's just about one iPhone data ". Its about been conscripted to create a portable master key for a generation of US phone products. Once created, a generation of hardware and software is open to anyone who can buy or ask for or use the same keys. A generation of phones are then at risk.
"‘Take this tool and put it on a hard drive, send it to the FBI,’ and they’d load it onto their computer,” http://nypost.com/2016/03/02/f... (March 2, 2016)

AC the "revoke" issue wont work to try and keep it for "one" physical. The request is for code that is on a drive that is given to the US gov. The computer code can then be used to open product lines at a state and federal level.
The code as a method on a computer hard drive is been conscripted for a generation of phones, not one physical phone.
Again the House Committee on the Judiciary Hearings, The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy (Streamed live on Mar 1, 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
4:44 and onto 4:45 has the details on the request made.
Tool was to be put on a hard drive.
Hard drive with the new tool was to be sent to US gov.
A gov computer would then perform the task. Portable, reusable.
More details at (March 2, 2016)
http://nypost.com/2016/03/02/f...
"“The request we got from the government in this case is, ‘Take this tool and put it on a hard drive, send it to the FBI,’ and they’d load it onto their computer,”"

Except you're not actually in the majority and, you're right, there's nothing you can do about it. Cars almost outnumber humans in the US. We have enough cars for almost every man, woman, and child. We have more cars than can be legally driven at any one time.

As I said above 809 automobiles for 1000 people. That doesn't include motorcycles and the 1000 people is not how many can lawfully drive but includes children, people without a license, and city dwellers. And no, no most Americans do not live in a city - unless you want to redefine the word city. That stat's made up and is only true for the reasons listed in my above post.

So, how do you like that?

No one is disputing that America has a lot of cars, but I don't see how that relates to people moving to self-driving cars? My household owns 2 cars, but that doesn't mean that we enjoy driving, the car is just a tool to go places. I'd be happy to turn driving over to the car if it can get me there as safe or more safely as I can get myself there. People drive today because they have no choice (outside of a few cities with good transit).

And no, no most Americans do not live in a city - unless you want to redefine the word city. That stat's made up and is only true for the reasons listed in my above post.

“urbanized areas” of 50,000 or more people ... For the 2010 count, the Census Bureau has defined 486 urbanized areas, accounting for 71.2 percent of the U.S. population.
http://www.citylab.com/housing...

This is America. You'll have better luck taking the firearms than you will taking the automobiles and the ability to control them.

Fewer and fewer young people are getting licenses -- By the time self driving cars are ready, that is the generation that will be deciding whether or not to embrace self driving cars.
http://nypost.com/2016/01/31/w...

And many drivers are forgoing car ownership through car sharing. Put the two together (fewer licensed drivers, acceptance of a non-owned vehicle), and the intersection is a self driving car.
http://www.alixpartners.com/en...

You can't have it your way and there's shit all you can do about it.

It's not "my" way, it's the way of the drivers 20 years from now.

Likewise, a bakery run by Christians who oppose same sex marriage don't have to bake a cake with a pro-SSM message.

There's a bakery in Oregon that would disagree with you. There's also a farm in New York and a florist in Seattle. We are absolutely not free to refuse, unless it's against someone not on the Approved Victim List.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/10...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.americanthinker.com...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ge...
http://nypost.com/2016/02/09/e...
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-s...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.thelocal.dk/2016012...
http://www.politico.eu/article...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/...
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2...
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

Didn't Citizen's United make it legal for a corporation to support a political candidate in any way they choose?
Twitter can refuse to provide service for the opposition (delete every post) if it choose to do so, and there ain't shit any one can do about it.

Absolutely. That doesn't mean inhibition of speech shouldn't be called out though.

An enterprising lawyer might make a case about the Communications Decency Act and that entities seeking safe harbor shouldn't just be protected from liability when exercising discretion, but said discretion should be held to something higher than an arbitrary standard... Older FCC-style "equal time" discretion or something... But that probably wouldn't go very far. The market should and will decide these things.

FTR, it's not just "Hillary" stuff, the recent SJW wisdom has caused random Conservatives to get disappeared as well:

http://nypost.com/2016/02/23/twitter-targets-trolls-but-winds-up-silencing-conservatives/

Twitter recently formed the Orwellian-named “Trust and Safety Council” to propose changes to the company’s use policies. The goal, according to a press release, was to find a middle ground between permitting broad free speech and restricting actual abuse.

But practically none of the 40 people chosen to be part of the council are all that concerned about free speech. In fact, most of them work for anti-harassment groups and seem likely to recommend further limitations on online expression.

You're also assuming that she did anything really wrong with her email server. That's being investigated currently, and I'm withholding judgment until I know some of the facts. Obviously some of that information should not have been on that server, but beyond that things get murky.

Here' the thing. I already know some of the facts.

1) The server created a large security breach even if it never held classified information. While probably not a criminal act, it does right there show poor judgment.
2) Using her own private server instead of a government one has already allowed her to evade FOIA requests. It also hid her emails from the rest of the Obama administration. And if it can be shown that she constructed this email server in part to evade FOIA requests, then that is a felony.
3) There was plenty of classified information being passed on her server including stuff that was originally marked as classified (BTW, it doesn't have to be marked as classified to be classified). It's a felony to knowingly move classified information onto systems which are not approved for storage or distribution of such information.
4) We have an email where Clinton instructs an aide to strip classified headers off of a document before emailing it. That is a felony as well.

This stuff is "murky" only because you aren't paying attention. As a final observation, the FBI conducts the investigation, but it is Obama's decision whether to prosecute or not.

This whole summary sounds like a precursor to Twitter banning Trump. Their "Trust and Safety Council" with Anita Sarkeesian needs to protect us from any voices which may harm or threaten all of us by disagreeing with the SJW agenda.

Well, if you want to do it like Twitter, just create a "Trust and Safety Council" with Anita Sarkeesian on it to make sure no trolls (i.e. conservatives and non-SJW's) can speak. Here are more detailed instructions.

If only Twitter could appoint a committee with Anita Sarkeesian in charge to ban all those nasty conservatives who abuse their "free speech" to say things good liberals find offensive.

Oh wait, they already have.

The commentary about it being pro-unlocking vs. anti-unlocking is inaccurate.

It's really pro-FBI Compliance vs. anti-FBI Compliance (or if you want to use stronger language, pro-Backdoor vs. anti-Backdoor).

When it comes to allowing the FBI access to the data, note that almost *all* parties involved (including Apple) *does* agree that the FBI should have access to the data. In fact, Apple has done quite a lot to try and get FBI access to the data, including providing any available iTunes Cloud backups to Farook's phone.

The problem is the *how* -- meaning, *how* should the FBI get access to that data, and to what extent can the FBI compel Apple to provide the data by having Apple compromise the security of the iPhone itself.

Furthermore, in terms of the "two sides", the summary provides a very inaccurate portrayal of the two sides of this argument. If you read thru John McAfee's quotes, he actually *agrees* with Apple, and states that Apple should *not* be compelled to comply with the FBI / court order. (What he then stated is that he could get access to Farook's data *without* requiring Apple to create the backdoor, which is what he was arguing.)

Also, to say that "even some of the victim's families on the con" is also inaccurate. In fact, there has only been *one* victim's family (specifically Carol Adams -- http://nypost.com/2016/02/18/m...) that has been on the record stating that they think Apple should not be compelled to comply with the FBI, not "some".

EDIT: Gates actually says that his quote was misinterpreted, and he does *not* necessarily side with the FBI -- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

You missed something ...
Netflix uses product placement.
sources

http://www.ign.com/articles/20...
http://nypost.com/2015/03/02/h...

Also, a more valid reason why Netflix does not report numbers..
valuation of the show, better numbers always equal more revenue but don't equal more profits,
profits get eaten up by writers and actors at the negotiation tables . Notice that many writers and actors are forming production companies and or are becoming executive producers...

Product placement people are already following the street gossip, checking with Nealson for crappy Netflix data, and pricing out the idea.
netflix already knows its numbers, get's data from Nealson via third parties to check what the industry is guessing and then maximizes revenue

follow the money ...

She can't be trusted, full stop. A vote for Hillary is a vote against your interests because the only interests Hillary has is in what is good for her.

I don't trust Hillary but I trust the goons on the right even less because their interests are routinely directly contrary to my own as well as to what I consider good public policy. All politicians act in self interest and to presume otherwise is dangerously naive. I presume they are acting in self interest and just try to find someone who isn't too obviously a crook ...

No, you don't. You don't try AT ALL.

Because if you did, you'd have NOTHING to do with Clinton.

Tens of millions of dollars - at least from the selling of the Marc Rich pardon. And some of that money was for selling control of US uranium to a Russian associate of Marc Rich -while HIllary! was Secretary of State - a deal that needed State Department approval. The Clinton "Foundation" only got $1 million from that Russian for that deal.

Hillary! is under FBI investigation for corruption and violating national security laws.

She's told her aide to delete classification headers and send a classified email unsecurely - in other words, Hillary! LIED.

You haven't tried to find someone who isn't a crook - AT ALL.

Go ahead, lie to yourself if you want. The only way you could believe yourself is if you have your head so far up you ass you can see your own damn molars.

Who on any planet with a blue sky would trust Hillary!?!?!?!

Seriously.

Somebody who hasn't had their brain wiped - with a towel - tell me HOW they can vote for someone involved in just THIS:

Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive Marc Rich continues to pay big

Fifteen years ago this month, on Jan. 20, 2001, his last day in office, Bill Clinton issued a pardon for international fugitive Marc Rich. It would become perhaps the most condemned official act of Clinton’s political career. A New York Times editorial called it “a shocking abuse of presidential power.” The usually Clinton-friendly New Republic noted it “is often mentioned as Exhibit A of Clintonian sliminess.”

Congressman Barney Frank added, “It was a real betrayal by Bill Clinton of all who had been strongly supportive of him to do something this unjustified. It was contemptuous.”

Marc Rich was wanted for a list of charges going back decades. He had traded illegally with America’s enemies including Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran, where he bought about $200 million worth of oil while revolutionaries allied with Khomeini held 53 American hostages in 1979.

Rich made a large part of his wealth, approximately $2 billion between 1979 and 1994, selling oil to the apartheid regime in South Africa when it faced a UN embargo. He did deals with Khadafy’s Libya, Milosevic’s Yugoslavia, Kim Il Sung’s North Korea, Communist dictatorships in Cuba and the Soviet Union itself. Little surprise that he was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.

...

But while the pardon was a political mistake, it certainly was not a financial one. In the years following the scandal, the flow of funds from those connected to Marc Rich or the pardon scandal have continued to the Clintons.

...

Nigerian businessman Gilbert Chagoury is well known as a close ally and business associate of Rich. The Nigerian media declared in 1999 that the “Gilbert Chagoury-Marc Rich alliance remains a formidable foe.” They sold oil on international markets together. In 2000, Chagoury was convicted in Geneva of money laundering and aiding a criminal organization in connection with the billions of dollars stolen from Nigeria during the reign of dictator Gen. Sani Abacha.

...

Chagoury has been very generous to the Clintons in the years following the Rich pardon. He has organized an event at which Bill was paid $100,000 to speak (in 2003), donated millions to the Clinton Foundation and in 2009 pledged a cool $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative.

...

Then there’s Russian investor Sergei Kurzin. He worked for Marc Rich in the 1990s, traveling around Russia looking for suitable investment opportunities in the crumbled former Soviet Union.

An engineer by training, Kurzin has been involved in lucrative deals in Kazakhstan and other countries, including the lucrative Uranium One deal that involved Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra.

Russia bought 20 percent of all uranium production capacity in the US, a deal that needed to be signed off on by the State Department when it was headed by Hillary Clinton. While the deal was going through, Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 to give a speech in Moscow, paid for by a Russian investment bank promoting the uranium deal.

Kurzin, meanwhile, donated $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.

I believe the items below is what he was referring to. (Surely this sort of blatant ant-Israeli bias isn't new to you?)

Thousands of Israelis join lawsuit against Facebook over pages inciting violence
Facebook’s anti-Israel double standard on hate speech

Facebook and Israel: What’s Not to ‘Like’? Lots, It Seems

An experiment: Make one anti-Israel page and one anti-Palestinian page. Wait to see what happens. . . .

Shurat HaDin also posted graphic photos on both pages. For example, a photograph on the anti-Israel page featured a young girl preparing to punch an Israeli soldier, with text reading, “these children will liberate Palestine with blood.” That photograph was mirrored on the anti-Palestine page by a picture of a bare-chested Israeli soldier wielding a gun and vowing war with all Arabs.

On Dec. 30, Shurat HaDin reported both pages as violating Facebook standards, using Facebook’s report mechanism of a simple button-click available to all users. Within 24 hours, Facebook sent the NGO a message that the anti-Palestine page it reported had been closed down for “containing credible threat of violence” and that it had “violated our [Facebook’s] community standards.” The page immediately became inaccessible to all Facebook users.

The complaint about the anti-Israel page (which had spiraled into an explicitly anti-Jewish page) also received a reply from Facebook. This reply stated that the content was “not in violation of Facebook’s rules.”

Facebook changed its tune after Jan. 4, when Shurat HaDin published a video detailing the experiment, which made waves in the Israeli press and on social media.

Facebook Caves on Israel Hate Page

Exclusive: Social network rescinds earlier decision to allow page that incites violence . . . .

“Unfortunately we do not believe it was a simple ‘mistake’ as Israelis and Jews worldwide have been relentlessly protesting that Facebook is completely unresponsive to this type of Palestinian incitement to violence,” said Shurat HaDin founder and Israeli attorney, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner. “Two months ago we filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of over 20,000 Israeli citizens, seeking an injunction against Facebook for “intentionally disregarding the widespread incitement and calls for murder of Jews being posted on its web pages by Palestinians. This simple experiment and its results speak for themselves.”

Israeli NGO says Facebook test proves anti-Israel bias

An experiment by the Israel Law Center sees the social network banning anti-Palestinian incitement, while anti-Israel hate remains online

And when we double down on the TSA and a plane blows up anyway, you're going to explain to MY daughter that daddy isn't coming home because you refused to free up money being wasted on an organization that just doesn't work so that it might be spent to find something that might actually work?

Well of course. he dares to challenge the left wing narrative around here. Of course, I don't agree with everything he says, but with the left, it's all or nothing. Violate one position, and the media burns you alive for it. Like the media, the editors having a left wing slant on the stories they choose to let through the filter.

Bwaaahhaaa. To quote the well-known 'left-wing narrative' media person known as Lindsay Graham: “Donald Trump is a complete idiot.". (here). And “Donald Trump has done the one single thing you cannot do — declare war on Islam itself To all of our Muslim friends throughout the world, like the King of Jordan and the President of Egypt, I am sorry. He does not represent us.” here

I'm not a fan of most politicians, but at least they are not helping the enemy like Trump is

If they are symbolic bills, then all we'll get here is bullshit discussion about AGW or worse, politics. Must be a slow news day (well, other than the bigger-than-average daily shooting in San Bernardino)

Because it's better than pointing out we've known for months that Obamacare is going bankrupt?

And the insurance industry that pushed so hard for Obamacare because it forces people to buy their product is begging for a taxpayer bailout?

anyone of any gender or race who wants to enter IT and is skilled enough to do so is able to

We have that by virtue of the fact that there are women and minorities in the industry. Small percentage representation does not mean systemic *ism against women and minorities. Unless you are going to argue like some modern feminists: "Everything is sexist. Everything is racist. Everything is homophobic and you have to point it all out." If so, you're an idiot.

we do care that there are women who want to become mechanics and firefighters and police who are unable to

Sure we care. thats why we have been lowering the standard.

the goal is equal opportunity

We have that. If we didn't, why would there be women and minorities in the industry? Just because it isn't 50/50 doesn't mean it isn't equal opportunity. Dongle jokes and shirts are not evidence of unequal opportunity. Being different in a classroom or workplace is not evidence of unequal opportunity. Star Wars/Trek posters are not evidence of unequal opportunity.

When was the last time a Christian, a Jew, or an atheist flew a plane into a building full of people while praising their God?

2010, I believe? No evidence of his last words, though.

(There's no Wikipedia "List of terrorist attacks by plane", so I might have missed incidents.)

You think you're funny and clever of course...

How about we start with this guy:

http://nypost.com/2015/03/23/i...

When Ayatollah Khamenei comes out and says publicly that attacks on civilians are unacceptable and he publicly denounces all terrorists and calls for no attacks against civilians, then I'll be impressed...

Uh-huh. Right. Because all the other obvious false flag shit Israel has done hasn't been a red flag to you?

If the only explanation you have for the Arab situation in Palestine is sabotage by Jews then you need to start looking for some new explanations.

PALESTINIANS: NO WAY TO HELP – THE SAGA OF THE GIFTED GREENHOUSES

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

http://crimefeed.com/2014/04/f...

http://crimefeed.com/2014/08/c...

http://nypost.com/2015/02/24/i...

Already been done: http://nypost.com/2014/11/23/n... http://thedovetailproject.org/...

The petition to cancel Oktoberfest is a fake created by someone attempting to aggravate tensions against the refugees which gathered far more attention than it deserves.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/03/c... damn immigrants!!!

I just wanted to point out that this was a case of a radical Atheist targeting Christians specifically. I point this out because Atheists are fond of saying that only "religious nut-jobs" go around killing people, but in reality every group has a crazy person.

http://nypost.com/2015/10/01/oregon-gunman-singled-out-christians-during-rampage/

Since I posted those two examples, another article came up with this very topic. I feel it was rather inflammatory and brings up left-right politics, but it does bring up some points:

How Ahmed’s clock became a false, convenient tale of racism

and another:

Suspicious Pop-Tart guns versus scientific suitcase clocks

In here is the white kid who was expelled for biting aPop-Tart into an "L" shape and expelled for bringing a gun to school. Another was pointing a finger and saying "bang". Yet another I recall was kicked out for saying "bless you" to a student that sneezed.

After all these examples, I think rather than point out the treatment white vs. minority kids get, I think the system as a whole needs a good enema.

No, people in your situation use the cellphone form factor this way: http://nypost.com/2014/02/16/p...

Because destroying government evidence compelled by Congress is clearly the right of ex-official gleaning millions of dollars in slush money into her charity which took in more than $140 million in grants and pledges in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid. Pretty good gig, huh? http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/c...

http://nypost.com/2009/09/18/t...

Danmell Ndonye, 18, who had accused five men of gang rape, admitted the truth only when prosecutors confronted her after learning of a cellphone video that captured the whole sordid episode and showed she had willingly participated, officials said.

She created her outlandish tale when her boyfriend, a Hofstra student whoâ(TM)s been dating her since the semester began a few weeks ago, demanded to know where she had disappeared after a wild frat party early Sunday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

On advice from his lawyer, Banks had pleaded no contest to raping his childhood friend on campus 10 years ago, reports the Associated Press. He served five years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, and then spent the next five years on parole.

To his surprise, Banks received a Facebook friend request from Gibson after he got out of prison. During their first meet-up, Gibson confessed that she faked the rape accusation and expressed a desire to help him. It was music to Banks' ears -- except for the fact that she didn't want to face prosecutors with the truth for fear she would have to return settlement money her mother had won from the school.

This (where are my mod points?). Every time the Concorde comes up there comes this flood of chest-thumping off-topic U.S. v. Europe horse shit and arm-chair economists preaching about how money should be spent.

It's a shit article, anyway. Not once does it present any fact establishing that the 747 is being retired. Instead, it alludes to slow sales of the latest refresh of the plane (doesn't mention that the de-facto replacement A380 is also selling slowly - jumbo planes are not hot right now), analog instruments compared to the A380 (apples to oranges, and the debate rages on whether fly-by-wire makes pilots lazy and confused), something about sound, and then multiple paragraphs of anecdotal filler. At the last paragraph, some more unsubstantiated conclusory statements.

The 747 is not going away. It's a proven design, far easier to refresh than start from scratch to meet whatever the market for jumbos comes up with in the future. There's something called the Yellowstone Project to completely refresh Boeing's line, but we may all be in nursing homes before that bears fruit. Today, the biggest problem for the 747 (and the A380) is smaller long-range fuel-efficient mid-size planes like the 777, which are easier to fill (empty seats mean lost revenue). They are also far more comfortable in coach, particularly if you're stuck in the middle aisle.

...they'll be paying everyone $70k a year minimum just like Gravity Payments.

Of course, that didn't work out too well

Shared autonomous vehicles will have their place. High traffic work areas easily and anything that demands public transport (sporting games, movies, schools, etc)... and will easily threaten to replace subways and buses--yes, replace them. The urban planners will have a lot of headaches considering they are pushing these mix-use living areas integrated into public transportation, not considering it's more expensive and time consuming [construction] to put living quarters with the subway and a bus station, etc...

Now trendy areas, i.e. date places and high 'look at me' places will demand person transport--cause automobiles are part of those "I have arrived" venues and events. There's also the hobby part (i.e. look at the horse and bicycle industries), but that's a fringe of what is being scaled.

But we'll just go on this see-saw of 'they solve everything' to 'it's crap hyped tech' for the next 5 yrs.

As much as us geeks think their gods and can develop the be all-end all solution, it's just never is the case in the real world. One things for sure--bet on autonomous cars, it's coming.

Here in beautiful downtown Manhattan the majority of men who urinate in the street do not use a wall but instead step into the doorway of an apartment building or storefront and urinate into that. It gives them a comforting false sense of privacy (people walking by see only their back).

The NY Post went bananas though after photographing one poor homeless guy who was considerate enough to urinate in the gutter instead: http://nypost.com/2015/07/13/vagrant-back-to-peeing-in-the-streets-says-he-is-a-good-guy

This is part of their campaign against NYC's mayor Bill de Blasio. The NY Post hates him. Or at least Rupert Murdoch does. Apparently they want the mayor to make the homeless folks magically disappear.

escalation is not a fact. it's your interpretation of the facts.

don't your beat cops have partners? you've gotta get some laws on the book that bring down the full weight of the criminal justice system on a cop killer.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/31/a...

they estimate they spent 10 million over the course of a 48 day manhunt.

you have facts, many facts, but your interpretations of them are, in my opinion, wrong.

... but New Zealand's CAA have gone right over the top and imposed what amounts to a virtual death-sentence on a hobby that has provided endless, safe fun for people of all ages for more than 50 years.

Drone pilots should be subject to the same restrictions as flying model aircraft pilots.

FMA pilots have to be certifiied. FMA pilots have to pay Public Liability Insurance as part of their aeroclub membership. Interesting fact: the Public Liability Insurance is the *MAJORITY* of aeroclub membership costs, often more than 80%! The Public Liability Insurance only covers them for FMA operations at registered FMA fields. Sure, you can be a cowboy and go flying at the local park or a gliding slope by a road... but your insurance isn't going to cover you. There isn't a weekend goes by that an FMA pilot somewhere isn't having their finger sliced open or even sliced off. Or worse.

Five minutes Googling will find you plenty of news articles about people (usually *not* the pilots) getting killed by flying model planes and helicopters:

• Toy helicopter slices off top of man’s head, http://nypost.com/2013/09/05/m...
• Girl, 14, killed by model plane after near-misses, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
• Model plane death 'an accident', http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_...

You're being completely disingenuous by implying that piloting flying model aircraft, and by extensions drones, is a safe hobby. It's far from safe.

Far, far more people are injured and killed by balls used in sports than R/C models.

I'm not sure why anyone would think that given how much less mass they have, and the fact they are almost entirely physically controlled. If a string breaks they flutter to the ground, not plummet.

Maybe. You seem to be comparing small kites to big models -- what if it's a tiny model vs a big kite?

I imagine that significantly more people have been injured and killed by kites than R/C models.

Ultimately, it would make sense to regulate kites in exactly the same way as R/C aircraft, as the risks are very similar -- do it by size or weight, for example. But kites are considered "normal" and R/C aircraft are not, and so we get laws like this ...

When's the last time you saw someone playing baseball (with a bat, not throwing) in the middle of a festival or crowded park? You are basically saying you would do that if given a choice?

I've seen a spectator get knocked out by a kicked soccer ball at the local park. Not that you'd have room to play this in a festival, but they play it at the local park all the time. And the reason there's signs up that say "NO GOLFING" is because people were golfing ...

There's lots of things that involve some amount of danger being done in our parks, and now New Zealand has picked one to "fix".

Yeah...that removes my room to talk about California, my own state is just as insane about "weapons". Heck, they also jailed some poor kid for using a katana as a self defense tool (since guns are near impossible to own around here...).

http://nypost.com/1999/11/30/c...

I say give it to the Universities. They're doing just about as good of a job as the Govt these days.

http://nypost.com/2015/07/09/w...

Is this the usual screaming about bias without actually measuring any?

Oh, they're measuring alright. The headline is more than a bit sensational, but read the story:

Obama collecting personal data for a secret race database

The granddaddy of them all is the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing database, which the Department of Housing and Urban Development rolled out earlier this month to racially balance the nation, ZIP code by ZIP code. It will map every US neighborhood by four racial groups — white, Asian, black or African-American, and Hispanic/Latino — and publish “geospatial data” pinpointing racial imbalances.

The agency proposes using nonwhite populations of 50% or higher as the threshold for classifying segregated areas.

Federally funded cities deemed overly segregated will be pressured to change their zoning laws to allow construction of more subsidized housing in affluent areas in the suburbs, and relocate inner-city minorities to those predominantly white areas. HUD’s maps, which use dots to show the racial distribution or density in residential areas, will be used to select affordable-housing sites.

HUD plans to drill down to an even more granular level, detailing the proximity of black residents to transportation sites, good schools, parks and even supermarkets. If the agency’s social engineers rule the distance between blacks and these suburban “amenities” is too far, municipalities must find ways to close the gap or forfeit federal grant money and face possible lawsuits for housing discrimination.

Civil-rights groups will have access to the agency’s sophisticated mapping software, and will participate in city plans to re-engineer neighborhoods under new community outreach requirements.

"Community organizers" don't stray too far from their roots, apparently, even though they might spend time arrogantly trying to, say, reorganize the Middle East (and fuck it up - Iran's getting nukes, Libya underwent unilateral regime change and is now in worse condition than Iraq was under W, the "JV" is in charge of 3/4 of Syria and 1/3 of Iraq...)

To make sure the consumer is getting 100% of his product. He's was endorsing a digital player earlier this year. He's pissed that the consumer has NO IDEA what the compression is doing to the art.

http://nypost.com/2015/01/11/d...

He's still got it.. Incredible!!

When we discussed the medallions system in a previous article from 2014, presumably one about Uber, someone mentioned that because taxis occupy space on the road, this space should be treated as "curbside real estate". We ended up concluding that the problem is not with taxi medallions and liquor licenses per se as much as allowing them to become objects of price speculation and inheritance fights. The city should have leased them instead of selling them.

You asked for it the banning of "Gone With The Wind," the liberals are happy to deliver...

http://nypost.com/2015/06/24/gone-with-the-wind-should-go-the-way-of-the-confederate-flag/

This the US we're talking about, what gentleman are you refering to? Better yet, she's lucky to still be holding that torch.