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How on earth can opening the footage to the public NOT compromise privacy?

Check the article. They provide examples of over-redacted footage. Had you looked at them, you wouldn't be asking the questions you are.

I asked a cop on a streetcorner for directions the other day, he gave them, I thanked him and went on my way, no problem. I consider that to be a private conversation (it reveals my whereabouts that day and tells where I was trying to go). I don't want video of it to be a public record open to "fishing expeditions" by random jerks

All audio is removed from the over-redacted footage and techniques are used to ensure that people are not readily identifiable. Seriously, just go look at the examples.

And I hate to break it to you, but any video recorded of you by an officer already is a matter of public record. Those "random jerks" just need to file a FOIA request to get the video. And in some states, such as Washington, they can even file those requests anonymously. Any interaction you have with a police officer is a matter of public record, whether you like it or not. This doesn't change that.

Unless there's an actual dispute involving the person requesting the video, nobody (including the police department and the cop wearing the camera) should be allowed to see the video and it should be deleted after 1 year.

Oh, definitely. Great plan. Hey, I think the following people may want to review any available footage the police have regarding their "disputes", but for some reason none of them are speaking...oh, that's right, it's because they were all murdered at the hands of police officers. And what do you know? In the two cases below where footage was available, the police officer is facing murder charges, while in the third one, they aren't. How strange.

1) Walter Scott
2) David Kassick
3) Michael Brown

Those were just off the top of my head. But while simply trying to dig up links for those three, I found out that Olympia, Washington police shot two unarmed brothers at a grocery store yesterday, that a rookie cop in New York fatally shot an innocent, unarmed man who just happened to step out of an apartment at the wrong time, that a cop in South Carolina shot an unarmed man at a traffic stop when the man turned to grab his driver's license, that Anaheim, California cops fatally shot two unarmed men in back-to-back days...the list goes on.

Honestly, it's really depressing. I'm finding more articles about shootings I didn't know about than I am about the high-profile ones I was already aware of. And all of those but the last one are from just the last eight months.

Suffice to say, I vehemently disagree with you.

Is completely wrong if it's implying that Sec. Clinton was the only person involved in approving the deal.

"Completely" wrong? No, it is quite right to suspect her. With government officials the famous legal standard is — or ought to be — backwards: guilty until proven innocent. With the amount of sheer power and influence the Executive government has, they must be constantly under scrutiny, and any time there is a suspicion, then must be presumed guilty. These cases are all the same:

• Policeman shoots a citizen
• A citizen dies in police custody
• A government agency "loses" e-mails
• A government official uses personal e-mail server to discuss financial contributions

We, the people, do not — or should not — have to prove their guilt, they must be proving innocence instead. And until they do, they must be deemed guilty of the worst crime reasonably suspected. For example: could the shooting have been malicious, or the could "lost" e-mails have contained evidence of rape or treason? If yes, than the charges of murder, rape, and treason ought to stand against all involved until innocence is proven.

She didn't have veto authority (only the president does) and she was part of a panel of 8 other members who also approved the deal.

Nonsense. She was the most influential person on that panel and among the 10 most influential members of the government. Her approval or lack thereof was, in all likelihood, the deciding factor.

there's little indication that she personally profits from money donated to the Clinton Foundation

Except the foundation is a slush fund . In 2013, for example, it took in $140mln, but spent only $9 mln on actual charity:

On its 2013 tax forms, the most recent available, the foundation claimed it spent $30 million on payroll and employee benefits; $8.7 million in rent and office expenses; $9.2 million on “conferences, conventions and meetings”; $8 million on fundraising; and nearly $8.5 million on travel. None of the Clintons is on the payroll, but they do enjoy first-class flights paid for by the foundation.

It does not need to be a source of direct financial enrichment — it is perfectly fine as a vehicle for power.

Work is fungible. Perhaps you had said worker hammering roofing nails manually and after the wage increase you decide to buy a nail gun to increase their productivity.

Quite true. And once a business invests in that productivity-increasing device, they lay off most of their minimum wage workers because they don't need them anymore.

In fact historically union shops have lead the way in increases in productivity for exactly this reason. This is well documented.

Historically, unions have lead the way on minimum wages because white unionized workers wanted to keep cheaper minority workers from competing with them. This is well documented.

http://nypost.com/2013/09/17/w...

Cherry-picking quotations over the last 100 years of labor relations by black conservative Thomas Sowell in the New York Post is not "well documented".

One of the main reasons for the black middle class is union wages. Unions reflect American society, and there are a few racist, exclusionary unions, but the big unions, like the UAW, SEIU, teachers' unions, garment workers, etc., were some of the institutions with the greatest racial equality in America. They argued that they didn't want their white workers to compete with low-paid black workers; they wanted to bring low-paid black workers into the unions and bring their wages up.

You can walk into the housing projects in New York City built by unions and see people of all races living side by side.

Work is fungible. Perhaps you had said worker hammering roofing nails manually and after the wage increase you decide to buy a nail gun to increase their productivity.

Quite true. And once a business invests in that productivity-increasing device, they lay off most of their minimum wage workers because they don't need them anymore.

In fact historically union shops have lead the way in increases in productivity for exactly this reason. This is well documented.

Historically, unions have lead the way on minimum wages because white unionized workers wanted to keep cheaper minority workers from competing with them. This is well documented.

http://nypost.com/2013/09/17/w...

Industry will vanish along with cellphone ban
Savvy entrepreneur sees school cell phone bans as opportunity - runs mobile rental space for gadgets
More Unpredictable Side Effects of Technology: Cell Phone Storage Trucks for Students
Businesses make $4M off NYC students by holding their cellphones during school NYC Plans To Lift Ban On Student Cellphones In Schools

The US Government hacked the computer of a CBS reporter and planted classified documents . Full disk encryption is the only way to stop them from planting evidence.

On a less malicious note, your computer has hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of files. You don't know every single file is clean, even if it's a clean install. "Oh I'm just going to go to this one site, do this one thing, and then I'll cross the border." Well, that one thing can do it. Better to not let them see it, whether you think it's clean or not.

Yep! They move about 15ft per minute:

http://nypost.com/2014/08/29/s...

Rare light rains at night would cause the top of the ground to become muddy and slick due to a thin ice sheet forming. When the wind picks up, the rocks slide and create a light trail. Really neat stuff.

All you can eat internet is going to drive up prices.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://nypost.com/2015/02/12/n...
http://www.techtimes.com/artic...
http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog...

I just have to wonder why we're all amazed as jobs get moved overseas with all the posturing, extortion and lawsuits that go on against companies. I mean if Google did it, then shame on them but if I had Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton doing their shakedown dance along with age, sex and X discrimination suits, it's no wonder that more jobs are being pushed overseas. On one side I praise businesses that are keeping jobs here and also saying "more power to you" in the face of all this litigation and extortion. Businesses, you shouldn't discriminate, ever. As soon as you learn this then you won't be getting taken to the cleaners either by plaintiffs or your own legal defense team or both.

Well that's kind of my point. Do the better weapons mean they're more likely to be used?

Yes, I understood your question — and the answer is "No". The US is not demonstrably more/less eager to enter into a shooting war now, than it was during the 20th century, for example.

There's a lot less public scrutiny, then

The protests against Iraq-war were the largest ever — public "scrutiny" (or hysteria, rather) was immense. We went in anyway.

Killing Saddam seems like a no-brainer, but then you wind up with a power vacuum, and ISIS.

It was not the killing of Saddam, that caused the power vacuum, but the premature withdrawal of US troops — a nice-looking (at the time) gesture, that had little to do with weapons-quality...

Since they delayed the report from January7. Anyone saying it started 3 months ago is either greatly misinformed or a flat out liar.

http://nypost.com/2015/01/12/t...

Were you told this around a camp fire?

Koch Brothers, Rove among the liberal's bogeymen
Charles Koch Fights Back

Yeah, the big medallion holders (who hold most of the medallions) are definitely hurting.

This guy seems to be in default (apparently, he can't get drivers for his cabs, so they're not generating revenue - next logical step is to start discounting the lease):

http://nypost.com/2015/03/16/t...

Also, check out the chart for Medallion Financial (ticker TAXI). Ugly.

According to the NY Post she instigated the altercation that got her arrested. Or maybe this was a different arrest; it seems she's no stranger to jail.

He should stay. Anna Chapman is there. The US offers nothing that good.

BTDTGTTS

New York is suing UPS for 180 million dollars for not preventing their customers from using them to ship cigarettes and avoiding cities huge revenue stream of a tobacco tax. You think they would hesitate to do the same for machining equipment that has been marketed as able to "manufacture" a gun? http://nypost.com/2015/02/18/n...

There are strip clubs that accept amex?

Of course. Like this guy who charged $241,000 to his amex at Scores (a strip club in New York):

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

Or this guy who charged $135k to his amex:

http://nypost.com/2014/04/22/i...

Or this guy who spent $129,626:

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/...

If your suspected action threatens to influence government policy, you're good enough for a terrorist watchlist.

And now you know why the FBI put "National Security" on its charter. National Security means: To maintain the status quo even against the will of the nation's people. This means spying on Civil Rights Activists, Women's Rights Activists, and Anti-War activists among others.

It's not enough to want to influence government policy. If you care about anything enough to do something about it -- say, organize a voting block, petition and/or protest, submit a bill, etc. AND it goes against the status quo, then you're a "terrorist" AKA "anti-government extremist" which the Pentagon has been militarizing the police to combat (The plan most recently surfacing as the NY Police having permanent long rifle and machine gun armed anti-protest squads).

What's ridiculous is that even just posting such things has drawn to me the negative attention of the government, regardless of whether my world view is mature enough to acknowledge that other forces are at work against us, and allow my concern to be tempered by the big picture. A new cold war is going on right now, and online assets (including journalists) are under attack. The sad thing is that without shedding some secrecy, the people who are now disenchanted with their new outlets (due to overtly ideological slants) can not bring themselves to align with their governments. They are not willing to trust blindly, and thus transparency is required for true national security to be maintained -- These growing pains during the first generation of world wide information networks will cause turmoil as the systems of government shift to incorporate strategies for the rallying of public via truth instead of lying sockpuppets. The first nation to trust their citizens enough to reveal a measure of their true inter-workings publicly (and thus sacrifice some corruption to stay afloat), will win the support of the world's populace.

Now begins the Standoff. The government can only survive by transparency and moderation, but its agencies cling to totalitarianism of secrecy and spying with the fervor of ideological extremists.

If you're not willing to go to jail or die for what you believe in, then you don't truly believe it. Either watch your words and keep your head down or stand up and become a citizen.

Science fiction reaches its zenith when it is commentary by analogy to the present human condition. The original trilogy reached this as it was Lucas' protest of the Vietnam War. This was evident even before Lucas' public statements, from the 1976 novelization and its prologue Journal of the Whills. The prequels were, from the strict standpoint of plot and political commentary, a satisfying fulfillment of this 1976 prologue. That the prequels were released during the Iraq War, a mirror in many ways of the Vietnam War, couldn't have worked out better for communicating Lucas' original 1970's message. Everyone caught on for Episode III, but it was all there in Episode II as well. Episode II was released so soon after 9-11, though, that most people weren't able to key in on it then.

The prequels suffered by having too large a budget. Lucas did better in the original trilogy when budget constraints forced creativity. In the prequels, Lucas felt obligated to have ridiculously short filming schedules for the human actors, and then to leave most of it on the editing room floor so as to not waste all the CGI footage. But the stories in Episodes II & III were outstanding.

Now that Star Wars is in the hands of the Bono-seeking corporatocracy, I have dim hope of any continued criticism of government and monopolies -- and certainly not of any drawing of parallels between the Dark Side and contemporary power structures.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/21/s...

Hint: it ain't the skin-color. If "whitey" really were racist, Asians would've suffered from it too. But they are doing rather well. So well, in fact, that schools and colleges alike deduct points from applicants, who identify themselves as "Asians".

For the life of me I can't figure why you'd use that to support your claim that Asians don't suffer from racism...

Imaginary reality to "prove" imaginary racism. How fitting...

Hint: it ain't the skin-color. If "whitey" really were racist, Asians would've suffered from it too. But they are doing rather well. So well, in fact, that schools and colleges alike deduct points from applicants, who identify themselves as "Asians".

The most likely explanation is single-parenthood rate: children growing up with only a mother (which is still the overwhelming majority of single-"parent" households) are much likelier to grow up with problems live sucky lives — all human civilizations knew this and frowned upon unwed mothers. Not because "sex is a sin", as is the common Illiberal's strawman, but because bringing a child into this world without a loving father is a sin... Heck, we know it too!

For some reason, currently 67% of Black kids grow up in such families — compared with merely 17% of Asians and 25% of Whites... But only the KKKonservative Libertarians connect the dots.

Not for some reason. The dads are all criminals and in prison.

Imaginary reality to "prove" imaginary racism. How fitting...

Hint: it ain't the skin-color. If "whitey" really were racist, Asians would've suffered from it too. But they are doing rather well. So well, in fact, that schools and colleges alike deduct points from applicants, who identify themselves as "Asians".

The most likely explanation is single-parenthood rate: children growing up with only a mother (which is still the overwhelming majority of single-"parent" households) are much likelier to grow up with problems live sucky lives — all human civilizations knew this and frowned upon unwed mothers. Not because "sex is a sin", as is the common Illiberal's strawman, but because bringing a child into this world without a loving father is a sin... Heck, we know it too!

For some reason, currently 67% of Black kids grow up in such families — compared with merely 17% of Asians and 25% of Whites... But only the KKKonservative Libertarians connect the dots.

As demonstrations and looting took place in Ferguson, some friends of mine and many public commentators expressed disgust with some of the most prejudiced comments tweeted with the #ferguson hashtag.

I wonder, if #PantsUpDontLoot was among the "prejudice"...

Perhaps they are leased in some cities, but in NYC there are million dollar inheritance fights over who gets the medallion.

Yeah none or A DOZEN, which ever:

"Multiple witnesses in riot-torn Ferguson, Mo., said that the unarmed black teen killed by a white cop attacked the officer in his patrol car before the teen was shot, according to a new report."

http://nypost.com/2014/08/19/w...

But I have noticed a big difference in the reporting of the scandals. If the bum is Republican, the new story will almost certainly mention this, if the bum is a Democrat they news story usually does not consider party affiliation worth mentioning.

in the new book by the CBS reporter she actually goes into this. Granted its talking about analysts and not members of congress, but you can do the math

One of her bosses had a rule that conservative analysts must always be labeled conservatives, but liberal analysts were simply “analysts.” “And if a conservative analyst’s opinion really rubbed the supervisor the wrong way,” says Attkisson, “she might rewrite the script to label him a ‘right-wing’ analyst.”

http://nypost.com/2014/10/25/f...

That only Republicans use FUD to get votes?

Democrats: Vote or we’ll kick your ass
http://nypost.com/2014/10/30/d...

VP Biden Says Republicans Are ‘Going to Put Y’all Back in Chains’
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po...

Democrats ‘Shame’ Voters With Mailers
http://online.wsj.com/articles...

Which you can read about here. And his letter didn't come from a PAC, it came from the Democratic Party.

I've never gotten anything remotely like this letter from the Republican Party or a conservative PAC (and I probably get well over 200 begging direct-mail solicitations a year).

I don't see such intimidation tactics as paying off for them...

IN SUMMARY, 53% OF THE SUMMARY WAS CONTENT KNOT. STRAW MAN IS YOU!

More information brought to you by the MARKETSPEAK DEPARTMENT OF RETARDANCY DEPT:

"Advertisers try vaulting over the official games marketers"
http://www.nypost.com/business/18669.htm In 1996, Nike was the Cinderella of the Atlanta Olympics. Not invited to the ball, it made sure the shoe fit anyway.

The sneaker maker handed out swoosh-branded "Just Do It" signs, erected billboards and even built a makeshift sports complex -- leaving the patriotic impression that it was an official Olympic sponsor.

It wasn't. Archrival Reebok shelled out millions for bona fide sponsorship status. Nike glommed onto Olympic glory in a money-saving ploy known as ambush marketing.

"For pennies on the dollar, relative to the top sponsors, ambush marketing can be cost effective," said sports marketing expert David Carter. "Many consumers end up rather confused as to who the official Olympic sponsors are."

For what it's worth, from http://www.libertypost.org/cgi... Num=61113 [libertypost.org] :

Known as the "clean venue policy", the rules were drawn up by the Greeks and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to shield sponsors from so-called "ambush marketing" -- an attempt to advertise items during the games without paying sponsorship fees.

The restrictions on food and drink are intended to ensure that only items made by official sponsors such as McDonald's and two Greek dairy firms are consumed at Olympic venues.

An official familiar with the restrictions said: "We have to protect official sponsors who have paid millions to make the Olympics happen. There will be cases of individual spectators being allowed in wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of a rival sports brand but anyone who tries to practise ambush marketing will be removed."

And the actual list:
http://www.athens2004.com/en/s... [athens2004.com]

The following items and actions are restricted at Olympic Venues:

Mopeds, bicycles, skates, skateboards

Electronic equipment of Non-Rights holding Broadcasting Organisations

Flags of non-participating countries. Flags of participating countries larger than 2x1 meters, banners (larger than 1x1 meters approximately). No banner may be hung in metallic, wooden or plastic poles or frames

Horns, laser devices and other devices that cause disturbance

Flag poles, logos, open umbrellas in seating areas, items (T-shirts, hats, bags, etc.) with distinctive trademarks of companies that are competitive to those of the sponsors

Pirate "Athens 2004" products

Leaflets, pamphlets, non-approved publications, unauthorised signs and labels, printed material for publishing purposes with religious, political, provocative or obscene content

Balls, rackets, Frisbees, and similar items, a large number of coins, lighters

Musical instruments, glass bottles, flasks, iceboxes, ice-bags, thermos, water, beverages, alcoholic drinks and material, in general, of any shape or content, or any other items that ATHOC in cooperation with the Security Authorities in charge, consider to be dangerous or inappropriate

Food (except for proven medical reasons)

Animals (except service animals)

Large items, large bags, suitcases, folding seats, small stools etc. (except in certain events)

Strollers in seating areas

Smoking or gambling

Collection of money for unauthorised purposes

Use or distribution of clothing and/or any type of material with the intent of advertising, promotion, raising money or making profit through unauthorised means

Ambush marketing

Demonstrations of a political or religious nature

Unauthorised ticket sales

Unauthorised sale of food

Unauthorised entry of TV presenters and unauthorised transmission and/or videotaping thr

So glad we were able to stop the spread of ebola here.

Why the fuck did the US invade Iraq in 2003?

We resumed the hostilities suspended in 1992, because Saddam Hussein failed to fulfill his cease-fire obligations and our patience finally ran out. Yes, we should've done it earlier, but Bill Clinton was not the kind...

the US young service men and women I feel sorry for.

Yeah, the "sophisticated" (but impotent) Europe might be understanding it, but here in America we have a distinct dislike for mad dictators. Why, some of us even still subscribe to the doctrine of that previous adorable President from Chicago:

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

By withdrawing from Iraq too early, we failed the Iraqis. The fault, however, is not in invading in the first place, but in electing an incompetent "community organizer" to Presidency on account of his race — with a lunatic providing "foreign policy expertise"...

It is a shame, which Obama is finally beginning to rectify. Unfortunately, I doubt he'll succeed — not for lack of trying, but simply due to incompetence of a man, who never ran anything successful until his own election campaigns. Maybe, his spectacular failure will inoculate Americans against his kind of approach for a few decades — the way Jimmy Carter's presidency did in its time...

GP is a chickenhawk.

Bzzz... Ad-hominem detected. Attaching labels to your opponents does not win an argument.

People like him are the reason for the current mess in Iraq.

The current mess in Iraq (and Libya) is the doing of your Nobel Peace Prize boy-wonder. Had we pulled troops from Western Germany in 1950ies, there would've been a new wave of violence there too — gleefully supported by the Communists occupying the Eastern part...

Sure, it was Bush, who prepared the plan for our withdrawal, but only someone trying to appease the "anti-war" crowd would execute the final part of it, given the ISIS' growing power.

Obama's weakness — and the catastrophic results of that weakness — were predictable. And unavoidable, given the sort of lunatic, that is the fount of "foreign policy expertise" of the Administration.

Besides, the mess in Korea was American's fault in first place - they have supported a bloody dictator for the sole reason of being an anticommunist. It was so bad that up to the 1970ies North Korea had higher standard of living. Without that meddling things could have been way better.

I can well see, how a kinder gentler Southern regime would get overrun by Communist North — turning the entire Korean peninsula into a hellhole. But I fail to understand, what would have made things better for today's North Koreans, had the South Korea become democratic earlier. Could you elaborate?

Apparently it's not the current environment they are worried about?

They filled NY with garbage. and I'm not talking about themselves. Note that a bunch of A-listers flew in on private jets too.

I bet that only 1 in 4 knew why they were actually marching. The rest were there for the party.

be cost effective to extract uranium from seawater,

Two things about that. #1 It is horribly expensive at over 15 to 30x the cost of current uranium. #2 The extraction process requires absurd amounts of oil based 'net' to extract the atoms of uranium.

Nuclear is already an expensive method of electricity production. Saying that this method of extraction is 'cost effective' is highly misleading. in 2010 Uranium prices spiked, the ocean extraction process would still have been over 7 times more expensive, not to mention there are only prototypes and estimates of cost at this point. Some of the estimates have put the cost of extraction at well over 100x current uranium cost.

The most advanced materials, which can be reused several times, can draw between three and four milligrams of uranium per gram of plastic each time theyâ(TM)re used, says Costas Tsouris, a researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who is working on that system.

http://www.technologyreview.co...

Uranium obtained using the traditional process today would cost between $1,000 and $2,000 per kilogramâ"about 10 to 20 times the current market price, says Schneider. (The price of uranium did rise to around $300 per kilogram as recently as 2007, however.) The new process could cut that cost significantly.

Current price is around $31 per pound ($68 a kilo).
http://www.mining.com/chart-ur...

A sharp spike in uranium prices in 2007 had many people scared in terms of the sustainability of the nuclear industry, [at $100 per lb]

So if the nuclear industry is unsustainable with mined uranium then it is completely unsustainable with ocean extracted uranium, which realistically costs around 20 times as much.

How's that nuclear waste problem coming along? Perhaps the mafia can help.

Just make sure that nuclear waste doesn't leak. Oops.
Radiation leaks force transfer of nuclear waste from New ...
Nuclear waste leaking at Hanford site in Washington, again ...
After $40 Billion , America's Biggest Nuclear Dump Is Still ...
Radiation leak at nuclear waste dump raises questions ...
Ocean disposal of radioactive waste - Wikipedia, the free ...
Thousands of radioactive waste barrels rusting ...
Japan Times: Now 400 tons a day of toxic water is estimated ...

Because nuclear accidents stopped happening after Chernobyl right? Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

But hey, todays new breed of super-human won't make the same mistakes as those past

The pope essentially said the same thing recently when he said that young people spend too much time on the Internet.

Did he? It looks like you don't quite have that right.

Pope Francis says the Internet is a 'gift from God'
Pope Francis: Internet is a blessing

The Pope's view is a bit more insightful and nuanced than you state.

His criteria for "affordable" was "people living there on average make about the same amount of money that I do, so I can probably live there on my income."

Then he should also look for recent rapid price increases. People may be living in houses that they bought years ago, but could no longer afford if they were buying at today's prices. This doubly true in California, where long term owners even pay far less in property taxes than recent buyers living in identical houses.

Also, if he wants to walk, then is likely to be a liberal.

Google too tough for you?
http://nypost.com/2011/04/17/h...
"US Attorney General Eric Holder and his brother failed to pay the property taxes on their childhood home in Queens, which they inherited last August after their mother died, The Post has learned.
And because their ailing mom, Miriam, was already behind on two quarterly tax bills when she succumbed to illness on Aug. 13, the charges went unpaid for more than a year â" growing to $4,146.
It wasnâ(TM)t until The Post confronted Holder last week about the delinquency that he and younger brother William Holder finally paid up Friday..."

And as for Geithner, one might expect the man appointed TREASURY SECRETARY to be fairly careful about his taxes? Don't we kinda hope those guys are obsessive about numbers and details?

I hope these pages get released soon.. (not holding my breath) http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/i...

I think you are wrong. http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/i...

The problem with your description is that some of the laws Tesla is now fighting are recent legislation or regulations. For example, in New Jersey, the regulation prohibiting Tesla from performing direct sales was only put in place on March 11, 2014 by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (composed of political appointees of the Governor). Likewise in New York, they are looking at passing legislation to ban the way Tesla is selling vehicles.

NY dealers have Tesla ban in sights

It is/was legal but being made illegal. While aspects of the requirement of franchises may be in previous laws, Tesla built their model to comply with those laws, so the dealership associations are having their paid stooges rewrite the laws to block Tesla.

NYPD said the two flew their drone "very close" to a law enforcement chopper

NY Post or National Enquirer? I honestly thought I was reading the latter.

Unfortunately this is what the mainstream news media picks up on and thus what the average person sees and hears.

This anti-"drone" hyperbole will only grow with each "incident" (real or contrived) and with multi-rotor R/C machines being all the rage and easy for a novice to fly, there will be more incidents.

This was specifically for international flights into the US originating from certain countries, not a TSA-wide procedure.

Yet... give it a month. I know a couple of TSA people for some reason. Their IQ is slightly above your typical McDonalds worker, only because they need to know how to put on a tie. A lot of their "procedures" are only there because they heard it was a good idea on the news yesterday. Granted, I'm near Chicago so maybe they have smarter people working in the newyork airports but I doubt it.

Keep in mind, that TSA has yet to have stopped a single bombing. The only reasons we've not had a plane go down is due to lack of effort, not any increase in security. The few attempts that have been made, made it through the TSA with ease and it was the efforts of passengers or the stupidity of the attacker that saved the plane.

In tests, they fail to stop devices from getting on the plane pretty much every time:
http://nypost.com/2013/03/08/t...

They've no evidence that they have ever stopped anything:
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

The majority of what they catch are people trying to smuggle things they shouldn't like plants and animals or people that try to take legit firearms into the cabin when they should have put it in their luggage:
http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/01/ts...

Isn't Saudi Arabia an ally of the US?

Also, have a look at some of the things happening in your own country:
Passengers Cheer as Trans Woman is Stripped and Beaten on Atlanta Train (with video) (May 31, 2014)
Abortion Clinic Escort Opens Up About 'Disgusting, Degrading And Racist' Attacks On Patients (February 21, 2014)
Sikh (mistaken for a Muslim) attacked by racist mob, thanks Good Samaritans who got between him and his hate-filled attackers (after getting his jaw was surgically re-wired) (September 23, 2013) Transgender Woman Dies After Beating in Front of NYPD Precinct (August 26, 2013)
Police: Man damaged Bloomington Planned Parenthood building, cited religious beliefs (April 11 2013)

Please note that I don't support any repressive regimes or groups that enforce FGM or promote sexist behaviours, I am just pointing out that the US is not a shining example of tolerance and social liberties...it would be best if the US focused on sorting out her own problems before pointing fingers at others. Also, thanks for liberating Afghanistan, freeing the Afghans of the nasty Soviet puppet government and delivering them into the hands of the Al-Quaeda and the Taliban is highly appreciated by the entire world!

I live in Canada . . . We go there for vacation whenever the fuck we want. Americans need to get fucking clue and get over themselves. It's just fucking Cuba. No big deal. America has relations with China, and they've executed WAY more political prisoners than Cuba has, and you;re probably reading this on a Chinese built computer. So bag the anti-communist BS and grow up.

By your words and tone I take it you're a fan? What's not to like about Cuba, eh?

How Cuba became the newest hotbed for tourists craving sex with minors

Foreign tourists, especially Canadians and Spaniards, are travelling to Cuba in surprising numbers for sex — and not just with adult prostitutes. They are finding underage girls and boys, a joint investigation by The Toronto Star and El Nuevo Herald has found.

Cuban rights abuses, jailings up in new repressive wave

How Cuba is exporting repression to Venezuela

I think it's even mentioned at one point of the Supreme Court's decision. They'll have to do a bit more than that, and only offer pre-recorded programming, but It'll probably be done and, if they have the money to survive the lawsuits, it'll end up before the Supreme Court again. http://nypost.com/2014/06/26/hope-for-aereo-despite-supreme-court-defeat/

Obviously, no.

Teacher, Mark Berndt, Pleads Guilty To Feeding Students Semen-Laced Cookies In Los Angeles School

Case against ex-Miramonte teacher Martin Springer dismissed

http://nypost.com/2014/05/13/notorious-pedophile-teacher-gave-victims-drug-laced-oreos/

Girl was victim of both teachers charged in L.A. child abuse cases: report

Mark Berndt: Profile of Perversion

Mark Berndt's $40,000 Payoff

LAUSD Molestations Spark Grim Federal Complaint

Berndt allegedly kept a jar of Vaseline on his desk which he used to masturbate in class, and sometimes wore a "freakish" Mickey Mouse costume with women's tights, the parents say. They claim the school's principal Martin Sandoval walked into the classroom as Berndt was videotaping students but let him off with a verbal warning. The parents claim LAUSD ignored those red flags and other instances of "freakish behavior." "LAUSD ignored multiple prior student complaints about Berndt and a district attorney investigation. LAUSD ignored parent complaints and failed to detect the massive number of lewd acts committed by at least three active child predators on one small campus for years," the complaint states.

Anderson Cooper 360 reports on why Teachers' Union killed a bill that would make it easier to fire SEXUAL PREDATORS in the classroom.

Just In: CA Ballot Initiative to Target Sex Abusers in Schools

Teacher puzzler: Part-time porn star fired, semen-feeder paid off

It is hard to imagine any more heinous way of earning money than by benefiting from racism," writes Rick Cohen

I find the whole thing hilarious, all the old man said was "I don't want to be around or associated with blacks" to a woman who is on video as saying
"Blacks are stupid and crazy"
http://nypost.com/2014/06/01/s...

Then the media circus is queued and he is "forced" to sell the team, winds up getting 2 billion tax free.

Racism never entered into it, if a person says "I don't want to be around those kinds of people" it isn't "racism" it's a personal preference.

My suggestion is that things went exactly the way Sterling wanted them to, and it's hilarious, the other option is that he was played to get the team out from under him.

Maybe the US Government should stop issuing overreaching executive orders.

For that to happen, it would have to start producing laws again. All Congress produces right now is campaign events, and days off for themselves. Passing a law that the POTUS supports might make him look good, and we can't have that. Passing a law that the POTUS doesn't support would require a 2/3 majority, which would require working with a lot of Democrats, who might also end up looking good, so we can't have that either.

In the meantime, executive orders are the only way left to keep the government staggering along in a manner vaguely resembling a real functioning government.