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It's almost every day I ["don't" omittied for sarcasm] see headlines like 'heroic, armed local guy prevents mass shooting.'

Yep. Because the stories disappear quickly from the mainstream media, because they don't "fit the template". Look at the Clackamas Mall shooting, for example. After shooting into a store and killing two, the shooter discovered he was being stalked by one armed citizen - and another on a balcony (who may not have been armed at the time but was tracking him from cover like someone who was). So the shooter retreated to the access tunnels and, reaching a dead-end, shot himself. You can find almost nothing on this in the media record now. (Ditto Wikipedia, which doesn't even mention the armed-citizen aspect - or the estimate that about four percent of the mallgoers were carrying concealed.)

I agree. It's terrifying (well, more disappointing) that completely unsubstantiated claims from someone who was chatting anonymously on IRC are being taken seriously by anyone,

Well if it's fake, it's a long con. Especially after you start seeing all this stuff right?

I would just like to point out that the summary is incorrect. Renee was the head of Intel's Software and Services Division (SSG.) When she became company president she gave that role to the current SSG manager, Dong Fisher. However, the McAfee acquisition happened while Renee ran SSG, and she had a lot of influence on the decision.

To be fair though, the previous CEO (Paul Otellini) had the goal of wanting new revenue from software sales so Renee probably just tried to pick some existing company that had a good amount of stable revenue. A company like McAfee is one of the few that can get away with selling IT departments yearly support contracts and almost never have the CIO question renewing it every year. She also had to try to find something that could maybe, remotely tie in with Intel's chip business. I think one could easily argue that McAfee ties in better with a hardware company than say something like Intuit.

I honestly don't know anything about what happened, but I do know Intel is in the middle of a mostly job performance based layoff. My guess is that if she was let go for performance reasons then it probably had more to do with what she has done recently as President than what she did years ago.

I believe you're forgetting about Mr. Wyden (D-OR).

However, they are both hopelessly outgunned in this quest.

I guess PBS got it wrong about HRC using a private e-mail server exclusively. But that would put them at odds with Hillary Clinton herself who admitted she used her personal e-mail server for Government business. But if we can't trust her own word on this matter - how can we trust her as President?

Swatters have been known to intentionally act irrational/hysterical, and put time pressure on the police. They could talk about how they're going to kill someone in the next hour, and perhaps talk about how they'll kill any police that they see as well. They may tell the police that if anyone tries to call them back or contacts them in any way, they'll kill a hostage.

This leaves the police in a quandary. In the case of the Columbine school shootings, the police were criticized for waiting too long before moving in, and subsequently changed their tactics. Now they're criticized for rushing in too soon.

We got a militarized police force when people started holing up in places with guns, sometimes taking hostages, sometimes just killing people randomly. You talk about how they "just go in armed to the teeth ready to shoot anything that either moves or doesn't move fast enough", yet to my knowledge, no one has actually died as a result of a swatting yet, despite *many* incidents. That demonstrates that those police teams in question are showing a significant level of restraint in what, to their knowledge, may be a life-and-death situation.

It's easy to criticize. It's a bit harder to actually figure out how to solve the problems.

only in the since that you take a photograph, and you "should be paying" in the same way any group of thugs says "I'll hit you if you don't pay me for doing this".

Well the government also thinks they have a right to charge you for simply taking pictures on national park and forest service land too.

http://www.oregonlive.com/envi...

it is black and white.

And my neighborhood kids run lemonade stands in front of their homes without cowering in fear that they'll be shut down by health inspectors, fined for their failure to display a business license, audited for tax evasion, and arrested for exploiting child labor. "The law is very clear." All those rules technically apply.

Kids are too young to know what they should or should not be afraid of. But their parents ought to be afraid of the things you listed.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/portland_lemonade_stand_runs_i.html
and http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/03/the-inexplicable-war-on-lemonade-stands/
and http://calwatchdog.com/2014/01/30/health-dept-shuts-down-11-year-olds-cupcake-biz/
and many more.

Absolutely no "technically true" violation of a government regulation is beneath a government inspector's notice if someone with money takes a negative view of the violation or of the individual committing the violation.

Or as political wonks say: whenever someone tells you that "well, yes, the law could be used to make X illegal, but it'll never be enforced that way" ... then it was likely written with the intention to be enforced exactly against X.

http://www.oregonlive.com/clar...

http://www.oregonlive.com/clar...

Tell that to the family of this girl. http://www.oregonlive.com/clar...

Of course, that the nature of "parks", a place you cannot use. Can't camp, can't make fire, can't hunt, can't fish, can't take pictures... unless you pay the right permit... http://www.oregonlive.com/envi...

The next article about this at oregonlive was two days later (25th) and says the Forrest Service is delaying the decision.

Forest Service delaying media wilderness photography rules amid growing outcry about First Amendment

When both Rep. Earl Blumenauer (uber liberal) and Rep. Greg Walden (mega-conservative) object to a new regulation, expect a very frosty reception at the next relevant Congressional hearing. The wilting is described here.

It could have been worse except for one determined engineer, Yanosuke Hirai, who insisted on a higher seawall for the Onagawa plant. A good article can be found at http://www.oregonlive.com/opin.... I have a quote on my wall from Tatsuji Oshima, one of his proteges. "Corporate ethics and compliance may be similar, but their cores are different. From the perspective of corporate social responsibility, we cannot say that there is no need to question a company's actions just because they are not a crime under the law."

You are not buying stuff at the same price as 6 years ago, maybe you should actually pay attention to the receipts.

beef, pork, avocado, fruits, veggies, almonds, pinenuts, walnuts, mozarella, cheddar, other cheeses, seafood, grains, soy, soy, palm oil, milk, gasoline, beer and more beer, limes, canadian bacon, barley, restaurants, restaurants, restaurants,electrical energy, car rentals, hotel rooms, cab fairs,

air travel and air travel gets more expensive in many other ways, various extra fees, less room, more seats on planes

aluminium,

Fred Meyer wanted to lease out unused space on their campus to a prospective company looking to open a call center in Southeast Portland (22nd and Powell) and the City wanted them to pay to install a traffic light and rebuild the intersection at 22nd to handle the "increased traffic." However, the anticipated traffic was still going to be less than it was 10 years ago when Fred Meyer was owned by an equity management firm and not a division of Kroger. So, kiss those added jobs and economic development goodbye, because the City didn't want to work with business to put in a damn traffic light - that building is still sitting empty, un-renovated, being used for storage of office furniture.

TriMet loves to run bus routes that deliver terrible service out to places that they have no interest in serving, just so every business within a mile of the route has to pay the TriMet payroll tax. They've been doing this long enough that suburbs are considering opting out of TriMet and starting their own transit agencies in order to save their local businesses money and get better service at the same time. Trimet is now a pension organization that also happens to operate a bus and train service, poorly.

These are two examples that happened in the last 5 years, or are continuing to happen.

Here's a recap of the Columbia situation: http://blog.oregonlive.com/por...

There was a more exhaustive article in Willamette Week a few years back, but their website search sucks.

I'm sure it has absolutely nothing at all to do with the fact that the last wave have until April 30th to pay...

...nor does it consider shenanigans like signing up jail inmates whether they want it or not, counting medicaid enrollees as obamacare signups, and similar.

Lol... they're closing the resivour next year anyway:

"Those natural contaminants are a key part of the Environmental Protection Agency's justification for a rule that requires all open-air reservoirs to be covered. Portland is scheduled to disconnect the open-air reservoirs on Mt. Tabor from the drinking water system by the end of 2015.

Shaff said there isn't much the bureau can do about those natural contaminants in the meantime, and that they don't pose a serious health risk."

http://www.oregonlive.com/port...

So this is actually twice as stupid as it sounds.

Ah, astroturf. That makes things a lot clearer.

The biggest user of water in Portland is also the largest financial backer of a May ballot measure to strip utility rate-setting responsibility from the Portland City Council.

hey fuck-wad, it WORKED about 100 yrs ago...

This isn't 100 years ago - the companies have gotten smarter (and far more PR-savvy) since then.

Let me tell you how a certain progressive German company handled their union troubles here in the US...

They bought an oil-company spin-off called Shell Solar. In their Washington (state) site, the Machinists' Union decided that it would be a great time to ask for a raise, since things had been stagnant there for awhile wage-wise. The company said no. The Union threatened to strike, and it made a bit of noise in the local papers.. The company quickly agreed to the wage increases.

Not a handful of months later, the company decided to turn the WA production site into a warehouse, and gave the workers a choice: Either re-apply for jobs at lower wages in nearby right-to-work Oregon, or be out of a job. Two years later, the site was shuttered entirely.

So - still think unions are the way to go?

Unfortunately, the diversity of the population does not equal diversification in job skills.

This is a repeat of Equal Oppertunity and job quota's from 2 decades ago. In the 70's I had a job with a TS clearance in a technical field and I noted the stark lack of some ethnic groups. I asked my employer about this ethnic bias toward White. He showed me the stack of applications. Minorities very rarely applied or even trained in the high tech trades.

Due to affirmative action in the 80's by t US Goverment, a family relative applied for an apprenticeship with Bonniville Power Administration. He had the highest test score, until another canidate passed him due to race, ethnicity, etc. My brother was passed by for the position. The selected canidate failed out of the program. By this time 6 months had passed and he took another posiiton in private industry.

Now 30 years later, the BPA HR staff is in the hotseat because they gave preference to minoriities as part of Affermitive Action, but did not give any preference to Veterans. I and my brother are vets. I did not even apply with BPA because at the time I knew the deck was stacked against me.

Mainzer's email to staff said BPA was now working with DOE to identify the first wave of applicants, including veterans, who were disadvantaged and provide them with priority consideration for positions at BPA. But his email also suggested that the problems went on until April 2013, a year longer than initially reported.

http://www.oregonlive.com/busi...

Stating only a low number are hired is only part of the story. Poor inner city schools, culture, and other factors disadvantage these minority groups. When they change culture, work ethic, schooling, etc and enter the trades, only then will the numbers start to match up.

Do not fix a lack of a race by hiring 100 percent of the applicatents from a race while only picking 5 percent of a mjority. Testing and qualifications do matter to private industry. It should matter in government positions too.

the site was built to specifications...it's that those spec's were written to make the site a revenue channel for **private insurance** not provide ratings and info on policies

here is the original IT manager for the project, who was fired for asking exactly the questions you're asking:

http://www.oregonlive.com/heal...

the needs of the site (and any site like this) are not extraordinary...the HTML & CSS practically writes itself...the only really difficult area is handling the HIPPA data securely

Here's an interview where the original IT Manager of the project (who raised red flags & got fired)...they even told her to attribute her firing to a death in the family to cover their tracks!

http://www.oregonlive.com/heal...

The site wasn't meant to list & rate available policies...any kind of Yelp clone could do that, probably with alot of off-the-shelf libraries. The site was meant to be a revenue channel for the private insurance industry.

The site "worked"...it was built to specifications. It's **the purpose of the site** as directed by non-tech health industry people that was the failure.

If you looked at the original site, it was essentially a guide to signing up for ****private insurance**** like Kaiser Nazi-mente, which run the Oregon Health Authority

Those private companies wrote the requirements for what the site would do!

Look at this interview with the original IT manager: http://www.oregonlive.com/heal...

from the above link:

-- Lawson said she repeatedly warned Bruce Goldberg, then director of the Oregon Health Authority and the senior manager overseeing the exchange project, that the project was in trouble. Goldberg took no action, telling her that Cover Oregon had things well in hand.

When did Canada annex Oregon? Because Intel sure spends a lot of money on development fabs that, according to you, don't have anything to do with design, test, or manufacture of their products.

$634 million is the amunt set aside for the website, they spent over half of that by Oct. 1, 2013, and are quickly burning through the rest trying to fix what they created.

Oregon sent over $150 million on their website, and last I heard hadn't been able to process a single application through it after 4 months!

Commericial company who did Healthcare.gov

And my 'favorite' - Oregon's botched by Oracle

It wouldn't be politically correct, but they could have had the work done much cheaper by cutting out the middle man and just hire Indians or an Indian firm directly.

Instead, they hired Indian developer resalers. Yep, that's all N. American companies - especially US companies - are: resalers of Indian and other Third World development talent.

Why spend the money on flashy suits with Rolex watches? Go direct! Go Indian!

Rifle?

Here's a guy that just got 28 months in jail for that solution.

Which has already proven to be less harmful to the USA than when the DNC rammed Obamacare (is that "racist") through, without even reading it ("must vote for it, to see what is in it"). So far, Oregon spend 300 million to enroll 44 people, good FUCKING use of tax dollars.

And, just to remind you, Hillary, and Company supported the wars. And saying she didn't know GWB was lying, that is just remember, her Husband was President and knew all about Saddam and OBL, so she SHOULD have known. But then again "What difference does it make!!!!!"

Okay. Time for some fact checking. First, the full quote from Nancy Pelosi (not just the part that Michele Bachmann used and made famous) was: ”We’ll have to pass it so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.” Nancy Pelosi claims that she was saying that the American people wouldn’t see all the advantages of HCR until after it was passed, not that Congress had no idea what it said. I personally read it as her saying that during the debate in congress there were so many people saying false things about the healthcare law that not all of the benefits (or drawbacks) would be recognized by the public until they were enacted in law.

Second, Oregon has roughly 30,000 paper health care applications waiting for approval. Additionally at least 70,000 more people have signed up for Medicaid in response to informational letters the government sent out to eligible citizens. Given that the uninsured population of Oregon is roughly 500,000, I'd say those numbers are a pretty good indication that the program is both wanted and needed.The fact that the website is broken is a travesty, particularly given the amount of money (more like $150 million, according to the paper) paid to Oracle to get it to work.

However, the fact that a private contractor failed to construct a website does not mean the law is bad. It means we need better private contractors. Hopefully Oregon will figure out how to deal with Oracle and either get their money back, a working website, or both (the same could be said for the federal health exchange website).

Finally, as to your last point. You're saying that former President Bill Clinton was up to date on the most recently collected highly classified intelligence about Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and WMDs. And that he told his wife all about it. You do remember that the war in afghanistan started a year after he left office, and the war in Iraq started two years after he left office? Things can change a lot in a year, especially when an event like 9/11 shifts the focus of the intelligence community. I think you're overestimating the power and knowledge of former presidents.

Some sources: http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/12/oregons_health_exchange_woes_s_1.html http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-healthcare-exchange-website-never-worked-no-subscribers-130601969--sector.html http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2013/12/30000_cover_oregon_enrollment.html http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/mar/15/republican-party-texas/texas-gop-says-speaker-nancy-pelosi-said-people-wi/

Which has already proven to be less harmful to the USA than when the DNC rammed Obamacare (is that "racist") through, without even reading it ("must vote for it, to see what is in it"). So far, Oregon spend 300 million to enroll 44 people, good FUCKING use of tax dollars.

And, just to remind you, Hillary, and Company supported the wars. And saying she didn't know GWB was lying, that is just remember, her Husband was President and knew all about Saddam and OBL, so she SHOULD have known. But then again "What difference does it make!!!!!"

Okay. Time for some fact checking. First, the full quote from Nancy Pelosi (not just the part that Michele Bachmann used and made famous) was: ”We’ll have to pass it so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.” Nancy Pelosi claims that she was saying that the American people wouldn’t see all the advantages of HCR until after it was passed, not that Congress had no idea what it said. I personally read it as her saying that during the debate in congress there were so many people saying false things about the healthcare law that not all of the benefits (or drawbacks) would be recognized by the public until they were enacted in law.

Second, Oregon has roughly 30,000 paper health care applications waiting for approval. Additionally at least 70,000 more people have signed up for Medicaid in response to informational letters the government sent out to eligible citizens. Given that the uninsured population of Oregon is roughly 500,000, I'd say those numbers are a pretty good indication that the program is both wanted and needed.The fact that the website is broken is a travesty, particularly given the amount of money (more like $150 million, according to the paper) paid to Oracle to get it to work.

However, the fact that a private contractor failed to construct a website does not mean the law is bad. It means we need better private contractors. Hopefully Oregon will figure out how to deal with Oracle and either get their money back, a working website, or both (the same could be said for the federal health exchange website).

Finally, as to your last point. You're saying that former President Bill Clinton was up to date on the most recently collected highly classified intelligence about Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and WMDs. And that he told his wife all about it. You do remember that the war in afghanistan started a year after he left office, and the war in Iraq started two years after he left office? Things can change a lot in a year, especially when an event like 9/11 shifts the focus of the intelligence community. I think you're overestimating the power and knowledge of former presidents.

Some sources: http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/12/oregons_health_exchange_woes_s_1.html http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-healthcare-exchange-website-never-worked-no-subscribers-130601969--sector.html http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2013/12/30000_cover_oregon_enrollment.html http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/mar/15/republican-party-texas/texas-gop-says-speaker-nancy-pelosi-said-people-wi/

They picked the worst company on earth, gave them $300M and thought they were going to get something for it. This has been covered for months by NPR -- nobody has signed up because the site has not been online yet, at all.

See here and here.

Anecdotally, a company I worked for in 2001 hired Oracle consulting to implement their own ERP system for us, and we ended up getting our money back because they could not even make their own software work.

the Affordable Care Act has absolutely nothing to do with Cover Oregon's problems.

the Cover Oregon website was a system devised with the influence of the insurance and health care *industry* to channel people to for-profit companies.

here is an NPR (Oregon Public Broadcasting) story that examines a person trying to use the site step-by-step: http://www.opb.org/news/article/are-health-insurance-companies-ranking-themselves-on-coveroregon/

the Cover Oregon website is only part of Oregon's rollout of Obamacare...they have 30,000 paper applications waiting to be processed

So there are several problems with your criticism of the ACA and socialized medicine in general

1. the ACA and 'Obamacare' is not socialized medicine (i wish it was)...it is a federal government subsidy of personal and business insurance executed in the federal system by either the states or the federal government itself

2. Cover Oregon's online system was made by a company funded by the insurance industry

3. Cover Oregon's website lists **ONLY** insurance plans from health care companies

4. "Cover Oregon" is a program, not a website. The **program** has signed at least 30,000 people to date which is alot more than 44

So you are wrong in every part of your premise.

...The article and summary make it sound like 300 million was spent just on the web site. It's not even close. Granted the web site is just broken and heads are starting to roll.

Oh, and the main contractor for the project was Oracle, so, well, if anybody can make that much disappear they can.

No, is was only half of the 300 mils.
Yes, Larry's new island will be even better because of the waste (FU Oracle!!)

If you want the real scoop, check out what our local newspaper wrote:
http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/12/oregons_health_exchange_woes_s_1.html

TL;DR: Someone thought control should be handed over to private industry, Oracle was signed up to create the website, they totally screwed it up, and now the website is basically useless and for a long while wasn't even able to sign people up.

So while the public/Democrat finger pointing is good and all (and I don't know who wrote up this summary, they're totally ill informed, outside of Portland Oregon is mostly conversative, in fact here is a map http://bluebook.state.or.us/facts/almanac/almanac10.htm ), it's really that Oracle screwed everyone over. That's the real story, and the state is looking for a way to get their money back.

Take a look at the backstory: http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/12/oregons_health_exchange_woes_s_1.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/11/cover_oregon_applicant_mails_i.html
http://www.katu.com/politics/Embattled-head-of-Cover-Oregon-taking-a-leave-234138441.html

Cover Oregon is full of paper-related security breaches. Until they fix the security process, I for one will NOT be trusting them with my personal data- especially not filled out on paper and snail mailed.

What he said was a joke to make a point.

It wasn't just a joke, it was a full monologue. Lots of profanity, lots of "negative love" applied to the victims. The only point he was making is that he gets paid huge sums to rant about people who have valid medical problems.

Usually human trafficking means getting people (usually men) to perform what is practically slave labor ...

Usually, human trafficking means getting people of any sex to perform what is slave labor. Women and girls are included in that.

However, claims of coercion never seem to be backed up with facts.

You want facts? Okay. How about Ron Wyden, beloved by all progressive human beings for his widly held positions on freedom and government? "Now we have concrete proof that sex trafficking is not just going on in the dark corners of Asia," he said. "Sex trafficking is going on in our community." "The study showed that the average age of victims was 15.5 years when they were first referred to DHS and the Sexual Assault Resource Center. The youngest of them was 8 years old."

Why yes, anonymous coward, making prostitution legal will certainly prevent gangs from putting 8 year old girls out onto the street to turn tricks. Sure.

One more. You know how long it took to find these links? About 640,000 results (0.25 seconds)

"hit by a tsunami rather larger than any planned for"

That's the problem. Not larger than any expected in that area, because earthquakes and tsunami of that scale are a part of the history of the region (e.g., the 869AD earthquake and tsunami), but larger than they decided to build a tsunami wall for. It didn't have to be that way, because another nuclear plant in the same region (Onagawa) survived just fine thanks to building a wall that was big enough. At Fukushima it was a sloppy decision for the sake of saving money. It wasn't bad luck, it was stupid, cheap design, like also putting the backup generators below normal sea level instead of up high. In a known tsunami-prone area, that was foolish. Fukushima was a disaster waiting to happen thanks to decisions made decades before. Even as the risk because of tsunami became more established in recent decades because of more research on historical tsunami, they still didn't update adequately. This was not "bad luck". It was incompetence.

Sure, no deaths, but huge areas of well-justified evacuation. Contrary to your claim, there will be wide areas on land that are unsafe for agriculture or residence for decades (particularly because of the effects of cesium isotopes). Even if people return, their lives will be changed for a long time. Thousands of people are currently refugees in their own country. I agree that the magnitude of the event has been somewhat exaggerated, and you could argue that some of the continued effects on people is because of overblown paranoia about radiation, but you're going too far the other way. I wouldn't want to live in the main contaminated areas either.

I'm pretty supportive of nuclear power generally, and I think the idea of flying solar power generation ranks pretty close to perpetual motion machines for practicality, but you won't get people to accept nuclear power or do it safely by downplaying the effects at Fukushima, and what a $@!#$!-up it was. The people in the midst of the disaster that kept it from being much worse are heroes, but the people who made the longer-term decision to cheap out on protections aught to be publicly flogged. The whole thing could have been a genuine non-event if it was properly managed. Onagawa nuclear power station proves that conclusively.

I would love to know which gas / propane / electric company bought this rule.

It could have something to do with the fact that 7 states sued the EPA over it.

Oregon, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont plus the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency contend the EPA's woodstove emissions standards violate the Clean Air Act, the state justice department said in a press release. The agency has also failed to review the appropriate limits for woodstove emissions for 25 years, despite a requirement to undertake such a review at least every eight years.

Or that Oracle already built a failed exchange website in Oregon.

At the same time, it's kind of entertaining to watch the general public start to grapple and become aware of the same project management issues I've had to deal with for the last decade.

Michael David Crawford, who has no trouble remembering his Twitter password.

TFTFY.

I also wonder how deliberate is the confusion. There are MANY areas inside Intel where there is confusion. The confusion is visible even when visiting the Intel campus in Oregon.

Funny story: I visited the Intel web site and was asked to complete a survey. I gave a few of the reasons why Intel CEO Paul Otellini should be fired, like paying $6 Billion for McAfee when Microsoft is giving away its Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus software. A few months later Otellini left Intel; they didn't say why. I'm not saying my survey answers had an influence, I'm only making the point that the perception of Intel is widespread.

Intel has a long record of failure with consumer products. Now a completely separate division plans a TV product (???): Intel Media aims to remake TV with its own technology. This paragraph indicates some confusion and lack of competent direction: "Intel Media is run by Erik Huggers, an Intel vice president who worked previously at Microsoft and the BBC. He's assembled a team from such high-tech and media heavyweights as Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, Sky TV and Sony. Intel engineers in Oregon are participating, too, providing technical support for the project."

Oh... The Intel people are providing "technical support". Everyone else came from outside Intel??? And they don't know enough about technology to do their own support? There are many, many issues like that inside Intel.

We are having problems with Intel RAID. Intel technical support is poorly organized.

Apparently only the CPU and chipset division of the company is well-run. All other parts of Intel seem to have little competent supervision.

Get all the money you want, but it's regulatory compliance that's the problem, not the money - at least if this company's experience is any guide.

"Last September, with great fanfare, Ocean Power Technologies began construction on America's first wave-powered utility. Holding the first - and only - wave energy permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, OPT had planned to deploy a test buoy off the coast of Reedsport by spring.

But a year after the permit, regulatory and technical difficulties have all but halted the project. Federal regulators notified the company earlier this year it had violated the license after failing to file a variety of plans and assessments."

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/08/oregon_wave_energy_stalls_off.html

One government hand giveth, other hands taketh away.

Bullshit, you're just another stupid racist who wishes that the government would crack down on all of those horrible negros and other people of color. White people, especially white male conservatives are the last people in the world who would want to implement any sort of "honest" profiling scheme because the history of terrorism in America is overwhelmingly white, male and conservative. Don't believe me? Well how about a little terrorist organization called the KKK, which lynched thousands of black men in the early 20th century and terrorized blacks, Catholics, Jews and other minorities to prevent them from voting or moving in to certain areas or taking certain jobs. Then of course we have Tim McVeigh and his crazy militia buddies, the neo-Nazis in Idaho, Bruce and Joshua Turnidge (this story got no media coverage compared to the Boston bombing or the Fort Hood shootings), the asshole who tried blowing up the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial march in Spokane in 2011. While we're at it let's toss in all of the school shooters (Adam Lanza, Kip Kinkel, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are all white) and that crazy fuck who shot up the theatre in Aurora. Any honest look at American history shows that white people are mean, crazy dangerous fuckheads and that you should keep an eye on them lest they go batshit insane and start killing everyone in sight. Yeah, if we had profiling in America and it was honest, and not just an excuse used to fuck with people then white guys like you would spend a lot of time getting cavity searched.

That's why, back during the Communist era, all typewriters, mimeograph machines, photocopiers, and personal or office printers were registered with the K.G.B.

Funny, though, the Samizdat had a way of getting published, printed then distributed anyway.

Back in the day "Pamphleteering" was of quite some significance in bringing about what, at one time, was Democracy, Freedom of Speech and the like. Those rights are largely gone now, present in name only but not really in effect.

However, to the extent that we can continue to published openly online, for the most part on the Web, but also via eMail and other IP protocols, we now have a far more effective form of pamphleteering.

Get a Load of This Shit:

• Startup Weekend entrepreneurial event on alert after man threatens explosions, guns

the man who "threatens explosions, guns" was yours truly, Michael David Crawford.

What the Portland taxpayer got out of my, uh, "threat", was six of Portland's Finest guarding the Portland Startup Weekend FROM ME for about thirty, maybe thirty-three hours, with everyone attending having to pass through a metal detector upon entering the premises.

Now, it's not like I don't know how Cell Tower Triangulation works.

But what *I* got out of it, was a rather fascinating twenty-minute cell chat with a delightful young female Portland Police Bureau Officer, who did her best to pretend she had not already read every last one of my "Tweets" - oh do I hate that word - in which I tore a new one into Seattle's Startup Weekend Corporation for duping perhaps one hundred innocent, naive young fraud victims into spilling all of their trade secrets, business plans, what should have been their domain names but no longer can be, as a result of better-funded competitors, for the most part in foreign lands, subscribing to their Twitter, FaceBook and quite likely YouTube feeds as well.

Here's what the Portland Police Bureau had to say to me just this evening, when I dropped by their customer service lobby, to ask for all their written and recorded audio records, for use as evidence in my Civil Defamation Complaint against Startup Weekend, Inc., Twitter - for deleting my account, thereby removing exculpatory evidence that would have rescued my reputation - and The Oregonian, for failing to ask for my take on the incident, as well as having failed, for example, to ask the Portland Police Bureau why they didn't even try to arrest me, but did nothing other than piss themselves laughing when they rang me up on my cell.

And I Blockquote:

"When you get off work - I know you're busy - visit http://www.oregonlive.com/ then put my full name, "Michael David Crawford into the search box, then press the button. There is only one article about me, "Startup Weekend entrepreneurial event on alert after man threatens explosions, guns", by a Cub Reporter named Molly Young."

"If you keep coming round here, you're going to have to share that ice cream with us."

I was quite hungry, you see, and being Summer and all, it's been a tad warm around here.

Those are the EXACT WORDS of a uniformed, on-duty Portland Police Bureau Officer, that I asked for directions to their Customer Service Lobby, so that I could request their police report, any other written records, the names and badge numbers of all of their officers that were involved - at least seven, maybe more - and a WHOLE BUNCH of audio recordings, not just of 9-1-1 calls, but my chat with that amused young lady cop, recordings of calls between each other, audio recordings of their patrol car conversations and the like.

There are a whole bunch of really good reasons that Law Enforcement takes at least audio recordings of everything they possibly can. If you have at least three independent recordings of a gunshot, or if you're lucky, maybe just

Everywhere I go, I find that a damn OfficeJet has the strongest 802.11x signal anywhere in the vicinity. I am beginning to suspect that, in reality, The Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China has just one, in Beijing, that their people in the field use to Phone Home.

When I worked at Apple, I discovered that it took me not long at all to find both John Sculley's personal LaserWriter - when I was doing QA for MacTCP - then later Gil Amelio's LaserWriter, on the corporate AppleTalk. I don't recall the "Zone", but it was pretty obvious whose Zone it was.

I'm pretty sure those printers had no security, so I was sorely tempted to print a scan of my fat hairy ass on each of their printers. There were all kinds of ways I could have done so, on a regular basis, without ever getting caught. But I was a little shy back in the day, so I never did. That, today, is one of my deepest regrets.

But today?

So, if I select one of those damn WiFi OfficeJets in my Mountain Lion Printer Setup Utility, can I print without a password?

PERHAPS YOU CAN SEE WHERE I AM GOING HERE.

Extra credit if you can tell me how I can display a different video on AirPlay (OS X to Apple TV video sharing), than what actually appears on my display. "hello.jpg" you see, I love to show it to other people, but have grown to find it rather passe when others show it to me.

Get A Load Of This Shit:

• Startup Weekend entrepreneurial event on alert after man threatens explosions, guns, Molly Young, The Oregonian

More or less, what happened is that six - Count 'Em: SIX - of Portland's Finest guarded The Portland Startup Weekend event hall at the Portland State University Business Accellerator last Spring, after I was not thrown out of the PSU Campus Police, but politely requested by the Campus Cops to step outside so I could explain to them why the Startup Weekend staff totally surrounded me, then simultaneously screamed at me for twenty solid minutes, something to the effect that they were happy to refund my seventy-dollar ticket were I to leave the event, rather than going around explaining to all their naive, young victims that it's a really bad idea to blast all of your trade secrets, business plans, marketing plans, the names of your businesses and products whose domains they had not thought to register before the event, all over Creation on Twitter, YouTube and quite likely Facebook.

Now, it's not like I don't know how cell triangulation works. Had I really threatened anyone with anything, don't you suppose I would have been dragged off the TriMet Light Rail in cuffs, rather than my cell being rang up for my take, by some delightful, young lady Portland Police Bureau Officer who, while doing her damnedest to sound professional, was totally pissing herself laughing during our entire twenty-minute call?

Just now I dropped by the Police Bureau customer service lobby to inquire about all of the written and recorded audio records involved, for use in my upcoming Civil Defamation Lawsuit. I'm not going to represent myself Pro Se - with the assistance and advice but NOT the representation of a bar-admitted attorney - but Pro Per - without any legal advice at all, as I have come to regard the vast majority of Bar Association members as a complete was of my valuable time.

That's what bookstores and law libraries are for. If you think Law School is hard, and that legal texts are hard to read, just try graduate school in Elementary Particle Physics. Now those are some books!

Legal books are cheap as dirt too. I was quite surprised, I bought about a dozen, mostly used but some new, at Powell's City of Books on Burnside in Portland for about $130.00.

I discuss this matter with Law Enforcement officers on a regular basis. I mean, I come right out and tell them that the Startup Weekend staff rang up 9-1-1 in an attemp

We already suffer a glut of energy

A temporary and localized surplus is not what "glut" usually refers to. Hydro-power surpluses from spring rain have been around as long hydro-power. That is not proof that we have too much capacity.

We already suffer a glut of energy, but I suppose this might serve as a nice little accessory for your backyard distillery...