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Sold back to the utility? No, they are cut off... Our energy/water management is absurd.

Oregon writer Jay Lake is planning JayWake and his last JayCon; front page story in the E section of the Portland Oregonian http://oregonlive.com/ today (Sunday 2103-06-09) discussing the genetic testing he did after his stage four diagnosis. I'm storing the coffin for the pre-mortem wake in my garage (bought it off Craigslist, of course; where else would you get a slightly used coffin?) http://www.jlake.com/jaywake

Hanford Washington USA
April 02, 2013

"A nuclear safety board has warned a key U.S. senator that underground tanks holding radioactive
waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site pose a possible risk of explosion."
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/04/nuclear_safety_board_warns_of.html

I as everybody else in this area are "down winders". A tank blows we will certainly know about it.
These tanks have some of the most radioactive materials "contained"; the left overs of
30 some years of Plutonium production.

A lot of work has been done to the tanks to stop the leaks that have "flowed" for many years.
The leaks are now... well one can't say as everyday it's different; tomorrow they may well be gone.

I'm sure if they could, they would have by now so not sweating it myself.

Such is our bane for helping stop the japs.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindblazersbeat/2009/10/ill-advised_shot_from_feisty_g.html

Answer: extemporaneous utterance from Bill Schonley (aka the voice of the blazers) in their inaugural season which has stuck ever since. Doesn't really mean anything.

Annually, studded tires are used by about 16 percent of Oregonians but cause more than $40 million in damage to roads, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation. Already dealing with a backlog of road repairs, ODOT says it can spend only about $11 million each year to try to fix highways torn up by studded tires.

I wonder why we don't make these kinds of railway advances in the US

Really? You actually wonder about this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/17/california-high-speed-rail-lawsuit_n_2150455.html

Since this should be self evident, I'll keep the explanation simple.

China is run by authoritarians that are hell bent on prosperity. They do not indulge: environmentalists, humans rights, property rights or special interests that aren't immediately aligned with said goal. The rail line goes here and you step aside quietly or spend years of your life making Walmart SKUs in a labor camp.

The US is run by statists and the comfortable electorate they've purchased with bennies. Prosperity is something we have far too much of so we spend our time squabbling in court, creating whole new forms of legal jeapody and liability as we go. This precludes large scale, capital intensive ventures such as continental scale rail systems. The lead times to get through the legislatures, courts, etc. is just too damn long. Capital won't tolerate this and seeks better venues, most of which are in Asia.

Enjoy your decline.

Isn't that what school is? Conform to what we want you to know?

In theory, the purpose of a public school system is to benefit the public and to break aristocracies (whose power is often maintained by a continued and exclusive access to quality education). In practice, the purpose of school is to babysit children while their parents are out working, because in today's world it is too dangerous for children to run wild in the streets (according to some). Brainwashing and teaching conformity are just unintended consequences of poorly thought out policies by the sort of bureaucrats who think scantron forms are a way to measure student aptitude (don't kid yourself: the people who are paid to educate children are not clever enough to develop a grand strategy for brainwashing them, and neither are the major party politicians who control school budgets; metal detectors, surveillance cameras, bars over the windows, etc. are just easy and lawyer-friendly ways to address the symptoms of broader problems).

And someone please explain what expectation of privacy a child should have on public property

How about the right to go to the bathroom without being watched?

Does she complain about security cameras too?

I would have. Considering that at my high school, holding a blank postboard in front of a security camera resulted in the guards running to the camera to see what was happening, while an actual fistfight (a rarity at my high school) didn't result in guards coming at all, it is pretty clear that the cameras have nothing to do with student safety (and neither do the guards).

Unless she plans on flipping burgers she better get use to badges and logins.

Or, people could learn to stand up for themselves and fight back against these sorts of things. I am a graduate student, and when my department was moved into a new building where our student ID cards were used as keys to our offices, and our doors could not be propped open without horribly loud alarms going off, we fought back. Eventually we got a compromise -- we could prop open our doors 9-5 on weekdays, so only the first person to come to the office would have to swipe in. There is a broader problem here, and your response is a symptom of it: people have no desire to stand up for themselves, and they just let themselves get trampled by this sort of thing. This is where we come full circle, of course, since school is where people learn to be trampled -- unless they are wealthy and go to a school that teaches them how to trample others. So really, our public education system is failing to meet the goals it was originally created for (but we are too busy complaining about the UFT and about test scores to even notice that).

No one is watching them use the bathroom, you're being ridiculous. They know if a student is in a bathroom or not, which is no different than if a teacher watched a student enter the bathroom.

Badges like these have huge benefits: access to computer labs or other secure areas, instant login to computers, evening and weekend access to school property, reduce theft, vandalism and bullying, etc. These badges are so full of win i wish i had them when i was in high school. She's very fortunate to be going to a school that offers such nice stuff and her parents want to fight it on religious grounds?? What's next, sue the school for offering free wifi?

She have chosen to fight the problem directly instead of playing a cat and mouse game with the school first. Our society is currently built in a way that makes this preferable so I can see why she decided to do that.

Judge is probably just doing it to clear the air, so a legal ruling can come out saying "Yes, the school has the right to know where every student is at all times while they are on school property." That seems so obvious I don't know how anyone can argue against it. Who wants the school to say "We don't know where your child is. They are not in class and we called over the intercom and they didn't come. Sorry"

Badges like these could have huge benefits: Access to computer labs or other secure areas, instant login to computers, evening and weekend access to school property, reduce theft, vandalism and bullying, etc. These badges are so full of win i wish i had them when i was in high school

She's very fortunate to be going to a school that offers such nice stuff and her parents want to fight it on religious grounds?? What's next, sue the school for offering free wifi?

> We don't force religious parents to vaccinate their children.

We do, however, jail them for neglect if they follow their religious beliefs and "treat their children with prayer". Sometimes they are acquitted after a trial. Sometimes they get jail time.

Which is to say, it is not a subject with a unified and unambiguous body of law behind it.

Mind showing the left side of that package, or would such honesty interfere with your agenda?

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Same exact packaging you show. Except in these pictures you can see the left side of the packaging more easily. The warning is pretty obvious to me.

Near 40% of public school teachers send kids to private schools. I don't believe 40% of the rest of the public can afford to do that, since they are the ones that are paying the taxes that go towards public schools already, and once that money is taken from them, they can't afford to pay for a private school yet another time. But teachers, whose pay is higher than an average pay of a private worker, can afford to and does.

Maybe this has something to do with the fact that students are just not learning things in public schools.

People should be able to take their money and instead of handing it over to any politician, to any union, to anybody, they should be able to take their kid and send him or her to a school of their choice and pay for it with the money that they would not have to pay in taxes for the pathetic level of 'education' their kids would be getting publicly.

And your point is then what? If there are kids (near 30% apparently), that just can't cut it, then why are scarce resources used on them to try and do what is obviously not working for them?

They shouldn't be dragged through years and years of public "education" system just to come out unable to perform such basic tasks as reading, comprehension, writing and arithmetic.

Why talk about chemistry at this point and why bother with any further education for them, more importantly, if the public schools are unable to teach near 30% of kids these skills, why bother with public schools?

Obviously up to 30% of their funding is completely wasted right there. But the truth is that that's not the kids that caused this problem, it's the school system, it's useless to them, they shouldn't be attending it. They should be attending a private education facility that would by hook or by crook force them to learn reading, writing and arithmetic (and comprehension obviously) and then they would be better served and better capable of making further decisions of whether they should continue education or do something else.

But if the public school system is failing 30% of kids, it's not the kids, it's total nonsense that 30% of kids are retarded or that their parents are and society is responsible. It's nonsense. 30% of kids are simply failed by the school and that' the real problem.

Those are public schools, he is talking about, yes?

In a public school system you will not have real innovation (except for bringing everybody down to the common lowest denominator, which means dumbing everything down).

Personally I am against all public schools completely (and against everything else done by government that is not dealing with protection of individual liberties), but if public schools should exist, how about keeping their job to a minimum: first 3 classes.

Teach the kids the most basic fundamentals: READING (and very importantly comprehending). WRITING. ARITHMETIC.

That's it. Let the public schools just do that, but at least insist that they do that right, at least insist that they can take a student in and within 3 years achieve complete proficiency in 3 simple things. How about that, is that too much for public schools today?

Yes it is! Actually today public schools churn out kids that cannot READ, WRITE, do ARITHMETIC.

If the students cannot do those 3 things proficiently after they finish high school, what chance is there that they can do anything beyond that at all?

If everybody can at least be made proficient in those 3 skills within 3 years, then all further education should be left up to the parents and the students themselves. They should be able to choose what to do next.

That's my view on it. There is no reason to bother the students with Chemistry who cannot fucking read.

Part dumb repetition of cultural mythology, perhaps, but part truth. When I lived in Portland, Oregon, it was widely acknowledged that the city was a hub for the "sexual exploitation of children." Runaways, kidnapping victims, and so on being forced into prostitution. A one second google search produced this glob. Half the statistics in the jpeg are debatable or uninteresting (men pay for sex!), but some of them are pretty clear. Sex trafficking happens and it is absolutely correlated with poverty.

But I do want to clarify something. You're talking about sex worker advocacy and essentially my points are about human trafficking, and one of the major impediments to discussion or reform is that they both fall under the legal definition of "prostitution." I'm not down on sex workers. I think it's ridiculous that a professional dom, for instance, would be subject to the same laws that are used to prosecute people who perpetrate actual violence. But I stand by the assertion that it is dangerous to assume that anyone selling themselves has chosento do so, as though coercion, violence, and exploitation of women aren't somehow part of the picture too. This is all part of a more nuanced conversation that exceeds the depth of the GGP's post to which I originally replied, and I'm not inclined to take it further. "Don't let them get an education, don't let them have men's jobs, don't let them vote, don't let them sell themselves." If only it were that simple.

TBH I would not be surprised if there was some feud between them and he just went full retard.

Nah, he was full retard from day one. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/28/nation/la-na-hometown-santa-fe28-2010mar28

My favorite parts: "waves of nausea, vertigo, body aches, dizziness, heart arrhythmia and insomnia returned -- all, he says, because she was using an iPhone, a laptop computer, a wireless router and dimmer switches." To stress this: he gets that sick from DIMMER SWITCHES 30 FEET AWAY. And it would have to be a damn fantastic dimmer to have wi-fi.

And: "Firstenberg said he was staying with friends and occasionally sleeping in his car." A dimmer switch in a house about 30 feet from his makes him sick, but he can drive (I assume) and sleep in a car about a yard from an internal combustion engine, alternator, and a lead acid battery.

Wasn't there also some public school district that was suffering legal trouble from the same claims?

You were probably thinking of: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/07/wi-fi_lawsuit_against_portland.html

Or maybe: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/10/60769

But there's been a LOT of places suffering legal trouble: http://www.smdp.com/resident-files-1-7b-claim-with-city-hall/

If you want to find more, look up Magda Havas. She's making a nice profit being an "expert" on how Wifi is killing you and UR BABIEZZZZZ. Then there's Barrie Trower. I haven't heard much about him except that he adds some conspiracy theory to the mix and meets interesting people like the king of Botswana (the country is a republic).

Yeah, you crammed it pretty much in nutshell. Also, the DoD being involved would only compound this gargantuan shit-sandwich. I think it may be wise to think long and hard before trusting an unaccountable department that has likely spent more than 2/3 of the national-debt (10+ of 16 trillion) and essentially needs conflict to survive. And when their ghouls start wailing about Digital Blackwaters, thinking should yield to shunning altogether. It seems the Pentagon would be all too satisfied having a nation of under-educated poverty-stricken dunces quivering behind the World's greatest military force. I don't think we should put any more power in the hands of those who are eager to declare war over "cyber attacks" until they can learn to distinguish "war" from "crime" and "crime" from bogus-copyright and free-speech and "terrorism" from honest journalism.

They'll be streaming it live at Livingroom Theaters in Portland, OR. It's a small boutique theater. Livingroom Theaters homepage.

The doors for the screening will open at 9:00p, with landing expected to occur at around 10:30p. Admission, which is limited to patrons 21 and over, is FREE, but you must reserve a spot in advance by sending an email to: curiosity(AT)livingroomtheaters.com.

Oddly enough, the article didn't mention the back story behind the police office who's 3 year old died. If we look at the local media: http://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county/index.ssf/2012/01/former_clark_county_deputy_fil.html

We read: "Investigators further state that Owens blamed his son's death to his 11-year-old daughter and tried to force a confession out of her.

"...Deputy Owens did not maintain the highest standards of conduct and discredited himself and the Sheriff's Office....," the document states. "....His selfish, shameful and cowardly behavior has left an indelible mark on our agency and has raised serious doubts about his credibility, judgment, truthfulness and fitness for duty."

The Multnomah County District Attorney's Office declined to prosecute Owens for allegedly coercing his daughter. The incident happened in the Portland area."

and wonder what in the world it takes for a police office to actually get arrested. He & his wife apparently dragged the daughter to a fast food joint where the wife "questioned" the daughter: http://www.columbian.com/news/2011/nov/18/his-selfish-shameful-and-cowardly-behavior-has-lef/?print -- "But prosecutors declined this fall to try the deputy because it was in Multnomah County, Ore., where he allegedly coerced his daughter, when Owens and his wife were driving the girl to the airport about a month after the shooting.

“In review of the evidence in the case, the charges we were looking at were witness-tampering allegations,” Clark County Prosecutor Tony Golik said Friday. “Because of jurisdiction, we didn’t feel we had” sufficient evidence that a crime occurred in Clark County.

The case was referred to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. A deputy district attorney there declined to press charges on either Owens or his wife. A call to the spokesman for that DA’s office was not returned Friday."

In Vancouver, WA. the local newspaper (http://www.columbian.com/) did the same thing. The user comments have degenerated into useless tripe, mostly agreeing with the article.

Before the Facebook conversion, we had very insightful commentary about the real estate collapse from banking insiders (the local economy revolves about building affordable housing outside the restrictions imposed by nearby Portland, Oregon). Additionally, articles about the corrupt Vancouver WA police dept and articles about the county budget often brought about interesting reader comments. Oh, and post-Facebook conversion, conveniently it appears the old articles have "disappeared" from the archives.

However, now that the Gestapo, excuse me, Facebook registration is required, newspaper comments are bland and mostly uninformative. Which, I'm sure, is the way Corporate America likes it.

Oh, and on the gunsafe article, the following article is interesting in that the police officer in the Slashdot post tried to implicate his daughter in the death of his son. Were Facebook registrion required for posting, it is doubtful this sort of thing would surface:

http://www.oregonlive.com/clark-county/index.ssf/2012/01/former_clark_county_deputy_fil.html

"Investigators further state that Owens blamed his son's death to his 11-year-old daughter and tried to force a confession out of her.

"...Deputy Owens did not maintain the highest standards of conduct and discredited himself and the Sheriff's Office....," the document states. "....His selfish, shameful and cowardly behavior has left an indelible mark on our agency and has raised serious doubts about his credibility, judgment, truthfulness and fitness for duty."

The Multnomah County District Attorney's Office declined to prosecute Owens for allegedly coercing his daughter. The incident happened in the Portland area."

Interesting of course that they didn't prosecute him.....

Because the prosecution dropped its case to a violation, not a crime. It's not that he was denied a jury trial. "Brennan didn't have the option of letting a jury decide the case because the prosecution dropped its pursuit of a conviction for misdemeanor public indecency. The prosecution is now seeking a conviction for a violation, which is similar to a speeding ticket." Violations don't have the option for a jury trial in Oregon.

This article gives more information:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/07/post_247.html [oregonlive.com]

It's not that he was denied a jury trial. "Brennan didn't have the option of letting a jury decide the case because the prosecution dropped its pursuit of a conviction for misdemeanor public indecency. The prosecution is now seeking a conviction for a violation, which is similar to a speeding ticket." Violations don't have the option for a jury trial in Oregon.

This article gives more information:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/07/post_247.html

For those who haven't RTFA, here is my favourite photo: http://photos.oregonlive.com/oregonian/2012/07/pdx_stripper_is_acquitted_1.html

They will put most normal retailers out of business.

What's your definition of "normal"? If you only shop at big-box stores that compete solely on price and provide little or no customer service then yeah, shopping as you know it is dead. And good riddance.

But there are lots of retail businesses for which customer service counts a lot more than price or convenience. Here's an independent bookstore that's doing well despite being in a declining business in an economically depressed area. Why buy books here when you can order anything online, usually for less? Because sometimes it's fun to go into a space staffed by people who love books and just browse their well-curated collection.

(I often wonder if Borders might not have survived if they'd stuck with their original browser-oriented business model instead of only stocking books that were easy to move. Once price and popularity became their total business model, they had no hope of competing with Amazon.)

Another example: I recently bought a vacuum cleaner. Having wasted a lot of time shopping for vacuums both online and in department stores, only to end up with expensive, overmarketed ("doesn't lose suction!) crap that conked out after a year or so, I decided to give a small specialty chain a try. Some woman in a shop apron asked me about my needs and my budget and showed me a simple machine that was just the ticket. She took it apart and showed me how it worked (always a good sales technique when selling to a technogeek) and walked me through procedures for replacing the bag and the fan belt. An easy sale for both of us.

Of course, the first thing I did when I got home was look for the same model online. I would have been OK with having paid a little extra for the local expertise — but as it turned out the model I bought similar competitors were all hard to find online and actually a little more expensive.

The role of brick and mortar stores is shrinking, but there will always be things they know how to do better.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/06/portlands_wifi_network_coming.html Then they took them down.

• Michael David Crawford

I'm all over The Series of Tubes as I published my first site in 1994, and was on Usenet and mailing lists long before that.

out of 27,300,000 total hits we have at Number Ten and so stil on the first page:

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

More than 150 people at the Startup Weekend entrepreneurial event at Portland State University are on what event organizers described as a "lockdown" after a man who was asked to leave this morning later made threats of violence.

Six police officers were at the PSU Business Accelerator building on 2828 S.W. Corbett Ave. this afternoon.

After the man, Michael David Crawford, was removed this morning, he apparently threatened violence, explosions and guns, co-organizer Jeff Martens told participants at an afternoon meeting announcing the "lockdown." The threats were made on a Twitter account using the hashtag of the event, though the tweets appear to have been deleted.

Participants are allowed to enter and leave through one entrance, and Portland police said the event was not on an official lockdown.

Is British Airways going to treat me like family after they read that?

Here's What Really Happened.

The reason I haven't sued the Startup Weekend corporation, The Oregonian and, because they deleted exculpatory evidence from their site, Twitter for defamation is not because I don't want to or because I don't think I'd win metric boatloads of damages, but because I've been busy fixing up my websites. They were, at least for a whiile, a multitude of sins.

What I was really referring to on Twitter when I reported that I knew a straightforward way that I myself, from the comfort of my own home, could "make a large industrial facility detonate like a Bunker Buster Bomb" is lucidly explained in Jonathan Swift Sticks it to the Man.

ProTip: Obama and whoever the Prime Minister of Israel fucked up royally when they authorized StuxNet. Just you wait until the Iranians download their free eval copy of the Trihedral Engineering VTS - Visual Tag System - Human Machine Interface / Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition industrial control system software.

HMI / SCADA just about has to be the single most human-life critical software known to man. Wouldn't you think they'd Read The FIne Manual before - at the time I was hired - writing a half million lines of what Trihedral founder Glenn Wadden, a brilliant industrial engineer but an incompetent coder, described as a million line program that's only half complete?

Michael David Crawford, who looks forward to lighting smuggled Cuban cigars with burning hundred dollar bills.

• Michael David Crawford

I'm all over The Series of Tubes as I published my first site in 1994, and was on Usenet and mailing lists long before that.

out of 27,300,000 total hits we have at Number Ten and so stil on the first page:

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

More than 150 people at the Startup Weekend entrepreneurial event at Portland State University are on what event organizers described as a "lockdown" after a man who was asked to leave this morning later made threats of violence.

Six police officers were at the PSU Business Accelerator building on 2828 S.W. Corbett Ave. this afternoon.

After the man, Michael David Crawford, was removed this morning, he apparently threatened violence, explosions and guns, co-organizer Jeff Martens told participants at an afternoon meeting announcing the "lockdown." The threats were made on a Twitter account using the hashtag of the event, though the tweets appear to have been deleted.

Participants are allowed to enter and leave through one entrance, and Portland police said the event was not on an official lockdown.

Is British Airways going to treat me like family after they read that?

Here's What Really Happened.

The reason I haven't sued the Startup Weekend corporation, The Oregonian and, because they deleted exculpatory evidence from their site, Twitter for defamation is not because I don't want to or because I don't think I'd win metric boatloads of damages, but because I've been busy fixing up my websites. They were, at least for a whiile, a multitude of sins.

What I was really referring to on Twitter when I reported that I knew a straightforward way that I myself, from the comfort of my own home, could "make a large industrial facility detonate like a Bunker Buster Bomb" is lucidly explained in Jonathan Swift Sticks it to the Man.

ProTip: Obama and whoever the Prime Minister of Israel fucked up royally when they authorized StuxNet. Just you wait until the Iranians download their free eval copy of the Trihedral Engineering VTS - Visual Tag System - Human Machine Interface / Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition industrial control system software.

HMI / SCADA just about has to be the single most human-life critical software known to man. Wouldn't you think they'd Read The FIne Manual before - at the time I was hired - writing a half million lines of what Trihedral founder Glenn Wadden, a brilliant industrial engineer but an incompetent coder, described as a million line program that's only half complete?

Michael David Crawford, who looks forward to lighting smuggled Cuban cigars with burning hundred dollar bills.

Wrong, it's a new zombie strain, carried by rodents and cats from Japan; I suspect it is entirely distinct from the zombie strain seen in Florida, originating in Cuba.

You may be on to something:

Portland police shorten hours at Laurelhurst Park after reports of group of teen boys attacking others

Don't bet on the employers of manual labor not doing the same thing. The link below is an article regarding the hiring of 254 foreign workers for forestry work. The company contracted to do the work advertised the positions in tiny, out-of-the-way newspapers in California and Washington state. even so, 146 US workers applied, but none were offered a job. http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/10/federal_stimulus_money_for_ore.html

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It seems to me that it is not only Saverin who is not mindful of and not caring about the health of the nation and the people around him. Judging from the articles linked below, it seems that the entire of Facebook is not healthy:

Facebook's reputation in the mainstream media is rapidly getting worse. Facebook is getting a bad reputation partly because of articles like these:

Worst company: Facebook was a semi-finalist in the April 2012 competition to be voted the worst company in the United States .

Facebook follows its business rules? Not always. The April 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal story, Selling You on Facebook, says:

"Facebook requires apps [mobile phone software applications] to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app. An examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy."

There's more like that in the article.

Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site, Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.

Companies pay people to click on Facebook "Like" buttons. The number of Facebook "Likes" doesn't give any indication of popularity.

On December 9, 2011 it was necessary to click on a Facebook "Like" button to be allowed to see Fry's Electronics ads.

Do 86,688 people (on April 9, 2012) really like Firestone Complete Auto Care, or did the company offer something to be "liked"?

A few problems with Facebook: Richard Stallman wrote a short list of things wrong with Facebook.

How much information does Facebook keep? Read the December 13, 2011 article, Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages.

What do people in other countries think? The May 14, 2010 article, Facebook is not your friend gives one idea.

The June 15, 2011 article, The End of Facebook, and the June 14, 2011 article, Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook? give others.

Most people don't understand the problems that may occur. For example, consider the March 28, 2012 article, Teacher's aide says 'no access' to her Facebook; now legal battle with school.

This April 4, 2012 article would be funny if it weren't so sad: Woman arrested for assault based on Facebook photo. Quotes:

"Aston ... was charged ... based solely on a Fac

Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site, Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.

Is there a way to do this but then activate the Like button on demand? So I don't get tracked by the Like button, but I can then share an article I read on ars technica or something at a later time if I so desire?

I think a balance can be struck.

Facebook's reputation with the mainstream media is rapidly getting worse. Facebook is getting a bad reputation partly because of articles like these:

Worst company: Facebook was a semi-finalist in the April 2012 competition to be voted the worst company in the United States .

Facebook follows its business rules? Not always. The April 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal story, Selling You on Facebook, says:

"Facebook requires apps [mobile phone software applications] to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app. An examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy."

There's more like that in the article.

Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site, Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.

Companies pay people to click on Facebook "Like" buttons. The number of Facebook "Likes" doesn't give any indication of popularity.

On December 9, 2011 it was necessary to click on a Facebook "Like" button to be allowed to see Fry's Electronics ads.

Do 86,688 people (on April 9, 2012) really like Firestone Complete Auto Care, or did the company offer something to be "liked"?

A few problems with Facebook: Richard Stallman wrote a short list of things wrong with Facebook.

How much information does Facebook keep? Read the December 13, 2011 article, Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages.

What do people in other countries think? The May 14, 2010 article, Facebook is not your friend gives one idea.

The June 15, 2011 article, The End of Facebook, and the June 14, 2011 article, Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook? give others.

Most people don't understand the problems that may occur. For example, consider the March 28, 2012 article, Teacher's aide says 'no access' to her Facebook; now legal battle with school.

This April 4, 2012 article would be funny if it weren't so sad: Woman arrested for assault based on Facebook photo. Quotes:

"Aston ... was charged ... based solely on a Facebook photo and a generic description offered to police by the victim's boyfriend."

Defending herself required a "... court appearance and several thousand dollars in legal bills."


Open source will prevail. E

The majority operate at a loss, but many, including UF, do make money.

Maybe, maybe not. Take the case of the University of Nike^h^h^h^h Oregon, which is another one of the few that claims to make money. Turns out it actually operates on all kinds of hidden subsidies from academics. Athletics also costs academics in other ways, such as channeling donations away. It would not shock me at all if these hidden costs also apply at Florida and other schools that claim to make money.

The financial system in the U.S. is corrupt, in my opinion. There are many arrangements that help those in control steal from the average person.

Sooner or later, people will realize that Facebook promotes fake relationships. Unfortunately, that realization will apparently come after investors have lost billions in Facebook's IPO.

Facebook's reputation with the mainstream media is rapidly getting worse. Facebook is getting a bad reputation partly because of articles in the mainstream media like these:

Worst company: Facebook was a semi-finalist in the competition to be voted the worst company in the United States.

Facebook follows its business rules? Not always. The April 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal story, Selling You on Facebook, says:

"Facebook requires apps [mobile phone software applications] to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app. An examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy."

There's more like that in the article.

Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site, Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.

Companies pay people to click on Facebook "Like" buttons. The number of Facebook "Likes" doesn't give any indication of popularity.

On December 9, 2011 it was necessary to click on a Facebook "Like" button to be allowed to see Fry's Electronics ads.

Do 86,688 people (on April 9, 2012) really like Firestone Complete Auto Care, or did the company offer something to be "liked"?

A few problems with Facebook: Richard Stallman wrote a short list of things wrong with Facebook.

How much information does Facebook keep? Read the December 13, 2011 article, Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages.

What do people in other countries think? The May 14, 2010 article, Facebook is not your friend gives one idea.

The June 15, 2011 article, The End of Facebook, and the June 14, 2011 article, Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook? give others.

Most people don't understand the problems that may occur. For example, consider the March 28, 2012 article, Teacher's aide says 'no access' to her Facebook; now legal battle with school.

This April 4, 2012 article would be funny if it weren't so sad: Woman arrested for assault based on Facebook photo. Quotes:

"Aston ... was charged ... based solely on a Facebook

Horsepower is measured at the top RPM, so while your waiting on your RPM to get up to that 900, the electric car has instant power (or horsepower, if you want to call it that) all the way through. But if you insist on using the HP analogy, the White Zombie http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/07/zero_to_60_mph_in_less_than_3.html weight is only 2,275 pounds, Has 355 volts of energy and can generate 2,400 instantaneous amps. Convert that to 1kW = 1.34 HP accroding to http://auto.howstuffworks.com/how-does-horsepower-figure-into-electric-cars.htm and you get 852kW = 1141.68HP

A more detailed article from the local Oregonian newspaper, with more details about exactly what happened (the TSA said he tested positive for explosives), some statements from John Brennan about why he did it, etc.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/04/northeast_portland_man_choses.html

I wonder how the larger ones would do in a similar test? columbia gorge wind turbines

They certainly move slower, but with a lot of momentum in those huge blades.

When I was a kid, we owned a fruit orchard. It had those large fans that would mix the air up and prevent the fruit from freezing. I recall one of those breaking and the blade flying halfway across the orchard, slicing a tree in half hehe.

If that number is just pulled from his ass, he has a surprisingly accurate back side.

70% of future oil delivery contracts(oil futures) are owned by speculators, and the large majority of those speculators are hedge funds and major banks. So while it may not be entirely accurate that 70% is accounted for by hedge funds, the real issue being discussed is speculation, and he was right about that.

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/03/rep_peter_defazio_asks_preside.html
http://www.worldenergy.org/documents/congresspapers/84.pdf

Pinball may not be dead yet according to this article. http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/02/pinball_finds_resurgence_in_po.html

"Most big mattress chains double a wholesale price and then add some dollars for negotiating room, say local retailers and manufacturers. That means a $500 mattress can jump to $1,399 in the showroom. Typically, they say, big stores will cut those margins by no less than 50 percent for promotions. "

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2012/01/as_mattress_world_closes_its_d.html

Plus, the political ideas are different. In Toronto, the subway is free on New Years. Maybe they will lose some money but they will make millions of people happy and could save some lives from drunk driving. Isn't that what the government is for? To spend a little money at the right time to make people happy, help build community and protect individuals? Brilliant!

I have never seen a US city consider making public services free on a holiday. It seems almost like it is opposed to the core values of much of the US.

Portland, Oregon has been offering free light rail and bus rides on New Years Eve for decades. There is a news article about the most recent event here.

I'm not trying to contradict your argument, just pointing out the rare exception. I have lived in the US all of my life and you have highlighted a number of cultural issues that I don't care for either.

One of the problems is that "following too closely" isn't an offense, or any kind of problem at all. Simply put, there's absolutely nothing dangerous about it. If it were, there would be some kind of enforcement against it.

You don't know what you are talking about.

One of the problems is that "following too closely" isn't an offense, or any kind of problem at all. Simply put, there's absolutely nothing dangerous about it. If it were, there would be some kind of enforcement against it.

You don't know what you are talking about.

I'd like to know who is calling Ron Wyden a hardcore liberal, because they clearly haven't been paying attention to Mr. Wyden recently. Just his co-sponsoring of this bill that would partially privatize Medicare should convince anyone that he's not a 'hardcore liberal.'

He's quite moderate, actually, which explains why he's trying to cut through the bullshit and actually work with people from the "opposition" party.

It is debatable that American healthcare is better quality from other countries
And they aren't the only ones saying it either
Even the World Health Organisation says so

A very simply Google will demonstrate that American Healthcare is just as good as elsewhere, and yet costs twice as much as any where else.

Please explain this?

Affordable health care is a pipe dream. The more efficient healthcare becomes the more margin there is for profit. I liken it to the cost of gas...

Where I live health care is free. And I know, TANSTAFL, we pay through taxes, but it has still proven to be a more effective system. See point 3 and 4 here: http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/08/five_myths_about_health_care_a.html

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/11/occupy_portland_demonstrators_2.html

was just similarly dismantled. It was getting lots of local news coverage and I was hoping to see a fight but nothing happened :(

That I thought I read about 3 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/us/30grease.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2008/0506/p01s03-usgn.html
http://blog.oregonlive.com/nwheadlines/2008/05/restaurant_kitchen_grease_thef.html
http://www.biodieselmagazine.com/articles/2884/california-cop-is-arrested-for-grease-theft/

And last year
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-09-29-restaurant-grease-thieves_N.htm

But apparently has been around much longer, maybe even before the Simpsons episode (1998)
http://www.salon.com/2000/11/06/grease_wars/

Seriously. Electricity to residential users should be free (up to a consumption level).

Earlier this year my wife and I visited Grand Coulee Dam. It produces nearly 7GW and costs them rather little in maintenance to operate.

This weekend we drove through the windmills in eastern Washington and Oregon. They sit there and turn generating more power than can be transmitted, costing little in maintenance to operate.

And now Google is encouraging ramping up geothermal (which looks like good stuff for Oregon!), and again requires little cost in maintenance.

Electricity is electricity. The expectation is that when I plug something into an outlet in my house I will get 110v. With the exception of inadequate supply, electricity in any home in the United States should be identical. No one advertises that their electricity is better, so there is no competition in 'who builds a better product'. Is this something the government should take control of, create jobs to build more clean energy production, end-of-life fuel burning generators, and turn electricity into a 'free service'? Residential use up to a certain usage could be free, while overages would incur modest fees. Commercial locations would continue to pay same or even reduced rates to help maintain the facilities. Theoretically this could encourage the move to electricity in other areas currently using other fuel sources, like automobiles. Electric cars are cheaper to operate now, but what if it was FREE?

Seems like something to think about.