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, they have the responsibility to help them. It may not be their job, but they own it now.

No. It is not the responsibility of the JS to do anything for people. Their sole job is, as I said before, to punish people for breaking the law.

There are a multitude of other groups whose job it is to find people with problems and help them. They are the ones who should be working in coordination with the JS.

That said, someone like this doesn't deserve to get out of their situation. It was all on them.

This is what happened when someone tried reading one of your ebooks...

http://www.pennlive.com/news/2...

a 325 pound murderer is a bad thing to do.

http://www.pennlive.com/specia...

What in the holy fuck do you think is going on in bathrooms?

Every once in a while females get raped and otherwise assaulted there. No, not by actual transgender lunatics — by "regular" perverts.

For security and/or police to be able to prevent such assaults, a law explicitly banning men in women's bathrooms may be necessary — without it, such people can not be removed from there preemptively

Implying that rape and sexual assault being illegal is not enough you also have to mandate who uses what toilet?

What in the holy fuck do you think is going on in bathrooms?

Every once in a while females get raped and otherwise assaulted there. No, not by actual transgender lunatics — by "regular" perverts.

For security and/or police to be able to prevent such assaults, a law explicitly banning men in women's bathrooms may be necessary — without it, such people can not be removed from there preemptively.

Republicans are against big government but want government to monitor their [obsenity] bathrooms.

Not "their" — the law is about public (and otherwise publicly accessible) bathrooms. You can still pee however you want in yours, even if — thanks to certain Democrats — you aren't free to properly flush afterwards.

but there is nothing intrinsically different about police officers that makes them honest.

You mean other than their training? Compare what an officer is trained to see to a recent shooting in my area. The call came into 911 that a person, the son, had a knife to his mother's throat, had locked her in a bedroom and said he was going to kill her.

When the police arrived they found, oddly, the son with a knife to his mother's throat. After repeated commands to drop the knife an officer fired a single shot at the criminal who later died.

After all that, not only is the mother defending the son who just tried to kill her, claiming her son had no knife and complaining the police didn't have to shoot him, but the girl who called 911 saying her uncle had a knife to his mother's throat later said there was no knife.

Interestingly, the mother also said: "We had a little fight, argument like families have arguments." Apparently in their world pulling out knives and threatening to kill one's mother is what happens in every family during arguments.

Yup, just another day in the city where the police are always wrong even when they witness the crime.

but there is nothing intrinsically different about police officers that makes them honest.

You mean other than their training? Compare what an officer is trained to see to a recent shooting in my area. The call came into 911 that a person, the son, had a knife to his mother's throat, had locked her in a bedroom and said he was going to kill her.

When the police arrived they found, oddly, the son with a knife to his mother's throat. After repeated commands to drop the knife an officer fired a single shot at the criminal who later died.

After all that, not only is the mother defending the son who just tried to kill her, claiming her son had no knife and complaining the police didn't have to shoot him, but the girl who called 911 saying her uncle had a knife to his mother's throat later said there was no knife.

Interestingly, the mother also said: "We had a little fight, argument like families have arguments." Apparently in their world pulling out knives and threatening to kill one's mother is what happens in every family during arguments.

Yup, just another day in the city where the police are always wrong even when they witness the crime.

The last thing we need is reliable, clean, efficient transportation.

Yeah, I feel much better with these type of Uber cab drivers than I do with anyone else.

by turning a guy that made a mistake into a hardened criminal.

Let the excuses begin! The guy who shot his wife after he ate pot candy did not make a mistake. He made a conscious decision to ignore the evidence that pot makes one more aggressive for a short time immediately after consuming/smoking. That he may have also taken prescription medications because he wasn't thinking clearly because of the pot again shows he ignored the evidence one doesn't think with a clear head when under the influence of pot.

How about the guy who killed a woman who was a passenger in a car because he was drunk and had a BAC of over twice the limit an HOUR after he killed her?

Let's not even get into the daily shootings by inner city folks because of some perceived slight or walking in the wrong neighborhood or looking at someone's girlfriend.

None of these things are mistakes. These are deliberate, conscious acts by the person. They obviously have no regard for anyone else so there is no reason we should have regard for them. Actions have consequences.

Concrete just doesn't burn.

Concrete decomposes under high heat. It is largely a hydrate, and watch out when temps get high enough for it to start releasing it's water. A couple years ago, a fuel truck hit and destroyed a bridge in Harrisburg, PA. Not so much from the impact, but the fire damage to the concrete and steel

http://www.pennlive.com/midsta...

http://www.pennlive.com/midsta...

And once the concrete is damaged, the steel isn't far behind.

Your basic premise is pretty much true, but it's as long as the fire doesn't have an external fuel source.

Concrete just doesn't burn.

Concrete decomposes under high heat. It is largely a hydrate, and watch out when temps get high enough for it to start releasing it's water. A couple years ago, a fuel truck hit and destroyed a bridge in Harrisburg, PA. Not so much from the impact, but the fire damage to the concrete and steel

http://www.pennlive.com/midsta...

http://www.pennlive.com/midsta...

And once the concrete is damaged, the steel isn't far behind.

Your basic premise is pretty much true, but it's as long as the fire doesn't have an external fuel source.

And yet people have no problem with Timothy McVeigh blowing up the Murrah Federal Building, white guys shooting up Jewish centers, the daily reports of shootings in every major city and even podunk cities like the one I live near, not to mention those driving pickup truck drivers randomly shooting people on the road or photographers being robbed at gunpoint.

It's only Muslims that people should be worried about.

Considering we just had an Eagle Scout get plastered by a train, I don't think lasers will do any better of a job.

The weakest part of the whole fracking operation is really sloppy treatment of the wastewater. There have been large spills in some places, and the disposal is often questionable (as seen here). The fracking process itself gets the most scientific scrutiny, because it's what's technically new about fracking, but good ol' wastewater handling is a mess, just as it was in the mining days.

We should shut down any "creative" ways of increasing revenue like adding red light cameras, or allowing confiscation of your car if you get a speeding ticket.

How is someone parking in front of a fire hydrant a "creative" way to increase revenue? Everyone knows, point blank, you never park in front of a hydrant. Take a look at what happened to this jackass who thought the rules didn't apply to them.

Further, confiscating someone's vehicle because they got a speeding ticket sounds like they had other issues. Police do not take your vehicle for one ticket. Most likely this person was a habitual offender, possibly running drugs, so confiscation helps the community by removing their ability (temporarily) to endanger people around them.

Or are we supposed to coddle people who feel it's acceptable to endanger other people's lives like this guy?

They use "private contractors" to deliver the last mile in the pizza delivery model. They are untrained and unqualified

FedEx Ground is no different http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/08/independent_truck_owners_carry.html

Your question about the employer mandate being delayed in answered in the article below. It also explains the impact. Specifically RAND Corporation conducted a study on the issue. Only about 1000 companies, or 0.02% of all companies that must comply with the ACA will take advantage of the delay in the employer mandate to 2015.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/10/obamacare_obama_mandate_delay.html

Just to pic two of your points:

I do want Congress to pass a law banning cable franchises by local and state governments.

And how, exactly would said municipalities force telcos and cable companies to serve the lower-income areas of the town? It is the offer of a monopoly that allows the local governments to enforce access requirements.

I do want laws specifically enabling municipal internet utilities, especially on this new bandwidth.

Yeah, because every time a local/municipal government decides to start a business (incinerator, prison, etc.) it always works out so well...

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/01/flu_deaths_influenza_cases.html

The most common strain this year is H3N2 and it's one of the strains covered in this year's flu shot.

No, because the courts will throw these cases out, and in some cases, prosecutors with a lick of sense will drop the charges.

But Wegmans did install a wine vending machine as well.

>>>That was reference to his speeding on I-83 (twice),

Turns out I was wrong. Rendell has been caught speeding *multiple* times. For some reason he thinks he's above the law? :-| QUOTE: "In 2004, state troopers clocked Rendell's trooper-driven car exceeding 100 mph on the turnpike. That made him the butt of David Letterman's list of the "Top Ten Signs Your Governor is Nuts."

"Rendell hasn't hit the brakes" (March 22, 2009)

"His trip speeds between the Harrisburg East and Valley Forge exits, the stretch of the toll road he uses most often, have estimated speeds ranging between 48 and 93 mph...... It found one instance on a Sunday morning when his car averaged an estimated 99 mph traveling between the New Stanton and Warrendale interchanges of the Pennsylvania Turnpike." CONTINUED - http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1237675211322200.xml&coll=1

If you look at the statistics for voting and filibusters, you will see that you are completely wrong.
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2010/01/25/how-the-filibuster-changed-and-brought-tyranny-of-the-minority.html
http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/index.ssf/2010/02/filibuster_abuse_founding_fath.html
and a good graph showing just how wrong you are, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(United_States_Senate)

You are drawing a false equivalency when you claim that both parties do it, perhaps in a misguided attempt to appear balanced. Both sides have NOT been doing the same thing for decades. This is new, unprecedented, and totally destructive to good governance. The Republicans appear to want to destroy the country in order to save it.

e (damn /. and its short subject field).

Our state CISO was fired when he got back from the conference because he spoke about a hacking incident to the state's DOT site which allows one to schedule driver's exams. Apparently, it was initially presumed the attack came from Russia but was later found to have come from Philadelphia where a driving school had exploited a vulnerability in the web site to schedule more driving tests than there were allotted slots.

By exploiting this vulnerability, the driving school was able to close all available slots EXCEPT for the school so everyone else had to wait up to 6 weeks to schedule a test.

He was a scheduled presenter with over 24 years in IT in both the public and private sector. He was recognized, according to the RSA schedule, as "one of the most high-profile experts in the field of securing the data of American citizens today."

As you read the comments after the article, it's clear that some folks with knowledge of the subject insist he went out of bounds on the subject while others consider what he did to be a normal part of the IT security process.

I'm only posting this as it does relate to the overall RSA conference. Note that the web site indicated will probably prevent reading the article after a certain time has passed so read it now. In addition, here are two other sites which talk about the firing:

Site one

Site two

Further, here is an article which talks to the firee after he became the state's first CISO and what he had to contend with.

But Carlin said that beer causes farts. Farts contain methane, and everyone knows that methane is worse that CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Therefore, beer=bad. I'm a greenhouse gas sinner, and a souse, if you believe my wife. *sigh*

In any event, the salary and employment of federal judges is guaranteed for life (unless they are impeached by Congress and removed from office), so corruption of federal judges is very rare; they have too much job security and are paid too well to risk it.

Right, this judge and this one not to mention, this one. Hell one even sent children to detention many times
The biggest whopper was the Pirate Bay judge who got them convicted. But then he's in Sweden and not in US.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/03/fumo_jurors_online_discussion.html

In PA. Big time corruption trial of a state legislator.

The motion should have been resolved by now, but I'm not sure what happened. The verdict (guilty) came down today. If the juror wasn't removed, it's very possible that an appeal could argue this very issue. Fumo's attorney has already said he is going to appeal.

The words "and to the Republic for which it stands", make it clear it isn't symbolic. You are pledging allegiance to the thing the flag symbolizes explicitly separately from doing so to the flag itself.

For example, apparently without a physical flag you can't pledge allegiance you your country and republic: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/10/i_pledge_allegiance_to_the_fla.html

Or at least some, you would hope reasonably intelligent, Americans seem to think so.

Too bad nobody rides horses around here any more. Damn you civilization!

Well it may not be civilized, but here is an article describing the return of mounted police unit to Philadelphia, Pa. And here is a broader list.

It doesn't matter if you lump them together or not. Quite literally, the rotten apples spoil the barrel. If the threat of lawsuits grows large enough, investors will back away from putting money into wind farms, just like with what happened to nuclear plants.

http://www.windaction.org/
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2005/10/69177
http://www.pennlive.com/editorials/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1189201220164870.xml&coll=1
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=135298&ac=PHnws

Want more examples? Wind power actually does kill thousands of birds every year (many of which are endangered). Not that I think the outrage against wind farms is pretty ridiculous -- a stable and cheap energy supply is a necessary requirement of modern society. Even the most atavistic of greens will be as lost as the rest of us when their local REI store can't open because there's no power in the city.

S/he's referring to cases where people are cited under wiretapping laws for videotaping people with the camera microphone on (the mic violates the wiretap law, not the camera itself). For example, see here and here.

From the same site as the original PA Wiretap case:

"He's cleared in police taping DA drops charge stemming from Carlisle traffic stop, declares new county policy"

http://www.pennlive.com/patriotnews/stories/index. ssf?/base/news/1182392732222890.xml&coll=1

Cops HATE being videotaped.

Camp Hill is to buy a street-sweeper. You heard it here first. I mean, second. Maybe third.

http://blog.pennlive.com/patriotnews/2007/06/camp_ hill_to_buy_street_sweepi.html

Reminds me of this pile of crap we have for our area.

Last week, after the whole 40m CC flap, a helicopter transporting six executives of MBNA Financial Services-- the company implicated in the security breach-- crashed into the East River.

http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/ba se/national-46/1119097504217410.xml&storylist=paho mepage

Things that make you go HMMMMM.

"Without Mac OS X around to spoil me, I was

forced to get my Linux machines current again, so I could still be productive and use modern software. I was able to upgrade a couple machines to Linux 2.6 and Gnome 2.4, and with the addition of anti-aliased fonts to the Linux desktop I didn't miss my PowerBook quite so much. But now that it's back, I wonder what the hell I was thinking."

I love this guy's company spirit. Slashdot is owned by VA Software, a prominent Linux company. I'd get fired for this kind of open betrayal.

What's worse is the implications this has for Linux in general. I'm a regular guy reading this. If this Cowboy Neal guy, a major geek ten times as skilled with Linux as I am, refuses to use the software or hardware his boss makes, why should I buy it?

Cowboy Neal likely gets an employee discount, and he STILL refuses to use it!

I feel like sending a letter to VA explaining that the reason I refuse to buy from them is because *their own employees* support the competition over their products. Think about it. Linux must be unbelievably crappy if even the guys who work for a Linux company refuse to use it -- I mean, imagine if Steve Jobs got caught using Windows or Bill Gates admitted to being a Linux kernel hacker. Mature adults in the public eye don't pull this kind of backstabbing crap. I don't even care about VA Software, and I'm disgusted. If you accept a job with a Linux company, you have a responsibility to your employer not to use the competition's product -- but if that's too hard for you, at least cheat on your boss in secret rather than openly promoting the competition's product over your own!

The morally-stunted editors of Slashdot obviously don't care if they're biting the hand that feeds them; they want their Bluetooth to be auto-configured, dammit! Laziness and a refusal to learn seem to be the marks of a great editor, as well as the willingness to openly praise and worship the competition's product. I bet neither Gates nor Jobs would stand for such callous, disgusting betrayal. In fact, I KNOW they wouldn't. That's why they're successful, and Linux will soon die. Proprietary software has nothing to worry about. Developers are the air supply that Apple, Microsoft,

in a related note, this article, the US Weather service is begining to use a computer that is potentially faster than any other computer... up to 100 trillion calculations per second.