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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.

Let's assume that having a DUI on your record is a reason to not be permitted to teach. What else outside the classroom should a teacher be judged by?

Enjoying wine responsibly during summer vacation? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/06/sunday/main7323148.shtml?tag=stack

Working a second job at Hooters? http://www.fox4now.com/news/local/135632728.html

How about being gay? http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2010/09/30/breaking-beaverton-teacher-says-he-was-fired-for-mentioning-in-class-that-he-would-choose-to-marry-a-man

What about having bumper stickers? http://www.care2.com/causes/arizona-teacher-fired-over-bumper-sticker.html

Or being an Athiest? http://mattcbr.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/teacher-fired-for-being-an-atheist/


Seems that teachers can be fired for about anything, but teaching poorly. And the first thing you cite to define a "bad teacher" is having a DUI on one's record.

There are almost no black people in the Northwest tech cities. While filming the show "Leverage" in Portland they had to ask for more black extras for the backgrounds to make it look more "American".

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2009/05/24/african-american-extras-needed-for-leverage

I'm just going to watch the highly anticipated Taiwanese News Recreation of the meteor shower.

http://www.portlandmercury.com/columns/savage-love/Content?oid=25486

I'm a single man in my 30s who loves to throw up on my partner during sex, and I love it even more when she (my partner) throws up on me. I have a hard time meeting other refluxophiles in my area. Most people run away screaming when I mention it. What's the best way to meet women into this? Also, I was wondering if you could tell me about some of the health risks of this activity.

Better Coming Up Than Going Down

Let's look at the health risks first, BCUTGD. People who throw up a lot tend to have rotten teeth; there's a certain amount of blood in vomit, so you might want to avoid ingesting someone else's vomit or letting it come into contact with any open cuts or orifices; and playing with the vomit of someone who has a bug or the flu is a good way to get yourself sick. So it's a good refluxophile rule of thumb (or rule of index finger) not to play with the vomit of someone who needs to vomit. Only play with the vomit of someone who has to induce vomiting.

So how does a puke fetishist meet women? Very carefully. A man with a disgusting sexual fetish (shit, blood, puke, extreme acts of consensual violence, etc.) should NOT abuse any woman he might meet through regular dating channels (work, bars, through friends) by subjecting them to a date. The realization that her date sat across the table at dinner fantasizing about being thrown up on is enough to make most women puke, ironically enough, and she'll probably blab to any friends you have in common.

So I would urge you not to date, BCUTGD, but to advertise. While there are women out there who share your fetish (the only other letter I've ever received from a refluxophile was from a woman), they're very rare, and the odds that you will run into one by chance are slim. Before you meet the love of your life, you'll probably have to spend a few years taking out personal ads, maintaining a personal website, and surfing chat rooms. Good luck.

Well the parent hasn't replied, so I will. Here is your first comparison to look at, and here is your second. Both found H.264 to be superior.

Oh, and here's some crow for you to snack on while you're reading.

hey Sadler121

good post. but not complete. I'm no lawyer and this is not legal advice. The law is different in all 50 states, each one has different cases that may have made it to the state court of appeals.

In Oregon they just tried to pass a stop and ID law. These laws should really be called stop and say your name laws or get a ticket laws.

In Oregon a cop can manipulate you within the law. They can ask you your name, and you don't have to say your name. THey can't write you up with a citation for that alone, but they can hold you for a short time and make your life miserable.

And as most people here have said. THe #1 thing to say is

"am I free to go"

It works on so many levels.

Here is the oregon proposed law, it failed. Half way down the page, aka Democrat Jeff Barker woof woof

http://www.portlandmercury.com/news/in_other_news_/Content?oid=33205

To quote Tracy Weber, "They honored the mother of civil rights by taking away our rights."

As for portland blvd. being a weirdly named street, I firmly stand behind the bumper sticker that reads "Keep Portland Weird".

I don't know what you mean about it being a secondary street or not commercially viable. You can directly exit I5 onto it.

I'm including a rather long excerpt from this mercury article:

"Almost no one I knew heard about it," she [Tracy Weber] says, pointing out that only 30 to 50 people attended the April 2006 public hearing, depending on which report you read. Weber didn't find out about the swap until she saw the new street signs on her block, this past January, when it was "over and done with." Residents got a note on March 23, 2007 about the change (there was also a letter sent in December 2006, but Weber says she and several other neighbors didn't get it).

It's no wonder residents were blindsided by the change: Saltzman circumvented city code to ram the idea through.

The city code has an entire section dedicated to renaming streets. There are two ways to do it: a long, involved citizen-initiated process, or a quick city council vote that can only be used in limited circumstances.

The citizen-initiated process involves filing an application with the city, gathering 2,500 signatures (or signatures from 75 percent of the street's property owners), assembling a biography of the honoree, paying a fee to notify neighbors, running the idea past a panel of historians, going before the city's planning commission, and--finally--swaying the city council.

Additionally, there are criteria for who a street can be renamed after. It must be a real, "prominent" person who has made a "significant, positive contribution to the United States of America and/or the local community." The person has to have been deceased for at least five years.

The other way to change a street name is via a city council vote. But according to city code, the council is only allowed to change a street name to "to correct errors in street names, or to eliminate confusion." In fact, the city code is very clear that the council cannot take it upon themselves to rename a street to honor a person: "Renaming of a street by the city under provisions of this paragraph shall not be undertaken to rename a street after a person."

Correct link. My bad

Portland has more strip clubs per capita than any city in America.
http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2006/12/st rip_clubs_help.php

Sorry, I can't reach the light switch, my restraints are getting a bit in the way.

This is probably not what you meant, since it is more of a government controlled monopoly, but things might get interesting in Portland with wifi.

For years a group of private citizens have been setting up free wifi all over the city. This is what I like to think of as a good example of anarchy in action, or libertarian-socialism.

Problem is, now the city has given a contract to a company to provide free wifi all over the city.

Well, in and ove itself that isn't a problem, but some have speculated that this commercial "free" wifi might overpower and drown out the independent free wifi net.

WiFi's Cloudy Future: Could the City's Plans Kill Free Wireless?

The researchers predict that this will be extremely hard to detect, but they do offer a few suggestions for combating it.

You have to destroy its brain, of course.

Leveling isn't a good thing for any game ever. Its boring, pointless, and mind numbing. It drives players away in droves.

Yeah, drives them away. That's why EQ is out of business and WoW has only 34 players left.

In reality, those two games are parts of genres which have hardly any gameplay outside of levelling- like it or not, that's what their players want.

You forgot to mention the Portland Mercury, a really excellent alternative weekly with sweet cover artwork, nasty letters to the editor, and sweet celebrity gossip.

You forgot to mention the Portland Mercury, a really excellent alternative weekly with sweet cover artwork, nasty letters to the editor, and sweet celebrity gossip.

You forgot to mention the Portland Mercury, a really excellent alternative weekly with sweet cover artwork, nasty letters to the editor, and sweet celebrity gossip.

You forgot to mention the Portland Mercury, a really excellent alternative weekly with sweet cover artwork, nasty letters to the editor, and sweet celebrity gossip.

'local alternative' works a little differently, here in Portland. I daresay that things with those words on it outcirculate the more traditional products, so obsessed this city is with local and with alternative.
Portland's meta-alternative paper is going to have the budget/performance/quality that you were expecting.

Another link here (if you didn't already see it).

For about 2 seconds, I was fascinated by the historical technology--then I thought, "Wait a sec..", now I'm in awe of the brilliance of this hoax! :)

I'm sure that everyone reading the Boilerplate story (about the would-be soldier, scout, mechanical marvel-man, etc...) wondered what kind of magic pills the guy who wrote it was taking since clearly a steam-powered man never did anything he claims it did.

Some more (dis)proof is provided for those who couldn't find that magic pill. Mechanical soldier, my shiny metal ass!

When in Portland, visit Wacky Willy's. Or Honoloulou for that matter, though I haven't been to that one.

I can't begin to describe the incredibly varied assortment of things they sell -- from bins of plastic dolls heads to old vaxen to lab glass. They host some really cool events too.

AD ASTRA, EVERYMAN!
The Rocket Guy
When Rocket Guy dreams

I wish this guy would put up a website to record his progress and report on the project... but I couldn't find anything like that.