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I dunno, I remember the days when slot machines took coins and had big levers. Watching those mechanical things go round and round, suspense builds. Sometimes you hit a good combination and hear the clattering of coins dumping into bin. Nowadays slot machines are like video games, some people love it but I find it boring. It's just a flat screen, hell I can get that anyplace else so why go to Las Vegas (or Reno or whereever).

Besides having someone pretty to serve drinks is much nicer than dealing with a "vending machine" https://www.reviewjournal.com/...

I didn't write rape, I wrote "sexual assault." There's a reason for that.

Pedantic distinction without a difference.

Prove that. Everyone else disagrees.

Not if you believe there's merit to the allegations and you're dealing with a foreign national that has made it clear he's about to leave the country. Then they release you from custody but keep your passport.

Prove that. Because it's not universal, including in Europe.

Why should they? Have they done that before? Do they normally offer guarantees to such treatment to people that they question?

Do you comment on many subjects at length where you have a comical level of ignorance, or just this one?

Answer the questions.

In 2001, Sweden arrested a couple of men and handed them over to the CIA to be tortured. That by itself makes Assange's fear of extradition a matter of common sense, not paranoia. Since then, Obama launched more prosecutions of whisteblowers than all previous presidents combined, had one tortured for eighteen months before finding her guilty in a kangaroo court. The current Secretary of State is a big fan of torture, and the current head of the CIA is a torturer.

Not answers to the questions. Show how Sweden is acting differently in wanting to question Assange in Sweden. Or continue to not do so. Your evasion speaks volumes.

Hell, not only is Assange in the right...

Blah blah irrelevant blah...

) See above 2) see recent case where UK courts blocked the extradition of an accused hacker to the United States because of America's brutal prison system.

First sentence: "A British computer hacker accused by the United States of causing more than $700,000 damage to U.S. military systems will not be extradited because of the high risk he could kill himself." Where's the mention of "America's brutal prison system"?

The same prison system that saw Manning tortured

Citation needed. Desperately.

Can't even make up your own insult. Sad.

Obviously, it was throwing your BS back in your face. Obviously.

By failing to identify one iota of falsity. Kudos, dilettante internet vigilante man

Oh, by the way, you skipped the whole "bail jumping" thing... probably because that act is indefensible.

You think UK police...

Blah blah irrelevant blah. "Doing essentially the same thing Daniel Ellsberg and the NYT" would involve fighting it out in court. Not jumping bail and hiding out in a foreign embassy. That's why one man is a celebrated hero, and the other is a reviled douche on the verge of being thrown out of his chosen refuge.

"it's easy to spend other people's money" = Republicanism in a nutshell

What planet are you from?

On EARTH the tax & spend people call themselves "liberal", "progressive" or "socialist", but in reality are Marxist. Bloomberg describes how the Democrats want to reverse tax cuts and add $1 Trillion on tax hikes IF they win this midterm and in 2020. For sure they will use some of the tax money put more people on welfare so they'll become dependent on gov handouts.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

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Here's the truth:
https://www.investors.com/poli...

Maybe the Yucca-killers don't like the idea of "waste" which must be isolated for many thousands of years. I don't like it either. Now, there's a lot of hand-waving missivls thrown about - like "don't worry about it" and "you're misinformed" - but at least some people have been talking about using Yucca for reprocessing this so-called waste, instead the throw-away cultural perspective.

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2...

https://www.reviewjournal.com/...

Nice rant based in fantasy. President Trump is trying to fund Yucca Mountain, which President Obama and Senate Majority Leader (at the time) Harry Reid killed. They wanted to keep that nuclear waste in Hanford, rather than in Yucca Mountain. Oh, and you can move down from Washington, to Oregon, to California - then over to NV. No need to go through a "red state" on the way (other than the destination, Nevada).

He's put funding back in his budget proposal. He's doing what he can, from the White House.

Updated May 9, 2018 - 7:53 pm WASHINGTON — Nevada’s bipartisan congressional delegation united Wednesday against a bill to revive the licensing process on an Energy Department application to open Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository. The state’s lawmakers also tried unsuccessfully to shape the bill through amendments. Nevada gov has been fighting this all along. Even with Reid gone, they are STILL fighting it.
Actually, just checked their congressional matrix. split, but more dems. However, all, including the state gov, are fighting against yucca.

From the original article: "Police determined that the shuttle came to a stop when it sensed the truck was trying to back up. The truck, however continued to back up until its tires touched the front of the shuttle. The truck’s driver was cited for illegal backing."

So I guess they need to teach the self-driving vehicles to honk their horn and to back up when someone is backing into them. Seem like reasonable things to learn in a pilot test.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/n...

RENO — The massive Tesla battery factory being built in Northern Nevada will be a thirsty resident, with some preliminary estimates saying it will require the equivalent of nearly half of the groundwater rights allocated to its Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center neighborhood.

The project, the cherry atop Gov. Brian Sandoval’s economic development agenda to date, promises high-paying jobs and a diversification from a long-sagging gambling economy to one powered by high-tech manufacturing and technology.

But the $5 billion, 5 million-square-foot facility going up just down the road from Reno-Sparks in Storey County exemplifies the challenges of balancing economic growth with the availability of natural resources needed to sustain it.

State and local economic development officials say through smart use of technology and recycling the most precious resource — water — the region is up to the task.

Skeptics, while not opposed to the huge project per se, question whether there’s as much water as projected in the basin along the Truckee River to meet demands without harming the river and downstream users.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We are not conducting a criminal trial here and aren't bound by the "innocent until proven guilty" rule.

The fact is, California is ruled by the same Party, which for years objected — and continues to object — to any and all attempts to verify voters' status. It has a large — and growing — number of cities, which offer official sanctuary to illegal immigrants.

They have a motive — illegals tend to support Democrats. They have the opportunity — White House is controlled by a fellow Democrat. We have anecdotal evidence of illegals being registered to vote — and not being prosecuted. Democrats admit it too — when caught on hidden camera. In such a situation, absence of evidence becomes evidence of presence, so to speak. The burden of proof is on those like yourself denying anything is wrong. We do not know the exact scale, and that's a problem...

The problem here is that the attorney's fees and court costs associated with due process are often cost-prohibitive.

Not only the fees, but the time involved. Businesses (especially large ones) will often have attorneys on hand so for them the cost is little to none to handle legal proceedings against a customer who "dared" to post a negative review - even if the company's lawsuit is completely without merit. The customer, on the other hand, not only has to pay a lawyer (hoping to recoup this cost if they win the lawsuit) and various court costs, but they need to spend time dealing with the lawsuit. This might mean time off of work and possibly docked paychecks (if they ran out of vacation days). The companies know this and could just file meaningless motion after meaningless motion to drag out the court case until the customer gives in to the business' demands in order to make the lawsuit go away. (See: The RIAA/MPAA Strategy.)

or until the business finds out the hard way that they filed a false DMCA complaint against this guy.

That would end their party real quick.

Soooo you are too lazy to google it? Here, here, and here.

Granted the list was from 2013 and I remembered where I read it when Vestas was trading at 25 bucks a share. I am sure the record Amonix set is impressive, but they have a habit of doing things like this. I could do impressive things too if I was getting that kind of federal funding.

And so is pointing guns at law enforcement. But hey, they're white!

And in several cases, in custody today or even dead. What's your point?

the guys at the original Bundystock got a free pass for promising to shoot people http://static2.businessinsider... http://www.reviewjournal.com/s... http://graphics8.nytimes.com/i... http://www.trbimg.com/img-536a... http://www.motherjones.com/fil... the new bunch overgeneralized from that.

Dumbass, you bicycle when temps are over 100 and you're creating yourself a health hazard.

Only if you're elderly or don't properly prepare. You're old , aren't you?

Here in LV we have people die from just being in the heat.

Sorry you're so butthurt. 100+ temps never stopped me from getting on my bike.

In any event, NONE of the fatalities in your link were cyclists. Do you think you're special in LV because you have some heat related fatalities every so often?

Unless you have something useful to rebut a valid point, consider eating yourself a nice big slice of STFU.

I think my point stands. Pussy.

Dumbass, you bicycle when temps are over 100 and you're creating yourself a health hazard. Here in LV we have people die from just being in the heat. Unless you have something useful to rebut a valid point, consider eating yourself a nice big slice of STFU.

It's an arm's race.

FYI, a great way to "defend" your computer is to not intentionally put it on the front-line.

by "not putting it on the front line", do you mean not going to websites? like, at all?

i mean, the article specifically notes adult websites here, but these sorts of drive-by installs and sideloading exploits occur on more mainstream sites, too. are you saying to simply not use the web?

loaded rifle on the hood of his truck and it's pointing at me.

Violating the 4 basic rules of firearms? Yea, I would GTFO too.

jet planes and flame throwers and guided fucking missles and grenades

The armed forces are currently composed of your brothers, sisters, uncles, cousins, and friends. These people still have some compunction to not shoot at American citzens. They do still swear an oath to defend the country and the constitution. When war-bots start taking over the front line roles that humans currently occupy, THEN this argument starts making a lot more sense. Hopefully there is never a need for a hot engagement, but history has shown over and over again that people will face those long odds when things get bad enough.

Ferguson riots where the masses threw rocks

Where were the fucking gun rights assholes?

I wasn't aware that the purpose of the protests in Ferguson was to shoot police officers. If that would have happened, we would be in a VERY different place right now. Luckily no one went there.

A number of gun rights groups (sorry, refuse to use your ad-hominem attack terms) were protecting local businesses from being attacked. Just like a number of local business owners did during the LA riots in 1992.

What are you talking about? Name the left wing equivalent of the Koch brothers if you think it exists. It doesn't. You are the "low information voter."

LOL! Sure, buddy, sure. Here you go.

And what about Charles and David Koch — the two men whose right-leaning philanthropy is supposedly single-handedly destroying the political process? Where does their company, Koch Industries, rank? Number 36, with $2.66 million, well below AT&T, Comcast, Goldman Sachs and General Electric. Among individual donors, David Koch ranks 90th with $382,000, below a pair of Las Vegas figures. Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, rank 83rd with $391,000, and Wynn Resorts Chairman Steve Wynn ranks 84th with $390,000.

Truth hurts? Or will you try to dismiss the facts with ad hominems and excuses like "Oh, well, it's okay when my side does it."

Uh huh. Because DNA is immune to human fuck ups.

'Given a LONG ENOUGH life, cancer will eventually kill you ..."

So how long is that? It seems that Ming the Clam wasn't there yet.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/worlds-oldest-clam-killed-scientists-507-years-old
"World's oldest clam KILLED BY SCIENTISTS at 507 years old"

Talk to Harry Reid. The scientists figured it out decades ago, but some politicians refuse to act.

Indeed. It's so dead (for purely political reasons, BTW), that the courts have said the DoE needs to stop charging consumers for it. Don't expect a refund for all the money they wasted, though.

Interesting that there already is a proposal for a high speed rail link:
http://www.xpresswest.com/
http://www.xpresswest.com/network.html (they have grand plans for the entire Southwest).
They have done a lot of work on it but recently hit a block when they couldn't get the Feds to loan them the money:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/transportation-insider/prospects-dim-high-speed-rail-link-la-vegas

> ome nuts kept a Cessna 172 flying...

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1999/Feb-11-Thu-1999/news/10588716.html

64 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes and five seconds, in a 172.

You do realize that Presidio, TX is far inland mountainous desert, right?

That description matches Las Vegas, yet flooding is a big-enough problem that there's a county government agency whose job is to mitigate their effects. This page lists some of the bigger floods that have hit over the past 100 years.

This is no worse than the US Department of Homeland Security does on an ordinary weekday. So, why should I be concerned? I don't have anything to worry about, since I don't have anything I need to hide! We should trust the hackers to use their authority responsibly.

How about if you brag to your buddy on the fone how much you ripped the government off with that nifty tax dodge you found out about?

Howbout if you bitch about how much of your taxes go to support something the Powers That Be are totally for, and you're totally against?

What if a friend calls & says he's coming over to smoke a bowl with you and the cops just happen to need a few more showy arrests to get their next year's funding?

Concerned yet? Keep in mind that the most famous use of the USA PATRIOT Act to date was used to supress political enemies. Handing them a tool like this is like handing them a can of gasoline & a railroad flare and sayin, "Don't burn down the shed out back." How many laws do you break every day when you get out of bed?

The problem is that OnStar has already cooperated with the FBI and eavesdropped on a suspect through the mic in the car. (See the FBI case in San Diego against the city official and strip club owners.)

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Nov-19-Wed-2003/news/22620787.html


Yea, they denied it. No, we're not stupid enough to believe them. There's no reason to trust that they won't abuse this new system.

If I ever buy a car with OnStar, I'm gonna do like Tony Soprano and have it ripped out of the car before I drive off the lot. My AAA membership works just fine.

That's plausible, but the truck was probably old enough that it wasn't subject to the newer requirement. The regulations on this things go by model year and by the stock equipment that was for the vehicle.

If your truck was built during the period after the 3rd brake light was introduced and before they became mandatory, it is unlikely that you would be required to fix it. Though you should as it makes it easier to tell when you've put on the brakes. As well as making it possible for the car behind the car behind you to see that you're stopping.

In terms of the topic at hand, I would personally be more concerned at this point with onstar eavesdropping on conversations going on in the car. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Nov-19-Wed-2003/news/22620787.html

The main thing which would concern me about this development is if the system inadvertently caused the wrong vehicle to stall, because of a software glitch or operator error.

Providing insurance costs, for example and to begin with the insurer have to maintain an allocation (reserve). To think otherwise is to deny the vast amounts of money involved in the insurance biz.

> Every claim against the nuclear energy industry, ever, has been paid out of the funds that are paid into by the industry.

Claims are only part of the big picture, and there are numerous cases of spent taxpayer's money. Secrecy hides many tricks, but not all.

The trick is simple: underestimating costs, then letting taxpayer's money pay the difference and compensations to the industry. If a real cost appears the company involved is no more around to pay.

Here is an application: the only potential solution for nuclear waste is now the "Yucca Mountain Repository". It is studied since nearly 30 years, scheduled since 20 and can only "solve" the problem (there is no consensus about this), at the current rate of waste production up to 2014. Worse: after many postponings it will not open before 2017 and most people concerned simply don't want this to happen and even citizen not affected by the "Not In My Backyard" syndrom don't want anyone to coerce them.

The DOE has to cope with the waste by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which says "the DOE will cope with waste, thanks to money paid by the nuclear industry" (leading to the Yucca Mountain project).

We are talking about big bucks, there: a GAO report (established for the Congress), stated in 2001 (page 2) that "Estimates of the potential damages vary widely, from DOE's estimate of about $2 billion to the nuclear industry's estimate of $50 billion.". The footnote 11 (page 19) is also interesting: then (2001) "concluded that DOE's schedule for licensing, constructing, and opening the repository by 2010 was optimistic by about 2 years and that DOE's estimate of the total cost of the program over its 100-plus-year lifetime--$58 billion (2000 dollars)--was understated by about $3 billion.". Remember: the opening date is now 2017. This imply new costs/risks (project failure)/claims/temporary storage/... Don't worry: taxpayer's money will, as usual, pay!

And here is a case: during "Maine Yankee" nuclear power plant decommission, for example, there was a lawsuit: Maine Yankee owners tried to get the DOE (dept. of Energy) pay (isn't this a "claim"?) for part of fuel removing (by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act), and won (approx 75M bucks). Isn't DOE's money taxpayer money? Better: two companies exploiting the plant were also awarded, for a grand total of 152 million. Granted, those companies payed during years for temporary storage because DOE failed to tackle the task (which has an explanation: failure to receive approvals for Yucca, which postponed it and added to the costs), but AFAIK the balance between their temporary storage costs and those earnings is positive: Maine Yankee wins taxpayer's money because the DOE promised to take care of the waste, and failed. Here is the best part: the DOE will very probably, beyond the awards, be coerced into removing the fuel. Yep, the taxpayer (again) helps some easy accounting write-offs. Anything "costs less" when taxpayer money discreetly pays!

Moreover this decommissioning seems to be done by rubblization which "is in fact a serious abrogation of law and environmental policy as currently evidenced by Maine and Connecticut legislation mandating that there will be no "low-level" radioactive waste

Ruth Valentine, who is six months pregnant, said she has called more than 50 doctors and still can't find a local physician to deliver her baby in April. Instead, she's going to see an obstetrician in St. George, Utah, next week.

You can find anecdotal accounts in every system. Have you ever been to the emergency room in an LA hospital? Bring a book, it'll take hours for the free-market-run Kaiser hospital to attend to you.

"Has this ever happened to anybody here (while in their home country)?"

Two words:
Vegas.
Tunnel.

Stop imagining conspiracies of collusion between cutthroat competitors.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09-30 -cd-settlement_x.htm
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/21/sony-others-nam ed-in-video-tape-price-fixing-scheme/
http://news.com.com/Samsung+to+pay+300+million+for +price+fixing/2100-1004_3-5894862.html
http://illinoisissuesblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/pri ce-fixing.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/2002/05/10/MN24643.DTL
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2002/May-08 -Wed-2002/business/18699104.html
http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=28734&cgi=produc t&isbn=0767903277

What's more, you don't have to spend long in today's business culture before it becomes *obvious* that there's enough of a critical mass of actors who believe in getting ahead by amassing control over channels and perception (rather than producing/adding value) that the emergence of price-fixing behavior is practically inevitable.

You probably have an LP tank sitting there under your back yard BBQ grill. When was the last time you heard of one of these blowing up?

A yard full of 'em blew up in North Las Vegas last summer. I lived a few miles away at the time, and the biggest explosion rattled the building.

(Your point about the usual safety of this stuff is taken, but since you asked...)

Hehe, new innovation. Yea. Luckily that whole 'tattoos on humans to track them' is just crazy sensationalism.
It could never happen in reality.

Sorry you got annoyed. We'll try not to let it happen again.

(Tagging your ass with an RFID is the government's wet dream. Anybody that thinks otherwise is deluding themselves.)

Since Yucca Mountain looks like it is going to mothballed and all the waste that would stored in a safe, secure location will be stored in multiple open areas where there is no way for companies to profit from, they will push that we use the moon base as a way of removing the waste.
If we ship all that nuclear waste up to the moon in new shuttle type vehicles it could be stored on a crater in the moon with no worries about unknown people getting access to it and any fears of lunarquakes or water tables would not be a problem.

Without a moonbase this could not be done and for companies to profit from it, which is why you can expect to see alot of theses companies to make thier science people to come out and say we should build this thing.

Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on digg is submitted by the digg user community (that would be you). After you submit content, other digg users read your submission and digg what they like best. If your story rocks and receives enough diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of digg visitors to see.

A portion of the manual, which Democratic officials say is authentic, states: "If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a `pre-emptive strike,' " such as issuing a press release "quoting party/minority/civil rights leadership as denouncing tactics that discourage people from voting."

Anyways, keep in mind the US could virtually halt population growth immediately simply by stopping immigration. I'm not saying we should do that, I'm only pointing out the reason the population is still growing is because the majority of us want youth-skewed demographics to support social security, and a cheap and eager labor force.

Not if. When.

They told us that the USA PATRIOT act would ONLY be used against terrorists.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Nov-05 -Wed-2003/news/22521283.html

Any questions?

Opening statement: I've never used any of the currently illegal drugs and don't intend to, yet I am a strong supporter marijuana legalization.

When I popped into this thread, I was expecting to see the usual arguments. I was expecting to spend a little time combatting ignorance. I wasn't expecting any actual progress.

However, what amazed me was that every highly rated comment (I browse at +3) was pro-legalization. Every single one. Sure, they were responding to some of the same tired old arguments, but it seemed that the pro-legalization camp was far more strongly represented by both posters and mods. That surprised me and made me hopeful. I'm a regular financial supporter of The Marijuana Policy Project. There are so many lost causes in the world, improvements I'd love to see that will never happen. But I believe this is one issue that we might actually see resolved in our lifetimes.

I live in the Las Vegas area, and there is a statutory initiative on the ballot this upcoming election. Please, please, please, if you live in the Las Vegas area get out and vote. There are initiatives in other states as well, but I don't know the details there.

I am convinced now there is more than enough support to pass legalization in many states. But people need to get active about it. They need to watch the issue an vote. If this is an issue you care about, please take the time. We're at a possible turning point in the next 10 to 20 years. We can make things better.

Cheers.

Opening statement: I've never used any of the currently illegal drugs and don't intend to, yet I am a strong supporter marijuana legalization.

When I popped into this thread, I was expecting to see the usual arguments. I was expecting to spend a little time combatting ignorance. I wasn't expecting any actual progress.

However, what amazed me was that every highly rated comment (I browse at +3) was pro-legalization. Every single one. Sure, they were responding to some of the same tired old arguments, but it seemed that the pro-legalization camp was far more strongly represented by both posters and mods. That surprised me and made me hopeful. I'm a regular financial supporter of The Marijuana Policy Project. There are so many lost causes in the world, improvements I'd love to see that will never happen. But I believe this is one issue that we might actually see resolved in our lifetimes.

I live in the Las Vegas area, and there is a statutory initiative on the ballot this upcoming election. Please, please, please, if you live in the Las Vegas area get out and vote. There are initiatives in other states as well, but I don't know the details there.

I am convinced now there is more than enough support to pass legalization in many states. But people need to get active about it. They need to watch the issue an vote. If this is an issue you care about, please take the time. We're at a possible turning point in the next 10 to 20 years. We can make things better.

Cheers.

Ray Urrizaga turned over the queen of clubs. Bob Swetich said "whoa," and flipped up the seven of diamonds. The two men shook hands.

And with that, a choice that split White Pine County voters right down the middle was settled Thursday by two men in blue jeans and a $1.99 deck of Streamline playing cards, bought the day before at Ely's V & S Variety store.

Urrizaga and Swetich have lived in the county for most of their lives, and each man received exactly 1,847 votes on Election Day. By drawing the high card, Urrizaga broke the tie and won a four-year term on the County Commission.

a Texan, with a marvelous record of supporting what's right for the people, Rep. Joe Barton?

In which case, why do I feel worried?

Voting machines should print human-readable paper ballots, verifiable by the voter, that can also be counted by machine, and those ballots should be put in a locked metal box and then counted under supervision of all the major political parties to produce the official tallies.

Nevada is one of the few states that has a voter verified paper trail. While the voting machines aren't as secure as our slot machines, it seems to be quite apt for Americans to care more about their money than democracy.

If you're planning on buying a car and making it last for 20 years or more, which do you think would be easier (and cheaper) to maintain?

1. A basic Honda with manually operated seats, roll up windows, and manual locks or
2. Mercedes with navigation system, auto climate control, power heated seats, power windows, power locks with RF keyfob, traction control, ABS, power sunroof, heated auto-dimming mirrors, automatic headlights, automatic rain-sensing wipers, etc

I'm licensed as an armed guard in the state of Oregon; I've gone through a lot of training with various levels of law enforcement to understand the charge and the responsibility of the sort of work I do.

I guess that explains all the whitewash you're throwing around. Specifically:

I don't know of a single guard who would try to take down someone without really good cause. I sort of don't believe that these people actually exist - I think they're the fictional nemeses who lend bravado and excitement to our friends' exploits, a contemporary ghost or gang of bandits.

That's the core of your post, a bleating and transparent lie that there really aren't security guards who deserve to be shot. You're wrong and you either know it or you're an idiot with his head stuck so far up his ass you'll never see daylight again (which is, actually, a reasonably good description of most rent-a-cops.)

How about a few cites?

Security Guards Who Use Their Job To Abuse Children

Security Guards Who Use Their Job To Rape and Profile

Security Guards Who Use Their Job To Murder

Security Guards Who Use Their Job To Falsely Imprison (and generally just act like assholes)

and there are a whole bunch more, but I don't intend to spend the whole morning cutting and pasting links. Just go google for "security guard abuse" and limit your reading to newspapers and academic articles and you can't escape the conclusion that some security guards are so "badge heavy" (the "I've got a badge so I'm God" complex) that they truly need to be shot. When you make articulate postings defending security guards and deny that unfortunate reality, you lose all credibility.

Anyone with a sense for history knows that the Republican movers learned a tough lesson when Nixon was run out of the White House. Since that time it has been the policy of the GOP to proffer mental gimps as their presidential candidates. In GW's' case, they have found their dream date. With Mr. Bush, all denials seem plausible...

What is a troubling trend in the GOP though, is that now even the their behind the scenes lawbreakers have begun to use variants of the Reagan defense. Scooter Libby's shysters have been throwing up test ballons with this defense painted on them:
It's not perjury. it's a faulty memory.

Enough flames for now. Yucca Mountain was shoved down Nevada's throat in 2002, and that round did begin with a Bush Broken campaign promise:

Scientists and public health officials have expressed many serious concerns about the choice of Yucca Mountain as the nuclear waste disposal site for the nation. More than two hundred significant technical and scientific issues with the Yucca Mountain site remain, including how quickly the waste containers will leak deadly radioactive waste into the aquifer beneath Yucca, and the likelihood of earthquake activity around the mountain. Even more uncertainties surround the safety of transporting nuclear waste by rail or highway.

Despite all these unanswered questions and unresolved problems, the Bush administration pushed forward a recommendation to Congress that the Yucca Mountain site be chosen to store 77,000 tons of nuclear waste. In so doing, he broke the 2000 campaign promise he made to the people of Nevada to base all decisions surrounding Yucca Mountain and nuclear waste on "sound science."

Sierra Club, Deadly Nuclear Waste Coming to a Rail Line Near You? The Bush Administration's Broken Promise

Nevada's Republican Governor vetoed the presidential finding, sending the decision into the Federal legislatures. It was amazing how fast the western "state rights" politicians sccurried off of that ship. As examples: on the right, Murkowski's (R-Alaska) April 9th, 2002 statement, and on the left, Bingaman's (D-New Mexico) statement

Gov. Guinn Vetos Yucca Mountain

Fight moves to Congress, where lawmakers have 90 legislative days to override Nevada's governor

Declaring that "the battle is not over," Gov. Kenny Guinn departed Monday for Washington, D.C., to follow through on his historic veto of the president's decision to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Keith Rogers and Steve Tetreault, "Yucca Mountain: Guinn vetoes Bush", Las Vegas Review-Journal, April 9, 2002

The House overrode the Governor on May 6, 2002 in the Yucca Mountain Repository Site Approval Act. The Senate's override came on July 9, 2002, in their Approval of Yucca Mountain Repository

Just in case you have an uncontrollable urge to squawk, billydidit, billydidit:

The Senate failed Tuesday to override President Bill Clinton's veto of the nuclear waste storage bill on a 64 to 35 vote -- two votes short of the two-thirds needed.

The legislation provided for storing high-level spent fuel from commercial nuclear p

Here is the newspaper article reported by Snopes. This article claims that Doubletree did at one time put CC numbers on hotel keys. Both the article and the internet email are from 2003.

Belo Corp - A media giant. They've been actively trying to find missing employees.

Harrah's Entertianment - Handing out checks for at least 90 days. Also note the independent confirmation of the "Evil Walmart" story.

Pinnacle Entertainment - Another casino that's investing $400 million to rebuild their casino. They're also retraining employees with construction job skills so that they can feel productive.

The code that runs the slot machines is REQUIRED to be inspected and approved by the Nevada Gaming Board (for vegas anyways). So yes, it'll be safe and secure. . This hasn't stopped previous successful exploits on slot machines. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1998/Jan-10 -Sat-1998/news/6745681.html Las Vegas has a history of falling prey to the very same people they use to keep gaming secure. As with any secure system, the weakest link is always the human factor.

Wasnt there a report and a website already out there that proved the casinos already have cheating software?

http://gaming.nv.gov/

I think that's the site you're looking for.

Or course there is software written to cheat on gaming.. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1997/Sep-23 -Tue-1997/news/6110757.html
People have died for admitting to programming the cheating directly into the slot machines.

but in general, there are regulatory bodies who are in charge of making sure the casinos are obying state law as per payouts. Having a 'centralized' server allows payout odds to more eaily be controlled, so as to allow the casinos to legally 'adjust payouts to keep payouts always at the legal minimum...' that is in BOTH directions.

Remember its not cheating to make sure that the machines are running 'in compliance with the law' if nevada law says your machines must pay out 92% of the money they take in, then this simply makes it easier to program the slots to make sure you're always averaging 92% payouts.

Socialists believe in the inherent dignity of individual man as the core tenet to a successful society. In this, they view government as a tool of the people, a necessary evil entrusted to deliver liberation to common man, often oppressed by those with power. Many Socialists question the role of government altogether, believing that the natural state of man is to live free from all forms of hierarchical rule.

Socialism requires government, by definition. Socialism, in its purest form, means that the government owns and controls the output of the economy. For example, the U.S. government now taxes away approx. 40-50% of Americans' income, in terms of explicit taxes and regulations -- thus, the U.S. govn't owns about 40-50% of the wealth of the nation, which means the U.S. is therefore 40-50% socialist.

I long ago defined for myself capitalism, socialism, and communism in *purely* economic terms, as follows:

* capitalism -- "An economic concept of civilization that is based on the private ownership (and control) of the means of production." (from the mises.org definition; the best one IMO). I define capitalism as "an economic system in which the factors (inputs) and results (outputs) of the economy are produced, owned, and managed by one or more private individuals, with minimal government involvement".

* socialism -- "government ownership of the means of production" (from the stormy.org definition). I define socialism as "an economic system in which the factors (inputs) and results (outputs) of the economy are produced, owned, and distributed by a government over which there may be any possible level of democratic control."

* communism -- "an economic theory or system based on the ownership of all property by the community as a whole; the final stage of socialism as formulated by Marx, Engels, Lenin and others characterized by a classless and stateless society and the equal distribution of economic goods" (from the northave.org definition). I define communism as "an economic system in which the factors (inputs) and results (outputs) of the economy are produced, owned, and managed by citizens of a community (hence the term "communism") collectively and equally, with minimal or no government involvement."

Socialism IS NOT Communism, although Communism certainly stems from socialist principles. This incorrect yet popular belief of many uneducated people, mainly in the US arose from certain agendas being forwarded under a fear of Communism.

True. Socialism requires government (see my definition, derived from Google's search, above); communism abolishes it. Under socialism, a government manages the economy for the presumed-too-stupid-to-do-so masses. Under communism, the people manage it absent the govn't, collectively. Wealth is owned and controlled equally by each individual under communism, but is owned and controlled collectively. Nobody has any more right than the other to use property (hence, you get things like the "Tragedy of the Commons" effect -- public property being overused, because nobody has incentive to care about it, unlike with private property).

Communism believes basically in rule of the proletariat, by force.

No, that is different. That is