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A person who knowingly makes a false or misleading material statement to a public servant is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

- revised code of Washington, source. Just a sample.

Maybe not.

For fuck's sake will you people stop humping the "tablets are going to replace PCs" inflatable doll?

For the vast majority of users? Maybe so.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2010/06/02/steve-jobs-at-d8-pcs-are-going-to-be-like-trucks/

Certainly not to the same extent, no.

According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization, Washington families living at the federal poverty level pay 17 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes, whereas the highest-income families pay 3 percent.

The equipment which the NSA has at Yakima is more than adequate to the task.

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/NSA-listening-post-in-Yakima-is-secret-no-more-1194259.php

Please PLEASE PLEASE --- slip on bar of soap in your bathtub ( http://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/Someone-drowns-in-a-tub-nearly-every-day-in-1201018.php ). Seriously, DO NOT REPRODUCE. Your gene line is an intellectual dead end. If you have reproduced, please go for a family drive as often as you possibly can ( http://www.statisticbrain.com/car-crash-fatality-statistics-2/ ).

82 results fo Social Media Marketing at Microsoft jobs

https://www.linkedin.com/job/q-social-media-marketing-c-microsoft-jobs

Social advertising has become a staple of the media mix as marketers look to leverage their campaigns to drive valuable word of mouth and influence. Microsoft Advertising has helped some of the world’s biggest brands tell their stories

http://advertising.microsoft.com/en-us/social-media

Case Study: How Does Microsoft Do Social Media Marketing?

http://socialmediatoday.com/index.php?q=SMC/200414

Starbucks, Microsoft are mighty in social-media marketing

And let’s not forget: Social media are free to use. That saves Microsoft some money in getting out its targeted marketing messages. Though the social-engagement report found a correlation between social marketing and a company’s financial performance, it was not definitively a causal relationship.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2009/10/12/starbucks-microsoft-mighty-in-social-media-marketing/

Communication –Blogs, discussions groups, and Twitter were used to provide continuing updates to the company’s followers during the development process for Windows 7. By providing frequent updates, Microsoft was able to build hype for Windows 7 among technology innovators. By increasing excitement of the innovators segment, Microsoft was able to encourage this segment act as brand ambassadors, willing to use their own social networks to pitch Windows 7 to early adopters.

http://suite101.com/article/social-media-marketing-strategies-a220285

How about Massachusetts? Or Louis Cuff? Or the octomom? Or these two?

"Microsoft made a bet on PC hardware and capabilities, and the PC industry pulled the rug out from under it .. Microsoft .. didn't trust OEMs to deliver on the promises the silicon vendors were making"

This is retrospective arse-covering by some Microsoft apologist. Microsoft got the OEMs to put a 'Vista Capable' label on the PCs and when people tried to upgrade - Vista couldn't run ... ref ref

Erp, the *amendment* was withdrawn. The bill it was attached to (SB 5211, meant to *prevent* employer access to social media accounts) is still alive.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Washington-House-panel-rejects-push-for-passwords-4406954.php

Look, I've already said that I am personally convinced in the reality of AGW and that I favor a policy (carbon taxes) that seeks to control it. I also am very interested in science, am a member of several environmental organizations, wrote for an environmental/alt-energy blog and follow a lot of interesting alt-energy companies (for instance, Cool Planet Fuels has a carbon negative fuel cycle and soil amendment process that seems very cool to me).

I simply think that using loaded terms to describe a range of people, from industry shills on one end to people who simply have policy differences on the other, is counterproductive. It alienates people you can work with and just gives ammunition to those you can't.

It's not "paranoid" to point out that newspapers have been running prominent op-eds making the Holocaust denial link for years - Ellen Goodman, George Monbiot, Peter Christoff , Joel Connelly and a host of others. Grist had to issue a retraction for an admittedly stupid piece calling for Nuremberg trials for denialists. Even one Holocaust survivor has jumped on the bus.

I'm a free speech absolutist - if people want to make analogies to Nazis, Stalinists, Pol Pot or the Psychlo Terl from Battlefield Earth, they have every right to do so. But it's the climate equivalent of fan service - it makes a tiny part of your audience cheer and the rest are either confused or roll their eyes...

The founders of the United States banned a state religion in the First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof") because they realized churches were competing power structures.

Nowadays, we have the new church, corporations and specifically corporations of the financial sector.

You really want to know who runs this country? Here are four data points from which you can draw your own conclusions:

1) The head of Goldman Sachs goes before Congress and admits he was selling bad products to clients, products which he was betting against. A classic swindle. Nothing ever came of it. Or any of the other revelations.

2) There was a PBS show called "The Untouchables" which chronicled why Wall Street executives were never prosecuted for fraud.

3) However, someone you'd think was powerful and connected, a former Michigan state Supreme Court justice is facing jail time for lying to a bank which she was working with in order to get a short sale completed for a house she owned. Her crime? She tried to hide another asset, a paid off house, from the bank.

4) Another person you'd think is powerful and connected, the chairman of the Washington DC City Council, Kwame Brown, was removed from office and convicted of a felony for lying about his income on a pair of loan applications, totaling around 200,000 dollars. Absolute small potatoes. Also a very common practice in the mid-to-late 2000s, on home loans.

Noticing a trend? If you're a financial sector executive, you run the show. It doesn't matter that you've swindled billions of dollars from the country, nothing is going to happen to you.

However, If you cross the financial sector, even over relatively trivial matters and sums, it won't matter if you're the elected head of the city council or a justice on the state supreme court, you will be removed from office and suffer significant consequences.

The financial sector runs this country.

That was an ENGLISH plane. But yeah, they tried to crash an A380 by means of engine explosion.

...and the aircraft survived. That fact would actually motivate me to get on an A380 rather than the reverse. The advantage of really big aircraft is that they can soak up more damage than their little brothers.

The damage, in case anybody is interested:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/files/2011/05/qantasa380engine.jpg

Unlikely. Microsoft sports a very aggressive corporate culture where if you don't use Microsoft for everything, you're "not a team player."

This would be a good idea if Microsoft would listen to the feedback from the employees. Think about how fucked up your processes are when the CEO himself complains and nothing changes: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/

Just batshit insane to have a culture of eating their own dog food when they will not listen to their own dogs talking about improvements.

Too many fuckers running around thinking they have a right to tell everyone what they can do. Why are obsolete Christianity-based laws against

There are plenty of "fuckers" going around doing that based on all sorts of belief systems, be they religions, philosophies, ideologies, or what have you.

gay marriage

Of the countries around the world which recognize same-sex marriage, every single one of them is historically Christian. Note the map here.

prostitution

Not quite as overwhelming in this case, but the majority of the places where prostitution is illegal are countries whose primary religion is not Christianity.

gambling

You're probably confusing "Baptists" with "Christians" here. I'm not a theology major, but I don't recall anywhere in the Bible where gambling is forbidden. I do know that the official Catholic position is that gambling is fine as long as there's no cheating and as long as you don't do bad things because of the gambling, like letting your kids go hungry because you lost all your money and can't buy groceries. Did a quick search and the Evangelical Lutheran position is "...the Bible does not speak directly to gambling." As to the positions of other denominations, I don't know and I'll let someone else search if they care.

I know the "Christians are trying to spoil my fun!" vibe is strong, but you need to be a little less reflexive about it. Lots of people want to take away your fun. Consider this very secular guy's editorial advocating increased regulation of violent movies.

Also please note that I'm not suggesting my support for fun-restricting laws. A combined casino/brothel where the cocktail waitresses serve cocaine along with the drinks and the jackpot prize includes an AK-47 is just fine with me.

A Microsoft VP is not really that special (it's not like he's the #2 guy at the company). In fact, every separate division has its own President -- President of Skype, President of MS Office, President of Online Services, President of Interactive Entertainment, President of Server & Tools, President of Business Solutions, etc. (link)

There are something like 15 Vice-Presidents at Microsoft. There are so many that different sub-categories of VP exist: Senior Vice President, Corporate Vice President, etc., and they get reorganized from time to time (link).

So if it helps you can tell yourself, "MS hands out the VP title like candy to any department head, and this guy is the head of legal, so the title is VP of Legal Affairs, which is consistent with how they do things at a lot of large companies".

As for the message, Gates smiled and said, "There's not a day that I don't send a piece of email ... like that piece of email. That's my job."

The farther back that Gates steps from Microsoft's day-to-day operations, the more shit like Windows 8 we get. Coincidence? I think not.

denialists (like Jim Inhofe) will build a snowman and say, "What climate change? Nyuck, nyunk." People are conflating climate with weather. Climate is an average of what has happened over a period of years, decades or even centuries.

Scientists can't definitively say that Hurricane Sandy was caused by global warming any more than doctors say that one particular home run by Barry Bonds was as a result of steroid use. What both can say is that the likelihood of either is much increased by their respective underlying conditions.

I see little difference between Creationists who think the Earth is 6,000 years old and global warming deniers who think that humans aren't responsible for changing the climate by burning millions of years worth of sequestered carbon in less than three centuries. I'd really like to know how releasing gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere in the geologic blink of an eye doesn't have an effect. On a separate note, humans have altered the nitrogen cycle through the Haber-Bosch process by removing nitrogen from the atmosphere and put it into the biosphere. That amount of nitrogen in the biosphere hadn't changed in over a hundred million years.

According to this article, which references the same study, the cameras actually seem to make things much better.

On the two intersections where the cameras have been in place the longest, t-bone accidents are down 86%!! And this isn't a revenue stream either, as the number of tickets issued, while spiking initially, drops off substantially as drivers get used to the cameras.

Of course, the article submitter wanted a good ole fashioned anti-government hate-fest, and was happy to massage the numbers accordingly. Lies, damned lies, and statistics, indeed.

But were they completely free, or were they free in a similar manner as Starbucks' so-called "free book". I would have to say it is most likely the latter knowing scAmazon. Figures a fat fucktarded piece of shit like you would shill for scAmazon like you do for M$ hoping for more cock.

He probably wants the drones to spy on the contractors digging the new highway 99 tunnel. He's hoping to catch one misstep so - BAM! - he can shut them down!

Or maybe SPD found out there are more woodcarvers than they thought, so they want the ability to monitor them all in case another one goes rogue.

I have few good things to say about Microsoft - the best I can say is that they've been less evil under Ballmer than under Gates, but that's mostly due to incompetence, so I'm not sure it counts.

However, that quarterly loss don't really count, either. It's an accounting detail - they lost $6.2 billions of goodwill over 5 years (2007 to 2012) and accounted it in a single quarter. That's $6.2 billion lost over 60 quarters, or about $100m per quarter; a bit more if you consider the present risk value of the money. The slowest quarter in that period seems to have had a net profit (excluding this) of $2.6B[1]. That would be 2.5 billion if the goodwill loss had been recognized at that time.

So, even though it is tempting to conclude that MSFT is losing money (and few things would make me happier), it's still making a handsome profit, every quarter.

[1] I got this off http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2011/07/21/microsoft-q4-fy11-earnings-the-charts/ combined with Wolfram Alpha; the full data set seems to be available from http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/TrendedHistory/default.aspx if you have Silverlight.

Better yet, always add a bit to every can of coffee you brew. Of course it'll take extensive tests to determine the ideal mix. Very extensive i bet; any volunteers?

This excellent corporate video suggests that Starbucks is working on it.

Then again, I'd not have gotten married right after going public either...geez....maybe that's why he sticks with it....now that he automatically loses half his shit if he decides to trade up to a different female model....

To be fair, she's not a model.

Several commentators have also noted that, due to California law and the relative timing of the wedding and the IPO, if the Zuckerbergs didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement, Priscilla is probably not entitled to a share of Mark's IPO money.

So you might want to check, as it seems you spoke that last para out of the wrong orifice...?

--Another white and relatively well-off American male whose partner is often assumed to be a mindless "trophy" or a scheming "gold-digger" for no other reason than that she's Asian and attractive.
(People seem honestly shocked to learn that she has 4 engineering degrees and speaks 5 languages. And that her family has a hell of a lot more money and influence than mine does.)

Android patent-licensing money keeps pouring in for Microsoft

That's not collective decision making, its enhanced combat situational awareness. It can be a useful tool and was under serious development. Until Boeing got its hands on it.

wow.. shocking..

I mean.. what do people expect them to say? Obviously internal emails are going to be probably as scathing as gates letter to the movie maker team.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/

But externally you'll find hard pressed to find a CEO of a major corporation to say anything other than we rock or we're going to rock.

Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft (updated)
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft/

"Too late, but hey, thanks for trying Microsoft"[3]
"Years and years waiting for a decent version of skype for linux drove me to other solutions.
I no longer use skype for anything.

Still I'm utterly astounded that it took Microsoft ownership [1] to finally pry a halfway decent and up to date version from the developers. I presume all the wiretap hooks are now in place, now that all the calls are routed thru Microsoft's [2] servers, and the CLEA people are happy?"

[1] http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2011/10/14/its-official-microsoft-now-owns-skype/
[2] http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft/
[3] http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2916797&cid=40329507

Years and years waiting for a decent version of skype for linux drove me to other solutions.
I no longer use skype for anything.

Still I'm utterly astounded that it took Microsoft ownership to finally pry a halfway decent and up to date version from the developers. I presume all the wiretap hooks are now in place, now that all the calls are routed thru Microsoft's servers, and the CLEA people are happy?

Contrary to the ridiculously high opinion you have of yourself, Microsoft does not give a fuck about you Skyping with grandparents in Florida.

Years and years waiting for a decent version of skype for linux drove me to other solutions.
I no longer use skype for anything.

Still I'm utterly astounded that it took Microsoft ownership to finally pry a halfway decent and up to date version from the developers. I presume all the wiretap hooks are now in place, now that all the calls are routed thru Microsoft's servers, and the CLEA people are happy?

I do wonder how the amount of goods and services purchased with Bitconis compares to the amount of goods and services purchased with something that has a more intrinsic value like Tide liquid laundry detergent. Every time I see these various bitcoin articles I start to wonder if I should start hording laundry detergent, soap, rice, etc when it goes on sale.

http://www.the-source.com/open-source-at-microsoft/open-source-at-microsoft-iii/
http://techrights.org/2008/12/28/microsoft-kickbacks-cycle/
http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Settlement-is-reached-in-Microsoft-lawsuit-in-Iowa-1228298.php

His point is that there is no evidences that any of t is getting into the water table.

Well, there have been cases where the stuff that is taken out does find its way into the drinking water but the common argument is that it was mishandled. The way I see this, in a very unscientific way, is that we're doing something similar to when we dumped mountains of garbage into the Pacific Ocean because, hey let's face it, there's nothing out there and nobody's ever going to be able to find it, right? And now we just sit there and stare at it wondering if anyone's going to do anything about it saying stupid shit like "Well, it doesn't matter if we stop, Japan will keep dumping out there."

And, you know, this fracking stuff just sounds like more of the same mentality and I feel like it could bite our ass in the future when all of Pennsylvania has pockets of water underneath it that, by themselves pose no risk but added up eventually cause us some discomfort. And yet, all the comments on Slashdot assure me I'm just a fear monger so what are you to do? People seem to get upset when I try to place the burden of proof that this will not harm us in anyway on the companies that are going to make billions of dollars off it and the people that still own mineral rights are telling me to shut the hell up at all costs. These natural gas companies sound like really unsavory types.

DO you even know what chemicals are in there?

Now that's a funny question if you're in PA (and I don't mean "ha-ha" funny).

But at no point have remarks approached those made in a recent sermon by Rev. Peterson, a champion of the Tea Party movement, who declared:

"I think that one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote. We should've never turned this over to women. And these women voting are the wrong people. They're voting in people who are evil who agree with them, who're gonna take us down this pathway of destruction.

"And this probably was the reason they didn't allow women to vote when men were men. Because men in the old days understood the nature of women. They were not afraid to deal with it."

Seattle P-I's list of deaths for that week includes a 51-year-old man who died on March 13, but his name was William M Culver, not Jerry. It appears the poster fit their story to match that article, knowing that people would find it.

They're part of the system, and people in the system would rather allow some egregious behavior than ruffle the feathers of their co-workers. So DAs prosecute cases they know to be based on false evidence or even where no crime has been committed, police lie and break laws in the course of their job, and the only time it ever is in question is if the media storm is around it is big enough. This is why I almost always feel comforted when people protest police crimes that are glossed over, even when they themselves overstep their bounds. (I do not, however, support thugs or looters who take advantage of the situation.) Otherwise you get things this.

In the UK, but here ya go... eat a british keyboard.

Teachers union official says teachers who have consensual sex with pupils should not face prosecution
http://www.pctattletale.com/blog/133/teachers-union-official-supports-sex-offenders/

Here's some state schools that had abused children for decades...

In Seattle, state school for the deaf had decades of abuse:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Decades-of-sex-abuse-plague-deaf-school-1053009.php#page-2

Canadian state school, 40 years of reported abuse:
http://www.survivingthepast.ca/gillsterinc/schools/4-1_History.htm

New York state school, another 40 years of abuse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School#More_scandals_and_abuses

Recent scandal in LA, confirmed 175 kids abused for years, more expected
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/09/l-a-s-school-sex-abuse-scandal-widens.html

Check google for teacher abuse and you'll find about hundreds of active cases being reported in the news. According to the best statistics we have, about 10% of children are sexually abused at schools.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/02/is_sexual_abuse_in_schools_very_common_.html

This isn't new and it most definitely existed and persists in the US, if not possibly started here. Here's an article from 2008 documenting 70% of pigs in Iowa and Illinois testing positive with MRSA: http://blog.seattlepi.com/secretingredients/2008/06/04/first-study-finds-mrsa-in-u-s-pigs-and-farmers-u-k-reports-3-patients-sickened-with-the-bacterium-from-eating-pork-only/
Dr. Tara Smith, an assistant professor at University of Iowa, was interviewed for that article; note that she's a coauthor of the paper the OP links to.

This topic is important so please read up on the facts, not just the first article and skipping the abstract and second article.

I mean, Elephants are f***ing awesome and all, big, giant things that knock over trees when they get mad, but goats are well proven to eat grass and other things (like briers) that most animals won't touch. They handle dry, arid climates well, and provide other useful things like, Milk, Cheese, Meat, and Pelts. If you pick angora goats you get fancy wool from them as well.
 
Granted, you don't have the cool factor of big-ass elephants running around loose Down Under, but goats reproduce a lot faster and (I'm pretty sure) eat a higher percentage of their body weight in plant matter than elephants do. Humans also have a couple thousand years more experience dealing with goats.
 
Some links to persue:
 
 

• Los Angeles County Fire Department Goat contractors, Vegetation Management
• Goats In Portland, Oregon Get Work Clearing Land
• Rent-a-goats gain foothold in Seattle

Suppose a vehicle hits a pedestrian or cyclist, and drags the corpse. A witnessing cop can either (1) pull the vehicle over, or (2) follow the vehicle at a polite distance while all identifying features of the victim are shed to the ground. I think pulling the vehicle over is the appropriate course of action here. If nothing else, to prevent the trauma to hundreds of witnesses.

If a vehicle is being operated recklessly, it should get pulled over. If there are outstanding tickets / warrants for its owner, it should be searched / impounded. I don't see why the presence of a driver should matter here.

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/In-smarts-she-s-a-perfect-10-1178306.php#page-2

The Mexico/US border doesn't move a lot. I don't understand why UAV surveillance of it is increasing, while the Boeing system of fixed cameras failed after a $1e9 investment. It seems like fixed cameras would be much cheaper than keeping planes in the air, and would create fewer privacy concerns.

Possibly because it's also a lot easier to disable fixed camera systems, being close to the ground and all. And don't forget the need to run cabling... And/or go around them, at least until you have the complete network in place.

The Mexico/US border doesn't move a lot. I don't understand why UAV surveillance of it is increasing, while the Boeing system of fixed cameras failed after a $1e9 investment. It seems like fixed cameras would be much cheaper than keeping planes in the air, and would create fewer privacy concerns.

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/King-Co-requires-life-vests-for-swimmers-1432255.php

Well Android does (http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-15/tech/30400455_1_ios-iphone-smartphone-market), but then you have to correlate that to market growth as well. Can you do that?

The share of Android phones as a percentage of the market has been growing. The market itself has been growing. By what strange application of mathematics could it be the case that the number of Android phones is not consequently also growing?

No i think you'll find the iphone is the most common smartphone.

Ah yes, the literal argument. And if the Apple has the most popular laptop model it clearly must mean that more people buy laptops with MacOS than with Windows. (Or not, in either case.)

The birth of the consumer smartphone market, look at how it's different from what it was 6 years ago. Same as with the birth of the PC market decades ago.

There were smartphones before the iPhone, like the Blackberry. Or that stuff Microsoft was selling back then. There has to be some reason why people chose early iOS and Android over their contemporaries. You're trying to define "smartphone" as "iPhone", which is just begging the question.

Your baseline is zero, you don't use a completely different product to base it on. If you wanted to measure a change in the ipad market share you don't use the newton as a baseline, you don't use the ipod as a baseline for the iphone, you don't use windows gaming pcs as a baseline for the xbox.

Those things are not replacements for one another. There was no one still using a Newton when the iPad came out. You can't run Excel on an XBOX; it isn't intended as a replacement for a Windows PC. They didn't stop making Windows when they started making XBOX, which means there was nobody whose Windows PC was too old who wanted a newer one but found them unavailable and looked to the XBOX as the nearest living relative. That is not the case with Windows Mobile, which disappeared just as WP7 came onto the scene and which Microsoft was more than happy to direct its former customers to if they came looking for "WM7" to replace their WM6. I mean look, they continued the version numbering. It isn't "Windows Phone 1.0."

No because it is obviously completely different, you might as well say that a gamer who has a windows PC is pre-disposed to buying an xbox instead of a PS3 or Wii, obviously stupid.

See above. Windows PCs are not fungible with consoles. You don't buy a console and throw away your PC. By contrast, nobody buys a WP7 phone to supplement a WM6 phone. They (the mythical they who actually buys one) would do it to replace a WM6 phone.

Given your lack of numbers or comparison to other platforms in their first year your whole argument is absolutely baseless.

The comparison to iOS and Android would be meaningless exactly because of what I'm talking about. Before iOS and Android, neither Apple nor Google made mobile operating systems. When WP7 was released, Microsoft already had a distribution chain. They had relationships with manufacturers and carriers. They had existing customers to convert to the new product. Their failure to make hay from that speaks much louder than would any delay (necessary to, you know, build relationships with manufacturers and carriers and find new customers) between initial release and substantial market share for iOS and Android.

Where? Those figures look pretty made up.

IIRC the specific estimates above are for the higher education market, but I'll give you the numbers for the whole US market. The trend of increasing Mac market share holds in either case. Here is one from 2007-2009, and another consistent with the first bringing us from 2009 to the present. We see Mac market share go from ~7% in 2007 to ~10% in 2009 and is now ~15%. (Naturally that comes at the expense of Windows because, well, what else?)

I don't see any information about being "disabled" she is clearly a functional (physically) human with a nice Mercedes to drive, you know... prior to it being taken away.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Police-Fed-prosecutor-looking-into-Texas-beating-2249787.php

http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2011/11/02/police-investigate-judge-over-disturbing-online-video/?tsp=1

Since you didn't post anything about her "disabilities" and the first 2 articles I find do not mention it, the answer is yes, beat her again.
It appears to some he went overboard but consider that she had no problems stealing, lying and then blackmailing her parents who thought enough of her to provide her with a nice car and financial support, she is the perfect example of what's wrong with this country.

What people like you don't seem to understand is the behavior I see today, compared to what was expected from people 40 years ago, if you are under 30 you wouldn't know this and you are most likely a self serving narcissist with little empathy for others and a gross exaggeration of your own abilities.
Which I think you have shown quite well with your absurd post.

From TFA:

Adams issued a three-page statement Thursday saying his daughter posted the clip to get back at him for telling her he would be reducing the amount of financial support he gives her and taking away her Mercedes.

What a fucked-up family.

Have Bing and Yahoo cooperate in this - all out for a day in the US

• - When Google stopped serving China, Ballmer announced that they are happy to stay.
• - Sadly Yahoo search no longer exists. It is a redirect to Bing. Check it.
• - Google complied with the Patriot Act. Expect them to comply with all future legislation. We, the people, should control our government; do not expect to hide behind any corporation's behind.

.. we are concerned that a chunk of this might hit the Alaskan Way Viaduct.