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It depends on who was responsible for specifying the EMI tests and who was responsible for performing them.

Back in the old days, Boeing did most of its own certification testing. But as time went on, they delegated that to subcontractors. Remember the story about the fire at the 787 battery charger manufacturer? Boeing may not even have the facilities or qualified personnel available to do thes sorts of tests anymore.

A vital detail that those outside the city (and many within it) don't know - and of course won't get from the inflammatory OMG! NANNY STATE! headline/summary - is that the City of Seattle doesn't have a local landfill. Hasn't for many years; there's no nearby space. Instead, all garbage is loaded onto train cars - hundreds of them a day - and sent by rail to a landfill in rural Oregon, about 250 miles away. That was the cheapest alternative for the city, even though it involves paying twice (once to transport it, and again to the landfill operator). But it's still expensive. Given that it's in the best interest of the City _and_ its ratepayers to reduce the amount of landfillable waste (aka number of train cars) in favor of more economic alternatives; specifically, recycling and composting, both of which are able to be handled within a few dozen miles of the city, at much lower cost than the landfill trains. The alternative is to have even more and longer trains and higher rates for garbage for everyone. Kind of the opposite of a nanny state; this is pure and simple economics. If the spectre of a few $1 fines for the few residents who can't be bothered to separate their greasy pizza boxes into another bin makes everyone's garbage rates lower, then I'm all for it.

Thats BS. Seattle has no landfill because it doesn't want one. Not because there is no space. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_City_Light
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/...
http://www.economist.com/node/...
(from 2007) http://seattletimes.com/.../20...
(2012) http://your.kingcounty.gov/sol...
OP is referencing this: http://www.seattle.gov/finance...
That's the problem: wastefull goverment mismanagement when they could make a deal with those nearby.

You may be a bit behind the most recent development. ES cells can be differentiated and substantially engraft into monkey hearts. See http://seattletimes.com/html/l.... Can adult stem cells perform similarly well?

You ought to read this and the origins of ULA.
thespacereview.com
and this
seattle times

Ballmer is the fourth largest shareholder, behind Blackrock, Capital Group and Vanguard. Blackrock's stake is 5.4%. http://blogs.seattletimes.com/...

According to this site - http://blogs.seattletimes.com/... - the cost will be around $300 Million to $400 Million, per year

But what can 300-400 Million buy these days ? Let's see ...

According to Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... - one F35C comes with the price tag of US$299.5M

It's up to you guys to decide where you wanna put your $$$ --- on educating the younger generation or feeding your $$$ to the industrial military complex

Actually, something else is causing the seals to fail on the bearings and master bearing. The sampling pipe was the original theory but it could not account for the damage being done.

FTFA “Contractors are not entirely sure what’s happening to the seals. They’re letting sand in, which is not good,” said Matt Preedy, deputy Highway 99 administrator for the state Department of Transportation (DOT). “Either you’ve got gaps somewhere, or you’ve got cracks in the seals.”

http://seattletimes.com/html/l...

Basically, our water front soil make up is not ideal. Much of the Seattle water front is fill dirt from various late 19th century and early 20th century projects around Seattle. Much of the path Bertha is taking underground is lined with caissons to keep the liquid dirt at bay.

unless Elon Musk turns out to be amazingly altruistic in his old age

He just donated another $1M to the Tesla Museum.

Okay, so $1M isn't exactly going to bankroll the next Hubble, but he's only 43 years old, not exactly "old age" yet. I'd say he's on track to be amazingly altruistic, sure.

Another article Jorge Carasco would like you to forget: The Seattle Times: City Light leader Jorge Carrasco fell for copper con

Last year, two men claiming to be members of the Cherokee Nation who had traveled from Oklahoma came to Seattle with a simple goal: score some scrap copper.

Dressed in beads and fringed suede, with one wearing a cap that said “Native,” they headed to the offices of Seattle City Light, where they chanced upon its superintendent, Jorge Carrasco, in the lobby. They told him they ran a nonprofit that taught disabled children how to make jewelry and needed some copper wire.

Minutes after meeting them, Carrasco authorized the men to be given some scrap.

But the two were actually con men. Once inside City Light’s secure facilities, they were able to drive off with 20 tons of copper wire and scrap metal worth $120,000.

Short Fuse: Jorge Carrasco's Polarizing Tenure at the Top of City Light

I also see that the deal with brand.com has cost Jorge Fiasco a six figure pay raise: The Seattle Times: No pay raise for City Light CEO Jorge Carrasco

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says he will not give City Light CEO Jorge Carrasco a pay raise, citing “judgment” issues, including a contract aimed partly at boosting Carrasco’s online image.

Murray made the comments at a City Hall news conference Wednesday.

The Seattle City Council had authorized a pay increase of up to $119,000 for Carrasco, who currently makes $245,000. Murray’s office previously had said he was considering raising Carrasco’s pay by $60,000.

Cities and states are already helping with the next gen of contractors via networked street lights.
A city gets basic energy saving with a lot of optional extras to contain any freedom of assembly and association.
Voice as in mic, voice stress, gait, wifi and everything a camera offers over every road or public area.
Fun with wifi funds? 'SPD will shut off its new Wi-Fi after privacy backlash" (November 15, 2013)
http://seattletimes.com/html/l...
CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher (03.15.12) for the next generation of basic consumer appliances.
http://www.wired.com/2012/03/p...
Add in a smart meter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... with a rapid communications setting.
Then you have your tame game console with "webcam" from bands who love to help all govs over all product lines.
As for Network Frequency Analysis, it sounds like something others have hinted at from the TEMPEST generations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So you are saying that in the next two hundred years, either A) we will see an ice-free Antarctica; or B) we will see glaciers covering all of Canada.

It is within the realm of possibility. that we should have an ice-free Antarctica. And since the melting continues to outpace expectations, that's how I would bet.

From the article I linked I can't really tell whether this is an obscure provision that will remain little-used, or a big loophole that is bound to be abused by paying people with 5+ years in the same job a "training" wage.

/tsg/

(*) Said author of the original debunked article also has the same user name as the submitter here - such a coincidence! I also note his last Slashdot submission was the also-debunked "OMG! Skydiver catches meteor falling on camera!" thing that was proven false a few days later. The Force is not strong with this one, fellow Jedi...

How many other newspapers did you have to look at to find one where the affiliation is mentioned near the top?

It was the very first one. NY Times is my go-to news source. But I can do some more.

Next up is the Washington Post. I can't find this subject there, but here's their top article on corruption. Again it's a Democrat, and again that fact is in the second sentence.

Now let's check the first corruption-related article in the Seattle Times. Another story on the mayor from the WaPo article. This time you have to read all the way to the fourth sentence to find his party affiliation.

Get the point yet?

This is a regular lie that Republicans trot out. They just love to play the victim. See also: "white Christian men are the most oppressed group in America".

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I really love that last one, because people KNOW It's a glitch; they KNOW they don't have unlimited EBT funds, but yet they will still claim that they weren't abusing the system. Bollocks.

As for the statistics, I definitely spoke too broadly, but my views are still consistent because I have seen first hand accounts of this type of activity. I can't find any interweb pagez to support my claim currently, but I still stand firm that the amount of low-income subsidiary services are abused and we need to keep closing loopholes.

Has anyone confirmed that the blog post disclosing this incident is actually authentic?

One of the linked-to articles links to another article from the Seattle Times dated January 21, 2014 and entitled "Official Microsoft blog hacked again by Syrian Electronic Army".

So at least one official Microsoft blog was apparently compromised within the past few days. If it happened once, there's the possibility that it could happen again.

I would feel more comfortable trusting the information about this incident if it weren't coming from a Microsoft blog post, too. I think that confirming this information via some other official channel would allow more trust to be placed in its authenticity.

People need more substance in their social interaction than what is provided to them by using facebook. Eventually many facebook users will do what this user did and close their facebook account in favor of real conversations and face-to-face meetings.

If you're going for precision, shouldn't it be

what we're changing is an organism's ability to produce proteins that it previously couldn't.

Depending on the food, those additional proteins could end up in your bloodstream, right? Now is that bad? Maybe, maybe not. Not all industry-funded studies have held up to scrutiny either but you're right insofar as the broad consensus is that GMOs are generally safe. The longer that consensus exists, the more convinced I'll be but until we have a couple generations experience, I guess I'll be the "paranoid" one.

I'm a little surprised you didn't hear about the multimillion dollar campaigns against Prop 37 (CA) and Initiative 522 (WA) last year. The Grocery Manufacturers Association was willing to "spend anything" and it resulted in a new record: the most money ever raised to defeat an initiative in Washington state. After a little scuffle, the top donors were revealed to be Grocery Manufacturers Association, Monsanto Company, DuPont Pioneer, Dow AgroSciences LLC, and Bayer CropScience.

In the last dozen years we have had about two dozen victims of terrorism and 100,000 victims of gun crime. Yet we are devoting so many more resources to terrorism. The main danger of terrorism is causing overreaction. Bin Laden's strategy was to bankrupt the United States and we are helping him succeed.. The main danger of terrorism is causing overreaction. With this, NSA and Iraq he is on the way to success,

Your post was true 10 years ago, you're way beyond it now. Bin Laden went to his grave knowing he had won, truly and completely. The only question is will China be enough to stop an Islamic superstate from emerging from the forthcoming civil war.

In the last dozen years we have had about two dozen victims of terrorism and 100,000 victims of gun crime. Yet we are devoting so many more resources to terrorism. The main danger of terrorism is causing overreaction. Bin Laden's strategy was to bankrupt the United States and we are helping him succeed.. The main danger of terrorism is causing overreaction. With this, NSA and Iraq he is on the way to success,

wrong.

this is about religious organizations with employees with the same religious values. here's a pro-tip, don't work for a religious organization if you don't hold their beliefs.

Nope. This is about medical care providers who are actively being Borg-ed by religious organizations http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2020875885_catholichealthxml.html who then want to impose their religious dogma on all the non-religious employees AND on all the non-religious customers who no longer have the choice to get care from a non-religious controlled hospital

It's hard to imagine a "piece of old Seattle" that would interfere with a tunneling machine. I'm guessing they're right, and it's an erratic from the ice age. I'd love to get to go in the tunnel and look, though - the tunneling equipment Seattle's been using both for this one and for the light rail extension fascinates me.

I'm a bit surprised Ivar's hasn't taken advantage of this though.

Regarding your first line regarding Iraq lying and cheating, yes, that is correct.

As to your second line, yes, I am openly and directly disputing the assertion that the US supplied Iraq with Weapons of Mass Destruction. To the best of my knowledge that is false. The closest that you can get to the US supplying Iraq with WMD as far as I know is that the US allowed the export of some dual use materials that had legitimate industrial uses, as well as some samples of biological pathogens intended to be shared for medical research and vaccines. But none of that constituted actual WMDs. If you have hard evidence of something other than that I would be interested in seeing it.

Chemical

Experts say that Iraq has the largest chemical weapons program in the Third World, developed entirely with the aid of foreign firms, especially those from West Germany. Iraq can presently produce up to 700 tons of chemical warfare agents per year, according to these estimates, but its capacity is expected to increase sizeably in the 1990s. There are at least two plants at Samarra where Iraq produces mustard gas and the nerve agents tabun and sarin; and two more at Fallujah, where Iraq reportedly is building a manufacturing complex for "precursors" -- the ingredients used for nerve gas. Experts say that Iraq also has built a research facility for biological warfare at Salman Pak.

CIA report says Egypt helped Iraq build chemical weapons

The Evolution of Chemical and Biological Weapons in Egypt - ( I am indebted to the troll Anachragnome for this link)

It's amusing to me that you think outspending on health is bad and that outspending on education is good.

Given that the USA outspends Sweden on health, but the life expectancy is lower, the outspending by USA is a bad thing.

Given that Swedish adults outperform American adults on standardized tests, the outspending by Sweden on education appears justified.

Fine, that's your opinion. And I and others believe that $10,000 is a heavy donation when total donations are in the $120,000 range.

There are iver $2.5 million being contributed to all campaigns. How about the $100,000 contributed to the McGinn campaign by one union.

Or to lead up to how such is corruption...

Is the union corrupting the incumbent mayor? I am looking for balance. By reporting one contribution from a coproration and not a much larger donation from a union show bias.

Why does there have to be only extremes? Comcast contributed a reasonable sum to support a candidate who thinks like they do. Is it a sure bet? No. Is it a sure failure? no.

Comcast isn't a person. Comcast doesn't "support a candidate who thinks like they do". Comcast's executive(s) *does* try to invest into candidates that *do* the things that are beneficial to Comcast's owners. No need to put "[thoughts] in their [head]" and be unreasonable. As for "is it a sure bet/is it a sure failure", I'd say it's a sure bet that they gave them the money. Wanting or expecting more goes beyond "support a candidate" and leads into some goal of (a) trying to buy an election or (b) influencing a candidate.

I don't care about hypotheticals. Lets deal with what actually happened. Campaign contributions are there to support candidates and calling reasonable contributions "heavy" is an exaggeration.

Fine, that's your opinion. And I and others believe that $10,000 is a heavy donation when total donations are in the $120,000 range. Hell, I think $10,000 is a heavy donation, period. If your problem is that the headline contains opinion instead of pure fact...

Your opinion of most people is pretty low. It would take a lot more than $10,000 in campaign contributions that I can not personally spend to induce me to do something I did not agree with.

Funny, you just put words in *my* mouth. I spoke of "buy the ear of most people". That doesn't mean "induce me to do something I did not agree with". It does mean, "give them the time to allow them to convince me, possibly on a subject I don't even have a particularly firm opinion on". You see, without the donation, they might not be given the time of day. With the money and the prospect of more money the next election cycle, I'd be less likely to snub them after the, usually brief, one-on-one time I'd allow most people or companies within a busy schedule.

There are also problems with the "buy the mayor" theory;

1. Council makes more decisions than the mayor.

Seattle Mayoral Race Sounds like even if the Council makes more decisions, the mayor still has a lot of power (unless, you know, $4 billion isn't a lot of money to you).

2. Any mayor who was obviously biased would not get elected again.

That is remarkable laughable. I'd even say it's naive. To be honest, most politicians are elected precisely on their biases. It's just a question of if one bias is bad enough, his major opponent's bias is worse, or if he has any particular important, to the voters, biases. There's also the whole point that unless such biases are brought up at election time, people tend to forget about them or other "more important" issues are used to ignore whatever perceived misdeeds are done. In short, no, you're very wrong.

My point is that $10,700 is not "heavily" for a company the size of Comcast.

Consider how many cities Comcast donates to. Consider just how big the donation pool is. Consider the demographics of Seattle that might well oppose a Comcast support on its face. But, of course, yes, it's invariably an opinion and not a wrong number to state "heavily".

Can we have truth in reporting rather that op ed pieces disguised as reporting? Lets deal with facts rather than exaggeration designed to get advertisement views/clicks.

Or to lead up to how such is corruption... Because no amount of raw numbers can show corruption. So, any attempt to show it as such is just an op-ed and a grab of ad clicks. Well, it probably was that too, but then Slashdot, The Washington Post, etc aren't saints there, either.

PS - Perhaps you're search for "facts in reporting" rather than "truth in reporting"?

This article was written by someone who didn't do their homework.

I totally agree. Brier Dudley wrote a nice column picking up on this craziness.

If a vote for McGinn actually were a vote for better broadband access, I might change my vote!

Hence a major reason not to federalize a lot of power.

In this particular case, it was the states themselves that "federalized" the power -- only 14 of the 50* decided to set up their own exchanges, the rest decided it best to leave it to the feds for one reason or another. And some of them are doing a better job than the federal program.

*This number varies by source, I think because some states are setting up their own systems but not yet.

Maybe I can help.

Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report - The Pentagon
Hunt the Boeing!
911 Debunked - Pentagon Flight 77 Photo Evidence
Pentagon & Boeing 757 Engine Investigation
Pentagon 9/11

Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report - Flight 93
9/11 investigators tell of piecing together mystery of Penn. crash
Direct Evidence
9/11: The Day of the Attacks
Response and Recovery - Shanksville, Pennsylvania

That information was hardly news. We knew that in 2007.

Looks like you're wrong. (I'm not shocked.)

62-year milestone: Fuel tops list of U.S. exports

2011 (through October)

1. Fuel: $73.4 billion.
2. Aircraft: $70.8 billion.
3. Motor vehicles: $39.6 billion.
4. Vacuum tubes: $37.1 billion.
5. Telecommunications equipment: $33.2 billion.

If you're really need security you wouldn't be using any public cloud service. You'd do it yourself or you'd do it the way the CIA are planning to do- hire others (Amazon or IBM) to build a "private cloud" for them: http://fcw.com/articles/2013/03/18/amazon-cia-cloud.aspx
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021649799_amazonciaxml.html

So why didn't Microsoft bid for the CIA project and win it?

Whatever it is, public cloud stuff isn't secure enough for a significant amount of the CIA's needs. At least USD600 million worth.

The problem is not so much the warming (the upper limit, or the lack of it, will definately be), but the speed of it. That oil was the result of sequestered carbon on millons of years, and we burned most of it in just 100. And forests are being cut or burned down while that happens. But there are more things that sequester carbon, like the ocean, becoming more acidic and killing parts of the ecosystem, and if well life adapts to a changing environment, if happens fast enough you will end having mass extintion in your hands (and not just in the ocean, kill a big enough percent of algae or replace them with the wrong kind and you will have trouble breathing)

Just go to the Seattle Times and read some of the actual scientific research from one of the world's top research universities in the article (two-part) on climate change

Now. Stop whining. Do something. But get your head out of the sand.

Just go to the Seattle Times and read some of the actual scientific research from one of the world's top research universities in the article (two-part) on climate change

Now. Stop whining. Do something. But get your head out of the sand.

The cali cartel set up their own version of this database in Colombia and used it to sniff out any of their people who were talking to law enforcement.

Interesting. Hezbollah also used a cell phone database to track down informers. They searched for anomalies, such as cell phones that were only used for a short period of time or from specific locations. Apparently spies used dedicated cell phones to call their handlers.

http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2016817370_apushezbollahcia.html
Hezbollah unravels CIA spy network in Lebanon

Backed by Iran, Hezbollah has built a professional counterintelligence apparatus that Nasrallah - whom the U.S. government designated an international terrorist a decade ago - proudly describes as the "spy combat unit." U.S. intelligence officials believe the unit, which is considered formidable and ruthless, went operational around 2004.

Using the latest commercial software, Nasrallah's spy-hunters unit began methodically searching for traitors in Hezbollah's midst. To find them, U.S. officials said, Hezbollah examined cellphone data looking for anomalies. The analysis identified cellphones that, for instance, were used rarely or always from specific locations and only for a short period of time. Then it came down to old-fashioned, shoe-leather detective work: Who in that area had information that might be worth selling to the enemy?

The effort took years but eventually Hezbollah, and later the Lebanese government, began making arrests. By one estimate, 100 Israeli assets were apprehended as the news made headlines across the region in 2009. Some of those suspected Israeli spies worked for telecommunications companies and served in the military.

Why worry about this now? The festival most likely won't be held at Myrtle Edwards park next year anyway. It has grown too big for that location. Hempfest 2013

Not always the best idea - http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2018204150_get14m.html

I wish I have mod points for you. This is absolutely true, and mostly overlooked when this topic comes up.

For example, back in 1981, the state of Washington paid 90% of the cost of a college eduction. Today? 30%. And now we have people who graduated from college with tax-payer subsidized educations telling today's youth, "I worked my way through college, so why can't you?" It's ridiculous.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021250505_westneat23xml.html

If they were public buses instead of company buses, would they clog the streets any less? Whoever owns and rides them, they are mass transit. Only in San Francisco would people complain about folks using mass transit. I'm no big fan of Silly Valley and its satellite communities like San Francisco, but this has to be one of the silliest, and most hypocritical, complaints I've ever heard.

The silliest I heard was Seattle City Council Member Sally Clark say that she wanted to tax SkyBridges out of existence because that would make the street safer.

Tracking info, no. But static location info is not protected.

Red light camera footage is routinely archived and saved - even posted on YouTube as "safety" messages, or info-ads for the camera mfrs.
This archiving is against the law.(But no penalty is in place to enforce the data destruction!)
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2018570960_redlightcameras01m.html
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/PL09/52_.HTM
Police vehicles are routinely outfitted with plate-recognition devices. Parking authorities use them to identify scofflaws; Routine police investigations will canvas the area of a crime, recording plates in order to develop a list of potential witnesses/suspects; patrol cars use them to alert on any match with stolen car registries or amber/silver alerts.

With many hundreds of static collection locations, it becomes easy to infer the general paths taken between these points. The tracking device becomes a redundant dongle - adding expense to the motorist who ultimately has to pay for all this added technology, and inviting tinkering/hacking to provide unreliable data back to the collectors.

Ahhh... Where is the APU in this thing? I'm thinking that they usually are in the tail in large aircraft, but I'm just a software engineer not a pilot or avionics engineer.

APU in tail puts a lot of electrical cables, hot air ducts and fuel lines along side control cables, hydraulic lines and such. APU's provide ground power and air conditioning, compressed air for engine starting along with electrical power. There is a large power distribution infrastructure just under where the fire seems to have caused a problem.

This looks very similar to the avionics bay fire that grounded the test aircraft in Texas. http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2013387936_787emergency10.html

> If it starts to interfere with my use, I simply won't buy the product in question.

This statement as you wrote it doesn't seem to make sense --- how could DRM interfere with your use before you buy the product in question?

So, if I assume that means that you plan ahead, for example, based on historical experience with DRM, I guess that means you don't buy anything with DRM. But then your whole post doesn't make sense...

> These people are the reason DRM exists in the first place.

No their not. The content industry's total inability to undergo the withdrawal symptoms from the powerful drug it became addicted to --- (practically) total control over the advertising, supply, and distribution of its product sector --- is the reason for DRM.

Ok, cool, then we ought to ban driving all together considering it's one of the most dangerous things people routinely do. Or perhaps that's unreasonable and we should only ban "unnecessary" driving?

What's fantastically short sighted is the notion that, in a society that puts an extremely high value on cooperation and interdependence, putting your life at risk in any circumstance only affects yourself.

That's a lovely strawman you've constructed there. Of course it affects other people -- everything we do affects other people. It doesn't affect anyone else's rights. The difference is important: if we can make laws just because other people are "affected", then there is nothing that's off-limits... and that's such a bullshit position that I can't imagine you actually think that. I'm assuming you just didn't think about what you said.

Everyone wearing their seatbelt is a good idea.

Indeed it is. The question is whether good ideas ought to have the force of law. Because when you make it a law, you're effectively saying "I am OK with using violence to enforce this behavior." The key question for me is this: if I choose not to wear a seatbelt (thus increasing my risk of death or injury should I get in a crash), whose rights am I infringing?

nothing good.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2002943714_asianair21m.html

What if the architech bails out, gets rid of the in house team, and turns to a whole bunch of outside contractors.
Take a look at what Boeing did with the 787.

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021045270_boeingoutsourcingxml.html

Who's to say AT&T isn't doing this already in USA?

Verizon is already doing this, and has been for a while, according to
PC World's article about this

Verizon has posted changes to its privacy policy stating that it will now share user location data, Web browsing history and demographic information with marketers.

While Verizon insists that it will not provide third parties with any information identifying users on a personal basis, it will give them a wide array of its users' information, including websites they frequent on their Verizon devices, places where their devices have been, and demographic categories such as gender and age range. Verizon will also share user interests with marketers, such as whether they're a sports fan, own a pet or what sort of restaurants they frequent.

The Department of Justice in the USA already wants carriers to keep user location data for further review by DOJ as needed, warranted or not.

Apple already got slogged for tracking user location data in articles and on South Park's "Human Centipad" episode, if you remember that. And that was followed by Android having to deal with user location tracking issues in May of 2011.

All of this just by searching for [ +"user location data" ] on your favorite search engine! So why aren't people up in arms about this?? Oh yeah, because not only do they accept this voluntarily, they pay the damn phone companies a monthly allotment to take their personal data and sell it! Damn sheep!

Julie Larson-Green would be kind of cute if she didn't look like some weird Cabbage Patch Kid with Botox injections.

OT prediction: If it turns out that the act was committed by an American nutjob, as with the Oklahoma City bombing the media and political system will quickly forget about it. If it turns out that it was done by a "furriner", we'll hear lots about those awful "terrists" for some time, everyone will make vicious pronouncements, and they won't forget about it. In either case, little if anything will be done that's relevant to preventing future such acts.

This bombing is similar to the foiled MLK day bombing in Seattle that turned out to be some crazy neo-Nazi. And by "foiled" I mean someone basically stumbled on the bomb before it went off in the middle of a very crowded parade.

As a former resident of Boston, that city will always have a special place in my heart. Attacking the marathon is just the lowest of lows. I hope they catch whomever did this and lock them up for good in the rapiest prison they can find and don't turn it into some empty-headed left versus right shouting match on cable news.