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The San Francisco Fire Chief just banned fire helmet mounted cameras after helmet-cam footage from the Asiana crash became public. Some say it was done to protect the privacy of victims, others to protect the city from liability as in this case where one of the victims was still alive when run over by a responding fire truck.

Just goes to show, if something can be abused it will be abused by some stupid tosser.

The San Francisco Fire Chief just banned fire helmet mounted cameras after helmet-cam footage from the Asiana crash became public. Some say it was done to protect the privacy of victims, others to protect the city from liability as in this case where one of the victims was still alive when run over by a responding fire truck.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Big-setback-for-California-high-speed-rail-project-4739710.php

"the agency overseeing the bullet train failed to comply with the financial and environmental promises made to voters when they approved initial funding for the project five years ago."

If you're trying to suggest it doesn't work (without actually knowing what it does) you have the problem of explaining what it is than that reversed the cancer in the 11 people in those three clinical trials.

And you also need to explain this:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2012%2F06%2F02%2FMNI11ORI84.DTL

"I don't have time to debunk your misunderstanding about science"
Translation: "I haven't read anything you're talking about but I know it's wrong" - the logical fallacy of the argument from ignorance. It's a shame you didn't even notice the refernces and pointers given, let alone actually read them.

There's a chance P53 doesn't work the way you think it does.

Here's an easier to digest synopsis for those short of time:

The Cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP1B1 [1] only occurs in cancer cells [2]. When certain phytoallexins such as reservetol and salvestrol are ingested these phytoallexins are converted by the P450 enzyme into picetannol [3], which is fatal to cancer cells but not human cells [4].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP1B1
[2] http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/57/14/3026.short
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piceatannol
[4] http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v86/n5/abs/6600197a.html

This is old and there are newer references now but this should at least explain how the idea works and gives you some explicit papes to go chase down.

At this point chemo and radiation are total dead ends and should be stopped immediately.

Also curious is Potter had convinced the British government to give this stuff to everyone, big pharma talked them out of it.

I wonder if it's real or some really horrid chemical they can't quite get safe enough to use without dissolving your veins. That's the problem with that "discovery" in Sask. that cured cancer in rats. That's because rats can't scream as their veins dissolve.

Put on your thinking caps, why has cance shot up since 1900? What changed?

In 2007 or so, a Cytochrome B enzyme was found - CYP1B1 that only occurs in cancer cells. Fresh off the end of a successful prostate cancer drug, the first one with a new paradigm - something other than "kill ALL of the cells and pray" (See: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2012%2F06%2F02%2FMNI11ORI84.DTL) that exploited CYP17, Potter then set out to make a more generalized one based on the nearly universal CYP1B1. He designed the molecule then set about to make it and while looking for precursors noticed the exact same molecule occurs in fruit, made in response to mold.

So they tried it, and it worked. Every time. It gets converted in cells with CYP1B1 to picotaneol which is fatal to cancer cells but not regular cells. If you google "Salvestrol case studies" you'll find three clinical trials where cancer was reversed in every case. It's not patentable...

So, the current hypothesis is, since we began spraying anti-fungals, there's no mold so the plant doesn't make this chemical in response to mold, so non-organic fruit contains only 10% of what unsprayed fruit has. And it's a very bitter chemical and we breed bitterness out...

Cancerous cells can be found in any animal at any time, the body takes care of them. The problem arises when it can't, and we find Gene P53 is deactivated in those people. This reactivates it; once the body has the correct raw materials it gets down to work.

It's always better to help the body do what it does naturally and has for millions of years compared to some synthetic noxious substance. If nothing else understand that with a chemical that's already in the body all the time, the body knows what to do with it. With man-made drugs there are always side effects in every case as the body has no idea what to do with the molecules it doesn't recognize and they latch on to places they shouldn't and hellooo side effects.

There are 30,000 deaths a year from these side effects.

This chemical is found in tangerines and prune plums, strawberries, asparagus and so on. Tangerines have the most. Which raises an interesting question. Do areas that grow a lot of tangerines have a lower cancer rate. That would be Morocco.

It's not on the list of per capita cancer rates WHO keeps, that's quoted in Wiki. That list ranges from South Africa as the lowest (about 250) to Denmark with the highest at 387 or something. Note also that poor countries have less, developed countries have more... poor people grow their own food and can't afford chemicals.

But, if you poke around on the Moroccan government website long enough, you find their per-capita cancer rate: 100. Less than half the lowest stat WHO has for any country. And besides having all the tangerines, they pretty much invented chain smoking there. But still: 100.

So, if these guys are using this mechanism and trying to make a patent end run, bad. If it's something else, some noxious chemical, it's equally worthless. If however they have a new agent that also uses the pro-drug paradigm Potter found, then that would be good.

But there's a reason they don't give any details on this compound and I'd really like to know what it is.

After having been to some rifle ranges, one question that never seems to be answered is: after several decades of hard shooting, who gets the unenviable (and expensive!) job of decontaminating what is essentially a toxic waste dump?

NRA doing what right-wingers do best? -- liability-dumping and socializing losses?

There's some controversy about that at a popular San Francisco shooting range:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/05/24/sf-faces-10-million-toxic-waste-problem-at-lake-merced-gun-club/

The city is trying to shut down the gun club (which would leave the city on the hook for the cleanup). The gun club (which has already switched away from lead shot) wants to stay around and pay for the cleanup themselves, though maybe not on the terms the city wants.

Other lakes in SF that did not have shooting ranges are also contaminated with lead (mainly from street runoff when lead gas was legal), so it's not clear how much contamination at the gun club's lake is due to the gun club itself and how much from other sources, but the city is apparently blaming the gun club for all of the contamination in their lake.

No, there are several competing taxi services and any company that wants to start a taxi company can start a service.

There are huge barriers to entry that have almost nothing to do with safety regulations.

In SF, the price of a taxi license or "medalion" is $150,000-$300,000 according to this story:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/200-S-F-taxi-permits-price-150-000-4055492.php

Around the country: http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47636506327/the-tyranny-of-the-taxi-medallions (interesting look at ride-sharing disruption of taxi business)
"In Boston, the price of a medallion is $625,000. In San Francisco, you need to drive a taxi at least 10 hours a week if you want to hold a medallion and lease it out. Veteran taxi drivers are able to sell their medallions for $300K...."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/us-business/fare-trade-the-rush-on-new-yorks-million-dollar-taxicab-licences/article12329086/
"In April, the price of a medallion sold to an individual buyer crossed $1-million for the first time (medallions sold to corporations broke through that barrier in 2011). In the past 12 months, prices for individual medallions have soared more than 40 per cent."

Ten or so years ago I got into an ugly argument with a Libertarian buddy

The last ten years have been the safest in the history of US commercial aviation. We're having entire years with no airline fatalities. US airlines have become so safe that foolish MIT professors are claiming major incidents among first world airlines are on the "brink of extinction".

The safety of western airlines has done nothing but improve since the 70's. Every year the average improves. This is despite the claims of statists everywhere that "deregulation" was compromising safety. This is despite an endless barrage of fear mongering anecdotes such as your rant about entry-level pilot salaries.

Every claim about how the market was doomed to produce a reckless airline industry has been proven false. The combination of market force and market neutral regulation has produced an amazingly safe and efficient system.

There is history now. There is data. Face it and rethink your worldview. It's wrong, and the less time you spend indulging it the better.

Particularly bad timing since just today the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that foreign airlines are now asked to use GPS for landings at SFO. What could possibly go wrong?

The reservation company specifically denies that this is happening or is possible.

TFA:
http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2013/07/25/are-automated-bots-are-making-hot-online-reservations-impossible/

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Porn-addiction-destroys-relationships-lives-3272230.php

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/coming-out-as-a-porn-addict/277106/

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/0001/11/30/livdearabby022713/1324109

http://pornographyaddiction.net/?p=13

And that's from a simple google search. Saying it does nothing is like saying PTSD is imaginary. All fine and dandy till the PTSD guy is pointing a loaded m-16 at you (Fort Hood).

What about the studies that say that online porn leads into more extreme online porn and addiction in a snowball effect? That's the true danger.

I think we can ignore the studies from either side of the argument and apply a little common sense here in that nothing good can come of it for us as a species.

And where was the political outrage towards Apple when they opened their own stores, for causing "unfair" competition with the other retailers?

(Obligatory computer analogy in this car thread.)

There were tons of complaints by tons of people; they were unable to buy the laws because the resellers were not franchisees. Here's a short list of pissed off people:

All U.S.: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Apple-dealers-biting-back-Mac-sellers-say-2636871.php
Australia: http://www.macworld.com/article/1027780/australia.html
France: http://www.padgadget.com/2011/12/30/apple-reseller-sues-apple-in-france/
Portugal: http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/07/portuguese-reseller-interlog-fails-sues-apple-for-hefty-sum
LA and Boston: http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/22/apple_repair_consultants_upset_over_changes_to_apple_retail_referral_policy

The current Apple pissing contest is over the changes to the repair referral channel. They're going to lose to Apple's wishes there, too, since what Apple sells is a holistic customer experience rather than selling only consumer devices.

Is not a stretch to say that FBI runs child porn sites, already did, and probably keep doing it.

Once can be an advocate for Wikileaks, and other work done by Assange, but not be a defender of his behavior regarding the alleged treatment of Swedish women and his flight from justice.

Ecuador, which nobody really confuses with countries that truly value personal liberty and civil rights, almost certainly gave Assange refuge since he is a fellow leftist that damaged the United States.

Members of the US Congress and TV commentators don't set government policy, nor can they approve assassination, or other adverse actions.

Assange isn't wanted for "mere questioning," it is a formality before changes can be filed and a trial started. You keep ignoring the difference in the Swedish legal system from others which you are more accustomed to. You complain that I see the world in black and white, but dismiss facts inconvenient for Assange's position.

It seems apparent that Assange has colluded with people with people engaged in espionage against the United States that resulted in useful intelligence information getting into the hands of the Taliban and al Qaida, not to mention foreign nations that are adversaries of the United States. This has had repercussions.

Many of the oddities around this are due to the fact that Assange has engaged in unusual behavior, and performed unusual deeds. He has done unusually notable things. Some of the notable things he has done are not creditable.

  Wikileaks is arguably a meaningful accomplishment, and special. Assanges behavior regarding his behavior in Sweden, much less so.

It should also be noted that Britain has its own extradition treaty with the US. If this was all just a ruse, it would be far more straight forward for the US to ask Sweden to drop the extradition request and request extradition to the US. That isn't happening. The allegations against Assange in Sweden would seem to be almost certainly genuine. The question is will he face trial and be convicted. It seems unlikely that he will be able to remain there forever indefinitely, and would seem to have little chance of another escape.

There are indeed special and unusual aspects of this case. But do you hold that they justify denying justice to two Swedish women that allege that they were sexually assaulted? Is Assange that special so as to justify that?

After all, Hans Reiser did go to jail, didn't he? Hans Reiser must pay kids $60 million

A lot of tough talk, but what can everyday Americans do to change their government?

Join a militia to do some group violence? Hear that--that's a drone coming, you've got about 10 seconds...

Go solo against the government? Enjoy your one-way ticket to a secret prison somewhere.

Civil disobedience? How does spending the rest of your life in prison sound?

March in protest? Worked in the 60s, not anymore, unless you like a mouthful of pepper spray and a tear gas canister shot into your skull.

Vote? LOL

Some burglars specifically target homes with firearms, I once met a man who did this professionally before being reformed in prison by islam.

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Cops-fear-they-re-targets-of-gun-thieves-4356659.php

Gun-rights advocates argue that burglars may steer clear of homes where they know residents have firearms, to avoid being shot or captured. But some researchers who have studied gun theft say the opposite may be true - that burglars may be drawn to firearms. They say officers and other gun owners shouldn't advertise where they live.

"Anyone that has a sign saying, 'This house is protected by Smith and Wesson,' is gambling," said Philip Cook, a public policy professor at Duke University who found higher burglary rates in communities where many people own guns. "They're saying that this house has some loot available."

"Guns are one of the items that are prized by burglars when they break into houses," said Graham Barlowe, the head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' office in Sacramento. "Firearms are portable. They're concealable. They're high value. As other things sort of come in and out of favor, guns are a constant."

Your answer doesn't really address Golddess' question.

The answer is "yes", and it is supported by supreme court. A Texas woman was arrested for not wearing her seat belt.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Justices-OK-jail-for-minor-infractions-Woman-2927870.php

Perhaps I should have been more clear. I cannot find any current material from PETA stating that PETA endorses the killing of pit bulls based on breed nor can I find evidence that PETA uses "breed-specific" euthanization policies in their own intake. Current material from PETA (such as this: http://www.peta2.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/PETAandPitbulls.pdf) appears to oppose mandatory euthanasia and the killing of pit bulls by shelters, and endorses mandatory spay-neuter to prevent it. If PETA does (or did at one time) endorse killing dogs based on breed, then that's another point on which I disagree with them. I support pit bull spay/neuter laws but not mandatory euthanasia. Pit bulls are not "fine." U.S. shelters kill upwards of 800,000 of them annually. With the advent of the pit bull "advocacy" movement, pit bull euthanasias have doubled and tripled even as overall euthanasias for every other breed have plummeted. Clearly, the dogs need additional legislative protection from dogfighters and backyard breeders. http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/anp/2011/11/19/editorial-the-shelter-killing-of-pit-bulls/ http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/anp/2012/10/19/editorial-pit-bulls-political-recklessness/ San Francisco's mandatory spay and neuter law for pit bulls works. The local SPCA opposed this law as a knee-jerk reaction simply because it was breed-specific. The law ended up cutting pit bull euthanasia by 33% after it was enacted. http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Pit-bull-factions-find-peace-in-S-F-neuter-law-3257850.php Pit bulls represent 5-7% of the canine population but account for two-thirds of all severe and fatal dog attacks in recent years, and half of all fatal attacks over the past 30 years. Let's take the first 5 months of 2013 as an example. Out of 14 fatal dog attacks, 13 were caused by pit bulls. Of at least 130 reported severe attacks that left the victim permanently disfigured or dismembered, at least 114 were caused by pit bulls. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bxm2rT0Rp7ZrSk1LbXRxS3E3ZGs/edit?usp=drive_web&pli=1 These statistics do not include dog attacks involving guard dogs, junkyard dogs, or fighting dogs. That is NOT to say that all or even most pit bulls are dangerous -- quite the opposite -- but there is clearly a problem with pit bulls and severe dog attacks, almost certainly due to the leaking of genetic idiopathic aggression from fighting dog lines into the pet population.

I can find no example of PETA endorsing the killing of dogs based on breed.

I don't think you looked very hard. You are amazingly apologetic for them, considering that they openly support the euthanasia and banning of breeding pit bulls. Come on, that was like the third link I found on Google.

Oh, and pit bulls are fine. The problem is with people who abuse them, not the breed. No amount of policy about killing specific breeds is going to stop people from abusing dogs.

Pardon me for pointing out that DSM-5 is the replacement. Currently they're using DSM-IV, which is a lot smaller.

The larger point, exposed by this "update", is that the categories are essentially arbitrary and apparently not based on anything falsifiable, ie not anything resembling science.

Yes, I know. That is why it need to be replaced, preferably with something systematic, as indicated above.

As it stands, brain imaging can identify psychopaths , and is showing useful things about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder . I expect there will be more to come in that regard. Then there is also the fascinating feedback that can occur between behavior and brain function and activity. Good and bad behavior can become self-reinforcing. Then there is the role of nutrition in various aspects of brain function and behavior. Biochemistry is continuing to provide new insights, and new approaches. We are continuing to learn important lessons about something so seemingly common as sleep and its disorders that effect people's memory, attention, and behavior. Even classic psychology and psychiatry have insights that will have to be considered. It all plays a part. On the other hand, in a lot of ways it seems like we are still groping in the dark there is so much to learn. One thing seems likely to me is we are likely to find more conditions that will end up requiring a multidisciplinary approach to treat.

Another interesting question will come when various aberrant behaviors are scientifically identified as such, but they end up being politically protected in either the scientific community, or the political establishment.

Choices, choices.

In 2010 he wrote an argument for data sharing between federal intelligence agencies in a yet another almost arrogantly titled post[1].

they need to share information among the different parts of themselves.

I can't help but feel that in recent years he has started to ride the popularity wave and has lost sight of the reality; he seems to only comment on hot button issues at just the right time and is thus becoming less relevant.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Fixing-intelligence-failures-3202795.php

All along the southern border of the US raptors are a common sight. The prototype being displayed by the sales droid in TFA indicates that this UAV is close in size to adult native species in that area. The only thing that might give it away is its flight pattern.

If it could enter or look into forests, it'd also work for detecting outdoor pot farms in California's state parks & forested regions. (I'm not joking -- up here in Mendocino & northern Sonoma counties, the heavily armed guards & traps left by Mexican drug cartels & regional gangs have made it dangerous to explore off-trail like people used to just a generation ago.)

There are a number of startups out there really focused on getting money transfers going for cell phones. Like this one.

Based on the number of companies doing it, and their high profiles, I would guess that doing money transfers on phones is something that is about to take off soon. The hurdles are mostly regulatory and network based (you need to connect with the network), and with so many people trying to take on the problem, I imagine one of them at least will be able to make it through.

One of the reasons I quoted Iain Banks about "the good ship Arbitrary" is that I half-expected this kind of response from someone who is having their paradigms about health challenged. In this case though, it is not hilarious, it is only sad.

See, for example:
http://www.raysahelian.com/quackwatch.html
" Is Stephen Barrett, M.D. a Quack?
According to the Quackwatch website, Stephen Barrett, M.D. says this about quackery: Dictionaries define quack as "a pretender to medical skill; a charlatan" and "one who talks pretentiously without sound knowledge of the subject discussed."
    Stephen Barrett, M.D. does not have a degree in nutrition science. He has been trained in psychiatry but has not practiced psychiatry for many, many years and has, to the best of my understanding, never practiced nutritional medicine. In my opinion, Stephen Barrett, M.D., when it comes to the field of medicinal use of nutritional supplements, can be easily defined as a Quack since he pretends to "have skills or knowledge in supplements and talks pretentiously" without actually having clinical expertise or sound knowledge of herbal and nutritional medicine.
          A person can't be an expert at a topic if they have not had hands-on experience. Would you feel comfortable having heart surgery by a doctor who has read all the medical books on how to surgically replace a heart valve but has never performed an actual surgical procedure in an operating room? Would you feel comfortable relying on nutritional advice from a retired psychiatrist, Stephen Barrett, M.D. of Quackwatch, even though he has not had hands-on experience using supplements with patients and does not have a degree in nutrition science?
      On a positive note, he often does a good job when it comes to researching credentials of individuals in the nutritional industry, or researching the legitimacy or marketing practices of certain supplement companies. He has uncovered or brought to light several cases of companies that have shady or fraudulent practices. I suggest he stay on this course (which is his forte) rather than giving his uneducated opinion on nutritional medicine or supplement research. I also hope he becomes more balanced in his reviews and makes the effort to also mention positive outcomes regarding supplement research, and not just negative outcomes. "

On dairy specifically, see:
http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Fatty-dairy-linked-to-early-cancer-death-4355398.php
"People who are diagnosed with breast cancer and then go on to consume a steady diet of high-fat dairy foods increase their chances of dying years earlier than those who consumed low- to nonfat milk products, according to a new study by Kaiser Permanente researchers. The study, published Thursday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, is considered the first to look at the differences in high-fat and low-fat dairy intake following a breast cancer diagnosis on long-term survival."

Am I making an assumption about Iain Banks' diet? Yes. But most people in the industrialized world eat a "standard American diet" or a variant of that (standard Scottish diet?). Most are vitamin D deficient. (Jaundice can be related to sunlight deficiency.) Most are iodine deficient. So, those are pretty safe assumptions. All can contribute to cancer. If they are not correct here, well at least others may still learn something.

I pointed to a scientific study related to fasting improving the effectiveness of chemotherapy. I pointed to Dr. Joel Fuhrman's work on preventing cancer which is heavily based in science (just read his reference list). Just scroll down on this page:
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/article24.aspx

Stockton is the record holder for the biggest city to go bankrupt, and with USD $900 million in pension obligations alone, it's a pretty nasty deal.

Trying to lean on emphasis that the city isn't that large is disingenuous; it is in fact the thirteenth largest city in California by population (out of 100), and California is a big state.

Please. This is not a partisan story:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/gadget-border-searches/
http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Court-limits-border-searches-of-laptops-4340897.php
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/mar/10/tp-court-limits-border-searches-of-electronic/
http://nhregister.com/articles/2013/03/08/life/announcements/doc513ac37fad245865930407.txt
http://www.wntp.com/article.aspx?id=b38e3b70-1d3d-43ff-aee0-f207dea377d7&catid=0

The TSA says they are all about the war on terror.
But their actions prove they are only interested in conducting a War on Diginity.

Groping children
soaking a man in his own urine
Arresting people for wearing watches with exposed gears
Arbitrary strip-searches
Detaining people armed with flash cards
Forcing mothers to drink their own breast milk
Forcing a woman to remove her nipple ring with pliers
Requiring women to remove their bras
Requiring a woman to remove the brace on her sprained ankle and then making her walk on it to prove it was sprained

The list of abuses is into the thousands. Every once in a while they get a taste of their stupidity. But it isn't anywhere near enough.

You mean Banks, Government sponsored drug cartel's, and governments themselves. Events like this Here You just are'nt buzzed in.

Just because it looks like war "usually" lacks substantial collateral damage doesn't mean that's actually the case; an attacking military like ours will typically keep the full toll to itself (or not keep track), give numbers knowing they won't register meaningfully in most people's minds, and/or imply (if not state outright) that the people that were hit were enemies.

We're rarely told about things like tactically unimportant shantytowns well removed from the real target being bombed seemingly without reason, long enough that adults & kids hiding (ineffectively) in their shacks snap, bolting into the open like the 13-year-old girl that lost one leg and her little sister's life. To be fair, I do recall hearing about a boy from Iraq brought here to the US for emergency care after he picked up a "ball" (cluster bomb), losing an eye, both hands, nearly disemboweling himself, lodging shrapnel in his brain, and killing his big brother...but I might well have only heard about it because the kid was brought to my area for care.

I mean, think about it -- cluster bombs aren't used in carefully targeted attacks to get rid of "bad guys", because government leaders & the military of a country have bunkers to hide in and enough warning of incoming attacks to reach them. It's the average, everyday civilians like us that are caught outside when an invading force starts dropping shit like cluster bombs, or that later find the undetonated remainders the hard way afterwards -- and the attacker isn't exactly going to consult locals to be sure it's not when all of the kids & many parents are walking to/from school...

You claim that Texas is 4th in the nation for child poverty, and I'm asking which specific statistic you're using to say that. Many statistics use the national poverty line to rank states, which is inaccurate for many reasons. I can't use the internet to answer my question if I don't know what specific study you're talking about.

However, this is an interesting article that came up, and illustrates my point: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Texas-vs-California-myth-busting-time-4257744.php

With all due respect, I think there are a number of cases that discount your statement. Most recently this one: http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Wrongfully-convicted-Calif-man-freed-from-prison-4301879.php

It's not just in the UK. I found similar conditions at the University of California, Berkeley. Unless you wish to go across the Bay to SF or to the south to SJ, the UC actually has more decent pay than the surrounding area.

I was a bit surprised to find that pay for IT jobs around the UC was much lower than most IT positions at the UC. The large numbers of students (hence cheap labor) must depress the pay in the immediate vicinity. The further away from UCB you go, the higher the pay.

You also have too many LIFERs at the University. Unfortunately, their recent budget crisis layoffs didn't really affect many of these LIFERs, since many of them have seniority and only await the day they will collect everyone's tax money. It also seems that nobody gets fired unless there's something that could be illegal. Even then, it seems that people don't get fired unless they actually get arrested and sentenced for a felony. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/UC-Berkeley-adviser-fired-after-affair-3537356.php

That adviser was forced to resign after public Faculty reproach. For some reason she was not fired, so she will continue to get retirement benefits. She will also get partial medical benefits when she reaches retirement age.

please, fox just lies, saying other news networks are somehow as bad is ridiculous.

Saying "I hate Fox News, they are biased" doesn't scream out "I just want honest, balanced coverage". It screams out "I am a biased left-winger". Take one obvious example, NBC/MSNBC have had a rash of "selectively editing" videos recently. There was the 911 call in the Trayvon Martin case, the bogus sandy hook "heckling", and taking a Romney speech completely out of context.

The news gathering in the US is atrocious. Anyone who is not completely biased can see Fox is right-wing, MSNBC is left-wing, and the rest are center-left (although CNN seems to push more to the MSNBC side these days). They are all a bad combination of sensationalist ratings driven garbage combined with a huge agenda that rarely has the viewers' best interests in mind. If you don't view the news with a filter that considers the source, you are being deceived."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trayvon-martin-nbc-news-editing-911-call-306359
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/29/msnbc-caught-selectively-editing-another-clip-this-time-of-sandy-hook-victims-father/
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/06/19/msnbc-busted-for-editing-romney-comments-out-of-context-backtracks-sorta-video/

Are you sure? I thought so too, but can't find a citation.

He did sell all but one of the 1.5 million shares that he got when Apple bought NeXT, however.

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Steve-Jobs-Confirms-Apple-Stock-Sale-2812791.php

Canadians Armed Forces give their soldiers more training. American Armed Forces give their soldiers amphetamines. No. Really: "Dexedrine became the drug of choice for American bomber pilots, being used on a voluntary basis by roughly half of the U.S. Air Force pilots during the Persian Gulf War, a practice which came under some media scrutiny in 2003 after a mistaken attack killing Canadian troops." "'Go' pills for F-16 pilots get close look: Amphetamines prescribed in mission that killed Canadians". Los Angeles Times. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Go-pills-for-F-16-pilots-get-close-look-2687644.php

It hasn't been repeated as far as I know so the results haven't been verfied.

I'm pretty sure there have been additional studies since then.

Many related to health issues other than cancer. A majority of the double blind, human studies seem to show positive effects.

Our leaders seek to return us to feudalism, and have been very successful at that. Remember that, next time you see a politician crying about the middle class.

I'll remember it when I hear the newly minted geek whining about the salary he is being offered at entry level.

In a country where the median household income is $50,000. Median household income falls again [Sept 2012]

You are totally full of crap.

Just about every modern large commercial aircraft uses outward opening doors.

Airbus A320 does. Watch it on youtube. Don't believe me? Just ask Cpt Sullenberger. (If the rear door had opened inward, probably everyone aft of first class would have drowned because they would not have been able to close it against the water pressure).

New Airbus 380 does.

There hasn't been a single report of a cabin door failure in flight on any modern passenger jet.

It is the CEO of the big company who establish priorities. If the CEO wants a security hole fixed, it will be fixed. When the CEO is personally involved in the courtroom protecting "IP':
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Ellison-testifies-in-Android-suit-against-Google-3489185.php
the fixing security of holes will suffer.

insure yourself so you won't have to sell your property for peanuts when it's already on fire - problem solved.

it's in the interest of insurance companies to lower the impact of fires and some even fund their own firefighters.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Private-firefighters-role-growing-in-state-3275585.php

Perspective from the mother of a mentally ill child.

As you say, nobody listens, must be guns or games or...

"Too bad Bruce doesn't support your choice to not give up yours. He would benevolently take away everybody's right to self defense by the bearing of arms and not "miss it." Lovely..."

He's not talking about taking anyone's right to self defence, just to own a gun, something which is not necessary for self defence.

When I was in Canada last, speaking to a cop friend there she asked how on earth our police survive by not carrying guns. She asked, what happens when someone comes at them with a knife?

I answer that it's quite simple, they spray CS spray in the guy's face, grab the knife with their slash proof gloves, and them smack the fucker round the back of the head with their night stick.

Stop being a bunch of pussies pretending you need firearms to protect yourself.

"You can try to control them by legislation, but you inevitably end up just making it more difficult for honest citizens to have them."

Yes, and that's exactly the point. The guy who carried out this massacre, and just about every other massacre in the US was an honest citizen until the event.

"Our experience has shown that such "experiments" do little, if anything, to prevent criminals and lunatics from having guns, but we know that they are emboldened by the prospect that others are less likely to have guns. Case in point: this tragedy happened in a so-called "gun-free zone."

This is what one would normally call a lie. In the UK gun crime has drastically decreased as a result of our gun control laws, knife crime has increased in it's place, but nowhere near enough to make up for the drop in gun crime, giving us a large net drop in crimes involving weapons. I'm not sure what your case in point is supposed to mean? The only case in point is that a guy with a legitimately owned weapon yet again murdered a bunch of innocent people. A weapon that he quite likely would not have been able to acquire with sensible gun laws.

Your next paragraph is again just full of completely made up lies and completely counter to the truth, so I wont even waste my time with that one, and for what it's worth I was in the TA (the UK's reserve force) so yes, I know how to handle a gun, but this doesn't change the fact that accidents do happen, and stupidity trumps everything in your argument:

http://jonathanturley.org/2008/03/25/man-shoots-and-kills-wife-while-using-gun-to-drill-holes/

"This discussion won't change anything about today's sad tragedy, but how might this situation have turned out differently if the teachers had been allowed to opt to train with a firearm (if they so chose) and allowed to keep a secure firearm on their person."

Hahahaha, hahahahaha. Yeah, great, then multiply this across every school in the US, and when little Timmy finds teachers gun and accidently blows little Sarah away you can pretend it's because little Timmy wasn't trained, and all kids should be trained in fire arms from birth. You can also pretend that a teacher will trivially be able to draw faster than their attacker, and have time for better training (you know, rather than simply learning to teach better- what they're there for), and when it comes to, actually pull the trigger. Because, you know, even large proportions of trained soldiers struggle to find the courage to shoot at the enemy to make the kill:

http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/THE-SCIENCE-OF-CREATING-KILLERS-Human-2514123.php

As pointed out in the article, you can train them out of this, you can train them to be killers. Because that's exactly what you want, you want primary school teachers trained to be killers and armed.

Well done, you just offered a way of drastically increasing the number of psycopaths in America. Feel free to completely rethink your position, try again, and offer a suggestion a bit more useful next time.

"There has been standalone javascript apps (node.js is just one of them).; given history of Oracle they are going to take this idea present it as their own and then sue everyone and their grandmother.

Oracle-Google case shows patent system flaws

FWIW, it's common for map makers and atlas makers to include some false streets and features. This is to enable them to prove that someone else copied from them. Perhaps this is one of those receiving publicity?

Like "Geek Street" in San Francisco, a spurious feature like this is known as "bunny":

http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1989_608868/phony-streets-protect-copyrights-on-maps.html

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mapmakers-sleight-of-hand-Cartographers-put-2889584.php

Again, that's something they are already doing...

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Prosecutors-Stolen-metal-found-at-7-businesses-3650523.php

Here's the watch in question

When he's not shooting his friends in the face, our former vice president.

And all countries tell little white lies to push people in the direction they want them to go.

That's why it's sooo important to not have any information contrary to the government doctrines available to the people. Can't have the people be unhappy about the direction they are herded...

Like kissing causes pregnancy.

Yes, in the same way that eating meat causes global warming.

Or condoms don't protect against STDs.

Although condoms are pretty good against AIDS and gonorrhea, they are apparently not very good at stopping HPV and herpes (which can be fairly easily contracted by skin-to-skin or skin-to-genital contact). Of course something is better than nothing, but apparently this is not a well known fut but of course we don't want to scare the people so better to tell the white lie to people that condoms protect you against STDs, so we can all feel empowered.

Or meat is needed to be healthy.

Although a proper sources of B12 and protein are. If you don't have good access to good sources of them (say if you are poor in a 3rd world country), it is likely that the only affordable access to these essential nutrients needed to be healthy is meat.

Or eating the occasional junk, or smoking, or anyother of silly things, is going to cause no harm.

I think you meant that it causes irreparable harm. Just like eating a some meat causes irreparable harm to you and the environment.

In the rest of the "civilized world" you don't often have crimes like this:

(11-16) 10:57 PST VALLEJO -- A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and attempting to murder a 65-year-old woman in Vallejo, police said Friday.

The suspect was booked at Solano County Juvenile Hall on allegations of attempted murder, assault, carjacking, armed robbery and kidnapping for ransom.

The name of the boy, a resident of Vallejo, was not released because of his age.

Officers learned about the case at 6 p.m. Thursday, when they received a call of a woman being found near Hiddenbrooke Parkway and Interstate 80, said police Lt. Jim O'Connell.

She had been beaten and sexually assaulted, O'Connell said.

She told detectives who interviewed her at a hospital that she had been kidnapped at gunpoint from at the Gateway Plaza shopping center on Plaza Drive in Vallejo. The youth forced her to drive in her minivan to a spot several miles away, where she was assaulted and left unconscious in a ditch, O'Connell said.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Boy-14-arrested-in-assault-of-woman-65-4043616.php#ixzz2CPnTSney

So, this just happened today. Now, your two statements are in direct conflict with each other.
"No, this is the civilized world, where they don't usually send children to prison."

vs

"Or anyone to prison for what's clearly not crimes where the society needs to be protected from the individual."

It's very clear society needs to be protected from this individual. If we can reform him, great. But the NUMBER ONE priority should be to protect society from him, and that means LOCKING HIM UP. For a LONG time.

But this is an adult crime:

"(11-16) 10:57 PST VALLEJO -- A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and attempting to murder a 65-year-old woman in Vallejo, police said Friday.

The suspect was booked at Solano County Juvenile Hall on allegations of attempted murder, assault, carjacking, armed robbery and kidnapping for ransom.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Boy-14-arrested-in-assault-of-woman-65-4043616.php#ixzz2CPmK03Sr"

This was today, near San Francisco.

This is an adult crime. Talk to the 65 year old woman he raped about "children are to be given special rights and protections according to the UN charter of children's rights".

Ask her what she thinks about that.