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Florida school officials and law enforcement had more than enough data to stop Nicholas Cruz.

Technology and good intentions are no match for incompetent and corrupt government officials.

Show me the evidence of fraud. If it's so widespread it should be easy to find.

Done.. Not only election fraud, but then after a court order to turn over the votes they were purposefully destroyed. Then, months into prosecution for felony criminal acts, the judge suddenly recused himself (WTF!?! As if suddenly he remembered a conflict!??) and now is effectively in limbo and killed despite beyond obvious criminal activity and with the biggest names in politics named within.

It seems logical in a place prone to get hit at least once if not more a summer by a hurricane that there should be an emphasis on burying the lines, particularly the high voltage transmission backbone lines.

Puerto Rico get hit by a hurricaine about every three years on average.

As for burying lines, it's a fine idea but an expensive one. Burying lines costs about 5X as much per mile just to lay the lines. And maintenance becomes an issue when you have to dig to solve a problem. Remember that Puerto Rico has a lot of financial problems so spending extra to bury the lines is going to be difficult for purely financial reasons if nothing else.

... to help prevent potentially having to paying unemployment. Did you know that, at least in Florida, seven out of eight requests for unemployment are denied outright? This is because companies basically are able to set policies that mean unemployment is effectively inaccessible to most workers:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/bu...

Posting anonymously because of the massive amounts of mockery piled onto anyone that posts positively about unemployment, even though most folks end up using it to get through a tough spot in their lives. For some reason, we have a continuous cultural movement to shame it.

Except southern Florida is expected to be underwater by end of the century.

Carrying a small amount of cash is fine, but large amounts are a needless risk. In the past police have been caught stopping people and seizing cash (or other property) without accusing them of anything; the process made it very difficult and expensive to get the cash back. I read something which indicated any amount under $10K wasn't worth fighting for as it would be eaten by attorney's fees. At one point they were even using mobile card readers to deplete balances from gift cards.

This was such a problem in Florida that there was a law enacted last year which dealt with the issue. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/op...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States

Although I'm pleased to see this announcement, living here in Lakeland, FL where there's a fairly large Amazon distribution center I'm really disappointed that there's no move this year to put these here, when they're going to be putting them in Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey. In virtually every solar radiation average exposure map I've seen, Florida generally receives more solar radiation than all three of those states - and sometimes more than areas of California as well. This area is ripe for this, at least from a physical standpoint. I have to assume there's some sort of governmental roadblock in the way at the moment that isn't to their tastes, because it certainly can't be because they won't generate enough power down here.

Yes, it is harder to get solar in Florida. If you voted in November, don't you remember the solar amendment?

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/...

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A dog IS a reasonable precaution. Far better than an alarm - even one connected to the internet with cameras. You should have no problem finding videos of people stealing all sorts of stuff from homes with internet security systems. The video is usually of crappy quality, and the alarm doesn't connect to the police station, but to a monitoring station, so you have 3 to 5 minutes after you break in to steal everything you want, even if the police station is on the next block.

A dog, they'll just move on to the next house

No neighborhood is absolutely safe, no alarm system absolutely foolproof. The more precautions taken by the wary homeowner, the more irresistible the challenge.

Only one thing will deter most burglars: a dog.

Such is the picture that emerges from a Sun-Sentinel survey of state prison inmates serving time for Palm Beach County and Broward County burglaries.

An ounce of prevention ...

From a gamergate information archive floating around the net:

Code.org was behind the Hour of Code program.

2013 form 990: http://990s.foundationcenter.o...

Board members:

* Hadi Partovi - President / CEO https://archive.is/WP9ge
* Bradford Smith - probably Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel https://archive.is/cY9MF
* Margaret Johnson - Director of Education and University Relations for Google. https://archive.is/8niRU G+: https://archive.is/MBTqY
* Robert Schnabel - possibly the Dean of Informatics at Indiana University and Chair of the Education Policy Committee at the Association for Computing Machinery http://www.computinginthecore....
* Robert Runcie - Superintendent of Public Schools at Broward County, Florida; put a programming course in every high school in the county http://articles.sun-sentinel.c...
* Cameron Wilson - Secretary / COO - former Director of Public Policy for the ACM
* Michelle Page - Treasurer - https://archive.is/twUCh
* Pat Yongradit - Director of education - high school CS teacher http://patyongpradit.com/ whose students outcompete university students http://blog.acthompson.net/201...
* James Gwertzman - Chief evangelist. Formerly of PopCap and Microsoft. https://archive.is/xm37B

fwd.us and code.org possibly founded by Microsoft to fabricate news of a shortage of tech workers to justify k-12 tech spending and increased h1b immigration
Brookings meeting September 27 2012 talked about manufacturing a crisis. Brad Smith is General Counsel Microsoft
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... https://archive.is/yuN6A

stonemirror, SJW keyboard warrior, is funded through Hour of Code
http://theralphretort.com/ston... https://archive.is/Ma1fs
http://liberating-software.org... https://archive.is/WtBi7

That case always gets brought out. :D Well, not always... There's a bit more to the story but nothing too huge.

They were also violating the local sign regulations.
http://articles.orlandosentine...

Disney really, really are dicks:
http://articles.sun-sentinel.c...

I can't find the last one but because the pictures were too large anyhow, and the day care didn't get the correct permissions - even after given a chance, the Hanna-Barbara pictures got painted over in 1992, I think? I think it was 1992. I can't find 'em.

In a strange twist of events, I think it was about 2010 when they re-painted the Hanna-Barbara images. They had permission to do so from the town and I think they might have also made them smaller than the originals. They had a second ceremony with the Hanna-Barbara people when they put the new pictures up. I want to say that Hanna-Barbara charged them $1 for the license.

Here's the fun part... Because Hanna-Barbara did that for *this* day-care, the original one, they ended up having some legal issues that came out of it, as others sought to license them at the same cost that the Floridian day cares paid. I don't recall the fallout from that but it's amusing how many times this has popped back up in the news, in conversation, etc...

An oddity... The date for that article was 04/08/1989. Today is 04/10 and while it's not significant, it is amusing to note. Of course, I'm easily amused. But, it's really kind of funny how often this one comes up in conversation. It has been nearly 30 years and we still talk about it. There was some interesting fallout from that and the reverberations of Disney's antics still ring true today. Good.

It's not an issue of morality; it's an issue of legality. Prostitution is illegal in most states.

No that simple. Various laws against certain sexual practices were abolished on the argument, that enforcing them requires police to violate people's privacy. For example, in the Bowers vs. Hardwick — last heard in 2003 — a Supreme Justice accused his fellow justices (back in 1986) of (emphasis mine):

almost obsessive focus on homosexual activity and an “overall refusal to consider the broad principles that have informed our treatment of privacy in specific cases.

See? The States could choose to outlaw certain kinds of sex — the only obstacle for them to overcome is the citizens' privacy, that's protected from police. With drones and private vigilantes operating them, that hurdle is gone and those laws could come back...

(Yes, I know, that this particular "crime" took place on public street, but everything would've been the same, had the accused man brought the accused woman into his private bedroom.)

That doesn't mean you get to disobey it.

So, no oral sex with your spouse, until your state abolishes "anti-sodomy" law?

From a Florida newspaper:

Brevard County's sheriff says licensed citizens who carry firearms should be prepared to use them in an active-shooter scenario until law enforcement arrives.

He's not the only
one.

Are the people all these LEOs speaking to NRA stooges? Brainwashed?

You think they just walked down to the CAD store at the mall in the 1960s and bought a commercial package? "CAD" in the 1960s often meant writing your own software to run the math you came up with. That is, they were using a computer to assist in design. They already knew in the 1950s that things were going to get complicated real quick.

And yes, I *DO* know what I'm talking about, history of technology is my specialty. There is nothing incredible or odd about using a computer in the 1960s to prepare CNC tapes to run plotters for preparation of films for PCBs or ICs. What would have been odd is if a small company like Intel was doing it back then.

But saying there was "no" CAD software back then is wrong.

But no, I can't "name" the specific CAD software from the 1960s because the authors are dead, the companies no longer exist, and in any case, they mostly never had a name in the first place.

They were already using computers in the 1960s to design not only the IC wiring, but running electrical constraint checks.

http://i67.tinypic.com/11c8n82...

(And I'm the wrong one when someone else asserted "In the 60's, ICs had a few tens of transistors"?)

Like I said, dead trees. I aint' scanning in the whole thing for someone who never bothered to learn history on his own. I did, at my own expense.

And you want me to name a CAD software that started in the 1960s? SciCards.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.c...

http://pcdandf.com/pcdesign/in...

Pay attention to the 1960s section.

What do you conclude now? Specifically: why would someone invent a file format specification in the 60s? CAD had to start somewhere, I'm showing you the first self-replicating proteins here.

Allstate's patent also said the invention has the potential to evaluate drivers' physiological data, including heart rate, blood pressure and electrocardiogram signals, which could be recorded from steering wheel sensors. ... The recorded data may also provide an objective behavioral data collection system for third parties, e.g., health insurance companies, lending institutions, credit-rating companies, product and service marketing companies, potential employers, to evaluate an individual's behavioral characteristics in a real-life and commonly experienced situation, i.e., driving a motor vehicle, Insurer monitoring your heart rate?

That's a lot of big words, but all I can hear is HIPAA violation!

Protected Health Information.
  The Privacy Rule protects all "individually identifiable health information" held or transmitted by a covered entity or its business associate, in any form or media, whether electronic, paper, or oral. The Privacy Rule calls this information "protected health information (PHI)."12

“Individually identifiable health information” is information, including demographic data, that relates to:

        the individual’s past, present or future physical or mental health or condition,
        the provision of health care to the individual, or
        the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual,

and that identifies the individual or for which there is a reasonable basis to believe it can be used to identify the individual.13 Individually identifiable health information includes many common identifiers (e.g., name, address, birth date, Social Security Number).
Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule

Which religions prohibit vaccinations?

If you claim that you do not have to be part of a recognised religion for your belief to take precedence. Then what you are saying is that anyone can claim the religious exception for anything. Do you not see why this can be a bad idea?

My son is 4 1/2 years old and I want him circumcised. I want an unnecessary potentially dangerous and most definitely traumatic operation performed on my child.
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America is very odd

Citation

The Florida Keys are experiencing the effects of sea level rise.

As we know, helping the unemployed is only going to keep them in the cycle of being unemployed, if we have http://touch.sun-sentinel.com/... to go off of.

"I'm not satisfied with having a cycle of homeless in city of Fort Lauderdale," said Seiler. "Providing them with a meal and keeping them in that cycle on the street is not productive."

But I don't agree with the above. Whether it's homelessness, being unemployed, whatever, I think we should have a negative income tax or guaranteed income in this country.

Trenton council rejects expansion of 'ShotSpotter' gunshot detection system
“That body was shot there in the head and it stayed there for five hours with ShotSpotter being only a few blocks away. This product does not work, at least not for Trenton.”
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index...

Shotspotter gun sensor technology halted in Birmingham after failed trial
http://www.birminghammail.co.u...

Gunshot detection system in Delaware comes up blank
600 reports of shots fired, 175 actual shootings, shots detected only five or six times, a camera only turned toward the shooting once and it was unable to see anything due to foliage in the way.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Broward sheriff dropping gunshot detection system
"the system was picking up noises such as firecrackers or a backfiring car and registering those sounds as gunfire. The sensors were also triggered by helicopters and the roar of downshifting trucks from nearby Interstate 95...the problems at BSO with the gunshot detection system mirror findings of a 2008 report...called the system useful but took issue with an apparent high rate of false calls."
http://articles.sun-sentinel.c...

Note: I live in Florida
I am not aware that there is a law (federal, state or city) that states, Power companies have to provide Net-metering to an installation.
Electric companies need to make money, they need to service the power lines...

Florida (southern Florida FPL) does welcome net-metering, they credit on a 12 month basis, any overage is a gift to the electric company.
With the above stated, Power companies need to modify the tariff showing that if you want to generate power in excess, you have to pay for line service.

The leasing deals that the writer was talking about is a nifty trick to take advantage of the system, and it's a good trick. But at the end of the day, it's a subsidy that the power companies pay out.

here is a good write up about this issue http://articles.sun-sentinel.c...

Microsoft has openly discussed its use of image-processing software to detect suspected paedophiles in the past...

Really now. And a false positive fucks over a person for life. Justice? Please! Not when it comes to child porn, drugs, and terrorism. Getting accused of those things is enough to ruin you.

There have been HUMANS who have fucked up interpreting what child pornography is.

It's a Goddamn modern day witch hunt!

My parents of pictures of me that would probably have sent to jail if they took them today - you know, naked baby in bathtub, running around naked, etc .....

Well, this just tells me that the "Cloud" is untrustworthy, regardless of who the vendor is - obviously they are snooping into the contents.

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

You'd be mistaken

Starting price is $10,000...

What is $10,000 in today's currency when an ash tray already cost $900, in 1985 money ?

Source:

http://articles.sun-sentinel.c...

as i've mentioned before, i owned a software company in the 80's that developed real-time interactive modules for Galacticomm's MajorBBS...pre-www and http stuff. it was actually really cool and cutting-edge stuff.

Tim Stryker, the creator of the MajorBBS (who sadly committed suicide in the 90's), preached that he built the MajorBBS to promote the idea of "Superdemocracy", the idea that citizens all vote on the issues that our relatively-corrupt politicians currently do.

Here is a fascinating newspaper article about his idea...from 20 years ago!

in a nutshell...

SUPERDEMOCRACY - A PLAN WITH `SYMMETRY`

In contrast, what Stryker proposes ``is a continuous network hierarchy of online referenda, open to all.``

By plugging into the system, any time -- 24 hours a day, 365 days a year -- citizens (anyone, in fact, 16 or older) could propose law, add their comments to the public debate and vote on the proposals offered by others.

Stryker likes to stress the ``symmetry`` built into his plan. There is, he contends, no built-in elitism, no snap decisions required, no lack of checks and controls to protect against what he calls ``wild gyrations about the legal landscape.``

While Stryker`s system would abolish Congress, it would retain all the implementing portions of the government: the president, cabinet, FBI and so on. (Originally, he thought even juries could be eliminated, but he`s not so certain of that now.)

Citizens` proposals would be collected into a subquorum pool, accessible to all, where they would be discussed, debated and voted on. When a critical level of interest was shown (reflected, in most cases, by participation of 50 percent of the eligible voters, 75 percent if a constitutional change were involved), the measure would be elevated to an active pool where debate and voting would continue for precisely 30 more days.

trust me...i read his books...Tim was a genius and thought everything through and even engineered and developed a brilliant system to make it really happen. his idea on voting proxies and subquorums seems to be light-years ahead of the stuff this professor is doing. ...and so what became of all this effort and thought? exactly nothing.

lets face the facts...the LAST thing our politicians are EVER going to do is write laws that limit and restrain or HELL-EFFFING-NO!! ELIMINATE their power and their ability to coerce the wealthy to part with their cash and give it to them.

So the chances that this guy's ideas or work are ever going to see the light of day are exactly 0.00000000001%, IMO

So you can get to the front of the security line, see the x-ray machines, metal detectors, scanners, etc., you're free to turn around and leave, and the TSA cannot prevent you from leaving.

I'm afraid you're wrong.

It's a fourth amendment issue only if they prevent you from voluntarily leaving after deciding that you'd feel violated.

"Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process," says Sari Koshetz, regional TSA spokesperson, based in Miami. Such passengers will be questioned "until it is determined that they don't pose a threat" to the public.

Once you are near the TSA security check points, you are not allowed to leave. The "Don't touch my junk" guy was told that he was being ejected from the airport while simultaneously being told that he would be arrested and fined $11,000 if he tried to leave. Not only was the underwear dude in San Diego arrested, another passenger who filmed the encounter on her iPhone also was arrested and had her phone confiscated for "illegally filming".

What's your position on this now?

Ideas like http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2006-03-09/news/0603081682_1_citrus-trees-replant-non-citrus
"no longer will enforce the ban on residential"

Since the insight eludes you, Zimmerman could be taken for a German name which might suggest European ethnicity.

George Zimmerman's father: My son is not racist, did not confront Trayvon Martin
"George is a Spanish speaking minority with many black family members and friends. "

Trayvon Martin Case: George Zimmerman's Race Is A Complicated Matter

Is this really that hard? I'm pretty sure you don't know what you are talking about.

The best way to deal with a playground bully is to punch him in the face. Even if he has his buddies with him. Even if you'll get disciplined by the school. You do that a few times, and no one will mess with you.

Unless you are in Florida. Then they'll arrest you and throw you in jail.

• Suspended students who show up at schools have been charged with trespassing.
• Those who throw spitballs were charged with battery.
• Those who shouted or used profanity were accused of disrupting a school function.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2013-02-09/news/fl-school-arrests-jail-pipeline-20130209_1_school-arrests-show-disabled-students-school-bus

Of the 12,000 students taken from school to jail by police in 2012, 67% were accused of misdemeanors, such as disorderly conduct. Oftentimes, disorderly conduct amounts to little more than a student disobeying a teacherâ(TM)s order to put away a cell phone or stop talking in class.

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/thousands-of-florida-students-arrested-annually-for-actions-that-used-to-merit-a-trip-to-the-principals-office-130213?news=847052

Police routinely destroy, delete, edit and/or obfuscate footage when it shows them in an "unflattering" light, why do you expect everyday citizens to turn over evidence against themselves when the police fail to do the same?

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=708&sid=1938732
http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=12951588
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=428&sid=1116072
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/05/birmingham_police_beating_vide_3.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmXTFr5hoOo
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/03/fort-worth-justice-says-traffic-stop.html
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/hollywood/sfl-hollywood-cops-fake-report-b072809,0,350771.story

If the movie theater, restaurant, concert, or sporting event is within 300 feet of a park, school or playground then Florida is already there...
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-04-30/news/fl-sex-offender-loitering-20100430_1_offenders-and-predators-florida-senate-votes-restrictive-zones

Rats fat on junk food would rather starve than eat healthy, Scripps Florida study suggests

Maybe it shouldn't be allowed to sell stuff like coke...

History doesn't bode well for public donations to NASA. In the past, they have turned them away.

If every US citizen could donate $35, NASA would have another $10 billion to work with.
To make up for this budget cut, it's only $4.17 per person.

This wasn't a borderline case. Here's some news coverage from back in the day:
Drugging The Poor

Angulo and four other Miami-Dade doctors accounted for about $4 million of the $31 million Medicaid spent statewide on the drug [OxyContin] last year, according to the Sun-Sentinel's analysis.

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Doctor Hit With Pill Ban By State

The department of health order said state investigators found an "extensive and troubling" pattern in which Angulo prescribed OxyContin and other dangerous drugs in "excessive quantities to many of his patients, including multiple members of the same families and to persons of varying ages who shared the same address."

And here's the Florida Dept of Health Emergency Order (PDF) being reported upon in the previous story

These cases are usually extremely clear cut, because the records are already on file.
The good news is that better enforcement is reducing the use of Oxy.
The bad news is that it's being replace on the street with heroin.

This wasn't a borderline case. Here's some news coverage from back in the day:
Drugging The Poor

Angulo and four other Miami-Dade doctors accounted for about $4 million of the $31 million Medicaid spent statewide on the drug [OxyContin] last year, according to the Sun-Sentinel's analysis.

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Doctor Hit With Pill Ban By State

The department of health order said state investigators found an "extensive and troubling" pattern in which Angulo prescribed OxyContin and other dangerous drugs in "excessive quantities to many of his patients, including multiple members of the same families and to persons of varying ages who shared the same address."

And here's the Florida Dept of Health Emergency Order (PDF) being reported upon in the previous story

These cases are usually extremely clear cut, because the records are already on file.
The good news is that better enforcement is reducing the use of Oxy.
The bad news is that it's being replace on the street with heroin.

Ambitious, maybe, but not very original. This seems to be a common thing, here it is in 2009 ($7,000 in Lego) and 2005 ($200,000 in Lego).

I don't know exactly what Dooley's arrest tells us. It might tell us that black people will be arrested more quickly under similar circumstances in Florida. Or, it just may tell us that Trevor Dooley was arrested more quickly under similar circumstances. We don't - well I don't anyway - know how long it typically takes Florida law enforcement to arrest someone under these kinds of circumstances, relative to the race of the killer and killed. As far as I know no one has gone to the trouble of compiling and publishing that information. It may not even be that meaningful if they did. There have been around 40 justified killing each year in Florida for the past 4 years. The number where circumstances match the Zimmerman/Martin case and those that mirror it with race swapped can't be large.

But none of that it to say it wouldn't be informative to do the comparison, or that the comparison can't be done, or that *you* can't do it. Here is a good starting point - the dates, ages, and races for justified civilian homicides in Florida.

http://databases.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/ftlaudjustified/ftlaudjustifiable_list.php

Two final thoughts. When I first started looking at this data I had the expectation that there would be a disproportionate number of blacks killed by whites. That doesn't really seem to be the case, for civilians anyway. And finally, the biggest difference between the two cases you compare is the amount of attention the Zimmerman/Martin case has had from the media and otherwise.

Like maybe Michael Brewer, burned nearly to death and permanently crippled by five Black boys. Brewer (was) White; he's now a mass of scar tissue, nearly died of heart and kidney failure, will never: A. have a girlfriend, B. be able to hold a job, C. live much past 30. All because his mother wasn't smart enough to move out of an area with a lot of Black underclass kids. Will Smith's kids won't set your son on fire, but the underclass is another story. There was another incident in Kansas City.

Yeah I get it, typical SWPL: HATE HATE HATE Beta White males, love "diversity" which equals, for most White guys not in a group, being a target. The feral underclass, like Shawn Tyson, age 16 who gunned down two White British Tourists in Sarasota Florida for not having money when he robbed them, or Tyrone Woodfork (and his five still uncaught accomplices) who raped, beat to death, an 86 year old Tulsa OK woman named Nancy Strait, and put her 90 year old Battle of the Bulge husband in critical condition (both are White by the way) is something out of the ordinary.

Black underclass men (and women) ARE a menace. Everyone with any sense knows it. It was not always this way and likely has something to do with single motherhood (90% of Ghetto kids are illegitimate).

Reality check: as a semi-attractive (hence the HATE HATE HATE for Beta White males) woman, you don't face the same environment your son will. If he's alone, and passing by a frat house, no problem. He's just a guy. If he passes by Tyrone Woodfork, or Shawn Tyson, or any of the five Black guys who nearly burned to death Michael Brewer, he's an easy target for a beating, or worse. Underclass Black guys are stupid, violent, and have no idea of the future. Mostly, that gets them laid, regularly. They get caught pretty quick, not any help if your son is burned to a crisp or worse. [Who the hell beats and rapes an 86 year old woman, and shoots her 90 year old husband? For a crummy 12 year old car and $200 in valuables? Whitey Bulger may have been a stone-cold killer, but he never did a murder that was not locked down to avoid getting caught and high reward. It is the violent stupidity of the moment that the Black underclass lives in that makes them uber-dangerous. They really don't care if they get caught, so have no limits.]

You want Grand-kids? You better give your kid "the Talk." Nothing Derb said, was untrue. Nothing Derb said, either, contradicts how most all White people live their lives. I don't see too many people choosing to live in Marion "Dirty Asians" Berry's district. Note Black voters returned this clown to office again and again.

Derb got fired for exposing the hypocrisy of White urban liberals seen here in so many comments. Who take elaborate pains to befriend intelligent Blacks, as social positioning, avoid the Black violent underclass and politicians (almost all of whom are not only corrupt but stupidly so), and masses of Black underclass.

I want to thank you for your comment. It is exhibit A in how stunning the complete absorption of double-think, espouse one way and live another, is among the SWPL set. Also, the complete denial that life as a semi-hot chick eliciting cat-calls from drunk fratboys is not the same as getting beaten, robbed, and stripped naked by a Black mob in Baltimore, for being White. Ask yourself this, do you want that for your Son? Or is your moral positioning and vanity more important than your son? [My guess is the former outweighs the latter.]

Check out the video. The Black underclass seen there in Baltimore's I

Pittsburg has banned fracking outright and PA Republicans were trying to pass a State law to nullify local regulations. When that was deemed a politically untenable idea, they switched to a straight-jacket of State level regulations.

It isn't that uncommon for states to have to step in to clarify government policy in a state either by law or regulation. City governments are small enough that they can easily go extremist. (See: San Francisco) Besides, do you really believe that a city government will have more resources to make sound environmental policy than a state government that commonly has both a department of natural resources and an environmental agency (not to mention being able to call upon the state university system for expertise)? Sometimes the defiance of policy or court decisions grows so extreme that tough measures are needed:

U.S. Army Troops Enforce Desegregation of Arkansas High School
New state gun law has city commissioners up in arms

anyone that refuses a pat-down is free to leave. Our rights haven't been eroded quite that far yet.

You are incorrect. The law says once you enter the security screening area you may not leave without completing the security screening process. Google around there is a bunch of blogs and articles about people being slapped with fines and what I consider to be unreasonable periods of detention if they refuse to "complete the security screening process" as they are ordered to. They are certainly not free to leave.

"Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process," says Sari Koshetz, regional TSA spokesperson, based in Miami. - http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-11-20/business/sfl-airport-scans-pat-downs-refual-20101121_1_tsa-airport-checkpoint-sari-koshetz

There are a lot of examples the above link is just the first one Google ponied up.

TSA's previous actions are relevant here...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/24/rape-victim-arrested-refusing-tsa-pat/
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/11/it-begins-us-passenger-arrested-for-refusing-tsa-screening-process-then-paraded-through-airport-in-his-underwear/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014331/Mother-attitude-arrested-refusing-TSA-pat-daughter.html
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-11-20/business/sfl-airport-scans-pat-downs-refual-20101121_1_tsa-airport-checkpoint-sari-koshetz

etc..

Americans aren't exactly all behind the free speech wagon either.

In the wake of 9/11, over half of Americans surveyed said free speech should be restricted, especially on the press (in the context of criticizing the new war on terror).

That's not even recent; a 1987 survey said the same thing (assuming the post-date is correct for a digitized article).

A survey of American youth in 2005 isn't encouraging either.

So while by law America has free speech and China does not, a large percentage of citizens from both countries believe free speech should be restricted in some way.

There are some people or companies that will clean up their act when they have been sued. Sometimes it takes more.

Within a week after I had been contacted by one drug spammer that I sued, my spam load went down by 50%.

Another Spammer I sued, put in place a strong anti-spam policy and apparently quite effective.

When I went after Avtech Direct (Arlene Sediqzad and Gary Hunziker ) for spamming, I also helped arrange 21 lawsuits against them. After this was over, Sediqzad told me she wish she never heard of e-mail, and had not heard of it until Gary Hunziker got her into using it.
Another spammer, Robert Smoley, stopped, only because he was charged, pled guilty, and sentenced to 40 months. They also seized over $40M of money and property from him. I think that is one of my most productive 45 minute phone calls with an IRS agent ever.

But this company you talk to is like Smoley, or Ralsky who needs to be sued multiple times or imprisoned for a while before they stop spamming.

Dude, RTFA. Smoley wasn't taken down of spam charges, he was taken down because he was trafficking controlled substances.

There are some people or companies that will clean up their act when they have been sued. Sometimes it takes more.

Within a week after I had been contacted by one drug spammer that I sued, my spam load went down by 50%.

Another Spammer I sued, put in place a strong anti-spam policy and apparently quite effective.

When I went after Avtech Direct (Arlene Sediqzad and Gary Hunziker ) for spamming, I also helped arrange 21 lawsuits against them. After this was over, Sediqzad told me she wish she never heard of e-mail, and had not heard of it until Gary Hunziker got her into using it.
Another spammer, Robert Smoley, stopped, only because he was charged, pled guilty, and sentenced to 40 months. They also seized over $40M of money and property from him. I think that is one of my most productive 45 minute phone calls with an IRS agent ever.

But this company you talk to is like Smoley, or Ralsky who needs to be sued multiple times or imprisoned for a while before they stop spamming.

I love you so much right now. Please, Please don't stop.

Within a week after I had been contacted by one drug spammer that I sued, my spam load went down by 50%.

Another Spammer I sued, put in place a strong anti-spam policy and apparently quite effective.

When I went after Avtech Direct (Arlene Sediqzad and Gary Hunziker ) for spamming, I also helped arrange 21 lawsuits against them. After this was over, Sediqzad told me she wish she never heard of e-mail, and had not heard of it until Gary Hunziker got her into using it. Another spammer, Robert Smoley, stopped, only because he was charged, pled guilty, and sentenced to 40 months. They also seized over $40M of money and property from him. I think that is one of my most productive 45 minute phone calls with an IRS agent ever.

But this company you talk to is like Smoley, or Ralsky who needs to be sued multiple times or imprisoned for a while before they stop spamming.

My question is the following, if this is illegal why is it still happening, since it is not a new event, why?

It's not illegal if you consent to the search. The problem is too many people just agree with these searches like sheep. Unfortunately, airports and Amtrak are government-owned, so if you refuse the search the TSA can refuse to let you board. But buses and ferries are private, and the TSA has no authority to prevent you from boarding if you refuse the search. (Though the bus or ferry company could refuse on the advice of the TSA if the ticket contract allows it.)

You can be arrested if you do not consent to the search. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-11-20/business/sfl-airport-scans-pat-downs-refual-20101121_1_tsa-airport-checkpoint-sari-koshetz

There is no profit shark at the government, they have no interest in turning a profit, being efficient or saving money, if it's not efficient so what? The government can't go broke they just tax, print, borrow

You seem unaware of how government works. Divisions have set budgets, they can't just overrun those budgets at will. They also have to justify those budgets to the accounting body. Sure, there is waste and some division heads are better at playing the game than others. Just like in private organizations. Individual departments have budgets they have to abide by and justify, but often there is no incentive to save money. Have you never heard a department head say "We need to spend $X by the end of the quarter in order to avoid a budget cut next quarter"? Large bureaucratic organizations all suffer from this, it has nothing to do with public vs. private.

If a private company had a 401K plan like the government has social security, and the CEO borrowed money from the 401Ks like the government constantly borrows from SS, the CEOs would be in federal prison for a very long time.

Not if they are clever about it.

This will cause utilities everywhere to raise rates so that they can cover fixed costs

To anyone thinking the above poster might need to adjust their tinfoil hat: This is not theoretical. Nor is it isolated. Nor is it even particularly new.

Prolly not the best comparison, motorcycles day's are numbered.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/citylink/sfl-auto-erotica-its-time-to-ban-the-motorcycle-20110613,0,4414821.story

Rich's legislation would target only those who derived or helped others derive "sexual gratification'' from an animal, specifying that conventional dog-judging contests and animal-husbandry practices are permissible.

That last provision tripped up Miami Democratic Sen. Larcenia Bullard.

"People are taking these animals as their husbands? What's husbandry?" she asked.

Some senators stifled their laughter as Sen. Charlie Dean, an Inverness Republican, explained that husbandry is raising and caring for animals.

Bullard didn't get it.

Rich's legislation would target only those who derived or helped others derive "sexual gratification'' from an animal, specifying that conventional dog-judging contests and animal-husbandry practices are permissible.

That last provision tripped up Miami Democratic Sen. Larcenia Bullard.

"People are taking these animals as their husbands? What's husbandry?" she asked.

Some senators stifled their laughter as Sen. Charlie Dean, an Inverness Republican, explained that husbandry is raising and caring for animals.

Bullard didn't get it.