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You mean the great DMV service that's ranked 4th in the nation by the people who use it?

https://www.syracuse.com/opini...

But of course some one who uses such a dumb metric for determining how well a state is governed wouldn't even know how the state did in said metric.

I'm looking forward to seeing the Joan Jett and Styx concert this summer. :P

Newsflash, trucks run into human-driven buses all the time, for example.

From 2009 to 2013, drunk-driving accidents in New York killed 1,715 people, according to the federal data.

Source. Maybe you just don't know your own city.

In other words, a Finnish twist on Manowar (from the equally bleak, depressing town of Auburn, NY - about a half-hour from Shittycuse).

I have been through Auburn, NY, and you're spot on.

Also, speaking of Syracuse, I've been to the original Syracuse in Sicily. It's a gorgeous ancient city on the sunny and mild Mediterranean. I cannot for the life of me figure out what the founders of Syracuse, New York were thinking when they decided to take that name. I can't think of a city that is less like it's namesake. Except maybe Toledo.

Here is a photo of Syracuse, Sicily:

https://d1hx45p3ysjzk3.cloudfr...

And here is a photo of Syracuse, New York:

http://image.syracuse.com/home...

Here's an article from last year that talks about drones at an airport.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...

What country is this? I keep being told that Christmas is being cancelled in this country but it just seems to get bigger every year instead.

When Starbucks brings out a plain red cup, replacing one with a snowflake, we get a war on Christmas:

http://www.theatlantic.com/bus...

When they brought out one pertaining to the election, we get more somehow

http://religionnews.com/2016/1...

But don't worry, the next president of the US of A has weighed in on this matter:

http://www.syracuse.com/politi...

When we embrace the insanity, we become insane.

And if the color of a coffee cup is an attack on a person's very being, we call that a psychotic break.

I see a red cup and think that's a red cup.

This guy did it last week, except using his head instead of a drone:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Of course, Texas, not to be outdone by some goddamn yankee, had to try to outdo him in the "where can I attach something that explodes" department:

http://www.syracuse.com/us-new...

I have high hopes for the "let's attach a gun to a drone" idea. It could get very entertaining.

You are implying that ones political stance is an indicator of their intelligence?

That is the clear intention of the article summary, because it highlights only those issues where Democrats are more likely to agree with scientists than Republicans. A more honest summary would have also brought attention to the subjects where Democrats differ from scientists: nuclear power, pesticide use in foods and animal research, for example.

You speak truth. http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...

This is simply not true. White kids do not wind up with felony records for riding bicycles through a neighbor's back yard. White people can get away with so much more than black people that it's ridiculous.

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I live in a small, 99.99% white town in upstate NY. Every truck I see up here has a confederate flag on it and some bumper stickers suggesting that if would enjoy universal healthcare that I should move to Russia with the other pinko bastards.
A good friend of mine (white) recently spent some time in jail for resisting arrest. He apparently broke some law by riding his bike, and had no idea why the town cop was detaining him, so he asked "what did I do wrong?" and as he was attempting to dismount his bicycle, the officer took him down to the ground and in the process broke his thumb and index finger, and cuffed him. (this was all captured on the cops dash cam/microphone, and unfortunately the public defender was at least as smart as a glass of ice water) The cop sustained a minor injury to his face when it smacked into the bike. That was all the evidence needed to throw my buddy in jail. Cop had a cut on his eyebrow. My friend is now a criminal with a record. The officer has since been fired for something unrelated albeit exquisitely poetic.

There are some really awful people in the world. Some of them happen to get jobs as police.

Easy cheesy.

• The common-law crime of perjury is now governed by both state and federal laws. In addition, the Model Penal Code, which has been adopted in some form by many states and promulgated by the Commission on Uniform State Laws, also sets forth the following basic elements for the crime of perjury: (1) a false statement is made under oath or equivalent affirmation during a judicial proceeding; (2) the statement must be material or relevant to the proceeding; and (3) the witness must have the Specific Intent to deceive.

The reason for this should be obvious: so the state cannot turn a prosecution into an open-ended fishing expedition, a la Ken Starr. Okay, so it looks like you might be innocent of meth possession, so we'll ask you how much you weigh, and charge you with perjury if you give what we say is a false statement. Or if you've ever been in a fight. Or if you've bought porn. Or if you've ever cheated on your taxes. None of which has anything to do with what the suspected crime was in the first place.

Not one person here that I know is offended by the name the redskins

The general counsel for the Onondaga Nation is rather offended by it:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...

Your "spiritual leader" is no fan of it either:

http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/...

So I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're full of shit. What's up with your spelling of "onodaga" anyway?

Not one person here that I know is offended by the name the redskins

The general counsel for the Onondaga Nation is rather offended by it:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...

Your "spiritual leader" is no fan of it either:

http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/...

So I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're full of shit. What's up with your spelling of "onodaga" anyway?

From a law firm (biased, perhaps): http://consumerjusticegroup.co...
"Workers at IBM and at other microchip fabs, or "fabrication plants," are exposed to benzene and other toxic carcinogens that can cause birth defects, leukemia, and other serious, debilitating medical conditions. While "bunny suits" prevent dust, hair, and skin cells from coming into contact with microchips, too often not enough is done in microchip factories to prevent the person inside the suit from breathing dangerous cancer-causing chemicals like benzene and formaldehyde while at the workplace. Since 2000, IBM has faced lawsuits from more than 250 former microchip plant employees. And since 2000, IBM has worked to suppress scientific findings showing the increase of cancer incidences in their microchip plant workers."

And also:
"Life In The Plume: IBM's Pollution Haunts a Village"
http://www.syracuse.com/specia...
"But for much of its history, Big Blue routinely polluted its birthplace. Tons of industrial solvents used to clean computer parts were dumped down drains or leached from leaky pipes into the ground for years before environmental rules required that such "spills" be reported. In 2002, scientists discovered the ground was exacting its revenge: The large underground chemical plume was releasing gases into homes and offices in a 350-acre swath south of the plant. The main chemical was a liquid cleaning agent called trichloroethylene, or TCE, that has been linked to cancer and other illnesses. IBM took responsibility and launched a multimillion-dollar cleanup. At the same time, the company announced plans to sell the plant and to ship many jobs overseas. ... "We found out that IBM had two faces in this community," said Matt LaTessa, a barber whose shop is on Monroe Street in The Plume. "One was a nice face, beautiful, big buildings and a lot of jobs. But underneath they were rotten. They were poisoning us." ..."

Versus:

"MD Anderson Taps IBM Watson to Power "Moon Shots" Mission Aimed at Ending Cancer, Starting with Leukemia"
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us...
"MD Anderson's Oncology Expert Advisor powered by IBM Watson is designed to integrate the knowledge of MD Anderson's clinicians and researchers, and to advance the cancer center's goal of treating patients with the most effective, safe and evidence-based standard of care available. Starting with the fight against Leukemia, MD Anderson's Oncology Expert Advisor is expected to help MD Anderson clinicians develop, observe and fine-tune treatment plans for patients, while helping them recognize adverse events that may occur throughout the care continuum. The cognitive-powered technology is also expected to help researchers advance novel discoveries."

Although, consider:
"Eat For Health - The Anti-Cancer Diet"
https://www.drfuhrman.com/libr...

Also Vitamin D and iodine can help prevent cancer...

When I worked at IBM Watson as a software developer, part of that time my workstation was put in windowless old labs that has been used for who knows what... To his credit, my supervisor tried really hard to make sure the second lab had been fully renovated...

Someone from Switzerland who saw other windowless offices at Watson said all that would be illegal in Switzerland, to have people working in windowless rooms... Not sure what the Swiss lawas are on chemical exposure... Back then was when I thought a lot about how all fabs and related labs should be 100% roboticized on the production floor. Bunny suits in that sense are such a quaint 20th century idea...

... issues like "dizziness, heart palpitations, chronic depression". The US RDA for vitamin D for adults is several times too low, and people in solitary confinement indoors are unlikely to be getting enough sunlight to make up the difference. The isolation itself is no doubt harmful to many people too, but the vitamin D aspect could at least be addressed easily even within the current system. The nutrition issue is even larger; see for example:
http://www.psychologytoday.com...
http://www.theguardian.com/pol...
http://www.naturalnews.com/039...

And environmental toxins contribute too:
http://www.motherjones.com/env...

Ironically, corporations get to repent by "restorative justice" (paying reparations or fixing what was broken) while real people are hit with "punitive justice".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

US prison population stats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
"In 2008 approximately one in every 31 adults (7.3 million) in the United States was behind bars, or being monitored (probation and parole). In 2008 the breakdown for adults under correctional control was as follows: one out of 18 men, one in 89 women, one in 11 African-Americans (9.2 percent), one in 27 Latinos (3.7 percent), and one in 45 Caucasians (2.2 percent). Crime rates have increased by about 25 percent from 1988 to 2008.[18] In recent decades the U.S. has experienced a surge in its prison population, quadrupling since 1980, partially as a result of mandatory sentencing that came about during the "war on drugs." Violent crime and property crime have declined since the early 1990s.[19]"

Recent incarcerations for drone protesters, but presumably not in solitary:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.veteransforpeace.or...

What a difference a nun can make even in prison:
"84-year-old nun sentenced for her anti-nuclear activism"
http://www.catholic.org/nation...
"Rice said she learned in prison to see her fellow inmates, not as perpetrators but as "victims" of a system that gave them few options. Walli says that like Rice, he spends long hours talking to inmates to "instill the idea that human life is sacred. "They know that they are the human fallout and the victims of the profiteering by the elite and top leaders of the corporations that are contracted to make the nuclear weapons. It's (the money) denied to human services that should be the priority of any government," Rice said. "

... issues like "dizziness, heart palpitations, chronic depression". The US RDA for vitamin D for adults is several times too low, and people in solitary confinement indoors are unlikely to be getting enough sunlight to make up the difference. The isolation itself is no doubt harmful to many people too, but the vitamin D aspect could at least be addressed easily even within the current system. The nutrition issue is even larger; see for example:
http://www.psychologytoday.com...
http://www.theguardian.com/pol...
http://www.naturalnews.com/039...

And environmental toxins contribute too:
http://www.motherjones.com/env...

Ironically, corporations get to repent by "restorative justice" (paying reparations or fixing what was broken) while real people are hit with "punitive justice".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

US prison population stats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
"In 2008 approximately one in every 31 adults (7.3 million) in the United States was behind bars, or being monitored (probation and parole). In 2008 the breakdown for adults under correctional control was as follows: one out of 18 men, one in 89 women, one in 11 African-Americans (9.2 percent), one in 27 Latinos (3.7 percent), and one in 45 Caucasians (2.2 percent). Crime rates have increased by about 25 percent from 1988 to 2008.[18] In recent decades the U.S. has experienced a surge in its prison population, quadrupling since 1980, partially as a result of mandatory sentencing that came about during the "war on drugs." Violent crime and property crime have declined since the early 1990s.[19]"

Recent incarcerations for drone protesters, but presumably not in solitary:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.veteransforpeace.or...

What a difference a nun can make even in prison:
"84-year-old nun sentenced for her anti-nuclear activism"
http://www.catholic.org/nation...
"Rice said she learned in prison to see her fellow inmates, not as perpetrators but as "victims" of a system that gave them few options. Walli says that like Rice, he spends long hours talking to inmates to "instill the idea that human life is sacred. "They know that they are the human fallout and the victims of the profiteering by the elite and top leaders of the corporations that are contracted to make the nuclear weapons. It's (the money) denied to human services that should be the priority of any government," Rice said. "

... issues like "dizziness, heart palpitations, chronic depression". The US RDA for vitamin D for adults is several times too low, and people in solitary confinement indoors are unlikely to be getting enough sunlight to make up the difference. The isolation itself is no doubt harmful to many people too, but the vitamin D aspect could at least be addressed easily even within the current system. The nutrition issue is even larger; see for example:
http://www.psychologytoday.com...
http://www.theguardian.com/pol...
http://www.naturalnews.com/039...

And environmental toxins contribute too:
http://www.motherjones.com/env...

Ironically, corporations get to repent by "restorative justice" (paying reparations or fixing what was broken) while real people are hit with "punitive justice".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

US prison population stats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
"In 2008 approximately one in every 31 adults (7.3 million) in the United States was behind bars, or being monitored (probation and parole). In 2008 the breakdown for adults under correctional control was as follows: one out of 18 men, one in 89 women, one in 11 African-Americans (9.2 percent), one in 27 Latinos (3.7 percent), and one in 45 Caucasians (2.2 percent). Crime rates have increased by about 25 percent from 1988 to 2008.[18] In recent decades the U.S. has experienced a surge in its prison population, quadrupling since 1980, partially as a result of mandatory sentencing that came about during the "war on drugs." Violent crime and property crime have declined since the early 1990s.[19]"

Recent incarcerations for drone protesters, but presumably not in solitary:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.syracuse.com/news/i...
http://www.veteransforpeace.or...

What a difference a nun can make even in prison:
"84-year-old nun sentenced for her anti-nuclear activism"
http://www.catholic.org/nation...
"Rice said she learned in prison to see her fellow inmates, not as perpetrators but as "victims" of a system that gave them few options. Walli says that like Rice, he spends long hours talking to inmates to "instill the idea that human life is sacred. "They know that they are the human fallout and the victims of the profiteering by the elite and top leaders of the corporations that are contracted to make the nuclear weapons. It's (the money) denied to human services that should be the priority of any government," Rice said. "

> There is still some review from the DA's office. They don't like to just lose cases.

Sigh. One would think so. Still, strange things happen in court.

That APK guy is a such a psycho, it's scary. His full name is Alexander Peter Kowalski, and he lives with his mom at:
903 East Division St.
Syracuse, NY 13208
DOB: 01/31/1965

He is also suspected to be a faux terrorist. The FBI is looking for this guy, so I encourage everyone to give them details of APK if they have any. This guy's sick reign of terror must stop. Check out this link:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1843962156001/fbi-asks-for-help-solving-15-year-old-anthrax-mystery/ [foxnews.com]
As soon as I saw that video, I thought: "Wow! That's APK described exactly!" It seems that a 35+ man with mental issues, living in Syracuse, NY has been sending out threatening letters with white powder in them to people. It's not actually anthrax, but it is claimed to be in the letters. This guy is high up on the FBI's most wanted list.

More info here: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/fbi_wades_through_tips_that_co.html [syracuse.com]
You can report info on APK by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI or submitting the form at tips.fbi.gov. Please help stop this guy.

Don't worry Sardukar86, this guy is a known psychopath. His full name is Alexander Peter Kowalski, and he lives with his mom at:
903 East Division St.
Syracuse, NY 13208
DOB: 01/31/1965

He is also suspected to be a faux terrorist. The FBI is looking for this guy, so I encourage everyone to give them details of APK if they have any. This guy's sick reign of terror must stop. Check out this link:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1843962156001/fbi-asks-for-help-solving-15-year-old-anthrax-mystery/
As soon as I saw that video, I thought: "Wow! That's APK described exactly!" It seems that a 35+ man with mental issues, living in Syracuse, NY has been sending out threatening letters with white powder in them to people. It's not actually anthrax, but it is claimed to be in the letters. This guy is high up on the FBI's most wanted list.

More info here: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/09/fbi_wades_through_tips_that_co.html
You can report info on APK by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI or submitting the form at tips.fbi.gov. Please help stop this guy.

APK: Watch your ass, sicko, I've reported you.

Or maybe being white non-hispanic will be a sufficient proof of my citizenship?

Apparently not: "A German manager with Mercedes-Benz is free after being arrested for not having a driver's license with him under Alabama's new law targeting illegal immigrants"

Something I have always wondered: Suppose they do manage to decrypt her disk (or in another case, the disk isn't even encrypted). What prevents them from planting a couple of incriminating files? How could you ever prove it?

There have been too many cases where it seemed, um, convenient for CP to "unexpectedly" turn up on a defendant's computer. To pick a random example out of zillions: "deputies discovered pornographic images of children on Krohl’s personal computer and hard drive during a unrelated investigation". Somehow, this seems to happen a lot. If they are after your marijuana plant, how logical is it to search your computer? "Look what we found! Perhaps you want to plea bargain?"

Want to see how often it happens? Browse through the results of this Google query...

Um, okay. Let's look at the results:

1) A link to a school policy explaining teachers' responsibilities with respect to student fights.
2) A story about a family criticizing a teacher for NOT breaking up a fight.
3) A teacher being sued by an adult university student for injuring her while breaking up a fight.
4) A dupe of #2.
5) And another.
6) An article about teachers being urged to tolerate swearing (has a comment near the bottom by someone claiming to have been sued for breaking up a fight; no details provided).
7) Information about avoiding being sued while working.
8) Video of a teacher breaking up a fight and some random anonymous commentary in which someone speculates that the teacher will get sued.
9) A teacher does nothing while an impromptu boxing match occurs in the classroom.
10) A teacher suffers a miscarriage from breaking up a fight. Again, some random commenter speculates that she risked getting sued by breaking up the fight.

I'm seeing lots of claims of these lawsuits. Not a whole heck of a lot to back up those claims. The only actual lawsuit involving the breakup of a fight was the one where the student, an adult, was allegedly injured. The teacher/student factor is irrelevant in that case. If an adult injures another adult, a lawsuit is a real possibility.

The risk of death for open heart surgery is approximately 1/50. And you don't even get a refund!

Yes, but in this case, the risk of death WITHOUT open heart surgery is higher than the risk of death WITHOUT space travel.
Do not mix high risk life saving surgery and high risk over-expensive entertainment.

The risk of death for open heart surgery is approximately 1/50. And you don't even get a refund!

Perhaps, but they're presumably going to die without it so they're better off with a 2% chance of death. I doubt anyone is going to die any time soon because they couldn't go on a space tourism trip (absent aliens promising to cure cancer or whatever).

The risk of death for open heart surgery is approximately 1/50. And you don't even get a refund!

Attempting to turn yourself in is not likely to result in public harm or inconvenience. Posting a fake ad on Craigslist claiming that you’re selling your kids is likely to result in this, because it alarms people.

I challenge you to find any source that explicitly says either (a) he made the report or (b) he is being charged for making the report. All of them say “a report was made” and “he is being charged for falsely reporting an incident”. In fact, the officer explicitly stated why he was charged, if you go to the original source that reported on it: (and yes, the grammar of this is hideous, but at least it’s pretty unambiguous)

Stagnitto was charged with third-degree falsely reporting an incident, a misdemeanor, because he allegedly creating public alarm by posted false information, that he wanted to sell his children

He was charged because he created public alarm by posting false information, namely that he wanted to sell his children.

And here’s a quote to back up my claim:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/brockport_man_posted_children.html

Stagnitto was charged with third-degree falsely reporting an incident, a misdemeanor, because he allegedly creating public alarm by posted false information [SIC], that he wanted to sell his children, Blum said.

The false report was that he wanted to sell the kids. It was false, it caused public alarm, and they’re charging him with falsely reporting an incident.

And yes, “he allegedly creating public alarm by posted” is word-for-word what they reported. WTF, OMG, etc.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/ge_skaneateles_plant_products.html
"GE will provide inspection equipment, operator training and data management software to the Naval Sea Systems Command inspection teams supporting the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. GE will supply XLG3 VideoProbes outfitted with Menu Driven Inspection software to help standardize the inspection process and increase accuracy and efficiency.The Navy will deploy the equipment to large Naval bases both within the U.S. and overseas. The equipment will be used to inspect steam generation and rotating power & propulsion components on all non-nuclear powered naval ships."

Can this stuff fit on teleoperated robots?

Iraqi tribal leaders turning on Al Qaeda, assisting the coalition

Maysan province and Karbala province turned over to Iraq. In fact we've turned over 8 of the 18 provinces to Iraqi control. Baghdad is at a 21 month low in terms of rocket and mortar attacks.

I know it doesn't fit the Left's view of "QUAGMIRE!", but guess what? The surge worked VERY well, Iraq is stabilizing, they are taking control of their own country, we are withdrawing, and in general the populace - via the tribal and local leaders - are supporting the coalition because they rat out the Al Qaeda and insurgent cells.

Maybe, just maybe, we are actually winning? No, can't be that would mean that the Bush Administration finally did something right and we all know that Bush=Hitler and can never do right...

Here's your tin-foil hat.

No, what's scary is that we sit in the United States talking about saving freedom by fighting terrorists and their supporters in the Middle East when we have an entire country like China who openly tracks and oppresses their people but we stand idly by and let their money pay for our war on the wrong tyrannies.

Lets see, you try to point out China's deficiencies to more popular Western cultures and ideals along with some fundamental ideas of human rights. Good job. Most people will not argue against that point.

However, trying to confuse the reader by attempting to relate two truths (America is at War in the Middle East and China's horrible human right violations) to make it sound like it's either a) some how America's fault that China has these violations or that it's b) somehow America's responsibly to fix China's problem is just asinine.

What's worse? You post makes it clear that you're not favorable to this Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Maybe you're just very anti-war in general, and I can respect that, but to try and insinuate that America should be fighting a war with China and not some Middle Eastern countries is just fucking hypocritical. What, Saddam wasn't "bad" enough for you because Iraq wasn't shipping shit loads of junk products into the U.S. produced by near slave labor for nearly unbeatable prices? The raps and murders of people who tried to speak out and that of their families isn't important enough too you because they're of not economic threat to the U.S.?

I could go on to say the same thing about Brittan, the United States itself, etc but I won't bother, I'm preaching to the choir.

*Yawn* You're not preaching to the choir. Netscape forums are ---> that way. All you're doing here is standing on a soap box. What's scary... that people think that most of /. is stupid enough to believe this illogical rhetoric.

What is even more scary is that here in the US, and I'm just as much at fault as anyone I chastise, we are letting more and more occur without standing up for what our country was founded on.

Wow! What are you talking about? That we had free and open elections? You want to argue about the 2000 election and how Bush can win without the popular vote? I could agree that the electoral college is a bit broken. But you cannot change the rules of the game after it's over. It's like you're trying to re-write history to your own perverse propaganda agenda.

We call the true freedom fights protesters instead of patriots.

Oh... right. Protesters are freedom fighters? And who's freedoms are they fighting for? Anti-War protests is not a "Freedom". So maybe it's a Iraqi freedoms? That would be hard to believe, given Iraq was a dictatorship and is now a struggling fledging democratic state. (Arguing if that was the right thing to do is another discussion). So, maybe they're trying to protect the soldiers freedoms. You know, the one's who freely signed up for service (there's no draft). That would also be hard to believe as the these faithful "freedom fighters" have a habit of spitting on them and turning their funerals into a activists playground to preach their "anti-war" so fucking called "freedoms".

No, these extreme activist protesters do not deserve and ounce of respect. Their cause is not moral or humanitarian. They're actions are purely for self indulgence to feel like they're doing something "good" because they saw it in movies or on T.V. and it's been popularized in a small niche of society to be the "cool" thing to do. They don't care about their cause. Extremist protesters only care about looking like they care so they can go to their parties can pat each other on the

Why no outrage over the Juneteenth violence?
3 white kids get accused of rape and it's all over the press (granted it eventually got dismissed and the prosecutor disbarred) yet 3 seperate crowds of blacks act like savages over what is supposed to be a celebration of freedom and it gets back page material.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8PSKSDO0& show_article=1
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/1962.html
http://www.syracuse.com/poststandard/stories/index .ssf?/base/news-10/1182070664184630.xml&coll=1

If anything, knowledge that crowds of blacks are congregating is more relevant to my saftey than what happens on some college campus miles away.

And they wonder why no city wants to host Freaknik.

These news quickly turned into these news.

These news quickly turned into these news.

MS Plan:
1. Suffix a well-known product with the word "killer".
2. Hold a press conference of your product.
3. Release a pale version of the suffixed product above.
4. ???
5. Profit!!

Things like this are troublesome, though:

One document obtained by the AP, a 1998 U.S. government business solicitation, mandated that "any color printer must include a tracing system that encodes system identification in any output. This will tie the output to the originating equipment so that forensic identification of the equipment is possible in the event of illegal printing of currency images due to failure or circumvention of the recognition system(s)...."

In a number of contracts where the US government has bought printers, they've required tracing features to be present-- effectively forcing them to be in printers sold to the general public as well. So effectively, many color printers are embedding their serial number in output documents. (And this is a lot more damaging-- saying this particular printer made a particular document, rather than a Epson Stylus 700).

It's not the online version of an established, well-researched traditional encyclopedia. Instead, Wikipedia is a do-it-yourself encyclopedia, without any credentials. [...] One of these skills is to evaluate the authority of any information source. The Wikipedia is not an authoritative source. It even states this in their disclaimer on their Web site." (quoting of Sue Stagnitta)

http://www.syracuse.com/corrections/

Mainstream? Like Forbes, BusinessWeek , Ziff-Davis (and here and here too), CBS News, USA Today, and most have heard of PC Magazine, plus a lot of papers like The Houston Chronicle, The Detroit News, the Syracuse Post-Standard, The Baltimore Sun, and the St. Louis Post-Standard. I have all those links plus others in a list I just send to people. I keep adding to it as I find more. Usually gets the message across that I'm not making stuff up.

Here in Solvay, NY (just outside Syracuse) we are looking at broadband over power lines. The possible difference here is that the village of Solvay is served by its own power plant. One of the perks of living here is 3 cent a KwH electric service.

The link below leads to an article about the upcoming service:

link here

Note that they do not mention the issue of RFI in the article.

I admit that it is attractive as the speed is higher and the cost lower than my current DSL.

Now that iTunes includes Apples own Lossless Encoder, one could fill up a 60GB iPod easy using the new lossless format for all of their CD's.

There are several recent articles praising the Apple Lossless Encoder if you are skeptical of using the new format.

And I know I could go for a 60GB iPod considering I have about 71GB of MP3.

Well, Albany is nicely located in NYS. Its also close enough to Canada that drawing people over the border to work there is feasible.

Add to that the fact that its not a terrible part of the country weather/climate wise. (We dont get earthquakes, typhoons, torrential flooding, mudslides, wildfires a-la the west, and damn few tornados) and you have a safe place for your busines.

As for tornados, I can remember over a dozen tornado warnings during the years I lived on Long Island, though I don't recall any of them destroying anything. However, the northeast is not immune: less than a year ago a tornado in Washington, DC picked up a car and smashed it into the trees in front of the dorm where I used to live, killing both passengers.

Economically, upstate NY is so dead the state government is lending credence to a man who wants to build a $2 billion mall in Syracuse (next to the large Carousel mall he built several years ago) simply so his grandchildren will have a reason to not flee New York. No one knows where the money's going to come from, but Gov. Pataki and the Post-Standard treat the proposal as though it's just a matter of time.

As a NY native, I recognize that New York isn't a bad place to live. But I posed the question because the article says the consortium didn't even negotiate with any other U.S. cities, whereas last time they talked to 36. I was hoping someone might have some insight into what makes Albany so much more important than the rest of the country that it would preclude the consortium from considering anyone else.

Let me be the first to say "I don't give a fuck!" and "Please shove hot grits down the front of my pants please!"

One wank or two?

Fat people need sex too!