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Fucking MedScape, some alternatives:

http://www.linkoph.com/2019/02/13/man-who-led-team-to-approve-lasik-now-says-it-was-a-mistake/

https://www.10news.com/news/national/former-fda-supervisor-calls-his-approval-of-lasik-a-mistake

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/former-fda-supervisor-calls-his-approval-of-lasik-a-mistake

https://www.facebook.com/medscape/posts/the-phd-who-led-the-fda-team-that-approved-lasik-says-it-was-a-mistake-now-hes-l/10157099404069189/?_fb_noscript=1

This sort of did happened in Colorado (though not a predominately gay district who specializes in erotic and gay themed cakes). A Christian couple wanted a cake baked with a few bible versus that denounced homosexuality. The baker refused lawsuits followed. The courts sided with the baker because "hate speech" (bible versus can be seen as hate speech now) and offensive.

https://www.thedenverchannel.c...

Yep, the character of a cake is different from the character of the customer. Not a difficult difference to recognize.

Since the bakers in Masterpiece, Sweetcakes, and the Florist in Arlene's, refused to provide ANY cakes without consideration of the character of said cake, they inevitably made it about the customer.

For example, if a proprietor in a predominantly gay district who specializes in erotic and gay themed cakes for gay weddings is approached by a Christian couple who want a verse of the bible inscribed on their cake, and he refuses, will the same fine be leveraged?

This sort of did happened in Colorado (though not a predominately gay district who specializes in erotic and gay themed cakes). A Christian couple wanted a cake baked with a few bible versus that denounced homosexuality. The baker refused lawsuits followed. The courts sided with the baker because "hate speech" (bible versus can be seen as hate speech now) and offensive.

https://www.thedenverchannel.c...

Is it these Denver lights? http://www.thedenverchannel.co...

You experience is vastly different from mine. Worst case I've seen was from infested books. I've been bitten at theaters and on transit. If they are hungry they will feed, sleeping or not. A badly infected home will have everything covered with eggs. Shoes, backpacks, books, pens, everything that is taken out of the house will spread the evil little fuckers.

It's a truly slippery slope we are on when these colleges get to decide what kind of a person attends.

Yea, super scary. Instead of banning you because you are gay I ban you because you are likely a democrat. Whoops, not a protected class by federal or state law therefore I can discriminate. After all, you chose to be a democrat.

Besides it's not like, bible versus are hate speech that can be discriminated against despite religion being a protected class.

There were a couple instances of this occurring; one in Oregon and one in Colorado that I know of.

http://aclu-co.org/court-rules...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015...

If they had merely refused and accepted the small fine for not living up to the legal duties of a public business, we'd never have heard of the case.

I don't think so because in Colorado there is blatant hypocrisy in the enforcement of the law. Like anything there is more to it than just the headlines of course.

You bring up AT&T: are you talking about landlines or mobile? AT&T mobile probably could block hate speech from being sent across their private network in the form of texts. They would probably lose some customers to Verizon if they did, but they have that right. Landlines are a little different. You can't block hate speech being spoken across a land-line there are technical difficulties. The closest example would be if someone repeatedly harassed another person by ringing them up and making hate speech directly too them.

In this instance I am talking about landlines. I understand that the law isn't uniform across all mediums because the law hasn't kept up with technology. Excluding illegal activity such as harassment. No one is arguing that harassment should be allowed. I think much of the point of this conversation has been had before with landlines but that has fallen by the wayside because of new technology and a complicit government.

Facebook is not able to refuse service based on Race, Religion, National Origin, or Sex anymore than a baker can.

Actually, a baker can refuse service based on someones religious belief. but a baker cannot use their religion to influence their policy. The baker is unable to control their policy of use. Telecommunication companies cannot choose their policy of use, why should Facebook and Twitter be exempt from the same civic responsibility? Landlines were seen as critical in a modern society for citizens to participate. If social media companies are of the same criticality then they should have the same responsibility. If Obama and the Media are correct in 'Fake news' influencing the last election, doesn't that thrust those companies into the same stewardship position as landlines and bakers?

Sure, Facebook isn't denying you access to their service because you are Male or Christian, but they can deny you based on conservatism or liberalism because those are not protected classes. I guess, that means that the baker should have denied service because the gay couple in question were liberal instead of gay. Social media companies can overcome the technical difficulties you mention, does that mean that they are get to be arbiters of truth and politically acceptable speech when increasing number of citizens use their service? Is there any other service of such importance that we don't forfeit their civic responsibility? (important in that it can affect our elections like Obama has said)

You say I can go to Google+ but then why didn't the couple use a different bakery? If all of the social media companies have the same 'hate speech' policies that can ban ideology and much of the national dialogue occurs in those networks, on top of subsidized infrastructure, what will that do to our elections and society that wouldn't happen if telecommunications did the same thing to landlines? There are only so many options and not everyone can Zuckerberg their way a new Facebook.

The market by which each operate doesn't matter. AT&T was private but was forced by law to promote the rights of citizens by not disallowing customers on the basis of political ideology because it was seen as necessary for the good of the nation. The point of the Takings clause and eminent domain. If the government feels that a service provided is necessary for the citizens it will no longer operate like a private service but a public service. As a public service you become a steward of citizen rights.

You missing my point. Does Twitter have the right to enforce business policies that conform to their political ideology? Does AT&T? Does the Baker? Religion is a protected class except when you are a business owner and then the government may force you to abandon those beliefs while you operate your private business. Or if you reverse the roles. So, even though the constitution protects the exercise of religion and religious belief is a federally protected class, it is not protected the same way as sexual orientation (state law) because???? Twitter, that has an impact on our elections, gets a pass to implement business policies that conform to their political ideology in their private business because????

Yes, I see 'Twitter is a private business therefore they can ban anyone they want.' when there are other private entities that are held to a higher standard by force of law as hypocritical.

Twitter not being a monopoly does not exclude the fact that Twitter has had a big impact on our elections. If that impact is critical enough to the nation then Twitter and other platforms of speech should be stewards of free speech just like AT&T and just like the baker is now a steward of protected classes (except religious, because you know hypocrisy in the law).

Oh REALLY? How about this: http://www.thedenverchannel.co... where a baker refused to bake a cake for religious customer that had bible scriptures on them referring to gays... Now I'm not condoning the messages requested, I'm simply pointing out the face that it has been done, and the court ruling was opposite. In fact, if I had to guess, I think this was done to prove a point, and that point was that these are biased judgments, and both sides are not being treated the same.

That's a lie. The baker offered to bake the bible-shaped cakes without the anti-gay messages on them, and to provide the complainant with icing so he could write whatever messages he wanted to on the cake:

Marjorie Silva, the owner of the bakery, told Jack that she would make him the bible-shaped cakes, but would not decorate them with the biblical verses and the image of the groomsmen that he requested. Instead, she offered to provide him with icing and a pastry bag so he could write or draw whatever messages he wished on the cakes.

The important part is even though he was deliberately trolling her at the bakery for an excuse to sue her, she didn't refuse him her normal services which is baking cakes. In fact she was quite willing to bake him a Christian bible cake. However, she refused to decorate the cake with offensive images and words. Which, to most people, is a reasonable reaction.

The anti-gay cake bakers, as I understand it, entirely refused to provide their regular services to their complainants. The analogous situation would have been for the anti-gay baker to make the wedding cake, but refuse to put the two little women on the top. Instead the refused to selling wedding cakes to the women in question because they were lesbians.

In fact in at least a few of situations where I've looked into anti-gay refusals where the defendant lost, the defendant revoked their offer of services after the fact, without notice, without recompense and without providing an alternative service. That's legally a breach of contract regardless of the reason they refused the service after agreeing to provide it. Once you're past the stage of offer and acceptance, it is not legal to add additional requirements to a contract unless the changes provide consideration for both parties and are agreed to by both parties. In some cases considerable damages were awarded because services were revoked at or near the wedding day to the point where it became extremely expensive or even impossible to arrange for replacement services.

But a gay bakery would be just as compelled to bake them a cake even if they had a (much better, IMO) reason to not want to deal with religious conservatives.

Oh REALLY? How about this: http://www.thedenverchannel.co...
where a baker refused to bake a cake for religious customer that had bible scriptures on them referring to gays... Now I'm not condoning the messages requested, I'm simply pointing out the face that it has been done, and the court ruling was opposite. In fact, if I had to guess, I think this was done to prove a point, and that point was that these are biased judgments, and both sides are not being treated the same.

Owner of house blown apart by SWAT says: 'This is an abomination. This is an atrocity' SWAT was trying to flush out shoplifting suspect

That's simply because police these days are lazy cowards. Why do any work when you can just blow it up. It's also why they taze people even when there's 3 officers there.

Owner of house blown apart by SWAT says: 'This is an abomination. This is an atrocity' SWAT was trying to flush out shoplifting suspect

I'm telling you, MEN get swatted all the time. So don't tell me that some women getting some disturbing phone calls means women are targeted more then men.

If that is what you think, then you have no idea what other people go through with this sort of thing. And when it happens, do those men start a national pity party? No. They file a police report and watch their back.

Read this:
http://www.thedenverchannel.co...

This is a guy that got swatted telling his story to the press.

Does he sound like a victim? Does he sound like he wants you to feel sorry for him?

When the police officers came into the room... he was laughing. Process that. That is how you deal with the trolls. They mess with you and you can't show weakness. By all means, get on the ground when a man with a gun screams at you. But don't let the trolls know they got to you.

They don't target women. Women just respond badly to trolling. Some men deal with it badly as well. But they're the ones that didn't learn in the school yard. Most of us figured it out. This isn't a macho thing by the way... its an intelligence thing. Everyone paying attention figures this out.

Probably to satisfy some quota. As seems to be the case for the no-fly list.

NASA spends millions to fly first class and business. Hey how about flying coach, or teleconferencing?

See the news story at TV Channel 7 in Denver.

However unless you are a black male, or suffer untreated mental illness, they do not do that shit; so it's highly illogical to demand all cops be disarmed because lest they start shooting random perfectly sane white people.

Shooting innocent white people? Like this?
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/call7-investigators/town-upholds-castle-rock-officers-use-of-force-that-endangered-an-innocent-retired-cop-his-wife

From the original article:

"Even if a tiny percentage of people get online (for a) drone license, that's cool. That's a lot of money to a small town like us,"said Boyd

The funny thing here is that the FAA in all their "seriousness" has become the PR department, for free. The FAA's own Altitude Rules pretty much would keep aircraft above the area covered by the town's "Rules of Engagement".

Or maybe the guide is from Deer Trail, Colorado

You don't even need a resistor, just a smarter hood.

and no finger-guns either

This guy sounded way more interesting, yet how many people heard about it? There are several news articles remaining on the web about him. I once dug far enough to find something about him needing to build something higher up than he was at the time, and more involving aliens and the military.

Google his name and search for yourself. Was it really a mental disorder or something more?

Dead founder of Webroot, Steven Thomas, more interesting
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Search Continues For Missing Millionaire

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/search-continues-for-missing-millionaire

"The last time I saw him on Thursday, he was having major panic attacks. He was very agitated, aggressive. He was very paranoid. He thinks everyone on the island is out to get him," said his wife, Candis Thomas. "He thinks the military is involved, he thinks that aliens are involved, and he's just been in a real delusion state of being fearful."

"He said he needed to use the bathroom, but never returned. At the time he was wearing a light-green T-shirt, shorts and slippers."

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Missing Webroot founder found dead
Tragic end in Hawaii

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/14/webroot_founder_dead/

"Police have recovered the body of missing technology entrepreneur Steven Thomas, the founder of anti-spyware firm Webroot Software[1]."

"Thomas was reportedly suffering from paranoid delusions running up to the time of his disappearance."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webroot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Thomas_(entrepreneur)

"he did send a letter to his closest friends that if he turned up missing or dead it was not his fault."

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http://www.lavasoft.com/mylavasoft/company/blog/in-our-thoughts

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Millionaireâ(TM)s falling death âis beyond sadâ(TM)

http://archives.starbulletin.com/2008/07/15/news/story03.html

"Hikers found the badly decomposed body of the Lanikai resident, who was reported to have a bipolar disorder, at 12:45 p.m. Sunday below the Pali Lookout, nearly two weeks after his disappearance."

"Police have not yet ruled out foul play, Maj. Alan Bluemke said yesterday, although he emphasized no foul play was suspected. The case remains classified as an unattended death, pending the full medical examiner's report.

According to his wife, Thomas began developing problems in April, had been arrested for running naked in his neighborhood and was diagnosed later with bipolar disorder, also called manic-depressive illness, but had refused medication.

Police had described Thomas as emotionally distraught, and his wife had said he had been displaying suicidal behavior.

Thomas had been involved in real estate and stocks after selling Webroot Software, known for its Spy Sweeper software, in 2004 for $108 million."

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Mysterious events surround death of former FOUNDER of the company WEBROOT â" GOOGLE about the former FOUNDER of the company WEBROOT, Steven Thomas.

Maybe he was onto something? You have to read many articles about him to get a better picture of how odd the events were surrounding his death. Webroot Software founder Steven Thomas was found dead in Hawaii. Save the articles and store them off-line on read only media because the stories will disappear eventually.

Many articles mention he said he was being harassed by ALIENS and THE GOVERNMENT, and others.

Sounds like MKULtra to me.

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Webroot founder died from fall

I read the story here

Stephanie Thompson is totally, utterly, and irrefutably responsible for the harm that came to her child. Look on the Buckyballs product page and you can see that the warning label printed on the lower right of the page is identical to the one on the left side of the product packaging.

Stephanie Thompson, you gave your child a dangerous item, not intended for use by children, and they were harmed. This is your fault. You are a bad parent.

Yesterday, CDOT closed US-24, about the fourth most important highway in Colorado, due to ice 100 ft. down that melted for the first time (since a railroad tunnel was constructed a century ago) and created a sinkhole.

Your article says it was so deep there was still ice at the bottom. It says nothing about ice being what held it up in the first place, and that's ridiculous.

God damn /. is full of retards.

Yesterday, CDOT closed US-24, about the fourth most important highway in Colorado, due to ice 100 ft. down that melted for the first time (since a railroad tunnel was constructed a century ago) and created a sinkhole.

As another poster said, the media doesn't generally cover cases of someone saving the day that much. However, it does happen. Some nutcase about 5 years ago went to a large church in Colorado with a gun, shot two people dead in the parking lot, and entered the main building intending to shoot lots more, but a woman ex-cop with a concealed weapon shot him dead before he could kill any more.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14817480/detail.html

Also, there really aren't that many Americans carrying concealed weapons. Most gun owners just keep them at home, and the CCW advocates are a pretty small but vocal minority (but not in a bad way; the crime rate among them is extremely low, it's not like they're out committing crimes with their concealed weapons). So when shootings do happen, most of the time there simply aren't any CCW owners around to do anything about it. And even if something does happen, they're not trained officers, so unless they really think they need to risk their lives by stepping up and doing something, they probably take cover and wait for the police to arrive. Still, it's a lot better to have a law-abiding person who's armed nearby just in case the worst happens, rather than waiting 15 minutes for cops to arrive. In the church case above, the death toll probably would have been in the hundreds had there not been armed security present, as the shooter was heavily armed with 1000 rounds of ammunition.

One of the problems is that "following too closely" isn't an offense, or any kind of problem at all. Simply put, there's absolutely nothing dangerous about it. If it were, there would be some kind of enforcement against it.

You don't know what you are talking about.

"Hell, one asshole in Colorado recently claimed it was "new car smell" in his Mercedes S-class that caused him to pass out, hit a cyclist, and then drive on without stopping until he was across town, where upon he put the damaged bits of his car in the trunk and called for roadside assistance (not 911) for a tow."

I found your story a little hard to believe, but other than the detail that the driver supposedly had severe sleep apnea in addition to the "new car smell" affecting him, it checks out. And, wow, is that guy a slimeball, but at least he wasn't chatting on is cellphone or playing with the in-car computer.

Here's some stuff I turned up real quick with Google:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5402342.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/survival/how-to-survive/how-to-survive-a-plane-crash.html
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/travelgetaways/4536344/detail.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-flight_safety_demonstration

Insulin

Just in case you're not bored of them already, one I found in the comments to TFA: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/28773212/detail.html. Not only do they take a diabetic's insulin, they don't even manage to find all of it!

In the US you get fired for asserting your authority with customers.

This mother fucker is the one possessing these bunnies to do such nefarious deeds. The damn thing already killed the guy who sculpted it.

If you come to Denver, find a Raider fan, they will protect you.

100$ bills are waaaay easier to counterfeit. Why?
Cause you can still print the same 100s from 20, 30, 50 years ago. Old 100s are still legal tender.
All dollar bills are the same size, shape and color so you can bleach "smaller" bills and reprint them.
And as you still need dollar currency to buy oil - they are much more common around the world than any other currency.

Euros on the other hand have a varying size, color palette, and until this 100$ bill came out - better anti-counterfeiting measures.

they have a picture of the guy that stole the iPad

At Apple Stores don't the know the serial number of every item they sell, even without registering? Couldn't he just go back to the store, report it stolen to Apple, and Apple can track and see when someone logs on with it?

Thanks. We wouldn't put a GPS on a 5-year-old kid and let them run loose in the streets, thinking "It's okay now, they have GPS!" GPS won't keep someone from putting your kitten in a plastic bag and smashing it repeatedly against a metal fence until its' back is broken (some sick f*** did that in Verdun 2 years ago). It won't stop them from pouring gasoline on it and setting it on fire. It won't stop them from torturing the cat and dumping it in a bag in the river.

There are a lot of sick people out there who delight in torturing animals - particularly cats.

Buster's Law was named after an 18-month-old tabby cat that had been doused with kerosene and burned to death by a Schenectady teen in 1997. Prior to this bill becoming law, animal cruelty resulted in misdemeanor penalties, if any charges were imposed at all.

Tedisco noted that since the 1997 arrest that inspired the creation of Buster's Law, the perpetrator who abused the cat has been imprisoned for various crimes, including attempted rape, sexual abuse and unlawful imprisonment of a 12-year-old girl.

"People who abuse animals are on a fast track to one day harming or killing people. It is critical that state government take every measure possible to halt such an escalating pattern of abuse," Tedisco stated.

FBI reports show that animal cruelty is an offense that often leads to other, more serious crimes against humans. According to the Humane Society of the United States, a 1997 survey of the largest shelters for battered women in the United States found that 85 percent of women and 63 percent of children entering shelters discussed incidents of pet abuse in their families. Notorious serial killers Ted Bundy, David Berkowitz and Jeffrey Dahmer all had histories of abusing animals.

A GPS doesn't keep animals away from harm - a leash does. Walking your pet also strengthens the bond between it and you. GPS won't do that, either.

The Denver Mayor is cutting police funding (nearly 100 police will be laid off), and asking for 2.3 million to build 500 homes for the homeless. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21210487/detail.html http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/20659996/detail.html http://www.denverpost.com/election08/ci_13249592

The Denver Mayor is cutting police funding (nearly 100 police will be laid off), and asking for 2.3 million to build 500 homes for the homeless. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21210487/detail.html http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/20659996/detail.html http://www.denverpost.com/election08/ci_13249592

The same thing happened here in Colorado last year. A train had a bearing failure and started a line of fires beside the tracks from central Denver out to the foothills. Usually it's a mechanical failure that causes it, not sparks being thrown from the wheels but a failed bearing that either heats up so much that it starts throwing off sparks itself, or it freezes the wheel and that heats up and starts throwing off sparks. Most of the reduction in fires caused by trains has been a reflection of improved bearing technology. If you look in magazines from the 1950's or earlier, sometimes they'll have advertisements from the Timkin Bearing Company talking about how good their train wheel bearings are, with sidebars that say "Call the fire department if you see a hot box", (*smirk*) referring to the bearing housing, that will actually glow red-hot when the bearing's failing.

You must live in a different Denver than I do. Otherwise, I hope you've got a license for that stuff you're smoking.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15530744/detail.html
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/16343895/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/denvers-red-light-cameras-no-data-just-tickets.ars

You must live in a different Denver than I do. Otherwise, I hope you've got a license for that stuff you're smoking.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/15530744/detail.html
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/16343895/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/denvers-red-light-cameras-no-data-just-tickets.ars

"Hell, even shooting rampages have been rarely need ended because of an armed populace. A quick search on Google and all of them seem to have been ended by suicide or police action."

Your conclusion that citizen ownership of guns doesn't prevent "shooting rampages" is neither logically nor factually correct. Almost all mass shooting occur in places where there is little likelihood of armed defense - "gun free zones" such as schools, malls, restaurants. You cannot draw the conclusion that guns were ineffective for defense because it assumes the victims had guns and didn't use them.

In fact, a recent case proves the opposite. At the New Life Church shootings, an off duty security guard, with a concealed weapons permit, stopped an massacre. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14817480/detail.html Note that this wasn't under the color of law or authority: she, and other volunteers, were acting as private citizens and not sanctioned by the state, except insofar as she had a concealed weapons permit.

You need to improve your google-fu if you missed that one.

Yep, a sensible and sane policy -- although it can result in people attempting store robberies in some strange ways:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18637190/detail.html#-

The sword nerds have been heard from. After further analysis of the surveillance video, it's been determined that the weapon was not a Batleth, but a Valdris. It's not a useless two-handed sword like the Batleth, it's a large, single-handed, double-ended knife. Retails for $49. More for intimidation than actual use.

This robber isn't a Trekkie. He's a knife nut.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. -- A man, woman and toddler were shot to death and a teenage girl was wounded outside a home near Bennett Thursday in what an investigator called a "horrific" scene. Neighbors told The Denver Post that the man was 'Spam King' Edward "Eddie" Davidson and his family. The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said another infant appeared to be unharmed in the shooting.

Since the article states that GA is the 12th fattest state, I wondered who was #1:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/2269064/detail.html

Not too surprising to see Mississippi is largest. I wouldn't have guessed Michigan would be #2. I guess that happens when it's too cold to go outside 5 months out of the year, and you sit indoors eating pasties (which, admittedly, make a delicious 1500 calorie meal.) Colorado's mountain climbing hippies are the leanest.

What I find really shocking is that most states have about doubled the percent of their population that is obese in just 10 years, from 1991 to 2001. It's not as if fast food didn't exist in the eighties. What has changed so much in that time? Cable TV and DVD players? The internet? Or is it just a general cultural shift towards laziness?

Indeed...

Shivetya, sorry to hear about your troubles. I'm both the president of my neighborhood association, and own a company that handles the day-to-day management of associations.

The HOA itself, whose Board Members consist of homeowners living in your neighborhood, are usually good people who just want to help (but there are always exceptions). But, since these are volunteer positions, people don't always have the opportunity or time it takes to take care of everything themselves -- leading to the hiring of a management company.

Most of the management companies out there are run by people with former realty experience (Realtors, title companies, etc.), but not necessarily people who have also been on the "other side of the fence" (ie, HOA Board Members). However, many of the people who do the day-to-day work at management companies (think bill paying, driving neighborhoods, answering phones) have little-to-no training or experience with actual property management. The vast majority of my business comes from HOAs that are looking for a less abusive, more responsive management company.

My recommendation to you is as follows:

• Find out who the actual Board Members of your Association are.
• Mention your concerns and issues to the Board Members. Be specific, and brief; remember, these are volunteers and most likely won't even be aware of the issues you've run into (like the rain barrels) as that was all done by the management company.
• Don't expect an immediate resolution. While they can grant an approval/exemption right then, most likely they'll want to talk to their contact at the management company first.
• If your Board Members are dismissive or won't listen to your concerns, remember that you have the option of forcing a recall and/or running against them at the next election. Your Bylaws should have the specifics around recalling, term length, etc.

I would like to see some definitive studies that show just how dangerous the use of cell phone are.

Okay, I'll start you off with the death of Jim Price. Jim, or "sydney" as we called him over on bikeforums.net was a real nugget. I think death is the ultimate form of having your liberty taken away.

Here is video taken by a local news crew this morning: ABC 7 Note: They use an embedded Windows Media Player.