Our State Representative who served in WWII is only retiring this election because they redistricted him out of a district. He was very skilled in finding ways to apply being born/raised in the depression as an advantage.
But yeah, they should have waited a few more years (a decade or two) if that was their goal unless they had a hard percentage of estimated survivors as a trigger.
WWII, and maybe WWI, were exceptions as the country was already in an extremely low production state. Sending all those men off to war, opening up the factories, it was like bringing god knows how many people off of unemployment/layoffs into turn-key operations ready to go immediately.
We've since transitioned to where such factories and what-not are shipped over seas or sold as scrap instead of sitting. Wars are more forced overtime.
Human nature. We tend to overlook what is common to us and villainize what is different. Politics, religion, what drugs get outlawed, etc. The same too for mediums such as this.
Socrates, allegedly since we only have Plato's writings to go on about him here, felt writing was dangerous thing. Then you had books, people who thought plays were immoral, television, the Internet, so forth.
As XKCD made a comic about, there are now kids who were blowing their NES cartridges (the memories...) who are now doctors. There is at least one news commentator who frequently mentions the games she played in her youth, and has used game analogies. There is now video game coverage on Forbes.com, not sure about their paper though, that actually took time to comment on the Mass Effect 3 ending fiasco.
The political uproar will die down slowly depending on when and where games began to seep into their country's culture. In the U.S.? I say one more generation, at least. My state is just now losing a state politician that was a WWII vet. Not disrespecting, but to remind people we have people who remember the great depression still creating and passing laws in parts of this country.
Depends on your note taking style. No matter what, I would recommend a audio recording fail safe just in case you miss something or simply mishear it. If allowed.
For when I cover meetings I switch between my tablet and pen/paper as needed. Rarely at the same meeting. Right now, the specific tablet doesn't matter if you are thinking about buying one. They all lack in the stylus department. So unless you are fine writing your notes as if holding a crayon (stylus) or a Crayola Marker (finger) you are best off typing a device or using pen/paper.
A tablet vs laptop depends on the scenario. Length of sessions vs computer battery life. Knee space vs table space. Stuff like that.
It is iffy. This may need more research than just the initial summary and article. From reading comments on the other sites, yet to see confirmation, there are three conflicting versions of the story: 1) Tweeted from home using own computer. 2) Tweeted from home, using school computer. 3) Tweeted from home, using own computer. Accessed Twitter from school where the school then began inspecting his Twitter account.
Two and three are the most logical with the information given. It would explain the school network part of the story. One leaves me asking why the school is forcing student home computers to use their VPN constantly.
Oh, what I love is the current trend. Getting called out on being "big government" while wanting a small government? Move the "big government" laws to the state level. See? State, not fed. It is small by definition?
Take it pretty seriously over there? Dead god, you UKers. Kicking a guy out of a graduate program, sending him to jail for that? Distasteful, yes, but ruing a mans life over it?
They had to settle for Microsoft Windows. Bethesda claims that Scrolls is effectively trademarked when Notch attempted to make a game called scrolls. Bethesda was afraid a digital card game might get confused for Elder Scrolls. Notch settled, however, and had to agree to not use Scroll for sequels and to respect the "Trademark". Look at the transformers. There are many named Autobot ____ and Decipticon _____ to get around being unable to trademark "Ratchet". While thinking about the Japanese, Godzilla vs Destroyah pronounced Destroyer. That is because they either couldn't or didn't want to bother trying to trademark Destroyer. Spelling change, same pronounciation. Boom, protected. Same with that 80s cartoon, Jem. They wanted to use just M, but wanted to protect the name.
Nothing new to this field. Nothing limited to computers. It has been going on for decades. Looking precedent, I expect this to get overturned.
Random Pundit: "For the good of our way of life, for the good of this country, our economy, we must not export oil! We must do to ourselves exactly what we want to do to Iran as a punishment! Only because we are us it is like, super good, and will be good for us, and like, well, would be detrimental to Iran. Like, time outs? Maybe? We'll be amazing oil monks meditating while Iran is like oil kids wanting to play with their toys, and games, and outside, but can't, and... yeah."
That is the common sense view that doesn't work when you actually look at it. Kind of like when you realize the Moon is orbiting the Earth means it is constantly falling, but missing the Earth. But, the Moon is gradually drifting away. Unless you look at all the interacting elements, it sounds weird to hear the Moon is falling "down" yet is drifting "up"/away at the same time.
The short of it is this. Snow stays and builds up all winter, ideally. Spring and into Summer it melts releasing a whole season's worth of extra water beyond just rain. No snow, the rain that should be snow hits the ground. It flows off into the streams, rivers, etc. and vanishes near immediately. Water is a use it or lose it resource if you rely on rivers/rain. Snow is nature's little cheat.
What people in my area, Pennsylvania, don't get is we get a lot of our water from melting snow. We had three days of snow, period, all winter. It all melted within a day or so. North America is going to be heading for drastic droughts. We have communities drilling wells for new water sources as is. We also have communities with water supplies either contaminated by Marcellus drilling or natural gas migration. Doesn't matter which at the moment, water is becoming scarce.
This is why I am fuming at Republicans not getting the problem with the Keystone Pipeline. The U.S.'s bread basket is watered through a giant underground aquifer. The bread basket will survive the coming drought. If the K.P. goes through, as planned, and has a B.P. style incident? There goes the country's capability to feed ourselves. We'll be trading exporting food/importing oil for importing oil from Canada/importing food if we have more years like we had this year in our future.
This warm weather is scarring me for the coming year, climate change or fluke event.
Well, fine print doormat. By entering these premises you give up all legal standing and agree to the following: list details. To what degree these are enforceable, I don't know. However, there are two styles of precedent for using it at your home.
1) EULAs. This isn't any different than a EULA. Actually, if you have the doormat outside in a way it is even more open/free than an EULA. To be completely like the EULA you need to have it in a closed off foyer inside your house. Just change "by entering" to "proceed beyond this single room".
2) Things like this are already being used by media organizations. One cooking show... I forget who, Rachel Ray? American Eats? I think American Eats, filmed at a local location. They put up a sign outside the main entrance stating "by entering this building you agree to be filmed, to have your likeness used, etc." contractual lawyerese.
Jeff Dunham did the same thing when I went to see his one show. Paid for the ticket, drove the hour and a half with the person treating me, sat down for about a half-hour, and then this barely readable (due to being in the nose bleed section) EULA like agreement begins scrolling down on the jumbo-tron stating I agree to a whole bunch of stuff just by sitting there. I was tempted to see if I could get a refund just to see what would happen, but I was there with others, and maybe they "read" the agreement before they were allowed purchasing the tickets.
The thing is a bit deeper than that. Analogy time.
Google had this agreement. According to Anthony Mouse below in the comments, Google knew of this problem. They submitted a bug fix. So the question for the prosecution and layperson is this, was there a way Google at this point could not abuse this bug?
Let's say there is gas pump at the only gas station in town. The pump are calibrated wrong and providing 1.5 gallons of fuel for every gallon "measured". In a fair world this would never have happened. In a fair world, if it did happen by honest mistake, Google would not be blamed for the free gas before reporting it.
The question becomes what happens after Google reported it, and seemingly kept using that pump until it was properly calibrated. Were there alternative means to not gather this data despite the bug (using a different, properly calibrated pump) or ways to weed out this data (performing the math to pay for the correct amount of gas)?
Yeah... I think this isn't going to get the point across.
To the RIAA/MPAA pirating is like making a bootleg, almost. Just being digital, the quality is a much higher quality than you can get with a physical good. By buying/taking a free version of a bootleg they see it as robbing a sale from the legitimate product. Of course the flip side of the argument still works. The type of person to actually look around for a boot Louie Vuitton purse or Rolex likely isn't the type of person to shovel out cash for the real thing, and thus isn't a true lost sale.
By the same logic this would be bootleg money, or in more common terms counterfeit. This would be like sending counterfeit money to the RIAA/MPAA if you apply their logic here at the best. At the worst, they take this at face value, claim how easily digital currency can be inflated and they begin arguing for additional "inflation" based theft against all their customers in court.
I'm sorry. I haven't seen anything this stupid since the last time I read up on Jack Thompson. I feel like they missed the point of cited inspiration or step along the way.
Games having been keeping up with inflation if you assume the same time goes into producing a game, but just using better technologies. Good games can be worth 60. The only thing I see ending is bad games being able to charge as much as they used to now that there is more competition thanks to Steam, X-Box Live Arcade and the like.
But then look at TF2. Valve has admitted that game hit a ceiling in profitability, and making it F2P has turned it into a real money maker. So that might be the future. Cheap game, sell hats for profit.
My apologies to any Republicans I offended with these results. I only used these examples as they are near immediate in time scale.
The current voting system is full of flaws. It has been full of flaws. It will likely remain full of flaws. No need to worry about hackers mucking up an election when a typo can swing an election, and never have gotten caught if someone didn't post an image to FaceBook. So I don't see on-line voting as some type of corrupting influence on a pristine system.
The problem I see here is in the oversight. Considering it took two days for Washington D.C. to notice, I would say the real problem was not so much that the system got hacked, but D.C. didn't care enough about the election to monitor it as it was going on. The same lackluster oversight could still swing *cough*Iowa*cough* a close election.
Frankly, the system as is a chaotic mess. I find myself more and more often tempted to state HH:MM p/a GMT. It just seems like something that was good in theory about two hundred years ago, but now? Confusion. There is a reason standard time for trains considered such a great advance. DST now seems like a step backwards.
Windows 8 is kind of looking interesting? They still have the beta running, right? I'm kind of interested in checking it out. Windows 7 is working well for me as well. I say Microsoft has actually found a decent niche. They are the middleware, the average. As long as they have Ubuntu and Apple keeping them from becoming too complacent their products do well enough.
You want something more open, more versatile than an Apple OS? You have Linux and Windows.
You want something that works without caring about being able to tweak every little last doodad. You don't care about being able to use the CLI. You don't care about open or proprietary as long as it works, or because you admit unless you want to read every last line of code it might as well be proprietary to you in terms of openness? You have Windows and Apple's OS.
Sometimes you need a truck capable of doing anything, lovingly kept running and tweaked in your own garage (Linux). Then there are times you want a polished, chic sportscar with someone else worrying about all the under the hood details and those specialty parts(Apple). Then there are times you just want a bloody car that looks alright, runs well and you don't mind/want to do much more than check the oil, tire pressure, and occasionally the transmission and break fluid levels (Windows).
My hair color ranges from brown to noticeably red depending on the season and sunlight. I get it bad enough that I eat everything with hot sauce. Chicken, beef, french fries, potato chips, popcorn, straight from the bottle on occasion. Now I need to brace for a whole new round of ribbing that this might be due to my hair color than just my incredibly bad taste in food:(.
It was a dispersion event at an Occupy _______ site. Forgive me, I assumed that this event had reached total media saturation at this point. Here is some more information on the subject:
Frankly, so many plausible reasons for the Titanic's sinking have been proposed and proved to be plausible that I won't be surprised if there is a time traveling insurance agency right now back then looking into the possibility of insurance fraud.
It depends. My immediate rural area was hit hard by the recession and is still feeling the pain as our state is cutting funds being sent to non-cities. This has drastically hit local police forces. * One town just outright laid off of its police. * Another is refusing to promote beyond part-time/temporary until the police give in on wage and pension increases. * A third apparently didn't realize they admitted that they thought paying their police minimum wage was outrageous and leading the town into ruin. Lesson learned, do the math before making public announcements.
I agree, that "cop" may not have been a real "cop". I know my Big Ten school's main branch sometimes even hired students in the law enforcement program. However, my school's local branches and even some high schools are hiring displaced police officers.
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Our State Representative who served in WWII is only retiring this election because they redistricted him out of a district. He was very skilled in finding ways to apply being born/raised in the depression as an advantage.
But yeah, they should have waited a few more years (a decade or two) if that was their goal unless they had a hard percentage of estimated survivors as a trigger.
WWII, and maybe WWI, were exceptions as the country was already in an extremely low production state. Sending all those men off to war, opening up the factories, it was like bringing god knows how many people off of unemployment/layoffs into turn-key operations ready to go immediately.
We've since transitioned to where such factories and what-not are shipped over seas or sold as scrap instead of sitting. Wars are more forced overtime.
Human nature. We tend to overlook what is common to us and villainize what is different. Politics, religion, what drugs get outlawed, etc. The same too for mediums such as this.
Socrates, allegedly since we only have Plato's writings to go on about him here, felt writing was dangerous thing. Then you had books, people who thought plays were immoral, television, the Internet, so forth.
As XKCD made a comic about, there are now kids who were blowing their NES cartridges (the memories...) who are now doctors. There is at least one news commentator who frequently mentions the games she played in her youth, and has used game analogies. There is now video game coverage on Forbes.com, not sure about their paper though, that actually took time to comment on the Mass Effect 3 ending fiasco.
The political uproar will die down slowly depending on when and where games began to seep into their country's culture. In the U.S.? I say one more generation, at least. My state is just now losing a state politician that was a WWII vet. Not disrespecting, but to remind people we have people who remember the great depression still creating and passing laws in parts of this country.
Depends on your note taking style. No matter what, I would recommend a audio recording fail safe just in case you miss something or simply mishear it. If allowed.
For when I cover meetings I switch between my tablet and pen/paper as needed. Rarely at the same meeting. Right now, the specific tablet doesn't matter if you are thinking about buying one. They all lack in the stylus department. So unless you are fine writing your notes as if holding a crayon (stylus) or a Crayola Marker (finger) you are best off typing a device or using pen/paper.
A tablet vs laptop depends on the scenario. Length of sessions vs computer battery life. Knee space vs table space. Stuff like that.
It is iffy. This may need more research than just the initial summary and article. From reading comments on the other sites, yet to see confirmation, there are three conflicting versions of the story:
1) Tweeted from home using own computer.
2) Tweeted from home, using school computer.
3) Tweeted from home, using own computer. Accessed Twitter from school where the school then began inspecting his Twitter account.
Two and three are the most logical with the information given. It would explain the school network part of the story. One leaves me asking why the school is forcing student home computers to use their VPN constantly.
http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/High-School-Senior-Expelled-For-Tweeting-Profanity---144022966.html implies that Three is the case. Tweeted from home, home network, visited Twitter from school so the school detection software picked it up. Punished for it.
Oh, what I love is the current trend. Getting called out on being "big government" while wanting a small government? Move the "big government" laws to the state level. See? State, not fed. It is small by definition?
http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/story/_/id/7742330/liam-stacey-jailed-racial-tweets-bolton-fabrice-muamba is where I had to go to find what he actually said. Something the article lacked.
Take it pretty seriously over there? Dead god, you UKers. Kicking a guy out of a graduate program, sending him to jail for that? Distasteful, yes, but ruing a mans life over it?
They had to settle for Microsoft Windows. Bethesda claims that Scrolls is effectively trademarked when Notch attempted to make a game called scrolls. Bethesda was afraid a digital card game might get confused for Elder Scrolls. Notch settled, however, and had to agree to not use Scroll for sequels and to respect the "Trademark". Look at the transformers. There are many named Autobot ____ and Decipticon _____ to get around being unable to trademark "Ratchet". While thinking about the Japanese, Godzilla vs Destroyah pronounced Destroyer. That is because they either couldn't or didn't want to bother trying to trademark Destroyer. Spelling change, same pronounciation. Boom, protected. Same with that 80s cartoon, Jem. They wanted to use just M, but wanted to protect the name.
Nothing new to this field. Nothing limited to computers. It has been going on for decades. Looking precedent, I expect this to get overturned.
That would so frack up political thinking.
Random Pundit: "For the good of our way of life, for the good of this country, our economy, we must not export oil! We must do to ourselves exactly what we want to do to Iran as a punishment! Only because we are us it is like, super good, and will be good for us, and like, well, would be detrimental to Iran. Like, time outs? Maybe? We'll be amazing oil monks meditating while Iran is like oil kids wanting to play with their toys, and games, and outside, but can't, and... yeah."
That is the common sense view that doesn't work when you actually look at it. Kind of like when you realize the Moon is orbiting the Earth means it is constantly falling, but missing the Earth. But, the Moon is gradually drifting away. Unless you look at all the interacting elements, it sounds weird to hear the Moon is falling "down" yet is drifting "up"/away at the same time.
The short of it is this. Snow stays and builds up all winter, ideally. Spring and into Summer it melts releasing a whole season's worth of extra water beyond just rain. No snow, the rain that should be snow hits the ground. It flows off into the streams, rivers, etc. and vanishes near immediately. Water is a use it or lose it resource if you rely on rivers/rain. Snow is nature's little cheat.
This explains it better: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-snow-drought-serious-implications
What people in my area, Pennsylvania, don't get is we get a lot of our water from melting snow. We had three days of snow, period, all winter. It all melted within a day or so. North America is going to be heading for drastic droughts. We have communities drilling wells for new water sources as is. We also have communities with water supplies either contaminated by Marcellus drilling or natural gas migration. Doesn't matter which at the moment, water is becoming scarce.
This is why I am fuming at Republicans not getting the problem with the Keystone Pipeline. The U.S.'s bread basket is watered through a giant underground aquifer. The bread basket will survive the coming drought. If the K.P. goes through, as planned, and has a B.P. style incident? There goes the country's capability to feed ourselves. We'll be trading exporting food/importing oil for importing oil from Canada/importing food if we have more years like we had this year in our future.
This warm weather is scarring me for the coming year, climate change or fluke event.
I see you are angry. Have you been playing too much Tetris? Maybe Bejeweled?
Well, fine print doormat. By entering these premises you give up all legal standing and agree to the following: list details. To what degree these are enforceable, I don't know. However, there are two styles of precedent for using it at your home.
1) EULAs. This isn't any different than a EULA. Actually, if you have the doormat outside in a way it is even more open/free than an EULA. To be completely like the EULA you need to have it in a closed off foyer inside your house. Just change "by entering" to "proceed beyond this single room".
2) Things like this are already being used by media organizations. One cooking show... I forget who, Rachel Ray? American Eats? I think American Eats, filmed at a local location. They put up a sign outside the main entrance stating "by entering this building you agree to be filmed, to have your likeness used, etc." contractual lawyerese.
Jeff Dunham did the same thing when I went to see his one show. Paid for the ticket, drove the hour and a half with the person treating me, sat down for about a half-hour, and then this barely readable (due to being in the nose bleed section) EULA like agreement begins scrolling down on the jumbo-tron stating I agree to a whole bunch of stuff just by sitting there. I was tempted to see if I could get a refund just to see what would happen, but I was there with others, and maybe they "read" the agreement before they were allowed purchasing the tickets.
The thing is a bit deeper than that. Analogy time.
Google had this agreement. According to Anthony Mouse below in the comments, Google knew of this problem. They submitted a bug fix. So the question for the prosecution and layperson is this, was there a way Google at this point could not abuse this bug?
Let's say there is gas pump at the only gas station in town. The pump are calibrated wrong and providing 1.5 gallons of fuel for every gallon "measured". In a fair world this would never have happened. In a fair world, if it did happen by honest mistake, Google would not be blamed for the free gas before reporting it.
The question becomes what happens after Google reported it, and seemingly kept using that pump until it was properly calibrated. Were there alternative means to not gather this data despite the bug (using a different, properly calibrated pump) or ways to weed out this data (performing the math to pay for the correct amount of gas)?
Yeah... I think this isn't going to get the point across.
To the RIAA/MPAA pirating is like making a bootleg, almost. Just being digital, the quality is a much higher quality than you can get with a physical good. By buying/taking a free version of a bootleg they see it as robbing a sale from the legitimate product. Of course the flip side of the argument still works. The type of person to actually look around for a boot Louie Vuitton purse or Rolex likely isn't the type of person to shovel out cash for the real thing, and thus isn't a true lost sale.
By the same logic this would be bootleg money, or in more common terms counterfeit. This would be like sending counterfeit money to the RIAA/MPAA if you apply their logic here at the best. At the worst, they take this at face value, claim how easily digital currency can be inflated and they begin arguing for additional "inflation" based theft against all their customers in court.
I'm sorry. I haven't seen anything this stupid since the last time I read up on Jack Thompson. I feel like they missed the point of cited inspiration or step along the way.
It is a bit to blame just those three. Look at the publishers.
Take the company who made Unreal Tournament: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Consoles-PC-Games-Unreal-Gears,10437.html
PC gaming is dead and we left the sinking ship, they said. PC gaming, if it lives will be, lol, Farmevilles on Facebook.
Of course a year later they are back to targeting the PC as the primary market: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-16-epic-games-working-on-five-new-titles talking about being wary of "betting their company" on every game produced in a market that is Halo, COD and Gears.
Games having been keeping up with inflation if you assume the same time goes into producing a game, but just using better technologies. Good games can be worth 60. The only thing I see ending is bad games being able to charge as much as they used to now that there is more competition thanks to Steam, X-Box Live Arcade and the like.
But then look at TF2. Valve has admitted that game hit a ceiling in profitability, and making it F2P has turned it into a real money maker. So that might be the future. Cheap game, sell hats for profit.
Even the current system isn't correct. The Republican Party holds voting accuracy as near sacred as part of their party talking points. Take a look at how they handled a primary season where they should have absolute control over the rules:
* Iowa went from Romney to Santorum, though a statistical tie, because someone mistyped a 2 as 22: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/01/18/rick-santorum-might-have-actually-won-the-iowa-caucuses
* Maine almost didn't even count a whole county: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/maines-miscount-one-county-might-be-included-after-saturday/
* Nobody can seem to make up their minds on what to do about Florida. It is supposed to be, normally, a winner take all state. It moved its primary up and got sanctioned by the party by having its delegates cut in-half. Also, it may or may not be proportional. We'll find out in August: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/26/2610390/fight-looms-over-fla-delegates.html
* Missouri has two elections this year. The first doesn't county, but everyone is assuming it will. The one that was held already was state mandated, but the state Republicans, not wanting to lose half their delegates, have decided that one won't count. They'll have a second one that will really count. Note : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/missouri-primary-2012-explained_n_1257817.html
* She was allowed to vote once it was all sorted out, but an 84-year-old was initially told she was dead when she appeared at the polls: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/03/07/84-year-old-fall-river-woman-tries-to-vote-told-shes-dead/
My apologies to any Republicans I offended with these results. I only used these examples as they are near immediate in time scale.
The current voting system is full of flaws. It has been full of flaws. It will likely remain full of flaws. No need to worry about hackers mucking up an election when a typo can swing an election, and never have gotten caught if someone didn't post an image to FaceBook. So I don't see on-line voting as some type of corrupting influence on a pristine system.
The problem I see here is in the oversight. Considering it took two days for Washington D.C. to notice, I would say the real problem was not so much that the system got hacked, but D.C. didn't care enough about the election to monitor it as it was going on. The same lackluster oversight could still swing *cough*Iowa*cough* a close election.
Well, to be honest the hipster in me has also considered going by the Zulu standard just to confuse even the GMT/UTC supporters.
C.G.P. Grey did a swell video on this subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4
Frankly, the system as is a chaotic mess. I find myself more and more often tempted to state HH:MM p/a GMT. It just seems like something that was good in theory about two hundred years ago, but now? Confusion. There is a reason standard time for trains considered such a great advance. DST now seems like a step backwards.
Windows 8 is kind of looking interesting? They still have the beta running, right? I'm kind of interested in checking it out. Windows 7 is working well for me as well. I say Microsoft has actually found a decent niche. They are the middleware, the average. As long as they have Ubuntu and Apple keeping them from becoming too complacent their products do well enough.
You want something more open, more versatile than an Apple OS? You have Linux and Windows.
You want something that works without caring about being able to tweak every little last doodad. You don't care about being able to use the CLI. You don't care about open or proprietary as long as it works, or because you admit unless you want to read every last line of code it might as well be proprietary to you in terms of openness? You have Windows and Apple's OS.
Sometimes you need a truck capable of doing anything, lovingly kept running and tweaked in your own garage (Linux). Then there are times you want a polished, chic sportscar with someone else worrying about all the under the hood details and those specialty parts(Apple). Then there are times you just want a bloody car that looks alright, runs well and you don't mind/want to do much more than check the oil, tire pressure, and occasionally the transmission and break fluid levels (Windows).
My hair color ranges from brown to noticeably red depending on the season and sunlight. I get it bad enough that I eat everything with hot sauce. Chicken, beef, french fries, potato chips, popcorn, straight from the bottle on occasion. Now I need to brace for a whole new round of ribbing that this might be due to my hair color than just my incredibly bad taste in food :(.
It was a dispersion event at an Occupy _______ site. Forgive me, I assumed that this event had reached total media saturation at this point. Here is some more information on the subject:
* http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/us/police-officers-involved-in-pepper-spraying-placed-on-leave.html
* http://gawker.com/5861688/its-a-food-product-essentially-fox-news-starts-spinning-pepper-spray-cops
* http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/casually-pepper-spray-everything-cop
Frankly, so many plausible reasons for the Titanic's sinking have been proposed and proved to be plausible that I won't be surprised if there is a time traveling insurance agency right now back then looking into the possibility of insurance fraud.
It depends. My immediate rural area was hit hard by the recession and is still feeling the pain as our state is cutting funds being sent to non-cities. This has drastically hit local police forces.
* One town just outright laid off of its police.
* Another is refusing to promote beyond part-time/temporary until the police give in on wage and pension increases.
* A third apparently didn't realize they admitted that they thought paying their police minimum wage was outrageous and leading the town into ruin. Lesson learned, do the math before making public announcements.
I agree, that "cop" may not have been a real "cop". I know my Big Ten school's main branch sometimes even hired students in the law enforcement program. However, my school's local branches and even some high schools are hiring displaced police officers.