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Get one of those infrared LED light panels and set it up on a tripod in your yard shining directly into the security camera.

The Iranian government would blame Israel if their nan came out burnt.

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I like where your heart is at, but no.

Those who are routinely outraged have probably gone too long without laughing at themselves.

I said that more as a joke than anything. I'm tucked away in the beach cities, I have a 10 minute commute to work by bicycle, and I rarely use the freeways. Most of the time I'm going somewhere a distance away it's at off hours or on the weekend when traffic is... there... but everyone is moving pretty much as fast as they care to. If you live in a major city and you invite a 45 minute or an hour commute into your life, that's your choice. Miami, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Chicago, DC, Phoenix, Tampa, Houstin, San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Denver... I've seen a lot of traffic in this country, and it can get pretty bad everywhere. If I had to pick the worst place for traffic I've ever seen it would be a toss up between Atlanta, and the I-15 between Vegas and L.A. if you catch it at the wrong time.

In L.A. you'd probably want to make it four days to account for traffic.

I think people overestimate / overstate the benefit North Korea is provided by their nuclear weapons program.

Next question... Is that Lake Mcdonald?

No, there'd be more and more venues for nuclear brinksmanship of the kind that took place between the US and the Soviet Union and between India and Pakistan.... and those were just bilateral standoffs. There'd be more and more nuclear stockpiles with security and accountability lapses as there have been with all countries that possess nuclear weapons... and asymmetric actors come in more flavors today than they ever have. Getting to the point where the US and Russia are today was a non-trivial adventure that involved many close calls. I don't follow the logic behind advocating that everyone step up and have a roll of the dice. If one were to suggest that the non-proliferation argument from nuclear nations should be more sober and humbled than it currently is, I could agree with that.

The MQ-9 has become the stock image of "a drone" regardless of what the news story is about. Given recent trends in journalism when it comes to stories that involve details of a technical nature, it wouldn't surprise me that much to see pictures of an A380 or a 747 on an article about a 182 crash landing with the caption "This is an airplane. An airplane crashed today." It doesn't say what it was, but if they're referring to it as a target drone, it was likely a BQM-74. On the downside, they can move a lot faster than an MQ-9 and potentially cause more injuries and damage. On the upside, they cost about 1/40th of what an MQ-9 costs. Either way, glad to hear no one was more seriously injured.

As far as I know, most of them run on either T-mobile's network or AT&T's network. So depending on what stops you're going to make, you might want to ask locals with phones on either network if they get good coverage there and make sure you pick a SIM accordingly. Other than that, Google is your friend. For the record, I've had pretty good luck with AT&T at Elsinore and Eloy.

On the other hand, if Keith Richards tells you not to do heroin, you might want to hear him out.

Big difference in "if" you buy and you "must" buy..... Now, now... you only have to purchase health insurance or pay the tax penalty if you have a pulse... which is entirely optional.

Hey, why not? right? Parental notifications, invasive ultrasounds, elaborate spiels the doctor has to rattle off, making it mandatory that the woman have multiple spaced out visits, closing as many clinics as possible to force longer commute times... Firearms safety courses that don't exist, "may issue" licenses that are never issued, mandatory safety features that nobody makes, bans on ergonomic parts that are declared "assaulty"... Underhanded stupid bullshit is underhanded stupid bullshit. It's painful to see people simultaneously participating in discussions both promoting and bemoaning underhanded stupid bullshit. It's a ridiculous notion that if we could just get rid of as many abortions and firearms as possible, the world will be a better place combined with a selfish personal disinterest in having one or the other. "Hey! I'm fighting for a great cause and I don't have to do shit except vote other people's rights away! Saving the county is fun!"

We are droneless, we are droneless The Reaper sleeping in a New York Lake And we are droneless, droneless The Reaper sleeping in a New York Lake Somebody say m q m q m Somebody sing hello, hello, hello Somebody say m q m q m Somebody cry why? why? why?

My biggest concern with the ACA is what is going to happen with the subsidies in the long term. Any time the government subsidizes anything it just grows the price (see: mortgage deduction and housing prices, education loans and tuition rates, etc.) And while the ACA has mandates on the percentage insurance companies spend towards healthcare, they can just spend more to make more. ("Hey Doc, I have a headache" "Well then let's get you a CT Scan!") Political pressure will make it very difficult to do anything but spend more and more on subsidies as time goes on, and we'll end up with another 12-figure blob of "manditory" spending on the federal budget every year. My biggest gripe about the ACA (and this really gets to the heart of my stance on most controversial things that people support the government doing) is people who convert personal irrelevance of a law and a vague agreement with the stated goal of a law into support for that law and a willingness to marginalize cases of people being screwed by it. Are some people going to get the short end of the stick when the government does just about anything? Sure. And while I think most understand the size of that group is important, the shortness of the sticks they get is important too.

More directly I'll ask, to what end do you want to see the word "black" more frequently in the Chicago Tribune?

I hope that's not a metaphor. ...kidding... ...kidding... Back to your original post though. While I have no problem reading things into how news events are covered by the media, I'm curious as to what you feel the media are trying to do, why you disagree with that, and what you hope to accomplish with any suggested changes to the way crime/violence is reported.

He said... You're a fellow engineer so I'll help you out. I think this type of misinterpretation deserves a name. I'll call it "Occam's Fuck You!" And it states "All things being equal, when you just know the person you're talking to is an asshole then whatever interpretation of what they say makes them the most wrong had to have been what they meant."

Different issue. Like I said above. Republicans are against minimum wage, against taxes on business, against restrictive labour laws. Yet they want the government to force businesses to allow their employees to bring guns to work? If you don't like where you work, quit. And in the true American spirit, if you aren't smart enough to work anywhere other than the corner store...then you are just lazy. Zero tolerance policies towards firearms cause/give an excuse for administrators/employers to take actions that harm people and do nothing to curb firearms violence, and these are all examples of that. The propensity to quip "them’s the rules" in such situations seems to be more closely correlated to an overall concern about firearms rights, than the right of administrators to do their jobs or employers to run their businesses as they see fit. Maybe that's owed to my cynicism, especially on this forum. Also, I just stated my opinion making no mention of forcing anyone to do anything, who cares about Republicans? My President, US Representative, Both US Senators, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Treasurer, State Councilmember, State Senator, County Clerk, Mayor, and City Councilperson are all Democrats.

I read that as a condition of him "being an idiot..." rather than a condition on your reason for why he was fired. In any event, the totality of your posts up to the point that I made mine gave the impression you had a pretty firm picture in your head of what had happened. My apologies if that was, in fact, not the case.

No he's out of job for "Possession/Use of a weapon on company property." I think you're latching a bit heavily onto how he was quoted by the media as describing what happened as summarized by a news aggregation site, rather than on what happened. If you read the article from the local paper it sounds as though they were both still in the back office and he fired at the guy who he knew had just pepper-sprayed him, and the rest of what happened was blurry. Was it the best decision or even a good decision? Without knowing the store layout I'm not sure I can Monday-morning QB this one. Tell that to the kid who chewed a pop-tart into the wrong shape or the woman banned from her kids school for displaying a permit on her facebook page. The point of the article was to bemoan the ridiculous nature of zero-tolerance policies about firearms and how they steadily creep into more and more aspects of life.

Precisely. Chicago is doing fine. The gun crime there is owed to the fact that every other jurisdiction in the lower 48 doesn't have laws retroactively preventing people who shouldn't have had guns due to post-evaluation carelessness, stupidity, mental illness, maleficence, or immaturity from having had them. That's all he asks.

That was actually my point too, although explained much more thoroughly. A recent SMBC that comes to mind: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3167#comic My favorite line from the whole article is this one: You can say "not far above" or "11%" or "more than one in 10!" depending on your point. And the "federal poverty line for a family of five" is just a drive-by benchmark begging that everyone is the single worker supporting a family of five. "Don't you feel guilty that in California with no kids you make over four times the federal poverty guideline for families of four in Alaska?" "I... uh... probably not?"