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Having watched the entire video, the guy had an attitude and was completely disrespecting the police officers. Maybe the police officers did say you were jay walking, and that part of the video wasn't shown. The dude completely blew up the thing in a situation where those authority figures were not about to lose control of that situation. He's stupid, and so is his friend (who is now facing charges for carrying an unregistered weapon). Stupid. We are all engines of karma

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Can't access youtube from work, but I'm guessing this is the execution of a woman by the Taliban. If so, two Taliban "commanders" had relations with the women, then both decided to accuse her of adultery. We are all engines of karma

Yep. The chickens are coming home to roost, big time, and it's going to be ugly. We are all engines of karma

I think that's a fair statement. We are all engines of karma

Interesting article regarding social security. Bernanke – My Goal is to Wreck Social Security We are all engines of karma

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Sorry about that, but I had to trim the bitrate quite a bit in order to get the file under 300KB, which is the limit on uploads. We are all engines of karma

Great feedback everyone! Thanks! We are all engines of karma

IC is doing that, 180 degrees into the turn. We are all engines of karma

I'm curious... why do you disagree with the ruling? We are all engines of karma

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Any ideas how to stop the rotation on our Meeker exits? This video is pretty grainy. I had to limit its size to 300KB. We are all engines of karma

If a black guy robbed you, then I can only imagine police are going to stop black people who meet that description. In this case, a simple race based statistical analysis would not indicate causality, which is what disparate impact analysis seems to me. In your example, the same statistical technique could indicate disparate impact, IMO (...maybe because I'm getting close to that scenario ;). The "flaw" in all of this is... judgement by those in power. Can't get around it, though, IMO. We are all engines of karma

I have a friend who is a lawyer (...one mind you , and I grew up with him...). He was telling me that most of the work in a trial is convincing the judge what is acceptable as "fact". Once the facts are established, the case is essentially decided. We are all engines of karma

Disparate Impact? We are all engines of karma

This is a major short fall of our current society. Too many people feel that the government should educate their children, ...and the government is doing a piss poor job of it. Government schools are not consistently producing citizens prepared to live in a civil society populated with responsible adults. Charter schools are a good way to go. If the government is doing a better job, then folks will send their children back and stop paying for the charter school. The essence of markets is competition. Only through competition will cost effective excellence be achieved. If the government is doing something, there is no competition. And I believe everyone will agree the government has a lot of room for improvement in the services they are claiming to provide, but no outside competition to make that happen. We are all engines of karma

Full disclosure here, ...on my voter registration card, I have NONE where party affiliation is written. It's been that way pushing 20 years now. There are a lot of liberal people on this forum, and jclalor, I include you in that group. You and most of your fellow liberals here have informed opinions, most of which are not unreasonable. Getting to my point, if people think the tea party is full of ignorant red necks, and only ignorant red necks are concerned about the direction the country is going in, ...they couldn't be more wrong. Our Constitution is meant to limit the power of the Federal Government. Our society seems to be losing track of that very important basis for the republic, except for an increasing number of hard working people who are beginning to realize that they only have so much money to provide for their families, and their retirement. My country, ...our country, is at a tipping point in its existence. Federal debt has reached levels where it may never be repaid. If it is repaid, it will be with US Dollars that are worth much less than current US Dollars. Likewise, our elected federal officials can't even pass a budget, much less balance a budget. An enormous number of people seem to believe they can fix all of this just by taking more money from "rich people" and corporations. The numbers don't even come close to adding up. Plus, we have had an incredible expansion in the entitlement state, with more entitlements to follow. How is that going to be paid for? It's not. The world is already moving away from buying US treasuries. Bond auctions are covered because our government/fed/treasury is buying over 30% of the auction, i.e., we are printing money. Rates for America and it's citizens, et. al., will not stay this low for much longer. Our government is funding itself with relatively short term bonds (10 yr and less). Once rates start going up, and the government needs to roll it's debt, those higher interest rates are going to result in a significant increase in the Federal Government's interest payments. Interest payments alone could reach $1 Trillion dollars per year in our lifetimes. Most people are not aware of the following fact: the reason the US Dollar is the reserve currency for the planet is because of the 10 or so aircraft carriers we have floating around the oceans, and the muscle to back up any trouble that may come their way. The world has known since WW II that the US will always service it's debt, even during extreme periods of war. As the US Dollar loses its significance, and our military shrinks, fewer people will be willing to buy 2% or less US bonds. When that happens, all the paper our Fed has been printing will be significantly reduced in value. The next Federal administration must address this issue. Otherwise, we may all be biding time until the republic as intended by our founding fathers, one where the Federal government has limited powers, ...no longer exists. Our children's futures will be more of a struggle, relative to our parents, than it should be when that happens. We are all engines of karma

Just curious - do you think Apple's or Microsoft's profits are unreasonable? We are all engines of karma

Yes, they do. And you don't think the government is taxing the other parts of the supply chain, also? We are all engines of karma

What makes you say that? Full disclosure, I have not researched the numbers, yet. We are all engines of karma

I think conservatives are huge on supporting education. Thus, the push for charter schools. Conservatives definitely do not see supporting teacher unions as a priority. I think we can agree they're two different things. We are all engines of karma

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Thought this was interesting... We are all engines of karma

No, not at all. We are all engines of karma