[ezkcdude]

Ridiculous.

Seismologists Tried for Manslaughter for Not Predicting Earthquake

[Banana]

I wonder if it ever occurred to the plaintiffs that if they sue and succeed, they may have just succeeded in causing more deaths to future earthquakes because nobody wants to take the responsibility of studying and working out a formula to predict earthquakes?

By their logic, then, we should sue those plaintiffs next time a big earthquake happens and nobody is around to study the possible factors to help predict and rule out extraneous or misleading factors that do not improve the accuracy of prediction.

[kscherer]

Banana, you hit the nail squarely upon the head.

Mankind is some stupid peoples!

[ezkcdude]

Originally Posted by Banana I wonder if it ever occurred to the plaintiffs that if they sue and succeed, they may have just succeeded in causing more deaths to future earthquakes because nobody wants to take the responsibility of studying and working out a formula to predict earthquakes? By their logic, then, we should sue those plaintiffs next time a big earthquake happens and nobody is around to study the possible factors to help predict and rule out extraneous or misleading factors that do not improve the accuracy of prediction.

Not only that but can you imagine how often there would be needless evacuations and panic? This is one extreme example that illustrates how problematic the lack of understanding of science is in our society.

[Banana]

Right, and they keep crying 'wolf' long enough, then we get basically Katrina-esque thing where people just hunker down because it's not going to be that bad or simply because nobody believes the warning anymore.

I really think plaintiffs didn't think it through too well. Maybe a iron-boot-clad swift kick to the ass should help.

[curiousuburb]

Gil Scott-Heron dead at 62



Musician, Poet, and "Godfather of Rap"... perhaps best known for "The Revolution Will Not be Televised."

Guardian story and tribute piece from last year

[pscates2.0]

Originally Posted by ezkcdude Ridiculous. Seismologists Tried for Manslaughter for Not Predicting Earthquake

I thought this was an Onion story...

This is what we've done, over the years. I notice this isn't happening in the U.S., but that doesn't mean anything. It just means this idiotic "sue anyone, for anything" mentality has gripped the world. And that there are enough suit-and-tie lizards and ambulance chasers with billboards and cheeseball "I'll fight for you and get you everything you deserve!" commercials to sustain a practice. And they do it by drumming up malcontents who feel they're owed every little thing and can't deal with life throwing them the occasional knuckleball. One feeds the other, sadly.

[Yontsey]

Originally Posted by curiousuburb Gil Scott-Heron dead at 62 Musician, Poet, and "Godfather of Rap"... perhaps best known for "The Revolution Will Not be Televised." Guardian story and tribute piece from last year

His Robert Johnson cover of "Me and the Devil" is brilliant. As a matter of fact, so his whole last album "I'm New Here".

[SpecMode]

A new business owner was found shot to death in Roseville's first homicide of the year. I just happened to catch the police department in their initial response on my scanner earlier, though I didn't hear the part about shots being fired. The kicker? I can see the building where this happened from the front door of my apartment.

On the upside (if there can be said to be one in this case), it's that we made it nearly halfway through 2011 without a homicide, something our neighbors to the southwest (Sacramento) can't hold a candle to. I can actually ride around on my bike around here and not worry too much about being stabbed, shot, or robbed.

[addabox]

Pussies. In Oakland we kill people, resurrect them with dark magicks, and kill them again, just out of boredom.

[bassplayinMacFiend]

Originally Posted by addabox Pussies. In Oakland we kill people, resurrect them with dark magicks, and kill them again, just out of boredom.

Hahaha. I'm going to kill you, then clone you, then kill all your clones!!! (From Madagascar, IIRC?)

[kscherer]

Weinergate

Gotta love it.

Yep. He's innocent of anything that may or may not have been possibly something that he might have certainly not been aware that could have been something else that hackers may or may not have under the circumstances ever photographed something or other about his things and such. Definitely, but not for certain.

[ezkcdude]

Not sure why he would want to deny it.

And as usual a guy who already has a super hot wife is chasing after someone else who is reportedly not as hot.



What the hell Wiener? She's not good enough for you? Damn.

[Noel]

I personally don't believe he posted it himself. Weiner seems far too smart (and twitter-savvy, specifically) to know there was no way he could get away with something like this.

Not to mention, he's never had a lack of media attention that would push him to do something like this for publicity: his rants are always getting covered by the political punditry.

[ezkcdude]

This would be funny, if it weren't tragic:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/c...tKcPXf8a8g1inL

[Kickaha]

Wow, that's shitty.

[kscherer]

Apparently, dying in a tub of poo is not terribly uncommon. Happened in Washington, too, although it was a while back, and the circumstances were a bit different.

[Robo]

What a way to go.

[ezkcdude]

Originally Posted by Kickaha Wow, that's shitty.

ouch

[addabox]

When I was a kid I had a weird job for a few years working for startup that my high school buddy's father had come up with-- basically applying (then) state of the art digital technology to the messy business of calculating flows in urban sewer and drainage systems (which was a booming business at the time on account of new EPA rules about how much water you could bypass at the treatment plant, so everybody was scrambling to figure out where rain water was getting in and blowing up the flow rates).

So we'd roll into a town and start popping manhole covers to install pressure transducers connected to watertight boxes with the electronics. Anyway, being young and smart and all, we brought fresh air blowers and ran them even when we were just sticking our heads down a two foot drop to an 8" line, much to the amusement of the local public works people, who were generally older blue collar dudes that had no time for our pussy "safety" protocols.

At which point we'd share with them our info on sewer worker fatalities from nothing more than sticking your head down a two foot drop into a pocket of methane, which is of course odorless, so that the first you know of it is when you pass out and die of asphyxiation with your ass hanging out of the manhole. Or, as in the story here, a guy would go down something a little deeper, pass out, his buddy would jump in after him, pass out, and they'd just stack up like cordwood down there, dying of asphyxiation.

[Robo]

Originally Posted by addabox At which point we'd share with them our info on sewer worker fatalities from nothing more than sticking your head down a two foot drop into a pocket of methane, which is of course odorless, so that the first you know of it is when you pass out and die of asphyxiation with your ass hanging out of the manhole. Or, as in the story here, a guy would go down something a little deeper, pass out, his buddy would jump in after him, pass out, and they'd just stack up like cordwood down there, dying of asphyxiation.

Wow, that is, like, hella depressing.

[addabox]

Originally Posted by Robo Wow, that is, like, hella depressing.

Yeah. If everyone in the company hadn't been drunk or high most of time it probably would have gotten us down.

[kscherer]

I. Did. Not. Have. Sexual. Relations. With. That. Woman.

But I did send her a picture of my Weiner!

We all lie. It's in our nature. But politicians make it seem particularly stupid. Now, the guy refuses to step down. And we are supposed to continue to trust him?

Keep in mind, folks: This asshole represents us! We put him there. He has become a face of our nation. And the rest of them are no different! The modern politician is nothing more than a corrupt, self-serving pig with puppet strings, and this guy is their mascot!

*sigh*

[Foj]

Turnabout is fair play.

Home owners foreclose on Bank of America branch.

[Brave Ulysses]

Originally Posted by kscherer I. Did. Not. Have. Sexual. Relations. With. That. Woman. But I did send her a picture of my Weiner! We all lie. It's in our nature. But politicians make it seem particularly stupid. Now, the guy refuses to step down. And we are supposed to continue to trust him? Keep in mind, folks: This asshole represents us! We put him there. He has become a face of our nation. And the rest of them are no different! The modern politician is nothing more than a corrupt, self-serving pig with puppet strings, and this guy is their mascot! *sigh*

and you think the next guy will be different?

politicians don't represent us... that's just how they get elected.

[pscates2.0]

With power comes great urges to show your junk online.

I, for one, look forward to the next round of asshat politicians who don't understand how certain features work getting themselves in trouble like this.

"You mean when I clicked that up-arrow button it put the video of me, the CPR dummy and strap-on up on YouTube? I thought I was turning up the volume...".

I don't care what (or who) these morons do. I just hate that, once again, they tell obvious, bullcrap lies and drag it out and make it a bigger story than it ever needed to be. I guarantee you (and I've been saying this for years) if the next one of these guys (Weiner, Spitzer, SC governor, bathroom stall foot-tapper, etc.) just came right out, on day one, and said "hell yeah I did it. So what? It's between my spouse and myself and the rest of you can pretty much go to hell" the story would be over within 24 hours. We'd all laugh and go "holy crap...that dude just laid it all out!". And then go on with our lives. It's only when these idiots tell the biggest, most "oh, really?!" lies and cover stories that things spiral out of control (and then you want to see their lame ass knocked down a peg or two, just on principle and because they've brought it on themselves).

Anyway, here's a free prediction...Congress, in the coming months, will suddenly take a strong interest in "vague and misleading UI design for Internet-enabled software for mobile devices".



A bunch of Bay Area tech honchos will get summoned to DC (again) to explain the finer points of accidental cock-shot uploading to a bunch of gin-soaked, page-diddling fuckwits who probably couldn't even spell Twitter, much less use it properly (yet who we've given the keys of our lives over to). We all kinda deserve each other, when you think about it.



This has that bathroom stall foot-tapper clown beat. But barely. Perhaps they can take it on the road together?

"You tap, I'll show my wang and we'll split the gate and merchandising, 50/50!"

[kscherer]

Originally Posted by pscates2.0 This has that bathroom stall foot-tapper clown beat. But barely. Perhaps they can take it on the road together? "You tap, I'll show my wang and we'll split the gate and merchandising, 50/50!"

I was going to include a rant on Larry Craig in my post, but the bastard was representing Idahoans at the time, and it just made me feel all dirty inside.

[bassplayinMacFiend]

What I don't get is, how does a guy think a shot of his junk is going to seal the deal? I have yet to meet a girl who thinks dick pics are attractive (I know, Weiner's had clothes on).

[bassplayinMacFiend]

Originally Posted by Foj Turnabout is fair play. Home owners foreclose on Bank of America branch.

This is totally awesome.

[kscherer]

Originally Posted by bassplayinMacFiend This is totally awesome.

I saw that. Great stuff!