>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Don't know much about coyote behavior. Is he playing, or trying to take pot shots for a wound? Seems a little aggressive for play, and a little bold for taking pot shots. None the less, very scary. Should be glad it wasn't wolfs.


While wolves tend to be more skittish around humans, coyotes tend to have less or no shyness around humans. They may seem like simply wild dogs (even playful ones at first sight), they are surprisingly adaptable killers.

I think this one probably saw it for what it was, a human walking alone, and was testing to see if it would be an easy meal. Two coyotes attacked and killed a 19 year old woman out hiking in Nova Scotia last year and coyote attacks have been rising over the last decade or so. A large percentage of those (~37%) are actually predatory attacks with intent to kill.

What this guy should have done, from the second it started approaching him, is make himself look as big as he could (instead of crouching down to its level), yell loudly and back away. When it got close to nip/bite him he should have swatted it.

...And holding out his open hand looked like a good way to lose a finger.

You'd be surprised what different species will befriend another. One of my old cats that lives with my mother (he's a 19 year old cat I had as a teenager) is really close friends with a deer. When ever that deer comes around he is outside and they will hang out, lie together, sometimes they sleep cuddled together. It's rather funny to see.

I would say if someone ordered, allowed or you followed the order to continue with your invasion after becoming aware of the leak and associating it with danger to your mission, then you and whom ever is involved are complete fucking morons. That's what I would say. It wasn't leaked to the Taliban first, it was leaked worldwide.

It is not up to Manning to ensure your safety.

>> ^MarineGunrock:

And would you say the same thing to me if I told you I was directly affected by these leaks? What would you say if I had said that my unit lead the force that invaded Marjah earlier this year, and the Taliban knew we were coming because of some piece of shit leaked a bunch of classified documents?
This wasn't just a simple case of "defiance" - it was a huge fucking breach of security. Yeah, the "entire fucking internet" probably would have preferred that we didn't invade a country. But so doesn't a lot of servicemen and women. So they should have to suffer at the hands of some 19 year old kid who doesn't know his head from his ass because he's just "fighting as he is able"?

And would you say the same thing to me if I told you I was directly affected by these leaks? What would you say if I had said that my unit lead the force that invaded Marjah earlier this year, and the Taliban knew we were coming because of some piece of shit leaked a bunch of classified documents?

This wasn't just a simple case of "defiance" - it was a huge fucking breach of security. Yeah, the "entire fucking internet" probably would have preferred that we didn't invade a country. But so doesn't a lot of servicemen and women. So they should have to suffer at the hands of some 19 year old kid who doesn't know his head from his ass because he's just "fighting as he is able"?

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/96353934.html

According to Seattle police, the incident began when an officer spotted a man jaywalking in the 3100 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Way S. at approximately 3:10 p.m. The man was some 15 feet away from a pedestrian overpass, police said.

The officer was talking to the man when he saw four young women jaywalk across the same street at the same spot. The officer asked the women to step over to his patrol car, but the women were being "verbally antagonistic toward the officer," according to officials.

One of the women, later identified as a 19 year old, began to walk away from the scene despite the officer's instructions, prompting the officer to walk over to her and escort her back to his patrol car.

The girl then "began to tense up her arm, and pull away from the officer while yelling at him," investigators said. The officer told the girl to place her hands on his patrol car, but she refused. When the officer tried to grab hold of her, "she pulled away and twisted, breaking free of the officer's grip several times," the blotter report said.

When the officer tried to handcuff the girl, another girl, this one 17 years old, intervened and placed her hands on the officer's arm, "causing the officer to believe she was attempting to physically affect the first subject's escape," police said.

The officer pushed back the second girl, but the girl came back at him. The officer then punched her, police said.

The officer then handcuffed the 19-year-old woman. Other officers arrived and helped handcuff the second girl.

Both teens were cited for jaywalking. The older suspect was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of obstructing an officer. The 17-year-old girl was booked into the Youth Service Center for investigation of assault of an officer.

Nobody was injured during the incident, police said.

You know why the lawyer is crying; because the judge doesn't give a shit. The whole tone of that court is bullshit.

Now I'm going to use ad homimen against the quoted person below. Do you dislike the constitution; your comment would seem to put you in that category. This case is clear cut, the Judicial Branch in Nevada does not have the power to call that law what it is; bullshit. The balance of powers is not working, and it is clear in the judge’s tone of voice; "I wash my hands of this."

Read the 8th amendment.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Somehow I get the feeling that you would think the ultimatum imposed on Alan Turing was correct and immaculately moral. Read the following excerpt from Wikipedia. Turing’s ultimatum was chemical castration or imprisonment. Bear it in mind that this is the same era where Oppenheimer was persecuted for, what some would say, the same carelessness as Turing.

In January 1952 Turing picked up 19-year-old Arnold Murray outside a cinema in Manchester. After a lunch date, Turing invited Murray to spend the weekend with him at his house, an invitation which Murray accepted although he did not show up. The pair met again in Manchester the following Monday, when Murray agreed to accompany Turing to the latter's house. A few weeks later Murray visited Turing's house again, and apparently spent the night there.[38]

After Murray helped an accomplice to break into his house, Turing reported the crime to the police. During the investigation, Turing acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray. Homosexual acts were illegal in the United Kingdom at that time,[6] and so both were charged with gross indecency under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, the same crime that Oscar Wilde had been convicted of more than fifty years earlier.[39]

Turing was given a choice between imprisonment and probation conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal treatment designed to reduce libido. He accepted chemical castration via oestrogen hormone injections.[40] A side effect of the treatment caused him to grow breasts.

Turing's conviction led to the removal of his security clearance, and barred him from continuing with his cryptographic consultancy for GCHQ. At the time, there was acute public anxiety about spies and homosexual entrapment by Soviet agents,[41] because of the recent exposure of the first two members of the Cambridge Five, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, as KGB double agents. Turing was never accused of espionage but, as with all who had worked at Bletchley Park, was prevented from discussing his war work.[42]

Your way of thinking is outdated, outmaneuvered and better suited for the middle ages; also misogyny doesn't suit you.

>> ^fjules:

She got sentenced for life because she refused to have her name on the sex offenders list. Basically, it's her own fault.
"wtf with the crying lawyer?"
Good reason why women can't be lawyers.

ALYSSA BETTS
March 11th, 2010

A SECURITY video camera has captured the shocking moment when a young woman driver intentionally mowed down a man - flipping him over the bonnet and roof into the air.

Natasha Anne Carra, 19, was facing up to 10 years in jail after pleading guilty to recklessly endangering life and aggravated assault over the incident at Katherine's BP service station in June last year.

During her ram-rage, Carra hit one man in the legs before driving off and skittling a second man over her bonnet.
The NT Supreme Court heard a drunk Carra had left a nightclub and drove to the servo about 1.25am.

Chief Justice Brian Martin said she parked behind a car in a bay closest to the entrance doors, beeped the horn, and yelled "move your f**king car".

She and the driver had an argument, and she then shunted the man's car forward with her own, denting her vehicle in the process.

Justice Martin said in her "drunken state" she saw the dent and became convinced the other car had reversed into her vehicle.

A "heated argument" followed - in which Carra was called a "peg leg" - and the 19-year-old exploded.

She drove at two of the men - hitting one in the legs.

Footage then shows Carra reversing 10m, stepping on the accelerator and hitting the second man, causing him to hit her bonnet and roof before being flung into the air.

"You were overheard by one of your passengers to say: 'Don't think I won't hit you,' before revving the vehicle and accelerating heavily," Justice Martin said.

He said it was "very surprising" the victim suffered only minor grazes and bruising.

"You did not apply your brakes or swerve or make any attempt to avoid striking that victim."

In sentencing the judge said he took into account Carra suffered a rare and painful condition that affected her limbs, for which she had been taunted and teased at school.

He said it was to Carra's credit she was a person of good character - and that this was a difficult and "exceptional" case.

She was given a three-year jail sentence, fully suspended for three years, and had her licence disqualified for that same period.

Source: NT News

i watched these stories play out every night on the floors of a hospital since i was 19 years old. i think during all that time, i turned off a huge part of me that was able to tune in compassionately to this particular brand of suffering. 6 months away from ICU floors and keith just shook something loose. i'm gonna go cry now.

"planned parenthood technique called withdrawl" ???
when 19 year old pregnant me trotted down to planned parenthood they told me that technique didnt work.


wait, are we sure this isnt parody?

>> ^Enzoblue:
Not even upvoting this. "horrific chemo and radiation" is a huge industry. A cure now would guarantee our financial collapse here in America. And for what? To reverse the second largest population controller we've got? F that.


I guess if the chemo was focused exclusively on the crotch area, we'd have THE greatest population controller. Perhaps chemo should be *mandatory* to those in perfect health as well. Then the economy could rebound like an 19-year-old freshman just out of a long-term high school relationship. YOU, Sir, are brilliant. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.

Ok, I'm from Pittsburgh, and I can tell you that a vast majority of the cops were brought in from elsewhere, as well as a vast majority of the protestors & anarchists were not from Pittsburgh. Yes there were more cops than protestors. Perhaps it was an over-reaction, but it was based on the precedent of events in London and Seattle. Many of those brought in were national guard. I can't speculate on who wears what kind of camo/fatigues - most were dressed in dark gray & black riot gear. From the video (no where near downtown) I would guess that they targeted this particular individual, and just removed him out of the crowd to the police line that was 50 ft away. I couldn't see any plates or lights on the car - most undercover cop cars are easy to spot, so this might have been a civilian vehicle.

Personally I was disappointed that there were so many cops, yet the anarchists got away with breaking so many windows. (this was probably because most of the cops were in the downtown area, and most of damage was in other neighborhoods outside of downtown). What point are they trying to prove? "ooh, I'm 19 years old and being repressed by the evil government, so I'll get back at them by breaking windows of a local business!!" Unless your goal is to provide work for local window replacement companies, it's pointless.

But in the end there were several peaceful protests as well (much larger turnout than you see in these videos), and no major damage or injuries, so it's probably better to err on the side of caution.

The channel 11 news (nbc) interviewed the girl who was on video from the previous night getting arrested for throwing her bike at the riot cops. Now that was entertainment... What did she think was going to happen?

Also, I disliked all the reporters comments about how downtown turned into a ghost town for 2 days - well that's what happens when the secret service quarantines a 16 block area and nearly every road in and out of downtown. All the businesses closed because it's too much hassle for employees and customers to even get there.

Wow, just Wow!

Where to start. Kanye isn't a musician. Musicians create and perform music, Kanye samples and distorts the work of others and calls it his own. His work is like going to the Louvre and photographing real works of art, making a collage and then espousing about how great you are to have done it all.

Beyonce's video, all I can say is it's nice to know that strippers will always have a future as hip-hop choreographers. All that was missing was the friggin' brass pole.

Now, Taylor Swift, I have a hard time believing that any 19 year-old deserves the accolades she receives. Her entire career wreaks of corporate manipulation. Her bio sounds like a made for TV movie. She's a wonder of marketing, just like 99.9% of all the popular artists around. Maybe if she was homely I'd believe she's as talented as she's portrayed.

The modern music industry is garbage, regardless of how popular it is. Image has replaced talent, and computer processing has replaced hard work and skill.

And the VMA's are a testament to how far music has fallen.

Kanye proves (again) that he's a fucking talentless douchebag.

To quote someone commenting on "the 19 year old's" youtube video:

'kanye is just pissed that she won over a "sister"

taylor has 100x more talent than kanye. and im not a country fan...... she can actually sing. he just uses auto tune, samples everyone else, doesn't write any music - he's over produced. he's fake, and "manufactured"

taylor swift looked amazing at the vma's too.'

Yeah, the 'personhood' model and the cognitive machine model are each useful levels of detail for the same thing... the best one to use probably depends on what your application is.

I don't blame people, though, for holding views that I think have big costs for society... I think we're all in the same trap of limited human intelligence - them more so than us - and people will change their minds in the end.

Also, the libertarian in me says that society's lack of intelligence only has a cost on us if we let it (to some degree). Turing, for example, as much as I personally admire him for his genius, chose to take certain risks, and he lost the bet.

In January 1952 Turing picked up 19-year-old Arnold Murray outside a cinema in Manchester. After a lunch date, Turing invited Murray to spend the weekend with him at his house, an invitation which Murray accepted although he did not show up. The pair met again in Manchester the following Monday, when Murray agreed to accompany Turing to the latter's house. A few weeks later Murray visited Turing's house again, and apparently spent the night there.[32]

After Murray helped an accomplice to break into his house, Turing reported the crime to the police. During the investigation Turing acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray. Homosexual acts were illegal in the United Kingdom at that time,[6] and so both were charged with gross indecency under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, the same crime that Oscar Wilde had been convicted of more than fifty years earlier.[33] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Conviction_for_gross_indecency

IMHO, it's reasonable to say a rationalist in his position wouldn't have been so careless with sexuality. I think we're often more empowered and capable of proactive behavior than we think we are, and viewing ourselves as victims is generally not necessary.



In reply to this comment by gorillaman:
You're better informed on the technology so I'm not going to argue your projections, but I wouldn't and haven't bet on them. It's funny, a basic assumption I've made in directing my life is that with a good diet and exercise, risk management and so on I'd make it to around 100, half that if I want to enjoy myself. If I thought I had a good chance (>50%) of surviving to the next millennium, say, that would drastically change almost every dimension of my life. So to that extent I sympathise with your attitude.

I disagree that calling a human a person is less valid than your input-output cognitive machine, which I absolutely accept to be an accurate description, itself no less valid than as a bundle of quarks and electrons, acting on even more fundamental mechanisms. One emerges from the next emerges from the next. Possessing a de facto consciousness I'm not too concerned with whether or why it really exists; illusory or real one seems to function as well as the other. So it's on that principle I interact with what I blindly assume are other similar minds.

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im lame. there was a healthcare town hall here last night. my town and the ones surrounding it are enormously filled with the religious right, teabagger nuttery. however, the district is so large that my congressman is a democrat.it was pretty much guaranteed to be pure greatness. another sifter and i were going to go with hilarious protest signs. but we both got too busy this weekend for him to drive up from houston for the weekend. then i lost a babysitter so i just went to spin class instead of going by myself.
i lose. it really probably wasnt a place for my kids though. but this is the sign i wanted to attach to my my 6 year who almost got aborted when she showed up in my 19 year old womb.

"my mommy almost aborted me. you yelled at her and said she couldnt. were all glad she didnt. now we just lost our health insurance and cant afford my brothers asthma medication. the waiting list for chips is taking too long. shes trying to make sure this can never happen to us again. now youre yelling and saying she cant. you cant scream people into submission, intimidate them into having babies they cant afford and then try to deny them access to food, medicine and health care they need to take care of those babies.youre an asshole."

my 4 year old was gonna wear this one:
"my mommy is 26 and has an endocrine system full of tumors. we just lost our health insurance and now her tumors are a preexisting condition. are you going to protest being taxed to pay for the foster system and government entitlements ill get when she dies?"

bwwhahahahaahahahahah. it would have been hilariously inappropriate if i wasnt such a coward. and really its not as much fun to get yelled at by yourself.

maybe i shouldve gone with simple signs attatched to my daughter like "im easily manipulated by corporate propaganda" and dressed her up like one of these disney channel sluts like miley cyrus or brittany spears or a brats doll or something.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I just read this today. Please PLEASE PLEASE do this!

In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
thinker 247 and i have epic plans to crash teabagging parties... my sign will read "i refuse to pay to educate your kids, but i will enthusiastically pay to send your kids to war or prison!"