You have to love the pumped up in your face ready to talk some trash way he got back up before he realized what he'd done.

>> ^Bhruic:

She doesn't face anything at this point: http://gawker.com/5928410/
The defence lawyer tried what defence lawyers try, thanks to the internet it blew up in his face, and he withdrew the motion. Even it wasn't withdrawn, the chances of a successful contempt charge was pretty low. This was really a non-story.


It's not really a non story because it's bullshit they even tried and it's bullshit a Judge imposed this. This would be a serious fucking problem if this girl decided to not go against the system. It's a coercive, abusive policy that the judge imposed...fuck her.

She doesn't face anything at this point: http://gawker.com/5928410/

The defence lawyer tried what defence lawyers try, thanks to the internet it blew up in his face, and he withdrew the motion. Even it wasn't withdrawn, the chances of a successful contempt charge was pretty low. This was really a non-story.

@dannym3141 my apologies brother. That comment was far more confrontational (and cynical) than I intended. I do stand by the final statement, but yes psycho- or sociopath doesn't really matter - semantic games around the idea of a person capable of unwarranted atrocity. (Not sure why I've always associated psychopaths with more direct engagement in violence than sociopaths - wishful thinking, perhaps?)

As for democracy, well, the ancient Greeks had a form of democracy (from which our own is derived), but my point was more broadly focused. People that aspire to or seize power have been of the same ilk forever. What I'm saying is that our elected officials are no different than ancient warlords or modern tyrants in their desire for power and their drive to attain it. This is the cynicism I can't escape - those who would rule are by their very nature rulers, incapable of abrogating their own authority. If you want to depose them, you must have the same desire to rule. That trait has been known to all since before we even were humans. And of course, any deposer soon becomes the tyrant.

Don't mistake my cynicism for fatalism though. I don't think there is any political system that can get around that aspect of human nature, but it doesn't mean I think we should put up with anything unless we're willing to do the same (anything). It is possible to muddle through life essentially ignoring the assholes until they get right up in your face. That's when action on the part of courageous individuals and groups makes a difference. Questioning authority, civil disobedience, or just defiance of the local cultural dogma - all of these are theoretically capable of establishing collective authority (at least temporarily) over individual authority. But it's hard. Generally, we suck it up until we're ready to stick 'em up.

Oooh girl this be some *quality *wtf here right. Too bad some bitch named siftbot be all up in my face talkin 'bout how I can't invoke nuttin; bout how I ain't privamaleged and shee-it. Oh mah gay!

Need a nice close up of his face to immortalize this.

FAKE!

If you use a cell phone at a gas station, it will blow up. The pimple faced geek behind the counter told me so after hitting the emergency stop.

Well, at least you're honest.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
I'm very upset that I chose profit and performance-rewards when it came to my own employment path. I didn't choose to be a social worker, because everyone knows that's a shit job with shit pay. But now that all my free market bullshit is blowing up in my face, because I'm at the bottom of the pyramid that I bought into, I'm going to do the most pathetic cowardly thing that I can:

I'm going to advocate that anyone who chose to help their fellow man, and take the slow, plodding, mediocre route to success be publicly exposed for their shameful weakness. Then my friends and I are going to steal our future from them instead of working for it ourselves like we always said we were going to do. Here's the thing, I could have joined the public sector and sacrificed some pay for more security. But those people all smelled, and worked in dingy offices with people who had real problems. How was I supposed to know they were making the wise decision!?!?

Well not anymore. Even though social programs fix more problems than they cause, it's time for them to go. Sure, I could work against the culture that pays their elite 500 times more than the average person makes, but that would actually take innovation and intelligence. Besides, I'm willing to overlook those people, because they share my greedy, corporate, business-reptile mentality.

No, it's the people with master's degrees who make thirty-thousand dollars a year that I'm after. Anyone who's willing to accept punishment like that has already made themselves easy prey. And how! All we have to do is present enough "evidence" accumulated by bogus, business advocacy groups to convince the rest of the tired and desperate people out there that there's a really really easy solution to their problems that involves no hard work whatsoever! We just cut all the funding to anything that involves helping people besides ourselves and all of our problems will simply go away! Well... except for the hippies.

>> ^nach0s:

It didn't hit him. It grazed him, though. He would have at least put his hands up to his face after being hit.


He definitely got hit. Here's the same thing, but slower. The guy get hit right in the face, and it bounces back into the cameraman's head/camera, before bouncing back in the initial direction. It's possible he was just trying to throw it up into the stands like GenjiKilpatrick says, and just really sucks. He definitely sees that he hits the man in the face, though, and ignores him after. Accident or perhaps not an accident, Michael Boley is a jerk.

[Edit] - Looks like he's talked about this, since, claiming temporary insanity. Being a player on the defense, he had no expectation or even idea of what to do on a touchdown like that, and got overexcited tying to throw the ball into the wall. Just happens to have been an intern in the way? I'd still have apologized. Doesn't look like he has afterwards, either. Oh well.

It didn't hit him. It grazed him, though. He would have at least put his hands up to his face after being hit.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
I'm waiting for an explanation of why they show up on North facing slopes. If this were LIQUID H2O I would think they would be on South facing (more towards the sun) slopes.
I hope NASA gets continued funding, but their PR needs to be more honest with less pandering to sensationalism.
The area in the video is in the southern hemisphere so the north-facing slopes would be getting more sun exposure than the south-facing slopes.
Also the (NASA) title of the video is "Possible Water Flows on Warm Martian Slopes". That doesn't seem all that sensationalist. Blame the media for the hype.


Thanks, I didn't realize this was the southern hemisphere. I'm not the only one leery of NASA hype though (check the comments out):

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/08/04/water-on-mars/#comments

>> ^Boise_Lib:

I'm waiting for an explanation of why they show up on North facing slopes. If this were LIQUID H2O I would think they would be on South facing (more towards the sun) slopes.
I hope NASA gets continued funding, but their PR needs to be more honest with less pandering to sensationalism.

The area in the video is in the southern hemisphere so the north-facing slopes would be getting more sun exposure than the south-facing slopes.

Also the (NASA) title of the video is "Possible Water Flows on Warm Martian Slopes". That doesn't seem all that sensationalist. Blame the media for the hype.

New pics, but not a new finding. Smears like these have been seen for years.
I'm waiting for an explanation of why they show up on North facing slopes. If this were LIQUID H2O I would think they would be on South facing (more towards the sun) slopes.
I hope NASA gets continued funding, but their PR needs to be more honest with less pandering to sensationalism.

No I was not aware they were capable of breaking unemployment rates down by race. I looked up how they actually determine unemployment rates. It is by a finding a pool of people they feel represent demographics the census shows them and calling them to ask if they are working or not.....basically. Then they use that to state the overall unemployment rates. I read that they don't use the number of people drawing unemployment benefits, I mention this because I suspected the unemployment fluctuations were because lots of people were being dropped from the counting when they exhausted their benefits. However I now believe that the way they sample could account for a pretty big fluctuation considering they might get a sampling that isn't true to reality.... I couldn't determine any other kind of metric they employ that even sounds remotely like they verify anything they claim as fact.

My experiences with their department is that they just routinely gave me wrong information or sent me documents in error. Causing me to have to contact them to find out what was going on....and having to call them 2-3 times to actually get in contact with someone who would take the time to answer my questions. And then those answers were 50/50 on their accuracy as well. It's one thing to be overburdened, it's another to create more work and hassle for yourself and everyone else involved.....it may have been a stalling tactic but it ain't fun to be denied by letter, then told on the phone you were eligible....filling out your weekly form to find out you were actually denied. Spending the week getting that straightened out, waiting a week because they say it'll take a week. Then find out your denied again.....spending another week straightening it out and a month has gone by before you get forward progress.

Didn't go to a college that had frat houses that I was aware of, and I commuted so I didn't spend a lot of time on campus as it more of a commuter heavy college. They certainly didn't have anything greek "official" within sight of campus. Didn't care if I was in a frat, club, or group. I'm just saying it was announced on the college radio that these clubs were around for these folks....not based on interests such as chess or even a greek/frat system.

And I don't really care what races Im around as long as they are on an even footing with me and have the common courtesy to take showers, wear deodorant, and try to control their breath or at least not get up in my face with stank mouth. Oh and if they must speak a foreign language at least try to include others in the conversation if we're working on a group project or having a group conversation. I've been trying to pick up other languages, but man...native speakers when they get going I can't tell what the hell they are saying.

And....what is "white culture" if everyone is included? Like.....country clubs? I figured they were more "rich culture".

>> ^longde:

@<Porksandwich I can sympathize; but did you know that the black unemployment rate is twice that of whites? I think the demographics of this shitty government agency reflect the fact that, before the downturn, whites who have better options in the workforce chose not to take those jobs. And during the downturn, the public agency you saw just happened to be one which didn't have much turnover. I bet they laid people off though, and the inefficiency you witnessed is due to individual employees doing jobs meant for 2 or 3 people. As far as college groups, there are indeed white groups that exclude others. Just take a walk down frat row for instance, where you may see the occasional token in some of the houses. The asian/black/latino groups you saw cannot exclude white people, and in my college experience, some white people did join those groups to get exposure to other cultures. But most whites didn't; they either ignored or complained about the groups.
Also, it seemed like every year, there were whites who started a Whites Club----but these organizations never lasted, because what's the point? The damn campus is majority white, and everything is tailored towards white people and white culture. And, as I said above, if you really want to be around whites only, there are plenty of options on campus to do so, not limited to frats. This truth, incidently, extends to greater society.