It's worth pointing out the law was ruled unconstitutional vs. the California state constitution, not the Federal constitution. Any state that does not have a "right to an education" clause in their constitution probably has legal tenure laws, at least vs that argument.

The slightly breathless article claiming this is "new ammunition" for challenges in other states is overstating the usefulness of the ruling, especially considering the judge ordered California tenure law to remain in place during appeal. State constitutions are independent of one another, so a ruling in one state court carries very little weight in another state's court.

That's ok, 'cause our IEDs are much better than them furrin' IEDs!

I wrote that sarcastically, then realized there's some truth to it. Considering the engineer who designed the damn thing lives here, if he gets offended by one driving down his street, he knows exactly how to spend $20 at the local hardware store to be able to bind the thing's axle and bring it to a total standstill. (Etc. etc.)

Wile E. Coyote would like a word with you...

Especially because it isn't the only societal factor that correlates. Bans on lead in gasoline correlate, and correlate much better than the availability of legal abortion. Lead was banned from gasoline at many different times in different jurisdictions. The trend in violent crime reduction follows afterwards in all cases, at the same interval. It's the best candidate yet for explaining the change.

It may have been found. There is a remarkably close correlation to the reduction of lead in gasoline to the reduction in violent crime. The downward trend in violent crime follows after lead is banned, and it follows the ban consistently even when the ban occurs at different times in different places with otherwise similar cultures and economic conditions. Nobody has traced the biochemical pathways yet, but it's the best candidate discovered in many years.

We have neither high nor climbing violent crime rates. They are low and have been getting lower for 30 years. See other posts in this thread for citations.

The constant propaganda isn't causing us to be violent. The constant torture porn movies aren't causing us to be violent. Rap music isn't causing us to be violent. Pile it all up and still we're getting less violent all the time.

Anywhere they want?

There's a possibility that the device currently called a supercharger will become so rare that only the geariest of gearheads will remember the old definition, let alone have one.

I'm inclined to believe overloading the term was an accident on Tesla's part, at least initially. The decision to keep the name is probably quite calculated. When the new order subsumes the jargon of the old order, it wins.

It remains to be seen whether or not the new "Supercharger" wins anything.

Gigacharger. Goes well with gigafactory. Even if it has nothing at all to do with what the "giga" in gigafactory means. It's marketing. It doesn't have to make sense.

You forget over whose airspace the Bolivian president's plane was forced down. He knew damn well any western European nation would have fallen all over itself to rush him into US custody, preferably secretly.

Flying to a nominal US adversary and ending up in an actual US adversary was his only option. US allies are obviously eager to break their own laws and their own human rights treaties if the US government says so.

mpercy wasn't hoodwinked by anything. That account is astroturfing and the original owner may or may not even be involved. That post was packed from one end to the other with the Party Line, in every detail. It's meant to affect the thinking of people reading it. I should say, it's meant to damage the thinking of people reading it. It's disinformation/spin/propaganda. Call it what you like. I call it bullshit.

Not really, no. It works when ISPs are interfering with traffic using deep packet inspection, but they're unlikely to be bothering in this case. They know where Netflix traffic enters their network. They simply degrade ALL such traffic, regardless of its contents, knowing they're mostly catching Netflix packets in the process. If that's not what they're currently doing, it's certainly something they could do. Encryption then doesn't help at all.

VPN evidence indicates that's precisely what they are doing. VPN forces a change in route, so traffic from Netflix enters Verizon's network from an unusual direction. Magically, no "congestion". It's artificial, it's anticompetitive, and it's a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

And no prosecutor has the nerve to do anything about it.

Get your ass to Mars. Ping time is as high as 48 minutes.

What you are witnessing is the completely broke poor class trying to break into the wealthy class that has absolutely no interest in penny-ante plastic trash. The wealthy class pays people to pay people to pay people to make shit like that bicycle light. They do not bother to even read the reports, let alone participate.

Of course that's what NPR said, 'cause it makes for a better narrative, but where it came from is LEGO CUUSOO, which has since been renamed LEGO Ideas. Specifically, this proposal. It sat in LEGO CUUSOO as a proposal since April 30, 2012. It didn't get the 10,000 supporters it needed until late last year.

So yeah, little Dutch girl. Right. I'm sure there is a little Dutch girl, and I'm sure she did write a letter, but it had nothing to do with this set. Broadcast media lies for ratings, as usual. The real Dutch woman who proposed the set is a geochemist who likes LEGO and classic video games. She's designed some Megaman minifigs and sets too, not just Female Scientists. Her Big Bang Theory vignette has also reached 10,000 supporters, and is currently in review by the LEGO Group for possible production. Her Megaman designs have 3891 supporters. She's not 7 years old.