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Odd. I thought the recovered text started Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

While he certainly screwed up my after-Christmas plans, I'm not quite ready to have him test new lethal injection drugs in Florida yet...

An 18-year old non-violent offender should get an option to demonstrate the three R's of the criminal defense system. Remorse, recant, restitution.

He needs a felony charge (that matches his crimes) that, upon successful completion of jail/probation/community-service can be commuted to a misdemeanor.

HA!

Oh man, you guys really got me with this swatting at my house.

Wait, what?

Take a "clear cut" situation. During a border inspection a car is found heavily modified full of secret compartments. In the compartments the border agents discover a couple pounds of designer drugs, a Class-3/Tax Stamp worthy weapon of some sort, and $20,000 in cash.

What should they do with the X?
What should they do with the machine gun?
What should they do with the $20,000?
What should they do with the car?

I'm not advocating any position here - just asking the question.

More interestingly, I wonder how many perfectly good terrorist emails I've deleted from my spam folder.

Yeah, it'd be like using Latin for scientific terminology today.

WUT?

You can buy 2013 in non-subscription, non-365 versions.

The idea that parents are unanimously treated like villains is overplayed. Anyone fucks with your parenting, and you're probably not going to report it as a good experience.

Having rased one child with sever emotional difficulties to adulthood, we've had a couple run-ins with CPS.

The 6'4 200# 15-year-old kid got in a pushing match with his 6'4 300# biological father outside the school. A teacher saw it and was obligated to report it. CPS talked to my wife in person and made a round of phone calls to everyone else involved including myself (stepdad). The person who called me asked some fairly simple questions about what our home-life was like, and satisfied we weren't alcoholic abusers, they closed their investigation with a finding of what I can only describe as "shit happens, but this isn't a problem."

Once I separated the emotion and nanny-state second-guessing of my parenting (in a situation I was barely involved with) from the reality of the situation, all we ended up having was a quick phone call with a woman who wanted to make sure our kid wasn't in any sort of direct harm.

So, no, I don't believe that parents are assumed to be villains until proven good.

You see, *this* would have been the Ripped from the Headlines story of the century.

I love, love, love this story. Murder for hire, drugs, computers, cryptocurrency, false identities, frame-ups, parallel construction. Oh man, I can't wait for the miniseries.

By your company and their failure to integrate it, or by Google?

I guess I can pick up a pain on eBay soon for cheap...

A lot of my friends keep trying to tell me that Arrow and Flash are both great shows -- and I keep telling them that it's on The CW, so I'll never see it :)

Seriously though, I probably have to at least give these a sample.

The CW...how is that still a network?!? Aren't those Dawson's Creek kids dead yet?

Obligatory:

http://www.theonion.com/articl...

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television
NEWS Television People Human Interest ISSUE 3604 Feb 9, 2000
CHAPEL HILL, NC–Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers–as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.

Jonathan Green, who tells as many people as possible that he is "fully weaned off the glass teat."

"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television," Green told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV. "I don't even own one."

According to Melinda Elkins, a coworker of Green's at The Frame Job, a Chapel Hill picture-frame shop, Green steers the conversation toward television whenever possible, just so he can mention not owning one.

"A few days ago, [store manager] Annette [Haig] was saying her new contacts were bothering her," Elkins said. "The second she said that, I knew Jonathan would pounce. He was like, 'I didn't know you had contacts, Annette. Are your eyes bad? That a shame. I'm really lucky to have almost perfect vision. I'm guessing it's because I don't watch TV. In fact, I don't even own one."

According to Elkins, "idiot box" is Green's favorite derogatory term for television.

"He uses that one a lot," she said. "But he's got other ones, too, like 'boob tube' and 'electronic babysitter.'"

Elkins said Green always makes sure to read the copies of Entertainment Weekly and People lying around the shop's break room, "just so he can point out all the stars and shows he's never heard of."

"Last week, in one of the magazines, there was a picture of Calista Flockhart," Elkins said, "and Jonathan announced, 'I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. Calista who? Am I supposed to have heard of her? I'm sorry, but I haven't.'"

Tony Gerela, who lives in the apartment directly below Green's and occasionally chats with the 37-year-old by the mailboxes, is well aware of his neighbor's disdain for television.

"About a week after I met him, we were talking, and I made some kind of Simpsons reference," Gerela said. "He asked me what I was talking about, and when I told him it was from a TV show, he just went off, saying how the last show he watched was some episode of Cheers, and even then, he could only watch for about two minutes before having to shut it off because it insulted his intelligence so terribly."

Added Gerela: "Once, I made the mistake of saying I saw something on the news, and he started in with, 'Saw the news? I don't know about you, but I read the news."

Green has lived without television since 1989, when his then-girlfriend moved out and took her set with her.

"When Claudia went, the TV went with her," Green said. "But instead of just going out and buying another one–which I certainly could have afforded, that wasn't the issue–I decided to stand up to the glass teat."

"I'm not an elitist," Green said. "It's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen."

"If I need a fix of passive audio-visual stimulation, I'll go to catch a Bergman or Truffaut film down at the university," Green said. "I certainly wouldn't waste my time watching the so-called Learning Channel or, God forbid, any of the mind sewage the major networks pump out."

Continued Green: "People don't realize just how much time their TV-watching habit–or, shall I say, addiction–eats up. Four hours of television a day, over the course of a month, adds up to 120 hours. That's five entire days! Why not spend that time living your own life, instead of watching fictional people live theirs? I can't begin to tell you how happy I am not to own a television."

While I agree, I do wish they'd tie into the heavy-hitters a bit more. The entire end of Season 1, with the Hydra / Winter Soldier tie in was good stuff -- as was the whole T.A.H.I.T.I. thing, and it's link to being a safety valve for a fallen Avenger. [...although they seem to have created more of a back-story with that in S2.] Similarly, using Lady Sif in the "Yes Men" episode provided a hint of the show having a tie-in to the post-Avengers battle of New York world.

Agents of SHIELD had a few bad episodes in the middle of S1, where it was, essentially, "The A-Team rescues an alien artifact from Peter McNicol," but it was still good.

I'm not 100% sold on Season 2 yet, but I keep watching.

....I'm more excited for Gotham every week though.

Charging at-risk people more for health insurance (myself included) doesn't sound outrageous at all. If I post to Facebook regularly about how I like to smoke cigarettes, my insurer should charge me the smoker rate.

I find this no different than car insurance companies who'll let you connect an ODB2/GPS device to your car in exchange for better rates if you drive slower, accelerate slower, brake smoother, etc.