From just his comment it sounds like they were sitting in the middle of a street blocking the crosswalk, which is not only illegal it's also dangerous (especially in NYC.) Most of the OWS people I've seen who are the "victims" of police brutality put themselves into situations where they know they will be forcibly removed just so they can claim brutality. They're not protesting they're being douchebags enticing violence so they have something to point to and say "Look we're victims!" And yes pepper spray is probably the best option considering the second option is beating them with a nightstick till they unlock their arms so you can physically move them one at a time.

Unless of course you have a much more effective method to use in that sort of situation that doesn't put the officer in harms way...

Sorry I just can't let this slide, cite something. What has he done that is so left leaning. I didn't like Obama before he was elected because I knew "Hope and change" was bullshit to get him elected. Now that he's been president for a few years a lot of people who supported him during his campaign seem to agree with me, so i just have to ask, what has he done that so radically changed the face of this country that republicans refer to him as far left leaning?

Works fine until something breaks. Whenever I would have a customer using a really old computer (like the one you mention) I try to get their software working on a new(er) PC ASAP. I don't remove their old system or stop using it completely I just check that it's possible to use newer hardware since one day that machine is going to break and it's much easier setting up a backup of a working system than it is to try to rebuild the entire thing with no software/disks.

Maybe it's because i'm on a mobile device (Droid 3 with the included browser), but that site just seems like an ad filled annoying to use waste of bandwidth. After I changed the sea level once it wouldn't let me change it again, and somehow from the summary I imagined something that looked much cooler than google maps.

How did they even get a patent for this? They basically described every multiplayer video game for the past 20 years.

The Voight-Kampff machcine is the easy part.

It's building anything that would require such a test that's difficult.

Speaking as someone born and raised in NYC all I have to say is, what... the... fuck!

I did a glance over the summary and thought 'Oh some bible belt city banned mentioning dinosaurs on city tests, hah!' Then I did a double take and read NYC...

We have community pools, the natural history museum that every city school seems to visit (featuring the only thing most kids remember, THE DINOSAUR EXHIBIT) and paintings of the virgin mary made from elephant shit. If there was a place any of these things might offend a group of people, this isn't it!

I can't believe this PC bullshit actually made it past the board of ed without any parents kicking up a shitstorm...

Or you can also just watch that section on youtube

Exactly. People always say "Well what if they don't revive you and you could have been saved!" Honestly who cares? At the point of no return (my organs are being removed) I'm dead anyway! I'm not going to be sitting around for years looking back and thinking "Oh man I wish those doctors tried harder to save me" I'll be dead. Then anything they want to do with my body after that (organ donation, filming another Weekend at Bernie's) is completely up to them. I'd prefer to be useful to someone after death and telling me that there's a chance I might not be fully 100% dead before they officially pronounce me dead just because i'm an organ donor isn't going to change that.

Perhaps because people feel that heart disease is a fat/old person problem? Its not always the case but that's how it's portrayed on TV and movies. The fat/old person does some very strenuous activity and they have a heart attack. People see that and think 'Well I'm not fat or old, my heart has no problems! But even Lance Armstrong had cancer and he's in way better shape than me!'

The RIAA once sued my sister...

Mynd you, RIAA lawsuites kan be pretti nasti...

From my understanding of dark matter, isn't it likely yhat they're looking at two entirely different types of matter? I thought dark matter was just matter that we can't "see" but can detect due to it's gravitational effect on visible light. So why would it be so far fetched to think there's more than one type of matter in the universe that we can't currently directly observe?

I work in a computer shop and I've set up numerous ADF scanners, none of which cost more than $3,000 and most of which were $1,500. They all seem to work great and I've heard no complaints of jams or picking up extra paper. They're almost all small (like a small inkjet) scanners without a flatbed, and they all operate in the 30+ ppm range and support scanning over a network. A few Fujitsu's, a few Canon's and one monstrous and very old HP SCSI scanner (comes with a flatbed as well) and none of them so far as I can tell have had any issues jamming or missing pages

Well 44 years for those of us observing from Earth. Much less time for those of us making the journey (assuming they're traveling at the speed of light or close to it.) Still that is a huge if. Though radio contact with an intelligent and sufficiently technicially advanced species that close would be very possible.

Very likely there is a subconscious connection as it's really an Opteron 6200, the 2600 is a typo.