Comment Re:Spread the word! (Score 1) 721
As a Jew I don't even have a problem to laugh at these "debates"
Comment How to insert SOC flag to block Fox News and SHN? (Score 1) 466
How to insert this SOC flag to block out Fox News and Shop-at-Home?
On the other note - why do you guys obsessed about MPAA trying to prevent somebody to copy THEIR content without getting paid?
If you don't want to pay - don't watch. I haven't watched a movie on TV for a while just because there is almost nothing to watch except Bruno.
Comment Lexus has issues as well (Score 1) 1146
My wife co-worker's Lexus accelerated unexpectedly unfortunately she had automatic tranny which refused to go into neutral.
Two things has happened as a result -
Bad: she got injured
Good: her Lexus was a total loss so she could get rid of it
Comment Re:Carmakers lie (Score 1) 1146
BMW electronics (I have 335i) is BUGGY.
Sometimes to close the car I have to get back into it start and stop engine and try to re-lock it again.
Sometimes only one side of the car shuts the lights off (this has happened at low temperatures).
Radio display is unreadable when hot
Otherwise, it is really ultimate driving machine and nothing but Mazda comes close to it in term of handling
Comment Add OOAD, UML and Agile into the pile (Score 1) 483
Please add OOAD, UML and Agile into the pile.
While all of these approaches worked somehow none of them has delivered a panacea methodology for programming
Comment Moral hazard of private prisons (Score 1) 1
Teenage girl spoofed her principal on MySpace page and a judge gave her three months in jail. Now PA judge pleaded guilty in scheme to jail youth for profit - for a total of $2.6M received from a private detention center executives. This is the moral hazard of private prisons. They supposedly "cheaper" for taxpayers than government-run but indeed just the way of transferring taxpayers money into for-profit pockets.
Submission + - Judges Involved in Jailing Youths for Profit
aspelling writes: A judge gave teenage girl who spoofed her assistant principal on MySpace page three months in jail. Now this PA judge pleaded guilty in scheme to jail youth for profit — for a total of $2.6M received from a private detention center executives. This is the moral hazard of private prisons and other "non-profit" institutions formed to supposedly save taxpayers money.
Submission + - Judges Jail Youths for Profit (nytimes.com) 1
Maximum Prophet writes: "At worst, Hillary Transue thought she might get a stern lecture when she appeared before a judge for building a spoof MySpace page ..."
"Instead, the judge sentenced her to three months at a juvenile detention center on a charge of harassment."
"The answers became a bit clearer on Thursday as the judge, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., and a colleague, Michael T. Conahan, appeared in federal court in Scranton, Pa., to plead guilty to wire fraud and income tax fraud for taking more than $2.6 million in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers run by PA Child Care and a sister company, Western PA Child Care."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html?em
