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Comment This just in (Score 1) 4

by tqft (#42849111) Attached to: Is This Thing On?

http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/christopher-dorner-v-lapd-case-file/
DORNER v. LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT
CHRISTOPHER DORNER, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT et al., Defendants and Respondents.

No. B225674.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

Filed October 3, 2011.

Law Office of David J. Duchrow, Jill A. Piano and David J. Duchrow for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Carmen A. Trutanich, City Attorney, Claudia McGee Henry, Assistant City Attorney, and Gregory P. Orland, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendants and Respondents.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

WILLHITE, Acting P. J.

Appellant Christopher Dorner, an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), made a complaint against his field training officer, Sergeant Teresa Evans, accusing her of kicking a suspect, Christopher Gettler (Gettler). The Los Angeles Police Department Board of Rights (Board) found that appellant’s complaint was false and therefore terminated his employment for making false statements. Appellant filed a petition for a writ of administrative mandamus in the superior court pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 1094.5, seeking to overturn the decision of the Board. The superior court denied his petition, and he now appeals. We affirm.

via
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"Michael @_cypherpunks_

Christopher #Dorner v. #LAPD Case File has been leaked! Prove they been lying about entire thing. http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/christopher-dorner-v-lapd-case-file/ (via @57UN)"

Comment Karma Whoring actual RBA paper & stuff (Score 5, Informative) 290

by tqft (#42783979) Attached to: Australian Economists Predictions No Better Than Flipping a Coin

The page with everything linked on it
http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2012/2012-07.html
Estimates of Uncertainty around the RBA's Forecasts
Abstract:

We use past forecast errors to construct confidence intervals and other estimates of uncertainty around the Reserve Bank of Australia's forecasts of key macroeconomic variables. Our estimates suggest that uncertainty about forecasts is high. We find that the RBA's forecasts have substantial explanatory power for the inflation rate but not for GDP growth.

Download the Paper [PDF 713K] and the Data.
http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2012/pdf/rdp2012-07.pdf
http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2012/2012-07-data.html

Licence
http://www.rba.gov.au/copyright/index.html

Comment it sucks (Score 1) 4

by tqft (#42783425) Attached to: Journal Wasteland

I am about 2 months behind in my je reading.

I have a new plan though. I get the je's thru the rss feed & I am auto tagging those who matter. So of course I have to build the whitelist first putting me further behind
The Internet

Submission + - How the Internet Makes the Improbable Into the New Normal 1

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "A burglar gets stuck in a chimney, a truck driver in a head on collision is thrown out the front window and lands on his feet, walks away; a wild antelope knocks a man off his bike; a candle at a wedding sets the bride's hair on fire; someone fishing off a backyard dock catches a huge man-size shark. Now Kevin Kelly writes that in former times these unlikely events would be private, known only as rumors, stories a friend of a friend told, easily doubted and not really believed but today they are on YouTube, seen by millions. "Every minute a new impossible thing is uploaded to the internet and that improbable event becomes just one of hundreds of extraordinary events that we'll see or hear about today," writes Kelly. "As long as we are online — which is almost all day many days — we are illuminated by this compressed extraordinariness. It is the new normal." But when the improbable dominates the archive to the point that it seems as if the library contains only the impossible, then the "black swans" don't feel as improbable. "To the uninformed, the increased prevalence of improbable events will make it easier to believe in impossible things," concludes Kelly. "A steady diet of coincidences makes it easy to believe they are more than just coincidences.""
The Almighty Buck

Journal Journal: Tired of the same old insults?

Journal by tqft

PJK - Paul Keating former prime minister of Australia quite gifted with words, is a master of insults. So anyway even though PJK is still with this, someone has ripped his style into iOS app so you can call the gum on your shoe better for your gait than a senator.
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https://twitter.com/dannolan/status/281244363797958659
@dannolan
Shut up and give me your money the PJK Insults generator is AVAILABLE! https://itunes.apple.com/app/paul-keating-insult-generator/id585515
GNOME

Submission + - 'Yellow' journos, power users behind GNOME criticism: claim (itwire.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: One of the co-founders of the GNOME Desktop Project has reacted to the numerous criticisms that GNOME 3, the latest iteration of the desktop environment, has received, by putting it all down to the power users and journalists.

Submission + - NRC Report Links Climate Change to National Security (nytimes.com)

Submitted by WOOFYGOOFY
WOOFYGOOFY writes: The NY Times and Voice Of America amongst others are reporting on a study by the U.S. National Research Council which was released Friday linking global climate change to national security.

http://www.voanews.com/content/climate-change-security/1543127.html

http://chronicle.com/article/US-Urged-to-Step-Up-Research /135724/

The report which was developed at the request of the C.I.A. characterizes the threats posed by climate change
as "similar to and in many cases greater than those posed by terrorist attacks."

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=14682&page=1

If the effect of unaddressed climate change is the functional equivalent of terrorist attacks on the nation, does the Executive Branch, as a matter of national security, have a duty and a right to begin to act unilaterally against climate change irrespective of what Congress currently believes?
The Almighty Buck

Journal Journal: A Monopoly on Monopoly 1

Journal by tqft

Apparently being a patent asshole isn't a new thing at all, nor twisting an innovative product to mercantile uses.

www.harpers.org/blog/2012/10/monopoly-is-theft/?single=1&src=longreads

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