And why does it take 18 months to restore something that took a few weeks to build from scratch?

Spot on. Like "Zune" for example...

Microsoft has been killing off the Windows Phone brand name for years now -- by releasing Windows Phones.

Thinking of Fat Bastard. "I dinna have any corn!"

They could call it the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. Certainly it's never been done before.

Coming soon to a Monsantobucks near you!

Or are they really are landfilling babies at the experimental mushroom farm???

They're only using baby lawyers, so it's OK.

Yeah; that'll certainly be a deterrent next time. By income ratios, that's less than the average person pays for a parking ticket.

I think you're perhaps misinterpreting the readings from your sarcasm detector.

From your cited article:

Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue had until Thursday to act on the bill known as House Bill 819, but she decided to let it become law by doing nothing.

Priceless.

Yeah. They used a look-into-the-future technology to determine that data collected and stored in the 60s might contradict your political paranoia 50 years later. It's the same tech they used to print Obama's birth announcement in Hawaiian newspapers because (again) they knew that one day a Kenyan would try to get elected to the White House.

It means it's already been modified by the eco-whackjobs to produce results that agrees with their other (obviously) manufactured data and craven plans to decimate the angelic and blameless fossil fuel industry with their fanciful notion that mankind could possibly have an effect on the environment.

You just red-lined my non-sequiturometer and renewed my faith in Slashdot at the same time.

You must be new here -- Roland Piquepaille (rpiquepa)
Yeah, no shit -- Michael Cooney (coondoggie)

In the first place, I think "The LAPD notionally works for the people" is closer to the truth. Judged by their behavior over the last 50 years, they should be classified as a 'street gang'.

Secondly, if the public doesn't have access to the data they're collecting, then we don't know what they're collecting. It sounds like a tautology, but the difference is very real. All we have is their word on what data they are and are not collecting, or when that changes (increases). Without access to that data, we are forced to take them at their word. Which is probably OK, because we all know that "cops never, ever, ever lie".