Indeed it is. My last trip there was so bad that I am reluctant to ever go back. It wasn't just seeing poop and piss on the streets- it was seeing people pooping and pissing on the streets in plain view. My wife and I had to step over a frothy stream of piss on the sidewalk from a woman squatting against a wall 5 feet from me near the trolly stop while staring at me with her pants around her ankles.

Google and Amazon both say its negligible.

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>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

Bill Nye is every bit as much a scientist as she is, and more. But of course such a simple concept as "as much" not being an upper limit is beyond her.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

I was hoping for April Fools

Thanks a milliard for the update.

Because it doesn't even lift

Here you go: 181 pages of testimony that the Grand Jury heard.

https://cbsstlouis.files.wordp...

I submit to you that you do not know what happened. Don't feel bad- very few people outside of the 12 members of the Grand Jury have heard all of known facts of the case. I certainly don't know what happened.

But please keep this in mind. Things that you accept as fact are not really facts. Case in point: your assumption that Brown had surrendered. Some of the sworn testimony that was released tonight following the prosecutor's press conference indicates that Brown had not surrendered, and in fact was charging the police officer "like a football player" with his head down and fists clenched. And at the same time, as the prosecutor detailed in his press conference, much of the early eye witness accounts that indicated that Brown had surrendered did not hold up under further scrutiny.

As I said, I don't know what happened, but I think this is enough to move the narrative that Brown had surrendered out of the "fact" category.

I'm well aware of the difference between handgun and long gun terminal ballistics.

I evidently mis-read your comment about 9mm and .38 being the same size, which is what I was addressing. .38 is slightly larger, but the larger powder charge behind the 9mm makes it a more effective round. That being said, more effective round is easily eclipsed by shot placement.

And again, a round from a long gun is head and shoulders above any handgun round.

All good points.

Though the .38 is actually .356" where a 9mm is .355". It is a minor detail and one thousandth of an inch is irrelevant. Though folks will load .356" for lead in 9mm.

I have experimented with several CFL flood lights for my porch. When it is cold outside, the best CFLs I have tried take 2-3 minutes to get bright. For the first 30 seconds its an unusable purple glow.