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Proportionality? Pt. 2
Back in July, I posted about an off-duty firefighter who shot a cyclist, because the firefighter thought the cyclist was endangering his child by riding on a road.
The charges were reduced by a grand jury to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and he recently pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 120 days in jail anger management ( Read more... ) -
Proportionality?
Back in June, the story of 2 kids in Connecticut killed in a traffic accident made some headlines, because the other car was a police cruiser, and the kids' car was so severely mangled.
After Freedom of Information requests and threats of lawsuits, the video was finally released.
The police officer was driving an estimated 94 MPH on a 40 MPH ( Read more... ) -
DIY keylogger protection
The Times had a piece today on various services you can buy to avoid getting personal information stolen while shopping online ( Read more... ) -
50 years of progress
Be thankful that "they don't make them like they used to"
check out what happens to the passenger compartments in the 1959 and 2009 (0:45 to 1:15 on the video)
Bless you, automotive engineers, for what you've done to protect passengers in lighter and lighter cars. Now get to work on figuring out how to protect people outside of the cars in -
Anybody got an old bike?
mizerychick's mother wants to give her brother a new bike for Christmas. He lives in Philly, so a shiny new bike will attract more attention than is good for keeping it. I'd rather restore an older bike and make it as nondescript as possible ( Read more... ) -
Get out of jail free card, courtesy of the Fed
So now, were up to 14 people indicted for insider trading related to the Galleon hedge fund ( Read more... ) -
My favorite holiday economics article
Halloween and its Candy Economy by Jeffrey A. Tucker ( Read more... ) -
It's different when the US government does it, Chapter MCCLXVII
Remember when protesters in Iran were using twitter to organize and avoid Iranian police from mass arrests of protests. The protesters' freedom of speech was so important to the State department that they pressured Twitter to delay a scheduled maintenance window to keep the protesters twittering.
Clinton said she considered it important to keep " ( Read more... )
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