http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/30/sunday-morning-news-converted-poachers-ancient-lakes-and-sea-sickness Comments On: Sunday Morning News: Converted Poachers, Ancient Lakes, and Sea Sickness by Al Jacobs en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Pick1]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:15:01 -0800 The Stranger
Damn you for making me look!

But since I did, I noticed that they even have the same misspellings.
Posted by seatackled]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:52:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by smade]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:33:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pridge Wessea]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:41:52 -0800 The Stranger
I worry about you, troll. You better believe I keep a candle burning for you over by St. Peter's. It's the least I can do.
Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:31:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:59:13 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sperifera]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:44:37 -0800 The Stranger
And since when did Bellevue get so ghetto? Is this why Kemper doesn't want a train running from the CD to Bellevue Square?

@28 oh Catalina, go look at the 2010 census, your Capitol Hill paradise is whiter than Bellevue. In fact Seattle is just as white as Bellevue.
Posted by My name is Do'nald S'mith]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:31:27 -0800 The Stranger Posted by seatackled]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:40:00 -0800 The Stranger
And while crime is "scary", you are probably very safe. This was Just One Of Those Things.

In the meantime, I'm sure the Journal-American or Eastside Week will have an article that is very pleasing to your worldview.
Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:30:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:45:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sandiai]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:33:21 -0800 The Stranger http://www.myspace.com/antonellacostanzo…

My favorite family of related geniuses (artistic or scientific) are the Baron-Cohens. I had been reading articles by Simon Baron-Cohen for years before I made the connection with Sasha (well, Sasha doesn't hyphenate his name).
Posted by Sandiai]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:32:13 -0800 The Stranger
(I believe she's related—aunt or great-aunt?—to the Apple Macintosh shareware author Alessandro Levi Montalcini, but I can't find confirmation at the moment.)
Posted by rob!]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:19:06 -0800 The Stranger
Nice to see university hierarchy irked at something. It's total revenge. I was constantly irked in school. Irk by the $8 half-sandwich and cup of soup in the cafeteria. Irked by ever-changing textbooks costing $90 and up. Irked by every raise in the amount of student loan money available met with a same amount rise in tuition. Irked by less than stellar professors.

Is Katt Williams going to have a career left?
Posted by Bauhaus I]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:41:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Andrew S.]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:28:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Kelly H.]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:04:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sandiai]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:31:29 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-2…
Posted by Sandiai]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:24:02 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.privacysos.org/node/911

Secret Service contracts out its Internet surveillance work to "British firm," QinetiQ (actually a cross between the CIA's Q-In-Tel and Booz-Allen).

Steve Carbone is with QinetiQ North America (some type of lobbyist, no doubt). It was Carbone, when he was Rumsfeld's head of the Pentagon's CIFA (CounterIntelligence Field Activity, a domestic intel unit set up during the Bush administration, now supposedly dissolved) which awarded a major contract to QinetiQ before leaving for a position with that private intel agency.

http://www.cyveillance.com/web/solutions…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinetiq

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/qinet…

http://www.spoke.com/info/pYHRsMo/SteveC…

Posted by sgt_doom]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:22:48 -0800 The Stranger
"Let's double the patrons to beyond our stated capacity. Mobs of young men after a sports event never do any damage in gunland, only in "tyranny" places like Vancouver BC because those dudes didn't carry guns." This logic makes sense to people who run Munchbar

Wonder what underage assmunch is gonna prove his manhood after the Seattle/St. Louis game in a bar. Because sports audiences = gummint tyranny or sutin. I dunno, maybe someone who understands the brains of these assmunches and irresponsible bar management/security can translate the logic.
Posted by If stupidity were ammo 99.9944% of US'd be armed]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:06:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by correction]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:53:17 -0800 The Stranger 2. troll, you're right, slog should cover the belltown shooter. but the fact that in america the average joe who's a low level gang banger gets ez access to guns? that doesn't happen in japan or england or australia. again, they do what works: gun controls. so yes, let's talk about gun violence, and let's talk about how it disproportionately impacts minorities and even how too many minority folks are in the gang lifestyle -- the reason they kill is all these other gun owners in america with the 280 million guns all over have created a political environment in which we can't do what works: gun controls. thus, the legal gun owners empower the idiot kids who shoot, the gangbangers, as well as the white kids from the burbs like the lanza kid. see the common element: it's lack of strong gun controls, this leads to guns all over, this leads to illegally used guns, therefore the notion that legal guns make us safe is demonstrably false. they simply empower illegals (those using guns illegally) to get their guns. they are in symbiosis with the nra members, fairly unbalanced, 5280 and the other gun worshipping gun lovers who block us from doing what they did in australia.

guns, legally made widespread, cause our high rates of death through illegal use of guns. this means you gun owners are to blame; your desire to prevent gun controls stops us from having good and strong gun controls, thus we will see more deaths. thus, I blame you.
(note: not in the execution death peanlty sense or aiding and abbetting criminal sense -- just morally, sociologically, and politically. Precise enuf for u now?)
Posted by 280 million guns blameworthy]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:52:13 -0800 The Stranger
My son was playing the PC version of Call of Duty 3: Black Ops. I hadn't used it for quite a while and it really helps to have Steam update it for you automatically. (Also nice was that he figured out how to get the Logitech Rumble Pad 2 to work so he didn't have to fiddle with a wireless keyboard and mouse. I don't have a console, but I built my own gaming PC and hooked it up to the HDMI port on the TV).

What I saw though disturbed me a bit. The scenario (and this was one being played on many many servers by hundreds or thousands of people) was a playing field called Nuketown. Basically teams of 10 players, having low ranking military credentials, shoot it out. Nuketown is based on one of those model suburban towns they built in the Los Alamos desert to test the effect of an atom bomb blast. It's all done up in High 1950s style. Other than the players/soldiers, there are all these mannequins standing around, like a wife in a dress in the kitchen or kids playing outside, people walking to a movie theater. There is also a yellow schoolbus in the street (used for cover when shooting).

So there you have it. Nuketown. Newtown. Shooter in a suburban house, with a Mom in the kitchen and a schoolbus. For someone playing in a darkened basement, 16 hours a day non-stop and little or no human contact, "could" (as Giorgio Tsoukalos would say) this have been an educator for Mr. Lanza's spree once he make a psychotic break from reality and entered the virtual world inside his own mind?

Here's an even crazier and more paranoid take along the same lines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpGSHC4DH…


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:36:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tiktok]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:03:18 -0800 The Stranger