Officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice hired as a cop again https://nypost.com/2018/10/05/officer-who-fatally-shot-tamir-rice-hired-as-a-cop-again/ He was fired from a department for unfitness for duty and then hired by Cleveland, where he killed a 12-year-old boy with a pellet gun within two second o...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-stratolaunch-exclus/exclusive-space-firm-founded-by-billionaire-paul-allen-closing-operations-sources-idUSKCN1T12FD Reuters is reporting that Stratolaunch—the company founded by late Microsoft guy Paul Allen that recently test-flew the world's lar...

Today the Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down the opinion in Commonwealth v. Hicks , which addressed the question of whether the mere open or concealed carrying of a firearm constitutes reasonable suspicion of a crime such that police would be able to perform a Terry stop and "stop and frisk" the...

Scott Manley with an in-depth explanation of the OmegA test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mTCxpGSIbI I've posted Scott's videos a bunch of times. If anyone wants space news and to hear from someone who's great at explaining space stuff in simple language, I really recommend subscribing to his cha...

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems earlier today made a lot of smoke and noise at their Utah test site while testing the first Castor 600 solid-rocket stage, which will serve as the first stage on the "light" versions of NGIS's proposed OmegA rocket. The Castor 300, 600, and 1200 are based on the S...

I run a dual-browser setup on my Linux box. Chrome (with no adblockers) is used for online shopping and a handful of websites that I trust. Firefox (with NoScript) is used for everything else. That way I don't have to spend time "trusting" stuff in Firefox if I want to go buy some stuff from Amazon,...

I've been playing the 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider. It's not that bad of a game, but I hope the inventor of the quick time event spends a couple hundred years in a postmortem purgatory where he will repeatedly suffer gruesome and horrible dismemberments if he doesn't press a random button within a mil...

name of USS John S. McCain was not obscured during the POTUS visit to Yokosuka on Memorial Day. The Navy is proud of that ship, its crew, its namesake and its heritage. NamesakeS. The McCain is named for all three John S. McCains who served in the Navy. The late Senator is only one of them. The oth...

Georgia police officer charged with beating homeless woman https://triblive.com/news/world/georgia-police-officer-charged-with-hitting-homeless-woman/ DECATUR, Ga. — An Atlanta-area police officer who was captured on video beating a homeless woman inside a convenience store was indicted Thursday on...

Random trivia, which comes to you from the Volokh Conspiracy blog:

The street address of the Traverse City, Michigan airport (Cherry Capital Airport) is "727 Fly Don't Dr."

More trivia: the term rikishi, which is used to refer generally to sumo wrestlers, is made up of kanji (力士) that mean "strength" and "gentleman/samurai," so it literally means something along the lines of "gentleman of strength" or "strong man."

Says the person that studies overweight dudes in thongs pushing one another around... Which is a 500-year-old sport. That's a slightly longer track record than professional putt-putt, which I also learned today dates to the 1960s and has awarded over $8 million in prizes. So there's actual money in...

TIL there's such a thing as "professional putt-putt."

I have a trip coming up with lots of long train rides, flights, and evenings on my own. A co-worker of mine has all the seasons downloaded and I'll be starting from the beginning with absolutely zero idea of the plot or any info about this show. I know there are dragons, I know there's nudity, and ...

Portsmouth Virginia police officer arrested, charged with rape, abduction

https://www.13newsnow.com/video/news/cr ... 5e02dd29d4

I once suffered from exhaustion and alcohol issues. I called it "law school."

Heyoo!

A dam good series of dam videos:

Police In St. Louis County Admit They Beat Up The Wrong Young Black Man

https://thinkprogress.org/police-in-st- ... 25bd19b82/

I greatly look forward to the day (which is swiftly approaching) when everyone who was of draftable age during Vietnam is too old to run for office, so we never have to hear about "draft dodging" ever again.

I would have taken Delta through Atlanta. Atlanta isn't that hard to get around, and Delta flies 717s from Atlanta to Charlotte, which I've never been on.

Miami Police Sued After Roughing Up 63-Year-Old Army Vet for Sitting in a Park https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-police-sued-after-officer-ioannys-llanes-roughs-up-army-veteran-oscar-julien-riou-on-video-11181147 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hbbRhuz-GM The assault by the cop starts at 5:45.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR-PLG9Zri0 Say what you want about Trump, but he clearly knows a great sport when he sees it. :D While President Trump on Sunday became the first US President to attend a sumo tournament in Japan, it was not the first time sumo wrestlers appeared before a US Presiden...

Round 6 - Monaco

This race:
Cbear3 - 26
dodint - 15
MR25 - 27
Shyster - 27
tifosi - 15
Gaucho - 28

Leaderboard:
1. Shyster - 211
2. dodint - 190
3. Cbear3 - 188
4. tifosi - 183
5. MR25 - 174
6. Gaucho - 166

We landed at O'Hare 45 minutes ago. After taxiing for 15 minutes from a runway that was about three miles from the terminal, we have been sitting completely motionless for a half hour. I fcking hate air travel and large airports. Suck it up, princess. :P You just spent a couple hours sitting in a c...

The joint venture that would give Boeing effective control over Embraer's commercial operations appears to be moving forward. The parties have announced that the name for the company will be "Boeing Brasil Commercial." Boeing would have majority control over the venture. Boeing Brasil Commercial wou...