StrangeSox

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 08:16 AM) Those kinds of things are all grandfathered in. Even if the law was passed, it doesn't change what was already there. I know Texas tends to have lax zoning laws, but building fertilizer factories in neighborhoods (or vice versa) is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard of.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 08:24 AM) So do people on the internets actually think these things were set shortly enough before they went off that there is film of them doing so? Then what's the deal with the 2nd blast down the course? Wouldn't planting them take a substantial amount of time, given that the bomber had to move between 2 sites? If it was caught by a typical high-end commercial security surveillance system, those usually DVR days if not weeks of video. The bombs were only a few hundred yards apart. They could have planted them at any time during the marathon.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 04:10 PM) http://gawker.com/5994892/your-guide-to-th...crowd+sleuthing

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 08:18 AM) Should they sue every single internet person and post who connected them as well? Most of those kind of posts when way further than the NY Post did. Random internet posts aren't a national 'news' organization though

Thanks, "crowd sourcing" internet!

jesus christ this rain. The retention pond next to my work, which is usually about 6 feet below our driveway, is within a foot of coming over the top. Half of my yard was flooded before I left.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 05:54 PM) Wasn't sure what thread to use for this, forgive me if it should have been elsewhere. I haven't been in the Buster in months... Today, the US Senate rejected the background check amendment to the larger gun control bill. The amendment would have expanded background checks to gun shows, online purchases, and other currently exempted venues. It left exceptions for family transactions, and one-off private sales. It also specifically stated that no gun registry could be created. Rejected. Why? The NRA cannot give you a reason. Seriously, try to find it - they give literally no reason for opposing it. 80 to 90% of Americans favor it. It does not restrict ownership to anyone, other than those who might fail a background check, like violent felons. It does not create a registry. It does not effect familial transactions. The opponents are the small minority here, and cannot give you a single reason why they oppose it. Still failed. Now, people here who know my past posts on this topic know, I am opposed to registries. I am opposed to most or all new restrictions on types of guns. I am opposed to most new gun regs. But this, to me, is a no-brainer. No harm is done, and some harm will be prevented. How is this even controversial? Will it solve everything? No one is saying that. Except the NRA's straw man. I am disgusted. As if the Senate shouldn't already be embarrassed for a multitude of reasons, this one really stands out. The cowardly losers who voted against this should be ashamed of themselves. That is all. Why? Combine the Senate's anti-democratic heavy weighting in favor of rural states with their dumb procedural rules that Reid refused to revise.

A minority of Senators killed the highly popular watered-down background check bill in the Senate. Isn't it great when every single bill requires a supermajority? If only the head of the Senate could have done something about this arcane, aconstitutional rule? Oh well.

http://gawker.com/5994892/your-guide-to-th...crowd+sleuthing

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 03:57 PM) Who needs big brother to do that, when we have all willingly done this ourselves? I guarantee it won't have been surveilance cameras that will have caught this, but cellphone or tv cameras. Supposedly the best shots come from a Lord & Taylor's surveillance camera. I dunno if you can count that as "big brother" though.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/update-th...nocent-b,32088/

Pretty much all of the stops along BNSF have reinvigorated downtown areas right near the train station.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 02:03 PM) Wtf CNN saying who cares

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 01:43 PM) Is it possible they leak bad information to the media to maybe make the real suspect "relax" so he's easier to catch? Is it possible bad information is leaked on purpose to find leakers? It's possible, but Occam's Razor just points to incompetent media trying to "break" the news

https://twitter.com/Boston_Police/status/324591574807891968 Boston Police Dept.Verified account ‏@Boston_Police Despite reports to the contrary there has not been an arrest in the Marathon attack.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 01:34 PM) I remember a day where I had to argue for hours about journalistic integrity. That being said, we will now slowly begin the walk back towards 1984. 1984 was a well-orchestrated propaganda machine controlled by a central entity. This is just a clusterf***.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/324589083559092224 Reuters Top NewsVerified account ‏@Reuters No arrests made yet in Boston bomb investigation - government, law enforcement sources

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 01:29 PM) cnn.com hasn't taken anything down yet. this is what rushing to be the absolute first by a few seconds or minutes gets you:

hey dips***s in the media, stop trying to worry about "scooping" a story that will become public within a short time anyway, it doesn't actually mean anything and always makes you say dumb things.

QUOTE (Jake @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 01:25 PM) SS will like this Joseph Weisenthal ‏@TheStalwart 7m RT @guan: Is the arrest rumor based on an R&R Excel error? lulz

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 01:15 PM) @RBecklerPSU Wow. Some people on 4chan are compiling photos of possible Boston bomb suspects. Solid, very compelling work here. http://bit.ly/XGI25h yeah, I'm going to say that's a really terrible idea and is going to lead to a lot of people, victims actually, having their lives picked apart by random internet morons. The "Saudi Suspect" has already had his name and personal information go through the wringer.

Superman is pretty much a god on Earth, but not even a flawed god like the old Greek ones, which is why he's such a lame character.

That was a brilliant display of bipartisanship.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 12:22 PM) They said his statements were weird like "I thought there was going to be another explosion" that was probably enough. yeah but he was right, there were multiple explosions.

It's not impossible for police to be racial-profiling s***heads, let's not rule that one out.