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Posted on June 26 at 9:45 a.m.
Hint: buy a couple of those 10 ride passes for $10 next time you're downtown, and keep them in your wallet. Faster to get on, and you save .25/ride.
Posted on June 18 at 10:39 a.m.
It has recently been reported (http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080613/f...) that the number of bumper stickers is corelated to tendency to road rage. That is, people who road rage tend to have bumper stickers.
I wonder if the same holds true for vanity plates.
Posted on May 30 at 7:41 a.m.
According to the website (http://www.advising.ltsc.ucsb.edu/mcp.ph...
"In general terms, students will be eligible to apply for an exception to MCP on the basis of significant personal commitments for work, personal, family, and health reasons. Applications will be considered on a case by case basis."
Earlier I heard about a requirement of working 20 hours a week, but that strict level seems to be gone. Maybe because student workers are capped at 19.5 hrs/week so the UC won't have to give them benefits. Getting 20 hours of work often means more than one job.
Posted on May 30 at 7:31 a.m.
Look at State and De La Vina- some 'basic' groups around here think that if nobody has been hit- yet- then it must be o.k.
On Pedestrian Struck by Car at Foothill and Cieneguitas Roads
Posted on May 23 at 7:42 a.m.
As a cyclist, I'm not going to apologize for every person who rides a bike. There are rare people out there, on bikes and in cars, who are very angry and take it out on other people.
The difference is that the ones in cars are a real risk to life and limb. The ones on bikes are merely risks to your paint job.
The question is, do you let their anger suck you into the dark side, whereupon you become another angry person on the roads? If you're in a car, are you ready to let your anger and impatience maime or kill someone's father or daughter?
It is entirely possible to drive a car or ride a bike, and not be a self centered anus about it.
Posted on May 9 at 7:45 a.m.
What I always found confusing about this bit was the 'link' part. So the article existed on the NP's website, but they didn't actually have anything linking to it? So to find it, somone would have to 'guess' a horribly long URL? I say guess, because those are often predictable, and not all that hard to figure out.
Personally, I see that as you pointing out where someone else has published something. If you hadn't, I'd bet Google would have found it, and that would have been an interesting lawsuit. From a tech perspective, if someone doesn't want anyone to see something on their website, then they have to take measures (like remove it) to make sure nobody sees it. "Nodboy will guess that link" doesn't cut it.
I guess that's how kiddie porn got on a work computer with no audit trace to show how, or why they're still despreatly trying to fill an IT position. They seem to be lacking in some technology basics.
There is precedence in the judge's favor with respect to disallowing links. 2600.com wasn't even allowed to describe what google terms to use to find sites that had the code to break DVD encryption.
Posted on May 5 at 7:15 a.m.
What's really funny is when Air Marshals aren't allowed on because their name is on the 'no fly' list.
Posted on April 28 at 7:05 a.m.
"misplaced discontentment of a few people" Tell us Defender, how is it misplaced? You don't think they know why they're angry?
The only reason so many people don't understand the insult is because it is so prevelent in our society. DarkMarkSun can use racial epiphets to describe Native Americans (and sports teams) and I bet nobody blinks an eye, but if anyone on here did the equivalent with an African American epiphet all hell would break loose.
Would this even be a question if the mascott was African? How about Latino?
Posted on April 21 at 7:39 a.m.
Doesn't anyone else think that this comes awfully close to infringing on free speech? I think the clothing looks just plain dumb. And I'm certainly not in favor of kids fighting, let alone killing each other, over which side of town they live on.
But where are we going to draw the line? Are we going to see kids expelled because they wear a USA belt buckle to school?
What happens when a group of kids all show up wearing the same symbol- and it's not on our list? Are we going to ban that symbol?
Are we going to ban Oakland Raiders clothing? What would the NFL think about that? Maybe all NFL clothing? Maybe we should ban all major league sports paraphanalia, since it could be used to indicate gang affiliation?
Quick question- what's the difference between a gang and a fraternity/sorority or sports team? Violence. People join groups in our society all the time. We have the Dodger fans and the Angels fans. We have the Alpha Zeta Sigmas and the Boy Scouts.
The problem is the violence. Trying to stop it by restricting what kinds of cloths they can wear is only going to teach them that people in power can make stupid and petty rules to push around people who are not in power.
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Posted on July 23 at 9:38 a.m.
I suggest substituting 'Frak'. They get to say it all they want on Battlestar Galactica. Mother Fraker, Frak you, Frak off. There's something undeniably delicious about the soft start and hard ending. The middle 'r' makes it a bit harder for the young ones, but the whole sound still has pretty much the same apeal.
On Growing by Bleeps and Bounds