and more fire...
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 04 May 2006 02:54:00 GMT
More on Net Neutrality
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 04 May 2006 00:26:00 GMT
The Internet is largely meritocratic in its design. If people like instapundit.com better than cnn.com, that’s where they’ll go. If they like the search engine A9 better than Google, they vote with their clicks. Is it a problem, then, if the gatekeepers of the Internet (in most places, a duopoly of the local phone and cable companies) discriminate between favored and disfavored uses of the Internet? To take a strong example, would it be a problem if AT&T makes it slower and harder to reach Gmail and quicker and easier to reach Yahoo! mail?
Strangers die every day
Posted by spooneybarger Thu, 04 May 2006 00:04:00 GMT
o here we go… straight from a myspace bulletin that random people are actually reposting… friends who don’t know said person reposting to friends who don’t know said person… what a pathetic society we are… here goes the bs… spelling errors and all…
To those of you who wont repost this, thats kind of sad. I know most of you didnt know her but I have seen you repost the most ridiculous bulletins like “If you dont repost this in .2 seconds you will die tonight and your crush will hate you”, “What kind of skittle are you?”, “Whats your favorite song to have SEX too?”, “put BACARDI if your taken”, “Leave me comments lyke now!!111” and so on. But you cant repost one that has meaning, and that isnt threatening you?
To alot of you this is just another sad bulletin or news article, but to the people who knew her she was their daughter, best friend, niece, cousin, crush, grandaughter, sister, prom date. Think of how they feel? and how you would feel if this happened to someone close to you.
R.I.P Anna Svidersky
Anna was a smart 17 year old girl who lived in Vancover, WASHINGTON.
She attended Fort Vancover Highschool and was going to graduating this June,2006.
Thursday, April 20th 2006 in the evening she was stabbed and murdered at Mcdonalds while working.
She didnt deserve this, at all. There is so much violence going on lately its ridiculous.
Her Myspace
‘THE ARTICLE’ HereOr look below.
Stabbing of Vancouver teen hits community hard02:35 PM PDT on Friday, April 21, 2006 By TERESA BELL and KRISTINA BRENNEMAN, kgw.com Staff
kgw.com/Vancouver Schools
A photo of Anna Svidersky from her high school yearbook.
VANCOUVER —The deadly stabbing of a 17-year-old girl who made everyone smile is tearing the Vancouver community apart, said the Vancouver police chief Friday.
Anna Svidersky, a Fort Vancouver High School senior, was stabbed in the chest by a stranger while working at McDonald’s Thursday night, said Police Chief MFEMF Martinek at a news conference.
“It’s tearing us apart, quite frankly,” he said. “There’s no magic wall around Vancouver. We’ve had two young girls killed in the last six months,” referring to the November 2005 murder of 14-year-old Chelsea Harrison.
Svidersky, who would have graduated in June, was taken to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland where she died around 9 p.m. Thursday. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday morning, Martinek said.
The suspect, David Barton Sullivan, was charged with first-degree murder Friday morning.
KGW photo
Police collect evidence at the crime scene. “We preliminarily determined he had an intent to kill,” Martinek said. “The suspect armed with a knife walked into one of the doors of McDonalds…. found the victim at a table and stabbed the victim. There’s not a whole lot of question about what happened and who did it.”
Many employees in the McDonalds saw what happened, he said.
The owner of the Vancouver McDonald’s, Matt Hadwin, issued a statement saying, “We are shocked and saddened by this random act of violence against one of our employees. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family and friends during this difficult time. We are fully cooperating with the Vancouver Police as they investigate this incident.”
During a court appearance Friday in Clark County Superior Court, Sullivan was shaking and twitching. The judge ordered he be held without bail.
Sullivan, a registered sex offender in Washington state, will be arraigned on the murder charge April 28. He also has a criminal history that includes kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment, according to court records.
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Suspect is registered sex offender In addition, Sullivan, who lived at home, has a history of mental illness, said Police Chief Martinek.
Sullivan had pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment with sexual motivation in 2003 for trying to kidnap a 14-year-old girl in Vancouver. He was sent to Western State Hospital, treated for paranoid schizophrenia and found competent to stand trial. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail. “This is obviously very tragic for everyone involved,” he said. The Vancouver Police Department “wants to pass on its condolences to famiy, school and community.”
Nancy Faaren, principal at Fort Vancouver High School said Svidersky’s death “is a very sad day for Fort Vancouver High School. Svidersky was “well-liked by students and staff alike. She will be greatly missed by students and staff.”
The senior had a good sense of humor and contagious laugh, and juggled several jobs as well as full-class load, she said.
School counselors would be helping students with their grief, Faaren said.
KGW photo
David Sullivan, a suspect in the stabbing of a Vancouver high school student, enters court. Shortly after the first 9-1-1 call about the stabbing at McDonald’s, at 2814 N.E. Andresen St., emergency dispatchers received a report that a man was being pursued on foot and police dogs were quickly sent to the scene. Martinek said several witnesses from McDonald’s had followed Sullivan from the restaurant.
Officers said he was soon captured and a knife believed to be the murder weapon was found nearby as well.
Police have not determined a motive in the stabbing. The McDonald’s is located in an area about halfway between downtown and Orchards.
The girl’s mother found out about the attack when she showed up Thursday night to drive her daughter home from work. A Russian-speaking Vancouver Police officer accompanied Svidersky’s family to the hospital Thursday night.
The McDonald’s restaurant was closed Thursday night after the stabbing and re-opened at 6:30 a.m. Friday. McNicholas said the staff at the fast-food chain was struggling with the loss, as were police, even though they didn’t personally know the slain teen.
(KGW reporter Scott Burton also contributed to this article.)
If you have a heart, pass this on. Let her be rememberd.News hash...
Posted by spooneybarger Wed, 03 May 2006 23:29:00 GMT
from the go Mexico department…
The United States is up in arms over a proposed Mexican law that would decriminalise the possession of small amounts of drugs, including cocaine and heroin.
for us Yanks, takeaway foods = fast food
TAKEAWAY food giants have attacked Health Minister Tony Abbott for suggesting they should be forced into showing the number of calories on their packaging.
have i said ‘fuck the telcoms’ today?
“Net neutrality” is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the Internet democratic. Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service are talking about creating a two-tiered Internet, in which Web sites that pay them large fees would get priority over everything else. Opponents of these plans are supporting Net-neutrality legislation, which would require all Web sites to be treated equally. Net neutrality recently suffered a setback in the House, but there is growing hope that the Senate will take up the cause.
And last…
a teacher is accused of strangling a student then going dancing. Now this may sound crass but, click on through to the article and look at her... if I had to look at the face everyday I’d want to strangle her too… and the thought of not seeing that face again? I’d call that inspiration for dancing… You know if I was insensitive, I might think of something like that… of course I’m not so… I’ll let you think of it…
8 alarms and counting...
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 02 May 2006 23:26:00 GMT
and there is video as well…
and nowhere near as interesting text... yawn
more fire
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 02 May 2006 21:04:00 GMT
and this one has the death star in it, sweet…..
ah greenpoint
Posted by spooneybarger Tue, 02 May 2006 20:16:00 GMT
We have one hell of a warehouse fire raging today, which as G points out, makes a nice companion to the enormous pool of oil underground. You can learn more about that here. A good read esp this anecdote:
Although a majority of the oil pool appears to be underneath the uninhabited industrial part of Greenpoint, a part of the pool overlaps a residential area. Dorothy Swick is the owner of one of the houses built over the oil pool. “Six years ago my neighbor, who is a cop, decided to get rich,” said Swick. The inventive neighbor bought equipment and started drilling. For unknown reasons he decided stop the work after he reached the depth of 23 feet. Fumes rose above the area and negatively affected the health of many residents. Unfortunately neither Swick nor other neighbors were able to seal up the hole. The State Environment Authorities installed special devices to rid the area of the fumes. The project of fume monitoring lasted a few years. “It was only until a few years ago that the hole was sealed up completely, and the monitoring devices were removed from the yards,” said Swick.
And my date would like a coffee
Posted by spooneybarger Mon, 01 May 2006 22:59:00 GMT
If you want to bring someone around to your way of thinking you should make sure they’ve got a cup of coffee in their hand, according to research showing that caffeine makes us more open to persuasion. The Australian researchers say a caffeine hit improves our ability to process information and increases the extent to which we listen to and take on board a persuasive message.
Colbert
Posted by spooneybarger Mon, 01 May 2006 19:44:00 GMT
Stephen Colbert spoke at the White House Correspondents Dinner… w/ Bush, Scalia and so many more in attendence…
You can get the complete transcript or watch the video below:
talk about making your audience uncomfortable at times… speak truth to the powerful
Rocks in Your Head
Posted by spooneybarger Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:30:00 GMT
from http://www.thevillager.com/villager_156/punkrecordstorenolonger.html
Ira Barouch, Rocks in Your Head’s owner, will close the store on Wednesday, and plans to relocate to 133 Roebling St. in Williamsburg.“I’ve been losing money for the last few years, and the rents being what they are, business hasn’t been good,” Barouch said on Monday. “The name of retail is location, location, and when the location’s not any good, that’s why we’re moving.
“I’ve been complaining about Soho for 20 years,” he said. “This used to be an interesting neighborhood. When I first opened, I could stand on the street and at least half the people walking by were potential customers and interested in music. Now, it’s much less. Hopefully, Williamsburg’s a cooler neighborhood.”
Inspired by the C
Posted by spooneybarger Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:02:00 GMT
Inspired by the C I tracked this one down…
muppets and alice cooper!
The Ballad of Birdie Beek
Posted by spooneybarger Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:58:00 GMT
C wins todays ‘woman i love award’
Spirit of Truth
Posted by spooneybarger Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:56:00 GMT
god bless you C for putting me on to this…