http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/19/morning-news-diamond-heists-scheming-china-and-3-d-yodas Comments On: Morning News: Diamond Heists, Scheming China, and 3-D Yodas by Cienna Madrid 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) Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
I honestly don't understand how people find newborns to be cute. Their faces are scrunched up and creepy looking. And I swear their bodies look like plucked chickens, big torso, tiny arms and legs. I still occasionally get mildly freaked out whenever I'm trussing a whole chicken.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:23:40 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TheMisanthrope]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:49:31 -0800 The Stranger Posted by kitschnsync]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:59:43 -0800 The Stranger
The will of the people has been heard, loud and clear, over and over and over: we want services, but we don't want to pay for them. Make them happen anyways.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:46:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TheMisanthrope]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:19:22 -0800 The Stranger Here's something from 6 months before that link (4th comment down, by yours truly).
Posted by Matt the Engineer]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:18:58 -0800 The Stranger
Gas tax? Fuck you, Legislature!
How 'bout raising the cost of tabs on cars that cost over $50k? or similar. Or, you know, institute a non-regressive tax structure.

Couldn't Obama go after all those tax under-paying corporations? I mean, soak the rich, please, but aren't corporations avoiding paying tons of taxes already?

I'm with Gorath on the Pistorus thing. (Not that our opinion counts for jack sh@t.) But if you are awoken in the middle of the night by a noise, you don't notice that your loved one is not lying in bed next to you? And then realize that it's probably her in the bathroom? Yet you have the wherewithall to get your gun?
That whole scene is fucking tragic.
Posted by treacle]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:44:28 -0800 The Stranger Posted by zachd]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:28:15 -0800 The Stranger
Olympia has a record for going regressive, hard. And, this is doing nothing to persuade me they'd do otherwise.
Posted by TheMisanthrope]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:09:24 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tkc]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:55:56 -0800 The Stranger
It isn't a printer, it's a fabricator. The only reason it's referred to as a "printer" is because one of the first practical ones was created using parts from an inkjet printer.

It would be like calling all modern airplanes "flying bicycles" because the first one was built using bicycle parts.
Posted by Urgutha Forka]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:49:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Matt the Engineer]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:48:09 -0800 The Stranger

Posted by Max Solomon]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:44:06 -0800 The Stranger "Brothers celebrate lottery win by blowing up house"

Needless to say, the celebrations involved meth, bongs...and butane.
Posted by Wandergeist]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:41:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by yelahneb]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:13:56 -0800 The Stranger this hoax way back in 2008. Visionary!
Posted by kitschnsync]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:09:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Reverse Polarity]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:03:28 -0800 The Stranger
On the other hand, I'd love a gondola that went from Cap Hill to Queen Anne and Belltown. Because Denny Way is the suck.
Posted by TheMisanthrope]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:59:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Foonken2]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:36:18 -0800 The Stranger
The Portland tram serves a single customer, OHSU, at terrific expense. It also runs over mostly open waste ground, a freeway and so on; the route from Cap Hill to Belltown is through a congested area. What are the right-of-way concerns in this area? What if someone wants to put up a building on the tram route? Are there any obstacles already existing? It's not like you can draw a straight line between the two places and not hit anything in between. Belltown is a high-rise district, not an area of single-story houses or an industrial wasteland full of parking lots. As near as I can tell, the Portland tram is an extension of OHSU's park-n-ride lot; it doesn't genuinely connect two living neighborhoods.

It seems to me that Seattle already has plenty disconnected gee-whiz transit bubbles that don't really relate to the city.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:31:56 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:30:28 -0800 The Stranger
I rode the gondola in Portland when it opened. It only has two cars that constantly go back and forth as counterbalances to each other. It goes up to their main hospital. The only drawback I could see was that the motion can be a little queasy especially right after it passes a tower.

What'd I say? Gondola! What's it called? Gondola!
Posted by fletc3her]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:16:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by gloomy gus]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:15:31 -0800 The Stranger
Not even a "hey, get out of there, I have a gun?" Not even going to ask your girlfriend if she is ok in there?

That being said, stranger things have happened. Still don't buy it though.
Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:14:56 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Jessica]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:06:01 -0800 The Stranger