Watch: NYPD uses military-grade sonic weapon on Eric Garner protesters Long range acoustic devices (LRADs) have been previously implemented by police at protests throughout the world. Thursday night at about 1am, at the intersection of 57 East and Madison Avenue in Manhattan—a populated area about four blocks from Columbus Circle—the NYPD used a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) to disperse about 100 protesters who were on the streets. Footage captured by YouTube user James C shows the weapon in use beginning at the 1:58 mark. Protesters scattered in response to the sound, and either a live officer over a PA system or an automated voice intermittently told protesters between sound blasts that they could not interfere with “vehicular traffic” without risking arrest.
New Pew data: More Americans are getting news on Facebook and Twitter Facebook and Twitter users across all demographics are increasingly using the social networks as news sources, though they are seeking out different types of news content on each platform, according to a study out Tuesday from the Pew Research Center and the Knight Foundation. Sixty-three percent of both Facebook and Twitter users said they get news on the social networks, Pew found. That’s an increase from 52 percent of Twitter users and 47 percent of Facebook users who told Pew in 2013 that they use each platform to consume news. Though the same percentage of users look to each platform for news, nearly twice as many use Twitter to follow breaking news: 59 percent of Twitter users said they follow breaking news on the platform, compared to just 31 percent of Facebook users who find breaking news there. “As social networking sites recognize and adapt to their role in the news environment, each will offer unique features.
SKATE[SLATE] – Once in a Lifetime Outlaw – Updated The Once In A Lifetime Outlaw was put on by Andrew Chapman this past weekend in West Vancouver BC. The location was a newly developed access road connecting high end real estate to Cypress Bowl Ski Area. Cypress Mountain Road is the stomping grounds to pretty much any rider in the Vancouver area that wants to break 100km/hr. Speeds over 100k were not attainable on this road but nonetheless, it was fun to watch. Andrew knew we wouldn’t have much opportunity (if any) to ride this newly paved road in the future. About 40-50 riders showed for the opportunity. Debunking Economics - The Naked Emperor Dethroned? (v. 2) af Steve Keen - Køb bogen hos SAXO.com Forlagets beskrivelse In this expanded and updated new edition, Keen builds on his scathing critique of conventional economic theory whilst explaining what mainstream economists cannot: why the crisis occurred, why it is proving to be intractable, and what needs to be done to end it. Illustrations Bibliotekernes beskrivelse Debunking Economics 2 exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong.
Barack Obama’s support for net neutrality sets precedent for the rest of the world Perhaps unusually for a networked world, Barack Obama’s statement supporting net neutrality will have little immediate effect outside the United States. The debate concerns the way the internet is delivered to homes and offices: proponents of net neutrality argue that the fee internet users pay to get online should cover access to any site, no matter how popular it is; opposing them are the major US internet service providers such as Verizon and Comcast, who want the ability to charge sites that hog bandwidth extra, above and beyond the fees their visitors pay for access in the first place. Other jurisdictions have their own debates about net neutrality. In the UK, for example, 10 of the biggest ISPs voluntarily signed up in 2012 to a code that held them to offering open and full access to the net, and not prioritising traffic to their own products. More than that, it also helps ensure a future for the internet that is as open to new ideas as it always has been.
Original Longboard Trucks; Increase your longboard performance. Original longboards and trucks were designed with one thing in mind: Control. Control over your speed and control over your direction, the control you need for longboarding progression. Original longboard trucks deliver the control your longboarding has been looking for. Weave in and out of pedestrians on the city sidewalk, pop off the curb and carve out that long downhill before zigging back onto the sidewalk to avoid on-coming traffic. The Top 10 Existential Movies of All Time Browsing through my DVD collection recently I realized that I have a fairly decent selection of what can be called 'existential movies' -- philosophical films that study the nature of existence and what it means to be alive. It's debatable as to what defines the 'quintessential' existential movie, but ultimately it must speak to the human condition and reframe it in such a way that the viewer gains an enhanced appreciation of their own existence and situation in life. These are the kinds of films that you find yourself reflecting back upon time and time again as you engage in your own day-to-day life, struggles and relationships. Thus, I present to you the top 10 existential movies of all time: 10. The Quiet Earth
The 15 Best Miramax Films Today, the indie world and the film world at large lost a giant in the field, watching Disney close the doors and turn the lights off on Miramax. As sad a day like today is, and as uncertain as the future is, we can still hold on to the memories. Most of them are now on Blu-ray. Or at least Laser Disc (because we all own one). Without further tears in our eyes, we’d like to remember Miramax for their 15 Best Films. Emicida The Creators Project: When did you start rapping? Emicida: I didn’t care much about school, or at least I told myself that, so I flunked out and didn’t go to school for a year. When I got back, I was lucky enough to have a teacher that noticed that I was really into comic books. She got me started writing my own stories, and for a while I wanted to design comic books -- even today I still want to do that. But what happened is that from those stories, I started writing poetry. And then I started mixing up my poetry with what I was doing before, which was rapping on the street.
Nicos Poulantzas and the Capitalist State Nicos Poulantzas is a name that, today, is little known and seldom discussed out with certain academic circles. On the few occasions that the Greek Marxist is referenced by the organized Left, it is usually in relation to his public debate with Ralph Miliband on the nature of the State; or as an alleged proponent of Structural Marxism after Althusser. However, neither context provides a particularly accurate representation of this dynamic thinker: the Miliband debate only provides a small detail of Poulantzas’s rich investigations into the capitalist State; whilst reducing his lifelong political researches to the category of ‘Structural Marxism’ is inaccurate and unfair.
Table of contents (With last update date) Cover Foreword (August 13, 2009) Part 1. Quantum theory and consciousness