I think a big part of the challenge with these cases is the lack of experience and skill that university administrators and investigators have with sexual assault cases. In too many cases, they simply don’t have the knowledge or ability to (1) design a system that fairly investigates and adjudicates sexual assault…

Lately I’ve been really feeling this conflict surrounding the Brock Turner case (and the other ones like it). Because on one hand, I’m 100% against rape. On the other, I’m not the wrath and punishment sort.

Rural Southern California is scary. And I’m from rural Appalachia so that’s saying something.

It’s not just the power meters, it’s also the doofus in the team car telling him to push harder, back off, and when to attack. The Olympic road race was fantastic because they didn’t have radios.

You are completely right.

The dumbest argument I heard against banning watt meters, was because it would be a technological step back, and the sport should be moving forward, not backwards.

They don’t have speedometers either.

So... F1 cars don’t refuel during a race.

He should certainly pursue his hobby, but if you look at his work he’s a hobbyist at most. MIT bound 14 year old kids are way past this kid.

I wouldn’t pin hopes for a middle class science award on a dismantled alarm clock, let alone MIT.

Changing the housing on an off the shelf Radio Shack clock ain't gonna get you into MIT

It only takes 4 to take a case, so he was basically saying “though I disagree with your outcome, we are definitely going to take this case, and so preserving the status quo until then makes sense.”

I'm dying laughing at my office right now, because Gordon Fucking Ramsey is getting a LaFerrari Spider and this guy isn't Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha!

Exactly. This sentiment is precisely the belief / guiding principle of defense attorneys - the notion that even the most repugnant among us have basic rights that should be defended.

I didn’t know about Beijing but as for the other two, I think you could classify those incidents as terrorism directly targeting the Olympics. In Rio it just seems that the Olympics were so poorly prepared that people will die

Interesting. So prosecutors were sure enough to go ahead with some questionable evidence - I wonder if that means they had more that wasn’t admissible. That wouldn’t be public so we’d never know. Or maybe due to all the public pressure to get a conviction on this, they simply rushed it.

Much as I adore my colleagues at Gawker (and my former colleague at Gawker who is now at The Intercept a few floors up in our building) it’s not a love for the DNC that has me writing these articles. I’m more interested in this little look into the strange and expanding world of hacking as a military tactic. The…

Yes, I remember. I had the lasagna.

Attorneys have the right to cross examine any witness testifying. That’s why you can’t just introduce depositions, affidavits, and the like. That does not give them the right to treat her the way they did. There are a multitude of other ways used to ensure she was able to testify, rather than this monstrosity of…

interested to know better ways of supporting a grass roots movement that doesnt involve fundraising for like-minded candidates