The Washington Post has this story about the lawsuit that the Libertarian and Green Parties will be filing in a few days. Even though the case isn’t filed yet, the attorneys gave the Post a copy of the complaint, and the Post article discusses that complaint. …read more
WOO!! You want to hear an epic 3+ hours of peer-to-peer action? Do you want to know what’s going on with MaidSafe? Do you want to hear some wild Bitcoin talk? Then this was the podcast for you! WOO!
Joined by the Goddess of Mesh Networking and representative for MaidSafe–Paige Peterson–the Man of Tomorrow (that’s me) and the stallion of liberty Ernie Hancock cover so many bases when it comes to decentralization you’re going to want to sit down for this one it’s so information and theory dense.
And we went all morning long, baby!
You can listen to it and download it …read more
Alpharetta, GA — Atlanta police officer Scott Perry was arrested by Alpharetta police this Saturday night after he caused a scene at a hotel restaurant and became aggressive with a number of female patrons.
Perry was reportedly drunk and tried to kiss multiple random women whom he had never met before, and had also attempted to steal their food.
Each time Perry was strongly rejected, and in most cases the women were actually there with their significant others. In one case, Genesco Carvalhais had chased after Perry to retrieve the food for his significant other, and when he confronted Perry, the off-duty …read more
Jackson, MS — Accused of providing protection to drug dealers, violating civil rights, and robbing two undercover FBI agents, Officer Bryan Jones was terminated from the Jackson Police Department and charged with abusing his authority to commit extortion. The FBI began investigating into Jones over a year ago after local residents repeatedly complained about the dirty cop.
According to the indictment, Jones used his position as a cop to collect fees from local drug dealers in exchange for protection and police intelligence. Not only did Jones provide the drug dealers with the time and locations of police task force operations, he …read more
Butler County, OH (RT) — A little bit can go a long way in repairing damaged relationships between communities and police forces, such as when an Ohio officer rented a hotel room for a homeless woman and bought shoes for her sons with his own money.
Tierra Gray and her two sons had just been evicted from their home. With nowhere else to turn, she decided to go to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office.
“I was just like Lord, what is it that I am supposed to do? What am I supposed to do right now? My kids are here sleeping inside …read more
Toronto, CA — A man falsely accused of assaulting a police officer was exonerated after a cellphone video revealed that the officers had knocked the phone out of his hand before attacking him. Although the officers confiscated his cellphone and refuse to return it, they didn’t realize that the video had already been automatically uploaded to his Google account.
On January 4, 2014, Toronto Police Constables Piara Dhaliwal and Akin Gul responded to a noise complaint at the apartment of Abdi Sheik-Qasim’s uncle. After answering the door, Sheik-Qasim explained to the officers that his uncle had stepped outside and turned down …read more
A California Superior Court recently reversed and course and cancelled cumulative voting for city council elections in Santa Clarita, California. See this story. …read more
On September 23, the conference committee of the North Carolina legislature decided that HB 373 will provide that all 2016 primaries will be in March. See this story. Traditionally the state has held primaries for all office in May.
Candidates running in primaries will be required to file by December 21, 2015.
The bill has no effect on the petition deadlines for newly-qualifying parties or independent candidates. New party petitions will continue to be due in May, and independent candidate petitions in June. Here is the text of the bill. The bill’s provisions concerning the date of …read more
For some years now I’ve been talking about a (now) popular messaging app called: Telegram. I’ve been a fan of it for a few reasons.
It is cross-platform. It operates on iOS, Android, Windows, OS X, Chrome, as a web app, and even in beta for Windows Phone. It’s everywhere. Most messaging apps, encrypted or not, can make that claim.
It’s open. It’s really, really open. Not just open source–though it is that now–but the platform itself is open, which allows for what we’re about to talk about in this post. You can create “bots”, some have made Bitcoin wallets and services …read more
At Coinbase, we’re focused on providing people the easiest on-ramp to the Bitcoin world. People in 28 countries can now buy bitcoin on Coinbase in exchange for 5 different currencies (USD, CAD, EUR, GPB, SGD). Buying bitcoin on Coinbase is the best way for people with bank accounts in the US, Europe, Canada, and Singapore to get bitcoin. But for people that either don’t have a bank account or live in a country that we don’t yet offer buy/sell services, there is another way to get bitcoin: earn it.
There’s a growing number of services that allow people around the world …read more
