OT the PIT - reincarnation

I drove one recently... my penis stirred

I’ve owned a few nice cars..... a better memory is7th grade in Burlington Vt.... Danny Plunkett made a move on me (playing Goalie)..... globe save.... epic..... pure luck ....I’ll take it

Head to the bar car and grab a beer. 🍺🍺🍺🍺

Fucken savages

That is great to hear...🙏

Nola is still around and I agree about the Cowboy. I have no idea who GWN is either

Nola is still on this board? 

Alcohol is verboten on the train. I'm surprised they don't have a shrine in each car with a framed picture of their Supreme Leader...
... there's a liquor store close to the station. Grab a Coke and some whiskey...problem solved...
...except for the Bedrock Broadband wifi...

Throwing Michael Moore in there was a nice touch...

I knew Adachi's death stunk to high heaven.




Police raided the home and office of a freelance journalist Friday morning as part of an ongoing investigation into a leaked confidential police report containing salacious details about the death of late Public Defender Jeff Adachi.



Freelance journalist Bryan Carmody told the San Francisco Examiner that his home and office were raided by police and FBI agents because he had obtained a copy of the police report, and sold information from that report to the press following Adachi’s death on February 22.



The leak drew wide condemnation and prompted members of the Board of Supervisors to call for the police department to investigate and hold accountable the source of it within the department.



Two weeks prior, Carmody said that he was interviewed by police officers about where he obtained his information, but refused to disclose his source. Today, Carmody said that police and FBI agents executed a search warrant on his Richmond District home and Western Addition office.

They confiscated his cell phones, computers and a copy of the police report from within his office safe.



“They have completely shut down my business,” said Carmody, who has operated as an independent stringer for Bay Area and national television stations, including Fox News, CNBC and CBS Evening news.



Carmody accused police of “intimidation” to “make me break my [journalistic] ethics.”



“I’m refusing to give up my source,” he said.



A San Francisco Police Department spokesperson defended their action in a statement Friday, saying that the warrant was granted by a judge and the raid was “part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the leak of the Adachi police report.”



“Today’s actions are one step in the process of investigating a potential case of obstruction of justice along with the illegal distribution of a confidential police report,” the statement read.



Carmody said that police and FBI agents attempted to enter his home at 8:30 a.m. using “a sledgehammer.”



“They were in the process of breaking my gate down at which time I woke up and let them in,” said Carmody, adding that the authorities entered his home with guns drawn and searched “my entire house from attic to garage.”



Carmody said that he was detained in handcuffs for more than seven hours and asked to be released several times, but that authorities refused his request. He said he remained in handcuffs as police brought him along with them to his Western Addition office, where they found the police report in a safe.



Carmody doesn’t believe that whatever materials were confiscated would lead to identifying the source of the leaked report.



Carmody said he sold details of the report as a story package that included “video information” and “off-the record interviews” as “any freelance journalist does.” He said that the package was bought by three media outlets. He would not disclose which outlets.



Friends and supporters of Adachi, who dedicated his career to uncovering police misconduct, said the leak was political retribution. Carmody declined to comment on the motivation of the leak.



At an April hearing it was revealed that a freelance reporter had allegedly sold the information to media outlets for $2,500 each, but his identity was not disclosed.



Public Defender Mano Raju, who succeeded Adachi, said in an email statement that he is “pleased that [Police Chief Bill Scott] and others are keeping their word and working to get to the bottom of it.”



“All of our criminal justice and City Hall leaders agree that the release of police reports in this fashion is wrong,” said Raju.



lwaxmann@sfexaminer.com

A new study from the Computational Journalism Lab at Northwestern found that many of Google’s top hits for news searches came from just a handful of left-leaning sources.

Researchers Daniel Trielli and Nicholas Diakopoulos conducted their study by looking at the results of over 200 news-related questions every day in November 2017. They found 6,303 individual links to articles in the Top Stories Box, and counted an “article impression each time one of those links appears.”

Their data showed that 86% of Google’s Top Stories came from only 20 news sources. Just three dominated the coverage, with 23% of all impressions counted — CNN with 10.9%, The New York Times with 6.5% and The Washington Post with 5.6%.

Fox News, which was ranked fourth, only had 3%.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that consumers can pursue an antitrust lawsuit that claims Apple has unfairly monopolized the market for the sale of iPhone apps.

New Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court's four liberals in rejecting a plea from Cupertino, California-based Apple to end the lawsuit over the 30% commission the company charges software developers whose more than 2 million apps are sold through the App Store.

iPhone users who must purchase software for their smartphones exclusively through Apple's App Store filed the suit.

Apple keeps 30% of the sales price, where it is set, Kavanaugh said in a summary he read from the bench. "In other words, Apple as retailer pockets a 30% commission on every app sale," said Kavanaugh, one of President Donald Trump's two high court appointees.

That was enough to persuade that at this early stage of the legal fight, the lawsuit can continue, he said.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's other pick, wrote a dissent for four conservative justices. The consumers' complaint against Apple is the kind of case earlier high court rulings said was not allowed under federal laws that prohibit unfair control of a market, Gorsuch wrote.

Apple had argued it's merely a pipeline between app developers and consumers, and that iPhone users have no claims against Apple under antitrust law.

The suit could force Apple to cut the commission it charges software developers. A judge could triple the compensation to consumers under antitrust law if Apple ultimately loses the suit.

There has been exponential growth in the availability of apps since Apple created the App Store in 2008 with 500 choices.

"'There's an app for that' has become part of the 21st-century American lexicon," Kavanaugh said.

The case is Apple Inc. v Pepper, 17-204.

The so called community:
Two men accused of fatally striking a woman with a getaway vehicle while trying to steal her purse were charged Friday with special circumstances murder.



Gregory Anthony Walker, 19, and Giovanni Solomon Guy, 20, both of Los Angeles, are each facing a first degree murder charge with a special circumstance for the killing allegedly happening in the midst of a robbery that left 32-year-old Nga Ngoc Nguyen dead