A Green Country judge is facing criticism for sentencing a teen, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, to ten years of attending church.
Some say the teen deserved a much tougher sentence.

"It was just a deal where there was no winner," said Muskogee County District Court Judge Mike Norman.

He told FOX23 he had a very tough decision to make in his courtroom on Tuesday. There were two families torn by the death of one son and the possibility of losing another to prison. 

"If he goes to prison at his age he's going to come out a very different man," Judge Norman told FOX23.

 In "Jesus of Nazareth -- The Infancy Narratives," the pope says the Christian calendar is actually based on a blunder by a sixth century monk, who Benedict says was several years off in his calculation of Jesus' birth date.

Most who come here on the net leave quickly because it loads so slowly. Wasn't always like that. But because some of the stuff i choose to post here is controversial on many levels there has been a few changes since i started this blog. Google's stats do not seem to ever match up with the stats of other counters that i use on this site, they appear to under count visitors. Did i mention this site loads O so sloooowly?

"The first large scientific study of how people respond to poor video quality on the Internet paints a picture of ever rising user expectations and the willingness to abandon ship if those expectations are not met (PDF). Some nuggets: 1) Some users are willing to wait for no more than 2 seconds for a video to start playing, with each additional second adding 6% to the abandonment rate. 2) Users with good broadband connectivity expect faster video load times and are even more impatient than ones on mobile devices. 3) Users who experience video freezing watch fewer minutes of the video than someone who does not experience freezing. If a video freezes for 1% of its total play time, 5% less of its total play time is watched, on average. 4) Users who experience failures when they try to play videos are less likely to return to the same website in the future. Big data was analyzed (260+ million minutes of video) and some cool new data analysis techniques used."

 My son is at the age that other young men are that have joined the military. His cousin has a friend who has a job in the military as a drone operator. The man told him that it was a lot like playing video games all day long. Even when he used the drone to blow people and things up it always was an emotional detached experience. As if there were no real people destroyed. He would get in his vehicle after work and go home knowing that he had killed other humans, but it just did not reach him emotionally. He found his job boring.

Now the powers that be are going to make it even more unreal to kill and destroy with no emotional after effects...

"Teenagers raised on Call of Duty and Halo might relish flying a massive Predator drone — a surprisingly similar activity. Pilots of unmanned military aircraft use a joystick to swoop down into the battlefield, spot enemy troop movements, and snap photos of terror suspects, explained John Hamby, a former military commander who led surveillance missions during the Iraq War. 'You're always maneuvering the airplane to get a closer look,' Hamby said. 'You're constantly searching for the bad guys and targets of interest. When you do find something that is actionable, you're a hero.' Yet a new study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found real-life drone operators can become easily bored. Only one participant paid attention during an entire test session, while even top performers spent a third of the time checking a cellphone or catching up on the latest novel. The solution: making the actual drone mission even more like a video game."

Speaking of a boring job...spending a year in essentially a Coke can circling the earth with no where to go?

 
"Captain Scott Kelly, brother of former commander Mark Kelly, will embark on the United States' longest manned space mission, set for 2015. Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend an entire year on the orbiting International Space Station. The mission will be a first for NASA's space program, but it is far from the world record. The longest recorded time in space was the 438-day mission of Russia's Valery Polyakov, working on the Mir Space Station, 1994-1995. Kelly, a decorated Navy captain received degrees from State University of New York Maritime College and the University of Tennessee, and was the flight engineer for space station expedition 25, and commander of expedition 26 in 2010. 'Kornienko hails from Russia's Syzran, Kuibyshev, region and has worked in the space industry since 1986.' The yearlong study on humans working in space will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, spring 2015."

 At the metro in Madrid (spain) a man falls into railways while the train is arriving. A hero (which happened to be a policeman) saved his life.

Need to send large files? Gmail, meet Google Drive -- and behold 10GB file transfers.

 Most popular YouTube video in Canada

 Ski resort in the Alps.

  One cannot not say “I believe the Bible” and lightly dismiss the perspective developed by Israelites in an ancient setting.


"Today Reuters reported that due to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the dramatic rise in foreclosures of owner-occupied housing, America now has a record number of vacant homes across the country – for the first quarter of this year. In discussing the rise in the share of vacant homes, the Reuters article, by Joanne Morrison, casually dropped a bomb: “the total number of vacant U.S. properties hit 18.6 million, which was a record,” quoting a U.S. Census Bureau official.

18.6 MILLION vacant homes! Now, that’s alotta vacancies. Incredible. According to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty there are 3.5 million homeless people in this country. So, roughly, that’s 5 1/3 empty homes for every homeless person. This system sure is working, isn’t it?" TIL: There are 18.6 million empty homes in America, meaning you could give every person in Scotland around three houses in America...

 Costco CEO, Jim Sinegal, rejects Wall Street's assumption that to succeed in discount retailing, companies must pay poorly and skimp on benefits, or must ratchet up prices to meet Wall Street's profit demands.

 Pat Robertson: "If you fight science, you're going to lose your children:

 Steven Spielberg asked to direct a 70's Connery era 007, was denied, started working on Indiana Jones instead.

 Barnes & Noble Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires Buy Real Books!

TIL that in the 1950s, Carl Sagan worked on a project to nuke the moon.

Moral?  Glenn Beck Is Selling A Jar Of His Pee With A Toy Obama Inside