For anyone who missed it:

MO Blue's 2013 prize winning Halloween costume.

I definitely agree with you on the real fright:

the real fright comes next Tuesday, Election Day...few things scarier than a no win situation.

Yes, I know Hickox actually treated Ebola patients, but the woman isn't sick.  She's tested negative each and every time she's been tested.  She has no symptoms, no fever, nothing.  No one who has been in her presence, sat next to her on an airplane, stood in line with her for coffee or to board a plane, has fallen ill.  

The way they've treated this woman, I keep expecting someone to suggest that maybe the reason she isn't sick is because she's...a witch!  Seriously, when do we light the bonfires and hold witch trials?

Finally, someone in authority has acted in a manner befitting the facts - and surprise, surprise! - it wasn't a politician.  

But I wonder if it is fair to write that Hammett would "never have admitted" to being influenced by him - or acknowledging correspondence with him if he had been asked.

I think of what Hammett went through due to his political stances - boldly liberal to say the least.

Hammett had a fair amount of experience himself before writing about it, and he wrote far more stories involving the Continental Op than he did about Spade, who only appears in two stories aside from The Maltese Falcon.

"But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor--by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.

"He will take no man's money dishonestly and no man's insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him.

"The story is this man's adventure in search of a hidden truth, and it would be no adventure if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure. If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in, without becoming too dull to be worth living in."

Go HERE to see what speed you have, run it when it's slow and run it after dinner when the web is busiest.  It should be the same.

12Mb/sec is fast enough to run Netflix on two TV's, but most of that isn't 1080p.

How old is your router ?  Every time I think there is a internet speed issue, first thing I do is reset my router, which can be done from your computer.  That fixes it 95% of the time and the correct way, unplugging it can corrupt the settings.

This should be done once a month if you have a lot of devises connected.  At any given time, I have two computers, two phones, two TV's, Direct TV, and DVR connected.  I think, but don't know, that creates IP issues and resetting it clears the cache.  Even when they aren't used, they stay somewhat connected so when you do use them it doesn't take 5 mins to reconnected.

The other 5% has been the router getting old.

You can also test your modem by connecting direct to it with a laptop using the cord that goes to the router, if that is fast, but the wireless isn't, get a new router.  I would say I have replaced my router every 2 years.

I would say 6 is slow, 12 good, and 24 fast.

12Mb is 1.5MB, the number used in your file manager.

Speedtest also has an app that can test your data on your phone or your wireless at home.

1. What was high speed in the past is no longer high speed today. The question is, did it work ok before gaming? If so, the gaming is what's sucking up a lot of bandwidth.

2. If you get a higher speed for the same price as you were paying for a lower speed that's a good deal.

Yes, I'm sure there are good cops in Ferguson, but even they bear some responsibility for the current state of affairs, to the extent their silence or denial has enabled the culture there to thrive.  Not saying it's right for citizens to issue death threats, or threats of violence - it's not - but it just seems to me that the anger of those who haven't been abusing their power ought to be directed at the fellow members of the FPD who have been.

The feelings expressed in your excerpt remind me of the ones expressed by Chief Jackson, in the immediate wake of the Michael Brown shooting: that this was also a tragedy for Darren Wilson.  Poor Darren.  Let's all shed a tear for him.

Kinda sounds like this: "We know we've been treating you people like dirt for years and years, taking your money for ticky-tack reasons, making it hard to resolve the tickets and citations, stopping you whenever we wanted and making your lives miserable, and now, thanks to that thug Michael Brown, the whole world knows what we've been up to, but golly, you don't have to snap at us like that - we're people, too!"

That study was conducted in 2001.

Wilson claims he killed an unarmed black teenager because he feared for his life. Was that fear based on the actual deaths of Ferguson police officers while on duty? Anyone want to take a guess of how many on duty police officers were killed by black men since the data was tracked sometime around 1836?

Not fun to live life looking over you shoulder and being on edge all the time knowing that no place is safe for them or their families.

A cop too scared to wear their uniform in public is a cop who has failed so deeply at being a cop, they should be terminated on the spot and never allowed to wear a badge again.

A report issued just last week by the nonprofit lawyer's group ArchCity Defenders notes that in the court's 36 three-hour sessions in 2013, it handled 12,108 cases and 24,532 warrants. That is an average of 1.5 cases and three warrants per Ferguson household. Fines and court fees for the year in this city of just 21,000 people totaled $2,635,400.

Quailman from the Nickelodeon cartoon Doug is a perfect choice for a homemade costume since all you need is a belt, towel, underwear that you wear over trousers

It would be a lot more believable (which isn't saying much) if you didn't hear the mouse or keyboard clicks accompanying every one of the mystery deletions.

It would have been smarter to have held the camera so that the screen, the keyboard and the [de-batteried] mouse were all in frame, while using an external bluetooth keyboard and bluetooth mouse off camera, out of microphone range.   Who films their word processing anyway?  If it were transpiring at "hyperspeed," it would have been over before she remembered her phone's camera, much less had time to pick it up and turn it on.