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“Heed voters on pot”

Rocky Mountain News editorial
The vote this week by Denver’s Marijuana Policy Review Panel urging the city to stop convicting adults for simple marijuana possession reinforces the message voters have twice sent to local officials. It’s a message law enforcement should heed.

The people of Denver have made it clear they do not want their limited law enforcement resources [...]

“Stunning rebuke for state leaders”

Rocky Mountan News editorial
Major props to the Independence Institute for spearheading the lawsuit against an illegal tax hike.
Even bigger props to Denver District Court Judge Christina Habas for having the courage and honesty to actually apply the law. [...]

“Despite high costs, don’t sell the ethanol farm yet”

Denver Post editorial
The Post continues its love affair with government subsidies, even when they are demonstrated failures like ethanol.
The Post believes that somewhere out there exists just the right combination of subsidies that will make our energy problems go away. We just have to let the government figure out what that perfect combination is.
The Post [...]

“Voter database taking too long”

Denver Post editorial
"It’s troubling that after years and millions of dollars, the state still hasn’t put the finishing touches on a reliable statewide voter database. "
"The cost of this system is now pegged at almost $13 million and it’s more than two years late in being implemented."
"The state missed a 2006 deadline for having such [...]

Fixing Education: Is more money the answer?

Whenever something that is government-run fails, people always want to fix the problem by throwing more money at it. This is often the case with public education here in the United States. Although it is true that our students are not nearly as educated as they could or should be, more money is [...]

Extreme Frustration

There seems to be some angst in Colorado about the upcoming elections. I received a few emails today concerning the rift inside the Republican party. I parted direction with the Republicans back in 2005, although I still have many friends who are Republican activists, I’ve become an activist of my own political persuasion. [...]

VLC Chaos… Not for the weak of heart.

It is possible to use quicktime broadcaster to send a RTSP stream to a relay server using VLC to receive rtsp and transcode that stream into MMS / ASF.
This means one can broadcast a live video / audio stream from a quicktime broadcaster to a server located in a high bandwidth location (some data center), [...]