Explosion at the Boston Marathon

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

White privilege is an obvious fact about society. It does not make you a bad person if you are white. It just means people will give you more credit and opportunities.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/featuredtask.html

This test measures your implicit preference in race. Most people (whether they are racist, anti-racist or whatever) will find that they implicitly prefer white people. It is not something that is done consciously. But you have to be aware of it when judging your perceptions in order to judge people and situations with as little racial bias as possible.

According to that, I subconsciously prefer white women, followed by black men and women, and my least preferred group is white men, by a lot.

Not that your hypothesis is generally wrong--I rather suspect that it's quite correct. But I am curious as to how this study measures subconscous racial preference, rather than, say, a tendency to make mistakes while doing a task and then gradually mastering that task as you repeat it 14 times.

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

According to that, I subconsciously prefer white women, followed by black men and women, and my least preferred group is white men, by a lot.

Not that your hypothesis is generally wrong--I rather suspect that it's quite correct. But I am curious as to how this study measures subconscous racial preference, rather than, say, a tendency to make mistakes while doing a task and then gradually mastering that task as you repeat it 14 times.

Nothing against your post, but that racial non-topic derail died a while ago, let it go.

[Ozy_Flame]

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/wo...009/story.html

Geezuz.

[JonDuke]

Middle left photo is that of the missing student. Makes me want to retract my earlier post saying the suspect and the missing guy didn't look alike. They sure do here:

Tags for size

Spoiler!

[jar_e]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/wo...009/story.html

Geezuz.

Nice to see some actual news in this thread again.

[jschick88]

#MIT ALERT: Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down. Please stay inside.

Update on #MIT shooting: the officer was an MIT police officer and was taken to MGH. #CambMA

https://twitter.com/thetech

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/wo...009/story.html

Geezuz.

I was just reading a similar article about this. Amazing he had the werewithal after all he went through....

Originally Posted by jschick88

#MIT ALERT: Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down. Please stay inside.

Update on #MIT shooting: the officer was an MIT police officer and was taken to MGH. #CambMA

https://twitter.com/thetech

Eh?

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by pylon

You know this whole event gives me an idea.

With all of the high resolution DSLR amateur photographers out there, what people could do for large events like this, is volunteer to work the crowds and roof tops, constantly photographing the crowds. You could even post signs at the events warning them of this 'organic' surveillance. If you had 50 or 100 cameras specifically photographing the crowds from strategic vantage points, it would be impossible to get away with something like this. Even with grainy security footage they were able to figure out these suspects, Imagine if they had high resolution photos of them, and of them planting the bombs.

Considering a lot of modern terrorism comes from people who are ready to die for their cause or even WANT to get caught so they can make a political statement I don't really see it helping at all. I mean maybe in this case, but I would think overall it would be a tiny percentage.

There's more than enough surveillance in the world. If people want to be photographing the event fine, but I'm not sure I'd want to encourage even more Big Brother.

[browna]

Originally Posted by jar_e

Nice to see some actual news in this thread again.

So the guy dropped the bag next to the guy... then I assume in the hub bub the dropper sort of faded away. Would think that was odd, but it's not like you'd pick up the bag and inspect it or go hunting for the guy either.

Regardless, this victim gets the first chance to spit on this coward. By no means am I calling this guy lucky, but being that close and losing his legs was likely/possibly/somewhat better then being 5 feet away and risking getting hitting the head with flying shrapnel out of that bomb, which is how I assume the 3 were killed (can't recall those details).

[puckluck2]

Originally Posted by jschick88

#MIT ALERT: Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down. Please stay inside.

Update on #MIT shooting: the officer was an MIT police officer and was taken to MGH. #CambMA

https://twitter.com/thetech

Related to this bombing?

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

Related to this bombing?

No, theres been a few shootings a robberies tonight, and keep popping up because people are listning to the BPD scanners quite constantly, thinking everything is bombing related.....which it isn't

[Knut]

Pretty damning photo right here. This one picture really hits home for how horrible it is. Bag placed right by kids. Guy looks so non-chalant about it all.

NSFW - picture shows little Martin Richard. Click at your risk.

NSFW!

last chance to not look

NSFW!

[jschick88]

Originally Posted by Ducay

No, theres been a few shootings a robberies tonight, and keep popping up because people are listning to the BPD scanners quite constantly, thinking everything is bombing related.....which it isn't

Ya, I shouldn't have posted that in this thread.

[puckluck2]

Originally Posted by Hesla

Pretty damning photo right here. This one picture really hits home for how horrible it is. Bag placed right by kids. Guy looks so non-chalant about it all.

NSFW - picture shows little Martin Richard. Click at your risk.

NSFW!

last chance to not look

NSFW!

http://imgur.com/a/fEZhX

Damn, that guy is probably the culprit.

[Knut]

Thanks. Got it now.

[MrMastodonFarm]

http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive

wtf is going on in Boston

[arsenal]

Not sure if related to bombing suspects or MIT shooting but people following the boston area police scanner (reddit) are talking about 2 men who have stolen a police suv and are in a fire fight with police. http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web

[polak]

I said I wasn't going to post names but since someone already did... Umm..




He disappeared a month ago, left a note, and surveillance cameras saw him leaving on his own apparently.

[Muta]

That nose and chin structure are just too similar in that photo comparison. Wow.

[Weiser Wonder]

Reports are pressure cooker bombs involved in the shootout situation.

I have a very good friend in the area. This #### is scary.