A very well known and respected Johns Hopkins computer security professor wrote an op-ed piece for the Baltimore Sun, saying that computer security should not be a reason to keep on-line poker illegal:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opi...401-story.html

Ok, it is time to go sailing. It is free, and you do not need to know anything to start.

The sole purpose of this post is to let those who came from points north, east and west, to work in the Poker Industry that we have the best sailing in the world, and frankly, boat owners are always looking for willing crew.

Realistically, you could wind up sailing on every off day, or at the end of other work days. For those who are athletic and driven to succeed, you could wind up as professional crew sailing around the world. That is not easy to do, but well, sailing in the bay is more than enough.

Note, you may have seen a post about this. It was taken down because I posted links. So you will have to find the links on your own.

In order to find boats that are looking for crew google: crew listings Annapolis sailing

In order to find the parties that assign crew to boats DO NOT DELAY, and google crew listings party Annapolis sailing.

There are a number of links to each category.

Regarding learning sailing terms and knots. Google basic keelboat sailing for information on that.
Regarding knots, google basic sailing knots for that information. You need to know the top four or five knots.

I put no links into this post, however, with the terms I posted above, you will find more than one of each in each category.

There are sailing schools as well. There are many good ones.

There is another way to become crew on a boat, just go down to the docks after researching the schedules. That usually works as a matter of fact.

Now, when you show up, you can know nothing, and be used for your weight, moving from one side of the boat to the other. However, it would be better to show up after memorizing the basic keel boat instruction pdf or book and the five basic sailing knots for sailboats.

This post grew out of a conversation I had with a poker dealer from NJ who had no idea she could go sailing for free.

It's free, and after the races, there are almost always excellent parties. What more could you want?

If you have any questions, I've sailed for 27 years now, so I can answer them all.

oh yes, there is currently an around the world sailboat race going on. If you google ocean sailboat racing you will find that.

Before you go get some inexpensive sailing shoes. They do not leave marks on the sailboat deck. And if you want to do more than sit there, you will need some sailing gloves.

I learned match race tactics by downloading the races with commentary. They are available on the net. the around the world race allows you to actually compete if you want, with about 100000 other computer bound racers. There is a wealth of information available.

There are several levels of standard certification if you want to go that route sponsored by the standard certification people.

There I managed to get all of it down, without mentioning any links. So, go find the web pages, and then go sailing.

Looks like there's a lot of rioting going on in Baltimore right now. Came home from work a little early today to see breaking news reports of police injuries, at least two police vehicles being burned, at least one other police vehicle destroyed, looting, and an expanding area of violent protests.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/0...ce-to-do-that/

It looks like the Baltimore Orioles, who have a home game tonight, are going to play their game tonight but they're urging fans to show up early and get inside the stadium immediately in light of the violent clash between baseball fans and protesters yesterday:

https://www.intellihub.com/photos-an...baseball-fans/.

Orioles game now has been postponed.

Good call by MLB and The Orioles. Sometimes baseball (or poker) isn't that important.

just in case a discussion of this breaks out here i think its important to point out a few facts beyond "oh no! not a CVS!"

a little before 8:40am on a Sunday morning, Freddie Gray is arrested for making eye contact, then running away from police. at 8:46am he was walking, talking, and breathing when put into the police van.

30 minutes later the police van arrived at the district station 4 blocks from where it picked Gray up. the van dropped Freddie Gray off with a crushed voice box and a severed spine.

Obviously tragic, but not a legit excuse to get free stuff at the expense of local businesses.

Someone just told me that a 10p curfew is in place, so hopefully that will help to curb the lawlessness.

EDIT to add: apparently curfew starts tomorrow, so better get your free stuff tonight if you're into looting.

http://6abc.com/news/baltimore-mayor...rgency/683647/

race of the 6 officers that were put on paid administrative leave because of that event?

i dont see where i mentioned race, but i assume by your ? at least one of them is black.

both of you should consider what you think would be a legitimate reason that would bring you out into the streets, and if the answer is "nothing i'm too old for that", then your sons.

What possible justification could there be for looting?

they want free stuff.
opportunistic parasites...

a sense of being oppressed by an violent, unrepresentative, arbitrary authority, and seeing no reasonable means of changing that condition through legal measures.

i don't think that's a reason to have "free TVs" day, but i think there are instances where going past peaceful protests would be justified.

Talking specifically about looting, not rioting in general. I can understand emotions boiling over, hence the violence against the police, but what purpose does trashing/stealing from your local businesses serve? Most of the time you're hurting the very people standing with you.

from a dispassionate analytical perspective (usually the opposite mindset of people doing it) ta couple reasons i can think of.

1. try burning down the police station or city hall -> get killed.
2. pictures of massive fires on CNN can't be ignored.

in practice i don't think its much more than "i'm tired of this, i'm sick of doing nothing and accepting it, i'm gonna go **** some **** up b/ this isn't right."

talking about the x% people taking advantage of lawlessness to steal without consequence, without political motive is pretty useless. they're obviously criminals. assuming everyone in the streets is like that is equally useless and is just burying your head in the sand.

just so we're clear.

A. a 24-year old guilty of making eye contact with police and running away dying in police custody with a severed spinal cord and a crushed voice box.

B. stores losing some of inventory and in a few cases being badly damaged by fires.

A is more important than B, right?

Of course it is. What's your point?

well the ? was directed at Rapini. he didn't start a discussion of the situation in Baltimore ITT 2 weeks ago saying "be careful interacting with police in Baltimore b/ they just killed a guy for running away", and they way his posts framed the situation
his answer isn't exactly clear. he seems to think the victims here are the helpless CVS shareholders and the police. the point is this story didn't start yesterday and this isn't going to be a safezone for people like AASuited to talk about the Parasites Gone Wild.

Going past peaceful protests isn't the same thing as looting. People who are outraged have the right to fight police if they want. I wouldn't do it, but that's their prerogative. Preying on businesses that serve your communities is indefensible.

So it sounds like you think that looting is OK in some instances. We're never going to agree then.

I don't think this is the right question. Try putting the 24-yr-old on one side of the equation and everything and everyone hurt and adversely affected by the lawlessness on the other side and then maybe we could discuss further.

Was anything I posted incorrect, dishonest, or disingenuous in your opinion? I'm more concerned about the employees of the CVS than the shareholders, but I guess I could get on board with putting them in the "adversely affected" column too.

DrawNone - you seem upset that the focus of the conversation has been on the looting and not the incident with Gray and the cops. I know your question was directed at Rapini, but let me respond to why that's the case with me.

The incident 2 weeks ago may have been racial - at the very least, it's being perceived that it was. I try to stay away from racial discussions most of the time, especially on the internet, because people are generally incapable of having objective analytic discussions about it, their emotions almost always come into play and often trump the flow of the discussion and it turns uncivil. I'm usually not interested in having those.

The looting, on the other hand, has nothing to do with race. I know there will be some who toss in a "blacks gonna black" or some other utter nonsense, that can easily be swept aside and ignored. It's a psychology that I find more interesting to discuss. That's not to say it's more important, but the more important events aren't always the more discussed.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...aign=editorial

tonites Orioles game postphoned due to riot concerns.

tomorrow nites game will be played but it will be closed to the public. :shock:

1st time I've heard of that happening

Closed to the public? What does that mean, no fans in attendance???