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Allowing the police to avoid being observed and recorded has consequences that affect society as a whole. That's really bad.

Allowing the police to enforce the privacy of someone they're arresting only really affects those few who are arrested. Arrest being an offical duty by a public official, should not really carry any sort of reasonable expectation of privacy. And whatever is captured on video actually happened, so there are no legitimate concerns of libel or slander. On the whole, this is not that bad.

I think it's clear where the balance lies. I would rather have a 100% chance of any future interaction between myself and law enforcement to be recorded and distributed on the internet than risk the slightest chance of police getting away with brutality. Allowing video might reveal some crazy shit I actually did. Prohibiting video might conceal some crazy shit the police actually did.

Of course, in some jurisdictions a police officer can be caught on tape sodomizing a prisoner with a tazer and suffer nothing but "additional training". So YMMV.

This is pretty common. The woman who wrote all those harry potter books did it on the dole. When she got her payout she ran for the US to prevent having to pay the UK tax rates that pay for things like the dole.

I don't get this post. You're completely wrong. J.K. Rowling did start the books while on the dole, but she did NOT "run for the US" to avoid taxes. On the contrary, she specifically refused to leave the UK (she currently resides in Edinburgh, Scotland), because she felt she owes a debt to the welfare state of Britain. Here are her actual words, from here:
 
 

A second reason, however, was that I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.

It's pretty clear she's a better person than you are; and I don't understand why you'd post something as far from the truth as you did. Maybe there exists a pathological condition that afflicts conservatives and creates an irressistible compulsion to lie? Just like the other right-winger who suggested Stephen Hawking would have died had he depended on the British National Health Service? (see here or here.

Here is another: http://www.huliq.com/3257/paul-allen-co-founder-microsoft-sues-11-companies-over-patents. Let's not be ignorant to reality just because you would rather believe something to not be true or because you support it. Microsoft's guerilla tactics are very real. Even the smallest amount of research will prove that. If you want something bad enough, patience is a strong virtue to have. Personaly, I say Microsoft can have SuSe and take Ubuntu with it. My server will continue to run Debian, my destop will continue to run Slackware and Arch along with AV for my studio.

Actually, yeah. The original complaint was that she said that Paul Revere warned the British, which was fact. Here are some links:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2011/06/03/sarah-palin-paul-revere-gaffe.htm

As any elementary school student can probably tell you, Paul Revere was not attempting to warn the British when he rode around crying, "The British are coming." Nor was he ringing bells and trying to protect gun rights.

Apparently Palin learned nothing at any of the five colleges she attended.

http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/06/03/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/

This certainly gives us an entirely new point of view to consider when examining our nation’s founding.

While I had been led to believe that Revere’s historic ride was actually for the purpose of warning our forefathers that the British were coming, it turns out that his midnight ride, complete with ringing bells and warning shots, was really all about letting the English know that we were armed.

http://www.huliq.com/3257/sarah-palin-paul-reveres-midnight-ride-warned-brits

Former vice-presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin has never been accused of being a brain surgeon, but her latest gaffe is another cautionary example of why she is, many say, unqualified to be a Presidential candidate: Paul Revere's ride was not to warn U.S. Revolutionary War patriots, but instead to warn the British.

Actually, the Kennedy's in general and JFK in particular DESERVE to be ripped apart--but not for the vapid reasons that Sarah Palin's ghost writer came up with.

Look, I'm not here to turn this into some JFK and RFK and Ted Kennedy did all this horrible crap and killed a woman and got away with it and were womanizing nepotistic rich bastards ... all or or some of these things could be said. But what I was trying to say here was that nobody has ever run on that platform. You can write a book of dirt when you're done with politics but writing such a book before you become president is sort of like asking your future opponent if they'd like to have their way with you right now. I mean JFK, though flawed, was a hero to a lot of Americans. And his martyrdom was just icing on the cake. And to call into question one of his most loved and cherished speeches is more than ballsy, it's downright dangerous.

Sarah Palin is a new kind of political monster, unlike the ones I'm used to watching comfortably from my armchair. She's got a twitter feed that sports so many errors, she might actually be the person running it! From a classic Bush-esque prescriptive versus descriptive linguistics error to making accusations and weird religious remarks. It's a microblogging service! Look at what the rest of the politicians use it for: a paid staff techie is told what to put on it and what goes on it is only tepid words praising safe topics for that candidate to like. And those are usually reviewed seventy times before they go up. She has broken the rules of and committed fouls in politics many times and yet people embrace her.

All I wanted to say in my post was that from what I've seen of Sarah Palin, we should have stuck a fork in her long ago yet she remains. And why is that? Well, she's a dangerously well liked and amicable to a large part of the population that you are not familiar with. If she makes a mistake they seem to forgive her and say "I've made that mistake too." If she uses cracked logic or argument tactics long ago written off by academics, her followers just write off the academics. Trust me, as someone who's tried to reason with a supporter with some fairly simple debate analysis of Glenn Beck's logic, I can tell you that you don't want to approach this as some fancy pants intellectual telling them how dumb they are.

Don't confuse this with praise of Sarah Palin or defense of JFK. This is just me trying to warn people about how I see the situation at present. What happens when she runs for president and her opposition preys on some stupid social gaffe of hers? If it's any less than what she's already done, it's merely going to be ignored by or reinforce her supporter's commitment.

This is bullshit, I'm from Switzerland and we get fined based on how fast we were going. I've never heard of this story or this practices, and I have gotten plenty of speeding tickets (well my g/f, I don't drive but whatever).

Time Magazine disagrees with you, as do the BBC News, Huliq and 0-60 Magazine.

Does India have any tech manufacturing base? No troll - sincere question.

I know they've got keen engineering students who want that base to develop so they can work in it, but I can't think of any factories.

Yes, Dell does smone manufacturing there.

Another examle:

Vision Systems Group Indicted for H1B Visa Fraud

http://www.huliq.com/3257/77441/vision-systems-group-indicted-h1b-visa-fraud

Doesn't really matter the iPad is an iKaboom, it just wont work. All the sales, marketing and forum hype (could apple trolls be considered maggots) are not gonna get that platform moving.

At consumer electronic shows about 30 tablets are expected. MS showed one by HP. So if tablets fail it's not just Apple that loses. I'd love one myself, but not Apple's current iPad, the screen is too small for me. I've been thinking of getting a Wacom Bamboo for now.

Sticking an i in something doesn't make it more saleable, the tablet has always had the one big problem, drop factor, it is to large to be effectively hand held, a keyboard is the quickest input device and the tablet has always been this only for pose platform.

Almost all portable devices have that problem. Years ago I brought my laptop with me when I went somewhere and after I got out of the car I slipped on ice. When I got in I took my laptop out and though it only dropped about 2 feet the LCD was cracked. Hoping but not expecting it to be covered I called tech support but they said they didn't cover cracked LCDs. The person suggested I call my car insurance and when I asked how much it would cost to repair the person just said between $200 and $1200, nothing more precise. $1200? That's half what I paid for it.

And I only had it 3 months.

For now I guess a Bamboo will have to do.

Falcon

Yeah.

Alex Jones and The Atlantic Monthly , noted wingnut, anti-globalist conspiracy rag:
"Yet in the view of several vaccine skeptics, this claim is suspicious on its face. Influenza causes only a small minority of all deaths in the U.S., even among senior citizens, and even after adding in the deaths to which flu might have contributed indirectly. When researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases included all deaths from illnesses that flu aggravates, like lung disease or chronic heart failure, they found that flu accounts for, at most, 10 percent of winter deaths among the elderly. So how could flu vaccine possibly reduce total deaths by half? Tom Jefferson, a physician based in Rome and the head of the Vaccines Field at the Cochrane Collaboration, a highly respected international network of researchers who appraise medical evidence, says: "For a vaccine to reduce mortality by 50 percent and up to 90 percent in some studies means it has to prevent deaths not just from influenza, but also from falls, fires, heart disease, strokes, and car accidents. That's not a vaccine, that's a miracle." "
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200911/brownlee-h1n1

I guess if you are not a pro-ball cheerleader, you have nothing to worry about:
Washington Redskins Cheerleader Desiree Jennings Permanently Disabled From Flu Vaccine
http://video.najoomi.com/videos/0VMRWLgF8V8/Washington-Redskins-Cheerleader-Desiree-Jennings-Permanently-Disabled-From-Flu-Vaccine.html

http://loudountimes.com/blogs/loudoun-lowdown/2009-10-13/loudoun-lowdown-nicholas-graham-flu-shot-desiree/

http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/cheerleader-with-dystonia-from-flu-shot-may-have-it-all-in-her-head/2264303090

http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/update-on-washington-redskins-cheerleader-crippled-for-life-after-being-vaccinated/1581295953

http://www.huliq.com/8059/87650/nfl-cheerleader-suffers-irreversible-dystonia-after-flu-shot

WTF? I don't think China is the capitalist wonderland you think it is.

According to the report, the China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) are considering a proposal to cut the 10 percent tax paid by car buyers to 2 percent for engine sizes of up to 1 litre. Tax for engine sizes of between 1 and 1.5 litres would be 4 percent; engines of 1.5 and 2 litres would be taxed at 6 percent; 2 to 2.5 litres engines at 7 percent; 2.5 to 3 litres at 8 percent, while 3 to 4 litres at 9 percent, and engines greater than 4 litres would stay at 10 percent. Huliq

So that 6.1L Dodge Challenger still at a 10% tax rate. You get a discount of only a 2% tax rate for that 1L engine? The Ford Focus has 2L engine and, thus, a 6% tax rate.

What's the EU going to do? Send a strongly-worded letter? ;-)

Overturn the ruling

there simply is no third possibility.

I think there are other possibilities.

1. Why doesn't anyone want to talk about the known increase in solar radiation over the last 30 years? AFAIK, we don't have numbers going back any further, but it seems fairly obvious that if there is more solar radiation entering the earths atmosphere, the climate will change.

2. Maybe we won't run out of oil because it isn't really made from dead trees and dinosaurs. I've been meaning to find some numbers, but I have a hard time understanding the amount of decaying organic matter necessary to create the 80+ million barrels/day of oil pumped from the ground in 2005. I know were talking about geologic time scales here, so I'd be interested in seeing some numbers about how many trees and dinos that adds up to.

I'd also be interested to find out how trees and dinos ended up 10k+ feet below the surface of the earth. Some of these are 35k+ feet (7+miles) deep.

3. I doubt there were many trees or dinosaurs on Hyperion or Titan, 2 of Saturns moons. Yet, they have pools of hydrocarbons, hmmmm.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not interested in the world getting so polluted that we can't breathe or grow food. I'm just concerned that global warming is really another scam to take more of my money in the form of taxes to "save the earth". If I remember correctly, when I was a kid, the big fear was we were going into a new ice age. Now we have the same data providing proof for the exact opposite hypothesis. Now get off my lawn.

Not to blow my former employers whistle, but:

  * http://www.huliq.com/59000/xmmnewton-discovers-part-missing-matter-universe
  * http://www.sron.nl/ (dutch)

Quoting:

"A team of Dutch and German astronomers have discovered part of the missing matter in the Universe using the European X-ray satellite XMM-Newton. They observed a filament of hot gas connecting two clusters of galaxies. This tenuous hot gas could be part of the missing "baryonic" matter. Their findings are being published in Astronomy & Astrophysics."

Disclaimer: I've no clue about astronomy.

My high-range hearing is indeed not what it once was, at the *ahem* ripe old age of 32. I can no longer hear dogwhistles.

And yes, that means that there are some businesses that I do not frequent because of "ultrasonic" burglar alarms and the like. This would merely add one more reason and group of businesses.

Beware making over-broad generalizations about what people can or cannot sense, the way that their bodies behave psychopharmacologically, even where organs are placed within the body... in short, everybody's different. Duh! Isn't that what they taught us as very young people? So why are so few people willing to believe it?

http://www.huliq.com/34160/qubits-poised-to-reveal-our-secrets seems to be a copypasta of the article.

Text messaging is cheap in the US compared to Europe. Witness this British article cheering that text messaging will now only be 25p. i.e., about 50c per message.

Considering he was talking about Japan (and Asia in general I assume)... what is your point?

The retail price of the iPhone is consistent with manufacturing costs. That this guy could get a subsidized casio product for 41 dollars is not surprising.

http://www.huliq.com/26330/iphone-sold-for-double- manufacturing-price

This article plays on a disgusting pathology "all the best stuff is made in japan". No, Japan has been struggling through a crippling recession for ten years. What was true for Marty McFly in the 80s is simply dated now. And here's the kicker: some stuff is actually made for the US market first and then released to Japan. Ditto for Samsung in Singapore. You always release to your home market first to test out the waters.

He never said that. And FYI, it's not "all the best stuff is made in Japan". It's "EVERYTHING is made in Japan/China". Oh and Japanese cars are far better than American cars :)

Seems all that is really known is the girl's side of the story and whatever hearsay and sensatiolism can be drummed up stemming from the fact that this may involve MySpace.

This statement seems to imply that there were a lot of other factors involved. Lies? Maybe. Who knows. I'm confident the court proceedings will bring the truth out though.

Since /. has gotten us all hyped up about this and most automatically assume the school is in the wrong, I do hope they'll follow-up later--especially if the facts show that perhaps the school was in the right on this.

anyone have any opinions how this fits together with the new angelman research sumarised at http://www.huliq.com/10255/angelman-syndrome-defic its-rescued-in-mice thanks

anyone have any opinions how this fits together with the new angelman research sumarised at http://www.huliq.com/10255/angelman-syndrome-defic its-rescued-in-mice thanks

Yes, you are absolutely correct, a modern army has no trouble at all keeping urban populations under control..

Widespread civil resistance, especially when well armed, eventually makes control too hard and too expensive to maintain.
I ought also to add that here you are talking about urban resistance in the USA - Uncle Sam pays his soldiers with resources from the mighty US economy, and so he really can't afford to start nuking cities. And I think it might play badly in the polls.