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N.C. Official Sics License Police On Computer Scientist For Too Good a Complaint

Posted by timothy on from the guilty-of-being-smarter-than-the-official dept.

snsh writes "When a computer scientist in North Carolina petitioned the state for a new traffic signal in his neighborhood, a transportation official replied with a complaint about what 'appears to be engineering-level work' done by someone who is not licensed as a professional engineer." Kevin Lacy, chief traffic engineer for the state DOT, and the one who filed a complaint with the N.C. Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, protested that in trying to have Computer Scientist David Cox investigated for his detailed complaint about a traffic intersection while not licensed as a professional engineer, "I'm not trying to hush him up."

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  1. Sorry by mark72005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry Mr. Lacy, we require a license to complain about non-compliance to ignorant bureaucratic rules.

    1. Re:Sorry by pavera · · Score: 3, Funny

      Totally off topic, but can you actually download 14GB over a dialup modem in 1 month? I could do the math but I'm lazy... just curious.

    2. Re:Sorry by hvm2hvm · · Score: 3, Funny

      You're kidding, but I actually can't believe these people actually think like that. How can you be so goddamn narrow-minded? It's so infuriating I might actually leave a hateful comment somewhere on the Internet.

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    3. Re:Sorry by utoddl · · Score: 5, Funny

      WHAT? Are you practising network engineering, in public, on a network, without a license?

      You fell for the bait, citizen. Against the wall, you.
       
      /Live near Raleigh, getting a kick, etc.

    4. Re:Sorry by EdIII · · Score: 3, Funny

      This would require the connection to be active 24/7, obviously, and receiving data the whole time.

      In other words, somebody *truly* dedicated to porn.

    5. Re:Sorry by jbezorg · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, he needs a 27B/6.

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    6. Re:Sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Dude, you do realize that this is -North Carolina- that we're talking about, right?

      Why is everyone so surprised, Y'all? I believe that the state is well-known for big-eared, banjo-playing, sister-marrying, evangelical bureaucrats, no?

      How do you get the North Carolina State University grad off of your porch?

      ..... You pay him for the pizza.

    7. Re:Sorry by icebike · · Score: 3, Funny

      Executive director of the engineers licensing board, (and engineer) seeks to protect own turf. Film at 11.

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    8. Re:Sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Easy. add a EULA to the refrigerator door saying "by walking into this refrigerator, you agree that if you are from Greensboro, you see the caulk, and if you are from Guilford, the caulk is legally invisible."

  2. Re:WTF, seriously?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Annoyed Neighbor @ 3am: Could you please keep it down? Your party is awfully loud and I need to get some sleep

    Drunken college students: You can't tell me to keep it down! I'm calling the police on you for doing the duties of a police officer!

  3. Re:I'm sorry, that's it. by camperdave · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your country has been renamed to COSA, the Corporately Owned States of America.

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  4. Re:It's simple, really by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you do ANYTHING that embarrasses a public official, they will retaliate. That's the kind of jackasses they are.

    I hate people who make sweeping generalizations - they're all jackasses.

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  5. The Powers That Be by Phoenix666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Need a very overdue, very serious attitude correction. We are not subjects to be commanded. We are citizens, which means we employ them, and they ought to obey us, not the other way around. They perform their duties at our sufferance.

    Folks, we are long past the time for a reboot of our country. Those who like to play Masters of the Universe with our lives seem to think they can do so with impunity forever, to whatever extreme. But we are not Chinese or Indians or Russians. We are Americans, and freedom is our creed. And we're very heavily armed. Let's remind them and all others around the world why we deserve to be free. Let the Eastern seaboard be lit with the fires from their mansions.

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  6. Mr Lacy is technically correct... by corbettw · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...which is, of course, the best kind of correct. He is now a Level 10 Bureaucrat.

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  7. Re:3-4 month investigations by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not a bureaucrat nor an engineer, but even without seeing the document I can tell that it was not done by either. It's only eight pages long!

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  8. Ayn Rand by DarthVain · · Score: 4, Funny

    If someone mentions the fountainhead I will hunt you down...

  9. Oblig. by History's+Coming+To · · Score: 1, Funny

    For every /. there's an xkcd:
    http://xkcd.com/277/

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