So if the motorcyclist gets the 16 years the lesson is to shoot the "gun-waving idiot" immediately after you say "FREEZE!" because you will be serving lots of time anyway, right?
That cop better thank his lucky stars that he wasn't killed on the spot.
I am not sure if the law was broken or not. The cop is under the assumption that his conversation should have been private. I don't think he has a reasonable expectation of privacy in this case.
Does Maryland arrest people for overhearing so-called "private" conversations made in a fast food joint, clearly a public place? Didn't the FBI bust mobsters on the fact that their conversation of taking out hits on their enemies on the street were not private conversations?
The law enforcement community shouldn't be able to have it both ways. If you convict him for 16 years for this then have the state arrest and convict all of the county deputies and city policemen using cameras that are recording with sound on the same wiretapping charge.
"Whether he's found guilty or not, his life is basically over."
He could go into law, work for the ACLU or EFF and try to extract some more justice for others, or try to get some of these bastards arrested themselves.
"Many (most?) employers now ask if you've merely been arrested"
Another reason to go into law. He could make a living suing interviewers that ask that question and refuse to hire him when he can prove he fits the description of an ideal candidate to a tee.
What???? I live in a one party consent state where if one party consents to be recorded it is legal only if the other party's are aware or notified if and only if there is a expectation of privacy.
This law doesn't specifically address public venues because what is done in public cannot be considered private and falls into a different realm.
There are ways to mitigate the diffused responsibility problem, but it usually takes some sort of "belief shift".
You have to be instilled, and in some cases absolutely brainwashed, into believing that "your the drop in the flood" or "you are your brother's keeper" or "you are personally responsible for your company's actions" regardless of how low your position. Unfortunately that can cause some dire consequences for the individual, anywhere from "getting into trouble" to getting blackballed to being killed because they often are surrounded with many others that take the implied license to not take any responsibility for the situation.
I believe these people would be considered whistle-blowers or heroes or "troublemakers". They are the ones that often suffer.
Exactly, if we were paying the true price, funding part of our military expenses in the Gulf, we would easily be paying over $3/gal now. Add in a tax to partly fund the expense of the proper maintenance of the interstate system and that cost could start at $3.75/gal or more.
As we saw, at $3.95/gal the demand for gasoline started to drop off. It made more sense to carpool and to cut out unnecessary trips. It also caused a decline in spending on other retail outlets as people were cutting back to pay for their now expensive commute to work.
I figure that you have to find countries where the need for income for a project outweigh other economic and social factors.
Sadly this is not the case in the US, the land of cheap coal and subsidized oil.
To get solar power exported from Niger and Chad it will take infrastructure and overcoming other factors. Until Libya extends their solar power plants down to near those borders it won't happen in those countries.
I also foresee the day where Libya will need the solar power plant mostly for desalination, much like Saudi Arabia, as their fossil water table is drained and as the Sahara expands closer to the coast, as it has been for millennia.
Oui Monsieur! Il est tres important d'apprendre d'autres langues et cultures!
Learning other languages and cultures help one to become truly educated. Plus you will never know when you would actually have to use it.
Name me a language and I can tell you a situation where it would be good to know that particular "unusual" language sometime in your life, even in America. Even dead languages and sign languages count.
BTW, in Morocco you can get haggle better prices from merchants if you speak French well. They will take the English only Americans for every Dirham they can get.
I don't see the "casual gamer" market getting serious traction after one or two "casual to advanced" per genre get on the market. I think it it will be a bubble ready to crash. The hardcore gamers will be the ones to support the console gaming business.
I know I'm busy as hell at work, relationship, and getting training to stay on the top of my IT game and chances are I will not get a new game anytime soon. Gaming takes time that I cannot schedule into my life anymore.
...and why would the average Pakistani care? Their government has the US to thank for backing them up in the "crackdown" against the Taliban. From any of the press interviews of Pakistanis they seem to favor the Taliban. God knows what would happen if Pakistan becomes a functional Islamic "democracy". Probably World War 3.
"None of them has anything like the prison population the US does, or locks up 18 year olds forever because they had sex with a girl a few months younger than they are."
But the good ole USA DOES! We have proven that if you give one of our states an inch they will likely take a mile and more.
If we had laws and reasonable enforcement on this matter then I wouldn't care. But enforcement has been excessive on this matter, and getting more excessive all the time, as if that will correct the shameful prior neglect.
It is limited now but who is to say that those convicts that don't meet that exact condition will always be exempt, probably not since the law can be changed to make "the net" bigger? The precedent has been set and the slippery slope will start soon. That is certain for 2011.
Too bad for us. They could've ruled that the law was too broad (he could've been transferred to a Mental Hospital due to his mental condition, but that's not what the state wants) but they chose to uphold the ex-post facto law instead of following the constitution.
The next groups to be punished by ex-post facto laws, in order of this slide of the slippery slope, will be killers, violent rapists, manslaughter, non-violent rapists, gang members, drug kingpins, drug sellers, drunk drivers, drug users, assault and battery, militia members, members of the a cult or "wacky" political group, members of an unpopular political group, Democrats, Republicans, tax scoflaws, whistleblowers, speeders, moving violators, members of an unpopular church, protesters, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, then you and me if we are still standing.
Say, when did "Heavy Users" hunting season start and why does he want to hunt them down? Does this guy have a license to hunt them? Do they taste any different than venison? The Inquirer wants to know.
If he believes that then it is logical to assume he believes that it is akin to teaching children about seat belts, then instructing them on how to drive on ice and rain slicked roads.
God knows we CAN'T have THAT!
The DA's entire statement is a bunch of WHARRRGRBL!!
I agree. According to this DA if you teach kids ANYTHING they will immediately and automagically misuse this information to the greatest extent possible.
According to his logic:
- Teach kids sex and they will do it.
- Teach kids Chemistry and they will cook Meth.
- Teach kids to read and write and they will become Communists and revolutionaries.
- Teach kids about electricity and they will create electric grenades.
- Teach kids about physics and they will build zip guns.
Yes, SOME kids will do this in spite of teaching them anything, but MOST kids, when given the truth, will chose otherwise.
If you right about tort reform then health care in Texas should be way cheaper than it is in our states. So why are Texans health insurance premiums increasing?
The answer is that tort reform was not the end all be all solution to the health crisis. It turns out to be a small, but important part of the solution.
The thing that doesn't work to save costs is our fee for service system. It discourages cheap preventive treatment and encourages very expensive that tend to be less effective in the long run.
Agreed, thousands of American Christian Taliban idiots make tons of noise, get on the news, and make it difficult for the rest of the millions and millions of American Christians. It is very frustrating to see those idiots get all of the press and saying absolutely crazy sound bites. Christianity reduces to sound bites is not the Christianity most people believe.
Exactly, I owed my skills in IBM and Intel assembler programming to learning BASIC first and then Pascal. BASIC taught me how to use programming languages with limited control structures and Pascal taught me good programming habits.
When I then learned Assembler, Fortran, C, and Java I could build from that foundation. I could program using GOTOs in the proper context and still have easily readable code. GOTOs are handy when you are in a conditions loop and you need to exit immediately in the middle of the code.
In other countries, a government job is something you go to college for, and are trained for. It is something prestigious, and requires (often difficult) exams. I am not saying we should do this in the US, but I think we should be aware that there are alternatives, so we can choose which one we want.
If we are going to have better services in processing patents, mail, social security, medicare, and the like, we will have to start adopting this kind of plan. Make a degree in government administration or an equal level test be the minimal requirements and make the testing open to all citizens in good standing.
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So if the motorcyclist gets the 16 years the lesson is to shoot the "gun-waving idiot" immediately after you say "FREEZE!" because you will be serving lots of time anyway, right?
That cop better thank his lucky stars that he wasn't killed on the spot.
I am not sure if the law was broken or not. The cop is under the assumption that his conversation should have been private. I don't think he has a reasonable expectation of privacy in this case.
Does Maryland arrest people for overhearing so-called "private" conversations made in a fast food joint, clearly a public place? Didn't the FBI bust mobsters on the fact that their conversation of taking out hits on their enemies on the street were not private conversations?
The law enforcement community shouldn't be able to have it both ways. If you convict him for 16 years for this then have the state arrest and convict all of the county deputies and city policemen using cameras that are recording with sound on the same wiretapping charge.
"Whether he's found guilty or not, his life is basically over."
He could go into law, work for the ACLU or EFF and try to extract some more justice for others, or try to get some of these bastards arrested themselves.
"Many (most?) employers now ask if you've merely been arrested"
Another reason to go into law. He could make a living suing interviewers that ask that question and refuse to hire him when he can prove he fits the description of an ideal candidate to a tee.
What???? I live in a one party consent state where if one party consents to be recorded it is legal only if the other party's are aware or notified if and only if there is a expectation of privacy.
This law doesn't specifically address public venues because what is done in public cannot be considered private and falls into a different realm.
Better to be tried
by twelve, than be buried by six.
Sayth the one that lives.
There are ways to mitigate the diffused responsibility problem, but it usually takes some sort of "belief shift".
You have to be instilled, and in some cases absolutely brainwashed, into believing that "your the drop in the flood" or "you are your brother's keeper" or "you are personally responsible for your company's actions" regardless of how low your position. Unfortunately that can cause some dire consequences for the individual, anywhere from "getting into trouble" to getting blackballed to being killed because they often are surrounded with many others that take the implied license to not take any responsibility for the situation.
I believe these people would be considered whistle-blowers or heroes or "troublemakers". They are the ones that often suffer.
Exactly, if we were paying the true price, funding part of our military expenses in the Gulf, we would easily be paying over $3/gal now. Add in a tax to partly fund the expense of the proper maintenance of the interstate system and that cost could start at $3.75/gal or more.
As we saw, at $3.95/gal the demand for gasoline started to drop off. It made more sense to carpool and to cut out unnecessary trips. It also caused a decline in spending on other retail outlets as people were cutting back to pay for their now expensive commute to work.
I figure that you have to find countries where the need for income for a project outweigh other economic and social factors.
Sadly this is not the case in the US, the land of cheap coal and subsidized oil.
To get solar power exported from Niger and Chad it will take infrastructure and overcoming other factors. Until Libya extends their solar power plants down to near those borders it won't happen in those countries.
I also foresee the day where Libya will need the solar power plant mostly for desalination, much like Saudi Arabia, as their fossil water table is drained and as the Sahara expands closer to the coast, as it has been for millennia.
Oui Monsieur! Il est tres important d'apprendre d'autres langues et cultures!
Learning other languages and cultures help one to become truly educated. Plus you will never know when you would actually have to use it.
Name me a language and I can tell you a situation where it would be good to know that particular "unusual" language sometime in your life, even in America. Even dead languages and sign languages count.
BTW, in Morocco you can get haggle better prices from merchants if you speak French well. They will take the English only Americans for every Dirham they can get.
I don't see the "casual gamer" market getting serious traction after one or two "casual to advanced" per genre get on the market. I think it it will be a bubble ready to crash. The hardcore gamers will be the ones to support the console gaming business.
I know I'm busy as hell at work, relationship, and getting training to stay on the top of my IT game and chances are I will not get a new game anytime soon. Gaming takes time that I cannot schedule into my life anymore.
...and why would the average Pakistani care? Their government has the US to thank for backing them up in the "crackdown" against the Taliban. From any of the press interviews of Pakistanis they seem to favor the Taliban. God knows what would happen if Pakistan becomes a functional Islamic "democracy". Probably World War 3.
I wonder what the average statistical value of a human life in Pakistan?
"None of them has anything like the prison population the US does, or locks up 18 year olds forever because they had sex with a girl a few months younger than they are."
But the good ole USA DOES! We have proven that if you give one of our states an inch they will likely take a mile and more.
If we had laws and reasonable enforcement on this matter then I wouldn't care. But enforcement has been excessive on this matter, and getting more excessive all the time, as if that will correct the shameful prior neglect.
It is limited now but who is to say that those convicts that don't meet that exact condition will always be exempt, probably not since the law can be changed to make "the net" bigger? The precedent has been set and the slippery slope will start soon. That is certain for 2011.
Too bad for us. They could've ruled that the law was too broad (he could've been transferred to a Mental Hospital due to his mental condition, but that's not what the state wants) but they chose to uphold the ex-post facto law instead of following the constitution.
The next groups to be punished by ex-post facto laws, in order of this slide of the slippery slope, will be killers, violent rapists, manslaughter, non-violent rapists, gang members, drug kingpins, drug sellers, drunk drivers, drug users, assault and battery, militia members, members of the a cult or "wacky" political group, members of an unpopular political group, Democrats, Republicans, tax scoflaws, whistleblowers, speeders, moving violators, members of an unpopular church, protesters, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, then you and me if we are still standing.
Where will it end?
This is going on your permanent record, young girl! You will NEVER go to Cornell now!
I wish this comment was humorous, but it is probably sadly true.
Even more, some of these police officers should be facing every single applicable state and federal charge, and suspended without pay until trial.
Withholding evidence and obstruction of justice is a very serious crime and it should equally apply to the police and the state as well.
Say, when did "Heavy Users" hunting season start and why does he want to hunt them down? Does this guy have a license to hunt them? Do they taste any different than venison? The Inquirer wants to know.
This is what I heard the DA say
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
Straight from Orwell's 1984
Next he will prosecute people for "thoughtcrimes".
If he believes that then it is logical to assume he believes that it is akin to teaching children about seat belts, then instructing them on how to drive on ice and rain slicked roads.
God knows we CAN'T have THAT!
The DA's entire statement is a bunch of WHARRRGRBL!!
I agree. According to this DA if you teach kids ANYTHING they will immediately and automagically misuse this information to the greatest extent possible.
According to his logic:
- Teach kids sex and they will do it.
- Teach kids Chemistry and they will cook Meth.
- Teach kids to read and write and they will become Communists and revolutionaries.
- Teach kids about electricity and they will create electric grenades.
- Teach kids about physics and they will build zip guns.
Yes, SOME kids will do this in spite of teaching them anything, but MOST kids, when given the truth, will chose otherwise.
If you right about tort reform then health care in Texas should be way cheaper than it is in our states. So why are Texans health insurance premiums increasing?
The answer is that tort reform was not the end all be all solution to the health crisis. It turns out to be a small, but important part of the solution.
The thing that doesn't work to save costs is our fee for service system. It discourages cheap preventive treatment and encourages very expensive that tend to be less effective in the long run.
Agreed, thousands of American Christian Taliban idiots make tons of noise, get on the news, and make it difficult for the rest of the millions and millions of American Christians. It is very frustrating to see those idiots get all of the press and saying absolutely crazy sound bites. Christianity reduces to sound bites is not the Christianity most people believe.
Exactly, I owed my skills in IBM and Intel assembler programming to learning BASIC first and then Pascal. BASIC taught me how to use programming languages with limited control structures and Pascal taught me good programming habits.
When I then learned Assembler, Fortran, C, and Java I could build from that foundation. I could program using GOTOs in the proper context and still have easily readable code. GOTOs are handy when you are in a conditions loop and you need to exit immediately in the middle of the code.
In other countries, a government job is something you go to college for, and are trained for. It is something prestigious, and requires (often difficult) exams. I am not saying we should do this in the US, but I think we should be aware that there are alternatives, so we can choose which one we want.
If we are going to have better services in processing patents, mail, social security, medicare, and the like, we will have to start adopting this kind of plan. Make a degree in government administration or an equal level test be the minimal requirements and make the testing open to all citizens in good standing.