Chances are, people paranoid enough to pay money to find out if the spooks were spying on them would also suspect that the spooks probably had spook spying devices that your equipment couldn’t find...
The founding fathers knew that pure democracy is little better than anarchy. In a pure democracy, the only dissenting vote is the guy at the end of the rope.
It’s not evidence of a crime, per se, but it’s still evidence to be used in an investigation against you and you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. It’s like a password: if they want it, it’s presumably because it will be used against you, and they can’t force you to give it up. At least, in the USA you can’t.
So what are you going to do, deny that this other John Hasler who posts that he likes young girls is you?
Yes... and if there’s two John Hasler accounts it’s a lot more believable. Because everyone knows everybody has a facebook, and if there’s only one, it must be you.
He meant USPS, of course... leave it in a package drop box. It’d probably end up lost in mountains of unclaimed mail addressed to Santa Claus and God...
Yeah, they re-vamped MS Paint, CharMap, Calc, Minesweeper, and the solitaire card games (among other things, probably). I can’t say I’m terribly excited about what they did to Minesweeper and Calc (having to switch between Scientific and Programmer modes all the time just to convert a number to binary or hex, ffs), but the crop feature in Paint was a much-needed change.
That depends on whether entering that private property briefly constitutes trespassing.
The typical excuse that you didn’t realise it was private property until the homeowner caught you out in his field doesn’t work, I don’t think. I’d expect that meddling with someone’s car, parked in their driveway on what is obviously private property, would qualify as trespassing. But I’m not a lawyer either...
If they're attaching something to the outside of the car and happen across evidence that was not expected and not in plain sight
It goes without saying that it wasn’t in plain sight. However, what will really happen is this:
Police, knowing full well that they were conducting an illegal search and cannot use that evidence, will say nothing, leave, trump up some justification to get a search warrant (some K9 officer was walking his dog past your house and it hit, better investigate...) and get some judge to rubber-stamp it for them, come back, and “find” the baggie again. Since you won’t even know that the unlawful search occurred (assuming you hadn’t noticed them poking around), you’ll be screwed.
How often its decisions get appealed is irrelevant. Its decisions get overturned a lot, which means that quite often the higher-up court looked at the 9th Circuit’s decision and asked themselves “what the hell were they smoking?”
Sure, this movie had a message, but the message isn't "Let's kill some of those guys who disagree with us!"
No, the message was “Let’s make jokes about how funny it is to kill those guys who disagree with us! But it’s okay, because we’re just joking. What’s the matter, people? Can’t you take a joke?”
Of course, I can take a joke. I can also play a joke on them in return... I went around and turned on all the lights in my whole house for a couple of hours. Ha ha. It’s a funny joke. Really!
These are attached to cars and not placed in the interior compartment, so they neither enter your property nor are "looking at things" that would constitute a search.
If the car is on private property, and they attach something to the car, how exactly do they do that without entering your private property?
And the idea that this isn’t a search is bullshit. If they happen to notice when they crawl under your car that you have a baggie of coke taped to the inside of your bumper, do you think they’re going to just ignore it? Anything that involves law enforcement entering private property is the potential for them to gather evidence, therefore, a search.
It’s not always a lie. It’s their job, it’s a shitty job, and plenty of the time, they really, really don’t care about some petty noise complaint they received from your obnoxious neighbour. However they’re also usually egomaniacs who will make life miserable for you if you try to hold them to the law. Sure, the law says they’re not allowed to enter your house without a warrant, but it also says they can imprison you for up to however many hours without charging you with anything...
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Fire hydrants put out about 5000 gallons per minute.
That seems really high... any sources to back it up?
A class AA hydrant is anything over 1500gpm... and getting 5000gpm from an 8-inch line would require something like 70-80psi, if I’m not mistaken.
As long as you're not going to move humans around, though, it's not that big a deal.
So nobody’s on the thing if it happens to blow...
but what about under it?
Nah, profile pages are just fucked today.
Chances are, people paranoid enough to pay money to find out if the spooks were spying on them would also suspect that the spooks probably had spook spying devices that your equipment couldn’t find...
The founding fathers knew that pure democracy is little better than anarchy. In a pure democracy, the only dissenting vote is the guy at the end of the rope.
If only one of the profiles has your photo, it narrows it down significantly.
It’s not evidence of a crime, per se, but it’s still evidence to be used in an investigation against you and you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. It’s like a password: if they want it, it’s presumably because it will be used against you, and they can’t force you to give it up. At least, in the USA you can’t.
So what are you going to do, deny that this other John Hasler who posts that he likes young girls is you?
Yes... and if there’s two John Hasler accounts it’s a lot more believable. Because everyone knows everybody has a facebook, and if there’s only one, it must be you.
He meant USPS, of course... leave it in a package drop box. It’d probably end up lost in mountains of unclaimed mail addressed to Santa Claus and God...
A member of the FBI, but I don't know which one.
Maybe the Food and Beverage Industry.
Only if your mom was representing the FBI in another case...
Well... this one was better, I thought...
They only accept the cases that are likely to be reversed. The statistics are skewed anyway in that sense. The bare numbers are more revealing.
Yeah, they re-vamped MS Paint, CharMap, Calc, Minesweeper, and the solitaire card games (among other things, probably). I can’t say I’m terribly excited about what they did to Minesweeper and Calc (having to switch between Scientific and Programmer modes all the time just to convert a number to binary or hex, ffs), but the crop feature in Paint was a much-needed change.
That depends on whether entering that private property briefly constitutes trespassing.
The typical excuse that you didn’t realise it was private property until the homeowner caught you out in his field doesn’t work, I don’t think. I’d expect that meddling with someone’s car, parked in their driveway on what is obviously private property, would qualify as trespassing. But I’m not a lawyer either...
If they're attaching something to the outside of the car and happen across evidence that was not expected and not in plain sight
It goes without saying that it wasn’t in plain sight. However, what will really happen is this:
Police, knowing full well that they were conducting an illegal search and cannot use that evidence, will say nothing, leave, trump up some justification to get a search warrant (some K9 officer was walking his dog past your house and it hit, better investigate...) and get some judge to rubber-stamp it for them, come back, and “find” the baggie again. Since you won’t even know that the unlawful search occurred (assuming you hadn’t noticed them poking around), you’ll be screwed.
No they don't, they get more decisions overturned because the 9th is really big.
No. They make lots of decisions because the 9th is really big. They get lots of decisions overturned because lots of their decisions were stupid.
How often its decisions get appealed is irrelevant. Its decisions get overturned a lot, which means that quite often the higher-up court looked at the 9th Circuit’s decision and asked themselves “what the hell were they smoking?”
You mean the one they added to the version of MS Paint that ships with Windows 7?
Sure, this movie had a message, but the message isn't "Let's kill some of those guys who disagree with us!"
No, the message was “Let’s make jokes about how funny it is to kill those guys who disagree with us! But it’s okay, because we’re just joking. What’s the matter, people? Can’t you take a joke?”
Of course, I can take a joke. I can also play a joke on them in return... I went around and turned on all the lights in my whole house for a couple of hours. Ha ha. It’s a funny joke. Really!
And if you don’t hit the pole exactly, it whips around and comes back to hit you in the face.
Great idea, until someone else registers a profile using your name and an old photo of you.
These are attached to cars and not placed in the interior compartment, so they neither enter your property nor are "looking at things" that would constitute a search.
If the car is on private property, and they attach something to the car, how exactly do they do that without entering your private property?
And the idea that this isn’t a search is bullshit. If they happen to notice when they crawl under your car that you have a baggie of coke taped to the inside of your bumper, do you think they’re going to just ignore it? Anything that involves law enforcement entering private property is the potential for them to gather evidence, therefore, a search.
It’s not always a lie. It’s their job, it’s a shitty job, and plenty of the time, they really, really don’t care about some petty noise complaint they received from your obnoxious neighbour. However they’re also usually egomaniacs who will make life miserable for you if you try to hold them to the law. Sure, the law says they’re not allowed to enter your house without a warrant, but it also says they can imprison you for up to however many hours without charging you with anything...
Hysterical. You even started with: “If there's one thing I've learned from being a part of large government organizations”.
By your own logic, you told me more about yourself than you did about anyone else working for the government.
Third, wouldn’t they have seen it coming?