Exactly, Policing in our society is severely broken. They are graded far to heavily on how many criminals they put away. So if you're not a criminal they'll find a way to make you one just to boast their numbers.
As someone that got railroaded by a DMV clerical error, you learn quickly that any idealistic crusade to prove innocence is far more expensive than just paying the fine and going home.
Ok lets reverse that think back 10 or 20 years ago and what has truly been innovated today? and is not just an evolution of existing software taking advantage of faster and more widespread hardware?
Do we have to? putting that show on the bottom of the ocean still doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.
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does facebook do that? I hated myspace and never did much more than start a page. I avoided it and anything like it until a few weeks ago when I was convinced to try facebook. Seems to be a much cleaner, more communication centered, less crappy webpage'ish than myspace.
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Remeber the tome known as Computer Shopper?
Now I just use pricewatch:(
Always seemed like so much more fun to all huddle around a giant book flipping pages and trying to figure out who had the best deals.
"It's like with helping the poor. If you want to help, give the money to the poor. Not to some charity funds which will, or will not spend the money wisely."
Great idea, pay people for being poor. Sounds like a great way to make lots more poor people.
"...This would also eliminate the need for home wifi users to purchase expensive storage devices..." Directly.
It's their tax money that is going to buy that equipment. Tax money that could be spent elsewhere or better yet not taken from them in the first place.
In the U.S., less than five percent of cases go to trial. That means that less than five percent of people ever test the presumption of innocence. Why? Maybe because they're guilty . ..
Maybe because the expense in lawyers the time off work for trial and the problems with being in court along with the chance that you may be wrongly found guilty anyway make it a much greater incentive to plea out, pay the fine and forget the whole mess.
Well, perhaps people with part time jobs should have longer jail sentences because they have more free time than people with full time or full time + jobs.
"they have all the complexity of a gas engine (cooling, emissions control, transmission, lube, injection, etc) with all the added cost of electric (motors, batteries, charging systems)."
This just isn't true. Hybrids have one less part than a standard gas motor just the scales are re-arranged. Larger single starter/alternator tied into the power train permanently rather than a separate starter and alternator. They also have larger batteries, and a little more computer to control it all.
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It's more like opening your trunk for the warrant, and when they find something slam it closed and refuse to open it again.
In that case they'd just break out a crowbar, with encryption that may not be as practical.
Exactly, Policing in our society is severely broken. They are graded far to heavily on how many criminals they put away. So if you're not a criminal they'll find a way to make you one just to boast their numbers.
As someone that got railroaded by a DMV clerical error, you learn quickly that any idealistic crusade to prove innocence is far more expensive than just paying the fine and going home.
Ok lets reverse that think back 10 or 20 years ago and what has truly been innovated today? and is not just an evolution of existing software taking advantage of faster and more widespread hardware?
Do we have to? putting that show on the bottom of the ocean still doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.
does facebook do that? I hated myspace and never did much more than start a page. I avoided it and anything like it until a few weeks ago when I was convinced to try facebook. Seems to be a much cleaner, more communication centered, less crappy webpage'ish than myspace.
Remeber the tome known as Computer Shopper?
Now I just use pricewatch :(
Always seemed like so much more fun to all huddle around a giant book flipping pages and trying to figure out who had the best deals.
Especially if we were to try study the effects of right angles on global climate change. We could make millions of the silly lefties.
At one extreme you have Anarchy/Capitalism at the other extreme you have Fascist/Communism.
Everything in between is socialism.
I hate 90 degree angles too. Maybe we should form a support group.
you mean she was begging the question?
"It's like with helping the poor. If you want to help, give the money to the poor. Not to some charity funds which will, or will not spend the money wisely."
Great idea, pay people for being poor. Sounds like a great way to make lots more poor people.
"...This would also eliminate the need for home wifi users to purchase expensive storage devices..." Directly.
It's their tax money that is going to buy that equipment. Tax money that could be spent elsewhere or better yet not taken from them in the first place.
"That's easy to fix. We'll just make MAC address spoofing illegal."
Yea, about as dumb as criminalizing gun ownership.
This was my first thought.
WTF is a pay phone?
In the U.S., less than five percent of cases go to trial. That means that less than five percent of people ever test the presumption of innocence. Why? Maybe because they're guilty . . .
Maybe because the expense in lawyers the time off work for trial and the problems with being in court along with the chance that you may be wrongly found guilty anyway make it a much greater incentive to plea out, pay the fine and forget the whole mess.
Well, perhaps people with part time jobs should have longer jail sentences because they have more free time than people with full time or full time + jobs.
"Patent Law" and "Free Market" are mutually exclusive terms.
A really fat person once told me I should eat better. Guess since he was fat it's not true.
Scientists have also found a way to pressurize and raise the temperature of a shoe and make a pair from a single shoe.
That's exactly what he meant.
"Damn, I love it when a pedantic twit has one blow up in his/her face!!!
Thanks for making my day more amusing than it already was!"
I think it's your face that it is in.
Yet if he had won, or wins in the future he'll be harrowed a hero who stuck to his principals.
No, for us, and for the Windows OS. It's done MS just fine though.
Watch the new signal or not at all. That's the choice.
"they have all the complexity of a gas engine (cooling, emissions control, transmission, lube, injection, etc) with all the added cost of electric (motors, batteries, charging systems)."
This just isn't true. Hybrids have one less part than a standard gas motor just the scales are re-arranged. Larger single starter/alternator tied into the power train permanently rather than a separate starter and alternator. They also have larger batteries, and a little more computer to control it all.