My brother always gets out of his tickets. He contacts the prosecuting attorney and asks if he can plead civil. That is, pay the find without incurring the points. All they want is the revenue anyway.
If that's the case, then he really didn't get out of the ticket. He just avoided one of the penalties.
Also, the reason why it seems we're guilty until proven innocent is because it's a strict liability crime. All they have to do is prove you did it. And, cops spend a lot of time doing this.
All that has to happen in any criminal case is for the prosecution to prove that you "did it". Is that not the assumption of innocence?
If your jurisdiction has speeding as a misdemeanor, piss them off by demanding your Constitutional right to a jury trial. They can't deny and the cost will be so high as to make the ticket not worth it.
By all means, piss off the judge and prosecutor. Then you can not only waste their time, but also your own while you take time off work or school to negotiate a plea. Oh, and, of course, most jurisdictions require payment of a filing fee to hear the case before a jury. As far as cost - that's a canard. And if it's a misdemeanor, that means that the potential penalty is jail time plus a fine. And most misdemeanor speeding tickets involve some sort of egregious action - maybe talking to a lawyer would be a good idea, eh?
I dunno - the annoying Scottish asshole who sits a few cubes over from me talks a lot like that. And, apparently, he has no volume control, either, because he's louder than all get out whenever his lips are flapping. Man, I hope that he's not representative of his fellow countrymen - if he is, then everybody must be deaf over there!
Good job in reading much more into my post than I posted. Did I say anything about bullet holes? Nope. But a huge portion of the cabin missing? The evidence is pretty clear that if you're not hanging on to something that you're going to depart the aircraft.
By the way, I saw the Mythbusters episode about explosive decompression. You should read your own link. It doesn't exactly back up everything you say. But I'm not surprised -/. isn't a paragon of accuracy, from its editors to its posters.
...Aloha Airlines flight 243 remained airworthy and performed an emergency landing.
I'm sure that the flight attendent, whose head made a nice impression on the side of the aircraft as she departed the scene, feels better about that.
It's hard to enjoy the airworthiness of your airplane if you find yourself on the outside at 36,000 feet.
The air intake and exhaust in an airliner work because they are a controlled system. A hole in the side of the plane is not part of a controlled system.
The US Navy did a significant test of dvorak and found that the typists ended up 74% faster on dvorak keyboards than qwerty. Now yes Mr. Dvorak was administering this but i dare say there were outside observers.
No, the Navy study concluded that the cost of switching from the QWERTY to the Dvorak layout could be recouped in 10.3 days. The Navy never released any other quantitative data.
xfce just got donated a new server from 2x.com For less than 1600 dollars. 3000? gimme a break!
I think that Drupal wants something more than a toy. A box full of a bunch of no-name, el-cheapo hardware isn't really going to cut it. $3K for a low to mid level, brand name server with some guts to it and a real warranty is a fair price.
How about not using any analogy at all - this isn't exactly rocket science. Don't screw it up by suggesting another bad analogy to explain a simple situation.
These days, all of the chip-design tools also run on Linux (and in fact, Linux is used more than Sparc/Solaris these days), and it would be far more economical to do demos on a Linux laptop.
I've got a Dell PowerEdge 360 that runs rings around the Sun Blade 1000 next to it, except for one problem - the PCB simulation software that is written for both Solaris and Linux has a glaring bug in the Linux version that causes it to crash after displaying just a few waveforms of transmission line simulations, making it pretty much useless. And the bug has been there since the Linux version was introduced (in the last major release). The vendor's response? Yeah, they know about it, but they don't have the assets to fix it. Windows is their bread and butter, followed by Solaris, followed by Linux, which gets a passing glance.
And, unfortunately, they are the de facto standard in my business, so I end up doing most of my work on the Sun machine.
I do have to say, though, that after three years, the Blade has been rebooted twice (both times because my big feet got tangled up in the power cord) and the Dell has been rebooted a bunch of times after replacing a couple of defective hard drives and a bad memory module. I expect that the Blade will be going strong long after that Dell has hit the scrapheap. But, doggone it, Linux sure runs some stuff a hell of a lot faster than Solaris on that Sun.
Pakistan isn't exactly known for having hospitable terrain.
Have you been there? Or are you just believing the same media which hyped up the Iraq war?
You mean that the rugged terrain and nearly impassable mountain peaks are a media fabrication? That damned National Geographic and their lying maps anyway. I'll bet that K2 is just a little hump of a hill.
Microsoft enjoys the Wal-Mart effect. People love to hate them and say "not here!" but they still go out and shop at Wal-Mart.
That's because most people don't hate Wal-Mart. Most people don't hate Microsoft, either. The people who hate the two companies are well out on the fringe. Almost everybody else is ambivalent.
If you sell one more widget per day, all year long, because your web presentation layer is just a little more snappy, that's sure as hell going to pay for a $500 NIC.
Only if your profit on the widgets is at least $1.37. Heheh.
What do you all think? Better than easy-to-steal account numbers, right?
No. When you make a purchase with your credit card, the merchant knows two things: your credit card number and your name.
With your credit card number, some devious yahoo can make purchases that you are not liable to pay. With your name some yahoo can...uh...hmm. I guess they can call you on the phone to thank you for the credit card number.
If your beef with credit cards is that they make money when you go over the limit, then don't go over the limit! If your beef is that you're giving up anonymity with a credit card, welcome to the 20th century. Don't like it? Pay with cash. You want convenience? Use a credit card.
Yours is a ponderous solution looking for a nonexistent problem.
You haven't been to business school, so you aren't qualified to comment on B-school grads. Gee, that sounds like an ignorant thing to say - pretty much like your statement.
You may believe in what you say, but that doesn't make it right. I'm not a B-school grad (I'm an EE), but I know enough not to drink the anti B-school kool aid.
Slashdot Mirror
My brother always gets out of his tickets. He contacts the prosecuting attorney and asks if he can plead civil. That is, pay the find without incurring the points. All they want is the revenue anyway.
If that's the case, then he really didn't get out of the ticket. He just avoided one of the penalties.
Also, the reason why it seems we're guilty until proven innocent is because it's a strict liability crime. All they have to do is prove you did it. And, cops spend a lot of time doing this.
All that has to happen in any criminal case is for the prosecution to prove that you "did it". Is that not the assumption of innocence?
If your jurisdiction has speeding as a misdemeanor, piss them off by demanding your Constitutional right to a jury trial. They can't deny and the cost will be so high as to make the ticket not worth it.
By all means, piss off the judge and prosecutor. Then you can not only waste their time, but also your own while you take time off work or school to negotiate a plea. Oh, and, of course, most jurisdictions require payment of a filing fee to hear the case before a jury. As far as cost - that's a canard. And if it's a misdemeanor, that means that the potential penalty is jail time plus a fine. And most misdemeanor speeding tickets involve some sort of egregious action - maybe talking to a lawyer would be a good idea, eh?
-h-
There was bitching on Boing Boing first, too!
I dunno - the annoying Scottish asshole who sits a few cubes over from me talks a lot like that. And, apparently, he has no volume control, either, because he's louder than all get out whenever his lips are flapping. Man, I hope that he's not representative of his fellow countrymen - if he is, then everybody must be deaf over there!
-h-
scoop and strain
Maybe you meant squat and strain?
...you insensitive clod!
(Note: This comment is kind of funny, but you won't get it unless you read comp.os.os2.advocacy)
(Note: If you have to explain why your comment is funny, it isn't)
Good job in reading much more into my post than I posted. Did I say anything about bullet holes? Nope. But a huge portion of the cabin missing? The evidence is pretty clear that if you're not hanging on to something that you're going to depart the aircraft.
/. isn't a paragon of accuracy, from its editors to its posters.
By the way, I saw the Mythbusters episode about explosive decompression. You should read your own link. It doesn't exactly back up everything you say. But I'm not surprised -
...Aloha Airlines flight 243 remained airworthy and performed an emergency landing.
I'm sure that the flight attendent, whose head made a nice impression on the side of the aircraft as she departed the scene, feels better about that.
It's hard to enjoy the airworthiness of your airplane if you find yourself on the outside at 36,000 feet.
The air intake and exhaust in an airliner work because they are a controlled system. A hole in the side of the plane is not part of a controlled system.
-h-
The US Navy did a significant test of dvorak and found that the typists ended up 74% faster on dvorak keyboards than qwerty. Now yes Mr. Dvorak was administering this but i dare say there were outside observers.
No, the Navy study concluded that the cost of switching from the QWERTY to the Dvorak layout could be recouped in 10.3 days. The Navy never released any other quantitative data.
-h-
In spite of all this, eating animals is still right. Right?
Damn right! I love animals, especially the tasty ones!
xfce just got donated a new server from 2x.com For less than 1600 dollars. 3000? gimme a break!
I think that Drupal wants something more than a toy. A box full of a bunch of no-name, el-cheapo hardware isn't really going to cut it. $3K for a low to mid level, brand name server with some guts to it and a real warranty is a fair price.
-h-
If they've had this technology in Japan for a decade, why is it such a big deal now?
/., but this isn't exactly the place for the latest news.
It's not a big deal. Well, except on
I think a more appropriate analogy...
How about not using any analogy at all - this isn't exactly rocket science. Don't screw it up by suggesting another bad analogy to explain a simple situation.
These days, all of the chip-design tools also run on Linux (and in fact, Linux is used more than Sparc/Solaris these days), and it would be far more economical to do demos on a Linux laptop.
I've got a Dell PowerEdge 360 that runs rings around the Sun Blade 1000 next to it, except for one problem - the PCB simulation software that is written for both Solaris and Linux has a glaring bug in the Linux version that causes it to crash after displaying just a few waveforms of transmission line simulations, making it pretty much useless. And the bug has been there since the Linux version was introduced (in the last major release). The vendor's response? Yeah, they know about it, but they don't have the assets to fix it. Windows is their bread and butter, followed by Solaris, followed by Linux, which gets a passing glance.
And, unfortunately, they are the de facto standard in my business, so I end up doing most of my work on the Sun machine.
I do have to say, though, that after three years, the Blade has been rebooted twice (both times because my big feet got tangled up in the power cord) and the Dell has been rebooted a bunch of times after replacing a couple of defective hard drives and a bad memory module. I expect that the Blade will be going strong long after that Dell has hit the scrapheap. But, doggone it, Linux sure runs some stuff a hell of a lot faster than Solaris on that Sun.
-h-
Pakistan isn't exactly known for having hospitable terrain.
Have you been there? Or are you just believing the same media which hyped up the Iraq war?
You mean that the rugged terrain and nearly impassable mountain peaks are a media fabrication? That damned National Geographic and their lying maps anyway. I'll bet that K2 is just a little hump of a hill.
PedanticSpellingTrol (746300)
You spelled "Troll" incorrectly.
Did you just say "Titi.." ? That would be a fine lake !!
Except for the "caca".
They have these things called boats.
Ships.
Now, the Navies they have these people called soliders.
Sailors.
The Camaro does everything the 911 does for a quarter of the price.
And a Camaro is so much more attractive on blocks in front of the mobile home, too.
The FM transmitter is detachable.
Microsoft enjoys the Wal-Mart effect. People love to hate them and say "not here!" but they still go out and shop at Wal-Mart.
That's because most people don't hate Wal-Mart. Most people don't hate Microsoft, either. The people who hate the two companies are well out on the fringe. Almost everybody else is ambivalent.
-h-
If you sell one more widget per day, all year long, because your web presentation layer is just a little more snappy, that's sure as hell going to pay for a $500 NIC.
Only if your profit on the widgets is at least $1.37. Heheh.
How would their credit score be affected? The charges are fraudulent, MasterCard reverses them and *poof*, they're gone.
You're looking at the wong problem.
-h-
What do you all think? Better than easy-to-steal account numbers, right?
No. When you make a purchase with your credit card, the merchant knows two things: your credit card number and your name.
With your credit card number, some devious yahoo can make purchases that you are not liable to pay. With your name some yahoo can...uh...hmm. I guess they can call you on the phone to thank you for the credit card number.
If your beef with credit cards is that they make money when you go over the limit, then don't go over the limit! If your beef is that you're giving up anonymity with a credit card, welcome to the 20th century. Don't like it? Pay with cash. You want convenience? Use a credit card.
Yours is a ponderous solution looking for a nonexistent problem.
-h-h
You haven't been to business school, so you aren't qualified to comment on B-school grads. Gee, that sounds like an ignorant thing to say - pretty much like your statement.
You may believe in what you say, but that doesn't make it right. I'm not a B-school grad (I'm an EE), but I know enough not to drink the anti B-school kool aid.
-h-