You would probably get a faster response when you provide dates, badges, etc.
Just a sweeping request of everything is a stupid stunt and of no benefit at all. Unless you really believe he is going to view all six years worth of data from hundreds of officers.
It is becoming clearer and clearer every day that our schools are run by absolute morons. You know the kind I'm talking about. They manage to reach their Peter Principal level and proceed to be incompetent in all areas.
1. Change a tire, fill the radiator, change the battery, change the oil (at least know how to check it). 2. Understand the plumbing system in your home. 3. Know how to cook without a microwave and prepackaged foods. 4. Basic navigation...at least know the difference between North South East West. 5. Basic understanding of firearms. 6. Read a map and get somewhere without GPS. 7. How to sharpen a knife. 8. Long division, multiplication, etc...with a pencil and paper. 9. How to swim. 10. Make fire.
I am reminded of the doomsayers of Apple back in the late 1980s.
The Liberal intelligentsia has been predicting the end of the Republican party for decades. Hell I remember them saying Ronald Reagan would be the last Republican President.
You can't just throw out parts of the Constitution you don't like. You can't ignore the law because you have a fucking stick up your ass about "owners". While you might applaud the FCC and while you might even say what they did is morally correct, it's not legally correct.
I would find it amusing to watch a boat load of terrorists, who probably can't swim, suddenly finding themselves in a sinking raft, filled with guns and ammo.
I would also expect that there is quite a few details to work out when it comes to mounting any new weapon on a ship and integrating it into the CIC. There is no reason to wait until you have a planet buster to get all that going and in place.
The facts in the case are pretty straight forward. He accelerated from around 70mph to over 100 mph, only applying the brakes at the last minute, which did, in fact, work.
So unless he stood there like a deer in the headlights as the train was accelerating, he did it on purpose. And even if he did just stand there not knowing what to do, it points to inadequate training, incompetence, or both.
I'm going to call BS on those costs. In fact, I'm calling BS on many so-called costs related to rail.
My phone, which cost $100 with a $50 a month service plan, can tell me how fast I'm going and what the speed limit is where I'm driving. this stuff stopped being rocket science long ago.
That's the first half of the equation. From there you could make the Cab light up like a Christmas tree and blow a fucking for horn. if you want to get fancier, it could automatically apply the emergency brakes. Fanciest would be to moderate the speed to conform to the limits.
Austin, TX recently tried to pass a billion dollar bond for 9 miles of light rail. Fuck, The major freight companies build rail in some of the most inhospitable locations in the U.S. and you KNOW they are not paying over a hundred million per mile. Hell, they've dug up and rebuilt a 12 mile stretch of four lane highway in front of my neighborhood, including new bridge work in 4 different places for only 12 million.
Something smells when it comes to passenger rail costs.
I think you would be opening a huge can or worms that would result in the money going to people/causes not many people would like. Good chance it ends up going right back to the government via some creative agency naming..."Homeless Mother Aid" or something.
People decry huge settlements and suggest that the victim doesn't "deserve" it.
It's not about deserve. It's about preventing something from happening again. If $20k was in the "best interest of the city", then it wasn't enough.
The cops who did this were fired. Good enough. Their supervisors were suspended...not quite good enough. The Police Chief and his staff, who are ultimately responsible for hiring these people need to be punished. The people who hired the Police Chief need to suffer some consequences to. and the only way you can do that is to piss off the voters. And how do you piss off voters? Take money out of their pockets.
The settlements should be high enough so that everyone's property tax goes up a significant amount for a few years. And on the statements, the reasons should be laid out directly....$150 surcharge to pay for settlement against the city for Police Misconduct.
Only then will you have politicians lose their jobs and the remaining ones decide that it's in the best interest of their careers to hire a chief, who will hire staff, who will correctly train the officers. This goes for all other parts of the government too, not just for police.
Punitive damages is to punish. And the way you punish government or large companies is to take money out of of their pockets.
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And THEN some recruiter saying he has people in Bangalore that do have 5 years experience in Rust.
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I wouldn't call being specific about what you want a "limitation".
Requesting it all is a stupid stunt.
You would probably get a faster response when you provide dates, badges, etc.
Just a sweeping request of everything is a stupid stunt and of no benefit at all. Unless you really believe he is going to view all six years worth of data from hundreds of officers.
If not honoring or stalling indefinitely FOIA requests is one extreme, requesting every last bit of recoding is the other.
The law should be amended to require specific and limited dates, specific officers, and that it be pertinent to an official incident.
Yeah...OK...Mea Culpa.
It is becoming clearer and clearer every day that our schools are run by absolute morons. You know the kind I'm talking about. They manage to reach their Peter Principal level and proceed to be incompetent in all areas.
Bing's Porn searching capabilities already far outshine Google.
1. Change a tire, fill the radiator, change the battery, change the oil (at least know how to check it).
2. Understand the plumbing system in your home.
3. Know how to cook without a microwave and prepackaged foods.
4. Basic navigation...at least know the difference between North South East West.
5. Basic understanding of firearms.
6. Read a map and get somewhere without GPS.
7. How to sharpen a knife.
8. Long division, multiplication, etc...with a pencil and paper.
9. How to swim.
10. Make fire.
Time to go home, so that's all you get.
Not many communists left because they keep starving or shooting their voters.
I am reminded of the doomsayers of Apple back in the late 1980s.
The Liberal intelligentsia has been predicting the end of the Republican party for decades. Hell I remember them saying Ronald Reagan would be the last Republican President.
It's the Federal equivalent of, "I smell marijuana, I need to search your car."
What a waste of words.
You can't just throw out parts of the Constitution you don't like. You can't ignore the law because you have a fucking stick up your ass about "owners". While you might applaud the FCC and while you might even say what they did is morally correct, it's not legally correct.
So rant all you want, it doesn't matter.
I would find it amusing to watch a boat load of terrorists, who probably can't swim, suddenly finding themselves in a sinking raft, filled with guns and ammo.
I would also expect that there is quite a few details to work out when it comes to mounting any new weapon on a ship and integrating it into the CIC. There is no reason to wait until you have a planet buster to get all that going and in place.
So whatever happened to him must be preventing him from talking with the authorities guess.
He's lawyered up. Maybe Lois Lerner got to him.
Inadequate training does not excuse ignoring the speed limit.
The facts in the case are pretty straight forward. He accelerated from around 70mph to over 100 mph, only applying the brakes at the last minute, which did, in fact, work.
So unless he stood there like a deer in the headlights as the train was accelerating, he did it on purpose. And even if he did just stand there not knowing what to do, it points to inadequate training, incompetence, or both.
I'm going to call BS on those costs. In fact, I'm calling BS on many so-called costs related to rail.
My phone, which cost $100 with a $50 a month service plan, can tell me how fast I'm going and what the speed limit is where I'm driving. this stuff stopped being rocket science long ago.
That's the first half of the equation. From there you could make the Cab light up like a Christmas tree and blow a fucking for horn. if you want to get fancier, it could automatically apply the emergency brakes. Fanciest would be to moderate the speed to conform to the limits.
Austin, TX recently tried to pass a billion dollar bond for 9 miles of light rail. Fuck, The major freight companies build rail in some of the most inhospitable locations in the U.S. and you KNOW they are not paying over a hundred million per mile. Hell, they've dug up and rebuilt a 12 mile stretch of four lane highway in front of my neighborhood, including new bridge work in 4 different places for only 12 million.
Something smells when it comes to passenger rail costs.
The brakes obviously didn't fail since they were applied at the last minute and did manage to scrub about 7 MPH off the speed.
Doubtful that there was any kind of throttle malfunction due to dead man switch technology that has been on trains for decades.
This guy is going to jail absent some very convincing and verifiable reason for ignoring the speed limit.
We obviously failed to pay the Engineer enough money for him to fucking pay attention to the speed limits.
Who decides who gets the money?
Who decides on the people that decide?
I think you would be opening a huge can or worms that would result in the money going to people/causes not many people would like. Good chance it ends up going right back to the government via some creative agency naming..."Homeless Mother Aid" or something.
Guess that's your choice as a taxpayer. But at least you'd be fully informed and know why you taxes are up.
As long as he's gone. Although I guess quitting will allow him to get another job and do this all over again.
People decry huge settlements and suggest that the victim doesn't "deserve" it.
It's not about deserve. It's about preventing something from happening again. If $20k was in the "best interest of the city", then it wasn't enough.
The cops who did this were fired. Good enough. Their supervisors were suspended...not quite good enough. The Police Chief and his staff, who are ultimately responsible for hiring these people need to be punished. The people who hired the Police Chief need to suffer some consequences to. and the only way you can do that is to piss off the voters. And how do you piss off voters? Take money out of their pockets.
The settlements should be high enough so that everyone's property tax goes up a significant amount for a few years. And on the statements, the reasons should be laid out directly....$150 surcharge to pay for settlement against the city for Police Misconduct.
Only then will you have politicians lose their jobs and the remaining ones decide that it's in the best interest of their careers to hire a chief, who will hire staff, who will correctly train the officers. This goes for all other parts of the government too, not just for police.
Punitive damages is to punish. And the way you punish government or large companies is to take money out of of their pockets.
And THEN some recruiter saying he has people in Bangalore that do have 5 years experience in Rust.
Has there ever been a new language that wasn't described as "both simpler and more powerful".