So the law says that the principal (or whoever) needs to go out to the person and verify that they have an actual weapon before calling the police? I thought it was the job of the police to check if the person is carrying a weapon. Maybe we're not reading the same thing. I understand why the person was not charged under this law, but I don't understand why you appear to be arguing that the principal had no reason to call in the first place.
I don't have any love for Hillary Clinton, but before I accept your claim that she is the personification of evil, do you mind providing a source for any of the claims you're making there?
I was watching an interview
What interview?
with this minister
Which minister?
there is nothing to show for it but a couple projects that were photo ops
Do you really believe that? Over 9,000 homes were built, at a minimum, not to mention consumables like food and water, as well as temporary shelters, repairs to existing structures, and money for rent.
This is the woman people want for president
Are you trying to say that she personally approves or disapproves of all Clinton Foundation work in Haiti, which in turn somehow oversees all international efforts? That everything that happens is traced to Hillary personally? Her husband founded the thing, that's why it was originally called the William J. Clinton Foundation. Hillary joined the thing in 2013 (which is several years after the 2010 earthquake, in case you're curious), and she said she was going to work on issues concerning women, small children, and economic development.
Or, is this what you wanted to talk about:
The 26-member international Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, headed by Bill Clinton and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, convened in June 2010. That committee is overseeing the US$5.3 billion pledged internationally for the first two years of Haiti's reconstruction.
The commission was critiqued by Haitian groups for lacking Haitian civil society representation and accountability mechanisms. Half the representation on the commission was given to foreigners who effectively bought their seats by pledging certain amounts of money. An international development consultant contracted by the commission was quoted as saying, "Look, you have to realize the IHRC [commission] was not intended to work as a structure or entity for Haiti or Haitians. It was simply designed as a vehicle for donors to funnel multinationals' and NGOs' project contracts."
Because, for a minute there, you sounded like just another political idiot taking any opportunity to bash whoever you don't like. But surely that's not the case, right?
The article echos complaints of hiring "lazy" locals. Then it criticizes them for hiring expensive ex-patriot workers. Then it criticizes them for contracting the work out to other companies causing high administrative costs. Well how the fuck were they supposed to do it?
If only there was a 19 minute story filed with that kind of discussion.
To be sure, building in Haiti is very difficult. Land title and government requirements are complex and time-consuming. But still, it can be done. A nationwide review found other charities have built almost 9,000 homes so far. Not far from the Red Cross's neighborhood development project in Campeche, two charities, Global Communities and PCI, built 260 one-story homes and 75 two-story homes and rebuilt the main road in Ravine Pintade. Now the charities are building a series of multifamily homes with running water.
JOHN WILDY MARCELIN: (Through interpreter) This little house will have two bedrooms. And this is the kitchenette living room, and this will be the bathroom.
SULLIVAN: John Wildy Marcelin is head of construction. He says this project's had a lot of momentum because the majority of the managers are Haitian. He says they're passionate about rebuilding their country.
MARCELIN: (Through interpreter) All this work you are looking at now, the calculation was made by Haitian people, Haitian engineers, Haitian architects, Haitian foreman. We know what to do.
SULLIVAN: The Red Cross does not seem to have used that strategy. One manager emailed supervisors in Washington complaining that Haitians were not being hired for top positions and in some cases, were treated disparagingly. Current and former employees told us the Red Cross relied on foreigners who often couldn't speak either French or Creole.
I wouldn't call that "debunked". People are certainly throwing around the $500 million number assuming that all went to housing, which is not correct (only about $100 million did), but the Red Cross still failed at their own stated goals, and their lawyers refuse to provide any accurate accounting of where the money went beyond lumping large sums into large buckets (e.g., $24 million went into development of Campeche). The Haitians living in Campeche are equally curious about where the money went, because they haven't seen much done beyond some sidewalks and a wall painted with the Red Cross logo. The Red Cross specifically said they were going to build hundreds of homes and rebuild entire neighborhoods, and they've done neither. Even though it's true that they did not budget $500 million to that single effort, they still have failed to accomplish what they said they were going to do, and they have still failed to account for where that money went.
A plastic toy does not meet any of the criteria required for it to be illegal! A Plastic toy is not a firearm, and can NOT be discharged.
Yeah, I know, which is why he was not charged under this law (and should not have been charged at all). But this law is probably the specific reason why the principal called the police with a report of a man with what appeared to be a gun near a school. Everyone here is saying it doesn't matter because he's not actually on school property. Well, it DOES matter if he's within 1000 feet of the grounds. That is why I keep citing it. Apparently it is not common knowledge that it is not legal to carry guns near schools. I learned this when purchasing a gun, but not everyone knows it.
Well don't keep me waiting, explain how that law doesn't make it OK for a principal to call the police when he sees someone walking by the school with something that he thinks is a gun.
Next thing you know, someone will be arrested on their own property because some jerks less than a thousand feet away home school their kids.
First, a home school is not a legal school ground. Second, there is an exception if the person is on private property even if the private property is within distance of a school.
Besides which.. he still didn't have a firearm. He can't violate the gun free school anti-Constitution zone if he didn't actually have a gun.
I know, it's stupid. He should not have been charged with any crime, as far as I can tell no crime was committed. The law I'm citing is only justification for the principal to call the police, not for the police to arrest the guy. He wasn't charged with violating that, after all.
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Fuck the police.
Seriously. Even Sting's solo work isn't all that great.
It's a suit of armor and a helmet. Brand recognition doesn't matter if someone isn't familiar with the suit. They don't see a giant nerd walking down the street in plastic, they see someone apparently in full armor with a helmet and weapon. And besides, everyone knows that only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise.
No, and does it even fucking matter? Guns aren't illegal.
That's correct, by themselves guns are not illegal. But there are several otherwise-legal things that you are allowed to do which become illegal if you do them with a gun.
Yeah they are. Seriously, they really are, necessarily.
as they're going to encourage politicians to look for places to be employed once they're finished with their term (as a primary focus for the entire term)
You're confusing a hypothetical with what is actually happening right now. Members of Congress are there to get as much influence as they can before dropping out and being paid ridiculous amounts of money to lobby. Moreover, politicians should look for places to be employed after they're finished, because they should be private citizens that enter public service for a time, then leave to go back into the private sector. Our government does not exist to make the people in it rich, that's not its purpose and it gets corrupted when people use it like that. So, not only do we need term limits, but we also need to find a way to severely restrict lobbying, if not make it outright illegal. One step would be to simply bar any former public official from being a lobbyist. I am not a fan of government placing restrictions on what people can do, but in the case of the people actually leading the government, they most definitely deserve additional restrictions. They have proven that time and time again. I would also like to see politicians barred from investing in public companies or real estate while in office. If they want to be part of the government, if they want to be a public servant, fine, they are there to serve, not to enrich themselves.
They also reinforce short-term thinking, as the individual politicians won't need to deal with the fallout of their decisions if they have no chance to be re-elected.
You're making the assumption that the only fallout one would receive from bad decisions is in the form of people not voting for them. How about society in general shunning them? How about protecting things like their "integrity" or "good name"?
Finally, the networking and experience required to get anything done in any political environment takes quite a while to build up
Which is only because of the current corrupt pay-to-play system which we need to remove. Term limits are a great start.
Most simple solutions are horribly flawed, which is often the main reason they haven't been employed previously.
Some simple solutions are horribly flawed. Others, like congressional term limits, have never been tried previously. For some reason the people in power don't really want to limit their own power. Interesting how that works.
You're comparing my expertise with the collective expertise of everyone who worked on this project? Well, you're right, "a fraction" is correct for the relationship between my expertise and theirs. I don't know what that fraction is, but it is most certainly "a fraction".
Raising that cash is part of the job you'll need to undertake. Sorry.
Why? Why is it the job of a programmer working on logging to raise $4 million? Isn't that the CEO's job? I don't expect the CEO to debug code, so why am I required to raise funds?
Not having a Watchdog, PLUS not making the limited-filesize log file "roll-over", is clearly Amateur-Hour stuff. Who wrote this code, anyway? An eight year old???
It's not even who wrote it, it's who designed it. Reading the summary actually made me angry that there is a group of people out there somewhere with the ability to build, launch, and track a satellite but without the common sense to recognize that they're creating a system that will grow infinitely in size without a mechanism to clear that data out. Does the satellite have unlimited storage space available? No? Then how about designing a way to monitor and clear the data other than saving it in/tmp?
Pathetic. They deserve to lose their spacecraft.
They definitely do. And no amount of descriptions of a CSV file meant for a grade school kid, or saying that 32MB is about the size of 10 songs, is going to minimize the schadenfreude that I'm feeling. Such a basic design error and they never even bothered to run tests for a significant period of time before putting the damn thing in space.
That's what the author says as well, he's obviously selling a product based on RF detection of drones. He claims 1400 foot detection ability, also with the ability to determine the GPS location and altitude (presumably the RF signal from the drone would have that information), as well the location of the operator and the unique drone ID. He glosses over radar, but it seems that radar could be built to identify drones with a reasonable accuracy, although I suppose that birds would cause some amount of false detection. I'm sure that there are plenty of patterns of drone flight and bird flight that could be identified though.
Just out of curiosity, which groups are allowed to lie? Are you supposed to lie? Do you consider yourself a Christian? If you go around lying to people all day does that make you feel good? What does this have to do with a religion? Do you feel like you need religion to lay the rules for how to interact with other people? What the hell ever happened to the Golden Rule?
I agree with that statement. But one problem is that a president generally tends to push their decisions on other people. If I don't trust the ability of a certain person to make decisions that I agree with, then it's a problem for me if that person becomes president.
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So the law says that the principal (or whoever) needs to go out to the person and verify that they have an actual weapon before calling the police? I thought it was the job of the police to check if the person is carrying a weapon. Maybe we're not reading the same thing. I understand why the person was not charged under this law, but I don't understand why you appear to be arguing that the principal had no reason to call in the first place.
and claiming that the arrest was justified
Please point out where I did that. What I am justifying is the principal calling the police. Show me where I said it was fine for him to be arrested.
I don't have any love for Hillary Clinton, but before I accept your claim that she is the personification of evil, do you mind providing a source for any of the claims you're making there?
I was watching an interview
What interview?
with this minister
Which minister?
there is nothing to show for it but a couple projects that were photo ops
Do you really believe that? Over 9,000 homes were built, at a minimum, not to mention consumables like food and water, as well as temporary shelters, repairs to existing structures, and money for rent.
This is the woman people want for president
Are you trying to say that she personally approves or disapproves of all Clinton Foundation work in Haiti, which in turn somehow oversees all international efforts? That everything that happens is traced to Hillary personally? Her husband founded the thing, that's why it was originally called the William J. Clinton Foundation. Hillary joined the thing in 2013 (which is several years after the 2010 earthquake, in case you're curious), and she said she was going to work on issues concerning women, small children, and economic development.
Or, is this what you wanted to talk about:
The 26-member international Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, headed by Bill Clinton and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, convened in June 2010. That committee is overseeing the US$5.3 billion pledged internationally for the first two years of Haiti's reconstruction.
The commission was critiqued by Haitian groups for lacking Haitian civil society representation and accountability mechanisms. Half the representation on the commission was given to foreigners who effectively bought their seats by pledging certain amounts of money. An international development consultant contracted by the commission was quoted as saying, "Look, you have to realize the IHRC [commission] was not intended to work as a structure or entity for Haiti or Haitians. It was simply designed as a vehicle for donors to funnel multinationals' and NGOs' project contracts."
Because, for a minute there, you sounded like just another political idiot taking any opportunity to bash whoever you don't like. But surely that's not the case, right?
The article echos complaints of hiring "lazy" locals. Then it criticizes them for hiring expensive ex-patriot workers. Then it criticizes them for contracting the work out to other companies causing high administrative costs. Well how the fuck were they supposed to do it?
If only there was a 19 minute story filed with that kind of discussion.
To be sure, building in Haiti is very difficult. Land title and government requirements are complex and time-consuming. But still, it can be done. A nationwide review found other charities have built almost 9,000 homes so far. Not far from the Red Cross's neighborhood development project in Campeche, two charities, Global Communities and PCI, built 260 one-story homes and 75 two-story homes and rebuilt the main road in Ravine Pintade. Now the charities are building a series of multifamily homes with running water.
JOHN WILDY MARCELIN: (Through interpreter) This little house will have two bedrooms. And this is the kitchenette living room, and this will be the bathroom.
SULLIVAN: John Wildy Marcelin is head of construction. He says this project's had a lot of momentum because the majority of the managers are Haitian. He says they're passionate about rebuilding their country.
MARCELIN: (Through interpreter) All this work you are looking at now, the calculation was made by Haitian people, Haitian engineers, Haitian architects, Haitian foreman. We know what to do.
SULLIVAN: The Red Cross does not seem to have used that strategy. One manager emailed supervisors in Washington complaining that Haitians were not being hired for top positions and in some cases, were treated disparagingly. Current and former employees told us the Red Cross relied on foreigners who often couldn't speak either French or Creole.
I wouldn't call that "debunked". People are certainly throwing around the $500 million number assuming that all went to housing, which is not correct (only about $100 million did), but the Red Cross still failed at their own stated goals, and their lawyers refuse to provide any accurate accounting of where the money went beyond lumping large sums into large buckets (e.g., $24 million went into development of Campeche). The Haitians living in Campeche are equally curious about where the money went, because they haven't seen much done beyond some sidewalks and a wall painted with the Red Cross logo. The Red Cross specifically said they were going to build hundreds of homes and rebuild entire neighborhoods, and they've done neither. Even though it's true that they did not budget $500 million to that single effort, they still have failed to accomplish what they said they were going to do, and they have still failed to account for where that money went.
A plastic toy does not meet any of the criteria required for it to be illegal! A Plastic toy is not a firearm, and can NOT be discharged.
Yeah, I know, which is why he was not charged under this law (and should not have been charged at all). But this law is probably the specific reason why the principal called the police with a report of a man with what appeared to be a gun near a school. Everyone here is saying it doesn't matter because he's not actually on school property. Well, it DOES matter if he's within 1000 feet of the grounds. That is why I keep citing it. Apparently it is not common knowledge that it is not legal to carry guns near schools. I learned this when purchasing a gun, but not everyone knows it.
Well don't keep me waiting, explain how that law doesn't make it OK for a principal to call the police when he sees someone walking by the school with something that he thinks is a gun.
Next thing you know, someone will be arrested on their own property because some jerks less than a thousand feet away home school their kids.
First, a home school is not a legal school ground. Second, there is an exception if the person is on private property even if the private property is within distance of a school.
Besides which.. he still didn't have a firearm. He can't violate the gun free school anti-Constitution zone if he didn't actually have a gun.
I know, it's stupid. He should not have been charged with any crime, as far as I can tell no crime was committed. The law I'm citing is only justification for the principal to call the police, not for the police to arrest the guy. He wasn't charged with violating that, after all.
Fuck the police.
Seriously. Even Sting's solo work isn't all that great.
I still have more links available if anyone needs one.
This link to a federal law may be relevant in your fucking shitty god damned tough guy rant.
And YOU get a link! Everyone gets a link!
Is there though?
It's a suit of armor and a helmet. Brand recognition doesn't matter if someone isn't familiar with the suit. They don't see a giant nerd walking down the street in plastic, they see someone apparently in full armor with a helmet and weapon. And besides, everyone knows that only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise.
No, and does it even fucking matter? Guns aren't illegal.
That's correct, by themselves guns are not illegal. But there are several otherwise-legal things that you are allowed to do which become illegal if you do them with a gun.
Term limits aren't necessarily a good thing
Yeah they are. Seriously, they really are, necessarily.
as they're going to encourage politicians to look for places to be employed once they're finished with their term (as a primary focus for the entire term)
You're confusing a hypothetical with what is actually happening right now. Members of Congress are there to get as much influence as they can before dropping out and being paid ridiculous amounts of money to lobby. Moreover, politicians should look for places to be employed after they're finished, because they should be private citizens that enter public service for a time, then leave to go back into the private sector. Our government does not exist to make the people in it rich, that's not its purpose and it gets corrupted when people use it like that. So, not only do we need term limits, but we also need to find a way to severely restrict lobbying, if not make it outright illegal. One step would be to simply bar any former public official from being a lobbyist. I am not a fan of government placing restrictions on what people can do, but in the case of the people actually leading the government, they most definitely deserve additional restrictions. They have proven that time and time again. I would also like to see politicians barred from investing in public companies or real estate while in office. If they want to be part of the government, if they want to be a public servant, fine, they are there to serve, not to enrich themselves.
They also reinforce short-term thinking, as the individual politicians won't need to deal with the fallout of their decisions if they have no chance to be re-elected.
You're making the assumption that the only fallout one would receive from bad decisions is in the form of people not voting for them. How about society in general shunning them? How about protecting things like their "integrity" or "good name"?
Finally, the networking and experience required to get anything done in any political environment takes quite a while to build up
Which is only because of the current corrupt pay-to-play system which we need to remove. Term limits are a great start.
Most simple solutions are horribly flawed, which is often the main reason they haven't been employed previously.
Some simple solutions are horribly flawed. Others, like congressional term limits, have never been tried previously. For some reason the people in power don't really want to limit their own power. Interesting how that works.
You're comparing my expertise with the collective expertise of everyone who worked on this project? Well, you're right, "a fraction" is correct for the relationship between my expertise and theirs. I don't know what that fraction is, but it is most certainly "a fraction".
Raising that cash is part of the job you'll need to undertake. Sorry.
Why? Why is it the job of a programmer working on logging to raise $4 million? Isn't that the CEO's job? I don't expect the CEO to debug code, so why am I required to raise funds?
No problem. If you can get me the $4 million that The Planetary Society had for this, then I'll put something together for you.
Not having a Watchdog, PLUS not making the limited-filesize log file "roll-over", is clearly Amateur-Hour stuff. Who wrote this code, anyway? An eight year old???
It's not even who wrote it, it's who designed it. Reading the summary actually made me angry that there is a group of people out there somewhere with the ability to build, launch, and track a satellite but without the common sense to recognize that they're creating a system that will grow infinitely in size without a mechanism to clear that data out. Does the satellite have unlimited storage space available? No? Then how about designing a way to monitor and clear the data other than saving it in /tmp?
Pathetic. They deserve to lose their spacecraft.
They definitely do. And no amount of descriptions of a CSV file meant for a grade school kid, or saying that 32MB is about the size of 10 songs, is going to minimize the schadenfreude that I'm feeling. Such a basic design error and they never even bothered to run tests for a significant period of time before putting the damn thing in space.
Way to go, LightSail team. I dub thee LightFail.
That's what the author says as well, he's obviously selling a product based on RF detection of drones. He claims 1400 foot detection ability, also with the ability to determine the GPS location and altitude (presumably the RF signal from the drone would have that information), as well the location of the operator and the unique drone ID. He glosses over radar, but it seems that radar could be built to identify drones with a reasonable accuracy, although I suppose that birds would cause some amount of false detection. I'm sure that there are plenty of patterns of drone flight and bird flight that could be identified though.
You mean the thing with all the cables going to it that the gondolas are riding on? No idea what that could be.
Just out of curiosity, which groups are allowed to lie? Are you supposed to lie? Do you consider yourself a Christian? If you go around lying to people all day does that make you feel good? What does this have to do with a religion? Do you feel like you need religion to lay the rules for how to interact with other people? What the hell ever happened to the Golden Rule?
"Everyone trying to manipulate search results"
Sorry if I don't neatly fit into one of your proscribed boxes.
I agree with that statement. But one problem is that a president generally tends to push their decisions on other people. If I don't trust the ability of a certain person to make decisions that I agree with, then it's a problem for me if that person becomes president.