The innovation here is left turn lanes on ONE WAY STREETS. Left turn lanes on two way streets have been around for a long time, but they are rarely used when the street you're turning off of is a one-way street (so you're not crossing oncoming traffic when making a left).
Yes, police body cameras are far from a perfect solution. They're a definite improvement, though, both for citizens, and for honest police officers. Certainly, they won't record all interactions, and you might have situations where the camera "malfunctioned." That "malfunction" is going to create questions in and of itself, though. If you're an attorney suing the city over a complaint of police brutality, and the officer claims that, during the time your client claims he was being mistreated, the camera "malfunctioned," that's something the jury is going to take into account, particularly if the camera worked just fine the rest of the time.
"You think I'm the worst? Hardly. Warren Buffet is probably the biggest genius at not paying taxes. I could go into his methods if you like. But he basically pays about 5 percent taxes and breaks no laws."
Wow, you're almost as good at evading a question as you are at raising your taxes.
How about this, then? California puts a measure on the ballot to set the state sales tax level. It's multiple choice. Your choices are below. Which one do you vote for? Remember, your complaint about taxes was that you don't get to vote on them, so now you're getting to vote on them. Choose.
A 0% B 1% C 2% D 3% E 4% F 5% G 6% H 7% I 8% J 9% K 10%
I use methods like this to not pay California's state sales tax which is 10 percent.
On all large purchases, I buy from out of state and try to bounce the purchase through two retailers if the first one is going to charge me the state sales tax. I buy stuff this way all the time and almost never pay the state sales tax.
here someone is going to call me a bad person... whatever. Lower the tax and I won't be motivated to play these games.
So, if the CA sales tax were lower, you'd pay it? What rate would be appropriate? If you're honest, then you'd pay that rate through a voluntary contribution to the state of California every year. If you aren't doing that, then your argument about "I don't mind paying taxes, but only if they're at a rate I think appropriate" just falls apart.
"We just passed another hugely expensive entitlement (health care reform), but with no regard to how the government is going to pay for it without crippling increases in taxes, deficit spending, or inflationary money printing."
This claim is either ignorant, or you're just lying. The ACA _reduces_ the deficit over time - the incremental taxes in the bill more than pay for the incremental costs of it.
If it crosses state lines, and/or international borders, then the FBI gets involved. Also, if the crime is highly technical, and requires specific expertise, the FBI often gets involved as well (since the police dept in city/state X might not have the same level of capability).
You missed one. The number one bandwidth application on the Internet. YouTube. FWIW, our household of four uses an average of 350 GB a month. Despite Comcast's claim that the average account uses 20 to 25 GB a month.
How is that "despite?" They're not saying that nobody uses that much, just that the average customer does. FYI, Sandvine agrees, they peg mean US broadband usage at 29GB/month. Median is quite a bit lower than that.
In countries where body cameras have been implemented, not only they work but also there is a noticable decrease in agressivity of both citizens and officers.
Also, I fail to understand why your argument is relevant. If a policeman behaves violently, the citizen will ask for the footage, and if it becomes clear that the policeman tampered with the device he will be punished. Even if one more clever manages to do bad things and not be caught (which already happens everyday), why should that invalidate a concept that will be very useful in the vast majority of the cases?
You know, it's the Slashdot standard: any solution which isn't completely perfect is automatically worthless (at best) or (usually) much worse than the status quo, and should be rejected.
Well, for one data point, in Rialto, CA, where all officers now wear cameras, use of force declined 60% in the year after they introduced them, and citizen complaints against the police dropped 88%. Some of that 88% was almost certainly due to the 60% (i.e. less police use of force means fewer complaints), but a significant portion is likely due to people realizing that making a bogus claim won't hold up when there's camera evidence.
Sixteenth Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
So, the taxes are EXPLICITLY a power delegated to the United States.
And that power was intended for Congress to raise taxes to a level which made it difficult for the states to tax enough to fund their own infrastructure, and then offer to grant that money back to the states as long as the states did their bidding, right? Right?
Sigh. Unfortunately, reading the comments so far, it is all too easy to believe that people are stupid enough to think that is actually how it is meant to work.
So, now the argument is "it's Constitutional, but I don't like how it's been implemented." Got it.
If we could snap our fingers, and migrate every car in America to a driverless system with no driver interaction, we'd save thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Want the enjoyment of driving? Go to a track. Public roads are for transportation from A to B.
That's not the point at all. It's a chicken or egg problem - it makes no sense for me to spend $ to have V2V in my car if nobody else has it. So, nobody would get it, so there's never a critical mass, so nobody gets it, etc. etc.
Fine. But the fed shouldn't be taking that money from states' residents in the first place. It's subversion of the constitution by the backdoor and should be stopped.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Sixteenth Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
So, the taxes are EXPLICITLY a power delegated to the United States.
No, you can't opt out, at least for a phone you're going to sell. By the same token, you can't opt out of FCC regs limiting the frequencies and power levels of your phone, nor can you opt out of regs on the emissions of your car.
I second Anker. Have had very good luck with their products across the board. I have a suspicion that they're actually an Amazon house brand, but I can't confirm it.
The movie did $238 million in box office in the US alone. Average ticket price in the US in 2013 was $8.13. So, that means that around 29 MILLION people PAID to see Fast 6 in the theater. Terrifying, I grant you, but true.
"Danks was originally told police weren't going to take any action against him, but he unwisely continued to share the movie files after his initial detainment with authorities."
In other words, the cop had decided to let him go with a warning for speeding, and then, while the cop was walking back to his car, he peeled out and gunned the engine, accelerating as hard as he could.
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The innovation here is left turn lanes on ONE WAY STREETS. Left turn lanes on two way streets have been around for a long time, but they are rarely used when the street you're turning off of is a one-way street (so you're not crossing oncoming traffic when making a left).
Yes, police body cameras are far from a perfect solution. They're a definite improvement, though, both for citizens, and for honest police officers. Certainly, they won't record all interactions, and you might have situations where the camera "malfunctioned." That "malfunction" is going to create questions in and of itself, though. If you're an attorney suing the city over a complaint of police brutality, and the officer claims that, during the time your client claims he was being mistreated, the camera "malfunctioned," that's something the jury is going to take into account, particularly if the camera worked just fine the rest of the time.
"You think I'm the worst? Hardly. Warren Buffet is probably the biggest genius at not paying taxes. I could go into his methods if you like. But he basically pays about 5 percent taxes and breaks no laws."
Yup, he breaks no laws. Unlike you.
Wow, you're almost as good at evading a question as you are at raising your taxes.
How about this, then? California puts a measure on the ballot to set the state sales tax level. It's multiple choice. Your choices are below. Which one do you vote for? Remember, your complaint about taxes was that you don't get to vote on them, so now you're getting to vote on them. Choose.
A 0%
B 1%
C 2%
D 3%
E 4%
F 5%
G 6%
H 7%
I 8%
J 9%
K 10%
I use methods like this to not pay California's state sales tax which is 10 percent.
On all large purchases, I buy from out of state and try to bounce the purchase through two retailers if the first one is going to charge me the state sales tax. I buy stuff this way all the time and almost never pay the state sales tax.
here someone is going to call me a bad person... whatever. Lower the tax and I won't be motivated to play these games.
So, if the CA sales tax were lower, you'd pay it? What rate would be appropriate? If you're honest, then you'd pay that rate through a voluntary contribution to the state of California every year. If you aren't doing that, then your argument about "I don't mind paying taxes, but only if they're at a rate I think appropriate" just falls apart.
Otherwise, every foreign company can come here, make profit and take it all to their home countries, leaving nothing for us.
Leaving nothing, but, oh, the product or service that an Argentine wanted and paid for.
That said - a simple solution to breaking the monopoly would be a rule that during tests all cell phones are in airplane mode. Problem solved.
Um, how would that help prevent someone from bringing in copious notes, or pictures of textbook pages, stored on their phone?
That it is, that it is.
"We just passed another hugely expensive entitlement (health care reform), but with no regard to how the government is going to pay for it without crippling increases in taxes, deficit spending, or inflationary money printing."
This claim is either ignorant, or you're just lying. The ACA _reduces_ the deficit over time - the incremental taxes in the bill more than pay for the incremental costs of it.
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/h...
If it crosses state lines, and/or international borders, then the FBI gets involved. Also, if the crime is highly technical, and requires specific expertise, the FBI often gets involved as well (since the police dept in city/state X might not have the same level of capability).
You're thinking of the Secret Service.
You missed one. The number one bandwidth application on the Internet. YouTube.
FWIW, our household of four uses an average of 350 GB a month. Despite Comcast's claim that the average account uses 20 to 25 GB a month.
How is that "despite?" They're not saying that nobody uses that much, just that the average customer does. FYI, Sandvine agrees, they peg mean US broadband usage at 29GB/month. Median is quite a bit lower than that.
https://www.sandvine.com/trend...
Every year, about 16 million cars are sold in the US, vs. a fleet of about 240 million. So, the fleet turns over roughly every 15 years.
In countries where body cameras have been implemented, not only they work but also there is a noticable decrease in agressivity of both citizens and officers.
Also, I fail to understand why your argument is relevant. If a policeman behaves violently, the citizen will ask for the footage, and if it becomes clear that the policeman tampered with the device he will be punished. Even if one more clever manages to do bad things and not be caught (which already happens everyday), why should that invalidate a concept that will be very useful in the vast majority of the cases?
You know, it's the Slashdot standard: any solution which isn't completely perfect is automatically worthless (at best) or (usually) much worse than the status quo, and should be rejected.
Well, for one data point, in Rialto, CA, where all officers now wear cameras, use of force declined 60% in the year after they introduced them, and citizen complaints against the police dropped 88%. Some of that 88% was almost certainly due to the 60% (i.e. less police use of force means fewer complaints), but a significant portion is likely due to people realizing that making a bogus claim won't hold up when there's camera evidence.
Absolutely. After all, there's no difference in, say, the ability to get an abortion, or own a handgun, from one state to another.
Sixteenth Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
So, the taxes are EXPLICITLY a power delegated to the United States.
And that power was intended for Congress to raise taxes to a level which made it difficult for the states to tax enough to fund their own infrastructure, and then offer to grant that money back to the states as long as the states did their bidding, right? Right?
Sigh. Unfortunately, reading the comments so far, it is all too easy to believe that people are stupid enough to think that is actually how it is meant to work.
So, now the argument is "it's Constitutional, but I don't like how it's been implemented." Got it.
If we could snap our fingers, and migrate every car in America to a driverless system with no driver interaction, we'd save thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Want the enjoyment of driving? Go to a track. Public roads are for transportation from A to B.
That's not the point at all. It's a chicken or egg problem - it makes no sense for me to spend $ to have V2V in my car if nobody else has it. So, nobody would get it, so there's never a critical mass, so nobody gets it, etc. etc.
Mandating it avoids that problem.
Fine. But the fed shouldn't be taking that money from states' residents in the first place. It's subversion of the constitution by the backdoor and should be stopped.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Sixteenth Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
So, the taxes are EXPLICITLY a power delegated to the United States.
No, you can't opt out, at least for a phone you're going to sell. By the same token, you can't opt out of FCC regs limiting the frequencies and power levels of your phone, nor can you opt out of regs on the emissions of your car.
I second Anker. Have had very good luck with their products across the board. I have a suspicion that they're actually an Amazon house brand, but I can't confirm it.
Nothing will be done until the vulnerability is exploited, and even then it will be measured against a cost/benefit actuarial table.
I would certainly hope so. If government isn't doing cost-benefit analysis of spending decisions, it's being grossly irresponsible.
The movie did $238 million in box office in the US alone. Average ticket price in the US in 2013 was $8.13. So, that means that around 29 MILLION people PAID to see Fast 6 in the theater. Terrifying, I grant you, but true.
"Danks was originally told police weren't going to take any action against him, but he unwisely continued to share the movie files after his initial detainment with authorities."
In other words, the cop had decided to let him go with a warning for speeding, and then, while the cop was walking back to his car, he peeled out and gunned the engine, accelerating as hard as he could.