Damn, dude, that's one sad, sad article. The end actually brought a tear to my eye, props to Lyn Balfour for being an immensely better human being than her Commonwealth prosecutor.
Well AFAIK (and I don't know much), the ones here in the US are pretty heavily guarded.
Then again, the Russians just got caught with a bunch of deep-cover spies not really spying on much of anything either, so I guess there's not much to worry about for them.
And probably a good thing. Now, we have two different circuit courts that have come to different conclusions (according to the news reports, anyway). They can do that. The next step? Someone's gonna try to take it to the Supreme Court.
I'm just saying it makes the DEA looks like a pack of wild morons, which is par for the course for them. The fact that they can't understand plain English and have to hire someone to do so just shows how racist they are.
Go take a look at why most people are in prison, and then take a look at the color of their skin. Here's a hint: It's non-violent drug offenses, and they're mostly black. Now, go take a look at the disparity between powder cocaine and crack cocaine mandatory sentencing. Powder cocaine is mostly a rich-guy vice, whereas you're more likely to find crack amongst the poor.
Anyway, as for your posit that maybe rich white guys call it ebonics, Noam Chomsky is pretty much the founding father of modern linguistics, and I think I'd put him squarely in the "rich white guy" category. Perhaps you don't understand just what it is a rich white guy means when he calls it ebonics?
I don't think the DEA is ever trying to be sensitive. The fact that they need to hire someone to understand what inner city blacks are saying speaks volumes on its own about how big a dipshits they are.
To further clarify, and if you'd actually like to look up anything about it, people who aren't dipshit DEA agents, and have actually studied linguistics call it African American Vernacular English. "Ebonics" is just another way to say "Speakin' Jive", just a racist way of saying "black people don't talk right".
Wow! THAT's ballsy. Our perp was a tenant's boyfriend with a drug habit, who had a key to the basement of the neighboring property that was vacant - there were coin op laundry machines down there.
I've never heard of such a thing here, but nowadays, one must show their driver's license also if you're selling what looks like construction strap. It used to just be your vehicle's registration info (because if you, say, dump a steel tank full of hazardous material, they can get you for dumping AND transporting), but now you need picture ID, also. Hell, they even make ya drive through a geiger counter now, so hospitals don't just dump their old imaging equipment/radiotherapy machines! Not that they pay attention, I've told them before that I was gonna drop a fridge with refrigerant and compressor still intact, they said "we'll take care of it!" - I was 17, and didn't know any better. They certainly don't do a damn thing about it!
You can still do so, just sell them to a scrap metal dealer. Two summers ago they were about US$0.75/lb.
In fact, used metals had got so expensive that druggies were going around stealing the entire copper plumbing tree out of vacant houses to sell it for scrap metal. It got up to around US$1.50/lb.
Steel, on the other hand, isn't that high. However, at the apartment complex, I made a good $250 on selling some old mild steel bed frames, I think they were going about $100/short ton.
Scrap cans have their own separate price category, IIRC. You can google to find the market price, and you can also bargain with the scrap dealer usually.
I'll second that. I'm mildly ADD, having been diagnosed as a kid. Fortunately, my parents refused to medicate me, and I'm left as a coffee addict. Probably about a pot a day, and I'm 24.
On the other hand, you should see me do an open house with 20 people trying to talk to me at once. Attention Deficit Disorder? Nah. Multitasking Ability Specialty. =)
I got a degree in Spanish along with my main degree, and the bastards would change the quizzes at the end of the chapters! They'd keep the questions and the options the same, but change the order of the options. You can pick up a Spanish document from 500 years ago and it will read the same as Spanish of today.
Hell, you could pick up something written almost a millennium ago, and it would still be readable. And yet, every semester, new fucking edition.
The reason? The "Penn State Bookstore" was really owned by Barnes and Noble. Assbags.
In PA they have these ignition interlock devices, but only for 2nd DUI onwards (1st if it's bad enough and you already have a record).
There, you agree to not touch alcohol at all during your probation, and if you are caught driving (after your suspension and while still on probation) with ANY detectable alcohol in your system, you've gained a second DUI. I don't know NY law, but that's probably why it's set so low.
The issue I have is that it costs so much. It's thousands of dollars to rent the machine. I can buy a PBT (portable breath test) for like $150, and a remote kill switch for your car is about as much. And don't say it's because this machine is more complicated, I watched a kid swish a little of that "Close Call" alcohol masking stuff around in his mouth, swallow, and drive drunkenly off. He's now in prison for alcohol related charges, but it wasn't the blow-n-go that did him in, it was the telephone pole.
iirc, in the US, the brakes still have to some mechanical linkage. My ABS can fight me to the death, but if I stand on the pedal, the car is going to stop. Thankfully, the ABS crashes by ceasing to function, I would HOPE all the time.
In PA, it is now a DUI to not give up the blood. Comes up the same for an insurance company anyway, DUI By Refusal, as opposed to say DUI By General Impairment or DUI By Over the Limit. I think that's unfair. I would be perfectly acceptable with an administrative suspension for a year for refusal to give up blood. Now, as for the sobriety tests, he says he passed. He's a Crim J. major, and they provide your scores on your Affadavit of Probable Cause that you get in your summons. Perhaps he was fibbing, but who knows.
When I was a kid, if you had a few too many, the cops would make ya park and walk, or get you a cab. They KNEW who the real drunks were, and those guys got hauled to the county jail for the night, and got their DUI. Now, you make the mistake of finishing that pitcher of beer with your wings, and they're going to arrest you, because it means $3000 in their pockets for more toys. For example, my township of 10,000 just bought some ridiculous number of combat shotguns, about 4 per officer! What the hell? I mean, we have a drug problem here, but unless they're planning on forming a posse sometime soon, that's a little over the top.
Blame slashdot for that misinformation. I was under the impression that if you flashed a Milestone with an unsigned ROM, you blew a microfuse and that was that.
(Either way, both our phones are more locked up than a WinMobile 6.5 phone.)
Or, they're people willing to stand by the principal of "I don't give up shit unless a judge forces me to, and if you want it, wake his ass up at 2AM". Which I think is fair.
My buddy passed every goddamn sobriety test they gave him, and they STILL made him go give a blood test.
I want to know who made up the 0.08 rule, because as a 170lb man, that's about 3.5 American beers before its legally unsafe to drive. I dunno bout you, but a single Benadryl fucks me up more than 3.5 beers!
A buddy of mine got a DUI for taking an amphetamine pill. THEY GAVE THEM TO PILOTS IN WWII TO HELP THEM FLY.
In PA, the first DUI means one year "probation"; calling a 1-800 number once a month to say you haven't been a bad boy ($350), alcohol classes ($650), and a $2000 fine/costs combination or so. No actual real punishment, and the alcohol classes are a joke, as far as everyone I know who's been unlucky enough to get caught has said. You know, show the people some nasty wrecks, make them listen to a mom who's 10 year old kid was playing in the street at midnight and got whacked by a drunk driver, and then make them write a paper on why the alcohol is the devil. They told one of my buddies that an alcoholic was anyone that drank on a schedule. So granny taking her Sunday Communion sip of wine is an alcoholic.
(I was a social work major, I know real professionals don't define it as that. However, with my BS, I'm only a test and 4 classes away from being a certified drug and alcohol counselor, 3 years of graduate study away from being a big-boy counselor who actually is worth his salt)\
What privacy rights do you have if you get arrested?
Doesn't seem like much. I got busted for being of age at a college party (hence, I MUST have had something to do with how the alcohol got there... I mean, if the police have no higher an education as the janitor, they gotta take the low hanging fruit). Haven't even had a court date yet, and they came an arrested me AGAIN because I didn't go get my fingerprints taken.
That's right, they get your prints for life FIRST, THEN you get to go to court. And this is the second time for me - Last time, a judge threw the case out, but the PA State Police kept the prints!
... and I'd have less of a problem responding to a National Security Letter if they told me WHO IT WAS FOR, and that someone was not a US citizen. Non-citizens have rights, but I don't necessarily believe that privacy is one of them.
Nah. Something rings a bell with me about not giving up freedom for security, that if you do, you deserve neither?
You know, stuff the country was founded upon? I wouldn't feel like a douche at all, and I wouldn't give a flying fuck what the court of public opinion felt. If the FBI really wanted to catch a terrorist, they would give me a well-formed search warrant.
Last I checked, none of the Apple phone line up has bricking fuses built in. In fact, if you try and jailbreak a phone with the wrong software, it just doesn't work. No perma-brick, unlike some Android phones.
No fanboyism here, just pointing out an error in your reason.
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Damn, dude, that's one sad, sad article. The end actually brought a tear to my eye, props to Lyn Balfour for being an immensely better human being than her Commonwealth prosecutor.
Well AFAIK (and I don't know much), the ones here in the US are pretty heavily guarded.
Then again, the Russians just got caught with a bunch of deep-cover spies not really spying on much of anything either, so I guess there's not much to worry about for them.
And probably a good thing. Now, we have two different circuit courts that have come to different conclusions (according to the news reports, anyway). They can do that. The next step? Someone's gonna try to take it to the Supreme Court.
How the hell did he get so close?
I'm just saying it makes the DEA looks like a pack of wild morons, which is par for the course for them. The fact that they can't understand plain English and have to hire someone to do so just shows how racist they are.
Go take a look at why most people are in prison, and then take a look at the color of their skin. Here's a hint: It's non-violent drug offenses, and they're mostly black. Now, go take a look at the disparity between powder cocaine and crack cocaine mandatory sentencing. Powder cocaine is mostly a rich-guy vice, whereas you're more likely to find crack amongst the poor.
Anyway, as for your posit that maybe rich white guys call it ebonics, Noam Chomsky is pretty much the founding father of modern linguistics, and I think I'd put him squarely in the "rich white guy" category. Perhaps you don't understand just what it is a rich white guy means when he calls it ebonics?
I don't think the DEA is ever trying to be sensitive. The fact that they need to hire someone to understand what inner city blacks are saying speaks volumes on its own about how big a dipshits they are.
To further clarify, and if you'd actually like to look up anything about it, people who aren't dipshit DEA agents, and have actually studied linguistics call it African American Vernacular English. "Ebonics" is just another way to say "Speakin' Jive", just a racist way of saying "black people don't talk right".
Wow! THAT's ballsy. Our perp was a tenant's boyfriend with a drug habit, who had a key to the basement of the neighboring property that was vacant - there were coin op laundry machines down there.
I've never heard of such a thing here, but nowadays, one must show their driver's license also if you're selling what looks like construction strap. It used to just be your vehicle's registration info (because if you, say, dump a steel tank full of hazardous material, they can get you for dumping AND transporting), but now you need picture ID, also. Hell, they even make ya drive through a geiger counter now, so hospitals don't just dump their old imaging equipment/radiotherapy machines! Not that they pay attention, I've told them before that I was gonna drop a fridge with refrigerant and compressor still intact, they said "we'll take care of it!" - I was 17, and didn't know any better. They certainly don't do a damn thing about it!
You can still do so, just sell them to a scrap metal dealer. Two summers ago they were about US$0.75/lb.
In fact, used metals had got so expensive that druggies were going around stealing the entire copper plumbing tree out of vacant houses to sell it for scrap metal. It got up to around US$1.50/lb.
Steel, on the other hand, isn't that high. However, at the apartment complex, I made a good $250 on selling some old mild steel bed frames, I think they were going about $100/short ton.
Scrap cans have their own separate price category, IIRC. You can google to find the market price, and you can also bargain with the scrap dealer usually.
Dude, really?
Was that worth the effort? To link to a SPORTS PAGE in a script that most of us won't even be able to identify on a NERDY NEWS PAGE?
Must have failed that state-run university marketing course.
Your signature so succinctly shows how we ended up with Australia as a country to begin with.
I'll second that. I'm mildly ADD, having been diagnosed as a kid. Fortunately, my parents refused to medicate me, and I'm left as a coffee addict. Probably about a pot a day, and I'm 24.
On the other hand, you should see me do an open house with 20 people trying to talk to me at once. Attention Deficit Disorder? Nah. Multitasking Ability Specialty. =)
Wait, someone killed themselves over the photography?
I got a degree in Spanish along with my main degree, and the bastards would change the quizzes at the end of the chapters! They'd keep the questions and the options the same, but change the order of the options. You can pick up a Spanish document from 500 years ago and it will read the same as Spanish of today.
Hell, you could pick up something written almost a millennium ago, and it would still be readable. And yet, every semester, new fucking edition.
The reason? The "Penn State Bookstore" was really owned by Barnes and Noble. Assbags.
In PA they have these ignition interlock devices, but only for 2nd DUI onwards (1st if it's bad enough and you already have a record).
There, you agree to not touch alcohol at all during your probation, and if you are caught driving (after your suspension and while still on probation) with ANY detectable alcohol in your system, you've gained a second DUI. I don't know NY law, but that's probably why it's set so low.
The issue I have is that it costs so much. It's thousands of dollars to rent the machine. I can buy a PBT (portable breath test) for like $150, and a remote kill switch for your car is about as much. And don't say it's because this machine is more complicated, I watched a kid swish a little of that "Close Call" alcohol masking stuff around in his mouth, swallow, and drive drunkenly off. He's now in prison for alcohol related charges, but it wasn't the blow-n-go that did him in, it was the telephone pole.
iirc, in the US, the brakes still have to some mechanical linkage. My ABS can fight me to the death, but if I stand on the pedal, the car is going to stop. Thankfully, the ABS crashes by ceasing to function, I would HOPE all the time.
In PA, it is now a DUI to not give up the blood. Comes up the same for an insurance company anyway, DUI By Refusal, as opposed to say DUI By General Impairment or DUI By Over the Limit. I think that's unfair. I would be perfectly acceptable with an administrative suspension for a year for refusal to give up blood. Now, as for the sobriety tests, he says he passed. He's a Crim J. major, and they provide your scores on your Affadavit of Probable Cause that you get in your summons. Perhaps he was fibbing, but who knows.
When I was a kid, if you had a few too many, the cops would make ya park and walk, or get you a cab. They KNEW who the real drunks were, and those guys got hauled to the county jail for the night, and got their DUI. Now, you make the mistake of finishing that pitcher of beer with your wings, and they're going to arrest you, because it means $3000 in their pockets for more toys. For example, my township of 10,000 just bought some ridiculous number of combat shotguns, about 4 per officer! What the hell? I mean, we have a drug problem here, but unless they're planning on forming a posse sometime soon, that's a little over the top.
Blame slashdot for that misinformation. I was under the impression that if you flashed a Milestone with an unsigned ROM, you blew a microfuse and that was that.
(Either way, both our phones are more locked up than a WinMobile 6.5 phone.)
In case anyone's interested and knows their Spanish, un enlace: El Blog del Narco.
Or, they're people willing to stand by the principal of "I don't give up shit unless a judge forces me to, and if you want it, wake his ass up at 2AM". Which I think is fair.
My buddy passed every goddamn sobriety test they gave him, and they STILL made him go give a blood test.
I want to know who made up the 0.08 rule, because as a 170lb man, that's about 3.5 American beers before its legally unsafe to drive. I dunno bout you, but a single Benadryl fucks me up more than 3.5 beers!
A buddy of mine got a DUI for taking an amphetamine pill. THEY GAVE THEM TO PILOTS IN WWII TO HELP THEM FLY.
In PA, the first DUI means one year "probation"; calling a 1-800 number once a month to say you haven't been a bad boy ($350), alcohol classes ($650), and a $2000 fine/costs combination or so. No actual real punishment, and the alcohol classes are a joke, as far as everyone I know who's been unlucky enough to get caught has said. You know, show the people some nasty wrecks, make them listen to a mom who's 10 year old kid was playing in the street at midnight and got whacked by a drunk driver, and then make them write a paper on why the alcohol is the devil. They told one of my buddies that an alcoholic was anyone that drank on a schedule. So granny taking her Sunday Communion sip of wine is an alcoholic.
(I was a social work major, I know real professionals don't define it as that. However, with my BS, I'm only a test and 4 classes away from being a certified drug and alcohol counselor, 3 years of graduate study away from being a big-boy counselor who actually is worth his salt)\
What privacy rights do you have if you get arrested?
Doesn't seem like much. I got busted for being of age at a college party (hence, I MUST have had something to do with how the alcohol got there... I mean, if the police have no higher an education as the janitor, they gotta take the low hanging fruit). Haven't even had a court date yet, and they came an arrested me AGAIN because I didn't go get my fingerprints taken.
That's right, they get your prints for life FIRST, THEN you get to go to court. And this is the second time for me - Last time, a judge threw the case out, but the PA State Police kept the prints!
... and I'd have less of a problem responding to a National Security Letter if they told me WHO IT WAS FOR, and that someone was not a US citizen. Non-citizens have rights, but I don't necessarily believe that privacy is one of them.
Nah. Something rings a bell with me about not giving up freedom for security, that if you do, you deserve neither?
You know, stuff the country was founded upon? I wouldn't feel like a douche at all, and I wouldn't give a flying fuck what the court of public opinion felt. If the FBI really wanted to catch a terrorist, they would give me a well-formed search warrant.
Last I checked, none of the Apple phone line up has bricking fuses built in. In fact, if you try and jailbreak a phone with the wrong software, it just doesn't work. No perma-brick, unlike some Android phones.
No fanboyism here, just pointing out an error in your reason.
Damn! Three months after I graduate!