Three guys driving up in an SUV, shooting up the place, and driving away must be quite an office dispute. Sounds more like an intra-office war over a red stapler.
Carrying a gun in this state will get you arrested (or shot) by the first cop who sees it, and CCP's are pretty hard to come by (impossible to get in Los Angeles, despite court orders to issue them).
You can be arrest for carrying a chair leg here. All the officer has to say is that you looked like you might hit someone with it.
About the only lethal weapon you can legally carry here is a fingernail clipper.
Which was the original, and still accurate, name by which this phenomenon was known, until right wing messaging diluted it to climate change concern so that it could be deliberately confused with natural climate change cycles.
When did they do that? Back in 1956 when "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change" was published, or when the IPCC was created in '88?
That's because the IRS started forcing companies to track what their employees consumed and include the value of it in their W-2's (wage statements, for you non-USians). Most companies just decided it wasn't worth the trouble and made it the policy that the employees had to buy the food like everyone else.
An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat for use to feed animals on his own farm. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production based on acreage owned by a farmer, in order to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. In 1941 Filburn grew more than the limits permitted and he was ordered to pay a penalty of $117.11. He claimed his wheat was not sold in interstate commerce and so the penalty could not apply to him.The Supreme Court stated "The intended disposition of the crop here involved has not been expressly stated..."and later "Whether the subject of the regulation in question was "production," "consumption," or "marketing" is, therefore, not material for purposes of deciding the question of federal power before us [...] [b]ut even if appellee's activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect.'" . . . The Supreme Court has since relied heavily on Filburn in upholding the power of the federal government to prosecute individuals who grow their own medicinal marijuana pursuant to state law. The Supreme Court subsequently held that, as with the home-grown wheat at issue in the present case, home-grown marijuana is a legitimate subject of federal regulation because it competes with marijuana that moves in interstate commerce. As the Court explained in Gonzales v. Raich (2005):
"Wickard thus establishes that Congress can regulate purely intrastate activity that is not itself 'commercial', in that it is not produced for sale, if it concludes that failure to regulate that class of activity would undercut the regulation of the interstate market in that commodity."
Letters should be sent to hundreds of their neighbors telling them that one of their neighbors is connected with an organization with ties to terrorism, along with the person's picture, name, phone number and address.
All hypothetically, obviously. (But I wouldn't put it completely past some megacorp.)
If a company were really determined to pursue this, they could put a cheap GPS chip in the TV.
Then, the TV only needs a momentary connection to the actual network (like, while you're upgrading your short range null router) to say, "Hey, I'm at location xxx,yyy and I've been running for 635 days, and sent you 60000 packets of information and received zero replies."
The company also files a lawsuit against John Doe (before they even find out who you are) and subpoenas the customer list of the manufacturer of the very short range null route cellphone repeaters (which, in itself, may be running afoul of FCC rules simply by making the devices).
Then the company tracks you down and sues you for contract infringement, and also turns you over to the FCC to make an example of you.
Everyone else sees what happened to you and a handful of other targets and learns to toe the line.
I wonder if the FCC might have something to say about effectively jamming a communication signal, even if it is your own TV that you're jamming.
And if such a thing happens, I'll bet you that, somewhere in the 95 page EULA for your new TV is buried a clause that says, "You agree that you will not interfere with communications from this TV to the manufacturer".
One of the worst things about being a parent is watching your kids, in spite of everything you've done to prevent it, make the same stupid mistakes that you did at their age.
Who the heck trains to shoot to incapacitate? Unless by "incapacitate" they mean "it doesn't matter whether they're dead or not, as long as they aren't moving".
The military used to be trained to shoot to wound, because for every enemy soldier you wound, it usually takes two others out of combat to take care of him (if you're in a combat situation where the soldiers are actually trained to take care the wounded, and not a bunch of suicidal terrorists). But they don't really expect it to happen that way all the time.
Police are trained to shoot to kill. One of the reasons is that there's a good chance that, regardless of where you try to aim, they'll die anyway if you hit them. Using a firearm is always considered lethal force. Another good reason is that you may miss your target completely unless you aim for the center, which just happens to be where all those vital organs are.
I recall reading an article, many years ago, saying that a study of gunshot victims had found that most of them should not have died from the wounds sustained by the gunshot. There was some speculation that there may be something psychological about "Oh my god, I've been shot!", that negatively affects their ability to survive.
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I blame their parents.
Hope you don't need something done like a root canal on a tooth with a filling. Drilling through that stuff is probably going to be pretty tough.
Three guys driving up in an SUV, shooting up the place, and driving away must be quite an office dispute. Sounds more like an intra-office war over a red stapler.
Carrying a gun in this state will get you arrested (or shot) by the first cop who sees it, and CCP's are pretty hard to come by (impossible to get in Los Angeles, despite court orders to issue them).
You can be arrest for carrying a chair leg here. All the officer has to say is that you looked like you might hit someone with it.
About the only lethal weapon you can legally carry here is a fingernail clipper.
The news tends to carry a lot of stories, these days, of someone shooting their lover because of little things like being too friendly on Facebook.
I could easily see these letters resulting in a couple of people being blown away before L.A. decides that maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all.
Which was the original, and still accurate, name by which this phenomenon was known, until right wing messaging diluted it to climate change concern so that it could be deliberately confused with natural climate change cycles.
When did they do that? Back in 1956 when "The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change" was published, or when the IPCC was created in '88?
The H1-B program helps us import the best and brightest terrorists, with skills we can't find domestically.
That's because the IRS started forcing companies to track what their employees consumed and include the value of it in their W-2's (wage statements, for you non-USians). Most companies just decided it wasn't worth the trouble and made it the policy that the employees had to buy the food like everyone else.
Wickard v. Filburn
An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat for use to feed animals on his own farm. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production based on acreage owned by a farmer, in order to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. In 1941 Filburn grew more than the limits permitted and he was ordered to pay a penalty of $117.11. He claimed his wheat was not sold in interstate commerce and so the penalty could not apply to him.The Supreme Court stated "The intended disposition of the crop here involved has not been expressly stated..."and later "Whether the subject of the regulation in question was "production," "consumption," or "marketing" is, therefore, not material for purposes of deciding the question of federal power before us [...] [b]ut even if appellee's activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect.'"
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The Supreme Court has since relied heavily on Filburn in upholding the power of the federal government to prosecute individuals who grow their own medicinal marijuana pursuant to state law. The Supreme Court subsequently held that, as with the home-grown wheat at issue in the present case, home-grown marijuana is a legitimate subject of federal regulation because it competes with marijuana that moves in interstate commerce. As the Court explained in Gonzales v. Raich (2005):
"Wickard thus establishes that Congress can regulate purely intrastate activity that is not itself 'commercial', in that it is not produced for sale, if it concludes that failure to regulate that class of activity would undercut the regulation of the interstate market in that commodity."
Perhaps this settlement was approved by a judge. Wouldn't that be tantamount to a judge's order?
I have about this -->||<-- much sympathy for Bossland.
The code in question allowed users to violate a very reasonable clause in Blizzard's TOS: Don't cheat or use 'bots.
I hope that now Blizz can analyze the code and go after the users of said 'bots, which I'm sure is their intention behind getting the code.
Hopefully they'll go after the freelancers behind the other game's bots.
So, you wouldn't mind if I just post your name, address, email address, and phone number here on /. would you?
Letters should be sent to hundreds of their neighbors telling them that one of their neighbors is connected with an organization with ties to terrorism, along with the person's picture, name, phone number and address.
All hypothetically, obviously. (But I wouldn't put it completely past some megacorp.)
If a company were really determined to pursue this, they could put a cheap GPS chip in the TV.
Then, the TV only needs a momentary connection to the actual network (like, while you're upgrading your short range null router) to say, "Hey, I'm at location xxx,yyy and I've been running for 635 days, and sent you 60000 packets of information and received zero replies."
The company also files a lawsuit against John Doe (before they even find out who you are) and subpoenas the customer list of the manufacturer of the very short range null route cellphone repeaters (which, in itself, may be running afoul of FCC rules simply by making the devices).
Then the company tracks you down and sues you for contract infringement, and also turns you over to the FCC to make an example of you.
Everyone else sees what happened to you and a handful of other targets and learns to toe the line.
I wonder if the FCC might have something to say about effectively jamming a communication signal, even if it is your own TV that you're jamming.
And if such a thing happens, I'll bet you that, somewhere in the 95 page EULA for your new TV is buried a clause that says, "You agree that you will not interfere with communications from this TV to the manufacturer".
I prefer mine to be alive and kicking. It provides some exercise to build up the appetite.
So our kids can make different mistakes.
You probably haven't had kids.
One of the worst things about being a parent is watching your kids, in spite of everything you've done to prevent it, make the same stupid mistakes that you did at their age.
Meh, I wouldn't be worried.
I have this real cool cellphone case that I'm certain would be very reassuring to the police.
To cite the other designer of the Saffir-Simpson scale: "Look out, the building's going to... DOH!"
...abandoning nuclear because of things like that is like abandoning air travel...
I beg to differ. Air travel can't wipe out the whole human race. An apocalyptic nuclear event can.
Well, it would be a pretty unimpressive apocalypse if it didn't.
Extra parts do not exist; they're always there for a reason
That's not tru. I had a coupl of parts lft ovr from rassmbling my kyboard and it works just fin.
And maybe give you a colonoscopy or two to search for evidence.
Who the heck trains to shoot to incapacitate? Unless by "incapacitate" they mean "it doesn't matter whether they're dead or not, as long as they aren't moving".
The military used to be trained to shoot to wound, because for every enemy soldier you wound, it usually takes two others out of combat to take care of him (if you're in a combat situation where the soldiers are actually trained to take care the wounded, and not a bunch of suicidal terrorists). But they don't really expect it to happen that way all the time.
Police are trained to shoot to kill. One of the reasons is that there's a good chance that, regardless of where you try to aim, they'll die anyway if you hit them. Using a firearm is always considered lethal force. Another good reason is that you may miss your target completely unless you aim for the center, which just happens to be where all those vital organs are.
I recall reading an article, many years ago, saying that a study of gunshot victims had found that most of them should not have died from the wounds sustained by the gunshot. There was some speculation that there may be something psychological about "Oh my god, I've been shot!", that negatively affects their ability to survive.
Dead people are generally pretty peaceful.
Scandinavian immigrants were looked down on in the late 19th / early 20th centuries.
According to Wikipedia, "Scandihoovian" was one of the terms used. Also "squarehead", refers to Nords in general.