Paragraph e in the section permits it for emergency services personnel in the course of their duties.
A lot of road rules have emergency services exclusions. e.g. driving against the flow of traffic, ignoring control and command signs and lights, ignoring speed limits etc. They ARE expected to be trained to do so safely and only when absolutely unavoidable. If the LA County Sheriff's Department didn't instruct the deputy properly, then they should be held liable.
Understood, thanks.
That being said, perhaps there are things that, even with training, cannot be done safely.
2. This was within standard operating procedure for the deputy.
This does not make it legal.
IANAL but it seems to me that only if it's not illegal to send text messages while driving then you would be correct. If, however, it is illegal, as is the case in CA, then the deputy killed someone by being negligent while breaking a law which seems like criminal negligence to me.
...Facebook's Ukrainian office is located in Russia...
Whose brilliant idea was that?
Is it actually a 'Ukrainian' office of FB or is it just that the regional office for FB happens to be in Russia and that Ukraine is inside that region?
It would probably take 20 years for the conceptual designs, material selection, laboratory testing of the materials, CAD design, prototype building (a dozen or so), THEN come the lawsuits, Congressional hearings, de-funding, re-funding, de-funding again, re-funding again, route selection, more lawsuits, different route selections ( Repeat ) and finally protestors chaining themselves to everything in the way before the first load of wastes is ready to go anywhere.
At which time it will require boats and not trains after all.
It is interesting that one of the basis of most religions is the freedom to choose. Most religions allow people to choose to do good or choose not to. Why does the Muslim religion seem to want to control everything? Conversion by force, death sentence for converting to another religion, hiding women's bodies so not to tempt men and now censorship. What would a religion have to force it's followers to conform? What proves a person's faith is the ability to resist temptation. Look at the trials of Job. If the people need to be "protected" from temptation then their faith is weak.
Be very careful of what your own house is made of before you start throwing bricks.
Why does it fall on the West (presumably the US) to do something? Don't most people bitch when the US involves itself in the affairs of others?
Furthermore, doesn't Ukraine have its own alliances to prevent exactly this?
Not exactly but yes, it primarily falls on Europe to come help Ukraine now as the EU was encouraging Ukraine to lean towards them and away from Russia which is what triggered this whole process, and it falls on the US as an ally of Europe and the only country strong enough to actually put some fear into Putin.
The proper response to this is to strengthen military forces in new NATO member states surrounding Russia, including US boots on the ground. This will make a clear line that Russia knows it cannot cross without provoking all-out war. Unfortunately Ukraine is not part of NATO. We might be able to sell arms to Ukraine, but there are risks and limitations to this. What must be made clear to Russia is that if it enters Ukraine, it will face profound economic isolation. If it goes further it must be clear that it will result in WWIII. Thus we end in a stalemate. Not unlike the Cold War.
And if Russia attacks any country that leans towards the west and thus towards becoming a NATO state how is that actually supposed to come about?
You know how you deal with a playground bully? You stand up to his crap, get people behind you, and call his bluff.
Which works really well right up until you discover the schoolyard bully is a little unhinged, and is playing out of his own book because he believes his own story.
And then you discover it's not a bluff, and then things get really hairy.
Chairman Mao, Ho Chi Minh and Hitler, not so much with the bluffing.
Ukraine is in a much worse shape than Russia, economically speaking. Steamrolling over Ukraine is not hard. Steamrolling over Europe is much more complicated.
Last time I checked Ukraine was still part of Europe. In fact it is "the largest country entirely within Europe" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
I don't know how Russia, you know, the big one, reacts if the US decided to support (and possibly occup... I mean liberate) a country right at its border.
I mean, how'd you feel if Russia took over Mexico?
I'd be quite careful how to react to that. Putin doesn't have as much leeway to do what he pleases as it seems. Russia likes big, strong, tough men at the top. Men who give in have a pretty hard time to remain in power.
Russia needs to be as afraid of the US (and NATO) as we obviously are of them.
They are not. Because our 'leaders' have done nothing worthwhile to make them afraid of retribution. So not only do they use subterfuge to invade Ukraine, they are now finding that we don't even have the balls to react when they invade openly.
The balance of power is still with the west but if those that be are not willing or at least pretending to be willing to use that power then it is useless and the balance tips to the Russians, which is obviously the case.
There are also Ukrainian troops in Russia. In far bigger numbers as well. Last time there were 400 soldiers who strayed to Russia, now there is a report of about 1000 soldiers encircled by the separatists that might be seeking refuge in Russia after being abandoned by their commanders. It is not as simple as some news outlets let you believe. Most of the headlines are sensationalist anyway, that's how you sell newspaper. There is also 300 US active military "advisors" embedded with the Ukrainian military, helping with tactics, logistics and strategy. But I don't see you being upset over that.
I am mostly upset that nobody is talking, they could have had a week long cease fire couple months ago to at least talk through what each side wants, but Ukraine pushes for a complete victory in the east. Maybe that is a good strategy, maybe not, but US is the only one benefiting right now. Ukraine, EU and Russia are all losers in this conflict. And I am also upset with the rhetoric of people that drive us into a military conflict with Russia. It is almost as if everyone forgot the 2000 nuclear warheads aimed at pretty much the entire world. But let's say they won't use them. Won't they maybe sell them? Or sell the technology to make them? What is their incentive not to?
Yes Ukraine has already been forced to accept the loss of Crimea as the price for disobeying Putin, now you want them to cede the eastern part of their country and then how much more?
Russia has invaded Crimea and now, with the same people, invaded Ukraine and the ball-less west is doing nothing to stop them. Talk. Yes, let's talk some more so that Putin can lie more and gain more time to regroup and resupply.
If the west doesn't do more than talking soon there will be no more Ukraine as an independent country and it will only be the first to fall.
He also ramped up the war on drugs, something that so many freedom-hating scumbags in our government have done. So he wasn't a good president, and he definitely didn't want "small government."
But what does that have to do with him being to blame for this specific issue?
Whoops, no it wasn't Carter...it was Reagan: On December 4, 1981 President Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12333, an Executive Order intended to extend powers and responsibilities of US intelligence agencies and direct the leaders of U.S. federal agencies to co-operate fully with CIA requests for information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
He also ramped up the war on drugs, something that so many freedom-hating scumbags in our government have done. So he wasn't a good president, and he definitely didn't want "small government."
But what does that have to do with him being to blame for this specific issue?
If someone complains about an interaction with an officer where the officer's camera has no record of the interaction, the officer is assumed to be guilty.
That should give officers incentive to ensure their cameras are in working order.
I have a friend who used to resell AT&T bandwidth as a whole sale reseller. He caught AT&T overcharging him. He joined with other ISP's and resellers and demonstrated AT&T was doing this to all of them. There was fairly good size money involved in this, north of $10 meg. They filed a class action lawsuit against AT&T. As all the contracts came up for renewal AT&T refused to renew the contracts. It took AT&T about 6 months to these ISP's out of business.
AT&T is not your friend.
During their investigation they found that AT&T uses for separate billing systems to collect the same usage data. They found that the systems use the same inputs but all yield different billing amounts. The highest amount can be up to 20% higher than the lowest amount. It turns out they simply select the system that yields the highest number that month and bill the customer.
No company is your friend but was there really no alternative upstream for these ISPs? Surely not only AT&T could provide service?
A less drastic, but equally annoying solution might be to just turn it off for a month. See what they bill you then.
"It was turned off" is a lot more likely to persuade a small claims court to your side than "I was overcharged by 14%, and here are the dozen esoteric ways I can prove it".
Fuck small claims. Find one of the uncountable hungry lawyers in the US and go after a class action suit based on overcharging and lack of transparency.
I like the idea of a self-driving car, but I still don't understand how the self-driving car finds a parking space, or gets eased into place in the garage for maintenance. How does it find it's way around an unexpected hazard, like a downed limb, or washed-out area of the road? How does the self-driving car know that the road is flooded or otherwise undriveable? How does it know that the power is out at an intersection that normally has traffic lights?
As far as I am concerned, no one should comment on it unless they've seen it. The arm chair quarterbacks who are removed from the issue and not exposed to it should shut the hell up.
The video is horrifying and Youtube and other services removing it is an injustice to humanity. People should see this and remember it. Just as people should see the horrors of the holocaust and remember. All removing the content does is ensure people are ignorant to the truth. Look how well banning Nazi memorabilia has worked out in France where they now have a HUGE uptick in the amount of anti-semitism.
Hiding the unpleasantness in life does not make it go away.
Can't let this go unanswered because your logic is flawed in that the banning of nazi materials has nothing to do with any possible uptick in antisemitism.
If there is an uptick in antisemitism it is because of what's going on in Palestine and has nothing to do with the banning of (the auction of) nazi memorabilia.
Unfortunately the word 'antisemitism' is used incorrectly to categorize people or the statements of people who are critical of Israeli policies when such criticism has nothing to do with judaism or religion at all.
It's more due to the melting of the gigantic glaciers that once covered much of North America during the Ice Ages, like they now cover Greenland. The little glaciers sitting on tops of mountains, which are now melting due to global warming, have a much smaller effect.
Thanks but I'm thinking about the scientists checking if water level is rising in, say, California, due to global warming, well, globally. They might come to the conclusion that there is no sea level change because of the raising of California which would be hiding the actual sea level change.
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Not defending the cop, but have a read of the law itself, not the FAQ. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc23123_5.htm.
Paragraph e in the section permits it for emergency services personnel in the course of their duties.
A lot of road rules have emergency services exclusions. e.g. driving against the flow of traffic, ignoring control and command signs and lights, ignoring speed limits etc. They ARE expected to be trained to do so safely and only when absolutely unavoidable. If the LA County Sheriff's Department didn't instruct the deputy properly, then they should be held liable.
Understood, thanks.
That being said, perhaps there are things that, even with training, cannot be done safely.
2. This was within standard operating procedure for the deputy.
This does not make it legal.
IANAL but it seems to me that only if it's not illegal to send text messages while driving then you would be correct. If, however, it is illegal, as is the case in CA, then the deputy killed someone by being negligent while breaking a law which seems like criminal negligence to me.
"...prohibits all drivers from texting while operating a motor vehicle (VC 23123.5)"
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/cellula...
...Facebook's Ukrainian office is located in Russia...
Whose brilliant idea was that?
Is it actually a 'Ukrainian' office of FB or is it just that the regional office for FB happens to be in Russia and that Ukraine is inside that region?
It would probably take 20 years for the conceptual designs, material selection, laboratory testing of the materials, CAD design, prototype building (a dozen or so), THEN come the lawsuits, Congressional hearings, de-funding, re-funding, de-funding again, re-funding again, route selection, more lawsuits, different route selections ( Repeat ) and finally protestors chaining themselves to everything in the way before the first load of wastes is ready to go anywhere.
At which time it will require boats and not trains after all.
It is interesting that one of the basis of most religions is the freedom to choose. Most religions allow people to choose to do good or choose not to. Why does the Muslim religion seem to want to control everything? Conversion by force, death sentence for converting to another religion, hiding women's bodies so not to tempt men and now censorship. What would a religion have to force it's followers to conform? What proves a person's faith is the ability to resist temptation. Look at the trials of Job. If the people need to be "protected" from temptation then their faith is weak.
Be very careful of what your own house is made of before you start throwing bricks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... (and it's not ancient history so don't ignore it out of hand)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
Of particular note might be Buddhists, who generally practice non-violence very explicitly, persecuting Muslims:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
Religious is a tool used to control the masses and will be used against anyone who goes against those in power, regardless of which religion it is.
Why does it fall on the West (presumably the US) to do something? Don't most people bitch when the US involves itself in the affairs of others?
Furthermore, doesn't Ukraine have its own alliances to prevent exactly this?
Not exactly but yes, it primarily falls on Europe to come help Ukraine now as the EU was encouraging Ukraine to lean towards them and away from Russia which is what triggered this whole process, and it falls on the US as an ally of Europe and the only country strong enough to actually put some fear into Putin.
The proper response to this is to strengthen military forces in new NATO member states surrounding Russia, including US boots on the ground. This will make a clear line that Russia knows it cannot cross without provoking all-out war. Unfortunately Ukraine is not part of NATO. We might be able to sell arms to Ukraine, but there are risks and limitations to this. What must be made clear to Russia is that if it enters Ukraine, it will face profound economic isolation. If it goes further it must be clear that it will result in WWIII. Thus we end in a stalemate. Not unlike the Cold War.
And if Russia attacks any country that leans towards the west and thus towards becoming a NATO state how is that actually supposed to come about?
Maybe Scotland should keep its nukes after all...
Are they Scotland's nukes, or Great Britain's nukes?
Which works really well right up until you discover the schoolyard bully is a little unhinged, and is playing out of his own book because he believes his own story.
And then you discover it's not a bluff, and then things get really hairy.
Chairman Mao, Ho Chi Minh and Hitler, not so much with the bluffing.
And I'm not so sure about Putin either.
Putin backs off when forced to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
Ukraine is in a much worse shape than Russia, economically speaking. Steamrolling over Ukraine is not hard. Steamrolling over Europe is much more complicated.
Last time I checked Ukraine was still part of Europe. In fact it is "the largest country entirely within Europe"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
I don't know how Russia, you know, the big one, reacts if the US decided to support (and possibly occup... I mean liberate) a country right at its border.
I mean, how'd you feel if Russia took over Mexico?
I'd be quite careful how to react to that. Putin doesn't have as much leeway to do what he pleases as it seems. Russia likes big, strong, tough men at the top. Men who give in have a pretty hard time to remain in power.
Russia needs to be as afraid of the US (and NATO) as we obviously are of them.
They are not. Because our 'leaders' have done nothing worthwhile to make them afraid of retribution. So not only do they use subterfuge to invade Ukraine, they are now finding that we don't even have the balls to react when they invade openly.
The balance of power is still with the west but if those that be are not willing or at least pretending to be willing to use that power then it is useless and the balance tips to the Russians, which is obviously the case.
There are also Ukrainian troops in Russia. In far bigger numbers as well. Last time there were 400 soldiers who strayed to Russia, now there is a report of about 1000 soldiers encircled by the separatists that might be seeking refuge in Russia after being abandoned by their commanders. It is not as simple as some news outlets let you believe. Most of the headlines are sensationalist anyway, that's how you sell newspaper. There is also 300 US active military "advisors" embedded with the Ukrainian military, helping with tactics, logistics and strategy. But I don't see you being upset over that.
I am mostly upset that nobody is talking, they could have had a week long cease fire couple months ago to at least talk through what each side wants, but Ukraine pushes for a complete victory in the east. Maybe that is a good strategy, maybe not, but US is the only one benefiting right now. Ukraine, EU and Russia are all losers in this conflict. And I am also upset with the rhetoric of people that drive us into a military conflict with Russia. It is almost as if everyone forgot the 2000 nuclear warheads aimed at pretty much the entire world. But let's say they won't use them. Won't they maybe sell them? Or sell the technology to make them? What is their incentive not to?
Yes Ukraine has already been forced to accept the loss of Crimea as the price for disobeying Putin, now you want them to cede the eastern part of their country and then how much more?
Russia has invaded Crimea and now, with the same people, invaded Ukraine and the ball-less west is doing nothing to stop them. Talk. Yes, let's talk some more so that Putin can lie more and gain more time to regroup and resupply.
If the west doesn't do more than talking soon there will be no more Ukraine as an independent country and it will only be the first to fall.
He also ramped up the war on drugs, something that so many freedom-hating scumbags in our government have done. So he wasn't a good president, and he definitely didn't want "small government."
But what does that have to do with him being to blame for this specific issue?
Whoops, no it wasn't Carter...it was Reagan:
On December 4, 1981 President Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12333, an Executive Order intended to extend powers and responsibilities of US intelligence agencies and direct the leaders of U.S. federal agencies to co-operate fully with CIA requests for information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
So yes he is to blame for this specific issue.
He also ramped up the war on drugs, something that so many freedom-hating scumbags in our government have done. So he wasn't a good president, and he definitely didn't want "small government."
But what does that have to do with him being to blame for this specific issue?
Indeed it appears that Jimmy Carter was president when this order was signed in December of 1981.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
If someone complains about an interaction with an officer where the officer's camera has no record of the interaction, the officer is assumed to be guilty.
That should give officers incentive to ensure their cameras are in working order.
Lack of proof for is not proof against.
I have a friend who used to resell AT&T bandwidth as a whole sale reseller. He caught AT&T overcharging him. He joined with other ISP's and resellers and demonstrated AT&T was doing this to all of them. There was fairly good size money involved in this, north of $10 meg. They filed a class action lawsuit against AT&T. As all the contracts came up for renewal AT&T refused to renew the contracts. It took AT&T about 6 months to these ISP's out of business.
AT&T is not your friend.
During their investigation they found that AT&T uses for separate billing systems to collect the same usage data. They found that the systems use the same inputs but all yield different billing amounts. The highest amount can be up to 20% higher than the lowest amount. It turns out they simply select the system that yields the highest number that month and bill the customer.
No company is your friend but was there really no alternative upstream for these ISPs? Surely not only AT&T could provide service?
A less drastic, but equally annoying solution might be to just turn it off for a month. See what they bill you then.
"It was turned off" is a lot more likely to persuade a small claims court to your side than "I was overcharged by 14%, and here are the dozen esoteric ways I can prove it".
Fuck small claims. Find one of the uncountable hungry lawyers in the US and go after a class action suit based on overcharging and lack of transparency.
Wouldn't hurt to have some way to check blood alcohol level before allowing a human to take over.
I like the idea of a self-driving car, but I still don't understand how the self-driving car finds a parking space, or gets eased into place in the garage for maintenance. How does it find it's way around an unexpected hazard, like a downed limb, or washed-out area of the road? How does the self-driving car know that the road is flooded or otherwise undriveable? How does it know that the power is out at an intersection that normally has traffic lights?
There are already self parking cars:
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/...
If there's one lesson I learned from Star Trek it's that you always, ALWAYS, include a manual override.
Also, never be the guard with no name that goes on away trips.
The cause of the Toyota problem was people hitting the accelerator instead of the brake.
http://www.caranddriver.com/fe...
So if you take away the accelerator pedal I think we're good to go.
Or at least good to stop
If you exceed your 'cap', does service stop until you okay that you want to pay more or does it automatically start charging you?
I would rather have a real cap that stops service than the latter, incurring unknown and probably unlimited additional cost.
Also, it seems that comcast is a right shit company and if I were in the US I would just avoid buying from them altogether.
The fine is nominal — one part of government fining another is rather pointless, but it does show that there's a little bit of accountability.
It seems like the two clauses of that sentence are contradicting each other. How does a "pointless" fine show any accountability at all?
Blame and hopefully a bit of shame perhaps, is better than nothing at all.
As far as I am concerned, no one should comment on it unless they've seen it. The arm chair quarterbacks who are removed from the issue and not exposed to it should shut the hell up.
The video is horrifying and Youtube and other services removing it is an injustice to humanity. People should see this and remember it. Just as people should see the horrors of the holocaust and remember. All removing the content does is ensure people are ignorant to the truth. Look how well banning Nazi memorabilia has worked out in France where they now have a HUGE uptick in the amount of anti-semitism.
Hiding the unpleasantness in life does not make it go away.
Can't let this go unanswered because your logic is flawed in that the banning of nazi materials has nothing to do with any possible uptick in antisemitism.
If there is an uptick in antisemitism it is because of what's going on in Palestine and has nothing to do with the banning of (the auction of) nazi memorabilia.
Unfortunately the word 'antisemitism' is used incorrectly to categorize people or the statements of people who are critical of Israeli policies when such criticism has nothing to do with judaism or religion at all.
It's more due to the melting of the gigantic glaciers that once covered much of North America during the Ice Ages, like they now cover Greenland. The little glaciers sitting on tops of mountains, which are now melting due to global warming, have a much smaller effect.
Thanks but I'm thinking about the scientists checking if water level is rising in, say, California, due to global warming, well, globally. They might come to the conclusion that there is no sea level change because of the raising of California which would be hiding the actual sea level change.