Very well said... and the reason I spoke of intent is that in order to be able to get a conviction, a prosecutor would have to prove that intent... which based on the evidence here would be a very tall order.
I dissagree... the police are fine to talk to when you go to talk to them about something... a basic (but not legally binding) opinion/clarification of a specific criminal law, a break in in your home, a stalker, reporting unsafe drivers, a lost purse you found on a sidewalk (all things I've done... including #5 yesterday)... it's when they come knocking at your door and you are in their sights you alas have to be extra careful due to the whole "Anything you say can and will be used against you" bit.
Why should middle class people pay for you to send your kids to school?
Because society for the most part benefits from an educated population... though I would prefer vouchers... or even an abolishment of government run schools.
Why should middle class people pay to clear the roads of snow?
Because society for the most part benefits from clear roads which allow them to go to/from work and pay taxes and live their lives.
Why should middle class people pay for traffic lights?
Because society for the most part benefits from roads which allow them to go to/from work and pay said taxes and live their lives.
Seriously, get a more intelligent argument.
Says the man who comes off sounding like a moron.
You are calling out things which in general all benefit from (not unlike say the military, police or fire department)... and yet... I (like the parent) fail to see how most of society benefits from our tax dollars helping to buy you or anyone else a Volt.... unless you want to play the 'broken window' theory of economics.
So the truth is no one in the media has claimed Trayvon was 12 years old. They've use a variety of photos, one of which is 5 years old.
As I said above (with a minor typo it seems):
just as the mug shot looking photo of Mr. Zimmerman which has been splashed most places is similarly old and helping to lead to incorrect conclusions about both men
Even if the media never said "this is a 12 year old boy" their choice to use a photo from him long ago, rather than a more up to date one that damages their narrative indicates their willingness to color the facts.
Given your acceptance of such a thing, plus ignoring the fact that Mr. Zimmerman was well respected by his community as someone who cared enough to keep a watchful eye demonstrates the quality of your character... which is not the sort of person I wish to engage with any longer. Good day.
with the intent he may need to kill someone with it.
One carries a gun the same way someone carries insurance on their car, spouse or home... just in case, hoping never to have to use it, but preferring to have it in case the need ever arises... am I a murderer then?
He got out of his car even when dispatch didn't want him to.
For standard CYA reasons the dispatcher said "We don't need you to do that" with regards to Mr. Zimmerman 'following' Mr. Martin... and that AFTER Mr. Zimmerman had left his car.
FYI: We do not live in a police state and the statement of the dispatcher has no legal weight.
He followed him.
You mean he went to go look for him after he lost sight of him so he could accurately report the suspicious person to the police who had just moments earlier walked by the vehicle of Mr. Zimmerman while he was inside?
He confronted him.
Says who? If anything it seems that Mr. Martin confronted Mr. Zimmerman doubly so when you look at the map of the area of where the 911 call was first made and where it ended it appears as if Mr. Martin actually doubled back and began the confrontation.
And it's not Zimmerman yelling for help.
Says... the 'expert' who can only say either way with 48% accuracy? given there are really only two choices I would have expected something more than 50/50 odds from such an ‘expert’.
Given we have witnesses who put Mr. Martin on top of Mr. Zimmerman... beating him... are we to believe that while carrying out the beating Mr. Martin was yelling for help?... or that after he was shot Mr. Martin began to yell for help?
The 'possible injury to the head' enhanced video is really weak.
So we'll just discount the police report which notes that Mr. Zimmerman was bleeding from the back of the head and the nose?
I can't say I've seen any media presenting him as a 12 year old. Which leads me to theconclusion you're the one distorting.
The photo of Mr. Martin in the red shirt is not from age 17, or even 16... but ~ age 12... as are the majority of the photos shown in the MSM... now his twitter accounts had more telling photos.... just as the mug shot looking photo of Mr. Zimmerman which has been splashed most places is similarly old and helping to lead to incorrect conclusions about both me.
Zimmerman's race is irrelevant.
Correct... but not to the media who labeled him as a white man from day one because it played into a narrative of "gun weilding white man gun downs young and unarmed black boy"... and only later backed away slightly as they realized their mistake.
But the fact that he treated people as suspicious or not depending if they were black or not seems to be a matter of track record in his time acting as neighbourhood watch in the community.
Care to support that argument? All credible information I've seen says just the opposite that people of all races in the community knew that he was someone who could be counted on.
You realize that murder has a legal meaning right?... and if he 'gets off' on a technicality... then he's not legally murderer... and actually leaves you actionable for libel.
More so... murder tends to require a specific intent, so unless you care to demonstrate that he got out of his car thinking/saying "I'm going to go shoot this guy"... the best you could hope for would be manslaughter... and even then the evidence of the assault on Mr. Zimmerman makes it an even tougher case.
Many smartphones phones have the ability to be remotely locked or wiped... but not in a permanent way that can prevent the phone from every being used again on any cell network.
The desktop is only available on ARM for Office and Explorer.
Really? My setup must be extra odd then when I am running the Visual Studio 2012 beta on an x64 machine on the Windows 8 Beta.
And, reading about the multitasking behaviour in Win8, if you have something like VMware running, or are encoding a video for YouTube or have a build running on Desktop and switch to Metro, Windows will kill the desktop process in 10 seconds (it gives it that long to suspend).
Sure sounds like FUD to me... or would you like to support your claim as again... I have not experianced what you claim to be seeing.
You made the choice to buy such an expensive home (rather than rent), you made the choice to live alone (I assume), you make the choice to buy the more expensive 'healthy' food, you made the choice to take the lesser wage at the teaching job, you made the choice to live/work in central Florida.
If you wish to bemoanyour position in life that is fine... only keep in mind that you are there by your own choices.
More so... I'd wager your 'full time' job has what? 3 months off in the summer? You cannot find a side job to do then in order to increase your earnings?
Before the rants start about over-entitled public employees I think it's worth thinking this situation through. How many people in the IT field would want their performance, as measured by some random measurement (such as the ever popular Lines-of-Code-per-Hour), published by their employer? For their clients and future employers and clients to see?
If you picked a better analogy... you might have had a point... evaluation based on LOC/hour is like evaluating a teacher on how many homework assignments they give.
Why not evaluate against the end result? You know... have some standards of what you expect to get out of what you are paying for!
Does the program work? Does it correctly do what it was intended (and was speced)?
Same goes for the kids... do they demonstrate an understanding of the topics that were taught? Can they perform the necessary operations to find a result?
The fact of the matter is is that we've been pouring more and more money into education for decades... and test scores have largley remained flat... ever stop to consider that maybe $$$ isn't the problem?
Except for that that family of 4 chooses to pay for HBO... and if they dislike what is on the network enough they can/will cancel their subscription... last I checked the only way for me to stop funding the TSA is to either quit earning an income (and spending money)... or leave the country by teleporter.
You think... the TSA is an unaccountable 'paramilitary'? #LULZ!
In the grand scheme of things often those who cannot join the military (or have finished their tour) become cops... those who cannot become cops become private security/mall cops... those who cannot become private security join the TSA.
The TSA is at the absolute lowest of the low with regards to competance or actual security.
Despite the 'S' in their name... they are screeners, nothing more, nothing less... and quite poorly paid & educated to boot.
Paramilitary? HA! The security theater must be working on you.
Bull. In both cases the devices failed to ignite properly... it was only after they failed were they beaten down.
Had the shoe bomber had a lighter (vs some matches)... or had the underpants bomber had something better than an acid based trigger... both would have had a better chance of success... not to mention there is also the possibility that both devices were less effective due to the time being worn (the shoe bombers first flight was canceled, while the underpants bomber waited until the absolute end of the flight to trigger it)... it's worth considering that both men sweated a bit during their wearing of their devices... retarding their effectiveness.
When Napolitano said "the system worked" with regards to the underpants bomber... she was right... but not why she thinks.
Just as with the shoe bomber, both attacks were thwarted not by the TSA, not by attentive passengers... but because of limited options on the part of the terrorist. In the old days, a terrorist would smuggle on to the plane almost anything as there was virtually no security. Whether it be DB Cooper or Pan Am Flight 103 the sky was the limit.
Know what happened? We started looking for such things. All of the sudden getting a traditional bomb, gun or knife onto the plane got a lot harder... so the bad guys would have to find other means. The problem though (as evidenced by both the shoe and underpants bomber) is that some of their alternatives are not as effective as they’d like... leading to an increased chance of failure.
Don’t get me wrong... the majority of what we face at the airport today is security theater... one upshot of which is we have (theoretically) increased the chances of finding a bomb/knife/gun carrier... forcing them to try to find more difficult ways.
Body scanners are not the answer... profiling and behavioral analysis is.
It’s no wonder El Al hasn’t been hijacked in in 40+ years. They take security seriously and don’t dink around with nonsense like forcing people to take off their shoes or (likely unhealthy) body scanners.
I'm still trying to find the voting record on this... but somehow I have a hard time beleiving that this passed by only a single vote and had Scott Brown not taken the place of Kennedy... it would have been defeated.
Recently I discovered that a low cost (semi well known) Shared host I use actually stores passwords (ie login to portal, sql, etc) in a form which can be easily converted to clear text... hell, they even have multiple Show Password links and require you to share said password with them to receive tech support... so they can verify it against the clear text password they see.
I've since been on the hunt for a new host... however have discovered that the treatment of passwords in this manor is not uncommon. Hell, last night I canceled a VPS account less than an hour after signing up as I discovered that not only does the admin exhibit editorial control over passwords (he changed my initial one), but that he too stores them in clear text.
Granted... if you are smart you will use a different password per account/service... however when such a company treats accounts in such a way I can do nothing but run.
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Um... yes we do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY
Very well said... and the reason I spoke of intent is that in order to be able to get a conviction, a prosecutor would have to prove that intent... which based on the evidence here would be a very tall order.
Good to see you believe in 'innocent until proven guilty' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary of what you claim.
I dissagree... the police are fine to talk to when you go to talk to them about something... a basic (but not legally binding) opinion/clarification of a specific criminal law, a break in in your home, a stalker, reporting unsafe drivers, a lost purse you found on a sidewalk (all things I've done... including #5 yesterday)... it's when they come knocking at your door and you are in their sights you alas have to be extra careful due to the whole "Anything you say can and will be used against you" bit.
Because society for the most part benefits from an educated population... though I would prefer vouchers... or even an abolishment of government run schools.
Because society for the most part benefits from clear roads which allow them to go to/from work and pay taxes and live their lives.
Because society for the most part benefits from roads which allow them to go to/from work and pay said taxes and live their lives.
Says the man who comes off sounding like a moron.
You are calling out things which in general all benefit from (not unlike say the military, police or fire department)... and yet... I (like the parent) fail to see how most of society benefits from our tax dollars helping to buy you or anyone else a Volt. ... unless you want to play the 'broken window' theory of economics.
Which... like the Volt ignores the very real and high cost of getting into such a thing.
You know if someone would give me a few million dollars I could just live off of the interest... shame I can't convince anyone to do so...
As I said above (with a minor typo it seems):
Even if the media never said "this is a 12 year old boy" their choice to use a photo from him long ago, rather than a more up to date one that damages their narrative indicates their willingness to color the facts.
Given your acceptance of such a thing, plus ignoring the fact that Mr. Zimmerman was well respected by his community as someone who cared enough to keep a watchful eye demonstrates the quality of your character... which is not the sort of person I wish to engage with any longer. Good day.
So do I... am I a murderer then?
One carries a gun the same way someone carries insurance on their car, spouse or home... just in case, hoping never to have to use it, but preferring to have it in case the need ever arises... am I a murderer then?
For standard CYA reasons the dispatcher said "We don't need you to do that" with regards to Mr. Zimmerman 'following' Mr. Martin... and that AFTER Mr. Zimmerman had left his car.
FYI: We do not live in a police state and the statement of the dispatcher has no legal weight.
You mean he went to go look for him after he lost sight of him so he could accurately report the suspicious person to the police who had just moments earlier walked by the vehicle of Mr. Zimmerman while he was inside?
Says who? If anything it seems that Mr. Martin confronted Mr. Zimmerman doubly so when you look at the map of the area of where the 911 call was first made and where it ended it appears as if Mr. Martin actually doubled back and began the confrontation.
Says... the 'expert' who can only say either way with 48% accuracy? given there are really only two choices I would have expected something more than 50/50 odds from such an ‘expert’.
Given we have witnesses who put Mr. Martin on top of Mr. Zimmerman... beating him... are we to believe that while carrying out the beating Mr. Martin was yelling for help? ... or that after he was shot Mr. Martin began to yell for help?
So we'll just discount the police report which notes that Mr. Zimmerman was bleeding from the back of the head and the nose?
The photo of Mr. Martin in the red shirt is not from age 17, or even 16... but ~ age 12... as are the majority of the photos shown in the MSM... now his twitter accounts had more telling photos.... just as the mug shot looking photo of Mr. Zimmerman which has been splashed most places is similarly old and helping to lead to incorrect conclusions about both me.
Correct... but not to the media who labeled him as a white man from day one because it played into a narrative of "gun weilding white man gun downs young and unarmed black boy"... and only later backed away slightly as they realized their mistake.
Care to support that argument? All credible information I've seen says just the opposite that people of all races in the community knew that he was someone who could be counted on.
You realize that murder has a legal meaning right?... and if he 'gets off' on a technicality... then he's not legally murderer... and actually leaves you actionable for libel.
More so... murder tends to require a specific intent, so unless you care to demonstrate that he got out of his car thinking/saying "I'm going to go shoot this guy"... the best you could hope for would be manslaughter... and even then the evidence of the assault on Mr. Zimmerman makes it an even tougher case.
Being held in contempt would require a judge making such an order that was violated... in this case, it was simply CBP/DHS.
Last I checked Brick != Wipe.
Clearing off your personal data is one thing... preventing the phone from being used again (bricking) is another.
Brick != Wipe
Many smartphones phones have the ability to be remotely locked or wiped... but not in a permanent way that can prevent the phone from every being used again on any cell network.
Really? My setup must be extra odd then when I am running the Visual Studio 2012 beta on an x64 machine on the Windows 8 Beta.
Sure sounds like FUD to me... or would you like to support your claim as again... I have not experianced what you claim to be seeing.
You made the choice to buy such an expensive home (rather than rent), you made the choice to live alone (I assume), you make the choice to buy the more expensive 'healthy' food, you made the choice to take the lesser wage at the teaching job, you made the choice to live/work in central Florida.
If you wish to bemoanyour position in life that is fine... only keep in mind that you are there by your own choices.
More so... I'd wager your 'full time' job has what? 3 months off in the summer? You cannot find a side job to do then in order to increase your earnings?
If you picked a better analogy... you might have had a point... evaluation based on LOC/hour is like evaluating a teacher on how many homework assignments they give.
Why not evaluate against the end result? You know... have some standards of what you expect to get out of what you are paying for!
Does the program work? Does it correctly do what it was intended (and was speced)?
Same goes for the kids... do they demonstrate an understanding of the topics that were taught? Can they perform the necessary operations to find a result?
The fact of the matter is is that we've been pouring more and more money into education for decades... and test scores have largley remained flat... ever stop to consider that maybe $$$ isn't the problem?
Except for that that family of 4 chooses to pay for HBO... and if they dislike what is on the network enough they can/will cancel their subscription... last I checked the only way for me to stop funding the TSA is to either quit earning an income (and spending money)... or leave the country by teleporter.
I prefer the HBO model... vote with your dollars.
You think... the TSA is an unaccountable 'paramilitary'? #LULZ!
In the grand scheme of things often those who cannot join the military (or have finished their tour) become cops... those who cannot become cops become private security/mall cops... those who cannot become private security join the TSA.
The TSA is at the absolute lowest of the low with regards to competance or actual security.
Despite the 'S' in their name... they are screeners, nothing more, nothing less... and quite poorly paid & educated to boot.
Paramilitary? HA! The security theater must be working on you.
Bull. In both cases the devices failed to ignite properly... it was only after they failed were they beaten down.
Had the shoe bomber had a lighter (vs some matches)... or had the underpants bomber had something better than an acid based trigger... both would have had a better chance of success... not to mention there is also the possibility that both devices were less effective due to the time being worn (the shoe bombers first flight was canceled, while the underpants bomber waited until the absolute end of the flight to trigger it)... it's worth considering that both men sweated a bit during their wearing of their devices... retarding their effectiveness.
But is that because of or in spite of the TSA?
When Napolitano said "the system worked" with regards to the underpants bomber... she was right... but not why she thinks.
Just as with the shoe bomber, both attacks were thwarted not by the TSA, not by attentive passengers... but because of limited options on the part of the terrorist.
In the old days, a terrorist would smuggle on to the plane almost anything as there was virtually no security. Whether it be DB Cooper or Pan Am Flight 103 the sky was the limit.
Know what happened? We started looking for such things. All of the sudden getting a traditional bomb, gun or knife onto the plane got a lot harder... so the bad guys would have to find other means. The problem though (as evidenced by both the shoe and underpants bomber) is that some of their alternatives are not as effective as they’d like... leading to an increased chance of failure.
Don’t get me wrong... the majority of what we face at the airport today is security theater... one upshot of which is we have (theoretically) increased the chances of finding a bomb/knife/gun carrier... forcing them to try to find more difficult ways.
Body scanners are not the answer... profiling and behavioral analysis is.
It’s no wonder El Al hasn’t been hijacked in in 40+ years. They take security seriously and don’t dink around with nonsense like forcing people to take off their shoes or (likely unhealthy) body scanners.
oops... posted the above to the wrong comment...
I'm still trying to find the voting record on this... but somehow I have a hard time beleiving that this passed by only a single vote and had Scott Brown not taken the place of Kennedy... it would have been defeated.
Wait? This passed by only a single vote and had Scott Brown not taken the place of Kennedy... it would have been defeated... right?
Recently I discovered that a low cost (semi well known) Shared host I use actually stores passwords (ie login to portal, sql, etc) in a form which can be easily converted to clear text... hell, they even have multiple Show Password links and require you to share said password with them to receive tech support... so they can verify it against the clear text password they see.
I've since been on the hunt for a new host... however have discovered that the treatment of passwords in this manor is not uncommon. Hell, last night I canceled a VPS account less than an hour after signing up as I discovered that not only does the admin exhibit editorial control over passwords (he changed my initial one), but that he too stores them in clear text.
Granted... if you are smart you will use a different password per account/service... however when such a company treats accounts in such a way I can do nothing but run.
You seem to be mistaking me for a person who has any desire to argue with a moron. Good day.