This has been my argument since my first exposure to the American "Free Movement" propaganda in the 4th grade. Teachers didn't like that. Especially when I made statements on the order of "the U.S.S.R doesn't have checks on their people moving from providence to providence either." Hell, even to go into Canada, I remember having to pass through a checkpoint where they reviewed my dad's license before permitting access (passport wasn't required back then).
So penny is spelled fening? The monetary division may be the same, but they are not spelled the same; which is what this whole thread section is about.
Yes. That would be why both oodaloop and myself said "...named after the British Penny" and "...the colloquial name 'pennies' to being a reference to the British Penny", respectively. I was corrected above to include Canada in the colloquial assessment, and I've found Australia uses the term as well. So, we have 4 countries -- Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and the U.S. -- that use the term "Pennies" or "Penny" to refer to their lowest denomination of coin. Any others?
And if the data shows that Sony had a major issue with one of their projects that should have led to a recall of millions of defective units that lie in consumer's homes... where does that lie morally? Say hypothetically a certain batch of batteries were discovered to erupt horribly covering anything in a 50 yard radius in vile battery acid after a period of about 3 years...and customers are coming up on 2 years 11 months of ownership and Sony had no plans of releasing this problem to the public? Wouldn't the public news outlets be morally obligated to release this information in the interest of serving the public trust? Personally, I think if a news outlet has this info, they really need to pour through it carefully to ensure there's nothing "against the public trust," and destroy the rest...of course, since when has the news companies ever performed responsibly and morally when left to their own devices?
Although open to some level of interpretation of what country the word "we" in the parent was meant to represent, it can be presumed that the parent was using the "we" to refer to the U.S, as the parent goes on to link the colloquial name 'pennies' to being a reference to the British Penny. To my knowledge there is no other country in the world to use the exact word 'penny' or 'pennies' to refer to their smallest denomination ('peso' is close but still fails the string comparison).
Damn it! Now I have to recalculate where to put my Evil Bunker(tm) so that no one will ever find it! Thank you very much! Shame too... Would have been perfect for my Shark Mounted Laser research. I mean, not even Branson would have been able to find it for quite a while!
We're talking consoles as dedicated game systems in boxes that connected to TVs, not PC or Mac. Of course PC's are going to be pushing out better graphics before consoles get there; it's the very nature of the beast and is no less true now than it was back then...which is why they're not allowed in this argument.
It's true that Elite was published to limited markets on the Family Computer in '91, it wasn't a true polygon 3D engine but instead a wireframe engine. StarFox on the SNES was the first game on a console platform that actually incorporated polygon rendering through the use of the FX chip to produce its graphics. Doom for the SNES came 2 years later and used the same chip. The argument was made elsewhere in this thread that StarFox wasn't a 3D game because it was a rails shooter. If you want to take that argument to it's logical conclusion (and be totally pedantic as well) we could say that nothing short of what's displayed on the VR displays could be considered 3D. The type of game isn't what makes a game 3D or not, but the rendering style.
...since people started calling their football teams "Trojans" (lost the war).
While historically the Trojan Army was heralded as one of the world's best up until their infamous defeat, the people who name American Football teams may be taking a more modern interpretation to imply good "coverage." Think of all the jokes that could and would come up at our pep rallies when our team of "Trojans" had a game with the rival "Spartans" across town. A certain scene from Naked Gun comes to mind.
Let's for argument's sake say the site turns to obnoxious ads and anti-blocking measures. You either stop reading or stop fighting the ads. If they lose you as a reader they lose you as a freeloader so what exactly have they lost, the privilege of you reading their blog? Talk about hubris. Or you end up watching ads and become a customer, they make money. You talk as if they they're the ones losing by pissing you off, but how could they lose anything when they got nothing from you in the first place? Aren't you just crying for yourself and when they shove you out the door you pout like a child crying "I didn't want to visit your stupid site anyway!"
You state that...and then your signature line:
When classic goes away, so do I. Copy this if you want them to get the idea.
I'm not a fan of beta by any means, but I can't help but appreciate the irony.
Attention: McDonald's. I never eat at your restaurants and never will, but still won't mention a word against you to anyone else if I see them eating your product. If I ever see this, I will become just as evangelistic against you as I am against Sony for wasting my time on their rootkit 10 years ago, as well as having had to deal with their proprietary format crap on just about every piece freakin media and cable connection they produce. I still won't use bluRay. Yes it's more or less ubiquitous now, but every dollar that pays Sony for the license to use the bluRay format is a dollar they can use in their development of the next Memory Stick.
I get your point and humor, but for proper pedantry and punnery: Steam is the application/platform released from Valve, the company.
Maybe they'll release the Steam Box as Steam Episode 2. Half the work and effort for them to push out a product every bit as inferior to Gabe's pipe dream. Hmm... Valve, Steam, Pipe Dream, Vapor....I'm definitely detecting a pattern here.
Until Valve sets their design into production and ships their first batch of Steam Boxen into the wild where people can actually buy and use one, this is nothing more than Vapor Ware. Aside from the Steam Box and Valve's other Linux gaming efforts, there's not been any real headway into the realm of Linux Gaming that can go beyond the scope of "blue skies in the future". So the parent to you was right: With luck, some sort of viable Linux gaming will actually be a tangible thing by 2020. Never count your chickens before they've hatched; and as far as we know, the Steam Box has only been freshly fertilized. There's no guarantee of survival to hatching.
As noted elsewhere: This was a pull that added nothing to the code except for changing comments. Ben Noordhuis initially and rightly rejected this change as it added nothing of value. Isaac Schlueter then did an override and made the commit. This sent out two very strong messages that should give project contributors pause and was likely the reason for Noordhuis' attempt to revert the commit: (1) The project leads put high value in making political statements over only allowing quality commits on every commit that improve the actual software; and (2) the project leads put low value in the time of their developers who have to read over these essentially non-functional commits as now they have shown that minimally functional changes are all that's needed to get a submission into code. For these reasons I can completely understand Noordhius' desire to revert...but of course, the SJW megaphones were turned all the way up. "Death to efficiency, long live our political butthurt! We are the victims, hear us roar as we trample our message all over your passion!"
Now I'm not at all saying that the change to the comments for gender shouldn't or couldn't have been made...but don't expect a commit only on changing some comments that don't matter to the functionality of the code...that's wasting time for a political statement that has no real value. If the change included some bug fixes or a solution to a functional problem, then by all means, the commit should have been allowed including the gender change. That was sorely not the case here.
maybe... but you seem to be thinking that a black hole is a disk. Super-massive gravity wells, as with other gravity wells, are most likely spherical. If there's matter close enough that are within the galactic plane tolerances, but a bit above or below the well relative to our perspective, there's nothing that says the orbital decay pattern couldn't be in a rotation that we'd see like soap being pulled down a drain as opposed to streaks going across the well's equator.
Anita isn't going to take our games away. Try as she and her SJW force might, they'll never succeed... particularly because Anita is ignorant of the messages delivered in the games she criticizes (particularly Bayonetta, in which this link is actually a teardown of her review and illustrates every point she's wrong about and how she's wrong about it). And there will always be Rockstar Games or a company/indie like them who are willing to build a game that rubs against the grain of censorship to put their message out there...and who actually make use of the waves of censorship as propellant for free advertising for their product. These are the games that I'm willing to support, because they so willingly take the ugliest parts of human nature and throw it up as a mirror for the world to see itself... and the denialists are the ones to protest loudest.
Some other countries use points like we in the US use commas, and vice versa. For instance in France 100.534,67 is our 100,534.67 read One hundred thousand, five hundred thirtyfour and sixty seven (or Cent mille cinq cent trente-quatre et soixante-sept in French).
I even know people in IT with passwords like that. When setting up a new computer for you they'll ask for your username/password so they can log in and setup your profile, so they are well aware that people do that.
Whoa... they're doing it wrong, and if I worked in that company I'd give the ultimatum of fix this policy or I walk -- actually, more like conclude the interview process all together so we're not wasting eachother's time ("But Raven Lord, jobs are so hard to come by!" yeah yeah yeah... different rant for a different thread that would amount to "Not a valid reason to wipe your ass with your personal integrity" with supporting ideas -- if I were more like Haselton, I'd probably type up a submission about it.). There is no reason for an admin to ever have to access an individual profile beyond initial setup. That's the employee's job, even with Windows. What's supposed to happen is when a computer is being set up, all the applications that the user needs is to be installed by the administrator/root account and the user account/profile is given permission to use these applications. Then the new computer is installed at the user's desk and the first time he logs into his new machine, his roving profile is downloaded to it and everything looks more or less just like it did on his old machine...with maybe a few app changes.
If a new user account is created, the account is given a temp password and flagged for change on next login. Also, installing a software policy enforcing program along with the standard anti-virus/malware suites can make administration helpful by minimizing or eliminating the need for administrators to have to go in and fix crap the user did.
I'm running Win7 64 Bit on an Intel i7-4770k 3.5Ghz Quad and an nVidia GTX 760. Not latest-greatest but it's chewed up everything else I've thrown at it so far without a hicup... except for DA: I. If I have all the graphic settings set to their maximum values I'm guaranteed that at some point either within a cutscene or a few seconds after, my screens will both go completely black for a few seconds, and then recover with an error on the screen stating that an instruction passed by the software (Dragon Age) had disconnected my video card and caused it to no longer respond. My research into the error indicated that BF4 is recorded to cause the exact same error in many cases on nVidia hardware (I don't have BF4 to confirm). I'd have to double check which three settings I changed that fixed the issue and allowed me to play for hours straight without anything save for the occasional stutter in the cutscene video (Anti-Aliasing was one of them that I had to turn off completely, the other two was setting values to mid while everything else remained at their maximum).
I'm gonna take a leap here, but I believe the previous AC meant to say that it would take NASA at least 30 years to launch its first probe mission to the planet... which would subsequently be defunded by Congress before the craft even makes it out of the heliosphere 30 years later.
In the State of Georgia, USA, it is actually codified that campus police (read security guards, College Police, or Board of Education Police forces), Municipal police (city Police), and Sheriffs (County Police), cannot issue an arrest (aka write an actual ticket) on anyone traveling 10mph or less above the posted speed limit. This is regardless of Construction or School Zones. This is not to say that they cannot pull you over for going above the posted speed limit and performing a spot check on insurance coverage and registration/license status below this limit and issue a verbal or written warning (no penalties); but they absolutely cannot write a ticket that incurs a fine lest the Department of Public Safety penalize the municipality through fines, withdrawal of Speed Detection Privileges, or in very severe cases of repeated violations and/or demonstrated corruption Complete withdrawal of the Municipalities police force license coupled with the complete disbandment of all officers (all of this has happened to several Municipal territories). Also, more unwritten, but if an officer gives a ticket for 11mph above the limit, DPS will not impose the penalties on the municipality, however, upon taking the matter the court the judge is under obligation of precedent to dismiss the case for reasonable doubt simply because of the +/-1mph margin of error that all detection devices have to claim (usually it doesn't have to go that far and one can simply call the procecutor/solicitor's office and have the case dropped over the phone).
Also note that State Police, a division of the above mentioned Department of Public Safety, are not under any obligation to follow the 10mph buffer rule and are legally able to ticket for someone going 1mph above the limit (however given the same reasonable doubt clause that accounts for the +/-1mph, they won't ticket anyone until at least 2mph over...and even then that's only if they're having a bad day. Also, since their pay is not in any way dependent on performance guidelines or how much revenue they generate a city (only local municipalities and/or county seats generate revenue from tickets, not the state), State Patrol is more likely to be reasonable and willing to negotiate a lesser charge on scene if the driver is respectful to the officer and wasn't operating a vehicle in any dangerous manner besides speeding (and wasn't speeding too excessively(usually 20-30mph above is too excessive) without a valid reason).
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer but I have played one several times for myself, friends, and family in traffic court against county level tickets or below. While I'm not always perfectly successful in getting dismissals, I've never completely lost, often saving them hundreds of $$ in insurance penalties and usually at worst getting reduced fines. They also don't have to shell out $300-$600 extra to a bar certified traffic lawyer to achieve same net result. If the person comes to me with a ticket issued by GSP or DPS I'll advise them to talk with an actual traffic lawyer because there are legal and political gambles involved at that level that
a lawyer would be better equipped to negotiate (Is the officer's certification up to date and active at the time of the ticket? How likely is the officer to show up at a specific venue (Generally they're more likely to blow off a Municipal Court appearance as opposed to State Court.) (one case I've successfully had dismissed was specifically because the officer failed to show)?, How closely do your or your lawyer's of choice elbows rub with the Solicitor General or the Prosecutor of the case; or how personable is (this one can dictate what kind of deals can be agreed to before even getting to court)?)
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So...kinda like what Redhat already has underway with systemd? Good ol'e Microsoft innovation at work!
...my first exposure to the American "Free Movement" propaganda in the 4th grade
did you not get?
This has been my argument since my first exposure to the American "Free Movement" propaganda in the 4th grade. Teachers didn't like that. Especially when I made statements on the order of "the U.S.S.R doesn't have checks on their people moving from providence to providence either." Hell, even to go into Canada, I remember having to pass through a checkpoint where they reviewed my dad's license before permitting access (passport wasn't required back then).
So penny is spelled fening? The monetary division may be the same, but they are not spelled the same; which is what this whole thread section is about.
Yes. That would be why both oodaloop and myself said "...named after the British Penny" and "...the colloquial name 'pennies' to being a reference to the British Penny", respectively. I was corrected above to include Canada in the colloquial assessment, and I've found Australia uses the term as well. So, we have 4 countries -- Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and the U.S. -- that use the term "Pennies" or "Penny" to refer to their lowest denomination of coin. Any others?
And if the data shows that Sony had a major issue with one of their projects that should have led to a recall of millions of defective units that lie in consumer's homes... where does that lie morally? Say hypothetically a certain batch of batteries were discovered to erupt horribly covering anything in a 50 yard radius in vile battery acid after a period of about 3 years...and customers are coming up on 2 years 11 months of ownership and Sony had no plans of releasing this problem to the public? Wouldn't the public news outlets be morally obligated to release this information in the interest of serving the public trust? Personally, I think if a news outlet has this info, they really need to pour through it carefully to ensure there's nothing "against the public trust," and destroy the rest...of course, since when has the news companies ever performed responsibly and morally when left to their own devices?
Although open to some level of interpretation of what country the word "we" in the parent was meant to represent, it can be presumed that the parent was using the "we" to refer to the U.S, as the parent goes on to link the colloquial name 'pennies' to being a reference to the British Penny. To my knowledge there is no other country in the world to use the exact word 'penny' or 'pennies' to refer to their smallest denomination ('peso' is close but still fails the string comparison).
Damn it! Now I have to recalculate where to put my Evil Bunker(tm) so that no one will ever find it! Thank you very much! Shame too... Would have been perfect for my Shark Mounted Laser research. I mean, not even Branson would have been able to find it for quite a while!
Was it Accellerated 3D or just software line drawings?
We're talking consoles as dedicated game systems in boxes that connected to TVs, not PC or Mac. Of course PC's are going to be pushing out better graphics before consoles get there; it's the very nature of the beast and is no less true now than it was back then...which is why they're not allowed in this argument.
It's true that Elite was published to limited markets on the Family Computer in '91, it wasn't a true polygon 3D engine but instead a wireframe engine. StarFox on the SNES was the first game on a console platform that actually incorporated polygon rendering through the use of the FX chip to produce its graphics. Doom for the SNES came 2 years later and used the same chip. The argument was made elsewhere in this thread that StarFox wasn't a 3D game because it was a rails shooter. If you want to take that argument to it's logical conclusion (and be totally pedantic as well) we could say that nothing short of what's displayed on the VR displays could be considered 3D. The type of game isn't what makes a game 3D or not, but the rendering style.
...since people started calling their football teams "Trojans" (lost the war).
While historically the Trojan Army was heralded as one of the world's best up until their infamous defeat, the people who name American Football teams may be taking a more modern interpretation to imply good "coverage." Think of all the jokes that could and would come up at our pep rallies when our team of "Trojans" had a game with the rival "Spartans" across town. A certain scene from Naked Gun comes to mind.
Let's for argument's sake say the site turns to obnoxious ads and anti-blocking measures. You either stop reading or stop fighting the ads. If they lose you as a reader they lose you as a freeloader so what exactly have they lost, the privilege of you reading their blog? Talk about hubris. Or you end up watching ads and become a customer, they make money. You talk as if they they're the ones losing by pissing you off, but how could they lose anything when they got nothing from you in the first place? Aren't you just crying for yourself and when they shove you out the door you pout like a child crying "I didn't want to visit your stupid site anyway!"
You state that...and then your signature line:
When classic goes away, so do I. Copy this if you want them to get the idea.
I'm not a fan of beta by any means, but I can't help but appreciate the irony.
Attention: McDonald's. I never eat at your restaurants and never will, but still won't mention a word against you to anyone else if I see them eating your product. If I ever see this, I will become just as evangelistic against you as I am against Sony for wasting my time on their rootkit 10 years ago, as well as having had to deal with their proprietary format crap on just about every piece freakin media and cable connection they produce. I still won't use bluRay. Yes it's more or less ubiquitous now, but every dollar that pays Sony for the license to use the bluRay format is a dollar they can use in their development of the next Memory Stick.
I get your point and humor, but for proper pedantry and punnery: Steam is the application/platform released from Valve, the company.
Maybe they'll release the Steam Box as Steam Episode 2. Half the work and effort for them to push out a product every bit as inferior to Gabe's pipe dream. Hmm... Valve, Steam, Pipe Dream, Vapor....I'm definitely detecting a pattern here.
Until Valve sets their design into production and ships their first batch of Steam Boxen into the wild where people can actually buy and use one, this is nothing more than Vapor Ware. Aside from the Steam Box and Valve's other Linux gaming efforts, there's not been any real headway into the realm of Linux Gaming that can go beyond the scope of "blue skies in the future". So the parent to you was right: With luck, some sort of viable Linux gaming will actually be a tangible thing by 2020. Never count your chickens before they've hatched; and as far as we know, the Steam Box has only been freshly fertilized. There's no guarantee of survival to hatching.
As noted elsewhere: This was a pull that added nothing to the code except for changing comments. Ben Noordhuis initially and rightly rejected this change as it added nothing of value. Isaac Schlueter then did an override and made the commit. This sent out two very strong messages that should give project contributors pause and was likely the reason for Noordhuis' attempt to revert the commit: (1) The project leads put high value in making political statements over only allowing quality commits on every commit that improve the actual software; and (2) the project leads put low value in the time of their developers who have to read over these essentially non-functional commits as now they have shown that minimally functional changes are all that's needed to get a submission into code. For these reasons I can completely understand Noordhius' desire to revert...but of course, the SJW megaphones were turned all the way up. "Death to efficiency, long live our political butthurt! We are the victims, hear us roar as we trample our message all over your passion!"
Now I'm not at all saying that the change to the comments for gender shouldn't or couldn't have been made...but don't expect a commit only on changing some comments that don't matter to the functionality of the code...that's wasting time for a political statement that has no real value. If the change included some bug fixes or a solution to a functional problem, then by all means, the commit should have been allowed including the gender change. That was sorely not the case here.
maybe... but you seem to be thinking that a black hole is a disk. Super-massive gravity wells, as with other gravity wells, are most likely spherical. If there's matter close enough that are within the galactic plane tolerances, but a bit above or below the well relative to our perspective, there's nothing that says the orbital decay pattern couldn't be in a rotation that we'd see like soap being pulled down a drain as opposed to streaks going across the well's equator.
Anita isn't going to take our games away. Try as she and her SJW force might, they'll never succeed... particularly because Anita is ignorant of the messages delivered in the games she criticizes (particularly Bayonetta, in which this link is actually a teardown of her review and illustrates every point she's wrong about and how she's wrong about it). And there will always be Rockstar Games or a company/indie like them who are willing to build a game that rubs against the grain of censorship to put their message out there...and who actually make use of the waves of censorship as propellant for free advertising for their product. These are the games that I'm willing to support, because they so willingly take the ugliest parts of human nature and throw it up as a mirror for the world to see itself... and the denialists are the ones to protest loudest.
Some other countries use points like we in the US use commas, and vice versa. For instance in France 100.534,67 is our 100,534.67 read One hundred thousand, five hundred thirtyfour and sixty seven (or Cent mille cinq cent trente-quatre et soixante-sept in French).
Especially when it's said with the contraction: should've.
I even know people in IT with passwords like that. When setting up a new computer for you they'll ask for your username/password so they can log in and setup your profile, so they are well aware that people do that.
Whoa... they're doing it wrong, and if I worked in that company I'd give the ultimatum of fix this policy or I walk -- actually, more like conclude the interview process all together so we're not wasting eachother's time ("But Raven Lord, jobs are so hard to come by!" yeah yeah yeah... different rant for a different thread that would amount to "Not a valid reason to wipe your ass with your personal integrity" with supporting ideas -- if I were more like Haselton, I'd probably type up a submission about it.). There is no reason for an admin to ever have to access an individual profile beyond initial setup. That's the employee's job, even with Windows. What's supposed to happen is when a computer is being set up, all the applications that the user needs is to be installed by the administrator/root account and the user account/profile is given permission to use these applications. Then the new computer is installed at the user's desk and the first time he logs into his new machine, his roving profile is downloaded to it and everything looks more or less just like it did on his old machine...with maybe a few app changes.
If a new user account is created, the account is given a temp password and flagged for change on next login. Also, installing a software policy enforcing program along with the standard anti-virus/malware suites can make administration helpful by minimizing or eliminating the need for administrators to have to go in and fix crap the user did.
I'm running Win7 64 Bit on an Intel i7-4770k 3.5Ghz Quad and an nVidia GTX 760. Not latest-greatest but it's chewed up everything else I've thrown at it so far without a hicup... except for DA: I. If I have all the graphic settings set to their maximum values I'm guaranteed that at some point either within a cutscene or a few seconds after, my screens will both go completely black for a few seconds, and then recover with an error on the screen stating that an instruction passed by the software (Dragon Age) had disconnected my video card and caused it to no longer respond. My research into the error indicated that BF4 is recorded to cause the exact same error in many cases on nVidia hardware (I don't have BF4 to confirm). I'd have to double check which three settings I changed that fixed the issue and allowed me to play for hours straight without anything save for the occasional stutter in the cutscene video (Anti-Aliasing was one of them that I had to turn off completely, the other two was setting values to mid while everything else remained at their maximum).
I'm gonna take a leap here, but I believe the previous AC meant to say that it would take NASA at least 30 years to launch its first probe mission to the planet... which would subsequently be defunded by Congress before the craft even makes it out of the heliosphere 30 years later.
In the State of Georgia, USA, it is actually codified that campus police (read security guards, College Police, or Board of Education Police forces), Municipal police (city Police), and Sheriffs (County Police), cannot issue an arrest (aka write an actual ticket) on anyone traveling 10mph or less above the posted speed limit. This is regardless of Construction or School Zones. This is not to say that they cannot pull you over for going above the posted speed limit and performing a spot check on insurance coverage and registration/license status below this limit and issue a verbal or written warning (no penalties); but they absolutely cannot write a ticket that incurs a fine lest the Department of Public Safety penalize the municipality through fines, withdrawal of Speed Detection Privileges, or in very severe cases of repeated violations and/or demonstrated corruption Complete withdrawal of the Municipalities police force license coupled with the complete disbandment of all officers (all of this has happened to several Municipal territories). Also, more unwritten, but if an officer gives a ticket for 11mph above the limit, DPS will not impose the penalties on the municipality, however, upon taking the matter the court the judge is under obligation of precedent to dismiss the case for reasonable doubt simply because of the +/-1mph margin of error that all detection devices have to claim (usually it doesn't have to go that far and one can simply call the procecutor/solicitor's office and have the case dropped over the phone).
Also note that State Police, a division of the above mentioned Department of Public Safety, are not under any obligation to follow the 10mph buffer rule and are legally able to ticket for someone going 1mph above the limit (however given the same reasonable doubt clause that accounts for the +/-1mph, they won't ticket anyone until at least 2mph over...and even then that's only if they're having a bad day. Also, since their pay is not in any way dependent on performance guidelines or how much revenue they generate a city (only local municipalities and/or county seats generate revenue from tickets, not the state), State Patrol is more likely to be reasonable and willing to negotiate a lesser charge on scene if the driver is respectful to the officer and wasn't operating a vehicle in any dangerous manner besides speeding (and wasn't speeding too excessively(usually 20-30mph above is too excessive) without a valid reason).
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer but I have played one several times for myself, friends, and family in traffic court against county level tickets or below. While I'm not always perfectly successful in getting dismissals, I've never completely lost, often saving them hundreds of $$ in insurance penalties and usually at worst getting reduced fines. They also don't have to shell out $300-$600 extra to a bar certified traffic lawyer to achieve same net result. If the person comes to me with a ticket issued by GSP or DPS I'll advise them to talk with an actual traffic lawyer because there are legal and political gambles involved at that level that a lawyer would be better equipped to negotiate (Is the officer's certification up to date and active at the time of the ticket? How likely is the officer to show up at a specific venue (Generally they're more likely to blow off a Municipal Court appearance as opposed to State Court.) (one case I've successfully had dismissed was specifically because the officer failed to show)?, How closely do your or your lawyer's of choice elbows rub with the Solicitor General or the Prosecutor of the case; or how personable is (this one can dictate what kind of deals can be agreed to before even getting to court)?)
I keep on trying...but I have yet to succeed, so I don't think I can help you much.