In at least two cases, the tape from the in-police-car camera was "erased", and so could not be used as evidence in court. In both cases, the tape could have helped the defendants get acquittals.
Unless we're both wrong, and "the 5" is Californian for something other than a federal Interstate Highway...
You are right that Interstate 5 through Washington, Oregon, and Calif. is a federal interstate highway. But some of the signs along that highway are different in each state.
If you travel by car, you will find that across the country, each state has its own laws and there are differences in signs and pavement quality.
If immunization really works, then you need not worry about catching any disease that you have been vaccinated for from those who did not get the vaccine, right?
Of course Redmond has horrible traffic. Microsoft (and other Overlake employers) have sprawling campuses that almost require everyone to drive to and from work. There are only so many routes in and out of the area. There are going to be traffic jams every morning and afternoon on work days.
You can see the same thing on the Sammamish Plateau. There are only so many ways to get in and out of there, so every morning and every night, those routes are jammed with commuters.
If employment was more concentrated, transit and carpooling options would be more useful for more of the commuters, cutting down on the number of vehicles coming in and out of those areas.
And adding more routes would alleviate the congestion of the existing arterials.
It was pretty much the same thing with spies. Cold War spies had more in common through their clandestine or counter-intelligence work, at times forming strange bonds that transcended nationalism.
If you love these kind of Cold War cat-and-mouse games, I highly recommend Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. It won't have the same kind of action as The Hunt for Red October, but Alec Guinness is great.
This is the beauty of the US Constitution - the founders know that governments are corrupt, and designed a government that would be difficult to completely corrupt (unlike a dictatorship, which while it could be clean, is easy to completely corrupt).
And yet, our elected officials have found many ways to massively -- if not completely -- corrupt the government.
The calibration using a test solution with a specific percentage of alcohol does not guarantee that the machine can measure an individual's blood alcohol content with any certainty.
To prove that, the machine results would have to be compared to (far more accurate) blood test results for people of a variety of sizes, and for a range of time since the last drink was ingested, with varying amounts of food in the digestive system, etc.
There are too many variables that affect the accuracy of breathalyzer machines, on top of the built-in assumptions (i.e., 2100:1 ratio of blood to breath alcohol concentration) that allow the machine to guess one's BAC.
False positives are also possible. Hell, a person who just syphoned gasoline in his/her mouth could register a high BAC on some breathalyzer machines.
States could avoid the issue of unreliable or inaccurate breathalyzer results by requiring a blood test for suspects.
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In at least two cases, the tape from the in-police-car camera was "erased", and so could not be used as evidence in court. In both cases, the tape could have helped the defendants get acquittals.
I don't know if you saw the movie, but the killer was Drew Carey's brother.
Highway 2 and Highway 9 in Washington State are almost suicide with a bike, and in a lot of places don't have reasonable alternate routes.
Hell, SR 2 and SR 9 (among other local highways in the Seattle suburbs) are almost suicide in a car too.
Unless we're both wrong, and "the 5" is Californian for something other than a federal Interstate Highway...
You are right that Interstate 5 through Washington, Oregon, and Calif. is a federal interstate highway. But some of the signs along that highway are different in each state.
If you travel by car, you will find that across the country, each state has its own laws and there are differences in signs and pavement quality.
New Zealand ain't American anything.
The only people who recommend PeopleSoft are the ones who have never used it.
Rough figure from the world factbook shows the U.S. + Canada averaging 497 GW.
Why do you disregard the rest of the countries in North America? Are they off the North American grid?
That's why so many movie characters just have a friend or local black-market doc pull out the bullets and stitch them up.
That, and the cops usually check hospitals.
I trust characters played by Chow Yun-Fat and Robert De Niro more than most doctors.
That sounds about right.
I am usually happy, except when I drive on the highway.
If immunization really works, then you need not worry about catching any disease that you have been vaccinated for from those who did not get the vaccine, right?
Of course Redmond has horrible traffic. Microsoft (and other Overlake employers) have sprawling campuses that almost require everyone to drive to and from work. There are only so many routes in and out of the area. There are going to be traffic jams every morning and afternoon on work days.
You can see the same thing on the Sammamish Plateau. There are only so many ways to get in and out of there, so every morning and every night, those routes are jammed with commuters.
If employment was more concentrated, transit and carpooling options would be more useful for more of the commuters, cutting down on the number of vehicles coming in and out of those areas.
And adding more routes would alleviate the congestion of the existing arterials.
You mean all those stinky people at the gym are lying?
I knew that guy wasn't really bench-pressing 300 lbs.
There are three sides to every story.
We're definitely not hearing the third side.
It was pretty much the same thing with spies. Cold War spies had more in common through their clandestine or counter-intelligence work, at times forming strange bonds that transcended nationalism.
If you love these kind of Cold War cat-and-mouse games, I highly recommend Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. It won't have the same kind of action as The Hunt for Red October, but Alec Guinness is great.
It's just a matter of time until he tells the prison guards how to improve the system.
Bet they'll love to hear his ideas.
Apparently, there have been quite a few fast reactors tested and built.
In the good old days, I was involved in some work for Japan's Monju reactor.
Hell. I used to piss technetium when I worked in the 300 Area.
A spoonful of black pepper chased down with a shot of vodka clears everything.
This is the beauty of the US Constitution - the founders know that governments are corrupt, and designed a government that would be difficult to completely corrupt (unlike a dictatorship, which while it could be clean, is easy to completely corrupt).
And yet, our elected officials have found many ways to massively -- if not completely -- corrupt the government.
Maybe the defense attorney was not too swift. . .
The calibration using a test solution with a specific percentage of alcohol does not guarantee that the machine can measure an individual's blood alcohol content with any certainty.
To prove that, the machine results would have to be compared to (far more accurate) blood test results for people of a variety of sizes, and for a range of time since the last drink was ingested, with varying amounts of food in the digestive system, etc.
There are too many variables that affect the accuracy of breathalyzer machines, on top of the built-in assumptions (i.e., 2100:1 ratio of blood to breath alcohol concentration) that allow the machine to guess one's BAC.
False positives are also possible. Hell, a person who just syphoned gasoline in his/her mouth could register a high BAC on some breathalyzer machines.
States could avoid the issue of unreliable or inaccurate breathalyzer results by requiring a blood test for suspects.
As soon as the next Congress decertifies California statehood, and the President signs it, he'll never have to go there again.
Speaking of Canada, why not get the next president a Bombardier Global Express XRS?
"all of his PCs are built in his basement by chained up mexicans!"
You're the one who said it. Not me.
I didn't even know you chained them up.
You just blew my mind.
They have internet service in Reunion Island?
Just like North Korea and al-Queda working together?