It depends on the state but IIRC 32 states allow you to kill and intruder in your home. There are even a few like Texas that allow you to kill a trespasser. Threatening to kill someone in your house is not making death threats under the legal definition of such if your state has "Castle" laws that allow you to kill an intruder (doesn't matter if they are armed or their intent).
The point here is that the hiring manager is the one asking for the password AND reviewing the information. Unless they were VERY careful they wouldn't have the access segregated and then they have to prove the negative, that they had access, didn't look and it didn't affect the hiring decision. Something that I contend would be damn near impossible to prove.
The best way to nip this in the bud is to apply at one of these places with protected information in your profile (age, sex, race, religion) then when they reject you sue them under the federal anti-discrimination laws. They'd have to prove they didn't look at any of that protected information when they accessed your account. Then after a few companies end up paying out a years salary to someone they never hired this will be so toxic an issue that the every companies legal department will hand down rules forbidding it.
Frankly I'm surprised a lawyer hasn't jumped all over this and isn't advertising all over the place asking people to come forward so he can win a slam dunk case and make a lot of money. Think about it for a minute, the company has to convince a jury that they didn't ask for, or look at the protected information when it's a critical part of the profile and there is absolutely NO way to review the profile without seeing the protected information. Frankly I don't see how a company could win a case when they asked for access to that very information they aren't allowed to ask for.
You didn't read the story then (duh). The court tossed qualified immunity for the officers. Glik sued both the city and officers in question and in theory the city could force the cops to split the tab with them (I doubt they will). This should send a big chill through the nations police force as it's now precedent that they can lose immunity for false arrest. That's a HUGE precedent and exposes officers violating peoples rights to civil suits that take them for everything they are worth. Now an officer has to make the choice to falsely arrest someone with the understanding that they could end up in civil court and ordered to pay that person a bunch of money for violating their rights.
If they catch gas prices in a decline they could stage it in and people wouldn't notice if they weren't even told.
The $4 is the money that is direct impacts. This is the $1 given to the contractor that's split and spent on materials, labor and equipment. This $1 spent is then respect by those paid by it and they respent 2 more times before it settles down hence the $4 of return for every dollar spent. For example, the construction worker will spend his pay on lunch at the worksite, entertainment and other services and goods. The gravel pit will spend the money on employees and equipment. What you're talking about is the indirect economic impact of highway improvements, yes those are highly variable on the value of the improvement and in general how much delay the improvements reduce. The point is that for every dollar spent on highway construction you are pretty well guaranteed to get a return of $4 and may get and additional $100 or more back or $0 back depending on where it's spent.
It's ironic to me that it's one of the best stimulators of the economy and we spent $700 billion of stimulus on stupid shit like loans to solar panel companies that went bankrupt 6 months later rather than building infrastructure which helps the entire economy.
Then how about they give all that gas money they are collecting to the states. Oh wait, that's what the bills for, to hand over to the states the money collected in the federal gas tax.
Though there is the slight problem that because they haven't raised the gas tax in 20 years that there isn't enough revenue in the highway trust fund (gas tax revenue) anymore to pay what's needed to keep the freeway system from falling apart but what do we care, with the baby boomers running things we don't have to care about infrastructure anymore! What's ironic is they could double the federal gas tax ($0.17) and no one would even notice at the pump and all that additional money flowing into construction would get the economy going again in pretty quick order.
It's been almost 4 years since the last highway funding bill expired (they've been doing 6 month extensions which doesn't give the states enough certainty in funding to do anything other than small maintenance jobs and now it's going to expire completely putting the rest of the construction workers and engineers who weren't on welfare and food stamps onto them. Every dollar spent on highways and roads puts $4 back into the economy. It's the single biggest economic stimulant the government has and it's been completely ignored for the last 4 years while we gave 700 billion to the banking industry to bail out their malfeasance.
Well Myriad's been making a TON of money charging people $3500 for a $200 test all because they patented the gene in question (not the test which is standard DNA profiling).
Fire isn't a big deal if the dwelling is not flammable? What planet do you live on. Your couch has enough toxic smoke potential to kill everyone in your home. Even if the walls are cement, I guarantee there is going to be enough wood, padding and fabric in every single home to create a fire of substantial enough size to kill everyone in it.
With a contained environment like these caves the oxygen will be sucked out quicker and flame over (dramatized in the move backdraft) will happen faster. The IBC code requires that any living space where people sleep have a window, this is precisely because in a fire you need oxygen sources to survive and you need escape routes that are independent of the door because even today with dwellings that are damn near fireproof (all the timber is bathed in fireproofing chemicals, wallboard's purpose is to slow down fires, fire blocking, smoke detectors and dozens of other precautions) house fires still claim thousands of lives every year.
A single couch ignited by a cigarette can create a fire that's burning at 1800F and pumping out enough smoke to fill more than 1000sqft of living space in 5 minutes. So tell me how much value those cement walls without windows are?
I'd rather not waste my time editing Wikipedia. I frankly trust my Waste Water design text books and the education I received on what the various definitions in water treatment are. Grey water is organically or chemically contaminated water, it also applies to treated sewage water that doesn't include a tertiary process as well.
In simple terms Black water is anything that can contain human pathogens, you shed them when you shower, use the sink, and they contaminate your clothes (washer) etc. Black water is basically anything in a Sanitary sewer (or in other words the sewer output from your home). Grey water is output from a typical storm sewer, ie. roadway runoff, industrial site runoff, agricultural runoff etc. It contains chemical or organic contamination that will need to be removed to tolerable levels before it's fit for human consumption. Black water contains both organic/chemical contamination and human pathogens. The typical sewer treatment plant will remove 99% of the organic contamination (referred to as BOD or biological oxygen demand) and all of the pathogens (typically a biologic digestion process where bacteria are used to consume the organics and out-compete the pathogens along with a final sterilization before discharge to eliminate any possibility of discharging human pathogens into water sources).
I'm not surprised that Wiki is wrong, in fact it could be right in some context I'm not familiar with. My context in from the civil engineering perspective and is the language used in the design and operation of treatment plants and environmental law.
A 1ms reduction in communication time can be worth millions of dollars for stock traders in Britain. If you know about a change in stock prices on a foreign market faster than your competitors then you can react quicker. You might be thinking that 1ms isn't enough time to matter but because most trading is computer based these days 1ms can make a HUGE difference because computers are doing the trading.
Almost the entire cost of this cable is already paid for and it's stock brokers that are paying for it precisely because that reduction in latency can make them more effective than their competitors. Be happy that they are paying for infrastructure that everyone else will be using.
Grey Water is storm runoff potentially contaminated with runoff from roadways including oil. The stuff from your sinks, showers etc is black water because it can ALL contain human pathogens and waste products. (don't tell me you don't know someone that pisses in the shower).
It's likely the that Ravi was told that the Prosecutor can't promise he won't be deported. All the prosecutor could do was promise to assist in avoiding deportation, but as that's federal law ultimately he would have had no say or influence and Ravi likely would have been deported anyway. The rules about convictions are pretty strict, you get convicted of anything other than a minor misdemeanor and your probably going to be deported. So even though the Prosecutor promised to help as part of the plea, the advice Ravi got was probably that he would be deported anyway. Given that he's lived in the US almost his entire life he likely was willing to wager the case would be very hard to prove.
The point you missed is that they can tell the difference between drove near other cars that had drugs and contains a bag right now. Dogs are almost 100% accurate in finding drugs or anything else they are trained to scent. You can disagree with it all you want though even if it's ignorant disagreement because you have zero experience with dogs or trained scenting dogs. Honestly you sound like a young earth Christian denying that the earth is more than 6000 years old because you KNOW it's not.
Dogs don't guess, they don't lie, they either scent or they don't, the training is teaching them to signal in some manner that they smell the target substance is present. Drug dogs are routinely tested (3-6 month testing cycle) and dismissed from the program if their sense of smell degrades and they can't pass the test in every case. In these tests neither the handler or the dog are present when the drugs are concealed. Because every dog has a different personality and every breed has different reactions, training methods and scenting quality each dog has different tells.
The most common scenting dogs are obsessive "toy" dogs, good candidates obsess over a particular toy (carry it around all the time and search for it relentlessly if it's not present) and are usually Shepards, labs or pit bulls. The dogs are trained by putting drug packets in the toy (usually a sock) and playing games where the toy is hidden and the dog searches for it. As the dog learns that the presence of drugs indicates the presence of their toy they move towards simply searching for drugs without the toy with the reward for finding the drugs being they receive the toy to play with for a period. This type of dog will typically aggressively dig, chew or attack the drug location.
But other breeds like cocker spaniels and others can't be trained in this manner because they don't exhibit the "toy" obsession of the other breeds. They are typically trained in radically different manners and their tell will be anything from sitting down, or pointing, or refusing to move, or barking or any other of hundreds of tells that are suited to that breed of dog, their personality and how they were trained. There are probably literally thousands of possible tells and the handler has to be trained with each dog they work with to recognize the tell and test that it's not a misinterpretation. Handlers are trained to go over the location or confirm the scent 2-3 times to ensure there are no misinterpretations by the handler (not the dog).
In fact it's silly to argue that a handler would lie about it because frankly if the police wanted to search without cause they wouldn't bother with a dog (that they will have to provide the testing certifications on) and would simply claim they could smell pot smoke in your car. So be like that young earth creationist and assert that every lay person in the world knows not only everything in the world about drug dogs but could detect their tell without fail along with denying what's been empirically proven millions of times, and that is dogs are nearly 100% accurate in finding what they are trained to find. They can follow a persons specific scent trail through a stadium with 50000 people in it, they can follow the scent through a swamp, days later and through all manner of deliberately confusing scents. They have one of the best noses in the animal kingdom, capable of scenting a specific substance through 10's of feet of other material and surrounded and wrapped in plastics. As and example Dogs routinely find drug packets wrapped in multiple layers of plastic and latex and immersed in the gasoline tank of a car. Until you've seen a dogs nose in use you simply can't comprehend how accurate it is, it's simply amazing.
You apparently don't understand what falsifiable is. Just because you don't know what the dog's tell is doesn't mean that the dog can't be tested and verified accurate. Dog's can't lie, they can't deceive and they have one of best noses in the animal kingdom. Appropriately trained dogs can smell drugs wrapped in 50 layers of plastic and buried 2 feet deep in coffee grounds or submerged in gasoline. And they can be tested and are routinely as part of the job. You want to challenge the drug dogs tell in court? You could do it easily in court if the Judge will humor your stupidity. See all they have to do is hide a packet of drugs in the court then bring the dog in to find them (and likely everyone else that's got them as well). And when the dog finds the drugs you'll just have sunk your entire case and proved to the Jury you need to be convicted. That makes the dog's tell falsifiable by simply testing it and you an idiot for even suggesting that it's not falsifiable.
The most frequent reason is that crime rates are calculated differently. Different crimes are included or not, the counting methodology is different, etc. It's a sensible as comparing unemployment rates. Once you account for the difference you'll find there is very little difference in rates for comparable size, density and economic status.
Unless of course there are 3 officers on duty and there are 4 murders in progress. The most frequent reason for these non response calls is that the local population has completely understaffed their police department for the level of crime. The only way to fix it is to hire more police officers and raise taxes to cover it. Which at least according to one party is an offense of the highest order and the cops should be jailed for not responding to a robbery rather than a murder.
The ACLU sued Customs over this and couldn't even get customs to admit how far from the border they could do these checkpoints. In theory they could do one of these things on I-70 in Kansas, according to Customs at least.
Every drug dog has a different signal.Their handler is trained to recognize it. Some dogs dig at the location, some sit, some look at the handler. There is no uniform signal because dogs can't talk so the dogs are often trained to react the same way they did the first time they found something which could be almost anything.
You have atrocious power quality if you are only getting 1100 hours. I bought my home 8 years ago and promptly replaced almost every bulb with CFL's. I've yet to replace one, yet the one major fixture I have that still has incandescents has been replaced 4 times at about $6 a pop (decorative bulbs). In fact I have one CFL light that's on nearly every minute we are in the room and still going strong 8 years later (god knows how many hours, wouldn't be surprised if it's upwards of 10,000 hours at this point).
So I say again, you have really crappy power thats killing bulbs or you are buying the cheapest POS you can buy and using it as some comparison test. Based on your post I sincerely doubt you've purchased or used a quality CFL for any real use.
Not necessarily. A small deflection now could be immeasurably easier than a larger deflection later. A one millionth of a degree change in direction now could be equivalent to a multi degree change 20 years later. Waiting till the last minute is NOT a good idea with a massive object that will require significant force to deflect.
Now I'm not arguing we should be wasting time now, just pointing out that time is a variable in this calculation that has a measurable impact of the effectiveness of any deflection.
As someone dealt with 1956 already I'll handle 1973:
Syria and Egypt had begun massing forces on the border with Israel, Egypt had already implemented a Naval Blockade of their port (an internationally recognized act of war) and at the time everyone and their dog knew that these nations intended to strike Israel. Rather than waiting for the hammer to fall they expertly initiated the fighting before perpetrations were finalized thus taking the surprise attack away from their enemies. It should also be noted that in the '73 conflict the Egyptian tank forces were widely considered the victors by inflicting severe Israeli casualties (10,000+) and that the US intervention in the form of the camp David accords was to prevent the Israeli's from nuking Cairo as US intelligence had reported that the Israeli's were preparing Nuclear weapons for delivery because had the Egyptians continued they likely could have seized much of Israel proper. This is also why the camp David accords contain a provision that Egypt isn't allowed to station troops in the Sinai (to prevent just this scenario, it's also why Israel refused to hand the Golan back to Syria (it was used as a staging ground).
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It depends on the state but IIRC 32 states allow you to kill and intruder in your home. There are even a few like Texas that allow you to kill a trespasser. Threatening to kill someone in your house is not making death threats under the legal definition of such if your state has "Castle" laws that allow you to kill an intruder (doesn't matter if they are armed or their intent).
The point here is that the hiring manager is the one asking for the password AND reviewing the information. Unless they were VERY careful they wouldn't have the access segregated and then they have to prove the negative, that they had access, didn't look and it didn't affect the hiring decision. Something that I contend would be damn near impossible to prove.
The best way to nip this in the bud is to apply at one of these places with protected information in your profile (age, sex, race, religion) then when they reject you sue them under the federal anti-discrimination laws. They'd have to prove they didn't look at any of that protected information when they accessed your account. Then after a few companies end up paying out a years salary to someone they never hired this will be so toxic an issue that the every companies legal department will hand down rules forbidding it.
Frankly I'm surprised a lawyer hasn't jumped all over this and isn't advertising all over the place asking people to come forward so he can win a slam dunk case and make a lot of money. Think about it for a minute, the company has to convince a jury that they didn't ask for, or look at the protected information when it's a critical part of the profile and there is absolutely NO way to review the profile without seeing the protected information. Frankly I don't see how a company could win a case when they asked for access to that very information they aren't allowed to ask for.
You didn't read the story then (duh). The court tossed qualified immunity for the officers. Glik sued both the city and officers in question and in theory the city could force the cops to split the tab with them (I doubt they will). This should send a big chill through the nations police force as it's now precedent that they can lose immunity for false arrest. That's a HUGE precedent and exposes officers violating peoples rights to civil suits that take them for everything they are worth. Now an officer has to make the choice to falsely arrest someone with the understanding that they could end up in civil court and ordered to pay that person a bunch of money for violating their rights.
If they catch gas prices in a decline they could stage it in and people wouldn't notice if they weren't even told.
The $4 is the money that is direct impacts. This is the $1 given to the contractor that's split and spent on materials, labor and equipment. This $1 spent is then respect by those paid by it and they respent 2 more times before it settles down hence the $4 of return for every dollar spent. For example, the construction worker will spend his pay on lunch at the worksite, entertainment and other services and goods. The gravel pit will spend the money on employees and equipment. What you're talking about is the indirect economic impact of highway improvements, yes those are highly variable on the value of the improvement and in general how much delay the improvements reduce. The point is that for every dollar spent on highway construction you are pretty well guaranteed to get a return of $4 and may get and additional $100 or more back or $0 back depending on where it's spent.
It's ironic to me that it's one of the best stimulators of the economy and we spent $700 billion of stimulus on stupid shit like loans to solar panel companies that went bankrupt 6 months later rather than building infrastructure which helps the entire economy.
Then how about they give all that gas money they are collecting to the states. Oh wait, that's what the bills for, to hand over to the states the money collected in the federal gas tax.
Though there is the slight problem that because they haven't raised the gas tax in 20 years that there isn't enough revenue in the highway trust fund (gas tax revenue) anymore to pay what's needed to keep the freeway system from falling apart but what do we care, with the baby boomers running things we don't have to care about infrastructure anymore! What's ironic is they could double the federal gas tax ($0.17) and no one would even notice at the pump and all that additional money flowing into construction would get the economy going again in pretty quick order.
It's been almost 4 years since the last highway funding bill expired (they've been doing 6 month extensions which doesn't give the states enough certainty in funding to do anything other than small maintenance jobs and now it's going to expire completely putting the rest of the construction workers and engineers who weren't on welfare and food stamps onto them. Every dollar spent on highways and roads puts $4 back into the economy. It's the single biggest economic stimulant the government has and it's been completely ignored for the last 4 years while we gave 700 billion to the banking industry to bail out their malfeasance.
Well Myriad's been making a TON of money charging people $3500 for a $200 test all because they patented the gene in question (not the test which is standard DNA profiling).
Fire isn't a big deal if the dwelling is not flammable? What planet do you live on. Your couch has enough toxic smoke potential to kill everyone in your home. Even if the walls are cement, I guarantee there is going to be enough wood, padding and fabric in every single home to create a fire of substantial enough size to kill everyone in it.
With a contained environment like these caves the oxygen will be sucked out quicker and flame over (dramatized in the move backdraft) will happen faster. The IBC code requires that any living space where people sleep have a window, this is precisely because in a fire you need oxygen sources to survive and you need escape routes that are independent of the door because even today with dwellings that are damn near fireproof (all the timber is bathed in fireproofing chemicals, wallboard's purpose is to slow down fires, fire blocking, smoke detectors and dozens of other precautions) house fires still claim thousands of lives every year.
A single couch ignited by a cigarette can create a fire that's burning at 1800F and pumping out enough smoke to fill more than 1000sqft of living space in 5 minutes. So tell me how much value those cement walls without windows are?
I'd rather not waste my time editing Wikipedia. I frankly trust my Waste Water design text books and the education I received on what the various definitions in water treatment are. Grey water is organically or chemically contaminated water, it also applies to treated sewage water that doesn't include a tertiary process as well.
In simple terms Black water is anything that can contain human pathogens, you shed them when you shower, use the sink, and they contaminate your clothes (washer) etc. Black water is basically anything in a Sanitary sewer (or in other words the sewer output from your home). Grey water is output from a typical storm sewer, ie. roadway runoff, industrial site runoff, agricultural runoff etc. It contains chemical or organic contamination that will need to be removed to tolerable levels before it's fit for human consumption. Black water contains both organic/chemical contamination and human pathogens. The typical sewer treatment plant will remove 99% of the organic contamination (referred to as BOD or biological oxygen demand) and all of the pathogens (typically a biologic digestion process where bacteria are used to consume the organics and out-compete the pathogens along with a final sterilization before discharge to eliminate any possibility of discharging human pathogens into water sources).
I'm not surprised that Wiki is wrong, in fact it could be right in some context I'm not familiar with. My context in from the civil engineering perspective and is the language used in the design and operation of treatment plants and environmental law.
A 1ms reduction in communication time can be worth millions of dollars for stock traders in Britain. If you know about a change in stock prices on a foreign market faster than your competitors then you can react quicker. You might be thinking that 1ms isn't enough time to matter but because most trading is computer based these days 1ms can make a HUGE difference because computers are doing the trading.
Almost the entire cost of this cable is already paid for and it's stock brokers that are paying for it precisely because that reduction in latency can make them more effective than their competitors. Be happy that they are paying for infrastructure that everyone else will be using.
Grey Water is storm runoff potentially contaminated with runoff from roadways including oil. The stuff from your sinks, showers etc is black water because it can ALL contain human pathogens and waste products. (don't tell me you don't know someone that pisses in the shower).
It's Black Water if it potentially contains pathogens. Showers, sinks and even the clothes washer can contain pathogens from human waste.
It's likely the that Ravi was told that the Prosecutor can't promise he won't be deported. All the prosecutor could do was promise to assist in avoiding deportation, but as that's federal law ultimately he would have had no say or influence and Ravi likely would have been deported anyway. The rules about convictions are pretty strict, you get convicted of anything other than a minor misdemeanor and your probably going to be deported. So even though the Prosecutor promised to help as part of the plea, the advice Ravi got was probably that he would be deported anyway. Given that he's lived in the US almost his entire life he likely was willing to wager the case would be very hard to prove.
The point you missed is that they can tell the difference between drove near other cars that had drugs and contains a bag right now. Dogs are almost 100% accurate in finding drugs or anything else they are trained to scent. You can disagree with it all you want though even if it's ignorant disagreement because you have zero experience with dogs or trained scenting dogs. Honestly you sound like a young earth Christian denying that the earth is more than 6000 years old because you KNOW it's not.
Dogs don't guess, they don't lie, they either scent or they don't, the training is teaching them to signal in some manner that they smell the target substance is present. Drug dogs are routinely tested (3-6 month testing cycle) and dismissed from the program if their sense of smell degrades and they can't pass the test in every case. In these tests neither the handler or the dog are present when the drugs are concealed. Because every dog has a different personality and every breed has different reactions, training methods and scenting quality each dog has different tells.
The most common scenting dogs are obsessive "toy" dogs, good candidates obsess over a particular toy (carry it around all the time and search for it relentlessly if it's not present) and are usually Shepards, labs or pit bulls. The dogs are trained by putting drug packets in the toy (usually a sock) and playing games where the toy is hidden and the dog searches for it. As the dog learns that the presence of drugs indicates the presence of their toy they move towards simply searching for drugs without the toy with the reward for finding the drugs being they receive the toy to play with for a period. This type of dog will typically aggressively dig, chew or attack the drug location.
But other breeds like cocker spaniels and others can't be trained in this manner because they don't exhibit the "toy" obsession of the other breeds. They are typically trained in radically different manners and their tell will be anything from sitting down, or pointing, or refusing to move, or barking or any other of hundreds of tells that are suited to that breed of dog, their personality and how they were trained. There are probably literally thousands of possible tells and the handler has to be trained with each dog they work with to recognize the tell and test that it's not a misinterpretation. Handlers are trained to go over the location or confirm the scent 2-3 times to ensure there are no misinterpretations by the handler (not the dog).
In fact it's silly to argue that a handler would lie about it because frankly if the police wanted to search without cause they wouldn't bother with a dog (that they will have to provide the testing certifications on) and would simply claim they could smell pot smoke in your car. So be like that young earth creationist and assert that every lay person in the world knows not only everything in the world about drug dogs but could detect their tell without fail along with denying what's been empirically proven millions of times, and that is dogs are nearly 100% accurate in finding what they are trained to find. They can follow a persons specific scent trail through a stadium with 50000 people in it, they can follow the scent through a swamp, days later and through all manner of deliberately confusing scents. They have one of the best noses in the animal kingdom, capable of scenting a specific substance through 10's of feet of other material and surrounded and wrapped in plastics. As and example Dogs routinely find drug packets wrapped in multiple layers of plastic and latex and immersed in the gasoline tank of a car. Until you've seen a dogs nose in use you simply can't comprehend how accurate it is, it's simply amazing.
You apparently don't understand what falsifiable is. Just because you don't know what the dog's tell is doesn't mean that the dog can't be tested and verified accurate. Dog's can't lie, they can't deceive and they have one of best noses in the animal kingdom. Appropriately trained dogs can smell drugs wrapped in 50 layers of plastic and buried 2 feet deep in coffee grounds or submerged in gasoline. And they can be tested and are routinely as part of the job. You want to challenge the drug dogs tell in court? You could do it easily in court if the Judge will humor your stupidity. See all they have to do is hide a packet of drugs in the court then bring the dog in to find them (and likely everyone else that's got them as well). And when the dog finds the drugs you'll just have sunk your entire case and proved to the Jury you need to be convicted. That makes the dog's tell falsifiable by simply testing it and you an idiot for even suggesting that it's not falsifiable.
The most frequent reason is that crime rates are calculated differently. Different crimes are included or not, the counting methodology is different, etc. It's a sensible as comparing unemployment rates. Once you account for the difference you'll find there is very little difference in rates for comparable size, density and economic status.
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Unless of course there are 3 officers on duty and there are 4 murders in progress. The most frequent reason for these non response calls is that the local population has completely understaffed their police department for the level of crime. The only way to fix it is to hire more police officers and raise taxes to cover it. Which at least according to one party is an offense of the highest order and the cops should be jailed for not responding to a robbery rather than a murder.
Yea stay off those damn interstates, ya know because they are frequently used by drug smugglers.
The ACLU sued Customs over this and couldn't even get customs to admit how far from the border they could do these checkpoints. In theory they could do one of these things on I-70 in Kansas, according to Customs at least.
Every drug dog has a different signal.Their handler is trained to recognize it. Some dogs dig at the location, some sit, some look at the handler. There is no uniform signal because dogs can't talk so the dogs are often trained to react the same way they did the first time they found something which could be almost anything.
You have atrocious power quality if you are only getting 1100 hours. I bought my home 8 years ago and promptly replaced almost every bulb with CFL's. I've yet to replace one, yet the one major fixture I have that still has incandescents has been replaced 4 times at about $6 a pop (decorative bulbs). In fact I have one CFL light that's on nearly every minute we are in the room and still going strong 8 years later (god knows how many hours, wouldn't be surprised if it's upwards of 10,000 hours at this point).
So I say again, you have really crappy power thats killing bulbs or you are buying the cheapest POS you can buy and using it as some comparison test. Based on your post I sincerely doubt you've purchased or used a quality CFL for any real use.
You forgot the point where it's full to the brim with DRM and access controls, and the price is 5 digits large.
Not necessarily. A small deflection now could be immeasurably easier than a larger deflection later. A one millionth of a degree change in direction now could be equivalent to a multi degree change 20 years later. Waiting till the last minute is NOT a good idea with a massive object that will require significant force to deflect.
Now I'm not arguing we should be wasting time now, just pointing out that time is a variable in this calculation that has a measurable impact of the effectiveness of any deflection.
As someone dealt with 1956 already I'll handle 1973:
Syria and Egypt had begun massing forces on the border with Israel, Egypt had already implemented a Naval Blockade of their port (an internationally recognized act of war) and at the time everyone and their dog knew that these nations intended to strike Israel. Rather than waiting for the hammer to fall they expertly initiated the fighting before perpetrations were finalized thus taking the surprise attack away from their enemies. It should also be noted that in the '73 conflict the Egyptian tank forces were widely considered the victors by inflicting severe Israeli casualties (10,000+) and that the US intervention in the form of the camp David accords was to prevent the Israeli's from nuking Cairo as US intelligence had reported that the Israeli's were preparing Nuclear weapons for delivery because had the Egyptians continued they likely could have seized much of Israel proper. This is also why the camp David accords contain a provision that Egypt isn't allowed to station troops in the Sinai (to prevent just this scenario, it's also why Israel refused to hand the Golan back to Syria (it was used as a staging ground).