I actually have faith in our legal and policing system not to introduce corruption into something as simple as speeding fines
That may be so, but the thing is that you're not only dealing with the government here. You're also dealing with the private company that creates the system and the cameras.
These companies charge the city a processing fee for each ticket that is issued. So now the government and a private company both have a vested interest (and a conflict of interest I might add) to give out as many tickets as possible.
And if this private company fudges the system to take a picture a fraction of a second early or something similar than who's going to look into that? The same government who is also filling thier coffers with the same ticket fines?
I built an AMD-based desktop and it continues to run like a charm. Much better than what I can say about the Dell Inspirion laptop I purchased a couple years ago. Quailty control is my main complaint with Dell.
Within the first two weeks I had to send the laptop back because of a bad display. A friend had to do the same thing. I had to re-seat the display after they sent it back to me because they didn't line up the clip with the hole correctly.
I had to sand down the sides with fine-grained sand-paper because the edges were sharp and the top didn't align with the bottom causing the edges to stick out. It's no fun carrying a 12-pound laptop (advertised as 8-pounds) when the edges cut into your hands.
And last but not least, one year and three months after I bought it the HD died. It now collects dust on the floor. I kick it sometimes just for the hell of it.
I'm not even sure why this had to be said. The Windows Cluster Fuck edition was released in Win 3.11 and incorporated into every edition of Windows after that. Geez... talk about old news.
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For the love of god won't someone please mod America's Army.
A taxpayer funded game that shows nudity and sex. What would happen? Would they shutdown the game servers? Stop distributing the games?
And the most important question of all: How hard would this make me laugh?
I actually have faith in our legal and policing system not to introduce corruption into something as simple as speeding fines
That may be so, but the thing is that you're not only dealing with the government here. You're also dealing with the private company that creates the system and the cameras.
These companies charge the city a processing fee for each ticket that is issued. So now the government and a private company both have a vested interest (and a conflict of interest I might add) to give out as many tickets as possible.
And if this private company fudges the system to take a picture a fraction of a second early or something similar than who's going to look into that? The same government who is also filling thier coffers with the same ticket fines?
Look out! It's the law!
Defaced by "reactionaries?" A bigger problem would be a newspaper's wiki being defaced by advertisers.
Congress. Is there any part of American's lives that they can leave alone?
I built an AMD-based desktop and it continues to run like a charm. Much better than what I can say about the Dell Inspirion laptop I purchased a couple years ago. Quailty control is my main complaint with Dell.
Within the first two weeks I had to send the laptop back because of a bad display. A friend had to do the same thing. I had to re-seat the display after they sent it back to me because they didn't line up the clip with the hole correctly.
I had to sand down the sides with fine-grained sand-paper because the edges were sharp and the top didn't align with the bottom causing the edges to stick out. It's no fun carrying a 12-pound laptop (advertised as 8-pounds) when the edges cut into your hands.
And last but not least, one year and three months after I bought it the HD died. It now collects dust on the floor. I kick it sometimes just for the hell of it.
Dell would only give AMD a bad name. It's hard to wash off that Dell stink once you've come into contact with it.
Don't complain. The more time the government spends studying the Internet the less time they spend doing stuff to the Internet.
That's a good thing.
I'm not even sure why this had to be said. The Windows Cluster Fuck edition was released in Win 3.11 and incorporated into every edition of Windows after that. Geez... talk about old news.
Just because it dosen't work in a test doesn't mean it won't work in real life!