Yes, Phone Drivers are [Way] worse [and more dangerous] than drunk drivers!
There are more Phone Drivers on the road! And, the Phone Drivers are at all hours -- morning, lunch time, afternoon, evening, early morning. Drunk Drive are few and far between for me and are generally limited to late night and early mornings in my locale.
The most horrifying sight is to look in my rear view mirror and see the driver or the driver and passenger texting away on their phones while their car is creeping toward my car. God, I avoid the times when local high schools let out and these types of misfit drivers are released in mass onto the streets!
In The U.S.A.
There are municipalities with laws against using/driving ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles in certain areas of their corporate limits. (/. has reported on this times in the past.)
That's just a hair's breath away from "nazi".
If one watches the SJW industry, it seems a natural progression.
Obviously, you do not drive in Memphis, Tennessee!
Being able to accelerate quickly and well beyond the speed limit has saved my life: Avoidance of accidents AND Avoidance of pre-planned accidents by insurance scammers and/or gang members.
Now maybe Europe doesn't experience auto accidents or have insurance scammers or have gangs! Must be a great place to live! /sarc
Nor are the majority of LEOs in the USA "professional thugs". It is clear but Bigotry to say such things about LEOs in the USA. While I distrust the "Police" establishment, I realize the individual police are doing a job and as employees (everywhere and in every industry) are trained, manipulate, and directed by their supervisors, managers, and employers. The average LEO wants to go home Just Like You Do; wants to live a productive life Just Like You Do; wants to progress in the job Just Like You Do.
I traveled to Ecuador. Ecuadorians instructed me Never to talk to their Police because would not survive.
I traveled to South Africa. South Africans told me the same thing.
I traveled to Mozambique. Mozambicans told me the same thing.
I traveled to England. Because I watch English police shows, I know not to talk to their Police.
Every LEO has the potential to be the worst or the best person on earth. Just like any other person. But Bigotry is always disgusting, IMHO.
I sincerely hope that after this experience the pastor re-evaluates his attitude toward the authorities. Many pastors make assumptions about the intentions and actions of the authorities when are, what I would describe as, Pollyanna-ish. Good treatment or poor treatment (as in this story) aside, many people have stereotypical views of different people-groups that need to be shaken-up and a more realistic view taken.
Do you really think that these "privately run" prisons give perks and bonuses to LEOs who arrest people? Like manufacturer reps do with sales rep. Quite an unreasonable leap of (non-) logic there, eh?
We bought an LG Smart TV because Samsung Smart TVs present ads during viewing (according to roommate). In setting up the LG, I found a setting to reduce the prospect of seeing duplicate ads.
Sounds like all the TVs are up with Vizio already. The LG uses WebOS and that definitely can be used to present ads to viewers. If the TV is not connected to the Internet, (either a wired or wireless connection on the LG), can it present ads to us?
AC, you just proved the OP's point. Thanks for your service. It seems that those resisting a mandatory increase in the Federal Minimum Wage knew something that those supporting a mandatory did not know. How Funny! How sad!
Just like the secure that housed the African Bees? You know, the Killer Bees? Murphy's Laws assumes that Anything that can go wrong will go wrong! This is the type of mistakes "scientists"make all the time. Beware!
Like Albert Einstein? He was really, really smart and he personally petitioned POTUS FDRoosevelt to build the Atomic Bomb in order to match Nazi research and development of their own Atomic Bomb. The USA did develop the Atomic Bomb and very intelligent people did the work. What an inaccurate statement.
I agree! Gmail was "perfect" for my email habits and likes but Gmail insists on changing things on a regular basis. It gets worse (shittier) with each "new" "improvement". In past years, I could keep the old version that I liked but I guess too many people, like me, thought the old version was good enough not to want to change. Then Gmail started forcing me to change whether I wanted to or not. Thankfully, on my iOS devices, I can skip the changes by staying with iOS' own Mail application. Gmail had a wonderful product years ago but they keep trying to improve it by making it worse. Yuck!
Taxes on Tires! I don't think so! The Law of Unintended Consequences will hit that one hard. How will you handle Used Tires? Will a National Tire Association be born? (You can have my used tire when you pry out of my cold, dead hands?) The minority community will be hard hit by in rise in prices of used tires. And what would how high would the tax be -- $1K per new tire? Will there be a difference for a specialty tire for a car never driven on public roads? Or low mileage tires? Or high mileage tires? I drive 500 miles a month -- will I have to pay the same tax as the driver who drives 2,000 miles a month? The tax on business vehicles? The tax on over-the-road truck tires? What about the recapped tires? What about damaged before End-Of-Life tires? What about the price rise of goods because the transportation cost go through the roof? Are you going to pay more for your pizza? Beer? Girlfriend? This Tax on Tires idea has more problems than pay per mile.
Well, how funny? I choose streaming to avoid the commercials. a 20-22 minutes show takes 30 minutes to watch on Network TV. Cheap on cost but Not on my time. Streaming permits more time -- 8 to10 minutes each show to do what I want. Now NetFlix price increase with its degradation in show quality is an issue for me. BTW, all the Network TV that I have seen in the last 5 years is low quality. Streaming brings better quality and less time loss.
Want to find out if these Non-Compete contracts will hold up in court? Just ask if you can take the NC contract to a lawyer for evaluation. If the company says, "No, you have to sign it now", the contract is not enforceable. They are forcing you sign the NC contract under duress and that won't hold up in courts. It the company says, "Yes, you can have a lawyer check it", you may have an enforceable contract. I asked at many places and was always told "No" so I signed the NC contract (if I wanted the job) knowing that it meant nothing.
Please don't state Your Opinion as if it were a Fact! From personal experience and from MSM news articles, the UK healthcare system is overworked, underfunded, inefficient and, in the case of persistent news articles, Unable to Perform Necessary and Usual Procedures/Surgery to save lives -- particularly, the lives of the senior/aged patients and the youngest patients. These 2 groups are the vulnerable people in UK society and are being sacrificed because the UK won't or can't spend the monies that the USA will and can.
The point was that the USA is providing a Security Umbrella over European countries. Some of these European countries do not have to provide All of their military security and spend the money on healthcare. A recent news story on the Intra-European military exercises stated that the German Military used pieces of wood (broomsticks?) painted black because they didn't have the funding for ammunition for firearms and ammunition. Clearly, Germany is spending necessary military/security monies for some other purpose.
I have lived under the British (UK) health care system and it Sucks! The reports of wait times for surgery, scans, procedures & treatment are much longer than in the USA. The overall Quality is much poorer than the USA. The overall "out-of-pocket" price may be lower but the human costs are definitely lower. USA Federal Government intervention/take-over of the America health care system is the ruin of both health insurance (a la, Obamacare) and health care (restricted treatments, proscribed treatments, etc.).
My Carpal Tunnel Syndrome surgery was performed in Memphis, TN. At the time of my surgery, Memphis had more MRI machines than the entire country of Canada (a 1st World Country with single payer health insurance/care).
While I can't speak about Sweden's health insurance/care system, I can address the British and Canadian systems with some sort of personal experience. The reports from the MSM in the USA all seem to note that 1-payer systems are "cheaper" for the consumer but the quality is still inferior to the USA.
This information is great for creating false identities and fraudulently acquiring authentic Governments' documents. How many people in the USA have passports? Many a lot more now! DOB, SSNs, are all that's needed to get Birth Certificates and BCs are all that are only official documents needed for USA Passports. Photos, home addresses can all be faked. (What a dumb question from the OP who asked about the use of this "old" info. Don't you watch TV?)
I had NO problems with my iPhone 6 Plus with iOS 12.1.1 or 12.1.2.
Not to say all the iOS updates have been without problems but no loss of anything when my carrier's network was available.
While most municipalities have a reliable delivery system, it is delivering a poor quality water. I lived in Memphis for a while. Memphis has a pristine source that they pump through an old and deteriorating piping system that permits seepage of all kinds of "stuff" into the system. Memphis has to pump the originally, pristine water full of chemicals to kill the "stuff" that gets into the piping system before it reaches homes. All those chemical tend to make me sick. I grew up in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. The last time that I was there, the water out of the faucet smelled similar to opening a Clorox bottle. Where I live now, the water comes from a river. Not so pristine to start with but with an aging piping system and even more chemicals to clean-up the water. I still get sick. To avoid this sickness, I drink battled water or filtered water at home to avoid the problem of the municipal water systems.
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Yes, Phone Drivers are [Way] worse [and more dangerous] than drunk drivers!
There are more Phone Drivers on the road! And, the Phone Drivers are at all hours -- morning, lunch time, afternoon, evening, early morning. Drunk Drive are few and far between for me and are generally limited to late night and early mornings in my locale.
The most horrifying sight is to look in my rear view mirror and see the driver or the driver and passenger texting away on their phones while their car is creeping toward my car. God, I avoid the times when local high schools let out and these types of misfit drivers are released in mass onto the streets!
In The U.S.A.
There are municipalities with laws against using/driving ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles in certain areas of their corporate limits. (/. has reported on this times in the past.)
That's just a hair's breath away from "nazi".
If one watches the SJW industry, it seems a natural progression.
After all Hansmeier is tarnishing the reputations of the attorneys and lawyers that are good and honest people -- All 2% of Them!
Disclaimer: I come from an extended family of Lawyers. (Sadly)
Obviously, you do not drive in Memphis, Tennessee!
/sarc
Being able to accelerate quickly and well beyond the speed limit has saved my life: Avoidance of accidents AND Avoidance of pre-planned accidents by insurance scammers and/or gang members.
Now maybe Europe doesn't experience auto accidents or have insurance scammers or have gangs! Must be a great place to live!
Actually, it isn't!
Bigotry is disgusting -- yours, mine, or anyone's.
Nor are the majority of LEOs in the USA "professional thugs". It is clear but Bigotry to say such things about LEOs in the USA. While I distrust the "Police" establishment, I realize the individual police are doing a job and as employees (everywhere and in every industry) are trained, manipulate, and directed by their supervisors, managers, and employers. The average LEO wants to go home Just Like You Do; wants to live a productive life Just Like You Do; wants to progress in the job Just Like You Do.
I traveled to Ecuador. Ecuadorians instructed me Never to talk to their Police because would not survive.
I traveled to South Africa. South Africans told me the same thing.
I traveled to Mozambique. Mozambicans told me the same thing.
I traveled to England. Because I watch English police shows, I know not to talk to their Police.
Every LEO has the potential to be the worst or the best person on earth. Just like any other person. But Bigotry is always disgusting, IMHO.
Wow! You catch on fast!
I sincerely hope that after this experience the pastor re-evaluates his attitude toward the authorities. Many pastors make assumptions about the intentions and actions of the authorities when are, what I would describe as, Pollyanna-ish. Good treatment or poor treatment (as in this story) aside, many people have stereotypical views of different people-groups that need to be shaken-up and a more realistic view taken.
Non-sequitur!
Do you really think that these "privately run" prisons give perks and bonuses to LEOs who arrest people? Like manufacturer reps do with sales rep. Quite an unreasonable leap of (non-) logic there, eh?
An attorney in the family told me that the best and most appropriate thing to tell the LEOs is,
"I want to speak to my attorney".
And to say nothing without the presence and counsel of my attorney.
It is better to be more suspicious (in this type of situation) than trusting.
"Capitalism", like the word, "inconceivable" in the Princess Bride, is a word that I don't think means what you think it means.
Too bad; So Sad!
We bought an LG Smart TV because Samsung Smart TVs present ads during viewing (according to roommate). In setting up the LG, I found a setting to reduce the prospect of seeing duplicate ads.
Sounds like all the TVs are up with Vizio already. The LG uses WebOS and that definitely can be used to present ads to viewers. If the TV is not connected to the Internet, (either a wired or wireless connection on the LG), can it present ads to us?
AC, you just proved the OP's point. Thanks for your service. It seems that those resisting a mandatory increase in the Federal Minimum Wage knew something that those supporting a mandatory did not know. How Funny! How sad!
Just like the secure that housed the African Bees? You know, the Killer Bees? Murphy's Laws assumes that Anything that can go wrong will go wrong! This is the type of mistakes "scientists"make all the time. Beware!
Like Albert Einstein? He was really, really smart and he personally petitioned POTUS FDRoosevelt to build the Atomic Bomb in order to match Nazi research and development of their own Atomic Bomb. The USA did develop the Atomic Bomb and very intelligent people did the work. What an inaccurate statement.
I agree! Gmail was "perfect" for my email habits and likes but Gmail insists on changing things on a regular basis. It gets worse (shittier) with each "new" "improvement". In past years, I could keep the old version that I liked but I guess too many people, like me, thought the old version was good enough not to want to change. Then Gmail started forcing me to change whether I wanted to or not. Thankfully, on my iOS devices, I can skip the changes by staying with iOS' own Mail application. Gmail had a wonderful product years ago but they keep trying to improve it by making it worse. Yuck!
Taxes on Tires! I don't think so! The Law of Unintended Consequences will hit that one hard. How will you handle Used Tires? Will a National Tire Association be born? (You can have my used tire when you pry out of my cold, dead hands?) The minority community will be hard hit by in rise in prices of used tires. And what would how high would the tax be -- $1K per new tire? Will there be a difference for a specialty tire for a car never driven on public roads? Or low mileage tires? Or high mileage tires? I drive 500 miles a month -- will I have to pay the same tax as the driver who drives 2,000 miles a month? The tax on business vehicles? The tax on over-the-road truck tires? What about the recapped tires? What about damaged before End-Of-Life tires? What about the price rise of goods because the transportation cost go through the roof? Are you going to pay more for your pizza? Beer? Girlfriend? This Tax on Tires idea has more problems than pay per mile.
Well, how funny? I choose streaming to avoid the commercials. a 20-22 minutes show takes 30 minutes to watch on Network TV. Cheap on cost but Not on my time. Streaming permits more time -- 8 to10 minutes each show to do what I want. Now NetFlix price increase with its degradation in show quality is an issue for me. BTW, all the Network TV that I have seen in the last 5 years is low quality. Streaming brings better quality and less time loss.
Want to find out if these Non-Compete contracts will hold up in court? Just ask if you can take the NC contract to a lawyer for evaluation. If the company says, "No, you have to sign it now", the contract is not enforceable. They are forcing you sign the NC contract under duress and that won't hold up in courts. It the company says, "Yes, you can have a lawyer check it", you may have an enforceable contract. I asked at many places and was always told "No" so I signed the NC contract (if I wanted the job) knowing that it meant nothing.
Please don't state Your Opinion as if it were a Fact! From personal experience and from MSM news articles, the UK healthcare system is overworked, underfunded, inefficient and, in the case of persistent news articles, Unable to Perform Necessary and Usual Procedures/Surgery to save lives -- particularly, the lives of the senior/aged patients and the youngest patients. These 2 groups are the vulnerable people in UK society and are being sacrificed because the UK won't or can't spend the monies that the USA will and can.
The point was that the USA is providing a Security Umbrella over European countries. Some of these European countries do not have to provide All of their military security and spend the money on healthcare. A recent news story on the Intra-European military exercises stated that the German Military used pieces of wood (broomsticks?) painted black because they didn't have the funding for ammunition for firearms and ammunition. Clearly, Germany is spending necessary military/security monies for some other purpose.
I have lived under the British (UK) health care system and it Sucks! The reports of wait times for surgery, scans, procedures & treatment are much longer than in the USA. The overall Quality is much poorer than the USA. The overall "out-of-pocket" price may be lower but the human costs are definitely lower. USA Federal Government intervention/take-over of the America health care system is the ruin of both health insurance (a la, Obamacare) and health care (restricted treatments, proscribed treatments, etc.). My Carpal Tunnel Syndrome surgery was performed in Memphis, TN. At the time of my surgery, Memphis had more MRI machines than the entire country of Canada (a 1st World Country with single payer health insurance/care). While I can't speak about Sweden's health insurance/care system, I can address the British and Canadian systems with some sort of personal experience. The reports from the MSM in the USA all seem to note that 1-payer systems are "cheaper" for the consumer but the quality is still inferior to the USA.
This information is great for creating false identities and fraudulently acquiring authentic Governments' documents. How many people in the USA have passports? Many a lot more now! DOB, SSNs, are all that's needed to get Birth Certificates and BCs are all that are only official documents needed for USA Passports. Photos, home addresses can all be faked. (What a dumb question from the OP who asked about the use of this "old" info. Don't you watch TV?)
I had NO problems with my iPhone 6 Plus with iOS 12.1.1 or 12.1.2. Not to say all the iOS updates have been without problems but no loss of anything when my carrier's network was available.
While most municipalities have a reliable delivery system, it is delivering a poor quality water. I lived in Memphis for a while. Memphis has a pristine source that they pump through an old and deteriorating piping system that permits seepage of all kinds of "stuff" into the system. Memphis has to pump the originally, pristine water full of chemicals to kill the "stuff" that gets into the piping system before it reaches homes. All those chemical tend to make me sick. I grew up in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. The last time that I was there, the water out of the faucet smelled similar to opening a Clorox bottle. Where I live now, the water comes from a river. Not so pristine to start with but with an aging piping system and even more chemicals to clean-up the water. I still get sick. To avoid this sickness, I drink battled water or filtered water at home to avoid the problem of the municipal water systems.