There are bad cops, but from direct experience, they're in the majority.
Heh, probably not what you meant to say, but absolutely the truth.
In fact, the conly cops I knew who were on the take were sheriffs and deputies.
A cop doesn't have to be "on the take" to be a bad cop. He can be a brutal and violent thug with utter disregard for the rights of citizens or the truth without taking a single bribe.
Contrary to what you learned from CSI, Miranda rights are not 'required to be read' to you. Its more of a curtesy for the ignorant. At no point are you actually LEGALLY free to say things and not have them used against you.
It's not a courtesy for the ignorant. It's a requirement. Before the cops conduct a custodial interrogation, they are required to inform you of your rights. If they do not, any information gained from that interrogation, and any information following from it, will likely be excluded.
Nobody cares. The cops do nasty stuff on camera all the time. Unless large parts of a city are set afire as a result, no one really cares. Most people know the cops are thugs in general, and will tell you so. But if anything specific actually happens, they'll blame the victim. Judges accept the cop's word over anything but an unambiguous recordings -- and often over those as well. Even when the cop's statements are demonstrably untrue. They can't not know the cops often lie; they are complicit in it.
If you want to stop bad cops, you'll need something more powerful than a camera.
Too bad the Yaris is also a piece of shit, retaining Toyota's dumb idea from the Echo. I mean, if the driver is sitting on the left, shouldn't the instrument panel also be on the left? Putting it in the center may make it easier to produce for both left and right-hand-drive markets, but it's terrible for actual driving.
And Canadians come to America when they "really" break and want to live.
Or, more often, when they have some sort of problem which is not life-threatening but is painful and/or debilitating, and don't care to suffer through the wait list.
that whole part was done.. poorly. but lets assume it's true; you can inherit all the memories of the victim with poly juice...
The whole point was that the Death Eater was so good at his impersonation of Moody that he taught the class just as Moody would have. So the best Defense Against Dark Arts teacher Harry Potter had was in fact a Death Eater. And that, Ms. Morissette, is irony.
(the map being able to see right through the disguise, and no one noticing until far too late... now THAT was bad writing)
When the 5% cover for or otherwise overlook the actions of the 95%, they become the 100%.
I've got bad news for you: There is no 5%.
Most of the cops are actively doing bad things. The rest are covering them up and/or looking the other way. The prosecutors know they are doing this and look the other way and encourage the lies of the police in as much as they help the prosecution's case. The judges know the cops are lying but accept their word over the word of any number of ordinary citizens and any amount of evidence short of ironclad unambiguous video evidence. And the "good citizens" applaud all of this and say anyone who objects is just a troublemaker with something to hide.
Well, what's your alternative? Money laundering prevention is one of the simplest and most effective crime fighting tools around, as annoying as it may be.
Eliminate most of the crimes (that is, remove the laws making them illegal) that money laundering is used to cover up. The list would be something like #1: Drugs #2: Drugs #3: Drugs then you'd have prostitution, illegal gambling, and other vices.
Once you got rid of those laws, you'd find that money laundering would be not nearly as effective in fighting crime, as most of your remaining crimes wouldn't be helped by it. Of course there'd still be some such crimes.
This was a clumsy and failed bribe that doesn't really reflect on Obama. Also I think the gun-running program started under Bush Jr. (and then ATF used their own program to argue for gun control by claiming that legal gun owners in the US were providing guns to Mexican drug cartels), though Bush III Obama did continue it.
"It is possible to end all rape by killing all men after getting a sperm sample." And that, ladies and gentlemen, underlines a basic misconception of human nature.
Or of the law. For instance, in Maryland, unless they've changed it, you'd have to kill all the _women_ to end rape. Because the rape law specifies what must be penetrated, not what must do the penetration.
We are talking about reading things on the workplace. Reading this from a secular country, this advice sounds like something you would post in Pakistan or Indonesia.
Is your boss really allowed to filter the ideas that are allowed to arrive to your brain ? If so it may be time to, maybe, I don't know, revolt ? Change job ? Organize your life differently ? Emigrate ?
The problem isn't what you're reading; the problem is reading it at work, where there might be company policy issues (above and beyond wasting your time at work, which if you're reading Slashdot is moot). Especially if anyone else can see what you're looking at: some companies could be worried about the presence of such writing as promoting a "hostile workplace environment" and getting the company sued. Or the boss could just be a prude.
Or perhaps it's what happens when a person has spent money and then is "finished" and wants the money back.
It's not specifically writing that is targeted by this policy, it is anything sex related.
Bullshit. It's specifically incest, bestiality, and rape. Anything else, OK. Arguments about chargebacks and fraud seem kind of thin when the prohibitions are that specific.
(Yes, I know, government statistics may be fabricated, but there's very little reason for them to do so here)
They may not be fabricated, but they don't make a lot of sense either. The Rutgers main campus is a food desert, but there's not a single one in all of NYC -- and the one in Newark, NJ is downtown, where the tall buildings are, not where most of the poorest people live. Philadelphia has two -- one is the airport and the other is western Fairmount Park. This does not support the theory that poor people (at least in the Northeast) eat badly because there's no good food available.
He wanted his roommate marked as gay in front of the community, assuming that the community would shun him. That alone makes it a hate crime.
He could have outed his roommate as gay and openly advocated that he be shunned and he'd have been perfectly within his rights to do so. That's not a hate crime because it's not even a crime.
The crimes he's alleged to have committed are invasion of privacy, bias intimidation (related to the invasion of privacy), and evidence tampering. Bias intimidation requires that he have intimidated the victim; not offended him, not shunned him, not outed him, not even angered him or made him unhappy, but intimidated him.
The ones who go up there are absolutely not the "best & brightest". In the beginning, they were good test pilots. Now, they are politically connected. In either case, peak intelligence is not a factor.
I doubt there are too many test pilots who are stupid. The politically connected may be another story.
Think about it. Why would risk their life riding a rocket to orbit?
I don't think intelligence and risk-aversion are necessarily correlated, nor are intelligence and thrill-seeking necesarily negatively correlated; intelligence just means you can figure out the risk, not that you'll avoid it.
If you want to see earth from space, there are plenty of orbital cameras with better resolution than your eyes.
So why go on sightseeing vacations when you can watch travelogues? Fact is, there's still no substitute for being there.
If you want to experience free-fall, you can go skydiving pretty much anywhere, any day of the week, with orders of magnitude smaller risk.
It's not the same, and I can say that without having been in space. During the free fall phase of skydiving (which is actually very short; it doesn't take long for air resistance to become substantial), you can't really do anything or notice anything except the brief feeling of falling and then the wind rushing past you. Being in free fall in a calm environment at rest around you is very different. A ride in the Vomit Comet might give you a taste but not skydiving.
Knowing the US society at large is still quite homophobic, at least to a great part, do you REALLY think that outting a male making out with anotehr male has no homophobic connotation
Best I can tell the motive was more likely voyeurism than intimidation.
Yeah, that's my take on it too; the invasion of privacy charges ought to be a slam-dunk, but the bias intimidation charges are there only because Tyler killed himself and Something Must Be Done.
They sold the rights to the trademark to Apple. There is no problem manufacturing the product in China, as long as it's not sold in mainland China under that name.
Right; the article is totally off base about this stopping worldwide distribution. Even if they lost, they could continue to make the iPod in China for export only.
You, much like that article seem to be forgetting the wear cost on the vehicle.
Exactly. Shutting down an engine for a short period, then starting it, is going to be bad for the valve train in particular. The additional wear there will probably make up for the minimal pollution of an idling engine over the long term. The problem is we're talking about tiny amounts of wear as well as tiny amounts of pollution, so it's difficult to measure and easy for one side to pontificate about by aggregating their epsilons and disregarding the opposite ones.
Everybody put on your flame retardant suits in preparation for the inevitable flame war between global warming believers and deniers, which will almost certainly drown out discussion of the technical specifics of the referenced materials.
Fortunately, the methodology is terribly sloppy anyway, so there's nothing serious to discuss. The researchers directly measured 30 trucks. Then they measured the total cloud of particles downwind of the traffic. There was more carbon than they'd expect given the measured value for trucks and the estimated value for cars. Therefore the cars must be emitting much more on average. Oddly, they never directly measured any cars. The idea that the additional black carbon might be due to some other source besides the cars was apparently not considered.
Damnit, I can't remember the name of it but there was a book on this subject some years back that made an historical argument that warrants were supposed to be rare things, only sought when the police weren't positive of the rightness of their actions, when (supposedly) wrong actions by the police would be heavily punished by damages paid to their victims.
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Heh, probably not what you meant to say, but absolutely the truth.
A cop doesn't have to be "on the take" to be a bad cop. He can be a brutal and violent thug with utter disregard for the rights of citizens or the truth without taking a single bribe.
It's not a courtesy for the ignorant. It's a requirement. Before the cops conduct a custodial interrogation, they are required to inform you of your rights. If they do not, any information gained from that interrogation, and any information following from it, will likely be excluded.
Nobody cares. The cops do nasty stuff on camera all the time. Unless large parts of a city are set afire as a result, no one really cares. Most people know the cops are thugs in general, and will tell you so. But if anything specific actually happens, they'll blame the victim. Judges accept the cop's word over anything but an unambiguous recordings -- and often over those as well. Even when the cop's statements are demonstrably untrue. They can't not know the cops often lie; they are complicit in it.
If you want to stop bad cops, you'll need something more powerful than a camera.
Too bad the Yaris is also a piece of shit, retaining Toyota's dumb idea from the Echo. I mean, if the driver is sitting on the left, shouldn't the instrument panel also be on the left? Putting it in the center may make it easier to produce for both left and right-hand-drive markets, but it's terrible for actual driving.
If the numbers are rigged, the numbers are rigged. Even if Fox news says so.
Schenck is no longer good law.
Or, more often, when they have some sort of problem which is not life-threatening but is painful and/or debilitating, and don't care to suffer through the wait list.
The whole point was that the Death Eater was so good at his impersonation of Moody that he taught the class just as Moody would have. So the best Defense Against Dark Arts teacher Harry Potter had was in fact a Death Eater. And that, Ms. Morissette, is irony.
(the map being able to see right through the disguise, and no one noticing until far too late... now THAT was bad writing)
I've got bad news for you: There is no 5%.
Most of the cops are actively doing bad things. The rest are covering them up and/or looking the other way. The prosecutors know they are doing this and look the other way and encourage the lies of the police in as much as they help the prosecution's case. The judges know the cops are lying but accept their word over the word of any number of ordinary citizens and any amount of evidence short of ironclad unambiguous video evidence. And the "good citizens" applaud all of this and say anyone who objects is just a troublemaker with something to hide.
(and if I go any further, it's Godwin territory)
Eliminate most of the crimes (that is, remove the laws making them illegal) that money laundering is used to cover up. The list would be something like
#1: Drugs
#2: Drugs
#3: Drugs
then you'd have prostitution, illegal gambling, and other vices.
Once you got rid of those laws, you'd find that money laundering would be not nearly as effective in fighting crime, as most of your remaining crimes wouldn't be helped by it. Of course there'd still be some such crimes.
Great, now you've got Lex Luthor with a utility belt and an invisible plane.
This was a clumsy and failed bribe that doesn't really reflect on Obama. Also I think the gun-running program started under Bush Jr. (and then ATF used their own program to argue for gun control by claiming that legal gun owners in the US were providing guns to Mexican drug cartels), though Bush III Obama did continue it.
Or of the law. For instance, in Maryland, unless they've changed it, you'd have to kill all the _women_ to end rape. Because the rape law specifies what must be penetrated, not what must do the penetration.
The problem isn't what you're reading; the problem is reading it at work, where there might be company policy issues (above and beyond wasting your time at work, which if you're reading Slashdot is moot). Especially if anyone else can see what you're looking at: some companies could be worried about the presence of such writing as promoting a "hostile workplace environment" and getting the company sued. Or the boss could just be a prude.
Bullshit. It's specifically incest, bestiality, and rape. Anything else, OK. Arguments about chargebacks and fraud seem kind of thin when the prohibitions are that specific.
They may not be fabricated, but they don't make a lot of sense either. The Rutgers main campus is a food desert, but there's not a single one in all of NYC -- and the one in Newark, NJ is downtown, where the tall buildings are, not where most of the poorest people live. Philadelphia has two -- one is the airport and the other is western Fairmount Park. This does not support the theory that poor people (at least in the Northeast) eat badly because there's no good food available.
He could have outed his roommate as gay and openly advocated that he be shunned and he'd have been perfectly within his rights to do so. That's not a hate crime because it's not even a crime.
The crimes he's alleged to have committed are invasion of privacy, bias intimidation (related to the invasion of privacy), and evidence tampering. Bias intimidation requires that he have intimidated the victim; not offended him, not shunned him, not outed him, not even angered him or made him unhappy, but intimidated him.
I doubt there are too many test pilots who are stupid. The politically connected may be another story.
I don't think intelligence and risk-aversion are necessarily correlated, nor are intelligence and thrill-seeking necesarily negatively correlated; intelligence just means you can figure out the risk, not that you'll avoid it.
So why go on sightseeing vacations when you can watch travelogues? Fact is, there's still no substitute for being there.
It's not the same, and I can say that without having been in space. During the free fall phase of skydiving (which is actually very short; it doesn't take long for air resistance to become substantial), you can't really do anything or notice anything except the brief feeling of falling and then the wind rushing past you. Being in free fall in a calm environment at rest around you is very different. A ride in the Vomit Comet might give you a taste but not skydiving.
Best I can tell the motive was more likely voyeurism than intimidation.
Yeah, that's my take on it too; the invasion of privacy charges ought to be a slam-dunk, but the bias intimidation charges are there only because Tyler killed himself and Something Must Be Done.
Right; the article is totally off base about this stopping worldwide distribution. Even if they lost, they could continue to make the iPod in China for export only.
Exactly. Shutting down an engine for a short period, then starting it, is going to be bad for the valve train in particular. The additional wear there will probably make up for the minimal pollution of an idling engine over the long term. The problem is we're talking about tiny amounts of wear as well as tiny amounts of pollution, so it's difficult to measure and easy for one side to pontificate about by aggregating their epsilons and disregarding the opposite ones.
Fortunately, the methodology is terribly sloppy anyway, so there's nothing serious to discuss. The researchers directly measured 30 trucks. Then they measured the total cloud of particles downwind of the traffic. There was more carbon than they'd expect given the measured value for trucks and the estimated value for cars. Therefore the cars must be emitting much more on average. Oddly, they never directly measured any cars. The idea that the additional black carbon might be due to some other source besides the cars was apparently not considered.
"Fantasy Island", by Robert Bork.
Yeah, the police punished... that's a good one.
Except, as has been often noted, if the safe has a combination lock, you are not required to give the combination.