Funding for the police comes from the taxpayers. Any fine paid by the police force is ultimately paid by the taxpayers.
Umm, but to whom would the fine be paid?? The city?? So the the police could be fined $1M and it's just funny money transactions taking place on paper, looping around within the local govt system.
whether or not this person was a PITA to the police at his house that night, well... it's apparently all on tape;)
Note to anyone else considering videotaping the police - mail the original tape to a friend in another state before confronting them about their behaviour. Maybe mail a copy to a local TV station too, just in case the police "lose" the copy they sieze from you...
the police minister himself probably only avoided jail time by dying before his trial came up
Did he *really* die, or did he just manage to make himself disappear, perhaps by getting himself inserted into something like a witness protection program??
My daughter's Fujitsu Lifebook hard drive broke a year or so ago, and her Best Buy warranty had just run out, so I found a replacement on eBay - twice the size (40Gb instead of the original 20Gb) and about $72. Then I tried to load the OS... Turns out that Fujitsu had supplied an install image on the hard drive, with no hard copy. Around page 83 in the manual, in the Troubleshooting appendix, it suggests you might want to burn your own CD. I went back and forth with email to Fujitsu Support over a couple of weeks about that, while waiting for the disk to arrive. Their first offer was "go buy a new copy of Windows XP",. After I bitched about how I shouldn't have to pay for a whole new copy of XP, they came back with: "send us the laptop and $100 and we'll install the OS for you". After suggesting it was lousy customer relations not to supply the image on CD, they suggested sending the laptop and $250 and they'd install a new 20Gb disk with the OS. Since then I've been relating this story wherever it might influence people considering Fujitsu hardware.
I was actually able to recover a substantial amount of the old drive contents, but I had to download a copy of WinXP Home to install. I figure the Lifebook's original XP license was still valid, as there wasn't a substantial change in the hardware... If I hadn't been able to sort it out, Best Buy would probably have put in a 20Gb disk with just the OS and charged more than the 40Gb cost on eBay.
A big spark-gap transmitter ought to do the trick. Fairly simple to build too... As a plus, it would also blanket police radios and any cell phones in the vicinity.
The problem is that, as long as there appears to be a demand, the sickos that are taking the photos will continue to take them. By getting the users "off the streets", the demand should drop.
There's also the fact that the cops aren't catching the photo-takers for one reason or another. If they can pick up a wide enough cross-section of the viewers, maybe they can pin down some of the sources.
It's more like putting a TV in your window, turning it on, and getting upset when someone watches it.
Don't forget the wifi is a two-way thing. So, it would be more accurate to say that not only was the guy watching your TV, he had a remote and was channel-surfing as well.
Make sure your pants don't have metal zippers either...
Hey, there's an idea for a stupid lawsuit - sue to make pants manufacturers include a warning label on metal-zippered pants: "In case of thunderstorms, drop pants and hurl them away from you"
Well, I'd say there is *some* practical use - it's now known that a vehicle capable of carrying a person can get 3000 MPG, albeit under very specific conditions. Granted that the specific conditions are virtually worthless in the real world, it has been achieved, and maybe, just maybe, *some* of the principals can be adapted to the real world to improve gas milage of a regular 4-door sedan.
See now the one where a guy that broke into a house, managed to lock himself in the garage and had to spend two weeks subsisting on dog food and a couple of cans of fizzy drinks because the owners were on holiday and then sued that family for a lot of money
Is that seriously a real case??
1) how was he *not* able to break back out in two weeks?? Was he too stupid to get the outer door open??
2) I thought criminals were not allowed to profit from their crimes?? As a burglar, he's illegally on the premises and by filing a lawsuit freely admits that fact. Winning damages would be profiting from the burglary...
The boy's parents, for having a kid. Should be worth another few million.
Then there's the building contractor who built the house where the alleged offense took place.
The bed manufacturer too, assuming a bed was involved.
As far as I could see, the article doesn't say if this was the girl's first time - if not, maybe she should be suing her other lovers for helping her become a slut...
Never mind what might or might not be expected after dinner and a movie - my question is, what the hell were the girl's parents doing?? They let their minor child be picked up by someone they've never met, taken to dinner and a movie?? Someone needs to slap them upside the head for lousy parenting.
Security cameras are generally up high, looking down, so they're safe from DoS by silly-string, spray paint, etc. Mount the CCD zapper a little lower, and don't let it point above horizontal... The zapper supposedly works by shooting a "thin beam of white light" at the CCD, so it would need to be mounted relatively low anyway in order to see and zap the CCD.
Completely ignore all the people like Doctors, EMTs, firefighters and anyone else who has a job where lives are at stake 24/7. Are they not allowed to go to the movies now?
Are those people oncall 24/7/365?? If not, they're off-shift for some part of each week and can take care of things like shopping and entertainment. When on-shift & oncall they should at least be reachable be phone, which wouldn't stop them shopping or being entertained, but they'd have to be prepared to drop everything and run. They may or may not be adequately compensated for it, but it goes with the job and they would have known that from day one.
it honestly puzzles me why people stampede to get flu shots every year -- I've had the flu maybe twice in my life, it sucked, it lasted about three days each time, and I got over it. People look at me like I'm nuts -- "You're not getting a flu shot? WHY NOT???"
Same here. Every year my school does flu shots sometime in November. The one and *only* time I had the shot, I could barely get out of bed the next day, so I spent 4 or 5 days in the school's sanitorium (English Public School - we lived in the school, so it had its own mini-hospital). I had flu *again* over Christmas, and yet again around Easter. Haven't had the shot since, and have had short (24-hour - 36-hour) flu attacks maybe 5 times in 30 years since leaving school.
The interesting thing is that after my parents told the school I would avoid the shot, I *didn't* get flu, even in the annual flu epidemic that sweeps through the school every Easter. Some years the sanitorium, with maybe 40 to 50 beds, was so overloaded that a dormitory (or two, on one occasion) was cleared out for use as a hospital ward. Some sick kids were even sent home if their parents lived near enough to come pick them up easily.
anybody who's been in the GA world for more than a few months could easily plan to access a passenger airliner without being challenged.
Just one question - if it's so easy to access an airfield like that, why would a terrorist bother going for a passenger airliner?? Steal a small airplane, drive a truck (Suburban, Yukon, or similar) full of explosives out onto the field, load it up and fly it off. Pick a target within range of the stolen airplane.
IIRC, some "expert" theorized that the 9/11 passenger planes were picked because they'd be full of fuel, to add to the devastation. If you can quietly load up with barrels of dynamite/TNT/C4/napalm/etc, you wouldn't need to have the extra fuel that a passenger jet holds.
Apparently the wave of molasses knocked over a couple of buildings. Maybe some the deaths were caused by falling masonry or people falling out of the collapsing buildings??
My daughter has a Saturn, on which the oil filter is tucked away on the *back* of the engine block. Laying underneath the right side, you can either see it, or touch it, but not both. You can't easily get both hands on it, either. That has to be the stupidest place ever to put something that needs regular maintenance. I did the oil change *once* only. Since then she's taken it to WalMart. I swear, it would almost be easier to pull the back out of the glove box to change that oil filter.
Reminds me of a story I heard about one of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's bridges, somewhere in the southwest of England. Apparently, after some decades (hundreds?) of years of use it was deemed to be unstable, so the Royal Engineers were brought in to demolish it - I guess they have to practise on real structures occasionally. Anyway, they surveyed the bridge, loaded it up with explosives and hit the switch. When the dust cleared, the individual stones of the bridge had settled back into place and the whole structure was still solid enough to drive a 10-ton truck over...
I don't recall what the Engineers did about it. They probably just repointed the mortar, slapped on a fresh coat of paint and sneaked back to the barracks.
I don't understand why the bricks'n'mortar Native American Casino operators don't also run online sites. Are they not able to get the same tax breaks and stuff for "online reservations" as they do for actual real estate??
I just re-read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and liked the idea of the 1/3, 2/3 thing. Add that into the mandatory sunset date, but as someone else suggested, make the sunset date variable. I think laws that are passed quickly, in the heat of the moment, should have a very short sunset date, to force re-evaluation quickly. For example, how long did it take them to construct and pass the PATRIOT act?? Just a matter of weeks, I think. That's one that should have a short half-life. On the other hand, any law that is passed after a lot of thoughtful discussion should be allowed a longer life.
More and more I'm reading that as: "America, home of the fee". Pay the right fee and you can do just about any damn thing you like. In some cases - hunting, fishing, driving, etc - the fee is "just a few bucks". Make substantial contributions to the right campaigns, or donate other "valuable considerations" in the right places, and you can pretty much write your own legislation...
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Umm, but to whom would the fine be paid?? The city?? So the the police could be fined $1M and it's just funny money transactions taking place on paper, looping around within the local govt system.
Note to anyone else considering videotaping the police - mail the original tape to a friend in another state before confronting them about their behaviour. Maybe mail a copy to a local TV station too, just in case the police "lose" the copy they sieze from you...
Did he *really* die, or did he just manage to make himself disappear, perhaps by getting himself inserted into something like a witness protection program??
I was actually able to recover a substantial amount of the old drive contents, but I had to download a copy of WinXP Home to install. I figure the Lifebook's original XP license was still valid, as there wasn't a substantial change in the hardware... If I hadn't been able to sort it out, Best Buy would probably have put in a 20Gb disk with just the OS and charged more than the 40Gb cost on eBay.
A big spark-gap transmitter ought to do the trick. Fairly simple to build too... As a plus, it would also blanket police radios and any cell phones in the vicinity.
There's also the fact that the cops aren't catching the photo-takers for one reason or another. If they can pick up a wide enough cross-section of the viewers, maybe they can pin down some of the sources.
Don't forget the wifi is a two-way thing. So, it would be more accurate to say that not only was the guy watching your TV, he had a remote and was channel-surfing as well.
Hey, there's an idea for a stupid lawsuit - sue to make pants manufacturers include a warning label on metal-zippered pants: "In case of thunderstorms, drop pants and hurl them away from you"
Well, I'd say there is *some* practical use - it's now known that a vehicle capable of carrying a person can get 3000 MPG, albeit under very specific conditions. Granted that the specific conditions are virtually worthless in the real world, it has been achieved, and maybe, just maybe, *some* of the principals can be adapted to the real world to improve gas milage of a regular 4-door sedan.
Is that seriously a real case??
1) how was he *not* able to break back out in two weeks?? Was he too stupid to get the outer door open??
2) I thought criminals were not allowed to profit from their crimes?? As a burglar, he's illegally on the premises and by filing a lawsuit freely admits that fact. Winning damages would be profiting from the burglary...
But then, IANAL, and I have no clue... :)
The boy's parents, for having a kid. Should be worth another few million.
Then there's the building contractor who built the house where the alleged offense took place.
The bed manufacturer too, assuming a bed was involved.
As far as I could see, the article doesn't say if this was the girl's first time - if not, maybe she should be suing her other lovers for helping her become a slut...
Never mind what might or might not be expected after dinner and a movie - my question is, what the hell were the girl's parents doing?? They let their minor child be picked up by someone they've never met, taken to dinner and a movie?? Someone needs to slap them upside the head for lousy parenting.
Security cameras are generally up high, looking down, so they're safe from DoS by silly-string, spray paint, etc. Mount the CCD zapper a little lower, and don't let it point above horizontal... The zapper supposedly works by shooting a "thin beam of white light" at the CCD, so it would need to be mounted relatively low anyway in order to see and zap the CCD.
How about just papering the walls with aluminum foil, with regular paper/paint over the top?? That should cut reception down substantially.
Are those people oncall 24/7/365?? If not, they're off-shift for some part of each week and can take care of things like shopping and entertainment. When on-shift & oncall they should at least be reachable be phone, which wouldn't stop them shopping or being entertained, but they'd have to be prepared to drop everything and run. They may or may not be adequately compensated for it, but it goes with the job and they would have known that from day one.
I really don't think you meant desanitized ...
5 seconds?? In our house it's "30 seconds, unless the dog gets it first"...
Same here. Every year my school does flu shots sometime in November. The one and *only* time I had the shot, I could barely get out of bed the next day, so I spent 4 or 5 days in the school's sanitorium (English Public School - we lived in the school, so it had its own mini-hospital). I had flu *again* over Christmas, and yet again around Easter. Haven't had the shot since, and have had short (24-hour - 36-hour) flu attacks maybe 5 times in 30 years since leaving school.
The interesting thing is that after my parents told the school I would avoid the shot, I *didn't* get flu, even in the annual flu epidemic that sweeps through the school every Easter. Some years the sanitorium, with maybe 40 to 50 beds, was so overloaded that a dormitory (or two, on one occasion) was cleared out for use as a hospital ward. Some sick kids were even sent home if their parents lived near enough to come pick them up easily.
Just one question - if it's so easy to access an airfield like that, why would a terrorist bother going for a passenger airliner?? Steal a small airplane, drive a truck (Suburban, Yukon, or similar) full of explosives out onto the field, load it up and fly it off. Pick a target within range of the stolen airplane.
IIRC, some "expert" theorized that the 9/11 passenger planes were picked because they'd be full of fuel, to add to the devastation. If you can quietly load up with barrels of dynamite/TNT/C4/napalm/etc, you wouldn't need to have the extra fuel that a passenger jet holds.
Apparently the wave of molasses knocked over a couple of buildings. Maybe some the deaths were caused by falling masonry or people falling out of the collapsing buildings??
My daughter has a Saturn, on which the oil filter is tucked away on the *back* of the engine block. Laying underneath the right side, you can either see it, or touch it, but not both. You can't easily get both hands on it, either. That has to be the stupidest place ever to put something that needs regular maintenance. I did the oil change *once* only. Since then she's taken it to WalMart. I swear, it would almost be easier to pull the back out of the glove box to change that oil filter.
I don't recall what the Engineers did about it. They probably just repointed the mortar, slapped on a fresh coat of paint and sneaked back to the barracks.
I don't understand why the bricks'n'mortar Native American Casino operators don't also run online sites. Are they not able to get the same tax breaks and stuff for "online reservations" as they do for actual real estate??
I just re-read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and liked the idea of the 1/3, 2/3 thing. Add that into the mandatory sunset date, but as someone else suggested, make the sunset date variable. I think laws that are passed quickly, in the heat of the moment, should have a very short sunset date, to force re-evaluation quickly. For example, how long did it take them to construct and pass the PATRIOT act?? Just a matter of weeks, I think. That's one that should have a short half-life. On the other hand, any law that is passed after a lot of thoughtful discussion should be allowed a longer life.
More and more I'm reading that as: "America, home of the fee ". Pay the right fee and you can do just about any damn thing you like. In some cases - hunting, fishing, driving, etc - the fee is "just a few bucks". Make substantial contributions to the right campaigns, or donate other "valuable considerations" in the right places, and you can pretty much write your own legislation...