But pulling EVERYONE over without reasonable cause or suspicion to 'test' them for sobriety should not be something that can be done. That really needs to be taken back to court under 4th amendment charges.
If someone is driving badly, weaving, etc...sure, pull them over, but checkpoints are dragnets which should not be allowed.
I don't see how knowing about a speed trap helps traffic. You slow down for that area and then continue speeding after you're past it.
So what? I mean, you do the same thing for the stop light cameras that double as speeding cameras. You learn where they are, slow down in their scan range, and then speed back up to 'normal' speeds.
Just human behavior. I think if anything, it says the speeds are WAY too slow in these areas posted, otherwise most people would obey them.
Where I live, if you drive the posted limits in most areas, you'll get run over or honked at by angry motorists trying to get somewhere at a reasonable time expense.
For example, warning others that the guy walking down the street in the rain is a police officer posing as one of the dozens of people who pass by an hour as a walking wire (i.e. there's always 8 or 10 people in this 10 meter stretch; 1 or 2 of them is an undercover cop, and they're using listening devices to pick up the narcotics sale going on at an outside dining table) should be a crime. Why? Direct interference with a covert operation.
The thing here is, that the general public is under NO obligation at all to make the police's job easier to perform. In fact, often it is not in the general publics best interest to force them to make the policeman's job easier. Rights can easily get stomped on that way by law enforcement.
We've seen how cameras and filming the police have helped people, and certainly did not make the cops job easier. If you made it against the law to photograph and video cops doing their jobs, it would allow them to get away with things they shouldn't.
But I digress...the point is, we as the general public are under no directive nor obligation to make the policeman's duties any easier for them.
Actually, he could have easily avoided this lawsuit by not filing it. The charges where dropped by the city so it would have died there had he not filed suit in federal court.
Kudos to the guy that went ahead and filed it.
Frankly, if I ever hit the lottery, I'd spend a bit of my time and money bringing lawsuits to try to get rid of stupid shit like this. One would also be to challenge and try to bring down these stupid HOA's....if you buy the land and the house, I don't see how another entity can tell you how to keep it up, or paint it or whatever, in perpetuity.
When you buy land, it should be yours to do as you please as long as it doesn't break a law. HOA's shouldn't have the force of law.
I live in New Orleans, and if you want to paint your house purple, feel free to do so.
Maybe schools should be places where there are enough resources that kids are mostly done learning at the end of the school day. Homework is a nice exercise in and of itself that kids could benefit from doing maybe once a week or so.
Hear hear...
In recent years, I've been shocked at the amount of homework that kids have. I rarely had to take a book home as I grew up in school. I learned most of it at school, and it was actually rare that I had assignments daily...we did often have in some classes a special project (make a styrofoam mobile model of the planets, etc), but that was not the daily norm.
We seemed to get a decent education, I was in public school for most of my schooling (private in grades 4-5 to avoid being bussed 2 hours across town), and in HS, at the end of my senior year, I had a chemistry class that took me through 1st year college, as well as a calculus class that got me through Cal I and about half of Cal II in college.
And this was in one of the southern states that don't often rank that high in the nation.
What gives with today giving so much homework? That certainly doesn't give much time for kids to play outside after school and get some exercise...
This has been seriously pissing me the fuck off. Where the hell do I sign up for one of these free Obamacare sex changes?
Is the right just misinformed and free phalloplasty and testosterone HRT are available and they assumed that assigned males would also be given free vaginoplasty and estrogen HRT?
I don't know and don't care. Unless that's the case, you are completely full of shit. At the very least it doesn't excuse this rhetoric that Obamacare is so evil that it's giving out free sex changes! My insurance won't even cover my meds because when estrogen and an anti-androgen are prescribed to an assigned male, it's cosmetic by definition, and no fucking insurance company will cover anything cosmetic.
I think that you have to be in PRISON to get the state to pay for your sex change operation.
I'm not sure about obamacare having to do this at this time, but I don't see it as much of a stretch since this ruling went through for a prisoner.
Yes...but he is still a racist. As a man of Hispanic genetic heritage, I refuse to even travel through Arizona. He, and the bigots that keep voting his racist ilk in are ensuring that people like me don't spend a dime there.
What things has he done that are racist?
While I have heard his name before, I'm not terribly familiar with him, and haven't head of what he has done as a LEO that is overtly racist, or at least it hasn't hit the national news where I would have heard about it.
If you want to get my attention back again Tesla, start building the roadster performance model again, or something similar in the price range of a corvette.
That's okay. If the restaurant and shop charging you twice for two portions won't help, we'll just up the salt- sugar- and fat sin taxes until the majority of people can't afford to kill themselves with them anymore, thus curing the epidemic and the budget at the same time.
There's more and more literature coming out showing that it isn't fat that is the problem of people getting fat....mostly that is it primarily SUGAR, or things that turn to sugar quickly in the bloodstream (flour, etc). So, don't lump everything in together in your list of "sin" foods.
Way too intrusive....treat people like adults, and only punish those that cannot act like an adult, but don't punish and track everyone else that is getting their job done.
"The amount of times that I tried to venture in and explore something and got pushed or scared off"
. She used words like "worried and scared" multiple times.
WTF? Is this something inherit in girls? I mean, most guys I know, if they find something that interests them, there is nothing that would frighten them, scare them about doing it (unless maybe that interest was juggling 'live running" chainsaws).
I think maybe this is the problem, that women are worried about what the world thinks of them, how things or people "feel", when it comes to interests, hobbies or jobs.
This just doesn't seem to even enter the picture in general with men.
Frankly thinking like that seems 100% alien to me, and hence it really stood out whilst reading her article.
Actually, my parents just gave me an ass whooping...THAT got my attention, and I corrected my behavior in a quick fashion.
The lacking of this is a large part of the problems today. Taking away a toy or a time out...that shit doesn't work and really doesn't phase a child, it doesn't hurt.
"Culturism" is not "racism". Nothing wrong in discriminating against a culture - if there is a problem with said culture. People can change their culture, after all. All of it, or just the bad aspects. Those who cling to bad culture deserve problems and discrimination. The crime culture in mafia families in example of bad culture.
True, but if you try to use the same argument about the culture of "the hood", with the gang bangers and glorified thug culture of crime, and irresponsible/non-existant father syndrome which seems to strike predominately black areas (and many hispanics too), you bring down that firestorm of being a racist, even if the numbers or ease in observation of such proves it to be the case.
I mean, the hood/gangsta culture is just as plain example of a "bad" culture too, is it not?
Before the Canaanites and all of the other events in the bible, people lived in the area for tens of thousands of years. On the other hand, real people were expelled, had their homes and villages razed, and are still not allowed to return because they aren't Jewish. This has been happening after WWII and isn't just some ancient fairy tale.
You know, if the middle east is more or less like what I see about it on TV, I'd say "who the fuck wants to live in that shithole part of the world?"
I mean, I'd say let them have it and move to somewhere that was a better climate, non-dessert, and at this point, not bombed out and full of idiots that are hell bent on hating their neighbors and the rest of the world and wanting to blow everything up.
But even to basics, from what I've seen of the area on movies and TV, I can't imagine wanting to live in such a barren wasteland (even if you discount the crazy ass neighbors you have to deal with there).
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I've pulled up the command prompt on it, and has been kinda fun hacking the machine with new sounds, music and videos.
I don't want a smart card.
And what good does this do you when you buy online?
Matter of fact, it's all dark.....thump thump....thump thump...
Interesting.
I've never been on linkedin or ANY other social network, yet never had a problem getting jobs.
In fact, I find it to be a plus since many gigs in the past have been security related, with clearances required.
If someone is driving badly, weaving, etc...sure, pull them over, but checkpoints are dragnets which should not be allowed.
It also helps you to know where those nasty breathalizer traps are too....so you can take a 'safer' back route home.
So what? I mean, you do the same thing for the stop light cameras that double as speeding cameras. You learn where they are, slow down in their scan range, and then speed back up to 'normal' speeds.
Just human behavior. I think if anything, it says the speeds are WAY too slow in these areas posted, otherwise most people would obey them.
Where I live, if you drive the posted limits in most areas, you'll get run over or honked at by angry motorists trying to get somewhere at a reasonable time expense.
The thing here is, that the general public is under NO obligation at all to make the police's job easier to perform. In fact, often it is not in the general publics best interest to force them to make the policeman's job easier. Rights can easily get stomped on that way by law enforcement.
We've seen how cameras and filming the police have helped people, and certainly did not make the cops job easier. If you made it against the law to photograph and video cops doing their jobs, it would allow them to get away with things they shouldn't.
But I digress...the point is, we as the general public are under no directive nor obligation to make the policeman's duties any easier for them.
Kudos to the guy that went ahead and filed it.
Frankly, if I ever hit the lottery, I'd spend a bit of my time and money bringing lawsuits to try to get rid of stupid shit like this. One would also be to challenge and try to bring down these stupid HOA's....if you buy the land and the house, I don't see how another entity can tell you how to keep it up, or paint it or whatever, in perpetuity.
When you buy land, it should be yours to do as you please as long as it doesn't break a law. HOA's shouldn't have the force of law.
I live in New Orleans, and if you want to paint your house purple, feel free to do so.
People have been using CB radios for decades on the road to warn of "Bear Traps".
Heck, on highway trips, talking to truckers, I often know where the speed traps are LONG before I get there and my radar detector goes off.
And, IF the point of a speed trap, is to slow down traffic, then flashing my lights does that nicely.
Or, am I maybe wrong here, that the point of a speed trap is nothing more than revenue collection..?
Perhaps we need to change the motto on the police cars to " To Collect and Serve.
Cool!!
You can promote it as the ultimate SUV!!
Hear hear...
In recent years, I've been shocked at the amount of homework that kids have. I rarely had to take a book home as I grew up in school. I learned most of it at school, and it was actually rare that I had assignments daily...we did often have in some classes a special project (make a styrofoam mobile model of the planets, etc), but that was not the daily norm.
We seemed to get a decent education, I was in public school for most of my schooling (private in grades 4-5 to avoid being bussed 2 hours across town), and in HS, at the end of my senior year, I had a chemistry class that took me through 1st year college, as well as a calculus class that got me through Cal I and about half of Cal II in college.
And this was in one of the southern states that don't often rank that high in the nation.
What gives with today giving so much homework? That certainly doesn't give much time for kids to play outside after school and get some exercise...
Do they require everyone to come into city hall and get weighed? Does this only go out to people that register for this..etc?
I'm just curious how the govt. gets the stats on everyone's weight or BMI to know if they should be on the list for text messages?
I have to guess old cars will really start to hold their value that were made prior to this requirement.
I may have to get in the market for an old muscle car, maybe a Judge GTO, nothing but engine and a transmission, ahh, simple times.
I think that you have to be in PRISON to get the state to pay for your sex change operation.
I'm not sure about obamacare having to do this at this time, but I don't see it as much of a stretch since this ruling went through for a prisoner.
What things has he done that are racist?
While I have heard his name before, I'm not terribly familiar with him, and haven't head of what he has done as a LEO that is overtly racist, or at least it hasn't hit the national news where I would have heard about it.
If you want to get my attention back again Tesla, start building the roadster performance model again, or something similar in the price range of a corvette.
Then I'll be interested!!
There's more and more literature coming out showing that it isn't fat that is the problem of people getting fat....mostly that is it primarily SUGAR, or things that turn to sugar quickly in the bloodstream (flour, etc). So, don't lump everything in together in your list of "sin" foods.
Or...Take this job and shove it.
Way too intrusive....treat people like adults, and only punish those that cannot act like an adult, but don't punish and track everyone else that is getting their job done.
. She used words like "worried and scared" multiple times.
WTF? Is this something inherit in girls? I mean, most guys I know, if they find something that interests them, there is nothing that would frighten them, scare them about doing it (unless maybe that interest was juggling 'live running" chainsaws).
I think maybe this is the problem, that women are worried about what the world thinks of them, how things or people "feel", when it comes to interests, hobbies or jobs.
This just doesn't seem to even enter the picture in general with men.
Frankly thinking like that seems 100% alien to me, and hence it really stood out whilst reading her article.
Scared to be interested in computers? Seriously?
And it does seem to make a bit of sense. In the long timeline of human evolution, we've been 'farmers' for a very short stint overall.
The lacking of this is a large part of the problems today. Taking away a toy or a time out...that shit doesn't work and really doesn't phase a child, it doesn't hurt.
True, but if you try to use the same argument about the culture of "the hood", with the gang bangers and glorified thug culture of crime, and irresponsible/non-existant father syndrome which seems to strike predominately black areas (and many hispanics too), you bring down that firestorm of being a racist, even if the numbers or ease in observation of such proves it to be the case.
I mean, the hood/gangsta culture is just as plain example of a "bad" culture too, is it not?
You know, if the middle east is more or less like what I see about it on TV, I'd say "who the fuck wants to live in that shithole part of the world?"
I mean, I'd say let them have it and move to somewhere that was a better climate, non-dessert, and at this point, not bombed out and full of idiots that are hell bent on hating their neighbors and the rest of the world and wanting to blow everything up.
But even to basics, from what I've seen of the area on movies and TV, I can't imagine wanting to live in such a barren wasteland (even if you discount the crazy ass neighbors you have to deal with there).