Actually, police are not supposed to "enforce the law", they are supposed to maintain order.
If they see someone causing disorder, they may, at their discretion, choose to gently caution, give a stern warning to, give a written citation to, or arrest, the individual causing the disturbance.
In a perfect world, a police officer will NOT enter into that situation simply because the individual causing the disorder is merely annoying or insulting to the officer themselves. In a perfect world, a police officer is supposed to have a thick skin and endless amounts of patience. In a perfect world, an officer refrains from a confrontation until someone else complains about the disorderly behavior, or that behavior clearly escalates to maliciousness and/or damage of physical property, or the overall psychological well-being of the populace.
In a perfect world, "law enforcement" is the product of proper police behavior.
What we are seeing is petty, selfish, arrogant, belligerent, puerile and legally actionable misbehavior by the police and their support structure.
And, should the local legal system fail in providing a solution, then the case must be escalated to the state, then federal legal system.
Should that fail, our problems are going to be much more serious than police misbehavior.
Y'know, people need to just learn to turn off their brains once in a while. If you really wanna use your brains when you see a movie, don't go to the cinema at the mall, go to the art-house cinema in the college district.
This is where the genre of "popcorn movies" comes into play. It's not great, it's not bad, it's a movie you can enjoy so long as you've got a bit of popcorn to stuff in your face while you watch it. Quite frankly, the last "Steak and Potatoes" movie I saw was "Moon", and I left the theater incredibly happy. The last "Dinner and Nightcap" movie I saw was "Avatar", and I left THAT one a bit dizzy and giggly, wanting a cigarette.
But most of the summer offerings so far have been either Popcorn, or flat out Pepto-Bismol. "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" from last year is a perfect example of a Peptol-Bismol movie, and I'm glad I didn't see it in the theater, but got it from "a friend".
"Cowboys and Aliens"? I'd call this one a "Popcorn, Soda and Hot Dog" movie. It's not a "Steak and Potatoes" movie, but it's got more brains than just a popcorn. You don't need a brain, per se, but if you care to use it, you won't be terribly disappointed. You'll still be a bit peckish when you leave, but not sick over spending 10 bux.
...but I think I should point out that this is nothing but a theory, posted by a blogger, and now given some air-time by Slate.com.
Sure, it's legal, but so is lopping off my own arm, so long as I don't kill myself. (That's illegal.) Yet strangely enough, I'm not in any rush to do that just because I can legally do it.
Same thing here. The government may be able to legally take this "escape hatch", but they're not going to, because it would have the same effect as lopping off all their limbs.
The only reason Blagojevich was prosecuted is because he was a friend of the current president, whom the republitea party hates with a passion. (Emphasis on "was".) And it certainly didn't help him to go around saying he would be naming the person to fill Mr. Obama's empty senate seat.
The man pretty much grew the hemp, rhetted it, threshed it, threaded it, spun it and then wove it into the rope he'd be using to legally hang himself.
I was thinking about how roads could benefit from this as well? Roads, and especially parking lots.
If you paint the asphalt a lighter color, you've just wiped out a major heat-sink, especially in an urban environment. You wouldn't want to do this in an area that has any appreciable amount of snow, but in Southern states it would be a very big help.
That's when I realized a potential savings in another aspect? Street lighting. If the roads and parking lots are painted white, or even a lighter color, you could cut back on the amount of street lighting. Heck, in some areas, you could get away with ambient light from the city itself.
I ran across a rather good password generator a few years ago, called "XYZZY", after the old text game. I like it, because it creates passwords that are pronounceable, but very random, and not in any dictionary. Throw in upper and lower-case characters, and you've got some pretty strong passwords.
You can download it on various places on the net, but it's tiny, very simple, and very good. From the README.TXT...
The algorithm used to create the passwords is based on work of several people. In simple terms, it uses the statistics of how often one letter appears next to another and generates passwords based on these trends. For example, if a password contains the letter 'Q', then it is very likely that it will also contain a 'U' right beside it, because this is almost always the case in real words.
Here's a selection? Just 8 characters, with numbers thrown in...
toconi69 toropid8 udimpha3 ounpla44 ctyleg69
Try pronouncing them! It usually works, although that last one might be troublesome if you try to add an "i"? But it's a mnemonic device that really helps you remember a strong password without writing it down.
When my dad was in his teens, WAY back when, he was fishing for eels out on the ice of Sag Harbor bay.
You cut a hole in the ice and jabbed the eel spear into the mud on the bottom. The eels would get caught between the tines, and you'd pull up the pole and let the eel squirm out into the bucket. Sometimes, you'd get one that was much too small, and you just shake it off on the ice near the hole.
Well, a seagull came down and grabbed the eel before it could escape back under the ice. The bird gobbled it down, but it took a few tries. The bird stood there, watching and waiting for any more. A few minutes later, the bird started doing a funny kind of dance, and the previously devoured eel slid right out the back of the bird.
Still alive, highly pissed off and wriggling like crazy to get back in the water.
The seagull just turned around, grabbed it and swallowed it down again.
I read a news item a few years back? It was a commentary by a UK newspaper about when the IRA bombings first started up. People were all talking about it, of course, and it was the hot news item of the day.
One reporter went up to an elderly gentleman and asked him what he thought of the IRA bombings.
"Fuck you," he replied. "I've been bombed by professionals!"
How quintessentially British.
And how wonderfully appropriate for our times. We, as a race, need to learn how to say "Fuck you!" to the terrorists, whether they carry a holy book or a law book. When someone comes up to us, shoving a microphone in our face and asking us, all a-twitter, "ARE YOU SCARED?!? ARE YOU AFRAID?!?"
We should simply say, "Fuck you! Of course I'm scared, but I'm not going to stop living my life?"
Whoever marked this as "insightful" missed the part about the poor sap who came along looking for the exploded cache a police caution.
From the Wikipedia page on Police Cautions...
A police caution administered for the purpose of disposing of a criminal offence... A police caution (more properly known as a simple caution) is given by the police and is a non-statutory disposal for adult offenders.
Hey, don't be so uppity about the shitty beer we have over here.
YOU have Strongbow and Buckfast, so that makes us even.
And the way home brewing is really getting into swing in these parts, we'll be having proper pubs serving genuine, room-temperature ales, lagers, stouts, porters and more.
With continuing unpopularity at the loss of life in wars with dubious motives, America invested more and more in automated units. From unmanned drones to remotely controlled tanks, to finally autonomous infantry robots. At first, this seemed to be a sound strategy when dealing with areas totally hostile to the US, but there was a problem. America had moved the biggest threat to their security from extremist terrorists, to bored teenagers in their bedrooms.
Early warning signs were ignored. The military hierarchy just couldn't grasp the notion that people would try to crack into their systems for no other motive than for fun, or that their systems could be so easily compromised. Often, by children no less. Compromises in security were covered up. Even when the automated infantry united kept breaking into song and dance routines.
- Extract from "Modern Warfare and Cake Making" (c) Alan Foreman
If you use nanoparticles that carry an antibody tag that will collect and/or attach to the tumors, you can just flood the body with them for a few days. Wait for the overflow to pass out, then turn on the switch.
The conversion of electromagnetic energy into heat by nanoparticles has the potential to be a powerful, non-invasive technique for biotechnology applications such as drug release, disease treatment and remote control of single cell functions, but poor conversion efficiencies have hindered practical applications so far.
From John Kanzius' Wikipedia page...
Kanzius RF Therapy is an experimental cancer treatment that employs a combination of either gold or carbon nanoparticles and radio waves to heat and destroy cancer cells without damaging healthy cells.
The specific absorption rate for radio waves by living tissue in the proposed wavelengths and intensity levels is very low. Metals absorb this energy much more efficiently than tissue through dielectric heating; Richard Smalley has suggested that carbon nanotubes could be used to similar purpose. If nanoparticles were to be preferentially bound to cancer sites, cancer cells could be destroyed or induced into apoptosis while leaving healthy tissue relatively unharmed.
One uses magnetic action, the other uses RF action.
Here is 1 of 3 videos of the "60 Minutes" episode on YouTube.
I wonder if this might end up in a patent fight or worse?
When I was with the Military Sealift Command, all the "salty dogs" told me to invest, quite specifically, in a small UPS for my stateroom. They were quite adamant about never plugging your electronic gear straight into the outlets.
The first time I saw the overhead lights doing Saturday Night Fever, I was grateful for the advice. All my gear survived.
That is quite possibly one of the more useful Usenet postings I've seen in a very long time. Definitely good to know if you have a backup generator or two!
...is the document specifically instructing officers, that when they take an iPhone, for any reason, to stick it into a Faraday bag.
The document specifically mentions the "Where's My iPhone" app, which can not only locate the phone, but remotely wipe the phone.
Thereby making it useless for any kind of investigation. And because everything is backed up to iTunes, the owner can just re-sync their phone as soon as they get it back.
Here's an excerpt from the faraday-bags.com website, emphasis mine...
Our line of Black Hole Faraday Bags have been designed to aid police, military, and consultants in the collection, preservation, transport, and analysis of wireless evidence. Wireless devices such as cell phones, GPS, netbooks, bluetooth devices, laptops, etc. are shielded from cellular, WiFi, bluetooth and radio signals when inside of our faraday bags.
Our newest Black Hole bag with a shielded USB 2.0 connection not only offers shielding for seizure and transport but analysis as well. In the past, shielded analysis has been limited to large and expensive enclosures, making shielded analysis in the field nearly impossible. Our Black Hole Data Bag is a truly unique and revolutionary product built to the demands of our customers.
So even if it's inside the bag, they'll be able to slurp it without you or your friends/family being able to wipe it.
A huge number of Blackberries were purchased shortly after 9/11, because when the communications terminals in the towers were destroyed, text messages were the only things getting through the system.
The Blackberry was still pretty new back then, but pagers were in wide use, and those were the only things working. The government took notice, and there was a HUGE push to give everyone either pagers or similar devices.
Once Blackberry came along, Uncle Sam jumped on them lickety-split, because it represented a complete solution to everything they were looking for. Text, email and phone, all in one. And if there were a disaster, the text functions would still function.
As for the games consoles, there were large purchases for Beowulf clusters, A/V systems and MWR purchases. And having seen the MWR lounges on the bases, I have to say it was money exceptionally well spent.
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Only in parodies, apparently.
Actually, police are not supposed to "enforce the law", they are supposed to maintain order.
If they see someone causing disorder, they may, at their discretion, choose to gently caution, give a stern warning to, give a written citation to, or arrest, the individual causing the disturbance.
In a perfect world, a police officer will NOT enter into that situation simply because the individual causing the disorder is merely annoying or insulting to the officer themselves. In a perfect world, a police officer is supposed to have a thick skin and endless amounts of patience. In a perfect world, an officer refrains from a confrontation until someone else complains about the disorderly behavior, or that behavior clearly escalates to maliciousness and/or damage of physical property, or the overall psychological well-being of the populace.
In a perfect world, "law enforcement" is the product of proper police behavior.
What we are seeing is petty, selfish, arrogant, belligerent, puerile and legally actionable misbehavior by the police and their support structure.
And, should the local legal system fail in providing a solution, then the case must be escalated to the state, then federal legal system.
Should that fail, our problems are going to be much more serious than police misbehavior.
Y'know, people need to just learn to turn off their brains once in a while. If you really wanna use your brains when you see a movie, don't go to the cinema at the mall, go to the art-house cinema in the college district.
This is where the genre of "popcorn movies" comes into play. It's not great, it's not bad, it's a movie you can enjoy so long as you've got a bit of popcorn to stuff in your face while you watch it. Quite frankly, the last "Steak and Potatoes" movie I saw was "Moon", and I left the theater incredibly happy. The last "Dinner and Nightcap" movie I saw was "Avatar", and I left THAT one a bit dizzy and giggly, wanting a cigarette.
But most of the summer offerings so far have been either Popcorn, or flat out Pepto-Bismol. "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" from last year is a perfect example of a Peptol-Bismol movie, and I'm glad I didn't see it in the theater, but got it from "a friend".
"Cowboys and Aliens"? I'd call this one a "Popcorn, Soda and Hot Dog" movie. It's not a "Steak and Potatoes" movie, but it's got more brains than just a popcorn. You don't need a brain, per se, but if you care to use it, you won't be terribly disappointed. You'll still be a bit peckish when you leave, but not sick over spending 10 bux.
...but I think I should point out that this is nothing but a theory, posted by a blogger, and now given some air-time by Slate.com.
Sure, it's legal, but so is lopping off my own arm, so long as I don't kill myself. (That's illegal.) Yet strangely enough, I'm not in any rush to do that just because I can legally do it.
Same thing here. The government may be able to legally take this "escape hatch", but they're not going to, because it would have the same effect as lopping off all their limbs.
The reason USA became the wealthiest country in the world in 19 century...
Yeaaaaah, that turned out well, didn't it.
The only reason Blagojevich was prosecuted is because he was a friend of the current president, whom the republitea party hates with a passion. (Emphasis on "was".) And it certainly didn't help him to go around saying he would be naming the person to fill Mr. Obama's empty senate seat.
The man pretty much grew the hemp, rhetted it, threshed it, threaded it, spun it and then wove it into the rope he'd be using to legally hang himself.
Great. It's "damning". Yay.
Will we see any penalties for Cisco breaking the law?
*crickets*
I was thinking about how roads could benefit from this as well? Roads, and especially parking lots.
If you paint the asphalt a lighter color, you've just wiped out a major heat-sink, especially in an urban environment. You wouldn't want to do this in an area that has any appreciable amount of snow, but in Southern states it would be a very big help.
That's when I realized a potential savings in another aspect? Street lighting. If the roads and parking lots are painted white, or even a lighter color, you could cut back on the amount of street lighting. Heck, in some areas, you could get away with ambient light from the city itself.
Gosh-darn it, Grandpa! Your posts default to 5 and don't need to be modded up. Give the kids a chance!
I ran across a rather good password generator a few years ago, called "XYZZY", after the old text game. I like it, because it creates passwords that are pronounceable, but very random, and not in any dictionary. Throw in upper and lower-case characters, and you've got some pretty strong passwords.
You can download it on various places on the net, but it's tiny, very simple, and very good. From the README.TXT...
Here's a selection? Just 8 characters, with numbers thrown in...
toconi69
toropid8
udimpha3
ounpla44
ctyleg69
Try pronouncing them! It usually works, although that last one might be troublesome if you try to add an "i"? But it's a mnemonic device that really helps you remember a strong password without writing it down.
When my dad was in his teens, WAY back when, he was fishing for eels out on the ice of Sag Harbor bay.
You cut a hole in the ice and jabbed the eel spear into the mud on the bottom. The eels would get caught between the tines, and you'd pull up the pole and let the eel squirm out into the bucket. Sometimes, you'd get one that was much too small, and you just shake it off on the ice near the hole.
Well, a seagull came down and grabbed the eel before it could escape back under the ice. The bird gobbled it down, but it took a few tries. The bird stood there, watching and waiting for any more. A few minutes later, the bird started doing a funny kind of dance, and the previously devoured eel slid right out the back of the bird.
Still alive, highly pissed off and wriggling like crazy to get back in the water.
The seagull just turned around, grabbed it and swallowed it down again.
It stayed in that time.
Except that Texas chickened out and backed off. The TSA threated to designate the entire state of Texas a "no-fly zone".
However, it would seem that a few legislators actually used their brains and thought about that for a moment, and decided to push the issue and call the government's bluff.
I mean, seriously. Who actually believes that the feds would actually BAN all flights in and out of Texas?
Please...
"Fuck you!"
I read a news item a few years back? It was a commentary by a UK newspaper about when the IRA bombings first started up. People were all talking about it, of course, and it was the hot news item of the day.
One reporter went up to an elderly gentleman and asked him what he thought of the IRA bombings.
"Fuck you," he replied. "I've been bombed by professionals!"
How quintessentially British.
And how wonderfully appropriate for our times. We, as a race, need to learn how to say "Fuck you!" to the terrorists, whether they carry a holy book or a law book. When someone comes up to us, shoving a microphone in our face and asking us, all a-twitter, "ARE YOU SCARED?!? ARE YOU AFRAID?!?"
We should simply say, "Fuck you! Of course I'm scared, but I'm not going to stop living my life?"
"Fuck you."
It's a phrase we humans need to use more often.
Whoever marked this as "insightful" missed the part about the poor sap who came along looking for the exploded cache a police caution.
From the Wikipedia page on Police Cautions...
And from the article...
So. Just by looking for this cache and finding it, the bloke now has a criminal record.
I hope that guy takes it to court and shoves it so far up the cop's arse that they sneeze confetti for a fortnight.
Hey, don't be so uppity about the shitty beer we have over here.
YOU have Strongbow and Buckfast, so that makes us even.
And the way home brewing is really getting into swing in these parts, we'll be having proper pubs serving genuine, room-temperature ales, lagers, stouts, porters and more.
With continuing unpopularity at the loss of life in wars with dubious motives, America invested more and more in automated units. From unmanned drones to remotely controlled tanks, to finally autonomous infantry robots. At first, this seemed to be a sound strategy when dealing with areas totally hostile to the US, but there was a problem. America had moved the biggest threat to their security from extremist terrorists, to bored teenagers in their bedrooms.
Early warning signs were ignored. The military hierarchy just couldn't grasp the notion that people would try to crack into their systems for no other motive than for fun, or that their systems could be so easily compromised. Often, by children no less. Compromises in security were covered up. Even when the automated infantry united kept breaking into song and dance routines.
- Extract from "Modern Warfare and Cake Making" (c) Alan Foreman
Not necessarily?
If you use nanoparticles that carry an antibody tag that will collect and/or attach to the tumors, you can just flood the body with them for a few days. Wait for the overflow to pass out, then turn on the switch.
*VORP!*
All done in a few shots.
This is very close to the work of John Kanzius.
From the recent paper...
From John Kanzius' Wikipedia page...
One uses magnetic action, the other uses RF action.
Here is 1 of 3 videos of the "60 Minutes" episode on YouTube.
I wonder if this might end up in a patent fight or worse?
When I was with the Military Sealift Command, all the "salty dogs" told me to invest, quite specifically, in a small UPS for my stateroom. They were quite adamant about never plugging your electronic gear straight into the outlets.
The first time I saw the overhead lights doing Saturday Night Fever, I was grateful for the advice. All my gear survived.
That is quite possibly one of the more useful Usenet postings I've seen in a very long time. Definitely good to know if you have a backup generator or two!
...is the document specifically instructing officers, that when they take an iPhone, for any reason, to stick it into a Faraday bag.
The document specifically mentions the "Where's My iPhone" app, which can not only locate the phone, but remotely wipe the phone.
Thereby making it useless for any kind of investigation. And because everything is backed up to iTunes, the owner can just re-sync their phone as soon as they get it back.
Here's an excerpt from the faraday-bags.com website, emphasis mine...
So even if it's inside the bag, they'll be able to slurp it without you or your friends/family being able to wipe it.
You aren't the only one, I assure you.
A huge number of Blackberries were purchased shortly after 9/11, because when the communications terminals in the towers were destroyed, text messages were the only things getting through the system.
The Blackberry was still pretty new back then, but pagers were in wide use, and those were the only things working. The government took notice, and there was a HUGE push to give everyone either pagers or similar devices.
Once Blackberry came along, Uncle Sam jumped on them lickety-split, because it represented a complete solution to everything they were looking for. Text, email and phone, all in one. And if there were a disaster, the text functions would still function.
As for the games consoles, there were large purchases for Beowulf clusters, A/V systems and MWR purchases. And having seen the MWR lounges on the bases, I have to say it was money exceptionally well spent.
Seeing Keanu Reeves scream to the world, "I! WANT! ROOM SERVICE!" makes it all worth it.
You're entitled to your opinion, but the use of agent provocateurs has been verified by the police more than once.
Because they've been caught doing it more than once.
Once is an honest mistake, twice is not, doing it multiple times-and getting caught every time-is an established policy.