Put Alcohol last. Scan. Scan. Scan. Press the "call for help button". Keep scanning non alcoholic items. As soon as you notice the helper coming, scan the Alcohol. Have your wallet out and ready, show them the ID, let them swipe their badge.
Yes, as long as the inspection is voluntary. No, if the bag check is involuntary or coerced. This is a rather fine legal distinction that is subject to misunderstanding and abuse. Basically, nothing in the law gives the merchant the right to detain a customer for the purpose of searching a shopping bag unless there is a reasonable suspicion of retail theft. See my web page on Shoplifting: Detention & Arrest for more details
A customer can refuse to have their bag checked and simply walk out the door past the bag checker. Hopefully the bag checker has been trained to know that they cannot force anyone to submit to a bag search without cause. This is important because the expectation of the bag checker is that all bag contents have been purchased. The worst thing that could happen is that an aggressive bag checker would forcibly detain or threaten a customer who refused to comply with the voluntary search
I've walked out of a Best Buy before and the alarm went off. There was absolutely no one AT the door to begin with. I was already 5' out the second set of double doors when I got a "Sir, Sir, The alarm went off." I turned around, acknowledged the fact to the guy that indeed, the alarm had gone off and kept walking. He was in a tizzy on his radio. Followed me 1/2 way to my car. I think tried to get my plate number, however, from another link on that page.
To establish a solid base for probable cause and prevent false arrest claims, there are six universally accepted steps that a merchant should follow before deciding to stop someone suspected of shoplifting:
You must see the shoplifter approach your merchandise You must see the shoplifter select your merchandise You must see the shoplifter conceal or carry away or convert your merchandise You must maintain continuous observation the shoplifter You must see the shoplifter fail to pay for the merchandise You must approach the shoplifter outside of the store
They didn't have a single one of those and they knew it.
Rules are a bit different for CostCo and Sams Club as that is a part of the membership agreement you sign.
What do people normally by at Frys? How long does a normal transaction take? Frys queues look much different and have a greater distribution than say a Walmart. Where you have a single guy with a pack of batteries and maybe a frozen dinner and then you have a mother of 6 with a cart overflowing with goods.
It depends on the average intelligence of the shopper.
Single queue lines work best where the IQ of the shopper is above average. I've never had a problem with single lines at self checkouts near campus where nearly everyone is a college student and understands how things flow.
On the other hand, off near the other part of town where the busiest shopping day is the day Food Stamps come out. If you hang more than 1' behind a register, someone will find a way to get themselves in there. And don't try to point out the obvious. Hell hath no fury like a low IQ made to wait.
You're the reason the Walmart near me took out the self service lines.
How hard is it to be honest?
I love the self service lines... at certain stores. Kroger's seem to be the most prone to thinking you're stealing or just screwing up. Meijer's seem to work best.
The camera man wasn't in the cops face. He wasn't in the face of the emergency personel. This wouldn't have made it to youtube or the cover of our school's paper if the cop didn't act like he did.
The police chief came out later and said the cameraman was in the right. But that doesn't prevent the cop from acting like an asshole the entire time. The cameraman was physically shaking from being intimidated.
How about make laws that target the behavior and not the condition of the person doing the behavior?
So would it be ok if I wandered into the streets or yelled at passer-bys while stone cold sober?
I now have an arrest record from college. West Lafayette likes to selectively enforce the Public Intoxication laws. No other college student I've talked to from any where else has laws like this. Heck some states such as Nevada it's actually illegal to be prosecuted for being drunk in public.
And of course everyone who reads about my arrest will assume I was doing something incredibly stupid or "deserved it".
Nope. Left a bar before my friends. Fell asleep on the park bench on the way home. Tada. 12 hours in jail (From the time of booking). ~$300 in court fees. ~$500 lawyer fees. 1 year probation during which time I can not enter any bar or tavern. Consume any alcohol. Etc.
Letter of the law in Indiana is 0.08. I guarantee if they arrested every single person that walked out of a bar and blew 0.08, the court system would be over run.
And they would never do the responsible thing and just pick people up and toss them in a drunk tank for the night no arrest. That wouldn't bring any $$ in for the county. This way they've gotten nearly $1k fed into the local economy. Figure 10-20 a weekend, 30+ on very big weekends (home coming). That's easy cash.
Where are the research papers about how to get more men into Nursing? Or men into elementary education? How about Men into being stay at home dads? Men being "Admin Assistants"?
Why does it seem that "gender equality" only a one way street?
Still, even that wasn't much computer science and seemed closer to "C++ in a semester" style of teaching. You knew a language but you didn't quite get the really generalized concepts.
I too took keyboarding in 10th grade. Old IBM all in one machines that booted from floppy. We learned such valuable skills such as counting the number of characters in your heading and how to manually center it on the 80 character width page. We had to type the same sentence 10 times at the beginning of class.
I learned very quickly what each of the Function keys did. And yes, even those primitive computers had Copy Paste & Justify.
It wouldn't have been a problem, except I graduated in 2001. I'd already done numerous reports in Word. My family had owned a Mac since 5th grade (1993). I could already do 80 WPM. Not just that, the exact same school had mandatory keyboarding in the 7th grade. I think that if you got an A in that, you certainly didn't need to take it again 3 years later.
There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My iPhone is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my iPhone is useless. Without my iPhone, I am useless. I must text my iPhone true. I must text faster than my mother, who is trying to block me. I must text my friends before she grounds me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my iPhone and myself are defenders of my social life, we are the masters of our parents, we are the saviors of my social life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen.
I didn't intend that to be that creepy when I started it, but I think that describes 90% of high school and college students I've interacted with.
I know EVERY company is trying to make stuff so that skilled labor is no longer needed. (The newest bulldozers and motor graders use joysticks, no more long training on hydraulic levers).
No clue why this was posted but not the announcement by XBMC. They finally released Dharma. Numerous improvements across the board compared to the last stable.
You and me both. I'm starting to wish the Confederates won. The US covers such a huge geographical and political area that it just seems that everything turns into stagnation. Why should we force California and Maine to abide by something that the Deep South thinks is their moral right and vice versa?
Let things be managed on a state and local level. Not only will you have more of a chance for your voice to be heard, you may actually listen to the other side. If me and my neighbor have a disagreement I'm going to care more about it than if me and someone 3000 miles away disagree on something.
I had a chance to meet some Europeans and the topic turned to politics and they asked me what I would do to fix the US and I gave them the local powers speech. They had never heard of it before. The EU has some laws, but quite a bit is left up to the individual countries. (Well, compared to the US vs States). I asked them how they would feel if Germany and France shoved through litigation to ban something that they (being from Norway) cared absolutely nothing about.
The damn 0.5 seasons that every (#@*& cable station seems to be doing is what is killing cable TV IMHO.
11 episodes, 4 months, 11 more episodes. No. 22 episodes back to back. Summer off. Or winter off. It's like the writers spend so much energy making sure episodes 10/11 are cliff hangers that they forget how to write a decent story arc that spans 22 episodes. And rather than getting people interested in coming back for season 2.5, people just forget about it.
Also the cast is also too large. SG-1 had a core of a few people. Then you had some kick ass occasional characters like Bra'tac, Dr. Fraiser (I think I was quite upset in the episode where she died). Instead I've literally had to look up on Wiki who certain people are. "Wait, wasn't the blond with that one guy and having the baby, no that was the breasty brunette".
In the first 2 seasons of SG-1 alone we had the Tok'ra, Jaffa, Goa'uld, Asgard. A good backstory about each race, how they fit into everything. The writers made a great Mythos. Visited a new world almost every episode and a cool new race of people, usually "descended" from some culture on earth. Hell some episodes had me going back and looking up mythology and how it all related.
What have we got in 2 seasons on SGU? 1 alien race. A few random empty worlds. And a whole lot of time on a dark ship. Oh and shooting, and some earth scenes. - I was late to the SG-1 game. I watched seasons 1-8 in a little under 4 months. I loved it. It was like one long movie. Character Development. Inside Jokes. MacGyver. It reminded me quite a bit of DS9 (which I watched back to back in around 6 months).
I was unsure of Atlantis at first, but once it got going. I really got into the story lines. The new enemies, etc. Then I watched the last episode, not knowing it was, wow. They're back on earth. This is kind of cool. When's the next season. WTF THEY CANCELED IT?
Stargate Universe... meh so far. It's better than Voyager and with Rings. They built up this entire history about Aliens being old Norse/Egyptian Gods. All the stuff with the Ancients, on Atlantis. Yes, Destiny is an Ancient ship, but we don't learn a damn thing about them other than they have seed ships. BUILD THE STORY. Maybe run into the Furlings.
For the most part in America and Europe, race isn't as big of a factor. I'm not saying that racism is gone. But unlike ages ago there isn't "Irish" vs "Italian", they're all 'white'. In Africa entire cultures are brutally raped, mangled and murdered because of a small genetic variation of nose or ear size. The world maybe learned something from Hitler.
You have health care information such as "Rape a virgin and cure your HIV." Warlords and Presidents accumulating wealth that makes our overpaid CEOs look like chump change.
Then you have warlords taking over working farms from "white" farmers. Kicking them out of the country, scrapping all of the irrigation for a cheap buck and wondering why people are now starving.
What the CEO thinks is a bunch of basement dwellers tinkering with OpenSolaris and OpenOffice vs "The" webserver for the internet (even if it's those same set of people tinkering with it).
Apache is a big enough name that hopefully the IT guys heard they were leaving and flipped out a bit.
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Put Alcohol last. Scan. Scan. Scan.
Press the "call for help button".
Keep scanning non alcoholic items. As soon as you notice the helper coming, scan the Alcohol. Have your wallet out and ready, show them the ID, let them swipe their badge.
Takes no more time than a package store.
Walk on out. They can't stop you. They can't come after you. IF they stop you, you can sue for wrongful imprisonment.
http://www.crimedoctor.com/loss_prevention_3.htm
Are Door Bag Searches Legal?
Yes, as long as the inspection is voluntary. No, if the bag check is involuntary or coerced. This is a rather fine legal distinction that is subject to misunderstanding and abuse. Basically, nothing in the law gives the merchant the right to detain a customer for the purpose of searching a shopping bag unless there is a reasonable suspicion of retail theft. See my web page on Shoplifting: Detention & Arrest for more details
A customer can refuse to have their bag checked and simply walk out the door past the bag checker. Hopefully the bag checker has been trained to know that they cannot force anyone to submit to a bag search without cause. This is important because the expectation of the bag checker is that all bag contents have been purchased. The worst thing that could happen is that an aggressive bag checker would forcibly detain or threaten a customer who refused to comply with the voluntary search
I've walked out of a Best Buy before and the alarm went off. There was absolutely no one AT the door to begin with. I was already 5' out the second set of double doors when I got a "Sir, Sir, The alarm went off." I turned around, acknowledged the fact to the guy that indeed, the alarm had gone off and kept walking. He was in a tizzy on his radio. Followed me 1/2 way to my car. I think tried to get my plate number, however, from another link on that page.
To establish a solid base for probable cause and prevent false arrest claims, there are six universally accepted steps that a merchant should follow before deciding to stop someone suspected of shoplifting:
You must see the shoplifter approach your merchandise
You must see the shoplifter select your merchandise
You must see the shoplifter conceal or carry away or convert your merchandise
You must maintain continuous observation the shoplifter
You must see the shoplifter fail to pay for the merchandise
You must approach the shoplifter outside of the store
They didn't have a single one of those and they knew it.
Rules are a bit different for CostCo and Sams Club as that is a part of the membership agreement you sign.
What do people normally by at Frys? How long does a normal transaction take? Frys queues look much different and have a greater distribution than say a Walmart. Where you have a single guy with a pack of batteries and maybe a frozen dinner and then you have a mother of 6 with a cart overflowing with goods.
It depends on the average intelligence of the shopper.
Single queue lines work best where the IQ of the shopper is above average. I've never had a problem with single lines at self checkouts near campus where nearly everyone is a college student and understands how things flow.
On the other hand, off near the other part of town where the busiest shopping day is the day Food Stamps come out. If you hang more than 1' behind a register, someone will find a way to get themselves in there. And don't try to point out the obvious. Hell hath no fury like a low IQ made to wait.
You're the reason the Walmart near me took out the self service lines.
How hard is it to be honest?
I love the self service lines... at certain stores. Kroger's seem to be the most prone to thinking you're stealing or just screwing up. Meijer's seem to work best.
Jerk is probably what you should look at, not acceleration.
I wasn't Drinking "in public". I was walking home from drinking in an establish.
All it's taught me is to risk driving home.
Not all cops know this law.
The camera man wasn't in the cops face. He wasn't in the face of the emergency personel. This wouldn't have made it to youtube or the cover of our school's paper if the cop didn't act like he did.
The police chief came out later and said the cameraman was in the right. But that doesn't prevent the cop from acting like an asshole the entire time. The cameraman was physically shaking from being intimidated.
How about make laws that target the behavior and not the condition of the person doing the behavior?
So would it be ok if I wandered into the streets or yelled at passer-bys while stone cold sober?
I now have an arrest record from college. West Lafayette likes to selectively enforce the Public Intoxication laws. No other college student I've talked to from any where else has laws like this. Heck some states such as Nevada it's actually illegal to be prosecuted for being drunk in public.
And of course everyone who reads about my arrest will assume I was doing something incredibly stupid or "deserved it".
Nope. Left a bar before my friends. Fell asleep on the park bench on the way home. Tada. 12 hours in jail (From the time of booking). ~$300 in court fees. ~$500 lawyer fees. 1 year probation during which time I can not enter any bar or tavern. Consume any alcohol. Etc.
Letter of the law in Indiana is 0.08. I guarantee if they arrested every single person that walked out of a bar and blew 0.08, the court system would be over run.
And they would never do the responsible thing and just pick people up and toss them in a drunk tank for the night no arrest. That wouldn't bring any $$ in for the county. This way they've gotten nearly $1k fed into the local economy. Figure 10-20 a weekend, 30+ on very big weekends (home coming). That's easy cash.
The only technology they understand is which side of a TV camera to stand in front of.
Al Franken standing in front of a TV Camera? You don't say.
The guy can make a good arguments without resorting to shouting or out right ignoring the public. I wish my Senator would come around to the county fair and talk to his constituents like that.
TFA makes some good points and breaks down "Net Neutrality" to the lay person who just wants to use the internet. You should try reading it.
Where are the research papers about how to get more men into Nursing? Or men into elementary education? How about Men into being stay at home dads? Men being "Admin Assistants"?
Why does it seem that "gender equality" only a one way street?
Still, even that wasn't much computer science and seemed closer to "C++ in a semester" style of teaching. You knew a language but you didn't quite get the really generalized concepts.
You could say, he didn't teach you pointers.
[Puts sun glasses on]
Yeaaaah!
I too took keyboarding in 10th grade. Old IBM all in one machines that booted from floppy. We learned such valuable skills such as counting the number of characters in your heading and how to manually center it on the 80 character width page. We had to type the same sentence 10 times at the beginning of class.
I learned very quickly what each of the Function keys did. And yes, even those primitive computers had Copy Paste & Justify.
It wouldn't have been a problem, except I graduated in 2001. I'd already done numerous reports in Word. My family had owned a Mac since 5th grade (1993). I could already do 80 WPM. Not just that, the exact same school had mandatory keyboarding in the 7th grade. I think that if you got an A in that, you certainly didn't need to take it again 3 years later.
There are many others like it, but this one is mine. My iPhone is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my iPhone is useless. Without my iPhone, I am useless. I must text my iPhone true. I must text faster than my mother, who is trying to block me. I must text my friends before she grounds me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my iPhone and myself are defenders of my social life, we are the masters of our parents, we are the saviors of my social life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen.
I didn't intend that to be that creepy when I started it, but I think that describes 90% of high school and college students I've interacted with.
One of the most successful snipers in history shot with iron sights.
I know EVERY company is trying to make stuff so that skilled labor is no longer needed. (The newest bulldozers and motor graders use joysticks, no more long training on hydraulic levers).
2) The last time I checked, you could only sync one folder. The drop box folder. They cannot sync multiple folders:
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=5088
Check again. I can do "selective sync", at least with OS X, and check the folders I want to sync online. That's actually one of the new features.
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/17/dropbox-1-0-available-with-performance-enhancements-selective-s/
All prequels blow chunks, because we know what's going to happen. why bother.
Yeah, I hated that Hobbit book.
No clue why this was posted but not the announcement by XBMC. They finally released Dharma. Numerous improvements across the board compared to the last stable.
http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/12/18/xbmc-10-0/
I submitted it this morning, but it was rejected.
You and me both. I'm starting to wish the Confederates won. The US covers such a huge geographical and political area that it just seems that everything turns into stagnation. Why should we force California and Maine to abide by something that the Deep South thinks is their moral right and vice versa?
Let things be managed on a state and local level. Not only will you have more of a chance for your voice to be heard, you may actually listen to the other side. If me and my neighbor have a disagreement I'm going to care more about it than if me and someone 3000 miles away disagree on something.
I had a chance to meet some Europeans and the topic turned to politics and they asked me what I would do to fix the US and I gave them the local powers speech. They had never heard of it before. The EU has some laws, but quite a bit is left up to the individual countries. (Well, compared to the US vs States). I asked them how they would feel if Germany and France shoved through litigation to ban something that they (being from Norway) cared absolutely nothing about.
The damn 0.5 seasons that every (#@*& cable station seems to be doing is what is killing cable TV IMHO.
11 episodes, 4 months, 11 more episodes. No. 22 episodes back to back. Summer off. Or winter off. It's like the writers spend so much energy making sure episodes 10/11 are cliff hangers that they forget how to write a decent story arc that spans 22 episodes. And rather than getting people interested in coming back for season 2.5, people just forget about it.
Also the cast is also too large. SG-1 had a core of a few people. Then you had some kick ass occasional characters like Bra'tac, Dr. Fraiser (I think I was quite upset in the episode where she died). Instead I've literally had to look up on Wiki who certain people are. "Wait, wasn't the blond with that one guy and having the baby, no that was the breasty brunette".
In the first 2 seasons of SG-1 alone we had the Tok'ra, Jaffa, Goa'uld, Asgard. A good backstory about each race, how they fit into everything. The writers made a great Mythos. Visited a new world almost every episode and a cool new race of people, usually "descended" from some culture on earth. Hell some episodes had me going back and looking up mythology and how it all related.
What have we got in 2 seasons on SGU? 1 alien race. A few random empty worlds. And a whole lot of time on a dark ship. Oh and shooting, and some earth scenes.
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I was late to the SG-1 game. I watched seasons 1-8 in a little under 4 months. I loved it. It was like one long movie. Character Development. Inside Jokes. MacGyver. It reminded me quite a bit of DS9 (which I watched back to back in around 6 months).
I was unsure of Atlantis at first, but once it got going. I really got into the story lines. The new enemies, etc. Then I watched the last episode, not knowing it was, wow. They're back on earth. This is kind of cool. When's the next season. WTF THEY CANCELED IT?
Stargate Universe... meh so far. It's better than Voyager and with Rings. They built up this entire history about Aliens being old Norse/Egyptian Gods. All the stuff with the Ancients, on Atlantis. Yes, Destiny is an Ancient ship, but we don't learn a damn thing about them other than they have seed ships. BUILD THE STORY. Maybe run into the Furlings.
People that think they'll get coupons, 5% off, free shit.
The same reason people give away their info to business.
Africa needs to stop acting like children.
For the most part in America and Europe, race isn't as big of a factor. I'm not saying that racism is gone. But unlike ages ago there isn't "Irish" vs "Italian", they're all 'white'. In Africa entire cultures are brutally raped, mangled and murdered because of a small genetic variation of nose or ear size. The world maybe learned something from Hitler.
You have health care information such as "Rape a virgin and cure your HIV." Warlords and Presidents accumulating wealth that makes our overpaid CEOs look like chump change.
Then you have warlords taking over working farms from "white" farmers. Kicking them out of the country, scrapping all of the irrigation for a cheap buck and wondering why people are now starving.
Kids these days couldn't imagine trying to implement a PID controller without a microprocessor. It does make it easy to watch what is going on.
Watching large governors work is pretty cool. No electronics to speak of. Just a properly tuned set of weights and some geometry.
What the CEO thinks is a bunch of basement dwellers tinkering with OpenSolaris and OpenOffice vs "The" webserver for the internet (even if it's those same set of people tinkering with it).
Apache is a big enough name that hopefully the IT guys heard they were leaving and flipped out a bit.
You don't even have to use a router as a "payload". Get an industrial laser and make it a laser etcher
Pens, markers, pencils could be used for an interesting drawing/large plotter.