Killing one innocent person is a problem, but impeding the press is actually worse because it allows them to cover up the fact that the killing wasn't an isolated incident, but rather a pattern of systemic police abuse. Places like Daily Kos are compiling lists... but of course, they can't get heard on the mainstream media so nobody but the partisans has the opportunity to care.
No. Nobody fucking did! Why? Because there weren't any! If there were, he would have gone to the fucking ambulance and had them treat him instead of standing around.
The officer only decided to seek treatment later, because he realized it might help his bullshit excuse. That is the action of someone who not only wasn't hurt, but who knew he was wrong.
Do you deny officer's the right to self defense? Or is it open season for police officers for you?
I deny jack-booted thugs the right to offense!
Do you deny the fact that you're a fascist asshole?
That might explain the shooting that occurred at the police car, but it doesn't justify the fatal shots. You just don't get to claim self-defense when your adversary is running away! (Or when the adversary has given up trying to run and has decided to surrender instead, for that matter.)
You really don't get it, do you? If they're at the point where they're searching your phone, they've already decided you're guilty. At that point, if they don't find any evidence they'll just plant some.
Planets are a gravity source to pull all the dust and shit together. The dust and shit is a gravity source too, for that matter.
If you have enough dust to make a big enough clump, you get a star (and maybe orbiting planets, as sub-clumps). If you don't have enough, you get a planet by itself. If you have a whole fuckton-plex more, you get a galaxy. The same process happens at all scales.
I'll agree with you that honest people don't need to tell you they're honest, but in my experience the BBB complaints actually worked (sort of... I had to file the second complaint because Comcast reneged on the first after six months...).
To do the same thing with The Pirate Bay, I'd have to sit at my computer, search their website, filter out all the weird containers like DivX and MKV, try to find a non-HD file that would take multiple hours to download, make sure the MP4 version I choose has subtitles and will play on my AppleTV, download the file, wait for at least 30 to 60 minutes for the download, add to my iTunes library and then finally watch the movie on my TV.
Half the stuff in that list is the fault of the Apple TV, not The Pirate Bay.
Comcast is a better TV provider than Time Warner Cable, and that's saying something. Comcast uses the copy protect flag more sparingly, and offers more Clear QAM channels.
Also, nope. In my area, Comcast started encrypting everything, including over the air channels, over a year ago.
Time Warner Cable is objectively the worst cable provider
LOL, you poor, naive fool. You only think that because you haven't experienced the Hell that is Comcast "customer service." I've filed multiple BBB complaints. I once almost got arrested by the sheriff's deputy Comcast hires to guard their office from irate customers -- that's how bad they are!
Comcast is so bad that I've even resorted to lobbying local politicians to try to kick them out of my city.
If you see a violation of this you can report it to the FCC and they'll get in big trouble.
I tried. In my case, Comcast started encrypting (some of the) OTA channels weeks before sending the notice required by Title 47 Section 76.630 (a)(1)(v) (look it up!). I filed a complaint with the FCC, and heard nothing whatsofuckingever.
Depending on where you live or who your provider is you may be able to get analog cable despite the claims. My local cable company tells you that it's digital only and you must have a card/box. My dad plugged his coax straight into his tv (which does not have or support a card) and he gets about 100 channels. So, I say try plugging the coax in and find out what is really what.
That's what I had done until Comcast started encrypting everything.
In the decade or so I've used cable Internet, I've only owned two cable modems, and I only had to get the second one recently because Comcast forced me to upgrade from DOCSIS 2 to DOCSIS 3. I expect my current modem to last at least another decade (or I would, if I didn't expect to switch to Google Fiber sooner).
There haven't been enough DOCSIS versions invented to necessitate you upgrading your modem anywhere close to yearly!
I'm pissed that there are really no cooking shows anymore on FoodTV or Cooking Channel, just contest and reality crap.
Really? They even fucked up the Cooking Channel? Damn.
On the bright side, PBS has cooking shows, Good Eats is on Netflix now (not to mention Youtube, of course), and Food Network show episodes are available on their website.
I figure between watching MSNBC, FoxNews and CNN...I get some idea of the truth between them all.
LOL. If you want actual news, subscribe to your local paper.
Minimum basic cable price (if I don't want to sell my entire soul to the cableco) where I am is $39.48 + $3.99 for a converter box
They blatantly lie and claim that the box is "necessary" "because digital", but it isn't. The real reason they want you to use the box is because of their unilateral insistence on encrypting even the signals that you'd otherwise be able to get unencrypted from an antenna anyway, so that they can charge you a rental fee. But even then, it still isn't necessary because you can get a CableCard instead.
When I had cable TV (only because the TV + internet bundle was cheaper than internet-only that year), I refused the box (and refused to be charged for the box) as a matter of principle.
Could they have imagined a government where something akin to the Dutch East India Company simply walked in and individually bribed every single Congressman and the President to do their bidding, without the American people even realizing it?
What makes you think the $(nationality) East India Companies didn't bribe their respective governments?
I think he means gangster in the classical Chicago sense. You know, Teamsters, mafia, "machine politics" -- that kind of thing. He's accusing Obama of being a suit-and-tommy-gun gangster, not a bandanna-and-sagging-pants one.
There's a professor at Georgia Tech researching that sort of thing, except for sidewalks instead of streets and using a tablet strapped to a wheelchair.
(Why yes, it is weird that I can only find an overview of a GA Tech professor's research on a ufl.edu site....)
There's more to retaining records than retaining records.
There's the cost of remembering where they are, the cost of going through the human process of vetting access requests to make sure they are legit then extracting and possibly redacting data and giving it to the person requesting the data, and the big cost:
The cost of embarrassment when someone finds something in the records that you *as a manager or institution) either know is there and prefer that it never be found or that they find something there that even you didn't know was there but which you definitely wish had never been found.
All of those things are costs, but they're not legitimate costs. The correct solution is not to purge the records, but rather to purge the corruption and set up a simple FTP site (or maybe read-only database access, if applicable) so the public has instant access to the records without any bullshit "vetting" or redaction!
They're in Fulton, not DeKalb (in the middle of the absolute most expensive part of Atlanta). The affordable parts of DeKalb are a 30 min - 1 hour commute (in each direction) away.
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Killing one innocent person is a problem, but impeding the press is actually worse because it allows them to cover up the fact that the killing wasn't an isolated incident, but rather a pattern of systemic police abuse. Places like Daily Kos are compiling lists... but of course, they can't get heard on the mainstream media so nobody but the partisans has the opportunity to care.
No. Nobody fucking did! Why? Because there weren't any! If there were, he would have gone to the fucking ambulance and had them treat him instead of standing around.
The officer only decided to seek treatment later, because he realized it might help his bullshit excuse. That is the action of someone who not only wasn't hurt, but who knew he was wrong.
I deny jack-booted thugs the right to offense!
Do you deny the fact that you're a fascist asshole?
That might explain the shooting that occurred at the police car, but it doesn't justify the fatal shots. You just don't get to claim self-defense when your adversary is running away! (Or when the adversary has given up trying to run and has decided to surrender instead, for that matter.)
Hey, that means we have six years to plan the campaign.
(Not actually joking...)
You really don't get it, do you? If they're at the point where they're searching your phone, they've already decided you're guilty. At that point, if they don't find any evidence they'll just plant some.
Planets are a gravity source to pull all the dust and shit together. The dust and shit is a gravity source too, for that matter.
If you have enough dust to make a big enough clump, you get a star (and maybe orbiting planets, as sub-clumps). If you don't have enough, you get a planet by itself. If you have a whole fuckton-plex more, you get a galaxy. The same process happens at all scales.
Indeed, that's why I recommended reading the newspaper instead of watching CNN/MSNBC/FoxNews in the first place.
I'll agree with you that honest people don't need to tell you they're honest, but in my experience the BBB complaints actually worked (sort of... I had to file the second complaint because Comcast reneged on the first after six months...).
Half the stuff in that list is the fault of the Apple TV, not The Pirate Bay.
BBC, Al Jazeera et. al. run exposes on my local politicians' hijinks and corruption?
Or you would have to swap out your tuner for an HDHomeRun Prime (or similar) and get a CableCard.
...but this was the better solution anyway.
Nope.
Also, nope. In my area, Comcast started encrypting everything, including over the air channels, over a year ago.
LOL, you poor, naive fool. You only think that because you haven't experienced the Hell that is Comcast "customer service." I've filed multiple BBB complaints. I once almost got arrested by the sheriff's deputy Comcast hires to guard their office from irate customers -- that's how bad they are!
Comcast is so bad that I've even resorted to lobbying local politicians to try to kick them out of my city.
I tried. In my case, Comcast started encrypting (some of the) OTA channels weeks before sending the notice required by Title 47 Section 76.630 (a)(1)(v) (look it up!). I filed a complaint with the FCC, and heard nothing whatsofuckingever.
The FCC is in Comcast's pocket.
That's what I had done until Comcast started encrypting everything.
The FCC sold us out about two years ago.
Every year or two?! What are you talking about?
In the decade or so I've used cable Internet, I've only owned two cable modems, and I only had to get the second one recently because Comcast forced me to upgrade from DOCSIS 2 to DOCSIS 3. I expect my current modem to last at least another decade (or I would, if I didn't expect to switch to Google Fiber sooner).
There haven't been enough DOCSIS versions invented to necessitate you upgrading your modem anywhere close to yearly!
Really? They even fucked up the Cooking Channel? Damn.
On the bright side, PBS has cooking shows, Good Eats is on Netflix now (not to mention Youtube, of course), and Food Network show episodes are available on their website.
LOL. If you want actual news, subscribe to your local paper.
No, he's referring to voting third-party.
(Don't worry, you can still vote for the lesser evil in the runoff.)
They blatantly lie and claim that the box is "necessary" "because digital", but it isn't. The real reason they want you to use the box is because of their unilateral insistence on encrypting even the signals that you'd otherwise be able to get unencrypted from an antenna anyway, so that they can charge you a rental fee. But even then, it still isn't necessary because you can get a CableCard instead.
When I had cable TV (only because the TV + internet bundle was cheaper than internet-only that year), I refused the box (and refused to be charged for the box) as a matter of principle.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
What makes you think the $(nationality) East India Companies didn't bribe their respective governments?
I think he means gangster in the classical Chicago sense. You know, Teamsters, mafia, "machine politics" -- that kind of thing. He's accusing Obama of being a suit-and-tommy-gun gangster, not a bandanna-and-sagging-pants one.
Certainly not, but that's mostly because Keanu Reeves had nothing to do with that movie.
Johnny Depp, on the other hand, almost certainly still gets royalties for his performance.
There's a professor at Georgia Tech researching that sort of thing, except for sidewalks instead of streets and using a tablet strapped to a wheelchair.
(Why yes, it is weird that I can only find an overview of a GA Tech professor's research on a ufl.edu site....)
Two dozen furlongs per fortnight is roughly 0.009 mph (0.014 kph). That's not so much "travelling" as it is "not quite sitting still."
All of those things are costs, but they're not legitimate costs. The correct solution is not to purge the records, but rather to purge the corruption and set up a simple FTP site (or maybe read-only database access, if applicable) so the public has instant access to the records without any bullshit "vetting" or redaction!
They're in Fulton, not DeKalb (in the middle of the absolute most expensive part of Atlanta). The affordable parts of DeKalb are a 30 min - 1 hour commute (in each direction) away.