If someone broke into a store at night and there was video evidence of the burger's face, front and back of his car, and him breaking the window, you don't think that would be enough to convict?
I'm not in favor of the cameras, and luckily my town doesn't use them. But I wouldn't say that it's not a fair system unless there isn't mechanism in place to dispute the ticket. In LA's case at least, there are multiple levels that it can be disputed between signing an affidavit that it's not you, asking for an officer review, and requesting a trial.
The system uses multiple cameras placed at the intersection to record video evidence of the red light violation. The cameras capture evidence of the vehicle, the license plate and driver"s face.
What do the video cameras photograph?
The first video monitors vehicles approaching the intersection and provides a context view of the violation. The second video, recorded simultaneously, provides primary evidence of the violation. The third video captures images of the front and rear of the vehicle, including the driver"s face and the license plate.
It would seem to me that there is plenty of context as to why you were in the intersection. And from the same faq it says that you can request a review with an actual officer.
1. There are multiple videos taken. Intersection/context of the violation (you crossing the line with the light red), front (including face), rear, and of the red light. If you still feel that it's not you driving the car, then you fill out the affidavit of non-liability on the back of the ticket that is mailed to you. 2. Then challenge it. If the plate doesn't match, or is ambiguous enough that the OCR is incorrect, other evidence likely supports it. While statistically still possible, the likelihood that the make, model, style, and color match between two similar plates is pretty low. 3. Since there is a video taken from multiple cameras, and the vehicle is shown from multiple angles along with the red light, setup or timing issues may happen, but are also easily reviewed. Which is why you can request to have the video reviewed with an officer. 4. Review it with an officer. If there are extenuating circumstances, it would be shown on the video. Or take it to trial.
'These cameras remove our fundamental right in this country to confront our accuser.
The accuser is the local government. The evidence is the red light camera's photo.
If you robbed a bank, or shot someone, and it was photographed or recorded, you wouldn't be arguing that the evidence was inadmissible because you couldn't challenge the camera.
Yes, we should, but I'll be happy to wait until after they've answered the more pressing question about what the hell Homeland Security are doing enforcing copyright claims in the first place.
So which department of the Executive Branch, you know the one that is suppose to enforce laws, should it fall to if not the Department of Homeland Security?
Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Education Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Justice Department of Labor Department of State Department of the Interior Department of the Treasury Department of Transportation Department of Veterans Affairs
It would seem to me that DHS would be the best fit since there isn't a Department of Copyright Enforcement (yet).
You can't expect businesses to drop things that work and jump to something new every a few months. This costs money... will you pay for unnecessary upgrade costs? What else, will you demand people to replace their cars of less than two years age because there's a new model out there?
There is a point where maintaining old junk is pointless, but these guys are ridiculous.
Firefox 3.5 was released 2 years ago. 3.6 was released nearly 18 months ago. It's not every few months. It's been almost 18 months. If your business depends on a particular version of Firefox, then run them side by side if need be.
While not all businesses can just deploy the upgrade to all their PCs, most probably can. This isn't updating an OS, upgrading a domain controller, or changing platforms. Any company that has has extensive procedures for rolling out updates across their enterprise probably isn't using GMail, Google Docs, Google Calender, GTalk, and Google Sites.
From this MSNBS article about the digital switchover: The Federal Bureau of Prisons receives cable TV service, so officials don't anticipate any interruptions, spokeswoman Felicia Ponce said. Federal inmates are allowed limited viewing in common rooms with some restrictions â" for instance, they can't watch R-rated movies.
It took a whole 10 seconds to find two mainstream prison systems that have some form of cable TV, and a company that is dedicated to offering mainstream prisons cable tv service.
Potentially, because it would mean that their sales process gets a lot more complicated and expensive.
Please. There are services that specialize in managing the tax information that a company can subscribe to, so it's not like they have to be a tax expert in every jurisdiction.
Besides, you are going to tell be that some of the largest web retailers in the world doesn't have the resources to implement it? It's a valid argument for some mom and pop storefront that might be affected...not Amazon.com.
The legislature should ideally weigh the harms of that against the potential disadvantages of actually collecting a tax they said they were going to tax and those companies should have been budgeting for in the first place...
This is only for sales/use tax. Retail companies don't budget for it...it's passed on directly to the consumer in almost all cases, or wrapped up in the price for where it's not a line item.
By having to collect a tax, it puts an online retailer at a disadvantage over other retailers that aren't obligated to collect the tax. In the end it shouldn't matter as most (all?) state that has a sales tax requires you to pay the equivalent in use tax for out of state purchases that weren't taxed. But in reality almost no one does.
Companies like Amazon say they don't have a nexus or presence in the state. Specifically, Amazon for instance says they only have a California-based marketing relationship. Being out of state, the SCOTUS has ruled that they are not obligated to collect sales tax for California-based purchasers. However California disagrees and is trying to change their laws so that Amazon is included. The battle basically comes down to is how is a nexus defined?
Why would they leave? Tax is only being collected on purchases of in state companies to in state residents and that's up for debate. Products going out of state from California businesses aren't taxed unless the business has a nexus in the destination state, and that's not up for debate either. Only out of state businesses without a nexus in California are not required to collect sales/use tax for California, and that's the issue.
It's the last sentence that California is trying to change. Amazon for instance says they only have an advertising relationship in the state (e.g. they use a Ca-based marketing agency, buy ads, etc), no actual physical presence. Even if this gets passed and signed into law, it surely will be challenged as being unconstitutional, going against the interstate commerce clause.
Moving out of state really doesn't change anything for existing businesses. The only ones really affected are out of state businesses that feel they don't have an in-state presence, but California feels they do.
Good idea...as long as you don't visit a shared server. Or a secure server. Or use a protocol where the real domain name is used as part of the communication.
Because you don't have a 100ft wide screen with more than 7 channels
I also don't sit back 20 rows and 200 feet from the screen. Size is relative.
(movie theaters have many more channels than 7).
Care to substantiate that? Many more isn't an exact number, but IMAX for instance just uses 6 discrete tracks. If 6 is good enough for IMAX, why is "many more" really necessary?
It doesn't. My bank used such a service for a while before it stopped due to complaints. If you made a mistake, paused, etc you would need to start over. Backspace automatically did it for you. It was a major PITA when my wife would log in to our bank account, then I would try. It always seemed to remember her slow typing but not mine. Plus, it would reject me if I used the number pad to enter the account number because digits there were different keys apparently then the digits on the top row.
This is why big pharma is allowed to continue to "treat" major killers such as cancer and HIV/AIDS rather than cure, to ensure deaths, even if a cure already exists.
It couldn't be because they haven't found a cure for cancer or HIV/AIDS but they have found some treatments that help treat a number of the symptoms, lessening their effect, could it?
They haven't found a cure for my migraines, but taking a couple of ibuprofen pills helps. OMG it's a government conspiracy!!1! They want my headaches to kill me since there is no cure!
Shouldn't "testing it for vulnerabilities" be part of their normal operating costs anyways? If my company gets hit by a virus, is part of the economic damages the cost to install antivirus on all the computers?
how would amazon know that some village in the middle of nowhere has increased their local sales tax this year?
You subscribe to a tax service that monitors such things. I did a ecommerce site previously for a company that effectively had a nexus in every state. We used such a service that tied in with their ERP system. I believe there was something on the order of 10,000 different tax jurisdictions when you considered all the different towns/cities, county, state, food, alcohol, general merchandise, etc combinations. In most cases, I believe they just had to remit to the state level with each jurisdiction's amount specified and the state dived it up accordingly.
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You post bail in the amount of the fine. You go to trail. If you win, you get your bail back. It's no different then any other traffic court fine.
If someone broke into a store at night and there was video evidence of the burger's face, front and back of his car, and him breaking the window, you don't think that would be enough to convict?
I'm not in favor of the cameras, and luckily my town doesn't use them. But I wouldn't say that it's not a fair system unless there isn't mechanism in place to dispute the ticket. In LA's case at least, there are multiple levels that it can be disputed between signing an affidavit that it's not you, asking for an officer review, and requesting a trial.
From LA's Photo Red Light FAQs:
1. There are multiple videos taken. Intersection/context of the violation (you crossing the line with the light red), front (including face), rear, and of the red light. If you still feel that it's not you driving the car, then you fill out the affidavit of non-liability on the back of the ticket that is mailed to you.
2. Then challenge it. If the plate doesn't match, or is ambiguous enough that the OCR is incorrect, other evidence likely supports it. While statistically still possible, the likelihood that the make, model, style, and color match between two similar plates is pretty low.
3. Since there is a video taken from multiple cameras, and the vehicle is shown from multiple angles along with the red light, setup or timing issues may happen, but are also easily reviewed. Which is why you can request to have the video reviewed with an officer.
4. Review it with an officer. If there are extenuating circumstances, it would be shown on the video. Or take it to trial.
The accuser is the local government. The evidence is the red light camera's photo.
If you robbed a bank, or shot someone, and it was photographed or recorded, you wouldn't be arguing that the evidence was inadmissible because you couldn't challenge the camera.
So which department of the Executive Branch, you know the one that is suppose to enforce laws, should it fall to if not the Department of Homeland Security?
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Department of Transportation
Department of Veterans Affairs
It would seem to me that DHS would be the best fit since there isn't a Department of Copyright Enforcement (yet).
Firefox 3.5 was released 2 years ago. 3.6 was released nearly 18 months ago. It's not every few months. It's been almost 18 months. If your business depends on a particular version of Firefox, then run them side by side if need be.
While not all businesses can just deploy the upgrade to all their PCs, most probably can. This isn't updating an OS, upgrading a domain controller, or changing platforms. Any company that has has extensive procedures for rolling out updates across their enterprise probably isn't using GMail, Google Docs, Google Calender, GTalk, and Google Sites.
If takes you a year to do a minor version upgrade to your ERP, maybe using Google's apps aren't the right choice for you.
From here:
Oklahoma's 17 prisons and five community corrections centers all get cable television. The yearly cost: $280,000.
There is at least one company that specializes in correctional cable programming.
From this MSNBS article about the digital switchover:
The Federal Bureau of Prisons receives cable TV service, so officials don't anticipate any interruptions, spokeswoman Felicia Ponce said. Federal inmates are allowed limited viewing in common rooms with some restrictions â" for instance, they can't watch R-rated movies.
It took a whole 10 seconds to find two mainstream prison systems that have some form of cable TV, and a company that is dedicated to offering mainstream prisons cable tv service.
Please. There are services that specialize in managing the tax information that a company can subscribe to, so it's not like they have to be a tax expert in every jurisdiction.
Besides, you are going to tell be that some of the largest web retailers in the world doesn't have the resources to implement it? It's a valid argument for some mom and pop storefront that might be affected...not Amazon.com.
This is only for sales/use tax. Retail companies don't budget for it...it's passed on directly to the consumer in almost all cases, or wrapped up in the price for where it's not a line item.
By having to collect a tax, it puts an online retailer at a disadvantage over other retailers that aren't obligated to collect the tax. In the end it shouldn't matter as most (all?) state that has a sales tax requires you to pay the equivalent in use tax for out of state purchases that weren't taxed. But in reality almost no one does.
Companies like Amazon say they don't have a nexus or presence in the state. Specifically, Amazon for instance says they only have a California-based marketing relationship. Being out of state, the SCOTUS has ruled that they are not obligated to collect sales tax for California-based purchasers. However California disagrees and is trying to change their laws so that Amazon is included. The battle basically comes down to is how is a nexus defined?
Why would they leave? Tax is only being collected on purchases of in state companies to in state residents and that's up for debate. Products going out of state from California businesses aren't taxed unless the business has a nexus in the destination state, and that's not up for debate either. Only out of state businesses without a nexus in California are not required to collect sales/use tax for California, and that's the issue.
It's the last sentence that California is trying to change. Amazon for instance says they only have an advertising relationship in the state (e.g. they use a Ca-based marketing agency, buy ads, etc), no actual physical presence. Even if this gets passed and signed into law, it surely will be challenged as being unconstitutional, going against the interstate commerce clause.
Moving out of state really doesn't change anything for existing businesses. The only ones really affected are out of state businesses that feel they don't have an in-state presence, but California feels they do.
Good idea...as long as you don't visit a shared server. Or a secure server. Or use a protocol where the real domain name is used as part of the communication.
Took all of 10 seconds to find this one.
I also don't sit back 20 rows and 200 feet from the screen. Size is relative.
Care to substantiate that? Many more isn't an exact number, but IMAX for instance just uses 6 discrete tracks. If 6 is good enough for IMAX, why is "many more" really necessary?
Apparently twisting, bending over, and raping something may actually be illegal.
It doesn't. My bank used such a service for a while before it stopped due to complaints. If you made a mistake, paused, etc you would need to start over. Backspace automatically did it for you. It was a major PITA when my wife would log in to our bank account, then I would try. It always seemed to remember her slow typing but not mine. Plus, it would reject me if I used the number pad to enter the account number because digits there were different keys apparently then the digits on the top row.
Ctrl-V is rendered useless when your bank uses flash for the login disabling Ctrl-V.
Rambus lead the way too...
It couldn't be because they haven't found a cure for cancer or HIV/AIDS but they have found some treatments that help treat a number of the symptoms, lessening their effect, could it?
They haven't found a cure for my migraines, but taking a couple of ibuprofen pills helps. OMG it's a government conspiracy!!1! They want my headaches to kill me since there is no cure!
Shouldn't "testing it for vulnerabilities" be part of their normal operating costs anyways? If my company gets hit by a virus, is part of the economic damages the cost to install antivirus on all the computers?
You subscribe to a tax service that monitors such things. I did a ecommerce site previously for a company that effectively had a nexus in every state. We used such a service that tied in with their ERP system. I believe there was something on the order of 10,000 different tax jurisdictions when you considered all the different towns/cities, county, state, food, alcohol, general merchandise, etc combinations. In most cases, I believe they just had to remit to the state level with each jurisdiction's amount specified and the state dived it up accordingly.
I can count 397m ways why it still counts. While the technology may gave moved on, the effects of the lawsuit are still around.
Typhoid cancer? Is that cancer of the fever?
I believe you mean thyroid cancer.
I heard a report was just Chuck Norris. Everything else was just part of the cover story.