I would happily and with a giddy demeanor spend hour upon hour working on a means to avoid ever having to sit through 20 seconds of Australia's never to be sufficiently goddamned "must play this" anti piracy advert. Why? Because my enjoyment of the successful completion of the project, even if it was negative would still be worthwhile in view of the irritation and anger I experience every single time I see that same ad, with the same immensely annoying soundtrack. Right at the start of what is supposed to be entertainment!!!!!. Reliably avoiding that negative experience would vastly increase my enjoyment of the product that I have paid for. Dull, repetitive garbage that treats the customer like a child in need of endless repetition of recording industry lies has no place in entertainment.
Yes. People submit to TSA thugs because the state stands behind them and will regard disrespect of TSA personnel as disrespect of the state. Some random guy trying to hijack a plane does not enjoy the overt support of the state.
The community was compelled to compensate the injured party. Since cops are part of the community, they were "punished". Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
"Either we tell them now and help them deal with it, or we give our great-grandchildren a messed up planet."
Cool. You get to have great grandchildren while poor folk get to die from the many miseries that electricity spares us. Like dying of cold, heat, unpreserved or uncooked food, burning to death when their cooking fires get out of control or just getting sick because their immune system is compromised by not getting enough food. Just what we need: a bunch of sanctimonious assholes with a cause important enough in their eyes to justify doing whatever the hell they want to do.
I thought that was the Republican parties job. Turns out they're not nearly as good at it as you lot.
"but the point of the justice system is to correct and reduce crime"
These cops committed crimes. Perjury in each of at least six years worth of DUI prosecutions. Obstruction of justice in each of at least six yars worth of DUI prosecutions. The list goes on and on. Their crimes need to be corrected and reduced.
They don't want to be fired, charged with multiple felonies then sent to enjoy the company of the people they sent to jail? The solution is similar to the one regularly proposed to drunk drivers. Just do the calibration like the procedures say they should. Easy.
I suspect the people wrongfully convicted of DUI would disagree that the cops who falsified records upon which those convictions were based would disagree that the cops are not a dangerous threat to society. For that matter, so do I. If we're willing to look beyond immediate consequences to individuals (which, to be honest, I'm reluctant to do since the immediate consequences are more than extreme enough already) there are consequences for the public standing and effectiveness of the police force. There are consequences for the public standing of court proceedings which rely heavily on police testimony, there are consequences for public trust in authority generally and there are consequences in terms of the financial cost of correcting the consequences to individuals of wrongful convictions. These threats to society are more than sufficient, on their own, to justify incarceration of the perpetrators. Add in the consequences to individuals of wrongful conviction and we're looking at justification for many years of incarceration for the perpetrators.
Problem: people who _don't_ want to be police officers seldom apply for work in law enforcement. Whatcha gonna do? Have a lottery and people who win have to work in the police department? How do you compel someone to carry a gun around anyway?
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As long as the do it while handing over the fucking form, what's the problem?
If you hadn't posted AC, this would be +5 by now.
I would happily and with a giddy demeanor spend hour upon hour working on a means to avoid ever having to sit through 20 seconds of Australia's never to be sufficiently goddamned "must play this" anti piracy advert. Why? Because my enjoyment of the successful completion of the project, even if it was negative would still be worthwhile in view of the irritation and anger I experience every single time I see that same ad, with the same immensely annoying soundtrack. Right at the start of what is supposed to be entertainment!!!!! . Reliably avoiding that negative experience would vastly increase my enjoyment of the product that I have paid for. Dull, repetitive garbage that treats the customer like a child in need of endless repetition of recording industry lies has no place in entertainment.
Because fuck you. That's why
Destroy it before a government got its hands on the thing.
Yes. People submit to TSA thugs because the state stands behind them and will regard disrespect of TSA personnel as disrespect of the state. Some random guy trying to hijack a plane does not enjoy the overt support of the state.
The community was compelled to compensate the injured party. Since cops are part of the community, they were "punished". Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
"Not all cops are asshats."
True enough. But even the non asshats wont arrest other cops who break the law.
Are you familiar with all 20000 pages of law to be aware of every instance in which you broke the law?
Yeah, being this cold and uncaring is their job. Who the hell do you think you are, being this much better at it than they are?
"Either we tell them now and help them deal with it, or we give our great-grandchildren a messed up planet."
Cool. You get to have great grandchildren while poor folk get to die from the many miseries that electricity spares us. Like dying of cold, heat, unpreserved or uncooked food, burning to death when their cooking fires get out of control or just getting sick because their immune system is compromised by not getting enough food. Just what we need: a bunch of sanctimonious assholes with a cause important enough in their eyes to justify doing whatever the hell they want to do.
I thought that was the Republican parties job. Turns out they're not nearly as good at it as you lot.
Astroturf?
Because if the people who do produce them voluntarily seek membership of the WTO, you don't have to.
... Voluntary members of the WTO or something like that?
Offer the people wrongly convicted of DUI well paid jobs doing the calibrations.
"all it took was a little pride and skill"
Now you're just trying to make me cry
LOL Dude!
"Times however many instances of people prosecuted"
FTFY
And they will be good guys. Just as soon as they've done their time.
"but the point of the justice system is to correct and reduce crime" These cops committed crimes. Perjury in each of at least six years worth of DUI prosecutions. Obstruction of justice in each of at least six yars worth of DUI prosecutions. The list goes on and on. Their crimes need to be corrected and reduced.
They don't want to be fired, charged with multiple felonies then sent to enjoy the company of the people they sent to jail? The solution is similar to the one regularly proposed to drunk drivers. Just do the calibration like the procedures say they should. Easy.
I suspect the people wrongfully convicted of DUI would disagree that the cops who falsified records upon which those convictions were based would disagree that the cops are not a dangerous threat to society. For that matter, so do I. If we're willing to look beyond immediate consequences to individuals (which, to be honest, I'm reluctant to do since the immediate consequences are more than extreme enough already) there are consequences for the public standing and effectiveness of the police force. There are consequences for the public standing of court proceedings which rely heavily on police testimony, there are consequences for public trust in authority generally and there are consequences in terms of the financial cost of correcting the consequences to individuals of wrongful convictions. These threats to society are more than sufficient, on their own, to justify incarceration of the perpetrators. Add in the consequences to individuals of wrongful conviction and we're looking at justification for many years of incarceration for the perpetrators.
If doing that thing wrong can result in wrongful convictions for DUI? HELL YES!
Problem: people who _don't_ want to be police officers seldom apply for work in law enforcement. Whatcha gonna do? Have a lottery and people who win have to work in the police department? How do you compel someone to carry a gun around anyway?
" We were getting paid to do it, so we did it" So were the cops who licked and sticked the calibration on the breathalyzers. [sigh]