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  1. Re:Charges? on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Weird that a man in a Stormtrooper costume was in front of an elementary school with no apparent reason to be associated with the school.

    Have you seen that asserted, or is that your assumption? I've seen nothing that indicated he was even asked why he was there.

  2. Re:Could you tell a difference at distance? on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like the Highland Park police who would arrest minorities for "loitering" all the time. The best place to collect such undesireables is a the bus stop.

    Yes, the police pulled up to a bus stop, and arrested all the minorities standing there for "loitering". They had been called on it quite a few times, but didn't officially "stop" it until they arrested the maid of a rich, white, family who pushed the issue until there was a civil rights violation conviction against the city. After that, they now only arrest minorities at bus stops for resisting arrest.

    Loitering is 99% of the time a bogus charge. It's not illegal to "loiter" in most places someone is arrested for it. It's like trespassing. It's confusing enough that they can get away with it.

    Is it loitering to wait for a bus? Do you know he wasn't waiting at a bus stop? Is it illegal to wait for school to get out so you can collect your child? The only place you are allowed to wait is in your own house? What silly world do you live in? I bet the nice public parks in the rich neighborhoods don't have all the children playing on the swings for hours arrested for loitering.

  3. Re:Could you tell a difference at distance? on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 2

    The law doesn't, but the police do. The last time I called the non emergency number, I was told that the only way to generate a police response was to call 911. The non emergency number exists solely for people who want to complain, but don't want to be arrested for falsely calling 911. The calls are taken and ignored. That's what the person on the other end of the line told me.

  4. Re:Could you tell a difference at distance? on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    In countries where guns are illegal, even the cops are unarmed, and people are safer. An escalation of force isn't a safe move.

  5. Re:Could you tell a difference at distance? on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    I could make a firearm that looked like it. The movie props were based on a real firearm, so they should look (at least a little) realistic.

  6. Re:Could you tell a difference at distance? on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Nobody in your links "dressed up" for the assault any differently than they had many times before, and the "dress up" was in clothes you can find in thousands of stores, and is commonly warn by many.

    I'm grateful I'm an old bastard. I saved up my Christmas money one year and bought myself a trench coat, when I was a teen. It was great. Warm when you want it to be, but open and breezy when you wanted as well. And pockets that held everything. A full bag of popped microwave popcorn could be smuggled into a movie theater in one of the pockets. But these days, I'd get killed by the cops for having a baggy coat on.

  7. Re:Fear of guns on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but with no other details, why not assume he was a parent, showing up early to get his kid, so waiting outside the school? Or a paid performer for a student's birthday, also waiting for school to end?

    Nope, must be a gun, and he must be up to no good. We assume everyone is a criminal unless proven otherwise.

    Burn the country to the ground and start over. It's too far gone.

  8. Re:Fear of guns on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    TFA says he was arrested for loitering. There was no mention in TFA of "disturbing a school". And if there was such a crime, the principal was the only person committing that crime.

  9. Re:Nations fear it, but they fear each other more. on Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die! · · Score: 1

    Which is why gun safes are required by law in many places. If they break in when you aren't there, they aren't getting the guns. If they hit you over the head to take them, you report it and it's treated seriously.

  10. Re:"stealing just like stealing anything else" on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    Yup. I read it after I posted. I hadn't read it in years. Though, legally, without other penalties laid out, the only penalty allowed is that Netflix can cancel your service.

  11. Re:"stealing just like stealing anything else" on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    Canada takes more laws from the US than the UK. Yes, the Queen is the head of state for many Commonwealth countries, and if they have different succession rules, then there would be weirdness when the crown passes. It has no practical meaning about the other laws.

  12. Re:Nations fear it, but they fear each other more. on Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die! · · Score: 1

    And who is selling guns to these felons, and why aren't they prosecuted?

    Oh, most guns used by felons are "stolen". Why not make it illegal to not secure your guns, the same way it's illegal to leave the keys in your (running) car.

  13. Re:"stealing just like stealing anything else" on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    UK law is not the law in any commonwealth country outside the UK. The US constitution is not the law outside the US. As such, UK (or old English) law has just as much relevance in Canada as US law.

    That you throw insults, but can't point out a flaw is proof that I'm right, but you don't like the truth.

  14. Re:"stealing just like stealing anything else" on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    It's very likely you are violating the terms of your Netflix subscription

    Nope. It's 100% legal, and not a violation of any part of the Netflix agreement (at least the last one I read, I don't re-read all the changes).

    the copyright holder can sue you to recover damages.

    No, they can't. It's explicitly legal for me to drive to another country, buy a DVD and import it for personal use. In this case, I'm using a re-mailer service to deliver the DVD to a different address, but it's still imported for personal use, and still legal.

  15. Re:Blame legislators for this particular sloppines on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    That made me think of an outdoor cat. You may assert ownership over it, but that doesn't mean it or the neighbors it begs food off, recognize it. I'll have to call my cat "copyright".

  16. Re:"stealing just like stealing anything else" on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    Whoosh. Despite Canada being in the Commonwealth, the Stature of Anne has as much relevance to Canadian law as the US Constitution does. So correcting to it was not a valid correction.

  17. Re:You might want to brush up on your legal studie on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 0

    Almost every successful action against a cop, police department or school. I could name hundreds, but I don't think it'd matter to you, so I won't waste my time. Though in many cases they weren't "found not guilty" as the trials rarely make it to that stage. What's the number now? 90%+ are plea-bargained out?

  18. Re:You might want to brush up on your legal studie on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 0

    If a person is found not guilty in a murder trial, how is it that they can be charged in a civil trial for damages from a murder they are not guilty of? If you don't see that as double jeopardy you are either blind, or a complete idiot who should live inside of a box and not be allowed to participate in society.

    So if a person who is insane and on medication skips their meds, and has a psychotic break that results in the deaths of people, they can't be held civilly liable for their actions if they aren't convicted? Conviction is a higher standard. Beyond reasonable doubt. Civil has a smaller threshold, and different rules, preponderance of the evidence. If we say that "reasonable doubt" is a 99% standard, and preponderance is a 51% standard, if someone is 75% "guilty" they should (under the current rules) be civilly liable for their actions, but no criminally liable. What's the problem with that? You don't like the civil standard? Or you'd like to have all criminal trials concurrently run with a separate civil trial to save time and trouble?

  19. Re:Nothing to see here, move along. on US Prosecutors Say Clearing Browser Data Can Be Obstruction of Justice · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You mean, who applied stupid amounts of pressure about insisting that even more mortgages be given out to people who couldn't possibly keep up with them? Ask the Democrats who were running congress at the time, maybe even read the transcripts of the hearings where people from the Bush administration sat before that congress and said what a horrible idea it was.

    All that was unrelated to the mortgage-backed security fiasco. That lie is the 1%er's spin on it. The problem was the bankers that lied about risk when creating and trading securities. Nothing else was related to the problem. The default rates of the "people who couldn't possibly keep up with them" weren't high when the whole thing came crashing down.

    But to answer your question ... who broke which specific law that you're thinking of?

    The bankers and banking institutions that formed loans into derivatives committed fraud. The mortgage brokers that lent the "bad" money, and lied about it as they on-sold the loans also are guilty of fraud.

    Being stupid isn't against the law.

    Lying for profit is. It's called fraud.

  20. But I.E. can be configured to clear it's own browser cache upon being closed.

    So? The obstruction is being tipped off in a questioning that they are looking for a bloody glove, then going home and burning your bloody glove. The obstruction is a clear and deliberate destruction of evidence, after being questioned about a crime.

    If he had cleared his history *before* being questioned, there'd be no obstruction. Clearing browser history is unrelated to the story, other than it's the act that caused destruction of evidence.


    Lighting matches is obstruction of justice

    Local man burns down own house to hide evidence of the murders he committed there. Used *matches* to light the gasoline. Matches cause obstruction of justice.

    When you take out the "on the internet" portion, it the obstruction charge sounds more reasonable, and the title and summary are clearly misleading.

  21. Re:"stealing just like stealing anything else" on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do you steal a widget if the law in the location you stole it from defines it as not stealable? So yes, the US law matters when talking about stealing US things.

    And commwealth has nothing to do with law, so the Statute of Anne may or may not apply. I'm in a commonwealth country, and it doesn't apply. So your corrections are incorrect. "Member states have no legal obligation to one another". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

  22. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Half Year changes were evil. And more common than people thought.

  23. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 0

    OK, Plymouth Laser. Is that better?

  24. Re:Oh please U.S. Chamber of Commerce ? on Investors Ask How Much Google Spends On Lobbying · · Score: 1

    China exports. The more fair measure of how much a country contributes is to measure consumption. And in that, China is so far behind the US that it doesn't matter. The CO2 they put in the air is for US companies for products on US shelves. If they stopped tomorrow, Apple et. al. would move to Africa or wherever else allows them to pollute with impunity.

  25. Re:Meh on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    Work on cars like a Dodge Talon. 10mm will dominate around the engine bay. But when you get to other parts, it's a crap shoot as to which one you need. For those who can't be arsed to look it up, the Dodge Talon is essentially a Mitsubishi. Many of the mixed cars use mixed sizes. Even some "pure" cars use mixed sizes.