Here in Missouri it is perfectly legal to sell a "water pipe" it is also perfectly legal to sell a "glass pipe" you can also legally purchase these things and own them freely. However it is highly illegal to sell or own a "bong" because "bong's" are used to smoke weed. Water pipes are used to smoke tobacco. This is why in Missouri if you go to a head shop and ask to be shown that sweetass bong on the second shelf you would be promptly be told that they do not sell bongs but they will show you the water cooled tobacco smoking accessory you have pointed at.
I believe that Tommy Chong was indeed selling "bongs" on the internet.
IANAL however I belive that at least here in the state of Missouri a K-9 unit can be used as a means to gain probable cause. For instance in this sort of case while he and the officer cannot enter you vehicle they can walk the dog around the exterior then if the dog alerts to something the officer has probable cause to enter and do a more invasive search. Hence ask what the dog does to when he alerts other wise the dog will blink and they will say there it is. Also the dog should most definatly indicate a specific area.
First off to everyone here asking "why didn't he just show is ID?" I have lived in Urban areas and I have lived in small country towns. Being a caucasian male in his mid-twenties I have never had a problem with law enforcement in the urban areas that I have lived. However in the small towns with the small police departments where there is little more to do than harass the local teen and early twenties population I have had nothing but problems. I have never been officially arrested. Nor do I have or deserve any criminal record. But I have been pulled over, searched, taken in and otherwise annoyed by these small town constables more than I can remember. One day in my late teens early twenties I finally had enough. I had been routinely pulled over and had both my vehicle and person searched at least once a week for several months. I decided I wasn't going to do it anymore as none of the stops ever resulted in more than a ticket for a burnt out taillight. I decided to start refusing the search request. I began to tell the officers that since they have no probable cause to enter my vehicle that the most they could do was a plain sight search. And if they wanted anymore than that to get a dog or a warrant (keep in mind that if they do opt for the dog, which they have in my case a few times, that you should ask them to declare how the dog alerts prior to them letting the dog loose on the car.) This will piss a cop off so be ready for the backlash. I had to do this a few times and sit and wait for them to get a k-9 unit to respond but eventually they began to leave me alone as it took to much time for them.
Having gave that background I can complete understand why this man refused the police officers request. The officer had little of no resonable and probable cause to make this request.
With all the conspiracy bouncing around why is it that no one has pointed a finger at the most likely suspects....
Those damn BSD bastards. All upset because linux is getting all this attention. When was was the last time you saw a small Eminem clone named BSD on TV? Thats gotta be pissing them off.
Hmmm.. Not sure if that was a flame attempt or not as I have never seen anything worse than FP for web development but I'll bite.
I would be more than happy to post up the source for this except that Like I said I wrote in in about a day and a half. So perhaps in this case security by obscurity is the best option. I plan to put more time into soon as it actually turned out better than I thought it would. Perhaps one I do put it through its paces and am convinced that it does not pose any security issues I will put it up on FM or SF.
I am not an experienced PHP developer this is my 3rd or 4th real project. That is why I said that if he had any experience with php he could hack something out.
On the surface the thing seems secure but with source code in hand someone maybe able to find a flaw. Christ I sound like MS but thats the breaks I guess. For this small of a project and with the traffic that this particular site will draw, it works.
I am a part-time web designer / PHP developer and recently picked up a computer illiterate client (worse than family?). They needed a website on which they could post event announcements. Seeing how I did not want to be bothered with doing these minor updates several times a month I opted to write a simple PHP based CMS. It only took me about a day and a half to write and is secure enough for the clients needs. It even has categories with icons and support for multiple posters. It uses mysql on the backend. If you have any experience with PHP I am sure you could hack something out.
IANAL but I don't think the ammount for statutory damages would rise anywhere near 750 let alone 30,000. Assuming that you never shared the file and that the track was only released as part of full LP then the most I think they could get out of you would be the $15-$25 that it costs to buy the CD along with court costs. This is Still quite a bit for the avg person with 1000 mp3s but not nearly what you state it would be.
Now if the file was released as a single or maxi-single or what not then maybe 5 bucks or so a track.
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Here in Missouri it is perfectly legal to sell a "water pipe" it is also perfectly legal to sell a "glass pipe" you can also legally purchase these things and own them freely. However it is highly illegal to sell or own a "bong" because "bong's" are used to smoke weed. Water pipes are used to smoke tobacco. This is why in Missouri if you go to a head shop and ask to be shown that sweetass bong on the second shelf you would be promptly be told that they do not sell bongs but they will show you the water cooled tobacco smoking accessory you have pointed at.
I believe that Tommy Chong was indeed selling "bongs" on the internet.
IANAL however I belive that at least here in the state of Missouri a K-9 unit can be used as a means to gain probable cause. For instance in this sort of case while he and the officer cannot enter you vehicle they can walk the dog around the exterior then if the dog alerts to something the officer has probable cause to enter and do a more invasive search. Hence ask what the dog does to when he alerts other wise the dog will blink and they will say there it is. Also the dog should most definatly indicate a specific area.
Its late and I'm not checking my spelling.
First off to everyone here asking "why didn't he just show is ID?" I have lived in Urban areas and I have lived in small country towns. Being a caucasian male in his mid-twenties I have never had a problem with law enforcement in the urban areas that I have lived. However in the small towns with the small police departments where there is little more to do than harass the local teen and early twenties population I have had nothing but problems. I have never been officially arrested. Nor do I have or deserve any criminal record. But I have been pulled over, searched, taken in and otherwise annoyed by these small town constables more than I can remember. One day in my late teens early twenties I finally had enough. I had been routinely pulled over and had both my vehicle and person searched at least once a week for several months. I decided I wasn't going to do it anymore as none of the stops ever resulted in more than a ticket for a burnt out taillight. I decided to start refusing the search request. I began to tell the officers that since they have no probable cause to enter my vehicle that the most they could do was a plain sight search. And if they wanted anymore than that to get a dog or a warrant (keep in mind that if they do opt for the dog, which they have in my case a few times, that you should ask them to declare how the dog alerts prior to them letting the dog loose on the car.) This will piss a cop off so be ready for the backlash. I had to do this a few times and sit and wait for them to get a k-9 unit to respond but eventually they began to leave me alone as it took to much time for them. Having gave that background I can complete understand why this man refused the police officers request. The officer had little of no resonable and probable cause to make this request.
With all the conspiracy bouncing around why is it that no one has pointed a finger at the most likely suspects.... Those damn BSD bastards. All upset because linux is getting all this attention. When was was the last time you saw a small Eminem clone named BSD on TV? Thats gotta be pissing them off.
This is probally going to get me labled as anti-linux forever on /. but why is this modded troll? Its true.
/. junkie. But I also learned a long time ago to never point fingers and to never speak to soon.
I am as anti-sco pro-linux anti-ms as anyother
This should be modded up to at least neutrel.
Hmmm.. Not sure if that was a flame attempt or not as I have never seen anything worse than FP for web development but I'll bite.
I would be more than happy to post up the source for this except that Like I said I wrote in in about a day and a half. So perhaps in this case security by obscurity is the best option. I plan to put more time into soon as it actually turned out better than I thought it would. Perhaps one I do put it through its paces and am convinced that it does not pose any security issues I will put it up on FM or SF.
I am not an experienced PHP developer this is my 3rd or 4th real project. That is why I said that if he had any experience with php he could hack something out.
On the surface the thing seems secure but with source code in hand someone maybe able to find a flaw. Christ I sound like MS but thats the breaks I guess. For this small of a project and with the traffic that this particular site will draw, it works.
I am a part-time web designer / PHP developer and recently picked up a computer illiterate client (worse than family?). They needed a website on which they could post event announcements. Seeing how I did not want to be bothered with doing these minor updates several times a month I opted to write a simple PHP based CMS. It only took me about a day and a half to write and is secure enough for the clients needs. It even has categories with icons and support for multiple posters. It uses mysql on the backend. If you have any experience with PHP I am sure you could hack something out.
IANAL but I don't think the ammount for statutory damages would rise anywhere near 750 let alone 30,000. Assuming that you never shared the file and that the track was only released as part of full LP then the most I think they could get out of you would be the $15-$25 that it costs to buy the CD along with court costs. This is Still quite a bit for the avg person with 1000 mp3s but not nearly what you state it would be.
Now if the file was released as a single or maxi-single or what not then maybe 5 bucks or so a track.
Of course I could be completely offbase here.
solar flares.
Depends on what you mean by hit.
Or the tigers at the Mirage in Las Vegas.