BALTIMORE (AP) -- A man wanted for the killing of a civilian police employee in a dispute over a stolen can of Spam has been arrested, nearly 30 years after the shooting.
Michael Hughes, 58, was arrested in Boston last weekend for allegedly stabbing a man he thought was gay. Police then learned Hughes was wanted for the slaying of 40-year-old McKinley Johnson.
Johnson, who worked in the police department motor pool, was killed in 1974 on Christmas Eve. He was giving away homemade Christmas baskets inside a Baltimore bar, something he did every Christmas, said his former girlfriend, Helen Fogg, now 62.
Then a man stole a can of Spam out of one of the baskets, Johnson confronted him and was shot.
"That's what made it so bad, him dying on Christmas," said Fogg, the mother of Johnson's 35-year-old son. "I was devastated. I was depressed for quite a while. I couldn't believe someone would take his life over something as stupid as a can of Spam."
... MySql is not a real database. It does not implement transactions, it has no clustering solution, it has not integrated backup tool, and it does not support avanced SQL command such as SELECT, INSERT or DELETE
So what is a democracy? Is the US one, considering that Al Gore, even though he won the popular vote, is not president?
Actually, he would even have won the electoral vote, if his opponent wouldn't have cheated. That's the difference between real life and a game: in a game, cheaters are evicted. In real life, they become mightiest man of the world!
Here in The Netherlands, anything you download as a private person is legal; how about that for fair use?
Last I checked, The Netherlands are in the EU. And since Tuesday, we now have this nasty new law which makes all kinds of IP infringments (including "private copy" and also patent infringments) illegal, punishable by the death penalty (several countries had to change their constitution because of this, because they've abolished the death penalty long ago, and needed to re-introduce it for this new scary directive...)
DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- Andrea Carlton hadn't planned on telling her daughter about the birds and bees until she was 8 or 9. But that changed the night 4-year-old Catherine spotted a porno movie flickering on a screen in a minivan nearby.
"Just like there's no windows in a strip club, you shouldn't be able to see inside windows in a car when they're watching X-rated movies," said Carlton, a 26-year-old from Gurnee, Illinois.
More and more Americans are buying vehicles with DVD players, usually to keep the kids entertained. But an increasing number of other people on the road are catching a glimpse through the windows of more than just "Finding Nemo" and "SpongeBob SquarePants."
Depending on where they are driving or parked, motorists could face fines and even jail time for screening X-rated stuff. But where the law may not be clear, some are calling for tighter regulation.
"Residents should not be subjected to those obscenities," said Flint City Councilwoman Carolyn Sims, who is examining whether an ordinance packing a $500 fine is needed. "They do have a right to have peace and tranquility and not to have this exposure to sex in their face."
A driver in Schenectady, New York, was arrested last month after rolling past police with a DVD titled "Chocolate Foam" playing on the passenger-side sun visor in his Mercedes-Benz, authorities said. The movie also was rolling on screens set into the car's headrests.
The driver was accused of breaking state laws prohibiting watching TV while driving, as well as another law making it illegal to exhibit sexually explicit material in a public place.
"The detective had a clear view of what was playing through the window. Anyone walking by on the street could have seen it," Schenectady police Lt. Peter Frisoni Jr. said of the nighttime traffic stop. "If he had dark, tinted windows where you couldn't see in, that wouldn't be a public display."
As for Carlton, she was driving in the Chicago suburb of Buffalo Grove with her daughter when Catherine glimpsed the sexually explicit movie. The experience last fall upset the girl and angered Carlton.
Carlton and her husband sat down with Catherine and offered the best explanation they could. Since then, Carlton has spotted other motorists with explicit movies playing, including a couple watching from the back seat of their car in a store parking lot.
"You're not allowed to have sex in your car, so why are you allowed to watch it?" Carlton asked.
Most states, including Michigan, have laws that make it illegal to watch TV while driving. Laws governing the exhibition of pornography vary by state, but experts say they could be applied to drivers as well.
"I think those restrictions would apply if the content is located in a vehicle," said Jeff Matsuura, director of the law and technology program at the University of Dayton. "You have effectively moved beyond the privacy of your own home."
During the day, it is often difficult to see what is playing inside another vehicle. But at night, the screens are easily visible from a passing car or a vehicle stopped alongside at a traffic light. The screens are also getting bigger.
In Flynt, Sims took up the issue after hearing from a woman who was driving with her 5-year-old when she spotted porn playing on a vehicle's 13-inch TV screen. A police officer who happened to see the display pulled over the driver, Sims said, but let him off with a warning.
To Sims, a 23-year police veteran who retired in 2001, playing an explicit movie in view of other motorists or pedestrians is akin to flashing or having sex in a public place.
But Michigan State Police, who have not had any cases of in-car porn, say playing an X-rated movie might not be easy to prosecute unless it can be proved that the motorist intended for others to see it.
I've seen people program Java and doing stupid memory allocation things, because they had no clue about what happens when you do "new bla" or "delete bla".
Java has a garbage collector, there is no delete bla (which doesn't mean that you don't need to worry about memory leaks, but that's another story...)
but it's a reasonable salary for a talented web engineer
This assumes that during these three years he worked only on that web site. Somehow I doubt that it was that much work to set it up and maintain, and that he did not have any other clients during that 3 year period.
A couple of weeks for initial development (at most) followed by maybe 1 or 2 hours per week for maintenance during the rest of the 3 years is more reasonable. Come on, web site design (if done right) is not that work intensive.
Not to mention that $8333/month is quite a nice salary for a web designer... Do you really earn that much in the states? Around here, even certified software engineers doing actual application development (C, java,...) don't get those kinds of salaries!
If we plug in those more realistic figures:
1 month initial work
1 day/month maintenance => 35 days = 7 weeks => less than 2 months
==> 3 month.
Assume a salary of $4000/month, and 50% overhead => $18000.
... "what a nice place to hide a bomb" when he saw that huge flowerpot in that fisheye picture? Set the timer to some convenient time between 8h49 and 9h11, when the microserfs are coming in for work, and blammo! install red splash!
Because co.uk is not really a company's domain. Rather, it's the British equivalent of.com. Of course, the virus was too stupid too notice this. That's what made it funny.
However, if you ever DO see one of these cars, I'd love a photograph of it sporting my Linux sticker. I'll have to make one which says, "My OTHER car's hood isn't welded shut!"
Some windows wallpaper saying "My other OS doesn't suck"
Unfortunatly on my first attempt I discovered what a mess it made and abandoned the project...
Just put some container (upside-down bowl or colander) over your eggs. Much easyer to clean that the inside of your nuker.
Anyways, I wouldn't think you'd get nice hard-boiled eggs with this, even with the right timing. Very probably parts of the eggs will still be cold and liquid at the same time when others are already sufficiently "done" to cause the eggsplosion. Think about what happens to frozen butter when set to "high": parts molten, other parts still frozen.
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Michael Hughes, 58, was arrested in Boston last weekend for allegedly stabbing a man he thought was gay. Police then learned Hughes was wanted for the slaying of 40-year-old McKinley Johnson.
Johnson, who worked in the police department motor pool, was killed in 1974 on Christmas Eve. He was giving away homemade Christmas baskets inside a Baltimore bar, something he did every Christmas, said his former girlfriend, Helen Fogg, now 62.
Then a man stole a can of Spam out of one of the baskets, Johnson confronted him and was shot. "That's what made it so bad, him dying on Christmas," said Fogg, the mother of Johnson's 35-year-old son. "I was devastated. I was depressed for quite a while. I couldn't believe someone would take his life over something as stupid as a can of Spam."
I don't really need to cite an example, do I?
I've been looking for such a list for ages! This is even more useful than the list of country telephone prefixes sorted by prefix!
Just wait until October 31st, hehe...
... charismatic leader of the last century, which one would you pick?
Be glad that it was only your legs ...
It will only work if Bush attempts to blame the Michigan Militia for it. But I doubt that even Bush would be that dumb.
... MySql is not a real database. It does not implement transactions, it has no clustering solution, it has not integrated backup tool, and it does not support avanced SQL command such as SELECT, INSERT or DELETE
Ha!
Anyone who thinks they need this shell actually just need to learn to spell and to ytype accuratly.
Somehow I get impression that these inaccuratl msiytypings are intentional. My bad.
Actually, he would even have won the electoral vote, if his opponent wouldn't have cheated. That's the difference between real life and a game: in a game, cheaters are evicted. In real life, they become mightiest man of the world!
(Please mod me down btw, thx).
Last I checked, The Netherlands are in the EU. And since Tuesday, we now have this nasty new law which makes all kinds of IP infringments (including "private copy" and also patent infringments) illegal, punishable by the death penalty (several countries had to change their constitution because of this, because they've abolished the death penalty long ago, and needed to re-introduce it for this new scary directive...)
Or maybe the Hong Kong trademark laws are different and allow this; after all, China has its Tiempo tissues...
"Just like there's no windows in a strip club, you shouldn't be able to see inside windows in a car when they're watching X-rated movies," said Carlton, a 26-year-old from Gurnee, Illinois.
More and more Americans are buying vehicles with DVD players, usually to keep the kids entertained. But an increasing number of other people on the road are catching a glimpse through the windows of more than just "Finding Nemo" and "SpongeBob SquarePants."
Depending on where they are driving or parked, motorists could face fines and even jail time for screening X-rated stuff. But where the law may not be clear, some are calling for tighter regulation.
"Residents should not be subjected to those obscenities," said Flint City Councilwoman Carolyn Sims, who is examining whether an ordinance packing a $500 fine is needed. "They do have a right to have peace and tranquility and not to have this exposure to sex in their face."
A driver in Schenectady, New York, was arrested last month after rolling past police with a DVD titled "Chocolate Foam" playing on the passenger-side sun visor in his Mercedes-Benz, authorities said. The movie also was rolling on screens set into the car's headrests.
The driver was accused of breaking state laws prohibiting watching TV while driving, as well as another law making it illegal to exhibit sexually explicit material in a public place.
"The detective had a clear view of what was playing through the window. Anyone walking by on the street could have seen it," Schenectady police Lt. Peter Frisoni Jr. said of the nighttime traffic stop. "If he had dark, tinted windows where you couldn't see in, that wouldn't be a public display."
As for Carlton, she was driving in the Chicago suburb of Buffalo Grove with her daughter when Catherine glimpsed the sexually explicit movie. The experience last fall upset the girl and angered Carlton.
Carlton and her husband sat down with Catherine and offered the best explanation they could. Since then, Carlton has spotted other motorists with explicit movies playing, including a couple watching from the back seat of their car in a store parking lot.
"You're not allowed to have sex in your car, so why are you allowed to watch it?" Carlton asked.
Most states, including Michigan, have laws that make it illegal to watch TV while driving. Laws governing the exhibition of pornography vary by state, but experts say they could be applied to drivers as well.
"I think those restrictions would apply if the content is located in a vehicle," said Jeff Matsuura, director of the law and technology program at the University of Dayton. "You have effectively moved beyond the privacy of your own home."
During the day, it is often difficult to see what is playing inside another vehicle. But at night, the screens are easily visible from a passing car or a vehicle stopped alongside at a traffic light. The screens are also getting bigger.
In Flynt, Sims took up the issue after hearing from a woman who was driving with her 5-year-old when she spotted porn playing on a vehicle's 13-inch TV screen. A police officer who happened to see the display pulled over the driver, Sims said, but let him off with a warning.
To Sims, a 23-year police veteran who retired in 2001, playing an explicit movie in view of other motorists or pedestrians is akin to flashing or having sex in a public place.
But Michigan State Police, who have not had any cases of in-car porn, say playing an X-rated movie might not be easy to prosecute unless it can be proved that the motorist intended for others to see it.
... it has an easyer to remember area code!
Yeah, "good Americans", because they are so rare that they are worthwhile pointing out, hehe ;-)
*duck*
Java has a garbage collector, there is no delete bla (which doesn't mean that you don't need to worry about memory leaks, but that's another story...)
Shouldn't that rather be: Not using a computer to commit a crime instead? And divide his sentence by 3, rather than multiplying it? ;-)
This assumes that during these three years he worked only on that web site. Somehow I doubt that it was that much work to set it up and maintain, and that he did not have any other clients during that 3 year period.
A couple of weeks for initial development (at most) followed by maybe 1 or 2 hours per week for maintenance during the rest of the 3 years is more reasonable. Come on, web site design (if done right) is not that work intensive.
Not to mention that $8333/month is quite a nice salary for a web designer... Do you really earn that much in the states? Around here, even certified software engineers doing actual application development (C, java, ...) don't get those kinds of salaries!
If we plug in those more realistic figures:
- 1 month initial work
- 1 day/month maintenance => 35 days = 7 weeks => less than 2 months
==> 3 month.Assume a salary of $4000/month, and 50% overhead => $18000.
A far cry from the $300K he is charging.
... "what a nice place to hide a bomb" when he saw that huge flowerpot in that fisheye picture? Set the timer to some convenient time between 8h49 and 9h11, when the microserfs are coming in for work, and blammo! install red splash!
Because co.uk is not really a company's domain. Rather, it's the British equivalent of .com. Of course, the virus was too stupid too notice this. That's what made it funny.
Some windows wallpaper saying "My other OS doesn't suck"
And what if he just had sprinkled it with holy water instead? ;-)
Just put some container (upside-down bowl or colander) over your eggs. Much easyer to clean that the inside of your nuker.
Anyways, I wouldn't think you'd get nice hard-boiled eggs with this, even with the right timing. Very probably parts of the eggs will still be cold and liquid at the same time when others are already sufficiently "done" to cause the eggsplosion. Think about what happens to frozen butter when set to "high": parts molten, other parts still frozen.