It was obvious to me that the video was edited to only show the officers actions, and not those of the person being arrested.
Not necessarily. The cameraman may have not considered the incident worth filming until the cops stepped over the line. And, if the video was done in video mode of a digital still camera, some cameras (Canon S410 IIRC does) limit their footage for a single clip to about 30 sec. even if the flash card can hold more of it.
Perhaps you're feeling more into alternative forms of government that some people are trying to impose upon you ?
How about islamic government, what the terrorists are demanding ? What 87% of the british muslims are demanding ?
There can be different types of bad government, though. Some homegrown and some imposed from abroad. Your statement is like telling a condemned man that he should be happy that he's being shot in the morning because he won't have to burn to death in the electric chair. In the end he's just as dead.
I was a witness in the civil case against the station, the kid's family won $150,000. I thought that was an exorbinant amount for a pinched nerve, burnt cheek, and stinging eyes but whatever.
Assuming a cop's salary is $50,000 per year and this amount was personally paid by the cop, that would be just about right. Deprivation of half of his salary for 6 years. If nothing else teaches the cop a lesson, I'm sure that hitting it in the pocket will.
i bet the video cameras all tend to be out "of order" when such events actually happen, or the orhter clasic, " we cant find the tape "
That tends not to fly too well with many courts, especially in civil suits where the standard is a "preponderance of evidence" not "beyond a reasonable doubt."
Sometimes people need a good punch in the face (or three), and who better than the police to do it? It helps to stop people from being whiny, cowardly worms.
You're saying that there are no bad apples among cops. I know some cops. Most of them are decent folk at least when off the job. There are, however, a few power hungry bastards who ruin the image of cops in everyone's eyes and for the sake of respect for the law would be better off being taken out back and shot.
Police, military, and other authority figures are not just your average joe. They are higher, and must be treated as such. Just be glad we have social mobility so anyone can be an authority figure.
Nah, the point is that they are your average Joes and Janes doing a job. Just because they're doing a particularly tough job shouldn't mean that they aren't held accountable for their breaches of the law. In fact, they should be held *more* accountable, since if cops are seen as brutal without accountability, citizens will lose their respect for the law, so examples must be made.
Because they are easily cracked, and they have been for years.
But the average non-IT schmuck working for a company won't have the knowledge or ability to crack a strong password successfully. If they try a dictionary attack, you can have the system scream bloody murder to IT as well as disabling the account after (say) 5 failed attempts in a given time period.
I would guess you have no compliance issues to deal with then. Assuming your a US company that means a privately held, not in the medical field and does not store credit card info (or at least does very little total $ on CC transactions) does not store must anything use full in electronic form (say your tax info) and your HR department uses typewriters could get way with this.
But most Windows 2003 servers I've seen aren't set up to do logging in detail anyway. So, "who accessed what" would be difficult to figure out anyway if there was a security breach.
This system isn't really horrible in a tiny company, especially because in tiny corps, passwords are often common knowledge anyway. With many small companies, the *only* things that are really confidential are the HR records and possibly tax records. If you're worried, encrypt those records and those alone with a key stored on several identical USB keys.
The point is to reclaim some of the energy that is passed through the device and wasted.
I'm saying it *is* possible with the computer and maybe even practical. With the car brakes, there are better ways of skinning a cat. Attaching something like that to an A/C condenser or fridge will just cause it to work poorly since the condenser *needs* to be able to reject heat for the fridge or A/C to work. Attaching a thermovoltaic device will just cause the fridge to work more to reject a given amount of heat, and, ideally, the amount of work extra will be equal to the power generated. Maybe if you attached it to the compressor motor which *does* waste a bit of energy in heat, you'd be getting somewhere, but those losses are pretty small...
Yeah, but you know, we need the heating in winter and especially at night.
Night: that's why to build with thermal mass, to store heat during day and slowly release it. Besides, *less* heat is needed at night, since you generally sleep under blankets or a comforter. In fact, I normally turn it down to 55o until around 6am, so it doesn't get stuffy at night.
Winter: the sun is still out - it's more a matter of angling the windows properly, etc. I suppose that if you live above, say, 55 degrees latitude you may lose most of the advantages of solar heating, but a lot of people don't.
1 - they are "ugly" to most people that want the cookie cutter that looks like the other 15 homes in the new subdivision.
Not necessarily. Besides, the suburban houses that are being barfed up by builders there days are cheaply built and ugly. Yay for particleboard (not the good kind!) roof beams. How they get some of that stuff past the inspectors I can only guess.
2 - They require more land than the typical suburbian/urban lot offers.
Incorrect. We had a 1200 sq ft beach house on a *tiny* (read: a 15' x 15' patio in back and 6' on either side of the house) lot. It had a glazed front porce and lots of south-facing glass. The temp of the place didn't drop below 55-60F in winter without heat.
3 - Actually paying for low-e glass + correct design + insulation is expensive! They would rather have cherry cabinets, stone fireplaces with a plasma TV above it than energy efficiency.
Unfortunately true. Consumers are mostly retarded. A lot of builders are greedy SOBs that would build out of sawdust and ducttape if they could.
6 - efficient designs are hard to get approved by the association... Any home that looks different is considered ugly.
Fortunately, associations don't have power in all places. Some states have even legally curtailed their power pretty severely. Personally, if I own the land, I should be able to build whatever I want on it within the limits of zoning at the time when the land was purchased. Anyone who says otherwise deserves to get thrown into the swamps with a pair of concrete boots and no lifejacket:)
The common person cant have an efficient home, they cant afford it. Jsut like solar and alternative energy. No average joe can float $5000-8000 for a basic solar install that will pay back in 10 years saving few dollars here and there.
Nah, they don't want to afford it. They'd rather pay $40000 for the latest monster truck or whatever the fad of the day is. And they'd also be able to have a more energy efficient home if they were willing to live in a smaller place. Say, 1200 or 1500 sq. ft., not the 3000 sq. ft. cardboard boxes that are going up now. I'm not talking about major changes here, BTW, just efficient use of glass and thermal storage materials (which can very well be concrete covered with a stone or brick facade, BTW).
Couldn't power companies get into the business of leasing the roof-top systems? The pricing structure could be based on how much power the customer consumes
Have you ever priced automatic drapes? Not some $70 break-in-a-year crap from x-10, but something to actually count on for partof your heat? They start at about $500/window
Only because there's no economy of scale present currently. If demand goes up, price will go way down. And my initial post didn't discuss using automatic drapes, just designing to gather solar energy passively. It's possible without things like auto. drapes.
Of course, one thing often overlooked is incandescent lighting.
I don't disagree with you there. But then you have to consider the fact that people also use the lighting in summer, which means that they'll have to pay more for cooling assuming that they have A/C. I suspect that fluorescent lighting is still a net energy gain for that reason, and because in most US climates, the extra heat generated is at best useless 6 mo out of the year.
I use natures solar power storage system, wood. The trees are nice enough to store it for me in a solid form until I need to release it again.
Actually, biomass is a decent idea. The trick is to make sure that you're not burning whatever you're burning faster than it can regrow. Also, burning it in a stove is preferable to a simple fireplace since you can control combustion better and have more efficient burning with less pollutants going into the air. There are also some other issues to consider like depletion of soil nutrients if you're constantly replanting and burning fast-growing plants in the same area.
What about using a mix of clean technologies including nuclear? Also wind, hydro, tidal, etc (actually, those are ultimately solar since the sun drives water flow and atmospheric winds. If one technology becomes temporarily less economical, then reliance will be shifted to other methods of generating power.
I'll admit it was a bit chilly at times and sweaters or sweatshirts became our casual dress around the house but by just opening and closing drape at the opportune times, we could keep the house above 65 during the day, above 62 during the evenings. We found it was more comfortable to shower with the bathroom door closed.
Hah, maybe your house was *already* properly designed, by coincidence, luck or whatever. Now here's an interesting idea - a few electric eyes, temperature sensors and motor actuators for the blinds (all powered by a small solar panel) hooked up to either a small computer or a microcontroller which could do this sort of management when the owners are at work or out of town.
It's probably not truly a crime, but it seems sleazy at best. Why would people be allowed to base their cold-calls on someone's posted ads?
You posted your number with the premise that you're selling a car. They're just trying to sell you a service based on that information. Now, if you would have put a disclaimer (like on Craigslist) saying something like "bona fide buyers only. No commercial services or solicitation," you might have been (in theory) entitled to recover civil damages.
real engine (eg. electric heat pump) would give less efficiency than that -- maybe 50%.
Actually, a heat pump is a bad example, since you're putting energy in to move heat, not moving heat and getting energy out. With an engine, the amount of heat moved always has to be greater than energy out. Same with a heat pump - you actually can move more heat energy than you put power in. Hence coefficients of performance greater than 1.
That way we could apply them to things like brake shoes on cars, the condensers on refrigerators and air conditioners, etc...
Your idea about the computers and brake shoes would work -- in theory. However, with car and train braking, there's a better way to extract energy from braking - just use an electric motor running as a generator to slow the car. It's done in hybrid cars and the NYC subway.
As far as the condensers in fridges and A/C units, it won't work, since you'll need more energy to run the thing. TiNSTaaFL. (There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.) Nor is there such a thing as perpetuum mobile.
. I have a backyard garden, which uses solar energy to produce food six months a year. My sorrel becomes edible in April/May and my potatoes are harvested in September/October.
Build a greenhouse that's connected to your house and faces south and you can extend that to 8-10 months per year. Plus, with good quality insulated glass, the greenhouse will actually end up producing enough heat to heat the rest of the house, at least partially.
I truly believe that the #1 reason why distributed power systems like solar, hydrogen, etc, are not taking off are because the big energy companies don't WANT decentralized energy systems - because they can't control the profits as easily.
Then again, they could just reorganize and move into the manufacturing and maintenance side of things. Someone will have to fix and maintain the solar homepower systems ultimately. The one major advantage of having a power distribution grid, though, is the ability to redistribute power. If Sunville, AZ is having a month of sun with no clouds, and it has been cloudy for a month in Bad Ass, MS, the energy can be redistributed so that all of the Badassian's batteries don't run down.
A lot of oil and other fossil fuel is expended heating homes. With proper design - like areas of south-facing insulated glass combined with materials that store and release heat (thermal mass) you can have a house that's at least partially self-heating in winter. This doesn't require expensive photovoltaic panels or thermal solar systems. This just requires a bit of thought when building or renovating a house. You can even use build the solar area of the house as a small greenhouse and use it to grow vegetables (far healthier than eating chemically-polluted stuff from the grocery IMHO) almost year round.
What about in summer? The windows can be opened and replaced by screens or shaded.
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Not necessarily. The cameraman may have not considered the incident worth filming until the cops stepped over the line. And, if the video was done in video mode of a digital still camera, some cameras (Canon S410 IIRC does) limit their footage for a single clip to about 30 sec. even if the flash card can hold more of it.
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How about islamic government, what the terrorists are demanding ? What 87% of the british muslims are demanding ?
There can be different types of bad government, though. Some homegrown and some imposed from abroad. Your statement is like telling a condemned man that he should be happy that he's being shot in the morning because he won't have to burn to death in the electric chair. In the end he's just as dead.
-b.
Oh, cry me a river. I feel soooo sorry for them...
-b.
That's a tad bit harsh, no? Especially as you don't know what kind of diseases were passed along to said widow by Mr. Blueboy...
-b.
Assuming a cop's salary is $50,000 per year and this amount was personally paid by the cop, that would be just about right. Deprivation of half of his salary for 6 years. If nothing else teaches the cop a lesson, I'm sure that hitting it in the pocket will.
-b.
That tends not to fly too well with many courts, especially in civil suits where the standard is a "preponderance of evidence" not "beyond a reasonable doubt."
-b.
You're saying that there are no bad apples among cops. I know some cops. Most of them are decent folk at least when off the job. There are, however, a few power hungry bastards who ruin the image of cops in everyone's eyes and for the sake of respect for the law would be better off being taken out back and shot.
-b.
Nah, the point is that they are your average Joes and Janes doing a job. Just because they're doing a particularly tough job shouldn't mean that they aren't held accountable for their breaches of the law. In fact, they should be held *more* accountable, since if cops are seen as brutal without accountability, citizens will lose their respect for the law, so examples must be made.
-b.
my voice is my passport, verify." Two iiiiinnnncccchhhheeesss ppeeeeerrrr sssseeeeccccccccccooonnndddd.....
But the average non-IT schmuck working for a company won't have the knowledge or ability to crack a strong password successfully. If they try a dictionary attack, you can have the system scream bloody murder to IT as well as disabling the account after (say) 5 failed attempts in a given time period.
-b.
But most Windows 2003 servers I've seen aren't set up to do logging in detail anyway. So, "who accessed what" would be difficult to figure out anyway if there was a security breach.
This system isn't really horrible in a tiny company, especially because in tiny corps, passwords are often common knowledge anyway. With many small companies, the *only* things that are really confidential are the HR records and possibly tax records. If you're worried, encrypt those records and those alone with a key stored on several identical USB keys.
-b.
I'm saying it *is* possible with the computer and maybe even practical. With the car brakes, there are better ways of skinning a cat. Attaching something like that to an A/C condenser or fridge will just cause it to work poorly since the condenser *needs* to be able to reject heat for the fridge or A/C to work. Attaching a thermovoltaic device will just cause the fridge to work more to reject a given amount of heat, and, ideally, the amount of work extra will be equal to the power generated. Maybe if you attached it to the compressor motor which *does* waste a bit of energy in heat, you'd be getting somewhere, but those losses are pretty small...
-b.
Night: that's why to build with thermal mass, to store heat during day and slowly release it. Besides, *less* heat is needed at night, since you generally sleep under blankets or a comforter. In fact, I normally turn it down to 55o until around 6am, so it doesn't get stuffy at night.
Winter: the sun is still out - it's more a matter of angling the windows properly, etc. I suppose that if you live above, say, 55 degrees latitude you may lose most of the advantages of solar heating, but a lot of people don't.
-b.
Not necessarily. Besides, the suburban houses that are being barfed up by builders there days are cheaply built and ugly. Yay for particleboard (not the good kind!) roof beams. How they get some of that stuff past the inspectors I can only guess.
2 - They require more land than the typical suburbian/urban lot offers.
Incorrect. We had a 1200 sq ft beach house on a *tiny* (read: a 15' x 15' patio in back and 6' on either side of the house) lot. It had a glazed front porce and lots of south-facing glass. The temp of the place didn't drop below 55-60F in winter without heat.
3 - Actually paying for low-e glass + correct design + insulation is expensive! They would rather have cherry cabinets, stone fireplaces with a plasma TV above it than energy efficiency.
Unfortunately true. Consumers are mostly retarded. A lot of builders are greedy SOBs that would build out of sawdust and ducttape if they could.
6 - efficient designs are hard to get approved by the association... Any home that looks different is considered ugly.
Fortunately, associations don't have power in all places. Some states have even legally curtailed their power pretty severely. Personally, if I own the land, I should be able to build whatever I want on it within the limits of zoning at the time when the land was purchased. Anyone who says otherwise deserves to get thrown into the swamps with a pair of concrete boots and no lifejacket :)
The common person cant have an efficient home, they cant afford it. Jsut like solar and alternative energy. No average joe can float $5000-8000 for a basic solar install that will pay back in 10 years saving few dollars here and there.
Nah, they don't want to afford it. They'd rather pay $40000 for the latest monster truck or whatever the fad of the day is. And they'd also be able to have a more energy efficient home if they were willing to live in a smaller place. Say, 1200 or 1500 sq. ft., not the 3000 sq. ft. cardboard boxes that are going up now. I'm not talking about major changes here, BTW, just efficient use of glass and thermal storage materials (which can very well be concrete covered with a stone or brick facade, BTW).
-b.
I'm pretty sure that's being done already...
-b.
Only because there's no economy of scale present currently. If demand goes up, price will go way down. And my initial post didn't discuss using automatic drapes, just designing to gather solar energy passively. It's possible without things like auto. drapes.
Of course, one thing often overlooked is incandescent lighting.
I don't disagree with you there. But then you have to consider the fact that people also use the lighting in summer, which means that they'll have to pay more for cooling assuming that they have A/C. I suspect that fluorescent lighting is still a net energy gain for that reason, and because in most US climates, the extra heat generated is at best useless 6 mo out of the year.
-b.
Actually, biomass is a decent idea. The trick is to make sure that you're not burning whatever you're burning faster than it can regrow. Also, burning it in a stove is preferable to a simple fireplace since you can control combustion better and have more efficient burning with less pollutants going into the air. There are also some other issues to consider like depletion of soil nutrients if you're constantly replanting and burning fast-growing plants in the same area.
-b.
What about using a mix of clean technologies including nuclear? Also wind, hydro, tidal, etc (actually, those are ultimately solar since the sun drives water flow and atmospheric winds. If one technology becomes temporarily less economical, then reliance will be shifted to other methods of generating power.
-b.
Hah, maybe your house was *already* properly designed, by coincidence, luck or whatever. Now here's an interesting idea - a few electric eyes, temperature sensors and motor actuators for the blinds (all powered by a small solar panel) hooked up to either a small computer or a microcontroller which could do this sort of management when the owners are at work or out of town.
-b.
You posted your number with the premise that you're selling a car. They're just trying to sell you a service based on that information. Now, if you would have put a disclaimer (like on Craigslist) saying something like "bona fide buyers only. No commercial services or solicitation," you might have been (in theory) entitled to recover civil damages.
-b.
Actually, a heat pump is a bad example, since you're putting energy in to move heat, not moving heat and getting energy out. With an engine, the amount of heat moved always has to be greater than energy out. Same with a heat pump - you actually can move more heat energy than you put power in. Hence coefficients of performance greater than 1.
-b.
Your idea about the computers and brake shoes would work -- in theory. However, with car and train braking, there's a better way to extract energy from braking - just use an electric motor running as a generator to slow the car. It's done in hybrid cars and the NYC subway.
As far as the condensers in fridges and A/C units, it won't work, since you'll need more energy to run the thing. TiNSTaaFL. (There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.) Nor is there such a thing as perpetuum mobile.
-b.
Build a greenhouse that's connected to your house and faces south and you can extend that to 8-10 months per year. Plus, with good quality insulated glass, the greenhouse will actually end up producing enough heat to heat the rest of the house, at least partially.
-b.
Then again, they could just reorganize and move into the manufacturing and maintenance side of things. Someone will have to fix and maintain the solar homepower systems ultimately. The one major advantage of having a power distribution grid, though, is the ability to redistribute power. If Sunville, AZ is having a month of sun with no clouds, and it has been cloudy for a month in Bad Ass, MS, the energy can be redistributed so that all of the Badassian's batteries don't run down.
-b.
What about in summer? The windows can be opened and replaced by screens or shaded.
-b.