My brother in law just finished a semester long class (5 day a week all day class) taught at a local university on Management for Law Enforcement at a local University. In his case (and many others from what he had told me), most of this class was active LEO who were sent to this by there departments so many were armed and some were in uniform.
I believe if the VT gunmen had happened to pick a classroom used by a large number of armed cops this would have been over in 2 seconds.
I can't speak for Virginia but in North Carolina a person with a Permit to Carry a Concealed weapon (CCW) still can't carry on any school or university campus.
Period. They should not be exempted from any law, unless there is a compelling argument that exempting them from the law is in the public interest. And if that is the case, then the law ought to be amended. There should not be a double-standard.
I kinda want to cut the police some slack here. I don't like the idea of ON DUTY officers running lights for no good reason but there could be plenty of good reasons for them to run one even when not on any emergency call. Perhaps they just pulled up to an intersection and noticed something happening in a parking lot just past the intersection that may or may not be worth investigating. If they have a clear intersection they may want to go on through but if they have to worry about cameras they may just let it go rather than have to deal with the hassle of trying to remember what they ran it for.
The thing that irritates me more is when OFF DUTY officers speed with impunity because no police officer will give another one a speeding ticket.(I have a relative in law enforcement who gets pulled over for speeding once or twice a year and has never gotten a ticket)
These type of guys are the ones I always point out when conspiracy theorists go off about how the oil companies are keeping electric cars from the market place.
If the electric car really is the held back panacea some nut jobs make it out to be then hobbyists would be building them and driving them everywhere. Exxon may be able to influence GM (not that I think they are) but do you think they're knocking down the doors of everybody with an arc welder and a couple volt meters in their garage?
Exxon probibly would have told GM to put a Tiger in their tank instead.
2: What happens to your old car? You're likely to sell it to someone that keeps using it, i.e. that car keeps producing harmful emissions, just for somebody else.
Not exactly, they finally get rid of their really old car and use your now somwhat bad but not nearly as bad car.
2) This could have been expanded to include the "Bombs do not drop straight down" category of gravitational violation. A plane flying at high horizontal velocity v over a stationary target is not capable of dropping a bomb without horizontal velocity. Unless it fires the bomb backwards at a relative velocity -v, in which case we can have a semantic argument over whether the bomb is being dropped or fired.
There are bombs that are designed to do just that. Either a guided bomb dropped at a high enough level that it eventually adjusts it's flight path to go into the target from above or a dumb old retarted fall iron bomb which if dropped from high enought might get the same effect.
I recall they retarted bombs were usually used to allow a low level bomber to drop a bomb load and still get out of the blast area so they usually were still coming in a quite an angle.
1 - they make it illegal for me to sink a well to circumvent their city water. 2 - They have a law passed that if you dont pay your water bill they recieve ownership of your property. 3 - they get to add new taxes on you for services you dont agree to. 4 - they control you and what you do. 5 - they control what you do with your property and under the guise of "inspections" extort money out of you for everything they can. 6 - they find other ways of extortion... Parking permits, yes to park in front of your house IN YOUR DRIVEWAY you have to buy a permit. permits not required if you park in your garage.
While I deal with fees and such I don't deal with nearly as much junk as you list here in my city. You should move if you can't stand it. If you live out in the country you pretty much don't have any municipal government to deal with.
7 - every single politician is corrupt or incredibly out of touch. It's a design flaw. Only the rich are allowedto be leaders because they set it up so you have to be rich to afford running for office, higher the office the richer you gotta be. Rich people dont know SHIT about what reality is. They only know their distorted reality.
We are talking about municipal leaders right? I live in a mid size US city and most of the city council and County Commision are self made and generally local business owners.
Real leaders is the guy that shovels shit 45 hours a week and is pissed off abotu how the cops dont shut up the dogs in the neighborhood.
When I get to vote in a municipal election I doubt I am going to vote for a total looser. Shit shoveling indeed.
How many people say, "I want to do that for a living." Do they mean actual "boring" lab work and tons of paperwork, or do they want to be actors, and pretend to do that kind of work?
I have a reletive who is a CSI guy. I get the impression that 95% of there work is dusting for prints where there was some petty theft then all the paperwork that involves. When there is a major crime they mostly gather the physical evedence then move on to the next crime scene, the tracking down of the suspects is left up to the Detectives. There job is specialized so they can't sit around trying to locate criminals since there is always another crime scene to be worked.
And please pay close attention to the 3.4bn value halfway down. This is not a "slash" in the budget, its simply the government calling back some of the buffer money thats left at the end of the year.
This sounds similar to how in the US when politician A proposes to increase some kind of funding for program X only to have politician B propose a smaller increase for the same program. Politician A then holds press conferences to complain about how terrible politician B is for "Cutting" and "Slashing" funding to program X.
That said, smart bureaucrats will never allow money to be left over in a budget since that would give legislators the impression that they don't need the money. They hold the EOY orgy of acquisition. That's government 101.
I know an F-117 shot down that President in season 4 of 24, and I've shot planes down in my F-117 on my playstation, but no F-117 has actually shot anything down in real life.
That would be about all the research that hollywood writers put into that kind of thing.
Actually yes, it probably is somewhat more legitimate for a police officer to speed than the rest of us. In Indiana, state troopers at least must pass some fairly intensive driving classes to become a trooper, and I would assume most city departments also have some sort of advanced driving test that must be passed, although perhaps not as intensive as for a state trooper. I'd be surprised if most states didn't have similar requirements.
That said, police are trained to drive in their police car with lights and siren and such, not their stock personal car with none of those items.
Something not clear in the article was weather he was in a marked car or his own private car while off duty.
I am related to a police officer and he speeds pretty much all the time off duty and has been pulled over a few times and never gets a ticket. He just tells the officer he is a cop and that's it. He says that some show their badges as the officer walks up or somhow tell them that they are a cop. Basicly, the only way a cop is going to get a speeding ticket is if they blow through an automated speed camera (not sure if there are any in the USA) or if they are involved in a wreck of some sort where there speed is the cause.
Cops don't give other cops speeding tickets generally because they don't want to get speeding tickets either. Thats part of the reason for putting those thin blue line stickers on the back of their car(you know the back sticker with a blue line).
A simpler solution would be for the manufactures of these routers to have them refuse to act as routers with any of the default settings. i.e. with the default settings you could connect to it for configuration, but no Internet access until the password, SSID, etc had been changed.
Another idea might be to have the default password set to the serial number of the device or something that would make it different on each device.
Or
They could set the device so that it can only be managed by a directly connected PC unless that setting is manually changed in the setup or even a switch.
Neither of these stop people from accessing an open default connection but it would keep somone from managing the device easily using default passwords.
That might work. If you can find droppings left by their donkey, perhaps you can use that to identify the animal unambigously.
And in the US, property can be guilty of committing a crime - so you should be able to jail their ass in the same way they can confiscate your car for engaging in drug deals.
Rather than blur the image they should have google just put a different building in the image. Imagine the poor terrorist when he makes all his plans to attack a government complex based on the layout of Disney World.
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My brother in law just finished a semester long class (5 day a week all day class) taught at a local university on Management for Law Enforcement at a local University. In his case (and many others from what he had told me), most of this class was active LEO who were sent to this by there departments so many were armed and some were in uniform.
I believe if the VT gunmen had happened to pick a classroom used by a large number of armed cops this would have been over in 2 seconds.
I can't speak for Virginia but in North Carolina a person with a Permit to Carry a Concealed weapon (CCW) still can't carry on any school or university campus.
I kinda want to cut the police some slack here. I don't like the idea of ON DUTY officers running lights for no good reason but there could be plenty of good reasons for them to run one even when not on any emergency call. Perhaps they just pulled up to an intersection and noticed something happening in a parking lot just past the intersection that may or may not be worth investigating. If they have a clear intersection they may want to go on through but if they have to worry about cameras they may just let it go rather than have to deal with the hassle of trying to remember what they ran it for.
The thing that irritates me more is when OFF DUTY officers speed with impunity because no police officer will give another one a speeding ticket.(I have a relative in law enforcement who gets pulled over for speeding once or twice a year and has never gotten a ticket)
Exxon probibly would have told GM to put a Tiger in their tank instead.
What for? I guess those old '57 Chevys don't get the best mileage.
When they get to 51% human can you marry them?
Not exactly, they finally get rid of their really old car and use your now somwhat bad but not nearly as bad car.
I know somone who does exacly that. They even own a big SUV for their other car. We call the Prius the "Justification Mobile."
"If someone designed an engine that ran on burning kittens, would that be better than fossil fuels? "
Adds another meaning to making an engine purr.
I have driven cars before that I thought sounded like they ran on kittens. Althought when it was cold it sounded more like baby ducks.
Heck, lets pull out all the stops and go to the "Archie Bunker" method of preventing hijackings. As you get on the airplane you are given a gun.
Yeah but it is one of those country club prisons like the white collar criminals get sent to.
There are bombs that are designed to do just that. Either a guided bomb dropped at a high enough level that it eventually adjusts it's flight path to go into the target from above or a dumb old retarted fall iron bomb which if dropped from high enought might get the same effect.
I recall they retarted bombs were usually used to allow a low level bomber to drop a bomb load and still get out of the blast area so they usually were still coming in a quite an angle.
While I deal with fees and such I don't deal with nearly as much junk as you list here in my city. You should move if you can't stand it. If you live out in the country you pretty much don't have any municipal government to deal with.
We are talking about municipal leaders right? I live in a mid size US city and most of the city council and County Commision are self made and generally local business owners.
When I get to vote in a municipal election I doubt I am going to vote for a total looser. Shit shoveling indeed.
I have a reletive who is a CSI guy. I get the impression that 95% of there work is dusting for prints where there was some petty theft then all the paperwork that involves. When there is a major crime they mostly gather the physical evedence then move on to the next crime scene, the tracking down of the suspects is left up to the Detectives. There job is specialized so they can't sit around trying to locate criminals since there is always another crime scene to be worked.
"Only hundreds of thousands of miles? Thats not too bad given the size of the solar system."
Considering how horrible cruise control was back in those days, I am suprised they made it as far as they did.
As an american teen, I think this whole ADD thing is a bunch of... ...I like cheese.
This sounds similar to how in the US when politician A proposes to increase some kind of funding for program X only to have politician B propose a smaller increase for the same program. Politician A then holds press conferences to complain about how terrible politician B is for "Cutting" and "Slashing" funding to program X.
That said, smart bureaucrats will never allow money to be left over in a budget since that would give legislators the impression that they don't need the money. They hold the EOY orgy of acquisition. That's government 101.
That would be about all the research that hollywood writers put into that kind of thing.
>>I have the internet, I'll order them overseas.
And in the US if Calf. bans them then people will just buy them from out of state.
That said, police are trained to drive in their police car with lights and siren and such, not their stock personal car with none of those items.
Something not clear in the article was weather he was in a marked car or his own private car while off duty.
I am related to a police officer and he speeds pretty much all the time off duty and has been pulled over a few times and never gets a ticket. He just tells the officer he is a cop and that's it. He says that some show their badges as the officer walks up or somhow tell them that they are a cop. Basicly, the only way a cop is going to get a speeding ticket is if they blow through an automated speed camera (not sure if there are any in the USA) or if they are involved in a wreck of some sort where there speed is the cause.
Cops don't give other cops speeding tickets generally because they don't want to get speeding tickets either. Thats part of the reason for putting those thin blue line stickers on the back of their car(you know the back sticker with a blue line).
Another idea might be to have the default password set to the serial number of the device or something that would make it different on each device.
Or
They could set the device so that it can only be managed by a directly connected PC unless that setting is manually changed in the setup or even a switch.
Neither of these stop people from accessing an open default connection but it would keep somone from managing the device easily using default passwords.
I read this and then moved on before it sunk in. I wish I had mod points but I don't know if I would go Insightfull or Funny which is kinda sad.
Rather than blur the image they should have google just put a different building in the image. Imagine the poor terrorist when he makes all his plans to attack a government complex based on the layout of Disney World.