4 cops on him. One for each leg, one for each arm. He should not have been difficult to subdue reasonably. And there *is* still the matter that there was no reason to subdue him in the first place.
The problem is that he was done with his questions, Kerry was about to answer them, and only THEN did the police try to "escort" him out with no justification. I would have fought too.
I posted much of this in another comment, and this is so far down the list it will probably be seen, but I just have to vent on this.
This is one of the most sickening abuses of police power I have seen in my lifetime. First of all, the police started to try to arrest/remove him just as he finished and Kerry said he'd answer his questions. The police had no cause to remove or arrest him at that point. That's why he struggled against them. I would do the same thing, refuse to be arrested without cause. The police were clearly overstepping their bounds and by this point just wanted to follow through to show they could arrest him. Why? Because he resisted when they tried to arrest him without basis. Circular reasoning, and abuse of power. They tasered him because he wouldn't shut up. Do I have to be quiet any time a police officer wants me to be? NO! It was a huge abuse of power. I hope this guy will get a good lawyer, get cleared of the circular charges, and get a large settlement from the city for excessive use of force and wrongful imprisonment. I think it is also necessary that the police officers get what they deserve, a lifetime ban from being allowed guns and tazers, and not being allowed to be police officers. The police department or court system needs to set a precedent here that abuse of power such as arresting on grounds of resisting a baseless arrest will not be tolerated, and tasering a student because he wouldn't be quiet is excessive use of force.
I'm not sure what the point of your post is. It is definitely informative, but the guy in question was on the floor subdued by about 7 officers and he was handcuffed prior to being TASERd. The only thing wrong was he wouldn't shut up and was being very obnoxious.
The officers should have removed him (in handcuffs) from the hall instead of TASERing him on the floor like they did.
For your reading pleasure:
Taser S.O.P.:C.Authorization to use:
C.1 To control a dangerous or violent subject when deadly force does not appear to be justified and/or necessary; He was being obnoxious, but obviously neither dangerous nor violent.
C.2If attempts to subdue the subject by other conventional tactics have been, or will likely be, ineffective in the situation at hand; or He was *already* physically subdued.
C.3If there is reasonable expectation that it will be unsafe for officers to approach within contact range of the subject, see also the Use of Force continuum, As he basically had 4 officers sitting on him , this does not apply either.
Therefore the officers had absolutely no justification for using the tazer. They had no justification for arresting him in the first place either, but that's not the immediate issue.
Attachment A.. D. Prohibitions:
D.1The TASER may not be used on individuals who can be controlled by voice command or direction.
D.2The TASER may not be used as punishment or retaliation.
D.3 TASERs will not be used in conjunction with O.C. Spray.
D.4Handcuffed prisoners should not be tased without extenuating circumstances.
Could anyone tell for sure whether he was already handcuffed? If so, it's a violation of 4, and if not, those are incredibly weak and incompetent officers. There were FOUR of them trying to handcuff him.
Prohibition 2 may come into play here as well.
Sure, this guy might have been a jerk in the way he asked his questions but the police's actions in this situation are one of the most sickening abuses of power I have seen or heard of in the US. I seriously hope that each and every one of them is charged with criminal abuse of power (or whatever the legalese would be), thrown off the police force, and never allowed to return.
The "Linux support" mentioned in the summary is so that you can use/sync/update the iPod while running linux on your computer, not so that you can run linux on your iPod.
Although it would be interesting to have an open-source iPod OS...
Do some companies just exist explicitly to patent troll?
I wonder if this was filed in the 'great state' Texas!//sarcasm This isn't "flamebait, it's true. Yes, NTP is a "patent holding company" which exists only to sue legitimate companies for infringing on patents.
The thread/s in question cited by the lawsuit are actually something like #2 and #3 for a google search of 2clix - under their official site.
So just to clarify, every time a potential customer searches for this company, they find a very easily accessible thread indicating user dissatisfaction.
I think most of us can agree that this type of thing will absolutely ruin a software company.
Not saying that they don't perhaps deserve repercussions but one can see how this has escalated when such a clearly damaging thread exists so easily discovered by sales targets.
I post this because a lot of people are getting on the bandwagon about how evil these guys are when infact this is probably the end of their business. Its a regretful situation for all and I'm glad that Simon is protecting free speech on his board but I can't help but be sorry for those people.
Maybe they deserve it.. who knows.
Pretty much every time I d business with a new company online, I do a search for the company specifically to find negative feedback about a company. I'd much rather do business with a company that does an average job with all their customers than one that does great with some people, but screws the unlucky ones.
Why on earth would three "businessmen" bother to take their iPhones abroad but switched off? These are expensive gadgets, and if I wasn't planning to use my iPhone on my trip to Tangiers I would simply leave it and its charger at home. So you can call people from the airport when you get back. I've taken a cell to Europe and Canada for the same reason.
Of course this is ridiculous because the only people that will be effected by it are innocent people. Criminals and (gasp) terrorists will simply find other ways of communicating. The cafe owners will lose business, and innocent folks will suffer a completely useless invasion of privacy so the government can say they are doing something without actually doing something that makes any difference. At least in India, the authorities have the courtesy to tell you they're logging your keys.
If you do it right, extracting your secret from the resulting log will be really difficult I'm not an expert on keyloggers, but I'm pretty sure any keylogger worth using notes mouse clicks and/or focus changes.
There really should be an "Oops" button after you mod something; I've never done this myself but I've seen at least 2 or 3 of this type of message in the last few days.
Bandwidth is not an issue and you will barely notice the extra load on your machine. I think if their servers can't keep up, you *will* notice the load, at least until enough join.
I bet at that point if the interrogated person is subjected to a lie detector, they will actually believe that the alternative sequence of events was actually the truth.
This statement presupposes that the lie detector can determine someone's belief. It cannot, at least not any better than Tarot cards or tea leaves. No, it really doesn't. The statement doesn't actually make a conclusion or rely on any external presuppositions. The GP was just stating that by the time the police administer the lie detector, there's a good chance that the victim has already been essentially brainwashed by the police into believing he or she is guilty. No assumptions.
To give you an idea how boring the videos would be, the jets coming out the top and bottom are 200,000 light-years long. That means the galaxy hasn't so much as wobbled for over 200,000 years.
I actually had a program like that about 10 years ago. Universe explorer? Something along those lines. Anyway, you could put in a date and look at the sky for whenever you wanted, you could find the next solar or lunar eclipse, etc. It was cool while I was hooked on astronomy.
I just wiki'd 3C 273 and took the distance from that, but I see now that's a quasar, not a igalaxy.
Perhaps TFA made a mistake? It seems unlikely that there would be both a galaxy and a quasar with that name. Quasars are at the center of galaxies. There are a few possibilities for what is actually happening; most likely the scientists are studying the quasar, mentioned it was the center of a galaxy, and the nontechnical reporter made a small mistake.
Not to be overly pedantic, but light from another galaxy takes more than 2.5 years to get here. Light from the closest (known) star takes 4.22 years to get here. The article didn't say how far away the galaxy was, but 2.5 *billion* years would be a better guess, and that's on the low side.
This information, and the consequences of it, leave no doubt Microsoft now meaningfully games the ISO process going forward. While I agree Microsoft probably bought those countries' votes, like they admitted to doing in the Swedish vote, I would like to see a little bit of evidence before completely condemning Microsoft for it.
As far as I recall (IANAL), you are only required to show your identification to law enforcement when pulled over while operating a motor vehicle, or entering the country from another country. He was neither pulled over, nor entering the country. He was a passenger in the car.
... seem to be nothing but trouble. Does anyone know of a legitimate use for them (especially cross-server) that could not be done with a bit of easy server-side including?
On a related note, does anyone know of a firefox addon that can warn you if any page you visit contains an iframe tag?
Best investment I ever made was $400 for an extra 2 years on my laptop's warranty. The original warranty was 1 year, no problems within that time. About 4 months later, the motherboard had to be replaced. 18 months after that, there was a memory problem (For which their solution was to replace the hard drive and motherboard...). Now that the extended warranty just ran out, I have a 4-month-old computer in a 3-year-old case.
I'm not sure which came first, but I have a 10+ year old Sony Vaio laptop with a hinge-battery like that. From the wikipedia article, it looks like they were very close together.
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So, leading providers often file Chapter 11?
Just leading providers of lawsuits.Or something similar that you don't actually have to break the law to get charged with.
4 cops on him. One for each leg, one for each arm. He should not have been difficult to subdue reasonably. And there *is* still the matter that there was no reason to subdue him in the first place.
The problem is that he was done with his questions, Kerry was about to answer them, and only THEN did the police try to "escort" him out with no justification. I would have fought too.
I posted much of this in another comment, and this is so far down the list it will probably be seen, but I just have to vent on this.
This is one of the most sickening abuses of police power I have seen in my lifetime. First of all, the police started to try to arrest/remove him just as he finished and Kerry said he'd answer his questions. The police had no cause to remove or arrest him at that point. That's why he struggled against them. I would do the same thing, refuse to be arrested without cause. The police were clearly overstepping their bounds and by this point just wanted to follow through to show they could arrest him. Why? Because he resisted when they tried to arrest him without basis. Circular reasoning, and abuse of power. They tasered him because he wouldn't shut up. Do I have to be quiet any time a police officer wants me to be? NO! It was a huge abuse of power. I hope this guy will get a good lawyer, get cleared of the circular charges, and get a large settlement from the city for excessive use of force and wrongful imprisonment. I think it is also necessary that the police officers get what they deserve, a lifetime ban from being allowed guns and tazers, and not being allowed to be police officers. The police department or court system needs to set a precedent here that abuse of power such as arresting on grounds of resisting a baseless arrest will not be tolerated, and tasering a student because he wouldn't be quiet is excessive use of force.
The officers should have removed him (in handcuffs) from the hall instead of TASERing him on the floor like they did. For your reading pleasure:
Taser S.O.P.:C.Authorization to use:
C.1 To control a dangerous or violent subject when deadly force does not appear to be justified and/or necessary;
He was being obnoxious, but obviously neither dangerous nor violent. C.2If attempts to subdue the subject by other conventional tactics have been, or will likely be, ineffective in the situation at hand; or
He was *already* physically subdued. C.3If there is reasonable expectation that it will be unsafe for officers to approach within contact range of the subject, see also the Use of Force continuum,
As he basically had 4 officers sitting on him , this does not apply either.
Therefore the officers had absolutely no justification for using the tazer. They had no justification for arresting him in the first place either, but that's not the immediate issue.
Attachment A.. D. Prohibitions:
D.1The TASER may not be used on individuals who can be controlled by voice command or direction.
D.2The TASER may not be used as punishment or retaliation.
D.3 TASERs will not be used in conjunction with O.C. Spray.
D.4Handcuffed prisoners should not be tased without extenuating circumstances.
Could anyone tell for sure whether he was already handcuffed? If so, it's a violation of 4, and if not, those are incredibly weak and incompetent officers. There were FOUR of them trying to handcuff him.
Prohibition 2 may come into play here as well.
Sure, this guy might have been a jerk in the way he asked his questions but the police's actions in this situation are one of the most sickening abuses of power I have seen or heard of in the US. I seriously hope that each and every one of them is charged with criminal abuse of power (or whatever the legalese would be), thrown off the police force, and never allowed to return.
It looks like a troll got ahold of some mod points today. That, or whoever did woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
The "Linux support" mentioned in the summary is so that you can use/sync/update the iPod while running linux on your computer, not so that you can run linux on your iPod.
Although it would be interesting to have an open-source iPod OS...
I wonder if this was filed in the 'great state' Texas!
This isn't "flamebait, it's true. Yes, NTP is a "patent holding company" which exists only to sue legitimate companies for infringing on patents.
So just to clarify, every time a potential customer searches for this company, they find a very easily accessible thread indicating user dissatisfaction.
I think most of us can agree that this type of thing will absolutely ruin a software company.
Not saying that they don't perhaps deserve repercussions but one can see how this has escalated when such a clearly damaging thread exists so easily discovered by sales targets.
I post this because a lot of people are getting on the bandwagon about how evil these guys are when infact this is probably the end of their business. Its a regretful situation for all and I'm glad that Simon is protecting free speech on his board but I can't help but be sorry for those people.
Maybe they deserve it.. who knows.
Pretty much every time I d business with a new company online, I do a search for the company specifically to find negative feedback about a company. I'd much rather do business with a company that does an average job with all their customers than one that does great with some people, but screws the unlucky ones.
There really should be an "Oops" button after you mod something; I've never done this myself but I've seen at least 2 or 3 of this type of message in the last few days.
To give you an idea how boring the videos would be, the jets coming out the top and bottom are 200,000 light-years long. That means the galaxy hasn't so much as wobbled for over 200,000 years.
I actually had a program like that about 10 years ago. Universe explorer? Something along those lines. Anyway, you could put in a date and look at the sky for whenever you wanted, you could find the next solar or lunar eclipse, etc. It was cool while I was hooked on astronomy.
I just wiki'd 3C 273 and took the distance from that, but I see now that's a quasar, not a igalaxy.
Perhaps TFA made a mistake? It seems unlikely that there would be both a galaxy and a quasar with that name. Quasars are at the center of galaxies. There are a few possibilities for what is actually happening; most likely the scientists are studying the quasar, mentioned it was the center of a galaxy, and the nontechnical reporter made a small mistake.
Not to be overly pedantic, but light from another galaxy takes more than 2.5 years to get here. Light from the closest (known) star takes 4.22 years to get here. The article didn't say how far away the galaxy was, but 2.5 *billion* years would be a better guess, and that's on the low side.
He was neither pulled over, nor entering the country. He was a passenger in the car.
... seem to be nothing but trouble. Does anyone know of a legitimate use for them (especially cross-server) that could not be done with a bit of easy server-side including? On a related note, does anyone know of a firefox addon that can warn you if any page you visit contains an iframe tag?
Best investment I ever made was $400 for an extra 2 years on my laptop's warranty. The original warranty was 1 year, no problems within that time. About 4 months later, the motherboard had to be replaced. 18 months after that, there was a memory problem (For which their solution was to replace the hard drive and motherboard...). Now that the extended warranty just ran out, I have a 4-month-old computer in a 3-year-old case.
I'm not sure which came first, but I have a 10+ year old Sony Vaio laptop with a hinge-battery like that. From the wikipedia article, it looks like they were very close together.