Why is Google super evil for considering doing this? Yes a censored internet sucks, but a smarter search engine would allow the people to China to access at least a little bit more information. In addition taking money out of China's economy also seems like a good thing. The alternative would be: they do nothing, and things stay exactly the same as it is now.
China certainly isn't going to change their mind if Google search didn't come there, so nothing would change. A 0.1% chance of doing good while making money seems better than 0% good and no extra money.
You don't have to pick up anyone? When getting a ride to the airport I will normally have to call for 3 or 4 Ubers before one will want to pick me up since I am like 20 miles away from the airport.
Normally. But not always. If you do X drug in Country-Y where it is legal, country-Z generally can't do anything about it. But when it comes to crimes over the computer generally there will be a law saying that something to effect of: "If do something over the phone/internet to something/someone in our jurisdiction, we're going to count that it occurred here also"
Extradition is a whole other thing, it's half "are you guys going to pay to come over here any pick this dude up?" and half "We're going to / not going to hold / help / allow you to pick this guy up." Generally they have to help you because you aren't going to have 'powers' outside of your jurisdiction and you (normally) can't go breaking into places and kidnapping people outside of where you have powers.
Most sit down restaurants don't do this, especially the chains. Everyone evaluates themselves to be better than average. A system like that helps people who perform below average, so most people would prefer not to work there.
Most restaurants will do 'tip-out', which is when you pay 1-5% of your total tips to the bussers, hosts, bar staff, etc. at the end of your shift. So a bad/no tip to a server primarily hurts the server, but it does slightly hurt the people they tip out.
(Not like it matters anyways, when a server gets a bad tip it is never "Oh no. I must be having a bad night, I should improve!", but rather "Wow, what a dick!")
Yes, but by doing so you're violating the terms (which annoys me since I bought the year pass) and they could suspend your account by reviewing the ticket stub photos.
A third of the movies for twice the money isn't a reasonable alternative to Moviepass.
While I enjoy my MoviePass, I would get this if I had AMC theaters in my area:
- Book on-line (instead of driving to the theater and seeing that there are no good seats) and buy in advance
- IMAX and 3D Films (IMAX Good, 3d Meh)
- Same movie multiple times
- Don't have to worry about AMC going up in smoke or deal with increasing MoviePass issues (changing of rules, photo of ticket stub, etc.)
- Seeing multiple movies in a day might be useful (although you can't really do the one thing I might do and see two in a row)
I wonder if it has a standard 'use Reader to open PDFs in browsers' option. Chrome will sometimes not print random elements from PDFs. They display fine, but when printing some parts are just blank. This may be useful for use and it might be an easier solution than 'save PDF to desktop, open in Adobe and print' or 'open in IE when you want to print'.
I don't consider 16% and 21% high enough to call "common."
Common in this context doesn't mean that it happens more than it doesn't happen. If one out of 5-7 cars disregarded red lights it would be real bad. It's high enough that if you saw a bike you would have to assume they were going to run the red.
I can't remember the last time I've seen a car run a red light that wasn't within 2 seconds of it turning red. But I will see bikes do it (normally by hopping on the sidewalk, crossing in the cross walk, then going back on the road), at least daily.
You don't consider the threat of being shot and then having your property taken a violent crime? The fact the weapon turned out to not be able to shoot bullets doesn't matter, nor should it.
If you notice ruling was from an event in 2007. This was probably one of the incidents that let to police departments having to get warrants for phones. While this is interesting because it shows that law enforcement can't do it without a warrant, I would be surprised if any of them did it anyways.
Our local police department hasn't been able to for at least 4 years, they aren't even supposed to open/look through your wallet.
That data is calculated by looking at police reports, the police reports are not perfect. With fatalities they have to guess a lot of information, unless you find a cell phone in mid-text/phone call, plate of food on the person's lap, or something you're not going to be able to determine if they were distracted. Likewise people would be reluctant to admit if they were doing something distracting if it resulted in someone's death. Frankly 16% is way higher than I would be, but probably about 1/3 of what it really is.
Just think about it, what causes car accidents? A very small percentage is going to be unavoidable to someone paying attention, animals, falling rocks, extreme weather, etc. Almost all are going to be people being reckless, distracted or drunk.
They are making no such claim. Yes they are searching everyone without a warrant / PC / RS, but you allow them to by stepping into the building, but an imposition upon the 4th amendment is hardly 'deciding that the constitution does not apply'.
I have no problem with the government being able to limit aspects of the constitution at certain locations/times/events/whatever within reason (we obviously are going to have different interpretations on what is reasonable), for example pretty much saying the word 'bomb' at the airport regardless of the context will most likely result in getting detaining, that seems reasonable to me.
Ah, so the government should be able to arbitrarily declare that the constitution no longer applies in certain areas (airports)? Because that's what's happening: they're searching people without a warrant or even a cause.
It almost sounded like you were defending security theater in that sentence. Need I remind you that the TSA is a government organization? I certain feel I have a right to not be searched and harassed by them simply because I want to get on a plane.
Flying is an optional activity, you subject your self/property to search in exchange for the privilege of not having to drive/train/boat/etc.
With appropriate clarification/modifiers for "walking" and "public roads", I would say yes. (For example, freeways are public, but you can't walk on them.)
From TFA:Why not just give up my liquids and/or tell them medical info?
Because it's a violation of my 4th amendment rights, and because the law (including TSA rules) do not require me to do so. (Not to mention, they're not HIPAA compliant)
I tried to be extremely polite throughout, even though I was pretty angry. I don't think that yelling helps anything. But there's a big difference between being polite, and giving in to an unlawful demand.
I don't believe that I should have to give up my privacy *or* my ability to bring with me liquids of my choice. Their job is simply to make sure that what I bring isn't an explosive, and I totally support that. If they want to x-ray, ETD, LCS scan, whatever, I'm perfectly cool with it.
Maybe you should have read the article... His own question implies that he would have been allowed in with his juice if he provided the medical reason why it is needed. Without a medical reason you don't have a "medical liquid" you have a "liquid".
He can't have it both ways; you can't claim to be exempt from normal procedure based on a disability and then refuse to provide any information about it.
First of all flying is not a right, if you don't want to deal the the TSA, don't fly.
Secondly this guy has a pretty rare medical condition that is sometimes assisted by having juice. But then he doesn't want to provide any documentation about his condition to support his claim that he needs his juice citing (among other things) HIPAA, which doesn't apply to the airport or TSA since they are not medical providers.
He doesn't want to purchase his juice from the concessions because they don't have his 'favorite' brands of juice and also is carrying 3 liters of it.
So he expects anyone to be able to get by with liquids just by saying "I need my juice, for medical reasons, I'm not going to tell you more."
While I think the no liquid rule is silly, it is the rule. That would defeat the purpose of it.
Remember driving is not a right, it is a privilege. When you signed up for your drivers license you agreed to take blood/breath test if asked by a law enforcement officer, if you refuse, the state says 'Ok Fine, if you won't honor your part of the agreement, you aren't allowed to drive for a year.'
In fact I heard about some states looking into passing laws that say: "Refusing to take a blood/breath test is a misdemeanor."
People always think they 'passed' sobriety tests, they are wrong most of the time. The things that cops look for are really small. For example for a walking test people think they have to fall down or something to fail, it is really small things like feet being inches away. Did your friend fail the blood test?
I think the amphetamine pills were used more to keep people awake when working long shifts, not because it made them better pilots.
At the very least being forced to pay a bunch of money might be considered a punishment, and would hopefully reconsider doing it again.
Remember DUI is different then theft or whatever, the crime is driving with blood or breath over XX. In order to be charged with the DUI you have to either 1) Take and fail either a breath or blood test, 2) Refuse to take a test.
If it's #1 your only hope of getting off is by a technicality.
The only people who do #2 are people who are drunk enough to know they are wasted.
<wolf> 1. Save every Free Credit Card Offer you get, Put it in pile A <wolf> 2. Save every Free Coupon You get, put that in pile B <wolf> 3. Now open the credit card mail from pile A and find the Business Reply Mail Envelope. <wolf> 4. Take the coupons from pile B and stuff them in the envelope you hold in your hand. <wolf> 5. Drop the stuffed to the brim envelopes in your mail and walk away whistling. <wolf> I have now received two phone calls from the credit card companies telling me that they received a stuffed envelope with coupons rather then my application. They informed me that it they are not pleased that they footed the bill for the crap I sent them. I reply with "It says Business Reply Mail" I'm suggesting coupons to you to ensure that your business is more successful. They promptly hang up on me. <wolf> Now, I did this for about a month before it got boring, so I got an added idea! I added exactly 33 cents worth of pennies to the envelope so they paid EXTRA due to the weight. I got a call informing me about the money, I said it was a mistake and I demanded my change back. After yelling at the clerk and then to the supervisor they agreed to my demands and cut me a check for the money. I hold in my hand at this very moment a check from GTE Visa for exactly 33 cents.
I would doubt that is the case, I seriously doubt any cop would take a taser to a gun-fight, the range is limited, it is not as accurate, limited reload speed, etc. Tasers are normally used on the level below deadly force, the same level where bean-bag shotguns, batons or certain physical attacks might be. In theory these devices shouldn't kill, but they might. Theoretically, they are used when 'this person is actively trying to hurt someone'. But some areas might have tasers on the 'person is doing stuff to not be controlled, but it shouldn't really hurt anyone (running, balling themselves up, etc)' level.
BTW being tased isn't a big deal, it is not like on TV, after the 5 seconds, you are fine, you can hop right back up. That is the problem, a taser is a 'pain-compliance' tool, like pressure points, if someone wants to they can go right back to fighting, or at least resisting right after the 5 seconds, so the cop will use it again, etc. That is how you get stories of cops tasing someone 15 times, because (in theory) the person continued to resist 14 times.
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Why is Google super evil for considering doing this? Yes a censored internet sucks, but a smarter search engine would allow the people to China to access at least a little bit more information. In addition taking money out of China's economy also seems like a good thing. The alternative would be: they do nothing, and things stay exactly the same as it is now.
China certainly isn't going to change their mind if Google search didn't come there, so nothing would change. A 0.1% chance of doing good while making money seems better than 0% good and no extra money.
You don't have to pick up anyone? When getting a ride to the airport I will normally have to call for 3 or 4 Ubers before one will want to pick me up since I am like 20 miles away from the airport.
Unfortunately IR blasters aren't common on phone (anymore?). They haven't been in the Galaxy line since the S5 I think.
Normally. But not always. If you do X drug in Country-Y where it is legal, country-Z generally can't do anything about it. But when it comes to crimes over the computer generally there will be a law saying that something to effect of: "If do something over the phone/internet to something/someone in our jurisdiction, we're going to count that it occurred here also"
Extradition is a whole other thing, it's half "are you guys going to pay to come over here any pick this dude up?" and half "We're going to / not going to hold / help / allow you to pick this guy up." Generally they have to help you because you aren't going to have 'powers' outside of your jurisdiction and you (normally) can't go breaking into places and kidnapping people outside of where you have powers.
The entire medical system in the US.
Most sit down restaurants don't do this, especially the chains. Everyone evaluates themselves to be better than average. A system like that helps people who perform below average, so most people would prefer not to work there.
Most restaurants will do 'tip-out', which is when you pay 1-5% of your total tips to the bussers, hosts, bar staff, etc. at the end of your shift. So a bad/no tip to a server primarily hurts the server, but it does slightly hurt the people they tip out.
(Not like it matters anyways, when a server gets a bad tip it is never "Oh no. I must be having a bad night, I should improve!", but rather "Wow, what a dick!")
Yes, but by doing so you're violating the terms (which annoys me since I bought the year pass) and they could suspend your account by reviewing the ticket stub photos.
A third of the movies for twice the money isn't a reasonable alternative to Moviepass.
While I enjoy my MoviePass, I would get this if I had AMC theaters in my area:
- Book on-line (instead of driving to the theater and seeing that there are no good seats) and buy in advance
- IMAX and 3D Films (IMAX Good, 3d Meh)
- Same movie multiple times
- Don't have to worry about AMC going up in smoke or deal with increasing MoviePass issues (changing of rules, photo of ticket stub, etc.)
- Seeing multiple movies in a day might be useful (although you can't really do the one thing I might do and see two in a row)
Hawaii also has a registration fee / tax for bikes. No minimum value. I think it's $35...
I wonder if it has a standard 'use Reader to open PDFs in browsers' option. Chrome will sometimes not print random elements from PDFs. They display fine, but when printing some parts are just blank. This may be useful for use and it might be an easier solution than 'save PDF to desktop, open in Adobe and print' or 'open in IE when you want to print'.
Google's code is still 'Don't be evil.'
https://investor.google.com/co...
Alphabet, the new company that Google is a part of, has it's own code that is the 'Do the right thing'.
But that's a much less interesting headline.
I don't consider 16% and 21% high enough to call "common."
Common in this context doesn't mean that it happens more than it doesn't happen. If one out of 5-7 cars disregarded red lights it would be real bad. It's high enough that if you saw a bike you would have to assume they were going to run the red.
I can't remember the last time I've seen a car run a red light that wasn't within 2 seconds of it turning red. But I will see bikes do it (normally by hopping on the sidewalk, crossing in the cross walk, then going back on the road), at least daily.
You don't consider the threat of being shot and then having your property taken a violent crime? The fact the weapon turned out to not be able to shoot bullets doesn't matter, nor should it.
If you notice ruling was from an event in 2007. This was probably one of the incidents that let to police departments having to get warrants for phones. While this is interesting because it shows that law enforcement can't do it without a warrant, I would be surprised if any of them did it anyways.
Our local police department hasn't been able to for at least 4 years, they aren't even supposed to open/look through your wallet.
That data is calculated by looking at police reports, the police reports are not perfect. With fatalities they have to guess a lot of information, unless you find a cell phone in mid-text/phone call, plate of food on the person's lap, or something you're not going to be able to determine if they were distracted. Likewise people would be reluctant to admit if they were doing something distracting if it resulted in someone's death. Frankly 16% is way higher than I would be, but probably about 1/3 of what it really is.
Just think about it, what causes car accidents? A very small percentage is going to be unavoidable to someone paying attention, animals, falling rocks, extreme weather, etc. Almost all are going to be people being reckless, distracted or drunk.
They are making no such claim. Yes they are searching everyone without a warrant / PC / RS, but you allow them to by stepping into the building, but an imposition upon the 4th amendment is hardly 'deciding that the constitution does not apply'.
There was a circuit court ruling providing an exception in the 4th Amendment for airport screenings.
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flyingwithfish/2010/11/20/how-the-tsa-legally-circumvents-the-fourth-amendment/
I have no problem with the government being able to limit aspects of the constitution at certain locations/times/events/whatever within reason (we obviously are going to have different interpretations on what is reasonable), for example pretty much saying the word 'bomb' at the airport regardless of the context will most likely result in getting detaining, that seems reasonable to me.
Ah, so the government should be able to arbitrarily declare that the constitution no longer applies in certain areas (airports)? Because that's what's happening: they're searching people without a warrant or even a cause.
It almost sounded like you were defending security theater in that sentence. Need I remind you that the TSA is a government organization? I certain feel I have a right to not be searched and harassed by them simply because I want to get on a plane.
Flying is an optional activity, you subject your self/property to search in exchange for the privilege of not having to drive/train/boat/etc.
With appropriate clarification/modifiers for "walking" and "public roads", I would say yes. (For example, freeways are public, but you can't walk on them.)
From TFA: Why not just give up my liquids and/or tell them medical info?
Because it's a violation of my 4th amendment rights, and because the law (including TSA rules) do not require me to do so. (Not to mention, they're not HIPAA compliant)
I tried to be extremely polite throughout, even though I was pretty angry. I don't think that yelling helps anything. But there's a big difference between being polite, and giving in to an unlawful demand.
I don't believe that I should have to give up my privacy *or* my ability to bring with me liquids of my choice. Their job is simply to make sure that what I bring isn't an explosive, and I totally support that. If they want to x-ray, ETD, LCS scan, whatever, I'm perfectly cool with it.
Maybe you should have read the article...
His own question implies that he would have been allowed in with his juice if he provided the medical reason why it is needed. Without a medical reason you don't have a "medical liquid" you have a "liquid".
He can't have it both ways; you can't claim to be exempt from normal procedure based on a disability and then refuse to provide any information about it.
Also "policy" is not the same as "law".
First of all flying is not a right, if you don't want to deal the the TSA, don't fly.
Secondly this guy has a pretty rare medical condition that is sometimes assisted by having juice. But then he
doesn't want to provide any documentation about his condition to support his claim that he needs his juice citing
(among other things) HIPAA, which doesn't apply to the airport or TSA since they are not medical providers.
He doesn't want to purchase his juice from the concessions because they don't have his 'favorite' brands of juice
and also is carrying 3 liters of it.
So he expects anyone to be able to get by with liquids just by saying "I need my juice, for medical reasons, I'm not
going to tell you more."
While I think the no liquid rule is silly, it is the rule. That would defeat the purpose of it.
Remember driving is not a right, it is a privilege. When you signed up for your drivers license you agreed to take blood/breath test if asked by a law enforcement officer, if you refuse, the state says 'Ok Fine, if you won't honor your part of the agreement, you aren't allowed to drive for a year.'
In fact I heard about some states looking into passing laws that say: "Refusing to take a blood/breath test is a misdemeanor."
People always think they 'passed' sobriety tests, they are wrong most of the time. The things that cops look for are really small. For example for a walking test people think they have to fall down or something to fail, it is really small things like feet being inches away. Did your friend fail the blood test?
I think the amphetamine pills were used more to keep people awake when working long shifts, not because it made them better pilots.
At the very least being forced to pay a bunch of money might be considered a punishment, and would hopefully reconsider doing it again.
Remember DUI is different then theft or whatever, the crime is driving with blood or breath over XX. In order to be charged with the DUI you have to either 1) Take and fail either a breath or blood test, 2) Refuse to take a test.
If it's #1 your only hope of getting off is by a technicality.
The only people who do #2 are people who are drunk enough to know they are wasted.
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<wolf> 1. Save every Free Credit Card Offer you get, Put it in pile A
<wolf> 2. Save every Free Coupon You get, put that in pile B
<wolf> 3. Now open the credit card mail from pile A and find the Business
Reply Mail Envelope.
<wolf> 4. Take the coupons from pile B and stuff them in the envelope you hold
in your hand.
<wolf> 5. Drop the stuffed to the brim envelopes in your mail and walk away
whistling.
<wolf> I have now received two phone calls from the credit card companies
telling me that they received a stuffed envelope with coupons rather
then my application. They informed me that it they are not pleased that
they footed the bill for the crap I sent them. I reply with "It says
Business Reply Mail" I'm suggesting coupons to you to ensure that your
business is more successful. They promptly hang up on me.
<wolf> Now, I did this for about a month before it got boring, so I got an
added idea! I added exactly 33 cents worth of pennies to the envelope
so they paid EXTRA due to the weight. I got a call informing me about
the money, I said it was a mistake and I demanded my change back. After
yelling at the clerk and then to the supervisor they agreed to my
demands and cut me a check for the money. I hold in my hand at this
very moment a check from GTE Visa for exactly 33 cents.
I would doubt that is the case, I seriously doubt any cop would take a taser to a gun-fight, the range is limited, it is not as accurate, limited reload speed, etc. Tasers are normally used on the level below deadly force, the same level where bean-bag shotguns, batons or certain physical attacks might be. In theory these devices shouldn't kill, but they might. Theoretically, they are used when 'this person is actively trying to hurt someone'. But some areas might have tasers on the 'person is doing stuff to not be controlled, but it shouldn't really hurt anyone (running, balling themselves up, etc)' level.
BTW being tased isn't a big deal, it is not like on TV, after the 5 seconds, you are fine, you can hop right back up. That is the problem, a taser is a 'pain-compliance' tool, like pressure points, if someone wants to they can go right back to fighting, or at least resisting right after the 5 seconds, so the cop will use it again, etc. That is how you get stories of cops tasing someone 15 times, because (in theory) the person continued to resist 14 times.
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