I ran out of gas in my 2002 Concorde Saturday night and had no trouble at all steering or stopping it. If your car or truck is unsteerable without power and you wreck it, I'd say its manufacturer is the one who is liable. But IANAL (or is that I-ANAL?)
You say that as though it's a bad thing. Tragic, yes, but not the fault of the police officers.
It is a bad thing and it is the fault of the cops. If my EMP device destroys your pacemaker and kills you then yes, it IS my fault.
What other course of action would you propose in such a case as this? Just letting the car escape and perhaps injure or kill other drivers? Pursuing on a high-speed chase through traffic? Shooting the tires?
They have these newfangled thangs called "hee-lee-oCOPters" that (get this) FLY AROUND!
You seem to imply that all police officers are jack-booted thugs just looking for the next innocent person to kill then "get off the hook" on a technicality.
Dude, you must be even whiter than I am. My 4th amendment rights have been violated TWICE this year alone, and my eyes are hazel and my hair is gray. Every black person I know is scared shitless of the cops.
*Most* police officers are brave men and women who put their lives on the line
The most dangerous job isn't police work, it's construction. These brave men and women put their lives on the line to build your house and mall! And the cops aren't protecting your rights; they are enforcing the law. Or are supposed to; as I said, the cops have violated my 4th amendment rights twice this year. Don't tell ME they're "protecting your rights", they don't give two shits about your, my, or anyone's rights.
The incident began about noon, when a Springfield police officer sitting a Fifth and Carpenter streets saw a green Chevrolet Cavalier speeding south on Fifth. The driver, allegedly Britz, slammed on his brakes at the intersection but almost didn't make the red light, police said.
No EMP needed. I'm incredibly glad they caught this guy, as he once spent five years in prison for trying to kill his then-wife, who is now a good friend of mine.
Most cops I've known were, indeed, crooked (but this is Illinois). Nice folks, good hearted, but crooked as hell.
Just last winter there were two incidences of off duty cops beating people in bars. In the first case, this drunken burly cop beat a five foot tall 110 pound bartender for not serving him more alcohol. In another, four off duty cops beat some businessmen in an unprovoked attack. Both instances had both cameras and eyewitnesses or they'd never made the papers. Then there's the elite Chicago unit that was just disbanded, with one of its members charged with murder. The newspaper chronicled setups, bribes, extortion, planted evidence, etc.
I think he's referring to the Mexican fellow he hires to pull his two wheeled cart.
Speaking of Manuel Bycicle, he's the fellow who designed the dual-language signs that say "Caution - wet floor Piso Mujado. Of course "Piso Mujado" is Spanish for "don't piss on the floor."
And for those of you who are worried about innocent bystanders, you can put up a little sign like they do with the microwave ovens at gas stations warning about pacemakers.
The first time some innocent bystander's pacemaker dies because of a cop's EMF bomb is the first time a company that makes EMF bombs goes bankrupt from the liability.
I'm glad my implant (see sig) doesn't involve electronics! As cyborgs go, I'm pretty lucky.
The automobile distributor and points Unless you are a classic car collector, or a geezer, you have no idea how much of a pain in the butt these things were. About every oil change or two, your car's performance and gas mileage would go down, and you would need a tuneup.
To tune your car, you could simply hire someone. That is, if you were a sissy.
A real man changed his own oil and tuned his own car up. You could tell a real man by the scars and scabs on his knuckles from working on his car.
First you had to change all eight of your spark plugs. What? You only have six? Pussy! Make sure you don't get the wires on wrong, or if your car will start at all, it will lurch and backfire and run like crap.
Then you had to take off the distributor cap, usually held on by two clips that would cut your fingers and were harder than a rubic cube solution to get clipped back on.
Under the distributor cap was the contact points. These had to be replaced. Then you had to adjust the gap on the points. Oh shit, I forgot to adjust the gaps on the spark plugs... do that all over again...
Now that the plugs are gapped and the points are replaced and gapped, you put the new distributor cap on... Come on... SHIT... GOD DAMNED PIECE OF SHI... ok, there it goes. Good. Gimme a bandaid, would ya?
Now you have to set the points' dwell. What's "dwell?" Beats the hell out of me, maybe it's the amount of time the points are closed. But you have to set it with a dwell meter or your car will run like it's powered by gerbils and will suck gas like Bush sucks at being President.
Then you have to get out your strobe and set the timing. You loosen the distributor, point your strobe at the mark on the... wait a minute... I can't see the damned mark. Stop the engine, would you?
Damn, it's all rusty and... to hell with it, start it back up and I'll time the God damned thing by ear, piece of shit...
Thank God and modern electronics for electronic ignition!
A '67 Camaro can give a runner a mile lead in 30 seconds. And you won't kill a '67 Camaro with these ray guns, as there are no microprocessors in them.
This is an old story, as I remember reading about... the car-stopping video could be a misplaced memory... but (and my memory may be fuzzy here)...
Hey, look! A fellow geezer! Man, I rememer the time that, uh... what was I talking about? Oh yeah, women. There was this one broad that HEY YOU! GET OFF MY LAWN!
e) must open door at drive-threws as windows don't roll down
Is a "drive-threw" where they throw your food at you? Now there's a unique concept: a dictionary that doesn't know how to spell! What will these younguns come up with next, ray guns to kill cars with?
Oh, and from the definition (which I'm afraid I can't trust too much as it is from a dictionary with spelling errors), this car-killing ray gun wouldn't work on a hooptie; old junkers don't have microprocessors. New junkers do, but not old ones.
It has set itself a deadline of 2 April 2008 to reach a decision.
Charlemagne will be 1,266 years old on April 2, 2008. That's a lot of candles! Fitting that the Emperor Google will (or won't) be allowed to acquire Doubleclick on the (old) Emperor of Europe's 1,266th birthday!
Litchfield said that, given the amount of press generated by corporate data breaches over the past two years, it's amazing to find that there are more databases exposed than ever before.
No it isn't. Now, if there were some penalty to losing half a million identities that was borne by the database owner instead of the poor schmucks whose identities were stolen, then it would be amazing.
But when your data is stolen, I'm the one who has to pay. Why should you care? You're not paying.
Regardless of hand or machine counts, there's nothing about the count itself that will raise suspicion, except that it won't match expectations.
If Gallup says Joe is going to win by a landslide, and the election results have Jane winning by a landslide, there's going to be a recount. If the results are very close then again, there will be a recount.
I would however like to see all voting machine software (and hardware) open source, from the programs to the schematics. If something's fishy (or broken) someone will find it.
Racist? I didn't realize there was a certain race that shopped at Wal-mart more than others.
You see few people there who aren't white. If you make disparaging remarks about custoimers of a business whose customers are mostly black, that's racist, even if you're black yourself. So is making disparaging statements about a business whose main clientelle are white.
No, you would be a fool to buy a $12 pair of jeans anywhere
I paid $12 for the jeans I'm wearing tight now. I've had them for three years. They're comfortable. What's foolish about that? WalMart usually gets their prices from economy of scale; they're huge and have an efficient distribution system. Sure, they rip off their employees, but so do all their competitors. Ten years ago when their competetion was all union I refused to shop there, but there's little choice now. They're all nonunion.
If they had a competetitor who used union labor, I'd shop at the competetior even if prices were higher.
They're certainly not stupid animals, and the burying is instinctive. But had the momma cat been a house cat, there would have been no poop on the floor at all.
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I always enjoying hearing about things people find disgusting or that they dislike.
Well then, my latest slashdot journal is just for you - not just a rant, but a curmudgeon rant! What more could you ask for?
-mcgrew
Hey, I'm great at prediction. Just listen to what I say, and the exact opposite will happen.
I've noticed that most prognosticators are about on a par with me, or even worse. What's that meme, er, something about nothing and moving along?
-mcgrew
I think this story starts with the antelope pulling a thorn from the lion's paw...
Well, they didn't show that part but it ended with the antelope going into the lion's maw.
Nope, only rabbits. When rabbits are in season, mosquitos aren't.
I ran out of gas in my 2002 Concorde Saturday night and had no trouble at all steering or stopping it. If your car or truck is unsteerable without power and you wreck it, I'd say its manufacturer is the one who is liable. But IANAL (or is that I-ANAL?)
Too bad we don't have the balls you folks do!
It is a bad thing and it is the fault of the cops. If my EMP device destroys your pacemaker and kills you then yes, it IS my fault.
What other course of action would you propose in such a case as this? Just letting the car escape and perhaps injure or kill other drivers? Pursuing on a high-speed chase through traffic? Shooting the tires?
They have these newfangled thangs called "hee-lee-oCOPters" that (get this) FLY AROUND!
You seem to imply that all police officers are jack-booted thugs just looking for the next innocent person to kill then "get off the hook" on a technicality.
Dude, you must be even whiter than I am. My 4th amendment rights have been violated TWICE this year alone, and my eyes are hazel and my hair is gray. Every black person I know is scared shitless of the cops.
*Most* police officers are brave men and women who put their lives on the line
The most dangerous job isn't police work, it's construction. These brave men and women put their lives on the line to build your house and mall! And the cops aren't protecting your rights; they are enforcing the law. Or are supposed to; as I said, the cops have violated my 4th amendment rights twice this year. Don't tell ME they're "protecting your rights", they don't give two shits about your, my, or anyone's rights.
There was a high speed chase through Springfield last Friday:No EMP needed. I'm incredibly glad they caught this guy, as he once spent five years in prison for trying to kill his then-wife, who is now a good friend of mine.
Most cops I've known were, indeed, crooked (but this is Illinois). Nice folks, good hearted, but crooked as hell.
A few links to Illinois news stories:
Springfield's worst nightmare
Police shoot, kill man on West Side
Man dies in police custody
Just last winter there were two incidences of off duty cops beating people in bars. In the first case, this drunken burly cop beat a five foot tall 110 pound bartender for not serving him more alcohol. In another, four off duty cops beat some businessmen in an unprovoked attack. Both instances had both cameras and eyewitnesses or they'd never made the papers. Then there's the elite Chicago unit that was just disbanded, with one of its members charged with murder. The newspaper chronicled setups, bribes, extortion, planted evidence, etc.
Today's cops are to be feared, not respected.
-mcgrew
I'd argue with that but I'm too tyred.
Speaking of Manuel Bycicle, he's the fellow who designed the dual-language signs that say "Caution - wet floor Piso Mujado. Of course "Piso Mujado" is Spanish for "don't piss on the floor."
Mierde!
-mcgrew
A bicycle has an engine?
Yes, they have been described as "ugly bags of mostly water" by fictional silicone creatures.
And for those of you who are worried about innocent bystanders, you can put up a little sign like they do with the microwave ovens at gas stations warning about pacemakers.
The first time some innocent bystander's pacemaker dies because of a cop's EMF bomb is the first time a company that makes EMF bombs goes bankrupt from the liability.
I'm glad my implant (see sig) doesn't involve electronics! As cyborgs go, I'm pretty lucky.
-mcgrew
Not me! As I said in Good Riddance to Bad Tech a couple of years ago:
-mcgrew
So if they are zapping someone and hit another car are they responsible if that car crashes?
Why would they be? The engine stopping won't cause a crash. Sure, it's harder to steer and brake without power, but you can still steer and brake.
-mcgrew
A '67 Camaro can give a runner a mile lead in 30 seconds. And you won't kill a '67 Camaro with these ray guns, as there are no microprocessors in them.
-mcgrew
This is an old story, as I remember reading about...
the car-stopping video could be a misplaced memory...
but (and my memory may be fuzzy here)...
Hey, look! A fellow geezer! Man, I rememer the time that, uh... what was I talking about? Oh yeah, women. There was this one broad that HEY YOU! GET OFF MY LAWN!
Damned kids!
-mcgrew
From your link to the definition of "hooptie":
e) must open door at drive-threws as windows don't roll down
Is a "drive-threw" where they throw your food at you? Now there's a unique concept: a dictionary that doesn't know how to spell! What will these younguns come up with next, ray guns to kill cars with?
Oh, and from the definition (which I'm afraid I can't trust too much as it is from a dictionary with spelling errors), this car-killing ray gun wouldn't work on a hooptie; old junkers don't have microprocessors. New junkers do, but not old ones.
-mcgrew
What happens when the criminals get their hands on this AND a 1968 GTO? I mean, there are no microprocessors in a 1968 GTO!
I wish I hadn't clicked on this story, now I have the theme song to "cops" going through my head.
-mcgrew
It has set itself a deadline of 2 April 2008 to reach a decision.
Charlemagne will be 1,266 years old on April 2, 2008. That's a lot of candles! Fitting that the Emperor Google will (or won't) be allowed to acquire Doubleclick on the (old) Emperor of Europe's 1,266th birthday!
-mcgrew
BTW You made another mistake
Wasn't the first, won't be the last.
Litchfield said that, given the amount of press generated by corporate data breaches over the past two years, it's amazing to find that there are more databases exposed than ever before.
No it isn't. Now, if there were some penalty to losing half a million identities that was borne by the database owner instead of the poor schmucks whose identities were stolen, then it would be amazing.
But when your data is stolen, I'm the one who has to pay. Why should you care? You're not paying.
so can i be a geezer too ?
Sure, all you have to do is not die.
I wrote a two player tanks game for the Sinclair 1000. We wore out the keypad playing it!
Regardless of hand or machine counts, there's nothing about the count itself that will raise suspicion, except that it won't match expectations.
If Gallup says Joe is going to win by a landslide, and the election results have Jane winning by a landslide, there's going to be a recount. If the results are very close then again, there will be a recount.
I would however like to see all voting machine software (and hardware) open source, from the programs to the schematics. If something's fishy (or broken) someone will find it.
Agreed then. I'd rather nobody made bombs; explosives are for excavation and the like.
Racist? I didn't realize there was a certain race that shopped at Wal-mart more than others.
You see few people there who aren't white. If you make disparaging remarks about custoimers of a business whose customers are mostly black, that's racist, even if you're black yourself. So is making disparaging statements about a business whose main clientelle are white.
No, you would be a fool to buy a $12 pair of jeans anywhere
I paid $12 for the jeans I'm wearing tight now. I've had them for three years. They're comfortable. What's foolish about that? WalMart usually gets their prices from economy of scale; they're huge and have an efficient distribution system. Sure, they rip off their employees, but so do all their competitors. Ten years ago when their competetion was all union I refused to shop there, but there's little choice now. They're all nonunion.
If they had a competetitor who used union labor, I'd shop at the competetior even if prices were higher.
They're certainly not stupid animals, and the burying is instinctive. But had the momma cat been a house cat, there would have been no poop on the floor at all.