But he is an american, the only thing illegal is to be charged with a crime by a prosecutor. He doesn't even need to do anything for that, shit, he could be killled for "resisting arrest" without even a reason for the original arrest, just that he "resisted" (having skin tension for the bullet to break probably enough resistance too)
So does it really matter when we aren't even a nation of laws arguing what the law may or may not be? I mean its fun to pretend we have a justice system and laws but, lets be honest, they don't actually matter. If they want to kill you or imprison you they will whether you did anything or not, and if they don't want to imprison you, it doesn't matter if you tossed a flashbang in a childs crib....you are not guilty of anything.
Except the experience I have had seems enough like his description, and enough different to think maybe its different in different areas. Last time I used a cab it was about half as he said, they operate exactly as they have since the 70s, its a manual call in operation and if they are busy it just rings because the other end is just a guy taking calls and dispatching...for the 4 cab companies that all have the same address and phone number in my city.
OTOH I have only once had a cabbie who didn't know where to go without needing a GPS.
"The ACLU survey found that only 7 percent of SWAT missions involved incidents they were originally designed to handle â" such as hostage situations or shootings â" while 62 percent of their mission involved drug searches."
So its actually I vastly understated and its closer to 1 time in 20 than 1 in 10.
Luckily there are not so many such incidents as to make a difference if we handle them badly, certainly not when compared to the damage done by incensing the busting down of doors over pretty much nothing at all, like say pot.
It would be one thing if this was a discussion of possibilities, but the numbers are in, and they are USED far more than is justified.... so much so that single digit percentages of their uses are justified by their purpose.
So for every 1 of those situations there are more than 10 that are over the top and endangering lives without need.
They should imprison him and his swat team accomplices who have put us in danger of people like him with their very existence. Do you have any idea how sublimely infrequent the actual need for them is? There is truely no point in even having them.
Hell 93% of their uses here in MA have nothing to do with hostage situations or even shoot outs, they are just the pricks who go around busting down the doors of pot heads.
And....because they exist, and like to flashbang first and ask questions later, we are all in danger. Imprison them all for reckless endangerment!
Except he never said regulation was bad, he differentiated between kinds of regulation; even specifically saying "that shouldn't be regulated", never once saying "nothing should be regulated"
Admitting that some kinds of regulation make sense does not mean all types are equal and all make sense.
Of course now we have to question, how do you know? Hell, how does GP know? Could have been placebo or something else entirely if it was purchased at any of these major retailers or likely elsewhere.
Well this particular "woman" had responded to an ad I put out looking for roomates. The moment she said she wanted to send a money order I knew what the scam was ad I put the ad right back up, but I was kind of pissed because I took the ad down for a day before "she" gave it away.
Perusing the comments I am a bit shocked that nobody else seems to have noticed that the Iranian space agency there has totally ripped off their logo from the United Federation of Planets. I think somebody watched too much next-gen.
Doesn't even need to be that sophisticated. I was dealing with one of these "Fake women" once who I was stringing along because I knew it was a scam and so it was kind of fun to toy with the scammer.
It was simple, I uploaded a random picture to a webserver I controlled and told "her" to check it out and when I saw her reply without any logs on my server, I asked a question that would require looking at the photo to answer.... bingo.
I waited a few more minutes of chat while I looked up the IP registration info and shocked "her" by revealing I knew "she" was in Nigeria. Oh that was funny.
Soon after the game changed, and now he wanted to recruit me to remail packages. Strung him along for many weeks, it was kind of a fun hobby for a while.
Because when the state makes its enemies based on whether or not their legitimate use of technology annoys them, then the state deserves enemies.
You are evaluating the situation in a vacuume. If everyone took that approach then the government just gets whatever it wants out of fear. Giving in to that and making decisions based on it, encourages such rule by fear attitudes.
Yup, I cleared about 4-6 inches of snow off our walkway/sidewalk/driveway at 1 am, and when we woke up at 8, the only evidence that I had even been out there were some slightly higher mounds where I had tossed snow.
Normally it takes several storms over the course of a week or two to pile it up like this and the streets were just kind of wet as of 5 pm yesterday. This has been a good one.
> Likewise, when scammers call me up about my [insert model year] [insert make] [insert model] and how my > warranty is up, I ask them to name my warranty company
I had fun with these guys once. I was tired of hanging up on them so I decided to hang on the line and try to get info out of the guy after they thought they might have me. So I get put on with this guy who....asks about my car!
Lol the audacity to claim my warranty was expiring then to not even know what kind of car I have? wow. So I told them.... a 1992 bucik lesaber (this was about 5 years ago so almost a 20 year old car, and one I never owned). and I ask "oh btw what company is it you work for" I forget now, but I wrote it down and then told him, thanks for the info now you can add me to your do not call list.:)
Despite that, he saved the car info, and I started getting calls about my 1992 buick lesaber!
Sure while it is strictly correct that it can happen and does happen, it certainly doesn't happen with nearly the frequency which it should, which is, every single time. These events are such a rarity that we really may as well ignore the few times it happens since its not significant compared to the magnitude of the problem.
Oh I fully agree, in no way did I mean to imply that throwing out the evidence was wrong..... its the best thing you can do under the circumstance and the only proper way to handle in within the context of the original case.
My comment is 100% aimed at the lack of followup and the lack of any even attempt to prevent the issue beyond hiding the truth of the matter and avoiding dealing with it.
Its correct to toss out such evidence, its incorrect to not treat the criminal searches as a crime.
Honestly, dogs shouldn't even be used except in certain situations, for the post part, their findings should be as inadmissable as a polygraph because; and I want to be clear IN THE WAY THEY ARE COMMONLY USED they are little more than a prop.
The reason for this is while, they have excellent snouts, they are even better at playing clever hans.
So if you have an endless line of luggage to check, or lines of random cars waiting.... that is, situations where the handler himself has no reason to suspect anything in any particular place, dogs perform quite well, they are excellent sniffers.
However, its been shown that in cases where there is any suspicion at all on the part of their handler, that a dogs false positive rate goes through the roof to the point that they actually "hit" on nothing more than their handlers pre-existing suspicion more often than not.
Essentially maning, dogs are worst than useless in the most common use cases, and really work best in the rather uncommon cases of tracking and large scale checkpoints; and have little to no place at all anywhere else.
> Huh, controversial use of tax dollars (and a very small percentage of tax dollars) implies that all taxes are bad? I > didn't realize we took the worst reported use as the standard use.
Not sure standard case works either. Non-controversial uses of tax dollars should not be allowed to justify or excuse the less standard and more abusive ones. If taxes pay for abusive uses then taxes are bad. This is a standard that is appropriate and every single person whose actions are representative of the people who take taxes should be reminded of it and should feel the full force of that dire responsiblility.
Yes an illegal search in some way invalidates taxes because.... it is a violation of the very rights that this government was founded to uphold, and ALL other functions are secondary to imposing those limits on itself.
> I expect to see hundreds of law enforcement officials going to jail.
If that is what you expect, then you are going to have a very bad time. Police only occasionally go to prison and it really takes extraordinary circumstances. We know incidents of illegal searches happen, we know that because evidence gets excluded at trial, yet, only 10% of people who are convicted actually even go to trial.... yet in that sampling, we find illegal searches.
Now, do police get charged with a crime for an illegal search? The constitution itself garauntees us freedom from searches without due process, not freedom to have the evidence tossed out in court, so far, only part of that is being upheld....where is there ANY attempt being made to ensure that illegal searches NEVER EVEN HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE?
I see no attempt being made. If anything, all I see is attempts to do end runs around our rights and limit exposure of the truth.
> And what proof do you have of that? What assurances do you have they don't abuse this?
Yup and, what evidence would exist if they did abuse it? None at all. This is something that, if they have it, the ONLY protection we have for our privacy is to hope they don't abuse it; or if they do abuse it, that they meticulously log their abuses.
How would you ever know that a legitimate warrant was not proceeded by other scans, which were then used to manufacture a believable story with which to gain the warrant? Hell, with police actually defending the practice already as "Parallel construction", we can't really trust them at all.
> On the other hand, it only works on jailbroken devices and attackers somehow need to be able to intercept the > modified Siri traffic.
So basically, its useful if you can run a stingray and most effective against more sophisticated users who jailbreak their phones (yet still use siri). Nice, real nice.
> I prefer a wireless keyboard with a USB dongle that acts as a standard keyboard, thank you.
which is exactly what I prefer too but, which is why I say, ditch the driver. The driver is just one more place your scheme can be compromised, clearly the solution is to have the dongle capable of pairing without PC participation beyond, (possibly) providing power.
Yes this would help a lot, especially for videos though, a lot of times, I just give up and move on, or put up with finding the text in the middle and reading it with no formatting.
That shit doesn't happen to me because I run requestpolicy. When I load up site X.Y.Z and it says "Here load content from a.b.c" It....doesn't load unless I manually approve it. For all sites all the time, and google....almost NEVER gets the approval unless absolutely required.
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But he is an american, the only thing illegal is to be charged with a crime by a prosecutor. He doesn't even need to do anything for that, shit, he could be killled for "resisting arrest" without even a reason for the original arrest, just that he "resisted" (having skin tension for the bullet to break probably enough resistance too)
So does it really matter when we aren't even a nation of laws arguing what the law may or may not be? I mean its fun to pretend we have a justice system and laws but, lets be honest, they don't actually matter. If they want to kill you or imprison you they will whether you did anything or not, and if they don't want to imprison you, it doesn't matter if you tossed a flashbang in a childs crib....you are not guilty of anything.
Except the experience I have had seems enough like his description, and enough different to think maybe its different in different areas. Last time I used a cab it was about half as he said, they operate exactly as they have since the 70s, its a manual call in operation and if they are busy it just rings because the other end is just a guy taking calls and dispatching...for the 4 cab companies that all have the same address and phone number in my city.
OTOH I have only once had a cabbie who didn't know where to go without needing a GPS.
Excactly, and so as he doesn't represent said government, he can't possibly be engaging in foreign policy no matter what he does or says personally.
Except they work for us not the other way around;
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
"The ACLU survey found that only 7 percent of SWAT missions involved incidents they were originally designed to handle â" such as hostage situations or shootings â" while 62 percent of their mission involved drug searches."
So its actually I vastly understated and its closer to 1 time in 20 than 1 in 10.
Luckily there are not so many such incidents as to make a difference if we handle them badly, certainly not when compared to the damage done by incensing the busting down of doors over pretty much nothing at all, like say pot.
It would be one thing if this was a discussion of possibilities, but the numbers are in, and they are USED far more than is justified.... so much so that single digit percentages of their uses are justified by their purpose.
So for every 1 of those situations there are more than 10 that are over the top and endangering lives without need.
They should imprison him and his swat team accomplices who have put us in danger of people like him with their very existence. Do you have any idea how sublimely infrequent the actual need for them is? There is truely no point in even having them.
Hell 93% of their uses here in MA have nothing to do with hostage situations or even shoot outs, they are just the pricks who go around busting down the doors of pot heads.
And....because they exist, and like to flashbang first and ask questions later, we are all in danger. Imprison them all for reckless endangerment!
Except he never said regulation was bad, he differentiated between kinds of regulation; even specifically saying "that shouldn't be regulated", never once saying "nothing should be regulated"
Admitting that some kinds of regulation make sense does not mean all types are equal and all make sense.
Of course now we have to question, how do you know? Hell, how does GP know? Could have been placebo or something else entirely if it was purchased at any of these major retailers or likely elsewhere.
Well this particular "woman" had responded to an ad I put out looking for roomates. The moment she said she wanted to send a money order I knew what the scam was ad I put the ad right back up, but I was kind of pissed because I took the ad down for a day before "she" gave it away.
Perusing the comments I am a bit shocked that nobody else seems to have noticed that the Iranian space agency there has totally ripped off their logo from the United Federation of Planets. I think somebody watched too much next-gen.
Doesn't even need to be that sophisticated. I was dealing with one of these "Fake women" once who I was stringing along because I knew it was a scam and so it was kind of fun to toy with the scammer.
It was simple, I uploaded a random picture to a webserver I controlled and told "her" to check it out and when I saw her reply without any logs on my server, I asked a question that would require looking at the photo to answer.... bingo.
I waited a few more minutes of chat while I looked up the IP registration info and shocked "her" by revealing I knew "she" was in Nigeria. Oh that was funny.
Soon after the game changed, and now he wanted to recruit me to remail packages. Strung him along for many weeks, it was kind of a fun hobby for a while.
Because when the state makes its enemies based on whether or not their legitimate use of technology annoys them, then the state deserves enemies.
You are evaluating the situation in a vacuume. If everyone took that approach then the government just gets whatever it wants out of fear. Giving in to that and making decisions based on it, encourages such rule by fear attitudes.
Yup, I cleared about 4-6 inches of snow off our walkway/sidewalk/driveway at 1 am, and when we woke up at 8, the only evidence that I had even been out there were some slightly higher mounds where I had tossed snow.
Normally it takes several storms over the course of a week or two to pile it up like this and the streets were just kind of wet as of 5 pm yesterday. This has been a good one.
> Likewise, when scammers call me up about my [insert model year] [insert make] [insert model] and how my
> warranty is up, I ask them to name my warranty company
I had fun with these guys once. I was tired of hanging up on them so I decided to hang on the line and try to get info out of the guy after they thought they might have me. So I get put on with this guy who....asks about my car!
Lol the audacity to claim my warranty was expiring then to not even know what kind of car I have? wow. So I told them.... a 1992 bucik lesaber (this was about 5 years ago so almost a 20 year old car, and one I never owned). and I ask "oh btw what company is it you work for" I forget now, but I wrote it down and then told him, thanks for the info now you can add me to your do not call list. :)
Despite that, he saved the car info, and I started getting calls about my 1992 buick lesaber!
Sure while it is strictly correct that it can happen and does happen, it certainly doesn't happen with nearly the frequency which it should, which is, every single time. These events are such a rarity that we really may as well ignore the few times it happens since its not significant compared to the magnitude of the problem.
Oh I fully agree, in no way did I mean to imply that throwing out the evidence was wrong..... its the best thing you can do under the circumstance and the only proper way to handle in within the context of the original case.
My comment is 100% aimed at the lack of followup and the lack of any even attempt to prevent the issue beyond hiding the truth of the matter and avoiding dealing with it.
Its correct to toss out such evidence, its incorrect to not treat the criminal searches as a crime.
Honestly, dogs shouldn't even be used except in certain situations, for the post part, their findings should be as inadmissable as a polygraph because; and I want to be clear IN THE WAY THEY ARE COMMONLY USED they are little more than a prop.
The reason for this is while, they have excellent snouts, they are even better at playing clever hans.
So if you have an endless line of luggage to check, or lines of random cars waiting.... that is, situations where the handler himself has no reason to suspect anything in any particular place, dogs perform quite well, they are excellent sniffers.
However, its been shown that in cases where there is any suspicion at all on the part of their handler, that a dogs false positive rate goes through the roof to the point that they actually "hit" on nothing more than their handlers pre-existing suspicion more often than not.
Essentially maning, dogs are worst than useless in the most common use cases, and really work best in the rather uncommon cases of tracking and large scale checkpoints; and have little to no place at all anywhere else.
> Huh, controversial use of tax dollars (and a very small percentage of tax dollars) implies that all taxes are bad? I
> didn't realize we took the worst reported use as the standard use.
Not sure standard case works either. Non-controversial uses of tax dollars should not be allowed to justify or excuse the less standard and more abusive ones. If taxes pay for abusive uses then taxes are bad. This is a standard that is appropriate and every single person whose actions are representative of the people who take taxes should be reminded of it and should feel the full force of that dire responsiblility.
Yes an illegal search in some way invalidates taxes because.... it is a violation of the very rights that this government was founded to uphold, and ALL other functions are secondary to imposing those limits on itself.
> I expect to see hundreds of law enforcement officials going to jail.
If that is what you expect, then you are going to have a very bad time. Police only occasionally go to prison and it really takes extraordinary circumstances. We know incidents of illegal searches happen, we know that because evidence gets excluded at trial, yet, only 10% of people who are convicted actually even go to trial.... yet in that sampling, we find illegal searches.
Now, do police get charged with a crime for an illegal search? The constitution itself garauntees us freedom from searches without due process, not freedom to have the evidence tossed out in court, so far, only part of that is being upheld....where is there ANY attempt being made to ensure that illegal searches NEVER EVEN HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE?
I see no attempt being made. If anything, all I see is attempts to do end runs around our rights and limit exposure of the truth.
> And what proof do you have of that? What assurances do you have they don't abuse this?
Yup and, what evidence would exist if they did abuse it? None at all. This is something that, if they have it, the ONLY protection we have for our privacy is to hope they don't abuse it; or if they do abuse it, that they meticulously log their abuses.
How would you ever know that a legitimate warrant was not proceeded by other scans, which were then used to manufacture a believable story with which to gain the warrant? Hell, with police actually defending the practice already as "Parallel construction", we can't really trust them at all.
> On the other hand, it only works on jailbroken devices and attackers somehow need to be able to intercept the
> modified Siri traffic.
So basically, its useful if you can run a stingray and most effective against more sophisticated users who jailbreak their phones (yet still use siri). Nice, real nice.
I know I am a little late to the reply but...
> I prefer a wireless keyboard with a USB dongle that acts as a standard keyboard, thank you.
which is exactly what I prefer too but, which is why I say, ditch the driver. The driver is just one more place your scheme can be compromised, clearly the solution is to have the dongle capable of pairing without PC participation beyond, (possibly) providing power.
Yes this would help a lot, especially for videos though, a lot of times, I just give up and move on, or put up with finding the text in the middle and reading it with no formatting.
That shit doesn't happen to me because I run requestpolicy. When I load up site X.Y.Z and it says "Here load content from a.b.c" It....doesn't load unless I manually approve it. For all sites all the time, and google....almost NEVER gets the approval unless absolutely required.