If the police cannot discuss the situation because the arrested person did not give the police explicit permission to do so, then they cannot discuss the situation. It's not that they don't have a comment. It is that they are restrained from commenting. The fact that the arrested person is singing like a canary to the press is not a legal grant of permission to the police to disclose information.
The law is ripe for abuse as written:
Miranda was stopped at the airport, presumably under the terms of Terrorism Act 2000 Schedule 7: "Ports and Border Controls"(on page 108)
"Power to stop, question and detain
2.—(1) An examining ocer may question a person to whom this paragraph
applies for the purpose of determining whether he appears to be a person falling
within section 40(1)(b).
(2) This paragraph applies to a person if—
(a) he is at a port or in the border area, and
(b) the examining ocer believes that the person’s presence at the port or
in the area is connected with his entering or leaving Great Britain or
Northern Ireland.
(3) This paragraph also applies to a person on a ship or aircraft which has
arrived in Great Britain or Northern Ireland.
(4) An examining ocer may exercise his powers under this paragraph
whether or not he has grounds for suspecting that a person falls within section
40(1)(b)."
The law actually says, explicitly, that the powers of border detention can be exercised without meeting any standard of suspicion, 'reasonable' or otherwise. If that wasn't designed to be abused, I'm not sure what would qualify, it overtly allows up to 9 hours detention on any grounds whatsoever, or none. ('section 40(1)(b)' defines a 'terrorist')
Isn't there some company somewhere that can just create 35mm prints from digital films, for legacy theaters?
Lots could. However, they'd be mired in copyright issues from day one, and if Hollywood can't turn a profit without such issues, it'd be tough going for anyone who tried.
You can always go further afield and cut off the electricity to a house, even if it'll kill the neighbors' as well.
No, you can't. Not if they're generating their own power. If there is a fuel cell running in the basement, there's no way the fire crews can get to it to shut off the power except by entering the burning building.
The point that was unsuccessfully being made runs more like this:
Electricity? Check. Turned off? Can't get at it Chief. The controls are in the fire.
Flammable gas? Check. Shut off? Sorry, Chief, they're running one of those personal fuel cells, and we can't get near the tanks yet.
Hardly a nightmare, but definitely a few notches up from a standard house fire.
Electricity and natural gas to most homes can be shut off from the road. If the person has a tank and power cell inside the house, the fire crews won't be able to shut them off. That makes the fire-fighter's job that much more dangerous.
Hollywood's ditching of 35mm film distribution in favour of digital projection is going to put a lot of movie theatres out of business, not just Drive-ins. Of course, the real killer is the "home theatre". Today's high def TVs and the easy availability of content (Netflix, torrents, etc), topped with super high prices for snacks and candy is what is really taking chunks out of the cinema business.
I do believe I picked up a brand new digital projector not too many years ago, and the charge from the online retailer was about 30 quid.
So why do they say tens of thousands?
Your 30 quid projector can display 300GB JPEG2000 files at 4096 x 1260 video at 24 frames per second with 12 bits each of red, green, and blue per pixel, and 16 channels of uncompressed audio at 24 bits and 48 kHz or 96 kHz sampling? Please let me know where you got it. I'd like to order one myself.
The very same way that burning the propane/kerosene in an engine does. To wit: both are current alternatives to using fuel cells as off the grid power sources. A microhydro site is a lot better for the environment than smogging up the atmosphere by burning up fossil fuels; hence my preference.
They aren't arresting people for just teaching the methods. The instructor they arrested had trained two undercover agents posing as criminals that wanted to lie on the exam. One was a drug trafficker and the other a correctional officer that smuggled drugs into prison and received sexual favors from an underage girl. The instructor taught them how to cover up those crimes. Seems pretty simple to me. If you say you want to rob a bank, and I give you a gun to do it I'm criminally liable for it. Why isn't fraud the same? It would be one thing if the instructor didn't know they were criminals, but he did. The summary makes it sound as if they're wantonly arresting people.
Thing is... robbing a bank is a crime. Lying on a job interview isn't.
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For $100 I might just settle for Win8, OneNote, and a browser.
So... guilt by association is okay now? It's okay to arrest you because you regularly park across the street from a suspected meth lab?
If the police cannot discuss the situation because the arrested person did not give the police explicit permission to do so, then they cannot discuss the situation. It's not that they don't have a comment. It is that they are restrained from commenting. The fact that the arrested person is singing like a canary to the press is not a legal grant of permission to the police to disclose information.
anyone else find it a little ironic that a man named miranda was stopped and stripped of his rights??
We all did, but we were exercising our right to remain silent.
The law is ripe for abuse as written:
Miranda was stopped at the airport, presumably under the terms of Terrorism Act 2000 Schedule 7: "Ports and Border Controls"(on page 108)
"Power to stop, question and detain
2.—(1) An examining ocer may question a person to whom this paragraph applies for the purpose of determining whether he appears to be a person falling within section 40(1)(b).
(2) This paragraph applies to a person if—
(a) he is at a port or in the border area, and
(b) the examining ocer believes that the person’s presence at the port or
in the area is connected with his entering or leaving Great Britain or
Northern Ireland.
(3) This paragraph also applies to a person on a ship or aircraft which has arrived in Great Britain or Northern Ireland.
(4) An examining ocer may exercise his powers under this paragraph whether or not he has grounds for suspecting that a person falls within section 40(1)(b)." The law actually says, explicitly, that the powers of border detention can be exercised without meeting any standard of suspicion, 'reasonable' or otherwise. If that wasn't designed to be abused, I'm not sure what would qualify, it overtly allows up to 9 hours detention on any grounds whatsoever, or none. ('section 40(1)(b)' defines a 'terrorist')
Query: ocer?
Isn't there some company somewhere that can just create 35mm prints from digital films, for legacy theaters?
Lots could. However, they'd be mired in copyright issues from day one, and if Hollywood can't turn a profit without such issues, it'd be tough going for anyone who tried.
Underware? Is that some sort of page 0 TSR, or BIOS xploit, or something?
30 quid is less than $50. 20 times that is $1000. Point me to a 4K projector that costs less than $1000. I dare you.
Show yer beaver, Canajians !!
Are you sure you want to see it?
You can always go further afield and cut off the electricity to a house, even if it'll kill the neighbors' as well.
No, you can't. Not if they're generating their own power. If there is a fuel cell running in the basement, there's no way the fire crews can get to it to shut off the power except by entering the burning building.
The point that was unsuccessfully being made runs more like this:
Electricity? Check. Turned off? Can't get at it Chief. The controls are in the fire.
Flammable gas? Check. Shut off? Sorry, Chief, they're running one of those personal fuel cells, and we can't get near the tanks yet.
Hardly a nightmare, but definitely a few notches up from a standard house fire.
Electricity and natural gas to most homes can be shut off from the road. If the person has a tank and power cell inside the house, the fire crews won't be able to shut them off. That makes the fire-fighter's job that much more dangerous.
Hollywood's ditching of 35mm film distribution in favour of digital projection is going to put a lot of movie theatres out of business, not just Drive-ins. Of course, the real killer is the "home theatre". Today's high def TVs and the easy availability of content (Netflix, torrents, etc), topped with super high prices for snacks and candy is what is really taking chunks out of the cinema business.
I do believe I picked up a brand new digital projector not too many years ago, and the charge from the online retailer was about 30 quid.
So why do they say tens of thousands?
Your 30 quid projector can display 300GB JPEG2000 files at 4096 x 1260 video at 24 frames per second with 12 bits each of red, green, and blue per pixel, and 16 channels of uncompressed audio at 24 bits and 48 kHz or 96 kHz sampling? Please let me know where you got it. I'd like to order one myself.
And that relates to fuel cells ... How?
The very same way that burning the propane/kerosene in an engine does. To wit: both are current alternatives to using fuel cells as off the grid power sources. A microhydro site is a lot better for the environment than smogging up the atmosphere by burning up fossil fuels; hence my preference.
You'd just be generating electricity by burning that propane/kerosene/etc. in an engine, rather than a fuel cell.
Um... no. I'd be looking at microhydro sites if I were to go off the grid.
Partly, but I was also wondering about the forward moving blade, whether it "goes past safe operating speed" as the U2 wing does.
They aren't arresting people for just teaching the methods. The instructor they arrested had trained two undercover agents posing as criminals that wanted to lie on the exam. One was a drug trafficker and the other a correctional officer that smuggled drugs into prison and received sexual favors from an underage girl. The instructor taught them how to cover up those crimes. Seems pretty simple to me. If you say you want to rob a bank, and I give you a gun to do it I'm criminally liable for it. Why isn't fraud the same? It would be one thing if the instructor didn't know they were criminals, but he did. The summary makes it sound as if they're wantonly arresting people.
Thing is... robbing a bank is a crime. Lying on a job interview isn't.
Well, kicking the door in is just an advanced form of knocking.
Jusk ask Chuck Norris.
Lie detectors are 100% reliable. If I see one at a job interview, it is a sure sign that I don't want to work there.
Well, the horoscope said it was a bad time to hire psychics.
Don't helicopter rotors do that?
What happens is that your head swells, and your body disappears.
No. That's the failure mode of a reaction wheel. A thruster is somewhere between "Ack!" and "Thbbft!"
Of course it was fiction. They were necropsies. Autopsy is when you do a post mortem on a human.