Are you even serious? It's not like the TSA is chock full of professionals, here. They're mall cops with less training, which is bad and worse. We know the computers are connected to the network because they have to be able to receive the images (they're "viewed at a remote location"). What makes you think the operators don't go play some Flash games during downtime? Or do the same things everyone does at work with their PC? I work on a government campus and the security/police force are caught doing naughty things with their computers all the time. Why would the TSA be any different?
That's why I hope he wins his case, and then turns around and sues the state and Police Department for millions.
The problem I have with this is that the "millions" will be paid by you and me (and especially me; I live in Maryland). This doesn't punish the police at all. You think they care that the taxpayers have to shell out some money for some suit? The cop will get an "unprofessional conduct" mark on his record (*maybe*) and they'll all forget it ever happened; meanwhile, the guy going 127mph on a motorcycle like a dumbshit is now a millionaire.
The police need to be punished, not the taxpayers. Unfortunately, that never happens.
- if you or any relative ever used opiates (e.g., as painkillers for a cancer), then you're at least partially responsible for funding the taliban in Afghanistan. (There is no opium poppy grown in the USA to the best of my knowledge, you know.)
Most opioids that are derived from natural opiates (semi-synthetics) and natural opiates themselves (morphine, codeine, thebane, noscapine, etc) are usually from poppies grown almost exclusively in Tazmania. The entire island is covered in genetically-engineered Papaver somniferium. There are also totally synthetic opioids (fentanyl and its analogues, meperidine/pithidine, propoxyphene, tramadol, others); fentanyl in particular is used for cancer pain. Something like 99.2% of the poppies grown in the Middle East go toward the illicit opioid trade, namely heroin.
I work at the NIH in Bethesda, MD and live in Baltimore County, north of Baltimore City. It normally takes me an hour and a half to get home, but lately it's been three hours or more. That's okay though; I carpool and get OT for working in the car via MiFi.
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[...] the decision to discharge the entire award should be pretty easy for any court to make.
I stand corrected, but if it's such an easy decision for the court to make, shouldn't these courts have made better decisions in the first place?
Bankruptcy does not void awarded damages.
Are you even serious? It's not like the TSA is chock full of professionals, here. They're mall cops with less training, which is bad and worse. We know the computers are connected to the network because they have to be able to receive the images (they're "viewed at a remote location"). What makes you think the operators don't go play some Flash games during downtime? Or do the same things everyone does at work with their PC? I work on a government campus and the security/police force are caught doing naughty things with their computers all the time. Why would the TSA be any different?
That's why I hope he wins his case, and then turns around and sues the state and Police Department for millions.
The problem I have with this is that the "millions" will be paid by you and me (and especially me; I live in Maryland). This doesn't punish the police at all. You think they care that the taxpayers have to shell out some money for some suit? The cop will get an "unprofessional conduct" mark on his record (*maybe*) and they'll all forget it ever happened; meanwhile, the guy going 127mph on a motorcycle like a dumbshit is now a millionaire.
The police need to be punished, not the taxpayers. Unfortunately, that never happens.
- if you or any relative ever used opiates (e.g., as painkillers for a cancer), then you're at least partially responsible for funding the taliban in Afghanistan. (There is no opium poppy grown in the USA to the best of my knowledge, you know.)
Most opioids that are derived from natural opiates (semi-synthetics) and natural opiates themselves (morphine, codeine, thebane, noscapine, etc) are usually from poppies grown almost exclusively in Tazmania. The entire island is covered in genetically-engineered Papaver somniferium. There are also totally synthetic opioids (fentanyl and its analogues, meperidine/pithidine, propoxyphene, tramadol, others); fentanyl in particular is used for cancer pain. Something like 99.2% of the poppies grown in the Middle East go toward the illicit opioid trade, namely heroin.
I work at the NIH in Bethesda, MD and live in Baltimore County, north of Baltimore City. It normally takes me an hour and a half to get home, but lately it's been three hours or more. That's okay though; I carpool and get OT for working in the car via MiFi.
Exactly. I only wish it was more like email, or something.
Oh, wait.