Schrodinger's weapon: one that exists in two states until an officer feels comfortable testifying one way or the other.
Schrodinger's weapon: one that exists in two states until an officer feels comfortable testilying one way or the other.
FTFY
The Fourth Amendment right of an injured, visibly unarmed suspect to be free from temporarily paralyzing force while positioned at a height that carries with it a risk of serious injury or death.
It is truly disgusting that the 4th Amendment has to be contorted like this to find some Constitutional basis for the right not to be viciously assaulted (sometimes murdered) by the cops for no valid reason. It is even more disgusting that this determination of a gross violation of basic rights results in only a civil trial being allowed to proceed, rather than an open-and-shut / mandatory-minimum-sentence criminal case against the cops involved.
I am not sure Low Tide Brewing as a beer trademark is worth defending. While those who grew up along the shore may find the mental images and smells of low tide reminiscent of home and carefree youth, much the same way some people raised on farms think of barnyard images and smells, many (most?) people find the look and smell of seaweed and other shoreline detritus putrefying in the sun at low tide to be nauseating. I think it is mostly hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, and methane, none of which are generally considered appetizing.
Maybe they are intentionally trying to limit their market appeal to locals only?
I've heard about this before, but I've never been able to find a good explanation for WHY anyone would create a system like this.
Maybe there were completely different priorities and constraints in place when the Unix-epoch type of time systems were created? Computer RAM was much more limited and very expensive. Computers executed code drastically slower, so anything that cost extra CPU cycles was dreaded. Code was made as compact as possible, to minimize the size of the stacks of Hollerith cards, and the time it would take a program to execute.
Maybe a simple linear time system worked well with these priorities?
Maybe a somewhat more complicated (many would say absurd) 60 second per minute, 60 minute per hour, 24 hour per day, 7 day per week, 28/29/30/31 day per month and 12 month per year system conflicted with some of these priorities?
Today hundreds / thousands of lines of code and millions of CPU cycles every now and then may seem trivial and insignificant, but it was not always so.
Please forgive my lack of knowledge of the details of the subject. Apparently I was born without the computer game gene. I am completely unfamiliar with these devices and the games that run on them. What little I do know about them comes from articles like this one, which usually explain how some detail* is causing or might cause the whole system to fail, effectively bricking the devices and leaving the "owners" with no recourse.
*Proprietary code that can be bricked with a forced update, or a server that can be taken off-line, or similar.
Could this be yet another object lesson that anything that relies on a central server system or proprietary code is not really owned, but just on loan from the tech overlords?
Sometimes these issues can be overcome, but often it seems it is just not worth the effort. Even if these obstacles are overcome, there remains the problem of possible legal action on the part of the tech overlords for some real or perceived copyright or patent violation.
When cops are actually charged with a crime, there's always a "person of faith" on the jury whose faith in the cops puts them above reproach, lest the cognitive dissonance become too great.
This is often the case, and probably will continue to occur at least some of the time because some people just refuse to accept the reality that cops are serial liars. This we will all have to deal with.
But there are greater systemic issues that we should most certainly not have to deal with: judges who accept a cop's known "testilying" as truthful, judges who don't allow a cop's past lies to be introduced as evidence to impeach that cop's "testilying," prosecutors who intentionally put known lying cops on the witness stand, an opaque system that hides a cop's history of lying from everyone, including defense attorneys and the public.
Not only should lying cops be be held criminally accountable for the damage they cause, but their enablers (judges, prosecutors, police supervisors, captains, chiefs, etc) should also be held criminally accountable, as well.
Re: 'Welp it's been five seconds, time for a reminder...'
Hypocrisy and hating the 1st Amendment when used by others are traits not limited to Republicans. They just happen to have a momentary lead in the never-ending race to the bottom.
This does not mean that the public cannot hold law enforcement officers accountable for any misconduct.
Jokes 2) and 3)
Maintaining confidential information about a law enforcement officer who is a crime victim would not halt an internal affairs investigation nor impede any grand jury proceedings.
Joke 4)
Nor would it prevent a state attorney from reviewing the facts and considering whether the officer was a victim.
Joke 5)
If a prosecutor determines that the officer was not a victim and instead charges the officer for his conduct, then the officer would forfeit the protections…
Ha Ha! This Appeals Court is just a barrel of laughs!
Either the Iowa Senate is just not "reading the room" or they have decided that it is OK for an authoritarian government to publicly make a hobby out of kicking the people in the teeth.
Yes, AFAIK the FBI has a long-standing policy of not recording "meetings" or "interviews." That way it is their word against the word of whoever they were talking with. The people they typically talk with are unsympathetic characters, or people that can be portrayed as unsympathetic characters, the implication being that whatever those people say cannot be trusted, versus the "unassailable truth" that comes from the untouchables.
Far too many jellyfish judges are accomplices in this subversion of justice in that they continue to treat the word of almost any LEO as gospel in spite of an increasingly large mountain of evidence that LEOs are generally serial liars.
"When someone takes a photo of you that isn’t flattering in bad lighting or doesn’t capture your body the way it is after working so hard to get it to this point, you should have every right to ask for it to not be shared - regardless of who you are," she wrote.
I am very much in favor of not prosecuting non-serious non-crimes, but this part struck me as a bit odd:
The data showed that 911 calls about drug use, public intoxication and sex work (a proxy for public concern) did not increase following the policy; rather, from March – December 2020, there was a 33% reduction in calls mentioning drugs and a 50% reduction in calls mentioning sex work compared to the prior 2 years.
This could be the result of one or more of several different causes. One might be people thinking "Why report something if the prosecutor / cops aren't going to do anything about it?" Another might be people realizing "These things aren't really causing anyone any harm anyway, so why report them?" A third might be a reduction in the incidence of these activities, which could itself be the result of one or more of several different causes.
Of course, rather than simply not prosecuting these non-serious non-crimes, it would be much preferable to repeal the immoral laws making such activities illegal to begin with.
Re: Re: Re: So, they got nothing - because cryptocurrency is com
What about pizza_and_beer (which is actually one word)?
Seriously, I think some things like food can be said to have some intrinsic value, at least to critters that eat said food. Unless there is an infinite and effortless source of said food, which really isn't a possibility.
I am all in favor of the concept of decentralized means of exchange that cut out governments and bean-counters altogether. However, I am not yet convinced that our current crop of cryptocurrencies are the solution. I am also a late-adopter in general, and I try to avoid getting cut on the bleeding edge of any new technology.
Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan have an interesting article on some of the positive features and possible pitfalls of blockchain cryptocurrencies as they stand right now.
tl;dr
The last line of the article:
"We are watching a public socio-technical experiment in the making, and we will witness its success or failure in the not-too-distant future."
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Schrodinger's weapon: one that exists in two states until an officer feels comfortable testilying one way or the other.
FTFY
It is truly disgusting that the 4th Amendment has to be contorted like this to find some Constitutional basis for the right not to be viciously assaulted (sometimes murdered) by the cops for no valid reason. It is even more disgusting that this determination of a gross violation of basic rights results in only a civil trial being allowed to proceed, rather than an open-and-shut / mandatory-minimum-sentence criminal case against the cops involved.
On the post: Judge Has Some Fun Denying Injunction Requested By One Brewery For Another Over Trademark Suit
I am not sure Low Tide Brewing as a beer trademark is worth defending. While those who grew up along the shore may find the mental images and smells of low tide reminiscent of home and carefree youth, much the same way some people raised on farms think of barnyard images and smells, many (most?) people find the look and smell of seaweed and other shoreline detritus putrefying in the sun at low tide to be nauseating. I think it is mostly hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, and methane, none of which are generally considered appetizing.
Maybe they are intentionally trying to limit their market appeal to locals only?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Maybe there were completely different priorities and constraints in place when the Unix-epoch type of time systems were created? Computer RAM was much more limited and very expensive. Computers executed code drastically slower, so anything that cost extra CPU cycles was dreaded. Code was made as compact as possible, to minimize the size of the stacks of Hollerith cards, and the time it would take a program to execute.
Maybe a simple linear time system worked well with these priorities?
Maybe a somewhat more complicated (many would say absurd) 60 second per minute, 60 minute per hour, 24 hour per day, 7 day per week, 28/29/30/31 day per month and 12 month per year system conflicted with some of these priorities?
Today hundreds / thousands of lines of code and millions of CPU cycles every now and then may seem trivial and insignificant, but it was not always so.
On the post: PlayStation Y2K-Like Battery Bug About To Become A Problem As Sony Shuts Down Check In Servers
Re:
Please forgive my lack of knowledge of the details of the subject. Apparently I was born without the computer game gene. I am completely unfamiliar with these devices and the games that run on them. What little I do know about them comes from articles like this one, which usually explain how some detail* is causing or might cause the whole system to fail, effectively bricking the devices and leaving the "owners" with no recourse.
*Proprietary code that can be bricked with a forced update, or a server that can be taken off-line, or similar.
On the post: PlayStation Y2K-Like Battery Bug About To Become A Problem As Sony Shuts Down Check In Servers
Could this be yet another object lesson that anything that relies on a central server system or proprietary code is not really owned, but just on loan from the tech overlords?
Sometimes these issues can be overcome, but often it seems it is just not worth the effort. Even if these obstacles are overcome, there remains the problem of possible legal action on the part of the tech overlords for some real or perceived copyright or patent violation.
On the post: Private Prison Company On The Hook For Legal Fees After Suing Investment Group For Saying It Was Doing Stuff It Was Actually Doing
Re:
I was thinking the same thing. This is also a horrible, yet mostly accurate, commentary on the rest of the federal bench.
On the post: Lying NYPD Narcotics Detective Just Cost Prosecutors Nearly 100 Convictions
Re:
This is often the case, and probably will continue to occur at least some of the time because some people just refuse to accept the reality that cops are serial liars. This we will all have to deal with.
But there are greater systemic issues that we should most certainly not have to deal with: judges who accept a cop's known "testilying" as truthful, judges who don't allow a cop's past lies to be introduced as evidence to impeach that cop's "testilying," prosecutors who intentionally put known lying cops on the witness stand, an opaque system that hides a cop's history of lying from everyone, including defense attorneys and the public.
Not only should lying cops be be held criminally accountable for the damage they cause, but their enablers (judges, prosecutors, police supervisors, captains, chiefs, etc) should also be held criminally accountable, as well.
On the post: I Guess They're Not All On The Same Side: Cops Brutalize Soldier For [Checks Notes] Leading Them To A Well-Lit Area
The time for being charitable, overly or otherwise, is long past.
On the post: Sens. Cruz, Hawley & Lee Show How To Take A Good Bill Idea And Make It Blatantly Unconstitutional
Re: 'Welp it's been five seconds, time for a reminder...'
Hypocrisy and hating the 1st Amendment when used by others are traits not limited to Republicans. They just happen to have a momentary lead in the never-ending race to the bottom.
On the post: Iowa Senate Approves Bill That Would Add Qualified Immunity To The State Law Books
Re: Hope and Change
QI was supposed to be for actions that a reasonable cop would, in good faith, believe to be lawful.
Three very important qualifiers there.
It has since been bastardized to cover damn near anything and everything any cop ever does, no matter how heinous.
Big difference.
On the post: Court Says Two Cops Who Deployed Deadly Force Can Use Florida's Victims' Rights Law To Hide Their Names From The Public
Joke-a-Thon
Joke 1)
Jokes 2) and 3)
Joke 4)
Joke 5)
Ha Ha! This Appeals Court is just a barrel of laughs!
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Re:
A very similar idea didn't work for Nixon, and this idea shouldn't work for this guy, either.
On the post: Patent Loving Judge Keeps Pissing Off Patent Appeals Court, But Doesn't Seem To Care Very Much
Re:
Asked and answered.
On the post: Tennessee Lawmakers Decide Chris Sevier Has Good Ideas, Push His Bill To Compel Speech From Media Outlets
Might be a bit too presumptuous. Appears to be contrary to facts in evidence.
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Either / Or
Either the Iowa Senate is just not "reading the room" or they have decided that it is OK for an authoritarian government to publicly make a hobby out of kicking the people in the teeth.
On the post: FBI Scores Itself Another Lawsuit For Using The No Fly List To Punish A Lebanese Man For Not Becoming An Informant
Re:
Yes, AFAIK the FBI has a long-standing policy of not recording "meetings" or "interviews." That way it is their word against the word of whoever they were talking with. The people they typically talk with are unsympathetic characters, or people that can be portrayed as unsympathetic characters, the implication being that whatever those people say cannot be trusted, versus the "unassailable truth" that comes from the untouchables.
Far too many jellyfish judges are accomplices in this subversion of justice in that they continue to treat the word of almost any LEO as gospel in spite of an increasingly large mountain of evidence that LEOs are generally serial liars.
On the post: Khloe Kardashian Streisands A Photo She Wanted Taken Down By Issuing Takedowns
Key word: "ask"
It's OK to want things.
On the post: Crime Rates Drop After The City Of Baltimore Decides It's Not Going To Waste Resources Prosecuting Minor Offenses
Correlation versus Causation
I am very much in favor of not prosecuting non-serious non-crimes, but this part struck me as a bit odd:
This could be the result of one or more of several different causes. One might be people thinking "Why report something if the prosecutor / cops aren't going to do anything about it?" Another might be people realizing "These things aren't really causing anyone any harm anyway, so why report them?" A third might be a reduction in the incidence of these activities, which could itself be the result of one or more of several different causes.
Of course, rather than simply not prosecuting these non-serious non-crimes, it would be much preferable to repeal the immoral laws making such activities illegal to begin with.
On the post: Filecoin Foundation Donates $10 Million Worth Of Filecoin To Internet Archive
Re: Re: Re: So, they got nothing - because cryptocurrency is com
What about pizza_and_beer (which is actually one word)?
Seriously, I think some things like food can be said to have some intrinsic value, at least to critters that eat said food. Unless there is an infinite and effortless source of said food, which really isn't a possibility.
On the post: Filecoin Foundation Donates $10 Million Worth Of Filecoin To Internet Archive
Future of cryptocurrencies
I am all in favor of the concept of decentralized means of exchange that cut out governments and bean-counters altogether. However, I am not yet convinced that our current crop of cryptocurrencies are the solution. I am also a late-adopter in general, and I try to avoid getting cut on the bleeding edge of any new technology.
Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan have an interesting article on some of the positive features and possible pitfalls of blockchain cryptocurrencies as they stand right now.
tl;dr
The last line of the article:
"We are watching a public socio-technical experiment in the making, and we will witness its success or failure in the not-too-distant future."
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