Damn, I'm WFH and practically living on sandwiches now that I have to eat my own cooking. I might just pick up a pack of this 'near-meat' food product, just to see how it tastes compared with endless ham-bo-sands. Every school kid should be learning what's in those tweets... how come schools don't teach 'critical thinking'?
Problem? I'm a cop, and I 'suspect' that you have illegal drugs and weapons in your home. So I break down the door without a warrant, and lo and behold, I don't find any drugs or weapons. Too bad about your door, you behave now, you hear?!
If you ignore the rights afforded someone because upon ignoring their rights, you discover they are a criminal, based on groundless suspicions, then you are approving ignoring -everyone's- rights, so the search for criminals can go on. If you want -your- rights protected, you have to defend those rights for "criminals" too... whether you break any laws or not. And if we look hard enough, I'm sure we can find -something- to take offense to about you. Without rights, we can look as long and as hard as we want, without you having any recourse. "If you have nothing to hide..." protect the rights of those who do, or you have no rights, either.
I don't know... it works well both ways. Certainly the police agency is running a scam, a racket, a con job. And, for 'president', the Great Leader in the White House is doing the same thing... all his life right up to today. So I'd file this one in 'Freudian slip' and just appreciate it. Who says 'irony is dead in the Age of Trump?!'
"Perhaps rather than suing his critics (he sued a number of other news organizations as well) and running fundraisers for Trump or appearing on TV as a Trump supporter, Murray should have been focused on actually helping his company and its employees adapt for the future? "
What are you - nuts?! This guy is a "job creator", a wealthy and powerful person, not some whiny 'care about my employees' liberal. Sheesh!
I kind of like this sentence. So often, we see "white collar" criminals being sentenced to what sound like large fines, and they get no time, or a 'hand-slap' of time in prison. In the case of corporate criminals, the corporation (actually the stockholders) end up paying, while the executives who engineered and oversaw the crime stay free. The deterrence value seems really weak, when these criminals get caught at all. Sometimes, who knew, they end up going on to greater things... like the presidency.
Now we get someone who probably stole ten or twenty times what the fine is, and has that stashed offshore somewhere. But they aren't going to get that time back. Seems like a stronger deterrent. Next time we get some corporate CEO or executive VP guilty in a "white collar" "no victims" crime, the fine needs to fall easy on the stockholders, and the CEO and executives need to do a few years inside.
I like banning them from corporate leadership afterwards, too. It's time CEOs and executives have some literal skin in 'the game', so they respect 'the rules' a little more...
So how does this sheriff feel about gun control? All this hyper-sensitivity about school shootings, but our 'leaders' are willing to do nothing about the root of the problem: too many guns in too many places.
Maybe the only "solution" for gun control is to give in to the NRA. We all go around armed, all the time, and everywhere. We shoot if we think we see a 'bad guy with a gun' because we're all 'good guys with guns', aren't we. Too bad about any 'collateral damage'. In a few months, the people who survive will probably be so sick of the constant fearfulness, the constant ducking that we can get some really useful gun control enacted. Meanwhile, I suppose we can keep arresting kids for making videos. Maybe if they'd worn cowboy hats, and said "fu**ing injuns" instead of whatever other racist epithet they used, the sheriff would have chuckled and gone back to his Fox "News" show.
For the sake of the taxpayers of San Bernadino County, I sincerely hope that it is now "ex-Deputy Ortiz". Why continue the employment of a clearly under-qualified law officer? No matter how good his police skills, he's proven his judgement sorely lacking. Find a new career, former-Deputy Ortiz, for all your citizen's sake.
There is always another one coming along, another 'tough guy' cop, proving that some people just shouldn't be cops. Police agencies usually have a slogan with some variation on "protect and serve"... but there are too many cops whose only interest is in proving how much better -they- are than the "dirtbags" they are supposed to be serving. These are the cops who beat people up, shoot unarmed people in traffic stops, and throw their authority around for entirely unrelated issues - like telling a person in a traffic stop to put out a cigarette. Abuse of power just to make themselves feel a little more important, a little better than the citizen they are supposedly "protect and serving". Some people just should not be cops... and the rest of the cops need to let them know it, instead of covering for them. This guy is one who should have been uncovered and convinced to change careers years ago, when he started smacking people instead of doing his job professionally.
"The interdiction team was dismantled because of increased personnel demands, including increased focus to reduce Iowa traffic deaths..." Wait - what?! The Iowa State Police are going to stop collecting cash forfeitures in order to focus on "traffic safety"?! This sounds like smoke-screen spin to my cynical judgement. I doubt that a piddly $60K settlement is enough to make up for the reapings they must surely have grabbed over the years. Perhaps the judicial scrutiny (must not be giving the courts a big enough cut...) have something to do with it. Since when has law enforcement been about enhancing safety, and "protecting and serving" the public? Unless we perhaps consider a seizure to be a form of 'you've been served!'. Anyway, its nice to find one such illegal seizure forced back to the rightful owners by the courts, which are usually all too willingly complicit in this literal highway robbery.
There has also been some research with using stem cells from various sources to treat the particular ailment I have somehow acquired, age-related dry macular degeneration. There have been some clinical trials that show improvements in vision capability for those who had severe degradations, and I personally hope this avenue is developed successfully before I can qualify for one of the 'severely impaired' studies. Of course, if there's no big profit potential in it, it doesn't seem too likely the new Pfizer will be pushing it.
It seems clear that the Court is basically going to reinforce what has been a truth about the United States justice system for many years. You are entitled to the best justice money can buy, unless the justice system seizes all your money, in which case good luck. Clearly this is designed to encourage criminals to either spend all their money or hide it in offshore havens where the government can't identify it and seize it, even when the money is the result of legal activities. Is this a program by the government to encourage the use of offshore secret bank accounts by anyone with money at all...?
Ok, so I left my laptop on the seat, and the cops opened up the car and 'saved' if from being stolen. But while they were in there without a warrant "caretaking", they saw my stash sticking out from under the seat... what happens? I was sitting in my living room when the cops walked in the door, "caretaking" without a warrant... I was watching Fox "News" and cleaning my guns, which I happen to have a machine gun, not registered of course. The cops saw my gun collection and expressed interest... What happens now?
I can see a lot of problems with the proposed ordinance besides just "attracting a lot of unanticipated press coverage." Like voiding a big part of the Constitution. How long before some police agency somewhere tries this again?
You're not being quite fair to Comcast. They truly are competing. In my area, Silicon Valley, they are offering gigabyte and faster speeds. They are quite competitive, you only have to pay about 3x as much as Google Fiber for installation and the monthly cost is only about $300. What's not competitive about that? Surely there's no need for intrusive government regulation in this 'free' market. Relying on competition or corporate shame for internet access speed improvements is just not going to work. Because there's essentially no competition nor does a corporation like Comcast even know what 'shame' is.
"AT&T insists there's no way it could possibly impose aggressive caps because customers would leave AT&T". They're right, of course. I have the Uverse and while I haven't hit the 250GB cap, I am just hanging on waiting for Google Fiber to come, then I will be out of AT&T as fast as I can. Sure, I could go to the 'competition' right now... unfortunately 'the competition' is Comcast - need I say more?
I'm sure Sen. Corker has nothing to hide... so he should have no problem with the government and the rest of the country learning all about him. After all, privacy is overrated when it comes in the way of fighting "Terrorists". So perhaps we should let all of Sen. Corker's most personal information, financial, personal, health, employment, everything get out in public as well as in the hands of the government. After all, once the government has all our data its just one breach away from that kind of 'freedom and safety' for all of us.
No No No No No. I'm not wearing ID on my forehead, and I don't want the government tracking my license plate and my travels constantly either. With probable cause, with a duly authorized warrant, OK, track away, just that person. Scan and discard for everyone else. We're going to end up all wearing masks because that's the only way to preserve privacy in the age of face-recognition programs. I don't feel safer knowing that the government is tracking my every move, and the travels of everyone else. No No No No No.
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might just have to try some of that...
Damn, I'm WFH and practically living on sandwiches now that I have to eat my own cooking. I might just pick up a pack of this 'near-meat' food product, just to see how it tastes compared with endless ham-bo-sands. Every school kid should be learning what's in those tweets... how come schools don't teach 'critical thinking'?
On the post: Court Tells Lying Cops That Someone Asserting Their Rights Isn't 'Reasonably Suspicious'
Re: Anonymous comment - 'nothing to hide'
Problem? I'm a cop, and I 'suspect' that you have illegal drugs and weapons in your home. So I break down the door without a warrant, and lo and behold, I don't find any drugs or weapons. Too bad about your door, you behave now, you hear?!
If you ignore the rights afforded someone because upon ignoring their rights, you discover they are a criminal, based on groundless suspicions, then you are approving ignoring -everyone's- rights, so the search for criminals can go on. If you want -your- rights protected, you have to defend those rights for "criminals" too... whether you break any laws or not. And if we look hard enough, I'm sure we can find -something- to take offense to about you. Without rights, we can look as long and as hard as we want, without you having any recourse. "If you have nothing to hide..." protect the rights of those who do, or you have no rights, either.
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Re: Re: Quick Reference
I don't know... it works well both ways. Certainly the police agency is running a scam, a racket, a con job. And, for 'president', the Great Leader in the White House is doing the same thing... all his life right up to today. So I'd file this one in 'Freudian slip' and just appreciate it. Who says 'irony is dead in the Age of Trump?!'
On the post: Bob Murray, Who Sued John Oliver For Mocking His Support Of Trump's Plan To Bring Back Coal Jobs... Files For Bankruptcy
Re:
I missed what this had to do with anything in the article. Or do you just go randomly posting self-pleasuring comments on website?
On the post: Bob Murray, Who Sued John Oliver For Mocking His Support Of Trump's Plan To Bring Back Coal Jobs... Files For Bankruptcy
"Perhaps rather than suing his critics (he sued a number of other news organizations as well) and running fundraisers for Trump or appearing on TV as a Trump supporter, Murray should have been focused on actually helping his company and its employees adapt for the future? "
What are you - nuts?! This guy is a "job creator", a wealthy and powerful person, not some whiny 'care about my employees' liberal. Sheesh!
On the post: Prenda Mastermind Gets 14 Years In Prison, Told To Pay Back Just $1.5 Million
I kind of like this sentence...
I kind of like this sentence. So often, we see "white collar" criminals being sentenced to what sound like large fines, and they get no time, or a 'hand-slap' of time in prison. In the case of corporate criminals, the corporation (actually the stockholders) end up paying, while the executives who engineered and oversaw the crime stay free. The deterrence value seems really weak, when these criminals get caught at all. Sometimes, who knew, they end up going on to greater things... like the presidency.
Now we get someone who probably stole ten or twenty times what the fine is, and has that stashed offshore somewhere. But they aren't going to get that time back. Seems like a stronger deterrent. Next time we get some corporate CEO or executive VP guilty in a "white collar" "no victims" crime, the fine needs to fall easy on the stockholders, and the CEO and executives need to do a few years inside.
I like banning them from corporate leadership afterwards, too. It's time CEOs and executives have some literal skin in 'the game', so they respect 'the rules' a little more...
On the post: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis
Republican politicians at scale...
"it's difficult to separate Nazis from some Republican politicians"
Or it could be that the AI works just fine, and sees things exactly as they are...
On the post: Students Make A Video Depicting A School Shooting; Sheriff Decides Everyone Needs To Have Their Rights Violated
sheriff is a 'Tillerson' moron
Maybe the only "solution" for gun control is to give in to the NRA. We all go around armed, all the time, and everywhere. We shoot if we think we see a 'bad guy with a gun' because we're all 'good guys with guns', aren't we. Too bad about any 'collateral damage'. In a few months, the people who survive will probably be so sick of the constant fearfulness, the constant ducking that we can get some really useful gun control enacted. Meanwhile, I suppose we can keep arresting kids for making videos. Maybe if they'd worn cowboy hats, and said "fu**ing injuns" instead of whatever other racist epithet they used, the sheriff would have chuckled and gone back to his Fox "News" show.
On the post: County Agrees To Pay $390,000 To Students Arrested By A Sheriff 'Just To Prove A Point'
Deputy Ortiz
On the post: Cop Objects To Editorial About Community Policing, Sets Fire To 20-Year Career In Response
some people just shouldn't be cops...
On the post: Iowa Taxpayers Handing Out $60K Settlement To California Gamblers Who Were Legally Robbed Of $100K By State Troopers
safety first?
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stem cells offer some potential as well...
On the post: Supreme Court Examines The Sixth Amendment Ramifications Of Pre-Conviction Asset Seizures
innocent until proven guilty...
On the post: Connecticut Police Announce Plan To Open Unlocked Vehicles And Seize Valuables
What about my dope under the seat...
I can see a lot of problems with the proposed ordinance besides just "attracting a lot of unanticipated press coverage." Like voiding a big part of the Constitution. How long before some police agency somewhere tries this again?
On the post: EFF Finally Gets To Ask Appeals Court To Look At 4th Amendment Question Over NSA's Backbone Sniffing
There, government gets everything it wants, citizens get bubpkis.
On the post: Quicken Loans Founder Dan Gilbert Follows Google Fiber's Lead, Brings $70 Gigabit Fiber To Detroit
you're not being quite fair...
On the post: AT&T: Broadband Usage Caps Are Awesome, And Preventing Us From Abusing Them Is A Horrible Injustice
AT&T competition...
On the post: An Innocent Pressure Cooker Pays The Price In The War On Terror
things go 'boom'
On the post: Senator Bob Corker Says NSA Should Be Spying On More Americans, Not Fewer
Let's start with him...
On the post: DHS Takes Another Stab At License Plate Database, But This Time With More Privacy Protections And Transparency
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