LEOs sole purpose is to protect the government, not citizens. LEOs will lie, cheat, steal, murder, maim to accomplish their duty to protect the government. Never, ever trust a LEO.
CenturyLink maintains 1.5Mbps/256Kbps DSL is the maximum speed one can get in rural south-central Virginia. Nothing higher is offered, and there is no alternative (except satellite, which is not a real alternative). CenturyLink has refused to upgrade the services there, even as the population has increased. There's even a waiting list for POTS lines because the system is overburdened, but still a refusal to upgrade/expand by CenturyLink.
ICE is becoming Trump's Gestapo/STAZI, it seems. They've always been one of the most corrupt and despicable LEOs, but under Trump they've been given a shot of steroids to become a most dangerous criminal organization.
That PIN is useless unless the employees pay any attention to it. Experience I've had, and many others as reported on other forums, shows many "customer service" people completely ignore the PIN and simply allow the user to verify their address or birthday as proof of ID. The problem is that T-Mobile doesn't make verification of the PIN mandatory for their agents, it just shows up on the screen and they don't have to pay any attention to it to go forward.
One of the biggest problems is that when LEOs are held accountable (which is rare), it is the taxpayers who pay the price of the LEO's actions. This needs to stop. Hold the LEOs personally responsible. Seize their pensions! Seize their homes! Take everything they have and maybe, just maybe, other LEOs will finally get the message that they, themselves, are NOT above the law. Until this happens, I stand by my belief that one should never, EVER, trust a LEO.
It's Google's "box", they should be able to do whatever tf they want with it. Yelp and Tripadvisor should spend more time trying to make their websites work better than the crappy sh**show they are right now instead of trying to force someone else to carry their water at the point of a government gun.
Comcast was doing this in Atlanta as far back as 2009. When I lived there, I had Comcast Preferred plan but no TV or Voice service, just the "High Speed Internet", which was 25/5. At least twice they upgraded that plan's speeds but only for customers who bundled TV and/or Voice. Those customers were getting 50/5 and 100/5, while I was stuck at 25/5 and paying $10 more per month than the bundled customers for it. Had I bundled TV (for a basic package of around $20/month), my bill would have been about $10/month higher and speed doubled or tripled.
Marsha must have gotten some new kneepads the last time she visited AT&T's headquarters. You can see her wipe her chin every time she exits the building.
I'm comforted by the apparent fact (from reading the pearl-clutching diatribes from so many) that pedestrians are never hit or killed by human drivers, that it is never the pedestrian's fault even though they're wearing black clothes, crossing outside the crosswalks in an unlit area on a pitch-black night, on a 45mph stretch of road. Every human driver would have avoided that poor woman, she'd be alive today! Right? Right??? Yes, technology likely should be able to detect every ignorant fool but it didn't in this case. That doesn't mean the technology should be abandoned, just modified.
The pedestrian in this case was a woman in dark clothing on a dark night pushing a bicycle into the street 60 feet from a crosswalk, 60 feet from the street lighting at that crosswalk. I dare say no human driver would have missed her, either. In fact, a human driver likely would have hit her much harder as they'd have been speeding, as most people on that stretch do. The Uber car obeyed the speed limit. All this hand-wringing and drama over it being an Uber car is disingenuous. Where's the attention on the other pedestrians hit/killed daily by human drivers?
Police unions, and their leaders, should be brought up on RICO charges. They're some of the most criminal people around and are a direct threat to the safety of everyone, including cops.
"It's hard to gauge to what extent Chinese citizens did this spontaneously, or whether some of those protesting online were part of the authorities' well-oiled Internet surveillance and propaganda machine."
I would wager 99% was the later. From my time living in China, I can say with some degree of certainty that the average person doesn't give a flip about the Dalai Lama or would even know that quote was attributed to him.
It was clearly indicated in the episode that the slow-cooker in question had a broken switch. The old couple that gave the victim the slow-cooker told him "you have to wiggle the switch to get it to work". So, shouldn't the message people get is to throw away broken electrical devices, not ones in good working condition? I guess that's too complex for most idiots, though.
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Never trust a LEO
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Re: T-Mobile note
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Screw Yelp
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I'm comforted by the apparent fact (from reading the pearl-clutching diatribes from so many) that pedestrians are never hit or killed by human drivers, that it is never the pedestrian's fault even though they're wearing black clothes, crossing outside the crosswalks in an unlit area on a pitch-black night, on a 45mph stretch of road. Every human driver would have avoided that poor woman, she'd be alive today! Right? Right??? Yes, technology likely should be able to detect every ignorant fool but it didn't in this case. That doesn't mean the technology should be abandoned, just modified.
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I would wager 99% was the later. From my time living in China, I can say with some degree of certainty that the average person doesn't give a flip about the Dalai Lama or would even know that quote was attributed to him.
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