Car manufacturers make certain vehicles available for police departments. of those, MOST of them will be offered in a choice of regular or 'special service' vehicles. Special service vehicles are the ones set up and built with pursuits in mind. They'll have heavier duty frames/suspension, engines designed for heavy loads, mounting points for external hardware (like barge-bars)
All regular/SS vehicles offered to the police are also 'fleeted', and designed internally for police use, with extranious 'comforts' removed (no Sirius XM or DVD players) and other stuff moved around so that department-specific equipment (MDTs, lights, speedmonitoring equipment, cameras, ALPRs etc) can be easily fitted - in fact this ease of access for equipment fitting is one of the major evaluation criteria in the Michigan police vehicle evaluations (one of the two big ones police departments nationwide use to evaluate when purchasing). For instance, the ford interceptor utility has a column-mounted shifter, the regular version has its shifter in the center console - the difference is all about equipment fitting.
As a result, the vehicles often cost much less - a charger hemi PPV might sell for $22k as part of a deal ($27k for the most basic to you or me), the ford interceptor utilty (explorer) might be $25k (its regular version starts at $32k). Whats more, any warranty wouldn't be voided by pursuits as this hellcat would be.
In the UK, they don't have special models made by manufacturers (because cars aren't as common, especially as it takes 3 separate licenses to be pursuit qualified - patrol, response, pursuit - on top of the regular driving license, while US cops get 2 days of training during their acadamy days and their ready to chase speeders). So vehicles are purchased as regular models, but then they'll go to a specialist company to be modified. The Volvo V70R's I spent time in when I was doing accident investigations were all breathed on by ProDrive (who are probably better known as the company behind Subaru's WRC dominance in the 90s and 00s)
A clear sign of the court abrogating its responsibilities
"The court, however, chose to avoid these questions. It gave several reasons for this avoidance, including that a ruling on the copyrightability of incorporated standards could have a significant economic effect on those SDOs, [p. 16]"
Just to reiterate this. A court refused to look into a specific question of law of core relevance to a case, partly because it was afraid that doing so might result in a ruling that would then deprive a lobby group its revenue stream.
again, THE COURT AVOIDED A TOPIC BECAUSE IT MIGHT NEGATIVELY IMPACT INFLUENTIAL GROUPS FINANCIALLY.
In other words, a court said that justice, facts, and the law are not as important as those groups being able to make money.
If I do a crime, can I get the judges to ignore any arguments that might lead to a verdict that could have a significant economic impact on me? No? So what's special about them?
Er, Frank Serpico was very much 'a real cop'. That Pacino later starred in a movie adaptation of a book based on his story doesn't suddenly make him imaginary.
His shooting started something of a cleanup in the NYPD with the Knapp commission.
6KB/sec (about as fast as you can get with dialup) works out to 16GB in 31 days. (I actually did this once, I also went to Vegas for 2 weeks to film BattleBots, and left my modem dialed up - not so good when it shared a line with my fax machine, and I was to fax my flight details back to the UK there to get a pickup)
Only about 3/4 of the 22GB you're talking about, but yeah, not a huge amount more
according to the photographer in his initial publicity statements (well, initial when he hired the agent), the monkey controlled the focus too, saying he took hundreds, and most were out of focus.
The IP Center is not that more wacky than PPI. This is the PPI that has had votes on how to conduct a vote on how to conduct a vote (I'm serious!); spent 5 years to try and get a bank account (getting the UK party in trouble with UK financial regulators as PPI has been flagged for money laundering activities), but my favourite was when two of the PPI 'leaders' went to the Bali conference in 2013, and introduced a 'paper' that one of the leaders wrote himself literally the night before - https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/mc9_e/ngo_ppi_e.pdf - and then boasted about it being published, despite their policy of publishing EVERYTHING submitted. When he was criticized for the terrible submission, he tried to blame it on the 3rd member of the group, a woman, forgetting that the method used to draft it (etherpad) shows who wrote what, and when. Following his holiday in Bali, said leader of PPI then pushed for manditory financing by national parties, with the brunt on Sweden, and Iceland, despite PPI having a very German focus. That's when Australia, the UK, Sweden and Iceland quit (the US was never a member) Oh, and they also 'fired' their entire court of arbitration, when the validity of the German leadership was questioned.
When I founded PPI 10 years ago (next month), it was to provide support for parties, and be a central resources clearinghouse to aid state and regional parties in their national and regional objectives. Now it's become an NGO lobbying group, so that its German 'core' can get cushy lobbying and pundit jobs.
We're talking about Dennis Prager - his whole income stream is about saying things that are laughable and hoping people take it seriously. Why is it surprising then that his legal strategy fits in with that? Alex Jones admitted to playing a character, so is Prager, committing to it like Sacha Baron Cohen committed to Borat when questioned by the Secret Service in DC.
Re: Of course you pirates won't admit that Torrent Freak is a PRO-PIRATE site! Oh, they put on better front than Techdirt, but have distorted view of law that always favors piracy, and their weekly "Top 10 Films Pirated" is clearly to promote more.
Hang on - we 'put on a better front than Techdirt'?
Damn. I don't know quite what to say to that...
I've been working for TorrentFreak for a while now, sometimes as researcher, some as the community manager. No-one told me there that I had to put on a front. also, that reminds me Hey Mike! your editorial guidelines totally missed out the bit about 'not putting on as much of a front as TF.
Or maybe I need to see a shrink, because the front is now ingrained into my being, and I'm doing it automatically.
K`Tetch, Lead researcher and community manager, TorrentFreak, also an occasional contributor to TechDirt.
no Tim, no, a thousand times no! It's not the "metro" police. It's either 'the Met', or 'metropolitan police'
'Metro Police' sounds so damned uncouth, so.. soo... AMERICAN. Like you'd expect George Gaynes and G. W. Bailey to be working there (ok, there's Cressida Dick who's kinda like Gaynes, but still) and demand that anyone who can wave a gun around should storm into any situation and shoot people on sight until there are no more suspects (or at least no more foreign/scary-looking people. It implies leather jackets, and 'packing heat' and V8 cruisers, not anoraks, a little can of pepper spray and a diesel vauxhall Astra panda. And while US police cops are macho and sexy like Riggs/Murtaugh, or John McClain, the best the Met has managed is Pc Angel exiled to the country by the lead singer of Strange Fruit, Alan Partridge, and Arthur dent for being too good at stopping shoplifters.
Dammit man, we're british, excitement isn't what we do old boy! No dynamic punchy names like 'metro', it's either chavvy (but still respectable) 'the met', or the more adult and staid "metropolitan police service".
Yours, Col. Sir Arthur Wilmerington-smythe-smythe-ffion-jJones (ret.) (MRS)
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you're transfering the license to include an external party, one that would not normally be considered a valid member of the household.
Being in GA, I've been working on writing this up for the past week (beat me too it Tim, booo! :-P)
I'm going for something a little more fun in the meantime, and looking to see which elected members of the GA House are currently in violation of this law if it passed - I know of at least one that's violated it three different ways just on facebook (and he's already kinda infamous in GA)
It's certianly a problem for me. I have 2000 hours of watched time this last year, and about 120 subscribers. I deal with a lot of niche stuff - either videos based on the local high school activities (which I don't monetize) and other stuff, often long-form, including panel discussions, which only a few dozen people are likely to watch. By far my most popular video is one from August 2010 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRMsoeofGcI) about how P2P evidence for lawsuits are obtained for Prenda-like suits.
Over the last 7 years I've monitized maybe 20% of my videos, and it's brought in about $130 - not a huge amount but enough to sometimes pay for some nice things, and that's now gone. Which sucks.
it's pretty inevitable that US tops the chart. a US based site, in English, it's going to be that no matter what. Perhaps unique visitors by population percentage would be a different matter - after all, the real test is not how many read it, but what percentage. 10% of a tiny country reading it says more than 0.001% of a large one even if thats more people.
Don't see the big deal.
go to neither, they're crap. one's a fancy dealers room, and the other is basically a hollywood-promoting orgy of luvvies and profit-orgies.
Much rather go to Dragoncon, 50+ tracks of programing, its own TV channel, massive parade, it even has a track of programing about techdirt-y stuff, with groups like the EFF attending. Heck, this past year I spoke about Techdirt's 1st amendment fight with Shiva, with EFF General counsel Kurt Opsahl and another lawyer. And fake news in the modern social media era. And in between I directed a segment for the TV channel about a real steel medieval weapons fighting tournament that was also a qualifier for the national team.
it always comes down to the 'moron in a hurry' test for me, and I'm not talking about 3rd lawyers and their motions.
what's the likelihood of confusion. Beer and Gin - probably not much. beer and ~~paintstripper~~whiskey
beer bottles are a different size and/or shape usually. Gin and Whiskey (be it rye, scotch or strychnine) are often in the same areas and often have coloured glass bottles. It's not that hard for a moron in a hurry to grab one when they meant the other (been there, done that, when I was a heavy Gin drinker - 0.5l/night typical)
So beer = no real confusion, but other spirits, there can easily be, especially if you partake, and have partook.
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Re:
Car manufacturers make certain vehicles available for police departments. of those, MOST of them will be offered in a choice of regular or 'special service' vehicles. Special service vehicles are the ones set up and built with pursuits in mind. They'll have heavier duty frames/suspension, engines designed for heavy loads, mounting points for external hardware (like barge-bars)
All regular/SS vehicles offered to the police are also 'fleeted', and designed internally for police use, with extranious 'comforts' removed (no Sirius XM or DVD players) and other stuff moved around so that department-specific equipment (MDTs, lights, speedmonitoring equipment, cameras, ALPRs etc) can be easily fitted - in fact this ease of access for equipment fitting is one of the major evaluation criteria in the Michigan police vehicle evaluations (one of the two big ones police departments nationwide use to evaluate when purchasing). For instance, the ford interceptor utility has a column-mounted shifter, the regular version has its shifter in the center console - the difference is all about equipment fitting.
As a result, the vehicles often cost much less - a charger hemi PPV might sell for $22k as part of a deal ($27k for the most basic to you or me), the ford interceptor utilty (explorer) might be $25k (its regular version starts at $32k). Whats more, any warranty wouldn't be voided by pursuits as this hellcat would be.
In the UK, they don't have special models made by manufacturers (because cars aren't as common, especially as it takes 3 separate licenses to be pursuit qualified - patrol, response, pursuit - on top of the regular driving license, while US cops get 2 days of training during their acadamy days and their ready to chase speeders). So vehicles are purchased as regular models, but then they'll go to a specialist company to be modified. The Volvo V70R's I spent time in when I was doing accident investigations were all breathed on by ProDrive (who are probably better known as the company behind Subaru's WRC dominance in the 90s and 00s)
On the post: Appeals Court Tells Lower Court To Consider If Standards 'Incorporated Into Law' Are Fair Use; Could Have Done More
A clear sign of the court abrogating its responsibilities
Just to reiterate this.
A court refused to look into a specific question of law of core relevance to a case, partly because it was afraid that doing so might result in a ruling that would then deprive a lobby group its revenue stream.
again, THE COURT AVOIDED A TOPIC BECAUSE IT MIGHT NEGATIVELY IMPACT INFLUENTIAL GROUPS FINANCIALLY.
In other words, a court said that justice, facts, and the law are not as important as those groups being able to make money.
If I do a crime, can I get the judges to ignore any arguments that might lead to a verdict that could have a significant economic impact on me? No? So what's special about them?
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Re: Serpico
His shooting started something of a cleanup in the NYPD with the Knapp commission.
On the post: Another Police Accountability Miracle: Five Officers, Zero Body Cam Footage, One Dead Body
- Sheriff Buford T. Justice
On the post: Court Says ISPs Can't Use Net Neutrality Repeal to Dodge Lawsuits For Shitty Service
Re: Re: Whats the problem??
Only about 3/4 of the 22GB you're talking about, but yeah, not a huge amount more
On the post: The Monkey Selfie Lawsuit Will Never, Ever Die: Appeals Court Judge Wants A Do Over
Re: "I'm a liar, you can trust me."
He had those photos up on his site as far back as 2008.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080425185423/http://www.djsphotography.co.uk:80/Tropical%20Forest s/Sulawesi%20Macaques.htm
So yeah, it'd be fun to see him admit it's all a scam he hatched to make money from his photos.
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Re: Re:
On the post: WIPO Didn't Want The Pirate Party To Observe Its Efforts, But Happy To Include A Group Whose Mission Is To Battle Space Lizards
To be fair...
Oh, and they also 'fired' their entire court of arbitration, when the validity of the German leadership was questioned.
When I founded PPI 10 years ago (next month), it was to provide support for parties, and be a central resources clearinghouse to aid state and regional parties in their national and regional objectives. Now it's become an NGO lobbying group, so that its German 'core' can get cushy lobbying and pundit jobs.
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#isitok
"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth! "
(monty python)
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Re: Of course you pirates won't admit that Torrent Freak is a PRO-PIRATE site! Oh, they put on better front than Techdirt, but have distorted view of law that always favors piracy, and their weekly "Top 10 Films Pirated" is clearly to promote more.
Damn. I don't know quite what to say to that...
I've been working for TorrentFreak for a while now, sometimes as researcher, some as the community manager. No-one told me there that I had to put on a front.
also, that reminds me
Hey Mike! your editorial guidelines totally missed out the bit about 'not putting on as much of a front as TF.
Or maybe I need to see a shrink, because the front is now ingrained into my being, and I'm doing it automatically.
K`Tetch,
Lead researcher and community manager, TorrentFreak, also an occasional contributor to TechDirt.
On the post: UK Metro Police Sued Over Phone Malware Purchase
EECK! not "Metro"
'Metro Police' sounds so damned uncouth, so.. soo... AMERICAN. Like you'd expect George Gaynes and G. W. Bailey to be working there (ok, there's Cressida Dick who's kinda like Gaynes, but still) and demand that anyone who can wave a gun around should storm into any situation and shoot people on sight until there are no more suspects (or at least no more foreign/scary-looking people. It implies leather jackets, and 'packing heat' and V8 cruisers, not anoraks, a little can of pepper spray and a diesel vauxhall Astra panda. And while US police cops are macho and sexy like Riggs/Murtaugh, or John McClain, the best the Met has managed is Pc Angel exiled to the country by the lead singer of Strange Fruit, Alan Partridge, and Arthur dent for being too good at stopping shoplifters.
Dammit man, we're british, excitement isn't what we do old boy! No dynamic punchy names like 'metro', it's either chavvy (but still respectable) 'the met', or the more adult and staid "metropolitan police service".
Yours,
Col. Sir Arthur Wilmerington-smythe-smythe-ffion-jJones (ret.) (MRS)
On the post: Georgia Senate Thinks It Can Fix Its Election Security Issues By Criminalizing Password Sharing, Security Research
Re:
"The Netflix service and any content viewed through our service are for your personal and non-commercial use only. During your Netflix membership, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, license to access the Netflix service and view Netflix content through the service. Except for the foregoing limited license, no right, title or interest shall be transferred to you. You agree not to use the service for public performances."
you're transfering the license to include an external party, one that would not normally be considered a valid member of the household.
On the post: Georgia Senate Thinks It Can Fix Its Election Security Issues By Criminalizing Password Sharing, Security Research
more fun than you'd think
I'm going for something a little more fun in the meantime, and looking to see which elected members of the GA House are currently in violation of this law if it passed - I know of at least one that's violated it three different ways just on facebook (and he's already kinda infamous in GA)
On the post: The Constant Pressure For YouTube To Police 'Bad' Content Means That It's Becoming A Gatekeeper
I have 2000 hours of watched time this last year, and about 120 subscribers. I deal with a lot of niche stuff - either videos based on the local high school activities (which I don't monetize) and other stuff, often long-form, including panel discussions, which only a few dozen people are likely to watch.
By far my most popular video is one from August 2010 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRMsoeofGcI) about how P2P evidence for lawsuits are obtained for Prenda-like suits.
Over the last 7 years I've monitized maybe 20% of my videos, and it's brought in about $130 - not a huge amount but enough to sometimes pay for some nice things, and that's now gone. Which sucks.
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traffic by country
Perhaps unique visitors by population percentage would be a different matter - after all, the real test is not how many read it, but what percentage. 10% of a tiny country reading it says more than 0.001% of a large one even if thats more people.
On the post: Opening Statements In The Trademark Battle Of The Comic Cons, While Other Regional Cons Go Full Judas
Re: Re:
On the post: Opening Statements In The Trademark Battle Of The Comic Cons, While Other Regional Cons Go Full Judas
Don't see the big deal. go to neither, they're crap. one's a fancy dealers room, and the other is basically a hollywood-promoting orgy of luvvies and profit-orgies.
Much rather go to Dragoncon, 50+ tracks of programing, its own TV channel, massive parade, it even has a track of programing about techdirt-y stuff, with groups like the EFF attending. Heck, this past year I spoke about Techdirt's 1st amendment fight with Shiva, with EFF General counsel Kurt Opsahl and another lawyer. And fake news in the modern social media era. And in between I directed a segment for the TV channel about a real steel medieval weapons fighting tournament that was also a qualifier for the national team.
On the post: Another Reason To Distinguish Alcohol Markets In Trademarks: Actual Infringement Defended By Use Across Alcohol Products
moron in a hurry
what's the likelihood of confusion. Beer and Gin - probably not much. beer and ~~paintstripper~~whiskey
beer bottles are a different size and/or shape usually. Gin and Whiskey (be it rye, scotch or strychnine) are often in the same areas and often have coloured glass bottles. It's not that hard for a moron in a hurry to grab one when they meant the other (been there, done that, when I was a heavy Gin drinker - 0.5l/night typical)
So beer = no real confusion, but other spirits, there can easily be, especially if you partake, and have partook.
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Re: 'Pointing out fatal flaw in defense of planned actions' = 'Desperation' now apparently
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