So, i guess we can apply the same presumption to law enforcement? the smell of corruption get embedded in the fabric of the uniforms, worked into the metal of the badge. So if we haven't found the corruption/misconduct of the officer now, it's just because it may not be during a specific incident, but it's been there during other ones.
No? You mean police officers shouldn't be held to the same standards as other people? They should be held to a far LOWER standard? We need to give them powers with no responsibility, no accountability and not even a questioning look (definitely not a questioning look, because I believe that constitutes "resisting arrest")
After all, cops just want to 'make it home at night', doesn't matter how many people they stop from going home that night, no matter the reason, only #blueLivesMatter.
Beat me to it, I have a piece on this coming out late today.
Has to be said tho, that they don't seem to care about this, I included links to the FCC orders in my comments (both original comment and comment-reply) and there's zero interest in it.
Really? How do they do that, when they don't measure blood alcohol levels at all. They measure BREATH alcohol level, the clue's in the name 'BREATHalyser'.
What they measure is a level of alcohol in a measured quantity of air, the hypothesis being that blood alcohol level influences the breath-alcohol level via the alveoli in the lungs. any issue with this barrier can influence the reading. In addition, the machine's calculation is based on a fixed ratio, assuming a specific breath-to-blood concentration ratio.
They're really terribly machines, scientifically, but like much of 'science' when it comes to police work, their inaccuracy has been glossed over for ease of prosecution.
And that doesn't even impact individual tolerances. My eldest Just turned 21, and had her first drink last week. Her tolerance for alcohol is incredibly low, and so she's be significantly impaired by one drink. At 21 I was a very heavy drinker and had been for years (drinking age in the UK is 18, and I'd started years before) and I'd have 3-4 pints at lunch and be mostly unaffected, and at night I'd drink maybe a half litre of vodka, gin or rum. Moving to a mostly dry county in Georgia put a stop to that, so now my tolerance is low again (I've had 5 drinks this year, the last 2 were both September 3rd) A 20µg/100ml breath now has me as impaired as 50µg/100ml breath (thats the UK measuring units, the legal limit is 35) would have 20 years ago. Fun thing is, 20 years ago I was ~120lb, now I'm closer to 200, so while it has more of an effect, it also makes an actual lower BAC by percentage.
So it's super complex, and nonsensical at the same time. An impairment test would be a more appropriate way of measuring what is actually the important factor - the level of impairment. BAC/BrAC machines are just a fancy approximation method, and don't measure the important thing.
BTW, I seem to recall a story some 10++ years ago, where a guy got done for a high drink driving level, but then got his sentence reduced on appeal because, as he was a chronic drunk, his impairment level was more in accordance with someone with much lower BAC/BrAC due to his high tolerances caused by years of alcoholism.
When this first came out a month or two back, I thought of the county I used to live in (Jasper County, GA, best known as the location My Cousin Vinny was shot in).
I did a 'back of the envelope' calculation for there, and I think I came up with a rough number for that thousand square kilometre county near I20 and inside the Atlanta metro area.
Three single installations were all I think they needed to make that county 'competitive'. I know it could be done with 5 quite easily. And that's a problem for a rural district because BDS requiring entities tend to clump together, so a half mile radius covers most of them, so that means that rural areas actually make out even worse than urban ones more likely to be better served.
I plan on sitting down with a good map of the county and some 1/2 mile radius circles to place on it soon.
"Pai appears to have drawn his information from this similarly incorrect Florida news report, something ten minutes of research could have clarified."
However, the paper has it the other way around, from pai
"In February, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai urged mobile phone companies to activate the FM radio chip in smartphones, but said the FCC doesn’t have the authority to require it, the Washington Post reported."
Politicians treat 'the right of cops to make it home at night' as the be-all and end-all, forgetting that in granting this fictional right created by lobbyist groups, it gives them near carte blanche to ensure that other people do not make it home safe at night any time they get a little scared.
"Nowhere is it written police officers have a right to make it home safely"
WRONG.
It's written clearly in the talking points groups like the NRA and Omerta-promoting groups like the PBA hand to politicians with their bribes (aka 'campaign donations')
Hey Leigh, I'm actually [working on a discworld book](http://ktetch.co.uk/2017/05/new-book-project/) about the underlying meaning of and otherworld applications of passages like that.
I ended up using Mr Bent's 'kissing numbers' speech as an example, but I very nearly used the transparent one. Those two, and their applications in situations like this, were my motivation for the book.
The stories about the selfies hit in July 2011. In September his website changed, giving a new story that he set up remote triggers, with autofocus, and flashguns. Only problem is, he said most of the photos were out of focus in July, and the pictures quite clearly show no flash (you can make out the gaps in the jungle canopy in the eyes) and no tripod.
He tried exactly what you said, but too late.
of course, a remotely triggered photo wouldn't have made it interesting anyway, there are loads of those.
The very fact that made it marketable, is the fact that makes it uncopyrightable.
Not only an Indian captain (yorktown, played by Vijay Amritraj, ), but also a black female captain (Satatoga) played by Madge Sinclair, who later played Geordi's mother (and again, a captain) in TNG.
Here's a photo I took about 10 days ago in response to AccessNow's US policy manager Amy Stepanovich) wishing people would stop using 'bigger than a cellphone' as a unit of measure. I just happen to have a bunch of various cellphones (and a tablet that can be used as a cellphone) to show the size difference https://twitter.com/ktetch/status/887687994781691904
As far as I can make out, the understanding is that it's being portrayed as telling immigrants to 'assimilate to the local culture'.
Which, as a British guy in the state of GA is bollocks. I'm teaching people how to make proper hot tea, how to spell correctly, what actual manners are etc. And I'm aided by other Brits in the area. muahahaha. Someone will assimilate, and if you're going to name a state after a King of England, you'll jolly well behave like an Englishman.
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Re: Yeah - that.
Here's a piece I wrote years ago on what that higher standard should look like. https://falkvinge.net/2013/01/08/how-the-police-and-politicians-can-regain-the-public-trust/
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the smell of corruption get embedded in the fabric of the uniforms, worked into the metal of the badge. So if we haven't found the corruption/misconduct of the officer now, it's just because it may not be during a specific incident, but it's been there during other ones.
No? You mean police officers shouldn't be held to the same standards as other people? They should be held to a far LOWER standard? We need to give them powers with no responsibility, no accountability and not even a questioning look (definitely not a questioning look, because I believe that constitutes "resisting arrest")
After all, cops just want to 'make it home at night', doesn't matter how many people they stop from going home that night, no matter the reason, only #blueLivesMatter.
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Has to be said tho, that they don't seem to care about this, I included links to the FCC orders in my comments (both original comment and comment-reply) and there's zero interest in it.
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Re: Re:
What they measure is a level of alcohol in a measured quantity of air, the hypothesis being that blood alcohol level influences the breath-alcohol level via the alveoli in the lungs. any issue with this barrier can influence the reading. In addition, the machine's calculation is based on a fixed ratio, assuming a specific breath-to-blood concentration ratio.
They're really terribly machines, scientifically, but like much of 'science' when it comes to police work, their inaccuracy has been glossed over for ease of prosecution.
And that doesn't even impact individual tolerances. My eldest Just turned 21, and had her first drink last week. Her tolerance for alcohol is incredibly low, and so she's be significantly impaired by one drink. At 21 I was a very heavy drinker and had been for years (drinking age in the UK is 18, and I'd started years before) and I'd have 3-4 pints at lunch and be mostly unaffected, and at night I'd drink maybe a half litre of vodka, gin or rum. Moving to a mostly dry county in Georgia put a stop to that, so now my tolerance is low again (I've had 5 drinks this year, the last 2 were both September 3rd) A 20µg/100ml breath now has me as impaired as 50µg/100ml breath (thats the UK measuring units, the legal limit is 35) would have 20 years ago. Fun thing is, 20 years ago I was ~120lb, now I'm closer to 200, so while it has more of an effect, it also makes an actual lower BAC by percentage.
So it's super complex, and nonsensical at the same time.
An impairment test would be a more appropriate way of measuring what is actually the important factor - the level of impairment. BAC/BrAC machines are just a fancy approximation method, and don't measure the important thing.
BTW, I seem to recall a story some 10++ years ago, where a guy got done for a high drink driving level, but then got his sentence reduced on appeal because, as he was a chronic drunk, his impairment level was more in accordance with someone with much lower BAC/BrAC due to his high tolerances caused by years of alcoholism.
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I did a 'back of the envelope' calculation for there, and I think I came up with a rough number for that thousand square kilometre county near I20 and inside the Atlanta metro area.
Three single installations were all I think they needed to make that county 'competitive'. I know it could be done with 5 quite easily. And that's a problem for a rural district because BDS requiring entities tend to clump together, so a half mile radius covers most of them, so that means that rural areas actually make out even worse than urban ones more likely to be better served.
I plan on sitting down with a good map of the county and some 1/2 mile radius circles to place on it soon.
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Paper got it from Pai
However, the paper has it the other way around, from pai
"In February, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai urged mobile phone companies to activate the FM radio chip in smartphones, but said the FCC doesn’t have the authority to require it, the Washington Post reported."
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Re: Re:
Politicians treat 'the right of cops to make it home at night' as the be-all and end-all, forgetting that in granting this fictional right created by lobbyist groups, it gives them near carte blanche to ensure that other people do not make it home safe at night any time they get a little scared.
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WRONG.
It's written clearly in the talking points groups like the NRA and Omerta-promoting groups like the PBA hand to politicians with their bribes (aka 'campaign donations')
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1NFurCCcAA-xLQ.jpg
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I ended up using Mr Bent's 'kissing numbers' speech as an example, but I very nearly used the transparent one. Those two, and their applications in situations like this, were my motivation for the book.
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Re: Re: It's an incredibly complex problem
I turned in one report july 27th, I finally got a response august 7th.
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Re: It's an incredibly complex problem
First rank weeds out the obvious yes/no.
then a second rank with more time to consider things better. Maybe a 3rd?
Scan/look/consider in effect.
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Re: Re: Re: could have avoided it all
https://web.archive.org/web/20110121151100/http://www.djsphotography.co.uk:80/Tropical%20Fore sts/Sulawesi%20Macaques.htm
thats Jan 2011
July 7th it's gone https://web.archive.org/web/20110707120244/http://www.djsphotography.co.uk:80/Tropical%20Forests/Sul awesi%20Macaques.htm
Still down (or removed) August 7th
It's not until September 2011 that the new story is there
https://web.archive.org/web/20110903035338/http://www.djsphotography.co.uk:80/Tropical%20Forest s/Sulawesi%20Macaques.htm
BTW, Since you hate the Daily Mail, hows about the Telegraph, which carried the exact same story verbatum
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8615859/Monkey-steals-camera-to-snap -himself.html
If he's claiming they're lying about what he said, maybe he can sue them for libel and make his money back.
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No copyright on the Daily Mail story
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Re: could have avoided it all
The stories about the selfies hit in July 2011. In September his website changed, giving a new story that he set up remote triggers, with autofocus, and flashguns.
Only problem is, he said most of the photos were out of focus in July, and the pictures quite clearly show no flash (you can make out the gaps in the jungle canopy in the eyes) and no tripod.
He tried exactly what you said, but too late.
of course, a remotely triggered photo wouldn't have made it interesting anyway, there are loads of those.
The very fact that made it marketable, is the fact that makes it uncopyrightable.
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Re: Re: Re: trek is dead
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Here's a photo I took about 10 days ago in response to AccessNow's US policy manager Amy Stepanovich) wishing people would stop using 'bigger than a cellphone' as a unit of measure.
I just happen to have a bunch of various cellphones (and a tablet that can be used as a cellphone) to show the size difference
https://twitter.com/ktetch/status/887687994781691904
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Re: Re: trek is dead
The show that became infamous in AMERICA for the first interracial kiss on AMERICAN TV"
America was pretty backwards about that whole topic, and had been for many years.
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Re:
Which, as a British guy in the state of GA is bollocks. I'm teaching people how to make proper hot tea, how to spell correctly, what actual manners are etc. And I'm aided by other Brits in the area. muahahaha. Someone will assimilate, and if you're going to name a state after a King of England, you'll jolly well behave like an Englishman.
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