I think we should pay more attention to Google Fiber as a teaching moment. If a disruptive ~$900B company with a vested interest in breaking the ISP stranglehold on content consumers CAN'T get a toehold in the market, we should step back and say "holy shit something is wrong with this market" not "lulz the Google is always quitting things".
Is there a record that judges reviewing warrant applications can look at to see what officers have misrepresented, lied, or glossed over in the past? Kinda like a Brady list, but for deciding special authorization rather than deciding witness credibility.
Of course, we could also have a list of judges who've willingly gone along with unjustified warrants as well...
Sounds like he's frustrated that some people don't seem to care whether what they hear is true of not. I sympathize, but I'm not willing to take the shortcut of surrendering public discourse over an oligarchy for determination of worth. Because that would, you know, break our entire country. This country functions because people are allowed to say stupid things (Stengel) and other people (me) are allowed to say "that's dumb" and ignore it. We need to encourage more discrimination listeners, not more discriminating barriers to speech.
Oh, it's the oppressive consumer rights regulation and uncertainty that's keeping all the new Vanderbilts from blessing us plebes with their competing information services? I'd thought it was the NATURAL MONOPOLY and regulatory capture of entrenched telcom giants that kept any competition at bay. Local loop unbundling would fix all that, right?
Really interesting that best practices for cops seems to range from "be ignorant of the laws you're enforcing for max qualified immunity" to "yeah, you can lie about the laws you're enforcing if you want." Hard to imagine another profession where this guidance would be remotely acceptable.
"outside investigators have found and the fact that the department has had to be threatened with legal action"
Exactly. The claim of no "systemic issues" is patently false. You didn't clean up this mess yourself before externally forced to, therefore your system is corrupt. Your officers MUST police each other and this is what happens when they don't.
This is kinda begging for a DDOS attack. Flood the office with a request for every meeting, party, meal, date, class, practice, sleepover, and handshake.
I found the review page where people were complaining about warped heating elements or shattered glass. Seems consistent with unattended repeated high-heat operation to me.
I've got a toaster-oven (sans-wifi) that likes to turn itself on in the middle of the night. It gets unplugged now since sending it back would have cost us shipping and just gotten another one that behaved the same. (judging from reviews online) Just'sayin.
Did anyone catch the self-sacrifices that police are supposedly making while they wage unending war on the citizenry? All I caught were sacrifices everyone else is expected to make in order to make the police's job easier.
Regulating types of weapons is not unconstitutional. It is political. With every one of these mass-murders the tide is turning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban#Legal_challenges
(in case you don't read that, the ban survived all constitutional challenges and politicians chose not to renew it.)
I wrote "style" just for you because you seem like the kind of person who would call me ignorant because "assault weapon isn't a definition!" There are all kinds of metrics by which we can regulate weapons. Cyclic rate, muzzle velocity, and magazine size would be a good start. I'd be fine with just banning all semi-auto rifles and let sportsmen prove their skill with bolt-action. So maybe the gun enthusiasts should take a stab at defining what characteristics create an assault weapon and what licensing requirements gun owners need to fulfill. Right now there's a big vacuum of responsible firearm advocates.
We absolutely try to lower traffic fatalities; by regulating vehicles, drivers, and the places where driving occurs. This isn't even an argument. We have entire agencies devoted to preventing/tracking deaths and investigating the circumstances when there are failures in our transportation system; the vast vast vast majority of which are unintentional. You mentioned it as an alternate option for rampage killers; but they have access to cars now and they're choosing the superior murder machines in droves.
I agree on licensing, but I'll raise you a national registry and mandatory insurance requirements.
Access to a machine designed to kill 30 people in 30 seconds has direct effect on the efficacy of those who decide to rampage kill. Don't tell me that guns have no effect, there is a reason our current epidemic is with assault-style rifles and not speeding trucks in pedestrian thoroughfares.
Yeah, we're assuming the next step after identifying a possible mass shooter would be to take his guns away. That's a poor assumption with the gun cartel in power. We'd probably just end up watching as the timebomb blows.
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I think we should pay more attention to Google Fiber as a teaching moment. If a disruptive ~$900B company with a vested interest in breaking the ISP stranglehold on content consumers CAN'T get a toehold in the market, we should step back and say "holy shit something is wrong with this market" not "lulz the Google is always quitting things".
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Permanent record
Is there a record that judges reviewing warrant applications can look at to see what officers have misrepresented, lied, or glossed over in the past? Kinda like a Brady list, but for deciding special authorization rather than deciding witness credibility.
Of course, we could also have a list of judges who've willingly gone along with unjustified warrants as well...
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And you're going you display these rules on big signs at the inspection points, right?
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Input vs Output
Sounds like he's frustrated that some people don't seem to care whether what they hear is true of not. I sympathize, but I'm not willing to take the shortcut of surrendering public discourse over an oligarchy for determination of worth. Because that would, you know, break our entire country. This country functions because people are allowed to say stupid things (Stengel) and other people (me) are allowed to say "that's dumb" and ignore it. We need to encourage more discrimination listeners, not more discriminating barriers to speech.
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Sounds like a socialist hellhole
I want to go to there.
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Oh, it's the oppressive consumer rights regulation and uncertainty that's keeping all the new Vanderbilts from blessing us plebes with their competing information services? I'd thought it was the NATURAL MONOPOLY and regulatory capture of entrenched telcom giants that kept any competition at bay. Local loop unbundling would fix all that, right?
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Re: 'It's good to be blue'
Really interesting that best practices for cops seems to range from "be ignorant of the laws you're enforcing for max qualified immunity" to "yeah, you can lie about the laws you're enforcing if you want." Hard to imagine another profession where this guidance would be remotely acceptable.
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I guess we need to hire fewer Amish cops who believe that recording their public service endangers their souls.
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Re: Patagonia who?
I've never snowboarded but known about Patagonia clothing for decades; so we cancel out I guess.
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Re: 'What do you mean it didn't work this time?!'
Exactly. The claim of no "systemic issues" is patently false. You didn't clean up this mess yourself before externally forced to, therefore your system is corrupt. Your officers MUST police each other and this is what happens when they don't.
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But only alone.
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Careful What You Wish For
Seriously... "gathering for any purpose"
This is kinda begging for a DDOS attack. Flood the office with a request for every meeting, party, meal, date, class, practice, sleepover, and handshake.
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I found the review page where people were complaining about warped heating elements or shattered glass. Seems consistent with unattended repeated high-heat operation to me.
https://www.amazon.com/TOB-40N-Custom-Classic-Toaster-Broiler/product-reviews/B07HS2M1Q7
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LoL, you got gremlins.
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I've got a toaster-oven (sans-wifi) that likes to turn itself on in the middle of the night. It gets unplugged now since sending it back would have cost us shipping and just gotten another one that behaved the same. (judging from reviews online) Just'sayin.
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Did anyone catch the self-sacrifices that police are supposedly making while they wage unending war on the citizenry? All I caught were sacrifices everyone else is expected to make in order to make the police's job easier.
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I have copyrighted dying. You are in violation. Cease and desist or you will be subject to postmortem legal action.
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Regulating types of weapons is not unconstitutional. It is political. With every one of these mass-murders the tide is turning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban#Legal_challenges
(in case you don't read that, the ban survived all constitutional challenges and politicians chose not to renew it.)
I wrote "style" just for you because you seem like the kind of person who would call me ignorant because "assault weapon isn't a definition!" There are all kinds of metrics by which we can regulate weapons. Cyclic rate, muzzle velocity, and magazine size would be a good start. I'd be fine with just banning all semi-auto rifles and let sportsmen prove their skill with bolt-action. So maybe the gun enthusiasts should take a stab at defining what characteristics create an assault weapon and what licensing requirements gun owners need to fulfill. Right now there's a big vacuum of responsible firearm advocates.
We absolutely try to lower traffic fatalities; by regulating vehicles, drivers, and the places where driving occurs. This isn't even an argument. We have entire agencies devoted to preventing/tracking deaths and investigating the circumstances when there are failures in our transportation system; the vast vast vast majority of which are unintentional. You mentioned it as an alternate option for rampage killers; but they have access to cars now and they're choosing the superior murder machines in droves.
I agree on licensing, but I'll raise you a national registry and mandatory insurance requirements.
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Re: Re: "We blame guns..."
Access to a machine designed to kill 30 people in 30 seconds has direct effect on the efficacy of those who decide to rampage kill. Don't tell me that guns have no effect, there is a reason our current epidemic is with assault-style rifles and not speeding trucks in pedestrian thoroughfares.
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Yeah, we're assuming the next step after identifying a possible mass shooter would be to take his guns away. That's a poor assumption with the gun cartel in power. We'd probably just end up watching as the timebomb blows.
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