IMHO, the real problem with cavalier attitude to evidence, procedure, and general civility that the LEOs exhibit (likewise for the judiciary and the penal system _and_ the politicians) is that it has a corrosive effect on society.
When the population sees these figures of authority say one thing, do another, and generally lie, cheat, steal their way to positions of unaccountable power, the population realizes that their efforts to be honest, civil, and cooperative in the task of building a Just Society (to use PET's phrase) are being held to ridicule by these people in power. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_society#Canadian_usage)
So the people stop cooperating with the project of nation-building, of democracy, of civilization.
They become uncivil, they cheat, they steal, they don't pay their taxes, and they kill each other for the most trivial of reasons. For any country, this leads to disaster. I'm sure you can find any number of examples where this has happened, in a dramatic fashion.
Re: Re: In other words, Google is saying it's above ALL laws in ALL nations. That cannot be.
Of course Google is now going to get those countries involved, Canada just claimed jurisdiction of its laws over the United States, and many other places as well.
The United States has long claimed jurisdiction of its laws over those of the rest of the world, for decades, really. American politicians, business people, and armed forces have long behaved as if other countries' and international laws don't apply to them when they're in those countries.
To wit, an apt example from Paul Slansky 'The Clothes have no Emperor', a diary of 'highlights' of the loopy Reagan administration:
1984-04-09 - One day after his administration announced it will not recognize the World Courts juristdiction over the mining of the Nicaraguan harbors, President Reagan proclaims May 1 as "Law Day USA." Says the President, "Without law, there can be no freedom, only chaos and disorder."
You may have only just noticed this case because now, you're beginning to see what it's like to be another country having to deal with a bully USA court/administration/business-lobby, all the frickin' time.
I'm not saying the Superior Court got this one right; I've read the decision and I'm not ready to dismiss it out of hand. I wish there was another mechanism available to rectify the wrong the Court was trying to adjudicate.
Some ISP-paid shill testifying to the Committee will read a prepared statement against Net Neutrality saying that it's too complicated to implement or something.
As he's speaking, a Rasberry Pi with a microphone and a speaker in his lapel pocket, will echo his voice 80,000 times, in real time, with pico-second delays
Ajit Pai will announce that the anti-neutrality-ers have it, 400 to 1.
1) How do you think that the murder rates got to be that way, eh?
2) ..and my point: Maybe, just maybe, the US is doing it wrong and could learn from other countries who are doing it right. But, from what I've seen, it's taking as a point of pride in the 'States to be uninformed and stupid.
In one of Richard Feynman's lectures he tells a joke about a driver who pulled over by a highway patrolman for speeding. "Ma'am," the patrolman says, "you were stopped because you were found to be driving at 75 miles per hour. - That's impossible," replied the blonde driving the car, "I've only been driving for 15 minutes!"
One option is to have one of the daily briefings with the Sgt. Esterhaus character reading the law/opinion, and to videotape the proceedings and every person in attendance (just like the way that the NYPD likes to at any legal gathering where people express their First Amendment rights) PLUS have them sign a sheet acknowledging that they've listened to and understand what's been told to them - y'know, the kind of stuff retail clerks at convenience stores need to sign all the time.
By far the worst year in Canada, 2014 (the year that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacked Parliament), 21 people were killed by Canadian police officers. One officer was charged with manslaughter and discharging a weapon inappropriately. One of the people killed was the result of a traffic accident.
Contrast that with the USA, where the average number of people killed by police officers, 369, is nearly double the rate of Canada's worst year. The same year, 2014, 630 people were killed by police officers - three times the rate of Canada's worst year.
Number of police officers killed in the line of duty? USA, the average from 1990-2010 was 164 per year. Canada? According to StatsCan, 3.5 per year.
It's a pretty safe bet that there's no way in heck that American police forces will ever go to Canada or to Thailand to learn how they do it, how they de-escalate, how they engage the community, how they manage to not kill so many people and not get killed.
It's a particularly American kind of stoopid, refusing to learn from what others have figured out. a long time ago.
/rinse and repeat for incarceration, medicare, going metric.
From what I've seen, employment law in the US means that, for most cases, employees are slaves belonging to their employers.
They're expected to answer phone calls from their employer on weekends, evening, and during this thing most have heard of but never actually seen, paid days off. What they do on company computers completely belongs to their bosses.
Even their pee is company property.
In many other, civilized, countries, it's a little different. Even my employer's HR has told me that, "no, we can't poke around in your work email, unless we're investigating wrongdoing."
While the EU law is, um, ineffective, at least it sends a message, that what people do on their own time is off-limits to the employer. How can that be a bad thing, eh?
Treating your employees like human beings...you'all should give it a try some day.
Perhaps one gambit is to claim that you have the secret recipe for Coke stored and encrypted on your laptop and warn the security apparatchik that the weight of Coke's legal team will come down hard on them and ruin them personally.
Maybe, but consider the difference between not entertaining one posted comment and not entertaining 6 million posted comments.
I makes it a lot easier to ignore and deride Pai's decision (and Pai himself), to reverse the decision later, and to use the plethora of pro-neutrality comments as ammunition against corporations.
Sometimes, the developer's stated minimum and recommended system requirements are nowhere near what's required to play and seem more trying to not eliminate sales and to not admit that the coders don't know how to create fast, tight code and not admit that what you really need to be able play this game is a 10-core i7 running overclocked to 8GHZ while your system is sitting in a bath of liquid nitrogen...
I purchased a Steam game, a few months ago, my system's performance was halfway between minimum and recommended. The opening credit video/demo could barely play, hitting something like one frame every 2-3 seconds. Time for a refund.
Clueless/lying politicians demand that cryptographers perform magic and defeat mathematical laws by creating mischief-proof crypto back doors, meanwhile they claim that it's impossible to perform standard, run-of-the-mill zombie hunting that's been standard practice as far back as at least the old BBS days.
I'm pretty sure that if you went to any bank, withdrew $17K (or any amount over $100) and immediately had it tested for drugs, you'd get a positive result.
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Re: Observations
When the population sees these figures of authority say one thing, do another, and generally lie, cheat, steal their way to positions of unaccountable power, the population realizes that their efforts to be honest, civil, and cooperative in the task of building a Just Society (to use PET's phrase) are being held to ridicule by these people in power.
(see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_society#Canadian_usage)
So the people stop cooperating with the project of nation-building, of democracy, of civilization.
They become uncivil, they cheat, they steal, they don't pay their taxes, and they kill each other for the most trivial of reasons. For any country, this leads to disaster. I'm sure you can find any number of examples where this has happened, in a dramatic fashion.
On the post: Google Asks US Court To Block Terrible Canadian Supreme Court Ruling On Global Censorship
Re: Re: In other words, Google is saying it's above ALL laws in ALL nations. That cannot be.
Of course Google is now going to get those countries involved, Canada just claimed jurisdiction of its laws over the United States, and many other places as well.
The United States has long claimed jurisdiction of its laws over those of the rest of the world, for decades, really. American politicians, business people, and armed forces have long behaved as if other countries' and international laws don't apply to them when they're in those countries.
To wit, an apt example from Paul Slansky 'The Clothes have no Emperor', a diary of 'highlights' of the loopy Reagan administration: 1984-04-09 - One day after his administration announced it will not recognize the World Courts juristdiction over the mining of the Nicaraguan harbors, President Reagan proclaims May 1 as "Law Day USA." Says the President, "Without law, there can be no freedom, only chaos and disorder."
You may have only just noticed this case because now, you're beginning to see what it's like to be another country having to deal with a bully USA court/administration/business-lobby, all the frickin' time.
I'm not saying the Superior Court got this one right; I've read the decision and I'm not ready to dismiss it out of hand. I wish there was another mechanism available to rectify the wrong the Court was trying to adjudicate.
On the post: Over 190 Engineers & Tech Experts Tell The FCC It's Dead Wrong On Net Neutrality
Just watch...
As he's speaking, a Rasberry Pi with a microphone and a speaker in his lapel pocket, will echo his voice 80,000 times, in real time, with pico-second delays
Ajit Pai will announce that the anti-neutrality-ers have it, 400 to 1.
On the post: De-Escalation Works, But US Law Enforcement Hasn't Show Much Interest In Trying It
Re: Re: Re:
1) How do you think that the murder rates got to be that way, eh?
2) ..and my point: Maybe, just maybe, the US is doing it wrong and could learn from other countries who are doing it right. But, from what I've seen, it's taking as a point of pride in the 'States to be uninformed and stupid.
Sheesh.
On the post: Oversight Board Finds NYPD Officers Still Violating Citizens' Right To Film Police
Re:
"Ma'am," the patrolman says, "you were stopped because you were found to be driving at 75 miles per hour.
- That's impossible," replied the blonde driving the car, "I've only been driving for 15 minutes!"
On the post: Oversight Board Finds NYPD Officers Still Violating Citizens' Right To Film Police
Re: Define 'dicipline'
THEN threaten them with personal liability.
On the post: DOJ Boss Promises The Return Of Everything That Didn't Work During The Last 40 Years Of Drug Warring
But the War on Drugs DID work.
On the post: De-Escalation Works, But US Law Enforcement Hasn't Show Much Interest In Trying It
Re:
Culling from Wikipedia:
By far the worst year in Canada, 2014 (the year that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacked Parliament), 21 people were killed by Canadian police officers. One officer was charged with manslaughter and discharging a weapon inappropriately. One of the people killed was the result of a traffic accident.
Contrast that with the USA, where the average number of people killed by police officers, 369, is nearly double the rate of Canada's worst year. The same year, 2014, 630 people were killed by police officers - three times the rate of Canada's worst year.
Number of police officers killed in the line of duty? USA, the average from 1990-2010 was 164 per year. Canada? According to StatsCan, 3.5 per year.
It's a pretty safe bet that there's no way in heck that American police forces will ever go to Canada or to Thailand to learn how they do it, how they de-escalate, how they engage the community, how they manage to not kill so many people and not get killed.
It's a particularly American kind of stoopid, refusing to learn from what others have figured out. a long time ago.
/rinse and repeat for incarceration, medicare, going metric.
On the post: EU Looks To Prevent Employers From Viewing An Applicant's Publicly Available Social Media Information
This law can make some sense...
From what I've seen, employment law in the US means that, for most cases, employees are slaves belonging to their employers.
They're expected to answer phone calls from their employer on weekends, evening, and during this thing most have heard of but never actually seen, paid days off. What they do on company computers completely belongs to their bosses.
Even their pee is company property.
In many other, civilized, countries, it's a little different. Even my employer's HR has told me that, "no, we can't poke around in your work email, unless we're investigating wrongdoing."
While the EU law is, um, ineffective, at least it sends a message, that what people do on their own time is off-limits to the employer. How can that be a bad thing, eh?
Treating your employees like human beings...you'all should give it a try some day.
On the post: The FCC Needs Your Quality Comments About Net Neutrality Today
Re:
Me, I have 300Mb/s both ways, no caps.
On the post: New Zealand Airports Customs Officials Performing 'Digital Strip Searches' Of Travelers' Electronics
Re:
/this might work in a movie...
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So 'do the impossible' and 'get users to do what they already do'?
On the post: The FCC Needs Your Quality Comments About Net Neutrality Today
Re:
I makes it a lot easier to ignore and deride Pai's decision (and Pai himself), to reverse the decision later, and to use the plethora of pro-neutrality comments as ammunition against corporations.
On the post: EU's Brexit Strategy Shows How Aggressive Transparency Can Be Used To Gain The Upper Hand In Negotiations
Lemme see if I've got this right...
Mind you, the EU had no problem using worse-than-NSA secrecy as a tool during the TTIP negociations.
A pox on all of them.
On the post: Microsoft Unveils Plan To Deliver Broadband To 2 Million, NAB Immediately Craps All Over The Announcement
NAB?
On the post: How One Game Developer Views Steam's Refund Policy As A Boon In The Face Of Over $4 Million In Refunds
Re:
Not only "'cuz you didn't like it".
Sometimes, the developer's stated minimum and recommended system requirements are nowhere near what's required to play and seem more trying to not eliminate sales and to not admit that the coders don't know how to create fast, tight code and not admit that what you really need to be able play this game is a 10-core i7 running overclocked to 8GHZ while your system is sitting in a bath of liquid nitrogen...
I purchased a Steam game, a few months ago, my system's performance was halfway between minimum and recommended. The opening credit video/demo could barely play, hitting something like one frame every 2-3 seconds. Time for a refund.
On the post: The FCC Insists It Can't Stop Impostors From Lying About My Views On Net Neutrality
Arseholes! All of them!
Clueless/lying politicians demand that cryptographers perform magic and defeat mathematical laws by creating mischief-proof crypto back doors, meanwhile they claim that it's impossible to perform standard, run-of-the-mill zombie hunting that's been standard practice as far back as at least the old BBS days.
Well, nerd harder yourselves.
On the post: Court Says Gov't Has To Do More Than Say It Doesn't Believe The Property Owners If It Wants To Keep The Cash It Seized
Re: Re: Rights Violators
"..they should have had the bag tested in a lab."
I'm pretty sure that if you went to any bank, withdrew $17K (or any amount over $100) and immediately had it tested for drugs, you'd get a positive result.
Prevalence of Drug-Tainted Money Voids Case
On the post: Judge Tosses Woman's Lawsuit Brought Against Google Because A Blogger Said Mean Things About Her
Re: You keep omitting that statute is "mere statute", not the whole of the law.
First of all, it's the District of Columbia, not British Columbia. Second, Canada doesn't have district courts.
I'm beginning to understand why all these idiots refuse to register a handle....
On the post: State Dept. Enlists Hollywood And Its Friends To Start A Fake Twitter Fight Over Intellectual Property
They should have posted the fake news as a blog post.
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