Weird how they couldn't ask Maricopa SO if they could borrow a drone, since they had 56 of them as of last summer.
Four Inspire 2's, sixteen M300's, eight Matrice 210's, and 28 Mavic 2s (four Zoom's, twelve Pro's, and twelve Enterprise Zoom's)
So, this incident that they need the drones for, happened inside Maricopa county, and yet 56 drones did nothing. What do they think PhoenixPD adding a few more would do?
Last I checked, they don't come with a 'time rewind' feature, where you can go fly one where it happened and then have it record what happened hours earlier.
BTW, I checked out the map. It's almost exactly 6 miles direct from Phoenix PD HQ to the incident (and a 7.7 mile drive). It is 8.8 miles to Glendale PD's HQ.
Distance from the incident to Maricopa County SO? 2.9 miles - its almost mid-way between the incident and the Phoenix PD HQ.
(anyone that knows the area, it's right by the Marshals and fed-ex distribution centers between broadway and buckeye just east of the 202)
There's this phrase I keep hearing "If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear", I just wish I could remember what the people who constantly repeat that phrase do for a living....
I for one would love to be a Big Tech Lobbyist. How do I go about that? I'm assuming it's well paid? So, how did all those people in your office become lobbyists, Blumenthal?
They've sold it to someone and now it's theirs. Documents are not under copyright, so they can't make a copyright claim, and under the first sale doctrine they can distribute it out to anyone they want, as the SCOTUS made clear in Kirtsaeng.
the US Copyright office just had a consultation on these systems and - as you'd expect with a Registrar of Copyrights that was the head of Legal for the IFPI when they were pushing SOPA/PIPA, they had a real hard-on for these systems. And by 'just' I mean 'it closed on the 9th'
That said, I already included a bunch of examples of similar stupidity, including my own experiences with the white/pink noise claims. forgot about this one though, so I didn't include it.
They're often the arse of the area. and I say that having lived within 25 miles of Butts county for exactly 19 years today.
It's the county that had one of its LT's terrorize and falsely arrest contractors working on a home he got foreclosed on, to repair the vandalism he did.
That guy ran the county SWAT team, which is a busy one as it also covers the north side of Macon, and a lot of TV filming (stranger things, walking dead)... oh and the state prison and 'diagnostic hospital', including that special room where they diagnose prisoners to death.
They're even thinking of turning the county seat's name from Jackson, to JackASS.
Yeah, but if those cops have to go out on the streets, they might die from fentanyl!
And if you replace tough, hardworking, strong NYPD officers with weak pathetic civilians (and totally glossing over that cops are civilians too) then think of the danger! if merely touching fentanyl can almost kill a cop, seeing a picture of it, or a report that references it will put some 'civilian employee' into some kind of coma at best!
And worse, with them not being part of the thin blue line of Omerta, what incentive is there for them to lose files and reports on officers and their actions when officers are being investigated, vital functions of officers in administrative roles.
If before they started doing this shit, they only brought in $20,000 in fines, the department thus went from costing half a million, to making a profit of 76 grand.
So we have a product sold to the government, which misrepresents what it does and how it does it.
That sounds like the CEO has just admitted he committed fraud on Government Contracts. I suspect the FBI will not be investigating though.....
"Brennan's decision notes there's no such thing as "perfect source code" or "flawless machines.""
I just want to point out that in most jurisdictions, such machines are literally held up as 'flawless machines', incapable of error, and infallible in their evidence. Does that mean that now they'll be at least open to questioning about the accuracy on a per-case basis?
Does it fuck!
"But the Salem judge in the ruling vacating the Breathalyzer suspension said the Draeger Alcotest 9510 "produces scientifically reliable breath test results.""
Except it literally doesn't. What it measures, and what it claims to measure are two very different things. it takes a reading of 1.5l of breath and analyses that. It then takes the alcohol reading from that 1.5l and then extrapoolates it against a fixed value to determine how intoxicated the person must be. yet the actual lung volume varies by person. a short fat person that lives at the beach will have a lung capacity of maybe 2.5l, while a 6.4 mountain climber from Denver will have a capacity of maybe 8l. So that 1.5l can be 60% of one person or 18% of another. which means for an actual 'breath concentration' of alcohol, the tested value will vary by potentially a factor of 3 - WHICH MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
And thats before gender, as women have typically 2/3 the lung capacities of men.
And then there's the tests, according to the device's manual, its main test is an IR beam, that looks for absorbtion at 9.5µm. Well, before it takes a breath, it 'purges' with air from the locality. Better hope you've got nothing titanium around there, because titaniim dioxide also absorbs at 9.5µm - its a white pigment, used in car paint (like the white in many cop cars), as well as Sunscreen and... Toothpaste. Just as well toothpastes don't go near the mou.... Fuck!
Seriously, the idea that the science is good behind these things is bullshit. For 'science' you have two variables and you keep the rest the same. One is the indepdent variable, which changes, and the other is the dependent, which is your result and should(!) have a relation to the independent one.
And yet here, the dependent variable given (the breath alcohol percentage) is not the only variable, as all the rest are not even given consideration.
And you absolutely should not look at pages 18-21 of the manual, which describes the many ways "technicians" can manually adjust the calibration of the instrument.
For instance, my rep here in GA is pushing a bill that would bad any kind of vaccine mandate unless it's got 3 years of studies behind the vaccine.
Because when you need a mandate for a pandemic, you have to wait 3 years first....
She also made her priority rural broadband here. She's done NOTHING oh, except write a bill (for the GA house) about imposing term limits on members of congress. You can't make this shit up.
When cops see a 'perp', they get all excited then they get delirious about things like laws, and rights, and how to act. That's what excited delirium is.
I think Judge Mark Beck Briscoe is of greater concern.
I mean, who says she has to follow the law, I mean "I find no clearly applicable Tenth Circuit or Supreme Court case law that would have alerted [The Judge] that her actions would violate the constitutional rights Plaintiff now asserts." You know, like a fair trial?
And contempt and Perjury are right out the window in her court, because clearly she forgot about the oath when being sworn in "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" - I am not a lawyer (let alone a judge that spent 10 years as a federal prosecutor, 11 years on the Kansas Court of Appeals - 5 as Chief judge - and 26.5 years on the 10th circuit court of appeals - again
with 5 years as its chief judge), but I'd have thought that she might have found that false evidence testified to in court (directly, or as supporting evidence for any actions taken) would be considered precedent, no?
Or has she found the loophole that - until now - it was only cops that weren't allowed to present false evidence in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Utah? And no-one had ever thought to do anything about it?
Talk about out-of-touch Septuagenarians, she's so delusional that both MTG and the pillow guy call her nutso.
On the post: Phoenix City Council Says PD Can Have Surveillance Drones Without Any Policy In Place Because Some Officers Recently Got Shot
Weird how they couldn't ask Maricopa SO if they could borrow a drone, since they had 56 of them as of last summer.
Four Inspire 2's, sixteen M300's, eight Matrice 210's, and 28 Mavic 2s (four Zoom's, twelve Pro's, and twelve Enterprise Zoom's)
So, this incident that they need the drones for, happened inside Maricopa county, and yet 56 drones did nothing. What do they think PhoenixPD adding a few more would do?
Last I checked, they don't come with a 'time rewind' feature, where you can go fly one where it happened and then have it record what happened hours earlier.
BTW, I checked out the map. It's almost exactly 6 miles direct from Phoenix PD HQ to the incident (and a 7.7 mile drive). It is 8.8 miles to Glendale PD's HQ.
Distance from the incident to Maricopa County SO? 2.9 miles - its almost mid-way between the incident and the Phoenix PD HQ.
(anyone that knows the area, it's right by the Marshals and fed-ex distribution centers between broadway and buckeye just east of the 202)
On the post: FOIA Lawsuit Featuring A DC Police Whistleblower Says PD Conspired To Screw Requesters It Didn't Like
There's this phrase I keep hearing "If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear", I just wish I could remember what the people who constantly repeat that phrase do for a living....
On the post: Senator Blumenthal: Dismissing All Critics Of EARN IT As 'Big Tech Lobbyists' Shows Your Unwillingness To Recognize The Massive Problems In Your Bill
I for one would love to be a Big Tech Lobbyist. How do I go about that? I'm assuming it's well paid? So, how did all those people in your office become lobbyists, Blumenthal?
Whats that? You want me to "get off your lawn'"?
On the post: Nonprofit Forced To Delete Thousands Of Court Documents Obtained With A Fee Waiver Because PACER Is Greedy And Stupid
Thing is, first sale doctrine is a doozie.
They've sold it to someone and now it's theirs. Documents are not under copyright, so they can't make a copyright claim, and under the first sale doctrine they can distribute it out to anyone they want, as the SCOTUS made clear in Kirtsaeng.
On the post: YouTube's Content ID System Flags, Demonetizes Video Of Cat Purring
Re: Re: Re: Re:
You'd have a point, if it wasn't that ContentID was developed in 2008
On the post: YouTube's Content ID System Flags, Demonetizes Video Of Cat Purring
the US Copyright office just had a consultation on these systems and - as you'd expect with a Registrar of Copyrights that was the head of Legal for the IFPI when they were pushing SOPA/PIPA, they had a real hard-on for these systems. And by 'just' I mean 'it closed on the 9th'
That said, I already included a bunch of examples of similar stupidity, including my own experiences with the white/pink noise claims. forgot about this one though, so I didn't include it.
On the post: Eleventh Circuit Smacks Georgia Sheriff Around For Posting 'Don't Trick Or Treat Here' Signs In Sex Offenders' Yards
Typical for butts
They're often the arse of the area. and I say that having lived within 25 miles of Butts county for exactly 19 years today.
It's the county that had one of its LT's terrorize and falsely arrest contractors working on a home he got foreclosed on, to repair the vandalism he did.
That guy ran the county SWAT team, which is a busy one as it also covers the north side of Macon, and a lot of TV filming (stranger things, walking dead)... oh and the state prison and 'diagnostic hospital', including that special room where they diagnose prisoners to death.
They're even thinking of turning the county seat's name from Jackson, to JackASS.
On the post: Danish Court Confirms Insane 'Little Mermaid' Copyright Ruling Against Newspaper Over Cartoon
But if they don't pay, what incentive does zombie (or perhaps after 63 years just an animate skeleton) Edvard Eriksen have to create more art?
More importantly, what incentive does Edvard Eriksen's kids have to do anything if they're not being paid for work from 109 years ago?
On the post: NYPD Was Supposed To Replace Hundreds Of Cops Working Administrative Jobs With Civilians. It Never Did.
Yeah, but if those cops have to go out on the streets, they might die from fentanyl!
And if you replace tough, hardworking, strong NYPD officers with weak pathetic civilians (and totally glossing over that cops are civilians too) then think of the danger! if merely touching fentanyl can almost kill a cop, seeing a picture of it, or a report that references it will put some 'civilian employee' into some kind of coma at best!
And worse, with them not being part of the thin blue line of Omerta, what incentive is there for them to lose files and reports on officers and their actions when officers are being investigated, vital functions of officers in administrative roles.
On the post: Small Alabama Town's Overzealous Traffic Cops Also Monitored Internet Traffic To Threaten Critics Of The Corrupt PD
Re: I'm not seeing the profit being made here
it depends what the difference is.
If before they started doing this shit, they only brought in $20,000 in fines, the department thus went from costing half a million, to making a profit of 76 grand.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 309: Remembering The SOPA Fight, With Rep. Zoe Lofgren
I'm the unnamed questioner, if anyone wondered.
On the post: ID.me Finally Admits It Runs Selfies Against Preexisting Databases As IRS Reconsiders Its Partnership With The Company
So we have a product sold to the government, which misrepresents what it does and how it does it.
That sounds like the CEO has just admitted he committed fraud on Government Contracts. I suspect the FBI will not be investigating though.....
On the post: Massachusetts Court Says Breathaylzers Are A-OK Less Than Three Months After Declaring Them Hot Garbage
Re: UK variations
The machine talked about here is one of the station-based "intoximeters", not one of the handheld systems (I linked its manual above)
On the post: Massachusetts Court Says Breathaylzers Are A-OK Less Than Three Months After Declaring Them Hot Garbage
Wait what?
"Brennan's decision notes there's no such thing as "perfect source code" or "flawless machines.""
I just want to point out that in most jurisdictions, such machines are literally held up as 'flawless machines', incapable of error, and infallible in their evidence. Does that mean that now they'll be at least open to questioning about the accuracy on a per-case basis?
Does it fuck!
"But the Salem judge in the ruling vacating the Breathalyzer suspension said the Draeger Alcotest 9510 "produces scientifically reliable breath test results.""
Except it literally doesn't. What it measures, and what it claims to measure are two very different things. it takes a reading of 1.5l of breath and analyses that. It then takes the alcohol reading from that 1.5l and then extrapoolates it against a fixed value to determine how intoxicated the person must be. yet the actual lung volume varies by person. a short fat person that lives at the beach will have a lung capacity of maybe 2.5l, while a 6.4 mountain climber from Denver will have a capacity of maybe 8l. So that 1.5l can be 60% of one person or 18% of another. which means for an actual 'breath concentration' of alcohol, the tested value will vary by potentially a factor of 3 - WHICH MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
And thats before gender, as women have typically 2/3 the lung capacities of men.
And then there's the tests, according to the device's manual, its main test is an IR beam, that looks for absorbtion at 9.5µm. Well, before it takes a breath, it 'purges' with air from the locality. Better hope you've got nothing titanium around there, because titaniim dioxide also absorbs at 9.5µm - its a white pigment, used in car paint (like the white in many cop cars), as well as Sunscreen and... Toothpaste. Just as well toothpastes don't go near the mou.... Fuck!
Seriously, the idea that the science is good behind these things is bullshit. For 'science' you have two variables and you keep the rest the same. One is the indepdent variable, which changes, and the other is the dependent, which is your result and should(!) have a relation to the independent one.
And yet here, the dependent variable given (the breath alcohol percentage) is not the only variable, as all the rest are not even given consideration.
And you absolutely should not look at pages 18-21 of the manual, which describes the many ways "technicians" can manually adjust the calibration of the instrument.
On the post: Georgia Sees Florida & Texas Social Media Laws Go Down In 1st Amendment Flames And Decides... 'Hey, We Should Do That Too'
Here in GA we do stupid like no other.
For instance, my rep here in GA is pushing a bill that would bad any kind of vaccine mandate unless it's got 3 years of studies behind the vaccine.
Because when you need a mandate for a pandemic, you have to wait 3 years first....
She also made her priority rural broadband here. She's done NOTHING oh, except write a bill (for the GA house) about imposing term limits on members of congress. You can't make this shit up.
On the post: Now Israel Is Looking To Pass A Social Media Censorship Bill Too
When you have countless Security council resolutions against you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel), and have been documented committing warcrimes (https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-israel-crime-war-crimes-human-rights-watch-4dbb4e7b915346ce6 aca778f12a4359b/)
You have to do anything you can to try and hide the evidence and keep pushing the idea that you're a victim.
On the post: Minneapolis Oversight Board Says Police Department Should Ditch 'Excited Delirium' Training
Oh no, Excited Delirium IS a thing.
When cops see a 'perp', they get all excited then they get delirious about things like laws, and rights, and how to act. That's what excited delirium is.
On the post: Tenth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity To Social Worker Who Fabricated A Mother's Confession Of Child Abuse
Re:
Mary, not mark
On the post: Tenth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity To Social Worker Who Fabricated A Mother's Confession Of Child Abuse
I think Judge Mark Beck Briscoe is of greater concern.
I mean, who says she has to follow the law, I mean "I find no clearly applicable Tenth Circuit or Supreme Court case law that would have alerted [The Judge] that her actions would violate the constitutional rights Plaintiff now asserts." You know, like a fair trial?
And contempt and Perjury are right out the window in her court, because clearly she forgot about the oath when being sworn in "The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" - I am not a lawyer (let alone a judge that spent 10 years as a federal prosecutor, 11 years on the Kansas Court of Appeals - 5 as Chief judge - and 26.5 years on the 10th circuit court of appeals - again
with 5 years as its chief judge), but I'd have thought that she might have found that false evidence testified to in court (directly, or as supporting evidence for any actions taken) would be considered precedent, no?
Or has she found the loophole that - until now - it was only cops that weren't allowed to present false evidence in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Utah? And no-one had ever thought to do anything about it?
Talk about out-of-touch Septuagenarians, she's so delusional that both MTG and the pillow guy call her nutso.
On the post: Gov't Accountability Office Says FBI Should Probably Just Give Up The Use Of Force Reporting It Never Bothered Doing
So.. more of a 'Government refusing-accountability office' position then?
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