Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Steve Lehto" channel.

  1. The way the law is written, every car that has its key removed when parked should be impounded. After all, you cannot safely operate most cars and trucks without their key. Perjury and willful falsification of official documents under color of law used to be a crime, now it's business as usual. Well, unless we do it, then prosecution begins.
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  2. I dunno, nothing ever happened before, so honestly, it sounds as though the sheriff's office is heavily overfunded. So, how many arrests did the sheriff make the following night, when it was dark out and actually dangerous? Did he arrest the entire town for attending a pagan festival and vagrancy?
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  3. So, is he going to arrest weather forecasters and economists? Futures traders? Or is he only going to arrest witches?
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  4. I was denied housing by a realtor who relied upon some commercial background check service that entirely fails in due diligence. Worse, she decided to tell me of the denial at high volume, across a crowded busy office, then when I objected, continue her justification at high volume, attempting for maximum embarrassment. The reason, "You have a record". My objection, "I hold a security clearance, the US government isn't in the habit of issuing security clearances to criminals". The crime, I inherited property from my father, who hoarded construction supplies and right after inheriting the property, I was fined over it. The court immediately dismissed the charge and that was the end of it. By the time I left, I was quite irritated. So, it being a military town and I being retired military, expressed a grave concern with the local base command over the risk to our service members morale and welfare, due to that business' practices. The business was promptly blacklisted by post housing and the business declared off limits to military personnel. For some odd reason, said business had grave difficulties in finding rental customers, what with losing 85% of their clientele. To morons, a dismissed case is equal to a conviction, "because you were accused". Sorry, by McCarthy is long dead, he drank himself to death after losing office, after losing faith and trust with his unamerican activities. And I do willingly admit to a character flaw. I am a very, very, very vindictive man.
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  5. When a law professor says outright that it was a stupid defense, it's a seriously stupid assed defense that rightfully got one fired.
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  6.  @TheGrobe  that worked in France quite well, right until those masters got to meet the National Razor.
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  7. Definitely not a hit and run, which typically isn't covered.
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  8. The psychic friends network, of course.
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  9. As near as I can tell, this company is basically declaring that making a profit is illegal. I hope that discovery is both fruitful and highly illuminating, so that at a minimum, the investors are hated nationwide and if foreign, lose out on the entirety of their investment in land around a US airbase.
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  10. There is only one time it's ended well, when I was at the store and was picking up a jar of honey for a reasonable price.
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  11. U-Haul is nothing but fraudulent all around. Had problems after renting one of their trucks, with all manner of fanciful charges attempted to be added and money seized without notice from my debit card under an oddly named business traced back to them. Bank clawed the money back after investigating, which speaks volumes as well.
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  12. Abuse of office and assorted state official misconduct criminal charges should also be filed against her, just to discourage other public officials from abusing their own official positions.
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  13. She had the option of finding a cheaper place to shop, just walk there. While at sea. Yeah, the court recognized that and addressed it.
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  14. Yeah, then and now, that behavior is not tolerated at all and rightfully so. And every senior NCO does know better! A dumb ass way to lose a pension.
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  15.  @themidsouthcyclist8880  not totally garbage, we still see people getting arrested for trying to trade nuclear weapons designs. But, the onus is great before the court will countenance prior restraint beyond matters of national security. Here, there's a different issue and given the accused declined to appear before the court, a summary judgement was issued for violations of the Copyright Act, as well as several communications and computer crime acts. But, the court exceeded jurisdiction into international realms when ordering the take-down of any .tv domain, which belongs to the sovereign nation of Tuvulu. I'm also dubious of a national order, as well as the significant onus of requiring significant labor and equipment being provided with no compensation of the independent ISP businesses, as well as the order going far beyond the jurist's district and circuit. Or we could go to war with Tuvulu and have the US Navy report back that they couldn't find the island. ;) That last is a joke, as courts cannot order us to go to war, that belongs to Congress or an emergency use of force declaration by the POTUS and authorized by Congress under the War Powers Act.
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  16. I remember the exact same argument being made for registration and insurance for those new fangled high speed 10 speed bicycles. And the questions were asked, how many mass casualty accidents occurred with the bikes and when are we insuring and registering fucking shoes? Amazingly, the message got across to the politicians, no need for pitchforks, torches or fence rails and tar...
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  17. There's a truism in the employment world. Employees don't quit a job, they quit a shitty management organization.
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  18. When I came back to the US from our base in the Middle East, I had idiots threaten to have me deported. I then looked at the creature with contempt and asked in my finest South Philly accent, "To where, South Philly, jack-off?!". Universally, they wandered off before I could bite the other cheek. While I remarked loudly how the idiot wanted to deport me back to the very city our Constitution was written in to witnesses. Suffice it to say, there was much mirth. Karen vs US Army NCO, it's always Karen 0.
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  19. And homes.
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  20.  @BobDobbs681  been there, done that, sat in the dark. My question in the meeting afterward, "What happened to the monthly generator tests?", management looked dumbfounded and claimed to have never heard of such a thing. The facility supervisor countered, "Yeah, everywhere I ever worked at those tests!". We had prime power, a building UPS and generators. The building UPS at the time had a literal room full of batteries, all failed and were ignored. I tacked that onto my weekly information assurance report and given that all war communications went through that building, the batteries suddenly got budgeted in and replaced. After a month of reporting the failed batteries...
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  21. In EMS, we call that a significant mechanism of injury.
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  22. I've gone into areas to fix a PC that had alarms go off. I did one thing that I didn't have to do, called the responsible party and let them know that an alarm was going off. Most times, I was thanked and told they were aware of it and it was being fixed, a few times, they weren't aware and dashed down to investigate. The only time I might consider disconnecting power is if the damned thing was on fire and that, on the way to trigger the fire alarm.
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  23. Yes, he could have defended himself from armed robbery, then been the subject of an armed and dangerous manhunt, be labeled on the news as a disturbed cop killer veteran and at best, go on trial for assassination of law enforcement officers, at worst, gunned down in a one sided "exchange of fire", the keys or cell phone being muzzle flashing like a gun. You can do loads of things, most won't exactly pan out very well.
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  24. But, it strengthens the notion that safety deposit boxes are illegal and subject to being searched and seized upon mere whim, if a box in the same vault is searched, due to god-cop syndrome. I'll store my important documents with a thermite charge, just for security. If I can't be secure in my papers and person, I can at least eliminate one of the two I'm no longer allowed.
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  25. I can imagine it well, "Well, we have procedures". Well, there are other procedures that involve pine tar and feathers...
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  26.  @Sartre_Existentialist  the courts said otherwise, that it was never legal, as it can never be legal for a mere law or Act to overturn the Constitution. Otherwise, we'd literally no longer have a Constitution or government. Laws are empowered under the Constitution, not the converse. If a state passed a summary execution law and immediately enforced police extrajudicial executions in the street, the state would still end up liable for the violations of citizens rights when challenged for damages by the executed parties families and estates. Your claim of an affirmative defense is, "well, despite it being unconstitutional and hence invalid, it was legal" and being invalid, it's by definition born unlawful due to its unconstitutionality. When considering rights, it's sometimes easier to substitute another right in the place of the one one is arguing over. In the above example, substituting property for life, both being inherent right to possess things. I've used it in second amendment arguments, where some insist that that right, "like all rights" is unrestricted, so I substituted free speech and showed a half dozen common limitations upon the right of free speech, including no right to engage in sedition, conspiracy, fraud and defamation, to name a few I'd start out with. They usually depart the field with "your a commie". Apparently, Constitutionalists being communists in their odd world view.
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  27.  @Tugela60  he obviously has valid citizenship or they'd not have given a US Navy sonarman his TS clearance to operate his own console.
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  28.  @simonmultiverse6349  incarcerated and drugged with medications he didn't need.
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  29. Largely, because we won't allow the French National Razor.
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  30. It'd be viable for a business where I am, the Middle District of Pennsylvania, to write the judge and politely tell him to pound sand, as we're not under his or her jurisdiction and hence, the order is null and void in our circuit. It comes down to jurisdiction, this only holds for those under the jurisdiction of the 2nd circuit at best, SDNY at minimum. Even if they were under the jurisdiction, the costs in man hours would be fairly significant and they don't control the top level domain controllers, of which there are currently 1589, most of which are foreign or in the US, still outside of that circuit and district. So, there are several options available to someone under the jurisdiction of the court. Comply as they can and risk contempt, shut down operations or refuse to comply due to the labor cost being insanely high, as they'd need to build their own Great Firewall of China to block the traffic ordered blocked. Even backbone providers couldn't quite manage compliance with that order without literally breaking the internet and putting thousands of man hours and millions of dollars in equipment in place just to comply with that order. Which means, next month, as today, I can easily still access that site that I've never heard of. And despite multiple national courts orders, Pirate Bay still is around, under at least a dozen top level domains that are outside of the authority of those courts.
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  31. Forcing one's way in and refusing to leave is a foolproof way to get shot in a castle doctrine state.
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  32.  @darrennew8211  no, but they are claiming privacy to protect themselves in a deficient manner from their willing participation in fraudulent activity involving the USPS. Which is a felony. And the courts won't view a privacy claim on discovery very kindly.
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  33.  @wholeNwon  just far less amenable to being trained. Getting them to clean their room is like getting wild horses to clean up their shit. No, the horses are more easily trained.
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  34.  @williammielenz3752  this is why learning how to pick locks is only the beginning of the journey. And why having enough psych courses to allow you to know the answers expected in their testing is rather important. If you fuck up the test, at least you'll know enough to be able to pick the lock. I highly recommend using windshield wiper blade inserts for the source metal for making one's own picks.
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  35. As far as I'm concerned, any municipality that allows an HOA to exist is nearly as bad as the worst HOA around and should be actively avoided to the point of shunning.
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  36. Honest, ossifer, the building swerved into my path and stopped suddenly! Damned shelf drwiving car...
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  37.  @danielboone8435  having sat on several civil case juries, I'd decidedly not award a dollar, save if there's a shit ton of zeroes on the right and quite distant from the one, the decimal point. As a hint, I'm sure that she always wanted to own her own rental car company.
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  38. Given that the music was approved by the school administration and part of the game's program of activities, it's literally as if the officer ordered the team off of the field in the middle of the last play of the game.
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  39. I says we sendsa Guido and Giuseppe over to have a talk at them, make 'em an offa they canna refuse.
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  40. Not until litigation got filed that the insurance company would be unlikely to want to defend. They'll next seek an out of court settlement that admits no wrongdoing...
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  41. Or even better, an armored car.
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  42. So, the defense attorney is still in prison? Nobody did anything about it, so there won't be a trial that Steve talked about, right? Or do you mean that nobody showed up with a militia and machine gunned everyone concerned down? Here's a life lesson for you. You can do things a fast and easy way and they'll fall apart every time or one can do things the right way, which takes time and effort and those things will be lasting. And things with courts take time. First, the trial of the accused has to be completed, then the defense attorney has to have his trial, then if acquitted in the latter, the misbehavior of the jurist then is reported up to the superior courts as appropriate for disciplinary action. No magical thunder from above, no Harry Potter waving his fuck stick, but a step by step legal process that is properly followed at every step, in deliberate and sober actions. Otherwise, we don't have the rule of law, we have the lawlessness of the mob.
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  43. I'm reminded of the beginning of the film "Cool Hand Luke", not that I'd suggest anything unlawful...
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  44. The joys of when they go cheap developer for their apps, vs using a good developer. :/ In the end, cheap ends up always costing a hell of a lot more.
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  45. In EMS and also in law enforcement, that is a significant mechanism of injury. It's a high energy collision. Dereliction of duty, for starters against the cop and well, if the department doesn't even find a reasonable standard of care, then hold the department fiscally responsible for massive punitive damages. Maybe when the taxpayers see their tax bills increase exponentially, they'll insist upon proper policing, rather than thuggery and negligence being the standard.
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  46. One word. Expired.
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  47. Once posted, it's on state laws on what one can do. At a minimum, it's trespassing, aggravated if he opened a secured gate. In my state, well, we're castle doctrine and stand your ground. So, holding the trespasser while awaiting law enforcement and a tow truck is allowed. A quality padlock should suffice, force that and it's willful destruction of property and evading law enforcement.
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  48. They'd have hated me as a jurist. "So long and thanks for all the fish, now come back when you have actual reasonable suspicion, chucklehead".
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  49. Military EOD dogs get rewarded after a search, positive or negative, to avoid that potential bias.
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  50. Got slammed with a debit card fraud ring when I hit the Harrisburg area. Turned out the tools went and got keys to all the gas station dispensers and installed their own card readers inside. They now have a nice place to stay, three squares a day and secure sleeping quarters with fine steel bars. Took two weeks and spare change to fix my account, went a bit hungry for a bit. As for getting carded, been there, done that. I'm 61, so I'm, erm, turning blonde. ;) Getting carded is rather comical now. Never got carded when I was 16, so go figure. But, fines are real and stores are sensitive about self inflicted injuries. Annoyances happen in life. Just talk to your kids. :P Can't talk to my wife, she died last year after 41+ years of CMH winning duty. Yeah, I'm a veteran, who isn't of our generations?
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  51. A wise, elderly police sergeant once told some academy graduates, upon handing them their certifications, "Here is your badge. When you screw up, you dip your badge and mine in shit. I don't like shit on my badge, please don't dip ours into shit". Would, were he still alive today, he be in command of all LEO's nationwide!
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  52. If we started citing people for driving while stupid, over half of the drivers on the road would get citations.
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  53. Public domain has been under attack for years. Laws can indeed cross borders, most frequently via international agreements and ratified treaties. It'd be interesting to see what the EU courts would find on this, as this is within their purview and the EU still is a bit cordial in policy toward public domain. Still, one wonders, George Washington made bricks that sold throughout the colonies. Those certainly are cultural artifacts, so by extension, all bricks should be. Perhaps Italy brickmakers are infringing upon US cultural artifacts...
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  54.  @jesspeinado480  erm, seller fi? Ironic, to put it mildly, largely due to its accuracy. The United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy. Semper Fidelis, Steve! De oppresso liber!
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  55. Most people don't realize, ambassadors aren't selected on merit or education, but are appointees and are far too frequently awarded as a favor by our executive branch to "friends".
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  56. It's even uglier than that. I was denied rental of a home, their reason was that there's a court record in my name for a property crime. Specifically, my father hoarded tools and construction supplies and I inherited it, the township then promptly took me to court over it and the case was dismissed with prejudice. The realtor had a private company check some private database, which only shows the case and no resolution. Suffice it to say, that national firm is blacklisted for my family. We'll deal with century 22 instead.
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  57. Well, c'est merde is the name of their thought processes.
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  58. He also loved the "take me wife, please". The saddest thing I ever read was when he said, "don't take my wife, please", when she died. Little known is, comedians tend to actually have lives of suffering, so they try to relieve that suffering in others.
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  59. I've heard of beer goggles, but never of deer glasses. I'm with the prosecutor, I've heard better lies out of a five year old. I'm also more than willing to consider if he were driving while impaired by ethanol. I am curious, with the conviction, if there was a motion to remove the disability, is a simple majority required or a 2/3 vote in that state?
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  60.  @Alex-vr4wu  it's also lead to tar and feathering in the past. People rightfully loathe antidemocratic nonsense like this.
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  61. Well, a settlement should be that the funds come out of the police department's budget. Otherwise, it comes out of the county coffers and the police continue to offend without a real penalty.
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  62.  @MichaelMantion  I can just see the ADA cases as well. The first time a cop cites a disabled person, who stopped due to a spasm or other difficulty, millions of dollars will flow out of the local government coffers. Then, they'll want litigation reform, to try to neuter federal laws...
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  63. I've tossed illegible tickets, looked them up and responded as needed. No need to use force, the courts have their own force, their first escalation being by mail, the next, a constable. Only met one officially once, apparently, the ticket blew away or otherwise wasn't under my wiper, an apology and quick response halted anything untoward, as it was a valid complaint and fine. Oddly, no pepper spray, tasers, firearms or thermonuclear weapons needed to be involved.
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  64.  @TheBooban  original creative art vs a photographic reproduction, the original creative work is able to be copyrighted, the photographic reproduction isn't a creative work without some transformative process making it a creative work. Otherwise, Xerox would own damned near every written and printed word.
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  65. There's a video about on social media that tells people how to boost Kia and Hyundai cars, due to their phenomenally weak (addressed in this class action) ignition locks. A neighbor's looking at around $4k in damage from someone ineptly trying to follow that guidance - twice, damaging the column, trim and harness. Oh well, criminals aren't the brightest on average. When a bright one is found, we put them into politics, where we can keep an eye on them. ;)
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  66.  @wallychambe1587  had two Samsung phones that had batteries swell up enough to force the rear cover from the phones and with one, also cracked the display. Hell is gonna look like Antarctica before I get something from Samsung again. Made me want to deliver it back to their factory - from 50000 feet...
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  67. Which we continued with coal miners via the mandatory company store system. Well, that and Pinkerton assassins killing off anyone supporting labor and having the Colorado National Guard machine gun striking workers.
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  68.  @Gangsta1168  the only time I carry a gun or guns is going to the gunsmith or range, although occasionally I'll lug one around the woods in deer season (typically, not chambering a round, as the deer seem to outwit me). I am known to teach about what's in the bible, reciting entire chapter and verse, as I can and have done with the Quran, largely to correct misquotes and misconceptions. In that, I do tend to judge the speaker by the standards that they profess to abide by, as documented within their favored texts. Jesus, I like, I don't like those who profess to follow him, while profaning his teachings all that much.
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  69. It's even uglier, beside the PR black eye, they spent likely at least $150k on attorney and court fees to try to save a few thousand dollars and while they succeeded in paying a much lower amount per bag, the expenses far, far, far outstripped any money saved.
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  70. One would really hate me. I'm badly allergic to pot, so if you smell it around me, I'll likely need an ambulance. Or, you're lying.
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  71. Ah, but engineer vs engineer can be downright entertaining.
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  72. Yeah, totally don't work, the smog that used to plague my youth disappeared because of the efforts of Peter Pan and the fairies.
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  73. The action was not only morally repugnant, it was democratically repugnant in the extreme! What would be next? Monitoring votes, punishing exposed "wrong" votes for reprisal, thereby destroying the very heart of democratic governance?
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  74.  @backwoodstherapy  true, once properly evaluated by doctor that it's a blockage and not a hemorrhagic stroke. The inappropriate speech and ataxia should've been more than sufficient to go to immediate EMS response and transport. And going lights out, no EMS summoned, just by cruiser when the nurse refused to accept the patient in the jail, that's just malfeasance.
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  75.  @sarowie  well, for one example, how many samples of smallpox should be stored, since only one freezer isn't good enough? Rather than having a spare freezer on hand and simply move the samples into it when the primary fails. Which is what the CDC does with their sample.
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  76. Downside is, one only has rights if one can afford to pay a lawyer to buy them.
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  77. The setback being an easement for access.
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  78.  @me8042  I really don't hold with taking a pension for honorable service away, it disincentivizes honorable service overall. Take the cop's property, take the PD operating budget, even their assets in compensation and punitive awards. And therein lies the secret sauce, punitive has a very specific meaning and a wrist slap is not really punitive, it's saying "naughty, naughty" to theft and murder.
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  79.  @davidvincent1093  well, if something like this happens, due diligence was not performed and they're liable at the end of the day. But, we both know how well a diligent lawyer documents everything that they do, accounting for documents, document revisions, time spent on a client's behalf, etc. A diligent lawyer can bury anyone claiming a lack of due diligence in so much documentation as to make their attorney surrender and a jurist laugh. Learned that setting up their time/documentation tracking software and migrating old records over to the new system.
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  80.  @WlmaAlexender-zl6nx  what actual injury was sustained? He didn't say that he paid the bill, only that he received the bill and I suspect that the surgery did not proceed on the ashes as scheduled. Ashes are a real pain in the ash to suture. Referral to the local DA and medical board should suffice, so that doctor can explain what precise surgical techniques are utilized on performing a surgical procedure on ashes and what benefit that the cremains enjoyed from said surgery.
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  81.  @119Agent  well, that's two former employees fired, alas, without using actual fire. I'd honestly have asked that attorney, were he representing me in that manner, if he ever heard of the fine Russian practice of defenestration... At a very real risk of receiving a demonstration of defenestration. To say that it would have a major deleterious impact on the business is like saying that Genghis Khan wasn't well liked.
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  82.  @Gangsta1168  love one another as one loves oneself, which is actually Old Testament in Leviticus 9:18. Forgive repeatedly. I never said that I follow that either, now did I? Or do you think that I'm a Christian-Muslim-Gnostic? I said that I judge others by their actions and words, as justified by what isn't written to support those within the texts that they utilize to justify themselves. Then, I correct them and move on.
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  83. The regulations are posted and approved, so they're not vague. The pollutants are listed and not complex. They're not contradictory or they'd not get approved. And your closing nonsense is just that, as those vehicles are also tested before being allowed into the country, as has been repeatedly reported in the news. So, how much are you being paid to lie?
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  84. Given that they're speaking of enforcing copyright law, it is well within the authority of the court, but the SDNY does not have national, nor international authority.
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  85. He certainly makes Roy Bean look good!
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  86. Gotta wheedle in that televiewer screen into every room of every home somehow, Big Brother's viewing pleasure is far too sparse.
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  87. If only we had a foundational document that demanded that.
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  88. Maybe it's time to turn the RICO statutes against their racketeering. "You didn't try to shake down enough citizens" is racketeering in any other context. Or perhaps, a citizen's vigilance committee is needed, if the courts are disinterested.
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  89. Amazon Prime drivers frequently make deliveries for apartments and other large multi-tennant buildings in large fabric bin bags, which they'll typically drag into the building. One driver left the bin in our mailroom, which was left there for weeks, then relocated next to the main lobby door and well, everywhere Helen Keller could've found it. It wasn't removed until someone carped loudly to another Amazon Prime driver and he finally removed the damned thing, remarking of a similar case at a large business. If it slows them down even slightly, all caution is to the wind and I've literally had trouble getting to the wall of mailboxes for all of the packages, mostly Amazon, scattered all over the floor - despite our having delivery lockers and prominent signage insisting upon the usage of said lockers. On a typical day, I'll see at least 4 Amazon Prime trucks make deliveries here. UPS is nearly as bad, FedEx not quite as bad about scattering packages and USPS is good at using the lockers and mailboxes. Although, with USPS, I frequently see the postal workers out delivering until at least 7:00 PM, sometimes even later.
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  90. Well, he got half of the things to do on your first day right. Unfortunately, the cops showing up for the stolen car tends to ruin that first initial good impression.
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  91. The city has the duty of exercising due care and due diligence in ensuring notices are sent to the correct address before any deleterious action is performed. The only way this could've been worse is if they bulldozed the property while it was occupied.
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  92. See, that's where he went wrong. Go back and report in for work, they then send him back for the body cam. Milk it right, shift is over and he just goes home.
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  93. Ever see where the model Y's batteries are stored? From the front wheel well to the rear wheel well, three compartments under the floor - nothing but batteries. That's some major dissection and I've done cam shaft work and more, but this is next level and I've no clue how to recycle that much inflammable energy storage device junk! And I do believe in the right to repair. Just one should go in informed before one begins. Change out one smart phone battery, you'll get an inkling on the PIA that can be involved. Change a surface mount chip for more fun, used to do that for a living. Back when I didn't need glasses to read.
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  94. The problem being, the most powerful radio is the easiest radio to find, either by missile or a personal visit.
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  95.  @Mike-01234  seems a bit odd to have no provision for engine changes. If a brand new vehicle has an engine destroyed and hence, replaced, it no longer can be registered in the state and hence a brand new vehicle goes to the scrapyard unpaid for?
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  96. If the agreement isn't expiring and just not being renewed, which isn't what it sounds like from my seat, the state has announced the company in fundamental breach of contract. That's rather heavy medicine, but also fully recoverable. Yeah, the company is gonna be there with bells on, way too much to potentially lose! Still, digital is superior to everything! "Here's your new computer for your heart attack." "Oh, it administers drugs to stabilize my condition?" "No." "It shocks me if my heart stops?" "No." "What's it do then?" "It glows pretty colors to tell what your heart's doing." ... "Kids, our new word for today is defenestration and we have a wonderful example to provide for you to understand its meaning..."
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  97. Heh, got a few of those in my day. My usual response is, "Funny, you'd think that they would've mentioned the warrant when I was in the agency's building working". Nearly as bad, getting a call from someone with an Indian accent, "I am Microsoft". I keep a keyboard onhand, not connected to anything so I can be heard tapping away their suggested commands, "Nope, isn't working. Nope, command not found. Nope, syntax error. Are you sure these commands work on a Cray?" I really love to waste their time. No, I don't own a Cray supercomputer, couldn't afford that kind of electric bill. ;) But, everything here runs Linux, so I'd be quite impressed if any of their Windows commands worked on my systems!
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  98. "Oh, my condolences, as the gas van just pulled up for you".
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  99. And to do that for which others get charged with extortion with.
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  100. Warranty void if you make the mistake of actually trying to use our product as intended.
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  101.  @Amberion  aw, I'm sure that they'll happily store it safely for him, for a nominal fee.
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  102.  @phillipharris8159  then demand the fine be paid by the newly bankrupted citizen, I mean prisoner.
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  103.  @jamesleung0  or he simply lost his paperwork over the course of a long life. Guess he should have his life confiscated, huh?
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  104.  @WitnessingTyranny  yep, let that unlawful arrest impact the town/county budget deleteriously and watch the unlawful actions swiftly cease or the department runs out of payroll money.
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  105.  @bengraham6015  we used to take care of such creatures with a fence rail and a bit of rope. Ride them out of town on a cold night, minus their clothing. It worked before we were a country quite effectively. Or my alternative, a grand toxic waste dump before they can notice or stop me, then good luck finding me later and no more tax payments or mortgage payments, let the bank and town fight over the toxic property.
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  106. If one can prove to the court that a Tesla has no gas tank, arrested and charged with stealing the electric car's gas tank.
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  107.  @b1gsteve251  when every SOB in office is under threat of a pissed off public replacing them, there's plenty of incentive. The incentive to the public, increased taxes to cover those penalties. It's warfare 101. Make the fight so damned expensive, disruptive and destructive to the other side that they'll beg for peace.
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  108. I'd have gone with replicating an M2 .50 BMG barrel, albeit a touch longer for the two foot footer. The footer, not being well specified being 12" thick, reinforced 10000 pound test concrete, a foot below the surface and ten x ten feet, to ensure that the box couldn't possibly tilt into the roadway proper.
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  109.  @MikesTropicalTech  I still have my military ID card, so I'm good, but if he has a veteran health ID card from the VA, he should be golden - per DHS. Still feels like I'm in some dictatorship though, where "Travel Papers" can be demanded...
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  110. Naw, there's worse. Blog, wait for a fine notice, then sue for damages over their shredding the very first amendment and enforcing their laws in other states. Just to make their stupidity cost the taxpayers of Florida significant money, hopefully enough to irritate them into voting for mentally competent individuals for a change.
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  111. There was no precedent made, the judge simply upheld a longstanding precedent. A closer example is, the employer decides to cease paying the workers completely, but wants the court to force them back to work.
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  112. First, it's one judge, not multiple judges. Second, it's a state court matter and hence, "citizens of the USA" is irrelevant, it's "citizens of Georgia". So, we'll let things play out, as the state supreme court has been informed and found sufficiently for the defense counsel to release him pending trial and that will quite annoy those jurists, as appearances of impropriety smears their bench as much as the offending jurist's bench is smeared. I wise old police sergeant was issuing police badges and credentials at the police academy graduation. Before he did, he advised all of the rookies, "Whenever you do something wrong, you not only smear your own badge with shit, you dip mine into shit as well. Please don't dip my badge in shit".
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  113. The newer models are more efficient, not more reliable. One can have both, but few would be willing to bear the much higher cost. :/ I would, largely because of having to replace the contents of fridge and freezer at the most inopportune of times. Twice.
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  114. The layout design can be copyrighted, novel construction components can as well, although they also have to comply with the standards you mentioned, as well as local and state building codes. But, the blueprint being denied to the homeowner, that's novel enough that if I were facing that, I'd have a bulldozer to remove the offending construction, then sue the living shit out of the builder and design firm for having to redo their deficient work, as with no knowledge on what I required to complete my home, as stipulated prior to purchase, the work is deficient by lack of appropriate documentation and had to be replaced at their cost - plus punitive damages. Seriously, the design plans of the home are more secret than the construction of a frigging hydrogen bomb, what an absurdity!
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  115.  @rustyrebar123  no, they have qualified immunity. So, she'll not even get an apology, just a thanks for her service, denial due to conviction for medicaid, then sat under a bridge. To then be arrested for vagrancy. Well, until she litigates, then her attorney wins.
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  116. These dealings are precisely like an incompetent armed robber. "Give me all of your money and I'll kill you!" "Don't you mean OR you'll kill me?" "No! Either way, I'll kill you." The only winner is the lawyers. I think that Shakespeare had a good point...
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  117.  @dontaylor7315  oh, I do bite. But, I reserve that for those who are exceptional, as I've never suffered fools well. For the ignorant, facts and educate treat their condition with education. But, I'm not above sarcasm or hyperbole when it suits my needs. ;) Old Army NCO, NCO's are educators first, disciplinarians last.
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  118. Well, did the same thing for a living for many years. You'd be surprised to learn how many people haven't mastered rightie tightie, lefty loosey. Or how to hammer a nail and not their own fingers. Personally, when I did have a house, I made sure it was numbered and that the curb had the address painted on it.
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  119.  @egondro9157  what a fascinating invention out of whole cloth! You do realize that we document history and we record laws? Corporal punishment was outlawed in the US military in 1869. I joined in 1981, but served with Vietnam War veterans and was trained by them. What was known to happen back from WWII onward until the '80's at latest was an occasional "we'll take the rank off and discuss this behind the barracks", which basically turned into, if the subordinate won the fight, he'd find out quickly that that rank never did come off. The rest of the "agressive, confrontational and tough" is pure blather, especially "officers are supposed to be gentlemen", as officers end up fighting as well, then and now. Why do you post about shit that you know nothing whatsoever about? At least I served for 28 years!
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  120.  @voiceofreason-ct1nm  detecting that which cannot be present isn't a mistake, it's a lie. Something cops are infamous for doing, even getting caught lying under oath without repercussions that'd land mere mortal men in prison.
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  121. Why waste soldiers time? Just give them a ride on the M1911 express.
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  122. Been getting around one per month over the past four months. Marked each one as spam, report and the app automagically deleted them.
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  123. It makes me lose faith in our nation, to be brutally honest.
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  124.  @falxonPSN  yeah, I was scratching my head on the geography pretty hard, from my apartment in Harrisburg, PA. That's just a lot of rearranging the state's geography to make the suggested route work! I think the folks in Erie would be a bit surprised to see Pittsburgh turn up next door.
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  125.  @atomicsnarl  next to Jimmie Hoffa, who remains alive and well. I actually saw many flying saucers over the years. Boy, were we thankful when that incessantly fighting couple moved out.
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  126.  @VideoArchiveGuy  because over time they do recoup their costs. They don't pay what they bill, if you think that, you know nothing whatsoever about business! Still, for an office building or better, complex, I'd be getting competitive bids from multiple providers and cable humping crews. That always lowers the end costs and for such properties, the companies will bid in for the contract.
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  127. When did the fourth amendment only apply to half of the nation?
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  128.  @littlejohn-pi7kk  no drawbacks? A false positive results in full suit alert and check, a false negative results in dead service members. Equal reward results in no expectations by the dog than being rewarded for doing what it was trained to do, without bias. But, you know how much about EOD in the military and their canines? Worked with them much? Which end of a ring main do you interrupt first?
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  129.  @richardross7219  M821 were mortar carriages. M812 was the 5 ton. My DA form 348 had "5 ton and below", SEE Combat Engineer (Small Emplacement Excavator, basically a Case front loader in front and backhoe in the rear deck of a Benz small truck), M113, Stryker, a few other odds and ends. We started with two models of 5 ton, one with a manual transmission, the other with automatic. Licensed on both. We had skid resistant tape on top of the bumpers to prevent slipping off on dew. That CARC paint is slicker than snot with the morning dew on it! Your M821 was part of the M809 series, which were replaced with the M939 series. Did see one get stuck in 1992, blizzard dropped 3 feet of snow, one inattentive driver got the floorboards hung up on the snow bank on the side of a road. Thankfully, a friendly civilian with a wrecker helped pull him out, shaking his head the whole time. Oh, both used the same spec Cummins engine. Wikipedia has a nice article on each, the M809 and M939 series.
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  130. Is a jack normally found inside of a house? What chemicals does one use to change a light bulb, which requires significant disassembly? Screw it, I'll just do what's worked for me, avoid California. Too expensive and invasive, nonsensical laws in some communities. And well, my house is notable for having all kinds of "odd" tools, which would decidedly make my home use of said tools unlawful.
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  131.  @b0rd3n  as Steve himself has often said, "You can sue a ham sandwich, doesn't mean you'll get anything out of it". In this case, the reasonable person hypothesis is the best test. After all, if the insurance company was liable for the injury of an STD, would they also be liable for an unwanted pregnancy and rearing of the resultant child? Absurd, but that line of non-reasoning would then be valid. Although indecorous, I'd have probably played "Hit the road Jack" after reading the decision to dismiss...
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  132.  @michaellowe3665  in other words, disabled people need to avoid LV. No problem, there are inclusive communities with casinos. Although, if that view were officially reinforced further, a number of important military bases in Nevada would end up on the BRAC short list. But hey, you want the Nevada Test Site back, don't you?
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  133. That's entirely crazy talk, that whole welfare clause only being for government and big business or some other hand wave.
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  134. Nope, send it to the bar and have them either disbarred or the bar association accepts the disgrace in the eyes of the populace.
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  135. Too late. Google's search quality has been declining for half a year, with many errors that look suspiciously like chatbot AI induced errors. While all are eager to latch onto "hallucination" for the term, the closest medical term is a common thing in those with dementia, confabulation. It's precisely the same issue in a human that happens with the AI. Never happened, but was ginned up by a badly confused brain that looked for a memory, couldn't find it, so invented it for the occasion, unknown to the owner of said brain. Although, in this case, it was like the attorney handed a 9 year old the case, then asked the 9 year old if their work was good, then vouched for it unseen. The court cannot accept the excuse, as the attorney is an officer of the court and accepting such a bogus excuse would undermine the credibility of the court itself and by extension, all courts.
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  136.  @michaelshrader5139  refused depositions and subpoenas is contempt of court. Declined under specific grounds, the courts may well allow. Even in the strange, exotic foreign land of Texas. ;)
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  137. The law also touches on property rights. Social media companies are not the government, so censorship actually isn't possible, given the legal definition of censoring. Were the concept expanded, one literally could never throw a guest out of your home during a party for verbally starting altercations.
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  138.  @jamesbehrje4279  and the prostitution for pressing such charges - using very real fire. After all, the covids might've kidnapped the kids and fed them to thunderstorms infested with venomous snakes with the space aliens supervising or something. Sherman obviously took it too easy on Georgia and reconstruction was halted far too prematurely.
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  139. Maybe you need to fertilize with a few pounds of yellowcake. It'll take care of the "offending" garden and everything in the neighborhood being blighted by something they can't easily detect. Well, unless they're looking for uranium... Still, it's a common enough element, present in most granites. :P
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  140.  @kevmontgomery4849  I'd have settled for the farmer tilling the manure into the soil and call it a day after I reseeded.
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  141. Let's see, you've announced it, so that's premeditated murder, abuse of a corpse, concealing human remains, unlawful burial of human remains. So, you have property open for someone else to squat in while you're enjoying life in prison. Compared to say, going to a district magistrate and filing an eviction of an unlawful occupant on your property and having the law remove them.
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  142. It's even uglier. How is he to retire? He'll never be able to save enough in a 401k or social insecurity, so he'll work until he drops dead.
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  143. It's literally the same with a dementia patient, where it's called confabulation. Entirely unconscious, but a very real phenomenon.
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  144. I'll just say, windows for showrooms are rather expensive... I'd be eating dinner with a judge though, so obviously I'd know nothing whatsoever about what happened.
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  145. Well, they don't want to put the pothole installer out of work.
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  146. Had more than a few wheelchair bound individuals who insisted on doing it themselves. Pissed them off when I got the door for them, to no end. Then, I explained, someday, it'll be me and I'll appreciate the effort. Nearing that now, literally. So, I do appreciate the door holding and still hold the door for those less fortunate. Park in my space, do enjoy finding your valve stems beside your tire. I'm a nice guy, just not all that nice. Do wonder how your spare got flattened as well. Picking locks is a hobby... And being a Dad, I know, sometimes one has to be a dick.
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  147.  @KameraShy  which is precisely why they have courts. In many cases, those older agreement and treaties were replaced by the EU accords.
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  148.  @susanfender307  sir, hell! I work for a living! ;)
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  149. @Richard Cranium that'd be my wife and I. Our kids are grown and have homes of their own. So, we don't need 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, den, mud room, rec room, separate laundry room, main engineering, auxiliary engineering, photon torpedo room, electron microscope room, 50 shades of plaid room and my guns don't need their own damned room. So, tell me I need to essentially build a McMansion, enjoy the nation's newest cobalt-60 repository. With many open sources to deter trespassers. For those ignorant of cobalt-60, it's a rather hard gamma radiation emitter. If any leaks into the water table, guess they'll need a majority of residents well over 50% complaining about the blue glowing water. Or put up with a town full of large green angry residents... ;) If I can't get the NRC permit, which is iffy, storing and composting castor bean mash from the castor oil companies would suffice. I'm sure that one of the most toxic biotoxins around would degrade quickly... In short, be a dick and a damned nightmare for the town.
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  150. The Army used to have the arms room access control list posted on the vault door, complete with the CO's social security number. I had a word with someone at division, since there was no real interest at the union level and I had ran into that person one day and mentioned it. They talked to someone upstairs, who called Big Army, who changed the guidance. What should have been used is the EDIPI, aka their "serial number", which is prominent on the ID card, as well as in their digital signatures. A couple of years later, I took a civilian job overseas on one of our bases and became the IASO for our base (information assurance security officer). Managed to keep us out of a major network mess from a foreign APT (advanced persistent threat), all from just ensuring everything was properly configured, the laws and policies being followed. Ugly mess, glad to not get jammed up by Buckshot Yankee. Those afflicted got tons of work and additional hours cleaning it up, I went home on time and a normal workload, all from doing a little bit more work initially.
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  151. I hereby sentence you to one solid kick in the gonads. As to policy, it goes unchecked, axle checks go unchecked, On every abundance in existence. Perpetually on every mandated run.. I'm a dick to work for, but easy to work with. I was an NCO in the military. Got a problem with god-cops, got a problem even more with abuse of office. Got a bigger problem with offices creating a problem via abuse of office. Immediate problem being dealing with such mismanagement. It all boils down to leadership or, well, misleadership.
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  152. BTW, how many centuries will CPS now be humping her leg? Kid will be 43 and they're still harassing mom over the non-issue... Hey, if one cannot trust the judgement of a local government in that one area, how can you trust them in any other?
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  153.  @jeromethiel4323  yeah, it's greedy and utterly unreasonable to expect one's own government not to dump hundreds of pounds of debris through one's home, since we routinely do that to foreigners or something. That type of thinking resulted in France adopting their National Razor for quite a few years.
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  154. And a test, as someone testing is quite literally extorting money that they're really not owned, as they're not the one being injured. Meanwhile, I go to a small business and walk with a cane, having some issues at times navigating and am reasonable enough to realize a mom and pop operation can't afford to install ramps out of the blue, save if they're getting work done on the entry.
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  155.  @jaysonlima7196  yep, the more things to sign, the worse the penmanship grows.
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  156. There, there, Chatbot. Have a sip of water and calm down...
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  157.  @pablohammerly448  I didn't name the company, I merely said that I'd do business with Century 22. ;) Take a wild guess what company is guilty.
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  158. The United States of America does indeed have the absolute best government that money can buy. Or at least affordably rent, if one has deep enough pockets to pay the dockets.
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  159. Bucks County, PA, around 30 years ago or so, a farm and some homes were eminent domained by the county for a shopping mall. Litigation ensued, the land was taken, the homeowners and farmer SOL. So, not exactly a novel practice. This simply made it to the SCOTUS, who found that a man's castle belongs to whoever the municipality, county or state damned well fells like giving it to to turn a buck. One remaining farm was under threat and matters went slightly different, as residents of multiple counties finally became outraged. It seems, that the general public consensus was that the courts were worthless, but a few remarked how inexpensive lead was and the farm remains there to this day. It would seem that the officers who made the decision to apply eminent domain to benefit private real estate developers decided to not potentially share Louis XVI's fate. Or maybe it was the ghost of Christmas Future... Never underestimate the folks around Philly. To my knowledge, we're the only US city to have artillery used by the populace against other members of the populace and also got away with killing members of the militia sent in to restore order during the Philadelphia Nativist Riots. Although, the Bronx has the distinction of having US Army artillery used against it during Bowery rioting over the Civil War conscription (wealthy bought their way out of conscription, which triggered the rioting). Although, I do wonder about how much of a part whisky played in starting the whiskey rebellion, which took no less than George Washington riding out of the capitol to meet the responding militia from other states to suppress. History is a rather interesting thing! It can be entertaining or downright horrifying.
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  160. I know quite a few cops that'd then go super gung-ho in admiring the snake and complimenting you on it.
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  161.  @mikewurlitzer5217  maybe you should consider saving that money by not starting wars in the wrong country "because he tried to kill my dad". Just an idea. Or ignoring a fucking pandemic "because the numbers make me look bad". Or that whole buying a bunch of ships that, on their first deployment, have cracks that resulted in them being condemned. Or even learning that states charge registration fees, not the federal government.
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  162. No, but the stockholders might be a wee bit interested in why a half million dollars in attorney fees and court fees were spent to save $500 and worse from both PR value and investment dollar perspective, lost massively. That's like buying a city block of dilapidated houses that are condemned, detonating a tactical nuke to demolish the structures and crowing about the massive profits that'll be had when they can build new housing there in a few centuries.
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  163.  @leo29hornsfan  wrong. Had a property trash accumulation charge from inherited property. When trying to rent a home in a state that I moved to, I was denied rental "because you're a criminal, you have a record". Something shocking to me, given my security clearance being active. Suffice it to say, that real estate office has since folded, as no referrals from our local military base housing were allowed again and the home owner, who insisted on such a travesty gets regular inspections of the property, out of an abundance of caution over the safety of the tenants. Don't get mad, don't get even, get ahead and take the shoulders with it.
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  164.  @terrybronning3532  try again. Remember that supremacy clause in the federal Constitution? REAL ID is a federal Act of Congress. What some states haven't done is require REAL ID for residents and specifically, foreign residents who are legally here and hence, don't have to prove citizenship. Meanwhile, I can pull his name up in JPAS and still likely find his TS clearance from when he was a sonarman. They don't give out TS clearances to illegals.
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  165. There was a recent report of the feds visiting (oddly, in some cases reported in the media as a raid, which they weren't) retail establishments, including Walmart, to inspect their card scanners. Recovered were many illicit card scanners that were glued to the store's card reader.
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  166. Additionally, your Honor, the aircraft itself was a separate legal entity, so our airline cannot be held liable for any of our passengers that boarded and died aboard it, regardless of who holds the title for said aircraft.
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  167. "Of course he's off his rocker, he always was, he's a lawyer after all".
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  168. OK, so those scars I've had for 40 years will go away any day now. First, this targets mastectomy patients, so one cannot get a nipple tattooed on. Sounds like an ADA violation to me, good job Kentucky! Add in, scars or moles, that outlawed tattoos for the majority of the human population of this planet, everyone has moles and scars all over the place. So, it's a law essentially outlawing tattoos, save for very, very few, resulting in a law that'll be ignored by the populace, as prohibition was.
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  169.  @wolfrig2000  I note a dearth of janitors having anything to do with said fridge. As Dad used to say, "Leave the dog alone!".
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  170. Boy, am I glad that I lost my storage unit, as I had three cats in it that I just didn't get around to recycling. Now, I'd be accused of stealing my own catalytic converters! If I replace the one that broke and failed on this minivan, I'll happily dump it into the river and avoid potential charges. As for antitheft, the damned things are welded to the exhaust pipes and get hotter than a cathouse on payday, can't think of anything that wouldn't set the vehicle afire to further protect them. Well, other than perhaps tripwires and high explosives. Sounds a bit extreme to me, although after having my entire house cleaned out while I was deployed, somewhat tempting. A little bit of Mad Max action and all. ;)
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  171. I can imagine that every case he's been involved with for decades is now being reexamined. It's beyond a serious breach of trust, when an attorney, an officer of the court, commits such breaches of trust, as it entirely undermines trust in our courts.
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  172. There are some things an inquiring mind does not want to know. ;)
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  173. No, the first amendment and the entire Bill of Rights are privileges, as every court has ruled.
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  174. I'm surprised that they didn't arrest the victim again, charging him with stealing his family's DNA.
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  175.  @sunbeam8866  yeah, it'd be like a room full of Furby dolls with fresh batteries.
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  176. Well, at least the client wouldn't give him any shit...
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  177. An additional question, when will they require registration and insurance on wheelchairs, motorized or not, then crutches and it's time to pick up my rifle when they tax and register my cane.
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  178. Most automobile insurance policies that I've had (yeah, I actually read them before I'd sign for them) insure against events that occur in relation to injuries or illness that arise from the proper usage of the insured motor vehicle. I honestly could not consider screwing part of the normal operation of a motor vehicle. If I'm sitting in a car and have a heart attack, that isn't covered, given sitting isn't operation of the vehicle or under other covered circumstances. Otherwise, it opens up even no fault insurance to become basic health insurance! Kid gets strep throat, just show a study that bacteria exist in cars and it's covered? If she became pregnant, does prenatal care, labor, delivery, child support and college for the car fall to the automobile insurer? If a jealous spouse caught their spouse in flagrante in the car and shoots the lover, does the spouse's automobile insurance have to cover that too?
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  179.  @KageShi  that's bleed that's partially rectified and amplified by the audio circuits. If he was using legal power, he'd not be interfering with anything. A quick call to the FCC typically cures them of their mischief. Or at least gets someone who knows what they're doing to properly tune their transmitter to the proper, authorized frequency and not splatter out slop at high power.
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  180. Nope. I'm like Roadrunner, never been caught. ;)
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  181.  @bvoyelr  well, it's obviously impossible for a county to perform a title search. That's just crazy talk. Which is the very first thing that is supposed to be done when transferring property, at least if done by a licensed realtor or attorney. So yeah, they bushwhacked through a forest of red flags, leaving the developer stuck with a yard full of rakes to run through.
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  182. When did SDNY gain authority over every other district in the land? Does that mean that all of the other districts can just shutter their courts and go home? There are 11 districts total, so this being a national blanket is decidedly odd! The SDNY is ordering businesses and individuals in DND to perform some action is far beyond their jurisdiction, as they're not the SCOTUS. Guess the SCOTUS can now go home too! For that matter, when did people become slaves to the court, to perform significant labor for no charge, merely by caveat of the whimsy of one district's court? Work performed by order without compensation is, by definition, slavery. We're talking 1589 top level domains, a fair number being foreign, plus any secondary redirects, guess we need to build the Great Firewall of China here now and block all foreign traffic for the godly judge. More like the story got blurred by that press outlet and honestly, it wouldn't be the first time that's happened. Technical journalists get jurisdiction and legal orders sideways often enough, as that's not what they normally cover. Case in point, I'm in the jurisdiction of the Middle District of Pennsylvania, which is under the 3rd circuit, SDNY is 2nd circuit. No jurisdiction, period. Given a choice of what's most likely, a district court judge lost his mind and thinks he's Napoleon or a reporter fouled up a story out of ignorance, well, never attribute malice to that with which could be more easily explained by incompetence.
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  183. "For answers to your questions on law, for correct answers, press 1, for incorrect answers, press 1, for random bullshit, press 1. Default all keys to redirect to 1... Call it a job well done, performed to specifications within the contract, as defined by 1.
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  184.  @Chris_at_Home  heh, my media server and file servers would likely bake you out of that home! For me, heating isn't an issue, cooling is. But then, the only folks that can compete with my computing power is the NSA and National Laboratories. :)
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  185. Yep, I royally fucked up serving in military defense of this failed nation for over 28 years of my life.
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  186. Well, I'm big on zero tolerance for abuse of any system. Period, end of story. And I'm largely zero tolerance on zero tolerance, typically. And was an EMT-P. The lights and siren are for a purpose, abuse that purpose, dilute the immediacy of response required by them, sort of dipping one's badge into shit, then wearing the shit encrusted badge. And all peers also now having to wear that shit encrusted badge. The lights and siren are a hugely visible badge of a Public Trust, a special place given by society to protect and guard said society. Abuse of that trust is an especially egregious offense. By the same token, if you're on lunch and I'm bleeding out, I'll wait for a response. While I have a necessity, you do as well. I'm an asshole, but I am an honest asshole and have plenty of blood. Seriously, enjoy your sandwich! Been there, done that, under rather austere conditions. Necessities of life are rights. You volunteer your rights when you choose to in support of others. And I've met only once a medic that wouldn't sacrifice a meal to save a life, that one didn't last long. By consensus. That said, any medic losing a meal on a call for me, your next three is on me, somehow. Preferred, bring the family and I'll cook.
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  187.  @BOFH_  estates are not perpetual. Once the estate is settled for the deceased, it's toast.
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  188.  @alanmcentee9457  I've heard both said south of the Mason-Dixon line. But, what is a tourbine? A turbine that suffered an uncontained failure.
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  189.  @jamesbarber5410  I've saw plenty of cases where the state told the court up front that it did not intend to appeal. So, that remains an honorable option.
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  190. As near as I can tell, I'll have free credit monitoring for the next 3 billion years. That counts from the OPM breach, where some comments were made that, if our IC clearance based career doesn't pan out, at least we can get a security clearance in China... The few class actions I did sign on to resulted in payouts ranging from $0.50 to $3.00, so frankly, I don't bother. Supposedly, I have $10k coming from one, but given the multiple delays, I'm not holding my breath.
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  191. I've held a security clearance for longer than many readers here have been alive. One critical thing sought by a background investigator isn't what one does, it's what one hides and refuses to admit to. If you hide it, you can be blackmailed for it is the theory that, sadly has proved true far too often. Hence, the admit to everything defense. And well, people forgive that which one admits to far more readily than that which one fails eventually to conceal. Hence, I freely admit to my porno stash of seven gigs of pirate porn involving a one legged parrot. Somehow, I strongly suspect there will be a sudden Google search for one legged parrot porn...
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  192.  @larrywest42  the Rob Roy method is far more efficient.
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  193. Actually went through kind of something like that. The idiot then started to open a clearly placarded secure parcel, with "What is this?", ignoring my classified documents courier card, I casually said, "Your telephone ringing", as I'd already sent my duress code and location. Phone rang and the idiot then tried to salute me with both hands. Had he actually opened the parcel, he would've been arrested under federal law for tampering with classified government property and that's all part of their training. Trained to know better, doing whatever he wanted to do under a false sense of empowerment, to find the federal government looking and frowning mightily.
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  194.  @bindingcurve  something I'm used to, as that's typical at my age. Can you guess which companies I don't do business with professionally afterward?
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  195.  @Avendesora  no, thank you, I'll just take a coupon for a few gallons of gasoline...
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  196.  @Absaalookemensch  well, the airline was originally a state owned airline, but it was privatized in the 1980's. The problem is, the larger an organization is, the less ethical it is in its decision making, as each level of interaction is farther divorced from its final results.
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  197. At the heart there is a lack of due care and due diligence in ensuring the correct property was being serviced.
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  198. All he's doing is trying to confuse the issues with silly little things like facts. Won't someone think of the children?!
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  199. And some wonder why I let my EMT-P lapse. Honestly, when I've had to use an ambulance, now twice in as many years, I remain surprised. Firstmost in life in the USSA is God-Cops, last, support. Not in that chain, you're fish food. The fun begins with, my primary job was counterterrorism, so closely dealt with real terrorists. Find common ground is a mantra in that business. Not liking this trail at all. Not trusting those anointed to guide us out of this path at all, given both parties get paid by the same interests. Yeah, not a clue, anyone? Hopefully, before we start burning "defective" citizens, like another fascist nation did? One lead complained about my many mistakes in learning in a novel for me environment. The man he complained to was a senior instructor in actual federal course work on said subjects. The instructor gently advised him, "He makes mistakes, but doesn't repeat them and adjusts according to his mistakes". I'm a dummy, but Dad didn't raise no fool. In short, I play dumb, ain't any dumber than you, and I'm usually the smartest idiot in the room. Sorry about your drink.
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  200. No, it's within reason to enforce copyright law and issue a default judgement for refusal to appear before the court, assuming that the operators of the offending site were properly served. I suspect it got a journalist's wash, the journalist being a tech correspondent and hence, lousy at reporting legal cases. It's about as bad when legal correspondents write a story about tech stuff, it gets all muddled and mangy, when the actual orders of the court were fairly straightforward. The providers can report back, they do not control the .tv domain, which belongs to the sovereign nation of Tuvulu. Verisign owns the .com top level domain and they're out of Reston, Virginia. As I recall, even if not under the jurisdiction of a court, their TOS was to delete such an offending entry under their corporate policy, so that'll likely go away anyway. Likely, to reappear under a foreign top level domain like Tuvulu, just as what happened with Pirate Bay, which is still out there. It then turns into a whack a mole thing, which the ISP's would then complain to the court over the excessive costs involved in compliance... Being internet and international, the best the courts can do is to become a pain in the balls to the offender and have them keep switching domains to those outside of the court's jurisdiction. Given that there are 1589 top level domains and most are foreign, yeah. But, the court did what it could do, which is all anyone can ask of the court.
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  201.  @albertstephen2426  which just continues a long, fine tradition. The United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy. But, there is the upside of the tradition of Rob Roy.
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  202. @prairie mark well, psychology in general is a field rife with the jokes about the blind leading the blind. Me, I'm Master Po teaching Grasshopper how to drive. ;)
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  203. In that case, it was a garbage and property dispute and obviously not political violence. We kinda stop things before a national government is protecting a Lord of the Land, ya know? That's largely under common law that was inherited from the UK at the inception of the nation.
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  204. I'm on so many lists it's absurd. When checked, I'm sure that the conversation that ensues is, "Jesus, this guy's clearance is higher than ours is!".
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  205.  @MrDLRu  you failed in not knowing the difference between do and due, as well as propagating the gold is magic myth.
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  206.  @rb0090  further. Further. Further. Keep going until you're out of he door...
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  207. There are plenty of instances where I've told guests in my house to stop speech that would've started a fight with other guests. Texas would hold that I'd have to allow things to devolve into a fight and I suffer the damages of a fight within my own home, as I'd not have the right to halt things before damage from fighting occurred and the troublemaker could sue if I even tried. I have property rights, so do social media companies.
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  208.  @InanaNinsianna  well, it is in that exotic place, Pennsyltucky. Alas, a place of some familiarity to me.
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  209. @Mister Bister and the lot of this is state law, not federal law.
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  210. If the signal is blocked, it's blocked when one has a jammer. Only higher power can get past jamming. But, there are access control programs that can disable the device's wireless drivers upon command or schedule. Hell, the software is actually cheaper than a jammer and not illegal.
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  211. Well, the claim should be made by the 65 people, as they possess everything on the ground, they obviously own all of the ground and hence, county.
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  212. Hyundai and Kia recently agreed to settled a $200 million class-action lawsuit over vehicle theft issues. It covers Kia and Hyundai models from 2011 through 2022 with a traditional “insert-and-turn” steel key ignition system. Yeah, sounds like a pair of brand names to avoid like the plague.
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  213. Oh no, don't bury human remains in the garden. Pig farms are far more efficient.
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  214.  @jplum7708  I do remember when one had to put a dime, later a quarter into a lock to get into restroom stalls. Around the same time, Krazy Glue became popular and the two met, due to the popularity of having to pay to poop (or for ladies, pay to pee). Well, that and even having the locks sledgehammered off of the stall doors...
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  215.  @shannonp1656  better than the cases quietly settled, where the person that was hypoglycemic simply woke up in front of Saint Peter and the department kept most quiet.
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  216. Yep, appeals exhausted, tough shit, share a prison with the actual criminal.
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  217. Especially, as the music was on the program for the activities, hence a valid part of the game activities, as agreed to by the school administration. When did a ground keeper become the school superintendent and school principal's boss? The "justification" was to get people to leave the stands and field, so turning off the lights is a rather odd method of safely doing so. Were I in that band, I'd have abandoned my instrument and uniform and quit the band, stating to the administration that I am no longer able to safely participate in the activities, as music is illegal.
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  218.  @kurtwetzel154  no, just not in the driver seat. It's not illegal to be a passenger in a motor vehicle if one has a suspended operators license. Otherwise, we'd be banning people from riding on buses, ambulances and hell, even a hearse.
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  219. We had snow geese make a permanent nesting ground around a local man made lake. Laughably, there was a sign warning to not feed the wildlife - right over a set of gumdrop machines that dispensed birdseed. Well, one gander started becoming a problem, chasing people and cars about. He chased everyone, well save me. He charged and I looked and said, "You're welcome to be the center honor of our dinnertable" and refused to cede ground to him. Given it was a dominance display and I was a wee bit larger than him, he swiftly gave up the display. Just as well, I can just picture the paperwork nightmare over a newly roasted gander on my table... Eventually, the town relocated the flock and lake use massively declined. I guess people missed being chased by the gander. ;)
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  220. The only way that being armed would've protected him is if he was armed with and wearing a main battle tank. Still, the toxicology could take a few weeks to complete and in any major metropolitan area, the list is fairly long and delays results. The autopsy results await the toxicology test results, as that's part of the autopsy data. But, that callous of a response would result in the bastard quickly learning what I did in the Army.
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  221. Indeed, from that the could also bounce a laser off of a window and listen in to everything said in a room. Is space based surveillance also OK now? But, you're safe if you got the big bucks to put a privacy fence, after getting a variance to do so, with a locked gate across your driveway. In other words, the wealthy have rights and we peons only have guns.
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  222.  @kn4cc755  how can the federal government pay awards it cannot have to pay, per your explanation? Because, the government would first have to give permission for litigation to continue, waiving its immunity due to misconduct (typically, when an agency was caught dead to rights misbehaving). Indeed, Steve actually glossed over the defense argument and judge tossing it, as the state was attempting to enforce, rather late in the game, immunity. One exerts immunity at the onset of litigation, not in mid-stream, when it's implied by accepting proceedings that one has waived said immunity in many jurisdictions. I've had foreigners massively confused with federal, state and local laws, as they're unaccustomed to a weak central government. Easiest explanation is "treat it like 50 nations under one federating weak government, rather like the EU". The confusion evaporated.
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  223.  @richardross7219  overused M designations is an understatement at times. What they did was branch the M designation out, so one buys an M<whatever> truck chassis, then has a specialty device attached, be it a hut, bridge, wrecker, flatulence containment unit, etc. OK, nothing retains my flatulence, I've been tagged REF. Retired, Extremely Flatulent.
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  224.  @richardross7219  the problem is, one could never hope to slow or stop it, as dumb possesses infinite momentum. Largely due to the infinite mass of asses leading it.
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  225. There is are concepts, wage being irrelevant, of due care and due diligence. You touched on them without realizing it. Due care being actually rendering care that is appropriate for that which one has taken responsibility for. So, the bags were brought into a room to be stored, rather than out in the elements, where they could be damaged or stolen. That was rendered - right until they let the man go shopping without even identifying him. Due diligence, in this case, no due diligence was applied, as they ignored the baggage check ticket being absent, didn't bother positively identifying the man claiming the bags and allowed him to take whatever baggage he desired. Ignored security procedures are no security procedures, since if they're not followed, they really don't exist. The amount ordered was beyond low and the legislature should address that, before businesses and individuals refuse to do business within the state due to risk of losses via uncompensated thefts. Remember, some businesses don't practice best practices, so some could literally have their entire company' business papers, documents, contracts and more on the portable data equipment and the loss would literally obliterate the business. The ludicrous thing is, the hotel likely spent $150k to save a couple of thousand dollars, netting a much greater loss. I can't think of a single business school that would teach that that was a good idea!
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  226. And to create a nearly impenetrable barrier to interstate commerce. Consider a diamond courier, cops feel like diamonds, the jewelers will just have to do without while the cops fence, erm, auction the diamonds off eventually. Now, entertaining is, if they decided to grab computers and packets of diplomats or classified documents couriers... For one, a major diplomatic incident, for the other, theft of US government property and unlawful distribution of classified information. And couriers do get stopped on a regular basis, they present their credentials, courier card and placarded item(s) that have an outer cover over the placard. Open the outer, see the placard and if you proceed, Here Be Dragons.
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  227. @stizelswik3694 "I thought he was dead". "He got better".
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  228.  @maxsdad538  the unlock code is in the individual's mind, just as a combination to a safe is and the latter enjoys case law providing protection. Worse, some crypto systems offer duress codes, which wipe the unit securely when the duress code is entered.
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  229. Qualified immunity, so well, you can't sue Daleks.
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  230. As it should be. One should never be involved in investigating a crime one had any involvement with, it tends to create biases that can blind one to facts that may be uncomfortable and lead to incorrect assumptions.
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  231.  @justinmiller5660  erm, sauerkraut. Got a bunch of cans and jars of the shit, gifted to me for reasons incomprehensible, given my name. It's OK on rare occasions, but pasta or canned crushed tomatoes would be more appropriate. Still, in response, "Very well, your honor. Do enjoy holding your breath, as I consume that kraut and a can full of beans".
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  232. That'd go on appeal - right after my financial crimes consultant (amazing the spectrum of people one meets in government service over the decades!) reviews the jurist's finances. Then, begin a parallel construction on any poisoned fruits... Good enough for the DoJ, good enough for me.
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  233. To an extent, but overall, it's been exasperated by isolation from the pandemic. Just because I may exclaim "Shit in a coffeepot" does not mean that I'm inclined to do so, dammitall!
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  234. Same here, though the population of our city was 4208000 and no tunnel or gas station, plenty of stores though. But then, that was in a strange exotic land called 1960's Philadelphia. In the 1970's, we moved out to the suburbs, with a longer walk to and from elementary and later, high school of a couple of miles and around 2 3/4 miles. Oddly, no need for an armored escort or something, no need for mom or dad to escort my every damned step. Only now, when they now want electronic monitoring and perhaps, a telescreen to the thought police.
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  235. Some countries consider lockpicks as a military weapon, others simply forbid everyone, including locksmiths permission to own lockpicks. So, in some countries, if you are locked out of your house, either you call the military or live outside and be arrested for vagrancy.
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  236. Well, TBH, I'd probably have forwarded that one up the chain of command as well, just so that command knows what an idiot that individual is. And BCC my buddies in the office, minus any PII. Although, if you were to drive back from Alaska to the rest of CONUS, you'd need a citizen ID card as a minimum to pass through that corner of Canada, depending upon tensions. At one point, Trump riled Canada up enough to require that passport card. That's saying a lot, as even both times we invaded Canada, they weren't that irritated. They simply politely escorted our defeated troops back and showed them their side of the border.
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  237. Naw, as one is responsible for that which one owns and hence, has control of, the officers just ceded ownership of the entire county to the 65 victims of their whimsy.
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  238.  @mr.behaving  odd, the folks in the Carolinas and Florida aren't shuddering.
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  239. Silver paint is easy to match - paint the entire damned car. ;)
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  240. The punching holes in gas tanks previously was saw during the '70's energy crisis. Many gas tanks got a screwdriver punched hole in them, the thieve occasionally caught with a filling gas can. A few, shot to death in the homewoner's driveway. Or course, there were shootings over people jumping the quarter mile long gas station line as well. I doubt that they got their gas tanks filled. The reason for the poking holes was twofold. Newer cars had and still have anti-siphoning measures installed in the filler line and siphoning took longer than poking a hole. Well, until a few got holes poked in them from a distance...
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  241. The camera is dicey on federal grounds, under state grounds, it's somewhat iffy.
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  242.  @MetroidChild  what? You don't need heat for propulsion, only a free lunch. ;) Seriously though, yeah, heat and pressure, get NOx and ozone. But, heat regeneration adds to the efficiency of the processes at that cost paying for the additional efficiency and costing a bit on the compression stage. Like all engineering, it's a balancing act. Catalytic conversion costs gas speeds for two reasons, one being restriction to allow contact with the catalyst, the other being time for the catalyst to react the gases to be converted. Yet another balancing act, which is far easier when one isn't using the combusted gases for propulsion, such as with a generator or ground vehicle power plant, spectacularly shitty for an aircraft, even with a high bypass engine. And don't get my started on heat regeneration and high bypass tradeoffs... Still, the OP made an erroneous statement, that one cannot do that which has been done at a cost in efficiency in output. Engineering isn't about ideal anything, it's tradeoffs to balance desired outcomes and achieving a specific goal. Hence, why we use neither an APU turbine, nor a 767 turbine to drive an M1 Abrams tank and vice versa, each is designed for specific task and purpose. All, while wishing for magic, which only exists in a baby's smile, which is tempered by the baby's diaper.
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  243.  @specialsause949  how fascinating that every court in the land, at every level has referred to various amendment privileges. So, go with the folks that write case law or the word of a random stranger on the internet? Let's see now, random strangers on the internet can't order me locked up in the house of many doors.
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  244.  @MyNewUserName47  obviously not! The authors of the Constitution lied and we're still King Charles subjects. GOD SAVE THE KING! Now, let's review, a random idiot stranger on the internet says one thing, every court in the land that ever was and currently says something different. Random strangers can't have me locked up, courts can, I'll go with the courts.
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  245. Well, let's see, my last official photo looked like the unibomber. Yay, Let's see! Given AI's inability to know white from black, that'll be fine fun. And any victory would be Pyrrhic, enough said. By design. Excuse any errors, had a stroke two days ago.
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  246. A double standard is indeed what is needed, for when a law enforcement officer violates the law, they've abrogated a position of great public trust. Who else do we trust with a firearm in areas where firearms are otherwise prohibited? Who else do we trust with powers of arrest? So, when such a great trust is abrogated by the willful commission of crime, a higher standard should always be applied. We do it to those we trust with national secrets, we can trivially apply that beyond our military and to our local trusted officials.
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  247.  @eldoradoboy  from what I've read, they noticed immediately and fuel in the lines and filters hadn't been exhausted, so re-engaging the fuel supply prevented the engines from shutting down at all. Thankfully, he didn't get the chance to discharge the fire bottle, which would've gunked up the engines to problematic levels. Fortunately, the fire handles are forward of the throttles and in the peripheral vision of both front seats between them. Still, they went from a ho-hum flight to 23 alarm fire in a few milliseconds, I'd have likely crazed the windscreen with profanity!
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  248.  @Ryan_DeWitt  is what you think relevant to what the algorithm "thinks"? Here's the answer, nope. It's part AI, you know, Artificial Idiocy, it goes off of keywords and whatever defective voodoo of the week is being utilized for its illogic. Of those not directly involved, as in victims, witnesses, etc, I've literally got one neighbor that I feel badly for. Have yet to ever see him, don't anticipate seeing him, but I do feel badly for the governor of Pennsylvania. The governor's mansion literally being three blocks from my home. You know for sure, he got very little sleep last night as law enforcement investigates and reports.
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  249. No, he committed the black heresy of ignoring the god-cop's Lordly orders to cease, drop your instruments and abandon them and the property instantly. So, immediate punishment by Lordly Lightning is in order, as orders issued by Lordly Bull are to be instantly complied with and never questioned. At least, that's what many cops believe. Unlikely to get reigned in before people introduce those abusing authority to the French National Razor.
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  250.  @ohasis8331  it's a shame that you and reality are so utterly unacquainted.
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  251.  @Kyrinson  well, ideally, in a special cell under the jail. One so deep it takes sunlight a month to get down to it. Still, the fines will likely bankrupt the business and leave the owner facing significant personal losses, as it's kind of hard to pay a mortgage when one is bankrupted by penalties for multiple crimes.
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  252. Now, get the DA to file abuse of office charges, as well as misallocation of public money for political suppression. That, or the first amendment is dead for those who can't afford an attorney.
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  253. The only thing I want my fridge or freezer to remotely inform me of is if they fail. Before food spoilage and defrosting, thank you. Washer and dryer, I know how to frigging tell time and read a clock, I know when they're done. I may suck at basic math, but I'm not that bad!
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  254. The DoD has their own Starlink contract for a military oriented version of the service. It's encrypted twice, then allowed to exit the enclave, as is standard for DoD traffic. The network is entirely segregated for military usage. But worse, just transmitting anything gives away a warship's location, as the ocean is notable for its lack of transmitters. It's nothing to just toss a beam rider down a bearing to a transmission source and make it go away in a moment of fire, brimstone and thunder. And I did military information assurance, if just plugging in an unauthorized device is a major no-no, standing up your own network and network access point is beyond the call of big time no-no. Right up there with the idiot that actually bridged a classified network with the unclassified network and added a remote access point in order to administer both - promptly getting his clearance revoked and an immediate escort from the forward deployed base.
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  255. And if convicted, he'll gain new notoriety in having his picture in the illustrated encyclopedia for the article on "career suicide".
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  256. Would that they simply accepted the Marquess of Queensberry Rules. :/ Maybe done via "The Quiet Man" methods of disabiding said rules... But then, I'm just an old guy who walks with a cane. May the wild Irishman be wary and generous with the pot as I am. Yeah, I pick on everyone, even myself, who has zero genetics in that tiny island chain. And ancestors who generously fought on their backs whenever invaded. We fattened them up, killing them off with heart attacks. Now, all we have is just the mafia.
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  257. And qualified as hard labor. Rightfully so, I've peeled far too many faces from windshields, courtesy of drunk drivers.
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  258. There are two types of breach of contract, material breach and fundamental breach. A material breach would be, the hotel has a meal included with the room and doesn't have sufficient food for all rooms. A fundamental breach is, the hotel books say 100 rooms, then tells the travel agency to go pound sand, you'll not honor the contract. The difference is, most of the contract was fulfilled vs one has no hope that any of the contract will be honored. Of the two, a fundamental breach is fully recoverable with punitive damages added. If the loss of $30k is awarded and the judge assigns punitive damages as well, the agency may well be made whole. Unlikely, but occasionally courts sensibilities are so offended by such blatant objectionable behavior as to award punitive damages to discourage repetition. Personally, I say clean their clocks in court, then while dining with a judge, a Tesla in self-drive has an accident involving the building's cornerstone... But, that's my Sicilian side talking.
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  259.  @JKiler1  they'd hate me, the city would now be the proud owner of the nation's newest cobalt-60 storage site. Inspect to your heart's content, at your own risk. The upside, no need for street lighting, cobalt-60 glows in the dark. I actually did lose a house. I had gotten called away, some war thing and all, so I deployed and while gone, some enterprising individuals stripped out every inch of copper in the building. Wires, pipes, all gone. Redeployed home to find a shell. I let the city take the house, as there was no way to recover the damages for less than the property value. The city of Filthadelphia then assessed my payroll tax at thrice what was declared in my tax filings, compounding the amount "due" while I was deployed. Just another fuck you for your service to an ungrateful nation. And I refuse to do business with anyone within those shitty limits. The Commonwealth's singular shitty of the worst class. Yeah, still feel a bit salty over that mess.
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  260. In the US, we have, literally, multiple governments. We have community governments, county governments, state governments and a fairly weak federal government. All subordinate to the higher level constitution, so federal is primary, state next, the same with laws, with significant limitations on what the federal government can regulate. So, my local street is both a local road and county route, so both can regulate the speed driven on it. If the state or federal government tried to regulate that speed limit, they'd rightfully be told to go pound sand by the courts. I've enjoyed many a fine evening discussing our commonalities and differences in governments with subjects of the UK. Complicating things, well, add the Commonwealth Nations in, boy things can get interesting!
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  261.  @jesspeinado480  as I've said repeatedly here, it's been the law in this state for over six decades of my life. So, I guess I'll have to fix my time machine to do what you suggest.
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  262. I dunno, might have problems getting repeat customers.
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  263. Your 204 file? That numeric keypad got ya, huh? ;)
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  264. You do realize that federal, state and county all have different laws and scopes of authority? Federal law largely stops if property isn't traded via interstate transactions and transfers. Delivery of a product is most often a local transaction. Additionally, if a parcel is delivered by the USPS and one accepts that parcel that is not addressed to you, you'll be guilty of a crime at the federal level.
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  265. The worst I ever saw was when I and my crew were in D.C. for a meeting at a federal agency. Each of us used a different GPS, ranging from AGPS phones to full on car GPS units, every damned one had wrong information in the maps that made navigation impossible. We ended up picking up a map book instead. And don't say national security, that's bogus, as security by obscurity is not security.
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  266. I can't find Canada, as it's far too cold in the winter. ;) Obviously, I can't find Maine or well, anything north of my home state of Pennsylvania and I'm not terribly fond of its winters. But yeah, asking most in the US to point out Mississippi, they'd probably point to Utah. Of course, at one point, everywhere was Alabama, well, to one POTUS and his devotees... At that time, I was seriously tempted to copy that map with the sharpie marks and relabel every state as AL
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  267.  @niyablake  that's being generous. The only somewhat survivable seat in the vehicle is the driver's seat (the passenger got to sit on something with all the give of a cushion on steel, the rear, hit a pothole, anyone in the bench seats in the back will feel it with a vengeance. I used to hod onto the roof ribs, to suspend myself when we did hit a hole. Well, on the few times I didn't bump the driver and drive the damnable thing myself. As I was the primary trainer for the vehicle, yeah, I stayed out of the back as much as possible.
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  268.  @Billy-4226  having shat into mortar tubes (lined with a trashbag while camping), I admire his... Erm, dexterity. Especially so, given that I'm now age 62. Wholly shit! I'll just get my hat...
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  269.  @no_activity  especially given that nothing can go public domain for over a century under the new system. Thanks for fucking up even literature, Congress!
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  270. No, some older Jewish guy named Lazarus something or other.
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  271. My first question is, WTF are you doing patrolling in front of the police department? Waiting for shift change, rather than performing your duty? I think we'll approach dealing with this abuse of taxpayer dollars via the budgetary process... Especially, given forfeiture came into abuse. I quite like my local PD. Instead of escalating and "ensuring control" via any means, they resolve problems, at times with some significant effort on their part for all parties in non-violent events. Their response time, despite that, is phenomenally fast. When my wife of over 40 years died, after my first cycle of CPR, I called 911 and resumed CPR. I got to my fourth and had to stop to let the officer in, who checked and at a dead run, ran to his cruiser for an AED. EMS was a touch less responsive, since they're volunteer and have to come from home to collect equipment and respond, but she was down too long. I know AED's, I've received provider level ACLS training in the military, if an AED doesn't suggest a shock in a couple of cycles of CPR, it's very much not good. When the EMT-P finally arrived, around 20 minutes after the ambulance arrived, the scope told the story. I managed to not get sick until most had departed and only the officers remained. But, I've watched them help the homeless, even to the point of bringing food and water to them. And I'm damned sure they'd be calling parents, rather than confiscating cars for something like this. Which is tax money very well invested, rather than simply spent. The Chief is simply justifying his revenue generation. I'm known to rev my engine to warm the car up a touch faster, so I can melt ice coating my glass. Cite me, enjoy me turning the thing into a federal case level defense and litigation that'll tie up legal for decades, just on spite. I did do donuts on snow as a kid. I also did donuts on a street once, the damned accelerator dropped to the floor and stayed there, donuting the way and literally burning out the brakes, while shutting off the engine ended that mess. It was a company vehicle and the mechanic and I had quite an exchange that took the shop steward to break up before I bent a tire iron around his empty head... I went over the vehicle with a fine tooth comb every time that idiot touched the vehicle after that! @Steve, I defy you to make a Yugo tires smoke. :P:p:P:p:P:p Even at 18, if you want my tires to smoke, you'd have to set fire to them. Tires never have been cheap! Wanna interest me, show me power and acceleration. I'm more into power, tow the Grand Coulee Dam and I'll be impressed. ;)
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  272. "Shut up and mind your own business". Well, OK, but my spokesgun here isn't in the mood to shut up, so perhaps you should explain yourself before it speaks up? Your choice and all, it is a free country, after all and lead just really wants to be free. Oh, so now you want to identify yourself and show your work order. Very, very good, now you'll listen to my spokesgun's advice to await the nice officer, who will make a report on your willful destruction of the wrong property, its contents and its finished value at prime value. Have a great care though, lead poisoning mitigation in the US has long been well documented to have been an abject failure. Then, if the company wants to fight in court, a demolition crew gets dispatched to the owner's home - daily, until the courts instruct me to stop.
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  273. But, at least the justices are as pure as the driven yellow snow.
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  274. We stuck around after the trial, had some wonderful conversations with the judge and attorneys.
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  275.  @MonkeyJedi99  actually, it's extortion.
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  276.  @svenjorgensenn8418  name a statute that places crimes in numerical sets, such as 1 count of 10 murders, rather than 10 murders in one instance, rather than 10 murders over 10 consecutive days or at different locations in a spree, hence complicating such an absurdity by having multiple scenes in an instance.
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  277. Oh, George is probably still drinking, well, whatever they drink in the great beyond.
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  278.  @davidtherwhanger6795  given one vessel's requirement of 390 tons of fuel, that's larger than any truck load. But yeah, that's a month's end or quarterly bill. Which means that the company hasn't been paying their bills for quite some time.
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  279.  @metaljack866  assuming that they can keep their birds in orbit and prices don't increase to loft those tiny satellites into orbit and frustrate astronomers and orbital planning. The last geomagnetic storm killed 40 out of 49 satellites, which will now make a tiny set of light shows as they reenter the atmosphere and turn into undetectable air pollution.
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  280.  @reginaschellhaas1395  oops, using phone and my eyes aren’t what they once were. 19:18. Recommended from 19:5-18.
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  281.  @reginaschellhaas1395  or two intraocular lenses now, post cataract removal and both are for distance.
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  282. Except that the regulations changed, 14 - 17 is now optional and coverage has to be purchased. Deregulation is a good thing! Leaves kids abandoned in airports, which is good or something.
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  283.  @danr9584  who to watch out for? All of them. These days, it sounds like the only way to get a fair shake out of a builder is if you have their family as collateral. Real estate hostages, sounds ever so modern and civilized! If I ever retire, I think I'll retire to a civilized country.
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  284. Been getting them for the past four months, typically once per month, all for the PA Turnpike. Granted, my area code does tell that I am in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, however I don't own a motor vehicle.
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  285.  @greenvy2000  there is an incentive. I've cancelled a few orders, had my bank retrieve the funds and avoided the company for over six months repeatedly and things did get a little bit better, until the next misbean counter came along to "improve" things. Jeff, if there is any justice in this universe, will enjoy his balls roasting in hell for accepting such VP's. If not, I'll invent hell just for such CEO's. And shovel coal down for eternity. My version of heaven.
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  286. Guess I should've denied that cop with the AED entry when my wife coded then, huh? Good cops doing things right don't get headlines, only the idiots and sadists get headlines.
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  287. Almost as wonderful as a judge that ordered a defendant to plea guilty or face contempt.
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  288. That "joke" needed a lot of dirt thrown on it to cover it up. Alas, the ground was frozen. As were the fishermen's sinkers. Bob ain't been the same since either. Rod said, "Good luck finding me in the cold!", the rest, like the mayor's career is history.
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  289.  ralphferley2602  not quite. That fine will impact the company bottom line and executives have a fiduciary duty to the stockholders to generate profit. Lost profit for criminal reasons, such as this are a failure of that fiduciary duty and is actionable, criminally and civilly. The stockholders just need to force that iron to their feet.
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  290. I can picture in poorer neighborhoods, where there are food deserts, a hue and a cry raised over traffic control measures that lower access to the restaurant. Then, a headline appears that reads, "Food is illegal in ___" and riots occur. All over what is actually traffic control issues interfering with the rights of motorists not patronizing the business trying to travel. It only takes one troublemaker to grab attention for advertisements in their publication to fan smoldering flames into a conflagration. Our history is replete with such things, albeit in a time when the populace was less well armed. Yeah, I had that job before, to figure out just what could go wrong with any mitigation attempt. It kept a roof over my head and shit off of my shoes.
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  291.  @bergmanoswell879  one wee problem. Deportation requires a destination. For a foreign national, that's easy, returned to their original or last point of residence nation. For a US citizen that renounced, per international law, we can't involuntarily just transport them to some unsuspecting victim nation. So, they'd need someplace that won't reject him. Perhaps, Antarctica? Only because it'd be too expensive to transport him to the sun...
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  292.  @tieegg  well, you don't press charges or prosecute anyone, the District Attorney does, whether you want them to or not much of the time. "I won't press charges" literally means you won't testify against them. Still, if they're not under our laws, I fail to understand how they think that the police will come when they call, save under hypocrisy.
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  293.  @Lmfaocj  no, I'm sure that the payment was correct - likely for the last time.
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  294. Sounds like that office is overfunded.
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  295. So, in California, if the legislature writes a defective law, the bench may re-legislate the law. Besides, a bee is obviously a crustacean. Well, there are land crustaceans... California can send the legislature home, jurists have matters in hand. Otherwise, elephants are snakes, rocks are water and up and down are the same by law. Such can only result in the populace holding such laws and eventually, as they accumulate, all laws in contempt. Don't get me wrong, I'm all i for protecting endangered species, but defective laws are fixed by the legislature or we just pack it up and let the bench rule by fiat.
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  296.  @davidb6576  might I suggest he first assemble like minded peers and we borrow an MLRS battery? We called those "grid square erasers" in the Army for good reason.
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  297.  @johnmcmickle5685  it's a dark and ancient joke, the lights and siren are a cloaking device.
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  298. I've long said, the United States of America has the absolute best government that money can buy.
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  299. No, Steve. You'll land in France and be arrested for being a deserter from the French Foreign Legion. ;)
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  300.  @PatNeedhamUSA  why don't you go and try it, let us all know how it works out for you when you're released from prison.
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  301. Next week, suit will be filed for Chinese food not actually coming from China, followed by Vienna sausages not coming from Austria. Then, the danish makers will rename their products to bready kind of pastry or something. Frankfurters? Oh oh...
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  302. Whatever you claim gets tempered by your own remark of "murderous client's". Why do idiots incessantly undermine their own, otherwise winning cases? Oh! To give the barely competent a chance.
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  303.  @mattgayda2840  well, one's rights are protected by the second amendment. Just outgun the National Guard. And US Army... I'll sit over here and watch.
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  304. Actually, it guarantees that I'll not view any DaVinci works in the future, just out of spite over such abuses of public domain, which has been under concerted, protracted attack globally.
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  305. Yeah, but I honestly anticipated a larger exemplar of a can.
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  306. The laugh is, if one tries to get a rental in many states, the agent for the rental checks with a background check service. That service only checks if there was an arrest or charge and not the outcome, so she'll now be permanently denied rental. Learned that the hard way after my case was dismissed with prejudice, but that was used as "you were charged with a crime and we won't rent to you" - blurted out in the middle of a busy Century 21 office at a shout. The case, a misdemeanor case, brought in error. OK, reason has left the building? Same here, base housing stopped using that vendor and the office in a military town closed.
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  307. You want their authority expanded?!
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  308.  @joeshmoe6969  punisher? That's the court's job, hopefully the courts do their jobs.
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  309. There are three words I've used to get me out of trouble. I. Fucked. Up. We all do, at some point or another, so it's forgivable, even for the unforgivable. Still working on one fuck up, which is unforgivable and forgiven by a mother.
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  310. Lucky you! Our doctor's 20 miles away. The store and pharmacy is around 2 - 2 1/2 miles away, so walkable in good weather and impossible to walk in winter. For space, a decent kitchen, room for the wife to do her artwork and room for my computer lab (figure one computer rack and desk). The lab doubling to heat the home in winter, in summer would be the cooling pig of our home.
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  311. All they really need to do is call it bamboo sourced rayon and they're done. Rayon is cellulose from wood, period.
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  312.  @Zariel_999  yeah, had both. Now, have a retiree card that needs to be updated, as the new-new-new one is like the CAC card, minus the chip (dammit). After retiring (we were long on CAC cards by then), I contracted off and on, so got CAC cards each time. All have DOB on them and always did. But yeah, too complicated for some. They have date issued, date expired, DOB, benefits number and EDIPI number (boy, that throws them for a loop). Didn't have the heart to mention to them the Geneva Convention status on the card too. Oh, all are considered RealID compliant. It was funny though, I could sign out nuclear weapons with my active duty ID card, but some places wouldn't allow me to have a drink. Go figure.
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  313.  @Zariel_999  if memory serves, it was in the early to mid 90s that went away. Just as officers SSN's disappeared from things like arms room authorization letters that were posted to the arms room vault door. Posting someone's full name and SSN isn't a good idea at all, even back then.
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  314.  @LdyVder  and to grieving military families.
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  315.  @christophershields3788  unless the writ authorizes violence, that'd open the armed individual up to piracy charges. Or do we now seize ships via summary execution of the crew, like the pirates of old?
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  316.  @wmdkitty  and Jesus Christ was a carpenter, what's that to do with EMS idiots of questionable judgement stealing government property? That we should trust people with questionable judgement with our families lives? That anyone would question that assessment makes me question their judgement as well. Bad enough I've had to question my own of late, thanks be to hypotension with the newest BP regimen doctor's got me on...
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  317. @Alexandre Fumo nope, just read the story. Busy Saturday night, they were driving to locations Pokemon were "reported" in the game and were after Snorlax, to the amusement or lack thereof of the court. Obviously, the ancient Greek god Momus was feeling his Wheaties that night. Momus was the god of satire and mockery. Got kicked out of Olympus for his criticism of the other gods.
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  318. Lemme see, palpitations were likely, LOC ensued after physician notified him of an MI. OK, per the VA guidelines, in this specific case, there are absolutely zero emergencies possible, dead isn't even an emergency, but a desired outcome. While unconscious, one has a duty to report. Excuse me, while I mix more RDX into my political feedback...
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  319. Sure there will be change, just not for the better.
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  320. I call it what I can afford. The county's newest inlicensed toxic waste landfill.
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  321.  @livinginthepast7085  a lot of the South Philly mafia still live in Cherry Hill.
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  322. Just like the VA, to demand him call and notify them as to his sudden loss of consciousness, secondary to a myocardial infarction. The last time I looked though, the NIH defines an MI as an emergency, that whole dropping dead thing being a real risk. But, the VA tremendously improves one's sex life, because every time you turn around, you get screwed. Over the course of a 28 year long military career, I watched the VA budget get slashed by Congress, each and every year - including the first year of our GWOT, when men were coming back home missing pieces. Someone clued in the press that there was a shooting war and the VA budget was cut yet again and all hell broke loose and that funding was increased a bit.
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  323. Well, there is a very real effort of a fringe of a political party to make the US a Constitution Free Zone. I wish I was joking, but it's a very real fascist effort. My only explanation is, the WWII veterans are dying off, so they think recycling eugenics and fascism will work now, being forgotten. I've a solution from their playbook, double tap to the head. Because, summary execution is precisely how amused as I am and I never miss a shot. Wasn't in our unit budget. Don't want rights, don't get rights, double down and your family is toast. But then, I fought terrorists and they feared me. It ain't what you will do, it's what they perceive that they fear that you may do that counts. Although, I do have few limits now. Preserve the nation, intact. As contentious as we can and are. And leave things a little better for our grandkids. Judge should be disbarred and impeached, with damages awarded sufficient to leave judge homeless. Literally.
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  324. "OK, you can't tell me, you claim it's salvage despite legal documents saying otherwise. I'll find out during discovery or Tesla will default in court and I'll get a brand new car for free, as this looks, tastes and smells like fraud. My lawyers are bored anyway". Oddly, one gets any other RV, one isn't under Big Brother.
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  325.  @jameygroves8561  well, Atlanta is in the CSA, I've had other southerners tell me so. I suggested that reconstruction should be resumed for a century, as obviously the first one was halted prematurely.
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  326.  @who-gives-a-toss_Bear  so, reasonable suspicion disappeared in the Constitution free zone?
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  327.  @akboyz1  pythons aren't venomous. Additionally, they're not a suggestion of illegal activity. Why do you hate our 4th amendment so?
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  328.  @drunkbillygoat  alas, some think that'd be grounds to ignore the fourth amendment and search your property without reasonable suspicion or a warrant. Which would of course, stress the snake, potentially lethally. I miss the good old days, back when we had a Constitution to protect us! Personally, I'm not into snakes as pets, but do have friends who are. For me, snakes are better off patrolling for vermin and making that vermin a fine meal. ;) Well, except for one cottonmouth, who became a nuisance in my yard when we lived in Louisiana. I annoyed it enough that it decided to relocate. While holding a rifle, just in case, their temperament is infamously lousy. It went back to the bayou behind the property and only came back on occasion to molt.
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  329.  @davidh9638  well, that's what happens when budget cuts result in the state switching to using water colors. ;)
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  330. It's also used in drive mode, as a compliance device. So, I guess the Birmingham PD was protecting the public from music.
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  331. Jurisdiction is a very real thing, as courts can and do bounce cases where an officer is outside of his or her jurisdiction - where their authority ends, save in the rare case of hot pursuit.
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  332. You'd end up in trouble, as one needs a court order to even evict a squatter. So, you burglarized a home, assaulted the occupants with a mob, you could even face racketeering and riot charges in some jurisdictions.
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  333. Those last two are spot on, although the last point is an acknowledged phenomena - even by the courts, who blame the legislature.
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  334. Only one problem. Such fees aren't set by bureaucrats, they're set by politicians and collected by bureaucrats, who will just as happily not collect those fees, as their paychecks remain the same either way.
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  335. She'd have no standing were the statute worded "any person alleging experiencing discrimination", without the word experiencing, the statute is open even to witnesses of discrimination. That may not have been the legislature's intent, but words do mean something. It makes a difference between having standing to bring an otherwise worthless case and being charged with extortion.
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  336. Given my well document allergy to weed, such a fiction will be met with a very, very, very vindictive and allergic citizen with a squeaky clean record.
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  337. I'll have to take your word for that, as I've only limited experience with the Meridian SL-100, which was configured to only handle a maximum of 10000 callers. Operable here is, regulations say that if the offending party wants to be masked in, they have to be registered with the FCC with a valid mitigation plan. If not, their traffic is to be prohibited. What you miss is that foreign companies can connect and use masking via their local provider and leverage their provider's contracts. No, it's always the greedy US company, well, when it's not the space aliens or something. But, the US carriers do know the origin of the traffic and could block it, but that takes man hours of work to perform and that work would be essentially slave labor, since the company's now enslaved to perform labor for the government for free. So, what free labor have you provided for the US government this year?
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  338. @@stevenstrain283 appointed by Obama, who followed tradition of maintaining political balance on the commission by seeking Mitch McConnell's advice. Elevated to Chairman by Trump, who didn't bother with balance in anything. At Verizon, he was there for two years as an in house lawyer. Hardly a full insider, given his being basically a staff lawyer. Indeed, more telling is that he's a Harvard alumni. That school isn't exactly a budget college, to put it mildly. Try using all of the facts, not cherry picking shit to support a failed theory. You want someone familiar with regulatory issues in at least telecommunications on the commission, rather than an engineer or tradesman with no knowledge of communications at all. And it's supremely helpful for such regulators to be attorneys, that way at least regulations and rules will be lawful and not something to be overturned on the first challenge, destabilizing the entire telecom industry. That all said, he screwed the pooch on backtracking on net neutrality, which has finally been undone, but didn't break things as badly as some other Trump appointees have. Like the VA director being directed in what to do by a couple with absolutely zero health care or veterans issues calling the shots behind the scenes, all because of campaign donations to Trump and membership in his club.
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  339.  @hawkuser604  the problem is that should and may make things appear to be subjective to the officer in charge and that dilutes the authority of shall and will and basically, turns things into a legal clusterfuck from hell. Enough times, similar conversations ended with, "But, you do as you please, Sir, it ain't my OER that'll be getting fucked up". That put the officer's speed brakes on.
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  340.  @michaellowe3665  very well, then the county gets cleaned out, the state suffers anyway. Authoritarians love collective punishment, might as well let them enjoy it. Do continue with your ignorance of the ADA, you'll make plaintiff lawyers wealthy! The ADA covers a hell of a lot more than wheel chair ramps.
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  341. File a dispute, bring in the state attorney for grand fraud and an attorney for punitive damages enough to own a fleet. Damages increasing as their corporate types attempt to protract the case. I admit to a character flaw, I am a very, very vindictive man. Let the board explain to the stockholders where their bottom line evaporated into. Had a bogus attempt once on a self-haul vehicle, fortunately the charges got backed out, as they were obviously bogus and that took the bank under a week. The truck company didn't object getting caught and losing out, but then my attorney does write like he's got a set of teeth.
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  342. Actually, Steve did. Trespassing. Still questionable, as the music was part of the official program. It literally would be like ordering both teams off of the field during the final play of the game.
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  343.  @siewheilou399  and are typically not appointed, but actual employees of the US Department of State. Would that ambassadors were all so universally required to have such training and professional dedication, rather than having postings treated as a prize for political supporters.
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  344. Lifetime appointment, save if impeached. But, there still is contempt of the higher court. Let him not read in custody, while paying significant fines, while he's also referred for impeachment.
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  345. Had a buddy that sold his car to someone, the buyer never bothering to register it, drove it around without insurance or the title transferred, started racking up fines that got mailed to my buddy. Well, the car was parked one block from my house, so I went with him and retrieved what still legally was his car. Cops got called and they laughed at the purchaser and let my buddy take the car.
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  346.  @JW-jh7zv  yet city PD chiefs and commissioners wonder why some officers get ambushed in their cars. We might have a suggestion of a reason for why. Some won't content themselves with court or cannot afford an attorney, so they'll take "justice" into their own hands and the community then has to pay for a murder trial and prison.
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  347. Well, unless you're in the shower. Your own shower, that is.
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  348.  @philyeary8809  that whole getting help, food and housing thing and their own words in interviews, yeah, I'm sure. I've also been on such missions after a disaster, for some reason, people don't object to being rescued and getting food where none is now available.
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  349. Let's see, a billionaire's family and estate, plus a family/estate worth 10 times what OceanGate is worth get into a negligence legal battle. My money's on the money and company folding. Even without Rush's hanging himself with his own repeated statements. I'm reminded of early on after lemon laws were passed and car dealers tried to use waivers to get around the laws. Didn't work.
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  350.  @angelachouinard4581  OK, every mother and father in the land without a medical license also has to be arrested too. As are good Samaritans rendering good faith emergency care. One can evaluate someone, basically are they patently stoned on something or just a bit off? If a bit off or wildly off, just as with unresponsive, evacuation to medical care is called for. Inappropriate responses, inappropriate spontaneous responses, well documented ataxia, good old Joe Sixpack knows enough to call an ambulance for that.
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  351. That's a bogus headline. Man arrested for the felonious offense of exercise his first amendment rights. They could've gone with aggravated battery for being drunk and the chokehold, but they chose the ridiculous approach and bodily autonomy and the Constitution no longer exist. But, I do wonder, if the kid reported to the resource officer that the father said that he's the devil, would they call out the National Guard? Glad I avoided moving to that state, dodge an insanity bullet there! Sounds like their governments are seriously overfunded.
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  352. The absurdity being, when I worked at a warranty service center, those stickers weren't available. So, how can the manufacturer tell if it was a warranty center or customer that opened the unit?
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  353. @rhamlet5290 nah, send both to Soylent Green. More easily stored.
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  354. Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the defense countering the court's finding that there was a threat of arrest, isn't that attorney calling the court a liar? This is how the trust of our courts is undermined, rendering such a threat to our entire system of justice, both civil and criminal. So, what else will the sheriff threaten arrest for, perhaps political speech? Are the rights to a fair and speedy trial or right to an attorney also be suppressed? Frankly, he'd get the door slammed in his face. Forced entry, as exigent conditions do not exist, would simply be a matter of home invasion by an armed intruder intending harm. Evidence is not going to be destroyed and words are not nuclear warheads. Now, the case law is mixed on suppression of rights in a national emergency, but in that, the courts did state emphatically that the emergency must be dire enough that the republic itself is in danger. COVID isn't that type of danger and we're fresh out of civil and world wars.
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  355. Here's some help for you. Google "nox control turbine engine". Plenty of process controls for turbine engines. Guess who studied that one? The US Army.
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  356.  @MetroidChild  not fully, regeneration via recycling hot gases can lower the soot output, downside is increased nitrogen compound exhaust. The US Army experimented with ceramic bladed compressors for energy generation via high temperature turbines with fair success, albeit with increased nitrates and nitrides exhaust. Greyhound also experimented along the same lines, with some contributions from the US Army, given a common interest in the technology. The magic trick is, run entirely sootless, one generates nitrogen pollution. And the standing joke in the field is, NASA discovered how to avoid those nitrogen pollutants - eliminate nitrogen from the air supply. A joke, because it's true, both chemically and well, NASA actually did report that finding and for those chemically challenged, 80% of our atmosphere is nitrogen. Kind of like eliminating the risk of drowning in the ocean by eliminating all of the water. Still, what floors me is, multiple scandals and massive fines later, Cummins actually tried to get away with such easily tested for fraud. And counterintuitive, diesel NOx emissions control by injecting urea, a nitrogen compound, all courtesy of catalytic processes. But, as I joke when taking my blood pressure medications, "Better living through chemistry".
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  357. The CSR is an idiot. It's OCONUS, but it's still domestic. OCONUS, for those less traveled means Outside the CONtinental United States. Anyone who has worked S1, G1 or J1 in the military can speak volumes as to the gonad pain some travel OCONUS can become.
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  358. Well, the sheriff and DA handling that need to get shovels, dig up both of my grandmothers, whose husbands died, as they had siblings babysit their siblings and poisonous snakes could've invaded Philly and ate them up. So, single mothers are prohibited welfare and jobs, hence food, clothing and shelter for their families. The devil went down to Georgia and settled in firmly. So, watch out, space aliens could kidnap the babysat children there! BTW, my GT score is 13, with peaks in other IQ scores ranging from 128 through 158, but have a learning disability - dyslexia. Obviously, I shouldn't have watched my own children in Georgia! Sherman should've finished the job in that infested state!
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  359.  @MyNewUserName47  first, operation of a motor vehicle is a privilege, not a right, hence why one has a license that can be administratively revoked. Hence, relevance isn't present. Second, I mentioned repeatedly established case law. Since that's only reasoning, go ahead and fuck around and find out, you'll have three squares and a nice bed to stay in and an interesting roomie. Finally, show me a right within the Constitution to life. One has a right to a trial and legal representation if one's life or liberty is at risk due to a trial, but nowhere is there a mention of a right to life. The reason is simple enough, it was established as a common law right that didn't require clarification. But, the courts have, throughout our nation's history, whether you agree or not, referred to every right outlined in the Bill of Rights as privileges.
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  360.  @commonsenseisntcommon1776  every right has limitations, I have the right of freedom of religion, I do not have the right to engage in human sacrifice. I have freedom of speech, I do not have a right to commit sedition or conspire to commit other crimes.
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  361. I don't know who was driving, but his copilot, Jack Daniels was doing well.
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  362. I find it interesting that the camera mount didn't fail at those speeds. That's a hell of a lot of force being exerted upon that tower mount!
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  363. I've gotten heavy mud on the roof of an off road vehicle and drove it through water that, well, suffice it to say I needed to change pants, shirt and underwear. Didn't have any problems with the vehicle afterward, despite belly flopping into two feet of running muddy stream water. But, those vehicles were designed for that kind of insane usage - they were military offroad vehicles. Expecting a civilian road usage vehicle rated for off road usage to go through that is like expecting the damned thing to work fully properly on Mars! Wrong usage, wrong environment, the warranty guide essentially saying, "Tough shit, dummy". In that tough shit situation, one can only chew harder and take one's deserved and earned hit. That's something I've had to do over the years of beating down vehicles and frankly, I could beat down an M1 Abrams tank. I certainly beat down my Stryker... Want to take it mud bogging? There are kits to do just that, but they're not standard and kiss your warranty goodbye. Just like you can't build Bigfoot out of a pickup and try to make warranty claims.
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  364.  @sparkzbarca  airports are physical locations, websites are routed, by definition by IP address and don't have a physical location in that one can move a website by moving its files to a geographically distant server and update the DNS record. So, I can have a website that's physically in the US today and by COB, have it seamlessly in Taiwan. When referring to the domain name, that is merely a DNS reference and the DNS server, beyond the top level domain be anywhere in the world. Literally, for a US ISP to restrict my domain name, they either have purchase a server that redirects traffic by domain name, violating the heart of the agreements that are backed by ratified treaty and potentially interfering with valid traffic. Name any law that states that a company or individual must purchase a specific device, costing anywhere from $5k to $100k to satisfy a court case that they're not a participant in? That's literally like saying that Pennsylvania must not allow motor vehicle or air traffic to Miami, Florida and only Miami, Florida originate in the state and has to build a specific highway to accomplish that task. The only way to fully comply is to deny all traffic and shut down. So, a company that owns guide.tv is denied traffic because of two IP address resolutions to that same top level domain? OK, how about we do the same with .com? By court order, the internet is hereby illegal is the essential effect. Your example perfects a digital attack upon a sovereign nation because of two individuals within that nation. Following that logic, we should have invaded Argentina when Nazis fled there after WWII and at a minimum, walled off the entire nation if we couldn't enter it legally. That's like banning red traffic lights by banning electricity nationwide. Or in my example, destroying I-95 to prevent traffic from Pennsylvania from getting to Miami, Florida and once realized there are other roads, destroying any road that can possibly get to Miami, Florida. The order is essentially unenforcable on its face, it requires excessive expenses, essentially punishing providers for no reason by forcing a major expense and literally, per your example, declares digital war upon a sovereign nation for objectively the most trivial of reasons.
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  365. What I loved is, the judge asked, looked left, then right, nobody had a peep to say, all were... Beyond shocked. Asked again, looked back and forth to the same effect. Took a third try to get a reply from the attorney to break out of her shock to reply his license was suspended - after modest prodding, so shocked that she was. I think the only one in the room not the victim of shock was the camera, which is inanimate. Honestly, the judge probably would've asked me if I was courting a contempt charge, as I'd be hysterical in laughter... Let's suffice it to say, there is one unlicensed driver is decidedly unlikely to develop grand unified theory. And I do know about medical and not being able to afford transportation, had to cancel vascular surgery and cardiology appointments due to a lack of transportation, so I'll just have to learn to get along without a heart and aorta.
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  366.  @VulcanLogic  it's interesting that you include Social Security in your list of costs, when we paid Social Security taxes our entire working life, but that should be cut, effectively stealing that money too. Tell me, if I get a CD or other earning investment, gonna steal that investment too? If I pay for a house free and clear, gonna transfer that away too? That's as bad as Trump suggesting elders and infirm/disabled "just should die". Which was Hitler's very words when he ordered such people sent to carbon monoxide vans and the first cyanide "showers" before the concentration camps were built. And cut all the taxes, brilliant suggestion! OK, the highways are fucked up blocks of jutting concrete and impassible, no more police, fire and ambulance, water supplies corrode through and are tainted and all the parks are now landfills. No way to get the children dying of cancer to the hospitals on the impassible roads, as there are no ambulances anyway, but the playgrounds and water have a healthy glow! Although, that glow is hard to see with the raging firestorm sweeping across the city. Not that anyone notices, they're laid up with cholera. Couldn't happen? Love Canal, New York, Chicago fire, Washington, D.C. cholera outbreaks aplenty, Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic that nearly canceled the first Constitutional convention. And who needs a military? Just teach everyone to learn how to surrender in an assortment of languages.
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  367. Castle doctrine isn't universal, some states still hold that a homeowner has a duty to retreat. I'm in a castle doctrine state, so I'll win. Wouldn't use a hunting rifle though, overpenetrates and could damage the property and endanger the neighbors. 12 gauge with frangible slugs. City stops me then, OK, I'll be back with a demolition permit and crew. Then, have the foreman Helen Keller proceed to guide the heavy equipment.
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  368. Give it time for the public to forget, it'll get quietly slipped in and over time, pay a subscription or your car won't start at all. You bought the car, it doesn't have to run per the sales contract...
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  369. The last ethics lesson can be administered by the courts and the bar. Then, one ends up seeking a new career...
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  370. My rules are higher than the state's laws. That is what is the game being played here. If I get a permit that allows an official sign be erected proclaiming that I am the Lord God Almighty, I still do not lawfully have absolute rule within the signs boundaries, regardless of rules or approval of a sign. Now, in that town, as far as I'm concerned, they want to exceed the authority given by the state and give an unlawful tax in the form of illegal fines, Cool Hand Luke had a grand solution. And the folks objecting get a grand ride out of town on a fence rail, in the traditional manner, pine tar and feathers entirely optional and up to the populace.
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  371. Well, it is a major ball pain to lower diesel emissions. One can eliminate soot, but at the cost of massively increased NOx emissions. One can then inject urea and run that lot of exhaust and urea through a catalyst and lower NOx emissions. But, each stage has a cost and balance to maintain. They tried a gamble, one that's blown up in the face of every competitor that's cheated in the same arena, fraud. Now, they have to explain to investors where a sizable amount of profit evaporated to and why, hoping they're not sued into penury on a personal level by said enraged stockholders. Reminds me of a song, sung to "It Had To Be You": It sucks to be you... Just sucks to be you... I'd rather have glass... Shoved up my ass... Than be in your shoes... Oh well, as usual, the lawyers win.
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  372. "You're out of sick days." "Oh, my bad. I can't come in today, I died, I'll be better like De Jesus did - in a few days."
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  373.  @darkmantlestudios  you'd have to ask the prostitutor. :P There is prosecution and there is prostitution of prosecution, just to prove one is "tough on crime". Oh, I'm shipping you a replacement sarcometer, as obviously the sarcasm blew yours out. I've got a pallet of them out back. Alas, for bad jokes, you're SOL and just have to groan with everyone else.
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  374. I do wonder though, how many executed prisoners were also innocent? If it's found that they are innocent, will the judge order them undead?
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  375.  @ArmyNurseCorps-u5c  and the fire bottles have to be manually triggered. Not sure if that model can reenable fuel flow if it had fully engaged the fuel shutdown valve though.
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  376.  @richwightman3044  you're right, was thinking of a different model and manufacturer (and much older) aircraft. One problem with going back to the ice age...
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  377.  @Ericbjohnston5150  for one reason that even a now no longer apolitical SCOTUS stated repeatedly throughout the nation's history. The courts should remain political, political questions remain with the legislature and executive, legal with the courts.
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  378.  @Ryan_DeWitt  that's how you lose completely, calling facts nonsense and nonsense and losing facts and winning.
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  379. Monopolies are good, just look how fast the internet was in the 1960's when AT&T had a telephony monopoly! Oh wait, it took until after they broke up telecom to even get fiber... Monopolies are good, they suppress innovation and rapid development! Stagnation is good, it gives the rest of the world a chance to take their turns at leadership. BTW, are they also going to bring back the rotary dial?
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  380.  @nunyadayumbusiness591  that law, being born in contradiction to the very first amendment, is unconstitutional and should be immediately ruled so by any judge with integrity in the land. Although, we do have a certain candidate that wants to permanently suspend the Constitution entirely, the name beginning with the letter 'T' and rhyming with dump. Not to name any names... And a SCOTUS that has ordained the POTUS with the authority to do anything that he wants, order anything that he wants, with full legal impunity, with powers the likes of which haven't been seen on this planet for a literal thousand years.
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  381. Well, that should be determined at the initial block diagram phase of design planning, not after implementation. That'd be ass backwards designing of the systems.
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  382.  @seanhazelwood3311  courts order removal, not cops. It's only Constitution 101, otherwise we get summary execution of randomly imposed cop orders on our streets. Which really is what you want, isn't it? Right until those guns get turned on you...
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  383. Modern cars are designed to crumple and bend in specific ways that protect the passenger cabin and its occupants. The front and rear will crumple in, absorbing impact energy, rather than passing that energy along to the passengers. The roof is designed to fold in ways to protect the passengers in their seats (all bets tend to be off if the passenger isn't wearing restraint belts). It makes for some gonad pain to extricate someone from the wreckage, but it avoids the car transferring the impact energy to the passengers or folding into the passengers, as well as retaining fuel and preventing a fire in the now piece of modern art that once was a motor vehicle.
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  384. The Hitchhiker's Guide got on the list because the Vogons are doing the reviewing. Also soon to be banned in Florida, Booby birds, Tata trucks and Volvo cars, as they all are naughty parts or the last, confused as such... Then, the word Democrat will result in imprisonment. Consciousness will also be prohibited, as that's obviously way too woke for Florida's delicate sensibilities. I say, eject them from the Union and gift the place to Cuba, for them to briefly enjoy before it submerges.
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  385. BTW, while deployed to the Middle East, I happened upon some medical textbooks for a medical school library. The books on OB/GYN had every illustration of female anatomy black markered out by the religious police. OB/GYN students were not allowed to learn anything about female anatomy. I wish I was joking, but I'm as serious as a heart attack.
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  386. Poppycock! Two entirely different and opposing stories only happen on those rare days that end in the letter "y" in English. Seriously though, crazier and stupider stories have been used in defense, occasionally, they even work, as life itself can get crazily stupid at times. Frankly, it sounds like the wife set her paramour up, along with her jealous husband. But, that's only a suspicion. As a former juror, would I buy the story? Probably not, but I'd certainly rent it and take it out for a test drive. Questions I'd expect answered by the prosecution would then be why a loaded pistol was left outside and on a gun safe in a "sanctuary room" and why the window he couldn't bolt through wasn't capable of being opened. But, this case is nearly as bad as a jurist instructing a defendant that only a plea of guilty is permitted, under threat of sanction. The term Kangaroo Court comes to mind.
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  387. No, that's management level idiocy and greed. It'd potentially impact the bottom line to fight or pay, so pass it off to the riff-raff, screw everyone in favor of one's bonus. Trust me, been working for years in that suite. The worst part is, the lot knew that I'd gladly testify against them, shaken faith, but not stirred, as not a one got litigated against or prosecuted. So, not laziness in my experience, moral bankruptcy is more appropriate.
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  388. Until that gets locked into a subscription.
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  389.  @FR-tb7xh  how odd that my wife, I and our children remain not extinct without fobs, which formerly were luxury items in cars! Why, we even managed to survive cranking down windows with a crank, instead of a button, optional air conditioning and having to lift the trunk lid and hood manually.
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  390.  @edg5218  I call such types god-cops, for they act like they're the Almighty himself. I've dealt with such types in the past, being the voice of reason, they the voice of unreason, then they learn also, I was a US Army NCO and am fluent in both languages and escalation spectrum for me is beyond their means. Thankfully, violence didn't occur, but I was within a half second from it a few times and their peers reigned the idiots in. And I accepted my citation and moved on. One telling point is, fidgeting with his sidearm. Trust me, that's not a good thing around me, it just made you target #1 and I begin scanning for next dangers and that's apparent to any veteran officer or military service veteran. And the veterans, not wanting to become part of a major incident, which is a royal pain in the balls if one survives, want what I want always, peace and quiet. We can argue about it in court. Where arguments belong.
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  391.  @billyyank5807  well, prison time is for someone that was convicted of an imprisonable offense, after being indicted by a grand jury. The OP seems to want to just toss all of that out and go for summary execution.
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  392. I've got precisely two Pringle regrets. Seriously, for a change.
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  393. Not a toilet, but a latrine or septic tank. Before settling in, you're supposed to write you weight on the wall. That way, if you do fall in, they know how much to dip out. Upon recovering her phone, summoning help and extrication, she departed with a shit eating grin.
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  394.  @pansepot1490  socialist was in the name of Nazi Germany, there was no socialism present. If Bob was in the name, think it'd be a fishing line float?
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  395.  @scottmcshannon6821  whatever are you talking about? ChatGPT has proven eminently usable for marketers of all manner of vaporware products, from cryptocurrency to even job searches and resume boosting. Indeed, courtesy of multiple e-mails from assorted firms suggesting ChatGPT update my resume and help with job searches, I've improved my spam filter tremendously. Not only has ChatGPT proved me correct that AI actually stands for Artificial Idiocy, it's also proven to expose village idiots globally.
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  396. Medicine is unpredictable, that's why it's an art, rather than a science. That was their defense, something diametrically opposed to what medical schools teach - that medicine is a science.
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  397.  @okaro6595  not quite. I voted while in Qatar and other nations in the theater. I voted in my home state by mail. Something Trump wanted to eliminate, which would've stripped the right to vote to all deployed military.
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  398.  @johnathonrusk5853  as I said he said that after losing, how could he issue an executive order canceling all mail ballots? His statements to the news media are online.
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  399.  @mocrg  there is worse, doesn't know, learns and refuses to accept the law. Therein lies the path to violence and anarchy.
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  400.  @ssfbob456  there are two primary jammer types, old and new. Old models were wideband models, like spark gap units with various antennas, later targeted frequencies was used, but evaded over time by spread spectrum. So, step or sweep models became more common, with the military getting ones with more bells and whistles to make the other side have to work at getting signals through. That's the ultra simplified version, without going into barrage jamming, carcinotron (aka backward wave oscillators) and more technical stuff that gives even me a headache. The carcinotron was named that way, as it was "cancer for radar". Technology left that in the dust as well.
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  401.  @mhammer3186  one thing I've learned is, there are precisely zero unaccountable bureaucrats in the US. Piss of a VIP, you'll find the most protected of positions at risk instantly, as there's always some out for HR to drop the hammer onto if they need to. Even money, it's some dipshit that loathes the military. Shred a few of those historic vehicles in a public way, on memorial or veteran's day on live TV, watch how quickly they find that idiot's name out and they're gone, as now that individual made D. Boss look bad to the public. It's called being a PR nightmare. Meanwhile, they fucked their medical professionals during major storms, as now the folks that volunteered to drive them to and from work are no longer allowed to do so, so hospitals won't be conducting shift changes and could potentially be unable to care for their patients. Again, right at someone's ogre feet...
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  402.  @marcyking461  well, since the Constitution is not protective there, it's non-protective for them. Not only the deputies, full corruption of blood should be enforced and their families also enjoy said custody. And the same level of efficiency in locating them for release as was utilized in said apprehension and unlawful confinement.
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  403. He pulled the fire suppression system handles, which immediately shuts off the fuel to the engines, leaving only what's in the lines until the fuel is turned back on (which the flight crew immediately did). The next step gets messy, as the next step in the sequence is to discharge the fire bottles into the engines, which apparently didn't get to occur. Much akin turning the key off on your car while driving down the highway, save that the jet engines still have fuel flowing from the lines and filters, so they keep on briefly operating.
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  404. As the statute is missing the word experiencing, even a witness to potential discrimination can bring litigation. Or have we repealed the first amendment's right to redress when I wasn't looking?
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  405.  @jackabug2475  true, extortion is so undervalued. /s
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  406.  @jackabug2475  I guess that you're new here. Welcome to the US, where we have rules for thee and none for the wealtheeee. There are penalties though, rather expensive ones, but alas, we also get prosecutorial discretion that protects those who pay their brib-erm, campaign contributions. We disabled people can't afford those kind of payments, so we're just screwed.
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  407.  @robertthomas5906  thank you, my goal was to have someone make my point for me. Of course, we currently have a state who has deputized the citizenry to enforce their laws, rather than the state doing so. I call that one what it actually is, anarchy.
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  408.  @diamondjim7560  not really, Canada is not a US state, Hawaii was and remains a US state. Didn't stop conspiracy theorists though, who were so attached to their conspiracy theory as to then proclaim Hawaii isn't a US state and that a republican governor and republican surgeon general conspired to put a democrat in the Oval Office because of hand waves or something. Honestly, I wasn't surprised when some then jumped to space aliens...
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  409. We had a more laughable case. The IRS seized and kept running the Mustang Ranch, a Nevada brothel. Boy, talk about a political shitstorm! They managed to destroy the business, being utterly incapable of operating such a business and dealing with catching hell from all sides.
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  410. "Hey, Joey, if I start clapping, my artillery batteries will finish applauding for me with white phosphorus. Got any problem with that?"
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  411. Ah, but would it not be an affirmative defense to prove that a dearth of trash receptacles was why it got dumped? Please excuse me while I get my coat...
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  412.  @CAPSLOCKPUNDIT  or politics in the state of Texas.
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  413. She now owns the city's newest unlicensed hazmat storage dump. I'd see about storing some chromium and other heavy metal salt compounds, while seeing about storing cobalt-60 stored in lead containers. By the time I'm done, nobody will want to live within 20 miles of the place. Of course, the city and county can avoid that problem by financing building a replacement house there at city/county expense. If they want to escalate and require security for the site, I'd unshield the cobalt-60 sources. That much gamma radiation is security unto itself.
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  414. What will happen in 4 years is, those that levied this nonsense will wonder at the precipitous drop each year, then a drop as owners sell their cars off, then claim that owners aren't registering their cars and increase penalties on unregistered vehicles and make sure private property, such as farms are patrolled. The courts will, of course, reject such charges, as vehicles exclusively operated on private property are exempt, but seeing the prosecution numbers go up was the goal. That kicks the can farther down the road, hopefully long enough to pension out.
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  415.  @alexipestov7002  with extra crap covered feathers, to protect the hot pine tar.
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  416.  @Elenavkuznetcova  funny, as the speed, reaction time, stopping distance claims were all weaponized against those insanely fast 10 speed demonic racing bikes back in the 1970's. And trust me, I dented the hell out of a car with my Kia 10 speed when the driver intentionally stopped in my path, then drifted forward to ensure my path was obstructed. So, now that we've required a license for mountain and 10 speed bikes, when do we require a walking and talking license? When do we then require a voting license? Gonna need gun licenses too, as well as assembly licenses and speech licenses, plus press licenses and church licenses, given the literal death tool historically associated with all of those activities. So, if someone lacks their magical license, do we give them life in prison or summarily execute the offending children at the curb?
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  417. Had a $1k package from Bose misdelivered by OOPS, erm, UPS. Claimed that it was delivered to our porch. The multi-tennant building does have a porch - only accessible to employees and on the second floor, so that was bullshit. Filed a claim, UPS insisted it was delivered, but wouldn't provide a photograph, ended up out $1k for a never delivered product and I've not ordered a damned thing from Bose again and refused, whenever possible any offer of delivery by UPS. Given the performance, if I need to ship classified documents, which I have had the occasional need to do so, I'll either go with FedEx or my preferred route of USPS registered mail. Yeah, classified packages routinely go via UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS and a few other approved vendors, via specific required methods within the continental US. Overseas, either via diplomatic parcel or via the APO system.
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  418. There is a bit of borderline though. I've literally been spinning, mumbling in response and overall, quite decidedly not home, despite the fact that nobody was home. No ethanol or other intoxicants. Blood pressure crashed, I was in shock with BP below 70/40. Other similar cases, the person might smell fruity or even like nail polish remover. The latter cases, diabetic emergency. Time to call the boo-boo box. That staggering and BP, just last week. Still working on getting the damned BP meds regulated... :/ Needless to say, I'm not operating anything larger than my folding shopping cart and cane!
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  419.  @jblyon2  a couple of bypass capacitors would send the signal to ground, rather than into the wiring to be broadcast. That's the fault with the cheap cell phone chargers as well, no bypass capacitor to drag the high frequency noise to ground instead of being radiated.
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  420.  @RideGasGas  laughably, a couple of small bypass caps would resolve the lamp interference issue. Be used to prohibit such designs being imported for sale, now we ignore it.
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  421. Well, now the police there have to pay for refreshments for the Christmas party, for they're unfairly denied the booze from the evidence locker. Next, people are going to tell them that they're unfairly not allowed to gun down whoever they want to, planting a gun on them from their evidence locker. Which, BTW, is an interesting concept to a defense attorney, as all evidence is now suspect as to chain of custody. Maybe that cocaine was originally powdered sugar, but after the party, was replaced with real cocaine.
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  422.  @Syncrotron9001  I'm less concerned about tasered or pepper sprayed. Those get the administrator hammered down by a very angry, surprisingly fast and strong elder. Shot at gets one dead. Lethal force is met with lethal force to the bitter end and real terrorists have tried to kill me. I'm still here. I've experienced tasers and pepper spray, can't utilize them without experiencing them, civilian cop or military. Bullets, I'm good at ducking until it's termination of threat time.
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  423.  @FastSloW-qt8xf  which is why I'm not getting an abdominal aortic aneurysm fixed. Being in PA, I could get it fixed, not be able to pay the lordly medical bills and end up in prison. So, when it ruptures, I'll literally drop dead.
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  424. Here in PA, game wardens can walk onto private property without a warrant looking for poachers. Been that way for well over 60 years.
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  425.  @suedenim9208  as someone who has experienced identity theft that5 resulted in the initial loss of the entire contents of my bank account, I'm quite aware of what identity theft is. The transactions were swiftly reversed, as no identification was ever presented by the fraudster to support his transactions. Some nice law enforcement officers did pop by to have a very long chat with him, with a firm offer of a fine place for him to reside in, meals inclusive.
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  426. I'd have quietly recorded his attacks, yelling and aggression, then forward it to Toyota explaining why if anyone even suggests buying their product that their employment would be terminated. It isn't what you will do that counts, it's what others perceive that you may do that really counts.
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  427.  @Boobtube.  I never get mad, I don't get even, I get ahead and sometimes I take the shoulders off with it. ;)
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  428.  @SearTrip  I'm reminded of a service company, whose slogan on their signs and vehicles was, "If we can't fix it, it ain't broke". A coworker in the electronics service company I was working for and I were in a diner enjoying our break as he remarked on the slogan and I quipped, "If we can't fix it, it ain't broke and if it ain't broke, we can fix that too". Well, it ain't broke, so they fixed that problem and are now fixing the problem that they created, likely by breaking it in a new way. Because, if you want something FUBAR, give it to a politician to implement. Those that can, do, those who cannot, teach, those who can do neither, manage and those who can do none of the above go into politics.
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  429. What's the first group of amendments to the Constitution called again? The Bill of Optionals? Because, I recall entitlements being Rights. Long ago, I swore an oath many times, to protect the Constitution and laws of this nation from enemies, both foreign and domestic. My enlistment has expired upon retirement, my oath can never expire.
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  430. It's unfortunate that we have to pay for rights. Next week, a tax on breathing air.
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  431. I can see an Act of God defense potentially working, as there was no reasonable way to predict what happened when the battery shelf was jettisoned. That said, there is the optics and cost, which even for cash strapped NASA, is a pittance and potential political fallout in the form of even greater budget reductions...
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  432. In other words, the right to redress of grievances shall be suppressed. Rights denied? Tough shit. Removing the right to have a court tell them to chew harder. Slippery slope and all that, something the right loves to drone on about, so turnabout is fair play. Then, there's Roe, with verbiage that states by denial, that the ninth amendment does not exist. And the day previously, prohibiting the states from regulating the second amendment's activities, as well regulated means not regulated at all. Sounds to me like an incremental legislative repeal of the entire Bill of Rights. @Steve, have you reviewed the SCOTUS decisions yourself? That's been my habit, as well we know, the media typically turns many such reports into a pig's breakfast, getting ever so much not only wrong, but not even wrong.
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  433.  @MtHoodMikeZ  well, they have the Queen of England on their money, so they're obviously from England. In Europe. Where the commies from China are.
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  434.  @Iansco1  would that we had a thousand of him nationwide. Most of the lunacy would cease!
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  435. Can a block be a triangle? Why not? I've also lived near a block that was part of a circle. Traditionally, a city block is 1/10 mile, but also referred to at the arbitrary length of the street between intersections. So, a block can actually have any shape, even the shape of a drunken, meandering walk. Had a similar issue at one place we lived. The neighbor couldn't get the high speed cable. So, having a spare ethernet switch, I ran a fiber over to their house and put them onto their own vlan that was just for internet, then we split the internet cost. Needless to say, my switches aren't consumer type switches, but those used in corporate campus networks... ;)
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  436. Yeah, they really needed Wigglytuff.
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  437.  @toriless  which a cop, who couldn't see a differential and transmission, let alone seats inside the car could determine. Did you expend even three brain cells efforts in thought in that comment?
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  438. No, child abandonment. Make it the full felony.
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  439. @alias19 turning it into a different problem. Spending a million dollars to protect a few hundred dollars worth of assets, while alienating customers. One reason that I won't shop at HD, Costco and those others, as I really don't like being treated as a public enemy by those that I'm paying. So, I pay the others that won't treat me as an enemy. Still, I can picture Home Depot now suing the man, on the pure basis of being stupid and getting taken to the laundry. My luck, I'd get stuck being on the jury.
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  440. Doing PC support, I've entered an area where an alarm was going off. So, I called the responsible party and reported the alarm. Beyond that, not my monkey, not my circus. Fuck with that monkey, get bit like this company that's going to fail now did.
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  441. We'd likely run out of legislators and leaders. My tired joke abroad has long been, "We put our brightest and best criminals in office, so that we can keep an eye on them. Otherwise, they'd rob us blind". The reality now is, we stopped watching and accept out of complacency and are at risk of empire, with a god-king "ruling", at all of our peril. Our nation was literally designed to emulate the Roman Republic and reject the Empire, for good reason.
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  442. How odd, given that it was a large business that was being robbed. On a Saturday night.
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  443.  @ffggddss  odd that that didn't happen before qualified immunity was put into place! Amazing how many were arrested, tried and convicted before 1967, when that doctrine first saw its early stirrings! Why, it's almost like it's propaganda from police unions... I don't even need a history book to find that, other than my clear memories from that period onward, we have newspapers or digitized newspapers/microfiche records of those newspapers. From an era when civil rights marchers were still being beaten and police dogs loosed on them, so that doctrine was needed to protect their civil rights being ignored. That, also quite well remembered, as I witnessed such events with my own eyes. When men were gunned down by police for "trying to escape being arrested" and survivors asked why, "I was afraid that he was going to shoot me". And cops were finally told to stop being lazy and chase the suspect down, rather than summarily executing them.
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  444. It sounds like the California legislature needs to further regulate insurance. Heavily. Impossibly and punishingly. Otherwise, insurance is simply a scam that the state is complicit with. Or perhaps, if one lives in an apartment building, give a list of every many, woman and child, infants included, who live in the building, then a census of the entire neighborhood. With a request if one needs to further list the entire county or state's population. While awaiting their response, attend the insurance company's fire sale, which occurred while eating dinner with a judge...
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  445. There are commercial traps like what was described. It's designed to fire a 12 gauge shotgun blank toward the ground, originally intended to discourage animals, but also used to discourage trespassers. Harmless, save if it kicked up some dirt into the low crawling trespasser's eyes, put a live round in it and it'd likely explode - they're plastic or sheet metal and could then be considered a mine. I've also used old fashioned magic cubes and a thin pin to trip the snapper inside that actuates the bulb. Taped carefully to a fencepost, trip lines six inches inside and down, on two adjacent posts, whoever's coming over the fence will likely be looking into the bulb when it flashes. Their night vision would also be shot to hell and gone. Hear the idiot coming over the fence, hear the distinctive pop of the bulbs, going back over and trip and fall into the concrete outside of the fence, snicker like Muttley. Worked great for one doper, who for some odd reason, would come down the alley and shoot up in my yard, leaving his works behind and at the time, we had small kids. He left a blood trail from his shins meeting the retaining wall outside the fence that lead straight to his house. He didn't return. We also used the same thing in the Army to discourage infiltrators trying to scout our site. For the remote controlled device, that'd be referred to as command detonator and as far as I'm aware, remains untested in the legal system and usually is used with actual mines, like Claymore and other antipersonnel mines. Dunno if I'd want to test a prosecutor and court's Wheaties...
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  446. Meanwhile, his guilty plea stands, so he's no longer himself. And he's ordered by the court to use his real name, so that they can arrest him again for using that name. If it happened to me and they told me of the imposter's arrest, I'd ask if I could bail him out... Wouldn't get the bond money back, but it'd be worth it.
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  447. The wealthy Lords and Ladies can take whatever they want, they are the public, the chattel populace don't count. It's just odd that they still permit that chattel to be armed...
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  448. The real question is, if they've been actually authorizing and following a budget for all of these years, who wasn't following that budget and hence, not spending the funding received for a specific purpose? It's called misappropriation of funds and besides spending that which isn't authorized, not spending it is also a crime. So, did bridges dangerously go unrepaired? Was welfare authorized and never paid to deserving recipients? Did school funding not go where it was supposed to go?
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  449. So, the use of force is acceptable to ensure that a summary offense, frequently addressed by mail, is acceptable. If the cop's out of pepper spray and doesn't have a taser, I guess he can use his M4 instead and shoot the suspect to death to serve that summary offense notice. And nukes should be allowed for citizens suing. Yeah, as in, what in the actual fuck, over?! God-cops need to be replaced, as god-cops seem to believe that courts of law do not need to exist, so it becomes a use of force game. And honestly, were I to witness that, those cops would be obstructed - permanently, as they escalate. Upside is, the economy would be slightly stimulated, as there'd be vacancies in the local god-cop force. And the undertaker would be fairly busy as well. Capital punishment and life in prison aren't much of a deterrent for those who are aged, militarily experienced and just out of fucks to give any longer. We just want peace and quiet and obedience to the laws and Constitution. Back in the formerly real world, refuse the summons, get served by mail again, ignore that and meet the constable who will forcibly escort one to court, by court order. No god-cops needed to Roy Bean shit and invite Range Wars. Excuse me while I check my nuke stockpile... Cool! Got a few left, all prominently marked and properly marked Chili with beans. I'll never lose in that contest, I'm US Army, REF. Retired, Extremely Flatulent. Seriously, we've a major problem when cops decide to be god and become punishers of pseudo-offenses. For then, the courts lose authority, law enforcement as well and we've just gone feudal. Literally. Now, excuse me while I go vomit.
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  450. And the attorney promptly and rightfully appealed. Now, the supreme court is aware of shenanigans by a subordinate jurist, let's just see how crooked the entire state court system actually is now. I blame a premature end to Reconstruction. Because now, having a defense is illegal in that kangaroo court. Even Roy Bean did better than this! Hammurabi is turning over in his grave.
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  451. How many "discrepancies" were planted evidence on arrested suspects too? Falsify one document, why not falsify an arrest, which is even better for a career?
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  452. Well, technically it'd be "eggs AND (XOR toast, hash browns). Exclusive or is either, but not both. But, common language typically doesn't give an exclusive or, but implies it by convention.
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  453. And an invasively intense examination of the jurist's finances...
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  454. Eventually, insurance companies will get the samples, just to deny coverage. But then, this is what happens when rights get referred to as privileges. I miss when we had a ratified Bill of Rights, rather than the current Bill of Privileges that get administratively revoked by caveat of the absolute monarch of the office. Where search restrictions against fishing expeditions are now absent. Makes a good case for the ultimate fate of King James I.
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  455. So, we now know that to harass any Chase customer, give them a suspicious check and their account will be closed and their money seized by the government of Chase. Who has no duty under the Taking clause. How much does it cost to rent a bulldozer again?
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  456.  @Tahgtahv  actually, quite a few tuners do emit in their IF frequencies. But, that's beyond this context. In over 28 years of military service, I never used a receiver only in the military, only transceivers that could by definition, transmit and receive. It's called communications, it's bidirectional to be able to ensure proper communication. And powerful receivers, well, no such thing, transmitters have power, receivers can only be efficient in reception. Now, I've saw transmitters that were detuned and had a higher effective power, this was at the cost of inefficently splattering signal over an entire band, making that transmitter even more easily located. The rule of thumb with military radios was the lowest power setting that gets one's signal to its recipient, not scream across the entire solar system and get incoming aircraft, missiles, artillery and very irritable infantry visiting in large numbers.
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  457. True, the POTUS should've sent the Army in, as was done by George Washington in Pennsylvania, to suppress that police insurrection. Shutting down all federal operations in the county until full compliance and restitution was assured. That's a couple of major DoD depots, FEMA hub, government communications hub (there are alternates, might as well test the redundancy) and a hell of a lot more. Suffice it to say, AT&T would be immensely pissed off when that much of their lit fiber goes dark, with a suggestion it could become permanent and some pressure would be applied to local political leaders by them. The public has a substantial number being employed by those federal operations, who would be on furlough and they'd be clamoring at their political leaders as well. Hey, your guys think that they outrank Uncle Sam, now you get to learn as a population center that that uncle can be a real nasty SOB when he wants to and there are plenty of other states that'd enjoy our patronage. Dayton would get some backsplatter and be applying their own pressure as well. The state, even more so, as it'd put a major ding in the state's tax income. And if they don't comply, well, there's plenty of room near Site R, which already has much of the fiber running through it... Yeah, I fight dirty.
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  458.  @cgi2002  OK, my reading of what was said was that that wasn't updated. Hence, if one updates the registration data to reflect the block installed, the complaint that inspection is impossible is a non-issue. In short, start out with say, a Detroit Diesel, replace that engine with a General Atomics nuclear flatulence engine, as long as the state isn't objecting to nuclear farts as exhaust, once the state database is updated, one has a nuke fart engine and life is good. That makes a hell of a lot more sense that reflects reality than, "Oh, ya can't change the engine out or it'll never pass inspection". Just to use silly examples... ;) Honestly, this sounds like a law where politicians went a bit wild writing it, resulting in a law that does unintended things that break things and eventually gets updated to well, meet reality. Not uncommon in US legal history, to the point where I've often said, "Got a problem? Want it to get a totally fucked up solution that never properly addresses it? Give it to a politician, they'll FUBAR something and proclaim 'See? I'm doing something!'". See the "assault weapons ban" for an excellent example, change a few cosmetic items, the same rifle is for sale, one then changes out a few parts with simple hand tools and gets the original rifle that's incorrectly claimed as banned. A side effect of well, having no comprehension on what one is attempting to legislate, due to sheer ignorance on the subject being legislated upon.
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  459.  @HighHolyOne  I was unaware of the fact that Georgia counties swear an oath of poverty. Guess they don't collect taxes either, right? Nobody with influence can ever get to anyone there, as they're all hermits that live inside of a minefield, right?
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  460. Not quite, more like high end gentrification.
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  461.  @cafeapaka7501  AI vs AI, then the real fun with Artificial Idiocy begins.
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  462.  @jupitercyclops6521  wouldn't that be a genuine imitation judge?
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  463. It's far more likely that U-Haul mistakenly put the wrong tag on the wrong vehicle and it just stayed that way. To hell with their customers, there are plenty more suckers to come along and replace them. They should be sued into insolvency to send a message to their industry, but politicians will instead restrict all torts into uselessness until lawlessness prevails instead.
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  464. Drunken homing is now a crime to some morons. Search and seizure once required a warrant based upon reasonable suspicion, well, save to those cops. Legislating from the patrol car. Peeping Tom isn't a reasonable suspicion. No, I'll not answer your questions, your business has been completed, this interview is terminated and kindly get the hell off of my property - now. Continue, well, "Greetings, this is the M1911A1 .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol. It is a magazine fed, blowback operated pistol currently loaded with custom 230 grain hollowpoints and aimed at your groin". Why the State Department refuses to hire me is a complete mystery. Now, sue for damages consistent with at least a decade of the entire town/county budget. Then, really make them happy. Go through the full NFA process and buy a machine gun and a few cases of the wrong ammunition. The weapon sale gets tracked, due to the NFA firearm, the ammunition purchase is noted, not the caliber. When they investigate and they will, out of habit of excessive policing, sue again for a half century of budget.
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  465. If the hitch obscuring part of the plate is unlawful, then towing a trailer is, by definition unlawful, as the entire trailer obscures the license plate.
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  466. In my experience, justice slumbers like the senile elder she is, injustice never sleeps. But, seeking redress of grievances is unlawful? OK, any court declaring that has zero authority, as it denies the Constitution and bereft that, has precisely zero authority. And we have anarchy. That means gunz. OK, I'll bring the DoD. What've they got? Thankfully, appeals courts don't enjoy considering extinction. Assuming punitive measure are actually punitive and not a slap on the wrist, coupled with a severe "naughty, naughty, no go and sin some more". Now, after replacing everything in my household three times, due to theft while deployed defending this faithless nation and abuse of office under color of law, I'm out of fucks to give, next attempt will bring my entire extended network in actual warfare. The worst thing possible to face is someone who has nothing left at all to lose. And perhaps, a major spill, in a significantly adverse scenario. Think supertanker full of Ft Knox. That last is incorporated offline, via a last testament. Aka, I'll take the lot with me in the end. I'll be shoveling coal on heads in hell.
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  467. Well, obviously, the state does not want doctors and nurses to come in during inclement weather. Now, it's time to scrap them by shredding on Memorial and Veteran's day, on live TV. Whoever the turds for brains individual was to make this odd finding likely would jump at also prohibiting the military from operating their vehicles on the interstate system - which is one of the primary reasons we spent so much money creating the interstate system for in the first place.
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  468.  @tim1883  OK, we'll forbid all reenactments, veterans ceremonies may only be conducted with brand new commercial equipment or are cancelled and all museums for such equipment are to be closed forever to ensure "that crap" ain't on the road. The military must also only use commercial transportation, their equipment not allowed on public highways. And when you need rescue from three feet or higher of water, learn how to swim, the equipment that you'll need is illegal. Thank you for your service, veterans, now go fuck yourself is one hell of a message. Looks like we'll need the selective service system again, once the word gets around to those serving.
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  469. I've had my, ahem, interactions with TSA screeners. "You do realize that I can _____". "You apparently failed to properly screen my pocket contents, otherwise you'd see my federal identification card showing I have more than enough decades of federal service to this nation to be trivially able to make one telephone call and effectively end your career - in anything and everything. Now, move along, these are not the droids that you are looking for". Trust me, every time they glance over and see the now offending ID and they do what should've been done to begin with, leave me the hell alone. Well, all save for one, whose career as a security guard in a boarded up mall appears to be proceeding as can be expected. You serve long enough, your network eventually has people pretty much everywhere. Everyone who has served in government service knows that and knows that if you're going to piss off the right person, you'd better be damned right or that mountain you constructed from a molehill will bury your future.
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  470. Thermonuclear bombardment. Good luck getting one. Hey, work with me, it's just that damned hot outside right now... OK, close. Not quite as hot as Djibouti got, there, walking on the flightline for five minutes or longer literally melted combat boots.
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  471.  noosphericaltarzan  definitely a tootsie toaster! Got similar in Qatar, not that they usually admitted to the temperature due to their labor laws. Still, had me wonder how the boot soles melted, yet the aircraft tires didn't... Gotta be a really tough formulation of rubber! We're only at 92 degrees here, with high humidity due to the river being a literal stone's throw away. Damned near passed out yesterday, think it was a combination of new BP meds and the sudden heat from walking a few blocks to the store. Correction, temp jumped up 2 degrees. Maybe it'll cool with a hot wave of profanity... ;)
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  472.  noosphericaltarzan  I remember the boots. The earliest models wore out in no time at all, so they "improved them" invisibly, then actually started to turn out some halfway decent boots. Got to keep my heavy assed Danners that I had had for years, those held up a bit better. Odd, given they were heavy cold weather Vibram soles. So, ended up with a choice, my lead boots or molten boots. Eventually, I retired and went with sandals.
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  473. It's pretty bad when automobile manufacturers end up making Earl Scheib look like top quality. And when those companies go on, "Oh, it's out of warranty", it so imbues customers with such trust, be ready to see one's company name on display in the Museum of Lousy Business Decisions, sandwiched between the names Edsel and Enron. But, feel free to have a LLM AI help you decide, I'm in the market for budget state of the art office equipment.
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  474. Uglier, deployed military would get suspended for not taking the test that they can't exactly commute to. That automagically suspends their military license. That could, in some units, result in the loss of a mission essential vehicle. Guess we need to send in the surrender brigade in their place. Mr President, we can't deploy the Super Trooper the Pooper Scooper Missile System, as the only person licensed to move it lost their license due to not taking a driver's test. Ah well, it was a good try, tell the the Dutchy of Grand Fenwick that the United States of America surrenders.* *Not to be confused with the Souper Dooper missile.
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  475. Game wardens have effected warantless entry on private property for longer than the six decades that I've been alive. The only novel thing is the game cameras. Hunting in Pennsylvania is by license for the game in season, with the only exception being public safety for designated agents and for farmers. Again, code older than I am. Now, untested at a federal Constitutional level, suspicionless searches and installation of cameras, taking soil samples without suspicion or warrant. Now, as a Pennsylvanian, if I have a substantial property and see an armed warden, he'd still be met by an armed me and challenged. I can get uniforms easily, so present credentials and state one's purpose for entry. So, a challenge and demand for credentials is both lawful and reasonable. Obstruction then is not lawful. Refusal to credential can then lawfully result in detention and the summoning of law enforcement and becomes a game commission disciplinary matter. Then, most typically, there will be a requirement. Stop by for a cup of coffee. We'll discuss cameras and acceptable placement and my request for good wildlife shots from those cameras. Got some really good shots of a fox from one of my cameras, as well as some shots of a neighbor's kid trespassing that we ignored and simply pinned up next to the fox. The shot's value, well, the fox looked smarter in the pictures. Lousy shots of deer, typically the south end of a northbound deer...
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  476.  @robertthomas5906  I dunno, a foil guy vs someone with an actual sharpened saber, things could get annoying. Especially as lawyers tend to be epee guys... I've done all three, so just some adjustment to remember what is and isn't a target and how, which isn't much as most touches ended up being a thrust anyway. Some years back, the eldest came back from college bragging that she was captain of her school's fencing team. Those lessons paid off, I guess. Took her outside with our foils and equipment, still took her on points. Knee was twice normal size, but not too shabby for a guy in his 50's.
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  477. Well, it's a driveway, not a parkway. Obviously, they need to park in the parkway. As they showed a nearly four decade old photo of parking there, but it wasn't old enough, they obviously have no specific code as to what historic means and frankly, sounds like the court needs to examine their vague code... And meanwhile, consider their age and any infirmities, for potential ADA leverage. The per day violation penalties for ADA violations are budget killing quite swiftly. Then, I'd consider fighting dirty. The pad being graced with anything aesthetically displeasing that I can find that still falls within the city's arbitrary guidelines and I can be damnably creative, as most former military types can, when confronted with such idiocy.
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  478.  @SeanBZA  wow, who knew that a corporation is now the state! Can I live in the state of IBM? Now, for your penance for saying something stupid, learn the difference between income and expense. Here's a hint, if the money goes out, it's not "making money", hence paying money out is an expense. Income is fines, fees beyond expenses involving said fees and processing and taxes and maybe any federal funding. Prisons are largely ran now by contracting companies, not the state and well, don't typically return any profit, but still operate at a loss. Because, here's a news flash for you, prison workers, clerks, guards, medical staff, etc aren't free, they are paid, have benefits and administrative costs themselves. Does no one remaining alive still learn civics 101 and business 101 any longer?!
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  479. I went through something similar with wild rodents inside of an outbuilding. After a bit of comedy chasing it around, I finally got irritated and went inside the house, slapped together a quick oscillator tuned to around 20 khz, plugged it into my stereo, lugged the whole kit and caboodle out with some leftover supertweeters from an old project and cut loose. The critters wanted to quickly relocate to a quieter artillery range, the pressure on my ears was like drills on my eardrums and well, the neighbor's pets really didn't like me very much, but the building was cleared. I swiftly closed the door when done inside of that building from then on. Thankfully, it worked. Plan B involved a .22LR with subsonic rounds. Not optimal, but effective.
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  480.  @ygrittesnow1701  yep, yet it was the tar of choice when traditionally tarring and feathering people.
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  481. When you want to get out of a hole, first stop digging. When I tell a joke via text, it's easy to miss dry humor. When doing so when visible, such as in person or on video, it's far more difficult to miss humor, dry or otherwise, as I have a naturally funny face.
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  482. Ah, but if you did get jacked up for something, would you be poking fun at yourself?
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  483. Mortgage foreclosure laws are similar. Foreclose on $10k, keep $100k, all is good and godly. Got a chucklefest coming in. Wells Fargo owes me $10k for payments on my father's mortgage, which they foreclosed on despite my payments. The payment, lost in the shuffles of multiple moves, courtesy of an attempted identity thief's efforts to steal. The SOB nailed me for $3k from my bank account, which I swiftly got back, so all his efforts literally made me money at the end of the day. I'll still vivisect him if I ever see him again.
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  484.  @SamPoole-yj3yj  frankly, I'm surprised that the lie speaker could even spell nystagmus. Even money, like the few that obviously copypasta the word (hence, the capitalization of the first letter), typically can't even pronounce the term. For the few that manage, none yet have been able to describe the three most common types. Oh, for those wondering, vertical, horizontal or torsional (basically, sort of circular motion). The causes, well, frankly that was doctor land, I'm not a neurologist and didn't have the facilities for such patients, so it was swoop and scoop.
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  485. Does Monster Energy have any ties with Mary Shelley's estate? Or do they now own Frankenstein's monster too? Obviously, people might get confused and accidentally drink that monster or something. The 389 day long pregnancy that birthed an anencephalic monster obviously was a product of Monster Energy Drinks, even though it predated the company.
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  486. Theft and extortion is legal now, when is murder to be legalized? Oh, my bad, I forgot, they're god-cops. She screwed up because she didn't make her protection money payment. I think it's time to abandon ship, as the nation I fought to defend is dead and gone.
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  487. What state has parking lot speed limits of 40 MPH?
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  488. Not to mention, they removed the roof, it's gone, isn't that grand theft?
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  489.  @ripvanrevs  well, now you have even less interference, for food can have shit inside of it that can kill you. Enjoy your ricin chicken, with a side order of strychnine free tea that includes pure strychnine legally.
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  490. So, everyone staying in an airbnb is a criminal under such a statute. But, going back to simpler times is a good thing, so bring back smallpox and bubonic plague. As for lewd and lascivious conduct within one's own domicile, all I have to say is, Bowers v. Hardwick. Oh, I forgot, states outrank the federal government, which is why states have nuclear weapons and can declare war and the federal government cannot. If only we had a supremacy clause in the Constitution. Oh wait, we do. I'd not be surprised to see states try to bring back slavery. Given this crap is done to pander to a minority of the population, entirely against the will of the majority of the population, perhaps it's time to place all tax monies normally deducted into escrow accounts until such time as democratic function is restored to our government. Because, that minority can't even manage to pay their state, let alone federal legislature alone.
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  491. It's actually worse, as the first and fourteenth amendments were willfully violated and he also threatened to exercise the corruption of blood. I wonder if he'd have also sought to attainder the parents sufficient to take their home and all other property from them as well.
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  492.  @stevenamster6686  that sunsets next year.
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  493.  @petergerdes1094  no, that's included in a background check. Do you really want to go there?
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  494. Can't do that, it's residential. Might I suggest either the Tower of London or Scotland Yard? Neither are registered as residential.
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  495. I remember one entertaining case that was a lost opportunity for the jurist to have some fun turning a defense sideways. A physicist was issued a citation for running a red light. He then claimed in court as a defense that at the speed he was driving, the red light appeared to be green due to blue shift. That'd be around 0.1 - 0.2 the velocity of light in a vacuum, which would be decidedly speeding that would require a departmental hearing... ;) Or in our measurements that mere mortals use, between 67,061,663 mph and 134,123,326 mph. The fine might be a wee bit high as well... Instead, the judge rejected the defense and found him guilty of running the red light. Had the jurist considered the math, well, we both know judge humor, "Are you certain that you want that to be your defense?" Then, a choice, pay off the national debt several dozen times over or admit to running the red light and get laughed at by all present.
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  496. OK, they get malpractice insurance, they aren't penalized beyond slightly higher insurance rates and continue to sin. Qualified immunity needs to be more tightly governed, lest the populace eventually grow so frustrated in a lack of being penalized for misdeeds that the immunity gets tested by bullet instead of a court of immunity from law.
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  497. We had utility check initially go MIA, then a $900 check got cashed for $90. When we got the check back, the amount in the number box had been erased hard enough that it eroded through the paper and the $900 was replaced with $90, while nine hundred dollars and whatever cents was still written out. The utility company applied $90, then disconnected our utility. I asked why they fraudulently altered, hence forged our check and after some blustering and my offer to contact the Secret Service, they reconnected at no charge, gave a modest credit for the day of no service and accepted a replacement check, which was properly inputted and not altered. Nobody wants to get the Treasury involved, which is what the Secret Service belongs to and primarily deals with crimes involving banks and banking. Their cases do tend to be more watertight than a DSRV.
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  498. Should be tried under the first amendment, as the law violates religious freedom by nullifying Matthew 25:35 - 40.
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  499.  @alanmcentee9457  so, the government restricts the practice of religion then, directly against the desires stated by the founders. And the government supports repression of an enumerated right under Article I, Section 8. Very well, the Constitution is null and void, as is the government in its entirety, lacking any foundation for authority. One's religion may not suborn the rights of another, beyond that, the government is to leave one alone with one's religion. That is the case law. In feeding the hungry, homeless or not, one is both obeying certain religions requirements and supporting Article I, Section 8, Clause 2. A community attempting to nullify that is irrelevant and a matter settled via a civil war.
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  500.  @alanmcentee9457 how fascinating it is that for the first part, you stop and ignore the remainder, particularly the general welfare of the US, which previously was defined as We The People. Yet, when examining the second amendment, you parse the final part. It's as if you cherrypick what you want, ignore the remainder and just pervert that perversion into some odd damned fiction that meets reality in absolutely no imaginable way. Here's a hint, ever heard of a section 8 discharge from the military? Section 8 housing? All entitlements under section 8, entitlements being a fancy word for rights. The entirety of Section 8: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
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  501. They pull the same bullshit with non-racial non-profiling that only results in stops of people with deeper skin tones.
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  502. Because, morally correct and legally correct are two entirely different things. We codify laws to outline what is lawful and unlawful, we don't typically codify what is moral.
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  503.  @kennethyoung2077  for many, it's a lifetime appointment, so firing them would require real fire and a subsequent murder charge. As incompetence isn't a high crime or misdemeanor, it's not impeachable, otherwise most of our elected officials would've long ago been impeached for incompetence. For those not appointed for life, they're elected and reelected, as the public is even more incompetent than the incompetent jurists.
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  504.  @brwi1  so, income tax, tariffs, excise tax, authorization of post offices and park lands, selective service, treaties, the federal budget and the authorization for a military and thermonuclear weapons are based on morals, to name just a few laws?
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  505. If you get wheeled in by ambulance, wake up and leave, you're still on the hook for whatever they gin up in charges. One of the reasons I actively avoid hospitals and EMS. Even when I have good coverage, as one gets economically raked over the coals with copays anyway.
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  506.  @magicwordxyzzy  that only happens for rich WASP types.
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  507.  @JStorm13  since the trash on his property is a public place, where is he supposed to dispose of them? His private incinerator? His private steel mill? His private landfill? Just accumulate junk until the house is condemned as a junkyard?
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  508.  @JStorm13  Autozone is public property? When did the government take over car parts? It used to be a civilian business and private property..
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  509.  @JStorm13  as is the curb where many of us place our trashcans. So, how to dispose of it? Have one's own steel plant, scrapyard on the property or perhaps, detonate a thermonuclear warhead over it to be rid of it?
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  510.  @JStorm13  so, he used one trashcan in preference to his own, his own being protected by landmines and machine guns?
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  511. I love the shirt. Send guns, people, preferably full of good quality grease. Mine got stolen during a move. And my favorite saying, "No applause please, just throw money". If any feel the need to throw fruit, dorian fruit is quite welcome. :D Like catching a porcupine, but I'm good catching them. Whether I want to or not...
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  512. What is a count, such as seven counts of theft by unlawful taking?
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  513.  @M167A1  you've failed Constitution 101. Innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. Otherwise, why not go the rest of the way in your scenario of all are guilty, so don't need a fair trial and simply shoot one and all right at the scene of arrest? Oh yeah, that pesky Constitution, which also prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, which seems to also be something that you desire.
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  514.  @rumls4drinkin  well, find my last garage, you'd have to drive through my house and well, I don't think I'd want your pizza. I had numbers on light under the door and on the mailbox and curb. Oh, oddlty, never had a mythical problem in delivery. Amywhere in the continental United States. Well, save once, when a neighbor 100 yards away had a misdelivery and I got his yummy crabs and I got an announcement of my delivery. Knowing that, waited for someone seeking and confused, he confirmed information on the receipt and well, transferred our dinner. Called it q day. Did note a crab source for a dinner, as that's a thing for me.
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  515.  @AHDBification  exactly what I did, reported it. Not worthy of commenting to without a sock full of bricks. What's astounding is, as a senior NCO, she knew damned well better and had to know the regulations in order to gain promotions. Annual IA training is mandatory for all networked computer users as well. I'm astounded that this NCO survived 10 seconds in the goatlocker!
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  516.  @NYKevin100  especially when, given the new technology and one would hope the understanding that new tech will frequently shit the bed, a dual exception to policy - one for the passenger, one for the technology would've been the least expensive option - both in PR terms and fiscally.
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  517. In a fair number of cases I'm familiar with, they literally don't know how to.
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  518. And if you can't get through because they blocked the road, tough shit, you're guilty. I've nearby, tough shit, you're guilty. Your driveway is part of the crime scene, due to the nebulous daffynition included in the law. Just more diversification of police, first they went into the real estate business, then into property forfeiture and now, motor vehicle resale. But, they need a larger budget anyway...
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  519.  @brentfarvors192  in large part due to it being a PR nightmare and unlike with police, people can take their business elsewhere.
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  520.  @Vincent_Beers  yeah, the two competent officials that exist in most agencies.
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  521. A proper response would've been to thank the reporter, check, get back to the reporter and confirm the decade long security failure, mention that a full information systems security review, starting with the @&!%! website was directed and thank the reporter again for the tip. Ass covered, being seen getting something fixed when it was identified and acting like a leader, rather than that beauty contestant, Mismanagement.
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  522. In Pennsylvania, we retain a coroner or a medical examiner. As near as I can tell, it varies by county. I met one of our coroner's office investigators last evening, when my wife passed away at home. I also learned, if our doctor doesn't sign the death certificate, the coroner has to decide whether to autopsy or not, then sign the certificate. Don't have the stomach for food, so might as well learn something.
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  523. Few have been the times that I've heard the US government argue that the Constitution is an undue burden. Once, a unit I was in had pork contained in each and every menu item served. This resulted in Jews and Muslims foregoing their meals. When challenged, command stated that their religion was their choice and the menu would remain unchanged. I mentioned the issue to the chaplain, who got zero traction as well - right until he went up his chain of command and no less than the US Army Chaplain General called division. The menu changed to segregate pork from every menu item.
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  524. I sued a ham sandwich. Alas, it was thrown out of court, as it was determined to be a turkey ham sandwich...
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  525. Never fear, the law enforcement agency will use the only successful in the US Nuremberg defense, "I vas only vollowing orders! A few German officers got shot, a few more got their necks stretched, the largest portion became permanent guests of the state in a fine establishment with bars. The courts in the US, "Ja!". And trust me, I can be a hell of a lot more inflammatory than that. As in retired Army NCO inflammatory. Especially with that entire guilty until one proves one's innocence, which is precisely the opposite of what I swore to uphold and protect against enemies, both foreign and domestic.
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  526. 162 MPH in a Cessna, a bit much, but OK.
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  527. The AG is tough on crime and even tougher on innocence. Habeas corpus is dead in that state. Sounds more like Judge Dredd than jurisprudence.
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  528. There's a reason I keep the VA an arm's reach away. Many charities do better, despite depressions, recessions, etc. Whores in Congress incessantly cut VA or fuck up VA budgets and efforts. Let a politician do it, watch it get fucked up. Let a specialist in the field manage it, it gets done and now declared foul as some mythical shadow government. They kept everything stable for our nation's history, despite whoever ruled.
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  529. I say to return to sender - via the Chinese embassy. When they inevitably object, give Amazon's excuses verbatim. Or contact the postal police to report review fraud and fraudulent ordering/receiving of unwanted property. And property rights allow one to reject a delivery, turning an attempt into trespassing once the driver is informed.
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  530. He'd have likely lost his mind if he found out that it also didn't have emissions inspections or a catalytic convertor.
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  531. It's BoA, good for taking, never paying. Upside is, FDIC insures the CD, so one can get the federal government involved. Although, by now federal investigators and BoA executives are on a first name basis... Our eldest had a problem with BoA during their robo-signing scandal. They were making moves to foreclose, despite her honest efforts to remain current, usual BS delay tactics. I contacted the VP of the bank directly, which quite shocked them at my even finding a direct contact method. A hint: Never piss of an information security professional. We've learned every trick in the book and a few tricks not in the books to find out information and utilize it, as we have to defend against such things. Long and short, they began dealing in good faith again, nary a problem since. Which saved me a trip and some time infiltrating their building and knocking on an office door... One of my fortes, infiltration. I don't fight often, but I'll admit to fighting dirty. In my initial contact, confirming the office physical address and suite number, in that specific case. And the last thing in the world that an executive wants to hear inside of their own office is, "You've been served" and a packet dropped on his or her desk. Phase 2 being initiating a PR nightmare campaign. Investors really hate those kinds of things and they're quite timid creatures, rendering executives quite timid as well.
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  532. Just remember the movie when anyone asks you to invest in anything Hollywood. Back when I was actually able to earn money, I kept a nice bag of dildos, just to deliver to a few worthy investment seekers. When contacted to see if I'd invest, I'd mail the package with suckage instructions. I remain mystified as to why the state department keeps refusing my employment applications... And yes, my eyes are brown for a damned good reason. But, I have actually been tempted to actually follow through on just that. I remember two popular series that got cancelled, despite having excellent ratings and hence, earnings. Why? The producer's wife didn't like the programs. That capricious of a management system does not require my financial support.
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  533. Can't continue indefinitely, given the amount of rare earths used to make modern products.
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  534. So, Ohio can now also have sterile bacteria cultures. Yay, good job in turning one state into Bizarro World, where opposites are true. Bonless is bony, sterile is thriving with pathogens, dead is alive, so nineteen eighty-four! And noon is midnight.
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  535. So, seeding is illegal if the observing LEO is stationary. Gotya. Murder is illegal only if the LEO sees you killing someone, totally cool. Good job, court! Legalized at the bench most crimes. I do wonder how much it cost the driver... Still, since law enforcement didn't witness Machine Gun Kelly killing, he is now lawfully innocent in that farce of a state that thinks it overrules the Constitution. After all, if officers encountered him with only revolvers, he'd have gone free.
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  536. Which is one reason I stopped buying Macs.
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  537. He was a sonarman, those aren't issued without a baked in TS clearance. His ancient military ID also qualified as a REALID. But, it'd be expired and that makes him unborn or something. Hell, I'd have a triple tough time getting that damned ID today after a few moves. Frankly, Reconstruction should've gone on for at least a century. Given the US government certified him and Tennessee is now usurping citizens rights guaranteed by the US Constitution.
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  538. Lawyers won't take the case, seller won't support the warranty, manufacturer ignores warranty, customer rents helicopter and delivers returned merchandise from 5000 feet... Sears Kenmore appliances were never made by Sears. They were name brand, wearing the Kenmore badge. LG has an apparent run of bad compressors. GE had a problem commonly called black powder syndrome, bad compressors degrading years ago. The difference being, GE covered under their warranty, LG ignoring their warranty.
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  539.  @soup31314  OK, the US is being invaded. POTUS can't declare war, so he sits by idly waiting for Congress to come back into session and declare war and authorize hostilities. Great idea! The Big One hits California, the state is in ruins and burning, but the POTUS doesn't have the money or authority to send in help, see the above example of waiting for congress to come back into session to act. Those are emergencies and POTUS is authorized by law to issue emergency orders, as well as executive orders necessary in order to run the country in general. A real world example, beyond the GWOT, was FDR, who sent help to Pearl Harbor, despite not having the money issued by Congress to do so, but then asked Congress to declare war and authorize the funding of his response. Now, in this case, it's a copyright law case and like it or not, copyright law is a real thing and copyright law treaties are ratified treaties, to which the Constitution states simply, "Ratified treaties are the law of the land", making ratified treaties subservient only to the Constitution itself, which is ultimate in authority. The judge issued a default judgement, as the defendants didn't appear before the court and issued relief to the plaintiffs. I strongly suspect that the reporting is in error, as SDNY does not speak for the nation, as there are many, many other districts and 11 circuits. So, an order to remove the .com registration goes to Verisign, who owns that top level domain, who ignores the order, as they're under the 4th circuit, Eastern District of Virginia. For the .tv address, the people of the sovereign nation of Tuvulu would simply laugh and shake their heads in confusion over how a US district court could order another nation around without a means of enforcement and just go about their daily lives, as I highly doubt that the US Navy would even want to bother finding that island and enforce a court order that would be legally an unlawful order. ISP's in my home Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would simply circular file the order, as we're under the 3rd circuit, Central District of Pennsylvania and hence, not under the jurisdiction of SDNY. They could order their personnel to blackhole the domain, save that that violates an international treaty on the internet, would require them to acquire a blackhole server, pay someone to configure and install it, then pay someone to block that domain and hope like hell it doesn't block all traffic, destroying their business and hence, unenforceable.
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  540.  @matrix-teknologies  one can typically find the quality of an argument just in how it's laid out. In this case, de facto is two words, not Defacto, which isn't a word in any language. If you get that wrong, then go into a rant, you really lack any point, otherwise you'd provide an example. Qualified immunity has existed for a long time, specifically, since 1967 and limited immunity to qualified, rather than absolute immunity or sovereign immunity. Immunity was needed in order to perform one's duties, but qualifying it limited it to certain conditions and specifications that can be removed for cause by a court of law. Oh, for the record, you obviously fail to even understand the most elementary of concepts. De facto means "in fact/by deed", it has a partner called de jure, meaning "by law" and decidedly does not suggest "in theory" or a capricious act by a court, but a policy for a specified reason that permits the operation of both law enforcement, government agents, agencies of the government and the courts, lest all be tied up incessantly with litigation because they performed their duties as assigned to them by law, but could also be stripped if they abuse their position of trust.
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  541. Forgery, possibly wire fraud, conspiracy, perjury all come to mind.
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  542.  @DrinkyMcBeer  forgery perfected in the alleged complaint, especially if said complaint was fictitious. An originating document contained an allegation that did not exist, but had a legal signature enough to list the innocent man. Bad contact information sworn and attested to as valid is perjury by the attorney. Identity theft involves more than mere finances. I'm aware of one attempted identity theft that involved national security information, I guess national secrets are now money? As for defamation, that's the least of it, as it opens the victim up to potential hate crimes against him and his family. Which actually opens an uglier book, the potential for terrorism. That's well within my purview, as I operated in counterterrorism. Investigate, find target, eliminate target. Call it a day, get a signed national security letter after. I'm a really nice, forgoing kind of guy in person, but beneath is a monster built and raised to defend an entire nation. To keep peace, we have laws and customs that are not disobeyed. When such are disobeyed, there's lawlessness and the SCOTUS has openly invited lawlessness repeatedly as it stands and that needs to be rapidly addressed, less the nation entirely descend into lawlessness. And I happen to be quite find of law and order, peace and quiet and things that transcend that, not very fond of, save if it's children being children.
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  543. In other words, Atlanta is crooked and run into the ground by crooks. I knew a guy who always threw the dog a meatless bone, he'd never give the dog even an ounce of meat. He was shocked when one day, the dog had enough and bit the living shit out of him. He blamed the dog, nobody else did.
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  544. So, every child operating a motorized riding toy on a road, even in front of their home is operating a motor vehicle without a valid operator's license. They're gonna have to open a nursery prison. Thankfully, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania doesn't go so zany. They rate by power and speed before something becomes a motor vehicle, it's either 20 or 25 mph and a wattage rating, either/or. Basically segregating motorized bicycles from mopeds, with mopeds requiring an operators license.
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  545. So, per the squatter's logic, they can equally move into the Tower of London and/or Scotland Yard. Both are equally non-residential. Although, I suspect the the Crown shan't give a tinkerer's damn about squatter's rights...
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  546. Even money, they looked at the evidence and remarked, "Shit happens". Then, photographed it, logged it and disposed of it, as I'm aware of no court that would want that evidence, ahem, preserved. Although, it's entertaining to consider a supreme court reviewing such, ahem, preserved evidence... Alas, by the time it'd reach them, it'd have composted.
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  547.  @rhetorical1488  he did, got a call immediately from someone identifying themself as Microsoft.
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  548. Had Love Canal been in an HOA, it'd still be giving children cancer deaths to this very day and be fully protected in doing so. Better to live under a bridge in the open than in an HOA.
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  549.  @saldiven2009  my father in law died literally outside of a bar. He'd had a heart attack and was leaving, went into cardiac arrest outside. Cops came, one cop initially ignored him as 'passed out drunk' without checking vitals, a second cop arrived and checked vitals and initiated CPR. He arrived at the hospital brain dead and badly gone enough that his intestines began to decay due to inertia, telling that the enteric nervous system was deprived of oxygen long enough for the "second brain" to die. The defense apparently, drunks don't breathe or need a heartbeat.
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  550.  @mph5896  if he was making nonsensical statements, he was not oriented. And AAOx3 is Awake, Aware and Oriented to time, place and self, that's not the ending of an assessment. One can still be AAOx3 and when asked what color his car is and he responds "Thursday", yeah, inappropriate response and obviously there's a CNS issue.
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  551.  @mattgayda2840  I'll take an inappropriate use of tourniquet 100 times over non-usage of one when it's desperately needed. Orthopedic surgeons can have a limb with a tourniquet on it for 8 - 16 hours without loss of function.
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  552.  @mattgayda2840  a lot of that is due to military training. Previously, it was as you said, which was an absurdity in the middle of a gun battle to begin with and the training was previously, "use a tourniquet, the limb is lost". Later, a physician was at a military EMS conference and that was being promulgated and he questioned that "conventional wisdom", as orthopedic surgeons have a tourniquet applied for 8 - 16 hours of reconstructive surgery without loss of function. Long story short, the tourniquet guidance was reconsidered and between combat necessities and the availability of rapid evacuation, it became basically tourniquet first and evacuate. Which reduced both limb and life losses by well over 60%. But, you are spot on on correctly applying the thing. Although, I'd be quite challenged to manage to interrupt venous return and retaining arterial flow even intentionally misapplying one, but that's likely due to my instinctively avoiding such locations and simply moving up or down as appropriate for the anatomy. The problem here is the officer is trained to seek offense, rather than consider medical as well and seek medical guidance and treatment. Hell, I'm surprised she didn't try to administer narcan. I've heard of a few of those on MI induced codes... And I'm retired military EMS.
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  553.  @PaulArtman  fire mission, perhaps?
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  554. And if they deny registration, does that mean that their first amendment license is no longer valid? Will they next require a special registration in order to vote against a particular party's candidate?
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  555.  @alphagt62  the money isn't in dollar bills, it's electronically transferred to Treasury. So, it's not going to disappear anywhere, save into the Treasury and oddly, they manage to keep track of it, just as they do with budget monies. One can tell instantly when someone never worked for any government vs when someone actually has.
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  556.  ralphferley2602  and always, the law states the duty is to all shareholders, not some particular percentage. And stock price manipulation is a felony in the US. Because, in the real world, corporate officers do care about going to prison and having their assets liquidated to satisfy restorative and punitive measures. So, how many corporate officers have you worked with over the years? I've worked with enough to make an infantry platoon.
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  557.  @towgod3096  pity that the law disagrees with your views of reality. The only part that you got right is the last sentence, as such court cases typically result in a lowering of stock values, disinclining the board of directors from seeking legal remedies.
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  558. If they say grass, rice is a grass, rye is a grass, corn is a grass, are those all illegal and they need to raid the supermarkets and burn all samples? If they really pissed me off, it'd be time for some ornamental plantings of toxicodendron. Royally pissed off, I'll turn into Johnny ricinus communis seed and the entire city ends up up to their eyeballs in castor beans. And a home security system, which will include a fully armed and automated M2 .50 BMG system, all properly legally owned.
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  559. I got nailed with swipe machine fraud. The ring was eventually arrested, but they literally had keys to the gasoline dispenser heads and internally installed their swipe reader scanning equipment. Fortunately, my credit union reversed the transaction. Had another case where a friend's friend came over, saw I was paying my bills online and when I ran to the bathroom, he snapped a picture of my debit card. He then took off to Texas and proceeded to empty my account via fraudulent Square transactions in his sister's name and mother's name. That took two weeks to straighten out. Not sure if Uncle Sam got him or not, but he is a very tenacious uncle. ;) He did manage to divert a settlement from Wells Fargo to Texas, which I'm still untangling, as the state is sitting on that money.
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  560.  @WCM1945  never fear, someone will be calling your cell about your car warranty.
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  561. Once, I was asked if I'd testify as a witness to some mutual stupidity on the part of two idiots that I knew. "I doubt it'd do any good, I really couldn't see much of anything, as I forgot my hearing aids". He just started laughing and eventually left. Given how many times I had to have him repeat something, I think he did figure out that I really did forget my hearing aids that day. I'd like to say that I hoped that the idiots had learned their lesson, but I have faith in their idiocy. Neighborhood knuckleheads, what are you gonna do with them, tie their shoelaces together? That'd be a bad idea, they'd starve to death trying to untie a square knot and then whoever tied the laces together would be charged with murder.
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  562.  @jerrybrooks870  obviously, she stole new fingers to replace her guilty ones and hide her identity. Just like she did with her age and face.
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  563.  @digitalcurrents  wow, so government ID is now just some story that they made up and simply being in custody without charge is grounds for sleep deprivation (classified by the UN as torture under the Geneva Conventions) and hypothermia. Age is simply a story one makes up, my 62 year old ass is the same as someone whose ass is 26 years old. And DHS, which CBP is part of, is so highly proficient in IDing people that literally 10% of US CENTCOM personnel were on the no fly list, resulting in difficulty deploying service members to two war fronts, then after clearing that up and deploying them, repatriating them again. Something I repeatedly personally witnessed.
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  564. I miss the heady old days, back when due care and due diligence was actually required on the part of all accusing parties. These days, all I'd be telling a court is my name, rank and serial number and request to contact the protecting power.
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  565. For now...
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  566. "We've called the DEA on this". "Oh, OK. May I speak with the agent? Hi, run this through your security officer in JPAS." The career they save will be their own. "Drugs? Cocaine? Money? The dog alerted." OK, hold the dog here. Pull out your wallet and have the dog screen it. Don't make us have to do this the hard way, cooperation will be taken into account. "This is illicit currency." "So, the US government is an illicit organization? I'll be reporting that as well on my contact report, as I have some reasonable suspicions at this time as to an attempt to coerce some unlawful activities in national security matters." Although, I'm more inclined to just call in some buddies and run a fire mission, shake and bake until they surrender unconditionally... If more than irritated, shake and bake 2x4, two quick, two air, mixed WP and HE. Not that anyone that I know would have such destructive devices in their possession... That'd be illegal! Like cops robbing people is illegal and hence, doesn't happen.
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  567. They totally lost those precious metals and stones, but the agents responsible for the vault mysteriously found some really nice vacation property for a song... Not stealing though, it's a dynamic reallocation of resources. Oddly though, if anyone other than the FBI does that to a bank, it's called armed robbery. Now, investigate it properly, shitcan security clearances and charge the thieves or have that entire agency lose all public trust - along with that entire branch of government. Mr President.
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  568. Had a run-in once with customs and immigration. Refused to view my credentials, opened sealed parcels, saw that they were marked beneath the plain blank markings with security markings, then proceeded to illegally open the classified parcels. I walked over, totally against their protocols, picked up my credentials and cell phone, dialed a preset number and reported the breach. Then, I looked at the lead, who was huffing and puffing, ready to blow my house down and said, "You'll want to answer that telephone", which promptly began ringing. Missed the flight, got an upgrade at their agency's expense, as agents came to investigate and prepare an incident report, my parcels were resealed properly and as the idiots were being lead off to a debriefing at the federal building, I was sent to the next connecting flights. So, it's not just with John Q that this insanity happens, they've tried it with classified documents couriers and in those cases, it flat out blew up in their faces. They opened sealed classified documents in an insecure, publicly viewable area and that's pretty much top of the no-no list. Even money, they lost their nice federal jobs and had to go back to being a rent-a-cop somewhere. What's supposed to happen is a verification of credentials, open outer cover, note classification marking, reseal the parcel, verify clearance on courier card matches or exceeds the level within the parcel, then pass through without any comment whatsoever.
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  569.  @chromeboi9  why go through all that trouble? Just wait at a farmer's fields that are awaiting harvest or for more constant returns on attendance, at meat processing/slaughterhouse facilities. Of course, then we get shortages on specific foods again...
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  570.  @JWSmythe  just as well. Every time we fought militarily with Canada, our troops were politely escorted back to our border. Once in the Revolutionary War, once in the War of 1812. During the Revolution, Benedict Arnold was commanding our forces and was wounded in action in Canada. Facing an inability to work his farm and nothing like a wounded veteran's pension, he sold out to the British.
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  571.  @nancyomalley6286  I dunno, that might be too cruel and unusual punishment, freaking them out over being on an island with so many statues of me... ;) although, the idea was to someplace isolated and unpleasant, Easter island isn't unpleasant. Maybe Challenger abyss?
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  572. Nah, we need to now build churches to worship the god-cops. Previously, we enjoyed god-kings, now we have god-cops. The right to free speech shall be strictly regulated against heresy against the god-cops. Just as the founding fodders wanted to feed their horses.
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  573.  @pennybourban3712  ah, but they have ever so many accomplishments! Why, they are up for multiple Tony awards. Can't get any Oscars, as those are for film, the Tony is for theater, after all. You do realize that creation and funding of an agency doesn't revolve around the Patriot Act, right? As in, formed under the Homeland Security Act of 2002? Or are all Congressional Acts the same thing in your lexicon, so the Militia Act, as old in origin as our nation, is also the Patriot Act?
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  574. As a courier of classified documents, things remain the same under this decision, which under that consideration, is a no-brainer, lest massive case law be overturned and classified becomes common knowledge. Like, how to build a thermonuclear weapon. In one specific case, literally true. Since, fuccked if I know, didn't care, loathed being tasked, went on with my job. Later, retaining the qualification, got tasked rarely to convey some documents and parcels. Later, got to send such and well, thankful to send, then got TSSA halted and damned near strip searched. Fucking irony. Got a court order precisely once. Long and short, that didn't last long, the court was ordered by a FISA court, enough said. Took a day. As for my phone, it's lousy with pornographs, some of myself, enjoy the electron microscope pornography. The only thing not encrypted.
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  575.  @diamondjim7560 there is no supposedly, the list was published and the investigation it triggered was widely reported. All growing out of J. Edgar Hoover's overreach during the McCarthy era. For the record, the FBI tracked thousands, hundreds closely, with hundreds of continuous wiretaps. People contacting the FBI actually got escalated in priority for surviellance. Hence, one of the reasons for the Freedom of Information Act, as they'd refuse to disclose who was being watched - especially to the "suspect". The good old Commies under every bed era! Now, the commies are about as extinct in the wild as hippies. And yes, they're extinct in the wild. Don't make me get out my reality stick again.
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  576. Satire is no longer protected under the first amendment, which is already an unlawful amendment when you commit heresy against the god-cops. Only worship of god-cops is allowed. Especially, given one can only now enjoy all of one's rights if one has millions of dollars to back those rights up in court.
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  577.  @azhockeynut8297  when are you going to buy free speech liability insurance? Running for and holding office are also enumerated rights, require insurance for one right's expression, require it for all, including voting malpractice insurance.
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  578. And one half of the couple now is saying, "Yay, no child support to pay, no housing to provide, yee hah!". Oh well, could've been worse. Could've gone in for a real estate transaction and came out divorced and the court then say, "tough shit". Then, finding the couple in contempt when they say, "chew harder, your honor".
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  579. He committed the most heinous offense, Disturbing the Police, typically a capital offense. Honestly, I'm surprised that they didn't auction it off as "abandoned property". After all, the US, per the lower courts, is Constitution Free Zone. All public spaces are cops only spaces. Fortunately, the appellate court remembered Constitutional law 101. Meaning, only those who can afford expensive lawyers have rights.
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  580.  @MrTrailerman2  well, it's the Peter Principle. Fuck up, move up.
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  581. I can. Mother-in-law repo man, lifetime is measured in picosecconds.
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  582. I wonder if he locked anyone up for contempt for not voting the right way too? He repeatedly ran unopposed, is the jailhouse full of opponents as well?
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  583. Hey now, I actually like Pringles! Hence, why I get around 6 cans per year. Gotta watch the weight, hence glycemic index, due to familial well, lard accumulation. Gotta keep my title as eldest in the family to not be massively overweight and diabetic. But, they taste damned good. Nearly as good as spuds I fry myself, even more rarely, due to the oil consumption and disposal issues. Yeah, I am known to make my own potato chips, sue me and my ham sandwich.
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  584.  Pol Pot 2024  sorry, but as one who's been a juror more than once, I'd convict you - of discharging a firearm within city limits. And if codified as law, "dreadful waste of perfectly good ammunition"...
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  585.  @soundman6241  given my decades of federal government experience, I eagerly await your presentation of evidence to support such a globally broad statement of fact. Yes, in any large organization, there are some true brain trusts of idiocy, there are bunglers, but they're the exception, not the rule. To believe otherwise is to also believe that those saved during a major disaster are really dead, despite their being alive, well and still paying taxes.
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  586.  @wanttopreach  so, they're outlaws and have both a built in writ of attainder and we'll follow for the corruption of blood, sending the god-cops out to legislate at the curbside and summarily execute their version of justice? That's anarchy, but bordering on feudalism as well. There are two remedies, one being our courts, the other involving rifles. I prefer the courts, but as a retired soldier, I'm equally comfortable with either direction the lawless want to go.
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  587.  @joshm3342  many communities don't have unions to represent EMS workers. Interestingly, police do, for some odd reason.
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  588.  @GreenJeep1998  honestly, I'd deadline each and every ambulance until such extortion if repaid. If necessary, removing an axle bearing from each and every vehicle, necessitating an inspection and repair for corrosion during said removal period. Safety first and all.
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  589. So, ricin chicken is legal, even without mentioning that ricin is present or fatally toxic. After all, ricin is a natural bean component and beans are natural, so that makes everything acceptable, since it's not synthetic and natural things should be expected in foods - even toxic substances. I've seem decisions that strain, even sprain Article IV, Section I's Faith and Credit clause, this puts a bloody gunshot wound in its head. Ohio of late has turned into a Constitutional version of herpes, a gift that keeps on giving that's actually a highly unpleasant disease that'll also eventually likely become cancer. Oh well, at least people have a natural defense of gunz...
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  590. Might not need impeachment, impeachment is for those appointed with consent and advice of the legislature. Those elected to the bench or via simple appointment both have no lifetime appointment and can be removed by the courts directly.
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  591.  @me8042  some years ago, I was told with great pride the story behind the beginning of Pep Boys auto parts. The friends started their auto parts business back when car lamps literally were lit lanterns. They befriended local cops, who would break out someone's light, then mention how the lamp was out and the driver should visit "those Pep boys down the road". Told by management at their corporate office. Unrelated, but humorous, while going through security at their corporate office, we overheard the blare of a car horn, then screech of brakes, then the inevitable thud. Had they braked first and honked last, it's likely the collision would've been avoided and alas, it's a common theme on our highways. I glanced at the security guard, he glanced back with a shrug, I remarked, "Sigh, another Pep Boys driver's license". A voice behind me guffawed and exclaimed, "I haven't heard that one in years!" I wheeled, it was the CEO of the company. My thought was, "Oh, I am ever so fired right now!". Amazingly, nope. At least he had a sense of humor. Which was a good thing, as we were in the middle of a major deployment and upgrade on their cash registers, upgrading to a Linux based system... Major technology shifts and upgrades are... Challenging, to put it mildly. That's what makes them fun!
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  592.  @jamessimms415  at the flowers, I'd explain that my tolerance to trespass was limited and we're a castle doctrine state and courtesy of her parents, I'm a small arms expert and competition shooter and war veteran. Helen Keller could see the implicit threat there, but lawfully justified in castle doctrine states with no duty to retreat. Pulling down the tree branch, I'd simply say, "Strike Two, wanna try to strike out, your family won't like what remains". A black hole would figure that one out. Third, circle my face with a finger, flat out of fucks to give, may she rest in pieces, erm, peace. But, meanwhile, before escalation, I'd be microscoping her and pulling legal shit on her, the slightest infraction and if they refused for church group crap or other, fuck the reelection campaign. Did it before for nothing, trivial to play dirty again. One thing in SF was, there ain't any fighting dirty, it's surviving that counts and accomplishing one's mission and we were selected for a sheer inability to quit, but to fight smart. And I'm dirty enough of a fighter to survive to retirement. Now, worse, I've nothing to lose. Comparative ball pain to the local government, veteran vs local government, they lose, twat being a twat loses, more letters to the editor, pfft. Normally, I'm a nice guy, but there is that which made my military career survivable. And honestly, I am flat out out of fucks to give.
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  593. So, if Google is liable for not marking in their database that the bridge is impassable, is Google also responsible for pedestrians run over because the driver failed to stop, as Google didn't tell them to stop? At some point, one is supposed to be responsible for the safe operation of a motor vehicle, as I recall that began while the vehicle begins to move and stops once it's safely and securely parked and not able to roll away. That said, I've gotten wrong steers from Google Maps more times than I want to count. It's nowhere as good in accuracy as many GPS units for cars. But, if visibility, such as a ramped bridge, is obstructed to see the deck, one slows down, per every motor vehicle licensing manual I've ever saw and even in driver safety courses authorized by the federal government.
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  594.  @elfshadowx  maybe. Most of the ransomware types don't bother with exfiltration, they encrypt the data and hold the encryption keys unless the ransom is paid. So, the data remains secure, just inaccessible by the data owners. Only a few actually steal the data as well, thankfully.
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  595. Fleetwood Mac shouldwood been a lesson. Yes, I do indeed have a large fucking vocabulary.
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  596.  @ChrisS-oo6fl  and if an answer is not within its database as a high probability match, refers one off to some human who should know. I've called a call center, got an "I'm not sure about...", "Can you check with someone?". Usually, the answer is an affirmative, I get tossed on hold for a while as they get with someone that actually knows and I got an accurate answer.
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  597. Laughably, in 1977, when I took my test, there'd have been no confusion. Amazing what can change in just a few years!
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  598. Sounds like a good law. If a murder is committed, does the entire city have to get nuked? After all, the city is a Constitution free zone, exercising the corruption of blood.
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  599. I remember back when Pennsylvania first legalized right turn on red. Immediately, NO TURN ON RED signs proliferated like weeds at every red light. Every red light, even where turning right was impossible, as there was no road one could turn right onto - just private property, in a few cases, literally one would be turning into the wall of a building. It took a court order at the behest of the Commonwealth to get these cities, towns and townships to remove the majority of the signs, only allowing those justified by a proper highway survey. The signs had a much higher cost later, as those signs were as popular with voting drivers as the black death and cost the authorizing idiots dearly in the next election.
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  600. How do you get an old Yugo to go over 60 MPH? Tell the tow truck driver to go faster.
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  601. That entire story didn't make sense from early reporting and now. $200k in dimes are missing in every story, yet a million dimes were stolen, someone badly failed basic elementary school math! Oh, math fun time. a roll of dimes is $5.00, which weighs in at 4 oz. Figure out how many pounds that just $100k would weigh. Now, think of the entire load. My back is already hurting in sympathy...
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  602. Based upon my inspection findings, I junked my Toyota and won't consider another from them or their subsidiaries again. Total win! Because tires are engines and screw reality. Tires do get an S rating, they're not the fucking engine. Abandon the owner, we abandon your now useless, warrant-free product.
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  603. This isn't the Patriot Act, it's the REAL ID Act.
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  604. Steve, you have mortality, which is unfortunately an eventually terminal condition. It is associated with the consumption of oxygen, with the exhalation of carbon dioxide. Unfortunately, as this is associated with life, there is no cure that is survivable. :P
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  605.  @robertsmith2956  yeah, Biden invented it, it's not as if we have the term breach of contract in lengthy case law, it's that Biden is mightier than God because he has a time machine. There is help for Biden Derangement Syndrome, you just need to consult a mental health care professional and renounce your false god-trump.
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  606.  @robertbryant6998  that is not why. They ignored a call, which they are required to respond to per their employment agreement and contract. If I accept a job and my job involves answering the telephone and I refuse to, I'll get fired. SSDD there. So, these fine, outstanding officers are free to seek their snorlax to their heart's content now.
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  607. Let it be hereby enacted, city ordinance 1776, the US Constitution is illegal and the use of force to oppose and suppress it is authorized. Hey, whose army is attacking?
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  608.  @zatoth13  I've dealt with similar in person in the past. I merely suggested that were the desired victim to be of a similar mindset, once attacked, the speaker would be facing a very literal war. And that I'm exceptionally proficient at warfare, as my old brigadier general could attest to in sparse detail. For some odd reason, they always wandered off to go kick a rock.
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  609.  @keithdf2001  only for presentation works. To make a puzzle, any photograph can be used, including ambient light handheld camera photographs. They didn't make a claim that they owned the photograph, but that the painting is owned by them as a cultural artifact. Will we next need to excise DaVinci's illustrations from Gray's Anatomy, a newcomer, given it was first published in 1858?
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  610.  @mattmanyam  so, that singular museum owns every single work of DaVinci? Your ignorance is astonishing!
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  611.  @no_peace  so, trespassing on posted private property, after opening a secured gate and damaging private property, one can engage in self-defense against the homeowner who is defending their home and posted private property in a stand your ground and castle doctrine state? I'm fine with that, your mommy and daddy's tax dollars saw to it that I was trained to not miss my targets at any range I need to engage at and did so in war. As missing wasted ammunition, it wasn't part of the budget. One to the bean, one to the thorax, now it's a coroner issue. And the vehicle gets impounded for even longer. I fail to see any losing point on my end and any victory the company may enjoy would be entirely Pyrrhic. All of the words mean something. Posted, secured, trespassing, criminal trespass by opening a secured gate, castle doctrine and stand your ground state laws. In your Bizarro world, home invasions are legal!
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  612. Indeed! Precisely what I thought as it was being told. Having victory firmly in hand, he showed it to all, offering it up to the gaping jaws of defeat and fed it well. Quit while ahead, not try to show the world that you're a dick head, which has no fucking brain! But, never interrupt an adversary when he or she makes a mistake. In other cases, I'd use "Jesus wept", here, "Jesus laughed his ass off". Dumber than a bag full of hamers.
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  613.  @dennissvitak5475  heh, living in S Central Pennsylvania. Right on the edge of Gulf Stream effects and continental weather effects, leading to the local saying, "Don't like the weather? Wait 10 minutes, it'll change". The edge of two energetic effects systems tends to knock models into a cocked hat. :/ Had the converse in Qatar, where we were in the middle of a cell, so the weather was pretty much a constant - warm months with dry winds coming from the Empty Quarter, cooling months when it was hot and the shallow gulf raised the humidity high enough that at night triple pane windows looked like it was raining and winter, when it was 80 in the day, upper 40's at night and rainy season of a month, when an inch of annual rain fell in one serving. Basically, like a 10 minute long monsoon. Saw a lot of virga during the summer in the distance. Evaporated thousands of feet up. Knew a sandstorm was days away from that.
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  614. And it's quite likely that the entire congregation started raising merry hell with the chief of police, who figured out he and his officers were far, ludicrously outnumbered. Otherwise, the pastor would likely still be facing a court for watering without the permission of the god-cops.
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  615. I deployed overseas, sent my disabled wife abroad as well, given the rough neighborhood that I could afford. House was fully paid for. Came home to find the house empty of all furnishings and copper, worth far less at the time than replacement of the wiring and pipes, gave it to the city. Thank me for my service is a daily offense! While literally homeless. As, what what would a camera give, an addict getting mine and I can recover precisely dick? Good job at protecting the homefront! Hope Russia nukes soon, hopefully with their threatened cobalt-60 devices. I'll be coal delivery in hell for you all.
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  616. That last, especially! Not in the market for a tattoo, never considered it, but one's own body, one's own business. But, a mastectomy patient seeking a tattooed nipple is SOL in Kentucky, but the state's now open for an ADA lawsuit. Those penalties can swiftly add up to empty a state tax coffer.
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  617.  @charlesyoung7436  it's his new policy push for excellent PR. Tough on crime is passe, way antique and not very effective politically. So, he's pivoted to a new platform. "I'm tough on innocence!" He'll be raiding the neonatal ward to catch as many innocent newborns as he can soon.
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  618. The chump change "fine" tells the tale on what they really want - not money, your PII for identity theft. It's an ongoing issue in Pennsylvania, with the governor's office even issuing a warning of a major campaign targeting PA residents. Been getting around one a month for the past four months, with one month garnering two. All get "report spam" clicked and deleted immediately after. Other smishing messages are originating as well, all from the Philippines thus far. Out of pure malice, I texted two back telling them that they texted me the wrong content, as we'd agreed that they'd send me the current disposition of the Chinese fleet harassing certain islands... I figure, law enforcement won't or can't do anything, let PRC intelligence perceive a threat then. ;) Given the PRC already has my SF86 data and documents from their OPM hack, I'm sure they're monitoring my traffic to and from the region. :P Hey, it's always a good thing when one can get one's adversaries to fight one another!
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  619. Some years ago, I received a letter threatening legal action over my allegedly downloading a video that I had never even heard of. A quick search on the net showed that they did phenomenally shoddy research and basically blitzed some ISP's customer lists, trolling for the amount of money they demanded in order not to end up in court. I filed it away and went on with my business. Around a year later, the company was on the news, as they just got convicted, along with their corporate officers, for extortion in federal court. The paper was worth more than their threat, from start to finish, as there was no records to be found of them ever going to court - well, until they got indicted.
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  620.  @jabba0975  his alternative was what? Engage in warfare against his nation? Dead people lose the right of redress of grievances with their government.
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  621.  @knine8154  I don't think that you can use crayons. The Marines and I ate most of them. Sorry. ;)
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  622.  @joeshmoe6969  you are obviously not familiar with the US or our Constitution and government. We have a department of justice, it's an executive branch agency responsible for federal law enforcement. We have a judicial system, under a judicial branch, which adjudicates law, not justice. Not what's moral, just, correct, proper, right or wrong, just what is legal. And mutilation is unconstitutional as cruel and unusual punishment. If you mutilate someone wrongly, due to a deficient verdict for any number of reasons, do you now magically unmutilate them, just as we now have to undead the wrongly executed?
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  623.  @Mr39knuck  go to Google, turn safe search off. There will be many, many illustrations and likely, a map.
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  624.  @dn88s  "Fifteen years for something that's considered a constitutional right in half of states", where does that say anything about prison? As an aside, dirty jersey is nonsense, they're Tory New Jersey, that's far past dirty.
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  625.  @dn88s  way to avoid answering an honest question twice. And if it's beyond the point, why in the hell did you ask about it?
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  626.  @davidsnyder3799  no thanks, I’m deathly allergic to it.
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  627.  @ClockworkGearhead  well, neither creativity, nor the Constitution are mentioned in the Constitution, therefore are unconstitutional. Or something.
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  628. Rayon is cellulose, if that's a chemical, trees are chemicals. I guess we need to ban all precursors to rayon - plants. Seriously though, bamboo sourced fiber, bamboo sourced viscose (what rayon actually is), bamboo sourced whatever would work under the act, but it is about as much bamboo as a woody plant, it's about as much bamboo we're familiar with as a human is. Although, rayon sheets, well, I could legally call rayon sheets viscose sheets, cellulose sheets or even sugar sheets, as cellulose is just a shit ton of chained sugars. I do have bamboo cutting boards, not plastic, but actual laminated bamboo and they're nicer on blade edges than many plastic cutting boards, but like plain wood, still a pain in the ass to disinfect.
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  629. I actually met a man that signed with an X, as he stated that when he was growing up, it was illegal to teach him to read and write. He was quite old and well, this was over 40 years ago, he would've been born around the turn of the century or so. In the Army, I digitally signed documents and e-mails as a matter of routine, as the signing certificate is stored on our ID cards, which we also used to log onto computers with. My written signature, well that's illegible, largely due to, as paperwork increased, my penmanship declined. Good luck duplicating it though.
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  630. -Surprised at shelf-life of Spam? Take a gander at an MRE's shelf-life. Saw the notice in my mailing list, as recalls and alerts on foods and well, tons of other stuff, are trivial to sign onto a mailing list from every government agency. UK and Spam, well, post-war shortages were common within the living memory of the writers of Monty Python, so Spam wasn't uncommon. Think recovering from the Blitz, enough said. As for Spam itself, don't have any on hand now, but occasionally, I'll get some and enjoy it. Think every couple of years kind of occasionally, at my age, I'm watching my salt and fat intake. And currently astronomical blood pressure, as doctor decided to wait nearly a week to refill my BP meds. Once more, I'll be chalking up another fired doctor.
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  631. Ah, but do you know who was wrong? Volvo when they pulled their concept turbine car offering, largely because they thought that no US mechanic could fix their engine. From what little I can remember from both engines, uncontained failures weren't really possible for those engines.
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  632.  @Jirodyne  good job, so one person can trigger a nuclear war if you are in charge. This planet is doomed.
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  633. @@stevenstrain283 the only time fines are enforced is against individual citizens, never large corporations at the levels fined. They always get bargained down to a pittance, with no admission of guilt, saving them from going to federal court and a trial and court judgement. And it's not only the FCC, the FTC and even EPA has similar problems and all use the same solution of settlement without an admission of guilt. Well, save the EPA, as the SCOTUS apparently decided that no environment was mentioned in the Constitution, so we don't need an environment at all, hence protection is nonsensical.
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  634.  @ianbelletti6241  hold your breath waiting, you'll be quite the fetching shade of blue. Most of the time, such complaints go into File 13 as not worth the taxpayer's money in prosecuting. The website is registered in Canada, the owner could as easily be in Russia, South Africa, Djibouti, etc. I mentioned Djibouti because I was stationed there for a time...
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  635. "Look now, obscuring the asshole's view of the road by spewing shit is really, really bad".
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  636.  @kenbrown2808  yep! Whoppsie!
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  637. Marry the woman, what did she do to deserve being punished? For the walking 30 miles, that'd be beyond challenging, I literally have trouble walking three miles these days. But, the point is valid. And having buried my wife of 42 years nearly two years ago, the guy got off easy. And having killed people in war, yeah, it'd hit especially hard.
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  638. And now we'll hear, "See? The system works!" Ignoring that it's one case out of hundreds of thousands. The argument being then used by terrorists in favor of terrorism, as the general populace can never hope to achieve justice. Not that I'm arguing for terrorism, just a very literal conversation that I've lost the argument with against a very real captured terrorist.
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  639.  @MrTruckerf  I'm confused. Even more than usual after passing my mirror... Why would you trade trucks every 3 years to keep up with improvements, lacking any regulation requiring such? There are no ex post facto laws requiring such, so, a matter of conscience? If so, thank you, my lungs appreciate that effort greatly! Now, if we could only improve fuel economy on those last two trucks by an order of magnitude. Alas, tanstaafl. Largely, because free lunches are just so damned expensive! I am curious though, what's the mileage for the urea for the exhaust system? I know it's load dependent, but really have no clue how far on average with a full load one typically can travel (either general average or on flat terrain for a general idea, mountains throw everything into a cocked hat in consumption terms).
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  640.  @mediocreman2  being dead effects the poor as well - quite disproportionately. And the EPA grabs people in the middle of the night and murders them?
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  641. "I have been instructed that I may only say yes and as such, find the oath sworn irrelevant by the very nature of it being coerced and sworn under duress".
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  642. I was denied buying a case of beer with an old DoD ID card, before the days when CAC cards existed. I called the state to make a complaint, as the refusal is unlawful in my state.
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  643. A quick search engine search came up with interesting results with "hoa board shot", with HOA board members killing members, members killing HOA board members or their family members over disputes and a couple of cases, the board getting gunned down over a dispute. Plus tons of reported embezzlement cases, corruption, racketeering, well, put it this way, the mafia looks cleaner. Yeah, I'll live in a tent before getting involved with an HOA.
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  644. Design, as in a defective design is also covered. Such as Ford having a known issue of brake fluid leaking onto electrical components, causing a fire that claimed a number of homes via garage fires. But, my first question is, which planet is the car manufactured for. It's obviously designed for something beyond the solar system's frost line, maybe for driving around Saturn's rings. Oh, as I recall, that London building had some remediation done due to the problem of well, molten streets. The other building you likely heard of was in Las Vegas, which similarly was melting the streets. Again, some mitigations applied, as in both cases, vehicular damage had occurred and the intolerable heat was rather bad for neighboring businesses.
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  645.  @willythemailboy2  I remember one actual law firm that was ginning up false DMCA claims. They tried extorting me, as well as thousands of other people, but eventually the feds arrested them for their attempted extortion and fraud. Their problems were, they actually did not own the rights to claimed pirated works, were not representing the owners of said works, had falsified claims of users downloading said works (laughably, they attempted that with me while I was out of the country and most certainly could not have been transferring anything while in the Middle East), suffice it to say, all parties in that firm lost their law licenses and had a really nice place to say - well, nice if one likes steel bars.
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  646. Non Guccione began construction on a casino in Atlantic City, which left steelworks literally over the roof of the home of Vera Coking. When Trump purchased the failed project, he razed the girderwork mess, resulting in damage to her home, she refusing to allow his workers repair the home. An eminent domain battle ensued and she and two other property owners prevailed. Still trying to figure out how Guccione's erector set ended up hanging over her home, since that apparently is criminal trespass. Around a decade ago, a creditor of Trump's failed casino purchased her home after she moved to a retirement home in California for a little over half of her asking price that Trump refused and Guccione refused to pay, getting around $580k or so, her asking price being $1 million. The other property owners getting 2.1 million and 1.2 million. Drones may not overfly private property below a specific altitude, I remember that from when I was working at CSC, whose seniormost officers discussed licensing of drones with the FAA director, which became effective soon after and guess what company got to handle the registrations? No bribes, just golfing buddies, because buddies taking care of buddies with government contracts is OK. I've had to explain to friends in foreign lands about federal and state, given their nations (European, mostly) strong central governments. The easiest way I found was to consider the US a strong federation of 50 nations with one overarching supreme Constitution that significantly restricts the federal authorities of the national government over the states beyond that which is outlined within the Constitution. Given Eurozone, that got the concept across well enough. Special thanks to History News Network for the naming of the guilty: 'The first record of the anecdote appears in a 1787 journal kept by one of the delegates to the convention, James McHenry of Maryland. He wrote: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy. A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it.” McHenry added a footnote to the text: “The lady here alluded to was Mrs. Powel of Philad[elphi]a.”' Why Elizabeth Willing Powel was erased from the majority of tellings of the story is beyond me, unless perhaps, they wish to reject that republic. Given that she did play pivotal roles at the time of the penning of our Constitution and before, that's the only reason I can figure, unless some, women included, want to deny women the agency that they had at the time of our nation's founding.
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  647. Probably the donut shops stopped giving out freebies, as it was bankrupting them.
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  648.  @ivandafoe5451  except for that whole sugar isn't a stimulant thing. And I've never gotten excitable like that on caffeine from coffee. More like god-cop syndrome, coupled with roid rage. The Chief dropping things because of an enraged congregation.
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  649. Burn your excess of market. That is the message, well, that and quit commerce in favor of Mammon.
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  650.  @punker4Real  bankruptcy won't protect against a judgement of the courts. Per the SCOTUS.
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  651. So, when do we get to be ordered to install Telescreens in our home, direct to Big Brother? And when does FedEx get issued weapons, since they're now a law enforcement agency? I'm sure that the anarchists and militias will be thrilled with this nonsense, as it'll really help recruitment. Oh, entertainingly, were the US to go to war with a peer nation, aka, one that could effectively strike US targets, that entire health care system, by feeding intelligence into government sources just lost protested status for every one of their facilities and became valid military targets. Becoming an intelligence source makes one automatically lose one's noncombatant status under the Geneva and Hague Conventions. As has FedEx and all of their depots and other assembly areas. I'm sure that a grateful nation will greatly appreciate and support your sacrifices in the cause of liberty to surveil.
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  652. If they did slip it through, next up would be a subscription for the privilege of being able to start the frigging engine. Just slip it into the sales contract that the car isn't required to start...
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  653.  @JohnDoe-qz1ql  nope, it comes down to judgement. Can you trust their good judgement when it comes to the lives of yourself and your loved ones? Frankly, I'd not trust their good judgement with a used Foley catheter. I fail to see Steve's consideration though on "figuring out how to unbolt", it's four damned bolts, the bolts embedded in concrete, the nuts holding the damned thing to the pad. It ain't rocket science. The boxes may not be sold to the public, period, end of story. Want a steel box to store supplies, there are companies that build just as durable and a hell of a lot more functional and pleasant in appearance. Still, I've operated ambulances and more, I could see something silly like, "Hi, USPS? Yeah, I'm Steve and I kinda clipped one of your collection boxes with the ambulance on a call, knocking it free. Here's the numbers off of it and its location, can you send someone out for it? Thanks!" Not, "Hi, I am pretending not to have stolen a quasi-federal agency's Constitutionally mandated property and am asking if I can keep what I just stole fair and square". I know of two medics in great need of an enema.
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  654.  @GilmerJohn  landlines are unpopular with providers because copper is more maintenance intensive than fiber. That's why Verizon and other carriers were pulling so much fiber. Hell, we just had a crew running long fiber along the turnpike here, didn't ask the client, although from the type of fiber being run, it's likely AT&T. Due to a lot of US government installations in the area, AT&T invested long ago and keeps investing - even if half of their fiber remains dark for now.
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  655. Just contact the postal police, as it's part of a fraud scheme anyway and the USPS is being abused to perform it, which is illegal. Amazon then can keep on going and accruing fines and eventually get blacklisted by the USPS and most other common carriers.
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  656.  @davidfrederick9973  so, everyone is Amazon’s slaves and has to dispose of Amazon’s trash for free? One’s time is worthless, save for Master’s time?
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  657. So, sleep deprivation is ensuring a prisoner's rights, hypothermia is ensuring prisoner safety. I'm of the theory, deprive natural rights, let God sort them out after the reprisal for the violations via the Rob Roy system. Given that if we treated an enemy prisoner of war that way, our prisoners would also be tortured in reprisal, per the Geneva Conventions. So, when did communities first declare war upon their citizens? What was the casus belli? What is the objective of the war or is it just a war of extermination? Probably need exploratory surgery to ascertain that from some of the lawless combatants.
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  658. In the last case I'm aware of where one party requested mutual combat from the court, he received a court order - for a mental health evaluation. Suffice it to say, he later failed to fare well in a court of law after his evaluation.
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  659. The SCOTUS prohibited juries being instructed on jury nullification. Predictable, given the SCOTUS routinely discusses rights by calling them privileges. Only jurists seem to have rights, not commoners.
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  660. I'm sure that some will proclaim that a victory for her, pure profit. I'm sure, as I've literally heard such monsters actually say just that - promptly losing the room, much to their confused consternation.
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  661. That's one reason I love US government regulations for contractors and officers receiving gifts being tightly limited to essentially pocket change per year at most. Eventually, that turned into cushy jobs after leaving government service and regulations and the law then addressed that. Now, everyone safeguards the taxpayer's money to the utmost of their ability, within operational constraints. An example being, abandoning equipment that would cost more to transport back home or to distant US bases, where the cost of transport far exceeded the replacement cost of said equipment. Edit: I forgot to mention, the lowest bidder isn't always a winning bidder, as performance or likelihood of performance is also considered when tendering a bid. So, a low bidder with only two employees for a job requiring thousands wouldn't likely win a bid, where other bidders did have thousands of employees.
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  662. I'm rarely in that big of a hurry to actually care about a day or two delay. I do despise being lied to though. Faster, cheaper, better, pick one. Their automation is pretty much at peak capacity now, saw similar working in a large automated warehouse with the DLA. That cart on rails or robotic picker only moves at one speed and fast it ain't for safety reasons. Then, it goes to the packaging station, to the worker denied a piss break. Yeah, I know people who used to work there.
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  663. Why does a simple divorce court proceeding sound simpler and far more gentle? Oh wait, divorce court does obey the Marquess of Queensberry Rules.
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  664.  @davidzarodnansky4720  so much violence against an innocent piece of wood! How many times must you be told, the right tool for the right job! Here's a 10 pound sledgehammer. 8 pounders may bounce, 10 pounders don't bounce.
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  665.  @tallthinkev  eh, choke up on it, no need for a full swing. A 2 pounder does good for an initiate. ;)
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  666.  @MickeyMishra  and older than me and I'm in my 60's. The VA got started for one man's reason, Benedict Arnold, who was disabled in our war against Canada during our larger war. He, along with our remaining forces, politely escorted back to our border, where he learned that his wounded and disabled ass had no pension to support his family and farm after the war. True story. And today, I can't even get fucking hearing aids.
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  667.  @MickeyMishra  go for it, actual research is good, correction is better. But, I've actually driven a "trespasser" from our armory, who was a former member that I actually refused to serve with, due to his readily apparent mental illness, incurred during his tour in South Korea.| Being notified, I gave a directive to wait for my arrival, then drove him to the local VA hospital, instructing doctor to hold him until he was balanced and well or "else"... I took care of my men, even after they were "out", when suffering. And veterans do stick together, as this nation regularly abandons us, for the least political and financial convenience. Odd serendipity, was watching "The Trial Of Billy Jack" and remembering such things. Yeah, our care is stellar, totally absolutely spectacular in its non-performance as "leaders of the world", just as our health care has and remains, where germ theory remained dormant for a half century, even into the Spanish Influenza pandemic and masks are still argued about and well, Cuba developed a small lung cancer vaccine we're only now testing - 20 years later and Trump damned near derailed that test. Sad isn't the word, but I lack a proper word for it. And my command of English, both US and UK is excellent.
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  668. Well, they need to also register the corporation with the selective service system. And be ready to imprison corporations. Or they can enjoy the French National Razor.
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  669. The ridiculous thing is, now the mayor had to get involved.
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  670. And that test was competitively administered by the other can't drivers out there. ;) People keep anticipating flying cars. I dread it, the roof work bill would be murder. Because, if they can't drive on the ground, what hope do we have that they can handle an additional dimension of altitude? Honey, take your steel umbrella, it's raining flying car parts again...
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  671. Loose ball in the end zone? Nope, it's a loose grenade without a pin or safety lever in the locker room. I'll be in the showers.
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  672.  @nolongeramused8135  wrong, it would literally take infinite energy for any mass to achieve the velocity of light in a vacuum. Of course, along the way as one's accelerating, the faster one goes, the more everything appears in a 180 degree left - right cone to shift directly in front of you, so soon, that blue shifting starlight turns into a beam of intense gamma radiation to drill straight through you and your now quark-gluon plasma spaceshit. Was a spaceship, but the radiation converted it... ;)
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  673.  @nolongeramused8135  should've included the quote, since it was an earlier one. "Someone once calculated that it would take the mass of the sun (100% mass to energy conversion) to power a spaceship to almost the speed of light. Good luck slowing down." That someone miscalculated, it'd take infinite energy to get to C, close to C would take more than solar mass. By my calculations, it'd take at least one mother-in-law's mass. Or an SMBH, but I repeat myself... And oops, dyslexia and an annoying GI bug have me distracted and decompensating. Doctor's narrowed the diagnosis down though, between cancer, infection and autoimmune, which pretty much means not a clue... When medicine meets the uncertainty principle. :/ Oh well, get to my emergency gastroenterologist appointment in two weeks, assuming my electrolytes don't drop enough to kill me. If the AAA doesn't kill me first. Medically, I've got Schrödinger's body, no matter how I try to get rid of it, it's trouble.
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  674. I've seen case reports of all manner of infections from those doctors in Mexico and Thailand as well. But, we don't need regulation, let doctors go without sterile equipment, want protection, bring your own microbiologist to test the equipment before it's inserted deep into your body. And a chemist to ensure the drugs are at the proper strength and purity. And pickup trucks that carried shit can be ambulances right after unloading, no need for those million dollar ambulances, hell, use welding O2 instead of medical grade O2, carbon monoxide is good for you, so is sulfur dioxide and nitric oxide. Let's party like it's the 1600's folks!
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  675.  @kurtwetzel154  well, the smart move would've been to quickly pull over, hop into the passenger seat, then answer the video call...
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  676. If it falls on me or my property, I sue whoever lofted that which should not have fallen upon me or my property. Oddly, I saw in a Google search earlier today, a blurb repeatedly issued via multiple media channels that NASA was going to pay for the repair in Florida. The two impacts in N. Carolina not causing any property damage and being SpaceX launch related not getting any damages.
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  677. I'd have told them, "Go for it, I'll see you in court when I'm awarded all HOA assets for violation of the ADA and OSHA regulations, any shortfall coming out of the officers properties and private monies". That said, oxygen can't burn, it's required to make flammable items burn and can cause spectacular fires. If it's liquid oxygen, it's unlikely that it could ever explode too, LOX tanks vent to prevent an explosion. Which can then make a modest fire downright exciting.
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  678. Heh, had a similar experience during the pandemic with a food delivery. Guy in the building across the street got my food, I got his. We swapped food, although those crabs did look damned good...
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  679.  @Bob-of-Zoid  have a care. One bad flatus can ruin both your day and your nose hairs!
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  680. Well, it comes down to their philosophy. Laws for thee and none for me.
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  681. Weird, weird court. Does actually enforce a law for a change, also rules that boneless chicken is allowed to have bones.
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  682. @battenkillrambler3543 got a bunch from the Philippines.
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  683. A hospital gift card for malpractice? Naw, no thanks, I've always wanted to own a hospital and its employees. Chest pains, automatic O2 and ECG, ECG will tell the tale easily enough. At that point, if the person claims to be Jesus Christ, I don't discontinue treatment and restrain them, if I have reason to believe that they are not Jesus Christ, I schedule neurology to consult, not perform the medical equivalent of shooting at his head with a machine gun! I had transportation disconnect my O2 once for transport for imaging, turned out my lungs were partially collapsed, partially fluid filled, totally a bad scene. Mr Transportation then dutifully brought me back to the ED and utterly failed to reconnect my O2, leaving me on room air and SPO2 dropping to 80%. Doctor was decidedly irritated... Turned out to be minor, it was only heart failure secondary to a thyroid storm, triggering severe tachycardia and obscene hypertension. Got back on O2, sats jumped back into the upper 90's, where they remain today without supplementary O2. Was sure I knew how ugly it was, then the endocrinologist came by and suggested that if my BP and pulse don't approach survivable soon, they'd administer iodine. A large dose of iodine literally temporarily shuts down the thyroid gland's hormone production, which I knew, much to Doctor's surprise. Thinking that, they're into Hail Mary land. Thankfully, the propranolol and methimazole did their jobs and 3 1/2 days later, I walked out of the hospital. Oddly, never needing restraints, although I'm sure that the floor nursing staff was tempted once I was feeling better and began roaming the hallways out of sheer boredom (and well, to sneak out for a smoke (nearly made it, bad timing, as one of my nurses was coming in a bit early for her shift and spotted me 10 feet from the exit)). The nurse administrator of the unit laughed at my attempt, realizing that had I wanted to "escape", well, in conversation I gave her six patent egress points from the facility and every one of them was workable. ;)
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  684. I agree completely. These bastards tempt me to bend my cane around their heads.
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  685. So, let me get this straight, my property belongs to the county. That is what they say when they lay claim to my volunteered garbage. OK, I'll happily hand deliver my garbage to the county building, once well accumulated enough to make my own delivery. "Here's your confiscated property". And incinerating garbage doesn't generate power, it costs energy, releases greenhouse gases and pollutants. I say that the county residents should compost their county government leadership.
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  686.  @kn4cc755  sounds like we're in agreement, although you've phrased far, far better. Couldn't recall the phrasing, which was at the first sentence in your final paragraph, piercing of immunity. And even the claim of immunity being the first mention of the defense and basically, only the most egregious instances losing that motion. Not too bad on my part, considering the last time I looked at that concept and set of codes was over 40 years ago. Thanks for the far more precise language and quote of code! And I do sincerely hope he receives enough punitive damages to cause enough taxpayer discomfort to force a change back to the intent of our Constitution.
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  687. No, since the feds want to regulate signs, the feds can replace all of the signs when they are stolen, knocked down or are unreadable. Think of how much money that they just saved the states, since they're announcing they're responsible for signage.
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  688. The only thing that'd have made it more classic is if he chased the mooning man with the forklift and the tune yakety sax playing. With the forklift being in first gear, due to the slowness of the inebriated lout. The difference between a lout and a louse is fairly small, with both being equally welcome...
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  689. Not all that long ago, an irate member of an HOA addressed the board using a high power rifle, with quite lethal result. He was convicted of premeditated murder. Were I on the jury, "Well, clearly the HOA board committed suicide as a body". In her shoes, I suspect there would be a series of disturbingly pornographic accidents, all while I was enjoying a fine meal with a judge... And a condo that suddenly developed a severe radiological contamination while at that dinner. And the damnest things showing up in their browser history, all terrorism related. Never get mad, never get even, get ahead and usually take the shoulders with it.
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  690. So, the SCOTUS has decided that the federal Constitution is subordinate to all state courts whimsy, we're now an Constitution optional nation. So, if any state decides to outlaw federal taxes and it withstands state court decisions, the federal government will do without that funding.
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  691. A state ID provides evidence of residency. Lacking an eviction order or recent document after the ID issuance date is a reasonable suspicion of a false report. Or should I go back to my old home that I ceded to the city after it was wrecked by burglars past economical repair and seize it, with my more reasonable excuse of being deployed defending this worthless nation? Or just get more manned guns than lawless enforcement? Oh, this case gives some small proof of life in this nation. A tiny proof, as he could've ended up homeless, while paying the home loan. Now, if the officers had operational brain cells, they'd CYA and arrest the false claiming individual and charge them. Damages 10x what was awarded, with loan shark interest in every day of delay until payout and secession of appeals. From someone left homeless three times, courtesy of various thefts. One, by common burglary, one via abuse of office, one by just getting taken while doing a favor. But, oddly, still trusted by our government. But, now at the point of nothing left to lose and more than capable of repelling invasion in an epic manner that would likely end up becoming military.
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  692. If I can't sue for recovery from destroying my farm, I'll turn the land into a cobalt-60 open storage site - rendering that highway impassible, but feel free to walk through the gamma radiation to serve me. And enjoy your new gamma water supply.
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  693.  @rogerszmodis  the have house consul, but they typically bring in the billable hours big guns for court and they do get court costs that'll approach, if not exceed what they could've simply refunded. Hell, they paid an order of magnitude more in various fees just to darken the courthouse steps! If that's what's taught in business schools today, they need to reexamine their curriculum!
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  694.  @hoopslaa5235  as a matter of fact, the cops out of Blagulon Kappa do. "I don't go around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterwards in seedy space-rangers bars, like some cops I could mention! I go around shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterwards for hours to my girlfriend!"
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  695. This is a new technology, nothing like it existed before. It's not as if there were steel cases with a lock that is opened by selecting multiple numbers from multiple, oh, just spitballing here, directions turned on a dial. We could then call it a combination lock. All, to keep important things safe. Encryption is totally new, nobody has encoded information before, so ciphertext would be a total Enigma to anyone without the keys to decrypt the information. Totally novel, Caesar couldn't come up with a cipher at all! No, it took Lou Cipher to invent such devilishly clever things. For the security and cryptographically challenged, the first bit is about a safe. First used by Ramses II in the 13th century BC, although it was more a pin and tumbler lock. The Romans had combination locks for their safe boxes. A Muslim engineer came up with a much more modern combination lock for safe boxes in 1206 and the modern security safe hails back to 1850 or so. Enigma was an encryption system that baffled the Allies during much of WWII. While it could eventually be mathematically broken, changing the configuration of the machine would set the analyst teams back to square one for months to years - it was simpler to steal one from operational warships. Caesar cipher was an encryption scheme that's childish by today's standards, about as weak as ROT13 "coding", which is just subtract 13 from the ASCII symbol value to decrypt. If you missed Lucifer, that's OK, I'm sure Lucifer misses you too. ;) It's literally the same issue as demanding the combination to your safe. I ran into some annoyances while traveling on duty, once to the point where I called a phone number, reported the issue and the TSA agent's phone rang within two minutes and he wished that he followed my advice to wear hearing protection when answering. The computer had a nice red sticker on it, with white letters with the cryptically ill informing SECRET on it and he was ignoring my classified documents courier card - until that phone rang. Once he saw and I related that it was classified and showed my courier card, the most he was allowed to do by law was to document and report the contact, prohibited by law: Demanding access to something you have no need to know the contents of. Misuse of that trust gets the abuser's security clearance revoked for cause, with potential criminal penalties attached for good measure. A total meteoric end to one's career.
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  696. Ah, but you forget, the US Constitution is now illegal. Unless we want to send the army back in to put it back into place again. Otherwise, we get a spread of micro-Hitlers.
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  697.  @kenbrown2808  my response would be, "The jurist in this matter is respectfully and cordially invited to pound sand up his ass until the end of time, as the Middle District of Pennsylvania is not the slave of the Southern District of New York and the costs involved would both destroy the global internet, which is against international law and ratified treaties, as well as be sufficient to bankrupt any nation attempting to usurp such control, as only the People's Republic of China has a firewall capable of such a feat". Not my district, not my wheelhouse, not my domain and entirely not my problem. I am not under their circuit or district, so the orders are irrelevant. I am not the global god of the internet throughout the world, so it's a big nope. I don't control the 1589 top level domain controllers that are scattered across the globe, so hell no. I'm under the 3rd circuit, they are under the 2nd circuit, so bye-bye. And even were I under their jurisdiction, services ordered that are involuntary and unpaid is slavery, which is unconstitutional. .tv is a top level domain, as is .com.The TLD .tv is owned by the island nation of Tuvalu, which is decidedly outside of any US court of law. The TLD .com is owned by Verisign, which is headquartered in Reston, VA. Reston, VA is under the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which is under the fourth circuit. Frankly, it looks like the reporter screwed up the jurisdiction of the court, the authority of the court and the impracticality of compliance with the order, unless the jurist is directing the US to go to war with Tuvulu, which is laughable. Lord, save us from tech correspondents reporting on the law and law correspondents reporting on tech, for they always turn the story into a pig's breakfast!
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  698. I wonder if one can remotely brick their strayed Tesla...
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  699. The only conspiracy theory that might be worthwhile to share is a non-criminal conspiracy - the conspiracy of absurdity. Where dozens of absurd factors result in a chain reaction of stupidity that is worthy of notice. An example are two men with the same name and birthdays a month apart being confused for a week in the justice system. There was no malicious intent, just an absurd chain of errors and "not my job" idiocy, which is decidedly noteworthy and in need of being addressed. Compared to similar chain of events, where the two men were a decade apart, different racial groups, different builds and even Helen Keller could tell them apart, despite being blind, deaf, dumb and dead.
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  700. Save that Colorado isn't a country, it's a state. Still, this is what one gets when one selects leaders by mere popularity contests.
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  701. First, send the hot mess to the Virginia Secretary of State. Then, out of an abundance of concern for the safety and security of our service members, submit every military installation, including USCG stations, to the BRAC commission for immediate closure, since TDY is now permanent residence and families must only exist for under 30 days. Then, bring that legislative agenda item up to Fox News, over a state extorting citizens visiting their state. Then, see if that state still wants to play, if so, I begin to fight dirty. Such as interference with the US Constitutional right to freedom of travel, due to their extortionate demands to falsify official records. Even dirtier, interference with interstate commerce, due to their extortion. Plus PR nightmare games. At the beginning, I'll buy some major stakes in antacid companies. By the time I'm done, the dividends alone will likely be enough to pay down the national debt. ;)
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  702. Easy, for one major political party, fraud is business as usual and totally legal, save for you or I.
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  703. Lemme get this straight, the jurist was unaware of who was inside of the jury box and entirely unaware of the shiny steel bracelets with their shiny linking chain? That sounds like a serious, life threatening emergency, as the jurist is decidedly not awake, aware and oriented times 3. Still, I'd apologize and rightfully earn a contempt citation, "I apologize your Honor, I really need to watch my frigging mouth and shit, there might be some fucking cunt around". Given her inappropriate action that engenders serious doubt in granting faith and credit to the judiciousness and wisdom of the judiciary. I'd likely also have to apologize for breaking her bailiff... Questions to answer, is the jurist responsible for activities in the hallway that fall outside of the case under her jurisprudence? When did the first amendment get repealed? Oh, that non-apology is me being nice, but thoroughly irritated. I'm more than capable of making Saint Peter go into a tirade of profanity previously unheard by any ears - right in front of the throne. I've literally gotten a nun to curse while standing on the church altar. She was promptly caused to retire, which was my goal, due to her abuses to students. Now, an appropriate action on the jurist's part would be to state her offense to a statement, then strongly suggest an apology. I've ate crow pie the size of Texas, when approached that way. I then blamed it on its actual cause, intracranial flatulence. Cole's slaw: thinly sliced cabbage. :P Broken bailiffs: for when just leaving them badly bent just won't suffice. Left with their shoelaces tied together works quite well - as long as they don't notice you doing it.
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  704. Going too fast for conditions…
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  705.  @I_SuperHiro_I  not when one has a contract that locks in a price. I've watched companies try to shaft the government by fundamental breaches of contract, the government cleaned their clocks in court - in some cases, resulting in the defrauding company's business to fail.
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  706. I remember men executed for "only following orders" and those who ignored to follow those orders lauded. The orders being unconscionable and unlawful, that whole genocide thing and all. Oddly, we hear that same non-defense used as a defense today by lawless enforcement officers, the true law enforcement officers not requiring a defense. Now, if he's found guilty of making a false report, how many arrests that he made would then fall under shadow? I rather question his leadership's judgement for that reason alone, it could've just been an HR matter.
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  707. In law, just as with the menu example, the or is actually typically applied as an exclusive or function in the menu example, in the sentencing example, it's a simple or, where any satisfied condtion then meets the logical criteria. I can think of no simple equation where one can turn an AND into an OR, that requires a little bit of work with additional NOT conditionals. Yeah, worked with logic a hell of a lot myself, also did REGEX, most of the time either straight Boolean or REGEX, occasionally combined, parsed out in my head first to ensure the truth table comes out as I want it to. Did that at work often enough to be a living legend there, to immediately finish the task and proclaim, "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell *bad*. Are you sure your circuits are registering correctly? Your ears are green." Has a similar effect on androids and humans.
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  708.  @mjmeans7983  I think the closing is most likely. Logic and congresscritters are mutually exclusive things. Most don't even read bills that they vote on, they follow their leader's instructions to look after their leader's desires, rather than do the job that their constituents voted for them to do. Base in point, a Seinfeld impeachment in progress, all about nothing, but that's a higher priority than funding the government that they were elected to run. In any other job, one doing that would end up fired - using real fire. What burns my balls is, I spent over 28 years of my life defending this goat screw.
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  709. So, he got cited for a messy yard, hence the municipal government wants him to destroy a migratory bird habitat, as other birds share that environment. Hope they don't mind some old Agent Orange being sprayed in the yard! City orders and all.
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  710. For years, the Army refused to put that signage and hearing protection on the M35 series. As my hearing conservation data well proves. :/ The M939 series 5 ton truck do have a central tire inflation system. And an 81 gallon fuel tank. 855 cubic inch Cummins inline 6 diesel engine, so plenty of power. Speed, not so much, as 55 mph is their rated top speed and many were governored to 40 mph until a torque convertor change was made. Yeah, my 348 said "5 ton and below", along with some armored vehicles and combat engineer equipment. Still, both the deuce and 5 ton are quite stealthy - to Helen Keller.
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  711. I'm unaware of any driver training that recommends checking underneath the motor vehicle to be operated for someone laying beneath it. As a former juror in several civil matters, I'll suggest that any plaintiff would be laughed out of the courthouse.
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  712. It already is, the SCOTUS has decided that rights are only privileges.
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  713. Yeah, well, Florida Man needs some competition.
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  714.  @candacejacallen4813  probably not, mine expired some years ago.
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  715.  @MonzaRacer  everyone that's tried that ended up with a new fiancee named Bubba. So, do show us all how it's done and how your honeymoon with Bubba goes.
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  716. Section 8 literally refers to the US Constitution, Article I, Section 8, regarding the welfare of the United States, which is defined in the preamble as We The People. Well, until this SCOTUS finds the United States really means one disgraced, tax evading, bank defrauding soon to be former businessman...
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  717.  @anthonydesisto2328  ever serve in the military? Or is your existence so miserable that insulting your betters is the only way in which you feel like you can satisfy more than your neighbor's cat?
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  718.  @1DwtEaUn  I actually made an error previously, Section 8 for the military referred to United States Army Regulation 615–360, Section VIII, where those deemed mentally unfit for military duty were released from the military. We had a soldier who was separated under those terms, as he suffered from severe mental illness fairly suddenly that was refractory to all treatments given with an eye toward rendering him fit for duty. He's now receiving VA care, as the illness was duty related. Pity, was otherwise a good soldier, I had to personally transport him to the VA for treatment when we caught him homeless and sleeping inside of our headquarters building. Couldn't just hand the matter off to the cops, as he was one of my men before and we take care of our own. Ran into him months later, he was doing much better, had a job and was supporting himself, so my chat with the VA doctors seems to have been taken to heart (or maybe they just had the budget enough to take proper care of him for a change).* *I watched over 28+ years of service Congress cut the VA budget each and every year, counting the first year of our GWOT, when we were sending service members back home minus body parts.
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  719. Is a canoe a vessel? Lemme see, if one steps into it while it's in the water, is your ass wet and you need to doggie paddle? If so, it's not a vessel. If only one is true, it's quite likely that it's vessel. The shape isn't relevant, its construction material isn't relevant (doesn't matter if it's wood, plexiglass, fiberglass, metal, concrete, etc), it floats and designed to convey you over the water, so it's a vessel. The death of the child simply further proves the interest that the government has in enforcing those laws, as had they been followed, the child wouldn't have been in that lethal situation.
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  720.  @jaykoerner  mandatory free labor is slavery. Volunteered free labor is volunteerism and entirely acceptable. Taxes, just another duty to one's society. Note a difference between slavery, volunteered labor and duties to one's society and government. And the fact that slavery only exists for convicted prisoners that are serving a sentence imposed by a court of law.
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  721.  @jaykoerner  we ceased operating a conscription system in the US in 1973, everything now is volunteer basis by contract. There remains a provision for time of emergency, but it's considered highly unlikely that we'll ever use the selective service system again.
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  722.  @ShuRugal  so, you believe that the government should be free to take goods and services without compensation? That's opposite of what the Constitution demands. Taxes are a duty to support one's society and government, not some onus to be avoided by deception as some engage in. Without taxation, we'd have no common defense, nor could we bring relief to the populace after a disaster. That said, we do regulate trade in all forms, as we regulate many other activities and even rights. As for your exhaustion, if you tire so easily, perhaps you should consult with a licensed physician.
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  723.  @jaykoerner  you've never worked under an employment contract? I've been employed under contract and had government assigned quarters as a cleared defense contractor.
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  724.  @jaykoerner  is it slavery to train an employee to not speed in a company owned motor vehicle on the highway? There is a duty to obey the laws of the land that all have. Hence, training an employee to obey the law prohibiting underage drinking is not slavery, but a duty of a responsible employer and it additionally results in due diligence occurring, resulting in the company not receiving hefty fines for selling ethanol to underage persons. Now, where there is question is when one has to perform intensive technological reconfiguration to abide by a code change issued by the FCC. That said, the configuration change is not especially heavy in man hours to implement.
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  725.  @TheRealScooterGuy  erm, it's a petty crime, the title is summary offense and not even a misdemeanor. The sheer volume of such, if strictly enforced, would overwhelm society and the courts and collapse the economy and society in general. As in, cross in a crosswalk and walk over the line, it's jaywalking, but good judgement prevents such idiotic enforcement.
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  726. She earned the title, if the state won't allow it, there are 49 other states and a number of territories and possessions that would value her and her professional education and most have an additional benefit of a much lower cost of living. Let the California doctors do their own nursing.
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  727. "Cheap imported product that only lasts a few years before needing replacement" pretty much everything made today.
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  728.  @richarddrapeau7599  no. A higher standard, as we place law enforcement in a position of special public trust. No other position exists where we allow men and women to be armed in our schools, churches and courthouses, no other position can deprive one of liberty, property or potentially, life. Hence, a higher standard for that higher position of public trust.
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  729.  @r2r-r2r  OK, show me their political goal, terrorism is to further a specific political change that they desire. So, show me this specific goal. I happen to know quite a bit about terrorists, dealt with my fair share, so enlighten me. I loathe a bad cop more than most, I treasure a quality, law embracing cop equally so, but I also treasure truth and facts.
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  730.  @bobisrighturwrong  just what was said by Germans before the gestapo fully got set up. But, I do reciprocate, I'd rather not have a fascist for a neighbor.
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  731. I found it fascinating that the DA stated empirically that there is, essentially, only one teenage mutant ninja turtle blankets in the entire universe. Guess he somehow got our kids two blankets that there was only one of. As for changing stories, I've spent many years in military EMS. I've heard no less than 8 stories from one victim as to what happened and I suspect that none of the victims were responsible for their injuries. I'm just spitballing here, but it seems to be a trifle unusual for someone to call lightning upon their own location. But, that DA would use those 8 stories as the foundation for a case that a man called lightening onto his own location, causing injury to 200 fellow soldiers. And use as a key piece of evidence the fact that he could be the only person in the universe to wear camouflage clothing on a US Army rifle range. Still, were I on a jury and my verdict is thrown out, the worst thing the courts could ever do would be to call me to waste my time again. They'd have the most hostile juror in human history. Founding a case as weakly as the DA in this case seems to have done, that'd only have made me the second most hostile juror in human history. Well, maybe the 13th, there were 12 angry men after all.
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  732. "I'm just a guy in a room talking to himself". The words of many a college professor...
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  733. That's OK, I remember right after Trump won, idiots blathering how Hawaii wasn't a state. All, based upon some Russian bot BS that kept being accepted as fact.
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  734. We had some vehicles burned while I was in the Persian Gulf. Apparently, some individuals left multiple cell phones laying on the passenger seat and where one might've gotten a smoldering battery, multiple phones laying together had a chain reaction overheat, bursting into flames and catching the car afire.
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  735. "We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing, as the Constitution is illegal".
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  736. Put it more simply and cover a greater ground of positions of a similar nature. Abrogating a position of great public trust should be punished by a similarly grave penalty.
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  737.  @ROADIEZ824  Congress has oversight, if they want something changed, they either codify it as law or cut off funding for the agency. If that worked for the DoD and the CIA, it'll work for any other executive branch agency.
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  738. So, the United States of America a nation that is a Constitution free zone. As such, without a Constitution to support them, the United States of America is also a lawless nation. So, killing the cop is legal, since there are no longer any laws. And as a bonus, one can declare the offending officer's family outlaws and confiscate all of their property and persons. As for walking on the wrong side of the road, in over six decades of life, I've never heard of such a bullshit thing. Are we next going to need a walking license? I'm seriously thinking that second amendment remedies are indeed in order. As well as tar and feathers.
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  739.  @Rashnak66  he was told to leave by the police, not stating the origin of the order, while the band director was playing per the district approved program. I've handled program approvals in the past, it includes the length of time a song is to play and a list of songs. So, apparently, it's illegal to obey a management approved scheduled program. Sorry, I was US Army, not a good goosestepping jackbooted Nazi.
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  740.  @wolf2179  most of the school fields where I grew up were limited usage for the public during off hours, for a large gathering, permission had to be sought first. That said, I was in the school band for a while, it wasn't uncommon to play for a full half hour after the game concluded. I've saw coverage elsewhere that suggested that the groundskeeper wanted the field cleared ASAP so he could go home. The problem is, now we have a groundskeeper overruling the superintendent of schools, who had to approve the game and band program, which lists the specific songs to be played and their length. When did groundskeepers outrank the superintendent of schools? Do Privates now outrank the POTUS too? And turning off the lights while people were still in the bleachers is public endangerment, as the risk of injury trying to exit higher levels of bleachers in the dark skyrockets.
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  741. It's an interesting thing. When the media report on a SCOTUS decision, when one actually reads the decision, what was reported is frequently not even wrong. Not only not right, but not even wrong. When an attorney reports on a SCOTUS decision, it's usually right. Sort of a legal profession's version of Clarke's first law.
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  742. Save that he also picks on judges and attorneys who also abrogate their public trust. Rightfully so.
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  743.  @2Fast4Mellow  and one way that doesn't perform a trusted has test on word.exe to get around it, name your malware word.exe. One cheapie check is the proper path to the proper file path to Office's word.exe, but ideally a hash should be employed to ensure that the valid software wasn't overwritten by an administrator account that was compromised. The point of minimal privilege is, when the end user clicks that link they were warned to never click, they don't have the access necessary to compromise the entire system.
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  744. What has so frequently misquoted was in regards to funding a militia. Misquoting someone like that is like saying that someone hates Jesus because he said, "Jesus! Fuck!" after dropping an anvil on their foot.
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  745. I'm going to keep my eye out for when Ohio's supreme court submits a bid for new computers. I'll win the bid easily enough, take the money and ship them bricks. Miniscribe was simply ahead of their time for Ohio, they'd have survived today in that state. After all, bricks are merely a style of computer component and a component is sufficient under Ohio case law now as a style of the total object.
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  746. "Can I see your ID"? No, it's in my pocket, where it's safe from prying eyes that have no need to know who I am. "Are you carrying any drugs"? Yes. Propranolol, lisinopril, methimazole. If they take them from me, I can not safely travel, so I get a refund and if the airline objects, tell them to bitch to the government, my credit card bill will be challenged. Grab my cash, fine, tourism has ended, file a travel advisory against that airport and cancel all reservations, explaining in detail as to why, then raise merry hell with my congresscritter. Make me miss my flight, agent admitted to falsifying a federal document and an official complaint will be filed, travel plans canceled, advisory filed and hell with congresscritter. Eventually, congresscritters get tired of their ears ringing and they start to raise merry hell on their own, cutting budgets and all. While I also file litigation on the basis of an unlawfully applied random travel tax being levied exclusively by the executive branch without consent of Congress.
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  747.  @newchannel1220  Kia/Hyundai, the modern version of the Yugo. Unfortunately, as the nation hosting that company is a friend, we can't do the same thing we did to Yugo's plant there.
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  748.  @TacoTomtheBomb  only one problem, that Civic isn't a cowboy Cadillac. Soccer moms don't drive Civics when they could be driving something that weighs as much as a Sherman tank. Although, you could impress me any day by getting that Sherman tank to get 40 miles per gallon, rather than 40 gallons per mile.
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  749. That makes no sense, as i officers carry liability insurance, their employer wouldn't be making any additional expense to hire and retain them, that's their expense. Officers can be stripped of their license or certification, but good luck getting that to happen. It's easier to get a Catholic priest defrocked for diddling altar boys than get a cop's ticket pulled.
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  750. Given the region and reporting on, ahem, incidents reported, I'd not be surprised if they've arrested him for a warrantless search and seizure of his own apartment. And it's obviously fishy that, with a declined card, he was able to make a purchase at Walmart, as cards are the only possible way in which to engage in a financial transaction. If only there was some other means of tokenizing funding, say in metal coins or even certified documents, maybe call this fanciful thing, oh, money? My money's on a different explanation. Someone's nephew needs a job and this guy didn't have family in the department leadership.
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  751. Taxation by penalization. Totally freedumb.
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  752. I guess New Jersey isn't pumping gasoline, as they're mini-serve or full serve by law.
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  753.  @jamesyoung151  yep and can't afford to bring more on, due to being the only agency in the government being required by law to fully vest employee pensions on day one of employment. Basically, Congress sabotaging the USPS.
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  754.  @fsmoura  that, in and of itself is an anti-semetic remark. I'm seriously tempted to go to the synagogue nextdoor and find an attorney suitably offended, which is likely trivial currently. And yes, I do actually have a synagogue next door. I'm as tempted to go there to seek offense as to oh, try to walk on air from the rooftop. No, the rooftop sounds better, but then, my back is hurting a bit more than usual... And no, I'm far from suicidal. @ russ, love the anti-barristic! Might try to humoristically sync it with my antigravity party jokes.
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  755. ...and a cold beer or two. As if, shanty or not, one has a choice about the beer being cold when ice fishing.
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  756. There was another case where an HOA sold a deployed service member's home while deployed. Apparently, HOA's are exempt from the laws and Constitution of the United States of America. Maybe people should start to learn how to say "I surrender" in every language, given the support we give our military these days.
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  757. Now, if only there was a local store of tar and feathers, just to complete that mayor's political life experience. But, you'll not get LEO's of any quality unless you, via your political leadership insist upon it and enforce that insistence. I'm aware of one instance where the local LEO's were refractory to the will of their leadership, unlawfully so, where the town abolished the entire department and state and county LEO's were called in as needed. Otherwise, we're stuck with these fascists proving that we actually lost WWII.
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  758.  @jeraldbottcher1588  wasn't an option for the one the display cracked on, the other had the rear cover deformed by the heat, so not an option either. Just after the display cracked on my phone, I ended up getting an iphone through the VA and so far, so good.
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  759. It's part of his new platform. Realizing that "tough on crime" is rather passe and pretty much ignored by the public, he pivoted to a new platform. I'm tough on innocence. The publicity now has ruined his planned raid at the local hospital's NICU unit.
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  760. "Until people go to jail", no, when they get their money taken repeatedly by the courts, it'll stop. The calls are coming from overseas? Amazing, so that's why when I related the caller's lineage and precisely which animals were involved, in rather impolite Hindi, the caller understood me.
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  761.  @ianbattles7290  I was on a jury once in a civil case. Pretty much everyone had some liability, with the decedent whose widow carried the matter forward being foremost. Some on the jury wanted to award, period, end of story, law be damned, responsibility be damned, they felt bad for the widow. Of course, everyone also wanted to go home. So, a compromise was offered, a payout that was far below just the estimated attorney fees. When we announced the amount, one of the defense attorneys broke into open laughter. We were offered an opportunity after court to have a Q&A session and when asked as to the amount, I explained my thinking in suggesting the amount as being less than the legal fees involved. Attorney mirthful laughed again, "You got that right!" in regards to the far in excess of award their fees were. Got some black looks from some of my fellow jurors, but everyone got to go home on time that day and everyone got a bit of what they wanted. Diplomacy is the art of the possible and yes, the original says politics, but in the end, both are the same.
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  762. I am an obligate omnivore. So, chefs remain on my menu. But, you admit to fucking up, get a bad rating on that fuckup, triple down, you actually made menu for the neighborhood pigs. Piss me off, your family also gets pig menu. Admitting to fucking up, well, I schedule my own fuckups to coincide with days that end in y. Hate vegans, you simply suck as a chef, as you and spices are complete strangers. Cooking with tofu, that's simply an art. It absorbs flavors...
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  763. In this case, one juror brought the system down, the system itself didn't lease itself out to the highest bidder or more powerful party. And as a multiple time juror, let's suffice it to say, learn of that misconduct, it'd be peer season...
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  764.  @MarkStockman-b4j  not so much totally sucks, is in continuous need of continuous improvement. The preamble of our Constitution establishes that very promise. "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." It didn't say that we had a perfect union, but in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare (meaning of the populace individually and as a whole)... Never suggesting any was perfect, just to become more perfected, improving as we muddle along. And we have an amendment process and provisions for laws to accomplish those tasks and as a safety valve for when we screw up, such as with prohibition. What isn't provided or even suggested is a two tier system of justice for wealthy and poor, indeed, an amendment guarantees equality. And if one group is more equal than another, it ain't equality.
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  765. Judging by a claimed cancelled order because of this, perhaps the foot got bit off, rather than the toe. If so, good.
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  766. It rather sounds like California has the absolutely best judicial system that money can buy.
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  767.  @patrickdurham8393  so, where do they put the CDC?
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  768.  @patrickdurham8393  Doha Qatar? I can name random cities too. Now, if you're asking where I am, I'm in Harrisburg, PA.
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  769.  @patrickdurham8393  save that that isn't what the CDC does or has ever done.
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  770.  @patrickdurham8393  no, but I've worked with some of their teams over the years. So, you prefer uncontrolled epidemics and tons of dead children?
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  771. Given it was a mere 8 hours since a LEO as first responder assisted CPR and provided an AED for my wife of 40 years, I wonder, would death by evisceration suffice to halt such a normality? Thankfully, the LEO wasn't such a monster, can't speak to the coroner, but I doubt it, as a brief inventory I conducted while locating necessities after showed no deficit. So, your not being surprised, I wonder if vivisection would halt such a practice, as that's close to the ancient penalties for the same. Or would hanged, drawn and quartered suffice? I'm thankful for my local PD, who only have yet to fail, be it for homeless or homed citizens! Lest we fall to less civilized means of justice. And yes, that was hyperbole, to drive a point of near infinite outrage. So, James, how should this be punished? Full loss of all assets, including a family home and properties? An abrogation of a great public trust should be accompanied by a punishment as grave as the offense.
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