Not that there was ever any danger of it, but I absolutely will not vote for a person who doesn't know the difference between "lie" and "lay."
Really, Ms. Bachmann? It's sixth grade English, and you're applying for the #1 speaking job in America. Unless every other candidate confuses your/you're and there/they're/their, you're not getting my vote.
Of course, I don't actually vote anyway. There is no point, and it pisses off the hippies when I revel in not doing shit on the first Tuesday in November.
31 July 2011
Sarcos Exoskeleton
Tony Stark, it's not. Still, if it helps in our struggle against the machines, I'm down for it. As long as it doesn't become simply another in a long line of things for the infantry to carry about on their back.
Different Rules for different people
Did your attorney fall asleep during your criminal trial? Tough shit.
He raised several points of error, including a claim that his Sixth Amendmentright to counsel was violated because he received ineffective assistance of counsel whenhis attorney fell asleep while Muniz was being cross-examined by the government.Id.at *4-5. The court rejected all of Muniz’s claims of error and affirmed the judgment.Id.at *5. It also declined to remand his ineffective assistance claim for an evidentiaryhearing, holding Muniz “ha[d] not established that an evidentiary hearing to substantiatehis position [was] warranted.”Michigan Supreme Court. Id. Muniz subsequently was denied leave to appeal by thePeople v. Muniz, 726 N.W.2d 18 (Mich. 2007).
Detroit: collapse case study
The city of Detroit is planning to focus city services on neighborhoods "with more people and a better chance of survival." This is rational, and will probably be effective, and will undoubtedly cause the mayor to be killed by an angry mob of "youths."
Is this how a slow collapse would look? While the article says that Fire/EMS and Police services will continue throughout the city, I would suppose that neighborhoods that have more of what little money Detroit is able to scrape up invested in them will receive priority. It's not even that hard to do, simply close the outlying substations, and consolidate precincts. That way police patrol is necesssarily centered in the areas that have "a better chance of survival" and if there are competing calls for Ambulance or Fire Services, the ones nearest the substations (and likely the hospitals) will be served first.
It's called triage. No one likes it, but it's fairly often necessary, and it's why if the collapse of the western world were a band aid, I'd prefer to rip it off, rather than take it off slowly. Either way, it's going to hurt, and there will be HUGE injustices, but the sooner it's done, the sooner we can rebuild.
Is this how a slow collapse would look? While the article says that Fire/EMS and Police services will continue throughout the city, I would suppose that neighborhoods that have more of what little money Detroit is able to scrape up invested in them will receive priority. It's not even that hard to do, simply close the outlying substations, and consolidate precincts. That way police patrol is necesssarily centered in the areas that have "a better chance of survival" and if there are competing calls for Ambulance or Fire Services, the ones nearest the substations (and likely the hospitals) will be served first.
It's called triage. No one likes it, but it's fairly often necessary, and it's why if the collapse of the western world were a band aid, I'd prefer to rip it off, rather than take it off slowly. Either way, it's going to hurt, and there will be HUGE injustices, but the sooner it's done, the sooner we can rebuild.
30 July 2011
Well, that's a relief
The NIJ has found that Tasers are safe in "healthy, normal, nonstressed, nonintoxicated persons." Because, as we all know, those are the types of people they get used on most.
Informal polling
I forwarded this story to all the cops in my department. Each one responded with something along the lines of "Fuck yeah! That's what we need." Not one thought it might be even a little questionable.
Also, due to my fuckup in sharing this, our department is creating one. I tried to get the task, but I think they know I'm on the wrong side of this issue.
Also, due to my fuckup in sharing this, our department is creating one. I tried to get the task, but I think they know I'm on the wrong side of this issue.
David Foster Wallace
I don't know who he is, but he talks real pretty.
This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.
CPIM = 666?
Is supply chain (mis)management going to be the thing that kills us all? Considering some of the people (okay, just one) I used to work with, I'm betting yes.
Plausible deniability at it's best/worst.
The problem is, he shared the info with a "staffer." Which means absolutely nothing.
Meanwhile, across the border: whoops.
Meanwhile, across the border: whoops.
Get Bent, America
Dept. of Commerce
“The price index for gross domestic purchases, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents, increased 3.2 percent in the second quarter, compared with an increase of 4.0 percent in the first Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for gross domestic purchases increased 2.6 percent in the second quarter, compared with an increase of 2.4 percent in the first.”
Translation: Shit done got expensive. Like, real expensive.
“Real personal consumption expenditures increased 0.1 percent in the second quarter, comparedwith an increase of 2.1 percent in the first.”
Translation: You folks ain't buyin' enough stuff.
Add to this the fact that our "recovery," so called, from the first quarter was "readjusted" from 1.3% growth to a staggeringly low 0.4%. This isn't a "readjustment" this is showing up a bald faced lie. A growth rate of 0.4% is retarded, and not in the making fun of douchebags way. This is "slow or limited progress" but taken to a FUCKING RETARDED conclusion.
If the boomers, oozing cankerous assholes that they are, had been able to say no to handouts from uncle sugar, we wouldn't be in this mess. If they'd just gotten a job instead of turning into god damned smelly hippies, we'd be all right, the lazy fucking shits.
If the "greatest generation" had said "hell no" to the great society, we wouldn't be in this mess. Way to go limp when you get home from war, guys. The brits had an excuse, they were all dead. What happened to you fuckers?
Hell, if the generation x losers hadn't been such sissified pansies, more interested in pretending to be wall street tycoon rugged individual industrialist sorts while in reality using government handouts to rob the rest of the world blind, we might still have pulled out of this shit. I may hate you guys worst of all. Pretending to be all "reality bites" and disaffected and shit when you're the most pampered lazy fucks ever spawned. I hope you choke on the bile you've fed the world.
Fuck them all. Fuck Generation Y, whatever the hell that is, fuck the boomers, fuck the x-er shitheads, too. I hate you all.
“The price index for gross domestic purchases, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents, increased 3.2 percent in the second quarter, compared with an increase of 4.0 percent in the first Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for gross domestic purchases increased 2.6 percent in the second quarter, compared with an increase of 2.4 percent in the first.”
Translation: Shit done got expensive. Like, real expensive.
“Real personal consumption expenditures increased 0.1 percent in the second quarter, comparedwith an increase of 2.1 percent in the first.”
Translation: You folks ain't buyin' enough stuff.
Add to this the fact that our "recovery," so called, from the first quarter was "readjusted" from 1.3% growth to a staggeringly low 0.4%. This isn't a "readjustment" this is showing up a bald faced lie. A growth rate of 0.4% is retarded, and not in the making fun of douchebags way. This is "slow or limited progress" but taken to a FUCKING RETARDED conclusion.
If the boomers, oozing cankerous assholes that they are, had been able to say no to handouts from uncle sugar, we wouldn't be in this mess. If they'd just gotten a job instead of turning into god damned smelly hippies, we'd be all right, the lazy fucking shits.
If the "greatest generation" had said "hell no" to the great society, we wouldn't be in this mess. Way to go limp when you get home from war, guys. The brits had an excuse, they were all dead. What happened to you fuckers?
Hell, if the generation x losers hadn't been such sissified pansies, more interested in pretending to be wall street tycoon rugged individual industrialist sorts while in reality using government handouts to rob the rest of the world blind, we might still have pulled out of this shit. I may hate you guys worst of all. Pretending to be all "reality bites" and disaffected and shit when you're the most pampered lazy fucks ever spawned. I hope you choke on the bile you've fed the world.
Fuck them all. Fuck Generation Y, whatever the hell that is, fuck the boomers, fuck the x-er shitheads, too. I hate you all.
29 July 2011
For your own fucking good.
Won't someone please think of the children?
Thanks to an unwise Supreme Court decision dating from the 70s, information about your private activities loses its Fourth Amendment protection when it’s held by a “third party” corporation, like a phone company or Internet provider. As many legal scholars have noted, however, this allows constitutional privacy safeguards to be circumvented via a clever two-step process. Step one: The government forces private businesses (ideally the kind a citizen in the modern world can’t easily avoid dealing with) to collect and store certain kinds of information about everyone—anyone might turn out to be a criminal, after all. No Fourth Amendment issue there, because it’s not the government gathering it! Step two: The government gets a subpoena or court order to obtain that information, quite possibly without your knowledge. No Fourth Amendment problem here either, according to the Supreme Court, because now they’re just getting a corporation’s business records, not your private records. It makes no difference that they’re only keeping those records because the government said they had to. Current law already allows law enforcement to require retention of data about specific suspects—including e-mails and other information as well as IP addresses—to ensure that evidence isn’t erased while they build up enough evidence for a court order. But why spearfish when you can lower a dragnet? Blanket data requirements ensure easy access to a year-and-a-half snapshot of the online activities of millions of Americans—every one a potential criminal…
Thanks to an unwise Supreme Court decision dating from the 70s, information about your private activities loses its Fourth Amendment protection when it’s held by a “third party” corporation, like a phone company or Internet provider. As many legal scholars have noted, however, this allows constitutional privacy safeguards to be circumvented via a clever two-step process. Step one: The government forces private businesses (ideally the kind a citizen in the modern world can’t easily avoid dealing with) to collect and store certain kinds of information about everyone—anyone might turn out to be a criminal, after all. No Fourth Amendment issue there, because it’s not the government gathering it! Step two: The government gets a subpoena or court order to obtain that information, quite possibly without your knowledge. No Fourth Amendment problem here either, according to the Supreme Court, because now they’re just getting a corporation’s business records, not your private records. It makes no difference that they’re only keeping those records because the government said they had to. Current law already allows law enforcement to require retention of data about specific suspects—including e-mails and other information as well as IP addresses—to ensure that evidence isn’t erased while they build up enough evidence for a court order. But why spearfish when you can lower a dragnet? Blanket data requirements ensure easy access to a year-and-a-half snapshot of the online activities of millions of Americans—every one a potential criminal…
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