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Comment Re:Not Exactly for Taking a Photo (Score 1) 1232

The problem with giving them something other than your real name, is that they'll run the name you give them through their computer system. When it turns up without a match or not matching you, then they will probably arrest you for something like 'lying to an officer', or 'impeding an investigation'. Finally, they'll throw in a resisting arrest charge to top it off.

Comment Re:Not Exactly for Taking a Photo (Score 4, Informative) 1232

Also from the article, emphasis added:

The Nevada Supreme Court had held that the Nevada statute required only that the suspect divulge his name; presumably, he could do so without handing over any documents whatsoever. As long as the suspect tells the officer his name, he has satisfied the dictates of the Nevada stop-and-identify law.

In Nevada you are not required to produce an ID, of course this doesn't mean you wont get hassled for not doing so (in NV or any state).

Comment Re:If you're going to use liquid nitrogen... (Score 1) 288

Passing out due to oxygen deprivation generally isn't instant, but assuming you'll act in a rational manner to save yourself as you black out will probably be fatal.

It's CO2 that causes the discomfort you feel from holding your breath for a long time. All you'd feel from nitrogen displacing all the oxygen in the air would be lethargy. So I guess your survival may depend if you have coffee in the room with you.

Comment Re:Main problem with the U.N. (Score 1) 842

While it probably wasn't the point SeaDuck79 was trying to make; by extension from your argument we can conclude that the UN isn't a "freedom-based society", and therefor should be excluded from participating in its self.

Perhaps a corollary to Orwell's "Freedom is Slavery" we have "Liberty is Tyranny".

Comment Re:What the hell? (Score 1) 653

Also from TFA:

Was Officer Ettienne a diligent cop who found a gun after chasing an ex-convict weaving through traffic on a stolen motorcycle? Or was his story a devious facade in keeping with the ruthless character he revealed on social network Web sites?

I'd tend to agree that his online conduct was unprofessional, and that the resisting arrest charge that the article is about was probably exaggerated. If live action TV with police is any indication, everyone who is arrested gets a resisting charge added. But, the article is quite vague about what came of the other charges involved in the arrest. Why did the gun possession not result in a conviction, and what of other charges related to his driving a stolen vehicle? Or was it all fake, no gun, no chase, no stolen bike, and no resisting?

Comment Re:What the hell? (Score 1) 653

I think there are several orders of magnitude difference between you giving a student an unjustified 'F', and a police officer deciding to arrest you because they are having a bad day.

That being said, the article doesn't read like the man was arrested falsely. Instead, the article suggest he was initially stopped for his unsafe driving on a stolen motorcycle.

Comment Re:C isn't the problem, it is really... (Score 2, Insightful) 146

I suspect the problem is related to the poor coding practices used in academia. I see college professors who write code that barely compiles in GCC without a bunch of warnings about anachronistic syntax.

You know you'll learn a lot in a class when, after being told at the very least his c++ code is using deprecated includes, the professor tells you to just use '-Wno-deprecated'. I've basically come to the conclusion that I am just paying the school for a piece of paper, and I will learn little outside my personal study.

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