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Comment Re:Not legal here. (Score 1) 286

Where I used to live two State Patrol officers decides to enforce the 75mph speed limit on I-80 by going 75 and driving next to each other. Twenty minutes later another State Patrol officer pulled the one in the left hand lane over and wrote a ticket for obstructing traffic (as there are two exceptions to the speed limit laws, one for emergency vehicles and another for state legislatores while the legislature is in session and they are traveling towards it). Sometimes the best and brightest just aren't the brightest.

Comment Re:Not legal here. (Score 1) 286

Gross or Criminal Neglect can satisfy, that is if you know or were reckless in not knowing a certian action could or would result in death and you took it anyways. If you have your first seizure ever while driving a car and killed a pedestrian, that's not a crime at all. If you have a history of seizures and the same thing happens, it can be murder.

Comment Re:Not legal here. (Score 1) 286

Traffic violations are criminal in nature. The right to cross-examination involves the ability to challenge any and all evidence against you. If a judge did actually hold you in contempt or even threaten contempt for such a challenge, it would be automatic grounds for appeal. "[I]f there was here a denial of cross-examination without waiver, it would be constitutional error of the first magnitude, and no amount of showing of want of prejudice would cure it." Brookhart v. Janis, 384 U.S. 1 (1966) The Breathalyzers the cops have in the field generally aren't calibrated regularly, but they are only used to establish probable cause for an arrest. A second test is done with certified and calibrated breathalyzer or by blood sample. Plus they use all sorts of jedi mind tricks on the scene to try to get you to admit to being "intoxicated" or in some way less than sober.

Comment Re:Not legal here. (Score 1) 286

When someone's tailgating me, I add at least two extra seconds of following time (onto my usual three), that way when I do have to stop I can do so more slowly and with more warning to decrease the chance of the jackass behind me jacking up the ass end of my car. What you shouldn't do is ignore a tailgater because the are creating a danger. Take the countermeasure and continue as normal.

Comment Re:If they start patenting coffee ... (Score 1) 198

1. Why isn't the chemical name and manufacturing address sufficient to identify a pharmaceutical? Yes trademarks are a nice shortcut, but strictly necessary for this purpose. 2. Selling something as X when it really is Y is fraud. Trademark laws won't help you any, as it's not like those creating the fakes will print their home address on the bottles. Trademark protection only helps if you know who to sue.

Comment Re:Mobile bandwidth (Score 1) 261

Okay, but there's not a free market in the area. The government regulates and distributes radio bandwidth for starters. Second is the wiretap requirement which necessitates the central cell design rather than mesh or other p2p systems.

Comment Re:But that's not the real problem. (Score 1) 1651

It's stupid to assume that people always look where they are supposed to. It's safer to be where people almost always look (in the road moving with trafic) then where they are supposed to look but often don't (sidewalks and against traffic). Even if the car driver is 100% at fault, that doesn't do you any good if your dead.

Comment Re:Practical? (Score 1) 331

The capacity of any electric grid is finite. An 50% electric fleet in the next five years would requite hundreds on new power plants (which currently coal is the only thing that would make sense to scale, as well as additional distribution capacity.

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