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Comment Re:Ignorance of the law is no excuse. (Score 2) 440

The problem with Law in the United States is that it's based not on the SPIRIT of the law but the LETTER of the law, so if some lawyer happens to get some weird ruling then it's on the books and then it's citable as law... and so the system grows on itself.

The laws are Byzantine and increasingly unimportant, it's all about who can pay for the best representation, even basics like Civil Rights are virtually non-existent.

Watching this decline is disturbing and saddening.

Criminal law, I find, is pretty straightforward at the local and state level.

I'm amazed anyone can do their taxes, however.

Comment Re:this is ridiculous (Score 2) 440

You don't 24/7 videotape a petty drug dealer to catch a petty drug dealer.

You do it to catch a much bigger criminal.

Do the police need a warrant to set up shop in the building across the street? If my neighbor is already recording the street in front of his house with his home security system, and volunteers to turn over angles that cover my house, do they need special permission to look at that? If my house is next to a traffic camera, can they look at all the background photos captured when someone runs a red light without getting a warrant?

I'm asking.

Comment Re:Move to a gated community (Score 2) 611

I have a condo downtown by the ballpark, and parking on the streets behind it all have "neighborhood parking, by permit only" on them.

The particular neighborhood I was referencing is at 7th avenue and McDowell. On the corner there they built a plaza with 5 trendy "fast casual" restaurants in it. Jersey Mike's, Five Guys, How Do You Roll, Chipolte, and a ZOYO. Directly across the street they built out the plaza to include a NYPD Pizza and a PotBelly in the old "My Florist" building.

There's 65 parking spots for the small plaza. It's not enough.

The residents on Lynwood St petitioned to get "no parking 11am-2pm" signs posted as soon as lunch visitors spilled over into their neighborhood. I understand WHY they did this (NIMBY, MOTHERFUCKERS), but I assume they'd just prefer that corner go back to check cashing.

Comment Re:Move to a gated community (Score 1) 611

Interesting. I've been driving in Phoenix for 30 years now and never realized the 7th street/ave lanes were there "forever." In my head, I imagined they got changed when the Deck Park Tunnel opened in 1990, which, since I'm getting old only imaged was "a decade or so ago."

When the DPT opened, 3rd street/avenue got their increased traffic and then neighbors did everything they could to push the traffic back to 7th/Central/7th.

Comment Re:Hmmmm ... legality? (Score 2) 138

Their offer is conditional, and states clearly:

By placing an order, you agree to the privacy policy and conditions of use.

"With respect to items sold by Amazon, we cannot confirm the price of an item until you order. Despite our best efforts, a small number of the items in our catalog may be mispriced. If the correct price of an item sold by Amazon is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. Other merchants may follow different policies in the event of a mispriced item."

Comment Re:Hmmmm ... legality? (Score 1) 138

Your website/pricing stuff broke .. NMFP, you offered it 1 penny, I expect to get it for that price.

Expect into one hand. Shit into the other. See which one fills up faster.

By placing an order, you agree to the privacy policy and conditions of use.

"With respect to items sold by Amazon, we cannot confirm the price of an item until you order. Despite our best efforts, a small number of the items in our catalog may be mispriced. If the correct price of an item sold by Amazon is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. Other merchants may follow different policies in the event of a mispriced item."

Comment Re:Write a program to report crashes daily (Score 1) 611

Yeah, I'm not sure why people don't understand this.

If you're a new Wazer, your reports have less weight. You get more weight as a Waze driver/reporter by submitting verified/thanked items.

If you wanted to fake the Waze system, you'd need multiple accounts generating real reports, or at least circle-jerk clicking/thanking other people's fake reports. Then, you'd move your GPS up the street at 3mph just before rush hour, while all your fake accounts all pressed "heavy traffic" together and thanked each other's reports.

Comment Re:Move to a gated community (Score 3, Interesting) 611

In downtown Phoenix, there's a couple of heavily traffic streets that server the downtown corridor. They got busy enough that a decade or so ago, the city made the center lane one-way no-turns in the morning, and one-way the other way no-turns in the evening. 7th street - a mile east of Central, and 7th avenue - a mile west of Central.

[Phoenix is, largely, a grid. Major thoroughfares are every 8 streets, even on the east side, 16th, 24th, 32nd, 40th... and odd on the west side, 19th, 27th, 35th with the exception of immediately downtown where 7th is the major street both ways. Someone can say 35th and Camelback, and you know it's a west-side address.]

At the same time they make 7th street and avenue support an extra lane each way they put in HOV only exits on I-10 for 3rd street and 3rd avenue. Not only could you take an HOV-only exit, but you could take a less populated street. Those exits were so successful that the residents on 3rd street and 3rd avenue petitioned the city for speed bumps and roundabouts and reduced the number of entry and exit points to their neighborhoods to completely push all traffic back to 7th street and 7th avenue.

These same neighborhoods petition to get "no parking 11am-2pm" signs posted when restaurants move into their neighborhoods, because, presumably, they'd prefer it go back to check cashing joints and "tarjetas de teléfono aquí" signs in the windows.

NIMBY MOTHERFUCKERS!

I live in a somewhat exclusive neighborhood in Phoenix -- the Ahwatukee foothills. They're extending a freeway around what is often referred to as the World's Largest Cul-de-sac. I'm going to miss my little city island, but the price of progress must be paid.

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