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Comment Re:Sheriff (Score 4, Informative) 467

From the article:

Pickens County deputy Hashe claims that Finley was at the sheriff's office on another matter when the outstanding warrant was discovered.

So neither guns nor cars where involved here, she was already at the sheriff's office for a different, unrelated matter. Btw, that's probably why it took so long to execute that warrant (which actually was issued the same year that she failed to return the movie): the matter was too trivial to send a squad car with armed officers to her home, and police basically ignored it.

Comment Re:Legal system works (Score 1) 218

Even easier: you can hire friends, or even family members or spouses as "contractors" or "suppliers" to help funnel those profits out of your (state-sponsored) non-profit. Happens commonly here in Luxembourg, and nobody bats an eye...

Hopefully this too will change with the new "Gambia" coalition...

Comment Re:So..... (Score 1) 445

Here we are talking about a moron intentionally putting hundred of life in danger ...

Not necessarily. Could be amateur astronomers pointing out a "star" to a fellow astronomer using his 'leet laser pointed imported from China...

These pointers are frequently used during these group stargazing events, and yes, many of these people do point at moving objects (planets, satellites,...), and it's easy to see how a plane could end up being confused with satellites or planets by less experienced stargazers.

Comment Re:So..... (Score 1) 445

Actually, it won't destroy the pilot's eyes but just turn the windshield bright white (or green, or whatever the laser's color) from all the laser light reflecting off dust or tiny imperfections in the glass. Just think about what a low-standing sun does to cars with a dusty windshield.

Cockpit illumination

Comment Important differences (Score 1) 716

  • The bricklayer's company would responsible to its customer. They cannot bill their customer for the extra work replacing the bricks that have fallen out, but they still must pay their employees.
  • No bricklay'ing foreman would tell his people "o don't worry about those bricks falling out, just continue piling on top and pretend nothing is happening".

Comment Re:brighter? (Score 3, Interesting) 376

A headlight, through the use of dispersing phosphors and or lenses is designed to spread out and cover much more area.

What if you get into an accident that destroys the outer housing of the light (containing the dispersin phosphors and/or the lenses) while leaving the source intact?

So you've got a "deathray" shooting out from the accident scene wanting to involve more cars, until somebody turns it off...

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