Comment Re: And it's not even an election year (Score 1) 407
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JimFive
That's not how the burden of proof works in the American judicial system. Not collecting evidence (i.e., the camera was turned off) is light years away from the destruction of evidence (i.e., deleting footage after its shot)
Turning off a camera can be treated in the same way as destruction of evidence if that is how the law is written. There's nothing magic about it, if evidence should (In this case "is required to") exist and doesn't then we presume that the evidence goes against the person that should have it.
You're going to automatically side against the LEO because the camera was disabled?
Yes. They can turn the camera back on if they are interacting with the public.
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JimFive
A. Nothing can go faster than the snail.
Not quite: Nothing on the balloon can go faster than the snail.
B. The balloon goes faster than the snail.
Not necessarily. Imagine that the balloon has equally spaced marks, for convenience we'll say there are 40(*) marks around the equator of the balloon and they are 10 mm apart. The snail takes 1 second to go 10 mm. However every second the balloon is expanded such that the distance between each mark increases by 1 mm. The snail is moving 10mm/second and the balloon is expanding 1mm/(10mm*sec).
Now, how long will it take the snail to get halfway around the balloon?
What, if anything, is moving faster than the snail?
(*)Note, I didn't do the math on this so it's possible the snail can make it halfway around, if so you can increase the initial circumference of the balloon until the snail can't get around it because inflation happens at a faster rate than the snail can move.
struck off as a cab driver, but still be allowed to drive friends and family around? Surely you're either safe enough to use the public roads, or you're not, and the commercial relationships you have with the people inside make no difference?
Surely if your kitchen is safe enough to cook for your friends and family then you should be able to run a restaurant in your house without all those nasty licensing and inspection rules.
Getting into a car with your brother, who you know to be an awful driver, is your choice. Getting into a car with some stranger based only on es willingness to get paid to take you somewhere is a different kind of choice. Having that willingness to get paid backed up by some stricter enforcement of driving rules and vehicle safety inspections is a good thing.
There is a range of "good enough" and personal transportation is allowed to be at the lower end of that range while commercial transportation is required to be higher up the range.
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JimFive
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.