Comment Re:Breach of contract? (Score 1) 242
How exactly would a court force the government to do this?
Individual civil sanctions just like with any other contract.
How exactly would a court force the government to do this?
Individual civil sanctions just like with any other contract.
While it's a mainstay of many movies from the 1960s and 1970s for criminals to disguise themselves using highly expensive plastic surgery, I'd hardly call it "common", no.
Just grow a beard to hide that distinctively shaped chin, or pluck your eyebrows.
Everyone deserves equal opportunity, right?
Nope, low-income boys have to pin their hopes on basketball or football if they want a chance to escape poverty; unless they live in a rural area, in which case it's meth.
A poll of polls?
No, we should "pole" the politicians. As in, beat them with a heavy metal pole, and then hoist them up on one.
One problem is that the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act has been interpreted by the Federal Communications Commission to prohibit the calling of cellphones through automatic dialers, in which calls are passed to live interviewers only after a person picks up the phone.
I know some people that the pollers could outsource to that have seemed to have found a very easy workaround to this problem.
"Hi, this is Rachel from polling services....."
Now, as a competent, dedicated law enforcement professional who is committed to making this project work for the good of society, you're going to need to test it. Thoroughly.
You need a lot of pictures of people with tattoos, preferably not covered by too much clothing. And you're going to need to double check that the image recognition is correct for every match.
Once you've done that, you'll need to start applying the same algorithm to video sources. Again, with careful checking to verify that the system is working correctly.
Where on the Internet are you going to find a huge volume of images and video featuring people with exposed tattoos? And how, exactly, did you just convince the government that it was your job to spend all day watching them while calling it science?
Probably the best way to roll this out would be to target and identify repeat offenders. If you have someone currently incarcerated, you can take good clear pictures of them revealing their tattoos which could then be matched to images of tattoos from crimes committed after they are released/before they were incarcerated.
MY one concern is this:how good would it be at recognizing altered tattoos or ones that have had additional tattoos added to or applied over the original tattoo? Want to help get away with murder? Every time you kill someone just add a tattoo to your sleeve, incorporating a previous tattoo so that it is altered enough to render this method ineffective. Plus you get the added benefit of having a souvenir/reminder of each criminal act. Think the Johnny-23 character from the movie Con Air.
tackle football (NFL doesn't like it, anymore).
Miss the days of players deliberately making helmet-to-helmet tackles without penalty? If you want to have the brain of an 80 year old Alzheimer's patient before you can run for the Senate, go volunteer yourself, Sparky.
I miss the days where a player would be taught to break down, plant their facemask in their opponents chest,wrap up, and drive through. No shattered knees, no concussions. Now their idea of tackling is dropping their heads and launching themselves at people's knees.
I have close to 10 firearms myself, but I certainly don't have an M249, a 203, or kevlar with ceramic plates-all standard issue for military. An enthusiast might be better armed than your average patrolman who has a
You can buy all of those things. Some are expensive, an M249 very much so, but you can buy one.
Body armor isn't that expensive, in relative terms, even a M203 40mm grenade launcher isn't that expensive.
While they might not be prohibitively expensive (except for the case of the M249), and I know you can buy what are labelled as 40mm "flare" launchers, but good luck finding explosive rounds for it. And as for body armor, I know you can buy basic Kevlar for a few hundred dollars, but I am not aware of any being sold at your local Army/Navy store that come with the ballistic plates. Really, the people who can afford things like that are the kind of people that aren't going to cause problems anyway, they just want to go out to a track of land they own and blow crap up.
It's still the same now. An enthusiast that buys his own weapon likely has a much better piece of equipment than someone that just has standard issue gear.
There are even catalogs used by the troops for enhancing their own personal gear while on personal deployment.
I have close to 10 firearms myself, but I certainly don't have an M249, a 203, or kevlar with ceramic plates-all standard issue for military. An enthusiast might be better armed than your average patrolman who has a
as police have always had and always will have better access to top grade weaponry and armour.
I would argue this statement is false. When the 2nd amendment was drafted the hunting rifle in the hands of the average citizen was not especially inferior to that of the one in the hands of the local serif or for that matter the regular army soldier. Moreover the local serif and the soldier were no more able to defend themselves against said rifle than your average citizen was.
As far as larger weapons like artillery was concerned at prior to the civil war my admittedly hasty study of the subject indicates there was not much in the way of law that prevented a citizen (other than cost) from purchasing a napoleon; which would have been a state of the art field piece. Certainly there were lots of wealthy planters and the like who could afford them.
Actually, the average hunter's rifle was probably more effective than what the local sheriff or soldier had, because a hunter quite possibly had an actual rifle while the soldier would have been issued a smoothbore musket. And heavy artillery was certainly owned by private individuals at least up through the Civil War as there are numerous instances of wealthy individuals using ther own funds to raise and equip militia units during times of conflict (if you had the money this was an easy way to get a commission at the start of the Civil War on either side as they were desperate for troops).
Surprise surprise. No armoring yourself allowed. They want to be able to kill you easily.
Because there are laws preventing you from going to a metal shop, buying inch-think sheets of steel and welding them to your pickup? Just leave enough space between the steel and the car body so you can pour in some sand and you essentially have what most of the US Army was doing to humvees in Iraq because they didn't get uparmor kits. Should stop anything the police have unless SWAT brings out a
Smart carriers don't want you to check bags, the hold is much more valuable carrying freight and freight doesn't require the army of workers that checked bags do.
As someone who has worked for an airline in both a ramp and air cargo capacity yes, they do. A checked bag might pass through the hands of 7 people, from acceptance to loading to unloading to delivery to baggage claim. Cargo goes through an acceptance agent, then another person takes it to a staging area, where at least 1 person then builds it into a container or cart. Then another person drives the container to another staging area, where another person takes from the cargo facility staging area to the gate for the flight. Then the gate crew takes it, moves it alongside the plane, then someone else puts it on the belt and the person in the bin stacks it. When the plane arrives at it's destination is it loaded into another cart/container, taken to the local freight facility, where it it is broken down, staged for pick-up, then finally delivered to the driver picking it up. That is at least 13 people handling 1 piece of frieght. And that assumes it is a small piece of freight going on a narrow body. Frieght going on a wide-body aircraft take even more people: we would routinely have 3-4+ people breaking down a single PMC. It is not unreasonable to have 20 people in some way handling 1 piece of freight. And that does not include the truck drivers or originating/destination shipper/freight forwarder facilities, or if it has to be inspected by customs for international shipments.
But yes, by wieght cargo is more profitable because airlines can charge a premium for it, especially with things that have to be sent by air cargo such as perishable products (foodstuff, medicine, flowers-you have no idea how many hundreds of boxed of hydrangreas are shipped are freight to Dubai every week), time sensitive items, live animals, human remains, and valuable items such as gold or other precious metals or exotic/expensive cars.
I would never ever check in my camera gear. That is simply to much risk and the insurance doesn't cover it - you would need to buy a special insurance for that and that would probably be very expensive since bags are frequently lost or even stolen.
I worked on the ramp for several years in one of the busiest airports in the US, and if you pack a camera in a good-sized pelican case you won't have any issues. For one thing I have never seen one break or get damaged. But the main reason is this: honestly, pelican cases never get thrown because the person stacking the bin (or the one passing the bags to him if it's a long bin and they have enough gate crew members) usually sits on one. If you want to go cheap and don't really have anything too fragile, one of the guys I worked with said he always used a large rolling cooler for his luggage (strong, watertight, plus then you have a cooler when you get to your destination). When you have to stack 100-150 bags in a 757 in the middle of summer, there's nothing like the simple joy of getting a good pelican case to sit on and a working bin carpet.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
