A fastball to the head can kill you. That's where the standard should be.
So you want the FAA to take over the MLB?
Even Abstergo Entertainment's offices in Assassin's Creed 4 were directly modeled after Ubisoft Montreal's.
They have cells in the basement?
with a lovely willing girl
Or at least lovely.
Come on. Even if you are desperate you should at least be trying to get 2 out of 3.
What better abbreviation of "self-portrait" would you suggest to fit in an 80-character story headline or 50-character comment subject?
Well, the words "picture" or "photo" or, in this case, "video" sufficed just fine for decades before some idiots started to use the word "selfie".
How about pay raises. It's a crime what they pay police officers. They practically guarantee corruption. I don't see how those guys live on what they pay which explains why they're always moonlighting at 2nd and 3rd jobs.
In Atlanta I would have gone in making $45,000 a year base pay had I gotten a job with APD (I have a graduate degree). The job I do right now I am making $27000 a year and tops out around $50,000 a year. Yeah, it sure is a crime how little they pay police officers.
Exactly. I live in a small isolated town. Population about 25,000. Next population center as big or bigger than us - about 75 miles. The incorporated area of our city is about 3x5 miles with a little bit of acreage properties out beyond that. 5 minutes outside of town and you are going to be driving for at least an hour before you pass anywhere with a population over 100. Our city has a mobile command post.... No place in the city is more than 3 miles from the police station/city hall, but we have a fancy RV with "mobile command post" stenciled on the side.
That is probably intended more for an EMA type role. Obviously you live in a rural environment; should any kind of disaster happen in your area, the mobile command post allows local autorities to move closer to the affected area, and should the town need to be evacuated for any reason they can maintain some semblance of central control outside the evacuated zone. In all likelihood it was purchased with a lot of help from state and federal agencies because they can draw on this capability themselves if needed. Isolated commuities actually need things such as mobile command centers because they probably have responsibility over a wider area than if they were closer to other communities.
Alternately, how would something like this have helped the cops in Las Vegas this weekend?
They could put a pizza oven in the back instead of having to go to pizza shops. They could even offset the purchase cost of the MRAP and the pizza oven by using it as a food truck when not on duty.
AND it's going to be more expensive to maintain, and the police should never use military anything, ever. They are NOT the military.
Why SHOULDN'T civilian organizations make use of military surplus when it is available? It saves them money and makes use of existing stuff instead of having to build new. So what if they aren't the military? I've got a couple of old field jackets, should I not use them because I'm not the military, even though they are good, rugged, serviceable pieces of clothing.
There is a bit of a difference between a bush jacket and an anti-mine vehicle. Him buying a surplus MRAP would be like you buying a surplus spacesuit from NASA. Sure, it might keep you warm and dry, but it's a lot more complicated and inefficient to use than an actual jacket and makes you look like an idiot going down the street.
Does anyone pay attention to the news anymore? Just yesterday a couple shot two cops who were peacefully siting down eating their lunch. They planned to attack the courthouse and start executing officials too. Just like that guy in Georgia the other week who was thankfully stopped before he could start. And there's a massacre about once every other month. Why do we need all these assault weapons?.
The shooters in Las Vegas used pistols. The guy here in Georgia planned to use homemade explosives once inside the building. The shooter in Seattle used a shotgun (horrible choice for a shooting rampage by the way unless you are using a Saiga shotgun-takes too long to reload). Most shootings in the US are committed with pistols, yet the majority of gun control advocates fixate on "assault weapons" (just because something is black and has a pistol grip does not make it more dangerous) because they are scary. Under "assault weapons" bans an SKS (a 5-shot semiautomatic Russian rifle with attached folding bayonet) would be perfectly legal, but the same rifle with a black TAPCO stock would be illegal. What we need are harsher penalties for felons possessing firearms/possesion of stolen firearms (a significant number of shootings in the US involve one of those 2 offenses) and better mental health treatment.
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