A better option than no windows would be "automatic shades" that make the windows opaque if the passengers choose to do so. Windows serve a lot more function than just giving the driver a field of view. Not everyone likes AC and many of us like to drive with the windows open, but being able to block the windows with an opaque tint would have its benefit too.
Hell, just about every porn video out these days has "toilet to tap" scenery. Should be easy to get by the "activists" these days.
...should never shoot to kill
Wrong, they should always shoot to kill, and the only reason they should ever shoot is when they mean to kill. They are not deer hunters or sushi chefs, they do not have time to try to aim for the legs, shoot the gun out of the perps hands, or fire warning shots (and kill innocents). They need to take down the immediate threat as soon as possible.
There's plenty of non-lethal means to incapacitate such a person
If the person is not threatening the life of the officer or anyone around him, then yes non-lethal force can be used to incapacitate. However, anytime the suspect is holding a weapon, there are too many variables involved to risk non-lethal force. Which generally only consists of a taser, bean bag shotguns can be used to resolve non-hostage situations effectively. The engagement range for a knife attack is 20 meters, the effective range on a tazer is 10 meters. If you hope to use non-lethal force on man lunging at you with a knife or a screw driver, go for it, it's your funeral if you tase him and he still closes the distance and stabs you in the throat.
At the end of the day, it is about the police officer coming home safe.
At the end of the day it's supposed to be about everyone being safe, not just the police officer. Any time a cop shoots his/her weapon, they risk more lives than the guy with the knife did. Period.
20 meters ? I'd think 20 feet, maybe 10 meters, but 20 meters is an insane engagement range for a knife. Even considering the possibility of an olympic quality sprinter somehow surprising you and closing the distance, you've got 1 or 2 seconds and they'd have to be prepared for a sprint. For "normal" people standing in a normal defensive/offensive fighting stance you've got at least 3 or 4 seconds to react.
I wasn't suggesting they do it themselves, that's ludicrous. I assumed they had written some sort of program (can't view the article here at work for some reason) that pulled the records automatically.
Can they expand their investigation to include other jurisdictions? This kind of information needs to be available (and compiled) for every police jurisdiction in the country. If we can do that we might get some accurate records of police actions since the government is disinclined to do so (even though they passed a law requiring it 4 or 5 years ago.)
In this case either quality or quantity means he's better at doing the job of being President. He's using authority when needed (Executive Orders) and diplomacy/bipartisanship when needed. Like him or not, he's doing the job quite effectively. Whether he's going down the correct path with his leadership will really only be determined two or three generations from now. (I'm thinking right path in some things and wrong path in others, like every other President before him).
Don't call me an expert but I believe it had to do with what it took to become a member of the religion, (in a fiscal sense) and remain a part of the religion, plus a few other things they were doing with the money once they (Scientology) had it and how they were getting it in the first place.
Again, it has nothing to do with whether they like the "religion" and whether or not the "religion" is following the laws set forth for being recognized as a religion. As far as I know you can still be a Scientologist in Germany it's just not recognized as an official religion.
Revoking tax exempt status isn't even remotely the same as "giving the state the authority to destroy religions it disagrees with".
The Germans revoked Scientology's standing as a recognized religion. It wasn't because the government didn't like the church; iIt was because Scientology was found to be committing fraud.
Why does everyone assume we need to make more steel? There will be plenty of it around for re-purposing. We won't need the same level of fuel to produce steel because we already have literally millions of tons of the stuff. We may need fuel to help rework the steel into different uses, but certainly not to smelt the raw materials to make brand new stuff.
No, it's all bullshit. There's a lot of talking and propaganda around these ideas but when you start peeling it apart it's just layers and layers of circular citations and dubious studies by (professional) social "scientists" ( yes, I do think we should go back to calling it social "studies" ). It wouldn't even be a thing except it's repeated often and loudly by entrenched, tenured activists in universities.
Yes, telling people to negotiate is absolutely enough to break this HABIT(yeah, this conditioning idea is a flat out lie). People who have never bartered for anything, and moreover have never even witnessed bartering take place make the adjustment on their first day in a new country. Go ahead explain how this is "different" and somehow not "conditioning".
The real problem is the people with a disproportionately loud voice telling us that we're all brainwashed and incapable of owning our lives and our minds --who then propose to fix it with their own brand of brainwashing that suits their own selfish agenda.
Rigged studies are rigged. I am, and I expect most intelligent people are, perfectly capable of differentiating between pushy and assertive behaviors.
Really really really fucking tired of this top-down social engineering that's going on everywhere these days. The lies and propaganda supporting this cultural enforcement is constantly being debunked and yet the SJW's just keep going with it. And the really frustrating part is seeing that the academics and politicians propagating these myths aren't even altruistic themselves --they are just cynically furthering their own careers. This has become the age of the professional SJW.
The fuck you can't. You absolutely can. This conditioning you continually speak of is no more than a bad habit and doesn't even put a dent in the normal humans intellect.
What you say is true. But the poster you replied to is also quite correct --and the truth is more important than any social agenda, no matter how righteous it may be.
Really? You never keep any data you read in your brain? If that's true there are bigger issues at stake. I don't have 24/7 access to google and wouldn't want it, so maybe I'm the anomaly. I just don't see this "study" as worth the time it took to perform. Even if it is accurate, who the hell cares?
I get having a "professional" social media profile (a la LinkedIn) but no way in hell is a personal profile going to be up for discussion in any job interview I have. My private life is my life, not my employer's or prospective employer's. If they can't understand that I don't want to work for them anyway.
I don't give a shit, in my personal life if people "expect a facebook". I don't even have all my real-life friends associated with my one social media profile, I'm sure as hell not handing it out to every person I meet at some bar or party.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
