Comment Headline is screwing with my head (Score 2) 54
If you fail a launch abort test, does that mean you had a successful launch?
That is, until the video surfaces.
There have been enough high profile instances of police officers outright lying about what happened that I simply am not willing to assume they're telling the truth. Because often when a video shows up the police are proven to be lying.
If the good cops can't weed out the bad ones, then it's time to treat them all like children who can't be trusted.
In the fall of 2012, Ben Livingston (a past Stranger contributor) was the subject of a Washington State Patrol traffic stop. Livingston requested dash-cam video of the traffic stop, but the Washington State Patrol denied possessing such footage. The following year, Livingston, Rachner, Mocek, and Seattle civil rights attorney Cleveland Stockmeyer created a nonprofit called the Center for Open Policing (COP). Their first effort was to sue.
They won, and the state patrol settled to the tune of about $23,000. "I particularly enjoyed that case," said Mocek.
If you or I did that, it would be perjury and obstruction of justice.
This is a police force which was already under a federal consent decree
Boo hoo
Oh, look, fascists defending corrupt police forces.
How cute.
And though they have only combed through a small portion of the data, they say they have found several instances of officers appearing to lie, use racist language, and use excessive forceâ"with no consequences. In fact, they believe that the Office of Professional Accountability (OPA) has systematically "run interference" for cops. In the aforementioned cases of alleged officer misconduct, all of the involved officers were exonerated and still remain on the force.
"We're trying to do OPA's job for them because OPA was so explicitly not interested in doing their own job," said Rachner.
When the police ignore the law without consequence, someone needs to be doing something, because clearly the damned police are incapable of it.
Sorry, but crooked cops are just criminals like the rest of them
You mean when the police investigate their own misconduct they find there was none?
I'm shocked I tell 'ya.
And the police wonder why they're no longer treated with respect, while being people who regularly abuse their power and ignore the law. All cops need to start wearing body cameras at all times. Because it has reached the point where taking them at their word is a stupid idea.
If the police choose to ignore the law, they should be charged like the rest of us.
On the other hand, Detroit is adding open space at a pretty rapid rate. Perhaps there's a lesson to be taken away from there.
Or on the Baghdad to Mosul route.
The final laws aren't secret, but during some parts of the lawmaking process, their details may be kept secret, for exactly the reason in TFS.
Actually, and incredibly, the final law will be secret for a while:
The chapter in the draft of the trade deal, dated Jan. 20, 2015, and obtained by The New York Times in collaboration with the group WikiLeaks, is certain to kindle opposition from both the political left and the right. The sensitivity of the issue is reflected in the fact that the cover mandates that the chapter not be declassified until four years after the Trans-Pacific Partnership comes into force or trade negotiations end, should the agreement fail.
You could reasonably address this to some degree by marking the temporary lanes with colored paints.
Yeah, sure.
Let's change all construction practices and infrastructure to try to solve the ways in which self driving vehicles will be completely unprepared for the real world.
We can remove all the other drivers, embed tracking sensors in the road, build it out of special materials, put sensors everywhere. That will totally work. Except in the massive amount of places where it won't.
For these things to ever actually work in the real world, it's not the world which will have to adapt to them.
Who is going to pay for all of this? Everybody except the company who makes them.
We'll find out later this year if it can clear an accelerating stage with the in-flight abort test.
Watching the stream this morning, I couldn't help but feel sorry for any crew who were in the capsule as it tumbled over after separation. That looks like a really uncomfortable ride, but better than exploding on the pad.
"People" aren't pushing back, entrenched "organizations" are pushing back
Bullshit.
Municipalities and states which have passed laws around commercial for-hire vehicles are pushing back and saying "you don't get to tell us what our laws are". This has nothing to do with entrenched players pushing back other than them pointing out that if they're subject to those laws, Uber can't come along and claim to not be.
Let's keep some perspective, even while Uber is obviously circumventing laws
They're breaking the law, and throwing a whiny temper tantrum is irrelevant.
The laws exist to protect people from shady players without proper licensing and insurance looking to make a buck.
Uber is basically a dispatcher for illegal cabs. That's it.
You can claim it's some innovative noble thing to be assholes who ignore the law. But that doesn't make it true.
Criminal activity isn't a business model. It's a temper tantrum by greedy assholes who claim the law doesn't apply to them.
If by "pushing the boundaries" you mean "straight up ignoring the law", then that is essentially what they do.
They show up, say they're going to ignore the law because they're special little snowflakes, and then act like victims when they get told that's not going to work.
Their entire business model is "we don't give a crap about the law, because we're magical and special assholes".
Essentially they want to pretend that they shouldn't be covered by existing regulations.
I'm forced to conclude the owners are either massive assholes, or seriously delusional.
Sorry, but this is a $40 billion dollar corporation whose entire operations is based on ignoring laws and throwing a temper tantrum when they're enforced.
They say disruptive technology. I say uber douchebags.
Honestly, it's stupidity, and trying very hard to "protect" their culture and language.
This is a province where they've tried to get companies like "Canadian Tire" and "Home Depot" to rename their companies to French because they've outlawed English signage. It's a place where they keep trying to make it illegal to have your kids educated in English.
Ironically, French speakers from almost anywhere else in the world typically can't understand WTF Quebec people are saying.
No no no
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