So have cars.

In some states and possibly in D.C., ordinary traffic tickets require a police to witness you "doing the deed," but more serious crimes like DWI, reckless driving, and possibly driving with a revoked license do not. Yes, they require proof beyond a reasonable doubt to result in a conviction (assuming a fair trial *cough*), but that can be achieved legally through non-police witnesses, surveillance cameras (the cops can subpoena the ATM across the street or the toll-road cameras, and D.C. is littered with government-run security cameras), or even a non-coerced admission.

Assuming the cops had good cause to check his license, assuming there is little or no doubt about him driving with an expired license (maybe he foolishly admitted it, or maybe he was caught on camera), and assuming the offense is one that routinely results in arrest (vs. a ticket-and-tow as some jurisdictions do) then it's a good arrest.

Without evidence that a motorist with a revoked license would typically only be ticketed (and towed), or lack of evidence that he was the driver, it's premature to claim that the arrest was done to cover up the other issue. The only legal tie between the two is that the suspicious car - or perhaps the driver's claim that the car was his car - gave the cops probable cause to check his license for validity. Other than that, they are separate and should be treated as such.

Now, does there need to be an independent investigation to determine if these cops used prudent judgment (vs. "looking for trouble" "judgement") - yes. If they were not acting prudently, does the police dept. need to issue an apology and pay damages? Yes.

Memo to self:

If I drive a car without a license and park it, and I see police activity around my car, call a lawyer and have HIM arrange to recover the car.

Memo to self #2:
If my license is revoked, call a cab.

That's an argument for a high base pay, good lifetime medical coverage for job-related stress/injuries regardless of when you retire/separate-from-service, and good survivor benefits if you die before separation or from a service-related condition after separation. It is not a good argument for allowing you to retire with full benefits after 20 years.

The US military and some US civilian jobs such as FBI agents let you retire with full benefits after 20 years of service. The US military allows you to retire at 100% of base pay plus benefits at 40 years of service (typically age 58 for those enlisting straight out of high school).

Treaty or no treaty, any Eurozone country can pull out just by declaring themselves no longer in the Eurozone and declaring that all existing sovereign debt owed by them is hereby converted into the new national currency and if the creditors don't like it tough on them.

Yes, there will be a price to pay. Technically, the other countries could declare war on Greece for breaking the treaty but that's not going to happen. Much more likely, they'll just stop doing business with Greece and its citizens and companies and possibly pass laws making it hard for their citizens and companies to do business with Greece or its citizens and companies.

The question for Greece is: What is your least-painful option?

No, it's something slashdot did, since I never had the scroll before and didn't change any settings.

Or something like that.

This is another reason restricting "ex offenders are not allowed to live in this neighborhood because it is too close to a church/school/park/bus-stop/bank/check-cashing-business/bar/adult-entertainment-venue/etc" rules are bad ideas.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea to tell a particular offender who is on parole or probation he can't live in a given area as a condition of release, or that a particular ex-offender has to stay away from his past victims, but it is a terrible idea to have entire neighborhoods "off limits" to all ex-offenders or all ex-offenders of a given class (e.g. ex-gangbangers, etc.).

Ever since they changed it so I have a goddamned horizontal scroll (are they on crack?) I've only come by occasionally to look at journals.

Look, Dumbass Holdings Idiots, there's no reason whatever short of GROSS incompetence to introduce a horizontal scroll on a widescreen format notebook!! I'm all for hiring the handicapped, but you don't hire Ray Charles to be a bus driver and you don't hire the educationally handicapped to code...

Although I suspect it may be retarded PHBs than retarded coders. Someone is obviously VERY stupid. The idiotic mistakes I see should NOT happen at a so-called "nerd" site.

Ever tried putting a post-it note through your laser printer? Ever had your phone battery go bad and needed to make a note of something?

Despite the story from earlier today, not teaching students how to use pens and paper is unfair to the kids.