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Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 497

if they didn't run the plates You always run a plate for a traffic stop, if you dont you are an idiot Barney Fife. 14 years as a LEO and I always ran the plates. When you get a reply it comes with the make/model of the vehicle associated with it. Like red dodge charger. When it is on a blue ford mustang y'all get a bit suspicious.

Comment Re:Good (Score 2, Interesting) 497

A responsible person (which the laws are aimed for) should not have to wait for the police to do anything.

As a former LEO, when my vehicle was stolen I went a lookin.

I found it and called the police telling them exactly where it was. The police took their sweet time. After 45 minutes of waiting, I called them and said I would take possession of the vehicle.

They came unglued on me, telling me I had no right to take possession of my vehicle.

The police showed up in 3 minutes with lights and siren going

Comment Re:Cameras? (Score 1) 58

Some /. posters only want to highlight what makes them feel better about their feelings. You are correct about Houston. Just like if you removed NOLA from La. they would fall. Oh wait Liberal NOLA would affect a state's ranking? It seems that in many of the red states on the list, if you removed 1 or 2 liberal run cities their murder rate would also drop. Guess it all depends on what data you cherry pick.

Comment Re:Stop thinking this only hurts Google and Amazon (Score 1) 324

As an example, GitHub would need to: * Inspect every binary uploaded * Review every code commit * Preemptively review every Pull Request (including updates based on feedback) * Review the feedback on every Pull Request (including future updates) * Review every bug report (including future edits) * Review every comment on that bug (including future edits) * Review any policy or action documentation (including future edits) * Review every wiki entry (including future edits) * Oh, and make sure their own content is also okay

What the argument is over are those algorithms that push out a items ahead of others. Github would not have to do a single thing you posted except to quit pushing 1 over another.

Comment Re:Another "magic" plan to delay real action (Score 1) 122

"If we had started determinedly, say, 200 years ago, these would have worked but by now there is far, far too little time left and the scale needed is infeasible in the time left. If we had determinedly brought emissions down to zero when the science was solid in the 1980s, yes, that would have likely been enough as well. But now? Even if we stopped all other industrial efforts, it would not be enough. We are already over some trigger-points and we cannot avoid some others anymore. The current prospect is that we maybe can still prevent collapse of civilization if we act decisively. Giga-death and partial civilization collapse can very likely not be avoided anymore. And we are slowly moving into an area where extincion becomes a real possibility."

All is lost!

Comment Re:Ha! $6k peanut pills? (Score 1) 94

This is still prescribed as a powder, administered daily for the rest of that person's life. Basically if your child is 10 and you figure they will live til their 80 that 70 years. Now the price of the med varies from about $560 to $800+ a month for the rest of their lives. Or you avoid any place that uses nuts and you carry an auto injector that costs about $690 the prices may be a huge factor.

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