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Comment Re:public safety should never be a revenue source (Score 1) 567

Maybe I have this wrong, but how is anyone losing the right to face their accuser? Isn't it the city/police that is accusing you? How is this technically any different then being caught on camera robbing a store? If the "ticket" you receive is an actual infraction you would have a right to your date in court. Otherwise you have no obligation to pay someone anything. Actually, now that I think about it, the camera's where the ticket is sent by a collection/operating company and not law enforcement sounds an awful lot like blackmail. "We got this awfully bad pictures of you running a red light. Pay us money, which we will give a kickback to the city for, or we report you."

Comment Re:lulz (Score 1) 223

How do you know if you request to have "so and so" notified has been completed? Should they not have to provide proof that such a task was completed? Doing so in any other way then letting you have a phone call, or making the call on speaker phone or some other way for you to hear said conversation, just screams potential corruption and abuse to me.

Comment Re:First and Last solution? (Score 1) 849

As for necrophilia, someone who is dead cannot give you permission to have intercourse. Even if consent was given before death there is no way to know if their mind changed at just the moment of death, or if they would have "changed their mind" after the first "experience." For cannibalism, there are similar concerns. Also, there are probably health concerns as well seeing as you would only be able to eat people that had died (can't kill someone for food), and could have died from all sorts of diseases. Also, there is the issue of keeping track of where said meat came from that one is eating, which opens of issue of people being killed (harvested) that shouldn't be to use for such. What about human decency on both counts.

Comment Re:Geroge Carlin (Score 1) 367

yes and no. You can always control the one area of space to keep from being "boxed in." in front of you. Especially in the hypothetical icy condition. You should be leaving enough space when slowing between you and the car in front of you that if you slid on ice you wont hit the person in front of you. This space you could also move into to give more space for the car behind you to stop. On the other hand the point is that there can always be extreme cases beyond even this that you can do NOTHING besides just not driving to avoid. A car can be moving so fast that you cannot even physically react no matter where you do or do not have space. Not to mention the idea that the other driver could mirror your movements trying to avoid you as well. (think walking down a hallway, I go left you go right, oh I got right you go left, stop...laugh).

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