The Montgomery County (Texas) Sheriff’s Office had a big day planned. After becoming the first department in the country with its own aerial drone ($300,000!), they were ready for a nice photo op. And then the drone crashed into a SWAT team.
Idiots.
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Euthanasia has been legal in the Netherlands for a decade. But an organisation based in The Hague is now offering a mobile euthanasia service, prompting accusations that the law has been pushed too far.
Private companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighbourhoods and even detaining suspects under a radical privatisation plan being put forward by two of the largest police forces in the country.
West Midlands and Surrey have invited bids from G4S and other major security companies on behalf of all forces across England and Wales to take over the delivery of a wide range of services previously carried out by the police.
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The breathtaking list of policing activities up for grabs includes investigating crimes, detaining suspects, developing cases, responding to and investigating incidents, supporting victims and witnesses, managing high-risk individuals, patrolling neighbourhoods, managing intelligence, managing engagement with the public, as well as more traditional back-office functions, such as managing forensics, providing legal services, managing the vehicle fleet, finance and human resources.A West Midlands police authority spokesman said: “Combining with the business sector is aimed at totally transforming the way the force currently does business – improving the service provided to the public.
The corporatocracy rolls on. They might as well outsource parliament.
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The outage on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform that caused the UK government’s G-Cloud service to go offline was the result of a calculation error caused by the extra day in February due to the leap year.
What do the candidates need to do to prove they are most conservative? How do they stand out from the pack? Here’s some ideas:
They can make a YouTube video of them clubbing a baby seal to death.
Promise to drill of oil in San Francisco Golden Gate Park.
If a woman gets pregnant through rape she has to marry the rapist.
Your employer can tell you where to go to church.
Require women to have to get their husband’s permission to get a drivers license.
Close all public schools and colleges.
No taxes at all for the top one percent.
Criminalize birth control, solar energy, teaching science, and yoga.
Require Atheists to go to church.
I saw this post from Physica on the Digital Photography forum and decided to repost it for future reference. Search Hong Kong Travel tips.
There’s a shopping mall at Mong Kok is selling some Photography Stuff with resonable price, that’s one of the favorite place for the locals, the entrance is so small and not obvious, but if you ask the local person which take Photos, that MIGHT knew the place…. (The shopping mall’s name is just like a very famous game), By the way, there’s still some China Made camera’s stuff for sales there (like Hoods, filters, etc), the price are cheap, not very good in quality but it’s functional.
Another place which mustl go is Sham Shui Po (Junction with Nam cheong Street) , There’s Alot of Photography stuff for sales, But most of them are made in china. So consider before buying.
if you walk between sham shui po and Mong Kok’s mall, you may found the same goods will have a lower price at sham shui po
Don’t go to the shops at the Nathan road around Tsim Sha Tsui portion , the stuff’s price are higher then the other place.
Seems pretty accurate for the current front runners (and The Newt) to me. Why is it so many Republicans want to control our lives via their social agenda politics? Closet Washington Democrats, just with a different set of controls? We need a third party of rational people. Bad!
And then there’s this guy.
Found on Reddit
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Osama bin Laden was in routine contact with several senior figures from Pakistan’s military intelligence agency while in hiding in the country, according to a large cache of secret intelligence files.
UPDATE: Here is the latest.
The [Supreme Court] will be asked to decide whether the corporations to which they have been extending the rights of individuals should also be held accountable for crimes against human rights, just as individuals are.
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Many “friend of the court” briefs filed by corporations in this case contend that the companies are committed to voluntarily complying with human rights norms — but that standards set by the United Nations and other public and private organizations are mere guidelines that are not enforceable as legal norms. What they are really saying is that there are legal norms against torture and such, but that they can’t be enforced against corporations because they have never been enforced under international law — a claim the plaintiffs strongly contest.This leaves the Supreme Court with an extraordinary choice to make, in juxtaposition to its previous ruling in Citizens United: whether to accept an argument that, in effect, leaves corporations less culpable than individuals are for human rights violations committed abroad — or whether to hold that if a 200-year-old law can be used to hold individual violators to account, it can be used against corporate violators as well.
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