[Dreamtwister]

This thread needs to be merged.

[Daniel_Plainview]

Only 33%?

Just wait until the ravages of peak oil take effect ... 33% will seem like a blessing from God.

[Daniel_Plainview]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'T')his thread needs to be merged.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', 'I')n Buenos Aires, you pay Protection to the Cops or you become Desaperecido. They of course have to feed their children also.
Reverse Engineer

[Pretorian]

It could be true for some business owners in 70s. Overall, many Desaparecidos are just criminals who were caught with a weapon and no recent crime to link it. They had to prove that they were criminals and not guerilleros.
In general, Argentinian cops are probably the least corrupt cops in all South America. They are well-fed.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'I')t could be true for some business owners in 70s. Overall, many Desaparecidos are just criminals who were caught with a weapon and no recent crime to link it. They had to prove that they were criminals and not guerilleros.
In general, Argentinian cops are probably the least corrupt cops in all South America. They are well-fed.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'I')t could be true for some business owners in 70s. Overall, many Desaparecidos are just criminals who were caught with a weapon and no recent crime to link it. They had to prove that they were criminals and not guerilleros.
In general, Argentinian cops are probably the least corrupt cops in all South America. They are well-fed.

[mattduke]

DC Metro Random Bag Inspection Searches

[Ferretlover]

This phony, protecting-the-citizens-from-themselves business is way out of hand.

[Arsenal]

As soon as the Boston T starts this is when I quit riding it.

* Fourth Amendment – Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

This is just another blatant power grab. Where the F@*!&*# are the pissed off people??? Ugh..

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Arsenal', 'A')s soon as the Boston T starts this is when I quit riding it.

* Fourth Amendment * Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

This is just another blatant power grab. Where the F@*!&*# are the pissed off people??? Ugh..

[mattduke]

For now, there are no penalties for refusing inspectors. They will merely escort you out. So a real terrorist would merely need to keep trying until he could succeed.

[vox_mundi]

This has 'crowd control' written all over it.

New Scientist article

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he research arm of the US Department of Justice is working on two portable non-lethal weapons that inflict pain from a distance using beams of laser light or microwaves, with the intention of putting them into the hands of police to subdue suspects.

The two devices under development by the civilian National Institute of Justice both build on knowledge gained from the Pentagon's controversial Active Denial System (ADS) - first demonstrated in public last year, which uses a 2-metre beam of short microwaves to heat up the outer layer of a person's skin and cause pain.

Like the ADS, the new portable devices will also heat the skin, but will have beams only a few centimetres across. They are designed to elicit what the Pentagon calls a "repel response" - a strong urge to escape from the beam.

A spokesperson for the National Institute for Justice likens the effect of the new devices to that of "blunt trauma" weapons such as rubber bullets, "But unlike blunt trauma devices, the injury should not be present. This research is looking to reduce the injuries to suspects," they say.

Existing blunt trauma weapons can break ribs or even kill, making alternatives welcome. Yet ADS has recorded problems too - out of several thousand tests on human subjects there were two cases of second-degree burns.

Steve Wright at Leeds Metropolitan University describes the new weapons as "torture at the touch of a button".

[kpeavey]

replace the word "suspects" with "protesters"

[vox_mundi]

It also makes it a lot harder to tell who put the hurt on you.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kpeavey', 'r')eplace the word "suspects" with "protesters"

[Heineken]

Fortunately, the citizens' arms would still be effective against police state ray guns.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'F')ortunately, the citizens' arms would still be effective against police state ray guns.

[StormBringer]

When a society devolves to find new and improved ways to control its own by means of pain or death, ITS TIME FOR A NEW SOCIETY. Our forefathers rose up and fought the gooberment over tea tax, we lay like cattle while every basic freedom is taken and taxed to death.

[threadbear]

I recommend a "bliss beam" that would render you too darned happy and loving to pose a threat. But nooooooo...... people in control never freaking think that way.