Hmmm… being a cop sounds kinda fun.
Harassing people in the name of the law, yo.
Lol. XD
[Summer's almost done. NOOOOO. How can this be? Plus I have to wake up early to jog tomorrow. Jogging's fun but not the waking up part.]
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Seriously? I was under the impression that cops always ask you if you know why you were pulled over, because they are trying to get you to confess to something. If you confess, it makes it that much harder to fight a ticket in court.No, it's a bad habit. Confessions are pointless with traffic citations no matter what, anyway, because traffic offenses are a strict liability crime: You don't need to have a culpable mind set, you just need to have committed the offense.
The reason the officer is supposed to do it the way I explained is the officer has already answered three potential questions: Who they are, What department they work for, Why you are being stopped. It shortens the amount of time they are standing on the side of the road as well.
After giving the reason for the stop, the question should be something along the lines of, "Is there any justifiable reason for this?" or even "Is there any reason for this, sir/ma'am?" You get the same result and you're more professional about it.
Here's my schpeal, generally:
"Hello. My name is Officer XXXX with the XXXX Police Department. The reason for my contact is you failed to come to a full and complete stop* at the intersection of XXX and XXX. Is there any legal reason for this?" In the even of a tail light out, I will change the last part to, "Are you aware of this, sir/ma'am?"
*This is what the law says a stop must be, so I have already explained this as well.
I do it the same way every time. Why? Because if someone ever complains, everyone already knows what I say and I can recite it right away without thinking about it, which adds to my credibility.
Remember folks, in the US you have the right to remain silent. Don't wait to be Mirandized before exercising that right!Very true, but if you don't answer basic questions to an officer on, say, a traffic stop, you can actually be charged with hindrance of a public servant.
Most of the time you will not, but if you really want to get an officer's "hinky bells" going, just sit there very quietly. Some officers write "attitude tickets". I refuse to. If I decided you weren't going to get a ticket before I pulled you over, then you aren't going to get one if you're being an asshole.
I have one of two ways of ending the encounter: A citation, or a lecture, but never both. You may get the last word, but I get the last action.
There's also search and seizure. I love the US Constitution. Imagine the surprise I got when teaching it to a bunch of "at risk" youth. They didn't know they had the right to remain silent or to refuse what they believe is an unwarranted search.Teachers are not governed by the Fourth Amendment like the government agents, and any time you are on school grounds, you give up the right to an expectation of privacy anywhere except for inside changing rooms and bathrooms. To further that, if you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy, then there is no fourth amendment governing the situation.
Oh, and the right to remain silent is the FIFTH amendment, not the fourth amendment. The fourth amendment only has to do with physical searches, and even then, you have the "plain sight doctrine", the "plain touch doctrine", the "plain smell doctrine", and the "Terry doctrine".
Now, on the streets with officers and the like, of course people have the right against unreasonable search and seizures, as well as not speaking with government officials. Just make sure they are taught right and don't think they have a right to a lawyer when an officer is talking to them when they are not under arrest.
The right to a lawyer being present can only be invoked when you have arrest AND questioning in connection to the crime being investigated. You can still not say a word.
A cop can come up to talk to you about anything at any time, but you don't have to stick around and give any information.
If you do it right the cop may think you're a lawyer and most won't ticket lawyers because they hate having to go to court. (I know lots of lawyers and I mean lots including not a few legislators. I can show up in court with a lawyer who's best friends with the judge and prosecutor and the ticketing officer just doesn't want to be bothered.)Court = Overtime money…which is very nice. I have no problems writing tickets to lawyers and have on a few occasions.
If an officer, prosecutor, and/or judge don't "want to be bothered", they are fucking lazy and need to re-evaluate their career choice.
Thank god. I hate Summer so, so much.
To be fair, summer in England is terrible. It's not like other countries' normal summers.
We probably hate it for different reasons, unless you also think it's too hot.
I don't know why, I'm just incredibly sensitive to heat. It's why I like winter so much, I'm not really bothered by the cold like most people are.
Also I can wear my coat. I feel weird going outside without it.
We probably hate it for different reasons, unless you also think it's too hot.
You must be having a different summer than me, because here around Brum it's been cold and dumping down rain every day. Except for an okay week in mid-July.
I have a crazy dog to try and tire out, but I have to do advanced physics to try and plan walks where we won't get soaked.
Now that I have a new HP laptop, I'm really wishing I had gone ahead and spent the money for a apple.
tl;dr Vista sucks
Yeah… um installing the adobe suite on my mac took no more than an hour, and my tablet was like 2 minutes.
Can't you just add XP to your laptop? And that way you could use both operating systems. apples are nice, but photoshop on a pc really isnt THAT different.
HP products suck, get gateway or sony. My gateway laptop loads photoshop in 5 seconds, i've always thought this was cool. (compared to my former shit computer that would crash if it tried to run it lol)
So i got: dreamweaver cs3 and manga studio the other day. Dreamweavers learning curve was surprisingly steeper than i'd imagined- but with the template i'm creating in photoshop everything should be fine. And manga studio…not so much a learning curve as it is completely inferior to photoshop in every way.(besides tones) I got it to run on vista but it skips lines sometimes…ah well
I think i'm the only one here who likes vista. (mainly because i tweaked mine to get rid of all the annoying security questions)
I like Vista. It runs fine if you have the correct drivers loaded and aren't an r-tard.
Pretty much all computer builders get their products from the same places, so to say HP sucks compared to Gateway is an archaic thought process. The only real difference is the options they give to the consumers.
Computer builders… Well there are thousands of different possible combinations of part and each vendor makes different choices Cori. They don't all work the same. Even instillations of the OS work differently…
I run Vista on one of my machines at home and it's working better than XP now at this stage. My current tablet on there is a 12x12 Intuous 1 (USB) and I run Photoshop CS1, and it all works beautifully. :)
English summer usually starts around september, weather wise XDDD
God, so sick of this. Been here two days and already I've seen a stolen comic!!
Where?
http://user.drunkduck.com/Alphadingo is the one who posted it, the comic they called 'nightfallen' doesn't actually belong to them.
Who does it belong to then?
http://www.kolumbus.fi/umbrenmetsa/ One of my friend's on Deviantart, that is her website, where the comic is hosted in her language, and here : http://shadowumbre.deviantart.com/art/page-21-95121588 you can find the lastest page by her, and the first comments show that she has no idea that her comic is here (doesn't know what DD is) AND what's more is that the page I directed you to has a page of the comic NOT UPLOADED HERE so you can't tell me Shadowumbre stole it from here.
Boing, rambled
much like ozone, my vista works well. after a couple patches of course. when i first got it, i had problems out the wazoo, but in the last 4 months the changes have impressed me and made me a believer. it runs almost as smoothly as my xp….before it crashed. hopefully i'll have some money to stand on when i get so i can fix it. without buying a new machine.
http://www.kolumbus.fi/umbrenmetsa/ One of my friend's on Deviantart, that is her website, where the comic is hosted in her language, and here : http://shadowumbre.deviantart.com/art/page-21-95121588 you can find the lastest page by her, and the first comments show that she has no idea that her comic is here (doesn't know what DD is) AND what's more is that the page I directed you to has a page of the comic NOT UPLOADED HERE so you can't tell me Shadowumbre stole it from here.Then you should report it to one of the admins here…
Boing, rambled
I'm dealing with it now, but what you should do normally when you think work has been nicked like that is tell the person who you think is the original creator and get them to come and make a complaint or whatever, so they can prove they're the real creator. Sometimes the person putting up art here is actually doing it with permission or even the actual creator mirroring the work…
I know myself as a creator that I'd prefer to be informed if my art was being used elsewhere so I could look into it, because there's nobody alive better than me to prove that I'm the actual creator. ;)
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I have a real rant now…
Ok, I've got this artwork to get ready for printing onto bag for a conference, and the stuff the other "graphic artist" has supplied me is half in text and the rest is low-res jepgs, all in one eps file… -_-
So I tell the person dealing with that account that I really need stuff that's all in curves, outlines or whatever, vector artwork, so we can be sure of getting a good quality result when we send the artwork off to the printers.
(stuff in text will show up wrong too if the people you're sending it to don't have those fonts installed, i.e. me)
This TREESTUMP of a woman sends back a 12 meg EPS file that is ALL the artwork, text and all, as one great big bloated raster image. In TWO different blacks. And with the jaggy low-res parts still as jaggy as ever.
So, I explain to the person dealing with her what I need more carefully and she writes to the foolish graphic designing monkey that we need ALL artwork in VECTOR format and if she doesn't know what that is can she please contact us and we'll explain to her.
Treestump girl writes back that she knows "very well" what vector art is (with a smiley face after it no less!), says she had some issues with Photoshop or something, and then sends almost EXACTLY the same work she did the FIRST time. The only difference being the two blacks (100% Cyan-Yellow-Magenta 0% Black, and 0% CMY 100% black). Suffice to say the only vector art there was the background rectangle in the mismatched black… lol!
UGH! So instead of bothering doing the runaround with Mrs treestump again I spent an hour and a half looking through media kits and press releases online to harvest the logos I didn't have and carefully recreated from scratch the ones that I couldn't find…
For someone who didn't ever study to be a graphic designer, I find it pretty funny how little a lot of other graphic designers seem to know…
So I was cleaning my glasses….and a lens popped out. Either I pressed down WAY too hard, or the lens was never put in really well in the first place. I'm thinking more the second one, I've always felt that they looked like they could be poked out easily at any time.
I think it can be screwed back in, but if not I have to readjust my eyes to older, less stronger glasses until I get them fixed, and then draw with that. Ugh. Either way I hate the frames I've been using, they literally cut the sides of my head even after getting them stretched out. I think they're just in general too small. I've never had any luck picking out frames by myself. >_>
One day I need to get lasik surgery or something, if only the look of that surgery didn't kind of freak me out. (Looks like something out of Clockwork Orange with the eye hooks. So are you going to zap my eyes or force me to watch violent films?)
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