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The list of goals met is quite amazing if it is true — in 3 months, a 50% drop in Scientology’s gross income, and the closings of several Scientology centers worldwide.
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Trent’s “pulled a Radiohead” and released his next album for free. Packaged in all the various ways something would be packaged if scene-released — torrents of FLAC files, or VBR, fully tagged mp3s. Sweet!
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Video included. Lawsuit ensuing. Calling a suspect’s wife 17 times during interrogation is ridiculous — let’s see if the lawsuit digs up phone records confirming this.
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I actually was pretty sure an officer can’t demand ID from a passenger that is not suspected of a crime. I predict the city eventually losing a lawsuit here, but asshole John Mitchell continuing to be a cop.
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This is the news that is underrepresented. For example, how the UN massacred 8000 civilians in Haiti for protesting on Aristide’s birthday. 22,000 bullets fired. Women, children, infants killed.
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I fixed it, and added some enhancements (parameter passing via environment to get around command-line length limit), allowing \n in captions as “_ENT_”, capturing date tags and auto-linking to flickr for that date, and stripping HTML from descriptions.
May 6, 2008
May 6, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Blackwell:
Unfortunately he may actually have a case with copyright violations, and YouTube may not have had a choice. I don’t remember all the detail, but apparently any images/videos, etc from federal agencies are automatically deemed public domain.
Unfortunately, the same is not always the case with state agencies. While you may be able to get the video as a public record, this doesn’t automatically give you the right to redistribute that video, and the state or town or municipality often does indeed retain the copyright. Not the way it should be, but unfortunately, it is.
May 6, 2008 at 6:54 PM
And no, legally the cop can only ask for the driver’s ID. As a passenger or pedestrian, you can’t be forced to show your ID, since there is no law that you have to carry ID with you in the first place.
May 6, 2008 at 6:56 PM
That’s what I thought.
Of course, if you don’t have an id, they can detain you without arresting you for various amounts of times (90minutes) to make sure you’re not some suspect. But I imagine that works better against black people.
May 6, 2008 at 11:47 PM
Actually, no. They still need probable cause to detain you. And only some states actually have “stop and identify laws”. Oklahoma is not one of them. Let the lawsuits begin! :)
http://www.flexyourrights.org/frequently_asked_questions#07
Note to self: Bookmark this.
Of course, in this case the combination of a bloody nose in the car, combined with refusal to show ID probably(even if just barely) could possibly be enough constitute “probable cause”. They really need to make the guidelines more stringent.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t make out what the reason for the bloody nose was.
May 6, 2008 at 11:54 PM
I am glad to see that VA, DC, and MD are not on that list either! Let the lawsuits begin indeed!
DWB – driving while bloody :)