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  • On the post: Nothing Changes: Cops Still Threatening Citizens, Breaking Laws To Shut Down Recordings

    cbpelto ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2014 @ 11:29am

    Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed. -- Oaks' Laws

  • On the post: Nothing Changes: Cops Still Threatening Citizens, Breaking Laws To Shut Down Recordings

    cbpelto ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2014 @ 10:24am

    [OT] HEADS UP! Spyware Installation

    RE: Apple Installing 'Security Update' w/o Owner's Permission

    Used to be that when an update came around, Apple would ask permission to install it of the owner.

    Last night I came into my officer and sat down at my work station to find a notice that a 'Security Update' had been installed on the machine. WITHOUT MY BEING ASKED IF I WANTED IT.

    I reported this on a web-site and others reply that it's happened to them as well.

    I just go off the phone with Apple Tech Support and they gave me a long song and dance about it being a 'simple' update relating to synchronizing the clocks.

    I was born at night….but it wasn't LAST NIGHT!

    This 'security update' installation correlates with Congress' recent Bill allowing the NSA to spy on every computer in America.

    Pardon my professionally inculcated 'paranoia', but I used to go from state to state with a team of Army officers helping states prepare for national emergencies, e.g., Katrinas and Gulf Wars. And my little internal alert system started showing red flags and star clusters while talking with a senior supervisor at Apple.

    If any of you see such installations on your machines (1) have a care and (2) report it here.

    Merry Christmas….ho….ho……..hoooooo

  • On the post: Nothing Changes: Cops Still Threatening Citizens, Breaking Laws To Shut Down Recordings

    cbpelto ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2014 @ 10:37pm

    Re: Re: Re: I disagree completely. There are good people. We must

    RE: Fear in the 'Good' Ones

    If they value their lives or income over the Truth….

    ….they are 'evil'.

    Evil, adj., Knowing the Truth but denying it.

  • On the post: Nothing Changes: Cops Still Threatening Citizens, Breaking Laws To Shut Down Recordings

    cbpelto ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2014 @ 10:34pm

    Re: Re: Re: I disagree completely. There are good people. We must

    RE: Some 'Good' Ones

    Based on my experience—being SWAT'd last January—there are none in my department. Otherwise the lies told against me would have been shouted down.

    Instead, all the recordings handed over to my attorney indicated that all the ones I've dealt with in this matter are pathological liars.

    Show me a 'good' one and I'll show you someone who is covering for someone else.

    Probably out of fear of losing their job….if not their life for 'ratting out' another.

  • On the post: Nothing Changes: Cops Still Threatening Citizens, Breaking Laws To Shut Down Recordings

    cbpelto ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2014 @ 05:16pm

    Re: Re: Laws gone crazy

    RE: It's Not the Law

    It's what has become of the doctrine of 'Qualified Immunity' and innocents are being murdered by the police.

    Here's a short list of some of them:

    • Jonathan Ferrell — Charlotte NC, running to the police after surviving an auto accident….gets gunned down.
    • John Winkler — LA, gunned down running towards a sheriff's deputy as he was fleeing the man who had held him hostage with a knife.
    • Michael Davidson — USAF, gunned down by a state trooper as he was walking towards him after a traffic accident he was involved in.
    • Alfred Redwing — Albuquerque, NM, unarmed and shot on the front porch of his home after he'd been SWAT'd and was dumb enough to come out into the direct line of fire as the police had demanded.
    • Eric Scott — Las Vegas, NV, gunned down in the Costco parking lot because he had a concealed carry permit.
    • Tamir Rice — 12-year old playing in a Cleveland, OH, park with an airsoft pistol. Police shot him dead within 2 seconds of their arrival on the scene.
    • Aiyana Stanley-Jones — 7-year old in Detroit. Shot by police while she slept on a couch.
    • John Crawford III, 22, was fatally shot by law enforcement inside a Beavercreek, Ohio Walmart on Aug. 5 within minutes of a 911 call from a fellow Walmart shopper. He was carrying a BB gun he considered buying.
    • Dillon Taylor — Unarmed. Killed by the Salt Lake City police because he moved his hands when the officer demanded he show his hands. The DA found no reason to charge the officer.
    • Jose Guerena — Tucson, AZ. Shot 60 times in a no-knock drug raid that found no drugs. He had the temerity to think the crashing of his door down was a home invasion and was prepared to defend his wife. So they shot him.
    • D’Andre Berghardt — Las Vegas, NV, had been walking down the highway trying to hitch a ride when police approached him. His behavior was erratic, and eventually he tried to climb inside a police vehicle — at which point he was shot dead.

    Qualified Immunity = Kill with Impunity

  • On the post: Nothing Changes: Cops Still Threatening Citizens, Breaking Laws To Shut Down Recordings

    cbpelto ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2014 @ 05:15pm

    Re: I disagree completely. There are good people. We must

    RE: Good Cops, Anyone?

    Is a cop 'good' if they are aware of lying, cheating, stealing or assaulting or killing an innocent and DO NOTHING ABOUT IT?

    There are fewer 'good' cops than you would like to believe.

  • On the post: Nothing Changes: Cops Still Threatening Citizens, Breaking Laws To Shut Down Recordings

    cbpelto ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2014 @ 03:27pm

    Re: Good people elected to change the law.

    RE: Obama 'Sincere'?

    The wool was pulled over your eyes.

    He's the proverbial wolf-in-sheeps-clothing as a candidate.

  • On the post: Nothing Changes: Cops Still Threatening Citizens, Breaking Laws To Shut Down Recordings

    cbpelto ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2014 @ 02:52pm

    Re: Re:

    Or judges that will strike down the doctrine of 'Qualified Immunity'.

    Qualified Immunity = Kill with Impunity

  • On the post: Nothing Changes: Cops Still Threatening Citizens, Breaking Laws To Shut Down Recordings

    cbpelto ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2014 @ 01:21pm

    More Than Merely Recording Police

    Qualified Immunity = Kill With Impunity

  • On the post: Lena Dunham Once Again Threatens Lawsuit Over An Interpretation Of Her Book That She Doesn't Like

    cbpelto ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2014 @ 11:29pm

    Poor Grammar

    RE: "Lena Dunham Once Again Threatens Lawsuit Over An Interpretation Of Her Book That She Doesn't Like"

    What's this?

    She doesn't like her own BOOK?

    Remedial Grammar for YOU!

    Regards,

    Chuck(le)
    [Why are Chinese fortune cookies written in English?]

  • On the post: Wisconsin Court Broadens FOI Exception, Allowing Government Agencies To Deny Requests Based On Perceived Motive

    cbpelto ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2014 @ 02:42pm

    Re: ADDENDUM

    Personally?.I like what Abraham Lincoln had to say about this sort of business?.

    Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. -- Abraham Lincoln

  • On the post: Wisconsin Court Broadens FOI Exception, Allowing Government Agencies To Deny Requests Based On Perceived Motive

    cbpelto ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2014 @ 02:38pm

    RE: Heh

    What was it the Founding Fathers wrote in that old document featured in the movie National Treasure?

    ... when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them [the People] under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

    Or as one of those men later said?.

    A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -- President James Madison

    The State, hiding information about what it HAS done and/or IS doing is prima facia evidence that the State is corrupt.

  • On the post: Everyone Agrees They Don't Know Why Teenager Committed Suicide, So Helpful Coroner Shouts Video Games

    cbpelto ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2014 @ 11:44am

    Re: Re: Why?

    RE: Religious Solutions Not Applicable?

    All I can offer is personal experience, as I stated above. People I associate with marvel at my calm in the face of felony charges by police who claim?falsely?that I threatened them. I face up to 9 years in prison and $300K in fines if convicted.

    I pray for these police officers every night and for the DA?whom I've worked with on civic projects?and his rep in this case, that this cup will pass from me. But whatever happens?.

    ?.God IS 'in control'.

    And therein lies the ultimate comfort. No matter what happens this side of the proverbial 'pale', I have confidence in my hope as to where I'll be on the other side of it.

    And AGAIN, the lack of such confidence in those poor souls who decide that death by suicide is better than Life in the present is tragic.

    RE: Theocracies? In the US?

    Hardly. How familiar are you with REAL theocracies, e.g., Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc., etc., etc.? You know. Places where women are stoned to death by the public or murdered by their male family members and homosexuals are hung.

    THOSE are theocracies.

    RE: A Good Education

    It SHOULD come from both parents AND the public education system.

    Some time back, I sat on a local citizens government oversight commission.

    In one of the meetings, the two reps from the local institutions of higher education?one community college and one state university campus?both complained that 38% of the students coming to them from the local K-12 districts were incapable of reading at the level necessary for higher learning.

    I had the temerity to ask them "Why?"

    The silence was defining.

    All eyes of the commission turned to the reps from the two K-12 school districts.

    They blamed the parents?.

    The whole public and higher education systems in this country is defunct, except for here and there, e.g., charter schools and home schoolers. [NOTE: Home schooled students are continually taking national championships in various fields, e.g., spelling and geography competitions.]

    RE: Kids Learning the Hard Way

    I'll believe kids are learning the hard knocks of life when they are 'impoverished' and don't have a cell phone. People who own cell phones and have cable television in their home are not 'impoverished'. Kids in America live like kings compared to those in sub-Sahara Africa who don't have such conveniences while suffering from malaria, sleeping sickness and numerous other maladies.

    Regards,

    Chuck(le)
    [God is alive?.and Airborne-Ranger qualified. -- Chaplain, US Army Airborne Chapel, Benning School for Boys, a.k.a., the US Army Infantry School]

    P.S. So am I?..

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    cbpelto ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2014 @ 07:29am

    We Have All Been Here Before

    Snowden is the Danial Ellsberg of this generation.

    For those who don't remember?because they weren't cogent, let alone alive back then?Ellsberg who worked for the Pentagon during the Viet Nam War released what are know as The Pentagon Papers. It was an expos? of the dirty things the military was doing in the Viet Nam War.

    Ellsberg was declared a traitor by the government back then, just as Snowden has been by this government.

    [History repeats itself. That's one of the problems with History.]

  • On the post: Everyone Agrees They Don't Know Why Teenager Committed Suicide, So Helpful Coroner Shouts Video Games

    cbpelto ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2014 @ 11:32am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Not much into real science are you?.

  • On the post: Everyone Agrees They Don't Know Why Teenager Committed Suicide, So Helpful Coroner Shouts Video Games

    cbpelto ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2014 @ 04:46am

    Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Has ANYONE done a study on whether teenage suicides and/or mass murderers like to play first person shooter video games more than others of their peer/age group?

  • On the post: Everyone Agrees They Don't Know Why Teenager Committed Suicide, So Helpful Coroner Shouts Video Games

    cbpelto ( profile ), 31 May, 2014 @ 03:32pm

    Why?

    I have an alternate suggestion as to the rise of suicides. Not only those of teenagers but of combat veterans as well.

    In the first place, the vaunted American public education system doesn't teach the young that Life is 'tough'. That there are hard knocks along the way and they need to learn to roll with the punches.

    Additionally, there is a great lack of God, as in the love of Christ, in their lives. A safety net for dealing with troubles. The sure knowledge that despite their thoughts that nobody loves them, there is One who does. And He's a very powerful lover of their lives and spirit.

    In all the proverbial 'slings and arrows of outrageous fortune', I've found that if I give my troubles to Him, I find a peace of mind and heart that sees me through. And that is especially needed in the trials I am facing today?charged with menacing a police officer when I thought I was experiencing a home invasion in the dark of night. I had been SWAT'd.

    No Christ. No Peace. Know Christ. Know Peace.

  • On the post: Google Accused Of Invisibly Deleting Blog Posts On The RIAA's Say-So

    cbpelto ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2009 @ 12:07am

    Living with the 'Disappeared'

    TO: All
    RE: Been There

    I've posted comments on web-sites and later had them 'disappear'.

    RE: What To Do

    I've taken to capturing all comments on controversial discussions as a back-up and as evidence.

    RE: Google

    Why does ANYONE with more than two synapses to rub together do ANYTHING with Google? They are, in my honest opinion, a bunch of money-grubbing bat-rastards who would sell their own mother to the Communist Chinese as a whore to make a buck.

    As I've seen it, they have no regard for the Constitution of the United States or the Bill of Rights. The very thought of freedom of expression is secondary to their desire to make money. This is manifested by their involvment in the suppression of information in Communist China.

    That, in my opinion, applies to Cisco as well.

    So, if you have anything to do with either of those odious organizations, you are only bringing trouble to yourself, short term or long term.

    Regards,

    Chuck(le)
    [You can only serve on master, righteousness or mammon. -- Some Wag, around 2000 years ago]

  • On the post: History Repeats Itself: How The RIAA Is Like 17th Century French Button-Makers

    cbpelto ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2007 @ 04:50pm

    Yeah....RIght....

    TO: Jordan
    RE: Where Have I Heard 'THIS' Before?

    "Look, I'm no fan of the RIAA"... -- Jordan

    Maybe somewhere in the 50s or 60s. It went along the lines of....

    "Look, Many of my friends are _________."

    You can fill in the blank.

    The facts remain.

    [1] Why do we have to abide by the "regionalization" of DVDs?
    [2] Why can't we do DVDs at 9GB?

    Answer me that????!?!

    Regards,

    Chuck(le)

  • On the post: History Repeats Itself: How The RIAA Is Like 17th Century French Button-Makers

    cbpelto ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2007 @ 04:32am

    The Button-Maker Analogy

    TO: RIAA Defenders
    RE: Where This Analogy Works

    Defending RIAA, and their ilk, against the new technologies via government intervention is VERY MUCH akin to the French button-makers. And that's the point here.

    The point is not, repeat NOT, one of fomenting the violation of copyright laws. We HAVE copyright laws. And they ARE enforcible. Look at what happened to NAPSTER et al.

    What the entertainment industry is doing is using Congress to shackle and manical everyone else.

    Case in point....

    ....look at the miserable way we do our personal DVDs.

    Can't get one that will hold 9 GB of data. Why is that? Because the entertainment industry is paranoid about our breaking copyright laws. Fair-use and/or data management efficiency be 'damned' as far as THEY are concerned.

    Similar to the egregious implementation of the "regionalization" of DVDs with movies on them. Why is that there? For the sake of the entertrainment industry. Not, repeat NOT, for OUR benefit.

    The entertainment industry, like the medical industry, is attempting to be a monopoly. The medical industry is just much more effective about it.

    Regards,

    Chuck(le)
    [All professions are a conspiracy against the laity. -- George Bernard Shaw]

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