On 29-Jul-08 14:27, Tom Austin wrote:
> Maybe we shouldn't complain too much about the police parking
> 
> http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/rfisman/parking_20july06_RF.pdf
> 
> It seems that in some places diplomats (and their representatives) are 
> worse at it.
> 
> They ignore the tickets they receive.

I though this would be about UN diplomats in new york and I wasn't 
disappointed. In the table starting on page 22 it seems that the dutch 
are in tied last place. I am sure could do better if we wanted to. 
Interestingly the US seem to be absent from this list.

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Chambers wrote:
> So we've got a judge who admits that the officer broke the law, but he 
> "didn't think the officer did anything wrong."

Sometimes the law is bad.

I got a ticket once for running out of passing zone while passing. When 
I went to court, the judge said "where did this happen?"  I told him. He 
  said "Yeah, I know that road. The passing zone is too short. Case 
dismissed."

Not that it happens often, mind.

> I'd like to know why this man is a judge, and why we trust him to decide 
> questions about guilt and innocence when he cannot understand that 
> breaking they law is the definition of wrong.

It isn't, in the USA at least. That's what juries are for. :-)

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On 29-Jul-08 21:50, Darren New wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to know why this man is a judge, and why we trust him to 
>> decide questions about guilt and innocence when he cannot understand 
>> that breaking they law is the definition of wrong.
> 
> It isn't, in the USA at least. That's what juries are for. :-)
> 
Sure, I forgot. Isn't that also the country where they elect the judges.

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Warp wrote:
> They are not even supposed to eat while on a call.

Around here, police call in a meal stop so they don't get assigned to 
stuff while they're not at the car.

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andrel wrote:
> Sure, I forgot. Isn't that also the country where they elect the judges.

Some are elected, some are appointed. We have like 23 kazillion 
jurisdictions here.

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Phil Cook <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
> >   Excuse me? The police must go all day without eating? This is getting
> > just ridiculous.

> Quite right police should go all day without eating just like ambulance  
> drivers.

  So ambulance drivers patrol the streets all day long nowadays? I didn't
know that.

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I like SW Ep 1, Jar Jar Binks is a great character.

I strongly dislike SW Ep 2, I sometime refer to it as Snore Wars.

SW Ep 3 feels like something made for a fan reunion.

SW Ep 4-6 really broke new technical ground in SF
movie making.

Ep 1-3 focused on the "Grand Art" too much, it lost
much of the gritty feeling of Ep 4-6, much to the detriment.
Ep 1-3 were too slick, too fantastically unreal.

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Tim Attwood <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> SW Ep 4-6 really broke new technical ground in SF
> movie making.

  Hmm. When I compare the first SW movie (made in 1977) to the Alien movie
(made in 1979), the former looks really, really simple and cheap. I'm just
not able to see why it's so good as everyone claims.

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>> SW Ep 4-6 really broke new technical ground in SF
>> movie making.
>
>  Hmm. When I compare the first SW movie (made in 1977) to the Alien movie
> (made in 1979), the former looks really, really simple and cheap. I'm just
> not able to see why it's so good as everyone claims.

Hollywood had almost given up on SF before SW: Ep 4, so
in some ways Lucas lucked into a market that was hungry
for any SF movies, and sparse on other blockbusters. It opened
in May, and in my town was still showing in November against
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. Movies in rival genres were
especially bad that year, like The Choirboys, which could
easily have drawn a NC-17 rating.

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And lo on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:07:27 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did  
spake, saying:

> Phil Cook <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>> >   Excuse me? The police must go all day without eating? This is  
>> getting
>> > just ridiculous.
>
>> Quite right police should go all day without eating just like ambulance
>> drivers.
>
>   So ambulance drivers patrol the streets all day long nowadays? I didn't
> know that.

Police officers patrol the streets all day long - must get tiring not  
having one single break; oh wait what did Darren say?

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