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> There should be a national registry of officers fired for misconduct that makes them ineligible for rehire in all jurisdictions

There is/was (though Trump has largely de-fanged it) - tracks officers fired or who resigned in lieu of termination.

> but police unions and the politicians they back would never let it happen.

Correct again. The Unions that represent ~70% of police across the country have managed to get into their CBAs that the database is not to be used for hiring or promotion decisions (i.e. not to be used).

The problem is that when such things happens, insurers have said - and won - in Court with:

"We are not denying or delaying care for our customer. We are, instead, only noting that we are not going to be the Responsible Party for paying for it. They are, as they have been all along, free to get the care they believe they need and pay for it themselves."

> so people who don't have the time or energy to

For example, people who are sick, ill, or injured...

The difference here is that oftentimes your situation can markedly deteriorate, sometimes irreversibly, as a result of that denial. And the "make a stink" can come at a time you're least equipped to deal with it.

> It's all negotiation. They put forth an initial low-ball offer because most people accept it.

And that's the problem. People having to make a stink because insurers are doing things that are in contradiction to the policy they wrote, if not the law, because private enterprise wants more money.

Private enterprise that has simultaneously almost singlehandedly caused the skyrocketing of medical costs, because the only way to make more money when your profits are regulated is to increase costs, and nobody except the consumer/patient is incentivized to do anything about it, quite the opposite - they're entirely happy to go along with it. And then insurers will stand up in Court and say "Oh, we're not denying care to our customer, we're just saying we won't pay for it. They're free to pay for it out of pocket." My old boss would have received a $1.8M bill for his daughter's care, born at 33 weeks. A coworker of mine had to raise a substantial portion of an expected $1.25M bill for a lung transplant for her son. My kidney stone would have cost $70,000 to have not been resolved (they went in, found infection, retreated and gave me IV antibiotics instead, and revisited the issue two weeks later, which had its own separate bill). My ENT had to put me on two expensive and useless nasal sprays for months so that when he recommended deviated septum surgery for an effectively blocked nostril (90%+ deviation) that insurance wouldn't deny it because (gasp, shock, horror) nasal sprays don't realign or open up cartilage.

That's not how it works, and I have firsthand experience, and hasn't been for at least three decades. The very first thing that happens when you show up in Fontenay-sous-bois is that they run Interpol checks and other checks in your country of residence or anything notable in your passport.

Gone are the days of accepting any criminal openly.

They do however, if you either complete your contract, or are injured, deem you eligible for French citizenship "by spilled blood".

That's the association's problem, not the referees. When I refereed basketball in Australia, referee grading was done according to FIBA standards and you had to be evaluated before any promotion in your referee grade and that could be (at the lowest levels) 3 games on 3 occasions through to 10 games or more. And when we got to a certain (albeit relatively high) level, we'd have every game recorded and reviewed.

Absolutely - I used to referee basketball in Australia, including at a high level.

Extremely high level junior, was generally not an issue. As was true local league.

It was the intermediates, the travel leagues. Where "your kid is good but is still not going to be a pro" (the NBA sends a letter to all new D1 college players congratulating them on the effort they've put in to get this far - and to focus on their education, as the NBA drafts <1% of D1 college players, let alone anybody else). Those were the ones where the parents were convinced that their kid was going to be a pro and the only thing holding him back was "that fucking referee".

We had the power to eject those parents from the venue. Which was usually a conversation that went something like this:

Ref: You need to leave the venue until the end of the game.

Parent: It's my fucking kid's game and I'm not leaving and you can't fucking make me.

Ref: You're right, I can't remove you from the venue. I can however forfeit the game on your child's behalf.

Kid: Daaaad. [usually weary as this tends not to happen just the once]. Go and wait in the car. Pleaseeeee.

Parent: I will go and wait in the car, and we're going to wait and when you come out, you and I are going to fucking get into it, ref.

Cue security, if not police, walking refs to their cars.

that is served by Google to users using oftentimes Google platforms.

Matt made a big deal of transferring rights.

When the rights were transferred to the WPF, Matt didn't disclose that the Foundation was essentially just him, and the two other nominal members were effectively absent.

When the rights were transferred, and a big deal was made of this, "It now belongs to the WPF, which ensures that no commercial entity or interest can affect what should be a community project", there was no mention of how, on that same day the WPF silently granted a "irrevocable, non-expiring, exclusive universal commercial licence" to Automattic.

Throughout all of this Matt has conflated Automattic, himself, WP.com, WP.org, the WPF to whatever is most convenient to himself.

Matt says himself "I am WordPress.org. It's not a part of the Foundation", but you'd be forgiven for thinking so, given that the website resides on the Foundations AS network...

Matt doesn't want WPE's "revenue-sharing" license agreement to go to the community, the project, or the Foundation, though, he wants it to go to himself, via his private, for profit competitor.

Matt's claim, "My mom is confused and thinks that WPEngine is part of the open source project", is a deflection, and laughable coming from the man who runs wordpress.org as a "independent website" (that just happens to be running on the Foundation's IP addresses) and wordpress.com as a for-profit business. That seems just a little more confusing.

No, they have their own number and basically it's a little PBX, simultaneous ring, and outbound CID rewriting.

This is about letting the same number exist twice in the network.

WP Engine were not 'crooks' stealing from him.

WP was the community's, apparently, not Matt's. Unless it suited him, in which case it was his.

WP was open source, and WP Engine followed the license. What crookery?

Oh, they misrepresented themselves as being WP affiliated, like the claimed "independence" of WP.com (Matt's for profit entity, not the open source app)? Why was one okay not the other?

Let's not discuss that Matt, and Automattic, while pushing press releases saying that WP was forever an unencumbered open source app for the community, that very same day issued WP.com an exclusive, free, unlimited, irrevocable commercial license... didn't tell anyone about that, it came out in the lawsuit.

Or that the WP community board was effectively Matt and a friend, and a largely absent third friend.

Crooks, stealing? WP Engine contributed to the OSS app with thousands of developer hours a year - not as many as Matt "felt" they should. And only them, not other WP hosters.

Crooks, stealing? WP Engine donated six digits a year to sponsor and support WP community events, including the one where Matt went on stage and spent 45 minutes slandering them - after disinviting them, and refusing to return their sponsorship or donation. He made WP Engine effectively pay to give him a stage to talk shit about them.

Crooks, stealing? Like Matt taking software packages that WP Engine wrote, doing a search/replace on Copyright, license, authorship, and replacing their entries (with all their accumulated community reviews, ratings, followership and traction) with his wholesale-copied variants?

Matt was unhinged. I think "right to be" is "debatable, at best".

> Or are you one of those hardcore audiophiles who can't listen to music without a ultra high end sound system?

Music lovers buy stereo systems to listen to their music.

Audiophiles buy music to listen to their stereo systems.

Is it that high? I know that in my Audis, there's actually a system that (in sport mode) pumps engine noise -into- the cabin because the sound damping was that good. And my partner's A4 is at the point where you hear only tire noise, not engine noise.

And I used to own a Jaguar XJ that (while the car itself I had to get rid of after the entire cooling system shit the bed for the second time) was the quietest car I've ever owned and not even close, despite being a 5L V8. (The Jaguar also had probably the best sound system I've heard in a vehicle - 1200W B&W 7.1 channel, 20 transducers).

Oh, I'm confused, I was told there were "MASSIVE" (with lots of emphasis) improvements to the processor, battery life, the camera!

On the camera side I see "more post processing"... cool?

You imagine so but it would be difficult to imagine a situation where Apple would be liable, so their level of concern would be much lower.

Otherwise, manufacturers of digital voice recorders, etc., would also be fearful.

Well, other than being 10 years old, having 100,000 miles on it, most likely needing a new timing chain, suspension, and generally needing a new cooling system, sure.

That's why they're $10K.

Meanwhile for about the same price differential, $10K on eBay will get you an Audi RS 5 ... engine ... with 60K on it.

I don't know that the Ghibli makes the point you want to make.

I get the form factor difference but Windows Hello (which actually works extremely well, probably due to its incubation with Xbox) came out two years before FaceID.

I loved the disclaimer at the end of the iPhone Pro model that felt distinctly non-Apple and more akin to a drug commercial, "Usage of heavier models may be limited. Subscribers to certain iCloud+ plans will likely receive higher usage quotas. Now here's Sri to talk about electronics!"

And it's not even that they said that, I get marketing spiel but one the actual phrases was, emphasis his, not mine:

"MASSIVE improvements in Camera". Where? Evolution, refinement, sure. Massive? Hm.

Canon's original high end digital models had this as a feature, that your images could be digitally signed in-camera based on raw sensor data. Primarily for law enforcement. Obviously a far broarder use case, now.

Anyone requiring that kind of support is likely hitting up Red Hat for OpenShift Virtualization (despite what warts that has, Red Hat meets the "organizational need for support part of the RFPs).

Hah, I don't know if Zuck has visited, but if he or any of the exec team has, you can bet that filter is finely finely tuned.

The one thing you can do is call 911 and when they respond, just say "I need the non-emergency line" and they'll usually transfer you immediately or just check quickly with you. Just don't waffle on.

But I've had my comments removed for "Get the fuck out of here, you're a moron and attitudes like yours are part of the problem".

So who the fuck knows.

I was a paramedic/firefighter for 14 years. I think while there's merit in calling out people jumping at shadows, I do get how this situation, stupidly, escalated.

And there's a bit more to EMS than "imminent life threats only".

I despise Flock. Have had plenty to say. But I suspect -this- was the reason, moreso than the filming the installation:

> As Keefe began to shoot video, the installer saw him and immediately packed up his equipment and drove away, so Keefe also returned to his car and followed several cars behind, hoping to document the next stop.

Not to say the installer wouldn't have anyway, but it's not inherently unreasonable to call 911 when someone is obviously following you.

The only things I can think of that have pushed these into my viewport are that I follow multiple AI news pages, and multiple photography pages, same with my IG.

Garbage, too. I've reported at least 10 of these things. Ads, reels. Specifically as child abuse. "After review, we determined this content does not breach our policies."

To be really, really fucking clear, it's not just "failed to catch" it's, "even when reported, failed to do anything about".

I got ads, reels that were not-at-all veiled hints at CSAM. "Report: CSAM" "We reviewed your report and determined that the content does not breach our policy."

To be really, really fucking clear, it's not just "failed to catch" it's, "even when reported, failed to do anything about".

I got ads, reels that were not-at-all veiled hints at CSAM. "Report: CSAM" "We reviewed your report and determined that the content does not breach our policy."