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Sauce for the Sgt is NOT Sauce for the Sgt Major

arekin says...

Not really, It is how the comment is presented. It could have been presented as a statement of fact or even a question. It wasn't.

Also, that scene is in every version of the movie I have seen, dont think its omitted.

chicchorea said:

...with all due respect...that's an opinion...and this is not an argument.

The 1% Are The True Hardcore Gangsters - Rich Man's World

arekin says...

You call sitting in a mansion collecting dividends work? The bottom 20% are on welfare and still work there fast food job, something the 1% would never even consider because it is so far beneath them. Bob you need to come back into the real world sometime.

bobknight33 said:

At least the 1% work while the lower 20% sit on their buts collecting government cheese.

Go write a song about the useless freeloaders.

Teen in Prison for Years Without Being Convicted of Crime

arekin says...

Seeing as Rikers is a jail and not a prison, is owned and governed by the New York department of corrections, and is only there to house short term sentences and people awaiting trial who were not given, or could not afford bail. This is not a case of greed, as it costs the state more to house this person. This is a question of why someone would have to wait three years for the state to decide if it was going to trial on a case. This is stupid on two levels, it means that someone who should have never seen the inside of this jail spent three years there, but also that someone who should go to jail may have made bail and be spending years free waiting for a court date.

ghark said:

things are going great for the prison industry

Father Arrested for Picking Up His Children on Foot

arekin says...

This is a resource officer, we have them here in Indiana as well. Here they only really show up at larger schools and are doing double duty as a security officer/truancy officer who also directs traffic and dismissal after school hours to ensure that students make it home safely. The schools around my area also have guidelines for students up through middle school (8th grade I believe) who do not ride a school bus. These guideline determine who can pick them up and if they can walk home. We also have rules (at my daughters school at least) that determine picking up the child at the end of the day. Nothing here says that you cant walk to get your child but that they are released in batches and you have to wait for them to be released to pick them up. All of this seems reasonable to me as i would rather have my daughters safety ensured than have something overlooked in the confusion and find out my daughter went home with a complete stranger because the school didn't follow policy. I would not want my child to go to a school that makes any effort to avoid responsibility of my child without making an effort to ensure their safety

bmacs27 said:

So you do have waivers, or at least arrangements about how to deal with young kids leaving schools. That's all that's going on here. To have any sort of arrangement for older kids would be strange. High schoolers often have their own car and can come and go as they please.

Also:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/minister-every-school-can-have-a-police-officer-880315.html

You do have cops at schools. It's a recent development here too, and not at all widespread. The only cops I was ever familiar with at schools were "DARE" officers who taught don't do drugs class. I never saw one enforce anything beyond giving a stern look at the occasional teenager. Common fucking sense states that this is a video on the internet because it is not the status quo. At all.

Finally "people" didn't say it was right that he was arrested. One guy implied maybe we don't know the whole story. Then you flew off the handle.

My understanding is that british schools ban kids from having best friends and teachers from using red ink. That's fucking weird, and I saw it on the internet, so it must be true.

Father Arrested for Picking Up His Children on Foot

arekin says...

As opposed to what, Going at it with kneejerk reactions and shouting "down with the man"? Yeah, I think ill keep a level head, and read for a change, rather than assume I know whats going on because the cop is an asshole (and let me be clear, the cop IS an asshole.)

chingalera said:

Fuck an official news story and take the bullshit you are watching at face-fucking value maybe??? Try and reason the shit out and you're simply a lackey, a putty-cog in a doomed machine.

Father Arrested for Picking Up His Children on Foot

arekin says...

Pretty much on point. Its one thing to protest with no idea what position the police or school have on the subject, it is entirely different point to see both sides of the situation and presented with evidence see how fault could be found either way. Howe had been told what the new rule was and after the fact has stated that like it or not he has to follow the rule. The officer is a dumb ass who started with the high ground (in that by school policy he was correct) and took a shit all over it by using it to sour the situation. The lady at the desk was at least trying to help get Howe his kids and defuse the situation despite having her hands tied by the policy. All of this is a shitty situation caused by a poorly thought out policy, but despite this the correct way to deal with it would be to argue the policy in the correct forum and not get into an argument in a place where the school and the officer have a catch 22 of breaking policy and facing repercussion or upholding policy and looking like the assholes the video made them out to be.

ChaosEngine said:

In defence of @arekin, he's not saying he agrees with the law, but that the cop was carrying out his duty in regards to an existing law. We really don't want a situation where the cops get to pick and choose what laws are enforced.

That said, I don't feel his actions merited an arrest.

The school may legally have been within their rights (don't really have all the facts), but I'm pretty sure arguing with a school official isn't actually a crime.

It's basically a problem with the law itself. The law makers only thought of two possible scenarios:
1: Parents pick up their kids in a car.
2: The kids walk home alone.

The possibility that a parent might walk obviously never occurred to them.

Which is kinda sad, really.

Father Arrested for Picking Up His Children on Foot

arekin says...

Apparently disorderly conduct, Per Tennessee statute "A person commits an offense who, in a public place and with intent to cause public annoyance or alarm." By the loosest definition I could see where the cop could use this.

Grimm said:

Wait...what "law" was broken?

Father Arrested for Picking Up His Children on Foot

arekin says...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dad-arrested-pick-kids-school-article-1.1523389

Here is the official news story on the situation. The school specifically changed their policy to prevent parents from doing what Howe (the guy in the video) is doing. Howe was notified that he could not pick his kids up in this manner unless a waiver was signed for them to walk home. This is an issue of both school liability and student safety. While I think the cop was a retard and completely failed to handle and de-escalate the situation, he did act as he should (arresting the man when he made it clear he wouldn't follow the school guidelines) given the situation.

Father Arrested for Picking Up His Children on Foot

MythBusters - Plane on a Conveyor Belt -- Ending the debate!

arekin says...

Planes measure airspeed even when on the ground, so the plane increased throttle above the normal rate for takeoff but the speed still measured the same as it was the same airspeed moving over the plane. Flawed test.

South Park On Cable Companies

arekin says...

10 to 15$ per channel? Seeing as you can get HBO with a limited basic package with Comcast, which is what 20 channels for about 20 bucks, plus 10 bucks a month for hbo, I'd say maybe your math is off. Even the premium channels aren't 10 to 15 dollars per channel, they come up to like 6 channels for 10 bucks.

Payback said:

It's one thing to watch the odd show on a channel you don't usually give a crap about, it's quite another to be charged $10-$15 per channel for 7 other channels when all you want is HBO.

To use your example, you'd have to sign up for Netflix:PaintDrying, Netflix:BareWallPorn, and Netflix:QuantumMushroomSingsGaryJulesMadMadWorldOver-
AndOverOffKeyWhileWeShowYouAPictureOfCheezburgerCat just to watch Community.

South Park On Cable Companies

arekin says...

Netflix you pay or a spattering of old content and movies. I did just limited basic cable and netflix for a while, and waited forever to see new doctor who episodes that had already aired 6 to 8 months prior. Rancid meat indeed.

Krupo said:

BS argument: Netflix, you may for an all-in package. It's a real buffet.

Cable has some many tiers of service, it's a sickening fast food restaurant that stuffs rancid rotten meat in your salad.

South Park On Cable Companies

arekin says...

Are you seriously telling me that you would watch every show available on nextflix if you got it, there isn't content that your paying for that you don't want? How many episodes of Caillou would you be watching on hulu plus so that you could watch Community? you still end up paying for content you don't watch.

sadicious said:

I already notice this on the internet. Like when you subscribe to one porn site, it ends up giving you membership to content you would rather not have. Why can't we all save money by buying only the porn we watch?

South Park On Cable Companies

arekin says...

You can actually complain to the actual broadcasters. Its likely more effective than complaining to the cable companies, seeing as they actually have some say. Or you could complain to congressman and ask for bills forcing ala carte service. that would be effective.

If you haven't had cable service in three years than yeah a lot has changed. In my area, Comcast went all digital to reduce bandwidth used by their television service on their lines (which happily resulted in them doubling the speed on most of their internet packages as a result). Now if your bill is late (like 30 or 40 days late, not right away) of you decide to quit their service its off the same day. You just get an activation page on internet and the cable says "one moment please".

CrushBug said:

All you say is true, but I am not able to complain to individual channels or their overlord conglomerates. Why would they care what I say? The only people I can take my issue to is the cable provider. If the cable provider lost 50% of its subscribers due to annoying bundling, maybe the upstream folks would notice. Then they could articulate the problem, since they would lose money, too. I think it is pretty much the only choice we have.

We have 2 Internet+TV providers in town here. One is the traditional cable service the other is the old telephone company that added TV. I got rid of cable TV about a 3 years ago and increased my internet speed. Every time the cable company called to offer TV, I would always ask if I could select my own channels, they said no, and I asked them to call me back when they can. They always said bundling was upstream and I understood it, but it still doesn't excuse the practice.

I certainly am happy with Netflix right now.

Each time cable had to be turned off or adjusted, it always involved someone coming out to the alley. I would always have free cable for 5 to 90 days, depending, but that is probably back in the analog cable days and not if we are talking about the new digital cable boxes. Depends what tech you are using.

South Park On Cable Companies

arekin says...

Channel lineups are negotiated by the providers not the cable companies and your rates are largely the providers fault as well (blame espn...alot). Also a cable company can stop service the same day you ask them too since the service is authorized electronically, not dependent on a cable being connected. But no its cool, keep blaming the cable companies, and watch as "Internet tv" options end up charging you just as much and forcing you to buy packages the same way to watch content that was provided to the cable companies two nights earlier.



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