Just ask the Insane Clown Posse. Methinks they should be able to explain.

Its a good way to get around posse comitatus....

Its a good way to get around posse comitatus....

No pretty much meant that wild animals in any form are not a resource for countries to posses. I find a distaste for man's belief that everything on this planet is there for him. Other living beings are not resources. Sure we eat animals, that's the chain. But laying claim to them in terms of owned resources, I dislike.

Somewhere the Insane Clown Posse's heads just collectively exploded.

Yeah--except he IS getting jail time... Not that your response is ignorant, but who in their right minds didn't think he would be arrested? Who even considered it? I can tell you who. People who don't watch social change and are stuck in the past. Within even the last few years enormous strides have been made to stomp out people like this guy. Yet this video makes no difference, it doesn't provide proof...even though it does...

The problem people see is that the benefit of the doubt still has to go to the officer in most cases. When it's proven he/she has acted out of line to an obvious illegal extent, what happens in this video is pretty standard.

Let me give you an example of this in a different light. The officers arrive on scene. No video footage was take. Their "man" says, "Hey, she attacked me so I cuffed her." Her "friends" speak up. And what would they say? Of course, she didn't provoke him in the least! Every time, never fails. If officers took the approach, without evidence, that the other officer should lose the he-said she-said then how could any officer be justified if it wasn't on camera? They couldn't, if you think about it.

Anyways, back to the example. So obviously the officer should be given heavier consideration than the woman and her posse. However, upon inspection, they find the off duty officer has a gun--which he cannot have in such an environment as an establishment that serves alcohol (I don't think anyone can have a gun in a bar.) Plus her story starts to add up. She has injuries, he does not. All this evidence is collected.

What happens next? Well, you can't arrest him there in a he-said she-said. The evidence is sketchy at best for now, and that pesky shit we call due process? Yeah, protects him too... So you get the evidence, then say, "You know what? We think you were out of line. Perhaps criminal. But due process means we might will not get a conviction. 30 day suspension for the gun in an alcoholic state. 15 for conduct unbecoming. And reference to anger management counseling."

Of course the people scream bloody murder. Why isn't he fired?! Well, the same laws that protect you also protect him. And he did, in this example, get a pretty bloody ass from all the days off. And if he was charged but got off? Well, they would scream bloody murder for that too--even though a jury of regular people found him/her not guilty... (And he could sue the agency if they fired him for the charges he was found not guilty on.)

Sorry for the rant. I just think some people need to see the shitty from both sides, but also what has changed. I for one smile when ass-tards like this go to jail. And I think, "Wow, the system has changed so much from when I was a kid."

Your video, Meet The Pink Helmet Posse, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

well it looks like the video title includes the reaction (NH4)2Cr2O7 + Hg(SCN)2

so

Mercury (II) thiocyanate and Ammonium dichromate


make some Tannerite instead... its legal to posses the components because we're at war with terrorists or something...

The oxidizer is a mixture of 85% 200-mesh ammonium nitrate and 0–15% ammonium perchlorate...the catalyst is a mixture of 90% 600-mesh dark flake aluminium powder, 5% 325-mesh titanium sponge and 5% 200-mesh zirconium hydroxide... ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder work too.

thanks to Amazon.com and Google.com, you too can blow up many things.

NDAA 2007 basically overrode Posse Comitatus, even though it's overreach was repealed later. NDAA 2012 extended the definition of covered persons to include " any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities." A covered person is someone that is subject to martial law and exempt from Posse Comitatus. Of course, it's kinda hard to declare martial law on just one person which is why you saw martial law in full effect following the Boston bombing.

However, to answer your question, this was a military exercise, not US Armed Forces (with the exception for the National Guard and Coast Guard) enforcing domestic law. Of course, extrapolating from @chingalera 's tags, this exercise serves a more sinister purpose. I'll leave it up to him to expound on that.

Isn't there something about "Posse Cumitatus" and the fact that it was to limit the powers of Federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce the State laws?

Somewhere the Insane Clown Posse's heads just imploded.

Seems like Mika and her posse expected this interview to be some run-of-the-mill puff piece, where the English serial shagger would dance for them, maybe even sing a pretty song. Russell sure made 'em look the fools and Mika even thanked him for it.

20 bucks says she had to change her panties afterwards.

Reading the comments, my fear is that the outrage people are feeling is being framed in the wrong context. If we don't get the proper handle on this, all that outrage is going to fall on deaf ears. The people who are at the root of this are going to sense that we don't understand what's going on and dismiss all protests as irrelevant.

This is certainly not an issue of "evil government" or "power hungry institutions". This is an issue that involves people. People that are just like you and me. In fact, the ones who are responsible for the monster that's been created ARE people with the same motivations and rational capacity as you and I.

"We have met the enemy, and he is us." - Pogo

We are almost all guilty of making personal, selfish, idealistic and altruistic choices with blinders on to the larger impact of our choices. We all have a frustrating capacity for focusing on small picture goals and ignoring the big picture results. How many of us work for industries that have horrible environmental and social impact? Do you ever take into account the contribution you make to those disasters? Or are you comfortable in the belief that one person, "you", making fried chicken isn't responsible for the agregious level of child obesity in your country? Or you satisfied that building servers for BP doesn't in any way make you culpable for the massive negative impact of the industry as a whole?

We want to frame the ills of our societies in terms of villains which we can name...and even put a face on. But in the large chain of decisions that must be made and actions that must be taken, there is almost never one individual with the power to change the course of events. If one is ever identified, that person is almost certainly a scape goat, selected by popular consent for the very purpose of putting a face to the atrocities.

Governments and corporations are collections of individuals with the same strengths, weaknesses and short sightedness that we all posses.

So this problem arises from a troubling mentality that's very common in all orginzations. The tendency to view our individual actions and contributions as discrete from the larger result of the group. A small minded focus on results over impact.

This issue needs to be addressed in those terms, the troubling realization that good people with good intentions lost sight of the bigger picture. Only then will our protests ring true to the people involved.

And understand what's being discussed here also. This is not about personal invasion of privacy. That's certainly not how the architects of this see it. This is not the local police wire tapping "you". This is about a massive collection of data that could never be utilized effectively in those terms. It's complete historical data that exists for the purpose of analyzing as a whole, to learn the patterns that signify the actions of people who would do you harm. It is at the point such patterns are identified that investigation at an individual level, within that data, would begin. Perhaps that's why the people who created and manage this system don't feel it's a threat to you. Because they have no interest in you and didn't design the system for you...assuming you're not a terrorist.

But the danger that WE know is real, that they've lost sight of, is a matter of degrees. What happens when the definition of "enemy" begins to slip? What happens when, over time, all dissent is viewed as disruptive to the security of the country?

That's the big picture and that's the danger. Make sure you're protesting the right thing, if you want to be heard.

Agree wholeheartedly with both aimpoint and A10anis-I am going to upload a video soon of myself, forcing someone off the road, snatching their cell phone from their hands and smashing it on the pavement in front of them.

Can't wait to meet someone weaning these POSs' in public in a disruptive, douchey manner.

http://imgur.com/a/EmhRt
So, the first part is just me moving around a few things to make more room, because I think the top of the site is wasting lots of space.

I think the Promoted videos loks sort of like ads, but the sift of the week is exactly like an ad to me - look at picture 2 where it has an ad right above it.

I would like to see the whole right side bar only use small things, while the left main page can show big things.

When something is promoted to the front page like bareboards2's post, I would want that above the promoted videos, as it seems to break the flow of reading - and * frontpage should be more powerful than * promote.

There's something off about the promoted videos. They obviously try to squish in the title in small font so it can be shown, but at the same time it feels weird I think. Compare a promoted thumbnail with a regular one:
http://i.imgur.com/GFnBp.jpg
The bottom bar on the regular one actually presses in vital information about comments, which is the centerpoint of the sift, together with the videos themselves. This should not be overlooked - the promote needs something like that.

The "Featured" banner is unnecessary - "show, don't tell". We know it's featured, because the damn thing is right in our faces!

I also can't see who posted the video, which is part of my "1 second evaluation" of whether or not I should give the video a chance. There are people I know have tastes that correspond to mine, so this will often give a video that I've already "passed" a second chance at my precious vote/view.

Here's a quick mock-up of a different, but similar way of doing it:
http://i.imgur.com/Hqets.jpg

As for the mechanical way of having only three at the top at any point, I think it gives the wrong incentives.

They will only rotate out when someone "knocks another one down", so there's inherent trolling in that.

There's uncertainty in what you get for your precious powerpoint, uncertainty ALWAYS lead to inaction - so people are scared off and won't use them at all.

@dag mentioned the guiding principles:

"1. Changes should promote altruistic social behavior and limit self-interest (that's been with us since the beginning)
2. Changes should increase the usefulness of the site"

If you can align both points in the first, that's much better. People are inherently self interested first and altruistic after that. Just "consuming" videos is a self-interested thing as well, so we have to make it as easy for someone to absorb the content as possible. For the posters, we also must give the fitting incentives for providing value to the site, but the two types of visitors and two very different animals (although almost all posters are also viewers).

I feel the promote system limits the usefulness of the site for the posters. I don't really want to promote anything, because it'll just be gone again as soon as anyone else gets the idea of posting. I also have to consider whether or not I want the currently promoted video to stick around a little longer before posting - maybe the promoted videos are something I don't like, so me and my posse of late night sifters keep promoting them away from the promote reel with our videos of Maru, the wonder-cat, jumping into things.

I hope my ramblings and child-like drawings make sense.