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#70522 - 05/18/02 09:37 PM First, define your terms
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Power to the people...but who (or what) are (is) the people?
The problem is more basic than the ambiguous sentence strcture. I think most of the disagreement around the issue of whether the amendment is referring to people=individuals or People=collectively.
Members of one faction proclaim that they are guaranteed the right to keep and bear arms themselves, individually. The other extreme reserves that to The People, with no rights at all granted to the individual.
Whether the Militia is a spontaneously-coalescing group of individuals, or a preplanned (governmentally-sanctioned) organization, is equally ambiguous.
With two undefined terms open to diametrically opposed readings, it's no wonder that disputes arise - even if the sentence had been perfectly constructed.
(And don't even _think_ of addressing the question of whom we are to be protected from: external enemies or the government itself? )
#70523 - 05/18/02 09:56 PM Re: Second Amendment Question
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Stupid. Stupid. Stupid me. Why didn't I understand that you were talking about style, not meaning. Well, I, for one, for sure, know that commas can clarify or obscure, the transfer of meaning from one entity to another.
But convention be damned, are we to discuss social applications of language for our own pretense or amusement, or are we here to advance the art of communication?
#70524 - 05/19/02 08:58 AM Re: Second Amendment Question
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Pretension...hope not!
Advance the art of communication...most definitely!
But we are powerless to remove that historical comma, and there's the rub.
#70525 - 05/19/02 09:21 AM Re: Second Amendment Question
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The 2nd Amendment decreed "the right of the people to bear Arms"...and, thus, the sleeveless t-shirt was born!
#70526 - 05/19/02 10:12 AM Re: Second Amendment Question
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Oh, not the right of the people to arm bears?
Since the dependent clause, "A well-regulated militia, being essential....." stipulates something other than a willy-nilly, ragtag bunch of gun toters, the wording seems to suggest that the arming of military or paramilitary functions of the state was the intent. However, the revolution was fought by a ragtag bunch of citizen soldiers, not a true army in the normal sense. Because our world is so different from the world of 1789, ought we to view our needs in the same way? As a personal aside, I'm a gun owner myself, but not an NRA type gun owner. I do believe that since the intent of the Second Ammendment was the maintenance of freedom, certain people must be enjoined from gun ownership. Those not well-trained in their proper use have no business with them, as they constitute a danger to themselves and others. Of course, criminals must be barred from gun possession, but how does one stop such possession? Shall we execute every person who commits a crime with a gun? Will we be invaded by gun-toting troops, or will more sophisticated weaponry be brought to bear, as was the case on 9/11? Oh - this is getting into the political arena, so I'd better shut up!
#70527 - 05/19/02 10:39 AM Re: Second Amendment Question
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Geoff, I think you've hit upon a pretty important point, politics aside.
Go back to "well regulated Militia"; consider "well regulated"; consider "well."
The people, by stated right, according to the sentence, may "keep" and "bear" arms. But this collective "militia"--the guns in the hands of the people who choose to keep and bear them, is to be "well regulated."
That's where we are now--defining what "well regulated" means in realistic application. Wow, is that something to consider: The meaning of regulation, and not just regulation, but regulation that has been "well" regulated. What is the meaning of "well" here? I feel a Clintonian moment breaking forth in my brain...
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#70528 - 05/19/02 11:32 AM Re: Second Amendment Question
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I feel a Clintonian moment breaking forth in my brain...
Well, WW, if you DO inhale, make sure it's smokeless powder; that old-fashioned Revolutionary War black powder can give you quite buzz! And don't you dare ask me how I know! (Fifth Ammendment time)
#70529 - 05/19/02 11:42 AM Re: Second Amendment Question
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the guns in the hands of the people who choose to keep and bear them, is to be "well regulated."
Yes, that's the crux of the matter. Does a group of paranoiacs, afraid of the very government they claim to espouse, constitute a "well regulated" organization? Ought they to be included in the fundamental system of governmental checks and balances, or are they a threat to "well regulated" government? On the other side, as has been noted by others, are the anti-gun fanatics not just as much a threat to the Constitution? "Well," and by whom?
#70530 - 05/19/02 12:20 PM Re: Smoking Black Powder
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Really? How odd. How odd of people to smoke the strange things they smoke.
I was just remembering yesterday that my mother had admitted to smoking rabbit grass as a child. I don't imagine it's illegal, but, really... Where do we get these ideas? "Hey! Here's a substance! Let's see what happens when we inhale it! And Let's go ahead and fire it up to get an extra charge!" Do human beings regularly go around looking for things to light up? Such as black powder? Or talcum powder? Or whatever else?
'Tis a mystery to me. ("Hey! Don't throw out that old carpet! Let's light it up and smoke it and see what happens!"--Geez!)
#70531 - 05/19/02 05:56 PM Re: Smoking Black Powder
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Really? How odd. How odd of people to smoke the strange things they smoke.
Awww, WW, I was pulling your leg. I thought you were referring to Willie's saying that he'd tried marijuana, but he didn't inhale. One couldn't really smoke black powder, since it's quite explosive. It does, however, produce a LOT of smoke. Modern firearms powders are called "smokeless" for good reason! They also burn at a much slower, and more controlled rate, than the old charcoal/saltpeter/sulfur mixtures of yore. However, quite a few people today like to shoot black powder guns, and one can even buy a new one. Slow loading, smelly as hell, but fun!
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#207159 - 09/16/12 06:55 PM Re: R.T.K. [Re: LukeJavan8]
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YCLIU Luke.
Txt speak is also known as Netspeak amongst social networkers.
#207160 - 09/16/12 07:41 PM Re: R.T.K. [Re: olly]
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many of these internet initialisms predate texting - I started seeing them when I first began frequenting USENET forums, which predated internet forums such as this one (this would have been during the 90s).
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea. Massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
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#207163 - 09/16/12 10:13 PM Re: R.T.K. [Re: tsuwm]
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Like you say, a precursor to UBB.
I'd used terms such as WYSIWYG and GUI and HUI as well
#207164 - 09/16/12 10:49 PM Re: R.T.K. [Re: olly]
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I wonder if some of them even date from the days of the BBSs? nah, probly not..
#207165 - 09/17/12 04:47 AM Re: R.T.K. [Re: olly]
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Those days when what you saw wasn't what you got! Sheesh! The dark ages.
"This word processor is WSYWYG!"
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#207166 - 09/17/12 05:55 AM Re: R.T.K. [Re: LukeJavan8]
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Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8Originally Posted By: Rhubarb CommandoNot LOL, but ROFLMFAO. (Whaddya make of that, Luke?)
I don't text Rhub, so you've got me.
But surely you will remember now, Luke that AFK = Away From Keyboard!
You have come across it before.....when wofahulicodoc said it recently.
And its not to far to figure out that RTK means the Rhuby has returned (to keyboard)
#207171 - 09/17/12 08:30 AM Re: R.T.K. [Re: Candy]
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Rhuby's Too Kewl.
#207174 - 09/17/12 10:39 AM Re: R.T.K. [Re: Faldage]
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As I teased Luke with ROFL...., knowing he doesn't speak text, I probably deserve to have
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#207176 - 09/17/12 11:43 AM Re: R.T.K. [Re: olly]
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Originally Posted By: ollyYCLIU Luke.
Txt speak is also known as Netspeak amongst social networkers.
Oh, well, no loss. I am not a social networker either, rather
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Care of Cerrone at Metsblog, you've got to check out this hilarious video of Paul Lo Duca: ESPN Correspondent.
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willie randolph was great in this…and I liked "tracy chapman", too. thx
ps, come one come all to see your favorite runner in the NYC Marathon on November 4! I was just looking at the map and holy cow, after crossing the V-N bridge I am going to be running through Brooklyn forever…4th Ave never ends!
Rough game last night. I got home from Shea and felt as if I had the worst hangover ever (and I wasn't even drinking!). Thanks for the video, and making my day a little brighter. I definitely had some laughs.
That video was great, but as far as the Mets go I think Homer says it best "That team sure did **** last night. They just plain ******. I've seen teams **** before, but they were the ******** bunch of ***** that ever ******"
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Richard Plackett, BlackRock's star manager responsible for over £2.4 billion in assets, is to take six months' sabbatical from April 1.
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I thought he was talking about all law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
'Preciate your sensitivity, but just make it easiest on yourselves. You've got bigger fish to fry. We're grown-ups...mostly. We can tune the Interwebz for ourselves as needed.
'nuff said.
Telling the emperor (or his AG) about his wardrobe is not usually rewarded outside of fairy tales. If Seńor Sanchez ever crosses a U.S. border outbound, I wish him luck getting back in.
...when it's needed is better than doing the perfect thing when it's too late.
For less than $100, you can buy a trailing edge box on Ebay and put up a Freenet node. The more, the merrier.
Nobody can compete at Limbo with Robert Werth. He can go lower than everyone.
The words "hoist" and "petard" come to mind.
No one could seriously claim that congress is MORE in touch than the judiciary.
> Richard's comment demonstrates his immaturity and ignorance.
That's so wonderfully knee-jerk.
> He seems to think we surrender our accumulated experience, knowledge and capacity to think on the 60th birthday.
I didn't, but recognize the existing meme that "we do" as is so frequently portrayed in the wider media, especially "re" the pseudo-news sellouts such as Fox.
> As to the 60 wasted minutes, what a bunch of crap...(blah, blah, blah).
Huh?! Oh, this was not a REAL, considered remark. It was some sort of trollishly taking-my-comment-as-an-excuse (with an agist pretense) remark. Never mind...damn, I fed a troll. (BTW - "hypocrisy" - old fella, unless you meant rule by hippopotami, and I think my first or second comment on joining was about Snowden's admirable patriotism...sort o' "non sequitur" vous.)
Indeed...nice to find there are fellow outliers far-flung from the *average*.
My remark was qualified as "programming for the *average* 60+ year-old crowd " - have you seen my profile pic (c'est moi)?
Given the commercial success of Fox and MSNBC as propaganda outlets in sheep's, um - news', clothing, CBS HAS to do something "artistic" to maintain an audience. This is simply another network programming for the average 60+ year-old crowd with an all-the-"news"-the-way-you-wish-it-was approach.
Churchillian understatement is a high art-form. Bravo, sir - bravo!
"...spokespeople "informing" reporters that "most people" don't use that much data..."
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So, what does it mean when Comcast cites the median in response to questions about the average monthly use? Other than Comcast is lying, there's no way to be sure.
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From the "we'd-rather-look-stupidly-insensitive-than-be-legally-liable" department. Oh, wait - now we're being held liable for looking stupid. Reverse that pendulum (for now)!
Presuming that some of the implied reforms occur in any generally noteworthy degree, these new non-zero tolerance policies will produce a few mistakes ("hey, this isn't a 'faux' thug - it's a real thug"). With non-zero, they'll keep a few that zero would 'a' kicked. Some of these unkicked social maladroits will crush, kill, and destroy. The resulting what-were-you-thinking recriminations and associated lawsuits will arrest the pendulum and reverse its arc again.
School administrators need real authority to enforce reasonable standards with corresponding responsibility to make decisions without the risk of total legal destruction either personal or for their systems. As long as lawyers and their intestinally parasitic clients are permitted to circle the waters in the fashions that led to zero-tolerance, the swing is unlikely to establish a lasting change.
Until sanely adult balances between authority and responsibility are reflected in all levels of this equation, the pendulum will simply swing...just like it currently does with everything else.
"Awkward" as in "self-incriminating to admit the vastness of the overreach as regards the rights of citizens"? "Awkward" as in - "embarrassing to confess the terrifying degree of totalitarian fascism the numbers imply"?
...dude - this is bombing fish in a bucket.
Any Cherokee could 'a' told you how ineffectual the courts actually are - no enforcement powers.
RE: Ubuntu is spyware
"Ubuntu is dead, and is now only used by ignorant newbies and clueless fanboys..."
I've been programming for food since 1985. With respect to Linux in particular, I've used Slackware [1996], Red Hat [1996-2000], Mandrake [2000-2004], Red Hat [2004-2007], Fedora [2007-2009], Kubuntu [2009-present] (also, Suse and CentOS on my home file, print, and svn server).
Mr. Lee was not saying get rid of Ubuntu - he advocated fixing it to be non-invasive of privacy.
I'm neither an ignorant newbie nor a clueless fanboy. On the other hand, I do find your anonymous rant indicative of both your ignorance and cluelessness.
Since the RWW had taunted Dr. Chaps about his lack of web-savvy ( http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/lesson-dr-chaps-how-internet-works ), the "brag" article on Dr. C's win ( http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/5739873137.html ) includes the close:
"The Bible says pride comes before destruction. That's a lesson for them [RWW], in how the internet works."
They've got a point. Lying to Google/YouTube works and is still consequence-free (unless you actually believe in the implications for your immortal soul of bearing false witness *OR* the subterfuge gets onto the radar of some heathen hacktivist group).


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Name of Product: 10-in-1 Activity Trunks by Kid Connection
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Importer: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., of Bentonville, Ark.
Hazard: Some of the toys in these trunks contain small parts, posing a choking hazard to young children.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported.
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This article presents a ten point plan for ensuring that your application will perform adequately. It isn't restricted to Java (point 2 includes extra information for Java projects). I'm very grateful to Alex Rossi of Accenture for his valuable input in discussions about performance planning.
Recognize that your application will need performance tuning at various stages of the project, and plan for the resources and time necessary to handle tuning requirements. The following points may assist you in determining budgetary allocations.
Allocate two developers to understand performance tuning. There are performance experts available, but if you can allocate internal resources the overall cost is cheaper. At the very least, your internal resources can handle basics -- setting up benchmark harnesses, specifying target response times, and so on -- even if you subsequently employ an expert to validate process or to provide extended recommendations. For Java projects there's an abundance of interesting Java performance tuning material and tools available so performance tuning is likely to be considered a positive task by the developer. The Java Performance Tuning site lists many Java performance tuning resources. Have your developers start there.
Include allocation for books and magazines in the budget, as well as developer training and web browsing time. Also include allocation for testing and purchasing various performance tools, which your performance experts should evaluate: profiling tools; benchmark harnesses; web loading or GUI capture and playback or other client emulation tools. The choice of tools for measuring performance and the approach to creating the benchmark harness (writing in-house vs. buying) make a difference to the overall cost and time taken for tuning. Allocate for these too, and make sure you have the appropriate process in place to make the right choice according to your needs.
Understanding performance tuning and evaluating tools need not be the primary task for these developers. It may never become their primary task if things go well. However, my experience is that the closer the project comes to completion, the more time these internal performance experts will spend on performance tuning.
During the specification stage the application's performance requirements need to be defined. This is not primarily a developer's task. Customers or business experts need to establish what response times are acceptable. It may be more useful to start by specifying what response times will be unacceptable.
This task can be undertaken at a later stage of development. In fact, it can be simpler, if a prototype has been written, to use a prototype and other business information to specify acceptable response times. But don't neglect to specify response time requirements before starting any implementation performance tuning. If code tuning starts before performance requirements are specified, then goals are inadequately defined and tuning efforts will be wasted on parts of the application that do not require them.
If your development environment is layered (application layer, component layer, technical architecture layer), try to define performance specifications at each layer so that each team has its own set of performance targets to aim for. If this is not practical, the performance experts will need to be able to tune across all layers and interact with all teams.
During the analysis stage, the main focus is to analyze the requirements for shared and limited resources in the application. For example, a network connection is both a shared and a limited resource; a database table is a shared resource; threads are a limited resource. These are the resources that will cost the most to fix later in development if they are not designed correctly. Analysis of data volumes and load carrying capacities should also be carried out to determine the limitations of the system.
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Progressing from the analysis stage performance considerations in the design phase should focus on the application's use of shared resources and on the performance consequences of the expected physical architecture of the deployed application.
Make sure the designers are aware of the performance consequences of different decisions by asking for performance impact predictions to be included with the normal design aspects. The external design review should include design experts familiar with the performance aspects of design choices. Otherwise a secondary performance expert who is familiar with design should also review the application design. If any significant third party products will be used -- like middleware or database products -- the product vendor should have performance experts who can validate the design and identify potential performance problems. A 10% allocation in the budget for performance aspects is normally a safe choice to highlight the emphasis on performance.
The design should include reference to the scalability both for users and for data/object volumes; the amount of distribution possible for the application depending on the required level of messaging between distributed components; and the transaction mechanisms and modes (pessimistic, optimistic, required locks, durations of transactions and locks held). The theoretical limitation of the performance of many multi-user applications is the number and duration of locks held on shared resources. The designers should also include, if relevant, a section on handling queries against large data sets.
The performance task for the beginning of the development phase is establishing the performance testing environment (Performance tuning of code should be scheduled toward the end of the development phase; see point 9). You need to
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Create a simulation of the system which faithfully represents the main components of the application. The simulation should be implemented so that you can test the scalability of the system, determine how the shared resources respond to increased loads, and determine at which stage limited resources start to become exhausted or bottlenecked. The simulation should allow finished components to be integrated as they become available. If budget resources are unavailable, skip the initial simulation but start testing as soon as sufficient components become available to implement a skeleton version of the system. The targets are to determine response times and scalability of the system for design validation feedback as early as possible.
If you have a Proof of Concept stage planned, it could provide the simulation or a good basis for the simulation. Ideally the validation would take place as part of the Proof of Concept.
Integrate performance logging into the application. This logging should be deployed with the released application. Performance logging should be added to all the main layer boundaries: I/O and marshaling layers, servlet I/O and marshaling, JVM server I/O and marshaling, DB access/update; transaction boundaries; and so on. Performance logging should not produce more than one line of output to a log file per 20 seconds. Performance logging should be designed so that it adds less than 1% of time to all application activity. Ideally it will be configurable to aggregate variable amounts of data so that the logging can be deployed to produce one summary log line per configurable time unit (e.g. one summary line every minute). Ideally your logging framework should be designed so that the output can be used in other tools for easy manipulation and analysis.
During code implementation, unit performance testing should be scheduled along with QA. No performance tuning is required at the unit level until the unit is ready for QA. Unit performance tuning proceeds by integrating the unit into the system simulation and running scaling tests with profiling.
It's important to test the full system or simulation as soon as is feasible, even if many of the units are incomplete. Simulated units are acceptable at an early stage of system performance testing. Initially the purpose of this system performance test is to validate the design and architecture and to identify any parts of the design or implementation that will not scale (point 7 and 8). Later the tests should provide detailed logs and profiles that will allow developers to target bottlenecks in the system and produce faster versions of the application.
To support performance testing at later stages, the testbed should be able to be configured to provide performance profiles of any JVM processes, as well as system and network statistics in addition to performance logging. Your performance experts should be able to produce the JVM profiles. Budget for a short (three to five day) course on obtaining and analyzing system statistics from your target system. Ideally, a system administrator already has those skills.
The performance tests should scale to higher loads of users and data. Scale tests to twice the expected peak load:
Additional resources:
High Performance Client/Server, Chris Loosley & Frank Douglas (John Wiley & Sons)
The Java Performance Tuning website
Java Performance Tuning Strategy
Java Performance Tuning, Jack Shirazi (O'Reilly)
User activity should be simulated as accurately as possible, but it is most important that data is simulated to produce the expected real data variety, otherwise cache activity can produce completely misleading results. The numbers of objects should be scaled to reasonable amounts: this is especially important for query testing and batch updates. Do not underestimate the complexity of creating large amounts of realistic data for scalability testing.
Performance logging features should be deployed with the released application. Such logging allows remote analysis and constant monitoring capabilities for the deployed application. Ideally, you should develop tools that automatically analyze the performance logs. The minimum performance log analysis tools desirable are ones that use the logs and a set of reference logs to compare performance and highlight anomalies.
In addition other useful tools include one which identifies long term trends in the performance logs and one which identifies when particular performance measurements exceed defined ranges. A graphical interface or support of a standard GUI admin tool for these tools is also useful.
Jack Shirazi is the author of Java Performance Tuning. He was an early adopter of Java, and for the last few years has consulted mainly for the financial sector, focusing on Java performance.
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Fight it. Red light cams are illegal.
Fucking took a picture of me last night . I swear I was more than half way thru.
Anyway to get out of this ??
Fight it. Red light cams are illegal.
in az i know they have to come serve you if you ignore the letters and doesnt affect driving record
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Plus the sign is required to be 300 feet from the intersection....This one was right at the intersection.
Just wondering if the car behind me got snapped and not me....there was a car behind me.
they have to mail the ticket to you, you may not get one
Aussies and Philadelphians are the only people here
If I do get clipped can I make installment payments on the fine?
What if I don't fight it? Installments possible?
I would flip down my visor so they couldn't prove who was driving.
tell them ur a gigolo with a pizza hut guarantee, u needed to be there in 30 minutes or less or u had to shag the old bird for free....
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.... ~ Shakespeare
then show them this pic for extra sympathy....
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.... ~ Shakespeare
The thing that the Texas dude was saying is not true. These are not illegal in AZ. They have been turned off in Pima and a couple other counties. The state shut down the cameras on the interstates back in 2010. Cities and some counties however are still free to keep them active. They will only serve you if you fail to appear by your court date or fill out the form and reply. Then you are a scoff law and things can escalate from there. Just plead poverty and the system will let you make payments or drop the fine depending on your driving record. And yes this will show up on your driving record just like any other ticket does. If you face is not clear and recognizable, then just ignore it because they can't say it is you. There was a guy who made it a game to speed through the cameras wearing a gorilla mask for a couple years. His gorilla faced picture was even in the papers. They had his plate, so they knew his name and address but could do nothing about it because they didn't have his face. A few years back the college fleet was under me. The speed camera letters ended up in my inbox. I saved a bunch of guys. Since these were fleet vehicles and assigned to no one driver, I would attach a form letter saying basically "Sorry, 2200 employees, don't know this one, better luck next time." Never had it come back on me.
1. Take your front plate off
2. Plea of abeyance
3. Traffic school, do it online.


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Nineteen-year-old Armando A. Lopez, South Beloit, Ill., died during an early-morning shooting Sunday, officials said.
Police named Ezekiel "Chucky" Villa, 20, as a suspect in the murder. Police said officers have probable cause to arrest him for first-degree intentional homicide.
Villa should be considered armed and dangerous. He is described as 5'10", 190 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes.
If you see Villa, you're asked to call 911 or contact the Beloit Police Department at 608-364-6801.
Beloit police responded to the 1200 block of Wisconsin Avenue just after 2 a.m. for a report of shots fired.
Officers found Lopez suffering from life-threatening injuries and transported him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to a release.
Investigators said there was a party at the residence on Wisconsin Avenue at the time of the shooting with a number of people in attendance. The circumstances surrounding the shooting have not yet been determined.
Officials said there were many shots fired during the incident, but do not believe there were additional injuries.
Capt. William Tyler with the Beloit Police Department said Villa is still at large.
"We're working through all of the standard investigative process, whether that includes search warrants or other activities, and then we'll see where that takes us over the next 12 to 24 hours," said Capt. Tyler.
Tyler said while there is a general concern for the public with any shooting, police believe this was a targeted situation and not a random act.


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wow of course santina zumpano gets in probably beause of her daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by the way nice face santina17953172
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