The Rant, Third Anniversary Edition

[SAT 9,609]

I'd like a workshop like this

I like smaller cities. I find Denver far too large.

whats the population of denver and metro.....

It's about 3 mil......that's no 1, 2 or 3 horse town.....

And, likewise, the largest employer is probably either the university, some healthcare company, or walmart, which is just about the norm for any state.

Except.....may be.....Connecticut. CT might be some tech company....

[SAT 9,609]

See that Zero-turn mower? Tark wishes he had one a those.....

not a garage sale item......

[Caryh 5,206]

You couldn't be more wrong here.

While that's true in regards to dogs.....each state has a "justification" test given to police officers and peace officers before they're given a license to carry a gun. The laws vary state to state. But 1 common fact is that the passing score is 100.

despite popular belief, no, they're not trained to shoot first ask questions later.

Yah tell me how they're not training them to shoot first and ask later. This cop blames shooting the guy because he just came from training.

[SAT 9,609]

So, according to you, because of what that 1 cop did, that naturally means the other 250,000 other cops in the country are all trained to do that?

Are you out of your mind?

[SAT 9,609]

If that is the case, there should be about 24,000 people shot by cops every day.

[SAT 9,609]

Lets do some math.

There are about 250,000 cops in America. Not counting miscellaneous law enforcement such as FBI, US Marshals etc....

If each of them goes to work 5 days a week for 45 weeks a year whats that 225 days? If they stop 1 car a day, that's 225 car stops a year. If they respond to 1 domestic dispute case a day, that's 225 DV cases. Not counting the other jobs such as psychos, larcenies, robberies, drug offenses, etc....

That's 450 jobs a year.

they do it for 10 years, that's 4500 car stops and domestic disputes, which are the most dangerous jobs for cops.

times that by 250,000 officers. That's 1.125 billion jobs just DVs and car stops, in a 10 year period.

If they're trained to shoot first, and ask questions later. And they so much as do this just 1 percent of the time.

there should have been over 11 million people shot by cops in the past 10 years.....

if they shot first 10 % of the time, there's 111,000,000 people shot by cops in the past 10 years.

This is based on 2 jobs a day, 1 shift a day, 225 day year. Now times that by 3.

the cops in NY answer about 15 jobs a shift. Chicago cops answer 25. LA about 20, Miami, philly, Memphis, detroit, all of them about the same.

Edited March 9, 2016 by SAT

[SAT 9,609]

Tark, you get stopped by the cops all the time.

How many times have they shot you first, and asked questions later?

[Asia 2,498]

K, so I've got a question regarding the voltage in the US.

I know you have ~110V. Over here we have ~230V

Since we're coming with laptops, phones, camera battery chargers, I thought about taking an extension cord, cause we're sharing one room with many electronic devices, so there might be not enough electric sockets (with the needed adapters) for all of us

But I wonder if it would work at all. Or if there would be needed some kind of transformer, or what.

Does anybody know that much about electricity?

[SAT 9,609]

You get one a these, duh!

http://www.amazon.com/GGI-Universal-World-Wide-Travel-Adapter/dp/B0091GB832/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1457548991&sr=8-2&keywords=International+Electrical+Adapters

This one. (Duh again)

http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Adapter-Sockets-Covering-Countries/dp/B00MNL3LRI/ref=pd_sim_23_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=41sbRHeKKtL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR144%2C160_&refRID=010WQT1VVTD39W5STVQ7

And, usb is world wide.

[SAT 9,609]

Modern rooms will have these

But don't count on it...

[Asia 2,498]

I've got adapters, duh

But if we would want to plug in all our 4 laptops, and some phones there may be not enough electric sockets in our room to do so.

That's why I think about taking the extension cord, cause that way we can use one electric socket to plug in 4 devices at once.

Duh!

[SAT 9,609]

I didn't know fookiness has infected Poland too....

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AMAFEIU?psc=1

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

I've got adapters, duh

But if we would want to plug in all our 4 laptops, and some phones there may be not enough electric sockets in our room to do so.

That's why I think about taking the extension cord, cause that way we can use one electric socket to plug in 4 devices at once.

Duh!

I would bet there would be enough, you have to have them every few feet by code.

[SAT 9,609]

8 feet is most modern codes. Hotels usually outdated these codes. or they put the socket behind the bed. Hotels do math too, they don't want you plugging in too much , pennies x 1000s = millions...

They put these sockets out of the way on purpose.

[SAT 9,609]

Asia I told you to go the northeast corridor didn't I?

See, if you came this way, you gals would get treated like a king! (Rodney king)....

Anyway, you'd get treated to all kindsa free here....

Rodney king....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King