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Post by pyoung »

cr0sh wrote: post #201
stcredzero wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A friend of mine once spotted a policeman down the road, turning on his lights. Since he was on a limited-access highway, he decided to pull over very quickly and just wait the policeman out. (They were on opposite shoulders, and the left shoulder didn't extend back to where my friend was.) The policeman got out of his car and ordered him to proceed with hand gestures. My friend decided he could be in worse trouble i…

My story of weird police interaction: My wife was driving my pickup on the freeway late at night; I'm in the passenger seat dozing, sleeping off a party we went to. Anyhow, she's pulling over and I see the red and blues flashing around us, and I'm wondering what's going on. She's asking me where I keep my registration. We stop, and the cop stops behind us. Then a second pulls in behind him. I'm sitting there wonderin…

Just a random guess, but they may have been hunting for a self-incriminating admission of drunk driving. I got pulled over for speeding once, and the first thing the cop asked was "Why do you think I pulled you over?". I shrugged, and said I had no idea. He claimed I was speeding, but let me off with a warning. In another instance where I got pulled over for speeding[1], the cop told me as much, but then asked how fast I thought I was going. I told him 65 (which was 10 over the limit of 55). He claimed that I was going 70 (15 over 55), but wrote me a ticket for 65 in a 60 zone (5 over, notice that he went with the speed that I claimed, but changed the speed limit in my favor). Apparently the fine varies based on the amount over the speed limit, so he basically gave me a lower fine. My hunch, is in both cases, they were just looking for admission of guilt.

[1] Just so people don't get the wrong idea, I am generally a very cautious driver, there were the only two speeding related encounters in 15+ years.

Re: Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

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Post by Cw67NTN8F »

threeseed wrote: post #186
Cw67NTN8F wrote: post #134

FBI has virtually unlimited resources and they really want this guy. So, he only made it easier, no doubt they would have caught that even without the paper trail. FBI had access to his corp returns and to his loan application. Everything he has done is under the microscope and unless he can hand Trump on a silver plate, he's toast. He's almost 70 years old and you're talking about 20 years sentences. When you deal w…

The other factor at play is presidential pardons. Manafort pleading innocent could be a strategy to appear as the victim of the "deep state".

Not a lawyer, but IMO someone has to go to jail. All this money spent, the media and Mueller isn't going to end his career shooting blanks.

You can plead however you want to, but if the evidence is crystal clear, you're toast. Even if Trump pardons him, NY would step in http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/333370-ny-ag-investi... , apparently a lot of the laundering took place in NY (get paid in foreign bank from foreign sources; don't declare to IRS+State; pay suppliers and mortgages from that account directly, without declaring it. Millions and millions of it, not chump change)

Decisions, decisions. Give up Trump (if he is hiding something) and kinda go to witness protection because they'll get sued for decades or life in jail.

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Post by kelnos »

pasbesoin wrote: post #123
stcredzero wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More in the US than elsewhere. In Germany, you obey the speed limit, and only rubes pass on the right. In the US, everyone drives 9 mph above the posted limit if they're being careful, and people pass on the right willy-nilly, regardless of what local laws say. But if the police really want to enforce that on you, they can. There are tons of "blue laws" in the US, some from over a hundred years back. Sometimes the po…

Leave a small town downtown at 1 or 2 am (whatever is around the bars' closing time) with a light out -- even just a license plate light? You may get pulled over. If you're cool about it and appear sober, you may just get a warning. If things look more askance, you'll be put through sobriety tests.

Hell, I would get this outside SF when I was young and dumb enough to work stupid hours, and would occasionally be driving (well, speeding) home from the office around bar closing time. After a quick "follow my finger with your eyes" test, they'd let me go with a warning.

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Post by kelnos »

pyoung wrote: post #211
cr0sh wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My story of weird police interaction: My wife was driving my pickup on the freeway late at night; I'm in the passenger seat dozing, sleeping off a party we went to. Anyhow, she's pulling over and I see the red and blues flashing around us, and I'm wondering what's going on. She's asking me where I keep my registration. We stop, and the cop stops behind us. Then a second pulls in behind him. I'm sitting there wonderin…

Just a random guess, but they may have been hunting for a self-incriminating admission of drunk driving. I got pulled over for speeding once, and the first thing the cop asked was "Why do you think I pulled you over?". I shrugged, and said I had no idea. He claimed I was speeding, but let me off with a warning. In another instance where I got pulled over for speeding[1], the cop told me as much, but then asked how fa…

> "Why do you think I pulled you over?"

That's pretty standard; nearly every traffic stop I've witnessed or heard about contains that line.

I believe they do it because -- assuming you give a truthful/correct answer -- it makes it less likely you'll contest the ticket, and if you do, they can tell the judge, "when I asked why they thought I'd pulled them over, they told me it was because they were speeding". If you admit to the infraction, you don't really have much of a leg to stand on in court.

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Post by vsl »

applecrazy wrote: post #194
captaincrowbar wrote: post #191

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If you're on a Mac, just open the PDF in Preview and then Save As to a different file name. This gives you a PDF visually identical to the original (with TOC, selectable text, etc) but with no protection.

Preview is the unsung hero of macOS. It does so much that Adobe Reader charges for: signatures, annotations, page rearrangement, plus it has the added bonus of being able to open obj and stl files.

It doesn’t do actual (cryptographic) signatures that Adobe charges for. It only does pretty pictures of handwritten signatures as an inserted object, a trivially falsifiable things.

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Post by mwfunk »

gamblor956 wrote: post #195
mwfunk wrote: post #149

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Rant: I see this in the Bay Area all the time. On many freeways, the fast lane is also the carpool/HOV lane, at least during high-traffic times. The idea is that the government wants to encourage carpooling and/or low-emissions vehicles, therefore restricting the fast lane to such people would encourage such things. But I often see people get in the fast lane not because they want to go faster than the adjacent lane,…

Per the CHP, there is no concept of a "fast lane" or a "passing lane" on a freeway. While it is customary and polite for slower cars to drive on the right, they're not required to do so.

Understood, I know the legalities vary from state to state. I was ranting about it purely based on etiquette. I’ve lived all over the US, and every area seemed to have a distinct traffic personality. I expected Bay Area traffic to be either very aggressive or very polite, but was surprised to find it best characterized as extreme rudeness via profound levels of incompetence and/or obliviousness to other drivers.

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Post by yetihehe »

mpweiher wrote: post #117
stcredzero wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More in the US than elsewhere. In Germany, you obey the speed limit, and only rubes pass on the right. In the US, everyone drives 9 mph above the posted limit if they're being careful, and people pass on the right willy-nilly, regardless of what local laws say. But if the police really want to enforce that on you, they can. There are tons of "blue laws" in the US, some from over a hundred years back. Sometimes the po…

> In Germany, you obey the speed limit German living in Germany here: er, no. Typical is slighly more than +10%. If you keep to the speed limit, people behind you will get upset.

Foreigner visiting Germany here: I ALWAYS try to keep to speed limit, sometimes 10% slower. You have well hidden radars and you can't use radar-finding apps (forbidden by law). Last time I was driving not strictly I had two photos in 15 minutes. If this makes you upset, drop the radars, I will happily drive 10% faster.

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Post by eCa »

threeseed wrote: post #186
Cw67NTN8F wrote: post #134

FBI has virtually unlimited resources and they really want this guy. So, he only made it easier, no doubt they would have caught that even without the paper trail. FBI had access to his corp returns and to his loan application. Everything he has done is under the microscope and unless he can hand Trump on a silver plate, he's toast. He's almost 70 years old and you're talking about 20 years sentences. When you deal w…

The other factor at play is presidential pardons. Manafort pleading innocent could be a strategy to appear as the victim of the "deep state".

A minor point, but accepting a pardon carries a confession of guilt.

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Post by mpweiher »

yetihehe wrote: post #217
mpweiher wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In Germany, you obey the speed limit German living in Germany here: er, no. Typical is slighly more than +10%. If you keep to the speed limit, people behind you will get upset.

Foreigner visiting Germany here: I ALWAYS try to keep to speed limit, sometimes 10% slower. You have well hidden radars and you can't use radar-finding apps (forbidden by law). Last time I was driving not strictly I had two photos in 15 minutes. If this makes you upset, drop the radars, I will happily drive 10% faster.

I was being descriptive, not prescriptive. Please obey the speed limits.

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Post by mpweiher »

stcredzero wrote: post #159
mpweiher wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In Germany, you obey the speed limit German living in Germany here: er, no. Typical is slighly more than +10%. If you keep to the speed limit, people behind you will get upset.

German living in Germany here: er, no. Typical is slighly more than +10%. If you keep to the speed limit, people behind you will get upset. My one trip to Germany was in Stuttgart in the early 2000's, and it was my German coworkers who made that observation. The car ride I took seemed to corroborate it. Has it always been that way, or has it changed over time?

It's been that way for as long as I can remember, certainly since before I started driving myself in '87.
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