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In the US, it's more complicated, and depends on the state. Restrictions are often at the national level. (BTW, drdetroit: the lawsuit against stop-and-frisk was in federal court, and stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional at trial. The appeals court looked like it might have overturned the ruling, but NYC dropped its appeal when the new mayor came in. Not sure what precedent that leaves, though.) Police have no general right to stop you without reasonable suspicion that you're involved in criminal activity. If they do have reasonable suspicion, they can pat you down for weapons (the NYPD's stop-and-frisk was a vastly expanded form of this, where cops would stop people without particular suspicion, just for being in the wrong place and/or being a minority, depending who you listen to). Police can also ask you your name in some states if they have reasonable suspicion, and in those states, if you don't have strong reason to think that giving them your name will somehow incriminate you, you have to tell them your name. However, it's never been tested whether they can demand an ID; all they can definitely require is your name. This changes when you get in a car, at which point they CAN request your license if they have reasonable suspicion.

Braveheart might use that/have used that - I think I remember showing up and seeing a car flying. That's the issue: if you show up too early, you see the car flying.

No, you didn't. To be fair, Sam was to a city 200 miles away, while my result was to a server which is a) close (~50 miles) and b) on a network adjacent to my school's network. So, I tested down to Washington, DC, which is around 250 miles away: Furthermore, to London: I rest my case.

Because: Everything said in a red box is automatically true, don'tcha know?

"From now on, you'll be driving this new truck. What do you mean, you 'don't want to'? You like being employed, right?" Walmart ships a LOT of things; small fuel savings add up fast when you ship so much.

IMO, that doesn't count as an escort; escorts are either to protect a VIP or for an honor guard, while that was an emergency response (if you look at the description, it wasn't really "post bombings", it was directly responding to them). It's not unusual for police special units to respond in a convoy to make sure all the officers and equipment arrive together - the concern isn't that someone will attack the unit, it's that the whole team needs to get there together to be fully effective. Also, marked cars can be more visibly police vehicles, which can help get people to recognize it as a police unit.

The abrupt response is because "when will it be released?" is a question that modders get asked all the time; as ineseri said, in this very thread, people have asked that very question. Often, there is no answer; even when a timeframe does exist, it's often not revealed to the public, because doing so commits the modder to finish it in a certain timeframe. Modding is subject to random delays. The modder can take a break to do other things he finds more important or interesting (e.g. friends, school/work, a new TV show). Even if the modder doesn't do this, there's often no good way to tell how long something will take; this is especially true for scripting, as it's almost impossible to accurately estimate the time it takes to debug code. Now, if a modder posted a release date, people would hold them to it. If Caine said "I'll release this on April 20" and didn't, people would be mad. There's no reason why Caine *should* commit himself to a release timeframe; he isn't being paid a penny for ELS, and has no obligation to release anything. It'd be one thing if "any idea on a release date?" meant simply "I would like a rough estimate on when you think you might release it; it's fine if this changes, but I just want a vague sense of the timeline." But that's not how it comes across in this situation. It comes across as "I don't like waiting; hurry up and finish it already!" People take a dim view to being hurried along, and don't like deadlines. There are some special cases where questions about a release date don't imply impatience. For instance, if you're working on a mod that goes along with ELS, that's a good reason to ask - if ELS will be released soon, then you might hold off on your mod until you can update for the new version, while if ELS will be a while, you might go ahead and release as-is. Likewise, especially with a new modder, you don't necessarily know what their view is on release dates. If someone posts a new WIP thread, it's reasonable to wonder if they'll be willing to share a ballpark release date. However, it's also reasonable for them to say "no". Furthermore, people don't like being asked the same thing multiple times. If a question is asked and answered in a thread, then unless there's good reason to believe the answer has changed, asking it again is a waste of everyone's time. Doing so will make it look like you couldn't be bothered to read the thread. This can be unfair, because sometimes the info wasn't clear in the thread. People will react better if you explain why you're asking again and give some indication that you've read the thread. Much of the time, pressing someone for a release date when it's been explained before that none will be given makes people view you as impatient and rude. Calling someone an asshole for not giving a time frame does little to change that impression. It actually makes it look like you feel *entitled* to an estimate, and that you feel more special than all those other people who didn't get an estimate. If you don't want to read my wall of text, Neil Gaiman expressed a similar sentiment, and did it much, much better than me.

That's definitely not cheating. I also tested from a university connection. Turns out, when you go to a university, your internet connection is generally provided by the school.

I've seen them a fair number of times (my dad's office is on the route from the White House to the Vice President's residence).

It does not work with LCPDFR callouts, nor will it ever (we don't support map mods, especially not massively copyright-infringing ones like that one). Traffic stops should work OK, but we can make no guarantees about anything on a modded map.

Check your cables. Buzzing is often a symptom of a bad connection. It's certainly not unusual to have buzzing in a sound system. Does it happen with different speakers? If your CPU fan does have an issue, it most certainly is an issue. If your CPU overheats (or if a different component does), your computer shuts down hard - there is no warning, it just shuts off suddenly. While it reduces the damage done, your computer shutting its power off to protect itself means something has gone terribly wrong, and if it happens too often, parts will get damaged. Shutting it down reduces the damage, but it's by no means healthy to have a computer part overheating on any sort of routine basis.

It's not a coincidence that .tk domains are both free and not taken seriously. Part of the reason .com is taken more seriously is that the $10 barrier to entry means there's at least a minimal investment in the site.

The best way to test non-destructive things like this is just to experiment.

The standard way to email a big list of people would work here as well: you just send the email to yourself and BCC all the real recipients.

You can't. All "view source" does is show you the data your browser has already received. Given that the server's already sending the information, viewing source could only be blocked at the client side, which means you'd have to ask the browser to do it and hope it honors the request (not likely to happen, and even if it did, a user could just use a different browser to view the source). I could pretty easily write my own HTTP fetcher to get the page's source code; rendering HTML is hard, but using basic HTTP is really easy.

Not everyone wants realistic handling in cars. It's perfectly valid to prefer arcade-y handling, which often makes driving a lot less frustrating (yes, real cars don't do well cornering at 80 MPH. That doesn't mean I want to have to slow down when driving in Liberty City).

Questions about accessing files on GPM are probably better directed to the GPM forums.

The game doesn't necessarily *have* to be able to read a sound file for it to play. .NET Scripts have full access to all .NET features; this includes reading and playing external media like any other .NET program would. There are limitations to this (for example, this seems to be how LCPDFR dispatch sounds work, and also why they aren't affected by the ingame volume control; also, I don't see a way to get proper 3D sound effects with this, so sound would play the same way background music does).

Ceremonial knives are Sikhs, not Muslims.

Given how good Papers Please is, you could probably make a half-decent TSA game.

100% of knife attacks I've heard of in the past week happened in knife-free zones.

Windows 7 Pro on my main laptop and my desktop back home, as well as on my old laptop back home Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS on my server back home Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard on another machine back home ...most of my computers are back home and not really used much; I *do* ssh into the ubuntu box a fair amount, though.

No. The death penalty is generally restricted to premeditated murder. This is at most a first-degree felony (statutory max: 30 years), unless he hits the "what do you mean, make the punishment fit the crime?" (aka "three strike") laws, in which case it could go to life. If he's facing a three-strikes sentence, that may be why he fled the scene - people are more likely to do that if they're facing insanely long prison terms anyway.