Hey Bob — There’s a button on the Amazon page you can click on that requests they make the book available on Kindle. If enough people click it, then they do it. (It’s free to click it.)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470167394/theagitator-20/

thanks for your interest. And thanks to the agitator readers, like radley said, for helping edit it.

I so clicked that.

That’s gotta be a fake name.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470167394/theagitator-20/

thanks for your interest. And thanks to the agitator readers, like radley said, for helping edit it.

I would pay real money to see this technology used on a Hellfire missile impacting a tank.

Apparently, you broke it with your gratuitous linking.

1,000,000 frames per second. Wow. Of course, the drawback is you only get to shoot 100 frames at a fairly low resolution. (That’s 0.1 milliseconds of record time)

But still. Wow. You can capture for analysis (With careful setup and triggering) that which has never been captured.

You can actually see the bullet’s rotation slow down as the lead liquifies on impact

If it’s important enough to test baseball players for steroids, it’s 1000 times more important to test cops.

QFMFT! Let me add -

If it’s important enough to test the military* for illegal drugs it’s 1000 times more important to test congresscritters and their staff.

* A sore spot since 1982.

“There isn’t any reason that Trooper Martin would need to impress his wife with his job duties,” he said. “She’s ridden with him before.”

Methinks we have a serious lack of adult supervision here.

The Trooper, on the other hand:

1) Was rolling code on what turned out to be an unneeded call.
2) Had a freakin’ civilian in the car. This is a no no while rolling code in many places.
3) Didn’t even check with the officer in charge at the scene of the emergency call to see if he WASN’T needed.
4) Completely ignored both Paramedic White and the Driver when they told him they were transporting a patient.
5) Was actually going to take Paramedic White away on arrest RIGHT THERE, instead of allowing them to continue to the hospital. It was at that point that Paramedic White ramped up his protest.
6) At the earliest possible point, (When Paramedic White was told to go the Trooper’s car so he could be under arrest) he started shoving the Paramedic. Thus escalating it.

And then… his buddy… Trooper Iker, who was en route (on trooper Martin’s request) to the original ‘emergency’ as well, gets a call from Martin to help him out at the ambulance stop. But… It looks iffy to him… no crashed cars or anything. So he turns off his dash cam!

And these are the fuckers “Keeping us safe?”

#16 Highway

Thanks for the links, Dave. I had thought that maybe the ambulance had, you know, failed to yield fora while. Not waited to pass all of one car before pulling off the road.

Hell, I didn’t even notice that the ambulance was actually pulling over when the cop passed him until after reading the comments on here and then going back to have a second look.

There must be a special training class for anyone entering government that teaches the best approach to problem solution is to harass people that have absolutely nothing to do with the trouble they’re trying to prevent. It’s just not explainable any other way. Even a single digit IQ wouldn’t generate that degree of ineptitude.

No one can continue to believe that government agents (a more appropriate term than employee) keep doing “stupid things and just don’t get it. It’s far more likely that these actions are intentional and part of a plan at all levels of government. It isn’t being stopped because it doesn’t hurt people enough yet to truly do something about it.

Officer Roadrage needs to find a new job, one where he will never be put in conflict with other people. He obviously can’t handle it.

The Kindle is awesome. The killer feature for me is it’s ability to read the book to you. It’s not perfect… and if you have something like a programming book… it gets confusing. “PHP 4″ gets converted to something like “Four Philapine Peso”

But I have a ‘lazy eye’ that makes it hard for me to read for long periods of time. So having it read to me is awesome.

Yeah, you’ll find out when you’re arrested.

@DaveKrueger: “Even a single digit IQ wouldn’t generate that degree of ineptitude.”

No, but a single-digit IQ can get the death penalty in Texas.

I am totally going to draw that man a giraffe. What a cute goal for the interwebs.

50 Quatloos against!

However… I secretly want him to succeed and am encouraging kids to draw giraffes and send them to him.