http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/11/19400006-unlicensed-armed-guards-booted-from-controversial-mine-site-in-wisconsin?lite
AHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAAHAAHHAHAH
Can't stop won't stop laughing!
Quote from: /b/earman on July 11, 2013, 05:10:03 PM
AHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAAHAAHHAHAH
Can't stop won't stop laughing!
See, kids...This man is
serious about having a good time.
What's really funny about this is that you can GET a license to act as a mercenary force inside the USA.
IT'S THE AMERICA WE DEMANDED!
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 11, 2013, 05:35:18 PM
IT'S THE AMERICA WE DEMANDED!
Aka, Mercia in 700 AD. :lulz:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 11, 2013, 05:36:55 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 11, 2013, 05:35:18 PM
IT'S THE AMERICA WE DEMANDED!
Aka, Mercia in 700 AD. :lulz:
Gotta love how that proposed mine site is in a watershed. It's equivalent to someone plonking an open-pit mine down in Oregon's Bull Run.
And the State approved it?
Who's looking forward to the Great Wisconsin Cancer Cluster?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 11, 2013, 05:36:55 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 11, 2013, 05:35:18 PM
IT'S THE AMERICA WE DEMANDED!
Aka, Mercia in 700 AD. :lulz:
Well, that explains the trend in mispronouncing America...
A-MERRRRR-CIA! A_MERRRRR-CIA! GOD SHED HIS GRACE ON THEEEEEEE
/ / / / / / / /
:teabagger1:
It's not mentioned in that article, but the local paper reported (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/mining-company-hires-guards-armed-with-assault-rifles-wearing-camouflage-b9951188z1-214812771.html) that the guards were to contact police if there was an issue. So it's all good. The assault rifles are just for show.
Honestly, though, the amount of sheer lunacy that goes on in Wisconsin could fill volumes.
Quote from: Jez on July 11, 2013, 09:31:12 PM
It's not mentioned in that article, but the local paper reported (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/mining-company-hires-guards-armed-with-assault-rifles-wearing-camouflage-b9951188z1-214812771.html) that the guards were to contact police if there was an issue. So it's all good. The assault rifles are just for show.
Honestly, though, the amount of sheer lunacy that goes on in Wisconsin could fill volumes.
...Dunno how they do it there?
Here in Texas I know, and...
In order to legally carry a duty weapon, you have to be
state certified to carry that duty weapon...and practices are you will be
insured to carry that duty weapon...and (by regulation) have a uniform on, a
very specific uniform registered to your company, with your
nametag visible at all times...The weapons that can legally carried as a contract security person would usually include a no-greater-than .38 caliber pistol and a 12-gauge shotgun.
Nobody's gonna let me bring a semiauto rifle to work, mmmkay?
Too bad.
I'd have a good excuse to buy the remanned Rumanian Kalashnikov sold with the bayonet and drum mag... :fap:
I'd tend to suspect Wisconsin has similar statutes governing private security...
Wonder if the FBI/DHS has their fingerprint cards?
I believe that's a national requirement for rent-a-cops now, we're all supposed to be fingerprinted.
This maybe a bit of confirmation bias combined with nostalgia, but I think Tucson entered Wisconsin when I left it.
Whoever lives downriver: Flee!
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on July 12, 2013, 12:43:55 AM
Quote from: Jez on July 11, 2013, 09:31:12 PM
It's not mentioned in that article, but the local paper reported (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/mining-company-hires-guards-armed-with-assault-rifles-wearing-camouflage-b9951188z1-214812771.html) that the guards were to contact police if there was an issue. So it's all good. The assault rifles are just for show.
Honestly, though, the amount of sheer lunacy that goes on in Wisconsin could fill volumes.
...Dunno how they do it there?
Here in Texas I know, and...
In order to legally carry a duty weapon, you have to be state certified to carry that duty weapon...and practices are you will be insured to carry that duty weapon...and (by regulation) have a uniform on, a very specific uniform registered to your company, with your nametag visible at all times...
The weapons that can legally carried as a contract security person would usually include a no-greater-than .38 caliber pistol and a 12-gauge shotgun.
Nobody's gonna let me bring a semiauto rifle to work, mmmkay?
Too bad.
I'd have a good excuse to buy the remanned Rumanian Kalashnikov sold with the bayonet and drum mag... :fap:
I'd tend to suspect Wisconsin has similar statutes governing private security...
Wonder if the FBI/DHS has their fingerprint cards?
I believe that's a national requirement for rent-a-cops now, we're all supposed to be fingerprinted.
Rent-a-cops have been getting fingerprinted for a long time. It's part of the background check. It isn't a new thing.
Quote from: :regret: on July 12, 2013, 12:25:43 PM
Whoever lives downriver: Flee!
Everyone lives downriver.
Ecologies aren't these disconnected things.
Speaking of Tucson and ecologies, we're getting that Gozar sky thingie again.
Because it's Friday, and I had plans. But no, instead we will have another monster fucking storm, the plant will explode, and I will be here until Monday o'clock.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on July 12, 2013, 05:29:37 PM
Speaking of Tucson and ecologies, we're getting that Gozar sky thingie again.
Because it's Friday, and I had plans. But no, instead we will have another monster fucking storm, the plant will explode, and I will be here until Monday o'clock.
:horrormirth:
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 12, 2013, 05:13:14 PM
Quote from: :regret: on July 12, 2013, 12:25:43 PM
Whoever lives downriver: Flee!
Everyone lives downriver.
Ecologies aren't these disconnected things.
Sez you.
I'll be the one laughing when I'm living in my shack at the very peak of a mountain, living off of rainwater and yodeling. Living with contaminated watersheds is for suckers.
At least until they start doing more mountaintop mining.
"Everyone lives downriver."
That's some high quality bumper sticker shit, right there.
Quote from: Cainad on July 12, 2013, 05:41:55 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 12, 2013, 05:13:14 PM
Quote from: :regret: on July 12, 2013, 12:25:43 PM
Whoever lives downriver: Flee!
Everyone lives downriver.
Ecologies aren't these disconnected things.
Sez you.
I'll be the one laughing when I'm living in my shack at the very peak of a mountain, living off of rainwater and yodeling. Living with contaminated watersheds is for suckers.
At least until they start doing more mountaintop mining.
GUESS WHAT'S IN THAT RAIN, MOTHERFUCKER!
THAT'S RIGHT.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on July 12, 2013, 05:43:38 PM
"Everyone lives downriver."
That's some high quality bumper sticker shit, right there.
Ooooooo!
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 12, 2013, 05:43:41 PM
Quote from: Cainad on July 12, 2013, 05:41:55 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 12, 2013, 05:13:14 PM
Quote from: :regret: on July 12, 2013, 12:25:43 PM
Whoever lives downriver: Flee!
Everyone lives downriver.
Ecologies aren't these disconnected things.
Sez you.
I'll be the one laughing when I'm living in my shack at the very peak of a mountain, living off of rainwater and yodeling. Living with contaminated watersheds is for suckers.
At least until they start doing more mountaintop mining.
GUESS WHAT'S IN THAT RAIN, MOTHERFUCKER!
THAT'S RIGHT.
NOOOOOOOO! :argh!:
Sounds like a job for the world's largest Brita pitcher.
Got the chapter in right as the rain started. :lulz:
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on July 12, 2013, 02:31:58 PM
Rent-a-cops have been getting fingerprinted for a long time. It's part of the background check. It isn't a new thing.
Well, yes, state level, since I've been guarding crap for money.
After 2001 the FBI also wanted their own set of fingerprint cards.
I remember my boss had me in to reprint me three times, because the FBI kept sending them back, saying he was blurring the prints.
...And I have been doing this for far too long...it was never meant to be a career.
Maybe I ought to revise my whole "Avoid student loans like the plague!" stance.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 12, 2013, 05:43:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on July 12, 2013, 05:43:38 PM
"Everyone lives downriver."
That's some high quality bumper sticker shit, right there.
Ooooooo!
Agreed.
Though the further away you are the more diluted the pollution.
There are computer models to predict how fast and in what direction the pollution will spread. Even without those I'm pretty sure that there won't be detectable amounts coming over here from that particular source.
Quote from: :regret: on July 14, 2013, 12:20:35 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 12, 2013, 05:43:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on July 12, 2013, 05:43:38 PM
"Everyone lives downriver."
That's some high quality bumper sticker shit, right there.
Ooooooo!
Agreed.
Though the further away you are the more diluted the pollution.
There are computer models to predict how fast and in what direction the pollution will spread. Even without those I'm pretty sure that there won't be detectable amounts coming over here from that particular source.
Dude
most of the mercury toxicity in the Columbia Basin comes from China. "The further away the more diluted the pollution" is only true up to a point. After that point, everyone everywhere is affected.
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/4527/2007/acp-7-4527-2007.html
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/sources.asp