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Simply refusing to consent to a search would not be adequate grounds to obtain a search warrant. There has to be some probable cause to believe a search will recover evidence of a crime, and simply asserting one Fourth Amendment rights is not regarded as criminal behavior.A refusal to consent can be mentioned in the search warrant application, along with whatever actual probable cause the affiant has to present. If the situation was one where consent could have been requested and obtained, the judge reading the search warrant application would likely be wondering why the officer didn’t at least attempt that route.Many years ago, I read about a Florida sheriff’s office that was detailing regular and reserve deputies to a shopping mall parking lot. They would approach people parking or returning to their cars, and politely ask if they could search the car. No probable cause, no reasonable suspicion, no rationale of any kind other than they were in the same space and time. If the driver refused, they thanked them for their time and bade them good day. A refusal would not have been grounds for a search warrant application unless there was a human hand protruding from the trunk lid or a cloud of reefer smoke was emanating from the vent window. I suppose someone at that sheriff’s office thought this would be a productive use of law enforcement resources. I never heard of it done anywhere else, so I presume that it wasn’t.

There are so many to choose from.Here’s a gem from Jordan, just in case you’re not sure if you haved arrived at the place with the nice view yet.In South Africa, there are very strict rules regarding where to bathe:This sign in a mountainous part of Madeira, Portugal, practically screams “I TOLD YOU SO!!!”Here’s a slightly modified one-way street sign near the cathedral in Milan:Cambodians couldn’t care less about this sign:On a hike, deep inside a forest in Norway, I discovered that once upon a time it must have been a busier place, although it was all overgrown now, making the sign seem a bit funny:I was happy that the long-distance bus I was traveling through Bolivia on was so nice and clean, until I noticed this sign:(It says “Please keep the bus clean, throw your garbage out the window.)And finally, here’s a fair warning from St. Lucia, South Africa:Happy trails!

As someone who travels a lot, I have quite a few hotel room ‘hacks’ that I use regularly, plus a few that I no longer need to use. but are great for budget travelers.Use hotel-branded credit cards to get elite statuses at hotel chains I don’t use very often. For example, I only stay at Hilton properties once or twice a year, but because I have a Hilton credit card, I automatically get the elite status that gets me upgrades and free breakfast every time I do stay at a Hilton property. Similarly, I rarely stay at Radisson properties, but in advance of a stay at a gorgeous new Radisson hotel in Cartagena, I signed up for a Radisson-branded credit card that got me the highest elite level with Radisson, which resulted in an upgrade to a two-bedroom penthouse suite; in addition, between the sign-on bonus and the points earned from that stay in Cartagena, I had enough points for a three-night stay in a luxury hotel in Manhattan, worth over $1200.^ My fabulous suite upgrade at the Radisson Cartagena, due to new credit card!2. Use the JP Morgan - Ritz Carlton credit card to get free upgrades to the club floor at Ritz Carlton hotels. The club lounges at Ritz Carlton hotels puts all other US club or executive lounges to shame, with five food and beverage presentations per day, complimentary free-flowing fine wines, champagne, and excellent food all day long, butler service, free garment pressing, free use of boardrooms, etc. This comes at a price, of course; the club floor rooms are usually $150 - $250 more per day than a regular room. However, the JP Morgan - Ritz Carlton credit card entitles one to 21 nights a year of free upgrades to the club floor, confirmed at time of booking, and not based on availability. The card is pricey (about $400 a year), but just a few nights on the club floor pays for the card. Plus, it has a host of other benefits, including a $100 hotel credit per stay, up to $300 of reimbursements for airline fees (luggage, drinks, change fees, etc.), $100 for Global Entry or TSA Pre-Check fees, and unlimited visits to hundreds of fabulous airport lounges. I estimate that on average, the $400 I pay for the card gets me over $3000 of benefits every year!^ Complimentary snacks at the Ritz Club Lounge in New Orleans3. Email the assistant general manager of a hotel in advance with any special requests, and also email the concierge for itinerary help. If you email the GM, he or she will likely simply pass on the email to the assistant GM, whereas the assistant GM is more likely to be very eager to please, in hopes of praise that will help him or her get an eventual promotion to GM. Emailing the assistant GM in advance, letting them know that this is a special stay, and asking for a special room or suggestions for special things to do, has resulted in some pretty amazing upgrades and experiences for me, including upgrades to a two-bedroom suite with six balconies overlooking the Grand Canal in Venice, a two-bedroom suite overlooking the Taj Mahal, the Imperial Suite in Vienna, and a private meeting for drinks with the Prince of Rajasthan!^ View of Taj Mahal from the bathroom of my upgraded, two-bedroom suite!4. Send thank you notes to hotel staff who help you, and compliment notes to the hotel GM, praising employees who went above and beyond. Not only is this the right thing to do, you never know where hotel employees will show up in the future. For example, upon arrival at the Four Seasons in Buenos Aires, I found that I’d been upgraded to a suite on the club floor, and when I got to the room, in addition to a large fruit bowl, there was a note from the GM, who happened to have been an assistant GM that I had praised in his former position at a hotel in Boston!5. If you aren’t thrilled with the first room you are given, ask to be shown other rooms that are available. Often, there is a room with a much better view, or that is more spacious, etc. It never hurts to ask, and when you do ask, they generally offer up the best rooms they have available, so the process doesn’t take too long!6. Write meaningful reviews on TripAdvisor, and be sure that you have a reasonable distribution of star ratings. A few years ago, I stayed at a luxury hotel in Dubrovnik. It was a local Croatian chain, so I had no elite status, nor was it affiliated with any chain with which I had status. I booked two rooms on Expedia at the cheapest rate available, yet when my travel companions and I checked in, we had been upgraded to two huge, one-bedroom suites, both over 1000 square feet, and one of which had a 1200 square foot, private deck that overlooked the sea. The evening before departing, when I mentioned that we had to leave before breakfast started, they offered to set up a mini-buffet in our suite! I was baffled as to why they treated us so well, so when I got home, I asked a friend (who was a GM at a Ritz Carlton) his thoughts. He told me that it was because I have ‘a perfect Tripadvisor profile’ with a great distribution of star ratings and lots of reviews, so my reviews were considered to be of influence. Clearly the hotel chose well, as my review of that property has been viewed over 20,000 times since then (which is a lot for Tripadvisor).^ The 1200 square foot, private deck off of my upgraded suite in Dubrovnik7. Keep a cube tap in my travel bag. Unless they have been recently renovated, hotel rooms often do not have enough outlets for everything I need. This little helper saves me from having to hope the hotel has one!8. Keep the room-darkening shades closed in order to sleep well. For some reason, most hotel room-darkening shades do not stay fully closed, leaving an annoying gap that usually lets light in. A variety of common items work to hold the drapes closed, including a paper clip, the pocket clip on a pen, and the clamps on trouser hangers!9. Keep a shoe in the safe. To prevent forgetting to remove items from the in-room safe, put one of the shoes you wear when you travel in the safe; when you get ready to leave, having to search for your other shoe will remind you to open the safe and retrieve your items.10. Never use “Please clean room” signs. Using the “Please clean room” sign tells everyone, including potential thieves, that the room is vacant. Instead, just call housekeeping and ask that they clean the room now.And, a few I don’t use any more, but are helpful for budget travelers:A) Use the in-room electric kettle or coffee-maker to make ramen noodles. Just be nice and wash it afterwards!B) Use the iron and hair dryer to reheat pizza. Most hotel rooms have a mini-bar or mini-fridge where you can store leftover pizza, but many do not have a microwave to reheat food. An iron plus hair dryer heats up leftover pizza quickly, while keeping the crust crisp! Again, be nice and clean the iron afterwards!

PEOPLES EXPECTATIONS FROM GIRLS IN ARRANGED MARRIAGES…So this incident took place recently.My Cousin Brother who is 23 years old, his family is looking for a girl for marriage.First let me tell you about their family. They are very big farmers with other bussiness also running. In short , they are rich and live in their village.So after looking few girls, they finalised a girl after meeting her, but what happened is that in that meeting , only the boy and his parents went but my Nani and other relatives didn't go as they were not available due to some reasons. They finalised the marriage but most of my relatives and Nani were still unaware of who the girl was but the Boy liked the girl. ( Both of them have studied in the same schools till 12th as she is also from a nearby village and he knows her quite well that's why he agreed )But the problem arose 2 days later ( i.e yesterday) when after doing the engagement everyone returned home , and my nani told everyone that she didn't like the girl, she said that she was not even asked once and all that emotional drama. Few of my relatives who attended the function also agreed with her. (All this is happening after the engagement)She didn't tell the reason for disapproval but most probably it would be looks or not very rich family.We couldn't attend it as we live far away so just saw the photos and in photos , the girl looks good with fair skin and average height that too in very simple clothes.So the question here is -Who is actually at fault? - Ofcourse my relatives as they didn't see the girl earlier and later complaining on the choice of the boy and his mother.And why do people expect very beautiful 'bahu' , when all she has to do are the household chores for her whole life. ( In this scenario)All these things have put my mother under pressure as she is in full support of the marriage as her point is that the boy liked the girl and that is the main aim of marriage. Now she is angry on 'her mother' as she started this by complaining about the girl.The thing which shocked me is - in arranged marriages , people expect the girl to be educated , beautiful and what not but all they let her do are kitchen work.They see marriages more as a social status and the more dowry the guys family gets , they get more respect from society.It's 21st century , where people are achieving great heights whereas others are worried about dowry and marriages.All this needs to change !!.Thank you....All suggestions are welcome.!..FOLLOW ME!!Edit : thanks for the 100+ upvotes. It means a lot to me and encourages me to write more.

The man who owned the house next door rented it out to four non related people who each had their own bedroom but shared a bath. One day my four year old son was riding a big wheels down our driveway and he was stung by a wasp. I noticed that there was a very large wasp nest on the porch in front of his house by my driveway and mentioned it to him the next time he was there picking up the rent. When I told him the story he said not my problem keep your kid in the house and you won’t have a problem. Yes I was pissed but I was more pissed when I mentioned it to one of his renters an elderly lady of about 75 she said that he hadn’t put oil in the tank in weeks and that her room was cold every night. She said the paint was peeling in her room and that the sink they all used kept backing up. She also asked me if I noticed that the 80 year old gentleman who lived in one of the other rooms was gone. I had noticed that I had not seen him for a few weeks. He was always nice and would sit on the porch and sometimes come over when my son and I were out just to talk. Well apparently he had passed away and this bastard made an agreement with the man’s nephew who I had never met who was supposed to be talking care of him to not let anyone know he died. The plan was for the nephew to cash his social security checks as if the poor man was still alive and they would split the money. So long as they kept the address going and kept signing the mans name to the check they were in the money. What bastards.First I called the town and told them that the man next door was renting to elderly people and leaving them without heat and that the living conditions he left them in were deplorable. Then I contacted the Social Security office and told them although I didn’t know the mans last name or when he died but it had been at least two months back . I did know his address and his first name. I told them about the scam the nephew and the owner of the house were pulling. They said they would look into it.Now I wish I could tell you that both those gentlemen got what they deserve. What I can tell you is that two weeks later a man around his 30’s was moving stuff out of the house. I went over and asked who he was as I knew he didn’t live there. He said oh I’m Georges nephew my uncle passed and I’m getting his stuff. So I do know the scam was over anyway. A month after that the house was on the market and Miss Susan the elderly lady from upstairs said when she called her son and told him about what was going on at the house he said she could come live with him. Apparently she had never mentioned to him about the heat and the paint because she didn’t want him to worry. She was really excited about moving in with her son and I was excited she was going to be taken care of.I don’t regret turning them in at all. If what comes around goes around there is a nice place in hell for both of them. Preying on the elderly is just disgusting.

I agree with the other responses that NDAs are overrated. For what it's worth, in 15+ years of representing companies ranging from pre-funding startups to NYSE-listed, multi-billion-dollar behemoths, as well as their founders, investors, Board members and executives, I've never once seen them involved in litigation over an NDA. On either side.  Or even be threatened about one.  I won't go into all of the "whys," but the bottom line is that this is the reality. So there's no point in agonizing over a document that, in the vast majority of cases, will never really matter.  Companies and their lawyers (especially big companies) waste countless hours negotiating NDAs.I'll give an example from my days at eHarmony, which has a patented Compatibility Matching System®.  The patent (http://bll.la/9w) is great, and I was glad we had it, but it wasn't really what kept others from copying our matching system.  The real barrier to entry in the early days was that it was damn hard to build the thing, and required people with specialized skills (psychometrics and relationship science) to invest a lot of effort. Others couldn't just "copy the idea" — and in practice, very few have ever tried.I'm picturing a conversation between our founders and an investor such as former CEO Greg Waldorf (my former boss), who led the Series A round (and, like most VCs, presumably declined to sign an NDA):We're proposing to build a new kind of online dating service. It will match people, one pair at a time, based on personality characteristics. These will be measured by asking them to answer a lengthy questionnaire. Research shows that the more similar people are, the more likely they are to hit it off, get married and stay happily married.That's the basic pitch. How will it work exactly? There's the secret sauce. The patent does go into quite a bit more detail, but that's really unnecessary. Just take it a level deeper, if you trust the person on the other side of the table:Find some married couples; measure their level of happiness. Give them a questionnaire to assess various dimensions of their personalities. Use statistical methods to figure out which dimensions are the ones that really determine relationship satisfaction. Then build an algorithm that matches single people based on those dimensions, delivering only the most compatible matches.That's it.  I've just described enough that someone could "steal the idea" and go out and build another eHarmony — but it should be obvious that although it's pretty cool, it would (and did) take a tremendous amount of work to actually turn that idea into a product that worked (let alone persuade people to use it — and finally, persuade them to pay for it).

Imagine, you're a Russian T-34 driver, your commander/gunner tells you to keep going no matter what or why. Before that, you slow down for your infantry pals to demount to take cover behind your tank's rear. Once you hear your top's excitement or fearful voice shouting: "Enemy tanks! Load fragmentation round! Ready armor piercing round in your hands!" while showing his loader open palm meaning HE then closed fist meaning AP. You hear your loader grunts as he loads the 1st round into the 76mm breech: "Ready!" Then holds an AP round on his lap. Your tank rocked but keeps rolling, you look through your slit and sees the leading Panzer’s left drive wheel flies off and trends goes with it. It looks strange and new, first time seeing that panzer, it looks big and has sloped armor on its front plus a long gun. At the same time, your loader sounds the breech is ready to be fired then immediately throws the empty shell out through his hatch to let shell gas not fill up turret, you can see the large red tracer round touches the Panther's front armor and bounces up into the air far away. It retaliates with a very fast round emiting green, your vehicle shakes and comes to stop. You hear screamings from the turret cage, you turn and look at your commander/gunner covering his head with bloody hands, then your loader who lost his legs then to your co-driver, best buddy for 2 years, upper torso isn't there. You see more light inside your tank. Then you feel hot and smell smokes, your tank engine is on fire! You try to unlock your heavy visor door, open it, you try to get out as soon as fast, drop to the ground. You hear lots of "clang-cling!" seeing small green tracers bouncing off your tank, trying to get you. You lie down, not knowing what to do. You look at another T-34, running over wounded soldiers, our own soldiers, not stopping, then its turret pops out of the hull, along with limbs of her crew throwing out of the hull while on fire. Other T-34 keeps rolling, some got destroyed. It’s like a field with fireplaces all over it. You feel ground shaking from co tinous artillery and mortar round impacts and loud clanking sounds from hundreds of T-34’s noisy tracks. You just saw your best friend's half of his body blown off, loader's upper legs exposed, then you hear your TC/gunner screaming while tank heats up. What happens next is unknown because you were shot in the head.What I described isn't even 10% of what it's like being a T-34 driver. To someone who pointed out my mistake (thank you!), readers are probably confused why there are 5 crew instead of 4 since I used terms people think there are actually a tank commander AND a gunner, not both. It’s a standard T-34 with driver, co-driver, loader and commander (acting as gunner too).Please note, I took some parts from memoirs of Russian tankers in WWII. The German's view on the Eastern Front is more gruesome because some Germans were scared of Russians due to their methods and tanks.I can recommend Wolfgang Faust's books on Kindle, they are memoirs so I'm not willing to consider what they say are to be facts. But hey, interesting perspective!Same goes for ‘T-34 in Action’ on Kindle. It’s a book about the writer who interviewed 12 T-34 tankers around 50–60 years after WWII so their memories may vary but at same time, provided perspectives not many have known or seen through it.

Oh god, no. Remember the poor bastard who got torn to death at the start of the film trying to move a Raptor? The facilities were unsafe even when things were working, bringing the computers down only exacerbated the existing problems caused by extremely shoddy design.Had the park been properly designed, the electric fence going down wouldn't have mattered. Everything would have been built in such a way that would make it next to impossible for any dangerous specimens to signNow the areas the humans were located in. Just take a look at some of the ways modern zoos are built:Physical barriers, not electric fences. The movie did a pretty good job in showing how an electric fence stops being an effective barrier once the power goes out, but it wouldn't even be that reliable when the power was on. Imagine, for example, that two dinosaurs get into a fight and one knocks the other into the fence. No matter how badly it hurts, there's nothing that the dinosaur being electrocuted can do to avoid contact. And if the fence isn't strong enough to support that dinosaur's entire weight (which they clearly weren't, given how the larger dinosaurs walked straight through them) then it's going to collapse and probably break the circuit in the process. A big freaking wall on the other hand, built thick enough so that ten dinosaurs wouldn't be able to break it down with a concerted effort, isn't going to have that problem.Keep the visitors and the animals at separate elevations. It's one of the most basic and effective means of containing a dangerous predator out there - either put them in a pit or put your customers at the top of a cliff. If the T-Rex had needed to scale a seventy foot sheer wall of concrete and somehow swing around an angled guard fence at the top of it in order to signNow the cars full of tasty humans, she wouldn't have bothered. Maybe she'd have spent a couple minutes butting her head against the wall or scrabbling for purchase with her comically tiny forearms, but after that she'd have lost interest and gone in search of easier prey.Build absolutely everything to fail safe. I didn't see a single instance where this basic engineering principle was adhered to. The cars ferrying customers through the park stopped in the middle of the road when power was lost rather than continuing on their track back to the visitor's center, exposing their passengers to danger while also creating a traffic hazard. Manual overrides for power and backup generators were located in a remote, unstaffed location rather than immediately adjacent to the command center. The computers were apparently so complex that only a single person could figure out how to run them, and had no redundancy built in. They didn't even take basic precautions to prevent people from leaving protected areas (like the cars) and climbing into the fenced off areas. Apparently they just figured they'd be equally deterred by the electric fence that's been provisioned with enough power to warn off a twelve ton armored death lizard, which would be easily enough to kill a human if it arced through their heart (which very nearly happened).In short despite the repeated protestations made by Dr. Hammond that Ingen had spared no expense, Jurassic Park has every indication of being built on the cheap by a firm more concerned with cutting costs and presenting the illusion of elaborate protections rather than actually guaranteeing the safety of its visitors or staff. One might wonder if the actual reason for constructing it on Isla Nublar was actually to spare them from the obstacles of regular safety inspections or getting the government to sign off on a building permit. Though it's doubtful that would have shielded them from a barrage of civil suits from the survivors and the families of those who died in the disaster.