“I don’t have any hard and fast rule I can give you,” Cassilly says. “It depends on the circumstances, and if the officer in those circumstances had good reason to think he wouldn’t be recorded. Should a domestic violence victim have a camera shoved in her face and have her privacy violated because someone is following a police officer around with a camera?
RTWT. Police are agents of the state. While they are agents of the state, they have no civil rights. We do. When they hang up their badge, and give up their arrest powers, then they get their rights back.
A better question to me is, “why does the rest of the world love soccer so much?” I think it comes down squarely to economics.
Soccer is cheap. What do you need to play? A ball and matching clothes. In fact, you don’t even need the matching clothes until you get into league play. Kids can play the exact same game in the street if they have a ball. Or a ball-like object. Shin guards are nice, but even then you can get a serviceable pair for $5.
Football is hideously expensive. Pads and helmets and the other safety gear is ridiculously expensive. On top of that, there is the issue of injuries. It’s a catch-22. Football is expensive because of the pads. Why can’t you play without pads? Because you’ll pay even more in medical care.
Baseball isn’t much better. Sure, you can play with a stick and a cheap ball, but unlike soccer, you can’t play the real game. You’re playing stickball. To play the real game, you need at least one bat, a real ball, and nine leather gloves. That’s an expense that people in a lot of places in the world can’t afford. Not when you can play soccer with one ball.
I think that is really what it comes down to. Soccer is popular because people all over the world can afford to play soccer as kids. In America, football and baseball are popular because kids all over America can afford to play football and baseball.
I am a Rewards member with over 50 membership nights. I was appalled to read that Marriott tolerates openly hostile attitudes towards large blocks of its patrons such as the attempt to place NRA convention members at criminal liability in Charlotte, NC.
If Marriott tolerates managers pursuing personal political vendettas at the expense of its patrons, I will avoid Marriott properties at all cost, lest I be the next victim of a manager’s whim.
Because Mimas is mostly round, planetary scientists expected temperatures to vary evenly across the surface. Instead, they found a sharp boundary between warmer temperatures (around 294 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, or 92 Kelvin) and colder temperatures (-320 degrees F, or 77 K). A little warm spot (-310 degrees F, 84 K) was detected around Herschel Crater.
