#cop

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little. ↗

— John Green

#become #divinity #enrolled #episcopalian #found

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. ↗

— James Gunn

#change #character #characters #cope #environment

I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?' ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#big #boy #chris #city #cops

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#change #consumes #content #copyright #dramatically

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#beyond #competition #engaging #fair #go

During voir dire, the interviews for jury selection, each person is asked under oath about their experience with the criminal justice system, as defendant or victim, but usually not even the most elementary effort is made to corroborate those claims. One ADA [Associate District Attorney] told me about inheriting a murder case, after the first jury deadlocked. He checked the raps for the jurors and found that four had criminal records. None of those jurors were prosecuted. Nor was it policy to prosecute defense witnesses who were demonstrably lying--by providing false alibis, for example--because, as another ADA told me, if they win the case, they don't bother, and if they lose, "it looks like sour grapes." A cop told me about a brawl at court one day, when he saw court officers tackle a man who tried to escape from the Grand Jury. An undercover was testifying about a buy when the juror recognized him as someone he had sold to. Another cop told me about locking up a woman for buying crack, who begged for a Desk Appearance Ticket, because she had to get back to court, for jury duty--she was the forewoman on a Narcotics case, of course. The worst part about these stories is that when I told them to various ADAs, none were at all surprised; most of those I'd worked with I respected, but the institutionalized expectations were abysmal. They were too used to losing and it showed in how they played the game. ↗

— Edward Conlon

#district-attorney #irony #jurors #jury-duty #pathetic

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#becomes #brought #copper #current #electrical

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense. ↗

— Bruce Henderson

#else #enlarge #expense #happen #objective

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one. ↗

— Jim Henson

#actually #articles #characters #copies #i

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#cope #enough #fast #film #hard