I think The Drug War is in the way of that happening. If we could cure our governments of that addiction, the militarization of the police wouldn't be happening.
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Why am I (Aaron) not (Aaron) the least (Aaron) surprised?
I admire the guy (Aaron) the most for his impatience. He couldn't stand to wait for the rest of us to catch up. Poor bugger.
If the NYC police slowdown is cutting into police overtime pay, I just can't see it going for more than a few months.
And if it does, what's the downside? NY cuts its police budget by the amount the police slowdown's costing NY (in tickets not written), and NY ends up with the policing it needs without all these New Yorkers complaining about police presence overkill.
The guy's a fool. Everyone knows Theo De Raadt dishes out much better sado-masochism than Linus. He's just a bit confused. He'll fit right into OpenBSD once he learns of it.
I feel your pain, but discount it. Once the Greencard Lawyers were loosed, all bets were off. If you use Windows, you're hosed from the get go. For the rest, there's (ick!) Apple, or (Yay!) Linux + procmail.
Come over to the dark side. I have no trouble whatever from not hiding my email address. Anyone thinking hiding their email address will save them from anything are delusional.
How do predators become predators? How do peaceful law abiding individuals become peaceful law abiding individuals?
One of us has a dodgy sarcasm meter. I detect some pretty serious sarcasm in tqk's comment, but my meter may be broken.
Actually, I think it's working fine. My Aristotle gene might be on overdrive, and that could be throwing it off. "Things as they could, and should, be." I'm a hopeless idealist.
a1: Predators are either bred or taught to be predators, or not taught not to become predators in our (civilized homo sapiens) case. We're supposed to not be doing "law of the jungle" stuff in polite society.
a2: Peaceful law abiding[*] individuals become "peaceful law abiding individuals" by not being predators. See a1.
I'm just standing up for the weak here. They don't want to live in a battle zone, and they shouldn't have to. If their gov't is good for anything, it ought to at least ship the worst, most egregious, most recidivistic, least teachable offenders out, and the north coast of Greenland seems like a great place for them. It's really not all that difficult to act civilized, but if that's too tough for some, there's Greenland.
[*] Sane laws in effect is an assumption on my part. I'd prefer to go on ethics and morality, but if all of you prefer codified law, I can do that instead.
Prisons should be about reeducating and reintroducing the person into society when possible.
Yeah, and they should be about locking away avowed predators from peaceful, law abiding individuals. I'm in favour of building "Coventry" on the north shore of Greenland. Just drop the perps off there and they can walk back to civilization.
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What twaddle. All they have to do is go to Wall St. They'll be with their kind of people.
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Sadist.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Whatever floats your boat ... I'm listening to youtube-dl output. Whatta century!
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Do you guys notice what happened there?
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Why am I (Aaron) not (Aaron) the least (Aaron) surprised?
I admire the guy (Aaron) the most for his impatience. He couldn't stand to wait for the rest of us to catch up. Poor bugger.
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And if it does, what's the downside? NY cuts its police budget by the amount the police slowdown's costing NY (in tickets not written), and NY ends up with the policing it needs without all these New Yorkers complaining about police presence overkill.
Who loses, but the PBA?
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It's not that complicated.
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Come over to the dark side. I have no trouble whatever from not hiding my email address. Anyone thinking hiding their email address will save them from anything are delusional.
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I commented before reading the other already posted comments. "Shut up" seems more productive, as you cynically agreed.
Or, have another beer, whatever. It doesn't go well with popcorn though. Makes you all bloated.
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Whatever happened to SLS?
Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.
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"Horton Hears A Who" is even better. Kindergarten cosmology!
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Actually, I think it's working fine. My Aristotle gene might be on overdrive, and that could be throwing it off. "Things as they could, and should, be." I'm a hopeless idealist.
a1: Predators are either bred or taught to be predators, or not taught not to become predators in our (civilized homo sapiens) case. We're supposed to not be doing "law of the jungle" stuff in polite society.
a2: Peaceful law abiding[*] individuals become "peaceful law abiding individuals" by not being predators. See a1.
I'm just standing up for the weak here. They don't want to live in a battle zone, and they shouldn't have to. If their gov't is good for anything, it ought to at least ship the worst, most egregious, most recidivistic, least teachable offenders out, and the north coast of Greenland seems like a great place for them. It's really not all that difficult to act civilized, but if that's too tough for some, there's Greenland.
[*] Sane laws in effect is an assumption on my part. I'd prefer to go on ethics and morality, but if all of you prefer codified law, I can do that instead.
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Yeah, and they should be about locking away avowed predators from peaceful, law abiding individuals. I'm in favour of building "Coventry" on the north shore of Greenland. Just drop the perps off there and they can walk back to civilization.
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Ah, the ultimate compliment!
Yup, this is definitely, exactly the kind of thing that makes me want to be here.
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