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Tech Wars In Meat Space
Starfish writes: "Police and protesters are asking if new technologies used by both sides will turn street protests into bloodless, but also meaningless rituals. Real protest robots, phaser-like weapons, and other cool gadgets are discussed in this Village Voice article. Good heads up about the Ruckus Society's tech action camp in October."
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"The only way to win is not to play"
Or you can play on your terms. Heh.
(in other words: sure you can try to out-crack the crack-smoking moderators. But why not just reform the system? there are hundreds of slashdot readers who know how to make not slashcode, but its settings, better. why dont we listen to them? why dont we listen to the slashdot population as a whole? because nobody cares. and nobody ever will care, until we make them.)
seriously slashdot, it takes a fuckin moron to post a story this lame, michael you suck, no this isn't a troll or flame bait, but this is a bad story a bad concept and everyone thinks it sucks, don't lower the integrity of slashdot. Reply below if you think this story was insanely stupid
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I like the bloody, but meaningless rituals we have now. I especially liked that bit in Genoa where the crowd of modern-day Luddites (assorted bums, malcontents, the ignorant, the unemployable, and other various parasites) tried to show their solidarity by attacking a cop. It's amazing how little solidarity they had after Alfonse there took two in the eye.
Let me be the first to tell some of you that a real action group with real tactics and unit cohesion would have taken that cop, even if losses had been incurred. That would be taken seriously, since relatively few of the world's bottom-feeding anti-globalist whiners put anything above their own comfort, much less their lives.
But instead, now we are promised "soft" harmless mechanisms to round up Johnny Hooligan and send him back to his high-rise dorm unscarred. Great.
If these people, and I use the term loosely, want to stage an exercise in raw power by using their bodies and improvised weaponry to disrupt their society, destroy property, endanger lives, and otherwise subvert the normal democratic process (which they hate because it allows a working person to have some say in the way the country should run) then I say, let's let them have a taste of raw power in return. If they want play games designed by Mao, well, we have read that rule book too. It says "power comes out of the barrel of a gun."
If a free and democratic society is what you want, then you don't want what these malingerers want. They may use such a phrase, but their actions reveal them to be nothing but a tiny revolutionary minority that should be stamped out exactly as they try to stamp out free dialogue in democratic countries.
is a bunch of fascist cocksuckers.
and so are the moderators
is a bunch of fascist cocksuckers
i hope... pleeease
Why should protesters be allowed to use this tech? The cops are there to do their job: protect life and property and to enforce laws. Protesters, OTOH, are there to protest, not engage in violence against the cops. This tech makes the cops more effective at performing their duties, whereas the tech, at most, will only protect protesters if violence somehow breaks out.
change it, you cocksucking moderators
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