So, as long as the government captures less than 92 people per day on average, that comparison holds - hardly an indicator that the US is a safe place to have views that weren't issued by the government.
Amazon Drone-Delivery Customer Service Clerk: Woa, I see that Uncle Sam has ordered and paid for another air-strike for an unnamed nephew in Southern Oilistan!
Colleague: *Envy* Dude; I wish I had an uncle that generous.
Ground-based delivery vehicles are also rarely used for airborne missile strikes within another country's sovereign territory - another feather in their cap - go delivery trucks!
They've completely fixed the problems they've had with mistreating non-white and/or poor people.
Let's have a big hand for the last act as we go into the break. When we come back we'll be throwing cash at public officials to see who will be the first to create corrupt legislation for peanuts.
Oh please. No work is needed. Just make your country less ironically aligned with its mission statement. Remove injustice - why is it ok for the CEO to 'earn' as much as all of the other staff? Increase opportunity. Educate your citizens for the sake of it rather than to get them on the hook for a lifetime of debt. Get some real healthcare. Stop allowing corporations to pay for corrupt laws. Stop being at WAR. Stop trying to ensure that everyone owns ten guns. Stop racism. Basically, reboot your whole culture.
I wonder if they considered all those crimes not committed by officers against innocent members of the public to count towards the stats? I half expected crime figures to decrease.
In today's YouTube world, there are officers reluctant to get out of their cars
That is not a good state of affairs. One can only sympathise with the owners of donut stores - perhaps they are eligible for bail-out money?
Fortunately for crime-prevention stats, history has shown that even the fastest unarmed suspicious black youths can be shot through the window of a police cruiser.
Well, *you* seem pretty excited by your spatula and now, so am I:D... so... you apparently *can* get buzz from a well-designed product - even one as apparently mundane as a spatula. To my mind, it's related to the long-tail idea - a spatula might not be an earth-shatteringly important thing but when it works well, that improves our lives and we want to share with others:D
While absolutely none of them are my friends they are acquaintances
Introduce apparent impartiality
and I've had a number of conversations with them about many different things over the years.
They really do exist and are absolutely not fictional characters brought to life with a single purpose in mind
Now, I suppose, they could be putting on a face/front for me but that seems unlikely and I've seen a couple of them pretty drunk and talked to them while they were inebriated.
There is to be no doubt on the quality of their characters
I feel icky defending the cops but...
You say bad things about the police not because they're true but because you have some reason to dislike them; I'm like you, a cop-hater and so the fact that I find no wrong-doing when my dislike of them causes me to look extra hard means that they are beyond suspicion
Yeah, exactly none seemed to have that mentality.
Natural-sounding echo of earlier rebuttal
One had used his service weapon in defense and openly wept about it while drunk.
Despite being saints, they do a difficult job and try to retain their humanity
Others indicated they hoped they'd never need to.
Maybe you're just an asshole who brings out the worst in people and assumes they treat you like shit because they have an innate trait?
I am finding it difficult to remain in character - I hate having to trawl all over social media astroturfing over legitimate grievances caused by my out-of-control colleagues. I need my job and therefore I must attempt to discredit you as I have a mistaken belief that this somehow alters the self-evident truth of your anecdotal statements
Do you find that most people you associate with are clueless, selfish, pricks who are contrary? I'd not be too terribly surprised if you did - and I bet you'd see it as their character flaw.
Really struggling to discredit you to the extent that is necessary given my intimate knowledge of the extent of the stupidity and corruption that is rife amongst our ranks
Ugh... Cops suck but, yeah, most of them are just humans doing their job. Some of them are actually good people. Do you paint black people with such a large brush? Are you the AC who has been ranting about Jewish people over the past few days?
My manager has told me that I must move on to the next post now so I'll finish with a flourish of: Attempt at empathy with your disgusting position / Couple of attempts at reproducing generalisations made by normal humans I've seen on TV / Couple of further attempts to destroy your character in the belief that the truth is thus modified - respectively.
Seriously it is going to get harder and harder for people to be criminals. Technology is going to catch people that feel secure in the nonsense that they pull off currently with little fear of getting caught.
You're quite right; if NSA records indicate a high probability that you were in the vicinity of a crime, today's modern technology would mean that you'd be half-way convicted before they've finished planting your DNA at the scene!
Once you understand that they've had a long-standing entry in the IINC (internet ironic names contest), it's ok.
Disclaimer: I've not been to EE for years - my memory is of a 'membership wall' above the 'solutions' which could be defeated using a mouse wheel and finger !
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So, as long as the government captures less than 92 people per day on average, that comparison holds - hardly an indicator that the US is a safe place to have views that weren't issued by the government.
Just for discussion... why should a country's laws stop at its borders?
Lol. I recently learned that the Nazis learned propaganda tactics from us (the British) at the end of the second world war.
Dear USA
Are you serious?
Feel free to blame China for everything bad - even imaginary incidents or those you perpetrate yourself - we'll believe it.
Noone is going to believe that China is stupid enough to even consider imitating your 'health'-care system.
Is this an attempt to paint the US 'health'-care system as something worth imitating?
Amazon Drone-Delivery Customer Service Clerk: Woa, I see that Uncle Sam has ordered and paid for another air-strike for an unnamed nephew in Southern Oilistan!
Colleague: *Envy* Dude; I wish I had an uncle that generous.
Ground-based delivery vehicles are also rarely used for airborne missile strikes within another country's sovereign territory - another feather in their cap - go delivery trucks!
I first heard (a variant of) this idea in 1981. Don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen
An evasion...
Why aren't there federally-mandated tests to check whether school board members are capable of critical thinking?
Just wondering...
The horror; I can see the internally-lit primary-coloured plastic signs:
At where? Omg no! there are more to come?? :S
Let's have a big hand for the last act as we go into the break. When we come back we'll be throwing cash at public officials to see who will be the first to create corrupt legislation for peanuts.
...and for the love of God, stop exporting your shitty fast 'food' franchises.
Oh please. No work is needed. Just make your country less ironically aligned with its mission statement. Remove injustice - why is it ok for the CEO to 'earn' as much as all of the other staff? Increase opportunity. Educate your citizens for the sake of it rather than to get them on the hook for a lifetime of debt. Get some real healthcare. Stop allowing corporations to pay for corrupt laws. Stop being at WAR. Stop trying to ensure that everyone owns ten guns. Stop racism. Basically, reboot your whole culture.
The deeply regret that the police were so corrupt and abusive that everyone now takes video of them ?
I wonder if they considered all those crimes not committed by officers against innocent members of the public to count towards the stats? I half expected crime figures to decrease.
That is not a good state of affairs. One can only sympathise with the owners of donut stores - perhaps they are eligible for bail-out money?
Fortunately for crime-prevention stats, history has shown that even the fastest unarmed suspicious black youths can be shot through the window of a police cruiser.
Well, *you* seem pretty excited by your spatula and now, so am I :D ... so... you apparently *can* get buzz from a well-designed product - even one as apparently mundane as a spatula. To my mind, it's related to the long-tail idea - a spatula might not be an earth-shatteringly important thing but when it works well, that improves our lives and we want to share with others :D
There should be penalties for acting against the spirit of the law
Hmm... Not sure if serious...
Appeal to authority / one upmanship
Rebuttal
Introduce apparent impartiality
They really do exist and are absolutely not fictional characters brought to life with a single purpose in mind
There is to be no doubt on the quality of their characters
You say bad things about the police not because they're true but because you have some reason to dislike them; I'm like you, a cop-hater and so the fact that I find no wrong-doing when my dislike of them causes me to look extra hard means that they are beyond suspicion
Natural-sounding echo of earlier rebuttal
Despite being saints, they do a difficult job and try to retain their humanity
Others indicated they hoped they'd never need to.
I am finding it difficult to remain in character - I hate having to trawl all over social media astroturfing over legitimate grievances caused by my out-of-control colleagues. I need my job and therefore I must attempt to discredit you as I have a mistaken belief that this somehow alters the self-evident truth of your anecdotal statements
Really struggling to discredit you to the extent that is necessary given my intimate knowledge of the extent of the stupidity and corruption that is rife amongst our ranks
My manager has told me that I must move on to the next post now so I'll finish with a flourish of: Attempt at empathy with your disgusting position / Couple of attempts at reproducing generalisations made by normal humans I've seen on TV / Couple of further attempts to destroy your character in the belief that the truth is thus modified - respectively.
Seriously it is going to get harder and harder for people to be criminals. Technology is going to catch people that feel secure in the nonsense that they pull off currently with little fear of getting caught.
You're quite right; if NSA records indicate a high probability that you were in the vicinity of a crime, today's modern technology would mean that you'd be half-way convicted before they've finished planting your DNA at the scene!
The only logical solution is for everyone to join the TLA/government - when there's no more 'them' for the them-and-us, what then?
Once you understand that they've had a long-standing entry in the IINC (internet ironic names contest), it's ok.
Disclaimer: I've not been to EE for years - my memory is of a 'membership wall' above the 'solutions' which could be defeated using a mouse wheel and finger !
They should stop creating content and destroy the archives - you can never be too careful - there are potential viewers around every corner.