First of all, appeal to personal knowledge is not enough to justify hating police everywhere. You have no idea what police are like outside of your city. Secondly, the Police are working stiffs just like you or me. They get paid a LOT less than other jobs and get worked a lot harder (although it's usually a personal responsibility thing whether or not they actually DO the work). So before you say they "almost NEVER come to your door to "help" you" you should understand that they aren't saints. They're paid to solve crimes, and are measured by this, not on the degree of "help" they rendered.
If police were getting paid a lot more, then there is justification to judge them more harshly, but as it is it's just a regular blue collar profession.
According to the article "The satirical board game was confiscated along with knives, chisels and bolt cutters, from climate protesters during a series of raids near Kingsnorth power station, in Kent, last week." So they actually just grabbed a ton of stuff. It's not like the only thing they took was the board game. I agree that they probably should have been more selective, but generally they prefer to be on the thorough side, versus the nicer side.
I still don't understand this labeling the police as the enemy, or as a single entity that has "used up its goodwill." Would anarchy had served the owner of that board game better?
I don't hate police, mostly because I respect their job and understand the difficulties that arise from it. For instance, they were probably sent in there to confiscate all materials related to crimes. It wasn't that they decided "hey, lets go steal this board game" it was lets take everything in here that could possibly be related to crimes in any way. That being said, I do agree that it is ridiculous that they took the board game, it's just not a good enough reason to "hate the police."
The only way XP would boot faster than win2k from login is if you disabled every single one of its features, thus rendering it the exact same OS as win2k (i.e. a NTFS version of 98). Despite some of the services allowing less computer-literate people to repair and deal with problems on the machine, XP offered no serious upgrade to win2k other than a different menu scheme. And if that's your argument for why Vista is not as good as XP, then you've lost, since all Vista was, was an upgrade to the services that made the computer more accessible to less computer-literate people. The software it uses to monitor networks is a whole hell of a lot better, the desktop window manager service, while taking up a lot more RAM performs a lot better than the XP version, that, pre-service pack 2, was prone to a lot of crashes. In fact, the only good thing about XP, that I enjoyed over win2k, it's networking software that could be installed on multiple computers, vista also has, except that it comes with the services for repairing network connections that was missing from XP.
Yeah, I'm not gonna deny that Bill Gates, and the system he has set up, is a dick, in the exact same way that I think Steve Jobs is a dick. Open-source ftw.
Actually, that's fair, it would be a lot nicer if we could buy laptops with linux on them. My point was just that Vista is not that bad. I still prefer any Microsoft O/S over Apple ones, for the same reason you like linux.
Seriously, people need to get over this cliché of vista being the anti-christ. I have it running on two of my machines (one of which dual-boots ubuntu) and I have had little to no problems with it, and I have to say I enjoy it more than XP. Honestly, all XP was, was a GUI upgrade to Win2k (the best microsoft OS leap in my opinion). Vista on the other hand actuall has some neat features that, while don't make it worth upgrading, make it useful to have instead of XP. The only reason people downgrade back to XP is because they're trying to use shitty old printers and devices, and they expect these 10 year old pieces of technology to run on newer machine.
The biggest downside to vista is the amount of memory it takes up, both on the HDD and RAM. But you can lower the RAM impact by just turning off things like Aero, and all those services you probably aren't going to use.
Seriously people, get an opinion for yourself. Try using vista.
I work at best buy, and this is in no way below them. They might be one of the most evil businesses ever conceived. As a sales "associate" (i.e. salesman) it is my job to answer any questions you may have, and supposedly I will do so impartially since I'm non-commission. However, since my managers, and supervisors, are on commission, since they make a portion of the stores profit, they threaten termination and other forms of repercussion in an effort to force the non-commission sales staff to sell their shitty insurance policy (never ever buy Performance Service Plan, ever).
In the same way, this C&D is just another way to insure a level of control over the use of their symbol. They don't want it being used in a way that doesn't convey a sense of comfort, since they want potential customers to view it as a seal of assurance. I myself am not allowed to discuss best buy policy, my wages, my fellow employees, or anything that I do at best buy, on my own personal time. This includes the use of "taggy" (the best buy symbol) as an image on one's blog or facebook profile.
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Of course they have discretion, everyone has discretion, what you don't like is the choices they make with that discretion.
First of all, appeal to personal knowledge is not enough to justify hating police everywhere. You have no idea what police are like outside of your city. Secondly, the Police are working stiffs just like you or me. They get paid a LOT less than other jobs and get worked a lot harder (although it's usually a personal responsibility thing whether or not they actually DO the work). So before you say they "almost NEVER come to your door to "help" you" you should understand that they aren't saints. They're paid to solve crimes, and are measured by this, not on the degree of "help" they rendered. If police were getting paid a lot more, then there is justification to judge them more harshly, but as it is it's just a regular blue collar profession.
According to the article "The satirical board game was confiscated along with knives, chisels and bolt cutters, from climate protesters during a series of raids near Kingsnorth power station, in Kent, last week." So they actually just grabbed a ton of stuff. It's not like the only thing they took was the board game. I agree that they probably should have been more selective, but generally they prefer to be on the thorough side, versus the nicer side.
I still don't understand this labeling the police as the enemy, or as a single entity that has "used up its goodwill." Would anarchy had served the owner of that board game better?
I don't hate police, mostly because I respect their job and understand the difficulties that arise from it. For instance, they were probably sent in there to confiscate all materials related to crimes. It wasn't that they decided "hey, lets go steal this board game" it was lets take everything in here that could possibly be related to crimes in any way. That being said, I do agree that it is ridiculous that they took the board game, it's just not a good enough reason to "hate the police."
The only way XP would boot faster than win2k from login is if you disabled every single one of its features, thus rendering it the exact same OS as win2k (i.e. a NTFS version of 98). Despite some of the services allowing less computer-literate people to repair and deal with problems on the machine, XP offered no serious upgrade to win2k other than a different menu scheme. And if that's your argument for why Vista is not as good as XP, then you've lost, since all Vista was, was an upgrade to the services that made the computer more accessible to less computer-literate people. The software it uses to monitor networks is a whole hell of a lot better, the desktop window manager service, while taking up a lot more RAM performs a lot better than the XP version, that, pre-service pack 2, was prone to a lot of crashes. In fact, the only good thing about XP, that I enjoyed over win2k, it's networking software that could be installed on multiple computers, vista also has, except that it comes with the services for repairing network connections that was missing from XP.
Yeah, I'm not gonna deny that Bill Gates, and the system he has set up, is a dick, in the exact same way that I think Steve Jobs is a dick. Open-source ftw.
Actually, that's fair, it would be a lot nicer if we could buy laptops with linux on them. My point was just that Vista is not that bad. I still prefer any Microsoft O/S over Apple ones, for the same reason you like linux.
Seriously, people need to get over this cliché of vista being the anti-christ. I have it running on two of my machines (one of which dual-boots ubuntu) and I have had little to no problems with it, and I have to say I enjoy it more than XP. Honestly, all XP was, was a GUI upgrade to Win2k (the best microsoft OS leap in my opinion). Vista on the other hand actuall has some neat features that, while don't make it worth upgrading, make it useful to have instead of XP. The only reason people downgrade back to XP is because they're trying to use shitty old printers and devices, and they expect these 10 year old pieces of technology to run on newer machine. The biggest downside to vista is the amount of memory it takes up, both on the HDD and RAM. But you can lower the RAM impact by just turning off things like Aero, and all those services you probably aren't going to use. Seriously people, get an opinion for yourself. Try using vista.
I work at best buy, and this is in no way below them. They might be one of the most evil businesses ever conceived. As a sales "associate" (i.e. salesman) it is my job to answer any questions you may have, and supposedly I will do so impartially since I'm non-commission. However, since my managers, and supervisors, are on commission, since they make a portion of the stores profit, they threaten termination and other forms of repercussion in an effort to force the non-commission sales staff to sell their shitty insurance policy (never ever buy Performance Service Plan, ever). In the same way, this C&D is just another way to insure a level of control over the use of their symbol. They don't want it being used in a way that doesn't convey a sense of comfort, since they want potential customers to view it as a seal of assurance. I myself am not allowed to discuss best buy policy, my wages, my fellow employees, or anything that I do at best buy, on my own personal time. This includes the use of "taggy" (the best buy symbol) as an image on one's blog or facebook profile.