You need to reform the entire judicial system for that to work. As long as even relatively minor infringements can get someone sent off to forced labour camps with added rape, the police are never going to be part of the community.
This is true...it's not just the idea of arrest that make people hate and fear the police, it's the follow-on effects that destroy lives for no reason.
Smoking a joint or not stopping completely at a stop sign shouldn't make you eligible for a beating, pepper-spraying, arrest (with a chance of injury or death), incarceration, and rape. This doesn't happen often, but even once seems to be too much.
Most police today look and act like extras straight out of RoboCop, and many of them behave as if they're about to be killed at any moment. They overreact at the slightest thing and rarely use their discretion any more. It's just gone fucking nuts.
When I was young the police (most police) were actually friendly and you could count on them for help. Most people liked and respected police officers. Now they mostly seem to be dicks itching for any excuse to make an arrest over the smallest thing.
The problem is that most cops these days can't tell the difference between a felony and just fucking around.
"Whether you have an established credit history or not, the one thing most of us have, especially millennials, is an online social platform presence."
But some old duffers like me have virtually no "online social platform presence". No Facebook, no Linkedin, no Myspace, no Pinterest, no Instagram, no Twitter....I don't have any of that stuff. I'm happy that other people like those things, more power to them. It's just not my thing.
I realize that all that stuff is super popular and widely used, but I'm just not involved in any of it, the same way I'm not involved in model railroading or bowling or football. It's just not my thing.
If this becomes the way of the future then I suppose my near-perfect credit score and ability to buy stuff will soon wither away and I'll be left homeless, cold, and hungry, living in a cardboard box by the freeway.
As I cook my freshly-caught squirrel over a piece of burning tire, I'll berate myself, crying out, "If only I had made a Facebook account when I had the chance!!!"
Why do people, or should I say companies and governments, keep trying to use it ?
Because companies and governments have a harder time tracking plain old cash, and we can't have that.
They practically come in their pants at the idea of being able to track and tie every transaction to an individual. It's their ultimate wet dream come true.
Nothing could possibly go wrong with this brilliant idea, and no surveillance agency or repressive government would ever misuse this constant stream of identity and location data. Never.
They would never come in their pants just thinking about all the possibilities to tighten their grip on financial transactions and the ability to track a person through every transaction they ever made. They would just never do that, ever.
No, my comment was a "joke", something you apparently aren't all that familiar with. And I think that's a shame.
Anyone who doesn't see the humor and silliness in the idea of "moving into a Home Depot near a grocery store" needs to take a chill pill, have a drink, and loosen the fuck up.
Seriously, take off your Pedant Badge for 3 minutes and have a laugh instead of over-analyzing everything to pieces.
You think I should be "jealous" of your 2^3 +5 comments? Now that IS funny! LOL
I have no idea what you're jealous of, but you certainly seem to be pretty tightly wound to have such a shit fit over comments on a message board. You must be a real hoot at parties.
Go outside once in a while, find a girl (or a guy, or whatever) and enjoy life a bit. You're so bent out of shape over this that it would be funny if it weren't so embarrassing.
1. the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.
"his tales are full of humor"
synonyms: comedy, comical aspect, funny side, fun, amusement, funniness, hilarity, jocularity; More
absurdity, ludicrousness, drollness;
satire, irony, farce
"the humor of the film"
the ability to express humor or make other people laugh.
"their inimitable brand of humor"
Antonyms: jackoff (see "cold fijord"), dipstick (see "cold fijord"), humorless cunt (see "cold fijord"), pompous asswipe (see "cold fijord"), curmudgeon (see "cold fijord"), nimrod (see "cold fijord"), bliss ninny, (see "cold fijord"),
Could you expand on that? How do you think he will "bilk" people? By not building the shelters? Some other fraud?
Those are two good guesses. Or maybe they'll be built with crappy materials or be oversold, or be unavailable/unfinished when the shit hits the fan. There could be any number of things that could go awry. Maybe squatters will get their first and not let you in.
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Or are you worried that he will build the shelters, people will buy them, and there won't be a nuclear war?
Yes, that would be my greatest fear, that we won't have a nuclear war. Heaven forbid that we don't have a nuclear war, you shit-for brains.
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I take it your preference is for all of humanity to die should there be a nuclear war?
Yes, you ignorant dumbfuck, that would be my ultimate hope, that the entire world perishes. Of course that's it.
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Do you have a leg to stand on here, or just nonsense claims?
Do you have a point to make, or are you just a whiny little asshole?
You want to really protect yourself? Get into the distribution/warehouse business - so you have a warehouse full of food, water, etc. on hand all the time. Put a shelter under/in your work place.
My plan is to find a Home Depot next to a grocery store and move in there.
I'm starting to forget when a statement like this was never even contextually apropos, much less relevant to the topic, in a semi-mainstream news story. The times, they are a-getting unidentifiable.
Lol, O Brave New World....
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"I worry about Jeff Bezos' bizarre obsession with dinosaur sex,"
I hear ya. That was a sentence I could never have expected or predicted to hear, no matter how long I lived.
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Yep. Call the police and Domino's Pizza, and see which one gets to your home first.
You need to reform the entire judicial system for that to work. As long as even relatively minor infringements can get someone sent off to forced labour camps with added rape, the police are never going to be part of the community.
This is true...it's not just the idea of arrest that make people hate and fear the police, it's the follow-on effects that destroy lives for no reason.
Smoking a joint or not stopping completely at a stop sign shouldn't make you eligible for a beating, pepper-spraying, arrest (with a chance of injury or death), incarceration, and rape. This doesn't happen often, but even once seems to be too much.
Most police today look and act like extras straight out of RoboCop, and many of them behave as if they're about to be killed at any moment. They overreact at the slightest thing and rarely use their discretion any more. It's just gone fucking nuts.
When I was young the police (most police) were actually friendly and you could count on them for help. Most people liked and respected police officers. Now they mostly seem to be dicks itching for any excuse to make an arrest over the smallest thing.
The problem is that most cops these days can't tell the difference between a felony and just fucking around.
A wooden stick works well in many places around the world.
Not in Battombong it doesn't. ;)
Or Jim Phelps, because I'm old school.
Jim was the man!! <Mission Impossible theme music begins to play...>
"Whether you have an established credit history or not, the one thing most of us have, especially millennials, is an online social platform presence."
But some old duffers like me have virtually no "online social platform presence". No Facebook, no Linkedin, no Myspace, no Pinterest, no Instagram, no Twitter....I don't have any of that stuff. I'm happy that other people like those things, more power to them. It's just not my thing.
I realize that all that stuff is super popular and widely used, but I'm just not involved in any of it, the same way I'm not involved in model railroading or bowling or football. It's just not my thing.
If this becomes the way of the future then I suppose my near-perfect credit score and ability to buy stuff will soon wither away and I'll be left homeless, cold, and hungry, living in a cardboard box by the freeway.
As I cook my freshly-caught squirrel over a piece of burning tire, I'll berate myself, crying out, "If only I had made a Facebook account when I had the chance!!!"
You're the one having a fit, not me.
Uh, yeah, just keep repeating that and hope that someone else will believe it.
No, electric cars are NOT "making people meaner" any more than "spoons are making people fat".
People just have a new thing to fight over, that's all this is. Whoopdeedoo.
Why do people, or should I say companies and governments, keep trying to use it ?
Because companies and governments have a harder time tracking plain old cash, and we can't have that.
They practically come in their pants at the idea of being able to track and tie every transaction to an individual. It's their ultimate wet dream come true.
Nothing could possibly go wrong with this brilliant idea, and no surveillance agency or repressive government would ever misuse this constant stream of identity and location data. Never.
They would never come in their pants just thinking about all the possibilities to tighten their grip on financial transactions and the ability to track a person through every transaction they ever made. They would just never do that, ever.
How about if I meet you half way and concede that some assholes find me irritating?
Yes, when squeezed out through the anus, grit-laden shit like you will irritate some assholes. :) lol
Frankly, I think everyone finds your pedantry and humorless douchbaggery to be a crashing bore. You're such a Debbie Downer.
No, my comment was a "joke", something you apparently aren't all that familiar with. And I think that's a shame.
Anyone who doesn't see the humor and silliness in the idea of "moving into a Home Depot near a grocery store" needs to take a chill pill, have a drink, and loosen the fuck up.
Seriously, take off your Pedant Badge for 3 minutes and have a laugh instead of over-analyzing everything to pieces.
You think I should be "jealous" of your 2^3 +5 comments? Now that IS funny! LOL
I have no idea what you're jealous of, but you certainly seem to be pretty tightly wound to have such a shit fit over comments on a message board. You must be a real hoot at parties.
Go outside once in a while, find a girl (or a guy, or whatever) and enjoy life a bit. You're so bent out of shape over this that it would be funny if it weren't so embarrassing.
So you're saying his business will bomb?
Lol, and we have a winner, folks! Badda bing, badda boom!
If you don't give a fuck then don't bother posting and wasting our time.
Nice job trying to stifle people and muzzle the conversation. Thanks, but we'll post what we want, when we want.
Now go finish your Lunchable and let the big people talk, m'kay?
Go look at the moderation of your post. Was it +5 Funny? No, it was +5 Insightful.
You poor baby, don't be jealous. lol
Seriously, if you had any less brain activity it would be legal to harvest your organs.
Good idea! I'm sure no one with guns and homicidal tendencies will think to do that!
I'm sure those without a sense of humor won't think of it, so that means at least you won't be there.
Hey asshole, get someone to read this to you:
humor
(h)yoomr/
noun
noun: humour; noun: humor; noun: cardinal humor; plural noun: cardinal humors
1. the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.
"his tales are full of humor"
synonyms: comedy, comical aspect, funny side, fun, amusement, funniness, hilarity, jocularity; More
absurdity, ludicrousness, drollness;
satire, irony, farce
"the humor of the film"
the ability to express humor or make other people laugh.
"their inimitable brand of humor"
Antonyms: jackoff (see "cold fijord"), dipstick (see "cold fijord"), humorless cunt (see "cold fijord"), pompous asswipe (see "cold fijord"), curmudgeon (see "cold fijord"), nimrod (see "cold fijord"), bliss ninny, (see "cold fijord"),
Not everyone equals your trustworthiness.
And not everyone equals your gullibility (or your stupidity, but that's another matter).
Too much starch in your panties today, cold fjord, or are you just naturally an asshole?
Could you expand on that? How do you think he will "bilk" people? By not building the shelters? Some other fraud?
Those are two good guesses. Or maybe they'll be built with crappy materials or be oversold, or be unavailable/unfinished when the shit hits the fan. There could be any number of things that could go awry. Maybe squatters will get their first and not let you in.
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Or are you worried that he will build the shelters, people will buy them, and there won't be a nuclear war?
Yes, that would be my greatest fear, that we won't have a nuclear war. Heaven forbid that we don't have a nuclear war, you shit-for brains.
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I take it your preference is for all of humanity to die should there be a nuclear war?
Yes, you ignorant dumbfuck, that would be my ultimate hope, that the entire world perishes. Of course that's it.
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Do you have a leg to stand on here, or just nonsense claims?
Do you have a point to make, or are you just a whiny little asshole?
Seriously, if civilization actually does fall apart exactly who is going to compel him to honor his promises?
An excellent point.
After all the world will be in chaos, hardly a good time to try and serve a subpoena or arrange a court date.
You want to really protect yourself? Get into the distribution/warehouse business - so you have a warehouse full of food, water, etc. on hand all the time. Put a shelter under/in your work place.
My plan is to find a Home Depot next to a grocery store and move in there.
Wait...don't take my money.
"The San Diego businessman is gunning to be the vanguard of a multibillion-dollar industry."
Or he'll bilk lots of people out of tons of money and then retire as the company goes down in flames.
While I personally find the stuff to be indecent at best, who am I to tell anyone what is decent.
Yeah, I think it's weird, but I don't see the harm in it. What kind of terrible things do people think will happen by allowing dino-porn?
I'm starting to forget when a statement like this was never even contextually apropos, much less relevant to the topic, in a semi-mainstream news story. The times, they are a-getting unidentifiable.
Lol, O Brave New World....
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"I worry about Jeff Bezos' bizarre obsession with dinosaur sex,"
I hear ya. That was a sentence I could never have expected or predicted to hear, no matter how long I lived.
the robustness of any security is based on the stupidest person
Sadly, this is very, very true. :(