As a Mormon, you generally try and study The Book of Mormon daily - even if only for a few minutes - because inspiring words make you consider new concepts each time you read it.
Fact or fiction, its stories surprisingly give the reader philosophical nuggets that are very relevant today, like some of the ones I threw together below (book chapter#):
* Old debates between Atheism vs. Christianity focuses on many of the same, general core ideas as they do today (Alma 30)
* While rehabilitating prisoners is the right thing to do (Helaman), capital punishment shouldn't be banned outright because it sometimes serves the greater good (1 Nep. 4)
* Preachers that work for pay, popularity and power (i.e modern televangelists, priests) can commit terrible crimes to obtain those things (Alma 1, 31, 35)
* Lazy, comfortable societies and their leaders neglect their military strength and ultimately end up conquered (Mosiah 19)
* Efficient, absolute rulers like kings or dictators can be the best OR worst form of government (Mosiah 29)
* Democracy is generally better than absolute rulers because it gives the society the freedom to survive or die by its own choices (Mosiah 29)
* Democracy is fragile and can be upended easily, and requires responsible, educated, involved citizens to survive (pretty much all of Alma and Helaman, 3 Nep. 7)
* Wealthy, connected people usually clamor for more power than they already have (multiple places)
* Liberty and democracy come at a steep price, and patriotism/nationalism in the right hands can motivate people to do great things. (Alma 2, Alma 46)
* Great, innovative military leaders make up for fewer resources (Alma 46-62)
* Mafias and other forms of secret combinations/groups undermine governments - corrupting laws for their own gain (Helaman 4)
* Religious reformation/conversion can move a society to do far more than any military action - "the word is mightier than the sword" (Helaman 6)
* Economies and nations prosper when the majority of the people share core Christian beliefs - charity, honesty, honor, etc. (the whole book)
* Propaganda and how it can be abused by governments to terrible ends (Alma 48)
* Long lasting wars (years or even decades) numb societies to Christlike-principles like charity, hope, positivism and make them forget about the service those military men may be providing (last 6-7 chapters of Alma)
* "Signs" from God don't convert anyone for the long term. They just scare people for a while until they forget them again. (3 Nephi 1)
* Evil empires/hordes are ultimately leeches that must have an innocent host to feed on to survive (3 Nephi 4)
* Voluntary communism (sharing of one's wealth with others) is the road to true social equality, and pride (looking down your nose at others) is the poison that brings those systems down (4 Nephi)
* Churches baptizing babies are wasting their time (Moroni 8)
* Wars are truly awful - regardless of the era or available technology (Moroni 9)
The Atheist vs. Christian debate in Alma 30 is one of the most relevant of all the chapters in the book today, IMO.
Con men, liars and thieves have always preyed on the unsuspecting. Turn up the number of potential crooks to 1+ Billion in a highly industrialized and atheist (right and wrong aren't enforced socially in the same manner as Western countries) nation like China, and then put thousands of miles between the crooks and their prey. You're going to have a LOT of corruption coming out of a situation like that.
When politicians talk about the pros of free global markets (at their puppetmasters' whims), they don't talk about problems like these. And they DEFINITELY wouldn't want to sound racist or insensitive to other cultures by suggesting other countries are rife with fraud.
I wonder how many GameStop's 150 store closures are in decaying malls, and the 100 new openings are just part of a relocation - despite the change in emphasis on their primary business model.
I decided to give DDG a try full-time as my default in the browser a while back (year or two?). DDG wasn't getting it done, however, so I would just end up back on Google. It was easy to justify since my office still uses Google docs/spreadsheets and is deeply intertwined with their products and I can't 100% escape their "Big Google" ecosystem. Besides, their results were usually superior when it came to getting me the exact results I wanted (vs. just being close) QUICKLY - so I took advantage of the saved time I'd already paid for with my privacy already.
I'm finding that more recently, however, that DDG is "good enough" in most cases. I still go back and forth because I'm too impatient, but DDG always gets the first shot - and I don't go back very often.
So, if you tried DDG in the past and found their results wanting, you should give it another try.
.. - one that returns a USB and HDMI ports as well.
If there's a setting to make the dynamic touchbar a static set of function keys I'm used to using, vs. having to wonder what buttons/functionality is there at any given point in time, that would be helpful as well.
I'm a more recent convert AWAY from Windows at work in 2013 (7 is going to be my last Windows OS at home), and then they drop this turd of a new MacBook Pro on us.
I'm not interested in a fancy function keys bar or Touch ID because I don't need my MacBook Pro to be an iPhone that happens to have a keyboard. I want a fast, powerful, reliable OS on a fast, powerful, reliable laptop that just works without any extra effort.
Like your phone or not, we all owe a huge vote of apprecation and thanks to the engineers at Apple, Google, Motorola, etc.. They have to deal with countries trying to hack their devices all the time, along with every serious hacker out there on the planet - and for the most part they have been doing a great job of keeping our data on our devices private.
The leadership of those conpanies also deserve a pat on the back. Unlike the phone companies that climbed into bed with Uncle Sam like a whore all out of rubbers but ready to get it on anyways, Tim Cook and his ilk stood their ground on this issue when the feds came calling. And I don't care why they did it (business reasons vs. goodwill for the average consumer); They did it, and that's all that really matters in the end.
(This says nothing about what Google and others do when it comes to privacy and collecting data for business efforts, but that's another issue...)
Incidentally, if you time it you'll probably find the whole process of filling your car with gas takes ~10-15m. Their change is completely reasonable
Whether the electric car charge time is reasonable or not is 100% subjective, but your estimate of gas filling times is a ridiculous, "+1 for TESLA" exaggeration. From turning off the car to tearing off a receipt and driving away (paying by credit card at the pump), a complete 16-20 gallon tank fill-up is 3 minutes tops anywhere I buy gas. Maybe tack on an extra minute or two for a huge truck or SUV.
I suppose it could take 10-15 minutes to fill your car if you walk in to pay and you get stuck standing in line behind ten other 44 oz. soda carrying people who all pay with debit cards - while your car sits completely filled up most of the time? Or maybe someone's filling a 1 gallon portable tank 16-20 times and pouring it into their car's tank manually? Maybe they're using huge measuring cups?
This isn't a Jill Stein or Hillary fanatic's fantasy scenario, where some "evil player" will be uncovered and the results could be overturned or changes.
This is just an honest review of what MAY have happened as a result of bad players trying to fiddle with the election. This is a really good idea to help ensure future presidential elections being trustworthy and valid.
...from a PR standpoint. This doesn't exactly help the perception about how misogynistic web development environments are for women. And the last thing a somewhat fading development platform (at least outside of large enterprise) like Drupal needs is for something to fire SJWs up...
Where was the, "Das ist eine wirklich schlechte Idee?", leadership from the conference organizers in Munich?
Why? Because the Amazon reviews being honest and helpful is far more important than whether you actually buy the product from Amazon or not.
In my case, sometimes I buy an item at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc., that's total garbage - and I want to get the word out there to warn others away if it's available on Amazon. I've done this to a couple of products that really pissed me off when they cut quality corners or were openly deceptive in their ads, and those reviews were the most highly appreciated/helpful/valued by other Amazon shoppers.
IMO, this policy seems like a good compromise to combat a deluge of fake reviews while still allowing me to express my opinions.
Fact-based journalism is dying. Yellow journalism is thriving.
If you are one of those do-gooders that just wants to report facts and figures to a dwindling audience, then - to quote the new owner/CEO of The Oregonian - F**k you.
And we're handing control of the Internet to countries with views like this? The globalist view (i.e. "we're all equals and friends; we need to trust each other to work together for all people...") on some topics is truly naive...
While it is impressive, it's not necessarily newsworthy. Based on the Musk quote about "an open expansive cabin", I was thinking closer to The Jetsons bubble car. Instead, it's just a bigger sunroof.
IMO, this isn't about climate change, global warming, or some other complex ecological equation with a gazillion variables. Isn't it just that we're simply destroying more and more wild spaces/habitat for our own species' reasons? We've been slashing forests and clearing out new land for new subdivisions, dumping waste elsewhere, for centuries now - usually in the best places on the planet.
Mix in our propensity for permanently altering various environments with invasive species or new chemicals to support the human race's growing need for food/energy, and you have a very potent force for mass extinction.
Modern development should change to live more within the natural background it's living within, to cohabitate with other animals.. Hopefully we'll figure that out soon.
The problem is simply that religion still tries to shame sexual encounters outside of marriage and even outside of reproduction.
Correction: Uneducated, religious people still try to shame sexual enjoyment - inside and outside of marriage - out of sex because of their own ignorance and fear.
Educated religious people, OTOH, like to have sex as much as the atheist/agnostic next door. (Yes, it's a satire piece - but it makes a not-so-subtle point: we all like to fuck.) We use contraceptives if and when we want, and we manage our family's size based on what we want and need. Any priesthood leader that tells you or your spouse how often to use birth control is full of BS and stepping way out of bounds (the last time I checked, they don't have to live with the consequences of "no birth control".)
BTW - Your comments on "their holy scriptures" show that you don't really understand them. Of course they don't make sense to "normal thinking people" because they were written by a different cultural view, thousands of years ago. They make a lot more sense, however, with some serious study of their historical context (vs. copy+pasting passages that many on both sides do) - and they do hold the keys to happiness in any age/era if their core doctrines are understood and followed.
Apple: Please -- PLEASE -- stop telling me to upgrade my aging iPhone 5 to iOS10 every. damn. day.
It's as bad or worse than the stupid Windows 10 upgrade warnings/updates in Windows 7 -- and there's no way to stop the prompts. (Yes, you can manually block their update server hosts in your wireless router, but you'd never better walk away from that WAP or ever use cell data - all of which kind of defeats the point of mobile computing.)
Yes, I get that supporting multiple versions of iOS is expensive and resource intensive; But just push out a warning to inform me when you're going to stop supporting iOS9 at a set day/time. I'll have a decision to make - at THAT point. Leave me alone until then!
A comparable story was posted to Slashdot a little over a decade ago (early to mid 2000s?), though the percentages were lower that 91%, IIRC (it might have been based on your Berkeley link). I recall wondering if cubes next to mine could be susceptible to such "hacking" (i.e. spying).
Ed Dillinger: What do you want with the Pentagon?
Master Control Program: The same thing I want with the Kremlin. I'm bored with corporations. With the information I can access, I can run things 900 to 1200 times better than any human.
Ed Dillinger: If you think you're superior to us...
Master Control Program: You wouldn't want me to dig up Flynn's file and read it up on a VDT at the Times, would you?
I'm not sure that AI has to be self-aware, but if it does... It could get ugly quick. And it wouldn't be just blackmail over video game development...
All this does is illuminate potential victims on the path while stalkers can get really close without being seen in the dark. Hopefully they have a second source of light planned?
we the people hate them for their efficiency and wanted them removed so that we don't get caught quite so often.
Nobody wants a ticket, but this false statement fits exactly into the marketing photo radar companies love to use when selling their wares to naive city and state governments.
This makes no sense at all. Red light cameras don't fight rudeness or aggressiveness, whoever (dis)likes it. They fight illegal activity.
Illegal or not, most photo radar advocates like cameras are not concerned with curtailing "illegal activity". They are instead motivated by irrational fear ("that guy needs to slow down until I am comfortable with what they're doing,"), jealousy ("that guy needs to slow down like I do,") or their personal desire for vengeance ("I want to get even with those jerks that cut me off all the time!")
Don't think so? You need to be honest with yourself. State legislators here have been voting for photo enforcement for personal reasons since the beginning of the programs here. While I can't link to either of these resources as citations (my state's legislators debate photo radar bans on CCTV and discussing the issue via email with various legislators), they would talk about their own feelings of "being scared to drive on the freeway", needing to "enforce the laws on the books to get dangerous drivers off the road", etc. The speaker of our state house himself personally refused to allow any photo radar ban to come up for a vote because he "personally approved of the cameras" and thought "they were a good thing for the state," regardless of statistics.
Their candid, honest comments are something all photo radar advocates should be willing to admit to themselves - before they start judging anti-photo advocates. And they shouldn't be trying to automatically fine people for "sin taxes" to make their budgeting jobs (and subsequent re-election) easier.
These body cameras are intrusive and over the top when it comes to personal privacy, but if you believe the news reports coming out of police departments, cops actually like them after having to wear them for a while. No more BS, "he said/she said" issues; And I'm sure that cops love not having to deal with paperwork over unfounded cop complaints.
OTOH, red light cameras (and speed cameras) were put in place as a "sin tax" revenue grab by government officials/councilmen/legislators that usually had personal vendettas against rude/aggressive drivers. Those naive officials were easy prey for the real bandits - companies like ATS and Redflex, whose CEO was bribing city officials to get the revenue generators installed in as many places as possible.
Body cameras: Enormous drop in police complaints, and both sides like the extra clarity they provide to litigious and/or life or death situations. Red light cameras: mixed safety results, bogged-down municipal courts, confusion, outright corruption, and even murder generation.
Of course these days, who cares about facts. Perception is reality...
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As a Mormon, you generally try and study The Book of Mormon daily - even if only for a few minutes - because inspiring words make you consider new concepts each time you read it.
Fact or fiction, its stories surprisingly give the reader philosophical nuggets that are very relevant today, like some of the ones I threw together below (book chapter#):
* Old debates between Atheism vs. Christianity focuses on many of the same, general core ideas as they do today (Alma 30)
* While rehabilitating prisoners is the right thing to do (Helaman), capital punishment shouldn't be banned outright because it sometimes serves the greater good (1 Nep. 4)
* Preachers that work for pay, popularity and power (i.e modern televangelists, priests) can commit terrible crimes to obtain those things (Alma 1, 31, 35)
* Lazy, comfortable societies and their leaders neglect their military strength and ultimately end up conquered (Mosiah 19)
* Efficient, absolute rulers like kings or dictators can be the best OR worst form of government (Mosiah 29)
* Democracy is generally better than absolute rulers because it gives the society the freedom to survive or die by its own choices (Mosiah 29)
* Democracy is fragile and can be upended easily, and requires responsible, educated, involved citizens to survive (pretty much all of Alma and Helaman, 3 Nep. 7)
* Wealthy, connected people usually clamor for more power than they already have (multiple places)
* Liberty and democracy come at a steep price, and patriotism/nationalism in the right hands can motivate people to do great things. (Alma 2, Alma 46)
* Great, innovative military leaders make up for fewer resources (Alma 46-62)
* Mafias and other forms of secret combinations/groups undermine governments - corrupting laws for their own gain (Helaman 4)
* Religious reformation/conversion can move a society to do far more than any military action - "the word is mightier than the sword" (Helaman 6)
* Economies and nations prosper when the majority of the people share core Christian beliefs - charity, honesty, honor, etc. (the whole book)
* Propaganda and how it can be abused by governments to terrible ends (Alma 48)
* Long lasting wars (years or even decades) numb societies to Christlike-principles like charity, hope, positivism and make them forget about the service those military men may be providing (last 6-7 chapters of Alma)
* "Signs" from God don't convert anyone for the long term. They just scare people for a while until they forget them again. (3 Nephi 1)
* Evil empires/hordes are ultimately leeches that must have an innocent host to feed on to survive (3 Nephi 4)
* Voluntary communism (sharing of one's wealth with others) is the road to true social equality, and pride (looking down your nose at others) is the poison that brings those systems down (4 Nephi)
* Churches baptizing babies are wasting their time (Moroni 8)
* Wars are truly awful - regardless of the era or available technology (Moroni 9)
The Atheist vs. Christian debate in Alma 30 is one of the most relevant of all the chapters in the book today, IMO.
Con men, liars and thieves have always preyed on the unsuspecting. Turn up the number of potential crooks to 1+ Billion in a highly industrialized and atheist (right and wrong aren't enforced socially in the same manner as Western countries) nation like China, and then put thousands of miles between the crooks and their prey. You're going to have a LOT of corruption coming out of a situation like that.
When politicians talk about the pros of free global markets (at their puppetmasters' whims), they don't talk about problems like these. And they DEFINITELY wouldn't want to sound racist or insensitive to other cultures by suggesting other countries are rife with fraud.
I wonder how many GameStop's 150 store closures are in decaying malls, and the 100 new openings are just part of a relocation - despite the change in emphasis on their primary business model.
I decided to give DDG a try full-time as my default in the browser a while back (year or two?). DDG wasn't getting it done, however, so I would just end up back on Google. It was easy to justify since my office still uses Google docs/spreadsheets and is deeply intertwined with their products and I can't 100% escape their "Big Google" ecosystem. Besides, their results were usually superior when it came to getting me the exact results I wanted (vs. just being close) QUICKLY - so I took advantage of the saved time I'd already paid for with my privacy already.
I'm finding that more recently, however, that DDG is "good enough" in most cases. I still go back and forth because I'm too impatient, but DDG always gets the first shot - and I don't go back very often.
So, if you tried DDG in the past and found their results wanting, you should give it another try.
.. - one that returns a USB and HDMI ports as well.
If there's a setting to make the dynamic touchbar a static set of function keys I'm used to using, vs. having to wonder what buttons/functionality is there at any given point in time, that would be helpful as well.
I'm a more recent convert AWAY from Windows at work in 2013 (7 is going to be my last Windows OS at home), and then they drop this turd of a new MacBook Pro on us.
I'm not interested in a fancy function keys bar or Touch ID because I don't need my MacBook Pro to be an iPhone that happens to have a keyboard. I want a fast, powerful, reliable OS on a fast, powerful, reliable laptop that just works without any extra effort.
Like your phone or not, we all owe a huge vote of apprecation and thanks to the engineers at Apple, Google, Motorola, etc.. They have to deal with countries trying to hack their devices all the time, along with every serious hacker out there on the planet - and for the most part they have been doing a great job of keeping our data on our devices private.
The leadership of those conpanies also deserve a pat on the back. Unlike the phone companies that climbed into bed with Uncle Sam like a whore all out of rubbers but ready to get it on anyways, Tim Cook and his ilk stood their ground on this issue when the feds came calling. And I don't care why they did it (business reasons vs. goodwill for the average consumer); They did it, and that's all that really matters in the end.
(This says nothing about what Google and others do when it comes to privacy and collecting data for business efforts, but that's another issue...)
Incidentally, if you time it you'll probably find the whole process of filling your car with gas takes ~10-15m. Their change is completely reasonable
Whether the electric car charge time is reasonable or not is 100% subjective, but your estimate of gas filling times is a ridiculous, "+1 for TESLA" exaggeration. From turning off the car to tearing off a receipt and driving away (paying by credit card at the pump), a complete 16-20 gallon tank fill-up is 3 minutes tops anywhere I buy gas. Maybe tack on an extra minute or two for a huge truck or SUV.
I suppose it could take 10-15 minutes to fill your car if you walk in to pay and you get stuck standing in line behind ten other 44 oz. soda carrying people who all pay with debit cards - while your car sits completely filled up most of the time? Or maybe someone's filling a 1 gallon portable tank 16-20 times and pouring it into their car's tank manually? Maybe they're using huge measuring cups?
This isn't a Jill Stein or Hillary fanatic's fantasy scenario, where some "evil player" will be uncovered and the results could be overturned or changes.
This is just an honest review of what MAY have happened as a result of bad players trying to fiddle with the election. This is a really good idea to help ensure future presidential elections being trustworthy and valid.
...from a PR standpoint. This doesn't exactly help the perception about how misogynistic web development environments are for women. And the last thing a somewhat fading development platform (at least outside of large enterprise) like Drupal needs is for something to fire SJWs up...
Where was the, "Das ist eine wirklich schlechte Idee?", leadership from the conference organizers in Munich?
Why? Because the Amazon reviews being honest and helpful is far more important than whether you actually buy the product from Amazon or not.
In my case, sometimes I buy an item at Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc., that's total garbage - and I want to get the word out there to warn others away if it's available on Amazon. I've done this to a couple of products that really pissed me off when they cut quality corners or were openly deceptive in their ads, and those reviews were the most highly appreciated/helpful/valued by other Amazon shoppers.
IMO, this policy seems like a good compromise to combat a deluge of fake reviews while still allowing me to express my opinions.
Fact-based journalism is dying. Yellow journalism is thriving. If you are one of those do-gooders that just wants to report facts and figures to a dwindling audience, then - to quote the new owner/CEO of The Oregonian - F**k you.
And we're handing control of the Internet to countries with views like this? The globalist view (i.e. "we're all equals and friends; we need to trust each other to work together for all people...") on some topics is truly naive...
but until then you can use a cheap, reliable, passive adapter;
Apple's adapters are NOT cheap. And for the price of the Macbook Pro, you should be able to choose one you want up front FOR FREE.
But hey - it still has a headphone jack.
Thanks.
While it is impressive, it's not necessarily newsworthy. Based on the Musk quote about "an open expansive cabin", I was thinking closer to The Jetsons bubble car. Instead, it's just a bigger sunroof.
He was just telling the FBI that privacy was vitally important when the feds asked him to open iPhones up to hacking.
Doesn't "killing cash" also kill privacy?
Is Tim Cook a privacy guy or not?
I guess he is all in for privacy only when it benefits Apple.
IMO, this isn't about climate change, global warming, or some other complex ecological equation with a gazillion variables. Isn't it just that we're simply destroying more and more wild spaces/habitat for our own species' reasons? We've been slashing forests and clearing out new land for new subdivisions, dumping waste elsewhere, for centuries now - usually in the best places on the planet.
Mix in our propensity for permanently altering various environments with invasive species or new chemicals to support the human race's growing need for food/energy, and you have a very potent force for mass extinction.
Modern development should change to live more within the natural background it's living within, to cohabitate with other animals.. Hopefully we'll figure that out soon.
The problem is simply that religion still tries to shame sexual encounters outside of marriage and even outside of reproduction.
Correction: Uneducated, religious people still try to shame sexual enjoyment - inside and outside of marriage - out of sex because of their own ignorance and fear.
Educated religious people, OTOH, like to have sex as much as the atheist/agnostic next door. (Yes, it's a satire piece - but it makes a not-so-subtle point: we all like to fuck.) We use contraceptives if and when we want, and we manage our family's size based on what we want and need. Any priesthood leader that tells you or your spouse how often to use birth control is full of BS and stepping way out of bounds (the last time I checked, they don't have to live with the consequences of "no birth control".)
BTW - Your comments on "their holy scriptures" show that you don't really understand them. Of course they don't make sense to "normal thinking people" because they were written by a different cultural view, thousands of years ago. They make a lot more sense, however, with some serious study of their historical context (vs. copy+pasting passages that many on both sides do) - and they do hold the keys to happiness in any age/era if their core doctrines are understood and followed.
Apple: Please -- PLEASE -- stop telling me to upgrade my aging iPhone 5 to iOS10 every. damn. day.
It's as bad or worse than the stupid Windows 10 upgrade warnings/updates in Windows 7 -- and there's no way to stop the prompts. (Yes, you can manually block their update server hosts in your wireless router, but you'd never better walk away from that WAP or ever use cell data - all of which kind of defeats the point of mobile computing.)
Yes, I get that supporting multiple versions of iOS is expensive and resource intensive; But just push out a warning to inform me when you're going to stop supporting iOS9 at a set day/time. I'll have a decision to make - at THAT point. Leave me alone until then!
Thanks - that was the one. Alleged 80% accuracy.
A comparable story was posted to Slashdot a little over a decade ago (early to mid 2000s?), though the percentages were lower that 91%, IIRC (it might have been based on your Berkeley link). I recall wondering if cubes next to mine could be susceptible to such "hacking" (i.e. spying).
Ed Dillinger: What do you want with the Pentagon?
Master Control Program: The same thing I want with the Kremlin. I'm bored with corporations. With the information I can access, I can run things 900 to 1200 times better than any human.
Ed Dillinger: If you think you're superior to us...
Master Control Program: You wouldn't want me to dig up Flynn's file and read it up on a VDT at the Times, would you?
I'm not sure that AI has to be self-aware, but if it does... It could get ugly quick. And it wouldn't be just blackmail over video game development...
All this does is illuminate potential victims on the path while stalkers can get really close without being seen in the dark. Hopefully they have a second source of light planned?
we the people hate them for their efficiency and wanted them removed so that we don't get caught quite so often.
Nobody wants a ticket, but this false statement fits exactly into the marketing photo radar companies love to use when selling their wares to naive city and state governments.
This makes no sense at all. Red light cameras don't fight rudeness or aggressiveness, whoever (dis)likes it. They fight illegal activity.
Illegal or not, most photo radar advocates like cameras are not concerned with curtailing "illegal activity". They are instead motivated by irrational fear ("that guy needs to slow down until I am comfortable with what they're doing,"), jealousy ("that guy needs to slow down like I do,") or their personal desire for vengeance ("I want to get even with those jerks that cut me off all the time!")
Don't think so? You need to be honest with yourself. State legislators here have been voting for photo enforcement for personal reasons since the beginning of the programs here. While I can't link to either of these resources as citations (my state's legislators debate photo radar bans on CCTV and discussing the issue via email with various legislators), they would talk about their own feelings of "being scared to drive on the freeway", needing to "enforce the laws on the books to get dangerous drivers off the road", etc. The speaker of our state house himself personally refused to allow any photo radar ban to come up for a vote because he "personally approved of the cameras" and thought "they were a good thing for the state," regardless of statistics.
Their candid, honest comments are something all photo radar advocates should be willing to admit to themselves - before they start judging anti-photo advocates. And they shouldn't be trying to automatically fine people for "sin taxes" to make their budgeting jobs (and subsequent re-election) easier.
Troll alert. This is apples and rotten oranges...
These body cameras are intrusive and over the top when it comes to personal privacy, but if you believe the news reports coming out of police departments, cops actually like them after having to wear them for a while. No more BS, "he said/she said" issues; And I'm sure that cops love not having to deal with paperwork over unfounded cop complaints.
OTOH, red light cameras (and speed cameras) were put in place as a "sin tax" revenue grab by government officials/councilmen/legislators that usually had personal vendettas against rude/aggressive drivers. Those naive officials were easy prey for the real bandits - companies like ATS and Redflex, whose CEO was bribing city officials to get the revenue generators installed in as many places as possible.
Body cameras: Enormous drop in police complaints, and both sides like the extra clarity they provide to litigious and/or life or death situations. Red light cameras: mixed safety results, bogged-down municipal courts, confusion, outright corruption, and even murder generation.
Of course these days, who cares about facts. Perception is reality...