So, so right.
As Spock from Star Trek said "the good of the many outweighs the good of the few", except when the few have things to hide like Homosexuality, transvestitism, extra-marital affairs, chocoholism, a desire to play with lego or paddling pools.... whatever. these are all legal, and all things which should remain private.
Amazingly, while I'm walking through the quiet parks of my city at 2am I'm not thinking "good job those CCTV cameras are placed at nifty points which will stop muggers" I'm thinking "Crap, I home no one wearing a hood jumps out at me cos those CCTV cameras would be useless"
MORE IMPORTANTLY it is not CRIME PREVENTION it is CRIME PUNISHMENT! seriously, we need to spend more money researching crime prevention. Why am I getting jumped at 2am?! more laws and more cameras do not make a safer society!
The police are not crime prevention, they are caretakers to clean up the mess. They won't be any use if someone decides to break into my house. They won't be any use if someone decides to rob my car. What ARE they useful for? currently they are useful for imposing speeding fines because those are good, solvable crimes that make their numbers look good.
I am not a criminal. I do not commit "acts of crime", hell I don't even speed cos I don't drive. but I have been hassled by police who just want to close cases and go home. The innocent have everything to fear. Fear human lazyness. How many times have you slightly bended the truth to finish something?
"was this the fellow in question?"
"uh , no.. well, uh, fuckit yeah. lets go home"
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So, so right. As Spock from Star Trek said "the good of the many outweighs the good of the few", except when the few have things to hide like Homosexuality, transvestitism, extra-marital affairs, chocoholism, a desire to play with lego or paddling pools.... whatever. these are all legal, and all things which should remain private.
Amazingly, while I'm walking through the quiet parks of my city at 2am I'm not thinking "good job those CCTV cameras are placed at nifty points which will stop muggers" I'm thinking "Crap, I home no one wearing a hood jumps out at me cos those CCTV cameras would be useless" MORE IMPORTANTLY it is not CRIME PREVENTION it is CRIME PUNISHMENT! seriously, we need to spend more money researching crime prevention. Why am I getting jumped at 2am?! more laws and more cameras do not make a safer society! The police are not crime prevention, they are caretakers to clean up the mess. They won't be any use if someone decides to break into my house. They won't be any use if someone decides to rob my car. What ARE they useful for? currently they are useful for imposing speeding fines because those are good, solvable crimes that make their numbers look good. I am not a criminal. I do not commit "acts of crime", hell I don't even speed cos I don't drive. but I have been hassled by police who just want to close cases and go home. The innocent have everything to fear. Fear human lazyness. How many times have you slightly bended the truth to finish something? "was this the fellow in question?" "uh , no.. well, uh, fuckit yeah. lets go home"
It can do 5.1 but I found on my Epia it struggles with high quality AC3 decoding, installing a GeForce 4 took the CPU usage from 100% down to 51%.