1) This is not directed at the poor. This is directed at others who are already able to pay. This has been posted and explained several times by people living in the country. 2) The downside is that it is not a complete free Internet service. Other sited are blocked. They are not a provider.
As some sites are blocked, there is no net neutrality. Now if they were to open everything and become a true free provider (with all the rules that come with it) that would be something else. This is not about what price they charge; but by what rules they play and they do not play by the provder rules, yet they clai, they are.
A rose by any other name is still a rose. Calling a tulip a rose does not make it a rose.
There also is the 'insurance' that nothing will happen to your business, e.g. you income. They would do fights among themselves and that would drive customers away. Or see that no customers would get it, thus starving the business.
Did they want the UI change of Windows version to Windows version? My guess is no. People in general do not want change, unless they request it themselves AND are involved in the change process.
Windows is forcing change to users and it works. I believe XFCE and LXDE looks more like Windows than Windows.
The difference? Pre-installation. That makes people use Android. It makes people use MacOS and it makes people use Windows version whatever comes with their machine.
Except for the few elite here, people go to the store to buy a PC. They go home and turn it on. When the machine is slow, they go back to the store and buy a new one. Only a few will go for an OS. Now go to the store and ask for a Linux machine. If lucky, they will sell you an Android tablet.
And why do they get sold? Because they are pre-installed. No pre-installation, no usage in serious numbers.
People have been using Linux as a desktop for a long time now. The problem is that you can not buy it pre-installed. Sure, somewhere here and there you can, but not that big a choice.
People buying Android and there is no issue there, so it is possible. Have it pre-installed and people will use whatever is available.
For the average user, a Linux desktop is good enough. Email, web and that is about it. Next are the gamers who will need Windows for their games. Companies will have written code specifically for Windows, so they do not want to switch yet. If it weer up to them, they would still use Win95.
So have it pre-installed and people will use it. MS knows this and their customers are not the end-user. They sell to Dell.
The reason that there is no price difference, is because companies pay Dell and others to have their shareware installed. The cost for Windows is payed for by Norton and the others that are on your PC already. Without that income, the price would be higher and Linux would be a viable option for them.
And again: yes you can buy a PC with Linux installed if you look for it. Walk into a store and look how many of thm are Linux.
It is very close to the 'insurance' that the mafia sells.The fact that they also say that it will be the downfall of online journalism is irrelevant.
German judges must decide if it is against their law or not. If it is not, then companies can decide to pay or not. If it isn't, they can not be asking money.
Next to that, users can decide if they want to use it or not.
Because you can? If I get together with a friend, I can put my backup with him and he can do it with me for free.
This is not about being able to find a cheap way to do things. This is about playing the system and turning a 1.4GB file look like an image, so it can be hosted like an image, even if it is not really an image.
It is election time. So they say something that sounds nice to voters. Nothing will change. Even if they put up a bill, it will be changes so much that it will be law to do what they are doing.
This is great, as they can always blame the other party. Both parties are guilty here.
Let's be honest,the political game is lost to the companies for a long time now. They are able to fool enough of the people all of the time.
I mean, even Sanders said that even if he got elected it might already be to late.
There is a reason for separation between church and state. That is that a certain group might get influence over a majority that might think differently and only that groups interest will be looked at and not that of all. The same must happen with corporations. There must be a separation between business and state (and business and church, but that was covered 2000 years ago). Only then will there be a governement for the people by the people.
Until then: I do welcome my old business overlords.
I am about 1 to two hours on/. and hit the cap all the time. It makes me go even less. I think it should be linked to your karma. Higher karma, faster posting. Lower karma, slower posting.
A posting a minute for those with a high karma. One every 5 minutes as a standard and 1 every 15 minutes if your level is below 0.
This is, after all, a social platform where people interact with postings. Having that limited is not that great.
Then you drive too fast for the road conditions.The road signs are there to indicate the maximum speed, not the suggested speed. If you drive the maximum speed with dense fog or with ice, you are an idiot that will see the obstacles in summertime as a challenge.
There is snow in Europe as well and this does not seem to be a problem here. Sure, the occasional idiot who sees the obstacles as a challenge will hit them. Better that then a kid. And they either learn or take themselves out of the gene pool.
Remember we are talking about areas where people live, not really roads with high volume of traffic. Here an example of a street : https://goo.gl/maps/gXcAhno61U...
Similar things are on wider streets, all to naturally reduce the speed of the cars. I assure you, you are not going to speed in that street, unless you are really want to challange everyting and then for sure a sign or a toicket will not stop you. At that moment you become a person intending to kill. Impossible? No. Unlikely? Yes.
That does not mean anything if we do not know what happened or the layout of the street. Perhaps that car was speeding, but by how much? Perhaps the kid was jumping in front of the car and would have been injured anyway.
What happens in Europe is that they start making the streets in such a way that they are automatically so that you drive a lower speed. Especially in neighbourhoods where people live.
A lot of curves in the streets by placing objects in the streets., making the road more curvy and what not.
That means that the average speed will go down a lot. They just change the natural flow of traffic. and people adapt to that. Downside is that is is more expensive than placing some traffic signs and you can not generate extra income from tickets.
I do number three. Took me a while to get used to it, but now I will type e.g. 'rm * -rf' and that gives me just enough time to realize I am in the wrong directory (because on the wrong terminal or wrong tab) or that I needed to type e.g. 'rm tmp/* -rf'.
Because doing e.g. a tab for completion at the wrong moment can be terrible.
Even not being root, it has saved me a few times. At least several hours of work that would have been lost otherwise.
The majority of users will never go that far. They rent/buy the router from the ISP and somewhere in the contract sign up for them to be allowed to do whatever they desire.
So if you are going to do such a thing, first go over the fine print. Also be sure that you not want to use the service anywhere else, as that would make you a hypocrite.
I just bought my own modem/router, connected it and there is no way they can get access in any legal way. It also means I have no access anywhere else and I am ok with that.
I would like to see a difference in anonymous because of not logging in and anonymous who has otherwise an excelent karma, but doe not want to reveal himself because of reasons (e.g. to give info they are not allowed to give).
They should get a +1 by default and any +1 does not reflect on their karma, but any -1 would. That way you have the ability of posting anonymous, still not be at the bottom and no sillpostings just saying 'n*gg*rs' or 'frist post' as that would harm their karma.
On the one hand, rewriting would solve a lot. OTOH, you can then only pray they keep the good things, like not just one big list of responses one after another, but something that looks like Usenet.
I also would like to be able to post more comments. When I get hit with a 'you posted something 4 min utes ago' is terrible. I understand that it is against bots, bvut apperently it hurts people.
Us the karma scale to shorten that time. Karma of excelent, 20 seconds. Add a minute to eacvh level and 5 minutes for everybody else, for all I care.
Yes, sometimes I and I assume others will want to post faster.
This. A manager told me once that these kind of things are very easy. Just look at it as if you offer a menu. You have a starter, a soup, main course, desert, coffee and wine during the meal. You tell them the cost and then thye decide if they want the whole meal, drop the starter, or the soup or the wine or whatever.
The hard part is to stick to your price. Do not be tempted to give the whole menu for the price of the menu without the soup. So you need to have good knowledge of the pricing and be able to defend those prices.
Be prepared for all the questions. e.g. but what if we use cheaper hardware? That should already be part of the menu.
If you are smart about it, you have three prices. The cheap one where everything will fail, the perfect one that is WAY too high and the one that you want to sell to management, because you know it will be the best because you did your investigationand you have the experience they hired you for.
I have been in meetings where the CEO said basically: Seems very clear you know what you are doing, so do whatever you think needs to be done. That did not mean a free for all, it ment that the decision was well thought out and all (as in the huge majority of them) questions were thought of.
So yes, let them decide and help them make that decision and when they choose to have no maincourse, make it clear that they will go hungry at the end and that ordering extra food later wil take longer and cost more as the chef is already gone home.
What people take away from what you wrote is that Amazon is cheaper.
If you want to do the morally right thing, you should go to a localy owned store and buy it there, supporting the local community. If it is not available, either buy an alternative, start selling it yourself or go without.
I do not care for cultural suicide. If anything we have learned from history is that mixing culture enriches it, not make it poorer.
Different cultures ADD to the current culture, they do not deduct from it. Just look at the different types of restaurants. The different types of sports and how they mingle nicely. Clothing is another one. Architecture, music, the list is endless.
Some will say that it will be bad for the language, but it isn't as long as you see language as a tool, not a political instrument (I live in Belgium, I know what I am talking about).
I really love the mixture of the styles in food, clothing and such. So if mass importation of people is cultural suicide, please can we have more of them?
http://www.rense.com/general37... Make of it what you want. This does not mean the USofA is a fascist regime, but it is running in that direction, while yelling FREEDOM!
Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by govern
And what are we waiting for? They are cops. They shoot people. The person was resisting arrest with a deadly weapon.
The kid is dead, the cop gets a promotion.
How does this work in a country like e.g. Belgium: You get a fine and you do not pay it. Next you will get a warning letter and that will ad a bit to the bill. Next it will go to a bailiff and exta money is added. They can confiscate things in your house. Next they will deduct the money from you pay. If you do earn enough money, a system will be worked out. When you are at that stage, all you credits will also be frozen most likely.
Understand that there is only an extremely minute amout of people who still are unable to pay. There will be other solutions found for them.
The only time the police might be involved is if they accompany the bailiff and the locksmith as security to them and as a witness. That is their ONLY role. They do not arrest you. They just stand there.
I know, I have had that last part happen to me. He told me he didn't even see the parking meter I had in my appartment after I showed him it still worked.
And that was for a lot more than just a parking fine. So many options and all without jailtime and no arresting of people; so no reason for people to speed away. (And minors are not allowed to drive anyway)
You clearly no idea how far people are willing let things go. The fall of all the eastblock countries was not because they were spied on. It was because bananas were hard to get by.
As long as people are convinced they are living in the bestest country in the world, as long as they have their perceived freedom, as long as they do not take away the guns, nothing will change. No matter how many people are being spied on.
What will happen is with the next election either a Dem or a Rep will be elected and nothing will change. People are trying to do the same thing over and over and hope for a different outcome.
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1) This is not directed at the poor. This is directed at others who are already able to pay. This has been posted and explained several times by people living in the country.
2) The downside is that it is not a complete free Internet service. Other sited are blocked. They are not a provider.
As some sites are blocked, there is no net neutrality. Now if they were to open everything and become a true free provider (with all the rules that come with it) that would be something else. This is not about what price they charge; but by what rules they play and they do not play by the provder rules, yet they clai, they are.
A rose by any other name is still a rose. Calling a tulip a rose does not make it a rose.
There also is the 'insurance' that nothing will happen to your business, e.g. you income. They would do fights among themselves and that would drive customers away.
Or see that no customers would get it, thus starving the business.
Did they want the UI change of Windows version to Windows version? My guess is no. People in general do not want change, unless they request it themselves AND are involved in the change process.
Windows is forcing change to users and it works. I believe XFCE and LXDE looks more like Windows than Windows.
The difference? Pre-installation. That makes people use Android. It makes people use MacOS and it makes people use Windows version whatever comes with their machine.
Except for the few elite here, people go to the store to buy a PC. They go home and turn it on. When the machine is slow, they go back to the store and buy a new one. Only a few will go for an OS. Now go to the store and ask for a Linux machine. If lucky, they will sell you an Android tablet.
And why do they get sold? Because they are pre-installed. No pre-installation, no usage in serious numbers.
People have been using Linux as a desktop for a long time now. The problem is that you can not buy it pre-installed. Sure, somewhere here and there you can, but not that big a choice.
People buying Android and there is no issue there, so it is possible.
Have it pre-installed and people will use whatever is available.
For the average user, a Linux desktop is good enough. Email, web and that is about it. Next are the gamers who will need Windows for their games.
Companies will have written code specifically for Windows, so they do not want to switch yet. If it weer up to them, they would still use Win95.
So have it pre-installed and people will use it. MS knows this and their customers are not the end-user. They sell to Dell.
The reason that there is no price difference, is because companies pay Dell and others to have their shareware installed. The cost for Windows is payed for by Norton and the others that are on your PC already. Without that income, the price would be higher and Linux would be a viable option for them.
And again: yes you can buy a PC with Linux installed if you look for it. Walk into a store and look how many of thm are Linux.
It is very close to the 'insurance' that the mafia sells.The fact that they also say that it will be the downfall of online journalism is irrelevant.
German judges must decide if it is against their law or not. If it is not, then companies can decide to pay or not. If it isn't, they can not be asking money.
Next to that, users can decide if they want to use it or not.
Because you can? If I get together with a friend, I can put my backup with him and he can do it with me for free.
This is not about being able to find a cheap way to do things. This is about playing the system and turning a 1.4GB file look like an image, so it can be hosted like an image, even if it is not really an image.
It is election time. So they say something that sounds nice to voters. Nothing will change. Even if they put up a bill, it will be changes so much that it will be law to do what they are doing.
This is great, as they can always blame the other party. Both parties are guilty here.
Let's be honest,the political game is lost to the companies for a long time now. They are able to fool enough of the people all of the time.
I mean, even Sanders said that even if he got elected it might already be to late.
There is a reason for separation between church and state. That is that a certain group might get influence over a majority that might think differently and only that groups interest will be looked at and not that of all. The same must happen with corporations. There must be a separation between business and state (and business and church, but that was covered 2000 years ago). Only then will there be a governement for the people by the people.
Until then: I do welcome my old business overlords.
They did a recount of the coin toss and Jeb Bush won. Typical Dem Fanboys for not showing that result.
I am about 1 to two hours on /. and hit the cap all the time. It makes me go even less. I think it should be linked to your karma. Higher karma, faster posting. Lower karma, slower posting.
A posting a minute for those with a high karma. One every 5 minutes as a standard and 1 every 15 minutes if your level is below 0.
This is, after all, a social platform where people interact with postings. Having that limited is not that great.
I would like a bqsic wisiwig interface, so I do not need to type in bold and then forget it and have it posted like that.
Nothing more than the allowed HTML that is available right now.
Third what? Lower how? You must be some sort of European Socialist Wizzard to be able to drive a deathtrap with three pedals.
Then you drive too fast for the road conditions.The road signs are there to indicate the maximum speed, not the suggested speed. If you drive the maximum speed with dense fog or with ice, you are an idiot that will see the obstacles in summertime as a challenge.
There is snow in Europe as well and this does not seem to be a problem here. Sure, the occasional idiot who sees the obstacles as a challenge will hit them. Better that then a kid. And they either learn or take themselves out of the gene pool.
Remember we are talking about areas where people live, not really roads with high volume of traffic. Here an example of a street : https://goo.gl/maps/gXcAhno61U...
Similar things are on wider streets, all to naturally reduce the speed of the cars. I assure you, you are not going to speed in that street, unless you are really want to challange everyting and then for sure a sign or a toicket will not stop you. At that moment you become a person intending to kill. Impossible? No. Unlikely? Yes.
That does not mean anything if we do not know what happened or the layout of the street. Perhaps that car was speeding, but by how much? Perhaps the kid was jumping in front of the car and would have been injured anyway.
What happens in Europe is that they start making the streets in such a way that they are automatically so that you drive a lower speed. Especially in neighbourhoods where people live.
A lot of curves in the streets by placing objects in the streets., making the road more curvy and what not.
That means that the average speed will go down a lot. They just change the natural flow of traffic. and people adapt to that. Downside is that is is more expensive than placing some traffic signs and you can not generate extra income from tickets.
I do number three. Took me a while to get used to it, but now I will type e.g. 'rm * -rf' and that gives me just enough time to realize I am in the wrong directory (because on the wrong terminal or wrong tab) or that I needed to type e.g. 'rm tmp/* -rf'.
Because doing e.g. a tab for completion at the wrong moment can be terrible.
Even not being root, it has saved me a few times. At least several hours of work that would have been lost otherwise.
https://i.imgur.com/idasVMZ.jp... and there are others. They are scumbags and the excuse is too little to late.
A live counter: http://www.livecounts.x10host....
The majority of users will never go that far. They rent/buy the router from the ISP and somewhere in the contract sign up for them to be allowed to do whatever they desire.
So if you are going to do such a thing, first go over the fine print. Also be sure that you not want to use the service anywhere else, as that would make you a hypocrite.
I just bought my own modem/router, connected it and there is no way they can get access in any legal way. It also means I have no access anywhere else and I am ok with that.
I would like to see a difference in anonymous because of not logging in and anonymous who has otherwise an excelent karma, but doe not want to reveal himself because of reasons (e.g. to give info they are not allowed to give).
They should get a +1 by default and any +1 does not reflect on their karma, but any -1 would. That way you have the ability of posting anonymous, still not be at the bottom and no sillpostings just saying 'n*gg*rs' or 'frist post' as that would harm their karma.
On the one hand, rewriting would solve a lot. OTOH, you can then only pray they keep the good things, like not just one big list of responses one after another, but something that looks like Usenet.
I also would like to be able to post more comments. When I get hit with a 'you posted something 4 min utes ago' is terrible. I understand that it is against bots, bvut apperently it hurts people.
Us the karma scale to shorten that time. Karma of excelent, 20 seconds. Add a minute to eacvh level and 5 minutes for everybody else, for all I care.
Yes, sometimes I and I assume others will want to post faster.
This. A manager told me once that these kind of things are very easy. Just look at it as if you offer a menu. You have a starter, a soup, main course, desert, coffee and wine during the meal.
You tell them the cost and then thye decide if they want the whole meal, drop the starter, or the soup or the wine or whatever.
The hard part is to stick to your price. Do not be tempted to give the whole menu for the price of the menu without the soup. So you need to have good knowledge of the pricing and be able to defend those prices.
Be prepared for all the questions. e.g. but what if we use cheaper hardware? That should already be part of the menu.
If you are smart about it, you have three prices. The cheap one where everything will fail, the perfect one that is WAY too high and the one that you want to sell to management, because you know it will be the best because you did your investigationand you have the experience they hired you for.
I have been in meetings where the CEO said basically: Seems very clear you know what you are doing, so do whatever you think needs to be done. That did not mean a free for all, it ment that the decision was well thought out and all (as in the huge majority of them) questions were thought of.
So yes, let them decide and help them make that decision and when they choose to have no maincourse, make it clear that they will go hungry at the end and that ordering extra food later wil take longer and cost more as the chef is already gone home.
What people take away from what you wrote is that Amazon is cheaper.
If you want to do the morally right thing, you should go to a localy owned store and buy it there, supporting the local community.
If it is not available, either buy an alternative, start selling it yourself or go without.
I do not care for cultural suicide. If anything we have learned from history is that mixing culture enriches it, not make it poorer.
Different cultures ADD to the current culture, they do not deduct from it. Just look at the different types of restaurants. The different types of sports and how they mingle nicely. Clothing is another one. Architecture, music, the list is endless.
Some will say that it will be bad for the language, but it isn't as long as you see language as a tool, not a political instrument (I live in Belgium, I know what I am talking about).
I really love the mixture of the styles in food, clothing and such. So if mass importation of people is cultural suicide, please can we have more of them?
http://www.rense.com/general37...
Make of it what you want. This does not mean the USofA is a fascist regime, but it is running in that direction, while yelling FREEDOM!
Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread
domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by govern
And what are we waiting for? They are cops. They shoot people. The person was resisting arrest with a deadly weapon.
The kid is dead, the cop gets a promotion.
How does this work in a country like e.g. Belgium:
You get a fine and you do not pay it. Next you will get a warning letter and that will ad a bit to the bill. Next it will go to a bailiff and exta money is added. They can confiscate things in your house. Next they will deduct the money from you pay. If you do earn enough money, a system will be worked out. When you are at that stage, all you credits will also be frozen most likely.
Understand that there is only an extremely minute amout of people who still are unable to pay. There will be other solutions found for them.
The only time the police might be involved is if they accompany the bailiff and the locksmith as security to them and as a witness. That is their ONLY role. They do not arrest you. They just stand there.
I know, I have had that last part happen to me. He told me he didn't even see the parking meter I had in my appartment after I showed him it still worked.
And that was for a lot more than just a parking fine. So many options and all without jailtime and no arresting of people; so no reason for people to speed away. (And minors are not allowed to drive anyway)
You clearly no idea how far people are willing let things go. The fall of all the eastblock countries was not because they were spied on. It was because bananas were hard to get by.
As long as people are convinced they are living in the bestest country in the world, as long as they have their perceived freedom, as long as they do not take away the guns, nothing will change. No matter how many people are being spied on.
What will happen is with the next election either a Dem or a Rep will be elected and nothing will change. People are trying to do the same thing over and over and hope for a different outcome.