Let's get this straight. A cop pulled a gun on you for asking directions, a drunk teenager claimed he was beaten by the cops, and someone on trial who was presumably convicted said it happened because the cops lied to get his car. I suppose it is outside the realm of possibility that you did a little more than ask directions, the drunk kid wanted to defuse his culpability, and the one on trial wanted an excuse for being found guilty.
Not that cops are saints and there are no crooked ones or assholes, but usually the people I hear these stories from are far from grounded in reality. Also notice the age range here. I am guessing you are fairly young or were when you had a gun pointed at you for asking directions.
I live in a city with 250 cops. They rat eachother out all the time. They are also a member of a fairly large and old union. The reality is though, the chilling scene depicted by the parent is a thing of the past.
We live in a large country. By a rough estimate, there are over half a million cops in it. There are things I am much more worried about than several isolated incidents of police brutality per year. A problem, especially a declining one is not a damn epidemic.
Assuming that things are as severe as you claim, these are not things that would be alleviated by standers-by snapping shots with their HP digital cameras.
Honestly though, you sound like a lunatic. Don't overstate your case so much -- you do your own cause a disservice. How many people do you know who have had RFID tags implanted in them? Where are the civilian surveillance cameras in your neighborhood? How many people do you know were killed by the cops? Black suited anonymous ski masked ninja killers squads? If you are talking about SWAT teams, very few police departments have them. What the hell could you possibly be doing online that you think law enforcement agencies will be devoting thousands of dollars and man hours to pour over? Do you really think that our government is that much more interested in weeding out the self-proclaimed unamerican instead of the many criminals in this country?
Problems are there, but imagining problems that are not only serves to draw attention away from the real ones.
Unfortunately, current day dissenters don't seem to understand that this isn't the 60's. There is a negligible amount of police misconduct now. Stories such as that may serve as rallying cries today, but they are nowhere near as relevant as they were forty years ago. The notion that this HP patent is a prelude to rampant police brutality is a total joke. With all of the kicking and screaming that goes on here about our rights being taken away and law enforcement harassment, few if any slashdotters have ever experienced such things.
I've got to admit I find it entertainig that anyone on/. is concerned with being beaten by police. Maybe his girlfriend/wife will be the one with the camera.
Either that or people are angry because they can no longer anonymously check-out communist literature from public libraries. It's not like the Democrats would ever infringe on our rights and disallow us from things like smoking in bars or driving cars without seatbelts.
I would be truly ashamed. It should be embarrassing to a political party when they need to resort to campaigns such as this to gain support. This really adds insult to the injury of the Motor Voter Act.
It is not GNOME-based. You can still add the following to/etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main restricted universe
This will include non-free/contrib-type packages as well as just about everything in Debian main, including KDE. You just won't necessarily get any security updates.
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Let's get this straight. A cop pulled a gun on you for asking directions, a drunk teenager claimed he was beaten by the cops, and someone on trial who was presumably convicted said it happened because the cops lied to get his car. I suppose it is outside the realm of possibility that you did a little more than ask directions, the drunk kid wanted to defuse his culpability, and the one on trial wanted an excuse for being found guilty.
Not that cops are saints and there are no crooked ones or assholes, but usually the people I hear these stories from are far from grounded in reality. Also notice the age range here. I am guessing you are fairly young or were when you had a gun pointed at you for asking directions.
I live in a city with 250 cops. They rat eachother out all the time. They are also a member of a fairly large and old union. The reality is though, the chilling scene depicted by the parent is a thing of the past.
That's my point. Who cares if pictures are taken of what you consider police misconduct when the misconduct is considered legal?
We live in a large country. By a rough estimate, there are over half a million cops in it. There are things I am much more worried about than several isolated incidents of police brutality per year. A problem, especially a declining one is not a damn epidemic.
Assuming that things are as severe as you claim, these are not things that would be alleviated by standers-by snapping shots with their HP digital cameras.
Honestly though, you sound like a lunatic. Don't overstate your case so much -- you do your own cause a disservice. How many people do you know who have had RFID tags implanted in them? Where are the civilian surveillance cameras in your neighborhood? How many people do you know were killed by the cops? Black suited anonymous ski masked ninja killers squads? If you are talking about SWAT teams, very few police departments have them. What the hell could you possibly be doing online that you think law enforcement agencies will be devoting thousands of dollars and man hours to pour over? Do you really think that our government is that much more interested in weeding out the self-proclaimed unamerican instead of the many criminals in this country?
Problems are there, but imagining problems that are not only serves to draw attention away from the real ones.
Unfortunately, current day dissenters don't seem to understand that this isn't the 60's. There is a negligible amount of police misconduct now. Stories such as that may serve as rallying cries today, but they are nowhere near as relevant as they were forty years ago. The notion that this HP patent is a prelude to rampant police brutality is a total joke. With all of the kicking and screaming that goes on here about our rights being taken away and law enforcement harassment, few if any slashdotters have ever experienced such things.
I've got to admit I find it entertainig that anyone on /. is concerned with being beaten by police. Maybe his girlfriend/wife will be the one with the camera.
It's the thought that counts.
The vast right wing conspiracy never sleeps!
What are you talking about? Every time I've used IE, its rendered everything fine. Mozilla on the other hand does not.
What is remotely scientific about quantifying something as subjective as strong habituation (aka addiction)?
Since when does the Senate pass HR bills?
Either that or people are angry because they can no longer anonymously check-out communist literature from public libraries. It's not like the Democrats would ever infringe on our rights and disallow us from things like smoking in bars or driving cars without seatbelts.
Yes, but don't you understand how cool it is to bash Bush, Ashcroft, and the rest of the administration? All the kids are doing it.
"God bless President Bush, and God bless America."
It killed my father and raped my mother.
Actually there is bad scientific evidence of this.
The largest study to date on the effects of secondhand smoke has concluded that there is no evidence to support the claim that it is deadly.
The best is web surfing in links/lynx. Terminals = hard work!
The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy strikes again!
What is so exciting about this thing? Just its size?
The delete key. Press it once for each piece of spam you get.
There is very little about Rock the Vote that is non-partisan. They stop just short of saying, "Vote democrat and not republican."
I would be truly ashamed. It should be embarrassing to a political party when they need to resort to campaigns such as this to gain support. This really adds insult to the injury of the Motor Voter Act.
What dictionary did you get "arrrrrgh" out of?
It is not GNOME-based. You can still add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu warty main restricted universe
This will include non-free/contrib-type packages as well as just about everything in Debian main, including KDE. You just won't necessarily get any security updates.