"This kind of thinking will result in consumers having to pay monthly fees for most software (software as a service FTW)."
Then we won't buy it.
"Businesses aren't stupid, they will find ways around piracy."
They are, since they're trying to kill the medium since they can't live within it. And we won't let it happen.
"I also have no sympathy for people when their job gets outsourced to a country that pays a cheaper wage. "Innovate or learn a new skill""
That's exactly what happens. How much sympathy did candlemakers get when electric light put them out of business? Or linotype operators? Adapt or die, the world doesn't owe you a living and progress is not meant to stop because you don't like it.
Hate to tell you but that money doesn't go to the "artists". A small part of it does, the rests goes into the deep pockets of corporate fatcats to be blown on coke, prostitutes and some projects like "how to kill the 'net" and "how to charge people for thinking about music". You're subsidizing a lobby that forces entire countries to change their legal system to accomodate those corporate fatcats. You are, in short, a Nazi collaborationist and you will be dealt with accordingly with barbed wire and sharp sticks.
Blame the leaker, not "pirates". Anything that goes on the Internet ends up everywhere. It's either a case of the author throwing a primadonna antic or sloppy security.
By the way, a far better creator than all those derivative drivel-turners of today, Frank Zappa, advocated cutting off the middle men back in the 1980s. Contrary to popular belief, big record companies are far more of a stifling influence than anything else, dictating artists how much output they can generate and meddling with artistic decisions on a regular basis. We Internet users do not want "content for free", we want content to be distributed in a way that is up to date with the 21st Century. Artists must learn to live in the present and take advantage of the opportunities, and 20th century business models who cannot exist in a world of instantaneous worldwide communication must adapt or perish.
To those who wail "but they must make a living" I remind that horse carriage drivers and candlemakers also had to make a living, progress marches forward and you either adapt or perish. End of line.
What we will not stand for is progress to be chained and selective Luddites such as the MAFIAA to dictate what technology can or cannot do and what it can or cannot be. This is a warning: stand aside and learn to live in the 21st Century, or go away into the night; if you attempt to turn back the clock or use technology to enforce your tyranny, we will destroy you. Anyone who works for them as a copyright cop or lawyer, or programmer working on punitive DRM or any technology that aids the industry in prosecuting citizens, we will kill you. We mean it.
Yeah. I have my own routines: the Grieving Widow, the Distracted Parent Whose Kid Is Killed During The Phone Call, the Junkie Who Was Waken Up By The Call With Blood All Over His Hands and one of all-time my favourites, the Mafioso. It's like shitting on their faces through the phone. Lots of fun.
It's the first time they will actually succeed. Technological progress has been the big blunt instrument that defeated most mass-control schemes over the last centuries, and contrarily to the naive opinion of most loserboys, the Middle Ages saw some great advancements. All attempts to control and regulate communication has been sooner or later defeated by technology, and even national bans were overridden by simply moving somewhere else.
Now, this is not the case anymore: there is one world, which is becoming smaller, and the places where Big Media doesn't hold sway are becoming lesser and lesser. They CAN and they WILL dictate what "shape" progress will have and no dissidence will be tolerated. Anyone who dares come up with a way to bypass the corporate-political control will be prosecuted for pedoterrorism.
No technical solution can prevent this, only force.
What did you expect? For the first time in human history technological progress will be effectively shaped and limited by the concerted actions of big corporate interests and a political power scared of the populace they pretend to serve. Inventors and innovators will be fined or jailed, and private entities will exert a hydraulic tyranny on information technology which will last generations.
In order to avoid this, direct action must be taken.
I have two of them and yes, I remember the thrusters on the landing gears' pods. However, Apollo had them on a cylindrical body while the Eagles have them positioned differently, and there's no engine bell on the X-Axis. Oh, well, it's fiction. I also have Roberto Baldassarri's blueprints framed, by the way (http://www.space1999.net/eagle/).
"Black Sun" was kinda cool. And the Eagles are some of the greatest-looking fictional spaceships ever, even though from the vernier rockets layout it's never exactly clear how they can yaw or traslate on the X-axis.
It's not an act of desperation: it's an act of force, a demonstration of power. And they're not losing, far from it. They're winning. Up to us to stop hiding and getting pushed into corners.
Now look, I see you're not the usual loserboy and you understand pretty well the matter. You say correctly that inaction supports the abusers, I say that we must act to correct this. I say, never swallow and offense. Never "get over it". Fight. They will always get away scot-free unless people rise up and challenge them and for every discomfort this may cause you, remember that the future holds far worse if the abusers are left unfought. It may take a million men to march and make a difference, but it takes one Rosa Parks to start.
Actually that's not the case. It's only in recent times that people have stopped reacting, stopped (mostly) taking to the streets and stopped caring because there's an overwhelming feeling that the adversary is just too powerful to take on. We allowed too many "authority figures" to play Gene Hunt and make up laws on the spot, we allowed too many private interests to buy the law. If this defeatist attitude had existed at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, people would still be forced to work ungodly hours in unsafe conditions and sleeping in barracks-like housing by the factories. The trend back towards those time has begun the moment the interested parties thought they could get away with it, because rights and liberties cannot simply be won, they must be constantly defended. Besides, those who want to defend their rights are too often divided because they don't like "some" rights defended, while those who want them taken away are united. Nobody actually supports a system that victimizes them: they only swallow the offences down because they think there's nothing they can do. I - and I'm not alone - say there's PLENTY to be done. Get organized. Get on the line. Fight.
Well, "ordinary people" do not go around playing Dirty Harry because they believe they can. And it was not about fucking up a random agent, it was about setting an example: security firms now working in the area are far more careful, and the incident prompted the local authorities to investigate past complaints into what were correctly perceived as abuses of power on the part of overzealous (read: braindead self-sodomizing coprophage) security personnel. Abuses on the part of rent-a-thugs are now taken far more seriously and as a consequence, those clowns behave because they know darn well they can't get another job that easily (not with an assault charge and after being fired for improper conduct).
Dismantling the system would be nice, because a good rebuild is in order. For the moment, we can hammer out some bends, however. Don't think you cannot make a difference, that's what they want you to think. Take no shit from anyone. Organize yourselves. Defend your rights.
So what? Good luck using that post as evidence, and the company cannot sue anyone because they do not exist anymore. They're closed, bankrupt, gone.:)
Anyway, the little scene was only needed to call attention. It was illegal for the guard to grab the guy since he hadn't given him any reason to do it, but without the drama nobody would have noticed and the manager would not have wanted to see the CCTV footage in order to avoid possible lawsuits - he had an interest in demonstrating the robocop wannabe had violated both the law and the premises' policy by playing Tough Guy.
Had the "victim" not thrown the little scene and his friends not called attention to the fact, he would have simply been another citizen mistreated by a dumb thug in a silly uniform, and we already have plenty of them. By calling the public's attention to the illegal action of the aforementioned thug, and causing the management to check out the facts (in order to avoid damage of course, not in the interests of justice), a lesson has been taught to many a rent-a-goon.
Remember some things: those clowns cannot even touch you unless you give them GOOD reason to do it, and pointing at a silly hat on a stand is not a good reason. They're not police officers, they cannot search you and they cannot detain you unless you've done something really illegal and even then, they must immediately call the police. If they simply detain you, check your nation's laws because they can be charged for kidnapping. Call the cops yourself in such a case: have the emergency number on a one-touch call on your phone and press it, talk loud, it will be recorded.
You're as helpless as you want to be. They want you to believe you're helpless, but it's still not the case. The law can bite both ways.
LOL. You're even more of a loserboy than I thought.
What about I live in a place where the worst act of violence in the last 5 year was a drunk trying to grope a waitress and falling on his stupid nose, there are few laws but well enforced (although we don't delude ourselves into thinking that hardened criminals can be rehabilitated, because in most countries a bad criminal record means unemployment for life). And yet guns are commonplace here, people simply are not obsessed with them because they're a natural part of everyday life.
Ah, if confronted you give them what they want and then EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO ALERT SOMEONE? Humungous LOL! They'll simply club you hard, so you cannot alert anyone. And what if they want something you're not willing to give them?
Sympathize with me? WHO ASKED FOR YOUR SYMPATHY, turdbrain? I'd rather die falling into a volcano than counting a willing slave like you in my "sympathy" circles. If we ever met F2F, I'd simply ignore you or fart in your general direction. You're a small, unimportanti thing and I cannot see your point of view because you have none of relevance.
What do you have to think about that's so much better (I don't have, it has been planned a long time ago)? Your collection of child porn? Your six-hour masturbation session in a pile of your own feces?
Begone, toilet reject. You're one of those little shits who equates civilization with cowardice to make up for your own inadequacy. Squeal like a pig! Weeee!
"the flaws are purposefully left in the ATMs to detract would be thieves from arming themselves and stealing money from banks "the old fashioned way".
LOOOOOL! Congratulations, loserboy. You're eligible for the Most Gullible Idiot in the World Award! Either that, or you're a low-level employee of some ATM maker. Either way, my diarrhoea is your shampoo.
Trust your masters, loserboy. Give them all of your money. Do as they say, they know what's better for you. Right.
LOL. No information is "criminal" or "non-criminal". Information is just information and it's good for people to know just how secure the machines they rely on to handle their cash is. Those ATM vendors were just scared that people could know how insecure their hardware and software was, and that they would have to spend money (SHOCK! HORROR!) to address the issue. Better to silence those dangerous "citizens", in the interest of corporate buggery.
"so you are suggesting that publishing instructions on how to perform an act will lead to less people executing that act....... *logic needed*"
Everybody who has half a brain and went through basic chemistry knows enough to wreak some toxic havoc. Hint: bleach + ammonia. Do you think we should ban chemistry books, wannabe inquisitor masturbator boy? Afraid of knowledge? Scared by science? Did a science jock beat you up in high school, loserboy? Did he twist your arms while reading Aristotle?
It's not illegal, but Big Money makes and enforce its own laws. And the most important of those laws is: we're rich and powerful, obey us or else.
Too bad nobody calls their "else". People don't know their rights anymore, or are afraid to defend them. Unfortunately with good reason because there's plenty of both public and private uniformed thugs who make up the law on the spot and exercise their might with the power of the baton.
Another decade of this, or less, and the populace will have been forced into submission, ready to do anything if ordered to by an "authority figure".
Wise up, people: organize yourselves, gather in pro-rights associations and have lawyers on your side. When a person or group of people is harassed by uniformed or suited goons, take them to court. Have the fact publicized by the press or by any means necessary. Embarass them, ridicule them, nothing kills fear more than laughter. Nothing hurts more than a good lawsuit.
A guy I knew once was just touched by a private security guard at a mall who was trying to play Dirty Harry. He immediately fell to the ground screaming like a stuck pig. A friend nearby promptly shouted "MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM!" He remained still on the ground and another friend (female) kept screaming "MURDERER! MURDERER!"
It was PRICELESS. All caught on tape. People around gathered, and this uniformed guy was probably thinking if he had better run away or gun down everyone. Manager got called. Ambulance was called. Police appeared. Although this guy wasn't hurt, the fact that he had been pushed by the guard with no reason (seen on the CCTV when the security firm tried to exculpate themselves) was ground for criminal charged against the guard and for a big lawsuit against the firm by the mall management. The bad publicity (thing ended up on TV and papers) caused the firm to lose all contracts throughout the city and collapsed in a couple of months.
Play hard. We can win, but gloves must come off. If they shit on you, you shit back. With some diarrhoea.
You can look your own statistics, England ranks top in the EU crime rates. France has a slightly higher number of crimes reported, but they have a big problem in their banlieues (suburban areas with low-income population and high unemployment rates) which is where most of the violence occurs. The UK doesn't have a comparable situation and yet in the blighted island they've even suggesting banning kitchen knives.
And yet, it's people in the Continent who had to put up metal cages and send the police in riot gears on the streets because the filthy mob from over the Channel turned their cities into battlefields. We don't forget the Heysel massacre, and we don't forgive.
Since we're speaking sports, why are the brits hosting the Olympics when one of the competition is target shooting? Why are they making an exception to the rule? If they had any honor, they would have excluded themselves from any Olympic game on the ground that no brit should break the limey laws, and that they couldn't allow something as illegal as target shooting to happen on Horrible Blighty. They could have shown some coherence, how committed they are to the Safe Society under the Watchful Eyes of the limey police.
But no. It's one rule for kings and one for the plebes. Can't expect anything else from a country as backwards as the UK. They can keep bleeding themselves dry to feed their ridiculous monarchy.
Going through your entire life without seeing something that the governments doesn't want you to see is hardly a badge of merit. It only means that your government doesn't trust you to be anything more than a taxpayer.
Anti-weaponry but ok with them in videogames? What a hypocrite you are. Typical english sissy-boy.
Self-defence? Anyone who considers firearms for self-defence must realize they're the last resort. You have reinforced doors, you have alarm systems, you have a good distance between any point of entrance and the room where you make your stand, you have a phone ready with the local police emergency number ready on one-touch dialing. The weapon comes out if the intruders break in and threaten your life or the life of someone else before the police arrives. Who cares if they trash my living room - it's all insured and there's nothing irreplaceable there - it ain't worth going on trial for. But life is another matter.
And by the way, carrying is a pain in the ass and I wouldn't recommend it unless you really need it. You've got to be on alert all the time, can't have a beer, can't take your jacket off even if it's darn hot.
That said, I like that I have the option. Unlike a limey sissy-boy hooligan, for instance.
Wrong. The ammunition for firearms in Switzerland is readily bought at gun stores, except for the GP90 used in the Stgw 90 (SIG SG-550) which can only be bought at ranges. However, the Stgw 90 fires the conventional 5.56x45mm round (.223 Remington) with no problem, it's just that it's not optimized for the weapon's rifling affecting the long-range performance. You can buy all the pistol and rifle ammo you want, you only need to show ID. The only ammo that was given out to reservists was a sealed can to be opened in case of conflict, but if you own an older Stgw 57 or a 9mm pistol, there's all the ammo you may ever want.
By the way, I'm not a US citizen so your "the US does worse" argument is doomed to failure - like the rest of your miserable loserboy life.
Have you ever wondered that most countries with low gun ownership never had any gun violence - and often they had little violence at all - to begin with? Have you ever thought for an instant that the case for violence is social AND cultural? And unless you address those problems, any restrictive laws are just plugs in a leaking dam?
No, you haven't because you don't have a brain. Begone, you silly creature. I banish you to the toilet bown.
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"This kind of thinking will result in consumers having to pay monthly fees for most software (software as a service FTW)."
Then we won't buy it.
"Businesses aren't stupid, they will find ways around piracy."
They are, since they're trying to kill the medium since they can't live within it. And we won't let it happen.
"I also have no sympathy for people when their job gets outsourced to a country that pays a cheaper wage. "Innovate or learn a new skill""
That's exactly what happens. How much sympathy did candlemakers get when electric light put them out of business? Or linotype operators? Adapt or die, the world doesn't owe you a living and progress is not meant to stop because you don't like it.
You forgot the part where you eat his turds floating in the public toilet.
Hate to tell you but that money doesn't go to the "artists". A small part of it does, the rests goes into the deep pockets of corporate fatcats to be blown on coke, prostitutes and some projects like "how to kill the 'net" and "how to charge people for thinking about music". You're subsidizing a lobby that forces entire countries to change their legal system to accomodate those corporate fatcats. You are, in short, a Nazi collaborationist and you will be dealt with accordingly with barbed wire and sharp sticks.
Blame the leaker, not "pirates". Anything that goes on the Internet ends up everywhere. It's either a case of the author throwing a primadonna antic or sloppy security.
By the way, a far better creator than all those derivative drivel-turners of today, Frank Zappa, advocated cutting off the middle men back in the 1980s. Contrary to popular belief, big record companies are far more of a stifling influence than anything else, dictating artists how much output they can generate and meddling with artistic decisions on a regular basis. We Internet users do not want "content for free", we want content to be distributed in a way that is up to date with the 21st Century. Artists must learn to live in the present and take advantage of the opportunities, and 20th century business models who cannot exist in a world of instantaneous worldwide communication must adapt or perish.
To those who wail "but they must make a living" I remind that horse carriage drivers and candlemakers also had to make a living, progress marches forward and you either adapt or perish. End of line.
What we will not stand for is progress to be chained and selective Luddites such as the MAFIAA to dictate what technology can or cannot do and what it can or cannot be. This is a warning: stand aside and learn to live in the 21st Century, or go away into the night; if you attempt to turn back the clock or use technology to enforce your tyranny, we will destroy you.
Anyone who works for them as a copyright cop or lawyer, or programmer working on punitive DRM or any technology that aids the industry in prosecuting citizens, we will kill you. We mean it.
Yeah. I have my own routines: the Grieving Widow, the Distracted Parent Whose Kid Is Killed During The Phone Call, the Junkie Who Was Waken Up By The Call With Blood All Over His Hands and one of all-time my favourites, the Mafioso.
It's like shitting on their faces through the phone. Lots of fun.
It's the first time they will actually succeed. Technological progress has been the big blunt instrument that defeated most mass-control schemes over the last centuries, and contrarily to the naive opinion of most loserboys, the Middle Ages saw some great advancements. All attempts to control and regulate communication has been sooner or later defeated by technology, and even national bans were overridden by simply moving somewhere else.
Now, this is not the case anymore: there is one world, which is becoming smaller, and the places where Big Media doesn't hold sway are becoming lesser and lesser. They CAN and they WILL dictate what "shape" progress will have and no dissidence will be tolerated. Anyone who dares come up with a way to bypass the corporate-political control will be prosecuted for pedoterrorism.
No technical solution can prevent this, only force.
What did you expect? For the first time in human history technological progress will be effectively shaped and limited by the concerted actions of big corporate interests and a political power scared of the populace they pretend to serve. Inventors and innovators will be fined or jailed, and private entities will exert a hydraulic tyranny on information technology which will last generations.
In order to avoid this, direct action must be taken.
I have two of them and yes, I remember the thrusters on the landing gears' pods. However, Apollo had them on a cylindrical body while the Eagles have them positioned differently, and there's no engine bell on the X-Axis. Oh, well, it's fiction. I also have Roberto Baldassarri's blueprints framed, by the way (http://www.space1999.net/eagle/).
"Black Sun" was kinda cool. And the Eagles are some of the greatest-looking fictional spaceships ever, even though from the vernier rockets layout it's never exactly clear how they can yaw or traslate on the X-axis.
It's not an act of desperation: it's an act of force, a demonstration of power. And they're not losing, far from it. They're winning. Up to us to stop hiding and getting pushed into corners.
Now look, I see you're not the usual loserboy and you understand pretty well the matter. You say correctly that inaction supports the abusers, I say that we must act to correct this. I say, never swallow and offense. Never "get over it". Fight. They will always get away scot-free unless people rise up and challenge them and for every discomfort this may cause you, remember that the future holds far worse if the abusers are left unfought. It may take a million men to march and make a difference, but it takes one Rosa Parks to start.
Actually that's not the case. It's only in recent times that people have stopped reacting, stopped (mostly) taking to the streets and stopped caring because there's an overwhelming feeling that the adversary is just too powerful to take on. We allowed too many "authority figures" to play Gene Hunt and make up laws on the spot, we allowed too many private interests to buy the law.
If this defeatist attitude had existed at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, people would still be forced to work ungodly hours in unsafe conditions and sleeping in barracks-like housing by the factories.
The trend back towards those time has begun the moment the interested parties thought they could get away with it, because rights and liberties cannot simply be won, they must be constantly defended. Besides, those who want to defend their rights are too often divided because they don't like "some" rights defended, while those who want them taken away are united.
Nobody actually supports a system that victimizes them: they only swallow the offences down because they think there's nothing they can do. I - and I'm not alone - say there's PLENTY to be done. Get organized. Get on the line. Fight.
Well, "ordinary people" do not go around playing Dirty Harry because they believe they can. And it was not about fucking up a random agent, it was about setting an example: security firms now working in the area are far more careful, and the incident prompted the local authorities to investigate past complaints into what were correctly perceived as abuses of power on the part of overzealous (read: braindead self-sodomizing coprophage) security personnel. Abuses on the part of rent-a-thugs are now taken far more seriously and as a consequence, those clowns behave because they know darn well they can't get another job that easily (not with an assault charge and after being fired for improper conduct).
Dismantling the system would be nice, because a good rebuild is in order. For the moment, we can hammer out some bends, however. Don't think you cannot make a difference, that's what they want you to think. Take no shit from anyone. Organize yourselves. Defend your rights.
So what? Good luck using that post as evidence, and the company cannot sue anyone because they do not exist anymore. They're closed, bankrupt, gone. :)
Anyway, the little scene was only needed to call attention. It was illegal for the guard to grab the guy since he hadn't given him any reason to do it, but without the drama nobody would have noticed and the manager would not have wanted to see the CCTV footage in order to avoid possible lawsuits - he had an interest in demonstrating the robocop wannabe had violated both the law and the premises' policy by playing Tough Guy.
Had the "victim" not thrown the little scene and his friends not called attention to the fact, he would have simply been another citizen mistreated by a dumb thug in a silly uniform, and we already have plenty of them. By calling the public's attention to the illegal action of the aforementioned thug, and causing the management to check out the facts (in order to avoid damage of course, not in the interests of justice), a lesson has been taught to many a rent-a-goon.
Remember some things: those clowns cannot even touch you unless you give them GOOD reason to do it, and pointing at a silly hat on a stand is not a good reason. They're not police officers, they cannot search you and they cannot detain you unless you've done something really illegal and even then, they must immediately call the police. If they simply detain you, check your nation's laws because they can be charged for kidnapping. Call the cops yourself in such a case: have the emergency number on a one-touch call on your phone and press it, talk loud, it will be recorded.
You're as helpless as you want to be. They want you to believe you're helpless, but it's still not the case. The law can bite both ways.
LOL. You're even more of a loserboy than I thought.
What about I live in a place where the worst act of violence in the last 5 year was a drunk trying to grope a waitress and falling on his stupid nose, there are few laws but well enforced (although we don't delude ourselves into thinking that hardened criminals can be rehabilitated, because in most countries a bad criminal record means unemployment for life). And yet guns are commonplace here, people simply are not obsessed with them because they're a natural part of everyday life.
Ah, if confronted you give them what they want and then EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO ALERT SOMEONE? Humungous LOL! They'll simply club you hard, so you cannot alert anyone. And what if they want something you're not willing to give them?
Sympathize with me? WHO ASKED FOR YOUR SYMPATHY, turdbrain? I'd rather die falling into a volcano than counting a willing slave like you in my "sympathy" circles. If we ever met F2F, I'd simply ignore you or fart in your general direction. You're a small, unimportanti thing and I cannot see your point of view because you have none of relevance.
What do you have to think about that's so much better (I don't have, it has been planned a long time ago)? Your collection of child porn? Your six-hour masturbation session in a pile of your own feces?
Begone, toilet reject. You're one of those little shits who equates civilization with cowardice to make up for your own inadequacy. Squeal like a pig! Weeee!
"Now, what am I supposed to do with all this granite?"
Eat it. Heard it tastes like chicken.
"the flaws are purposefully left in the ATMs to detract would be thieves from arming themselves and stealing money from banks "the old fashioned way".
LOOOOOL! Congratulations, loserboy. You're eligible for the Most Gullible Idiot in the World Award! Either that, or you're a low-level employee of some ATM maker. Either way, my diarrhoea is your shampoo.
Trust your masters, loserboy. Give them all of your money. Do as they say, they know what's better for you. Right.
LOL. No information is "criminal" or "non-criminal". Information is just information and it's good for people to know just how secure the machines they rely on to handle their cash is. Those ATM vendors were just scared that people could know how insecure their hardware and software was, and that they would have to spend money (SHOCK! HORROR!) to address the issue. Better to silence those dangerous "citizens", in the interest of corporate buggery.
Run, coward, run. I live. I hunger. Beware.
"so you are suggesting that publishing instructions on how to perform an act will lead to less people executing that act....... *logic needed*"
Everybody who has half a brain and went through basic chemistry knows enough to wreak some toxic havoc. Hint: bleach + ammonia. Do you think we should ban chemistry books, wannabe inquisitor masturbator boy? Afraid of knowledge? Scared by science? Did a science jock beat you up in high school, loserboy? Did he twist your arms while reading Aristotle?
It's not illegal, but Big Money makes and enforce its own laws. And the most important of those laws is: we're rich and powerful, obey us or else.
Too bad nobody calls their "else". People don't know their rights anymore, or are afraid to defend them. Unfortunately with good reason because there's plenty of both public and private uniformed thugs who make up the law on the spot and exercise their might with the power of the baton.
Another decade of this, or less, and the populace will have been forced into submission, ready to do anything if ordered to by an "authority figure".
Wise up, people: organize yourselves, gather in pro-rights associations and have lawyers on your side. When a person or group of people is harassed by uniformed or suited goons, take them to court. Have the fact publicized by the press or by any means necessary. Embarass them, ridicule them, nothing kills fear more than laughter. Nothing hurts more than a good lawsuit.
A guy I knew once was just touched by a private security guard at a mall who was trying to play Dirty Harry. He immediately fell to the ground screaming like a stuck pig. A friend nearby promptly shouted "MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM!" He remained still on the ground and another friend (female) kept screaming "MURDERER! MURDERER!"
It was PRICELESS. All caught on tape. People around gathered, and this uniformed guy was probably thinking if he had better run away or gun down everyone. Manager got called. Ambulance was called. Police appeared. Although this guy wasn't hurt, the fact that he had been pushed by the guard with no reason (seen on the CCTV when the security firm tried to exculpate themselves) was ground for criminal charged against the guard and for a big lawsuit against the firm by the mall management. The bad publicity (thing ended up on TV and papers) caused the firm to lose all contracts throughout the city and collapsed in a couple of months.
Play hard. We can win, but gloves must come off. If they shit on you, you shit back. With some diarrhoea.
You can look your own statistics, England ranks top in the EU crime rates. France has a slightly higher number of crimes reported, but they have a big problem in their banlieues (suburban areas with low-income population and high unemployment rates) which is where most of the violence occurs. The UK doesn't have a comparable situation and yet in the blighted island they've even suggesting banning kitchen knives.
And yet, it's people in the Continent who had to put up metal cages and send the police in riot gears on the streets because the filthy mob from over the Channel turned their cities into battlefields. We don't forget the Heysel massacre, and we don't forgive.
Since we're speaking sports, why are the brits hosting the Olympics when one of the competition is target shooting? Why are they making an exception to the rule? If they had any honor, they would have excluded themselves from any Olympic game on the ground that no brit should break the limey laws, and that they couldn't allow something as illegal as target shooting to happen on Horrible Blighty. They could have shown some coherence, how committed they are to the Safe Society under the Watchful Eyes of the limey police.
But no. It's one rule for kings and one for the plebes. Can't expect anything else from a country as backwards as the UK. They can keep bleeding themselves dry to feed their ridiculous monarchy.
Going through your entire life without seeing something that the governments doesn't want you to see is hardly a badge of merit. It only means that your government doesn't trust you to be anything more than a taxpayer.
Anti-weaponry but ok with them in videogames? What a hypocrite you are. Typical english sissy-boy.
Self-defence? Anyone who considers firearms for self-defence must realize they're the last resort. You have reinforced doors, you have alarm systems, you have a good distance between any point of entrance and the room where you make your stand, you have a phone ready with the local police emergency number ready on one-touch dialing. The weapon comes out if the intruders break in and threaten your life or the life of someone else before the police arrives. Who cares if they trash my living room - it's all insured and there's nothing irreplaceable there - it ain't worth going on trial for. But life is another matter.
And by the way, carrying is a pain in the ass and I wouldn't recommend it unless you really need it. You've got to be on alert all the time, can't have a beer, can't take your jacket off even if it's darn hot.
That said, I like that I have the option. Unlike a limey sissy-boy hooligan, for instance.
Care to share the music as well?
Thank you, but my attitude and weapons knowledge is commonplace where I live, where jocks are legion and where the nerdkind has no place.
Beware. We live. We hunger. Run, cowards, run.
Wrong. The ammunition for firearms in Switzerland is readily bought at gun stores, except for the GP90 used in the Stgw 90 (SIG SG-550) which can only be bought at ranges. However, the Stgw 90 fires the conventional 5.56x45mm round (.223 Remington) with no problem, it's just that it's not optimized for the weapon's rifling affecting the long-range performance. You can buy all the pistol and rifle ammo you want, you only need to show ID. The only ammo that was given out to reservists was a sealed can to be opened in case of conflict, but if you own an older Stgw 57 or a 9mm pistol, there's all the ammo you may ever want.
By the way, I'm not a US citizen so your "the US does worse" argument is doomed to failure - like the rest of your miserable loserboy life.
Have you ever wondered that most countries with low gun ownership never had any gun violence - and often they had little violence at all - to begin with? Have you ever thought for an instant that the case for violence is social AND cultural? And unless you address those problems, any restrictive laws are just plugs in a leaking dam?
No, you haven't because you don't have a brain. Begone, you silly creature. I banish you to the toilet bown.