Comment Re: Seems pretty lame (Score 1) 94
not much of a student of history huh?
not much of a student of history huh?
even when you can frame them for online chatter they never committed and use the violent thugs against themselves?
before the gun comes out of the holster, there is information and perception
own the information, change the perception, own the actions of the thugs
when the laws are technically incompetent, the only real de facto law of the land is technical competency. for good ends or bad ends
technical illiterates, good and bad, beware in such a land
do your fucking job. spying on suspects
not hoovering everything from everyone and thinking a search query will give you magic intelligence. intelligence work is *work*
the encryption is not important. your gumshoe work is. get out of your fucking cubicle you lardass and find these dirtbags
and if you can't do that maybe your useless security theatre job should be axed
input or output from any part of the system should conform to narrow parameters, or the entire communication is disregarded, and the fail safe implemented. so falling back to the fail safe should be frequent, not rare and alarming. it could be a hack, it could also just be network or equipment issues, either way
for example, the data: distance to car in front of you
the data should be of rigorously correct format, received in the correct and expected small time frame, and the source must be locked to certain trust indicators (which would be another entire laundry list of overlapping qualifications)
if there is any failure, no matter how slight, the data should be considered tainted and incorrect, and back up redundant systems (lidar, whatever) or even fail over to manual control should be implemented
because you drink and drive and don't think it's a problem
this makes you a fucking piece of shit
not a baseless insult, but objectively speaking: your irresponsibility is dangerous to the people you share the road with. by your choice. it's not your culture, asswipe, that's a lame dodge. you're just an immature irresponsible asshole who will kill someone, and seems happy about it
basically you're saying your culture is ignorant and stupid. when the truth is only you are ignorant and stupid
your attitude obviously sucks, and you are an accident waiting to happen. when it does happen, please do us the favor and only kill yourself
and thanks for insulting the south in an attempt to mitigate your douchebag character, you irresponsible fuck
you will of course go "he hates the south"
no, i love the south, i have old family roots there. i only hate you, shitbag, because your attitude is clearly somebody's death by automobile waiting to happen
people like you, who argue that police should be allowed to ignore the law
so this has absolutely nothing to do with what i said, not even remotely
nothing i said anywhere would remotely lead you to believe that this statement has anything to do with the content of my comment
it goes without saying i don't believe anything remotely like that
either you are
1. purposefully lying for the sake of trolling, badly. or you
2. genuinely lack the social and cognitive abilities necessary to carry on a coherent conversation
in fact, your comment is kind of a microcosm of much of what goes on in many arguments in the world
1. me: someone says something
2. you: some malicious asshole or social retard grossly twists the meaning to an unrelated fearmongering smear
and then pointless useless drama results
congratulations: you are a useless toxic shitbag. not a baseless insult. an objectively valid description of your contribution to this thread
ah yes, my narrow minded attitude that drinking and driving is wrong
how shallowly judgmental of me
actual narrow minded righteousness is about finding people wrong for arbitrary things
like fashion or sexuality or... swearing
do you know anyone who would judge someone for swearing, you hypocritical shitbag?
all i know is that you have hijacked the topic with a tirade about arbitrary laws
gee, that's a really exciting topic
but it has not one fucking thing to do with the fact that drinking and driving is wrong, period. not arbitrary. and the actual fucking topic
i look forward to you missing the actual fucking point and going on an obtuse tangent about nanny states and arbitrary laws, asshole
drinking and driving is never acceptable
if you're insulting people in the south and saying most of them are fine with that (seems rather prejudicial and self-serving to your own shitty attitude), then you will simply reap many more pointless traffic deaths
and therefore tell the rest of the country to avoid an area populated with such morons. and then after enough morons like yourself are dead, your children and grandchildren will pass better laws and have better attitudes. and the "culture" you defend will die, as much of bad and ignorant "culture" in the south has died and should die and will die. as it is with the north as well: everything changes, and no place is squeaky clean
that's not uptight. that's responsible. freedom is never about being free to be irresponsible. nowhere, not logically possible, no matter the lame weak "culture" argument
culture is about cheap plastic beads getting women to show their tits. culture is never about excusing the defilement of other people's freedom by putting their lives in danger
oh sure, someone like yourself will try. and only thereby slander the culture you are supposedly defending. the only question then is why you cheapen your own culture
there is never an excuse for risking the lives of others by drinking and driving. none. never. not even the lame excuse you articulate, which boils down to insulting cheapening and hating your own people
we must demand immediate rezoning of the entire country into rural and urban zones only
only then can we judge
obviously it's hard to plan a night of drinking and know your options and no one in suburbia can afford a cab. suburban life is so harsh and oppressive, we have no choice but to accept drunk driving
unrelated topic moron
those are interesting anecdotal edge cases that don't say much about the vast majority of problems with drinking and driving
obviously the asshole cop should have been more understanding with your wife, and if you want to drink and tip your mower and chop off your fingers, whatever makes you happy
assuming a good cop, and a well-meaning suspicion to apply the test (the vast majority of situations), there will be people who take the test and pass, and go on their way
it's impossible for a cop, a human being not a computer, to only apply the tests when they know for 100% certainty someone is drunk. that's why they do the test, to turn their suspicion into a certainty. it's a valid policy in the field to back up the suspicion with the test
so avoiding the test means you get to spend more quality time with law enforcement rather than get on with your life, which doesn't seem like good advice to me
now for the other kind of situation: the bad cop (the much smaller amount of situations)
this guy wants to railroad you. in which case, i'm not sure taking the test, or not taking the test, makes much difference. you can take the test, and he can muddy the results, and you're screwed. or you can choose not to take the test, and you get to spend much more quality time with a guy who wants to screw you over
they have to take you somewhere where the test will be applied in the presence of other people, to a higher standard of quality, which usually means that if you pass, you're good to go and you made the right choice. but now you've wasted a lot of time of your life. additionally, that time is spent alone with a guy who is looking to screw you over. faking or muddying a test isn't the only option he has to do that. maybe he'll find you in violation of some other trumped up charges. you've given him the time to be nosy, and you've pissed him off by refusing the field test. it's a lose/ lose situation if you run into a bad cop, and whatever you choose to do is only going to wind up with a different kind of pain
so i guess what you have to do is decide up front as quick as possible if you are dealing with a good cop or a bad cop. if a bad cop, maybe don't take the test. but look out for some pain anyways
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