What I really don't understand is how we as a society think jail is a deterrent or in any way a form of rehabilitation.

Lets say for example you have a 30 year old male that has never committed a violent crime before in their life, they get drunk one night and make one set of bad decisions.. that one night can potentially be the end of their life as a useful citizen as they're now part of the "justice" system. Jail is a stupid concept that doesn't really solve anything, in this case you can turn an ordinary citizen into a repeat offending criminal by ending their regular life with even a short jail sentence. Losing your job, your home, your identity as a citizen and suddenly the odds of you doing more crime goes way way up. What does society benefit by locking up the once in a lifetime mistake kinds of criminals?

That stupid decision could be as simple as buying pot from an undercover cop or hitting on a girl that turns out to be underage even when she looks, talks, acts 21+.

Our "justice" system is a career education system for crime and punishment not resolution and restitution.

All any of us can hope to do is keep their heads down cause lets face it driving to work and back you can break enough laws to sit in jail for 20 years.

Back to the original post though... why are the police worried about us filming them? I'm way more concerned with these unconstitutional speeding & red light cameras that we're starting to see everywhere.
I'm all for having police and support the men & women who do the job but I'm solidly against any automatic enforcement of any law. There's no reason as a private citizen that you shouldn't film the police or record them while interacting with them, it's the only real evidence you can have as to what happened. Police film citizens constantly without consent, return the favor.

Nope, not at least successfully. You're welcome to give your money to the courts in a failed effort to try but at the end of the day the FBI violates citizens rights on a daily basis and destroys legitimate business on a daily basis.

Having lived through some FBI "mistakes" even with legal counsel at your side it's very very difficult to fight them due to their status as a government entity. Just because the charter or law they're operating under may exclude certain actions there's always a loop hole. Like when they can't prevent you doing business but seize your phone system and customer records it's kind of difficult to continue operations and nobody will care how bad it destroys your business while they "investigate". You have no real protections from the law in the United States, all you can do is pray to avoid their attention and that is all.

Yeah because if they hadn't taken away the rights in the first place we wouldn't have needed new laws!

Constitution gave you the right to carry long before any of that bs, just ignorant politicians forgot to read it.

Wow a 4-digit user chimes in... we're impressed :)

Stalin did kill more of his own countrymen then Hitler did.

Stalin killed more of his own people then Hitler did of the Jews.

Truest thing I've ever read, in a true democracy that would make us all even in court except of course the weight of training in certain measures however that should not make your testimony any less valid unless of course prior proven to be unreliable in a court of law.

Cincy has more cops per square inch then LA during a riot... lol

Ask to see the gun, that one always farks with them...

I loved the officer who told me he didn't lock in his gun or let people see it because it was a danger for them to get out their car

luckily I pulled up to a spot in front of a parking meter outside of a local store, so that excuse didn't hold much merit...

guilty in mayors court... but appeal to county and get a new trial with an actual lawyer and judge and dismissed ;)

And my even lower 5 digit id says "I totally agree with killing off all the clone websites... so I can
1. build all my own clones
2. ???
3. PROFIT!"

whats funny is I only recently played halo 2 for the first time, having already played halo 3 and such, was kind of funky retro to go back a version, the lack of good graphics really bites lol

Hulu is one of the main ways we've survived without cable tv for YEARS.

I miss a few things like history and learning channels but once the hulu type concept gets larger I'm sure we'll be able to get all our content on demand like it should be for reasonable costs.

I don't think any of us has a problem paying something towards the cost of creating content, just not exorbitant fees. $10/mo is livable, I'd rather pay for lifetime access to the shows I want though, like give me lifetime access to say battlestar galactica for $10 or the like, I only have an interest in a few of their shows.

What'd be amazing is if we ever get to the point where how many paid subscribers there are helps keep the show going, i.e. like battlestar or a star trek with enough fans could it economically restart / continue shows?

Awesome stat ;)

at least someone is thinking rationally

Really?

This is pointless.

Compete on a fair and equal level or stfu and go home.

Nobody gives a damn that women are not ceo's of it companies, if it was a concern to them they'd have built their own firms but it's not so drop it.

My gender plays no role in forming a company, a lot of other real life factors occur, the tree hugging moronic hippies that think "equality" is solved by making unlevel playing fields are completely lost at step 1.

Having lived in Cincinnati most of my life and left and come back, $60k/yr here you can definitely live on, it's astounding how much more expensive elsewhere is without a huge pay increase.

I remember having a decent car / condo on $60k/yr.

But this place sucks for weather and gets more dangerous every year without fail.

Yeah I have to agree (men, myself included) generally go for looks over brains.

I'm a very driven intelligent person but I surround myself with complete morons and always date good looking but no so smart and a little crazy women ;)

It's fun being leader of the pack lol Everytime I've ever tried dating an intelligent woman it always turns into this competitive bs of them trying to prove their as good or better then I am at things and they hate losing so you spend all your time trying to let them win without them realizing it just to shut them up. Too much hassle, give me cute cuddling and likes shiny things kind of girl.

If I want overly intelligent nerd talk... I'll go to work or post on here ;)

I think it's more insane that you wish to restrain someone from posting a legitimate flag of their country, like it or not it's their right to display it.

I'd be very proud to have neighbors with the proper balls it takes to display that flag, I would take no offense to my neighbor posting a Canadian flag as I would take no offense to a nazi flag or south african.

Equality and freedom is universal not pick and choose, you are what you hate when you discriminate even against those that discriminate against others.