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The two quotes (His and your "fixed" version) aren't incompatible at all.
They are if you take context into consideration: FBI Ass. D.I.C. George V. was implying that police should never be considered suspect; OP was implying that police should always be considered suspect.
Context -it fucking matters.
> Once again, a woman is to blame. It's usually either that, or money.
It's all, all of it, about women. Every male congressman, every president, every mayor, dictator, mafia boss or lackey, all of it.
Even meek scientists are driven by internal desires to excede, tied to alpha male behavior and feathering one's nest.
Even downmods here, of the "I disagree!" butthurt type, are males defending their online social tribal group, subconsciously, you guessed it! Feathering their mental emotional nest to appear more alpha, like some bushman coming proudly back to camp with a warthog on his spear.
So... gay dudes have no motivations?
Public-restroom-foot-tapping-congressmen may disagree (but not publicly, lordy no).
Don't feed the trolls, geez.
Sadly, I'm fairly certain AC wasn't trolling - he actually believes that shit.
Once again, a woman is to blame. It's usually either that, or money.
The reason for the digital snooping appeared to be personal, law enforcement officials said: Detective Vargas, 42, suspected a former girlfriend — also an employee of the Police Department, an official said — had started a new relationship with a fellow officer.
So... it's the woman's fault that the pig she dumped turned out to be a stalker?
Wow. Just.... just wow.
Probably the same researchers who recently discovered that babies learn through mimicry...
(Can't remember if I saw that one on Slashdot or Yahoo)
I was about to comment the same... With an "aPauling" pun.
Really, this will likely be quickly quashed by the Pharmas. Or they will patent a delivery transport - with the only FDA-approved administration protocol.
"Hey, that guy's holding an assault orange!
GIT 'EM!"
Educating people is not an aspect of a nanny state.
Keeping people in ignorance, so you can more easily control their actions, is.
Spouting hyperbole based on the incorrect assumption that the person you're conversing with adheres to a particular extreme political affiliation that you yourself revile is not only stupid, it merely serves as a method of expressing one's own narcissism by blatantly attempting to marginalize the opinions of others.
You don't have to toe some party line, Brother; contrary to what you've apparently been taught, you very much can think for yourself.
Please... you don't need a UPS (which is for computers) in a major storm outage.
Agreed, completely.
I could easily go a few days stranded in my house without electricity, except I would love to have some water to flush the toilets (drinking water I have), which, in my case, would require electricity for the well pump.
You should just keep a "backup well-pump generator" on hand, AKA a slightly modified stationary bike.
It might not provide enough juice to keep the fridge and entertainment devices running, but I bet you'd get enough to be able to pump some fresh water.
Oh, in a dystopian future, sure. I'd probably do it myself, if necessary. But it wouldn't be my first instinct.
Besides, wasn't this poll about storm outages, not dystopian futures? I've been through several storm outages, one lasting several weeks, and it was more "Robinson Crusoe" than "Mad Max".
Perhaps, but you have to admit - the "Mad Max" scenario is a hell of a lot more fun to speculate about.
lol. The people who have stuff to rob have more guns than you. In a lot of cases, they also have body armor and night vision gear. And they're better shots.
Hey, good for them - that'll help a lot when some quick-thinking marauder hooks the exhaust pipe of their truck up to the ventilation system and gasses the shit out of everyone trapped inside.
Ha, I love "preppers."
Setting up caches of easily accessed goods for those of us who will hunt you down after surviving the apocalypse? Thanks, guys, really appreciate the effort!
Seriously, whoever is convincing these guys to trap themselves in a single-exit tomb with shit-tons of useful supplies needs to keep up the good work.
P.S. to the preppers out there: camouflage your air vents all you want, we'll find 'em; but hey, look at the bright side - Instead of having to fend off marauders, you will merely find yourselves very, very sleepy as the exhaust gases flood your "shelter" from above.
And how teaching people who do not have access to firearms about firearm safety is supposed to help?
The same way teaching people who don't live in Tornado Alley how to survive a disaster is supposed to help.
For the record, just because a person doesn't have access to firearms right at this moment, does not mean they will never be in such a situation.
But the transition from an economy entirely built around the labor market could be a big problem. If done well, it gives us a utopia where no-one need want for anything they desire. If done poorly, it ends in a world where a fraction of a percent of the world population control almost all the resources and the rest live in abject poverty.
... and using human history as a baseline, it's pretty much a given that it will be done poorly.
Good luck getting the collectivists to admit that.
Did you cry to Henry Ford about how all the buggy whip manufacturers would go out of business?
Considering how adamant Ford was about hiring shit-tons of people and paying them excellent wages as a method of ensuring his company enduring profits, I don't think he's the example you would want to use in this debate.
How often does the FBI end up killing a "Person of Interest"? It runs counter to gathering information in pursuit of an investigation.
I've got a very bad feeling about this. -- Han Solo