Flock is not a single police officer standing on a street corner. Flock is a network of continuous data collection from every perspective on every road and intersection. Flock is not a camera, it is an AI system that follows you precisely everywhere, it is a data dump without a court order. There is expectation that a police officer will NOT follow you everywhere without a court order just because he is paid from taxes and has nothing better to do, this is stalking.

You should answer this question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Wrong, it's a slight of hand. This is not about individual cameras, this is about the network that uses all cameras together to follow you no matter what you do, no matter where you go, people shouldn't have a government that follows their every step by using AI and networked devices. If this was about individual cameras you would have a point, it is not, it is unreasonable to allow a government to exist that creates a panopticon of this scale, citizens shouldn't feel like they are inside a prison and the warden is watching.

in an unregulated market (what consumers need), new businesses are able to create new competition if there is money to be saved for consumers.

That reply is wrong in degree, of course, but, sadly, it's not wrong in kind. We've long tolerated insider trading by Congress, and a revolving door between regulators and the companies they regulate. The Supreme Court has allowed its justices to take veiled bribes, and even ruled that government officials can accept bribes as long as the payoff comes after the action. Prior to Trump, presidents and their staffs stayed out of this mud, but if others can do it, why not the president? The root of the problem is voter acceptance of corruption. Too many Americans just assume that all politicians are corrupt and there's nothing you can do. They're wrong on both points -- and in fact the US previously did have massive public corruption and then mostly shut it off, but Americans don't know their own history -- but until voters care enough to get Congress to act, this is the new normal.

So much this. Dems do themselves a disservice when they roll their eyes at the "both sides do it" responses. Because when Dems do it, it just enables Republicans to do it 100x worse with clean consciences. When Biden, for instance, gets turned down by Congress on student loan forgiveness, so instead goes looking for ways around Congress via executive power...how the hell do you think Trump got a similar idea?

Or look at reconciliation. When reconciliation was created, it had a specific budgetary role in 1974. It got co-opted in the 90s to grab more power by passing non-budgetary law that they didn't have the votes for via the normal process. Since then, it's just become the "normal" way of doing business. Now there's even talk of eliminating the filibuster, on both sides. It's just a slow ever-marching degradation of civics until in the end we'll have no checks and balances (if we even have any atm).

"They also to an incident (and not almost) didn't smear shit on the walls or kill cops. Your false equivalence here is obvious support for the same child raping president you claim to not support. No one is stupid enough to buy your bullshit here."

What cop was killed on J6? The one who got pepper-sprayed? The one listed as "natural causes" on his DC? What's a reasonable penalty for that, assuming you got the guy who sprayed him?

With the Floyd riots, 2000 injured police officers, with injuries ranging from gunshot wounds, to severe head trauma, to broken bones, deep lacerations, etc... and virtually no jail or or prison time for rioters.

Facts are, in fact "stubborn things" and bias is hard to overcome for many regardless of facts.

"Bullshit"? You're the one with "Poo" in your name, Poo.

"What is the point of posting references to documents you clearly have never even read?"

What's the point of posting to a thread if you don't READ the thread.

Poo: "Trump pardoned all the J6 terrorists via autopen."
Me: "No he didn't. There was a mix of pardon's and commutations"

"Hundreds of police officers were attacked, 140 of whom received injuries at the hands of the insurrectionist mob. Officers have lost eyes,"

And most of the folks prosecuted were beyond over prosecuted for it. One officer lost an eye, yes (ONE! Singular) -- but over 1500 people were arrested and over prosecuted. Things like calling "bear spray" and discharging fire extinguishers "lethal weapons" And yes, one ex firefighter actually threw a fire extinguisher.

Compare that to the over 2000 officers that suffered injuries (including gunshot wounds, broken bones and severe head trauma from thrown bricks) , during the George Floyd riots defending Federal take over and take over attempts as well as state building take overs and take over attempts. The vast majority of those arrested were charged with misdemeanors that were mostly dropped later on and most of those that were charged with felonies were allowed to plea down to misdemeanors with no or virtually no jail time.

"You just demonstrated it by attempting to excuse away the blatantly indefensible with a load of factually incorrect gibberish."

You just demonstrated you suffer from TDS by your in ability to think straight.

And no, I do *NOT* believe J6 was an insurrection but a protest gone riot -- much like the George Floyd riots. They went to protest what they believed to be severe election irregularities. It's their right -- even if they are wrong. it's not their right to riot. Trump TOLD people at the near by "rally" to walk over to the capital building: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

Yes, he used the same language earlier on in the rally that BOTH sides use with in their various rallies and calling "fight" for their $_Cause.

"The appellate process not vigilantism is the proper forum for those who believe they have been mistreated in some way by the justice system. "

I don't disagree with this -- but the power of the President and Governors to pardon and commute is also there to quickly resolve an injustice or over use of the justice system as a "fail safe" -- it's part of that system and you are deliberately being blind not to admit that.

Do I believe the pardons were overly broad? Yes. There are some folks who should have served (and some did) more than a year in jail or prison, but for the majority, it was the right decision.

virtually all of them. They were almost to an incident, never prosecuted.

"Trump pardoned all the J6 terrorists via autopen."

No he didn't. There was a mix of pardon's and commutations (time serviced, and still a crime on their record). IMO, what happened then was far more like many of the other federal and state building "take overs" that were happening around the nation at the time and NOT an act of "terrorism" or "insurrection" and the "J6" folks were massively over prosecuted and what he did corrected that.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/pre...

To be clear, I'm a never Trumper (proudly voted against him in 6 elections -- 3 primaries and 3 nationals). I'm just not suffering for the insanity that is TDS. I swear, if Trump made a statement "Don't jump off a bridge", a healthy chunk of folks would end up wet.

"Get fucked, poser."

Right back atcha, Poo...

Free speech includes lying.

in the free market businesses form and compete for consumer money with other businesses, it is the competition that is pro consumer. Unions, like any other political formation, exists to protect special interests, preventing businesses from competing to the best of their ability and pushing prices up - anti consumer.

Businesses are pro-consumer by definition, unless they are government subsidized. Being anti-union (as I am) is being as pro-consumer as possible. Unions push prices up, consumers want lower prices, unions are anti-consumer.

Hmmmm... interesting approach. Is the license "permission" to watch it from sony during the duration of their contract, or do I "own" the movie, but not how it's presented through Sony, in this case.

If it's the latter, copy/rip the media.

A short aside:

I have a fairly large audible account. I noticed about 10 years ago, I still have books in my queue, but I'm unable to download/listen to them. Audible explained the licence to me, told me that it should appear back in my "library" eventually but might take years (and maybe never), but here, have a free "credit" (which is basically, another free book).

Had that happen about 6 times over the last 10 years (the most recent was about a year ago. Each time, I got a credit -- and with the exception of the most recent, the book re-appeared in my library. If the pattern continues, I should have it back in my library within 2 years from when it was removed.

I can live with that.

"an awful lot of DVDs only last a decade or two."

If only there was some way to take the data on a DVD and move it to a computer. Maybe "brute force it". We could use the term "rip"!

Then backups with redundancy would turn a decade or two in to a generation or ten. ...if only...

Merit should always consider strictly value.