On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:03:24AM -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote:
This has been going on for at least three years now. Almost every PD vehicle (marked and unmarked) will likely be outfitted in the next five years (based on talks with PD friends of mine who think this is the be all end all of "cool"). Bah.
Same thing in Germany. We seem to be seriously fucked, aren't we.
What annoys me most is that nobody seems to give a flying fuck. As if I was the weirdo, not them.
I have a feeling this won't end well.
It already hasnt ended well. The USA is a virtual police state (no# 18 on human rights IIRC), and even worse, is the standard bearer for what other "democratic countries" wish to emulate. I recently had a discussion with my kids: I was trying to apologize for my part in making the current worl what it has become today. Having been at the beginning of microprocessing, crypto, etc., I (we?) all thought we were changing the world for the better - i.e., we would use these efforts to leave the world a better place than when we found it. But that hasn't just been a false belief, it's been a self-inflicted lie. I (we) have helped to create the technology that George Orwell could only fantasize about: we have destroyed our own societies with our attempts at improvement through thechnology. <sad face> //Alif -- I hate Missouri. Land of the free, home of the perjuriously deranged.