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• Commented on Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border
  This will not endear me to most of you, but when a badged person says to get back in the car, you comply. In the States, you MUST comply IMMEDIATELY to a direct request from a law enforcement officer, REGARDLESS...
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  "you're ignoring the fact that talking to the cops can make the community suffer more than NOT talking to them." I'm not ignoring that fact, I'm debating it. It's locale relative, but I'm sure that things would be worse without...
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  "When you talk to the cops, you effectively give them permission for a fishing expedition into your life." When you don't talk to the cops, the larger community suffers as a result. And let's not forget, if you are the...
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  "You don't talk to the cops." And thus the community continues to suffer. If you take the cops out of that situation, nothing will improve, except for the fact that the wolves will have even more freedom to take property...
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  "If the police suspect you of something, it's wise to protect yourself " Look at this from the community perspective. Some guy just stabbed another person. Several persons witnessed the crime. The cops show up to ask what the assailant...
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  "How can you argue against that?" I can't. But I can say that the "don't talk to the police"-type approach is not helping your example situations one tiny bit....
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  Maybe I'm missing the point here, but I don't think anyone was arguing that we should let all cops do whatever they want without proper and just oversight....
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  I'd also like to add that, if it's your car that was stolen, or your house broken into, or your kid kidnapped and raped, you'd be talking to the police regardless of your former position on the police....
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  FWIW, I was responding to the notion that "it's time that the "Don't Talk to the Police" education goes nationwide."...
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  Good cops take the brunt of the bad cops' actions at least as much as the rest of us. The result is more people being assholes to cops just because they've come to represent their own community's worst cases. It's...
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  If we look at the law enforcement community as a whole against that portion who commit crimes like these, we'd find the proportion to be much smaller than the whole community against those who might attack us for whatever reason....
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  When the Constitution came, police helped to implement it. The result was more protection for more people across the spectrum. It's not a perfect system, but without it, we'd all be strapped, or surrounded by folks we paid to be...
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  "you feel its acceptable to let them detain/search/harass citizens illegally?" Of course not. Of all the cops on duty, some take liberties. You don't hear about all the good these folks are doing, just the bad a very few are...
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  Yes, before the cops, there were knights, or mercs, or rich folks with guards, who would slit your throat and rape your wife just because they could....
• Commented on DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing with the Police
  I find it truly remarkable that folks fail to acknowledge that our whole way of life in this country is utterly dependent on the police. If we didn't have active, armed law enforcement organizations, wolves would quickly move in to...
• Commented on Supreme Master Television
  It is always a wonder to behold how complete and utter nutbags can create such a hysteria around themselves. Some of us are just born with the can't-help-but-follow-a-nutbag gene....
• Commented on Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Ralph Lauren's Photoshop of Horrors
  More than ready for prime time, Xeni!...
• Commented on Flaming Lips song "Worm Mountain" set to slow-motion Tesla Coil video by ardent fan of both.
  An editing suggestion: keep the face out of the picture and coordinate the spark with the vocals. IOW, turn the spark on when the vocals come on, and off when the vocals go off....
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  Folks should all have the right to dress as they please. They should also have the right to repudiate their native religious beliefs, whether in whole or in any part, if it suits [!] them personally....
• Commented on Venezuela's "continuous" lightning storm
  The persistence of location is probably a function of a low-level jet of warm, moist air being pushed into a mountain range. lifting the moist air into cooler, dryer air. This initiates convection, resulting in persistent thunderstorms by way of...
• Commented on Venezuela's "continuous" lightning storm
  I've seen this before. A fat, twisting May supercell in the right conditions over Tornado Alley has the same frequency of strikes....
• Commented on Hindu extremists promote cow-urine soft-drink
  At least they promote their religion through peaceful means The RSS idolize Hitler and are responsible for almost every anti-Muslim pogrom of the last 50 years, and there have been a lot of them. Think the Ku Klux Klan of...
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  I knew I forgot the one of the most important lights: Ajit Mookerjee...
• Commented on Show Us Your Saints
  Saints: Shankara Ramprasad Ramakrishna Vivekanada Lights: Charles Darwin Jeff Kripal George Lakoff Marshall McLuhan...
• Commented on Folk Theories Of Guru-Based Spirituality
  let's not forget the folk theory that all guru-based spirituality is bullshit. That's one folk theory that I don't subscribe to. However, the gbs that is projected by many of the big-time commercial gurus mostly IS bullshit....
• Commented on Folk Theories Of Guru-Based Spirituality
  "Just because there is counterfeit gold doesn't mean there is no real gold." The dilemma here is that you can't ever know what the real gold looks like until it jumps up and hits you on the forehead. The problem...
• Commented on MDMA and loud music affects rat sex life
  Utterly inadequate claptrap and a waste of grant dollars. While rat biology helps to model various human body systems, including sexual behavior and neurology, the complexity of human social life makes this whole thing an exercise in mooted nonsense....
• Commented on MDMA and loud music affects rat sex life
  Utterly inadequate claptrap and a waste of grant dollars. While rat biology helps to model various human body systems, including sexual behavior and neurology, the complexity of human social life makes this whole thing an exercise in mooted nonsense....
• Commented on Scientists extract images directly from brain
  Goodbye keyboard!...
• Commented on Boing Boing posts on GOOD!
  “We don’t run because we are scared; we are scared because we run.” All reason is embodied reason....