The distinction is in doing harm. Your rights should have no limitations up until the point where you would cause harm to others.
So you could worship Satan, and extol the virtues of evil, but you may not sacrifice babies. That's a very clear and distinct line.
What we're seeing in politics these days, is an attempt to move that line.
When more people learn about this, people planning to commit a crime will simply leave their phone at home, or with a friend, while doing so. They won't even be on the list of suspects. Police will begin with a list of people who had a phone in the area at the time, whittle it down to the most likely, and be guaranteed to accuse the wrong person.
"The argument everyone forgets…
The PROMISE of safety of children (or any other group) is not more important than the Rights of the whole.
The only thing that could potentially be as important would be the ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY of their safety.
Otherwise, our Rights are being traded for a hypothetical and we don’t get our Rights back if the hypothetical fails."
Good, now apply that argument to all attempts at authoritarianism.
Indeed. As a manufacturer of precision machined parts, we make runs of hundreds of parts with deviations measured in ten-thousandths of an inch. Two parts made one after the other will vary less than .0001"; often much less.
Every law enforcement officer must have their permanent residence in the jurisdiction in which they work. Supervisors must have resided in the jurisdiction for five years, and chiefs for ten.
Exactly. This is why I believe something like universal basic income will be necessary, as large swaths of the population become categorically unemployable.
As an example that's already occurred, an 18 year old with a CNC and some software can easily out produce a whole shop full of experienced manual machinists. Even 5 axis stuff is becoming relatively easy now.
So that one worker might get paid more, while the rest are laid off. Or they might get paid less, since there are plenty of others lined up for their position.
If a given employment position can produce more, with a less skilled worker, then fewer employees are needed to do the same work, and each can be paid less. The only ones who benefit from this are the employer and the customer.
I run a CNC machining company. My machines are making me more money than I've ever gotten before, while I provide my clients with great product at good prices. But I don't need to employ anyone, and I could expand quite a bit before I would need to. Even then, machine automation is advancing, and if I buy the right capital equipment it can run itself for days on end before needing attention. If decent AI/automated CAM software becomes a thing, that would again multiply the amount of work I could do myself, without employees.
I've had an Index for two years now, and I regularly use it for Beat Saber, and occasionally dabble in other games. Beat Saber is a pretty good workout, and my wife will do it too. We never get any motion sickness in that; the sickness comes with games that move you around when you're not physically moving.
I've never had a Facebook account, and never will, nor do I have any interest in ever touching that Metaverse crap. If I want something like that I'll do VR Chat, which is far better, more developed, and free.
Looks like the root cause of the initial problem was the ticket quota. Tickets should be seen as a tool, a means to the end of enforcing the law and saving lives, rather than as an end in and of themselves, as quotas enforce.
Quotas of all kinds in law enforcement should be banned. If they have a quota, and can't find enough violators to meet it, they will create some by any means necessary.
The distinction is in doing harm. Your rights should have no limitations up until the point where you would cause harm to others. So you could worship Satan, and extol the virtues of evil, but you may not sacrifice babies. That's a very clear and distinct line. What we're seeing in politics these days, is an attempt to move that line.
Agreed
Constitutionally guaranteed rights are not subject to interest balancing. Any of them.
I saw that prompt to "upgrade" yesterday. Watched a movie on Prime through Brave, saw no ads. The moment I see an ad, I'm dropping Prime.
So much this. The correlation between environmental lead levels and violent crime, with about a 20 year lag, is astonishing.
If the cops had merely gotten out of the way, the parents would have taken care of the situation.
When more people learn about this, people planning to commit a crime will simply leave their phone at home, or with a friend, while doing so. They won't even be on the list of suspects. Police will begin with a list of people who had a phone in the area at the time, whittle it down to the most likely, and be guaranteed to accuse the wrong person.
USB DVD players are cheap.
Don't bother yelling at them, that's bad for your blood pressure. Just hang up and block the number.
It's just like voodoo in that one movie. It only works on you if you believe!
"The argument everyone forgets… The PROMISE of safety of children (or any other group) is not more important than the Rights of the whole. The only thing that could potentially be as important would be the ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY of their safety. Otherwise, our Rights are being traded for a hypothetical and we don’t get our Rights back if the hypothetical fails." Good, now apply that argument to all attempts at authoritarianism.
There is a solution. Delete most of the laws.
When will portable x-ray backscatter scanners be commercially available ?
Indeed. As a manufacturer of precision machined parts, we make runs of hundreds of parts with deviations measured in ten-thousandths of an inch. Two parts made one after the other will vary less than .0001"; often much less.
Proposal
Every law enforcement officer must have their permanent residence in the jurisdiction in which they work. Supervisors must have resided in the jurisdiction for five years, and chiefs for ten.
Exactly. This is why I believe something like universal basic income will be necessary, as large swaths of the population become categorically unemployable.
As an example that's already occurred, an 18 year old with a CNC and some software can easily out produce a whole shop full of experienced manual machinists. Even 5 axis stuff is becoming relatively easy now. So that one worker might get paid more, while the rest are laid off. Or they might get paid less, since there are plenty of others lined up for their position.
If a given employment position can produce more, with a less skilled worker, then fewer employees are needed to do the same work, and each can be paid less. The only ones who benefit from this are the employer and the customer. I run a CNC machining company. My machines are making me more money than I've ever gotten before, while I provide my clients with great product at good prices. But I don't need to employ anyone, and I could expand quite a bit before I would need to. Even then, machine automation is advancing, and if I buy the right capital equipment it can run itself for days on end before needing attention. If decent AI/automated CAM software becomes a thing, that would again multiply the amount of work I could do myself, without employees.
So...
Who's going to jail for this?
Valve Index FTW.
I've had an Index for two years now, and I regularly use it for Beat Saber, and occasionally dabble in other games. Beat Saber is a pretty good workout, and my wife will do it too. We never get any motion sickness in that; the sickness comes with games that move you around when you're not physically moving. I've never had a Facebook account, and never will, nor do I have any interest in ever touching that Metaverse crap. If I want something like that I'll do VR Chat, which is far better, more developed, and free.
Root cause analysis
Looks like the root cause of the initial problem was the ticket quota. Tickets should be seen as a tool, a means to the end of enforcing the law and saving lives, rather than as an end in and of themselves, as quotas enforce. Quotas of all kinds in law enforcement should be banned. If they have a quota, and can't find enough violators to meet it, they will create some by any means necessary.