@Nordlich
You generalize to an extreme point of your own view. People elect officials who make the laws. Those officals can make whatever laws they want for years after they are elected without any input from the people... Sometimes we vote directly to constitutional amendments; however, this is rare and only a lot of money can get the amendment to the ballot anyways. Secondly, you not respecting is fine so long as you deal with the consequences should a dispute arise. Society has been around before you, and it will be around after only because it follows laws as a whole.
Oh--and if you truly do not respect authority, then you do not respect the 1st amendment. And since you do not respect authority, you must love the cop because he did not respect those in authority over him--those who wrote his laws! Is Mr. No Respect Copperson your hero?

@Crosswords
You do realize he did not "get away with something so blatant as that," right? A ten day suspension (In law enforcement) is not getting off scot-free as you imply. It may seem like a slap on the hand, but even that is a weak assessment. Every termination in Civil Service takes three things, time, progressive discipline and documentation, or sans that, a lawsuits will follow and the wrongfully terminated cop, even at fault, will sue and win and the taxpayer will be left with the liability. A teacher with tenure is just as equally protected as law enforcement and most other jobs do not have cameras to catch people in the first place so that point is mute. What you should have said is that only a cop deals with people every day and because of that environment, would attempt something so blatant and dumb.

Out of the millions of cumulative hours law enforcement work --actually billions probably--constantly around criminals, I would say that the percentage of incidents is darn good... Yes, there are some mental cops, childish cops, arrogant cops... And yes, I am glad they have cameras and that the cameras are subject to public record. I just wish people would stop foaming at the mouth and scapegoating the good cops because of the bad cops. The average citizen is far worse than the average law enforcement official in my personal experience.

Lastly, I love how this guy is suing the taxpayers... The department seems to have laws against what the officer did and since they offically disciplined him, looks like Suer Mc Suerson won't get a dime from them... Still, they will probably settle out of court because that is cheaper for corporations and departments... I would not disagree with suing the cop himself... but, that's another debate.

>> ^Crosswords:

I don't think Obama was being completely dishonest when he was talking about all the changes he was going to make, but didn't. I think he hit the wall where idealism meets reality.

That's the big problem I would expect with a Ron Paul presidency. I just don't see him getting many (if any) of his big ideas through congress.

http://lyrics.wikia.com/The_Weakerthans:Sun_In_An_Empty_Room

Now that the furniture's returning to its Goodwill home
With dishes in last week's papers, rumours and elections, crosswords, an unending war
That blacken our fingers, smear their prints on every door pulled shut
Now that the last month's rent is scheming with the damage deposit

Take this moment to decide
If we meant it, if we tried
Or felt around for far too much
From things that accidentally touch

Hands that we nearly hold with pennies for the GST
The shoulders we lean our shoulders into on the subway, mutter an apology
The shins that we kick beneath the table, that reflexive cry
The faces we meet, one awkward beat too long, and terrify

Know that the things we need to say
Have been said already anyway
By parallelograms of light
on walls that we repainted white

Sun in an empty room

Take eight minutes and divide
By ninety million lonely miles
And watch the shadow cross the floor
We don't live here anymore

I want to reiterate Crosswords' point:

Who would you rather have making your health decisions?

1 - A bureaucrat who, at worst, is completely indifferent to your situation

or

2 - A private insurance company who is trying to milk you for every dollar they can get without giving you back a penny more than they are legally obligated to?

I choose 1 any day of the week.

The only people who are really in total control of their own healthcare are those who have the resources to pay for everything themselves. And that ain't many of us.

Moving this video to Crosswords's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

>> ^Crosswords:
Daaa Bearz


Daaa Bullz

>> ^Crosswords:
What is it about Australia that causes its inhabitants to think up ever inventive ways to die?

Living in a nannystate can be depressing.

>> ^Crosswords:
What is it about Australia that causes its inhabitants to think up ever inventive ways to die?


They recently banned small breasts in porn.

or we can turn into a third world country without any access to health care, and we can all die of small pox.
your argument is not only selfish and asinine , its incredibly poorly thought out. lets get rid of all the roads and fire departments for that matter. im sick of paying so someone elses house doesnt burn down.
the free market does not solve every problem. so get off your ayn randian high horse and think harder.


>> ^Chaucer:
>> ^Crosswords:
Not a moral issue? Whether someone lives, dies or suffers when we have the ability to help them isn't a moral issue,

Moral or not. Why do I have to pay for somebody else's health? Personally, I think the government should cancel all healthcare. If healthcare companies and insurance companies want to stay in business, they will learn to keep costs affordable. It would also spurn those companies to be more innovative with the technology being used.

>> ^Chaucer:
>> ^Crosswords:
Not a moral issue? Whether someone lives, dies or suffers when we have the ability to help them isn't a moral issue,

Moral or not. Why do I have to pay for somebody else's health? Personally, I think the government should cancel all healthcare. If healthcare companies and insurance companies want to stay in business, they will learn to keep costs affordable. It would also spurn those companies to be more innovative with the technology being used.



You mean other than caring for someone other than yourself? Same reason you have to pay for the education of children that aren't yours or roads you don't use, for the betterment of society. Even if you're already a prosperous individual, when the condition of society improves so should yours. Would you stand on the backs of the decrepit and infirm or the shoulders of the strong? Now if you don't think a public health-care option will improve society then that's your position, but people don't want a public option because they just want to 'steal' your money. They're trying to improve the condition of our society.

What is affordable? Affordable to who? Their customers don't have much of a choice, when you need health-care you need it, putting it off can result in death or suffering. So consumer is more or less trapped, they either pay the price no matter what or they go without, the insurance companies and health-care providers have no incentive to lower their costs or improve their coverage.

>> ^Crosswords:
Not a moral issue? Whether someone lives, dies or suffers when we have the ability to help them isn't a moral issue,


Moral or not. Why do I have to pay for somebody else's health? Personally, I think the government should cancel all healthcare. If healthcare companies and insurance companies want to stay in business, they will learn to keep costs affordable. It would also spurn those companies to be more innovative with the technology being used.

>> ^Crosswords:
From what I understand the acid in coke is supposed to have some level of spermicide qualities.


Oh, man. Oh man...do NOT mix acid with your coke. Bad juju.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, December 7th, 2008 8:06pm PST - promote requested by Crosswords.

Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter Crosswords.

>> ^Crosswords:
Working IT is always fun when it comes to this, cause all the mac people constantly brag about how awesome their macs are, then you get the call to come in and fix them. Half the time its one of those viruses Macs 'don't' get. I've discovered the best OS is the one with a user that doesn't operate it by rolling their face over the keyboard.

Yeah, got called to help out a couple years ago when some over-priveleged hack couldn't connect his Mac to the corporate network. So I was a fucking Systems Architect doing desktop support on a Mac in a Windows environment. Spent half an hour learning that I basically couldn't administer ANYTHING on that fucking POS. If it doesn't want to connect there's almost nothing you can do to figure out why! You're not allowed to see inside the black box that is Mac networking.


Mac is great if you're happy being told what you can do on your computer. What the "Cult of Mac"(tm) doesn't get is that their grasp of the digital world and what's possible is completely restricted to the experience the Apple engineers have designed for them. They have no idea how insignificant that experience is, they're just enthralled by the air of smugness that comes pre-packaged with their stylish piece of plastic.