Stop right there, criminal scum!

[Vene]

Interesting stories.

So, I'm looking into what it takes to become an actuary.  Growing field, involves maths, seems like my kind of thing.

Probably more rewarding, and less dangerous than Law enforcement. I say "Probably"
but I don't actually have a clue what an Actuary is. Sounds quite clever though. At least, I'm impressed. (But that's no biggy, I'm easily impressed) I'm going to go and find out what it is now, before I say anything else, that might be construed as stupid.
Er.

They play with numbers and figure out things like financial risk and shit.

[BadBeast]

Yeah, Risk assessment, and Loss adjustment, and other such esoteric  Financial and Economical shenanigans. In sewer ants companies like to have a few on the payroll, so they don't accidentally rake in too small a premium, before refusing to pay the full cover when someone has the audacity to claim, sort of thing. Got it.

[Iason Ouabache]

Interesting stories.

So, I'm looking into what it takes to become an actuary.  Growing field, involves maths, seems like my kind of thing.

You don't get the thrill of tazing someone, but you do get to ruin their credit with a stroke of your keyboard.

[AFK]

I regularly work with state and local police in my line of work and I've met some great individuals who do great work in the community.  And as a police officer, you would likely have that same opportunity depending on the role you take on.  For example, I work with the guy that does all of the alcohol compliance checks and party patrols in the area, on the side he organizes a city-wide soccer league to work with youth.  So if you want to be a real positive force in a community, being a police officer is a pretty good way to go. 

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I think we should all become cops. We'll call it LawGASM.

[Jasper]

Oh god. 

Well, we ARE the discordian power elite, right?

[tyrannosaurus vex]

yeah. it'll be great. we can pull people over and be like OH GOD DID YOU SEE THAT PTERODACTYL!?

[Jasper]

Wouldn't you just flip the fuck out if you were pulled over for speeding, and the two cops got out and did the Team Rocket limerick as they approached you?

[Cramulus]

Grant Morrison @ Disinfocon : (paraphrasing)

If you really want to change this world, become a cop. Can you imagine that, if all of us counterculture people signed up for law enforcement, how it would transform everything? So let's all go down to the local precinct and sign up, who's with me?

Nobody?

Good I wasn't gonna do it anyway.

[Jasper]

Prreeeetty much. 

[East Coast Hustle]

I regularly work with state and local police in my line of work and I've met some great individuals who do great work in the community.  And as a police officer, you would likely have that same opportunity depending on the role you take on.  For example, I work with the guy that does all of the alcohol compliance checks and party patrols in the area, on the side he organizes a city-wide soccer league to work with youth.  So if you want to be a real positive force in a community, being a police officer is a pretty good way to go. 

This doesn't really surprise me, despite my previous post, as my personal experience has been that Maine (outside of Cumberland and York counties) is about the last place in America where the cops really DO take "serve and protect" to heart and put it above "dominate and exploit". Some of the county mounties are still shitnecks (many are not), but by and large the MSP and the local city/town cops are almost completely human. That said, my personal experience is also that cops in Maine are such a far-flung statistical outlier as to be almost comically absurd. Cops in any large city or metropolitan area in america are generally more like a gang than any sort of protectors of the community.

And, as any good career cop will tell you, a cop's job ultimately is NOT to serve and/or protect the public so much as it is to enforce order.

[East Coast Hustle]

I think we should all become cops. We'll call it LawGASM.

Like a real-life Super Troopers?

I can get behind that.