OPEN BAR: I see you've come to PD. I too like to live dangerously

[The Good Reverend Roger]

A link found through that link: http://www.kpho.com/video?clipId=10094988&autostart=true

Cops wearing cameras are more cautious about using force, go figure.

I can't remember if it was you, Roger, or someone else who recently concluded that the way to go is for EVERYONE to have a camera 24/7. I agree; if we're going to become a surveillance society, the power of surveillance needs to be equally distributed. among all citizens.

I don't remember saying that, but it makes sense.  I think the recent uptick in police violence isn't recent.  I think they're just getting caught more often.

[Reginald Ret]

Birthday.

I have a whole-weekend hangover.

Happy birthday, merry new hangover!

It's a piquant and lolling hangover. Luckily it doesn't come with any regrets (it almost did, but I pulled  my head out of my ass in the nick of time).

I never do that.  Heads are for asses.

Birthday.

I have a whole-weekend hangover.

Happy birthday, merry new hangover!

It's a piquant and lolling hangover. Luckily it doesn't come with any regrets (it almost did, but I pulled  my head out of my ass in the nick of time).

Baww I feel rejected now.

Sleeping with my best friend's husband's cousin might sound like a good idea after several whiskeys, but it's really not.

I'll come up with several tall, mild regrets instead.

Fixed that for you, though how in the world you expect to handle several of me I can't imagine.

An army of Regrets following me around would be AWESOME.

SIR! YESSIR!


(I totally forgot i ever made those pictures. Also, I can't believe I spent most of my life calling myself ugly. I mean, i'm no model or anything but i'm kinda cute. I really need to get a pair of glasses that isn't crooked though.)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

A link found through that link: http://www.kpho.com/video?clipId=10094988&autostart=true

Cops wearing cameras are more cautious about using force, go figure.

I can't remember if it was you, Roger, or someone else who recently concluded that the way to go is for EVERYONE to have a camera 24/7. I agree; if we're going to become a surveillance society, the power of surveillance needs to be equally distributed. among all citizens.

I don't remember saying that, but it makes sense.  I think the recent uptick in police violence isn't recent.  I think they're just getting caught more often.

Yeah, I suspect as much as well.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Birthday.

I have a whole-weekend hangover.

Happy birthday, merry new hangover!

It's a piquant and lolling hangover. Luckily it doesn't come with any regrets (it almost did, but I pulled  my head out of my ass in the nick of time).

I never do that.  Heads are for asses.

Birthday.

I have a whole-weekend hangover.

Happy birthday, merry new hangover!

It's a piquant and lolling hangover. Luckily it doesn't come with any regrets (it almost did, but I pulled  my head out of my ass in the nick of time).

Baww I feel rejected now.

Sleeping with my best friend's husband's cousin might sound like a good idea after several whiskeys, but it's really not.

I'll come up with several tall, mild regrets instead.

Fixed that for you, though how in the world you expect to handle several of me I can't imagine.

An army of Regrets following me around would be AWESOME.

SIR! YESSIR!


(I totally forgot i ever made those pictures. Also, I can't believe I spent most of my life calling myself ugly. I mean, i'm no model or anything but i'm kinda cute. I really need to get a pair of glasses that isn't crooked though.)

SQUEEEEEE!!!!!

And yeah, you're far from ugly.

[Reginald Ret]

In that string of pictures hairlength has a linear relation with age, i didn't cut my hair at all then. (Ignoring the beard, that came and went)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

In that string of pictures hairlength has a linear relation with age, i didn't cut my hair at all then. (Ignoring the beard, that came and went)

That's amusingly quirky.

[Junkenstein]

http://www.kpho.com/story/25354362/deputy-body-found-in-wreckage-of-ultralight-plane

The obvious thing to do in the windiest part of the year is fly an Ultralight in the desert.

Most of the people that killed here in this manner decide that flying through the Catalinas is a good idea.  Because they aren't trained and nobody ever told them what mountains do to air movement, especially when they're casting shadows at, say, 100F.

It seems somewhat... foolhardy... to not license those things.

I agree, but only because they could land on someone.

The odds of that are so low, I once again declare the current system to be working PERFECTLY.

[East Coast Hustle]

The person on the ground has a 99% chance of deserving it anyway.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't want to go back to school today. I just don't.

Also, Fall registration opens May 21st. WTF. I won't even know whether I'm in the honors college by then, how am I supposed to plan a Fall schedule? I guess just assume that I'm getting in until notified otherwise?

Can't decide whether to take physics this fall or put it off until I'm done with A&P. I like the idea of getting it over with.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The person on the ground has a 99% chance of deserving it anyway.

This is a fair point.

[Junkenstein]

A link found through that link: http://www.kpho.com/video?clipId=10094988&autostart=true

Cops wearing cameras are more cautious about using force, go figure.

I can't remember if it was you, Roger, or someone else who recently concluded that the way to go is for EVERYONE to have a camera 24/7. I agree; if we're going to become a surveillance society, the power of surveillance needs to be equally distributed. among all citizens.

I don't remember saying that, but it makes sense.  I think the recent uptick in police violence isn't recent.  I think they're just getting caught more often.

Yeah, I suspect as much as well.

This.... This troubles me. Not so much the Police angle but rather the potential implications of everyone wearing a camera of some description all the fucking time and filming literally everything about everyone. The systems are not particularly hard to envisage, and internet access will be pretty much everywhere people live within a generation. Constant upload/storage is probably possible. What's the likely end result of anyone in a legal situation with this accessible? Doom unless wealthy.

There's something about this whole encompassing surveillance situation and how it fits perfectly with the prison pipelines that it's giving me the shits. Add to that it's the wet dream of any ruling government, anywhere. If it becomes accepted in the US, well, you're the world leaders in FREEDOM and I'm sure you'd be quite keen to export this new brand.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

A link found through that link: http://www.kpho.com/video?clipId=10094988&autostart=true

Cops wearing cameras are more cautious about using force, go figure.

I can't remember if it was you, Roger, or someone else who recently concluded that the way to go is for EVERYONE to have a camera 24/7. I agree; if we're going to become a surveillance society, the power of surveillance needs to be equally distributed. among all citizens.

I don't remember saying that, but it makes sense.  I think the recent uptick in police violence isn't recent.  I think they're just getting caught more often.

Yeah, I suspect as much as well.

This.... This troubles me. Not so much the Police angle but rather the potential implications of everyone wearing a camera of some description all the fucking time and filming literally everything about everyone. The systems are not particularly hard to envisage, and internet access will be pretty much everywhere people live within a generation. Constant upload/storage is probably possible. What's the likely end result of anyone in a legal situation with this accessible? Doom unless wealthy.

There's something about this whole encompassing surveillance situation and how it fits perfectly with the prison pipelines that it's giving me the shits. Add to that it's the wet dream of any ruling government, anywhere. If it becomes accepted in the US, well, you're the world leaders in FREEDOM and I'm sure you'd be quite keen to export this new brand.

This sort of shift happens about every 200 years or so, and then a bunch of bastards get eaten.  Then we immediately start rebuilding our own prison cells.

Ever read Vonnegut's Player Piano?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

A link found through that link: http://www.kpho.com/video?clipId=10094988&autostart=true

Cops wearing cameras are more cautious about using force, go figure.

I can't remember if it was you, Roger, or someone else who recently concluded that the way to go is for EVERYONE to have a camera 24/7. I agree; if we're going to become a surveillance society, the power of surveillance needs to be equally distributed. among all citizens.

I don't remember saying that, but it makes sense.  I think the recent uptick in police violence isn't recent.  I think they're just getting caught more often.

Yeah, I suspect as much as well.

This.... This troubles me. Not so much the Police angle but rather the potential implications of everyone wearing a camera of some description all the fucking time and filming literally everything about everyone. The systems are not particularly hard to envisage, and internet access will be pretty much everywhere people live within a generation. Constant upload/storage is probably possible. What's the likely end result of anyone in a legal situation with this accessible? Doom unless wealthy.

There's something about this whole encompassing surveillance situation and how it fits perfectly with the prison pipelines that it's giving me the shits. Add to that it's the wet dream of any ruling government, anywhere. If it becomes accepted in the US, well, you're the world leaders in FREEDOM and I'm sure you'd be quite keen to export this new brand.

Sure, but the alternative seems to be that only the people in power have the surveillance, and we already know how that goes.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Birthday.

I have a whole-weekend hangover.

Happy birthday, merry new hangover!

It's a piquant and lolling hangover. Luckily it doesn't come with any regrets (it almost did, but I pulled  my head out of my ass in the nick of time).

Baww I feel rejected now.

Sleeping with my best friend's husband's cousin might sound like a good idea after several whiskeys, but it's really not.

I'll come up with several small, mild regrets instead.

This is what YEARS OF CRINGING is for.

Whiskey is your pal.

I'm still trying to figure out how I ended up making out with him and not the guy I wanted to make out with. Whiskey definitely played a role in that.

Whiskey DOES have a detrimental effect on targeting systems.

Best friend informs me that I did, indeed, make out with the guy I wanted to make out with. SO WHAT THE FUCK, WHISKEY? JESUS, THE ONE THING I WANTED TO REMEMBER.

Actually, in retrospect, the seat of my betrayal probably lies in drinking the moonshine my sculptor friend made and then climbing into the hot tub.

Moonshine: Not even once.

[P3nT4gR4m]

A link found through that link: http://www.kpho.com/video?clipId=10094988&autostart=true

Cops wearing cameras are more cautious about using force, go figure.

I can't remember if it was you, Roger, or someone else who recently concluded that the way to go is for EVERYONE to have a camera 24/7. I agree; if we're going to become a surveillance society, the power of surveillance needs to be equally distributed. among all citizens.

I don't remember saying that, but it makes sense.  I think the recent uptick in police violence isn't recent.  I think they're just getting caught more often.

Yeah, I suspect as much as well.

This.... This troubles me. Not so much the Police angle but rather the potential implications of everyone wearing a camera of some description all the fucking time and filming literally everything about everyone. The systems are not particularly hard to envisage, and internet access will be pretty much everywhere people live within a generation. Constant upload/storage is probably possible. What's the likely end result of anyone in a legal situation with this accessible? Doom unless wealthy.

There's something about this whole encompassing surveillance situation and how it fits perfectly with the prison pipelines that it's giving me the shits. Add to that it's the wet dream of any ruling government, anywhere. If it becomes accepted in the US, well, you're the world leaders in FREEDOM and I'm sure you'd be quite keen to export this new brand.

It's weird to imagine but I'm guessing there will be the usual mix of pros and cons associated with any big change. I read a quote recently to the effect of - when there's no more privacy, we'll all have to become a lot more tolerant. Makes a lot of sense to me, when I imagine a level playing field - everyone knowing everything about me is a scary thought but then I know everything about all of them, too.

Hard to imagine but I reckon it's headed our way, regardless. Might as well make the most of it.