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> the people who are left committing the vast majority of crime do so in part because they're not good at long term planning. Maybe. But your data could well b
by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago
> the people who are left committing the vast majority of crime do so in part because they're not good at long term planning.
Maybe. But your data could well be flawed. You've only got to watch any of these police shows on TV, and you'll see them pick up a drug dealer because he's driving a car with no insurance, or not wearing a seatbelt, or any number of other minor transgressions. I saw one the other day where a guy yelled obscenities at the officers as he drove past, which caught their attention and caused them to recognise that he was a banned driver. That's just a special kind of stupid.
If these are the guys getting caught, then the most obvious way to not get caught is to dress smartly, drive an insured and roadworthy car at a sensible speed, and generally blend in to the thousands of commuters that take to the road every day.
Equally, while the dumb criminals will look at the new bill and not be too concerned because they don't plan that far ahead, the smart ones have already been using VPNs for years. The really smart ones aren't even using commercial VPN providers - they're using offshore VPS services with a prepaid VISA, and a script to set up OpenVPN in a couple of seconds, so they can rotate providers and destroy the VPS every couple of months or so.
- JBReefer 10y agoI also see this in my friends that do dumb stuff for their income. Most of them are flat out stupid and the rest are only able to think about the next few days. TV isn't a good representation of most of it - it rarely shows how little profit drug dealers actually clear, for example.