BlackDeath3

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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Because I had twenty-five responses to give, and many of the posts I've responded to were directed (if only implicitly) at me. It would be rude of me to ignore such intelligent discussion. Quid pro quo.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
I'm sorry, but the fact that I received the same one link to a single instance from two different people in response to this question doesn't give me a lot of faith about the general response a cop gets when he tries this sort
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
I'd like to believe you (I really would), but you've made quite the extrapolation here, given one single link to a Wikipedia article about a guy who once succeeded at routing some bad police.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
You aren't aware of it, so it isn't so? Really? Next, you'll tell me that Fox News really is "fair and balanced". Good police exist, and will continue to exist, despite civilian hostility and shifting definitions of
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Condemnation that you aren't aware of != private condemnation. It seems pretty damn arrogant to imply that something doesn't exist because you aren't aware of it.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Well, who has constructed the straw man now? My argument is "good cops exist". This is in response to somebody in this comment section who quite literally (yes, the real literally ) said "the only good cop is a dead cop&quot
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
>No one is denying that good cops do exist. If you'll look closely through this comment section, several people have suggested that good cops don't exist. I'm speaking to them. I do not deny that calling police can be
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Can I ask a question that would help me narrow it down? Are you mentally-ill?
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
>Perception matters more than reality sometimes. Hence, the irrationality comment. Somebody who has one pleasant experience with a cop has had a good day. Somebody who has had one friend murdered by a cop probably never trusts any po
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
I've noticed the same. Inflammatory comments being upvoted, unpopular discussion being downvoted. When somebody finds the next Hacker News, please let me know. (I expect this comment to be downvoted, and it probably should be. Just exp
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
I'll respond to this in the same way that I responded to another user posing the same questions. Who says that they don't speak out about this sort of stuff? How many good cops do condemn this behavior? How many of them do you not
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Who says that they don't? How many good cops do condemn this behavior? How many of them do you not hear about? What happens to cops who condemn other cops? As typical of somebody posting a throwaway comment to an online forum, I&#x27
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
I exist whether you know it or not. I'm not a leprechaun. What is your point?
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Well comments like "the only good cop is a dead cop" come across as blisteringly stupid. I'm primarily responding to those sorts of comments because it seems as though some people really do think that no good cops exist. I&
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
You're reading too much into what I'm saying.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Me. Last night, actually, and it wasn't the first time. Here's another honest question: do you actually believe that nobody has pleasant experiences with police?
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Well, look who it is. Why is my username relevant? Show me where I suggest that no bad cops exist. However, "police are never your friend" is an exaggeration.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
I don't necessarily agree with the idea of standing by when you see what you consider to be evil being done, but I think you fail to take a lot of factors into account here.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Assuming the truth of this story, I agree. Best of luck to you, drpp!
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Your mistake is your idea of "they". They aren't all one. I don't know that I can blame you for taking the "safe" approach and avoiding police, but don't punish them for your irrationally-negative outlook.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Of course there are others. There are also many people having pleasant experiences with cops every day - they don't make it to the top of Hacker News.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
I agree. This isn't the first time I wish I could revoke an upvote, but I suppose that's my fault.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
It's really easy to focus on the bad ones, but good cops exist whether you know it or not.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
I agree, the rest of that comment is silly. I wonder if, somewhere out there, there exists a Bizarro Earth where people go out of their way to tell everybody about their pleasant interactions with police. I just had one last night, actually
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
I think that's a bit of an exaggeration, don't you?
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
So thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are outside of biology? How does that work? I realize that you are simply quoting a passage and not necessarily personally espousing what you wrote.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Amount of losses of Bitcoin since 2015: 0 BTC. Not bad!
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
Perhaps you might think of it more as a compensation measure. Because things are uninsured and untrusted, OSS may be much more important.
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
So you really didn't get anything out of the post because ESR wrote it?
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by BlackDeath3 13y ago
>It took me years to finally leap into self-employment. What do you do? How did you start?

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