Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Dec 30th 2005, 4:37 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by Partystar
I never felt threatened & I remember an incident where they worked very well...
Dec 30th 2005, 4:37 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by fatbrit
Which is back to the argument we had during the death penalty debates. The only way you can control crime totally is with a totalitarian regime. If you don't choose to live under such a tyranny, the next best thing you can do is to prevent people becoming criminals with measures such as equality of opportunity, reducing poverty and education.
Dec 30th 2005, 4:38 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by anotherlimey
You might be onto something.... I never got robbed in Cuba!
<-- added for Echelon's analysts.
<-- added for Echelon's analysts.I believe the crime rate is even lower in Saudi :scared:
Dec 30th 2005, 4:39 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by anotherlimey
You might be onto something.... I never got robbed in Cuba!
<-- added for Echelon's analysts.
<-- added for Echelon's analysts.You don't really stop crime though. You just allow crime by a tiny elite to be perpetrated on the masses instead.
Dec 30th 2005, 4:40 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by fatbrit
You don't really stop crime though. You just allow crime by a tiny elite to be perpetrated on the masses instead.
Dec 30th 2005, 4:41 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by fatbrit
Which is back to the argument we had during the death penalty debates. The only way you can control crime totally is with a totalitarian regime. If you don't choose to live under such a tyranny, the next best thing you can do is to prevent people becoming criminals with measures such as equality of opportunity, reducing poverty and education.
Dec 30th 2005, 4:42 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
I've never been robbed in Manistee Michigan,
no camera's here.
no camera's here.
Dec 30th 2005, 4:43 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by Manc
I've never been robbed in Manistee Michigan,
no camera's here.
no camera's here.
Oh good. Thanks for the tip.
Let's all move to Manistee Michigan!
Dec 30th 2005, 4:44 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by tony126
Noble thoughts FB but King Canute comes to my mind when reading the above.
To nick someone else's analogy: if you don't like mosquitos, don't build swamps.
Dec 30th 2005, 4:44 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by Elvira
Oh good. Thanks for the tip.
Let's all move to Manistee Michigan!
Let's all move to Manistee Michigan!
Dec 30th 2005, 4:45 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas
Yes but there is always a snall percent of people that will commit crime regardless of social standing, financial position etc. Look at the amount of Hooray Henry's etc that have been caught shoplifting, doing drugs, stealing etc. Nothing to with poverty or education. Doing something illegal is very much in the human psyche...its the thrill, the sense of going against the system and to some people, the sheer joy that comes with commiiting a criminal act. Rape and murder arent always crimes of poverty or finances.
and:
Dec 30th 2005, 4:46 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by Manc
we don't need your sort here.
My sort being...?
Dec 30th 2005, 4:46 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by Manc
I've never been robbed in Manistee Michigan,
no camera's here.
no camera's here.
Dec 30th 2005, 4:46 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas
Yes but there is always a snall percent of people that will commit crime regardless of social standing, financial position etc. Look at the amount of Hooray Henry's etc that have been caught shoplifting, doing drugs, stealing etc. Nothing to with poverty or education. Doing something illegal is very much in the human psyche...its the thrill, the sense of going against the system and to some people, the sheer joy that comes with commiiting a criminal act. Rape and murder arent always crimes of poverty or finances.
I agree. But concentrating on these things will reduce it greatly. If you want to stop it completely, let's monitor everybody all the time. I worry about who will monitor the monitors, though! And it's not a world I would particularly want to live in.
Dec 30th 2005, 4:47 pm
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Re: Big Brother - cameras ? Etc ?
Originally Posted by anotherlimey
Which is why we have these guys:
and:
and: