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Reminds me of this old "Professor Pwnage" video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4gVkprDej0
Do you have any information on how this ended?
Apparently it was deemed a random theft [1].
[0]: https://www.engadget.com/2005-04-25-laptop-thief-not-scared-...
[1]: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/09/15_lapt...
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The Capitol Police were either incompetent or complicit. There are literally no other options. They knew there would be a big protests, numbers put it around 200k~300k (a tiny percentage of which actually went into the capitol building mind you). If they weren't prepared for this: incompetence. But there are videos of people getting selfies with guards, and staying within the velvet ropes when coming in. Something is…
I wonder if, since so many on HN feel that they are enlightened people, it is possible for us to give the benefit of the doubt to people who's jobs we don't do and probably know nothing about? Just because we work in tech does not mean we know everything, and not having been there means we don't know the circumstances anyway. It is disgustingly arrogant of any of us to proclaim that these people must be incompetent o…
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yeah, i bet it has every presentation ever done sitting in good ol' ~/Documents or the desktop.
Does anyone use /Documents? That's just a folder where Apps like Acrobat put garbage files.
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If they are terrorists, would you support police opening live fire on them. Just curious. Seems like all the SJW are now advocating for a Tiananmen square massacre of unarmed protesters, just because the TV told them who to hate.
I don't recall the Tiananmen Square student protestors storming the National People's Congress. Also, these insurrectionists were armed with bombs and had planned on taking hostages as pictures show.
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It's a real testament to the effectiveness of the BLM protests that the police took a good hard look at themselves and decided to use a light touch from here on out.
The police shot and killed an unarmed woman, Ashli Babbitt. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55581206
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The same was true for BLM protests. So, why the different treatment? Racism is a popular explanation, but is it a true explanation?
I think more core to the issue is status quo bias. Cops are much more likely to agree or strongly agree to questions like “the current US system is fair and just” and similar pro-status quo ideas. Typically speaking left wing protestors are agitating to change the system, especially policing, which is why cops do not respond as well. Is it any surprise that cops respond worse to those protesting against the police, n…
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The Million Man March's attendance didn't include people with an established history of bringing weapons and wearing body armor at ostensibly peaceful demonstrations.
That couldn't be further from the truth. A large group of Black Panthers armed with assault weapons stormed the CA capitol in 1967 as part of a protest. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/history/article148667224.h...
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Those are all valid points. Though I will argue that the assumption that the Capitol Police answers to the legislature is shaky, at best (in practice). If I had to guess who is more likely to refuse an unlawful order, I'd say a member of the military, rather than the police, based on my limited knowledge of their respective cultures. Combined with the idea of police officers who believe they are part of a semi-secret…
> Though I will argue that the assumption that the Capitol Police answers to the legislature is shaky, at best (in practice). It's a matter of law that they answer to the legislature, this isn't an "assumption." Individually they have answered to a not very sharp police chief, and the Sergeants-At-Arms of the House and Senate, who are all in the process of resigning because of how badly they recently screwed up, if t…
I could have expressed myself better there - I was distinguishing between them being answerable to the legislature (de jure) in the logical, org chat way, and them "answering" to a mercurial president they ideologically agree with (de facto), in the here and now.
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As a huge democrat (lower case d) I totally agree. Locking down the Capitol is antithetical to the notion of open democracy. Lawmakers and the law making process needs to be physically accessible by the People. This was what the Founders intended. Of course there is some risk here and Jefferson himself noted this. That’s the price we pay for living in an open and transparent society. While I don’t condone or support…
Edit: whooshed by his royal cleverness.
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