on the pursuit and capture

Post #374,057 by rcareaga 4/19/13 9:26:16 PM Reply	on the pursuit and capture I've long felt (and feel today) that we have contrived to devise a society that combines many of the worst elements of authoritarianism and anarchy while delivering few of the purported benefits of either scheme of social organization. The ubiquity of public surveillance technology (and the directions in which rapidly advancing AI tech are taking this) makes me unhappy. I have to acknowledge, however, that in this instance the nascent police state has yielded up tangible results. cordially,
Post #374,060 by pwhysall 4/20/13 3:04:24 AM Reply	Next task: getting the trains to run on time
Post #374,081 by Ashton 4/20/13 4:44:03 PM Reply	s/getting trains to run on time/getting people to Use 'em.
Post #374,070 by crazy 4/20/13 1:32:52 PM Reply	Yes but People really have NO right of privacy in public spaces. If they did, 99% of your public behavior would be dictated by rules of where you can look and who you can talk to. You'd never take an outdoors picture again if any other person was in it. If you choose to partake of modern conveniences such as computer on the web and cell phones, your activity is part of a transaction along with many others, and the ability to isolate your activity is pretty good. If you choose NOT to, then you will have to travel by foot in a mask to engage in whatever activity with others you are worried about being traced to you. So in the wild and free 60s/70s, we could pretty much do anything we wanted to, with the only fear that a very random and not often event would cause us to be caught. Which is pretty much the odds you will be pulling if you stay off computers and cell phones, and ride a bicycle. Have fun with that. Go home, pull the shades, and glory in your castle. It is yours, and any attempted to breach the doorway (Hey, I smell gas, we gotta break the door down and save the people, oops, what are you doing in here? BUSTED) should be met with complete resistance. But enjoy the fact they do use this tech to catch assholes like these. These guys weren't suicidal (much), they did not want to get caught, as a opposed to some level of crazy vest bomber. Which means the public awareness of how fast and how easy they were IDed will have some type of affect on those planning this in the future, and a couple might just say, nah, too risky.
Post #374,116 by boxley 4/22/13 12:30:15 PM Reply	Interesting that a badly wounded man, on foot being chased by the cops in a fashion that reminded me of the last scenes of the blues brothers, bleeding like a pig,evades capture until an old guy spots him hiding in his boat. May dick tracy could have shown up, circled the scene with a blacklight and followed the drops to his hide. Just sayin, looked like too many troops having way too much fun, right out of a jimmy degriz novel Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #374,117 by drook 4/22/13 12:56:59 PM Reply	Wondering I keep seeing people talk about the scale of the manhunt, and how that many people should have caught the guy sooner. But it seems that most of those comments are criticizing both the scale and the supposed slowness. Should the manhunt have been bigger? Smaller? More intrusive? Less disruptive? Is there some Platonic ideal of efficiency where authorities might have expended the precise minimum amount of manpower to catch the guys? -- Drew
Post #374,118 by boxley 4/22/13 1:18:26 PM Reply	couple of things initial scene chaotic, scene trampled no decent trackers available human or animal it appears. 1 armed guy and you shutdown the city? that's fucked up Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #374,121 by mmoffitt 4/22/13 1:49:29 PM Reply	It doesn't require being armed. All you need is a Cessna 150. http://www.cnn.com/2...05/11/evacuation/
Post #374,127 by altmann 4/22/13 3:27:22 PM Reply	Fresh Dogs There was talk of K-9s and their relative freshness on the police scanners that night.

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