Wake-up Calls
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chris_gerribWake-up Call #1
So, last night I was dreaming that I was going sky-diving with the Pope, as one does in dreams. It was my second jump (in the dream - in reality I'm highly allergic to jumping out of perfectly good airplanes and have never sky-dived) and had pulled my ripcord when the phone rang. It was 4:50 in the AM and our managed network provider had detected a problem, which fortunately wasn't as big a problem as they thought.
Wake-up Call #2
The police officer I spoke of yesterday got a wake-up call; he resigned the force. I don't know the man's history prior to this event, so I can't comment if resignation is sufficient*, but apparently the officer is at least getting a clue.
Wake-up Call #3
The inimitable Eric Flint has a long and on-point response to Brad Torgersen It's well worth a read. A phrase of Eric's I shallsteal shamelessly borrow is: [in reference to the deathless prose of Mr. John C. Wright] This is an example of what I think of as the Saudi School of Prose. No noun may go out in public unless she is veiled by grandiloquence and accompanied by an adjective.
* Nor do I know if there were other mitigating circumstances at play. For all I know the man's dog died or he had other personal problems that he shouldn't, but did, bring to work.
So, last night I was dreaming that I was going sky-diving with the Pope, as one does in dreams. It was my second jump (in the dream - in reality I'm highly allergic to jumping out of perfectly good airplanes and have never sky-dived) and had pulled my ripcord when the phone rang. It was 4:50 in the AM and our managed network provider had detected a problem, which fortunately wasn't as big a problem as they thought.
Wake-up Call #2
The police officer I spoke of yesterday got a wake-up call; he resigned the force. I don't know the man's history prior to this event, so I can't comment if resignation is sufficient*, but apparently the officer is at least getting a clue.
Wake-up Call #3
The inimitable Eric Flint has a long and on-point response to Brad Torgersen It's well worth a read. A phrase of Eric's I shall
* Nor do I know if there were other mitigating circumstances at play. For all I know the man's dog died or he had other personal problems that he shouldn't, but did, bring to work.
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“Photography is Not a Crime” or, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Date: 2015-06-10 03:19 pm (UTC)Had the video of his behavior not existed, would the officer be continuing on undisturbed? You and I were discussing this earlier; organizations such as Copwatch make it their business to “conduct on-going surveillance” of police officers on duty, precisely for this reason. As military equipment and training continue to transform community watchmen into jackboot skinhead armies of occupation, the best weapon usable by common citizens is information.
“The camera eye never closes!”