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Commented on The Ferguson Question
It seems to me that if they’re not committed to the Peelian principals, then they’re not a police force: they’re something else. The actual Gendarmarie Nationale would be appalled by the actions of the Ferguson PD, which are not at...
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Oh, yes, absolutely. But even controlling for Iris... well, it's not like Atherton or Andy never dropped Bob into an imbroglio without a degree of training or preparedness that one would think would be appropriate to acting in a domestic,...
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Hmm. Having had some time to digest this, as well as the other Laundry files.. I'm gonna come right out and say it: the Laundry isn't competent to operate domestically this way, and their incompetence got at least three people...
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I've always assumed that people get Bob's name wrong because he hits them with his warrant card, which violates them mentally in unpleasant ways and probably bobbles things up when they have to inform their superiors, that, um, this guy,...
Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
Of course, if you want to see real forced labor, look at what happens on the inside of the pentagram... We got a taste of that in the Jennifer Morgue. As an American, one of my favorite moments in it...
Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
This is due to get explored in books 5-7. That makes me super happy. I was figuring you'd get around to it eventually (in the same way that Merchant Princes masquerades as one thing for the first book and then...
Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
I'm a bit late to this party, but re: the whole "The Laundry is a lot scarier than we've seen it be so far" conversation that was happening a day or so ago... The Laundry has been explicitly very frightening...

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Greg. Tingey commented on The Ferguson Question
S Lawrence' murder: The local plod had been bought by the local gangsters (some/most of the plod were racists as well ...) Rotherham It looks as though local plod have also been completely bought by the local rapist & expolitative gangs. Lots of calls for councillors / crime commisioners etc to resign. Do we get calls for the cleansing of S Yorkshire plod? No. I wonder why that might be?...
Antonia T Tiger commented on The Ferguson Question
Greg: common factor is that it's not just the headline-making instances. I'm thinking I should shut up for a while. We don't get the raving nut-jobs here, but I think we should give Charlie a chance to say yea or nay on the topics, particularly Rotherham. I've maybe already said too much in a reply to you in another thread. I don't want the topic to spread any more....
Charlie Stross commented on The Ferguson Question
Please drop the Rotherham topic for now. I have con crud and am too ill to blog effectively or moderate a civil discussion. Never mind third-rail topics, Rotherham strays close to third, fourth, and fifth electrified rails: institutional police corruption, sexism, racism (the term "political correctness" is being bandied around as a dog whistle here) ... it's messy. It's part of a much bigger picture -- the exploitation and sexual abuse of young women -- that's emerging society-wide. And I'm more interested in the big picture than this one particular sad and disgusting local scandal....
Greg. Tingey commented on The Ferguson Question
Charlie & Antonia Agree with both of you. It's disgusting & as Charlie says it appears (now) to be much more widespread than "we" previously thought. One last on this, then I'll drop it. Charlie's point #3 I think it isn't "just" the exploitation and sexual abuse of young women that is now emerging shows, perhaps a picture of complete corruption in & throughout our societies. The institutional police corruption is a symptom, not a cause. Yuk. Scary stuff....
Antonia T Tiger commented on The Ferguson Question
Message received. I agree strongly with your point 3....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
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The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
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