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@matt.giglia I do not think the police could "benefit from militarization". Considering that it would be modeled on the US military, an organization known for chopping off fingers of Afghans as trophies or raping 12 yr olds, murdering their families,...
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The use of classified documents for "inspirational material" for writing scp-wiki.net stories is strictly prohibited....
Commented on Schroedinger's Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained
Am I the only one that's a little disturbed about a Cthulu Mythos author joking (at least I hope it's a joke) talking about world domination?...
Commented on The prospects of the Space and Freedom Party reconsidered in light of the crisis of 21st century capitalism
Charlie, I've had some time to consider your Venus colonization idea, and I do not believe it to be viable for any amount of money. While I support space and extraplanetary colonization in general, Venus is a bad goal. Though...
Commented on Lighting up again
Your constant and random switching between roman numerals and arabic numerals confuses and frightens me. Please write all numbers as pictographs of raised fingers on hands henceforth. PS There's probably a unicode character range for that, though I haven't looked...

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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
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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