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Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

VanSandman posted:

We're gonna need Robo-cops.

We had one, but it committed suicide

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Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

She might've made that if she'd had someone hold her beer.

But you get the double-whammy schadenfreude of a fall and a wardrobe malfunction.

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Grem posted:

This thread sure came up with some impressive ways to ensure no one wants a job as a police officer.

That's the dream, at least

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Phanatic posted:

How about this? Two cameras, each recording to a 2-minute buffer as previously described, persistent write enabled on button press. Cops carry two cameras, a main and a backup. If you're a cop, and both your cameras fail, you're fired. If you violate policy on when to hit the button, you're fired.

If you've reformed police to the point where this actually becomes a mandatory fireable offense, you've already made reforms that render body cams pointless because you now have a police force with accountability.

The problem we're facing has nothing to do with a lack of evidence; cases come out all the drat time with solid proof that procedure was violated, all the way up to cops shooting proven unarmed and innocent people, and they consistently face no punishment whatsoever. You can't even get a cop fired for committing murder. If you've reformed police so much that messing up camera procedure in a suspicious way actually results in a firing instead of a wink and a pinky swear not to do it again, you no longer have a lovely police force that needs to be recorded 24/7 in the hopes that a judge will convict the cops for breaking the law.

Parts Kit
Jun 9, 2006

durr
i have a hole in my head
durr

Grem posted:

This thread sure came up with some impressive ways to ensure no one wants a job as a police officer.
If they don't do something wrong they won't have something to hide.

grumplestiltzkin
Jun 7, 2012

Ass, gas, or grass. No one rides for free.

BrianBoitano posted:

Dude doesn't fall in line and doesn't always vote party lines. For that he gets my wish for a successful treatment :(

im not happy that a person has cancer, but counterpoint: palin

AlmightyBob
Sep 8, 2003

McCain votes party lines 99% of the time he's just all talk

Regalingualius
Jan 7, 2012

We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.




AlmightyBob posted:

McCain votes party lines 99% of the time he's just all talk

Yeah, didn't he pretty much go off the deep end during his presidential run?

U-DO Burger
Nov 12, 2007




https://twitter.com/jessica_roy/status/887847253334872065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

ERM... Actually I have stellar scores on the surveys, and every year students tell me that my classes are the best ones they’ve ever taken.

JOHNSON COCKSLAP posted:

You're fired if two lovely gopros break?

GoPros don't fail at anywhere near the rate that police body cameras do. For some reason.

Seriously, the things have been carried away by birds and wrecked in motorcycle crashes and dropped out of airplanes and blown up by IEDs and the video has been recovered. They're amazingly robust.

Change it to "if both your cameras fail, you're put on immediate desk duty pending an IA investigation" and it's got my vote.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Regalingualius posted:

Yeah, didn't he pretty much go off the deep end during his presidential run?

He's old and damaged goods. Like most politicians.

Not as damaged as our current president though. That guy has tertiary syphilis or something.

Trompe is about as street smart as a shi tzu puppy that Paris Hilton kept in her handbag for 60 years.

And actually insulted McCain for getting shot down in 'nam, even though he got multiple draft deferments for "bad feet" and "I'm totally going to kollidge"

(McCain did crash a lot of planes and not just in hostile territory so it's a fair shot, not like that swiftboat nonsense about Kerry [who is an idiot and failbag but an actual guy who went out and fought like JFK])

spinderella
Jul 15, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Cythereal posted:

And, speaking as a professional librarian, just plain fiction smut. So much published smut, written by and for middle-aged women. Generally heterosexual or involving two strapping young men.

Omg that me

ilmucche
Mar 16, 2016

What did you say the strategy was?

Azhais posted:

We had one, but it committed suicide

Poor robocop. Dreamed of electric sheep and fried

Tarantula
Nov 4, 2009

No go ahead stand in the fire, the healer will love the shit out of you.
Motor vehicles that tried to fly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPnyJjPBf74

Potholes, the inverse speed bump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf1k7DvVZXk

Not Operator
Jan 1, 2009

Not A doctor, THE Doctor!
That speedbump video is extremely my poo poo.

I once saw a presumably very expensive sports car basically drive over its own bumper because the stupid loving things aren't designed for even the gentlest of gradients. It was amazing, and seeing that supercar dropping into first gear to take a speedbump diagonally was almost as funny.

Ziv Zulander
Mar 24, 2017

ZZ for short


Not Operator posted:

That speedbump video is kingdom21 extremely my poo poo.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/jessica_roy/sta...%3D4%23lastpost

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

AlmightyBob posted:

John McCain has brain cancer

It’s metastisised? :ohdear:

He thought he could contain it by removing his spine.

Carecat
Apr 27, 2004

Buglord
:golfclap:

sandoz
Jan 29, 2009


BrianBoitano posted:

Dude doesn't fall in line and doesn't always vote party lines.

lol he never does anything more than make a few mavericky noises then vote party line

come on

Flash Gordon Ramsay
Sep 28, 2004

Grimey Drawer
I expect McCain to very publicly speak out against cancer, and then turn around and vote for it anyway.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

As sad as that all is advising someone to move out of AZ is always correct.

Toys For Twats
Sep 30, 2007
One awesome dude
John McCain is an American hero, lol at you wishing death on him just because you disagree with his politics.

Saint Freak
Apr 16, 2007

Regretting is an insult to oneself
Buglord
What if I just wish death on anyone older than 55 without prejudice.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
I wonder what help they needed from McCain. What's a senator going to do for a brain cancer patient?

dialhforhero
Apr 3, 2008
Am I 🧑‍🏫 out of touch🤔? No🧐, it's the children👶 who are wrong🤷🏼‍♂️
Fortunately he has single payer health care so he will not have to worry about going broke.

Flash Gordon Ramsay
Sep 28, 2004

Grimey Drawer

Toys For Twats posted:

John McCain is an American hero, lol at you wishing death on him just because you disagree with his politics.

I don't wish death on him. Cancer sucks and no one should have to deal with it. But he's somehow convinced the large portions of the left that he's a maverick because he says something cranky about policy right before he marches in lockstep with his party.

He could have helped keep his party from showing fealty to Trump, but instead he pulled his usual bullshit.

Jummy
Jun 14, 2007

Oh, my love, my darling.

Toys For Twats posted:

John McCain is an American hero, lol at you wishing death on him just because you disagree with his politics.

His politics wish death on Americans. Seems fair.

Rough Lobster
May 27, 2009

Don't be such a squid, bro

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I don't wish death on him. Cancer sucks and no one should have to deal with it. But he's somehow convinced the large portions of the left that he's a maverick because he says something cranky about policy right before he marches in lockstep with his party.

He could have helped keep his party from showing fealty to Trump, but instead he pulled his usual bullshit.

I want to like McCain but it's true. He could have went for the jugular during the Comey interview.

McCain when he was running for president reminds me of Sean Connery accepting his role in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and not understand what was going on but his agent told him it was a good idea. "Who's this crazy lady from Alaska? You want her to be my running mate? I don't know what's happening right now but if you think it's a good idea..."

Speaking of Palin, it's always funny to me that she didn't manage to get on board with the current administration. I always thought she used up all her crazy just a few years too early...

Inspector Gesicht
Oct 26, 2012

500 Zeus a body.


What's McCain's equivalent of starring in Sii Billi?

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Rough Lobster posted:

McCain when he was running for president reminds me of Sean Connery accepting his role in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and not understand what was going on but his agent told him it was a good idea.

A side of Schadenfreude:

Sean Connery turned down the part of Morpheus in The Matrix because he didn't understand what the gently caress was going on in the script.

Then he turned down the part of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings movies because he didn't understand what the gently caress was going on in the script.

Then he took the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen job because he didn't understand what the gently caress was going on in the script, and apparently that's a good sign for a film.

Then he quit acting forever.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

PostNouveau posted:

A side of Schadenfreude:

Sean Connery turned down the part of Morpheus in The Matrix because he didn't understand what the gently caress was going on in the script.

Then he turned down the part of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings movies because he didn't understand what the gently caress was going on in the script.

Then he took the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen job because he didn't understand what the gently caress was going on in the script, and apparently that's a good sign for a film.

Then he quit acting forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a20oRLJ4v4s
How can you forget this gem that will remain known through all of history as the last acting credit of great Sir Sean

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




steinrokkan posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a20oRLJ4v4s
How can you forget this gem that will remain known through all of history as the last acting credit of great Sir Sean

Is that the movie with the giant mechanical spider?

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

steinrokkan posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a20oRLJ4v4s
How can you forget this gem that will remain known through all of history as the last acting credit of great Sir Sean

Voice acting isn't acting. He probably did that over the phone while watching porn and smoking reefer.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Rough Lobster posted:

Speaking of Palin, it's always funny to me that she didn't manage to get on board with the current administration. I always thought she used up all her crazy just a few years too early...

It didn't get a lot of play nationally, but she was the target of a bunch of ethics investigations prior to her resigning as Governor of Alaska and if she tried to get into the Trump administration, all that stuff would get dredged back up. And why bother with that when there's plenty of other folks on the Religious Right who don't carry that much baggage.

At this point, she's about as politically radioactive as Chris Christie and she knows it.

zakharov
Nov 30, 2002

:kimchi: Tater Love :kimchi:

Azathoth posted:

It didn't get a lot of play nationally, but she was the target of a bunch of ethics investigations prior to her resigning as Governor of Alaska and if she tried to get into the Trump administration, all that stuff would get dredged back up. And why bother with that when there's plenty of other folks on the Religious Right who don't carry that much baggage.

At this point, she's about as politically radioactive as Chris Christie and she knows it.

I don't how anyone can say in the Trump era that past scandals are an impediment to getting elected.

We're not throwing out old assumptions quickly enough.

spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

PostNouveau posted:

Voice acting isn't acting. He probably did that over the phone while watching porn and smoking reefer.

Looks like the animators did, too.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

PostNouveau posted:

A side of Schadenfreude:

Sean Connery turned down the part of Morpheus in The Matrix because he didn't understand what the gently caress was going on in the script.

Then he turned down the part of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings movies because he didn't understand what the gently caress was going on in the script.

Then he took the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen job because he didn't understand what the gently caress was going on in the script, and apparently that's a good sign for a film.

Then he quit acting forever.

Pat Stew on domestic violence

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/nov/27/patrick-stewart-domestic-violence

Connery on the same subject

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXkbJwrN38

Robin Hood Men in Tights > Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

ipso facto

BrianBoitano
Nov 15, 2006

this is fine



sandoz posted:

lol he never does anything more than make a few mavericky noises then vote party line

come on
He voted against Bush tax cuts, he voted for greenhouse emissions controls, and he has voted to protect immigrants. If I had to pick a Senate republican that wasn't Collins or Murkowski, it'd be McCain.

dialhforhero posted:

Fortunately he has single payer health care so he will not have to worry about going broke.

I am 100% for single-payer, but this argument is always dumb. He has employer-sponsored healthcare, which the plurality of Americans have. It's not single payer (they select from different plans) and he has to pay premiums. It's true that it has more coverage than my own insurance, but I'd expect that from someone with a more important, higher-paying job. Giving them lovely insurance would surely be a motivating factor for them to fix the system, but they certainly can't be blamed for having standard-issue federal employee benefits with a few extra perks.

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Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Voice acting buddies back in the day told me an industry injoke was that in order to do a Sean Connery voice, all you need to get into character is one word: saliva.


Just say it:

SHALYVA

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