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Araenna posted:I'm pretty sure I uninstalled my QR code scanner months ago. I mean, I could unlock my phone, open my QR app, awkwardly aim my phone at a sign until it focuses while looking like an idiot, and then wait for Chrome to start up and load the website. Or, I could unlock my phone, open Chrome, google whatever the ad is for, and click on one of probably the first three results, all without having to actually come to a stop most of the time, just slowing down. I never come across them otherwise, outside of tickets like you said. Apple just integrated a QR code scanner into the camera.app.  Seems to work alright for the 1 time I need to scan a QR code a year. They still look pretty cyberpunk to me, though, so I'm okay with them. 
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In the far future of 2040 we will all be branded with QR codes in rich people's labor camps
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The subtlety of the trademark legalese is what does it for me like, haha look at this irreverent little bit of fun kistch -fun kistch is a trademark of fun kistch industries
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Aug 8, 2018 18:48
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Some police departments do this poo poo with 'bait bikes.' They also make sure the bicycle is valuable enough to bump the charge from petty theft to grand larceny. It's a hosed up practice. You aren't stopping crime if you are the ones creating it.
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Aug 8, 2018 19:49
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It's almost as if there isn't an incentive to actually reduce crime 
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Laterite posted:It's almost as if there isn't an incentive to actually reduce crime https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=CXW&source=story_quote_link Lol
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Laterite posted:It's almost as if there isn't an incentive to actually reduce crime Kinda like police and prison guard unions lobby to keep marijuana illegal and get more things made illegal.
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Aug 8, 2018 20:18
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I can't get mad about some dude stealing a bike getting caught whether it was planted or not. gently caress bike thieves
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Aug 8, 2018 20:19
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spacetoaster posted:Kinda like police and prison guard unions lobby to keep marijuana illegal and get more things made illegal. That and the private prison industry and those making money off of the commissary.
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It's hard to ever say what will actually happen in a real situation - it's like playing poker for fake money vs real money. You do different things if there is stakes/emotions involved even when you think you're playing the same way. If I was the president participating in those exercises it might be fun to see just how much damage the USA could take. There's people that genuinely believe in an afterlife and in Armageddon and all that too so I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with them having their finger on the button either. There's no doubt in my mind that some True Believer would push it.
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deoju posted:Some police departments do this poo poo with 'bait bikes.' They also make sure the bicycle is valuable enough to bump the charge from petty theft to grand larceny. It's a hosed up practice. You aren't stopping crime if you are the ones creating it. My university did this, but in a way that actually stopped bike theft. They completely flooded the school with bait bikes and let everyone know they had trackers on them. There were spots you didn't even need to lock your bike up, you could just park it in the big pile of unlocked bait bikes in front of a building.
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Aug 8, 2018 20:43
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Gonna go to some yuppie town center and leave a bunch of C-notes in an open briefcase sitting on a bench outside Whole Foods and arrest anyone who approaches.
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g0lbez posted:I can't get mad about some dude stealing a bike getting caught whether it was planted or not. gently caress bike thieves gently caress cops
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g0lbez posted:I can't get mad about some dude stealing a bike getting caught whether it was planted or not. gently caress bike thieves Yeah, if this was a sting operation for a known/suspected repeat bike thief then fine, but if this was just entrapment bullshit preying on the desperate then gently caress that.
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The Bloop posted:Yeah, if this was a sting operation for a known/suspected repeat bike thief then fine, but if this was just entrapment bullshit preying on the desperate then gently caress that. Who's to say the bike owner isn't desperate as well? I can't afford a car like 99% of the population so I'm stuck with a bike and idgaf if you're "desperate" don't steal someone else's poo poo. gently caress sting operations in general but I still cannot get mad about stings specifically centered around thievery and stealing other people's money (if they are not rich anyway)
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Bikes aren't a necessity for life like food and arguably shelter. Bike thieves can go gently caress themselves hth. Like, by all means, cops are bad but the standard approach to dealing with known thieves before organized law enforcement ranged between beating the poo poo out of them, mutilating them and outright murder.
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Actually I take back what I said about sting operations and I think they are mostly good as opposed to mostly bad. Drug/prostitution stings are obviously bullshit but then you have the aforementioned bike thief sting, pedophile ring stings, human trafficking stings etc
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Aug 8, 2018 21:01
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PostNouveau posted:The continued existence of QR codes at all outside of ticket-taking is a weird capitalism quirk. I think I maybe scanned one in my lifetime, to test out the QR code app that I downloaded. I've certainly never seen anyone else scanning them. We just had to get new barcode scanners at work, and the vendor kept trying to push us to get QR readers. Even after we explained like four times that we don't control the barcode design and have to scan what suppliers send us, he kept trying to tell us to buy QR stuff
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g0lbez posted:Who's to say the bike owner isn't desperate as well? I can't afford a car like 99% of the population so I'm stuck with a bike and idgaf if you're "desperate" don't steal someone else's poo poo. gently caress sting operations in general but I still cannot get mad about stings specifically centered around thievery and stealing other people's money (if they are not rich anyway) They were apparently leaving $1000+ bikes lying around unattended and unlocked in poor neighborhoods That's rich people poo poo
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Aug 8, 2018 21:05
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The Bloop posted:They were apparently leaving $1000+ bikes lying around unattended and unlocked in poor neighborhoods Well that's bullshit then. I was assuming it was a reasonable operation with normal bikes in a normal neighborhood with the intent of actually reducing crime but gently caress me for assuming that
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The Bloop posted:They were apparently leaving $1000+ bikes lying around unattended and unlocked in poor neighborhoods yeah, you could say they're asking for it
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Devonaut posted:yeah, you could say they're asking for it I hope you're not making the analogy I think you are because lol
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Devonaut posted:yeah, you could say they're asking for it Well, rich people are always asking for it but in this case it's the cops who were being fuckheads by intentionally trying to create grand larceny where only random petty opportunity crimes existed just to put a minority in prison
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Aug 8, 2018 21:17
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They have to do a lot of decoy cars at the local universities in the city due to huge amounts of break-ins and car thefts. If you're stealing from university students, you deserve immediate execution.
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The Bloop posted:They were apparently leaving $1000+ bikes lying around unattended and unlocked in poor neighborhoods hold on lemme set up this sting and pay cops to sit around waiting for somebody to steal this *checks notes* broken down 1991 chevy cavalier
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Or again maybe just use reasonably priced property in an attempt to catch existing thieves not create brand new ones
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thatguy posted:hold on lemme set up this sting and pay cops to sit around waiting for somebody to steal this *checks notes* broken down 1991 chevy cavalier 
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ate all the Oreos posted:Yes, my post 2 posts down from that one Makes more sense reading the link, though. I had understood you to be saying that people at the launch facilities didn't do it, not that a person given the core decision didn't. Strudel Man has issued a correction as of 21:46 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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Fashionable Jorts posted:They have to do a lot of decoy cars at the local universities in the city due to huge amounts of break-ins and car thefts. If you're stealing from university students, you deserve immediate execution. Typical students yes. Cars belonging to Chad, the captain of the Zeta Alpha Betas who's daddy will make sure you pay for this!... Not so much.
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Surely cops have better things to do than ensnaring petty thieves, like driving their cruisers into a lake, or ritual suicide down in the precinct showers
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g0lbez posted:Or again maybe just use reasonably priced property in an attempt to catch existing thieves not create brand new ones also they left the shoes in impoverished south chicago near kids right before school starts and kids needs new shoes, please allah grace us with more chris dorners
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Outrail posted:Typical students yes. Cars belonging to Chad, the captain of the Zeta Alpha Betas who's daddy will make sure you pay for this!... Not so much. that will just make new thieves though, it won't catch the existing ones, it's a gateway theft
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gently caress bike theft is a special kind of loving theft because if you're going to take my loving adult bike you're probably big enough to ride it and old enough to know you're making me walk the gently caress home from there leaving shoes near poor kids is insanely cruel and heartless because I'd argue shoes are an essential good. if i was a poor kid who was from a family couldn't afford decent shoes that fit you better loving believe i'd steal the first loving unattended boxed pair I saw, Nikes or otherwise. and gently caress anyone who says they should have just tried to steal less expensive shoes ok back to my job of slashing up designer clothes we're throwing out so the homeless don't wear them
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drjuggalo posted:also they left the shoes in impoverished south chicago near kids right before school starts and kids needs new shoes, please allah grace us with more chris dorners well were the shoes expensive or not
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Wait that leaving shoes thing next to poor kids was a joke right
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g0lbez posted:Wait that leaving shoes thing next to poor kids was a joke right well it was kind of a joke cuz the boxes were empty
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Hehe!!
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