on 16-01-2015 12:09 AM
Many people join the police because they are enamored by images of protecting the innocent, punishing the guilty, maintaining order, promoting peace, serving and protecting the people etc. It is also fun to believe in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny but it is not encouraged to base our future professions on such myths and eventually we must shed them. To believe, in our adult life, that the primary function of police is to perform the aforementioned is to be plagued with a severe form of schizophrenia and a selective understanding of reality. In economics we understand that people act according to incentives and that by thoroughly understanding those incentives the result of those actions can be more or less predictable. If I give a man money to not work, is he likely to continue seeking employment or to abandon such efforts? If pharmaceutical representatives shower a physician with luxurious gifts the more he prescribes a certain medication is likely to prescribe more or less of that medication? If fascistic special interests banks are given cheap currency in the form of Quantitative Easing and then told by the Federal Reserve that they will be given a greater interest rate if they park it in their reserves, are the banks likely to lend that currency out or park it in their reserves? If fascistic special interests banks are told that they can gamble with the people’s currency in the massive derivatives casino, lose trillions, and those funds will still be secured throughout colossal criminal bailouts at taxpayer’s expense are they likely to gamble recklessly in the derivatives casino or be more cautious with the people’s hard earned currency? I hope the trend is clear.
The people do not voluntarily fund the police; rather they are coercively funded through the theft of taxation. Their salaries will always be guaranteed regardless of abuse or cruelty towards the people. Therefore the incentive is not about pleasing the customer in any respect but about pleasing their superiors and political masters. When this is understood then the rise of the police state, the militarization of the police, and the flooding of police brutality videos is not surprising. It is but a natural result of incentivized human action. “Government” is the giant exception to the law of morality and the enormous incentive to waste, inefficiency, and barbarity to which we all must contend. Eliminate the paradigm of systematic predation and all the wretched hydra heads will inevitably die. Stop funding wickedness with your participation and support! What is done violently through aggression is always inferior to that which is done peacefully through voluntary interaction. Good ideas do not require force.
Albequrque, NM after the release of a bombshell police video showing helmet cam footage of the police shooting a local homeless man in a NM State Park
Adam Kokesh Interview: "Police are granted a monopoly on violence- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-dpr-xnqeo
on 18-01-2015 08:32 AM
Aussie like to have a bit of fun with people, believe me I know I am a Kiwi Hahaha
Way do our American friends take it so personally, most of it is meant as a bit of a joke
on 18-01-2015 08:39 AM
So am I lion :). I'm a 'naki kid 🙂 I grew up in the shadow of Mt Egmont (as it was then)
None of us left there now though. Mostly Northland now.
on 18-01-2015 08:50 AM
@lionrose.7 wrote:Aussie like to have a bit of fun with people, believe me I know I am a Kiwi Hahaha
Way do our American friends take it so personally, most of it is meant as a bit of a joke
A different sense of humor to ours.
Not used to having the pee taken out of them so they don't get those one's.
A more PC society.
That's from my HO dealing with them and visiting the US.
on 18-01-2015 09:09 AM
For Lurker 🙂
on 18-01-2015 09:29 AM
You even got Fanthams Peak That's from the southern side, not NP. Well done :heart
on 18-01-2015 09:39 AM
@aps1080 wrote:
@lionrose.7 wrote:Aussie like to have a bit of fun with people, believe me I know I am a Kiwi Hahaha
Way do our American friends take it so personally, most of it is meant as a bit of a joke
A different sense of humor to ours.
Not used to having the pee taken out of them so they don't get those one's.
A more PC society.
That's from my HO dealing with them and visiting the US.
I don't think Americans have a different sense of humor from Aussies. I think we are able to tell the difference between a joke and a "knock" though.
on 18-01-2015 09:48 AM
Seeing it was my post that seems to have kicked this off, let me say. It wasn't a joke, or a knock and anything like it. It was a simple observation in response to being told to go to the store to get something that doesn't exist in this country.
on 18-01-2015 09:50 AM
Artful
What is a knock ?
on 18-01-2015 10:42 AM
@aps1080 wrote:
Artful
What is a knock ?
An insult.
Do you people have boxed cake mixes over there? (I'm not sure now since the claim has been made that you don't even have canned pumpkin! )
Because all you have to do is take two large eggs and 1/3 cup of vegetable oil and add it to any boxed cake mix. Throw in whatever other ingredients you want (flavor extracts, nuts, chocolate morsels....) I've been making a lot of different kinds of cookies this way and even people who don't love me swear they taste just as good as cookies made from scratch.
Of course, you Aussies probably grow wheat in your backyards to make your own flour with, not to mention grow your own cocoa beans to make the chocolate morsels... J/K.
18-01-2015 10:49 AM - edited 18-01-2015 10:49 AM
@artfulcreations4all wrote:
@aps1080 wrote:
Artful
What is a knock ?
An insult.
Do you people have boxed cake mixes over there? (I'm not sure now since the claim has been made that you don't even have canned pumpkin!
)
Because all you have to do is take two large eggs and 1/3 cup of vegetable oil and add it to any boxed cake mix. Throw in whatever other ingredients you want (flavor extracts, nuts, chocolate morsels....) I've been making a lot of different kinds of cookies this way and even people who don't love me swear they taste just as good as cookies made from scratch.
Of course, you Aussies probably grow wheat in your backyards to make your own flour with, not to mention grow your own cocoa beans to make the chocolate morsels... J/K.
It is a fact that we don't have canned pumpkin whether you believe it or not...pumpkins actually grow all year round here so there is no need for canned pumpkin.
And yes we do have packet cake mixes...have had them for as long as I can remember..and I am 63.
I hardly think whether or not we processed food or not is worth getting your knickers in a know over though.