Obscenities abound within.
The following is a reply I made on slashdot to a group of people who firmly support the actions of the individual from this article about personal suffering
Why did I make this reply, and why is it full of ire? Because the volume of support this guy is getting is offensive. Reading the article the first time I supported him, but even when you take into account it is all his word on this website, what he did and what happened to him require one to look at it from the perspective that normal people should. A person shouldn't look at it from the perspective of someone who is trying to claim a technical injury against core principles of a free society, or from the perspective that he is defending the greater majority by such delusions and annoyances.
Also, go so far as to put yourself in the shoes of both the bag checker and the police officer, and ask yourselves what more benevolent course of action you would have undertaken had the man been acting in the most civil interpretation of his own account. As for the reply of mine, I was having fun, and I was demonstrating subtly that being a corrosive rancorous bastard in print is a greater freedom than whatever is demonstrated by this fellow. Also, I wanted to to see if tallywanker and rectalcosmonaut would take off as obscure insults. I doubt this greatly but like the fellow in the article I share boundless hope for such things.
You people are bigger tools than the author.
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by Calledor (859972) on Tuesday September 04, @08:50AM (#20463009)
Think about the "Loss Prevention" guy. He's getting paid to do a job that companies think is a "deterrence" but is actually a "better-source-of-tuition-money-than-getting shot-in-Iraq".
But hey sure, not a constitutional requirement to do something that not only doesn't harm you but doesn't judge you (I mean everyone gets stopped by the guy at Fry's, and honestly, on busy sales weekends they've got like ten guys at the doors just putting marks straight through receipts), but it's training everyone to gas their neighbors and rat on the "undesirables" when the uber-state comes forth from the future. I'll believe that when I believe they actually have the manpower time or energy to just monitor a percent of the US population with any degree of competency. Fucks sake our prisons don't have that kind of security, not to mention the fact that people really DO pirate music which (and I'm quite sure of this) is stealing and is illegal, but our nation is so fantastically awesome that most can get away with it while a few get to be public heroes against an overzealous and inept super-villain.
Here, you want to show some balls, some serious tallywacker tenaciousness? Stop tipping in the US. No I don't care if jackoff mcgee the ever smilin bartender/waiter signed for a wage that makes the conspicuously accented gardener next door have the relative salary of a non-outsourced computer programmer. It's custom, and despite the places that put it on the receipt it's not obligatory.
This isn't "authority GONE MAD" it's "business custom". You go to a high-end electronics store, or a place that lets you buy so much shit you need a vehicle that gets no more than 4 mpg to fit all of it into, and you're expected to do this ritual at the door because it makes them feel happier about not having to trust everyone who goes in their store. That may seem like an insult, but TRUST is a massive burden that we don't really like to pay for. You wouldn't be shopping for shit made largely out of the country if you had to trust the people who made it anyway, you just don't think about it when you're getting those wonderful deals. The supermarket, the wal-mart, the circuit cities, if you had even a shallow understanding of the governments and human/civil rights standards in the countries you patron you'd be caught with your dick in you're own mouth talking about this little inane distraction.
"My civil rights were RAPED from me as the doorman looked at my receipt, opened my bag (filled with wonderful gadgety devices from places that get people to live on money I'd literally use to buy soft soft lotion infused toilet paper to wipe my ass with), and then marked my receipt in carnal glory with a highlighter."
Oh, and yes, please, call the fucking police on 911, have them show up, and then proceed to be uncooperative. That's how I like to resolve shit. Fuck, I mean what kind of rectalcosmonaut would call up the police, perhaps with stolen property, accuse someone of trying to stop them with said stolen property, give a false name, and drive off with the booty and the satisfaction of the store owner getting a citation IF said rectalcosmonaut could get away with it? Who I ask you WHO?! Oh wait, half the damn populace because that would be clever, and honesty be damned, we really like clever.
Furthermore, and just to complete the list of shit you guys are guilty of, the constitutionality of this circle jerk is irrelevant to all of your idealism anyway, because I know for a fact everyone of you fuckers would be sipping bootlegged liquor if it were banned while jacking off to banned porn and listening to banned music while playing banned games with a banned book in both hands and ducked taped to both testicles. Look at it on it's face and if it were not UN-constitutional to do so, would you or would you not SHIT a litter of kittens for having to show the receipt at the door that is less than 10 meters from where you received the receipt? If it was COMPLETELY AND EXPRESSLY WRITTEN in the constitution, that you HAD To show the government seal/card/anal piercing that identifies you as YOU to someone else would you be completely ok with it?
Perspective sherlock shitocks, perspective. The distance between this story and the avalanche doomsday spiral of sexy absolutism is as far as it is from the Cape of Good Hope to Shanghai as the snail travels.
P.S. Additionally, you cockgobblers are just disappointed they don't have female Loss Prevention people asking to check your sacks.
Why did I make this reply, and why is it full of ire? Because the volume of support this guy is getting is offensive. Reading the article the first time I supported him, but even when you take into account it is all his word on this website, what he did and what happened to him require one to look at it from the perspective that normal people should. A person shouldn't look at it from the perspective of someone who is trying to claim a technical injury against core principles of a free society, or from the perspective that he is defending the greater majority by such delusions and annoyances.
Also, go so far as to put yourself in the shoes of both the bag checker and the police officer, and ask yourselves what more benevolent course of action you would have undertaken had the man been acting in the most civil interpretation of his own account. As for the reply of mine, I was having fun, and I was demonstrating subtly that being a corrosive rancorous bastard in print is a greater freedom than whatever is demonstrated by this fellow. Also, I wanted to to see if tallywanker and rectalcosmonaut would take off as obscure insults. I doubt this greatly but like the fellow in the article I share boundless hope for such things.
You people are bigger tools than the author.
(Score:1)
by Calledor (859972) on Tuesday September 04, @08:50AM (#20463009)
Think about the "Loss Prevention" guy. He's getting paid to do a job that companies think is a "deterrence" but is actually a "better-source-of-tuition-money-than-getting shot-in-Iraq".
But hey sure, not a constitutional requirement to do something that not only doesn't harm you but doesn't judge you (I mean everyone gets stopped by the guy at Fry's, and honestly, on busy sales weekends they've got like ten guys at the doors just putting marks straight through receipts), but it's training everyone to gas their neighbors and rat on the "undesirables" when the uber-state comes forth from the future. I'll believe that when I believe they actually have the manpower time or energy to just monitor a percent of the US population with any degree of competency. Fucks sake our prisons don't have that kind of security, not to mention the fact that people really DO pirate music which (and I'm quite sure of this) is stealing and is illegal, but our nation is so fantastically awesome that most can get away with it while a few get to be public heroes against an overzealous and inept super-villain.
Here, you want to show some balls, some serious tallywacker tenaciousness? Stop tipping in the US. No I don't care if jackoff mcgee the ever smilin bartender/waiter signed for a wage that makes the conspicuously accented gardener next door have the relative salary of a non-outsourced computer programmer. It's custom, and despite the places that put it on the receipt it's not obligatory.
This isn't "authority GONE MAD" it's "business custom". You go to a high-end electronics store, or a place that lets you buy so much shit you need a vehicle that gets no more than 4 mpg to fit all of it into, and you're expected to do this ritual at the door because it makes them feel happier about not having to trust everyone who goes in their store. That may seem like an insult, but TRUST is a massive burden that we don't really like to pay for. You wouldn't be shopping for shit made largely out of the country if you had to trust the people who made it anyway, you just don't think about it when you're getting those wonderful deals. The supermarket, the wal-mart, the circuit cities, if you had even a shallow understanding of the governments and human/civil rights standards in the countries you patron you'd be caught with your dick in you're own mouth talking about this little inane distraction.
"My civil rights were RAPED from me as the doorman looked at my receipt, opened my bag (filled with wonderful gadgety devices from places that get people to live on money I'd literally use to buy soft soft lotion infused toilet paper to wipe my ass with), and then marked my receipt in carnal glory with a highlighter."
Oh, and yes, please, call the fucking police on 911, have them show up, and then proceed to be uncooperative. That's how I like to resolve shit. Fuck, I mean what kind of rectalcosmonaut would call up the police, perhaps with stolen property, accuse someone of trying to stop them with said stolen property, give a false name, and drive off with the booty and the satisfaction of the store owner getting a citation IF said rectalcosmonaut could get away with it? Who I ask you WHO?! Oh wait, half the damn populace because that would be clever, and honesty be damned, we really like clever.
Furthermore, and just to complete the list of shit you guys are guilty of, the constitutionality of this circle jerk is irrelevant to all of your idealism anyway, because I know for a fact everyone of you fuckers would be sipping bootlegged liquor if it were banned while jacking off to banned porn and listening to banned music while playing banned games with a banned book in both hands and ducked taped to both testicles. Look at it on it's face and if it were not UN-constitutional to do so, would you or would you not SHIT a litter of kittens for having to show the receipt at the door that is less than 10 meters from where you received the receipt? If it was COMPLETELY AND EXPRESSLY WRITTEN in the constitution, that you HAD To show the government seal/card/anal piercing that identifies you as YOU to someone else would you be completely ok with it?
Perspective sherlock shitocks, perspective. The distance between this story and the avalanche doomsday spiral of sexy absolutism is as far as it is from the Cape of Good Hope to Shanghai as the snail travels.
P.S. Additionally, you cockgobblers are just disappointed they don't have female Loss Prevention people asking to check your sacks.