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Oh, great. Now no one else can use this topic title for something more useful.
Filed under: I bet you waste GUIDs too!, Nice going
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This type of abuse never happened in CS.
Filed under: the good old days
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In the most serious crimes [such as] child abduction communications data... is absolutely vital. I love watching, as I probably should stop telling people, crime dramas on the television. There's hardly a crime drama where a crime is solved without using the data of a mobile communications device.
Said the UK Prime Minister, who should have been sacked back in 2010.
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I'm torn on this. I definitely think fiction can enlighten us about issues of the day, and allow us to predict likely outcomes by allowing a forum where a hypothetical plays out. 1984 was fiction, too. Continuum, the Canadian tv show, is fiction, but probably not for long.
But now we live in a world where anonymous "anarchists" pay Warner Brothers a licensing fee to wear Officially Licensed Guy Fawkes Masks, and simultaneously improve the lives of poor Brazilian factory workers, because they can't be arsed to make their own. The Society of the Spectacle was never fiction.
all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
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The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.
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The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
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Then again I'm concerned that this might not be entirely fictitious after all...
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I'm concerned that it isn't fictitious at all.
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I'm torn on this. I definitely think fiction can enlighten us about issues of the day,
Look, I know what you're trying to say, and I agree, but this is not about the philosophy of how stories reflect ourselves.
This is akin to a boss getting angry because you can't enlarge that picture even though they saw Infinite Enhance on CSI once.
Or maye they saw Swordfish. D:
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But total surveillance would make many crimes impossible (or at least prosecutable). To a politician, what would make a better "tough on crime" statement?
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Would it? Doesn't seem to be the case in London.
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What doesn't seem to be the case? The prosecution rate for assault with actual bodily harm has gone up. Murders are down in London. As are robberies. And burglaries.
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And this has nothing to do with the changes in how crime got reported or anything.
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Nope, it doesn't. In fact, violent crimes went "up" when they reclassified the crimes.
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All categories go up several hundreds of percent, if you reclassify everything as "bad shit".
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