Path: ...!s1-1.netnews.com!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us4.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=1CGWH6bhM?H5[YVUAjISdMU5[F2hIijDO7J470dMQQ7KJ4R`5ADBYnBl[7F X-Complaints-To: support@frugalusenet.com Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 17:05:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: OT: 'Peer Reviewed' Papers - a new scam! Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design References: <6656385e$6$1258324$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <66564e31$7$1258343$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <1ljc5j1ufi53boeprkt29kslqcg95n293o@4ax.com> <66565412$1$1258340$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <66568259$7$1258346$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <874d5j9naiqf4ec612qcj6jd7hao9ue4rv@4ax.com> <66569cf0$0$7070$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Content-Language: en-US From: bitrex In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 23 Message-ID: <66579889$0$1412904$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1717016713 reader.netnews.com 1412904 127.0.0.1:34037 Bytes: 2375 On 5/29/2024 1:23 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote: >> About 300 of them showed up at Uvalde to stand around and do nothing >> while the gunman took his time killing everyone, I don't see much >> evidence that if 400 or a thousand had showed up the outcome would've >> been much different. >> >> But the "good news" is that Biden loves police as much as anyone and >> wants lots more cops, too. >> >> Policing is one of the few industries that gets more money the worse it >> is at its job, an aberration that pure market theory seems at a loss to >> explain. > > So.... would you de-fund your local police? I don't know if they do traffic detail work in the UK but they pay the local police here $100s an hour to stand around shooting the breeze and playing on their phones at roadwork sites. Clearly many dangerous criminals to be caught. It would be better if the detail cops were actually good at directing traffic but half the time they're not even paying attention to that, either.