8.14.2002
hello... I am talking to applekid on IRC and blogging at the same time. Pre-emptive multitasking is the term for it. :)
Nothing else really new.
I guess I will have to be more careful when masturbating and doing geology homework in public again. I will also have to chose something a little better than a rock like that guy. Maybe some kind of shoulder mounted artillery? Longbow? Slingshot? Scimitar? Nuclear hand grenades? :)
I hate to sound like the social conformist here, but shooting a naked man was probably not very high up the list of things to do that day for the officer. I read or heard somewhere about how police officers (or other humans equipped with weapons) react to things like that. They try a few things (like the restraining hold and mace, etc) and get scared when a person gets ahold of a weapon (no matter how non-lethal it seems in retrospect). They draw and fire almost without thinking (a big no-no, obviously) and empty their clips before they even realize they are shooting. Seriously. It is a reflex thing. The problem comes when they first draw. They feel painted into a corner, and that the gun is an added level of safety, and the step from pointing a gun to shooting it happens before they realize what is happening.
It really comes down to a hit or miss (no pun intended) personality profiling thing. Some people react too fast in certain situations, while others stop and think. You can never tell how someone will react until they are faced with a real life situation like that. And it works both ways. The ones slow on the draw sometimes get killed because they didn't kill the hypothetical suicidal guy with a gun to his head before he turns it on them. It just depends on the situation.
Now I am not making any direct comments about the issue at hand. Very possibly the cop totally stepped out of line and killed a crazy, but otherwise innocent person. Or maybe there was more to the fight than we realize. It is just hard to say.
We can't summarily hate cops simply because they are cops, and we can't summarily love them for the same reason. They are just people.
make love not war, I guess. :)
I suppose my position on that would change had I been the crazy banger in the park....
I am attempting a transfer with apples to hear my first taste of Zwan. I am intrigued.
The transfer failed. I am pursuing other routes. I am intrigued.
jeff
Nothing else really new.
I guess I will have to be more careful when masturbating and doing geology homework in public again. I will also have to chose something a little better than a rock like that guy. Maybe some kind of shoulder mounted artillery? Longbow? Slingshot? Scimitar? Nuclear hand grenades? :)
I hate to sound like the social conformist here, but shooting a naked man was probably not very high up the list of things to do that day for the officer. I read or heard somewhere about how police officers (or other humans equipped with weapons) react to things like that. They try a few things (like the restraining hold and mace, etc) and get scared when a person gets ahold of a weapon (no matter how non-lethal it seems in retrospect). They draw and fire almost without thinking (a big no-no, obviously) and empty their clips before they even realize they are shooting. Seriously. It is a reflex thing. The problem comes when they first draw. They feel painted into a corner, and that the gun is an added level of safety, and the step from pointing a gun to shooting it happens before they realize what is happening.
It really comes down to a hit or miss (no pun intended) personality profiling thing. Some people react too fast in certain situations, while others stop and think. You can never tell how someone will react until they are faced with a real life situation like that. And it works both ways. The ones slow on the draw sometimes get killed because they didn't kill the hypothetical suicidal guy with a gun to his head before he turns it on them. It just depends on the situation.
Now I am not making any direct comments about the issue at hand. Very possibly the cop totally stepped out of line and killed a crazy, but otherwise innocent person. Or maybe there was more to the fight than we realize. It is just hard to say.
We can't summarily hate cops simply because they are cops, and we can't summarily love them for the same reason. They are just people.
make love not war, I guess. :)
I suppose my position on that would change had I been the crazy banger in the park....
I am attempting a transfer with apples to hear my first taste of Zwan. I am intrigued.
The transfer failed. I am pursuing other routes. I am intrigued.
jeff
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