Brickbat: Don't Do the Crime

Former Columbus, Ohio, police officer Steven Dean has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $118,000 in assets. Dean stole police equipment, keeping some of it and selling the rest as scrap metal.

Comments

[Libertarian]

Sorry to be off topic right out of the gate, but a couple weeks ago there was talk here about the fighting keyboarders. I FINALLY found the link I had bookmarked.

http://www.thewarofthewords.net/

"When America needed them, they were there. They had honor. Courage. And a lot of spare time."

[SugarFree]

You can laugh all you want, but for many on this very board the war of words will never be over.

[Suthenboy]

It will be when I win.

[sarcasmic]

Stealing from the police department: crime.

Stealing from the people the police "serve and protect": business as usual.

[Ted S.]

Why are you suggesting that our Heroes in Blue? have a double standard?

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

Salon might have blown a gasket. http://www.salon.com/2014/08/3.....e_stopped/

The comments are pretty solidly pro-Uber.

[Bardas Phocas]

So here's what's going to happen. Society is going to realize that power as great as Uber's needs to be checked.

Is he aware that he's writing about a transportation business? Nevermind, awareness is a Salon strong point.

[Ted S.]

They dob't seem to realize that power as great as government's needs to be checked.

[Ted S.]

Er, "don't". I haven't had my morning pot of coffee yet.

[sarcasmic]

What are you talking about? Government is Teh People! It's us! It's how We Teh People put a check on teh rich and teh corporations! Power to teh government is Power to Teh People!

[RussianPrimeMinister]

Hurrrrr! Hurrr hurrrrr! Huuurrrrrrrrr!

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

The comparison of Uber to Carnegie and Rockefeller is especially hilarious.

Uber is providing a flat business model that will work around government-established cartels and provide wonderful services at a reasonable cost negotiated freely by customer and provider...and fight a system that fixes rates without customer input and drastically manipulates the marketplace.

Meanwhile Carnegie and Rockefeller used the muscle of government connections to eliminate competition through regulation and market manipulation. Basically the exact opposite of what Uber is doing.

Boy, Salon writers are dumber than shit.

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

I may have been wrong on the comments. Sorting by oldest made me lose faith in humanity.

[sarcasmic]

"capitalist societies require regulation... ruthless and amoral profit seeking... unrestrained capitalism... local taxi companies are destroyed... a holy ideology..."

Um, yeah.

[Ted S.]

OT: CBC playing "DEY TOOK UR JERBS!" because TEAM politics

[sarcasmic]

This just in! Bar Rafaeli (famous for being Leonardo DiCaprio's ex) is still hot!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....liday.html

[sloopyinva (previously -inca)]

Thanks in advance for the link to the nude Jennifer Lawrence pics you're gonna post at some,time this morning.

[sarcasmic]

I wish.

[Redmanfms]

She is really fucking fine.

[sarcasmic]

This just in! Kesha (famous for... I dunno) is not (and never was, sorry Sparky)!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs.....alibu.html

[Not an Economist]

I'm surprised I haven't seen anything about the latest celebrity hacking scandal - it is big.

Nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and others posted online by alleged hacker

[userve32]

Well now that makes a lot of sense dude. Wow.

http://www.Crypt-Anon.tk