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Random searches in NYC

vendredi 26 janvier 2018 à 01:00

New York City thugs used to randomly stop and search people on the street for no reason that they would admit. In 2011, they did this almost 2000 times a day. They claimed this was reducing street crime.

A court said this was an injustice and made the thugs stop. Street crime has gone down ever since.

However, crimes by banks have shot up since 2000 and have not gone down. Should New York City start a program where it offers randomly chosen customers an audit of the bank's dealings with them, with a view towards prosecuting any crimes by the bank?

Big Brother on wheels

vendredi 26 janvier 2018 à 01:00

A modern car is Big Brother on wheels. It transmits lots of data to the manufacturer, including where the car goes.

In some cases — perhaps all — it transmits the data by cellular modem. I don't know of any other way it could be done. On some cars — perhaps most — it is possible to unscrew the modem, thus blocking all transmission. If the car is under warranty, maybe that voids the warranty. Or maybe it doesn't. Would someone like to check this and tell me?

However, it is also possible that something in the car computers makes a log of all this data, which the warranty service can read out. Would someone like to research this question?

Sears Canada pension fund

vendredi 26 janvier 2018 à 01:00

The executives of Sears Canada have been cheating the employee's pension fund for years. Will they get away with this?

Executives should be required to get permission from the staff to underfund their pension fund. If the staff are the ones who will take the risk, they should decide whether to take it.

Facebook's depressive effect

vendredi 26 janvier 2018 à 01:00

The depressive effect of being used by Facebook is directly traceable to its "real name" requirement and stopping people from having multiple accounts.

Thug favoritism

vendredi 26 janvier 2018 à 01:00

New York City thugs are angry that their official right to give or sell favoritism cards to other people has been reduced.