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16 Sep 2010, 11:34 am

He's a policeman for christ's sake! If he wants to he can swap plates with another squad car prior to his mugging attempt, there's gotta be at least 20 police cars parked in front of a police station here and all it takes is 2-4 philips head screws to change plates, get a cordless drill and you can do it in a matter of seconds. Or you could just cover the plate while you're commiting your crime it really isn't that hard to take a rag or sheet metal and a piece of duct take and make a cover.

Also, police can wear ski masks too if they want to commit a crime, you won't see s**t.


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16 Sep 2010, 11:41 am

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He's a policeman for christ's sake! If he wants to he can swap plates with another squad car prior to his mugging attempt, there's gotta be at least 20 police cars parked in front of a police station here and all it takes is 2-4 philips head screws to change plates, get a cordless drill and you can do it in a matter of seconds. Or you could just cover the plate while you're commiting your crime it really isn't that hard to take a rag or sheet metal and a piece of duct take and make a cover.

Also, police can wear ski masks too if they want to commit a crime, you won't see sh**.


So this is a phychic policeman who knows he'll see a Rolls-Royce that day, yeah? And I'd still have it all on video. Not to mention a witness (the chauffeur).

...And, again, this is highly unlikely to even happen in the first place.



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16 Sep 2010, 11:44 am

When you're rich everyone knows where you live, where you drive and what you drive. Just ask Steve Jobs. Everyone loves following his plateless mercedes. Cop sees you driving to work monday, he'll prepare for tuesday.


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16 Sep 2010, 11:46 am

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When you're rich everyone knows where you live, where you drive and what you drive. Just ask Steve Jobs. Everyone loves following his plateless mercedes. Cop sees you driving to work monday, he'll prepare for tuesday.


And if a cop were to mug Jobs, you think there wouldn't be a big deal made about it?



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16 Sep 2010, 11:55 am

Maybe? By which time that cop would probably be in Mexico living large where the US can't touch him.


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16 Sep 2010, 11:58 am

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Maybe? By which time that cop would probably be in Mexico living large where the US can't touch him.


Really? From stealing whatever money Steve happened to have on him one time?

Steve Jobs is a multibillionaire. As such, he is very powerful. He can make things happen, and he'd make damn well certain that the guy is caught. Look at what he did when that prototype iPhone leaked if you need evidence of that - he actually influenced the police to illegally raid the Gizmodo editor's house and seize his computers. Don't think he wouldn't be able to get a pathetic mugger put behind bars.



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16 Sep 2010, 12:05 pm

It wouldn't be financially viable. The only thing he'd get out of catching the mugger (if he could, it's not like the guy is going to open a blog and announce I MUGGED STEVE JOBS! I'm in Mexico you SoB come get me!

I would certainly hope that steve jobs wouldn't have that kind of money laying around. As I recall the iphone at one point was announced to be the first consumer product you couldn't pay for with cash because of some concern about them getting jailbroken and what not they wanted credit cards only,


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16 Sep 2010, 12:12 pm

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It wouldn't be financially viable. The only thing he'd get out of catching the mugger (if he could, it's not like the guy is going to open a blog and announce I MUGGED STEVE JOBS! I'm in Mexico you SoB come get me!

I would certainly hope that steve jobs wouldn't have that kind of money laying around. As I recall the iphone at one point was announced to be the first consumer product you couldn't pay for with cash because of some concern about them getting jailbroken and what not they wanted credit cards only,


Wouldn't be financially viable? This guy is worth $5.5 billion. He ain't worried about a bit of money on a court case.

The iPhone thing is no longer true, that was only the policy when it was just released. The main motive for them doing that was because they were still in short supply and they didn't want people buying loads to put up on eBay, which I think is perfectly fair. It's their phone and their shop, they can choose how they want to sell it.



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16 Sep 2010, 12:17 pm

I said at one point. I didn't say they still were.


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16 Sep 2010, 12:18 pm

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I said at one point. I didn't say they still were.


Good. And as you didn't respond to any of my other points, I assume you have no further argument?



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16 Sep 2010, 12:52 pm

Yeah, I could care less about Steve Jobs right now.

I'm more worried about being 2 days behind on sleep again, going out to eat with my dad in 3 hours because even if I do manage to sleep it won't be s**t and after I got eat with my dad I'm going to a bar with my friend and that could end up in me being out till 4am knowing him. This can't be healthy.


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16 Sep 2010, 1:43 pm

Ahh, I've always been rather fond of Paxton Quigley, she has an awesome name if for no other reason. I know I've always found many women's distaste for firearms to be peculiar, since women are one of the groups that can benefit the most from gun ownership. Gun are the only tools that can reliably protect the weak from the strong, that freed the citizenry from oppressive (male dominated) professional warrior classes, and can often stop a violent encounter before it starts by their mere presence. I can personally attest to that last one, having dated a girl that had a man try to drag her from her truck till she stuck her Glock in his face, changed his whole state of mind in a millisecond.

I've personally taught an awful lot of women to shoot, in most cases once you get them past their ingrained fear of things they do really well, I think it has to do with not thinking they are just "supposed" to know how to shoot, men will fight me teaching them the right way to do it out of pride. I'd be thrilled if more women learned about guns and carried them for a number of reasons; more dead/maimed rapists and muggers are always a plus, once the word started getting out that women were not soft targets crimes against them would drop, and I wouldn't have to deal so much with their fear based votes on gun issues.


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16 Sep 2010, 2:56 pm

Personally, I am put off by the noise (and the potential mess). I wouldn't mind using mace or a taser, though.



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16 Sep 2010, 3:03 pm

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Ahh, I've always been rather fond of Paxton Quigley, she has an awesome name if for no other reason. I know I've always found many women's distaste for firearms to be peculiar, since women are one of the groups that can benefit the most from gun ownership. Gun are the only tools that can reliably protect the weak from the strong, that freed the citizenry from oppressive (male dominated) professional warrior classes, and can often stop a violent encounter before it starts by their mere presence. I can personally attest to that last one, having dated a girl that had a man try to drag her from her truck till she stuck her Glock in his face, changed his whole state of mind in a millisecond.

I've personally taught an awful lot of women to shoot, in most cases once you get them past their ingrained fear of things they do really well, I think it has to do with not thinking they are just "supposed" to know how to shoot, men will fight me teaching them the right way to do it out of pride. I'd be thrilled if more women learned about guns and carried them for a number of reasons; more dead/maimed rapists and muggers are always a plus, once the word started getting out that women were not soft targets crimes against them would drop, and I wouldn't have to deal so much with their fear based votes on gun issues.


Somewhere in the house I have a magazine with a picture of Paxton Quigley holding a bright (and when I say bright I mean BRIGHT NEON HERE I AM YOOHOO) pink Armalite rifle. As I recall it was a range deliberately designed to appeal to women, though I'm not sure if they had totally thought the idea through. She seemed to like it anyway. There was a snub-nosed revolver in bright orange as well, but IMO that looked far too much like an emergency flare gun for safety.


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16 Sep 2010, 3:13 pm

It would be unwise to run to Mexico they would just throw him in jail.(then Steve could just pay someone to kill the cop)