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  7. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Fluxy said:

    I'm just gonna point out that this is totally inaccurate. Shoutbox just turned into bait.com, maybe bring it back but don't pretend like it was this super positive thing and everybody is totally mistified as to why it was removed 

    I'm sorry? Which parts are 'totally inaccurate?'

    1) Factual Truth

    2) Factual Truth

    3) Factual Truth

    4) Factual Truth

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  9. Posted

    There's gonna be a few tournies this summer: hearthstone, rocket league, league of legends etc...

    CS requires a bit more people to make it operate nicely - and because everyone seemingly doesn't play it anymore - it's not confirmed right now. Therefore I've been summoned to find out who'd be interested in playing (late july / early august time)

    Will be bigger than last time due to it being the summer one - this entails a twitch stream, perhaps an aim map tournament, longer tournament, bigger prizes and awards.

    Also potentially looking out for people to help host, can play at the same time, to bring in more ideas

     

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  12. Posted

    2 minutes ago, ★ Chus said:

    wat is shoutbox? I'm guessing an idea that didn't end well? xD

    Basically:

    -Was an instant messaging area at the bottom of the forums, which everybody could see and chat with each other without going onto TS or submitting a forum post. 
    -Was an amazing decision, forum activity was NUTS - people spoke about pointless stuff there. As such, forum posts became better.
    -Someone high up decided that what was going on in there wasn't 'representative of the community, and we don't want newcomers seeing that' - even though we get 1 new person every 2 months anyway. As such, 45 angry MEMBERS who saw the removal as unjust. 
    -Various polls attempted to revive it, with about 80% saying yeah, ignored by high command multiple times. 

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  19. Posted

    1 hour ago, Jamie said:

    The amount of green circle click on-click off threads these days...

     

    I welcome this thread

    +1

    One simple thread such as this and all the home boys come jumping out of the caves

  24. Posted

    @Fluxy Not only does it increase public anxiety seeing more police in your area, but increased police presence attracts criminals for the potential assets it has. Less police, while arguably not beneficial either, at least doesn't advertise that crime in the area is of concern. Potential criminals perceive there to be someone/something in the area worth targeting.

    When you approach this topic, you need to think about cost/reward base. Although the reward can at times be higher in preventing crime, the cost of 10,000 police, all on £30,000 salaries, before you even get into the cost of resources supplying those people, is simply not worth as much as you'd like to think it is. Resources become wasted in areas that don't need them. 

    Perhaps you misunderstood my statement as meaning we shouldn't be doing anything to tackle crime. That's not the case at all. The money dedicated to combating crime is much better spent in other areas. Things like street lighting, speed bumps, safety buses, CCTV cameras, community cleanups - these are things that help a lot more, things that can passively prevent crime without a policeman needing to be there in a modernising world. I'm sure I don't need to go and find the stats for you - but the amount of rapes that take place in pitch black VS the amount of rapes that take place in street lighted areas, you do the thinking. Rehabilitation programs, another big one - re offending rates of criminals are HUGE without rehabilitation. Why invest thousands for a policeman to keep telling off an imprisoning a man who'll never learn, when you could dedicate trained therapists/counsellors etc for 6 months to Burglary Bob which would significantly reduce his risk of reoffending?

    I'd be very surprised if the main principle for deterring crime your lecturers/readings have advocated is just pouring police onto the streets to stand around and look intimidating. Those PSCOs or w.e, and even volunteers, are perfect to do that job, you don't need a trained police officer to stand around. You need them in the office ready to respond to crimes, which there isn't really a demand for thousands more. I highly doubt there's times in the country where there has been no police officers available to respond to murders/rapes/armed robberies - sure they may take some time due to geographical area, but not simply because they can't.

    Fluxy, 10,000 police officers - perhaps he even wants more in the long run? Is 300 MILLION pounds JUST of salary a year, unless I've fucked my maths up at 1am. 300 MILLION, Fluxy. I argue that could do much more good in the long run, by investing in other crime deterrent areas.

    I'm sure we both agree that there needs to be more money invested into crime, I just think the money can be used for more long term, structural and psychological improvement factors, in comparison to throwing more police out there. If you fundamentally disagree, there's no point replying, that doesn't mean I've 'won' the argument, just there's not much more to discuss, unless of course you find something factually incorrect.

     

    @DannyS In all seriousness. The national HEALTH service is a bit different from Stacy and Chelsea getting their non compulsory hairdresser qualifications from lincoln university. IK u really wanna join in debate, and u use the GIFs to try and do that, but it doesn't often hide the stupidity, bro. 

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