Why aren't mutants destroying organised crime?
There are people out there who can find and kidnap or assassinate anyone, sabotage nuclear powerplants, hack your phones, hack your brains... why aren't these people destroying organised crime, destroying anonymous, etc?
Are there laws against that sort of thing? Would you be upset if your government (or local cell of vigilante hackers) broke or bended those laws?
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Anonymous does this, fairly regularly, sans the murder or kidnapping...Originally Posted by Aimless
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Why aren't mutants teaming up with organized crime, if they can do all that?
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Hmm, is this your way of saying there are nno spies and assassins and government-employed hackers?
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Anonymous regularly takes on the mob and itself??!
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They take on what they view as "crime", when it suits them.
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So-o-o... spies, asassins, and hackers are... Mutants? Very interesting.
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People with extraordinary abilities
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Knowledge is now considered a mutation? Uncommon talents, not extraordinary abilities, therefore.... not mutants.
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I think it's a cute naming convention, though not perhaps wholey accurate.
I think your right minx that they could be used a lot to hurt organized crime; however, they're probably set to other tasks, and as the police get better so do the criminals. They both got money.
Ahh, that explains my ire ... I hate cutsie crap. It is, however, true that governments and police use a variety of people to these ends. The problem is that so to do the criminals, and criminals are not bound by such things as warrants. As far as super-spies and assassins, they probably exist. Look up your local S.E.A.L. team or Delta force rep. for more information. I do know that the NSA and D.o.D. Train and use cyber-warfare specialists in their pursuits. The Chinese are ,seemingly, ahead of us in this area I fear.
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Hi,
I have had some education in biology,
i know what mutants are, and
i also know that the x-men are fictional
superheroes
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Because society rejects the mutants and treats them as second class citizens. Except for one wheelchair-bound professor, himself a mutant, willing to help the mutants peacefully reach their potential and coexist with society.
This might be of some interest:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...government.ars
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1225840216228
http://www.theherald.com.au/news/loc...s/1843439.aspx
When Waygood wasn't busy softly hugging orphans to sleep or admonishing his co-workers for smoking in the break room, he performed the duties of a professional hitman for one of the biggest criminal networks in Australia. The man was 100,000 dollars in debt and to avoid taking a personal tour of the nearest harbor in cement sneakers, he started doing hits for Perish, which came pretty easy to him, considering Waygood's past experience as a highly trained army commando.
We don't need any mutants. This man is a fucking pro, someone hire him.
also:
Especially (though by no means only) in the worlds of the Surveillance and National Security State, the powers of the state have become largely privatized. There is very little separation between government power and corporate power. Those who wield the latter intrinsically wield the former.
The revolving door between the highest levels of government and corporate offices rotates so fast and continuously that it has basically flown off its track and no longer provides even the minimal barrier it once did. It's not merely that corporate power is unrestrained; it's worse than that: corporations actively exploit the power of the state to further entrench and enhance their power.
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That's an exaggeration. It's also just misdirected. Sure he's talking about tools developed either at government request, or in the hopes of government interest. But that's only because it's the most easily identified market. Since there is private interest in such development, there are other markets and those other markets will spur the development themselves. Government isn't a cause, it's merely a source.
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The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
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