tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post7935516728576195256..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: A Balanced Look at Deep FakesSiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-82167277047570792292019-02-06T02:55:16.372-05:002019-02-06T02:55:16.372-05:00Sory, meant to include a link to an article about ...Sory, meant to include a link to an article about it:<br /><br />http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/11/is-disarming-cop-capital-offense.htmlReg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-36202816629801227302019-02-06T02:53:51.756-05:002019-02-06T02:53:51.756-05:00Speaking of PDs tampering with photos:
Mark, if y...Speaking of PDs tampering with photos:<br /><br />Mark, if you haven't read about it already, in 1985, Officer Thomas Riggs was killed on duty by a young black guy named Sagon Penn. Riggs was made out to be a "fallen hero", but what he really was is an actual racist white-supremacist. He was in my academy class, in 1979. <br /><br />We had a black guy in our class as well, named Eddie Smith. Riggs made numerous comments to Smith about the PD not needing anymore "mud people", and harassed him. I was tutoring Smith in the advanced first aid part of the program, as I had been an EMT (ambulance and ER) for a about five years before getting hired by SDPD. I told Riggs to knock that shit off, as Riggs was trying to get Smith to react and make a move that would get him kicked out of the program (Eddie was a big guy, and could have picked him up with one arm). I would have cleaned Rigg’s clock if it hadn't been a firing offense for me as well, but it almost happened anyway. A couple of our classmates moved both of us apart (one of them was Roy Huntington, who was an editor at American Handgunner for a number of years).<br /><br />When he hit the street, Riggs partnered with another white supremacist named Donavan Jacobs. The night he was killed, they made a stop on Penn somewhere in South SD (IIRC). Penn claimed that they started beating him so hard he thought they were going to kill him. He said Jacobs started reaching for his revolver at one point, but he managed to grab Jacobs' revolver first, and shot him, hitting him in the neck. He shot Riggs three times in the chest. He also shot at a ride-along in the police unit, fearing it was another cop who would get out and shoot him. (It was a female ride along, a cop-groupie, and she was hit, and I think she might have been paralyzed.)<br /><br />SDPD _might_ have won their case against Penn, except for several mistakes. First, they were caught lying on the stand, then it turned out that the photos they presented as evidence had been doctored at the photo lab where they were printed, and they were proven to have been doctored _at the PD's request_.<br /><br />On top of that, Riggs' and Jacobs' supervisor was my old Sergeant, Doyle Wheeler. Wheeler was familiar with Riggs and Jacobs hating blacks, as they (from what he told me) had been counseled by him for other incidents with blacks where the two cops jacked them up and used excessive force. He testified to that in court. Wheeler later was shot through a pillow and wounded in the head (but it didn’t fully penetrate) by a couple of white-supremacists from their compound at Hayden Lake, Idaho (Wheeler lived nearby outside of Spokane) because he had testified against Jacobs in the trial. <br /><br />By the way, the article talks about Jacobs beating Penn with his nightstick and fists, but it doesn't talk about Riggs beating him, too. Riggs admitted striking Penn with his baton, but claimed that Penn "didn't even feel it", I imagine in an attempt to claim Penn was under the influence of drugs.Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-66991881278995590532019-02-01T10:06:21.570-05:002019-02-01T10:06:21.570-05:00IIRC, it was widely speculated (among some of the ...IIRC, it was widely speculated (among some of the more technical and paranoid) in the entertainment industry that the official push to move from standard def to high def was motivated in part because we couldn't do this in HD in real time, but COULD do it in SD... now we see a movement to 2k, 4K, and higher.<br /><br />Heck, the blueprint is there in "Running Man" where faces are put on generic actors.<br /><br />nickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-80479646709518902482019-02-01T07:58:27.451-05:002019-02-01T07:58:27.451-05:00I would only note that the Deep State in every Wes...I would only note that the Deep State in every Western nation has access to this technology and also has significant numbers of supercomputers or access to same. I am FAR less worried about "foreign adversaries" using this technology than I am about Our Betters doing so.<br /><br />And by the way, if you are ever on a jury and are presented photographic "evidence" by "Law Enforcement" and the defense seems to not be in total agreement with its accuracy, understand that faking photos is FAR easier than faking videos. Not that "Law Enforcement" would ever do such a thing. Nor that the FedPigs would assist them in doing so if it helped FedPig priorities...Mark Matisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-34116236619453346222019-02-01T03:32:23.880-05:002019-02-01T03:32:23.880-05:00Sweet Suffering Shiva, didn't any of these ret...Sweet Suffering Shiva, didn't any of these retards read Crichton's "<i>Rising Sun</i>", as a book, <i>twenty-seven years ago</i>, (before the wretchedly awful PC-altered movie version with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes came out)?<br /><br />This was laid out in blistering detail back in 1992, from open sources, with Crichton's usual genius-level grasp of technology and its implications, and in one of his great and readable books (vs. the 50% of what he wrote that are atrocious).<br /><br />Fer cryin' out loud, this was old news when Bush(41) The Elder was still president. And he's <i>dead</i> now.<br /><br />Does the video magic of <i>Forrest Gump</i> (1994) inserted into period newsreel footage ring a bell?<br />Beuller? Ferris Beuller...?<br />Anyone?<br />ANYONE?!?<br /><br />This is truly the Baby Duck Generation.<br />Everything Before They Were Born Is New Every Day, because uncurious stupidity and lazy cluelessness.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com