bkbk
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Evidentary Procedure
I can see from some of the feedback that I was remiss in failing to "include instructions" for gathering evidence: THE KEY IS TO PHOTOGRAPH PEOPLE UPON YOUR FIRST INKLING OF SUSPICION.
It is at this time you are most likely to secure a photo w/the least movement. In addition, the subject will not (yet, hopefully) have yet raised their suspicion / be looking for a camera / be agitated (and in motion / on the run) or "called security" "on you" (though they themselves may have done something wrong).
I keep the E.M. in my Visor at all times, mostly for this reason, but also because I own no other modules at the moment. Hence, there is no "suspicious movement" I must resort to (fishing out the E.M., loading it, waiting for the software to boot, etc.) to alert the subject.
[As a side note, I've actually written up quite extensive notes on this subject (what a surprise by now, huh?), though a lot of it applies to video. If I find the notes (pages and pages), and it seems appropriate to drop it in somewhere, I may. But I may just lay it out on its own separate Web page.]
For some reason, it seems that mrknowitall believes "creeps" can be id'd by "how they look." In our society, and in our court system (save when it comes to "indicting themselves" - "watching the watchers," as it were, which is why it's so important to have external, incontrovertible, actual evidence - like photos, audio and video; not "someone's word" or "sworn testimony" [which is often mistaken or hideously tained w/prejudice] or "a field report," etc.) WE JUDGE PEOPLE BY THEIR ACTIONS.
If "nothing occurs" - and "your suspicions are not confirmed" (and this can serve to TEACH YOU TO VERIFY FOR YOURSELF JUST HOW ACCURATE YOUR SUSPCIONS ARE OR ARE NOT - yet ANOTHER benefit to EyeModule) - no harm done, and you can just delete the photo (and save 187k, in the case of the color ones, WHICH ARE THE ONLY ONES I RECOMMEND, as neither B&W options your given on the E.M. are worth much), and don't have to worry about getting it to the cops or e-mailing the FBI or whatever.
(A FLASH PHOTO, of course, "might alert" the "perp." Just be nonchalant, I find, is best.)
But if the creep, cop, politican, lawyer, judge, con man, corrput official or civil servant, etc. BEHAVES IMPROPERLY, at least there will be some record, as opposed to none. But, as the Ancient Chinese saying goes:
"EVEN THE PALEST INK IS BETTER THAN THE BEST MEMORY."
So, please don't continue to decry the "quality" of the E.M. as if none of us own one (I do, else I'd not have responded to Sunnie's original query).
Of COURSE video, sound, better quality, etc. are more desirable - but don't let the O.J.s of the world get away w/murder TODAY because we're "waiting for better tech." TOMORROW.
Finally, of COURSE O.J. did it - very few other human beings in the history of this earth could have committed what was essentially a superhuman crime, given the time-line (and PLENTY of other evidence)
Oh, and if you read the "Mars & Venus" books (do NOT see the T.V. show, which obviously bears no resemblance), you'll learn to have REAL empathy for what a dangerous and degenerate world we force women and children to face by allowing the corrupt "officials" listed above get away w/their perpetual dereliction of duty in not protecting them adequately.
But, as I say, I believe Ubiquitous Video (simulcast on the Internet, for any and all of us to record / have a permanent record of - so we don't have to "trust" those corrupt persons in Wash.D.C. to do it for us) will go a long way toward generally solving the problems of crime & punishment ... and "creepism" and punishment, too.
[Edited by bkbk on 10-22-2000 at 04:44 PM]
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