6 Products Designed Solely to Make You a Worse Person
#3.
Spoof Cards
Long before the Internet, the telephone was invented primarily for perverts and people who like to fuck with other people out of stabbing range. Little known fact: The world's first telephone conversation was not, "Mr. Watson, come in here, I want to see you," but "Mr. Watson, come in here, I want to see you... naked."
In the past, the problem with crank calling and telephonic perversion was that pesky caller ID. Worry no longer, thanks to the Spoof Card. With it, you can change your incoming caller ID number to any 10 digit number you like. Hell, make it 800-YOU-SUCK.
Once again we're sure the manufacturers have no immoral purpose in mind for this product. After all, there are all sorts of perfectly legitimate reasons you'd need to call someone anonymously that have nothing to do with, say, making anonymous threats of violence against your ex-girlfriend's new guy.
But what about your voice? Fortunately, the Spoof Card can also disguise that and promises to do so a lot more effectively than the current method of talking like Christian Bale's Batman or sucking helium from a balloon. And once more there are surely all sorts of non-illegal reasons you'd need to do that. Like if you want to call in to Glenn Beck's radio show but are afraid he'll track you down and show up at your house the next day.
The best part is you can download the Spoof Card right to your iPhone. Are you a deranged pervert with a mountain of misplaced anger? There's an app for that.
#2.
The Alibi Network
So you're planning wacky hijinks and need a cover story, something a bit more iron clad than, "I was playing World of Warcraft all night. You can check my login time, Your Honor." An air tight alibi is the golden ticket of the liar; the ultimate Get Out of Jail Free card. If only there was a "cutting edge, full service, discrete agency," that specialized in providing their conniving clientele with alibis and excuses...
Why, look at this! It's The Alibi Network!
Need to hide the fact your "business meeting in Boise" is really a gangbang in Bangkok? They can whip up an itinerary, hotel confirmation and a mock hotel answering service. Need to buy the other woman something lacy from Victoria's Secret? They'll handle the purchase and even tuck in a mushy card for you.
So whatever you need to hide and wherever it was you did it, these folks can make sure you were never there at all. And if you can't trust these guys with mountains of your incriminating data, who can you trust?
#1.
The TEC-9 Semi-Automatic
Up until this point, the shenanigans we've been talking about were mere child's play. Now it's time to step up to the big leagues with the TEC-9 semiautomatic handgun. Favored by street gangs and the Columbine shooters (who used a modified version), the gun was even featured in RoboCop. So what makes it different than any other gun? Couldn't anything be used as a weapon in the hands of a man with an evil heart?
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NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
Well, the fine people at Intratec (TEC-9's manufacturers) advertised that the gun was "resistant to fingerprints." Oh, and they also played up the fact that it had a threaded barrel, where you could fit a silencer on it. You know, for home defense.
Unfortunately for all of you hunters who wanted to shoot some deer without fear that the other woodland animals would go CSI on the gun and take revenge, the TEC-9 is now banned. Intratec went out of business a few years ago (they were found liable after a guy used the gun in another mass shooting).
Honestly now, if the Second Amendment doesn't protect our right to do a drive-by without getting caught later, then why do we even have it? Now our only choice is to get that fingerprint-removal surgery that is now popular among criminals. Or, you know, wear gloves.
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I would use #3 to call into radio shows without the awkwardness of my family recognizing my voice.
Replythe one about the piss tests is bloody stupid. simple drug use should not be a reason not to get a job. a persistent habit, maybe. depends on the drug, the job, the person (neurometabolism) etc. the war on drugs is unethical. i spose the same goes for the stealth pipes, as well.
ReplyThe very last sentence, "Or, you know, wear gloves." I completely lost it laughing at that. XD
ReplyThose Antiploeez mints won't work anyway, but you can't write in complaints after you're locked up for drunk driving.
Replytech n9ne
Replyall guns are more or less fingerprint resistant---- due to things like gun oil and being held in a tight grip. And silencers are a SAFETY FEATURE--- they keep the gun wielder from shattering his own eardrums.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesAnd deariekins, the 2nd amendment wasn't written to protect your right to shoot ducks and rabbits. If you're defending yourself from a violent attacker, you'd better be there with the bestest and the mostest you can get.
And, since studies show that the owner of a gun is more likely to have it used against them than use it to defend themselves, when the attacker has your "bestest and mostest" at least you'll die as quickly and painlessly as possible.
Cite some studies NOW or shut the f**k up, "Thinker."
Silencers don't exist. Moron.
Anyone who thinks a suppressor is a silencer has watched way too much James Bond without ever holding a gun.
It really wasn't Alcohol and Marijuana together?
ReplyThe spoof card doesn't strike me as that bad, though my phone is defect seems incapable of recognizing any numbers at all, so maybe I'm just used to having no idea where the anonymous threats of violence are coming from. -_-
ReplyArticle mostly assumes people that want privacy, or people that break ridiculous laws, are bad people. Everything has been illegal at some point. Would a device that allowed black people and women to get away with voting a hundred years ago have been contributing to someone being a bad person? I think this writer would have thought so.
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesIndeed, she probably would have thought that, given that most people did. Not sure how your logic works there, but that's probably because I'm not stoned right now.
Srsly though, there's a reason why people shouldn't operate heavy machinery while high.
Um..... what?
The whole point of all of these products is to A. get out of something, B. Deceive somehow, C. Lie, or D. Kill people.
I'm sure you could sit and think of legitimate reasons for all of these products if you really wanted to do but that was not the intention of any of them. Relax over there. It's a comedic article.
Exactly. And to a*****e BillyTrouson, the Pissinator's intended pourpose is to beat a drug test. That is a legit purpose. It's not my boss' business what I do on my time off, so beating a drug test is perfectly fine. Why are you okay with your boss spying on you?
comparing a machine that would have allowed women and blacks to vote and a tec-9 is the dumbest logic i've ever heard. in 100 years, i don't think people are going to look back and think "i can't believe we used to think a gun that's pretty much designed to shoot people was a bad thing. damn we used to be close-minded."
retard
I would argue that while some laws are silly, the majority of things that are illegal *should* be illegal, and that even if something isn't illegal it can still be morally/ethically objectionable and offensive, and that *most* people in today's society who'd need something like an "alibi network" probably aren't good, wholesome people. Certainly not all, but most.
Anyway, the point isn't that using these things make you a bad person, but that they are clearly *intented* for bad people.
I'm totally SHOCKED at the number of comments and arguments that follow this article. I mean, I never would have imagined that an article that deals with drugs and guns would cause controversy.
Replylol... guns, climate change, religion and politics the 4 biggest hot button issues on the interwebnet highway. little do people know, Jesus was a black, H2 driving, gun toting atheist with left wing ideals.
I don't know about the other stuff, but the stuff about drugs isn't so much about drugs but about inexcusable and intimate invasions of physical privacy that should be as illegal as asking a potential hire "do you have any chronic health conditions we don't want to have on our insurance?" Some people just take issue with invasive security theater is all.
You ever shot a Rifle/Pistol etc indoors? It's f*****g loud. Silencers for home defence sounds reasonable.
Reply Hide All See All 13 Replieswhy exactly would you want to shoot a rifle/pistol indoors?
Indoor shooting ranges count as "indoors." And yes. It's loud.
Home defence? Obviously you wouldn't have a Rifle but a Pistol is still loud as f**k indoors.
@anzobanzo home defense, maybe???
If you need to defend yourself why do you care if the gun is loud? If its loud as f**k then your neighbors could hear and call the cops or you may just scare someone off if your gun is louder and you miss. This is also why you wear protective earmuffs to shooting ranges.
Security guards, body guards, home defense and indoor shooting ranges as pointed out. Police officers probably SHOULD have them (I'm kinda shocked they don't).
Shooting any firearm without ear protection or a suppressor is pretty much a recipe for permanent hearing loss, and there are plenty of jobs that may require the use of a firearm where wearing traditional ear plugs is not practical(and ear protection that is designed for protecting against firearms while also allowing normal conversation is almost always either extremely bulky in the case of civilian models, or disgustingly expensive for military designs, Or both)
A loud gun with a silencer on it is still very very loud and unmistakable.
People shooting guns indoors in normal situations generally have access to ear protection and the ability to use them. Whether it's a protective earmuff or earplugs, people who need to use guns indoors have them or decide not to use them. Even criminals sometimes use them.
In abnormal situations, such as home security, ear protection is by far the least of your worries, unless you happen to have unusually sensitive ears very prone to damage, in which case, you really shouldn't have a gun, since that's lose-lose for you either way.
So no, a noise suppressor can not be considered a necessity in really any situation that doesn't involve combat in areas with ambient noise where you need to lower your profile. If you own it, you own it because you think it's cool.
Or you're some kind of criminal with a misguided idea of just how "silent" suppressed gunfire really is.
Most killings of homeowners in burglaries are with their own guns so anything bigger than a pistol is unnecesarrily risky and an automatic weapon will likely wreck your house and potentially kill a family member.
Silencers are legal to buy. You just have to pass a background check through the ATF and have their stamp on it. They tend to call them suppressors because they don't really silence anything. Also, if you want a gun barrel threaded, all you need is a machinist or a gunsmith
Ya buddy, I'm sure when someone is advancing on you with a knife/gun, the only logical thing on your mind is whether to shoot or not because the gun is loud.
or tell the robber... "hold on, I gotta find my earplugs first before I bust some caps at you."
I've shot assualt rifles inside a "kill house", and yeah its loud. In VA you need a class 3 weapons license to have a suppressor. I'm pretty sure the main reason they're illegal is because it muffles the shot, making it hard to determine the distance and direction of the gunfire.
I smoke pot to relieve the symptoms of a serious medical condition, and use stealth pipes because I'm not always in a place where I can medicate. I had no idea I was being such an asshole.
Reply Hide All See All 8 RepliesCunt.
Hold on, lemme get my Violin out.
You almost had my sympathy until you felt the need to remind the world at large about what an awful person you are.
Show us your tits.
Maybe you shouldn't smoke it illegally then? Just a tip..
Well, now you know.
You know, I might have been fine with you if you hadn't added just ONE word. If you can't guess which one it is, you are indeed an asshole.
Screw these people--you're exactly right. Drug testing, especially without cause, should be illegal. It is notoriously ineffective at either increasing workplace safety or preventing drug use, was forced through during the moral panic in the eighties using deliberately skewed and dishonest data that didn't begin to reflect reality, and the reason insurance companies want unwarranted invasions of physical privacy is so they can bypass those laws that keep them from saying "do you have diabetes, because if you do we're not going to hire you and have you on our insurance".
Plus, harmless drugs like MJ which was made and kept illegal entirely due to capitalist politics have important medicinal uses, such as increasing appetite in people with AIDS and anorexia and eliminating nausea in people who are undergoing chemo, among other uses. And it is much more effective and cheaper than most of the expensive legal drugs we use, as well as being infinitely less addictive.
People who down someone who needs to use MJ for medical reason because he/she didn't appreciate the whole "if you have a problem with being intimately invaded by your employer as a prerequisite for being able to eek out a living, you are a filthy addict and a bad person" just because he/she used some "mean" language tend to be tone-trolling apologists for the fraudulent drug testing industry or are too in love with the ooey-gooey illusion of safety provided by their favorite form of security theater to care about reality. You don't even have to use bad language, just oppose a practice that is inexcusable and should be made illegal. That's how badly they are invested in this crap.
Don't worry, HollyGreen. They will lose this. They are already in the process of losing this argument on every stage, and they will get more aggressive with every inch they are beaten back, just as the DEA gets more out-of-touch with reality the more they lose ground in their long-failed Drug War.
Okay, if you're wondering why so many people have downvoted you...
1) You're being far too defensive, and there's no reason to be so insulting and call people cunts. Seriously, relax and don't be so hostile!
2) I think you missed why they're saying it's bad here. Do you operate heavy machinery or drive a car while under the influence of marijuana? Those are things that can cause terrible harm to *other people*, therefore they are very bad. The example they gave was of someone being unable to do such a job, which is indeed a very bad idea.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with using medicinal marijuana to treat conditions that respond well to it. You may also have been confused by the misleading title that implies just using the products makes you a bad person, which is not what it really means. It just means that there are *potential* unethical uses for these products.
Here's one for the pissinator: You and two friends are the only ones at the beach, you get done going to the bathroom and return to find one friend has been stung by a jellyfish, and you need to piss on him to stop the pain, which your other friend can't do because it's a clear day and he has a vampire penis. Just shove the bag up his pants leg, put his vampire dick in the the bag to fill it, release and viola! The day is saved! Just kidding, urine won't do jack, so do what I do and never leave home with out a Pissinator loaded with nice, warm, neuro-toxin inhibiting vinegar.
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesI've got a bettor one. You go to a wild party that you've got no business going to, pull out one of those new "do it yourself" drug tests designed for parents... and totally make everyone at the party think you are a real wild animal by running some real drug addicts piss.
Just what does a stringed instrument half way between a violin and a cello have to do with it?
I would hardly call a viola halfway to a cello... in octave maybe but surely not size.
I'm sure everyone knows exactly how to create the á in voilá . . .
or, y'know, memorized every unicode set . . . or uses a keyboard that allows such letters easily (which is how I manage)
that's sarcasm, by the way, for the band geeks.
They sell Tec9s at the gun store im my city. (Milwaukee)
ReplyThe Tec-9 still shows fingerprints, it was taken out of context. they meant that fingerprints will not corrode it. the ad mentioned fingerprint resistance along with resistance to salt, petroleum distillates and many other things, and they sold a barrel extender that threaded on, it was not for silencers (which are legal by the way)
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesCracked writers once more taking things out of context...
not to mention that's the semi-auto version... nothing special or any different than if you bought any other semi-auto pistol. people see the style/name and think it's the automatic, pull the trigger and spray down a crowd version they see in the movies. but it's really the one shot per trigger pull version like your grandpa's .22 target rifle, only it looks cooler
Well, looks cooler and only takes a pretty simple to manufacture piece to modify to go full auto.
Wow, VPC taking things out of context to make gun manufacturers look evil? Perish the thought!
tec9 sounds awesome
Replythis is a very good article, i can start to be a little doctor doomsday!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyI dont like the undertone of smoking marijuana being a bad thing that a bad person does i thought we were past that america
Reply Hide All See All 12 RepliesThus is the logic of a pothead... Drugs are bad.
They're saying that smoking pot when you're in public is a bad thing, because it's irresponsible and you could get hurt or mess things up.
Since when is America "past that" last I heard marujuana was still illegal and people were still going to jail for it.
Since when is America "past that" last I heard marijuana was still illegal and people were still going to jail for it.
Yeah, people should really stop hiding stealth flasks on the job. Alcohol is dangerous. Good thing it's illegal.
Hey, wait a second.
The assumption that is being made here is that the main reason for stealth pipes is so people can get high on the job, which is a big assumption to make considering that it's based on nothing. Generally, smoking before doing complicated tasks is a bad idea, which is why most people don't do it. Smoking in public, however, is completely different. How many people are put at risk of physical harm by my stoned ass walking 3 blocks to City Pizza and eating the f**k out of a Philly Cheese Steak?
Haha, America is past marijuana being a bad thing? America is barely past the revolutionary war, buddy.
This is against smoking pot when it is clearly a bad idea like when you are operating heavy machinery or in another situation.
And being high off your ass at work is a major priority. Gosh I hope potheads don't work jobs that require hard labor..
If you feel the need to smoke weed constantly, you probably need a life. Js
1) America is not past that.
2) We are not America.
The article never said smoking pot was bad. It did, however, criticize the act of secretly trying to smoke pot in public from a bong disguised to look like a set of car keys. If you can't determine why that might not be the best course of action...
The article does not at any point say that smoking marijuana is a bad thing! It says that smoking while doing a job that requires concentration and coordination (such as operating heavy machinery) is very irresponsible and could result in someone being hurt. The difference here is basically the same as drinking in general vs driving drunk. Big difference!
These products do not make someone a worse person; they reveal what kind of person someone is.
ReplyThey make it easier
#1 A particular gun can't make someone a worse person. People are going to do what they are going to do whether they have a Tec-9, a machete, or a baseball bat.
Reply Hide All See All 7 Replies...somehow, I just KNEW that a legion of offended GunD0uches were going to make an appearance in this thread.
...somehow, I just KNEW that a deranged hippie looking for a circlejerk companion was going to make a reply to this.
It's true. Objects don't make people worse people. They simply reflect on how bad a person is to begin with.
It's like saying that a machete made Jason Voorhees a serial killer. No, it's just his weapon of choice. He's also killed people with his bare hands, a guitar, and a noisemaker. Do any of those things make people worse people? Well... Maybe the noisemaker does...
I'm pretty sure a person can do a hell of a lot more damage with a tec-9 than with a baseball bat. It's the difference between a savage beating and a killing spree. I hate gun nuts. If holding that opinion makes me a 'deranged hippie', consider me a part of the circle jerk then, arsehole.
Oh and Jason Vorhees is a fictional character with superhuman strength. Kind of takes the wind out of that argument too
"People are going to do what they are going to do whether they have a Tec-9, a machete, or a baseball bat"
Yes, but if my experience with video games is any indication, having a Tec-9 makes it so much, MUCH easier. f*****g nerf stats on the baseball bat.
Yes but unlike most guns the TEC-9 is clearly designed to be used in criminal activity, its the difference between a knife and a broadsword you can use the broadsword for the same things as the knife but really what are the chances of using that broadsword for anything but killing?
Jason Voorhees may be fictional, but the Hutus in Rwanda sure ain't, and they managed to kill about 800,000 Tutsis, mainly with machetes. So f**k you guys who act like guns are some kind of special evil.