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Enforced Obsolescence

A more heavy-handed version of Planned Obsolescence usually employed in the high-tech industry, especially software. Consumers of a product are forced to upgrade through some new technology rendering an old one literally unusable, usually through unnecessary incompatibility issues.
Porting a game from the 360 to the PC, rewritten to require DX10 when DX9 was used originally and clearly runs the game, can only be Enforced Obsolescence.
by Digital Watches May 26, 2010
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southern Enforcement

A scammer, face leaker and little money hungry child who is sacred of his own shadow. Southern uses people and scams little children out of their Christmas money just so he can become rich. You can buy different ranks just to make up a story saying that you ‘abused your commands’. He just wants to create misery for children.
Southern: I am selling administrator for $500 give me your PayPal.
Child with their Christmas money: Sure here.
Southern: Hello new admin.
Child with their Christmas money: (types in chat) Hello guys.
Southern: YOU ABUSED YOUR COMMANDS. (Removes administrator roles)
Child with their Christmas money: Wha- I didn’t. (Looses $500)

Southern Enforcement is money hungry.
by Child with their money October 29, 2019
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Enforce the follow on

Used traditionally on a Sunday when someone is being a buzzkill and refuses to get involved and continue boozing, claiming that they are too hungover.

When this happens a senior member of the group of mates calls the offender and enforces the follow on.

Stems from the cricket term 'enforcing the follow on', where a team must bat twice in a row because of a poor first innings.
'Hey mate, we are heading to the espy in an hour. Get a vibe and come down for a few throat charmers'

'Nah mate, got too over refreshed last night, I'm battling.'

'Sorry mate, I'm going to have to enforce the follow on.'
by Robbie-M October 24, 2011
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Law-Enforcement Officer

What some Policemen call themselves to sound more professional, fancier, or somehow more important.
-Or because they're ashamed to be cops.

Denotes certain Federal-Agents, Fish & Wildlife Officers, Park-Rangers, Border-Patrol, and other such sworn & commissioned professionals who work in important fields of law-enforcement, but who are not necessarily traditional street-cops.

Also used by those Officers who do not want to thought of, or referred to, as Policemen.

Abbreviated as LEO (singular) or LEO's (plural).
"When a cop calls himself a Law-Enforcement Officer, it's like a garbage-man calling himself a Sanitation-Worker, or a clerk calling herself a Sales-Associate."

"Being a Policeman is an honorable-profession. Nothing is more vital to Public-Safety than the humble street-cop; Be proud of who you are, and of what you do."
by goodcop8 December 25, 2007
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Parking Enforcement Officer

A man or woman that takes a stand against the violators of parking. These individuals work for police departments and walk or drive the mean streets for hours on end while recieving loathsome tong lashings from their victims. A good PEO will deliver atleast 1 citation every 15 minutes.
If you can't be a cop, be a Parking Enforcement Officer.
by Hanz and Honz March 15, 2009
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enforces

1 : to give force to : wordSTRENGTHENword
2 : to urge with energy
3 : wordCONSTRAIN/word, wordCOMPEL/word
4 obsolete : to effect or gain by force
5 : to carry out effectively <enforce laws>
Middle English, from Middle French enforcier, from Old French, from en- + force force
by Enforcer July 28, 2003
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement

(US GOVERNMENT) Agency created in 2003 by merging the enforcement arm of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) with that of the US Customs Service (see Customs and Border Protection {CPB}). It is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The ICE employs 19,000 people worldwide and has a budget of about $5.7 billion (comparable to the military budget of Algeria or Norway). It is responsible for Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) of removable aliens.

The ICE also violates international laws on human rights by deporting immigrants (legal or not) accused of a crime (this is known as exile and violates international norms of criminal justice). This program is called "Secure Communities" and of course only makes communities a lot LESS secure; it has exiled over 14,000 immigrants for petty offices such as traffic violations.

The dog-and-pony show of the ICE is its Office of Investigations (OI). This "investigates, deters and interdicts ...arms and strategic technology exports, ...money laundering, ...media piracy, smuggling (contraband, narcotics and aliens), immigration fraud, transnational gangs, ...child exploitation and pornography..." The OI basically issues press releases for publication as "news" by lazy newsmedia. The fact remains that human trafficking is a tiny affair with few reliably documented cases, and the US is not dependent on imported porn.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a surplus agency of the US government that mostly duplicates the efforts of Customs and Border Protection and Citizenship and Immigration Services. It operates a gigantic, corporate-run incarceration system that surpasses anything Kafka, Orwell, or Solzhenitsyn ever wrote about.
by Primus Intra Pares June 19, 2010
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