Fortunately for Google, you can do just about anything you want with your patents, no matter how destructive your decisions, so long as you keep screaming intellectual property at the top of your lungs until they leave you alone.

I'm pretty sure that DVDA is not typically exclusive to Jews.

The majority of most people in most fields are morons. An enormous bureaucracy does not insulate against that fact, and may often provide a large degree of protection. However, it may be that their moronic set of countless rules and factors makes prices essentially random white noise, and that random white noise is better than any coherent strategy, which would mean that their success is actually DUE to them being morons that make a decent RNG.

The body burns fat to stay warm. No shit. It's not as if a calorie being defined as an amount of energy to heat up water or the extensive use of animal fats as fuel could have made that more obvious.

It's not an excuse, it's just showing the shortcoming of your plan. We need to dismantle the whole thing, not just cut off one head of the Hydra.

Or you could just decide to NOT violate causality.

It's more about they only have the resources to make and promote a certain number of movies, and if it doesn't get a good enough return, it's a poor usage of limited resources. That's why a film can be a disappointment even if it DOES make back it's budget on the opening weekend.

How is it jingoistic when the the US government is actually dumber than the idiot protagonists? If it's propaganda for anything, it's not taking anybody too seriously.

While it's not cinematically exceptional and doesn't featuring astounding writing, the Interview is quite insightful in regards to politics. Also, within the film, trashy media was used to make the world a better place, and the violence that was so controversial was actually not that important to the overall plot, so complaining that it's trashy is kind of pointless in a film whose message is that the dick joke pen is mightier than the sword.

Authoritarians have infiltrated both the Republican and Democratic parties, emphasizing different aspects to allow them to feign a tug-of-war. To try and blame a single party is to ignore the underlying problem.

You are woefully ignorant of police. An MRAP does not make the average cop think he is in danger. It makes the average copy think he is safer because other cops are here and we have a whole lot of intimidation with us. MRAPs are not used for a lone cop on patrol, its used for groups of cops in special situations.

The steady rise of no-knock warrants over often petty offenses would suggest otherwise.

Selection against intelligence, a bogus claim. The two guys I went to high school with who became cops were taking all the college prep math and science classes and doing quite well, trig, pre-calc, chem, physics, etc.

Courts have backed police departments for not hiring police officers that scored too well on a test. I'm not saying that it's a universal problem, but it certainly doesn't help.

Speaking of groups of cops. One of the most effective ways to reduce their fear is to not send them out alone. When a partner is present a cop is far more likely to use a less-than-lethal weapon like a taser or baton than his gun.

That is probably true. Equipping both with a body cam would probably also greatly reduce the plausibility of 'malfunctions' causing footage being lost.

Perception of violence against police is why police react so forcefully. While actual violence against police can be a factor, it is far from the only factor, and it's not unreasonable for it to be an inverse relationship between actual danger and perceived danger. The armament of a department may also play a factor, as if a PD has an MRAP, they might think at some level that they are covering a dangerous area. Police selection against high intelligence may also tie in with aggression.

I doubt that the information we are getting is misleading so much as we were less aware of how much awful was happening in the world. The world may be getting better, but what that actually means is that if we knew as much about world X years ago, it would be horrifying in comparison.

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Part of the problem is the paleo enthusiasts and other fad diets are that they don't have the courtesy to test these things on their own, which can end up influencing the food supply for the rest of us. Full fat content yogurt can be nigh impossible to find in some places because of years of preaching about the dangers of fat.