Easy comparison is the Ebola outbreak in Africa over the last year. The United States sent occupying troops. Cuba sent hundreds of doctors.

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France

Conservatives are stereotypically the party that wants to reduce government to its basic functions

You mean they want no counterbalance to capitalism, greed, inherited wealth, rent seeking or oligarchy. Someone being exempt from work for the next ten generations because their last name is Bush, Clinton or Romney is the system working as intended.

Some poor kid getting foodstamps so he doesn't go hungry, equalized school funding so he's not in a class with 35 other kids, health care so his teeth rots out...that's a crime against humanity.

However you want to rationalize the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people on your hands, while wagging you finger at someone who killed....three people.

How is it not unethical? Ever hear of disclosure when someone has a financial interest in something they're pushing?

What sites does Slashdot send people to that aren't there to make money?

Not the point, but you knew that already.

I don't get this witchhunt.

I don't get the willfully obtuse act, unless you're a sockpuppet account.

An entire legion of your best non sequiturs.

More money in bad schools is a bad idea.

In exactly the same way that putting money put into fixing your leaky roof is a bad idea, when the reason it's leaking in the first place is your refusal to put money into it. A cycle you perfected, where nothing can go wrong!

First, fuck you.

Go fuck yourself, you goosestepping National Socialist, you. Being a cop isn't even in the top 20 most dangerous professions when you take out car accidents - which don't have anything to do with cops needing to get their guns off. That "danger" is the entire reason they claim they need to be able to murder people with impunity.

Law enforcement isn't all that dangerous of a job. In fact, it doesn't make the top 10.

Take out traffic accidents (which have jack to do with cops needing to get their guns off), and LEO's don't even crack the top 20 most dangerous professions. We don't allow retail workers or truck drivers to murder with impunity anyone who looks at them sideways, so WTF should anyone put up with that from cops with less dangerous careers?

Even for 10-pounds-of-dumbfuck-in-a-five-pound-racist-nazi-shitbag such as yourself.

Or you could blow it out your racist ass, given the steady stream of black (and white) men murdered by cops for minding their own business.

I think this needs to be fixes in law, not just in a court case.

What do you think court rulings - all court rulings - are based on?

They are being used for controlling people who drive for a living.

Sounds like conflating tracking a company vehicle with tracking a person. The lady in the story didn't have a problem being tracked - as long as it was during work hours.

They make you upgrade to the latest version, whether you want to or not, otherwise your software stops working.

Tell that to my iPad that I haven't updated for more than 6 months because I don't want to lose the jailbreak. Haven't run into a single app - including Apple's - that insists on upgrading to 8.3. Same thing happened the year before that, where I stayed on jailbroken versions of iOS 7.

but then they suddenly decide that your hardware cannot upgrade to the latest OS, without which your software won't work, ergo you have to get a new device.

You can run it on a 6 year old Mac Mini. We'll cry you a river.

iCrap isn't any more popular than Android despite your whining.

He didn't say it was, Hateboi.

It's not "no expectation of privacy". It's "no expectation that your location is kept private". Different thing.

Distinction without a difference.