Anyone want to take bets on how long it takes for the security flaw to show its ugly head that will allow anyone to read your SMS messages?

They are acting like Firefox is the only workaround for getting to YouTube. There is, of course, Kodi which has a Kodi supported (in their repository) YouTube plugin. That is if YouTube is worth it these days. I haven't done anything on YouTube at all this year.

What career field do you suggest that does not require an Internet connection or cell phone?

Many jobs don't "require" either. Agriculture and animal husbandry are just two that come to my mind readily. Do they help? Yes, but they aren't required. Believe it or not, there was a time when there was no Internet and things still got done. Maybe a little harder. Maybe a little longer but it still got done.

1. Explain that people need homes, because it's very cold in the winter.

2. Explain that you need money to have homes.

3. Explain that there are lots of creative people who create content in order to make money. ("Artists")

4. Explain that they only make money if people pay them to create the content.

5. Explain that the people who pay them to create the content ("Producers") also need money to have homes.

6. Explain that the Producers will only have money to have homes if they can get paid for selling the content to people.

7. Explain that the only reason Producers can get paid for selling the content to people is because of copyright, since stuff is cheap to copy.

8. Turn this into a lesson about the evolution of text and music and art in history, the printing press and the phonograph and the camera, and how over time it became more and more accessible and cheaper to copy content.

9. Explain the Sony Betamax suit that those producers lost allowing people to "time shift" and how this is an extension of that same decision.

10. Explain the concepts of the public domain and why that is the sole reason for the existence of copyright.

11. Explain how those producers lobbied (read bribed) legislators to extend copyright to the point that nothing will be released to the public domain in his lifetime.

12. Explain that the DMCA was created by those same politicians in the same manor as the extensions to try and prevent format shifting.

13. Explain what the definition of greed is (on both sides of this issue).

The Constitution allows for the issuance of a warrant, supported by probable cause, to search for evidence of a crime. A warrant was issued for the phone and specifically the data on the phone. That is the 4th Amendment being applied properly. The 5th applies to producing testimony against yourself. Data on a phone is not testimony. It is evidence if anything. Whether that evidence leads to a conviction or not is up to the prosecution / defense arguments.

Think of it this way...

If you write a note that says, "I killed Joe." and put that note in a box. The police get a warrant for the box and find the note, it is evidence that the prosecution then has to prove is valid. Same thing here.

BTW, he was jailed on the basis of contempt of court charges for denying the proper code for the police to comply with the warrant. The judge didn't buy the defendant's argument that he gave them the proper code.

This is the content side of the house being bought by AT&T. Why can't people understand this fact?

Oh we do understand it but what you aren't understanding is AT&T also acquired DirecTV which still lowers competition in the media provider sector.

so much this. People don't realize that just about every major health initiative is funded by the gov't. .

Just curious, where did the gov't get the money to fund those initiatives?

Take your time, I'll wait.

Mostly from China. The national debt caused by both bailing out failing capitalists and handing out military / homeland security contracts like water has made China, a communist country, the holder of most of our debt.

The problem with your statement is it ignores "winner take all" in the EC. That invalidates and marginalizes that part of a state whose wishes are for another candidate than the one who won the state overall.

There are many problems with our election system that are intentionally designed to disenfranchise huge portions of the population. That is why you have such a low voter turnout in election in the US.

The biggest elephant in the room has nothing to do with the structure of the election system and has been ignored in this topic. Namely, the baby boomers that are retiring with nothing better to do than visit the graves of their dead friends and family and vote. As people grow older, they tend to get to be more crotchety "get off my lawn" types (read conservative). The US will swing much more red as more and more of them retire.

But taking down a site and not turning it off to uncover any related activity for 2 weeks is well within the scope of an investigation not needing pre-approval.

Except we are talking about child pornography here which is illegal to possess even for the FBI.

...properly authorized sting operations.

"properly authorized" still means they have to be clean themselves. For example, they can't have sex with you then arrest you for solicitations based on that sex. If the servers had child pron on them and the FBI was running them, then they broke the law themselves since simply possessing said porn is a crime. It surprises me that nobody brought up this little twist yet.

And what exactly do you think anti-trust laws cover?

Antitrust laws cover more than just monopolies. It covers collusion and price fixing as well (usually in the same charge since it is almost impossible to have price fixing without collusion). It isn't illegal to be a monopoly. What is illegal is abuse of that monopoly. Also, it isn't required for a business to have an absolute monopoly to be considered as a defacto monopoly. It is called "market dominance" and abuse of that dominance has the same effect as if they were a monopoly.

I live in WV where Mylan CEO Heather Bresch (and her Senator father Joe Manchin are from) and they had on the local news just what you are describing. They said that the local ambulances stopped carrying the EpiPens because they were rarely used and tended to expire more often that they were used. It's a cost/benefit analysis the county did and they quickly came to the same conclusion as you did just now. Lastly, the schools here in WV all have trained nurses on staff that can administer the drug WITHOUT issues. In fact, just like Insulin, students have to surrender their drugs to the nurse upon entry into the school with a doctor's verification of the prescription. So I don't see the problem either with using a syringe.

... The Orlando shooter was investigated by the FBI a few times and supposedly was reported by a gun shop owner for suspicious behavior attempting to buy ammo in bulk and body armor.

So instead of the government doing their fucking job and actively investigating these people that really seem to need a closer look they instead seek to take away rights from everyone else.

That is a non-sequiter...

In the first part of your statements you are advocating violating privacy and restricting 2nd amendment rights based on the amount of rounds and body armor. You them go on to say they are damned because they didn't violate his privacy enough! Please make up your mind...

And last I checked, inquiring about goods for sale isn't a crime. It only becomes a crime when those goods are used illegally. Otherwise it is just a rumor.

If only sick/unhealthy people get health insurance, then the cost of that insurance has to be high, because they will have a higher rate of claims. Those who are fortunate enough to have great health might forego insurance, but on average most people expect to have some issue or other that might require insurance coverage, so on average most people will want insurance. So more people get insurance, and the average cost of insurance goes down because the average claims rate across the larger pool is lower.

The higher the certainty of people making claims, the less of a solution "insurance" is - insurance is intended to spread risk among a large pool. It seems to be very hard to get people to understand that on average, people cannot expect to get more out of an insurance plan than what they pay into the plan. If that were so, the insurance company would go out of business. As much as people may dislike insurance companies (and many insurance companies have earned the dislike/hatred of their customers), they provide a substantial social benefit when they perform their basic risk management function.

You forgot to mention that insurance is also designed to not be used. With out of pocket expenses, high deductibles, yearly maximum benefits and co-pays that make it unsuitable even every year doctor visits. Add in the high cost of medications and god forbid an ambulance ride to the hospital for an extended stay and you still have the threat of bankruptcy.

Agreements with binding arbitration clauses are strictly more limiting than those without. Without such clauses, both parties can either agree to take their grievance to an arbiter and agree that his decision is binding, or take their grievances before a court. With such clauses, both parties can *only* use an arbiter and are *barred* from taking their grievance before a court.

Given that the results of arbitration proceedings are almost always kept secret, that arbitration proceedings are almost always one-on-one, and that a decision reached by arbitration panels has no bearing whatsoever on any future decisions reached by any other panel (including the one that reached the decision), this *greatly* weakens our ability to publicise, punish, and (eventually) legally bar systematic corporate misbehavior.

You left out a MAJOR point.... The arbitrator is picked by the company. No arbitrator is going to bite the hand that feeds them.