I think you got me all wrong buddy. I'm not condoning the actions of corrupt police officers. Like I said, I honestly believe that they should be held to even STRICTER standards than regular civilians because if the cops go bad then who's the median?

I'm not trying to defend their actions I'm just saying that it isn't as black and white as you are attempting to make it. They're PEOPLE and there's more depth to their actions than good cop/bad cop. The investigations aren't simply guilty/innocent either because conviction requires evidence, evidence quite often is from witnesses. And more often than not the key witnesses are the officer's patrol partner who may or may not be involved with the situation. The investigators have to weed out the truth from the lies and decide who is at fault.

For every bad cop you hear about there's probably three or more good ones out there who take their job seriously and save people from dangerous situations or go above their duty to assist people.

Just to reiterate my standing: I agree with your views. If you can't handle the stress its YOUR DUTY to resign from the force before it effects the people you swore to assist. As an officer of the law you are required to abide by its rules as well.

Besides you're fooling yourself to think that civilians don't get 'get out of jail free cards' either. I'm speaking directly from decades of experience with officers from all ends of the force while as far as I can tell you're speaking directly from a view-point of offended citizen whose evidence is the 6pm news.

And I'm sure you'd have an extremely easy time making a decision to prosecute someone who you may have known for 20 years or more. Or maybe your spouse was involved in some illicit activities.

Its nice to make it sound like issues in real life are black an white but they really aren't. Conflict of interest is a very real problem in any career and a lot of people aren't capable of rising above. It doesn't necessarily make them bad people.

I'm not saying you're wrong; police officers really sort of are our last line of regulation but they're just as human as you or I. I don't condone the actions of any dirty cops, they probably should be punished a lot more severely than a civilian doing the same crime to attempt to discourage it.

Just remember, its easy to judge someone's actions when looking at them from afar, but people have their breaking point; and that point can be pretty small for some. Spend a decade or two of YOUR life dealing with the bottom end of society and come back telling me that you haven't once wanted to bend a rule to help a person in need, or punch the crap out of some racist/child molester/rapist/mother who just spent welfare for her 3 kids on drugs.... because it only takes one time to be labeled a dirty cop. You could have years of merit and gold stars on your record but I'm sure the media (and society) is willing to oversee that to put another cop's head on a pole.

Coming from a person who is the offspring of two RCMP members and (currently) dating the daughter of another police officer I can tell you that its not as cut and dry as that. Internal investigations are not simple when there's clics inside of the departments you're investigating. Unfortunately there's a lot of people (officers) out there who hold friendships higher then their sworn duty.

Although it might cost more to feed them it will probably yield a higher grade meat. Less fat = higher grade = more money for the meat. Think of the texture/taste of buffalo (if you have ever had it). If every cow tasted that good then I'd be willing to fork out 20-40% more per pound of beef.

Simple solution. Use a sealed bag. Have the 'offender' sign the bag and turn it over to the cop. That way they know what bag the cell was placed in and can see if the seal was tampered with/opened. Add $5 to the processing fee to cover & profit from the bag and voila!

Mod this guy to the sky! Khan Academy can be found on Youtube as well. He helped me through numerous topics in differential calculus!

How come whenever it comes to win/lose with business the only factor really looked at is bottom line profit? If I'm reading the entire situation correctly Google is set to win, big, on this decision. Sure they'll be collecting less profit from a major country in the world economics but they save on a number of levels often ignored:
1) They've already faced legal battles regarding the security of their accounts and information. Fighting court battles isn't cheap and the press related to "Google accounts hacked" doesn't bode well for them anyway.
2) Stepping back from a country who has values different from the majority of Google's "customers" will save it from requiring a highly diverse business plan when not necessary. I'm sure its not cheap to run an entirely separate company from their own in China.

I'm certain there's more but there's a little summary, feel free to add your own. Essentially I feel Google wins, sure, they don't have a higher bottom end profit but if they are still in the black at the end of it all then they've bought themselves enough time to re-evaluate their Chinese venture or anything else for that matter.

In some cases yes, record companies also publish music. I know a couple people however who have published albums for local bands but wouldn't really qualify as a record label. So while some receive both percentages, others will only be applicable to one.

I find Wikipedia to actually be a useful source of information when doing research. Its essentially a summary of anything useful to you. If you go to Wikipedia and find 'factual information' that is useful to your research then follow it up with the cited source. If the source proves to be reliable then cite that on your own work and not the Wikipedia article you located it on.

Wikipedia is my modern librarian. I go there looking for a summary of resources that I can use for my paper then look them up online or at my university's library/Amazon/etc. Its much easier then attempting to find the useful sources from scratch without any knowledge of the content.

I agree that simplicity of code is the underlying factor here but coming from someone who's been coding in assembly for the last four hours (Shoot me, please!) I honestly don't understand why the libc library was included when not called for.

I'm far from an expert on the intricate workings for C but I'm under the assumption that making a check if the library is required or not is fairly simple.

I think you missed the point of the article.

The author is trying to highlight that amount of bloat in modern programs is so rampant that even "Hello World" is excessively over sized for what it accomplishes. How can we as programmers expect fast, efficient, lightweight code when our compiler (even ones as popular as gcc) are bloating the program without being asked to?

I believe its because Pink Floyd is not worried about their wealth but rather the distribution of their art. The concept is crazy, I know, but there are people out there who do things for other reasons than greed in today's modern world, despite what EMI will have you believe

When I was young my dad would take me out shooting. He has a couple 9mm handguns that I needed the pointer from both hands to fire, but he had a revolver that I swear I could fire by breathing too hard on.

Problem is with Windows, not IE.

Scalping can be good too... My girlfriend wanted to attend a concert because of a certain artist playing. We bought the tickets and a month before the event the artist we desired cancelled. The other artists were still performing so Ticketmaster refused to issue a refund because our preferred artist was listed as "a guest" and not headlining the show. What did we do? Got our money back. I'd be out $180 if scalping was illegal.