Now, do you have statistics to back up your implication, that in real life police are more often wrong than right?

No, but the consequences of real life police being wrong are pretty fucking serious. And they're wrong a lot more often than people care to admit.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.or...

Actually, Genesis would be a good start.

That's for sure. THAT sumbitch told Abraham to kill his kid and then at the last second went, "PSYCH!"

Some of of can tell the difference between fiction and reality.

And one would hope that law enforcement officers are near the top of the list of people who can tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

So, if popular culture approves of and encourages it, can't blame the cops too much for doing it despite it being merely illegal...

Popular culture also approves and encourages Justin Bieber, but don't nobody want to see cops imitating that mess.

in 2013, the selected charity siphoned (heh) off about $10M from a $35M cash flow for "operations", of which 70% went for the salaries of 67 people. That's about $100K per person...not bad for a...er..."nonprofit."

Where did you get the idea that "nonprofit" means, "we don't pay our employees"? Or, "we pay our employees shit"?

It's as dumb as thinking "for-profit" means, "we pay all of our employees well".

Harvard University is a non-profit, and last I checked, they're paying their professors pretty well. Rush Presbyterian hospital is a non-profit, but the head of surgery probably makes more than minimum wage.

Actually, there's many ways duress passwords can work. When I had one, it granted access as usual, but notified the security people that something was up.

For a storage system, there's two options:
1. The duress password directs you to a DIFFERENT image stored within the encrypted blob than the 'real' password. Though at this point it 'works best' if it's less a 'duress' password than a second password used for different stuff. For example, you put all your legitimate* stuff in using password 1. Then you use password 2 for your illegal stuff. If they place you under duress, you give them password 1, and a heavily used image is a lot more realistic than a blank one. That's one thing to remember about a hidden partition - you really want it to look used for realism.
2. There are chips on the market today that will hold the keys securely and only 'unlock' with the proper code. They aren't subject to cloning under normal circumstances, and are designed to dump their codes if tampering-like behavior occurs. Such as freezing them will result in a code dump, not data retention. Anyways, most have the ability to take a 'duress code' that will cause them to dump the keys, at which point the easily duplicated hard drive effectively contains nothing but garbage unless you can come up with the proper key that just got wiped.

*Including some embarrassing but not really illegal stuff if you're smart.

They should be able to adopt at least some of the research and techniques used in firearm mufflers.

Because an arbitrary number can be objective

Can you believe someone wrote that and thought it was a smart comeback?

Abby someone.

God bless you, anonymous coward. You made me laugh.

Who the hell was the donor?

It might not have anything to do with MGS, but it sure as hell better be a publicity stunt, because anyone involved in an actual human head transplant surgery will need to lose their medical licenses and go to prison for a very long time.

Or be hailed as the greatest surgeon who ever lived.

There is no middle ground with this one.

The Stargrove Entertainment records provided Canadian consumers with low-priced alternatives while still ensures that the authors of the songs received the approriate royalties.

There is absolutely no reason an artist should receive royalties from works that are more than 50 years old.

Is there any work that is over 50 years old that still brings in big money?

Come on, you really can't think of any music from the 1950's and '60s that's still bringing in money? Who was that truckdriver from Tennessee with the swivel hips and pouty lips? I think his catalog still makes a bit of money and just about all of his biggest hits were more than 50 years ago. When the Etta James hit "At Last" is used in a Mercedes commercial, or in a popular movie, cash registers are ringing for somebody, but certainly not for anyone who had anything to do with making the music.

The first handful of Beatle albums were more than 50 years ago. Hell, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue still sells pretty steady and that was what, 1959?

The most egregious part of this entire saga is how works that were already in the public domain - movies, music, books - are being removed from public domain. This is why you're seeing so many great old movies removed from Netflix. It's shameful and it's hurting both future generations and the current state of the art.

In other words: "If you find a source, I'm just going to say it doesn't count because I don't like it"

Do you see any sources saying it's "not possible to be a teacher in France if you're Jewish"? If so, I invite you to post it here even if it is from Haaretz or Breitbart. Because so far, I've seen nothing.

Because a few moments of googling for ME turned up the following links, which certainly suggest that the climate in France is certainly not particularly warm to Jewish people and moderate Muslims:

Ah, but that wasn't the assertion, was it? In case you're unable to scroll back to the comment to which I was replying, here's the statement:

I was just reading that, due to Muslim students, it's no longer possible for someone to be a teacher in France while being openly Jewish.

No. Longer. Possible. For someone to be a teacher in France while being openly Jewish.

Shall we take a little walk over to a few French universities and examine the names teaching Humanities? Political Science? Medicine? You want to make a little bet on whether or not it is "possible for someone to be a teacher in France while being openly Jewish"?

France is home to the world's third largest Jewish population. Not Europe's third largest, but the world's third largest. Let me guess: you think they're all money-lenders and pawn brokers? There are three quarters of a million Jews in France and 600,000 of them are French citizens. You believe none of them are teachers?

Yes there is anti-semitism in France. And the anti-semitism that is on the rise is as much from the conservatives and nationalists in Europe as from muslims. If you want to see anti-semitism, you can't do much better than white guys with SS tattoos on their necks and shaved heads. And make no mistake, there are neo-Nazis, the white Christian kind, on the rise all over Western and Northern Europe. This is not a new development, since I seem to recall some dustup in that region in the middle part of the last century. And long before that. But when you make a statement about whether it is "possible" to be a Jewish teacher in France, based on some right-wing blog or Breitbart or something, you should always use your head for a minute before accepting it as gospel.