All of that is irrelevant.
The police should not be allowed to use any weapons the general public doesn't have. Period.
Grenades, flash or otherwise, are complete overkill.

What would have happened had they not been able to enter that building?

There seems to be this idea that the police, in search of a conviction, can put everyone withing a quarter mile radius into mortal danger. That's flat out stupid. Surround the house, get on the bullhorn "Come out with your hands up!" and wait. Worst case, they flush the drugs. But that was the goal right? Get rid of the drugs? Fact of the matter is, pull the toilet and there's plenty stuck in the trap for the conviction anyway.

There is absolutely no excuse for the police to act as violently as they do.

Ok, I'm declaring it. People are no longer allowed to use the word "Monopoly" The general public clearly has no idea what the word means, and like here, completely misuse it.

Don't worry, Pakistan wont let us down.

I like it, and even used it yesterday.

I couldn't remember our externally facing IP address. The security guy was on lunch. So I went and searched for "What is my IP?" and dreaded eventually ending up at one of those spam laden, ad riddled websites designed for that survive. To my pleasant surprise, Google just offered it up for me. I could still click on the awful links bellow if I wanted all the nonsense.

This is good, and all is well with the word.

About the stupidest thing you could ever do is carry and unloaded gun. To an observer you have all of the threat of having a loaded gun and there for become an attackers first target. But in reality, none of the force that loaded gun entails. I'd rather be holding a dildo while waring a clown outfit than being in military uniform while caring an unloaded weapon. That's a death wish.

Educated guess?
The sites made up of custom code written before HTTPS was really all that common. It's such a mess that adding it now would require just as much work as just flat out rewriting the whole site. Last time they tried a site redesigned all the neck beards on here started shooting rocksalt at them and screaming "GET OFF MY LAW!!!"

I suspect this site barely pays for itself. I do not anticipate any large site redesigns ever.

Except, it's more like pennies. That's what's hilarious about all this privacy invading nonsense we've been subjected to. It's not valuable. They do not make more money with it. Sure, at first it sounds like a great idea. But the mountains of data it generates quickly become completely useless and you just end up sitting on it all and doing nothing with it. I've dealt with marketing people and seen them install their huge data tracking software packages that they paid fortunes for. Several years later and they just stare at the wall of text the software created blankly.

What I've learned from the data? Most of the sites people visit are by mistake. Out of 10 links visited, 9 were closed within seconds without following another link and the last link was the page with our phone number on it. But all that generated about 100 rows in the table. Multiply that by thousands of customers a day and what do you have? A lot of useless data, that's what. You've no idea which pages they found interesting, dwelled on... were interested in.

Good idea, I just need to figure out what the http address for slashdot is...

No because they'll quickly value this service at $50 a month to force you into it.

They should not be altering my HTTP requests. It's wiretapping, plane and simple.

Personally, I use Verizon and have no other choice for a wireless provider. AT&T has plans to build another tower here in 2021, and it's not like their the champions of my privacy either.

Right, that's my question. I hate his 14 chapter monologs as much as the next guy. But why were people finally fed up today?

- Carl
(from Aqua Teen hunger force when asked to find Meatwad a new brain.)

Ok, I'll bite. Why are we trolling Bennett Haselton?

Instead, how about we just fix the problem outright....

Setup 3 computers.
1 with a white guy
1 with a black guy
1 with a woman

make sure the appropriate people are logged in, not logged in, have cookies, etc...

Show the price differences.
Snap a picture, smiling white guy, sad black guy and woman...
Post it to twitter and let the general public make their usual incorrect inference.

Watch the hilarity ensue and the entire idea of variable pricing die in fire.

Because they are tending to patients who have the disease, are writing in agony while spewing vomit and blood from every orifice in their body. These people are braver and more selfless than just about anyone you or I have ever met. It's like asking how that Police officer could be so stupid that he got himself shot. Your question is more about your own myopic point of view than about these healthcare workers.