Look up Cargo Cults. They go so far as to make mock air strips and jets to get the "ritual" right. The ones I have heard of are all in the pacific right after world war two not Africa but the theory is the same and it wouldn't surprise me to see it on the rise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

What about the few good career politicians? Al Franken, Ron Paul , ect. I would hate to lose them after just one term. But that's just two examples in what 500+ congressmen.

I'm no physicist but wouldn't something small like an iphone hit terminal velocity very quickly?

Actually Amazon uses an automated script to change their prices to reflect changes in other sellers. They reset their own price and as you can see it is back up to over 900 dollars.

Most problems are cyclical in nature and there is no ultimate end game solution. Take hunger for example. Every day no matter how much I ate yesterday I am still hungry. I can't solve my personal hunger problem forever. So I take incremental steps against it every few hours. Its not ideal, some days (most days) I eat more than I need but it works for now.

vs the more expensive options

So they still want it to be personalized but they don't give a rat's ass if you move. http://bulkmail.info/moveupdate.html

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A wee bit contradictory don't you think?

Anarchy and revolt then?

Check again.
http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/layouthtmls/swzl_compresult_national_lg12000003.html
50k is not a great deal of money.

If that were true there would be mass riots and armed rebellion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_affairs_(law_enforcement)

You bitch and moan but not once do you offer a suggestion on how to resolve the problem.

Who should they arrest then?

Take a domestic violence case. Who should the officer side with? If both parties are bloody and bruised who started it and who is at fault? Cases are never cut and dry, so they break it up, get one or the other out of the scene and hope that with distance they are willing to work it out themselves.

When somebody you know and love has been hurt you don't want to hear the truth that you and I both know, you want to be comforted and thats a large part of the police officers job. To make people feel safe in a very unsafe world.

It sure does but remember the police are an imperfect system for an imperfect world. If we could have a perfect law and order system there would be no need for one.

I agree but as the need for police rises the pay must also rise or the quality must decrease. I would be in favor of a smaller better paid police force given more authority, better training, more education and more accountability.

I would be ok with this kind of pricing model, like hulu and youtube, but the downside is that I have to listen or watch the same exact ad ten times in a row. I would be more ok with commercials or even more commercials if I only ever had to see the same ad once a day. I don't care if I see multiple ads for the same company as long as they are different each time.

Except these personal videos aren't going to a court room but to youtube. They aren't being used as a defense or to fight injustice they are only being used as propaganda against the police. This is the same reason I HATE the criminals caught on tape shows, they only bring up resentment.

Try that first the next time I bet the whole ordeal would have gone a lot better. If you resist arrest , flex your arms to be in a position to escape restraints or make it look like you might be going for a weapon you deserve what you got for it, not a beating but put into a submission hold.

Did you think they were going to play patty cake with you?

Yes it would have been pointless, you already admitted to RESISTING ARREST.

If the prosecutor is using the tape as evidence of the crime the defense attorney has full access to a copy of the tape before the trial.

umm no... In the arrest of Ernesto Miranda, the police followed the letter of the current laws. His lawyer objected and stated that current policy of not requiring the explanation of 5th amendment rights was directly in violation of the 5th amendment. The supreme court agreed and Ernesto Miranda was re tried excluding his confession and was found guilty of rape and kidnapping.

Most cop cars have dash mounted cameras. It's not the idea that a cop does not want to be recorded, they want a system that the end user does not have the ability to alter. The individual cop can't get to the video, I am sure only internal affairs and their superiors have access.

The problem with these cell videos is they don't capture the whole event. A group of cops beating up a person looks extreme until you find out that person was resisting arrest and put both the cop and civilians in danger.

No doubt power can corrupt but most cops, and I know from personal and familial experience, took the job to "protect and serve".