I'll ignore the snark about Obama, but - trust me on this, white man - once you've watched a loved one like, say, your mother going through years and years of pain, confusion, terror and misery from Alzheimer's because there IS NO OTHER OPTION LEGALLY ALLOWED, you just might change your alleged mind on the subject. Have a nice day and I hope you never have to confront reality.

Personally, I've had great and horrible experiences with cops. One locked me up just because I was freak (hippie to you outsiders!) and he was pissed about something. Another literally risked his life to save mine. On balance, I do trust the police as a group. Despite the first extreme episode I mentioned, I've found them to be professional, polite, dedicated, sorely underpaid and - considering the crap they have to deal with - resolutely patient.

Errr... A) being police, they are rightfully held to a much higher standard of accountability (how many teachers pack iron and have the latitude to use said iron?) B) being public employees, have arguably less rights in this area than other workers and C) the old slippery-slope argument rears its head yet again. :-)

You are absolutely correct, sir! However, that - I would submit - is a separate issue not just related to GG. Fixing every facet of a problem is key, but so is having the tools and monitoring capability in place. Without that, it's back to the old "he said, he said..."

This would absolutely raise the bar of performance for a lot of cops. As the summary says, knowing that you're being monitored all of the time would keep the cops on their best behavior.

Now I've seen everything! A fricking AC absolutely nails it!!!

I'm not going to waste a mod point here as you're already maxed out, but - bravo! Timothy, et al... I/we really get that you want/need to be buzzword-compliant, especially to be able to say "But, we're MOBILE-enabled". It seems to me - and I am not professing to be a professional coder by any stretch - that you should have a "mobile-enabled" site with whatever new mobile functionality can be married to the underlying classic mode. Let both grow and evolve (think unicode,etc.) but *your* challenge is to please both camps under the hood so that either set of users can use what they like best, but it's shareable amongst all.

Well of course not! The streets that you'd be tearing up are a public concern and I - for one - do not want just any knucklehead to be able to come tear up the street, then have another do the same next week, rinse, repeat. I'd rather the government either own the fiber and sell access to ISPs at RAND rates or have an incumbent telco required to offer the same. Then you can start up your ISP without screwing up my streets.

Not to burst your bubble, ganjadude, but the reality is that Obama is not "breaking the law" in making the changes he has. Specifically, the law itself - you know the actual legislation - does not have all of these dates hard-coded. Typically, it just allows the secretary of HHS to establish them. If not, the House Republicans would already be drafting their impeachment articles.

(Formerly - I'm in sales now...) I was lucky in that A) I had some basic coding skills, though no one in their right mind would hire me as a real programmer. At least I understood the basics. And, B) I'd spent many more years as a worker-bee than a manager so I had *lots* of experience on how NOT to manage people. I always adhered to a few basic principles; first, they are people, dammit, not "resources" and they have skills, desires and aspirations that must be acknowledged and rewarded or they'll fly the coop to some place that will recognize them. Secondly, my success as a manager depends on what they produce, both in quantity and quality. Period. Therefore, it's my main goal to make sure that they have the tools and guidance to be successful. Finally, the age-old saying: praise publicly and punish privately. Again, they're people and deserve to be treated with respect. Even when you have to fire someone.

Care to present any citation other than Fox News or other RWNJ outlet that there was any actual corruption involved, rather than just a random association of someone who'd gone to school with someone else? Thought not.... You guys are rich.

Errr, Reagan was elected in November of 1980, and I - for one - never heard Al Gore predict anything like this for 2013. 2035, maybe, but - let's try to be just a tiny bit accurate, OK?

I agree - this sounds much more like, say, mPesa which allows cash transfers using mobile phones. Wildly popular and growing like mad in Africa.

" My proof is simple.. Chicago and NYC." If by "proof", you mean that there is no pee-free part of the swimming pool - metaphorically speaking, of course - you're right. Chicago's gun restrictions are applicable only within the city limits, for example. Go just a couple of miles and it's Wild West time for gun buying. PS - I'm a gun owner myself, but let's please try to keep the discussion at a realistic level.

Typical - one isolated (and out of context) quote and you conserva-idiots are all done! No discussion of the broad issues of how to more effectively deliver health care (not insurance) to all American citizens. No realistic options ("but - sell insurance across state lines and tort reform! That's all the fixing it needs"), just soundbites and slogans. Sad....