Unless they have late dvds. Hang onto them!

Or to stab only humans who commit crimes, but have overrides for the people who run the company. Oh, and the definition of crime varies to pretty much anything.

I think I saw a documentary about it once. Took place in Detroit as a test bed.

And the plural of anecdote is data.

Oh, wait.

Actually they're afraid of novelty items. I bet fake dog poop would do the same thing.

LOBBYISTS!!!

THIS!!!! I remember reading /. when Columbine happened. The sentiment was much more "I remember being teased and angry but unsure what to do. Thank goodness I didn't do that." and then a hearty middle finger and solidarity against Tipper Gore wanting to ban video games. I think there were some teen suicides[0], and it was the same thing of "I almost did that too." Sure, we had the usual "I fought my bullies, etc." but it was almost more of a how to guide, or "throw a fist before a bullet" sort of thing, not "Wow, what a pussy."

Seriously, /., remember where you came from.

[0] Note that as a child of the 80's, "teen suicide" was an "epidemic" then too. Our parents' media blamed it on punk rock and D&D. Same shit, different day.

Didn't I just see this movie in the theater? Is this a viral ad for Gravity?

I was thinking that too. Standard Silicon Valley procedure. The other big one is "We're combining these two sites, even though some of you already commute over an hour and this will make it longer, but we promise there will be synergy with you all working together."

Technically, beer is food, and alcohol is a waste product of yeast.

So you could say the poo to food kid did win. ;)

I know you were joking. And I was tacking on, jokingly as well, that both parties listen to corporate "persons" that pay their campaign funds. It's part of how we got in this mess (not just the current shutdown).

No, all wrong. They're all listening to people.

Remember, the Supreme Court tells us that corporations are people.

Screw that, I'm waiting until this turns into Futurama style blasting commercials into your dreams.

Because you know that's next.

I agree with that part. My reservations have more to with "gang" being a nebulous term where laws tend to be concerned, and actual youth street gangs being more of a symptom of a bigger problem than anything else.

Technological solutions to social problems don't always go so well.

You keep saying that word, but I don't think you know what it means.

Until it works so successfully that it starts getting used against a wider and wider net of people that are called "gangs" by whoever's currently in power.

G20 Protestors - Gang.
Unions - Gang.
The Catholic Church - Gang.
Pro or Anti Abortion ralliers - Gang.
Anonymous - Gang.
Scientologists - Gang.
Gay Marriage Activists - Gang.
Gay Marriage Protestors - Gang.
Occupy - Gang.
KKK - Gang.
Marijuana legalization advocates - Gang.
Your college alumni network - Gang.
War Protestors - Gang.
Westboro Baptist Church - Gang.
NAACP - Gang.
Tea Partiers - Gang.
American Communist Party - Gang.
NAMBLA - Gang.
Libertarian Party - Gang.
Republican Party - Gang.
Democratic Party - Gang.

Note that not all of the above tend to fit in the same Venn diagrams. Some have a lot of followers, some not many. Some are varied internally and big, others small. Some are downright horrible to most people. All of them fit into various forms of social groups that could be twisted into some definition of gang if you really wanted them gone and had power to do it.

Point being, if it's used for "good" now, it may not be later.